I noticed over at Gear's web page that they say a Linux version is coming "soon." I have been looking for VideoCD software for quite a while, either recording or playing 'em. Hopefully this will be one step closer.
How about for starters, make a nice little pie chart of the numbers of all these problems, wingate, win98's internet sharing deal, linux ip masq, etc. When you see one or two items take up 98% of the unsecured boxes, just ban the use of that. It won't hurt any of us...;)
Choosing to honor the UDP isn't a choice on their part, and it's nothing their users are aware of.
Aren't they making the choice by choosing to run whatever certain news server or set of scripts to handle these control messages? The articles said @Home averaged 11,000 cancel messages a day. That would take what, 6-10 employees every day to look up the articles, read them, and decide if they should be cancelled? Even then, they can auto-pilot those, and forward important control messages (like an UDP) to an admin for manual control.
Anyway users pretty much choose with their money whether they accept an ISP's behavior/decisions. If my little town of 15,000 can have 3-5 modem ISPs, I'd guess it's that way in much of the US.
But what of the people who can't afford to switch or get anything else??
If someone can afford the $40-60 per month for a cable modem, then they can afford $20/month (note: that's a $20-40/month savings) to sign up with a modem ISP that does take the necessary precautions so they don't get UDP'd. Or they can get an account at Deja (or others) and post through there.:)
The point is, if @Home can't take care of their servers, everyone on their network is hurt. If there's any argument on this issue, poverty isn't one of them.
What is this "joke" word mean? I have never seen such a thing on Slashdot.
For those of you speculating and do not wish to view the page, here are the recommended specs:
Linux 2.2.* 1 terabyte striped RAID 1Ghz quartathlon (5Ghz per Athlon recommended.) BT848, BT878 compatible video card No hardware compression boards are supported, due to high cost and unemployment. Full duplex sound card 1024x768 32bpp graphics card on AGP Commercial OSS driver (better card compatibility)
Although most of Broadcast 2000 was developed on a pentium 150, most users don't feel comfortable running it on low powered systems.
Too bad I'll have to wait 5 years to build such a machine. But it is interesting that they develop it with a P150.
Disclaimer: No humor intended as to not annoy the humor impaird. All speculative humor is purely in the mind of the insane reader and has no bearing in reality. Author cannot be held liable for any damages due to enjoyment (or lack thereof) of said humer. Offer void in Massachusetts and Utah. Only while supplies last.
They do give the sources to untar over your XFree86 sources. Looking at a couple of the files:
Copyright 1993-1999 NVIDIA, Corporation. All rights reserved.
NOTICE TO USER: The source code is copyrighted under U.S. and international laws. Users and possessors of this source code are hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free copyright license to use this code in individual and commercial software.
The point is that the government, with the blessing of the Supreme Court, can take whatever it damn well pleases whenever it gets the whim and there is nothing you can do about it!
If you have stories of police taking things for no reason at all, I can see the outcry. John Q. Public is driving around in his shiny new car, gets pulled over for something bogus like a tail light out, various mechanics testify that the light was perfectly good because John just left their shop 5 minutes earlier, and the police are seen a week later driving all over town in that car in the name of stakeouts or whatever. Now that, I could see all of us having a problem with.
But presenting stories of real criminals doesn't bring out the point I think the original poster was probably wanting. Back to the Ramsey case, others have posted quotes from their catalog, including items like smoke detectors with hidden camera, saying you can tune in to a hidden microphone up to 1/4-mile away. These items have been defined as illegal, so perhaps this isn't the right cause to illustrate government intruding on innocent people. I can't verify those quotes as I don't have a Ramsey catalog. If they do only sell hobby kits and not fully functional eavesdropping equipment disguised as something else, then this doesn't apply and damn those jack-booted thugs.
So what you are essentially saying is that if you happen to be around someone who commits a crime, then it's your fault that you run the risk of loosing your constitutional rights. Yeah, that's logical.
