ReiserFS (and I believe JFS and XFS) use b-trees for practiacally everything. That means, for starters, that finding files in heavily populated directories is exponentially faster.
Such a transparent argument...
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Shared Source?
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Microsoft's arguments continue to become more and more transparent. The more I think about it, the more 90% of what they've been saying slips away into the realm of 'filler', leaving only one significant point.
From the FAQ :
"...one of the dominant open source license--the GPL--is the most infectious. It attempts to subject any work that includes GPL-licensed code to the GPL. Thus, if a government or business uses even a few lines of GPL-licensed code in a program, and then re-distributes that program to others, it would be required to provide the program under the GPL. And, under the GPL, the recipient must be given access to the source code and the freedom to redistribute the program on a royalty-free basis.
Open source licenses that are non-viral, on the other hand, permit software developers to integrate the licensed software and its source code into new products, often with much less significant restrictions. A prominent example of this type of license is the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. The BSD license allows programmers to use, modify, and redistribute the source code and binary code of the original software program, with or without modification."
In other words, Microsoft wants your code. They want to continue to use your code to make money without giving you any credit for it. Their business depends on it. The GPL stops that activity cold, they know it, and it scares them.
And that's what all this 'discussion' has been about. --
Balsa is a hardwood, not a softwood. The terms hard and soft wood are biological classifications...
To clarify the point:
Hard woods come from deciduous trees. Simply put, if a tree has leaves, it produces hard wood (oak, alder, maple, balsa, etc.), if it has needles it produces.. um.. not hard wood (cedar, pine, fir, etc.) Which doesn't make alot of sense, but there you go:-) --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
DSL is a pain in the ass sometimes. It's a *real* pain in the ass when you live 4000 Ft too far from the home office to get it, and you have to pay twice as much for less than half the bandwidth by getting ISDN. Grrrrrr.
But back in January I moved and woohoo I got very close to the home office. Verizon is now providing me with cheap and very reliable 768/128K DSL. It was installed on time and everything has been peachy.
But, now I'm moving again. Just a few blocks. So I'm having my account moved to a different address and phone #, same modem, same ISP, etc. Simple. This time, however, I've been screwed. I got an original due-date for activation on 04/26. 04/27 rolled around and I called to verify the activation had been done. Turns out the 04/26 date was bogus, and they claim to have no way to find out who did the order. Now the due date is 05/15. The shutdown date for this (old) location is 05/01. That's a 10 *working* day down-time, and they claim that's the best they can do!! Ever!!!
So, until 05/15, I need to use a POTS modem. *sigh* So I call to have a second analog line installed. Guess what... Due date is 05/03. Huh? DSL doesn't require a tech to come to my house, the analog line does. Why the hell does it take so long to activate the DSL line?
I love the bang-for-the-buck factor of DSL, but why the hell does practically every other aspect of it have to blow chunks? It seems that the phone companies don't *really* want to provide it, because it's so cheap. So why the hell don't they just charge a little more and provide decent service?? I'd gladly pay a bit more for it, if I could avoid all the problems. That would also provide a bit more cash for R&D, so maybe they could finally extend the truely pathetic distance restrictions.
Yep... DSL is great, until you find out your one of the majority who can't get it, or get screwed by phone company incompetence, or both. --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
Re:What worries me most...
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Aw bullshit.
First off, Tito isn't some moron who doesn't knew his ass from a hole in the ground.
Second, comparing this to your electronics course is rediculous; you people were *told* to mess around and push the pretty buttons. It was part of the course. AND, nobody thought pushing a button was going to kill people and cost billions of dollars.
Sheesh.
Now, if you're referring to possible future space tourism, it's just as rediculous. Airplanes have all sorts of potentially dangerous pretty buttons. Do passengers cause crashes? No! They aren't allowed to play in the cockpit. Obviously, before space tourism takes off, the space station or whatever has to be designed with that in mind. A place for pilots and such, and a place for tourists. Simple.
