Just a shot in the dark here, but if your disk "was thrashing away" and your system became unresponsive, I would check to make sure your HD's DMA is enabled.
hdparm -d1/dev/hda
If your drive supports it, which I assume it does since SuSE is faster. My guess is the "other" distro just didn't enable it by default.
Enabling DMA makes all the difference in the world. No more unresponsive cursor when your disk is working its hardest.
I find it interesting that you experienced RPM hell with Mandrake. Considering its URPMI has been around years longer then APT-RPM has. But if you don't like URPMI, you can even get it to install APT-RPM for you. APT-RPM works just as well with Mandrake as it does with any other distro.
I even prefer URPMI over APT-RPM for its ease of use, and it does have a GUI to use if you feel so compelled. (But I generally don't)
I must admit that I haven't installed Fedora at all. But I know RedHat still plays a major roll in it, and they have always pushed their own ideals on their customers, without easily giving them access to other options.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think just in the last year or so has RedHat even given the option to format the root partition as ReiserFS during the install process. ReiserFS has been one of the fastest file systems around for years, and RedHat forced their customers to use EXT2/3 for as long as they could.
Another one is the preference of Gnome over KDE. Yes, they give you the option to use KDE or Gnome, but in my opinion they have always crippled KDE out of the box. Either by not making it look as good, or not having all the icons in place.
This is all another reason why I prefer Mandrake. They have supported all the journaling file systems (Reiser, EXT3, XFS, JFS) since they were first released. Both Gnome and KDE work equally well, and look good straight out of the box as well. Not to mention Mandrake offers Fluxbox, and many other WM's to choose from.
Simply put, Mandrake doesn't push there own ideals on to their customers. They give you a CHOICE. Not just a couple choices either, but MANY choices. Grub or Lilo, Gnome or KDE or Fluxbox or WindowMaker, or Enlightenment, 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, the list goes on. They have RPMs for them all, and they are all easily installed and play nicely together.
I feel Mandrake is a great happy medium between ease of use, and flexibility for the "power users" who like a choice, and enjoy trying different things.
I get a kick out of many Linux zealots, how they think if something has a GUI and you can actually install it without dropping to the CLI to run some obscure command, that its too Windows like, and thus garbage.
Nearly every mainstream distro runs the same kernel, the same XFree, the same Samba, the same Mozilla, the same Evolution. Some may be older, or newer versions, but in general its ALL THE SAME SOFTWARE!
The bottom line, especially for someone new to Linux is to get them familiar with it, without frustrating the hell out of them, or making them dependant on the local Linux guru to do even the simplist of tasks. This will greatly increase the chances of them actually liking it, and wanting to learn more ON THEIR OWN.
People who recommend Debian to someone who has never install Linux before is simply throwing them to the wolves. Oh, but Debian only uses open source software? If this person has never installed Linux before, chances are they don't care! Oh, but you only ever install it once, then use apt-get after that. This is mostly true, but if they get frustrated before they even install it, what good is apt-get?
Apt-get used to be Debians one "killer feature", but that is no longer so. Every major distro has something similar, and in some cases something much better, especially for newbies. (read: Mandrakes URPMI, which is anything but new)
If your new to Linux, and your looking for the easiest route to get up and running with it, install Mandrake. Its as simple as that. Mandrake has some of the best hardware detection, and by far the easiest install process. Not to mention, once its installed, your not left out to dry.
It has nice GUI utilities to setup almost anything you want, all in ONE SIMPLE CONTROL PANEL. Printers? No problem, its easier then Windows if your printer is supported. Want to change screen resolutions? This is just as simple as windows too. What about a scanner? Yup, that too, simple. Even remote desktop applications like VNC/rdesktop Mandrake has simple little utilities to help you out.
I can hear people screaming right now. "Oh, but they wont learn how to actually use Linux then." You know what, MOST people don't care. They just want something that WORKS! If the Mandrake utilities work, thats great. If they don't, they can still dig in to the configuration files and get it to work. Just because the GUI utilities exist, doesn't mean the distro is evil, it simply means there are more options.
