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Dune: House Harkonnen
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no, Chapterhouse: Dune was completed just before Frank Herbert's death - you may be thinking of The Ascension Factor, which he did not complete, but it was collabo anyway...
while it's true that these Dune boooks lack the depth, insight, and conviction of Frank Herbert, they weren't written by Frank Herbert.
the whole thing reminds me of Larry Niven and his Man-Kzin War series - his stories are undoubtedly the best of the series, but by allowing (in Niven's case) other authors to contribute to the whole world-building process, new writing styles and ideas and points of view make the whole thing much more rich.
My two-line review on House:Atreides and House:Harkonnen:
If you're looking for another Frank Herbert masterpiece, you'll be disappointed. If you would enjoy exploring the Dune universe through the eyes of two different authors, give them a read.
raw processing power is cool and all, but when it's backed up by a puny 400
MByte/second memory bus and a single PCI bus that can be saturated with a decent 100Mbit NIC and two U2W or SSA controllers running a lot of i/o, what good's it going to do you?
I think there's a huge psychological difference between *bsd and linux. look at the differences in the licenses and core teams, for two good examples of the differences in mindset.
i find (even though i use linux way more now than *bsd in my day2day) i still trivialize linux (it's not bsd, i'll say, or the performance is pretty good, but not as good as bsd). i dunno... i find myself thinking of linux as the windows of the unix-like operating systems. i find myself wishing that the linux package managers were more like the ports tree under *bsd.
if i want wierd hardware support, i turn to linux. if i want a no-holds-barred performer, i'll go the extra mile and set up bsd. i'm not saying that i'm right, just giving you my prejudices...
i still love both; free unices have (literally) changed my life, and i wouldn't want either one to go away...
that redhat has been embroiled in flames for their use of software - remember the "debacle" that was glibc? I guess they made the right choice then. i dunno about now, since it seems that the steering committee isn't too happy with their use of software not intended for production; i'm merely stating that this isn't the first time RH has stirred things up a bit...
I've been something of a GNOME fanatic for a while, but over the past two months i've been using KDE (having overcome the urge to replace it with GNOME on my SuSE boxen), and have come to appreciate it. I just downloaded the KDE2 RC, and this is my first time using it.
one word - awesome!
if only for konquerer (i love the site-selectable java and javascript settings!), i'd switch to KDE2! i'm sure i'm going to enjoy discovering the other applications under KDE2.
back b4 U 1337 h4x0rs were pissing in your diapers, honeywell used to build computers (well, what passed for computers then). big old, clunky, midrange ('70s midrange, not today's midrange) and up machines...
heavy penalty in what way? if you were using AIX, what other filesystem would you have to compare it to, since jfs is the only native fixed-disk filesystem?
comparing linux disk performance to AIX disk performance, and placing the blame on the filesystem is inane - apples and oranges, at least...
btw, i've had to fsck an 11GB partition on ext2, literally took over an hour. thanks, but no thanks (and i still lost data).
explain to your boss why your system is down for over an hour with just a momentary power blip, and see if the concept of journalled filesystems doesn't grow on you...
but even if you tilt a light sail 45 ', you're still going to be thrust out radially away from the sun. momentum transfer using solar wind is radial to the sun, and tacking isn't going to change that. all you would do is reduce the effective area of your sail.
actually, since this method of 'propulsion' uses the solar wind, it would be a pretty-much one-way trip. solar wind radiates outward from a point source (the sun, in this case), so your craft would constantly be pushed away from the sun. there's not really any way you could 'steer' the thrust to give you a lateral push. this is the same kind of problem that a light-sail propulsion device has - you can't exactly 'tack' against the solor wind...
actually, jfs does NOT journal data - it's metadata only. xfs journals only metadata as well (check the man page for xfs). journalling data would require database-style commits, and your disk throughput would be significantly reduced...
the sole purpose for journalling in JFS is to reduce fileystem check times from unexpected disk unmounts (before a sync has been performed).
the logical volume manager in aix has nothing to do with jfs - jfs is the default fixed disk filesystem in aix, and aix can't be run with a logical volume manager (it's not optional like hpux or solaris), but the two are mutually exclusive and don't have anything to do with each other.
