It seems like one of the nastiest problems when you want to promote a new filesystem is getting LILO, SILO, MILO... to load a kernel image off of the filesystem.
What are the issues involved here? Do these loaders really only support ext2fs? If so, this would prevent a user from having a completely journalled system, right?
Perhaps there are ways of fixing this (like backups of the/boot partition on a journaled fs) but it would be cool (I think) to have a mini-fsck run on the boot partition before the kernel boots.
There may be issues here; perhaps a MD5 sum or something of the sort might be better to check that the boot partition is uncorrupted. The sum would be checked against... what?
This post is as much an RFC as anything else. Go at it!
Yep. You could also go all the way and buy a Sun. Now there's a nice keyboard!
After all, the Happy Hacking keyboards are modeled after the Sun keyboards. Using xmodmap, you can set all the funny function keys to do useful stuff too. You've got keys like COPY, CUT, PASTE, OPEN, FIND, etc...
Who could wish for more?
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Although this may not be strictly speaking illegal, it is stupid to reward this kind of wholesale copying from another site with a +3 moderation.
Slashdot would not be happy, for example, if someone began collecting their more interesting articles and reproducing them elsewhere. Hyperlinks were intended for a purpose! HardOCP deserves to have its content seen on its site, IMO.
Although this instance of a post copying from another site (in this case HardOCP) may have been purely informational, the concept that messages with no original content can get modded up may become an encouragement for ACs, and eventually force less genial folks than Kyle to step up their actions, a la Church of Scientology.
Posts exist to publicize original content. What has been done here is not that.
The Americans should loosen themselves up a bit and stop trying to prove their superiority all the time and concentrate on actually progressing on that path rather than just sit and gaurd their superiority in things that may not matter after a while.
You make an interesting point; however, relations between great powers are not relations between small children. (Although their leaders sometimes appear that way!)
To determine what you will say to another person, you do not simply ask, "What does this mean to me?" That is egoism. What you think is, "What will this mean to So-and-So" -- in this case, China.
China is treating this as a serious issue, a chance to determine the pecking order in the international sphere. Perhaps we should not put them down (demanding an apology from them would be a way of putting them down) but certainly we should not buckle.
Mutual respect dictates that we ought to do pretty much what Bush is doing, allowing the situation to slowly quiet down. That way, China will feel afterward that they are pretty much on the same footing with respect to us as they were before this incident.
These are people who have enlisted and make a choice each day to go out and fly reconnaissance missions.
A government for the people, by the people, who doesn't care about the people...
These are military personnel. They have taken on part of the responsibility (and therefore are members of) the government.
Although they have the right to expect Geneva Convention treatement, they do not have the right to be treated like passengers of an American passenger jet, i.e. be sent home with apologies.
Student-run IT is discouraged at my college, for the simple reason that we have a very progressive privacy policy (as opposed to the one described earlier) and access to student or administrative data is limited to paid personnel. Seems reasonable to me.
Student-run IT system means student root and to my college that's unacceptable.
It's clear IBM wants to be involved with Linux, and I feel that we should want that also.
Yes. Any large company endorsing Linux deserves gratitude and support.
What should we ask them to do for us in return for their involvement?
Say what? What are we doing for IBM that we can ask them to do something in return for? IBM is making a big move toward Linux, a very risky, very important move for a giant like IBM. Their involvement is a boon for the Linux community.
It seems to me we have the offer on the plate from IBM to create a new joined project to bring Linux up another level if we can find a way from AIX. Surely we must take them up on this?
This is the way we should be looking at it. It shows you have the right idea, just maybe missed the wording when you said "in return". IBM wants to help, let us "in return" help them find something the Linux community needs that they can put their enormous resources to work on.
Whoa, you guys really got two different ends of the spectrum. I, on the other hand, lived in a medium-sized town for 2 months. Neither was I treated like a king, nor was I attacked!
No store I saw had a "No-Gaijin-Allowed" sign. People were curious but reserved. At no time did I feel slighted or looked-down-upon. (Probably because I was 6'4, comfortably above damn near everyone).
Which towns did you go to? From my experiences, I really want to go back, as soon as I have their customs down.
Though what you say is true, it would still be interesting to see how they deal with the fact that, say, Japanese character sets provide for full-width alphanumeric characters, which, although they look the same as A,B,C,etc... except for their width, have a different encoding.
In addition, there's the inherent difficulty in the fact that a Chinese website using a Simplified Chinese set of ideographs could hijack surfers wanting to go to a site with the same name, but with Traditional Chinese ideographs.
