I used Linux 2.4.x with SMP machines under heavy loads and never experienced problems. And added drivers do not count as "bloat", but as hardware support.
The size of the kernel itself has hardly changed. The complexity (NUMA, no big SMP locks, etc.) although has gone up quite a bit. Bugs in drivers do not reflect the code-quality of the kernel itself.
As to 2.6 development strategy: I can't really say anything. There seem to be no bugs that have an effect on my hardware configuration. Perhaps someday.
Au contraire, mon capitan! I know perfectly well how I have to set up my box so nobody can get in. And I don't mean this stupid not-worth-a-cent personal-"firewalls". Against local exploits run as unpriviledged user, for remote exploits disable all unused services which open ports. If you use at least one of them in an untrusted network -> upgrade or better check first if you are vulnerable after all.
If not? Well, I don't need a deliberately broken OS. Who knows what monstrousitys MS hid in that "pack".
In fact, I still use W2K. Screw XP, it's exactly the same as W2K except the version number so programs can choose not to work!
Why not? The player stores the keys in FLASH or something. If a hacked key appears on the net, the content-providers put the revoke-key for it on the next edition of "Digitally Improved Superman XIV" and thats it.
Got that info from a post above. See for yourself.
David Brin pictured in "Earth" a society of total surveillance. Everyone (from nerd to granny) has glasses which record every second of their lives (with todays available storage no problem). This is actually exactly what this article is about. The right to watch if being watched. I would have no problem with this but it would time to get accustomed to this.
Kafkaesque is not about turning into bugs. Not only does Gregor in The Metamorphosis not turn into a bug, but a "monstrous vermin", I found the text to be quite the opposite of what it is perceived as. It is not a nightmarish vision, but a view on how people perceive someones circumstances more sad than they themselves. It is quite a happy reading with a sad but hopeful end.
The verb kafkaesque is used as a description of a certain situation which resembles his writing-style. While I have not read much of Kafka (except The Metamorphosis) my impression is that kafkaesque is used in opressing (imminent danger) or surreal (bizarre or dreamlike) situations.
However, if you explain the legality of bundeling software with hardware they suddenly listen and happily sell you a blank system and give you a windows refund.
Many current drives use fluid berings and are actually much quieter than older 5400rpm drives, at least in terms of whine. If seek noise bothers you you should look at Seagate, some (maybe all) of their Baracuda(sp) drives have a layer of sound absobant material that quiets the seeks as well.
If you tell me they fail less than Maxtor drives, I'll consider buying one.
The last Seagate I bought was a SCSI drive from 1995 (which was a huge, airplane loud 5 1/4 inches double height model). I abandonned them then, because of now forgotten reasons. I never gave Seagate a second thought since then.
The 120 gig Seagate Baracuda in my MythTV machine is quiet as... a very quiet thing... on national quiet day.
How hot do they get? As of now I am only using 5400RPM ATA Samsung drives and they are cool (30is degrees C) and quiet (neither spin nor access noise).
(Shouldn't be long - maxtors don't seem to take long to fail spectacularly in my experience).
This I can confirm. I lost two of them already. And they are really noisy.
From a purely pragmatic perspective: I prefer a nice (nearly) pollution free city full of air/electro/whatever cars to many hundreds of stinking cars driving by my house every few hours.
So it's not totally green. Agreed. But it's a start in the right direction.
In my opinion midsized communal heating power stations are a good step forward to make that happen. They burn the fuel more efficiently and use the excess heat too. They come in ranges from 20 to 300 kW and cover most types of smaller to midsized buildings. They can even be used as a central power/heat station for a small residental area.
So, the pollution gets relocated BUT at the same time the system gets more efficient.
Could have nice side benefits (just like all density increases). The platters will have to rotate at a lower radial velocity to achieve the same transfer rate.
Why is this important to me? I can't stand those 7200RPM disks on the desktop. Too noisy. Tried to buy a 5400RPM SATA disk recently and figured, there aren't any on the market! This sucks.
What kind of energy could one get out of a black hole? Rotational Energy? I doubt gravitational energy because this would imply a matter decrease thus not possible.
I thing one could only get more energy from the black hole than matter injected, if the rotational energy of the black hole is not zero.
But the ammount of energy that mc^2 implies is imo more than enough to make this trick economical. Weird.
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Ok. So this page lies. Have no problem with that. Didn't know.
Please point out where exactly.
Microsoft! Please fix your HTTP implementation. The current one is really gruesome!
I used Linux 2.4.x with SMP machines under heavy loads and never experienced problems. And added drivers do not count as "bloat", but as hardware support.
The size of the kernel itself has hardly changed. The complexity (NUMA, no big SMP locks, etc.) although has gone up quite a bit. Bugs in drivers do not reflect the code-quality of the kernel itself.
As to 2.6 development strategy: I can't really say anything. There seem to be no bugs that have an effect on my hardware configuration. Perhaps someday.
