After the first call to RedHat support to find out why we couldn't connect more than 256 telnet connections to one of our servers we droped the whole RedHat idea like a brick. Waiting 3 days while they researched it,
I posted the same question on the Debian Users mailling list and got an answer back in less than an hour. Recompile the kernel and set Unix PTYs to a higher number up to 2048. Lucky I was a long time Debian user and had access to the list to ask the question.
Really now, Debian support, supports Redhat better than Redhat support did. Oh and Redhat never did come up with an answer. We had to tell them what we did. Then of course they could no longer support us because we were useing a custom kernel.:(
all our servers sence then have been Debian servers. 27 in all.
Do you have no grasp of language at all. I thought it was more than obvious he was refering to his rocket as a simile to a catapult for launching parachutists into higher altitudes.
Do you have no grasp of language at all. I thought it was more than obvious he was refering to his rocket as a similey to a catipult for launching parachutests into higher altitudes.
Don't try to confuse this issue with facts...Just kidding wanted to make sure the mood was light....I was up there every weekend during the time of the fire. I too live in the Phoenix area and actually grew up in LakeSide. I had watched the politics up there for years. The Mexican Spotted Owl does live in that area and was one of the reasons they kept controlled burnning and fire wood gathering down.
Cutting firewood in the area has changed a great deal due to the fact that they are afraid downing dead trees will destroy the home of a rare animal. You can cut natural fallen trees for the same reason. In many places you can only cut firewood in areas that have been pre-thinned by the forest service. Personly when cutting firewood that is the best way because it is all close and easy to get to. As for forest management it doesn't really help much.
I did happen to be there the weekend before the fire. I left the monday before it started. When it first started and only burned a small area near cibicue I wasn't worried as my parents were on the far other side of Showlow about halfway between Showlow and Springerville near the town of Vernon.
By the next Sunday they had evacuated Showlow and shutdown the 60. I drove through payson and north to I40 across to Concho and down to Vernon. We spent 4 days trimming trees watering plants and doing as much as we could.
By thursday I had to be back to work so I drove down through Whiteriver and on to the 60 then down through Globe.
The Next Friday I was on the road again and drove back up to trim more trees. Driveing through the evacuated Hondah area and got pulled over. They were just makeing sure I wasn't a looter. Trimmed more trees for the next 2 days.
By that sunday they started letting people back into Showlow. The fire had hit the 5% contained mark (witch I would guess was an underestimate due to Jim Paxton's past mistake) and we were all much relived.
I haven't driven back through the area yet but I have heard that there is a loot of open dead land that was once thick forest.
Anyway, Am I denying that there was a lot of political games played? Hell no. Do I still blame the fact that things were not taken care of due to pressure from the "tree huggers?" Yes I do. More so than I blame the guy that actually started it. (Not to say he has no fault or to defend him I hope he is nailed to the wall)
Ok, I am rambling here. Please reply, I don't mean to sound inflamitory or anything.
Wow your going to take armed men and march on capital hill just because Nasa is not getting the budget it needs?
I don't think so. Maybe you should think about your wording. large groups of people that want something Really bad are going to have a lot of power. This is where special intrest groups come in.
This is also a really bad thing. It was the special intrest groups that wouldn't let the forest service manage the forests in Showlow, AZ. and it burned 450k acres of land. You cant clean out them dead and dry trees a spoted owl might live in it...Yea, where the fuck is the spotted owl going to live now? Where are the 400 families that lost there homes going to live now? What about the Deer and Elk that inhabit that area?
Yea, lets let nature clean itself out. meanwhile we can all parish in the name of morality. Is there really anything wrong with people doing, in a clean fashoned way, what nature would do in a masive and distructive way?
Ok that was a tangent. Sorry I have family in that area.
Ok, I think I still hav eone of these with a serial interface that I use to use for my really old 1991 era laptop. That would probly work I suppose for a short term thing. I would just really like it to be more like part of the rest of the cabinet and just hit play, pause, stop, next etc... on the unit itself.
Designing a better O ring for the base of the toilot is most likly one of the much better things that you might find as waisted money. I would be more instrested in finding out what people are paid $200k+ because they are just assigned to the project and not actually do anything.
When someone is actually doing something liek O ring development that is atleast going into the research and development. Its the people that are only there because they want their input into the program and they have the money/power to do it.
There really does need to be a unity of command on some of these projects. Panels are only usefull as advisors there still needs to be one person that dictates how it all gets done in the end. Panels start to push and pull political games until the entire thing flops.
Everything you discuss above could be changed if enough people wanted it to change.
wow, they sure got you brain washed.
