Linux can use nearly every known method to partition your harddrive. I use RDB, BSD-Slices, no partitioning at all, MSDOS-Partitions (the most common) and several others. I guess there are around 20 different styles of partitionizing supported today.
BSD doesn't have fixed locations for every file. FreeBSD does have that, Net/OpenBSD has another system and darwin yet another one.
Mayor Linux-Systems follow FHS/LSB making several Linux-System highly interoperable.
Next time you want to bully Linux vs BSD get a clue first.
Your assumption "dualchannel ddr-ram will not speed up nforce" is wrong.
nforce uses UMA for graphics and just needs VERY FAST Memory, even when it only performces fast at linear access.
I would agree if you say "nforce+dualchannel will not be faster than other ddr-chipsets".
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I do not see a problem in this.
Calling yourself "christian" doesnt mean too much, maybe "In general I try to be a nice guy".
Calling yourself a fundamental catholic is really scarry, because it simply concludes "everyone who doesnt obey the pope goes to hell, have fun while digging sulfur." and every non-fundamental-catholic movement is evil and a conspiracy.
Obviously most catholics do not follow this path, but at least they expect the better places in paradise;-)
I am one of the founders of the gameparade http://www.gameparade.de/ and we did Parties up to 400 people.
First, let me mention that networking is NOT the mainproblem at bit events. Ever carried 400 tables and seats over 200m and two floors? Food for 400 people? Trash? Power? But for now, I will only look into networking:
We use an semimodular Switch from Allnet, 96x100MBit Ports, backplane 16GBit. Guests are connected through a 100MBit uplink at Hubs or Switches (actually it doesnt matter much, because both habe only 100MBit uplink), with a maximum of 12 users per uplink. Given that fact we could manage 1000 computers in our network, which has been simulated and worked acceptable (wouldnt stress it too hard).
All our gameservers (20 Systems) are connected through one 100MBit-Line, which is mostly idle. Lets do some math: 400 gamers, each producing 15k/s downlinktraffic, 6MB/s. But this is a worst case, which never happens. We never had more than 2MB/s traffic on the gameserverline.
FYI, all gameservers are connected to a fast 100MBit-switch, one Server is our NFS-only-Server and distributes all games into the net. The gameservers could even boot without a harddisk, but we prefer to have suse6.3 (well, old but fireproofed:-) localy for managment and performancereasons.
There is no "united european army" because of language barriers mostly. But beyond smaller military baselevel-organisation there is a multitude of combined efforts. E.G. most administration and development is united, mostly at NATO-level, but also at european-level.
The european comission and parlament is a fourth level of government. While most federal countries only have three levels (county/city, state, nation), the EU is a fully qualified fourth level (county/city, state, nation, union). It has actual power in nearly all fields of european life, it can create laws and enforce them. I would call that a government, even when it takes ages just to define the shape of a class 2b banana.
I would also expect a stronger unification within the next decade. Some "not amusing actions" by the US made the nation-heads think... eg. espionage and privacy-violations, misusing standards or tradepower under US-control to apply political preasure, a very egocentric position in cultural and technological points (nice quote from a public servant in a newspaper "at least russia doesnt piss into our beer in public and expects us to say thanks.")
The political ways are quite clear: The EU will become the most important power within the next ten years: 500 Million citicens, a GNP way above the USA, a size nearly twice as large as the usa (ok, half of the size is located in grenland, but hey, most regions in the US are not very interesting either:-) good connections to most nations on the earth (especially to most ex-east-block, arab and south-east nations), trading-, cultur- and military outpost all around the world (even including one or another old colony, which also makes the EU the only nation beside russia where the sun never sets:-).
Acutally MS has been quite moderate in its actions until now. They included IE into Win, but didnt stop you from using Win95a or Linux instead. They include new methods of propertyprotection, but they havent been able to force 100% of all users to use it.
But this was yesterday and today. Tomorrow a united MS will use its central position to enforce Windows-Only-Standards.
Media-Support will migrate to Evil-ASF (yo wanna movie? yo wanne Windows!), Online-Payment will be only possible by MS-Solutions (And if the big banks dont follow, MS will walk alone and will succed), even most PDAs, Mobilephones and Homenetworking will suffer terribly from a future Microsoft.
