"even if you aren't shipping anything physical, you know damn well where he is, because he has to provide his billing address or you can't charge his credit card."
No he doesn't, and yes you can. Address verification is a completely optional step in credit card processing.
UserJS.org has a script to block iframes etc with click-to-load. Also note the content blocker is an URL filter; you can add URLs to it manually even if you can't actually click an object to add it for you, which is useful with things like the that awful Intellitext link crap (which is only exposed via a <script> line, not a visible object) and of course you can put the URLs of your most hated iframe contents in there too.
That's a pretty trollish way of putting it. How many hundreds of drivers and thousands of devices do you need to support before you get past "nearly no drivers"?
"There does not seem to be any SMART support in the current linux driver."
From the changelog for Smartmontools 5.36:
[BA] Updated docs and error message to reflect Linux libata
support for smartmontools starting with the 2.6.15 kernel
series. Also init script support for the 'tinysofa' release.
8 drive 4U Supermicro case. And here's a 7 drive one, which I have running in a cupboard a few ft away. SCA, fixed bays and more modest variants abound.
And here is a 12 drive Lian-Li, although you need to be very careful with cable routing and PSU/fan choice to fit them all in and keep them well cooled (the 6 drive one is awful for this). They also lack a reset button for some reason.
Anything supporting LBA48 should handle it just fine, although we're rapidly approaching the 2TB limit many controllers have on a single disk/array. LBA48 supports drives up to 128PB (512 byte blocks * 2^48), but of course we're still in a largely 32bit world, so it's more like 512*2^32 unless you're careful.
"Why should I go spending ridiculous amounts of money (more than my PC cost) just for some silly games"
Well, clearly you're not part of the target market if your entire PC (just one?) cost less than $600, so the answer is doubtless "you shouldn't".
"Don't get me wrong, I prefer gaming on a PC compared to a game console, but not anywhere near enough to sink that much cash into a GPU"
Sure, which is why there are plenty of cheaper cards. Isn't the market clever, covering a wide range of income and interest brackets?
"nor add all the DRM that seems increasingly to be required to play current generation games on a PC"
Sorry? Do you mean the usual CD/DVD based protections that are generally easily bypassed and often patched out completely by official updates, or are Microsoft trying to solder a trusted computing chip onto your motherboard again?
A better, but non-free, solution for Windows is AnyDVD. Transparently removes region code, prohibited user operations, bad sectors and TOCs, adverts/trailers, and supposedly does the same for CDDA protections.
"If guns can be banned because they *could* be used to commit a crime, then why not hammers? Or Perl?"
Hammers and perl are critical for everyday tasks, and using them irresponsibly poses, on the whole, a pretty small threat. Guns on the other hand are of little use in day to day life, and pose a considerable threat from misuse.
I'm sure you, too, feel there's a cutoff point on the utility:threat potential scale that can be trusted to the average chav/hick. Personally I like to err on the side where they don't get to kill people with the push of a button after a 5 day waiting period and a trip to Tesco.
"Ruby is at least as slow as JavaScript, if not slower"
That's a meaningless statement; JavaScript has lots of different implimentations, ranging from the so-slow-you'll-want-to-gouge-your-eyes-out iCab to the pretty blazing VM-maybe-even-JITed Opera one that seems to just keep getting better.
" -- at least you can compile JavaScript into Java"
Uh huh. I'll be sure to keep that in mind when my JavaScript DOM manipulations are too slow.
"I guess what would make me happy is an insanely intelligent compiler for Ruby, that targeted the.net environment. Performance comparable to C#, developer time comparable to normal Ruby, bytecode obfuscated enough to use in commercial products. But that's depressing, too, because in the amount of time it would take me to learn enough about Ruby and.net to do that, not to mention the programming of that insane compiler, I could write hundreds of useful Ruby programs."
Microsoft are sponsoring development of a Ruby implimentation for CLR. Meanwhile YARV will be giving us a Ruby 2.0 that's rather a lot faster. Also, as for "porting to C", you do know that writing C extensions for Ruby is about as easy as it gets, right? Even without using RubyInline it's simple enough that you can replace a single small method in a single class with an extension and not end up writing 10x as much support code as actual useful C. If you're lucky you might even be able to automate the conversion.
Just because the driver can detect NCQ capabilities in the hardware doesn't mean it actually makes use of it, just that it can read a few registers. I'm pretty sure ata(4) doesn't, in fact, make use of NCQ.
While we're on the subject, ata(4) also has problems with 4G+ of memory and >2 disks. A hardware RAID card like the amr(4) powered LSI MegaRAID might be more suitable in such an environment for the time being.
Last login: Mon May 1 23:15:43 on ttyp2 Welcome to Darwin! outcast:~ freaky$ which gcc /usr/bin/gcc outcast:~ freaky$ gcc --version i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)
MacOS doesn't have "windows-style "uninstall" functionality" because uninstalling is trivial.
