It also seems that in 2GB systems, lots of hand tuning is required to avoid kernel panics but the Wiki is not kept up to date with the required information. Keeping up with the mailing list seems to be required.
A filesystem can't be considered 'stable' if it panics the kernel without a disastrous underlying hardware failure.
The dollar is an arbitrary unit of purchasing power.
Yes, but it's also a unit of savings and inter/intra-national exchange. The unique position of the Dollar in the Brenton Woods agreement increases its value relative to other currencies (by about 60% - USD's held out of circulation).
In and of itself, it's both irrelevant and worthless.
It's not worthless (give me all your dollars, if you disagree), but its value now depends only upon what people agree it means. Before 1933, it was defined as 1/25 of an ounce of gold. Before 1971 it was defined as 1/35 of an ounce of gold. This is why it was selected at Brenton Woods. If you look at a chart, you'll see the value plummet after 1971.
Congress valued the hybrid commodity/credit currency system because *all* fiat currencies collapse, and that's why the Fed was charged with maintaining its value.
Whether you agree with that Congress or not is a separate issue from whether the Fed is upholding its charter.
Keep an eye on what happens after the US debt refinancing round in Fall 2013. As the USD falls relative to the currencies where products are manufactured (e.g. the RMB) things in the US are going to get very expensive. To poor people buying either foreign goods or goods traded internationally, the short-term value of the Dollar matters very much. The Dollar's value relative to any commodity is falling much faster than wages are increasing (or decreasing in a Depressionary environment).
Yes, what Paul said. And submit the paper regardless. If it's accepted and you absolutely can't get there, oh well. But if it's accepted odds are quite high a way will emerge for you to get there.
And bunk at a hostel for $15 a night if you need to.
Yes, what mfh said. Well, don't call it a 'manifesto', but showcase all the great things going on that benefit from openness. And then use that to sell open source software.
You want to associate open source with other open successes. And honor and praise the victories as they happen.
But, really, I don't know what open.org sold for, but putting one guy on it for one day a week isn't going to be worth that investment. Consider at least a staff of three full-timers. I suppose this means advertising, but if you only accept ads from companies who uphold the ideal (and give them a good rate) you'll have a mutually beneficial (and self-validating) revenue situation.
Say, how does it affect interstate commerce when the bulb is manufactured and sold within a single state?
Because the Supreme Court adopted insane reasoning in Wickard v. Filburn in order to usher in the 'progressive' agenda. See also the 'rational basis test' which says the government can pass a law if it can show any possible theoretical case in which it may be beneficial, total utility and Constitutionality be damned.
Seriously? The CFLs I bought at Walmart (6 for $3.99) get to full brightness outside in under 15 seconds, and that's in the Chicago suburbs during winter. You're buying the wrong bulbs.
I bought the same kind of volume pack at Walmart (2700K) and they take almost a minute to achieve full brightness. Purchased in New Hampshire.
Who thinks it is a good idea to put the things we use most often or what always visible on the "desktop"
Well, since KDE4 was mentioned, they do things a bit differently. There isn't a "the desktop" if you're using all the KDE features, there are different aspect-like modes based on different tasks.
Oh, hell, somebody who actually understands this gimme a hand here, I'm still trying to figure it out.
They are investigating this reporter because his actions are relevant to the crime commited. The reporter himself is not charged with anything so I don't see how freedom of press is supressed by this.
It's possible there are some chilling-effect implications. But, it's probably closer to "All OK" than to "Lincoln jailing critical journalists".
input device that requires you to move arms/fingers less for the same speed and precision is always better.
No, it's always worse - it causes humans to use small muscles and tendons, and increases repetitive strain injury. This is the best feature of a single-click Apple mouse, no single-finger left and right clicks.
Always move the motion to the big muscles/tendons/ligaments to reduce injury.
but your statement vastly over-trivializes the role of the BIOS in modern machines.
Hey, he doesn't understand it so he assigns it minimal value. There's a Dilbert where the PHB assigns Dilbert 3 minutes to design a world-wide client server architecture.
