They are great to have, much more convenient. But not strictly required due to the way that hardware *is*. I run a straight linux box. And the last I checked, you could "dd" the kernel image directly to the first bootable device, usually/dev/hda or/dev/sda, and it would boot. You do it as an entire block, and then "dd" the entire root FS onto the next disk block. So that the kernel can find it. If it doesn't fly then you get a panic message about "Root FS not found" along with a complete halt. It will sit there and wait for a kernel cmdline. Alternatively, you can set a word in ramdisk via "rdev" and tell the kernel where to find it. It's in the "howto's".
Stick around a while, this might get interesting. I plan to see what happens. btrfs has no encumberances, you are correct about that; but OTOH ZFS is production-tested and proven - and lots of ppl are drooling for it (along with dtrace). The whole legal morass (licensing) is definitely *going* to tie things up for a while though, IMHO.
From a historical perspective, you should also remember that Solaris draws from SunOS which SunOS in turn tried to merge the best of SysV and BSD. Which coincidentally Linux also tries to do. So I think it's a good match.
Still, though: how often do you actually need to FSCK? In my situation, not so much anymore. Granted though that I'm a home linux user with no servers whatsoever. UFS might actually be a good idea here: I find that hardware is the more limiting factor nowdays. Even with spinning rust as opposed to SSD.
Nice numbers. I haven't seen anything like that in a *long* time. ISTR the last time I saw something like that was on slackware v.3. However I wonder what would happen with more users? It's something I would like to experiment with, however I'm very wary and cautious with Oracle's current style. Oracle (nee Sun) is the only one who could repair this relationship. Thoughts?
I've seen a few people make solar concentrators out of them, for thermal energy. Remember that sunlight is good for about 1 kiloWatt per square meter. The best way is to get 1-inch hex-shaped glass mirror - a whole shitload of them. Glue them onto the dish with epoxy until as much surface as possible is covered with them. You will get a few thousand degrees Fahrenheit temps at the focal point. You can use this to generate steam by putting a water block at the focal point - save on your heat bill, or make some electricity. For instance, by using an ordinary air-powered die grinder and run it on the steam instead. You can do a lot with 20 thousand RPM's that way.
Thank you for saying what I cannot even spit out any more. I'm so disgusted. Off topic, but I'm visual (oil painting and charcoal drawing is rather hard to reproduce). Music is a major part of my life however, and it kind of "gets things going". In parting let me offer a gift of music, one of my all-time favorites: the "Little" G minor by JS Bach. BVW 578
Do they love the development model? Or do they love the BSD licenses? Apache? MIT? Do they love the community spirit, the excitement an passion that "anyone can do this"? Notice in all of this however, that they don't seem to mention "Free as in Freedom".
Informative post you made. Notice also that Oracle hired the same lawyers that SCO used; and they want a jury trial in this case also. I wonder how mmany of the same legal tricks they'll try in this case, such as obfuscation and delay to the point of skulduggery.
I'm at stage 2 and my brother is at stage 3. I want to tell you, put the cam away and just bake out. seriously. Never mind what it takes to make you happy; instead what does it take to make her happy? Chances are, it isn't digital.
Got an old Tektronix 541-A myself, with plug in units. Does everything I need, with adequate accuracy, and cost less than $100 at the local ham festival.
You would be amazed at how much the people over at Groklaw could use something like this; since most US court documents are recorded as scanned PDF's and TIFF files. I'm saving this link.
True, but Apple flamewars are fun; you can spend all day trying to get them to come out of the closet. Meanwhile you can watch the fanbois get all twisted until they grow a pair enough.
Of course you can say the same thing about Linux guys. I've been running it since the mid-1990's and I have very few illusions. Main thing is, Yeah, bone-stock generic linux install is a shitload better than Windows, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. There's always ways to tighten up the generic distro defaults to fit your specific situation, even with the latest.
As for myself, I haven't allowed MS products in my house since 1999. Not missing much of anything either, it seems. And yes, I still enjoy all of the new web crap.
