For $9.99 I can buy 10-song downloads by unknown bands that mostly suck. 40% cheaper than the RIAA. Wow.
And they don't even offer thirty second previews or an "internet radio" stream so you can find out if any of this stuff is any good.
Why are you so negative? I just listened to a thirty second preview of a song. It's wonderful there's no DRM. It's wonderful there's ogg. If I can find music I like, then I will buy it. I wish all music were available like this--I'd spend a lot of money in a few minutes!
Code not very tolerant of my machine!
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I finished building the shell after I changed the code that uses a non-standard way of printing the usage message, show_help() in src/ftsh.c. In emacs, I replaced ^\(.*\)\\$ with "\1", and then went back and changed the lines that did not end in a backslash, removed the beginning and ending quotes.
Then it compiled (on Fedora Core 1).
Then it failed the functions test, because my computer does not have the file/etc/networks. For a fault tolerant shell, it does not seem very tolerant of my machine! After sudo touch/etc/networks, make succeeded.
Anyway, those were the only two problems, and now it's installed. Let's see if it's worth building into an RPM package.
What is wrong with using the GPL for a book (compared with Creative Commons), apart from offering fewer choices to the user? If you are happy with others making money of the book, I don't see a problem with it. I was surprised to read the statement in the article:
First, the GPL is a software license, and is less suitable as a copyleft license for books than the GFDL or a CC license.
The GFDL places quite a few restrictions on use of a work compared with the GPL. There is also the Open Publication License which seems to be less restrictive than the GFDL.
Most of you Kwai Lo look all the same to us asians too!
A good start with learning about Linux
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Rebooting after a Linux install is nerve racking. You never know if things are going to work out. In my case, of course, Linux failed.
I guess this person is just getting started learning about Linux. Some might think that his short, aborted learning experience "proves Linux is harder than Windows". If he originally knew Linux, then tried using Windows, he may have equal trouble.
Good on him; I hope he continues to spend some time learning how to use Linux, and then writes about his successes.
Two lecturers from an Australian recently-upgraded-to-university college (not in NSW) told me recently that 60% of all year 1 students were found (with strong evidence) to be copying other people's programming assignments. But since the student union had student lawyers with lots of time on their hands, and the harried lecturers had little time available to argue each of the many hundreds of individual cases in 1 hour individual hearings, and because the senior administration was spineless in supporting the department, the department head backed down, and the situation continues unabated.
I would not trust graduates from that "university" to work for me. I feel sad to come from a country where this goes on. Perhaps the "standard" is too difficult, but I think that cheating on this scale is nearly as corrosive to learning as high rates of corruption in many countries is to economic growth.
In my university studies, I took pride in doing my work myself. I developed my ability to solve problems in a short time frame. I do not trust graduates who solve problems by copying to be able to solve real problems. Can they really write software?
However, I suggest that it makes more sense for the university to check assignments themselves, using their own resources. It can be a simple part of the assignment submission process. Then a refusal to submit to plagiarism checking is equivalent to refusing to submit an assignment, and is much easier to adjudicate. Outsourcing can be carried beyond reasonable limits.
Some people imagine NFS 3 is a good replacement for Samba. Well, maybe, but not for home directories. Lack of user-based access control is the problem. The following technique assumes a method of providing user information by LDAP or equivalent.
Access Other People's NFS Home Directory HOWTO
Boot machine on network from Knoppix, boot own notebook, or use any other method that allows root access
In fact, I HATE bicycle helmets. Their sole purpose is to show all the people driving around that the person on the bike is middle class, has a car at home, can afford a $100 helmet, and is seriously concerned about saving the environment to the point of actually going out into the public on a bicycle.
My helmet has a big crack through it where I last fell down, smacking my head on the concrete. There is a big swipe of the white road marking material on the side of my helmet, where my head went sliding along the ground at about 30kph.
I do not hate my helmet. I do not have a car. I ride my bike to work because I like riding it. I ride about 26km each day.
I have smacked my head on the road hard more often than I have had punctures in the last year.
Sweeping generalisations are often well received on Slashdot.
Behind a firewall, use Microsoft Software Updates Services (SUS) together with group policies to totally automate daily software critical updates.
