The CVS replacement is already here. We call it Subversion or SVN. It works like CVS, but with several nasty defects removed. Most of us are hoping that CVS will pass into history, to be remembered only on wikipedia.
If you want to reimplement a version control system, you could pick something non-free that doesn't already have a free clone. You could pick BitKeeper or ClearCase, neither of which are 100% sucky or obsolete.
1. statistics (lottery payoff, familiarity with a few different distributions...) 2. basic microeconomics and macroeconomics 3. consumer contracts (car or home lease or loan, ISP service, hospital admission...) 4. sanitation (food safety, STDs, animal waste, surface contamination...)
Just do the math. For example, wikipedia says the condom has a 15% failure rate per year in actual real-world usage. That is a 0.85 probability of success. Suppose you are sexually active with fertile women from age 18 to age 53, for a total of 35 years. Raise 0.85 to the 35th power, and you get 0.0034, meaning a 0.34 percent chance of avoiding pregnancy. You're nearly certain to get a kid.
Oh, you'll do better. You'll get sterilized. Well, that's still a 5% risk of pregnancy. Taking a 5% risk is fine if the potential negative outcome is small. It's not fine when the result is an unwanted kid. Note that this doesn't cover the STDs, including permanent things like herpes, hepatitis, etc.
Suggestion: if you like sex, learn to like having a large family and learn to like a woman who will want to keep you.
Testosterone levels rise if you get a girlfriend or wife, and drop if you lose one.
Women no longer need to live with men. We invented no-fault divorce, child support, heavy equipment, locks and police, and so many other things to eliminate the need for men. Men have become useless, so women kick us smelly slobs out of the house. We are obsolete.
I suppose that could be a particular type of stress.
Besides being SLOW, restarting isn't going to place multiple windows on numerous virtual desktops.
I have virtual desktops containing browser windows which contain tabs. That's 3 levels with which I organize things. It may be 5 desktops times 2 browsers times 8 tabs, for a total of around 80 tabs.
That was back when it was decently stable. I'd have a few dozen windows open. I'd repeatedly open and close windows.
Now, with the 1.5 release, things aren't so nice. I started using tabs only because I thought that would help with memory usage and stability, but it seems not. I'll typically have a half dozen windows open, each with a half dozen tabs. Well, that's because of the crashes. I'd be up to 10 windows with 10 tabs each if the browser didn't keep crashing.
Right now my 1.5 release has been running for 13 days. It's about to crash I think. One of the windows is acting funny. I abandoned that window, leaving it open on one of my many virtual desktops. From experience, I know that firefox will crash if I mess with that window. ("funny" being: new tabs wind up as windows with the controls missing rather than as tabs) I think the previous run crashed after 6 days, judging from how long my X server has been running.
First of all, think about why the women bother. Many of them are diseased. Eeeeew. There's yeast, herpes, warts, and so on. Smelly discharges come in so many different colors!
Most of the women will be kind of ugly. (fat, old, etc.)
Suppose you do get a pretty one that isn't already dripping with semen. You can't let on that you notice, because you might get sued.
Then at the end of the day, you go home. Your wife wants to have some fun in bed with you. Your reaction: not another! I mean, it's like taking work home with you. The novelty wears off, and anyway you've seen better. How are you going to enjoy the wife?
It's all fine if your HTML is spewed from a GUI editor, assuming the extra bytes don't bother you.
Hand editing is another matter. Back in the old days, none of this nonsense was needed. You always got the best the browser had to offer. If you were neat and tidy about things, you'd add the <html>, <head>, <title>, and <body> markers. If you didn't feel pedantic, you just jumped right in. Starting off with "Hello this is my web page!" was just fine. Closing a <p> tag was unheard of, and even illegal in some web browsers.
It was about the same as writing an HTML formatted Slashdot comment: easy, simple, and fast.
Lots of Islamic places do indeed chop off hands and heads.
Other places spank you. This is probably the best: if the criminal goes to prison and thus loses his job/wife/home, he'll have nothing left to lose when he gets out of prison. Somebody with nothing left to lose is dangerous.
