Snivelling cowards. That is what the USA has become. At least, that majority of it which supports this kind of law, this false sense of security.
So, let me get this straight, betwetters. Every time I experience an object, sound, or symbol I don't recognize, or one which reminds me of something that could be used to inflict harm, somebody should go to jail?
If you want your safety guaranteed to an arbitrary degree, well, I guess we'll have the brain in a vat plan available fairly soon. And before that, you're welcome to check yourself into total a surveillance camp. For the rest of us, a little common sense and a modicum of dignity will just have to get us by.
Seriously, the best way, long term, to get people to make rational decisions throughout the day would be early exposure, in school, to elementary logic, statistics, and game theory. As important as pure math is, I think that this should be a separate set of classes, because... well, it'll be easier to market it if you tie it to real life. Here are a couple books I think should be required reading in high school:
Sorry, I should have been more specific. The context of his quote WAS about things that could destroy data. And indeed, I had that type of problem with reiserfs as well. And you're right, losing the lead developer isn't going to help. Even SuSE has switched from reiserfs now. That's a big relief for me.
On the other hand, this has nothing to do with whether he murdered somebody. And honestly, I don't care about that. It doesn't affect me; it's just another bizarre California murder case. Murders happen everywhere, but in California they seem to be optimized for weirdness.
No, you're right, as far as that goes. But anybody who says performance is more important that reliability in a general purpose filesystem is at *least* a sociopath. I found Reiser saying that when I was looking for fixes to a bug in reiserfs that made it impossible to delete files.
There are plenty of filesystems for Linux that do include reliability as a priority, is all I'm saying.
I don't know what you've tried, so don't take offense... and I'm not trying to justify these shortcomings, because I agree they're not acceptable, but on the off-chance I can help you, or someone else... In my experience, that kind of instability is really unusual unless you've come across a combination of elements which just doesn't work well together, or simply includes one bad element. If these crashing systems are all on the same platform, it might be fairly easy to isolate the problem.
Since you say the machines are locking up, I'm assuming it's not an application thing. I'm talking about things that cause kernel panics or worse, here. I'm also assuming the hardware is not defective, RAM is good, etc.
Easiest things first: Whenever I find a Linux install is unstable on hardware that I haven't used before, there are a few kernel commandline options I like to try. "noapic" solves a ton of interrupt/SMP issues, "noacpi" can also help stability, and "nomce" fixes (well, ignores) a lot of bogus MCE errors-- errors that always came up on hardware that was otherwise totally stable. MCE support seems to be much more accurate with recent kernels and hardware, though. Bonus option, "nommconf" can help if a PCI device, say a Myrinet card or RAID controller, isn't seen by the kernel, even as an unknown device in lspci.
Also, since you mention Redhat, I've found situations in which last couple of RHEL4 kernels tend to crash within a few days (maxing load on 4 cores, disk, and network the whole time). I don't know if installing a non-RHEL kernel is an option for your company. If you're running RHEL3, a vanilla kernel.org kernel might be pretty painful due to some things like SELinux. On RHEL4, kernel.org kernels are very easy to install in practical terms but may not be allowed by policy. If it's an option, I've been having no problems with 2.6.19.5. That's probably rather new for a company wide deployment, but if your crashes are repeatable/testable, and that does fix it, it could at least point the way.
I don't know if you've tried this stuff already, but you might look at setting the NFS mount options on the client to include "hard,intr". This should make it possible to interrupt the program accessing the file if there is a hang. Other options which might help are forcing the nfs version (I've had the best luck with version 3), and sync vs. async (though that would mostly be for performance).
NFS is not really a high point of Linux. I think the protocol itself probably isn't that suitable for modern needs, but the only network filesystem with a comparable installed base is CIFS/SMB... I suspect that to get over the installed base inertia, a better version of the same feature set will not be enough. I think the next jump in network filesystems will probably come from the need for clustered/distributed filesystems.