I've been using Linux since Slackware 3, and as the only OS on my home and work machine for the last 4 years. Mandrake is my distro of choice simply because I value my time, and when I want something to work, I don't want to have to spend hours reading man pages and forums to learn some obscure configuration file settings to just get my printer to work. I fire up Mandrakes printer utility, pick my printer, it downloads the drivers, installs them, and I print a test page. For things I care more about, like the Kernel I'm running, I simply download the latest MM patches and install them like normal.
Simply put, it just works. For newbies though, please don't try to push your ideals on them, simply help them get up and running as fast as possible and feel comfortable. Once they've done that, they can explore at will.
If you don't recommend Mandrake for this task, you either haven't tried it yourself, or you haven't given it a real chance. Because if you had, you would realize that NO other distro has put as much time and effort in to making Linux accessible to newbies then Mandrake has.
People who drive ford pintos aren't required by LAW to do full engine/body checkups after 1000 hours, and complete engine overhauls after 5000hours of driving.
The maintenance that goes in to airplanes is pretty crazy, and expensive. The engine overhauls for a small single engine Piper can cost upwards of $20,000 CDN.
I don't know about the US, but in British Columbia, Canada there is something called the "averaging agreement" where employees _and_ employers agree in writing to working XX (ie: 60) hours one week, and XX (ie: 15) hours another week without overtime pay. Its perfectly legal as long as both parties agree to it in writing _before_.
I would be very surprised if the US didn't have something similar. Think about all the people that work on oil rigs. 2 weeks, 2 weeks off. Thats how they usually do it, they have all employees sign an averaging agreement. Some overtime is still usually paid, but not near as much.
I realise this competely off topic, but is it ever a small world... I went to high school with the lady in the picture laying on the car (Traci). A year after high school I moved 400km's away to a large city and about 2.5 years after that I ran to her working at the Red Robin a block from my house. Now I see her picture on Slashdot of all places, whats the chance of that happening?:)
To top it off, the guy who apparently owns the website (gamesx.com) runs (or ran?) a console game rental store in my home town, and used to date my sister!
A product lifetime table for all major MandrakeSoft products is publicly available on the Mandrake Linux website. For example, the Mandrake Linux 9.2 Download, Discovery, PowerPack and ProSuite editions will be supported with core updates until March 30, 2005. "
Why they didn't provide the link to the table I have no idea, but after several minutes (way to damn long) of searching here it is:
They sure did a good job of hiding it in my opinion. If this is something they are actively marketing, why don't they have a huge link on the front page?
In my experience, it seems Mandrake has gotten a reputation as being "all graphical like Windows", and I find a lot of "geeks" look down upon it for just that reason.
I've been using Linux since Slackware 3.4 (1998/99?), I've installed and used almost every distro under the sun for both servers and desktops (haven't tried Gentoo yet though) and I must say Mandrake is by far the easiest _and_ most configurable distro I've ever used. The last part is especially important for the "geeks".
For example, without spending a lot of time, or downloading obscure "boot images", what other distro is there that supports ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, LVM, and a super easy way (graphical) to setup software RAID with all the above partitions straight from the boot CD. Mandrake has supported all of this since at least v8.0. It took me longer to find a Debian boot image that uses the 2.4 kernel just to support my very common hardware raid card then it did to install Mandrake with ReiserFS on the/boot partition.
I can hear the Debian fans screaming already... "But Debian has APT". Yes, it does, and APT is great. RedHat has APT now too, but Mandrake has had URPMI for years, which essentially does exactly what APT does, only its easier to use, both from the command line and graphically! Since about Mandrake 9.0 it has also supported installing packages on multiple machines at the same time.
