Um. It's the UK that has superior plugs. If only they'd had the common sense to build the damned thing in Scotland like I told them, it wouldn't keep having all these failures.
The problem with Scotland is that you'd have the locals constantly attacking all the scientists and giving them a damn good kickin'.
OTOH, we could hope for an ideal solution, where a black hole is formed, but then evaporates just after it has consumed the matter in a sphere extending to Hadrian's wall.
ext3 is also a journaling file system. Perhaps you meant ext2?
I'm not sure you want to run fsck on an unclean shutdown on your nice big database partition either. Maybe using a journaled file system isn't such a bad idea. Also, it can be much faster for certain workloads:
Note that while sequential writes could be much slower with journaled file systems, random writes were typically much faster. This is what one would expect, given how journaled file systems work.
People, especially young people, just wait until someone tells them what happens next.
Nonsense. Young people are naturally curious. Only after years of exposure to a spoon-feeding "educational system" do they become mindless drones waiting to memorize the next factoid. If we can change the system to work WITH their natural curiosity, it won't be difficult to motivate them - the hard part will be trying to keep them focused on just one topic.
Nonsense. Anyone with experience with young children (say 2 to 5 years old) will know that kids are curious, but incredibly lazy. So they ask, "why?" and wait for an answer. And then they ask "why?" about that. And then "why?". And then "why?". And then "why?".
If you don't teach them how to reason for themselves, then they behave exactly as the original poster describes. They just wait until someone tells them what happens next. It is work to show children that they can reason for themselves, or investigate causes on their own.
Explain to me again why I would like my OS developers to work on speeding up reboot times rather than working on making an OS that does not require reboots?
Maybe you're a baby boomer and lived in the schools supplied by the Greatest Generation. If you're anything near my age (37) then I honestly doubt things are much worse now than they were when we were in school.
If you can avoid bitching about high taxes then you should come to Europe. The average European is way freer than the average American in actuality, if not in theory.
You know, taking every last thing a person has leaves you with someone who has nothing to lose.
Or, as Sun Tzu said:
23. Throw your soldiers into positions whence there
is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight.
If they will face death, there is nothing they may
not achieve. Officers and men alike will put forth
their uttermost strength.
24. Soldiers when in desperate straits lose
the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge,
they will stand firm. If they are in hostile country,
they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help
for it, they will fight hard.
.
.
.
36. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.
Do not press a desperate foe too hard
Okay, I admit a lot of what Sun Tzu wrote was common sense, but it's good to write such things down.:)
If we're closing schools, the solution is to fund them properly from the appropriate source (those who use them)
Hm... an interesting idea that, making those who use schools - children - pay for them.
The average college graduate in the USA already starts with something like $20k of debt. This does not seem to have any ill effects that anyone can discern, so it does make logical sense to extend this to those free-loading high school students at the very least.
Since megacorporations warmed to the idea of turning children into consumers via well placed franchises, I am sure it would be easy to convince MasterCard and Visa to give "KinderCard" or "Visa Princess" cards to elementary school children. Other types of financial constructions are surely possible, since the banks are no longer free to be creative in home loans any more, they can turn their attention to this vital new sector.
The false dichotomy between lower taxes/crappy schools and higher taxes/good schools finally solved, thanks to your libertarian genius!!!
In the Netherlands it is €15 a month for 20 MB down and 1.5 MB up via DSL. At least in theory: I am currently getting about 12 MB down and 1 MB up.
Cable Internet access is quite expensive. Hey, it's a monopoly.
They have fiber to the home, but it is not in my neighborhood yet. This €25 a month for 10 MB, €30 a month for 20 MB, and €50 for 50 MB. These are symmetric - quite nice if you want to upload photos (for example).
You can also get wireless Internet from a mobile phone provider. This is €45 a month for 1.5 MB download that works everywhere in the country (I don't know about upload speed).
Lots of people leave their WiFi open at home as a "public service". Like me. I have a secure wireless network that I use for day-to-day use, but also an open wireless that I keep around for guest use. I labeled it "Open Wireless ($street_address)" so that people can see that it's open, and since they will see that the street address is the street they're on (or fairly close) they have a pretty good idea it is not someone's hacked Windows laptop.:)
Looking at the DHCP log, it looks like there are 6 unique MAC addresses that have gotten an IP address on it in the last 11 days or so. I guess my neighbors appreciate my hospitality.
I have no idea if this is allowed by my ISP, because I haven't read their terms of service. Since these terms of service are in Dutch and my mastery of that language is about equivalent to a 5 year old, whether or not I can read the terms of service even if I wanted to is debatable.
