Yes it appears remarkably similar to upgrading every other kernel...
That said - posting documents like this help bring in new talent (ie. people who are too scared to start off on their own) which is a key component of keeping Linux viable into 2020 (one of these days Linus will want to retire - we need to have kernel hackers that start in 2005 who are ready to replace him). I remember my first "from source" kernel upgrade from the 2.2 series. I had always just grabbed the latest distro and installed. Imagine my surpirse when I could just get the source myself, build it, install it correctly and the system just ran. It is very powerful, and helping people achieve this power is key for Linux
My absolute favorite Bloom County strips were when the meadow party ran for president. The Bill/Opus ticket. The last one I remember was in 88 - God I miss the meadow party
Worked for a company doing networking software, so I kept a LARGE number of test devices/networks hanging off of my workstation on a test subnet... Problem was various company sites would drop off of my workstation when the IT dept. would randomly assign private addresses inside the company... I couldn't even get them to whack off a/16 for "test networks" because they thought that they would need all of the private address space scattered across all three ranges...
So my advice is whack off 1/4 of the 10/8 space - and reserve it for true "private addressing" and use all of the rest of the private addressing ranges as you see fit
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
You state that the document uses SHOULD and MAY which mean optional behavior that can be safely ignored if you have thought about it... You may not agree with Microsofts interpretation of SHOULD and MAY, but they have not even violated the spirit of the RFC that you have quoted... Time to move your M$ bashing elsewhere (want to talk abou the last worm ?)
I always appreciate people who have rules created after their stunts. I have yet to have a rule named after me...Guess I'd better get started, should I start by filling a co-workers cubicle with hot oatmeal ?
Yup, connects to a PCI bridge. Again - show me a "HyperTransport (TM)" card... There aren't any, HyperTransport - much like other Front Side busses connect the chip interconnects to PCI bridge chips to connect to PCI busses... Compare and contrast HyperTransport to PCI-Express - very different architectures. You will see HyperTransport connecting CPUs to chipsets and whatnot, then PCI-Express connecting I/O devices (Nics, HBAs, HCAs etc.)
Funny, I know very little software that I can't get access to the source code. Windows XP, Office, Solaris, etc... All are source available - The problem is the cost, don't expect to be paying 99.95 for a source code licence to any of these things
Ok, HyperTransport is a CPU bus to the Northbridge of the Chipset, to prove my point - can you come up with a URL to a HyperTransport NIC ?
HyperTransport systems will still have PCI busses - hopefully they will get PCI-EX slots that will be able to switch traffic at 8 Gbit/sec and be able to drive a 10Gig nic at about 2/3 throughput
If the driver is good, Linux is easily up to the task of doing nearly anything you want it to in terms of routing. Other then the proprietary Cisco protocols, it does nearly everything other good routers can on similar hardware.
Well the last point is correct - on similar hardware. However many times when you start wanting to go fast (and by fast I mean multiple Gig interfaces, General Purpose Hardware just doesn't cut it... The PCI bus (and by that I mean PCI-X or PCI-EXPRESS) is not fast enough to handle the traffic, so your box can not keep up with the interfaces.
Linux works well as a replacement for low end routers, a handfull of 100Mbit interfaces... but if you are talking a real router with several 1Gbit interfaces and a couple OC-12/OC-48 connections out to the real world - General Purpose Hardware just won't cut it, and you need to get a real router from a company that has spent the bucks developing the ASICs and cross connects to handle the throughput for you
And on a serious note- if you are that dude that walks around UC Davis all the time, wearing your purple cape (and tassle boots) you really need to stop. You'll end up some day in the back of the library, bitter, because none of the humans will talk to you. No, it's not because you are an elf/troll/hobbit/whatever, and the rest of us are biased...it's because you are wearing a freakin' cape (and tassle boots) even when it is 100+ degrees outside.
Beats the guy who was running around Berkley when I was in college. He ran around without a cape, shirt, pants, underwear... just shoes (ok, he did bring a towel to sit on in class)
I have decided we should quit calling every cable modem company ISPs. They do not provide Internet Service - They provide Web Service so WSP.
