The reason Redhat is using ext3 as its new default FS is simple, there is no valid alternative. Ext3 is the *only* new Linux FS which is included in the newest kernel release, it is mature and fully tested. There however are alternatives on the way. Such as XFS and ReiserFS.
Actually, ReiserFS has been in the kernel since 2.4.1-pre8, and is available as an install option in most distributions. Ext3 just got added in 2.4.15-pre2.
It's not NAT, it's the "CAT" scheme they want to move to. This protocol would allow their end to query your end and ask it if there's anything behind it. A CAT-compliant device would respond truthfully.
Of course, this would probably only affect Joe Average; somehow, I can't see CAT support being put into OpenBSD or Linux.
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
I'd say that's pretty damn similar to OSD's section 9.
they call it Mission Rehearsal Exercise or MRE for short
Not to be confused with Meals Ready to Eat, the decades-old expansion for the MRE acronym. (Incidentally, they have the dubious distinction by some who have eaten them as one of the few existing in-the-wild examples of a contradiction in three words.)
Although I could see where people might get confused, especially with the smell of charcoal being pumped into the room.
(Incidentally, I've had MREs (the "edible" variety), and I actually don't think they're that bad, although that might be because I only had mess hall food for comparison at that point.;) )
Your daughter is your child. If you don't want your child seeing things that you disapprove of on the internet, why don't you spend a little time with her when she's on the internet so that she doesn't see what you don't want her to see
Actually, the combination of US copyright law and fair use doctrine (until recently) basically meant that you could distribute or copy, but not both.
Suppose I buy a book, or a CD, or a piece of software (legally-questionable EULAs notwithstanding). I can distribute the item to anyone I wish: sell it, give it away, whatever. Or I can choose to copy it. I can make as many copies as I wish. What I'm not permitted to do is copy and redistribute.
Otherwise, I can do with it whatever I wish -- burn it, shred it, smash it, you name it.
I got a kernel panic- no support for ext3 in the standard kernel, and for some reason the support wasnt caried over from make oldconfig.
Well, no, it wouldn't have been. Although the config option might have been present, the code's not in the kernel, so the config option doesn't mean diddly-squat.
BTW, if you don't want to wait for the official release of 2.4.15, you can always get a patch for 2.4.14.
Yes, that's true. Keep in mind, though, that the userland tools have to be able to support large files as well, though. I recently discovered this; I was creating a backup of a partition and piped it through gzip. Later, I went to restore it (with 'gzip -cd filename'), and gzip complained about the file size. I had to have gzip read from stdin and redirect the input ('gzip -cd
Also, dd seemed to have some problems too. It complained when I tried to make a rather large file reading from/dev/zero, but it made the file as large as it could before quitting. (This was on Debian unstable/testing.) It's still better than the version of dd in the latest Mandrake. During a brief foray into Mandrake, dd actually dumped core when it hit 2GB! (BTW, the dd now in Debian testing (woody) doesn't seem to have the limitation anymore.)
These are the only two utilities that I've run into this problem with, but there are undoubtedly others.:-/
Unfortunately, yes. The journal itself takes up some room, and there's no getting around that.
With ReiserFS, the journal size is 32MB, regardless of the partition size. Apparently, though, the journal size on an ext3 partition is variable, and is just 15MB by default. (Look for "Disk space" toward the end of the page.) See also the man page for tune2fs(8) with a reasonably recent version of e2fsprogs.
Well, I don't know about that. I've been using ReiserFS since about 2.2.17 or 2.2.18, and it's worked great. It was officially integrated into the kernel in 2.4.1 (at the end of January this year), and distributions started incorporating it soon after. (Actually, before that, if I'm not mistaken. I was installing my work laptop last November, and the then-current version of SuSE supported creating ReiserFS partitions during the install even then. Wound up going back to Debian, though.)
So journalling's been available to the masses for a while now. Or maybe Michael meant ease of converting for the installed base?
Now if only the damn preemptible kernel patch would make it in. Unfortunately, it looks like that's going to wait until 2.4.5. *sigh*...
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up, because I wasn?t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up, because I wasn?t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
-- Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
It's outrageous that this is even being considered, let alone implemented. This denies a fair trial to people who are most in need of it.
Oh, BTW, regarding your.sig: If information were really free, the GPL wouldn't be necessary.
I'd be willing to pay a subscription fee, say 10 dollars a month, plus say 25 to 50 cents per song I download in order to reward artists for making music I like.
Keep in mind that in a P2P network, it's *your* bandwidth being used to distribute the files. So, in addition to the monthly and per-song fees, you should get a free download for every, say, 5 or 10 songs people download from you.
Hmm. Maybe that has to do with the fact that the article is about the best Science Fiction authors of the 20th Century?
Well, the question posed in the article is"What authors (in any genre, fiction or nonfiction) alive today will still be read (hard copy or online) in 2051?" So it's not karma whoring or off-topic, and the moderator who moderated it off-topic was incorrect in doing so. As you are in your assertion that the article was only about science fiction authors.
the prices are still significantly higher than a CD-ROM drive.
Really? The price difference seems to be about $20 or so. On pricewatch.com, the difference between the lowest prices for the fastest CD-ROM drive and the fastest DVD-ROM drive is $21. This is roughly the same at another vendor whom I like. The difference in price between the lowest-priced units is $21-23.
In fact, I just bought a fast DVD-ROM drive from a local brick-and-mortar store for $70. I believe their CD-ROM drives were priced around $50.
