For one, CFQ is not supposed to be an optimized I/O scheduler for database loads. That's where the Deadline scheduler comes in. You wouldn't want a "Fair" scheduler on your database server, as you would end up putting the database in I/O wait to handle lower priority processes.
Perhaps, I am missing the point of these acid tests. I'm not a web developer by trade, so I don't claim to be an expert on CSS. From personal experience, CSS has allowed me to use much less complex HTML in the little web publishing I have done. I never seem to get consistent results when I test my pages in different browsers. I hope that these "standards" Acid tests lead to greater compatibility across browsers.
Do these tests increase compatibility by pushing the envelope on new standards, or are they just a browser-war pissing contest?
While that is an interesting anecdote. One, I am sure, which many others can relate. However, your complaint has very little to do with Linux and Dell hardware.
Congratulations on finishing up your mod, Adam. Some of the greatest map design I've seen. The last chapter in this was challenging, a great surprise, and an exercise in desperation to stay alive. That's all I'll say, and hopefully avoid spoiling it for others.
I loved it! Thanks for the great series, hope you keep up the good work.
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Just want to throw this out there. If someone wants to buy me a beer at our slashdot party... I might be influenced as to which friend gets a copy of HL2 and/or HL2ep1.
The grandparents 'cp' flags are irrelevant in preventing what occurred. SELinux is hooking in and preventing him making that change before any file permission or filesystem attribute is ever taken into account. So enlighten me how context preservation applies to this situation whatsoever?
Where in the manual of cp, coreutils documentation, or SELinux documentation, does it say context preservation has anything to do with SELinux?
Let me introduce you to the -c option of cp, also known as --preserve=context. Here's the thing, cp -a implies -p or --preserve=context as you put it. So the parent was doing just as you described.
It's not just Apache that will refuse to start after you've archived a mountpoint and moved it to a different device or location. I had a similar experience using RHEL with SELinux enabled. I cloned a RHEL template in VMWare virtual center. Then I went into single user mode, and stopped remaining services writing to/var, at this point I archived/var. I added a new virtual disk, formatted it, mounted it up as/var and restored from my archive.
At this point I should be able to reboot or change the runlevel and start back up using the new/var mountpoint. Syslog hung on startup! I ended up troubleshooting this problem several hours with no logging available. The most puzzling part was when I tried to start up syslog from the command line and it would take off just fine. It would inexplicably hang every time it was called from an init script.
It turns out SELinux was preventing syslog to startup. It was impossibly hard to track down why syslog was failing, and why syslog was the only thing writing to/var which seemed to be affected.
Let me re-iterate the point. This problem I and the grandparent poster experienced has nothing to do with "preservation" of context, permission modes, ownership, timestamps, ACLS, or any other file or filesystem attribute.
I've been a LinuxFund cardholder ever since it was first announced here on slashdot. I stuck with the card since the Bank of America/MBNA merger. I stuck with the card after it was announced that nobody had managed the LinuxFund's assets for almost 2 years.
Many of the other countless posts here add little to the conversation other than "MBNA/Bank of America sucks". The biggest question on my mind, and perhaps even other loyal cardholders is if another bank will be picking up the LinuxFund card? Personally, and I can only speak for myself, I've frequently used the card for both business and personal expenses over the years. I even nominated one of the groups who are currently receiving much needed financial support for development. I would rather "give" in this way, than trade this sort of community funding for George Forman grills, and $10 Applebees or Starbucks gift cards.
So is there any official word or news from the LinuxFund account managers?
I'm just going on what Microsoft has documented in the Microsoft Press literature. Filesystem encryption implemented this way is certainly not as foolproof as say something like a PGP encrypted file.
Here is a perfectly valid example: I copy a Microsoft "encrypted" file from a workstation to a file share which also happens to have NTFS. That file will be encrypted at the workstation, and it will be encrypted on the file server. It will NOT be encrypted over the wire. That may even be okay for some people. But it's certainly not the same thing. The file should be encrypted until I decrypt it. The operating system shouldn't choose that it not be encrypted for a copy or move operation.
