I don't know whether the mods who modded this insightful are expressing their "+1 funny" opinion in an alternative form or they just don't get it. I again don't know whether my reply constitutes an overly elaborate "*whoosh*" to the mods or I'm just meta-whooshing myself.
Oh, my, that's funny -- especially when it's done by Eric Idle. As a Chinese I'm definitely not offended by this. People can always find racist blood in every piece of rock but since when has everything have to be politically correct?
Be it not the good old Eric I may have said it's just another funny song but man, he was great!
BTW IIRC Eric Idle has been to China several times. Dunno whether this has anything to do with his stay here.
The "grass-mud-horse" thingy used to appear in the Baidu Baike, Baidu's Wikipedia-like project. The Baidu Baike is widely regarded as part of government's effort to control Chinese people's source of information and a central hub of the whole "harmonization" stupidity, for Baidu is at the same side with the govn't. By creating a new webopedia it gives them more control over it. Naturally the contents in Baidu Baike are heavily censored against politically incorrect material but no one gives a shit about factual accuracy or copyright violations that's rampant there.
Some anonymous person thus put the articles for "grass-mud-horse", along with other jokes of this kind, to Baidu Baike. Unsurprisingly they stayed there for quite a long time without being removed, because there was no "political" stuff in them, even if the contents were outrageously out of touch with reality. This was seen as a punch in Baidu's face, and by extension, a joke on government's attempts to control online speech. After the "grass-mud-horse" became widely known the Baidu Baike articles were removed but the meme went wild.
So much for the background. I hope I made some points across the Great Language Barrier.. It's kinda surprising to see you guys here discussing the caonima stuff at/.;)
Thanks for the link. I noticed there's no default value for that key. That explains why it didn't show up in the search results in about:config (I mean the in-page search, not web search).
I agree it's up to the OS to maintain the DNS cache, likely as part of the functionality of resolver(5). However, I think it's also reasonable that some app making heavy use of DNS queries like Firefox to have some basic hostname caching of its own. Well I was just guessing. Thank you and the poster above for the replies.
I'm straying away from the topic further but since we are at it, I'd like to recommend aria2. From the project's website:
aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm.
Last time I used it I was downloading the install disk image of Fedora 10. Someone at Fedora's support forum posted a list of URLs of the image hosted on a great number of mirrors. I tried downloading it from those mirrors and BitTorrent swarm with aria2 at the same time, and the performance was really amazing.
My experience with Firefox somehow differs a bit from yours. I used to see Firefox spend a lot of time in DNS queries for *everything*. Even if it's a host I just visited about a minute before. As a result I set up dnsmasq running on my computer and modified/etc/hosts so that every query goes through the local DNS cache. It's been working pretty well since. The wait time is dramatically reduced.
Of course Firefox is not all to blame for the slow DNS but it shouldn't be making queries *that* often either, IMHO.
I guess it's possible to modify some key/value pair in about:config to tell Firefox how long it should keep the entries in its hostname cache. But I'm too lazy to search for that;)
Firefox loads a page up pretty fast after the DNS query is made, though. I don't think the speed is astonishingly fast but it's enough for me.
Next time I'll write up an article claiming I run faster than Usian Bolt in 100 meters and submit it to/. I guess CmdrTaco would post it to the front page;)
The Firewall doesn't do that. I have some friends who are very into the game. One of them once tried to connect to a Taiwan-based server somehow. He could login but the game is barely enjoyable due to the high latency. This is true even for Chinese domestic servers. Some gamers have to connect to their game servers via special proxies so that they can play it smoothly.
Of course we're assuming the client matches the server here. If they are incompatible it's likely the old client simply can't login due to server-side input validation.
Although I don't play the game, I guess the client and server have to match so that you can play the game. If none of the servers is ready for the expansion set, how can you just install the client and play? By logging in a server outside of China? The network latency may kill the performance.
Oh, probably I forgot to explain myself. In the Chinese login screen the frost wyrm is just missing. "Harmonize" is a sarcastic term used by Chinese people to mean "censor", as a pun on the government's self-proclaimed goal of "developing a harmonious society";)
It's just a matter of time before the new game get approved. Probably the game company isn't offering somebody in the govn't enough money. Just guessing.
