The default kernel shipped with most distro's will run on i368 and up, but you can definately specify what kind of architecture you have (also if you more than 1 or 4 GB of RAM) when compiling the kernel - and your kernel compiled for a K7 will not boot on a i486. So yes, the kernel will take advantage of your particular system (but of course you don't have to use Sourcerer just to get a new kernel:)
The software RAID code for example will, during bootup, try it's checksumming using different of the available extensions (think MMX, 3DNOW, SSE, SSE2, etc) and pick the fastest one.
Norway sits on a huge amount of oil and energy (hydro plants). They have no external debt, and, if you wish to put it that way, are stinking filthy rich:)
For them joining the EU would mean paying for less-rich (basically most) members.
VPN over SSH runs fine. I am not talking about the port forwarding stuff, but running PPPD over the SSH link. SSH can be set up to use encrypted key authentication, so the whole thing can be brought up automatically at for example startup (in a single seamless script).
Then you just end up with a new network interface, say 192.168.0.1 which will take ALL kinds of IP traffic, and everything gets routed through it transparently as if it was your normal network connection. Encrypted by the SSH scheme you want, and you can even tell it to compress the data. So what used to be 6 hops through the public internet is now one encrypted virtual hop (for as far as the system is concerned).
I believe the docs are somewhere in the linux how-to collection.
First...get a clue. Cross platform development for the GUI is going to fucking suck. No, I take that back...Cross platform development alone is going to fucking suck. The GUI won't help, either. You can use third-party libraries, but that's code that you haven't written (which means you know very little about it). Not good.
Have you ever tried it? Have you seen QT? Yes, the same toolkit as used in the KDE project.
Try it on for size. Browse through the excellent documentation. Do everything from GUI to XML to file and network I/O to all kinds of data containers, cross-platform. QT is probably one of the best examples of GOOD, CLEAN C++. KDE knew what they were doing when they picked it.
I do recommend testing on all environments while developing, but you should end up with one code base (maybe a few ifdef's) by using QT well, barring only serial port routines (not in QT AFAIK) for which you can code the interface into your app and create different implementations for different OS's.
Really, it doesn't have to be this hard. QT is excellent stuff, develop cleanly and you should be just fine.
I was trying to upgrade my mandrake kernel 2.4.8 to the 2.4.14 kernel and everything seemed to be perfect up until the reboot- I got a kernel panic- no support for ext3 in the standard kernel, and for some reason the support wasnt caried over from make oldconfig.
That's why you define the filesystem type as "auto" in/etc/fstab. In you case the kernel would have simply mounted the partition as ext2.
When I upgraded I didn't even notice I forgot to include ext3:-) That's one of the great things about it.
For example, they're using ext3. Blech. It is a journaling system tacked on to the old ext2 system, which seems a little too much like the evolution of FAT to me.
FAT? Hardly! ext3 uses is built on extension hooks designed into ext2, allowing you to mount ext3 partitions with an ext2-only kernel (of course no journalling in that case). Also, it takes a few seconds to "convert" ext2 to ext3, can't get easier than that!:-)
Personally I find it impressive that the foresight in the ext2 design allowed for ext3 to evolve the way it did with the backwords compatibility
And hey, it just works. Performance is like ext2, except you never have to fsck anymore when the machine doesn't shut down properly. And your ext2 bootfloppies still work, you don't have to reformat your partitions first, and did I mention it just works?:-)
So why not? ReiserFS would be more suited for news spool and squid cache partitions, but if you just want your same old system except for the fsck's, ext3 is the way to go.
Part of the reason the terrorists target us is because they cannot understand how wonderful freedom is, and thus fear it.
Pull your head out of your ass you moron. Freedom? Highschool kids going through metal detectors in school? 3 times more lawyers than engineers? Corporate States of America? Get mugged once a week, and killed every other month? Free speech gets you in jail because of whatever DMCA related bullshit corporate-sponsored law?
A long long time ago, when you made beautiful cars and put men on the moon and the American Dream actually meant something, yes, then you inspired people. Right now, noone wants to go NEAR the US and we're just waiting for it to implode and hope it will do as little damage to the rest of the world as possible.