Do you really think that enough people is all that is needed to unseat the money and power that the government has established? It takes a lot more than just enough people. I am sure there are more than enough people that would like to get the government to stop fraud waist and abuse. I doubt you would find anybody not in the government that didn't want this stoped. has it changed?.....No.
what do you use for input. I have been trying to find a cheap touch screen (even really small like 5" or something) with linux drivers that I can use to make a cd/mp3 player with. but touch screens seem to be rather expensive.
I mean, I really don't want to see the GPL thrown out or anything, but it's got to go to court eventually. Then, somehow, the world will change.
Throw it out. That would be great. That way all software licence agrements would then be null and void. There would be no more copy right, and ideas could flow freely.
I think you are pretty much agreeing with me. Although it will take more than just great software to bury MS. Even if MS doesn't try to adapt to open source methods they will easily be around till 2015+, but I think they will adapt and they will be with us for a really long time to come.
What I did want to point out, because it is makeing a shaky stance for open source, is that in the past, mainly the '80s and '90s, open source was devoloped one feature at a time. For example lets take Apache. First serve static conntent, then serve dynamic content then build a full featured web server. Everything was build slowly and the new was built on the old.
With the current desktops it was a race to get all the features in as fast as they could. The building process was not as well thought out as the older projects and things were excepted because they were done, not because they were done right.
Being open source this is really only a short term problem and is really almost completly fixed already. kde3 and gnome2 are going to be very good desktops and they are an excelent start, but I don't think they are that stable yet. Again, not stable on an aplication level (I have had some gnome apps open and running for more than a month at a time at work with only locking my desktop and not logging out.) but the other development things like UI or API and libs and architectures are going to take a little longer to hammer out.
Although version numbers dont really mean anything and it is completly upto the developers weather it will be or not, but this is my prediction: somewhere around 2005 there will be kde5 and gnome5. This will be when updates will only come out ever 1-6 months (because everything is already done and there is only cleanup left). This will be a time when third party developers and more open source developers will be programming for open source than closed by far. And the geeks will rule the world (ha as if we don't already)
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Nobody is holding a gun to anyone over this, but it does look bad when distrobutions are releaseing versions constantly.
By stable I don't the the original poster ment how often things crash but more likely how much things change from version to version. I would agree with him/her entirely with that idea. The problem with current open source desktop software is that it is playing a lot of catchup. People are use to all the "features" of MS software and don't think that open source is quality utill it gets all of them.
This is putting major strees on the desktop developers that the older OS projects didn't have (ie Linux kernel, Apache, Perl, etc...) The all developed slow because the could so everything was over anylized and implemented in near to the best way possible. Desktop software on the other hand has been pumped out as fast as possible with little attention to doing it right. This will work its way out on its own over time, but it is giveing us changeing standards on an almost daily basis.
I still stand behind my assumption that Linux will be 100% ready to compete with MS software on the desktop in 2005. Maybe not till the end but it will be there. Things at that point will not change as much. 90% of everything will work out of the box. projects like Mozilla and Openoffice will be HUGE players in desktop role out.
I thikn Linux is ready for the desktop now. Actuall I think it was ready in 1998 when I first started useing it as a full time desktop. I do think that it takes a lot of work that people not interested in doing shouldn't have to do, witch is why I think it will still be ~3 years before it is ready.
will fiber optic ever be changed to an analog version with the wave of the light being the transport of data rather than the flashing?
It seems that the data would be moved much faster if the sensors were able to pick up on individual light colors and waves rather than just on/off of the light. This would be able to work similar to how a modem works with diffrent tones producing diffrent characters, etc...
ps. If this is already how fiber works than my understanding is just way off and please disregard.
Maybe someday the PVRs will have the ability to say, Excuse me you have seen this Comercial 2 times now would you like to automaticly skip it from now on? Y/n
unfortantly the riaa/mpaa would have to agree on some form of marking commercials for the pvr to keep track of them.
being a Tivo user and not using the 30 second skip, but using the fast forward I will stop and watch commercials that I am interested in. I will skip the ones that I am not interested in or that completely annoy me.
Maybe this will be a much better way to target advertising and maybe get some of the really crappy commercials of the TV.
If a commercial is something I want see I will watch it. With my Tivo I don't have to have things basted at me repetitively. I will see a commercial once or twice as I feel is needed. If it is something I want I will look into it more. Much better for the advertiser because otherwise I would just get annoyed with the constant bombardment of advertising until I don't want anything to do with there products or services.
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After the first call to RedHat support to find out why we couldn't connect more than 256 telnet connections to one of our servers we droped the whole RedHat idea like a brick. Waiting 3 days while they researched it,
:(
I posted the same question on the Debian Users mailling list and got an answer back in less than an hour. Recompile the kernel and set Unix PTYs to a higher number up to 2048. Lucky I was a long time Debian user and had access to the list to ask the question.
Really now, Debian support, supports Redhat better than Redhat support did. Oh and Redhat never did come up with an answer. We had to tell them what we did. Then of course they could no longer support us because we were useing a custom kernel.
all our servers sence then have been Debian servers. 27 in all.
