I've seen no particular performance issues running on Red Hat 7.1 and 7.3.
The only negative effect that I've seen has been that it maxes out my DSL's upload and thus SSH connections over the same pipe suffer.
If there is a CPU hit, though, it's probably because BT uses sha1 to validate the file segments. If you are getting 1+ Mb of bidirectional bandwidth (rather than the ~200-300 Kb that I see with ADSL )this might become more of an issue.
C is becoming more and more the "assembler" of yesteryear.
Nobody today writes directly to CPU registers. But 20 years ago, they did.
Few people today bother with assembler. It's too low-level. Instead, people work with C/C++, or any of the numerous high-level languages. There was a time when "C/C++" was considered "high level". Well, Python/Perl/PHP/Java are the "new" C languages. Java in particular has more developers working on it than C, currently. They are high level, and provide new degrees of abstraction from the underlying system.
I'm nearly done with a 15,000 line project in PHP. To do the same in C would probably at least double, maybe quadruple the line count to get a product that's not noticably faster on a 1 Ghz Pentium.
As computers get faster, we move farther away from "bare metal" (such as assembler) and the languages become richer and more abstracted.
C's day is becoming more the art of the kernel and the low-level libs.
Wouldn't you rather not have to worry about allocating RAM before stuffing the ordinal value of 11 into a variable?
Microsoft has a great product for an OS now! Get back to making something better than them instead trying to convince yourself that Microsoft is delusional.
Kingston memory. Asus Motherboard. ATI video card. Intel CPU. Maxtor HD. Windows 2000.
Name brands everywhere. Can't get it to last more than a few hours.
Replace every single part in the system with different, name brand parts.
Still can't get it to last more than a few hours. (under light load)
Give up on Windows 2000, load RH 7.2. Under heavy, continuous use. Now have had eleven months of perfect uptime using it as a NAT firewall/gateway/mailserver/web server/DNS server/Database server/spam assassin&antivirus filter.
If the above wasn't true, I wouldn't be telling it!
So far, the best uptime I've seen for Windows 2000 is in VMWare 3.2 workstation on RH Linux 7.x!
The biggest problem with electric cars is recharging them - it takes hours.
Instead, I've seen other solutions that provide similar capabilities as electric cars, but without the recharge headache. The one that I find most promising is the air car.
It's about the size of a Geo Metro, and goes ~200 miles on $2 worth of electricity, and you can refuel in under 1 minute! It also has a small built-in compressor which takes a few hours, which means that at its worst, it's no worse than an electric vehicle.
The best part - they are apparently already being manufactured in France and South Africa. If I had the money I'd definitely want to get one.
No pollution, dirt cheap to operate, and the engine should be more reliable than a gas engine because there's no combustion.
An officer of a company is a representative of that company. While people are personally accountable for their actions on a criminal level, their actions are nonetheless that of the company, as well.
Remember, a "company" doesn't exist. It's just an idea held by a group of people. Think of these people as your friends, because even if you don't like them, they are. They help provide for your welfare.
Would you report your best friend's smoking weed? Would you report your father for voeyerism?
Report this matter to your boss, and document (in writing) that you did so. Having effectively wiped your hands of the matter, enjoy your job.
Well I dunno about Microsoft selling information, but as a software developer, I can tell you stuff like this is very easy, and *very* helpful.
In my client-side software, I harness stdout with a reporting system that writes function calls and tracing messages to disk.
When the program closes normally, I erase this file. However, if the program crashes, this file is left there on disk. On next load of the program, it checks for this file, and if it exists, it prompts the user for details of the crash.
I shoot this information home via a quick email connection.
In around 50 lines of code I know when people are having problems, and exactly when, where, and what the error(s) reported were.
It's the next best thing to having the program crash right in front of me!
I do something similar for my web-based products, except there I just trap the errors with environment information and shoot that via email as well.
I'm not a tremendous fan of chunks of the Windows set (anyone that's done gtk programming and Win32 programming knows that layout in gtk is *much* better than the forced pixel-level layout used in Win32 and the Macintosh Toolbox), but it can't really be changed for backwards compatibility reasons.
