compared to the millions of tons of space debris which rains down on the earth all the time? i mean really, what the heck do you think meteor showers are? cometary debris, that's what.
i think you've been watching too many 1970s michael crichton movies.
the assumption people usually make when they bring up the subject is that discovery channel programs are produced by the discovery channel. they are genuinely suprised to find out that e.g. mythbusters isn't produced by them.
discovery channel can only show whats being produced. if shit is being produced then shit is all they have to air. people seem to think they know exactly what is available for discovery channel to purchase for broadcast. keep in mind that junkyard wars, the program discovery channel fanatics always bring up as an example, (aka scrapheap challenge) was a purely accidental find.
if you know specific programs discovery channel should be airing, tell them.
heh, rather than burning all your mod points on my posts, why dont you just foe me? it'd probably be far more satisfying. and appear much less silly than just modding down every post i make. modding down posts which have nothing to do with you makes you appear comically spiteful...
- linus really has tried to convince users that journaling filesystems, loadable modules, W^X, etc aren't useful - linux really has unacceptable data quality problems due to incomplete error handling (scsi, 1394, etc), silent errors, and poor source code QC. - linus has really been deliberately hardheaded about questionable licenses (eg bitkeeper) - linux's future really is in question due to the SCO lawsuit
mysql's security model is as simple or complex as you want to make it. just because a user can have different permissions or passwords for different parts of the database doesn't mean they have to. it's an option, and the complexity is not forced upon you -- it is a choice.
DLT isn't "dead cheap", but it's "cheap enough". I got a DLT7000 (35gb uncompressed) drive for $200 and tapes for $10 ea. It's inconvenient (slow, no random access), but the rugged media gives peace of mind.
we've ordered from newegg and received it the next day. newegg must have some really interesting deals with their shippers. weird, wild stuff.
although ever since newegg opened the separate warehouse on the east coast, their shipping has gotten a lot slower. it's typical to have half your order shipped from CA and the rest from the east coast 3 days later.
The SGI developers you spoke with probably were hinting that piss-poor admin practices shouldn't be considered.
No, they just flatly stated that XFS didn't need this functionality: 1) because XFS "never gets corrupted" 2) because SGIs have a PROM monitor
Basically they were hinting that XFS was a filesystem primarily for SGI hardware and Irix, not for Linux. Eg if SGIs dont need it then you dont need it either.
I assume they added -d after being told over and over that they were full of shit.
FWIW I have alternate boot partitions setup with RIP. Strangely enough the machines running xfs were the only ones I ever needed to use it on -- they were the only machines which ate themselves for breakfast.
You can't fsck an xfs mounted filesystem, even if it's mounted read-only. If your root fs gets damaged and you need to fsck it, you need to boot from a rescue CD. If it's a server in a remote location, you're shit outta luck.
ext3 and reiser at least let you fsck read-only mounted filesystems.
I brought up this problem to xfs developers and their response was "well, it's not a problem on SGIs so we're not going to fix it". Nice.
Because few vendors and drive manufacturers support NCQ. Getting a combo which correctly supports both is tricky. It has nothing to do with linux, it's all about the hardware itself.
Then what precisely, would be the point? If the claim is that this will somehow economically damage a spammer, when in fact not even a single dollar may be paid out ultimately to the aggrieved party. Not to mention the ruling is in Iowa but the spammer is in Florida, so there may be jurisdictional disputes, reciprocity or not.
I understand in some jurisdictions you can in fact have the local police seize property to pay civil judgements. (note: this is quite different from having a debtor's prison. seizing property != imprisonment) so he could very well say goodbye to his computer(s), car(s), house(s), boat(s) etc.
Plus, an outstanding $11b judgement against you can't be terribly good for your credit report.
I don't see how they are destined to fail, when they will have the force of law behind them. The MPAA stormtroopers, authorized by congress, will police every home and make sure you are watching your daily quota of MPAA programs on MPAA authorized players. If necessary you'll be made to watch your quota clockwork-orange style, citizen. So get used to it.
So really, I can't see how they could possibly fail.
You should also be voting with your wallet. That's where the megacorporations are going to feel it most.
The problem is when we do this, the megacorporations scream that they are losing sales due to 3V1L P1R4T35!!!1!11oneone. And buy legislation for ever-more-insidious "drm" schemes.
It's completely beyond their comprehension that people are boycotting them (or simply not buying their goods because they're complete shit).
The major difference between dm-crypt and loop-aes is that loop-aes has optimized assembler. My tests between dm-crypt and loop-aes showed that dm-crypt was more than 3 times slower.
With loop-aes, my drive is the bottleneck. With dm-crypt, dm-crypt is the bottleneck.
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compared to the millions of tons of space debris which rains down on the earth all the time? i mean really, what the heck do you think meteor showers are? cometary debris, that's what.
i think you've been watching too many 1970s michael crichton movies.
Good lord, no. While TOS acting was not great by any means, it's light years better than this fan generated stuff.
Fans should stay behind the cameras, not in front of them.
HIre real actors please. Scout your local schools or something, but please end the madness!
I tried to watch this. I really tried. But the acting was just so horrible...
