Considering the 2.6 kernel releases are just one long string of development releases, I would hope that Fedora would ship with a patched and tested kernel.
If you want to update your kernel in distributions like Fedora and Suse, use the update manager. They're very quick to release security updates. If all you want is driver updates, you can build those outside of the kernel source (for example, Intel's e1000 driver).
? There's no trust involved here. Whatever the clients sends for biometrics is going to be authenticated server-side. Saying the client could fake the biometrics makes as much sense as saying the client could fake the password.
Your camera might have been playing with the white balance. When the ambient lighting is not perfect white, sometimes digital cameras will compensate. Taking a picture with no flash indoors will look yellowish with a film camera because incandescent lighting is yellowish. Point & shoot digital cameras will compensate for this by shifting the colours towards blue.
Or maybe your camera's display does not show red well. Or maybe you used a long exposure and the camera's sensor is slightly less sensitive to red or more sensitive to blue.
Anyway, a camera could never take a picture that's 100% faithful to what you see with your eyes. A camera looks at an entire frame, but your eyes look at one small object at a time. Imagine looking up at tree beneath a bright sky with a few clouds. Taking a picture will either get you a black tree beneath a cloudy sky, or a colourful tree beneath a white sky. With your eyes you'll see the colourful tree and the clouds, but only because your eyes let in less light when you're looking at the sky, and more light when you're looking at the tree, and your brain creates a composite of the two.
You need air for cooling. Air heats up as it passes over the heat sinks/metal components in servers, and carries the heat away. A server in a vacuum would overheat.
A "local exploit" is one that elevates a process running as a local, unprivileged user, to root. Say there's an exploit for apache that lets you run arbitrary code as the 'nobody' user. If you combine that with a local root exploit, you have remote root.
(I know you were joking, but I wanted to explain that)
Although I have to admit I can't imagine how your DVD player can really do "Pan and Scan" automatically on a widescreen disk. Just chopping off the sides of the image doesn't involve any panning or scanning, and you'd need pretty good AI to know exactly where to pan for the optimal chopped off image.
That, right there, is why there's a good reason to have a separate "fullscreen" edition of the movie. The "zoom" feature on your DVD player just crops a 4:3 region from the centre of the picture. Real P&S requires some production and editing.
With a small TV, "fullscreen" DVDs are better because you can actually see what's going on in the movie. Gasp, yes, a lot of people still have things like small TVs and basic (or no) cable.
By mainstream I meant you don't need to be using a distribution like Gentoo which is really just a collection of the latest bleeding edge packages. I also mean a distribution that comes with support.
Gentoo is a good example of a tradeoff favouring new features over stability. openSUSE and RedHat are more balanced. Like Debian, they have professional teams to test their kernel and packages. Most of the openSUSE packages are a few versions behind for the sake of stability, and security patches are just that - patches to the package versions you already have, not new packages with new features (also just like Debian!).
Meanwhile, the openSUSE 10.2 stock kernel (2.6.18.2 + lots of patches) has not been shown to be less stable than Debian's 2.6.8 kernel, but we can say for sure that the openSUSE kernel has more up-to-date hardware support. Is SAS the latest greatest shiny thingie? If you bought a server after fall 2005 it probably has SAS disks.
2.6.8 came out in August 2004! I'm not sure SAS was widely used back then.
My point was that you can use this hardware with a recent mainstream Linux distribuition, with no extra software required. Why would you expect such new hardware to work with 2.5 year old software?
OpenSUSE 10.2, PERC 5 SAS (LSI 1068 chipset), running hardware RAID 1. It works perfectly. The machine is a PowerEdge 1435 SC.
After I do this:
modprobe mptctl I can check the array status with a single command, mpt-status.
You must be thinking of the old RAID manager for the Adaptec cards (afacli?). The binary RPM-only distribution of that tool was no good. But you could still use the array with any vanilla Linux distro, assuming it had the aacraid driver.
The parent was talking out of his ass. The LSI controllers that ship with the PowerEdge 1950 are supported very well with either the megaraid2 driver (SCSI) or mptsas (SAS). You can get the array status by running mpt-status. NONE of this software is binary-only or available only from Dell. You can even buy most Dell PowerEdge servers (the 1950 included) preinstalled with SUSE Linux Enterprise 10!
HDTVs can display a SDTV picture, so there's not really much of a downside to HDTV except price, and that price keeps coming down.
All of the HDTVs on sale now seem to have a 16:9 display, even the CRT ones. I don't want an HDTV until the shows I watch are in 16:9 - why put up with a squished picture, or wasting space on black (sometimes grey) bars on the sides?