No problem, as every player only has to hold its own keys. No need to hold keys for other players.
Sooner or later your box is going to get "pwned".
Au contraire, mon capitan! I know perfectly well how I have to set up my box so nobody can get in. And I don't mean this stupid not-worth-a-cent personal-"firewalls". Against local exploits run as unpriviledged user, for remote exploits disable all unused services which open ports. If you use at least one of them in an untrusted network -> upgrade or better check first if you are vulnerable after all.
If not? Well, I don't need a deliberately broken OS. Who knows what monstrousitys MS hid in that "pack".
In fact, I still use W2K. Screw XP, it's exactly the same as W2K except the version number so programs can choose not to work!
Why not? The player stores the keys in FLASH or something. If a hacked key appears on the net, the content-providers put the revoke-key for it on the next edition of "Digitally Improved Superman XIV" and thats it.
Got that info from a post above. See for yourself.
Doh. Thanks. :)
David Brin pictured in "Earth" a society of total surveillance. Everyone (from nerd to granny) has glasses which record every second of their lives (with todays available storage no problem). This is actually exactly what this article is about. The right to watch if being watched. I would have no problem with this but it would time to get accustomed to this.
Kafkaesque is not about turning into bugs. Not only does Gregor in The Metamorphosis not turn into a bug,
but a "monstrous vermin", I found the text to be quite the opposite of what it is perceived as. It is not a nightmarish vision,
but a view on how people perceive someones circumstances more sad than they themselves. It is quite a happy reading with a
sad but hopeful end.
The verb kafkaesque is used as a description of a certain situation which resembles his writing-style. While I have not read much
of Kafka (except The Metamorphosis) my impression is that kafkaesque is used in opressing (imminent danger) or surreal (bizarre
or dreamlike) situations.
So, it's actually used right in this TFA.
Nice one. :)
How to disable Firewire filesystems then? Does a key for that exist as well? I don't have Windows here, so I can't check.
Sad. This should work everytime without having to ask specifically for it! Everybody should have learned this much math in school.
However, if you explain the legality of bundeling software with hardware they suddenly listen and happily sell you a blank system and give you a windows refund.
Please elaborate. What do you mean by legality.
Better use /dev/zero or /dev/urandom as /dev/random may not provide characters fast enough to be of any use (heating).
Fair enough. :) I am just weary because I lost 2 Maxtor drives in 2 weeks. Quite a shock. ;)
Many current drives use fluid berings and are actually much quieter than older 5400rpm drives, at least in terms of whine. If seek noise bothers you you should look at Seagate, some (maybe all) of their Baracuda(sp) drives have a layer of sound absobant material that quiets the seeks as well.
If you tell me they fail less than Maxtor drives, I'll consider buying one.
The last Seagate I bought was a SCSI drive from 1995 (which was a huge, airplane loud 5 1/4 inches double height model). I abandonned them then, because of now forgotten reasons. I never gave Seagate a second thought since then.
The 120 gig Seagate Baracuda in my MythTV machine is quiet as... a very quiet thing... on national quiet day.
How hot do they get? As of now I am only using 5400RPM ATA Samsung drives and they are cool (30is degrees C) and quiet (neither spin nor access noise).
(Shouldn't be long - maxtors don't seem to take long to fail spectacularly in my experience).
This I can confirm. I lost two of them already. And they are really noisy.
From a purely pragmatic perspective: I prefer a nice (nearly) pollution free city full of air/electro/whatever cars to many hundreds of stinking cars driving by my house every few hours.
So it's not totally green. Agreed. But it's a start in the right direction.
In my opinion midsized communal heating power stations are a good step forward to make that happen. They burn the fuel more efficiently and use the excess heat too. They come in ranges from 20 to 300 kW and cover most types of smaller to midsized buildings. They can even be used as a central power/heat station for a small residental area.
So, the pollution gets relocated BUT at the same time the system gets more efficient.
Take two.
Could have nice side benefits (just like all density increases). The platters will have to rotate at a lower radial velocity to achieve the same transfer rate.
Why is this important to me? I can't stand those 7200RPM disks on the desktop. Too noisy. Tried to buy a 5400RPM SATA disk recently and figured, there aren't any on the market! This sucks.
Q: My program wont run!
A: Reconfigure your editor!
$ man mplayer /dumpstream
.asx File, look inside. This is your URL. Have fun.
Download the
1. rtfa
2. no april fools joke. employees of the magazine demented it in their own forum.
cross-domain prefetching is evil.
[ ] You understand what the "scientific method" is.
[X] You are easily offended.
What kind of energy could one get out of a black hole? Rotational Energy? I doubt gravitational energy because this would imply a matter decrease thus not possible.
I thing one could only get more energy from the black hole than matter injected, if the rotational energy of the black hole is not zero.
But the ammount of energy that mc^2 implies is imo more than enough to make this trick economical. Weird.