I dunno... painting with an overly broad brush, and all that.
I live in Utah. It's far from a wasteland -- it's a beautiful state. Sure, there are areas in the west that conjure up Mordor, but they are still cool-looking. If ESR meant "wasteland" in the cultural sense, then he may have a point -- reading the road-side historical signs, one would think that the Mormon pioneers were the only people to ever exist on this land (never mind the other pioneers and natives). But I can overlook (ignore) the dominant religion easily enough. Trust me -- small-mindedness isn't unique to the LDS church, nor to Utah. I've lived in many states (military family), and they all have their share of ignorant twits, as well as dominant churches. Some of the most ignorant twits I've met didn't even have a church affiliation, so I'm not dissing churches, either.
ESR's poke at Utah is misguided at best. But I've noticed quite a few pokes at Utah/Mormons in the popular media (sort of like how everyone seems to dis Canada). I think Utah, home to Caldera's HQ, was simply an easy target for ESR.
I was a stamps.com customer for a couple of years. Since then, I've become a 99% Linux convert, running only a couple of apps under VMWare when needed. The system really was very nice, worth the small monthly fee (plus the postage looks pretty cool). Last time I checked, Stamps.com had a Windows and Mac client. I emailed them (maybe 2-to-3 years go) about a Linux version, to which they (of course) politely replied that it wasn't in the forseeable future.
From a (somewhat ignorant) corporate standpoint, I can understand why. Digital postage is pretty close to digital money. And while I don't know the cryptogtaphy involved, I assume it's a proven system (after all, this is the USPS), as least on paper, if not in implementation. However, the thought of "evil hackers" having low-level access to the system calls, snooping at the system would probably keep the CEOs up at night. I just can't see this happening solely due to a mistrust of the underlying OS. Granted, a skilled Windows "hacker" can do the same thing with debuggers under Windows, but everyone "trusts" Windows' security/obscurity.
I guess it wouldn't hurt to inquire again, just to let them know that a former customer would return if they had a native Linux version.
I buy the brands sold at Costco. I forget the name, but they're really good priced: usually 5 or 6 for $20.
I've got 2 houses using these bulbs exclusively (except the oven and fridge), saving about $10/month (September to March) in electricity. I've got bulbs 5 years old still running strong.
was the Stroud's Consumate Winsock Apps page, which later became stroud.com, though I note that it's moved to yet another site. I was using this at least ten years ago. Using Linux these days, I don't go there unless I need to see what's current in Windows freeware for a friend/family/client.
That site brings back memories... using Trumpet Winsock (then later "twinsock") to get access to the 'net via my college's dialup terminal service. Browsing USENET (pre-SPAM era) with News Express. Using Web Wolf to spider the web. When Lycos was the king of search engines and Yahoo was still a decent site.
I'm surprised that Stroud's site is still around at all in some form.
When we start sensoring communications of any sort no matter how reprehensible we...slippery slope...yada yada yada.
You're right. The Firt Amendment was tossed out way back when they regulated faxes. Oh, wait -- it wasn't. Because we -- the receivers -- pay for materials for faxes, it should be regulated. Ditto cell phone spam (until it becomes flat monthly fee like land-lines).
People other than (or in addition to) the spammer pay costs for the transmission of spam. If they want to advertise, the can pay money for web hosting, snail mail, or air time (all of which costs them money).
If you havn't noticed by now we Mormons aren't all that secretive about our religion. There is whole bunch of young guys in suits, ties and name tags all over the world trying to tell people all about it.
Well... true, the LDS folks peddle their religion like Kirby vacuum cleaners, and they have one hell of a huge, friendly sales force. However, there are things that aren't well known, and the Church gets touchy when reminded about certain topics.
Take the Tanner lawsuit. Very simliar to the bogus Co$ claims of copyright infringement. Teaching people how to get on the Church's "do not call list" (so to speak) doesn't exactly warrant a lawsuit, in spite of the references to the secret Handbook.
Then there's the
Mountain Meadows Massacre thing. Yeah, it's not really a secret, but I know a lot of LDS folk who are quite ignorant about this chapter of their history.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing in particular against the LDS Church -- no more than most other religious establishments, I guess. At least the Vatican actually apologized pretty recently about the crusades and some of their bloody history. Good ol' Gordie may acknowledge the Massacre, but as far as I know, the Church has yet to admit fault. That whole celestial afterlife thing is kinda weird, and the genealogy thing freaks me out as much as the US Census. But they's good people.;-)
However, being a Utah resident, I resent the church's strong influence over pretty much everything.
