Hell, when Administrative priv. are required, what does Windows software do? It pops up, "You have to be running as an Administrator to...". It doesn't even ask you for Admin. password to complete its function. You just have to relogin. And thanks to the great "multi user capabilities", you have to log out of your current session first.
Even worse, on my WinXP box I've seen 3rd party software which requires Admin privs pretend to complete it's task, exit with no errors, but nothing was actually done! I've seen this mostly with software updaters.
One game in particular, Madden 2004, will tell an unpriveliged user that there are updates to install, pretend to apply them, and then turn around and say that there are still updates to install. When run as Admin, it says there are no updates available. So I don't even know if these updates are installed system-wide when done by Admin, or if the unprivileged user just doesn't get updated software.
But I don't know about the logging out part. With XP, at least, you can just switch users and keep the other user's applications still running.
I was thinking something more like the baseball pitching machines we used in high school. Two rubber wheels spinning with a slightly less-than-baseball-sized gap between them. Something like this, but ours were slightly off of horizontal, not vertical like in the picture.
Those wheels turned in opposite directions though, to shoot the ball forward. To put spin on a CD you'd have to make them spin in the same direction, possibly one faster than the other to control which direction the CD shot out. Or maybe only one wheel would be required, and the other side stationary.
My first thought was 'skol' - a toast similar to 'cheers' or 'salud'.
Actually, I think it's 'skål', but my grandparents (of Norwegian descent here in the US) had a sign on the wall with a troll on skis holding a beer mug and it said 'skol'. Maybe it's an Americanized or Texanized spelling.
If you're using hardware RAID or pseudo-hardware RAID (i.e. Promise FastTrack), then it should just be a matter of entering into the RAID controller's setup utility during bootup and tell it to add the second drive into the RAID array and it's seamless.
I'm not familiar enough with Linux's LVM or other software-RAID to know how to do it that way, but I'm sure there are utilities that allow you add disks to unmounted RAID arrays fairly easily. Let me search Google.....
....OK, I'm back (that was pretty quick). Here's exactly what you're looking for.
....but how about leaving an ssh server running and remotely add a new user every time it's rented and delete that user when they're done. With a nicely set up/etc/skel it should pretty seamless.
Re:Use a swapfile instead of a partition
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Honest questions:
How are read/write permissions handled with such a swapfile?
What happens if the root user does 'echo "I love swap space" >/var/swap' while that swapfile is mounted? Does the kernel allow this?
Does 'cat/var/swap' dump a memory map of what's currently swapped out?
Pardon my ignorace, but I've never known that Linux could utilize a swap file rather than a swap partition.
I'm not trolling here, but as often as I've heard these arguments from intelligent-sounding people I don't understand why my machine locks up for a good minute or more whenever I visit a web page with Java. That doesn't seem to be comparable to natively compiled applications which take seconds, rather than minutes, to start up.
This is an honest question from someone who doesn't know much about Java (i.e. implementations), but knows a fair amount about OO design. Can you enlighten me?
The apartment complex that Peter lived in in the movie "Office Space" was Morningwood Apartments. I happened to catch it the first time I saw the movie, as it was just a quick shot of the sign outside the complex.
Why go to the trouble of having a formal study conducted when so many Slashdotters here can easily spout off exactly what his needs are, why his design won't work, and why he's an idiot without even knowing a damn thing about his situation.
It's a poor user interface then. "Do you want to allow $PROGRAM to access the Internet..." (which I believe is how ZoneAlarm phrases it also) sounds a lot like "Do you want to allow $PROGRAM to make outbound connections..."
That's a perfectly understandable point of confusion, and makes it appear exactly as your parent poster described.
I'm sure it's just because I'm used to the system, but in *my* head, adding those fractions is faster than adding the decimals. And I can visualize the fractions in my head much easier.
Plenty of people who deal with measurements every day (construction, machine shops, etc.) can very easily rattle off the sums of fractions from a tape measure.
"Cut that board 8 feet long, plus 2 1/2 inches for the top, 5/8" for spacing, 1 9/16" at the bottom and add 1 1/4" just to be sure."
What I absolutely hate is on cars that use a bastard mix of metric and standard sized bolts. My starter, from the factory, has a metric bolt on top and a standard bolt on the bottom. And it's like that all over the vehicle. Makes finding the right socket difficult sometimes.
What really blows my mind is when guys start mixing the two systems in the same measurement.
"Bore this hole out by seventy three thousandths of an inch."
Um, I think that's exactly what he is saying. Read your own friggin quote - he says that there's no way he can know that the HIV/AIDS virus won't "route around" this theraputic virus. He says that he can't say for sure that his new creation won't just make things even worse. He never said anything about not being more harmful than HIV. Sheeesh.
