Penises? Why, Garrison called them "flexi-grips". I don't see the similarity. You must be a pervert.:)
Re:Traffic Safety Statistics
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This is IT?
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The maximum safe speed on a given piece of road depends on the car, the road condition, and the driver. The speed is almost never the same as the speed on a roadsign - that posted speed limit is there so that even the most dim of drivers should be able to keep their car on the road given normal weather conditions and a reasonably maintained car. I've exceeded 175MPH on [unpopulated] public roads. I've never had an accident. I have been known to drive below the posted limit in town. I have never had an accident. A little bit of that is luck, but most of it is a result of *knowing my car and my capabilities*.
Personally, I think that it would be a great idea to have stepped licenses based on driver skill - but that'd be tough to enforce. It should definately be harder to get a license, though, and DUI offenses should incur much harsher penalties.
As an alternative to leaving the country, try *not voiting for the incumbent unless he/she does what you want*. Re-electing career politicians will never change anything.
Eh, people on Slashdot (who aren't still pissed about the Gore thing) are generally smart enough to know that already. Tell your friends.
As someone who writes perl sripts for your competitors, let me be the first to say how much I'm looking forward to automating the task of rating our competitors (and ourselves).:)
Heck, my card isn't even signed. Maybe one out of every 20 merchants actually asks to see my driver's license to verify my name with a photo, the rest just don't care. It says right on the card "don't accept this without a signature". Sigh. Lazy workers'll get you every time.
Bah, reading documentation is for pansies.:) Especially since the "Remember, you can tune a fs, but you can't tune a fish" line doesn't appear in my copy of the tuen2fs man page...
1) copy data to new partition, reformat old partition as ext3, copy old data back to old partition. Perhaps change the partition type using fdisk.
2) no flags needed. Just compile support for your root FS into the kernel - *don't* use a module. Is anyone at SuSE listening? My root FS is Reiser, so don't build support as a module. It makes upgrading very annoying.
3) no boot scripts need changed, though you will need to modify/etc/fstab to reflect the filesystem's new type
4) you'll need to get a new version of mkfs that supports ext3, I think. You may need to update fdisk too. Do that before migrating.
Personally, I'd go with Reiser (hey, that *is* what I did!), but that's just because I dislike that whole number-based naming thing (ie pentium2/3/4 and windows95/98/2000). ExtFS v.3 would be OK, though.:)
Re:I like to dress up as a colonel?
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http://www.grandmasherbs.com makes a dandy herbal laxative. You can even get a free sample by just giving them your new fake email address. I'm sure they're just great if you can ignore the crazy talk about "toxic bowel" and the reccomendation that you have 2-3 bowl movements per DAY... http://www.grandmasherbs.com/remedies/ProductDetai ls.cfm?Product=40 says that it's not habit forming - so those of you concerned about getting addicted to laxatives can reast easy.
I'm going to agree with YDL being good. I've got 2.1 on a G4 with MOL doing the majority of our appletalk serving and the other network services running on the native linux side. It's really quite nice (MOL is amazing after dealing with VMWare on x86), and seems better put together than LinuxPPC's distro. I've never tried SuSE/Debian on PPC - they already run our x86's and variety makes life more entertaining.:)
#!/bin/bash
if ls -L $1 2>/dev/null; then
return 1;
else
rm -i $1;
return 0;
fi
Boy, that's really, really hard. I'd better use a package manager instead of risking broken symlinks.:) Heck, wrap that if/else/fi inside of a "for F in `find $1 -type s`; do/done" and you'll have a symlink program like the other guy mentioned, and it'll even take a directory to check as an argument. Whee. Take out the "-i" in the rm to delete without confirming (replace it with "-v" to print what it's deleting)
I do something simlar on my employer's system. Employees forward me spam, and I put the from address into the mailserver's access file. It's nice, because I've got postfix configured to use a mysql database type, so not only do all the mail servers share an aliases file, but they also share the access database (and my home mail server gets to use it too). It's also nice to put in specific reject messages for annoying quasi-spam things, like YDI's "550 your wireless products are the worst I have ever used" response.:) I suppose that I could just set up bind to run my own RBL and have the same distributable effect, but the database makes the possiblity of publishing the smammer list to the web (or whatever) more feasible, and makes automating the list updating more easy as well...:)
Re:Still needs Customized GUI.
