Dunno about them, but their cows and rice fields definitely do. Frankly people bitch about Kyoto for the wrong reason. It is not the fairness of Kyoto which is the problem. The problem is that it concentrates on one pollutant which in fact is not the most dangerous greenhouse gas. It completely ignores the methane produced in agriculture and China rice fields most likely produce the greenhouse equivalent of the world oil consumption.
Now, lets see that again. If Kyoto will be accepted there will be a GLOBAL framework. Good or bad is another matter. The important part is global.
People may be bitching about China, India and Russia, but if all the factories GM, Ford, GE and so on are building there will be completed China will definitely hit its pollution limits before the end of this decade and they know it. Even so, they have signed it. I have my own hypothesis on why - to twist the hands of the same GE, GM, Ford, VW, etc to move there modern technology, not to become the scrapyard of the world. There are many things you can say about Chinese "communists" (quotes intended), but one thing you can't say is that they are stupid.
Proof that it is the US government and not Google doing it voluntarily. 'cause that is possible. It may in fact be a wise idea considering that Joseph Wissarionowich Bush now has 4 more years to deploy his chapter 58 3-person tribunals for the protection of fatherland.
1. Vinum was released working in 5.0, broken in 5.1, fixed temporarily around patch level 9 of 5.1 and broken since.
2. 5.3 has been released with broken vinum and a half working replacement called gvinum which "may cause system panic on boot". That is quoting from the errata.
3. I have a few systems with vinum around and I am extremely pissed off after recovering them from extreme filesystem corruption three times - twice in 5.1 and once in 5.2.
Does that answer your question?
Oh, and next time when you call someone an arsehole post non-anonymously (or read the fucking release errata before posting).
Real Hardware Raid?
Are you sure?
The cheapest ones around for SCSI are IBM ServeRaid which is around 400+ and for IDE 3Ware which is about the same. The price you are talking about is most likely Promise which is not a real hardware raid. It is software assisted and as such relies heavily on the OS. Considering Promise general attitude towards Linux and BSD I would rather not get into that situation. It is up chocolate creek without a popsicle stick.
Possibly awaiting until someone spindoctors an explanation for the disgusting vinum/gvinum dog's breakfast and what does not work this time - RAID1 or RAID5. See the 5.3 errata and judge for yourself as something that important should have gone into the release notes.
I love BSD, but without a software RAID on which you can rely on it is not useable for anything but small near-embedded single purpose stuff and ultra-huge systems where you can afford proper hardware RAID.
This idea was already discussed once upon a time on Slashdot. It has a few "minor" caveats - in order to move without any noise an underwater glider needs a reasonable depth differential. Practically this means that it needs a few hundred meters depth. In addition to that it has very few passive means of verifying its position under water because GPS signals do not penetrate even a thin water layer. While you can get a fairly good precision using gyros, a gyro that is suitable for installation on an underwater glider is likely to cost 20000+. So so much for the cheap and cheerful method of delivering a lethal blow inside the enemy port. Major shipping lanes in very deep straights like the Bosphorus, the horn of Africa, the exit from the Persian Gulf - maybe. But any of these targets are reachable by conventional means without causing any suspicion so what's the point?
Well... And they did it with IBM and RedHat already. Do not remember the exact names, but they got a few senior heads out of both over the last 2 years.
I have written 1 for a living - you are on a very slippery ground here. There are other ways to achieve this and no selfrespecting OSS company will even think about it.
What architecture - PIX is a glorified PC inside. There is nothing that "architectural" in it.
That is besides the fact that if it wants to sell any to "Joe Average Consumer" it will have to support some DRM. As apple does not want to license its own, the choice boils down to Microsoft and Microsoft.
The EU comission was bloody right to start investigating MSFT DRM ambitions. Unfortunately the next commissioner is almost as rabid in Bill-arse-licking as Tony Bliar so we may see this one going down the drain. Bummer...
As predicted: http://www.sinfest.net/d/20041001.html
Not amazing considering:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3973197. stm
and more specifically: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40484000/gif/_40484079_church_attendance_gra203.gif
I do not think that any further comment is necessary.
Well... It would have been also nice if they did not make it even more fussy then many "proper" high end controllers which take SCSI drives.
As someone who has suffered 3Ware on a chasis with a riser card I can tell you that you quite often need extra luck to get it going on 20-30% of the motherboards (that is for 850x-SATA).
