I'm not sure about the exact reasons why they don't support various other filesystems. The default bootup sequence of a RH system uses an initial ramdisk, and actually scans each partition available to find out where they should be mounted (they created nash, NAno SHell, which is just simple support for shell commands as well as fs label scanning). That's why you see the LABEL=/ in your/etc/fstab on a RH system. ResiserFS didn't support filesystem labels until 3.6, so using this setup could mess things up (with 3.5 or older), and justifies your point about having to "jump through hoops" to get reiserfs working. The simplest way I found to move to reiserfs was to change all the LABEL=??? specifications to actual device files, boot from a recovery disk, move everything around while reformatting the partitions as another filesystem, then finally rebooting.
I got it... for the subblocks you specify the first IP address in the block, then subtract the number of bits (from 32) required to address the entire block. So the 2nd, 5th and 6th are wrong:
12.150.191.0/24 * 12.29.112.0/28 (need 4 bits, or 32-4=28) 208.49.164.0/24 198.70.114.0/24 * 63.199.57.120/29 (need 3 bits, or 32-3=29) * 208.50.66.224/27 (need 5 bits, or 32-5=27)
I'm really, really confused about netmask calculations (the networks I've set up haven't been very complex). What are the corresponding netmasks for the above blocks? I've tried the following:
We have this too (University of New Brunswick), but we have specific labs for different purposes. Like the Linux lab, the Java lab (Windows 2000 with emacs and Sun j2sdk), but the public labs are all Windows 2000. It pisses me off to go into one of the public labs and have to kill:
- Realplayer tray app
- AOL instant messenger
- Yahoo instant messenger
- ICQ instant messenger
- MSN instant messenger
- Quicktime tray applet
- whatever else the last user of that particular computer decided to install.
It's so much nicer having a home directory in Linux that not only stores personal documents, but personal desktop settings, etc. Another thing I can't do on the Windows 2000 machines is kill messenger.exe (need Administrator access) so every once and awhile SPAM pops up from this stupid network tool.
It's nice to log into the computer and get exactly the same desktop that I, myself customized while the next person to log in gets his/her own desktop.
I used to have a problem at work where if I sent out a.zip file, it would take days to arrive at my home address (and sometimes it wouldn't arrive at all). Same thing if I sent something from home to work. Turns out the scanner was holding back the.zip file for some reason...
My solution was to ROT13 encode the zip files, thus corrupting them temporarily while they were sent through the wire. When I started doing this, my E-Mails began arriving almost instantly (or, at least by the time I arrived home after a 5 minute walk). Maybe the virus is doing something similar -- simply renaming a file to.zip, and since it's not a true.zip file, your scanner just passes it along...? Maybe?
Yeah it was a failed joke... oh well, I appreciate your consideration anyways. The idea was that I had a regular LCD. I folded it (forcefully) thus breaking it (hence the "until I folded it").
I'll stick with what I'm good at -- anything unrelated to humor.:)
Re:Mozilla -- Who compiles every release?
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You know what I love? ccache!.. do a freshmeat for it. I make a lot of my own RPMs... just compiled openoffice (with the ximian changes). It took around 18 hours to compile the first time. The second time it took around 3. It makes a hash of every file you compile with timestamp, parameters, input/output, etc. and simply replaces gcc's compile phase with stuff you've already compiled (assuming the source hasn't changed). So whatever you compiled previously (stored in ~/.ccache by default) and hasn't changed between releases is simply restored when you go to compile it again. If you're always compiling stuff I seriously recommend you check it out.
I had a foldable LCD screen... that is, until I folded it.
ADHD is one of many psychological disorders
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I'm going to reply to this because I don't have ADHD, rather I have a related disorder known as social anxiety, and I took interest to your mention of serotonin.
Serotonin is a chemical that is known to calm, and SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) prevents the brain from storing serotonin (thus keeping it in circulation). I'm not sure about the chemical specifics of ritalin, but I suspect it relates to many of the other newfangled medications that are on the market. I use an SSRI to calm myself, to prevent anxiety. You may use it to calm yourself to prevent overactivity.
All psychological disorders are related, though each has the same symptoms, they have each to varying degrees. My advice to you would be to seek a second opinion, even if you are absolutely certain that this second opinion will yield the same result.
