Grannies and relatives buy lots of this stuff off shelves at the store.
No, they don't. What the hell kind of Granny you got? Granny (my wife's) surfs the web, and sends lots of email (STOP with the email if you're reading this, Granny!). Grannies may do their bills online or compose a letter and print it. AND MAYBE, at the outer limits, they might even play some music. Linux does 99.9% of what granny wants, and it does it better than M$.
Maybe you should ask why your DSL is so asymmetric.
Why are asymmetric connections so much cheaper and more common? Data flow is not more expensive one way than the other. Is it the man trying to keep the masses consuming what he dishes out, and keep them from distributing their own content?
That's the point of my post: people shouldn't trust Wal-Mart. They are only in it to make money, not because they care about customers. And those kind of people should never be trusted.
Of course, most people are bassackward f---s (or what did the original post say, mullets?), so they don't even think about it.
any type of vile, violent, brash, foul, obscene,...
If only it were just that material that Wal-Mart was censoring. Wal-Mart also censors a Sheryl Crow album because it contains lyrics that are critical of Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart is not out to protect kids. They're out to protect themselves and their bottom line. That's all they care about. And part of that is removing any criticism of themselves from American culture.
I use nfs locking for everything. It's just as good as regular file locking.
Try this: Create/nfsmount/.lockfile on the nfsdrive readable by everyone. After the clients mount the nfs drive, have them perform a read (non-exclusive) lock on/nfsmount/.lockfile & Put it in the background. (clientnfslock/nfsmount/.lockfile & ) In the server shutdown script put in a routine that fails if it can not perform a write (exclusive) lock on that same file. (... servernfslock/nfsmount/.lockfile || exit;...)
Note that flock will not work across NFS, so you have to use fcntl. Of course you can do this in perl:
servernfslock: #!/usr/bin/perl
use Fcntl; $cinfile=$ARGV[0]; open(TEMP,"+ $cinfile") || die "Couldn't open the file $cinfile\n"; &lockfile(TEMP) || die " Could not lock file $cinfile\n";
sub lockfile {
$bub=$_[0];
$lockz = pack('s s l l s', &F_WRLCK, 0, 0, 0, 0);
$gg=fcntl($bub, &F_SETLK,$lockz ) || -1; # do a write lock
return $gg; }
and clientnfslock is the same except you use a F_RDLCK instead of a F_WRLCK, and you put a sleep at the end of the script so the script never dies and the file never closes and never becomes unlocked.
The beauty is that this utilizes the very service of interest (nfs) and none other.
Of course, don't run clientnfslock on your server, or it won't shut down:). If you have problems contact me: slashdotNFSlockdec03.12.cudgle@spamgourmet.com
Here's something I was just wondering when I took cash out: Why can Diebold manufacture reliable cash machines that create a verifiable paper trails, but can't make voting machines to do the same? The machine gives me a receipt, and even when I ask it not to give me one, I can hear it printing something inside, related to the transaction.
Yes, one would need to install better wiring and better transformers than those cheap, shitty little bricks use. But by spending money on a single quality transformer with some intelligent electronics, rather than lots of little shitty bricks (some of them are REALLY bad), you could get a product that saves you energy and is a lot more convenient.
Power conversion should be done at a central location in the building. There should be standard 12V DC plugs and strips as well as the higher AC voltage all over the building.
That is a very good point. They don't even list Google. While google may not be one of the 1000 largest companies, it probably handles more web traffic than all those 1000 companies put together.
I can throw 2 video cards into windows 2000 and they just.... work. No crazy editting of the config files.
No, they don't. You have to throw in the driver disk and hope that installs correctly, etc.
And, no, with RedHat you don't have to edit the config files. It does just work. You may not get the latest greatest performance, but you will if you install the drivers.
There were so many Farscape stories posted on/., I figured it must be a good show, so I downloaded and watched the first 3 episodes. It sucked. Even my wife, who is much less discriminating, didn't like it. There must be a lot of people that enjoy bad sci-fi.
From the article: For the rest of us whose time is money, we will keep using Mac OS X or Windows XP
For those of us whose time really is money, we don't spend time worrying about upgrading Gaim from.71 to.72, or mp3 or video playback, or getting "Flash" to work in our browsers.
The 'Time' web site table of contents for that issue says: Please Note: The March 02, 1998 issue of TIME Magazine is now premium paid content on TIME.com... Yet the story is not there. This is deceptive. It is not really the March 02, 1998 issue. It is the 2003 version of the 1998 issue.
Time magazine and other printed news sources like it purport to be a "papers of record". This means what they write should be useful as historical records of what happened at that point in time, not some revisionist version of what the government thinks history should be.
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Grannies and relatives buy lots of this stuff off shelves at the store.
No, they don't. What the hell kind of Granny you got? Granny (my wife's) surfs the web, and sends lots of email (STOP with the email if you're reading this, Granny!). Grannies may do their bills online or compose a letter and print it. AND MAYBE, at the outer limits, they might even play some music. Linux does 99.9% of what granny wants, and it does it better than M$.
reat until little Johnny wants to play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City that he got from his ill-informed mom.
I may get burned for this, but then Roblimo kept yet another kid from playing a game that he really shouldn't be playing.
Unfortunately most of the Bollywood movies I've downloaded are poor quality. They're all postage stamp size and many don't have subtitles.