To top it all off, Mandrake's setup utilities, such as PrinterDrake, HardDrake (for configuring hardware) are top notch. I was blown away when I loaded up PrinterDrake... said "Search for printers on your network" and it came back with all 6 of our (different) printers setup and ready to use. I don't think it was more then TWO clicks! Thats something even WindowsXP can't claim.
In short, Mandrake isn't just for newbies, its an excellent distro for even veterans of Linux who would rather spend time coding, or tweeking important performance settings instead of mucking about setting up printers or searching for "boot images" just to support year old hardware or file systems other then EXT2/3.
Give me a break. Have the receipt be a md5 sum of the voters unique "name" or "id", a unique election "id", some "secret key", and the person they voted for.
This receipt itself can then only be "verified" at the voting booths by using a computer in the similar fashion as to which the person voted.
Selling this receipt to anyone would then be useless (you can't verify the receipt unless the original person is physically there, just like the voting process). Unless of course that person already had access to the machines originally used to vote, but at that point you've already lost the battle.
Personally I think we need a secure way to vote from the comfort of our homes. Only then will the voter turn out be above the average 50-60%.
Because they care about your data, among other things! You could have the fastest database server in the world, but if you find your data is corrupt, or truncated without warning, it doesn't do you much good.
Here is huge list of MySQL Gotcha's that absolutely floored me when I first read it. In my opinion, a "gotcha" in regards to a database is a "Bad Thing(tm)"
2.6.0-test7 was a good 2% faster across the board on file system benchmarks then 2.6.0-test5, lets hope test8 continues that trend.
Benchmarks for both test7, and test8 will be posted on that site within the next week for all those interested in getting the maximum performance out of your Linux box.
This is the wonderful thing about open source. You can easily download the scripts used to generate those results, and add postmark support to them. The scripts are made in such a way that adding file systems and benchmark programs is very easy.
First off, let me just say that benchmarks are really only good for people to compare their _own_ benchmarks too. If you really want to know which file system is fastests on your desktop/server, you need to run your _own_ tests. Don't rely on anyone elses results.
EXT2 was included in the results as some people say for a baseline in which to compare the journalling file systems to. I personally wouldn't recommend using EXT2 on any system, unless you have very specific needs that require it.
Keep in mind that Bonnie++ and IOZone benchmark programs are quite different. JFS was not a good performer as far as raw speed was concerned using Bonnie++, but it did use very little CPU, so overall it performed relatively well. If your applications bottleneck is your disk, JFS would be a poor choice as far as bonnie++ is concerned. If your applications bottleneck is your CPU, JFS would be a relatively good choice. However the IOZone results show a completely different story, so again, you need to figure out which benchmark more closely mimics your own needs, and run your own benchmarks!
I would also like to note that Reiser4 is an atomic file system, which I've heard offers the same reliability as EXT3+Journal, so for a "fair" comparison, it should be compared directly against EXT3+Journal, and it mops the floor against it. Also keep in mind Reiser4 is still in its very early stages, so the comparison isn't exactly "fair" anyways, it will be a file system to keep an eye on in the near future without a doubt.
Lastly, the benchmarks were run on a PII-450 (as the hardware link states) which I fully realize is completely out dated hardware, so although Reiser4 uses a lot of CPU in comparison, on the more modern CPUs its not nearly as bad for some tests.
How is 95th percentile NOT a rip-off? Think about it, in the "real world" especially at a hosting company, DDoS attacks are common place, at least one or two a month are common. Thats all it takes with 95th percentile and we end up paying for 150mbit/s instead of our overall average of say 60mbit/s. Our costs more the double just because some script kiddies decided to DDoS us for 4-6 hours twice in the month. The only time 95th percentile isn't a rip-off is if your traffic rarely spikes, and if it does, the spike last a very short period of time. Very few bandwidth usage graphs look like that.
I don't know about you, but I don't like paying for something I didn't use. Thats how companies using 95th percentile make money, plain and simple. Paying per GB or flat rate is the only fair, reasonable way to do it, and most of the Tier-1 providers offer this if you ask (of course they prefer 95th percentile because they make more money with it).