I think the difference between electricians and programmers is that electricians don't give away their work for free.
But they don't try to obfuscate which is the ground wire and which is the hot. Hell, they'll probably even label it for the next guy who has to work on it.
Nothing says that FOSS programmers have to give their work away for free. Many do, but many get paid for their time and effort.
In most restaurants I've worked in, this is exactly how it worked. You have to clock in within +/- 5 minutes of your scheduled in time, or you would have to get a manager to clock you in. Since you clocked in on the same terminals that you used to enter orders - there was a little printer there that would print up a receipt saying what time it was. Same thing when you clocked out. No one I ever knew saved those receipts, and thankfully I never was in a situation where I wished I had, since I (luckily) never worked in a restaurant where I didn't trust the managers.
When you clocked out, you also had to "declare" how much cash you were taking home for that shift. You could enter as little or as much as you wanted - the restaurant doesn't care - but that is the amount that you will pay income taxes on[1]. Every night when the manager was closing and running reports and whatnot, one of their duties was to clock out all of the people who had forgotten to. There were always 1 or 2. If s/he was feeling particularly mean or wanted to make a point, they would declare a huge amount for you - $1000's even. Most people don't make a habit of not clocking out. Incidently, overtime for waiters/bartenders in a restaurant is rarely frowned upon. Time-and-a-half on $2.13/hr isn't a big deal - waiters are the cheapest labor around. Overtime for the cooks and other normal hourly employees, however, was different. Those guys made $10-$25/hr.
Today's story was brought to you by My Experience(tm). Any deviation from Other Peoples' Experience(tm) is not my fault.:-)
[1] The restaurant takes taxes out of your $2.13/hr paycheck based on a percentage (usually around 8% in my experience) of your total sales, since that theoretically should be proportional to the tips you made. The $2.13/hr that they pay you is really only to cover the tax they take out, so most waiters/bartenders who work under this type of system take home weekly paychecks anywhere from $0 to maybe $25 or $50 at most. In theory, your paycheck should be $0. Different restaurants have different policies when the taxes they take out are more than your $2.13/hr adds up to for the pay period.
I agree that the wording in #2 is unfortunate, but if you take off the Pedantic Glasses, then it's a valid question for someone who is researching what the copyright/licensing scheme is with Linux. Question #2 will lead someone directly to information about the GPL. Searching on Google with "linux public domain", result #3 for me was this link on gnu.org about the diffrence between copyrights and public domain.
Re:instructor doesn't get it
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Um, I think you're way off base. It sounds to me like the instructor has quite a few clues, and is trying to dispel some of the uncertainty around Linux.
He/She is trying to teach the students how to think critically, look deeper into subjects that they are not familiar with, and do some research before they form their opinions and share those opinions with others. That, my friend, is called education and hats off to the instructor who is actually teaching these skills rather than blindly handing out assignments from the Microsoft Press textbook just because it's easier.
On "West Wing" they call it 'taking out the trash'. Dumping all of the worthless stories to the press on Friday afternoon. Occasionaly they use that time to release something that they want to stay under the radar.
Ah, the spirit of Slashdot. I'm glad you judged me to be a "Jolt-swigging weenie" who has no idea of the "finer things" of life, with absolutely no basis for such a characterization. But you're absolutely right. I've no idea what the difference is between the wines (I assume those are wines) that you listed. That's just not my bag. I'm sure I have knowledge of things that you know nothing about, and don't really care about, but I wouldn't ever try to imply that you're second-class because you don't appreciate the same things I do. Diff'rent strokes and all...
And I'm Texan, but I don't mosey around, annoying people with an exaggerated fake John Wayne impersonation, calling women "little lady" and shouting out "yeehaw". If I did, you would be just as beaten down as I am when I read Gagne's column.
Is he going to keep up the annoying French persona, having his stuffed penguin fetch obscure bottles of wine for the readers? It's a failed bit, in my opinion.
One of the astronauts, Dr. Kalpana Chawla, was an alum of my school. Chawla Hall is a $20 million dorm on campus that is nearing completion. I remember a story in the school newspaper that her husband was not happy with the dedication service when construction began. Everyone tried to make it out to be a deep, spiritual event and that is not how she would have wanted it. She was not a religious person at all, and her husband felt that the religious subversion was completely inappropriate. He even said she would have walked away from the service had she been there.
I've got family spread all around East Texas, and any time I'm down there, I fully expect to see a new shed or vehicle made from space shuttle parts. I'm a born-and-bred Texan and I know there are some serious backwoods country-folk who live in that "debris footprint." Hell, I'm related to a lot of 'em.
