RadioShack already sells an 802.11b router. I don't know what it's power is - i haven't gone wireless with my LAN yet - but it's there. Maybe some superguru can modify a cell antenna to be a nice 802.11b antenna... glass mount, 5db gain, for under $300..hmm.. lol
I scanned briefly all the articles, and didn't see any descriptions.
Here's what it does:
When you answer your phone, it plays the three tones that the TelCo plays when you call a disconnected phone number. it plays them SO fast that it's virtually impossible to hear unless you are listening for it specifically.
Most automated dialing systems used by telemarketers will automatically hang up on that, and go to the next number - while removing that number from their dialing list. No sense wasting time trying to dial disconnected numbers.
As they sell their list of good and bad phone numbers to other systems, it gets passed around as a disconnected number.
From what I understand, it takes about 6 months before the system will then check the number AGAIN to see if it's still disconnected. People who've used them have told me that it took about 2 weeks to eliminate virtually all telemarketing calls - and this is from people who got A LOT of calls.
The one thing it doesn't affect are those poor blokes that are sitting there with a speakerphone/headset phone and a dial pad, with a paper list of phone numbers to try. heh.
(1) my power supply fan that has been squeaking for weeks stopped
[i think that had to do with the fact that i moved something that it was rubbing against more than ugprading the kernel]
(2) when i booted, i logged in as root, and typed "free" - it reported close to 55MB free (out of 96) - previous kernels gave me sub 32MB.
(3) after 'startx' (running GNOME w/sawfish), i opened an xterm, and STILL had 10MB ram, no swapping yet.
(4) executed a kernel recompile, loaded my web browser, and still haven't gone more then 4MB into the swapper yet.
Honestly, I find it rather impressive that Linus is even involved still, let alone at the top of the tree as well.
It seems that Linus is taking a bit of a less conservative approach to wether or not to potentially break things, which is good for improvements and updates. Alan Cox seems to be taking a lot more conservative view.
I think it's good for the community. Honestly, if I were Linus, I probably wouldn't even be able to FIND the time to even DEAL with the kernel anymore.
I'd have just let Alan go on with it, and put in bits and pieces here and there when time permitted.
But Linus isn't like that. I don't think Linus will ever abandon his baby. I've been with Linux since the beginning, and although in that time I've forayed through BeOS, and Winders, and OS/2, and any other OS that I could find, I always seem to come back to Linux.
And I always stay on the bleeding edge, because I love the thrill. I don't know what the thrill IS yet, I can't put my finger on it. but I stay there. I love being the testbed. At least I don't have to write code just to get my system to boot like I did at 0.98 w/ NET2 ALPHA3!!! lol!
I have a K6-2/450, and have never had a problem with enabled APIC. It might be related to the Athlon.
It might also be related to GCC 3.0 - do you use that as well?
I just downgraded to gcc 2.95-something, at the recommendation of "mplayer"'s./configure command. Apparently the 2.96 is pretty massively buggy, and the patches don't fix it. 3.0 i've been advised not to use for kernels, though I don't remember who/where advised me of that.
Jesus Linus, people... a bug slips through. Some bug that a few people at the upper levels of maintenance didn't happen to notice.
Frankly, I've been running 2.4.11 since the moment I was able to get it, and haven't had any issues - except for a bug with XMMS that cropped up in 2.4.9, where if I load my playlist of 2700 files, then click "Sort", or click "Next song", or click through the list about 4 times in rapid succession, it memory leaks until the system kills it.
Now, I'm going to go and get 2.4.12 as soon as the mirrors get open, and damn, i could care less about it.
I certainly have to wonder exactly how you could automate testing of kernel processes, without making it a habit of completely blowing up your test machine every time you try something new. heh.
I ran with those patches in addition to 2.4.10, and was really impressed. I forgot to install them for 2.4.11, and I'm more impressed without them. Then again, I'm sort of comparing apples to oranges here, as 2.4.4-2.4.9 were steaming hunks of crap for the VM.
As soon as I see "official" PE patches for 2.4.11, i'll compile a kernel with them, and switch back and forth, and see how things seem.
I'm wondering what the hell you people are talking about here - as usual. lol.
2.4.10 is the only kernel in the series since 2.4.2 that I have been ABLE to even RUN on a daily basis, because of the piece of CRAP VM changes made in that area. With 2.4.4-2.4.9, if I did my normal stuff (which is mostly web browsing, email, and chat, along with a web-server that gets about 1k requests/hour), my 96MB ram, 348MB swap system would completely die, and LOCK UP after 4-5 hours, swap and RAM totally exhausted.
