Actually, a large swath of the Fedora user base runs laptops, which depending on how you look at it could be considered either a battery-backed disk cache or a monitored UPS.
Ideally. I've had my Fedora run out of battery while shutting down (triggered by power management) often enough that I wouldn't trust it. I run my ext4 with data=journal.
Good to know, thanks. My recollection may be dated as well - the ones I recall being significant were ffmpeg and sqllite, but seeing as how I haven't read about any friction recently, it's probably safe to assume these have been amicably resolved.
Is there a need an fsck? For example, ZFS doesn't have one and I haven't heard of anybody working on it (or of anybody actually wanting one).
Um, yeah, read zfs-discuss. There are helpful folks on there who help people recover their ZFS volumes, but having a tool to do it would be much better.
fsck for ZFS or btrfs means something different than it does for ext* but it's still needed. I just had a client's new 18TB ZFS zvol go TU when the power failed and the UPS->host communication wasn't properly connected. Fortunately it wasn't very important and the important zvol wasn't active when the power failed.
btrfs will be better than ZFS for many use cases once the fsck is stable. For others ZFS will remain better, but you better have battery-backed disk cache or a monitored UPS (neither of which are appropriate requirements for large swaths of the Fedora user base).
If Wine worked perfectly, I'd switch to Linux in a second.
If that's all that's holding you back, look into KVM or VirtualBox - you can run your Windows-only apps natively in a box and the things that run on both you can run on Linux.
For applications that are relatively self-contained, and make few, or very conservative, demands about their environment, it really isn't a big deal.
This cuts both ways. Google has grabbed a bunch of open source libraries, sometimes respecting the license, hacked on them, and rolled them into Chrom*.
So, with Chrome you've got a bunch of bloat and dead-end forks on your machine. Tom Callaway, Fedora contributor, has a Chromium repo that factors this all back out, using the upstream libraries directly. So, when there's a security fix in an upstream library, you get it before Google does a rev. or two.
And of course the binaries are smaller. For shared libraries, the system memory usage will be lighter as well.
This Kazakh Technology Minister, Nursultan Tuleiakbay. He is pain in the Google assholes. They get a server with a.kz domain, he must get a server with a.kz domain. They get a redirect, he must get a redirect. They get search engine that works like young wife plow field - he cannot afford! Great success!
Imagine an RSS reader that would automatically summarize the blog posts of a few dozen of your friends into two lines each. You'd have time to look at that. Except that technology doesn't exist yet, so they invented microblogging. Be concise, and link if you have to .
I also feed my IM status, my Facebook status, my LinkedIn status, etc. off of my Twitter feed, so it serves a second role as a status centralizer for the user.
If you can't imagine why you'd want to keep up with what a few dozen interesting people are doing, well, that's a separate issue.
Yeah, and that was a fine quick-n-dirty fix nearly a decade ago, when Unicode wasn't really important. Fast-forward to 2011 and everybody else is successfully accepting Unicode with blacklists for the troublesome bits. I don't see the value to the Slashdot community by continuing to use the 2002 fix.
the second would have been to his response on traffic.. while they are not really increasing the number of people they employ (sorry 20% is a lot for anyplace) but now they have 2.5k in one spot and the rest spread out.. now they will have 12k going to one place every day.. that is going to be a nightmare if not planned for.
And inter-campus traffic as well. But Jobs is probably going to build an iTube to connect the two campuses anyway. The cars will have automatic seismic adjusting and be encrusted with sapphires and dolphin bones.
Do you have them handy? I'd don't quite remember the time frame - I'm thinking this was about a decade ago, when the primary use of Unicode was to break Slashdot, but today that's much different.
Everybody else seems to have figure out how to handle Unicode input and re-display.
Here's a more strategic take on the incident. To quote:
The more Congressmen that we can get into a Weiner type scandal the better. Let's keeping these characters moving in and out of Congress, so they don't have time to form a lot of long-term alliances and get their plotting games down cold.
Look up "defensive publication." It's done all the danged time.
But his requirement be that it's free. Something like halfbakery.com is probably what he's looking for. The WP article on it lists some of its competitors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfbakery
I had calls getting dropped every 5 minutes or so last night. Then again, Skype's entire network seems to go down on occasion, so perhaps an IPv6 test is an unlikely cause.
