DukeOfURL wrote this helpful article in choosing the best Linux distribution for your skill level, with comparisons of Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced distributions. They highly recommend Mandrake Linux for beginners, and I would tend to agree.
Anything that infuriates the community spurs emotion, tempers flare, and coding accelerates. For example, when NT benchmarks were shown to be better than Linux kernel 2.2, a massive new wave of discussion and fixes occured that eventually made the 2.4 kernel much more optimized.
Open Source coders can't simply live in a cave. They must be aware of market and community situations and adjust strategy and features accordingly.
My tests have shown that N = number of CPU's is faster. Any higher number actually slows down compile times. I did the test with a simple benchmark script that I wrote standardized on Red Hat 7.1.
"Once, when Linus was abroad at some conference or another, he modified my shell setup scripts so that when I logged in, it looked as if I was using MS-DOS. That was fun, of course, but it begged for revenge. This happened while we were sharing an office at the university, so once when Linus went out to get something to drink or something, I created an alias for startx for him. My alias first ran the real startx, and then printed out a kernel `Oops' message. The first time Linus noticed this made him a bit worried, but he logged out and cleared the screen too fast to read it, but the second time made him really worried. I'd copied the `Oops' message from linux-kernel, and of course it didn't suit Linus's kernel at all. He had gotten as far as decoding the message by hand, and muttering something like ``Why is it crashing there? It can't crash there!'', when I burst out laughing and told him what I'd done. Linus what quite relieved and never tried any practical jokes on me again."
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Without an easy 1-2-3 binary installer, most people wouldn't see any benefit of installing their software. Instead I think Eazel and Ximian should be accepting donations, something like Linux Mandrake's donation page where users can donate to a chosen project. While this alone has no chance of breaking even, I am sure many of us appreciate their efforts and want to help any way we can, especially if we aren't talented coders.
I use reiserfs on many of my machines, but agree that Reiserfs is not quite ready for mission critical work. I know what I am doing, and I accept the risk of using reiserfs. However, it is a pain in the neck for me to install Redhat on ext2, recompile the kernel then copy the root partition every time I create a server. I will also probably use Mandrake 8.0 as a rescue disk because Redhat 7.1 wont have reiserfs support.
Would it be too much to ask for an Official but EXPERIMENTAL-DO-NOT-USE-UNLESS-YOU-KNOW-WHAT-YOU-A RE-DOING Redhat 7.1 Reiserfs capable installer? I love Redhat for my servers, but I and many others would hate to to rely on a 3rd party Redhat ISO sets downloads from some guy in Brazil for an easy installation.
Would it be possible to release boot.img's that are Reiserfs capable, or would such a beast need entire ISO's?
If Redhat is worried about supporting these unsupported users, perhaps you could hide it in expert mode, and have disclaimers saying, "REDHAT DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK."
Please do not mistake this post for trolling, but could this development be redundant to Transgaming's work in porting the DirectX multimedia API for Wine?
Is it possible that Transgaming's DirectX for Wine port may be abstracted without the Wine component for easier game development between Linux and Window games?
Does the SDL have the benefit of more platform support (MacOS, etc)?
People are already hacking the existing iPaq by adding another DRAM and flash chip, effectively doubling their RAM and flash storage. They had all 64MB RAM working fine under Linux, but WinCE would not recognize anything past 32MB. Check it out http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/UpgradingDRAM
Reiserfs + knfsd support in Kernel 2.4.x is VERY CLOSE to working properly. If I recall correctly, one of their initial problems was due to a general NFS bug that crashed even some ext2 setups. Now they are getting the final kinks out of it, and it should be ready Real Soon Now(tm).
Before reiserfs had logging, I believe it was much faster for many many small files, and slghtly faster for common cases. Of course journalling is going to make it slower on the average than a non-journalling file system, however I'm willing to bet that certain extreme types of file types are still faster than ext2 due to the optimized nature of storage on reiserfs. (Go read the white papers for details.)
