Part of your point, that telcos are lazy and negligent, is exactly why this is enticing. Maybe if the telcos didn't have to install new hardware on private property, the cost to roll out broadband would be cheaper. Of course, without the opportunity to gouge the customer on that new hardware, the enticement might be gone. This could also open the possibility of third-party bandwidth providers like WISPs, and not being pigeon-holed into one of 3 delightfully crappy plans.
it's a little slow, but I wrote a one-liner to do this. It's posted above, but I'll post it again here: du -s * | sort -n | awk -F "\t" '{print "\"" $2 "\"" }' | xargs du -sh
Not exactly the same, but I once named a file the backspace character. This was under IRIX, fwiw. How do I delete that? I really can't remember how I created it.
As long as there aren't too many files in the current directory. The C/UNIX argument system only allows for a finite (1024 iirc) number of arguments. The shell will expand * to the contents of the directory, and if that plus the 1 argument for the command name is more than the limit, you get an error. This is why xargs exits. It's a strange command and you have to really understand UNIX to appreciate it, but there's no real substitute.
US carriers are braindead. Tethering costs extra, but there are hacks to get around this for some phones. Also, if your phone rings, you get kicked off. I don't know they are built to work this way, but I think it's true of any current (deployed) tech.
I fail to see how this "solves the parallel programming problem". If you have a monster server, bandwidth and latency are low for process running on it and communicating with one-another, whether they are running in a VM or not. If you have the same server running *nix with all the programs running, the performance can't really be worse than if you use it to host this OS. It would just be harder to maintain. The only useful feature I saw from the article is that it seems to be able to checkpoint guest OSs. They can't be the first to offer this, not counting IBM, but they might be the first to have it integrated and support un-modified guest OSs.
Disclaimer: I have a CS degree, but I've never used VMware other than Server and Workstation
I'm not trying to insult the OP or force my opinions on anyone. I don't have trouble reading it, and people are being very dramatic about how much it hurts their eyes. I thought maybe it was like an optical illusion or something and it just didn't "work" on me.
I guess you could call me a wannabe Web designer, since I only write web stuff for myself and do some grunt work for other designers/programmers. I don't even think the title "web designer" is legit. But I do read books and standards docs, and I mostly know what I'm talking about. So, please don't call my skills into question because I don't get hysterical or nauseous reading text in the color scheme of a chalk board.
As I understand it, accasablity on the web is achieved through both the page and the browser. Turn the stylesheet off, or tweak the background color. While I can be sensitive to your needs, I feel the Slashdot designers have met the requirements of accesiblity, if not taste.
Also, I can read this all just fine. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Get better monitors or something. My only complaint is that the lines are very long and I tend to take extra time to find the begining of the next one.
Reading the summary and the first few response threads, my thinking turned to needing the remote service to work on the block level. Unfortunately, this doesn't work with the very primitive capabilities of FTP, so it's not going to work for the original poster. Looks like your idea doesn't mandate using an existing transport. He doesn't say how big his backups are or how often he wants to do this, but he wants individual file support.
Looks like there are a few projects that are trying this, but none of them are both transparent and cross-platform. If it was me I'd use FUSE and start in Python and move to C++ if it seems necessary or prudent. I wanted to do something like this to share files securely among a group, verifying ownership, unlike say GNUnet, which guarantees you have no idea who owned the file. Even that seemed like too broad of a target.
'kde' is just a metapackage: it depends on the packages in that list (directly or indirectly). There's nothing wrong with leaving those other packages installed. The new apt/dpkg conventions try to help you remove cruft, so they let you remove those packages with `apt-get autoremove`. Instead of that, install a few that you need by hand to remove them from the list. When you don't see any in this list that you want, then run auto-remove.
There's a VoIP *industry*? Holy crap. Who'd have thunk.
Maybe SIP isn't the best protocol, but we're living with some pretty lousy protocols and inventive people are making them work. HTTP is a pretty bad RPC protocol. Tell that to everyone using AJAX. Also, as a consultant, I know I can order many brands and models of IP phones that work with SIP and even IAX. There are choises on every platform (except Maemo, see above) for softphones. The only thing that supports Skype is Skype.
Sorry to be mostly OT, but really? Buy a new battery. Mine lasts 3 days even with wifi on most of the time. It did die after about 4 hours of near continuous wifi searching with bluetooth on too. Instant off that actually works would make battery life that much better and make it really useful, but I don't know how well a non-embedded Linux kernel supports that.
Also, the 770 is too much device for these guys, actually running apps and all. The author seems to buy in to the web OS phenomenon. And skype? wtf. This is not how geeks do things... so maybe it will be succesful.
Your post reminded me of how much I like the touchscreen order systems at Wawa (convenience store common in the NE US for those unfamiliar) for the sandwich counter. They are mounted at low chest height and are tilted almost 45 degrees back. Customers use them to navigate the menu tree in a mostly pictoral UI. I guess my point is that it seems to work great but probably only because it's not used continuously, and the application lends itself to a menu-driven UI (no text input, windowing, etc.).
