Yah, but the guy was talking about mp3 playing _software_.. If the RIAA gets away with crippling hardware, we hackers will simply get around it as we always have, though it might not be as shiny or pretty as the Lyra...
Just because there's a new kernel is no reason to upgrade.
I'd agree for production boxen, but the whole idea of new kernels is to throw them over the fence and see what your users throw back.. it's a feedback loop, which helps the development process, as no single developer (not even MS, apparently) can test under as many different configurations as we can.
If you can run the new kernel, you probably should, but don't sacrifice your production server uptime (or your job;) for it...
That's another nice thing about Linux: as long as there's a user community to support a peripheral's driver, that driver'll be available. That's a big problem for me when it comes to proprietary OSes like Solaris or AIX: they drop support for particular bits of hardware when they rev their OSes. Then they drop support for the OSes that support those bits of hardware.
Annoying as hell, particularly if you got stuck with a Sabine adapter (though the adapter itself kind of sucked ass...;)
do what I do (for same rev kernels, like 2.2.x -> 2.2.(x+y)): * run a stable kernel * build a new kernel, mv orig kernel to.old, resymlink so that _at next boot_ the new kernel comes up, while leaving a lilo entry for the.old kernel * keep rebuilding the new kernel, while not rebooting unless the system crashes.
Just don't forget to lilo and you should be fine. Now stop whining and enjoy the fruits of much labor!
Dude, it's Romero who blows $$$ on overhyped autos.. Carmack actually codes...
(PS: did anyone else see the TV show (Motorweek, IIRC, or possibly C&D) that featured his ferraris and the tuners which hacked them? I felt like smacking the guy.. Who could buy fucking cars like that when there's bandwidth to be had? Thinks he's a fucking rock star.. grumblesmurf..)
Why not simply donate the rest to charity? Use banners, cover your bandwidth, donate the rest or save it for more bandwidth.. Not too hard to figure out, just ask the band which charity they'd prefer...
Sounds fair to me...
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Dude, you know you love it.. Or else you'd do direct deposit and avoid as much human contact as possible, like me..;)
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We sysadmins may be the janitors, but we know what you've been doing in the closets, and we know where you've hidden the bodies...;)
Exactly. If your systems are that poorly built, you deserve the pain. I tend to build my systems and networks with enough overengineering and automation that I really only have to do about 2 hours of actual work a day. If you've inherited junk (which I have) but are not able because of cost or circumstance to change it into something useful, definitely look for work at a different company.
However, the most fun jobs for me are those where the systems are junk and I have carte blanche to make them reliable. Only had one of htose, but I did love it so..;)
Strange! I tried setting my Xservers' defdepth to 24 and it reverted down to 8... (I just did xwininfo and it showed 24-bit, but do a xdpyinfo and check for your bits_per_pixel, you will be surprised!)
The thing is, though, that 1920x1200x32 won't double-buffer in 16MB according to Sun folks, though it should in 32MB.. (which is why I drool over 32MB cards: I shan't go back from 24" or greater.. Wider is Better!;)
Yah, if you don't mind your eyes bleeding after 5 minutes of work on it.. Plus, the 1920x1200 which the poster was probably referring to has an aspect ratio of 1.6 to 1 rather than the typical 1.33 to 1 of a standard monitor. To handle that resolution a widescreen monitor is necessary. Also, nice feature of the Sun (rebadged Sony) 24" is it has an RGB in which can be connected to a DVD and a line doubler/quadrupler for up to 1080i video (and would do 1080p if such a standard existed)..
BTW: Perhaps linux drivers for the TNT2 will handle this? The TNT2 is supposed to come with 32MB RAM which should dblbuffer 1920x1200x24 IIRC.. (Though Solaris doesn't offer a 24bit root depth, it's 1, 8, or 32-bit)
.... I run about 8 or 9 icecast stations on a linux box, and every 18-48 hours mp3spy forgets about them. However, IIRC, yp.shoutcast.com does not. It means restarting the channels, which I prefer not to do, but I do it to stay listed...
What does that do, exactly.. put off the situation until tomorrow, when he and his friends jump you with a lead pipe?
Not necessarily. I've found, at least in my experience, that bullies tend to pick on those who _don't_ fight back, and will move on to the next person if you do. I still got into my share of scraps, and I still got my ass beat (often by a pack of 4 or more), but at least I put up a fight and I didn't stew over it.
And are you supposed to physically attack someone with martial arts if they spit you in the face? What if they call you a name?