No, you don't put unencrypted keys in the boot partition. The boot loader, kernel, and/or initrd (initial ramdisk) can ask for your password.
The solution is fairly simple:
Do not encrypt the boot loader, boot config, initrd (if used), or kernel. Encrypt/home,/tmp, swap, and anything else where you might write sensitive data. (possibly/var) The rest is optional; do whatever is easy. I strongly suggest encrypting the data itself with a random 256-bit key, then encrypting the key itself with your password. The key gets stored in the unencrypted part of the disk.
If hostile people get access to the laptop and then you recover the laptop, you assume that the unencrypted partitions have been trojaned to grab your password. If seriously paranoid, you assume that a transmitter has been installed to broadcast your keystrokes.:-)
We don't need to hear about some random badly-designed pick-up truck or SUV. (jacked up 3 feet, with leaf springs, with an extra ton of chrome on the roof...) We all know.
Extra distance between you and the impact point means that the impact can take longer, thus reducing the forces. For crashing into a wall, this means you should have a long hood.
Extra mass is helpful if the other object has some give, either via crushing or via being tossed the other way. Of course this applies to trees, railings, people, motercycles, and anything else you might mow down. It also applies to big things which try to mow you down.
Normally, JFFS2 won't even run on a normal block device. It expects raw flash. There is a driver that adapts it though, but...
CompactFlash looks like IDE, not raw flash. CompactFlash has built-in wear leveling. It's designed to support the typical FAT filesystem that normal people use. All the fancy wear-leveling things in JFFS2 will be wasted.
Of course, the other filesystems are lame too. The others are optimized for rotating media, so they waste space and CPU time trying to avoid disk seeks.
CompactFlash and similar devices really could use special filesystems optimized for the odd combination of near-free seeks and device-supplied wear leveling.
The new CPU features allow trust to be established after boot. Like this:
Tell the hardware where the security code is. The hardware locks out all writes to that area, including via DMA. The hardware verifies a digital signature on that area. The CPU then runs code in that area. The code checks the OS. Then the OS can run with trust, possibly in a virtual machine.
The crazy claim is that endangered species would immediately start to recover.
One of the most destructive things we did was to transport creatures around the world. Invasive plants occupy space. A place can change from meadow to forest or back, just because of non-native plants. Then there are the animals. Insects kill trees. Fungus from Asia nearly wiped out the American chestnut. Rats eat eggs. The green tree snake wipes out damn near all birds. Fire ants kill tortises by eating the genital region.
For a damn long time without us, the recently introduced species would continue to wipe things out. Of course, they themselves would be evolving into new and interesting things.
It has just one huge problem: the digital output is limited to 1280x1024.
I only need one output. I don't need analog shit at all. I just need dual-link support for something like the Apple Cinema HD Display, 30" at 2560x1600.
I don't even really need the 3D, though I guess I could abuse 3D for scaling video or compositing.
By far, the #1 evolutionary pressure is birth control. Survival of the fittest now means survival of those who can overcome birth control.
Maybe that makes people dumb and horny. Maybe that makes people be super-religeous. (probably Roman Catholic or Islamic) Maybe that makes people just WANT to have lots of little babies. Probably it will be all these things!
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They proudly announce a reimplementation of CVS.
Let me repeat: CVS. In 2006.
The CVS replacement is already here. We call it Subversion or SVN. It works like CVS, but with several nasty defects removed. Most of us are hoping that CVS will pass into history, to be remembered only on wikipedia.
If you want to reimplement a version control system, you could pick something non-free that doesn't already have a free clone. You could pick BitKeeper or ClearCase, neither of which are 100% sucky or obsolete.
So yes, "amish" fits well.
Yuck.
CVS has already been replaced by subversion (SVN). CVS sucks horribly. Subversion only sucks a little bit.
I could see doing a BitKeeper or ClearCase reimplementation maybe. Let CVS pass into history.
OpenBSD/amish indeed...
Chickens in your backyard are exposed to both humans and wild birds.
Industrial farming keeps the birds inside. They might never even see sunshine, never mind having contact with wild birds.
