Speaking of F1 Racing, why isn't auto racing in the summer olympics? If steeplechase (which as far as I can tell requires almost no human athleticism, just a very good horse) is a sport, then surely auto racing is. It just uses a lot more horsepower per human:)
That would be great - no cell phones in theatres, concert halls, my home, etc. Tough to enforce, what with the Sun spewing out RF as well, but I can dream:)
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Why don't you put the satellite dish outside the band of trees, or up in one? Take a lesson from Cringely on that one:)
And don't buy a house. I don't know who all they sold my name to, but I get all kinds of junk mail, most of it concerned with the fact that I will soon drop dead and how will my family pay off the house, etc., etc. They even have the purchase price of the house (which is public record, I suppose, but you bet they didn't get it from there).
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Yeah, the Transformers had interchangeable weapons too. At least until they started making the holes in their fists slightly different sizes:(
A lot of the robots appear to have more communications difficulties than anything - either they were never tested at sufficient distance from the controllers, or else their antennae seem to be the first to go. A fully-autonomous bot with sufficient redundant sensors and the ability to hunt down other robots on its own would be a great advantage, I would think. The robot wars arms race is pretty quiet recently, since most of the really good weapons designs have been figured out and the only question is implementation. I predict that robot intelligence (at least enough to assist the human controllers) will be the next winning strategy.
Lego bots are invincible if you just program them to park next to someone's bed and make a loud noise in the middle of the night - think of them as kamikaze mindstorms:)
He removes killall, ipchains, and network. However, it is a separate script (S01halt) that does the processor shutdown. So either this is different on his distribution (unlikely but possible), or he just forgot to mention it, or there's something more complicated going on here that I'm not quite understanding.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but on all of my boxes, after I run shutdown -h and all of the killall scripts are run, it runs S01halt, which then calls either halt or reboot. This either stops the processor (soft power down) or else reboots the thing. The author didn't mention how he avoided this problem in his efforts - if you want the box to run in run level 0, you have to also disable the script that runs at that run level that shuts down the machine. Otherwise your machine really will be halted and there won't be any firewalling going on. Or more precisely, everything will be firewalled:) Did he not mention this problem, or did I just miss it somehow?
Assuming that this works, I don't see a whole lot of advantage to this over just using a firewall that's booted from a read-only floppy firewall distribution. Except that if you could come back from run level 0 (not sure if you can or not) then you could remount the disks, make a change to your firewalling rules, and then return to the halted mode. That might be a minor advantage over floppyfw systems.
Personally, I would feel very uncomfortable with 2000 billion $ on my account knowing that 40000
people die of famine every day (that's right, eight WTC towers a day). If that is the American Way,
then I would rather be called a communist.
I agree with your point about the Microsoft double standard, and in fact have never disagreed with that viewpoint.
Hmmm, and how many people died per day in the USSR under Stalin, or die per day now in China under Communist rule? Not to mention the intangible losses in terms of freedom of speech, religion, etc. Communism ain't all it's cracked up to be either, you know.
If you're multisited, it's easier to abandon your current replica and restore from a remote replica. Depending on your synchronization versus backup schedule, the remote replica might be more up-to-date anyway.
Maybe they did it to force you to decide if you want to be part of the Free Software/Open Source community or not. It's annoying to me as well when I can't have my cake and eat it too, but I don't complain about the people that make cakes:)
It's just like the GPL - the license is a means to form and defend the community for the good of the community. If you don't like it, that's OK too, but don't say that those community-maintaining features are the problem. They're a feature, not a bug.
If you didn't take the ClearCASE admin class before diving in (likely if you're an intern) then I do pity you. But it's not that hard to deal with if you've had the training.
What version were you using that dumped core? I think I've seen ClearCASE client processes do that maybe twice, and the server processes never. Although it could be that our network is just too damn stable around here:)
How to delete a file: "cleartool rmelem". One command does it all, if you're the admin. Of course, if you want to remove a file from a directory but still keep all the versions you can use "rmname", or other commands - it just depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
I've never seen a workstation rendered unusable by a ClearCASE problem - in the worst case I've had to remove the view and recreate it, which I guess sort of counts as destroying a database. But even a broken view won't prevent use of ClearCASE in other views on the machine. Unless this is a Windows ClearCASE bug?
The only file that you can't destroy in a ClearCASE vob is the/lost+found directory, because it's part of the filesystem. Everything else is mutable if you have appropriate admin permissions.
Never tried their customer support - I'd suggest going to a newsgroup or searching the web for help first. There are a lot of very knowledgeable ClearCASE admins (of which I am not one:) out there who can help.