Say you and a buddy, who just happens to be wanted for an armed robbery, are talking on the sidewalk. Then the police will probably bust both of you first to get the situation under control. Then if they don't have anything on you, you will be set free. That is the way it is. The police will make sure neither your buddy or anyone else will wind up shooting them, getting everything under control, and then set free those truely not involved. It make a couple hours interrogating, as how would they know if you are lying or not? It is certainly inconvenient, but this buddy is the one to blame in this sort of situation, not the police. I'm all for reigning in out of control government agencies, if it is justified.
The thing is the Supreme Court's job is interpretting the constitution. So if they say it's OK for the police to take a car used in a crime, that is then constitutional. We can contact local/state/federal congressmen if we think the law is unjust; it would take them passing a bill to reverse Court decisions. Like I said, if the police are making bogus accusations of a crime taking place, then yes fire those officers, get your car back, sue them, go on TV and get public opinion behind you.
We agree on the last statement. Criminals are criminals, have no respect for anyone else, etc. That's basically what I said too.
I like the suit titles, "Georgia vs Sedan" and "Geargia vs $19,420," like the state is suing a car and a bag of money.:)
Anyway, it is sad, but those two examples do seem justified to me. When you commit a crime, it not only affects you, but those around you as well. If a restauranteur is going to put nearly $20,000 and his car in the hands of an employee, he should take certain precautions, such as drug tests and what not. If the employee ran away with the money, the restauranteur would nonetheless be out $20k. You could probably sue the individual for the property/money, but chances are it would take many decades for them to repay it.
So, these and another story someone posted a little bit down of a guy making meth in his elderly mother's house, point out the lack of regard for others' property these criminals exhibit. If you want to smoke weed, get a whore, make meth, do it on your own time and property. That way the police will seize YOUR car, and YOUR house, and YOUR cash. And it shows why it's wise to stay the hell away from people that do these things; they will drag you down with them.
I'd be willing to pull up a lawn chair and set a barrel on fire in my front lawn in the name of solidarity for my Linux brothers, and pay dues so the union head haunchos can go to Hawaii and have conferences for three hours a day on how to resolve it.
Sure you can sue them, but that requires a lot of money up front. Lawyers aren't ever quick, or cheap, well good lawyers.
If I ran a web-based business, I'd give a site about 24 hours to be back up and running perfectly. Much beyond that, I'd figure they were incompetent (no redundancy, backups, whatever), and start looking elsewhere. Most importantly, I wouldn't store my one and only copy of a web site on their server(s). Change the NS records for the domain, and set up shop elsewhere.
Back on suing, you could probably only sue for some refund of the hosting fees, and maybe your average daily revenue for the amount of downtime. If you make enough on a web site in a day or two to cover lawyer costs for a long drawn out affair, I'd suggest investing in real servers and colocate somewhere reputable. If you're selling 3 bird feeders a day and a dedicated servers isn't reasonable, you aren't out much money, so suing is pointless.:)
Exactly. I called my ISP a while back when I was thinking of opening a web-centric business. They only wanted like $150 a month to co-locate a box. That was certainly a reasonable price to me to know it's Internet connection would always be available (if an ISP can't keep an Internet connection up, I would be worried:)) and the box would be controlled by me. This is in the middle of Illinois, so I'm sure those of you that chose to live in huge cities would get bilked for 5-10 times as much by those ISPs.:)
Maybe I'm crazy, but do people put 100% faith in these mass web hosting places? I know I've got a copy of my puny web site that comes with my ISP dialup account on my home machine. If they lose a hard drive, go under, whatever it's not like I can't take it elsewhere. One time (out of two) I was able to change the name servers for a domain on NSI's web page immediately. So, voila, it was changed to a new provider. The other time, it took about two weeks for their email bots to accept the forms. But, well, now we can pick other registrars, so hopefully they will be better about this.
