What is also annoying is when you contribute a perfectly good or even great patch to an open source project and they don't include it!!! Sometimes people don't want others contributing to their open source projects... sad... imho...
Ok, so those who can't handle the truth suppress the opinions of those who can handle the truth and a better technology. I guess the lemmings jump off the monolithic cliff together... I'll go the other way... all the best with your choice...
Ok, 10 million, or 6 million lines of code... time to switch to a better system, Minux 3 (http://www.minix3.org) which has about 4 thousand lines of code in the kernel.
Clearly the Linux Kernel is now a mega monolithic kernel joining the ranks of Windows NT and other bloatware. Sad day for open source.
They still spin don't they? Oh drats, there are now disks (SD) that don't spin since they are not disks but they otherwise look like disks... same form factors... sigh.. progress.
Look, I don't have a million dollars in the bank or in gold nor a million dollar house or a house at all. Economics has always been the reason that I've not contributed more to open source. I need to look out for number one. While I've published some open source software and contributed so a couple of projects I'm interested in leveraging my labor for cashola and what I value most: free time to pursue my interests without the need to be a employment slave, or a contracting slave, or a consulting slave to corporate masters of the universe set on global domination or destruction.
It may well be that my some or all of my software and hardware works may enter the open source or public domain at some point. What's important to me now is achieving a level of financial independence from those with small minds and controlling annoyance in my life. To achieve that I need to maximize income earning potentials from all my labors whether they be provided for by being a corporate slave in some manner or via projects that generate income from other direct or indirect sources. Sure I get tiny revenues from advertising and am working to scale that up 1000 fold but it's an unknown if it will work.
The current financial situation simply means I need to be more aware of what I'm charging and what others are and up my prices at the appropriate time. Since being in this industry the prices of everything have risen two to five times. For example, a movie used to be $2.50 and now it costs $12.50 to see a feature film and that's not counting another $15 for the snack bar. Somehow though my hourly rates haven't increased five fold; you can imagine how my customers react when they hear that I want $100, $150, $200, $250 per hour for 40 to 60 hours per week for their entire two year project. They are aghast... something has to give. So, if you can't make enough to pay for the house in your town/city (typical homes cost $750,000 to $1,000,000 where I live) you've got to figure out how or move to cheaper places (there are few of those left where I'd want to live).
So yes, I choose to earn a living first and foremost.
Yes, I will at times contribute to open source projects; usually when it's in my interest to do so and as long as those open source projects are BSD Style or Public Domain aka Truly Free Licenses so that others can maximize their economic advantage.
Hey, if you want to be a socialist or a commune-ist then fine, just don't include me in your plans.
With the Colas you'll be able to have C, C++, Java, Smalltalk, Lisp, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Python,... you name it... as YOU choose in your browser or application or server... all dynamically compilable... at run time.. yes, even C and C++ and other notorious statically compiled languages... a bit like LLVM does... of course people need to do the ground work...
Ian Piumarta and the VPRI [http://vpri.org] are doing some amazing work related to this story.
COLAs: Combined Object Lambda Architectures - A Complete System in 20,000 Lines of Code. http://piumarta.com/software/cola The system is slowly evolving towards version 1.0 which
* is completely self-describing (from the metal, or even FPGA gates, up) exposing all aspects of its implementation for inspection and incremental modification;
* treats state and behaviour as orthogonal but mutually-completing descriptions of computation;
* treats static and dynamic compilation as two extremes of a continuum;
* treats static and dynamic typing as two extremes of a continuum; and
* late-binds absolutely everything: programming (parsing through codegen to runtime and ABI), applications (libraries, communications facilities), interaction (graphics frameworks, rendering algorithms), and so on.
So dealing with overzealous political types imposing Big Brother upon YOU is off topic? Very strange reaction by some. Must be Big Brother supporters within the Slashdot crowd or government plants rating the posting off post. If you value your freedom take political action.
