Re:The Great Linux Uptime Myth exposed
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Kernel 2.2.12
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LOL Nah, I can beat that. My NT system has a 3000 day uptime. It has BSODed a few times, Froze another few... and hell, the UPS don't work no more, but I just don't count them, coz they simply show the maturity of the OS.
My windows 98 box also has a 2000 day uptime, its running 98 now, it was running MS-DOS 6.0 2000 days ago... in fact it has NONE of the origional parts in it, but all reboots were `scheduled,.05seconds in advance. you see, "OOOOHHHH FUCK!" actually means "We have scheduled a small downtime about ummm NOW!" therefore the downtime doesn't count.
I home I'm not cheating or anything... Installing 98 is like MS-DOS with a new kernel isn't it:)
PS. No, this wasn't serious, this was a JOKE. I don't *NEED* to be flamed. thanks.
60 years ago, before computers were avalable, or even existant, the best encryption avalable was worked out by Nazis on pen and paper (don't mention the war). Encryption like this was able to be cracked by the US millatary in a week; but imagine what 12bit incryption would have been like back in those times. It would have been impossible to crack, yet now it is generally regarded as a simple task for a home computer to crack. Yes, PGP and algorithims like that will be obsolete, and a simple task for QCs, but the software industry will adapt quickly, and as before encryption WILL be invented which WILL tax these computers. Think back 5 years, running WordPerfect 5.1 on a DOS box at 4MHz. If someone said they had a 400MHz computer, would you assume you would be able to write messages quicker, because your program would be lightening fast, and wouldn't crash. Now fire up Word2000 on your PII 400 and see how stable it is.
Is it just me or does this have APRIL FOOLS written all over it?
BTW. segfault.org is down, claiming:
This site is closed
As many of you have been following, over the past week we have been engaged in discussions with a third party about their objections to the content of stories posted onto this web site.
As a result of the latest stage of these discussions, I have decided to take this web site down until the issue is fully resolved.
I greatly appreciate all the e-mails and messages of support I have received from you, the readers, and I promise I will fight this one through to the end.
See you on the flip side!
I am willing to BET that is an APRIL FOOL too.
PS. Out here in australia April fools has FINISHED>.. and some of us are kinda sick of it:)
It's just there is a rather large conspiricy between the Oil companies, the Air-craft manufacturers, and the leading road/rail companies keeping technology like this under wraps.
They know their whole existance will be futile when the truth gets out, so they are spending BILLIONS of dollars a year to have this sort of thing kept under wraps.
PLEASE ACCEPT OUR DEEPEST APOLOGIES!!! AUSTRALIA IS NOT REALLY LIKE THAT!!! As a representitive of 100% of the intelligent Australians I would like to say:
I WOULD PREFER TO HAVE MY TEETH EXTRACTED ONE BY ONE WITH PLYERS AND NO ANSTHETIC THAN WATCH THOSE SHOWS!!!
Unlike America, or England, there isn't one person running this country. Our Prime Minister, John Howard... Can't do SHIT!
To be perfectly honest I don't care about this sorta thing because there is no way it is going to happen. Many people don't realise how FUCKING INCOMPETEND our government is.
I mean... I am currently attending a Public High School. I have a Kremlin sitting on the drive at the school.
Kremlin allows encription of CAST-128, IDEA etc. encription, I can encript what I like, send it to anyone in the world from a goverment satillite and no one in australia really is going to do anything about it.. They don't care.
There is ONE thing that is really important to australians...
If you live in Victoria: VB If you live up north: XXXX
Don't believe me? There was a gas shortage in Victoria late last year, the WHOLE STATE was without gas for a week or two. When the government fixed it, Carlton United Brewrys (makers of VB) had the gas for a day or two before ANY OTHER COMPANIES. INCLUDING THE FORD FACTORIES!
The is responsable for all the SHIT we have to put up with now.
The mouse is directly responsible for the following SHIT:
Macintosh. Windows. X.
The mouse gave Fucking Stupid People the ability to use the computer, therefore the mouse is responisible for the following SHIT:
AOL (Where would they be without their stupid users) Microsoft (As Above) SPAM ICQ etc.