The guy clearly ignores the facts to push his political agenda. He'd be demanding that all farms everywhere be factory-style if he were honest.
The required location accuracy exceeds that which can be provided by towers alone.
GPS is not mentioned by name, but what else are you going to use? That Russian clone?
Let's see...
1. statistics (lottery payoff, familiarity with a few different distributions...)
2. basic microeconomics and macroeconomics
3. consumer contracts (car or home lease or loan, ISP service, hospital admission...)
4. sanitation (food safety, STDs, animal waste, surface contamination...)
Understand that, and you get to breed.
Dear my. It sounds like "debtor's prison", which went out of style centuries ago, is now back in fashion.
Just do the math. For example, wikipedia says the condom has a 15% failure rate per year in actual real-world usage. That is a 0.85 probability of success. Suppose you are sexually active with fertile women from age 18 to age 53, for a total of 35 years. Raise 0.85 to the 35th power, and you get 0.0034, meaning a 0.34 percent chance of avoiding pregnancy. You're nearly certain to get a kid.
Oh, you'll do better. You'll get sterilized. Well, that's still a 5% risk of pregnancy. Taking a 5% risk is fine if the potential negative outcome is small. It's not fine when the result is an unwanted kid. Note that this doesn't cover the STDs, including permanent things like herpes, hepatitis, etc.
Suggestion: if you like sex, learn to like having a large family and learn to like a woman who will want to keep you.
Testosterone levels rise if you get a girlfriend or wife, and drop if you lose one.
Women no longer need to live with men. We invented no-fault divorce, child support, heavy equipment, locks and police, and so many other things to eliminate the need for men. Men have become useless, so women kick us smelly slobs out of the house. We are obsolete.
I suppose that could be a particular type of stress.
Besides being SLOW, restarting isn't going to place multiple windows on numerous virtual desktops.
I have virtual desktops containing browser windows which contain tabs. That's 3 levels with which I organize things. It may be 5 desktops times 2 browsers times 8 tabs, for a total of around 80 tabs.
No, I don't want to restart that, even if I can.
That was back when it was decently stable. I'd have a few dozen windows open. I'd repeatedly open and close windows.
Now, with the 1.5 release, things aren't so nice. I started using tabs only because I thought that would help with memory usage and stability, but it seems not. I'll typically have a half dozen windows open, each with a half dozen tabs. Well, that's because of the crashes. I'd be up to 10 windows with 10 tabs each if the browser didn't keep crashing.
Right now my 1.5 release has been running for 13 days. It's about to crash I think. One of the windows is acting funny. I abandoned that window, leaving it open on one of my many virtual desktops. From experience, I know that firefox will crash if I mess with that window. ("funny" being: new tabs wind up as windows with the controls missing rather than as tabs) I think the previous run crashed after 6 days, judging from how long my X server has been running.
So you say 2.0 is actually worse? How much worse?
That is the LaTeX attitude in a Word world.
Presentation is everything. Humans are emotional, not logical.
PDF and Flash are damn close to what people want. The main thing holding them back is that they aren't as integrated into the browser as HTML.
First of all, think about why the women bother. Many of them are diseased. Eeeeew. There's yeast, herpes, warts, and so on. Smelly discharges come in so many different colors!
Most of the women will be kind of ugly. (fat, old, etc.)
Suppose you do get a pretty one that isn't already dripping with semen. You can't let on that you notice, because you might get sued.
Then at the end of the day, you go home. Your wife wants to have some fun in bed with you. Your reaction: not another! I mean, it's like taking work home with you. The novelty wears off, and anyway you've seen better. How are you going to enjoy the wife?
Hand editing is another matter. Back in the old days, none of this nonsense was needed. You always got the best the browser had to offer. If you were neat and tidy about things, you'd add the <html>, <head>, <title>, and <body> markers. If you didn't feel pedantic, you just jumped right in. Starting off with "Hello this is my web page!" was just fine. Closing a <p> tag was unheard of, and even illegal in some web browsers.
It was about the same as writing an HTML formatted Slashdot comment: easy, simple, and fast.