Before it's too late VOTE OUT ALL the elected members of the government of your country who support such draconian big brother mythologies.
All countries, such as Austrailia, based upon English Common Law may have many defences and rights given a long time ago that can't be overridden by the fiats and power hungry wims of those who are deluded into thinking that they can take such dragonian steps to control society.
The power elite are now the terrorists (yet again) against the masses. Not only that in many countries they are implementing the New World Order of Socialism for the Rich and capitalism for the not rich. Nationalization of the debts of banks and corporate follies while allowing them to keep their profits.
Could the bail out be a scheme to keep the wars going with mercenaries instead of with national militaries? Pull out the troups and double the private contractors and presto no chango - the war machine grinds up more people from around the world.
Enough is Enough. When will you and the rest of the people realize that those in power are not doing any of us any favors by imposing these draconian systems of control? Likely after it's too late.
Vote out your leaders if you can. Say NO to their Big Brother Systems! Dismantle them.
While the encryption will be more difficult to get around the file fragments won't be. Why? Well, you can always take hashes on portions of a file! It's also straight forward to find the byte sequences within a specially constructed file database.
Complaining about a FREE service makes no sense (assuming the CEO isn't paying Google that is). It's says a lot more about the steaming CEO than it says about Google reporting and working on the problem.
It seems that CEO's really are spoiled brats, at least in this case. Maybe he'll take his golden parachute while he's steaming and leave the minions in his company to get to the real work of the company.
Depending on outside companies for your email is like depending on string while mountain climbing. It's bound to break. In fact I'm surprised that there are not more visible problems with Google's services. They've seemed to be able to hide their inevitable glitches quite well.
Every system you use and depend on can fail. Prepare for it. Choose which systems you support yourself and which you rely on outsiders to deliver. While no man is an island it doesn't make any sense to have too many critical path dependencies on others either. Balance.
I prefer versions by date with a letter indicating which build that day. Bob_20081015a would be the first today. At least that way people know when you released that version...
however since your company is full of scammers it's best to figure out how to get your share of the rewards. Just kidding... name it what ever they want... they pay your house mortgage don't they?
It just sneaks up on you and ...
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The Quietest Sun
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· Score: 4, Funny
... burns you to a crisp... now it's in a calm state... but it's waiting, taunting us with massive flares... during the so called calm period there was that really big flare on 20080929... yikes... crispy... Sol... stay cool...
Black Kryptonite? Doesn't that turn out to be Spike The Vampire on Steriods?
Red Krytonite? Now that turns you on to more energy and wild behaviors! Let go your wild side.
Green Krytonite? Well, that's painful even though it's all environmental green it's a disaster for everyone who comes into contact with it.
White Krytonite? Known to build crystal fortresses and cities as long as you want to live in solitude.
So bring on the Black Silicon! Let's absorb the Sun's rays and make it happen! At least we'll super power our devices with all that Yellow Sunshine and recharge our batteries!
The best size for a swap file or partition is the largest amount of virtual memory that you'd ever need for the set of applications that you are running and then some. Take an inventory of applications that you are using and how much RAM they need while running. Applications (server or desktop) that make use of in memory databases are becoming more popular and will push up the swap file size requirements for your needs.
Generally I set a swap partition to be at least 20 GiB on machines with up to four gigs of RAM. Now for machines with 8 or more gigs of RAM I set the swap size to be four or five to eight times the RAM size. So eight 8 GiB of RAM would have something like 40 GiB of swap.
Although their is only 8 GiB of RAM on the motherboard that can take 16 GiB of RAM it is prudent to set the swap size to 64 GiB to 80 GiB. This way when I increase the RAM to the maximum of the motherboard I have plenty of swap space.
Planning for the future means setting up more swap space now.
With TiB drives going for just over $100 it's fine to use large swap space if you don't need it for data. Besides your OS should be on the boot drive without data being on that drive at all. Data should be on other drives in a RAID configuration if possible. This leaves plenty of space for swap space on a TiB drive.
