Printers in Linux have been a horrible experience for me (winmodems win for being the MOST horrible). Especially if it's a remote printer , one of those which runs SMB printing services (as in office).
This CUPS Horror fairly describes why a Gooey interface to printers are not enough.
Looks like the article was slashdotted... it stopped half way without images.
I compile a LOT of my libraries on my box (it's an FC1 hybrid) and my other box is a gentoo.
Most of the exploits (ie actual "exploits") depend on the EIP or some other register being clobbered or the stack being smashed to execute a data block. Metasploit has a nice database of such clobberable locations for Windows
So if you compile your own stuff with your own "-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector", you may be breaking the binary compatibility of exploit:).
Most ordinary exploits will fail for such custom compiled stuff , unless the guy at the other end takes a memory dump (hard to do undetected over the network) and reads the.stab entries first to figure out your box's weak spot (to use "-g" or not... hmm..). If you're dealing with guys like that , then you'd better invest a bit better in security than I do . I call it "Security through Diversity" .
You mean this > ?. (Definitely not safe for work, especially if you work in a Windows shop).
Gnome is being watered down for morons
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I used to run gnome, but a couple of years back nautilus came out. It was a memory hog and cpu hog - that's when I realized that I don't really use a desktop anymore. What I use is a set of apps , almost all of them I know by name , from the commandline . gaim, xchat, galeon, etc..
All this got worse as soon as I started working with remote-X, I finally gave up gnome and kde as a desktop. I still use gnome apps and kde apps (kppp's still my dialer, gimp has no equal) , but not the desktop or their wms.
People define "Ease of use" differently - I just don't happen to like the way gnome is going... it's being watered down for morons - a larger market of morons are there than my kind . It does make sense , but I have my own fluxbox:)
Bangalore is farther away from Pakistan than New Delhi. It's land locked , surrounded by mountains and cool dry place. It's the last place pakistan's going to drop the bomb . If the unthinkable ever happens it would be Delhi and Bombay first... and then Islamabad would be glassy crater by that time . India has a "No First Use" policy for nuclear weapons:)
Oh and Microsoft's Hyderabad campus in Summer feels like 45 centigrade with 40 KMPH dry winds whipping dust . If you don't have an AC car and an air conditioned home, you're more likely to eat , sleep and work in office... (hmm... maybe that's why).
> The most important factor in converting a stagnant economy (as found in so many 3rd world countries) into a bristling one is simply to get one's currency to flow!
I'd like to add that as long as the people keep their money in the market and don't liquidate it , they don't pay taxes.
If your stocks appreciate to 200% of the original value, you get double the money - but the government punishes you with taxes if you try to liquidate and hoard it.
I'm not an economist, but IMHO Income Tax on investment liquidation is an essential part of Capitalism . Tax cuts will encourage liquidation of assets and weaken the economy in general !.
I pay around 28% of my income as tax (India) and I don't like taxes anymore than you do - but they are needed. (oh, and I don't want any of that used to fund a war)
Seriously it's a hard job convincing people that it's stable when the developers are still putting Zero Point releases , especially at work. 1.1 Sounds a LOT more stable than 9.0... to some people at least.
Take back the Web ! ("Rediscover the web" sucks...)
Outsourcing is much of an innovative and disruptive PROCESS as much as the Ford's assembly line was. The buggy whip makers didn't get it that time either , I suppose you don't either
And I'd like to repeat this: "don't dish it out, if you can't take it" applies to Capitalism and Free Trade as well. America has been forcing open quite a few markets in a form of neo-colonialism, I think it deserves this payback. To quote 50 Cent's song - "Everyone's fat, everyone's fed, while the streets starve".
You're all welcome to go back on the "protectionist" taxes and denying H1B Visas to Indians.... but then FORGET about India as a market. Read a
little Gandhi if you need help understandbing that.. he even had a word for it - "Swadeshi".
> The money my boss pays me gets spent in this country (mostly - I dont drive imports). When I spend money in my own country, it iunvigorates the LOCAL economy,
WHAT about that ?. I wonder why US has a negative in exports balance (there was a time that would be ILLEGAL in India).
