Hm, seems kernel.org dropped my big patch, so the patch below can be found at: www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/misc/2.6/devfs-delete-2.6.8-rc2.patch
Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2004 16:15 schrieb Greg KH: > Hm, seems kernel.org dropped my big patch, so the patch below can be > found at: > www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/mis c/2.6/devfs-delete-2.6.8-rc2.patch
May I point out that 2.6 is supposed to be a _stable_ series?
On 2004-07-21T16:26:55, Oliver Neukum [email blocked] said:
> > www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/mis c/2.6/devfs-delete-2.6.8-rc2.patch > May I point out that 2.6 is supposed to be a _stable_ series?
Yeah, sounds like a good series to drop unsupported code from...;-)
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Bree [email blocked]
So what is the Conclusion ? Yes DROPPING the buggy devfs code may lead to a MORE STABLE KERNEL! Slashdot posters seem to have a bad day... Oh well.
sure you can! : install a vanilla redhat 4 and copy/lib and other libs needed for your old RedHat RPM application to/usr/old-redhat/lib and add this line :
/usr/old-redhat/lib
into/etc/ld.so.conf. Next run ldconfig , and your old Linux application runs smooth again.
Do i understand this correctly? Nasa wants to use a high-power ground-based laser as the heating supply for the power needed to ignite the H2 fuel in the Primary Propellant Tank? And as such they gonna aim their laser over very large distances to a so-called Leighweight Heat Exchanger as a shooting target ? (see figure 1 on page 6).
There's some rather severe pitfalls to be considered with this method:
1. if the spacecraft abusively rotates around its length axis, the power from the ground laser might not be able to reach/hit that Heat Exchanger target any anymore, hence the rockets drops its speed instantly, leading to even more fatal flight manouvring.
2. As the rocket is approaching large heights, the laser guiding system will be put to the real test. When the "lock-in" signal is lost, you loose everything.
3. The conventional iginition system should allways be present as a backup system. In that case the net effect is just that extra costs are introduced.
I personally see this project more as a nice step-up for developing and deploying guided high-power ground-based lasersystems, which can follow ("lock-in") their target to very large heights. a laser "lock-in" in the end might even be possible on rockets (targets) which are near the moon. Doesn't that closely resemble the "StarWars" program of former president Ronnie Reagan ?
there's a rather huge difference in patenting, and the way they enforce things. Lets compare patent a en b:
patent a) grouped taksbar buttons on a desktop. patent b) audio codecs used by VoIP implementations.
with patent a) you can still use your desktop, only are not allowed to group your buttons inside a taskbar. with patent b) you can not make a VoIP call at all. VoIP becomes unaccessable when patent b) is not obeyed.
"For example, running any Delphi-written application on XP (with SP1, this problem does not occur pre-SP1) with a P4 processor with HyperThreading enabled causes the app to crash on startup.. (placing it in Win98/ME "compatibility" mode makes the mysterious crash go away, but it took a lot of snopping to find that workaround)"
this Article "How Microsoft Lost the API War" by Joel Spolsky, really goes into detail on how and why this happened. Definitely a MUST READ.
Gimme an F! F! Gimme an U! U! Gimme an C! C! Gimme an K! K! What's that spell ? FUCK! What's that spell ? FUCK! What's that spell ? FUCK!
Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again. He's got himself in a terrible jam, Way down yonder in Vietnam So put down your books and pick up a gun, We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
And it's one, two, three, What are we fighting for ? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam; And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates, Well there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on generals, let's move fast; Your big chance has come at last. Gotta go out and get those reds - The only good commie is the one who's dead And you know that peace can only be won. When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.
And it's one, two, three, What are we fighting for ? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam; And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates, Well there ain't no time to wonder why. Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Huh!
Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow, Why man, this is war au-go-go. There's plenty good money to be made. By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade, Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb, They drop it on the Viet Cong.
And it's one, two, three, What are we fighting for ? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam. And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates, Well there ain't no time to wonder why. Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on mothers throughout the land, Pack your boys off to Vietnam. Come on fathers, don't hesitate, Send 'em off before it's too late. Be the first one on your block, To have your boy come home in a box.