The reason that I say this is that with their Terms of service these WSP'ers remove the ability to use the internet the way that I want too. I want to be able to run VPNs, I want to be able to run services that are usefull to me as their custommer. About the only thing that the TOS allow is to surf the web for porn, and use their e-mail server to download mail to my favorite e-mail client.
A true ISP should be in the business of delivering IP packets to and from their custommers - and providing useful services above that (like e-mail, firewalling, etc) where the custommers request the service. There should be few if any restrictions on my ability to send and receive IP packets (I don't mind "no hacking", "no violating Int Property rights" etc.) but this, "no running services" policy just gets in my way.
Lets stop calling WSP ISP's and do the right thing and demand full access from the internet from our ISPs
I have worked on exactly ONE project that did something sane to predict this date. It was so simple I don't know why everyone in the world doesn't do this.
NumDays = NumOpenBugs/(bugsClosed-bugsOpend)*time period
Very simple, and suprisingly effective for large projects where the bug finding and bug closing rate is very close to constant over a period of time (lets say a week)
So basically this says, that as long as your bug openning rate is higher than your bug closing rate, don't even bother predicting a ship date, but once you are closing more than you are openning - you can predict a date.
The nice thing about this is all though it is a rough metric, it tends to guess long - and it is something simple you can get any pointy hair boss to buy into (and even script it so that they can determine for themselves what the "ship day" is likely to be)
The easiest thing to do would be to setup your own SMTP server, then point your MX record at that. At this point you own the server, and can do all of the filtering that you need at this point.
This won't solve the 30K messages a day problem, you will still have to suffer under that bandwidth, but your destiny is in your hands, you can get spamassasin, or your favorite filtering application to handle the problem. It has sucked the last few days for me as well... Something like 400 copies of sobig coming across each day, and another several hundered bounce/firewall messages as well...
What do you mean you don't have an ID, you can't vote... You MUST have a voter registration card to vote (is that the ID you meant ???) if you don't have one by DEFAULT you don't get to vote... end of story, that is the law.
Umm.. is this true? How does Oregon prevent people from buying votes? "I'm not asking you to vote for Y, but send me a xeroxed copy of your ballot, and if you voted for Y I might just happen to send you five bucks!"
What is wrong with people buying votes... Elected politicians do it all the time. They spend money on advertising, tax breaks, get out of jail free cards, etc.
What is wrong with going down to the lowest denominator and saying, if you vote my way (or let me vote for you) I'll give you X dollars. If my vote is worth less to me that X, why shouldn't I accept the offer ???
Ok, Myth #1 - Punch cards with "hanging chad" are bad and must be replaced - as evidence see the mess in Florida
Ok - This is a huge myth. The problem in florida wasn't with butterfly ballots or punch card systems at all... It was with a faulty law saying that the vote counters had to determine the "intent of the voter" rather than just count votes. Simplify the law and say the intent of the voter is expressed when more than two corners (three, one, whatever) of the box are torn and there isn't a double vote of any kind... That removes ambiguity.
Now go back and realize that ALL of the florida recounts - No matter what any silly liberal will attempt to tell you - came out with GWBush in front. The problem being is that in each and every count the closeness of the count was well under 3 sigma to the error of the counting process, however we are rather sure that he got more votes than Gore did. If Gore wants to complain - why the heck didn't he win Tennesee, his home state - and make Florida mute.
What connection ???
Remember this is a UDP protocol - there is no connection... What there are is a continuous stream of UDP packets waiting and a listen posted waiting for a UDP response to come back.
This is a router right ? just firewall the outbound port for NTP and there will be no connections for this bug.
You might be able to find a million people that would rather have him out of office (heck even with davis's election there were around 4 MILLION that didn't vote for him) but these people will accept the election up until the point that something gets done to piss them off.
Now what might that be, well we can start with paying WAY too much for electricity - then trying to weasel his way out of the contract. We can go to his handling of the budget crissis (cover it up until he was elected, then do nothing while it got worse)
All said, Davis gave California the worst things about a politician - and someone took advantage of that and is meeting the requirements to get im recalled.
I think only a cynic would start a recall drive the day after a new governor gets elected in the great state. Oh and ass for the BS about not needing a plurality - very few elections with strong third party candidates reach the magic 50.1%... and it will only be worse with everyone being a 3rd party candidate this time around
Vote Early - Vote Often - Let the lawsuits fly at the end
You honestly think it's hard to find that many people in California, a state of 35+ million, who don't really have a clue, or are just bitter enough about Simon's defeat to take this shot at fscking their own state government? Get real.