The cost of road maintenance comes from the fuel tax. Those massive $300 million interchanges that need to be reworked every 30 years or so, and that land that needs to be bought for widening freeways, are paid for by your property taxes and income tax.
That doesn't make sense. It sounds like you just want to push your religious agenda and blame everything on the secularists.
If you believe this life is all there is, you're still going to plan for the future (while you're alive) and work for the advancement of society (for your family and friends, after you die). In fact, it's much more important if you don't believe in an afterlife.
Do you seriously believe that there are people studying science or working hard because they believe they'll be rewarded for it in the afterlife?
Furthermore, the absolute best investment you can make right now is to build up a down payment on a house. (not that you can't do that with savings bonds) The reason being, once you get a mortgage, monthly payments are about the same as rent, except that you're paying yourself, and not some scummy land lord. It feels like the money is going in the same black hole. But in 5-10 years time, you'll be able to use it.
This isn't always the best idea. Compare rent and house prices in your area. In my area, you can rent a $300,000 condo for $1500 a month. At 5% down (remember he's in Canada), a $285,000 mortgage at 6% is $1800 a month. Add $300 for condo fees and you're at $2100.
He has to decide if owning the equity in the condo is better than owning that $15,000 down payment in a savings account and topping it up with $600 a month.
Another thing that factors in here is, he's young. He might want to live in a neighbourhood with nightlife and other young single people. He might also want to be mobile, and not have to pay a realtor 3% + 6% when he moves. That means he'll probably have to rent.
Disk-intensive operations in Explorer were very slow in the Vista RC1 release on my 2003-era (with no GPU) hardware. Deleting a folder that used to take 5 seconds now takes about a minute. I saw similar results for unzipping (with Explorer) and copying folders. I don't know whether it's the new pane-of-glass-sliding-across-the-window progress UI, or whether some optimizations were turned off for RC1. Also, if you're upgrading, keep in mind you need 10.7 GB free disk space to upgrade from Windows XP. In the end, Vista takes up about 8 GB. But, hey! It's got IPv6, and the hourglass cursor is now a circle!
That's not quite correct either. A URL will return whatever the web server wants to give you. You can configure apache (or the server of your choice) to return index.html when you request/, or index.pl, or a dynamic script that doesn't exist on a filesystem at all, or whatever you like. The only / that is required in a URL is the first one after the hostname, so: http://www.slashdot.org/foo is fine, but http://www.slashdot.org/ isn't (technically it should be http://www.slashdot.org/)
Some features that make the iPod great: - The click wheel and the UI are well-designed - The output quality and bundled earphones are good - The design is classic, and it feels solid and well-made
You can't just drag files onto the ipod because it maintains a database of the songs in your collection. If you don't like iTunes, you can use a number of programs to maintain the collection, like Winamp. A database is better than using the filesystem for your music collection because it allows you to find your songs with multiple indexes - artist, album, genre, etc. Using the filesystem, you have to pick a sorting system and stick with it - say, one folder per album. Every music player app made this decade uses a music collection database. If you haven't organized your music this way, it's your loss. The iPod isn't cool any more than a cellphone is cool. It's just another device you carry around with you. It happens to be both a very popular device and a best of breed device. If that doesn't sit well with you, I guess that's sour grapes.
Yes, a user in the Administrator group will get the UAC popups (or obscure errors when using command line tools like ipconfig). However, the Administrator user itself (disabled by default) does not get the UAC popups, and all the tools work. It's just like being back in XP.
You've never seen a console port on a disk array, router, switch or UPS? That RJ-45 socket speaks RS-232 and will connect to your serial port with the right cable.
One thing that bothers me about hardware RAID support in linux is the lack of a single set of management/monitoring tools that will work with every driver. With OpenBSD 4 you can just use sensord. OpenBSD doesn't have quite the hardware coverage Linux does in this area, but who wants to use stuff like aacraid anyway when you have to troll the net for closed-source Dell tools to check your array status? Anyway, thanks again, OpenBSD team. Good work.
So now we've resigned ourselves to having no way of describing an argument actually "begging the question"? That doesn't sound like the language evolving to me.
About half the posters here are confused about this.
You will never see the captcha drones' IP addresses in your logs because they don't communicate with your webserver. The spam bots download the captcha image during the signup process, ask a drone for the solution with a separate request, and use the drone's answer to complete the signup.
IP blacklisting for the spam bots won't work either because they're usually home PCs (maybe owned by the same people you want signing up to your forum). These machines were infected with a worm and centrally controlled by the spammer.
