> Why can't you people celebrate??? Unite with us and share in our joy. Why are you so angry?
All that's been accomplished has come at a terrible cost in human suffering. Not a very inspiring cause for celebration. I agree that the world is probably a better place without Saddam in power, but the means to that end caused a lot of harm. With all the effort that went into that, a _lot_ of good could have been done in other ways.
I'm glad to see the beginnings of democracy, but it's not very impressive in Iraq or Afghanistan. Esp. Iraq is being shaped as a client state of the US. There can't be rich people without poor people for comparison, multinationals need to continue their growth rates just to stay in the same place (Alice in Wonderland, anyone?), etc.
It seems like the US is happy once a free-market privatized economy that can consumer their goods develops. They don't seem to mind if warlords still wield a ton of power.
BTW, one of Bush's answers said something about not needing to shape other nations in the image of the US, but he obviously sees no problem with doing that. Iraq used to have pretty good social programs (unless you caught Saddam's attention; I'm not saying it was overall a good place to live!). Now everything's being deregulated and privatized, just like in the US and Canada:(.
We now have the original ntpd, chrony, and openntpd. I've been using chronyd for a while now, and it's pretty easy to set up. I like how the server can be controlled or queried by a client, chronyc, from the command line without restarting it. I also like being able to limit how often it queries the timeserver, to make sure I don't over-do it. AFAIK, there's nothing bad about chrony. (It's GPL, though, not BSD. The more the merrier.) http://chrony.sunsite.dk/
Oh, and my ISP has its own stratum 2 server, z3.eastlink.ca.:)
It might not be so bad if CPU manufacturers would figure out exactly how fast CPUs could run, and set the multiplier appropriately. This is what happens when they actually need to do speed binning to get yields. If they sold them for reasonable prices, you wouldn't need to overclock. If all you're doing is conservatively getting them back to what they can run, then why wouldn't you want Intel to do it for you? well, price I guess.:(
It's not like you couldn't overclock though. If you have more than barely adequate cooling, or the ambient temperature is lower than the max spec, or you're running code that doesn't generate as much (or that doesn't exercise the critical path, if that's possible), or if you're playing games and you don't care if the odd pixel is wrong and can accept the occasional crash, then you can overclock some beyond what the manufacturer could spec the CPU at. Some people have much stricter reliability requirements than many overclockers seem to.
There's been some good discussion of distro differences on my local LUG mailing list. The web site is unmaintained except for the mailing list and archives, because we have more interesting things to do.:)
See Rick Moen's comparisons of Debian installers.
The best for a typical desktop is to boot Knoppix and tell it to install on your HD. You get a normal Debian system with all your hardware detected, and you can put a nearby mirror in sources.list and install regular Debian packages.
> But as it stands now, I just don't think anyone's gonna care too much about my >/. password when I'm gone. Least of all, me.
You don't have any friends who could post a message in your journal, or info page? Besides posting "I'm dead" messages, I'm sure you have some data that your friends would like to have. Someone is going to do something with your corpse and estate when you die, even if you don't have dependents.
As for Trek, it's obviously only the conformists that even think about enrolling in Starfleet... The average people you see running around on earth don't wear Human uniforms. (unlike the members of some poorly thought-out alien cultures, which aren't too common recently.) It is really weird that everybody wears their uniform most of the time, though. There are a lot of things that seem pretty hokey about the Trek universe, besides the made-up-on-the-spot physics of the later series.
However, I was actually talking about the Workforce I and II episodes. (plot synopsis). Basically, there's a factory that mind controls their "employees" after capturing them away from their previous lives. It makes you wonder just exactly what's wrong with everyone being happy, even if it is because of mind control. This kind of thing has come up in other Trek episodes, but not with the ship's crew. I seem to recall an episode where Voyager (or maybe Enterprise) came across a utopian society that didn't have a clue about anything, because the computer ran everything. This is not a new idea for SF.
run ulimit -c unlimited before running the daemon. gdb a.out core. If it doesn't crash in a way that dumps core, i.e. it just exits with an error code, you could run it under ltrace or strace. You'll have giant trace files if you do that, though. You could exclude some system calls from tracing, such as gettimeofday.
