right, but since this functionality is already there, i thought it might be lighter than the new mod - which has to maintain a list of requests (either in memory on the fs) and then check this list every time a request comes in... I wonder what kind of IO is involved here. But, that question is better answered in the source code, so off i go...
They've already got Jordan H of FreeBSD fame working on the guts of the thing, why not use Kirk Mccusick's soft updates on top of their ufs implimentation?
In it's current implimentation it vastly outperforms journaling filesystems and has great data integrity.
I don't know about you guys, but I like the gentoo install for 2 reasons:
1. I learned stuff i didn't know about the workings of my system, and
2. it sets the barrier to entry just slightly higher: In order to run it, you have to be able to follow instructions for long enough to complete the install (basically, all day). This serves to mostly keep whiners off the mailing lists.
I mean, come on. "Gentoo expects the user to manually chroot and copy the system [ hopefully you do this in the opposite order] over from the cd to the root partition". This is such a diffucult task. especially since it's spelled out step by step in the readme. I mean, having to remember a command long enough to hit alt-F1 and type it is just sooo hard.
the amazing ignorance of the non-geek never fails to stun me. My dad threw a fourth of july picnic last year, and my uncle showed up from Washington with his new wife. She saw my vintage Linux PPC shirt and immeaditly started whispering to dad that i was with
"those guys who are trying to bankrupt Microsoft. They are really out to get MS... do you think we should tell him we've invested in MS stock? he'll be so angry"
as though i would demand they sell it and give all the profits to charity or something. she really thought i would come after her or something, just 'cause of her stock.
msoffice is only faster to start because...
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it's already half loaded. C'mon guys, why do you measure how fast something is based on how fast it starts? do your useage habits consist of launching it, looking at a document for 30 seconds, and then closing it again, or do you use some of it's features? are these features slow? so maybe it's slow to start because it's too polite to use your system resources _all_ the time just in case you want to launch it in 5 seconds.
> Nice troll, but somehow I don't think piracy of >evil-eula software is helping the free software >movement at all. If someone pirates a copy of >Windows, why would they want to install Linux?
umm... cause it's better? I have 2 operating systems installed on my company-issued Laptop, and i don't have to pay for either. Why do i choose to do everything in Linux that i can? because i like it better. Why do i choose to use Ogg instead of MP3? it sounds better. Sure, the (c) thing is nice, but for me it's the user experience that matters.
>Without copyright and patent laws that make the GPL >enforceable, Linux would be no better off than *BSD
I'm curious as to what you mean by this? are you refering to the fact that the BSD license allows commercial use? it's my impression that this is intentional, folk who release things under this kind of license basically don't want to waste time on politics, they just want to write code.
Are you implying some sort of lack on the bsd's part? the only thing i've found that FreeBSD doesn't do that Linux does is some of the newer wine based things. sure, atm Linux has better SMP support, but the filesystems largely suck by comparision, etc, etc.
Idarubicin wrote: > And it really is the fastest (of IE, Moz, and > Opera) browser on earth.
if small footprint is your main concern, ie you're less concerned about fancy sidebars, etc, you would do well to look into some of the alternate frontends for mozilla's engine. i've been playing with dillo recently, and while it doesn't do much more than display web pages, it does this a lot faster than mozilla on the same machine.
ofc, this might require an adjustment to the os you're using...
this is just like the 10-round magazine law. It doesn't do anything usefull, it just gets people used to the concept that this sort of thing should be regulated by law. Wait about 5 years, and then this bill's successors will be there to regulate every packet.
If the pentium had been declared illegal technogoly and never sold by intel, where would the computer industry be today (hint: you'd be still clinging to your old 386)
um... no, i'd still be using a motorola processor. at the time the pentiums came out i was using a 68040 machine.
this is a different issue - there's really no competition in the field of movies, whereas Intel had competition.
while i agree that this is a good thing; the fact that the commercial unix market wa sso splintered made it difficult to compete, and now we're seeing that only 1 or 2 comercial unices are left viable...
but, "everyone doing things the same way" is not always a good thing. this might mean that if someone comes up with a great new idea that isn't 'standard' it won't get implimented... such as NetBSD's dependancy based init tree.
heh:) "Safe" "Perl" that's almost as good as "microsoft" "works"
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> Most people would just say, "Hey, turn off the computer then." That doesn't work if you're away:)
or if it's a server. it's not that hard for a temperature monitor to shut the system off, but if you loose > $1000/hr the machine is down, $500 is cheap
cvsup stable-supfile cd/usr/src make world reboot mergemaster the one non obvious part... runs diff for you on all your configuration files, so you can choose what do to with them.
