Isn't a candidate allowed to say or write something at least remotely sarcastic or has this country really become that politically correct?
Hell, people ought to be thrilled that a serious candidate knows what Slashdot is, much less well enough to actually engage in tounge-in-cheek humor about it.
That seems like an awfully big hammer. Especially since, as one of the syadmins over at XMission Internet I'd really rather not experience that. And before everybody points it out, yes, XMission is Pete Ashdown's company.:]
Your examples of US techincal innovation are the iPod and a toothbrush? Um, that's pathetic.
You simply prove Mr. Ashdown's point. The last century we put a man on the moon and now you're heralding these toys as proof that same legacy continues?
And, my, it certainly is unusual that US citizens would be granted the majority of US patents. In other supposedly shocking news, more patents were granted by the UK patent office to British citizens than to citizens of any other country.
Consering the amount of traffic that site just took, it's in remarkably good condition. A couple of defacements, but even so, what real effect do defacements have so long as they're fixed in a timely manner?
That's true, if by 'he' you mean 'his supporters'. Wikipedia, for instance, doesn't fight vandalism by having Jimmy Wales at a keyboard all day reverting articles. The *power* of the Wiki is that it isn't moderated by one person, but by a group of people who all have an interest in seeing it become an accurate source of information.
Yes, all those many rivals who lurk Slashdot just waiting for their chance to support the DMCA and draconian copyright laws. Clearly, you've hit upon their master plan.
Well, we were a mirror on www.electoral-vote7.com until we were pulled from DNS earlier this evening. We handled the load without a problem, even while hostrocket.com got crushed. Our services were voluntary and we neither asked for or received any compensation for our mirror. We served about 10 million hits today on the website today and peaked at about 2.5 mil/hour earlier in the day.
I don't know why we and the other non-hostrocket.com mirrors were pulled from the DNS round-robin, but I do know that the decsion to remove us and the other non-hostrocket sites from the DNS round-robin for www.electoral-vote.com was made without consulting us (which is fine, it just seemed a bit odd.) After we were pulled, hostrocket.com basically tipped over and the site went down hard.
creapy? Is this some sort of new Slashdot term to combine 'creepy' and 'crappy'?
Or perhaps this is a warning to watch out for crape making IP lawyers? Or 'cream'...well, never mind.
-mp
I don't mean to start a petty 'War of the Languages,' but I pretty much stopped reading this article when I read that this program was written in Java. Our mail servers are slammed enough as it is, just trying to route incoming mail and using SpamAssassin is pushing six machines close to the breaking point. Why on earth would I want to even think about throwing JVM into the mix? An interesting idea, but I think I'll wait until we see something in C....
Debian Sparc has a SCSI error message that says:
'Penguins in the intrurrupts?' when it halts on a SCSI bus error I believe. It's enormously *unfunny* at 3 AM when trying to force Debian onto a Sparc Classic, let me tell you...
Beware the -u option: From the hdparm manpage comes the following warning...
-u Get/set interrupt-unmask flag for the drive. A
setting of 1 permits the driver to unmask other
interrupts during processing of a disk interrupt,
which greatly improves Linux's responsiveness and
eliminates "serial port overrun" errors. Use this
feature with caution: some drive/controller combi
nations do not tolerate the increased I/O latencies
possible when this feature is enabled, resulting in
massive filesystem corruption. In particular,
CMD-640B and RZ1000 (E)IDE interfaces can be unre
liable (due to a hardware flaw) when this option is
used with kernel versions earlier than 2.0.13.
Disabling the IDE prefetch feature of these interfaces
(usually a BIOS/CMOS setting) provides a
safe fix for the problem for use with earlier ker
nels.
Why is this so unique? Ximian Gnome has been using this installation method for a while now. All a user has to do assuming X is installed and working is type as root, 'wget http://go-gnome.com | sh'. Simple as that....
Slashdot Mirror
...I can't imagine that Jeff Merkey would be high on anybody's list. I'd like to the Wikipedia article for full details, but, well....
...installing the pubic keys onto arbitrary devices will be non-trivial.
One would certainly hope so. The last thing we need is a bunch of nerds holding a pubic key-signing party.
Isn't a candidate allowed to say or write something at least remotely sarcastic or has this country really become that politically correct? Hell, people ought to be thrilled that a serious candidate knows what Slashdot is, much less well enough to actually engage in tounge-in-cheek humor about it.