I don't think anyone's saying that data is the most important thing. Your relatives might want to read your correspondence, or maybe get some pics from your digital photo albums. Data isn't very important compared to relationships, but it shouldn't be ignored. Besides, you have relationships with people online who won't know that you died unless your family gets your passwords and addressbook so they can send email.
Someone mentioned this in another thread, but your wife is probably the person most likely to die in the same accident as you. You might want to make some contingency plans for that. It's not very likely to happen, and it the consequences of not having "I'm dead" messages posted, and your data passed on to whoever you want to have it, probably aren't too severe, so you might want to just be optimistic:)
If you can boot Knoppix, you can use the NTFS utils + a registry editor to set an empty password for Administrator (or for his account) in passwords.sam or something like that. I did that at work (at a university) with the previous sysadmin's PC that they gave me to use. I didn't end up using the windows partition, though, since I only admin GNU/Linux clusters. I was able to get into the old admin's account and find out that there weren't any useful data files or notes about the cluster setup:( I have been leaving a log of sysadmin stuff I do, for the benefit of anyone who comes after me.
Anyway, you can google up the tools to use to hack reset an XP password from a GNU system.
I don't assume that there will be an afterlife. (I found Douglas Adams' essay on atheism pretty much summed up what I'd decided after much thinking on what it made sense to believe and think...) I do want the world to be a better place, because for some reason that makes me happy. I don't like it when other people suffer, or have to waste their time doing useless crap. This is why I volunteer my time developing and helping people use Free software. I do good not for any theistic reasons, but because I think it's what I should do. For one thing, setting a good example for others can result in actual benefits coming back to me. The golden rule has to work sometimes:)
I care about what happens after my death; I'm not exactly sure why. I think part of it is that I believe (without much justification) it is objectively better for intelligent life to exist (and be happy) than for it not to. As Sagan put it, otherwise it would be an awful waste of space. This being the case, I want people to be happy after I die. That is why I am concerned about long term trends in society, like growing corporate control. (Corporations will push societies and culture in directions that make money for them, regardless of the impact on everyone's happiness. e.g. advertising is everywhere, and now you can't trust anything.) I don't want my death to be inconvenient for people as well as making them sad. Since I'm still young, the chances of me dieing are low enough that it's probably not worth putting too much time into preparing for it. Right now, my time is better spend doing other things (when I can tear myself away from video games and tv (and/.)!). I have mentioned to my family that if I die, I want all my organs and my corpse put to the best use possible, i.e. transplant everything. I don't want to take up space in a cemetary that could be better used for urban housing so more people can walk to nearby locations in denser cities. Cremation takes a lot of energy, which is bad, too. I'd like to be ground up for fertilizer, but I don't think that's very likely. The happiness of my friends and relatives counts for something, so I won't mind too much if they want to bury my ashes somewhere. (Of course, I can only mind while I'm still alive, but it makes me happy to think that the future will be good for those who outlive me.)
Anyway, I agree with the parent that leaving a mess for your family is selfish. Based on the golden rule, you should prepare for your death, because you'd like it if other people prepared for theirs (to avoid leaving you with a lot of work to do, or expenses, etc.). Another way to justify that is if you believe that it's better for intelligent life to exist and be happy than for it not to.
Since I'm on the subject, besides believing that it's a Good Thing for intelligent life to exist, and be happy, I believe it's a Good Thing for such life to know as much about the world as possible. I'm even less clear about why I think that, but I always feel revulsion at sci-fi premises like a society where people are mind-controlled into being happy factory workers, or something. (I'm thinking specifically of an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, BTW). I think it's better for intelligent life to know what's going on. Maybe part of that is my feeling that better science -> better technology -> usually more happiness. Tech usually has to keep increasing to keep happiness above the baseline level, though. Poor farmers who lead (by Western standards) shit lives with lots of hard work, and not much free time to think or relax, are often fairly happy. I haven't met any such people myself, but I've often heard reports from people who have visited Africa or South America that the people they stayed with were amazingly happy. This is probably only the case when there aren't people around who are much better off, like for poorer people in big cities. There, it probably takes a more optimistic mindset to be happy with what one has.