Anyway, the point was just move to a new provider and move on. Minimize, as much as possible, your downtime but you're never completely SOL. As many complaints as people have on here with these sort of mass hosting places, I probably won't ever use one.
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Mr. Ben Hsu, General Manager LinuxOne - Taiwan 7F, No. 317, Song-Chiang Road Taipei, Taiwan Phone: 886-2-2501-2110 Fax: 886-2-2501-1854 Email: ben@linuxone.net URL: http://www.LinuxOneTaiwan.com
Interestingly, linuxonetaiwan.com doesn't seem to exist anywhere in reality. Wonder what would happen if someone sent $70 to NSI and registered some random domain... Not that I'm saying anything, or nothing. Then again, the press release is dated Jan 4, maybe it'll take another few days for NSI to register this domain for LinuxOne if they just now bought it.
But is there anyone in or around Taipei that can verify what this address is, or isn't?
As an aside, mgetty's docs say it can sort out voice/modem/fax calls. The last time I tried, it just failed to find anything from the fax machine at work. I gave up after a while.:)
But it's not like I think they'd go to that much effort to set up mgetty. It's funny that the other poster called them and he was sleepy.
I guess the question we have with LinuxOne is not that they aren't blessed by AC/Linus/ESR/BP/whoever, but that their first step is to have an IPO. Add in their past IPO failures, it just looks suspicious to anyone.
I have been in the Linux community going on six years now. The best way to sell a Linux product is to put it out there and let word of mouth take over. Let it be reviewed on a myriad of web sites, pitting it against similar products. For extra icing on the cake, release the nifty features that make your product different (if there really is a difference, besides the name) under the GPL (or appropriate license). Let the business grow for a while, perhaps hire some people who write programs that are key to your product. As word of mouth spreads, your Linux IPO will be profoundly more profitable and well accepted.
Or go the alternative route, after three or four big IPOs by suckers that did that long, tedious method, slap whatever catch words you need on your web site, and file for an IPO. I can see why people would be suspicious. The Slashdot effect is powerful, and using it to your benefit is a million times more profitable in the long run than to have it turned against you.
You needn't be insulted. Step up and change the world. Prove me wrong. If you have kids, raise them to enjoy and never stop learning.
Certainly not everyone is a moron, just the select majority. A few people want to learn new things, myself included. But it is a conscious decision many people fail to make. Many of us switched from The Man's choosen OS to various Unixes because we weren't afraid of learning something new. They just live day-to-day, living in their narrow scope of things, never venturing out of their little cardboard box. Tech support teaches you a lot of lessons about people.
Basically, by default people are morons like this. Sitting in front of their television, eating whatever The Man feeds them through that magical tube. Ever wonder why the media is constantly announcing their great surveys? It's the basic bandwagon effect. People, somewhat subconciously, end up joining the bandwagon. The Demecrat Nation Committee recently did a web survey of what people want most, Social Security, Education, a couple other gimme programs, or George W. Bush's risky tax scheme that will only benefit the wealthy. It's cute that they go over the top with that last question, but to their surprise it got 72% of the votes. Don't count on that one being published on the Sunday morning programs or the like. They won't tolerate that succoming the bandwagon effect.
These are the sort of people that weep for weeks about JFK Jr or Di passing on, but don't care when OSHA wants to mandate how we live in our homes (watch for that great evil, smoking, to be outlawed in your house soon), partly because they would never do something as bold as start a business out of their home. There is some security in their monotany.
Watch my posts carefully, and learn something. With just the right mix of sarcasm and truth, you have to think a bit. I do it for a reason...
Ah, the great Slashdot Moderation Catch-22. Moderators only pay attention when a story first appears, using up their points early. After it gets over 100 posts, they only read the high-scoring ones other moderators have bumped up, sometimes bumping them up further. So you end up with a bunch of 4 or 5 point posts, and all the others remain at the bottom of the barrel. Only the truely brave dare go down there and read them.