You want to pay online today?
You must use and pay Microsoft.
You want to watch a movie over UMTS?
You must use and pay Microsoft. And you are not allowd to share or save the movie.
Actually the future-weapon of MS will be patents and intelectual property. They will force everyone out of their targetmarkets and noone will be be able to "compete" as noone has "licences" and MS will not give anything away at all.
Actually Chances to die when hit by a nuke is much higher than dying after being hit by a Smith&Weson.
But recently more people died of guns than of nukes.
Nevertheless, I would like to finally remove the ban on thermonuclear handgrenades for selfdefence. They are pretty cool, you can throw them 50m and they have a deathrange of 5km. Believe me, one or two of those get crime out of town easily.
You are looking for wm2, the really small windowmanager - I got it running nice on a 386sx16/4MB-RAM (or at least four xterms opened within one minute or so:-)
The sad thing is that this Anonymous (Tu)coward is quite right... I work at an ISP using BSDi and FreeBSD since 1993 and I started with NetBSD in early 1993.
I cant see much difference in the stability or elegance of BSD vs. Linux (or FreeBSD vs. Debian) but I can see a big difference in the userbase and the applicationbase (and users attitude).
From my point of view any new system or solution beeing planed on BSD is wasting effort and time. If you just want to learn doing thing "the other way" then BSD is ok.
Germany doesnt force foreign pages to follow german law. They only imprision those responsonsible for the page whenever they are stupid enough to enter the Reich.
The main problem of mp3 vs. most propietary stuff is that mp3 is too flexible and complicated for most people.
E.g. that guy who stated he encoded 22khz/64kBit-mp3... he obviously has no clue, used even more obviously a bad encoder and absolutly obviously wrong parameters. There is absolutly no reason why one should limit himself to 22khz when using 64kBit.
lame -Vx would have done a much better job and from my experience and Klaus "Werewolf" great ears nothing beats lame -Vx. Use bladeenc instead and you are toast.
I thought about five minute about the protectionsystem... and it is a complete joke. Actually any Device-Driver or comparable high-access-unit could shangai the decoding-program and give you the codes and the decoded data - actually this wouldnt even interfere with intelectual property in the way DeCSS did. Even introducing a comparable protection into the CPU wouldnt help, because you can emulate a CPU or even better you could emulate a complete computing-environment which simply spits out the codes. Most Tools are already available in infant versions (plex86 or any other x86-emulator). Its an even more ridiciolous system than CSS.
Beside that the serialnumber of the P3 showed what gets acceptated by customers. Beeing forces to accept accessprotection doesnt qualify as customerservice.
My personal choice of living would be one of the mediumsized european union states like netherlands, belgium, denmark. While most scandinavian lands are also very interesting, they are also cold and beer is much too expensive:-)
Those Medium Sized Countries have a personality (micro-countries like luxemburg or andoria do not have more personality than your average postoffice:-), much freedom, not too much intervention from the goverment, reasonable law, cautions police and a general understandment of "a citizens country" instead of a "cutthroad country" or "fittest will survive country".
Well, in general their police seems to be a bit lame in some cases (eg the case of the childmurderer Marc Detrou) but at least they react to public oppinion (or however you call 10.000 parents going rioting through your capitol:-)
The best argument that we are the first or most advanced species in universe is simply the fact, that we are alive. Sounds strange?
Even without faster-than-light-travel a species with slow interstellar spacetravel could colonize our whole galaxy with a virus-style expansion in less than 30 million years. These are very conservative numbers done by some very anxious physicans, I would guess that it could be done in much less time. As our galaxy is around 10.000 million years old, it could have been colonized more than 300 times even before humans as a species had formed.
Guess most germans simply do not need to read an EULA. Most EULAs are pure BS by german law and invalidate themselves and thus replacing them automatically with the standard-buyers-agrement. Most funny this fits nearly all EULAs from Microsoft to IBM and most of those funny-looking shareware-/crippleware-EULAs ("Hi, I wrote a nice Hello-World-Programm, please register") too.