When your paying by the GB, the speed of your link doesn't really matter. Run fiber, run copper, setup the link at 10mbit/100mbit/1000mbit, it makes no difference, since you only pay for what you use. So its actually in your providers best interest to provide the fastest available link they can. You don't have to worry about all this "burstable" garage that makes things more complex then they need to be. Often providers offer a 100mbit connection, that you pay for 3mbit but guess what, amazingly its burstable to 100mbit! They try to make it sound all wonderful so they can make you pay for something you don't use, and make you think your getting a good deal. Work the numbers, 99% of the time your getting ripped off in comparison to pay by the GB.
Don't forget to account for large spikes that you have no control over, that can double your bandwidth costs in a single day.
that offers "pay by the GB". The hosting company I work for has GiGE links but only pays for the exact amount of traffic we push through the link. The monthly cost on the line is minimal, or nonexistent depending on the provider.
Since we have more then one link as well, it gives us redundancy and the upper hand to negotiate the best price per GB, so we can send 90% of our traffic out that link. If the next month a different provider comes back with a cheaper price, we switch it around and send the 90% out their link. Within days of cutting the traffic off for a link, we can usually expect a phone call from the sales rep with lower price offer.
Any idle links we have don't cost us anything extra, since we _will not_ deal with any provider that doesn't offer pay by the GB. Paying for the raw link speed, regardless of how much traffic you push through, or paying 95th percentile prices are all mostly a rip off.
I believe there was a Ask Slashdot a few weeks ago regarding building your own PVR. The majority of the comments seemed say "Why bother, just buy a TIVO/Replay TV, its already done for."
Well, this is why you roll your own. Yes, its a little more work, the cost is pretty much the same, but there is no monthly fee, and features don't get yanked out from under you.
MythTV is absolutely amazing, and its evolving incredibly fast. If your lookinng for a PVR, I recommend giving it a shot.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.;)
Copyright your full name. Anywhere you write it, copyright it. Then if you recieve a C&D letter with your copy written name on it, you have recourse against the company sending the letter.
For a good read with lots of interesting information and laughs, dig up information about this fellow:
David-Wynn: Miller. (notice the way he _always_ writes his name) http://www.dwmlc.com/
I've heard stories where he has gone to court and ordered the sheriff to put the judge in jail, on many occasions. No he has no special powers, just simply a good understanding of the law and some funky "mathmatical" language. (read the first paragraph on his site) Apparently any one can do it.
Idle hands are the devils playground. I would rather kids play these violent games while their parents explain to them the difference between a game and real life, then have the kids out on the street bored and getting in to trouble.
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid I got in to the most trouble when my and friends and I were bored.
Why does the government always insist on censoring things, when educating the kids to know the difference between a game and real life is the real, long term answer? It's the parents responsibility not the governments! Not to mention you would have to be pretty naive to think that little Johnny isn't going over to his friends house to play the violent games that a older brother bought.
The company my parents own bought 30 machines a while back which apparently all had these bad caps on the mainboards. When the first few mainboards started failing we tried to send them back on warranty, but our vendor wasn't cooperating, and shipping them all back to ABIT was resulting in too much down time. (shipping time, etc...)
So we went to the nearest electronic wholesaler in town and bought a box of the equivilent caps and soldered them on ourselves. It doesn't take more than 5 minutes and the caps themselves are very inexpensive.
Of the 30 machines we bought I think almost 25 have failed, just a matter of time before the rest fail I'm sure.
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Just a shot in the dark here, but if your disk "was thrashing away" and your system became unresponsive, I would check to make sure your HD's DMA is enabled.
/dev/hda
hdparm -d1
If your drive supports it, which I assume it does since SuSE is faster. My guess is the "other" distro just didn't enable it by default.
Enabling DMA makes all the difference in the world. No more unresponsive cursor when your disk is working its hardest.
