Hes using almost always in the same way that you say water is almost always wet. If you cheat then you lose the right to play the game on vac protected server, you still get offline play and non-vac servers
For me thats one of the things valves adds. If your account contributes to cheating, then fuck you. Your still free to play single player games and on non-vac servers, what GP said is much more scarey (if its more than a glitch as it was for you) the idea that they can disable your entire account single-player stuff too.
Thanks, i closed the tab upon reading the phrase "pre-pre-alpha". alpha is developing code pre-alpha is proof of concept? pre-pre-alpha is an idea on a whiteboard?
From your summary it seams there is nothing of interest.
How does JFS handle crashes (on desktop hardware)? I gave XFS a shot to find out it doesn't handle crashes well at all, since then im on reiserfs but with support lacking my next install will probably be using JFS
there are several sound sub-systems/servers... why cant these people learn to play together
Because one size never fits all, if it did then why did foobar have to bypass the entire windows sounds system?
there are several GUI solutions,
So i should have to deal with a lack of GUI configurability, or gnome users should have to deal with an overly complex GUI?
there are several browsers gunning to be the main browser,
No the situation is actually quite similar to windows, there is Firefox (instead of IE) and then there are lesser used browsers which other users prefer to use (opera, konqueror/safari, epiphany/chrome, etc)
the common user want to switch the computer on, check their hotmail account, check facebook, and then talk to their friends on live messenger.
funny you should mention that because that's exactly what ive done (well i don't have hotmail i have yahoo) and i havent had any problems.
its only the very advanced users who care about these things,
why do 20% of people have firefox when IE can do all of those adequately?
How do you get online to figure out how to make the wireless card work on linux? You can't.
There are these ancient wires, some say they are myth but i have seen them with my own four-eyes, that in the ancient times...oh fuck it i cant keep this up anymore
It would be nice to have a release that has no new features and is just a tidy up of code once in a while. Something i get the impression the stable branch used to provide!
its not the checkup that bothers me its that AFAICT nothing is happening for those 10 seconds its a 1/5 of my boottime and nobdy give me any help other than switch to ext3
Because kids dont find science fun but if you can get them enthusiastic about a subject they are: 1) more likely to continue with the subject, and therefor more likely to contribute something to the subject 2) more likely to work hard.
Current exams do work as you say they should, the emphasis is on showing your working so even if you make a simple numerical error you can still get most of the marks. If you get 1a) wrong and then plug the wrong numbers into 1b) you can get all the marks for b, ofc if you get 1a) wrong and then plug the write numbers into 1b) your probably in a whole load of shit.
It is becoming typical for universities to set the bar to the level that their students are at, because if one university makes a stand and refuses to lower the bar, the students will simply flee to another school.
Is the problem not also tied to the fact that universities consider pupils cash cows? If loosing students but maintaining your educational standards was free (or even cheep) I'm sure many academics would cling on to their educational standards, but under the current system every pupil you get through your doors makes you ~3000/y, so if the universities lose pupils they lose funding and cant do research (this is also why there is a sharp rise in the number of 4 year msci courses, that are essentially just an extended 3 year course). When i was applying, one university (a redbrick with fairly high standards ABB IIRC) offered me a 2/3k bursary to join their course, a couple of years latter it turns out their physics department no longer exists due to a lack of funding.
(p.s all spelling mistakes are deliberately there to emphasis the drop in standards)
They also don't need any qualifications, so when combined with the less disruptive classes they can employ individuals who know about their field over people who are less knowledgeable but more skilled in controlling a class.
why make one behemoth of buggy code, when you can make a chain of several small clean layers to do the same thing?
Why should I worry or care about it, when a modern filesystem could do all the work for me.
The file system ISN'T doing any of these things for you, ZFS doesn't have some amazing new layout on the disk, its just packed a whole load of features into the disk access code. A lot of the "fs related" features arn't actually related to the layout of the files on the disk, so i should be able to choose the layout while retaining the features, stuff like weather i do/don't want tail packing, hosing files or storing them insecurely on a crash, etc, should not affect weather i want journaling, snapshots, the system to utilize several drives. Something fairly similar to ZFS has been around as LVM for years and doesn't dictate layout on disk.