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Considering the 2.6 kernel releases are just one long string of development releases, I would hope that Fedora would ship with a patched and tested kernel.
If you want to update your kernel in distributions like Fedora and Suse, use the update manager. They're very quick to release security updates. If all you want is driver updates, you can build those outside of the kernel source (for example, Intel's e1000 driver).
? There's no trust involved here. Whatever the clients sends for biometrics is going to be authenticated server-side. Saying the client could fake the biometrics makes as much sense as saying the client could fake the password.
Something big & far away looks better than something small & close up. This is part of the reason people still go to movie theatres.
Unless you're missing an eye and don't have any depth perception, in which case I'm sorry...
Your camera might have been playing with the white balance. When the ambient lighting is not perfect white, sometimes digital cameras will compensate. Taking a picture with no flash indoors will look yellowish with a film camera because incandescent lighting is yellowish. Point & shoot digital cameras will compensate for this by shifting the colours towards blue.
Or maybe your camera's display does not show red well. Or maybe you used a long exposure and the camera's sensor is slightly less sensitive to red or more sensitive to blue.
Anyway, a camera could never take a picture that's 100% faithful to what you see with your eyes. A camera looks at an entire frame, but your eyes look at one small object at a time. Imagine looking up at tree beneath a bright sky with a few clouds. Taking a picture will either get you a black tree beneath a cloudy sky, or a colourful tree beneath a white sky. With your eyes you'll see the colourful tree and the clouds, but only because your eyes let in less light when you're looking at the sky, and more light when you're looking at the tree, and your brain creates a composite of the two.
You need air for cooling. Air heats up as it passes over the heat sinks/metal components in servers, and carries the heat away. A server in a vacuum would overheat.
A "local exploit" is one that elevates a process running as a local, unprivileged user, to root. Say there's an exploit for apache that lets you run arbitrary code as the 'nobody' user. If you combine that with a local root exploit, you have remote root.
(I know you were joking, but I wanted to explain that)
That, right there, is why there's a good reason to have a separate "fullscreen" edition of the movie. The "zoom" feature on your DVD player just crops a 4:3 region from the centre of the picture. Real P&S requires some production and editing.
With a small TV, "fullscreen" DVDs are better because you can actually see what's going on in the movie. Gasp, yes, a lot of people still have things like small TVs and basic (or no) cable.
Hell, why not do that every flight?
By mainstream I meant you don't need to be using a distribution like Gentoo which is really just a collection of the latest bleeding edge packages. I also mean a distribution that comes with support.
Gentoo is a good example of a tradeoff favouring new features over stability. openSUSE and RedHat are more balanced. Like Debian, they have professional teams to test their kernel and packages. Most of the openSUSE packages are a few versions behind for the sake of stability, and security patches are just that - patches to the package versions you already have, not new packages with new features (also just like Debian!).
Meanwhile, the openSUSE 10.2 stock kernel (2.6.18.2 + lots of patches) has not been shown to be less stable than Debian's 2.6.8 kernel, but we can say for sure that the openSUSE kernel has more up-to-date hardware support. Is SAS the latest greatest shiny thingie? If you bought a server after fall 2005 it probably has SAS disks.
2.6.8 came out in August 2004! I'm not sure SAS was widely used back then.
My point was that you can use this hardware with a recent mainstream Linux distribuition, with no extra software required. Why would you expect such new hardware to work with 2.5 year old software?
OpenSUSE 10.2, PERC 5 SAS (LSI 1068 chipset), running hardware RAID 1. It works perfectly. The machine is a PowerEdge 1435 SC.
After I do this:
modprobe mptctl
I can check the array status with a single command, mpt-status.
You must be thinking of the old RAID manager for the Adaptec cards (afacli?). The binary RPM-only distribution of that tool was no good. But you could still use the array with any vanilla Linux distro, assuming it had the aacraid driver.
The parent was talking out of his ass. The LSI controllers that ship with the PowerEdge 1950 are supported very well with either the megaraid2 driver (SCSI) or mptsas (SAS). You can get the array status by running mpt-status. NONE of this software is binary-only or available only from Dell.
You can even buy most Dell PowerEdge servers (the 1950 included) preinstalled with SUSE Linux Enterprise 10!
HDTVs can display a SDTV picture, so there's not really much of a downside to HDTV except price, and that price keeps coming down.
All of the HDTVs on sale now seem to have a 16:9 display, even the CRT ones. I don't want an HDTV until the shows I watch are in 16:9 - why put up with a squished picture, or wasting space on black (sometimes grey) bars on the sides?
O Rly? What if I paid cash for my inkjet printer?
