For those of you actually compiling in ext3 support, you're going to need the new ext2 / ext3 tools (1.25) which adds support for ext3 filesystems. Then you should run:
tune2fs -j (device)
for each device, to add ext3 journaling to existing ext2 partitions.
A couple things. Its amazing that the technology is available to do such a thing! (Thats cool in and of itself).
But in today's political scene, I'm surprised they can even toss the idea around without getting into trouble with the law and/or SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).
Hydrogen is also the most plentiful element there is, because it is the simplest one. It is also produced when some radioactive elements undergo decay to become more stable, they sometimes produce single protons (Hydrogen has 1 proton), which is essentialy an H+ ion. Should that come in contact with a free election or another element to take/give/share an electron, you have a new hydrogen atom.
It is also the most reactive element, due to the fact that it only has space for 2 electrons on the outer shell. It would either gain an electron (forming an H- ion), or lose the one it has (forming an H+ ion). This makes it react with virtually every element except the Noble gasses.
Consequently A) you have to be extremely careful with it, and B) need very little to catalyze a reaction, with hydrogen atoms, that releases more energy than it uses (exothermic reaction).
Just some thoughts from a HS chemistry student. Some of this information may be inaccurate, as I don't have perfect memory =)
Actually, I've just compiled my kernel, and I recall seeing an option (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC for the RAID device, and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX for the Promise 202xx chipset).
I think these are new as of 2.4.14, but maybe not. Try compiling your kernel with those enabled and see what happens.
As the memo says, they only way to "eliminate" OSS is to understand a process. Ironically enough, the entity searching for this "process" will in the end, find itself.
This is much like the ancient greek story OEdipus Rex, where he searches for a murderer and finds himself to be the person for whom he was searching. IMO, Microsoft in itself is the type of thing that drives OSS projects. The desire for non-corporate software, because of their greediness in terms of money, and inefficency of their products, and the desire to re-invent the wheel to be better than the current one, with input from all parties interested.
In order to combat the fees, the source code must be free and open, such that nobody will ever be able to claim it as their own and stop reproduction of it. And with OSS, anybody that sees a better way to do something, can contribute it. Whereas with the corporate model, you must write your programs to your manager's specifications, making innovation difficult at the developer level.
So in the end, the drive for OSS is to get away from the monolithic corporate model, which Microsoft ultimately represents. To destroy OSS, they must truly make their products more efficient and cause people to desire to migrate back to their software despite licensing fees.
Just some thoughts on the statments contained in the memo... maybe they're right, maybe they're not.
Having been in school for many years, I would think many things that people would come across in school would be more harmful than a lot of the things that can be found on the net. Yes, pr0n would fall under the category of harmful (and no, its one of the few that you're not exposed to in public school). For example, my social studies teacher showed a movie about the Civil War (I want to say "Glory" was the title.), but anyway, she got yelled at by many parents because it contained graphic images of a soldier getting his head blown up.
Welcome to the real world kiddies, violence happens and there isn't ANYTHING that you can do to stop it. I don't agree with the bill, as it would allow too many oo-they-have-money-so-lets-sue-them parents to take internet sites to court. And, it is especially bad for the children. When they get out to the real world, their parents won't be there anymore to sheild their eyes from the horrors of reality. Better let them see it while you're still there to explain it, than let them get smacked upside the head with reality when they turn 18 and/or go to college.
Honestly, this falls under the category of "political correctness." IMO, the world could use more political incorrectness. Also, by making it an offense to publish "harmful" material, it would drive more and more web hosting out of the USA, such that they couldn't be punished under that bill. In this economy and the shaky tech market, the last thing we need is to drive more business away from the USA.
We have freedom of speech? Not if any laws like these go into effect.
<SARCASM> (Note: Companies may like to check into the constitution before proposing legislation) </SARCASM>
This is what Communism is _supposed_ to be
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If you have ever examined the Communist manifesto, this is exactly what Communism is supposed to be. No, it doesn't work on a governmental level, due to corruption and sheer size. But this is where it excels: The program is freely available to everybody - as in everybody contributes his or her skills to better the community, and the authors/coders' skills happen to be that of writing programs. Another added benifit is that everybody can learn from Open Source, hence bettering future programs, as they can learn from all the programs and implement the best elements of them all.
So I leave you with this: Wouldn't calling Open Source Software "Creeping Marxism" be a compliment, as that concept is exactly what the Open Source movement is supposed to acheive? It is a harmless way for the community to benefit itself through sharing. Just some food for thought.
It is the same problem people had with the
outbreak of school violence. They immediately
went to blame violent video games as the 'sole'
cause. Also, take cell phones and automobile
accidents for example. People blamed those, even
though they are one of the smallest causes.
