unix n00bs (i.e. most of you here) make me shit my pants
for the love of god, people, using unix for a month is not enough to make you knowledgeable in its ways and give advice to others. please refrain from making yourself look like complete utter idiots (mind you, this is hard to achieve since idiots are the norm in CS) by giving horribly shitty authorative-sounding suggestions based on shit you read two days ago on linuxtoday and newsforge.
discuss.
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Anonymous2005-07-14 23:18
>Use OpenBSD if it absolutely, positively has to be secure
...and you trust the word of a schizophrenic who has never wrote production code in his life, even when he's tried to.
>>83
Windows gets better security review than any of the open source OSes, including OpenBSD - Microsoft actually pay hundreds of people to look for security holes, full-time.
i've used bsd for 8 years now and use it daily on my only computer as my only operating system, this is why i fail, i'm getting a macbook next month
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Anonymous2008-02-07 15:11
>>89
Let's dump out 50 years of standardized Unix configuration conventions and implement our own arcane xml configuration, also fuck init lets make our own proprietary launchd. FUCK YEAH APPLE FTW
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Anonymous2008-02-07 15:13
>>90
See m0n0wall for an good example of xml-only configuration.
>>92
That would be the ``defaults'' system. The programmer only sees key/value pairs, and the user doesn't interact with it at all, but they're stored as XML plists, so I'm pretty sure that's what >>90 is talking about.
>>102
I'm not quite sure what you mean. XML was the default plist format around 10.3 (I don't know about earlier versions). Since 10.4 they've been binaries by default and now (10.5) it seems that plutil doesn't even support NeXT plists anymore. Your post makes it sound like even a binary configuration file is superior to XML.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 11:21
>>103
Binary is love. Especially when programs manage their own configuration like any usable system.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 11:47
configuration files are not part of the UNIX philosophy.