Well I'm only moderately whacko and I feel like flourescent lights are death-rays, slowly leeching my will to go on throughout the work day. When I go home I fire up a natural-spectrum light and a nice 300W halogen beast.
It doesn't help that my apartment and my office are both sub-terranean. I get about ten minutes of natural direct sunlight each day. Ugh.
Exactly. Find me a UN*X-guy wh's willing to walk to each machine in an organization, they can all do what they have to from their desks. And while Windows admins struggle with.BATs and registry files to automate administration, the UN*X guy has phat shell scripts that can do much more.
The problem I always see with Windows organizations is that they have to make a million compromises to make certain legacy apps work, usually negating most features of their 'advanced' OS. You see places using FAT32 on their XP boxes so they can keep their auto-imaging tools from ten years ago, you see file and print services turned on by default because users think it's OK to share office files P2P, even though you have NAS.
Well I use Firefox/tbird now, on Linux exclusively, but I used to use NS6 to get my AOL mail in the same app as my POP accounts. I'm not your typical AOL luser, but most of my clients use AOL and it's worth $15/month for me to be able to have an *@aol.com email address.
It would be really nice if AOL would release AOL mail code to the Mozilla team, that's a nice feature that lets me maintain an AOL mail account without maintaining a Windows or OSX box.
Well there's an even BETTER way to do that, you have the memory researchers figure out a way to make HUGE storage chips that aren't super-speedy. So you've got your mobo with 1GB of DDR SDRAM in it and eight slots or a module near it that is chock-full of uber-high-density chips that transfer at about 200MB/sec, but with almost no access-time, think 200GB of that stuff in a fist-sized box.
The interface would be new, but the computer would just mmap the 'slow' storage into the 64-bit memory address space as a 'ramdisk'
Atlanta is a special case, it's one of the top three fatest-growing cities in the country. I live near Boston, and previously in Providence, and in both cities there are housing shortages driving the rents and housing markets WAY up. Meanwhile you see very little urban development.
You would think that $800 for a bedroom would drive the market to large apartment complexes, but none seem to be going up. Instead of those, we have inflated rents and home prices, which are the easy, no-risk way to preserve the housing market while collecting the most money from the populace.
I had friends from PA visit me recently, and they were in awe of our housing prices. My pals paid $500 to rent a HOUSE with a LAWN in PA, I paid $650 for a delapidated basement in Pawtucket with one parking spot.
I had a manager a few years ago who got burned bad by NT service pack 5. He wouldn't let us install anything newer than SP5 in the lab. Terrible things ended up happening one day when a worm broke out and we couldn't even patch the systems because it was against policy.
I've been through bad kernel upgrades too, but you should be fine if you follow procedure and stay conservative:
1. get latest kernel in your tree (2.4.27 for you). It's been out a few days with no major issues. Unpack it to/usr/src/linux-2.4.27
2. Find your current.config (/usr/src/linux/.config ?) and copy it to/usr/src/linux-2.4.27/.config
3. cd to linux-2.4.27/ do a 'make oldconfig'. You may want to view your current.config in another window to cross-reference. You'll only have to answer questions for changes since your old config.
4. make -j2 bzImage && make -j2 modules
5. install the files. all this is well documented from here on, so I'll stop this, but make sure to keep your current config in your bootloader in case this kernel burns you.
Am I the only one who thinks we're experiencing an artificial housing shortage?
It just seems odd to me how high housing prices and rents are, and there don't seem to be any new high-density housing developments going up.
Could it be that the money-lenders are the same people who really own the existing property (mortgage lenders)?
Just an idea, if the mortgage lenders and the financiers for new housing were the same people it would make sense for them to NOT build high-density housing and maintain this real-estate bubble.
AFAIK, 'harvard architecture' CPUs like the ancient 68040 in my Quadra could be clocked ALL the way down, even stopped if need-be. When I heard that Intel was introducing 'SpeedStep' so their CPUs could drop from 500 to 400MHz (or whatever) to save some juice I couldn't help but think that they missed the boat entirely. You could make very cool, very quiet laptops if you had CPUs that would just clock themselves based on a signal from the memory controller signalling how busy the bus was (bus saturation exceeds 30% for 2 seconds, clock up; drops below 20% for 5 seconds, clock down).
