I think I, you, or both missed Rusty's point
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Kernel Summit Wrapup
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He is absolutely NOT calling for module genocide. He is stating that the way modules load, and especially UNLOAD, is wildy inconsitent.
He is asking for module loading to be a one-way proposition, insmod without rmmod. At least, and I'm sure Linus is thinking this too, until it bugs someone enough to implement one of the other two options Rusty gave.
Sound like a new project for Steven Wolfram.
Same scenario too, can't predict the outcome till you get there, just computers can run the system faster than nature.
function getroots() { smbclient -L ${1%*.} -U $BU 2>&1 | sed -n 's?.*[[:space:]]\([[:upper:]]\$\).*?\1?p' }
DN=$(hostname -d) [ $DN ] || die "failed to discern domainname" DL=/etc/opt/amanda/nightly/disklist [ -w $DL ] || die "disklist unwriteable: $DL" AP=/etc/amandapass [ -w $AP ] || die "amandapass unwriteable: $AP" BU="BOFH%12345" # backuser%password CYL=100 # one cyl per host keeps amanda making one connection at a time
I wrote a 20 line shell script that uses 'nmblookup' to find all the luser's machines, scan those machines for [A-Z]\$ administrative shares with 'smbclient', and generate amanda's disklist file from that.
Nice thing about amanda is it self adjusts. Someone takes a laptop home for three days, comes back, and amanda will pick up where is left off. Nice.
possibly a Digital Rights Management inroad....
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United Linux is Here
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First off, LSB is good enough for me.
They claim they are currently getting LSB compliance ratings... whatever that means. I've read the LSB, and I'm a big fan of the FHS ( which is 50% of LSB's importance ). I think any more umbrella standards groups, once they announce LSB compliance, is just lip service.
I was interested in seeing HP in the comments list, who just announced the soon demise of thier 10.[1-3]0 line. And if CA is such an enterprise linux supporter, why is this the first time I've heard of it. Love that whitepaper section, too.
Please, don't rant about too many standards, LSB is there to pick, consolidate, pick-apart, and manage complaints about a unifying set of standards.
Oh shit, just thought of something, what if this is an effort to roll in Digital Rights Management on top of the LSB. THAT, I think, would justify the marketing behind this, and all the big names.
MO, this will cause the PS2 version to be different enough from the PC version so that it won't be as successful. Add to the fact that you will need a bunch of peripherals to chat for the game (can you say 'expensive'?), and this will drive away all but the really hardcore Everquest gamers.
Obviously, this person has never EXPERIENCED EverCrack. I sat stunned reading this story on the front page a few times. I fear EQ, quit two years ago. I honestly can't decide if it was easier or harder than smoking.
I can say that both had to be quit at the same time, EQ's time-dependency makes you smoke packs a day....
I hope they do bridge the game to the PC worlds. Why wouldn't they? The last EQ expansion was the first that the majority of players didn't rush to buy. I'd say make a snapshot of the current expansion sets, and link the PS2 and PC versions here and now....
What am I doing, damn EQ, it's taking up my time AGAIN just thinking about it now.
Want to know how addictive EQ can be? Check out NeverSleep.
Capitalism at it's best. Maybe VirtualWorld Services will offset the RealWorld damages... Remember the article that the _average_ EQ players spends more time playing than working.
Corporate additions that can be updated from the ISP. If you we could only trust our ISPs...
My fear is, if/when this is mandatory, the MPAA/RIAA will see there opening.
To quote Sony senior VP Steve Heckler:
"We will develop technology that transcends the individual user," he said. "We will firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [ISP]. We will firewall it at your PC."
I'm backing up 100 desktops, a 10 HPUX workstation lab, and 4 NT server backoffice.
The AutoLoader is SPOT ON. I have the LVD version of the library ( they make a fiberchannel ), and am running it on a 32bit pci U2W tekram scsi card.
Actually, real world throughput ( from the spooling disks, not the network ) is 13MB/sec. The spool is two ATA100 100MB drives, striped together, each on it's own channel from a single promise controller, using the 'md' driver.
The autoloader delivers. They are stackable, and the robot/loader is capable of inverting and passing vertically around the stack. Love HP hardware engineers.
Here is last nights statistics:
DAMNED LAMENESS FILTER!!! Heavily edited now:
Run Time hours:min 6:02
Dump Time hours:min 19:56 4:59 14:57
Output Size meg 31301.4 19943.0 11358.4
Original Size meg 55924.1 34698.9 21225.2
Avg Compressed Size % 56.0 57.5 53.5 level:disks
Filesystems Dumped 83 1 82 1:82
Avg Dump Rate kb/s 446.7 1139.5 216.1
Tape Time hours:min 0:44 0:24 0:20
Tape Size meg 31305.4 19943.0 11362.4
Tape Used % 30.9 19.7 11.2 level:disks
Filesystems Taped 83 1 82 1:82
Avg Tp Write Rate kb 12193.3 14329.8 9664.3
That looks AWFULL now. Comeon guys, at the risk of some ascii art, and for the sake of some tables, could you allow the <pre> tags?
