Well, that would be a pointer to my memory: just come and get it:)
Jokes aside, I've tried FreeBSD-STABLE 4.0 (meaning a production server) and it found only one CPU (all documented procedures including recompiling the kernel to find other CPUs are failed). Also it had problem to manage IBM ServRAID (test installation on a primitive IDE HDD worked fine, but we needed it on ServRAID with ability to manage it).
Besides, we had tried some pluggable backup devices, including USB-2 DVD-Writer and Firewire ZIP drives. Both are failed to be used by FreeBSD.
Amazingly, Gentoo Linux LiveCD found all the hardware right from the first boot. It runs now on that server and we don't have any problem of doing backups on mentioned devices.
P.S. Just for a case, we use only stable keywords in Gentoo.
You are talking about something that you don't know *and* you don't understand it *and* you don't even try to know or understand it.
For the rest of people who read this thread and don't know Gentoo Portage too, but want to know it:
Portage is the a way of fine-grained control over your system and over installation process on your system. It can optimize compiled sources to the system you have (which is actually a good thing!) or (it's your choice) it can get binaries of that package already optimized to one of typical hardware types (in case of x86 platform: x386, x686, P3, P4, AMD84 etc).
I fail to see why this fine-grained control is worse than apt-get, whose functionality is just a sub-set of one of Portage.
Each time after such news I think that USPTO is contributing to job outsourcing from USA to overseas just together with labor price differences. If US citizens should blame someones then they should blame themselves for electing a gang of morons to represent their goverment.
Hey, Americans, wake up until it's too late! You should upgrade your govermental system or stop expecting any good changes in your life! Your economy is stagnating more and more, and USPTO is not the last contributor to it!
When last time I've been laid off back in california, I've just moved to another country. If I'll see the trend that they begin to outsource from here further East - I'll move again without doubts. It's a free world 9kind of), and I am free to change my job or to change the place of my living.
Complaining about that nobody brings me dot-com bonuses right to my door anymore is just too leftish for me. I prefer to take care about life by myself. All I need is open job-market borders. And that is exactly the only subject I am complaining sometimes when I fight too much with the next immigration office buroc-rats.
The industry is just about finished, people, and it's getting worse.
In most of places around the world IT industry is getting better and better. Where are you living? Wrong country perhaps? Right time to move?
Seriously, show me any country outside of US where it's getting worse? Even Europian countries still hiring hi-skiled immigrants.
Well, the difference between USA and EU is in immigration laws. USA officials hate hi-skillied immigrants (just like you do). So, perhaps that's the source of the problem: open your borders and enjoy IT industry flooding in to your country again, just as it's been already back in late-90s in the era of H1Bers.
12-31-2005: the idea of creating new algorithms has been patented in USPTO. USA became a country where freedom of thinking is against IP laws.
12-31-2006: the last software company has moved its business overseas. USA doesn't produce any software anymore.
12-31-2007: Senate made a law fixing the status quo: now any creative process in USA is against the law. America is officially a graveyard of creativity.
The question is: is it patented only US domestically? If so then I don't see any problem as US patent system is a complete bull-shit and the more it is bullshit is the more chances that US will be weaker and weaker and eventually it will step aside and do not disturb the world progress.
Get to use it. Half of moderators here are 12-year old nuts earning their karma by bushing obvious things (such as "Microsoft is bad" and so on) on their first week after creating their/. account.
I propose Slashdot owners to sell moderating karma while keeping meta-moderating karma being earned. That would keep random boys from disturbing serious discussions.
Alternatively, I recommend to change the karma earning rules. Now it's easier to get karma on fresh account then when you are a veteran here. For example my karma always says "positive" but last time I had a moderating points was recently after I've created my account here. I guess veterans do not have any moderating points here.
Sounds like you don't really "get" PKI then. Would you seriously encrypt an important message using a public key that you received attached to an email?
Sounds like you don't really "get" PKI then. Sending a public key through non-reliable channels is against PKI.
Well, if your email channel is already protected by signing all content with trusted keys then no problem to trust the key sent through such email.
Alternatively, I prefer to use keys signed by trusted CA servers.