I like the part about "preinform the customer" most: E.G. lets say you got a cool MPEG-Cutter-Software (lets call it VCDCutter for the time being:-) and that beast doesnt clearly identify itself as an demo or lists its intentions in a complete list before installation, or if they dont deliver a solution to uninstall the programm in a comparable way to the installation, then you are not responsible to remove the program after evaluationtime and if the programm intereferes with the rest of you system you may even patch it to avoid this behaviour (like, ask astalavista for a keygenerator). Ah, sometimes I love bad programmdescriptions and failing de/installationroutines.
Basically I am quite impressed by Konqueror, which is IMHO a first class browser. While Mozilla is nice, too, I do think you miss the point:
It is not about the browsers, which at least try to behave in a compatible way, its about the plugins and extension beyong html and xml.
i386-Konqueror and i386-Mozilla can use i386-Netscape-Plugins but it is sometimes a big headache to get all the nice stuff running. With IE/win32 and Netscape/win32 I click two buttons and get a browser, java, manymany plugins and many more stuff.
And as soon as you use a non-i386-plattform you are totaly doomed... I am using m68k-Linux and really would like to use a Linux-PDA with some StrongARM. Even when you can get sources it most likely will be no easy task to get thing done.
This should be a primary target for Konqueror and Mozilla: Integrate more stuff into the sourcetree and make it a Internet-Suite instead of a Browser.
At least by german law you can sue a lawyer who doesnt warn you about the risks about your case at court. Not that you get any money, but the lawyer maybe forced to earn his money by dishwashing afterwards;-)
In the AT&T-troubles in 1992/3 one of the keypoints was "to remove all AT&T-Code" - therefore if there is still code inside BSD older than eight years, you are into big trouble.
On that point of view linux has a slightly older and more consistent codebase.
Well, to be precise, this was one of the reasons why I changed from NetBSD to Linux in 1993.
The other was... while the BSD-licence might be more mature than the GPL (this is so ridiciolos I will not comment further.-), the BSD-zealots are not more mature. I fact they start hacking at each other as soon as there is no Tux around, for heavens sake I saw the most evil flaming in 12 years of usenet at the NetBSD-Mailinglists. Go and call Linux obscene names in the kernel-mailinglist and post p0rn, you wouldnt never even get 10% of hate back...
yast -> Installation festlegen/starten -> Pakete einspielen -> ftp://ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/update/ -> select all [o]-Packets for install, wait, smile. A reboot may be necessary if changing some lowlevel stuff.
And looking for a mirror at http://www.suse.com/ will save you some time - in europa ftp.gwdg.de is a good choice.
> Goodness knows there's nothing that special about the technology
Just ask yourself which continent still invests in fusion-technology and is actually succedding slowly but reliable withi t, is exploring ways to use faster-than-light-communications and anti-gravitation, is actually earning instead of losing billions in space-technology, and is building a high-speed-wireless network which covers 99% of the continent?
Always remember, when talking about the old world, you must see a region four times larger than the us with three times as many citizens. Even western europa alone is the size of the us with twice as many citizens.
Actually most supercities in europa are incredible large compared with american cities, you can drive three hours straight through the ruhr-pott with 80km/h without leaving "the city", comparable regions can be found in southern england, northern italy, paris, german-french-border-cities and so on.
From my experience only the frisco-bayarea is comparable in size, but not in density and population. Even tokio and mexico city are small compared the these areas.
> The world may have Quake 3, but where is it most
> played at 1600x1200/72fps:).
At european lan-parties, which gather up to 7.000 - in words: seventhousand - guests:-) Those Parties are normally filled up withhin some hours after opening the registrationsystem and have three times more people on waiting-lists:-)
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Linux can use nearly every known method to partition your harddrive. I use RDB, BSD-Slices, no partitioning at all, MSDOS-Partitions (the most common) and several others. I guess there are around 20 different styles of partitionizing supported today.
BSD doesn't have fixed locations for every file. FreeBSD does have that, Net/OpenBSD has another system and darwin yet another one.
Mayor Linux-Systems follow FHS/LSB making several Linux-System highly interoperable.
Next time you want to bully Linux vs BSD get a clue first.