Nicorette in the UK did something similar - disposable inhalers that looked like something out of a Russian war movie. They had a major problem though - as you did not get any smoke you tried to get more and more and ended up sucking on them like there is no tomorrow. It was well designed so you did not get a nicotine overdose, but quite often you ended up hyperventilating yourself and getting a definite O2 buzz. Not fun, especially if you are trying to work.
Basically, the smoke in a cigarette has its function. It is a limiting factor that prevents the addict from getting a nicotine overdose. So I do not think that this will succeed. Most likely it will end up in the scrapheap of cigarette replacement products along with the nicorette inhaler. And people will continue to use patches and gum because they work (speaking as an ex-smoker that managed to get off it).
That is only GW2 when there was nothing left to bomb as far as industrial capacity is concerned. I am talking about GW1 + GW2. So it is at least twice (more likely considerably more).
The "local British rag called the Lancet" is in fact one of the most read medical journals in the world. In fact out of the medical journals out there it is the one with the highest impact factor. It is a publication on par with Nature and Science (Impact factor above 10).
I would not call one of the 5 most read and quoted scientific magazines in the world a rag, but that is a purely personal opinion.
As a human rights monkey I would have salivated over Saddam's deposition, but I will not. Murdering by the most horrific means of more then 200000 people versus getting rid of one arsehole is not worth it.
Where is the number - it is a rough lower bound estimate for the number of people who have died from cancer after GW1 and will die after GW2. The number is off the top of my head based on the known statistics that after GW1 the cancer rate in Iraq shot up from world average to 10+ times the world average (data from the BBC). Initially it was blamed on depleted uranium, discussed and placed in documentaries during the Kosovo campaign around 5 years ago, and silently swept under the rug in preparation for GW2.
The fact is - it has nothing to do with Depleted Uranium. Most Iraqi factories were built in 1960-1980s and used an enormous quantity of asbestous and other carcinogenic flame retardant materials. Besides the construction materials, many of them also used compounds which are long prohibited in the developed world due to their carcinogenicity (phospor-organic chemicals, fluororganic and chlororganic stuff). All these factories were deliberately chosen to be bombed into the stone age with a complete disregard to the number of civilians that will continue to die from cancer for years on. And they continue to die both in Iraq and south-western Iran.
In btw - same is valid for Kosovo and Serbia as well as the downwind Bulgaria, Romania. People have been dying and continue to die from plevric cancer and asbestous related lung cancers without ever being in contact with asbestous.
I have to admit that this is the best explanation of his behaviour.
Do you know by any chance if it is just him or his employers as well?
He used to be payed by SCO/Caldera for a while and there was a suggestion on LKM to write an open letter to Mr Love to withdraw his funding (by Al Viro methinks).
Been done before. In fact Groklaw posted bits from the previous ruling. I had a good laugh reading it. After all, you do not see a court ruling saying that the defendant has delusions every day. It is something more often found psychiatric paper.
One thing which Groklaw missed in their analysis at the time - the ruling did not prevent him from doing similar things later on.
Well... All I can see is that they guy is silly. He created the best feet warmer for a cold student dorm and he did not get the idea of using it. All he needed was to rotate the radiator 90 degrees and tilt it so that you can use it as a foot prop. It would have also cooled better this way because the convection air flow would have gone the same way as the air in a car.
It is the flag from the old logo taken solely and transplanted. So anyone who has been around long enough to remember the old logo knows what it means. A bunch of d(a)emons sticking the banner on top of a mound of old computer kit. At the same time you can now present it to the PHB. He now no longer sees an image of satanistic computer abuse. You can now even put it on your website and say "driven by NetBSD" without being called onto the carpet.
I do not like the reasons why it is being done, but let's face it, the realm of free Unixes is no longer a realm of geeks. It is a large business now and NetBSD has its place in it.
I have about 3 TB on 3ware and 2TB on linux software RAID. Most of it RAID5. My recommendation is - stay away from 3ware unless you know what you are doing. It is a very nice controller, but it extremely fussy as far as bus noise levels are concerned. Also, it does not support PCI parity so you have no real indication of what, how and where fails. When used with riser cards we had to fit additional 33Mhz cards to drop the PCI down to 33 and retrofit a serious amount of extra grounding to get machines stable. Overall, a chassis with risers for 3ware is a no-no. You are better off with a 3U+ chassis where cards are straight on the bus. This is under any OS - just read the threads on BSD-stable.
