Sure looks like stuff from cron! Note that after some NULLs in these files, they become the correct one again. It gets so bad that grep thinks they are all binary!
cat maillog | grep mail Binary file (standard input) matches
And it has happened before. This time it wasn't too bad (hard lockup) because it wasn't booting or shutting down (did you know some distros write/etc/fstab when shutting down? Do you know what happens when/var/log/messages is in/etc/fstab?)
As far as I've been able to figure out, it has to do with the journal being updated before the data, and if power is lost before the data is written, then the journal points to old data, and because of Reiserfs' tailpacking, you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it! Other filesystems don't update the journal until AFTER the data is written (see ext3 data=ordered). ext3 with data=writeback may also have this issue, I don't know.
And if quoting GnR isn't enough, just remember that with great performance comes great responsibility.
Google for "Reiserfs data loss" if you're bored.
That's why I'm moving to ext3 with full data journalling for the OS at least.
I would argue that you are better than Mr. Axe murderer (of the 30th degree).
Why? Because ethics isn't measured by hours of time lost. If it was, then traffic jams "kill" 15,000 people a year! (66 hours a person, say 150 million commuters).
In fact, we can think of spam as traffic jams of the internet. And I bet people spend much more time in traffic than deleting spam.
Also, the harm is spread out amongst people, just like insurance spreads about the cost of living amongst people.
That doesn't mean spam is OK, but it is not murder by any stretch of the imagination.
Actually, I believe that ext3 is the only filesystem to allow journalling of data above and beyond just metadata.
Use the mount option data=journal, see man mount for more information.
I do know that RieserFS has some "features" that are unexpected and can be agrivated by powerfailure during write.
But don't worry, Hans says it's designed that way, and your filesystem will be intact, even if/etc/fstab contains lines from/var/log/messages......
XFS is good, but cannot be shrunk. EXT3 can shrink, but I don't know about the others. I'm going to have to investigate JFS, which right now is the bastard stepchild, ignored by most......
First off, I like testing a distro a few weeks after it was released, to see what the update procedure is like.
I also like to see you easy it is to install "non-standard" software, such as MP3 players on RedHat, etc.
But all in all, the only real way to do a review is the way the car magazines sometimes do: run the distro for a few months as your main machine. Then all problems will become clear.
Another caveat is to have more than one person review; for example, a Macintosh user may expect a computer to work much differently than a Gentoo user would. Many different opinions need to be taken into account; it is unlikely that there is a one-size-fits-all in the distro department.
DCC admits that UNIX is a computer software operating system. DCC admits that it is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in the County of Oakland, State of Michigan.
I think I'll even admit that UNIX is a computer software OS.:)
One thing I learned (before adblock fixed everything) is that you should make sure that you have a webserver running on 127.0.0.1 that returns a blank page when it can't find the page (the 404 page), as this allows blank whitespace in place of 404 not found errors. It also speeds up browsing, too.
Is fraud stealing? Is it like stealing? Is it nothing like stealing?
What if you bought a bunch of stock in a company at $10 a share, and right after you bought it you learned that the CEO had been committing fraud that caused your shares to be worth only $0.01? Would that be stealing? You still have the shares, and still own the same amount of the company.
If you call it fraud, the we'll call "copyright violation" fraud, too. And just because it isn't "moving an object off of the owner's property," doesn't mean that it isn't like stealing, especially in a moral sense.
In common usage of the word "steal," copyright violation is theft. But just like stealing someone's life (murder), the punishment should perhaps be different than for simple breaking and entering.
"A well-unregulated Flow of Cash being necessary to the security of a corporation, the right of the corporations to keep and bear spyware shall not be infringed."
The basis for the United States of America, the Declaration of Independance states:
...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...
And that word unalienable is observed. You cannot sell yourself into slavery, but you can get into virtual slavery with credit cards, etc. Even then, there are many, many laws that protect the employee and prohibit certain types of slave-like contracts.
We're still much better off than the slaves were, but we can also do much more. In the end, it comes down to the balance of freedom and license. If you are free to do what is right, truly, you will also have the freedom to do things wrong. And to prohibit everything that someone thinks is bad is a sure route to tyranny.
Note: this is also part of the reason that suicide is illegal: no one can deprive you of your unalienable right to life; not even yourself.
No, because implicit in the agreement that everyone makes with Slashdot when posting is permission for Slashdot to reproduce and store the post upon their servers.
That means that even if it is a conversation, permission has already been given to Slashdot, at least, to copy and record it.
So, for example, I can't sue Slashdot for reproducing my words here, because my post is indication of my consent to have them reproduced.
But if you save a copy, I could potentially accuse you of copyright infringment, because I have only granted Slashdot a right to reproduce.
But fair use would cover that, probably, and I license this post under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
But do note that copyright is a separate issue from the chat logging issue.
Slashdot Mirror
which sure looks like
and here's some more from
And it has happened before. This time it wasn't too bad (hard lockup) because it wasn't booting or shutting down (did you know some distros writeSure looks like stuff from cron! Note that after some NULLs in these files, they become the correct one again. It gets so bad that grep thinks they are all binary!
As far as I've been able to figure out, it has to do with the journal being updated before the data, and if power is lost before the data is written, then the journal points to old data, and because of Reiserfs' tailpacking, you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it! Other filesystems don't update the journal until AFTER the data is written (see ext3 data=ordered). ext3 with data=writeback may also have this issue, I don't know.
