I'll be damned. I thought that original YaST was the text-mode version. Now that I've tried it, though, I guess I have seen that before (when I've forgotten to do an xhost +localhost before su'ing). Good point, even though it changes my rant a little.:)
Just run yast2 online_update. That's almost the same thing as "apt-get update". Ignore my earlier crap about ssh -X and whatnot.
Yes, you have to use Yast2 to automatically upgrade, and click a few buttons. So, you've gotta connect to the machine using "ssh -X" instead of just ssh.:) All it takes is "Yast2" as root, click "online update", select "automatic update", and cliek "next" a couple of times.
If you're a die-hard command-line person with some bandwidth to spare, then you can do something like rpm -Fvh ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/*/*. rpm. That will update only the packages that are already on your system and have updates. The downside is that it'll download all of the packages first, which kinda sucks. It might be good to wrap that in a shell script that takes the output of "rpm -a" and just downloads those files. I won't write that here, though, because then Debian people wound't have anything to rant about anymore - and I kinda like to hear Debian people always talking about apt-get. It's cute.;)
Sorry, part numbers on that supplier page don't seem to work. Go here http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/WTI0097p.pgm and search for "mini-z" with "kyosho" as the manufacturer... Lists some hop-ups and the cars themselves.
Real mini R/C cars. That little tank thing looks like some low-quality stuff. These things are fairly fast and have a real suspension, but they do cost a shade more than the crap tank and are a whopping 5" (instead of the tank's 4")... They've got 7 frequencies, though.
Mine boots up at a nice consistent 12 seconds. I'm running a Fic VA 503+ and a POS Cyrix space heater chip (it was cheap). You can gain a little time by sticking the kernel right in the boot sector, but you've gotta strip it down enough to make it fit. Did you turn off all of the BIOS auto-detect crap you could?
You might look into the Linux BIOS project at http://www.linuxbios.org/ as well. I'm sure it's mentioned farther down in teh comments here, but I haven't read that far yet.;)
I suppose I'll give you that, as long as it's implemented in a BeOS-like fashion and not MacOS-like. I really like Be's FS. It's a shame that a few key apps are missing for Be (compatible web browser?), or I'd still be using it...
I don't see the problem in integrating a file-like functionality into the kernel/filesystem and grabbing the data from the file itself instead of having an extra piece of data stored somewhere for each file. The stat() routine gets modified (or renamed to stat2()) to return an extra piece of information, say, a hash code into a magic table. The magic table can easily be stored as a hash to reduce the lookup time to near-imperceptable, and this would still allow [well-written] "legacy" apps to continue functioning properly. Extra possibly out-of-sync file problem avoided, backwards-compatiblility preserved.
Oldest machine or oldest linux install?;) I've got linux installed in my '75 El Camino, does that count? It's probalby one of the fastest land-based linux machines around, too...:)
For example if you throw it a big directory full of stuff it's going to have to scan arbitrary amounts of those files to work out what type they are, and I bet it's not 100% accurate either.
So, the metadata implementation suggested somehow frees the interface from scanning a large list of files? It's still gotta build a list of files, and it's still gotta look up metadata for each one. You'd have to have a darned big directory to have any signifigant difference there. Macs make up part of the systems that I admin, and they're certainly no joy to view directories with lots of files within - mostly because of the metadata (the B-Tree thing is pretty cool, though).
As far as accuracy goes, using magic is pretty accurate, but you're right - it's not 100%. It allows a nice migration from older filesystems without having to touch the filesystem itself, though, and is fairly easy for graphical frontends to implement. Personally, I think the tradeoff in accuracy is a pretty good one, 'cause it allows the CLI to continue functioning cleanly.
They're in school to be educated. That's a good time to educate them about the drawbacks to using non - standard HTML and the existence of the W3C. Maybe then, when a few of them grow up to be web developers, they'll say to their managers" No, that's stupid if we design pages withough adhering to the already defined standards, people will think we're stupid."
You'd call your car a "Ford" even though the parts in your car come from over 500 independent manufacturers. RMS chose "the GNU system" to be a convenient name to represent many parts.