I used to have reiserfs with notail, nolog and noatime mount options on my Squid cache partitions for extra speed, and the fact that in the event of a crash the system could easily mkreiserfs instead of fsck, because Squid cache data isn't very important to keep. The system did so only once, due to the cable technician tripping over the power chord.
Back then I did benchmarks using simulated Squid test loads on ext2 vs reiserfs with and without journalling enabled. Of course journalling disabled was clearly faster than ext2, but reiser journalling enabled was not statistically different from ext2 in several test runs. It might be something about the nature of squid cache files.
Now I no longer run a Squid server, but I believe they added another mount option specifically for additional Squid performance which does away with filenames. (Not sure about this.)
As for non-Squid server usage, it would be dumb to not activate journalling if your data is important to you. reiserfsck has been somewhat lacking in the ability to fix corrupted filesystems.
Bottom line - Journalling is good. Save hours of fsck time, get your enterprise servers back up quickly and save your job. I'd say that's well worth a negligible performance hit for most servers.
Some kids living near these areas in Hawaii are in remote areas without high speed internet connections. (Almost the rest of the Hawaiian state has both cable modem and DSL available.) This network may also allow those students to finally have high speed Internet access.
Peer to peer isn't part of the 802.11 protocol, however guys at the University of Hawaii are working on hacking the protocol to pass peer-to-peer packets from many low powered "POD" stations scattered across the Hawaiian forests. These pods collect weather data and digital pictures and send them back to the base station for processing. This is from a grant from DARPA to monitor and protect endangered species in Hawaii.
Hacking the 802.11 protocol for peer-to-peer passing of packets is very useful in this situation because this alleviates the need for extremely powerful antennae to be setup and pointed to many sensor stations scattered across a forest. Instead the pods are all within reach of another and packets are passed back towards the home station. Nifty.
Check out the pictures of these pods on the site. Each station is custom made to blend in to the surroundings, looking like a dead log, or a lava rock or something.
Good - People don't look at anything abut MHz rating when they buy computers. Bigger number means faster. So Intel makes it look like they have a faster computer and people without a clue (everybody) buys it.
Bad - The Pentium 4 is simply UNAVAILABLE. Intel can't produce enough, plus the parts for the P4 are 3 times as expensive. You gotta buy a special new case, power supply, motherboard and 1 POUND HEATSINK for this thing. You could replace the entire heating system of an Antarctic research station with one P4 machine. I would sa that this is borderline Kryotech excessive.
My point is this: If you vote Green, and they DO get more popular, or even their 5%, you're contributing to a split among left-wing voters. Not just a split this election, but a split that will last in all the other elections until either the Greens or Dems collapse. Since neither is likely to happen, you'll be handing maybe up to 10 consecutive terms to the Republicans. So that's why I voted Gore even in safe Massachusetts (well, besides the fact that I don't like anything about the Green party beyond Nader himself).
This is very good reasoning and I tend to agree. This indicates that it is simply not possible to have three viable parties. My questions are:
1) Is this an indication that this is a glaring problem in the system, and _something_ should be done in order to facilitate fairness in this regard?
2) It doesn't matter if a viable 3rd party is possible.
I tend to lean more toward 2. To me all that I am concerned for is that laws are not passed with so blatantly violate the US Constitution or common sense rights of Americans (DMCA, UCITA, that anti-hacking treaty which I can't remember the name of, anti-evolution legislation). Something that confuses me is that it seems that too many of these laws are passed, even though it is very clear that they are either stupid or violate the US constitution. Sure, they may be retracted later, but only after how many people are hurt?
Another concern that I have is if the same party controls the house, senate and white house. The above has the potential have happening faster.
Geforce 2 MX is the "value" card which I would say is the best bang for the buck. Performance slightly higher than the old Geforce 256 DDR with prices around $130. I'm quite happy with this card.
