@Minion-Queen said:

@tonyshowoff said:

Finally, my hidden audio device is in your office!

Well you are listening to some awesome music then!

Hmm this thing isn't working, better call tech support.

@Rob-Dunn said:

He's been posting on FB, no mention of accident, so he must be OK.

Worried until I saw that, which is strange I've publicly insulted him many times on here and SW, but I'd hate for anything to happen to him... in principle.

@Nic said:

Sleep study is a great suggestion. Lack of sleep is proven to cause obesity. If you can get better sleep that is half the battle. Plus if you are sleep deprived then you have no energy or will power to make any other changes in your life.

Stress too, I gained tons of weight sleeping 4 - 5 hours a night and trying to finish way too many projects. I think too it's because lack of sleep sort of also encourages one to eat more sugar or at least drink more sugary soda and stuff like that, at least that happened wit hme.

@scottalanmiller I don't think most people realise that Linux is a Unix (as in BSD and/or children of AT&T Unix V) clone, I even had a CS teacher years ago who claimed Linux was Unix, and no he didn't mean in the way it meets the POSIX requirements enough to be called Unix if they want to pay the price for it. As in it's a different tree with different branches, where as BSD you can trace back to AT&T Unix V directly -- he claimed it was a part of that tree.

From a userland perspective it's the same, which when I read above people talking about screen caps, in fact, that's the point of Linux is that from an API standpoint you're not really supposed to be able to tell the difference, and the programs which run on top shouldn't really be able to either. There are some specific differences, however, that Linux does differently, but installing Linux binary support on FreeBSD basically covers your bases, except in certain places where you have to do hacks because of reliance on differences (/proc, et al) between Unix (as in BSD) and Linux.

And I'm very proud nobody said GNU/Linux in this thread. The world would've been so much better off if Linus would've used the BSD libraries instead of GNU, which were openly available at the time (as they are now).

@scottalanmiller said:

We told our girls that in Spain they had an Easter Bull (Toro) instead of an Easter Bunny. That made them happy since we went to see it.

So they're pretty gullibull? or just gullicalf?

Just kidding, I just wanted to use that. I mean my youngest daughter thought the easter bunny broke into the house so..

@scottalanmiller said:

Yeah, the GNU/Linux people seem to have died off long ago. It was one of those big trends once upon a time.

They still exist, they just aren't as prevalent. Their typical reasons are:

• Richard Stallman has done a lot for FOSS and deserves the recognition

Sort of, but not really. He's been anti-open source for years, the open source people have done a lot more than he has. If anything his forgiveness of child pornography and 1970s approach to computing (no passwords, whoever is using the computer at the moment should be able to do anything they want, etc), and his demand that GNU's name be included with Linux -- unlike every single other project in history, for example, it's MangoLassi, not nodeBB/MangoLassi -- has hurt the free software movement as well as open source.

• Seeing GNU will get people interested in the free software movement.

That's like saying if someone sees the words "Microsoft Windows" they'll care more about Microsoft's philosophies than Windows, i.e. nobody cares if the product works.

I wrote about their attitudes the other day, strangely enough:

http://tonyshowoff.com/articles/the-best-way-to-support-yourself-being-a-free-software-developer-is-apparently-getting-another-job/

I think they've largely died out because "Linux" is promoted as the name by the biggest people/companies involved with it. I know that officially Debian still uses the term "GNU/Linux" for some reason, but most people can't even pronounce their name correctly, so I think they focus on the wrong thing anyway -- it's a contraction of "Debra" and "Ian" so it's no more "Deebian" than Linux is "Lighnux."

I think LLVM is one of the greatest things ever, the goal is to replace all of the last pieces of the GNU toolchain (BSD already can replace most of them, but it's not as extensive) and it's open source. However, because it's not the GNU project, Stallman considers it evil and anti-freedom, because it doesn't praise him.

In all, most people who do know of Stallman, don't seem to want to give credit to someone who hasn't programmed in 30 years, has really terrible views, has a weird sense of entitlement, and has never held a real job outside of the academic community so him suggesting everyone work for free doesn't really go over well.

One of us, one of us, gooble-gabble, gooble-gabble

@johnhooks If it's GNU/Linux then it's also Zend/Wordpress. I hope one day we can all live in a world where the GNU toolchain no longer matters at all, and it's actually pretty close.

@scottalanmiller said:

The Communist rabbit or the Nazi rabbit?

I won't stand for all of these intense questions! I am out of here!

That's cool and all, but I don't get this weird shift toward everyone wanting everyone else to have a webcam and to get on it. Why are conference calls not good enough? I've had other business owners say I need to get a webcam so I can get on Skype or whatever, why? What the hell for? It's weird. My answer is: no, never, I'm taking a stand for all those ugly people out there who don't want to get dressed.

@RojoLoco said:

Would you like a sample of the sparkly Data Dust(tm) that was inside it?

I prefer sprinkles over sparkles, this way I can put it on my ice cream and download data directly into my brain

My entire empire is built upon caffeine, nicotine, and modafinil.

When I saw this topic my first thought was "God, I hope so!"

When it comes to women of the night, are they good quality like in Vegas? Asking for a friend.

@IRJ said:

@tonyshowoff

How'd you get my picture, wtf!?

@dafyre said in WebAuthn now a standard:

@tonyshowoff said in WebAuthn now a standard:

†Of course, you can add key phrases to your private keys but if you're doing that, what in the hell was the point of going down that road in the first place?

I thought the idea was to help eliminate passwords flying all over the internet. With something like a key phrase on a private key, that password should never leave your computer... but I'm relatively certain that's not how this is going to work, lol.

With SSL it wouldn't make any difference anyway. And no your passphrase for your generated private key would not have the password sent, rather it's in order to use the key file at all.

@BMarie said:

How did we get from desk talk to Helicopters!

Helicopters are designed on desks Done.

God almighty, the new style sheet is terrible, what's with this layout?

In the mid-90s I worked at a national US ISP and all of the servers either ran SunOS (later Solaris) or UNIX 6, or briefly there were a lot of Redhat servers as well. I'm not sure what they run today, but I think it's nothing except Linux, not sure what distro though. There were absolutely no Windows servers, though there were Windows workstations for client developers and I remember NT 4 was used for the domain but later replaced with OpenLDAP, and finally the only Windows machines left were only for client development, even server development (at least when I was there) was on Sun machines. I wouldn't really consider it a mixed environment, as it was apparent to me from everyone that if they could only use Unix that's what they'd use.

So certainly as mentioned above, when it comes to single type environments, Windows-only is pretty rare. Even at Microsoft they don't have Windows only environments, hotmail used some form of Unix or Linux for a very long time. There was an article about this, but I cannot find it, it detailed how Microsoft tried switching hotmail to Exchange but it was a huge failure for a long time. I imagine now it uses it though, probably some cutdown version of it better suited for such a large environment. Microsoft, though, isn't great on scalability, except SQL Server and modern versions of .NET can do a pretty good job at it (even surprises me). SQL Server's own advancements since 2005 have been very impressive.

@Reid-Cooper said:

Wouldn't a skinny hamburger be a slider?

I was going to say that but I was afraid of the fall out you caused happening to me.