America has slowly become a service provider and material consumer - it's on the downslope of industrial revolution.
Do you think the situation has improved now ?.
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> There wasn't even remotely anything like the 10s of thousands of people seen in the streets of Najaf brandishing arms in support of al-Sadr, or no-go zones like Fallujah, Samarra, Kufa, and increasingly Sadr City.
You fools, you don't realize what you've actually done. You've replaced a brutal secular dictator who played war for material gains with a bunch of religious fanatic fundamentalists who are fighting for spiritual gains of another world. Suicide bombers and the jehadi BOYS are very very difficult to fight compared to a conventional war against an army.
Of course this is the same Secular dictator who saw the world a lot clearer than most. He was the only middle east ruler to accept that Kashmir was a territorial issue which had nothing to do with religion. British intelligence supplied the chemical weapons tech to Saddam to gas the Kurds and US of A supplied the planes for him to beat down Iran. Call to the Jehad was his last stand , after a decade of economic war by America through the UN sock puppet.
The entire Iraq conflict was a proxy war to defend the Dollar against Euro in the OPEC and to divert attention from Bush's oil selling cronies in Saudi, not to mention "earn" cash by "rebuilding" Iraq.
I'm just waiting for tomorrow to see if the world sees another 9/11. The recent events seem ripe for another.
Will a dual core chip be a Single CPU ?.
Is HyperThreading treated as a dual CPU ?.
And if you treat them differently , they are still a single socket chip, so why the discrimination ?.
> With Linux, you may have to buy some software, but most of the stuff you need can be found around the net, just couple of clicks away from being ready for you to use.
I would say that's a very common mistake. I've spent a LOT more time downloading and building stuff and man it's hard.
1) you download the tar ball, 2) Oh it needs gtk2 gtkhtml3 and mysql4 3) download and compile 4)./configure CFLAGS="-03 -Larry -Wall -fwith-everything-except-your-...." --with-fries-and-coke 5) install everything , argh ! 6) broken totally !
Bleh, nothing is a couple of clicks away except total destruction of your box:(.
The fixed ABI has its own problems - see Opcode DB. (of course the problem's all due COM with the a.pVT->xhx() calls).
Don't delude yourself about anything in Linux being a click away. Shareware you pay with cash, Free Software with your time - I've had to hack proxy support into at least half-dozen things that has crossed my path.
> I mean, I'm all for computers for the poor, but first things first... clean water and electric power.
I'm in India and often I see houses with no running water have TV antenna sticking out of it... apparently priorities are slightly different:)
That aside, if you go to my home state Kerala, and ask a maid servant (who earns about 50 USD per month) where her son is , you'll be surprised to learn he's in college and studying engineering. Government funding and cross subsidisation ensures that education is cheap for the merit students. Unfortunately this phenomenon seems to be isolated to Kerala.
What I wanted to say is that this bold and risky investment on the future happens only when the people see a bright future ahead. These computers might bring hope to a few people in India and might urge them to not quit school before they're 14.
Imaginary conversation from the pentagon:-
You could classify those photos but then Jorge here wants a peice out of the pie. Why not siphon out a few millions for "National Security" for them photos ?. Oh, and if you don't we're going to have to send those photos. After all we've got place food on the table , don't we ? *grin*.
Looks almost like a perfect case of corruption , collusion with a hint of blackmail?.
When I first saw it , I wondered how he actually typed in the C code, and then I saw the keyboard buffer code:). It'd have been fun to say, to save in ED, press Down Down , Up Left, X (Mortal Kombat memories).
Lookup Unix Version7 sources which have been ported to run on 32 Bit CPUs . With a 50k kernel binary and similarly shrunk libs , it's a nice thing to play around with.
I've been planning to play around with gpsim and gpsim-lcd for sometime now... not to write a full OS , but just enough to play Pong:)
I'm all for innovation and all that, but I've been burned a couple of times with protocols moving around a bit too often (for example mysql protocol between 4.0 and 4.1).