I still think the bluetooth personal wireless broadband hub is the right way for the industry to go. Hell, everything should go that way.
I first read about it here on/, if anyone else is interested: a central wireless device that is 'personalized' for you, then all your myriad little devices communicate through it. Phone, PDA, laptop, mp3, radio, pager, gps, whatever, uses the connection provided via the hub.
Make it an OpenSpec. I don't care if my little hub is 3com or Nokia, and it shouldn't matter, either.
Of course, this is not the Capitalist Way. There is no sharing anymore, everyone will want thier own recurring revenue stream for thier little device, and we all will suffer for it.
Thank you for this moment to be an active citizen, I'll be brief.
Here I sit, working for a Fortune 500 company, using Microsoft's Outlook email client, the number one propagator of modern computer worms, viral or not. I am, by trade, a UNIX Administrator, but am forced to use the very product that causes myself and my company's resources so much energy to clean up after, time and time again.
When, in computer's short history, did we become subservient to the software? I believe it was when it left the hands of researchers, academia, and hobbyist, and left the "courts" of peer review. Not that our company doesn't generate a large portion of its revenues from developing closed source software, but our products are designed by engineers according to procedures of peer review and built upon accepted standards that were borne of the purpose of interoperability between computing efforts. Microsoft, with it's constant onslaught of Embrace and Extend, and/or simply annihilation of its competition via acquisition, and its understandable position of subservience to it's shareholders to ever maximize its shareholder value, expose themselves to no such review.
Indeed, they mustn't, for to do so is to open themselves to litigation by those shareholders. In this capitalistic republic, what investment firm doesn't own a piece of Microsoft, and in that light, what Market participating American? Microsoft is forced to continuously break the law for the purpose of self-preservation unless a stronger motivator ( government regulation ) suppresses the ability of its shareholders to litigate.
The proposed settlement does nothing to curb Microsoft's future actions, certainly does nothing to reprimand past actions, and the proof of both is that even in light of Judge Jackson's findings, and the proposed settlement, it hasn't changed any of it's illegal monopolistic leveraging. That alone should be proof that the proposed settlement is entirely un-enforceable, and in-effectual.
-Dan Garthwaite
Science Applications International Corporation
An Employee Owned Company
Opinions stated in this document do not reflect the opinions of SAIC, it reflects the opinion of one of SAIC's many employee owners.
These guys have really impressed me ( and I'm in an IT shop for a Fortune 500 ) startech.com. Based out of Canada, they carry all the stuff your never gonna find on techdata, blackbox, or ingrammicro. Odds and ends, from thubscrews to rack rigging.
Web site leaves nothing to be desired, including visual searches for the thingamajig you have no idea what to type in a search field for.
( who decided to put [submit] right next to [preview] )
amanda
Go read, and re-read, how it actually plans and implements backups. You have to watch it run ( $( which watch) amstatus DailySet1 ) a few times to really grok it.
amanda< p>
Go read, and re-read, how it actually plans and implements backups. You have to watch it run ( watch amstatus DailySet1 ) a few times to really grok it.
The need to excersize, the will to motivate yourself, comes later than 19.
At 19, the motivation is all superficial. At 25 - death, the motivation is entirely self apparent. When you get winded helping to bring in the groceries, when you feel compelled to notify someone you are going out to mow the lawn, shovel the walkway, because you want to know someone will check on you in 30 minutes...
At 19, your body is still growing, at 21 - 22 your body starts dying. ( in the sense of mass cell-multiplication vs. just cell-replication )
The best thing you can do know is fing something fun now, so later excersise doesn't feel like a burden, and therfore neither will your weight.
This is under the 'contributed' section of AT&T's vnc site:
VncMonitor
John Wilson writes:
VncMonitor is intended for those people who need to monitor several remote systems. A single window is used to present all the displays. The tab or backtab key allows the user to switch between systems. The return key causes the currently viewed system display to be transferred to its own window and the user can interact with the system using the mouse and keyboard. Closing
the new window returns the monitored system display back to the initial window.
The configuration of VncMonitor is controlled by a file which contains all the information about what systems are to be monitored.
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He is absolutely NOT calling for module genocide. He is stating that the way modules load, and especially UNLOAD, is wildy inconsitent.