But, I'm safely small enough that my ISP is just starting to talk about offering an IPv6 trial in a city far far away. I'm signed up for them to let me know in 4 years that IPv6 is available for testing...
Didn't we cover here the story that Foxconn's suicide rate was well below population averages in China? Do the other Chinese 'blue-chip' companies have even lower suicide rates?
OpenKM will do most of what you want. We've deployed it for clients who have been happy with it. It does not preserve the underlying filesystem, but you can upload a ZIP file of documents.
It's a tomcat app - that used to be heavy-duty - if it is today depends on what kind of machine you're using.
People who are without government are rarely without governance. Think of the distinction between Common Law and Statute Law. Heck, think of Homeowner-Associations, where many people voluntarily take on additional, often orthogonal, governance (not for me, but their choice).
As far as protection, I'd certainly go in with my neighbors for private security, just like I'd go in with them to get our damn road fixed (I personally pay more in car repair each year than filling the potholes would cost - multiply that out). Personal responsibility requires personal protection as well, so an unarmed populace isn't part of the equation.
Couple that with proper reputation systems (think confederated Internet systems), and somebody who wants to 'take over' has to first amass a force to defeat all the private and personal security in an area and do it completely off the books, using his wealth gained under a reputation system but never letting on that he's a sociopath. It makes for a good Ian Flemming flick, but it's not really a risk in a highly-entangled economy.
What about theft? Let's leave aside copyright infringement and theft of service and just talk about somebody taking your physical things. Is that violent?
No, I don't think so. No harm is done to the body, and it's a situation that insurance can readily cover. But if you catch somebody taking your stuff, you'd be justified in taking it right back, even if it's in their hands. At that point, I suspect the average thug thief escalates to violence.
Yet it only has meaning if either every last person agrees that it does (and they don't), or it is backed with the threat of initiation of violence (or you define violence to include taking your property).
You only need to start with every person agreeing that they own themselves, and the rest of ownership falls out of that logically.
The violence that is threatened for patent infringement, by the way, is basically fines. And if you refuse that, then conitnued refusal to participate in society. Maybe in extraordinary cases somebody might be captured by police and thrown into jail. It's not violence in the sense of torturing and beating a person senseless and maybe killing some dudes.
If you refuse to have your liberty taken away over something unjust like patents (that is you act in self-defense) then you might very well wind up killed. At least beaten, thrown in a cage, and have a good chance of being serially raped.
And when arresting a suspect in a crime, does that have an exception? After all, we don't know he's guilty yet, so it is therefore you who are initiating force (I'm assuming you don't want to throw out presumption of innocence and right to a fair trial).
The primary purpose of governments is to provide retributive justice. Looking at the numbers (about half a billion people were killed by governments in the 20th century, through war and democide) it's not all that clear that the trials are worthwhile. So much of what the 'Justice System' covers could be more adroitly handled by insurance and reputation systems in the modern age. The thing that sticks out is violent crimes. Factoring out all the ones caused by government action (e.g. drug crimes caused by prohibition) leaves really just a few. I'm still thinking through the cost-benefit analysis there, but I don't think I'll find half a billion rapes and murders. Remember, the State offers protection to murders and often gets in the way of self-defense.
So under the definition of violence I'm inferring from your statements, I reject the idea that being "backed by threat of initiation of violence" is a moral failing when it comes to lawmaking.
In the end, the means are everything. "The ends justify the means" is can only be argued to be defensible if the ends can be accurately predicted. It turns out that usually they can't be.
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A useful new feature in latest Nightly versions from Mozilla is about:memory. It gives you a full tree view of where the memory is being used.
Is this per-tab or global?
I need a 'top' like function for Mozilla that will tell me which tabs are using resources (usually a flash object that snuck by me).
Does FF5 let me use 'top' proper with per-page processes?
Does it do proper hardware acceleration? That's usually the problem with VMs.
VMGL is supported for KVM and Virtualbox. I haven't tried it myself.
Actually, a large swath of the Fedora user base runs laptops, which depending on how you look at it could be considered either a battery-backed disk cache or a monitored UPS.