From what I can tell, SyFy doesn't hate Sci-Fi so much as it hates shows that require money to produce.
Really, there's nothing inherent in SciFi that requires $2.4M per episode to produce. Some of my favorite SciFi show episodes of all time basically amount to a few people sitting in a room having a conversation.
Do good writers cost $2.4M per episode? Of course not. I think many in the SciFi business are just really bad at business to not see this.
Naming, classification is relational rather than hierarchical. We need a replacement name resolution service. DNS will continue to creak under the inappropriate uses we put it to day.
And, of course, DNS was never envisioned as something masses of end users would deal with. Something like Google is more in line with the original thinking.
Paypal probably* did this because they received a National Security Letter.
Now, the action they took was trivial to work around (spend 20 minutes opening an extra bank account that is cleared daily), so I don't see the giant fuss in the cat-and-mouse game that is the modern police state.
But CTR didn't get that and made a big stink about it. OK, fine.
Now, because of the PR disaster, PayPal is likely* defying a secret order from the government. This changes some things about how people will think about PayPal.
* NSL's are secret and nobody is allowed to talk about them, so the best we can do is go on prior information and make informed guesses. Transparency fail, obviously.
Can you demonstrate a scenario where FreeBSD is the cause of ZFS corruption?
The lists are full of corruption and panics with the ZFS+BSD stack. It's possible that they all have faulty SSD's that ignore write cache flushes, but it doesn't seem likely.
Solaris ZFS is not as stable either. I do not administer such systems but from what I read many Solaris admins still run UFS on new server builds for this reason.
UFS is conceptually simpler, and ZFS has been traditionally hard to boot from, but today everybody on *Solaris puts all their data on ZFS. It's as rock solid as any filesystem ever created.
You are asserting that a dollar only has 1/100th the value today as it did a century ago. That implied that someone of a proportionally similar income only has 1/100th the buying power today as they did in 1913.
No, that's not what it means at all, it means it takes ~100 times more Dollars to purchase the same asset, or in monetary terms the USD has been de-valued by about 100. It's assumed that in an inflationary environment that prices and wages will adapt, as will exchange rates.
There are certainly technological improvements that have improved price efficiencies. Take flour, for instance. In 1913 it cost 3 cents a pound. Now it costs $3 for a 3lb bag. That means you get 5 times as much flour for the money.
It's like electronics - you expect them to get cheaper every year, because mass-production and technology drive the costs down. Without Federal Reserve inflationary policies, everything would get cheaper each year. Flour ought to cost 3/5 of a cent per pound by now, but it doesn't, it costs 60 cents a pound.
Thus, the purchasing power of the Dollar (not a person) has fallen by about 100x. It's this Dollar purchasing power that the Fed is charged with protecting. Frankly, they couldn't give two hoots about individual purchasing power (and it's not their job to directly care).
I would have no reason to use ZFS on anything other than a file or NAS server. I don't think its worth the risk unless maybe for the deduplication feature on a backup server (while maintaining periodic backups on removable media).
It's sorta sad that FreeBSD makes ZFS, perhaps the most reliable filesystem to date, 'risky'. But there are certainly man corroborating stories.
I've read previously that FreeBSD 9 will have the necessary plumbing to make it run well.
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Mostly Fedora Linux machines. On the bright side, it's feasible to do this with a script for the linux users.
the next release of my plugin
Will it then work on non-Windows platforms? I could use this, but don't have any Windows computers.
It sounds like the application is only halfway done, shouldn't they wait until the first version is finished before writing a book about it?
Yes, you should wait until 1.0 to try it. Your competitors will thank you.
Although, since it's taken them 7 years to move from 0.37 to 0.48, maybe that would take a while.
Yes, that's 11 releases in 7 years. In another 36 years you'll be golden.
Here's just one that I noticed last time I checked in:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-June/057239.html
Perhaps you could illuminate that example?
It also seems that in 2GB systems, lots of hand tuning is required to avoid kernel panics but the Wiki is not kept up to date with the required information. Keeping up with the mailing list seems to be required.
