From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 8 13:15:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ermis.cc.duth.gr (ermis.cc.duth.gr [192.108.114.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F57837B435 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:15:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from duth.gr (foo.duth.gr [193.92.210.14]) by ermis.cc.duth.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g08LFGS13077; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:15:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kkonstan@duth.gr) Message-ID: <3C3AADF5.97D56221@duth.gr> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:29:41 +0200 From: Konstantinos Konstantinidis Organization: We've heard of it. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, el MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "f.johan.beisser" Cc: BSD Mailing List , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, donniejones18@yahoo.com Subject: Re: This guy is so far out References: <20020108082803.M74874-100000@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "f.johan.beisser" wrote: > > redirected to -chat > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, BSD Mailing List wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > You guys have to check out this link > > http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 > > > > According to this guy, BSD and other versions of Linux are only > > "illegal hacking operating systems". I didn't know that BSD was a version of Linux, never mind an "illegal hacking operating system". Oh well, live and learn. According to the article it was written by a Soviet hacker and it was based on "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US Government! > i think this article shows more of a lack of knowledge than "this guy is > out there". he's ill informed, and tends to write to a group of people > looking to have their fears confirmed, vs actually learning something. I think what this article shows is that the author is a trully magnificent troll. I particularly enjoyed the reference to lunix (not Linux, lunix, a C64 unix lookalike, probably named after the lunacy that definitely is a requirement for someone to engage in such an exercise of futility), although the advice to ensure that any firearms are fitted with trigger locks should your son engage in the occasional game of Quake was a close second. Having Tim O'Reilly's "Programming with Perl" next to Jon (sic) Katz's "Geeks" in the "black list" of "hacking manuals" was a nice touch... > it's a sad state, but this is what some kids and computer professionals > alike have to deal with. Indeed, I had to deal with my fair share of idiocy from our users until we putted those "NO ENTRY" signs at the door and made sure that the phones would be busy for anyone but a select few higher up the pecking order. But this is not idiocy; this is the creative work of a genius misspenting his talent. --kkonstan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message