When choosing a filesystem, you want to build compatibility into your system, so that you can afford to change your mind later if you want to change the way you do things. With that in mind, I think you would be best off with using NTFS for your filesystem. Not only does it have advanced ACL support and built-in filesystem encryption (which is handy if you are the type to worry about security problems), but it also performs at a very advanced level, literally blowing away such "free" systems such as ext2.
Best of all, you can fully utilize it under Linux as well as Windows 2000, so if you feel like you would be better off with developing under Windows, you wouldn't have to reformat your whole disk and lose data in the process. Benchmarks have consistently shown that it is an enterprise-class performer.
Finally, you have to consider reliability in decisions such as these. NTFS just doesn't lose data, which is more than we can say of such "lossy" systems such as ReiserFS. Frankly, I can't even see why people put such "journaling" systems on production machines. All in all, you can't go wrong with NTFS.
I'm glad to see that the FBI and the US government are taking a proactive stance in the fight against terrorism. It is a well known fact that the terrorists communicated with each other through the internet in order to coordinate their attacks that took place on 9/11.
Think about the measure of safety that this affords us. No longer will we have to look over our shoulders and wonder if that Arab guy standing behind us is carrying a bomb. We will have the Feds tracking them down and arresting them long before they can cause harm, because they were watching their internet traffic and found something very suspicious.
I don't know about you so called "privacy advocates" (which is, btw, such an outdated and irrational concept), but I prefer staying in one, unburned piece to the unthinkable alternative. So please, stop standing in the way of my safety.
Why does everyone here get all worked up about the governement watching us if they truely have nothing to hide? I mean, you guys are starting to sound like a bunch of criminals. Besides, its not like the FBI would actually be able to keep up with the firehose of traffic traveling over major backbones. Not even today's most advanced network hardware and storage technology would be able to keep pace with sniffing all the data coming across all the networks. Plus, it would be near impossible to sift through it all to discern some kind of pattern.
Have you ever considered the sheer costs that pile up every time some hacker writes an e-mail worm that kills thousands of corporate mail servers? Not to mention all the lost productivity when it hits workstations too? I think they have every right to classify this as "terrorism", as it destorys our national infrastructure and destroys the economy. You should be grateful that such a great and powerful company such as Microsoft is taking this cause as their own, instead of deriding them based on your opinion of their actions in other matters.
The people who have been targeted by the DMCA have been crackers: people who defeat lame encryption schemes and distribute point-and-click software that allows the masses to pirate.
Absolutely. In fact, any doubt in my mind about the nature of DeCSS's programmers and users was erased when I saw the rapid appearance of point-and-click Windows programs that allowed, nay, encouraged the pirating of DVD movies. Certainly, my opinion is not helped by the fact that as soon as the DeCSS shit hit the fan, everyone on Slashdot was calling for everyone else to make as many pirate copies of DVDs as possible, in order to commit "civil disobedience" (a polite word for "stealing other people's shit").
He is simply a non-target and he needs to stop pretending that the DMCA affects him.
This is especially true since he isn't even a US citizen. In fact, I would wager to guess that this unhygenic fool is not only advocating the global application of US laws abroad, but only ends up hurting the people he's trying to serve in the first place. Why can't the socially inept stick with what they're good at, like accounting and programming?
No matter what 90% of the Linux-purchasing public says, I'm not going to use Redhat. There are certain decisions that they made that I feel compromise performance and usability in the name of good politics and such.
For example, they're using ext3. Blech. It is a journaling system tacked on to the old ext2 system, which seems a little too much like the evolution of FAT to me.
Secondly, GNOME? Can they give any rational reason for choosing GNOME over KDE2? Personally, I've compared them and found GNOME... lacking... in several areas, such as the absence of a decent browser (Konquerer) and the fact that the whole thing was written by masochists with C. Who writes a GUI in C, for crying out loud!? By the way, folks, Nautilus is dead. The fact that they went out of business so quickly ought to tell you something about their product. Also, I really like how everything in KDE is integrated, so that I can, for example, type in a URL (be it FTP or HTTP or whatever else is recognized), and it will fire up the appropriate program and go there (like Windows Explorer, but much better).
