It doesn't guarantee to sync your data to disk, only to the ramdisk. It will _Attempt_ to sync the data to disk, but it won't block to do so.
This means that both all your read and all your write operations will go splendidly fast.
It also means that you lose if you have a sudden powerloss. But, in many situations, that might actually not matter so much compared to the speed advantage you get out of this.
Seriously. Shut up. If you own part of the copyright, go sue verison yourself. See if you too can't get a nice share of it all. If you don't, you're part of the problem - not the solution.
SERIOUSLY. Shut up. Those guys may sue as much as they want for breach of their copyright. If you've got a different copyright, or didn't licence it under the GPL but under something else - then you might have a suit against both verizon and against those guys. If you licenced it under the BSD licence, you're just So Out Of Luck (Or maybe not, I'm not entirely certain about this GPL BSD thing).
Here in the Philippines, one carrier charges P10/30min (aprox $0.24509/30min) for 3G connection, and they still manage to make a killing in profits. Yes, but you've got lower labour costs in the philippines. A regular monthy wage is between P8000 nad P20000 (aprox $200 - $500 ). This of courses pushes the cost of providing a service down quite a big - as the biggest expense for companies in other countries are labour costs.
Already, all major carriers here offer unlimited text and calls and not one of them is going bankrupt. Text messages take up 160bytes of data (+ headers). I'm not sure how big the headers are, but let's say it's wrapped into something that's wrapped into IP headers, and give it a max packet size of 256bytes. To provide them free of charge is to just set up a bigger (but still rather cheap) sms gateway (i.e a more powerfull server.. or maybe add in another one of'em). Calls are a tad more expensive - but I seem to remember that the philippines is a text-message-crazy country.. so you text more than you call. In other words, the provider doesn't need to scale the infrastructure to the extreme in any case.
3G on the other hand would put extreme strain on the infrastructure. It demands a lot of bandwidth. I'm not sure how much bandwidth a regular phone call uses, but I'd guess around 9600 - 14400bps. In addition, a regular phone call will just last for less than an hour. With 3G on the other hand, you will start transferring in the Mbps range - and people will use it for many, many hours every day. In other words, at least a 100X demand on the infrastructure, probably closer to 1000X.
I quite simply do not think they'll start offering it for free very soon.
I quite simply do not know what you're doing wrong.
I've managed to get up to 600Mbps out of my Gbps NIC's, with only a very small bit of tuning. That was from/dev/zero on one machine to/dev/null on another machine.
File transfers over NFS thypically maxed out at around 200Mbps.
Managed to tweak my NFS speeds up to bursts of 500Mbps for rather small files (less than diskcache * number of disks in the raidset) - guess the rest was overhead. My problem there was that I had to enable jumbo-frames and so forth.. which was a tad of a mess, never worked properly and so forth - so I went back to my "slow" speed of around 200Mbps and didn't care too much.
Mac uses launchd Ubuntu uses Upstart Solaris uses SMF Debian uses initng RedHat uses sysvinit (?? not sure ??)
Meaning that a sysadmin that needs to support those systems, need to write scripts that takes care to use the correct way on each and every platform. Blergh. I hate it when this kind of thing happen, instead of just sticking with the old stuff or _agreeing_ on a new way to do it. Instead, we now have a multitude of ways of doing it. Okay. Options are good. This isn't options though - this is differences being forced on you by various vendors, guaranteeing that you'll have to do more work.
I don't know the specifics here, but this seems like user gripes without a proper troubleshooting. "Waaaah, I can't connect to \$RANDOM_SITE !!" .
Maybe a router was down? Maybe BGP was flapping a bit? Maybe there is just a couple of peering partners between apple's provider and this provider ? And a backhoe took the cable?
Maybe powerloss in a Single Point of Failure?
That conspiracy theories should reach slashdot due to a couple of hours of outage is just insane. I expect more of slashdot. And also I expect more of the slashcrowd.
I don't care about their human rights situation when I'm a tourist ffs. I've been twice to cuba, and their less intrusive than the US!