I find it interesting that you experienced RPM hell with Mandrake. Considering its URPMI has been around years longer then APT-RPM has. But if you don't like URPMI, you can even get it to install APT-RPM for you. APT-RPM works just as well with Mandrake as it does with any other distro.
I even prefer URPMI over APT-RPM for its ease of use, and it does have a GUI to use if you feel so compelled. (But I generally don't)
I must admit that I haven't installed Fedora at all. But I know RedHat still plays a major roll in it, and they have always pushed their own ideals on their customers, without easily giving them access to other options.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think just in the last year or so has RedHat even given the option to format the root partition as ReiserFS during the install process. ReiserFS has been one of the fastest file systems around for years, and RedHat forced their customers to use EXT2/3 for as long as they could.
Another one is the preference of Gnome over KDE. Yes, they give you the option to use KDE or Gnome, but in my opinion they have always crippled KDE out of the box. Either by not making it look as good, or not having all the icons in place.
This is all another reason why I prefer Mandrake. They have supported all the journaling file systems (Reiser, EXT3, XFS, JFS) since they were first released. Both Gnome and KDE work equally well, and look good straight out of the box as well. Not to mention Mandrake offers Fluxbox, and many other WM's to choose from.
Simply put, Mandrake doesn't push there own ideals on to their customers. They give you a CHOICE. Not just a couple choices either, but MANY choices. Grub or Lilo, Gnome or KDE or Fluxbox or WindowMaker, or Enlightenment, 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, the list goes on. They have RPMs for them all, and they are all easily installed and play nicely together.
I feel Mandrake is a great happy medium between ease of use, and flexibility for the "power users" who like a choice, and enjoy trying different things.
I get a kick out of many Linux zealots, how they think if something has a GUI and you can actually install it without dropping to the CLI to run some obscure command, that its too Windows like, and thus garbage.
Nearly every mainstream distro runs the same kernel, the same XFree, the same Samba, the same Mozilla, the same Evolution. Some may be older, or newer versions, but in general its ALL THE SAME SOFTWARE!
The bottom line, especially for someone new to Linux is to get them familiar with it, without frustrating the hell out of them, or making them dependant on the local Linux guru to do even the simplist of tasks. This will greatly increase the chances of them actually liking it, and wanting to learn more ON THEIR OWN.
People who recommend Debian to someone who has never install Linux before is simply throwing them to the wolves. Oh, but Debian only uses open source software? If this person has never installed Linux before, chances are they don't care! Oh, but you only ever install it once, then use apt-get after that. This is mostly true, but if they get frustrated before they even install it, what good is apt-get?
Apt-get used to be Debians one "killer feature", but that is no longer so. Every major distro has something similar, and in some cases something much better, especially for newbies. (read: Mandrakes URPMI, which is anything but new)
If your new to Linux, and your looking for the easiest route to get up and running with it, install Mandrake. Its as simple as that. Mandrake has some of the best hardware detection, and by far the easiest install process. Not to mention, once its installed, your not left out to dry.
It has nice GUI utilities to setup almost anything you want, all in ONE SIMPLE CONTROL PANEL. Printers? No problem, its easier then Windows if your printer is supported. Want to change screen resolutions? This is just as simple as windows too. What about a scanner? Yup, that too, simple. Even remote desktop applications like VNC/rdesktop Mandrake has simple little utilities to help you out.
I can hear people screaming right now. "Oh, but they wont learn how to actually use Linux then." You know what, MOST people don't care. They just want something that WORKS! If the Mandrake utilities work, thats great. If they don't, they can still dig in to the configuration files and get it to work. Just because the GUI utilities exist, doesn't mean the distro is evil, it simply means there are more options.
I've been using Linux since Slackware 3, and as the only OS on my home and work machine for the last 4 years. Mandrake is my distro of choice simply because I value my time, and when I want something to work, I don't want to have to spend hours reading man pages and forums to learn some obscure configuration file settings to just get my printer to work. I fire up Mandrakes printer utility, pick my printer, it downloads the drivers, installs them, and I print a test page. For things I care more about, like the Kernel I'm running, I simply download the latest MM patches and install them like normal.
