TmpFS is an extension of shmfs able to swap off unused memory pages. This virtual filesystem *rocks* . Compiling new software in a TmpFS area is a lot faster than on a conventional filesystem. Since it was introduced, I can't live without it.
But why the hell is TmpFS only in -ac series and never in 'official' releases ? I will have to wait for 2.4.4-ac1 before upgrading.
TmpFS is now rock stable (it wasn't the case in the early times, I agree) . It's fast. It's easy to set up, and it's a very good enhancement to the Linux kernel.
When will TmpFS merged to the main tree ?
"this is a nice feature, it would make internet go faster, but some broken routers/firewalls are stupid enough to drop them, so disable it"
Sorry, but if we disable it, we slightly reduce chances of having proper ECN support everywhere. So we will stick with congestions, although defense techniques do exist and are implemented. Just because of some lame software/hardware/sysadmin.
Not using a nice feature because of broken third party software is not a thing to do. Enable the feature, and bother at non-conformant sites.
Should we stick to HTML 1.0 because some rare clients still have a very old browser lying around ? No. Having only a HTML 1.0 compliant browser is totally silly nowadays, clients have to upgrade. So why isn't it the same scenario with ECN ?
It's just like IPv6. IPv6 drafts exist for a long time. There are implementations for all major operating systems. Everything is widely documented. But almost no one did a single step to move toward IPv6. Why ? Because many pieces of software still don't support IPv6. And why don't they ? Because their developper think "almost no one moved to IPv6, anyway". And you got a marvellous vicious circle. And we stay with a shitty technology while there are alternatives.
Pong fans should definitely try Ping.
It's an svgalib Pong game with bonuses, carebears, hilarous musics and fx, and it rocks. The documentation says it's the official tennis simulator of the US army !
I am working as a C/Java/Perl/Linux teacher in a french computer science school (ESI-Supinfo) and I've always done exams with computers. Everyone has an internet access in order to search docs, read newsgroups or whatever he needs, and students send me their exercises thru e-mail. Books, personal laptops, notes and almost everything (but cheating) is allowed. Today, I can't imagine developing something on a computer without internet and books. In real life, for fun or for a company, you have these resources. Doing without them at school is stupid. Programming on a sheet of paper is the more useless thing to do. You learn coding by trying yourself lotsa things and fighting against these f*cking compiler errors. By doing exams on paper, teachers are just judging algorithms. Learning how to compute factorials with recursivity is totally useless. Teachers that are still doing that are thinking that programming is like theory. But just ask them to do let's say... a Tetris, and they won't be able to do it. Neither do their students. I think that nobody learned to code by watching curses at school. Every coder has learned by himself, and by asking friends. Curses are just here to justify a diploma. Nothing else. If I only could tell my students "get a drink, take your keyboard, listen to good house music and sit down on a sofa" before begining an exam or a lesson, I would do. This is the right way to do something with computers. Watching a black board and writing old algorithms on a sheet of paper is a pure waste of time. My goal is to give people the geek feeling. I am a demo maker, a DJ, a GNU/Linux lover, a daily Slashdot/Freshmeat reader, an open source contributor, and I would love to see more geeky curses in schools. But there are lousy people that prefer traditional ways and tell their parents about my point of view on teaching. And these parents yell, and the boss tells me to learn 'puts("hello world")' and traditional stupid theorical algorithms instead... Best regards, -Jedi.
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TmpFS is an extension of shmfs able to swap off unused memory pages. This virtual filesystem *rocks* . Compiling new software in a TmpFS area is a lot faster than on a conventional filesystem. Since it was introduced, I can't live without it.
But why the hell is TmpFS only in -ac series and never in 'official' releases ? I will have to wait for 2.4.4-ac1 before upgrading.
TmpFS is now rock stable (it wasn't the case in the early times, I agree) . It's fast. It's easy to set up, and it's a very good enhancement to the Linux kernel.
When will TmpFS merged to the main tree ?
"this is a nice feature, it would make internet go faster, but some broken routers/firewalls are stupid enough to drop them, so disable it"
Sorry, but if we disable it, we slightly reduce chances of having proper ECN support everywhere. So we will stick with congestions, although defense techniques do exist and are implemented. Just because of some lame software/hardware/sysadmin.
Not using a nice feature because of broken third party software is not a thing to do. Enable the feature, and bother at non-conformant sites.
Should we stick to HTML 1.0 because some rare clients still have a very old browser lying around ? No. Having only a HTML 1.0 compliant browser is totally silly nowadays, clients have to upgrade. So why isn't it the same scenario with ECN ?
It's just like IPv6. IPv6 drafts exist for a long time. There are implementations for all major operating systems. Everything is widely documented. But almost no one did a single step to move toward IPv6. Why ? Because many pieces of software still don't support IPv6. And why don't they ? Because their developper think "almost no one moved to IPv6, anyway". And you got a marvellous vicious circle. And we stay with a shitty technology while there are alternatives.
Please do the step.
http://www.pureftpd.org
IPv6 compliant.
Pong fans should definitely try Ping .
It's an svgalib Pong game with bonuses, carebears, hilarous musics and fx, and it rocks. The documentation says it's the official tennis simulator of the US army !
I am working as a C/Java/Perl/Linux teacher in a french computer science school (ESI-Supinfo) and I've always done exams with computers. Everyone has an internet access in order to search docs, read newsgroups or whatever he needs, and students send me their exercises thru e-mail. Books, personal laptops, notes and almost everything (but cheating) is allowed. Today, I can't imagine developing something on a computer without internet and books. In real life, for fun or for a company, you have these resources. Doing without them at school is stupid. Programming on a sheet of paper is the more useless thing to do. You learn coding by trying yourself lotsa things and fighting against these f*cking compiler errors. By doing exams on paper, teachers are just judging algorithms. Learning how to compute factorials with recursivity is totally useless. Teachers that are still doing that are thinking that programming is like theory. But just ask them to do let's say... a Tetris, and they won't be able to do it. Neither do their students. I think that nobody learned to code by watching curses at school. Every coder has learned by himself, and by asking friends. Curses are just here to justify a diploma. Nothing else. If I only could tell my students "get a drink, take your keyboard, listen to good house music and sit down on a sofa" before begining an exam or a lesson, I would do. This is the right way to do something with computers. Watching a black board and writing old algorithms on a sheet of paper is a pure waste of time. My goal is to give people the geek feeling. I am a demo maker, a DJ, a GNU/Linux lover, a daily Slashdot/Freshmeat reader, an open source contributor, and I would love to see more geeky curses in schools. But there are lousy people that prefer traditional ways and tell their parents about my point of view on teaching. And these parents yell, and the boss tells me to learn 'puts("hello world")' and traditional stupid theorical algorithms instead... Best regards, -Jedi.