Didn't happen once under 2.4.10, with load averages occasionally pushing over 40, and not even a slowdown apparent to me or to my website users (that they told me of anyway). Now, I've got 2.4.11. So far, so good. I forgot to apply the PE patches, though. Hmm.
It's got 96MB ram. If I run free, it says i have typically about 48MB free after boot, then i run GNOME, and an xterm, issue free, and it starts telling me i've got 96MB in the swapper, with 32MB free. It never really ever USES any of my free memory, it uses swap.
This has been happening since 2.4.2. 2.4.9 seriously decreased the constant swappability (X process no longer takes up 800+MB after only 4 hours).. but turning swapoff right after system startup, then turning it on after getting all my personal stuff running seems to greatly help.
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jesus the VM in 2.4.2-2.4.8 sucked BADLY. 2.4.9 shows marked improvement.
Tip: after boot, issue a swapoff on all your swap space, get your X up and running, and all your other stuff, then AFTER that, su root and swapon your swap devices.
This goes to prove that ANYTHING can make a slashdot story, if someone can throw a censorist spin into it.
Unless this list were to become a permanent list of songs that CANNOT BE PLAYED on the air, by any station in that network, they aren't even coming CLOSE to censorship. AND since they are a private corporation, they can do whatever the hell they want! They could just convert all their stations over to Classical format, and then they'd never have to worry about playing those songs again.
Think about this. CENSORSHIP is not at all involved in CHOOSING NOT TO DO SOMETHING. CENSORSHIP is involved in FORCING SOMEONE ELSE TO DO/NOT DO SOMETHING. And I don't mean "a network forcing the people that work for them to play only certain media". The people that work for them are their representatives.
I mean, come on. Throw together the choruses of most of those songs, and you'd have a great way to be really fucking insensitive and highly offensive to people about this whole deal.
(though on the "wtc disaster jokes" that were posted yesterday on a message here, there was one that was actually kinda funny.. Ya know, the ticket sellers should've realised that something was amiss when those people asked if they had anything cheaper than a one-way ticket...)
There's a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, I can't stand to take in any more video, any more audio, any more pictures, or news articles, but I can't fend it off, and everywhere I turn, there's more of it. But I don't want to fend it off, either.. I don't even want to bring it up here, but I feel at this point that I have to.
There are multiple thousands of people out there today, who's lifelines just suddenly came to a very abrupt end. I hope that the ones who did not make it out of the destroyed buildings were killed instantly - that there was no pain and suffering, or desperate desire and hope to get out of there alive, only to be cheated from it. I hope that those killed on the planes that were hurled into these buildings didn't even have enough time to be afraid, to panic, etc. I hope the rescue workers and such that were at the base of the buildings when they fell somehow made it through, though I'm certain that there is no way anyone could have survived that.
I pray to all the supreme beings that are out there, that those who did manage to survive, will still have some modicum of sanity; that they have people left to go home to; that somehow all the lives that were given today, find their homes in whatever Good afterlife they believed in... and that those who are responsible end in the worst Hell for all their lives and beyond.
I don't think I can say anymore.. I really don't.. but I want to keep going..
May the newfound New York sunlight shine on them all, forever.
It says "I am going away in 7 days" (on the 4th, which would make the 11th) "and you will not hear from me again".. also talking about end of the world "cataclysmic" prophecies?
Hmm. Maybe that POST should be sent to the FBI!
A post I made at http://mi-net.dynup.net:4000/ today.
I don't know what to say. I logged into Empire as soon as I thought of it, after the news reports started rolling in on Headline News.
I'm so in shock.
I don't feel the pain that many hundreds, and thousands of people are feeling right now. I feel numb. I feel like the last day I came into work 4 hours early, and turned on Headline news, only to watch the destruction of the Murrah building in Oklahoma, nearly as it happened. The same thing happened today, to me. Utter helplessness, numbness.. My mind feels like it's not even there. I'm struggling to even cope with a web browser at this point, trying to force my mind back into my own world.. I think suddenly having my horizons stretched, expanded, and pulled out to encompass the reality of what has happened here in the U.S., has taken it's toll on me.
I feel somewhat like I do after a 16 hour holiday season work day, after personally handling some 200+ customers, and still somehow managing to run my business that day.. but without the happiness of knowing that at least a few of them are better off for my efforts.
There's a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, I can't stand to take in any more video, any more audio, any more pictures, or news articles, but I can't fend it off, and everywhere I turn, there's more of it. But I don't want to fend it off, either.. I don't even want to bring it up here, but I feel at this point that I have to.
