Re:Objprelink?
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KDE 2.2.2
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Hi bero, I'm having a play with prelink, but having a few troubles - is there a web site or FAQ for it anywhere, I'm sure others will be having similar troubles
(it cant prelink some stuff.../usr/sbin/prelink:/lib/i686/libc.so.6: Could not parse `lookup 0x40000000 0x00007114 -> 0x40000000 0x00132b14/0 _nl_current_LC_CTYPE')
This way though the _worst_ you get is broken links - you can manage [and delete] the apps fine.
and a simple script in crontab [as others have posted] would keep the symlinks relatively clean - and be an easy addition for the average distro to make.
I'm all for the 'tool for the job' mantra. I personally use [free]BSD for firewalls, gateways, etc; Linux for general purpose servers and on the desktop, Win98 for gaming and Win2K for multimedia and DVD playing.
Yes, its a shame that people [myself included] feel they should be embarrased for using certain products. But basically I dont like windows [screw what anyone else thinks], and I dont want to have to use it - but when it comes to gaming and DVD and so forth there really isnt any other choice....
[WINE yada yada, Linux DVD yada yada, I dont care about that, I just want to watch my films and have it work....]
some drivers that dont reduce the system to a quivering pile of crap would be nice.
oh, and driver upgrades that dont cripple the whole system (like my Radeon AIW on Win2K, update the drivers and no more movies, no more DVD.... only a reinstall fixes it, yeah yeah win2K i know... its only my multimedia box...).
I care less about performance than I do about stability. A few fewer frames/sec is faaar less crucial than crashes and inoperable features.
The highest I've ever seen on a production box was 245.
It wasnt fun - connections dropping all over the place, ssh slow as a dog....
didn't crash though - we just killed off all the heavy processes, gave it a little while and all back to normal (modified RH7 on SMB - 2x1Ghz PIII and 1GB RAM)
To bring it back into computing terms, it would actually be best for everyone to do English - the main reason being the small set of glyphs required to express full words and sentences (i.e. only 26 letters and the various punctuation, unlike european lanquages with all the accents and chinese et al with the 10,000 symbols or however many...)
yeah but the fun of lego wasnt buildint what you were supposed (?) to build. it was thinking of something cool and then basically building it as good as you could with the bits available.
To add a counter to the (lots of) bad comments about Maxtor drives, I've been running various models for about 5 years with no problems.
All various sizes, from the 1.6Gb I first bought, to the 80Gb purchased most recently are all still working perfectly (I think around 7 drives in total) *usual wood touching applies*
In fact the only drive I've had fail was a 8.4Gb IBM or Fujitsu one (cant remember which)
I like Maxtor:) They may not be the fastest or best but they've served me well.
1 - if the frame rate is higher than the monitors refresh rate it doesnt make a blind bit of difference no matter what anyone says...
2 - the quoted frame rates are *average* rates. its always gonna be lower when there's lots happening. And if those busy times make u drop to 15fps then you're gonna feel it...
So yes, more frames are important - but its not as simple as the number quoted (as with everything in life eh;)
damn I wish I hadnt just spent my last mod point! This is an opinion I agree with - and one that - even living outside the US - doesnt come up in the media hardly at all.
Serioualy, I like America and I like Americans - but they (and us, the British as well) do a lot of things with the rest of the world that dont make them popular. In fact, they've done a whole lot of stuff to seriously piss a lot of people off.
I'm in no way advocating terrorism in any way, shape or form, but I hope some change in foreign policy comes out of this.
(this applies to a lesser degree to the UK as well)
Freenet as currently implemented is totally non-transparent, requiring a user to explicitly download a file in the Freenet app and then operate on it in another app.
This is what I meant - Freenet implements a lot of the data related bits - not any of the processing because it isnt meant for that...
and I'm no Freenet 'advocate' - I just loose count with the times I see MS shouting about innovating stuff when there are blatant other works already doing much of what they're talking about (unless they define innovation as 'reimplementing with a fancy interface'). Admittedly I missed the date of the article when I posted.. (as another poster kindly pointed out:P)
I'm glad I wasnt the only one thinking Freenet all the way through reading that article....