Number three caught me. I usually get REALLY tired around 3PM and again at about 7, but I always stay awake through it and end up wide-awake until 1 or 2 AM. What's the physiology behind this? Is it some sort of 'fight-or-flight' response?
The worst is that I fight it all week but occasionally can sleep through my alarm clock until 9 or 10 am, I have to wake at 5am to be at work on-time.
For the past few months I've just been battling it harder, but there's only so hard you can fight when you're straight passed-out and the alarm doesn't wake you. Sometimes it seems like I should hit the sack at 7PM, but then it comes and bites me the next day when I can't sleep until 3AM.
That has to do with the kind of driving people with different amounts of money tend to do.
Kids in the ghetto tend to be in inner-city traffic more, they get the prizm, and they can't pay for every brake-job and oil-change they need. Young professionals get the corolla, commute on the freeway, and take their car to the dealer until they learn better.
It's no wonder the corollas were going farther and longer. Hell, I'd take better care of a more expensive car thean the cheap-o model!
well applications would all run in 'disposable cold' states, where their memory spaces wouldn't have to be disk-backed because they could be started again easily. Documents, however, would be 'white hot' as soon as you hit 'save' because there would be a priority on getting them to disk ASAP in case of a failure. This CAN be done, you just need something like metadata for the stack space, or an area for data that needs to be flushed quickly.
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right, but it can be even faster if you make meta-notes from the install handbook. Also, the reason I use Gentoo is the same reason I use the notes, I've got a pretty serious setup, IMO, and I have to make a LOT of changes from the prescribed setup.
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Well what I did on my first install was print out the notes and make a 'cheat sheet' of what I did. I've been using the cheat-sheet for a while now and it cuts my install from a day of reading and contemplating commands to a few hours of reading a book and making sure everything is still rolling on the terminal.
I think you'll be seeint this sort of thing once the 64-bit paradigm shift is complete. The entire system, disks and all, will be mapped-out to the address space. All you have to do is load the system with RAM, I'm talking about 64GB of RAM, and have the huge storage disk sync with the RAM every now-and-then. All of your OS and apps, and most of your recent documents will reside in RAM, the rest will shuffle off to the disk when it gets 'cold'.
Hitachi/IBM produce the 300GB UltraStar 10K300, which is a mighty drive if I've ever seen one.
The real reason is that when you move up to higher rotational sppeds to reduce latency, you have to reduce density relative to the motion of the disk under the head, so a 10K drive can generally pack only 60%-ish as much data per-inch as a 7200RPM drive.
The same can be seen in 15K disks, which are much lower density than their 10K counterparts. The 15K platters are smaller too, to keep them from flying apart.
Do you remember when the 5400RPM disks had higher capacity than the 7200 ones? I sure do, it was for the same reason.
Until the latency of the read-write head improves this will be the case.
I have to compile a kernel during the installation? how fucked up is that?
That's the FIRST THING you should do to a system when you get it! Building the kernel for your needs is a crucial part of getting friendly with your system and enabling features you want. It's also a great way to reduce all the junk that the stock kernel likely loaded on.
I'm curious, what was that thing walking next to you? It looked like one of us, but it had... protrusions from it's... chest.
Also, I noticed that you have a very big house, I like the big blue room you were in with the strange 'pendulum bucket' thing. How can you afford such property.
Well, gotta go, I hear the rats on the move and I'm not going hungry another night. Where's my barbecue fork?
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Well I'm only moderately whacko and I feel like flourescent lights are death-rays, slowly leeching my will to go on throughout the work day. When I go home I fire up a natural-spectrum light and a nice 300W halogen beast.
It doesn't help that my apartment and my office are both sub-terranean. I get about ten minutes of natural direct sunlight each day. Ugh.
AFAIK, it should only bother you ONCE per user. I certainly never see that popup more than once per user.
Exactly. Find me a UN*X-guy wh's willing to walk to each machine in an organization, they can all do what they have to from their desks. And while Windows admins struggle with .BATs and registry files to automate administration, the UN*X guy has phat shell scripts that can do much more.
The problem I always see with Windows organizations is that they have to make a million compromises to make certain legacy apps work, usually negating most features of their 'advanced' OS. You see places using FAT32 on their XP boxes so they can keep their auto-imaging tools from ten years ago, you see file and print services turned on by default because users think it's OK to share office files P2P, even though you have NAS.