If you take martial arts (I took a small amount of karate, and have since relied on simple dirty tactics) from a decent sensei, you learn that it's more about learning self control, self esteem and self knowledge than it is about injuring another person. The idea behind martial arts is the same as global thermonuclear war: the only winning move is not to play. But that only works if you have the faculties to play in the first place.
It's not about kicking someone's ass, it's about not rolling over and taking a beating without resistance. Even if you lose, even if you don't get respect for the attempt, at least you've proven that you're too much trouble than you're worth.
the point is the jock was a fuck-head, and it's people like him that incited the ones in Colorado to go out in a ball of flame
Yah, but I think most of us can agree that we'd rather the trenchcoat mafia had used Aikido and Tae Kwan Do than TEC9 and pipe bombs.. And if their parents could find their ass with two hands and a GPS, they'd have seen their sons' victimization and had encouraged them to get into some form of self-defense, if only for self-esteem issues...
I got pushed around a fair deal for a few years by what vaguely passed for jock/popular types at Hunter.
Aah, the swim team.. Still, we simply comandeered our own corridor and played lots of bridge.. converted lockers into duplexes and used them to hold espresso machines..
I think Hunter was lame more because of having to sit in some classes where the mean of the class was higher than the instructor, and the instructor was bitter because of it.
And trust me, I know about inflicting pain, though I am proud to say I never initiated it. There may still be a few nicks in the flagpole from heads I've bashed into it though.. Nothing makes quite the same sound as a human skull hitting a long hollow cylinder.. Funny thing, I ended up being good friends with one of the bashees, I guess it was a respect thing (he didn't think I'd take him up on the afterschool challenge)..
And there was action at Hunter? You coulda fooled me.. Though maybe I didn't have enough money for some of those girls.. Then..
High school sucked, college sucked, getting paid handsomely for your brain kicks ass and soundly beats all that other noise.
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Yah, but the guy was talking about mp3 playing
_software_.. If the RIAA gets away with crippling hardware, we hackers will simply get around it as we always have, though it might not be as shiny or pretty as the Lyra...
Hey man, don't be slagging Marc Bolan...
Just because there's a new kernel is no reason to upgrade.
;) for it...
I'd agree for production boxen, but the whole idea of new kernels is to throw them over the fence and see what your users throw back.. it's a feedback loop, which helps the development process, as no single developer (not even MS, apparently) can test under as many different configurations as we can.
If you can run the new kernel, you probably should, but don't sacrifice your production server uptime (or your job
That's another nice thing about Linux: as long as there's a user community to support a peripheral's driver, that driver'll be available. That's a big problem for me when it comes to proprietary OSes like Solaris or AIX: they drop support for particular bits of hardware when they rev their OSes. Then they drop support for the OSes that support those bits of hardware.
;)
Annoying as hell, particularly if you got stuck with a Sabine adapter (though the adapter itself kind of sucked ass...
do what I do (for same rev kernels, like 2.2.x -> 2.2.(x+y)): .old, resymlink so that _at next boot_ the new kernel comes up, while leaving a lilo entry for the .old kernel
* run a stable kernel
* build a new kernel, mv orig kernel to
* keep rebuilding the new kernel, while not rebooting unless the system crashes.
Just don't forget to lilo and you should be fine. Now stop whining and enjoy the fruits of much labor!
Dude, it's Romero who blows $$$ on overhyped autos.. Carmack actually codes...
(PS: did anyone else see the TV show (Motorweek, IIRC, or possibly C&D) that featured his ferraris and the tuners which hacked them? I felt like smacking the guy.. Who could buy fucking cars like that when there's bandwidth to be had? Thinks he's a fucking rock star.. grumblesmurf..)
-- Sneaking Atari equipment into the datacenter since 1994.
;)
Yah, I got my Jaguar in the server room so I can play AvP while trying to dl redhat 6.0 from the Netherlands..
Why not simply donate the rest to charity? Use banners, cover your bandwidth, donate the rest or save it for more bandwidth.. Not too hard to figure out, just ask the band which charity they'd prefer...
Sounds fair to me...
Dude, you know you love it.. Or else you'd do direct deposit and avoid as much human contact as possible, like me.. ;)
We sysadmins may be the janitors, but we know what you've been doing in the closets, and we know where you've hidden the bodies... ;)
Exactly. If your systems are that poorly built, you deserve the pain. I tend to build my systems and networks with enough overengineering and automation that I really only have to do about 2 hours of actual work a day. If you've inherited junk (which I have) but are not able because of cost or circumstance to change it into something useful, definitely look for work at a different company.
;)
However, the most fun jobs for me are those where the systems are junk and I have carte blanche to make them reliable. Only had one of htose, but I did love it so..
