why doesn't let redhat the user choose. with suse i can choose wich version of gcc (they ship multiple versions), kde, X11, etc. i wanna use. sometimes you can choose both at the same time.
a totally hacked default setup is NOT a good idea!
they did ship 2.95.2 to compile the kernel, why wasn't this the default? WHY a hacked version?
you are totally right, i wanted to avoid your answer by my last addendum. i personally use very big tables with a few indices, becaue the data is structured like that, therefore the 50%.
if thats the RARE application im sorry. i thought mine is pretty common;-)
my mail was mainly about thinking about the design, how you could use the memory you have for faster access and not about the exact %. (leaving everything to oracle is a non-hackers choice:-)
but i stay with the rule, that the indices used by common queries should if possible stay in memory... (complex situations make this of course impossible)
ask slashdot: does anybody now have >1000 tables with >3 indices each ?
does the indices fit into main memory? not close - a good fit is needed. so you need at least 50% more memory than the indices to be on the safe site. (you wanna do joins, etc...)
are there big tables, each one >memory/2 ? or are there 1000 small ones. (we talk about real mem here not virtual)
the rules are:
1) design 2) choose hardware and software on the details of 1.
sometimes a little redesign makes it possible to have more freedom on hard/software...
(the 50% i mention above, are a value form experience. the more flexibility you need the larger the real memory needs to be. having indices in ram and 50% of the memory to work gives you a fair amount of flexibility. driven by the needs of the application the % can be 20% too, it depends on how often you create entries, what and how often you look up fields and what joins are necessary to do that... this gets really complex...;-)
this is true, but it was stated that reiserfs can be added during the 2.4 cycle. (directly to 2.4 not 2.5 first) it just wont be in the 2.4 initial release...
this is about free speech. copyrighted material is quoted in every newspaper - every day. so does slashdot. online forums are interactive news. news for nerds, we call it.
micosoft also treats their kerberos extension as a trade secret, thats why they have the fishy license to download it.
the argument is: this extension is no trade secret, the license is not enforceable and there is free speech = fair use of copyrighted material, even under DCMA...
they have a good point, they also refer to the antitrust lawsuit, by this questions...
It's about controlling the players and not the content. A "vaild" player has to implement css. They get money, and can choose who assembles/ programs players.
They control the creation, distribution and playing.
Thats all they want, but this is what every monopoly wants, isn't it?
Css is *no* copy protection, because you can copy a dvd without removing css.
i'm not a stallman fan, but this is NOT what the GPL is about. and therefore will NEVER happen, if the FSF is what i think it is. the opensource definition is different too. if such things happened, they would hurt the community in the long run.
but you can hurt a company in other ways, and nobody buying/supporting redhat is the strongest by far...
they answered quite nicely: i wrote them about being biased, about the place where the benchmarks happened, about the tuned nt system and the raw linux setup. they talked back about a reputation they have to loose, etc... finally they made a fair test to us (this time with open source people involved) and it had nearly the same results...
people we have to learn to... i think some of us did!
and don't send plain email. you have to send a pdf file or a word document with sufficient information about yourself.
please write good,non-flaming,sophisticated comments and stick to the point. (the css case i 'an' example, not more - it's of course a very important one, at least for us.)
FFT uses sine and cosine as analysing function converting a function from the time domain to the frequency domain.
FWT does the same using scaled and shifted versions of the mother-wavelet (a function with certain restrictions).
Then comes the quantizing, the lossy compression itself. (You loose information by dropping the unimportant coefficients. This is the picture-quality you enter when saving a e.g. jpeg.)
At last you do some huffman encoding (lossless compression), or similar.
There are a lot of known and well researched mother-wavelets.
Image compression is *the* example/application for 2 dimensional wavelets. I wonder what took them so long to use it for an image format. Maybe the patent situation: Because everything is well known and rather old they searched for patentable parts of their algorithm;-)
However important facts: wavelet compression can compress the whole image. if you get half the compressed file, you get half the quality. (jpeg uses 8x8 subpictures and if you get half the data you get half the picture). also wavelets have no "chunky pixel" because of this 8x8 grid. *but* wavelets are slower, not too slow to use them.
It should be easy however to use a non patented version wavelet compression for e.g. png...
This was the only usefull post in the whole thread.
Decryptions is always lost after some time, but encryption is the thing they want to monopolize.
For music the distribution channels are the monopoly. They try the same for DVD. Producers and distributors are of course the same today. DVD's are physical, so one could never break this monopoly. But the physical days are over, distribution over the net could be possible. That's why they want to protect their realm.
After the Blairwitch Project, it is clear that anyone can make movies;-) If the distribution would be easy, they would have lost some of their market.