Most of the babysitting the ClearCASE needs is with regards to the multisite/distributed development environment. Since it was originally geared for an environment where sites weren't always connected, it does a UUCP-like synch process where it sends packets of changes with monotonically increasing revision numbers, etc. If you have an import of a packet mess up then you have some work to do to straighten it out, because ClearCASE isn't really smart enough to. This is not a full-time job (well, at least not at my site), just a little trouble-shooting now and then. But if the arch tool can handle multisite development in a distributed and less-coupled way than ClearCASE, then it really might be time to switch.
Oh yeah, ClearCASE does have one nice feature in common with arch that CVS lacks: it does treat directories and files as elements separate from their names, so you can rename things and even remove files from directories without actually losing the element and its associated revision history.
You'd get no argument from me, except that they f*cked up the xlsvtree too:( For example, when doing a merge, you used to get to pick both files in the same window, but now it pops up a separate window and forces you to find the version again. Not to mention the lame tool that comes up (eventually) when you do a describe.
It's true that I wouldn't use the GUI under any OS to do a merge for a bunch of files.
The ability to do distributed development, manage multiple (possibly hostile or private) branches at once, good merge and diff tools, etc. sounds sort of like ClearCASE. Except of course that ClearCASE costs money, and doesn't have the global namespace thing going on. Rational had better be careful or their customers are going to move over to arch (especially since their Unix GUIs have sucked more and more with each successive release).
Bravo to the author on this tool - it sounds like a great advance of the state of the art if it works like he says.
Boss, will you allow me to install linux on this 32-way SPARC box?
No, of course not. But if you hadn't already bought a 32-way SPARC machine, and you could get the same thing done cheaper with a few x86/Linux boxes, then I think it might be a different question...
It's still not cyberpiracy (ack, what an ugly and misleading term) if he created the site before the trademark existed. He got the site first-come, first-served, without any trademark issues, and has a perfect right to sell it to whomever he wants for however much they can agree to. Perhaps Unicom should have looked for others who were using the name "Unicom" before picking a trademark that would conflict with a pre-established domain name?
Slashdot Mirror
That doesn't find all the files.
Speaking of F1 Racing, why isn't auto racing in the summer olympics? If steeplechase (which as far as I can tell requires almost no human athleticism, just a very good horse) is a sport, then surely auto racing is. It just uses a lot more horsepower per human :)
That would be great - no cell phones in theatres, concert halls, my home, etc. Tough to enforce, what with the Sun spewing out RF as well, but I can dream :)
Why don't you put the satellite dish outside the band of trees, or up in one? Take a lesson from Cringely on that one :)
Mental note: wear pants tomorrow.
:) characters added to meet lame slashcode line length requirement
And don't buy a house. I don't know who all they sold my name to, but I get all kinds of junk mail, most of it concerned with the fact that I will soon drop dead and how will my family pay off the house, etc., etc. They even have the purchase price of the house (which is public record, I suppose, but you bet they didn't get it from there).
Yeah, the Transformers had interchangeable weapons too. At least until they started making the holes in their fists slightly different sizes :(
A lot of the robots appear to have more communications difficulties than anything - either they were never tested at sufficient distance from the controllers, or else their antennae seem to be the first to go. A fully-autonomous bot with sufficient redundant sensors and the ability to hunt down other robots on its own would be a great advantage, I would think. The robot wars arms race is pretty quiet recently, since most of the really good weapons designs have been figured out and the only question is implementation. I predict that robot intelligence (at least enough to assist the human controllers) will be the next winning strategy.
Lego bots are invincible if you just program them to park next to someone's bed and make a loud noise in the middle of the night - think of them as kamikaze mindstorms :)
"Ow! Sharp!!"
He removes killall, ipchains, and network. However, it is a separate script (S01halt) that does the processor shutdown. So either this is different on his distribution (unlikely but possible), or he just forgot to mention it, or there's something more complicated going on here that I'm not quite understanding.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but on all of my boxes, after I run shutdown -h and all of the killall scripts are run, it runs S01halt, which then calls either halt or reboot. This either stops the processor (soft power down) or else reboots the thing. The author didn't mention how he avoided this problem in his efforts - if you want the box to run in run level 0, you have to also disable the script that runs at that run level that shuts down the machine. Otherwise your machine really will be halted and there won't be any firewalling going on. Or more precisely, everything will be firewalled :) Did he not mention this problem, or did I just miss it somehow?
Assuming that this works, I don't see a whole lot of advantage to this over just using a firewall that's booted from a read-only floppy firewall distribution. Except that if you could come back from run level 0 (not sure if you can or not) then you could remount the disks, make a change to your firewalling rules, and then return to the halted mode. That might be a minor advantage over floppyfw systems.