Do it! Get out! Depending on the area of the country you're in, you should do significantly better...
Absolutely. And first on the list? Recent /. source...
Fear.
Anger.
Hate.
These are the things that lead to the dark path.
Strange! I tried setting my Xservers' defdepth to 24 and it reverted down to 8... (I just did xwininfo and it showed 24-bit, but do a xdpyinfo and check for your bits_per_pixel, you will be surprised!)
;)
The thing is, though, that 1920x1200x32 won't double-buffer in 16MB according to Sun folks, though it should in 32MB.. (which is why I drool over 32MB cards: I shan't go back from 24" or greater.. Wider is Better!
Yah, if you don't mind your eyes bleeding after 5 minutes of work on it.. Plus, the 1920x1200 which the poster was probably referring to has an aspect ratio of 1.6 to 1 rather than the typical 1.33 to 1 of a standard monitor. To handle that resolution a widescreen monitor is necessary. Also, nice feature of the Sun (rebadged Sony) 24" is it has an RGB in which can be connected to a DVD and a line doubler/quadrupler for up to 1080i video (and would do 1080p if such a standard existed)..
BTW: Perhaps linux drivers for the TNT2 will handle this? The TNT2 is supposed to come with 32MB RAM which should dblbuffer 1920x1200x24 IIRC.. (Though Solaris doesn't offer a 24bit root depth, it's 1, 8, or 32-bit)
... with the eMate. Didn't last long, unfortunately..
Cheers,
.... I run about 8 or 9 icecast stations on a
linux box, and every 18-48 hours mp3spy forgets about them. However, IIRC, yp.shoutcast.com does not. It means restarting the channels, which I
prefer not to do, but I do it to stay listed...
Cheers,
Glocks actually have more metal than some smaller pistols, and are fully detectable by metal detectors or X-rays.
looks for the hidden camera
Sssh! don't blow it for me!
But even in my class (1989) teachers were noting that less women were in tech courses, and male students weren't filling the gap.
;)
Thank goodness for that: it keeps my salary high and my job prospects promising!
(only half a
yah, well not for the last 30 years....
And last time I checked we didn't go shooting up the Rainbow Warrior either...
What does that do, exactly.. put off the situation until tomorrow, when he and his friends jump you with a lead pipe?
Not necessarily. I've found, at least in my experience, that bullies tend to pick on those who _don't_ fight back, and will move on to the next person if you do. I still got into my share of scraps, and I still got my ass beat (often by a pack of 4 or more), but at least I put up a fight and I didn't stew over it.
And are you supposed to physically attack someone with martial arts if they spit you in the face? What if they call you a name?
If you take martial arts (I took a small amount of karate, and have since relied on simple dirty tactics) from a decent sensei, you learn that it's more about learning self control, self esteem and self knowledge than it is about injuring another person. The idea behind martial arts is the same as global thermonuclear war: the only winning move is not to play. But that only works if you have the faculties to play in the first place.
It's not about kicking someone's ass, it's about not rolling over and taking a beating without resistance. Even if you lose, even if you don't get respect for the attempt, at least you've proven that you're too much trouble than you're worth.
the point is the jock was a fuck-head, and it's people like him that incited the ones in Colorado to go out in a ball of flame
Yah, but I think most of us can agree that we'd rather the trenchcoat mafia had used Aikido and Tae Kwan Do than TEC9 and pipe bombs.. And if their parents could find their ass with two hands and a GPS, they'd have seen their sons' victimization and had encouraged them to get into some form of self-defense, if only for self-esteem issues...
I got pushed around a fair deal for a few years by what vaguely passed for jock/popular types at Hunter.
Aah, the swim team.. Still, we simply comandeered our own corridor and played lots of bridge.. converted lockers into duplexes and used them to hold espresso machines..
I think Hunter was lame more because of having to sit in some classes where the mean of the class was higher than the instructor, and the instructor was bitter because of it.
And trust me, I know about inflicting pain, though I am proud to say I never initiated it. There may still be a few nicks in the flagpole from heads I've bashed into it though.. Nothing makes quite the same sound as a human skull hitting a long hollow cylinder.. Funny thing, I ended up being good friends with one of the bashees, I guess it was a respect thing (he didn't think I'd take him up on the afterschool challenge)..
And there was action at Hunter? You coulda fooled me.. Though maybe I didn't have enough money for some of those girls.. Then..
High school sucked, college sucked, getting paid handsomely for your brain kicks ass and soundly beats all that other noise.
Carpe Pecuniam!
I didn't think anyone could like them any less...