Linux software RAID5 has a considerably better chance to work nowdays. There are very few controllers out there that have unresolved bugs. Off the top of my head here are a few:
Serverworks - any kernel version. Has seriousperformance problems with slave drives. Kernels before 2.4.23 die at random.
CMD646/9. Used to be the best controller out there, unfortunately no more. It supplies bogus information for the ACPI tables so it is no longer useable on SMP as of Linux 2.4.23 and later. IRQs do not get initialized.
Promise - I personally stay away from them as many are not supported properly.
As far as controller duty roster is concerned we should also mention Via. From being the worst controller for Linux once upon a time in 1997-9 it has become the best. I have been getting better IO performance on ITX with C3 then on Xeons with server controllers for some time now (starting from around 2.4.23).
Are you sure that it will work with a recompile? There are a few chips and boards out there that cannot be made to work. I would not expect any one of them to be _on_board_ as they were mostly made in 1995-1996 and died out as Windows 95 came out. These are pre-plug-and-pray boards that require to be initialized in MS DOS. You can sometimes use some of them if you set them in SB emulation mode using the dos utility and load linux using syslinux after that. This is not a normal supported installation mode though.
First: If your numbers are to be believed fair trade came in the late 70'es. That is simply untrue. There were quotas and protectionist tariffs in place as recent as 1990 and even later. The world trade organisation is not a 30 years old affair, it has become of any significance only after the mid-90es. And the decline you are moaning about came during the most protectionist period in American history - during Ford, Carter and His sanctity the sacred demented fool and his faithful servant.
Second: It is the protectionist regime that screwed the American economy, not the opposite. As a result of that a significant number of companies created factories on US soil which manufactured goods for the American middle class by the American middle class, but shipped the profit elsewhere. Where did the Geo and Saturn profits go? Where did the profits from the Honda, Toyota and Mitsubishi american assembly plants go? Where did Accura profits go? Sony, Toshiba, VW, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, ad naseum. We are talking 20+ years here. Ever thought of why Japanese economy is suffering from a 10 year slump?
Third: If the fair trade is doing anything it is fixing it. It forces economies to be competitive. Why do you think Germany is doing worst from the entire EU? It is doing so because they have a similar middle class for middle class policy. Some of its teeth have been taken out by the free trade agreements, but most of it is still there. As a result business goes elsewhere.
Agree wholeheartedly. Where are my mod points when I need them:-)
Anyway, it is quite funny that some of the most high-tech bits was done by Bulgarians. Hopefully it will help the next time I have to explain an American that they have no fscking idea whatsoever how technologically advanced the criminals are in some East European countries (Bulgaria being the prime example).
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Dunno about them, but their cows and rice fields definitely do. Frankly people bitch about Kyoto for the wrong reason. It is not the fairness of Kyoto which is the problem. The problem is that it concentrates on one pollutant which in fact is not the most dangerous greenhouse gas. It completely ignores the methane produced in agriculture and China rice fields most likely produce the greenhouse equivalent of the world oil consumption.
Now, lets see that again. If Kyoto will be accepted there will be a GLOBAL framework. Good or bad is another matter. The important part is global.
People may be bitching about China, India and Russia, but if all the factories GM, Ford, GE and so on are building there will be completed China will definitely hit its pollution limits before the end of this decade and they know it. Even so, they have signed it. I have my own hypothesis on why - to twist the hands of the same GE, GM, Ford, VW, etc to move there modern technology, not to become the scrapyard of the world. There are many things you can say about Chinese "communists" (quotes intended), but one thing you can't say is that they are stupid.
Proof that it is the US government and not Google doing it voluntarily. 'cause that is possible. It may in fact be a wise idea considering that Joseph Wissarionowich Bush now has 4 more years to deploy his chapter 58 3-person tribunals for the protection of fatherland.
Post next time not as an AC.
1. Vinum was released working in 5.0, broken in 5.1, fixed temporarily around patch level 9 of 5.1 and broken since.
2. 5.3 has been released with broken vinum and a half working replacement called gvinum which "may cause system panic on boot". That is quoting from the errata.
3. I have a few systems with vinum around and I am extremely pissed off after recovering them from extreme filesystem corruption three times - twice in 5.1 and once in 5.2.
Does that answer your question?
Oh, and next time when you call someone an arsehole post non-anonymously (or read the fucking release errata before posting).
