Thousands of directories with a handful of library files in each? What's the advantage of that?
Yes! Not just directories, but filesystems. Thousands of filesystems. I know, this is capital CRAZY in a ufs/extN world, but with ZFS/btrfs, this makes more sense than not doing it.
On my Fedora systems, I often come in to find, say, Thunderbird being wonky, then it crashes after a few minutes. Oh, Thunderbird got updated last night and now it can't find its symbols because the binaries have changed out from underneath it, so only stuff that's currently in-memory is going to work.
"Oh, but you shouldn't run automatic updates". "Oh, but you shouldn't leave your environment logged in in when you go home". Nonsense, I say - those are artifacts of dumb filesystems.
In a btrfs world, we'll have a/usr/thunderbird filesystem, with/usr/thunderbird@3.0.1-15 as a snapshot. The package manager can worry about which snapshots are still needed (due to dependencies) and which ones aren't. A nightly job can clean up any remaining orphans (after a reboot, for instance), but in the meantime, rolling updates don't mean 'broken user systems'. And multiple versions can co-exist simultaneously (with explicit dependencies).
A unified/usr/bin is a small step in the right direction because we can fill that up later with a pile of symlinks to the current snapshots, for legacy compatibility.
The first thing that flashed into my mind was that it would be very interesting if radar images during the flyby revealed it was in fact a very, Very VERY old spacecraft.
Think horses, not zebras.
But, I have to admit, my first thought was, "I wonder if the Chinese are going to put a spacecraft on it," so I can't claim to be immune to flights of fancy.
Unix wins because it follows KISS. Fedora (and others) have been moving away from that. It's not good.
Fedora will argue that init, ConsoleKit, xinetd and (eventually) cron, at, et. al. are more complex in total than a single 'run-stuff' process. Plus cgroups management which has been effectively missing from linux until systemd.
Does 'simple' mean 'do one thing and do it well' or 'avoid multiple redundant code paths that all do approximately the same thing? Yes, no, and both?
Full disclosure: systemd in Fedora 15 causes me great frustration.
I do that with my Nexus S all the time. Texts are read aloud to me, I reply verbally. I've carried on long conversations that way, with near perfect fidelity.
It's true in my limited experience - I've been on Facebook, carrying on a comment thread conversation with a guy driving with a Nexus and a bluetooth headset, handling his side via SMS. I had trouble believing he wasn't texting and driving.
Does this happen on the phone or is it service based like Siri? I know Google has that massive voice recognition trainer they call Google Voice collecting billions of Bayesian decisions every day.
I don't blame the guy for saying it, of course he probably thinks his product is the best.
You can blame him. He says things like:
people now expect that you should be able to expect to speak ordinary English â" and be understood
Which is a false premise upon which the rest of his argument is built. If pressed, he might try to argue that 'people' means 'a very small subset of technology nerds' but it's clear that he's implying 'most people' and that's simply untrue.
I suspect what's happening here is that Apple has a 2-year exclusive with the technology and he wants to position it well in advance as the industry leader so when October 2013 rolls around he'll be in a good position for selling licenses to other handset manufacturers.
And I don't recall meeting a single kid that had a "peanut allergy" before a public hysteria began over it.
The predominant method of roasting peanuts changed in the 80's to a faster, higher-temperature process that changes the protein profile of the resulting peanut products. Most people don't seem to have a problem with this.
I don't know of a good study comparing the two (or how one could ethically design such a study).
but they're only able to get the PF from OpenBSD 4.5 into 9.0-CURRENT (which is what pfSense 2.1 uses).
It looks like the big news is IPv6 packet fragment reassembly and ACK prioritization, which would have been really useful to have if pfSense 2.1 is supposed to be 'the' IPv6 release.
I see some groundwork for future traffic shaping features - what else did I miss?
but some days watching those who would crush others with the force of law having their stuff dumped into the street and sold off is just satisfying
Retribution does satisfy the primal urges, but it doesn't help me all that much (as a member of this society).
I want to be able to search a database of scumbags - their name, dob, and known mailing addresses, so I can avoid ever getting into a business transaction with them. The US Marshalls stealing their copy machine doesn't actually help society in any meaningful way.
Retributive justice is deeply ingrained in human society, but we have the tools to progress beyond that now.
There are large numbers of Christians who are well aware of the inconsistencies within the Biblical texts. Christianity (and other faiths) has always been more than a text.
I suspect the whole thing is a metaphor. All that about an afterlife and a kingdom of heaven are literary devices to explain the fundamental idea:
Be Excellent to Each Other
Except the money changers. Beat the hell out of those guys.