When last time have you get spam signed by keys signed by trusted CA?
So, go back and read agian to learn what is PKI before criticizing others.
Do you actually consider email a secure medium? What planet are you on?
And RTFC (comment) before answering it. In which words did I say that email per se is secure medium?
3 is no better than 7. Imperial system doesn't help to devide by 7. Neither by 11, 13, 17 etc.
The problem with 0.33333333 is not in a metric system, but in a way how it is used, like how software is using it. If you use program languages with unlimited words like Python, or even better with symbolic computation like Lisp or Haskell, then you don't have such problem.
With gpg I can encrypt with your key even without asking you to send me your key if it's already in PKI. All I need is your ID in PKI (typically that would be your email) and "ta-da!" - my tar.gz is encrypted and sent by email to you (or published on the web for you). You don't have to know my password or to get any my key - instead you use just your own password to decrypt and (optionally) my ID to verify the signature.
IMHO bot PKzip and WinZip are sticking their technologies somewhere in mid 90s, while we are living here what? mid 00'? password protected archive... What's wrong with those guys? Have they ever heard about PKI?
The article was about encryption, not about compression. Both Cgzip and Bzip are compressing, not encrypting.
But if you need content protection of your archives in Linux, then consider either pgp or gpg (or both - gpg is just a modern and open re-implementation of the famous in the past pgp). I used both and never had any problem.
700MB is certainly not enough for modern system, even if compressed. But where to get Live DVD? I understand that mostof linux distributing sites still afraid bandwidth problems, but what about live dvd making instructions at least?
Right now it looks like Linux community stack to CD. Is it because nobody needs Live DVD and I am the only one here with DVD-ROM hardware?
What the NIST fails to mention here is that most of this comes from national policies called 'laws', which are allowing spammer to send the infected spam, while Microsoft to monopilize the desktop market with OS specially designed for being hacked.
The CIO of Just Sports USA received an extortion letter from SCO, started a thread about it on the pgsql-general
Why pgsql? Why not some linux kernel mail-lists? First of all, linux mail-lists will be more aporpriate to discuss linux related issues.
Besides, pgsql community is historically negative about Linux - they have roots back in Berkley and keep that love to BSD still.
Also, PostgreSQL is BSD-licensed and their leaders are fanatically against GNU. They actually think that GNU is evil, and they bring MySQL name as a demonstration of it.
With all my love to PostgreSQL as to very well designed DBMS, I don't understant why issues related only to Linux and GNU should be discussed in pgsql mail-lists?
The best keyboard I ever have experienced was a virtual onscreen keyboard running on a touchscreen.
Imagine a laptop-alike configuration of two touchscreens folded in a shape of laptop. The upper screen (almost-vertically staying in the usual location of your screen) is mostly for conventional application windows (browsers, editors), while the screen located bellow (horisontally laying down in the place where you keep normally your keyboard) is for onscreen keyboards, dialog pop-up windows menu-bars, tool-bars and desktop panels (like gnome panels).
There are lots of benefits for touchscreen based keyboards in dual-screen configurations:
no problem with international layouts:
you can change key-signs dynamically, while on old hard-style keyboard you stick atmost to two languages (otherwise how would you mark every single key with 5 different characters? Imagine: engilsh, cyrillic, greek, arabic, farsi, hindu);
it's very convinient for Estern Asian languages where the whole keyboard layout would be better different for different languages (Mandarin, Cantoneese, Korian, Japaneese);
the place of typing alphabeetical and numerical keys is not overcrowded with useless functional and similar keys:
instead they are going to the place they belong to, like tool-bars and desktop-panels (where they can be displayed dynamically in the current context).
Keypad can be displayed only when you need it;
Navigation keys (arrows, page-up and like that) can be displayed only when you need it;
cleaning the touch screen is much easier;
dialog pop-ups and tool-bars on the same bottom screen as on-screen keyboard, releasing the top screen for main windows, so again, it has a better screen space management;
gestures are very easy to add.