Please reference any kazaa or torrent good quality bollywoods.
A while back the FCC made a decision that has removed the availability of unbundled DSL service.
Do you have a link for this?
Of course I understand the Baby Bell's position, you want me to not charge for the line?
CLEC's don't get the lines for free from the baby bells. They do pay a wholesale rate.
When I was in Shanghai last year I took this pic out of amusement.
That's 1 quintillion nanoseconds!
I was born just before 1970.
I'm a billion seconds old.
Holy shit.
Maybe you should ask why your DSL is so asymmetric.
Why are asymmetric connections so much cheaper and more common? Data flow is not more expensive one way than the other. Is it the man trying to keep the masses consuming what he dishes out, and keep them from distributing their own content?
It's okay.
Especially since they've probably done this lots of times, and they'd have little idea who you are.
people TRUST Wal-Mart
That's the point of my post: people shouldn't trust Wal-Mart. They are only in it to make money, not because they care about customers. And those kind of people should never be trusted.
Of course, most people are bassackward f---s (or what did the original post say, mullets?), so they don't even think about it.
any type of vile, violent, brash, foul, obscene, ...
If only it were just that material that Wal-Mart was censoring. Wal-Mart also censors a Sheryl Crow album because it contains lyrics that are critical of Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart is not out to protect kids. They're out to protect themselves and their bottom line. That's all they care about. And part of that is removing any criticism of themselves from American culture.
http://jumpbump.mine.nu/
I use nfs locking for everything. It's just as good as regular file locking.
/nfsmount/.lockfile on the nfsdrive readable by everyone. /nfsmount/.lockfile & Put it in the background. /nfsmount/.lockfile & ) /nfsmount/.lockfile || exit; ...)
:). If you have problems contact me: slashdotNFSlockdec03.12.cudgle@spamgourmet.com
Try this:
Create
After the clients mount the nfs drive, have them perform a read (non-exclusive) lock on
(clientnfslock
In the server shutdown script put in a routine that fails if it can not perform a write (exclusive) lock on that same file.
(... servernfslock
Note that flock will not work across NFS, so you have to use fcntl. Of course you can do this in perl:
servernfslock:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Fcntl;
$cinfile=$ARGV[0];
open(TEMP,"+ $cinfile") || die "Couldn't open the file $cinfile\n";
&lockfile(TEMP) || die " Could not lock file $cinfile\n";
sub lockfile {
$bub=$_[0];
$lockz = pack('s s l l s', &F_WRLCK, 0, 0, 0, 0);
$gg=fcntl($bub, &F_SETLK,$lockz ) || -1; # do a write lock
return $gg;
}
and clientnfslock is the same except you use a F_RDLCK instead of a F_WRLCK, and you put a
sleep
at the end of the script so the script never dies and the file never closes and never becomes unlocked.
The beauty is that this utilizes the very service of interest (nfs) and none other.
Of course, don't run clientnfslock on your server, or it won't shut down
Here's something I was just wondering when I took cash out: Why can Diebold manufacture reliable cash machines that create a verifiable paper trails, but can't make voting machines to do the same? The machine gives me a receipt, and even when I ask it not to give me one, I can hear it printing something inside, related to the transaction.
Yes, one would need to install better wiring and better transformers than those cheap, shitty little bricks use. But by spending money on a single quality transformer with some intelligent electronics, rather than lots of little shitty bricks (some of them are REALLY bad), you could get a product that saves you energy and is a lot more convenient.
Power conversion should be done at a central location in the building. There should be standard 12V DC plugs and strips as well as the higher AC voltage all over the building.
That is a very good point. They don't even list Google. While google may not be one of the 1000 largest companies, it probably handles more web traffic than all those 1000 companies put together.
For the price of a sandwich I sit in the sandwich shop for a couple hours using their internet connection. (I also get a sandwich in the deal! mmmmm.)
If you're running a commercial server system and you want predictability rather than great features, go w/ the purchased version.
If you actually like new, usable software (desktop) go with Fedora. It's very nice, very slick. Except for the missing pine...
I can throw 2 video cards into windows 2000 and they just.... work. No crazy editting of the config files.
No, they don't. You have to throw in the driver disk and hope that installs correctly, etc.
And, no, with RedHat you don't have to edit the config files. It does just work. You may not get the latest greatest performance, but you will if you install the drivers.
There were so many Farscape stories posted on /., I figured it must be a good show, so I downloaded and watched the first 3 episodes. It sucked. Even my wife, who is much less discriminating, didn't like it. There must be a lot of people that enjoy bad sci-fi.
Sorry.
Does this re-release contain all those updates to other packages that they released for 9.2 earlier?
From the article:
.71 to .72, or mp3 or video playback, or getting "Flash" to work in our browsers.
For the rest of us whose time is money, we will keep using Mac OS X or Windows XP
For those of us whose time really is money, we don't spend time worrying about upgrading Gaim from
The 'Time' web site table of contents for that issue says:
Please Note: The March 02, 1998 issue of TIME Magazine is now premium paid content on TIME.com...
Yet the story is not there. This is deceptive. It is not really the March 02, 1998 issue. It is the 2003 version of the 1998 issue.
Time magazine and other printed news sources like it purport to be a "papers of record". This means what they write should be useful as historical records of what happened at that point in time, not some revisionist version of what the government thinks history should be.
Sounds like a quick way to make a lot of money.