Re:Resolving the Uptime Syndrome
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Kernel 2.2.12
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No, it's not cheating. Usually I don't count scheduled downtime. After all, is it really a bad thing when I install more memory and disk?
Re:Huray! Now, more people use C++!!
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GCC 2.95 Released
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I've started using python for a lot of my projects (home & work). For example, a recent project I did at work used python for everything except the hard core data structures. These data structures were managed by a bit of non-OO C++ code. I'd have used python, but when you want to keep 100 million objects in ram you notice the overhead:) There are times when writing full-OO C++ makes things a lot more difficult. The C++ portion of this project was only 2500 lines. Cool things about non-OO C++: + declare your vars immediately before use. + string, queue, and friends
RAID mirroring doesn't count as a backup. One accidental rm -rf / and your fscked. Speaking of fsck, how many months? Also, RAID won't help file system corruption or {h,cr}ackers.
> So far I only know that inverters are relatively > linear, which is hardly surprising:)
There are problems, though. Standard CMOS logic (hc and friends) is not suprisingly optimized for binary transitions. They have a small linear range at about 2.5 volts, but draw significant current. This current is termed "class A current" and arises when the input hovers around the logic threshold. This current is quite high because the two output transistors on the chip are fighting to pull the output in opposite directions. When you do your experiment you probably want to put a resistor on the power line going into the chip, about 1k, so you don't fry it. The package crystal oscillators work this way. For most things you'll be better off with an opamp though:-)
The article submitted to slashdot is somewhat misleading. The 24% number is for black box appliances. We're not talking about serious big iron. More like workgroup web servers. Time to fire up the vi vs. emacs flame fest!
> I doubt the average user will ever own two > desktop systems.
I the unwashed masses get cable modems, then they really ought to have a dedicated firewall. Last semester I set up a firewall between my network and the dorm ethernet. I logged one malicious hach attempt, portscan, or other silliness every week. The company I'm working for is making a nifty little firewall-in-a-box. It has 2 ethernet ports, StrongArm, linux, whatever in a 6x6x1 inch box. It's nifty.
You could number all the traffic lights with ipv4 if you managed it right. With ipv6 (128 bit) you could number all the atoms in all the traffic lights.
> Once you start to categorize human beings and > decide who is "useful" and who isn't, you > begin to face serious ethical problems. Who > decides the worth?
Hey, now. None of that world currency stuff. I don't want my dollars (US) dragged down by some third world pos economy. Or some pos first world economy, for that matter. The British seem to agree.
Re:Make me your world dictator... (just a suggesti
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UN Proposes Email Tax
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> If the UN were to impose a worldwide tax on > anything, then it would be grossly overstepping > its bounds. The sovereignty of national > governments would be effectively usurped, and > the UN would become world dictator.
That'd make for a nifty war. The US military against... oh, wait a minute.
Oh come on! What is the last time you saw something really educational on the net? There are a few resources, but 99% of the net is worthless, this thread included.
> I am positive that if I cared to look I could not find on the market anywhere an isa/pci ide/floppy controller. This is so ubiquitous a motherboard feature these days the only solution is motherboard replacement.
Of course you can. I can pick one up at Frys. They have PCI->USB too. Any if you can't find an IDE controller I'll give you my 486 motherboard cheap.:)
Oh! Oh! Melting the plastic battery case is mandatory. When timed properly the plastic would melt just enough to hold the little spring in place. Otherwise to spring would fall out every time the batteries were changed.
Yah, I took apart an old 14 incher. The two magnets would hang onto each other even when placed on opposite sides of my arm. I'm not buff, mind you, but that's still a couple inches. I've gotten some serious bruises from being pinched. They could make my monitor go woozy gwo feet away!
FTP installs don't do it for me. I need a simpler protocol, like http. I'm behind a really anal firewall that doesn't route ANY packets. It's easier to write an http proxy than find and install an ftp proxy (http proxy: 10 minutes of python). I really like Redhat's new http install. BTW, I am root on the proxy:)
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No, it's not cheating. Usually I don't count scheduled downtime. After all, is it really a bad thing when I install more memory and disk?
I've started using python for a lot of my projects (home & work). For example, a recent project I did at work used python for everything except the hard core data structures. These data structures were managed by a bit of non-OO C++ code. I'd have used python, but when you want to keep 100 million objects in ram you notice the overhead :)
There are times when writing full-OO C++ makes things a lot more difficult. The C++ portion of this project was only 2500 lines. Cool things about non-OO C++:
+ declare your vars immediately before use.