And it's one, two, three What are we fighting for ? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam. And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates, Well there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Inside this article http://www.math.purdue.edu/ftp_pub/branges/apology.pdf titled "APOLOGY FOR THE PROOF OF THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS" the author and mathematician Louis de Branges de Bourcia doesn't prove anything. He only ends with this quote :
"The ruin of the chateau de Bourcia overlooks a fertile valley surrounded by wooded hills. The site is ideal for a mathematical research institute. The restoration of the chateau for that purpose would be an appropriate use of the million dollars offered for a proof of the Riemann hypothesis."
How curious. Did he actually publish a possible Riemann hypothesis proof, or is it only a day dream of a mathematician about how to spend a million dollars? This dude is strange.
Obey the network QoS requirements for VoIP over a WiFi network link, and your fine. If not, you get in your face exactly what the WiFi admins were ignoring.
The FCC's last act was indeed a shame, and only in support of large media corporations getting even more larger market coverage.
However does that mean the FCC should be abolished? No, of course not. Cause in sane and better times, the FCC surely will propose acts which are in support of the U.S. citizin instead of just supporting big media money.
These people have taken the effort to contribute their own indepedant efforts to science. Basicly these people are thinkers who think for their own, and treat newspapers and weekly popular science magazines as poison for their mighty brains. A few good examples are of course Albert Einstein, the man who wrote a single paper stating that e=mc2 and proving newtons laws of gravity stop working when leaving planet earth. Another one is Steven Hawking who proved there are black holes in the universe. Both men never set foot in space as astronouts, still they write papers and draw groundbraking conclusions.
As for google. Yes google is the best clustered search engine around. How can that be? It took 2 Stanford University graduate students who still had the right brains to think independantly and come up with something briljant like google. So google hires people who have proven to be able to think independantly, i.e. should have a Philosophic Doctorate (Ph.D.)?? Well thats certainly no news for me.
So how could it happen that a Ph.D. got a not so positive reputation? Well first off , the University Deans started handing out Ph.D. title's to people who unfortunately never used their brains in a Ph.D. worthy manner. These title's are also called Honorable Doctorate, and typically go to Enterprise business men, who rather contributed financially to science instead of using their brains. Next it became a habit that getting a Business School degree and/or MBA title became more or less a matter of paying the enormous scholarly fee, instead of publishing papers into international reviewed magazines. Lately it seems that big corporations are abusing University's reputation, by arranging its professors to publish scientific reports which only praise the corporations new products and ideas. Well its goes on and on, and suddenly Ph.D. worthy jobs are about to be outsourced to China and India. Or is that a silly joke?
Could it be that The U.S. Patents and Trademark Office is a Microsoft owned Office ?
It just demonstrates that the Patents Office is severely mallfunctioning. Several people already mentioned prior Art. Could it be the case that :
the patents office staff is not really qualified?
the computer network of the patents office might be running on windows?
I imagine a windows popup with "Do you alway trust Microsoft" press [OK] or [Abort]. When selecting [OK] all patents applications from Microsoft Corp. are assigned a auto approval. An employee pressing [Abort] however might get into deep trouble, for not getting enough patent tickets passed in a single day.
Its time we send real experienced scientists back as staff inside the Patents office. How can this happen?
The dual-boot 'problem' is a hoax from a maillinglist being amplified into absurd levels of mainstream linux media : Thats what i would call the eWeek/ZDnet/news.com Pundit Noise Machine : send your boyscouts of onto da maillinglists, retrieve some rants from new kiddo's and amplify it inside larger linux news outlets. CmdrTaco should get a painfull kick in da Butt[tm] for this. Certainly if he himself did not install FC2, and basicly degrades slashdot down to the above level of news reporting.
If even his CmdrTaco-nes squeezes the thumb screws on RedHat's community effort, Fedora, then something must be going on. Or even worse essential efforts are not happening at Fedora's. Lets find out, i would say.