The ONLY benifit I see from the use of the mouse would be the great improvement it gave for the control of QUAKE, however, DOOM, DOOM2, Duke3D, and the origional (BEST) WOLFINSTIEN 3D survived without it, besides a new kind of device like the old nintendo glove probably would've been designed for computer games if the mouse hadn't already taken it's stranglehold (monopoly? *grin*) of the market.
A late program/kernel is better than a buggy kernel if you have a full featured public beta to play with in the meantime.
Thats my 2c
Why is it nessessary for 2.2.0 to be released soon
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Linux 2.2.0pre5
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There are comments on here from people wanting 2.2.0 to be released soon...
I personally would not like to see it released after first quarter this year, but I don't understand why it is so important to people to have 2.2.0 released.
Linux kernel 2.2 is currently in a feature freeze, which means the current pre release does everything the final kernel will do. So why is it so important for 2.2.0 to be released?
Why don't you, the people who want to use 2.2.0 final, just use pre5 AS IF IT WERE FINAL, and only update to the latest pre every 5 releases or when you find a bug in the kernel you are using.
If 2.2.0 were released tomorrow any further bugs that are found would have to be put into a patch, and because end users, not just the `beta testers' will have to apply this, linus will probably want to wait a while before releasing it.
I personally like the releasing of a new pre every 2-3 days, it means I have to compile then re-boot, which makes me feel like I am in windoze again:-) (does flatlining the CPU then having to re-boot for the changes to take effect to install software remind anyone else of a certain OS? *grin*)
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LOL
.05seconds in advance. you see, "OOOOHHHH FUCK!" actually means "We have scheduled a small downtime about ummm NOW!" therefore the downtime doesn't count.
:)
Nah, I can beat that. My NT system has a 3000 day uptime.
It has BSODed a few times, Froze another few... and hell, the UPS don't work no more, but I just don't count them, coz they simply show the maturity of the OS.
My windows 98 box also has a 2000 day uptime, its running 98 now, it was running MS-DOS 6.0 2000 days ago... in fact it has NONE of the origional parts in it, but all reboots were `scheduled,
I home I'm not cheating or anything... Installing 98 is like MS-DOS with a new kernel isn't it
PS.
No, this wasn't serious, this was a JOKE. I don't *NEED* to be flamed. thanks.
60 years ago, before computers were avalable, or even existant, the best encryption avalable was worked out by Nazis on pen and paper (don't mention the war). Encryption like this was able to be cracked by the US millatary in a week; but imagine what 12bit incryption would have been like back in those times. It would have been impossible to crack, yet now it is generally regarded as a simple task for a home computer to crack. Yes, PGP and algorithims like that will be obsolete, and a simple task for QCs, but the software industry will adapt quickly, and as before encryption WILL be invented which WILL tax these computers. Think back 5 years, running WordPerfect 5.1 on a DOS box at 4MHz. If someone said they had a 400MHz computer, would you assume you would be able to write messages quicker, because your program would be lightening fast, and wouldn't crash. Now fire up Word2000 on your PII 400 and see how stable it is.
To write a program that counts to 100 you can do it in 100 lines of code:
print 1
print 2
print 3
etc.
or you can do it in 3 lines:
for (i=1;i=i++;i=100)
print i
next i
or something..... Now who is the better programmer?
Is it just me or does this have
:)
APRIL FOOLS
written all over it?
BTW. segfault.org is down, claiming:
This site is closed
As many of you have been following, over the past week we have been engaged in discussions with a third party about their objections to
the content of stories posted onto this web site.
As a result of the latest stage of these discussions, I have decided to take this web site down until the issue is fully resolved.
I greatly appreciate all the e-mails and messages of support I have received from you, the readers, and I promise I will fight this one
through to the end.
See you on the flip side!
I am willing to BET that is an APRIL FOOL too.
PS. Out here in australia April fools has FINISHED>.. and some of us are kinda sick of it
I believe those two things are directly related.
People who can type well on a qwerty have great trouble learning the DVORAK
mmmmmmm.....
I can't WAIT to see BackOrrifice for Brain 1.0
Immagine the Cached password... keylogging... AND REMOTE CONTROL potential of that *evil laugh*
sex... huh??? what are ...sex... on about?
..sex... *NEVER* let my thou...sex...ghts get interrupted by that sort...sex... of shit.
