is the only defense against the annihilation of the species due to a cataclysmic event on earth.
OK, lets imagine we get self sustaining communities. They will still trade with each other, there will be transport of goods and people between them. Unless they are completely isolated a single virus could still wipe out humanity as we know it.
They'll try to copy the good ideas of ZFS and they will try to avoid the disadvantages (which every software has). So you are never going to have "1 unified filesystem". It's never going to happen. And it's a good thing.
One thing I'd really like is using free space on a raidz(2) as a spare disk.
Imagine the following 10 1TB disks in a raid5/raidz, giving 9TB of space. You are currently using 7TB, this peaks to 8.5TB at the weekend while backups are staged (or whatever).
During the week you have unused space. The file system detects this, and in the background transparently makes a second parity drive out of the spare space, effectively changing to raid6/z2 on the fly.
If you suddenly need to write another 1.5TB, the fake parity is discarded. When your free space drops back below 8TB, the second parity drive is recreated.
If you lose one of your disks with a raid5/z, you in a danger zone until you replace it, and it rebuilds. This way, you are only in a danger zone if you lose the disk at the weekend when you need the extra space -- you can afford to lose another one (your effective free space keeps reducing).
When you put a new drive in, assuming you have the free space originally, there's no rebuild time (your parity already exists).
Another feature would be automatically copying of frequently accessed files -- if a certain bunch of files on a website becomes popular, they would be transparently copied across the spindles to increase access time.
Finally extend the idea of ZFS to a multi-machine cluster, zfs meets lustre.
They showed the Enterprise being built on the ground!
The Enterprise was built in San Francisco Yards, Earth. Where does it say, on screen, that that facility is in orbit, or the Enterprise was built in orbit?
Zero copyright protection for foreign works? You mean in the USA it would have been public domain the instant it was released? Glad that law was changed.
Not really, if the US doesn't respect copyright from other countries, there's no reason for those countries to respect the US'
I (like most slashdotters) was uncomfortable when it came to sports on a Wednesday afternoon. Still had to do it (at least until 16 when we got to do community service instead -- helping 3 yearolds learn about computers)
McCain isn't the antichrist. Not by a long shot. And I said this as an Obama supporter.
His supporters (maybe it's an American thing) were pretty bad though, booing him whenever he said "Actually Obama's a pretty good guy, and I agree with him a hell of a lot more than you rednecks"
No problem with McCain, the problem that many of the independent observers in my office had was Palin, coupled with the chance of Palin being in charge. Perhaps a McCain/Obama bid would have been a good idea.
I have 8gb of RAM for the maching I only use to browse the web with, and you can guess how it scales from there. What's your excuse to act ghetto when prices are so low?
Can't fit more than one SO-DIMM in a laptop?
Having said that I run with 1gb of memory and rarely have memory issues. X has never crashed for me. Only outage I get is when I dice with death with the battery (disable auto-shutdown, I get about 15 minutes of power when the battery reads 0 mAh remaining)
No, they can regenerate 12 times. So we can still switch actors until the Thirteenth doctor, where they will have to invent a way to give him new "lives". The Master succeeded in this before he died permanently.
We've seen 9 regenerations on screen, and had one implied (McGann->Eccleston). The next regeneration will be the penultimate one then, even assuming Hartnell was the first incarnation.
What the hell kind of codename is that? Maybe an attempt at 'truth in advertising'?
That's exactly what it is. Minefield always refers to the current alpha-release of the upcoming "major" release.
Don't use it unless you know what you're doing. Suggesting end-users use this, without briefing them on why it will crash [frequently], is irresponsible at best and does a disservice to the alternate browser movement.
You could say running it is like running through a minefield
But it does make a damn fine server. The software is reasonably up to date, the administration is dead-simple, and I'm already familiar with it from my desktops.
Where I work, we're not a computer company. We are a media company. We tend to employ engineers on their ability to do video and audio. This is slowly changing, however if we employ any engineers with linux experience, it's likely to be Ubuntu. Proper unix people should be able to adapt, otherwise they aren't linux people, they're [redhat|suse|solaris|whatever] people, and I'm not interested.
