Fascism is an indeology enemical to communism, including China.
Fascism does allow too many freedoms and places hope in big corporations running the country.
I communist ideologu as per any communist big thinkers, nothing but state ownership of factories and farms is good enough.
Also, fascists believe in election and democracy.
In all books of Marx, Engels, and Lenin ruling party has to be forced to be the Communist one.
Communist and Fascist would only agree on question of religious persecution.
China abides on all above principles, relaxing only slighly state covnership of companies.
If there were, they would realize the fraud stop payments to those charltans seeking something there isn't and marketing it as science.
This reminds me of those alchemists of middle ages who were searching for elixir of life and philosopher's stone and we werenot able to laugh at their 'science' until after few centuries.
Petrus
Gloria in excelsis Deo et in TERRA pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
The asteroid was 130 earth diameters away.
If this is average distance os "near miss", then chance of hit is 1:2*130*130), alias 1:33800. that is 0.003%.
Now, what IS realy dangerous, is the orbit duration. Since 18*365.24 =~ 5*1321, we will meet again nearly at the same spot in January 2020.
If we want no worse chance of hit than 1%, we have to better hurry and develop the technology to divert an asteroid within 6,084 years.
Now, Does not that sound scary?
Petrus.
Gloria in excelsis deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
That's not the way you shoudl do it.
1) Find RPM packagr of that tar at tuxfinder.com
2) Find MD5 sum at the trusted source
3) md5sum package.rpm
4) rpm -qilp package.i386.rpm,
or bnetter
5) rpm --ivvh package.src.rpm and check spec file
6) Every night run
'rpm -Va > changed'
7) diff changed previous | mail yourself
8) look for changes in binaries and important config files.
If you must make install, make list of installed files and md5sum allfiles >> md5list.md5
Every night
md5sum --file md5list.md5 | mail yourself
The biggest reason for which I use Linux as a desktop is X-windows. As a home user, MS-Windows is not powerful enough to me. I need network transparency, otherwise my kids coul dnot use the two old 486 computers fof anything useful.
The X-windows network transparency, multiple X-windows on single machine, multiple desktops is what puts Linux years ahead of Windows features.
If it needs something, its smooth installation of DRI and true type fonts.
We need this directories.
We cannot have part of directory on the network, part local read/write, part local read-only.
Stuff in/bin and/sbin MUST be local. That's where mount and login is. If the network breaks, that'w where you find commands to fix it.
If we had it all in/programs/bin, we would either need 200GByte HD on all machines or when network breaks, or it would have to be on network.
Bug you could not connect to network, since all the commands that start, run and diagnose the network are in/programs/bin on the network.
It should be perfectly possible to make using rpmdb a bogus filesystem, which follows the hierarchy defined by distributor, mount it on/packages.
It would either something like proc, completely in RAM, or data system actually written to the disk.
The tree would end in symbolic links to the actually installed files. Every package's own directory would have file DESCRIPTION, that contains standard RPM header, executable UNINSTALL for rpm --erase or VERIFY for rpm -v.
This way you would have the traditional {/usr;/usr/bin;/usr/share/doc} system to actually run Linux and/packages filesystem to browse and organize it.
If so it is almost right. Only that because following the symbolic link is much slower than following hard link (directly to the same i-node), it is much bettre to install the code actually in the/bin or/usr/bin or/usr/x11/bin and make to it symbolic link in it's own directory.
Many applications make it that way, if I recall most in/usr/local/bin, WordPerfect, Applix, FrameMaker and others.
There are few, though, which make it the way you described. For instance, the X-windows itself, the X11 command was a link in the 3.x.x systems to the appropriate driver and version 4.x only changed the system slightly.
Now if you move the program directory, no problem if you used asolute paht. But you should not delete the program directory wihout looking first where all the links point to. And then you need to find out, if another application needs that executable, before you can delete it.
There are reasons for all this madness. Let's list them just for the record:
Because you may want to have/sbin and/bin local and everything else network mounted. If network breaks, how will you fix it, if all / were on network?
Or, you might want to have/tmp and/var on fast RAID0, while/home on redundant RAID5 array.
Or, because you might want to have/boot,/sbin and/usr/sbin, especially login code on read-only volume for better security.
Or, on machine used as dmb terminal you might not want to have the big and bulky/usr/X11/*.
Or, because you might want to have 2 versions of/lib mounted alternativelly.
The reason for no tree under/usr/bin and/usr/X11/bin is speed. The $PATH search becomes shorter and the usually cashed directory directs you straight to the proper inode. That's why Linux and Unices are far faster than Windows.