...strange it didnt get a credit - it already does pretty much all the data side of what they were talking about
Re:Training and Planning are the keys.
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Interesting - but at the same time I think its unfair comparing an easy task (looking at photos) in XP and a hard task (networking, managing hardware/software) on Linux.
I agree that there is a lot further to go before Linux reaches XP - but lets not forget that XP hasnt been released yet and that many of its 'new features' UNIX/Linux has had for years. Seriously, have a look at the Technical Overview and you'll see - over half of them Linux already has. Admittedly its a bit harder to set up, but even so...
Re:Last stable release until February
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I can't remember for sure, but I seem to remember some talk about a possible 2.2.2 - it was somewhere on the dot but can't remember where:(
Either way, I'm happy wiht 2.2.1:) Its fixed all my favourite (?) bugs and I finally have Mosfet's LiquidEngine working. woohoo!
similarly it might be worth getting a new monitor - that can make a *big* difference. When I upgraded the difference was noticeable in terms of tiredness, eye strain, etc (was a dodgy 14", now a Iiyama 22", 1600x1200 @ 100Hz)
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Hi bero, I'm having a play with prelink, but having a few troubles - is there a web site or FAQ for it anywhere, I'm sure others will be having similar troubles
/lib/i686/libc.so.6: Could not parse `lookup 0x40000000 0x00007114 -> 0x40000000 0x00132b14 /0 _nl_current_LC_CTYPE')
(it cant prelink some stuff.../usr/sbin/prelink:
Thanks
This way though the _worst_ you get is broken links - you can manage [and delete] the apps fine.
and a simple script in crontab [as others have posted] would keep the symlinks relatively clean - and be an easy addition for the average distro to make.
the point is though, that the applications themselves live in good places and are easy to manage.
/usr/bin or wherever sound like the best way to me :)
It doesnt really matter having 2000 files in a directory the point is organisation of the important things [read: apps].
apps in somewhere sensible and symlinks in
I'm all for the 'tool for the job' mantra. I personally use [free]BSD for firewalls, gateways, etc; Linux for general purpose servers and on the desktop, Win98 for gaming and Win2K for multimedia and DVD playing.
Yes, its a shame that people [myself included] feel they should be embarrased for using certain products. But basically I dont like windows [screw what anyone else thinks], and I dont want to have to use it - but when it comes to gaming and DVD and so forth there really isnt any other choice....
[WINE yada yada, Linux DVD yada yada, I dont care about that, I just want to watch my films and have it work....]
some drivers that dont reduce the system to a quivering pile of crap would be nice.
oh, and driver upgrades that dont cripple the whole system (like my Radeon AIW on Win2K, update the drivers and no more movies, no more DVD.... only a reinstall fixes it, yeah yeah win2K i know... its only my multimedia box...).
I care less about performance than I do about stability. A few fewer frames/sec is faaar less crucial than crashes and inoperable features.
The highest I've ever seen on a production box was 245.
It wasnt fun - connections dropping all over the place, ssh slow as a dog....
didn't crash though - we just killed off all the heavy processes, gave it a little while and all back to normal (modified RH7 on SMB - 2x1Ghz PIII and 1GB RAM)
Didnt they say this about Win2K as well at the beginning....
To bring it back into computing terms, it would actually be best for everyone to do English - the main reason being the small set of glyphs required to express full words and sentences (i.e. only 26 letters and the various punctuation, unlike european lanquages with all the accents and chinese et al with the 10,000 symbols or however many...)
if you dont _have_ to use ODBC, you could go for a native connection (much faster too...)
have a look at www.freetds.org or Sybase's OpenClient (sorry no URL).
damn those html tags - that was meant to be...
(and kindof a moot point between lego/<meccano/erector> i guess)
oh yeah, and damn that 2 minute posting limit...
and damn my ignorance of the preview button..
and damn the -1,Offtopic I'm going to get for this...
yeah but the fun of lego wasnt buildint what you were supposed (?) to build. it was thinking of something cool and then basically building it as good as you could with the bits available.
creativity and engineering all in one...
