Forgive my ignorance here for I haven't learned much about file systems, but what is the difference between journaling and non-journaling file systems?
8Complex
PS - Slashdot could use a full dictionary of terms from around the site... That'd rule...
WinAMP outputs as a WAV basically... it just uses CPU to decode the MP3 and outputs as a WAV... So how exactly would they block it through hardware? By blocking all WAV files that use high amounts of CPU to play?? I think not...
I think this is a mistype but hey, if you're actually correct on this one maybe I will get that Matrix VCD burnt...
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well, there is also the OS consideration in mind... personally, i'm under NT right now and I'm on a pII400 with 128MB RAM and its pretty quick... I wouldn't mind doing a speed comparison between this and Linux but their not even comparable...
I mean, windows is windows and you've got all your great programs for it and everything but then you go to linux and you've got about the same amount of programs but only 1/4 of those are GUI... and about 10% of those 1/4 are decently built programs
sorry, i still think x programs look like crap... personally, i don't think it'd hurt if someone learnt from windows in building their programs - they are pretty much the standard out right now and it wouldn't hurt if people designed programs like they do in windows... i think it'd actually help the spread of linux...
if you need a comparison, take forte' agent as an example... it's a newsreader program that is set up nearly perfectly (in my opinion)... now you can't get anywhere NEAR that in a linux/x program in looks or useability... every single program that i look at for x that someone suggests are just plain ugly and have some sort of useless GUI abilities...
ok, thats enough ripping on linux programs... sorry for any offense created, but hey - you guys are the one thats trying to get away from windows and not look back when in reality you should do as they did and steal ideas from other OS's and include it in your own... its not WRONG, its just what people are used to so they'll WANT to use it... this is kind of the reason i want to try KDE, it looks pretty good...
hmmmmmmm... well personally i don't really consider hard drive a hardware upgrade for an FTP like that... its more of a storage expansion...
personally, i'd love to log in and just look around... there's so much stuff on that site i can never see it all - i don't even know everything that it covers... all i've seen is the game archive for id and a few of the addon directories...
you're probably pretty right about that... unless, of course, they ordered from micron exactly what they wanted on it and just let them put it together and warantee it... after all, they had to put their own OS on there (micron do freebsd? forget it... they might THINK about linux, but not freebsd)
so i'm assuming that that machine will be killer for them... i've seen them break gb/day limits over the last year or two, and always being full... personally, i am willing to stick out my neck and say that that is the MOST used FTP server on the web. I think (and thi is if my memory serves me correct) that their record is sending out 359GB in a day... i could be wrong though... (you'd think that they'd display it somewhere)
think about this one... when q3atest is released, they'll go for another reocrd day there... i wanna see those stats:-)
Yeah, Agent works fine with WINE, unfortunately it doesn't when you don't have a dial-up connection. I get all kinda crazy Winsock errors trying to use it with my cable modem.
I don't know if I'm missing some configurations with WINE or what, but its just frustrating.
I hate that I can't NOT install that when I get the new version of Netscape for Windows...
You know, the only thing holding me back from being 100% Linux/X is a good newsreader... I need a program comparable to Forte' Agent for Linux... if anyone knows of one let me know, though:-)
when are they finally going to fix things? I mean... it seems to be they're dragging their ass (so to speak) and not fixing anything... the tables still SUCK hardcore, the UI still needs a LOT of touching up, and all it seems to me that they are doing is trying to get all the "features" of HTML into it (and the table stuff really pisses me off still)
now some of you will probably flame the crap out of me but why are they pounding so hard at new code and features when they should be fixing whats already there? load up slashdot on it - you'll see that the tables are nowhere near right for the titles... i loaded up www.loackergnome.com and it didn't even show me half of the page cause the tables couldnt load right.
if i were working there i beat the crap out of someone so that they'd fix what is the MOST important feature of HTML... without tables the web would look like crap (or everyone would make their pages as client-side image maps just so they'd look right)
I was going to post a lot more graphic message similar to this... It really angers me that lately people are blaming everything but themselves for things that happen. Obviously if this kid guned that many people down, sure he COULD have been influenced (and probably was), but that does not in any way take blame for the parent's poor job of raising this kid.
