going to head to ann arbor? i think there's a couple of females rsvp'd for the ann arbor one. and i'll be there too. but i'm not female. at least, i wasn't wheni checked in the shower a few minutes ago.
Considering that the current membership of meetup is so small (slashdot consumes the vast majority of it), I think that they should seriously consider merging 25%-50% of the areas together, as that would likely result in slightly larger groups. Example: Detroit, Ann Arbor, and "Warren" are three represented areas in Michigan. The Detroit party is in a suburb south of Detroit (downriver), the Ann A rbor party is in Ypsilanti.. both about 30 miles from me. The Warren party is about 50 miles from me, but that's driving distance. As the crow flies, they're all a bout 20 miles from me.
Those areas each have about 30-40 people registered, yet only 5-6 for RSVP.
Meetup should probably start with state-wide based locational globbing, and then SEPERATE areas as they become more popular (so that there doesn't become a 1000 person slashdot meetup at a McDonald's. lol)
yes, if you don't have EXT3 compiled into the kernel directly, rather than a module, and your Root partition are ext3, then it will fallback to ext2 (which presumably you DO have compiled in, otherwise the boot would fail completely). Ext3/Ext2 compatibility is a good thing, but any system that's ALWAYS performing a full fsck on dirty shutdown is probably not actually loadiing with ext3.
or perhaps your journal is screwed up, and you might need to rebuild it with -whatever command it is to rebuild the journal-.. i've been using ext3 on my webserver box since it became part of the kernel, and have had MANY power failures since then, and have not had ONE full fsck..
I'm also going to go along with the hypothesis that likely one bit on this guys drive is screwed up, and that he should probably back up everything but that file (and this way he would also find any other files that might be affected in a similar way), do a full fsck, and perhaps even completely reformat that partition, doing a bad block check.
I wish we could moderate the actualy articles. I view with EVERYTHING on the front page.. so i hope this didn't actually show on the front page.. but from number of responses, i guess it did.
CmdrTaco/CowboyNeal: please give us the ability to moderate stories away from the front page.
This one just doesn't deserve to be there. We all know how to find BIOS updates, and we all know the answer to his problem.
I'm not very good on the mathematical end of this, but a 0.06, from the documentation i see at this site from Nasa looks somewhat risky.
"...while Palermo Scale values between -2 and 0 indicate situations that merit careful monitoring. Potential impacts with positive Palermo Scale values will generally indicate situations that merit some level of concern."
"The scale compares the likelihood of the detected potential impact with the average risk posed by objects of the same size or larger over the years until the date of potential impact."
This tells me that this is 6% more likely to occur than an object the same size and energy level blindsiding us without any sort of warning whatsoever.
So, we think that this one has a 6% higher chance of hitting us than something that we never even get on our radars. OK. That makes sense. I think.
I think I'm going to go and put that date into my Evolution calendar!
I had an Armada come through for repair yesterday, with a toasted power supply. The guy seemed upset that the casing near both hinges had snapped. After pointing out to him that the latch holding the laptop together had obviously been forcefully broken off of it, he conceded that "maybe, just MAYBE someone tried to force it open without using the latch".
I don't know what model it was, but this is just an anecdote.
I don't know about you, but my family has always been virtually broke during a Republican government and relatively well off during a Democratic government.
My personal net worth was cut in half the first market trading after Election Day. As soon as there became the slightest possibility that Bush, Jr. was elected, "The Bottom" dropped out of the market.
The terrorist attacks had very little effect on the economy, at least in my area. What finally broke the economy in my area was the MEDIA reporting, from September through November "consumer spending is down" basically saying " No one is going out and buying anything."
I work on commission in a retail sector, selling not needed products like food and shelter, but big-ticket luxury items. The only effect that the terrorist attacks had on our business was that we lost one of our locations in New York, which of course, was an automatic several million dollar cash flow difference, but there's no more expenses related to that location either, and when the Company gets the Insurance check for it, it'll likely be a gigantic profit. September was one of our best months last year, October was bigger than December for most of our locations!
Bush killed the Market, the Media killed the economy.
Mod Archive offers software to create MOD/S3M/etc type formats, and although I haven't explored the site very far, I would presume also provides large quantities of samples (at least they can be ripped from songs that are there) with which to make one's own music.