I've recently vetted Slackware, Debian (stable), and Ubuntu Server 7.04, and settled on the latter
7.04 went end of life 10 days ago. I assume you mean 8.04?
Most Linuxes make great servers, so it's really choosing your favorite incarnation of "awesome."
They all run the same code, it's the administration that's different.
Based on this, by the time he hits 1050 mph, he would barely be out of cornwall.
Even assuming a very high acceleration rate to start with, matching 1000mph in the first second, he'd be somewhere around Penzance. He wouldn't even have triggered a speed camera.
Actually, "mountain" by english definition is anything over 1000ft. Cornwall has at least 4 "mountains". Neighbouring dartmoor goes up to 1800ft. Feel free to jog up that one, but real men cycle up it:-)
Maybe to southern pansies, but a mountain is 1000m, 3000ft if you want to be generous and include some in England.
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is the only defense against the annihilation of the species due to a cataclysmic event on earth.
OK, lets imagine we get self sustaining communities. They will still trade with each other, there will be transport of goods and people between them. Unless they are completely isolated a single virus could still wipe out humanity as we know it.
They'll try to copy the good ideas of ZFS and they will try to avoid the disadvantages (which every software has). So you are never going to have "1 unified filesystem". It's never going to happen. And it's a good thing.
One thing I'd really like is using free space on a raidz(2) as a spare disk.
Imagine the following
10 1TB disks in a raid5/raidz, giving 9TB of space. You are currently using 7TB, this peaks to 8.5TB at the weekend while backups are staged (or whatever).
During the week you have unused space. The file system detects this, and in the background transparently makes a second parity drive out of the spare space, effectively changing to raid6/z2 on the fly.
If you suddenly need to write another 1.5TB, the fake parity is discarded. When your free space drops back below 8TB, the second parity drive is recreated.
If you lose one of your disks with a raid5/z, you in a danger zone until you replace it, and it rebuilds. This way, you are only in a danger zone if you lose the disk at the weekend when you need the extra space -- you can afford to lose another one (your effective free space keeps reducing).
When you put a new drive in, assuming you have the free space originally, there's no rebuild time (your parity already exists).
Another feature would be automatically copying of frequently accessed files -- if a certain bunch of files on a website becomes popular, they would be transparently copied across the spindles to increase access time.
Finally extend the idea of ZFS to a multi-machine cluster, zfs meets lustre.
What the hell? I cant see anything but the headlines!
What happened to the articles and tags?!
Bring back OMG PONIES!!!!!1!!1
Meh, still not even half as fast as the Fusion IO-Drive. Of course, those cost $3,000+ and run solely on a PCIe 4x ...
We're trialing one now, not interested in production until there's solaris drivers though.
They showed the Enterprise being built on the ground!
The Enterprise was built in San Francisco Yards, Earth. Where does it say, on screen, that that facility is in orbit, or the Enterprise was built in orbit?
Surely it belongs to the BBC
No. Most of the stuff the BBC puts out is not BBC copyright -- even things produced in house
Heroes doesn't belong to the BBC. Eastenders does, but the music played on the radio in the background of the pub isn't.
And as property of the BBC it is property of licence payers who provided the money for the clips.
You may wish that were the case, but it's not, any more than things made by ITV are property of the advertisers
Zero copyright protection for foreign works? You mean in the USA it would have been public domain the instant it was released? Glad that law was changed.
Not really, if the US doesn't respect copyright from other countries, there's no reason for those countries to respect the US'
Does anyone know if this might someday lead to antimatter plants?
Like Triffids?
I (like most slashdotters) was uncomfortable when it came to sports on a Wednesday afternoon. Still had to do it (at least until 16 when we got to do community service instead -- helping 3 yearolds learn about computers)
# change foo to bar for all occurrences in the rest of :s/foo/bar/g
# the file from where the cursor is
No, that only works on the current line. perhaps :.,$s/foo/bar/g
> > Could you have imagined Obama saying that during the election?
> No... but he just went up in my estimation having read that.
As he did in mine. On the other hand, I hope he does realize that, although him changing light bulbs does not _solve_ the problem, it does _help_.
Reducing world population from mercury poisoning?