I think you can count me out on this distro, for now I'm sticking with SuSE (which several rigorous reviewers prefer over Redhat anyway), with ReiserFS and KDE2.
Do you ever just wake up in the middle of the night thinking "God, my web site is just one big ripoff of other people's material!"? I mean, I assume it happens, but you can never tell with some people.
I mean really, can't they find something better to do with their lives than obsess (and I will say obsess, because this is getting very bizzare and single-minded) about a movie that is being made from books that they have almost certainly already read (several times)?
I think when people keep telling me that American culture is going down the tubes, all they would have to do is point me to this as evidence and I would be pretty well convinced.
As far as I know, there has never been a problem
with current technology limiting the cooling your overclocked hardware
(current generation thermoelectric coolers take care of that just fine), but rather has been
the problem of preventing all the resulting condensation from ruining your expensive
hardware.
Also, you still have to deal with the problem of what to do with all that waste heat
that is ultimately being produced by your processor and other hardware. Remember, these thermoelectric coolers aren't getting rid of the heat, they are just moving it to a different spot. I, for one, am more concerned about the ventilation present on my case than with just keeping the processor cool, as I've noticed a difference by as much as 10 degrees F hotter on the processor when I have the case open, which negates the ducting effect.
Finally, as any experienced overclocker (me included) will tell you, no matter how much cooling you have for a chip, you will only be able to clock it so high before it becomes unbootable. Having a more efficient Peltier will not help you one bit in overclocking.
So, sure, this is a cool discovery for materials physics, but it really isn't going to help people in the way you suggested in your post.
Yes, and of course, NO ONE HERE holds multiple accounts, and NO ONE runs account creation scripts just to give their old accounts metamod, and, most importantly, NO ONE EVER lets their account die.
3,000 Compaq Alpha EV68 microprocessors, in 750 four-processor AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX.
There will probably be a lot of people here asking "why isn't this running Linux?", without really knowing what they're talking about. First of all, Linux just doesn't have the kind of scalability that a commercial UNIX, particularly Tru64, does. Secondly, Tru64 is quite well-known for its excellent clustering capabilities, and its tight integration with the Alpha platform leads to high efficiency in computing. Finally, when you are paying $43 million for a supercomputer, you most certainly are going to be running the best software out there too, and frankly, the only reason that people out there are writing free software is that no one would want to pay for their code.
When you pay for the cost of commercial UNIX systems, you are paying for the assurance that 1) you aren't going to have stupid design flaws like the one the 2.4 kernel has in its inability to use virtual memory efficiently and 2) All of your nice new custom hardware is going to be supported, and frankly, high performance drivers for high-end hardware under Linux are sorely lacking.
What kind of loss are you suggesting this is? Look at the whole picture here: MAPS is designed for blocking out spam, but you know what it ends up doing? It blocks ALL mail traffic, effectively cutting off certain providers from email services.
OK, maybe some of the libertarians out there will tell me "well, they had it coming, didn't they? They shouldn't be running open relay mail servers." However, history has shown that there have been many cases of the controllers of MAPS cutting off providers for their own political ends as well as merely cutting off the wrong people in cases of mistaken identity. Make no mistake about it, folks. MAPS is censorware.
It really comes down to a balancing act that everyone must consider: Am I going to put up with possibly getting cut off from the rest of the world just to avoid the occasional annoying advertisment? I would tend to answer no, but apparently convenience is more important to many "libertarians" out there than freedom.
That's funny, I'm writing something for a machine on my school's network that does just
that for "network security" purposes with the approval
of the network admins. Not to mention the possible "computer science"
skills aquired through working with libpcap.
Time to make bzImage and wreck those glorious uptimes.
By "wreck those glorious uptimes," are you referring to rebooting so that you can start running the new kernel? Or do you mean after rebooting, you will never see those "glorious uptimes" again after having enough stupidity to install a new, bleeding edge kernel without so much as finding out how stable it is from others?
