I have briefly set up the following with lots of help from the folks on #bittorrent (thanks!):
Mandrake 9.1 Bittorrent link. If you are behind a NAT or a stateful firewall then the link will not work until a few people whose machines accept incomming connections start downloading from it. Clicking the link will not automatically work but it can easily be fed to the Bittorrent command line tools.
If one game can keep a genre alive then Advance Wars proves that on the appropriate platform such games can be a killer apps. The fit is perfect -- it doesn't rely on fast reactions so if the ride is bumpy it doesn't affect the games. It can be saved mid game so if your stop turns up you don't lose progress. If you like this style of game and haven't tried it you are missing out.
I hear there's even a sequel on the way in time for Christmas.
Are you sure that you are not seeing the improved desktop interactivity from the kernel premption and low latency patches in 2.5? I suspect that they would affect desktop interactivity more than this scheduler...
Way back in December LWN covered this and I think Alan Cox voiced his thought that people (not RedHat) may try and make a business out of support 6.2. Now there's an idea...
I believe there are efforts for "native" parts of Mozilla's browser on several platforms. Windows has K-Meleon, Linux has Galeon (GNOME) and Skipstone (GTK) and MacOS X has Chimera.
The fact you could not find a forum to post your question is is not so surprising (there is a whole debtate on the "Mozilla is not for the end users" speech).
Personally over the years I've found that mozillazine is the most helpful place to go for non developers. There tend to be enough people there who are friendly to both tech and non-techs (thus you end up with a group of people who know the answers and are willing to tell you them;). I used to hang out in the #mozillazine irc channel myself when I had the time and before my University blocked irc...
Concerning the memory hog alegations under Windows I feel your pain. For whatever reason Mozilla always seems to be swapped out of memory when left idle for a few minutes which doesn't help it's responsiveness. Hopefully the phoenix (it's still beta but coming along nicely) will help to solve the memory issues.
You don't mention which version of Windows you are on but this may help:
In IE go to Tools -> Internet Options... -> Programs and make sure that "Internet Explorer should check whether it is the default browser" is unchecked.
In Mozilla go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> System and make sure that http and HTML documents are selected.
If you are using Windows 2000 (possibly with service packs) go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Set Program Access and Defaults and make sure Use my current browser is set.
I turned an old 486 with 24MB and a 500MB hard drive into a perfectly acceptable nat router/firewall/traffic shaper/dns cache for a cable modem in my previous house running OpenBSD. It ran really well and after recompiling the kernel it never used more than 14MB at most.
I am currently staying with friends who also use a 486 to share and firewall their cable modem using the Linux based IPCop. Setting up old 486s to do this is more flexible and much cheaper than buying a dedicated hardware router (although they also tend to be a bit noiser).
rsync is great when what you are downloading is a newer version of something old and is uncompressed (ISOs tend to work quite well). Unfortunately, things like a compressed kernel tarball (or an RPM) seem tend to compress differently each time leaving relatively little in common causing the speed up from rsync to be very small (if there at all).
This is not all that new. There is a UK based aggregatoin service called NewsNow that has been doing this sort of thing for years
This reminds of when I was reading Scripting News a while back and Dave Winer was saying how great it was that Google indexed news when really this type of service is nothing new...
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Yes he does (in Swansea to be a bit more precise). The nice thing about Swansea is that NTL started their cable modem trials there and thus affordable broadband has been available for about a year and a bit there. Since I went to University there and shared a house which had a cable modem I can report that it works well. Now I've moved back home and I'm waiting on the dial up modem I only wish broadband were available in Yatton:(
Funny you should mention this. One of the critcisms that was levelled at Windows (it must have been ealier versions such as 3.0) by some user interface experts was that it essentially a keyboard driven interface with mouse support bolted on. However I've seen one of my friends using just the keyboard under Windows and he is far faster than me using both the keyboard and the mouse.
It is good to see open source desktops such as GNOME 2 starting to get improved (and consistent) keyboard navigation.
