Not really. This is really no different than Redhat having their own kernel that they ship with their distribution. They include none standard patches. They were including ext3 before it became part of the default tree. They include lmsensors, and many other patches. SuSE does (or used to when I tried their distro) ship their own custom kernel.
So this is an official 'fork()' of the linux kernel. It really depends on how they do this. If they take the default kernel or current 2.4.x and add their patches and work with that they can actually send patches back to the main kernel which could make it into 2.5 / 2.6.
Oh and their are more tahn 3 kernel trees, 2.0.x (yes it is still used), 2.2.x, 2.4.x, 2.5.x and the -ac tree, which seems to have gone as Alan stepped aside (I could be wrong about this). There are also ALL sorts of projects out there that have patches to the kernel tree. So what?
The only issue arrises when things like glibc become effected or the kernel structures and people program for a particular tree. If that happens then their could be problems.
Using a database as a filesystem is a bad idea if there is a lot of traffic. Database IO is generally slower than filesystem access. My former internet company would agree with this as well as we tried to make db access as small as possible. One solution was to use caching of tables in memory to make the access faster, then timed updates to the database.
I'd recommend setting up failover servers instead of DB access.
oh sexual orientation shouldn't even be an issue but yes folks it is... actualy none of this should be an issue..
I've always wondered what it matters what or who you are as long as you can do the job. In many peoples mind they may think this as well, but how many practice it?
How many times have men in the workplace descriminated or made fun of women cause most women in tech are inferior. I have meet two woman who are 'tech savy' the rest of the women I have meet in tech don't want to be. They get there and then they want to get into management. I have meet to many people that are not college educated and are young in the tech industry and many still want to 'play' on the job rather than work. You may not fall into this case, but it is something to consider. Beleive it or not college is kinda like a 'proving ground'. While you may already have the computer skill, you may not have the same 'maturity' that comes from college grads.
While you may be good at your job, are you mature? If everyone around you is around 30, I'd be willing to bet you they are all married or settled down in their carreer. By 30 most people are finally established. Personally I find it difficult to believe that you were 15 when you first started working in IT, but that is because when I was 15 work was the last thing on my mind.
Maybe your boss is worried that you will leave or know to much and are making him feel insecure. If this is the case then maybe he is actually worried that someone like you could take his job.
I am not sure there is much you can do unless you can actually prove that he is descriminating against you for your age and not something else. you may ask your fellow coworkers how they view you. Not jsut as a fellow employee, but as a person as well. Maybe he just does not feel like he can trust you. Older people have problems trusting younger people especially if there is an age difference of more than 10 year.
Depends where live in the US. In many southern states it is against the law to own piranha case if they got loose in the wild (someone flushing them) they could wreak havoc.
Oh and are you sure they are piranha that you are seeing and not pacu? They are in the same family.
wine to run Quicktime.. hmm now that wine will Run quicktime and mplayer does not run movies that use the Sorenson codec (which is many of them) is this really useful for Quicktime moves?
I do like the fact that this gives Linux yet another avenue for media. This added in with xmovie, gtv, quicktime under wine, xaniam, and now mplayer. I love choices..
THere have been numerous movies on the subject. Maybe you are just to stupiud to realize the following facts:
1) Oscars are not native to Florida, but because som many have been released or 'flushed' they are now on the Florida fishing tables. Pick one up stupid.
2) Piranas are not allowed in teh US for the reason that they may take over a stream. FACT, stupid!
3) Guppies, and other livebearers have been released to help control algae in some areas. The result is that their fast reproduction causes the ecological balance to shift and natural species disappear.
There are probably dozons of other examples that people could come up with. The movies are not totally off the mark.
Who are you play 'God'?
Did you know that many of the steroids that we feed our livestock suck as cattle steroids to make them larger, beefer, and produce more milk are probably causing people to be more alergic to milk, people to be more aggressive and causing some of the other problems we are having????
I guess natures cows and fish aren't god enough for you you need to make them bigger. Hmm FYI, there are other movies out side of Jurassic park, like Pirannas, Shark Attack, and probably many others. Since you probably wont get the point of any of these movies, I'll tell you.
The point is that no one seems to care weather or not we SHOULD be doing this and is only interested in weather we CAN do this.
Obviously you know less about fish as many freshwater fish CAN survive in brackish water and saltwater. Zebra fish are very hardy fish and it is posible that they escape into streams.,P>Boy didn't any of you people see that sci fi movie where the genitically created bugs that were not supposed to be able to multiply mutated and took over the sewer. I think it was called mimic?? What about the whole theme in Jurasic park, nature will find away. Boy you people are just stupid.