So, if you have a an embarrassingly parallel problem to solve that can fit into 4GB of memory per node, doesn't use much I/O, and can run on Linux, this might be a pretty good idea.
I'd imagine people who do 'cloudy' things like remote voice recognition for cell phones are jumping up and down and not renewing all their rackspace commitments.
Now, let's see if HP can actually deliver or if the 6th CEO from now fails to understand how this sells ink.
And why? Money of course, that is what runs this country (into the ground).
But if only there were more government we could stop the corruption! Only paranoid lunatic nutzos think that wherever there is vast power and wealth shady dealings will find a way to break through.
Is there an actual legal mechanism whereby Assange could be extradited to US?
Yes, they have had an arrangement for 'terrists'. This is the basis of Assange's complaint. And I don't see why it's not a 'wider issue of public importance' for the general public in the UK. 2-hop extraditions ought to be a matter of public importance, especially when the first hop is minor in charge.
They're using a new algorithm to capture the MRI data. Why is that unclear? They didn't claim anything like "invented a new basic computer science algorithm".
Hey, cool, it was about 7400 yesterday and about 7800 just before I posted it to Slashdot. What a cool machine.
I think this petition needs to be on Slashdot's front page
By all means go for it. I don't have much luck getting anything through that's overtly critical of the government. Like the story they rejected about Redbox's fee increases being stated by Redbox as being caused by Durbin Amendment.
But hey, if I wanted fame I'd just post stuff about Google investing in graphene.
Slashdot Mirror
Contrary to your belief, they do not have a science council or war council to work on their war against humanity. and evolution takes a lot more time.
+5 for the mental image. :)
Thousands of directories with a handful of library files in each? What's the advantage of that?
Yes! Not just directories, but filesystems. Thousands of filesystems. I know, this is capital CRAZY in a ufs/extN world, but with ZFS/btrfs, this makes more sense than not doing it.
On my Fedora systems, I often come in to find, say, Thunderbird being wonky, then it crashes after a few minutes. Oh, Thunderbird got updated last night and now it can't find its symbols because the binaries have changed out from underneath it, so only stuff that's currently in-memory is going to work.
"Oh, but you shouldn't run automatic updates". "Oh, but you shouldn't leave your environment logged in in when you go home". Nonsense, I say - those are artifacts of dumb filesystems.
In a btrfs world, we'll have a /usr/thunderbird filesystem, with /usr/thunderbird@3.0.1-15 as a snapshot. The package manager can worry about which snapshots are still needed (due to dependencies) and which ones aren't. A nightly job can clean up any remaining orphans (after a reboot, for instance), but in the meantime, rolling updates don't mean 'broken user systems'. And multiple versions can co-exist simultaneously (with explicit dependencies).
A unified /usr/bin is a small step in the right direction because we can fill that up later with a pile of symlinks to the current snapshots, for legacy compatibility.
The first thing that flashed into my mind was that it would be very interesting if radar images during the flyby revealed it was in fact a very, Very VERY old spacecraft.
Think horses, not zebras.
But, I have to admit, my first thought was, "I wonder if the Chinese are going to put a spacecraft on it," so I can't claim to be immune to flights of fancy.
Unix wins because it follows KISS. Fedora (and others) have been moving away from that. It's not good.
Fedora will argue that init, ConsoleKit, xinetd and (eventually) cron, at, et. al. are more complex in total than a single 'run-stuff' process. Plus cgroups management which has been effectively missing from linux until systemd.
Does 'simple' mean 'do one thing and do it well' or 'avoid multiple redundant code paths that all do approximately the same thing? Yes, no, and both?
Full disclosure: systemd in Fedora 15 causes me great frustration.
If Steve were alive now, he'd be on the warpath to fire the poor schmuck who accidentally let it slip through in the first place.
Sadly, Steve never found enlightenment. But it can be no coincidence that GMail is coming to iPhone just a month after.
I do that with my Nexus S all the time. Texts are read aloud to me, I reply verbally. I've carried on long conversations that way, with near perfect fidelity.
It's true in my limited experience - I've been on Facebook, carrying on a comment thread conversation with a guy driving with a Nexus and a bluetooth headset, handling his side via SMS. I had trouble believing he wasn't texting and driving.
Does this happen on the phone or is it service based like Siri? I know Google has that massive voice recognition trainer they call Google Voice collecting billions of Bayesian decisions every day.
"data space lorikeet Thompson was a coming on my mouth."
Are you from the Bayou?
I don't blame the guy for saying it, of course he probably thinks his product is the best.