How much is XDAMAGE changing the original X11 protocol on wire ?. I have beed using something called WierdX, which is deployed as a JNLP in our project's webserver . Do these new extensions change something fundamental or is it just not applicable for remote X11 ?.
Hmm.. I just wish X11 would use my Video card instead of hogging CPU for those purty gradients and translucent windows.
I kinda had a flashback to the "SCO Linux licenses" thing for patents sometime back..
Since sudo doesn't need any manuals than those that already exist , uses PAM and needs 0% maintanence, I fail to get what the commercial license brings ?. Since sudo is a regular systems tool, the "we only use supported tools" point also doesn't really matter as I already have umbrella vendor support for it.
If it's for patent protection I won't part a dime !!.
Personally I picked my college on the basis of the distance to home (22 km) and college's history (73 years old, older than Free India itself). And all my parents had to spend was the equivalent of a couple of month's salary (~500 USD) on my entire undergraduate course.
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if you're not a socialist at 18, you've got no heart
Calculating missile trajectories are less dangerous than making the warheads..
On one side , real nuclear testing is banned... and then US wants others to quit simulations too ?. Talk about standing in the way of progress.
The US of A knows the importance of mutually assured destruction (@see{Cold War})... Right now nukes on both sides are preventing India and Pakistan from starting a conventional war (terrorism is bad, but that's a lot less scarring than having tanks roll in onto NH 1 through Leh heading for Delhi).
Anyway, maybe it's making India a LOT less dependent on commercial US tech for its military . All for the good, I hope.
Do remember that 90% of the time, it's not the size that matters , but the organization.
I've worked on a relatively small cluster processing experiment in college with 12 boxes on a 10 Mbps LAN with a combined memory of 1.5 Gb RAM . It might not look much , but with 32 MB of RAM on each box (each had 128 MB ram) being held by the home cooked shared memory daemon (this was waaay before memcached was born, Ok) , the boxes ran the number crunching beautifully.
The operation needed was simple, to sort and process an amazingly HUGE chunk of data in almost realtime (in this case some wierd algorithm some Mech teacher wanted and did up in C).
Anyway in about 7 weeks and reusing a dozen of the college's vanilla PCs we did a LOT of interesting things.
So my question is , how's the server connected memory wise (most of these tasks are highly memory bound or at least that's the major bottleneck to optimise).
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This CUPS Horror fairly describes why a Gooey interface to printers are not enough.
Looks like the article was slashdottedMost of the exploits (ie actual "exploits") depend on the EIP or some other register being clobbered or the stack being smashed to execute a data block. Metasploit has a nice database of such clobberable locations for Windows
So if you compile your own stuff with your own "-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector", you may be breaking the binary compatibility of exploit :).
Most ordinary exploits will fail for such custom compiled stuff , unless the guy at the other end takes a memory dump (hard to do undetected over the network) and reads the .stab entries first to figure out your box's weak spot (to use "-g" or not ... hmm..). If you're dealing with guys like that , then you'd better invest a bit better in security than I do . I call it "Security through Diversity" .
Too bad windows users don't have that option.
You mean this > ?. (Definitely not safe for work, especially if you work in a Windows shop).
I used to run gnome, but a couple of years back nautilus came out. It was a memory hog and cpu hog - that's when I realized that I don't really use a desktop anymore. What I use is a set of apps , almost all of them I know by name , from the commandline . gaim, xchat, galeon, etc..
... it's being watered down for morons - a larger market of morons are there than my kind . It does make sense , but I have my own fluxbox :)
All this got worse as soon as I started working with remote-X, I finally gave up gnome and kde as a desktop. I still use gnome apps and kde apps (kppp's still my dialer, gimp has no equal) , but not the desktop or their wms.
People define "Ease of use" differently - I just don't happen to like the way gnome is going
Bangalore is farther away from Pakistan than New Delhi. It's land locked , surrounded by mountains and cool dry place. It's the last place pakistan's going to drop the bomb . If the unthinkable ever happens it would be Delhi and Bombay first ... and then Islamabad would be glassy crater by that time . India has a "No First Use" policy for nuclear weapons :)
... (hmm... maybe that's why).