And PS, if a German politician would go on TV *nowadays* and say "yeah we bombed the UN, the Red Cross and various civilians and 10 years after the Gulf War we STILL cant make a smart bomb smart enough to not miss by a mile sometimes but hey, them's the breaks" he'd be lynched on the streets. It's your "our civilians are worth inifitely more than yours" attitude that guarantees you will be haunted by terrorism until you get your act together.
Terrorists dont fear freedom, and are not jealous of it. What you sow you reap. And you've sown an awful lot of hate. Now you're reaping. And you know what? You haven't even *started*.
Emergency phonecalls have been designed into the GSM system. Emergency calls will immediately drop someone else's normal call if the network is busy.
Some phones let you make emergency phonecalls without a SIM card, and all phones allow you to make one without requiring the access PIN to the SIM/phone. I.e. if you take someone else's phone and he has a PIN set, you can't get in to make calls but it will let you dial 112.
That kind of accuracy can already be done just by the GSM network itself. However maybe in the US (also maybe using a different system?) distances between cells might be much larger so the accuracy would be worse, but the network always know where you are (it needs to to route calls to you!).
Funny thing, in a lot of crime scenes where people were stupid enough to carry their cellphone with them the police would be able to figure out who it was (i.e. in a burglary, rape, etc) by looking at cellphone position history in the telco's logs, to see who had no reason to be there, etc. But the law doesn't allow that for some reason (Finland anyway). Anyway, moral of the story, in a city and mildly rural area using GSM the Telco can already give your position with that accuracy:-)
Nope, you don't need GPS. Here (Finland) some Telco's offer so called locationing services, you send an SMS and it sends you back your longitude/lattitude, name of area you are in, etc. It's accurate within probably 100 metres (well, whenever I tried it:-)
In Sydney I remember the Cell ID for every GSM cell would broadcast their location, so you'd be on the subway and every ten seconds your phone display would change "China town" "Town Hall", "The Rocks" "Kings Cross" etc. I liked that:-) Crossing the street was enough to get a new display.
Nevertheless, Benefon (smaller Nokia, also Finnish) has had GPS phones for ages. Hence the Samsung "first GPS phone _in America_":-)
Now... if the story went "First Windows XP Systems Donated To Third World Countries" I would be impressed.
Reminds me of the Red Cross appeal for Windows/Citrix licenses after the WTC tragedy. I just hope MS donated those, it would be outrageous for them to expect the Red Cross to BUY them in situations like those.
Also nice thing to consider, when you donate to the Red Cross to help the victims the money goes to Microsoft! Can't go down too well I imagine.
One more thing. I read unconfirmed reports that more than 4000 Israelis/Jews who work in the WTC did not report to work at the day of the attack. Can any one confirm?
Yup, heard that too. They even caught Isreali's in buildings next to the WTC with camcorders filming before the crash!
Same with the seat numbers. And let's not even START about the passport found in the rubble of 2 crashed planes, thousands of offices with all their paperwork where tens of thousands of people work, and yet somehow that password belongs not only to a passenger (as opposed to someone working in the WTC), but it also happened to be the passport of the main hijacker? Surviving the heat that brought the buildings down? And I thought the magic Kennedy bullet was a good joke!
It's almost disgusting how BBC and CNN journalists are going ahead (mixing in Gulf War footage of partying Palestinians with actual events??) with their "and the reason of these attacks remains a mystery". YEAH RIGHT mystery !!!! Where is the US when the IRA lays bombs in Britain? Nowhere, because the situation exists because of the history. Moluccans hijacking trains in Holland, well thats because of Colonial history. ETA in Spain, also, reasons are clear. (Blair should also know better than to wanting to be tickled under his balls by the US for being such a "good puppet^M^Mfriend") But the US can't think of any reason why anyone in the world might not like them and planned these attacks?? Really????
I know it's not in the US nature to admit being wrong, but it's quite well proven you can't fight terrorism by just trying to kill them all. And what's this "if you are not with us you are against us" stuff? Where did I hear that before? Perhaps it's not my right to say or think anything in this matter, but you are involving also my country in your wrongdoings in the past, you had better be sure what you are doing. Bombing mountains in Afghanistan is hardly going to stop terrorism.