Sounds like a rather low number, but I believe it was around 10% of the population that actually voted in the last election. That said, they needed valid registered voter signatures, not just any moe-dick-harry-arnold on the street.
I think that is legitimate enough to ask the voters "Hey - Do you feel this guy is a bozo, and should be replaced". Realize that Davis went out of his way to pitch the California budget was Ok until one week after the election, then where did this mysterious 38 BILLION dollar deficit come from.
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That said - posting documents like this help bring in new talent (ie. people who are too scared to start off on their own) which is a key component of keeping Linux viable into 2020 (one of these days Linus will want to retire - we need to have kernel hackers that start in 2005 who are ready to replace him). I remember my first "from source" kernel upgrade from the 2.2 series. I had always just grabbed the latest distro and installed. Imagine my surpirse when I could just get the source myself, build it, install it correctly and the system just ran. It is very powerful, and helping people achieve this power is key for Linux
My absolute favorite Bloom County strips were when the meadow party ran for president. The Bill/Opus ticket. The last one I remember was in 88 - God I miss the meadow party
I do know bitmasks VERY well... The private address space is 10/8... Go look it up at www.iana.org
Yes, click the link in his sig... talking about how IE is not a Web Browser... He significantly misquotes an RFC
So my advice is whack off 1/4 of the 10/8 space - and reserve it for true "private addressing" and use all of the rest of the private addressing ranges as you see fit
You state that the document uses SHOULD and MAY which mean optional behavior that can be safely ignored if you have thought about it... You may not agree with Microsofts interpretation of SHOULD and MAY, but they have not even violated the spirit of the RFC that you have quoted... Time to move your M$ bashing elsewhere (want to talk abou the last worm ?)
I always appreciate people who have rules created after their stunts. I have yet to have a rule named after me...Guess I'd better get started, should I start by filling a co-workers cubicle with hot oatmeal ?
Yup, connects to a PCI bridge. Again - show me a "HyperTransport (TM)" card... There aren't any, HyperTransport - much like other Front Side busses connect the chip interconnects to PCI bridge chips to connect to PCI busses... Compare and contrast HyperTransport to PCI-Express - very different architectures. You will see HyperTransport connecting CPUs to chipsets and whatnot, then PCI-Express connecting I/O devices (Nics, HBAs, HCAs etc.)
Funny, I know very little software that I can't get access to the source code. Windows XP, Office, Solaris, etc... All are source available - The problem is the cost, don't expect to be paying 99.95 for a source code licence to any of these things
Ok, HyperTransport is a CPU bus to the Northbridge of the Chipset, to prove my point - can you come up with a URL to a HyperTransport NIC ?
HyperTransport systems will still have PCI busses - hopefully they will get PCI-EX slots that will be able to switch traffic at 8 Gbit/sec and be able to drive a 10Gig nic at about 2/3 throughput
Well the last point is correct - on similar hardware. However many times when you start wanting to go fast (and by fast I mean multiple Gig interfaces, General Purpose Hardware just doesn't cut it... The PCI bus (and by that I mean PCI-X or PCI-EXPRESS) is not fast enough to handle the traffic, so your box can not keep up with the interfaces.
Linux works well as a replacement for low end routers, a handfull of 100Mbit interfaces... but if you are talking a real router with several 1Gbit interfaces and a couple OC-12/OC-48 connections out to the real world - General Purpose Hardware just won't cut it, and you need to get a real router from a company that has spent the bucks developing the ASICs and cross connects to handle the throughput for you
Beats the guy who was running around Berkley when I was in college. He ran around without a cape, shirt, pants, underwear... just shoes (ok, he did bring a towel to sit on in class)
The reason that I say this is that with their Terms of service these WSP'ers remove the ability to use the internet the way that I want too. I want to be able to run VPNs, I want to be able to run services that are usefull to me as their custommer. About the only thing that the TOS allow is to surf the web for porn, and use their e-mail server to download mail to my favorite e-mail client.