Do you really think that your average joe is so incredibly stupid as to run around a multi-billion dollar craft where he isn't allowed, pushing buttons at random? Do you really think the 'De-orbit' button is some big red thing labeled 'Push Me!'? Come on... --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
I very often find myself taken to sites I had no intention of going to (disguised goatse links, anyone?)
Sure sure, we believe you:-)
I mean, who would have thought that www.doglove.com was a goatse site? I certainly was surprised... --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
but i'm really just in it for the guilt-free eating.
*Chuckle* You feel guilty eating chickens? The human body has a biological need to consume animal tissue... Or rather, animal tissue satisfies a biological need.
The answer is cloning... We should genetically engineer the 'new' human race to be vegitarian:-) --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
Have you ever opened your computer case? Come on people, those cases may look nifty in a nice picture, but after 6 months of uptime, my boxes have about 2 pounds of dust piled up inside... I don't want to see that!!! --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
Ha, first an article about cloning, now one about server farms. Maybe they cloned their entire stock of farm servers? So now they have 4000 master servers, and 4000 slave servers. Trouble is, nobody can remember which are which. --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
It's one thing to ban human cloning. It's quite another to ban human clones. A person has no control over his/her own birth, cloned or not. And so banning cloned people just seems utterly rediculous and wrong to me. What would be next, clone reservations?
Let's say Fred and his wife Judy make a clone of Fred, named Bob. Fred and Judy get caught, pay the $1 million fines, and do the prison time. Problem solved:-) So what happens to Bob? Does he get deported? To where?
The artical says that safety (because of the high failure rate in current cloning) was a major concern when considering these laws. Huh? So now we're making laws to ban new technology forever because the technology isn't perfected yet?
I'm not for human cloning. But geez, do we really need to cite completely stupid reasons for banning it? It's not as if there is a shortage of really really good reasons...
And this one...
"There is no need for this technology to ever be used with humans," said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
Oh, of course, you're right. You have infinite foresight. We believe you. There will never be a good reason to ever ever clone a human. Ever. Whatever dude... That reminds me of mariguana banning. There will never ever be a valid use for pot. Banned. Oh wait, there is a valid use! For cancer patients, glaucoma patients, etc. Oh well, too late. Arrrrggg!!! --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
So if you flip your computer off, does that mean it's time to reboot? I tried it with my keyboard (I started with the 'F' key) but nothing happened. --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
I want to dump my PC. I want to plug a keyboard and mouse, and some sort of real display device (maybe one of those nifty retinal scanning thingies:-) into my palm-sized pocket main frame and get to work. I want to do it at the beach. I want to do it next to a small alpine lake. I want to do it on a plane, I want to do it on a train. I want to do it in the dark, I want to do it in the park... Sam I am...
I want my Win2K box in one pocket, and my Linux server in the other, with a wireless network. I'll even wear lead undies if I have to.
Anyhow, two main things stand in my way. One thing is power. The other is huge hard drives with &^*$$%^ moving parts and the rediculous cost and small capacity of current memory technology.
Hurry up with the solid state, fast, tiny storage please!! I'm begging here:-) I'm a programmer and it's sunny outside. I'm stuck in this little room with the blinds shut!!!
*sigh* --
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
The trouble with ACL's on NT is that that's all you get. The vast, vast majority of files on a system don't need that kind of fine grained control, and the complexity of ACL's, in addition to the horrid file system organization of an NT system, makes security extremely tough to keep under control.
On the other hand, posix ACL's are optional. You still get the old *nix style permission system, which is perfect for most files (/usr/bin/* for example). You simply add ACL's to certain files where they're needed and leave the rest of the filesystem alone.
Using my home system as an example, I would probably use ACL's for all my html files, and for my cvs repository. Everything else would be left as-is.
The bottom line is: ACL's are great and wonderful and all that. Force them on every file in the system however, and you're looking for big trouble and even bigger headaches. NT is a text-book example of bad design in this area (and maybe one or two others:-).