Geforce 2 GTS is a higher end card with 2 graphic pipelines instead of one. The problem with the latest nVidia chipsets is that they were always bottlenecked by the RAM speed. The Geforce 2 Ultra is the same as the GTS, but it corrects this with its higher speed RAM, but you pay a big premium for this.
(Which also means if you want more graphic performance out of your existing Geforce card, overclock ONLY your RAM to see the best performance boost. You can even buy heatsinks that add more cooling to the graphic chipsets to push it even farther. Just plain crazy.)
I agree that spendable karma is a good idea, however I believe that the ability to "transfer karma" will be abused.
If someone feels so impelled by the moment that something needs to be moderated, then they should do so at a (minor) loss. The purpose of moderation is to
1) Prevent Abuse
2) Make posts which _should_ be seen more prominant.
In moderating up (or down) a post without giving (or taking) karma from the poster. This would do that job effectively, by preventing even the chance of karma transfer abuse but but allowing that flexibility in moderation.
I too have been using Reiserfs for many months with zero problems. Reiserfs runs my root partition with journalling, and with access time, journalling and tails disabled, it is much faster for my squid partitions. Very versatile and stable.
I'm quite sure that Celeron II's are not SMP capable. Everyone loved the Abit BP6 and being able to take advantage of the cheap old PPGA Celeron's, but Intel wisened up and not only completey disabled SMP in their Celeron II, but crippled their Celeron II to have much less power than a similarly clocked Coppermine.
As a result, they have a vastly inferior "budget" system, with their 66mhz bus vs the AMD "200mhz" (100DDR) on the Duron.
What is this Abit VP6?
MacOS was clearly superior to Windows 3.x. Hell, MacOS 7 was superior to Windows 95/98 in just about every way imaginable.
I would have to disagree. Even the modern Mac OS 9 is plagued by stability problems and does not have pre-emptive multitasking. Mac OS can't do more than one thing at a time. A simple clogged local hub while plugged in, and your Mac slows to a crawl while it tries to talk to a local AppleTalk server. You can't do ANYTHING while it waits for the network.
Quite basically, Mac OS could never multitask. Mac OS X will change this however.
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DukeOfURL wrote this helpful article in choosing the best Linux distribution for your skill level, with comparisons of Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced distributions. They highly recommend Mandrake Linux for beginners, and I would tend to agree.
RPMDrake in Mandrake has both flat view and "arbitrary grouped functionality."
KDE daily builds? Please post the URL!
Open Source coders can't simply live in a cave. They must be aware of market and community situations and adjust strategy and features accordingly.
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Test Results in Minutes
Abit VP6 dual CPU Pentium III 1GHz machine.
J2 5.55
J3 7.15
J4 7.2667
J5 7.45
J6 7.45
Asus A7V single CPU Athlon 750MHz
J1 10.26
J2 10.93
J3 13.61
J4 13.71
J5 14.3
J6 13.88
"Once, when Linus was abroad at some conference or another, he modified my shell setup scripts so that when I logged in, it looked as if I was using MS-DOS. That was fun, of course, but it begged for revenge. This happened while we were sharing an office at the university, so once when Linus went out to get something to drink or something, I created an alias for startx for him. My alias first ran the real startx, and then printed out a kernel `Oops' message. The first time Linus noticed this made him a bit worried, but he logged out and cleared the screen too fast to read it, but the second time made him really worried. I'd copied the `Oops' message from linux-kernel, and of course it didn't suit Linus's kernel at all. He had gotten as far as decoding the message by hand, and muttering something like ``Why is it crashing there? It can't crash there!'', when I burst out laughing and told him what I'd done. Linus what quite relieved and never tried any practical jokes on me again."
Because Ximian isn't making any profits.
Without an easy 1-2-3 binary installer, most people wouldn't see any benefit of installing their software. Instead I think Eazel and Ximian should be accepting donations, something like Linux Mandrake's donation page where users can donate to a chosen project. While this alone has no chance of breaking even, I am sure many of us appreciate their efforts and want to help any way we can, especially if we aren't talented coders.
