RAID 1. Buy one extra plain-jane ordinary hard drive and use software mirroring, like Linux's md system. I've used this extensively with no problems. I have known other people to have problems using software RAID for more complex setups like RAID 5, but if all you need is extra reliability for a basic desktop workstation, RAID 1 in software is generally fine.
As reported by practically every five-sentence-or-greater biography of the man, Alexis de Tocqueville once observed that "it is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth".
Apparently Ken Brown feels it's his duty to test this observation.
If you "just get it" without having to run anything, it's a worm, not a virus. It's not complicated.
You're right, it's not complicated... but... A virus modifies legitimate files to include a copy of itself, while worms are always standalone executables. If it inserts itself into legitimate files, it's a virus. If it doesn't "infect" legitimate files, it's a worm. With either one, you can "just get it" without having to do anything. And either a worm or a virus can make fooling gullible users part of its infection vector. Historically, viruses only spread within the filesystem of a single computer until a file containing the virus was copied to another computer. Worms pretty much always include a mechanism to spread across a network by themselves. Most malicious programs today are either straight-up worms, or combination worm/viruses. But the key differentiating factor is whether legitimate files are "infected".
The American name "Linus" is pronounced Line-us. The natural English pronunciation of "Linux" is therefore "Line-ux." Of course, Linus himself pronounces linux as "linnix," and since the word is his creation it only seems appropriate that we should adopt his pronunciation.
Right, but "Linux" wasn't derived from an American name. It was derived from a Finnish name, which is pronounced "Leenus". Anyway, I think we're agreed on the appropriate pronunciation.:-)
Anyway, objectively, and using available evidence rather than assumption, none of the "Halloween memos" have ever been confirmed as being real.
Oops, factual error. See the FAQ. Memos I and II were publically acknowledged by Microsoft, and ESR sez III and VII were also acknowledged... I haven't seen evidence of acknowledgement of those last two myself, but I don't have much reason to doubt ESR either. Memos IV, V, VI, and IX are commentary on publically released documents, not leaked documents.
Plus MS will never validify linux/OSS by building something off it.
1) The word you were looking for before you departed the realm of the English language was "validate".
2) In a few years Linux will be more accepted on the desktop, and Microsoft may be forced to provide Office for Linux because otherwise their market share may start shrinking at a rate unacceptable to their shareholders.
It's about developing new technologies. Don't ask how many people NASA and their contractors (and subcontractors, etc. etc) employed. Ask how our society has benefitted from advances in science that come as a direct result of funding NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. How many jobs today aren't affected by advances in materials science or other technologies that can be traced back to NASA?
And thanks to the mod who modded my original post down. I guess it's easier to moderate questions down than to answer them. But then I guess that's par for the course in OSS tech support!
1) As other people have pointed out, your question isn't applicable to the current discussion since the topic of discussion already supports SATA.
2) OSS tech support is excellent, if you go to the right place. *Slashdot is almost never the right place*. If you have a general question about RedHat, look for RedHat discussion groups on RedHat's web site, or pay RedHat their fees to provide general support. If you're using Mandrake and you're not sure where else to look, there are "newbie" mailing lists specifically for Mandrake. Once you have gotten your feet wet and you have some idea where to look for the free support (for instance, discussion groups and mailing lists currently discussing the 2.4 kernel or if you're lucky, SATA specific discussions) it is generally excellent. The more topic-focused the discussion group is, the higher level of knowledge you'll find there, generally. You just have to ask the right people. Use Google to find them.
The fact is that this technology is just replicating what people are already doing. The technology won't replace many reporters. It will replace the cut-n-paste people who have already replaced the reporters. Most "news organizations" are nothing more than AP chop-shops right now. You think there's a lot of fact-checking and analysis going on? I wish that were true, but it's just not.
IBM Attorney: "We would like to present as exhibit 128 the letter SCO recently sent to the Fortune 1000. Note how they threaten huge financial liability while claiming ownership of the most basic, internationally standardized, publically available C header files, some practically identical form of which has been present in every modern operating system and software development platform for over a decade, and several of which are freely published in first-year programming textbooks."
Mr. Boies: "I object!"
Judge: "And why is that, Mr. Boies?"
Mr. Boies: "Because it's devastating to my case, your honor!"
No, it isn't. It would be ironic if Perl itself, the interpreter, was full of memory leaks and buffer overflows or if the language forced you to do your own error-prone memory management, but neither of which is the case.
Perl, the interpreter, is one of the most stable pieces of software I've ever used, virtually devoid of buffer overflows and memory leaks, and it takes care of all of the memory management for you.
I agree that the interpreter is very stable and has very few problems. I like Perl quite a bit. I'm not interested in starting a flamewar. But I still think it's ironic. I wouldn't exactly call Perl processes lightweight.
There is more than one way. Anyone that insists that there is only one way, and that is their way, is probably wrong. KDE has advatages over GNOME, and vice versa.