The -o journal= is only needed the first time. Afterwards just edit/etc/fstab and put an appropriate entry for the mount point and set it to ext3. Hmm, I forget now what the kernel parameter was to do this for the root partition. Ah well, I guess you'll just have to wait for their site to come back, or find a mirror. Maybe Google has it cached...
Hmm, applying my newly received degree in Y2K Paranoia, if the PSX2 doesn't fair well, my brand new Sony Television and almost new Sony VCR will stop working. Damn those Sony people! How dare they risk my equipment, which I had to save up milk money since I was 6 to get?? Sure my bones are weak, but this is a sweet picture on the TV.
I am going to write my congressman. This is an outrage, and the only way to solve it is to look to the government!
Oh, and with all the money Bill Gates has, we shouldn't have this sort of PSX2 bug.
Realize Americans (at least) cannot do math. Most people go through the public school system, and know all about how to fill out an unemployment application and the rainforests, but not a thing about math.
So, we're in a new millennium/century this week, and likewise, if one day you own 1000 shares of a stock, then the next you own 2000, then you must have just doubled your money. Oh, and the stock is suddenly much cheaper to buy. Woohoo! Buy more stock while you can with your newfound wealth.
Or, given that I've not actually contributed to the kernel (yet),
Ah, let me tell you the joy one feels as a bonefied kernel contributor. I remember it like it was yesterday. Picture it, 1997 (or so), I guess something in the 2.1 line. A kernel is released, and some goofy driver that I used, a sound card or something, has a typo. Seizing the opportunity, I expertly craft a patch to handle this mishap, using all the resources at my disposal. Then, crossing my fingers, I wade through the compile to ensure everything works. 15 minutes later, it's compiled.
Then, the ever so daunting reboot and test it routine. I edit lilo.conf with a fury like I've never edited lilo.conf before. Run it, reboot, and closly watch the scrolling messages. Then, like the sun rising in the morning, I see it. Before my eyes is the startup lines for that piece of hardware, the IRQ, the IO address. It was a beauty I had only seen before when I actually paid attention to the bootup. Finally, after all was booted up, I did the final test. Playing a sound file, or whatever the thing was. And it worked! "Eureka!!" I shouted from my desk. The neighbor's dog starts barking. "Yes, boy. It is true. I have fixed the kernel," I reassure the young pup.
Hastily I booted up my PPP scripts. The modem fires up with it's random assortment of buzzes and bings. Then I see those magical characters from my ISP, "Your IP is now: 123.45.67.89." (IP changed to protect the innocent.) Without skipping a beat, I fire up pine and type one heck of an email to the kernel list. "Um, there was a typo in the xxx driver of 2.1.xx. Patch below," (an approximation, my memory isn't that good).
Anxiously I waited, day after day. "When is that crazy Fin gonna release a new kernel with my patch??" I asked myself. Each morning I awoke, checked the sunsite mirrors. With each passing day I only got more anxious to see my patch in all it's glory. And then, one day it happened. All my vigilant waiting had finally paid off. Linus released another revision of the kernel! I downloaded that patch like no other patch in the world, gunzipped it, and fired up less. Remembering which file it was I had to skillfully edit, I executed a search for it. Then a quiet peace fell upon the world. It was as though all the powers in the universe were converging to celebrate my patch. For there, upon that console screen, on that cold, wintry day (I'm guessing, it adds atmosphere to the story), I see the modification over which I toiled so diligently. I was now, a Linux kernel contributor.
That is my story, and that is all I have to say about that.
Was the error something about an "event" variable? They changed that in the fs code to like global_event.
I made up a patch based on 2.2.14pre18. It applies and compiles cleanly with this final 2.2.14. I took out some of the kdb stuff, because well, I don't care about debugging it.:) I guess the usual caveats when not dealing with the real author of something like this apply. But I've been up for almost three hours now with it (and several weeks in the 14pre kernels), and all filesystems are working just peachy.