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If only there were things like "movable windows" or "window shading" available in KDE now...;)
I suppose that it would be kinda nice to trim off the sides of windows temporarily, though, like when reading data from an irregular image or something. Since most data tends to lend itself to rectangular representation, though, I can't see it been useful very often.
Like the other guy said, pretty much any decent DB has blob types. It's just generally a bad idea to store them directly in the DB, as the rows get *huge* and slow stuff down. Better to put all that stuff in a "directory" and store paths in the db.
BTW, if your organization system doesn't encourage you to put all that stuff into a directory now, why would you suddenly remember to put it all into a DB?;)
--responding seriously to humorous comments since 1995
As for the theft, UPS takes its integrity very seriously.
Explain that to my mom, whose anniversary-present earring was stolen en-route to a jewler (shipped with a label that just had individual names, no mention of jewlery) to get fixed. She got the money for insurance, but money doesn't have sentimental value. Also explain that to the other woman whose *wedding ring* was stolen, at the same Chicago hub en route from teh same jewler. Then explain why the head guy at UPS said "we've had a problem with that hub for a while, but can't stop the thefts" to the jewler. Guess who doesn't ship anything via UPS now (me, the jewler, my parents).
BTW, I got a computer shipped in for repairs a few weeks ago. The box looked like it had been run over *multiple* times. It had been hit hard enough to break spot welds in the [good quality] case and to knock the Alpha heatsink off of the socketA. A loose heatsink inside of a computer case with UPS's violent handling breaks all kinds of things. Screw UPS. I use Airborne Express now whenever possible - I've never heard of them mangling packages (though I'm sure accidents happen sometimes).
Yes, parents who let their kid go watch movies elsewhere will have to either, *gasp*, communicate with "elsewhere's" parents that the kid is not to watch adult movies while in "elsewhere's" care. The law doesn't have to be involved. All we need is parents that *give a damn* about their kids. Unforutnately, it's difficult to enforce giving a damn.
Yes, kids will find a way around if they feel some need to. Kids with a good upbringing, however, will likely not feel compelled to suvert their parents' authority in such a manner. Kids with parents that care will also have parents that keep track of what they're doing, instead of letting them run off and do whatever they want unsupervised. That's what parenting is, despite what the "my job/my life comes before my family" worthless parents in this country think.
The kid needs no convincing - it's the parents that need it. The video store shouldn't be renting videos to 13-year-old kids that are inapppropriate to begin with, but if this technology catches on, then the players should have some sort of access control wherin the parents define that their children can only watch movies that are PG13 or less (in this case) or movies that the machine can filter down to that level. If a movie doesn't have the standard "rating code" or filter available, then the kid has to get the parent to either add or remove the movie to the mahcine's allow/deny list.
It's really pretty simple, aside from getting parents to actually 1) keep parental access away from their kids and 2) play an active role in their child's life. After all, if the kid's renting his own movies, it's quite possible that the parents have left the child-raising to the TV anyway, and are not going to want to have to "work" to protect the kids from "bad pictures".
I would not have known that overclocking my processor would blow up my eyeballs, and I'm an adult. I'm glad that these warnings are in place. I'm also a humorless buffon that complains about sarcastic warning disclaimers.
No wait, *I* knew that was supposed to be funny. I wonder who would be so dull as to think otherwise?
Slashdot probably doesn't use it because the content is almost entirely dynamic, so everything would have to be compressed on the fly - that'd be a hell of a server load. Pre-compression is the way to go for high-volume sites that have less dynamic data.
Mod_gzip isn't always better. If you have to compress your page, your user will have to download it all before visualizing. If you code well your page, instead of coding it as one big table (You don't do it, do you?), you allow people to start reading as it downloads, then the perceived download time is SLOWER with mod_gzip.
Actually, you can gunzip on the fly, just as you can gzip on the fly. The page does not have to download completely to start displaying. Gzip (and most compression algorithms) uses blocks and compresses them. Try this: generate a really big file. Then do "cat file | gzip | gunzip". Include command-line switches to compress/decompress to stdout/stdin as needed. Notice that the output starts showing up *before* the entire input file is read.
All you need is enough information to regenerate the first block of the file, and you can then stream from there. Your network conenction and computer aren't fast enough for you to tell the difference in waiting for the first block of information.
Also, gzip is really fast. Mod_negotiation with the pre-compressed files is certainly faster on the server side, and should be used for non-dynamic content. I think mod_gzip has the option to pre-generate those files, actually. If it doesn't, there's a mod_perl module that does. On the client side, if your computer is fast enough to quickly render an HTML page, it's fast enough to ungzip without you noticing. If your client is too slow to transparently ungzip, then you're used to pages that render slowly and will appreciate the bandwidth savings anyway. Test it and see, it really does help.