Why the capital letter on atheist? Is there some religion called Atheism?;) As far as I'm concerned, it's an adjective like any other, without any Supreme Being lording it over us demanding we use caps for His name, on threat of (insert punishment here).
I'm not familiar with v6 routing protocols, but TCPv6 is the same as TCPv4. (It's only the IP addresses that got bigger, not the sequence numbers and all that, as someone in this thread speculated.) If IPv6 doesn't use BGP, then that would be pretty much the only reason. If you can find out the IPv6 addresses of the endpoints of a connection, you're in exactly the same position wrt. DoSing it as with v4.
that's 3GB per process, so as long as you're forking off 25MB processes, you're fine. You only run into a problem when you have one big (maybe multithreaded) process that wants to map more than 3GB itself.
You're right about the 3:1 split, though. 3GB of the address space is reserved for user space, and the kernel maps as much RAM as it can after that. (PCI memory space takes up ~120MB, so if you have 1GB of RAM you still need to use highmem unless you're happy only using 897MB or something.)
The ipv6 loopback address is::1. The v6-mapped version of the ipv4 loopback address is::ffff:127.0.0.1. Why do I get the feeling that most people aren't really thinking ipv6 here?
No, there's a levy on both kinds of CDs. It's even higher on "music" CDRs and CDRWs, but there is absolutely a levy on data CDs.
From a govt. web site, the current rates: - Audio cassettes (of 40 minutes or more in length): 29 each
- CD-R and CD-RW: 21 each
- CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDisc: 77 each
- For non-removable memory permanently embedded in a digital audio recorder: $2 for each recorder that can record no more than 1 Gb of data, $15 for each recorder that can record more than 1 Gb and no more than 10 Gbs of data, and $25 for each recorder that can record more than 10 Gbs of data.
> I'm still ITCHING to see OpenMosix ported to 2.6.x at least, and I'd love to see > it built into the next kernel series.
I think it's unlikely that oM will get into the mainline kernel in anything like its current state. It adds a lot of stuff, and is intrusive on the rest of the kernel (adding hooks to system calls and other kernel internals). Then there's the oM File System, oMFS, which is still buggy and not all that great anyway. Moshe Bar's talking about replacing it eventually. Right now, oMFS crashes the kernel under high load. There are still some bugs in the 2.4 version that we haven't tracked down yet, but that seem to be causing crashes.
Tab (Vincent Hanquez) does have an experimental port of oM to 2.6, but don't touch it if you're not planning to make a good bug report _when_ it crashes. I haven't tried it yet myself, and I've been doing some kernel hacking on oM for 2.4.x.
Right now, we're not aiming at 2.6 yet. We're trying to fix things up, and make a best-ever release of oM (for 2.4.x).
> Why the heck can't linux just do this automtically >(or at least have the kernal option) [...] ?
It does have that kernel option. If you compiled hid and the joydev into the kernel, you wouldn't have to use modprobe at boot time, or put anything in your module config files.
Even if you don't do that, there's no need to touch the command line. You do have to edit a text file, though. Many distros have a/etc/modules file, and load all the modules listed in it at boot time. So open it up with your favourite GUI editor, and put those lines in it.
> HOW THE HECK is tech support going to cope when 500 support calls come in > asking how to get their (insert USB device here) working under the operating system?
In the long run, I think the Linux hotplug system will deal with loading the right driver for USB stuff that gets plugged in, as long as the USB controller drivers are working. I think Knoppix uses the hotplug daemon. Once distros get better at using hotplug, or telling the user that they should start it unless they're trying to lock down the system and not have any more modules loaded, etc.
That's exactly the point. All you need to write the driver is info on how to program it. You don't need them to tell you how it works. (Though a general idea of that does help in figuring things out, but not detailed design info.)
It's not that 32bit processors are a problem, it's that their virtual address space is not very big. 64bit processors can mmap anything you want, even block devices >> a few terabytes. (So if the HURD ever gets ported to AMD64, they can support filesystems > 2GiB, which they don't last I checked because they mmap the device, and the HURD only runs on i386!)
Being able to mmap anything you want is something you just plain can't do on a 32bit CPU. If you want to write programs that don't worry about address space limitations, you need 64bit. Anything that simplifies programming is good, since programmer time is valuable.
