Well I stopped using ReiserFS years ago. There are some good reasons to stop using it right now. 1. ReiserFS3 is suffing bit rot it really isn't under active development. 2. ReiserFS4 isn't done yet and it may never be done.
When it comes to servers you really want a file system that is actively being supported and is very stable. The thing is that going with JFS, XFS, or even EXT3 isn't going to be a big problem for most people. Frankly I doubt that many enterprise users that are not on SUSE even use it. As I said I stopped using it about 4 years ago.
Nope but ReiserFS3 is pretty old and only getting a few bug fixes and no new features. Reiserfs4 is pretty much dead... Unless somebody picks up the code and runs with it which could happen but I really wouldn't bet the server farm on that. The simple truth is "Big Deal" You currently have a choice between. EXT3 which isn't the fastest but it does work. JFS which is pretty feature rich and stable. and XFS which is also feature rich and stable. EXT 4 is coming soon and ZFS may be GPLd at some point. The lose of ReiserFS to bit rot isn't the end of the world or really that big of a deal. Now the lose of Hans Reiser. Well if he didn't do it then it is very sad. If he did do it then it is also very sad. That is just on the human level and nothing to do with FOSS.
That would really depend on the server. A good example where an SSD might be a good solution is one of the database servers at my office. A record gets created and then updated maybe twice. It then my get read a few hundred thousand times. So yes for some servers it might be a really good thing. Lots of databases are very very read heavy and write light.
Okay Apple does make good hardware. If you look at equal quality systems the prices are actually pretty close. And yes there is a difference in quality between X86 computers. When you get a $600 notebook from BestCityDepoMax they really cut corners on things you may never notice but then you may. The software I work with everyday records audio. Guess what? On some of the notebooks that customers buy the audio recording is really bad! Not only is it bad but the recording hardware just works strange. On some the audio will be full of static at some sampling rates but not others or it will only be clear if you use 16 bit samples and not 8 bit! When dealing with speech the sampling rate shouldn't have any effect on static! Then you have things like the LCD screen, battery life, the keyboard, and even the case. It is shocking just how good of a computer you can get for a little money these days. But don't dismiss the value of quality hardware.
Tempest safe gear can be made pretty easily. A Faraday cage is a good start. Throw in some equal strength white noise and maybe a totally fake data signal and your all set.
Well not exactly. You can not use Thorium as a fuel. You can use it to breed fuel. The actual fuel in the Thorium fuel cycle is Uranium 233. BTW Uranium 233 is also pretty good at making bombs.
"They check NC registered trucks to make sure they don't buy fuel over the border." Probably not. What they are testing for is RED diesel. Fuel for none road use is has a dye in it. You may use red diesel in your tractors, generators, and other none road going applications. I am not sure about boats. It doesn't have the road taxes on it and is a good bit cheaper than road fuel. It is very tempting to use that in your pickup truck if you happen to be a farmer and have a tank of it. It SURE isn't illegal to buy road fuel out of state and I am not sure that there is any test you can do prove where it came from.
And you have the problem that Ethanol loves water. Mix a little water and gas and they separate. mix water and Ethanol and you need a still to get it out. Alcohol is a hydrocarbon I do wonder if it couldn't be converted into something close to gasoline or other fuels we use now. I know that coal can and that the USAF is starting to fund research into that. Yes I know that will output a lot of carbon.
Actually you can get Pro/E for Linux. And not every company used Solidworks or any of the other software you have mentioned. The thing is those tools are far more likely to be ported to Linux than say that silly little utility that tacks the use of Scrubs at some Hospital. And they really can not live with out that utility and it isn't worth spending money and time on porting because it works so they keep windows. The only reason that windows won is that it ran those same stupid little programs written in DOS that everybody used back then.
As I said it didn't reenter without a heat shield. Yes it was good enough but there where also very lucky that they chute pyros didn't cook off, the chutes didn't melt or burn, or a few dozen other potential failure. Titanium is a good material but as far as metals goes it isn't at the top of the heat resistant metal list. It just beats the daylights out of Aluminum.
Well they didn't reenter without a heat shield. It looks like the hit sideways until the propulsion section broke away and then righted themselves. At least that is what it looks like from the pictures I have seen. Your comments about Russian aerospace hardware is at best optimistic and based more in folk lore than anything. A lot of Russian jet aircraft are simple but pretty fragile. US aircraft tend to be pretty complex but very rugged. The Mig-21 was made of tissue paper compared to the F-4, F-105, A-6 and or F-100. Even the F-15 has huge kill ratio VS every Migs. There was at least one F-15 that had a mid-air and lost a wing! That plane made it home! Yea US aircraft tend to require more man hours and you have to have more skills and tool than your average oil change tech but they tend to be very rugged and reliable.
