If a whole computer platform could be developed using spintronics, we would be no longer be bound by a binary system. Even a trinary system would give itself a seven fold speed increase.
But that would require radical thinking and a complete redesign of the computer industry, which could take decades (plus a week for someone to port linux to it).
Then maybe we could create a distributed agent to detect and report the false spam signatures, then block the offenders. Then when people start mis-reporting offenders, we could write a ditsributed client.....
Or maybe we could add a trust model? All spam signatures are stamped with the IP or MAC, then you only update from somebody you trust, or somebody that your peers trust. Anything else is asking for trouble, and this would allow smaller networks and limit (not eliminate) points of entry for malicious users.
Although it would take a week or better to make it. Their little SMS service doesn't have routing capabilities, so the message would bounce around with all the other lost messages.
And somebody has to say it, so "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these...."
I don't symlink everything. I symlink commands and files which are mostly run from the command line, which only a few people can run. Everything else has absolute paths, is run as a service, or otherwise does not need to be in the users path. My systems run just fine, my disks are clear, and my employers happy. And my/bin,/usr/bin, and/usr/local/bin are uncluttered. How much garbage do you have on your disks?
AWG
I'mg guessing your biggest problem is/vmlinuz, but that's only my professional opinion
Finding broken symlinks is a relatively easy task, compared to a binary which may or may not run a program left on my disks. Broken symlinks show up red on my terminal, whereas a binary that has all support and library files removed looks the same as one that's active.
Hmm, a shared library constitutes a disk seek regardless of symlinks. Absolute paths also cut this down to a minimum, so I'll wait the extra second, especially if it minimizes the amount of garbage data left on my disks after an uninstall.
I spend the extra money and buy some fast disks and ram. I would rather have my filesystem legible than optimized to the hilt. One nanosecond of fileseeks compared to my time as a sysadmin, that's an easy decision. And it's only one extra disk seek for the initial file, which is usually a console command, and my users don't have shells. Everything else has absolute paths, which is a hell of a lot better then checking a six mile long path statement. Get your head out of your ass and join the real world.
Don't know about the rest, but slack does the same thing if you let it. The nice thing about slack is that 9 times out of 10, you have to build from source, and get a much cleaner install. I find it easier to track broken symlinks than to remember the name of the binaries which run all the software on my server.
Combat End User Ignorance - Tell them they're useless and can be replaced by VAX!
A fibre backbone (actually, a network of strategically placed fibre backbones) set up to do ATM, and PVC links to separate traffic, with wireless nodes at the endpoints would do the best to combat ping delay while maximiziong flexibility. Think of it, You're playing quake off a feed in Tulsa against a guy at the university of Alaska, and you're only three hops away!
Perhaps we can talk all the universities into putting down trunk lines, then segmenting half the bandwidth for private enterprise? It would give them a source of revenue besides football.
You get the Fiber, I'll get the backhoe and construction signs, and we'll put in our own backbone. I've got some ATM equipment sitting here, and a pile of cisco's too.
Anyone have some heavy duty wireless gear? Save us some trenching.
AWG
And we'll build it all on IPv6 to keep the script kiddies off our playground...
We could start a web ring. Who has the guts to throw themselves to the sharks and register disney-is-a-money-grubbing-multinational-corpora ti on-who-only-wants -your-money-and-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-your-chil dren.com
... Are nothing but a farce. When you have companies who mass buy all available domains, then sell them for ten times the price, and ICANN lets them do this, they are no better than the bulk domain sellers.
Naw, I just figured that I'd razz you a bit. Actually, I haven't read the book, and after I go see the movie, I'll pick it up and see how true to the book it is.
I guess being stuck in work late on a weekend is enough to make me be an ass.
The truth, according to the video, is that "children as young as kindergarten are being introduced to human sacrifice, the sucking of blood from dead animals and possession by spirit beings."
Where in the hell can I find a school like this for my kids? Why should they believe the world is a great place filled with righteousness and justice, only to have their spirits crushed like grapes under a cinderblock?
