duplicity already allows trading disk space for backups with friends, or even people you don't know. It's safe (all data encrypted by gpg), it's low bandwidth (deltas sent using rsync algorythm), and it's not a business.
The hardest thing about duplicity right now is probably finding a similarly interested party to trade disk space with.
I trade duplicity space with someone I've never met who has a machine in the same colo, for a backup close to my coloed machine. I also use duplicity to send backups of the server home. I've be happy to trade duplicity space from 1 to 20 gb with most any interested and competant party.
As I type this, version 1.0 of subversion has not been tagged yet. I have not seen an announcement about 1.0 today, and the announcements page lists 0.37.0 as the last release.
I think slashdot may have jumped the gun here, and I hope that the slashdotting of their web server is not going to cause them problems with actually getting 1.0 out the door, which is supposed to happen sometime Monday (timezone unknown).
airports with free wifi and paying for it
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WiFi Free-For-All
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The article includes a quite to the effect that this is the first airport in the US, and second in the world with free wifi. That's not true, I have found free wifi in a few large airports. And my smalltown local airport (TRI) has extensive free wifi throughout, plus free public terminals.
TRI's network is sponsored by $LARGE_POLLUTING_LOCAL_COMPANY, which happens to fly lots of employees to Atlanta on a semi-daily basis. I belive that it was economical for them to sponsor the free wireless because now their employees can get some work in at the airport. It probably paid for itself quite fast.
I'm not sure why something that I wrote in 2001 and that appeared in print media in 2002 is news. This is the second time I've been slashdotted for something over 1 year old this year. Previously it was the pkg-comp page, which I wrote circa 1998. Kinda makes you wonder.
Anyway..
I suppose I should mention that these days I keep most of my home directory in subversion. I have not gotten around to writing a successor to this article yet, but it works even better than cvs, and that's probably the most common question people ask me about this article these days.
It's not entirely linux-only, since I include the pkg format on there, as used in solaris. I think adding OS X packages to the chart is a great idea. If someone wants to contribute the answers for a column on that format, get in touch with me by email. (The pkg format column was contributed by Marc Herbert.)
I (author) am currently enroute to Norway, only found out I was slashdotted in the airport. I don't really understand why they posted it today, and not some time in the past 5+ years.. Anyway, I will respond to anything worth responding to sometime later.
why no more Integral Trees sequals?
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Ask Larry Niven
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I've often wondered why you only wrote one sequal to The Integral Trees. It seems that the world of the Smoke Ring calls for at least a 3 part series. I've always found the basic world more enthralling and magestic than Ringworld.
So why did you leave Kendy waiting, and never come back to it? I've read about how Known Space was getting full of too many special cases (statis fields, general produces hulls, Sinclair string, stepping plates, etc, etc) to make it much fun to try to write stories set in that universe, but the Smoke Ring is on the periphery of Known Space, it doesn't seem this should be a problem. And all those poor folks in the smoke ring are just gonna fry when the core explosion hits.
I use cvs for all of my home directory except for large data files which are rsynced around using Makefiles checked out of cvs. For a long explanation of the CVS part of it, see CVS Homedir.
This works well for me to keep about 30 accounts in sync, most of them just get a minimal checkout of my home directory (5 mb or so), while 3 or 4 get the whole home directory and rsynced files (5 gb). The CVS repository is about half a gigabyte in size these days.
Once something that allows proper file rename tracking, like subversion, comes along, I plan to stop using rsync alltogether, and just check all the files in.
As has been noted elsewhere in this thread, one of the key things is coming up with a consistent directory structure and sticking with it.
Meh? I installed debian once, in 1995, and have run it since, upgrading when I felt like it. By that track record, it's fairly good for those who want to use, not install, no? Your reasoning eludes me.
Re:But did they hit you with advertising?
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Plenty of product placement in this film anyway, a sony flatscreen TV, and some soft drink got plenty of camera time.
This sounds like a good time to plug a website I found mentioned in LWN a few weeks back.
Alterslash - the unofficial slashdot digest. Shows the stories, the top-ranked comments, and no banner ads, no trolls, etc. It also has neat signal-to-noise graphs. It is an excellent replacement for the slashdot front page.
I suspect this hir-trigger response is not uncommon. The debian project has
certianly gotten several compliaints from users that ftp.debian.org is port
scanning them, or similar stupid misinterpretatons of a active mode ftp
connection. I forget if ftp.debian.org uses identd. We don't appear to get
quite the same magnitude of complaints that the author of autorpm does,
possibly because most apt users download via http, for ftp.