You don't need to be a technical wizz to be able to do this. All you need to do is download the latest version of Mozilla and see if you can reproduce other people's bugs so that the developers know that their time won't be wasted on non-issues and ensure that real problems are looked at in a timely fashion.
When things get rough sometimes it can be difficult to reign back a UDP stream (in comparison to a TCP one) if bandwidth is being shared. UDP streams are often unresponsive and having the odd packet dropped here and there simply will not cause the rate of packets to be slowed down (there are various solutions to this though).
However as others have pointed out, which you use should depend upon the situation. If getting packets out of sequence is not so important (e.g. video streaming) then great but if reliablity is absolutely essential then TCP is probably better (plus TCP tends to still work when computers are stuck behind restrictive stateful firewalls).
I used to use an NTL cable modem and found out that they too ran an NTP server (time.cableol.net) on one of their boxes for their customers. However of the three servers I synced to it was the one that would frequently have to be dismissed because it was so out of sync itself (although it was very close).
I guess the moral is make sure you have more than one server in case one turns out to be unreliable.
There is a Diskless Nodes HOWTO which basically covers your question. It seems there are lots of Live Linux distributions out there but I have personally only tried a version of SUSE Live Linux, which worked well.
Amazingly, software facing the public often degrades with time (I'm not talking about bitrot) relative to the fall off of support it has.
Say I went with OpenBSD 2.8 for my firewall. Now that 3.1 is out patches for problems in 2.8 are no longer actively maintained. Thus in order to protect myself I must walk close to the edge but those have to upgrade the least are the ones who jumped to the bleeding edge of the stable releases since you can go two new releases without having to upgrade.
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Yup, see this BitTorrent post on the other Mandrake article.
If all else fails, try getting it via Bittorrent (see this other Bittorrent post for more details).
I have briefly set up the following with lots of help from the folks on #bittorrent (thanks!):
Mandrake 9.1 Bittorrent link. If you are behind a NAT or a stateful firewall then the link will not work until a few people whose machines accept incomming connections start downloading from it. Clicking the link will not automatically work but it can easily be fed to the Bittorrent command line tools.
If one game can keep a genre alive then Advance Wars proves that on the appropriate platform such games can be a killer apps. The fit is perfect -- it doesn't rely on fast reactions so if the ride is bumpy it doesn't affect the games. It can be saved mid game so if your stop turns up you don't lose progress. If you like this style of game and haven't tried it you are missing out.
I hear there's even a sequel on the way in time for Christmas.
By default OpenBSD sets sendmail to only listen on localhost. However that does make it a local root hole in a default install.
Are you sure that you are not seeing the improved desktop interactivity from the kernel premption and low latency patches in 2.5? I suspect that they would affect desktop interactivity more than this scheduler...
Way back in December LWN covered this and I think Alan Cox voiced his thought that people (not RedHat) may try and make a business out of support 6.2. Now there's an idea...
I believe there are efforts for "native" parts of Mozilla's browser on several platforms. Windows has K-Meleon, Linux has Galeon (GNOME) and Skipstone (GTK) and MacOS X has Chimera.
The fact you could not find a forum to post your question is is not so surprising (there is a whole debtate on the "Mozilla is not for the end users" speech).
;). I used to hang out in the #mozillazine irc channel myself when I had the time and before my University blocked irc...
Personally over the years I've found that mozillazine is the most helpful place to go for non developers. There tend to be enough people there who are friendly to both tech and non-techs (thus you end up with a group of people who know the answers and are willing to tell you them
Concerning the memory hog alegations under Windows I feel your pain. For whatever reason Mozilla always seems to be swapped out of memory when left idle for a few minutes which doesn't help it's responsiveness. Hopefully the phoenix (it's still beta but coming along nicely) will help to solve the memory issues.
You don't mention which version of Windows you are on but this may help:
In IE go to Tools -> Internet Options... -> Programs and make sure that "Internet Explorer should check whether it is the default browser" is unchecked.
In Mozilla go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> System and make sure that http and HTML documents are selected.