ADHD is overdiagnosed in children, but an adult is a different matter. I would advise you to continue the medication that works, and look towards alternative solutions while you're taking the medication. There is no shame in taking a pill every day, and therapeutic solutions will only strengthen your resolve to conquer your problem--even if you're forced to take a pill for the rest of your life.
Do you object to having ADHD
I object to having social anxiety as much as I object to having a thorn in my side. It's an obstacle to be overcome, and even if it can't be eliminated completely, it can be managed.
How do you find it working in groups of people, either as the only ADHD'er there, or in a group of ADHD'ers?
This is somewhat irrelevant to your problem. ADHD should affect you in virtually every aspect of life, regardless whether it's with a group of people or on your own. The key is to understand how your mind works, and to become so educated with respect to your subconscious thoughts that you can control them with exercises and manage them as they come. A relatively new therapeutic study deals with cognitive thinking, in that you can catch thoughts [that cause feelings] as they occur, and eventually eliminate them. These thoughts might cause you to become hyperactive (hence the 'H' in ADHD), and you really have to focus on your internal thoughts more than the results on the environment around you.
I doubt that this advice will help you directly, but I admire your resolve in openly announcing your mental difficulties. Watching TV, I'm sure you'll notice more and more commercials regarding mental illness and the fact that it isn't extraordinary, rather it's a common problem that affects everyone, from every walk of life. My final suggestion would be to seek therapy. There's no shame in talking to someone about this, as much as there's any shame in taking medication for it. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors.
because Nintendo actually showed that King Kong was public domain!
The article you linked to also says that not only did Nintendo prove it, but years earlier, universal fought to prove that King Kong was in the public domain. "Yes it is!" "No it's not".
Did you read the article? This had nothing to do with patents or copyrights, it had to do with SearchKing getting pissed because Google was reducing the rank of its links. Even the article synopsis indicates it's not about patents: "...a suit that alleged the company manipulated search results in its powerful Web index."
The judge dismissed the case because Google's system "constitutes opinions protected by the First Amendment."
SearchKing wanted to be "restored to its previous PageRank and to be awarded $75,000 in damages."
I take offense to that
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Real men eat pancakes in the morning, fart in bed, dress in women's clothing, and hang around in bars.
Ok, I don't eat pancakes, fart in bed, _or_ hang around in bars. What was that about clothing?
SCO (Santa Clara Organization) didn't buy Caldera, Caldera bought SCO. Caldera then changed their name to the SCO Group. This won't keep your head from exploding, but it might help...
Just because the article is different doesn't make it correct and the news.com one incorrect. The article you linked to doesn't even link to the specific article from the WSJ it took the quote from. It just says, "Some quote from The Wall Street Journal." Here's a few excerpts from the news.com article:
"We have decided not to introduce this phone,'' a T-Mobile representative said on the sidelines of a Deutsche Telekom news conference. "For the time being, we are not pursuing this project further.'
OK, fair enough. Maybe they will later. Though they didn't confirm. And the only substantial comment in the msmobiles site (msmobiles? They couldn't be biased), is the following conjecture: Please note: "for the time being" does not mean "never".
So right now, they've dropped it. They haven't delayed it, they aren't waiting around for Microsoft or HTC to fix anything, but "For the time being, we are not pursuing this project." So the project is stopped. They might pick it up at a later date, but they aren't just "delaying" the project as the msmobiles excerpt seems to imply.
Look, I've been "holding it" ever since the iLoo was announced. Is it real or not?
It's not real... and I doubt it ever will be in the way it's documented. What I could see as cool is if you could walk in and it could scan your eyes so you could "look" at where you want to go. Much like the visual-assisted computers that some disabled people have used, without all the heavy headgear. That way, when you "click" on the wrong place, you won't pick up more than just a 404:).
This probably won't be soon, so don't hold your... uh, breath...
Your Pinto exploded? To bad, you shouldn't have gotten rear-ended.
I was going to argue about the difference between software and life-critical products (like cars, which can kill you), until I remembered reading about the 911 services disrupted from the slammer worm...
A difficult/buggy install should not hold this software back if it's worth using.
What's your more elaborated opinion on this? I've heard so many reviews, and so many opinions on how Linux is so hard to install, etc., etc. But it's not like you turn on your computer, install an OS, use it, shut down, and have to restart the entire routine all over again. I find that a truly great OS is one that doesn't necessarily accentuate the ease of install -- once it's installed, it's installed for good.