I'm not claiming the encryption is weak or faulty, because I don't know that it is. I feel the way it was implemented is at fault, that's just my opinion.
No, Windows cannot encrypt user data by itself. Simply copy those so-called "encrypted" files to a non-NTFS filesystem, and they are anything but encrypted.
I suggest that Patrick pushes an "update" that will detect whether the script is running on MPAA's servers or not; and when it is, it'll only show a picture (goatse or a parody of their "You can click but you can't hide") and talk about how hypocritical they are.
Not only would that be unethical. It would likely result in criminal charges, and liability against the author.
Taken from 18 USC 1030, paragraph 5
Whoever knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
Transgaming has a new product dubbed "Cider" for Intel Macs, it's based on the same technology as their "Cedega" product for Linux. Check it out, it may enable you to play a few games on a Mac. I use and subscribe to Cedega, because I like using Linux, and I like being able to play games.
Making a new implementation of DirectX is not even in the same ballpark as re-implementing.NET. As I understand it, C#/.NET is an openly documented language. Miguel took the specifications for this language and made his own compiler and Software Development Kit for that language.
Now DirectX on the other hand, is a fairly closed collection of graphic API's. According to my understanding, there is more "black box magic" working with the DirectX API than with.NET. Perhaps there is so much hidden from the developer, with DirectX, it would be akin to reverse-engineering a wireless card dependent on some unknown proprietary firmware. I think it unlikely, but perhaps nobody wants to re-implement DirectX for other platforms.
I know that Transgaming licenses closed source technology for their gaming products, to bring games to other platforms. How much of this is secret DirectX stuff? I have no idea, it may be that they are only licensing copy-protection technology. It's the best effort I have seen to bring DirectX technology to other platforms.
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For one, CFQ is not supposed to be an optimized I/O scheduler for database loads. That's where the Deadline scheduler comes in. You wouldn't want a "Fair" scheduler on your database server, as you would end up putting the database in I/O wait to handle lower priority processes.
Perhaps, I am missing the point of these acid tests. I'm not a web developer by trade, so I don't claim to be an expert on CSS. From personal experience, CSS has allowed me to use much less complex HTML in the little web publishing I have done. I never seem to get consistent results when I test my pages in different browsers. I hope that these "standards" Acid tests lead to greater compatibility across browsers.
Do these tests increase compatibility by pushing the envelope on new standards, or are they just a browser-war pissing contest?
I think I'm going to grease back my hear and roll my carton of cigarettes up in my sleeve. I'm a bad man.
A whole carton? Damn, those must be some big sleeves!
You're a constipated terrorist.
While that is an interesting anecdote. One, I am sure, which many others can relate. However, your complaint has very little to do with Linux and Dell hardware.
China has it's own moon?
Why is the digital download so damned attractive? You don't get box art, you don't get a manual.
Oh no, I'm missing out on an ugly safety-orange cardboard box!
It's under Desktop->Open-Source PCs or Laptop->Open-Source PCs on the Higher Ed. portal I'm looking at.
Congratulations on finishing up your mod, Adam. Some of the greatest map design I've seen. The last chapter in this was challenging, a great surprise, and an exercise in desperation to stay alive. That's all I'll say, and hopefully avoid spoiling it for others.
I loved it! Thanks for the great series, hope you keep up the good work.
May I Buy, Sell or Trade gift subscriptions?
No. This violates the Steam Subscriber Agreement and may result in having your account disabled.
Just want to throw this out there. If someone wants to buy me a beer at our slashdot party... I might be influenced as to which friend gets a copy of HL2 and/or HL2ep1.
I swear I read the article title as "Lara Croft's Erotic Adventures".
What a disappointment.
I haven't used Paypal since they canceled the BillPay program.
He didn't get arrested, he was ejected from the game.
