Bruce: What are the advantages of this particular distribution over the other ones currently available?
On a semi-related note: I recently tried to install Debian, Knoppix, Mandrake, and Gentoo on my laptop. Of those, only Mandrake installed (mostly) successfully. Well, ok. Knoppix installed (to hard disk - I want a permanent environment), but had some serious bugs that forced me to keep re-creating user accounts. I also ran into a problem with Debian and Gentoo attempting to download packages, but not being able to get through our proxy firewall. (If only there were some way to get them to read the proxy.pac file...) In Debian, if I made a mistake in certain places, there was no way to go back and undo it. Does UserLinux have these issues?
The drop shadows are surrounding the windows equally on all sides, regardless of window position. This is not a terribly likely scenario. The light source would have to be directly over the center of ALL of the windows simultaneously. A drop shadow to the bottom right or top left would look much better.
Imagine that you accidently leave the heat on too long, or that you have a fire in your house. Now the air inside is hot enough to cause the coating to phase change, and all the heat gets reflected back INTO your house, causing it to get even hotter!
Apparently, this posting fixes the prior a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/ 06/2015257&tid=201&tid=128"Slashdot Posting 1, which mentioned the release of SP2 on Friday evening!
considering all data received is 1h24m old, as well as 900 million miles away
Recieving old data is easy. Receiving data that is 900 million miles away is very hard. The spacecraft is 900 million miles away. The data must be here, or we could not have received it.;)
The old default theme in 9.0 looked very nice. Thsi one looks horrible! Can we revert? Please?
Difference between GFS, NFS and AFS?
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What is the difference between GFS, NFS and AFS? (Other than AFS's global file structure, kerberization and encryption)? Do they all do the same thing, or does GFS add something that the others don't have?
You expect negative results from good experiment in science sometimes...
There are four possibilities:
1) Bad result, but result appears to confirm the prediction - this is not a successful experiment
2) Bad result, but result appears to invalidate the prediction - this is not a successful experiment. Possibility of an insufficiently sensitive instrument, or just a badly designed experiment.
1) Good result, but result appears to confirm the prediction - this is a successful experiment - a negative result is as valid as a positive one.
1) Good result, and result appears to confirm the prediction - this is a successful experiment
A while back, Sun was claiming that it was going to release Ultrasparcs that could do asynchronous computing - different parts of the CPU would not rely on the same clock. Anyone know what happened to that? Is that in one of the future chips mentioned in the article?
I can imagine that you might go on the Space Mountain ride some time between 8 AM and 4 PM. You must stand in line the entire day, and they will not tell you when you will ride. Riding will now require a converter seat that will make your pants compatible with the unusual seats in their rides. The price of a cartoon will go up 10% per year, and will have worse encoding every year. There will be hundreds of rides to choose from, but most of them will just be place holders for rides that don't really exist.
Most record companies are owned by a company that also owns a movie studio. Warner music / Warner Bros. / AOL Time Warner. Sony Pictures / Sony music. Universal music / Universal (studios) / Vivendi Universal. They even tie in CD releases to movie releases and book releases. They're competing against themselves.
I use a promise Raid controller on the motherboard. As promise suggests, I use the synchronization feature from time to time, although as the author suggests, it doesn't really make sense that you should have to use this. I'm wondering what other people's experiences are with synchronization, and whether or not this is actually necessary, or even a good idea.
I should note that the way that synchronization appears to work is by reading data from one drive, and creating a fresh, bit by bit copy onto the other drive. This seems somewhat dangerous, since if the source drive happens to have corrupted data on it, then the data on the destination drive will also become corrupted, when it was not before.
I recommend reading the following two papers on The Solar Trust Model, a distributed trust model that can be used by anyone to compute relative trust of anyone else, regardless of prior relationships or context.
The Solar Trust Model: Authentication without Limitation at:
http://www.acsac.org/1998/abstracts/fri-a-1030-c li fford.pdf
Networking in The Solar Trust Model: Determining Optimal Trust Paths in a Decentralized Trust Network at http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/9.pdf
From the second paper's abstract:
The Solar Trust Model provides a method by which the sender of a message can be authenticated, and the level of trust that can be placed in the sender of the message or the message itself can be computed. The model works even if there is no prior relationship between the sender and receiver of the message. The Solar Trust Model overcomes a variety of limitations inherent in the design of other trust models and public key infrastructures. This paper presents a variety of enhancements and formalizations to the basic concepts of the model. In addition, this paper provides a set of algorithms that can be used to determine all of the possible trusted paths along which a message can be sent from a sender to recipient and the optimal choice of paths from a selection of paths. The paper also presents algorithms for reducing the network load produced by the model through piggybacking, path caching, and load distribution techniques.
"Another possible feature addition that we're discussing is to allow subscribers to post during this window."
This is a bad idea, because earlier posts tend to be moderated higher than later posts, simply because more people see earlier posts. This will give subscribers a much louder voice in the forums, while potentially degrading the quality of the discussion.
I just replaced an MSI KT266Pro Motherboard with exactly those symptoms. The computer suddenly started crashing at strange times, and in a week could barely boot. It turned out to be the capacitors, which had ruptured at the top.
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Bruce: What are the advantages of this particular distribution over the other ones currently available?
On a semi-related note: I recently tried to install Debian, Knoppix, Mandrake, and Gentoo on my laptop. Of those, only Mandrake installed (mostly) successfully. Well, ok. Knoppix installed (to hard disk - I want a permanent environment), but had some serious bugs that forced me to keep re-creating user accounts. I also ran into a problem with Debian and Gentoo attempting to download packages, but not being able to get through our proxy firewall. (If only there were some way to get them to read the proxy.pac file...) In Debian, if I made a mistake in certain places, there was no way to go back and undo it. Does UserLinux have these issues?
