SCSI is better, all your (S|P)ATA users are losers. Who can back up all that data? Pr0n! s/Deskstar/Deathstar (Seagate|Maxtor|IBM|Hitachi|LaCie) is better! It runs too hot It runs too loud I have {insert obscure Linux kernel bug} when I install $DISTRO to this drive How many Libraries of Congress per hogshead is that?
Seriously, does anything have anything TRULY insightful to say? (this post doesn't count, since its a meta-post)
Boy, here it is almost noon EDT, and nothing about Google yet! I was getting worried. Should we start a pool now, betting on which Internet trend the Slashdot fanboys will pick? Apple is now passe, I think. Google will fade soon. Tivo is WAY passe, at this point.
in true Roland Piquipaille style. Note the wordy submission, the fact that Hemos accepted it, and the 'click here for more information' link at the end. And Phoronix is a popular Linux site? I've never heard of it.... well, maybe they're trying to be popular by astroturfing.
Yes, the hash travels over the wire, in clear text, and is a password equivalent. Why do I care that your password is "darlingwife123" when I can just supply the hash to any network service that requests it? Interesting, Novell people are usually the bright ones.
I will determine an article's relevance to me, whether or not the article is any good, what questions it poses, and whether the answer to those is either yea or nay.
Adding a trollish question to the end is NOT "discussion inspiring", its more like Roland Piquipaille's "give me money for more info" taglines.
God I hope it has nothing to do with ITIL, to ensure that people actually take it seriously. On this side of the pond, What Works is usually given more credence than What The Committee Decided.
ID3 tags are NOT filesystem metadata, and thats supposedly what WinFS is proposing to use. The function of tracking preferences is best left to the application.
How is Windows supposed to know whats in your images? If you have a file called goatse.jpg, but it has a picture of a goat, how should Windows classify it? By name? Or some magic, non-existent, never-existent, heuristic 8 ball? searching your computer for images is as retarded as searching it for songs - if I have a folder of 100 mp3s, what do I search for "the good ones", "the piano songs"? Windows will be able to tell you dates, times, sizes, and do it in a way that multiple "folders" will refer to the same on-disk data, but it won't grok your files for you.
Right now you can add attributes to NTFS files, but there's no decent way to do it. Likewise, ANY DB-style FS is going to be limited to the ways that the vendor (MS) provides for you to access the data. Remember those ridiculous dialogs Winword used to prompt with? Asking all that crap about the author, and topic, etc. etc. until you asked Clippy how to turn the fscking thing off? The "DB based FS" is only as good as the data that you put in, unless you solely want to make virtual folders of "all my MP3s that I warez'd last week from Rancid", but I'd say those sorts of things are going to be in the minority.. and again, depend on the metadata of said pirate MP3s. Now there will be code jocks out there who would LOVE this sort of thing, since you could probably use it as a halfway decent free CVS replacement, but I'm thinking more of Joe and Jane Sixpack. How is it going to make their AOL experience better?
Haven't we all gotten past the whole LBA/CHS/Large hackery, and doesn't the boot loader on your Linux system "just work" these days? I can't remember the last time I even had to look at it. How about an article on something timely, like LVM, or 1394, or any of the VPN packages out there? What's next, an article on fdisk?
Please, let blogging die. Better, let geek blogging die sooner. Let "blogging" go back to the A/S/L and Aimgirl crowd, the personal Geocities and "here's me and my kids at some function" crowd. Geeks blogging just lends some credibility to the whole filthy practice.
Look, you have to store the data somewhere. Just because your FedEx guy clicks his little wireless dealie when you sign for a package, doesn't mean that his little wireless dealie is the datastore for all info about the package. Why is the 'big central mainframe' the cause of the problems here?
"corporate-socialist" ? "chilling" ? "corporate shenanigans" ? vague reference to IP ?
Who are you, the Guardian?
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. How many times have we all read this? And now he wants to enforce it.... and he's teh evil?
I disagree with your assertion that the "real" question is "is this good for the community"? There is no such thing as a community, only a collection of individuals.
Now is their downfall, with its "no thought^Wtolerance" policy for hacking.
What, pray tell, do some kids in high school need ibooks for? While those of you who live in the US, are under 22 and have laptops might disagree, the rest of us realize that there really is a world out there outside of your parents' basement. This is not a flame. My point is that the kids with the laptops are not qualified to weight in on their necessity.
So back to my question - why do these kids have laptops? To IM each other, surf porn, and pirate music? I, and countless students before me, survived high school w/o a laptop. Heck, I had a typewriter, for those "really important papers". How is knowing how to create tables in MS Word a life skill that high schools should teach?
Can anyone provide a real, quantifiable benefit to kids having these $$$$ trinkets (at my expense)?
Homeless people in SF get $300+ a month from the city. All you have to do is show up at City Hall and say that you're homeless.
low-income residents easier access to the Internet
on
Free WiFi Trend Continues
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· Score: 5, Interesting
So people can afford a $400 Dell cheapass PC, but can't spring for a $5 a month Internet dialup connection? Oh wait, I forgot that its the fault of the people on the 'have' side of the 'Digital Divide' that the other people can't get online. Our village is in shambles! I need a hug.
Slashdot Mirror
If your company DNS and Web proxy server was an old trash PC, then you don't have a "datacenter". You have a closet.
I'm not refuting your post, I'm just clarifying. I've had Linux machines stay up for a long time, too.
You mean like TCP, IP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, PDF, the hated Word document, XML-app-du-jour, and the x86 instruction set?
SCSI is better, all your (S|P)ATA users are losers.
Who can back up all that data?
Pr0n!
s/Deskstar/Deathstar
(Seagate|Maxtor|IBM|Hitachi|LaCie) is better!