GTK is available for Windows and (with some tweaking) Macintosh. I'm nearly finished with a ~15,000 line program written in PHP-GTK, developed on Windows 2000 and tested on Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
Since when is it a "feature" to take away something that is not only more secure, but also the default in the latest version of every OS (from Windows XP to Mac OS X)?
I just set up Win2000 the other day for a client. The radio button was already set to default login Administrator, without a password. What's he taking away? Lindows can be set up with multiple users, just like Win NT/2K/XP, or OS X.
Michael continues by saying "There are some key areas of hardware support which no desktop has today which users consistently bring up including: USB wireless support, Plug & Play USB drives (flash, hard drive and CD/RW), firewire and ACPI (power management for laptops)."
Which is, of course, bullshit.
Of course? Perhaps you haven't seen the many computers I have that don't. Sandisk (for compact flash) refused to work until an updated driver was obtained from the website. Your one computer is not constitute a reasonable representative sample.
Of course, then he has to spout off about Microsoft Office pricing: "...Microsoft Word costing $349 and Microsoft Office priced at $399."
Don't confuse your purchase price with the "list price", which alot of people pay. Call up your local Office Supplies place and get their price. (Spoiler: In this case, it's $459!)
I picked up my copy of Microsoft Office for $180. [saveateagle.com] That includes Publisher, Word, Excel, and Outlook. Want Powerpoint? Buy Pro; it's $100 more. Sure, Microsoft may have bad business practices, but 4 programs I use often (most of them daily) for $180? That's $45 each
Lindows charges $99 per year for everything. That includes an update service, and too many software packages. Also, your Lindows system doesn't stop working after a year, you just don't get the "one-click updates" from Lindows!
To use your example, you get everything that you mentioned above (Open Office) installed, along with games, updates, patches, the operating system, and lots more, for $99, as well as unlimited use thereafter...
Now, let's use your (admittedly optimistic) prices for MS stuff:
Actually I think Tivoli and N1 are very similar product. Both of them allow bunch of hardware to be managed as a single resource rather than inidividual server/equipment. This is done using grouping of hardware into single resource, and then running agent to monitor them.
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Linus is an engineer. His role is to make a cool something.
He's succeeded. Compare that to the FSF and GNU-Hurd.
After all the time, love, and energy he's given us, you want him to give still more?
You're a selfish, whiney pantywaist.
I know any number of people who just use the software that came on their Win98 CDROM, it never even occurs to them to update their software.
Ummmm, yeah!
People think of a computer like a machine. Like a car, or a boat.
Do you take your car in to have the Catalytic converter "upgraded" every year?
Do you subscribe to an "update service" to update the embedded firmware on the onboard computer?
Why would you do this? Why should they?
Bit torrent uses tcp I feel really deserves its own protocol definition. There should be no reason why you couldn't embed in HTML the following code:
<IMG SRC="bttp://massive-hirez-image.jpg">
Have you thought of this before? Would you (as the creator of the technology) be willing to write an RFC?
I've seen no particular performance issues running on Red Hat 7.1 and 7.3.
The only negative effect that I've seen has been that it maxes out my DSL's upload and thus SSH connections over the same pipe suffer.
If there is a CPU hit, though, it's probably because BT uses sha1 to validate the file segments. If you are getting 1+ Mb of bidirectional bandwidth (rather than the ~200-300 Kb that I see with ADSL )this might become more of an issue.
No mention is made of legitimate uses that are also killed.
But that isn't a problem, either!
1) You can use an IMAP mail server. (which gives you lots of features, anyway)
2) You can use authenticated SMTP.
3) then, there's SMTP after POP.
4) You can use webmail thru your ISP (or on your mailserver)
5) You can have a "from" address and a "reply-to" address - they don't have to be different!
I mean, it's an inconvenience like open relays are an inconvenience!
Let's make it a bet. I bet 100 slashdollars (the virtual currency used here at slashdot) that it will not be introduced before 2015.
What about inflation?
Are you betting 100 slashdollars today, or 100 slashdollars as of 2015? Remember, there is inflation and the associated cost-of-living increases!
Real programmers use COPY CON FILENAME.EXE
So... real programmers use DOS!?!?
wouldn't vi filename say ohhh so much more?
The myth of people doing it for free is just that. A myth.
If a company is "doing it for free" and a company consists of people, then you have people doing it for free.
Where's the myth?
