Yes. If you're a legitim target and you hide behind civilians, you're breaking the law of war and thus become a war criminal. OTOH: If I see my opponent hiding behind civilians and I open fire anyway, then I am in my right to do so.
What's wrong with Holland ? Why don't they teach their inhabitants to read so they are able to tell that this story is from Poland and not from the United States ?
Wall Street doesn't care about about a new release that have been planned for a long time. You can compare it to the reaction to Oracle's surprice announcement of their RedHat rip-off in october. RedHat suffered a 25% loss in a few days, but recovered in two months anyway.
If you wan't to see what Wall Street thinks about RedHats business strategy in general, you should take a look at the longer trends instead.
I have a rule of thumb for database applications that seems to work: Count the number of tables involved and multiply with 3 is it is within a known problem domain, and multiply with 5 if it is not. The the reason behind this, is that each table require a definition (1 day), an input form (1 day), a report form (1 day), testing (1 day), documentation (1 day). Definition and documentation can more or less be left out if you're in a known problem domain.
Then, if you wan't to give the estimate in calender time, you should add another 25%. One day a week is typically being spend on other things like meetings etc.
You can tell it where your Trash folder is, but I didn't see a place to tell it where to store sent items
Select "Configure KMail" -> the "Identities" tab -> select your identity -> select "Modify" -> select the "Advanced" tab.
The placement of these options are a little confusing, but when you think about the separation between accounts and identities in KMail it makes sense after all.
Client-side filtering of emails have been a problem for IMAP based clients for a long time and have kept POP3 alive for all too long. If you have a substantial number of mails in your inbox every day, you just can't live without filtering.
KMail just got it with version 3.5 (I don't know about the other clients). You can do filtering with server-side sieve scripts, but thats not at all as handy as using the built-in interface in KMail.
At the height of Arab and Chinese culture, either region could have steamrolled Europe with no problem
Don't know about the Chinese, but the Arabs actually tried. The succeeded in grabbing Sicily and Spain but was stopped dead at the
battle of Tours/Poitiers in 737 and soon after driven from all of their french possessions.
The battle also marked the end of the reign of the feared Arab cavalery as the super-weapon of the time. This defeat was accomplished by the medieval french infantery drawed up in square formations to defend against the onslaugt. Until then the Arab cavalery had been virtual undefeated, but from the battle of Tours and on the odds had changed in favor of the europeans.
Sicily was liberated later by descendants of wikings from the Normandy looking for a kingdom to conqueror:-)
Perl is now completely ubiquitous, and much more suited to scripting than/bin/sh. Why settle for anything less?
First: By "scripting" we usually mean "gluing together other programs". Its lax terminology, but I let you get away with this.
On the subject of why using bash when you got perl, the answer is that perl and bash isn't directed at the same problem domains. Take a bash script and a perl "script" and try to describe what the program does in general terms. And take note at what terms you're using. Descibing a bash script you would typically use terms like "files", "processes", "fields". But when describing a perl script, you would mention "patterns", "hashes", "arrays", and "computing" etc.
Why ? Because bash is usually used when your problem domain consists of "processes", "files", and "fields" and because the bash language is optimized (count keystrokes) for those tasks, while perl is optimized for advanced parsing and processing of data. Just compare how to read a file in bash vs. in perl. In bash it just takes one keystroke to read from a file using redirection, while it requires two function calls in perl (open+close).
This is not to say that perl is more verbose than bash It actually is, but thats not the point. The point is, that when using bash in the problem domain that bash was designed for it beats perl. And vice-versa.
This is ridiculous. As everyone knows these days, Santa utilizes a quantum function, and is thus able to visit all childrens at once. It is also the reason why you may not see Santa. Otherwise the quantum function would collapse and Santa would be trapped in your home.
Not to sound like an ass or something but this seems like a really childish behaviour
To me it sounds as the usual give-and-take in international politics: Frances opposition to the dismantling of the Saddam regime surely costs the US a lot of prestige/money/lives. So why should US support a decision to give France the prestige/money/scientists that follows when you're host for a project of this kind ? Now, if France had supported the regime change in Iraq, and thus saved some US prestige/money/lives...
There are also some long-term strategic interests at stake here: France (and hence EU) are following a increasingly anti-US foreign policy, which brings the strategic alliance between US and EU in doubt. Japan on the other hand is depending more and more on US as a counterweight to China in the Asian theather, and is thus a stable ally for US.
Childish behaviour is characterized by a lack of sence of proportion. To consider "the largest project since the Manhattan Project" a high-value bargain chip and of highest strategic importance is certainly not a lack of sence of proportion. Its real-politik.