I have a feeling that the bit about being "on record" is a bit limited. As opposed to events that occur on a millenial scale.
Certainly it is noteworthy from a scientific view regardless of all the finger-pointing and etc. We have a rare opportunity to record an observation and hypothesize about it.
Just to be equally pedantic about it, most USians cannot directly imagine a meter. However, the common "yardstick" has had a meter measure printed on the reverse side of it for *years*. Most USians can picture that. Therefore they can form a "rough estimate" mental image of what the writer is trying to convey. Exactness wasn't the point.
Which voters and where do they live? The voters in NYC sure as hell don't represent the *rest of the state*. And you know good and well that NY tends to do things in the most expensive way possible. Legions of baby-boomer public sector workers, with locked-in union benefits approaching retirement. My gut feeling is that eventually the state will collapse much like GM or Wall street did recently. And for the same reasons. I do have to wonder though, have you ever lived and worked here for any length of time?
As a fellow New Yorker, I want to second this. Big time. Dunno about you, but I'm in the upstate/western part of the state. And we've long felt that our representation in Albany is pitiful at best. Albany seems to only represent itself and NYC -- but most of the money we make goes there. For some reason the same assclowns keep getting re-elected up there, decade after decade, most likely because of the population in NYC. In my area, I've seen them raise the power rates by 40% in the same year that the power plant was paid off; and decided to keep the toobooths after the original mortgage had paid for the roads. Smokers pay $8 per pack despite the big tobacco settlement, and the state is trying like hell to tax the indians. My feeling is that they could tax 100% and still go broke feeding the political machine that is NYS. It's all very un-balanced. My solution? Both NYC and LA should be spun off into federal districts much like Washington DC.
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They are great to have, much more convenient. But not strictly required due to the way that hardware *is*. I run a straight linux box. And the last I checked, you could "dd" the kernel image directly to the first bootable device, usually /dev/hda or /dev/sda, and it would boot. You do it as an entire block, and then "dd" the entire root FS onto the next disk block. So that the kernel can find it. If it doesn't fly then you get a panic message about "Root FS not found" along with a complete halt. It will sit there and wait for a kernel cmdline. Alternatively, you can set a word in ramdisk via "rdev" and tell the kernel where to find it. It's in the "howto's".
Stick around a while, this might get interesting. I plan to see what happens. btrfs has no encumberances, you are correct about that; but OTOH ZFS is production-tested and proven - and lots of ppl are drooling for it (along with dtrace). The whole legal morass (licensing) is definitely *going* to tie things up for a while though, IMHO. From a historical perspective, you should also remember that Solaris draws from SunOS which SunOS in turn tried to merge the best of SysV and BSD. Which coincidentally Linux also tries to do. So I think it's a good match.
Still, though: how often do you actually need to FSCK? In my situation, not so much anymore. Granted though that I'm a home linux user with no servers whatsoever. UFS might actually be a good idea here: I find that hardware is the more limiting factor nowdays. Even with spinning rust as opposed to SSD.
Nice numbers. I haven't seen anything like that in a *long* time. ISTR the last time I saw something like that was on slackware v.3. However I wonder what would happen with more users? It's something I would like to experiment with, however I'm very wary and cautious with Oracle's current style. Oracle (nee Sun) is the only one who could repair this relationship. Thoughts?
I feel old - 1967 here. My first memory of computing involved punch cards.
I've seen a few people make solar concentrators out of them, for thermal energy. Remember that sunlight is good for about 1 kiloWatt per square meter. The best way is to get 1-inch hex-shaped glass mirror - a whole shitload of them. Glue them onto the dish with epoxy until as much surface as possible is covered with them. You will get a few thousand degrees Fahrenheit temps at the focal point. You can use this to generate steam by putting a water block at the focal point - save on your heat bill, or make some electricity. For instance, by using an ordinary air-powered die grinder and run it on the steam instead. You can do a lot with 20 thousand RPM's that way.
For whom is copyright law "not working"?