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Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
Slashdot Mirror
Try this... Not very impartial I suppose :-) But benchmarks all the same.
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See RFS Features
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From the FAQ :
"...one of the dominant open source license--the GPL--is the most infectious. It attempts to subject any work that includes GPL-licensed code to the GPL. Thus, if a government or business uses even a few lines of GPL-licensed code in a program, and then re-distributes that program to others, it would be required to provide the program under the GPL. And, under the GPL, the recipient must be given access to the source code and the freedom to redistribute the program on a royalty-free basis.
Open source licenses that are non-viral, on the other hand, permit software developers to integrate the licensed software and its source code into new products, often with much less significant restrictions. A prominent example of this type of license is the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. The BSD license allows programmers to use, modify, and redistribute the source code and binary code of the original software program, with or without modification."
In other words, Microsoft wants your code. They want to continue to use your code to make money without giving you any credit for it. Their business depends on it. The GPL stops that activity cold, they know it, and it scares them.
And that's what all this 'discussion' has been about.
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To clarify the point:
Hard woods come from deciduous trees. Simply put, if a tree has leaves, it produces hard wood (oak, alder, maple, balsa, etc.), if it has needles it produces.. um.. not hard wood (cedar, pine, fir, etc.) Which doesn't make alot of sense, but there you go :-)
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Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
DSL is a pain in the ass sometimes. It's a *real* pain in the ass when you live 4000 Ft too far from the home office to get it, and you have to pay twice as much for less than half the bandwidth by getting ISDN. Grrrrrr.
But back in January I moved and woohoo I got very close to the home office. Verizon is now providing me with cheap and very reliable 768/128K DSL. It was installed on time and everything has been peachy.
But, now I'm moving again. Just a few blocks. So I'm having my account moved to a different address and phone #, same modem, same ISP, etc. Simple. This time, however, I've been screwed. I got an original due-date for activation on 04/26. 04/27 rolled around and I called to verify the activation had been done. Turns out the 04/26 date was bogus, and they claim to have no way to find out who did the order. Now the due date is 05/15. The shutdown date for this (old) location is 05/01. That's a 10 *working* day down-time, and they claim that's the best they can do!! Ever!!!
So, until 05/15, I need to use a POTS modem. *sigh* So I call to have a second analog line installed. Guess what... Due date is 05/03. Huh? DSL doesn't require a tech to come to my house, the analog line does. Why the hell does it take so long to activate the DSL line?
I love the bang-for-the-buck factor of DSL, but why the hell does practically every other aspect of it have to blow chunks? It seems that the phone companies don't *really* want to provide it, because it's so cheap. So why the hell don't they just charge a little more and provide decent service?? I'd gladly pay a bit more for it, if I could avoid all the problems. That would also provide a bit more cash for R&D, so maybe they could finally extend the truely pathetic distance restrictions.
Yep... DSL is great, until you find out your one of the majority who can't get it, or get screwed by phone company incompetence, or both.
--
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
Aw bullshit.
First off, Tito isn't some moron who doesn't knew his ass from a hole in the ground.
Second, comparing this to your electronics course is rediculous; you people were *told* to mess around and push the pretty buttons. It was part of the course. AND, nobody thought pushing a button was going to kill people and cost billions of dollars.
Sheesh.
Now, if you're referring to possible future space tourism, it's just as rediculous. Airplanes have all sorts of potentially dangerous pretty buttons. Do passengers cause crashes? No! They aren't allowed to play in the cockpit. Obviously, before space tourism takes off, the space station or whatever has to be designed with that in mind. A place for pilots and such, and a place for tourists. Simple.
Do you really think that your average joe is so incredibly stupid as to run around a multi-billion dollar craft where he isn't allowed, pushing buttons at random? Do you really think the 'De-orbit' button is some big red thing labeled 'Push Me!'? Come on...