Besides that, even if you have 1GB of RAM on i386, Linux needs highmem support to use it all. (It reserves 3GB of virtual address space for user space, and the kernel maps as much RAM as it can with the address space that's left over after mapping PCI and AGP space. So 64bit is useful even on good desktop machines right now. (using highmem slows the kernel down, so might not even be worth it to map the last ~100MiB if you have 1GiB installed.)
Stupid crap like highmem is exactly why we should be using 64bit CPUs.
Say what? It's not like there haven't been hundreds of new features added in to ipv4 (e.g. slow start, SACK, window scaling, timestamps, ECN, etc. etc.) before they had to just bite the bullet and make a non-backward-compatible change. Once you're making one, you should make all the ones you'll need for a long time in the future, which is what ipv6 does (assuming they didn't miss anything...).
BTW, a good analogy for the address space problem is street numbers for houses. Sure there are lots of unused numbers, but most of them are between two existing buildings where there isn't room to put new buildings. (IP addresses have this problem because routing works based on nets and subnets, so routers don't have to know a separate route for every different host.)
I have ADHD. I'm 24, and I've been on Dexedrine for ~16 years, and Ritalin for a bit before that. AFAIK, I'm ok.:) I still find that it helps me concentrate. On a rare day when I don't take it, I can never stick with anything for very long, unless it's something I really like (or a video game I'm addicted to at the time, or the demon idol of idleness, television. (Hmm, one time I tried playing Civ3 when I hadn't taken my med. I had a lot of cities, so there was a lot of "work" to do, and I found myself getting bored. That never happens!)).
As for the people concerned that the drugs make you a conformist, that's not what happened to me. I wore odd socks up until high school, just to prove I was different. Later, I discovered the joys of political dissent, and much more interesting ways of being different. If drugs were supposed to turn me into a consumer whore, they were an abject failure in my case. I have great parents, and I went to a private school for kids with learning disabilities, so I had great teachers for a few years. (It was great learning at my own pace, except that I was half way through grade 9 math when I came back to public school in grade 9, so it was boring...) I hate advertising, and manufactured culture (e.g. Britney). I'm a fan (not in the blind-devotion sense, but I can't think of a better word) of Chomsky, Stallman, Feynman, and other non-conformist luminaries, and their ideas. I think about whether rules make sense or not, and if they don't, I break them. (If I haven't had my med, I might not consider the consequences very carefully...)
Even with my med, I get distracted easily, and I have a really hard time sticking with big projects. I was diagnosed early in elementary school, way before it was a common diagnosis. My mom was later diagnosed too, which made a lot of sense for her in retrospect. AD[H]D runs in families, and females tend to have the non-hyper version if they have it at all. BTW, my mom volunteers with the Attention Deficit Association of Nova Scotia. They have some useful links even for those elsewhere on the globe.
For me, long-acting dexedrine is excellent. After hearing some people's stories here, I'm glad it I didn't have any problems with it. It is a stimulant, so there's probably a reason I don't drink coffee. (I don't abuse it to pull all nighters, though. I figure if Atari Teenage Riot can't keep me awake, I'd better get some rest. My sleep schedule doesn't stay in sync with my time zone for more than a week...:) I don't find dexedrine addictive at all. I sometimes forget to take it.
You could use a spare NIC in a PCI slot until you get the proprietary crap to set up the NVidia NIC.
BTW, if you already have a debian mirror locally, why can't you use jigdo against it to build a CD image quickly. (and burn it to a CDRW, since Sarge is coming soon:) apt-get install jigdo-file. Not that that makes it much easier, since you still have to get the proprietary NV crap onto the system somehow.
Merry-go-rounds. I don't remember seeing a merry-go-round on asphalt, though. That's nuts. They're not very common any more here, either. Playgrounds are pretty wimpy these days. How are kids supposed to learn to deal with danger if they never get any experience with minor danger, where it doesn't matter if they screw up and hurt themselves a bit? Not knowing your limits is probably worse than scraping your knee, or even getting some nasty bruises.
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> Why can't you people celebrate??? Unite with us and share in our joy. Why are you so angry?
