I store such information in a MySQL db. No reason to try to cram it into the filesystem. It's much easier to modify the system this way since you don't have to worry about screwing up your kernel. I can easily search hundreds of gigs of space containing millions of unique files based on all sorts of specs.
Ext2/3 are slow and waste space. They are bad with both small and large files (I have many of each). They're not quite as lame as a FAT filesystem but they still pretty much suck. I don't especially like this rlational db filesystem idea either. It's been tried before and it sucked and I don't see Microsoft doing it any better. The only benefit to ext2/3 or FAT filesystems that I can see is that they are well documented.
Why doesn't Microsoft adopt an open standard like ReiserFS, JFS, or XFS? I can't see how they get much leverage by controlling the filesystem format in this day since people can always move files to a compatible filesystem as easy as creating an iso or better yet just squirting the files over the network. It might inconvience the Linux folks for a while but I'm sure it won't be long before there is support for this FS for Linux (like FAT, VFAT, and NTFS). If you gain no benefit through doing something your own way then why reinvent the wheel?
Why? Is that easier than 'locate.mp3' or even 'find . -type f -iname "*.mp3"'? I've got nothing against indexing or storing extra information about files (I do it all the time).. but I don't think it's a good idea to build into the kernel.
Why would you want that IN the filesystem? It'd be an okay add-on but I see no reason it needs to add such code to the kernel. If you really wanted such a thing in Linux you could pretty easily create a virtual filesystem to represent the files you already have on your real filesystem with the extra data related to the files. I've used BeOS and this was always one of those features I marked as lame. (Unlike journaling which BeOS was very smart for having).
No sign up form yet unless you happen to either be willing to fund or have experience with either structural engineering, recycling technology, alternative power, hydro/aquaponics, or some similar skills. Funding would actually be the most useful aspect. We're looking into building from materials freely available that can be processed into things we need (or later recycled) but it'd be much easier if we had bootstrap capital.
Our project is moduler unlike Freedom Ship. It's a floating city made of what is in effect giant boat/city legos. It'd be much harder to sink than Freedom Ship for the same reason that it's hard to sink bubble wrap.
You can have a not-a-religion religiion. Something that is inclusive and can be added on to whatever other beliefes the individual members have. A belief in the power of men and machines to create instead of destroying and grabbing the wealth.
Besides my plan involves specially designed floating or submerged cities that can exist outside any national borders. I have a fixation on Captain Nemo.:)
I'd like to see the beuracrats go to war with the geeks on their own turf. An organized front of scientists, engineers, and craftsmen is a powerful force. We make the world. If we fought back then the rich and powerful would not be rich and powerful for long.
You've obviously not been annoying enough. If you are they'll leave the wrapper on. Anything to put the damn thing in their computer and get on with the day.:)
Possibly incorrect but doesn't Phillips own the trademark to both CD and DVD? If they didn't like altered discs for CD's will they respond differently to altered DVD's?
My general policy when a store won't take something back that was broken when I got it (cd's, dvd's, etc) is to just refuse to get out of line until they've given my money back. They don't want it on the 10 o'clock news that a customer was forcifully removed from their store when they complained of recieving faulty merchandise and they can't spend all day arguing over $20 as obviously they quickly are going into the negative on the profit made from the transaction.
Usually companies mark the product you brought back as defective.. then have you switch for an identical product that is still in it's wrapper.. which you immediately hand over and they mark as a return.. which they then give you your money for. Has happened that way many times for me.:)
I've never noticed any such thing but I will say that it's a DVD that plays really badly if your DVD is dirty. I'd guess they encoded the movie such that it keeps a lot of detail in because it really gives the DVD player a workout. Of course I jut ripped my copy and play it off the hdd.. avoid having to change discs in the middle.
Join a group that is leaving this society. If you do it together the transition is easier and you give up fewer things. With a large enough, well trained enough, group you can provide yourselves everything you need. I actually have spent a good deal of time looking at the Amish and similar groups. Nix the religion and add in some high technology and they'd have a pretty damn good idea. That is what I'm working towards.
I've been paying between $1.50 and $6 for most my legit DVD's of real movies. Even my anime costs aren't much more than that. Is really not that unaffordable at all. Most movies I rip illegal copies of are really expensive or hard to find (so I rent and rip instead).
I already have all my CD's and DVD's ripped to my hdd and yes it's very convient. Discs are forever being lost or broken. This way they can sit somewhere safe while I get the use of the them anyway.
