ksheff.... i got a question to ask you (about a comment you posted a some time's back... your friend who installed their own coke on tap system); can you email me?
FAT32 file systems are widely used for copyright violation too; are they next?)
Indeed!
And NTFS is a far worse offender!
It has compression -> Obfuscation of pirated music!
It has encryption -> Only criminals need encryption!
What about UFS, or ext2fs? Obscure filesystems written by freeloaders who want everything to be free, and not pay for anything!
Oh yes, the RIAA is going to have a field day with filesystems after they have sued the asses of Aimster, ICQ (file x-fer), IRC (dcc), Microsoft (Outlook Express, Windows File Sharing), AOL (Email), Intel (Network cards) and Cisco for making the routers that pass their music over the 'net!
My cousin, and my uncle also got one (they copied me). They all drop keys when typing fast. I think when i type fast i have a habbit of pressing keys at almost the same exact time; a normal keyboard handles this fine, and it all appears normal on the screen. Logitech keyboard doesn't like it.
Batteries. Actually, to clarify, the mice would die after about a month on batteries. The keyboard would last alot longer.
I eventually found out they were bad rechargable batteries, i bought some heavy duty energizer batteries or something, and the mouse lasted 4 months (i think).
But the batteries are expensive, i wanted to get rechargeables cuz i can keep recharging them.
I got one of those logitech cordless keyboard/mice ages ago.
I absolutely loved the mouse (it was my first with wheel -- totally rocks in Q3/UT/etc). But the keyboard always bugged me. The batteries liked to go flat real often (guess i spend too much time on the computer?;), and it always dropped keys.
Like. I'd type. And every few keys would not appear, or every second key would not appear. I figure its just my fast typing speed, i can easily go beyond 70wpm. Needless to say, this was *incredibly frustrating*. The keyboard was limiting my typing speed; i had to type significantly slower, somewhere around 50wpm. (this is just a guess).
In the end, the batteries died again, i kicked the keyboard and its still sitting somewhere in the corner. I got a good 'ol AT keyboard, plugged in a PS/2 adapter, and thats what i use on my PIII now.
As for the logitech mouse; i got a MS optical one. It plays Quake even better, and the 5 buttons are a *dream*.
Soo......... anyone want a Logitech Cordless Desktop? (wireless keyboard+mouse).
Thats a "compressed volume", or "partition", or "drive".
On NTFS, (and as ReiserFS intends on doing it i believe), you compress on a file by file basis.
On NT, you right click on a file -> properties -> and you have your usual attributes, "system", "hidden", "read only", "archive", and a new one, "compressed".
Check compressed, hit okay, and that file is now stored compressed.
The volume, ie. partition/disk is NOT compressed, the NTFS filesystem is still normal as always, but if the compressed attribute is enabled on a file, it is stored compressed; other files are not.
Of course, you can enabled "compressed" on a dir, and it will ask you if you want to recursively compress all other files. (yes or no). Any new files put into that dir will be compressed on default.
Basically, this is alot different to the old doublespace/drive space technique.
It also lets you see wierd things; right click on a 10kb file, and it will say "file size: 10kb", "size on disk: 12kb". Okay, that makes sense. That 10kb file has been allocated 3x 4kb "clusters" or "allocation units". 2kb of the last cluster is wasted.
Compress it, and it will say, "file size: 10kb", "size on disk: 8kb".
Nifty.
Personally, i prefer this method of compression. You can compress your text/documents directory, but not your mp3s/jpegs/etc which won't compress at all.
Its quite nice, and i'd love to see ReiserFS (and others, ext3fs? UFS) support it.
I suppose you'd use the 'chflags' command (FreeBSD has that, i believe linux has something equievalant for ext2fs flags) to set the 'compressed' flag on a file/dir.
Dunno. NTFS Is a journalling filesystem and has had compression and encryption for years. Compression has been in NTFS for at least 6 years, perhaps quite a lot longer. (dunno if NT 3.51 had NTFS compression).
I've found it works *great* and has no real performace impacts. (apart from serious fragmentation if you go and compress your whole drive at once. When that happens, just do a big defrag.)
Nevertheless, with the cheapness of hdd's these days (they practically give away 40gb drives) filesystem compression is rather useless.
I also see your points, how do seek()'s and things work? I dunno.