In essence, people look for the easiest thing
to blame, which usually ends up being technology,
since its 'new,' it must be the source of 'new'
problems like terrorism, even though there is no
true solution or source to blame for such
occurances.
Yep. Somehow it is utterly un-surprising that Congress is using this as an excuse to take away more of our basic rights. The day the WTC and Pentagon were hit I could tell instantly that Congress was going to take this and turn it in to "If you want more national security, you have to give up personal security." Anyway, we cannot allow this to happen. You can draw a parrallel:
Congress:People
Terrorists:USA
Because only will of the people will be able to overcome the legislation that congress proposes, just as the will of the USA and other countries would be able to overcome the terrorists. And both the terrorists and congress are going to end up taking our rights away, as Congress is using the terrorist's acts to "justify" taking away rights for "national security."
I end this with a note of hope: You elected your Congressmen (and Congresswomen), so now to maintain your rights, you need to call them or E-Mail them. They are there to represent YOU, so let them know how you feel!
Very, Very right. I'm fifteen, but I'd have to say I've been dying to learn C/C++ for many years now. Windows is very limiting as a development environment, as all the C/C++ compilers are commercial. I don't have the money to buy a compiler!
So what do I do? -- I heard about Linux and have been using it for 2 years now and it it the most condusive environment to learning C/C++. There are open-source programs for you to look at and learn from, as well as (*gasp*) free development tools (gcc, etc...) that either come with the distro's or are easily downloadable (no purchasing involved!).
It has taken 2 days for people in my Computer Science 1 class to grasp the concept of readln() and writeln() in PASCAL [IMO, PASCAL sucks, I much prefer C++). And i don't wonder if this is because all their previous programming experience has been in high-level languages such as JavaScript and HTML. (If any at all). And in the two day's its taken them (and maybe 3 tomorrow), I've been able to write the program in PASCAL, C++ and still had a day to work on something else. I actually installed Linux on one computer during my last year in middle school, but the computer teacher that came in the following year wouldn't let anybody touch it, presumably to not understanding it.
To sum it up, I think Linux would be a great thing to have in our schools as long as the teachers new how to use it, for it allows administrators to control more settings and allow more freedoms at the same time than Windows does, and is vastly less to maintain as long as the administrators do things right. (true user-based settings!)
I'm fifteen and I actually spend most of my time coding and reading news and stuff. I really don't care for the people that chat on AIM and stuff. (IMO, IRC is better than AIM anyway). At least from my perspective, the author seems to be a little off when using the term "most fifteen year olds." At least the ones I see at my school would have no idea what UNIX is. Let alone recognize any C++ or anything else intelligent. So for the most part, I'd have to say that your assesments (may be) are correct, but that there is a small precentage of the teenage popluation that does involve themselves in "other halfway intelligent endeavors."
This is just my opinion as a teenager, take it for face value and nothing more. (and my $0.02).
Exactly; I would have to agree. Zelda is indeed one of the best RPG series for the Nintendo series of console systems. Of all the N64 games I own, I would have to say that Zelda 64 and Goldeneye are by far my favorite two. I think that both Goldeneye and Zelda 64 were done terrible injustice being so far down on the list. They both contained extremely intricate plots, wonderful graphics, and were very entertaining, both contained in less than 32MB of hard code and up to 4MB of RAM. And also on a 93.25 MHz processor. Quake 3 couldn't run on that, now could it? Neither should have been #1, for sure, but they could have at least placed them higher than 43rd and 38th.
Just something I'd like to point out. 'Zeit' and 'Geist' are both german words. Zeit means 'time' and geist means 'ghost' or 'spirit'. So would that make the true title of this book "The ghost of time"? Or how about "The spirit of time"? Or "Time's spirit"?
Looking at the title that way, it makes sense that it is set in the past.
I may sound like a troll of sorts or anti Intel, but when it comes to high end scientific engineering does anyone actually use anything outside the realms of Sun, Irix, and Alpha?
Recently, the Alpha structure was sold to intel. Anyway, if Intel continues on there we-need-a-new-socket trend, then the P4 will be outdated (in the realm of connectivity) soon. And with AMD's x86-64 technology coming out the end of this year from what I understand, it may become the processor of choice for most scientific computing, because it would easily be another low-cost, high-performance solution from AMD. I don't really know, but thats my $0.02.
