Are you kidding? One of the biggest selling points of ext3 was that is journaled both data and metadata, unlike other journaling filesystems that journal only metadata (that's what this option does, and have been discussed in numerous ext3 articles that have appeared on Slashdot). That's why I use ext3. For Andrew Morton to downplay this like no one uses that mode is a big mistake. Surely the release should be pulled or the patch rolled back or SOMETHING.
Why? ISC increased their bandwith from 100 Mbps to 250 Mbps. It rarely reached 90% usage, often during a new Red Hat release. The main site works just fine, and will continue to do so.
do you think the answer to having an massive and unreliable network is to build a second identical network?
No, the answer is to fix what is broken. This might be a new concept to some people, but things don't break on there own. If you're doing network upgrades and something stops working, REVERT THE CHANGES AND FIGURE IT OUT. This is reckless and irresponsible behavior.
NVIDIA may be struggling to bring the GeForce FX to market on a 0.13-mircon manufacturing processes, but it looks like SiS has beat them to the punch. Tech Report has a review of the new Xaber600, which is the first mainstream GPU that I know of to be manufactured using 0.13-micron process technology.
nVidia's GeForce FX is already in production.
The Xabre600's performance isn't overly impressive, even when compared to a low-end Radeon 9000 Pro, but it's nice to see SiS one-upping the graphics giants when it comes to process technology.
Okay, if it's not that great, and nVidia is already producing theirs, how exactly are they beating them to the punch? It's nice to see another article on the 0.13-micron process, but I really have no idea what your point is supposed to be.
that the 3.0 article was written over a month ago, and Linus has since decided that call it 2.6. Not that the version number matters in any way whatsoever, but I'm sure people will continue to argue over it nonetheless.
Call up Janie Porche and her PowerBook. She saved Christmas! Who wants to spend Christmas afternoon downloading Windows drivers??
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It's like that for a very good reason. Pine was around BEFORE the GPL. Hell, Pine was around before there was open source as we know it. WU wrote a license that fit their needs and still allowed for the freedom its users wanted, and is still as such today. The people that shout about how evil Pine is because it isn't GPLed really need to do some reading.
Then tell me: is it right that both these persons should pay the same monthly fee?
Very much so. Should I pay less in taxes because I put less wear and tear on the roads due to my couple-mile drive to work every day versus someone who commutes 150 miles a day? Damn straight, but it ain't going to happen.
I don't understand. You mentioned plenty of papers of how X is atrocious and that it should be scrapped. Perhaps you haven't come away with a reason, but doesn't the fact that said papers exist mean that there are plenty of people who have one?
Sure, and after reading them, it becomes very clear that they site problems that are either no longer true or are just plain wrong. I was unimpressed with such papers.
1) Pay a lot for a decent X server for Windows (by decent, I mean that it doesn't put all X connections inside one Window with a fixed size, but rather creates Windows each time a call is made - unlike Cywgin xfree86). 2) Download, install and configure xfree86 with cygwin (assuming they've got the 200MB free for it). By the way, I know there is a version that is supposed to work without cygwin. It doesn't work yet, at least not right out of the box, and not with any instructions they give you.
You haven't done very much research, I see. XFree86 for Cygwin is excellent (90-95 MB, actually), and it features both a windowed mode and a rootless mode, which was added a couple months ago. I replaced 40 clients at work over the past two weeks that had been running an outdated version of Reflection X on NT 4 with Win2k and Cygwin/XFree86 (the Reflection version wouldn't even function on Win2k, requiring a $350 purchase per PC for the latest verison).
So I wonder: what would it take (apart porting tons of applications) to make it a suitable alternative to X+[your toolkit of choice]+[your window manager of choice]?
It would take a reason to replace X. Sure, there's plenty of papers on how X is atrocious and should be scrapped, but it's a protocol that works well. It's been in use for many years and most implementations are pretty fast. In all my years, I still haven't come across a reason to move away from it. If an alternative comes along that offers something X doesn't, then I'd consider it, but it doesn't look like that will be anytime soon. X meets all my needs.
I'm going to take issue with this statement. Solaris isn't open source by any means, but it's a free download on SPARC and until recently Intel platforms, and you can download the source after agreeing to Sun's license. You can make changes to the source, recompile anything you damn well please, and contribute changes back to Sun (I have done so myself), the only thing you can't do is redistribute it. It's not on par in the open nature of Linux or FreeBSD, but compare this to DEC/Compaq/HP Tru64 or HP-UX or AIX where you pay a huge sum of money for a binary CD. I'd hardly call that the most proprietary.