Your assumption "dualchannel ddr-ram will not speed up nforce" is wrong.
nforce uses UMA for graphics and just needs VERY FAST Memory, even when it only performces fast at linear access.
I would agree if you say "nforce+dualchannel will not be faster than other ddr-chipsets".
I do not see a problem in this.
;-)
Calling yourself "christian" doesnt mean too much, maybe "In general I try to be a nice guy".
Calling yourself a fundamental catholic is really scarry, because it simply concludes "everyone who doesnt obey the pope goes to hell, have fun while digging sulfur." and every non-fundamental-catholic movement is evil and a conspiracy.
Obviously most catholics do not follow this path, but at least they expect the better places in paradise
I am one of the founders of the gameparade http://www.gameparade.de/ and we did Parties up to 400 people.
:-) localy for managment and performancereasons.
First, let me mention that networking is NOT the mainproblem at bit events. Ever carried 400 tables and seats over 200m and two floors? Food for 400 people? Trash? Power? But for now, I will only look into networking:
We use an semimodular Switch from Allnet, 96x100MBit Ports, backplane 16GBit. Guests are connected through a 100MBit uplink at Hubs or Switches (actually it doesnt matter much, because both habe only 100MBit uplink), with a maximum of 12 users per uplink. Given that fact we could manage 1000 computers in our network, which has been simulated and worked acceptable (wouldnt stress it too hard).
All our gameservers (20 Systems) are connected through one 100MBit-Line, which is mostly idle. Lets do some math: 400 gamers, each producing 15k/s downlinktraffic, 6MB/s. But this is a worst case, which never happens. We never had more than 2MB/s traffic on the gameserverline.
FYI, all gameservers are connected to a fast 100MBit-switch, one Server is our NFS-only-Server and distributes all games into the net. The gameservers could even boot without a harddisk, but we prefer to have suse6.3 (well, old but fireproofed
Simply said Bluetooth is a whole new protocol, new Applications and a lot of trouble from the perspective of a OS-developer.
802.11 is "yet another Ethernet". So what. Should take one week of work for a good programmer, inkl. some tools and apps.
Moores Law makes it reasonable that 802.11-Devices become much cheaper, smaller, less powerhungry way before Bluetooth hits the road.
Seeing how ugly most USB, PCMCIA etc implementations run under most OS I am glad Bluetooth will be doomed from the beginning.
> a shared military
:-) good connections to most nations on the earth (especially to most ex-east-block, arab and south-east nations), trading-, cultur- and military outpost all around the world (even including one or another old colony, which also makes the EU the only nation beside russia where the sun never sets :-).
There is no "united european army" because of language barriers mostly. But beyond smaller military baselevel-organisation there is a multitude of combined efforts. E.G. most administration and development is united, mostly at NATO-level, but also at european-level.
The european comission and parlament is a fourth level of government. While most federal countries only have three levels (county/city, state, nation), the EU is a fully qualified fourth level (county/city, state, nation, union). It has actual power in nearly all fields of european life, it can create laws and enforce them. I would call that a government, even when it takes ages just to define the shape of a class 2b banana.
I would also expect a stronger unification within the next decade. Some "not amusing actions" by the US made the nation-heads think... eg. espionage and privacy-violations, misusing standards or tradepower under US-control to apply political preasure, a very egocentric position in cultural and technological points (nice quote from a public servant in a newspaper "at least russia doesnt piss into our beer in public and expects us to say thanks.")
The political ways are quite clear: The EU will become the most important power within the next ten years: 500 Million citicens, a GNP way above the USA, a size nearly twice as large as the usa (ok, half of the size is located in grenland, but hey, most regions in the US are not very interesting either
Acutally MS has been quite moderate in its actions until now. They included IE into Win, but didnt stop you from using Win95a or Linux instead. They include new methods of propertyprotection, but they havent been able to force 100% of all users to use it.
But this was yesterday and today. Tomorrow a united MS will use its central position to enforce Windows-Only-Standards.
Media-Support will migrate to Evil-ASF (yo wanna movie? yo wanne Windows!), Online-Payment will be only possible by MS-Solutions (And if the big banks dont follow, MS will walk alone and will succed), even most PDAs, Mobilephones and Homenetworking will suffer terribly from a future Microsoft.