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Even worse, on my WinXP box I've seen 3rd party software which requires Admin privs pretend to complete it's task, exit with no errors, but nothing was actually done! I've seen this mostly with software updaters.
One game in particular, Madden 2004, will tell an unpriveliged user that there are updates to install, pretend to apply them, and then turn around and say that there are still updates to install. When run as Admin, it says there are no updates available. So I don't even know if these updates are installed system-wide when done by Admin, or if the unprivileged user just doesn't get updated software.
But I don't know about the logging out part. With XP, at least, you can just switch users and keep the other user's applications still running.
I was thinking something more like the baseball pitching machines we used in high school. Two rubber wheels spinning with a slightly less-than-baseball-sized gap between them. Something like this, but ours were slightly off of horizontal, not vertical like in the picture.
Those wheels turned in opposite directions though, to shoot the ball forward. To put spin on a CD you'd have to make them spin in the same direction, possibly one faster than the other to control which direction the CD shot out. Or maybe only one wheel would be required, and the other side stationary.
Anyways, I'm just babbling at this point.
My first thought was 'skol' - a toast similar to 'cheers' or 'salud'.
Actually, I think it's 'skål', but my grandparents (of Norwegian descent here in the US) had a sign on the wall with a troll on skis holding a beer mug and it said 'skol'. Maybe it's an Americanized or Texanized spelling.
Depends.
....OK, I'm back (that was pretty quick). Here's exactly what you're looking for.
If you're using hardware RAID or pseudo-hardware RAID (i.e. Promise FastTrack), then it should just be a matter of entering into the RAID controller's setup utility during bootup and tell it to add the second drive into the RAID array and it's seamless.
I'm not familiar enough with Linux's LVM or other software-RAID to know how to do it that way, but I'm sure there are utilities that allow you add disks to unmounted RAID arrays fairly easily. Let me search Google.....
QED
....but how about leaving an ssh server running and remotely add a new user every time it's rented and delete that user when they're done. With a nicely set up /etc/skel it should pretty seamless.
Honest questions:
/var/swap' while that swapfile is mounted? Does the kernel allow this?
/var/swap' dump a memory map of what's currently swapped out?
How are read/write permissions handled with such a swapfile?
What happens if the root user does 'echo "I love swap space" >
Does 'cat
Pardon my ignorace, but I've never known that Linux could utilize a swap file rather than a swap partition.
I'm not trolling here, but as often as I've heard these arguments from intelligent-sounding people I don't understand why my machine locks up for a good minute or more whenever I visit a web page with Java. That doesn't seem to be comparable to natively compiled applications which take seconds, rather than minutes, to start up.
This is an honest question from someone who doesn't know much about Java (i.e. implementations), but knows a fair amount about OO design. Can you enlighten me?
The apartment complex that Peter lived in in the movie "Office Space" was Morningwood Apartments. I happened to catch it the first time I saw the movie, as it was just a quick shot of the sign outside the complex.
Why go to the trouble of having a formal study conducted when so many Slashdotters here can easily spout off exactly what his needs are, why his design won't work, and why he's an idiot without even knowing a damn thing about his situation.
Threads like this make me smile in the mornings.
It's a poor user interface then. "Do you want to allow $PROGRAM to access the Internet..." (which I believe is how ZoneAlarm phrases it also) sounds a lot like "Do you want to allow $PROGRAM to make outbound connections..."
That's a perfectly understandable point of confusion, and makes it appear exactly as your parent poster described.
I'm sure it's just because I'm used to the system, but in *my* head, adding those fractions is faster than adding the decimals. And I can visualize the fractions in my head much easier.
Plenty of people who deal with measurements every day (construction, machine shops, etc.) can very easily rattle off the sums of fractions from a tape measure.
"Cut that board 8 feet long, plus 2 1/2 inches for the top, 5/8" for spacing, 1 9/16" at the bottom and add 1 1/4" just to be sure."
What I absolutely hate is on cars that use a bastard mix of metric and standard sized bolts. My starter, from the factory, has a metric bolt on top and a standard bolt on the bottom. And it's like that all over the vehicle. Makes finding the right socket difficult sometimes.
What really blows my mind is when guys start mixing the two systems in the same measurement.
"Bore this hole out by seventy three thousandths of an inch."
Huh?
Um, I think that's exactly what he is saying. Read your own friggin quote - he says that there's no way he can know that the HIV/AIDS virus won't "route around" this theraputic virus. He says that he can't say for sure that his new creation won't just make things even worse. He never said anything about not being more harmful than HIV. Sheeesh.
Oh, well I guess that makes it OK then.
And you've already racked up more karma than I've gotten in 3 years of lurking with the occasional post.