Speeking of Sci-Fi and Mormons. Their was a great Sci-Fi spoof called "Space Elders" on a local radio station a few years back. Two Mormon missionaries would travel all over space, running into characters from Star Wars, BSG, Star Trek, and just about every other sci-fi movie out there. IIRC, the series ended after they converted the BORG and the collective then converted the rest of the galaxy.
Yeah, that was a funny show. I liked X-96 Files better. One of the better radio stations in the area.
Don't get me wrong -- I fell in love with perl ten years ago. I bought myself a handful of O'Reilly books that began my journey as a competant unix admin: Learning Sed and Awk, Learning Vi, and Learning Perl. Each book seemed to naturally lead to the other. While the first two have each had one update since then, the perl book had three (I think).
I use sed, awk, vi, and perl the same way I did back then -- as the best damned text processing tools on the planet. Sed, awk, & perl haven't really changed at all.
Sure, there's no reason that I can't continue to use perl the same way I always did. And I don't berate people for using perl's vast capabilities.
But why does this once-elegant and simple tool continue to mutate and grow into the monstrosity it is? Why didn't Larry just start a totally new project? Why didn't perl (at around, say, version 4) just stop growing and simply go into maintenance mode (for example, adapting to larger capacity since memory and disk have grown by leaps and bounds since then)?
I ask an honest question from soneone who's only sat on the fringes of programming. I used (and still use) perl only for basic text massaging. What need does the now-huge perl fill? Do these new-fangled languages like ruby and python fit the same need, just different approaches?
I always thoroughly staple the envelope shut before sending it back to them. The staples jam the machine that opens the envelopes, causing the whole "production line" to stall.
I can vouch for this. My wife once worked for Wells Fargo Bank (they merged with First Security), a regional bank in the West. She worked graveyard shift at the local payment processing operation. They also handled payments from many various places (other banks/credit, utilities, etc.).
Though I never got to see the stuff firsthand, her description of it was amazing. Until that time, I had honestly thought that there were rooms filled with people opening envelopes and punching in the payments. Not even close!
They have these huge machines that sort the envelopes, cut them open, pull out the paymemt coupons and checks, scan/OCR them, then show images to operators of what it thinks the number actually paid is, and waits for an "ok".
According to my wife, these machines are very touchy. They're damned smart, too. They can judge non-conformant envelopes by a deviation of thickness and weight, and route them off to a "manual" track.
Anyway, the biggest hassles she reported to me were staples, tape, letters ("my Social Security check hasn't arrived, please don't shut off my electricity!"), and cash payments. Staples and tape (hell, even crumpled checks) caused the machines to sometimes physically jam. Letters needed to be intercepted and routed an appropirate bin to be sent to an actual human. Cash was the worst, as the operator needs to fill a form in triplicate and account for the money.
So intentionally doing these things en masse will either piss off a lowly hourly laborer who may be under a quota or provide a needed break in the monotony of a lowly hourly laborer. Personally, she didn't care one way or the other. She really wasn't under a quota -- you can't really be punished for finicky hardware.
If a ton of people collected these junk-mail applications, used a hard-to-cut tape (masking or duct tape, maybe?) or rubber cement to stick the appliation together, then mailed them all at once, you could literally cause hours of lost productivity. Just grab discarded mail from the post office (or mail room, if at the office/dorm/apartment) and have fun collecting postage-paid envelopes!
Yes, most credit card apps have those personalised barcodes on the back, so they know who they were actually mailed to, but hell if they send it to me I have every right to send it back in protest. (BTW, is there OCR software for barcodes? I've always wanted to know just what those things have encoded on them! Maybe time to pull out the ol' CueCat?)
"Glowing member"? Haven't seen the linked movie, but I always thought the canonical "glowing" scene was the imfamous "cock fighting" scene with John Ritter in Skin Deep. What a scream.
After a few months of 1-day-per-week 3-hour commute to work (one-way), I grabbed a cheap MP3 player at Wally Mart. I began to look for more than my music collection as entertainment.
My first pick was Off the Hook, then Off the Wall.
