What's interesting is that if you leave your 3-laws-safe HomeMakerRobot(tm)(patent applied for) at home and go off to work for the day having forgotten to give it any commands, there's nothing stopping it from killing your pets and trashing your house if it thinks your environment is unsafe.
Late last year I was researching Reiserfs and Ext3 to see which would be best suited for my new server.
Resierfs looked like the clear winner for two good reasons:
1. Reiserfs is faster. Much faster than ext3 in nearly every scenario. Large files and small files. 2. No inode problems. If your users fill your HD with hundreds of thousands of tiny files you're not going to run out of inodes before you run out of disk space. This is something that needs to be anticipated (at the cost of more disk space) at filesystem creation time in ext3.
Reliability for both filesystems was pretty much the same from all accounts.
But in the end I went with ext3 for one and only one reason: Recoverability.
Reiserfs had no, or very few decent, recovery utilities. If a filesystem corruption occurred (and it seemed that the probablity of such corruptions was equal for both filesystems), then data on an ext3 fs stands a much better chance of being recovered than on a reiserfs one.
Of course that was late 2005; that situation may have changed by now.
I'm amazed that any self-respecting geek would seriously consider working for Microsoft. I'm assuming for now that you are a geek having posted to/.
Crumbling business models aside, the unofficial mission statement of the company seems to be along the lines of "screw over the little guy and a few big ones if you think you can get away with it". Google may make some questionable moves at times but they're practically angelic compared to MS.
Of course it depends entirely on whether or not you'd be happy to sell your soul. I guess to some people money is money at the end of the day no matter how dirty it is.
...at least to me, "son" implies a relationship beyond "inhabitant of womb".
What you mean like "inhabitant of house"?:)
Mothers and babies form relationships long before the womb is exited. I'm guessing you haven't spent much time with pregnant women but they (and often fathers) usually spend a great deal of time stroking the baby, talking, singing and reading through the mothers abdomen. Responses from the baby (kicking and other movements) have been known to indicate recognition of voices or even songs.
As someone has already pointed out, the only reason this was reported on/. and dozens of other places is because of Reiserfs. Not to sound cold, but this sort of thing sadly goes on quite a lot in the world. Yes there are people involved but consequences of what happens to these people will (may) affect many others. If someone you'd never heard of was in the same situation and it made the news would you care? I don't know perhaps you would, and that's admirable, but that's not where the world stops.
Consider if [insert national figurehead here] was shot tomorrow. Would you berate anyone who contemplated that this might have an effect on [insert soverign nation here]?
Hard Drive controller? Was this perchance a Promise Raid controller with horrible proprietary drivers? We had one here for a while, it would only work with Red Hat 9. When we moved to Debian we did the Right Thing (tm) and 'retired' the Promise card.
I'm a little disappointed that there isn't yet a "detach" option in the context menu for each tab.
I like to use one window per topic I'm working on and if one tab leads to another topic I want to look at in more detail it would be nice to just detach that tab to a separate window rather that copy the URL, hit CTRL-N and middle-click in the new window.
I notice that both Konqueror and Konsole have had this functionality for some time.
You do know that Lucas had very little to do with Howard The Duck, right? All he did was loan his mate a bit of money and to return the favour he put Lucas' name up as Executive Producer.
I'd love to switch, but sound-juicer is still far behind grip in almost every way.
It crashes much more often, has far fewer options for, well, everything but especially encoding and tagging, and just generally feels like beta software.
Maybe in a couple of years it might approach the functionality of grip. Or perhaps by then grip will have MusizBrainz support:)
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Unfortunately you will also have no multi-monitor support and no VBLANK synching. This means no HTPC and no dual-screen setups.
PS3 controller functional.
It seems the Wii controller is still having problems working in a room with sunlight, or fluorescent or halogen lighting.
I think I'd rather have a controller that worked properly and could be change if desired.
What's interesting is that if you leave your 3-laws-safe HomeMakerRobot(tm)(patent applied for) at home and go off to work for the day having forgotten to give it any commands, there's nothing stopping it from killing your pets and trashing your house if it thinks your environment is unsafe.
Late last year I was researching Reiserfs and Ext3 to see which would be best suited for my new server.
Resierfs looked like the clear winner for two good reasons:
1. Reiserfs is faster. Much faster than ext3 in nearly every scenario. Large files and small files.
2. No inode problems. If your users fill your HD with hundreds of thousands of tiny files you're not going to run out of inodes before you run out of disk space. This is something that needs to be anticipated (at the cost of more disk space) at filesystem creation time in ext3.
Reliability for both filesystems was pretty much the same from all accounts.
But in the end I went with ext3 for one and only one reason: Recoverability.
