As a biker who does a lot of wrenching (3 old Japanese bikes, many poor friends) I could really use a good reference on carbs. Bikes make it more fun, since they generally have 1 carb per cylinder. I therefore have 12 carbs, 3.5 of which work correctly at any one time.
The frustrating thing about the nerd mindset is that there are so many things to use it on./. feeds this nicely.
...the fact that there haven't been any significant results in 10 years makes it look, to me, like the phenomenon, even if it's real, may not go anywhere.
How about controlled hot fusion? Artificial Intelligence? MHD? EM weapons?
Ten years is not a long time. Look at all the technologies that were developed from initially slight, but unexplained phenomena. Most scientists, though typically human, aren't stupid. Scientific process is designed, among other things, to make sure that the successes outweigh the wild-goose chases.
OK, time for me to come out of the closet-- I answer other's questions, but I don't know all.
What's wrong with the one big partition approach? What's a better approach? What's most important to put on separate partitions?
Generally, I use one big partition, or use the smaller drive for / and the bigger drive for/usr. Heck-- for fun, I might install devfs, and put / and/mnt on an initrd.
The 2GB filesize is actually a VFS limitation, so it applies to all filesystems. But it only happens on 32-bit Linuxae. And there's a patch that addresses it. Other 2G limits: MS-DOS FAT partition size (addressed by FAT32 or a real FS), IDE on non-LBA BIOSes (can be worked around).
Syed(?), monstro engineer & founder of Castlewood, left Syquest, which he also founded. After leaving one of the big HDD manufacturers (Seagate, I think).
He seems to be the magic that made Syquest; the magic left with him and Syquest collapsed in on itself after staking its future on the Sparq. Which they totally screwed up. (Ask Iomega: you let MTBF drop AFTER the drive is established, not before!)
So, the answer to your question seems to be, Castlewood is stable as long as Syed sticks around. Which should be about the lifetime of the drive and media-- about 2 years.
Ask yourself, "Do I want to be able to read a disc five years hence?" If the answer is "yes", buy CD-R or DVD-RAM. CD-R drives are as cheap as Orb drives, and you can buy a lot of CD-Rs for the price of one Orb disc. And Linux supports it NOW.
I ain't stakin' my data on some wild-goose-chase engineer, no matter how brilliant.
This brings up an interesting point: Is there a way to compile a ROMable kernel? I mean, one that can execute directly from ROM, rather than loading it into RAM? I know there are writable strings and, of course, allocated RAM, but one could move them into RAMspace.
Come to think of it, you'd have to:
make an image of a just-loaded kernel
Isolate all the potentially-writable chunks
Find all the pointers to those chunks
Create a memory image holding all those writable chunks
rewrite the pointers in the kernel to point at the memory image once it is loaded into the bottom of RAM
Write a loader that copies the memory image into RAM, then starts the kernel
Burn loader, memory image and kernel into a ROM and try it out. (Thank Bog for 1MB flash!)
Whew! That's gonna be REEEEAL easy.
Me, I'd like to see a kernel that uses kmodd to reduce boot-up time by delaying device init until the device is needed. We should see initrd bootups in the 1-sec range.
Jeez, kid. Drop Quake and read some Sun Tzu or something. If you want some sort of standard-bearer to go into battle against the Evil Giant, don't pick Corel, RedHat or Caldera. They're too busy doing business to do battle.
If you need a war metaphor, MS=US, Linux=NVA. Use your knowledge of the locale, keep chipping away at 'em, steal their weapons and keep 'em scared and on the defensive. They'll flail themselves to death.
If y'all'd been paying attention, you'd know that there are 3 shipping RedHat LinuxPPC distros and an alpha (no bootdisk) Debian LinuxPPC. LinuxPPC Supports PCI PowerMacs, PowerBooks, iMacs, PReP (IBM & Motorola NT-PPC boxes) and CHRP (some IBM boxes). Work is proceeding to broaden support to older NuBus Pmacs, IBM RS6000's and anything else with a PPC CPU.
Ye gods! Linux gets around so much that it's tempting to start a porting-topics newspage called Anything That Moves. (After all, the name's up for grabs; the magazine's now called Black Sheets.)
That said, it'd be nice if Corel, among others, would port their apps to non-x86 platforms.