Actually there are quite a package specific trees under/usr/share. In non-RPM system, these would be normally in/usr/local. Making a link from/usr/bin to the package directory for the binary is slow, but it can be done the ther way round. Why it is not done, I can't tell you, but it seems that the few good and big packages do it.
However, there are reasons for criticism:
Mandrake, for instance, adopted HFS in 8.0. All/usr/doc and/usr/man was moved into/usr/share. But not exactly all (not ViaVoice) and not the old packages from before upgrade. Tell me why they did not move the old stuff over first and why did not make the symbolic link/usr/man ->/usr/share/man, so that any of the thousands users who have old $MANPATH can at least see a manual for 'man' ?
Ternary is cheaper for mathematics, not engineers
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The hypoteticaly "cheap" ternary system assumess, that the need for hardware scales linearly with the base. That is, e.g. it binary gate requires 2 transistors, ternary needs 3 transistors. In such a case 2^3=8 is less than 3^2=9.
So system with 2*3=6 transistors can count to 9 in ternary while in binary only to 8. When searching maximum for f(x) = x^(const/x), one ends up with e for all const>1. That's why the mention that the 3 is the closest to e - an number base ideal. I remember having that case in mathematics competition way back in 8th grade.
In engineering practice, that is quite far from truth. In ECL logic the ternary half-adder requires the same number of transistors as in binary logic. It requires the same number of wires to carry ternary digit as binary one. However we all know why is ECL nearly extinct - its high consumption prevents high integration.
The benefits of binary logic can be seen in CMOS, where we have two states, each of which consumes also no power and still has low output impedance.
I was getting all my early informatins and initial links to working news sites from slashdot. Everybody in the office was surprised, where do I get working connection, since they could not get through any major news channels.
I thought always that the Crusaedes were in response to Islamic attacks. At least what the history book says, Crusades would be never organized if there were no fall of Constantinopol (not Jerusalem) and if Europe had an organized army anwering Muslims cknocking on the door of Europe. The devastation and injustice that Mongolian troops caused was reportedly way above that of Kuvait.
In that light, Crusades would be more justified and more defensive than the Gulf war. If there wer e any other pan-European religion or no religion at all, it would not diminish the need for Crusades and Europe would just be defended under some other banner.
Also, you won't be able to resist false accusations. You may not be imprisoned without just trial. But all your cards, linked via SSN or equivalent number may be anytime blocked, just like internet access because of suspect DMCA violation. That's just. The cards are not your property, but Bank's.
With all cards blocked and no cash in existence, you and your children are condemnded to loose home, stay hungry and eventual death.
And remember, cash is already no money. Read it: It is "legal tender" and each has a unique number to preven abuse and to make them traceable.
I always SSH as a user and then su root and type the password. SSH should have ghost characters that guarantee, that some packets are send in regular interval with some nonsense and typed characters should be synchronized to that rate.
It should not be much of problem to do that and perhaps it does not require any change in the protocol spec.
Even if the password remains secret, why should anybody be able to read the typed text?
One would think, that Ge transistors are the past. Remember, they only work till 90degC, while silicon can work till 150degC.
Could they ever produce military SiGe transistor?
If it consumes half the power, produces half the heat, that is not enough to make faster chips. If the ambient is 30degC, the heat flow between 150degC and 30degC (120degC difference) is twice as big as between 90degC and 30degC (60degC difference).
However, if they interleave Ga and Si layers so that the doped Ga regions cannot difuse and spread under high temperatures, they have a chance to make faster ICs at the same temperature range as with monolitic Si substrate.
I doubt they will make it any soon. GaSi will not make faster processors for long, long time.
Really?
Who made and opened OpenLook ?
Who donated code to Mozilla ?
Who donated code to OpenOffice ?
Can I download Windows for free just like Solaris?
Did M$ develop something like lxrun?
Could we really expect from Sun the same as from M$?
Does anybody have the right to say that Sun _would_ be as bad as MSFT, _if_ they had the desktop monopoly?
Could it ever be that Sun does not have any monopoly because it is not as bad?
Please remain fair to fair players and hold back unsubstantitated slander.
Disclaimer: I never worked for Sun, do not own Sun shares and I am in no way affiliated with Sun.
Did you ever wonder, to which community have you become by adopting Linux? Five years ago we were willing to donate most of our small excexss to whomever, who would help to building technically superior and commercialy viable alternative solution ot the misery of Windows.
Five years ago I would hardly see anybody suspiciously watching pocket of someone else. Donation was obvious, and the rule was donate time and/or code, if you have some or donate money - if you got some.