And why are they sueing porn sites? The kid was 14 - isn't there disclaimers around there somewhere? Maybe the kid is to blame for looking at this porn since he obviously didn't follow the warnings...
Lastly, while writing this I've figured it out... These people are from Kentucky and they are against all violence and porn. Can we say RELIGIOUS TO A FAULT? Personally, I think that all religious people that blame like this should be shot. (you know what I mean). There are too many out there that actually RUN things that stop a lot of things going on that shouldn't be stopped.
For instance: In politics, they outlawed marijuana completely... not even for medical reasons, they said. It so happens it is great medicinally (I'm not just saying this - I know someone that uses it medicinally all the time).
Anyway total message is - sue the parent's not the world, you can't fix the world but you may be able to knock some sense into the parents.
Computers were meant to hack and be hacked. Virii were meant to do this also, just for the user. If people are so stupid to GET the virus in the first place, they deserve what they get.
This is just another one of the media's protecting the stupid people act.
Personally, I've been on computers / used computers for about 5-6 years now. How many virii have I had? 1. And know where I got it? It was on my DOS 6.2 disks that came from the small place that built my first machine. Since then, I've downloaded virii, played with creation programs, hell, even sent them to stupid people to infect them - and I'm yet to get one myself.
Welcome, stupid people, to the world of computing. We're not going to make it more safe just for you... you'll have to actually LEARN something in order to protect yourself. And maybe this'll make you STOP SENDING SPAM all over the place.
Personally, I think that The Matrix was so good that it will directly rival Star Wars as Movie of the Year. The effects were seamless and killer. The filming was done perfectly to draw you into the movie headfirst and never let you down until the credits. Personally if I had to choose between which movie I want to see more right now, it'd be The Matrix. Star Wars can wait another 6 months, I'll be happy with this.:-)
The movie concept in itself, almost reminded me of Hackers as it started and sprung off towards Aliens, Star Trek, and even had a little Men In Black type of stuff going on. One of the things I really liked about the movie, being set so far in the future, is that for the most part all of the weapons were modern-day weapons, not some tiny laser-firing pen that can annihilate buildings with a 2-second blast. Makes for a much more engrossing movie since it is very easily and quickly imaginable.
The concept behind the "Matrix" itself is one that has been addressed in a bunch of other movies, except this movie makes it seamlessly believable and in full, totally engrossing.
All in all, when you leave the theater, expect to feel like you have some superpowers and feel like beating the hell out of some people. Definetly one of those movies that'll put you in a fighting mood, along with a thinking mood also.
I just hope that everyone out there that is playing with AI realizes to keep in on a secure isolated system.
fortunately i know noone that has been raped from online people, including all the people that i used to hang out in the chatrooms with... although most of them were old enough to know better, i still think that AOL should be wiped off the earth... bad security, ugly everything, put me in a small window and make me think i'm online type of program... plus they make it easy enough so that anyone that can type 4wpm can get online and get into anywhere... sorry people, but if you can't have half a brain about going online then you shouldn't be online.
secondly, i have friends in real life here that talk to people online... we (all friends of mine and their friends) have told them not to meet anyone without anyone else around... i know that if i found one of my friends raped, the person that would do it would have a hard time finding where they lived afterward... maybe even go off and drop them off somewhere in the hillbilly section of tenesee... i liked driving through there, why make it painful for me?:-)
these are like has-been BS installs on windows... the optimal installer should be an executable that extracts its own data files and then offers you where to install the main program (preferably somewhere ON MY PATH) and then leaves a log of wher it installed everything in some kinda log folder... maybe/.install-logs with the name & version of the program as a logfile name... then when the next version gets installed it'll remove the old files (upon verification if you want to remove or move elsewhere (like a./old-installs/progname&version/)) and then install...
this sounds pretty damn easy to me don't you think? so WHY hasn't it been done?? hell it should even have a GUI interface for developers making it absolutely simple to package stuff...