Oh and Microsoft's Hyderabad campus in Summer feels like 45 centigrade with 40 KMPH dry winds whipping dust . If you don't have an AC car and an air conditioned home, you're more likely to eat , sleep and work in office
> The most important factor in converting a stagnant economy (as found in so many 3rd world countries) into a bristling one is simply to get one's currency to flow!
I'd like to add that as long as the people keep their money in the market and don't liquidate it , they don't pay taxes.
If your stocks appreciate to 200% of the original value, you get double the money - but the government punishes you with taxes if you try to liquidate and hoard it.
I'm not an economist, but IMHO Income Tax on investment liquidation is an essential part of Capitalism . Tax cuts will encourage liquidation of assets and weaken the economy in general !.
I pay around 28% of my income as tax (India) and I don't like taxes anymore than you do - but they are needed. (oh, and I don't want any of that used to fund a war)
Don't worry we have :) ...
My daily reading list includes dilbert, userfriendly, penny arcade , ctrlaltdel online and applegeeks.
(I'm not an *IT* guy, I'm a programmer in India... )
Apparently they should have known about this, there's no other logical explanation for this :)
Anyway just goes to prove how underhanded MS really is . ("We already have a patch")
Seriously it's a hard job convincing people that it's stable when the developers are still putting Zero Point releases , especially at work. 1.1 Sounds a LOT more stable than 9.0 ... to some people at least.
Take back the Web ! ("Rediscover the web" sucks...)And I'd like to repeat this: "don't dish it out, if you can't take it" applies to Capitalism and Free Trade as well. America has been forcing open quite a few markets in a form of neo-colonialism, I think it deserves this payback. To quote 50 Cent's song - "Everyone's fat, everyone's fed, while the streets starve".
You're all welcome to go back on the "protectionist" taxes and denying H1B Visas to IndiansWHAT about that ?. I wonder why US has a negative in exports balance (there was a time that would be ILLEGAL in India).
America has slowly become a service provider and material consumer - it's on the downslope of industrial revolution.> There wasn't even remotely anything like the 10s of thousands of people seen in the streets of Najaf brandishing arms in support of al-Sadr, or no-go zones like Fallujah, Samarra, Kufa, and increasingly Sadr City.
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You fools, you don't realize what you've actually done. You've replaced a brutal secular dictator who played war for material gains with a bunch of religious fanatic fundamentalists who are fighting for spiritual gains of another world. Suicide bombers and the jehadi BOYS are very very difficult to fight compared to a conventional war against an army.
Of course this is the same Secular dictator who saw the world a lot clearer than most. He was the only middle east ruler to accept that Kashmir was a territorial issue which had nothing to do with religion. British intelligence supplied the chemical weapons tech to Saddam to gas the Kurds and US of A supplied the planes for him to beat down Iran. Call to the Jehad was his last stand , after a decade of economic war by America through the UN sock puppet
The entire Iraq conflict was a proxy war to defend the Dollar against Euro in the OPEC and to divert attention from Bush's oil selling cronies in Saudi, not to mention "earn" cash by "rebuilding" Iraq.
I'm just waiting for tomorrow to see if the world sees another 9/11. The recent events seem ripe for another.
I need
BEEF:CACE:BEEF:CACE:BEEF:CACE:BEEF:CACE
and Looking for
CAFE:BABE:CAFE:BABE:CAFE:BABE:CAFE:BABE
Will a dual core chip be a Single CPU ?.
Is HyperThreading treated as a dual CPU ?.
And if you treat them differently , they are still a single socket chip, so why the discrimination ?.
I would say that's a very common mistake. I've spent a LOT more time downloading and building stuff and man it's hard.
Bleh, nothing is a couple of clicks away except total destruction of your boxThe fixed ABI has its own problems - see Opcode DB. (of course the problem's all due COM with the a.pVT->xhx() calls).