The thing is, in a movie an actor rarely sticks to one individual style (unless you are someone like Segal).
which is funny, 'cause i've only seen Segal do 1 aikido move in any of his movies. (the one with DMX). and before you flame me, yes, i am somewhat qualified to comment on this.
i agree - the animated version was much better - and, in fact, seems to be where PJ got most of his idea of how the story should be told: the beginning of FOTR is just a CGI remake of the live-action-behind-gause intro to the earlier film.
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings did great justice to J.R. Tolkien's war and class-conscious trilogy
john - what are you talking about? how is LOTR a class conscious trilogy? (laying aside, for the moment, the question of exactly what flavour of crack Peter Jackson was smokng when he made the movie) There are no classes in the book - everyone we encounter is either a typical english country gentleman (hobbit) or the lord/king/tribal chieftan of some country (or the second in command). unless you mean that the point of the entire thing is to show that Sam, the only person of slightly less "class" than everyone else saves the day?
Thus far, your statement makes about as much sense as the description a Womens Studys major once gave me: a bunch of guys attempt to destroy a vaginal symbol (ring) by throwing it into a giant penis symbol (volcano) where it will be destroyed, so that the "age of men" can begin, without interferance from pesky women.
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right, but since this functionality is already there, i thought it might be lighter than the new mod - which has to maintain a list of requests (either in memory on the fs) and then check this list every time a request comes in... I wonder what kind of IO is involved here. But, that question is better answered in the source code, so off i go...
I'll go read the security focus list, but i'm wondering why he didn't fix this by checking the referer tag?
They've already got Jordan H of FreeBSD fame working on the guts of the thing, why not use Kirk Mccusick's soft updates on top of their ufs implimentation?
In it's current implimentation it vastly outperforms journaling filesystems and has great data integrity.
> Right... If that's the level we're discussing it on
/., yes?
you do realize this is
I don't know about you guys, but I like the gentoo install for 2 reasons:
1. I learned stuff i didn't know about the workings of my system, and
2. it sets the barrier to entry just slightly higher: In order to run it, you have to be able to follow instructions for long enough to complete the install (basically, all day). This serves to mostly keep whiners off the mailing lists.
I mean, come on. "Gentoo expects the user to manually chroot and copy the system [ hopefully you do this in the opposite order] over from the cd to the root partition". This is such a diffucult task. especially since it's spelled out step by step in the readme. I mean, having to remember a command long enough to hit alt-F1 and type it is just sooo hard.
the amazing ignorance of the non-geek never fails to stun me. My dad threw a fourth of july picnic last year, and my uncle showed up from Washington with his new wife. She saw my vintage Linux PPC shirt and immeaditly started whispering to dad that i was with
"those guys who are trying to bankrupt Microsoft. They are really out to get MS... do you think we should tell him we've invested in MS stock? he'll be so angry"
as though i would demand they sell it and give all the profits to charity or something. she really thought i would come after her or something, just 'cause of her stock.
it's already half loaded. C'mon guys, why do you measure how fast something is based on how fast it starts? do your useage habits consist of launching it, looking at a document for 30 seconds, and then closing it again, or do you use some of it's features? are these features slow? so maybe it's slow to start because it's too polite to use your system resources _all_ the time just in case you want to launch it in 5 seconds.
> Nice troll, but somehow I don't think piracy of
>evil-eula software is helping the free software
>movement at all. If someone pirates a copy of
>Windows, why would they want to install Linux?
umm... cause it's better? I have 2 operating systems installed on my company-issued Laptop, and i don't have to pay for either. Why do i choose to do everything in Linux that i can? because i like it better. Why do i choose to use Ogg instead of MP3? it sounds better. Sure, the (c) thing is nice, but for me it's the user experience that matters.
