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Way, way back, when most people that ran MS OSes actually ran the ugly 16-bit shell called Windows For Workgroups 3.11, Windows NT already had smth called "the POSIX subsystem". It was there more or less since day one of Windows NT designs, engineered to work similarly to the "win32" subsystem, and there was even a brief period of time when MS marketed its OS as "the first fully POSIX-compatible OS", due to this POSIX subsystem. Their hope, apparently, was the same as today - that UNIX-oriented programmers from the scientific and industrial backgrounds will switch to NT. However, they failed to support and upgrade the POSIX subsystem, and, given the failed expectations of attracting customers to buying NT for that subsystem (the majority were migrating from win16), they decided to dump it altogether for a while. Back then it served just another feature on the feature list to push Windows NT to as many OEMs on one hand and programmers on the other hand as possible. Those who did come because ofthe POSIX compatibility, were frustrated but already locked in.
I'd suggest that anything like/tmp/var
be put into a tiny ramdisk (eat, say, 64-96MB off your 256) in this setup, and swap be abandoned. Mount everything ro except for/home. Use a journaling file system on/home. This will minimize the wear described in the parent post.
This is a strange suggestion in a post that advocates cost-saving measures, isn't it? The same laptop can easily be used as a diskless machine booted off the home network, mounting all it needs off the NFS.
BTW, is it true that once you certify source code it means you have to also certify the compiler and the OS (host and target) to make it useful? Smth leads me to assume that linux+gcc combination has a long way to go towards this...:(
Am I the only one that had to gulp on the article headline? In the crypto community, there is a notion of a "Chinese TV set" - a central-authority-controlled computing device that takes part in a distributed computation challenge unbeknowst to the owner, and informs him if he has to report the result suddenly printed on the screen to the authorities (smth along the lines "you've just been randomly selected by the central broadcasting authorities as a lottery winner. Please call this number and read them the following digits to verify your identity (broken key bits encoding follows) in order to claim XYZ Yuan prize"). Perhaps the Chinese govt. finally got the hint and decided to have this really implemented?:)
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this reminds me of an old one from the RHF
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/90q3/hogs.html
(can't help from responding to your sig)
My mother in law got her PC brought down by the said worm, and as a result asked me to erase everyting and install Linux instead, which I promptly did:-) So it looks like your sig is correct...
I was about to post a similar q when I have seen your post. This attitude of encouraging prison abuse seems very dangerous to me. This reminds me of the "most democratic constitution" that Stalin's government had passed in 1937 amidst of the greatest GULAG arrests, tortures and executions going absolutely against the letter of the law. To the grandfather poster and alikes: if you feel that spammers conviceted to prison should be forcibly raped, go ask your legislators to write that in the law!
For more serious people, better encourage those (donate?) who fight to diminish prison abuse. You have enough stupid laws and enough innocent people occasionally being framed and getting jailed.
I hate spam; I use spambouncer and I report to spamcop anything that seeps through. I believe that laws against spammers should be there, but I don't believe in rape as a way to make someone behave. I don't think it's a proper way to go in the cultures where public rape has been a traditional punishment, and I don't think it's a way to go elsewhere.
It would be perfectly legal for Knoppix
to *know* that you might have an NTFS.SYS
around on your computer, look around to see whether this is the case, and if it is, use your own copy NTFS.SYS.
Of course, Knoppix will never itself be packaged with the NTFS.SYS. But if you have an NTFS partition, you have a damn good chance of having an NT around as well, with the driver right in there.
I can only hope that MS doesn't insert some nastiness into the NTFS.SYS that would prevent it from running inside the framework described in TFA.
questions like this (if you really want to
get help on tracing this particular guy
and/or help get his account shutdown with
the help of your sightings) better be taken
to NANAE/NANAS newsgroups
Please read the FAQ before you post -
http://www.spamfaq.net/
BTW, your sighting has been reported already,
see Google groups
What I still hate about Mozilla is the (netscape 3
legacy, I believe, or whenever the 1st composer was released) is the "tag abuse syndrome" promulgated by it. The worst thing IMHO is the "indent"/"unindent" buttons which (rather than actually use the CSS indent properties available today) actually use nested tags implying some logic the author doesn't mean. Today's standards are all about the separation of contents and layout, and the NS/Moz composer do it the wrong way IMHO.
yeah, this sucks as well. I am most amused when I hear people accepting phone calls from inside a cabin of a lavatory:)
I think there's nothing wrong that folks want to talk to others, but I agree it's an insane way to vent this urge. It's much better to meet people in person.
that's they way it's done in a some of places other than the U.S. (but it requires either an easily distinguished number prefix for the cellulars in the numbering plan, or a special dialtone when you call a cellular phone) This way, you wouldn't be bearing the cost of those 411-originated calls. The thing is, you (the caller) conciously pay a surcharge (to the telco) for the immediate availability of the mobile user.
BTW, I don't have a cellphone. I hate them, partly because even with people you don't mind calling you occasionally, it's so nasty when they can call you anywhere. A lot of people say "you can switch it off", but I see lots of the same people cursing at their phones ringing in inappropriate time. Apparently, it's not that easy to make one's self switch it off...
that's the 1st time I see someone actually sounding a bit shy of RTFM. It's the other sort of folks, those who never read the docs/HOWTO/FAQs/mans that should be ashamed, not you. And education b/g doesn't matter here at all - I know a lot of folks with master or doctor degree in CS that just suck at their jobs, and are never able to learn something from technical documentation, no matter how well written.
Now personally I prefer the Apache docs, FAQs and mod_perl mailing list to cover anything I don't understand in it, and go to source code when in doubt, so I don't think I'll be tempted to buy this book...
I think that an update should be posted at the article level ASAP - this way, with the "or else" clause, it just shows the editor never read the linked in material, and makes/. look bad.