Parallel scanners have about five bazillion variations, and we'd have to go through this fight for each one, in English, Mandarin Chinese and Korean, to support cheap, CPU-hogging hardware that'll soon be replaced by USB and FireWire.
WinModems share the five-bazillion-variations problem and the CPU hog problem, but add the fact that, depending on the modem, you have to implement a microcontroller for the modem in software, and in addition, have to write at least some of the DSP backend code to Mo/Demodulate and interpret and co/decompress the signal. Too much work to support lame hardware.
But really, as any OSS programmer should say, "Want it? Write it!" Most folks who ask aren't willing to code, hence the attitude from the folks who DO code.
In other words, if you're whining, you're obviously not part of the solution.
The court decided that KM was such a dangerous "hacker", they denied him access to any sort of telecom or computer equipment. Made it kinda hard to work on his defense with his pro-bono (i.e. you get what you pay for) lawyer. He was denied access to evidence, so he was unable to do any significant discovery or plan a defense. Hence lots of delays.
There was no good reason to keep him locked up awaiting trial, given that he was a nonviolent offender and he was picked up on parole violation/possesion of contraband, not on theft. His case should'a been comparable to a parolee felon picked up on possession of a firearm.
He made the common mistake of plea-bargaining on a high-profile case with little precedent. Plea-bargains only work when everyone's bored and there's no chance egos will get involved.
map!=territory, perception!=reality, yeah, so?
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Interesting writing, and the Joe McMoneagle example was unique, but it left me going, "so what is your POINT?"
We can work in other perceptual spaces besides terrestrial-visual. The new Japanese game that uses directional audio w/ no visual is an interesting example. We have the power to create entirely new spaces, too. Was that the point of the article?
Heck-- spirituality can be a kind of perceptual space, as can work w/ the subconscious.
Looks like I gotta write some sort of feature just to straighten y'all out.
If Katz wants to write for free, LET HIM.
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So what's the problem? His pieces leaven my daily diet of lame-ass code and self-important Salon articles.
So what if he doesn't jack-off your ego or write technoporn?
So what if he flogs his latest book? 1)He's writing for free, but he still has to pay rent and 2)Ever listen to Art Bell's show and the major hucksterism that happens there?
What's great about eating espersso beans all day is that it halps you write better. You can just go on an on and keep writing and reading and then wurting some more and dont woerry about typos but it's real fun.
And you never get redundant because your brain is moving so fast that you skip over intervening ideas and jsut get on to the mating rhinos you watched on TV last noght bcasue you were eating espresso beans last nioght to help yopu stay awake while reading and help you write better, which it's really good for.
Ever heard the Ludichrist song, "Well-Dressed Man Disguise"?
Security generally only applies to shy, poorly-dressed people. Trim the hair, nails and face fur, carry a briefcase, look intent and you can wander almost anywhere.
Suits double your consulting rates.
In the States, suits are ideal for concealed carry.
And folks will take your weird-ass Chomsky marketing/social control theories, amateur Sociology and Marxist economic analysis to mean you have an ivy-league MBA.
A well-chosen and properly-tied tie doesn't choke, keeps you out of grunt work and dusty equipment (unless you want to look like a hero) and distracts people from the fact that you've been wearing the same clothes for the past four days.
"I wonder why Quantum has been so quiet about them?"
Because they're EXPENSIVE. NEC makes SSDD's, too. Basically, they're intended for systems that need fast workspace and can't manage memory effectively, but can't be upgraded in other ways. Banks and other transaction-heavy, legacy-hardware operations eat 'em up.
Often, it seems cheaper and easier to retrofit old systems rather than port code to newer, faster systems. Devil you know vs. devil you don't and all that.
Well, dearies, I don't see y'all disdaining to use public roads, the Internet, public schools and universities, police protection, public libraries, etc. Grant money is already there. Use it for good.
US Gov't grant money commonly goes to fund the development of products that are then patented and marketed for profit by private enterprises. I'm referring to encryption, pharmeceuticals, avionics, weapons, you name it.
It is in the hightest interest of humanity to try to divert some of that grant money toward open-source and/or free software.
Slashdot Mirror
Just for fun, I went to Yahoo! and did a search on "+gre +vpn +linux" and came up with tons o' useful links.
Always check the LDP and specifically the VPN Mini-HOWTO.