Whats a login/pass that works ? (wasn't there some created for slashdotters or something)...
partners.nytimes.com doesn't work anymore.
I got an account ("diskiller") but i dunno my password, and the email address goes to some account i can't log in to anymore, sigh.... i HATE these sites.
I remember about ~8 years ago, i was reading about network connectivity and stuff, and it said "do not just pick IP numbers out of thin air. Email xx@xx to request your own IP block". (it was email, the web didn't really exist back then, so there was no website to go to for IPs)
I could have actually gotten my own Class C or whatever, free, back then.:(((
*sighs*.
I'd kill for that now, i really would.
Will IPv6 ip's be given out free? How much are they in the Australia region?
I just wanna get a block now, i wanna get in early on things now:) Never wanna miss another oppurtunity like that again!
BTW, IPv6 network connectivity works *perfectly* between FreeBSD, OpenBSD (and Linux, according to a friend that uses it). I haven't got it to work in NT4 or Win2k yet, but i haven't tried IPv6 in NT for a few years now. (The Microsoft Research website has an 'experimental' research IPv6 stack)
Hahahahahahaha, You know, its comments like this that a true gems, and make slashdot the crack up fun hillarious read that it is. (There were a few other truly remarkable comments in the Science section today on the Mars 2020 story, rofl)
Often these classic slashdot comments make it into IRC channel topics;).
--- Topic for #diskiller is Must.....Resist..... Need money for...food and...rent...Must not give in...to dual Athlon creamy goodness...oh God give me...strength... (Info: http://www.theinquirer.net/10050107.htm, Picture: http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-2001 0510.html)
--- Topic for #diskiller set by diskiller at Fri May 11 22:16:26
And
--- Topic for #FreeBSD is Must.....Resist..... Need money for...food and...rent...Must not give in...to dual Athlon creamy goodness...oh God give me...strength... (Info: http://www.theinquirer.net/10050107.htm, Picture: http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-2001 0510.html)
--- Topic for #FreeBSD set by diskiller at Fri May 11 22:19:12
--- ChanServ gives channel operator status to diskiller
I didn't realize there was a port of doscmd to FreeBSD? Let's see: now I can run Windows programs, DOS programs, Linux programs, Solaris programs, as well as native FreeBSD programs without having to reboot. Way cool.
Yup. Life is good.
I actually haven't seen/used wine in about 5 years. (seriously). Perhaps more then that. I got some slackware 2.3 CDs somewhere, and on one of the extra cds in the CD set was wine (and other various stuff), so it was cool to try it out. It really was about 1995 when i played with it.
So nevertheless, after reading the story there, i got interested in giving wine another shot, and seeing how it works. Back then wine could run solitare, minesweeper, and that was pretty much it. Notepad, i think, ran too. Write, didn't. (This was with win3.1, infact Win95 wasn't out yet at the time).
*sits here and waits for the/usr/ports/emulators/wine port to fetch*
DiSKiLLeR is how i wrote my nick some 10 years ago. Unfortunately... its stuck, esp when accounts are created, and slashdot keeps it case sensitive.
If you find me on irc (BorgChat, EFnet, Dalnet, etc) i tend to spell it all lowercase now 'diskiller'. It looks less script kiddie, and it seems to have started ever since someone in #FreeBSD/Efnet told me so, and that it was annoying.
Seriously, though. If i do kernel hacking (like porting FreeBSD over to sparc) i doubt i'm a script kiddie.
D.
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But most of the slashdot community these days seems to be composed of 14 year old linux script kiddie hacker wannabies who think this is earth shattering news.
Maybe we need a new website. Posting stories such as "How to haxx0r" and "MS website is down for the 48924th time this week". It will be "News for kiddies. Stuff thats l337."
This will leave slashdot for the real intellects. Who knows, it might just work...
Excessive ? Yeah, i guess i admit it is. But ram is so damn cheap, i couldn't resist. PC133 SDRAM is going at $94AUD now. (about $40USD per stick). I mean, christ, they're giving it away.
A for Dual cpu's. My first box was a Dual P200 w/ 64mb ram. I picked up the m/b real cheap at an auction, got two P200's, dropped 'em in, and sweet. Windows NT never lagged. I mean, you could have big compiles running in MS VC++, or run Quake2 and play mp3s at once, or whatever, and the GUI never lagged! I burn CDs at 4x (all scsi system) while playing multiplayer games on the net, it rocks.