Please please please, hire real actors for this thing. No more fans-as-armchair-actors, please....
the article is all about TCP, which is great. how about an article on optimizing UDP though?
the assumption people usually make when they bring up the subject is that discovery channel programs are produced by the discovery channel. they are genuinely suprised to find out that e.g. mythbusters isn't produced by them.
discovery channel can only show whats being produced. if shit is being produced then shit is all they have to air. people seem to think they know exactly what is available for discovery channel to purchase for broadcast. keep in mind that junkyard wars, the program discovery channel fanatics always bring up as an example, (aka scrapheap challenge) was a purely accidental find.
if you know specific programs discovery channel should be airing, tell them.
mythbusters is produced by an australian company, discovery channel just picked up north american broadcast rights to the program.
heh, rather than burning all your mod points on my posts, why dont you just foe me? it'd probably be far more satisfying. and appear much less silly than just modding down every post i make. modding down posts which have nothing to do with you makes you appear comically spiteful...
No, you really don't want to like mysql. Why would you want your favorite object of derision to go away?
Besides, it's a moving target anyway. Even if all your objections were solved, you'd just come up with new ones.
no really, freebsd IS better than linux.
- linus really has tried to convince users that journaling filesystems, loadable modules, W^X, etc aren't useful
- linux really has unacceptable data quality problems due to incomplete error handling (scsi, 1394, etc), silent errors, and poor source code QC.
- linus has really been deliberately hardheaded about questionable licenses (eg bitkeeper)
- linux's future really is in question due to the SCO lawsuit
and freebsd is better than linux.
mysql's security model is as simple or complex as you want to make it. just because a user can have different permissions or passwords for different parts of the database doesn't mean they have to. it's an option, and the complexity is not forced upon you -- it is a choice.
How many people buy DLTtape drives?
Judging from ebay: lots.
DLT isn't "dead cheap", but it's "cheap enough". I got a DLT7000 (35gb uncompressed) drive for $200 and tapes for $10 ea. It's inconvenient (slow, no random access), but the rugged media gives peace of mind.
we've ordered from newegg and received it the next day. newegg must have some really interesting deals with their shippers. weird, wild stuff.
although ever since newegg opened the separate warehouse on the east coast, their shipping has gotten a lot slower. it's typical to have half your order shipped from CA and the rest from the east coast 3 days later.
The SGI developers you spoke with probably were hinting that piss-poor admin practices shouldn't be considered.
No, they just flatly stated that XFS didn't need this functionality:
1) because XFS "never gets corrupted"
2) because SGIs have a PROM monitor
Basically they were hinting that XFS was a filesystem primarily for SGI hardware and Irix, not for Linux. Eg if SGIs dont need it then you dont need it either.
I assume they added -d after being told over and over that they were full of shit.
FWIW I have alternate boot partitions setup with RIP. Strangely enough the machines running xfs were the only ones I ever needed to use it on -- they were the only machines which ate themselves for breakfast.
still doesn't excuse xfs from being able to do a very basic function that just about every other linux filesystem on the entire planet is capable of.
it's a very glaring omission, and the xfs developers' attitude toward the problem ("it's not a problem on SGIs") is not the least bit reassuring.
so you have to buy special management hardware just to support xfs, that no other filesystem requires. nice.
You can't fsck an xfs mounted filesystem, even if it's mounted read-only. If your root fs gets damaged and you need to fsck it, you need to boot from a rescue CD. If it's a server in a remote location, you're shit outta luck.
ext3 and reiser at least let you fsck read-only mounted filesystems.
I brought up this problem to xfs developers and their response was "well, it's not a problem on SGIs so we're not going to fix it". Nice.
Because few vendors and drive manufacturers support NCQ. Getting a combo which correctly supports both is tricky. It has nothing to do with linux, it's all about the hardware itself.
Then what precisely, would be the point? If the claim is that this will somehow economically damage a spammer, when in fact not even a single dollar may be paid out ultimately to the aggrieved party. Not to mention the ruling is in Iowa but the spammer is in Florida, so there may be jurisdictional disputes, reciprocity or not.
I understand in some jurisdictions you can in fact have the local police seize property to pay civil judgements. (note: this is quite different from having a debtor's prison. seizing property != imprisonment) so he could very well say goodbye to his computer(s), car(s), house(s), boat(s) etc.
Plus, an outstanding $11b judgement against you can't be terribly good for your credit report.
I don't see how they are destined to fail, when they will have the force of law behind them. The MPAA stormtroopers, authorized by congress, will police every home and make sure you are watching your daily quota of MPAA programs on MPAA authorized players. If necessary you'll be made to watch your quota clockwork-orange style, citizen. So get used to it.
So really, I can't see how they could possibly fail.
I'm not sure why you got modded as a troll
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You should also be voting with your wallet. That's where the megacorporations are going to feel it most.
The problem is when we do this, the megacorporations scream that they are losing sales due to 3V1L P1R4T35!!!1!11oneone. And buy legislation for ever-more-insidious "drm" schemes.
It's completely beyond their comprehension that people are boycotting them (or simply not buying their goods because they're complete shit).
You're shouting at the wrong people. You should be shouting at your elected representatives (DMCA, etc).
well no since i was using x86_64
and there wasnt an x86_64 asm implementation when i tested in 2004. maybe everything has been fixed by now though. it wasnt an option then.
The major difference between dm-crypt and loop-aes is that loop-aes has optimized assembler. My tests between dm-crypt and loop-aes showed that dm-crypt was more than 3 times slower.
With loop-aes, my drive is the bottleneck. With dm-crypt, dm-crypt is the bottleneck.