"mount -o data=ordered"
Only journals metadata changes, but data updates are flushed to
disk before any transactions commit. Data writes are not atomic
but this mode still guarantees that after a crash, files will
never contain stale data blocks from old files.
"mount -o data=writeback"
Only journals metadata changes, and data updates are entirely
left to the normal "sync" process. After a crash, files will
may contain stale data blocks from old files: this mode is
exactly equivalent to running ext2 with a very fast fsck on reboot.
So, switching writeback mode to write the data first would simply be using ordered data mode, which is the default...
There won't be more oil consumed, because we have already hit peak oil. What will happen instead is that the price of oil will go up and make it uneconomic for the bottom end of US economy to use their cars. This will cause another recession and the US will respond by hyperinflating their currency, until people in America are no wealthier than people in India or China.
You are seeing the rise of the new empires and the fall of the old, corrupt one. Unless of course the US government manage to persuade Saudi to continue to sell oil only in US paper.
During the 1930s depression, a little town in Austria called Worgl decided to print their own money, since the national currency was in such short supply.
It worked wonders, unemployment went from 30% to less than 5%.
What makes money worth something is the market. Is there a market for it? Since the Worgl money was produced by the local council and accepted for all council payments including taxes, there was a ready market for the money.
The utility of money is that it is readily exchangeable for goods and services.
You use cheques? You use credit cards? Debit cards? None of these are "official" money. They are not US dollars. They are credit, created and supplied by private banks. That credit is exchangeable into paper dollars as required. The current recession is caused by banks denying people access to that credit.
Credit is imaginary money (whereas paper is not) because it vanishes. Credit is created (from nothing) when you take out a loan. Along with the credit, there's a debt. The debt pays interest and the credit vanishes as the debt is paid. Hence credit is "temporary money". Also, there is far more credit than there is real money, about 95% of money is bank created credit, so if everyone went and asked for paper dollars, there wouldn't be enough to pay them all. This is the dirty little secret of banking. Banks don't just hold and loan out money. They create new imaginary/temporary money which they loan out to you.
So. Bankers are people who actually do create monopoly money. On a daily basis and on a massive scale. You now understand why they are always telling you that you "must have confidence in the banking system"?
He and the entire 100,000 person corporation he works for are sitting behind half a dozen routable IPv4 addresses on their own private 10net. He is already overworked supporting the infrastructure which is in place already and when an IPv6 rollout is suggested the first thought which comes to mind is "Just how retarded are you?".
IPv6 is neither exotic nor frightening. Admins and programmers have been dealing with differing networking protocols for decades, including IPX, IP, OSI etc. IPv6 is nothing new. It's simply a fuck of a lot of work for little or no gain.
The question is. What is the "killer application"? If you want IPv6 adoption to proceed at faster than a crawl, you're going to have to come up with something as compelling as the WWW but which simply cannot be realistically achieved over IPv4. Maybe some sort of peer to peer mobile phone application might do it, otherwise, go away and come back when you have something worth talking about.
Basicly, letting AIG fail would not just crash the American economy. It would crash the world economy. As in NO MONEY IN THE ATM crash. As in NO FUEL FOR YOUR CAR crash. It might cost billions, but the alternative is far worse. Think Zimbawe. They have been allowed to grow too large to fail, and there is no way out of it except to keep them alive until they can be split up and sold.
Actually. You set up a National Commercial Bank, wholly owned by the government, not the FED. Then you let all the fucked up banks fail. All insured funds/accounts are transferred to the NCB when a bank collapses. You let the creditors fight over whatever assets the banks had.
The credit supply to the economy continues under the NCB. The fucked up banks fail as they should. Everyone is happy.
A filesystem is not a Database Management System. It's purpose is to store files. If you want transactions, use a DBMS. There are plenty out there which use fsync correctly. Try SQLite.
As the quality of the oil declines (e.g. to tar sands), so does the energy return (e.g. 5:1 or 3:1) and we have to spend more of our time simply trying to generate energy.
And if 30% of our time and energy are going into producing more energy... There isn't much time and energy available to do other things, like run a civilization.
Wind seems to average approximately 20:1 over the lifetime of a turbine.
What is interesting is that in the short term because of our sunk investment in oil, it is more profitable for companies to produce bio-oil at 8:1 EROEI than it is to produce wind turbines or solar panels.
Non OPEC production has certainly peaked, the only question really is Saudi and it looks like their production peaked in 2005 as well. So oil is going to keep running up against demand, hitting 150 dollars plus per barrel. Producing bio-oil is likely to be very profitable in the short to medium term.