So when upgrading time came, i KNEW i wouldn't settle for single cpu, so i went Dual again. I run Win2000 on it, and FreeBSD (though its not there atm, i need another hdd).
Funnily enough, the machine i use the most is my measely little P166 32mb ram laptop:). lol! 802.11 wireless is sweet, though.
Okay, i have some 6 computers sorrounding me in this real small room. I live in Australia. The Temperature outside is over 40C. (110F). Its hot.
Luckily, we have the A/C on, so its real cool in here. But the computers make FAR too much noise with all the darn fans.
I'm not even going to begin counting how many fans my main workstation (Dual PIII-500 512mb ram) has. Well. Okay. Cpu fans, 2. Case fans (extra added by me), power supply fans, and even fans on my CD-R.
And thats not my only Dual CPU box...
Computers definitely have a problem with heat, and shoving ever more fans into cases is not the solution. New tech such as this, is.
When the power goes out, its almost surprising at the silence around you... only then you realise just how noisy the room was with all the fans.
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ksheff.... i got a question to ask you (about a comment you posted a some time's back... your friend who installed their own coke on tap system); can you email me?
Thanks, martin.
D.
Ahhh.
Thanks for the explanation.
D.
Yup, exactly my point.
:) That is a good thing :)
So i'm not imagining it then
D.
FAT32 file systems are widely used for copyright violation too; are they next?)
...
Indeed!
And NTFS is a far worse offender!
It has compression -> Obfuscation of pirated music!
It has encryption -> Only criminals need encryption!
What about UFS, or ext2fs? Obscure filesystems written by freeloaders who want everything to be free, and not pay for anything!
Oh yes, the RIAA is going to have a field day with filesystems after they have sued the asses of Aimster, ICQ (file x-fer), IRC (dcc), Microsoft (Outlook Express, Windows File Sharing), AOL (Email), Intel (Network cards) and Cisco for making the routers that pass their music over the 'net!
The insanity
D.
Hrmmm .......
Well, i'm not the only one to have one.
My cousin, and my uncle also got one (they copied me). They all drop keys when typing fast. I think when i type fast i have a habbit of pressing keys at almost the same exact time; a normal keyboard handles this fine, and it all appears normal on the screen. Logitech keyboard doesn't like it.
Batteries. Actually, to clarify, the mice would die after about a month on batteries. The keyboard would last alot longer.
I eventually found out they were bad rechargable batteries, i bought some heavy duty energizer batteries or something, and the mouse lasted 4 months (i think).
But the batteries are expensive, i wanted to get rechargeables cuz i can keep recharging them.
oh well, *shrug*.
D.
I got one of those logitech cordless keyboard/mice ages ago.
;), and it always dropped keys.
I absolutely loved the mouse (it was my first with wheel -- totally rocks in Q3/UT/etc). But the keyboard always bugged me. The batteries liked to go flat real often (guess i spend too much time on the computer?
Like. I'd type. And every few keys would not appear, or every second key would not appear. I figure its just my fast typing speed, i can easily go beyond 70wpm. Needless to say, this was *incredibly frustrating*. The keyboard was limiting my typing speed; i had to type significantly slower, somewhere around 50wpm. (this is just a guess).
In the end, the batteries died again, i kicked the keyboard and its still sitting somewhere in the corner. I got a good 'ol AT keyboard, plugged in a PS/2 adapter, and thats what i use on my PIII now.
As for the logitech mouse; i got a MS optical one. It plays Quake even better, and the 5 buttons are a *dream*.
Soo......... anyone want a Logitech Cordless Desktop? (wireless keyboard+mouse).
D.
Well, no, see thats different.
Thats a "compressed volume", or "partition", or "drive".
On NTFS, (and as ReiserFS intends on doing it i believe), you compress on a file by file basis.
On NT, you right click on a file -> properties -> and you have your usual attributes, "system", "hidden", "read only", "archive", and a new one, "compressed".
Check compressed, hit okay, and that file is now stored compressed.
The volume, ie. partition/disk is NOT compressed, the NTFS filesystem is still normal as always, but if the compressed attribute is enabled on a file, it is stored compressed; other files are not.
Of course, you can enabled "compressed" on a dir, and it will ask you if you want to recursively compress all other files. (yes or no). Any new files put into that dir will be compressed on default.