It doesn't clutter up, like Windows (and its *cough* all-encompassing registry) and leave extraneous files around -- 2GB of temporary files, 1GB of log files, etc. I don't have much experience with OS/2 beyond casual experimentation when I was younger, but I'm assuming it's much the same (disregarding its Windows 3.1 support). And yet operating systems like Linux, BSD, and true UNIXes don't have that clutter. And when something seriously goes wrong, my immediate response is never, "just format and reinstall."
Even friends of mine, less seasoned with computers, say, "Yeah, I have to wipe my hard drive and reinstall Windows." That's not natural! It's like saying you have to ditch your hard drive and reinstall a new one because the old one's cluttered... every two months... That's ridiculous.
My parents, for example, bought Windows XP, deciding to upgrade from Windows 98SE. I came over, installed it, and never looked back. It's much more feasable as a long-term operating system than its predecessors (for obvious reasons). So the natural question is: is ease of installation really that important, and should a company devote so many resources to making installation easy for the end-user? (considering most computers come with an operating system preinstalled?)
Solution: run to the VAX, and hit the power switch. I caught it in time!/etc/passwd was still there after the fsck.:-)
Alas...the next time[...]
The next time after that[...]
So, finally they made a cron job that checked/etc/passwd every few minutes, and if it was good, made a backup, and if it was missing or appeared to be trashed, restored it.
They should have restored the backup they made to their employee database... the one before they hired you... sheesh... I'm sure everyone has had blunders... but the same blunder three times?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure about the exact reasons why they don't support various other filesystems. The default bootup sequence of a RH system uses an initial ramdisk, and actually scans each partition available to find out where they should be mounted (they created nash, NAno SHell, which is just simple support for shell commands as well as fs label scanning). That's why you see the LABEL=/ in your /etc/fstab on a RH system. ResiserFS didn't support filesystem labels until 3.6, so using this setup could mess things up (with 3.5 or older), and justifies your point about having to "jump through hoops" to get reiserfs working. The simplest way I found to move to reiserfs was to change all the LABEL=??? specifications to actual device files, boot from a recovery disk, move everything around while reformatting the partitions as another filesystem, then finally rebooting.
I got it... for the subblocks you specify the first IP address in the block, then subtract the number of bits (from 32) required to address the entire block. So the 2nd, 5th and 6th are wrong:
:).
12.150.191.0/24
* 12.29.112.0/28 (need 4 bits, or 32-4=28)
208.49.164.0/24
198.70.114.0/24
* 63.199.57.120/29 (need 3 bits, or 32-3=29)
* 208.50.66.224/27 (need 5 bits, or 32-5=27)
Great... that does a whole lot of nothing
I'm really, really confused about netmask calculations (the networks I've set up haven't been very complex). What are the corresponding netmasks for the above blocks? I've tried the following:
2 45 5/29
.120 - .127) ...??
12.150.191.0/24
12.29.112.15/28
208.49.164.0/
198.70.114.0/24
63.199.57.127/27
208.50.66.2
But it blocks too many... I think I have the bounds mixed up on the sub-netblocks (like
We have this too (University of New Brunswick), but we have specific labs for different purposes. Like the Linux lab, the Java lab (Windows 2000 with emacs and Sun j2sdk), but the public labs are all Windows 2000. It pisses me off to go into one of the public labs and have to kill:
- Realplayer tray app
- AOL instant messenger
- Yahoo instant messenger
- ICQ instant messenger
- MSN instant messenger
- Quicktime tray applet
- whatever else the last user of that particular computer decided to install.
It's so much nicer having a home directory in Linux that not only stores personal documents, but personal desktop settings, etc. Another thing I can't do on the Windows 2000 machines is kill messenger.exe (need Administrator access) so every once and awhile SPAM pops up from this stupid network tool.
It's nice to log into the computer and get exactly the same desktop that I, myself customized while the next person to log in gets his/her own desktop.
I used to have a problem at work where if I sent out a .zip file, it would take days to arrive at my home address (and sometimes it wouldn't arrive at all). Same thing if I sent something from home to work. Turns out the scanner was holding back the .zip file for some reason...