What happens if these fish escape in the wild and change the ecological balance in the ocean? Suddenly because of their unique phisiology they have an advantage over other fish. Or other fish realize that these fish change color in poluted water and leave the area? Then you have fish that were in an area leave. It could be worse. I think that this genitic manipulation of fish shoudl stop. Will theswe fish be able to breed? Some fancy varieties of Goldfish currently cannot because they have been so inbreed and so selectively breed that they can no longer breed and if they tried they would probably die in the process. Yes this is truth. I am a fish breeder and keeper, and if you do your research you will find that certain fancy goldfish are man made mutants that can barely survive. There are also species of swordtails and mollies that fit in this category as well as the infamous 'parrott' fish, which is a hybred that is often injected with dye to give it its color.
Why not make humans change the color of their skin when they are aground polutants? What are we afraid of?? Having blue people?
I started using Linux in 1996. Back then it was hard to find out if X supported your video card. Now X supports most video cards except the newest and companies like Nvidia, Matrox and several others are providing drivers on their web sites for some of their cards. This is a big step.
With other hardware networorking under Linux seems to have been the biggest win-win. Many network cards are supported under Linux now as well. So are many sound cards.
Support comes slower under Linux, but it does seem to come. More and more larger companies are supporting LInux and with the way that windows XP is moving I am wondering how many people will really want to stay with windows. Since companies like IBM and other large companies are beginning to back linux it may only be a matter of time before the smaller companies and companies that promise Linux support actually do.
Personally I think it would be nice the be able to buy hardware for Linux and have it come with open source drivers and software. Or atleast instructions on what software you need to have on the machine and kernel drivers. Soon I hope...
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Kernel 2.4.17 Out
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2.4.10, 2.4.13, 2.4.16 have all been fairly stable on my desktop workstation.
The fact that 2.4.17 was ALL bug fixes is a good sign. It means that they are fixing the issues that they know about, like parport IEEE1394 seems to work better.
I see no reason not to use 2.4 at this point on a produciton machine. It is not until people do start doing so that we are going to find out all the kernel issues. I'd recommend trying this release if no other.
Thanks, I do have dos disks still. I was hoping I would not have to do that again though,but I was able to upgrade my BIOS. It had fixes for several issues.
Also it seems that between my biios update and 2.4.17 the parport issues has gone away. I think it was that they finally fixed the IEEE1394_ops.c code. Yes there were changes in this file that now makes my web cam work again;-)
Also does anyone know if they fixed the parport problems?
To answer your question about KT133, there is a bug on the VIA chipset that causes some people problems.
In my case and a few others there are IDE bugs. IDE IOMEGA zip 100 and VIA686B don't go togeather to well.
Also some people have had problems with using the ECC/ECP part of the parport. Again, in my case it was my webcam did not work. It stopped working in 2.4.13 or 14 not sure. I had a fix for it and explained on the lkml what the problem was, but not sure if that was ever acknowledged.
Well now I have a very good testing mechanism for testing kernels like this. I have a foo.test kernel and a foo.custom kernel. The custom kernel is the current kernel and the test is, well a test kernel. Nice thing about lilo is you can have multiple kernels. I can then boot the test kernel and make sure all works on my system. I'll be doing that tonight...
in particular how do you write a large program? I work on a program that has over 3000 files that are over 30 to 300 pages each. The software does alot for and has been around for over 30 years and has just had code sloppily added to it. So how does one go about rewriting an application that noone knows all the functionality of?
you obviously missed the "well not yet part of the comment".. the point it that cde is on its way out. if you want a free version of a WM like that on Linux try xfce.
completely dead environment.. well not yet but thats what it looks like is happening to it.
I'm kinda glad, as UNIX needs a new face. It is interesting that Ximian / Gnome is the one that it is getting rather than kde. Both HP and Sun are kinda backing gnome. Interesting though
At this point it is vapor ware, but we are porting our application to Linux. It was ported this summer to Sun from HP. I think it will be a month.
www.mccue.com
Who's Microsoft? What is I.E.?? I'm from the future, I heard about some company that had buggy software but then they passed that act of 2025 that required all software to be goverment approved and now the only OS left is MS Gov OS.
I didn't see what he is claiming. In order to actually know what his patent covers show us the claims of the patent.
I'm kinda supprised that a program got patented too. I would have thought that in 96 that would not have gotton patented as it IS software. Maybe you can just invalidate it that way. As a nonepatentable item.
Apparently this is not the first bet that Hawkins has done. He bet someone already that blackholes do not exist and he lost the bet. Good thing he is a good looser. I think he likes betting to get the other scientist to come up with proof.
actualy according to the show, it depends on where the earth / sun is at the time of collision. If we are on one side we would feed the blackholes at the center and earth would die. If we are at the other side then we would get throw out as you describe.