I think this is one of the basics of constitutional law everywere. The law is bounded _mostly_ by area not citizenship. If it were simply bound to citizenship, foreigners would have either a great advantage over locals (not pay taxes, drive as fast as they want, etc.) or disadvantage (could be killed for nothing) and would keep away. As an American living in the Netherlands, I wish the US tax law was bound by area not citizenship.:(
One might also note that there is no actual war in progress. Congress has made no declaration of war I sent my dad an e-mail complaining about the other habeas corpus outrage, the one against José Padilla, and he said basically, "don't you know there's a war on!?!?"
I checked and sure enough, Congress did declare war:
9/11 didn't happen out of sheer evil, or hatred for 'merkuns out of jealousy. My brain could think of nothing else as soon as I saw the reference to merkins.
Log files. Files are only extended [...] This is UNIX "open for append" mode.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work very well, since POSIX doesn't (AFAIK) specify the largest write that is guaranteed to be atomic. Hence, unless you're careful, you may end up with log entries from two processes being interleaved.
You are wrong, any size buffer passed to write() is guaranteed to be written atomically:
I have a few Linux computers, running either Ubuntu or Debian, a Windows XP box I use for games, and a MacBook Pro. My girlfriend has a Vista laptop.
I was tired of not being able to save files bigger than 2 Gbyte on USB drives, so I recently looked at the possibilities:
ext3 is nice and reliable, and there are ext2 drivers for Windows and OS X.
HFS+ comes with OS X, and it works in Linux, but the standard way to run it under Windows seems to be via a $50 piece of software.
NTFS comes with Windows, and it works in Linux (on Ubuntu you just plug in an NTFS drive and it works). On OS X you can use the FUSE NTFS-3G port to OS X.
Right now I'm using NTFS, because then I don't have to do scary geeky stuff on my girlfriend's computer. Left to my own purposes I would probably go with ext3/ext2 though.
I also include a small HFS+ partition that has the drivers for OS X so if you can install the software from the drive itself - sort of to future-proof the disks a bit.
If you need to plug in to random drives, then you are stuck with FAT or VFAT. If you are willing to install some open source drivers, then NTFS is the way to go. Who knows, maybe Steve will include NTFS-3G in OS X 10.6...:)
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Um. It's the UK that has superior plugs. If only they'd had the common sense to build the damned thing in Scotland like I told them, it wouldn't keep having all these failures.
The problem with Scotland is that you'd have the locals constantly attacking all the scientists and giving them a damn good kickin'.
OTOH, we could hope for an ideal solution, where a black hole is formed, but then evaporates just after it has consumed the matter in a sphere extending to Hadrian's wall.
I'm not sure how Europe normally handles vaccine liability, but I'm sure a /.er can fill us in.
I have no idea how liability works here. Contrary to the US, it's not an important question.
This may be because our governments haven't been so badly owned by corporate interests. Although that's just a pet theory of mine. ;)
ext3 is also a journaling file system. Perhaps you meant ext2?
I'm not sure you want to run fsck on an unclean shutdown on your nice big database partition either. Maybe using a journaled file system isn't such a bad idea. Also, it can be much faster for certain workloads:
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8432
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HP_ProLiant_DL380_G5_Tuning_Guide
Note that while sequential writes could be much slower with journaled file systems, random writes were typically much faster. This is what one would expect, given how journaled file systems work.
Nonsense. Young people are naturally curious. Only after years of exposure to a spoon-feeding "educational system" do they become mindless drones waiting to memorize the next factoid. If we can change the system to work WITH their natural curiosity, it won't be difficult to motivate them - the hard part will be trying to keep them focused on just one topic.
Nonsense. Anyone with experience with young children (say 2 to 5 years old) will know that kids are curious, but incredibly lazy. So they ask, "why?" and wait for an answer. And then they ask "why?" about that. And then "why?". And then "why?". And then "why?".
If you don't teach them how to reason for themselves, then they behave exactly as the original poster describes. They just wait until someone tells them what happens next. It is work to show children that they can reason for themselves, or investigate causes on their own.
Explain to me again why I would like my OS developers to work on speeding up reboot times rather than working on making an OS that does not require reboots?
You mean like this:
http://www.ksplice.com/
In theory combined with suspend/resume one would never need to reboot.
Each incident like this makes me realize that things have only gone downhill since I was in school.
When I went to school there were pregnant teens, drug and alcohol problems, suicides, kidnappings, attempted murders:
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/faculty_archives/principalship/d/148duncan.html
I don't recall us having any civil rights, praise be unto Reagan and his War on Drugs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_v._T._L._O.
Maybe you're a baby boomer and lived in the schools supplied by the Greatest Generation. If you're anything near my age (37) then I honestly doubt things are much worse now than they were when we were in school.