Exactly. I just got one, and we recently had some friends over for a little BBQ/party thing. The Wii was a huge hit. The more people you have, the more fun it is. It's fairly fun when I'm alone, but I could easily tire of it. Playing one other person is consistently... fun. Playing with a bunch of people taking turns, cheering, waiting for their turn... I had more fun watching my friends play that night than I ever had in years of owning an Xbox. Having real humans in the room, doing real movements, really gets the juices flowing. I'm surprised my furniture survived, but we'll definitely be doing it again soon.
Now somebody is going to take that out of context and make it sound dirty.
Oddly enough, so far the best games I've seen on it are all in Wii Sports. Bowling and Tennis were the most popular, with Boxing not far behind. Anybody got recommendations for similar?
...is not that AMD wants to be on Intel motherboards, though perhaps they wouldn't mind that. It's that AMD has already opened THEIR bus and sockets to non-AMD devices. The idea is that people will come up with specialized CPUs or FPGAs for tasks at which they can cream general purpose CPUs. Encryption, HPC, etc. It's a good idea, it's going to happen, but it might not matter much to the average user, at least at first.
And yes, the bus speed matters. I've seen neural net tests in which Woodcrest, for example, does much better at 1333MHz using four cores than you'd see at 1066MHz. That's the same architecture except for bus speed. AMD's memory bandwidth is still better, though they lag in other areas.
I don't know whether, or how much, you'll see that bus bandwidth matter in the typical slashdotter workload (games).
The best way I've found to keep a T650 from rebooting, even with the latest firmware, is to never try to do two things at once, or even in close succession. For example, if the phone rings, don't answer immediately. Don't dial numbers too fast, that 400 MHz (or whatever) can't deal with displaying the digits fast enough... not under PalmOS. Don't switch between applications too quickly. Hint to Palm devs: sometimes, in life, more than one thing happens within a span of a few seconds. When I think back to what the Amiga did with a hundredth the processing power... Crap, I'm old.
Even so, at the time I bought it, I don't think there was anything that better met my requirements (ssh, web, qwerty, phone). And the stuff that's available right now in the States doesn't look much better. I want the same stuff I have with Palm, plus multitasking, and I don't want to be nickle and dimed on every dinky little customization. So that probably means it has to be Linux-based. Which is great, but the OpenMoko stuff isn't out yet and iPhone will be more locked down than even WinCE stuff. Anybody got suggestions? As it stands, the T650 is starting to fall apart and I'm still telling myself... in six months, something decent will be out. I've been telling myself that for 18 months...
You can trust Putin, just as you trust his kindred spirit-- his soul-mate-- our own dear leader. I don't see why you're all so cynical.
"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue... I was able to get a sense of his soul... He's a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country and I appreciate very much the frank dialogue and that's the beginning of a very constructive relationship," Mr Bush said.
I think it depends on whether you're upgrading, and how fast you need to go (or how much you're willing to spend). If you're building from scratch, C2D is probably a better deal these days, especially at the high end. But at the low end, last I looked, it was much more competitive. And, lessee... okay, from Newegg six months ago, I got a socket 939 motherboard and AMD64 X2 4200 for $270. If I'd gone Intel, I'd have had to get DDR2 memory, which would have basically doubled the price for similar performance. As it was, I could re-use the memory I had.
So, depending on your situation, AMD is not in as grim a position as it looks... but they are hurting, and need to do something soon. Still, they were ahead (in absolute performance) for about three years, and have been behind for about one. It seems like they're in general ahead on innovation (cool new features like 64 bit, Hypertransport, multicore, asymmetric cores, tend to come out of AMD's labs), while Intel is well ahead on process.
Intel has to be careful, though. If they do manage to kill AMD, a few things will happen. First, they're susceptible to anti-trust suits. Second, IBM might pick up AMD and close the process gap. Third... well, where will Intel look for new ideas?
Wait... what the... what are you doing? This is Slashdot. NEVER apologize. NEVER admit fallibility. And ALWAYS escalate. Now, what you've done, here... you left me with nothing to work with. We may as well just nod politely to each other and carry on with our repective days.