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I noticed over at Gear's web page that they say a Linux version is coming "soon." I have been looking for VideoCD software for quite a while, either recording or playing 'em. Hopefully this will be one step closer.
How about for starters, make a nice little pie chart of the numbers of all these problems, wingate, win98's internet sharing deal, linux ip masq, etc. When you see one or two items take up 98% of the unsecured boxes, just ban the use of that. It won't hurt any of us... ;)
BOFH .rr.com - I can see why they're allowing spam now. ;)
Choosing to honor the UDP isn't a choice on their part, and it's nothing their users are aware of.
Aren't they making the choice by choosing to run whatever certain news server or set of scripts to handle these control messages? The articles said @Home averaged 11,000 cancel messages a day. That would take what, 6-10 employees every day to look up the articles, read them, and decide if they should be cancelled? Even then, they can auto-pilot those, and forward important control messages (like an UDP) to an admin for manual control.
Anyway users pretty much choose with their money whether they accept an ISP's behavior/decisions. If my little town of 15,000 can have 3-5 modem ISPs, I'd guess it's that way in much of the US.
But what of the people who can't afford to switch or get anything else??
:)
If someone can afford the $40-60 per month for a cable modem, then they can afford $20/month (note: that's a $20-40/month savings) to sign up with a modem ISP that does take the necessary precautions so they don't get UDP'd. Or they can get an account at Deja (or others) and post through there.
The point is, if @Home can't take care of their servers, everyone on their network is hurt. If there's any argument on this issue, poverty isn't one of them.
That might not be so far off. Last time I was there, they did have a few boxes of Macmillon's Mandrake package and Caldera.
Umm, half a biathalon?
For those of you speculating and do not wish to view the page, here are the recommended specs:
Too bad I'll have to wait 5 years to build such a machine. But it is interesting that they develop it with a P150.
Disclaimer: No humor intended as to not annoy the humor impaird. All speculative humor is purely in the mind of the insane reader and has no bearing in reality. Author cannot be held liable for any damages due to enjoyment (or lack thereof) of said humer. Offer void in Massachusetts and Utah. Only while supplies last.
They do give the sources to untar over your XFree86 sources. Looking at a couple of the files:
Copyright 1993-1999 NVIDIA, Corporation. All rights reserved.
NOTICE TO USER: The source code is copyrighted under U.S. and
international laws. Users and possessors of this source code are
hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free copyright license to
use this code in individual and commercial software.
Woohoo! Only another year or year and half to take advantage of all that money spent! I can't wait. :)
The point is that the government, with the blessing of the Supreme Court, can take whatever it damn well pleases whenever it gets the whim and there is nothing you can do about it!
If you have stories of police taking things for no reason at all, I can see the outcry. John Q. Public is driving around in his shiny new car, gets pulled over for something bogus like a tail light out, various mechanics testify that the light was perfectly good because John just left their shop 5 minutes earlier, and the police are seen a week later driving all over town in that car in the name of stakeouts or whatever. Now that, I could see all of us having a problem with.
But presenting stories of real criminals doesn't bring out the point I think the original poster was probably wanting. Back to the Ramsey case, others have posted quotes from their catalog, including items like smoke detectors with hidden camera, saying you can tune in to a hidden microphone up to 1/4-mile away. These items have been defined as illegal, so perhaps this isn't the right cause to illustrate government intruding on innocent people. I can't verify those quotes as I don't have a Ramsey catalog. If they do only sell hobby kits and not fully functional eavesdropping equipment disguised as something else, then this doesn't apply and damn those jack-booted thugs.
So what you are essentially saying is that if you happen to be around someone who commits a crime, then it's your fault that you run the risk of loosing your constitutional rights. Yeah, that's logical.