If MSIE 5.01+ is the only browser that supports these 'functions,' then as long as it is Standards Compliant, then Mozilla should be able to access the site too. Maybe Microsoft (as they have before), is using html tags, etc... that are not standard (like the <marquee> and </marquee> tags), so that MSIE is the only thing that can view it. This, then, indirectly forces users to download MSIE 5.01+ and generate hits on Microsoft's website, and increase the MSIE market share by 1 more person, which is what they want.
However, I do agree that it is partially the fault of whoever hired Microsoft to do the job. Also, the site explicitly states that the Equifax certificates do not work with any version of the Netscape browsers so, gee, your only choice is to download MSIE 5.01+.
How do you know somebody works for Microsoft? Ask them a question, and they give you a technically correct, yet totally useless answer.
I honestly have to disagree with this. I will say, first, that I really disliked the voyager series. Part of it was that after the first episode, the whole idea of getting blown 75,000 light years into the Delta Quadrant was a little much to swallow. Something like that would never have happened in the STTNG series.
Personally, I preferred the personality of Picard, Riker, and the rest of the TNG crew much better. What I didn't like about Voyager is since they were constantly moving home, they never really visited the same place twice. At least from the original to TNG, they kept some similarities such as Vulcans and Klingons to name a few. Also in STTNG, if you watched the series, places like the Neutral Zone showed up multiple times. But in Voyager, with them getting blown into the Delta Quadrant, there was nothing like that; you never saw the same place twice (or at least it was rare).
Overall, Star Trek: The Next Generation was by far a better series than the newer Voyager. I hope that Enterprise is a better series for the survival of the Star Trek 'Franchise.' If they crank out another cheesy series like Voyager, I still won't watch, and I'm sure many people will begin to loose interest as they did between STTNG and Voayager.
Hey, the Supreme Court already ruled on this
stuff, right...? In Case #12, 1928 (Olmstead vs. United States).
Unfortunately, they ruled 5-4 in favor of
Olmstead's conviction, but I personally believe
that it is time for this to stop. This "Line
Item..." gives the Federal Government _way_ too
much power to punish people without them even
knowing what it's for. If this bill is passed,
then I really think that someone needs to
challenge the legality and Constitutionality of
it in the Supreme Court...
BTW, I can see it now:
"31337 H4X0RZ vs. United States"
Case #blah-blah-blah-blah...
Slashdot Mirror
For those of you actually compiling in ext3 support, you're going to need the new ext2 / ext3 tools (1.25) which adds support for ext3 filesystems. Then you should run:
tune2fs -j (device)
for each device, to add ext3 journaling to existing ext2 partitions.
Yes, but its nice to see developers having fun with their work.
Gobble, gobbble!
A couple things. Its amazing that the technology is available to do such a thing! (Thats cool in and of itself).
But in today's political scene, I'm surprised they can even toss the idea around without getting into trouble with the law and/or SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).
Hydrogen is also the most plentiful element there is, because it is the simplest one. It is also produced when some radioactive elements undergo decay to become more stable, they sometimes produce single protons (Hydrogen has 1 proton), which is essentialy an H+ ion. Should that come in contact with a free election or another element to take/give/share an electron, you have a new hydrogen atom.
It is also the most reactive element, due to the fact that it only has space for 2 electrons on the outer shell. It would either gain an electron (forming an H- ion), or lose the one it has (forming an H+ ion). This makes it react with virtually every element except the Noble gasses.
Consequently A) you have to be extremely careful with it, and B) need very little to catalyze a reaction, with hydrogen atoms, that releases more energy than it uses (exothermic reaction).
Just some thoughts from a HS chemistry student. Some of this information may be inaccurate, as I don't have perfect memory =)
Actually, I've just compiled my kernel, and I recall seeing an option (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC for the RAID device, and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX for the Promise 202xx chipset).
I think these are new as of 2.4.14, but maybe not. Try compiling your kernel with those enabled and see what happens.
Is this partially do to his over-zealousness and/or fears concerning the DMCA?
It is a sad day, if US laws are scaring off foreign OSS coders.
As the memo says, they only way to "eliminate" OSS is to understand a process. Ironically enough, the entity searching for this "process" will in the end, find itself.
This is much like the ancient greek story OEdipus Rex, where he searches for a murderer and finds himself to be the person for whom he was searching. IMO, Microsoft in itself is the type of thing that drives OSS projects. The desire for non-corporate software, because of their greediness in terms of money, and inefficency of their products, and the desire to re-invent the wheel to be better than the current one, with input from all parties interested.
In order to combat the fees, the source code must be free and open, such that nobody will ever be able to claim it as their own and stop reproduction of it. And with OSS, anybody that sees a better way to do something, can contribute it. Whereas with the corporate model, you must write your programs to your manager's specifications, making innovation difficult at the developer level.