Therefore, I call my OS "Linux" even though the parts of the OS come from over 500 independent programmers, not just Linus. My Ford isn't a "Getrag/Ford" just because it wouldn't move without the Getrag transmission. *I* choose Linux to describe my mass of sofware, you can choose some other longer, complicated, only-created-after-linux-got-popular-and-not-when- it-was-just-starting-out-strangely-enough, politically-motivated name if you want, but I'll still think that's silly, and I'll still just call the whole thing Linux like I have all along.
Also, make sure to read *every* ad in magazines that you pay for, and don't throw away the many subscription forms in the magazines that you already subscribe to. That'd be stealing too, or some crap.
I use some Gnu tools and many more non-gnu-licensed tools with my linux kernels. I'm not gonna say Gnu/Apache/Perl/BSD/etc/Linux, and neither should anyone else. Yeah, the system would be less useful without gnu tools, it'd also not be what it is without all the other pieces of software on it.
Emotional cloudmaster: "No. BeOS is cool. Please make updates so someone will write useful software for it. This makes me sad."
Reasonable cloudmaster: "Eh, BeOS never realy had much software support, and the company made many many stupid descisions. I'll just keep using Linux and hope the good people from Be can help PalmOS with some usability/programmability advances. This makes me happy."
Time to shut off all of the daemons / helper programs you're running in the background. It's painful with 128 MB RAM (on a K6-3/400) under win98. Bumping that up to 256 and defragging the hard drive made it work pretty nicely. Not as fast as a native app, but pretty darned fast for a relly big java app. I developed several small projects with Forte recently, and, after the memory upgrade, didn't have a problem with it. With the same amoutn of memory in my dual celeron 500 linux box it starts and runs at about the same speed.
Therefore, if it's painful on a P3 with 1GB RAM, it's time to fix the broken system, or maybe get lower expectations of a poop language (as far as speed is concerned) like Java.:)
Floppies are a transportation medium, not a storage medium. I don't store my importand documents in my unlocked car, because it's used for moving stuff from one place to another, not for storing stuff.
What kind of encryption does this thing use? I sure as heck don't want just any script kiddie hax0ring anything inside of me, especially somethign that takes pictures! What about range? I can't be walking around broadacsting my insides to everyone with a TV that can't lock onto channels...
If the computers are all down, you don't need a netmask. If you need a netmask in an emergency, there will be a calculator available somewhere.
Then, it's not too hard to subtract 29 from 32, divide the IP by 2^3, drop the remainder, and remultiply either...:)
If you figure that thing out about sounding really bad when electronically replicated, but just kinda dorky in person, lemme know. I've got the same deal. I think it's something got do with the lower tones in my voice not getting grabbed by recorders, or the midtones being artificially enhanced...
Yes, guilty as charged. I'm just saying. When you say, "News for Nerds", I certainly can't argue. But how this constitutes "Stuff that matters.", I certainly can't imagine. Nevertheless...
I'm pretty sure that the comma in there implies boolean OR. "News for nerds" is true, thus the whole statement is true.;) I've got glass-like doors on my shower, so this doesn't really "matter" to me either...
Holy crap! A waterfall down the center of the building would be really cool, since it'd have to be exposed to work... I'll have to work that into future houseplans.:)
I live in one of many areas (small town, central IL) where both residential and business lines are charged a per minute rate as well as a per/connect rate. In the city I used to live in (Urbana, only about 1 hour East of my present abode), the business line only paid per connect. That's how my dedicated dial-up connection was so affordable - it was online almost 24x7, but it only made 15-20 calls in a month. It made me feel good to be abusing the phone company, but made me feel bad to get calls at 8AM (college student, sleep until 10 normally) asking to talk to the "owner of the business". The tradeoff was acceptable.
BTW, I had a whole bunch of computers runing dnetc at the college that used to employ me. I didn't get sued. Know how? I asked permission. Then I installed the clients anyway.;)
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I'll be damned. I thought that original YaST was the text-mode version. Now that I've tried it, though, I guess I have seen that before (when I've forgotten to do an xhost +localhost before su'ing). Good point, even though it changes my rant a little. :)
Just run yast2 online_update. That's almost the same thing as "apt-get update". Ignore my earlier crap about ssh -X and whatnot.
