AFAIK nothing has changed between 2.4 and 2.6 in that regard.
I use lilo on a laptop and grub on my workstation to load 2.6 kernels and they both work fine.
You still need to pass 'root=/dev/hda3' or whatever to the kernel at boot with either of the bootloaders. I believe you can still set the root partition directly in the kernel just the same a 2.2 and 2.4 but it isn't the recommended way to do it.
If anyone is going to buy a SCO licence They may want to buy one of mine too. Just send 10 of your local currency notes to me and I'll give you nothing in return.
Throughout the directory structure there are lots of email files (*.eml) which are either empty or 415534 bytes (the latter contains only blank spaces).
Those are the error handling routines.
The oldest source files are for "paintbrush", and dates back to 1991
Paintbrush is a critical part of the system. They had to use the 1991 code as its the most stable version they had.
There is alot of stuff missing, and also alot of stuffing included which SHOULD NOT BE THERE AT ALL (such as paintbrush (from 1991))
It's a well known fact the a large amount of stuff is missing from windows. Inetd, sshd, bourne shell, vi, etc.. This is normal. The extra stuff is likely the bloat they keep putting in to make people buy faster and faster computers. Dell most likely has something to do with that.
Conclusion: What you downloaded was a load of crap. Microsoft code is a load of crap. Who cares if it's real of not, don't we all have better things to do?
Sometimes I misspell URLs and I actually *like* having a service that attempts to find the site I'm looking for.
No problem, just set your browser to send you to a search engine of your choice when you get a 404. If your browser doesn't do that bug the developers.
DNS wildcarding isn't the way to this. It breaks other stuff.
We could redesign it, but we dont need to. The existing problems are caused by who is running the technology, not the technology itself.
It's all ready to go, All we need is a few zone transfers and a few huge servers with insane bandwidth. And I guess a few people to keep the thing updated.
Verisign put a DNS wildcard in to sell their search service and generally piss off the world.
We put in a bind patch to prevent DNS wildcarding on top level domains.
We don't need to play brain-dead political games with these losers. It's our internet, not theirs. We have the right to totally ignore any and all of ICANN's setup and use our own DNS servers without notice and without asking for their permission.
I have access to the linux kernel code, but I don't have the skills or time to debug more then very small parts of it. Even then it's likely that I'll make anything I change worse because I don't fully understand what I'm doing. In a sense it doesn't matter that I have access to the kernel and full rights to change it.
Bad code can hide a whole load of bugs that are really, really hard to find.
What makes you think that hardware developers are better at fixing up microsofts code then microsoft? Why should they fix up other peoples bugs anyway when they could start with linux/BSD/QNX and have far less to worry about?
I'm not saying every device with a microsoft OS is going to be unstable. What I am saying is that more often then not microsoft OS's ( all of them ) show some stability problem at some point. It might be fair to say it's dodgy hardware in some cases, but certainly not all of them.
Near where I work there are TV screens at the bus station that are meant to tell you what bus to take to get where. 6 days a week they show nothing but the blue screen of death.
And are you telling me you have never walked up to a ATM, got your card out, looked down and seen the BSOD? I have, lots of times. Even ATMs crash nowdays.
Your iPaq may work perfectly for years, but would you really trust it to control the APS brakes on your car on a wet road at night?
Would you really want it to run your life suport system?
As for its stability, stop comparing a desktop based Windows OS to what would be placed in ar computer systems (presumably CE or XP Embedded).
I use a windows CE based thin client at work. It does crash about once every two months. Yes it is the OS that crashes, its network connection works fine. Around 100 people at my site use these things and they all seem to show the same behaviour.
My phone is a sony J70. It has built in windows software, a WAP web browser, etc. That crashes too. Around once every two weeks the display freezes and none of the buttons do anything. I have to pull out the battery to reset the thing. Whats worse is the display still looks like it's running fine when it's frozen. I know other people with the same model of phone who have the same problem.
It's my experience that most of everything microsoft touch is unstable. They have always been a marketing company and not a software company.
the sensible option is ot ensure people have working firewalls
It would take hours of very hard work to get your average AOL user to understand what a firewall is and why they need one. It's hard enough to get them to turn the caps lock off most of the time.
It might be easier to do all filtering while the packets are in AOL's network, not the customers. Either that or the AOL software should be a firewall too.
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Thats easy, but then so is everything if you know how to do it.
Read up on lilo and/or grub.
Is the root= bit in your boot loader config right?
Is filesystem support for / compiled into the kernel? ( not a module. )
Are all the drivers for the hardware needed to see the disks in the kernel? ( again, not as modules )
AFAIK nothing has changed between 2.4 and 2.6 in that regard.
I use lilo on a laptop and grub on my workstation to load 2.6 kernels and they both work fine.
You still need to pass 'root=/dev/hda3' or whatever to the kernel at boot with either of the bootloaders. I believe you can still set the root partition directly in the kernel just the same a 2.2 and 2.4 but it isn't the recommended way to do it.
I had no idea these things existed. I've always thought windows needed this.
I'm not going to spend money on this software though.
Isn't there a free version somewhere?
Would many people here trust anything any department of the US government come up with?
When I want security I want security that works, not something that is likely full of NSA backdoors.
"In Theo we trust."
If anyone is going to buy a SCO licence They may want to buy one of mine too.
Just send 10 of your local currency notes to me and I'll give you nothing in return.
Thank you, Come again.
Every tech in the universe may well know that microsoft code is poorly written. But it's not us that signs the purchase orders.
Dumb managers fall for the marketing, excuses, and FUD every time.
The code is extremely unorganized and incoherent.