McCain isn't the antichrist. Not by a long shot. And I said this as an Obama supporter.
His supporters (maybe it's an American thing) were pretty bad though, booing him whenever he said "Actually Obama's a pretty good guy, and I agree with him a hell of a lot more than you rednecks"
No problem with McCain, the problem that many of the independent observers in my office had was Palin, coupled with the chance of Palin being in charge. Perhaps a McCain/Obama bid would have been a good idea.
"We had a good run team." One of them says as they walk off into the sunset.
I totally read that as "walk off into the usenet".
Heh.
Better than "wank off onto the usenet"
I have 8gb of RAM for the maching I only use to browse the web with, and you can guess how it scales from there. What's your excuse to act ghetto when prices are so low?
Can't fit more than one SO-DIMM in a laptop?
Having said that I run with 1gb of memory and rarely have memory issues. X has never crashed for me. Only outage I get is when I dice with death with the battery (disable auto-shutdown, I get about 15 minutes of power when the battery reads 0 mAh remaining)
Or are you counting the abbreviated regeneration of Tennant to Tennant and producing another Tennant from the severed hand?
Yes, it was a regeneration, specifically said so on screen
We'll have to wait and see if that counts (if it does, then Jenny's counts against her as well).
Why? That was a clone
You mean so they can be held accountable even *less* than they're getting away with already?
Or did I miss some <sarcasm> tags in your post?
How can big business buy votes if they don't know who voted for what?
No, they can regenerate 12 times. So we can still switch actors until the Thirteenth doctor, where they will have to invent a way to give him new "lives". The Master succeeded in this before he died permanently.
We've seen 9 regenerations on screen, and had one implied (McGann->Eccleston). The next regeneration will be the penultimate one then, even assuming Hartnell was the first incarnation.
The best time to shut down the servers is right before you quit your job. Password-protecting the BIOS first adds value too.
And writing the config to ram?
Wasn't there a guy in San Francisco that did something like that?
What the hell kind of codename is that? Maybe an attempt at 'truth in advertising'?
That's exactly what it is. Minefield always refers to the current alpha-release of the upcoming "major" release.
Don't use it unless you know what you're doing. Suggesting end-users use this, without briefing them on why it will crash [frequently], is irresponsible at best and does a disservice to the alternate browser movement.
You could say running it is like running through a minefield
But it does make a damn fine server. The software is reasonably up to date, the administration is dead-simple, and I'm already familiar with it from my desktops.
Where I work, we're not a computer company. We are a media company. We tend to employ engineers on their ability to do video and audio. This is slowly changing, however if we employ any engineers with linux experience, it's likely to be Ubuntu. Proper unix people should be able to adapt, otherwise they aren't linux people, they're [redhat|suse|solaris|whatever] people, and I'm not interested.
I've recently vetted Slackware, Debian (stable), and Ubuntu Server 7.04, and settled on the latter
7.04 went end of life 10 days ago. I assume you mean 8.04?
Most Linuxes make great servers, so it's really choosing your favorite incarnation of "awesome."
They all run the same code, it's the administration that's different.
Based on this, by the time he hits 1050 mph, he would barely be out of cornwall.
Even assuming a very high acceleration rate to start with, matching 1000mph in the first second, he'd be somewhere around Penzance. He wouldn't even have triggered a speed camera.
Actually, "mountain" by english definition is anything over 1000ft. Cornwall has at least 4 "mountains". Neighbouring dartmoor goes up to 1800ft. Feel free to jog up that one, but real men cycle up it :-)
Maybe to southern pansies, but a mountain is 1000m, 3000ft if you want to be generous and include some in England.
Bodmin is a speed bump.
If you have followed events in Turkey this does not come as a surprise. Let's hope they will never be allowed to join the EU.
It's laughable that it would even be considered.
I code in Python YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Stupid lameness filter...
Wow, there's a lameness filter in python? I might have to get my fellow developers to use it...
Since that many lines = approx. 125,000 pages, which = approx. 0.0175 terabytes
and "approx. 0.0175 terabytes" == approx 18 GB which explains why the kernel source's tarball weighs 48 MB.
That's compressed, Uncompressed the source is more like 270M