If speed is king, consider a tmpfs filesystem periodically rsync'd back to a drive.
If that's a little extreme, XFS is probably the way to go. Ext3 is good for/, since you still have an ext2 way out, if you need it. ReiserFS works well with small files -- it makes a great proxy cache. XFS is good all around.
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I see the future of gaming is boot cds and boot dvds.
You see the future of gaming as console systems. You're certainly not alone, either. No more incompatible this or not enough of that. You can buy a system anywhere and know it will always be exactly what you need.
About the only advantages PCs have left are resolution and MODs. With HDTV and hard drives coming, I don't expect those to hold for long.
Floppy drives are not the only components using floppy power connectors. Most notably, Creative's LiveDrive and AudigyDrive use them. One other poster noted some mid-size fans do, as well.
Slashdot articles like this usually bring out a few "this is why I don't even own a TV" posts. Years ago, I thought they were just tree-huggers and such. Television has its faults, but to dump it entirely?
Time has since progressed as television has regressed. Older shows have jumped the shark as very little has come to replace them. The death of Farscape leaves Fox's 24 as my only "must see" show left. (Alias was a welcome alternative to the grim demise of X-Files, though.) With that perpetually on the death block, too, I find myself wondering why I even bother with TV anymore.
According to the MPAA, the only people needing that much portable storage are pirates and other lowlifes. Therefore, it's clear that both formats will be banned and you will be arrested for so much as thinking about either one.
I am curious why Nvidia didn't just tell M$ to stick it. Microsoft can't very well switch GPU providers at this point. AFAIK, Nvidia also only gets a kickback on the consoles sold (nothing from licensing fees), so they couldn't care less if the boxes get modded or not. An army of Linux Xbox servers would be great for them.
Soon as Geocities started shoving popups down peoples' throats, Geocities became the laughing stock of the whole Internet.
Not that it changes your point, but Geocities was a punchline well before popup ads. In fact, thier reputation was slipping even before javascript.
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I remember hearing some time ago about a Legend of Zelda mod.
You're probably thinking of Legend of Zelda: Outlands. There are challenge versions of quite a few classics.
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One of the chief metrics used to determine a monopoly is viable competition.
Ahh... but one of the other metrics is the barrier to entry for the market. Office applications and operating systems have a massive barrier. In online auctions, any trusted site can open an auction to chip niche markets away from eBay. With some luck, it will hit mainstream and take a bite out.
What? Most web applications do not require full atomicity and constraints to maintain their integrity? Every application requires full ATOMicity and constraints to maintain its integrity. Integrity cannot be maintained otherwise. If you are updating the data ever, full ATOMicity is required.
Sheesh... have you even seen the average web application?
Most of them don't even index their search columns or check their return codes. Look around -- see all of the counters, polls, message boards, Slash clones, and more? It's not hurting them much. They don't use the tools they have; do you really believe they'd use data integrity tools if they had them? Of course not.
As long as it works properly in normal circumstances and fails gracefully in exceptional events, that's 'good enough' for 99+% of the tasks out there. No, it's not enough for eTrade, but there are other tools for them.
Re:Apple "invented" the beige Personal Computer...
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...the original Apple II in 1977. Steve Jobs wanted a neutral color that would blend in to the average home.
I suppose we should count ourselves lucky, then. We could have been stuck with harvest gold or olive green computers.
Ahh, but you do realize that most spammers utilize others' bandwidth for their task? That's why it's so popular (no overhead).
The possibility remains plausible nonetheless. Eventually the cost of being an open relay raped by spammers could exceed the cost of actually fixing the problem. In that event, the cost of finding a relay will increase (and of course sending it yourself is insane) until it is no longer worthwhile.
We decided to set XP in my families new XP1800 computer. I wil be the first to admit that when it runs, it runs smoothly and the family likes it, but It certainly is much worse in terms of stability to say Mandrak or MacOSx. There is not a day that does not go by the computer iwll up and reboot for no reason or simply crash.
Not to defend Windows XP, but "up and reboot" reminds me a lot of flaky PCI devices, especially video cards, and overheating. Your description implies you have not run XP on any other systems and have not run another OS on this system. Perhaps you should eliminate a few variables before you condemn XP.
If you find stable a bit stoic and unstable a little wild, Debian has another distribution you may find just right: testing.
Testing consists of packages from unstable that have gone a couple weeks without incident. The result is a very current system with the bleeding edge problems smoothed over. Most of our production boxes are now on it.
