Yeah even I thought the summary doesn't do justice to him. He found algorithmically faster ways to compute Pi. I doubt this was just to 'prove his efficient coding abilities.' He's someone to be honored for giving us LZEXE, FFMpeg and QEMU. The summary treats him as some random guy, which is weird.. this being Slashdot and all.
When visiting a doctor for a sinus infection, he said that in India they would take a swab from my nose, determine in a few minutes with a microscope what bacteria was bothering me, and give me a specific antibiotic that was known to work well.
I'm in India.
Maybe what you say happens in some specific hospitals, but most general physicians aren't equipped with microscopes. No doctor who has prescribed antibiotics to me has ever checked a sample with a microscope in my lifetime. In fact, more than one doctor has prescribed antibiotics for just a day or two.
Last week, I went to a hospital with a second dog bite in 2 months. The doctor:
1. Didn't correctly categorize it as a category III dog bite (rabies is prevalent among street dogs in India, so dog bites need to be taken care of). They said it was category II though there was bleeding.
2. Wrongly said that I'd have immunity for 5 years from the set of rabies injections I had taken 1 month ago. She did not prescribe another round of anti-rabies shots, even though I told her no immunoglobin was administered the first time.
3. Prescribed paracetamol without asking me if I had any pain or trauma (I had zero pain).
4. Prescribed Amoxycillin (an antibiotic) for 2 days!
5. Amoxycillin contains pencillin. She did not bother to ask me if I was allergic to pencillin.
I went to see another doctor after that. He made sure I had a tetanus shot, asked me not to take the medicines (have the wound heal naturally), and to take another set of anti-rabies shots.
It doesn't appear to me there's a code of practice in India, which states that doctors should look under a microscope. There aren't even patient history records accessible to physicians (such as with the NHS in UK).
When you use an inverter, you are typically powering more in your room than just computers with it as there's so much power available. Power comes off the wall socket and the inverter is installed closer to the AC mains supply.
Photos are in another comment in this thread.
The model I have is a Smiley 1400VA / 24V. I don't know if you'll find this in your country, but you should be able to find some local good-quality brand like it. Best is to contact a local dealer and ask them. Batteries are made by Exide. I don't remember the model number, but your local shop should be able to suggest good ones for you, that meet your requirement. I called up a local dealer here with my requirement ("I want to power X computers with the following components for N hours"), instead of doing the math myself.
I'm sorry it's pretty dusty, but this has been exposed to the elements for the past year. It has to be kept outside because of the lead-acid batteries, which need to be ventilated. The stand is an old TV stand reused to host this. The inverter is on top. The batteries are at the bottom.
The little yellow alien looking caps that you see filters that the acidic fumes from the batteries. Each cap tops a cell. The little stick on top indicates the liquid level inside the cell. After about a month, the levels go down in some of the caps and I call the local shop to come and top-up distilled water. Basically the water evaporates whereas the acid is still there, so they fill in distilled water. I could do this myself, but the local shop does it for about $1 so I just let the experts handle it:).
It's no act. I am happy to put up photographs of my setup if you want. It's been working well for me the last year, so I don't have issues recommending it. Apart from being a customer, I have no connections to any inverter/battery company.
You OTOH are an anonymous coward. Here is my website. Go find more about the shill there.
Oh and I forgot to add.. the whole setup cost me ~$600 including installation. Maintenance costs about $1 / month (topping up distilled water levels).
Also the 10 hour duration I quoted above was the duration before mains power came back on. I suppose it would work for quite a bit longer, but the power hasn't been out for a longer duration. Also, this is a "home" sized product. You can get larger solutions if you want longer backup. Many companies use such solutions in India to beat the power cuts.
I use a Su-Kam inverter at home. It powers a whole room, has a clean sine-wave output (unlike traditional UPSes), and its switchover delay is small enough that the SMPS in computers handle the switchover to battery power properly.
It uses two large lead-acid multi-cell batteries (~car batteries) for storing charge. The last time there was a major power cut, it powered my computer systems for 10 hours (yes you read that right... 10 hours.)
I was laughing at the old APC UPS which did 10 minutes before I had to power down.
The PostMark disk performance between Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 Alpha 2 was close while Fedora 13 was behind, but again given the debugging options used during the development cycle and its pre-alpha state we aren't worrying too much.
KDE is just technically better these days. It is implemented in a better programming language (even C++ is better than the C-and-GObject hellhole), built upon a better GUI toolkit (Qt kicks the fuck out of GTK+), and offers much better desktop applications and a more integrated desktop experience. Unless there are some huge changes within the GNOME community, they will not be able to match KDE's current environment, let alone exceed it.
GNOME is not implemented in a single language. You can write GTK+ apps using GObject in C, C++, Python, C#, Java, etc. and there are many such apps shipping in GNOME.