:(.
All that's been accomplished has come at a terrible cost in human suffering. Not a very inspiring cause for celebration. I agree that the world is probably a better place without Saddam in power, but the means to that end caused a lot of harm. With all the effort that went into that, a _lot_ of good could have been done in other ways.
I'm glad to see the beginnings of democracy, but it's not very impressive in Iraq or Afghanistan. Esp. Iraq is being shaped as a client state of the US. There can't be rich people without poor people for comparison, multinationals need to continue their growth rates just to stay in the same place (Alice in Wonderland, anyone?), etc.
It seems like the US is happy once a free-market privatized economy that can consumer their goods develops. They don't seem to mind if warlords still wield a ton of power.
BTW, one of Bush's answers said something about not needing to shape other nations in the image of the US, but he obviously sees no problem with doing that. Iraq used to have pretty good social programs (unless you caught Saddam's attention; I'm not saying it was overall a good place to live!). Now everything's being deregulated and privatized, just like in the US and Canada
We now have the original ntpd, chrony, and openntpd. I've been using chronyd for a while now, and it's pretty easy to set up. I like how the server can be controlled or queried by a client, chronyc, from the command line without restarting it. I also like being able to limit how often it queries the timeserver, to make sure I don't over-do it. AFAIK, there's nothing bad about chrony. (It's GPL, though, not BSD. The more the merrier.)
:)
http://chrony.sunsite.dk/
Oh, and my ISP has its own stratum 2 server, z3.eastlink.ca.
It might not be so bad if CPU manufacturers would figure out exactly how fast CPUs could run, and set the multiplier appropriately. This is what happens when they actually need to do speed binning to get yields. If they sold them for reasonable prices, you wouldn't need to overclock. If all you're doing is conservatively getting them back to what they can run, then why wouldn't you want Intel to do it for you? well, price I guess.:(
It's not like you couldn't overclock though. If you have more than barely adequate cooling, or the ambient temperature is lower than the max spec, or you're running code that doesn't generate as much (or that doesn't exercise the critical path, if that's possible), or if you're playing games and you don't care if the odd pixel is wrong and can accept the occasional crash, then you can overclock some beyond what the manufacturer could spec the CPU at. Some people have much stricter reliability requirements than many overclockers seem to.
There's been some good discussion of distro differences on my local LUG mailing list. The web site is unmaintained except for the mailing list and archives, because we have more interesting things to do. :)
See Rick Moen's comparisons of Debian installers.
The best for a typical desktop is to boot Knoppix and tell it to install on your HD. You get a normal Debian system with all your hardware detected, and you can put a nearby mirror in sources.list and install regular Debian packages.
> But as it stands now, I just don't think anyone's gonna care too much about my /. password when I'm gone. Least of all, me.
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You don't have any friends who could post a message in your journal, or info page? Besides posting "I'm dead" messages, I'm sure you have some data that your friends would like to have. Someone is going to do something with your corpse and estate when you die, even if you don't have dependents.
As for Trek, it's obviously only the conformists that even think about enrolling in Starfleet... The average people you see running around on earth don't wear Human uniforms. (unlike the members of some poorly thought-out alien cultures, which aren't too common recently.) It is really weird that everybody wears their uniform most of the time, though. There are a lot of things that seem pretty hokey about the Trek universe, besides the made-up-on-the-spot physics of the later series.
However, I was actually talking about the Workforce I and II episodes. (plot synopsis). Basically, there's a factory that mind controls their "employees" after capturing them away from their previous lives. It makes you wonder just exactly what's wrong with everyone being happy, even if it is because of mind control. This kind of thing has come up in other Trek episodes, but not with the ship's crew. I seem to recall an episode where Voyager (or maybe Enterprise) came across a utopian society that didn't have a clue about anything, because the computer ran everything. This is not a new idea for SF.
run ulimit -c unlimited before running the daemon. gdb a.out core. If it doesn't crash in a way that dumps core, i.e. it just exits with an error code, you could run it under ltrace or strace. You'll have giant trace files if you do that, though. You could exclude some system calls from tracing, such as gettimeofday.