I use reiserfs on many of my machines, but agree that Reiserfs is not quite ready for mission critical work. I know what I am doing, and I accept the risk of using reiserfs. However, it is a pain in the neck for me to install Redhat on ext2, recompile the kernel then copy the root partition every time I create a server. I will also probably use Mandrake 8.0 as a rescue disk because Redhat 7.1 wont have reiserfs support.
Would it be too much to ask for an Official but EXPERIMENTAL-DO-NOT-USE-UNLESS-YOU-KNOW-WHAT-YOU-A RE-DOING Redhat 7.1 Reiserfs capable installer? I love Redhat for my servers, but I and many others would hate to to rely on a 3rd party Redhat ISO sets downloads from some guy in Brazil for an easy installation.
Would it be possible to release boot.img's that are Reiserfs capable, or would such a beast need entire ISO's?
If Redhat is worried about supporting these unsupported users, perhaps you could hide it in expert mode, and have disclaimers saying, "REDHAT DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK."
Please do not mistake this post for trolling, but could this development be redundant to Transgaming's work in porting the DirectX multimedia API for Wine?
Is it possible that Transgaming's DirectX for Wine port may be abstracted without the Wine component for easier game development between Linux and Window games?
Does the SDL have the benefit of more platform support (MacOS, etc)?
People are already hacking the existing iPaq by adding another DRAM and flash chip, effectively doubling their RAM and flash storage. They had all 64MB RAM working fine under Linux, but WinCE would not recognize anything past 32MB. Check it out http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/UpgradingDRAM
Reiserfs + knfsd support in Kernel 2.4.x is VERY CLOSE to working properly. If I recall correctly, one of their initial problems was due to a general NFS bug that crashed even some ext2 setups. Now they are getting the final kinks out of it, and it should be ready Real Soon Now(tm).
Great. 10 minutes to read the boot image.
Or what about recoil? One shot and you're sent flying in the opposite direction.
Before reiserfs had logging, I believe it was much faster for many many small files, and slghtly faster for common cases. Of course journalling is going to make it slower on the average than a non-journalling file system, however I'm willing to bet that certain extreme types of file types are still faster than ext2 due to the optimized nature of storage on reiserfs. (Go read the white papers for details.)
I used to have reiserfs with notail, nolog and noatime mount options on my Squid cache partitions for extra speed, and the fact that in the event of a crash the system could easily mkreiserfs instead of fsck, because Squid cache data isn't very important to keep. The system did so only once, due to the cable technician tripping over the power chord.
Back then I did benchmarks using simulated Squid test loads on ext2 vs reiserfs with and without journalling enabled. Of course journalling disabled was clearly faster than ext2, but reiser journalling enabled was not statistically different from ext2 in several test runs. It might be something about the nature of squid cache files.
Now I no longer run a Squid server, but I believe they added another mount option specifically for additional Squid performance which does away with filenames. (Not sure about this.)
As for non-Squid server usage, it would be dumb to not activate journalling if your data is important to you. reiserfsck has been somewhat lacking in the ability to fix corrupted filesystems.
Bottom line - Journalling is good. Save hours of fsck time, get your enterprise servers back up quickly and save your job. I'd say that's well worth a negligible performance hit for most servers.
How different would this be to the current system, putting cargo onto ships that cross the ocean?
Some kids living near these areas in Hawaii are in remote areas without high speed internet connections. (Almost the rest of the Hawaiian state has both cable modem and DSL available.) This network may also allow those students to finally have high speed Internet access.
More information about this can be found here http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/pods/.
Hacking the 802.11 protocol for peer-to-peer passing of packets is very useful in this situation because this alleviates the need for extremely powerful antennae to be setup and pointed to many sensor stations scattered across a forest. Instead the pods are all within reach of another and packets are passed back towards the home station. Nifty.
Check out the pictures of these pods on the site. Each station is custom made to blend in to the surroundings, looking like a dead log, or a lava rock or something.