(and kindof a moot point between lego/ i guess)
agreed. I posted something about this farther up, but I'm in the posting mood so...
Yup, a lot of people diss Maxtor drives but they've stood me fine and I've had a fair few of them over the years.
(bring on the -1,Redundant... )
damn, I'd mod this up if I hadn't already posted...
Of course, it does serve you right for running Windows...
Agreed - I have a somewhat aging 8.4Gb drive (IBM I think...) that sounded like it was about to go (read errors, random failures, etc)
I just moved it so it could run cooler and everything was fine again.
To add a counter to the (lots of) bad comments about Maxtor drives, I've been running various models for about 5 years with no problems.
:) They may not be the fastest or best but they've served me well.
All various sizes, from the 1.6Gb I first bought, to the 80Gb purchased most recently are all still working perfectly (I think around 7 drives in total) *usual wood touching applies*
In fact the only drive I've had fail was a 8.4Gb IBM or Fujitsu one (cant remember which)
I like Maxtor
you GOD!
I was just thinking the other day about where Garbage had gone!
bonus! that has totally made my day!
(new album released Oct 1st for the people who dont know what I'm talking about and think I'm a complete freak)
There are a number of thigns about this...
;)
1 - if the frame rate is higher than the monitors refresh rate it doesnt make a blind bit of difference no matter what anyone says...
2 - the quoted frame rates are *average* rates. its always gonna be lower when there's lots happening. And if those busy times make u drop to 15fps then you're gonna feel it...
So yes, more frames are important - but its not as simple as the number quoted (as with everything in life eh
arent all the permission and security stuff disabled on the home version? (to complicated for the average usr or some shite like that...)
Aaah, but Remote Administrator is even faster... (and while not open source, is cheap and not made by MS)
damn I wish I hadnt just spent my last mod point! This is an opinion I agree with - and one that - even living outside the US - doesnt come up in the media hardly at all.
Serioualy, I like America and I like Americans - but they (and us, the British as well) do a lot of things with the rest of the world that dont make them popular. In fact, they've done a whole lot of stuff to seriously piss a lot of people off.
I'm in no way advocating terrorism in any way, shape or form, but I hope some change in foreign policy comes out of this.
(this applies to a lesser degree to the UK as well)
Freenet as currently implemented is totally non-transparent, requiring a user to explicitly download a file in the Freenet app and then operate on it in another app.
This is what I meant - Freenet implements a lot of the data related bits - not any of the processing because it isnt meant for that...
and I'm no Freenet 'advocate' - I just loose count with the times I see MS shouting about innovating stuff when there are blatant other works already doing much of what they're talking about (unless they define innovation as 'reimplementing with a fancy interface'). Admittedly I missed the date of the article when I posted.. (as another poster kindly pointed out :P)
I'm glad I wasnt the only one thinking Freenet all the way through reading that article....
...strange it didnt get a credit - it already does pretty much all the data side of what they were talking about
Interesting - but at the same time I think its unfair comparing an easy task (looking at photos) in XP and a hard task (networking, managing hardware/software) on Linux.
I agree that there is a lot further to go before Linux reaches XP - but lets not forget that XP hasnt been released yet and that many of its 'new features' UNIX/Linux has had for years. Seriously, have a look at the Technical Overview and you'll see - over half of them Linux already has. Admittedly its a bit harder to set up, but even so...
I can't remember for sure, but I seem to remember some talk about a possible 2.2.2 - it was somewhere on the dot but can't remember where :(
Either way, I'm happy wiht 2.2.1 :) Its fixed all my favourite (?) bugs and I finally have Mosfet's LiquidEngine working. woohoo!
similarly it might be worth getting a new monitor - that can make a *big* difference. When I upgraded the difference was noticeable in terms of tiredness, eye strain, etc (was a dodgy 14", now a Iiyama 22", 1600x1200 @ 100Hz)