this, in turn, would solve so many of the problems with linux it isn't even funny... linux has a VERY hard time with installing and uninstalling of software cause you have to know absolutely everything about everything - this'd offer a small text file saying the paths of everything installed (and possibly everything that was made by the program (settings files and stuff like that)) so you could either remove it easily or use some sort of uninstaller to read the logfile and remove everything...
a little programming going into automation will make the lives of so many millions of people easier... yet noone has done it yet... DAMN i'd love to be able to program this, but i can't program at all (unless you consider BASIC and batch files programming)... so i pass it on, the idea with the torch... because it'd make my life so much easier that i REALLY want to see and use it.
does anyone else find this phrase disturbing?? i mean... it makes it sound like all there is out there is Windows operating systems... this, for some reason, really bothers me... i use windows a lot and am just beginning with linux and this really bothers me...:-/
BTW - for anyone who read my last messages about my modem - i fixed it! had an irq conflict even though isapnp was setting it to what it shoulda been it was still wrong... used setserial and BOOM, fixed:-)
8Complex
PS: if anyone knows a program that makes it simple to use, create, and edit Enlightenment themes, please mail me:-)
windows stole a LOT of its gui from mac's... so hmmmmmmmmm... if anything kde is its own stolen and rewritten version of the mac os... as much as i hate to say that too cause i use windows so much... lol:-)
i've tried disabling the PnP feature of the modem and setting it directly but even if so it still doesn't connect right... still a long delay before anything gets through... 20-30 seconds... makes minicom really frustrating:-)
its a diamond supraexress - i returned a winmodem to get it actually... i've gotten this (well, the other one i've got) to work with linux before... maybe i should just swap it for my parent's modem (the old one)? hmmm..
i know, but hell, even with windows ill run beta software (i was one of those insane people that ran memphis until IE4 was integrated and i frequented betanews.com all the time)
i've tried the redhat groups... maybe i'll try again... its rather frustrating waiting for responses but noone really helps me in #linux on efnet either though... oh well, i'll keep on muddlin though it:-)
what about enhancing things like PnP (I've had redhat 5.2 installed for 3 months now... i STILL can't get my modem to work under it cause it won't assign it correctly - hence i never use linux, a wasted 1.2 gig right now)
and how about enhancing the ease of installation of things? anyone try installing enlightenment? its a COMPLETE BITCH.. download these 17 rpm's then go download 7 more that need upgrading before you can install some others... which break dependencies of other things you need to upgrade... its retarded. when did the word UPGRADE lose all its meaning???
and how about configurability? you know, having every little thing in seperate text files isn't so bad... its the whole idea that you can't FIND them and there is no central config panel for everything... control-panel only does so much, linuxconf (linuxconfig?) only does so much (and is buggy as hell) - granted its still all better then the "registry":-)
so really, who gives a shit that they're backing a desktop environment when what they need to do is a little bit of restructuring of the OS? get with it people... and help me get my god damn modem working while you're at it;-)
8Complex May you flame to your hearts' content... I will only learn from them.
supposedly every install checks to make sure it will only upgrade the version of the dll it is replacing before doing so... then it knows only a newer version will be in there...
the real problem lies in the registry where all of microsoft's dirty work comes together... it is the SLOPPIEST POS i have ever seen... i've seen 2 year olds organize their matchbox cars better... (hell for that matter i've seen babies drool more organized)... then there are pieces that are wrong, are overwritten, are duplicated and duplicated and duplicated... the registry on my win98 box is 2.53 meg... given (through educational guess) what i have installed i'd say that it should be about 200k as a text file - and that is taking the original windows files into account too...
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Forgive my ignorance here for I haven't learned much about file systems, but what is the difference between journaling and non-journaling file systems?
8Complex
PS - Slashdot could use a full dictionary of terms from around the site... That'd rule...
WinAMP outputs as a WAV basically... it just uses CPU to decode the MP3 and outputs as a WAV... So how exactly would they block it through hardware? By blocking all WAV files that use high amounts of CPU to play?? I think not...