A true ISP should be in the business of delivering IP packets to and from their custommers - and providing useful services above that (like e-mail, firewalling, etc) where the custommers request the service. There should be few if any restrictions on my ability to send and receive IP packets (I don't mind "no hacking", "no violating Int Property rights" etc.) but this, "no running services" policy just gets in my way.
Lets stop calling WSP ISP's and do the right thing and demand full access from the internet from our ISPs
NumDays = NumOpenBugs/(bugsClosed-bugsOpend)*time period
Very simple, and suprisingly effective for large projects where the bug finding and bug closing rate is very close to constant over a period of time (lets say a week)
So basically this says, that as long as your bug openning rate is higher than your bug closing rate, don't even bother predicting a ship date, but once you are closing more than you are openning - you can predict a date.
The nice thing about this is all though it is a rough metric, it tends to guess long - and it is something simple you can get any pointy hair boss to buy into (and even script it so that they can determine for themselves what the "ship day" is likely to be)
This won't solve the 30K messages a day problem, you will still have to suffer under that bandwidth, but your destiny is in your hands, you can get spamassasin, or your favorite filtering application to handle the problem. It has sucked the last few days for me as well... Something like 400 copies of sobig coming across each day, and another several hundered bounce/firewall messages as well...
Hope the next virus isn't this bad
What do you mean you don't have an ID, you can't vote... You MUST have a voter registration card to vote (is that the ID you meant ???) if you don't have one by DEFAULT you don't get to vote... end of story, that is the law.
What is wrong with people buying votes... Elected politicians do it all the time. They spend money on advertising, tax breaks, get out of jail free cards, etc.
What is wrong with going down to the lowest denominator and saying, if you vote my way (or let me vote for you) I'll give you X dollars. If my vote is worth less to me that X, why shouldn't I accept the offer ???
Oh wait - you are an idealist aren't you ?
Ok - This is a huge myth. The problem in florida wasn't with butterfly ballots or punch card systems at all... It was with a faulty law saying that the vote counters had to determine the "intent of the voter" rather than just count votes. Simplify the law and say the intent of the voter is expressed when more than two corners (three, one, whatever) of the box are torn and there isn't a double vote of any kind... That removes ambiguity.
Now go back and realize that ALL of the florida recounts - No matter what any silly liberal will attempt to tell you - came out with GWBush in front. The problem being is that in each and every count the closeness of the count was well under 3 sigma to the error of the counting process, however we are rather sure that he got more votes than Gore did. If Gore wants to complain - why the heck didn't he win Tennesee, his home state - and make Florida mute.
Remember this is a UDP protocol - there is no connection... What there are is a continuous stream of UDP packets waiting and a listen posted waiting for a UDP response to come back.
This is a router right ? just firewall the outbound port for NTP and there will be no connections for this bug.
Now what might that be, well we can start with paying WAY too much for electricity - then trying to weasel his way out of the contract. We can go to his handling of the budget crissis (cover it up until he was elected, then do nothing while it got worse)
All said, Davis gave California the worst things about a politician - and someone took advantage of that and is meeting the requirements to get im recalled.
I think only a cynic would start a recall drive the day after a new governor gets elected in the great state. Oh and ass for the BS about not needing a plurality - very few elections with strong third party candidates reach the magic 50.1%... and it will only be worse with everyone being a 3rd party candidate this time around
Vote Early - Vote Often - Let the lawsuits fly at the end
Sounds like a rather low number, but I believe it was around 10% of the population that actually voted in the last election. That said, they needed valid registered voter signatures, not just any moe-dick-harry-arnold on the street.
I think that is legitimate enough to ask the voters "Hey - Do you feel this guy is a bozo, and should be replaced". Realize that Davis went out of his way to pitch the California budget was Ok until one week after the election, then where did this mysterious 38 BILLION dollar deficit come from.
He admits that the game wasn't designed to be fun to play, but to create cash for Sony Online Entertainment
Bwahahahahaha
(doesn't the topic say it all ???)
Of course everyone had been complaining about how slow the NT OS was relative to EVERYONE else that ran video drivers in Kernel space
Damned it I hate when the custommers are wrong
I must admit that I have NEVER had Gnucash crash on me. Not even once. No lost transactions, no corrupted files, nothing...
Of course I run Quicken, oh well