And what's with Colin Powell not wanting to answer the question "will you give us your word the US will not be first side to play the nuclear card"?
Read the post I replied to. Read it again. And think for yourself, forget CNN or other propaganda machines wanting 24/7 war footage to get viewers.
Re:Good Fnarg! that article is so full of shit.
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2 GHz is 2000MHz is 2,000,000,000Hz, sound close to 2^32 ? (ok, using a signed 2^32 type, int?). What happens when you store 2.3GHz into a signed int? Exactly:-)
So they changed the type holding this value (including delay loops, calibrations, and whatever else) to allow Hz values over 2G.
But you'll find (or well I did) that your normal DVD player WILL look at CD-RW's, (whereas your other CD toys will only take CD-R's)
Managed to get a bit of mpeg converted to VCD properties and burn it in VCD format on a CD-RW, and yeah it played on my normal DVD player - but the quality totally sucked although that has other reasons:)
Try burning VCD's to a CD-RW to watch them on a regular DVD player.
What if you take a planet with gravity but no atmosphere, and drop an object, it would fall down and keep accelerating. Since there is no friction to stop it it's terminal velocity is infinite? So given that the distance to the planet is long enough for an object to accelerate that far, ie towards the speed of light.. what would happen then?
It's mass increases as it approaches the speed of light, but gravity doesn't have a problem with mass.. and does gravity 'suffer' from having to use so much energy to accelerate this object? (ie the energy has to come from somewhere?).. and what happens when the object reaches the speed of light? (and infinate mass, but does gravity care?)
Will it stick to the speed of light? If it did, would that suggest gravity is gravitons travelling at the speed of light?
Just a little nitpick here but I'm just wondering.. the article mentions 25 FIM and describes it as the price for a beer, making it sound like not too much..
When I went to Finland from Australia a while back I was NOT impressed with the prices. 25 FIM works out to more than 8 AU dollars (more than 5 US) and that is NOT a good price for a beer:-)
On average everything I've seen, from mcdonalds meals to busfares and drinks in the pub are easily 3 times the price of those things in some other places in Europe and especially Australia.
The average income (when converted to AU dollars) didn't seem to be much higher than the Australian (if at all), and I guess that's why in Finland in general both parents in a family work, whereas in Australia and other places in Europe it's usually one of the parents having the dayjob.
So how do the Finnish cope with that? Work hard?:-) And what kind of consqequences (if any) would it have for a country that wants to deploy a virtual capital (other than having a LOT of tax money coming in:)
That aside, Finland is a gorgeous place and I can't wait to go back:)
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The software RAID code for example will, during bootup, try it's checksumming using different of the available extensions (think MMX, 3DNOW, SSE, SSE2, etc) and pick the fastest one.
For them joining the EU would mean paying for less-rich (basically most) members.
VPN over SSH runs fine. I am not talking about the port forwarding stuff, but running PPPD over the SSH link. SSH can be set up to use encrypted key authentication, so the whole thing can be brought up automatically at for example startup (in a single seamless script).
Then you just end up with a new network interface, say 192.168.0.1 which will take ALL kinds of IP traffic, and everything gets routed through it transparently as if it was your normal network connection. Encrypted by the SSH scheme you want, and you can even tell it to compress the data. So what used to be 6 hops through the public internet is now one encrypted virtual hop (for as far as the system is concerned).
I believe the docs are somewhere in the linux how-to collection.
Re: Yes they do.
Try QT, it uses native widgets on every platform. And if you want you can always swap the OK/Cancel buttons between the Windows and Mac compiles.
Have you ever tried it? Have you seen QT? Yes, the same toolkit as used in the KDE project.
Try it on for size. Browse through the excellent documentation. Do everything from GUI to XML to file and network I/O to all kinds of data containers, cross-platform. QT is probably one of the best examples of GOOD, CLEAN C++. KDE knew what they were doing when they picked it.
