You should look into rdiff-backup instead of rsync for your nightly backup to the offsite location. rdiff-backup keeps a set of compressed reverse-diffs in each directory that is backed up so that you can restore a file that's lost.
The more realistic result of conversion to CFLs is "Hey honey, our electric bill is a lot lower! Look at that!" "Great, dear! Now we don't have to worry about turning up the heat in winter!"
There is no tungsten in a "TIG" rod. TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) welding or more properly known as Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), refers to the tungsten tip in the welding torch. The rod itself will be of a filler metal dependant on the base metals you are joining.
That's a good idea; I never thought about a deionized water enclosure. I work at a power plant, and our main generator stator bars are cooled with deionized water (rotor is cooled with hydrogen). Pretty sure a mainboard wouldn't short out if we can contain 25kV and ~20kA.
not necessarily. if you read all the threads on that article, you see that the poster didn't go to too much effort before making that declaration. he couldn't saturate a 10MB/s locally, so he obviusly has some things configured wrong. instead of trying to tweak some settings, he blamed it on linux. freebsd out of the box must work great for his setup while debian didn't. i have debian on two boxes here and see nothing of the like; my transfer rates are fine.
i would certainly like to give hurd a try on a spare machine around here; it sounds neat on paper. i think the hurd developers should make some sort of a release, though. i do understand that when they make an "official" release they want it to be good and not turn people away. but, to an extent, i think this mindset has hurt hurd's progress. didn't he say there were only like 5 core developers? i bet if they made a couple development or alpha releases, they would get some more developers on board. i realize people could get the code from cvs now, but an announced release would get posts on freshmeat or slashdot even which would generate some publicity. the last official release was back in 1997. i bet there are many who don't even know that hurd exists.
just got done patching 2.4.14 to include xfs support and converted partitions (all expect/boot and swap obviously) to xfs. so far so good. i am glad to see ext3 making it into the vanilla tree. i don't plan on using it, but more choices are good. one of my other boxes is using reiser with no troubles either. i don't expect to see xfs merge into the 2.4 tree. hopefully, it will make it into 2.5 and subsequently 2.6. it was proven stable on irix and i hope it turns out the same way on linux. anyone using ibm's JFS? i seem to always hear people converting to xfs, reiser, and ext3, but not too many mentions of JFS.
i just got verizon dsl today. i just dchp'd myself an ip with my linux router. i didn't have to register with any software, although i have heard of others having to do this. is that just to get your email account active or something? like i care about that. so far, it works great. a million times better than the mediacom (formally at&t broadband) cable line that i had. that is the worst service anyone could imagine. they couldn't have made it worse if they tried. the cheap rca modem they gave me would lose sync 5-10 times a day easy. anyone have any idea how long i will keep this ip they dhcp'd me? will it stay static till i reboot? the *only* good thing about mediacom was that my ip was esentially static. now i may have to get one of those clients to update dyndns (i have the mydyndns service with my own domain name)
i've wondered this myself. not that i have anything against gnome, it's a great project, but i prefer kde. i've read a few posts from people claiming it's easier to get kde to compile on solaris anyway. i can't verify this as the bank would frown on me trying to purchase a sun box to try it out (also don't want to bother with i386 solaris). i use hp/ux workstations at school and they have cde as the deskstop. what can i say about it other than it's terrible. not trying to be a troll, at least i can say i use it.
i completely agree with you on your view of potato. some packages, like the entire gnome distro, are outdated. you could change you sources, and pull down gnome from woody or sid. not that i would recommend that, of course. undoubtedly, they would require some new version of glibc, etc. i run sid on my daily workstation (not my server or firewall) and love it. it's not as broken as one might think. there are days when some packages won't update due to a dependency not being uploaded yet, but it always seems to sort itself out in a day or two. debianplanet does a good job of letting people know about the packages that are really broken (X was the other day). i switched to sid from redhat, and there's no turning back for me.
gateway and dell? ever looked at what parts make up a gateway or a dell? they throw in the shittiest parts from the lowest bidders, but with intel's latest and greatest since mhz is all that matters anyway, right? this is why i build all of my computers from scratch with quality mainboards, cards, and drives (certainly not wd)
I bought a 30 gig 75GXP in early April; haven't had a bit of trouble with it yet. And believe me, it has done a shitload of reading and writing. The performance from it is great; damn near rivals SCSI. That's why I bought it in the first place. I was very surprised to hear about all the troubles people are having. Don't tell me a WD is more reliable than IBM now. Still have to say Quantum is it in reliability. Have three 8 gig fireballs in RAID 5 in another box that holds all my data and mp3s (only about 1000). Had them for almost 3 years and not one hiccup. So, I could care less if this IBM crashes and burns. Might be kind of humerous from what's been said...
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thanks for the tip. those were the nasty little packages:) installed those manually, and now apt has only 51 more to go as i write. i guess this is to be expected being from "unstable":) thanks a lot ivan! keep up the great work; it is much appreciated.
i feel sorry for redhat users. i read a lot of posts about the dependency hell they went through on the upgrade to kde 2.2.
same here. on 24.x.x.x and my cable modem is going crazy. a tcpdump on my debian router shows a ton of arp who-has flying by. surprisingly enough, my once unreliable (in all probability still) @home service is still working
haven't you heard of the separation of church and state? the first amendment just gives you the freedom to choose to follow whichever religion you choose.
they already made money off of IE users when they bought winblows. and they made a lot more than netscape will by someone visiting their site. netscape has to make money somehow. if you don't like it, use mozilla.