Except when it's not. XCode, for instance, installs via a standard looking installer with progress bars etc, but to remove it? Well, you get to drop to a shell and run a couple of app-specific ad-hoc perl scripts to (hopefully) clear it out. Other things invite you to rm -rf their directories. I don't really see why they have this nice clicky installer but didn't bother giving it uninstall functionality too...
Well, that and all the other neat things ZFS does, like pooled storage making adding/upgrading disks easier, dynamic striping/redundancy, cheap optionally writable snapshots, bombproof data integrity, write performance similar to log structured filesystems, very clever IO scheduling, etc.
ZFS would make MacOS X a more attractive server platform, especially with kliky intuitive admin tools; cue SOHO XServe RAID tower system for mass file storage with redundancy, reliability and expandability with wide geek appeal and more usability than OpenSolaris for a start.
"But why just ZFS? Why not add JFS or XFS as well? Hell, why not add in ext3 while they're at it?"
Supporting lots of filesystems is hard. Mistakes are difficult to track down and harshly punished, licenses and API's generally aren't amenable to straight ports, and it's a lot of work for what's typically a fairly small ROI. Also, porting one filesystem doesn't generally make porting another significantly easier. You might as well ask:
"But why just a skyscraper? Why not add a warehouse or a subterranean bunker as well? Why not add in a bridge while you're at it?"
Might be nice to have them all, and they certainly share certain requirements, but trying to build them all at once isn't necessarily a good idea when all most people want is a nice place to keep things.
I'm not sure; I've been using Opera 9 as my primary browser since TP2 and it's been very good, although build 8372 (the weekly immediately after the first beta) seems a bit more wobbly than previous builds.
Of course in Windows turning off per-tab close buttons gives you a close button that's instead immediately under the close button for the entire window. Doh.
Luckily you can always close tabs using mouse gestures (RMB, draw an L) or using MMB on the tab, or using Ctrl-W or whatever you have that set to (evil, I have this mapped to delete-word like God intended). In Opera 9 there's also a "trashcan" on the tab bar that lets you reopen closed tabs. In previous versions of Opera this is exposed via the Windows -> Closed submenu. I'd be surprised if there isn't a FF extension that does something similar.
I personally feel that there are so many "disorders" these days, that people often find a crutch for every vice and desire. Instead of working tochange for the better, people say "That's the way I am... I can't change."
People say that? Funny, I would have thought the first thing most people would do after a diagnosis would be to use that label to investigate how they can change and how others deal with similar issues. Indeed I'd say it's far more likely for people to think "oh, that's just the way I am" and beat themselves up, give up, or flap about not really having any idea what to do when they don't have a means of referencing their problems and associating them with the rest of the human race.
I think people still have choices regardless of the addiction they suffer from (OCD disorders, Serial Killer, Gambling, etc.) A person doesn't HAVE TO Gamble, but it feels that way. He doesn't HAVE TO wash his hands 5 times, but he thinks he does.
Right. And when your parents/SO/dog die you don't HAVE TO cry, but it feels that way. How I wish I had your insight;)
Yup. Just confirmed it working in build 20060406. Runs pretty well too; better than some of the desktop machines I've played Doom on, ignoring the tiny screen and awkward controls;)
Now, where's my iPod keyboard, mouse and VGA-out adapter...
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"even if you aren't shipping anything physical, you know damn well where he is, because he has to provide his billing address or you can't charge his credit card."
No he doesn't, and yes you can. Address verification is a completely optional step in credit card processing.
UserJS.org has a script to block iframes etc with click-to-load. Also note the content blocker is an URL filter; you can add URLs to it manually even if you can't actually click an object to add it for you, which is useful with things like the that awful Intellitext link crap (which is only exposed via a <script> line, not a visible object) and of course you can put the URLs of your most hated iframe contents in there too.
That's a pretty trollish way of putting it. How many hundreds of drivers and thousands of devices do you need to support before you get past "nearly no drivers"?
From the changelog for Smartmontools 5.36:
8 drive 4U Supermicro case. And here's a 7 drive one, which I have running in a cupboard a few ft away. SCA, fixed bays and more modest variants abound.
And here is a 12 drive Lian-Li, although you need to be very careful with cable routing and PSU/fan choice to fit them all in and keep them well cooled (the 6 drive one is awful for this). They also lack a reset button for some reason.
Anything supporting LBA48 should handle it just fine, although we're rapidly approaching the 2TB limit many controllers have on a single disk/array. LBA48 supports drives up to 128PB (512 byte blocks * 2^48), but of course we're still in a largely 32bit world, so it's more like 512*2^32 unless you're careful.
Well, clearly you're not part of the target market if your entire PC (just one?) cost less than $600, so the answer is doubtless "you shouldn't".
Sure, which is why there are plenty of cheaper cards. Isn't the market clever, covering a wide range of income and interest brackets?
Sorry? Do you mean the usual CD/DVD based protections that are generally easily bypassed and often patched out completely by official updates, or are Microsoft trying to solder a trusted computing chip onto your motherboard again?
A better, but non-free, solution for Windows is AnyDVD. Transparently removes region code, prohibited user operations, bad sectors and TOCs, adverts/trailers, and supposedly does the same for CDDA protections.