Do you have no grasp of language at all. I thought it was more than obvious he was refering to his rocket as a simile to a catapult for launching parachutists into higher altitudes.
sorry about that. need to preview first.
Do you have no grasp of language at all. I thought it was more than obvious he was refering to his rocket as a similey to a catipult for launching parachutests into higher altitudes.
Hopfully these small monsoon rains will help us out some.
Don't try to confuse this issue with facts...Just kidding wanted to make sure the mood was light....I was up there every weekend during the time of the fire. I too live in the Phoenix area and actually grew up in LakeSide. I had watched the politics up there for years. The Mexican Spotted Owl does live in that area and was one of the reasons they kept controlled burnning and fire wood gathering down.
Cutting firewood in the area has changed a great deal due to the fact that they are afraid downing dead trees will destroy the home of a rare animal. You can cut natural fallen trees for the same reason. In many places you can only cut firewood in areas that have been pre-thinned by the forest service. Personly when cutting firewood that is the best way because it is all close and easy to get to. As for forest management it doesn't really help much.
I did happen to be there the weekend before the fire. I left the monday before it started. When it first started and only burned a small area near cibicue I wasn't worried as my parents were on the far other side of Showlow about halfway between Showlow and Springerville near the town of Vernon.
By the next Sunday they had evacuated Showlow and shutdown the 60. I drove through payson and north to I40 across to Concho and down to Vernon. We spent 4 days trimming trees watering plants and doing as much as we could.
By thursday I had to be back to work so I drove down through Whiteriver and on to the 60 then down through Globe.
The Next Friday I was on the road again and drove back up to trim more trees. Driveing through the evacuated Hondah area and got pulled over. They were just makeing sure I wasn't a looter. Trimmed more trees for the next 2 days.
By that sunday they started letting people back into Showlow. The fire had hit the 5% contained mark (witch I would guess was an underestimate due to Jim Paxton's past mistake) and we were all much relived.
I haven't driven back through the area yet but I have heard that there is a loot of open dead land that was once thick forest.
Anyway, Am I denying that there was a lot of political games played? Hell no. Do I still blame the fact that things were not taken care of due to pressure from the "tree huggers?" Yes I do. More so than I blame the guy that actually started it. (Not to say he has no fault or to defend him I hope he is nailed to the wall)
Ok, I am rambling here. Please reply, I don't mean to sound inflamitory or anything.
Wow your going to take armed men and march on capital hill just because Nasa is not getting the budget it needs?
I don't think so. Maybe you should think about your wording. large groups of people that want something Really bad are going to have a lot of power. This is where special intrest groups come in.
This is also a really bad thing. It was the special intrest groups that wouldn't let the forest service manage the forests in Showlow, AZ. and it burned 450k acres of land. You cant clean out them dead and dry trees a spoted owl might live in it...Yea, where the fuck is the spotted owl going to live now? Where are the 400 families that lost there homes going to live now? What about the Deer and Elk that inhabit that area?
Yea, lets let nature clean itself out. meanwhile we can all parish in the name of morality. Is there really anything wrong with people doing, in a clean fashoned way, what nature would do in a masive and distructive way?
Ok that was a tangent. Sorry I have family in that area.
Ok, I think I still hav eone of these with a serial interface that I use to use for my really old 1991 era laptop. That would probly work I suppose for a short term thing. I would just really like it to be more like part of the rest of the cabinet and just hit play, pause, stop, next etc... on the unit itself.
Designing a better O ring for the base of the toilot is most likly one of the much better things that you might find as waisted money. I would be more instrested in finding out what people are paid $200k+ because they are just assigned to the project and not actually do anything.
When someone is actually doing something liek O ring development that is atleast going into the research and development. Its the people that are only there because they want their input into the program and they have the money/power to do it.
There really does need to be a unity of command on some of these projects. Panels are only usefull as advisors there still needs to be one person that dictates how it all gets done in the end. Panels start to push and pull political games until the entire thing flops.
Everything you discuss above could be changed if enough people wanted it to change.
wow, they sure got you brain washed.
Do you really think that enough people is all that is needed to unseat the money and power that the government has established? It takes a lot more than just enough people. I am sure there are more than enough people that would like to get the government to stop fraud waist and abuse. I doubt you would find anybody not in the government that didn't want this stoped. has it changed?.....No.
what do you use for input. I have been trying to find a cheap touch screen (even really small like 5" or something) with linux drivers that I can use to make a cd/mp3 player with. but touch screens seem to be rather expensive.
wouldn't that be "CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER." I mean as a capital offense and all?
so its for-profit piracy. I see. You have a point there.
yes.
What next?
ADA files protest to open source saying that the "Many Eye's" approach to finding and squasing bugs is not sensitive to the Blind community.