Yes, you have to use Yast2 to automatically upgrade, and click a few buttons. So, you've gotta connect to the machine using "ssh -X" instead of just ssh. :) All it takes is "Yast2" as root, click "online update", select "automatic update", and cliek "next" a couple of times.
If you're a die-hard command-line person with some bandwidth to spare, then you can do something like rpm -Fvh ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/*/*. rpm. That will update only the packages that are already on your system and have updates. The downside is that it'll download all of the packages first, which kinda sucks. It might be good to wrap that in a shell script that takes the output of "rpm -a" and just downloads those files. I won't write that here, though, because then Debian people wound't have anything to rant about anymore - and I kinda like to hear Debian people always talking about apt-get. It's cute. ;)
Sorry, part numbers on that supplier page don't seem to work. Go here http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/WTI0097p.pgm and search for "mini-z" with "kyosho" as the manufacturer... Lists some hop-ups and the cars themselves.
Manufacturer page: http://www.kyosho.com/cars/kyod37x1.htmlh tml
My preferred supplier: http://www.towerhobbies.com/promos/00so/kyod49sm.
Real mini R/C cars. That little tank thing looks like some low-quality stuff. These things are fairly fast and have a real suspension, but they do cost a shade more than the crap tank and are a whopping 5" (instead of the tank's 4")... They've got 7 frequencies, though.
Mine boots up at a nice consistent 12 seconds. I'm running a Fic VA 503+ and a POS Cyrix space heater chip (it was cheap). You can gain a little time by sticking the kernel right in the boot sector, but you've gotta strip it down enough to make it fit. Did you turn off all of the BIOS auto-detect crap you could?
You might look into the Linux BIOS project at http://www.linuxbios.org/ as well. I'm sure it's mentioned farther down in teh comments here, but I haven't read that far yet.
I suppose I'll give you that, as long as it's implemented in a BeOS-like fashion and not MacOS-like. I really like Be's FS. It's a shame that a few key apps are missing for Be (compatible web browser?), or I'd still be using it...
I don't see the problem in integrating a file-like functionality into the kernel/filesystem and grabbing the data from the file itself instead of having an extra piece of data stored somewhere for each file. The stat() routine gets modified (or renamed to stat2()) to return an extra piece of information, say, a hash code into a magic table. The magic table can easily be stored as a hash to reduce the lookup time to near-imperceptable, and this would still allow [well-written] "legacy" apps to continue functioning properly. Extra possibly out-of-sync file problem avoided, backwards-compatiblility preserved.
Oldest machine or oldest linux install? ;) I've got linux installed in my '75 El Camino, does that count? It's probalby one of the fastest land-based linux machines around, too... :)
For example if you throw it a big directory full of stuff it's going to have to scan arbitrary amounts of those files to work out what type they are, and I bet it's not 100% accurate either.
So, the metadata implementation suggested somehow frees the interface from scanning a large list of files? It's still gotta build a list of files, and it's still gotta look up metadata for each one. You'd have to have a darned big directory to have any signifigant difference there. Macs make up part of the systems that I admin, and they're certainly no joy to view directories with lots of files within - mostly because of the metadata (the B-Tree thing is pretty cool, though).
As far as accuracy goes, using magic is pretty accurate, but you're right - it's not 100%. It allows a nice migration from older filesystems without having to touch the filesystem itself, though, and is fairly easy for graphical frontends to implement. Personally, I think the tradeoff in accuracy is a pretty good one, 'cause it allows the CLI to continue functioning cleanly.
They're in school to be educated. That's a good time to educate them about the drawbacks to using non - standard HTML and the existence of the W3C. Maybe then, when a few of them grow up to be web developers, they'll say to their managers" No, that's stupid if we design pages withough adhering to the already defined standards, people will think we're stupid."
You'd call your car a "Ford" even though the parts in your car come from over 500 independent manufacturers. RMS chose "the GNU system" to be a convenient name to represent many parts.
Therefore, I call my OS "Linux" even though the parts of the OS come from over 500 independent programmers, not just Linus. My Ford isn't a "Getrag/Ford" just because it wouldn't move without the Getrag transmission. *I* choose Linux to describe my mass of sofware, you can choose some other longer, complicated, only-created-after-linux-got-popular-and-not-when- it-was-just-starting-out-strangely-enough, politically-motivated name if you want, but I'll still think that's silly, and I'll still just call the whole thing Linux like I have all along.