Basically, this is alot different to the old doublespace/drive space technique.
It also lets you see wierd things; right click on a 10kb file, and it will say "file size: 10kb", "size on disk: 12kb". Okay, that makes sense. That 10kb file has been allocated 3x 4kb "clusters" or "allocation units". 2kb of the last cluster is wasted.
Compress it, and it will say, "file size: 10kb", "size on disk: 8kb".
Nifty.
Personally, i prefer this method of compression. You can compress your text/documents directory, but not your mp3s/jpegs/etc which won't compress at all.
Its quite nice, and i'd love to see ReiserFS (and others, ext3fs? UFS) support it.
I suppose you'd use the 'chflags' command (FreeBSD has that, i believe linux has something equievalant for ext2fs flags) to set the 'compressed' flag on a file/dir.
D.
Hrm...
Dunno. NTFS Is a journalling filesystem and has had compression and encryption for years. Compression has been in NTFS for at least 6 years, perhaps quite a lot longer. (dunno if NT 3.51 had NTFS compression).
I've found it works *great* and has no real performace impacts. (apart from serious fragmentation if you go and compress your whole drive at once. When that happens, just do a big defrag.)
Nevertheless, with the cheapness of hdd's these days (they practically give away 40gb drives) filesystem compression is rather useless.
I also see your points, how do seek()'s and things work? I dunno.
D.
God i hate the NY Times...
Whats a login/pass that works ? (wasn't there some created for slashdotters or something)...
partners.nytimes.com doesn't work anymore.
I got an account ("diskiller") but i dunno my password, and the email address goes to some account i can't log in to anymore, sigh.... i HATE these sites.
Thank god i finally got my own domain for email.
D.
That is sad :(
Fortunately, MS said Windows Whistler/XP/NT6.0(NT5.1?) will contain full IPv6 capabilities.
So we might finally make some progress with IPv6 adoption....
I still wanna know where i can get public static IPv6 ips.
D.
And you know what?
:(((
:) Never wanna miss another oppurtunity like that again!
I want to kill myself.
I remember about ~8 years ago, i was reading about network connectivity and stuff, and it said "do not just pick IP numbers out of thin air. Email xx@xx to request your own IP block". (it was email, the web didn't really exist back then, so there was no website to go to for IPs)
I could have actually gotten my own Class C or whatever, free, back then.
*sighs*.
I'd kill for that now, i really would.
Will IPv6 ip's be given out free? How much are they in the Australia region?
I just wanna get a block now, i wanna get in early on things now
BTW, IPv6 network connectivity works *perfectly* between FreeBSD, OpenBSD (and Linux, according to a friend that uses it). I haven't got it to work in NT4 or Win2k yet, but i haven't tried IPv6 in NT for a few years now. (The Microsoft Research website has an 'experimental' research IPv6 stack)
D.
So will you tell us which Mathematical formula she does get tattoed?
More importantly, will we see pictures?
D.
Hahahahahahaha, You know, its comments like this that a true gems, and make slashdot the crack up fun hillarious read that it is. (There were a few other truly remarkable comments in the Science section today on the Mars 2020 story, rofl)
;).
1 0510.html)
1 0510.html)
Often these classic slashdot comments make it into IRC channel topics
--- Topic for #diskiller is Must.....Resist..... Need money for...food and...rent...Must not give in...to dual Athlon creamy goodness...oh God give me...strength... (Info: http://www.theinquirer.net/10050107.htm, Picture: http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-200
--- Topic for #diskiller set by diskiller at Fri May 11 22:16:26
And
--- Topic for #FreeBSD is Must.....Resist..... Need money for...food and...rent...Must not give in...to dual Athlon creamy goodness...oh God give me...strength... (Info: http://www.theinquirer.net/10050107.htm, Picture: http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-200
--- Topic for #FreeBSD set by diskiller at Fri May 11 22:19:12
--- ChanServ gives channel operator status to diskiller
D.
I didn't realize there was a port of doscmd to FreeBSD? Let's see: now I can run Windows programs, DOS programs, Linux programs, Solaris programs, as well as native FreeBSD programs without having to reboot. Way cool.
/usr/ports/emulators/wine port to fetch*
Yup. Life is good.
I actually haven't seen/used wine in about 5 years. (seriously). Perhaps more then that. I got some slackware 2.3 CDs somewhere, and on one of the extra cds in the CD set was wine (and other various stuff), so it was cool to try it out. It really was about 1995 when i played with it.
