The ext3 journaling filesystem has its first beta a few months ago. It does't require you to reformat your existing ext2 partitions to convert to ext3. And an ext3 filesystem can still be used as an ext2 filesystem, you just need to update the journaling information if you go back to ext3 after using it as ext2. Read more about it at Stephen Tweedie's ext3 site.
Take two linux computers, put 10 filesystems on each. Now NFS mount the 10 fs from one machine on the other, and vice versa. How do you shut them both down, without logging on as root and unmounting all the filesystems manually first, because the power has failed perhaps?
In case you don't know, if you have some NFS filesystems mounted, and try to reboot when the NFS server is down, it will take about 5 minutes per filesystem before umount -a times out.
How about the RAID patches in the redhat kernel? Get redhat 6.1 and setup a software RAID for your root filesystem. Then download stock 2.2.12 and try to boot. Won't work, the RAID code is totally different.
Go do a diff yourself between the 2.2.12 kernel in the redhat src.RPM and the official tar file. You will find lots of changes, which are not limited to enabling drivers.
Do all the processes look the same? Or do they have different sprites for different processes. init could be the head on a spike from the end of doom2, netscape would be a large mozilla monster. Demons for things like inetd and crond.
The number of hit points could be based on memory footprint. Processes that use more CPU could be more active, moving faster and shooting more. Multithreaded processes could be clusters of similar guys, or maybe one monster with those tracking fireballs floating around them. You could even look at activity on open file descriptors, have them shoot every time they send a packet out over the network for instance. Processes comminicating over a pipe would be trading rockets with each other for example.
Instead of the latest pop group comming out with a album of mundane audio tracks, they could come out with a style album. It would have samples, wavetables, voice samples, lyric generator tables, and a musical style description for use with a computer music generator. You stick it in your computer and push go, and it spits out an "original" track in the style of the group. If you hear one you really like, you can dump it to an MP3. An infinite number of tracks on a single CD. And given the originality of most popular music, who would know the difference? Probably already in use now.
I figured I had a good chance of getting chosen, since I programmed a whole hell of a lot of stuff for FreeCiv. But maybe I'm just being conceited. But Seattle to Atlanta airfare, missing a week of work!, plus room and board, would end of costing me nearly a $1000-$1500 by my estimate. Going to Atlanta to program on someone else's game and give them free publicity isn't really my idea of a vacation. I'm sure it was fun and all, but I'd rather go on a ski trip to Whistler if I'm going to blow 1k on a vacation.
The evil fur empire is going to hunt down all the furry guys! Of course they will only use inept droids and chewie will be the only one the kill. The only question is what race the fur empire will be. Maybe canadians, eh?
This would make the grammar and spelling flame obsolete, since the grammar would be a product of the translator. Without the most basic of flames, how could a flame war ever compare to those now.
Of course, errors in translation would let people who completely agree argue enlessly without knowing it!
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NSI used to be in the position having been granted a goverment supported monopoly. Now that they are supposed to have competition, let them deny people domains. Some other company will just get that business. But with a monopoly it's not fair for them to pick and choose what domains they will let people have. It's like the telco refusing to let Jews have phones, because they could use them for their secret plots to take over the world.
Connecting to AOL over a cable modem is not the same as having AOL for an ISP. The ISP is the company that takes your packets from the cable or DSL network, and puts them on the internet. They probably give you an email and news server too, but that's not the critical part. The ISP is the one who pays for that small pipe one hop upstream that is so critial in deciding just how high your high-speed service is. They are also the ones who have "no servers" rules, create 128k rate limits, and require their customers to run windoze. With a cable modem, you're stuck with an ISP like @Home which does all those things. With DSL you can choose an ISP that doesn't.
Mutliple ISPs are allowed sell DSL service, and other companies (like covad) even provide DSL lines. If no will dare pay for broadband infrastructure without a monopoly, why did we get DSL in this area before cable modems? Must be because it's possible to make money without a monopoly.