There is absolutely no way they can make DRM that works. If there is a way to play the contents of a disc then there is a way to copy that contents. No trick will make that impossible. Even if they just make it hard there will eventually be someone who makes it easy again.
Onward with making DVD ripping easier. Contribute to my dvddb. http://kavlon.org/index.php/dvdlookup
All the more reason to hire me. I'd make them money. All the more reason for anybody to hire me. Maybe after the dot bomb companies would actually listen to my suggestions on saving money and making money. No more "we don't need to be profittable.. we're going for an IPO".:)
Trust me. At the time I was having trouble I tried everything possible. The local system was such that they wouldn't give you utility assistance unless you had children in the household. I had no friends or relatives that I could move in with (though a few helped me with wht money they could spare) and the job market was horrible. I got a job for a while doing horrible phone spamming but couldn't find a fast food place that'd hire me. I have a horrible time getting shitty jobs. Not really sure why. Even when I was a teenager most my jobs were in IT.
I keep a foghorn in a can for all bill collectors and sales men. It doesn't take many tries before they stop calling and let their friends know to do the same.:)
I never could get QNX to run worth a damn on any PC I tried it on. I know it's not meant to be used as a normal OS but still I've tried it on a lot of machines and they were all sort of buggy. I'd compare it to BeOS. It's great when things are carefully crafted to fit what it does play well with but on random hardware it seems to suck.
I won't argue with that but I don't really like to lie (especially to make myself look worse). If you really need the money then you do what you have to but otherwise tell the truth. Everyone has the right to do what is needed to provide themselves with food and shelter (but not new sports cars). Lie, cheat, steal, kill.. anything to survive.:)
There is little room for private initiative when all small businesses are squished by huge global companies that can undercut prices at every step. It'd be great if we could all own our own businesses and do what we liked and make a decent living from it but have you tried it? It doesn't work so well. Anytime you start to make money the business comes into the sites of some global company that floods the market with it's advertising dollars and low prices. Sure a few small businesses can survive but not enough to feed everyone that has been unemployed by those big companies. It's expensive to start your own company. Most unemployed folks can't afford to do it again and again for the small profits they can earn before they are forced out of business.
It's fine to be responsibile for our own fates but individuals can't fight corporations and win. Not in this country. To much money is passing into the pockets of politicians to give corporations more power than citizens. That and the shortsighted buying habits of most Americans is the root of the problem. People will again and again buy the cheaper product even if they know it was made in India instead of down the street. A bargain today is worth unemployment tomorrow.
Let people start buying from each other instead of Walmarts. Kill stupid corporate bought extensions to copyright, the DMCA, and all sorts of other shit that empowers corporations. Then sure we can use our own ingenuity to get ahead. Unfortunately I can't see that happening unless we have a complete economic collapse.
I've always heard of IT/programming folks as white collar except maybe the lowest ranks. I always figured if you made an hourly rate you were blue collar and if you worked on salary you were white collar. Of course sometimes you can make more money on the hourly rate.:)
Good luck at finding funding. If you can afford to live I'd say just go ahead and do the projects and if they are good enough somebody will be interested. That's what I do. Except I don't like looking for funding.:)
I guess I meant that getting relo is much MUCH harder now than it was a couple years ago. It used to be that even shit jobs like entry level web developer they'd offer relo, a new car, etc. Now you can have several years of experience and be lucky to get a response much less a relo offer.
When I first got laid off a couple years ago I was foolish enough to turn down offers that would have required I move away from my family despite them offering relo etc. Now I'd probably take the same jobs without the relocation help. I've had a couple of short-term jobs in the meantime but nothing tht lasted very long or paid very well. Not enough to climb back out of debt.
I keep waiting for the turn around. I hope you're right that it's coming. I don't have 18 years of experience but I do have enough that I should be able to find something decent!:)
Why else would there be so many night school type places for working adults? Because blue collar folks are trying to improve their situation and move up to white collar jobs.
Nobody is whining because the average pay is going down (well some might be but I'm not).. but having jobs moved out of the country is definately a problem because obviously it makes it ahrder to find jobs. Those large segments of America always had some hope that they could escape the problem by educating themselves.. now they have less hope of that. We don't need everyone to have a $50k/yr job but some job stability would be nice.