A little-known web site suddenly achieves
popularity, perhaps with a link from Cool Site of the DaySM
or a mention in a prominent news story. Word of mouth spreads,
and soon the web site's servers are overwhelmed. Or rather,
would have been overwhelmed except that heuristics in the
Millennium system had noticed the new link and already started
replicating the site for increased availability. Monitored
traffic increases confirm the situation and soon the site's
data has been "pre-cached" across the Internet. As the
site's usage drops over the following weeks, Millennium
reallocates resources to meet new demands.
Looks like more than a few of them read Slashdot;-)
Steve Kirsch suggests a number of techniques for putting a plane in "safe mode"
Would that mean that all communications would be down and everyone's vision would be degraded until they could only see 16 colors? How's that supposed to help?
Across the street, a group of structural engineers were reassuring reporters that the towers collapsed of their own structural weakness, the steel melting from the fires, the buildings designed to collapse inward -- rather than fall down -- to save lives.
I'd like to take issue with this statement, as this phenomena is largely due to design quirks that were a part of a questionable plan to increase floor space in the building. See more information on it in this discussion that was held over at Cryptome.org.
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Best of all, you can fully utilize it under Linux as well as Windows 2000, so if you feel like you would be better off with developing under Windows, you wouldn't have to reformat your whole disk and lose data in the process. Benchmarks have consistently shown that it is an enterprise-class performer.
Finally, you have to consider reliability in decisions such as these. NTFS just doesn't lose data, which is more than we can say of such "lossy" systems such as ReiserFS. Frankly, I can't even see why people put such "journaling" systems on production machines. All in all, you can't go wrong with NTFS.
Think about the measure of safety that this affords us. No longer will we have to look over our shoulders and wonder if that Arab guy standing behind us is carrying a bomb. We will have the Feds tracking them down and arresting them long before they can cause harm, because they were watching their internet traffic and found something very suspicious.
I don't know about you so called "privacy advocates" (which is, btw, such an outdated and irrational concept), but I prefer staying in one, unburned piece to the unthinkable alternative. So please, stop standing in the way of my safety.
Why does everyone here get all worked up about the governement watching us if they truely have nothing to hide? I mean, you guys are starting to sound like a bunch of criminals. Besides, its not like the FBI would actually be able to keep up with the firehose of traffic traveling over major backbones. Not even today's most advanced network hardware and storage technology would be able to keep pace with sniffing all the data coming across all the networks. Plus, it would be near impossible to sift through it all to discern some kind of pattern.
Sheesh, there really is no pleasing you people.
Absolutely. In fact, any doubt in my mind about the nature of DeCSS's programmers and users was erased when I saw the rapid appearance of point-and-click Windows programs that allowed, nay, encouraged the pirating of DVD movies. Certainly, my opinion is not helped by the fact that as soon as the DeCSS shit hit the fan, everyone on Slashdot was calling for everyone else to make as many pirate copies of DVDs as possible, in order to commit "civil disobedience" (a polite word for "stealing other people's shit").
He is simply a non-target and he needs to stop pretending that the DMCA affects him.
This is especially true since he isn't even a US citizen. In fact, I would wager to guess that this unhygenic fool is not only advocating the global application of US laws abroad, but only ends up hurting the people he's trying to serve in the first place. Why can't the socially inept stick with what they're good at, like accounting and programming?
For example, they're using ext3. Blech. It is a journaling system tacked on to the old ext2 system, which seems a little too much like the evolution of FAT to me.
Secondly, GNOME? Can they give any rational reason for choosing GNOME over KDE2? Personally, I've compared them and found GNOME... lacking... in several areas, such as the absence of a decent browser (Konquerer) and the fact that the whole thing was written by masochists with C. Who writes a GUI in C, for crying out loud!? By the way, folks, Nautilus is dead. The fact that they went out of business so quickly ought to tell you something about their product. Also, I really like how everything in KDE is integrated, so that I can, for example, type in a URL (be it FTP or HTTP or whatever else is recognized), and it will fire up the appropriate program and go there (like Windows Explorer, but much better).