Where all these people came from now? Why don't they just hold on tight on their own penny and keep their mouth shut?
Do they appeal on morals?
Who ever said that it is moral not to pay the workers good money for good work?
Who ever said it is moral to contemplate, if someone else did, does, will or would get by accident too much money?
Did you ever hear of anyone to care equally well whether any of the workers in Linux companies make enough for themselfs and their families for decent living?
I have a vision of a GEJ (Greed, Envy, Jealousy) project. one more category would be added to posts clasification, that is GEJ. The GEJ posts would be copied to a separate space and ranked separatedly by independent votes. The ten most malicious GEJ posts would receive slashdot GEJ award and a brand new, shrink wrapped copy of Microsoft Windows XP.
Does anybody have server space available to start the project?
This does not match real-life experience, but it is word for word quoted propaganda used in communistic education. Talk about scam. They try it on little children, becaouse the bigger ones would be too smart to believe it.
( I have 10+ years experience in both communistic education and later another 10+ in religion).
Why would anyone ever bother about where do other poeple donate their own money? Is it simple and innocent envy or just unintentional disrespect and intolerance?
Coward NOT anonymous.
What matters is which FS _reads_ the fastest.
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Over 80% of file manipulation time is taken by reading. From the rest, 80% is taken by writing.
Deleting, stats or symlinks take less than 4% of time.
What is very suspicious is, that copying, which consists of reading and writing, takes half the reading time. Does it mean, that if I copy loaded binary to a dummy disk area, I'll sppeed application start twice?
The annoying delays are caused by reading larger files, like images, 10Mbyte mailbox, or a large binary. Why does have the XFS and Reiserfs to be 24% and 9% slower than ext2? Reading does not involve any journaling action! B-tree delays? worse cashing? Where is the problem?!
The 10% on reading makes way bigger impact than ten times slower deleting.
Can we make XFS and ReiserFS to read as fast as ext2 or faster?
Slashdot Mirror
Fascism is an indeology enemical to communism, including China.
Fascism does allow too many freedoms and places hope in big corporations running the country.
I communist ideologu as per any communist big thinkers, nothing but state ownership of factories and farms is good enough.
Also, fascists believe in election and democracy.
In all books of Marx, Engels, and Lenin ruling party has to be forced to be the Communist one.
Communist and Fascist would only agree on question of religious persecution.
China abides on all above principles, relaxing only slighly state covnership of companies.
I guess you forgot the one element on the chain that accounts perhaps for 90% of the delay:
ORBit CORBA implementation.
Used at the implemenation. Most menu buttons are separate ORB object requested from the CORBA server.
Of cousrse there is no Terrestrial Intelligence.
If there were, they would realize the fraud stop payments to those charltans seeking something there isn't and marketing it as science.
This reminds me of those alchemists of middle ages who were searching for elixir of life and philosopher's stone and we werenot able to laugh at their 'science' until after few centuries.
Petrus
Gloria in excelsis Deo et in TERRA pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
The asteroid was 130 earth diameters away.
If this is average distance os "near miss", then chance of hit is 1:2*130*130), alias 1:33800. that is 0.003%.
Now, what IS realy dangerous, is the orbit duration. Since 18*365.24 =~ 5*1321, we will meet again nearly at the same spot in January 2020.
If we want no worse chance of hit than 1%, we have to better hurry and develop the technology to divert an asteroid within 6,084 years.
Now, Does not that sound scary?
Petrus.
Gloria in excelsis deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
That's not the way you shoudl do it.
1) Find RPM packagr of that tar at tuxfinder.com
2) Find MD5 sum at the trusted source
3) md5sum package.rpm
4) rpm -qilp package.i386.rpm,
or bnetter
5) rpm --ivvh package.src.rpm and check spec file
6) Every night run
'rpm -Va > changed'
7) diff changed previous | mail yourself
8) look for changes in binaries and important config files.
If you must make install, make list of installed files and md5sum allfiles >> md5list.md5
Every night
md5sum --file md5list.md5 | mail yourself
The biggest reason for which I use Linux as a desktop is X-windows. As a home user, MS-Windows is not powerful enough to me. I need network transparency, otherwise my kids coul dnot use the two old 486 computers fof anything useful.
The X-windows network transparency, multiple X-windows on single machine, multiple desktops is what puts Linux years ahead of Windows features.
If it needs something, its smooth installation of DRI and true type fonts.
Petrus.
We need this directories.
We cannot have part of directory on the network, part local read/write, part local read-only.