>The GPL attracts more programmers than BSD
yeah, but is this 'cause it's better, or 'cause Linus used it?
>Without copyright and patent laws that make the GPL
>enforceable, Linux would be no better off than *BSD
I'm curious as to what you mean by this? are you refering to the fact that the BSD license allows commercial use? it's my impression that this is intentional, folk who release things under this kind of license basically don't want to waste time on politics, they just want to write code.
Are you implying some sort of lack on the bsd's part? the only thing i've found that FreeBSD doesn't do that Linux does is some of the newer wine based things. sure, atm Linux has better SMP support, but the filesystems largely suck by comparision, etc, etc.
no, it was a printer. the printer had been harrassing them throughout the movie.
Idarubicin wrote:
> And it really is the fastest (of IE, Moz, and
> Opera) browser on earth.
if small footprint is your main concern, ie you're less concerned about fancy sidebars, etc, you would do well to look into some of the alternate frontends for mozilla's engine. i've been playing with dillo recently, and while it doesn't do much more than display web pages, it does this a lot faster than mozilla on the same machine.
ofc, this might require an adjustment to the os you're using...
this is just like the 10-round magazine law. It doesn't do anything usefull, it just gets people used to the concept that this sort of thing should be regulated by law. Wait about 5 years, and then this bill's successors will be there to regulate every packet.
Enhanced "security". Useful for such high-security applications such as looking at your p0rn in the same room as your wife without her knowing.
you don't watch porn _with_ your wife?
um... no, i'd still be using a motorola processor. at the time the pentiums came out i was using a 68040 machine.
this is a different issue - there's really no competition in the field of movies, whereas Intel had competition.
while i agree that this is a good thing; the fact that the commercial unix market wa sso splintered made it difficult to compete, and now we're seeing that only 1 or 2 comercial unices are left viable...
but, "everyone doing things the same way" is not always a good thing. this might mean that if someone comes up with a great new idea that isn't 'standard' it won't get implimented... such as NetBSD's dependancy based init tree.
heh :) "Safe" "Perl" that's almost as good as "microsoft" "works"
> Most people would just say, "Hey, turn off the computer then." That doesn't work if you're away :)
or if it's a server. it's not that hard for a temperature monitor to shut the system off, but if you loose > $1000/hr the machine is down, $500 is cheap
updating freebsd:
/usr/src
cvsup stable-supfile
cd
make world
reboot
mergemaster the one non obvious part... runs diff for you on all your configuration files, so you can choose what do to with them.
this post looks somehow familiar...
which is funny, 'cause i've only seen Segal do 1 aikido move in any of his movies. (the one with DMX). and before you flame me, yes, i am somewhat qualified to comment on this.
i agree - the animated version was much better - and, in fact, seems to be where PJ got most of his idea of how the story should be told: the beginning of FOTR is just a CGI remake of the live-action-behind-gause intro to the earlier film.
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings did great justice to J.R. Tolkien's war and class-conscious trilogy
john - what are you talking about? how is LOTR a class conscious trilogy? (laying aside, for the moment, the question of exactly what flavour of crack Peter Jackson was smokng when he made the movie) There are no classes in the book - everyone we encounter is either a typical english country gentleman (hobbit) or the lord/king/tribal chieftan of some country (or the second in command). unless you mean that the point of the entire thing is to show that Sam, the only person of slightly less "class" than everyone else saves the day?
Thus far, your statement makes about as much sense as the description a Womens Studys major once gave me: a bunch of guys attempt to destroy a vaginal symbol (ring) by throwing it into a giant penis symbol (volcano) where it will be destroyed, so that the "age of men" can begin, without interferance from pesky women.
>I mean, if you can't point, how can you click?
they give you a special 104 button mouse with the console.
Hah! this is priceless. Taco complaining that someone doesn't read the article before posting?
/. before, i could understand this, but my understanding is that taco has been on the staff for a while..
from someone who's never seen
information wants you to encrypt it and then loose yuor gpg key