8Complex
I think this is a mistype but hey, if you're actually correct on this one maybe I will get that Matrix VCD burnt...
8Complex
well, there is also the OS consideration in mind... personally, i'm under NT right now and I'm on a pII400 with 128MB RAM and its pretty quick... I wouldn't mind doing a speed comparison between this and Linux but their not even comparable...
I mean, windows is windows and you've got all your great programs for it and everything but then you go to linux and you've got about the same amount of programs but only 1/4 of those are GUI... and about 10% of those 1/4 are decently built programs
sorry, i still think x programs look like crap... personally, i don't think it'd hurt if someone learnt from windows in building their programs - they are pretty much the standard out right now and it wouldn't hurt if people designed programs like they do in windows... i think it'd actually help the spread of linux...
if you need a comparison, take forte' agent as an example... it's a newsreader program that is set up nearly perfectly (in my opinion)... now you can't get anywhere NEAR that in a linux/x program in looks or useability... every single program that i look at for x that someone suggests are just plain ugly and have some sort of useless GUI abilities...
ok, thats enough ripping on linux programs... sorry for any offense created, but hey - you guys are the one thats trying to get away from windows and not look back when in reality you should do as they did and steal ideas from other OS's and include it in your own... its not WRONG, its just what people are used to so they'll WANT to use it... this is kind of the reason i want to try KDE, it looks pretty good...
8Complex
hmmmmmmm... well personally i don't really consider hard drive a hardware upgrade for an FTP like that... its more of a storage expansion...
personally, i'd love to log in and just look around... there's so much stuff on that site i can never see it all - i don't even know everything that it covers... all i've seen is the game archive for id and a few of the addon directories...
8Complex
you're probably pretty right about that... unless, of course, they ordered from micron exactly what they wanted on it and just let them put it together and warantee it... after all, they had to put their own OS on there (micron do freebsd? forget it... they might THINK about linux, but not freebsd)
:-)
so i'm assuming that that machine will be killer for them... i've seen them break gb/day limits over the last year or two, and always being full... personally, i am willing to stick out my neck and say that that is the MOST used FTP server on the web. I think (and thi is if my memory serves me correct) that their record is sending out 359GB in a day... i could be wrong though... (you'd think that they'd display it somewhere)
think about this one... when q3atest is released, they'll go for another reocrd day there... i wanna see those stats
8Complex
Yeah, Agent works fine with WINE, unfortunately it doesn't when you don't have a dial-up connection. I get all kinda crazy Winsock errors trying to use it with my cable modem.
I don't know if I'm missing some configurations with WINE or what, but its just frustrating.
8Complex
I hate that I can't NOT install that when I get the new version of Netscape for Windows...
:-)
You know, the only thing holding me back from being 100% Linux/X is a good newsreader... I need a program comparable to Forte' Agent for Linux... if anyone knows of one let me know, though
8Complex
when are they finally going to fix things? I mean... it seems to be they're dragging their ass (so to speak) and not fixing anything... the tables still SUCK hardcore, the UI still needs a LOT of touching up, and all it seems to me that they are doing is trying to get all the "features" of HTML into it (and the table stuff really pisses me off still)
now some of you will probably flame the crap out of me but why are they pounding so hard at new code and features when they should be fixing whats already there? load up slashdot on it - you'll see that the tables are nowhere near right for the titles... i loaded up www.loackergnome.com and it didn't even show me half of the page cause the tables couldnt load right.
if i were working there i beat the crap out of someone so that they'd fix what is the MOST important feature of HTML... without tables the web would look like crap (or everyone would make their pages as client-side image maps just so they'd look right)
8Complex
hey bill... did you order a planet-killing asteroid lately?
8Complex
I was going to post a lot more graphic message similar to this... It really angers me that lately people are blaming everything but themselves for things that happen. Obviously if this kid guned that many people down, sure he COULD have been influenced (and probably was), but that does not in any way take blame for the parent's poor job of raising this kid.