Simply put, it just works. For newbies though, please don't try to push your ideals on them, simply help them get up and running as fast as possible and feel comfortable. Once they've done that, they can explore at will.
If you don't recommend Mandrake for this task, you either haven't tried it yourself, or you haven't given it a real chance. Because if you had, you would realize that NO other distro has put as much time and effort in to making Linux accessible to newbies then Mandrake has.
Why bother ticketing when the time expires?
Let me swipe my credit card, and have it bill me to the exact second my car leaves the stall.
Save money on tickets, ticketing officers, complaints, and time!
People who drive ford pintos aren't required by LAW to do full engine/body checkups after 1000 hours, and complete engine overhauls after 5000hours of driving.
The maintenance that goes in to airplanes is pretty crazy, and expensive. The engine overhauls for a small single engine Piper can cost upwards of $20,000 CDN.
I don't know about the US, but in British Columbia, Canada there is something called the "averaging agreement" where employees _and_ employers agree in writing to working XX (ie: 60) hours one week, and XX (ie: 15) hours another week without overtime pay. Its perfectly legal as long as both parties agree to it in writing _before_.
I would be very surprised if the US didn't have something similar. Think about all the people that work on oil rigs. 2 weeks, 2 weeks off. Thats how they usually do it, they have all employees sign an averaging agreement. Some overtime is still usually paid, but not near as much.
I realise this competely off topic, but is it ever a small world... I went to high school with the lady in the picture laying on the car (Traci). A year after high school I moved 400km's away to a large city and about 2.5 years after that I ran to her working at the Red Robin a block from my house. Now I see her picture on Slashdot of all places, whats the chance of that happening? :)
To top it off, the guy who apparently owns the website (gamesx.com) runs (or ran?) a console game rental store in my home town, and used to date my sister!
"2) Product lifetimes are not hidden
A product lifetime table for all major MandrakeSoft products is publicly available on the Mandrake Linux website. For example, the Mandrake Linux 9.2 Download, Discovery, PowerPack and ProSuite editions will be supported with core updates until March 30, 2005. "
Why they didn't provide the link to the table I have no idea, but after several minutes (way to damn long) of searching here it is:
Product lifetimes
They sure did a good job of hiding it in my opinion. If this is something they are actively marketing, why don't they have a huge link on the front page?
In my experience, it seems Mandrake has gotten a reputation as being "all graphical like Windows", and I find a lot of "geeks" look down upon it for just that reason.
/boot partition.
I've been using Linux since Slackware 3.4 (1998/99?), I've installed and used almost every distro under the sun for both servers and desktops (haven't tried Gentoo yet though) and I must say Mandrake is by far the easiest _and_ most configurable distro I've ever used. The last part is especially important for the "geeks".
For example, without spending a lot of time, or downloading obscure "boot images", what other distro is there that supports ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, LVM, and a super easy way (graphical) to setup software RAID with all the above partitions straight from the boot CD. Mandrake has supported all of this since at least v8.0. It took me longer to find a Debian boot image that uses the 2.4 kernel just to support my very common hardware raid card then it did to install Mandrake with ReiserFS on the
I can hear the Debian fans screaming already... "But Debian has APT". Yes, it does, and APT is great. RedHat has APT now too, but Mandrake has had URPMI for years, which essentially does exactly what APT does, only its easier to use, both from the command line and graphically! Since about Mandrake 9.0 it has also supported installing packages on multiple machines at the same time.
To top it all off, Mandrake's setup utilities, such as PrinterDrake, HardDrake (for configuring hardware) are top notch. I was blown away when I loaded up PrinterDrake... said "Search for printers on your network" and it came back with all 6 of our (different) printers setup and ready to use. I don't think it was more then TWO clicks! Thats something even WindowsXP can't claim.