Plese change to "Many human senses" approach.
I mean, I really don't want to see the GPL thrown out or anything, but it's got to go to court eventually. Then, somehow, the world will change.
Throw it out. That would be great. That way all software licence agrements would then be null and void. There would be no more copy right, and ideas could flow freely.
No it was on topic one other time back when it was really getting in all over the place.
If i remember right it was ranked at the top doing the code red virus outbreak with the heading:
This is what the new microsoft security hole looks like.
or something simiilar
Or Mellbourneq with two 'l's and a silent 'q'
I think you are pretty much agreeing with me. Although it will take more than just great software to bury MS. Even if MS doesn't try to adapt to open source methods they will easily be around till 2015+, but I think they will adapt and they will be with us for a really long time to come.
What I did want to point out, because it is makeing a shaky stance for open source, is that in the past, mainly the '80s and '90s, open source was devoloped one feature at a time. For example lets take Apache. First serve static conntent, then serve dynamic content then build a full featured web server. Everything was build slowly and the new was built on the old.
With the current desktops it was a race to get all the features in as fast as they could. The building process was not as well thought out as the older projects and things were excepted because they were done, not because they were done right.
Being open source this is really only a short term problem and is really almost completly fixed already. kde3 and gnome2 are going to be very good desktops and they are an excelent start, but I don't think they are that stable yet. Again, not stable on an aplication level (I have had some gnome apps open and running for more than a month at a time at work with only locking my desktop and not logging out.) but the other development things like UI or API and libs and architectures are going to take a little longer to hammer out.
Although version numbers dont really mean anything and it is completly upto the developers weather it will be or not, but this is my prediction:
somewhere around 2005 there will be kde5 and gnome5. This will be when updates will only come out ever 1-6 months (because everything is already done and there is only cleanup left). This will be a time when third party developers and more open source developers will be programming for open source than closed by far. And the geeks will rule the world (ha as if we don't already)
Nobody is holding a gun to anyone over this, but it does look bad when distrobutions are releaseing versions constantly.
By stable I don't the the original poster ment how often things crash but more likely how much things change from version to version. I would agree with him/her entirely with that idea. The problem with current open source desktop software is that it is playing a lot of catchup. People are use to all the "features" of MS software and don't think that open source is quality utill it gets all of them.
This is putting major strees on the desktop developers that the older OS projects didn't have (ie Linux kernel, Apache, Perl, etc...) The all developed slow because the could so everything was over anylized and implemented in near to the best way possible. Desktop software on the other hand has been pumped out as fast as possible with little attention to doing it right. This will work its way out on its own over time, but it is giveing us changeing standards on an almost daily basis.
I still stand behind my assumption that Linux will be 100% ready to compete with MS software on the desktop in 2005. Maybe not till the end but it will be there. Things at that point will not change as much. 90% of everything will work out of the box. projects like Mozilla and Openoffice will be HUGE players in desktop role out.
I thikn Linux is ready for the desktop now. Actuall I think it was ready in 1998 when I first started useing it as a full time desktop. I do think that it takes a lot of work that people not interested in doing shouldn't have to do, witch is why I think it will still be ~3 years before it is ready.
Just my take on the situation.
Wow, thanks for the info.
will fiber optic ever be changed to an analog version with the wave of the light being the transport of data rather than the flashing?
It seems that the data would be moved much faster if the sensors were able to pick up on individual light colors and waves rather than just on/off of the light. This would be able to work similar to how a modem works with diffrent tones producing diffrent characters, etc...
ps.
If this is already how fiber works than my understanding is just way off and please disregard.
Maybe someday the PVRs will have the ability to say, Excuse me you have seen this Comercial 2 times now would you like to automaticly skip it from now on?
Y/n
unfortantly the riaa/mpaa would have to agree on some form of marking commercials for the pvr to keep track of them.
ohh well, we can dream can't we.
I just spit my dew all over my keyboard.
You have the funniest sarcasm around.
sorry I couldn't help my self
Yea and it would really screw up the tribial persuit game.
Question: What brand of cola was on the table during the 3rd episode of _Third Rock From the Sun_?
A. Coke
B. Pepsi
C. Root Beer
D. Depends on witch one payed more money this time
E. All of the above
being a Tivo user and not using the 30 second skip, but using the fast forward I will stop and watch commercials that I am interested in. I will skip the ones that I am not interested in or that completely annoy me.
Maybe this will be a much better way to target advertising and maybe get some of the really crappy commercials of the TV.
If a commercial is something I want see I will watch it. With my Tivo I don't have to have things basted at me repetitively. I will see a commercial once or twice as I feel is needed. If it is something I want I will look into it more. Much better for the advertiser because otherwise I would just get annoyed with the constant bombardment of advertising until I don't want anything to do with there products or services.