We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The declaration of independence/does/ give us the right, as much as our founding fathers had, to incite rebellion against the government. In fact, it is our duty to do so if the Government is not meeting the needs of the people. We haven't reached that point yet, as prudence dictates, and I hope that we never do. But, I will not allow the government to take away what I consider my basic rights.
One key thing to remember is that Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness does not include the right to not be offended by anything. I think that's one of the greatest problems, is that people think that they have the right to never be offended by anything they hear or see. They're wrong.
I've said this before on/., and I'll say it again -- if you find a problem in Redhat, post it to bugzilla so it/does/ get fixed. I've posted a few bugs that people have mentioned like this to bugzilla, but I don't know the particulars of the ping bug you mention, and I don't use linuxconf;).
Generally, stuff that doesn't compile is one of three things -- the compiler (possible, but unlikely - I think there's only one confirmed this-code-is-valid-but-doesn't-compile bug), glibc (very possible -- make sure you apply the update to at least 2.1.94-3), or the code is broken with respect to the standard, and/will not compile with gcc 3.0 when it's done/. The most likely of the three, especially if c++ is involved, is the latter.
I think that the reason for including a snapshot compiler is because "2.96" is far more compliant with the c++ standard than 2.95.2. It was a way to force compliance with the c++ standard in code that's to be compiled on 7.0.
The other problem that you mention, exit() being broken, is/not/ a compiler issue. That's an issue with glibc. However, there is an update to glibc available -- 7.0 shipped with 2.1.92-(?), there's a 2.1.94-3 available on your local mirror.
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(Pet peeve: why is a property tax based upon the appraised value of the land and buildings? My grandparents paid off their house decades ago, why should they pay a few thousand dollars each year when they are just living at home? Property taxes have forced people to move because they couldn't pay the 'taxes' on land owned for decades, especially if the owners have fixed incomes.)
Property taxes supply the city/county with money, at least in my area (Minnesota). Basically, that's what pays for public schools (don't even start on how everyone shouldn't pay for them. Please). It pays for a fire department, and police. It pays for improvements to sewer and water. Building inspectors....
As far as I could tell, if you killed one of the turrets(on the right, I believe), the AI mistakenly marked it as friendly (even as it's blasting away trying to vape your ass). If one of your team members smokes it, they're happy (probably dead, since they stand there and look at it as it perforates their starfleet-trained red-shirted asses).
There are 261 bugs on version 7.0 of Redhat Linux in bugzilla. Of those bugs, 18 of them are enhancements, 56 are flagged as duplicates, and 37 are flagged as "not a bug". That leaves only 150 bugs that are actual, non-duplicated bugs.
Most haven't been verified, and a majority probably are not bugs, but people who didn't read what the changes were since 6.2.
The conspiracy theories are just flat unlikely. It's a HELL of a lot more probable that they stopped supporting the platform because there were about 12 downloads of Sparc Redhat, and those were all the mirror sites.
Or, it could be that doing sparclinux gave someone a woody before and they're bored now. Hey, it's not always about money.
I guess I'm a little less cynical so far. Probably unwise, but I'm willing to believe the best about something like this, that does do a good thing (save bandwidth), until I have evidence otherwise. I still have/some/ hope for the human race, though it is diminishing rapidly.
Akamai is not an ad company. They place servers all over the bloody place (they're giving the University of Minnesota [my employer, opinions are mine not theirs blah blah blah] servers). The idea is to put the source for the image (or media) files as close as possible to the viewer, thus saving large amounts of bandwidth. They colocate servers with ISPs, which makes those providers happy since all traffic to akamai.net will not go over their backbone connections.
Here's my philosophy, since I run a large number of hosts. Try to do as much as I can in RPM. If I need to build or fix spec files for new versions, fine. If it's a new package, and there is no RPM (or it's [shudder] binary only), toss it in/usr/local.
People who build RPMs to install in/usr/local should be shot. They really screw me up.:)
I get tired of 'fixing' spec files to install in/usr.
Second was my Epson Stylus 740 printer. The only problem is that it seems to take up a fair bit of CPU when tranferring data to the printer. I don't know if this is an actual USB problem, or is just something to do with the kernel driver and the way lpr uses it (polling?). I can 'renice' the lpr process so that it doesn't use nearly as much CPU and the print speed doesn't seem to be affected at all.
It's very simple, actually. Most of the time when you print, the output from the program is either a) postscript or b) text. The Epson printer doesn't understand either of them. If it's text (or a jpeg, etc) it's converted to postscript, then GhostScript is run with the epson output driver. The CPU load is from gs rendering to something that your printer understands.
