> syslogd has problems keeping up with fetchmail/qmail, but otherwise it does it's job extremely well (firewall/ipmasq)
Turn off fsyncs for your mail logs. (in/etc/syslog.conf:) mail.* -/var/log/maillog (notice the dash before the filename) and -HUP syslogd
That'll keep the cpu load down a bit (especially for a busy site, but I don't think you'd be using a 386 if it was that busy, but it'll still help). If the power dies, you'll lose the last few seconds (what is the default fsync of dirty memory, 5 seconds?)
Or, you could use cyclog (It might be part of daemontools, I don't remember). I don't; I don't care for having to dig through the multiple files, and I pay enough attention to rotate logs when I feel that I need to.
> In Europe and parts of Asia, the biomass of idealistic young adults at the U also functions as a permanent challenge to local governents.
So the purpose of 'higher education' institutions is to keep the local government in check? Uhm... yeah, sure.
I like the idea of actually basing education on learning, not regurgitating.
As stated in the article, the point isn't to have a Buzzword-ian Virtual University (whee!) but a chance to break out of all of the dead weight, now-useless baggage that exists, like tenured professors (to paraphrase, "Having a tenure means you never have to say that you're sorry") and businesses and grad schools looking for degress, but also assuming (rightfully so) that the applicant knows next-to-nothing applicable to the job/graduate study.
The current administration structure makes it impossible to change anything for the better, as stated in the article.
> I missed the space-bar means chill. Nice feature, would have been nice to document it.
Its been in there since Civ1, which means its been in _every_ game since the beginning. Complaining of a lack of documentation on such an elderly feature is like complaining that Q3 didn't document that in the default config, you can fire by using the left mouse button.
Anyways, now you know, so you can enjoy the game a little more:-)
> Even Turok which is only DX6 only gets 15 fps in Glide over D3D.
15fps can mean a hell of a lot. If you don't have high-end everything, then 15fps can mean the difference between 15fps and 30fps. _you_ can try playing Q3test at 15fps:-)
Of course, when you're getting 120fps, 15fps means next to nothing.
As some people have already posted, you can't avoid the mass media without also cutting off a lot of information.
So whats stopping people from filtering out the useful information from the repeated-for-the-37-millionth-time-today information?
Geesh, Kennedy fscked up, and he, and the people who were with him died. It happens every day. Get over it.
When you start believing that he isn't "just another person on this planet," then you are immediately placing him in higher regard than yourself. A person is a person; no more, no less.
>Is it just me or does this seem amazingly hypocritical?
I think it goes back to the hunter/gatherer era, where people had to band together to hunt/gather (amazingly enough) enough food to survive. If a person wasn't helping your "group" it was competing (for resources) against yours. Therefore, in essence, the other groups were your "enemies." IMO, it just isn't so anymore. But some people still believe it is. Kinda like how some people still use racial slurs--until you consciously accept the fact that it isn't all/nothing, you won't be able to see past it.
With junk mail, the sender pays the costs for delivering the mail to your doorstep. It costs the receiver nothing to receive it.
With spam (and faxes) the sender pays 1/2 the cost (the sending) but the receiver pays to receive it. If it didn't cost me anything to receive spam, I wouldn't mind it anywhere near as much as I do, but its costing me money to receive something I never asked for, and don't want.
And the argument that "its only a few K" is nonsense. Yes, _each one_ is only a few K bytes, but how much spam do you receive each day?
Anyways, most of the people who will read this know this already, but its worth mentioning again IMHO.
> The questions might go like this: > 1. Someone posts something that's totally opposite to what you believe. You then: > a. Post an intelligent, well thought arguement that adds to the debate. > b. Type an angry reply, one sentence long, in all caps. > c. Accept the difference and continue on your merry way, or > d. Kick the dog
I forsee one problem: AOLers aren't *that* stupid. Anyone old enough to know how to send an email/usenet message can also pick out "which one doesn't belong in this list" questions. (At least I hope not--erm--I hope so [It would make it easier]:-)
Perhaps a usenet/mailing list simulation would be a better way to weed out the spammers. But they'd catch on to that real quick as well.
Not to mention 'cheat sheets' put up for the really clueless ones.
.AsmodeusB "I am not me, I am a tree..." (some fortune, somewhere)
The media is just continuing its spree of not having a clue. "Oh my ghod! They played violent games! Online, no less!" (they have to have something about the net (or perceived net) in every article:-)
In my opinion (of course), games don't kill people, guns don't kill people, napalm doesn't kill people, its a lack of tolerance which kills people (or rather triggers people to kill other people).
On the right hand side, I had (in order) Old News, the Poll and Freshmeat. I hit the up arrow on the Poll, and it moved to the bottom. I then hit the down arrow on the poll, and it moved to the very top of the list.
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> syslogd has problems keeping up with fetchmail/qmail, but otherwise it does it's job extremely well (firewall/ipmasq)
/etc/syslog.conf:)
Turn off fsyncs for your mail logs. (in
mail.* -/var/log/maillog
(notice the dash before the filename)
and -HUP syslogd
That'll keep the cpu load down a bit (especially for a busy site, but I don't think you'd be using a 386 if it was that busy, but it'll still help). If the power dies, you'll lose the last few seconds (what is the default fsync of dirty memory, 5 seconds?)
Or, you could use cyclog (It might be part of daemontools, I don't remember). I don't; I don't care for having to dig through the multiple files, and I pay enough attention to rotate logs when I feel that I need to.
Anyways, hope this helps
.Shawn
> In Europe and parts of Asia, the biomass of idealistic young adults at the U also functions as a permanent challenge to local governents.
So the purpose of 'higher education' institutions is to keep the local government in check? Uhm... yeah, sure.
I like the idea of actually basing education on learning, not regurgitating.