The important thing for me as a tourist is:
- to feel wanted as a tourist
- to feel safe
Demanding my fingerprints violates the first of the important things. Thus, any country that does so is chucked straigt of my list of countries I want to visit (or revisit. I've been to the US before. Quite okay, but didn't impress me).
Play it again. A coordinated team of humans are great. It depends on one thing though. When Sudden Death occurs, the humans should still be able to build armouries, as the aliens are still able to evolve.
Great game. Just finished a round right now. Best game I've played in *years*
Some of us travel light, with no checked baggage and only the stuff we need in a carry-on. Waiting for luggage usually means waiting for 20minutes more at the airport, adding to traveling time. *sigh*.
I can only explain from my personal point of view, but I'm one of the guys not visiting the US.
Fingerprinting tourists? What on earth were your government thinking? I'm not going to visit a country that demands my fingerprints on entry!
I have to admit that I now have a couple of less travel-destinations than before, but that's okay. I've still got lots to visit.
My current do-not-visit list:
- The US
- Japan
- Iran
- Iraq
- Saudi Arabia
- bunch-o-other-countries-down-there
- Pakistan
- Afghanistan
- Chechenya
- Myanmar
- North Korea
- Venezuela
- Zimbabwe.. and I'm sure a small bunch more. But those countries are 'right out' at the moment.
There are hundreds of other countries I'd rather visit. The countries that act like barbarians are just.. not that interesting.
will there be (or is there already) some sort of control panel to view installed media codecs, and add/remove/test them?
No. Linux isn't unified in this sense. Each program determines what format it wants its codecs in (of course). Thus, each program has to come up with its own way. It's the same way in windows, really, except that you've got some 'standard' codecs.
It's a matter of taste, really. Personally I don't want a control panel for it, I just want to drop the codecs in a specific directory and then I want it to be used. Others want it differently, of course.
Seriously. Drink a nice glass of milk if you want to get rid of the burning. Water does not help. Milk does (due to the fat). Drinking pure olive oil should also help (but taste like shit:).
Capsaicin is soluble in oil, not water, or something.
The comments in the bug report speculate that Windows either completely ignores this feature, or ignores the manufacturer values and uses its own values. (In either case, what's the point in having BIOS set defaults?)
Uhm. The OS doesn't actually issue the command to the disk, you know. The disk has it's own defaults. And does the sanity stuff by itself. The OS however, might _overwrite_ those things, and ask the disk to "hey, behave more nicely, will you? I'm not interested in you burning out. Use these values instead you idiot.".
The more likely explanation is that the manufacturer set the defaults, but didn't notice that the values were unsafe because Windows ignores them.
If windows ignores them, the disk continues to do it - so no, no game for you.
First of all, if Ubuntu can push out a patch that resets the manufacturer defaults to sane values (and this will save some people from hard drive failures), then it definitely should.
Sure, the ubuntu people should detect all magic hardware faults and fix them.. by magic! Great solution! And if they for some reason don't discover that the hardware manufacturer has fucked up badly - then they are to blame! If the disk has an internal thingie that is set to self destruct - then the Ubuntu people should not only discover it - They Should Disable It!
Then it's a matter of TTL and caching nameservers. From TF slashdot summary:
"As the evening progresses you may experience an impact in your ability to access some Web sites and exchange e-mail. DTS is working with their federal counterparts to restore service as quickly as possible but service may not be restored until tomorrow morning."
My guess is that a poor system administrator was unfortunate with 'dd', reloading the zones, not discovering it until the complaints started pouring in - and then restored it properly. If the TTL was 24h, it'll still take up to that time for it to work globally again, though. They can probably reload nameservers at various public instutions, but I doubt they will get all ISPs and so forth to expire their caches.
The problem here is, again, users/admins who doesn't do things the right way.
Why the flying fsck is/tmp part of / !?!
So that any user should be able to fill up / ?/tmp should *always* be its own partition. *Always*. Any other configuration is utterly and completely b0rken.
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It doesn't guarantee to sync your data to disk, only to the ramdisk. It will _Attempt_ to sync the data to disk, but it won't block to do so.
This means that both all your read and all your write operations will go splendidly fast.
It also means that you lose if you have a sudden powerloss. But, in many situations, that might actually not matter so much compared to the speed advantage you get out of this.