I think you can count me out on this distro, for now I'm sticking with SuSE (which several rigorous reviewers prefer over Redhat anyway), with ReiserFS and KDE2.
Do you ever just wake up in the middle of the night thinking "God, my web site is just one big ripoff of other people's material!"? I mean, I assume it happens, but you can never tell with some people.
I think when people keep telling me that American culture is going down the tubes, all they would have to do is point me to this as evidence and I would be pretty well convinced.
Also, you still have to deal with the problem of what to do with all that waste heat that is ultimately being produced by your processor and other hardware. Remember, these thermoelectric coolers aren't getting rid of the heat, they are just moving it to a different spot. I, for one, am more concerned about the ventilation present on my case than with just keeping the processor cool, as I've noticed a difference by as much as 10 degrees F hotter on the processor when I have the case open, which negates the ducting effect.
Finally, as any experienced overclocker (me included) will tell you, no matter how much cooling you have for a chip, you will only be able to clock it so high before it becomes unbootable. Having a more efficient Peltier will not help you one bit in overclocking.
So, sure, this is a cool discovery for materials physics, but it really isn't going to help people in the way you suggested in your post.
Yes, and of course, NO ONE HERE holds multiple accounts, and NO ONE runs account creation scripts just to give their old accounts metamod, and, most importantly, NO ONE EVER lets their account die.
Just like every other major decision by a corporation, this was motivated by their own self-interests, not someone else's.
they get released into the "stable" tree.
Perhaps, then, it can be said that they follow the "Slashdot" model of development: Post first and correct things (maybe) later.
SIPRnet is probably the name you were trying to remember. It is used primarily by the Navy, but also extends to other branches of the military.
There will probably be a lot of people here asking "why isn't this running Linux?", without really knowing what they're talking about. First of all, Linux just doesn't have the kind of scalability that a commercial UNIX, particularly Tru64, does. Secondly, Tru64 is quite well-known for its excellent clustering capabilities, and its tight integration with the Alpha platform leads to high efficiency in computing. Finally, when you are paying $43 million for a supercomputer, you most certainly are going to be running the best software out there too, and frankly, the only reason that people out there are writing free software is that no one would want to pay for their code.
When you pay for the cost of commercial UNIX systems, you are paying for the assurance that 1) you aren't going to have stupid design flaws like the one the 2.4 kernel has in its inability to use virtual memory efficiently and 2) All of your nice new custom hardware is going to be supported, and frankly, high performance drivers for high-end hardware under Linux are sorely lacking.
OK, maybe some of the libertarians out there will tell me "well, they had it coming, didn't they? They shouldn't be running open relay mail servers." However, history has shown that there have been many cases of the controllers of MAPS cutting off providers for their own political ends as well as merely cutting off the wrong people in cases of mistaken identity. Make no mistake about it, folks. MAPS is censorware.
It really comes down to a balancing act that everyone must consider: Am I going to put up with possibly getting cut off from the rest of the world just to avoid the occasional annoying advertisment? I would tend to answer no, but apparently convenience is more important to many "libertarians" out there than freedom.
that for "network security" purposes with the approval
of the network admins. Not to mention the possible "computer science"
skills aquired through working with libpcap.
Damn, it's good to be a BOFH.
"Which hole do you want plugged today?"
Oh really? Care to post the IP addresses? I'm sure someone can do something about that awful boasting of yours...
By "wreck those glorious uptimes," are you referring to rebooting so that you can start running the new kernel? Or do you mean after rebooting, you will never see those "glorious uptimes" again after having enough stupidity to install a new, bleeding edge kernel without so much as finding out how stable it is from others?
wanker@localhost$ gnut &
Not that hard, really.
Looks like more than a few of them read Slashdot ;-)
Sure you can. How else do you think GWB became president?
Would that mean that all communications would be down and everyone's vision would be degraded until they could only see 16 colors? How's that supposed to help?
Whoops! There goes Team Fortress II! Nice try, anyway, guys...
I'd like to take issue with this statement, as this phenomena is largely due to design quirks that were a part of a questionable plan to increase floor space in the building. See more information on it in this discussion that was held over at Cryptome.org.