Weird, because I have. Back before emusic changed their terms of service, I subscribed. I think maybe they've changed them again, but it doesn't matter: they've proven they can't be trusted to honor a deal.
Nope. There are people like that. I'm not one of them. I'd actually like the artists I enjoy to get paid. And I'd sign a contract to back that up. $500 now, $50/month for a year. I've been waiting for it for years. If I just wanted free stuff, I wouldn't have waited. I'd have it now.
No, and if they were $100/album, I wouldn't buy 5 albums and one more every two months. I think that the field of economics has a term for this phenomenon. Maybe you could look that up. Or you could read my original post. This time see if you can't manage to glance at every sentence.
I went from buying about 10 CDs/month a few years ago to about 0 CDs/month because of RIAA tactics, the fact that buying spinning metal media discs is silly these days, and that the price was ridiculous. So I've got about 650 of those things in a closet, about the same bumber I had five years ago.
If I can buy uncrippled, high quality media files, I will. ~256K VBR mp3 is about the lowest I'll consider. Yes, I can hear the difference, consistently. Apple's 256K AAC should meet this spec, though I haven't listened to much AAC.
Now, it's time to optimize the price. I'm aware that the actual costs of distribution over the net is very low, and I don't care about marketing costs, because virtually nothing I listen to is marketed at all. I don't like being ripped off. $1/song is still a ripoff, but for uncrippled content I'll probably buy a few albums I've been wanting, just to encourage them.
But. At $.50/song and $5.00/album, I'd buy 100 albums today. I've got a five year backlog to catch up on. Probably be good for another 10/month, too.
Come on, music labels. Talk to your artists, see who's willing to experiment with the prices. Healthy industries with real competition experiment with prices to find the most profitable price points. You're pricing like a monopoly, but you're forgetting that we do have alternatives: Free legal music, free illegal music, boycott, video, games, books, etc. I suspect you'd make a lot more money if you weren't so greedy, scared, contemptuous and contemptible. Why not find out?
The hardware on that box is from... you know, I probably shouldn't say. It's a 5U Opteron-based box. We're still testing it, and I don't want to hype anybody on something that hasn't passed our testing yet, and I don't want to trash something that hasn't failed testing either. So far, I've seen no problems, but it's too early for me to recommend it.
As far as nodes... so far the biggest cluster I've had root on was 768 dual processor Xeons. That was alright. The density these days, though... makes you feel old, sometimes. And yes, I sympathize with respect to the beast herding:)
Mac OS X automatically sees and uses as many cores or processors that it has available.
"Wow, that's just amazing," He said, looking up from the, from 16 core, 65G RAM Linux box he's working on today. "An OS that, in at least one area, isn't artificially crippled for marketing reasons."
Now somebody who has serious hardware is going to chime in...
It was quite easy to download the show, at least when it was hosted on revver... I never tried after that. Just look at the page source and wget the quicktime file. There are several firefox extensions which automate that sort of thing, as well. I'm guessing your point was that ze didn't provide the means himself.
As far as the show sustaining ze-- by the end, between sponsorship, Gimme Some Candy, and sales of meaningless merchandise, I think he was doing rather well. Not Hollywood rich-- that is next, I expect, and good for him: what he did over the last year is smarter and more interesting than what Hollywood did last year... but well into six figures. You can live on that, even in New York. But his plan, from day one of the show, was always to do it for one year only. It's amazing that he kept it (mostly) fresh until the end, but I don't think it could have gone on much longer. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of him, though.
That only goes back to 2001, so it misses a lot. But here's a typical example:
"The current Passport Terms of Use agreement not only fails to guarantee confidentially, but actually gives Microsoft and its business partners the right to own your information, and do pretty much what they want with it. That encompasses all your Hotmail and MSN Messenger communications today."
Of course, MS also has a long history of paying people to act as unbiased supporters in letter writing campaigns, forums, and other arenas. This is known as Astroturfing. ASTROTURFER:P
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It should definitely be Grace Park instead. Hubba HUBBA!