.zip, and since it's not a true .zip file, your scanner just passes it along...? Maybe?
My solution was to ROT13 encode the zip files, thus corrupting them temporarily while they were sent through the wire. When I started doing this, my E-Mails began arriving almost instantly (or, at least by the time I arrived home after a 5 minute walk). Maybe the virus is doing something similar -- simply renaming a file to
Yeah it was a failed joke... oh well, I appreciate your consideration anyways. The idea was that I had a regular LCD. I folded it (forcefully) thus breaking it (hence the "until I folded it").
:)
I'll stick with what I'm good at -- anything unrelated to humor.
You know what I love? ccache! .. do a freshmeat for it. I make a lot of my own RPMs... just compiled openoffice (with the ximian changes). It took around 18 hours to compile the first time. The second time it took around 3. It makes a hash of every file you compile with timestamp, parameters, input/output, etc. and simply replaces gcc's compile phase with stuff you've already compiled (assuming the source hasn't changed). So whatever you compiled previously (stored in ~/.ccache by default) and hasn't changed between releases is simply restored when you go to compile it again. If you're always compiling stuff I seriously recommend you check it out.
I had a foldable LCD screen... that is, until I folded it.
I'm going to reply to this because I don't have ADHD, rather I have a related disorder known as social anxiety, and I took interest to your mention of serotonin.
Serotonin is a chemical that is known to calm, and SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) prevents the brain from storing serotonin (thus keeping it in circulation). I'm not sure about the chemical specifics of ritalin, but I suspect it relates to many of the other newfangled medications that are on the market. I use an SSRI to calm myself, to prevent anxiety. You may use it to calm yourself to prevent overactivity.
All psychological disorders are related, though each has the same symptoms, they have each to varying degrees. My advice to you would be to seek a second opinion, even if you are absolutely certain that this second opinion will yield the same result.
ADHD is overdiagnosed in children, but an adult is a different matter. I would advise you to continue the medication that works, and look towards alternative solutions while you're taking the medication. There is no shame in taking a pill every day, and therapeutic solutions will only strengthen your resolve to conquer your problem--even if you're forced to take a pill for the rest of your life.
Do you object to having ADHD
I object to having social anxiety as much as I object to having a thorn in my side. It's an obstacle to be overcome, and even if it can't be eliminated completely, it can be managed.
How do you find it working in groups of people, either as the only ADHD'er there, or in a group of ADHD'ers?
This is somewhat irrelevant to your problem. ADHD should affect you in virtually every aspect of life, regardless whether it's with a group of people or on your own. The key is to understand how your mind works, and to become so educated with respect to your subconscious thoughts that you can control them with exercises and manage them as they come. A relatively new therapeutic study deals with cognitive thinking, in that you can catch thoughts [that cause feelings] as they occur, and eventually eliminate them. These thoughts might cause you to become hyperactive (hence the 'H' in ADHD), and you really have to focus on your internal thoughts more than the results on the environment around you.
I doubt that this advice will help you directly, but I admire your resolve in openly announcing your mental difficulties. Watching TV, I'm sure you'll notice more and more commercials regarding mental illness and the fact that it isn't extraordinary, rather it's a common problem that affects everyone, from every walk of life. My final suggestion would be to seek therapy. There's no shame in talking to someone about this, as much as there's any shame in taking medication for it. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors.
Sadly, that was more informative than the review itself.
because Nintendo actually showed that King Kong was public domain!
The article you linked to also says that not only did Nintendo prove it, but years earlier, universal fought to prove that King Kong was in the public domain. "Yes it is!" "No it's not".
Kudos on the link btw.
If Hydrogen was a heavier than air gas, this would not have been the case.
I doubt it would have had an easy time getting off the ground if the gas used was heavier than air. So yes, I think you're right on this point.
Did you read the article? This had nothing to do with patents or copyrights, it had to do with SearchKing getting pissed because Google was reducing the rank of its links. Even the article synopsis indicates it's not about patents: "...a suit that alleged the company manipulated search results in its powerful Web index."
The judge dismissed the case because Google's system "constitutes opinions protected by the First Amendment."
SearchKing wanted to be "restored to its previous PageRank and to be awarded $75,000 in damages."
Real men eat pancakes in the morning, fart in bed, dress in women's clothing, and hang around in bars.