Now if only there'd be a shortcut to switch between tabs in konqueror or mozilla. For konsole you can use or to go to the next console window in konsole
In Konqueror they're already there: CTRL+[ and CTRL+]. If you wan't you can define your own shortcuts by using Settings|Configure Shortcuts... And since '[' and ']' are placed a little inconvenient on my european keyboard I have added the shortcuts CTRL+LEFT and CTRL+RIGHT to move between tabs.
To all of those worried about LVM: 2.6 will include a LVM implementation. The EVMS won't make it though.
The story is that 2.4 included LVM1 (I am running it right now on my RH8 box) which had some restrictions and were generally regarded as a kludge. For the 2.6 kernel two competing replacements arised: LVM2 and EVMS. LVM2 is basicly a rewrite of LVM1 while EVMS is an entirely different beast aimed at the BIG IRON in the datacenters. After some (heated) discussion on LKML Linus decided to include LVM2 and scrap EVMS.
The reaction from the EVMS team (sponsered by IBM) was noble: They decided to remove their kernel-land code and rewrite their user-land utilities to use the winning LVM2 kernel interface and create a win-win situation for everyone. Kernel traffic covered the story here and Linux Weekly News made a mention of it here.
The earth's rotation is slowing anyway. This is the reason that they insert those "leap seconds" every few years to compensate for the lost time
No. Thats a misunderstanding. The earths is slowing down. But this is measured in milliseconds pr century and is completely negligible in this context.
The reason for the frequent insertions of leap seconds is that the definitions of the time-span of a second and our definition of the length of a year (in seconds) don't match up. If we adjusted our definition of a second just a little bit we could tune the length of a second to make it fit our definition of the length of a year, and then we only needed to make a correction once a century.
While the CNN article is truely hyped and mostly fluff there is an informative paper here.
In summary: If you find yourself in orbit around a Lagrange point you only need to change your velocity a little to change your orbit radically (thats the chaos part). The orbits you can enter in the Sun-Earth system is forming two horseshoes with the Earth placed in the gap (or perhaps more precisely: Like the figure 8 with the smallest of the loops folded within the larger one and the Earth placed in the cross between the loops). One of the orbits lies within earths orbit. The other lies outside of Earths orbit.
What makes this particular interesting is that the horseshoes of the Sun-Earth system overlaps the horseshoes of the Earth-Moon system. So, if you're travelling along one of the horseshoes in the Sun-Earth system, you can pull the trick again when you cross the horseshoe of the Earth-Moon system and enter an orbit around earth with virtually no fuel consumption. It works the other way around too: If you place a spaceship in one of the Lagrange points of the Earth-Moon system you can reach far into the solar system for almost free by entering the horseshoe of the Sun-Earth system at the right time. The only catch is that you're travelling pretty slow.
Now the CNN article talks a lot about interplanetian travel, but the reality is that the mechanics have only been worked out for the earth-moon-sun system and the Jovian system. Interplanetarian travel requires heavy computatios and is still in the works.
And to dispell some of the confusion in this thread about the nature of the Langrange points this page gives a good explanation.
Major rewrite of the disk IO layer meaning better harddisk performance for Joe-user and high-end database servers as well
New and faster scheduler
Pre-empt scheduling for better interactive performance
Features
ALSA sound infrastructure
Video for Linux redesign
ACPI interface and other power-control patches. Especially a new software suspend-to-disk feature that does not involve Windows specific BIOS magic.
Lots of high-end features (High memory, 64 bit processor support, per-CPU infrastructure, hot-swap CPU etc.etc.)
JFS - Journaling filesystem from IBM (where's XFS?)
Bluetooth
USB-2.0
Security
Access Control Lists (ACL) which gives fine-grained security
Per-process namespaces (some Al Viro hackery. Someone please tell that man to slow down a bit)
Plugable quota system
And as usual a lot of new driver updates.
Suspiciously missing are any memory management patches (although Rik has his reversed mapping patch in the pipe). Perhaps the topic is still a litte too hot...;-)
The most important thing for me would be resource management features.. such as being able to allocate how much CPU, memory, or disk space a particular user or process can use. These are things that solaris has had for a long time.. and it seems that linux kernel developers arent interested in adding those features.. how can linux hope to take over the enterprise server market without it?
I think that the with the current kernel you can already do much of this. But some of the new features of the 2.5 kernel allows for much more fine-grained control - like binding a process to a distinct CPU, better quota accounting etc. Perhaps thats what you're looking for ?
The direction of the 2.5 kernel seems to me to be mainly (but not exclusively) targetting enterprise systems.