I shouldn't have to tell you this.
As a biker who does a lot of wrenching (3 old Japanese bikes, many poor friends) I could really use a good reference on carbs. Bikes make it more fun, since they generally have 1 carb per cylinder. I therefore have 12 carbs, 3.5 of which work correctly at any one time.
The frustrating thing about the nerd mindset is that there are so many things to use it on. /. feeds this nicely.
How about controlled hot fusion?
Artificial Intelligence?
MHD?
EM weapons?
Ten years is not a long time. Look at all the technologies that were developed from initially slight, but unexplained phenomena. Most scientists, though typically human, aren't stupid. Scientific process is designed, among other things, to make sure that the successes outweigh the wild-goose chases.
OK, time for me to come out of the closet-- I answer other's questions, but I don't know all.
What's wrong with the one big partition approach? What's a better approach? What's most important to put on separate partitions?
Generally, I use one big partition, or use the smaller drive for / and the bigger drive for /usr. Heck-- for fun, I might install devfs, and put / and /mnt on an initrd.
The 2GB filesize is actually a VFS limitation, so it applies to all filesystems. But it only happens on 32-bit Linuxae. And there's a patch that addresses it. Other 2G limits: MS-DOS FAT partition size (addressed by FAT32 or a real FS), IDE on non-LBA BIOSes (can be worked around).
Syed(?), monstro engineer & founder of Castlewood, left Syquest, which he also founded. After leaving one of the big HDD manufacturers (Seagate, I think).
He seems to be the magic that made Syquest; the magic left with him and Syquest collapsed in on itself after staking its future on the Sparq. Which they totally screwed up. (Ask Iomega: you let MTBF drop AFTER the drive is established, not before!)
So, the answer to your question seems to be, Castlewood is stable as long as Syed sticks around. Which should be about the lifetime of the drive and media-- about 2 years.
Ask yourself, "Do I want to be able to read a disc five years hence?" If the answer is "yes", buy CD-R or DVD-RAM. CD-R drives are as cheap as Orb drives, and you can buy a lot of CD-Rs for the price of one Orb disc. And Linux supports it NOW.
I ain't stakin' my data on some wild-goose-chase engineer, no matter how brilliant.
This brings up an interesting point: Is there a way to compile a ROMable kernel? I mean, one that can execute directly from ROM, rather than loading it into RAM? I know there are writable strings and, of course, allocated RAM, but one could move them into RAMspace.
Come to think of it, you'd have to:
Whew! That's gonna be REEEEAL easy.
Me, I'd like to see a kernel that uses kmodd to reduce boot-up time by delaying device init until the device is needed. We should see initrd bootups in the 1-sec range.
Gabor Kuti is working on a portable suspend-to-disk feature. Homepage a href="http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsu sp.html ">here.
Jeez, kid. Drop Quake and read some Sun Tzu or something. If you want some sort of standard-bearer to go into battle against the Evil Giant, don't pick Corel, RedHat or Caldera. They're too busy doing business to do battle.
If you need a war metaphor, MS=US, Linux=NVA. Use your knowledge of the locale, keep chipping away at 'em, steal their weapons and keep 'em scared and on the defensive. They'll flail themselves to death.
If y'all'd been paying attention, you'd know that there are 3 shipping RedHat LinuxPPC distros and an alpha (no bootdisk) Debian LinuxPPC. LinuxPPC Supports PCI PowerMacs, PowerBooks, iMacs, PReP (IBM & Motorola NT-PPC boxes) and CHRP (some IBM boxes). Work is proceeding to broaden support to older NuBus Pmacs, IBM RS6000's and anything else with a PPC CPU.
Ye gods! Linux gets around so much that it's tempting to start a porting-topics newspage called Anything That Moves. (After all, the name's up for grabs; the magazine's now called Black Sheets.)
That said, it'd be nice if Corel, among others, would port their apps to non-x86 platforms.
Problem is, dearies, that
But really, as any OSS programmer should say, "Want it? Write it!" Most folks who ask aren't willing to code, hence the attitude from the folks who DO code.
In other words, if you're whining, you're obviously not part of the solution.
The court decided that KM was such a dangerous "hacker", they denied him access to any sort of telecom or computer equipment. Made it kinda hard to work on his defense with his pro-bono (i.e. you get what you pay for) lawyer. He was denied access to evidence, so he was unable to do any significant discovery or plan a defense. Hence lots of delays.
