Ok, 400Mbps is 50MB/sec. I don't know if that's supposed to include protocol overhead. Does anybody know how close to that these interfaces would actually get? I haven't personally seem hdparm report more than just under 20MB/sec (I know, I should get an ATA100 card and proper cables) and anything close to 50MB/sec without wires just sounds too good to be true. --
Same here. When I got ADSL, I asked all the local providers about their policies: Can I use NAT? Can I host services? Are any ports blocked or filtered? Will they cut my line if somone complains about my website, etc. I got the favourable response to each question from all the providers. I was a little surprised.
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I've lost two, one less than a month ago. Incidentally, that one was a Maxtor, and I think the other one was too.
It's not like I've owned dozens of hard drives in my life. 8-10 is more like it. It's also not like I actually have my backup matters in order (at home) so, yes, this is an issue.
Even though I know hard drive crashes do happen, I probably won't start backing up the bulk of my data*. Joe sixpack doesn't even know, nor does he do backups or have redundant disks. For people who don't need a lot of storage, these drives are a smart choice (assuming they're actually more robust)
*) I just copy the really important stuff to my machine at work. Losing the not-really-important stuff is still a big hassle though. --
22mph? Lessee, that's about 35km/h. I've done that. It was pretty scary, even under the fairly controlled conditions me and my idiot buddies arranged. I wouldn't want to do it on concrete. --
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Hey! Wait a minute! You're on to something here. The geekcorps guys must have realised this. I know what they're tinking! Create a population of African computer geeks who can't get laid! The rest of the population dies out in 20 years and the geeks inherit Africa! It's fucken brilliant!
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I once read about a virus that scrambled the files of a particular app (Lotus 1-2-3, I think) when they were saved and unscrambled them when they were loaded. If you removed the virus, you couldn't read your files:-). You also couldn't share them with uninfected users. I can't think of another virus you might need to be infected with! --
We had this discussion already. I understand that not all Slashdot readers were around then and that this is all very interesting to the new ones. I just wish there were an old farts section I could join where I wouldn't see these stories.
Anyway, a couple of points were raised before, which I didn't see as I scanned this discussion:
1. Some countries allow emergency speeding. I think the U.K. is one of them. These devices would deny you your legal right to get your wife to the hospital in time. Your wife dies, a lawsuit follow, and politicians' heads roll.
2. A much better method would be to warn the driver, then report, not hinder, speeding. This takes care of point 1. It's also possible to hinder speeding, but allow the driver to hit an emergency override key and answer to the police later.
3. Speeding is illegal, yet most of do it and feel that it's ok to speed a little. A kid who just got his drivers license has to break the law or look like a loser to his friends. We all get to be criminals, and the police gets to arbitrarily select who to punish. Speed limits are often way too low, because it's taken for granted that people will routinely exceed them by 20-30km/h. We end up feeling hating the police and losing respect for the law. This is the problem with laws that aren't enforced. Laws should be enforced or not enacted at all.
4. Once the technology is there, it will be possible to cheaply alter speed limits in a given area. When the road is dry, visibility is good, and traffic is light, speed limits can be increased. There is potential here to make drivers happier as well as safer, although I won't argue with those who are skeptical it would actually happen. --
Ehm, bash can't be 3157516 bytes on Solaris. That's 3 megs! Since it was apparently built locally, I guess it has debugging symbols. My/bin/bash is 400k, btw, larger than the 300k you mention. No wonder boot floppies use a more lightweight shell.
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...but if, say for instance, Linus Torvalds, in a sudden burst of acute dementia, decides to create a closed source version of the Linux kernel starting from the open 2.4 code, he can perfectly do so...
I don't think so. He didn't write all of the Linux kernel and those that wrote each piece (over 10 lines, I think) hold the copyright on their code. That is unless they have signed over their copyright to Linus, which I don't think has been happening.
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Ok, 400Mbps is 50MB/sec. I don't know if that's supposed to include protocol overhead. Does anybody know how close to that these interfaces would actually get? I haven't personally seem hdparm report more than just under 20MB/sec (I know, I should get an ATA100 card and proper cables) and anything close to 50MB/sec without wires just sounds too good to be true.