To be safe against marijuana testing, you should probably wait a month:
http://www.concept420.com/how-long-does-marijuana-stay-system.htm
You "friend" was lucky that it didn't show up in the test. :)
I need to get out of this country. </rant>
If you can avoid bitching about high taxes then you should come to Europe. The average European is way freer than the average American in actuality, if not in theory.
You know, taking every last thing a person has leaves you with someone who has nothing to lose.
Or, as Sun Tzu said:
23. Throw your soldiers into positions whence there
is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight.
If they will face death, there is nothing they may
not achieve. Officers and men alike will put forth
their uttermost strength.
24. Soldiers when in desperate straits lose
the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge,
they will stand firm. If they are in hostile country,
they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help
for it, they will fight hard.
.
.
.
36. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.
Do not press a desperate foe too hard
Okay, I admit a lot of what Sun Tzu wrote was common sense, but it's good to write such things down. :)
If we're closing schools, the solution is to fund them properly from the appropriate source (those who use them)
Hm... an interesting idea that, making those who use schools - children - pay for them.
The average college graduate in the USA already starts with something like $20k of debt. This does not seem to have any ill effects that anyone can discern, so it does make logical sense to extend this to those free-loading high school students at the very least.
Since megacorporations warmed to the idea of turning children into consumers via well placed franchises, I am sure it would be easy to convince MasterCard and Visa to give "KinderCard" or "Visa Princess" cards to elementary school children. Other types of financial constructions are surely possible, since the banks are no longer free to be creative in home loans any more, they can turn their attention to this vital new sector.
The false dichotomy between lower taxes/crappy schools and higher taxes/good schools finally solved, thanks to your libertarian genius!!!
Indeed. Wikipedia explains proper usage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
Woosh!!!
Doctor Hans Zarkov: Check the angular vector of the moon!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/quotes
In the Netherlands it is €15 a month for 20 MB down and 1.5 MB up via DSL. At least in theory: I am currently getting about 12 MB down and 1 MB up.
Cable Internet access is quite expensive. Hey, it's a monopoly.
They have fiber to the home, but it is not in my neighborhood yet. This €25 a month for 10 MB, €30 a month for 20 MB, and €50 for 50 MB. These are symmetric - quite nice if you want to upload photos (for example).
You can also get wireless Internet from a mobile phone provider. This is €45 a month for 1.5 MB download that works everywhere in the country (I don't know about upload speed).
Did you even look?
Typing in "compiler" in the search box returns this as the first link:
http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Toolchain
Typing in "perl" in the search box returns this as the first link:
http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Wish_List
And so on. I am guessing the product is not mature enough for you if you are not able to navigate their help pages (or vice versa perhaps). ;)
Indeed, that was the missing feature that made me decide to go with the iPhone, even though the closed nature of the iPhone makes me grumpy.
Go to the Wiki:
http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
And all will be revealed.
If you clicked on "gallery" then you would have seen screenshots:
http://www.openmoko.com/product-gallery.html
A list of applications is a bit harder to find, but it is on the wiki:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Core_Applications
Of course, this is just the "core applications". Since it is an open platform, there are quite a few more, in the usual mixed states of maturity. :)
And since this phone is targeted at developers, if you don't want to write apps then no reason you should get one.
Looking at the DHCP log, it looks like there are 6 unique MAC addresses that have gotten an IP address on it in the last 11 days or so. I guess my neighbors appreciate my hospitality.
I have no idea if this is allowed by my ISP, because I haven't read their terms of service. Since these terms of service are in Dutch and my mastery of that language is about equivalent to a 5 year old, whether or not I can read the terms of service even if I wanted to is debatable.
Congress has made no declaration of war I sent my dad an e-mail complaining about the other habeas corpus outrage, the one against José Padilla, and he said basically, "don't you know there's a war on!?!?"
I checked and sure enough, Congress did declare war:
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
Sad but true. We are at war!
Unfortunately, it doesn't work very well, since POSIX doesn't (AFAIK) specify the largest write that is guaranteed to be atomic. Hence, unless you're careful, you may end up with log entries from two processes being interleaved.
You are wrong, any size buffer passed to write() is guaranteed to be written atomically:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/write.html
Look for O_APPEND.
I was tired of not being able to save files bigger than 2 Gbyte on USB drives, so I recently looked at the possibilities:
Right now I'm using NTFS, because then I don't have to do scary geeky stuff on my girlfriend's computer. Left to my own purposes I would probably go with ext3/ext2 though.
I also include a small HFS+ partition that has the drivers for OS X so if you can install the software from the drive itself - sort of to future-proof the disks a bit.
If you need to plug in to random drives, then you are stuck with FAT or VFAT. If you are willing to install some open source drivers, then NTFS is the way to go. Who knows, maybe Steve will include NTFS-3G in OS X 10.6...