Would have been a good idea if the web page actually listed all the exact host names and not just briefly mentioned their existance as an afterthought.
Any of you know of a practical guide to using ulimit, specially as it applies to swapless boxen? I would very much like to know what best practices are. For example: given you have X RAM, what should you set the various hard/soft limits at? This would obviously vary from application to application, but it would be great to see what others have experimented with.
Does anybody have experience with running swapless Linux servers? I am looking for a best practices for setting memory and virtual memory limits (presumably, using ulimit). Can setting soft (ulimit -aS) and hard (ulimit -aH) limits guarantee that your programs will not eat up all of the system's RAM and cause an OOPS? I'd love to hear about your experiences.
What will happen when digital cameras can capture more information than is present? Are we going to start seeing the gaps between atoms, in all their bigger-is-better glory?
And can you guys imagine this dude on the roof of his brother-in-law's car -- denting it -- to photograph the landscape?
Can someone shed some light on this subject? This to me seems like the perpetual-motion machine. Some company always claims you will see in 3D w/o using glasses. Is this theoretically possible? I mean without actually recreating a 3D scene in front of you, is it theoretically possible for a 2D device to make you see in 3D w/o any special apparatus that you put in front of your eyes? It seems like the holy grail of 3D.
I agree with what you are saying. Man-made contraptions cannot fly like birds because their method of flight does not scale up well, even to the size of a human. I think that as you look at larger birds you will notice that they glide a lot more than flap, as opposed to small birds that always flap.
Also, another important distinction between atmospheric flight, and even including sea navigation, and space travel is that the former is done thru a volume of material, be it air or water, whereas the latter is in a vacuum. The dynamics of moving thru air are at least somewhat similar to those of moving thru water while submerged, whereas moving thru space is completely different and bares no resemblance. The Borg Cube would do just fine in real life in space, whereas thru the atmosphere it fare very badly.
Of course this is not all that important, _I_ simply prefer ppl don't call it flight. But I get the meaning and don't get stuck on a technicality:)
P.S. Bonus question to all you SciFi fans out there: why would all space movies be extremely boring if they followed one small technicality of science?
> Yes, it is space flight, as opposed to atmospheric flight. The two are very different of course but they're both still "flight."
To me, the word flight represents atmospheric flight. It just seems wrong to apply the term to space travel. Can't tell you why, but I view it as using the wrong term. Sorta like calling other stars suns. All I know is that birds fly, and they never leave the Earth.
>> "A brand new windows box put on the internet will start rebooting every sixty seconds without security precautions. "
>> But that is complete horsecrap.
> When was the last time you TRIED putting a store-fresh Windows box online, especially if it wasn't running XP pro? It will almost certainly get hosed in less than five minutes - I've watched it happen.
Has anyone actually done this? I'm interested in it for the novelty of it. That would make a good ad for the anti-M$ movement. Get a camcorder and tape it, try to go for a record. And have a Linux box on the side running tcpdump, make the dump available for download.
It's never been a better time to bite the bullet and drop the bad habit known as Windows. The first step is to admit that you always wanted to but were too lazy to do it.
It's simple, really. Computing is an important part of your life. Your homegrown behemoth has had more upgrades than Anna Nicole Smith. Your Windows installation kinda works. It takes 1-3 minutes to boot, another 1-5 minutes to load all it's crap after you log in. It refreshes your desktop icons sometimes for no reason at all, wasting time. It pages all your programs out to disk if you copy an ISO image of Windows XP from one location to another, taking another 2-3 minutes to restore a 5-tab Moz window. But if you wait around long enough, you can get something done with it. The 3rd-party program support is great, you can always go to astalavista and get a crack for most things. So in a sense it's like OSS, only more annoying and much slower in real-world performance. But you don't really support Windows. You're not that stupid, no matter what others may think. You're just a bit lazy, a creature of comfort. A couch potato, if you will.
Well, M$ _is_ that stupid - it's shooting itself in the foot left and right. They are betting you really are that stupid. That there is no line you will not cross, as long as what they take away is in small increments.
