I'm reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, which is a fantasy novel. While slow at the start, it's becoming a rewarding undertaking.
Still unsure whether I'd pick up the rest of the series though; I find the book very hard to get into. Only 100 pages left or so, so I can't wait to see how it unfolds...
I live in the Netherlands (that's in Europe:-) and I'm getting pretty fed up with the overall trend on USA-related topics in here. We have local new coverage of all major US presidency-events, and/. covers so much more of them its annoying (note that this applies to non-presidency-events as well, I'm just giving examples)
Disclaimer: I don't mean any disrespect, I'm sure such topics are important for many USA-citizens, but ask yourselves: do they really belong on a tech website fronting 'news for nerds' ?
Been there; learned support people don't really appreciate being walked through packet dumps and such - the reply was among the lines of 'Have you tried turning it on and off again?', so after an hour or so I just gave up.
So I unplugged the modem, called back: "Hey my internet doesn't work!' - 'Oh I can't see anything, can you try setting the modem?' 'Sure' 'Hmm still don't see anything, I suggest a new modem' and when I got one, the problem disappeared. This call only took 5 minutes...
Bottom line: just follow their protocol and you'll be fine - I definitely check that the problem isn't at my side, and when I know it isn't, I'll just call their support and let them walk through their procedures. They aren't interested in technical analysis at all, so don't bother them with it.
[Disclaimer: I've clicked through the slides, not watched the presentation] - yet your comment makes me feel you may expect too many changes, much too quickly.
You see, the opinion of a co-founder isn't necessarily the opinion of the entire project. Anyone is free to contribute whatever he/she feels like the project needs; whether it will be adopted may be an entire different matter. Core changes like these _will_ get quite of lot of discussion, likely because the rc system 'just works' and I would not expect it to be changed anytime soon by something that hasn't matured.
Note that this is just the expectation I have from working a few years within the FreeBSD project, so YMMV, etc.
I guess I mixed up authorship and copyright - I guess it confused me that this work is "brought to you by Javier M. Chavez and Chuck Naaden" (from the readme.md) but no mention of Chuck in the copyright itself. Thanks for the input, guys.
Show me a PC that can route 10GBit then, in that case. Normal PC's can't do 1GBit either, unless you have expensive hardware like PCI-X and 64bit PCI...
But granted, for the typical home user, they are more than enough:)
If you read the MANUAL, which you didn't, you would turn on a technique called Soft Updates, which *WILL* speed up your disk I/O. And even *if* it takes 20+ minutes, you've got either a broken disk or a broken system...
Futhermore, if your Netscape isn't working, it's probably because you didn't bother to set it up properly. I use Mozilla a lot, and once it's loaded, it works like a charm and damn fast too.
I've used *BSD for a long time now, and it has been the most stable and responsive OS I have *EVER* used. And it _does_ beat Linux very much. I've ran both FreeBSD 4.7 and Gentoo Linux 1.3 on my Athlon XP 2200+ with 512MB RAM, and FreeBSD is much more responsive than Linux was.
To finish, there are a load of reasons why people chose FreeBSD and not something else. But mind you, it's usually a person's taste. If you don't set FreeBSD up in a decent way (not that it's hard, just RTFM), you can wonderfully tune it... and much better than Linux, in my experience anyway.
Anyway, just my 0.02 euro's. Couldn't let this flame war continue...
DNS: Take a look at PowerDNS. It can scale pretty well, and grab the data from LDAP/SQL/whatever. Works like a charm, and it's GPL as well. Takes huge loads nicely too, not to mention most other record types.
Samba: Samba works pretty nicely using LDAP, even though there are some quirks:) I agree with you there, Win2K wins there.
Microsoft printing is nothing when you get to use CUPS. CUPS is literally extremly easy to use, and very realiable!
Myself, I don't care much about unified configuration interfaces (as long as it's in/etc or symlinked to/etc it's fine by me), but you may have a point there as well.
Anyway, there's a long way to go, but I believe Linux/*BSD are catching up at rapid speed.
I still use Win2K as well. I think XP is utterly annoying. Win2K is (mostly) stable, and doesn't come with all that bloat that I don't have a need for.
