No, what you say is nonsense. If you buy up a domain name to which you have no legitimate right, just for the purpose of extorting money from or preventing use by someone who does, then you are just being an asswipe. Just because the law doesn't prevent you from doing this doesn't mean your action has any moral legitimacy.
By your reasoning, the Mafia's protection rackets in the 1920s and '30s would have been perfectly legitimate, since there was no legal system to prevent it.
If I can get 100 mbps for 13 bucks then you should be able to aswell.
Try reading what I said. Take this location for instance. I will be fucking lucky if I can get 256K at my property not far from there. And no, Kevin's much-vaunted rollout is not very likely to change that, since it falls outside mobile coverage as well as the copper/fibre network.
Your glib "get 100mbs for 13 bucks" is direct proof of what I was saying about the streaming thing being US-centric. That kind of bandwidth is just not available here.
that would mean I would use 1/3-2/3 of my bandwidth per month just for background noise.
Exactly. And if you want something better than background noise - if you want to actually hear some real music (!!) without all the flaccid bass, rolled-over treble and soggy midrange of compressed files, unless you have access to a real studio-quality soundcard, you are stuck with the CD.
I'm beginning to worry that we now have a whole generation that has never heard music reproduced as it was intended to be, and that has no expectation of anything ever sounding better than if played through a wet sock. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPod, but that gets used where there is lots of ambient noise, so I'm less critical of the sound quality.
But once you have bought your CD, you don't have to pay again and again to hear it.
The whole issue presupposes a US-centric model, where nearly everybody has access to a decent broadband connection. Here in Australia the best that most people can get at the moment is ADSL2+, which is quite good in itself, but suffers from the fact that we have a skinny pipe between here and the rest of the world. But outside major metro areas, there are still many areas where the best we can get is dialup. I have a property in Tasmania, which despite all the noisy promises about broadband rollouts looks like it is going to completely fall off the radar, and neither the politicians nor the telcos could give a fuck.
In any case, those of us in metro areas are typically capped at something like 4GB/month for AU$49 depending on your plan. Having to stream all content would quickly make a savage dent in that.
The moderation system works just fine in "classic" mode, but so does the "white on white" comment title thing.
However, I learned from a post in another thread that clicking "change" in the bar at the top (without changing any thresholds) fixes the problem, and it works for me...
Why oh why do the shills get such hot panties every time a new version of Opera comes out?
Sure, it's a browser that works OK, but everyone who cares knows about it already. And those of us who have already tried it or who simply don't care still won't give a shit.
I'm not sure why the moderators decided the parent posts were flamebait: at worst, by not recommending some product, they might be considered off-topic.
But the simple fact is that the surest way to keep your data is to back it up, back it up more than once, and to VERIFY your backups. Of course that doesn't help if we're having to salvage someone else's fuckup, but at least you can say "Everybody told you so".
I would be interested to hear if anyone has come across GOOD software for ext2/3, ReiserFS or ZFS. Google finds lots of links, but most are non-free, and most related forum posts seem to be shills for the same products.
But I guess that in my case this is more or less academic. My sysadmin background goes back decades, and old habits die hard, so I keep good, VERIFIED backups. In ~14 years of running Linux, I have never been in the position of being forced to restore from bare metal. But one of these days I'm going to have to deal with a less provident client or acquaintance...
There are more than two appropriate courses of action. This might seem a bit radical to some, but if you're not actually using your laptop for anything important, why not simply leave it in your bag? Try interacting with real live individuals for a change? Few people would be so incondiderate as to ask you to pull your laptop out and boot it up just so that they can fool around on Facebook. If you're in a group, doing actual work, it really shoudn't matter if your fellow-students use the machine. It is a tool that is meant to save time, and for much of that you often don't even need to be connected to the internet.
he just said "Noscript." It won't solve the problem, but it will get it out of your face...
This is probably true, but my reaction to NoScript is that the extension itself is very much "in your face", to the extent that all I wanted to to was get rid of it.
I just wonder why folks aren't putting pressure on the app developers to fix those apps that are still not patched for this.
I can't say I've done much reading up on this particular issue, but common-sense would dictate to me that it's the kernel's job to stand between the application and the hardware. So if selected applications get you into trouble because they misbehave and (attempt to) bypass the kernel in writing directly to the filesystem, then one could be forgiven for saying there must be something seriously dodgy about those apps. In which case it is futile to blame the filesystem, Linus or anyone else.
Its available in Ubuntu for the current version and, last I read, will be the default in Kosmic..
Any filesystem is available as an option with any distribution. All it involves is a kernel option. But to make ext4 a default this soon in (I presume you mean) Karmic Koala seems unnecessarily rash to me.
There is nothing in that behavior that suggests that I need to get 'checked out'.