And why are they sueing porn sites? The kid was 14 - isn't there disclaimers around there somewhere? Maybe the kid is to blame for looking at this porn since he obviously didn't follow the warnings...
Lastly, while writing this I've figured it out... These people are from Kentucky and they are against all violence and porn. Can we say RELIGIOUS TO A FAULT? Personally, I think that all religious people that blame like this should be shot. (you know what I mean). There are too many out there that actually RUN things that stop a lot of things going on that shouldn't be stopped.
For instance:
In politics, they outlawed marijuana completely... not even for medical reasons, they said. It so happens it is great medicinally (I'm not just saying this - I know someone that uses it medicinally all the time).
Anyway total message is - sue the parent's not the world, you can't fix the world but you may be able to knock some sense into the parents.
8Complex
Computers were meant to hack and be hacked. Virii were meant to do this also, just for the user. If people are so stupid to GET the virus in the first place, they deserve what they get.
This is just another one of the media's protecting the stupid people act.
Personally, I've been on computers / used computers for about 5-6 years now. How many virii have I had? 1. And know where I got it? It was on my DOS 6.2 disks that came from the small place that built my first machine. Since then, I've downloaded virii, played with creation programs, hell, even sent them to stupid people to infect them - and I'm yet to get one myself.
Welcome, stupid people, to the world of computing. We're not going to make it more safe just for you... you'll have to actually LEARN something in order to protect yourself. And maybe this'll make you STOP SENDING SPAM all over the place.
8Complex
Personally, I think that The Matrix was so good that it will directly rival Star Wars as Movie of the Year. The effects were seamless and killer. The filming was done perfectly to draw you into the movie headfirst and never let you down until the credits. Personally if I had to choose between which movie I want to see more right now, it'd be The Matrix. Star Wars can wait another 6 months, I'll be happy with this. :-)
The movie concept in itself, almost reminded me of Hackers as it started and sprung off towards Aliens, Star Trek, and even had a little Men In Black type of stuff going on. One of the things I really liked about the movie, being set so far in the future, is that for the most part all of the weapons were modern-day weapons, not some tiny laser-firing pen that can annihilate buildings with a 2-second blast. Makes for a much more engrossing movie since it is very easily and quickly imaginable.
The concept behind the "Matrix" itself is one that has been addressed in a bunch of other movies, except this movie makes it seamlessly believable and in full, totally engrossing.
All in all, when you leave the theater, expect to feel like you have some superpowers and feel like beating the hell out of some people. Definetly one of those movies that'll put you in a fighting mood, along with a thinking mood also.
I just hope that everyone out there that is playing with AI realizes to keep in on a secure isolated system.
8Complex
fortunately i know noone that has been raped from online people, including all the people that i used to hang out in the chatrooms with... although most of them were old enough to know better, i still think that AOL should be wiped off the earth... bad security, ugly everything, put me in a small window and make me think i'm online type of program... plus they make it easy enough so that anyone that can type 4wpm can get online and get into anywhere... sorry people, but if you can't have half a brain about going online then you shouldn't be online.
:-)
secondly, i have friends in real life here that talk to people online... we (all friends of mine and their friends) have told them not to meet anyone without anyone else around... i know that if i found one of my friends raped, the person that would do it would have a hard time finding where they lived afterward... maybe even go off and drop them off somewhere in the hillbilly section of tenesee... i liked driving through there, why make it painful for me?
8Complex
these are like has-been BS installs on windows... the optimal installer should be an executable that extracts its own data files and then offers you where to install the main program (preferably somewhere ON MY PATH) and then leaves a log of wher it installed everything in some kinda log folder... maybe /.install-logs with the name & version of the program as a logfile name... then when the next version gets installed it'll remove the old files (upon verification if you want to remove or move elsewhere (like a ./old-installs/progname&version/)) and then install...
this sounds pretty damn easy to me don't you think? so WHY hasn't it been done?? hell it should even have a GUI interface for developers making it absolutely simple to package stuff...
this, in turn, would solve so many of the problems with linux it isn't even funny... linux has a VERY hard time with installing and uninstalling of software cause you have to know absolutely everything about everything - this'd offer a small text file saying the paths of everything installed (and possibly everything that was made by the program (settings files and stuff like that)) so you could either remove it easily or use some sort of uninstaller to read the logfile and remove everything...
a little programming going into automation will make the lives of so many millions of people easier... yet noone has done it yet... DAMN i'd love to be able to program this, but i can't program at all (unless you consider BASIC and batch files programming)... so i pass it on, the idea with the torch... because it'd make my life so much easier that i REALLY want to see and use it.