Let's hope we can stop this monopoly, which is protected by copyrights, trade-secrets and maybe patents. We should be able to create DVD movies not just to watch them!
raid configurations tend to imply huge virtual drives. huge drives need a loooong time for a filesystem check (once i had a >3h one with a 72GB drive/raid 5). therefore i would highly recommend a log structured filesystem!!!!!!
the gdt controller (http://www.icp-vortex.com/) works fine with linux (and of course any other operating system, linux tools for i386/alpha available).
about raid modes: security: mirror, one drive security: raid 5, speed: striping - these are the common uses, but the choice, depends on your needs...
Youre absolutely right. I was a hardcore amiga fan, but this *was* definitly the point. The point where you have to go on...
Linux & ***BSD are good choices. Linux the best, considering the increasing support from the commercial. (no flamebait intended, i'm a netbsd admin as well...)
I somehow miss my little gfx tools and some other cute stuff, but it's just a matter of time to get it for those platforms;-)
This is no Flaimbait, but I used NetBSD before I switched to Linux. And thats what I would use if Linux never happend... Why did I switch then: The Amiga was my machine at that time. No support for the operating system, no drivers for cool hardware, well no cool hardware at all. At this time I tried NetBSD, to compile my kernel was rather cool:-) Some time later I looked at linux, it seemed to have more drivers and the momentum of developers and users. THIS was important, I never wanted to rely on a company getting bankrupt.
Open Source was the fuel, that kept everything going, but the car looked differnt...
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why doesn't let redhat the user choose. with suse i can choose wich version of gcc (they ship multiple versions), kde, X11, etc. i wanna use. sometimes you can choose both at the same time.
... ??!!!!
a totally hacked default setup is NOT a good idea!
they did ship 2.95.2 to compile the kernel, why wasn't this the default? WHY a hacked version?
if i wanna hack, i install it myself
i know what the better protection scheme will be:
...
german cd burners won't wrtie tocs with audio tracks in non GEMA disks
:-(
well i won't buy such a device
:-)
even if a mic would pick up sound above 22kHz - a special one - there is distortion. the higher the frequencies the more distortion.
:-)
...
but now you can record it
higher bit depth is a positive thing, but then again *who* really hears the difference, even the equipment which plays that is too expensive
I see some point here: It's easy to put ALT tags everywhere, but it fairly complex to get the information what is on the pictures.
...
... this is not worth 2 million and certainly takes not a year of development :-)
What do we have: pictures with something on it that need to be described. Where do we get this informatinon? Form the filename? No.
From a database? Yes - If they have the information at all
Whatever
you are totally right, i wanted to avoid your answer by my last addendum. i personally use very big tables with a few indices, becaue the data is structured like that, therefore the 50%.
;-)
:-)
... (complex situations make this of course impossible)
if thats the RARE application im sorry. i thought mine is pretty common
my mail was mainly about thinking about the design, how you could use the memory you have for faster access and not about the exact %. (leaving everything to oracle is a non-hackers choice
but i stay with the rule, that the indices used by common queries should if possible stay in memory
ask slashdot: does anybody now have >1000 tables with >3 indices each ?
:-)
does the indices fit into main memory? not close - a good fit is needed. so you need at least 50% more memory than the indices to be on the safe site. (you wanna do joins, etc ...)
...
... this gets really complex ... ;-)
are there big tables, each one >memory/2 ? or are there 1000 small ones. (we talk about real mem here not virtual)
the rules are:
1) design
2) choose hardware and software on the details of 1.
sometimes a little redesign makes it possible to have more freedom on hard/software
(the 50% i mention above, are a value form experience. the more flexibility you need the larger the real memory needs to be. having indices in ram and 50% of the memory to work gives you a fair amount of flexibility. driven by the needs of the application the % can be 20% too, it depends on how often you create entries, what and how often you look up fields and what joins are necessary to do that
this is true, but it was stated that reiserfs can be added during the 2.4 cycle. (directly to 2.4 not 2.5 first) it just wont be in the 2.4 initial release ...
nono - read the interview: he will add features, but they make them open source again. this sounds more like a 3)
this is about free speech. copyrighted material is quoted in every newspaper - every day. so does slashdot. online forums are interactive news. news for nerds, we call it.
...
...
micosoft also treats their kerberos extension as a trade secret, thats why they have the fishy license to download it.
the argument is: this extension is no trade secret, the license is not enforceable and there
is free speech = fair use of copyrighted material, even under DCMA
they have a good point, they also refer to the antitrust lawsuit, by this questions
this *is* the way to go, good luck!
i'd like to register the 1st level domain i want!
chaos!
icecast works fine for me. no problems at all. i used to stream nonstop with it.
http://www.icecast.org/
remove the trademaked icon and post it again. no problem ...
1) there is no source.