The choice is yours. Dedicate a full weekend, with a strict 9-5 schedule and no drinking more than 4-6 beers per day. Hell, buy that new SATA drive you always wanted and _keep_ your existing Windows drives, just in case. Not in dual-boot configuration, in an off-line 'just-in-case' configuration. See how it goes, run the must-haves in WINE. After a few months you'll probably burn a few DVD-Rs and format those 'just-in-case' M$-infected drives and give them away as prizes on your website/blog.
Either nobody who uses Gentoo is a multimillionaire, or they are grubby ones at that. To someone who is loaded, $20k is like paying for lunch. Surely if they appreciated Daniel's efforts they could make a charitable donation. How about giving the guy $50k so he can keep working on it, if he so chooses? Or take a long vacation for all his hard work?
The Internet Archive Petabox seems to use ReiserFS. Interesting, to say the least. Even more interesting would be if one of the developers that helped make the call shares some insight.
I keep seeing the #1 complaint being that Gentoo is always compiling stuff. Aside from the original install, this is a non-issue. You do know that Linux is a multi-tasking(tm) OS, don'tcha? Stop your whining. I'm not doing this to defend Gentoo in particular (although I like it mucho), it's just pissing me off to see the crybabies always repeating the same crap all the time. Look, you don't like it, don't use the damn thing! Compiling ain't your thing? No prob! Forget Gentoo, go to distrowatch.com, pick something else. Just stop your damn bitching already, you big babies!
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> Unless you want time to get really unreliable
;) And get..
Ah, words only a true geek could utter
Would have been a good idea if the web page actually listed all the exact host names and not just briefly mentioned their existance as an afterthought.
Any of you know of a practical guide to using ulimit, specially as it applies to swapless boxen? I would very much like to know what best practices are. For example: given you have X RAM, what should you set the various hard/soft limits at? This would obviously vary from application to application, but it would be great to see what others have experimented with.
Does anybody have experience with running swapless Linux servers? I am looking for a best practices for setting memory and virtual memory limits (presumably, using ulimit). Can setting soft (ulimit -aS) and hard (ulimit -aH) limits guarantee that your programs will not eat up all of the system's RAM and cause an OOPS? I'd love to hear about your experiences.
This is, by far, the most retarded thing I've read on /.
How many ppl here use US Napster?
What will happen when digital cameras can capture more information than is present? Are we going to start seeing the gaps between atoms, in all their bigger-is-better glory?
And can you guys imagine this dude on the roof of his brother-in-law's car -- denting it -- to photograph the landscape?
Slashdot - the only place where geeks will flock to watch video of a router.
Can someone shed some light on this subject? This to me seems like the perpetual-motion machine. Some company always claims you will see in 3D w/o using glasses. Is this theoretically possible? I mean without actually recreating a 3D scene in front of you, is it theoretically possible for a 2D device to make you see in 3D w/o any special apparatus that you put in front of your eyes? It seems like the holy grail of 3D.
> It seems as if there has been a lack of proofreading for stories lately.
> ex: "AMD doesn't see much a market for that"
The chips are too slow to perform proofreading.
> "Misfortunate"? I didn't know George W. Bush posted on Slashdot. ;)
Don't misunderestimate him.
> a lot of people are ending up with unbootable machines.
Nice!
I agree with what you are saying. Man-made contraptions cannot fly like birds because their method of flight does not scale up well, even to the size of a human. I think that as you look at larger birds you will notice that they glide a lot more than flap, as opposed to small birds that always flap.
:)
Also, another important distinction between atmospheric flight, and even including sea navigation, and space travel is that the former is done thru a volume of material, be it air or water, whereas the latter is in a vacuum. The dynamics of moving thru air are at least somewhat similar to those of moving thru water while submerged, whereas moving thru space is completely different and bares no resemblance. The Borg Cube would do just fine in real life in space, whereas thru the atmosphere it fare very badly.