I searched for good free sources of MP3 talk radio content. If NPR wasn't solely Real format, I'd grab All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Ditto This American Life (damn, how I'd love to have this show in MP3 format!).
A decent, locally-produce show that I like is Radio West, a show dealing with issues local to Utah and the West in general. There's a few good recent shows about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a horrific event in LDS history that Mormon officials rarely acknowledge (and have never formally apologized for). Quite a hot potato in local circles.;-)
A somewhat less professional, but often entertaining show, is Ghostly Talk. Regardless of your opinion on ghost chasers and the supernatural, it's kinda interesting stuff. My only real gripe with the show is that there's a lot of chatter of the crew amongst themselves before the real meat of the program's main topic is presented.
More MP3 archives of good public radio shows would be most welcome. (I don't suppose there's a good Real Adio --> mp3 converter for Linux?)
Do you mean an ass? I'll be whatever the fuck I want to. That's what makes this country great, isn't it?
Yes, I do. Yes, it is.
If they want to flush out and deport all illegal immigrants, then they should bloody well do it. But they don't, do they? They selectively harass certain groups when they feel a need to show the proles just who's in charge.
So I guess when they have evidence of people breaking the law, they should ignore it, just because of the color of that person's skin? That sounds pretty fucking racist to me.
No, they were rounded up because of the color of their skin. That's fucking racist. Deporting them was simply a bonus for them (the feds, that is). Whether it's the law or not, deportation for simply being an illegal immigrant is pretty damned cruel punishment in my opinion.
I don't enjoy the labor of any illegal immigrant.
Unless you live in a cave and don't purchase commercial produce or have ever relied on cleaning and/or hotel services in a large metropolitan area, you have very likely enjoyed the labor of illegal immigrants. You could very well be correct, but you don't seem to understand how many commercial sectors in the US rely on this cheap labor.
If they want to flush out and deport all illegal immigrants, then they should bloody well do it. But they don't, do they? They selectively harass certain groups when they feel a need to show the proles just who's in charge.
Do you have any idea just how much economic damage the wholesale deportation of illegals would do to this wealthy nation of ours? It would make 9/11 look like a hiccup.
I had to laugh when Salt Lake City rounded up a bunch of hispanic illegal immigrants working for the airlines. This was near the time of the 2002 Winter Budwiser and McDonald's Games. It was obviously a show of "see, we can be tough, too" kind of grandstanding. Had they cleaned out SLC of all illegals at that time, the airports and the hotels would shut down for lack of laborers, and the 2002 Olympic Shames would have barely limped along, if at all.
It's really sad. We enjoy these people's labor when they provide us with cheap strawberries, clean hotel rooms, and sub minimum wage work. Yet we shit on them when there's a political point to be made. What a fine society we are, huh?
Frankly, I never understood how it could be "illegal" to cross political borders, anyway. Is it xenophobia or simply the local taxing authority wanting it's cut of potential new income?
Oh, you mean the pharmecutical industry! Yeah, their stuff is waaaaaaay overpriced. And they can cry me a river about R&D, when they spend more on TV commercials to plant the latest patented drug in America's collective minds.
What I want to see is a law that if these filters are mandated in places which consume public money, then the filter lists and methods must be available for public scrutiny (that means anybody). We've had people try to reverse engineer the lists out of certain packages, but they've been sued into oblivion (see peacefire.org for a starting place for this topic).
Personally, I'd prefer that open source be mandated (say, squid and squidGuard), but I'd rather they be used on their merrits.
All this law does is keep these nanny software vendors alive and kicking. I'm sure they're laughing all the way to the bank.
Ideally, these filters wouldn't be required anyway. Welcome to the Nany State.
I believe you're thinking of nitrogen fixing. Nitrogen is heavily used by most grass-type crops (wheat, corn, oats, etc.). Legumes (beans, clover, and alfalfa) "fix" nitrogen back into the soil. I think it has to do with microbes which habitate the roots of these plants.
Myself, I find the "three sisters" methods of the native americans fascinating. Thier fields consisted of mounds of dirt. on the perimeter of the mounts grew corn. They grew vining beans between the corn (which provided a stalk to grow upwards). Last, they grew squash (gourds, pumpkinds, etc.) between the mounds. The squash plants made good living "mulch" and kept ground moisture around longer (though I don't know if the natives actually knew that part). They also grew sunflowers on the perimeter of the fields, too.