So nevertheless, after reading the story there, i got interested in giving wine another shot, and seeing how it works. Back then wine could run solitare, minesweeper, and that was pretty much it. Notepad, i think, ran too. Write, didn't. (This was with win3.1, infact Win95 wasn't out yet at the time).
*sits here and waits for the
D.
Another inaccuracy in your post... "orbit in less then an hour?"
The ISS (and thus, the space shuttle that is docked to it) orbit the earth every 90 minutes.
Count that again. Every 90 minutes.
Last i checked, 90 minutes was an hour and a half. Again, i don't know what your smoking, but its damn good shit.
Thanks for the suggestion.
D.
I have to say i agree with this.
Infact, i think i've pretty much decided not to be a programmer anymore.
I wanna find interest in something else. Anything else.
I'll still do OpenSource programming, but never get a job as a programmer and work for some evil corporation.
D.
I say we should do this in Australia, too.
;)
:)
Better yet, lets make JEDI an actual religion
Next time its census time in australia, someone remember to spread this 'round and make it on slashdot
D.
Um ...
... and ... don't quite know what to do about this.
As a resident of Adelaide, SA, i am rather shocked
Lots of SSH and SSL? Tunnel PPP over SSH from a shell in the US?
Suggestions, ideas?
martin.
*diskiller sighs ;)
... its stuck, esp when accounts are created, and slashdot keeps it case sensitive.
DiSKiLLeR is how i wrote my nick some 10 years ago. Unfortunately
If you find me on irc (BorgChat, EFnet, Dalnet, etc) i tend to spell it all lowercase now 'diskiller'. It looks less script kiddie, and it seems to have started ever since someone in #FreeBSD/Efnet told me so, and that it was annoying.
Seriously, though. If i do kernel hacking (like porting FreeBSD over to sparc) i doubt i'm a script kiddie.
D.
1337
thats leet in 1337 5p34k
leet, short for elite.
you are elite if you 7yp3 1n 1337 5p34k, get it ?
or so the script kiddies think.
D.
No shit this is irrelevant.
...
But most of the slashdot community these days seems to be composed of 14 year old linux script kiddie hacker wannabies who think this is earth shattering news.
Maybe we need a new website. Posting stories such as "How to haxx0r" and "MS website is down for the 48924th time this week". It will be "News for kiddies. Stuff thats l337."
This will leave slashdot for the real intellects. Who knows, it might just work
D
Excessive ? Yeah, i guess i admit it is. But ram is so damn cheap, i couldn't resist. PC133 SDRAM is going at $94AUD now. (about $40USD per stick). I mean, christ, they're giving it away.
:). lol! 802.11 wireless is sweet, though.
A for Dual cpu's. My first box was a Dual P200 w/ 64mb ram. I picked up the m/b real cheap at an auction, got two P200's, dropped 'em in, and sweet. Windows NT never lagged. I mean, you could have big compiles running in MS VC++, or run Quake2 and play mp3s at once, or whatever, and the GUI never lagged! I burn CDs at 4x (all scsi system) while playing multiplayer games on the net, it rocks.
So when upgrading time came, i KNEW i wouldn't settle for single cpu, so i went Dual again. I run Win2000 on it, and FreeBSD (though its not there atm, i need another hdd).
Funnily enough, the machine i use the most is my measely little P166 32mb ram laptop
What has this to do with fans? not much, now.
D.
This definitely sounds like a good idea.
...
... only then you realise just how noisy the room was with all the fans.
/me looks around the room and counts.
Okay, i have some 6 computers sorrounding me in this real small room. I live in Australia. The Temperature outside is over 40C. (110F). Its hot.
Luckily, we have the A/C on, so its real cool in here. But the computers make FAR too much noise with all the darn fans.
I'm not even going to begin counting how many fans my main workstation (Dual PIII-500 512mb ram) has. Well. Okay. Cpu fans, 2. Case fans (extra added by me), power supply fans, and even fans on my CD-R.
And thats not my only Dual CPU box
Computers definitely have a problem with heat, and shoving ever more fans into cases is not the solution. New tech such as this, is.
When the power goes out, its almost surprising at the silence around you
D.
Sorry for probably sounding stupid, but what does Australia use?
I think we just use a single band GSM.
D.