You're probably right that this is what things are like in most of the world. I don't really blame people in India and places like that for taking advantage of the improved job market they are no doubt seeing. I do hope most of them find jobs soon though to keep more American jobs from migrating there. Of course then there is always another poor country to migrate jobs to.. but only if the local education is such that the people can do the jobs.
If you lose your job and can't find another one because it's been sent to India how are you going to buy these cheaper and better things? Sure cheaper and better is great but if you have no money it's not going to help you much. If people don't have jobs then more people can't afford things and the quality of life most certainly doesn't go up.
Have you seen those automated checkouts at grocery and retail stores? Those are great for convience and no doubt lower prices since they don't have to pay an employee.. but if all blue/white collar jobs are gone and the lowly shit jobs are gone.. how many of us are going to be able to buy from these stores?
Part of the problem is that in the US it's very difficult to live cheap. It's frowned on to grow your own food in many places (like if you live in a rented house/apartment), a lot of locales make it illegal to generate your own electricity, if you don't have a car and telephone finding a better job is pretty much impossible, if you don't have electricity the government will take your children away (no tv! poor abused kids), etc. There is a general attitude here that if you don't have these things there is something wrong with you. During a period of unemployment a while back I couldn't pay my utility bills or rent. Every time I'd try to ask them to hold off until I found a new job they'd act like they couldn't believe that a person wouldn't have credit cards or rich parents to pay the bills with. They kept shutting off the power which made the food I had bought spoil.. and I couldn't cook anything. Then they charged a reconnection fee to hook back up. With that behavior there was no way I could ever catch up with the bill. And day jobs? It's nearly impossible to just go out and find someone that needs help for the day and who will pay you. All the paperwork the government has on employees these days has squashed most such jobs. There is to much red tape to hire a person for a day or two. Just a crazy behavior in general. It's very hard to live at $6k/yr here.
I agree with you in theory but in real life it sucks to be the firewood that fuels your fire of wealth around the globe. I'd like to see the government offering day labor jobs while the economy resettles. I don't want to take welfare or charity but if they needed something done I could sure do it and earn a paycheck. Anything from cleaning up parks to programming computers would be fine. I know they could start some opensource projects right now and affordably pay a lot of coders to develop whatever they might need.:)
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I store such information in a MySQL db. No reason to try to cram it into the filesystem. It's much easier to modify the system this way since you don't have to worry about screwing up your kernel. I can easily search hundreds of gigs of space containing millions of unique files based on all sorts of specs.
Ext2/3 are slow and waste space. They are bad with both small and large files (I have many of each). They're not quite as lame as a FAT filesystem but they still pretty much suck. I don't especially like this rlational db filesystem idea either. It's been tried before and it sucked and I don't see Microsoft doing it any better. The only benefit to ext2/3 or FAT filesystems that I can see is that they are well documented.
Why doesn't Microsoft adopt an open standard like ReiserFS, JFS, or XFS? I can't see how they get much leverage by controlling the filesystem format in this day since people can always move files to a compatible filesystem as easy as creating an iso or better yet just squirting the files over the network. It might inconvience the Linux folks for a while but I'm sure it won't be long before there is support for this FS for Linux (like FAT, VFAT, and NTFS). If you gain no benefit through doing something your own way then why reinvent the wheel?
Why? Is that easier than 'locate .mp3' or even 'find . -type f -iname "*.mp3"'? I've got nothing against indexing or storing extra information about files (I do it all the time).. but I don't think it's a good idea to build into the kernel.
Why would you want that IN the filesystem? It'd be an okay add-on but I see no reason it needs to add such code to the kernel. If you really wanted such a thing in Linux you could pretty easily create a virtual filesystem to represent the files you already have on your real filesystem with the extra data related to the files. I've used BeOS and this was always one of those features I marked as lame. (Unlike journaling which BeOS was very smart for having).
No sign up form yet unless you happen to either be willing to fund or have experience with either structural engineering, recycling technology, alternative power, hydro/aquaponics, or some similar skills. Funding would actually be the most useful aspect. We're looking into building from materials freely available that can be processed into things we need (or later recycled) but it'd be much easier if we had bootstrap capital.
Our project is moduler unlike Freedom Ship. It's a floating city made of what is in effect giant boat/city legos. It'd be much harder to sink than Freedom Ship for the same reason that it's hard to sink bubble wrap.
You can have a not-a-religion religiion. Something that is inclusive and can be added on to whatever other beliefes the individual members have. A belief in the power of men and machines to create instead of destroying and grabbing the wealth.