Oh yeah, theat's my story (mostly). Start college to get a computer engineering degree (software specialty). Get kicked out. Go to other school, and get part-time job there because I knew more about sysadminning than the current people (playing with your home network as much as possible will do that way better than book learnin' will). Decide that school sucks too, since I'm the admin. Start taking classes online (alliance.franklin.edu), get another sysadmin job.
That gets us to where we are today. I'm a sysadmin at a small company, and love my job. I'd probably get annoyed at a big company where management didn't listen to me, but at this small company, management realizes that I'm the admin, and probably know what I'm talking about. That's likely a large part of why I like my job.
To learn, though, it's best to get a few cheap boxes (pentiums are cheap now), set up a network at home, and learn by doing.
I've compared the same site with and without mod_gzip over a modem, and mod_gzip is definately faster. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Compr ession/PPP.html agrees - fewer packets because of smaller data = faster performance on a modem. In addition, V.42bis checks to see if its own compression would be beneficial or not, and if not, it switches over to transparent mode. V.44 does the same thing, and compresses better. At http://www.digit-life.com/articles/compressv44vsv4 2bis/, if you look at table3, you'll see that pkzip compresses everything [that's not already compressed] about twice as much as either modem standard.
So, mod_gzip *does* in fact help out modem users, as it compresses data much more than any modem does, reducing the total amount of data to be sent by a greater amount while simultaneously reducing the number of packets sent.
You can say that again. Where I live, I can either pay per/minute costs for a phone line *and* a premium for dedicated dial-up service, or I can pay $250/month for a 56K frame relay and ISP. It's cheaper for me to go with the frame relay than it is to pay phone charges for staying dialed up all the time, so I'm paying a grand every 4 months for network access. That blows.
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Perhaps there's no "engine", but there's clearly an electric "motor"...
Penises? Why, Garrison called them "flexi-grips". I don't see the similarity. You must be a pervert. :)
The maximum safe speed on a given piece of road depends on the car, the road condition, and the driver. The speed is almost never the same as the speed on a roadsign - that posted speed limit is there so that even the most dim of drivers should be able to keep their car on the road given normal weather conditions and a reasonably maintained car. I've exceeded 175MPH on [unpopulated] public roads. I've never had an accident. I have been known to drive below the posted limit in town. I have never had an accident. A little bit of that is luck, but most of it is a result of *knowing my car and my capabilities*.
Personally, I think that it would be a great idea to have stepped licenses based on driver skill - but that'd be tough to enforce. It should definately be harder to get a license, though, and DUI offenses should incur much harsher penalties.
As an alternative to leaving the country, try *not voiting for the incumbent unless he/she does what you want*. Re-electing career politicians will never change anything.
Eh, people on Slashdot (who aren't still pissed about the Gore thing) are generally smart enough to know that already. Tell your friends.
As someone who writes perl sripts for your competitors, let me be the first to say how much I'm looking forward to automating the task of rating our competitors (and ourselves). :)
Heck, my card isn't even signed. Maybe one out of every 20 merchants actually asks to see my driver's license to verify my name with a photo, the rest just don't care. It says right on the card "don't accept this without a signature". Sigh. Lazy workers'll get you every time.
Bah, reading documentation is for pansies. :) Especially since the "Remember, you can tune a fs, but you can't tune a fish" line doesn't appear in my copy of the tuen2fs man page...
In the order that you asked:
/etc/fstab to reflect the filesystem's new type
:)
1) copy data to new partition, reformat old partition as ext3, copy old data back to old partition. Perhaps change the partition type using fdisk.
2) no flags needed. Just compile support for your root FS into the kernel - *don't* use a module. Is anyone at SuSE listening? My root FS is Reiser, so don't build support as a module. It makes upgrading very annoying.
3) no boot scripts need changed, though you will need to modify
4) you'll need to get a new version of mkfs that supports ext3, I think. You may need to update fdisk too. Do that before migrating.
Personally, I'd go with Reiser (hey, that *is* what I did!), but that's just because I dislike that whole number-based naming thing (ie pentium2/3/4 and windows95/98/2000). ExtFS v.3 would be OK, though.
http://www.grandmasherbs.com makes a dandy herbal laxative. You can even get a free sample by just giving them your new fake email address. I'm sure they're just great if you can ignore the crazy talk about "toxic bowel" and the reccomendation that you have 2-3 bowl movements per DAY... http://www.grandmasherbs.com/remedies/ProductDetai ls.cfm?Product=40 says that it's not habit forming - so those of you concerned about getting addicted to laxatives can reast easy.