...sex... of self control :)
I
It is all a matter
It already exists :)
Telporters exist and work fine.
It's just there is a rather large conspiricy between the Oil companies, the Air-craft manufacturers, and the leading road/rail companies keeping technology like this under wraps.
They know their whole existance will be futile when the truth gets out, so they are spending BILLIONS of dollars a year to have this sort of thing kept under wraps.
AHHHH
HOME AND AWAY
NEIGHBOURS
AHHHH!!!!
PLEASE ACCEPT OUR DEEPEST APOLOGIES!!!
AUSTRALIA IS NOT REALLY LIKE THAT!!!
As a representitive of 100% of the intelligent Australians I would like to say:
I WOULD PREFER TO HAVE MY TEETH EXTRACTED ONE BY ONE WITH PLYERS AND NO ANSTHETIC THAN WATCH THOSE SHOWS!!!
Unlike America, or England, there isn't one person running this country.
Our Prime Minister, John Howard... Can't do SHIT!
To be perfectly honest I don't care about this sorta thing because there is no way it is going to happen. Many people don't realise how FUCKING INCOMPETEND our government is.
I mean... I am currently attending a Public High School. I have a Kremlin sitting on the drive at the school.
Kremlin allows encription of CAST-128, IDEA etc. encription, I can encript what I like, send it to anyone in the world from a goverment satillite and no one in australia really is going to do anything about it.. They don't care.
There is ONE thing that is really important to australians...
If you live in Victoria: VB
If you live up north: XXXX
Don't believe me? There was a gas shortage in Victoria late last year, the WHOLE STATE was without gas for a week or two. When the government fixed it, Carlton United Brewrys (makers of VB) had the gas for a day or two before ANY OTHER COMPANIES. INCLUDING THE FORD FACTORIES!
Australia is a great place to live.
0 is a bit
1 is a bit
01010101 is a BYTE
If your modem is capable of 33600bps you can recieve 33600 1s or 0s in a second.
Each characture is 8 bits.
The is responsable for all the SHIT we have to put up with now.
The mouse is directly responsible for the following SHIT:
Macintosh.
Windows.
X.
The mouse gave Fucking Stupid People the ability to use the computer, therefore the mouse is responisible for the following SHIT:
AOL (Where would they be without their stupid users)
Microsoft (As Above)
SPAM
ICQ
etc.
The ONLY benifit I see from the use of the mouse would be the great improvement it gave for the control of QUAKE, however, DOOM, DOOM2, Duke3D, and the origional (BEST) WOLFINSTIEN 3D survived without it, besides a new kind of device like the old nintendo glove probably would've been designed for computer games if the mouse hadn't already taken it's stranglehold (monopoly? *grin*) of the market.
YEAH!! GO THE CONSOLE BASED OS's AND GAMES
PC-DOS
*NIX
DR-DOS
DOOM
DOOM2
DUKE3D
WOLF3D
SHADOW WARRIER
What happens if you make a bzImage when you should use a zImage?
ie.
what happens if you make a bzImage on a small kernel?
A late program/kernel is better than a buggy kernel if you have a full featured public beta to play with in the meantime.
Thats my 2c
There are comments on here from people wanting 2.2.0 to be released soon...
:-) (does flatlining the CPU then having to re-boot for the changes to take effect to install software remind anyone else of a certain OS? *grin*)
I personally would not like to see it released after first quarter this year, but I don't understand why it is so important to people to have 2.2.0 released.
Linux kernel 2.2 is currently in a feature freeze, which means the current pre release does everything the final kernel will do. So why is it so important for 2.2.0 to be released?
Why don't you, the people who want to use 2.2.0 final, just use pre5 AS IF IT WERE FINAL, and only update to the latest pre every 5 releases or when you find a bug in the kernel you are using.
If 2.2.0 were released tomorrow any further bugs that are found would have to be put into a patch, and because end users, not just the `beta testers' will have to apply this, linus will probably want to wait a while before releasing it.
I personally like the releasing of a new pre every 2-3 days, it means I have to compile then re-boot, which makes me feel like I am in windoze again
SCREW YOU ASSHOLE!!!
I got Pre1 when it first came out...
:-)
I haven't had any real trouble with it, Is it worth me getting Pre4, patching and compiling it?
or will Pre5 be out tomorrow?