The drop shadows are surrounding the windows equally on all sides, regardless of window position. This is not a terribly likely scenario. The light source would have to be directly over the center of ALL of the windows simultaneously. A drop shadow to the bottom right or top left would look much better.
Sorry for my ignorance. This screenshot was awesome! Can someone tell me what was used to create a desktop with this OSX-like appearance?
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Imagine that you accidently leave the heat on too long, or that you have a fire in your house. Now the air inside is hot enough to cause the coating to phase change, and all the heat gets reflected back INTO your house, causing it to get even hotter!
Apparently, this posting fixes the prior a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/ 06/2015257&tid=201&tid=128"Slashdot Posting 1, which mentioned the release of SP2 on Friday evening!
Wouldn't that be "bovonics"? Or perhaps Bovinics?
considering all data received is 1h24m old, as well as 900 million miles away Recieving old data is easy. Receiving data that is 900 million miles away is very hard. The spacecraft is 900 million miles away. The data must be here, or we could not have received it. ;)
The old default theme in 9.0 looked very nice. Thsi one looks horrible! Can we revert? Please?
What is the difference between GFS, NFS and AFS? (Other than AFS's global file structure, kerberization and encryption)? Do they all do the same thing, or does GFS add something that the others don't have?
FD2 doesn't come with a boot floppy image. My Linux box doesn't support boot from CD, so I couldn't even install it. That seems silly.
You expect negative results from good experiment in science sometimes...
There are four possibilities:
1) Bad result, but result appears to confirm the prediction - this is not a successful experiment
2) Bad result, but result appears to invalidate the prediction - this is not a successful experiment. Possibility of an insufficiently sensitive instrument, or just a badly designed experiment.
1) Good result, but result appears to confirm the prediction - this is a successful experiment - a negative result is as valid as a positive one.
1) Good result, and result appears to confirm the prediction - this is a successful experiment
A while back, Sun was claiming that it was going to release Ultrasparcs that could do asynchronous computing - different parts of the CPU would not rely on the same clock. Anyone know what happened to that? Is that in one of the future chips mentioned in the article?
Step 1) Eliminate Competition
Step 2) Profit! ($40 Billion in cash)
Step 3) Get fined $0.5 Billion for being naughty
Step 4) More profit!
Value of fine benefits of bad behavior. Bad behavior continues...
This rover bears a remarkable resemblance to Rover, the beloved and slightly deadly spherical guard on the island from The Prisoner.
(You are, number 6.)
I can imagine that you might go on the Space Mountain ride some time between 8 AM and 4 PM. You must stand in line the entire day, and they will not tell you when you will ride. Riding will now require a converter seat that will make your pants compatible with the unusual seats in their rides. The price of a cartoon will go up 10% per year, and will have worse encoding every year. There will be hundreds of rides to choose from, but most of them will just be place holders for rides that don't really exist.
e-mail the sites that are running these ads. Let them know how you feel. It took years to end the tyranny of pop-ups. Don't let it happen again.
The posting is pointing to the cypherpunks website, not to the article. Me no grok.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these... ;)
Most record companies are owned by a company that also owns a movie studio. Warner music / Warner Bros. / AOL Time Warner. Sony Pictures / Sony music. Universal music / Universal (studios) / Vivendi Universal. They even tie in CD releases to movie releases and book releases. They're competing against themselves.
I use a promise Raid controller on the motherboard. As promise suggests, I use the synchronization feature from time to time, although as the author suggests, it doesn't really make sense that you should have to use this. I'm wondering what other people's experiences are with synchronization, and whether or not this is actually necessary, or even a good idea.
I should note that the way that synchronization appears to work is by reading data from one drive, and creating a fresh, bit by bit copy onto the other drive. This seems somewhat dangerous, since if the source drive happens to have corrupted data on it, then the data on the destination drive will also become corrupted, when it was not before.
That first link doesn't seem to have posted correctly. It's http://www.acsac.org/1998/abstracts/fri-a-1030-cli fford.pdf
No space in the word "clifford"
first paper
second paper
I recommend reading the following two papers on The Solar Trust Model, a distributed trust model that can be used by anyone to compute relative trust of anyone else, regardless of prior relationships or context.
c li fford.pdf
The Solar Trust Model: Authentication without Limitation at:
http://www.acsac.org/1998/abstracts/fri-a-1030-
Networking in The Solar Trust Model:
Determining Optimal Trust Paths in a Decentralized Trust Network at http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/9.pdf
From the second paper's abstract:
The Solar Trust Model provides a method by which the sender of a message can be authenticated, and the level of trust that can be placed in the sender of the message or the message itself can be computed. The model works even if there is no prior relationship between the sender and receiver of the message. The Solar Trust Model overcomes a variety of limitations inherent in the design of other trust models and public key infrastructures. This paper presents a variety of enhancements and formalizations to the basic concepts of the model. In addition, this paper provides a set of algorithms that can be used to determine all of the possible trusted paths along which a message can be sent from a sender to recipient and the optimal choice of paths from a selection of paths. The paper also presents algorithms for reducing the network load produced by the model through piggybacking, path caching, and load distribution techniques.
"Another possible feature addition that we're discussing is to allow subscribers to post during this window."
This is a bad idea, because earlier posts tend to be moderated higher than later posts, simply because more people see earlier posts. This will give subscribers a much louder voice in the forums, while potentially degrading the quality of the discussion.
Not only does this invade my privacy, but it broadcasts information from which my income, age, etc. can be derived to everyone AROUND me!
I just replaced an MSI KT266Pro Motherboard with exactly those symptoms. The computer suddenly started crashing at strange times, and in a week could barely boot. It turned out to be the capacitors, which had ruptured at the top.