Mandrake 10 Official for AMD 64 was released on May 4th. Looks like it'll cost you about $129.00 (U.S.) unless your a club memeber then you get a discount or a pony or something.
I took a Mandrakeclub Silver Bullet star account some time ago, which costed me EU 120,= for 1 year. Oh and what a silver bullet it has been!
If have BitTorrent Downloaded the following stuff since then :
Only one missing here would be : Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official-download-AMD64 4cd-set. But they charge EU 119,= for that. Well give me a break! Mandrake has done the efforts which most have seen impossible on the Linux Desktop Platform. So if i am to purchase a dual Opteron hotrod, i certainly not only want to make sure Tyan stays around, but also Mandrake.
HOWTO CREATE A BOOTABLE DVD-R iso from 3 or 4 seperate Mandrake iso sets:
# mkdir/cd1/cd2/cd3/cd4 # # losetup/dev/loop1/mnt/mdk100/mdk100-cd1.iso # losetup/dev/loop2/mnt/mdk100/mdk100-cd2.iso # losetup/dev/loop3/mnt/mdk100/mdk100-cd3.iso # losetup/dev/loop4/mnt/mdk100/mdk100-cd4.iso # # mount -t iso9660/dev/loop1/cd1 # mount -t iso9660/dev/loop2/cd2 # mount -t iso9660/dev/loop3/cd3 # mount -t iso9660/dev/loop4/cd4 # cd/cd1 # cp -a */mnt/data/mdk100-dvd # cd../cd2 # cp -a */mnt/data/mdk100-dvd # cd../cd3 # cp -a */mnt/data/mdk100-dvd # cd../cd4 # cp -a */mnt/data/mdk100-dvd # # cd/mnt/data/ #./make-mdk100-dvd # cdrecord -v dev=2,0,0 driveropts=burnfree -dao mdk100-dvd.iso
One shouldn't compare apple with pears. So a shootout between 32bit only Xeon's and 64bit AMD's (ok which do 32bit) is a weird exercise. The testers only ran a 32bit version of Windows XP. That should be obvious. Still the Opteron 150 and 250 seem to win many shooutouts.
its rather striking that winME win95 win98 win98se are not harmed by sasser, they only help spreading. Only damage is done to win2k and higher. From which i conclude, that these windows versions are just security breaches, and only have such hookups for spyware and other "activities". Thats to be read here :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3687583.stm "According to anti-virus firms machines running Windows 95, 98 and Millennium Edition can help spread Sasser even though they cannot be infected by it."
The 18 year old kid, (his name is Sven?) really hit Microsoft windows at its weakest sweetspot: Federal ordered builtin hookups for "remote security management" and other "activities" as e.g. Spyware.
Well i fear that there is some truth in the above statement. My confidence in the Brussels politics has lowered to below -273.15 oC.
IMHO the total insanity in Brussels started, when it was reported that U.S. Secret Intelligence have been routinely tapping phone lines on the complete telecommunication network which is part of the EU building infrastructure in Brussels.
Interesting enough today the old dutch politician Bolkestein returned back to dutch national politics. He has spent several years in brussels and suddenly has aborted his job there. Now why would he return so swiftly all of a sudden? maybe this eludes what happened :
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/04/cons0507/
"A leaked document from Bolkestein's DG Internal Market suggests that DG Information Society no longer objects to program claims. This concession by Liikanen is needed in order to rush the Council working group proposal through the ministers' session as an "A item", i.e. a consensus point which does not need any discussion by the ministers."
Slashdot Mirror
So what is the Conclusion ? Yes DROPPING the buggy devfs code may lead to a MORE STABLE KERNEL! Slashdot posters seem to have a bad day... Oh well.
cheers,
Robert
sure you can! : install a vanilla redhat 4 and copy /lib and other libs needed for your old RedHat RPM application to /usr/old-redhat/lib and add this line :
into /etc/ld.so.conf. Next run ldconfig , and your old Linux application runs smooth again.
cheers,
Robert
Do i understand this correctly? Nasa wants to use a high-power ground-based laser as the heating supply for the power needed to ignite the H2 fuel in the Primary Propellant Tank? And as such they gonna aim their laser over very large distances to a so-called Leighweight Heat Exchanger as a shooting target ? (see figure 1 on page 6).