You can blame him. He says things like:
Which is a false premise upon which the rest of his argument is built. If pressed, he might try to argue that 'people' means 'a very small subset of technology nerds' but it's clear that he's implying 'most people' and that's simply untrue.
I suspect what's happening here is that Apple has a 2-year exclusive with the technology and he wants to position it well in advance as the industry leader so when October 2013 rolls around he'll be in a good position for selling licenses to other handset manufacturers.
And I don't recall meeting a single kid that had a "peanut allergy" before a public hysteria began over it.
The predominant method of roasting peanuts changed in the 80's to a faster, higher-temperature process that changes the protein profile of the resulting peanut products. Most people don't seem to have a problem with this.
I don't know of a good study comparing the two (or how one could ethically design such a study).
my scraggly brown locks do nothing to protect me
Perhaps you need to specify 'ask me biology questions in my journal'?
If it were true, that would imply that when geek guys meet geek girls, they get it on, instead of just looking awkwardly at each other.
Umm, have you actually met any geek girls? Better grab on to something*.
* blatant over-generalization based on anecdotal experience
but they're only able to get the PF from OpenBSD 4.5 into 9.0-CURRENT (which is what pfSense 2.1 uses).
It looks like the big news is IPv6 packet fragment reassembly and ACK prioritization, which would have been really useful to have if pfSense 2.1 is supposed to be 'the' IPv6 release.
I see some groundwork for future traffic shaping features - what else did I miss?
but some days watching those who would crush others with the force of law having their stuff dumped into the street and sold off is just satisfying
Retribution does satisfy the primal urges, but it doesn't help me all that much (as a member of this society).
I want to be able to search a database of scumbags - their name, dob, and known mailing addresses, so I can avoid ever getting into a business transaction with them. The US Marshalls stealing their copy machine doesn't actually help society in any meaningful way.
Retributive justice is deeply ingrained in human society, but we have the tools to progress beyond that now.
There are large numbers of Christians who are well aware of the inconsistencies within the Biblical texts. Christianity (and other faiths) has always been more than a text.
I suspect the whole thing is a metaphor. All that about an afterlife and a kingdom of heaven are literary devices to explain the fundamental idea:
Be Excellent to Each Other
Except the money changers. Beat the hell out of those guys.
So, do I qualify as a Christian?
So, if you have a an embarrassingly parallel problem to solve that can fit into 4GB of memory per node, doesn't use much I/O, and can run on Linux, this might be a pretty good idea.
I'd imagine people who do 'cloudy' things like remote voice recognition for cell phones are jumping up and down and not renewing all their rackspace commitments.
Now, let's see if HP can actually deliver or if the 6th CEO from now fails to understand how this sells ink.
I think I've heard that before. It wasn't true then, it isn't true now.
You left off the emoticon in his quote before you deadpan refuted his sarcasm.
And why? Money of course, that is what runs this country (into the ground).
But if only there were more government we could stop the corruption! Only paranoid lunatic nutzos think that wherever there is vast power and wealth shady dealings will find a way to break through.
Is there an actual legal mechanism whereby Assange could be extradited to US?
Yes, they have had an arrangement for 'terrists'. This is the basis of Assange's complaint. And I don't see why it's not a 'wider issue of public importance' for the general public in the UK. 2-hop extraditions ought to be a matter of public importance, especially when the first hop is minor in charge.
They're using a new algorithm to capture the MRI data. Why is that unclear? They didn't claim anything like "invented a new basic computer science algorithm".
brainwashed (and yes, I mean that quite literally)
Actual cranial lavage?
So true.
Only a bit over 9000 votes right now.
Hey, cool, it was about 7400 yesterday and about 7800 just before I posted it to Slashdot. What a cool machine.
I think this petition needs to be on Slashdot's front page
By all means go for it. I don't have much luck getting anything through that's overtly critical of the government. Like the story they rejected about Redbox's fee increases being stated by Redbox as being caused by Durbin Amendment.
But hey, if I wanted fame I'd just post stuff about Google investing in graphene.
And when that fails, that is why we have the Second Amendment.
Down, boy - the currency hasn't collapsed yet. Patience.
The responses to these petitions have been so uniformly transparent constituent fluffing through sophistry that there's already a meta-petition:
Actually Take These Petitions Seriously Instead of Just Using Them As An Excuse to Pretend You Are Listening Petition.
Once this one gets answered, the web content filters will be remiss in not filtering the site as entertainment, or masturbatory porn.
No idea how it is where you live, but where I live it isn't your account to change. Not until somebody else says so.
Yeah, if you ask the government permission to run your family's lives.
(P.S. that's why the USAPATRIOT Act is standing - people buy into this nonsense).