Have anybody ever wondered why all the big ones (except Microsoft) are now supporting Linux and (partly) open source?
Somehow these companies seems to be among the biggest in their fields. Just mentioning id, which has supported Linux (although not Open Source completely -- they have released the source to many games, though, and I heard some rumours here on Slashdot that the Quake 1 source was going to be released) for a long, long time. What about 3dfx? And now Macromedia. Anybody seeing a relationship here?
Everybody complains over 2.2.x. I'm running 2.2.2 (which I've heard very much negative about) on a 486sx here, and we have over 80 days of uptime. Last (only) time we rebooted (after a 42 day uptime running 2.1.132) was because a teacher unplugged the power cable.
Perhaps there are some unstable parts of 2.2.x (like SCSI) that I'm not using?
Seems like Rob forgot what he always tells us (from the comment posting page):
(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)
Especially the last part... Will probably work fine in (sigh) Internet Explorer, but not in a (at least semi-) standard-abiding browser like Lynx. Would be funny to make such a link on purpose, to lock all the newbie (you can get around it by typing the link manually, of course) IE users.
At least that's how the popular story goes... From what I've heard (note: rumour, rumour... OK, I read it in the Samba main author's Mindcraft rebuttal), one of Linus' professors wrote in a newsgroup message something like:
"Writing an OS only for the 386 in 1991 will give you your second F this term."
Anybody confirm this? I'm way too lazy to search DejaNews, and this is probably too old anyway.
Why is everybody complaining over this? glibc 2.1 has LFS support, hasn't it? Is ext2fs limited in some sort of way?
Oh, BTW, both 95 and 98 has the same problem. (A friend of mine does video editing. Some people said moving to 98 would help. It didn't.)
Who runs video editing (which is the only thing MS can think of requiring 64-bit file size support) on NT anyway? OK, perhaps some, but you would need a killer machine.
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There IS a shortage (and some info on IPv6)
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When I tried to get IP addresses here in Norway, the answer was: No, sorry, there is none for you, because there is a shortage.
I can't possibly understand how all you people can manage to get C-class subnets, without having a _very_ good reason for it. Much less how you can possibly be disappointed with it!
Somebody up on the list wished there was an IPv6 initiative, and waited for somebody to "take the first step". I would just like to say: Wake up! The 6bone (a world-wide IPv6 network, using mainly IPv6-over-IPv4) has been running steady for quite a while now, and many equipment manufactorers (of them Cisco) do have close to production standard implementations. IPv6 will have enough addresses for everybody (a 128-bit address space... You usually get 64 or more bits, and usually use your Ethernet MAC address as the last 64 bits, to get autoconfiguration), and some extra neaties as well. I encourage everybody to join the 6bone (read the IPv6-HOWTO first, probably available at the LDP). It's free, and Linux has the support you need.
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That is probably the way to do it
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That is probably the best combination of having the latest kernel, and keeping uptime. I'm running 2.2.2 (with the bug/exploit/whatever that people are talking about), and having 70 days uptime now (the last time it went down was when somebody unplugged the power). But I will probably compile 2.2.8 (aka 2.3.0) any time soon, just in case...
This thing is simply too dangerous, and it can be severly abused. (Look at all the shocking weapons out there; they were intended as self-defence, but who uses them?)
Imagine `accidentally' hitting something smaller (ie. a child). Since there is `a thinner layer of body tissue', the heart will perhaps not be protected, and the heart fails. How funny... Hope somebody will stop this thing, or make it very restricted.
Is that it is distributed as RPM only. I downloaded RPM for the sole reason of trying it, and frankly, nothing worked as promised. RPM refused to unpack the package...
I think it would be nice of them to include a .tar.gz package as well. The entire world does not run Red Hat right yet.
There is no `bug' in RSA. The algorithm is still working well and good. The point is: It (like all other public-key algorithms, to my knowledge) depends on the difficulty of factoring a large number. Increase the size of this number, and you're safer. No secret, has never been.
Repeat: RSA has not been broken. Shamir has only found a better way of factoring numbers (but he hasn't even made the machine he's been talking about).
Yes, I agree. I'm afraid much of the MP3 debate is on a technical level, and nobody really focuses if it is _morally_ right (against everybody else who buys the music, or the artists who don't get money for their hard word, for instance).
Example: This famous `24 hour rule', which is obviously invented as a lie to get a `technical' way around it. Show it to me in a real country's laws, and I'll believe in it.
OK, I admit Slashdot is full of people who base their decisions on nothing. But I _still_ think RH is crappy. One: I've tried it, on numerous users' machines. It took a year and a half to reboot (since about everything was loaded, for some reason). Second: Users don't learn to do it right. Enter a Linux channel, and count how many of the clueless users are running RH. OK, that is because there are more Red Hat users, but that is only part of the figure. To me, it looks like it _is_ configurable, but users don't even know that they can do it (most don't even recompile their kernel).
