do you have SMART enabled? if so, (assuming you are running windows 2k/xp) check the event viewer for warnings about it. On my only windows box, it has been predicting that my 30gb drive will fail for like 2 years. hasn't yet.
It also says that my DVD drive is causing paging errors... windows is weird...
btw, i'm posting from an ultra5.... otherwise i would copy the text in from the event viewer...
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OT - you know there is a rapper known as Canibus, and i guess he went to virgina tech or something for computer science... weird... Geek rapper.
... is a great game that describes most of what you seem to be asking for. Well, except for the long cut scenes... but you can skip through them if you want. You get all of the info you need to complete the game, in the game...
Except for that really dumb torture session, the game is pretty good. I just dug it out after not playing more than once back when i had a modded psx and a burn of it... I found a copy in the bargain bin at the mall the other day, and I am about to beat it... I'm at the final boss right now... It is kinda cheesy, designed for those not quite technically affluent, but it's a fun game none the less.
Of course, each one is less than 1GHz, so being able to handle 10Gbit is not very likely. Damn, most of em' can't even max out 100Mbit, stupid slow harddrives...
and thats the difference between a hobby project and a professional product
but hey developers know better than salespeople right ?
I think you misunderstand a few things. It is my belief that developers do know better than salespeople when it comes to other developers...
Now, consider the name GNU - Gnu's Not Unix, specifically, it is supposed to be an imitation of Unix, which was developed to be a developer's system, and so was Gnu. Gnu gave us an editor, compiler, assembler, utilities, and everything you need for a unix like OS, well, except the all important kernel, but lets not go there.
My point is, the GPL is by developers, for developers, not grandmas. It's like pushing a cube through a round hole, hammer it enough and it'll squeeze through, but it wasn't meant to fit that way.
IMHO RMS thinks all computer users are like him, tech savvy, and therefore should appreciate his high minded idealism, but common sense shows, things just aren't that way.
GPL License; AKA tail recursion
GNU = Gnu's Not Unix
GPL = General Public License
so unforunately, it's not nested tail recusion, which would be pretty bada$$
Well, really, once the jvm is compiled, assembled, and linked so that it may be executed, it's just machine code. The original language used to implement it doesn't matter, ie. it's transparent.
However, I for one would love to see "pwn3d by C" on the side of my microwave.
It'd be sad though if we started seeing stuff like, "Powered by VB!"... Sad indeed.
it'd be funny, you be able to tell who the real geeks are when they goto circuit city to buy something...
Just a wild a$$ guess, but i read this in a book about the BeOS FS. Basically Berkley FFS, you know it as UFS as a FreeBSD user, introduced the concept of cylinder groups to the file system. Since you didn't really say much about your drive other than it was a 10k Seagate drive, I have to make a few guesses. I have similar drives in a drive cage, attached to my Ultra 5 (2x 9GB Seagate Barracudas) and again, I am just guessing, but, these drives probably have multiple platters. You're average IDE drive only has one platter for cost effectiveness... So whats my point? Ext3 (ext2 really) ditched the cylinder groups idea since alot of the newer IDE tech has similar technology built into the controllers to optimize throughput, or so it says in the book. Soooo, using cyilder groups probably tends to give a nicer phyical layout on the disk then assuming the hardware will do it for you like ext3 does.
Maybe thats why your disk appears to thrash more with ext3 than with FFS... Especially during the disk intensive tasks you mentioned.
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I know visio isn't part of MS Office, but it might as well be. I have had to use it almost as much this semester as word, and visio was the only thing that prevented me from doing several large (15-50 page) papers in OOo. If they had a visio workalike, they (I'd) be set.
Debian isn't meant to be a newbie distro. It's a powerful OS, IMO not for the uninitiated. I always suggest RH and more recently fedora. Why? because for almost any package you can get the RPM's for it, and apt-get on redhat works great too. Plus, it's really easy to get your stuff working while not hiding everything from you.
You may want to take this all with a grain of salt though, Since I use Solaris on my workstation, slack on my laptop, and WinXP for games/movies/music in my living room. Also, FreeBSD on one server(2x Xeon), Redhat on another(2x Xeon), and fedora on another(4x P3 Xeon), in production! (yeah, i'm crazy like that:)
XFree86 idiots(perhaps idiot is too strong, fools perhaps); this is how GCC handles it: (taken from/opt/csw/gcc3/include/c++/3.3.2/valarray on my Sun)
// As a special exception, you may use this file as part of a free software
// library without restriction. Specifically, if other files instantiate
// templates or use macros or inline functions from this file, or you compile
// this file and link it with other files to produce an executable, this
// file does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by
// the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however
// invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by
// the GNU General Public License.