It's very very rare that I'd agree with Richard Stallman since his "user community" agenda is rarely in line with real freedom for developers (unfortunately Stallman favors users over developers), but this time I'd have to agree with him about cloud computing and the dependencies it creates for people, projects and companies "hosted" in the cloud.
Cloud computing is web hosting gone wild on steroids... however every company or software system that you rely on is another dependency that could cause problems for you down the road. Be careful which systems you use in your magical web app built upon cloud computing systems... a house is only as solid as the strength of the cards (infrastructure) it rests on...
Since they like to make announcements of upcoming events as if they already occurred it's likely that they really mean that the the space walk is happening tomorrow.
One person's truth is to another person, delusional thinking.
For example my sister is very big on a guy called Jesus who she (among others) claim can walk on water, raise himself and others from the dead (after brain, organ and cell death), and many other claims which violate the well known and well tested laws of nature. To me her "truth" that she'll be lifted up in a "rapture" and taken to the place she calls "heaven" is not just silly nonsense mind junk but it's actually dangerous delusional thinking. Anyone who's stepped into a bath tub with water in it can see that Jesus and anyone else can't walk on room temperature water (non-frozen and no cheating of any kind like no boxes, etc...)... it just isn't possible just like it isn't possible for you or I to jump to the moon under human power alone, we need a space ship.
So good luck with a truth rating. What you'll end up with isn't "truth" but some sort of "agreement of reality" by some slice of humanity.
Who's to say that that is "truth"? Big Brother?
Within a "cult" the "truth" is either what their leader dictates to them or what they "agree" is the "truth".
Within a "culture" the "truth" is usually a complex fabric of criss crossing ideas and notions and "beliefs".
How are "cults" and "cultures" any different? Cultures are cults with more members.
I wouldn't trust any "truth rating" since I think for myself. Critical thinking using rational thinking skills applying the well known and well tested sciences can solve most questions of "truth" during the typical day.
Questions such as "Jesus" and other nut bar "truths" are easy to slice and dice due to the lack of nature in their nature.
Thinking for yourself will always trump someone else's "truth" since humans can and will make anything the "truth" no matter how silly it is. They'll even attempt to deny serious facts of life and succeed in their denials even while the harsh realities of nature rule our destinies and ultimate fates.
So good luck with your "truth" rating there. In reality it's more of a "this web site conforms to some degree to this particular cult's point of view on the world". Even with that the'll be epic flame wars over how accurate ratings are since within cults and cultures there are different angles on the points of view!
Naturally my point of view always has the highest rating for my cult(ure)!;--)
What? Is there someone who purposefully set's all my posts to "troll"? It was "funny +2" earlier today. What happened? Whomever is setting my comments - like the above one - to troll is out of touch. Seriously.
Tens of thousands of years ago pre-ice age man invented the first iPod when he remembered the very first song and was able to play it back on his iBrain+iMemory+iVoiceBox, aka the first iPod. In addition to being the first singer he was the first song writer. At the time it was an Earth Shattering event and it spread fast and far beyond his pod. Of course all was not well since the iMemory wasn't perfect to say the least. The iVoiceBox also wasn't so good. Man would evolve and get the full iBrain + iMemory + iVoiceBox upgrades that were needed for the likes of Prince and Michael only to be obsoleted by the Apple iPod! What's next? iPod inBrain!
Does the ResizerFS project really need Hans to continue it? He is the mad genius behind it after all...
Does California permit inmates to have computers? If so surely there are enough people using the ReiserFS to get together and get a computer for the notorious Hans Reiser to work with?
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What is also annoying is when you contribute a perfectly good or even great patch to an open source project and they don't include it!!! Sometimes people don't want others contributing to their open source projects... sad... imho...
Ok, so those who can't handle the truth suppress the opinions of those who can handle the truth and a better technology. I guess the lemmings jump off the monolithic cliff together... I'll go the other way... all the best with your choice...