Well I use Firefox/tbird now, on Linux exclusively, but I used to use NS6 to get my AOL mail in the same app as my POP accounts. I'm not your typical AOL luser, but most of my clients use AOL and it's worth $15/month for me to be able to have an *@aol.com email address.
It would be really nice if AOL would release AOL mail code to the Mozilla team, that's a nice feature that lets me maintain an AOL mail account without maintaining a Windows or OSX box.
Well there's an even BETTER way to do that, you have the memory researchers figure out a way to make HUGE storage chips that aren't super-speedy. So you've got your mobo with 1GB of DDR SDRAM in it and eight slots or a module near it that is chock-full of uber-high-density chips that transfer at about 200MB/sec, but with almost no access-time, think 200GB of that stuff in a fist-sized box.
The interface would be new, but the computer would just mmap the 'slow' storage into the 64-bit memory address space as a 'ramdisk'
Atlanta is a special case, it's one of the top three fatest-growing cities in the country. I live near Boston, and previously in Providence, and in both cities there are housing shortages driving the rents and housing markets WAY up. Meanwhile you see very little urban development.
You would think that $800 for a bedroom would drive the market to large apartment complexes, but none seem to be going up. Instead of those, we have inflated rents and home prices, which are the easy, no-risk way to preserve the housing market while collecting the most money from the populace.
I had friends from PA visit me recently, and they were in awe of our housing prices. My pals paid $500 to rent a HOUSE with a LAWN in PA, I paid $650 for a delapidated basement in Pawtucket with one parking spot.
I had a manager a few years ago who got burned bad by NT service pack 5. He wouldn't let us install anything newer than SP5 in the lab. Terrible things ended up happening one day when a worm broke out and we couldn't even patch the systems because it was against policy.
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27
.config (/usr/src/linux/.config ?) and copy it to /usr/src/linux-2.4.27/.config
.config in another window to cross-reference. You'll only have to answer questions for changes since your old config.
I've been through bad kernel upgrades too, but you should be fine if you follow procedure and stay conservative:
1. get latest kernel in your tree (2.4.27 for you). It's been out a few days with no major issues. Unpack it to
2. Find your current
3. cd to linux-2.4.27/ do a 'make oldconfig'. You may want to view your current
4. make -j2 bzImage && make -j2 modules
5. install the files. all this is well documented from here on, so I'll stop this, but make sure to keep your current config in your bootloader in case this kernel burns you.
Am I the only one who thinks we're experiencing an artificial housing shortage?
It just seems odd to me how high housing prices and rents are, and there don't seem to be any new high-density housing developments going up.
Could it be that the money-lenders are the same people who really own the existing property (mortgage lenders)?
Just an idea, if the mortgage lenders and the financiers for new housing were the same people it would make sense for them to NOT build high-density housing and maintain this real-estate bubble.
And yet half the users out there seem to want to lower their res to 800x600 when we give them nice new 17" CRTs and LCDs.
Windows looks TERRIBLE no matter what res you work at, using OS X or even KDE for a few days will make you never want to touch the Windows GUI again.
Ahh, that's right. I'm a bit rusty with my old CPU technologies.
AFAIK, 'harvard architecture' CPUs like the ancient 68040 in my Quadra could be clocked ALL the way down, even stopped if need-be. When I heard that Intel was introducing 'SpeedStep' so their CPUs could drop from 500 to 400MHz (or whatever) to save some juice I couldn't help but think that they missed the boat entirely. You could make very cool, very quiet laptops if you had CPUs that would just clock themselves based on a signal from the memory controller signalling how busy the bus was (bus saturation exceeds 30% for 2 seconds, clock up; drops below 20% for 5 seconds, clock down).
Number three caught me. I usually get REALLY tired around 3PM and again at about 7, but I always stay awake through it and end up wide-awake until 1 or 2 AM. What's the physiology behind this? Is it some sort of 'fight-or-flight' response?
The worst is that I fight it all week but occasionally can sleep through my alarm clock until 9 or 10 am, I have to wake at 5am to be at work on-time.
For the past few months I've just been battling it harder, but there's only so hard you can fight when you're straight passed-out and the alarm doesn't wake you. Sometimes it seems like I should hit the sack at 7PM, but then it comes and bites me the next day when I can't sleep until 3AM.