Shut up and sue them yourself.
Seriously. Shut up. If you own part of the copyright, go sue verison yourself. See if you too can't get a nice share of it all. If you don't, you're part of the problem - not the solution.
SERIOUSLY. Shut up. Those guys may sue as much as they want for breach of their copyright. If you've got a different copyright, or didn't licence it under the GPL but under something else - then you might have a suit against both verizon and against those guys. If you licenced it under the BSD licence, you're just So Out Of Luck (Or maybe not, I'm not entirely certain about this GPL BSD thing).
3G on the other hand would put extreme strain on the infrastructure. It demands a lot of bandwidth. I'm not sure how much bandwidth a regular phone call uses, but I'd guess around 9600 - 14400bps. In addition, a regular phone call will just last for less than an hour. With 3G on the other hand, you will start transferring in the Mbps range - and people will use it for many, many hours every day. In other words, at least a 100X demand on the infrastructure, probably closer to 1000X.
I quite simply do not think they'll start offering it for free very soon.
I quite simply do not know what you're doing wrong.
/dev/zero on one machine to /dev/null on another machine.
I've managed to get up to 600Mbps out of my Gbps NIC's, with only a very small bit of tuning. That was from
File transfers over NFS thypically maxed out at around 200Mbps.
Managed to tweak my NFS speeds up to bursts of 500Mbps for rather small files (less than diskcache * number of disks in the raidset) - guess the rest was overhead. My problem there was that I had to enable jumbo-frames and so forth.. which was a tad of a mess, never worked properly and so forth - so I went back to my "slow" speed of around 200Mbps and didn't care too much.
Could anyone explain the 'shark' reference to me?
And do I have to hand in my geek card because I don't know it?
Mac uses launchd
Ubuntu uses Upstart
Solaris uses SMF
Debian uses initng
RedHat uses sysvinit (?? not sure ??)
Meaning that a sysadmin that needs to support those systems, need to write scripts that takes care to use the correct way on each and every platform. Blergh. I hate it when this kind of thing happen, instead of just sticking with the old stuff or _agreeing_ on a new way to do it. Instead, we now have a multitude of ways of doing it. Okay. Options are good. This isn't options though - this is differences being forced on you by various vendors, guaranteeing that you'll have to do more work.
Blergh.
I don't know the specifics here, but this seems like user gripes without a proper troubleshooting. "Waaaah, I can't connect to \$RANDOM_SITE !!" .
Maybe a router was down? Maybe BGP was flapping a bit? Maybe there is just a couple of peering partners between apple's provider and this provider ? And a backhoe took the cable?
Maybe powerloss in a Single Point of Failure?
That conspiracy theories should reach slashdot due to a couple of hours of outage is just insane. I expect more of slashdot. And also I expect more of the slashcrowd.
I haven't used microsoft products since 1999.
:P
I even work with computers.
So no - the ability to navigate microsoft products is not essential.
Human rights? Freedoms?
I'm talking about _me_ as a tourist here.
I don't care about their human rights situation when I'm a tourist ffs. I've been twice to cuba, and their less intrusive than the US!
The important thing for me as a tourist is:
- to feel wanted as a tourist
- to feel safe
Demanding my fingerprints violates the first of the important things. Thus, any country that does so is chucked straigt of my list of countries I want to visit (or revisit. I've been to the US before. Quite okay, but didn't impress me).
Play it again. A coordinated team of humans are great. It depends on one thing though. When Sudden Death occurs, the humans should still be able to build armouries, as the aliens are still able to evolve.
Great game. Just finished a round right now. Best game I've played in *years*
It sucks.
Some of us travel light, with no checked baggage and only the stuff we need in a carry-on. Waiting for luggage usually means waiting for 20minutes more at the airport, adding to traveling time. *sigh*.
I hate this stuff.
I can only explain from my personal point of view, but I'm one of the guys not visiting the US.
.. and I'm sure a small bunch more. But those countries are 'right out' at the moment.
.. not that interesting.
Fingerprinting tourists? What on earth were your government thinking? I'm not going to visit a country that demands my fingerprints on entry!