So, let me get this straight, betwetters. Every time I experience an object, sound, or symbol I don't recognize, or one which reminds me of something that could be used to inflict harm, somebody should go to jail?
If you want your safety guaranteed to an arbitrary degree, well, I guess we'll have the brain in a vat plan available fairly soon. And before that, you're welcome to check yourself into total a surveillance camp. For the rest of us, a little common sense and a modicum of dignity will just have to get us by.
Seriously, the best way, long term, to get people to make rational decisions throughout the day would be early exposure, in school, to elementary logic, statistics, and game theory. As important as pure math is, I think that this should be a separate set of classes, because... well, it'll be easier to market it if you tie it to real life. Here are a couple books I think should be required reading in high school:
Innumeracy
Prisoner's Dilemma
On the other hand, this has nothing to do with whether he murdered somebody. And honestly, I don't care about that. It doesn't affect me; it's just another bizarre California murder case. Murders happen everywhere, but in California they seem to be optimized for weirdness.
There are plenty of filesystems for Linux that do include reliability as a priority, is all I'm saying.
Since you say the machines are locking up, I'm assuming it's not an application thing. I'm talking about things that cause kernel panics or worse, here. I'm also assuming the hardware is not defective, RAM is good, etc.
Easiest things first: Whenever I find a Linux install is unstable on hardware that I haven't used before, there are a few kernel commandline options I like to try. "noapic" solves a ton of interrupt/SMP issues, "noacpi" can also help stability, and "nomce" fixes (well, ignores) a lot of bogus MCE errors-- errors that always came up on hardware that was otherwise totally stable. MCE support seems to be much more accurate with recent kernels and hardware, though. Bonus option, "nommconf" can help if a PCI device, say a Myrinet card or RAID controller, isn't seen by the kernel, even as an unknown device in lspci.
Also, since you mention Redhat, I've found situations in which last couple of RHEL4 kernels tend to crash within a few days (maxing load on 4 cores, disk, and network the whole time). I don't know if installing a non-RHEL kernel is an option for your company. If you're running RHEL3, a vanilla kernel.org kernel might be pretty painful due to some things like SELinux. On RHEL4, kernel.org kernels are very easy to install in practical terms but may not be allowed by policy. If it's an option, I've been having no problems with 2.6.19.5. That's probably rather new for a company wide deployment, but if your crashes are repeatable/testable, and that does fix it, it could at least point the way.
NFS is not really a high point of Linux. I think the protocol itself probably isn't that suitable for modern needs, but the only network filesystem with a comparable installed base is CIFS/SMB... I suspect that to get over the installed base inertia, a better version of the same feature set will not be enough. I think the next jump in network filesystems will probably come from the need for clustered/distributed filesystems.
Now somebody is going to take that out of context and make it sound dirty.
Oddly enough, so far the best games I've seen on it are all in Wii Sports. Bowling and Tennis were the most popular, with Boxing not far behind. Anybody got recommendations for similar?
That's the best thing about this Treo. I can get a good 1.5 cps while driving. In fact im doing that right n
And yes, the bus speed matters. I've seen neural net tests in which Woodcrest, for example, does much better at 1333MHz using four cores than you'd see at 1066MHz. That's the same architecture except for bus speed. AMD's memory bandwidth is still better, though they lag in other areas.
I don't know whether, or how much, you'll see that bus bandwidth matter in the typical slashdotter workload (games).
Even so, at the time I bought it, I don't think there was anything that better met my requirements (ssh, web, qwerty, phone). And the stuff that's available right now in the States doesn't look much better. I want the same stuff I have with Palm, plus multitasking, and I don't want to be nickle and dimed on every dinky little customization. So that probably means it has to be Linux-based. Which is great, but the OpenMoko stuff isn't out yet and iPhone will be more locked down than even WinCE stuff. Anybody got suggestions? As it stands, the T650 is starting to fall apart and I'm still telling myself... in six months, something decent will be out. I've been telling myself that for 18 months...
"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue... I was able to get a sense of his soul... He's a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country and I appreciate very much the frank dialogue and that's the beginning of a very constructive relationship," Mr Bush said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1392791.stm
Interesting, thanks!