As stated in the article, the point isn't to have a Buzzword-ian Virtual University (whee!) but a chance to break out of all of the dead weight, now-useless baggage that exists, like tenured professors (to paraphrase, "Having a tenure means you never have to say that you're sorry") and businesses and grad schools looking for degress, but also assuming (rightfully so) that the applicant knows next-to-nothing applicable to the job/graduate study.
The current administration structure makes it impossible to change anything for the better, as stated in the article.
.Shawn
> I missed the space-bar means chill. Nice feature, would have been nice to document it.
:-)
Its been in there since Civ1, which means its been in _every_ game since the beginning. Complaining of a lack of documentation on such an elderly feature is like complaining that Q3 didn't document that in the default config, you can fire by using the left mouse button.
Anyways, now you know, so you can enjoy the game a little more
.Shawn
> Even Turok which is only DX6 only gets 15 fps in Glide over D3D.
:-)
15fps can mean a hell of a lot. If you don't have high-end everything, then 15fps can mean the difference between 15fps and 30fps. _you_ can try playing Q3test at 15fps
Of course, when you're getting 120fps, 15fps means next to nothing.
.Shawn
I am not me, I am a tree....
> There were no 3D games bfore D3D. No one had cards.
I do believe Glide was out before it, and DOS games (like the original Descent?) used it. Wasn't that before D3D?
There were people with the cards back then, not the millions there are now, but enough for accelerated 3D to be implemented in more and more games.
.Shawn
I am not me, I am a tree....
pmake is also the name of a linux 'make' utility which supports distributed compiles.
> Sometimes I wonder if people have seen the movie. I wonder if they see the satire.
I wonder if they even noticed what the movie was about: tolerance.
At least thats what I got out of it.
> When he gets 18 - his choice , but before that I will decide which point of view they are going to be exposed to.
...which is perfectly legal. But don't be surprised if he/she/it chafes under your constraints and is rebellious.
This is a public service announcement from--well, because I felt like saying it.
>(And "Satanism in South Park"? Sheesh. Give me a break.
>There's a difference between portraying Satan and portraying the worship of Satan.)
There's also a difference between Satanism and worshipping satan. Satanism is about the removal of stupidity.
Its kinda like the word 'hacker'...
Learn the truth, and you'll end up explaining it for the rest of your life.
As some people have already posted, you can't avoid the mass media without also cutting off a lot of information.
So whats stopping people from filtering out the useful information from the repeated-for-the-37-millionth-time-today information?
Geesh, Kennedy fscked up, and he, and the people who were with him died. It happens every day. Get over it.
When you start believing that he isn't "just another person on this planet," then you are immediately placing him in higher regard than yourself. A person is a person; no more, no less.
.AsmodeusB
>Is it just me or does this seem amazingly hypocritical?
I think it goes back to the hunter/gatherer era, where people had to band together to hunt/gather (amazingly enough) enough food to survive. If a person wasn't helping your "group" it was competing (for resources) against yours. Therefore, in essence, the other groups were your "enemies." IMO, it just isn't so anymore. But some people still believe it is. Kinda like how some people still use racial slurs--until you consciously accept the fact that it isn't all/nothing, you won't be able to see past it.
.AsmodeusB
> A cpl of months ago Linus said in an interview he bought a quad xeon, does he count as a kernel hacker ? ;-)
:-)
No, Grand High Poobah, maybe, or perhaps a Kernel Overlord, but not a 'mere' hacker
...I think my tongue is stuck in my cheek....
With junk mail, the sender pays the costs for delivering the mail to your doorstep. It costs the receiver nothing to receive it.
With spam (and faxes) the sender pays 1/2 the cost (the sending) but the receiver pays to receive it. If it didn't cost me anything to receive spam, I wouldn't mind it anywhere near as much as I do, but its costing me money to receive something I never asked for, and don't want.
And the argument that "its only a few K" is nonsense. Yes, _each one_ is only a few K bytes, but how much spam do you receive each day?
Anyways, most of the people who will read this know this already, but its worth mentioning again IMHO.
> It should read:
>
> That that is is that that that that is not is
> not.
Completely offtopic, but the subject makes perfect sense to me. To rephrase,
That which does exist is the opposite of that which doesn't exist.
Two more 'that's just muck it up big-time for me.
.AsmodeusB
> The questions might go like this:
:-)
> 1. Someone posts something that's totally opposite to what you believe. You then:
> a. Post an intelligent, well thought arguement that adds to the debate.
> b. Type an angry reply, one sentence long, in all caps.
> c. Accept the difference and continue on your merry way, or
> d. Kick the dog
I forsee one problem: AOLers aren't *that* stupid. Anyone old enough to know how to send an email/usenet message can also pick out "which one doesn't belong in this list" questions. (At least I hope not--erm--I hope so [It would make it easier]
Perhaps a usenet/mailing list simulation would be a better way to weed out the spammers. But they'd catch on to that real quick as well.
Not to mention 'cheat sheets' put up for the really clueless ones.
.AsmodeusB
"I am not me, I am a tree..." (some fortune, somewhere)
Yes, its not as bad as it was, but that doesn't mean that its 'good' either.
Gray is all that I see.
The media is just continuing its spree of not having a clue. "Oh my ghod! They played violent games! Online, no less!" (they have to have something about the net (or perceived net) in every article :-)
In my opinion (of course), games don't kill people, guns don't kill people, napalm doesn't kill people, its a lack of tolerance which kills people (or rather triggers people to kill other people).
How appropriate, the fortune at the bottom read:
"When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong."
:-)
On the right hand side, I had (in order) Old News, the Poll and Freshmeat. I hit the up arrow on the Poll, and it moved to the bottom. I then hit the down arrow on the poll, and it moved to the very top of the list.