I'm going to agree with YDL being good. I've got 2.1 on a G4 with MOL doing the majority of our appletalk serving and the other network services running on the native linux side. It's really quite nice (MOL is amazing after dealing with VMWare on x86), and seems better put together than LinuxPPC's distro. I've never tried SuSE/Debian on PPC - they already run our x86's and variety makes life more entertaining. :)
hmm, could you then, say,
:) Heck, wrap that if/else/fi inside of a "for F in `find $1 -type s`; do/done" and you'll have a symlink program like the other guy mentioned, and it'll even take a directory to check as an argument. Whee. Take out the "-i" in the rm to delete without confirming (replace it with "-v" to print what it's deleting)
find / -type s -e checklink
where checklink is a shell script like this:
#!/bin/bash
if ls -L $1 2>/dev/null; then
return 1;
else
rm -i $1;
return 0;
fi
Boy, that's really, really hard. I'd better use a package manager instead of risking broken symlinks.
Maybe you didn't catch them because they were using encryption. I know that everything I do illegally is encrypted using "gzip" technology.
I do something simlar on my employer's system. Employees forward me spam, and I put the from address into the mailserver's access file. It's nice, because I've got postfix configured to use a mysql database type, so not only do all the mail servers share an aliases file, but they also share the access database (and my home mail server gets to use it too). It's also nice to put in specific reject messages for annoying quasi-spam things, like YDI's "550 your wireless products are the worst I have ever used" response. :) I suppose that I could just set up bind to run my own RBL and have the same distributable effect, but the database makes the possiblity of publishing the smammer list to the web (or whatever) more feasible, and makes automating the list updating more easy as well... :)
Win'95 had (and 9x has) "region window" support. The power toys kit had a round clock included.e nts/WUToys/W95PwrToysSet/Default.asp
i ns.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/cont
says that you need OSR2, which was '95a with the plus pack and new IE. I don't have a '95a install to test with, though, so I can't be sure. Oh well.
Learn all about region windows in VB at http://www.vbcodemagician.dk/tips/forms_win32rgnw
If only there were things like "movable windows" or "window shading" available in KDE now... ;)
I suppose that it would be kinda nice to trim off the sides of windows temporarily, though, like when reading data from an irregular image or something. Since most data tends to lend itself to rectangular representation, though, I can't see it been useful very often.
Like the other guy said, pretty much any decent DB has blob types. It's just generally a bad idea to store them directly in the DB, as the rows get *huge* and slow stuff down. Better to put all that stuff in a "directory" and store paths in the db.
;)
BTW, if your organization system doesn't encourage you to put all that stuff into a directory now, why would you suddenly remember to put it all into a DB?
--responding seriously to humorous comments since 1995
As for the theft, UPS takes its integrity very seriously.
Explain that to my mom, whose anniversary-present earring was stolen en-route to a jewler (shipped with a label that just had individual names, no mention of jewlery) to get fixed. She got the money for insurance, but money doesn't have sentimental value. Also explain that to the other woman whose *wedding ring* was stolen, at the same Chicago hub en route from teh same jewler. Then explain why the head guy at UPS said "we've had a problem with that hub for a while, but can't stop the thefts" to the jewler. Guess who doesn't ship anything via UPS now (me, the jewler, my parents).
BTW, I got a computer shipped in for repairs a few weeks ago. The box looked like it had been run over *multiple* times. It had been hit hard enough to break spot welds in the [good quality] case and to knock the Alpha heatsink off of the socketA. A loose heatsink inside of a computer case with UPS's violent handling breaks all kinds of things. Screw UPS. I use Airborne Express now whenever possible - I've never heard of them mangling packages (though I'm sure accidents happen sometimes).
Yes, parents who let their kid go watch movies elsewhere will have to either, *gasp*, communicate with "elsewhere's" parents that the kid is not to watch adult movies while in "elsewhere's" care. The law doesn't have to be involved. All we need is parents that *give a damn* about their kids. Unforutnately, it's difficult to enforce giving a damn.