I don't think anyone's saying that data is the most important thing. Your relatives might want to read your correspondence, or maybe get some pics from your digital photo albums. Data isn't very important compared to relationships, but it shouldn't be ignored. Besides, you have relationships with people online who won't know that you died unless your family gets your passwords and addressbook so they can send email.
Someone mentioned this in another thread, but your wife is probably the person most likely to die in the same accident as you. You might want to make some contingency plans for that. It's not very likely to happen, and it the consequences of not having "I'm dead" messages posted, and your data passed on to whoever you want to have it, probably aren't too severe, so you might want to just be optimistic :)
If you can boot Knoppix, you can use the NTFS utils + a registry editor to set an empty password for Administrator (or for his account) in passwords.sam or something like that. I did that at work (at a university) with the previous sysadmin's PC that they gave me to use. I didn't end up using the windows partition, though, since I only admin GNU/Linux clusters. I was able to get into the old admin's account and find out that there weren't any useful data files or notes about the cluster setup :( I have been leaving a log of sysadmin stuff I do, for the benefit of anyone who comes after me.
Anyway, you can google up the tools to use to hack reset an XP password from a GNU system.
I don't assume that there will be an afterlife. (I found Douglas Adams' essay on atheism pretty much summed up what I'd decided after much thinking on what it made sense to believe and think...) I do want the world to be a better place, because for some reason that makes me happy. I don't like it when other people suffer, or have to waste their time doing useless crap. This is why I volunteer my time developing and helping people use Free software. I do good not for any theistic reasons, but because I think it's what I should do. For one thing, setting a good example for others can result in actual benefits coming back to me. The golden rule has to work sometimes :)
/.)!). I have mentioned to my family that if I die, I want all my organs and my corpse put to the best use possible, i.e. transplant everything. I don't want to take up space in a cemetary that could be better used for urban housing so more people can walk to nearby locations in denser cities. Cremation takes a lot of energy, which is bad, too. I'd like to be ground up for fertilizer, but I don't think that's very likely. The happiness of my friends and relatives counts for something, so I won't mind too much if they want to bury my ashes somewhere. (Of course, I can only mind while I'm still alive, but it makes me happy to think that the future will be good for those who outlive me.)
I care about what happens after my death; I'm not exactly sure why. I think part of it is that I believe (without much justification) it is objectively better for intelligent life to exist (and be happy) than for it not to. As Sagan put it, otherwise it would be an awful waste of space. This being the case, I want people to be happy after I die. That is why I am concerned about long term trends in society, like growing corporate control. (Corporations will push societies and culture in directions that make money for them, regardless of the impact on everyone's happiness. e.g. advertising is everywhere, and now you can't trust anything.) I don't want my death to be inconvenient for people as well as making them sad. Since I'm still young, the chances of me dieing are low enough that it's probably not worth putting too much time into preparing for it. Right now, my time is better spend doing other things (when I can tear myself away from video games and tv (and
Anyway, I agree with the parent that leaving a mess for your family is selfish. Based on the golden rule, you should prepare for your death, because you'd like it if other people prepared for theirs (to avoid leaving you with a lot of work to do, or expenses, etc.). Another way to justify that is if you believe that it's better for intelligent life to exist and be happy than for it not to.
Since I'm on the subject, besides believing that it's a Good Thing for intelligent life to exist, and be happy, I believe it's a Good Thing for such life to know as much about the world as possible. I'm even less clear about why I think that, but I always feel revulsion at sci-fi premises like a society where people are mind-controlled into being happy factory workers, or something. (I'm thinking specifically of an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, BTW). I think it's better for intelligent life to know what's going on. Maybe part of that is my feeling that better science -> better technology -> usually more happiness. Tech usually has to keep increasing to keep happiness above the baseline level, though. Poor farmers who lead (by Western standards) shit lives with lots of hard work, and not much free time to think or relax, are often fairly happy. I haven't met any such people myself, but I've often heard reports from people who have visited Africa or South America that the people they stayed with were amazingly happy. This is probably only the case when there aren't people around who are much better off, like for poorer people in big cities. There, it probably takes a more optimistic mindset to be happy with what one has.