Go search for the free (public domain, I think) text of "Buffalo Bird Woman" -- an interesting perspective on a culture mostly lost to assimilation.
Speaking of that movie, I wish I had heard someone (anyone!) badmounth the movie. That was 2 hours of my life I will never get back, and I will mourn their loss! Online criticism may have saved me $10.
This wouldn't happen to be point-of-sale software, would it?
Having worked for a POS company in the not-too-distant past (who develped in Business Basic on UNIX and -- gasp! -- SuperDOS), I can't believe the prices companies will pay for the stuff. It's simply insane.
While load testing, did you use any of the dynamic LVM features? It's good to know that it'll stand up during a heavy load. But what about growing a filesystem under load? What filesystem did you test with? Reiser or ext3?
If you're familiar with the Linux MD (software raid) subsystem, LVM is just over that layer, more or less. During the install (using Disk Druid) you designate drives to be MD devices, then you partition them. LVM works in much the same way.
In any event, the filesystem layer is last layer you apply -- it is totally separate from either MD or LVM.
So, no, LVM and MD don't have anything to do with journaling. That's the filesystem's job. In RH9, the only journaling filesystems are ext3 (available in the install) and reiserfs (after the install). LVM offers striping and concatenation (just like MD), but offers no redundancy.
So the real benefit of LVM is the flexibility in which you can allocate space without re-doing your filesystems. You want to use either hardware or software RAID underneath it to manage redundancy, and then ext3 or reiserfs on top of it to ensure data consistency.
LVM gives you a nice layer of abstraction over the disk "device" layer. You can glob all of your "disks" (called "physical volumes") together into a moldable goo of storage called a "volume group". Physical volumes can be real hard drives, files, MD devices, and even regular disk partitions. A volume group, is sliced up into chunks (known as "physical extents" under linux, and as "physical partitions" under AIX). These chunks are the building blocks you then use to create usable file space with. Within a volume group, you can lump a collection of these chunks into a "logical volume" -- which can be though of like a partition, except it isn't tied to the physical space (hence the descriptor "logical"). Logical volumes can then be used like normal partitions and formatted with the filesystem of your choosing.
The underlying hardware of the replacement box is 16 180GB IDE drives, split between 2 8-port 3Ware cards. Each card is doing RAID-5 with 7 drives, the 8th being a hot spare. I let the hardware manage the redundancy for me.
Linux actually sees 2 1080GB (~1TB) SCSI drives. Using standard methods, I can partition these 2 drives any way you normally can under linux. But that kind of binds my feet.
For example, what if the 500GB filesystem for Group A is full and they're clamoring for more space? Using standard partitioning, I'd have to create another larger filesystem, copy the data over, re-export the space, then finally re-claim the old filesystem. In addition to being a pain in the ass, this would require a down time for the users. However, using LVM, I can simply append more of those "chunks" I mentioned above, without creating a new filesystem, Better yet, I can do this on a live system -- my users won't notice a thing (other than the sudden appearance of new file space).
It's really cool stuff.
I'm still uneasy about the reliability, though. I have no hesitation about resizing on-the-fly with hundreds of people running batch jobs on the filesystem under AIX. I haven't seen enough of the Linux LVM in action yet to be that confident of its abilities. If anyone can comment on how Linux NFS and Samba handle having the underlying filesystem resized on-the-fly, I'd love to hear about it.
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I dunno... painting with an overly broad brush, and all that.
I live in Utah. It's far from a wasteland -- it's a beautiful state. Sure, there are areas in the west that conjure up Mordor, but they are still cool-looking. If ESR meant "wasteland" in the cultural sense, then he may have a point -- reading the road-side historical signs, one would think that the Mormon pioneers were the only people to ever exist on this land (never mind the other pioneers and natives). But I can overlook (ignore) the dominant religion easily enough. Trust me -- small-mindedness isn't unique to the LDS church, nor to Utah. I've lived in many states (military family), and they all have their share of ignorant twits, as well as dominant churches. Some of the most ignorant twits I've met didn't even have a church affiliation, so I'm not dissing churches, either.