:
There's some rather severe pitfalls to be considered with this method
1. if the spacecraft abusively rotates around its length axis, the power from the ground laser might not be able to reach/hit that Heat Exchanger target any anymore, hence the rockets drops its speed instantly, leading to even more fatal flight manouvring.
2. As the rocket is approaching large heights, the laser guiding system will be put to the real test. When the "lock-in" signal is lost, you loose everything.
3. The conventional iginition system should allways be present as a backup system. In that case the net effect is just that extra costs are introduced.
I personally see this project more as a nice step-up for developing and deploying guided high-power ground-based lasersystems, which can follow ("lock-in") their target to very large heights. a laser "lock-in" in the end might even be possible on rockets (targets) which are near the moon. Doesn't that closely resemble the "StarWars" program of former president Ronnie Reagan ?
Robert
there's a rather huge difference in patenting, and the way they enforce things. Lets compare patent a en b :
patent a) grouped taksbar buttons on a desktop.
patent b) audio codecs used by VoIP implementations.
with patent a) you can still use your desktop, only are not allowed to group your buttons inside a taskbar.
with patent b) you can not make a VoIP call at all. VoIP becomes unaccessable when patent b) is not obeyed.
Robert
http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html
However that article is now pulled from the redherring.com site. Luckily i was able to restaurate that article :
http://crashrecovery.org/carlyle_group.pdf
Robert
this Article "How Microsoft Lost the API War" by Joel Spolsky, really goes into detail on how and why this happened. Definitely a MUST READ.
Robert
Gimme an F! F! Gimme an U! U! Gimme an C! C! Gimme an K! K!
What's that spell ? FUCK! What's that spell ? FUCK! What's that spell ? FUCK!
Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam, Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun, We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
And it's one, two, three, What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on generals, let's move fast; Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those reds - The only good commie is the one who's dead
And you know that peace can only be won. When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.
And it's one, two, three, What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why. Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Huh!
Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow, Why man, this is war au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made. By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb, They drop it on the Viet Cong.
And it's one, two, three, What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why. Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on mothers throughout the land, Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate, Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block, To have your boy come home in a box.
And it's one, two, three What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Seem like we need a new Woodstock ?
Robert
"The ruin of the chateau de Bourcia overlooks a fertile valley surrounded by wooded hills. The site is ideal for a mathematical research institute. The restoration of the chateau for that purpose would be an appropriate use of the million dollars offered for a proof of the Riemann hypothesis."
How curious. Did he actually publish a possible Riemann hypothesis proof, or is it only a day dream of a mathematician about how to spend a million dollars? This dude is strange.
Robert
Obey the network QoS requirements for VoIP over a WiFi network link, and your fine. If not, you get in your face exactly what the WiFi admins were ignoring.
Robert
However does that mean the FCC should be abolished? No, of course not. Cause in sane and better times, the FCC surely will propose acts which are in support of the U.S. citizin instead of just supporting big media money.
Robert
Literally : Philosophic Doctorate
These people have taken the effort to contribute their own indepedant efforts to science. Basicly these people are thinkers who think for their own, and treat newspapers and weekly popular science magazines as poison for their mighty brains. A few good examples are of course Albert Einstein, the man who wrote a single paper stating that e=mc2 and proving newtons laws of gravity stop working when leaving planet earth. Another one is Steven Hawking who proved there are black holes in the universe. Both men never set foot in space as astronouts, still they write papers and draw groundbraking conclusions.
As for google. Yes google is the best clustered search engine around. How can that be? It took 2 Stanford University graduate students who still had the right brains to think independantly and come up with something briljant like google. So google hires people who have proven to be able to think independantly, i.e. should have a Philosophic Doctorate (Ph.D.)?? Well thats certainly no news for me.