A filesystem can't be considered 'stable' if it panics the kernel without a disastrous underlying hardware failure.
The dollar is an arbitrary unit of purchasing power.
Yes, but it's also a unit of savings and inter/intra-national exchange. The unique position of the Dollar in the Brenton Woods agreement increases its value relative to other currencies (by about 60% - USD's held out of circulation).
In and of itself, it's both irrelevant and worthless.
It's not worthless (give me all your dollars, if you disagree), but its value now depends only upon what people agree it means. Before 1933, it was defined as 1/25 of an ounce of gold. Before 1971 it was defined as 1/35 of an ounce of gold. This is why it was selected at Brenton Woods. If you look at a chart, you'll see the value plummet after 1971.
Congress valued the hybrid commodity/credit currency system because *all* fiat currencies collapse, and that's why the Fed was charged with maintaining its value.
Whether you agree with that Congress or not is a separate issue from whether the Fed is upholding its charter.
Keep an eye on what happens after the US debt refinancing round in Fall 2013. As the USD falls relative to the currencies where products are manufactured (e.g. the RMB) things in the US are going to get very expensive. To poor people buying either foreign goods or goods traded internationally, the short-term value of the Dollar matters very much. The Dollar's value relative to any commodity is falling much faster than wages are increasing (or decreasing in a Depressionary environment).
If something costs 100 times as much, but I have 100 times as much to spend, how has that money been devalued ?
The value of the currency has been devalued by 100x. Your purchasing power is equal. Those are two different things.
Yes, what Paul said. And submit the paper regardless. If it's accepted and you absolutely can't get there, oh well. But if it's accepted odds are quite high a way will emerge for you to get there.
And bunk at a hostel for $15 a night if you need to.
Yes, what mfh said. Well, don't call it a 'manifesto', but showcase all the great things going on that benefit from openness. And then use that to sell open source software.
You want to associate open source with other open successes. And honor and praise the victories as they happen.
But, really, I don't know what open.org sold for, but putting one guy on it for one day a week isn't going to be worth that investment. Consider at least a staff of three full-timers. I suppose this means advertising, but if you only accept ads from companies who uphold the ideal (and give them a good rate) you'll have a mutually beneficial (and self-validating) revenue situation.
What exactly are we supposed to use now?
Make all the little girls with EZ Bake ovens cry, but tell them they're saving the planet.
Say, how does it affect interstate commerce when the bulb is manufactured and sold within a single state?
Because the Supreme Court adopted insane reasoning in Wickard v. Filburn in order to usher in the 'progressive' agenda. See also the 'rational basis test' which says the government can pass a law if it can show any possible theoretical case in which it may be beneficial, total utility and Constitutionality be damned.
Seriously? The CFLs I bought at Walmart (6 for $3.99) get to full brightness outside in under 15 seconds, and that's in the Chicago suburbs during winter. You're buying the wrong bulbs.
I bought the same kind of volume pack at Walmart (2700K) and they take almost a minute to achieve full brightness. Purchased in New Hampshire.
Who thinks it is a good idea to put the things we use most often or what always visible on the "desktop"
Well, since KDE4 was mentioned, they do things a bit differently. There isn't a "the desktop" if you're using all the KDE features, there are different aspect-like modes based on different tasks.
Oh, hell, somebody who actually understands this gimme a hand here, I'm still trying to figure it out.
They are investigating this reporter because his actions are relevant to the crime commited. The reporter himself is not charged with anything so I don't see how freedom of press is supressed by this.
It's possible there are some chilling-effect implications. But, it's probably closer to "All OK" than to "Lincoln jailing critical journalists".
input device that requires you to move arms/fingers less for the same speed and precision is always better.
No, it's always worse - it causes humans to use small muscles and tendons, and increases repetitive strain injury. This is the best feature of a single-click Apple mouse, no single-finger left and right clicks.
Always move the motion to the big muscles/tendons/ligaments to reduce injury.
