On a slightly related note, I find it fascinating that the U.S. government rushes to disarm Iraq with their "Weapons of Mass Destruction (Tm)", whose existence still hasn't been proven, yet North Korea, which has proudly professed the development of nuclear weapons, has had nothing more than a finger waved at them. "Bad North Korea. Bad."
Of course to most of the world, and I'm sure a large majority of U.S. citizens, it's obvious that the weapons were largely just an excuse to take posession of oil manufacturing and grab more of a foothold in the Middle East.
people inclined to start trouble build up large armies because they want to, and people called upon to stop them build up large armies because they have to
The question is, which of these roles is the US playing?
I don't think you could call ATI Linux support "decent" by any stretch of the imagination. Their fglrx drivers are pathetic and haven't improved at all in the year and a half I have had ATI hardware.
The new design has a number of important features, including:
* modular networking and storage subsystems,
* powerful request format for structured non-contiguous accesses,
* flexible and extensible data distribution modules, * distributed metadata,
* stateless servers and clients (no locking subsystem),
* explicit concurrency support,
* tunable semantics,
* flexible mapping from file references to servers,
* tight MPI-IO integration, and
* support for data and metadata redundancy.
Alot of politics went on and alot of people got angry, which caused the birth of the X.Org foundation, which is now industry backed and also backed now by most major distributions such as Slackware (I think they were the first?)
Actually, Slackware were among the last to switch to X.org.
Man, I agree. How frickin hard is it? The GNOME file selector has sucked monkey nads since 1.x and we're now at, what, 2.4? It's not just missing functionality, it actively sucks!
What I really don't understand is that various attempts have been made to add a better file selector (by Ximian, for example), yet they haven't make it into the GNOME core? Why not?
If children grow up accustomed to living in a safe, secure, surveilled environment, they will realize that the ones reanding about "privacy" and "liberty" are the true "paranoid freaks".
I can't figure out if this is supposed to be satirical or not, but I'll assume not.
Do you trust the people surveilling you? Would you trust your children with them? Who are the people surveilling you? Do they have your best interests at heart, or are they looking after their own self interests?
At work, we have a product that uses MS SQL Server and they have recently upgraded to version 7.0. In their infinite wisdom MS decided to remove SNMP trap support from SQL Server, which our product used, leaving it with no way of sending traps to HPOV.
The solution: install a Solaris server running Samba specifically for the purpose of translating net sends into SNMP traps!
LVM is one of the best things about Linux, by far.
Some of the more impressive features are:
- Being able to resize volumes while they are still mounted (shrinking generally requires an unmount - dependent on the file system). This is the feature I use most, great stuff. - Being able to MOVE a volume from one disk to another while it's still mounted. This is very handy when replacing disks - just add the disk, pvmove the physical volume off the old disk then rip it out.
If the rate at which they're fixing the bugs in the game are any indication, the Linux version of the world builder (let alone the client) will be released sometime in, oh, 2010?
Better yet, if an architecture has a static branch predictor that encodes "mostly taken" or "mostly not taken", the compiler could emit profile code that measures how fast a particular variant runs and then take that into account for the next optimization pass.
You mean like -fprofile-arcs and -fbranch-probabilities in gcc 3.x?
My main concern about such software (like this plugin) is that related to security - whether any exploits could be run against it to gain root access, or something. I tend to doubt this, and if you are running as a user, and you have a good firewall you should be mostly protected - but it is something I always have in the back of my mind...
A firewall is pretty much irrelevant in this situation. Even if it were doing content filtering it would have to be explicitly aware of any vulnerabilities in the player - unlikely.
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Subversion has had full DAV auto versioning since version 1.2.
I think the inverse of Dogbert's Buzzword Generator must be Bullshit Bingo.
On a slightly related note, I find it fascinating that the U.S. government rushes to disarm Iraq with their "Weapons of Mass Destruction (Tm)", whose existence still hasn't been proven, yet North Korea, which has proudly professed the development of nuclear weapons, has had nothing more than a finger waved at them. "Bad North Korea. Bad."
Of course to most of the world, and I'm sure a large majority of U.S. citizens, it's obvious that the weapons were largely just an excuse to take posession of oil manufacturing and grab more of a foothold in the Middle East.
people inclined to start trouble build up large armies because they want to, and people called upon to stop them build up large armies because they have to
The question is, which of these roles is the US playing?
I don't think you could call ATI Linux support "decent" by any stretch of the imagination. Their fglrx drivers are pathetic and haven't improved at all in the year and a half I have had ATI hardware.
From the PVFS2 Guide:
The new design has a number of important features, including:
* modular networking and storage subsystems,
* powerful request format for structured non-contiguous accesses,
* flexible and extensible data distribution modules,
* distributed metadata,
* stateless servers and clients (no locking subsystem),
* explicit concurrency support,
* tunable semantics,
* flexible mapping from file references to servers,
* tight MPI-IO integration, and
* support for data and metadata redundancy.
Search Google for more information, or check out the Linux iwconfig man page.
I find it's interesting enough that I don't want to find another job, and it leaves me with enough creative energy to do programming when I get home.
A more appropriate tool might be linux-vserver, which lets you assign each virtual server its own disk quota, process space and IP addresses.
Man, I agree. How frickin hard is it? The GNOME file selector has sucked monkey nads since 1.x and we're now at, what, 2.4? It's not just missing functionality, it actively sucks!
What I really don't understand is that various attempts have been made to add a better file selector (by Ximian, for example), yet they haven't make it into the GNOME core? Why not?
Do you trust the people surveilling you? Would you trust your children with them? Who are the people surveilling you? Do they have your best interests at heart, or are they looking after their own self interests?
Given human nature, I'd go for the latter.
I can only assume that you are not an Australian, as the statement "competition, lower prices and higher quality" has never applied to Telstra.
I think it highly unlikely that this will have any affect, except to make Telstra more money.
I've got another one.
At work, we have a product that uses MS SQL Server and they have recently upgraded to version 7.0. In their infinite wisdom MS decided to remove SNMP trap support from SQL Server, which our product used, leaving it with no way of sending traps to HPOV.
The solution: install a Solaris server running Samba specifically for the purpose of translating net sends into SNMP traps!
What can you say about that? Unbelievable!
A colleague of mine put it best when he said of Slackware that "it doesn't try to do anything I don't want it to".
That is Slackware's beauty - if you know what you are doing, it doesn't get in the way.
Or an Australian...
AFAIK, LVM is a completely independent development effort by Sistina, though obviously based on IBM's LVM from AIX (or earlier?).
LVM is one of the best things about Linux, by far.
:)
Some of the more impressive features are:
- Being able to resize volumes while they are still mounted (shrinking generally requires an unmount - dependent on the file system). This is the feature I use most, great stuff.
- Being able to MOVE a volume from one disk to another while it's still mounted. This is very handy when replacing disks - just add the disk, pvmove the physical volume off the old disk then rip it out.
Enough ranting - LVM is just plain cool
If the rate at which they're fixing the bugs in the game are any indication, the Linux version of the world builder (let alone the client) will be released sometime in, oh, 2010?
You get that too huh?
So if music is destined not to be readable by a PC, isn't that going to totally kill sales of portable players like the Rio?
These players, afaik, only have computer interfaces, so it's not like you can put music on them from any other source.
Perhaps companies producing these products should wake up and smell the stinky stuff before it gets totally rancid.
This is funny.
5$/GB would be an absolute DREAM in Australia. We pay 19C/MB if we go over 3GB per month.
Let me just say that again: 19C/MB - that's almost $200/GB.
Insanity.