TeX is a huge monster of a programming language/application. Knuth offered a cash prize of $(2^N) for the Nth unique bug report. TeX is now, like, 20 years old, and that system cost him under $1K.
Take a look at the version number of TeX: 3.14159 ('tex --version'). Each release adds a new digit towards Pi and someday when he dies the release number will be bumped to be exactly Pi. After that every new bug will be declared a feature:-) Another program of his (the name escapes me) progress the in the same way towards the base of the natural logarithm e.
And you're insulting his lack of understanding. Petroleum provides energy to cars. Find me an extraplanetary rocket that runs on water
Uhh... I would be a little more carefull about that "insulting...lack of confidence" part of yours. The main booster of the Shuttle runs by burning hydrogen and oxygen into water. Reverse the process and you're producing rocket fuel from water.
I was recently reading up some more on gamma ray bursters, which are a recently discovered thing with explosions (so far only seen a very long way away) that appear to have an amount of energy equivalent to about the rest of the Universe put together.
Yes. Gamma-bursters are really the biggest bang since the Big Bang and if one was go off anywhere near the Milkyway we would be toast in a matter of milliseconds. But you're forgetting this: Until now we've only seen gamma-bursters really far away from us - which is the same as saying, that we've only seen gamma-bursters really long ago.
And thats the point: So far we've only observed Gamma-bursters in young galaxies in the early stages of galaxy formation. Not in old galaxies like our own.
Once the DoD runs its first military exercise against a power with a moonbase (with military manufacturing on that base)
My guess is they already did: The time from the launch of an ICBM missile to impact is measured in tens of minutes. Compare this to the reaction time you would get from a moon based nuclear missile. It would be measured in days.
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It is indeed a great quote, and a very, very clever one. I would just *love* to see a challenge to this in court:-)
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This seems to be somewhat related to the problem of faster than ligth travel.
A very througout treatise of the problems concerning faster than light travel can be found here
Summary: There is bad news, very bad news and downright awfull news for people dreaming of a warp drive (but a little light of hope is given in the last section).
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> War criminals
Yes. The terrorists, not the US.
> The rules are pretty clear
Yes. If you're a legitim target and you hide behind civilians, you're breaking the law of war and thus become a war criminal. OTOH: If I see my opponent hiding behind civilians and I open fire anyway, then I am in my right to do so.
Thats the rules and they are indeed pretty clear.
What's wrong with Holland ? Why don't they teach their inhabitants to read so they are able to tell that this story is from Poland and not from the United States ?
Wall Street doesn't care about about a new release that have been planned for a long time. You can compare it to the reaction to Oracle's surprice announcement of their RedHat rip-off in october. RedHat suffered a 25% loss in a few days, but recovered in two months anyway.
If you wan't to see what Wall Street thinks about RedHats business strategy in general, you should take a look at the longer trends instead.
Wall Street certainly do care about RedHat
I have a rule of thumb for database applications that seems to work: Count the number of tables involved and multiply with 3 is it is within a known problem domain, and multiply with 5 if it is not. The the reason behind this, is that each table require a definition (1 day), an input form (1 day), a report form (1 day), testing (1 day), documentation (1 day). Definition and documentation can more or less be left out if you're in a known problem domain.
Then, if you wan't to give the estimate in calender time, you should add another 25%. One day a week is typically being spend on other things like meetings etc.
You can tell it where your Trash folder is, but I didn't see a place to tell it where to store sent items
Select "Configure KMail" -> the "Identities" tab -> select your identity -> select "Modify" -> select the "Advanced" tab.
The placement of these options are a little confusing, but when you think about the separation between accounts and identities in KMail it makes sense after all.
Client-side filtering of emails have been a problem for IMAP based clients for a long time and have kept POP3 alive for all too long. If you have a substantial number of mails in your inbox every day, you just can't live without filtering.
KMail just got it with version 3.5 (I don't know about the other clients). You can do filtering with server-side sieve scripts, but thats not at all as handy as using the built-in interface in KMail.
Don't know about the Chinese, but the Arabs actually tried. The succeeded in grabbing Sicily and Spain but was stopped dead at the battle of Tours/Poitiers in 737 and soon after driven from all of their french possessions.
The battle also marked the end of the reign of the feared Arab cavalery as the super-weapon of the time. This defeat was accomplished by the medieval french infantery drawed up in square formations to defend against the onslaugt. Until then the Arab cavalery had been virtual undefeated, but from the battle of Tours and on the odds had changed in favor of the europeans.