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Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
Sure sure, we believe you :-)
I mean, who would have thought that www.doglove.com was a goatse site? I certainly was surprised...
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Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
Tech: Hi. How can I help you today?
User: My computer won't boot up.
Tech: Hmmm, I'm seeing another computer in your life. Am I right?
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Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
*Chuckle* You feel guilty eating chickens? The human body has a biological need to consume animal tissue... Or rather, animal tissue satisfies a biological need.
The answer is cloning... We should genetically engineer the 'new' human race to be vegitarian :-)
--
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
Have you ever opened your computer case? Come on people, those cases may look nifty in a nice picture, but after 6 months of uptime, my boxes have about 2 pounds of dust piled up inside... I don't want to see that!!!
--
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
Ha, first an article about cloning, now one about server farms. Maybe they cloned their entire stock of farm servers? So now they have 4000 master servers, and 4000 slave servers. Trouble is, nobody can remember which are which.
--
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
It's one thing to ban human cloning. It's quite another to ban human clones. A person has no control over his/her own birth, cloned or not. And so banning cloned people just seems utterly rediculous and wrong to me. What would be next, clone reservations?
Let's say Fred and his wife Judy make a clone of Fred, named Bob. Fred and Judy get caught, pay the $1 million fines, and do the prison time. Problem solved :-) So what happens to Bob? Does he get deported? To where?
The artical says that safety (because of the high failure rate in current cloning) was a major concern when considering these laws. Huh? So now we're making laws to ban new technology forever because the technology isn't perfected yet?
I'm not for human cloning. But geez, do we really need to cite completely stupid reasons for banning it? It's not as if there is a shortage of really really good reasons...
And this one...
"There is no need for this technology to ever be used with humans," said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
Oh, of course, you're right. You have infinite foresight. We believe you. There will never be a good reason to ever ever clone a human. Ever. Whatever dude... That reminds me of mariguana banning. There will never ever be a valid use for pot. Banned. Oh wait, there is a valid use! For cancer patients, glaucoma patients, etc. Oh well, too late. Arrrrggg!!!
--
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
alt.binaries.* groups back to '95? :-)
no that's alot of porn
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Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
So if you flip your computer off, does that mean it's time to reboot? I tried it with my keyboard (I started with the 'F' key) but nothing happened.
--
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
I want to dump my PC. I want to plug a keyboard and mouse, and some sort of real display device (maybe one of those nifty retinal scanning thingies :-) into my palm-sized pocket main frame and get to work. I want to do it at the beach. I want to do it next to a small alpine lake. I want to do it on a plane, I want to do it on a train. I want to do it in the dark, I want to do it in the park... Sam I am...
:-) I'm a programmer and it's sunny outside. I'm stuck in this little room with the blinds shut!!!
I want my Win2K box in one pocket, and my Linux server in the other, with a wireless network. I'll even wear lead undies if I have to.
Anyhow, two main things stand in my way. One thing is power. The other is huge hard drives with &^*$$%^ moving parts and the rediculous cost and small capacity of current memory technology.
Hurry up with the solid state, fast, tiny storage please!! I'm begging here
*sigh*
--
Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!
The trouble with ACL's on NT is that that's all you get. The vast, vast majority of files on a system don't need that kind of fine grained control, and the complexity of ACL's, in addition to the horrid file system organization of an NT system, makes security extremely tough to keep under control.
:-).
On the other hand, posix ACL's are optional. You still get the old *nix style permission system, which is perfect for most files (/usr/bin/* for example). You simply add ACL's to certain files where they're needed and leave the rest of the filesystem alone.
Using my home system as an example, I would probably use ACL's for all my html files, and for my cvs repository. Everything else would be left as-is.
The bottom line is: ACL's are great and wonderful and all that. Force them on every file in the system however, and you're looking for big trouble and even bigger headaches. NT is a text-book example of bad design in this area (and maybe one or two others
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Damn it Jim, that's my sphincter, not a jelly donut!!!