Say you and a buddy, who just happens to be wanted for an armed robbery, are talking on the sidewalk. Then the police will probably bust both of you first to get the situation under control. Then if they don't have anything on you, you will be set free. That is the way it is. The police will make sure neither your buddy or anyone else will wind up shooting them, getting everything under control, and then set free those truely not involved. It make a couple hours interrogating, as how would they know if you are lying or not? It is certainly inconvenient, but this buddy is the one to blame in this sort of situation, not the police. I'm all for reigning in out of control government agencies, if it is justified.
The thing is the Supreme Court's job is interpretting the constitution. So if they say it's OK for the police to take a car used in a crime, that is then constitutional. We can contact local/state/federal congressmen if we think the law is unjust; it would take them passing a bill to reverse Court decisions. Like I said, if the police are making bogus accusations of a crime taking place, then yes fire those officers, get your car back, sue them, go on TV and get public opinion behind you.
We agree on the last statement. Criminals are criminals, have no respect for anyone else, etc. That's basically what I said too.
I like the suit titles, "Georgia vs Sedan" and "Geargia vs $19,420," like the state is suing a car and a bag of money. :)
Anyway, it is sad, but those two examples do seem justified to me. When you commit a crime, it not only affects you, but those around you as well. If a restauranteur is going to put nearly $20,000 and his car in the hands of an employee, he should take certain precautions, such as drug tests and what not. If the employee ran away with the money, the restauranteur would nonetheless be out $20k. You could probably sue the individual for the property/money, but chances are it would take many decades for them to repay it.
So, these and another story someone posted a little bit down of a guy making meth in his elderly mother's house, point out the lack of regard for others' property these criminals exhibit. If you want to smoke weed, get a whore, make meth, do it on your own time and property. That way the police will seize YOUR car, and YOUR house, and YOUR cash. And it shows why it's wise to stay the hell away from people that do these things; they will drag you down with them.
I'd be willing to pull up a lawn chair and set a barrel on fire in my front lawn in the name of solidarity for my Linux brothers, and pay dues so the union head haunchos can go to Hawaii and have conferences for three hours a day on how to resolve it.
Sure you can sue them, but that requires a lot of money up front. Lawyers aren't ever quick, or cheap, well good lawyers.
:)
If I ran a web-based business, I'd give a site about 24 hours to be back up and running perfectly. Much beyond that, I'd figure they were incompetent (no redundancy, backups, whatever), and start looking elsewhere. Most importantly, I wouldn't store my one and only copy of a web site on their server(s). Change the NS records for the domain, and set up shop elsewhere.
Back on suing, you could probably only sue for some refund of the hosting fees, and maybe your average daily revenue for the amount of downtime. If you make enough on a web site in a day or two to cover lawyer costs for a long drawn out affair, I'd suggest investing in real servers and colocate somewhere reputable. If you're selling 3 bird feeders a day and a dedicated servers isn't reasonable, you aren't out much money, so suing is pointless.
Exactly. I called my ISP a while back when I was thinking of opening a web-centric business. They only wanted like $150 a month to co-locate a box. That was certainly a reasonable price to me to know it's Internet connection would always be available (if an ISP can't keep an Internet connection up, I would be worried :)) and the box would be controlled by me. This is in the middle of Illinois, so I'm sure those of you that chose to live in huge cities would get bilked for 5-10 times as much by those ISPs. :)
Maybe I'm crazy, but do people put 100% faith in these mass web hosting places? I know I've got a copy of my puny web site that comes with my ISP dialup account on my home machine. If they lose a hard drive, go under, whatever it's not like I can't take it elsewhere. One time (out of two) I was able to change the name servers for a domain on NSI's web page immediately. So, voila, it was changed to a new provider. The other time, it took about two weeks for their email bots to accept the forms. But, well, now we can pick other registrars, so hopefully they will be better about this.
Anyway, the point was just move to a new provider and move on. Minimize, as much as possible, your downtime but you're never completely SOL. As many complaints as people have on here with these sort of mass hosting places, I probably won't ever use one.