So in the end, the drive for OSS is to get away from the monolithic corporate model, which Microsoft ultimately represents. To destroy OSS, they must truly make their products more efficient and cause people to desire to migrate back to their software despite licensing fees.
Just some thoughts on the statments contained in the memo... maybe they're right, maybe they're not.
Having been in school for many years, I would think many things that people would come across in school would be more harmful than a lot of the things that can be found on the net. Yes, pr0n would fall under the category of harmful (and no, its one of the few that you're not exposed to in public school). For example, my social studies teacher showed a movie about the Civil War (I want to say "Glory" was the title.), but anyway, she got yelled at by many parents because it contained graphic images of a soldier getting his head blown up.
Welcome to the real world kiddies, violence happens and there isn't ANYTHING that you can do to stop it. I don't agree with the bill, as it would allow too many oo-they-have-money-so-lets-sue-them parents to take internet sites to court. And, it is especially bad for the children. When they get out to the real world, their parents won't be there anymore to sheild their eyes from the horrors of reality. Better let them see it while you're still there to explain it, than let them get smacked upside the head with reality when they turn 18 and/or go to college.
Honestly, this falls under the category of "political correctness." IMO, the world could use more political incorrectness. Also, by making it an offense to publish "harmful" material, it would drive more and more web hosting out of the USA, such that they couldn't be punished under that bill. In this economy and the shaky tech market, the last thing we need is to drive more business away from the USA.
We have freedom of speech? Not if any laws like these go into effect.
<SARCASM> (Note: Companies may like to check into the constitution before proposing legislation) </SARCASM>
If you have ever examined the Communist manifesto, this is exactly what Communism is supposed to be. No, it doesn't work on a governmental level, due to corruption and sheer size. But this is where it excels: The program is freely available to everybody - as in everybody contributes his or her skills to better the community, and the authors/coders' skills happen to be that of writing programs. Another added benifit is that everybody can learn from Open Source, hence bettering future programs, as they can learn from all the programs and implement the best elements of them all.
So I leave you with this: Wouldn't calling Open Source Software "Creeping Marxism" be a compliment, as that concept is exactly what the Open Source movement is supposed to acheive? It is a harmless way for the community to benefit itself through sharing. Just some food for thought.
It is the same problem people had with the outbreak of school violence. They immediately went to blame violent video games as the 'sole' cause. Also, take cell phones and automobile accidents for example. People blamed those, even though they are one of the smallest causes.
In essence, people look for the easiest thing to blame, which usually ends up being technology, since its 'new,' it must be the source of 'new' problems like terrorism, even though there is no true solution or source to blame for such occurances.
Yep. Somehow it is utterly un-surprising that Congress is using this as an excuse to take away more of our basic rights. The day the WTC and Pentagon were hit I could tell instantly that Congress was going to take this and turn it in to "If you want more national security, you have to give up personal security." Anyway, we cannot allow this to happen. You can draw a parrallel:
Congress:People
Terrorists:USA
Because only will of the people will be able to overcome the legislation that congress proposes, just as the will of the USA and other countries would be able to overcome the terrorists. And both the terrorists and congress are going to end up taking our rights away, as Congress is using the terrorist's acts to "justify" taking away rights for "national security."
I end this with a note of hope: You elected your Congressmen (and Congresswomen), so now to maintain your rights, you need to call them or E-Mail them. They are there to represent YOU, so let them know how you feel!
Very, Very right. I'm fifteen, but I'd have to say I've been dying to learn C/C++ for many years now. Windows is very limiting as a development environment, as all the C/C++ compilers are commercial. I don't have the money to buy a compiler!
So what do I do? -- I heard about Linux and have been using it for 2 years now and it it the most condusive environment to learning C/C++. There are open-source programs for you to look at and learn from, as well as (*gasp*) free development tools (gcc, etc...) that either come with the distro's or are easily downloadable (no purchasing involved!).
It has taken 2 days for people in my Computer Science 1 class to grasp the concept of readln() and writeln() in PASCAL [IMO, PASCAL sucks, I much prefer C++). And i don't wonder if this is because all their previous programming experience has been in high-level languages such as JavaScript and HTML. (If any at all). And in the two day's its taken them (and maybe 3 tomorrow), I've been able to write the program in PASCAL, C++ and still had a day to work on something else. I actually installed Linux on one computer during my last year in middle school, but the computer teacher that came in the following year wouldn't let anybody touch it, presumably to not understanding it.
To sum it up, I think Linux would be a great thing to have in our schools as long as the teachers new how to use it, for it allows administrators to control more settings and allow more freedoms at the same time than Windows does, and is vastly less to maintain as long as the administrators do things right. (true user-based settings!)