Well said. I personally find it offensive and obnoxious when people insist on hectoring others into embarking on counselling, phychological or psychiatric treatment just because they don't happen to adhere to a nice, comfortable bourgeois social norm.
There are countless ways to live one's life, and if someone doesn't want to fit the profile of a nice little suburban nine-to-fiver there's no reason why anyone should try to make him. In my opinion, psychologists tend to fuck up more people than they help, since as often as not they have a tendency to manufacture problems where none exist outside the narrow-minded preoccupations of others. And once they've got their claws into their victim they never seem to let go.
they are the ones who bundled IE, which made people not care, which is how we got into this mess.
Speak for yourself. If you're in a mess, then fine, say so. I'm not. We have had altermatives to both IE and Windows for years, for those who care. If people don't care, you can't make them care.
we can thank Linus & co for poisoning even the filesystem itself, which will get foisted on unknowing users...
Ext4 might have made it into the tree, but Linus hasn't made it a default. There are lots of things in the tree that are clearly marked as "experimental", and neither Linus nor anyone else expect or recommend that you use them in a production environment. If your distribution DOES make it a default, I would seriously suggest you find a different distro.
I haven't had any problems thusfar (no data loss, etc)
How do you know? Do you do md5sums on every file? Most admins I've come across don't seem to, and it could be months or years before you find out, in which case any loss might easily end up outside your backup cycle.
What do I gain by running with ext4?
Is that gain worth the time spent changing what I've got?
If the answer to the first question is that ext4 is cool and shiny, and the answer to the second is unknown, the OP has his answer.
Filesystems are one thing we need to be VERY conservative about. We need to be certain that it works reliably, because we do not need to find our work disappearing out the end of our backup cycle after having discovered problems too late. (Yes, I know, what is this "backup" of which I speak?)
I still have drives running ReiserFS, and I still use ext2 for boot partitions mounted readonly. I pretty much trust those systems, but even so, I still take backups and test them when I can.
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No, what you say is nonsense. If you buy up a domain name to which you have no legitimate right, just for the purpose of extorting money from or preventing use by someone who does, then you are just being an asswipe. Just because the law doesn't prevent you from doing this doesn't mean your action has any moral legitimacy.
By your reasoning, the Mafia's protection rackets in the 1920s and '30s would have been perfectly legitimate, since there was no legal system to prevent it.
If I can get 100 mbps for 13 bucks then you should be able to aswell.
Try reading what I said. Take this location for instance. I will be fucking lucky if I can get 256K at my property not far from there. And no, Kevin's much-vaunted rollout is not very likely to change that, since it falls outside mobile coverage as well as the copper/fibre network.
Your glib "get 100mbs for 13 bucks" is direct proof of what I was saying about the streaming thing being US-centric. That kind of bandwidth is just not available here.
that would mean I would use 1/3-2/3 of my bandwidth per month just for background noise.
Exactly. And if you want something better than background noise - if you want to actually hear some real music (!!) without all the flaccid bass, rolled-over treble and soggy midrange of compressed files, unless you have access to a real studio-quality soundcard, you are stuck with the CD.
I'm beginning to worry that we now have a whole generation that has never heard music reproduced as it was intended to be, and that has no expectation of anything ever sounding better than if played through a wet sock. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPod, but that gets used where there is lots of ambient noise, so I'm less critical of the sound quality.
But once you have bought your CD, you don't have to pay again and again to hear it.
The whole issue presupposes a US-centric model, where nearly everybody has access to a decent broadband connection. Here in Australia the best that most people can get at the moment is ADSL2+, which is quite good in itself, but suffers from the fact that we have a skinny pipe between here and the rest of the world. But outside major metro areas, there are still many areas where the best we can get is dialup. I have a property in Tasmania, which despite all the noisy promises about broadband rollouts looks like it is going to completely fall off the radar, and neither the politicians nor the telcos could give a fuck.
In any case, those of us in metro areas are typically capped at something like 4GB/month for AU$49 depending on your plan. Having to stream all content would quickly make a savage dent in that.
In college I built a divide-by-eight counter in pneumatics.
:-D
;-)
It would be more impressive if you could build a divide-by-zero counter.
(Almost) seriously though, this contraption rocks! A few more gear-wheels and this just might make a perfect steampunk computer...
I believe it is Karma-based. The lower your Karma, the more /. garbles your HTML :)
/. fucks it up anyway. ;-)
That would be really neat. But my karma is beyond cool, and
The moderation system works just fine in "classic" mode, but so does the "white on white" comment title thing.
However, I learned from a post in another thread that clicking "change" in the bar at the top (without changing any thresholds) fixes the problem, and it works for me...
I agree about 10>>9, though.
;-)
Good. We were worried for a while there.
Why oh why do the shills get such hot panties every time a new version of Opera comes out?
Sure, it's a browser that works OK, but everyone who cares knows about it already. And those of us who have already tried it or who simply don't care still won't give a shit.
