In my experience, maxtors sometimes tend to get a bad sector or two (which is not that bad) once in a while, but when it tries to read the corrupted region, all hell breaks loose. I am not sure if it's the HDD controller or the drive itself, but the thing just locks up the bus. However, if one does not access the file known to have been corrupted, and does not run fdisk/updatedb, everything works fine.
edonkey is slow, unlreliable, does not scale well and relies on third-party hubs. Bittorrent is under control by the author and builds speed rapidly with increased number of users.
Hopefully someone will mod this post up to where you will see it, but I have a redhead waiting for me upstairs so I'm not going to spend any more time on the computer creating an account.
Yeah, those redhat installs can be tricky if the installer keeps trying to... erm, nevermind.
I would strongy recommend the works of Arkady and Boris Strugatski. They don't seem to be too popular or well-known in the US, and for shame. While a lot is lost in translation from the Russian, the books still do a marvelous job of exploring human nature in an oftentimes absolutely mindblowing setting. Beetle in an Anthill is one of the finest works of science fiction I have ever read, and the more popular Monday begins on Saturday and Roadside picnic are very enjoyable and thought-provoking. They've also written a few humor pieces that jest about with spacetime and higher mathematics, although they seem to lose a lot of their charm when translated.
Technically, the smart thing to do would be taring the files then gziping them.
You probably want all the files anyway, and compression is much more efficient when a bunch of similar files are joined together first before applying the algorithm. Zip might do that nowdays as well, but I am quite sure it compressed individual files and then built the archive at least in the earlier versions.
I must point out, however, that AFAIK an incomplete zip file *can* be repaired due to the abovementioned principle, much like tars can. Of course, neither should really matter with SHA1 checksumming built into BT and all.
I suppose you have a personal subscription/site license as such seem to be required to view the full article. Either that, or parent was supposed to be +1 Funny.
BT seems to be the perfect tool for prevntion of slashdotting of file mirrors; do you ever plan to extend this functionality to a "mini p2p webserver" that would allow website owners to distribute their content to ad-hoc mirrors provided by subscribers/first viewers and then switch to a "tracker" mode, just feeding (appropriately modified) torrents pointing to those mirrors to the readers? I believe this could do wonders to relieve the/. effect, especially if clients will be allowed to keep/share lists of peers to reduce tracker load.
A valid point, however sshing to your box back in your country of origin and sending email from there is usually a valid option; that's what I do when I travel.
Would a "Car Show" sue a major car manufacturer because said manufacturer comes up with some legal case that threatens to make all other manufacturers indebted to them? They might be pissed, but filing some legal suit for such a 4th party participant in the field is misuse of the system.
No, but they would sue someone claiming that every single car ever produced infringes on some obscure patent and all car owners are potentionally criminals.
"Not only does this PDA look cool, but you can go into your local electronics store and hassle people by turning on and off the home electronics there."
I could do that with my newton.
To answer your question, USB is cheap (in fact, it's specifically designed to be very, very affordable). On the other hand, Bluetooth is not [as] cheap. USB is also availible just about anywhere.
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I honestly couldn't care less about karma, just posted it because the server felt shaky to me (yes, I do realize that it's linuxworld, but it didn't load very fast for me at least). Ah well, guess I'll have to post as AC or not at all next time.
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Why did this get modded redundant? The two comments with the text made two minutes after this one are modded up. Of course, I do deserve to be smacked for pasting it as a solid block (mozilla acting up).
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A new distro in town: Gentoo emerges victorious
By Nicholas Petreley Originally published May 16, 2003
Printed from LinuxWorld.com
http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2003/0516.p etreley.html
Summary
The 'meta-distro' Gentoo makes it possible to compile and configure everything on your system exactly the way you like, providing you with more structure and tools to ease the process and automate updates. Do I still like Debian? I absolutely love it. But until further notice, Gentoo is now my flavor of Linux. (1,900 words)
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(LinuxWorld) -- A relatively new distribution called Gentoo Linux is gaining a rapidly increasing, rabidly loyal group of users. The increasing popularity of Gentoo is almost difficult to explain, given that it's clearly a distribution by geeks, for geeks and for nobody but geeks. Obviously a geek can set up a Gentoo system for a non-geek, so you may find novices using Gentoo. You just won't find many novices installing it.
To be more precise, Gentoo Linux is not really a distribution but a meta-distribution. You don't usually install pre-compiled binaries when you add software to a Gentoo system. You most often compile and build the binaries yourself, according to your own personal optimization and configuration settings. Gentoo gives you the ability to treat almost the entire system this way, but it also lets the less-patient users start with a basic pre-compiled system. After that, you can build your own higher-level packages on top of that core installation.
This may sound a lot like another project called "Linux from scratch," but Gentoo has an important difference in philosophy. While Gentoo Linux makes it possible to compile and configure everything on your system exactly the way you like, it also provides you with more structure and tools to ease the process and automate updates.