Yep. People think that Office is the ultimate lock in tool. They are so clueless. VisualBasic is the best lock in tool ever. Just about every company on the face of the earth has some silly but vital piece of software written in VisualBasic. If FOSS just created the perfect VB clone you might see many companies migrate to Linux.
Titanium is good but not that good. Odds are that the Soyuz righted it's self at some point. Also I am not sure what hatch took the heat. Does the Soyuz have a side hatch of just the top hatch? If it was the top hatch they are very lucky that the chute system didn't fail from the heat.
I do like and use Linux. But there are just some programs that you can not get on Linux yet. Some of those programs you may absolutely need to run your business. And before you say the classic dumb answer of just pay for someone to write it for Linux and open source it or do it yourself. Not everybody has the time, talent, or money to write code or start a FOSS project. Not to mention that you may need it TODAY. Oh and Wine just isn't that good yet. I sure wouldn't run Solidworks under Wine.
Everybody needs support for XP that is still using it. Support in this case doesn't mean "How do I find the Internet?". The support he is talking about is for things like drivers, and security patches. So yea everybody does need support. Of course Microsoft isn't cutting off security updates for XP anytime soon.
1. The cut off date is for sales from large OEMs for Desktops systems. XP will still be available for small notebooks like the EEE and from small PC builders. 2. The cut off date isn't for support. 3. Microsoft says that it's customers don't want XP and are all happy with Vista... Well maybe this will be a nice wakeup call.
Okay I took a look at that list. All I can say is what!!!!! C++ fell.77% C is still number two. And list rates what? Search engine hits? D is ranked 12???? who the heck uses D? As to garbage collection vs manual memory management I have to say that I do like managed languages but feel there is room for both. But if you want grabage collection in c and c++ you can get it. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
But google didn't had over browsing history. It granted access to "private" data on a social networking site. The very idea of private data on a social networking site. The Police must have had some suspicion to ask for the data. So I would guess that they had probable cause. Also what you and I are forgetting is that these users are in Brazil. I have no idea what laws apply in Brazil as far as search. All too often the US government, companies, and even individuals have been accused of ignoring or interfering with the legal systems of other countries. In this case Google is getting hammered over what seems to me like a cooperative good deed. For all I know Google fought it for a while. Maybe they decided to check and see what is on their own server and went ewwww... and handed the data over to a foreign government after they where sure that there was wrong doing. I just don't know from the story but to me it all seems like it is on the up and up.
Not really. What evidence? Just about everybody has disagreement with a spouse. That isn't much evidence at all. And people do just take off sometimes. You need to learn what evidence is. You issue a search warrant to get evidence. And you are assuming that there was no probable cause in this case. Seems to me that is very unlikely. I don't think Google turned over all the data for everybody on their site for the police to sift through.
Yea I had to wonder just what was he thinking. No better way to make yourself look good than to say, "Hey I am just doing what the drug companies are doing!" Goodness knows that the drug companies are loved by one and all.
You really haven't invented all that much. MS-DOS you bought and what you bought was a cheap clone of CP/M that ran on the 8086. Basic? That was invented at Dartmouth and you never paid a cent that I know of to the inventors. Widows? That was a pretty bad copy of MacOS and MacOS took a lot of ideas from the XeroxStar. Excel is a spreadsheet and you took a lot from Visicalc, BoeingCalc, and Lotus123. Word???? IE, Outlook.... Nothing really new here. Oh... You want to take others code that they give away and then sell it for a pot of money and then not others do the same to yours.... I have no problem with people wanting to write software and sell it. That is their right. I have no problem with people that want to write GPL code and give it away or sell it. That is also fine and I support their right to do that. I don't support the idea that you can tell people that they can not control their work. Even if they decide to give away their work.
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Yes maybe you are. No matter how bad a program is somebody somewhere loves it and has never had a problem with it.
Well I stopped using ReiserFS years ago.
There are some good reasons to stop using it right now.