Sorry Billy, you can't go outside tonight because daddy's boss doesn't think highly enough to pay him well enough to move out of this crap-hole neighbourhood, and there are pedophiles and murderers roaming the street just waiting to take a big bite out of a little sally whelp like you. I know it's not fair, but hey, one day you can grow up and be the one shivving people in alleys for pocket change. That make you feel better?
They can take their bible, hold it, arms outstreched in front of them, and see how well that stops reality bullets.
What we need from a strategy game is a true, non-linear plot. Instead of the same boards every time you play, the same enemies, the same game day after day, we need a plot that is more of a large web instead of a line. If you make a mistake, you don't die. You just move to a different point in the story. But the gaming industry keeps telling us that we want short-play games with big graphics. Maybe it's time we stop letting them tell us what we want.
Global, sweeping legislation is going to do about as much as your commentary to protect human lives. Terrorists don't care about laws, and to prove this to you, Check the FAA regulations about hijacking planes. If terrorists are willing to commit murder, they are certainly going to break the laws which make it more difficult to plan to commit murder.
I am not saying that my personal rights outweigh the rights of the 5,000+ dead, but I think that the rights of the entire country, and the world as a whole, do. This may seem cold and callous, but I am not ready to submit to unwarranted search and seizures, or trial without due process for any reason.
There is no guarantee that by having my rights revoked I will help even one life be saved, and the potential for abuse when civil liberties and rights are revoked escalates to a plane which I do not want to go.
I would rather let a thousand criminals go free than hang one innocent man, and if we allow ANY of our rights to be revoked, we will hang more than just one man.
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If a whole computer platform could be developed using spintronics, we would be no longer be bound by a binary system. Even a trinary system would give itself a seven fold speed increase.
But that would require radical thinking and a complete redesign of the computer industry, which could take decades (plus a week for someone to port linux to it).
AWG
From what I understand, faster switching..
Props and much bold text to your on-topic FP
That's kind of what I was driving at, in a roundabout way.
Then maybe we could create a distributed agent to detect and report the false spam signatures, then block the offenders. Then when people start mis-reporting offenders, we could write a ditsributed client.....
Or maybe we could add a trust model? All spam signatures are stamped with the IP or MAC, then you only update from somebody you trust, or somebody that your peers trust. Anything else is asking for trouble, and this would allow smaller networks and limit (not eliminate) points of entry for malicious users.
AWG
But what do you when you can't trust anyone?
Although it would take a week or better to make it. Their little SMS service doesn't have routing capabilities, so the message would bounce around with all the other lost messages.
And somebody has to say it, so "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these...."
I don't symlink everything. I symlink commands and files which are mostly run from the command line, which only a few people can run. Everything else has absolute paths, is run as a service, or otherwise does not need to be in the users path. My systems run just fine, my disks are clear, and my employers happy. And my /bin,/usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin are uncluttered. How much garbage do you have on your disks?
/vmlinuz, but that's only my professional opinion
AWG
I'mg guessing your biggest problem is
Finding broken symlinks is a relatively easy task, compared to a binary which may or may not run a program left on my disks. Broken symlinks show up red on my terminal, whereas a binary that has all support and library files removed looks the same as one that's active.
Hmm, a shared library constitutes a disk seek regardless of symlinks. Absolute paths also cut this down to a minimum, so I'll wait the extra second, especially if it minimizes the amount of garbage data left on my disks after an uninstall.
AWG
This is the most intelligent and informative comment that I have read on /. in a long while. All unix sysadmins should read this (and e-mail it to M$).
AWG
I spend the extra money and buy some fast disks and ram. I would rather have my filesystem legible than optimized to the hilt. One nanosecond of fileseeks compared to my time as a sysadmin, that's an easy decision. And it's only one extra disk seek for the initial file, which is usually a console command, and my users don't have shells. Everything else has absolute paths, which is a hell of a lot better then checking a six mile long path statement. Get your head out of your ass and join the real world.
AWG
Don't know about the rest, but slack does the same thing if you let it. The nice thing about slack is that 9 times out of 10, you have to build from source, and get a much cleaner install. I find it easier to track broken symlinks than to remember the name of the binaries which run all the software on my server.