I have to admit that I now have a couple of less travel-destinations than before, but that's okay. I've still got lots to visit.
My current do-not-visit list:
- The US
- Japan
- Iran
- Iraq
- Saudi Arabia
- bunch-o-other-countries-down-there
- Pakistan
- Afghanistan
- Chechenya
- Myanmar
- North Korea
- Venezuela
- Zimbabwe
There are hundreds of other countries I'd rather visit. The countries that act like barbarians are just
will there be (or is there already) some sort of control panel to view installed media codecs, and add/remove/test them?
No. Linux isn't unified in this sense. Each program determines what format it wants its codecs in (of course). Thus, each program has to come up with its own way. It's the same way in windows, really, except that you've got some 'standard' codecs.
It's a matter of taste, really. Personally I don't want a control panel for it, I just want to drop the codecs in a specific directory and then I want it to be used. Others want it differently, of course.
Drink milk.
Seriously. Drink a nice glass of milk if you want to get rid of the burning. Water does not help. Milk does (due to the fat). Drinking pure olive oil should also help (but taste like shit:).
Capsaicin is soluble in oil, not water, or something.
Drive manufacturers should issue a sane value and operating systems should check that the value is sane before using it.
The point is that the OS doesn't use this. This is what the disk does to itself unless the OS instructs it to behave more nicely to itself.
God I hate incompetent comments.
The comments in the bug report speculate that Windows either completely ignores this feature, or ignores the manufacturer values and uses its own values. (In either case, what's the point in having BIOS set defaults?)
Uhm. The OS doesn't actually issue the command to the disk, you know. The disk has it's own defaults. And does the sanity stuff by itself. The OS however, might _overwrite_ those things, and ask the disk to "hey, behave more nicely, will you? I'm not interested in you burning out. Use these values instead you idiot.".
The more likely explanation is that the manufacturer set the defaults, but didn't notice that the values were unsafe because Windows ignores them.
If windows ignores them, the disk continues to do it - so no, no game for you.
But Ubuntu is not blameless.
.. by magic! Great solution! And if they for some reason don't discover that the hardware manufacturer has fucked up badly - then they are to blame! If the disk has an internal thingie that is set to self destruct - then the Ubuntu people should not only discover it - They Should Disable It!
Yes it is.
First of all, if Ubuntu can push out a patch that resets the manufacturer defaults to sane values (and this will save some people from hard drive failures), then it definitely should.
Sure, the ubuntu people should detect all magic hardware faults and fix them
bleh.
I was hoping to get a Ubuntu laptop here in Norway.
So far - no such luck. I'm looking forward to that day, so that I can just order one. But until they ship it, it's difficult.
Hey DELL! We norwegians want Ubuntu on our laptops too!
Well, I've got a username I'm pretty sure you would want. And a low UID too :P
They probably did.
Then it's a matter of TTL and caching nameservers. From TF slashdot summary:
"As the evening progresses you may experience an impact in your ability to access some Web sites and exchange e-mail. DTS is working with their federal counterparts to restore service as quickly as possible but service may not be restored until tomorrow morning."
My guess is that a poor system administrator was unfortunate with 'dd', reloading the zones, not discovering it until the complaints started pouring in - and then restored it properly. If the TTL was 24h, it'll still take up to that time for it to work globally again, though. They can probably reload nameservers at various public instutions, but I doubt they will get all ISPs and so forth to expire their caches.
Only reason my ID is so high is that I, as a bunch of others here, thought "Bleh, another site that demands registration" ..
Democratic Voice of Burma, located in Oslo/Norway got a gruesome picture sent to them yesterday:
http://english.dvb.no/photo1.php
The result of dicatorship.
The problem here is, again, users/admins who doesn't do things the right way.
/tmp part of / !?!
/tmp should *always* be its own partition. *Always*. Any other configuration is utterly and completely b0rken.
Why the flying fsck is
So that any user should be able to fill up / ?
Why would anyone give this ultra-intelligent machine self-awareness?
Or even give it arms/legs/options to do anything except communicate via a screen?
I don't see them taking over anything unless they have arms/legs/means of replication.
Heck, one doesn't even need to give it a network interface.
I guess the auditors are cheering!