So how could it happen that a Ph.D. got a not so positive reputation? Well first off , the University Deans started handing out Ph.D. title's to people who unfortunately never used their brains in a Ph.D. worthy manner. These title's are also called Honorable Doctorate, and typically go to Enterprise business men, who rather contributed financially to science instead of using their brains. Next it became a habit that getting a Business School degree and/or MBA title became more or less a matter of paying the enormous scholarly fee, instead of publishing papers into international reviewed magazines. Lately it seems that big corporations are abusing University's reputation, by arranging its professors to publish scientific reports which only praise the corporations new products and ideas. Well its goes on and on, and suddenly Ph.D. worthy jobs are about to be outsourced to China and India. Or is that a silly joke?
Robert
- the patents office staff is not really qualified?
- the computer network of the patents office might be running on windows?
I imagine a windows popup with "Do you alway trust Microsoft" press [OK] or [Abort]. When selecting [OK] all patents applications from Microsoft Corp. are assigned a auto approval. An employee pressing [Abort] however might get into deep trouble, for not getting enough patent tickets passed in a single day.Its time we send real experienced scientists back as staff inside the Patents office. How can this happen?
Robert
Robert
http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/HOWTO-ossdvd.html
Robert
If even his CmdrTaco-nes squeezes the thumb screws on RedHat's community effort, Fedora,
then something must be going on. Or even worse essential efforts are not happening at Fedora's.
Lets find out, i would say.
Robert
I took a Mandrakeclub Silver Bullet star account some time ago, which costed me EU 120,= for 1 year. Oh and what a silver bullet it has been!
If have BitTorrent Downloaded the following stuff since then :
Mandrake 9.1 i586 Bamboo 3cd-set (off. ed.)
Mandrake 9.2 i586 Fivestar 3cd-set (off. ed.)
Mandrake 9.2RC1 AMD64 Fivestar 3cd-set (Beta)
Mandrake 9.2.1 i586 Fivestar SpecialClub ed. 3cd-set
Mandrake 9.2.1 i586 SpecialClub PowerPack 3cd-set
Mandrake Linux 9.2 FiveStar-AMD64 (Official Download) 4cd-set
Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official-download-i586 4cd-set
Mandrake linux 10.0RC1 AMD64 3cd-set
Only one missing here would be : Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official-download-AMD64 4cd-set. But they charge EU 119,= for that. Well give me a break! Mandrake has done the efforts which most have seen impossible on the Linux Desktop Platform. So if i am to purchase a dual Opteron hotrod, i certainly not only want to make sure Tyan stays around, but also Mandrake.
HOWTO CREATE A BOOTABLE DVD-R iso from 3 or 4 seperate Mandrake iso sets :
Go visit : http://www.deadtroll.com/ !!!
Robert
Robert
For real 64bit performance visit VooDoo software tuning and download the 64bit 2004 Longsword Gamez Demo. The Download of UT2004 64-bit English Linux Demo is around 200Mb.
Robert
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3687583.stm
"According to anti-virus firms machines running Windows 95, 98 and Millennium Edition can help spread Sasser even though they cannot be infected by it."
The 18 year old kid, (his name is Sven?) really hit Microsoft windows at its weakest sweetspot: Federal ordered builtin hookups for "remote security management" and other "activities" as e.g. Spyware.
Robert
"Microsoft signs security pact with Germany" http://news.com.com/2100-7343-5204643.html
That was on may 4th... Today THEY GOT HIM. Thats quite a remarkable effort from the Private Secret Police of Microsoft.
Robert
If a 18 year old kid can write a small piece of code which can lament and trembel a large part of our society, who should we blame?
Robert
IMHO the total insanity in Brussels started, when it was reported that U.S. Secret Intelligence have been routinely tapping phone lines on the complete telecommunication network which is part of the EU building infrastructure in Brussels.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-03-19-eu-p hone-taps_x.htm
Robert
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/04/cons0507/
"A leaked document from Bolkestein's DG Internal Market suggests that DG Information Society no longer objects to program claims. This concession by Liikanen is needed in order to rush the Council working group proposal through the ministers' session as an "A item", i.e. a consensus point which does not need any discussion by the ministers."
Robert