The heart of Gentoo is its packaging system, Portage. Portage is similar to the BSD Ports system in that it installs software by retrieiving source code and building it on your system, resolving any dependencies as necessary. If any given package is available only in binary form, Portage grabs and installs it that way.
Gentoo considers the process one of merging software into your system, so the basic command for installing software is emerge, which is mostly intuitive. If you want to get rid of some software on your system, you use the command emerge unmerge, which isn't entirely intuitive, but it works.
Installation
If you have any familiarity at all with the process of partitioning hard drives, mounting partitions and basic Unix commands, it isn't all that difficult to install Gentoo if you simply pay careful attention to the instructions. However, the process certainly isn't "easy" when compared to mainstream distributions. You can't just pop in a CD-ROM and answer a few questions; you have to get your hands dirty. Just how dirty depends on the version of Gentoo you are attempting to install, as well as your choice of installation methods. If you want the most-optimized system possible, installation will be a long and tedious process. If you can deal with a generic base system for Gentoo but want to optimize most of the high-level software, it will still be a long and tedious process, but less so.
I installed Gentoo Linux 1.4 rc4, which is available for a few different processor types, but the x86 support is only generic x86. Under normal circumstances, Gentoo offers a choice of optimized base systems for a variety of x86 processors so that you don't have to compile everything from scratch to get enhanced performance on Athlon, Pentium 4, or other systems. You can still compile everything from scratch if you like, but installing an optimized base system makes it easier to get a performance boost without as much time and trouble up-front.
I chose the quickest installation, which sacrifices a little performance. The basic software on my system is pre-compiled for a generic x86, but most of the rest of the software is optimized according to my preferences. For exam
That's not entirely the case. NYC subways are plagued with problems, ranging from rampart corruption and misallocation of funds in the MTA, horrific track design, very slow and pathetically maintained cars (there's a batch of newly purchesed semi-modern models, but they only run on a couple of lines and their maintenance is not up to par, either), etc. The subway is around 100 years old, so it can be expected that the tunnels are not exactly fit for efficient use; in combination with the period where different parts of the subway system were layed by different companies and agencies (each using its own system, of course) makes for one broken transit system. The current station maintenance policies ("if it's leaking, put new tiles over it") don't help much, either. It's still big, of course.
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Thanks, I'll stick with pen, paper, and my left wrist.
In my experience, maxtors sometimes tend to get a bad sector or two (which is not that bad) once in a while, but when it tries to read the corrupted region, all hell breaks loose. I am not sure if it's the HDD controller or the drive itself, but the thing just locks up the bus. However, if one does not access the file known to have been corrupted, and does not run fdisk/updatedb, everything works fine.
edonkey is slow, unlreliable, does not scale well and relies on third-party hubs. Bittorrent is under control by the author and builds speed rapidly with increased number of users.
Doh, it's been stomped down. Never mind.
Working link here: clicky
here! Be gentle, the torrent itself is hosted on my school account, and I'll get ownzored by the administration if we get /.ed.
That's why I posted a warning ahead of time, so that others would not bother setting up separate torrents.
Bittorrents going up in ~20 mintes, stand by.
Hopefully someone will mod this post up to where you will see it, but I have a redhead waiting for me upstairs so I'm not going to spend any more time on the computer creating an account. Yeah, those redhat installs can be tricky if the installer keeps trying to... erm, nevermind.
I would strongy recommend the works of Arkady and Boris Strugatski. They don't seem to be too popular or well-known in the US, and for shame. While a lot is lost in translation from the Russian, the books still do a marvelous job of exploring human nature in an oftentimes absolutely mindblowing setting. Beetle in an Anthill is one of the finest works of science fiction I have ever read, and the more popular Monday begins on Saturday and Roadside picnic are very enjoyable and thought-provoking. They've also written a few humor pieces that jest about with spacetime and higher mathematics, although they seem to lose a lot of their charm when translated.
Technically, the smart thing to do would be taring the files then gziping them. You probably want all the files anyway, and compression is much more efficient when a bunch of similar files are joined together first before applying the algorithm. Zip might do that nowdays as well, but I am quite sure it compressed individual files and then built the archive at least in the earlier versions. I must point out, however, that AFAIK an incomplete zip file *can* be repaired due to the abovementioned principle, much like tars can. Of course, neither should really matter with SHA1 checksumming built into BT and all.
I suppose you have a personal subscription/site license as such seem to be required to view the full article. Either that, or parent was supposed to be +1 Funny.
BT seems to be the perfect tool for prevntion of slashdotting of file mirrors; do you ever plan to extend this functionality to a "mini p2p webserver" that would allow website owners to distribute their content to ad-hoc mirrors provided by subscribers/first viewers and then switch to a "tracker" mode, just feeding (appropriately modified) torrents pointing to those mirrors to the readers? I believe this could do wonders to relieve the /. effect, especially if clients will be allowed to keep/share lists of peers to reduce tracker load.
A valid point, however sshing to your box back in your country of origin and sending email from there is usually a valid option; that's what I do when I travel.