My. If someone reformatted my disk drives despite specific instrictions to the contrary, I'd be taking some moderately immoderate action.
I'm not sure why the moderators decided the parent posts were flamebait: at worst, by not recommending some product, they might be considered off-topic.
But the simple fact is that the surest way to keep your data is to back it up, back it up more than once, and to VERIFY your backups. Of course that doesn't help if we're having to salvage someone else's fuckup, but at least you can say "Everybody told you so".
I would be interested to hear if anyone has come across GOOD software for ext2/3, ReiserFS or ZFS. Google finds lots of links, but most are non-free, and most related forum posts seem to be shills for the same products.
But I guess that in my case this is more or less academic. My sysadmin background goes back decades, and old habits die hard, so I keep good, VERIFIED backups. In ~14 years of running Linux, I have never been in the position of being forced to restore from bare metal. But one of these days I'm going to have to deal with a less provident client or acquaintance...
...Which ever is more appropriate.
There are more than two appropriate courses of action. This might seem a bit radical to some, but if you're not actually using your laptop for anything important, why not simply leave it in your bag? Try interacting with real live individuals for a change? Few people would be so incondiderate as to ask you to pull your laptop out and boot it up just so that they can fool around on Facebook. If you're in a group, doing actual work, it really shoudn't matter if your fellow-students use the machine. It is a tool that is meant to save time, and for much of that you often don't even need to be connected to the internet.
It recognizes 1+1.
Yes, and it comes up with the wrong answer. Everybody knows that 1 + 1 = 10.
This might be a good point to give the correct spelling of "rebuttal".
he just said "Noscript." It won't solve the problem, but it will get it out of your face...
This is probably true, but my reaction to NoScript is that the extension itself is very much "in your face", to the extent that all I wanted to to was get rid of it.
Click the "Change" button, even without making any changes. The page re-post will cause the titles to magically appear.
:-}
Hey, thanks for that - I was beninning to think it was just me having borked something...
I just wonder why folks aren't putting pressure on the app developers to fix those apps that are still not patched for this.
I can't say I've done much reading up on this particular issue, but common-sense would dictate to me that it's the kernel's job to stand between the application and the hardware. So if selected applications get you into trouble because they misbehave and (attempt to) bypass the kernel in writing directly to the filesystem, then one could be forgiven for saying there must be something seriously dodgy about those apps. In which case it is futile to blame the filesystem, Linus or anyone else.
Its available in Ubuntu for the current version and, last I read, will be the default in Kosmic..
Any filesystem is available as an option with any distribution. All it involves is a kernel option. But to make ext4 a default this soon in (I presume you mean) Karmic Koala seems unnecessarily rash to me.
There is nothing in that behavior that suggests that I need to get 'checked out'.
Well said. I personally find it offensive and obnoxious when people insist on hectoring others into embarking on counselling, phychological or psychiatric treatment just because they don't happen to adhere to a nice, comfortable bourgeois social norm.
There are countless ways to live one's life, and if someone doesn't want to fit the profile of a nice little suburban nine-to-fiver there's no reason why anyone should try to make him. In my opinion, psychologists tend to fuck up more people than they help, since as often as not they have a tendency to manufacture problems where none exist outside the narrow-minded preoccupations of others. And once they've got their claws into their victim they never seem to let go.
But that's the most important thing to have !!!
:-D
Exactly. I was a bum before the internet even existed, but I was always a man who knew where his towel was.
they are the ones who bundled IE, which made people not care, which is how we got into this mess.
Speak for yourself. If you're in a mess, then fine, say so. I'm not. We have had altermatives to both IE and Windows for years, for those who care. If people don't care, you can't make them care.
we can thank Linus & co for poisoning even the filesystem itself, which will get foisted on unknowing users...
Ext4 might have made it into the tree, but Linus hasn't made it a default. There are lots of things in the tree that are clearly marked as "experimental", and neither Linus nor anyone else expect or recommend that you use them in a production environment. If your distribution DOES make it a default, I would seriously suggest you find a different distro.
I haven't had any problems thusfar (no data loss, etc)
How do you know? Do you do md5sums on every file? Most admins I've come across don't seem to, and it could be months or years before you find out, in which case any loss might easily end up outside your backup cycle.
A shorter approach to the question:
What do I gain by running with ext4?
Is that gain worth the time spent changing what I've got?
If the answer to the first question is that ext4 is cool and shiny, and the answer to the second is unknown, the OP has his answer.
Filesystems are one thing we need to be VERY conservative about. We need to be certain that it works reliably, because we do not need to find our work disappearing out the end of our backup cycle after having discovered problems too late. (Yes, I know, what is this "backup" of which I speak?)
I still have drives running ReiserFS, and I still use ext2 for boot partitions mounted readonly. I pretty much trust those systems, but even so, I still take backups and test them when I can.