:)
Besides my plan involves specially designed floating or submerged cities that can exist outside any national borders. I have a fixation on Captain Nemo.
I'd like to see the beuracrats go to war with the geeks on their own turf. An organized front of scientists, engineers, and craftsmen is a powerful force. We make the world. If we fought back then the rich and powerful would not be rich and powerful for long.
You've obviously not been annoying enough. If you are they'll leave the wrapper on. Anything to put the damn thing in their computer and get on with the day. :)
Possibly incorrect but doesn't Phillips own the trademark to both CD and DVD? If they didn't like altered discs for CD's will they respond differently to altered DVD's?
My general policy when a store won't take something back that was broken when I got it (cd's, dvd's, etc) is to just refuse to get out of line until they've given my money back. They don't want it on the 10 o'clock news that a customer was forcifully removed from their store when they complained of recieving faulty merchandise and they can't spend all day arguing over $20 as obviously they quickly are going into the negative on the profit made from the transaction.
:)
Usually companies mark the product you brought back as defective.. then have you switch for an identical product that is still in it's wrapper.. which you immediately hand over and they mark as a return.. which they then give you your money for. Has happened that way many times for me.
I've never noticed any such thing but I will say that it's a DVD that plays really badly if your DVD is dirty. I'd guess they encoded the movie such that it keeps a lot of detail in because it really gives the DVD player a workout. Of course I jut ripped my copy and play it off the hdd.. avoid having to change discs in the middle.
Join a group that is leaving this society. If you do it together the transition is easier and you give up fewer things. With a large enough, well trained enough, group you can provide yourselves everything you need. I actually have spent a good deal of time looking at the Amish and similar groups. Nix the religion and add in some high technology and they'd have a pretty damn good idea. That is what I'm working towards.
I've been paying between $1.50 and $6 for most my legit DVD's of real movies. Even my anime costs aren't much more than that. Is really not that unaffordable at all. Most movies I rip illegal copies of are really expensive or hard to find (so I rent and rip instead).
I already have all my CD's and DVD's ripped to my hdd and yes it's very convient. Discs are forever being lost or broken. This way they can sit somewhere safe while I get the use of the them anyway.
There is absolutely no way they can make DRM that works. If there is a way to play the contents of a disc then there is a way to copy that contents. No trick will make that impossible. Even if they just make it hard there will eventually be someone who makes it easy again.
Onward with making DVD ripping easier. Contribute to my dvddb. http://kavlon.org/index.php/dvdlookup
All the more reason to hire me. I'd make them money. All the more reason for anybody to hire me. Maybe after the dot bomb companies would actually listen to my suggestions on saving money and making money. No more "we don't need to be profittable.. we're going for an IPO". :)
To some extent that works but how many services are there that have to be done locally and can't be farmed out overseas?
Trust me. At the time I was having trouble I tried everything possible. The local system was such that they wouldn't give you utility assistance unless you had children in the household. I had no friends or relatives that I could move in with (though a few helped me with wht money they could spare) and the job market was horrible. I got a job for a while doing horrible phone spamming but couldn't find a fast food place that'd hire me. I have a horrible time getting shitty jobs. Not really sure why. Even when I was a teenager most my jobs were in IT.
I keep a foghorn in a can for all bill collectors and sales men. It doesn't take many tries before they stop calling and let their friends know to do the same. :)
I never could get QNX to run worth a damn on any PC I tried it on. I know it's not meant to be used as a normal OS but still I've tried it on a lot of machines and they were all sort of buggy. I'd compare it to BeOS. It's great when things are carefully crafted to fit what it does play well with but on random hardware it seems to suck.
I won't argue with that but I don't really like to lie (especially to make myself look worse). If you really need the money then you do what you have to but otherwise tell the truth. Everyone has the right to do what is needed to provide themselves with food and shelter (but not new sports cars). Lie, cheat, steal, kill.. anything to survive. :)
There is little room for private initiative when all small businesses are squished by huge global companies that can undercut prices at every step. It'd be great if we could all own our own businesses and do what we liked and make a decent living from it but have you tried it? It doesn't work so well. Anytime you start to make money the business comes into the sites of some global company that floods the market with it's advertising dollars and low prices. Sure a few small businesses can survive but not enough to feed everyone that has been unemployed by those big companies. It's expensive to start your own company. Most unemployed folks can't afford to do it again and again for the small profits they can earn before they are forced out of business.