For me, it's Win2K + FreeBSD 4.7 on my main boxes, the rest almost exclusively run FreeBSD.
Humm, I have moderator access on the new Slashdot and not here...
Secondly, did you know 'brak' is Dutch, and literally means 'something that sucks'? Seems appropriate since people complain it is slashdotted [even though it works for me!]
Humm, this raises a point for me. Of course they claim it is faster, but when exactly ?
I mean, is it faster when doing stack swaps or when using TSS to multitask? *BSD uses the TSS to multitask, taking benefit of the i386's way to quickly swap registers and stack. Windows doesn't do this...
So, from a pure technical point of view, how does it work? Did they just make TSS switches faster? Some OS-es benefit highly from that, but others, well, don't.
Uhrm, not really. Almost any COM file infecting virus will read the first 3 bytes and check whether it's a JMP instruction (0xEB and 0xE9 opcode). If they are not, they usually refuse to infect the file.
Therefore, this file wouldn't be infected by like 99% of all COM infecting virii...
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I've put up an extra mirror for you... here. Enjoy!
You've got a point there, but take a look at Ogg Vorbis... hardly anyone I know knows about Ogg Vorbis, and OggDragXP *is* a very handy Windows utility for it...
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I'm reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, which is a fantasy novel. While slow at the start, it's becoming a rewarding undertaking.
Still unsure whether I'd pick up the rest of the series though; I find the book very hard to get into. Only 100 pages left or so, so I can't wait to see how it unfolds...
I live in the Netherlands (that's in Europe :-) and I'm getting pretty fed up with the overall trend on USA-related topics in here. We have local new coverage of all major US presidency-events, and /. covers so much more of them its annoying (note that this applies to non-presidency-events as well, I'm just giving examples)
Disclaimer: I don't mean any disrespect, I'm sure such topics are important for many USA-citizens, but ask yourselves: do they really belong on a tech website fronting 'news for nerds' ?
Been there; learned support people don't really appreciate being walked through packet dumps and such - the reply was among the lines of 'Have you tried turning it on and off again?', so after an hour or so I just gave up. So I unplugged the modem, called back: "Hey my internet doesn't work!' - 'Oh I can't see anything, can you try setting the modem?' 'Sure' 'Hmm still don't see anything, I suggest a new modem' and when I got one, the problem disappeared. This call only took 5 minutes... Bottom line: just follow their protocol and you'll be fine - I definitely check that the problem isn't at my side, and when I know it isn't, I'll just call their support and let them walk through their procedures. They aren't interested in technical analysis at all, so don't bother them with it.
[Disclaimer: I've clicked through the slides, not watched the presentation] - yet your comment makes me feel you may expect too many changes, much too quickly. You see, the opinion of a co-founder isn't necessarily the opinion of the entire project. Anyone is free to contribute whatever he/she feels like the project needs; whether it will be adopted may be an entire different matter. Core changes like these _will_ get quite of lot of discussion, likely because the rc system 'just works' and I would not expect it to be changed anytime soon by something that hasn't matured. Note that this is just the expectation I have from working a few years within the FreeBSD project, so YMMV, etc.
I guess I mixed up authorship and copyright - I guess it confused me that this work is "brought to you by Javier M. Chavez and Chuck Naaden" (from the readme.md) but no mention of Chuck in the copyright itself. Thanks for the input, guys.
It struck me that almost all files start with:
However, I wonder if this man worked at ID Software or SoftDisk when the code was written and thus can reasonably claim any copyright on it?
From http://www.gaikai.com/streaming-worlds/:
"All you need is a broadband internet connection, a web browser, and the latest Adobe Flash player (which you almost certainly already have)."
Using FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, I did:
/etc/cvsupfile
# cvsup
# portupgrade php5-cgi
# portupgrade -f php5-extensions
The latter -f causes all extensions to be rebuilt, which is what I wanted. Voila, upgraded in about 20 minutes on an Athlon XP 2000+.
Show me a PC that can route 10GBit then, in that case. Normal PC's can't do 1GBit either, unless you have expensive hardware like PCI-X and 64bit PCI...