ESR's poke at Utah is misguided at best. But I've noticed quite a few pokes at Utah/Mormons in the popular media (sort of like how everyone seems to dis Canada). I think Utah, home to Caldera's HQ, was simply an easy target for ESR.
From a (somewhat ignorant) corporate standpoint, I can understand why. Digital postage is pretty close to digital money. And while I don't know the cryptogtaphy involved, I assume it's a proven system (after all, this is the USPS), as least on paper, if not in implementation. However, the thought of "evil hackers" having low-level access to the system calls, snooping at the system would probably keep the CEOs up at night. I just can't see this happening solely due to a mistrust of the underlying OS. Granted, a skilled Windows "hacker" can do the same thing with debuggers under Windows, but everyone "trusts" Windows' security/obscurity.
I guess it wouldn't hurt to inquire again, just to let them know that a former customer would return if they had a native Linux version.
I've got 2 houses using these bulbs exclusively (except the oven and fridge), saving about $10/month (September to March) in electricity. I've got bulbs 5 years old still running strong.
I love 'em.
That site brings back memories... using Trumpet Winsock (then later "twinsock") to get access to the 'net via my college's dialup terminal service. Browsing USENET (pre-SPAM era) with News Express. Using Web Wolf to spider the web. When Lycos was the king of search engines and Yahoo was still a decent site.
I'm surprised that Stroud's site is still around at all in some form.
You're right. The Firt Amendment was tossed out way back when they regulated faxes. Oh, wait -- it wasn't. Because we -- the receivers -- pay for materials for faxes, it should be regulated. Ditto cell phone spam (until it becomes flat monthly fee like land-lines).
People other than (or in addition to) the spammer pay costs for the transmission of spam. If they want to advertise, the can pay money for web hosting, snail mail, or air time (all of which costs them money).
Well... true, the LDS folks peddle their religion like Kirby vacuum cleaners, and they have one hell of a huge, friendly sales force. However, there are things that aren't well known, and the Church gets touchy when reminded about certain topics.
Take the Tanner lawsuit. Very simliar to the bogus Co$ claims of copyright infringement. Teaching people how to get on the Church's "do not call list" (so to speak) doesn't exactly warrant a lawsuit, in spite of the references to the secret Handbook.
Then there's the Mountain Meadows Massacre thing. Yeah, it's not really a secret, but I know a lot of LDS folk who are quite ignorant about this chapter of their history.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing in particular against the LDS Church -- no more than most other religious establishments, I guess. At least the Vatican actually apologized pretty recently about the crusades and some of their bloody history. Good ol' Gordie may acknowledge the Massacre, but as far as I know, the Church has yet to admit fault. That whole celestial afterlife thing is kinda weird, and the genealogy thing freaks me out as much as the US Census. But they's good people. ;-)
However, being a Utah resident, I resent the church's strong influence over pretty much everything.
Speeking of Sci-Fi and Mormons. Their was a great Sci-Fi spoof called "Space Elders" on a local radio station a few years back. Two Mormon missionaries would travel all over space, running into characters from Star Wars, BSG, Star Trek, and just about every other sci-fi movie out there. IIRC, the series ended after they converted the BORG and the collective then converted the rest of the galaxy.
Yeah, that was a funny show. I liked X-96 Files better. One of the better radio stations in the area.
I use sed, awk, vi, and perl the same way I did back then -- as the best damned text processing tools on the planet. Sed, awk, & perl haven't really changed at all.
Sure, there's no reason that I can't continue to use perl the same way I always did. And I don't berate people for using perl's vast capabilities.
But why does this once-elegant and simple tool continue to mutate and grow into the monstrosity it is? Why didn't Larry just start a totally new project? Why didn't perl (at around, say, version 4) just stop growing and simply go into maintenance mode (for example, adapting to larger capacity since memory and disk have grown by leaps and bounds since then)?
I ask an honest question from soneone who's only sat on the fringes of programming. I used (and still use) perl only for basic text massaging. What need does the now-huge perl fill? Do these new-fangled languages like ruby and python fit the same need, just different approaches?
I can vouch for this. My wife once worked for Wells Fargo Bank (they merged with First Security), a regional bank in the West. She worked graveyard shift at the local payment processing operation. They also handled payments from many various places (other banks/credit, utilities, etc.).
Though I never got to see the stuff firsthand, her description of it was amazing. Until that time, I had honestly thought that there were rooms filled with people opening envelopes and punching in the payments. Not even close!