It's fine to be responsibile for our own fates but individuals can't fight corporations and win. Not in this country. To much money is passing into the pockets of politicians to give corporations more power than citizens. That and the shortsighted buying habits of most Americans is the root of the problem. People will again and again buy the cheaper product even if they know it was made in India instead of down the street. A bargain today is worth unemployment tomorrow.
Let people start buying from each other instead of Walmarts. Kill stupid corporate bought extensions to copyright, the DMCA, and all sorts of other shit that empowers corporations. Then sure we can use our own ingenuity to get ahead. Unfortunately I can't see that happening unless we have a complete economic collapse.
I've always heard of IT/programming folks as white collar except maybe the lowest ranks. I always figured if you made an hourly rate you were blue collar and if you worked on salary you were white collar. Of course sometimes you can make more money on the hourly rate. :)
:)
Good luck at finding funding. If you can afford to live I'd say just go ahead and do the projects and if they are good enough somebody will be interested. That's what I do. Except I don't like looking for funding.
I guess I meant that getting relo is much MUCH harder now than it was a couple years ago. It used to be that even shit jobs like entry level web developer they'd offer relo, a new car, etc. Now you can have several years of experience and be lucky to get a response much less a relo offer.
:)
When I first got laid off a couple years ago I was foolish enough to turn down offers that would have required I move away from my family despite them offering relo etc. Now I'd probably take the same jobs without the relocation help. I've had a couple of short-term jobs in the meantime but nothing tht lasted very long or paid very well. Not enough to climb back out of debt.
I keep waiting for the turn around. I hope you're right that it's coming. I don't have 18 years of experience but I do have enough that I should be able to find something decent!
Why else would there be so many night school type places for working adults? Because blue collar folks are trying to improve their situation and move up to white collar jobs.
Nobody is whining because the average pay is going down (well some might be but I'm not).. but having jobs moved out of the country is definately a problem because obviously it makes it ahrder to find jobs. Those large segments of America always had some hope that they could escape the problem by educating themselves.. now they have less hope of that. We don't need everyone to have a $50k/yr job but some job stability would be nice.
You're probably right that this is what things are like in most of the world. I don't really blame people in India and places like that for taking advantage of the improved job market they are no doubt seeing. I do hope most of them find jobs soon though to keep more American jobs from migrating there. Of course then there is always another poor country to migrate jobs to.. but only if the local education is such that the people can do the jobs.
If you lose your job and can't find another one because it's been sent to India how are you going to buy these cheaper and better things? Sure cheaper and better is great but if you have no money it's not going to help you much. If people don't have jobs then more people can't afford things and the quality of life most certainly doesn't go up.
Have you seen those automated checkouts at grocery and retail stores? Those are great for convience and no doubt lower prices since they don't have to pay an employee.. but if all blue/white collar jobs are gone and the lowly shit jobs are gone.. how many of us are going to be able to buy from these stores?
Part of the problem is that in the US it's very difficult to live cheap. It's frowned on to grow your own food in many places (like if you live in a rented house/apartment), a lot of locales make it illegal to generate your own electricity, if you don't have a car and telephone finding a better job is pretty much impossible, if you don't have electricity the government will take your children away (no tv! poor abused kids), etc. There is a general attitude here that if you don't have these things there is something wrong with you. During a period of unemployment a while back I couldn't pay my utility bills or rent. Every time I'd try to ask them to hold off until I found a new job they'd act like they couldn't believe that a person wouldn't have credit cards or rich parents to pay the bills with. They kept shutting off the power which made the food I had bought spoil.. and I couldn't cook anything. Then they charged a reconnection fee to hook back up. With that behavior there was no way I could ever catch up with the bill. And day jobs? It's nearly impossible to just go out and find someone that needs help for the day and who will pay you. All the paperwork the government has on employees these days has squashed most such jobs. There is to much red tape to hire a person for a day or two. Just a crazy behavior in general. It's very hard to live at $6k/yr here.
:)
I agree with you in theory but in real life it sucks to be the firewood that fuels your fire of wealth around the globe. I'd like to see the government offering day labor jobs while the economy resettles. I don't want to take welfare or charity but if they needed something done I could sure do it and earn a paycheck. Anything from cleaning up parks to programming computers would be fine. I know they could start some opensource projects right now and affordably pay a lot of coders to develop whatever they might need.