quite some nice tools, it's an install ISO for our source distro, but it also supports RAID in the kernel, ext3, jfs, xfs, reiserfs and a whole lot more fs tools. kernel is always latest and up to date. give it a try!
After 4 years of professional experience in running routers, general multipupose servers and all the way to full GNU desktops, I decided to try to install a LDAP server so everyone here can keep a joint company address book.
Bad idea
almost a year later this project is still not finished. I've prolly stumped into this once a month and spent a days reading and trying to figger out how to get the backend bootstrapped. No such luck.
I've completely dropped the idea of having LDAP as a database server because of this and I'm very disappointed because of it. In the end you can get the software everywhere, the user-howto's are sublimely stupid (open netscape and click "my addressbooK"), but there is no adequate support, help or whatever information about what to do when you have slapd running, but no data in there yet.
I've no time to dig into this deeper, but I think LDAP should be shot dead for this. I hope you don't fall into the same pifall I did.
You are being obnoxious, and the statements you are making are false.
Mocrosoft mice (USB, I have several) apparently even function better the the competitors (Logitech) when it comes to cross-platform support. The dang logitech mice will not work with KVM switches and multiboot linux/NT/2K systems, but the stupid M$ logo on my mice will not refrain me from buying them anymore.
If M$ is abusing the USB protocol, IMO they are abandoning the standard and should not be allowed to sell their mice anymore as "USB mice", just as mutilated anti-copy CD's are officially not allowed to wear the "Compact Disc (R)" logo.
If you read carefully he uses 'fsck -n' to *check* for errors without fixing it. Doing this regularly will show that even a perfectly fine running system will pollute an ext2 fs.
I suspect that he is sane enough to init S before doing a *REAL* fsck.
ahh yes, you are correct, I confused something there!
As for the dissolved CO2, I once saw a video from one of my U. teachers trying to bounce a little submarine into a subsea pond of CO2 at 1100m depth, incredibly fascinating to see that the density was so dense that the sub (being neutrally buoyant to water) was too light and skidded right off, only to leave ripples on the surface!
Many large lakes in Africa contain huge amounts of CO2 dissolved and sinking to the bottom. But there are quite some locations in oceans as well where smaller 'ponds' of CO2 exists. The mediteranean sea is a well known example.
We might be better off getting rid of all the case-modders using dry ice to cool their mobos! Liquid Nitrogen is sooooo much more environmental conscious!
Actually, the CO2 they pump back comes from the degassing stage of the oil on the rig itself. This CO2 will never see an onshore installation, making it quite hard to make bubbles for beer form it.
Now I've heard rumors about beans for breakfast in the UK, I wonder if that is where they get their CO2 from...
Near surface natural CO2 deposits (dry ice) have been discovered and found to be a huge danger to anything that comes around. These deposits generally lie very shallow under the seafloor and can be meters in thickness. The biggest danger is not their sudden release and toxic effects of that, but lies in a totally different factor.
In several ocean slopes (offshore norway, east coast US) these deposits suddenly gave way in history, allowing the cover of these deposits to start sliding down the oceanic ramps. The gasses maybe killed some fish, but the Norway slide triggerd a tidal wave that reached elevations of over 100m in height when it crashed into the north of Scotland (that's 500-1000km further), destructing everything in it's path.
Another danger is to ships and constructions. The massive amount of gasses makes the sea like a giant bubblebath. Anyone that every played with a rubber duck that barely floats in a bubblebath knows what happens when you turn on the bubbles hard enough: it sinks. A massive gas pipe blowout just below an oil righ in the North Sea caused a complete oil/gas rig to sink like a rock a few decades ago.
That said CO2 looks like a dangerous thing to toy with, but that's not the case in the oil fields we are talking about here.
Most of these fields are at enormous depths, the typical North sea fields (in which these experiments have been done for quite a while) are at depths of over 500m. The rocks at that location are much more stable, and at 800m we're talking about serious tough rocks.
Using CO2 to extract the oil better (by pressurizing depleted oil fields) and returning the CO2 they are hitting the jackpot twice: First they can revive old fields relatively cheap and extract more oil, and secondly they can do something back for the environment in a very safe way.
The argument of cave-ins, earthquakes are however very serious ones. The typical example of a colorado experiment where fluids were injected into deep crustal fissures resulting in earthquakes occuring daily instead of yearly warn us against toying with the earth's structure.
