I think the problems are caused by the disk cache being corrupted before it's properly flushed. This is an old laptop, and it probably doesn't expect 16 MB of cache. It usually gets uptimes of several weeks, so I don't think it's the system memory.
Unfortunately, I no longer have Linux installed on it, and I rebuilt the filesystem anyway.
I've had e2fsck crash with a segfault, fairly recently, on an Mac. This was with Debian unstable, so I downloaded a static build of e2fsck from the web to try a more conservative solution, and that would also crash. It didn't cause that many problems, because I could still read the FS, backed it up somewhere else, and recreated the FS. Reiserfsck had no problem fixing the other FSes (I have had loads of FS related problems with this machine, probably because it writes gibberish to the disk when the power is cut. It's a laptop, but the battery is flat). Now that it's running OS X, though, the whole system partition becomes unreadable and unfixable quite often. HFS+ isn't very reliable, even with journaling.
Sorry, just had to get some OS X bashing in there, it's so ridiculously overestimated on this site. My only point was that e2fsck can crash.
You are crazy. System Shock 2 is one of the best games ever. Better than Deus Ex, even (but with not quite as good feel/controls), and certainly better than Invisible War. And I liked Invisible War, since I knew it would disappoint somewhat compared to Deus Ex from before I started playing. Good game, but not a worthy follow-up.
International trade is partly governed by big organizations such as WTO. Now, who do you think govern the WTO? The various member states. And on behalf of whom do the member states base their policies? The democratic electorates? Wrong. The various governments' stance towards the WTO is kept secret from the public. You have no vote. So how do you suggest we change government policy? By staging mass demonstrations like the one in Seattle a few years ago? It'll give you the one thing you ask for: risk. However, it gives you nothing in return.
With a huge, fashionable and profitable company like Apple, it's completely different. If you help them ruin their reputation, you'll effectively kill them. In other words, they have to behave. Democracy was a great idea at its time, but now it just doesn't work. "The free market" was and is an insane idea, but it just happens to be the way the world works these days. If you want to fight the good fight, hit the enemy where it takes damage: in the marketing department.
I've used an rt2500 based WLAN-card on Linux, several months (a year?) ago. It worked well, but the driver was based on vendor supplied code that didn't integrate well with the rest of the kernel (duplication of effort, etc). That's why it isn't included in Linus's tree. But in the case of Ralink wireless chipsets, you actually get some vendor support for Linux, with actual working GPL code. I'm pretty sure the driver is included in Ubuntu 6.06.
Politics is an expensive business in USA. Who are paying for the political campaigns? Not the public. The money comes from big business and lawyers' organisations, and without the money, a campaign won't have success. I suggest you find some way to fix the system before you encourage people to vote.
You can certainly distribute files in a way that may fool people into running malware in Linux, but that's hardly the point here. Can it fool enough people into making it a worm? This happens all the time in Windows, but I've never heard of a tar-based worm. This isn't so much about security as it is about encouraging stupid behaviour. Windows does.
Irrelevant. A user needs to do something to execute a program under Linux. A file won't magically get to exploit the ld-linux.so hole, because it has to be executed to do so, and it can't unless it is permitted to. It's not even a matter of a chicken-and-egg problem, since neither the chicken nor the egg exist in this case.
And while Windows has some decent security technology, almost all of it is bypassed in a regular Windows installation.
Wrong. To execute a file in Linux and most other unixes, the file has to be marked as executable. If you send be a shell script via mail or im, and i click on the file's icon in Konqueror, KDE will lauch a text editor, and open the file in that. It's even less dangerous than visiting web pages.
Windows, on the other hand, will happily execute any file with the suffix.exe, and to make matters worse, it will usually hide the suffix. Now that is dangerous behaviour: It makes it difficult for the user to know what s/he's doing, since many trojans have innocent looking.jpg.exe names. With Linux, you have to go through at least one extra step to execute a program.
Of course, that's one reason why it'll never catch up with Windows's market share, and I prefer that it stays that way.
A couple of minutes after a story has been posted, some user will post a comment that explains that the original article was totally and utterly wrong.
I don't know about Battle of Bruma, but the Siege of Kvatch mission went fine with my old Radeon 9800 Pro, on an AMD 3200+. Unfortunately, TES: Oblivion crashes a lot with my card, and usually takes Windows with it. I think that may be because of insufficient cooling, though.
Just a couple of years ago, we would have discussions about how to do cool things with software. These days, nothing seem to matter because it's all about market share? Why should I care about market share? Why should you?
I thought this was a site for nerds, not for people who play the stock market. What's important for us is that we have cool software to play with, not that we have cool software to sell to random people's grandmothers.
Why don't you guys just fuck off back to business school with all your fancy ideas. Come back when you've made your own distribution with app folders and whatnot.
Oh, come on. Look at my comment history. I rarely if ever troll. The fact is, Slashdot has been degrading for most of its existance. When it got past a certain number of users, it was no longer a geek site, but just yet another tech news aggregator with comments.