Yes, games for Linux have been known to run much faster under FreeBSD's Linux emulation, even with the overhead of emulation. It's always made me wonder what Linux is doing so wrong, but I've never looked into it.
The Remote Keyless Entry systems that automobile manufacturers install as standard equipment are there for convenience not for any added security over and above the key/ignition electromechanical interlocks and the standard alarm systems.
Of course. My question was in no way related to other security devices of the vehicle, solely if using such a device on a fixed frequency was going to INCREASE security risks (it seems like wireless always is). But I guess the discussion goes whichever way it wants, no big deal.
Not really, most of the people that live in my apartment complex are older, seemingly non-technical folks. I'd be more worried about some dipshit kid buying a $20 device off Ebay and leaving it on his porch for a morning to record the signals that are sent out to cars 10 feet away. Just because there are many easier ways to break into a car doesn't mean I want someone knowing the unchanging signal that unlocks my car, just like there are a lot easier ways to break into a house than finding the spare key, but I'm not going to broadcast to the world where it is.
I'm wondering how many people have just removed Flash (as I have) by deleting the appropriate files?
Ummm, I would do so by not installing it in the first place. Flash isn't installed by default with Mozilla. If it's on your computer, it's because you PUT IT THERE. What kind of advice are you asking for?
The other day my mom mentioned to me that my cousin had bought a Honda Civic Hybrid for his new car, and I didn't think too much about it until I got stuck behind one on an on-ramp yesterday, and following today's Slashdot article (full of wrong information in both the article and comments) about Toyota's hybrid plans, I started hunting through Honda's site and Edmunds and came up with the following between the Civic Hybrid and the economically-minded HX (the HX is nicer than the DX and LX models, gets better mileage than the others, but has 10 less horsepower than the top of the line EX):
- The Hybrid costs $6000 more on average than the HX (getting the CVT transmission increases the cost on both by $1K). - The Hybrid gets 85 HP, versus 117 on the HX (have fun turning off the A/C when going up a hill [/sarcasm]). - Any engine-related parts on the Hybrid are a lot less popular and are going to cost a lot more in the case of repairs (Honda will give you 8 years/ 80,000 miles warranty on the battery pack, but after 3 years/ 36,000 you're paying for everything else yourself). - The Hybrid gets 48/47 MPG, versus 36/44 in the HX.
Sure, you can get some money back from federal and state on the purchase, but it will be less than 1/3 of the inital cost difference, and you probably won't make back your money over the course of the life of the car on gas, and they haven't been around long enough to prove themselves on maintenance. Some of those issues will probably go away as they become more heavily produced, but I really don't see any advantage in the near future other than a warm fuzzy feeling that you're helping the environment, and I do see a lot of drawbacks. Did I miss anything big?
Very simple. DivX uses an audio codec to encode audio. A large number of DivX files use mp3 for audio (ogg is also possible, though not many players support it), and the rest use wma. Now, you won't need the/usr/lib/win32 directory full of Microsoft DLL's in order to play those Invader Zim episodes encoded using wma audio, assuming players take up this code. You could always re-encode them into mp3 audio at a greater loss of quality, but I like this solution better.
Exactly, that limit was implemented TWO YEARS AGO. There's nothing new in this article, there's no sign this is the way "the industry" is going, and it's copying the same text as the past article it's referencing.
But the big media companies offering Internet service; Comcast, ATT, AOL -- would like to change that, and already have in a few test locations.
Would you mind telling us where these "test locations" are? This is the same rhetoric we've seen over and over again. There's nothing new in this article and no supporting evidence for ANYTHING that's stated. What a waste.
You've answered your own question. Linux isn't being used because such systems are already working great on Solaris or SCO platforms (we use an SCO-powered box for much of our voice functionality). There are plenty of reasons to move from Windows as a server platform to any *NIX, Linux included, but I really don't think we're going to see much move to Linux from commercial UNIXes that are already doing the job with minimal or no maintenance. The cost of the OS just isn't a big part of the deal on such things.
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Are you kidding? One of the biggest selling points of ext3 was that is journaled both data and metadata, unlike other journaling filesystems that journal only metadata (that's what this option does, and have been discussed in numerous ext3 articles that have appeared on Slashdot). That's why I use ext3. For Andrew Morton to downplay this like no one uses that mode is a big mistake. Surely the release should be pulled or the patch rolled back or SOMETHING.