If you are using Windows 2000 (possibly with service packs) go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Set Program Access and Defaults and make sure Use my current browser is set.
I was watching the trailer and about three quarters of the way through it crashed with the following:
Abnormal Termination Error
How apt.
I turned an old 486 with 24MB and a 500MB hard drive into a perfectly acceptable nat router/firewall/traffic shaper/dns cache for a cable modem in my previous house running OpenBSD. It ran really well and after recompiling the kernel it never used more than 14MB at most.
I am currently staying with friends who also use a 486 to share and firewall their cable modem using the Linux based IPCop. Setting up old 486s to do this is more flexible and much cheaper than buying a dedicated hardware router (although they also tend to be a bit noiser).
I was unaware of this thanks for sharing this! Do you know if this also applies to bzip2?
rsync is great when what you are downloading is a newer version of something old and is uncompressed (ISOs tend to work quite well). Unfortunately, things like a compressed kernel tarball (or an RPM) seem tend to compress differently each time leaving relatively little in common causing the speed up from rsync to be very small (if there at all).
According to NTK, the BBC has merged its streaming media divisions so a move to OGG may no longer be on the cards.
This is not all that new. There is a UK based aggregatoin service called NewsNow that has been doing this sort of thing for years
This reminds of when I was reading Scripting News a while back and Dave Winer was saying how great it was that Google indexed news when really this type of service is nothing new...
Yes he does (in Swansea to be a bit more precise). The nice thing about Swansea is that NTL started their cable modem trials there and thus affordable broadband has been available for about a year and a bit there. Since I went to University there and shared a house which had a cable modem I can report that it works well. Now I've moved back home and I'm waiting on the dial up modem I only wish broadband were available in Yatton :(
Funny you should mention this. One of the critcisms that was levelled at Windows (it must have been ealier versions such as 3.0) by some user interface experts was that it essentially a keyboard driven interface with mouse support bolted on. However I've seen one of my friends using just the keyboard under Windows and he is far faster than me using both the keyboard and the mouse.
It is good to see open source desktops such as GNOME 2 starting to get improved (and consistent) keyboard navigation.
Linus says dump is deprecated. Although I hear that patches have been added to make it stable in the most recent 2.4.x kernels.
You don't need to be a technical wizz to be able to do this. All you need to do is download the latest version of Mozilla and see if you can reproduce other people's bugs so that the developers know that their time won't be wasted on non-issues and ensure that real problems are looked at in a timely fashion.
More information in the kill-unco FAQ.
When things get rough sometimes it can be difficult to reign back a UDP stream (in comparison to a TCP one) if bandwidth is being shared. UDP streams are often unresponsive and having the odd packet dropped here and there simply will not cause the rate of packets to be slowed down (there are various solutions to this though).
However as others have pointed out, which you use should depend upon the situation. If getting packets out of sequence is not so important (e.g. video streaming) then great but if reliablity is absolutely essential then TCP is probably better (plus TCP tends to still work when computers are stuck behind restrictive stateful firewalls).
I used to use an NTL cable modem and found out that they too ran an NTP server (time.cableol.net) on one of their boxes for their customers. However of the three servers I synced to it was the one that would frequently have to be dismissed because it was so out of sync itself (although it was very close).
I guess the moral is make sure you have more than one server in case one turns out to be unreliable.
There is a Diskless Nodes HOWTO which basically covers your question. It seems there are lots of Live Linux distributions out there but I have personally only tried a version of SUSE Live Linux, which worked well.
I had to look at C Class - Arrays, String Constants and Pointers to learn all the differences (I only got 1 out of the 4).
Amazingly, software facing the public often degrades with time (I'm not talking about bitrot) relative to the fall off of support it has.
Say I went with OpenBSD 2.8 for my firewall. Now that 3.1 is out patches for problems in 2.8 are no longer actively maintained. Thus in order to protect myself I must walk close to the edge but those have to upgrade the least are the ones who jumped to the bleeding edge of the stable releases since you can go two new releases without having to upgrade.
Sooner or later something forces you to upgrade.