This is such an easy fix, why cant they just say something like that?
I have a SPARCstation IPC(25MHz, 40MB ram, 400MB hdd, 10mbit nic), i'd love to get ahold of some more sun hardware, really a 13w3 -> svga adapter would be cool, then i could run X11 on it, that would make it really bad ass... Right now i just use a wyse-60 on it(yea for Mac modem cables)...
Also, I Use my Ultra 5 alot. I have a SCSI card in it though, and a model 711 drive enclosure for it. I need some more of those spud drive sleds for it though so i can throw more storage in the beast(those seagate drives are f'ing loud)... Oh yeah, and i have a DDS3 tape drive for it, this machine is sweet. Oh, and my framebuffer runs in 24bit mode too! It's a bad ass machine.
In fact, we have a Sun Blade 100 here at school to dick around on, and that thing is slow as balls compared to my ultra 5. Sure it has a 500MHz cpu, but the disk is too slow. Maybe my Ultra5 would be too, but those SCSI disks really help out...
Sun hardware is great stuff, the person who wrote that article sounds alot like a whiner to me, the sun keyboard is awsome. I have fairly large hands so it fits me well. Plus it really messes with my friends when they come over to use it since they are all used to PC keyboards. Actually a few of my friends are envious, they want one now too... It is designed to run indefinitely. It's hard to say that about lots of PC hardware.
Now, their software on the other hand, what can you say... it's getting better, but solaris is total pain until you get used to it. pkg-get is nice, but still not as smooth as apt-get, which it's trying to emulate...
My doctor just switched me from Humulin Lente to a new type of insulin called Lantus. It's a Basal insulin that works over a period of ~24 hours. It has no pronounced spike in it's effectiveness, and it seems to be working pretty well... The only problem is you can't mix it wirh regular, but since you take the shot at night before bed, how often do you take regular at that point in time?
After 12 years of being insulin dependent, since i was diagnosed at age 9, this is one of the better things i've been able to try out. If this tattoo works as it's claimed, and it can be accurate, then it would work wonders at controlling my bloodsugar, which it desperately needs. I just cant wait to get a tattoo of Beastie on my arm...
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do you have SMART enabled? if so, (assuming you are running windows 2k/xp) check the event viewer for warnings about it. On my only windows box, it has been predicting that my 30gb drive will fail for like 2 years. hasn't yet.
It also says that my DVD drive is causing paging errors... windows is weird...
btw, i'm posting from an ultra5.... otherwise i would copy the text in from the event viewer...
--
OT - you know there is a rapper known as Canibus, and i guess he went to virgina tech or something for computer science... weird... Geek rapper.
... is a great game that describes most of what you seem to be asking for. Well, except for the long cut scenes... but you can skip through them if you want. You get all of the info you need to complete the game, in the game...
Except for that really dumb torture session, the game is pretty good. I just dug it out after not playing more than once back when i had a modded psx and a burn of it... I found a copy in the bargain bin at the mall the other day, and I am about to beat it... I'm at the final boss right now... It is kinda cheesy, designed for those not quite technically affluent, but it's a fun game none the less.
Well hey, it was worth $8...
However, I just thought, this would sure help out with all those Beowulf clusters people like to imagine around here...
On my 8 different machines, at the same time...
Of course, each one is less than 1GHz, so being able to handle 10Gbit is not very likely. Damn, most of em' can't even max out 100Mbit, stupid slow harddrives...
I think you misunderstand a few things. It is my belief that developers do know better than salespeople when it comes to other developers...
Now, consider the name GNU - Gnu's Not Unix, specifically, it is supposed to be an imitation of Unix, which was developed to be a developer's system, and so was Gnu. Gnu gave us an editor, compiler, assembler, utilities, and everything you need for a unix like OS, well, except the all important kernel, but lets not go there.
My point is, the GPL is by developers, for developers, not grandmas. It's like pushing a cube through a round hole, hammer it enough and it'll squeeze through, but it wasn't meant to fit that way.
IMHO RMS thinks all computer users are like him, tech savvy, and therefore should appreciate his high minded idealism, but common sense shows, things just aren't that way.