It runs too hot
It runs too loud
I have {insert obscure Linux kernel bug} when I install $DISTRO to this drive
How many Libraries of Congress per hogshead is that?
Seriously, does anything have anything TRULY insightful to say? (this post doesn't count, since its a meta-post)
Boy, here it is almost noon EDT, and nothing about Google yet! I was getting worried. Should we start a pool now, betting on which Internet trend the Slashdot fanboys will pick? Apple is now passe, I think. Google will fade soon. Tivo is WAY passe, at this point.
in true Roland Piquipaille style. Note the wordy submission, the fact that Hemos accepted it, and the 'click here for more information' link at the end. And Phoronix is a popular Linux site? I've never heard of it.... well, maybe they're trying to be popular by astroturfing.
Yes, the hash travels over the wire, in clear text, and is a password equivalent. Why do I care that your password is "darlingwife123" when I can just supply the hash to any network service that requests it?
Interesting, Novell people are usually the bright ones.
Scuttlemonkey & Co. Please edit, don't opine.
I will determine an article's relevance to me, whether or not the article is any good, what questions it poses, and whether the answer to those is either yea or nay.
Adding a trollish question to the end is NOT "discussion inspiring", its more like Roland Piquipaille's "give me money for more info" taglines.
God I hope it has nothing to do with ITIL, to ensure that people actually take it seriously. On this side of the pond, What Works is usually given more credence than What The Committee Decided.
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
But wait, this WILL have wireless, and more space than a Nomad. And STILL be lame, and STILL be gobbled up by the fanboys.
ID3 tags are NOT filesystem metadata, and thats supposedly what WinFS is proposing to use. The function of tracking preferences is best left to the application.
"christmas vacation, florida, camille, beach, lighthouse, 16:9 crop" sounds like a great filename to me. Or
o p?
\christmas vacation\florida\camille-beach-lighthouse-16:9-cr
How is Windows supposed to know whats in your images? If you have a file called goatse.jpg, but it has a picture of a goat, how should Windows classify it? By name? Or some magic, non-existent, never-existent, heuristic 8 ball? searching your computer for images is as retarded as searching it for songs - if I have a folder of 100 mp3s, what do I search for "the good ones", "the piano songs"? Windows will be able to tell you dates, times, sizes, and do it in a way that multiple "folders" will refer to the same on-disk data, but it won't grok your files for you.
Right now you can add attributes to NTFS files, but there's no decent way to do it. Likewise, ANY DB-style FS is going to be limited to the ways that the vendor (MS) provides for you to access the data. Remember those ridiculous dialogs Winword used to prompt with? Asking all that crap about the author, and topic, etc. etc. until you asked Clippy how to turn the fscking thing off?
The "DB based FS" is only as good as the data that you put in, unless you solely want to make virtual folders of "all my MP3s that I warez'd last week from Rancid", but I'd say those sorts of things are going to be in the minority.. and again, depend on the metadata of said pirate MP3s.
Now there will be code jocks out there who would LOVE this sort of thing, since you could probably use it as a halfway decent free CVS replacement, but I'm thinking more of Joe and Jane Sixpack. How is it going to make their AOL experience better?
"open source auto" = "a regular car with a tour guide program which is ostensibly open source".
Big difference, there, "Scuttlemonkey".
Haven't we all gotten past the whole LBA/CHS/Large hackery, and doesn't the boot loader on your Linux system "just work" these days? I can't remember the last time I even had to look at it. How about an article on something timely, like LVM, or 1394, or any of the VPN packages out there? What's next, an article on fdisk?
Please, let blogging die. Better, let geek blogging die sooner. Let "blogging" go back to the A/S/L and Aimgirl crowd, the personal Geocities and "here's me and my kids at some function" crowd.
Geeks blogging just lends some credibility to the whole filthy practice.
Look, you have to store the data somewhere. Just because your FedEx guy clicks his little wireless dealie when you sign for a package, doesn't mean that his little wireless dealie is the datastore for all info about the package.
Why is the 'big central mainframe' the cause of the problems here?
How is this not Flamebait? Oh, I see its CN doing the 'editing' this morning.
People don't want RSS. People don't know what it is. Take a walk outside the server room sometime.
Read that again: It seems that Mambo is not all that scalable.
Translation: I'm having scalability problems that I don't know how to fix.
"corporate-socialist" ?
"chilling" ?
"corporate shenanigans" ?
vague reference to IP ?
Who are you, the Guardian?
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. How many times have we all read this? And now he wants to enforce it.... and he's teh evil?
I disagree with your assertion that the "real" question is "is this good for the community"? There is no such thing as a community, only a collection of individuals.
Now is their downfall, with its "no thought^Wtolerance" policy for hacking.
What, pray tell, do some kids in high school need ibooks for? While those of you who live in the US, are under 22 and have laptops might disagree, the rest of us realize that there really is a world out there outside of your parents' basement. This is not a flame. My point is that the kids with the laptops are not qualified to weight in on their necessity.
So back to my question - why do these kids have laptops? To IM each other, surf porn, and pirate music? I, and countless students before me, survived high school w/o a laptop. Heck, I had a typewriter, for those "really important papers". How is knowing how to create tables in MS Word a life skill that high schools should teach?
Can anyone provide a real, quantifiable benefit to kids having these $$$$ trinkets (at my expense)?
Homeless people in SF get $300+ a month from the city. All you have to do is show up at City Hall and say that you're homeless.
So people can afford a $400 Dell cheapass PC, but can't spring for a $5 a month Internet dialup connection?
Oh wait, I forgot that its the fault of the people on the 'have' side of the 'Digital Divide' that the other people can't get online. Our village is in shambles! I need a hug.
Now the submission says "propagated on the internet", as it should have all along. Don't you subscribers point this stuff out to the 'editors' ?