In Japanese, there are hiragana, katakana, and kanji. The first two are phonetic alphabets, and the third is an ideographic alphabet based on Chinese characters. Generally, input methods convert from the first to the second, often selectively, so difficult ideographs are replaced with simpler phonetic symbols, though the meaning remains. One word could have lots of representations, and still mean (and read) the same!
These issues should have been thought out before NSI started this idiocy.
Just a quick math check.
System 1 used to run at 30 mips. That was raised to the 4th power - that is, multiplied by 30^3.
Then the interpreter runs at 25x30^3 mips after the acceleration, not 25x25^3. So the relative effect of the interpreter remains the same.
So I would say, anyway, that both you and the original poster are a little off. But don't hesitate to flame me if you don't like my math!
you have a redundant comment ("Three words: General Protection Fault", which is already in the story)...
You imply a pun on "General [Police] Protection fault", which doesn't come through too well IMHO.
Considering that the silly (but sometimes really nifty) comments people like you and Roblimo and CmdrTaco put after the messages are very close to, if not ==, "first posts", shouldn't they be moderated like everything else?
That's the problem. Every company thinks "I can do such-and-such a thing with such-and-such a result, write a handy little "WE WILL IN NO WAY BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR %s", such_and_such, and they're home free. I think it's time that corporations start being made liable, and not have these "easy-out" solutions! Disclaimers are not the Word of God(tm).
Today, February 29, 2000, a leap year day, brought some unexpected disturbances to high-tech Japan. Reuters, the news agency, reports that 1200 ATMs in non-Y2K compliant post offices were out of order. The Japanese weather service had problems with the reporting of local temperatures and precipitation. According to the report, 43 stations across the country have been misreporting data since this morning. Even on Monday, several 24-hour forecasts were incorrectly printing the date as the 1st instead of the 29th. In the north of Japan, seismometers at 20 local offices are malfunctioning. However, no problems at nuclear plants in Japan have reported any difficulties.
- correct my translation if you like, I'm German/American but don't claim to be an expert.
There once was a fellow named Bezos Who promised to sue the bejeezus Out of anyone who through means that weren't new Tried with one-click ord'ring to please us!
I think Konqueror's main benefits can be enumerated succinctly: desktop environment integration and extensibility. Destop environment integration means that Konqueror will be (and, to a certain extent, is) the main tool in KDE for viewing folders, as well as being a Web browser. Bringing the Web and FTP to the same interface as files (see this screenshot) is, IMHO, a Good Thing(tm). Extensibility means that, empowered by KDE's Ope nParts, Konqueror will be able to show anything that you have a KDE application for, much like OLE/COM (AFAIK). This will also be a Good Thing(tm). Netscape has more difficulty viewing stuff on my hard drive (admittedly they aren't working closely with the KDE team, or that might improve) and its plugins can't have standalone incarnations. Oh, and Netscape uses Motif! So it doesn't fit in with my nice KDE themes!:^(
One of the nice things about IE is its nice extension system. IMHO, ActiveX is superior to the Netscape plugin architecture. Implement something like that for Mozilla, and development of plugins may speed up.
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It seems like one of the nastiest problems when you want to promote a new filesystem is getting LILO, SILO, MILO... to load a kernel image off of the filesystem. What are the issues involved here? Do these loaders really only support ext2fs? If so, this would prevent a user from having a completely journalled system, right? Perhaps there are ways of fixing this (like backups of the /boot partition on a journaled fs) but it would be cool (I think) to have a mini-fsck run on the boot partition before the kernel boots.
There may be issues here; perhaps a MD5 sum or something of the sort might be better to check that the boot partition is uncorrupted. The sum would be checked against... what?
This post is as much an RFC as anything else. Go at it!
Yep. You could also go all the way and buy a Sun. Now there's a nice keyboard!
After all, the Happy Hacking keyboards are modeled after the Sun keyboards. Using xmodmap, you can set all the funny function keys to do useful stuff too. You've got keys like COPY, CUT, PASTE, OPEN, FIND, etc...
Who could wish for more?
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Slashdot would not be happy, for example, if someone began collecting their more interesting articles and reproducing them elsewhere. Hyperlinks were intended for a purpose! HardOCP deserves to have its content seen on its site, IMO.
Although this instance of a post copying from another site (in this case HardOCP) may have been purely informational, the concept that messages with no original content can get modded up may become an encouragement for ACs, and eventually force less genial folks than Kyle to step up their actions, a la Church of Scientology.
Posts exist to publicize original content. What has been done here is not that.