In short, Mandrake isn't just for newbies, its an excellent distro for even veterans of Linux who would rather spend time coding, or tweeking important performance settings instead of mucking about setting up printers or searching for "boot images" just to support year old hardware or file systems other then EXT2/3.
Give me a break. Have the receipt be a md5 sum of the voters unique "name" or "id", a unique election "id", some "secret key", and the person they voted for.
This receipt itself can then only be "verified" at the voting booths by using a computer in the similar fashion as to which the person voted.
Selling this receipt to anyone would then be useless (you can't verify the receipt unless the original person is physically there, just like the voting process). Unless of course that person already had access to the machines originally used to vote, but at that point you've already lost the battle.
Personally I think we need a secure way to vote from the comfort of our homes. Only then will the voter turn out be above the average 50-60%.
Have you tried 7.4? Although it doesn't fix this issue 100%, it has apparently gotten it to the point of a non-issue.
Show them this:
MySQL Gotcha's
If they still don't seriously consider at least switching away from MySQL, I would be very scared.
Because they care about your data, among other things! You could have the fastest database server in the world, but if you find your data is corrupt, or truncated without warning, it doesn't do you much good.
Here is huge list of MySQL Gotcha's that absolutely floored me when I first read it. In my opinion, a "gotcha" in regards to a database is a "Bad Thing(tm)"
MySQL Gotchas"
2.6.0-test7 was a good 2% faster across the board on file system benchmarks then 2.6.0-test5, lets hope test8 continues that trend.
Benchmarks for both test7, and test8 will be posted on that site within the next week for all those interested in getting the maximum performance out of your Linux box.
This is the wonderful thing about open source. You can easily download the scripts used to generate those results, and add postmark support to them. The scripts are made in such a way that adding file systems and benchmark programs is very easy.
First off, let me just say that benchmarks are really only good for people to compare their _own_ benchmarks too. If you really want to know which file system is fastests on your desktop/server, you need to run your _own_ tests. Don't rely on anyone elses results.
EXT2 was included in the results as some people say for a baseline in which to compare the journalling file systems to. I personally wouldn't recommend using EXT2 on any system, unless you have very specific needs that require it.
Keep in mind that Bonnie++ and IOZone benchmark programs are quite different. JFS was not a good performer as far as raw speed was concerned using Bonnie++, but it did use very little CPU, so overall it performed relatively well. If your applications bottleneck is your disk, JFS would be a poor choice as far as bonnie++ is concerned. If your applications bottleneck is your CPU, JFS would be a relatively good choice. However the IOZone results show a completely different story, so again, you need to figure out which benchmark more closely mimics your own needs, and run your own benchmarks!
I would also like to note that Reiser4 is an atomic file system, which I've heard offers the same reliability as EXT3+Journal, so for a "fair" comparison, it should be compared directly against EXT3+Journal, and it mops the floor against it. Also keep in mind Reiser4 is still in its very early stages, so the comparison isn't exactly "fair" anyways, it will be a file system to keep an eye on in the near future without a doubt.
Lastly, the benchmarks were run on a PII-450 (as the hardware link states) which I fully realize is completely out dated hardware, so although Reiser4 uses a lot of CPU in comparison, on the more modern CPUs its not nearly as bad for some tests.
How is 95th percentile NOT a rip-off? Think about it, in the "real world" especially at a hosting company, DDoS attacks are common place, at least one or two a month are common. Thats all it takes with 95th percentile and we end up paying for 150mbit/s instead of our overall average of say 60mbit/s. Our costs more the double just because some script kiddies decided to DDoS us for 4-6 hours twice in the month. The only time 95th percentile isn't a rip-off is if your traffic rarely spikes, and if it does, the spike last a very short period of time. Very few bandwidth usage graphs look like that.
I don't know about you, but I don't like paying for something I didn't use. Thats how companies using 95th percentile make money, plain and simple. Paying per GB or flat rate is the only fair, reasonable way to do it, and most of the Tier-1 providers offer this if you ask (of course they prefer 95th percentile because they make more money with it).