I think the Tom Cruise movie you are thinking of is "Top Gun", not "Top Dog." No big deal, but might throw some people off.
No big deal? The one reference he makes to another movie is wrong. Not just any movie, either -- one of Cruise's most famous roles. At least he didn't say the ending was fresh out of Mission: Improbable.
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So who else is downloading 2.5 (Score:5, Funny)
> by Chuck Chunder on Friday November 23, @02:23AM
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> so they can be cool and trendy and be on the development tree while it's still stable?
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> The Great Chunder Page - Alcohol Induced Fun!
If you didn't think it was funny before, admit it -- it's pretty damn funny now.
they would have half a dozen shows focusing on some interesting aspect of the whole Trek future history. Show them from different races points of view, even.
That would be SO sweet. I would love to see some of these episodes from the perspective of other participants. They're not evil, they just have a different definition of right.
But alas, the Star Trek writers can barely develop the humans' perspective. They'd never be able to establish the opposing viewpoints in a believable manner.
I didn't understand the whole shielding scheme either.
The outer hull is polarized to lessen the effect of energy weapons. Later starships use separate forcefields to counteract mines, ship ramming, transporters, etc.
For instance, they have deflectors, transporters, anti-grav, and beam weapons
Unless you like being Swiss cheese, deflectors are a must-have at warp speed. Artificial gravity and deflectors are, most likely, donations from the Vulcans. Transporters are new and experimental. The show also implied that phasers were new (although plasma weapons were common). We're playing with ion weapons today, so that's downright conservative.
When did "people can't handle flexibility, we should abandon flexibility in favor of conformity" become the mantra around here? That's Windows thinking.
Actually, It's Macintosh thinking. Apple had extremely detailed User Interface Guidelines that gave the entire system an intuitive and cohesive feel. I could hop into virtually any Mac program and all the basic menu options, mouse actions, etc. from, say, a word processor, would carry over. It was great.
The Mac Toolbox enforced many of the UI guidelines, but there were some programs that decided to do their own thing (for better or worse). I'd imagine the same will hold true for Berlin -- the default widgets will enfore the user's theme, but the programmer can roll their own. If it's a little messy to do so, maybe developers will only deviate when they should... instead of because they can.
Third, and this is what scares me. A lot of John Q. Public will give them all this information.
Indeed. I was helping some neighbors with a computer issue a couple weeks ago and noticed they had a gator.com utility in the toolbar (Slashdot search seems hosed at the moment, but they came up recently). I asked them about it.
Basically you enter all of your details (name, mailing address, phone number, etc) and it will automatically fill them in on web forms. Now, ignoring the cross-site scripting fun you could have with this little toy, I just had to ask...
"So, basically, you give them every marketable piece of information they could want so they can provide it to others automatically?"
Got anything to back that up, or are you just letting us all know about your "hunch?"
When it comes to handling important data, he doesn't need to prove they're untrustworthy -- they need to prove they are trustworthy. The ball is in their court. By the same logic,
I don't trust wu-ftpd or sendmail as secure. I may not know of any current exploits, but they have a long history to live down.
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If that's a little extreme, XFS is probably the way to go. Ext3 is good for /, since you still have an ext2 way out, if you need it. ReiserFS works well with small files -- it makes a great proxy cache. XFS is good all around.
Don't worry. They patented it so nobody else can use this innovative, potentially useful idea against them.
All your inkblots are belong to us.
I can't believe I actually posted this.
You see the future of gaming as console systems. You're certainly not alone, either. No more incompatible this or not enough of that. You can buy a system anywhere and know it will always be exactly what you need.
About the only advantages PCs have left are resolution and MODs. With HDTV and hard drives coming, I don't expect those to hold for long.
Floppy drives are not the only components using floppy power connectors. Most notably, Creative's LiveDrive and AudigyDrive use them. One other poster noted some mid-size fans do, as well.
Time has since progressed as television has regressed. Older shows have jumped the shark as very little has come to replace them. The death of Farscape leaves Fox's 24 as my only "must see" show left. (Alias was a welcome alternative to the grim demise of X-Files, though.) With that perpetually on the death block, too, I find myself wondering why I even bother with TV anymore.
It's obvious neither one will win.
According to the MPAA, the only people needing that much portable storage are pirates and other lowlifes. Therefore, it's clear that both formats will be banned and you will be arrested for so much as thinking about either one.
What's with all of the robot stories over the last few days? Did the ./ crew get stuck in a loop or something?