Mr. Ben Hsu, General Manager
LinuxOne - Taiwan
7F, No. 317, Song-Chiang Road
Taipei, Taiwan
Phone: 886-2-2501-2110
Fax: 886-2-2501-1854
Email: ben@linuxone.net
URL: http://www.LinuxOneTaiwan.com
Interestingly, linuxonetaiwan.com doesn't seem to exist anywhere in reality. Wonder what would happen if someone sent $70 to NSI and registered some random domain... Not that I'm saying anything, or nothing. Then again, the press release is dated Jan 4, maybe it'll take another few days for NSI to register this domain for LinuxOne if they just now bought it.
But is there anyone in or around Taipei that can verify what this address is, or isn't?
As an aside, mgetty's docs say it can sort out voice/modem/fax calls. The last time I tried, it just failed to find anything from the fax machine at work. I gave up after a while. :)
But it's not like I think they'd go to that much effort to set up mgetty. It's funny that the other poster called them and he was sleepy.
I guess the question we have with LinuxOne is not that they aren't blessed by AC/Linus/ESR/BP/whoever, but that their first step is to have an IPO. Add in their past IPO failures, it just looks suspicious to anyone.
I have been in the Linux community going on six years now. The best way to sell a Linux product is to put it out there and let word of mouth take over. Let it be reviewed on a myriad of web sites, pitting it against similar products. For extra icing on the cake, release the nifty features that make your product different (if there really is a difference, besides the name) under the GPL (or appropriate license). Let the business grow for a while, perhaps hire some people who write programs that are key to your product. As word of mouth spreads, your Linux IPO will be profoundly more profitable and well accepted.
Or go the alternative route, after three or four big IPOs by suckers that did that long, tedious method, slap whatever catch words you need on your web site, and file for an IPO. I can see why people would be suspicious. The Slashdot effect is powerful, and using it to your benefit is a million times more profitable in the long run than to have it turned against you.
You needn't be insulted. Step up and change the world. Prove me wrong. If you have kids, raise them to enjoy and never stop learning.
Certainly not everyone is a moron, just the select majority. A few people want to learn new things, myself included. But it is a conscious decision many people fail to make. Many of us switched from The Man's choosen OS to various Unixes because we weren't afraid of learning something new. They just live day-to-day, living in their narrow scope of things, never venturing out of their little cardboard box. Tech support teaches you a lot of lessons about people.
Basically, by default people are morons like this. Sitting in front of their television, eating whatever The Man feeds them through that magical tube. Ever wonder why the media is constantly announcing their great surveys? It's the basic bandwagon effect. People, somewhat subconciously, end up joining the bandwagon. The Demecrat Nation Committee recently did a web survey of what people want most, Social Security, Education, a couple other gimme programs, or George W. Bush's risky tax scheme that will only benefit the wealthy. It's cute that they go over the top with that last question, but to their surprise it got 72% of the votes. Don't count on that one being published on the Sunday morning programs or the like. They won't tolerate that succoming the bandwagon effect.
These are the sort of people that weep for weeks about JFK Jr or Di passing on, but don't care when OSHA wants to mandate how we live in our homes (watch for that great evil, smoking, to be outlawed in your house soon), partly because they would never do something as bold as start a business out of their home. There is some security in their monotany.
Watch my posts carefully, and learn something. With just the right mix of sarcasm and truth, you have to think a bit. I do it for a reason...
Ah, the great Slashdot Moderation Catch-22. Moderators only pay attention when a story first appears, using up their points early. After it gets over 100 posts, they only read the high-scoring ones other moderators have bumped up, sometimes bumping them up further. So you end up with a bunch of 4 or 5 point posts, and all the others remain at the bottom of the barrel. Only the truely brave dare go down there and read them.
mount /dev/whatever /mnt /mnt/journal.dat /mnt /dev/whatever /mnt -t ext3 -o journal=
/etc/fstab and put an appropriate entry for the mount point and set it to ext3. Hmm, I forget now what the kernel parameter was to do this for the root partition. Ah well, I guess you'll just have to wait for their site to come back, or find a mirror. Maybe Google has it cached...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/journal.dat
ls -i
umount
mount
The -o journal= is only needed the first time. Afterwards just edit
Hmm, applying my newly received degree in Y2K Paranoia, if the PSX2 doesn't fair well, my brand new Sony Television and almost new Sony VCR will stop working. Damn those Sony people! How dare they risk my equipment, which I had to save up milk money since I was 6 to get?? Sure my bones are weak, but this is a sweet picture on the TV.