Stuff in
If we had it all in
Bug you could not connect to network, since all the commands that start, run and diagnose the network are in
It should be perfectly possible to make using rpmdb a bogus filesystem, which follows the hierarchy defined by distributor, mount it on /packages.
/packages filesystem to browse and organize it.
It would either something like proc, completely in RAM, or data system actually written to the disk.
The tree would end in symbolic links to the actually installed files. Every package's own directory would have file DESCRIPTION, that contains standard RPM header, executable UNINSTALL for rpm --erase or VERIFY for rpm -v.
This way you would have the traditional {/usr;/usr/bin;/usr/share/doc} system to actually run Linux and
Any opinions?
Petrus
Right.
/usr/bin in the installed application directory, and follow the symlinks to delete executable.
Better put the link to
You mean symbolic link?
/bin or /usr/bin or /usr/x11/bin and make to it symbolic link in it's own directory.
/usr/local/bin, WordPerfect, Applix, FrameMaker and others.
If so it is almost right. Only that because following the symbolic link is much slower than following hard link (directly to the same i-node), it is much bettre to install the code actually in the
Many applications make it that way, if I recall most in
There are few, though, which make it the way you described. For instance, the X-windows itself, the X11 command was a link in the 3.x.x systems to the appropriate driver and version 4.x only changed the system slightly.
Now if you move the program directory, no problem if you used asolute paht. But you should not delete the program directory wihout looking first where all the links point to. And then you need to find out, if another application needs that executable, before you can delete it.
Petrus
Why not install everything into root?
/sbin and /bin local and everything else network mounted. If network breaks, how will you fix it, if all / were on network?
/tmp and /var on fast RAID0, while /home on redundant RAID5 array.
/boot, /sbin and /usr/sbin, especially login code on read-only volume for better security.
/usr/X11/*.
/lib mounted alternativelly.
/usr/bin and /usr/X11/bin is speed. The $PATH search becomes shorter and the usually cashed directory directs you straight to the proper inode. That's why Linux and Unices are far faster than Windows.
/usr/share. In non-RPM system, these would be normally in /usr/local. Making a link from /usr/bin to the package directory for the binary is slow, but it can be done the ther way round. Why it is not done, I can't tell you, but it seems that the few good and big packages do it.
/usr/doc and /usr/man was moved into /usr/share. But not exactly all (not ViaVoice) and not the old packages from before upgrade. Tell me why they did not move the old stuff over first and why did not make the symbolic link /usr/man -> /usr/share/man, so that any of the thousands users who have old $MANPATH can at least see a manual for 'man' ?
There are reasons for all this madness. Let's list them just for the record:
Because you may want to have
Or, you might want to have
Or, because you might want to have
Or, on machine used as dmb terminal you might not want to have the big and bulky
Or, because you might want to have 2 versions of
The reason for no tree under
Actually there are quite a package specific trees under
However, there are reasons for criticism:
Mandrake, for instance, adopted HFS in 8.0. All
The hypoteticaly "cheap" ternary system assumess, that the need for hardware scales linearly with the base. That is, e.g. it binary gate requires 2 transistors, ternary needs 3 transistors. In such a case 2^3=8 is less than 3^2=9.
So system with 2*3=6 transistors can count to 9 in ternary while in binary only to 8. When searching maximum for f(x) = x^(const/x), one ends up with e for all const>1. That's why the mention that the 3 is the closest to e - an number base ideal. I remember having that case in mathematics competition way back in 8th grade.
In engineering practice, that is quite far from truth. In ECL logic the ternary half-adder requires the same number of transistors as in binary logic. It requires the same number of wires to carry ternary digit as binary one. However we all know why is ECL nearly extinct - its high consumption prevents high integration.
The benefits of binary logic can be seen in CMOS, where we have two states, each of which consumes also no power and still has low output impedance.
Petrus
I was getting all my early informatins and initial links to working news sites from slashdot. Everybody in the office was surprised, where do I get working connection, since they could not get through any major news channels.
Regards,
Petrus
I thought always that the Crusaedes were in response to Islamic attacks. At least what the history book says, Crusades would be never organized if there were no fall of Constantinopol (not Jerusalem) and if Europe had an organized army anwering Muslims cknocking on the door of Europe. The devastation and injustice that Mongolian troops caused was reportedly way above that of Kuvait.
In that light, Crusades would be more justified and more defensive than the Gulf war. If there wer e any other pan-European religion or no religion at all, it would not diminish the need for Crusades and Europe would just be defended under some other banner.
Put the proper things in the proper perspective.
Petrus
Also, you won't be able to resist false accusations. You may not be imprisoned without just trial. But all your cards, linked via SSN or equivalent number may be anytime blocked, just like internet access because of suspect DMCA violation. That's just. The cards are not your property, but Bank's.