Why would you want to move precarious management such as this away from the filesystem into whatever OS you happen to be running?
WTF? erm the filesystem access is part of the OS you happen to be running, so unless you implement fs drivers in hardware i dont see your point.
What if you're OS gets borked, it would be pretty useful to be able to just swap the phyiscal drives around and have all the settings/scripts/etc baked into the filesystem so that you never need to worry again about setting stuff up again (at all).
AGAIN WTF!!!! i cant even figure out what your trying to say, but if your OS breaks under either system you just need to run any os that can access you drive.
AFAICT the start of your post is a justification for expanding your fs until it can read your email and you finish with stuff that is completely clueless, however i don't pretend to be an expert on filesystems so apologies if i have been unduly harsh
How about creating a platform that is well documented and designed, so that drivers written for it don't change drastically from revision to revision and have brain dead restrictions!
Any examples of that working? mac os [_] linux [_] windows [_]
Granted linux drivers change more gradually because they release a new version every few months but if linux worked on the same timescale as windows/mac the changes would still be pretty drastic. perhaps minix has a stable API?
right.... your point? The fact is they need their game servers to run on linux and that is why they employ somebody to "port" the servers for windows-based game to linux.
Do you run benchmarks copying one file from home to tmp and back again? Crysis is a good place to test dx10 performance in a way people will understand, would you rather they said they could do x thousand polygon operations per second vs n thousand?
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Hes using almost always in the same way that you say water is almost always wet. If you cheat then you lose the right to play the game on vac protected server, you still get offline play and non-vac servers
For me thats one of the things valves adds. If your account contributes to cheating, then fuck you. Your still free to play single player games and on non-vac servers, what GP said is much more scarey (if its more than a glitch as it was for you) the idea that they can disable your entire account single-player stuff too.
how exactly would you detect a preinstalled rootkit?
Do you really think you can get a clean copy of Debian off the Chinese internet? The view from the average citizen's perspective remains grim.
I don't know but it cant be that hard to find out
1) get debian ssh certs
2) go to china
3) apt-get update
or
1) hack a us box
2) compare ssh certs
or
1) phone a friend in another country and get them to read the cert to you
I mean im all for paranoia and tin foilhattery but seriously your just blindly speculating
It's the transfer speed that sucks on USB, so prelinking probably wont help much ,ofc there is no harm in trying, but preloading would be more useful.
Cant he keep /bin & /usr/bin on the HDD and just have the kernel load into ram anyway?
Thanks, i closed the tab upon reading the phrase "pre-pre-alpha".
alpha is developing code
pre-alpha is proof of concept?
pre-pre-alpha is an idea on a whiteboard?
From your summary it seams there is nothing of interest.
How does JFS handle crashes (on desktop hardware)? I gave XFS a shot to find out it doesn't handle crashes well at all, since then im on reiserfs but with support lacking my next install will probably be using JFS
let me save you some time and point out that there is nothing you can put in step 4 that leads to step 5.
adverts? didnt that work for opera for ~9 versions.
Bankers don't, on the other hand, create free, zero-income banks.
Id like to see a banker code, all this work gets outsources and id bet if you have a big name in foss your name will come up sooner than others.
there are several sound sub-systems/servers... why cant these people learn to play together
Because one size never fits all, if it did then why did foobar have to bypass the entire windows sounds system?
there are several GUI solutions,
So i should have to deal with a lack of GUI configurability, or gnome users should have to deal with an overly complex GUI?
there are several browsers gunning to be the main browser,
No the situation is actually quite similar to windows, there is Firefox (instead of IE) and then there are lesser used browsers which other users prefer to use (opera, konqueror/safari, epiphany/chrome, etc)
the common user want to switch the computer on, check their hotmail account, check facebook, and then talk to their friends on live messenger.
funny you should mention that because that's exactly what ive done (well i don't have hotmail i have yahoo) and i havent had any problems.
its only the very advanced users who care about these things,
why do 20% of people have firefox when IE can do all of those adequately?
How do you get online to figure out how to make the wireless card work on linux? You can't.