Yes, it's a weeee bit more complex than the old MCS was, but we're not in the world of the Commodore 64 anymore.
You can do some pretty darned cool stuff with good tracking software and samples.
Still not the entire world was written in COBOL. It still at least makes sense to -me- *lol* that there could be "y2k127" glitches, for systems at least somewhat more intelligent, but from the same era.
You mean to tell me that Cobol was so braindead that it stored each digit of an integer as a 7 or 8-bit byte? That sounds absolutely ludicrous.. I would've much more expected in th 70's where memory and disk was expensive (and very LARGE.. i have a 1MB memory board from a VAX made in 1980.. and the board is roughly 1 foot by 1 foot square.. equivalent to a 1MB 30 pin DIMM.) thjat they would use 4-bit or 8-bit ints.
You don't -need- to build a kernel specifically for your box with Windows. It builds itself from the binary modules (drivers).
I'm not BLAMING any operating system - i'm saying if you want to get stuff done, you use something where you don't have to spend days mucking around with obscure things to make it work.
I just acquired a laptop from '97 that was still running Windows '95. I did ugprade it to Windows '98, but it took me quite a while to find all the components necessary to get all of it's neat stuff working ('98 was supposed to have made PCMCIA and Battery/APM/APIC issues a lot easier.. but it just made it a lot worse for me, since '95 had the software already installed, and '98 install blew it all away)
The Point of Sale system at work operates Windows '95. It's used primarily as (a) a mostly dumb terminal [it runs screensavers on it's own, and displays graphics locally, but all information/screen placement is determined by the server in the backroom, which runs Xenix] (b) internet device [has ie 5.5 installed]
Y2K was such a non-issue that it didn't really matter. Everyone thought "Hey, maybe all these programmers from long ago used 2-digits to hold the year.." well, programmers from LONG AGO would have used a SINGLE 4-bit or 8-bit byte, instead of -2- 8-bit bytes to hold the year.
This means, that potentially, if they used signed 8-bit ints, or unsigned 4-bit ints, the world could blow up January 1, 2028 (when the computers add one to "December 31, 127"). Or, January 1, 2156. (add one to "December 31, 255")... does this make sense?
processor/network/ram hungry, probably not-- pure physical SIZE of the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels prevent them from being used adequately with single floppy based systems.
My network router/web server/email server is all mounted off of a single floppy that is both the root filesystem and the boot disk. Can't do that with a 2.2 or 2.4, and still have all the drivers necessary to make all the hardware work, and have the software necessary to make all the rest of it work.
I've used Linux for many, many things, since version 0.98beta.
I still don't use it for a desktop system.
Why?
Let's see. It takes basically an entire DAY to get a linux system up and running, with a custom kernel specifically for it. It's even worse if you're not sure exactly what kind of hardware is in it. (I inherited a Proliant server box, and I don't even have the SLIGHTEST idea what the hardware is in it.. i have Linux installed so I can use it as an X terminal, but sound doesn't work, modem doesn't work, and video isn't configured properly.. i spent all of Yesterday trying to figure out those issues, and still haven't.. and like I said, I've been doing this for over 10 YEARS.. since 0.98...)
KDE and Gnome SUCK. I hate to throw this in the face of all the people who have worked on this for years, but I'd rather use an old Mac, or Windows 3.11 - I love to play with all the options available, but once I start getting into some of the more bizarre themes available, suddenly the buttons on the windows don't do ANYTHING like what I expect, and i'm closing things that i want to minimize/maximize/resize, etc.
yesterday, I also finally managed to configure my CD-RW to write CD's under Linux.. this is a box that is primarily used as the house web-server. This was the one thing I was successful at, whereas the other's I've still managed to fail at. lol..
so, I go and I download the latest versions of the cd-authoring utilities, xcdroast, etc.. find xcdroast to be a complete piece of crap.. and go and find better solutions. gtoaster. great software! run it to burn an audio cd... make 2 coasters, and get 4discs that it refused to even write to.