Thank you for saying what I cannot even spit out any more. I'm so disgusted. Off topic, but I'm visual (oil painting and charcoal drawing is rather hard to reproduce). Music is a major part of my life however, and it kind of "gets things going". In parting let me offer a gift of music, one of my all-time favorites: the "Little" G minor by JS Bach. BVW 578
Do they love the development model? Or do they love the BSD licenses? Apache? MIT? Do they love the community spirit, the excitement an passion that "anyone can do this"? Notice in all of this however, that they don't seem to mention "Free as in Freedom".
Informative post you made. Notice also that Oracle hired the same lawyers that SCO used; and they want a jury trial in this case also. I wonder how mmany of the same legal tricks they'll try in this case, such as obfuscation and delay to the point of skulduggery.
This is like comparing shit with corn in it, vs. shit with peanuts in it. Which one would *you* rather eat?
I'm at stage 2 and my brother is at stage 3. I want to tell you, put the cam away and just bake out. seriously. Never mind what it takes to make you happy; instead what does it take to make her happy? Chances are, it isn't digital.
Seconded from NY. Hell I think we should split the city off from the state entirely. And I've got family in LA.
But why would I want to see polar flares? I mean, it's cool and all, whatever floats your boat... but I'm just not "like that".
Got an old Tektronix 541-A myself, with plug in units. Does everything I need, with adequate accuracy, and cost less than $100 at the local ham festival.
You would be amazed at how much the people over at Groklaw could use something like this; since most US court documents are recorded as scanned PDF's and TIFF files. I'm saving this link.
I'd hit it.
You're funny. Or at least, an optimist. What makes you think that Zuckerberg isn't playing by the *exact same rules* that the VC's are playing by?
prove that last sentence of yours.
True, but Apple flamewars are fun; you can spend all day trying to get them to come out of the closet. Meanwhile you can watch the fanbois get all twisted until they grow a pair enough. Of course you can say the same thing about Linux guys. I've been running it since the mid-1990's and I have very few illusions. Main thing is, Yeah, bone-stock generic linux install is a shitload better than Windows, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. There's always ways to tighten up the generic distro defaults to fit your specific situation, even with the latest. As for myself, I haven't allowed MS products in my house since 1999. Not missing much of anything either, it seems. And yes, I still enjoy all of the new web crap.
I have a feeling that the bit about being "on record" is a bit limited. As opposed to events that occur on a millenial scale. Certainly it is noteworthy from a scientific view regardless of all the finger-pointing and etc. We have a rare opportunity to record an observation and hypothesize about it.
Just to be equally pedantic about it, most USians cannot directly imagine a meter. However, the common "yardstick" has had a meter measure printed on the reverse side of it for *years*. Most USians can picture that. Therefore they can form a "rough estimate" mental image of what the writer is trying to convey. Exactness wasn't the point.
How much you wanna bet that the difference is a tax writeoff?
Which voters and where do they live? The voters in NYC sure as hell don't represent the *rest of the state*. And you know good and well that NY tends to do things in the most expensive way possible. Legions of baby-boomer public sector workers, with locked-in union benefits approaching retirement. My gut feeling is that eventually the state will collapse much like GM or Wall street did recently. And for the same reasons. I do have to wonder though, have you ever lived and worked here for any length of time?
As a fellow New Yorker, I want to second this. Big time. Dunno about you, but I'm in the upstate/western part of the state. And we've long felt that our representation in Albany is pitiful at best. Albany seems to only represent itself and NYC -- but most of the money we make goes there. For some reason the same assclowns keep getting re-elected up there, decade after decade, most likely because of the population in NYC. In my area, I've seen them raise the power rates by 40% in the same year that the power plant was paid off; and decided to keep the toobooths after the original mortgage had paid for the roads. Smokers pay $8 per pack despite the big tobacco settlement, and the state is trying like hell to tax the indians. My feeling is that they could tax 100% and still go broke feeding the political machine that is NYS. It's all very un-balanced. My solution? Both NYC and LA should be spun off into federal districts much like Washington DC.