Why the capital letter on atheist? Is there some religion called Atheism? ;) As far as I'm concerned, it's an adjective like any other, without any Supreme Being lording it over us demanding we use caps for His name, on threat of (insert punishment here).
v6 implementations have to support ipsec, but you can (and most people do) use ipv6 without it.
Not really any better time than it was before...
I'm not familiar with v6 routing protocols, but TCPv6 is the same as TCPv4. (It's only the IP addresses that got bigger, not the sequence numbers and all that, as someone in this thread speculated.) If IPv6 doesn't use BGP, then that would be pretty much the only reason. If you can find out the IPv6 addresses of the endpoints of a connection, you're in exactly the same position wrt. DoSing it as with v4.
that's 3GB per process, so as long as you're forking off 25MB processes, you're fine. You only run into a problem when you have one big (maybe multithreaded) process that wants to map more than 3GB itself.
You're right about the 3:1 split, though. 3GB of the address space is reserved for user space, and the kernel maps as much RAM as it can after that. (PCI memory space takes up ~120MB, so if you have 1GB of RAM you still need to use highmem unless you're happy only using 897MB or something.)
The ipv6 loopback address is ::1. The v6-mapped version of the ipv4 loopback address is ::ffff:127.0.0.1. Why do I get the feeling that most people aren't really thinking ipv6 here?
No, there's a levy on both kinds of CDs. It's even higher on "music" CDRs and CDRWs, but there is absolutely a levy on data CDs.
From a govt. web site, the current rates:
- Audio cassettes (of 40 minutes or more in length): 29 each
- CD-R and CD-RW: 21 each
- CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDisc: 77 each
- For non-removable memory permanently embedded in a digital audio recorder: $2 for each recorder that can record no more than 1 Gb of data, $15 for each recorder that can record more than 1 Gb and no more than 10 Gbs of data, and $25 for each recorder that can record more than 10 Gbs of data.
> I'm still ITCHING to see OpenMosix ported to 2.6.x at least, and I'd love to see > it built into the next kernel series.
I think it's unlikely that oM will get into the mainline kernel in anything like its current state. It adds a lot of stuff, and is intrusive on the rest of the kernel (adding hooks to system calls and other kernel internals). Then there's the oM File System, oMFS, which is still buggy and not all that great anyway. Moshe Bar's talking about replacing it eventually. Right now, oMFS crashes the kernel under high load. There are still some bugs in the 2.4 version that we haven't tracked down yet, but that seem to be causing crashes.
Tab (Vincent Hanquez) does have an experimental port of oM to 2.6, but don't touch it if you're not planning to make a good bug report _when_ it crashes. I haven't tried it yet myself, and I've been doing some kernel hacking on oM for 2.4.x.
Right now, we're not aiming at 2.6 yet. We're trying to fix things up, and make a best-ever release of oM (for 2.4.x).
> Why the heck can't linux just do this automtically
/etc/modules file, and load all the modules listed in it at boot time. So open it up with your favourite GUI editor, and put those lines in it.
>(or at least have the kernal option) [...] ?
It does have that kernel option. If you compiled hid and the joydev into the kernel, you wouldn't have to use modprobe at boot time, or put anything in your module config files.
Even if you don't do that, there's no need to touch the command line. You do have to edit a text file, though. Many distros have a
> HOW THE HECK is tech support going to cope when 500 support calls come in
> asking how to get their (insert USB device here) working under the operating system?
In the long run, I think the Linux hotplug system will deal with loading the right driver for USB stuff that gets plugged in, as long as the USB controller drivers are working. I think Knoppix uses the hotplug daemon. Once distros get better at using hotplug, or telling the user that they should start it unless they're trying to lock down the system and not have any more modules loaded, etc.
That's exactly the point. All you need to write the driver is info on how to program it. You don't need them to tell you how it works. (Though a general idea of that does help in figuring things out, but not detailed design info.)
It's not that 32bit processors are a problem, it's that their virtual address space is not very big. 64bit processors can mmap anything you want, even block devices >> a few terabytes. (So if the HURD ever gets ported to AMD64, they can support filesystems > 2GiB, which they don't last I checked because they mmap the device, and the HURD only runs on i386!)