The cost of road maintenance comes from the fuel tax. Those massive $300 million interchanges that need to be reworked every 30 years or so, and that land that needs to be bought for widening freeways, are paid for by your property taxes and income tax.
That doesn't make sense. It sounds like you just want to push your religious agenda and blame everything on the secularists.
If you believe this life is all there is, you're still going to plan for the future (while you're alive) and work for the advancement of society (for your family and friends, after you die). In fact, it's much more important if you don't believe in an afterlife.
Do you seriously believe that there are people studying science or working hard because they believe they'll be rewarded for it in the afterlife?
Furthermore, the absolute best investment you can make right now is to build up a down payment on a house. (not that you can't do that with savings bonds) The reason being, once you get a mortgage, monthly payments are about the same as rent, except that you're paying yourself, and not some scummy land lord. It feels like the money is going in the same black hole. But in 5-10 years time, you'll be able to use it.
This isn't always the best idea. Compare rent and house prices in your area. In my area, you can rent a $300,000 condo for $1500 a month. At 5% down (remember he's in Canada), a $285,000 mortgage at 6% is $1800 a month. Add $300 for condo fees and you're at $2100.
He has to decide if owning the equity in the condo is better than owning that $15,000 down payment in a savings account and topping it up with $600 a month. Another thing that factors in here is, he's young. He might want to live in a neighbourhood with nightlife and other young single people. He might also want to be mobile, and not have to pay a realtor 3% + 6% when he moves. That means he'll probably have to rent.
Disk-intensive operations in Explorer were very slow in the Vista RC1 release on my 2003-era (with no GPU) hardware. Deleting a folder that used to take 5 seconds now takes about a minute. I saw similar results for unzipping (with Explorer) and copying folders. I don't know whether it's the new pane-of-glass-sliding-across-the-window progress UI, or whether some optimizations were turned off for RC1.
Also, if you're upgrading, keep in mind you need 10.7 GB free disk space to upgrade from Windows XP. In the end, Vista takes up about 8 GB.
But, hey! It's got IPv6, and the hourglass cursor is now a circle!
That's not quite correct either. A URL will return whatever the web server wants to give you. You can configure apache (or the server of your choice) to return index.html when you request /, or index.pl, or a dynamic script that doesn't exist on a filesystem at all, or whatever you like. The only / that is required in a URL is the first one after the hostname, so:
http://www.slashdot.org/foo is fine, but
http://www.slashdot.org/ isn't (technically it should be http://www.slashdot.org/)
Some features that make the iPod great:
- The click wheel and the UI are well-designed
- The output quality and bundled earphones are good
- The design is classic, and it feels solid and well-made
You can't just drag files onto the ipod because it maintains a database of the songs in your collection. If you don't like iTunes, you can use a number of programs to maintain the collection, like Winamp.
A database is better than using the filesystem for your music collection because it allows you to find your songs with multiple indexes - artist, album, genre, etc. Using the filesystem, you have to pick a sorting system and stick with it - say, one folder per album. Every music player app made this decade uses a music collection database. If you haven't organized your music this way, it's your loss.
The iPod isn't cool any more than a cellphone is cool. It's just another device you carry around with you. It happens to be both a very popular device and a best of breed device. If that doesn't sit well with you, I guess that's sour grapes.
Yes, a user in the Administrator group will get the UAC popups (or obscure errors when using command line tools like ipconfig). However, the Administrator user itself (disabled by default) does not get the UAC popups, and all the tools work. It's just like being back in XP.
You've never seen a console port on a disk array, router, switch or UPS? That RJ-45 socket speaks RS-232 and will connect to your serial port with the right cable.
(Yes, some UPS's have USB)
One thing that bothers me about hardware RAID support in linux is the lack of a single set of management/monitoring tools that will work with every driver. With OpenBSD 4 you can just use sensord.
OpenBSD doesn't have quite the hardware coverage Linux does in this area, but who wants to use stuff like aacraid anyway when you have to troll the net for closed-source Dell tools to check your array status?
Anyway, thanks again, OpenBSD team. Good work.
So now we've resigned ourselves to having no way of describing an argument actually "begging the question"? That doesn't sound like the language evolving to me.
About half the posters here are confused about this.
You will never see the captcha drones' IP addresses in your logs because they don't communicate with your webserver. The spam bots download the captcha image during the signup process, ask a drone for the solution with a separate request, and use the drone's answer to complete the signup.
IP blacklisting for the spam bots won't work either because they're usually home PCs (maybe owned by the same people you want signing up to your forum). These machines were infected with a worm and centrally controlled by the spammer.