You want to pay online today?
You must use and pay Microsoft.
You want to watch a movie over UMTS?
You must use and pay Microsoft. And you are not allowd to share or save the movie.
Actually the future-weapon of MS will be patents and intelectual property. They will force everyone out of their targetmarkets and noone will be be able to "compete" as noone has "licences" and MS will not give anything away at all.
Greedy MS-Future...
Actually Chances to die when hit by a nuke is much higher than dying after being hit by a Smith&Weson.
But recently more people died of guns than of nukes.
Nevertheless, I would like to finally remove the ban on thermonuclear handgrenades for selfdefence. They are pretty cool, you can throw them 50m and they have a deathrange of 5km. Believe me, one or two of those get crime out of town easily.
Well, at least the metric spaceprobes dont stop at every Drive-In along their route :-)
You are looking for wm2, the really small windowmanager - I got it running nice on a 386sx16/4MB-RAM (or at least four xterms opened within one minute or so :-)
The sad thing is that this Anonymous (Tu)coward is quite right... I work at an ISP using BSDi and FreeBSD since 1993 and I started with NetBSD in early 1993.
I cant see much difference in the stability or elegance of BSD vs. Linux (or FreeBSD vs. Debian) but I can see a big difference in the userbase and the applicationbase (and users attitude).
From my point of view any new system or solution beeing planed on BSD is wasting effort and time. If you just want to learn doing thing "the other way" then BSD is ok.
Germany doesnt force foreign pages to follow german law. They only imprision those responsonsible for the page whenever they are stupid enough to enter the Reich.
The main problem of mp3 vs. most propietary stuff is that mp3 is too flexible and complicated for most people.
E.g. that guy who stated he encoded 22khz/64kBit-mp3... he obviously has no clue, used even more obviously a bad encoder and absolutly obviously wrong parameters. There is absolutly no reason why one should limit himself to 22khz when using 64kBit.
lame -Vx would have done a much better job and from my experience and Klaus "Werewolf" great ears nothing beats lame -Vx. Use bladeenc instead and you are toast.
Your hardware seems to be faulty or some not-out-of-the-box device-drivers are broken.
I thought about five minute about the protectionsystem... and it is a complete joke. Actually any Device-Driver or comparable high-access-unit could shangai the decoding-program and give you the codes and the decoded data - actually this wouldnt even interfere with intelectual property in the way DeCSS did. Even introducing a comparable protection into the CPU wouldnt help, because you can emulate a CPU or even better you could emulate a complete computing-environment which simply spits out the codes. Most Tools are already available in infant versions (plex86 or any other x86-emulator). Its an even more ridiciolous system than CSS.
Beside that the serialnumber of the P3 showed what gets acceptated by customers. Beeing forces to accept accessprotection doesnt qualify as customerservice.
My personal choice of living would be one of the mediumsized european union states like netherlands, belgium, denmark. While most scandinavian lands are also very interesting, they are also cold and beer is much too expensive :-)
:-), much freedom, not too much intervention from the goverment, reasonable law, cautions police and a general understandment of "a citizens country" instead of a "cutthroad country" or "fittest will survive country".
:-)
Those Medium Sized Countries have a personality (micro-countries like luxemburg or andoria do not have more personality than your average postoffice
Well, in general their police seems to be a bit lame in some cases (eg the case of the childmurderer Marc Detrou) but at least they react to public oppinion (or however you call 10.000 parents going rioting through your capitol
The best argument that we are the first or most advanced species in universe is simply the fact, that we are alive. Sounds strange?
Even without faster-than-light-travel a species with slow interstellar spacetravel could colonize our whole galaxy with a virus-style expansion in less than 30 million years. These are very conservative numbers done by some very anxious physicans, I would guess that it could be done in much less time. As our galaxy is around 10.000 million years old, it could have been colonized more than 300 times even before humans as a species had formed.