1. ReiserFS3 is suffing bit rot it really isn't under active development.
2. ReiserFS4 isn't done yet and it may never be done.
When it comes to servers you really want a file system that is actively being supported and is very stable. The thing is that going with JFS, XFS, or even EXT3 isn't going to be a big problem for most people. Frankly I doubt that many enterprise users that are not on SUSE even use it.
As I said I stopped using it about 4 years ago.
Nope but ReiserFS3 is pretty old and only getting a few bug fixes and no new features.
Reiserfs4 is pretty much dead... Unless somebody picks up the code and runs with it which could happen but I really wouldn't bet the server farm on that.
The simple truth is "Big Deal"
You currently have a choice between.
EXT3 which isn't the fastest but it does work.
JFS which is pretty feature rich and stable.
and XFS which is also feature rich and stable.
EXT 4 is coming soon and ZFS may be GPLd at some point.
The lose of ReiserFS to bit rot isn't the end of the world or really that big of a deal.
Now the lose of Hans Reiser. Well if he didn't do it then it is very sad. If he did do it then it is also very sad. That is just on the human level and nothing to do with FOSS.
That would really depend on the server.
A good example where an SSD might be a good solution is one of the database servers at my office.
A record gets created and then updated maybe twice. It then my get read a few hundred thousand times.
So yes for some servers it might be a really good thing. Lots of databases are very very read heavy and write light.
Okay Apple does make good hardware. If you look at equal quality systems the prices are actually pretty close. And yes there is a difference in quality between X86 computers.
When you get a $600 notebook from BestCityDepoMax they really cut corners on things you may never notice but then you may.
The software I work with everyday records audio. Guess what? On some of the notebooks that customers buy the audio recording is really bad!
Not only is it bad but the recording hardware just works strange. On some the audio will be full of static at some sampling rates but not others or it will only be clear if you use 16 bit samples and not 8 bit!
When dealing with speech the sampling rate shouldn't have any effect on static!
Then you have things like the LCD screen, battery life, the keyboard, and even the case.
It is shocking just how good of a computer you can get for a little money these days. But don't dismiss the value of quality hardware.
Tempest safe gear can be made pretty easily. A Faraday cage is a good start. Throw in some equal strength white noise and maybe a totally fake data signal and your all set.
Well not exactly.
You can not use Thorium as a fuel. You can use it to breed fuel. The actual fuel in the Thorium fuel cycle is Uranium 233.
BTW Uranium 233 is also pretty good at making bombs.
"They check NC registered trucks to make sure they don't buy fuel over the border."
Probably not.
What they are testing for is RED diesel.
Fuel for none road use is has a dye in it. You may use red diesel in your tractors, generators, and other none road going applications. I am not sure about boats.
It doesn't have the road taxes on it and is a good bit cheaper than road fuel.
It is very tempting to use that in your pickup truck if you happen to be a farmer and have a tank of it. It SURE isn't illegal to buy road fuel out of state and I am not sure that there is any test you can do prove where it came from.
And you have the problem that Ethanol loves water. Mix a little water and gas and they separate. mix water and Ethanol and you need a still to get it out.
Alcohol is a hydrocarbon I do wonder if it couldn't be converted into something close to gasoline or other fuels we use now.
I know that coal can and that the USAF is starting to fund research into that. Yes I know that will output a lot of carbon.
Actually you can get Pro/E for Linux.
And not every company used Solidworks or any of the other software you have mentioned.
The thing is those tools are far more likely to be ported to Linux than say that silly little utility that tacks the use of Scrubs at some Hospital. And they really can not live with out that utility and it isn't worth spending money and time on porting because it works so they keep windows.
The only reason that windows won is that it ran those same stupid little programs written in DOS that everybody used back then.
Nope the plane landed was fitted with a new wing and went back into service.
As I said it didn't reenter without a heat shield. Yes it was good enough but there where also very lucky that they chute pyros didn't cook off, the chutes didn't melt or burn, or a few dozen other potential failure.
Titanium is a good material but as far as metals goes it isn't at the top of the heat resistant metal list. It just beats the daylights out of Aluminum.
Yes but my point was.
Everybody that runs XP needs support.
and
XP isn't going to be supported for a long time.
Security updates == supported.
Unsupported == no security updates.
Well they didn't reenter without a heat shield. It looks like the hit sideways until the propulsion section broke away and then righted themselves. At least that is what it looks like from the pictures I have seen.
Your comments about Russian aerospace hardware is at best optimistic and based more in folk lore than anything.