8Complex
does anyone else find this phrase disturbing?? i mean... it makes it sound like all there is out there is Windows operating systems... this, for some reason, really bothers me... i use windows a lot and am just beginning with linux and this really bothers me... :-/
:-)
:-)
BTW - for anyone who read my last messages about my modem - i fixed it! had an irq conflict even though isapnp was setting it to what it shoulda been it was still wrong... used setserial and BOOM, fixed
8Complex
PS: if anyone knows a program that makes it simple to use, create, and edit Enlightenment themes, please mail me
windows stole a LOT of its gui from mac's... so hmmmmmmmmm... if anything kde is its own stolen and rewritten version of the mac os... as much as i hate to say that too cause i use windows so much... lol :-)
8Complex
i've tried disabling the PnP feature of the modem and setting it directly but even if so it still doesn't connect right... still a long delay before anything gets through... 20-30 seconds... makes minicom really frustrating :-)
:-)
its a diamond supraexress - i returned a winmodem to get it actually... i've gotten this (well, the other one i've got) to work with linux before... maybe i should just swap it for my parent's modem (the old one)? hmmm..
i know, but hell, even with windows ill run beta software (i was one of those insane people that ran memphis until IE4 was integrated and i frequented betanews.com all the time)
i've tried the redhat groups... maybe i'll try again... its rather frustrating waiting for responses but noone really helps me in #linux on efnet either though... oh well, i'll keep on muddlin though it
8Complex
what about enhancing things like PnP (I've had redhat 5.2 installed for 3 months now... i STILL can't get my modem to work under it cause it won't assign it correctly - hence i never use linux, a wasted 1.2 gig right now)
:-)
;-)
and how about enhancing the ease of installation of things? anyone try installing enlightenment? its a COMPLETE BITCH.. download these 17 rpm's then go download 7 more that need upgrading before you can install some others... which break dependencies of other things you need to upgrade... its retarded. when did the word UPGRADE lose all its meaning???
and how about configurability? you know, having every little thing in seperate text files isn't so bad... its the whole idea that you can't FIND them and there is no central config panel for everything... control-panel only does so much, linuxconf (linuxconfig?) only does so much (and is buggy as hell) - granted its still all better then the "registry"
so really, who gives a shit that they're backing a desktop environment when what they need to do is a little bit of restructuring of the OS? get with it people... and help me get my god damn modem working while you're at it
8Complex
May you flame to your hearts' content... I will only learn from them.
supposedly every install checks to make sure it will only upgrade the version of the dll it is replacing before doing so... then it knows only a newer version will be in there...
the real problem lies in the registry where all of microsoft's dirty work comes together... it is the SLOPPIEST POS i have ever seen... i've seen 2 year olds organize their matchbox cars better... (hell for that matter i've seen babies drool more organized)... then there are pieces that are wrong, are overwritten, are duplicated and duplicated and duplicated... the registry on my win98 box is 2.53 meg... given (through educational guess) what i have installed i'd say that it should be about 200k as a text file - and that is taking the original windows files into account too...
8Complex
why:
because if they make it for *nix then they can gain hold on yet another market (and all its little fragments)
so people that only use office can be put on cheaper machines (save costs of winblows and maybe even cheaper hardware)
why not:
money (yeah right, like they'd worry about this)
time (screw it, just put 4000 developers on it)
doj may see them trying to take over even another marketplace (does anyone know if that ppc dir on the nt cds actually are ppc mac versions of nt?!?)
because of all the insults from the *nix society (like that'd stop them)
anyone else think of more?
8Complex