And if quoting GnR isn't enough, just remember that with great performance comes great responsibility.
Google for "Reiserfs data loss" if you're bored.
That's why I'm moving to ext3 with full data journalling for the OS at least.
parted? I thought that was only used to fiddle with FAT...
Parted
I like SquirrelMail for my web-based access to email, but it doesn't support GPG transparently.
Is there any php based webmail I can run on my own server that supports GPG signing and encrypting?
Check out Asterisk. You can do many things with it, including caller ID based whitelists, menus, etc.
FOSS, too.
I would argue that you are better than Mr. Axe murderer (of the 30th degree).
Why? Because ethics isn't measured by hours of time lost. If it was, then traffic jams "kill" 15,000 people a year! (66 hours a person, say 150 million commuters).
In fact, we can think of spam as traffic jams of the internet. And I bet people spend much more time in traffic than deleting spam.
Also, the harm is spread out amongst people, just like insurance spreads about the cost of living amongst people.
That doesn't mean spam is OK, but it is not murder by any stretch of the imagination.
But it is most likely fraud, and is annoying.
I'm pretty sure Miramar Marine base could launch a 747 if it had to.
And they could probably launch one out of Tijuana, also.
Actually, I believe that ext3 is the only filesystem to allow journalling of data above and beyond just metadata.
/etc/fstab contains lines from /var/log/messages......
Use the mount option data=journal, see man mount for more information.
I do know that RieserFS has some "features" that are unexpected and can be agrivated by powerfailure during write.
But don't worry, Hans says it's designed that way, and your filesystem will be intact, even if
XFS is good, but cannot be shrunk. EXT3 can shrink, but I don't know about the others. I'm going to have to investigate JFS, which right now is the bastard stepchild, ignored by most......
Wow! Your post goes beyond radical!
In fact, I'm going to call it Post #9109131 Xtreem!
[/marketing]
I got burned on the 2x thing before (that burner cost me $500), I'm not getting burned again.
So you bought a burner and got burned.... what did you expect?
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week!
You know who T-Mobile is, don't you?
Journey to the website of the Deutsche Telecom and see if you see any similarities......
First off, I like testing a distro a few weeks after it was released, to see what the update procedure is like.
I also like to see you easy it is to install "non-standard" software, such as MP3 players on RedHat, etc.
But all in all, the only real way to do a review is the way the car magazines sometimes do: run the distro for a few months as your main machine. Then all problems will become clear.
Another caveat is to have more than one person review; for example, a Macintosh user may expect a computer to work much differently than a Gentoo user would. Many different opinions need to be taken into account; it is unlikely that there is a one-size-fits-all in the distro department.
Funny thing is, they don't deny it. They admit it. (It's in the filing.)
No, but at that speed they sure must've been rushing it to the hospital!
Mucho fun! So California actually can find its ass with a map and both hands!
Gotta love it.
[Disclaimer - I am a San Diegan (Go Padres!)]
I think I'll even admit that UNIX is a computer software OS.
One thing I learned (before adblock fixed everything) is that you should make sure that you have a webserver running on 127.0.0.1 that returns a blank page when it can't find the page (the 404 page), as this allows blank whitespace in place of 404 not found errors. It also speeds up browsing, too.
lilo -r
is what you want.
Is fraud stealing? Is it like stealing? Is it nothing like stealing?
What if you bought a bunch of stock in a company at $10 a share, and right after you bought it you learned that the CEO had been committing fraud that caused your shares to be worth only $0.01? Would that be stealing? You still have the shares, and still own the same amount of the company.
If you call it fraud, the we'll call "copyright violation" fraud, too. And just because it isn't "moving an object off of the owner's property," doesn't mean that it isn't like stealing, especially in a moral sense.
In common usage of the word "steal," copyright violation is theft. But just like stealing someone's life (murder), the punishment should perhaps be different than for simple breaking and entering.
No!no!NO!
It's GNU/FLU
And that word unalienable is observed. You cannot sell yourself into slavery, but you can get into virtual slavery with credit cards, etc. Even then, there are many, many laws that protect the employee and prohibit certain types of slave-like contracts.
We're still much better off than the slaves were, but we can also do much more. In the end, it comes down to the balance of freedom and license. If you are free to do what is right, truly, you will also have the freedom to do things wrong. And to prohibit everything that someone thinks is bad is a sure route to tyranny.
Note: this is also part of the reason that suicide is illegal: no one can deprive you of your unalienable right to life; not even yourself.
No, because implicit in the agreement that everyone makes with Slashdot when posting is permission for Slashdot to reproduce and store the post upon their servers.
That means that even if it is a conversation, permission has already been given to Slashdot, at least, to copy and record it.
So, for example, I can't sue Slashdot for reproducing my words here, because my post is indication of my consent to have them reproduced.
But if you save a copy, I could potentially accuse you of copyright infringment, because I have only granted Slashdot a right to reproduce.
But fair use would cover that, probably, and I license this post under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
But do note that copyright is a separate issue from the chat logging issue.
(Dang, I sound like a stinkin' lawyer!) IANAL.
Actually, there is only one Pioneer. :)
Think goatse and tubgirl and noise and worse taking over your desktop with javascript popup windows.
Think about it, and then go kiss your firewall, as it has saved you from a fate worse than death.
Have you looked into Server class boards?
For example, Tyan's S2707 is a real nice P4 board with onboard video and dual gigabit LAN. No IDE Raid, though it may be an option.
Pretty fast, but more of a server board than a workstation.