:)
But granted, for the typical home user, they are more than enough
Granted, the documentation is a bit poor, but once you get the hang of it, it's very nice to use. It's worth checking this out.
Flame, but I'll bite anyway ...
... and much better than Linux, in my experience anyway.
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If you read the MANUAL, which you didn't, you would turn on a technique called Soft Updates, which *WILL* speed up your disk I/O. And even *if* it takes 20+ minutes, you've got either a broken disk or a broken system...
Futhermore, if your Netscape isn't working, it's probably because you didn't bother to set it up properly. I use Mozilla a lot, and once it's loaded, it works like a charm and damn fast too.
I've used *BSD for a long time now, and it has been the most stable and responsive OS I have *EVER* used. And it _does_ beat Linux very much. I've ran both FreeBSD 4.7 and Gentoo Linux 1.3 on my Athlon XP 2200+ with 512MB RAM, and FreeBSD is much more responsive than Linux was.
To finish, there are a load of reasons why people chose FreeBSD and not something else. But mind you, it's usually a person's taste. If you don't set FreeBSD up in a decent way (not that it's hard, just RTFM), you can wonderfully tune it
Anyway, just my 0.02 euro's. Couldn't let this flame war continue
You may be interested in Jukebox, it's what I wrote for our student union and it works like a charm.
If you launch multiple copies of it (it's written in C++ and not very memory-hungry), you can easily use it to serve over multiple sound cards.
I currently run it on Linux and FreeBSD.
DNS: Take a look at PowerDNS. It can scale pretty well, and grab the data from LDAP/SQL/whatever. Works like a charm, and it's GPL as well. Takes huge loads nicely too, not to mention most other record types.
:) I agree with you there, Win2K wins there.
/etc or symlinked to /etc it's fine by me), but you may have a point there as well.
Samba: Samba works pretty nicely using LDAP, even though there are some quirks
Microsoft printing is nothing when you get to use CUPS. CUPS is literally extremly easy to use, and very realiable!
Myself, I don't care much about unified configuration interfaces (as long as it's in
Anyway, there's a long way to go, but I believe Linux/*BSD are catching up at rapid speed.
The company where I work for uses Watcom C to compile their software. Their software is specialized controller software which is used for pressbrakes.
...or thanks to the Slashdot effect, it's all go up in smoke ;-)
I still use Win2K as well. I think XP is utterly annoying. Win2K is (mostly) stable, and doesn't come with all that bloat that I don't have a need for.
For me, it's Win2K + FreeBSD 4.7 on my main boxes, the rest almost exclusively run FreeBSD.
I rarely back stuff up. I can MP3 my CD if I need to, and no one cares about pr0n anyway ... or do they?
For the stuff I *want* to save, I usually store them somewhere on my homepage (it's neatly backed up in 2 locations), and I burn it on CD.
... most developers already had fun with wine :-)
In battery mode, it showed that the CPU is only half as fast as it is when running on the mains.
See, it *IS* in the article!
...and even a printable version, in case my toilet runs out of paper ... now *that* is service!
Humm, I have moderator access on the new Slashdot and not here...
Secondly, did you know 'brak' is Dutch, and literally means 'something that sucks'? Seems appropriate since people complain it is slashdotted [even though it works for me!]
Humm, this raises a point for me. Of course they claim it is faster, but when exactly ?
...
I mean, is it faster when doing stack swaps or when using TSS to multitask? *BSD uses the TSS to multitask, taking benefit of the i386's way to quickly swap registers and stack. Windows doesn't do this
So, from a pure technical point of view, how does it work? Did they just make TSS switches faster? Some OS-es benefit highly from that, but others, well, don't.
Uhrm, not really. Almost any COM file infecting virus will read the first 3 bytes and check whether it's a JMP instruction (0xEB and 0xE9 opcode). If they are not, they usually refuse to infect the file.
Therefore, this file wouldn't be infected by like 99% of all COM infecting virii...
I've put up an extra mirror for you ... here. Enjoy!
You've got a point there, but take a look at Ogg Vorbis... hardly anyone I know knows about Ogg Vorbis, and OggDragXP *is* a very handy Windows utility for it ...
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It's all about the marketing I guess