I rip the CD-RW out of the Linux box, put it into the Windows box, select 7 MP3's in my player, click "Burn CD", and 30 minutes later, I have a CD that functions just fine in my car stereo. Using one of the discs that the Linux mastering software refused to write to.
Windows '98 may crash a lot, and I find myself EXTREMELY frustrated with it.. but it does tasks that USERS want to do.
I'd never trust a machine that serves a particularly useful purpose (my Ethernet SWITCHES... HARDWARE DEVICES.. crash more often than my Linux boxes do) to anything but Linux or OS/2.. but neither of those environments are at all useful for getting shit done!
Comcast had blocked my port 80 when Code Red came into existence.. after about two weeks.. and didn't unblock it for almost 6 months. But that's ok, I just setup my webserver on port 82. No big deal.
I think they blocked me for longer than everyone else because I was using a shitfuckload of traffic, with a webserver that was serving 80GB/mo, in straight HTML text.. lol the wonders of running a popular game.
Unfortunatly, that game was sued out of existence.. so now I serve out about 100MB/mo. oh well.
I know at least in NT 4.0, and I would be willing to bet a small amount, that in Win2k, NT was capable of running OS/2 1.x TEXT BASED applications. why? Because win32 was based on OS/2's 32-bit API. The code for supporting that is probably actually QUITE still there, since with 411,000 !!!!!!! source files, who would actually go through all of them to figure out how to remove OS/2 1.3 app support?!
And really, as if anyone actually HAS any OS/2 1.3 command line applications?!? yeah right.
Anyone out there still running Linux 0.99.15f? That's the last ver that I built by hand.
Could someone exactly explain the issue? The complaint doesn't make any sense. I mean, really. Who could honestly care if the software's been opened, and resealed, and why?
I work retail. People all day long tell me "i should get a discount because that's been on display".. Can someone explain this mentality to me? You're going to take it home and OPEN THE FREAKIN BOX as soon as you get it home.. so what's it matter if I've opened it, or if you have? lol
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going to head to ann arbor? i think there's a couple of females rsvp'd for the ann arbor one. and i'll be there too. but i'm not female. at least, i wasn't wheni checked in the shower a few minutes ago.
i sent this in on contact links on meetup, too..
Considering that the current membership of meetup is so small (slashdot consumes the vast majority of it), I think that they should seriously consider merging 25%-50% of the areas together, as that would likely result in slightly larger groups. Example: Detroit, Ann Arbor, and "Warren" are three represented areas in Michigan. The Detroit party is in a suburb south of Detroit (downriver), the Ann A rbor party is in Ypsilanti.. both about 30 miles from me. The Warren party is about 50 miles from me, but that's driving distance. As the crow flies, they're all a bout 20 miles from me.
Those areas each have about 30-40 people registered, yet only 5-6 for RSVP.
Meetup should probably start with state-wide based locational globbing, and then SEPERATE areas as they become more popular (so that there doesn't become a 1000 person slashdot meetup at a McDonald's. lol)
care to explain how it might access the init if ext3 isn't compiled in?
yes, if you don't have EXT3 compiled into the kernel directly, rather than a module, and your Root partition are ext3, then it will fallback to ext2 (which presumably you DO have compiled in, otherwise the boot would fail completely). Ext3/Ext2 compatibility is a good thing, but any system that's ALWAYS performing a full fsck on dirty shutdown is probably not actually loadiing with ext3. .. i've been using ext3 on my webserver box since it became part of the kernel, and have had MANY power failures since then, and have not had ONE full fsck ..
or perhaps your journal is screwed up, and you might need to rebuild it with -whatever command it is to rebuild the journal-
I'm also going to go along with the hypothesis that likely one bit on this guys drive is screwed up, and that he should probably back up everything but that file (and this way he would also find any other files that might be affected in a similar way), do a full fsck, and perhaps even completely reformat that partition, doing a bad block check.
I wish we could moderate the actualy articles. I view with EVERYTHING on the front page.. so i hope this didn't actually show on the front page.. but from number of responses, i guess it did.
CmdrTaco/CowboyNeal: please give us the ability to moderate stories away from the front page.
This one just doesn't deserve to be there. We all know how to find BIOS updates, and we all know the answer to his problem.