In short, if we all got postscript printers, no problem. In the real world, we use CPU time to fake it.:)
I spent some time hacking away at redhat's printfilters to add a few things I needed. Banner pages to Postscript printers, etc. The patches are *really* ugly and I haven't taken the time to clean them up enough to submit. Oh, and they were done against redhat 6.1. Guess I'll go do it again.
If I understand it correctly, you'd need to have a USB2 controller as well. I could be mistaken, but I thought it needed a USB 2.0 bus as well as software improvements.
Yes, if all you want is a desktop and a web browser, it can easily fit on one CD. How many CDs do MS development tools take up? Let's just use C++ and call it two. That covers emacs & friends. What else... oh, the Gimp. Photoshop is a CD. (repeat ad infinitum)
OK, it's a bullshit comparison, but it makes the point. You get everything you need to make a usable system in those two CDs. You don't in the Windows package at all.
I will never ever pay any penny for Linux software. PERIOD! Certainly as i know enough
about linux to build my own systems/network.
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not Richard Stallman!
OK. Time for two quick lessons. Number one: Redhat pays many excellent developers money so they can make the cool "free" software you like and still pay rent and for their kids health insurance. Redhat then must get money, so they must have something to sell. Number two: this is for priority access, not for any access. It's a service to make it easier for lusers to update their systems, and gives them access to priority servers that have sufficient bandwidth (which again costs money, see lesson one).
I know that a 2.4.0-test(something) was included in the beta, as a "preview" technology. Stuff like iptables & friends were there, and it looked like glibc was compiled against 2.4 kernel-headers. Happy?
The compiler is gcc 2.96 (which will become gcc 3.0). The kernel will be compiled with an older compiler (kgcc). At least, that's how Pinstripe (the beta) was.
At least the temporary ATAPI drivers for the Win2000 install have DMA enabled; Linux always uses PIO mode during the install (unless you hack the install disk with the IDE driver module for your chipset, maybe).
There are some damned good reasons for this -- some drives with some IDE controllers, mostly older controllers, will destroy data if you enable DMA. There are very good reasons to not enable DMA. I've learned about them through experience, with a hacked-up slackware install long ago, but some of those buggy controllers are still around.
OK, now I'll just anticipate your next response: don't enable it on those controllers. OK, what about buggy drives (I believe that Maxtor has a few around). How about bugs that only occur with one combination of a controller and drive? Or a specific controller, a specific master drive, and a specific slave? All of these conditions do exist.
Was Taco selling the Slash code? Was he claiming that it was for public release? No. He didn't release it. It was his code, and therefore his right. Do you get annoyed that Sun hasn't released source to [insert product name here]?
Now, repeat after me, slowly, until you hear a loud 'ding' (the sound of CLUE) -- Source code is not a right. If I don't like it, I will write my own and GPL it.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The declaration of independence /does/ give us the right, as much as our founding fathers had, to incite rebellion against the government. In fact, it is our duty to do so if the Government is not meeting the needs of the people. We haven't reached that point yet, as prudence dictates, and I hope that we never do. But, I will not allow the government to take away what I consider my basic rights.
One key thing to remember is that Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness does not include the right to not be offended by anything. I think that's one of the greatest problems, is that people think that they have the right to never be offended by anything they hear or see. They're wrong.
Generally, stuff that doesn't compile is one of three things -- the compiler (possible, but unlikely - I think there's only one confirmed this-code-is-valid-but-doesn't-compile bug), glibc (very possible -- make sure you apply the update to at least 2.1.94-3), or the code is broken with respect to the standard, and /will not compile with gcc 3.0 when it's done/. The most likely of the three, especially if c++ is involved, is the latter.
The other problem that you mention, exit() being broken, is /not/ a compiler issue. That's an issue with glibc. However, there is an update to glibc available -- 7.0 shipped with 2.1.92-(?), there's a 2.1.94-3 available on your local mirror.
(Pet peeve: why is a property tax based upon the appraised value of the land and buildings? My grandparents paid off their house decades ago, why should they pay a few thousand dollars each year when they are just living at home? Property taxes have forced people to move because they couldn't pay the 'taxes' on land owned for decades, especially if the owners have fixed incomes.)
Property taxes supply the city/county with money, at least in my area (Minnesota). Basically, that's what pays for public schools (don't even start on how everyone shouldn't pay for them. Please). It pays for a fire department, and police. It pays for improvements to sewer and water. Building inspectors....