Which is why Python will be the supported scripting environment for Userlinux. Not perl, not Ruby, not TCL/TK. Welcome to the philosophy that made Apple computers the number-one choice for user friendliness: There will be only one way to do things, and it will be as intuitive and uncomplicated as possible. Not that I'm saying it's the right way to go, I'm just pointing out that it's a valid way of building a system that has worked in the past.
Re:Spammer software will just get smarter.
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Well, at least with SPF, joe-job bounces only go to the people who have compromised systems or non-SPF compliant domains. Maybe that will serve as incentive to get their systems/domains fixed.
How did you ever get +4 insightful?? Your post has a lot of strong words and zero substance. You spend some time complaining about SPF without backing anything up.
It's a troll. Intentionally inflammatory, knows he/she is wrong, just trying to provoke a response.
Re:Internet does not work that way
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Also don't forget that DNS caches, so SPF data for popular domains would be cached all over the Internet. Your local DNS server would only make one query to the authoritative server every ttl period.
The only change needed would be to have the voters deposit their receipts in a ballot-box on the way out. Most places have laws which prevent voters from getting any kind of receipt for their vote. This is to try to keep politicians from being able to easily buy votes.
Slashdot Mirror
RAID 1. Buy one extra plain-jane ordinary hard drive and use software mirroring, like Linux's md system. I've used this extensively with no problems. I have known other people to have problems using software RAID for more complex setups like RAID 5, but if all you need is extra reliability for a basic desktop workstation, RAID 1 in software is generally fine.
As reported by practically every five-sentence-or-greater biography of the man, Alexis de Tocqueville once observed that "it is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth".
Apparently Ken Brown feels it's his duty to test this observation.
If the missle was kindly feeding the defense system it's GPS coordinates, like the last missile defense test that hit the news.
Like, for instance, BlackIce. THEN your Windows box will be secure fer SURE!
Uhmmm... Oops.
I thought that was Paranoid Hypocritical Bastard... PHB... Maybe he will evolve pointy hair too.
Yeah, but how do you pronounce Linus? For example, in Finland, it's pronounced "Leenus"...
2) In a few years Linux will be more accepted on the desktop, and Microsoft may be forced to provide Office for Linux because otherwise their market share may start shrinking at a rate unacceptable to their shareholders.
It's about developing new technologies. Don't ask how many people NASA and their contractors (and subcontractors, etc. etc) employed. Ask how our society has benefitted from advances in science that come as a direct result of funding NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. How many jobs today aren't affected by advances in materials science or other technologies that can be traced back to NASA?
2) OSS tech support is excellent, if you go to the right place. *Slashdot is almost never the right place*. If you have a general question about RedHat, look for RedHat discussion groups on RedHat's web site, or pay RedHat their fees to provide general support. If you're using Mandrake and you're not sure where else to look, there are "newbie" mailing lists specifically for Mandrake. Once you have gotten your feet wet and you have some idea where to look for the free support (for instance, discussion groups and mailing lists currently discussing the 2.4 kernel or if you're lucky, SATA specific discussions) it is generally excellent. The more topic-focused the discussion group is, the higher level of knowledge you'll find there, generally. You just have to ask the right people. Use Google to find them.
The fact is that this technology is just replicating what people are already doing. The technology won't replace many reporters. It will replace the cut-n-paste people who have already replaced the reporters. Most "news organizations" are nothing more than AP chop-shops right now. You think there's a lot of fact-checking and analysis going on? I wish that were true, but it's just not.
IBM Attorney: "We would like to present as exhibit 128 the letter SCO recently sent to the Fortune 1000. Note how they threaten huge financial liability while claiming ownership of the most basic, internationally standardized, publically available C header files, some practically identical form of which has been present in every modern operating system and software development platform for over a decade, and several of which are freely published in first-year programming textbooks."
Mr. Boies: "I object!"
Judge: "And why is that, Mr. Boies?"
Mr. Boies: "Because it's devastating to my case, your honor!"
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install SenseOf::Humor
cpan> exit
There is more than one way. Anyone that insists that there is only one way, and that is their way, is probably wrong. KDE has advatages over GNOME, and vice versa.
Which is why Python will be the supported scripting environment for Userlinux. Not perl, not Ruby, not TCL/TK. Welcome to the philosophy that made Apple computers the number-one choice for user friendliness: There will be only one way to do things, and it will be as intuitive and uncomplicated as possible. Not that I'm saying it's the right way to go, I'm just pointing out that it's a valid way of building a system that has worked in the past.
I am nobody...therefore....
How very Zen.
Using Perl to fix memory problems.
Well, at least with SPF, joe-job bounces only go to the people who have compromised systems or non-SPF compliant domains. Maybe that will serve as incentive to get their systems/domains fixed.
Also don't forget that DNS caches, so SPF data for popular domains would be cached all over the Internet. Your local DNS server would only make one query to the authoritative server every ttl period.
At least on the two machines I've tried it on so far, init fails because it doesn't set up the ramdisk properly...
The only change needed would be to have the voters deposit their receipts in a ballot-box on the way out. Most places have laws which prevent voters from getting any kind of receipt for their vote. This is to try to keep politicians from being able to easily buy votes.
If their software interface looks anything like their web page, I'm staying far, far away.