Real Hardware Raid? Are you sure? The cheapest ones around for SCSI are IBM ServeRaid which is around 400+ and for IDE 3Ware which is about the same. The price you are talking about is most likely Promise which is not a real hardware raid. It is software assisted and as such relies heavily on the OS. Considering Promise general attitude towards Linux and BSD I would rather not get into that situation. It is up chocolate creek without a popsicle stick.
Possibly awaiting until someone spindoctors an explanation for the disgusting vinum/gvinum dog's breakfast and what does not work this time - RAID1 or RAID5. See the 5.3 errata and judge for yourself as something that important should have gone into the release notes.
I love BSD, but without a software RAID on which you can rely on it is not useable for anything but small near-embedded single purpose stuff and ultra-huge systems where you can afford proper hardware RAID.
This idea was already discussed once upon a time on Slashdot. It has a few "minor" caveats - in order to move without any noise an underwater glider needs a reasonable depth differential. Practically this means that it needs a few hundred meters depth. In addition to that it has very few passive means of verifying its position under water because GPS signals do not penetrate even a thin water layer. While you can get a fairly good precision using gyros, a gyro that is suitable for installation on an underwater glider is likely to cost 20000+. So so much for the cheap and cheerful method of delivering a lethal blow inside the enemy port. Major shipping lanes in very deep straights like the Bosphorus, the horn of Africa, the exit from the Persian Gulf - maybe. But any of these targets are reachable by conventional means without causing any suspicion so what's the point?
Well... And they did it with IBM and RedHat already. Do not remember the exact names, but they got a few senior heads out of both over the last 2 years.
I have written 1 for a living - you are on a very slippery ground here. There are other ways to achieve this and no selfrespecting OSS company will even think about it.
What architecture - PIX is a glorified PC inside. There is nothing that "architectural" in it.
That is besides the fact that if it wants to sell any to "Joe Average Consumer" it will have to support some DRM. As apple does not want to license its own, the choice boils down to Microsoft and Microsoft.
The EU comission was bloody right to start investigating MSFT DRM ambitions. Unfortunately the next commissioner is almost as rabid in Bill-arse-licking as Tony Bliar so we may see this one going down the drain. Bummer...
As predicted: http://www.sinfest.net/d/20041001.html Not amazing considering: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3973197. stm
and more specifically: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40484000/gif /_40484079_church_attendance_gra203.gif
I do not think that any further comment is necessary.
Well... It would have been also nice if they did not make it even more fussy then many "proper" high end controllers which take SCSI drives.
As someone who has suffered 3Ware on a chasis with a riser card I can tell you that you quite often need extra luck to get it going on 20-30% of the motherboards (that is for 850x-SATA).
Nicorette in the UK did something similar - disposable inhalers that looked like something out of a Russian war movie. They had a major problem though - as you did not get any smoke you tried to get more and more and ended up sucking on them like there is no tomorrow. It was well designed so you did not get a nicotine overdose, but quite often you ended up hyperventilating yourself and getting a definite O2 buzz. Not fun, especially if you are trying to work.
Basically, the smoke in a cigarette has its function. It is a limiting factor that prevents the addict from getting a nicotine overdose. So I do not think that this will succeed. Most likely it will end up in the scrapheap of cigarette replacement products along with the nicorette inhaler. And people will continue to use patches and gum because they work (speaking as an ex-smoker that managed to get off it).
That is only GW2 when there was nothing left to bomb as far as industrial capacity is concerned. I am talking about GW1 + GW2. So it is at least twice (more likely considerably more).
The "local British rag called the Lancet" is in fact one of the most read medical journals in the world. In fact out of the medical journals out there it is the one with the highest impact factor. It is a publication on par with Nature and Science (Impact factor above 10).
I would not call one of the 5 most read and quoted scientific magazines in the world a rag, but that is a purely personal opinion.
Where is the number - it is a rough lower bound estimate for the number of people who have died from cancer after GW1 and will die after GW2. The number is off the top of my head based on the known statistics that after GW1 the cancer rate in Iraq shot up from world average to 10+ times the world average (data from the BBC). Initially it was blamed on depleted uranium, discussed and placed in documentaries during the Kosovo campaign around 5 years ago, and silently swept under the rug in preparation for GW2.
