AFS is only about 20 years old, and supported on Windows, Mac, and most flavours of *NIX,
AFS as a standard may be 20 years old, but are there any actively-maintained, feature-complete, open source, and cross platform implementations around? I looked into using AFS about four years ago and decided that the answer to that question was "no".
OK, maybe it's time to give it another chance...
The Wikipedia entry for AFS says:
There are three major implementations, Transarc (IBM), OpenAFS and Arla, although the Transarc software is losing support and is deprecated. AFS (version two) is also the predecessor of the Coda file system.
Transarc is off the list straight away, then. On to OpenAFS, the open-source fork of Transarc. Seems to be actively maintained, the last development release being within the last few weeks... but:
1.5.53 is also the most recent in the series of releases intended to provide new experimental features including the Demand Attach File Service and Disconnected AFS
Disconnected operation is still "experimental". Not encouraging.
On to Arla. Seems to be a client-side only implementation and hasn't reached a 1.0 release yet. Next!
So, AFS 2 became Coda? The Wikipedia entry for Coda states that Coda has been superceded by InterMezzo, another dead project that was dropped from the Linux 2.6 kernel and has itself been superceded by Lustre... which actually looks damn impressive, but is designed for Linux HA clusters, and doesn't have the Windows and Mac support that AFS does.
So yeah, still can't find an actively-maintained, feature-complete, open source, and cross platform distributed filesystem. Would love to be proven wrong though; any takers?
SQLite doesn't scale very well. I set it up as the backend database for Bacula, and it struggled with a database of only a few hundred megabytes, and that's really not a "big" database. When I replaced it with MySQL, all the performance problems vanished.
SQLite is cool and has its place, but I wouldn't use it for storing any more than a few megs.
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This is the most useless website I've seen in my life... How could I read the "Yes" if it happens???
Why would you need to?
Can we please talk about physics now?
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Am I the only one who's sick of every news story and every discussion about the LHC deteriorating into giving the "end of the world" bullshit even more time of day that it doesn't deserve?
This is one of the most important and ambitious scientific experiments that has been attempted in a long long time, but it seems that instead of taking the opportunity to get the general public inspired about science and discovery, the mainstream media has used it to spread unfounded doomsday rumours and anti-science propaganda. The fact that it's dominating even Slashdot discussions (albeit mostly in a joking way) is pretty tragic IMHO.
Prof Brian Cox said it best - "anyone who believes the LHC will destroy the world is a twat".
I've taken a huge interest in all this lately and have been spending hours on Wikipedia reading about bosons and leptons and so on.. it would be great to get some quality posts in this thread from some real hardcore particle physicists (come on, I know you're out there...)
Uh. Mods are now definitely literally on crack. Not behaving in an incomprehensible and unpredictable manner, they are putting the pipe to their lips and inhaling the smoke from burning crack cocaine.
Name a better way to spend a Thursday morning with mod points in your account!
The RFCs aren't sacred texts. Of course they were written by people that know their shit, but they weren't infallible, and the spam problem as it is now was certainly not forseen at the time SMTP was devised.
The huge boom in internet video has led to doomsday scenarios of the internet running out of capacity.
So... run QoS on the routers on each end?
QoS is arguably just a bodge to get around the problem of insufficient bandwidth. Good for private networks, not so good for the internet - network neutrality and all that...
This is why we do it. We haven't paid much attention to Mercury, so almost everything there is new, just waiting to be discovered. Who knows what else we will find?
If, on the other hand, you do like blurred fonts, then they're a good replacement, I guess.
Subpixel rendering doesn't "blur" the fonts, it does the opposite. It uses the vertical (or sometimes horizontal) divisions between the red, green and blue elements of each pixel on a TFT to render the fonts at a 3x higher resolution (on one axis).
The ReactOS project is re-using a lot of Wine's code. Wine reimplements the Windows API, ReactOS reimplements the OS itself. The two projects are complementary, not competing...
I got a huge amount of spammy application requests in the first few weeks after they were introduced - sometimes 10-15 a day! I started blocking most of them (but also added two or three that I actually quite liked) and deleted a couple of the most prolific app-spammers off my friends list (they weren't particularly good friends anyway - coincidence?)
After that it's calmed way down and Facebook's usability is back to pre-application standards. Don't be too quick to write it off:)
Remote desktop is just better. Vastly more usable on low-bandwidth (or high latency) links and when your session drops out for some reason you can reconnect and not have lost everything you were working on.
If you haven't already, I recommend taking a look at NX (proprietary with free edition) or FreeNX (GPL). RDP/VNC style remote access to Unix and Linux servers, but actually better and faster than both, especially on lower quality links. It uses a combination of SSH tunneling and X11 protocol compression. Very easy to set up and use, too.
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AFS is only about 20 years old, and supported on Windows, Mac, and most flavours of *NIX,
AFS as a standard may be 20 years old, but are there any actively-maintained, feature-complete, open source, and cross platform implementations around? I looked into using AFS about four years ago and decided that the answer to that question was "no".
OK, maybe it's time to give it another chance...
The Wikipedia entry for AFS says:
There are three major implementations, Transarc (IBM), OpenAFS and Arla, although the Transarc software is losing support and is deprecated. AFS (version two) is also the predecessor of the Coda file system.
Transarc is off the list straight away, then. On to OpenAFS, the open-source fork of Transarc. Seems to be actively maintained, the last development release being within the last few weeks... but:
1.5.53 is also the most recent in the series of releases intended to provide new experimental features including the Demand Attach File Service and Disconnected AFS
Disconnected operation is still "experimental". Not encouraging.