Sicily was liberated later by descendants of wikings from the Normandy looking for a kingdom to conqueror :-)
Perl is now completely ubiquitous, and much more suited to scripting than /bin/sh. Why settle for anything less?
First: By "scripting" we usually mean "gluing together other programs". Its lax terminology, but I let you get away with this.
On the subject of why using bash when you got perl, the answer is that perl and bash isn't directed at the same problem domains. Take a bash script and a perl "script" and try to describe what the program does in general terms. And take note at what terms you're using. Descibing a bash script you would typically use terms like "files", "processes", "fields". But when describing a perl script, you would mention "patterns", "hashes", "arrays", and "computing" etc.
Why ? Because bash is usually used when your problem domain consists of "processes", "files", and "fields" and because the bash language is optimized (count keystrokes) for those tasks, while perl is optimized for advanced parsing and processing of data. Just compare how to read a file in bash vs. in perl. In bash it just takes one keystroke to read from a file using redirection, while it requires two function calls in perl (open+close).
This is not to say that perl is more verbose than bash It actually is, but thats not the point. The point is, that when using bash in the problem domain that bash was designed for it beats perl. And vice-versa.
As I type this, version 1.0 of subversion has not been tagged yet
Now its there, but note that binary packages won't be available for a week or so.
Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now
This is ridiculous. As everyone knows these days, Santa utilizes a quantum function, and is thus able to visit all childrens at once. It is also the reason why you may not see Santa. Otherwise the quantum function would collapse and Santa would be trapped in your home.
Happy Christmas !
Not to sound like an ass or something but this seems like a really childish behaviour
To me it sounds as the usual give-and-take in international politics: Frances opposition to the dismantling of the Saddam regime surely costs the US a lot of prestige/money/lives. So why should US support a decision to give France the prestige/money/scientists that follows when you're host for a project of this kind ? Now, if France had supported the regime change in Iraq, and thus saved some US prestige/money/lives...
There are also some long-term strategic interests at stake here: France (and hence EU) are following a increasingly anti-US foreign policy, which brings the strategic alliance between US and EU in doubt. Japan on the other hand is depending more and more on US as a counterweight to China in the Asian theather, and is thus a stable ally for US.
Childish behaviour is characterized by a lack of sence of proportion. To consider "the largest project since the Manhattan Project" a high-value bargain chip and of highest strategic importance is certainly not a lack of sence of proportion. Its real-politik.
Now if only there'd be a shortcut to switch between tabs in konqueror or mozilla. For konsole you can use or to go to the next console window in konsole
In Konqueror they're already there: CTRL+[ and CTRL+]. If you wan't you can define your own shortcuts by using Settings|Configure Shortcuts... And since '[' and ']' are placed a little inconvenient on my european keyboard I have added the shortcuts CTRL+LEFT and CTRL+RIGHT to move between tabs.
To all of those worried about LVM: 2.6 will include a LVM implementation. The EVMS won't make it though.
The story is that 2.4 included LVM1 (I am running it right now on my RH8 box) which had some restrictions and were generally regarded as a kludge. For the 2.6 kernel two competing replacements arised: LVM2 and EVMS. LVM2 is basicly a rewrite of LVM1 while EVMS is an entirely different beast aimed at the BIG IRON in the datacenters. After some (heated) discussion on LKML Linus decided to include LVM2 and scrap EVMS.
The reaction from the EVMS team (sponsered by IBM) was noble: They decided to remove their kernel-land code and rewrite their user-land utilities to use the winning LVM2 kernel interface and create a win-win situation for everyone. Kernel traffic covered the story here and Linux Weekly News made a mention of it here.
The earth's rotation is slowing anyway. This is the reason that they insert those "leap seconds" every few years to compensate for the lost time
No. Thats a misunderstanding. The earths is slowing down. But this is measured in milliseconds pr century and is completely negligible in this context.
The reason for the frequent insertions of leap seconds is that the definitions of the time-span of a second and our definition of the length of a year (in seconds) don't match up. If we adjusted our definition of a second just a little bit we could tune the length of a second to make it fit our definition of the length of a year, and then we only needed to make a correction once a century.
While the CNN article is truely hyped and mostly fluff there is an informative paper here.
In summary: If you find yourself in orbit around a Lagrange point you only need to change your velocity a little to change your orbit radically (thats the chaos part). The orbits you can enter in the Sun-Earth system is forming two horseshoes with the Earth placed in the gap (or perhaps more precisely: Like the figure 8 with the smallest of the loops folded within the larger one and the Earth placed in the cross between the loops). One of the orbits lies within earths orbit. The other lies outside of Earths orbit.