I am going to write my congressman. This is an outrage, and the only way to solve it is to look to the government!
Oh, and with all the money Bill Gates has, we shouldn't have this sort of PSX2 bug.
Realize Americans (at least) cannot do math. Most people go through the public school system, and know all about how to fill out an unemployment application and the rainforests, but not a thing about math.
So, we're in a new millennium/century this week, and likewise, if one day you own 1000 shares of a stock, then the next you own 2000, then you must have just doubled your money. Oh, and the stock is suddenly much cheaper to buy. Woohoo! Buy more stock while you can with your newfound wealth.
Ah, 'tis a great country to live in today.
Or, given that I've not actually contributed to the kernel (yet),
Ah, let me tell you the joy one feels as a bonefied kernel contributor. I remember it like it was yesterday. Picture it, 1997 (or so), I guess something in the 2.1 line. A kernel is released, and some goofy driver that I used, a sound card or something, has a typo. Seizing the opportunity, I expertly craft a patch to handle this mishap, using all the resources at my disposal. Then, crossing my fingers, I wade through the compile to ensure everything works. 15 minutes later, it's compiled.
Then, the ever so daunting reboot and test it routine. I edit lilo.conf with a fury like I've never edited lilo.conf before. Run it, reboot, and closly watch the scrolling messages. Then, like the sun rising in the morning, I see it. Before my eyes is the startup lines for that piece of hardware, the IRQ, the IO address. It was a beauty I had only seen before when I actually paid attention to the bootup. Finally, after all was booted up, I did the final test. Playing a sound file, or whatever the thing was. And it worked! "Eureka!!" I shouted from my desk. The neighbor's dog starts barking. "Yes, boy. It is true. I have fixed the kernel," I reassure the young pup.
Hastily I booted up my PPP scripts. The modem fires up with it's random assortment of buzzes and bings. Then I see those magical characters from my ISP, "Your IP is now: 123.45.67.89." (IP changed to protect the innocent.) Without skipping a beat, I fire up pine and type one heck of an email to the kernel list. "Um, there was a typo in the xxx driver of 2.1.xx. Patch below," (an approximation, my memory isn't that good).
Anxiously I waited, day after day. "When is that crazy Fin gonna release a new kernel with my patch??" I asked myself. Each morning I awoke, checked the sunsite mirrors. With each passing day I only got more anxious to see my patch in all it's glory. And then, one day it happened. All my vigilant waiting had finally paid off. Linus released another revision of the kernel! I downloaded that patch like no other patch in the world, gunzipped it, and fired up less. Remembering which file it was I had to skillfully edit, I executed a search for it. Then a quiet peace fell upon the world. It was as though all the powers in the universe were converging to celebrate my patch. For there, upon that console screen, on that cold, wintry day (I'm guessing, it adds atmosphere to the story), I see the modification over which I toiled so diligently. I was now, a Linux kernel contributor.
That is my story, and that is all I have to say about that.
Was the error something about an "event" variable? They changed that in the fs code to like global_event.
:) I guess the usual caveats when not dealing with the real author of something like this apply. But I've been up for almost three hours now with it (and several weeks in the 14pre kernels), and all filesystems are working just peachy.
I made up a patch based on 2.2.14pre18. It applies and compiles cleanly with this final 2.2.14. I took out some of the kdb stuff, because well, I don't care about debugging it.