They have these huge machines that sort the envelopes, cut them open, pull out the paymemt coupons and checks, scan/OCR them, then show images to operators of what it thinks the number actually paid is, and waits for an "ok".
According to my wife, these machines are very touchy. They're damned smart, too. They can judge non-conformant envelopes by a deviation of thickness and weight, and route them off to a "manual" track.
Anyway, the biggest hassles she reported to me were staples, tape, letters ("my Social Security check hasn't arrived, please don't shut off my electricity!"), and cash payments. Staples and tape (hell, even crumpled checks) caused the machines to sometimes physically jam. Letters needed to be intercepted and routed an appropirate bin to be sent to an actual human. Cash was the worst, as the operator needs to fill a form in triplicate and account for the money.
So intentionally doing these things en masse will either piss off a lowly hourly laborer who may be under a quota or provide a needed break in the monotony of a lowly hourly laborer. Personally, she didn't care one way or the other. She really wasn't under a quota -- you can't really be punished for finicky hardware.
If a ton of people collected these junk-mail applications, used a hard-to-cut tape (masking or duct tape, maybe?) or rubber cement to stick the appliation together, then mailed them all at once, you could literally cause hours of lost productivity. Just grab discarded mail from the post office (or mail room, if at the office/dorm/apartment) and have fun collecting postage-paid envelopes!
Yes, most credit card apps have those personalised barcodes on the back, so they know who they were actually mailed to, but hell if they send it to me I have every right to send it back in protest. (BTW, is there OCR software for barcodes? I've always wanted to know just what those things have encoded on them! Maybe time to pull out the ol' CueCat?)
"Glowing member"? Haven't seen the linked movie, but I always thought the canonical "glowing" scene was the imfamous "cock fighting" scene with John Ritter in Skin Deep. What a scream.
My first pick was Off the Hook, then Off the Wall.
I searched for good free sources of MP3 talk radio content. If NPR wasn't solely Real format, I'd grab All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Ditto This American Life (damn, how I'd love to have this show in MP3 format!).
A decent, locally-produce show that I like is Radio West, a show dealing with issues local to Utah and the West in general. There's a few good recent shows about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a horrific event in LDS history that Mormon officials rarely acknowledge (and have never formally apologized for). Quite a hot potato in local circles. ;-)
A somewhat less professional, but often entertaining show, is Ghostly Talk. Regardless of your opinion on ghost chasers and the supernatural, it's kinda interesting stuff. My only real gripe with the show is that there's a lot of chatter of the crew amongst themselves before the real meat of the program's main topic is presented.
More MP3 archives of good public radio shows would be most welcome. (I don't suppose there's a good Real Adio --> mp3 converter for Linux?)
Yes, I do. Yes, it is.
If they want to flush out and deport all illegal immigrants, then they should bloody well do it. But they don't, do they? They selectively harass certain groups when they feel a need to show the proles just who's in charge.
So I guess when they have evidence of people breaking the law, they should ignore it, just because of the color of that person's skin? That sounds pretty fucking racist to me.
No, they were rounded up because of the color of their skin. That's fucking racist. Deporting them was simply a bonus for them (the feds, that is). Whether it's the law or not, deportation for simply being an illegal immigrant is pretty damned cruel punishment in my opinion.
I don't enjoy the labor of any illegal immigrant.
Unless you live in a cave and don't purchase commercial produce or have ever relied on cleaning and/or hotel services in a large metropolitan area, you have very likely enjoyed the labor of illegal immigrants. You could very well be correct, but you don't seem to understand how many commercial sectors in the US rely on this cheap labor.
If they want to flush out and deport all illegal immigrants, then they should bloody well do it. But they don't, do they? They selectively harass certain groups when they feel a need to show the proles just who's in charge.
Do you have any idea just how much economic damage the wholesale deportation of illegals would do to this wealthy nation of ours? It would make 9/11 look like a hiccup.
I had to laugh when Salt Lake City rounded up a bunch of hispanic illegal immigrants working for the airlines. This was near the time of the 2002 Winter Budwiser and McDonald's Games. It was obviously a show of "see, we can be tough, too" kind of grandstanding. Had they cleaned out SLC of all illegals at that time, the airports and the hotels would shut down for lack of laborers, and the 2002 Olympic Shames would have barely limped along, if at all.