This might be because the compilation of PPP patches the kernel? (Or more correctly replaces some files.) Then you won't have the correct source to patch from, and the patch will be screwed up. Funny that patch didn't complain when applying it! (_If_ this is the case at all, of course.)
It might be FreeBIOS, the GPLed BIOS... Unfortunately I know very little about the project. I think it was supposed to be possible to start a new kernel on the fly, but only after a shutdown -h:-(
-Logged-in Users get a single checkbox on random -posts which is +1. Low alignments, the -inarticulate, lurkers, and MEEPT (assuming MEEPT -is an account) can only - moderate up.
And then, somebody creates 10000 accounts (possibly via a bot), and checks each one of them to see if they can moderate their own comment. They will. Bang. Five different moderators have to use a point each to get it back to 0. And then he starts again.
They might still post *some* messages as ACs (and eventually give them +), and some messages as yourself. Eventually just `fillers' like `Me too', as long as it doesn't get moderated away.
Who fooled 4 moderators into believing this? Look at the penguin jokes. Alan Cox would never forget his/. password, I`m not even sure he has one...
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Switching back and forth between kbd layouts
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The hardest thing about switching keyboard layouts is when I run my own keyboard on QWERTY. Normally, I `feel' how the keyboard is, and then (unconsciously) decides which keyboard layout to use.
I still write faster in QWERTY (517 chars/min on real text), but it's so geeky, I just have to continue;-)
All my hand problems disappeared when I ditched QWERTY and rolled my own. There were plenty of good Dvorak layouts out there, but I thought it was kinda neat. (Note: I had no *serious* trouble, it was just starting.)
Of course, I don't type as fast (yet), and the idea *is* a bit crazy, I admit. But with Linux, everything is possible.
Ever since I redefined my keyboard (away from QWERTY, to my own layout), I've never had any such problems... OK, I don't type at 500 cpm with it yet (I do with QWERTY), but I like it more and more...
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Have anybody ever wondered why all the big ones (except Microsoft) are now supporting Linux and (partly) open source?
Somehow these companies seems to be among the biggest in their fields. Just mentioning id, which has supported Linux (although not Open Source completely -- they have released the source to many games, though, and I heard some rumours here on Slashdot that the Quake 1 source was going to be released) for a long, long time. What about 3dfx? And now Macromedia. Anybody seeing a relationship here?
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Everybody complains over 2.2.x. I'm running 2.2.2 (which I've heard very much negative about) on a 486sx here, and we have over 80 days of uptime. Last (only) time we rebooted (after a 42 day uptime running 2.1.132) was because a teacher unplugged the power cable.
Perhaps there are some unstable parts of 2.2.x (like SCSI) that I'm not using?
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Seems like Rob forgot what he always tells us (from the comment posting page):
(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)
Especially the last part... Will probably work fine in (sigh) Internet Explorer, but not in a (at least semi-) standard-abiding browser like Lynx. Would be funny to make such a link on purpose, to lock all the newbie (you can get around it by typing the link manually, of course) IE users.
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At least that's how the popular story goes... From what I've heard (note: rumour, rumour... OK, I read it in the Samba main author's Mindcraft rebuttal), one of Linus' professors wrote in a newsgroup message something like:
"Writing an OS only for the 386 in 1991 will give you your second F this term."
Anybody confirm this? I'm way too lazy to search DejaNews, and this is probably too old anyway.
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I did log in, and the preview said `Sesse' (my username), so I wonder what went wrong.
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Why is everybody complaining over this? glibc 2.1 has LFS support, hasn't it? Is ext2fs limited in some sort of way?
Oh, BTW, both 95 and 98 has the same problem. (A friend of mine does video editing. Some people said moving to 98 would help. It didn't.)
Who runs video editing (which is the only thing MS can think of requiring 64-bit file size support) on NT anyway? OK, perhaps some, but you would need a killer machine.
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When I tried to get IP addresses here in Norway, the answer was: No, sorry, there is none for you, because there is a shortage.
I can't possibly understand how all you people can manage to get C-class subnets, without having a _very_ good reason for it. Much less how you can possibly be disappointed with it!
Somebody up on the list wished there was an IPv6 initiative, and waited for somebody to "take the first step". I would just like to say: Wake up! The 6bone (a world-wide IPv6 network, using mainly IPv6-over-IPv4) has been running steady for quite a while now, and many equipment manufactorers (of them Cisco) do have close to production standard implementations. IPv6 will have enough addresses for everybody (a 128-bit address space... You usually get 64 or more bits, and usually use your Ethernet MAC address as the last 64 bits, to get autoconfiguration), and some extra neaties as well. I encourage everybody to join the 6bone (read the IPv6-HOWTO first, probably available at the LDP). It's free, and Linux has the support you need.