I've really been wanting to do this. Maybe even have the table recognize actual game pieces and change the board to match.
I have an overhead projector, a few 15" LCDs, some projection lenses, and some Lexan. Alas, it seems I'll have to wait to see if this Cubit thing will be helpful to me.
Send a dhcp hostname? Add use-host-decl-names on; to dhcpd.conf
I really don't think there's any way else to do this in Ubuntu. If you're doing stuff like that, run Debian. If you don't know you even can do that, run Ubuntu.
Your retort was well written, but it boils down to "I know you are but what am I?". You called gp out on being one-sided, but didn't address his point properly. Not saying it's worth your time to do so, though.
The dual licensing thing works fine, but the GNU people never get all of what they want. The GPL lets the driver not taint the kernel. You can put non-GPL code in the Linux kernel, but you really can't distribute it once you do that.
The *BSD people can't put GPL-only code in their kernel for a similar reason: the GPL code could be included by the end user but not distributed unless it followed the GPL, which some BSD distributors likely don't.
I'd look, but the site is slashdotted. I only know AVS as Adult Verification System, and I don't know what smut peddlers are doing commenting on DRM. Even wikipedia tells me nothing except it's an old name for the Nintendo.
I agree about most things, including that this isn't news worthy, but your ideas about patents confuse me. I'm not a GPL expert or a lawyer, but: If free software violates a patent, then it could be illegal to distribute in the countries it is patented, but that's essentially obvious. A great thing about free software is that it can provide evidence of prior art and help the fight against software patents. Illegality of patent violation on software might stop companies like Novell, but has largely done nothing to stop the community. I just await the repeal of the unconstitutional DMCA and hope the Canadians don't fall into the same trap.
Not many business people are willing to work in Linux desktops. But at a site I manage, we can't back up QB from the server becuase it runs on one of the PCs and never seems to let go of its database files. Everything else runs on a Debian server machine where we can monitor it and back it up, but QB is always a thorn in our sides.
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Part of your point, that telcos are lazy and negligent, is exactly why this is enticing. Maybe if the telcos didn't have to install new hardware on private property, the cost to roll out broadband would be cheaper. Of course, without the opportunity to gouge the customer on that new hardware, the enticement might be gone. This could also open the possibility of third-party bandwidth providers like WISPs, and not being pigeon-holed into one of 3 delightfully crappy plans.
it's a little slow, but I wrote a one-liner to do this. It's posted above, but I'll post it again here:
du -s * | sort -n | awk -F "\t" '{print "\"" $2 "\"" }' | xargs du -sh
du -s * | sort -n | awk -F "\t" '{print "\"" $2 "\"" }' | xargs du -sh
only tested in GNU/Linux. awk should proabably be gawk. Prints human readable sizes in size order.
Not exactly the same, but I once named a file the backspace character. This was under IRIX, fwiw. How do I delete that? I really can't remember how I created it.
As long as there aren't too many files in the current directory. The C/UNIX argument system only allows for a finite (1024 iirc) number of arguments. The shell will expand * to the contents of the directory, and if that plus the 1 argument for the command name is more than the limit, you get an error. This is why xargs exits. It's a strange command and you have to really understand UNIX to appreciate it, but there's no real substitute.
US carriers are braindead. Tethering costs extra, but there are hacks to get around this for some phones. Also, if your phone rings, you get kicked off. I don't know they are built to work this way, but I think it's true of any current (deployed) tech.
I fail to see how this "solves the parallel programming problem". If you have a monster server, bandwidth and latency are low for process running on it and communicating with one-another, whether they are running in a VM or not. If you have the same server running *nix with all the programs running, the performance can't really be worse than if you use it to host this OS. It would just be harder to maintain. The only useful feature I saw from the article is that it seems to be able to checkpoint guest OSs. They can't be the first to offer this, not counting IBM, but they might be the first to have it integrated and support un-modified guest OSs.
Disclaimer: I have a CS degree, but I've never used VMware other than Server and Workstation
I'm not trying to insult the OP or force my opinions on anyone. I don't have trouble reading it, and people are being very dramatic about how much it hurts their eyes. I thought maybe it was like an optical illusion or something and it just didn't "work" on me.
I guess you could call me a wannabe Web designer, since I only write web stuff for myself and do some grunt work for other designers/programmers. I don't even think the title "web designer" is legit. But I do read books and standards docs, and I mostly know what I'm talking about. So, please don't call my skills into question because I don't get hysterical or nauseous reading text in the color scheme of a chalk board.
In the words of Egon, "I'm always serious."
As I understand it, accasablity on the web is achieved through both the page and the browser. Turn the stylesheet off, or tweak the background color. While I can be sensitive to your needs, I feel the Slashdot designers have met the requirements of accesiblity, if not taste.