That said one must conclude that CO2 injection must be evaluated before it is even tried. As a geologist from the Netherlands I can honestly say this news is not new. CO2 injection has been discussed for over a decade now and thes tests were done in several other fields in small scale before this larger experiment by statoil.
When you say "in general, you wouldnt want to live at the bottom of the sea" I can vough for that too, if you think the bottom of the sea is a safe place then you are wrong! But pumping some CO2 to fill up a hole you created again might be better than leaving the hole there. At least we should put a cover on the hole after we finished using it.
Please read (from http://www.un.org/law/icc/statute/romefra.htm). So that you may become enlightened and embrace the thing that all human beings want: A safer place to live and peace on earth.
-- Article 7 Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(j) The crime of apartheid;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
This is a typical section of the statute. Please write to your republican congressman or senator that you absolutely think that the US government should back this treaty up.
> to reestablish colonial control over the "unwashed savages" of the developing world
Then tell me why the US is so terrified by it, it seems to me the US could very well be the forefighter for the ICC if they would back it up and thus generate a consent that internationally would be respected (Meaning that the US may make mistakes too but not necessarily act like warcriminals).
Now the shear fact that the US is trying to get around the ICC suggests to me the are declaring themself guilty.
This is much worse than european neo-colinism: all european countries have just stated they are bound to exactly the same international laws (on warcrimes and against humanitarian suffering) as any former colony.
> It's only the first of many steps for the Europeans to reestablish colonial...
Remember that the US agreed to the treaty declaring the ICC in Rome a few years ago, and over 70 countries have already ratified it, including more non-european then european countries.
Same laws that prohibit entering and breaking in computer systems are in effect all around europe, and personally, I as a dutch person would love to see someone from the RIAA or MPAA hang in front of the new ICC in The Hague (That would be a laugh!)
We currently sell some products including Microstar Labs AD converters, which do 64 channels of A/D conversion, 16bits at 16.000 Khz. Not really for the audio freaks, but we geologists love it, not to mention the fact that they provide the board with fully functional set of linux drivers.
A dutch judge has just ruled that online job offer companies may rip job ads from newspapers and place them online (http://www.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak/frameset.asp? ui_id=36590 , sorry, it's in dutch). Any patent on this will surely be regarded as (excusez le mot) bull. Job ads can be considered public announcements, and definately not patentable. In a way a newspaper placing job ads already has an automated way of doing this.
Now I just have to make a.nl based site that puts.us job ads online, and their patent is worthless.
1) the DMCA prohibits otherwise perfectly legal use of certain products and increases the monopolistic powers of certain software companies, therefore contradicting the laws of that government itself.
2) region coding prohibits fair use (although not a constitutional right, almost every country accepts "fair use" as a warrant system to protect comsumers)
3) patents on software are contradictionary to what patents are for since copyright already covers software, and in most countries, you can (By law) only receive protection on one of these protective laws at the same time. Therefore software patents are misleading and possibly fraudulous, maybe even unconstitutional if you dig deep enough.
Put spam in this list please! (oh, and stop using illegal software while you're at it, you might wanna try linux for your desktop, you know you may copy it for free?)
This is a totally disproportional estimate. Any good web developer digging into JavaScript e.d. alread knows the ins and outs of most browsers, and if not, can find them relatively easy (just install NS and type javascript: in the white thingy).
Estimates of 3x the development cost is just plain stupid, that means you're actually spending twice the time to set up the same site for the remaining 10% of all browsers. That is completely rubbish. It doesn't take a NS site much longer to be set up than a IE site.
In fact, only minor parts of code usually needs to be changed or dubbed for IE or -the-other-browser-, and this usually works with all the other browsers immediately.
A *real* estimate would look like this:
$X to create a 90% browser cover (1.1 to 1.3) x $X for 98% cover (1.5 or up) x $X for 99.9% cover
if you manage to get your boss to pay 3 x $X for that, well, go for it!!!
Slashdot Mirror
look in the kernel, pretty much any scsi tape works OOTB (HP dats, onstream etc).
especially with devfs working with tapes is a breeze, auto scsi-id's make life really easy, and mt (several version available) always work.
quite some nice tools, it's an install ISO for our source distro, but it also supports RAID in the kernel, ext3, jfs, xfs, reiserfs and a whole lot more fs tools. kernel is always latest and up to date. give it a try!
http://www.lunar-linux.org/
After 4 years of professional experience in running routers, general multipupose servers and all the way to full GNU desktops, I decided to try to install a LDAP server so everyone here can keep a joint company address book.