Would a "Car Show" sue a major car manufacturer because said manufacturer comes up with some legal case that threatens to make all other manufacturers indebted to them? They might be pissed, but filing some legal suit for such a 4th party participant in the field is misuse of the system. No, but they would sue someone claiming that every single car ever produced infringes on some obscure patent and all car owners are potentionally criminals.
I use an IBM series M, and dipping it in paint thinnner every three years is all the cleaning it needs ;)
"Not only does this PDA look cool, but you can go into your local electronics store and hassle people by turning on and off the home electronics there." I could do that with my newton.
To answer your question, USB is cheap (in fact, it's specifically designed to be very, very affordable). On the other hand, Bluetooth is not [as] cheap. USB is also availible just about anywhere.
I honestly couldn't care less about karma, just posted it because the server felt shaky to me (yes, I do realize that it's linuxworld, but it didn't load very fast for me at least). Ah well, guess I'll have to post as AC or not at all next time.
Why did this get modded redundant? The two comments with the text made two minutes after this one are modded up. Of course, I do deserve to be smacked for pasting it as a solid block (mozilla acting up).
A new distro in town: Gentoo emerges victorious By Nicholas Petreley Originally published May 16, 2003 Printed from LinuxWorld.com http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2003/0516.p etreley.html Summary The 'meta-distro' Gentoo makes it possible to compile and configure everything on your system exactly the way you like, providing you with more structure and tools to ease the process and automate updates. Do I still like Debian? I absolutely love it. But until further notice, Gentoo is now my flavor of Linux. (1,900 words) Advertisement (LinuxWorld) -- A relatively new distribution called Gentoo Linux is gaining a rapidly increasing, rabidly loyal group of users. The increasing popularity of Gentoo is almost difficult to explain, given that it's clearly a distribution by geeks, for geeks and for nobody but geeks. Obviously a geek can set up a Gentoo system for a non-geek, so you may find novices using Gentoo. You just won't find many novices installing it. To be more precise, Gentoo Linux is not really a distribution but a meta-distribution. You don't usually install pre-compiled binaries when you add software to a Gentoo system. You most often compile and build the binaries yourself, according to your own personal optimization and configuration settings. Gentoo gives you the ability to treat almost the entire system this way, but it also lets the less-patient users start with a basic pre-compiled system. After that, you can build your own higher-level packages on top of that core installation. This may sound a lot like another project called "Linux from scratch," but Gentoo has an important difference in philosophy. While Gentoo Linux makes it possible to compile and configure everything on your system exactly the way you like, it also provides you with more structure and tools to ease the process and automate updates. The heart of Gentoo is its packaging system, Portage. Portage is similar to the BSD Ports system in that it installs software by retrieiving source code and building it on your system, resolving any dependencies as necessary. If any given package is available only in binary form, Portage grabs and installs it that way. Gentoo considers the process one of merging software into your system, so the basic command for installing software is emerge, which is mostly intuitive. If you want to get rid of some software on your system, you use the command emerge unmerge, which isn't entirely intuitive, but it works. Installation If you have any familiarity at all with the process of partitioning hard drives, mounting partitions and basic Unix commands, it isn't all that difficult to install Gentoo if you simply pay careful attention to the instructions. However, the process certainly isn't "easy" when compared to mainstream distributions. You can't just pop in a CD-ROM and answer a few questions; you have to get your hands dirty. Just how dirty depends on the version of Gentoo you are attempting to install, as well as your choice of installation methods. If you want the most-optimized system possible, installation will be a long and tedious process. If you can deal with a generic base system for Gentoo but want to optimize most of the high-level software, it will still be a long and tedious process, but less so. I installed Gentoo Linux 1.4 rc4, which is available for a few different processor types, but the x86 support is only generic x86. Under normal circumstances, Gentoo offers a choice of optimized base systems for a variety of x86 processors so that you don't have to compile everything from scratch to get enhanced performance on Athlon, Pentium 4, or other systems. You can still compile everything from scratch if you like, but installing an optimized base system makes it easier to get a performance boost without as much time and trouble up-front. I chose the quickest installation, which sacrifices a little performance. The basic software on my system is pre-compiled for a generic x86, but most of the rest of the software is optimized according to my preferences. For exam
Well, it's mostly aimed to (IMO) replace regular dvds/vhs used for rental.
Bah, just rip it before it expires :)
That's not entirely the case. NYC subways are plagued with problems, ranging from rampart corruption and misallocation of funds in the MTA, horrific track design, very slow and pathetically maintained cars (there's a batch of newly purchesed semi-modern models, but they only run on a couple of lines and their maintenance is not up to par, either), etc. The subway is around 100 years old, so it can be expected that the tunnels are not exactly fit for efficient use; in combination with the period where different parts of the subway system were layed by different companies and agencies (each using its own system, of course) makes for one broken transit system. The current station maintenance policies ("if it's leaking, put new tiles over it") don't help much, either. It's still big, of course.
Erm, you are completely right. I shouldn't post after AP exams.