Then again there is the change that earth would be somewhere in between and survive unharmed. I'd be suprised if the human race was still around then and evolution hadn't had another species tak our place.
Aparently hubble which exists in space was so powerful at the time that it was put up there and it has the advantage that it does not have to go throuht the atmosperic distortion. However this new one is built on a mountain and is more powerful (newer technology) and is able to 'see' black holes at the center of galaxies. It seems that all galaxies have black holes, but not all black holes are feeding too. Of course the one at the center of our galaxy is feeding again... but don't worry, it wont eat us, at least not until after the andromedia galaxy collides with the milkyway in a few million years...
so far it is better than 2.4.11 to 2.4.15. It has ext3fs support as well. Although I have not tested that yet. There are some bugs but only in the buggy hardware that I have.
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The problem in 2.4.15 is umount does not umount. I had to bring my machine to init 1 from init 3 or 5 and then stop any remaining services, like apcupsd which was still running. Then I had to unmount -n/var and/usr and/tmp (as they are all mount points) run e2fsck on them. Then mount them and delete any/var/lock files that were there and then delete any/tmp.X11 files if there were any. Then shutdown and it still ran fsck at startup.
Not sure what it would do to a journaled ext3 fs. I was planning on moving on small partition over to ext3fs with 2.4.15, but I may wait till 2.4.16 or later to make sure that all is aoky.
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So this is an official 'fork()' of the linux kernel. It really depends on how they do this. If they take the default kernel or current 2.4.x and add their patches and work with that they can actually send patches back to the main kernel which could make it into 2.5 / 2.6.
Oh and their are more tahn 3 kernel trees, 2.0.x (yes it is still used), 2.2.x, 2.4.x, 2.5.x and the -ac tree, which seems to have gone as Alan stepped aside (I could be wrong about this). There are also ALL sorts of projects out there that have patches to the kernel tree. So what?
The only issue arrises when things like glibc become effected or the kernel structures and people program for a particular tree. If that happens then their could be problems.
I'd recommend setting up failover servers instead of DB access.
I've always wondered what it matters what or who you are as long as you can do the job. In many peoples mind they may think this as well, but how many practice it?
How many times have men in the workplace descriminated or made fun of women cause most women in tech are inferior. I have meet two woman who are 'tech savy' the rest of the women I have meet in tech don't want to be. They get there and then they want to get into management. I have meet to many people that are not college educated and are young in the tech industry and many still want to 'play' on the job rather than work. You may not fall into this case, but it is something to consider. Beleive it or not college is kinda like a 'proving ground'. While you may already have the computer skill, you may not have the same 'maturity' that comes from college grads.
While you may be good at your job, are you mature? If everyone around you is around 30, I'd be willing to bet you they are all married or settled down in their carreer. By 30 most people are finally established. Personally I find it difficult to believe that you were 15 when you first started working in IT, but that is because when I was 15 work was the last thing on my mind.
Maybe your boss is worried that you will leave or know to much and are making him feel insecure. If this is the case then maybe he is actually worried that someone like you could take his job.
I am not sure there is much you can do unless you can actually prove that he is descriminating against you for your age and not something else. you may ask your fellow coworkers how they view you. Not jsut as a fellow employee, but as a person as well. Maybe he just does not feel like he can trust you. Older people have problems trusting younger people especially if there is an age difference of more than 10 year.
Oh and are you sure they are piranha that you are seeing and not pacu? They are in the same family.
I do like the fact that this gives Linux yet another avenue for media. This added in with xmovie, gtv, quicktime under wine, xaniam, and now mplayer. I love choices..
1) Oscars are not native to Florida, but because som many have been released or 'flushed' they are now on the Florida fishing tables. Pick one up stupid.
2) Piranas are not allowed in teh US for the reason that they may take over a stream. FACT, stupid!
3) Guppies, and other livebearers have been released to help control algae in some areas. The result is that their fast reproduction causes the ecological balance to shift and natural species disappear.
There are probably dozons of other examples that people could come up with. The movies are not totally off the mark.
Who are you play 'God'?
Did you know that many of the steroids that we feed our livestock suck as cattle steroids to make them larger, beefer, and produce more milk are probably causing people to be more alergic to milk, people to be more aggressive and causing some of the other problems we are having????
I guess natures cows and fish aren't god enough for you you need to make them bigger. Hmm FYI, there are other movies out side of Jurassic park, like Pirannas, Shark Attack, and probably many others. Since you probably wont get the point of any of these movies, I'll tell you.
The point is that no one seems to care weather or not we SHOULD be doing this and is only interested in weather we CAN do this.