Bad idea
almost a year later this project is still not finished. I've prolly stumped into this once a month and spent a days reading and trying to figger out how to get the backend bootstrapped. No such luck.
I've completely dropped the idea of having LDAP as a database server because of this and I'm very disappointed because of it. In the end you can get the software everywhere, the user-howto's are sublimely stupid (open netscape and click "my addressbooK"), but there is no adequate support, help or whatever information about what to do when you have slapd running, but no data in there yet.
I've no time to dig into this deeper, but I think LDAP should be shot dead for this. I hope you don't fall into the same pifall I did.
apparently /. is now serving their content of one off these....
You are being obnoxious, and the statements you are making are false.
Mocrosoft mice (USB, I have several) apparently even function better the the competitors (Logitech) when it comes to cross-platform support. The dang logitech mice will not work with KVM switches and multiboot linux/NT/2K systems, but the stupid M$ logo on my mice will not refrain me from buying them anymore.
If M$ is abusing the USB protocol, IMO they are abandoning the standard and should not be allowed to sell their mice anymore as "USB mice", just as mutilated anti-copy CD's are officially not allowed to wear the "Compact Disc (R)" logo.
If you read carefully he uses 'fsck -n' to *check* for errors without fixing it. Doing this regularly will show that even a perfectly fine running system will pollute an ext2 fs.
I suspect that he is sane enough to init S before doing a *REAL* fsck.
Actually,
he just continues to use and distribute it for educational purposes:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
refer to:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
and see for yourself.
Get a source distro! Nothing beats a compile-yourself distribution optimized for your system in every ELF:
lunar linux
Gentoo
Rock linux
Sorcerer linux
SourceMage
In the end... binary distro's are just like windoze
ahh yes, you are correct, I confused something there!
As for the dissolved CO2, I once saw a video from one of my U. teachers trying to bounce a little submarine into a subsea pond of CO2 at 1100m depth, incredibly fascinating to see that the density was so dense that the sub (being neutrally buoyant to water) was too light and skidded right off, only to leave ripples on the surface!
Many large lakes in Africa contain huge amounts of CO2 dissolved and sinking to the bottom. But there are quite some locations in oceans as well where smaller 'ponds' of CO2 exists. The mediteranean sea is a well known example.
We might be better off getting rid of all the case-modders using dry ice to cool their mobos! Liquid Nitrogen is sooooo much more environmental conscious!
Actually, the CO2 they pump back comes from the degassing stage of the oil on the rig itself. This CO2 will never see an onshore installation, making it quite hard to make bubbles for beer form it.
Now I've heard rumors about beans for breakfast in the UK, I wonder if that is where they get their CO2 from...
Near surface natural CO2 deposits (dry ice) have been discovered and found to be a huge danger to anything that comes around. These deposits generally lie very shallow under the seafloor and can be meters in thickness. The biggest danger is not their sudden release and toxic effects of that, but lies in a totally different factor.
In several ocean slopes (offshore norway, east coast US) these deposits suddenly gave way in history, allowing the cover of these deposits to start sliding down the oceanic ramps. The gasses maybe killed some fish, but the Norway slide triggerd a tidal wave that reached elevations of over 100m in height when it crashed into the north of Scotland (that's 500-1000km further), destructing everything in it's path.
Another danger is to ships and constructions. The massive amount of gasses makes the sea like a giant bubblebath. Anyone that every played with a rubber duck that barely floats in a bubblebath knows what happens when you turn on the bubbles hard enough: it sinks. A massive gas pipe blowout just below an oil righ in the North Sea caused a complete oil/gas rig to sink like a rock a few decades ago.
That said CO2 looks like a dangerous thing to toy with, but that's not the case in the oil fields we are talking about here.
Most of these fields are at enormous depths, the typical North sea fields (in which these experiments have been done for quite a while) are at depths of over 500m. The rocks at that location are much more stable, and at 800m we're talking about serious tough rocks.
Using CO2 to extract the oil better (by pressurizing depleted oil fields) and returning the CO2 they are hitting the jackpot twice: First they can revive old fields relatively cheap and extract more oil, and secondly they can do something back for the environment in a very safe way.
The argument of cave-ins, earthquakes are however very serious ones. The typical example of a colorado experiment where fluids were injected into deep crustal fissures resulting in earthquakes occuring daily instead of yearly warn us against toying with the earth's structure.