I do recommend testing on all environments while developing, but you should end up with one code base (maybe a few ifdef's) by using QT well, barring only serial port routines (not in QT AFAIK) for which you can code the interface into your app and create different implementations for different OS's.
Really, it doesn't have to be this hard. QT is excellent stuff, develop cleanly and you should be just fine.
That's why you define the filesystem type as "auto" in /etc/fstab. In you case the kernel would have simply mounted the partition as ext2.
When I upgraded I didn't even notice I forgot to include ext3 :-) That's one of the great things about it.
FAT? Hardly! ext3 uses is built on extension hooks designed into ext2, allowing you to mount ext3 partitions with an ext2-only kernel (of course no journalling in that case). Also, it takes a few seconds to "convert" ext2 to ext3, can't get easier than that! :-)
Personally I find it impressive that the foresight in the ext2 design allowed for ext3 to evolve the way it did with the backwords compatibility
And hey, it just works. Performance is like ext2, except you never have to fsck anymore when the machine doesn't shut down properly. And your ext2 bootfloppies still work, you don't have to reformat your partitions first, and did I mention it just works? :-)
So why not? ReiserFS would be more suited for news spool and squid cache partitions, but if you just want your same old system except for the fsck's, ext3 is the way to go.
Pull your head out of your ass you moron. Freedom? Highschool kids going through metal detectors in school? 3 times more lawyers than engineers? Corporate States of America? Get mugged once a week, and killed every other month? Free speech gets you in jail because of whatever DMCA related bullshit corporate-sponsored law?
A long long time ago, when you made beautiful cars and put men on the moon and the American Dream actually meant something, yes, then you inspired people. Right now, noone wants to go NEAR the US and we're just waiting for it to implode and hope it will do as little damage to the rest of the world as possible.
And PS, if a German politician would go on TV *nowadays* and say "yeah we bombed the UN, the Red Cross and various civilians and 10 years after the Gulf War we STILL cant make a smart bomb smart enough to not miss by a mile sometimes but hey, them's the breaks" he'd be lynched on the streets. It's your "our civilians are worth inifitely more than yours" attitude that guarantees you will be haunted by terrorism until you get your act together.
Terrorists dont fear freedom, and are not jealous of it. What you sow you reap. And you've sown an awful lot of hate. Now you're reaping. And you know what? You haven't even *started*.
Emergency phonecalls have been designed into the GSM system. Emergency calls will immediately drop someone else's normal call if the network is busy.
Some phones let you make emergency phonecalls without a SIM card, and all phones allow you to make one without requiring the access PIN to the SIM/phone. I.e. if you take someone else's phone and he has a PIN set, you can't get in to make calls but it will let you dial 112.
That kind of accuracy can already be done just by the GSM network itself. However maybe in the US (also maybe using a different system?) distances between cells might be much larger so the accuracy would be worse, but the network always know where you are (it needs to to route calls to you!).
:-)
Funny thing, in a lot of crime scenes where people were stupid enough to carry their cellphone with them the police would be able to figure out who it was (i.e. in a burglary, rape, etc) by looking at cellphone position history in the telco's logs, to see who had no reason to be there, etc. But the law doesn't allow that for some reason (Finland anyway). Anyway, moral of the story, in a city and mildly rural area using GSM the Telco can already give your position with that accuracy
Nope, you don't need GPS. Here (Finland) some Telco's offer so called locationing services, you send an SMS and it sends you back your longitude/lattitude, name of area you are in, etc. It's accurate within probably 100 metres (well, whenever I tried it :-)
:-) Crossing the street was enough to get a new display.
:-)
In Sydney I remember the Cell ID for every GSM cell would broadcast their location, so you'd be on the subway and every ten seconds your phone display would change "China town" "Town Hall", "The Rocks" "Kings Cross" etc. I liked that
Nevertheless, Benefon (smaller Nokia, also Finnish) has had GPS phones for ages. Hence the Samsung "first GPS phone _in America_"
Reminds me of the Red Cross appeal for Windows/Citrix licenses after the WTC tragedy. I just hope MS donated those, it would be outrageous for them to expect the Red Cross to BUY them in situations like those.
Also nice thing to consider, when you donate to the Red Cross to help the victims the money goes to Microsoft! Can't go down too well I imagine.