I'm fifteen and I actually spend most of my time coding and reading news and stuff. I really don't care for the people that chat on AIM and stuff. (IMO, IRC is better than AIM anyway). At least from my perspective, the author seems to be a little off when using the term "most fifteen year olds." At least the ones I see at my school would have no idea what UNIX is. Let alone recognize any C++ or anything else intelligent. So for the most part, I'd have to say that your assesments (may be) are correct, but that there is a small precentage of the teenage popluation that does involve themselves in "other halfway intelligent endeavors."
This is just my opinion as a teenager, take it for face value and nothing more. (and my $0.02).
Exactly; I would have to agree. Zelda is indeed one of the best RPG series for the Nintendo series of console systems. Of all the N64 games I own, I would have to say that Zelda 64 and Goldeneye are by far my favorite two. I think that both Goldeneye and Zelda 64 were done terrible injustice being so far down on the list. They both contained extremely intricate plots, wonderful graphics, and were very entertaining, both contained in less than 32MB of hard code and up to 4MB of RAM. And also on a 93.25 MHz processor. Quake 3 couldn't run on that, now could it? Neither should have been #1, for sure, but they could have at least placed them higher than 43rd and 38th.
Thats just my $0.02
Just something I'd like to point out. 'Zeit' and 'Geist' are both german words.
Zeit means 'time' and geist means 'ghost' or 'spirit'.
So would that make the true title of this book "The ghost of time"? Or how about "The spirit of time"? Or "Time's spirit"?
Looking at the title that way, it makes sense that it is set in the past.
I may sound like a troll of sorts or anti Intel, but when it comes to high end scientific engineering does anyone actually use anything outside the realms of Sun, Irix, and Alpha?
Recently, the Alpha structure was sold to intel. Anyway, if Intel continues on there we-need-a-new-socket trend, then the P4 will be outdated (in the realm of connectivity) soon. And with AMD's x86-64 technology coming out the end of this year from what I understand, it may become the processor of choice for most scientific computing, because it would easily be another low-cost, high-performance solution from AMD. I don't really know, but thats my $0.02.
If MSIE 5.01+ is the only browser that supports these 'functions,' then as long as it is Standards Compliant, then Mozilla should be able to access the site too. Maybe Microsoft (as they have before), is using html tags, etc... that are not standard (like the <marquee> and </marquee> tags), so that MSIE is the only thing that can view it. This, then, indirectly forces users to download MSIE 5.01+ and generate hits on Microsoft's website, and increase the MSIE market share by 1 more person, which is what they want.
<sarcasm>They do seem to be having trouble generating revenue.</sarcasm>
However, I do agree that it is partially the fault of whoever hired Microsoft to do the job. Also, the site explicitly states that the Equifax certificates do not work with any version of the Netscape browsers so, gee, your only choice is to download MSIE 5.01+.
How do you know somebody works for Microsoft? Ask them a question, and they give you a technically correct, yet totally useless answer.
I honestly have to disagree with this. I will say, first, that I really disliked the voyager series. Part of it was that after the first episode, the whole idea of getting blown 75,000 light years into the Delta Quadrant was a little much to swallow. Something like that would never have happened in the STTNG series.
Personally, I preferred the personality of Picard, Riker, and the rest of the TNG crew much better. What I didn't like about Voyager is since they were constantly moving home, they never really visited the same place twice. At least from the original to TNG, they kept some similarities such as Vulcans and Klingons to name a few. Also in STTNG, if you watched the series, places like the Neutral Zone showed up multiple times. But in Voyager, with them getting blown into the Delta Quadrant, there was nothing like that; you never saw the same place twice (or at least it was rare).
Overall, Star Trek: The Next Generation was by far a better series than the newer Voyager. I hope that Enterprise is a better series for the survival of the Star Trek 'Franchise.' If they crank out another cheesy series like Voyager, I still won't watch, and I'm sure many people will begin to loose interest as they did between STTNG and Voayager.
Hey, the Supreme Court already ruled on this
;)
stuff, right...? In Case #12, 1928 (Olmstead vs. United States).
Unfortunately, they ruled 5-4 in favor of
Olmstead's conviction, but I personally believe
that it is time for this to stop. This "Line
Item..." gives the Federal Government _way_ too
much power to punish people without them even
knowing what it's for. If this bill is passed,
then I really think that someone needs to
challenge the legality and Constitutionality of
it in the Supreme Court...
BTW, I can see it now:
"31337 H4X0RZ vs. United States"
Case #blah-blah-blah-blah...
Wouldn't that be great lol