There was no good reason to keep him locked up awaiting trial, given that he was a nonviolent offender and he was picked up on parole violation/possesion of contraband, not on theft. His case should'a been comparable to a parolee felon picked up on possession of a firearm.
He made the common mistake of plea-bargaining on a high-profile case with little precedent. Plea-bargains only work when everyone's bored and there's no chance egos will get involved.
Interesting writing, and the Joe McMoneagle example was unique, but it left me going, "so what is your POINT?"
We can work in other perceptual spaces besides terrestrial-visual. The new Japanese game that uses directional audio w/ no visual is an interesting example. We have the power to create entirely new spaces, too. Was that the point of the article?
Heck-- spirituality can be a kind of perceptual space, as can work w/ the subconscious.
Looks like I gotta write some sort of feature just to straighten y'all out.
So what's the problem? His pieces leaven my daily diet of lame-ass code and self-important Salon articles.
So what if he doesn't jack-off your ego or write technoporn?
So what if he flogs his latest book?
1)He's writing for free, but he still has to pay rent and
2)Ever listen to Art Bell's show and the major hucksterism that happens there?
Y'all SPOILED.
What's great about eating espersso beans all day is that it halps you write better. You can just go on an on and keep writing and reading and then wurting some more and dont woerry about typos but it's real fun.
And you never get redundant because your brain is moving so fast that you skip over intervening ideas and jsut get on to the mating rhinos you watched on TV last noght bcasue you were eating espresso beans last nioght to help yopu stay awake while reading and help you write better, which it's really good for.
I like it. He flatters his readers just enough to get 'em to pay attention, then makes paying attention worth it.
Katz flatters poorly and too much, and doesn't make it worth it. He has potential, though.
Both of these guys need to test and refine their ideas, and this is a perfect place to do it.
Like the guy said, Bt848 works great.
ATI tuner cards are in the process of being reverse-engineered. Project homepage is here.
6:02 on October (10) the 23rd.
And serve avocados.
Sorry, chemistry joke.
Personally, I'd opt for a Buell, but that's just me. Meanwhile, I commute on a battered Kwack, which cost me 1/200th of a Harley.
Gotta do something about that income...
Ever heard the Ludichrist song, "Well-Dressed Man Disguise"?
Security generally only applies to shy, poorly-dressed people. Trim the hair, nails and face fur, carry a briefcase, look intent and you can wander almost anywhere.
Suits double your consulting rates.
In the States, suits are ideal for concealed carry.
And folks will take your weird-ass Chomsky marketing/social control theories, amateur Sociology and Marxist economic analysis to mean you have an ivy-league MBA.
A well-chosen and properly-tied tie doesn't choke, keeps you out of grunt work and dusty equipment (unless you want to look like a hero) and distracts people from the fact that you've been wearing the same clothes for the past four days.
Dearie, I suspect the nice man is asking how to convert RealAudio to MP3 is because he CAN'T GET IT IN MP3.
Now run along and grow some brain cells.
Here's a nice plastic bag to play with.
"I wonder why Quantum has been so quiet about them?"
Because they're EXPENSIVE. NEC makes SSDD's, too. Basically, they're intended for systems that need fast workspace and can't manage memory effectively, but can't be upgraded in other ways. Banks and other transaction-heavy, legacy-hardware operations eat 'em up.
Often, it seems cheaper and easier to retrofit old systems rather than port code to newer, faster systems. Devil you know vs. devil you don't and all that.
Well, folks, this may come as somewhat of a surprise, but there's a HOWTO at http://metalab.unc.edu/LD P/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html on Plug-and-Play.
Woah. That was hard.
And, yes, surprisingly, the FCC allows you to look up FCC ID's at http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/.
Also, RPTI's support webpage is here.
Well, dearies, I don't see y'all disdaining to use public roads, the Internet, public schools and universities, police protection, public libraries, etc. Grant money is already there. Use it for good.
US Gov't grant money commonly goes to fund the development of products that are then patented and marketed for profit by private enterprises. I'm referring to encryption, pharmeceuticals, avionics, weapons, you name it.
It is in the hightest interest of humanity to try to divert some of that grant money toward open-source and/or free software.