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while it's true that these Dune boooks lack the depth, insight, and conviction of Frank Herbert, they weren't written by Frank Herbert.
the whole thing reminds me of Larry Niven and his Man-Kzin War series - his stories are undoubtedly the best of the series, but by allowing (in Niven's case) other authors to contribute to the whole world-building process, new writing styles and ideas and points of view make the whole thing much more rich.
My two-line review on House:Atreides and House:Harkonnen: If you're looking for another Frank Herbert masterpiece, you'll be disappointed. If you would enjoy exploring the Dune universe through the eyes of two different authors, give them a read.
for what it's worth, i liked them.
or stick with 6.2 - unless there's some bit of software that comes with RH7 that you must have that you can't get for an older distro...
i've used DHCP to assign static IP addresses based on MAC address for over 200 hosts. Works great...
the southern part of arizona (as one nears the mexican border) has speed limit and distance signs in metric and american standard.
americans are too fucking stupid to switch to the metric system.
reiserfs runs on alpha as well as ia32 - sparc and others on their way soon...
UNIX servers aren't all about processing power...
hey, slashdot.rog is still available :)
FreeCell doesn't count...
screw the playstation 2... someone else can step in line for me...
i find (even though i use linux way more now than *bsd in my day2day) i still trivialize linux (it's not bsd, i'll say, or the performance is pretty good, but not as good as bsd). i dunno... i find myself thinking of linux as the windows of the unix-like operating systems. i find myself wishing that the linux package managers were more like the ports tree under *bsd.
if i want wierd hardware support, i turn to linux. if i want a no-holds-barred performer, i'll go the extra mile and set up bsd. i'm not saying that i'm right, just giving you my prejudices...
i still love both; free unices have (literally) changed my life, and i wouldn't want either one to go away...
that redhat has been embroiled in flames for their use of software - remember the "debacle" that was glibc? I guess they made the right choice then. i dunno about now, since it seems that the steering committee isn't too happy with their use of software not intended for production; i'm merely stating that this isn't the first time RH has stirred things up a bit...
one word - awesome!
if only for konquerer (i love the site-selectable java and javascript settings!), i'd switch to KDE2! i'm sure i'm going to enjoy discovering the other applications under KDE2.
great job KDE developers!!
back b4 U 1337 h4x0rs were pissing in your diapers, honeywell used to build computers (well, what passed for computers then). big old, clunky, midrange ('70s midrange, not today's midrange) and up machines...
add 'compress' in there, and you'd be dead-on!
i've been doing aix administration for about 6 years, so believe me when i say that jfs is metadata only...
i would think that NT lost a lot of it's platform independence when MS moved the video driver stuff into the kernel...
ibm's porting their jfs initially - ibm's logical volume manager is not going to be available at the same time...
aix jfs does async journalling.
if NTFS is journalling, why does it take so long to replay the log? CHKDSK takes too long for a journalled filesystem!
comparing linux disk performance to AIX disk performance, and placing the blame on the filesystem is inane - apples and oranges, at least...
btw, i've had to fsck an 11GB partition on ext2, literally took over an hour. thanks, but no thanks (and i still lost data).
explain to your boss why your system is down for over an hour with just a momentary power blip, and see if the concept of journalled filesystems doesn't grow on you...
?? I've been using reiserfs with suse linux 6.4 for quite a while, and have no problems loading vfat... kernel 2.2.14, fwiw
but even if you tilt a light sail 45 ', you're still going to be thrust out radially away from the sun. momentum transfer using solar wind is radial to the sun, and tacking isn't going to change that. all you would do is reduce the effective area of your sail.
actually, since this method of 'propulsion' uses the solar wind, it would be a pretty-much one-way trip. solar wind radiates outward from a point source (the sun, in this case), so your craft would constantly be pushed away from the sun. there's not really any way you could 'steer' the thrust to give you a lateral push. this is the same kind of problem that a light-sail propulsion device has - you can't exactly 'tack' against the solor wind...
the sole purpose for journalling in JFS is to reduce fileystem check times from unexpected disk unmounts (before a sync has been performed).
the logical volume manager in aix has nothing to do with jfs - jfs is the default fixed disk filesystem in aix, and aix can't be run with a logical volume manager (it's not optional like hpux or solaris), but the two are mutually exclusive and don't have anything to do with each other.
http://www.oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/manpages/xfs.h tml
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensou rce/jfs/index.html?dwzone=opensource