Ideally. I've had my Fedora run out of battery while shutting down (triggered by power management) often enough that I wouldn't trust it. I run my ext4 with data=journal.
we take license compliance very seriously
Good to know, thanks. My recollection may be dated as well - the ones I recall being significant were ffmpeg and sqllite, but seeing as how I haven't read about any friction recently, it's probably safe to assume these have been amicably resolved.
Is there a need an fsck? For example, ZFS doesn't have one and I haven't heard of anybody working on it (or of anybody actually wanting one).
Um, yeah, read zfs-discuss. There are helpful folks on there who help people recover their ZFS volumes, but having a tool to do it would be much better.
fsck for ZFS or btrfs means something different than it does for ext* but it's still needed. I just had a client's new 18TB ZFS zvol go TU when the power failed and the UPS->host communication wasn't properly connected. Fortunately it wasn't very important and the important zvol wasn't active when the power failed.
btrfs will be better than ZFS for many use cases once the fsck is stable. For others ZFS will remain better, but you better have battery-backed disk cache or a monitored UPS (neither of which are appropriate requirements for large swaths of the Fedora user base).
Choose from one of the 132 stories currently covering this as a hoax.
If Wine worked perfectly, I'd switch to Linux in a second.
If that's all that's holding you back, look into KVM or VirtualBox - you can run your Windows-only apps natively in a box and the things that run on both you can run on Linux.
For applications that are relatively self-contained, and make few, or very conservative, demands about their environment, it really isn't a big deal.
This cuts both ways. Google has grabbed a bunch of open source libraries, sometimes respecting the license, hacked on them, and rolled them into Chrom*.
So, with Chrome you've got a bunch of bloat and dead-end forks on your machine. Tom Callaway, Fedora contributor, has a Chromium repo that factors this all back out, using the upstream libraries directly. So, when there's a security fix in an upstream library, you get it before Google does a rev. or two.
And of course the binaries are smaller. For shared libraries, the system memory usage will be lighter as well.
They can put him on the committees that supervise the NSA pen registers, RealID, biometric passports, FBI, etc.
This Kazakh Technology Minister, Nursultan Tuleiakbay. He is pain in the Google assholes. They get a server with a .kz domain, he must get a server with a .kz domain. They get a redirect, he must get a redirect. They get search engine that works like young wife plow field - he cannot afford! Great success!
Imagine an RSS reader that would automatically summarize the blog posts of a few dozen of your friends into two lines each. You'd have time to look at that. Except that technology doesn't exist yet, so they invented microblogging. Be concise, and link if you have to .
I also feed my IM status, my Facebook status, my LinkedIn status, etc. off of my Twitter feed, so it serves a second role as a status centralizer for the user.
If you can't imagine why you'd want to keep up with what a few dozen interesting people are doing, well, that's a separate issue.
Yeah, and that was a fine quick-n-dirty fix nearly a decade ago, when Unicode wasn't really important. Fast-forward to 2011 and everybody else is successfully accepting Unicode with blacklists for the troublesome bits. I don't see the value to the Slashdot community by continuing to use the 2002 fix.
the second would have been to his response on traffic.. while they are not really increasing the number of people they employ (sorry 20% is a lot for anyplace) but now they have 2.5k in one spot and the rest spread out.. now they will have 12k going to one place every day.. that is going to be a nightmare if not planned for.
And inter-campus traffic as well. But Jobs is probably going to build an iTube to connect the two campuses anyway. The cars will have automatic seismic adjusting and be encrusted with sapphires and dolphin bones.
In the video Jobs said it _used_ to be apricot orchards...long ago. It's mostly asphalt right now he said.
Right, somebody posted the aerial shots when Apple bought the HP property. Parking lots and run-of-the-mill office buildings.
But I bet Apple can afford more mature trees than most building projects can.
I'm willing to provide citations on request.
Do you have them handy? I'd don't quite remember the time frame - I'm thinking this was about a decade ago, when the primary use of Unicode was to break Slashdot, but today that's much different.
Everybody else seems to have figure out how to handle Unicode input and re-display.
Here's a more strategic take on the incident. To quote:
Look up "defensive publication." It's done all the danged time.