There are multiple thousands of people out there today, who's lifelines just suddenly came to a very abrupt end. I hope that the ones who did not make it out of the destroyed buildings were killed instantly - that there was no pain and suffering, or desperate desire and hope to get out of there alive, only to be cheated from it. I hope that those killed on the planes that were hurled into these buildings didn't even have enough time to be afraid, to panic, etc. I hope the rescue workers and such that were at the base of the buildings when they fell somehow made it through, though I'm certain that there is no way anyone could have survived that.
I pray to all the supreme beings that are out there, that those who did manage to survive, will still have some modicum of sanity; that they have people left to go home to; that somehow all the lives that were given today, find their homes in whatever Good afterlife they believed in... and that those who are responsible end in the worst Hell for all their lives and beyond.
I don't think I can say anymore.. I really don't.. but I want to keep going..
May the newfound New York sunlight shine on them all, forever.
- Blade
I think that he's right - obviously, there really is no better place than here - the haven for the technogeeks. At any age.
I've been reading slashdot for darn near as long as I can remember there being something more on the web than "HEY! A WEB PAGE WITH PICTURES! CHECK IT OUT!". I wasn't 15, but I wasn't that far away from it, either.
I'd be willing to bet if Slashdot could conduct a survey that people woudl take SERIOUSLY, we'd probably find an EXTREMELY varied age range, but with a shockingly low average. I mean, I know geeks/nerds anywhere from 8 to 80, but the vast majority of them are in their early-mid teens, and they are by far the smartest, brightest, and most innovative.
They don't have the blinders on, that we get through age.
Slashdot Mirror
seems that Stephen King dies every week - to some slashdot user.
I find it really nice that if I open Konqueror, every program on my system SEGFAULTS in random order. :)
RadioShack already sells an 802.11b router. I don't know what it's power is - i haven't gone wireless with my LAN yet - but it's there. Maybe some superguru can modify a cell antenna to be a nice 802.11b antenna... glass mount, 5db gain, for under $300..hmm.. lol
I scanned briefly all the articles, and didn't see any descriptions.
Here's what it does:
When you answer your phone, it plays the three tones that the TelCo plays when you call a disconnected phone number. it plays them SO fast that it's virtually impossible to hear unless you are listening for it specifically.
Most automated dialing systems used by telemarketers will automatically hang up on that, and go to the next number - while removing that number from their dialing list. No sense wasting time trying to dial disconnected numbers.
As they sell their list of good and bad phone numbers to other systems, it gets passed around as a disconnected number.
From what I understand, it takes about 6 months before the system will then check the number AGAIN to see if it's still disconnected. People who've used them have told me that it took about 2 weeks to eliminate virtually all telemarketing calls - and this is from people who got A LOT of calls.
The one thing it doesn't affect are those poor blokes that are sitting there with a speakerphone/headset phone and a dial pad, with a paper list of phone numbers to try. heh.
2.4.12 installed and running:
(1) my power supply fan that has been squeaking for weeks stopped
[i think that had to do with the fact that i moved something that it was rubbing against more than ugprading the kernel]
(2) when i booted, i logged in as root, and typed "free" - it reported close to 55MB free (out of 96) - previous kernels gave me sub 32MB.
(3) after 'startx' (running GNOME w/sawfish), i opened an xterm, and STILL had 10MB ram, no swapping yet.
(4) executed a kernel recompile, loaded my web browser, and still haven't gone more then 4MB into the swapper yet.
I"m impressed.
True, true, very true. Just relating my experience. To point out that for some it was a disaster, to me, it was a godsend.
That's a very good point, ahknight.
Honestly, I find it rather impressive that Linus is even involved still, let alone at the top of the tree as well.
It seems that Linus is taking a bit of a less conservative approach to wether or not to potentially break things, which is good for improvements and updates. Alan Cox seems to be taking a lot more conservative view.
I think it's good for the community. Honestly, if I were Linus, I probably wouldn't even be able to FIND the time to even DEAL with the kernel anymore.
I'd have just let Alan go on with it, and put in bits and pieces here and there when time permitted.
But Linus isn't like that. I don't think Linus will ever abandon his baby. I've been with Linux since the beginning, and although in that time I've forayed through BeOS, and Winders, and OS/2, and any other OS that I could find, I always seem to come back to Linux.
