Furthermore since flash has limited flash cycles that is much less than that of a hard drive, your/tmp directory will have you buying a new card in no time.
I read somewhere that at least some flash disk devices will remap writes to evenly 'wear' the flash chip even if the writes are supposedly 'physically' in the same location. But I don't know how well that mechanism scales to 8GB or how it affects speed. I also don't know how long such a wear-managed device would last under a typical workstation or server load, but at least/tmp wouldn't burn a hole through the chip in 20 minutes.
On the other hand, for a filesystem with few updates and many reads (some web servers and a few databases--think LDAP), this device could be neat for a low-latency but faster-than-network throughput network server. But I'll wait until the price drops a few thousand.
Okay, I think I see what you're saying now: You want a Live CD that can run Apache, db's, Samba, etc. and also be able to install them permanently, and it will all be wizard/q&a based (with scrpting option) rather than all-ports-open by default.
The first time I read your post I went into security paranoia mode thinking about a Debian/testing flavor of KNOPPIX with all services running on startup. I also couldn't figure out why someone would really need a LiveCD server daemon.
But your idea is a tool for someone who wants a turnkey web server, for example. That could be very useful. Turnkey DHCP server, turnkey Samba server, turnkey proxy server, turnkey caching DNS server, turnkey NAT (okay, CoyoteLinux has that covered), turnkey LDAP address server...I'm starting to think of places these things could be useful both as LiveCD ad-hoc temporary configurations and as 'permanently' installed configurations.
I'm interested now. I think I might know enough to be able to figure out how to put something like that together. I'll just need someone who can create the cool distro graphics:-).
KNOPPIX already has sshd, Apache, ftpd, tfptd, nfsd and dhcpd at the very least. Sure, they don't fire up automatically at boot, but I suspect that's for the reasons osmethnee mentions above.
The KNOPPIX terminal server feature fires up dhcpd, tftpd and nfsd with a setup wizard, although it's set up for remote booting KNOPPIX.
To fire up the others, use the Debian-style init scripts like/etc/init.d/sshd start. But with sshd and some of the others you have to delete/etc/hosts.allow and/or/etc/hosts.deny and possibly restart inetd (/etc/init.d/inetd restart).
Since KNOPPIX already has the dhcp server working, I wonder what they're doing differently than you. I notice that you can delete (and presumably create) symlinks in/etc, so instead of mounting/etc perhaps you can symlink your config files from/ramdisk/foo.
I believe you can make your own init script that would automate the symlink operations and file copies and daemon startups for you without remastering KNOPPIX. I've seen it referenced in KNOPPIX forums somewhere.
I live in Texas, the land of flash floods, and the most I've lost my signal for is an hour.
I installed my mother's DirecTV system in North Texas a few years ago. We were in a hurry to get it working, so I "temporarily" mounted it on a heavy wooden workbench on the patio. The dish was pointed through a tree, but it was winter and the leaves were gone.
I'm a master procrastinator, so that dish stayed on that workbench pointing through that tree for several years. She almost never lost signal, and certainly not for an hour, even when the tree--30 feet away and fully obscuring the line of sight--was full of leaves and it was raining and thundering heavy.
From my very limited experience I believe a very firm dish mounting and precise pointing will avoid almost all weather problems. (Of course it doesn't snow much in North Central Texas.)
Tolkein did one of the original translations of Beowulf, and is the one who published papers showing that it should be considered one of the great stories.
Okay, now I hate Tolkein. Or at least his writing. Wake me up when Peter Jackson's Beowulf is released.:-)
Then you didn't read quite far enough. For the sake of others, here's the worthwhile part of the article, from the end:
"The problem is, if the cops take an interest in you while you're doing something like this, the only way to get out of the situation is to admit that you're a dork,"
You take a plane, fill it with seed "bomblets" and disperse them over a minefield. The bomblets embed in the soil and the plants grow. Within a few months you have a field of plants, a few of which are a different colour.
Wouldn't the whole process be faster if the "seed 'bomblets'" exploded on landing?
(which is a shame - the slashdot engine should take posts that are modded as interesting AND troll, as some of the best posts invariably are because they challenge some of the geek orthodoxy)
You can alter the scoring and do exactly what you wish. Go to the Comments tab of your Preferences, scroll down to the "Reason Modifier" section and muck around with it. I believe changing Troll to +1 will eliminate the Troll mod penalty and +2 will score a positive mod point for each Troll mod. Perhaps set Troll to +1 and Interesting to +1 or +2?
For those of you who hate funny mods you can knock Funny down to -6. You can also level the playing field by disallowing the +1 karma bonus for good karma posters and give AC's a +1.
Actually there's tons of stuff you can do from this page; I'm currently striping sigs, hiding my email and setting a higher default threshold for comments.
filing John Doe copyright infringement suits is NOT WRONG - it's EXACTLY what you should do if you find people sharing binary apps derived from your GPL'd project and you don't have a way to contact them yourself.