I have now a guy playing World of Warcraft (in China) right beside me physically. The login screen has already been changed to the "Northrend" (spelling? I'm not a player) frost-and-ice theme. I don't think they are going to postpone forever.
Mind you this is "blocking" as in "blocking a process until I/O is available". It's not "banning".
BTW interestingly, the gamer beside me told me there should have been a skeleton dragon somewhere on the login screen, which is "harmonized" out in the Chinese version.
Shared libraries are not only used to save storage space, but also facilitates code sharing in memory. If everything links the libraries statically it would be a waste of memory space at run-time.
I agree that the role of "archives" of libraries today is diminishing in the face of cheaper storage. But sharing code among processes is still a major function of shared libraries.
*Everything* has limitations. That's why engineering is necessarily an art. But in no means does the inherent limitations of something justify the misuse of it. Your car has an limited maximum load of 4t. You overload it to 5t and it stops working. Your car has an limitation. But that's something everyone knows and it's not the car that is supposed to be blamed for the failure.
I replied to another of your posts, basically saying the same thing but in a harsher language. I apologize for that.
As for your suggestion of improving the filesystem, I'm no expert either, but I guess the problem could boil down to "filesystem is not database" and "read/write is not query/commit". Filesystems are built to support the very basic IO operations. It's up to the app developers to implement proper cache control for their specific applications, whether it's DB-like or not.
Call me retarded, but following your argument I can't grasp what do you mean by "limitation" and/or your use of the genitive ("filesystem's"). Suppose I designed a filesystem that is heavily hyped to be "Teh Filesystem for Dummies!" and as a result this filesystem (RetardFS, let's call it;) has the highest percentage of n00bs in its user demographics among all filesystems'. Do I call its "n00biness" a "filesystem's limitation"?
OK forget about my poor analogy -- it's for the lulz. Let's call a spade a spade: the stuff we're discussing here is an application limitation. Whether it's *also* implying a so-called "filesystem limitation" (whatever it means) may not be as clearly cut as you think it is. Maybe I could say it depends on your definition of "'s".
BTW your airplane analogy sucks IMNSHO. It doesn't sound like saying "it's still a limitation of the airplane" to me. It implies *everything* has some inherent limitations, which is right but pretty irrelevant to the particular problem here.
You are right about the Emacs gotcha. This is because the default behavior of C-x C-s is to save the modified file to another file (read: another inode number) and rename the old filename to something like "foo~" as a backup. The new file has a new inode number thus the old ACL imposed on the old file doesn't apply (but still applied to the backup file). Not only ACLs but also a great number of other file management operations have to work it around.
However, usually admins seldom impose ACLs on a single file. Well-designed directory ACLs are what is expected to be used for this kind of situation.
Of course, one can change Emacs' behavior by using C-u 0 C-x C-s so that no backup is created and the modifications are written in-place (really in-place).
CLI is good from day one. Maybe in the near future we'll see a revival of the CLI. By then, instead of doing I/O redirections we'll be doing mind redirections. Instead of piping the stdout to another program's stdin we just piping our ideas to other users in the network. Hmm, in the beginning was the command line...
I know how it feels like being cyberstalked. Kinda pathetic. But hey, how many of them are really slashdotters caring about the karma stuff?;)
As a Chinese, I'm not offended by your viewpoints or position, in fact I quite understand it. However, I remain somewhat skeptic about the factuality of your post because I don't know any established Chinese law regarding the regulation of encryption technology used by individuals (IANAL of course). Can you give me a pointer to some legal material that supports your post? I believe I use encryption of one kind or another on a daily basis (SSH and HTTPS come to mind, as well as the encryption facilities built into bittorrent).
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I don't know whether the mods who modded this insightful are expressing their "+1 funny" opinion in an alternative form or they just don't get it. I again don't know whether my reply constitutes an overly elaborate "*whoosh*" to the mods or I'm just meta-whooshing myself.
and it's "shooting mosquitos with FLAK fire". Oh the meta-irony.