The grandparents 'cp' flags are irrelevant in preventing what occurred. SELinux is hooking in and preventing him making that change before any file permission or filesystem attribute is ever taken into account. So enlighten me how context preservation applies to this situation whatsoever?
Where in the manual of cp, coreutils documentation, or SELinux documentation, does it say context preservation has anything to do with SELinux?
It's not just Apache that will refuse to start after you've archived a mountpoint and moved it to a different device or location. I had a similar experience using RHEL with SELinux enabled. I cloned a RHEL template in VMWare virtual center. Then I went into single user mode, and stopped remaining services writing to
At this point I should be able to reboot or change the runlevel and start back up using the new
It turns out SELinux was preventing syslog to startup. It was impossibly hard to track down why syslog was failing, and why syslog was the only thing writing to
Let me re-iterate the point. This problem I and the grandparent poster experienced has nothing to do with "preservation" of context, permission modes, ownership, timestamps, ACLS, or any other file or filesystem attribute.
I've been a LinuxFund cardholder ever since it was first announced here on slashdot. I stuck with the card since the Bank of America/MBNA merger. I stuck with the card after it was announced that nobody had managed the LinuxFund's assets for almost 2 years.
Many of the other countless posts here add little to the conversation other than "MBNA/Bank of America sucks". The biggest question on my mind, and perhaps even other loyal cardholders is if another bank will be picking up the LinuxFund card? Personally, and I can only speak for myself, I've frequently used the card for both business and personal expenses over the years. I even nominated one of the groups who are currently receiving much needed financial support for development. I would rather "give" in this way, than trade this sort of community funding for George Forman grills, and $10 Applebees or Starbucks gift cards.
So is there any official word or news from the LinuxFund account managers?
I'm just going on what Microsoft has documented in the Microsoft Press literature. Filesystem encryption implemented this way is certainly not as foolproof as say something like a PGP encrypted file.
Here is a perfectly valid example: I copy a Microsoft "encrypted" file from a workstation to a file share which also happens to have NTFS. That file will be encrypted at the workstation, and it will be encrypted on the file server. It will NOT be encrypted over the wire. That may even be okay for some people. But it's certainly not the same thing. The file should be encrypted until I decrypt it. The operating system shouldn't choose that it not be encrypted for a copy or move operation.
I'm not claiming the encryption is weak or faulty, because I don't know that it is. I feel the way it was implemented is at fault, that's just my opinion.
No, Windows cannot encrypt user data by itself. Simply copy those so-called "encrypted" files to a non-NTFS filesystem, and they are anything but encrypted.
So where are the 100 Windows geeks to say, "Please give me fewer options. I don't want to have a choice unless it's between Vista or XP!"
You must me living under a rock.
Congratulations, on the win, Jordan.
Not only would that be unethical. It would likely result in criminal charges, and liability against the author.
Taken from 18 USC 1030, paragraph 5
Please grow up.
Transgaming has a new product dubbed "Cider" for Intel Macs, it's based on the same technology as their "Cedega" product for Linux. Check it out, it may enable you to play a few games on a Mac. I use and subscribe to Cedega, because I like using Linux, and I like being able to play games.
.NET. As I understand it, C#/.NET is an openly documented language. Miguel took the specifications for this language and made his own compiler and Software Development Kit for that language.
.NET. Perhaps there is so much hidden from the developer, with DirectX, it would be akin to reverse-engineering a wireless card dependent on some unknown proprietary firmware. I think it unlikely, but perhaps nobody wants to re-implement DirectX for other platforms.
Making a new implementation of DirectX is not even in the same ballpark as re-implementing
Now DirectX on the other hand, is a fairly closed collection of graphic API's. According to my understanding, there is more "black box magic" working with the DirectX API than with
I know that Transgaming licenses closed source technology for their gaming products, to bring games to other platforms. How much of this is secret DirectX stuff? I have no idea, it may be that they are only licensing copy-protection technology. It's the best effort I have seen to bring DirectX technology to other platforms.
Yes, but Gentoo wants to be compiled.