Ok, 10 million, or 6 million lines of code... time to switch to a better system, Minux 3 (http://www.minix3.org) which has about 4 thousand lines of code in the kernel.
Clearly the Linux Kernel is now a mega monolithic kernel joining the ranks of Windows NT and other bloatware. Sad day for open source.
They still spin don't they? Oh drats, there are now disks (SD) that don't spin since they are not disks but they otherwise look like disks... same form factors... sigh.. progress.
Look, I don't have a million dollars in the bank or in gold nor a million dollar house or a house at all. Economics has always been the reason that I've not contributed more to open source. I need to look out for number one. While I've published some open source software and contributed so a couple of projects I'm interested in leveraging my labor for cashola and what I value most: free time to pursue my interests without the need to be a employment slave, or a contracting slave, or a consulting slave to corporate masters of the universe set on global domination or destruction.
It may well be that my some or all of my software and hardware works may enter the open source or public domain at some point. What's important to me now is achieving a level of financial independence from those with small minds and controlling annoyance in my life. To achieve that I need to maximize income earning potentials from all my labors whether they be provided for by being a corporate slave in some manner or via projects that generate income from other direct or indirect sources. Sure I get tiny revenues from advertising and am working to scale that up 1000 fold but it's an unknown if it will work.
The current financial situation simply means I need to be more aware of what I'm charging and what others are and up my prices at the appropriate time. Since being in this industry the prices of everything have risen two to five times. For example, a movie used to be $2.50 and now it costs $12.50 to see a feature film and that's not counting another $15 for the snack bar. Somehow though my hourly rates haven't increased five fold; you can imagine how my customers react when they hear that I want $100, $150, $200, $250 per hour for 40 to 60 hours per week for their entire two year project. They are aghast... something has to give. So, if you can't make enough to pay for the house in your town/city (typical homes cost $750,000 to $1,000,000 where I live) you've got to figure out how or move to cheaper places (there are few of those left where I'd want to live).
So yes, I choose to earn a living first and foremost.
Yes, I will at times contribute to open source projects; usually when it's in my interest to do so and as long as those open source projects are BSD Style or Public Domain aka Truly Free Licenses so that others can maximize their economic advantage.
Hey, if you want to be a socialist or a commune-ist then fine, just don't include me in your plans.
With the Colas you'll be able to have C, C++, Java, Smalltalk, Lisp, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Python, ... you name it ... as YOU choose in your browser or application or server... all dynamically compilable... at run time.. yes, even C and C++ and other notorious statically compiled languages... a bit like LLVM does... of course people need to do the ground work...
Ian Piumarta and the VPRI [http://vpri.org] are doing some amazing work related to this story.
COLAs: Combined Object Lambda Architectures - A Complete System in 20,000 Lines of Code.
http://piumarta.com/software/cola
The system is slowly evolving towards version 1.0 which
* is completely self-describing (from the metal, or even FPGA gates, up) exposing all aspects of its implementation for inspection and incremental modification;
* treats state and behaviour as orthogonal but mutually-completing descriptions of computation;
* treats static and dynamic compilation as two extremes of a continuum;
* treats static and dynamic typing as two extremes of a continuum; and
* late-binds absolutely everything: programming (parsing through codegen to runtime and ABI), applications (libraries, communications facilities), interaction (graphics frameworks, rendering algorithms), and so on.
http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf
http://piumarta.com/papers/EE380-2007-slides.pdf
http://piumarta.com/pepsi/objmodel.pdf
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/NSFproposal.pdf
Allen Wirfs-Brock and Dan Ingalls are currently working on bringing notions like Colas to the browser so that we can use any programming language WE choose to for our browser based applications. Check out their interview here.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Dan-Ingalls-and-Allen-Wirfs-Brock-On-Smalltalk-Lively-Kernel-Javascript-and-Programming-the-Inter/
So dealing with overzealous political types imposing Big Brother upon YOU is off topic? Very strange reaction by some. Must be Big Brother supporters within the Slashdot crowd or government plants rating the posting off post. If you value your freedom take political action.