So, we think that this one has a 6% higher chance of hitting us than something that we never even get on our radars. OK. That makes sense. I think.
I think I'm going to go and put that date into my Evolution calendar!
I had an Armada come through for repair yesterday, with a toasted power supply. The guy seemed upset that the casing near both hinges had snapped. After pointing out to him that the latch holding the laptop together had obviously been forcefully broken off of it, he conceded that "maybe, just MAYBE someone tried to force it open without using the latch".
I don't know what model it was, but this is just an anecdote.
I don't know about you, but my family has always been virtually broke during a Republican government and relatively well off during a Democratic government.
My personal net worth was cut in half the first market trading after Election Day. As soon as there became the slightest possibility that Bush, Jr. was elected, "The Bottom" dropped out of the market.
The terrorist attacks had very little effect on the economy, at least in my area. What finally broke the economy in my area was the MEDIA reporting, from September through November "consumer spending is down" basically saying " No one is going out and buying anything."
I work on commission in a retail sector, selling not needed products like food and shelter, but big-ticket luxury items. The only effect that the terrorist attacks had on our business was that we lost one of our locations in New York, which of course, was an automatic several million dollar cash flow difference, but there's no more expenses related to that location either, and when the Company gets the Insurance check for it, it'll likely be a gigantic profit. September was one of our best months last year, October was bigger than December for most of our locations!
Bush killed the Market, the Media killed the economy.
Mod Archive offers software to create MOD/S3M/etc type formats, and although I haven't explored the site very far, I would presume also provides large quantities of samples (at least they can be ripped from songs that are there) with which to make one's own music.
Yes, it's a weeee bit more complex than the old MCS was, but we're not in the world of the Commodore 64 anymore.
You can do some pretty darned cool stuff with good tracking software and samples.
Still not the entire world was written in COBOL. It still at least makes sense to -me- *lol* that there could be "y2k127" glitches, for systems at least somewhat more intelligent, but from the same era.
You mean to tell me that Cobol was so braindead that it stored each digit of an integer as a 7 or 8-bit byte? That sounds absolutely ludicrous.. I would've much more expected in th 70's where memory and disk was expensive (and very LARGE.. i have a 1MB memory board from a VAX made in 1980.. and the board is roughly 1 foot by 1 foot square.. equivalent to a 1MB 30 pin DIMM.) thjat they would use 4-bit or 8-bit ints.
That's awfully nice of you to say that. NOw.. why did you say that? hmm..
You don't -need- to build a kernel specifically for your box with Windows. It builds itself from the binary modules (drivers).
I'm not BLAMING any operating system - i'm saying if you want to get stuff done, you use something where you don't have to spend days mucking around with obscure things to make it work.
Find a better troll than that...
I just acquired a laptop from '97 that was still running Windows '95. I did ugprade it to Windows '98, but it took me quite a while to find all the components necessary to get all of it's neat stuff working ('98 was supposed to have made PCMCIA and Battery/APM/APIC issues a lot easier.. but it just made it a lot worse for me, since '95 had the software already installed, and '98 install blew it all away)
The Point of Sale system at work operates Windows '95. It's used primarily as (a) a mostly dumb terminal [it runs screensavers on it's own, and displays graphics locally, but all information/screen placement is determined by the server in the backroom, which runs Xenix] (b) internet device [has ie 5.5 installed]
Y2K was such a non-issue that it didn't really matter. Everyone thought "Hey, maybe all these programmers from long ago used 2-digits to hold the year.." well, programmers from LONG AGO would have used a SINGLE 4-bit or 8-bit byte, instead of -2- 8-bit bytes to hold the year.
This means, that potentially, if they used signed 8-bit ints, or unsigned 4-bit ints, the world could blow up January 1, 2028 (when the computers add one to "December 31, 127"). Or, January 1, 2156. (add one to "December 31, 255")... does this make sense?
processor/network/ram hungry, probably not-- pure physical SIZE of the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels prevent them from being used adequately with single floppy based systems.
My network router/web server/email server is all mounted off of a single floppy that is both the root filesystem and the boot disk. Can't do that with a 2.2 or 2.4, and still have all the drivers necessary to make all the hardware work, and have the software necessary to make all the rest of it work.