I've been reading "weathering" as "water erosion" by context, but I might be missing the message and point entirely. I'm interpreting that the presence of olivine is surprising given that they were hoping to find evidence of water.
Heck, you can download the software yourself and drive a virtual version of the rover. For Windows, Linux, Solaris, and even Mac I think. And you can download actual photos/data from Spirit and have external 3d views.
You can even download via Bittorrent...those JPL guys are so nerdy it's great.
I downloaded and skimmed the manual but haven't tried it myself yet, but from the manual it's apparent you can view your rover in 3rd-person 3D.
When reading the summary I realized I knew what FreeBSD's and OpenBSD's logos were but couldn't think of NetBSD's. And after reading the comments at least half the people think the FreeBSD daemon is NetBSD's logo. Mod this whole discussion as +Funny.
Furthermore, while Tux, the FreeBSD daemon and and the OpenBSD fish are cute, reposable and reusable the NetBSD logo isn't cute or reposable but looks like a daily cartoon that won't make it into next year's calendar.
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Furthermore since flash has limited flash cycles that is much less than that of a hard drive, your /tmp directory will have you buying a new card in no time.
/tmp wouldn't burn a hole through the chip in 20 minutes.
I read somewhere that at least some flash disk devices will remap writes to evenly 'wear' the flash chip even if the writes are supposedly 'physically' in the same location. But I don't know how well that mechanism scales to 8GB or how it affects speed. I also don't know how long such a wear-managed device would last under a typical workstation or server load, but at least
On the other hand, for a filesystem with few updates and many reads (some web servers and a few databases--think LDAP), this device could be neat for a low-latency but faster-than-network throughput network server. But I'll wait until the price drops a few thousand.
Okay, I think I see what you're saying now: You want a Live CD that can run Apache, db's, Samba, etc. and also be able to install them permanently, and it will all be wizard/q&a based (with scrpting option) rather than all-ports-open by default.
:-) .
The first time I read your post I went into security paranoia mode thinking about a Debian/testing flavor of KNOPPIX with all services running on startup. I also couldn't figure out why someone would really need a LiveCD server daemon.
But your idea is a tool for someone who wants a turnkey web server, for example. That could be very useful. Turnkey DHCP server, turnkey Samba server, turnkey proxy server, turnkey caching DNS server, turnkey NAT (okay, CoyoteLinux has that covered), turnkey LDAP address server...I'm starting to think of places these things could be useful both as LiveCD ad-hoc temporary configurations and as 'permanently' installed configurations.
I'm interested now. I think I might know enough to be able to figure out how to put something like that together. I'll just need someone who can create the cool distro graphics
I got confused and responded to two people in one post. Some of the stuff in this post is in response to you.
KNOPPIX already has sshd, Apache, ftpd, tfptd, nfsd and dhcpd at the very least. Sure, they don't fire up automatically at boot, but I suspect that's for the reasons osmethnee mentions above.
/etc/init.d/sshd start. But with sshd and some of the others you have to delete /etc/hosts.allow and/or /etc/hosts.deny and possibly restart inetd (/etc/init.d/inetd restart).
/etc, so instead of mounting /etc perhaps you can symlink your config files from /ramdisk/foo.
The KNOPPIX terminal server feature fires up dhcpd, tftpd and nfsd with a setup wizard, although it's set up for remote booting KNOPPIX.
To fire up the others, use the Debian-style init scripts like
Since KNOPPIX already has the dhcp server working, I wonder what they're doing differently than you. I notice that you can delete (and presumably create) symlinks in
I believe you can make your own init script that would automate the symlink operations and file copies and daemon startups for you without remastering KNOPPIX. I've seen it referenced in KNOPPIX forums somewhere.
this sounds like a 3 year old trying to cover up the fact that he doesn't KNOW the reason why
Whenever dark matter is mentioned I get a mental image of Tom Hanks waving his hand over his head and saying "brain cloud."
Jedi don't stand a chance.
Don't worry. Dark Jedi are like Republicans: When become all-powerful they then turn on each other and restore balance.
Microsoft, apparently.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v1.0/
Doesn't look like it. The most recent files are from April 1994.
I live in Texas, the land of flash floods, and the most I've lost my signal for is an hour.
I installed my mother's DirecTV system in North Texas a few years ago. We were in a hurry to get it working, so I "temporarily" mounted it on a heavy wooden workbench on the patio. The dish was pointed through a tree, but it was winter and the leaves were gone.
I'm a master procrastinator, so that dish stayed on that workbench pointing through that tree for several years. She almost never lost signal, and certainly not for an hour, even when the tree--30 feet away and fully obscuring the line of sight--was full of leaves and it was raining and thundering heavy.