Also, I can read this all just fine. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Get better monitors or something. My only complaint is that the lines are very long and I tend to take extra time to find the begining of the next one.
Reading the summary and the first few response threads, my thinking turned to needing the remote service to work on the block level. Unfortunately, this doesn't work with the very primitive capabilities of FTP, so it's not going to work for the original poster. Looks like your idea doesn't mandate using an existing transport. He doesn't say how big his backups are or how often he wants to do this, but he wants individual file support.
Looks like there are a few projects that are trying this, but none of them are both transparent and cross-platform. If it was me I'd use FUSE and start in Python and move to C++ if it seems necessary or prudent. I wanted to do something like this to share files securely among a group, verifying ownership, unlike say GNUnet, which guarantees you have no idea who owned the file. Even that seemed like too broad of a target.
'kde' is just a metapackage: it depends on the packages in that list (directly or indirectly). There's nothing wrong with leaving those other packages installed. The new apt/dpkg conventions try to help you remove cruft, so they let you remove those packages with `apt-get autoremove`. Instead of that, install a few that you need by hand to remove them from the list. When you don't see any in this list that you want, then run auto-remove.
There's a VoIP *industry*? Holy crap. Who'd have thunk.
Maybe SIP isn't the best protocol, but we're living with some pretty lousy protocols and inventive people are making them work. HTTP is a pretty bad RPC protocol. Tell that to everyone using AJAX. Also, as a consultant, I know I can order many brands and models of IP phones that work with SIP and even IAX. There are choises on every platform (except Maemo, see above) for softphones. The only thing that supports Skype is Skype.
SIP + ITSP
Geeks now have to know voip. Didn't you get the memo?
I'm hating that there's no just-plain-sip client I can find for my 770
Sorry to be mostly OT, but really? Buy a new battery. Mine lasts 3 days even with wifi on most of the time. It did die after about 4 hours of near continuous wifi searching with bluetooth on too. Instant off that actually works would make battery life that much better and make it really useful, but I don't know how well a non-embedded Linux kernel supports that.
Also, the 770 is too much device for these guys, actually running apps and all. The author seems to buy in to the web OS phenomenon. And skype? wtf. This is not how geeks do things... so maybe it will be succesful.
Your post reminded me of how much I like the touchscreen order systems at Wawa (convenience store common in the NE US for those unfamiliar) for the sandwich counter. They are mounted at low chest height and are tilted almost 45 degrees back. Customers use them to navigate the menu tree in a mostly pictoral UI. I guess my point is that it seems to work great but probably only because it's not used continuously, and the application lends itself to a menu-driven UI (no text input, windowing, etc.).
I've really been wanting to do this. Maybe even have the table recognize actual game pieces and change the board to match.
I have an overhead projector, a few 15" LCDs, some projection lenses, and some Lexan. Alas, it seems I'll have to wait to see if this Cubit thing will be helpful to me.
Send a dhcp hostname?
Add
use-host-decl-names on;
to dhcpd.conf
I really don't think there's any way else to do this in Ubuntu. If you're doing stuff like that, run Debian. If you don't know you even can do that, run Ubuntu.
Your retort was well written, but it boils down to "I know you are but what am I?". You called gp out on being one-sided, but didn't address his point properly. Not saying it's worth your time to do so, though.
The dual licensing thing works fine, but the GNU people never get all of what they want. The GPL lets the driver not taint the kernel. You can put non-GPL code in the Linux kernel, but you really can't distribute it once you do that.
The *BSD people can't put GPL-only code in their kernel for a similar reason: the GPL code could be included by the end user but not distributed unless it followed the GPL, which some BSD distributors likely don't.
actually, I think we need a Parallel Sysplex of these.
AV (audio-visual) Science Forum. Sorry to be a n00b.
I'd look, but the site is slashdotted. I only know AVS as Adult Verification System, and I don't know what smut peddlers are doing commenting on DRM. Even wikipedia tells me nothing except it's an old name for the Nintendo.
I agree about most things, including that this isn't news worthy, but your ideas about patents confuse me. I'm not a GPL expert or a lawyer, but: If free software violates a patent, then it could be illegal to distribute in the countries it is patented, but that's essentially obvious. A great thing about free software is that it can provide evidence of prior art and help the fight against software patents. Illegality of patent violation on software might stop companies like Novell, but has largely done nothing to stop the community. I just await the repeal of the unconstitutional DMCA and hope the Canadians don't fall into the same trap.
Not many business people are willing to work in Linux desktops. But at a site I manage, we can't back up QB from the server becuase it runs on one of the PCs and never seems to let go of its database files. Everything else runs on a Debian server machine where we can monitor it and back it up, but QB is always a thorn in our sides.
I got the joke. /me laughs out loud
I just got done explaining Thawte to my friend when I read your post.