Before it's too late VOTE OUT ALL the elected members of the government of your country who support such draconian big brother mythologies.
All countries, such as Austrailia, based upon English Common Law may have many defences and rights given a long time ago that can't be overridden by the fiats and power hungry wims of those who are deluded into thinking that they can take such dragonian steps to control society.
The power elite are now the terrorists (yet again) against the masses. Not only that in many countries they are implementing the New World Order of Socialism for the Rich and capitalism for the not rich. Nationalization of the debts of banks and corporate follies while allowing them to keep their profits.
Could the bail out be a scheme to keep the wars going with mercenaries instead of with national militaries? Pull out the troups and double the private contractors and presto no chango - the war machine grinds up more people from around the world.
Enough is Enough. When will you and the rest of the people realize that those in power are not doing any of us any favors by imposing these draconian systems of control? Likely after it's too late.
Vote out your leaders if you can. Say NO to their Big Brother Systems! Dismantle them.
When will people say NO to their overzealous pious government types?
When is too much invasion of privacy?
While the encryption will be more difficult to get around the file fragments won't be. Why? Well, you can always take hashes on portions of a file! It's also straight forward to find the byte sequences within a specially constructed file database.
The encryption is the issue... how to crack that?
As I said in the parent post...
Complaining about a FREE service makes no sense (assuming the CEO isn't paying Google that is). It's says a lot more about the steaming CEO than it says about Google reporting and working on the problem.
It seems that CEO's really are spoiled brats, at least in this case. Maybe he'll take his golden parachute while he's steaming and leave the minions in his company to get to the real work of the company.
Depending on outside companies for your email is like depending on string while mountain climbing. It's bound to break. In fact I'm surprised that there are not more visible problems with Google's services. They've seemed to be able to hide their inevitable glitches quite well.
Every system you use and depend on can fail. Prepare for it. Choose which systems you support yourself and which you rely on outsiders to deliver. While no man is an island it doesn't make any sense to have too many critical path dependencies on others either. Balance.
It doesn't matter what you call it.
I prefer versions by date with a letter indicating which build that day. Bob_20081015a would be the first today. At least that way people know when you released that version...
however since your company is full of scammers it's best to figure out how to get your share of the rewards. Just kidding... name it what ever they want... they pay your house mortgage don't they?
... burns you to a crisp... now it's in a calm state... but it's waiting, taunting us with massive flares... during the so called calm period there was that really big flare on 20080929... yikes... crispy... Sol... stay cool...
Black Kryptonite? Doesn't that turn out to be Spike The Vampire on Steriods?
Red Krytonite? Now that turns you on to more energy and wild behaviors! Let go your wild side.
Green Krytonite? Well, that's painful even though it's all environmental green it's a disaster for everyone who comes into contact with it.
White Krytonite? Known to build crystal fortresses and cities as long as you want to live in solitude.
So bring on the Black Silicon! Let's absorb the Sun's rays and make it happen! At least we'll super power our devices with all that Yellow Sunshine and recharge our batteries!
Another escape from Darth.
The best size for a swap file or partition is the largest amount of virtual memory that you'd ever need for the set of applications that you are running and then some. Take an inventory of applications that you are using and how much RAM they need while running. Applications (server or desktop) that make use of in memory databases are becoming more popular and will push up the swap file size requirements for your needs.
Generally I set a swap partition to be at least 20 GiB on machines with up to four gigs of RAM. Now for machines with 8 or more gigs of RAM I set the swap size to be four or five to eight times the RAM size. So eight 8 GiB of RAM would have something like 40 GiB of swap.
Although their is only 8 GiB of RAM on the motherboard that can take 16 GiB of RAM it is prudent to set the swap size to 64 GiB to 80 GiB. This way when I increase the RAM to the maximum of the motherboard I have plenty of swap space.
Planning for the future means setting up more swap space now.