Being able to mmap anything you want is something you just plain can't do on a 32bit CPU. If you want to write programs that don't worry about address space limitations, you need 64bit. Anything that simplifies programming is good, since programmer time is valuable.
Besides that, even if you have 1GB of RAM on i386, Linux needs highmem support to use it all. (It reserves 3GB of virtual address space for user space, and the kernel maps as much RAM as it can with the address space that's left over after mapping PCI and AGP space. So 64bit is useful even on good desktop machines right now. (using highmem slows the kernel down, so might not even be worth it to map the last ~100MiB if you have 1GiB installed.)
Stupid crap like highmem is exactly why we should be using 64bit CPUs.
Say what? It's not like there haven't been hundreds of new features added in to ipv4 (e.g. slow start, SACK, window scaling, timestamps, ECN, etc. etc.) before they had to just bite the bullet and make a non-backward-compatible change. Once you're making one, you should make all the ones you'll need for a long time in the future, which is what ipv6 does (assuming they didn't miss anything...).
BTW, a good analogy for the address space problem is street numbers for houses. Sure there are lots of unused numbers, but most of them are between two existing buildings where there isn't room to put new buildings. (IP addresses have this problem because routing works based on nets and subnets, so routers don't have to know a separate route for every different host.)
I have ADHD. I'm 24, and I've been on Dexedrine for ~16 years, and Ritalin for a bit before that. AFAIK, I'm ok. :) I still find that it helps me concentrate. On a rare day when I don't take it, I can never stick with anything for very long, unless it's something I really like (or a video game I'm addicted to at the time, or the demon idol of idleness, television. (Hmm, one time I tried playing Civ3 when I hadn't taken my med. I had a lot of cities, so there was a lot of "work" to do, and I found myself getting bored. That never happens!)).
:) I don't find dexedrine addictive at all. I sometimes forget to take it.
As for the people concerned that the drugs make you a conformist, that's not what happened to me. I wore odd socks up until high school, just to prove I was different. Later, I discovered the joys of political dissent, and much more interesting ways of being different. If drugs were supposed to turn me into a consumer whore, they were an abject failure in my case. I have great parents, and I went to a private school for kids with learning disabilities, so I had great teachers for a few years. (It was great learning at my own pace, except that I was half way through grade 9 math when I came back to public school in grade 9, so it was boring...) I hate advertising, and manufactured culture (e.g. Britney). I'm a fan (not in the blind-devotion sense, but I can't think of a better word) of Chomsky, Stallman, Feynman, and other non-conformist luminaries, and their ideas. I think about whether rules make sense or not, and if they don't, I break them. (If I haven't had my med, I might not consider the consequences very carefully...)
Even with my med, I get distracted easily, and I have a really hard time sticking with big projects. I was diagnosed early in elementary school, way before it was a common diagnosis. My mom was later diagnosed too, which made a lot of sense for her in retrospect. AD[H]D runs in families, and females tend to have the non-hyper version if they have it at all. BTW, my mom volunteers with the Attention Deficit Association of Nova Scotia. They have some useful links even for those elsewhere on the globe.
For me, long-acting dexedrine is excellent. After hearing some people's stories here, I'm glad it I didn't have any problems with it. It is a stimulant, so there's probably a reason I don't drink coffee. (I don't abuse it to pull all nighters, though. I figure if Atari Teenage Riot can't keep me awake, I'd better get some rest. My sleep schedule doesn't stay in sync with my time zone for more than a week...
You could use a spare NIC in a PCI slot until you get the proprietary crap to set up the NVidia NIC.
:) apt-get install jigdo-file. Not that that makes it much easier, since you still have to get the proprietary NV crap onto the system somehow.
BTW, if you already have a debian mirror locally, why can't you use jigdo against it to build a CD image quickly. (and burn it to a CDRW, since Sarge is coming soon
> and what the fsck are they called?
Merry-go-rounds. I don't remember seeing a merry-go-round on asphalt, though. That's nuts. They're not very common any more here, either. Playgrounds are pretty wimpy these days. How are kids supposed to learn to deal with danger if they never get any experience with minor danger, where it doesn't matter if they screw up and hurt themselves a bit? Not knowing your limits is probably worse than scraping your knee, or even getting some nasty bruises.