My guess for the lack of penetration for DVD-ROM drives is that critical mass hasn't been reached yet. People don't see the point in spending a few extra dollars when there aren't very many applications available yet on DVD-ROM. Publishers don't want to press a DVD version in addition to a CD version when most people don't yet have one. As it is, there's a huge installed base of CD-ROM drives out there, so it's pretty universal. I would guess that big PC OEMs get CD-ROM drives in quantity for $5-10 wholesale and, since a DVD-ROM drive is still considered a big value-add, figure it's good enough for the general case.
shrugI don't know. The price points are there, or very nearly so. I don't see why there isn't a big switchover in the very near future. Of course, this is the same industry that clings to the 1.44MB floppy...
Well, this past Sunday I bought a DVD-ROM drive from Micro Center (unfortunately, their web site sucks) for $70. IDE/ATAPI, 16X DVD read speed, 48X CD read speed. If you don't have a Micro Center near you, newegg.com has a 16X DVD/48X CD drive for ~$50. (newegg is rather highly rated on ResellerRatings.)
No connections to either company except as a satisfied customer.
Yes, but with http://av.com/power you have many more search options than you do with google. Also, at http://av.com/adv you have quite a rich query syntax, including AND, OR, AND NOT, NEAR, anchor:, applet:, domain:, host:, image:, like:, link:, text:, title:, and url:
Let's see...
AND - This is Google's default search.
OR - Yup, Google does this too.
AND NOT - Well, with Google, you prepend a - to the words or phrases you want to exclude.
NEAR - AV has the upper hand on this one. I don't know of an analogous feature for Google.
domain: and host: - With google, you use the site: operator. If you want a specific host, just specify the host as usual, eg "site:www.theregister.co.uk". If you want a domain, just prepend it with a dot, like "site:.co.uk".
link: - Google has this too.
like: - Use related: on Google.
The other six - I'll grant you, I'm not currently aware of Google's answer to them. But how often does one need to search for a java applet anyway?
Perhaps you could give an example of the utility of the other keyword: operators? I'm curious. Thanks.
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Of course, this would probably only affect Joe Average; somehow, I can't see CAT support being put into OpenBSD or Linux.
PHB means "Pointy-Haired Boss". Popularized by Dilbert.
You're right, you know.
Ah, well, that could be it. I only had 2 or 3 in a row. When you put it that way, I see how they could get really old, really fast.
Although I could see where people might get confused, especially with the smell of charcoal being pumped into the room.
(Incidentally, I've had MREs (the "edible" variety), and I actually don't think they're that bad, although that might be because I only had mess hall food for comparison at that point. ;) )
Just edit the Makefile and remove "-greased-turkey" following EXTRAVERSION, if it bothers you. Can't miss it, it's the fourth line.
Nice troll, BTW.
Suppose I buy a book, or a CD, or a piece of software (legally-questionable EULAs notwithstanding). I can distribute the item to anyone I wish: sell it, give it away, whatever. Or I can choose to copy it. I can make as many copies as I wish. What I'm not permitted to do is copy and redistribute.
Otherwise, I can do with it whatever I wish -- burn it, shred it, smash it, you name it.
I have Tim McGraw's Greatest Hits CD which is on the list. (The only CD I've bought in the last 2-3 years.) It ripped just fine.
BTW, if you don't want to wait for the official release of 2.4.15, you can always get a patch for 2.4.14.
These are the only two utilities that I've run into this problem with, but there are undoubtedly others. :-/
With ReiserFS, the journal size is 32MB, regardless of the partition size. Apparently, though, the journal size on an ext3 partition is variable, and is just 15MB by default. (Look for "Disk space" toward the end of the page.) See also the man page for tune2fs(8) with a reasonably recent version of e2fsprogs.
So journalling's been available to the masses for a while now. Or maybe Michael meant ease of converting for the installed base?
Now if only the damn preemptible kernel patch would make it in. Unfortunately, it looks like that's going to wait until 2.4.5. *sigh*...
Oh, BTW, regarding your
Hmm. That reminds me of something I saw one time. ;-)
Other than that, you're spot-on.
If you have a Linux server in Windowsland, just edit /etc/inittab so that ctrl-alt-del won't reboot the system. ;-)
I haven't seen it in Opera, so I can't compare the two, but it looks just fine in Mozilla 0.9.5.
In fact, I just bought a fast DVD-ROM drive from a local brick-and-mortar store for $70. I believe their CD-ROM drives were priced around $50.
My guess for the lack of penetration for DVD-ROM drives is that critical mass hasn't been reached yet. People don't see the point in spending a few extra dollars when there aren't very many applications available yet on DVD-ROM. Publishers don't want to press a DVD version in addition to a CD version when most people don't yet have one. As it is, there's a huge installed base of CD-ROM drives out there, so it's pretty universal. I would guess that big PC OEMs get CD-ROM drives in quantity for $5-10 wholesale and, since a DVD-ROM drive is still considered a big value-add, figure it's good enough for the general case.
shrugI don't know. The price points are there, or very nearly so. I don't see why there isn't a big switchover in the very near future. Of course, this is the same industry that clings to the 1.44MB floppy...
No connections to either company except as a satisfied customer.
- AND - This is Google's default search.
- OR - Yup, Google does this too.
- AND NOT - Well, with Google, you prepend a - to the words or phrases you want to exclude.
- NEAR - AV has the upper hand on this one. I don't know of an analogous feature for Google.
- domain: and host: - With google, you use the site: operator. If you want a specific host, just specify the host as usual, eg "site:www.theregister.co.uk". If you want a domain, just prepend it with a dot, like "site:.co.uk".
- link: - Google has this too.
- like: - Use related: on Google.
- The other six - I'll grant you, I'm not currently aware of Google's answer to them. But how often does one need to search for a java applet anyway?
Perhaps you could give an example of the utility of the other keyword: operators? I'm curious. Thanks.