> and then just recompile that particular program.
Not that easy.
Do you really think that Josh is the kind of person who don't read /. ?
Wow, that's it. Exactly.
Oh, my, that's funny -- especially when it's done by Eric Idle. As a Chinese I'm definitely not offended by this. People can always find racist blood in every piece of rock but since when has everything have to be politically correct?
Be it not the good old Eric I may have said it's just another funny song but man, he was great!
BTW IIRC Eric Idle has been to China several times. Dunno whether this has anything to do with his stay here.
As a Chinese, lemme explain some background..
The "grass-mud-horse" thingy used to appear in the Baidu Baike, Baidu's Wikipedia-like project. The Baidu Baike is widely regarded as part of government's effort to control Chinese people's source of information and a central hub of the whole "harmonization" stupidity, for Baidu is at the same side with the govn't. By creating a new webopedia it gives them more control over it. Naturally the contents in Baidu Baike are heavily censored against politically incorrect material but no one gives a shit about factual accuracy or copyright violations that's rampant there.
Some anonymous person thus put the articles for "grass-mud-horse", along with other jokes of this kind, to Baidu Baike. Unsurprisingly they stayed there for quite a long time without being removed, because there was no "political" stuff in them, even if the contents were outrageously out of touch with reality. This was seen as a punch in Baidu's face, and by extension, a joke on government's attempts to control online speech. After the "grass-mud-horse" became widely known the Baidu Baike articles were removed but the meme went wild.
So much for the background. I hope I made some points across the Great Language Barrier.. It's kinda surprising to see you guys here discussing the caonima stuff at /. ;)
> Better yet, how do you get statistics without research?
Bad intentional misquote day: it depends on your definition of "get".
Thanks for the link. I noticed there's no default value for that key. That explains why it didn't show up in the search results in about:config (I mean the in-page search, not web search).
Except that it's not "research" we are talking about.
I agree it's up to the OS to maintain the DNS cache, likely as part of the functionality of resolver(5). However, I think it's also reasonable that some app making heavy use of DNS queries like Firefox to have some basic hostname caching of its own. Well I was just guessing. Thank you and the poster above for the replies.
I'm straying away from the topic further but since we are at it, I'd like to recommend aria2. From the project's website:
Last time I used it I was downloading the install disk image of Fedora 10. Someone at Fedora's support forum posted a list of URLs of the image hosted on a great number of mirrors. I tried downloading it from those mirrors and BitTorrent swarm with aria2 at the same time, and the performance was really amazing.
My experience with Firefox somehow differs a bit from yours. I used to see Firefox spend a lot of time in DNS queries for *everything*. Even if it's a host I just visited about a minute before. As a result I set up dnsmasq running on my computer and modified /etc/hosts so that every query goes through the local DNS cache. It's been working pretty well since. The wait time is dramatically reduced.
Of course Firefox is not all to blame for the slow DNS but it shouldn't be making queries *that* often either, IMHO.
I guess it's possible to modify some key/value pair in about:config to tell Firefox how long it should keep the entries in its hostname cache. But I'm too lazy to search for that ;)
Firefox loads a page up pretty fast after the DNS query is made, though. I don't think the speed is astonishingly fast but it's enough for me.
Next time I'll write up an article claiming I run faster than Usian Bolt in 100 meters and submit it to /. I guess CmdrTaco would post it to the front page ;)
The Firewall doesn't do that. I have some friends who are very into the game. One of them once tried to connect to a Taiwan-based server somehow. He could login but the game is barely enjoyable due to the high latency. This is true even for Chinese domestic servers. Some gamers have to connect to their game servers via special proxies so that they can play it smoothly.
Of course we're assuming the client matches the server here. If they are incompatible it's likely the old client simply can't login due to server-side input validation.
Although I don't play the game, I guess the client and server have to match so that you can play the game. If none of the servers is ready for the expansion set, how can you just install the client and play? By logging in a server outside of China? The network latency may kill the performance.