+ string, queue, and friends
> To get enough food to the moon should be more
> difficult then to substitute the water
> losses.
Give water, you can grow food.
> They would rather litter the code with output
> statements first because, as one new employee
> put it 'the debugger is a pain to use.'
gdb IS a pain to use. I gotta get me a frontend...
RAID mirroring doesn't count as a backup. One accidental rm -rf / and your fscked. Speaking of fsck, how many months? Also, RAID won't help file system corruption or {h,cr}ackers.
> Nobody buys Win98. People just pirate it.
Yup. 'Course I un-pirated it shortly thereafter with Linux.
> So far I only know that inverters are relatively :)
:-)
> linear, which is hardly surprising
There are problems, though. Standard CMOS logic (hc and friends) is not suprisingly optimized for binary transitions. They have a small linear range at about 2.5 volts, but draw significant current. This current is termed "class A current" and arises when the input hovers around the logic threshold. This current is quite high because the two output transistors on the chip are fighting to pull the output in opposite directions. When you do your experiment you probably want to put a resistor on the power line going into the chip, about 1k, so you don't fry it. The package crystal oscillators work this way. For most things you'll be better off with an opamp though
Some one sitting at the secretary's desk with dark glasses? Doesn't seem right.
The article submitted to slashdot is somewhat misleading. The 24% number is for black box appliances. We're not talking about serious big iron. More like workgroup web servers. Time to fire up the vi vs. emacs flame fest!
>Of course, that only works until those same chips
> become water-powered..
You mean pizza powered and water cooled. Wasn't that how the diet went?
> I doubt the average user will ever own two
> desktop systems.
I the unwashed masses get cable modems, then they really ought to have a dedicated firewall. Last semester I set up a firewall between my network and the dorm ethernet. I logged one malicious hach attempt, portscan, or other silliness every week. The company I'm working for is making a nifty little firewall-in-a-box. It has 2 ethernet ports, StrongArm, linux, whatever in a 6x6x1 inch box. It's nifty.
You could number all the traffic lights with ipv4 if you managed it right. With ipv6 (128 bit) you could number all the atoms in all the traffic lights.
> Net access won't feed these people.
Sure it will. After 15 minutes they get a free hamburger.
> Once you start to categorize human beings and
> decide who is "useful" and who isn't, you
> begin to face serious ethical problems. Who
> decides the worth?
The dollar, naturally.
Hey, now. None of that world currency stuff. I don't want my dollars (US) dragged down by some third world pos economy. Or some pos first world economy, for that matter. The British seem to agree.
> If the UN were to impose a worldwide tax on
> anything, then it would be grossly overstepping
> its bounds. The sovereignty of national
> governments would be effectively usurped, and
> the UN would become world dictator.
That'd make for a nifty war. The US military against... oh, wait a minute.
> Just like Microsoft has shown... They care about $$$ and only in relatively short term.
Duh. They're a business. That's the fucking point.
Oh come on! What is the last time you saw something really educational on the net? There are a few resources, but 99% of the net is worthless, this thread included.
> I am positive that if I cared to look I could not find on the market anywhere an isa/pci ide/floppy controller. This is so ubiquitous a motherboard feature these days the only solution is motherboard replacement.
:)
Of course you can. I can pick one up at Frys. They have PCI->USB too. Any if you can't find an IDE controller I'll give you my 486 motherboard cheap.
Oh! Oh! Melting the plastic battery case is mandatory. When timed properly the plastic would melt just enough to hold the little spring in place. Otherwise to spring would fall out every time the batteries were changed.
Yah, I took apart an old 14 incher. The two magnets would hang onto each other even when placed on opposite sides of my arm. I'm not buff, mind you, but that's still a couple inches. I've gotten some serious bruises from being pinched. They could make my monitor go woozy gwo feet away!
Hey! Installing the fonts makes it work! How 'bout that? Moderator, moderator, I need a moderator! Boost the previous post!
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> smoking crack, dropping acid and shooting
> heroin' all at the same time.
Hell ya!
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FTP installs don't do it for me. I need a simpler protocol, like http. I'm behind a really anal firewall that doesn't route ANY packets. It's easier to write an http proxy than find and install an ftp proxy (http proxy: 10 minutes of python). I really like Redhat's new http install. BTW, I am root on the proxy :)
http://www.ryans.dhs.org
> Tough laptops are cool, but this line: "A belly
> flop off a desk, however, would mean a force of
> 1,000 to 3,000 G's at impact." is a howler.
I dunno. Metal block, concrete floor, it could happen. Division by really little numbers.
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