What makes this particular interesting is that the horseshoes of the Sun-Earth system overlaps the horseshoes of the Earth-Moon system. So, if you're travelling along one of the horseshoes in the Sun-Earth system, you can pull the trick again when you cross the horseshoe of the Earth-Moon system and enter an orbit around earth with virtually no fuel consumption. It works the other way around too: If you place a spaceship in one of the Lagrange points of the Earth-Moon system you can reach far into the solar system for almost free by entering the horseshoe of the Sun-Earth system at the right time. The only catch is that you're travelling pretty slow.
Now the CNN article talks a lot about interplanetian travel, but the reality is that the mechanics have only been worked out for the earth-moon-sun system and the Jovian system. Interplanetarian travel requires heavy computatios and is still in the works.
And to dispell some of the confusion in this thread about the nature of the Langrange points this page gives a good explanation.
There is a list of the new features in 2.5 here.
In summary:
Performance
- Major rewrite of the disk IO layer meaning better harddisk performance for Joe-user and high-end database servers as well
- New and faster scheduler
- Pre-empt scheduling for better interactive performance
Features- ALSA sound infrastructure
- Video for Linux redesign
- ACPI interface and other power-control patches. Especially a new software suspend-to-disk feature that does not involve Windows specific BIOS magic.
- Lots of high-end features (High memory, 64 bit processor support, per-CPU infrastructure, hot-swap CPU etc.etc.)
- JFS - Journaling filesystem from IBM (where's XFS?)
- Bluetooth
- USB-2.0
Security- Access Control Lists (ACL) which gives fine-grained security
- Per-process namespaces (some Al Viro hackery. Someone please tell that man to slow down a bit)
- Plugable quota system
And as usual a lot of new driver updates.Suspiciously missing are any memory management patches (although Rik has his reversed mapping patch in the pipe). Perhaps the topic is still a litte too hot...
The most important thing for me would be resource management features
I think that the with the current kernel you can already do much of this. But some of the new features of the 2.5 kernel allows for much more fine-grained control - like binding a process to a distinct CPU, better quota accounting etc. Perhaps thats what you're looking for ?
The direction of the 2.5 kernel seems to me to be mainly (but not exclusively) targetting enterprise systems.
TeX is a huge monster of a programming language/application. Knuth offered a cash prize of $(2^N) for the Nth unique bug report. TeX is now, like, 20 years old, and that system cost him under $1K.
:-) Another program of his (the name escapes me) progress the in the same way towards the base of the natural logarithm e.
Take a look at the version number of TeX: 3.14159 ('tex --version'). Each release adds a new digit towards Pi and someday when he dies the release number will be bumped to be exactly Pi. After that every new bug will be declared a feature
And you're insulting his lack of understanding. Petroleum provides energy to cars. Find me an extraplanetary rocket that runs on water
Uhh... I would be a little more carefull about that "insulting...lack of confidence" part of yours.
The main booster of the Shuttle runs by burning hydrogen and oxygen into water. Reverse the process and you're producing rocket fuel from water.
Thanks. My dictionary gave that explanation too (1/4 dollar coins), but I couldn't figure the connection to college life. Now I see...
Not being a native speaker - what is "quarters". My dictionary is not very helpfull on this...
I was recently reading up some more on gamma ray bursters, which are a recently discovered thing with explosions (so far only seen a very long way away) that appear to have an amount of energy equivalent to about the rest of the Universe put together.
Yes. Gamma-bursters are really the biggest bang since the Big Bang and if one was go off anywhere near the Milkyway we would be toast in a matter of milliseconds. But you're forgetting this: Until now we've only seen gamma-bursters really far away from us - which is the same as saying, that we've only seen gamma-bursters really long ago.
And thats the point: So far we've only observed Gamma-bursters in young galaxies in the early stages of galaxy formation. Not in old galaxies like our own.
Once the DoD runs its first military exercise against a power with a moonbase (with military manufacturing on that base)
My guess is they already did: The time from the launch of an ICBM missile to impact is measured in tens of minutes. Compare this to the reaction time you would get from a moon based nuclear missile. It would be measured in days.
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License.
:-)
It is indeed a great quote, and a very, very clever one. I would just *love* to see a challenge to this in court
This seems to be somewhat related to the problem of faster than ligth travel.
A very througout treatise of the problems concerning faster than light travel can be found here
Summary: There is bad news, very bad news and downright awfull news for people dreaming of a warp drive (but a little light of hope is given in the last section).
The beauty of this was that the mainstream press picked it up, and reported it as fact...
:-(
The not-so-beauty of this is that I actually believed in this story until I read your comment
Yeah, that was a good prank. Sigh.