But his requirement be that it's free. Something like halfbakery.com is probably what he's looking for. The WP article on it lists some of its competitors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfbakery
I had calls getting dropped every 5 minutes or so last night. Then again, Skype's entire network seems to go down on occasion, so perhaps an IPv6 test is an unlikely cause.
But, I'm safely small enough that my ISP is just starting to talk about offering an IPv6 trial in a city far far away. I'm signed up for them to let me know in 4 years that IPv6 is available for testing...
I was quite sad that Slashdot didn't take part in the World IPv6 Day.
That's on the list right after getting UNICODE to work.
Didn't we cover here the story that Foxconn's suicide rate was well below population averages in China? Do the other Chinese 'blue-chip' companies have even lower suicide rates?
Really? Citation please, I'd like to confirm before I add that to my random fact repository...
Surprisingly, the top Google hit for 'latin vagina' is not a hot-Latin-chicks porn site. I don't even use SafeSearch. Good job, Google.
Not a new euphemism at all. Mind you, "vagina" is the Latin word for "scabbard".
So, its a whole 'sheathe my sword' joke spilled over into vocabulary? OK, linguistic WIN.
OpenKM will do most of what you want. We've deployed it for clients who have been happy with it. It does not preserve the underlying filesystem, but you can upload a ZIP file of documents.
It's a tomcat app - that used to be heavy-duty - if it is today depends on what kind of machine you're using.
People who are without government are rarely without governance. Think of the distinction between Common Law and Statute Law. Heck, think of Homeowner-Associations, where many people voluntarily take on additional, often orthogonal, governance (not for me, but their choice).
As far as protection, I'd certainly go in with my neighbors for private security, just like I'd go in with them to get our damn road fixed (I personally pay more in car repair each year than filling the potholes would cost - multiply that out). Personal responsibility requires personal protection as well, so an unarmed populace isn't part of the equation.
Couple that with proper reputation systems (think confederated Internet systems), and somebody who wants to 'take over' has to first amass a force to defeat all the private and personal security in an area and do it completely off the books, using his wealth gained under a reputation system but never letting on that he's a sociopath. It makes for a good Ian Flemming flick, but it's not really a risk in a highly-entangled economy.
What about theft? Let's leave aside copyright infringement and theft of service and just talk about somebody taking your physical things. Is that violent?
No, I don't think so. No harm is done to the body, and it's a situation that insurance can readily cover. But if you catch somebody taking your stuff, you'd be justified in taking it right back, even if it's in their hands. At that point, I suspect the average thug thief escalates to violence.
Yet it only has meaning if either every last person agrees that it does (and they don't), or it is backed with the threat of initiation of violence (or you define violence to include taking your property).
You only need to start with every person agreeing that they own themselves, and the rest of ownership falls out of that logically.
The violence that is threatened for patent infringement, by the way, is basically fines. And if you refuse that, then conitnued refusal to participate in society. Maybe in extraordinary cases somebody might be captured by police and thrown into jail. It's not violence in the sense of torturing and beating a person senseless and maybe killing some dudes.
If you refuse to have your liberty taken away over something unjust like patents (that is you act in self-defense) then you might very well wind up killed. At least beaten, thrown in a cage, and have a good chance of being serially raped.
And when arresting a suspect in a crime, does that have an exception? After all, we don't know he's guilty yet, so it is therefore you who are initiating force (I'm assuming you don't want to throw out presumption of innocence and right to a fair trial).
The primary purpose of governments is to provide retributive justice. Looking at the numbers (about half a billion people were killed by governments in the 20th century, through war and democide) it's not all that clear that the trials are worthwhile. So much of what the 'Justice System' covers could be more adroitly handled by insurance and reputation systems in the modern age. The thing that sticks out is violent crimes. Factoring out all the ones caused by government action (e.g. drug crimes caused by prohibition) leaves really just a few. I'm still thinking through the cost-benefit analysis there, but I don't think I'll find half a billion rapes and murders. Remember, the State offers protection to murders and often gets in the way of self-defense.
So under the definition of violence I'm inferring from your statements, I reject the idea that being "backed by threat of initiation of violence" is a moral failing when it comes to lawmaking.
In the end, the means are everything. "The ends justify the means" is can only be argued to be defensible if the ends can be accurately predicted. It turns out that usually they can't be.