Oh, probably I forgot to explain myself. In the Chinese login screen the frost wyrm is just missing. "Harmonize" is a sarcastic term used by Chinese people to mean "censor", as a pun on the government's self-proclaimed goal of "developing a harmonious society" ;)
It's just a matter of time before the new game get approved. Probably the game company isn't offering somebody in the govn't enough money. Just guessing.
I have now a guy playing World of Warcraft (in China) right beside me physically. The login screen has already been changed to the "Northrend" (spelling? I'm not a player) frost-and-ice theme. I don't think they are going to postpone forever.
Mind you this is "blocking" as in "blocking a process until I/O is available". It's not "banning".
BTW interestingly, the gamer beside me told me there should have been a skeleton dragon somewhere on the login screen, which is "harmonized" out in the Chinese version.
Shared libraries are not only used to save storage space, but also facilitates code sharing in memory. If everything links the libraries statically it would be a waste of memory space at run-time.
I agree that the role of "archives" of libraries today is diminishing in the face of cheaper storage. But sharing code among processes is still a major function of shared libraries.
*Everything* has limitations. That's why engineering is necessarily an art. But in no means does the inherent limitations of something justify the misuse of it. Your car has an limited maximum load of 4t. You overload it to 5t and it stops working. Your car has an limitation. But that's something everyone knows and it's not the car that is supposed to be blamed for the failure.
I replied to another of your posts, basically saying the same thing but in a harsher language. I apologize for that.
As for your suggestion of improving the filesystem, I'm no expert either, but I guess the problem could boil down to "filesystem is not database" and "read/write is not query/commit". Filesystems are built to support the very basic IO operations. It's up to the app developers to implement proper cache control for their specific applications, whether it's DB-like or not.
Call me retarded, but following your argument I can't grasp what do you mean by "limitation" and/or your use of the genitive ("filesystem's"). Suppose I designed a filesystem that is heavily hyped to be "Teh Filesystem for Dummies!" and as a result this filesystem (RetardFS, let's call it ;) has the highest percentage of n00bs in its user demographics among all filesystems'. Do I call its "n00biness" a "filesystem's limitation"?
OK forget about my poor analogy -- it's for the lulz. Let's call a spade a spade: the stuff we're discussing here is an application limitation. Whether it's *also* implying a so-called "filesystem limitation" (whatever it means) may not be as clearly cut as you think it is. Maybe I could say it depends on your definition of "'s".
BTW your airplane analogy sucks IMNSHO. It doesn't sound like saying "it's still a limitation of the airplane" to me. It implies *everything* has some inherent limitations, which is right but pretty irrelevant to the particular problem here.
You are right about the Emacs gotcha. This is because the default behavior of C-x C-s is to save the modified file to another file (read: another inode number) and rename the old filename to something like "foo~" as a backup. The new file has a new inode number thus the old ACL imposed on the old file doesn't apply (but still applied to the backup file). Not only ACLs but also a great number of other file management operations have to work it around.
However, usually admins seldom impose ACLs on a single file. Well-designed directory ACLs are what is expected to be used for this kind of situation.
Of course, one can change Emacs' behavior by using C-u 0 C-x C-s so that no backup is created and the modifications are written in-place (really in-place).
CLI is good from day one. Maybe in the near future we'll see a revival of the CLI. By then, instead of doing I/O redirections we'll be doing mind redirections. Instead of piping the stdout to another program's stdin we just piping our ideas to other users in the network. Hmm, in the beginning was the command line...
Since you have shell access to your account on the univ. computer, why not just set up a SOCKS proxy via SSH and tell your browser to use it?
I know how it feels like being cyberstalked. Kinda pathetic. But hey, how many of them are really slashdotters caring about the karma stuff? ;)
As a Chinese, I'm not offended by your viewpoints or position, in fact I quite understand it. However, I remain somewhat skeptic about the factuality of your post because I don't know any established Chinese law regarding the regulation of encryption technology used by individuals (IANAL of course). Can you give me a pointer to some legal material that supports your post? I believe I use encryption of one kind or another on a daily basis (SSH and HTTPS come to mind, as well as the encryption facilities built into bittorrent).