Yup, heard that too. They even caught Isreali's in buildings next to the WTC with camcorders filming before the crash!
Same with the seat numbers. And let's not even START about the passport found in the rubble of 2 crashed planes, thousands of offices with all their paperwork where tens of thousands of people work, and yet somehow that password belongs not only to a passenger (as opposed to someone working in the WTC), but it also happened to be the passport of the main hijacker? Surviving the heat that brought the buildings down? And I thought the magic Kennedy bullet was a good joke!
It's almost disgusting how BBC and CNN journalists are going ahead (mixing in Gulf War footage of partying Palestinians with actual events??) with their "and the reason of these attacks remains a mystery". YEAH RIGHT mystery !!!! Where is the US when the IRA lays bombs in Britain? Nowhere, because the situation exists because of the history. Moluccans hijacking trains in Holland, well thats because of Colonial history. ETA in Spain, also, reasons are clear. (Blair should also know better than to wanting to be tickled under his balls by the US for being such a "good puppet^M^Mfriend") But the US can't think of any reason why anyone in the world might not like them and planned these attacks?? Really????
I know it's not in the US nature to admit being wrong, but it's quite well proven you can't fight terrorism by just trying to kill them all. And what's this "if you are not with us you are against us" stuff? Where did I hear that before? Perhaps it's not my right to say or think anything in this matter, but you are involving also my country in your wrongdoings in the past, you had better be sure what you are doing. Bombing mountains in Afghanistan is hardly going to stop terrorism.
And what's with Colin Powell not wanting to answer the question "will you give us your word the US will not be first side to play the nuclear card"?
Read the post I replied to. Read it again. And think for yourself, forget CNN or other propaganda machines wanting 24/7 war footage to get viewers.
2 GHz is 2000MHz is 2,000,000,000Hz, sound close to 2^32 ? (ok, using a signed 2^32 type, int?). What happens when you store 2.3GHz into a signed int? Exactly :-)
So they changed the type holding this value (including delay loops, calibrations, and whatever else) to allow Hz values over 2G.
But you'll find (or well I did) that your normal DVD player WILL look at CD-RW's, (whereas your other CD toys will only take CD-R's)
:)
Managed to get a bit of mpeg converted to VCD properties and burn it in VCD format on a CD-RW, and yeah it played on my normal DVD player - but the quality totally sucked although that has other reasons
Try burning VCD's to a CD-RW to watch them on a regular DVD player.
This made me wonder again ..
.. what would happen then?
.. and does gravity 'suffer' from having to use so much energy to accelerate this object? (ie the energy has to come from somewhere?) .. and what happens when the object reaches the speed of light? (and infinate mass, but does gravity care?)
:)
What if you take a planet with gravity but no atmosphere, and drop an object, it would fall down and keep accelerating. Since there is no friction to stop it it's terminal velocity is infinite? So given that the distance to the planet is long enough for an object to accelerate that far, ie towards the speed of light
It's mass increases as it approaches the speed of light, but gravity doesn't have a problem with mass
Will it stick to the speed of light? If it did, would that suggest gravity is gravitons travelling at the speed of light?
Then again, IANAP
Just a little nitpick here but I'm just wondering.. the article mentions 25 FIM and describes it as the price for a beer, making it sound like not too much..
:-)
:-) And what kind of consqequences (if any) would it have for a country that wants to deploy a virtual capital (other than having a LOT of tax money coming in :)
:)
When I went to Finland from Australia a while back I was NOT impressed with the prices. 25 FIM works out to more than 8 AU dollars (more than 5 US) and that is NOT a good price for a beer
On average everything I've seen, from mcdonalds meals to busfares and drinks in the pub are easily 3 times the price of those things in some other places in Europe and especially Australia.
The average income (when converted to AU dollars) didn't seem to be much higher than the Australian (if at all), and I guess that's why in Finland in general both parents in a family work, whereas in Australia and other places in Europe it's usually one of the parents having the dayjob.
So how do the Finnish cope with that? Work hard?
That aside, Finland is a gorgeous place and I can't wait to go back