There is also another set of idiots who install debian and apache, and then
flame us for cracking their system and defacing their website. The debian
apache package comes with a default web page that prominently mentions
Debian, you see..
I have seen a few episodes of robot wars on public TV here -- KTEH (or was it KQED, I forget), in the Bay Area.
It's a fun show, better than battlebots in at least these ways:
FIRE! FIRE! There's a fire pit, there are flamethrowers. It sure beats wimpy little raise-up saws and a big hammer.
House robots. The house robots were consturucted by professionals, and they look cool, and are quote good at making the contenstant's lives miserable if the fight gets boring.
No wedges. At least, I didn't see any. Yes, it seems that the wedge shape is the path evolution is directing "robots" down in battlebots, based on the particular set of rules chosen for the game. But they're _boring_.
My DSL here started out somewhere in the 150 k/s range. Since I have a cool small mom-and-pop ISP, I talked to the owner and got him to have the telco uncap my DSL line. I now get 650 k/s at no extra charge. Moral: small ISPs rule.
The number of innacuracies in this article is very high.
Woody is NOT frozen. We have a timeline, which calls for a freeze beginning in April. The timeline is plastered with "THOSE DATES ARE NOT REALISTIC!" warnings.
Woody may or may not include hardware autodetection, but the code's not there yet. The next-generation debian installer project (which I lead) WILL have hardware autodetection, but it will not be a supported installation method for woody.
Woody will NOT have a GUI installer. What fever dreams prompted impaler to write that, we will never know. --
Your bandwidth numbers don't match my experience. I'm the new proud owner of a Merlin ricochet pcmcia card -- no bulky modem to lug around (a kernel patch is required to get it working at these speeds). I regularly get 25k/s off of it. This may be because their network is rather er, underused. My radio can typically "see" 5 to 8 pole-top stations, and 0 to 2 other customers.
It's worth it for me.
I use dsl when I'm at home, but this card has added 1.5 hours of useful computer time to my day (I commute by train). It also lets me spend the odd work-day in the park. Worth every penny.
You're quite right about me being in a minority though. What percentage of people have laptops, and what percentage of those either commute by public transit or need to be/can be online in the field when working? Not too many. --
I was amused by the description of the home with 4 ethernet jacks in every room so the owner could plug in wherever he was. Haven't these people heard of wireless networking? --
"The world largely ignored the Toshiba Libretto and the Sony PictureBook, presumably because small keyboards and small screens do not make for happy users."
I guess your world must not include places like Japan where both have been/are quite popular.
Very happy with my picturebook's 1024x480 screen and 90% keyboard, fwiw. --
Slashdot Mirror
duplicity already allows trading disk space for backups with friends, or even people you don't know. It's safe (all data encrypted by gpg), it's low bandwidth (deltas sent using rsync algorythm), and it's not a business.
The hardest thing about duplicity right now is probably finding a similarly interested party to trade disk space with.
I trade duplicity space with someone I've never met who has a machine in the same colo, for a backup close to my coloed machine. I also use duplicity to send backups of the server home. I've be happy to trade duplicity space from 1 to 20 gb with most any interested and competant party.
In fact I am reading this and you seem to be seriously confused. I've not quit anything.
Actually we cut new CDs with the newest installer on a daily basis.
I think slashdot may have jumped the gun here, and I hope that the slashdotting of their web server is not going to cause them problems with actually getting 1.0 out the door, which is supposed to happen sometime Monday (timezone unknown).
The article includes a quite to the effect that this is the first airport in the US, and second in the world with free wifi. That's not true, I have found free wifi in a few large airports. And my smalltown local airport (TRI) has extensive free wifi throughout, plus free public terminals.
TRI's network is sponsored by $LARGE_POLLUTING_LOCAL_COMPANY, which happens to fly lots of employees to Atlanta on a semi-daily basis. I belive that it was economical for them to sponsor the free wireless because now their employees can get some work in at the airport. It probably paid for itself quite fast.
I'm not sure why something that I wrote in 2001 and that appeared in print media in 2002 is news.
This is the second time I've been slashdotted for something over 1 year old this year. Previously it was the pkg-comp page, which I wrote circa 1998.
Kinda makes you wonder.
Anyway..
I suppose I should mention that these days I keep most of my home directory in subversion. I have not gotten around to writing a successor to this article yet, but it works even better than cvs, and that's probably the most common question people ask me about this article these days.
It's not entirely linux-only, since I include the pkg format on there, as used in solaris. I think adding OS X packages to the chart is a great idea. If someone wants to contribute the answers for a column on that format, get in touch with me by email. (The pkg format column was contributed by Marc Herbert.)