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You should look into rdiff-backup instead of rsync for your nightly backup to the offsite location. rdiff-backup keeps a set of compressed reverse-diffs in each directory that is backed up so that you can restore a file that's lost.
A great example of Jevon's Paradox.
There is no tungsten in a "TIG" rod. TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) welding or more properly known as Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), refers to the tungsten tip in the welding torch. The rod itself will be of a filler metal dependant on the base metals you are joining.
That's a good idea; I never thought about a deionized water enclosure. I work at a power plant, and our main generator stator bars are cooled with deionized water (rotor is cooled with hydrogen). Pretty sure a mainboard wouldn't short out if we can contain 25kV and ~20kA.
not necessarily. if you read all the threads on that article, you see that the poster didn't go to too much effort before making that declaration. he couldn't saturate a 10MB/s locally, so he obviusly has some things configured wrong. instead of trying to tweak some settings, he blamed it on linux. freebsd out of the box must work great for his setup while debian didn't. i have debian on two boxes here and see nothing of the like; my transfer rates are fine.
i would certainly like to give hurd a try on a spare machine around here; it sounds neat on paper. i think the hurd developers should make some sort of a release, though. i do understand that when they make an "official" release they want it to be good and not turn people away. but, to an extent, i think this mindset has hurt hurd's progress. didn't he say there were only like 5 core developers? i bet if they made a couple development or alpha releases, they would get some more developers on board. i realize people could get the code from cvs now, but an announced release would get posts on freshmeat or slashdot even which would generate some publicity. the last official release was back in 1997. i bet there are many who don't even know that hurd exists.
just got done patching 2.4.14 to include xfs support and converted partitions (all expect /boot and swap obviously) to xfs. so far so good. i am glad to see ext3 making it into the vanilla tree. i don't plan on using it, but more choices are good. one of my other boxes is using reiser with no troubles either. i don't expect to see xfs merge into the 2.4 tree. hopefully, it will make it into 2.5 and subsequently 2.6. it was proven stable on irix and i hope it turns out the same way on linux. anyone using ibm's JFS? i seem to always hear people converting to xfs, reiser, and ext3, but not too many mentions of JFS.
i just got verizon dsl today. i just dchp'd myself an ip with my linux router. i didn't have to register with any software, although i have heard of others having to do this. is that just to get your email account active or something? like i care about that. so far, it works great. a million times better than the mediacom (formally at&t broadband) cable line that i had. that is the worst service anyone could imagine. they couldn't have made it worse if they tried. the cheap rca modem they gave me would lose sync 5-10 times a day easy. anyone have any idea how long i will keep this ip they dhcp'd me? will it stay static till i reboot? the *only* good thing about mediacom was that my ip was esentially static. now i may have to get one of those clients to update dyndns (i have the mydyndns service with my own domain name)
one thing i noticed from using hp/ux is how much better the GNU versions of certian utilities like tar, du, df, ls, etc are.
i've wondered this myself. not that i have anything against gnome, it's a great project, but i prefer kde. i've read a few posts from people claiming it's easier to get kde to compile on solaris anyway. i can't verify this as the bank would frown on me trying to purchase a sun box to try it out (also don't want to bother with i386 solaris). i use hp/ux workstations at school and they have cde as the deskstop. what can i say about it other than it's terrible. not trying to be a troll, at least i can say i use it.
i completely agree with you on your view of potato. some packages, like the entire gnome distro, are outdated. you could change you sources, and pull down gnome from woody or sid. not that i would recommend that, of course. undoubtedly, they would require some new version of glibc, etc. i run sid on my daily workstation (not my server or firewall) and love it. it's not as broken as one might think. there are days when some packages won't update due to a dependency not being uploaded yet, but it always seems to sort itself out in a day or two. debianplanet does a good job of letting people know about the packages that are really broken (X was the other day). i switched to sid from redhat, and there's no turning back for me.
gateway and dell? ever looked at what parts make up a gateway or a dell? they throw in the shittiest parts from the lowest bidders, but with intel's latest and greatest since mhz is all that matters anyway, right? this is why i build all of my computers from scratch with quality mainboards, cards, and drives (certainly not wd)
I bought a 30 gig 75GXP in early April; haven't had a bit of trouble with it yet. And believe me, it has done a shitload of reading and writing. The performance from it is great; damn near rivals SCSI. That's why I bought it in the first place. I was very surprised to hear about all the troubles people are having. Don't tell me a WD is more reliable than IBM now. Still have to say Quantum is it in reliability. Have three 8 gig fireballs in RAID 5 in another box that holds all my data and mp3s (only about 1000). Had them for almost 3 years and not one hiccup. So, I could care less if this IBM crashes and burns. Might be kind of humerous from what's been said...
thanks for the tip. those were the nasty little packages:) installed those manually, and now apt has only 51 more to go as i write. i guess this is to be expected being from "unstable" :) thanks a lot ivan! keep up the great work; it is much appreciated.
i feel sorry for redhat users. i read a lot of posts about the dependency hell they went through on the upgrade to kde 2.2.
same here. on 24.x.x.x and my cable modem is going crazy. a tcpdump on my debian router shows a ton of arp who-has flying by. surprisingly enough, my once unreliable (in all probability still) @home service is still working
haven't you heard of the separation of church and state? the first amendment just gives you the freedom to choose to follow whichever religion you choose.
they already made money off of IE users when they bought winblows. and they made a lot more than netscape will by someone visiting their site. netscape has to make money somehow. if you don't like it, use mozilla.