Reiserfs had no, or very few decent, recovery utilities. If a filesystem corruption occurred (and it seemed that the probablity of such corruptions was equal for both filesystems), then data on an ext3 fs stands a much better chance of being recovered than on a reiserfs one.
Of course that was late 2005; that situation may have changed by now.
I'm amazed that any self-respecting geek would seriously consider working for Microsoft. I'm assuming for now that you are a geek having posted to /.
Crumbling business models aside, the unofficial mission statement of the company seems to be along the lines of "screw over the little guy and a few big ones if you think you can get away with it". Google may make some questionable moves at times but they're practically angelic compared to MS.
Of course it depends entirely on whether or not you'd be happy to sell your soul. I guess to some people money is money at the end of the day no matter how dirty it is.
I'd be interested in how they plot on a CIE colour curve. Do you know what wavelengths are used in these models to achieve 90% coverage?
...at least to me, "son" implies a relationship beyond "inhabitant of womb".
:)
What you mean like "inhabitant of house"?
Mothers and babies form relationships long before the womb is exited. I'm guessing you haven't spent much time with pregnant women but they (and often fathers) usually spend a great deal of time stroking the baby, talking, singing and reading through the mothers abdomen. Responses from the baby (kicking and other movements) have been known to indicate recognition of voices or even songs.
After reading that article I scrolled back up to the top to find
"Posted by Hemos on Friday March 24, @09:11AM"
I, like several before me I'm sure, have found myself asking (in Kyle Reese style) "WHAT YEAR?"
I managed to work it out from the URL but wouldn't a year field in the timestamp be nice for these archived articles?
Ummm how is this NOT a tragedy for Reiserfs?
/. and dozens of other places is because of Reiserfs. Not to sound cold, but this sort of thing sadly goes on quite a lot in the world. Yes there are people involved but consequences of what happens to these people will (may) affect many others. If someone you'd never heard of was in the same situation and it made the news would you care? I don't know perhaps you would, and that's admirable, but that's not where the world stops.
As someone has already pointed out, the only reason this was reported on
Consider if [insert national figurehead here] was shot tomorrow. Would you berate anyone who contemplated that this might have an effect on [insert soverign nation here]?
One tragedy can beget another, you know.
Vege patches become very popular and people go back to growing their own damn food.
This would necessitate a mass exodus from big cities as families would need a decent plot of land in suburbia (say a 1/4 acre section) to grow food.
Sure.
Unless, that is the kids are wanting to play it in a room with sunlight, or fluorescent or halogen lighting.
Or they want to play any decent game other than Zelda's Revenge XXVI for that matter.
Hard Drive controller? Was this perchance a Promise Raid controller with horrible proprietary drivers? We had one here for a while, it would only work with Red Hat 9. When we moved to Debian we did the Right Thing (tm) and 'retired' the Promise card.
Star WinType 4000. Try and find a Windows 2000/XP driver for it now. Go!
(note: I know why things are the way they are but it's probably best you find out for yourself)
There's a good reason your hardware didn't work together under Linux and it will have more to do with the above case than is immediately obvious.
Yes, not like my laser printer that requires Windows 98 or earlier to work at all, or my camera that requires Windows 2000 or later.
I choose linux.
Download Loose Change [demonoid.com]
And while you're at it, don't forget to have the Loose Change viewing guide handy.
Better download what you can while there's still content, then.
DooM
By means of the Doomsday engine of course.
... is anyone still going to buy an XBox 360?
C'mon guys, you crucified Sony for less.
I'm a little disappointed that there isn't yet a "detach" option in the context menu for each tab.
I like to use one window per topic I'm working on and if one tab leads to another topic I want to look at in more detail it would be nice to just detach that tab to a separate window rather that copy the URL, hit CTRL-N and middle-click in the new window.
I notice that both Konqueror and Konsole have had this functionality for some time.
The tabs might not need to scroll if they had more display space, say the amount wasted by an extra Close button on every single tab.
Of course if you're browsing pornography at work you've got bigger problems than browser history.
Hehe point taken :)
What sound do people on rollercoasters make? Hint: it's not Xbox 360.
In what room does your wii belong? Hint: It's not the lounge.
You do know that Lucas had very little to do with Howard The Duck, right? All he did was loan his mate a bit of money and to return the favour he put Lucas' name up as Executive Producer.
I'd love to switch, but sound-juicer is still far behind grip in almost every way.
:)
It crashes much more often, has far fewer options for, well, everything but especially encoding and tagging, and just generally feels like beta software.
Maybe in a couple of years it might approach the functionality of grip. Or perhaps by then grip will have MusizBrainz support