Among problems:
it better works when a desktop and window managers know about it. In Linux it must not be a problem (and I saw it with Linux/Gnome);
Unfortunately it was a home-made experimental model. I still cannot buy it and have to do it myself. hmm... perhaps I should start a business and sell touchscreen-based keyboards specially for linux geeks...
the cost: I might manage to build it on my own from the second-hand parts within $200, but I can imagine its new cost, perhaps $300-$400. Too expensive.:(
Normal (and cheap) touchscreens react only on one touch at a time, while for a good experience (especially with gestures) you need it reacting on multiple simultanious touchings (more expensive touchscreens are required). However, an old-style keyboard typically accept one typed character at a time too, so, it might be ok;
Conclusion: the best keyboard is a touchscreen on a top of a second screen specially dedicated for typing and navigational handwork.
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(You american?)
What did I do wrong or stupid that you thought so bad about me?
I don't see any interesting pictures in the article. Did I miss something?
Jokes aside, I've tried FreeBSD-STABLE 4.0 (meaning a production server) and it found only one CPU (all documented procedures including recompiling the kernel to find other CPUs are failed). Also it had problem to manage IBM ServRAID (test installation on a primitive IDE HDD worked fine, but we needed it on ServRAID with ability to manage it).
Besides, we had tried some pluggable backup devices, including USB-2 DVD-Writer and Firewire ZIP drives. Both are failed to be used by FreeBSD.
Amazingly, Gentoo Linux LiveCD found all the hardware right from the first boot. It runs now on that server and we don't have any problem of doing backups on mentioned devices.
P.S. Just for a case, we use only stable keywords in Gentoo.
For the rest of people who read this thread and don't know Gentoo Portage too, but want to know it:
Portage is the a way of fine-grained control over your system and over installation process on your system. It can optimize compiled sources to the system you have (which is actually a good thing!) or (it's your choice) it can get binaries of that package already optimized to one of typical hardware types (in case of x86 platform: x386, x686, P3, P4, AMD84 etc).
I fail to see why this fine-grained control is worse than apt-get, whose functionality is just a sub-set of one of Portage.
Hey, Americans, wake up until it's too late! You should upgrade your govermental system or stop expecting any good changes in your life! Your economy is stagnating more and more, and USPTO is not the last contributor to it!
Complaining about that nobody brings me dot-com bonuses right to my door anymore is just too leftish for me. I prefer to take care about life by myself. All I need is open job-market borders. And that is exactly the only subject I am complaining sometimes when I fight too much with the next immigration office buroc-rats.
In most of places around the world IT industry is getting better and better. Where are you living? Wrong country perhaps? Right time to move?
Seriously, show me any country outside of US where it's getting worse? Even Europian countries still hiring hi-skiled immigrants.
Well, the difference between USA and EU is in immigration laws. USA officials hate hi-skillied immigrants (just like you do). So, perhaps that's the source of the problem: open your borders and enjoy IT industry flooding in to your country again, just as it's been already back in late-90s in the era of H1Bers.
So, I guess it's a good solid server on a good old hardware, right?
I wonder, have they fixed SMP or it's still broken as it was last year when I've tried it on IBM Netfinity 5500 with 4 CPUs?
I run GNOME on my wristwatch.
Oh, wait, I've already seen this somewhere:
I run Ximian Office on my wristwatch.
Excuse me, but what makes you think that apt-get is a true package management system, while Portage is not?
Please, prove your troll with comparing Portage vs apt-get side-by-side or appologize for your troll right here.
That's the way Slashdot is designed: to mimic a freedom of speech through the chaos of moderations.
The question is: is it patented only US domestically? If so then I don't see any problem as US patent system is a complete bull-shit and the more it is bullshit is the more chances that US will be weaker and weaker and eventually it will step aside and do not disturb the world progress.
I propose Slashdot owners to sell moderating karma while keeping meta-moderating karma being earned. That would keep random boys from disturbing serious discussions.
Alternatively, I recommend to change the karma earning rules. Now it's easier to get karma on fresh account then when you are a veteran here. For example my karma always says "positive" but last time I had a moderating points was recently after I've created my account here. I guess veterans do not have any moderating points here.
Sounds like you don't really "get" PKI then. Sending a public key through non-reliable channels is against PKI.
Well, if your email channel is already protected by signing all content with trusted keys then no problem to trust the key sent through such email.