Don't delude yourself about anything in Linux being a click away. Shareware you pay with cash, Free Software with your time - I've had to hack proxy support into at least half-dozen things that has crossed my path.
> I mean, I'm all for computers for the poor, but first things first... clean water and electric power.
... apparently priorities are slightly different :)
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I'm in India and often I see houses with no running water have TV antenna sticking out of it
That aside, if you go to my home state Kerala, and ask a maid servant (who earns about 50 USD per month) where her son is , you'll be surprised to learn he's in college and studying engineering. Government funding and cross subsidisation ensures that education is cheap for the merit students. Unfortunately this phenomenon seems to be isolated to Kerala
What I wanted to say is that this bold and risky investment on the future happens only when the people see a bright future ahead. These computers might bring hope to a few people in India and might urge them to not quit school before they're 14.
They already have Adwords.
Imaginary conversation from the pentagon :-
You could classify those photos but then Jorge here wants a peice out of the pie. Why not siphon out a few millions for "National Security" for them photos ?. Oh, and if you don't we're going to have to send those photos. After all we've got place food on the table , don't we ? *grin*.
Looks almost like a perfect case of corruption , collusion with a hint of blackmail?.
When I first saw it , I wondered how he actually typed in the C code, and then I saw the keyboard buffer code :). It'd have been fun to say, to save in ED, press Down Down , Up Left, X (Mortal Kombat memories).
Lookup Unix Version7 sources which have been ported to run on 32 Bit CPUs . With a 50k kernel binary and similarly shrunk libs , it's a nice thing to play around with.
I've been planning to play around with gpsim and gpsim-lcd for sometime nowHow much is XDAMAGE changing the original X11 protocol on wire ?. I have beed using something called WierdX, which is deployed as a JNLP in our project's webserver . Do these new extensions change something fundamental or is it just not applicable for remote X11 ?.
Hmm.. I just wish X11 would use my Video card instead of hogging CPU for those purty gradients and translucent windows.
I kinda had a flashback to the "SCO Linux licenses" thing for patents sometime back ..
Since sudo doesn't need any manuals than those that already exist , uses PAM and needs 0% maintanence, I fail to get what the commercial license brings ?. Since sudo is a regular systems tool, the "we only use supported tools" point also doesn't really matter as I already have umbrella vendor support for it.
If it's for patent protection I won't part a dime !!.
No matter which guy you vote for, you're encouraging them ... damn politicians.
Personally I picked my college on the basis of the distance to home (22 km) and college's history (73 years old, older than Free India itself). And all my parents had to spend was the equivalent of a couple of month's salary (~500 USD) on my entire undergraduate course.
--
if you're not a socialist at 18, you've got no heart
Calculating missile trajectories are less dangerous than making the warheads ..
... and then US wants others to quit simulations too ?. Talk about standing in the way of progress.
... Right now nukes on both sides are preventing India and Pakistan from starting a conventional war (terrorism is bad, but that's a lot less scarring than having tanks roll in onto NH 1 through Leh heading for Delhi).
On one side , real nuclear testing is banned
The US of A knows the importance of mutually assured destruction (@see{Cold War})
Anyway, maybe it's making India a LOT less dependent on commercial US tech for its military . All for the good, I hope.
> almost 3TB total
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Do remember that 90% of the time, it's not the size that matters , but the organization.
I've worked on a relatively small cluster processing experiment in college with 12 boxes on a 10 Mbps LAN with a combined memory of 1.5 Gb RAM . It might not look much , but with 32 MB of RAM on each box (each had 128 MB ram) being held by the home cooked shared memory daemon (this was waaay before memcached was born, Ok) , the boxes ran the number crunching beautifully
The operation needed was simple, to sort and process an amazingly HUGE chunk of data in almost realtime (in this case some wierd algorithm some Mech teacher wanted and did up in C).
Anyway in about 7 weeks and reusing a dozen of the college's vanilla PCs we did a LOT of interesting things
So my question is , how's the server connected memory wise (most of these tasks are highly memory bound or at least that's the major bottleneck to optimise).