He is asking for module loading to be a one-way proposition, insmod without rmmod. At least, and I'm sure Linus is thinking this too, until it bugs someone enough to implement one of the other two options Rusty gave.
Sound like a new project for Steven Wolfram. Same scenario too, can't predict the outcome till you get there, just computers can run the system faster than nature.
Yes, for 1,000,000 Marborough Miles, you can get your own set of cyber lungs.
Simply insert a pack into the reloadable cartridge and enjoy your Class A cigarretes all day long.
I can't say off the top of my head.
//luser1/c$ /mnt/restore -o \
Basically, you mount the remote share:
smbmount
username=BOFH,password=12345,rw
Then stream amrestore into that directory.
There is work being done on an actual amclient for windows on sourceforge. I haven't used it.
#!/bin/bash //revolution/d$ stat-tar 10 //revolution/u$ dyna-tar 10 //machine/C$ user%passwd
[ -w $DL ] || die "disklist unwriteable: $DL"
/opt/amanda/dumps dumps 1
//$host/$root stat-tar $CYL" >> $DL
# $Id: mkdisklist,v 1.5 2002/06/12 22:13:40 amanda Exp $
#
# Example disklist entry
## amanda
## amanda
#
# Example amandapass entry
##
DEBUG="true"
function dbug() { [ $DEBUG ] && echo "$*"; }
function die() { echo -en "\n$0 failed [ $* ]\n"; exit 1; }
function netview() { nmblookup -T '*' | grep "$DN" | cut -d',' -f1; }
function getroots() {
smbclient -L ${1%*.} -U $BU 2>&1 |
sed -n 's?.*[[:space:]]\([[:upper:]]\$\).*?\1?p'
}
DN=$(hostname -d)
[ $DN ] || die "failed to discern domainname"
DL=/etc/opt/amanda/nightly/disklist
AP=/etc/amandapass
[ -w $AP ] || die "amandapass unwriteable: $AP"
BU="BOFH%12345" # backuser%password
CYL=100 # one cyl per host keeps amanda making one connection at a time
cat > $DL << EOF
# Generated nightly by $0
"amanda / stat-tar 1
"amanda
EOF
echo "# Generated nightly by $0" > $AP
for host in $( netview ); do
dbug "host=$host cyl=$CYL:"
for root in $( getroots $host ); do
dbug " $root"
echo "amanda
echo "//$host/$root $BU" >> $AP
done
CYL=$((CYL + 1))
done
I wrote a 20 line shell script that uses 'nmblookup' to find all the luser's machines, scan those machines for [A-Z]\$ administrative shares with 'smbclient', and generate amanda's disklist file from that.
Nice thing about amanda is it self adjusts. Someone takes a laptop home for three days, comes back, and amanda will pick up where is left off. Nice.
First off, LSB is good enough for me.
They claim they are currently getting LSB compliance ratings... whatever that means. I've read the LSB, and I'm a big fan of the FHS ( which is 50% of LSB's importance ). I think any more umbrella standards groups, once they announce LSB compliance, is just lip service.
I was interested in seeing HP in the comments list, who just announced the soon demise of thier 10.[1-3]0 line. And if CA is such an enterprise linux supporter, why is this the first time I've heard of it. Love that whitepaper section, too.
Please, don't rant about too many standards, LSB is there to pick, consolidate, pick-apart, and manage complaints about a unifying set of standards.
Oh shit, just thought of something, what if this is an effort to roll in Digital Rights Management on top of the LSB. THAT, I think, would justify the marketing behind this, and all the big names.
How the hell does Congress justify a corporate welfare bailout of the airline industry to the tune of twice the value of the entire industry??
Why did I feal it necc. to post this???? I gotta run some neural garbage collection, soon.
Nothing really funny, just a /. loser that just noticed the aqua design on the mac posts....
Obviously, this person has never EXPERIENCED EverCrack. I sat stunned reading this story on the front page a few times. I fear EQ, quit two years ago. I honestly can't decide if it was easier or harder than smoking.
I can say that both had to be quit at the same time, EQ's time-dependency makes you smoke packs a day....
I hope they do bridge the game to the PC worlds. Why wouldn't they? The last EQ expansion was the first that the majority of players didn't rush to buy. I'd say make a snapshot of the current expansion sets, and link the PS2 and PC versions here and now....
What am I doing, damn EQ, it's taking up my time AGAIN just thinking about it now.
Want to know how addictive EQ can be? Check out NeverSleep.
Capitalism at it's best. Maybe VirtualWorld Services will offset the RealWorld damages... Remember the article that the _average_ EQ players spends more time playing than working.
Other great statistics here.
My fear is, if/when this is mandatory, the MPAA/RIAA will see there opening.