OK, just so I don't get accused of recycling material, I left a post the other day with the same subject line...
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But the biatch about 'lectric cars is RECHARGING them. Who wants to go 150 miles, only to wait 8 hours to recharge it?
It seems to me that the best alternative energy car is the air car
It runs on compressed air, and actually cleans the air as you drive it! Range of around 200 miles, and you can refuel in under one minute.
If no external compressor is available, there's an internal one that takes a few hours - so at its worst, it's pretty comparable to an electric car.
To refuel takes about $2 worth of electricity!
If I had the $$, I'd very seriously consider getting one...
C is becoming more and more the "assembler" of yesteryear.
Nobody today writes directly to CPU registers. But 20 years ago, they did.
Few people today bother with assembler. It's too low-level. Instead, people work with C/C++, or any of the numerous high-level languages. There was a time when "C/C++" was considered "high level". Well, Python/Perl/PHP/Java are the "new" C languages. Java in particular has more developers working on it than C, currently. They are high level, and provide new degrees of abstraction from the underlying system.
I'm nearly done with a 15,000 line project in PHP. To do the same in C would probably at least double, maybe quadruple the line count to get a product that's not noticably faster on a 1 Ghz Pentium.
As computers get faster, we move farther away from "bare metal" (such as assembler) and the languages become richer and more abstracted.
C's day is becoming more the art of the kernel and the low-level libs.
Wouldn't you rather not have to worry about allocating RAM before stuffing the ordinal value of 11 into a variable?
In PHP, that's
$a=5;
Sinple, no?
An interesting quote from your linked to story:
Why do I think Linux won't kill Windows? Two reasons. The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash. And Linux is 30-year-old technology.
Name a single networking infrastructure used more commonly than the 30-year-old ethernet!
Why does this seem ironic to me?
Did you ever replace your power supply?
Yes, I tried a Lian Li.
Coincidentally, said motherboard still works flawlessly (and has for months) with RH 7.2, now in a cheezo case/ps that cost $20.
Microsoft has a great product for an OS now! Get back to making something better than them instead trying to convince yourself that Microsoft is delusional.
Kingston memory. Asus Motherboard. ATI video card. Intel CPU. Maxtor HD. Windows 2000.
Name brands everywhere. Can't get it to last more than a few hours.
Replace every single part in the system with different, name brand parts.
Still can't get it to last more than a few hours. (under light load)
Give up on Windows 2000, load RH 7.2. Under heavy, continuous use. Now have had eleven months of perfect uptime using it as a NAT firewall/gateway/mailserver/web server/DNS server/Database server/spam assassin&antivirus filter.
If the above wasn't true, I wouldn't be telling it!
So far, the best uptime I've seen for Windows 2000 is in VMWare 3.2 workstation on RH Linux 7.x!
wouldn't it make sense to form a group of knowledgable and experienced individuals to lobby against these laws?
It's called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and they need your help.
Support them. Whip out your Visa Check card and PayPal them $500, $50, or just $20.
You'll be a hero for helping good things happen.
The biggest problem with electric cars is recharging them - it takes hours.
Instead, I've seen other solutions that provide similar capabilities as electric cars, but without the recharge headache. The one that I find most promising is the air car.
It's about the size of a Geo Metro, and goes ~200 miles on $2 worth of electricity, and you can refuel in under 1 minute! It also has a small built-in compressor which takes a few hours, which means that at its worst, it's no worse than an electric vehicle.
The best part - they are apparently already being manufactured in France and South Africa. If I had the money I'd definitely want to get one.
No pollution, dirt cheap to operate, and the engine should be more reliable than a gas engine because there's no combustion.
An officer of a company is a representative of that company. While people are personally accountable for their actions on a criminal level, their actions are nonetheless that of the company, as well.
Remember, a "company" doesn't exist. It's just an idea held by a group of people. Think of these people as your friends, because even if you don't like them, they are. They help provide for your welfare.
Would you report your best friend's smoking weed? Would you report your father for voeyerism?
Report this matter to your boss, and document (in writing) that you did so. Having effectively wiped your hands of the matter, enjoy your job.
There are only 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't. ... and those who can't count to three?
Well I dunno about Microsoft selling information, but as a software developer, I can tell you stuff like this is very easy, and *very* helpful.