But they don't try to obfuscate which is the ground wire and which is the hot. Hell, they'll probably even label it for the next guy who has to work on it.
Nothing says that FOSS programmers have to give their work away for free. Many do, but many get paid for their time and effort.
In most restaurants I've worked in, this is exactly how it worked. You have to clock in within +/- 5 minutes of your scheduled in time, or you would have to get a manager to clock you in. Since you clocked in on the same terminals that you used to enter orders - there was a little printer there that would print up a receipt saying what time it was. Same thing when you clocked out. No one I ever knew saved those receipts, and thankfully I never was in a situation where I wished I had, since I (luckily) never worked in a restaurant where I didn't trust the managers.
:-)
When you clocked out, you also had to "declare" how much cash you were taking home for that shift. You could enter as little or as much as you wanted - the restaurant doesn't care - but that is the amount that you will pay income taxes on[1]. Every night when the manager was closing and running reports and whatnot, one of their duties was to clock out all of the people who had forgotten to. There were always 1 or 2. If s/he was feeling particularly mean or wanted to make a point, they would declare a huge amount for you - $1000's even. Most people don't make a habit of not clocking out. Incidently, overtime for waiters/bartenders in a restaurant is rarely frowned upon. Time-and-a-half on $2.13/hr isn't a big deal - waiters are the cheapest labor around. Overtime for the cooks and other normal hourly employees, however, was different. Those guys made $10-$25/hr.
Today's story was brought to you by My Experience(tm). Any deviation from Other Peoples' Experience(tm) is not my fault.
[1] The restaurant takes taxes out of your $2.13/hr paycheck based on a percentage (usually around 8% in my experience) of your total sales, since that theoretically should be proportional to the tips you made. The $2.13/hr that they pay you is really only to cover the tax they take out, so most waiters/bartenders who work under this type of system take home weekly paychecks anywhere from $0 to maybe $25 or $50 at most. In theory, your paycheck should be $0. Different restaurants have different policies when the taxes they take out are more than your $2.13/hr adds up to for the pay period.
I agree that the wording in #2 is unfortunate, but if you take off the Pedantic Glasses, then it's a valid question for someone who is researching what the copyright/licensing scheme is with Linux. Question #2 will lead someone directly to information about the GPL. Searching on Google with "linux public domain", result #3 for me was this link on gnu.org about the diffrence between copyrights and public domain.
Um, I think you're way off base. It sounds to me like the instructor has quite a few clues, and is trying to dispel some of the uncertainty around Linux.
He/She is trying to teach the students how to think critically, look deeper into subjects that they are not familiar with, and do some research before they form their opinions and share those opinions with others. That, my friend, is called education and hats off to the instructor who is actually teaching these skills rather than blindly handing out assignments from the Microsoft Press textbook just because it's easier.
On "West Wing" they call it 'taking out the trash'. Dumping all of the worthless stories to the press on Friday afternoon. Occasionaly they use that time to release something that they want to stay under the radar.
Ah, the spirit of Slashdot. I'm glad you judged me to be a "Jolt-swigging weenie" who has no idea of the "finer things" of life, with absolutely no basis for such a characterization. But you're absolutely right. I've no idea what the difference is between the wines (I assume those are wines) that you listed. That's just not my bag. I'm sure I have knowledge of things that you know nothing about, and don't really care about, but I wouldn't ever try to imply that you're second-class because you don't appreciate the same things I do. Diff'rent strokes and all...
And I'm Texan, but I don't mosey around, annoying people with an exaggerated fake John Wayne impersonation, calling women "little lady" and shouting out "yeehaw". If I did, you would be just as beaten down as I am when I read Gagne's column.
Is he going to keep up the annoying French persona, having his stuffed penguin fetch obscure bottles of wine for the readers? It's a failed bit, in my opinion.
Yeah, well Alanis is Canadian.
Perhaps you meant to bag on the citizens of the entire North American continent, rather than just one of it's nations?
One of the astronauts, Dr. Kalpana Chawla, was an alum of my school. Chawla Hall is a $20 million dorm on campus that is nearing completion. I remember a story in the school newspaper that her husband was not happy with the dedication service when construction began. Everyone tried to make it out to be a deep, spiritual event and that is not how she would have wanted it. She was not a religious person at all, and her husband felt that the religious subversion was completely inappropriate. He even said she would have walked away from the service had she been there.
I've got family spread all around East Texas, and any time I'm down there, I fully expect to see a new shed or vehicle made from space shuttle parts. I'm a born-and-bred Texan and I know there are some serious backwoods country-folk who live in that "debris footprint." Hell, I'm related to a lot of 'em.