I've used Linux for many, many things, since version 0.98beta.
... HARDWARE DEVICES.. crash more often than my Linux boxes do) to anything but Linux or OS/2.. but neither of those environments are at all useful for getting shit done!
I still don't use it for a desktop system.
Why?
Let's see. It takes basically an entire DAY to get a linux system up and running, with a custom kernel specifically for it. It's even worse if you're not sure exactly what kind of hardware is in it. (I inherited a Proliant server box, and I don't even have the SLIGHTEST idea what the hardware is in it.. i have Linux installed so I can use it as an X terminal, but sound doesn't work, modem doesn't work, and video isn't configured properly.. i spent all of Yesterday trying to figure out those issues, and still haven't.. and like I said, I've been doing this for over 10 YEARS.. since 0.98...)
KDE and Gnome SUCK. I hate to throw this in the face of all the people who have worked on this for years, but I'd rather use an old Mac, or Windows 3.11 - I love to play with all the options available, but once I start getting into some of the more bizarre themes available, suddenly the buttons on the windows don't do ANYTHING like what I expect, and i'm closing things that i want to minimize/maximize/resize, etc.
yesterday, I also finally managed to configure my CD-RW to write CD's under Linux.. this is a box that is primarily used as the house web-server. This was the one thing I was successful at, whereas the other's I've still managed to fail at. lol..
so, I go and I download the latest versions of the cd-authoring utilities, xcdroast, etc.. find xcdroast to be a complete piece of crap.. and go and find better solutions. gtoaster. great software! run it to burn an audio cd... make 2 coasters, and get 4discs that it refused to even write to.
I rip the CD-RW out of the Linux box, put it into the Windows box, select 7 MP3's in my player, click "Burn CD", and 30 minutes later, I have a CD that functions just fine in my car stereo. Using one of the discs that the Linux mastering software refused to write to.
Windows '98 may crash a lot, and I find myself EXTREMELY frustrated with it.. but it does tasks that USERS want to do.
I'd never trust a machine that serves a particularly useful purpose (my Ethernet SWITCHES
Comcast had blocked my port 80 when Code Red came into existence.. after about two weeks.. and didn't unblock it for almost 6 months. But that's ok, I just setup my webserver on port 82. No big deal.
I think they blocked me for longer than everyone else because I was using a shitfuckload of traffic, with a webserver that was serving 80GB/mo, in straight HTML text.. lol the wonders of running a popular game.
Unfortunatly, that game was sued out of existence.. so now I serve out about 100MB/mo. oh well.
omfg, at work sometime last week, i had these two asian men come into the store, and i approached them, said "How are you gentlemen?"
They both responded, almost in perfect time "All your base are belong to us!"
Unfortunatly, I don't have a URL for it, but I noticed in one of Yahoo's cryptic url's doing a member search, it had....
...
http://members.yahoo.com/?.....&AYB=BTU&..
All Your Base = Belong To Us
I know at least in NT 4.0, and I would be willing to bet a small amount, that in Win2k, NT was capable of running OS/2 1.x TEXT BASED applications. why? Because win32 was based on OS/2's 32-bit API. The code for supporting that is probably actually QUITE still there, since with 411,000 !!!!!!! source files, who would actually go through all of them to figure out how to remove OS/2 1.3 app support?!
And really, as if anyone actually HAS any OS/2 1.3 command line applications?!? yeah right.
Anyone out there still running Linux 0.99.15f? That's the last ver that I built by hand.
I thought that people who were already like this were the ones who were primarily attracted to video games (and, quite likely, Internet Chat rooms) ..
I think they're diagnosing a pre-existing condition here!
Could someone exactly explain the issue? The complaint doesn't make any sense. I mean, really. Who could honestly care if the software's been opened, and resealed, and why?
I work retail. People all day long tell me "i should get a discount because that's been on display".. Can someone explain this mentality to me? You're going to take it home and OPEN THE FREAKIN BOX as soon as you get it home.. so what's it matter if I've opened it, or if you have? lol
I'm using Mozilla 1.1, dumbass.
Once again, an article (this one i'm actually interested in reading.. *sigh*) that spans a screen width of > 2048x2048... oh well.....