I had a shipment of bad IDE hard drives. I was instructed by the Dell support dude that Dell recommends SCSI for "servers". Upon asking why, I was informed that it "had something to do with data harmonics".
runit operates like DJB's daemontools but is tailored to run as process 0 in a unix system. Its operation consists of three scripts: one which starts the system, one which is alive for the duration of the system's uptime, and a third which handles shutdown.
The second script runs something analagous to daemontools's svscan and runs svdirs, which are obviously superior to init scripts because you do not replicate any code. All of the start/stop/etc handling is done by the process that controls the daemon.
The most obvious benefits are that.pid files are obsolete as it's obvious which process is being run by the system (as it is a child of a runsv process that monitors it) and that services can be started in parallel with dependency handling. Additionally, runit will automatically restart processes that die/crash and handle logging their stderr to rotated logfiles via multilog.
Debian users can apt-get install runit runit-run and experience this themselves. I have run runit as process 0 on my laptop and desktop machines for months and use it on servers to monitor daemon processes, it has worked without a hitch. I highly recommend it (and wish that Debian would provide more runit svdirs for daemon processes:))
Would it be possible to have a program that read configure.in files directly, worked out what they were testing for etc, and just returned the right values?
Yeah, and where's the C compiler that will fix bugs in my code and just do what I MEAN??
Sorry, no, that bug was a bug in the Linux kernel itself. Local root exploit. GNU's mistake is that they allow local shell access to all GNU developers - and there are many of those.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, but this was a legitimate (and terrible) problem. Honestly, I was more upset at the idiot rookie 2.4 kernel maintainer who waited for months to get 2.4.21 out the door.
You obviously just don't know how to deal with tier1 tech support then. They're supposed to be cheap labor that read from scripts. If they don't follow the script, they lose their job, it's as simple as that.
Trying to fuck them up to sound smart is just asinine.
If you're going to be all PC and shit by avoiding the word "Eskimo", at least find out what the hell you're talking about. It's like calling a German a Frenchman.
I'm having a really hard time with this one. Insult or compliment?? *head explodes*
Perhaps if there was more money in the healthcare industry in Canada, there would be more money to pay for quality doctors and nurses - who would stop migrating South and offer their services instead to Canadians.
You know, I was just going to overlook this as more Katz-tripe, but then...
Globalism is the biggest idea in the world right now. The French call it Mondialisation, the Germans say Globalisiening and throughout much of Latin America, it's called globalizacion.
Guys, stop ragging on poor old Jon Katz. He had the initiative to look up 'globalization' in THREE LANGUAGES! Bless his journalistic soul.
It pains me so to see people flush money down the drain.
In my experience (and this has been verified by hardOCP, anandtech, etc benchmarks), the only uniprocessor DDR motherboards worth buying over the VIA KT133A chipset are those with the VIA KT266A or AMD 76[01]. The ALi has been
shown to perform _worse_ than a PC133-ram solution. Bad move.
65 degrees C? Anything over 50C is considered 'borderline'. AMD CPUs can take 90C iirc, but that's internal core temperature - the temperature that you see in the BIOS setup is an external temperature taken via a probe below the CPU socket.
Most of us tend to research major purchasing decisions before we make the plunge.
*) Angus King (Maine's governor) is on his way out of office - his second term expires shortly. This is his "going out with a tekno-cool bang".
*) Funds have *not* been appropriated for the laptop-for-7th-graders program; people are being asked to donate laptops to it. Needless to say, they aren't anywhere near the number of laptops we need. Does anybody really think that Maine has enough money for laptops for all of its children?
Sure, Maine is the coolest state in the USA - but for a different (better) reason.
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Done with x2x or DMX, depending on if I want 2d acceleration or not.
OH MY GOD, THEY'RE NOT???
I had a shipment of bad IDE hard drives. I was instructed by the Dell support dude that Dell recommends SCSI for "servers". Upon asking why, I was informed that it "had something to do with data harmonics".