Why do you need to look at porn? Only depraved child molesters need to look at porn, not "legitamate citizens." So why does it matter if you have to install content filtering software to block out porn, when there is *no* need to look at it?
wearing a helmet on a bike but not in a car isn't logical. Cars are more dangerous thank bikes.
If your employer takes 6% of your income to stick into some fund, then they are taking it from you. To say the employer pays it and not the employee is just stupid. It's like I hit you in the face with a hammer, and they I didn't hit you, the hammer did.
The 40 or 56 bit keys that some browsers use is for non-public key cyphers like RC4, RC5, DES, etc. Those the the things distributed.net is cracking. The 512, 1024 bit keys are for the RSA public key cypher. It's a totally different algorithm, and comparing a 512 bit RSA key to a 56 bit RC5 key and saying "that 56 bit key must suck" just doesn't make sense. The key sizes aren't comparable. Cracking the 56bit DES challenge took a few days last time, cracking a 56bit RSA key could be done by hand in that time.
Me too! I have 300 shares, but only enough in the account to cover 100. Not sure what's up, and etrade is closed. When I resummited over the phone after the re-price, I told the broker 100. I'm hoping I can wire in the money to cover the extra 200 before the order gets dropped.
It works the SAME WAY. There are some shares reserved for "friends and family", they are the directed shares and you have to be invited. Then there are a few shares for peons who managed to check the web page at just the right times. Then there are millions of shares for etrade, GS, IBM and their golf buddies.
If there aren't enough shares for are the little people, and there aren't, it goes to lottery. What would you have them do, first come first served? Best ass kissers first? Alphabetical order?
You're assuming that those 800,000 were just for people who get the letter. There are other people in the directed shares program, like redhat employees.
I've heard of a lot more than 5000 invitation. I'm still surprised to see so many "nothings" and so few "100".
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The ext3 journaling filesystem has its first beta a few months ago. It does't require you to reformat your existing ext2 partitions to convert to ext3. And an ext3 filesystem can still be used as an ext2 filesystem, you just need to update the journaling information if you go back to ext3 after using it as ext2. Read more about it at Stephen Tweedie's ext3 site.
Take two linux computers, put 10 filesystems on each. Now NFS mount the 10 fs from one machine on the other, and vice versa. How do you shut them both down, without logging on as root and unmounting all the filesystems manually first, because the power has failed perhaps?
In case you don't know, if you have some NFS filesystems mounted, and try to reboot when the NFS server is down, it will take about 5 minutes per filesystem before umount -a times out.
How about the RAID patches in the redhat kernel? Get redhat 6.1 and setup a software RAID for your root filesystem. Then download stock 2.2.12 and try to boot. Won't work, the RAID code is totally different.
Go do a diff yourself between the 2.2.12 kernel in the redhat src.RPM and the official tar file. You will find lots of changes, which are not limited to enabling drivers.
Do all the processes look the same? Or do they have different sprites for different processes. init could be the head on a spike from the end of doom2, netscape would be a large mozilla monster. Demons for things like inetd and crond.
The number of hit points could be based on memory footprint. Processes that use more CPU could be more active, moving faster and shooting more. Multithreaded processes could be clusters of similar guys, or maybe one monster with those tracking fireballs floating around them. You could even look at activity on open file descriptors, have them shoot every time they send a packet out over the network for instance. Processes comminicating over a pipe would be trading rockets with each other for example.
Instead of the latest pop group comming out with a album of mundane audio tracks, they could come out with a style album. It would have samples, wavetables, voice samples, lyric generator tables, and a musical style description for use with a computer music generator. You stick it in your computer and push go, and it spits out an "original" track in the style of the group. If you hear one you really like, you can dump it to an MP3. An infinite number of tracks on a single CD. And given the originality of most popular music, who would know the difference? Probably already in use now.
I figured I had a good chance of getting chosen, since I programmed a whole hell of a lot of stuff for FreeCiv. But maybe I'm just being conceited. But Seattle to Atlanta airfare, missing a week of work!, plus room and board, would end of costing me nearly a $1000-$1500 by my estimate. Going to Atlanta to program on someone else's game and give them free publicity isn't really my idea of a vacation. I'm sure it was fun and all, but I'd rather go on a ski trip to Whistler if I'm going to blow 1k on a vacation.