And if we legalized and taxed pirated software, the whole problem would go away. Just think, no more inner city kids have to die for Adobe Photoshop :)
The comment in defense of communism:
I agree with your point about the Microsoft double standard, and in fact have never disagreed with that viewpoint.
Hmmm, and how many people died per day in the USSR under Stalin, or die per day now in China under Communist rule? Not to mention the intangible losses in terms of freedom of speech, religion, etc. Communism ain't all it's cracked up to be either, you know.
[Ballmer]: Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler!
Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler, Entwickler!
(It helps if you imagine a large man jumping up and down while yelling this :).
If you're multisited, it's easier to abandon your current replica and restore from a remote replica. Depending on your synchronization versus backup schedule, the remote replica might be more up-to-date anyway.
/. inserts a space in any string over a certain size to prevent attacks where someone posts a huge string and forces the display to be a mile wide.
If you make the URL a link like this (which is common courtesy anyway) then /. doesn't break the URL.
Drivers are distributed with the kernel for two reasons:
The USB drivers aren't overly entangled with the real innards of the kernel, they just happen to be shipped in the same tarball.
Maybe they did it to force you to decide if you want to be part of the Free Software/Open Source community or not. It's annoying to me as well when I can't have my cake and eat it too, but I don't complain about the people that make cakes :)
It's just like the GPL - the license is a means to form and defend the community for the good of the community. If you don't like it, that's OK too, but don't say that those community-maintaining features are the problem. They're a feature, not a bug.
If you didn't take the ClearCASE admin class before diving in (likely if you're an intern) then I do pity you. But it's not that hard to deal with if you've had the training.
What version were you using that dumped core? I think I've seen ClearCASE client processes do that maybe twice, and the server processes never. Although it could be that our network is just too damn stable around here :)
How to delete a file: "cleartool rmelem". One command does it all, if you're the admin. Of course, if you want to remove a file from a directory but still keep all the versions you can use "rmname", or other commands - it just depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
I've never seen a workstation rendered unusable by a ClearCASE problem - in the worst case I've had to remove the view and recreate it, which I guess sort of counts as destroying a database. But even a broken view won't prevent use of ClearCASE in other views on the machine. Unless this is a Windows ClearCASE bug?
The only file that you can't destroy in a ClearCASE vob is the /lost+found directory, because it's part of the filesystem. Everything else is mutable if you have appropriate admin permissions.
Never tried their customer support - I'd suggest going to a newsgroup or searching the web for help first. There are a lot of very knowledgeable ClearCASE admins (of which I am not one :) out there who can help.
Most of the babysitting the ClearCASE needs is with regards to the multisite/distributed development environment. Since it was originally geared for an environment where sites weren't always connected, it does a UUCP-like synch process where it sends packets of changes with monotonically increasing revision numbers, etc. If you have an import of a packet mess up then you have some work to do to straighten it out, because ClearCASE isn't really smart enough to. This is not a full-time job (well, at least not at my site), just a little trouble-shooting now and then. But if the arch tool can handle multisite development in a distributed and less-coupled way than ClearCASE, then it really might be time to switch.
Oh yeah, ClearCASE does have one nice feature in common with arch that CVS lacks: it does treat directories and files as elements separate from their names, so you can rename things and even remove files from directories without actually losing the element and its associated revision history.
You'd get no argument from me, except that they f*cked up the xlsvtree too :( For example, when doing a merge, you used to get to pick both files in the same window, but now it pops up a separate window and forces you to find the version again. Not to mention the lame tool that comes up (eventually) when you do a describe.
It's true that I wouldn't use the GUI under any OS to do a merge for a bunch of files.
The ability to do distributed development, manage multiple (possibly hostile or private) branches at once, good merge and diff tools, etc. sounds sort of like ClearCASE. Except of course that ClearCASE costs money, and doesn't have the global namespace thing going on. Rational had better be careful or their customers are going to move over to arch (especially since their Unix GUIs have sucked more and more with each successive release).
Bravo to the author on this tool - it sounds like a great advance of the state of the art if it works like he says.
No, of course not. But if you hadn't already bought a 32-way SPARC machine, and you could get the same thing done cheaper with a few x86/Linux boxes, then I think it might be a different question...
It's still not cyberpiracy (ack, what an ugly and misleading term) if he created the site before the trademark existed. He got the site first-come, first-served, without any trademark issues, and has a perfect right to sell it to whomever he wants for however much they can agree to. Perhaps Unicom should have looked for others who were using the name "Unicom" before picking a trademark that would conflict with a pre-established domain name?