GObject (with the rest of GLib) is pretty good for what it provides for C as the base language target. You can use GObject classes (such as GTK+ widgets) without the verbosity from higher level languages, including C++. Arguably, many things in gtkmm are closer to C++ than when using Qt. Going by your opinion of GObject, you appear to lack experience in it to do a fair review. To repeat, GObject is such because it provides an object system for use in C.
Whether Qt kicks the fuck out of GTK+ or not is simply opinion. Many of the features that most GUI applications use are provided by both toolkit families. Both have their quirks.
Fedora accepts all kinds of packages. You could create a simple utility, like some netmask computation code, make it a trojan (add code which does what it's not intended to do as setuid root).. package it for Fedora. This can go completely unnoticed. As an upstream maintainer, I am pretty sure Fedora or any other distro does not review my project code more than a cursory glance to fix any compilation/integration issues.
User gets to be root user. It may not even be a user.. it may be a program of some kind that has access to your user account after exploiting a vulnerability in an app such as your web browser.
There are other ways to get root too, such as exploit other setuid binaries in any of the thousands of packages that Fedora ships in the Everything repo.
Letting users install packages (signed or not) on a system administered by root is a stupid decision.
I have 3 Seagate FreeAgent 1 GB USB disks. They come with NTFS by default on them. Per disk:
1. I make a LUKS dm_crypt volume on it (for which support is well integrated into GNOME and hal in Fedora and Ubuntu.. just plug in and it pops up a dialog asking for the password).
2. I mkfs an ext3 filesystem on the encrypted volume.
I use this encrypted setup out of experience, having dropped an older 750GB USB disk from a height. It works from time to time and I have to physically destroy it because contents on it are not encrypted and otherwise anyone who finds this disk in the trash can mount and browse it.
I did receive the email on my sourceforge.net address. My problem was not with which email address I received the mail at. I don't see why I have to be contacted for a Google service, when my subscription is with Sourceforge.net.
Don't take this the wrong way. I have used Google services for a very long time, but I think this is a bad precedent. Picking up an email address in an automated way from a website and mailing me about your services, when I haven't asked for it is as good as what a spammer would do. And the email suggested you had a table of projects, which made me assume Sourceforge shared this with you. If Sourceforge.net didn't and you can attest that I'll edit out that part of my article (I would not want to blame Sourceforge for something that they didn't do).
To the parent poster: This may seem paranoid.. some other poster suggested the same to the other Canonical-Debian issue too (on the other blog). When something is not right, it simply needs to be questioned. That's all.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah even I thought the summary doesn't do justice to him. He found algorithmically faster ways to compute Pi. I doubt this was just to 'prove his efficient coding abilities.' He's someone to be honored for giving us LZEXE, FFMpeg and QEMU. The summary treats him as some random guy, which is weird.. this being Slashdot and all.
When visiting a doctor for a sinus infection, he said that in India they would take a swab from my nose, determine in a few minutes with a microscope what bacteria was bothering me, and give me a specific antibiotic that was known to work well.
I'm in India.
Maybe what you say happens in some specific hospitals, but most general physicians aren't equipped with microscopes. No doctor who has prescribed antibiotics to me has ever checked a sample with a microscope in my lifetime. In fact, more than one doctor has prescribed antibiotics for just a day or two.
Last week, I went to a hospital with a second dog bite in 2 months. The doctor:
1. Didn't correctly categorize it as a category III dog bite (rabies is prevalent among street dogs in India, so dog bites need to be taken care of). They said it was category II though there was bleeding.
2. Wrongly said that I'd have immunity for 5 years from the set of rabies injections I had taken 1 month ago. She did not prescribe another round of anti-rabies shots, even though I told her no immunoglobin was administered the first time.
3. Prescribed paracetamol without asking me if I had any pain or trauma (I had zero pain).
4. Prescribed Amoxycillin (an antibiotic) for 2 days!
5. Amoxycillin contains pencillin. She did not bother to ask me if I was allergic to pencillin.
I went to see another doctor after that. He made sure I had a tetanus shot, asked me not to take the medicines (have the wound heal naturally), and to take another set of anti-rabies shots.
It doesn't appear to me there's a code of practice in India, which states that doctors should look under a microscope. There aren't even patient history records accessible to physicians (such as with the NHS in UK).
Not to steal their thunder (and this mpg result is old news), but according to their own blog, Universite Laval got 2757 mpg in that race. And Mater Dei High School hold the record with 2,843.4 mpg.
inverter1.jpg, inverter2.jpg
When you use an inverter, you are typically powering more in your room than just computers with it as there's so much power available. Power comes off the wall socket and the inverter is installed closer to the AC mains supply.
Photos are in another comment in this thread. The model I have is a Smiley 1400VA / 24V. I don't know if you'll find this in your country, but you should be able to find some local good-quality brand like it. Best is to contact a local dealer and ask them. Batteries are made by Exide. I don't remember the model number, but your local shop should be able to suggest good ones for you, that meet your requirement. I called up a local dealer here with my requirement ("I want to power X computers with the following components for N hours"), instead of doing the math myself.