Use snort to detect the infected machines.
Any more suggestions, please?
I see little other discussion of worm prevention and treatment. Has everyone else totally solved this major problem? How do you cope with people like my manager, who says that he will never install updates because it stops his applications from working?
After a read of the various manuals, and after grepping through the list of SRPMS, I see no evidence of support for clustering systems, as with AS2.1. Has Red Hat dropped support for shared storage dual cluster systems? I hope not, we just bought one!
All say: Check S.M.A.R.T. Passed., but/dev/hd{i,k} have errors logged, due to the timeouts, I believe.
The ATA133 cables are the standard length; I cannot buy shorter ones. I have one drive as master (specifically, not slave or cable select) on the end of each IDE channel, except for/dev/hd[ab] where the DVD player shares the channel with/dev/hda.
No, I have/dev/hd[abc] on two of the motherboard IDE channels,/dev/hd[eg] on one Si680, and/dev/hd[ik] on the second Si680.
I apply all updates within hours of them being released using yum and various scripts I have written. But yes, specifically I have tried all the errata kernels. I am currently running 2.4.22.
I have discussed this on the kernel list. Some seem to have success with older Promise Tx100s; I will probably follow that up.
Maybe I should try the 20276 chip again; it was a while ago now. What kernel are you using with the 20276?
Have changed cables many times, including one or more changes of ATA133 cables. Can you elaborate more about controlling driving speed with hdparm? man hdparm doesn't tell me what you mean.
And worse, I get random lockups where the keyboard lights do not respond, Alt-Sysrq-s has no effect, and nothing in the log indicates anything at the point of lockup.
So I'm off to buy a 3ware to keep my 6 hard disks going.
It's going to be a nuisance to back everything up (203GB) and then restore, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Unless you have any other suggestions? All are most welcome.
The article only points to generic links (to http://linux-ha.org/ and http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/) and gives no useful information as to how the director was set up, nor how the shared storage works, nor how things are kept consistent. The parent is the only one so far to raise this obvious question.
Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics by Craig F. Bohren and Jearl Walker is enjoyable to read, and helps look at physics from the point of view of the home rather than the laboratory. It is an attempt to avoid the "overfat physics volume" syndrome.
Here in Hong Kong, where builders scale massively high buildings, climbing only on bamboo scaffolding, I think there is scope for putting more trust in bamboo than you have!
Right on the button. As Linus once said, "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on FTP, and let the rest of the world mirror it."
You're assuming that the FLAC software will be compatible with computers and operating systems in 20-30 years. Will the current version of FLAC be compatible with gcc 6.x on a 64-bit system? Is FLAC 3.x going to be capable of reading files encoded by 1.1.0? And even if the software and compiler are compatible, how well will they work with files that aren't DRM certified?
Open format specs will survive far into the future (just try googling for any free and open specification). As Linus said, "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on FTP,
and let the rest of the world mirror it." Open format specs survive far into the future. Someone (you or someone else) can write the software to read it. Flac is free:
When we say that FLAC is "Free" it means more than just that it is available at no cost. It means that the specification of the format is fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent. It also means that all the source code is available under open-source licenses. It is the first truly open and free lossless audio format.
I think that you undervalue the meaning of "free" in free software.
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Then it compiled (on Fedora Core 1).
Then it failed the functions test, because my computer does not have the file /etc/networks. For a fault tolerant shell, it does not seem very tolerant of my machine! After sudo touch /etc/networks, make succeeded.
Anyway, those were the only two problems, and now it's installed. Let's see if it's worth building into an RPM package.
I'm not as advanced. I know the Perl language, but I havn't learned the CGI language. Also, I still haven't learned how to write a loop in HTML.
Most of you Kwai Lo look all the same to us asians too!
Good on him; I hope he continues to spend some time learning how to use Linux, and then writes about his successes.
I would not trust graduates from that "university" to work for me. I feel sad to come from a country where this goes on. Perhaps the "standard" is too difficult, but I think that cheating on this scale is nearly as corrosive to learning as high rates of corruption in many countries is to economic growth.