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That is probably the best combination of having the latest kernel, and keeping uptime. I'm running 2.2.2 (with the bug/exploit/whatever that people are talking about), and having 70 days uptime now (the last time it went down was when somebody unplugged the power). But I will probably compile 2.2.8 (aka 2.3.0) any time soon, just in case...
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This thing is simply too dangerous, and it can be severly abused. (Look at all the shocking weapons out there; they were intended as self-defence, but who uses them?)
Imagine `accidentally' hitting something smaller (ie. a child). Since there is `a thinner layer of body tissue', the heart will perhaps not be protected, and the heart fails. How funny... Hope somebody will stop this thing, or make it very restricted.
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There is, of course a step three:
3. Take the number modulo 2**n-1 (the prime itself)
Otherwise, you could never end up with zero, of course.
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Is that it is distributed as RPM only. I downloaded
RPM for the sole reason of trying it, and frankly,
nothing worked as promised. RPM refused to unpack
the package...
I think it would be nice of them to include a
.tar.gz package as well. The entire world does not
run Red Hat right yet.
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The exact formula is given og GIMPS' pages, see my last comment.
I believe the formula is. Start with 4.
Do this n times (n = the exponent):
1. Square the number.
2. Subtract two.
If (after n iterations) you end up with zero, it's a prime.
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There is no `bug' in RSA. The algorithm is still working well and good. The point is: It (like all other public-key algorithms, to my knowledge) depends on the difficulty of factoring a large number. Increase the size of this number, and you're safer. No secret, has never been.
Repeat: RSA has not been broken. Shamir has only found a better way of factoring numbers (but he hasn't even made the machine he's been talking about).
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Correct, the EFF has. To join the search, visit The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), they are ones you would like to join, unless you got a Cray.
The prize is $50,000 for the first 1 million digit prime, $100,000 for the first 10 million and so on up to 1 billion digits. It all goes to you.
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Yes, I agree. I'm afraid much of the MP3 debate
is on a technical level, and nobody really focuses
if it is _morally_ right (against everybody else
who buys the music, or the artists who don't get
money for their hard word, for instance).
Example: This famous `24 hour rule', which is obviously invented as a lie to get a `technical' way around it. Show it to me in a real country's laws, and I'll believe in it.
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OK, I admit Slashdot is full of people who base
their decisions on nothing. But I _still_ think
RH is crappy. One: I've tried it, on numerous
users' machines. It took a year and a half to
reboot (since about everything was loaded, for
some reason). Second: Users don't learn to do it
right. Enter a Linux channel, and count how many
of the clueless users are running RH. OK, that is because there are more Red Hat users, but that is only part of the figure. To me, it looks like it _is_ configurable, but users don't even know that they can do it (most don't even recompile their kernel).
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This might be because the compilation of PPP patches the kernel? (Or more correctly replaces some files.) Then you won't have the correct source to patch from, and the patch will be screwed up. Funny that patch didn't complain when applying it! (_If_ this is the case at all, of course.)
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It might be FreeBIOS, the GPLed BIOS... Unfortunately I know very little about the project. I think it was supposed to be possible to start a new kernel on the fly, but only after a shutdown -h :-(
Again, I'm not really sure.
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-Logged-in Users get a single checkbox on random -posts which is +1. Low alignments, the -inarticulate, lurkers, and MEEPT (assuming MEEPT -is an account) can only
- moderate up.
And then, somebody creates 10000 accounts (possibly via a bot), and checks each one of them to see if they can moderate their own comment. They will. Bang. Five different moderators have to use a point each to get it back to 0. And then he starts again.
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Or?
They might still post *some* messages as ACs (and eventually give them +), and some messages as yourself. Eventually just `fillers' like `Me too', as long as it doesn't get moderated away.
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Who fooled 4 moderators into believing this? Look at the penguin jokes. Alan Cox would never forget his /. password, I`m not even sure he has one...
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The hardest thing about switching keyboard layouts
;-)
is when I run my own keyboard on QWERTY. Normally, I `feel' how the keyboard is, and then (unconsciously) decides which keyboard layout to use.
I still write faster in QWERTY (517 chars/min on real text), but it's so geeky, I just have to continue
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All my hand problems disappeared when I ditched QWERTY and rolled my own. There were plenty of good Dvorak layouts out there, but I thought it was kinda neat. (Note: I had no *serious* trouble, it was just starting.)
Of course, I don't type as fast (yet), and the idea *is* a bit crazy, I admit. But with Linux, everything is possible.
(Sorry for being a bit off-topic here.)
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It exists!
The K6 *has* multiple (can't remember if it's 4 or 6) execution units. Yes, the plain old K6.
...I think.
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Ever since I redefined my keyboard (away from QWERTY, to my own layout), I've never had any such problems... OK, I don't type at 500 cpm with it yet (I do with QWERTY), but I like it more and more...
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