Alternatively, I prefer to use keys signed by trusted CA servers.
When last time have you get spam signed by keys signed by trusted CA?
So, go back and read agian to learn what is PKI before criticizing others.
Do you actually consider email a secure medium? What planet are you on?
And RTFC (comment) before answering it. In which words did I say that email per se is secure medium?
The problem with 0.33333333 is not in a metric system, but in a way how it is used, like how software is using it. If you use program languages with unlimited words like Python, or even better with symbolic computation like Lisp or Haskell, then you don't have such problem.
IMHO bot PKzip and WinZip are sticking their technologies somewhere in mid 90s, while we are living here what? mid 00'? password protected archive... What's wrong with those guys? Have they ever heard about PKI?
What a bizzar combination! Why bother about zip, if you can use along with tar either gzip or bzip?
But if you need content protection of your archives in Linux, then consider either pgp or gpg (or both - gpg is just a modern and open re-implementation of the famous in the past pgp). I used both and never had any problem.
Right now it looks like Linux community stack to CD. Is it because nobody needs Live DVD and I am the only one here with DVD-ROM hardware?
Don't tell me PCMCIA, because IMHO I can.
What the NIST fails to mention here is that most of this comes from national policies called 'laws', which are allowing spammer to send the infected spam, while Microsoft to monopilize the desktop market with OS specially designed for being hacked.
Why pgsql? Why not some linux kernel mail-lists? First of all, linux mail-lists will be more aporpriate to discuss linux related issues.
Besides, pgsql community is historically negative about Linux - they have roots back in Berkley and keep that love to BSD still.
Also, PostgreSQL is BSD-licensed and their leaders are fanatically against GNU. They actually think that GNU is evil, and they bring MySQL name as a demonstration of it.
With all my love to PostgreSQL as to very well designed DBMS, I don't understant why issues related only to Linux and GNU should be discussed in pgsql mail-lists?
Imagine a laptop-alike configuration of two touchscreens folded in a shape of laptop. The upper screen (almost-vertically staying in the usual location of your screen) is mostly for conventional application windows (browsers, editors), while the screen located bellow (horisontally laying down in the place where you keep normally your keyboard) is for onscreen keyboards, dialog pop-up windows menu-bars, tool-bars and desktop panels (like gnome panels).
There are lots of benefits for touchscreen based keyboards in dual-screen configurations:
- no problem with international layouts:
- you can change key-signs dynamically, while on old hard-style keyboard you stick atmost to two languages (otherwise how would you mark every single key with 5 different characters? Imagine: engilsh, cyrillic, greek, arabic, farsi, hindu);
- it's very convinient for Estern Asian languages where the whole keyboard layout would be better different for different languages (Mandarin, Cantoneese, Korian, Japaneese);
- the place of typing alphabeetical and numerical keys is not overcrowded with useless functional and similar keys:
- instead they are going to the place they belong to, like tool-bars and desktop-panels (where they can be displayed dynamically in the current context).
- Keypad can be displayed only when you need it;
- Navigation keys (arrows, page-up and like that) can be displayed only when you need it;
- cleaning the touch screen is much easier;
- dialog pop-ups and tool-bars on the same bottom screen as on-screen keyboard, releasing the top screen for main windows, so again, it has a better screen space management;
- gestures are very easy to add.
Among problems:- it better works when a desktop and window managers know about it. In Linux it must not be a problem (and I saw it with Linux/Gnome);
- Unfortunately it was a home-made experimental model. I still cannot buy it and have to do it myself. hmm... perhaps I should start a business and sell touchscreen-based keyboards specially for linux geeks...
- the cost: I might manage to build it on my own from the second-hand parts within $200, but I can imagine its new cost, perhaps $300-$400. Too expensive.
:(
- Normal (and cheap) touchscreens react only on one touch at a time, while for a good experience (especially with gestures) you need it reacting on multiple simultanious touchings (more expensive touchscreens are required). However, an old-style keyboard typically accept one typed character at a time too, so, it might be ok;
Conclusion: the best keyboard is a touchscreen on a top of a second screen specially dedicated for typing and navigational handwork.