With TiB drives going for just over $100 it's fine to use large swap space if you don't need it for data. Besides your OS should be on the boot drive without data being on that drive at all. Data should be on other drives in a RAID configuration if possible. This leaves plenty of space for swap space on a TiB drive.
Really it all depends on your needs.
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Metric units used in this post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix.
It's very very rare that I'd agree with Richard Stallman since his "user community" agenda is rarely in line with real freedom for developers (unfortunately Stallman favors users over developers), but this time I'd have to agree with him about cloud computing and the dependencies it creates for people, projects and companies "hosted" in the cloud.
Cloud computing is web hosting gone wild on steroids... however every company or software system that you rely on is another dependency that could cause problems for you down the road. Be careful which systems you use in your magical web app built upon cloud computing systems... a house is only as solid as the strength of the cards (infrastructure) it rests on...
Since they like to make announcements of upcoming events as if they already occurred it's likely that they really mean that the the space walk is happening tomorrow.
One person's truth is to another person, delusional thinking.
For example my sister is very big on a guy called Jesus who she (among others) claim can walk on water, raise himself and others from the dead (after brain, organ and cell death), and many other claims which violate the well known and well tested laws of nature. To me her "truth" that she'll be lifted up in a "rapture" and taken to the place she calls "heaven" is not just silly nonsense mind junk but it's actually dangerous delusional thinking. Anyone who's stepped into a bath tub with water in it can see that Jesus and anyone else can't walk on room temperature water (non-frozen and no cheating of any kind like no boxes, etc...) ... it just isn't possible just like it isn't possible for you or I to jump to the moon under human power alone, we need a space ship.
So good luck with a truth rating. What you'll end up with isn't "truth" but some sort of "agreement of reality" by some slice of humanity.
Who's to say that that is "truth"? Big Brother?
Within a "cult" the "truth" is either what their leader dictates to them or what they "agree" is the "truth".
Within a "culture" the "truth" is usually a complex fabric of criss crossing ideas and notions and "beliefs".
How are "cults" and "cultures" any different? Cultures are cults with more members.
I wouldn't trust any "truth rating" since I think for myself. Critical thinking using rational thinking skills applying the well known and well tested sciences can solve most questions of "truth" during the typical day.
Questions such as "Jesus" and other nut bar "truths" are easy to slice and dice due to the lack of nature in their nature.
Thinking for yourself will always trump someone else's "truth" since humans can and will make anything the "truth" no matter how silly it is. They'll even attempt to deny serious facts of life and succeed in their denials even while the harsh realities of nature rule our destinies and ultimate fates.
So good luck with your "truth" rating there. In reality it's more of a "this web site conforms to some degree to this particular cult's point of view on the world". Even with that the'll be epic flame wars over how accurate ratings are since within cults and cultures there are different angles on the points of view!
Naturally my point of view always has the highest rating for my cult(ure)! ;--)
ok, ok, .... i know...
Scooby? Cool!
What? Is there someone who purposefully set's all my posts to "troll"? It was "funny +2" earlier today. What happened? Whomever is setting my comments - like the above one - to troll is out of touch. Seriously.
Tens of thousands of years ago pre-ice age man invented the first iPod when he remembered the very first song and was able to play it back on his iBrain+iMemory+iVoiceBox, aka the first iPod. In addition to being the first singer he was the first song writer. At the time it was an Earth Shattering event and it spread fast and far beyond his pod. Of course all was not well since the iMemory wasn't perfect to say the least. The iVoiceBox also wasn't so good. Man would evolve and get the full iBrain + iMemory + iVoiceBox upgrades that were needed for the likes of Prince and Michael only to be obsoleted by the Apple iPod! What's next? iPod inBrain!
Does the ResizerFS project really need Hans to continue it? He is the mad genius behind it after all...
Does California permit inmates to have computers? If so surely there are enough people using the ReiserFS to get together and get a computer for the notorious Hans Reiser to work with?