And I always stay on the bleeding edge, because I love the thrill. I don't know what the thrill IS yet, I can't put my finger on it. but I stay there. I love being the testbed. At least I don't have to write code just to get my system to boot like I did at 0.98 w/ NET2 ALPHA3!!! lol!
I have a K6-2/450, and have never had a problem with enabled APIC. It might be related to the Athlon.
./configure command. Apparently the 2.96 is pretty massively buggy, and the patches don't fix it. 3.0 i've been advised not to use for kernels, though I don't remember who/where advised me of that.
It might also be related to GCC 3.0 - do you use that as well?
I just downgraded to gcc 2.95-something, at the recommendation of "mplayer"'s
Jesus Linus, people... a bug slips through. Some bug that a few people at the upper levels of maintenance didn't happen to notice.
Frankly, I've been running 2.4.11 since the moment I was able to get it, and haven't had any issues - except for a bug with XMMS that cropped up in 2.4.9, where if I load my playlist of 2700 files, then click "Sort", or click "Next song", or click through the list about 4 times in rapid succession, it memory leaks until the system kills it.
Now, I'm going to go and get 2.4.12 as soon as the mirrors get open, and damn, i could care less about it.
Give people a break.
I certainly have to wonder exactly how you could automate testing of kernel processes, without making it a habit of completely blowing up your test machine every time you try something new. heh.
Having no problems with CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ on this end, complete clean 2.4.11 source tree.
Had LOTS of compile problems with a source tree that i just overwrote with 2.4.11, which normally works for me.
X exiting and hard locking the system has been a problem for me ever since v0.99.15, and has never stopped.
umm.. maybe i'm reading these datas wrong, but that looks like the PE patches blow away the LL patches.. ??
I ran with those patches in addition to 2.4.10, and was really impressed. I forgot to install them for 2.4.11, and I'm more impressed without them. Then again, I'm sort of comparing apples to oranges here, as 2.4.4-2.4.9 were steaming hunks of crap for the VM.
As soon as I see "official" PE patches for 2.4.11, i'll compile a kernel with them, and switch back and forth, and see how things seem.
I'm wondering what the hell you people are talking about here - as usual. lol.
2.4.10 is the only kernel in the series since 2.4.2 that I have been ABLE to even RUN on a daily basis, because of the piece of CRAP VM changes made in that area. With 2.4.4-2.4.9, if I did my normal stuff (which is mostly web browsing, email, and chat, along with a web-server that gets about 1k requests/hour), my 96MB ram, 348MB swap system would completely die, and LOCK UP after 4-5 hours, swap and RAM totally exhausted.
Didn't happen once under 2.4.10, with load averages occasionally pushing over 40, and not even a slowdown apparent to me or to my website users (that they told me of anyway). Now, I've got 2.4.11. So far, so good. I forgot to apply the PE patches, though. Hmm.
NET2 used BSD derived code.
I have never looked at NET3.
I would just like to point out that virtually everything on earth either (a) uses or (b) has used BSD-derived TCP/IP code.
It's got 96MB ram. If I run free, it says i have typically about 48MB free after boot, then i run GNOME, and an xterm, issue free, and it starts telling me i've got 96MB in the swapper, with 32MB free. It never really ever USES any of my free memory, it uses swap.
This has been happening since 2.4.2. 2.4.9 seriously decreased the constant swappability (X process no longer takes up 800+MB after only 4 hours).. but turning swapoff right after system startup, then turning it on after getting all my personal stuff running seems to greatly help.
jesus the VM in 2.4.2-2.4.8 sucked BADLY. 2.4.9 shows marked improvement.
Tip: after boot, issue a swapoff on all your swap space, get your X up and running, and all your other stuff, then AFTER that, su root and swapon your swap devices.
Makes my system run a TON faster.
This goes to prove that ANYTHING can make a slashdot story, if someone can throw a censorist spin into it.
Unless this list were to become a permanent list of songs that CANNOT BE PLAYED on the air, by any station in that network, they aren't even coming CLOSE to censorship. AND since they are a private corporation, they can do whatever the hell they want! They could just convert all their stations over to Classical format, and then they'd never have to worry about playing those songs again.
Think about this. CENSORSHIP is not at all involved in CHOOSING NOT TO DO SOMETHING. CENSORSHIP is involved in FORCING SOMEONE ELSE TO DO/NOT DO SOMETHING. And I don't mean "a network forcing the people that work for them to play only certain media". The people that work for them are their representatives.
I mean, come on. Throw together the choruses of most of those songs, and you'd have a great way to be really fucking insensitive and highly offensive to people about this whole deal.