Makes a great hand grenade, really.
You're incredibly correct, thank you.
The second script runs something analagous to daemontools's svscan and runs svdirs, which are obviously superior to init scripts because you do not replicate any code. All of the start/stop/etc handling is done by the process that controls the daemon.
The most obvious benefits are that .pid files are obsolete as it's obvious which process is being run by the system (as it is a child of a runsv process that monitors it) and that services can be started in parallel with dependency handling. Additionally, runit will automatically restart processes that die/crash and handle logging their stderr to rotated logfiles via multilog.
Debian users can apt-get install runit runit-run and experience this themselves. I have run runit as process 0 on my laptop and desktop machines for months and use it on servers to monitor daemon processes, it has worked without a hitch. I highly recommend it (and wish that Debian would provide more runit svdirs for daemon processes :))
The mp3 player is called 'emms'.
Yeah, and where's the C compiler that will fix bugs in my code and just do what I MEAN??
Plus, Earthbound was completely awesome. It had the funkiest music of any RPG, ever.
WHERE'S MY EARTHBOUND 64?
Sorry, no, that bug was a bug in the Linux kernel itself. Local root exploit. GNU's mistake is that they allow local shell access to all GNU developers - and there are many of those.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, but this was a legitimate (and terrible) problem. Honestly, I was more upset at the idiot rookie 2.4 kernel maintainer who waited for months to get 2.4.21 out the door.
It's not really a syntax error but a logic error.
You obviously just don't know how to deal with tier1 tech support then. They're supposed to be cheap labor that read from scripts. If they don't follow the script, they lose their job, it's as simple as that. Trying to fuck them up to sound smart is just asinine.
Sanrio.
Also, dammit, now you've got me wondering what the insult was in Monkey Island whose retort was something like 'get the POINT?'
Burning karma for Jesus.
I'm having a really hard time with this one. Insult or compliment?? *head explodes*
That one's already covered :)
Ken Marino is very good in "Wet Hot American Summer." Most of the rest of the State crew is in it as well. Great flick.
Damn, The State rule(d).
My money's on the one with the slightly less severe retardation.
Perhaps if there was more money in the healthcare industry in Canada, there would be more money to pay for quality doctors and nurses - who would stop migrating South and offer their services instead to Canadians.
Well, actually, if you take work from another co-worker and pass it off as your own, you'll be fired and prosecuted.
Don't Plagiarise - it's the law. (And judging from the snide comment, probably the reason that CmdrTaco never finished college.)
Globalism is the biggest idea in the world right now. The French call it Mondialisation, the Germans say Globalisiening and throughout much of Latin America, it's called globalizacion.
Guys, stop ragging on poor old Jon Katz. He had the initiative to look up 'globalization' in THREE LANGUAGES! Bless his journalistic soul.
In my experience (and this has been verified by hardOCP, anandtech, etc benchmarks), the only uniprocessor DDR motherboards worth buying over the VIA KT133A chipset are those with the VIA KT266A or AMD 76[01]. The ALi has been shown to perform _worse_ than a PC133-ram solution. Bad move.
65 degrees C? Anything over 50C is considered 'borderline'. AMD CPUs can take 90C iirc, but that's internal core temperature - the temperature that you see in the BIOS setup is an external temperature taken via a probe below the CPU socket.
Most of us tend to research major purchasing decisions before we make the plunge.
I go to McGill. I believe that it's a cell phone subscription. :)
*) Angus King (Maine's governor) is on his way out of office - his second term expires shortly. This is his "going out with a tekno-cool bang".
*) Funds have *not* been appropriated for the laptop-for-7th-graders program; people are being asked to donate laptops to it. Needless to say, they aren't anywhere near the number of laptops we need. Does anybody really think that Maine has enough money for laptops for all of its children?
Sure, Maine is the coolest state in the USA - but for a different (better) reason.
We drink Moxie.