Windows machines are unorganized and incoherent.
Throughout the directory structure there are lots of email files (*.eml) which are either empty or 415534 bytes (the latter contains only blank spaces).
Those are the error handling routines.
The oldest source files are for "paintbrush", and dates back to 1991
Paintbrush is a critical part of the system. They had to use the 1991 code as its the most stable version they had.
There is alot of stuff missing, and also alot of stuffing included which SHOULD NOT BE THERE AT ALL (such as paintbrush (from 1991))
It's a well known fact the a large amount of stuff is missing from windows. Inetd, sshd, bourne shell, vi, etc.. This is normal.
The extra stuff is likely the bloat they keep putting in to make people buy faster and faster computers. Dell most likely has something to do with that.
Conclusion: What you downloaded was a load of crap. Microsoft code is a load of crap. Who cares if it's real of not, don't we all have better things to do?
One quick way to tell:
cat | grep FIXME | wc -l
If you have a very large number then you really do have microsofts code.
You are quite right, it's not a 404.
I won't do it again.
Sometimes I misspell URLs and I actually *like* having a service that attempts to find the site I'm looking for.
No problem, just set your browser to send you to a search engine of your choice when you get a 404. If your browser doesn't do that bug the developers.
DNS wildcarding isn't the way to this. It breaks other stuff.
We could redesign it, but we dont need to.
The existing problems are caused by who is running the technology, not the technology itself.
It's all ready to go, All we need is a few zone transfers and a few huge servers with insane bandwidth. And I guess a few people to keep the thing updated.
I mean, if they can get away with this, what's to stop them from doing things like shutting out other registrars, etc?
.com and .net registry was setup and honoured all existing third level domains.
We are. There is only a minor edit to resolv.conf between having a monopoly and having nothing.
ICANN could be forced to revoke verisigns status if an alternate
Verisign put a DNS wildcard in to sell their search service and generally piss off the world.
We put in a bind patch to prevent DNS wildcarding on top level domains.
We don't need to play brain-dead political games with these losers. It's our internet, not theirs. We have the right to totally ignore any and all of ICANN's setup and use our own DNS servers without notice and without asking for their permission.
R-invisibility cloak. Just wear it and be hidden from all IR eyes in the sky... neat.#
Just wear it and burn to death within an hour more like.
You could always fill your pants with dry ice before putting it on, that might buy you another hour.
Believe me, the "IT" industry is set up to rip you off if you don't know what you're doing.
So very, very, true.
If only the pointy haired ones would understand that.
Bad things happen to bad people.
Bad things happen to good people too. It's just funnier when the scumbags are on the receiving side.
I don't know first hand but I'll guess HP, Sun, IBM have all suffered DDoS attacks at some time. Microshaft seem to get DDoSed all the time.
I only hope Darl pays per megabyte..
Sorry but thats just not right.
I have access to the linux kernel code, but I don't have the skills or time to debug more then very small parts of it. Even then it's likely that I'll make anything I change worse because I don't fully understand what I'm doing. In a sense it doesn't matter that I have access to the kernel and full rights to change it.
Bad code can hide a whole load of bugs that are really, really hard to find.
What makes you think that hardware developers are better at fixing up microsofts code then microsoft? Why should they fix up other peoples bugs anyway when they could start with linux/BSD/QNX and have far less to worry about?
I'm not saying every device with a microsoft OS is going to be unstable. What I am saying is that more often then not microsoft OS's ( all of them ) show some stability problem at some point. It might be fair to say it's dodgy hardware in some cases, but certainly not all of them.
Near where I work there are TV screens at the bus station that are meant to tell you what bus to take to get where. 6 days a week they show nothing but the blue screen of death.
And are you telling me you have never walked up to a ATM, got your card out, looked down and seen the BSOD? I have, lots of times. Even ATMs crash nowdays.
Your iPaq may work perfectly for years, but would you really trust it to control the APS brakes on your car on a wet road at night?
Would you really want it to run your life suport system?
As for its stability, stop comparing a desktop based Windows OS to what would be placed in ar computer systems (presumably CE or XP Embedded).
I use a windows CE based thin client at work. It does crash about once every two months. Yes it is the OS that crashes, its network connection works fine. Around 100 people at my site use these things and they all seem to show the same behaviour.
My phone is a sony J70. It has built in windows software, a WAP web browser, etc. That crashes too. Around once every two weeks the display freezes and none of the buttons do anything. I have to pull out the battery to reset the thing. Whats worse is the display still looks like it's running fine when it's frozen. I know other people with the same model of phone who have the same problem.
It's my experience that most of everything microsoft touch is unstable. They have always been a marketing company and not a software company.
that don't have parts that rotate at over thrice my truck's redline
You either have very fast drives or a very slow truck.
If you are using 7200 RPM drives that would mean your truck redlines at 2400 RPM..
the sensible option is ot ensure people have working firewalls
It would take hours of very hard work to get your average AOL user to understand what a firewall is and why they need one. It's hard enough to get them to turn the caps lock off most of the time.
It might be easier to do all filtering while the packets are in AOL's network, not the customers. Either that or the AOL software should be a firewall too.
If you have NT servers with over a year of uptime then they are missing a number of important patches.
I have to say I'm impressed though.
Why doesn't Linus just declare Jihad on SCO?
Because IBM will sue them out of existance and reinforce the GPL at the same time.
There was a quote from the art of war that went:
'it is best to win without fighting.'
You mean my plan of driving that A-Bomb into Redmont is actually a bad idea?
Yes, thats a bad idea.
A better one would be to prove that open source ( GPL and BSD code ) is better than closed source and that open standards are always the way to go.