Of course businesses can't really function at 150 per barrel so you get this massive demand destruction and a following recession. Think of it like a hammer knocking oil dependent economies back down just as soon as it gets going.
There's less money than there is debt. Everyone is constantly trying to cut their costs and ensure future revenue streams because *everyone* has these interest payments to make.
Never wondered why everything is cheap disposable crap these days? It is because a dollar today is worth two tomorrow. We are all chasing inflation.
If money were stable, companies could afford to produce high quality long lasting products and the margins on them wouldn't be a problem, after all they are long lasting. As it is, they can't.
Is that they include a bunch of speculative technologies, but completely fail to mention ones which are already proven to work and which are already available.
In a 2007 brainstorming session aimed at combating malaria, Dr. Lowell Wood, the architect of that system, proposed modifying his original idea to kill mosquitoes.
There are 2 morals to this little story:
1: Who the fuck invites anti ballistic missile system developers to brainstorming sessions on how to fight malaria? 2: If the only tool you know how to use is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Is real evolution. And I don't mean Intelligent Design.
Look, you're malware authors, you have millions of machines to play with, you could bring the next stage of artificial life to the fore. Think of the recognition, the glory, the girls.
The government are not creating jobs. That is simply a side effect. They can't realistically fly over American towns in helicopters and drop dollar notes, though that would probably be as effective.
What they are doing by performing useless public works is transferring private debt to the public purse. The government borrows and spends, the spending pays off the private debts.
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Doesn't ext3 work in exactly the way mentioned? AIUI ordered data mode is the default.
from the FAQ: http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html
"mount -o data=ordered"
Only journals metadata changes, but data updates are flushed to
disk before any transactions commit. Data writes are not atomic
but this mode still guarantees that after a crash, files will
never contain stale data blocks from old files.
"mount -o data=writeback"
Only journals metadata changes, and data updates are entirely
left to the normal "sync" process. After a crash, files will
may contain stale data blocks from old files: this mode is
exactly equivalent to running ext2 with a very fast fsck on reboot.
So, switching writeback mode to write the data first would simply be using ordered data mode, which is the default...
One is testable, the other not.
It pretty much explains exactly why the age of speed exists at all and why it's coming to an end Real Soon Now.
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
There won't be more oil consumed, because we have already hit peak oil. What will happen instead is that the price of oil will go up and make it uneconomic for the bottom end of US economy to use their cars. This will cause another recession and the US will respond by hyperinflating their currency, until people in America are no wealthier than people in India or China.
You are seeing the rise of the new empires and the fall of the old, corrupt one. Unless of course the US government manage to persuade Saudi to continue to sell oil only in US paper.
During the 1930s depression, a little town in Austria called Worgl decided to print their own money, since the national currency was in such short supply.
It worked wonders, unemployment went from 30% to less than 5%.
What makes money worth something is the market. Is there a market for it? Since the Worgl money was produced by the local council and accepted for all council payments including taxes, there was a ready market for the money.
The utility of money is that it is readily exchangeable for goods and services.
You use cheques? You use credit cards? Debit cards? None of these are "official" money. They are not US dollars. They are credit, created and supplied by private banks. That credit is exchangeable into paper dollars as required. The current recession is caused by banks denying people access to that credit.
Credit is imaginary money (whereas paper is not) because it vanishes. Credit is created (from nothing) when you take out a loan. Along with the credit, there's a debt. The debt pays interest and the credit vanishes as the debt is paid. Hence credit is "temporary money". Also, there is far more credit than there is real money, about 95% of money is bank created credit, so if everyone went and asked for paper dollars, there wouldn't be enough to pay them all. This is the dirty little secret of banking. Banks don't just hold and loan out money. They create new imaginary/temporary money which they loan out to you.
So. Bankers are people who actually do create monopoly money. On a daily basis and on a massive scale. You now understand why they are always telling you that you "must have confidence in the banking system"?
He and the entire 100,000 person corporation he works for are sitting behind half a dozen routable IPv4 addresses on their own private 10net. He is already overworked supporting the infrastructure which is in place already and when an IPv6 rollout is suggested the first thought which comes to mind is "Just how retarded are you?".
IPv6 is neither exotic nor frightening. Admins and programmers have been dealing with differing networking protocols for decades, including IPX, IP, OSI etc. IPv6 is nothing new. It's simply a fuck of a lot of work for little or no gain.
The question is. What is the "killer application"? If you want IPv6 adoption to proceed at faster than a crawl, you're going to have to come up with something as compelling as the WWW but which simply cannot be realistically achieved over IPv4. Maybe some sort of peer to peer mobile phone application might do it, otherwise, go away and come back when you have something worth talking about.