GPL License; AKA tail recursion GNU = Gnu's Not Unix GPL = General Public License so unforunately, it's not nested tail recusion, which would be pretty bada$$
Well, really, once the jvm is compiled, assembled, and linked so that it may be executed, it's just machine code. The original language used to implement it doesn't matter, ie. it's transparent.
... Sad indeed.
However, I for one would love to see "pwn3d by C" on the side of my microwave.
It'd be sad though if we started seeing stuff like, "Powered by VB!"
it'd be funny, you be able to tell who the real geeks are when they goto circuit city to buy something...
"null pointers dereferenced here" -sluts of C
Just a wild a$$ guess, but i read this in a book about the BeOS FS. Basically Berkley FFS, you know it as UFS as a FreeBSD user, introduced the concept of cylinder groups to the file system. Since you didn't really say much about your drive other than it was a 10k Seagate drive, I have to make a few guesses. I have similar drives in a drive cage, attached to my Ultra 5 (2x 9GB Seagate Barracudas) and again, I am just guessing, but, these drives probably have multiple platters. You're average IDE drive only has one platter for cost effectiveness... So whats my point? Ext3 (ext2 really) ditched the cylinder groups idea since alot of the newer IDE tech has similar technology built into the controllers to optimize throughput, or so it says in the book. Soooo, using cyilder groups probably tends to give a nicer phyical layout on the disk then assuming the hardware will do it for you like ext3 does.
Maybe thats why your disk appears to thrash more with ext3 than with FFS... Especially during the disk intensive tasks you mentioned.
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Anyone wanna hire a just graduated college guy, just outta school?
I know visio isn't part of MS Office, but it might as well be. I have had to use it almost as much this semester as word, and visio was the only thing that prevented me from doing several large (15-50 page) papers in OOo. If they had a visio workalike, they (I'd) be set.
Why should they?
:)
Debian isn't meant to be a newbie distro. It's a powerful OS, IMO not for the uninitiated. I always suggest RH and more recently fedora. Why? because for almost any package you can get the RPM's for it, and apt-get on redhat works great too. Plus, it's really easy to get your stuff working while not hiding everything from you.
You may want to take this all with a grain of salt though, Since I use Solaris on my workstation, slack on my laptop, and WinXP for games/movies/music in my living room. Also, FreeBSD on one server(2x Xeon), Redhat on another(2x Xeon), and fedora on another(4x P3 Xeon), in production! (yeah, i'm crazy like that
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I have a SPARCstation IPC(25MHz, 40MB ram, 400MB hdd, 10mbit nic), i'd love to get ahold of some more sun hardware, really a 13w3 -> svga adapter would be cool, then i could run X11 on it, that would make it really bad ass... Right now i just use a wyse-60 on it(yea for Mac modem cables)...
Also, I Use my Ultra 5 alot. I have a SCSI card in it though, and a model 711 drive enclosure for it. I need some more of those spud drive sleds for it though so i can throw more storage in the beast(those seagate drives are f'ing loud)... Oh yeah, and i have a DDS3 tape drive for it, this machine is sweet. Oh, and my framebuffer runs in 24bit mode too! It's a bad ass machine.
In fact, we have a Sun Blade 100 here at school to dick around on, and that thing is slow as balls compared to my ultra 5. Sure it has a 500MHz cpu, but the disk is too slow. Maybe my Ultra5 would be too, but those SCSI disks really help out...
Sun hardware is great stuff, the person who wrote that article sounds alot like a whiner to me, the sun keyboard is awsome. I have fairly large hands so it fits me well. Plus it really messes with my friends when they come over to use it since they are all used to PC keyboards. Actually a few of my friends are envious, they want one now too... It is designed to run indefinitely. It's hard to say that about lots of PC hardware.
Now, their software on the other hand, what can you say... it's getting better, but solaris is total pain until you get used to it. pkg-get is nice, but still not as smooth as apt-get, which it's trying to emulate...
I wonder if he's using soundbugs?
My doctor just switched me from Humulin Lente to a new type of insulin called Lantus. It's a Basal insulin that works over a period of ~24 hours. It has no pronounced spike in it's effectiveness, and it seems to be working pretty well... The only problem is you can't mix it wirh regular, but since you take the shot at night before bed, how often do you take regular at that point in time? After 12 years of being insulin dependent, since i was diagnosed at age 9, this is one of the better things i've been able to try out. If this tattoo works as it's claimed, and it can be accurate, then it would work wonders at controlling my bloodsugar, which it desperately needs. I just cant wait to get a tattoo of Beastie on my arm...