In my client-side software, I harness stdout with a reporting system that writes function calls and tracing messages to disk.
When the program closes normally, I erase this file. However, if the program crashes, this file is left there on disk. On next load of the program, it checks for this file, and if it exists, it prompts the user for details of the crash.
I shoot this information home via a quick email connection.
In around 50 lines of code I know when people are having problems, and exactly when, where, and what the error(s) reported were.
It's the next best thing to having the program crash right in front of me!
I do something similar for my web-based products, except there I just trap the errors with environment information and shoot that via email as well.
I can't emphasize enough how powerful this is!
-Ben
I'm not a tremendous fan of chunks of the Windows set (anyone that's done gtk programming and Win32 programming knows that layout in gtk is *much* better than the forced pixel-level layout used in Win32 and the Macintosh Toolbox), but it can't really be changed for backwards compatibility reasons.
GTK is available for Windows and (with some tweaking) Macintosh. I'm nearly finished with a ~15,000 line program written in PHP-GTK, developed on Windows 2000 and tested on Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
Yes, I remember that bug. Funny, 'cause you could usually get windows to load into safe mode, but you still couldn't install the patch.
The only thing I ever found that worked was to slow the processor down to 266 Mhz, install the patch, then clock it back up again.
This was for Win95x on AMD K6-2 systems.
Then it would calculate a cost for a licence for your entire MP3 collection.
Wow. This is probably one of the best ideas I've seen in a long, long time.
If I had mod points, you'd my vote!
I just set up Win2000 the other day for a client. The radio button was already set to default login Administrator, without a password. What's he taking away? Lindows can be set up with multiple users, just like Win NT/2K/XP, or OS X.
Michael continues by saying "There are some key areas of hardware support which no desktop has today which users consistently bring up including: USB wireless support, Plug & Play USB drives (flash, hard drive and CD/RW), firewire and ACPI (power management for laptops)."
Which is, of course, bullshit.
Of course? Perhaps you haven't seen the many computers I have that don't. Sandisk (for compact flash) refused to work until an updated driver was obtained from the website. Your one computer is not constitute a reasonable representative sample.
Of course, then he has to spout off about Microsoft Office pricing: "...Microsoft Word costing $349 and Microsoft Office priced at $399."
Don't confuse your purchase price with the "list price", which alot of people pay. Call up your local Office Supplies place and get their price. (Spoiler: In this case, it's $459!)
I picked up my copy of Microsoft Office for $180. [saveateagle.com] That includes Publisher, Word, Excel, and Outlook. Want Powerpoint? Buy Pro; it's $100 more. Sure, Microsoft may have bad business practices, but 4 programs I use often (most of them daily) for $180? That's $45 each
Lindows charges $99 per year for everything. That includes an update service, and too many software packages. Also, your Lindows system doesn't stop working after a year, you just don't get the "one-click updates" from Lindows!
To use your example, you get everything that you mentioned above (Open Office) installed, along with games, updates, patches, the operating system, and lots more, for $99, as well as unlimited use thereafter...
Now, let's use your (admittedly optimistic) prices for MS stuff:
Microsoft's total: $405
Lindows' total: $99
How is this guy being a "slimeball"?
Actually I think Tivoli and N1 are very similar product. Both of them allow bunch of hardware to be managed as a single resource rather than inidividual server/equipment. This is done using grouping of hardware into single resource, and then running agent to monitor them.
How is that different than the Linux virtual server project?
Anybody here who is an SBC customer should seriously consider sending them something like what I just sent to them:
This is a complaint.
How can SBC consider itself in the right in this matter?
Your actions may lose you a customer due to clear bad-faith actions by your legal department. Please cease this madness immediately!
http://www2.museumtour.com/sbc.html
I've been using the 'net since ~'94/'95. I've seen banners come, and go, and I don't see them anymore.
/. has a banner ad at the top.(When did they start this?)
I just now noticed that
But, when I go to google looking for something, I pay just as much attention to the "ads" as I do the "results".
Since ads are targeted by keywords, there's a good chance that the ads have exactly what I'm looking for.
These ads have relevance.
Ads will be effective when the customer is ready to accept them. Ads will universally be ignored when they are just irrelevant noise.