To determine what you will say to another person, you do not simply ask, "What does this mean to me?" That is egoism. What you think is, "What will this mean to So-and-So" -- in this case, China.
China is treating this as a serious issue, a chance to determine the pecking order in the international sphere. Perhaps we should not put them down (demanding an apology from them would be a way of putting them down) but certainly we should not buckle.
Mutual respect dictates that we ought to do pretty much what Bush is doing, allowing the situation to slowly quiet down. That way, China will feel afterward that they are pretty much on the same footing with respect to us as they were before this incident.
Although they have the right to expect Geneva Convention treatement, they do not have the right to be treated like passengers of an American passenger jet, i.e. be sent home with apologies.
Student-run IT system means student root and to my college that's unacceptable.
No store I saw had a "No-Gaijin-Allowed" sign. People were curious but reserved. At no time did I feel slighted or looked-down-upon. (Probably because I was 6'4, comfortably above damn near everyone).
Which towns did you go to? From my experiences, I really want to go back, as soon as I have their customs down.
Sorry, but isn't Tony Blair PM, not MP? Just a thought from an American...
Though what you say is true, it would still be interesting to see how they deal with the fact that, say, Japanese character sets provide for full-width alphanumeric characters, which, although they look the same as A,B,C,etc... except for their width, have a different encoding.
In addition, there's the inherent difficulty in the fact that a Chinese website using a Simplified Chinese set of ideographs could hijack surfers wanting to go to a site with the same name, but with Traditional Chinese ideographs.
In Japanese, there are hiragana, katakana, and kanji. The first two are phonetic alphabets, and the third is an ideographic alphabet based on Chinese characters. Generally, input methods convert from the first to the second, often selectively, so difficult ideographs are replaced with simpler phonetic symbols, though the meaning remains. One word could have lots of representations, and still mean (and read) the same!
These issues should have been thought out before NSI started this idiocy.
Just a quick math check. System 1 used to run at 30 mips. That was raised to the 4th power - that is, multiplied by 30^3. Then the interpreter runs at 25x30^3 mips after the acceleration, not 25x25^3. So the relative effect of the interpreter remains the same. So I would say, anyway, that both you and the original poster are a little off. But don't hesitate to flame me if you don't like my math!
That's why the government implements environmental protections that may be unpopular.
- you have a redundant comment ("Three words: General Protection Fault", which is already in the story)...
- You imply a pun on "General [Police] Protection fault", which doesn't come through too well IMHO.
Considering that the silly (but sometimes really nifty) comments people like you and Roblimo and CmdrTaco put after the messages are very close to, if not ==, "first posts", shouldn't they be moderated like everything else?That's the problem. Every company thinks "I can do such-and-such a thing with such-and-such a result, write a handy little "WE WILL IN NO WAY BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR %s", such_and_such, and they're home free. I think it's time that corporations start being made liable, and not have these "easy-out" solutions! Disclaimers are not the Word of God(tm).
- correct my translation if you like, I'm German/American but don't claim to be an expert.
There once was a fellow named Bezos
Who promised to sue the bejeezus
Out of anyone who
through means that weren't new
Tried with one-click ord'ring to please us!
is certainly one of the grimmer books I've read in a while. But it's fun! Definitely recommended.
MSIE is not necessarily evil -- it's the strategy Microsoft used in promoting it that is the problem. IE would be a good model for Konqueror.
I think Konqueror's main benefits can be enumerated succinctly: desktop environment integration and extensibility. Destop environment integration means that Konqueror will be (and, to a certain extent, is) the main tool in KDE for viewing folders, as well as being a Web browser. Bringing the Web and FTP to the same interface as files (see this screenshot) is, IMHO, a Good Thing(tm). Extensibility means that, empowered by KDE's Ope nParts, Konqueror will be able to show anything that you have a KDE application for, much like OLE/COM (AFAIK). This will also be a Good Thing(tm). Netscape has more difficulty viewing stuff on my hard drive (admittedly they aren't working closely with the KDE team, or that might improve) and its plugins can't have standalone incarnations. Oh, and Netscape uses Motif! So it doesn't fit in with my nice KDE themes! :^(
Sorry. The "integration" bit in the subject had no relation to anything in the post. If that offended you, be assured that's not what I meant.
The article seems to state that it's Compaq making the Vista. What's the deal with Dell?
One of the nice things about IE is its nice extension system. IMHO, ActiveX is superior to the Netscape plugin architecture. Implement something like that for Mozilla, and development of plugins may speed up.