Duh! I hear it's going to blow the socks off of everything else in the market when it comes out. I can't wait! ;)
Why? ISC increased their bandwith from 100 Mbps to 250 Mbps. It rarely reached 90% usage, often during a new Red Hat release. The main site works just fine, and will continue to do so.
do you think the answer to having an massive and unreliable network is to build a second identical network?
No, the answer is to fix what is broken. This might be a new concept to some people, but things don't break on there own. If you're doing network upgrades and something stops working, REVERT THE CHANGES AND FIGURE IT OUT. This is reckless and irresponsible behavior.
I'm really confused by this article.
NVIDIA may be struggling to bring the GeForce FX to market on a 0.13-mircon manufacturing processes, but it looks like SiS has beat them to the punch. Tech Report has a review of the new Xaber600, which is the first mainstream GPU that I know of to be manufactured using 0.13-micron process technology.
nVidia's GeForce FX is already in production.
The Xabre600's performance isn't overly impressive, even when compared to a low-end Radeon 9000 Pro, but it's nice to see SiS one-upping the graphics giants when it comes to process technology.
Okay, if it's not that great, and nVidia is already producing theirs, how exactly are they beating them to the punch? It's nice to see another article on the 0.13-micron process, but I really have no idea what your point is supposed to be.
that the 3.0 article was written over a month ago, and Linus has since decided that call it 2.6. Not that the version number matters in any way whatsoever, but I'm sure people will continue to argue over it nonetheless.
Call up Janie Porche and her PowerBook. She saved Christmas! Who wants to spend Christmas afternoon downloading Windows drivers??
It's like that for a very good reason. Pine was around BEFORE the GPL. Hell, Pine was around before there was open source as we know it. WU wrote a license that fit their needs and still allowed for the freedom its users wanted, and is still as such today. The people that shout about how evil Pine is because it isn't GPLed really need to do some reading.
Then tell me: is it right that both these persons should pay the same monthly fee?
Very much so. Should I pay less in taxes because I put less wear and tear on the roads due to my couple-mile drive to work every day versus someone who commutes 150 miles a day? Damn straight, but it ain't going to happen.
I don't understand. You mentioned plenty of papers of how X is atrocious and that it should be scrapped. Perhaps you haven't come away with a reason, but doesn't the fact that said papers exist mean that there are plenty of people who have one?
Sure, and after reading them, it becomes very clear that they site problems that are either no longer true or are just plain wrong. I was unimpressed with such papers.
1) Pay a lot for a decent X server for Windows (by decent, I mean that it doesn't put all X connections inside one Window with a fixed size, but rather creates Windows each time a call is made - unlike Cywgin xfree86).
2) Download, install and configure xfree86 with cygwin (assuming they've got the 200MB free for it). By the way, I know there is a version that is supposed to work without cygwin. It doesn't work yet, at least not right out of the box, and not with any instructions they give you.
You haven't done very much research, I see. XFree86 for Cygwin is excellent (90-95 MB, actually), and it features both a windowed mode and a rootless mode, which was added a couple months ago. I replaced 40 clients at work over the past two weeks that had been running an outdated version of Reflection X on NT 4 with Win2k and Cygwin/XFree86 (the Reflection version wouldn't even function on Win2k, requiring a $350 purchase per PC for the latest verison).
So I wonder: what would it take (apart porting tons of applications) to make it a suitable alternative to X+[your toolkit of choice]+[your window manager of choice]?
It would take a reason to replace X. Sure, there's plenty of papers on how X is atrocious and should be scrapped, but it's a protocol that works well. It's been in use for many years and most implementations are pretty fast. In all my years, I still haven't come across a reason to move away from it. If an alternative comes along that offers something X doesn't, then I'd consider it, but it doesn't look like that will be anytime soon. X meets all my needs.
Solaris - one of the most proprietary Unixes
I'm going to take issue with this statement. Solaris isn't open source by any means, but it's a free download on SPARC and until recently Intel platforms, and you can download the source after agreeing to Sun's license. You can make changes to the source, recompile anything you damn well please, and contribute changes back to Sun (I have done so myself), the only thing you can't do is redistribute it. It's not on par in the open nature of Linux or FreeBSD, but compare this to DEC/Compaq/HP Tru64 or HP-UX or AIX where you pay a huge sum of money for a binary CD. I'd hardly call that the most proprietary.