2) it doesn't work with quakeforge.
3) and did i mention it: there is no source.
It's about controlling the players and not the content. A "vaild" player has to implement css. They get money, and can choose who assembles/ programs players.
They control the creation, distribution and playing.
Thats all they want, but this is what every monopoly wants, isn't it?
Css is *no* copy protection, because you can copy a dvd without removing css.
i'm not a stallman fan, but this is NOT what the GPL is about. and therefore will NEVER happen, if the FSF is what i think it is. the opensource definition is different too. if such things happened, they would hurt the community in the long run.
...
but you can hurt a company in other ways, and nobody buying/supporting redhat is the strongest by far
they answered quite nicely: i wrote them about being biased, about the place where the benchmarks happened, about the tuned nt system and the raw linux setup. they talked back about a reputation they have to loose, etc ... finally they made a fair test to us (this time with open source people involved) and it had nearly the same results ...
... i think some of us did!
people we have to learn to
look into the directory where you installed netscape to ...
there is a thing called preferences, you can switch all amiga stuff off, or are you ignorant on purpose?
and don't send plain email. you have to send a pdf file or a word document with sufficient information about yourself.
please write good,non-flaming,sophisticated comments and stick to the point. (the css case i 'an' example, not more - it's of course a very important one, at least for us.)
Simple and short:
;-)
...
FFT uses sine and cosine as analysing function converting a function from the time domain to the frequency domain.
FWT does the same using scaled and shifted versions of the mother-wavelet (a function with certain restrictions).
Then comes the quantizing, the lossy compression itself. (You loose information by dropping the unimportant coefficients. This is the picture-quality you enter when saving a e.g. jpeg.)
At last you do some huffman encoding (lossless compression), or similar.
There are a lot of known and well researched mother-wavelets.
Image compression is *the* example/application for 2 dimensional wavelets. I wonder what took them so long to use it for an image format. Maybe the patent situation: Because everything is well known and rather old they searched for patentable parts of their algorithm
However important facts: wavelet compression can compress the whole image. if you get half the compressed file, you get half the quality. (jpeg uses 8x8 subpictures and if you get half the data you get half the picture). also wavelets have no "chunky pixel" because of this 8x8 grid. *but* wavelets are slower, not too slow to use them.
It should be easy however to use a non patented version wavelet compression for e.g. png
This was the only usefull post in the whole thread.
;-) If the distribution would be easy, they would have lost some of their market.
Decryptions is always lost after some time, but encryption is the thing they want to monopolize.
For music the distribution channels are the monopoly. They try the same for DVD. Producers and distributors are of course the same today. DVD's are physical, so one could never break this monopoly. But the physical days are over, distribution over the net could be possible. That's why they want to protect their realm.
After the Blairwitch Project, it is clear that anyone can make movies
Let's hope we can stop this monopoly, which is protected by copyrights, trade-secrets and maybe patents. We should be able to create DVD movies not just to watch them!
CU
raid configurations tend to imply huge virtual drives. huge drives need a loooong time for a filesystem check (once i had a >3h one with a 72GB drive/raid 5). therefore i would highly recommend a log structured filesystem!!!!!!
...
the gdt controller (http://www.icp-vortex.com/) works fine with linux (and of course any other operating system, linux tools for i386/alpha available).
about raid modes: security: mirror, one drive security: raid 5, speed: striping - these are the common uses, but the choice, depends on your needs
CU
the cheap ones:
...
1) keyboard works well
2) serial mouse too
3) ps/2 mouse, when switched in text mode, works ok
4) video doesn't work well (>38kHz)
the expensive ones:
1) keyboard, mouse ok
2) video is limited to the specific model (like 70kHz)
what works:
if you just use 2 computers: get a cheap switch for keyboard and mouse and switch the video on your monitor.
if you use more computers: do the same with the 2 computers you need x-hardware-accel for and use remote X for the others
CU
Youre absolutely right. I was a hardcore amiga fan, but this *was* definitly the point. ...
...)
;-)
The point where you have to go on
Linux & ***BSD are good choices. Linux the best, considering the increasing support from the commercial. (no flamebait intended, i'm a netbsd admin as well
I somehow miss my little gfx tools and some other cute stuff, but it's just a matter of time to get it for those platforms
This is no Flaimbait, but I used NetBSD before I switched to Linux. And thats what I would use if Linux never happend ... Why did I switch then: The Amiga was my machine at that time. No support for the operating system, no drivers for cool hardware, well no cool hardware at all. At this time I tried NetBSD, to compile my kernel was rather cool :-) Some time later I looked at linux, it seemed to have more drivers and the momentum of developers and users.
...
THIS was important, I never wanted to rely on a company getting bankrupt.
Open Source was the fuel, that kept everything going, but the car looked differnt