At that point, if you want to tell other people about it, by what Constitutional power can Congress possibly prohibit you from talking about it?
It's the Patriot Act - the Constitution is suspended, didn't you hear? We got turrists who hate us for our freedoms.
why wouldn't they just make desktop procs with it and leapfrog ahead again?
When's the last time you saw a Ferrari F-40 pulling a tractor trailer?
but your statement vastly over-trivializes the role of the BIOS in modern machines.
Hey, he doesn't understand it so he assigns it minimal value. There's a Dilbert where the PHB assigns Dilbert 3 minutes to design a world-wide client server architecture.
Can I sue a polynomial ham sandwich?
Really though, I was just posting to point out how many Maths geeks point to /. as AC. Interesting correlation.
Or maybe it's one Nash-type genius, I dunno.
From what I can tell, SyFy doesn't hate Sci-Fi so much as it hates shows that require money to produce.
Really, there's nothing inherent in SciFi that requires $2.4M per episode to produce. Some of my favorite SciFi show episodes of all time basically amount to a few people sitting in a room having a conversation.
Do good writers cost $2.4M per episode? Of course not. I think many in the SciFi business are just really bad at business to not see this.
Naming, classification is relational rather than hierarchical. We need a replacement name resolution service. DNS will continue to creak under the inappropriate uses we put it to day.
And, of course, DNS was never envisioned as something masses of end users would deal with. Something like Google is more in line with the original thinking.
Paypal probably* did this because they received a National Security Letter.
Now, the action they took was trivial to work around (spend 20 minutes opening an extra bank account that is cleared daily), so I don't see the giant fuss in the cat-and-mouse game that is the modern police state.
But CTR didn't get that and made a big stink about it. OK, fine.
Now, because of the PR disaster, PayPal is likely* defying a secret order from the government. This changes some things about how people will think about PayPal.
* NSL's are secret and nobody is allowed to talk about them, so the best we can do is go on prior information and make informed guesses. Transparency fail, obviously.
Can you demonstrate a scenario where FreeBSD is the cause of ZFS corruption?
The lists are full of corruption and panics with the ZFS+BSD stack. It's possible that they all have faulty SSD's that ignore write cache flushes, but it doesn't seem likely.
Solaris ZFS is not as stable either. I do not administer such systems but from what I read many Solaris admins still run UFS on new server builds for this reason.
UFS is conceptually simpler, and ZFS has been traditionally hard to boot from, but today everybody on *Solaris puts all their data on ZFS. It's as rock solid as any filesystem ever created.
You are asserting that a dollar only has 1/100th the value today as it did a century ago. That implied that someone of a proportionally similar income only has 1/100th the buying power today as they did in 1913.
No, that's not what it means at all, it means it takes ~100 times more Dollars to purchase the same asset, or in monetary terms the USD has been de-valued by about 100. It's assumed that in an inflationary environment that prices and wages will adapt, as will exchange rates.
There are certainly technological improvements that have improved price efficiencies. Take flour, for instance. In 1913 it cost 3 cents a pound. Now it costs $3 for a 3lb bag. That means you get 5 times as much flour for the money.
It's like electronics - you expect them to get cheaper every year, because mass-production and technology drive the costs down. Without Federal Reserve inflationary policies, everything would get cheaper each year. Flour ought to cost 3/5 of a cent per pound by now, but it doesn't, it costs 60 cents a pound.
Thus, the purchasing power of the Dollar (not a person) has fallen by about 100x. It's this Dollar purchasing power that the Fed is charged with protecting. Frankly, they couldn't give two hoots about individual purchasing power (and it's not their job to directly care).
I would have no reason to use ZFS on anything other than a file or NAS server. I don't think its worth the risk unless maybe for the deduplication feature on a backup server (while maintaining periodic backups on removable media).
It's sorta sad that FreeBSD makes ZFS, perhaps the most reliable filesystem to date, 'risky'. But there are certainly man corroborating stories.
I've read previously that FreeBSD 9 will have the necessary plumbing to make it run well.