There are these ancient wires, some say they are myth but i have seen them with my own four-eyes, that in the ancient times...oh fuck it i cant keep this up anymore
Just plug a computer in using cat5!!!
what useful feature is it lacking that YOU personally need?
It would be nice to have a release that has no new features and is just a tidy up of code once in a while. Something i get the impression the stable branch used to provide!
its not the checkup that bothers me its that AFAICT nothing is happening for those 10 seconds its a 1/5 of my boottime and nobdy give me any help other than switch to ext3
Because kids dont find science fun but if you can get them enthusiastic about a subject they are:
1) more likely to continue with the subject, and therefor more likely to contribute something to the subject
2) more likely to work hard.
Current exams do work as you say they should, the emphasis is on showing your working so even if you make a simple numerical error you can still get most of the marks. If you get 1a) wrong and then plug the wrong numbers into 1b) you can get all the marks for b, ofc if you get 1a) wrong and then plug the write numbers into 1b) your probably in a whole load of shit.
It is becoming typical for universities to set the bar to the level that their students are at, because if one university makes a stand and refuses to lower the bar, the students will simply flee to another school.
Is the problem not also tied to the fact that universities consider pupils cash cows? If loosing students but maintaining your educational standards was free (or even cheep) I'm sure many academics would cling on to their educational standards, but under the current system every pupil you get through your doors makes you ~3000/y, so if the universities lose pupils they lose funding and cant do research (this is also why there is a sharp rise in the number of 4 year msci courses, that are essentially just an extended 3 year course). When i was applying, one university (a redbrick with fairly high standards ABB IIRC) offered me a 2/3k bursary to join their course, a couple of years latter it turns out their physics department no longer exists due to a lack of funding.
(p.s all spelling mistakes are deliberately there to emphasis the drop in standards)
Yeah, the kids not been doing enough partying if he had time to read a journal!
They also don't need any qualifications, so when combined with the less disruptive classes they can employ individuals who know about their field over people who are less knowledgeable but more skilled in controlling a class.
I think 1 is pretty important too
Its cool we're introducing pulseaudio to a few major distributions to make any better support purely theoretical.
Why NOT put anything fs related in the fs?
why make one behemoth of buggy code, when you can make a chain of several small clean layers to do the same thing?
Why should I worry or care about it, when a modern filesystem could do all the work for me.
The file system ISN'T doing any of these things for you, ZFS doesn't have some amazing new layout on the disk, its just packed a whole load of features into the disk access code.
A lot of the "fs related" features arn't actually related to the layout of the files on the disk, so i should be able to choose the layout while retaining the features, stuff like weather i do/don't want tail packing, hosing files or storing them insecurely on a crash, etc, should not affect weather i want journaling, snapshots, the system to utilize several drives.
Something fairly similar to ZFS has been around as LVM for years and doesn't dictate layout on disk.
Why would you want to move precarious management such as this away from the filesystem into whatever OS you happen to be running?
WTF? erm the filesystem access is part of the OS you happen to be running, so unless you implement fs drivers in hardware i dont see your point.
What if you're OS gets borked, it would be pretty useful to be able to just swap the phyiscal drives around and have all the settings/scripts/etc baked into the filesystem so that you never need to worry again about setting stuff up again (at all).
AGAIN WTF!!!! i cant even figure out what your trying to say, but if your OS breaks under either system you just need to run any os that can access you drive.
AFAICT the start of your post is a justification for expanding your fs until it can read your email and you finish with stuff that is completely clueless, however i don't pretend to be an expert on filesystems so apologies if i have been unduly harsh
How about creating a platform that is well documented and designed, so that drivers written for it don't change drastically from revision to revision and have brain dead restrictions!
Any examples of that working?
mac os [_]
linux [_]
windows [_]
Granted linux drivers change more gradually because they release a new version every few months but if linux worked on the same timescale as windows/mac the changes would still be pretty drastic. perhaps minix has a stable API?
right.... your point? The fact is they need their game servers to run on linux and that is why they employ somebody to "port" the servers for windows-based game to linux.
Do you run benchmarks copying one file from home to tmp and back again?
Crysis is a good place to test dx10 performance in a way people will understand, would you rather they said they could do x thousand polygon operations per second vs n thousand?