Guess most germans simply do not need to read an EULA. Most EULAs are pure BS by german law and invalidate themselves and thus replacing them automatically with the standard-buyers-agrement. Most funny this fits nearly all EULAs from Microsoft to IBM and most of those funny-looking shareware-/crippleware-EULAs ("Hi, I wrote a nice Hello-World-Programm, please register") too. I like the part about "preinform the customer" most: E.G. lets say you got a cool MPEG-Cutter-Software (lets call it VCDCutter for the time being :-) and that beast doesnt clearly identify itself as an demo or lists its intentions in a complete list before installation, or if they dont deliver a solution to uninstall the programm in a comparable way to the installation, then you are not responsible to remove the program after evaluationtime and if the programm intereferes with the rest of you system you may even patch it to avoid this behaviour (like, ask astalavista for a keygenerator). Ah, sometimes I love bad programmdescriptions and failing de/installationroutines.
Basically I am quite impressed by Konqueror, which is IMHO a first class browser. While Mozilla is nice, too, I do think you miss the point:
It is not about the browsers, which at least try to behave in a compatible way, its about the plugins and extension beyong html and xml.
i386-Konqueror and i386-Mozilla can use i386-Netscape-Plugins but it is sometimes a big headache to get all the nice stuff running. With IE/win32 and Netscape/win32 I click two buttons and get a browser, java, manymany plugins and many more stuff.
And as soon as you use a non-i386-plattform you are totaly doomed... I am using m68k-Linux and really would like to use a Linux-PDA with some StrongARM. Even when you can get sources it most likely will be no easy task to get thing done.
This should be a primary target for Konqueror and Mozilla: Integrate more stuff into the sourcetree and make it a Internet-Suite instead of a Browser.
At least by german law you can sue a lawyer who doesnt warn you about the risks about your case at court. Not that you get any money, but the lawyer maybe forced to earn his money by dishwashing afterwards ;-)
Actually you are wrong.
In the AT&T-troubles in 1992/3 one of the keypoints was "to remove all AT&T-Code" - therefore if there is still code inside BSD older than eight years, you are into big trouble.
On that point of view linux has a slightly older and more consistent codebase.
Well, to be precise, this was one of the reasons why I changed from NetBSD to Linux in 1993.
The other was... while the BSD-licence might be more mature than the GPL (this is so ridiciolos I will not comment further .-), the BSD-zealots are not more mature. I fact they start hacking at each other as soon as there is no Tux around, for heavens sake I saw the most evil flaming in 12 years of usenet at the NetBSD-Mailinglists. Go and call Linux obscene names in the kernel-mailinglist and post p0rn, you wouldnt never even get 10% of hate back...
I can't see the problem with updating suse...
yast -> Installation festlegen/starten -> Pakete einspielen -> ftp://ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/update/ -> select all [o]-Packets for install, wait, smile. A reboot may be necessary if changing some lowlevel stuff.
And looking for a mirror at http://www.suse.com/ will save you some time - in europa ftp.gwdg.de is a good choice.
Why do I need a driving-licence but no education-licence?
Every amoebian may produce bloodthirsty maniacs and educate em by locking them up into a box in front of the TV.
I guess, children are just not worth it.
Ah, btw, I am definitly not a very religious person.
> Goodness knows there's nothing that special about the technology
Just ask yourself which continent still invests in fusion-technology and is actually succedding slowly but reliable withi t, is exploring ways to use faster-than-light-communications and anti-gravitation, is actually earning instead of losing billions in space-technology, and is building a high-speed-wireless network which covers 99% of the continent?
Always remember, when talking about the old world, you must see a region four times larger than the us with three times as many citizens. Even western europa alone is the size of the us with twice as many citizens.
Actually most supercities in europa are incredible large compared with american cities, you can drive three hours straight through the ruhr-pott with 80km/h without leaving "the city", comparable regions can be found in southern england, northern italy, paris, german-french-border-cities and so on.
From my experience only the frisco-bayarea is comparable in size, but not in density and population. Even tokio and mexico city are small compared the these areas.
> The world may have Quake 3, but where is it most :).
:-) Those Parties are normally filled up withhin some hours after opening the registrationsystem and have three times more people on waiting-lists :-)
> played at 1600x1200/72fps
At european lan-parties, which gather up to 7.000 - in words: seventhousand - guests