I am curious why Nvidia didn't just tell M$ to stick it. Microsoft can't very well switch GPU providers at this point. AFAIK, Nvidia also only gets a kickback on the consoles sold (nothing from licensing fees), so they couldn't care less if the boxes get modded or not. An army of Linux Xbox servers would be great for them.
Not that it changes your point, but Geocities was a punchline well before popup ads. In fact, thier reputation was slipping even before javascript.
You're probably thinking of Legend of Zelda: Outlands. There are challenge versions of quite a few classics.
Ahh... but one of the other metrics is the barrier to entry for the market. Office applications and operating systems have a massive barrier. In online auctions, any trusted site can open an auction to chip niche markets away from eBay. With some luck, it will hit mainstream and take a bite out.
Sheesh... have you even seen the average web application?
Most of them don't even index their search columns or check their return codes. Look around -- see all of the counters, polls, message boards, Slash clones, and more? It's not hurting them much. They don't use the tools they have; do you really believe they'd use data integrity tools if they had them? Of course not.
As long as it works properly in normal circumstances and fails gracefully in exceptional events, that's 'good enough' for 99+% of the tasks out there. No, it's not enough for eTrade, but there are other tools for them.
I suppose we should count ourselves lucky, then. We could have been stuck with harvest gold or olive green computers.
If you use an early development kernel in a production engine, you deserve what you get.
The possibility remains plausible nonetheless. Eventually the cost of being an open relay raped by spammers could exceed the cost of actually fixing the problem. In that event, the cost of finding a relay will increase (and of course sending it yourself is insane) until it is no longer worthwhile.
Not to defend Windows XP, but "up and reboot" reminds me a lot of flaky PCI devices, especially video cards, and overheating. Your description implies you have not run XP on any other systems and have not run another OS on this system. Perhaps you should eliminate a few variables before you condemn XP.
Testing consists of packages from unstable that have gone a couple weeks without incident. The result is a very current system with the bleeding edge problems smoothed over. Most of our production boxes are now on it.
No big deal? The one reference he makes to another movie is wrong. Not just any movie, either -- one of Cruise's most famous roles. At least he didn't say the ending was fresh out of Mission: Improbable.
> So who else is downloading 2.5 (Score:5, Funny)
> by Chuck Chunder on Friday November 23, @02:23AM
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> so they can be cool and trendy and be on the development tree while it's still stable?
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> The Great Chunder Page - Alcohol Induced Fun!
If you didn't think it was funny before, admit it -- it's pretty damn funny now.
That would be SO sweet. I would love to see some of these episodes from the perspective of other participants. They're not evil, they just have a different definition of right.
But alas, the Star Trek writers can barely develop the humans' perspective. They'd never be able to establish the opposing viewpoints in a believable manner.
The outer hull is polarized to lessen the effect of energy weapons. Later starships use separate forcefields to counteract mines, ship ramming, transporters, etc.
For instance, they have deflectors, transporters, anti-grav, and beam weapons
Unless you like being Swiss cheese, deflectors are a must-have at warp speed. Artificial gravity and deflectors are, most likely, donations from the Vulcans. Transporters are new and experimental. The show also implied that phasers were new (although plasma weapons were common). We're playing with ion weapons today, so that's downright conservative.
Actually, It's Macintosh thinking. Apple had extremely detailed User Interface Guidelines that gave the entire system an intuitive and cohesive feel. I could hop into virtually any Mac program and all the basic menu options, mouse actions, etc. from, say, a word processor, would carry over. It was great.
The Mac Toolbox enforced many of the UI guidelines, but there were some programs that decided to do their own thing (for better or worse). I'd imagine the same will hold true for Berlin -- the default widgets will enfore the user's theme, but the programmer can roll their own. If it's a little messy to do so, maybe developers will only deviate when they should... instead of because they can.
Indeed. I was helping some neighbors with a computer issue a couple weeks ago and noticed they had a gator.com utility in the toolbar (Slashdot search seems hosed at the moment, but they came up recently). I asked them about it.
Basically you enter all of your details (name, mailing address, phone number, etc) and it will automatically fill them in on web forms. Now, ignoring the cross-site scripting fun you could have with this little toy, I just had to ask...
"So, basically, you give them every marketable piece of information they could want so they can provide it to others automatically?"
"Yup."
When it comes to handling important data, he doesn't need to prove they're untrustworthy -- they need to prove they are trustworthy. The ball is in their court. By the same logic, I don't trust wu-ftpd or sendmail as secure. I may not know of any current exploits, but they have a long history to live down.