"If guns can be banned because they *could* be used to commit a crime, then why not hammers? Or Perl?"
Hammers and perl are critical for everyday tasks, and using them irresponsibly poses, on the whole, a pretty small threat. Guns on the other hand are of little use in day to day life, and pose a considerable threat from misuse.
I'm sure you, too, feel there's a cutoff point on the utility:threat potential scale that can be trusted to the average chav/hick. Personally I like to err on the side where they don't get to kill people with the push of a button after a 5 day waiting period and a trip to Tesco.
That's a meaningless statement; JavaScript has lots of different implimentations, ranging from the so-slow-you'll-want-to-gouge-your-eyes-out iCab to the pretty blazing VM-maybe-even-JITed Opera one that seems to just keep getting better.
Uh huh. I'll be sure to keep that in mind when my JavaScript DOM manipulations are too slow.
Microsoft are sponsoring development of a Ruby implimentation for CLR. Meanwhile YARV will be giving us a Ruby 2.0 that's rather a lot faster. Also, as for "porting to C", you do know that writing C extensions for Ruby is about as easy as it gets, right? Even without using RubyInline it's simple enough that you can replace a single small method in a single class with an extension and not end up writing 10x as much support code as actual useful C. If you're lucky you might even be able to automate the conversion.
Just because the driver can detect NCQ capabilities in the hardware doesn't mean it actually makes use of it, just that it can read a few registers. I'm pretty sure ata(4) doesn't, in fact, make use of NCQ.
While we're on the subject, ata(4) also has problems with 4G+ of memory and >2 disks. A hardware RAID card like the amr(4) powered LSI MegaRAID might be more suitable in such an environment for the time being.
Yup. Linked right from the official ColumnsUI site. There's also a lot of stuff on the forums, like this thread. Azrael is my current favourite.
Except when it's not. XCode, for instance, installs via a standard looking installer with progress bars etc, but to remove it? Well, you get to drop to a shell and run a couple of app-specific ad-hoc perl scripts to (hopefully) clear it out. Other things invite you to rm -rf their directories. I don't really see why they have this nice clicky installer but didn't bother giving it uninstall functionality too...
Ctrl-Z is undo in forms. Reopening a closed window/tab is Ctrl-Alt-Z by default ;)
Well, that and all the other neat things ZFS does, like pooled storage making adding/upgrading disks easier, dynamic striping/redundancy, cheap optionally writable snapshots, bombproof data integrity, write performance similar to log structured filesystems, very clever IO scheduling, etc.
ZFS would make MacOS X a more attractive server platform, especially with kliky intuitive admin tools; cue SOHO XServe RAID tower system for mass file storage with redundancy, reliability and expandability with wide geek appeal and more usability than OpenSolaris for a start.
Supporting lots of filesystems is hard. Mistakes are difficult to track down and harshly punished, licenses and API's generally aren't amenable to straight ports, and it's a lot of work for what's typically a fairly small ROI. Also, porting one filesystem doesn't generally make porting another significantly easier. You might as well ask:
"But why just a skyscraper? Why not add a warehouse or a subterranean bunker as well? Why not add in a bridge while you're at it?"
Might be nice to have them all, and they certainly share certain requirements, but trying to build them all at once isn't necessarily a good idea when all most people want is a nice place to keep things.
I'm not sure; I've been using Opera 9 as my primary browser since TP2 and it's been very good, although build 8372 (the weekly immediately after the first beta) seems a bit more wobbly than previous builds.
Prefs -> Advanced -> Tabs.
Of course in Windows turning off per-tab close buttons gives you a close button that's instead immediately under the close button for the entire window. Doh.
Luckily you can always close tabs using mouse gestures (RMB, draw an L) or using MMB on the tab, or using Ctrl-W or whatever you have that set to (evil, I have this mapped to delete-word like God intended). In Opera 9 there's also a "trashcan" on the tab bar that lets you reopen closed tabs. In previous versions of Opera this is exposed via the Windows -> Closed submenu. I'd be surprised if there isn't a FF extension that does something similar.
Yes, but there's no reason why said driver can't be a thin layer to userspace.
People say that? Funny, I would have thought the first thing most people would do after a diagnosis would be to use that label to investigate how they can change and how others deal with similar issues. Indeed I'd say it's far more likely for people to think "oh, that's just the way I am" and beat themselves up, give up, or flap about not really having any idea what to do when they don't have a means of referencing their problems and associating them with the rest of the human race.
Right. And when your parents/SO/dog die you don't HAVE TO cry, but it feels that way. How I wish I had your insight
"I don't know why I don't just delete it; I think so FreeBSD's mergemaster won't simply put one back in place when I rebuild the system."
echo IGNORE_MOTD=yes >>/etc/mergemaster.rc
Yup. Just confirmed it working in build 20060406. Runs pretty well too; better than some of the desktop machines I've played Doom on, ignoring the tiny screen and awkward controls ;)
Now, where's my iPod keyboard, mouse and VGA-out adapter...