On to Arla. Seems to be a client-side only implementation and hasn't reached a 1.0 release yet. Next!
So, AFS 2 became Coda? The Wikipedia entry for Coda states that Coda has been superceded by InterMezzo, another dead project that was dropped from the Linux 2.6 kernel and has itself been superceded by Lustre... which actually looks damn impressive, but is designed for Linux HA clusters, and doesn't have the Windows and Mac support that AFS does.
So yeah, still can't find an actively-maintained, feature-complete, open source, and cross platform distributed filesystem. Would love to be proven wrong though; any takers?
Me too. I think September is birthday season...
SQLite doesn't scale very well. I set it up as the backend database for Bacula, and it struggled with a database of only a few hundred megabytes, and that's really not a "big" database. When I replaced it with MySQL, all the performance problems vanished.
SQLite is cool and has its place, but I wouldn't use it for storing any more than a few megs.
This is the most useless website I've seen in my life... How could I read the "Yes" if it happens???
Why would you need to?
Am I the only one who's sick of every news story and every discussion about the LHC deteriorating into giving the "end of the world" bullshit even more time of day that it doesn't deserve?
This is one of the most important and ambitious scientific experiments that has been attempted in a long long time, but it seems that instead of taking the opportunity to get the general public inspired about science and discovery, the mainstream media has used it to spread unfounded doomsday rumours and anti-science propaganda. The fact that it's dominating even Slashdot discussions (albeit mostly in a joking way) is pretty tragic IMHO.
Prof Brian Cox said it best - "anyone who believes the LHC will destroy the world is a twat".
I've taken a huge interest in all this lately and have been spending hours on Wikipedia reading about bosons and leptons and so on.. it would be great to get some quality posts in this thread from some real hardcore particle physicists (come on, I know you're out there...)
How long have you been waiting to crack that one out? ;)
Ali G on drugs
Yes, Slashdot editors have a bad habit of linking to this shit-rag every so often. Check out the Daily Mail-o-matic for shits and giggles :)
Here's the same story on the BBC - there's a video too...
Uh. Mods are now definitely literally on crack. Not behaving in an incomprehensible and unpredictable manner, they are putting the pipe to their lips and inhaling the smoke from burning crack cocaine.
Name a better way to spend a Thursday morning with mod points in your account!
The rendering seems faster (not that it was slow in 3.0.1). Still doesn't pass Acid3, though ;)
Even if your journey was only a quid (is there a journey that cheap in London? Around here I think the cheapest bus ride is over a quid these days)
A bus ride on Oyster is 90p, regardless of how many stops you stay on for. Quite a cheap, although usually unpleasant, experience :D
Exactly.
The RFCs aren't sacred texts. Of course they were written by people that know their shit, but they weren't infallible, and the spam problem as it is now was certainly not forseen at the time SMTP was devised.
The huge boom in internet video has led to doomsday scenarios of the internet running out of capacity.
So ... run QoS on the routers on each end?
QoS is arguably just a bodge to get around the problem of insufficient bandwidth. Good for private networks, not so good for the internet - network neutrality and all that...
Error: 500 Internal Server Error
Server CoralWebPrx/0.1.19 (See http://coralcdn.org/) at 129.74.74.16:8080
Well, at least the cached copy is kinda up to date :P
Coral Cache has never worked for me. I really don't know what all the fuss is about.
1. It could get much worse
My money's on this one. Bill Gates was a mild-mannered geek. Steve Ballmer's just a psychopath.
This is why we do it. We haven't paid much attention to Mercury, so almost everything there is
new, just waiting to be discovered. Who knows what
else we will find?
Sounds like the floor underneath my couch.
What, like VRML? How... 20th century ;)
I feel a sudden urge to watch "Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace" for some reason.
Gnash is getting quite usable these days.
OK, it's not from Adobe, which is what you meant, but thought it was worth a mention anyway ;)
If, on the other hand, you do like blurred fonts, then they're a good replacement, I guess.
Subpixel rendering doesn't "blur" the fonts, it does the opposite. It uses the vertical (or sometimes horizontal) divisions between the red, green and blue elements of each pixel on a TFT to render the fonts at a 3x higher resolution (on one axis).
Not still using a CRT are you? ;)
The ReactOS project is re-using a lot of Wine's code. Wine reimplements the Windows API, ReactOS reimplements the OS itself. The two projects are complementary, not competing...
Correct
I got a huge amount of spammy application requests in the first few weeks after they were introduced - sometimes 10-15 a day! I started blocking most of them (but also added two or three that I actually quite liked) and deleted a couple of the most prolific app-spammers off my friends list (they weren't particularly good friends anyway - coincidence?)
After that it's calmed way down and Facebook's usability is back to pre-application standards. Don't be too quick to write it off :)
The location bar is for URLs, not searches through my bookmarks or wildcard searches through the titles of pages I visited last week.
Why?the same can be said of Windows.... And pretty much all software that's ever been made.
Remote desktop is kind of a joke in comparison.
Remote desktop is just better. Vastly more usable on low-bandwidth (or high latency) links and when your session drops out for some reason you can reconnect and not have lost everything you were working on.
If you haven't already, I recommend taking a look at NX (proprietary with free edition) or FreeNX (GPL). RDP/VNC style remote access to Unix and Linux servers, but actually better and faster than both, especially on lower quality links. It uses a combination of SSH tunneling and X11 protocol compression. Very easy to set up and use, too.