Basicly, letting AIG fail would not just crash the American economy. It would crash the world economy. As in NO MONEY IN THE ATM crash. As in NO FUEL FOR YOUR CAR crash. It might cost billions, but the alternative is far worse. Think Zimbawe. They have been allowed to grow too large to fail, and there is no way out of it except to keep them alive until they can be split up and sold.
Actually. You set up a National Commercial Bank, wholly owned by the government, not the FED. Then you let all the fucked up banks fail. All insured funds/accounts are transferred to the NCB when a bank collapses. You let the creditors fight over whatever assets the banks had.
The credit supply to the economy continues under the NCB. The fucked up banks fail as they should. Everyone is happy.
There are not millions, not billions, but trillions going to the banks.
That's a millions * millions.
There was an estimate that it would take about 100 billion to end world hunger; Give everyone a roof, clean water.
And you're complaining about some joy riders... Are you taking the piss?
If only we had the technology to produce energy with a favorable EROEI. Maybe one day we'll be able to split the atom or something.
You still have to dig the atoms up, separate them from other atoms.
around 10:1 for LWRs (most existing US reactors)
Disadvantages: You risk data loss with 95% of the apps you use on a daily basis.
Wooo. A whole 30 seconds. Horrifying. Here's a workaround for you. Put it in your .bashrc
while true
do
sync
done &
You can't be too careful.
A filesystem is not a Database Management System. It's purpose is to store files. If you want transactions, use a DBMS. There are plenty out there which use fsync correctly. Try SQLite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROEI
Oil was 100:1
As the quality of the oil declines (e.g. to tar sands), so does the energy return (e.g. 5:1 or 3:1) and we have to spend more of our time simply trying to generate energy.
And if 30% of our time and energy are going into producing more energy... There isn't much time and energy available to do other things, like run a civilization.
Wind seems to average approximately 20:1 over the lifetime of a turbine.
What is interesting is that in the short term because of our sunk investment in oil, it is more profitable for companies to produce bio-oil at 8:1 EROEI than it is to produce wind turbines or solar panels.
Non OPEC production has certainly peaked, the only question really is Saudi and it looks like their production peaked in 2005 as well. So oil is going to keep running up against demand, hitting 150 dollars plus per barrel. Producing bio-oil is likely to be very profitable in the short to medium term.
Of course businesses can't really function at 150 per barrel so you get this massive demand destruction and a following recession. Think of it like a hammer knocking oil dependent economies back down just as soon as it gets going.
They'd have to go for hardware encryption/decryption.
They believe that all the things they have done are going to come up for judgement.
Most christians are hypocrites, have a long list of sins to pay for and are perfectly aware that they are going to burn for eternity.
Of course, we're still years away from that sort of computing power
http://www.atsltd.co.uk/
But the difference being insignificant between 22-26.
Anyway. It's just old enough to see your offspring grow to adulthood/sexual maturity and therefore make you largely irrelevant to your genes.
There's less money than there is debt. Everyone is constantly trying to cut their costs and ensure future revenue streams because *everyone* has these interest payments to make.
Never wondered why everything is cheap disposable crap these days? It is because a dollar today is worth two tomorrow. We are all chasing inflation.
If money were stable, companies could afford to produce high quality long lasting products and the margins on them wouldn't be a problem, after all they are long lasting. As it is, they can't.
Note: By you, I don't mean you, I mean them.
"One"
"You" is personal and "they" is also plural. It's a bug in the language.
SF seeks DS for M & S
Is that they include a bunch of speculative technologies, but completely fail to mention ones which are already proven to work and which are already available.
You don't live in a big city,do you...
Think of the foxes, barn owls and red kites.
In a 2007 brainstorming session aimed at combating malaria, Dr. Lowell Wood, the architect of that system, proposed modifying his original idea to kill mosquitoes.
There are 2 morals to this little story:
1: Who the fuck invites anti ballistic missile system developers to brainstorming sessions on how to fight malaria?
2: If the only tool you know how to use is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Is real evolution. And I don't mean Intelligent Design.
Look, you're malware authors, you have millions of machines to play with, you could bring the next stage of artificial life to the fore. Think of the recognition, the glory, the girls.
The government are not creating jobs. That is simply a side effect. They can't realistically fly over American towns in helicopters and drop dollar notes, though that would probably be as effective.
What they are doing by performing useless public works is transferring private debt to the public purse. The government borrows and spends, the spending pays off the private debts.