A lot of Russian jet aircraft are simple but pretty fragile. US aircraft tend to be pretty complex but very rugged. The Mig-21 was made of tissue paper compared to the F-4, F-105, A-6 and or F-100.
Even the F-15 has huge kill ratio VS every Migs.
There was at least one F-15 that had a mid-air and lost a wing! That plane made it home!
Yea US aircraft tend to require more man hours and you have to have more skills and tool than your average oil change tech but they tend to be very rugged and reliable.
Yep.
People think that Office is the ultimate lock in tool. They are so clueless.
VisualBasic is the best lock in tool ever. Just about every company on the face of the earth has some silly but vital piece of software written in VisualBasic.
If FOSS just created the perfect VB clone you might see many companies migrate to Linux.
Titanium is good but not that good.
Odds are that the Soyuz righted it's self at some point. Also I am not sure what hatch took the heat. Does the Soyuz have a side hatch of just the top hatch?
If it was the top hatch they are very lucky that the chute system didn't fail from the heat.
I do like and use Linux.
But there are just some programs that you can not get on Linux yet. Some of those programs you may absolutely need to run your business.
And before you say the classic dumb answer of just pay for someone to write it for Linux and open source it or do it yourself. Not everybody has the time, talent, or money to write code or start a FOSS project.
Not to mention that you may need it TODAY.
Oh and Wine just isn't that good yet.
I sure wouldn't run Solidworks under Wine.
Everybody needs support for XP that is still using it.
Support in this case doesn't mean "How do I find the Internet?".
The support he is talking about is for things like drivers, and security patches. So yea everybody does need support.
Of course Microsoft isn't cutting off security updates for XP anytime soon.
1. The cut off date is for sales from large OEMs for Desktops systems. XP will still be available for small notebooks like the EEE and from small PC builders.
2. The cut off date isn't for support.
3. Microsoft says that it's customers don't want XP and are all happy with Vista... Well maybe this will be a nice wakeup call.
Okay I took a look at that list. All I can say is what!!!!! .77%
C++ fell
C is still number two.
And list rates what? Search engine hits?
D is ranked 12???? who the heck uses D?
As to garbage collection vs manual memory management I have to say that I do like managed languages but feel there is room for both.
But if you want grabage collection in c and c++ you can get it.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
But google didn't had over browsing history. It granted access to "private" data on a social networking site. The very idea of private data on a social networking site. The Police must have had some suspicion to ask for the data. So I would guess that they had probable cause. Also what you and I are forgetting is that these users are in Brazil. I have no idea what laws apply in Brazil as far as search. All too often the US government, companies, and even individuals have been accused of ignoring or interfering with the legal systems of other countries. In this case Google is getting hammered over what seems to me like a cooperative good deed. For all I know Google fought it for a while. Maybe they decided to check and see what is on their own server and went ewwww... and handed the data over to a foreign government after they where sure that there was wrong doing. I just don't know from the story but to me it all seems like it is on the up and up.
Not really. What evidence? Just about everybody has disagreement with a spouse. That isn't much evidence at all. And people do just take off sometimes.
You need to learn what evidence is.
You issue a search warrant to get evidence.
And you are assuming that there was no probable cause in this case. Seems to me that is very unlikely. I don't think Google turned over all the data for everybody on their site for the police to sift through.
Yea I had to wonder just what was he thinking. No better way to make yourself look good than to say, "Hey I am just doing what the drug companies are doing!"
Goodness knows that the drug companies are loved by one and all.
You really haven't invented all that much.
MS-DOS you bought and what you bought was a cheap clone of CP/M that ran on the 8086.
Basic? That was invented at Dartmouth and you never paid a cent that I know of to the inventors.
Widows? That was a pretty bad copy of MacOS and MacOS took a lot of ideas from the XeroxStar.
Excel is a spreadsheet and you took a lot from Visicalc, BoeingCalc, and Lotus123.
Word????
IE, Outlook....
Nothing really new here.
Oh... You want to take others code that they give away and then sell it for a pot of money and then not others do the same to yours....
I have no problem with people wanting to write software and sell it. That is their right. I have no problem with people that want to write GPL code and give it away or sell it. That is also fine and I support their right to do that.
I don't support the idea that you can tell people that they can not control their work. Even if they decide to give away their work.
I did a network update to the RC and my network stopped working. I have posted messaged on the forums and still no joy.
I am using an Nforce4 motherboard so I would think that there might be a lot of cranky people out there if it isn't fixed.