To quote Sony senior VP Steve Heckler: Here's where I got the quote
I want that on a T-shirt, because in the end, they will win. b(
The AutoLoader is SPOT ON. I have the LVD version of the library ( they make a fiberchannel ), and am running it on a 32bit pci U2W tekram scsi card.
Actually, real world throughput ( from the spooling disks, not the network ) is 13MB/sec. The spool is two ATA100 100MB drives, striped together, each on it's own channel from a single promise controller, using the 'md' driver.
The autoloader delivers. They are stackable, and the robot/loader is capable of inverting and passing vertically around the stack. Love HP hardware engineers.
Here is last nights statistics: DAMNED LAMENESS FILTER!!! Heavily edited now:
That looks AWFULL now. Comeon guys, at the risk of some ascii art, and for the sake of some tables, could you allow the <pre> tags?Edited and annotated by an honest to god Lawyer.
Even better would be a congressmen, or judge.
I first read about it here on /, if anyone else is interested: a central wireless device that is 'personalized' for you, then all your myriad little devices communicate through it. Phone, PDA, laptop, mp3, radio, pager, gps, whatever, uses the connection provided via the hub.
Make it an OpenSpec. I don't care if my little hub is 3com or Nokia, and it shouldn't matter, either.
Of course, this is not the Capitalist Way. There is no sharing anymore, everyone will want thier own recurring revenue stream for thier little device, and we all will suffer for it.
or
De-Assimilation-HOWTO (sp?)
Come back to earth sometime in a few solar cycles and repeat that after HomeStation doubles MS's current yearly profits.
Thank you for this moment to be an active citizen, I'll be brief.
Here I sit, working for a Fortune 500 company, using Microsoft's Outlook email client, the number one propagator of modern computer worms, viral or not. I am, by trade, a UNIX Administrator, but am forced to use the very product that causes myself and my company's resources so much energy to clean up after, time and time again.
When, in computer's short history, did we become subservient to the software? I believe it was when it left the hands of researchers, academia, and hobbyist, and left the "courts" of peer review. Not that our company doesn't generate a large portion of its revenues from developing closed source software, but our products are designed by engineers according to procedures of peer review and built upon accepted standards that were borne of the purpose of interoperability between computing efforts. Microsoft, with it's constant onslaught of Embrace and Extend, and/or simply annihilation of its competition via acquisition, and its understandable position of subservience to it's shareholders to ever maximize its shareholder value, expose themselves to no such review.
Indeed, they mustn't, for to do so is to open themselves to litigation by those shareholders. In this capitalistic republic, what investment firm doesn't own a piece of Microsoft, and in that light, what Market participating American? Microsoft is forced to continuously break the law for the purpose of self-preservation unless a stronger motivator ( government regulation ) suppresses the ability of its shareholders to litigate.
The proposed settlement does nothing to curb Microsoft's future actions, certainly does nothing to reprimand past actions, and the proof of both is that even in light of Judge Jackson's findings, and the proposed settlement, it hasn't changed any of it's illegal monopolistic leveraging. That alone should be proof that the proposed settlement is entirely un-enforceable, and in-effectual.
-Dan Garthwaite
Science Applications International Corporation
An Employee Owned Company
Opinions stated in this document do not reflect the opinions of SAIC, it reflects the opinion of one of SAIC's many employee owners.
Web site leaves nothing to be desired, including visual searches for the thingamajig you have no idea what to type in a search field for.
amanda Go read, and re-read, how it actually plans and implements backups. You have to watch it run ( $( which watch) amstatus DailySet1 ) a few times to really grok it.
amanda< p>
Go read, and re-read, how it actually plans and implements backups. You have to watch it run ( watch amstatus DailySet1 ) a few times to really grok it.
The need to excersize, the will to motivate yourself, comes later than 19.
At 19, the motivation is all superficial. At 25 - death, the motivation is entirely self apparent. When you get winded helping to bring in the groceries, when you feel compelled to notify someone you are going out to mow the lawn, shovel the walkway, because you want to know someone will check on you in 30 minutes...
At 19, your body is still growing, at 21 - 22 your body starts dying. ( in the sense of mass cell-multiplication vs. just cell-replication )
The best thing you can do know is fing something fun now, so later excersise doesn't feel like a burden, and therfore neither will your weight.
VncMonitor John Wilson writes:
VncMonitor is intended for those people who need to monitor several remote systems. A single window is used to present all the displays. The tab or backtab key allows the user to switch between systems. The return key causes the currently viewed system display to be transferred to its own window and the user can interact with the system using the mouse and keyboard. Closing the new window returns the monitored system display back to the initial window.
The configuration of VncMonitor is controlled by a file which contains all the information about what systems are to be monitored.
A version can be downloaded from:
VncMonitor