Of all the unixen I have played with AIX is one of the worst. Only Conrol data's unix and NCR was worse.
Clearly, you never used NeXTStep. Now there was a screwed-up *nix variant... (BTW, anyone wanna buy a color turbo nextstation?)
Also, make sure to read *every* ad in magazines that you pay for, and don't throw away the many subscription forms in the magazines that you already subscribe to. That'd be stealing too, or some crap.
OK, now, that was supposed to be a reply to another post. Darned new slashcode...
I use some Gnu tools and many more non-gnu-licensed tools with my linux kernels. I'm not gonna say Gnu/Apache/Perl/BSD/etc/Linux, and neither should anyone else. Yeah, the system would be less useful without gnu tools, it'd also not be what it is without all the other pieces of software on it.
It's a "Linux" system. Nothing more.
Emotional cloudmaster: "No. BeOS is cool. Please make updates so someone will write useful software for it. This makes me sad." Reasonable cloudmaster: "Eh, BeOS never realy had much software support, and the company made many many stupid descisions. I'll just keep using Linux and hope the good people from Be can help PalmOS with some usability/programmability advances. This makes me happy."
Time to shut off all of the daemons / helper programs you're running in the background. It's painful with 128 MB RAM (on a K6-3/400) under win98. Bumping that up to 256 and defragging the hard drive made it work pretty nicely. Not as fast as a native app, but pretty darned fast for a relly big java app. I developed several small projects with Forte recently, and, after the memory upgrade, didn't have a problem with it. With the same amoutn of memory in my dual celeron 500 linux box it starts and runs at about the same speed. Therefore, if it's painful on a P3 with 1GB RAM, it's time to fix the broken system, or maybe get lower expectations of a poop language (as far as speed is concerned) like Java. :)
Floppies are a transportation medium, not a storage medium. I don't store my importand documents in my unlocked car, because it's used for moving stuff from one place to another, not for storing stuff.
I don't see anything about the fabrics "getting high and just wandering off" in the article...
What kind of encryption does this thing use? I sure as heck don't want just any script kiddie hax0ring anything inside of me, especially somethign that takes pictures! What about range? I can't be walking around broadacsting my insides to everyone with a TV that can't lock onto channels...
If the computers are all down, you don't need a netmask. If you need a netmask in an emergency, there will be a calculator available somewhere. Then, it's not too hard to subtract 29 from 32, divide the IP by 2^3, drop the remainder, and remultiply either... :)
If you figure that thing out about sounding really bad when electronically replicated, but just kinda dorky in person, lemme know. I've got the same deal. I think it's something got do with the lower tones in my voice not getting grabbed by recorders, or the midtones being artificially enhanced...
Yes, guilty as charged. I'm just saying. When you say, "News for Nerds", I certainly can't argue. But how this constitutes "Stuff that matters.", I certainly can't imagine. Nevertheless...
I'm pretty sure that the comma in there implies boolean OR. "News for nerds" is true, thus the whole statement is true. ;) I've got glass-like doors on my shower, so this doesn't really "matter" to me either...
Holy crap! A waterfall down the center of the building would be really cool, since it'd have to be exposed to work... I'll have to work that into future houseplans. :)
My own research suggests that the likelyhood of the shower curtain being attracted to your skin is directly proportional to the amout of scum on it.
Scum on your skin or on the curtain?
I live in one of many areas (small town, central IL) where both residential and business lines are charged a per minute rate as well as a per/connect rate. In the city I used to live in (Urbana, only about 1 hour East of my present abode), the business line only paid per connect. That's how my dedicated dial-up connection was so affordable - it was online almost 24x7, but it only made 15-20 calls in a month. It made me feel good to be abusing the phone company, but made me feel bad to get calls at 8AM (college student, sleep until 10 normally) asking to talk to the "owner of the business". The tradeoff was acceptable.
BTW, I had a whole bunch of computers runing dnetc at the college that used to employ me. I didn't get sued. Know how? I asked permission. Then I installed the clients anyway. ;)