That said one must conclude that CO2 injection must be evaluated before it is even tried. As a geologist from the Netherlands I can honestly say this news is not new. CO2 injection has been discussed for over a decade now and thes tests were done in several other fields in small scale before this larger experiment by statoil.
When you say "in general, you wouldnt want to live at the bottom of the sea" I can vough for that too, if you think the bottom of the sea is a safe place then you are wrong! But pumping some CO2 to fill up a hole you created again might be better than leaving the hole there. At least we should put a cover on the hole after we finished using it.
Imagine a BEOWULF cluster of these!!!
(damn that will save some pennies, and who said you NEED a monitor?)
Please read (from http://www.un.org/law/icc/statute/romefra.htm). So that you may become enlightened and embrace the thing that all human beings want: A safer place to live and peace on earth.
--
Article 7
Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(j) The crime of apartheid;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
This is a typical section of the statute. Please write to your republican congressman or senator that you absolutely think that the US government should back this treaty up.
> to reestablish colonial control over the "unwashed savages" of the developing world
Then tell me why the US is so terrified by it, it seems to me the US could very well be the forefighter for the ICC if they would back it up and thus generate a consent that internationally would be respected (Meaning that the US may make mistakes too but not necessarily act like warcriminals).
Now the shear fact that the US is trying to get around the ICC suggests to me the are declaring themself guilty.
This is much worse than european neo-colinism: all european countries have just stated they are bound to exactly the same international laws (on warcrimes and against humanitarian suffering) as any former colony.
so, what is your point?
> It's only the first of many steps for the Europeans to reestablish colonial...
Remember that the US agreed to the treaty declaring the ICC in Rome a few years ago, and over 70 countries have already ratified it, including more non-european then european countries.
Think first next time before you reply
Same laws that prohibit entering and breaking in computer systems are in effect all around europe, and personally, I as a dutch person would love to see someone from the RIAA or MPAA hang in front of the new ICC in The Hague (That would be a laugh!)
DoS my gnut and come over if you dare!!!
We currently sell some products including Microstar Labs AD converters, which do 64 channels of A/D conversion, 16bits at 16.000 Khz. Not really for the audio freaks, but we geologists love it, not to mention the fact that they provide the board with fully functional set of linux drivers.
at 4000$ a piece, that's not even so expensive!
A dutch judge has just ruled that online job offer companies may rip job ads from newspapers and place them online (http://www.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak/frameset.asp? ui_id=36590 , sorry, it's in dutch). Any patent on this will surely be regarded as (excusez le mot) bull. Job ads can be considered public announcements, and definately not patentable. In a way a newspaper placing job ads already has an automated way of doing this.
.nl based site that puts .us job ads online, and their patent is worthless.
Now I just have to make a
Ummm
1) the DMCA prohibits otherwise perfectly legal use of certain products and increases the monopolistic powers of certain software companies, therefore contradicting the laws of that government itself.
2) region coding prohibits fair use (although not a constitutional right, almost every country accepts "fair use" as a warrant system to protect comsumers)
3) patents on software are contradictionary to what patents are for since copyright already covers software, and in most countries, you can (By law) only receive protection on one of these protective laws at the same time. Therefore software patents are misleading and possibly fraudulous, maybe even unconstitutional if you dig deep enough.
Put spam in this list please! (oh, and stop using illegal software while you're at it, you might wanna try linux for your desktop, you know you may copy it for free?)
Doesn't matter anymore, since 1$=1E now!
Damn, I wish this would happen to Bill Gates, or maybe George Bush, or how about...
This is a totally disproportional estimate. Any good web developer digging into JavaScript e.d. alread knows the ins and outs of most browsers, and if not, can find them relatively easy (just install NS and type javascript: in the white thingy).
Estimates of 3x the development cost is just plain stupid, that means you're actually spending twice the time to set up the same site for the remaining 10% of all browsers. That is completely rubbish. It doesn't take a NS site much longer to be set up than a IE site.
In fact, only minor parts of code usually needs to be changed or dubbed for IE or -the-other-browser-, and this usually works with all the other browsers immediately.
A *real* estimate would look like this:
$X to create a 90% browser cover
(1.1 to 1.3) x $X for 98% cover
(1.5 or up) x $X for 99.9% cover
if you manage to get your boss to pay 3 x $X for that, well, go for it!!!
'the size of Texas and New Mexico combined.'
FYI, the European version of the article translates this into:
'the size of France'