The fact is - it has nothing to do with Depleted Uranium. Most Iraqi factories were built in 1960-1980s and used an enormous quantity of asbestous and other carcinogenic flame retardant materials. Besides the construction materials, many of them also used compounds which are long prohibited in the developed world due to their carcinogenicity (phospor-organic chemicals, fluororganic and chlororganic stuff). All these factories were deliberately chosen to be bombed into the stone age with a complete disregard to the number of civilians that will continue to die from cancer for years on. And they continue to die both in Iraq and south-western Iran.
In btw - same is valid for Kosovo and Serbia as well as the downwind Bulgaria, Romania. People have been dying and continue to die from plevric cancer and asbestous related lung cancers without ever being in contact with asbestous.
I have to admit that this is the best explanation of his behaviour.
Do you know by any chance if it is just him or his employers as well?
He used to be payed by SCO/Caldera for a while and there was a suggestion on LKM to write an open letter to Mr Love to withdraw his funding (by Al Viro methinks).
Been done before. In fact Groklaw posted bits from the previous ruling. I had a good laugh reading it. After all, you do not see a court ruling saying that the defendant has delusions every day. It is something more often found psychiatric paper.
One thing which Groklaw missed in their analysis at the time - the ruling did not prevent him from doing similar things later on.
Quite likely. Look at his previous pearls of wisdom in the LKM archive.
Well... All I can see is that they guy is silly. He created the best feet warmer for a cold student dorm and he did not get the idea of using it. All he needed was to rotate the radiator 90 degrees and tilt it so that you can use it as a foot prop. It would have also cooled better this way because the convection air flow would have gone the same way as the air in a car.
Objection your honour.
It is the flag from the old logo taken solely and transplanted. So anyone who has been around long enough to remember the old logo knows what it means. A bunch of d(a)emons sticking the banner on top of a mound of old computer kit. At the same time you can now present it to the PHB. He now no longer sees an image of satanistic computer abuse. You can now even put it on your website and say "driven by NetBSD" without being called onto the carpet.
I do not like the reasons why it is being done, but let's face it, the realm of free Unixes is no longer a realm of geeks. It is a large business now and NetBSD has its place in it.
Linux software RAID5 has a considerably better chance to work nowdays. There are very few controllers out there that have unresolved bugs. Off the top of my head here are a few:
As far as controller duty roster is concerned we should also mention Via. From being the worst controller for Linux once upon a time in 1997-9 it has become the best. I have been getting better IO performance on ITX with C3 then on Xeons with server controllers for some time now (starting from around 2.4.23).
Are you sure that it will work with a recompile? There are a few chips and boards out there that cannot be made to work. I would not expect any one of them to be _on_board_ as they were mostly made in 1995-1996 and died out as Windows 95 came out. These are pre-plug-and-pray boards that require to be initialized in MS DOS. You can sometimes use some of them if you set them in SB emulation mode using the dos utility and load linux using syslinux after that. This is not a normal supported installation mode though.
Complete and utter bulshit.
First: If your numbers are to be believed fair trade came in the late 70'es. That is simply untrue. There were quotas and protectionist tariffs in place as recent as 1990 and even later. The world trade organisation is not a 30 years old affair, it has become of any significance only after the mid-90es. And the decline you are moaning about came during the most protectionist period in American history - during Ford, Carter and His sanctity the sacred demented fool and his faithful servant.
Second: It is the protectionist regime that screwed the American economy, not the opposite. As a result of that a significant number of companies created factories on US soil which manufactured goods for the American middle class by the American middle class, but shipped the profit elsewhere. Where did the Geo and Saturn profits go? Where did the profits from the Honda, Toyota and Mitsubishi american assembly plants go? Where did Accura profits go? Sony, Toshiba, VW, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, ad naseum. We are talking 20+ years here. Ever thought of why Japanese economy is suffering from a 10 year slump?
Third: If the fair trade is doing anything it is fixing it. It forces economies to be competitive. Why do you think Germany is doing worst from the entire EU? It is doing so because they have a similar middle class for middle class policy. Some of its teeth have been taken out by the free trade agreements, but most of it is still there. As a result business goes elsewhere.
Well... They will most likely arrest cowboy Neal for screwing up a government covert op instead.
Agree wholeheartedly. Where are my mod points when I need them :-)
Anyway, it is quite funny that some of the most high-tech bits was done by Bulgarians. Hopefully it will help the next time I have to explain an American that they have no fscking idea whatsoever how technologically advanced the criminals are in some East European countries (Bulgaria being the prime example).