It has always been rather bad, but no more than two years ago, you could come here for the short news blurbs, which were as often wrong then as now, and you'd usually find good rebuttals quite high up among the comments. These days, the comments are mostly fanboyism and 10 year old *BSD trolls, and no people seem to care about what you can do with technology.
ROFL. You are confused. The moderators don't come up with headlines, they give you +5, insightful for comments lacking any insight whatsoever. You know, for comments that are not worthy of discussion or even reading at all.
Just face it, there's no good reason to come to Slashdot.
And for how much longer will the coolness factor last? The problem with fashion is that it goes out of fashion, and that will happen to the iPod as well. The iPod was cool two or three years ago, these days, it's getting rather stale. Apple will need to renew the lineup, as it has done successfully with the Nano, and rather unsuccessfully with the white chewing gum thingy.
But it's still not enough. Most people are followers, but they don't want to be perceived as such. Thus, they follow people who are able to differentiate themselves from the common people, and the people who are able to differentiate themselves can't buy last year's brand name for ever and ever. In the end (or rather, in 2--3 years) , the iPod will be no more a cultural icon than any other player, and Amazon will be able to compete on the same terms.
Eh, if you read the various forums for Mac these days, the fix for most problems is always suggested to be: fsck, then fix permissions. I've yet to see another OS that need a 'fix permissions' tool at all. Oh, and HFS+ has lost me important system files. This with the most recent version of Panther. It doesn't impress me at all.
I find it fascinating that people are modded up on Slashdot for basically stating that research into the seemingly obvious is unecessary. I guess my prejudice about Slashdot being a scientifically minded community was wrong.
The old Prism54 chipsets are supported, but newer ones ("softmac"), which you still can actually buy, are unsupported. If you have an old Prism54 based card, good for you.
Atmel and Realtek, I believe. With WLAN, you really have to check which chipset you get before buying. Avoid Broadcom, Prism54 (driver support is coming, but depends on reverse engineering). Here is a page with some recommendations.
Personally, I have an Asus WL-107 with Ralink rt2500 chipset (cardbus), which works acceptably, and a 3com with Prism54 that doesn't work. Beware of cards that change chipset from revision to revision.
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I think the problems are caused by the disk cache being corrupted before it's properly flushed. This is an old laptop, and it probably doesn't expect 16 MB of cache. It usually gets uptimes of several weeks, so I don't think it's the system memory.
Unfortunately, I no longer have Linux installed on it, and I rebuilt the filesystem anyway.
I've had e2fsck crash with a segfault, fairly recently, on an Mac. This was with Debian unstable, so I downloaded a static build of e2fsck from the web to try a more conservative solution, and that would also crash. It didn't cause that many problems, because I could still read the FS, backed it up somewhere else, and recreated the FS. Reiserfsck had no problem fixing the other FSes (I have had loads of FS related problems with this machine, probably because it writes gibberish to the disk when the power is cut. It's a laptop, but the battery is flat). Now that it's running OS X, though, the whole system partition becomes unreadable and unfixable quite often. HFS+ isn't very reliable, even with journaling.
Sorry, just had to get some OS X bashing in there, it's so ridiculously overestimated on this site. My only point was that e2fsck can crash.
You are crazy. System Shock 2 is one of the best games ever. Better than Deus Ex, even (but with not quite as good feel/controls), and certainly better than Invisible War. And I liked Invisible War, since I knew it would disappoint somewhat compared to Deus Ex from before I started playing. Good game, but not a worthy follow-up.
International trade is partly governed by big organizations such as WTO. Now, who do you think govern the WTO? The various member states. And on behalf of whom do the member states base their policies? The democratic electorates? Wrong. The various governments' stance towards the WTO is kept secret from the public. You have no vote. So how do you suggest we change government policy? By staging mass demonstrations like the one in Seattle a few years ago? It'll give you the one thing you ask for: risk. However, it gives you nothing in return.
With a huge, fashionable and profitable company like Apple, it's completely different. If you help them ruin their reputation, you'll effectively kill them. In other words, they have to behave. Democracy was a great idea at its time, but now it just doesn't work. "The free market" was and is an insane idea, but it just happens to be the way the world works these days. If you want to fight the good fight, hit the enemy where it takes damage: in the marketing department.
I've checked now, and Ubuntu's standard kernel image does include modules for several Ralink chipsets.
I've used an rt2500 based WLAN-card on Linux, several months (a year?) ago. It worked well, but the driver was based on vendor supplied code that didn't integrate well with the rest of the kernel (duplication of effort, etc). That's why it isn't included in Linus's tree. But in the case of Ralink wireless chipsets, you actually get some vendor support for Linux, with actual working GPL code. I'm pretty sure the driver is included in Ubuntu 6.06.
Politics is an expensive business in USA. Who are paying for the political campaigns? Not the public. The money comes from big business and lawyers' organisations, and without the money, a campaign won't have success. I suggest you find some way to fix the system before you encourage people to vote.