Here they are: inverter1.jpg, inverter2.jpg
I'm sorry it's pretty dusty, but this has been exposed to the elements for the past year. It has to be kept outside because of the lead-acid batteries, which need to be ventilated. The stand is an old TV stand reused to host this. The inverter is on top. The batteries are at the bottom.
The little yellow alien looking caps that you see filters that the acidic fumes from the batteries. Each cap tops a cell. The little stick on top indicates the liquid level inside the cell. After about a month, the levels go down in some of the caps and I call the local shop to come and top-up distilled water. Basically the water evaporates whereas the acid is still there, so they fill in distilled water. I could do this myself, but the local shop does it for about $1 so I just let the experts handle it :).
It's no act. I am happy to put up photographs of my setup if you want. It's been working well for me the last year, so I don't have issues recommending it. Apart from being a customer, I have no connections to any inverter/battery company. You OTOH are an anonymous coward. Here is my website. Go find more about the shill there.
Oh and I forgot to add.. the whole setup cost me ~$600 including installation. Maintenance costs about $1 / month (topping up distilled water levels). Also the 10 hour duration I quoted above was the duration before mains power came back on. I suppose it would work for quite a bit longer, but the power hasn't been out for a longer duration. Also, this is a "home" sized product. You can get larger solutions if you want longer backup. Many companies use such solutions in India to beat the power cuts.
I use a Su-Kam inverter at home. It powers a whole room, has a clean sine-wave output (unlike traditional UPSes), and its switchover delay is small enough that the SMPS in computers handle the switchover to battery power properly.
It uses two large lead-acid multi-cell batteries (~car batteries) for storing charge. The last time there was a major power cut, it powered my computer systems for 10 hours (yes you read that right... 10 hours.)
I was laughing at the old APC UPS which did 10 minutes before I had to power down.
This is India btw.. power cuts are common.
Bender doesn't *need* to drink.
What's the point of your 'benchmark' then?
Hey, I may be dark skinned, but don't compare me with Windows you insensitive clod! :)
Full custom CMOS VLSI circuits are more efficient :)
On the other hand, you could simply pick up the phone and call your friends :)
I'll just reply to one paragraph of your post.
Mukund
Fedora accepts all kinds of packages. You could create a simple utility, like some netmask computation code, make it a trojan (add code which does what it's not intended to do as setuid root).. package it for Fedora. This can go completely unnoticed. As an upstream maintainer, I am pretty sure Fedora or any other distro does not review my project code more than a cursory glance to fix any compilation/integration issues.
User gets to be root user. It may not even be a user.. it may be a program of some kind that has access to your user account after exploiting a vulnerability in an app such as your web browser.
There are other ways to get root too, such as exploit other setuid binaries in any of the thousands of packages that Fedora ships in the Everything repo.
Letting users install packages (signed or not) on a system administered by root is a stupid decision.
Not 42%?
I have 3 Seagate FreeAgent 1 GB USB disks.
Correction, that should be 1 TB disks.
I have 3 Seagate FreeAgent 1 GB USB disks. They come with NTFS by default on them. Per disk:
1. I make a LUKS dm_crypt volume on it (for which support is well integrated into GNOME and hal in Fedora and Ubuntu.. just plug in and it pops up a dialog asking for the password).
2. I mkfs an ext3 filesystem on the encrypted volume.
I use this encrypted setup out of experience, having dropped an older 750GB USB disk from a height. It works from time to time and I have to physically destroy it because contents on it are not encrypted and otherwise anyone who finds this disk in the trash can mount and browse it.
Just base64 decode the string that appears to be made of random chars. You get:
{ ':' => '', ' ' => '-', 's\n' => 's.com\n' }
Apply that to the subject in the contact details. You get:
http://wanted-master-software-developers.com/
That was pretty easy. The test then seems to move to web programming and I'm not interested.
Mira is traveling faster than a speeding bullet, relative to what object?
And I thought the kernel was the thing which eliminated all the rootkits.
If the headline "This isn't a breakthrough" were used, it'd still show up in the list of headlines with the word breakthrough, right? :)
Hi Chris
I did receive the email on my sourceforge.net address. My problem was not with which email address I received the mail at. I don't see why I have to be contacted for a Google service, when my subscription is with Sourceforge.net.
Don't take this the wrong way. I have used Google services for a very long time, but I think this is a bad precedent. Picking up an email address in an automated way from a website and mailing me about your services, when I haven't asked for it is as good as what a spammer would do. And the email suggested you had a table of projects, which made me assume Sourceforge shared this with you. If Sourceforge.net didn't and you can attest that I'll edit out that part of my article (I would not want to blame Sourceforge for something that they didn't do).
To the parent poster: This may seem paranoid.. some other poster suggested the same to the other Canonical-Debian issue too (on the other blog). When something is not right, it simply needs to be questioned. That's all.
Kind regards,
Mukund
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.