Combat End User Ignorance - Tell them they're useless and can be replaced by VAX!
AWG
That's what I thought symlinks were for. Put everything in separate folders, then link what you need.
Avoid Software Bloat: rm -rf * daily
AWG
A fibre backbone (actually, a network of strategically placed fibre backbones) set up to do ATM, and PVC links to separate traffic, with wireless nodes at the endpoints would do the best to combat ping delay while maximiziong flexibility. Think of it, You're playing quake off a feed in Tulsa against a guy at the university of Alaska, and you're only three hops away!
Perhaps we can talk all the universities into putting down trunk lines, then segmenting half the bandwidth for private enterprise? It would give them a source of revenue besides football.
Gigabit Ethernet doesn't have the range ATM would. And I am only half joking. The biggest problem would be getting permits to break ground.
You get the Fiber, I'll get the backhoe and construction signs, and we'll put in our own backbone. I've got some ATM equipment sitting here, and a pile of cisco's too.
Anyone have some heavy duty wireless gear? Save us some trenching.
AWG
And we'll build it all on IPv6 to keep the script kiddies off our playground...
If you have the money to piss off Disney, then by all means, try!
AWG
^---------- +1, Funny
C'mon, you know you want to...
We could start a web ring. Who has the guts to throw themselves to the sharks and registera ti on-who-only-wants -your-money-and-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-your-chil dren.com
disney-is-a-money-grubbing-multinational-corpor
AWG
... Are nothing but a farce. When you have companies who mass buy all available domains, then sell them for ten times the price, and ICANN lets them do this, they are no better than the bulk domain sellers.
Naw, I just figured that I'd razz you a bit. Actually, I haven't read the book, and after I go see the movie, I'll pick it up and see how true to the book it is.
I guess being stuck in work late on a weekend is enough to make me be an ass.
AWG
The truth, according to the video, is that "children as young as kindergarten are being introduced to human sacrifice, the sucking of blood from dead animals and possession by spirit beings."
Where in the hell can I find a school like this for my kids? Why should they believe the world is a great place filled with righteousness and justice, only to have their spirits crushed like grapes under a cinderblock?
Sorry Billy, you can't go outside tonight because daddy's boss doesn't think highly enough to pay him well enough to move out of this crap-hole neighbourhood, and there are pedophiles and murderers roaming the street just waiting to take a big bite out of a little sally whelp like you. I know it's not fair, but hey, one day you can grow up and be the one shivving people in alleys for pocket change. That make you feel better?
They can take their bible, hold it, arms outstreched in front of them, and see how well that stops reality bullets.
Angry White Guy
Ergo: You think like everyone else.
If it's a webserver, shouldn't it blow through your pipe rather than suck?
Naw, I 0\/\/n3d hiz box and have been dumping \/\/aR3z and Pr0n on it!
and JonKatz and CmdrTaco both blow and suck, usually each other!
What we need from a strategy game is a true, non-linear plot. Instead of the same boards every time you play, the same enemies, the same game day after day, we need a plot that is more of a large web instead of a line. If you make a mistake, you don't die. You just move to a different point in the story. But the gaming industry keeps telling us that we want short-play games with big graphics. Maybe it's time we stop letting them tell us what we want.
Global, sweeping legislation is going to do about as much as your commentary to protect human lives. Terrorists don't care about laws, and to prove this to you, Check the FAA regulations about hijacking planes. If terrorists are willing to commit murder, they are certainly going to break the laws which make it more difficult to plan to commit murder.
I am not saying that my personal rights outweigh the rights of the 5,000+ dead, but I think that the rights of the entire country, and the world as a whole, do. This may seem cold and callous, but I am not ready to submit to unwarranted search and seizures, or trial without due process for any reason.
There is no guarantee that by having my rights revoked I will help even one life be saved, and the potential for abuse when civil liberties and rights are revoked escalates to a plane which I do not want to go.
I would rather let a thousand criminals go free than hang one innocent man, and if we allow ANY of our rights to be revoked, we will hang more than just one man.
Angry White Guy