From my very limited experience I believe a very firm dish mounting and precise pointing will avoid almost all weather problems. (Of course it doesn't snow much in North Central Texas.)
so they miss the Superbowl
Ah, so now we know who's responsible for MyDoom: SCO Admins!
... just live by "The Golden Rule" and everybody is a little bit happier.
Except for me--living the rest of my life in the left-turn lane--and the people in the cars behind me.
Tolkein did one of the original translations of Beowulf, and is the one who published papers showing that it should be considered one of the great stories.
:-)
Okay, now I hate Tolkein. Or at least his writing. Wake me up when Peter Jackson's Beowulf is released.
Waffle Iron was right.
./-rf
/' ?
I tried it myself on bash on 2.05a on a 2.2.19 kernel on an ext2 filesystem:
I created my file with
$ cat > -rf
hi
^D
rm '-rf' still interprets -rf as switches
same with rm "-rf"
mv '-rf' another-name also tries to interpret '-rf' as switches
The rm man page tells how to do this, though. One is Waffle's way:
rm -- -rf
The other is:
rm
The next question is: how do you create a file named '-rf
Great! I've been looking for a small wearable computer for my x10 zipper actuator.
I suppose I'm responding to a troll, but I have nothing better to do right now.
Even in the unstable version, is KDE 2.2 and Gnome 2.0, with Xfree86 4.1
Debian's kdebase packages have KDE 2.2.2 for stable, 3.1.3 for testing and 3.1.5 for unstable. Xfree86: 4.1.0 stable, 4.2.1 testing, 4.2.1 unstable.
Other distros give you comprehensive PRINTED MANUALS, PHONE SUPPPORT and/or freindly forums where repling RTFM gets you banned!
Wow, they give them to you? You have to actualy pay for Debian books. Well, that is unless you read the online ones. Bah.
He got +5 Funnies, but he's mostly right. Debian is ported to several kernels and libc's.
You take a plane, fill it with seed "bomblets" and disperse them over a minefield. The bomblets embed in the soil and the plants grow. Within a few months you have a field of plants, a few of which are a different colour.
Wouldn't the whole process be faster if the "seed 'bomblets'" exploded on landing?
emacs: meta-f meta-f meta-f meta-f meta-f meta-f meta-f meta-f meta-f meta-f meta-f meta-f eir
vi: w w w w w w w w w w w l l c w eir
notepad:cntrl-<right arrow> cntrl-<right arrow> cntrl-<right arrow> cntrl-<right arrow> cntrl-<right arrow> cntrl-<right arrow> cntrl-<right arrow> cntrl-<right arrow> cntrl-<right arrow> cntrl-<right arrow> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> eir
If that's too hard, use mouse to highlight "ir" and type eir.
(which is a shame - the slashdot engine should take posts that are modded as interesting AND troll, as some of the best posts invariably are because they challenge some of the geek orthodoxy)
You can alter the scoring and do exactly what you wish. Go to the Comments tab of your Preferences, scroll down to the "Reason Modifier" section and muck around with it. I believe changing Troll to +1 will eliminate the Troll mod penalty and +2 will score a positive mod point for each Troll mod. Perhaps set Troll to +1 and Interesting to +1 or +2?
For those of you who hate funny mods you can knock Funny down to -6. You can also level the playing field by disallowing the +1 karma bonus for good karma posters and give AC's a +1.
Actually there's tons of stuff you can do from this page; I'm currently striping sigs, hiding my email and setting a higher default threshold for comments.
filing John Doe copyright infringement suits is NOT WRONG - it's EXACTLY what you should do if you find people sharing binary apps derived from your GPL'd project and you don't have a way to contact them yourself.
I thought those were called "Darl Sco" suits now?
Where's that Ping of Death when you need it?
I've been reading "weathering" as "water erosion" by context, but I might be missing the message and point entirely. I'm interpreting that the presence of olivine is surprising given that they were hoping to find evidence of water.
Heck, you can download the software yourself and drive a virtual version of the rover. For Windows, Linux, Solaris, and even Mac I think. And you can download actual photos/data from Spirit and have external 3d views.
You can even download via Bittorrent...those JPL guys are so nerdy it's great.
I downloaded and skimmed the manual but haven't tried it myself yet, but from the manual it's apparent you can view your rover in 3rd-person 3D.
When reading the summary I realized I knew what FreeBSD's and OpenBSD's logos were but couldn't think of NetBSD's. And after reading the comments at least half the people think the FreeBSD daemon is NetBSD's logo. Mod this whole discussion as +Funny.
Furthermore, while Tux, the FreeBSD daemon and and the OpenBSD fish are cute, reposable and reusable the NetBSD logo isn't cute or reposable but looks like a daily cartoon that won't make it into next year's calendar.