Since then there has been a lot of noise and shouting, but little has changed. The smaller dealership continues to sell sleek Euro-styled sedans and to spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns. They have had
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! signs taped up in their windows for so long that they have gotten all yellow and curly. The big one keeps making bigger and bigger station wagons and ORVs.
(Neal Stephenson, "In the beginning was the command line")
Looks like this "going out of business" is their way of doing business... Well, why not?:-))
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Way, way back, when most people that ran MS OSes actually ran the ugly 16-bit shell called Windows For Workgroups 3.11, Windows NT already had smth called "the POSIX subsystem". It was there more or less since day one of Windows NT designs, engineered to work similarly to the "win32" subsystem, and there was even a brief period of time when MS marketed its OS as "the first fully POSIX-compatible OS", due to this POSIX subsystem. Their hope, apparently, was the same as today - that UNIX-oriented programmers from the scientific and industrial backgrounds will switch to NT. However, they failed to support and upgrade the POSIX subsystem, and, given the failed expectations of attracting customers to buying NT for that subsystem (the majority were migrating from win16), they decided to dump it altogether for a while. Back then it served just another feature on the feature list to push Windows NT to as many OEMs on one hand and programmers on the other hand as possible. Those who did come because ofthe POSIX compatibility, were frustrated but already locked in.
Yours is one of the best comments I have read on Slashdot! Thank you for posting it.
I was talking about using a tiny USB drive (RO) or a
RO diskette to do the netboot.
I'd suggest that anything like /tmp /var
be put into a tiny ramdisk (eat, say, 64-96MB off your 256) in this setup, and swap be abandoned. Mount everything ro except for /home. Use a journaling file system on /home. This will minimize the wear described in the parent post.
All modern BIOSes do. Some vendors allow you BIOS firmware upgrades to modern versions, which would help you to boot directly off the USB drive.
BTW, is it true that once you certify source code it means you have to also certify the compiler and the OS (host and target) to make it useful? Smth leads me to assume that linux+gcc combination has a long way to go towards this... :(
Am I the only one that had to gulp on the article headline? In the crypto community, there is a notion of a "Chinese TV set" - a central-authority-controlled computing device that takes part in a distributed computation challenge unbeknowst to the owner, and informs him if he has to report the result suddenly printed on the screen to the authorities (smth along the lines "you've just been randomly selected by the central broadcasting authorities as a lottery winner. Please call this number and read them the following digits to verify your identity (broken key bits encoding follows) in order to claim XYZ Yuan prize"). Perhaps the Chinese govt. finally got the hint and decided to have this really implemented? :)
this reminds me of an old one from the RHF http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/90q3/hogs.html
(can't help from responding to your sig) My mother in law got her PC brought down by the said worm, and as a result asked me to erase everyting and install Linux instead, which I promptly did :-) So it looks like your sig is correct...
For more serious people, better encourage those (donate?) who fight to diminish prison abuse. You have enough stupid laws and enough innocent people occasionally being framed and getting jailed.
I hate spam; I use spambouncer and I report to spamcop anything that seeps through. I believe that laws against spammers should be there, but I don't believe in rape as a way to make someone behave. I don't think it's a proper way to go in the cultures where public rape has been a traditional punishment, and I don't think it's a way to go elsewhere.
It would be perfectly legal for Knoppix to *know* that you might have an NTFS.SYS around on your computer, look around to see whether this is the case, and if it is, use your own copy NTFS.SYS.
Of course, Knoppix will never itself be packaged with the NTFS.SYS. But if you have an NTFS partition, you have a damn good chance of having an NT around as well, with the driver right in there.
I can only hope that MS doesn't insert some nastiness into the NTFS.SYS that would prevent it from running inside the framework described in TFA.
HTH
"Real Audio released, allowing users to listen to halting bursts of static in real time."
I think this is the best part literature-wise...
Please read the FAQ before you post - http://www.spamfaq.net/
BTW, your sighting has been reported already, see Google groups
A companion to StupidaMouse(TM), StupidKey(TM) etc...d f
http://www.dumbentia.com/pdflib/stupida.p
LOL! Yeah, kinda like those Cuttner's story about Hogben's uncle that had the racoons hypnotized into frying themselves on a fire...
What I still hate about Mozilla is the (netscape 3 legacy, I believe, or whenever the 1st composer was released) is the "tag abuse syndrome" promulgated by it. The worst thing IMHO is the "indent"/"unindent" buttons which (rather than actually use the CSS indent properties available today) actually use nested tags implying some logic the author doesn't mean. Today's standards are all about the separation of contents and layout, and the NS/Moz composer do it the wrong way IMHO.
I think there's nothing wrong that folks want to talk to others, but I agree it's an insane way to vent this urge. It's much better to meet people in person.
BTW, I don't have a cellphone. I hate them, partly because even with people you don't mind calling you occasionally, it's so nasty when they can call you anywhere. A lot of people say "you can switch it off", but I see lots of the same people cursing at their phones ringing in inappropriate time. Apparently, it's not that easy to make one's self switch it off...
Now personally I prefer the Apache docs, FAQs and mod_perl mailing list to cover anything I don't understand in it, and go to source code when in doubt, so I don't think I'll be tempted to buy this book...
(and on boxes out there running other versions, and on uptimes, etc.) - see the Linux Counter
The perl link points to a sf project that has not released any files, has empty CVS, empty hp etc. It seems that the project is only going to do it.
I think that an update should be posted at the article level ASAP - this way, with the "or else" clause, it just shows the editor never read the linked in material, and makes /. look bad.
Looks like this "going out of business" is their way of doing business... Well, why not? :-))
Thanks for the link! Actually, I found it even more interesting than the article itself :-)