It's really sad. We enjoy these people's labor when they provide us with cheap strawberries, clean hotel rooms, and sub minimum wage work. Yet we shit on them when there's a political point to be made. What a fine society we are, huh?
Frankly, I never understood how it could be "illegal" to cross political borders, anyway. Is it xenophobia or simply the local taxing authority wanting it's cut of potential new income?
Does that mean we'll need to wait for the death of Billy Shears plus 50 years to pirate later Beatles tunes?
Oh, you mean the pharmecutical industry! Yeah, their stuff is waaaaaaay overpriced. And they can cry me a river about R&D, when they spend more on TV commercials to plant the latest patented drug in America's collective minds.
I hear it's pretty popular amongst the Linux crowd, as it's the only Windows program that will run on the stock Wine distribution.
Personally, I'd prefer that open source be mandated (say, squid and squidGuard), but I'd rather they be used on their merrits.
All this law does is keep these nanny software vendors alive and kicking. I'm sure they're laughing all the way to the bank.
Ideally, these filters wouldn't be required anyway. Welcome to the Nany State.
The empire fell because they went bankrupt paying the Oracle licensing.
Myself, I find the "three sisters" methods of the native americans fascinating. Thier fields consisted of mounds of dirt. on the perimeter of the mounts grew corn. They grew vining beans between the corn (which provided a stalk to grow upwards). Last, they grew squash (gourds, pumpkinds, etc.) between the mounds. The squash plants made good living "mulch" and kept ground moisture around longer (though I don't know if the natives actually knew that part). They also grew sunflowers on the perimeter of the fields, too.
Go search for the free (public domain, I think) text of "Buffalo Bird Woman" -- an interesting perspective on a culture mostly lost to assimilation.
Speaking of that movie, I wish I had heard someone (anyone!) badmounth the movie. That was 2 hours of my life I will never get back, and I will mourn their loss! Online criticism may have saved me $10.
That dentist's name didn't happen to be named Billy Shears, did he? ;-)
Sorry -- I was a sysadmin. I never touched the code. And whenever I happened to see the code -- it made me wince. :-)
Having worked for a POS company in the not-too-distant past (who develped in Business Basic on UNIX and -- gasp! -- SuperDOS), I can't believe the prices companies will pay for the stuff. It's simply insane.
While load testing, did you use any of the dynamic LVM features? It's good to know that it'll stand up during a heavy load. But what about growing a filesystem under load? What filesystem did you test with? Reiser or ext3?
In any event, the filesystem layer is last layer you apply -- it is totally separate from either MD or LVM.
So, no, LVM and MD don't have anything to do with journaling. That's the filesystem's job. In RH9, the only journaling filesystems are ext3 (available in the install) and reiserfs (after the install). LVM offers striping and concatenation (just like MD), but offers no redundancy.
So the real benefit of LVM is the flexibility in which you can allocate space without re-doing your filesystems. You want to use either hardware or software RAID underneath it to manage redundancy, and then ext3 or reiserfs on top of it to ensure data consistency.
The underlying hardware of the replacement box is 16 180GB IDE drives, split between 2 8-port 3Ware cards. Each card is doing RAID-5 with 7 drives, the 8th being a hot spare. I let the hardware manage the redundancy for me.
Linux actually sees 2 1080GB (~1TB) SCSI drives. Using standard methods, I can partition these 2 drives any way you normally can under linux. But that kind of binds my feet.
For example, what if the 500GB filesystem for Group A is full and they're clamoring for more space? Using standard partitioning, I'd have to create another larger filesystem, copy the data over, re-export the space, then finally re-claim the old filesystem. In addition to being a pain in the ass, this would require a down time for the users. However, using LVM, I can simply append more of those "chunks" I mentioned above, without creating a new filesystem, Better yet, I can do this on a live system -- my users won't notice a thing (other than the sudden appearance of new file space).
It's really cool stuff.
I'm still uneasy about the reliability, though. I have no hesitation about resizing on-the-fly with hundreds of people running batch jobs on the filesystem under AIX. I haven't seen enough of the Linux LVM in action yet to be that confident of its abilities. If anyone can comment on how Linux NFS and Samba handle having the underlying filesystem resized on-the-fly, I'd love to hear about it.