That seems like an awfully big hammer. Especially since, as one of the syadmins over at XMission Internet I'd really rather not experience that. And before everybody points it out, yes, XMission is Pete Ashdown's company. :]
Republicans are so cute when they get upset.
Huh?
How exactly does introducing one issue constitute "shrugging off" another issue?
It was only a few weeks ago that Nagios announced that they'd be working with the Splunk project. Details are here.
Your examples of US techincal innovation are the iPod and a toothbrush? Um, that's pathetic.
You simply prove Mr. Ashdown's point. The last century we put a man on the moon and now you're heralding these toys as proof that same legacy continues?
And, my, it certainly is unusual that US citizens would be granted the majority of US patents. In other supposedly shocking news, more patents were granted by the UK patent office to British citizens than to citizens of any other country.
Consering the amount of traffic that site just took, it's in remarkably good condition. A couple of defacements, but even so, what real effect do defacements have so long as they're fixed in a timely manner?
That's true, if by 'he' you mean 'his supporters'. Wikipedia, for instance, doesn't fight vandalism by having Jimmy Wales at a keyboard all day reverting articles. The *power* of the Wiki is that it isn't moderated by one person, but by a group of people who all have an interest in seeing it become an accurate source of information.
Yes, all those many rivals who lurk Slashdot just waiting for their chance to support the DMCA and draconian copyright laws. Clearly, you've hit upon their master plan.
Well, we were a mirror on www.electoral-vote7.com until we were pulled from DNS earlier this evening. We handled the load without a problem, even while hostrocket.com got crushed. Our services were voluntary and we neither asked for or received any compensation for our mirror. We served about 10 million hits today on the website today and peaked at about 2.5 mil/hour earlier in the day.
I don't know why we and the other non-hostrocket.com mirrors were pulled from the DNS round-robin, but I do know that the decsion to remove us and the other non-hostrocket sites from the DNS round-robin for www.electoral-vote.com was made without consulting us (which is fine, it just seemed a bit odd.) After we were pulled, hostrocket.com basically tipped over and the site went down hard.
This sounds exactly like what's been happening for ages over at Transom
"We now now that schoolboys have hacked into the Pentagon computers." Where's the evidence for this?
creapy? Is this some sort of new Slashdot term to combine 'creepy' and 'crappy'? Or perhaps this is a warning to watch out for crape making IP lawyers? Or 'cream'...well, never mind. -mp
Can anybody explain this a little more? I'm not familier with 'mls', and I don't see it anywhere in the Debian archive.
I don't mean to start a petty 'War of the Languages,' but I pretty much stopped reading this article when I read that this program was written in Java. Our mail servers are slammed enough as it is, just trying to route incoming mail and using SpamAssassin is pushing six machines close to the breaking point. Why on earth would I want to even think about throwing JVM into the mix? An interesting idea, but I think I'll wait until we see something in C....
Debian Sparc has a SCSI error message that says: 'Penguins in the intrurrupts?' when it halts on a SCSI bus error I believe. It's enormously *unfunny* at 3 AM when trying to force Debian onto a Sparc Classic, let me tell you...
Notice the date on the post? It's an April Fool's joke.
Beware the -u option: From the hdparm manpage comes the following warning...
-u Get/set interrupt-unmask flag for the drive. A
setting of 1 permits the driver to unmask other
interrupts during processing of a disk interrupt,
which greatly improves Linux's responsiveness and
eliminates "serial port overrun" errors. Use this
feature with caution: some drive/controller combi
nations do not tolerate the increased I/O latencies
possible when this feature is enabled, resulting in
massive filesystem corruption. In particular,
CMD-640B and RZ1000 (E)IDE interfaces can be unre
liable (due to a hardware flaw) when this option is
used with kernel versions earlier than 2.0.13.
Disabling the IDE prefetch feature of these interfaces
(usually a BIOS/CMOS setting) provides a
safe fix for the problem for use with earlier ker
nels.
I believe this would also require sshd to be running setuid root which is not the default behavior.
Why is this so unique? Ximian Gnome has been using this installation method for a while now. All a user has to do assuming X is installed and working is type as root, 'wget http://go-gnome.com | sh'. Simple as that....