Ok, I don't eat pancakes, fart in bed, _or_ hang around in bars. What was that about clothing?
Some people might need to use SSL while connecting to the playstation2-linux site, or you'll get a blank page:
https://playstation2-linux.com
SCO then bought Caldera
SCO (Santa Clara Organization) didn't buy Caldera, Caldera bought SCO. Caldera then changed their name to the SCO Group. This won't keep your head from exploding, but it might help...
No small feet, that.
No, the small feet would be left to GNOME.
Unfortunately, this won't work on XP (which has no DOS box)
I've been using the command prompt on XP ever since XP came out... Start->Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt, or Start->Run, "cmd", [OK].
Just because the article is different doesn't make it correct and the news.com one incorrect. The article you linked to doesn't even link to the specific article from the WSJ it took the quote from. It just says, "Some quote from The Wall Street Journal." Here's a few excerpts from the news.com article:
"We have decided not to introduce this phone,'' a T-Mobile representative said on the sidelines of a Deutsche Telekom news conference. "For the time being, we are not pursuing this project further.'
OK, fair enough. Maybe they will later. Though they didn't confirm. And the only substantial comment in the msmobiles site (msmobiles? They couldn't be biased), is the following conjecture: Please note: "for the time being" does not mean "never".
So right now, they've dropped it. They haven't delayed it, they aren't waiting around for Microsoft or HTC to fix anything, but "For the time being, we are not pursuing this project." So the project is stopped. They might pick it up at a later date, but they aren't just "delaying" the project as the msmobiles excerpt seems to imply.
Look, I've been "holding it" ever since the iLoo was announced. Is it real or not?
:).
It's not real... and I doubt it ever will be in the way it's documented. What I could see as cool is if you could walk in and it could scan your eyes so you could "look" at where you want to go. Much like the visual-assisted computers that some disabled people have used, without all the heavy headgear. That way, when you "click" on the wrong place, you won't pick up more than just a 404
This probably won't be soon, so don't hold your... uh, breath...
...to be running its own built-in server... which is now slashdotted.
Your Pinto exploded? To bad, you shouldn't have gotten rear-ended.
:).
I was going to argue about the difference between software and life-critical products (like cars, which can kill you), until I remembered reading about the 911 services disrupted from the slammer worm...
In other words, good point
A difficult/buggy install should not hold this software back if it's worth using.
What's your more elaborated opinion on this? I've heard so many reviews, and so many opinions on how Linux is so hard to install, etc., etc. But it's not like you turn on your computer, install an OS, use it, shut down, and have to restart the entire routine all over again. I find that a truly great OS is one that doesn't necessarily accentuate the ease of install -- once it's installed, it's installed for good.
It doesn't clutter up, like Windows (and its *cough* all-encompassing registry) and leave extraneous files around -- 2GB of temporary files, 1GB of log files, etc. I don't have much experience with OS/2 beyond casual experimentation when I was younger, but I'm assuming it's much the same (disregarding its Windows 3.1 support). And yet operating systems like Linux, BSD, and true UNIXes don't have that clutter. And when something seriously goes wrong, my immediate response is never, "just format and reinstall."
Even friends of mine, less seasoned with computers, say, "Yeah, I have to wipe my hard drive and reinstall Windows." That's not natural! It's like saying you have to ditch your hard drive and reinstall a new one because the old one's cluttered... every two months... That's ridiculous.
My parents, for example, bought Windows XP, deciding to upgrade from Windows 98SE. I came over, installed it, and never looked back. It's much more feasable as a long-term operating system than its predecessors (for obvious reasons). So the natural question is: is ease of installation really that important, and should a company devote so many resources to making installation easy for the end-user? (considering most computers come with an operating system preinstalled?)
Solution: run to the VAX, and hit the power switch. I caught it in time! /etc/passwd was still there after the fsck. :-)
/etc/passwd every few minutes, and if it was good, made a backup, and if it was missing or appeared to be trashed, restored it.
Alas...the next time[...]
The next time after that[...]
So, finally they made a cron job that checked
They should have restored the backup they made to their employee database... the one before they hired you... sheesh... I'm sure everyone has had blunders... but the same blunder three times?
Maybe Carbon NanoTubes, or CNT... insert a U in there somewhere and I think you might have a marketting no-no.