In my university studies, I took pride in doing my work myself. I developed my ability to solve problems in a short time frame. I do not trust graduates who solve problems by copying to be able to solve real problems. Can they really write software?
However, I suggest that it makes more sense for the university to check assignments themselves, using their own resources. It can be a simple part of the assignment submission process. Then a refusal to submit to plagiarism checking is equivalent to refusing to submit an assignment, and is much easier to adjudicate. Outsourcing can be carried beyond reasonable limits.
Access Other People's NFS Home Directory HOWTO
I cannot see what OS each DB is running on. Is that irrelevant?
I do not hate my helmet. I do not have a car. I ride my bike to work because I like riding it. I ride about 26km each day.
I have smacked my head on the road hard more often than I have had punctures in the last year.
Sweeping generalisations are often well received on Slashdot.
- Behind a firewall, use Microsoft Software Updates Services (SUS) together with group policies to totally automate daily software critical updates.
- Use snort to detect the infected machines.
Any more suggestions, please?I see little other discussion of worm prevention and treatment. Has everyone else totally solved this major problem? How do you cope with people like my manager, who says that he will never install updates because it stops his applications from working?
I used cp -ax / /mnt/newdisk a number of times successfully with ext2, ext3 and reiserfs; works fine, but a bit slow.
Okay, I see that Red Hat are selling their Cluster Suite as a separate product for Enterprise customers only. But I don't see where the code is.
After a read of the various manuals, and after grepping through the list of SRPMS, I see no evidence of support for clustering systems, as with AS2.1. Has Red Hat dropped support for shared storage dual cluster systems? I hope not, we just bought one!
Too True.
All say: Check S.M.A.R.T. Passed., but /dev/hd{i,k} have errors logged, due to the timeouts, I believe.
The ATA133 cables are the standard length; I cannot buy shorter ones. I have one drive as master (specifically, not slave or cable select) on the end of each IDE channel, except for /dev/hd[ab] where the DVD player shares the channel with /dev/hda.
No, I have /dev/hd[abc] on two of the motherboard IDE channels, /dev/hd[eg] on one Si680, and /dev/hd[ik] on the second Si680.
I apply all updates within hours of them being released using yum and various scripts I have written. But yes, specifically I have tried all the errata kernels. I am currently running 2.4.22.
I have discussed this on the kernel list. Some seem to have success with older Promise Tx100s; I will probably follow that up.
Have changed cables many times, including one or more changes of ATA133 cables. Can you elaborate more about controlling driving speed with hdparm? man hdparm doesn't tell me what you mean.
- Promise FastTrack100 TX2 (PDC20270)
- Adaptek 1200A (HPT370A
chipset),
- Iwill (HPT368 chipset)
- HighPoint Rocket 133 (HPT302 chip: didn't
work at all) some months ago
- and PDC20276 built onto the Asus P4B533-E motherboard, as well
as the
- various CMD64x, including the CMD649 and the
- Silicon Image 680
I returned to the Si680, but still keep getting:And worse, I get random lockups where the keyboard lights do not respond, Alt-Sysrq-s has no effect, and nothing in the log indicates anything at the point of lockup.So I'm off to buy a 3ware to keep my 6 hard disks going.
It's going to be a nuisance to back everything up (203GB) and then restore, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Unless you have any other suggestions? All are most welcome.
The article only points to generic links (to http://linux-ha.org/ and http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/) and gives no useful information as to how the director was set up, nor how the shared storage works, nor how things are kept consistent. The parent is the only one so far to raise this obvious question.
Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics by Craig F. Bohren and Jearl Walker is enjoyable to read, and helps look at physics from the point of view of the home rather than the laboratory. It is an attempt to avoid the "overfat physics volume" syndrome.
Here in Hong Kong, where builders scale massively high buildings, climbing only on bamboo scaffolding, I think there is scope for putting more trust in bamboo than you have!
Right on the button. As Linus once said, "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on FTP, and let the rest of the world mirror it."
Open format specs will survive far into the future (just try googling for any free and open specification). As Linus said, "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on FTP, and let the rest of the world mirror it." Open format specs survive far into the future. Someone (you or someone else) can write the software to read it. Flac is free:
I think that you undervalue the meaning of "free" in free software.