Yes, games for Linux have been known to run much faster under FreeBSD's Linux emulation, even with the overhead of emulation. It's always made me wonder what Linux is doing so wrong, but I've never looked into it.
The Remote Keyless Entry systems that automobile manufacturers install as standard equipment are there for convenience not for any added security over and above the key/ignition electromechanical interlocks and the standard alarm systems.
Of course. My question was in no way related to other security devices of the vehicle, solely if using such a device on a fixed frequency was going to INCREASE security risks (it seems like wireless always is). But I guess the discussion goes whichever way it wants, no big deal.
Not really, most of the people that live in my apartment complex are older, seemingly non-technical folks. I'd be more worried about some dipshit kid buying a $20 device off Ebay and leaving it on his porch for a morning to record the signals that are sent out to cars 10 feet away. Just because there are many easier ways to break into a car doesn't mean I want someone knowing the unchanging signal that unlocks my car, just like there are a lot easier ways to break into a house than finding the spare key, but I'm not going to broadcast to the world where it is.
I'm wondering how many people have just removed Flash (as I have) by deleting the appropriate files?
Ummm, I would do so by not installing it in the first place. Flash isn't installed by default with Mozilla. If it's on your computer, it's because you PUT IT THERE. What kind of advice are you asking for?
The other day my mom mentioned to me that my cousin had bought a Honda Civic Hybrid for his new car, and I didn't think too much about it until I got stuck behind one on an on-ramp yesterday, and following today's Slashdot article (full of wrong information in both the article and comments) about Toyota's hybrid plans, I started hunting through Honda's site and Edmunds and came up with the following between the Civic Hybrid and the economically-minded HX (the HX is nicer than the DX and LX models, gets better mileage than the others, but has 10 less horsepower than the top of the line EX):
- The Hybrid costs $6000 more on average than the HX (getting the CVT transmission increases the cost on both by $1K).
- The Hybrid gets 85 HP, versus 117 on the HX (have fun turning off the A/C when going up a hill [/sarcasm]).
- Any engine-related parts on the Hybrid are a lot less popular and are going to cost a lot more in the case of repairs (Honda will give you 8 years/ 80,000 miles warranty on the battery pack, but after 3 years/ 36,000 you're paying for everything else yourself).
- The Hybrid gets 48/47 MPG, versus 36/44 in the HX.
Sure, you can get some money back from federal and state on the purchase, but it will be less than 1/3 of the inital cost difference, and you probably won't make back your money over the course of the life of the car on gas, and they haven't been around long enough to prove themselves on maintenance. Some of those issues will probably go away as they become more heavily produced, but I really don't see any advantage in the near future other than a warm fuzzy feeling that you're helping the environment, and I do see a lot of drawbacks. Did I miss anything big?
Very simple. DivX uses an audio codec to encode audio. A large number of DivX files use mp3 for audio (ogg is also possible, though not many players support it), and the rest use wma. Now, you won't need the /usr/lib/win32 directory full of Microsoft DLL's in order to play those Invader Zim episodes encoded using wma audio, assuming players take up this code. You could always re-encode them into mp3 audio at a greater loss of quality, but I like this solution better.
It was introduced two years ago in Montreal. Please try again.
Exactly, that limit was implemented TWO YEARS AGO. There's nothing new in this article, there's no sign this is the way "the industry" is going, and it's copying the same text as the past article it's referencing.
But the big media companies offering Internet service; Comcast, ATT, AOL -- would like to change that, and already have in a few test locations.
Would you mind telling us where these "test locations" are? This is the same rhetoric we've seen over and over again. There's nothing new in this article and no supporting evidence for ANYTHING that's stated. What a waste.
You've answered your own question. Linux isn't being used because such systems are already working great on Solaris or SCO platforms (we use an SCO-powered box for much of our voice functionality). There are plenty of reasons to move from Windows as a server platform to any *NIX, Linux included, but I really don't think we're going to see much move to Linux from commercial UNIXes that are already doing the job with minimal or no maintenance. The cost of the OS just isn't a big part of the deal on such things.
Kernel developers also want to have him banned from the LKML for constantly spamming it with off-topic political discussions. Story here.
Jun 25 12:20:47 ladyluck kernel: lp0 on fire