Good - People don't look at anything abut MHz rating when they buy computers. Bigger number means faster. So Intel makes it look like they have a faster computer and people without a clue (everybody) buys it.
Bad - The Pentium 4 is simply UNAVAILABLE. Intel can't produce enough, plus the parts for the P4 are 3 times as expensive. You gotta buy a special new case, power supply, motherboard and 1 POUND HEATSINK for this thing. You could replace the entire heating system of an Antarctic research station with one P4 machine. I would sa that this is borderline Kryotech excessive.
I think I'll stick with Athlon for a while.
My point is this: If you vote Green, and they DO get more popular, or even their 5%, you're contributing to a split among left-wing voters. Not just a split this election, but a split that will last in all the other elections until either the Greens or Dems collapse. Since neither is likely to happen, you'll be handing maybe up to 10 consecutive terms to the Republicans. So that's why I voted Gore even in safe Massachusetts (well, besides the fact that I don't like anything about the Green party beyond Nader himself).
This is very good reasoning and I tend to agree. This indicates that it is simply not possible to have three viable parties. My questions are:
1) Is this an indication that this is a glaring problem in the system, and _something_ should be done in order to facilitate fairness in this regard?
2) It doesn't matter if a viable 3rd party is possible.
I tend to lean more toward 2. To me all that I am concerned for is that laws are not passed with so blatantly violate the US Constitution or common sense rights of Americans (DMCA, UCITA, that anti-hacking treaty which I can't remember the name of, anti-evolution legislation). Something that confuses me is that it seems that too many of these laws are passed, even though it is very clear that they are either stupid or violate the US constitution. Sure, they may be retracted later, but only after how many people are hurt?
Another concern that I have is if the same party controls the house, senate and white house. The above has the potential have happening faster.
Which Geforce 2?
Geforce 2 MX is the "value" card which I would say is the best bang for the buck. Performance slightly higher than the old Geforce 256 DDR with prices around $130. I'm quite happy with this card.
Geforce 2 GTS is a higher end card with 2 graphic pipelines instead of one. The problem with the latest nVidia chipsets is that they were always bottlenecked by the RAM speed. The Geforce 2 Ultra is the same as the GTS, but it corrects this with its higher speed RAM, but you pay a big premium for this.
(Which also means if you want more graphic performance out of your existing Geforce card, overclock ONLY your RAM to see the best performance boost. You can even buy heatsinks that add more cooling to the graphic chipsets to push it even farther. Just plain crazy.)
I agree that spendable karma is a good idea, however I believe that the ability to "transfer karma" will be abused.
If someone feels so impelled by the moment that something needs to be moderated, then they should do so at a (minor) loss. The purpose of moderation is to
1) Prevent Abuse
2) Make posts which _should_ be seen more prominant.
In moderating up (or down) a post without giving (or taking) karma from the poster. This would do that job effectively, by preventing even the chance of karma transfer abuse but but allowing that flexibility in moderation.
I too have been using Reiserfs for many months with zero problems. Reiserfs runs my root partition with journalling, and with access time, journalling and tails disabled, it is much faster for my squid partitions. Very versatile and stable.
I'm quite sure that Celeron II's are not SMP capable. Everyone loved the Abit BP6 and being able to take advantage of the cheap old PPGA Celeron's, but Intel wisened up and not only completey disabled SMP in their Celeron II, but crippled their Celeron II to have much less power than a similarly clocked Coppermine. As a result, they have a vastly inferior "budget" system, with their 66mhz bus vs the AMD "200mhz" (100DDR) on the Duron. What is this Abit VP6?
I would have to disagree. Even the modern Mac OS 9 is plagued by stability problems and does not have pre-emptive multitasking. Mac OS can't do more than one thing at a time. A simple clogged local hub while plugged in, and your Mac slows to a crawl while it tries to talk to a local AppleTalk server. You can't do ANYTHING while it waits for the network.
Quite basically, Mac OS could never multitask. Mac OS X will change this however.