There's nothing sadder than a Mac fanboy who needs to prove his lacking sense of humour.
I'm not sure it's exactly what you want, but NX (or FreeNX) should help with running X11 over very slow connections. Here's a HOWTO.
You can certainly distribute files in a way that may fool people into running malware in Linux, but that's hardly the point here. Can it fool enough people into making it a worm? This happens all the time in Windows, but I've never heard of a tar-based worm. This isn't so much about security as it is about encouraging stupid behaviour. Windows does.
Irrelevant. A user needs to do something to execute a program under Linux. A file won't magically get to exploit the ld-linux.so hole, because it has to be executed to do so, and it can't unless it is permitted to. It's not even a matter of a chicken-and-egg problem, since neither the chicken nor the egg exist in this case.
And while Windows has some decent security technology, almost all of it is bypassed in a regular Windows installation.
Wrong. To execute a file in Linux and most other unixes, the file has to be marked as executable. If you send be a shell script via mail or im, and i click on the file's icon in Konqueror, KDE will lauch a text editor, and open the file in that. It's even less dangerous than visiting web pages.
.exe, and to make matters worse, it will usually hide the suffix. Now that is dangerous behaviour: It makes it difficult for the user to know what s/he's doing, since many trojans have innocent looking .jpg.exe names. With Linux, you have to go through at least one extra step to execute a program.
Windows, on the other hand, will happily execute any file with the suffix
Of course, that's one reason why it'll never catch up with Windows's market share, and I prefer that it stays that way.
A couple of minutes after a story has been posted, some user will post a comment that explains that the original article was totally and utterly wrong.
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS cards are often passively cooled. They aren't exactly cheap, but only slightly more expensive than that.
I don't know about Battle of Bruma, but the Siege of Kvatch mission went fine with my old Radeon 9800 Pro, on an AMD 3200+. Unfortunately, TES: Oblivion crashes a lot with my card, and usually takes Windows with it. I think that may be because of insufficient cooling, though.
On the other hand, you might just as well use Irix. Hey, it's not like it wasn't made for the MIPS platform.
Everyone knows that Celine Dion was the one who sank the Titanic.
Just a couple of years ago, we would have discussions about how to do cool things with software. These days, nothing seem to matter because it's all about market share? Why should I care about market share? Why should you?
I thought this was a site for nerds, not for people who play the stock market. What's important for us is that we have cool software to play with, not that we have cool software to sell to random people's grandmothers.
Why don't you guys just fuck off back to business school with all your fancy ideas. Come back when you've made your own distribution with app folders and whatnot.
Oh, come on. Look at my comment history. I rarely if ever troll. The fact is, Slashdot has been degrading for most of its existance. When it got past a certain number of users, it was no longer a geek site, but just yet another tech news aggregator with comments.
It has always been rather bad, but no more than two years ago, you could come here for the short news blurbs, which were as often wrong then as now, and you'd usually find good rebuttals quite high up among the comments. These days, the comments are mostly fanboyism and 10 year old *BSD trolls, and no people seem to care about what you can do with technology.
All the good trolls are on K5 anyway.
ROFL. You are confused. The moderators don't come up with headlines, they give you +5, insightful for comments lacking any insight whatsoever. You know, for comments that are not worthy of discussion or even reading at all.
Just face it, there's no good reason to come to Slashdot.
And for how much longer will the coolness factor last? The problem with fashion is that it goes out of fashion, and that will happen to the iPod as well. The iPod was cool two or three years ago, these days, it's getting rather stale. Apple will need to renew the lineup, as it has done successfully with the Nano, and rather unsuccessfully with the white chewing gum thingy.
But it's still not enough. Most people are followers, but they don't want to be perceived as such. Thus, they follow people who are able to differentiate themselves from the common people, and the people who are able to differentiate themselves can't buy last year's brand name for ever and ever. In the end (or rather, in 2--3 years) , the iPod will be no more a cultural icon than any other player, and Amazon will be able to compete on the same terms.
Eh, if you read the various forums for Mac these days, the fix for most problems is always suggested to be: fsck, then fix permissions. I've yet to see another OS that need a 'fix permissions' tool at all. Oh, and HFS+ has lost me important system files. This with the most recent version of Panther. It doesn't impress me at all.
I find it fascinating that people are modded up on Slashdot for basically stating that research into the seemingly obvious is unecessary. I guess my prejudice about Slashdot being a scientifically minded community was wrong.
The old Prism54 chipsets are supported, but newer ones ("softmac"), which you still can actually buy, are unsupported. If you have an old Prism54 based card, good for you.
Atmel and Realtek, I believe. With WLAN, you really have to check which chipset you get before buying. Avoid Broadcom, Prism54 (driver support is coming, but depends on reverse engineering). Here is a page with some recommendations.
Personally, I have an Asus WL-107 with Ralink rt2500 chipset (cardbus), which works acceptably, and a 3com with Prism54 that doesn't work. Beware of cards that change chipset from revision to revision.