That has to do with the kind of driving people with different amounts of money tend to do.
Kids in the ghetto tend to be in inner-city traffic more, they get the prizm, and they can't pay for every brake-job and oil-change they need. Young professionals get the corolla, commute on the freeway, and take their car to the dealer until they learn better.
It's no wonder the corollas were going farther and longer. Hell, I'd take better care of a more expensive car thean the cheap-o model!
Yeah, but vendors are morons. I installed a printer driver a few days ago that was packed like this:
.pkg file in it that kicked off installer.app.
installer application (carbon, with res fork) on a disk image, unpacked and automounted by a self-extracting archive that was binhex'd.
They COULD have just made a compressed disk image with a
well applications would all run in 'disposable cold' states, where their memory spaces wouldn't have to be disk-backed because they could be started again easily. Documents, however, would be 'white hot' as soon as you hit 'save' because there would be a priority on getting them to disk ASAP in case of a failure. This CAN be done, you just need something like metadata for the stack space, or an area for data that needs to be flushed quickly.
right, but it can be even faster if you make meta-notes from the install handbook. Also, the reason I use Gentoo is the same reason I use the notes, I've got a pretty serious setup, IMO, and I have to make a LOT of changes from the prescribed setup.
Well what I did on my first install was print out the notes and make a 'cheat sheet' of what I did. I've been using the cheat-sheet for a while now and it cuts my install from a day of reading and contemplating commands to a few hours of reading a book and making sure everything is still rolling on the terminal.
My trick is to use verbiage completely alien to the rest of people.
I don't 'restart that service', I 'spank the server' it.
I don't say 'it might be broken', I say 'it's borked'
I don't 'change some settings', I 'frobbed the config'
and the best is that instead of 'reimage' I 'swipe-and-wipe'
I think you'll be seeint this sort of thing once the 64-bit paradigm shift is complete. The entire system, disks and all, will be mapped-out to the address space. All you have to do is load the system with RAM, I'm talking about 64GB of RAM, and have the huge storage disk sync with the RAM every now-and-then. All of your OS and apps, and most of your recent documents will reside in RAM, the rest will shuffle off to the disk when it gets 'cold'.
...but I mention it here because it was a factor in my wife's private fears.
Well at least you're not the only one who uses that as a reason to talk about stuff on slashdot.
I'm bookmarking this and using it as evidence next time I get in an argument about revealing other people's deep fears on anonymous online forums.
Agreed, I've said this before, but my old 18GB Ultra2Wide (80MB/sec SCSI) drive can wipe the floor with my new DeskStar 180GXP (ATA-100).
It's all about those command queues, they let the computer spit commands at the disk without having to see their immediate completion.
I actually get better performance with my SCSI drive _mounted over NFS_ than I can with my previous local 40GB ATA-66 drive.
Hitachi/IBM produce the 300GB UltraStar 10K300, which is a mighty drive if I've ever seen one.
The real reason is that when you move up to higher rotational sppeds to reduce latency, you have to reduce density relative to the motion of the disk under the head, so a 10K drive can generally pack only 60%-ish as much data per-inch as a 7200RPM drive.
The same can be seen in 15K disks, which are much lower density than their 10K counterparts. The 15K platters are smaller too, to keep them from flying apart.
Do you remember when the 5400RPM disks had higher capacity than the 7200 ones? I sure do, it was for the same reason.
Until the latency of the read-write head improves this will be the case.
when you're sitting at home on a beanbag naked eating Cheet-ohs
Don't stop. Keep talking. I'm getting CLOSE!
(sorry to bring it to this, I'm a bit bored)
I have to compile a kernel during the installation? how fucked up is that?
That's the FIRST THING you should do to a system when you get it! Building the kernel for your needs is a crucial part of getting friendly with your system and enabling features you want. It's also a great way to reduce all the junk that the stock kernel likely loaded on.
I'm curious, what was that thing walking next to you? It looked like one of us, but it had... protrusions from it's... chest.
Also, I noticed that you have a very big house, I like the big blue room you were in with the strange 'pendulum bucket' thing. How can you afford such property.
Well, gotta go, I hear the rats on the move and I'm not going hungry another night. Where's my barbecue fork?