With all cards blocked and no cash in existence, you and your children are condemnded to loose home, stay hungry and eventual death.
And remember, cash is already no money. Read it: It is "legal tender" and each has a unique number to preven abuse and to make them traceable.
I always SSH as a user and then su root and type the password. SSH should have ghost characters that guarantee, that some packets are send in regular interval with some nonsense and typed characters should be synchronized to that rate.
It should not be much of problem to do that and perhaps it does not require any change in the protocol spec.
Even if the password remains secret, why should anybody be able to read the typed text?
Petrus
I'm sorry, but if Adobe is innocent, they should not have paid. It would be strange to me if I had to pay for injury done by someone else in my name.
Can IBM use ist influence to persuade various HW manufacturers to support Linux with drivers for their hardware?
Are you planing to prepare Linux drivers for your own Printers, PCs and laptops?
One would think, that Ge transistors are the past. Remember, they only work till 90degC, while silicon can work till 150degC.
Could they ever produce military SiGe transistor?
If it consumes half the power, produces half the heat, that is not enough to make faster chips. If the ambient is 30degC, the heat flow between 150degC and 30degC (120degC difference) is twice as big as between 90degC and 30degC (60degC difference).
However, if they interleave Ga and Si layers so that the doped Ga regions cannot difuse and spread under high temperatures, they have a chance to make faster ICs at the same temperature range as with monolitic Si substrate.
I doubt they will make it any soon. GaSi will not make faster processors for long, long time.
You are talking about the package or you actually pried it open to look at the die?
It would be probably a bad idea to send registering e-mail, even if anonymous. However,
it would not be so bad to point them to the
Linux Counter
Really?
Who made and opened OpenLook ?
Who donated code to Mozilla ?
Who donated code to OpenOffice ?
Can I download Windows for free just like Solaris?
Did M$ develop something like lxrun?
Could we really expect from Sun the same as from M$?
Does anybody have the right to say that Sun _would_ be as bad as MSFT, _if_ they had the desktop monopoly?
Could it ever be that Sun does not have any monopoly because it is not as bad?
Please remain fair to fair players and hold back unsubstantitated slander.
Disclaimer: I never worked for Sun, do not own Sun shares and I am in no way affiliated with Sun.
Did you ever wonder, to which community have you become by adopting Linux? Five years ago we were willing to donate most of our small excexss to whomever, who would help to building technically superior and commercialy viable alternative solution ot the misery of Windows.
Five years ago I would hardly see anybody suspiciously watching pocket of someone else. Donation was obvious, and the rule was donate time and/or code, if you have some or donate money - if you got some.
Where all these people came from now? Why don't they just hold on tight on their own penny and keep their mouth shut?
Do they appeal on morals?
Who ever said that it is moral not to pay the workers good money for good work?
Who ever said it is moral to contemplate, if someone else did, does, will or would get by accident too much money?
Did you ever hear of anyone to care equally well whether any of the workers in Linux companies make enough for themselfs and their families for decent living?
I have a vision of a GEJ (Greed, Envy, Jealousy) project. one more category would be added to posts clasification, that is GEJ. The GEJ posts would be copied to a separate space and ranked separatedly by independent votes. The ten most malicious GEJ posts would receive slashdot GEJ award and a brand new, shrink wrapped copy of Microsoft Windows XP.
Does anybody have server space available to start the project?
Petrus
This does not match real-life experience, but it is word for word quoted propaganda used in communistic education. Talk about scam. They try it on little children, becaouse the bigger ones would be too smart to believe it.
( I have 10+ years experience in both communistic education and later another 10+ in religion).
Why would anyone ever bother about where do other poeple donate their own money? Is it simple and innocent envy or just unintentional disrespect and intolerance?
Coward NOT anonymous.
Over 80% of file manipulation time is taken by reading. From the rest, 80% is taken by writing.
Deleting, stats or symlinks take less than 4% of time.
What is very suspicious is, that copying, which consists of reading and writing, takes half the reading time. Does it mean, that if I copy loaded binary to a dummy disk area, I'll sppeed application start twice?
The annoying delays are caused by reading larger files, like images, 10Mbyte mailbox, or a large binary. Why does have the XFS and Reiserfs to be 24% and 9% slower than ext2? Reading does not involve any journaling action! B-tree delays? worse cashing? Where is the problem?!
The 10% on reading makes way bigger impact than ten times slower deleting.
Can we make XFS and ReiserFS to read as fast as ext2 or faster?