Lots of Islamic places do indeed chop off hands and heads.
Other places spank you. This is probably the best: if the criminal goes to prison and thus loses his job/wife/home, he'll have nothing left to lose when he gets out of prison. Somebody with nothing left to lose is dangerous.
You're doing bulk reads. Those are plenty fast either way.
Seeks are painfully slow. You can do about 100 to 300 seeks per second. Crypto won't really change that.
No, you don't put unencrypted keys in the boot partition. The boot loader, kernel, and/or initrd (initial ramdisk) can ask for your password.
/home, /tmp, swap, and anything else where you might write sensitive data. (possibly /var) The rest is optional; do whatever is easy. I strongly suggest encrypting the data itself with a random 256-bit key, then encrypting the key itself with your password. The key gets stored in the unencrypted part of the disk.
:-)
The solution is fairly simple:
Do not encrypt the boot loader, boot config, initrd (if used), or kernel. Encrypt
If hostile people get access to the laptop and then you recover the laptop, you assume that the unencrypted partitions have been trojaned to grab your password. If seriously paranoid, you assume that a transmitter has been installed to broadcast your keystrokes.
Who does number 2 work for?
We don't need to hear about some random badly-designed pick-up truck or SUV. (jacked up 3 feet, with leaf springs, with an extra ton of chrome on the roof...) We all know.
Extra distance between you and the impact point means that the impact can take longer, thus reducing the forces. For crashing into a wall, this means you should have a long hood.
Extra mass is helpful if the other object has some give, either via crushing or via being tossed the other way. Of course this applies to trees, railings, people, motercycles, and anything else you might mow down. It also applies to big things which try to mow you down.
Normally, JFFS2 won't even run on a normal block device. It expects raw flash. There is a driver that adapts it though, but...
CompactFlash looks like IDE, not raw flash. CompactFlash has built-in wear leveling. It's designed to support the typical FAT filesystem that normal people use. All the fancy wear-leveling things in JFFS2 will be wasted.
Of course, the other filesystems are lame too. The others are optimized for rotating media, so they waste space and CPU time trying to avoid disk seeks.
CompactFlash and similar devices really could use special filesystems optimized for the odd combination of near-free seeks and device-supplied wear leveling.
Heck, you could write one from scratch. It's never hard. AMD64 makes it trivial though, because porting over 32-bit code is really easy.
(speaking from experience, so Adobe is just lazy)
The new CPU features allow trust to be established after boot. Like this:
Tell the hardware where the security code is. The hardware locks out all writes to that area, including via DMA. The hardware verifies a digital signature on that area. The CPU then runs code in that area. The code checks the OS. Then the OS can run with trust, possibly in a virtual machine.
The crazy claim is that endangered species would immediately start to recover.
One of the most destructive things we did was to transport creatures around the world. Invasive plants occupy space. A place can change from meadow to forest or back, just because of non-native plants. Then there are the animals. Insects kill trees. Fungus from Asia nearly wiped out the American chestnut. Rats eat eggs. The green tree snake wipes out damn near all birds. Fire ants kill tortises by eating the genital region.
For a damn long time without us, the recently introduced species would continue to wipe things out. Of course, they themselves would be evolving into new and interesting things.
Oh no, we are changing. We just aren't splitting.
Survival of the fittest means survival of those who overcome birth control, by any means.
Likely changes:
a. more horny and dumb
b. more religeous (Islamic or Roman Catholic will do the job)
c. a burning desire to have lots of kids
It has just one huge problem: the digital output is limited to 1280x1024.
I only need one output. I don't need analog shit at all. I just need dual-link support for something like the Apple Cinema HD Display, 30" at 2560x1600.
I don't even really need the 3D, though I guess I could abuse 3D for scaling video or compositing.
By far, the #1 evolutionary pressure is birth control. Survival of the fittest now means survival of those who can overcome birth control.
Maybe that makes people dumb and horny. Maybe that makes people be super-religeous. (probably Roman Catholic or Islamic) Maybe that makes people just WANT to have lots of little babies. Probably it will be all these things!