The evil fur empire is going to hunt down all the furry guys! Of course they will only use inept droids and chewie will be the only one the kill. The only question is what race the fur empire will be. Maybe canadians, eh?
This would make the grammar and spelling flame obsolete, since the grammar would be a product of the translator. Without the most basic of flames, how could a flame war ever compare to those now.
Of course, errors in translation would let people who completely agree argue enlessly without knowing it!
NSI used to be in the position having been granted a goverment supported monopoly. Now that they are supposed to have competition, let them deny people domains. Some other company will just get that business. But with a monopoly it's not fair for them to pick and choose what domains they will let people have. It's like the telco refusing to let Jews have phones, because they could use them for their secret plots to take over the world.
Connecting to AOL over a cable modem is not the same as having AOL for an ISP. The ISP is the company that takes your packets from the cable or DSL network, and puts them on the internet. They probably give you an email and news server too, but that's not the critical part. The ISP is the one who pays for that small pipe one hop upstream that is so critial in deciding just how high your high-speed service is. They are also the ones who have "no servers" rules, create 128k rate limits, and require their customers to run windoze. With a cable modem, you're stuck with an ISP like @Home which does all those things. With DSL you can choose an ISP that doesn't.
Mutliple ISPs are allowed sell DSL service, and other companies (like covad) even provide DSL lines. If no will dare pay for broadband infrastructure without a monopoly, why did we get DSL in this area before cable modems? Must be because it's possible to make money without a monopoly.
Why do you need to look at porn? Only depraved child molesters need to look at porn, not "legitamate citizens." So why does it matter if you have to install content filtering software to block out porn, when there is *no* need to look at it?
wearing a helmet on a bike but not in a car isn't logical. Cars are more dangerous thank bikes.
If your employer takes 6% of your income to stick into some fund, then they are taking it from you. To say the employer pays it and not the employee is just stupid. It's like I hit you in the face with a hammer, and they I didn't hit you, the hammer did.
In joke for TI99/4a owners....
Starting up SO on a P90 with 80megs takes less than 30 seconds. It's just a memory pig, so if you have 64MB, the load time starts to get really long.
I expect someone will buy all their cards, then sell them off on ebay.
The 40 or 56 bit keys that some browsers use is for non-public key cyphers like RC4, RC5, DES, etc. Those the the things distributed.net is cracking. The 512, 1024 bit keys are for the RSA public key cypher. It's a totally different algorithm, and comparing a 512 bit RSA key to a 56 bit RC5 key and saying "that 56 bit key must suck" just doesn't make sense. The key sizes aren't comparable. Cracking the 56bit DES challenge took a few days last time, cracking a 56bit RSA key could be done by hand in that time.
Me too! I have 300 shares, but only enough in the account to cover 100. Not sure what's up, and etrade is closed. When I resummited over the phone after the re-price, I told the broker 100. I'm hoping I can wire in the money to cover the extra 200 before the order gets dropped.
That's just 6 million that have gone public, there are still lots more (30 million??) that are still privately held.
It works the SAME WAY. There are some shares reserved for "friends and family", they are the directed shares and you have to be invited. Then there are a few shares for peons who managed to check the web page at just the right times. Then there are millions of shares for etrade, GS, IBM and their golf buddies.
If there aren't enough shares for are the little people, and there aren't, it goes to lottery. What would you have them do, first come first served? Best ass kissers first? Alphabetical order?
Wish I had the chance to flip redhat....
Seems like very few people got some from etrade. I count around 0 "I got the letter and some shares posts."
You're assuming that those 800,000 were just for people who get the letter. There are other people in the directed shares program, like redhat employees.
I've heard of a lot more than 5000 invitation. I'm still surprised to see so many "nothings" and so few "100".
There have been about a hundered comments explaining the lottery system, why don't you read them.
As part of the directed shares program, I just got an alert that I didn't get any.
you were silly, changing the range at the last minute isn't strange, it's typical. Should have put in enough to cover up to $15 or more.