When your paying by the GB, the speed of your link doesn't really matter. Run fiber, run copper, setup the link at 10mbit/100mbit/1000mbit, it makes no difference, since you only pay for what you use. So its actually in your providers best interest to provide the fastest available link they can. You don't have to worry about all this "burstable" garage that makes things more complex then they need to be. Often providers offer a 100mbit connection, that you pay for 3mbit but guess what, amazingly its burstable to 100mbit! They try to make it sound all wonderful so they can make you pay for something you don't use, and make you think your getting a good deal. Work the numbers, 99% of the time your getting ripped off in comparison to pay by the GB.
Don't forget to account for large spikes that you have no control over, that can double your bandwidth costs in a single day.
that offers "pay by the GB". The hosting company I work for has GiGE links but only pays for the exact amount of traffic we push through the link. The monthly cost on the line is minimal, or nonexistent depending on the provider.
Since we have more then one link as well, it gives us redundancy and the upper hand to negotiate the best price per GB, so we can send 90% of our traffic out that link. If the next month a different provider comes back with a cheaper price, we switch it around and send the 90% out their link. Within days of cutting the traffic off for a link, we can usually expect a phone call from the sales rep with lower price offer.
Any idle links we have don't cost us anything extra, since we _will not_ deal with any provider that doesn't offer pay by the GB. Paying for the raw link speed, regardless of how much traffic you push through, or paying 95th percentile prices are all mostly a rip off.
I believe there was a Ask Slashdot a few weeks ago regarding building your own PVR. The majority of the comments seemed say "Why bother, just buy a TIVO/Replay TV, its already done for."
Well, this is why you roll your own. Yes, its a little more work, the cost is pretty much the same, but there is no monthly fee, and features don't get yanked out from under you.
MythTV is absolutely amazing, and its evolving incredibly fast. If your lookinng for a PVR, I recommend giving it a shot.
I'm more interested in the database, has anyone been able to dig up more information about this thing?
I know they use Objectivity/DB:
http://www.objectivity.com/
But I would like to find out what kind of hardware they employ.
GTK-Gnutella prefer local nodes. You can give it as many IP ranges as you like.
How well it works though, is another story.
Err, this might help too:
http://www.dwmlc.com/Docs/copyclaim.html
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about. ;)
Copyright your full name. Anywhere you write it, copyright it. Then if you recieve a C&D letter with your copy written name on it, you have recourse against the company sending the letter.
For a good read with lots of interesting information and laughs, dig up information about this fellow:
David-Wynn: Miller. (notice the way he _always_ writes his name)
http://www.dwmlc.com/
I've heard stories where he has gone to court and ordered the sheriff to put the judge in jail, on many occasions. No he has no special powers, just simply a good understanding of the law and some funky "mathmatical" language. (read the first paragraph on his site) Apparently any one can do it.
Idle hands are the devils playground. I would rather kids play these violent games while their parents explain to them the difference between a game and real life, then have the kids out on the street bored and getting in to trouble.
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid I got in to the most trouble when my and friends and I were bored.
Why does the government always insist on censoring things, when educating the kids to know the difference between a game and real life is the real, long term answer? It's the parents responsibility not the governments! Not to mention you would have to be pretty naive to think that little Johnny isn't going over to his friends house to play the violent games that a older brother bought.
The company my parents own bought 30 machines a while back which apparently all had these bad caps on the mainboards. When the first few mainboards started failing we tried to send them back on warranty, but our vendor wasn't cooperating, and shipping them all back to ABIT was resulting in too much down time. (shipping time, etc...)
So we went to the nearest electronic wholesaler in town and bought a box of the equivilent caps and soldered them on ourselves. It doesn't take more than 5 minutes and the caps themselves are very inexpensive.
Of the 30 machines we bought I think almost 25 have failed, just a matter of time before the rest fail I'm sure.