FWIW
Most haven't been verified, and a majority probably are not bugs, but people who didn't read what the changes were since 6.2.
I'm considering options for getting the hell out of this country the way things are going.
The conspiracy theories are just flat unlikely. It's a HELL of a lot more probable that they stopped supporting the platform because there were about 12 downloads of Sparc Redhat, and those were all the mirror sites.
Or, it could be that doing sparclinux gave someone a woody before and they're bored now. Hey, it's not always about money.
I guess I'm a little less cynical so far. Probably unwise, but I'm willing to believe the best about something like this, that does do a good thing (save bandwidth), until I have evidence otherwise. I still have /some/ hope for the human race, though it is diminishing rapidly.
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In short, AKAMAI GOOD!
Granted, I'm stretching, but there are possible uses for this on a site that sells large items.
Bzzzzt! Wrong. 1) New raq's are x86. 2) Solaris is faster than Linux for these applications. (See a few NFS performance comparisons).
(L)user Attitude Readjustment Tool.
Well, I did today. I use an Ultra 10 with a SunPCi card installed (K6-2 400, 64MB of RAM on a PCI card.) It's Winblows in a window.
I don't use it for much... just testing and bloody Active-X sites or other sites that cause Nutscrape to get confused.
People who build RPMs to install in /usr/local should be shot. They really screw me up. :)
I get tired of 'fixing' spec files to install in /usr.
Second was my Epson Stylus 740 printer. The only problem is that it seems to take up a fair bit of CPU when tranferring data to the printer. I don't know if this is an actual USB problem, or is just something to do with the kernel driver and the way lpr uses it (polling?). I can 'renice' the lpr process so that it doesn't use nearly as much CPU and the print speed doesn't seem to be affected at all.
It's very simple, actually. Most of the time when you print, the output from the program is either a) postscript or b) text. The Epson printer doesn't understand either of them. If it's text (or a jpeg, etc) it's converted to postscript, then GhostScript is run with the epson output driver. The CPU load is from gs rendering to something that your printer understands.
In short, if we all got postscript printers, no problem. In the real world, we use CPU time to fake it. :)
I spent some time hacking away at redhat's printfilters to add a few things I needed. Banner pages to Postscript printers, etc. The patches are *really* ugly and I haven't taken the time to clean them up enough to submit. Oh, and they were done against redhat 6.1. Guess I'll go do it again.
If I understand it correctly, you'd need to have a USB2 controller as well. I could be mistaken, but I thought it needed a USB 2.0 bus as well as software improvements.
OK, it's a bullshit comparison, but it makes the point. You get everything you need to make a usable system in those two CDs. You don't in the Windows package at all.
The beta, Pinstripe (6.9.5), has gcc 2.96 (20000724).
I will never ever pay any penny for Linux software. PERIOD! Certainly as i know enough about linux to build my own systems/network.
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not Richard Stallman!
OK. Time for two quick lessons. Number one: Redhat pays many excellent developers money so they can make the cool "free" software you like and still pay rent and for their kids health insurance. Redhat then must get money, so they must have something to sell. Number two: this is for priority access, not for any access. It's a service to make it easier for lusers to update their systems, and gives them access to priority servers that have sufficient bandwidth (which again costs money, see lesson one).
I know that a 2.4.0-test(something) was included in the beta, as a "preview" technology. Stuff like iptables & friends were there, and it looked like glibc was compiled against 2.4 kernel-headers. Happy?
The compiler is gcc 2.96 (which will become gcc 3.0). The kernel will be compiled with an older compiler (kgcc). At least, that's how Pinstripe (the beta) was.
At least the temporary ATAPI drivers for the Win2000 install have DMA enabled; Linux always uses PIO mode during the install (unless you hack the install disk with the IDE driver module for your chipset, maybe).
There are some damned good reasons for this -- some drives with some IDE controllers, mostly older controllers, will destroy data if you enable DMA. There are very good reasons to not enable DMA. I've learned about them through experience, with a hacked-up slackware install long ago, but some of those buggy controllers are still around.
OK, now I'll just anticipate your next response: don't enable it on those controllers. OK, what about buggy drives (I believe that Maxtor has a few around). How about bugs that only occur with one combination of a controller and drive? Or a specific controller, a specific master drive, and a specific slave? All of these conditions do exist.
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Now, repeat after me, slowly, until you hear a loud 'ding' (the sound of CLUE) -- Source code is not a right. If I don't like it, I will write my own and GPL it.
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