I (author) am currently enroute to Norway, only found out I was slashdotted in the airport. I don't really understand why they posted it today, and not some time in the past 5+ years.. Anyway, I will respond to anything worth responding to sometime later.
I've often wondered why you only wrote one sequal to The Integral Trees. It seems that the world of the Smoke Ring calls for at least a 3 part series. I've always found the basic world more enthralling and magestic than Ringworld.
So why did you leave Kendy waiting, and never come back to it? I've read about how Known Space was getting full of too many special cases (statis fields, general produces hulls, Sinclair string, stepping plates, etc, etc) to make it much fun to try to write stories set in that universe, but the Smoke Ring is on the periphery of Known Space, it doesn't seem this should be a problem. And all those poor folks in the smoke ring are just gonna fry when the core explosion hits.
This works well for me to keep about 30 accounts in sync, most of them just get a minimal checkout of my home directory (5 mb or so), while 3 or 4 get the whole home directory and rsynced files (5 gb). The CVS repository is about half a gigabyte in size these days.
Once something that allows proper file rename tracking, like subversion, comes along, I plan to stop using rsync alltogether, and just check all the files in.
As has been noted elsewhere in this thread, one of the key things is coming up with a consistent directory structure and sticking with it.
Meh? I installed debian once, in 1995, and have run it since, upgrading when I felt like it. By that track record, it's fairly good for those who want to use, not install, no? Your reasoning eludes me.
Plenty of product placement in this film anyway, a sony flatscreen TV, and some soft drink got plenty of camera time.
Alterslash - the unofficial slashdot digest. Shows the stories, the top-ranked comments, and no banner ads, no trolls, etc. It also has neat signal-to-noise graphs. It is an excellent replacement for the slashdot front page.
> AFAIK, the RPM standard is specified only in the FHS, and not directly in the LSB.
I hate to burst your bubble, but the FHS has nothing to do with package formats at all.
joey@silk:/usr/doc/debian-policy/fhs>zgrep -i rpm fhs.txt.gz
zsh: exit 1 zgrep -i rpm fhs.txt.gz
As for how well alien works, what can I say, it works for me.
I suspect this hir-trigger response is not uncommon. The debian project has
certianly gotten several compliaints from users that ftp.debian.org is port
scanning them, or similar stupid misinterpretatons of a active mode ftp
connection. I forget if ftp.debian.org uses identd. We don't appear to get
quite the same magnitude of complaints that the author of autorpm does,
possibly because most apt users download via http, for ftp.
There is also another set of idiots who install debian and apache, and then
flame us for cracking their system and defacing their website. The debian
apache package comes with a default web page that prominently mentions
Debian, you see..
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(pick any 3 :-P)
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It's a fun show, better than battlebots in at least these ways:
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I have to wonder what "Debian GNU Linux - Infomagic or Loki" is supposed to mean.
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My DSL here started out somewhere in the 150 k/s range. Since I have a cool small mom-and-pop ISP, I talked to the owner and got him to have the telco uncap my DSL line. I now get 650 k/s at no extra charge. Moral: small ISPs rule.
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The number of innacuracies in this article is very high.
Woody is NOT frozen. We have a timeline, which calls for a freeze beginning in April. The timeline is plastered with "THOSE DATES ARE NOT REALISTIC!" warnings.
Woody may or may not include hardware autodetection, but the code's not there yet. The next-generation debian installer project (which I lead) WILL have hardware autodetection, but it will not be a supported installation method for woody.
Woody will NOT have a GUI installer. What fever dreams prompted impaler to write that, we will never know.
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Your bandwidth numbers don't match my experience. I'm the new proud owner of a Merlin ricochet pcmcia card -- no bulky modem to lug around (a kernel patch is required to get it working at these speeds). I regularly get 25k/s off of it. This may be because their network is rather er, underused. My radio can typically "see" 5 to 8 pole-top stations, and 0 to 2 other customers.
It's worth it for me.
I use dsl when I'm at home, but this card has added 1.5 hours of useful computer time to my day (I commute by train). It also lets me spend the odd work-day in the park. Worth every penny.
You're quite right about me being in a minority though. What percentage of people have laptops, and what percentage of those either commute by public transit or need to be/can be online in the field when working? Not too many.
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Sigh, an idiot or a troll, why did I bother..
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I was amused by the description of the home with 4 ethernet jacks in every room so the owner could plug in wherever he was. Haven't these people heard of wireless networking?
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A similar code also works in Sonic.
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I guess your world must not include places like Japan where both have been/are quite popular.
Very happy with my picturebook's 1024x480 screen and 90% keyboard, fwiw.
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