Of course this is not all that important, _I_ simply prefer ppl don't call it flight. But I get the meaning and don't get stuck on a technicality
P.S. Bonus question to all you SciFi fans out there: why would all space movies be extremely boring if they followed one small technicality of science?
> Yes, it is space flight, as opposed to atmospheric flight. The two are very different of course but they're both still "flight."
To me, the word flight represents atmospheric flight. It just seems wrong to apply the term to space travel. Can't tell you why, but I view it as using the wrong term. Sorta like calling other stars suns. All I know is that birds fly, and they never leave the Earth.
In related news, ET turns 22 today
>> "A brand new windows box put on the internet will start rebooting every sixty seconds without security precautions. "
>> But that is complete horsecrap.
> When was the last time you TRIED putting a store-fresh Windows box online, especially if it wasn't running XP pro? It will almost certainly get hosed in less than five minutes - I've watched it happen.
Has anyone actually done this? I'm interested in it for the novelty of it. That would make a good ad for the anti-M$ movement. Get a camcorder and tape it, try to go for a record. And have a Linux box on the side running tcpdump, make the dump available for download.
> Or are we all going to change our stance because its Apple?
There you go again, making assumptions. There are those of us who despise Apple, you know.
And the translation is [drumroll, please]...
It's never been a better time to bite the bullet and drop the bad habit known as Windows. The first step is to admit that you always wanted to but were too lazy to do it.
It's simple, really. Computing is an important part of your life. Your homegrown behemoth has had more upgrades than Anna Nicole Smith. Your Windows installation kinda works. It takes 1-3 minutes to boot, another 1-5 minutes to load all it's crap after you log in. It refreshes your desktop icons sometimes for no reason at all, wasting time. It pages all your programs out to disk if you copy an ISO image of Windows XP from one location to another, taking another 2-3 minutes to restore a 5-tab Moz window. But if you wait around long enough, you can get something done with it. The 3rd-party program support is great, you can always go to astalavista and get a crack for most things. So in a sense it's like OSS, only more annoying and much slower in real-world performance. But you don't really support Windows. You're not that stupid, no matter what others may think. You're just a bit lazy, a creature of comfort. A couch potato, if you will.
Well, M$ _is_ that stupid - it's shooting itself in the foot left and right. They are betting you really are that stupid. That there is no line you will not cross, as long as what they take away is in small increments.
The choice is yours. Dedicate a full weekend, with a strict 9-5 schedule and no drinking more than 4-6 beers per day. Hell, buy that new SATA drive you always wanted and _keep_ your existing Windows drives, just in case. Not in dual-boot configuration, in an off-line 'just-in-case' configuration. See how it goes, run the must-haves in WINE. After a few months you'll probably burn a few DVD-Rs and format those 'just-in-case' M$-infected drives and give them away as prizes on your website/blog.
Either nobody who uses Gentoo is a multimillionaire, or they are grubby ones at that. To someone who is loaded, $20k is like paying for lunch. Surely if they appreciated Daniel's efforts they could make a charitable donation. How about giving the guy $50k so he can keep working on it, if he so chooses? Or take a long vacation for all his hard work?
The Internet Archive Petabox seems to use ReiserFS. Interesting, to say the least. Even more interesting would be if one of the developers that helped make the call shares some insight.
We're the Mercedes-Benz of.. Mercedes-Benz, SCO bitches!
LOOOOL ;)
good one
It took longer for them to come up with the press release than it did for their code to be broken. Lookin' good, RSA!
I keep seeing the #1 complaint being that Gentoo is always compiling stuff. Aside from the original install, this is a non-issue. You do know that Linux is a multi-tasking(tm) OS, don'tcha? Stop your whining. I'm not doing this to defend Gentoo in particular (although I like it mucho), it's just pissing me off to see the crybabies always repeating the same crap all the time. Look, you don't like it, don't use the damn thing! Compiling ain't your thing? No prob! Forget Gentoo, go to distrowatch.com, pick something else. Just stop your damn bitching already, you big babies!
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Aren't we getting fancy!