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That means old people, right?
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I often type "ll" into an irc channel. It's worse when there are pople watching :-)
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Ehhh, in this case they're moving through air, not fiber. It's kinda the whole point.
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Whoa! This may well be the first first post by a someone who has a girlfriend!
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Same here. When I got ADSL, I asked all the local providers about their policies: Can I use NAT? Can I host services? Are any ports blocked or filtered? Will they cut my line if somone complains about my website, etc. I got the favourable response to each question from all the providers. I was a little surprised.
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The admin wasn't too happy about it, though.
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Slashdot is quite unrelated to journalism.
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It's not like I've owned dozens of hard drives in my life. 8-10 is more like it. It's also not like I actually have my backup matters in order (at home) so, yes, this is an issue.
Even though I know hard drive crashes do happen, I probably won't start backing up the bulk of my data*. Joe sixpack doesn't even know, nor does he do backups or have redundant disks. For people who don't need a lot of storage, these drives are a smart choice (assuming they're actually more robust)
*) I just copy the really important stuff to my machine at work. Losing the not-really-important stuff is still a big hassle though.
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They're talking about compressing text, which implies ordinary, lossless compression. MP3 isn't even in the same ballpark.
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22mph? Lessee, that's about 35km/h. I've done that. It was pretty scary, even under the fairly controlled conditions me and my idiot buddies arranged. I wouldn't want to do it on concrete.
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Hey! Wait a minute! You're on to something here. The geekcorps guys must have realised this. I know what they're tinking! Create a population of African computer geeks who can't get laid! The rest of the population dies out in 20 years and the geeks inherit Africa! It's fucken brilliant!
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I once read about a virus that scrambled the files of a particular app (Lotus 1-2-3, I think) when they were saved and unscrambled them when they were loaded. If you removed the virus, you couldn't read your files :-). You also couldn't share them with uninfected users. I can't think of another virus you might need to be infected with!
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I am not a lawyer, but I've been here for a while and heard this all before, several times.
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Anyway, a couple of points were raised before, which I didn't see as I scanned this discussion:
1. Some countries allow emergency speeding. I think the U.K. is one of them. These devices would deny you your legal right to get your wife to the hospital in time. Your wife dies, a lawsuit follow, and politicians' heads roll.
2. A much better method would be to warn the driver, then report, not hinder, speeding. This takes care of point 1. It's also possible to hinder speeding, but allow the driver to hit an emergency override key and answer to the police later.
3. Speeding is illegal, yet most of do it and feel that it's ok to speed a little. A kid who just got his drivers license has to break the law or look like a loser to his friends. We all get to be criminals, and the police gets to arbitrarily select who to punish. Speed limits are often way too low, because it's taken for granted that people will routinely exceed them by 20-30km/h. We end up feeling hating the police and losing respect for the law. This is the problem with laws that aren't enforced. Laws should be enforced or not enacted at all.
4. Once the technology is there, it will be possible to cheaply alter speed limits in a given area. When the road is dry, visibility is good, and traffic is light, speed limits can be increased. There is potential here to make drivers happier as well as safer, although I won't argue with those who are skeptical it would actually happen.
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Well, OpenBSD isn't for everyone (or even every one of "us") and doesn't try to be (at least not as hard as Linux, for instance).
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Which raises the question: Why aren't we all using OpenBSD's version of bind, just like we're all using OpenBSD's version of SSH?
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Ehm, bash can't be 3157516 bytes on Solaris. That's 3 megs! Since it was apparently built locally, I guess it has debugging symbols. My /bin/bash is 400k, btw, larger than the 300k you mention. No wonder boot floppies use a more lightweight shell.
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It doesn't look to me like this would ever be included in Debian under those terms. Am I missing something?
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Tell you what. If I ask you for a kleenex, please don't hand me your facial tissue.
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I wonder if they've considered an edition in English.
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You don't honestly think that if NASA's budget were cut, the money saved would be used to feed starving people, do you?
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