Yes, kids will find a way around if they feel some need to. Kids with a good upbringing, however, will likely not feel compelled to suvert their parents' authority in such a manner. Kids with parents that care will also have parents that keep track of what they're doing, instead of letting them run off and do whatever they want unsupervised. That's what parenting is, despite what the "my job/my life comes before my family" worthless parents in this country think.
The kid needs no convincing - it's the parents that need it. The video store shouldn't be renting videos to 13-year-old kids that are inapppropriate to begin with, but if this technology catches on, then the players should have some sort of access control wherin the parents define that their children can only watch movies that are PG13 or less (in this case) or movies that the machine can filter down to that level. If a movie doesn't have the standard "rating code" or filter available, then the kid has to get the parent to either add or remove the movie to the mahcine's allow/deny list.
It's really pretty simple, aside from getting parents to actually 1) keep parental access away from their kids and 2) play an active role in their child's life. After all, if the kid's renting his own movies, it's quite possible that the parents have left the child-raising to the TV anyway, and are not going to want to have to "work" to protect the kids from "bad pictures".
I would not have known that overclocking my processor would blow up my eyeballs, and I'm an adult. I'm glad that these warnings are in place. I'm also a humorless buffon that complains about sarcastic warning disclaimers.
No wait, *I* knew that was supposed to be funny. I wonder who would be so dull as to think otherwise?
Slashdot probably doesn't use it because the content is almost entirely dynamic, so everything would have to be compressed on the fly - that'd be a hell of a server load. Pre-compression is the way to go for high-volume sites that have less dynamic data.
Mod_gzip isn't always better. If you have to compress your page, your user will have to download it all before visualizing. If you code well your page, instead of coding it as one big table (You don't do it, do you?), you allow people to start reading as it downloads, then the perceived download time is SLOWER with mod_gzip.
Actually, you can gunzip on the fly, just as you can gzip on the fly. The page does not have to download completely to start displaying. Gzip (and most compression algorithms) uses blocks and compresses them. Try this: generate a really big file. Then do "cat file | gzip | gunzip". Include command-line switches to compress/decompress to stdout/stdin as needed. Notice that the output starts showing up *before* the entire input file is read.
All you need is enough information to regenerate the first block of the file, and you can then stream from there. Your network conenction and computer aren't fast enough for you to tell the difference in waiting for the first block of information.
Also, gzip is really fast. Mod_negotiation with the pre-compressed files is certainly faster on the server side, and should be used for non-dynamic content. I think mod_gzip has the option to pre-generate those files, actually. If it doesn't, there's a mod_perl module that does. On the client side, if your computer is fast enough to quickly render an HTML page, it's fast enough to ungzip without you noticing. If your client is too slow to transparently ungzip, then you're used to pages that render slowly and will appreciate the bandwidth savings anyway. Test it and see, it really does help.
Oh yeah, theat's my story (mostly). Start college to get a computer engineering degree (software specialty). Get kicked out. Go to other school, and get part-time job there because I knew more about sysadminning than the current people (playing with your home network as much as possible will do that way better than book learnin' will). Decide that school sucks too, since I'm the admin. Start taking classes online (alliance.franklin.edu), get another sysadmin job.
That gets us to where we are today. I'm a sysadmin at a small company, and love my job. I'd probably get annoyed at a big company where management didn't listen to me, but at this small company, management realizes that I'm the admin, and probably know what I'm talking about. That's likely a large part of why I like my job.
To learn, though, it's best to get a few cheap boxes (pentiums are cheap now), set up a network at home, and learn by doing.
I've compared the same site with and without mod_gzip over a modem, and mod_gzip is definately faster. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Compr ession/PPP.html agrees - fewer packets because of smaller data = faster performance on a modem. In addition, V.42bis checks to see if its own compression would be beneficial or not, and if not, it switches over to transparent mode. V.44 does the same thing, and compresses better. At http://www.digit-life.com/articles/compressv44vsv4 2bis/, if you look at table3, you'll see that pkzip compresses everything [that's not already compressed] about twice as much as either modem standard.
:)
So, mod_gzip *does* in fact help out modem users, as it compresses data much more than any modem does, reducing the total amount of data to be sent by a greater amount while simultaneously reducing the number of packets sent.
I use mod_gzip, and everyone else should too.
You can say that again. Where I live, I can either pay per/minute costs for a phone line *and* a premium for dedicated dial-up service, or I can pay $250/month for a 56K frame relay and ISP. It's cheaper for me to go with the frame relay than it is to pay phone charges for staying dialed up all the time, so I'm paying a grand every 4 months for network access. That blows.