Obviously not! I read http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/, which is what we're linking to hear, and which doesn't talk about any of those things. But I guess I should have assumed that rollbackability is a fundamental feature of any new file system.
According to this item, ZFS has been around since Feb 04. I think the only thing new here is that it's been added to OpenSolaris.
The feature set for ZFS is certainly way cool. But I'm disturbed by the lack of emphasis on reliability. I've had nasty experiences with older Sun filesystems that didn't that didn't respond robustly to sudden loss of power. (Yes, there was a UPS. It's a long story.) By contrast, I've seen journalling file systems like XFS and NTFS simply laugh off that kind of problem.
OK, maybe ZFS is more bulletproof than the filesystems I relied on the last time I worked with Solaris (1998). Still, I'd like to here them say that this is an important design feature!
And if the consequences of not getting the kind of lunch you wanted bore any relationship to the consequences of starting a war, killing thousands of people, destroying the reputation of your home country, spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and and turning a major mideast country into a training ground for terrorists, you'd have a point.
>>>>To this day, philosophers debate what "science" is.
Yet scientists don't, and regardless happily go about improving hte world.
Bulshit. The best scientists put a lot of thought into what science is. Those that don't aren't real scientists — they're just technicians with lots of training.
Besides, if you don't stop and think about what is and is not science, you open the door for everybody with a half-baked idea to call themselves a "scientist". Which is exactly how nonsense like Creationism and Intelligent Design gets started in the first place.
You do a good job of explaining the rationale of the design. But I still balk at buying at tablet that you can only use for three hours between recharges. To be more than a geek toy, a tablet has to be something you can use to read and to scribble. In other words, it's an electronic replacement for a book and/or a notepad. It's something you take to meetings to take notes, to your favorite chair to do some serious reading, to your TV room so you can check out the listing and IM your friends during commercials...
Having to stick it back in the charger every three hours puts a serious crim in these uses.
If you don't mean to put it down, you should pick a more positive word than "glorified". The Palm's limitations have as much to do with making it a practical portable tool as with keeping it cheap. Instead of trying to do everything, like the Newton, the Palm picks out some specific portable applications and makes them work on a system that you can carry around all day without recharging..
That's also what this tablet tries to do. It's primarily for accessing the web and email. These are applications that just don't need a fast processor or lots of RAM. A better screen is always nice, but this one is acceptable for the intended purpose.
And raising the specs would not just make the thing cost more, it'd destroy the system's battery life. Which is already disappointingly low. I wouldn't buy a web tablet unless it could last through an entire work day without recharging.
The alternative is Unix, which is what most supercomputers used to run. Or more precisely, they ran proprietary OSs that had started out as ports of Unix to their particular hardware. Then in the late 90s everybody realized that they couldn't afford to keep developing their own processors, and started shifting to commodity processors, such as Itanium. Rather than go to the expense of porting their own OSs to the new processors, they just adopted Linux. A commodity OS for a commodity processor, if you will.
I was working at SGI in 1999 when they made their Itanium/Linux move. A lot of customers (and employees for that matter) would have liked SGI to port its version of Unix, Irix, to the Itanium. But that was just too expensive. Instead, SGI promised to continue selling the MIPS/Irix Origin line, in addition to the Linux/Itanium Altix line. So Irix is still alive — as a legacy system. If you check the Top 500 list you'll find several Altix systems but not a single Origin system.
Please! Stalin was a socialist dictator. Which meant that he was against profit in any form. The RIAA's repression is meant to preserve profit, and thus counts as fascism. So it's Mussolini who's laughing at us!
It is — in a courtroom. But having your day in court isn't cheap. That's why there are so many SLAPP lawsuits; most people will back down rather than pay a six-figure legal bill.
It's pretty sad how few people seem to understand how the legal system works.
Great! Links to a new software release, without a single word as to bug fixes, new features or potential problems. In other words, we have the software, but we don't have any information with which to make a sensible decision to install it — or not. Talk about compulsive upgrading.
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Obviously not! I read http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/, which is what we're linking to hear, and which doesn't talk about any of those things. But I guess I should have assumed that rollbackability is a fundamental feature of any new file system.
Here's a bot with AI. Put one online and hilarity ensues. Pity no one's done it lately.
The feature set for ZFS is certainly way cool. But I'm disturbed by the lack of emphasis on reliability. I've had nasty experiences with older Sun filesystems that didn't that didn't respond robustly to sudden loss of power. (Yes, there was a UPS. It's a long story.) By contrast, I've seen journalling file systems like XFS and NTFS simply laugh off that kind of problem.
OK, maybe ZFS is more bulletproof than the filesystems I relied on the last time I worked with Solaris (1998). Still, I'd like to here them say that this is an important design feature!
And if the consequences of not getting the kind of lunch you wanted bore any relationship to the consequences of starting a war, killing thousands of people, destroying the reputation of your home country, spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and and turning a major mideast country into a training ground for terrorists, you'd have a point.
It's never too late for evil! Mu wah ha ha!
I almost read TFA! But you saved me from that!
OK, glad to oblige. During my next psychotic ep, I'll just murder somebody near and dear to you.
That's true. Better not piss me off!
Or you could have said something that was actually funny. Slashdot humorists seem to think that everything rates a ROTFLOL.
Besides, if you don't stop and think about what is and is not science, you open the door for everybody with a half-baked idea to call themselves a "scientist". Which is exactly how nonsense like Creationism and Intelligent Design gets started in the first place.
Having to stick it back in the charger every three hours puts a serious crim in these uses.
OMGWTF yourself. That was a passing reference to the Newton, not an anti-Newton flame.
That's also what this tablet tries to do. It's primarily for accessing the web and email. These are applications that just don't need a fast processor or lots of RAM. A better screen is always nice, but this one is acceptable for the intended purpose.
And raising the specs would not just make the thing cost more, it'd destroy the system's battery life. Which is already disappointingly low. I wouldn't buy a web tablet unless it could last through an entire work day without recharging.
Uh, did you notice that the article was evaluating blog software, not blog hosting services?
I do wish that Mac people would think to mention that software is Mac-only when they endorse it, so the rest of us won't waste our time evaluating it.
I was working at SGI in 1999 when they made their Itanium/Linux move. A lot of customers (and employees for that matter) would have liked SGI to port its version of Unix, Irix, to the Itanium. But that was just too expensive. Instead, SGI promised to continue selling the MIPS/Irix Origin line, in addition to the Linux/Itanium Altix line. So Irix is still alive — as a legacy system. If you check the Top 500 list you'll find several Altix systems but not a single Origin system.
Please! Stalin was a socialist dictator. Which meant that he was against profit in any form. The RIAA's repression is meant to preserve profit, and thus counts as fascism. So it's Mussolini who's laughing at us!
It's pretty sad how few people seem to understand how the legal system works.
... my pony?
Dublin (115 sq km) is a little bigger than Mountain View (31 sq km).
Great! Links to a new software release, without a single word as to bug fixes, new features or potential problems. In other words, we have the software, but we don't have any information with which to make a sensible decision to install it — or not. Talk about compulsive upgrading.
I must have heard the term "automagically" a zillion times, but I still have no idea what it means.
You didn't say E2 was "crappy", you said it was one of the worst movies ever made. That kind of silly exaggeration reeks of Obsessed Fan Betrayal.