Obviously you know less about fish as many freshwater fish CAN survive in brackish water and saltwater. Zebra fish are very hardy fish and it is posible that they escape into streams. ,P>Boy didn't any of you people see that sci fi movie where the genitically created bugs that were not supposed to be able to multiply mutated and took over the sewer. I think it was called mimic?? What about the whole theme in Jurasic park, nature will find away. Boy you people are just stupid.
Why not make humans change the color of their skin when they are aground polutants? What are we afraid of?? Having blue people?
With other hardware networorking under Linux seems to have been the biggest win-win. Many network cards are supported under Linux now as well. So are many sound cards.
Support comes slower under Linux, but it does seem to come. More and more larger companies are supporting LInux and with the way that windows XP is moving I am wondering how many people will really want to stay with windows. Since companies like IBM and other large companies are beginning to back linux it may only be a matter of time before the smaller companies and companies that promise Linux support actually do.
Personally I think it would be nice the be able to buy hardware for Linux and have it come with open source drivers and software. Or atleast instructions on what software you need to have on the machine and kernel drivers. Soon I hope...
The fact that 2.4.17 was ALL bug fixes is a good sign. It means that they are fixing the issues that they know about, like parport IEEE1394 seems to work better.
I see no reason not to use 2.4 at this point on a produciton machine. It is not until people do start doing so that we are going to find out all the kernel issues. I'd recommend trying this release if no other.
Also it seems that between my biios update and 2.4.17 the parport issues has gone away. I think it was that they finally fixed the IEEE1394_ops.c code. Yes there were changes in this file that now makes my web cam work again ;-)
Also does anyone know if they fixed the parport problems?
To answer your question about KT133, there is a bug on the VIA chipset that causes some people problems.
In my case and a few others there are IDE bugs. IDE IOMEGA zip 100 and VIA686B don't go togeather to well.
Also some people have had problems with using the ECC/ECP part of the parport. Again, in my case it was my webcam did not work. It stopped working in 2.4.13 or 14 not sure. I had a fix for it and explained on the lkml what the problem was, but not sure if that was ever acknowledged.
Well now I have a very good testing mechanism for testing kernels like this. I have a foo.test kernel and a foo.custom kernel. The custom kernel is the current kernel and the test is, well a test kernel. Nice thing about lilo is you can have multiple kernels. I can then boot the test kernel and make sure all works on my system. I'll be doing that tonight...
in particular how do you write a large program? I work on a program that has over 3000 files that are over 30 to 300 pages each. The software does alot for and has been around for over 30 years and has just had code sloppily added to it. So how does one go about rewriting an application that noone knows all the functionality of?
you obviously missed the "well not yet part of the comment".. the point it that cde is on its way out. if you want a free version of a WM like that on Linux try xfce.
I'm kinda glad, as UNIX needs a new face. It is interesting that Ximian / Gnome is the one that it is getting rather than kde. Both HP and Sun are kinda backing gnome. Interesting though
At this point it is vapor ware, but we are porting our application to Linux. It was ported this summer to Sun from HP. I think it will be a month. www.mccue.com
LOL
I'm kinda supprised that a program got patented too. I would have thought that in 96 that would not have gotton patented as it IS software. Maybe you can just invalidate it that way. As a nonepatentable item.
Still can you show us the claims?
1) b) If you have used other operating systems, (including palmOS) what do you think could be done to make the playing field more even?
2) Do you honestly think that Microsofts monopoly can be controlled?
Apparently this is not the first bet that Hawkins has done. He bet someone already that blackholes do not exist and he lost the bet. Good thing he is a good looser. I think he likes betting to get the other scientist to come up with proof.
Oh come on, don't tell me you don't love those mother daughter commercials about tampons... ROTFLOL..
Today they target by demographic and what they think is watching, tomorrow they target by who they know is watching.
Why do I feel like somebodies watching me???
Then again there is the change that earth would be somewhere in between and survive unharmed. I'd be suprised if the human race was still around then and evolution hadn't had another species tak our place.
Aparently hubble which exists in space was so powerful at the time that it was put up there and it has the advantage that it does not have to go throuht the atmosperic distortion. However this new one is built on a mountain and is more powerful (newer technology) and is able to 'see' black holes at the center of galaxies. It seems that all galaxies have black holes, but not all black holes are feeding too. Of course the one at the center of our galaxy is feeding again... but don't worry, it wont eat us, at least not until after the andromedia galaxy collides with the milkyway in a few million years...
so far it is better than 2.4.11 to 2.4.15. It has ext3fs support as well. Although I have not tested that yet. There are some bugs but only in the buggy hardware that I have.
Not sure what it would do to a journaled ext3 fs. I was planning on moving on small partition over to ext3fs with 2.4.15, but I may wait till 2.4.16 or later to make sure that all is aoky.