So, depending on your situation, AMD is not in as grim a position as it looks... but they are hurting, and need to do something soon. Still, they were ahead (in absolute performance) for about three years, and have been behind for about one. It seems like they're in general ahead on innovation (cool new features like 64 bit, Hypertransport, multicore, asymmetric cores, tend to come out of AMD's labs), while Intel is well ahead on process.
Intel has to be careful, though. If they do manage to kill AMD, a few things will happen. First, they're susceptible to anti-trust suits. Second, IBM might pick up AMD and close the process gap. Third... well, where will Intel look for new ideas?
Pretexting makes baby Jesus cry.
Disgusting.
Weird, because I have. Back before emusic changed their terms of service, I subscribed. I think maybe they've changed them again, but it doesn't matter: they've proven they can't be trusted to honor a deal.
Nope. There are people like that. I'm not one of them. I'd actually like the artists I enjoy to get paid. And I'd sign a contract to back that up. $500 now, $50/month for a year. I've been waiting for it for years. If I just wanted free stuff, I wouldn't have waited. I'd have it now.
No, and if they were $100/album, I wouldn't buy 5 albums and one more every two months. I think that the field of economics has a term for this phenomenon. Maybe you could look that up. Or you could read my original post. This time see if you can't manage to glance at every sentence.
If I can buy uncrippled, high quality media files, I will. ~256K VBR mp3 is about the lowest I'll consider. Yes, I can hear the difference, consistently. Apple's 256K AAC should meet this spec, though I haven't listened to much AAC.
Now, it's time to optimize the price. I'm aware that the actual costs of distribution over the net is very low, and I don't care about marketing costs, because virtually nothing I listen to is marketed at all. I don't like being ripped off. $1/song is still a ripoff, but for uncrippled content I'll probably buy a few albums I've been wanting, just to encourage them.
But. At $.50/song and $5.00/album, I'd buy 100 albums today. I've got a five year backlog to catch up on. Probably be good for another 10/month, too.
Come on, music labels. Talk to your artists, see who's willing to experiment with the prices. Healthy industries with real competition experiment with prices to find the most profitable price points. You're pricing like a monopoly, but you're forgetting that we do have alternatives: Free legal music, free illegal music, boycott, video, games, books, etc. I suspect you'd make a lot more money if you weren't so greedy, scared, contemptuous and contemptible. Why not find out?
As far as nodes... so far the biggest cluster I've had root on was 768 dual processor Xeons. That was alright. The density these days, though... makes you feel old, sometimes. And yes, I sympathize with respect to the beast herding :)
"Wow, that's just amazing," He said, looking up from the, from 16 core, 65G RAM Linux box he's working on today. "An OS that, in at least one area, isn't artificially crippled for marketing reasons."
Now somebody who has serious hardware is going to chime in...
PS: I do like OS X. It's quite a nice client.
...install an animated cursor in the first place? Okay, besides the CEO.
I want mirrored contacts. When somebody takes a flash photo of me it'll look like my head is exploding. Don't ask why I want that, I just... do.
As far as the show sustaining ze-- by the end, between sponsorship, Gimme Some Candy, and sales of meaningless merchandise, I think he was doing rather well. Not Hollywood rich-- that is next, I expect, and good for him: what he did over the last year is smarter and more interesting than what Hollywood did last year... but well into six figures. You can live on that, even in New York. But his plan, from day one of the show, was always to do it for one year only. It's amazing that he kept it (mostly) fresh until the end, but I don't think it could have gone on much longer. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of him, though.
That only goes back to 2001, so it misses a lot. But here's a typical example:
"The current Passport Terms of Use agreement not only fails to guarantee confidentially, but actually gives Microsoft and its business partners the right to own your information, and do pretty much what they want with it. That encompasses all your Hotmail and MSN Messenger communications today."
Of course, MS also has a long history of paying people to act as unbiased supporters in letter writing campaigns, forums, and other arenas. This is known as Astroturfing. ASTROTURFER :P