(though on the "wtc disaster jokes" that were posted yesterday on a message here, there was one that was actually kinda funny.. Ya know, the ticket sellers should've realised that something was amiss when those people asked if they had anything cheaper than a one-way ticket...)
From a message I posted on Holy Empire yesterday:
There's a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, I can't stand to take in any more video, any more audio, any more pictures, or news articles, but I can't fend it off, and everywhere I turn, there's more of it. But I don't want to fend it off, either.. I don't even want to bring it up here, but I feel at this point that I have to.
There are multiple thousands of people out there today, who's lifelines just suddenly came to a very abrupt end. I hope that the ones who did not make it out of the destroyed buildings were killed instantly - that there was no pain and suffering, or desperate desire and hope to get out of there alive, only to be cheated from it. I hope that those killed on the planes that were hurled into these buildings didn't even have enough time to be afraid, to panic, etc. I hope the rescue workers and such that were at the base of the buildings when they fell somehow made it through, though I'm certain that there is no way anyone could have survived that.
I pray to all the supreme beings that are out there, that those who did manage to survive, will still have some modicum of sanity; that they have people left to go home to; that somehow all the lives that were given today, find their homes in whatever Good afterlife they believed in... and that those who are responsible end in the worst Hell for all their lives and beyond.
I don't think I can say anymore.. I really don't.. but I want to keep going..
May the newfound New York sunlight shine on them all, forever.
It says "I am going away in 7 days" (on the 4th, which would make the 11th) "and you will not hear from me again".. also talking about end of the world "cataclysmic" prophecies?
Hmm. Maybe that POST should be sent to the FBI!
Wtf?
Hey, I'm in Ann Arbor as well. Catch me at my email..
A post I made at http://mi-net.dynup.net:4000/ today.
I don't know what to say. I logged into Empire as soon as I thought of it, after the news reports started rolling in on Headline News.
I'm so in shock.
I don't feel the pain that many hundreds, and thousands of people are feeling right now. I feel numb. I feel like the last day I came into work 4 hours early, and turned on Headline news, only to watch the destruction of the Murrah building in Oklahoma, nearly as it happened. The same thing happened today, to me. Utter helplessness, numbness.. My mind feels like it's not even there. I'm struggling to even cope with a web browser at this point, trying to force my mind back into my own world.. I think suddenly having my horizons stretched, expanded, and pulled out to encompass the reality of what has happened here in the U.S., has taken it's toll on me.
I feel somewhat like I do after a 16 hour holiday season work day, after personally handling some 200+ customers, and still somehow managing to run my business that day.. but without the happiness of knowing that at least a few of them are better off for my efforts.
There's a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, I can't stand to take in any more video, any more audio, any more pictures, or news articles, but I can't fend it off, and everywhere I turn, there's more of it. But I don't want to fend it off, either.. I don't even want to bring it up here, but I feel at this point that I have to.
There are multiple thousands of people out there today, who's lifelines just suddenly came to a very abrupt end. I hope that the ones who did not make it out of the destroyed buildings were killed instantly - that there was no pain and suffering, or desperate desire and hope to get out of there alive, only to be cheated from it. I hope that those killed on the planes that were hurled into these buildings didn't even have enough time to be afraid, to panic, etc. I hope the rescue workers and such that were at the base of the buildings when they fell somehow made it through, though I'm certain that there is no way anyone could have survived that.
I pray to all the supreme beings that are out there, that those who did manage to survive, will still have some modicum of sanity; that they have people left to go home to; that somehow all the lives that were given today, find their homes in whatever Good afterlife they believed in... and that those who are responsible end in the worst Hell for all their lives and beyond.
I don't think I can say anymore.. I really don't.. but I want to keep going..
May the newfound New York sunlight shine on them all, forever.
- Blade
The Mexican border was closed first. The Canadian border was not CLOSED entirely, however the stations from New York to Canada were.
I think that he's right - obviously, there really is no better place than here - the haven for the technogeeks. At any age.
I've been reading slashdot for darn near as long as I can remember there being something more on the web than "HEY! A WEB PAGE WITH PICTURES! CHECK IT OUT!". I wasn't 15, but I wasn't that far away from it, either.
I'd be willing to bet if Slashdot could conduct a survey that people woudl take SERIOUSLY, we'd probably find an EXTREMELY varied age range, but with a shockingly low average. I mean, I know geeks/nerds anywhere from 8 to 80, but the vast majority of them are in their early-mid teens, and they are by far the smartest, brightest, and most innovative.
They don't have the blinders on, that we get through age.