Main Entry: an*a*log Pronunciation: 'a-n&l-"og, -"äg
Function: adjective
Date: 1948
1 : of, relating to, or being an analogue 2 a : of, relating to, or being a mechanism in which data is represented by continuously variable physical quantities b : of or relating to an analog computer c : being a timepiece having hour and minute hands
Have you ever used CUPS? It is the easiest Linux print system I have ever set up. No more messing with/etc/printcap. It's got a beautiful web-based GUI and supports IPP.
Meanwhile, will somebody please move "strcat", "sprintf", etc. to a "deprecated" library? If you find any of the old unchecked UNIX string primitives in open-source code, rewrite them using the safe versions.
You'll only be able to pry strcat from my cold, dead hands. Don't start taking stuff away from competent programmers just because some people don't know how to use it.
Why are you md5summing device nodes? The contents of them are usually always different.
Now, if someone replaces/dev/null with a file to capture all the program "junk", or replacing/dev/random with a file of known (unrandom) binary data, that would be interesting.
But md5sums won't help.
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This is a far better performance than, for example, NVidia, whose drivers are well-known for breaking every few kernel releases because of their binary-only nature.
Stop spreading your FUD here. This claim is totally unsubstantiated. I've been using the nVidia driver with the latest stable kernels for a long time now with no problems.
> I don't find anything deceptive in the ads though.
How about this: "Your Computer is Currently Broadcasting An Internet IP Address. With This Address, Someone Can Immediately Begin Attacking Your Computer."
This is just a blatant lie. Normal PC's don't broadcast anything (except ARP & DHCP). There is a HUGE difference between broadcast and unicast operation. Anyway, if you were broadcasting packets, it wouldn't make it off the local subnet.
If they mean "broadcasting" as in "making public" then it would be true but then the only way around that is a proxy.
You must be using an outdated man-pages package. I'm running slackware-current and the manpage is there.
The function mmap2 operates in exactly the same way as mmap(2), except that the final argument specifies the offset into the file in units of the system page size (instead of bytes).
What's the fun though? There's nothing really new about this (except maybe getting hardware to work). To me, real fun would be a completely new OS where you can learn something by poking around (like QNX).
See this paper. Modern CD-ROM drives currently have low-level access to the CD data. The hardest part is finding a CD-ROM drive that doesn't have buggy firmware.
To all you people saying "I wish I had his address," RTFA.
>Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
So is FreeBSD and it's much better for servers IMHO. It's kind of annoying that Linux gets all the press. Management types will probably never hear of FreeBSD even though it may be a superior solution for some applications.
When I first saw the picture of the DVD cover, I thought the actual length of the DVD content was 8 hours. It says "8 hour DVD" and nothing about expiring. The actual length of the content is 10 minutes.
They had better find a better way to advertise these things to avoid confusion.
I beg to differ. I use TWM on my (modern) laptop. It's guaranteed to be installed on any Unix machine so I can get a consistent environment if I need to.
I tried the Familiar distro on an ipaq once and the usability was horrible. The package-install-over-wireless was nice but there weren't really any good packages to install. I tried QPE and it occasionally crashed. X worked but there were no usable PDA-type apps.
PalmOS has definately got Linux beat in the PDA arena.
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Not pointless. It's saved in a static variable so glGetString and strcmp are only called once, even if the function is called a million times.
Nope:
Main Entry: an*a*log
Pronunciation: 'a-n&l-"og, -"äg
Function: adjective
Date: 1948
1 : of, relating to, or being an analogue
2 a : of, relating to, or being a mechanism in which data is represented by continuously variable physical quantities
b : of or relating to an analog computer
c : being a timepiece having hour and minute hands
They tested with Slackware 1.2? They might want to try a version released within the past 5 years though. Perhaps version 8.1.
Nope, you're all wrong. It uses the CRIS architecture. See here for the architectural description.
Printing can be a huge problem in the unix world.
/etc/printcap. It's got a beautiful web-based GUI and supports IPP.
Have you ever used CUPS? It is the easiest Linux print system I have ever set up. No more messing with
Why not FreeBSD? Seriously. Did you ever consider using FreeBSD or another BSD on any of your servers?
Meanwhile, will somebody please move "strcat", "sprintf", etc. to a "deprecated" library? If you find any of the old unchecked UNIX string primitives in open-source code, rewrite them using the safe versions.
You'll only be able to pry strcat from my cold, dead hands. Don't start taking stuff away from competent programmers just because some people don't know how to use it.
I use strcat and I love it.
Don't worry about it for now. 2.6 won't be ready for distros for at least another year. They still need to:
* Have 20 2.4.99-pre kernels
* Replace the entire VM around 2.6.10
* Bork the entire VFS around 2.6.15
So you're good until next Xmas.
Why bother with an MMU when there's no disk to swap to, and the failure of a user program would mean the failure of the whole system?
Fault tolerance perhaps? Instead of having to locally hit a reset button, someone can remotely restart the system.
Why are you md5summing device nodes? The contents of them are usually always different.
/dev/null with a file to capture all the program "junk", or replacing /dev/random with a file of known (unrandom) binary data, that would be interesting.
Now, if someone replaces
But md5sums won't help.
This is a far better performance than, for example, NVidia, whose drivers are well-known for breaking every few kernel releases because of their binary-only nature.
Stop spreading your FUD here. This claim is totally unsubstantiated. I've been using the nVidia driver with the latest stable kernels for a long time now with no problems.
> I don't find anything deceptive in the ads though.
How about this:
"Your Computer is Currently Broadcasting An Internet IP Address. With This Address, Someone Can Immediately Begin Attacking Your Computer."
This is just a blatant lie. Normal PC's don't broadcast anything (except ARP & DHCP). There is a HUGE difference between broadcast and unicast operation. Anyway, if you were broadcasting packets, it wouldn't make it off the local subnet.
If they mean "broadcasting" as in "making public" then it would be true but then the only way around that is a proxy.
You must be using an outdated man-pages package. I'm running slackware-current and the manpage is there.
The function mmap2 operates in exactly the same way as mmap(2), except that the final argument specifies the offset into the file in units of the system page size (instead of bytes).
It just allows mmapping of > 2^32 bytes.
What's the fun though? There's nothing really new about this (except maybe getting hardware to work). To me, real fun would be a completely new OS where you can learn something by poking around (like QNX).
See this paper. Modern CD-ROM drives currently have low-level access to the CD data. The hardest part is finding a CD-ROM drive that doesn't have buggy firmware.
...which package it was? I would have sprung for the PooPoo Grande.
To all you people saying "I wish I had his address," RTFA.
>Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
The author tells where to get the address.
> I imagine I'd have a hard time selling pills to enlarge your penis or free xxx pornsite passwords door to door.
RTFA! If you read the article, you'd know that he doesn't do any of those adverts.
Of course. Daily backups to /dev/null. It's much faster that way.
Another useful tip from the BOfH.
> Basically someone has said that Linux is free
So is FreeBSD and it's much better for servers IMHO. It's kind of annoying that Linux gets all the press. Management types will probably never hear of FreeBSD even though it may be a superior solution for some applications.
When I first saw the picture of the DVD cover, I thought the actual length of the DVD content was 8 hours. It says "8 hour DVD" and nothing about expiring. The actual length of the content is 10 minutes.
They had better find a better way to advertise these things to avoid confusion.
> unlike TWM
I beg to differ. I use TWM on my (modern) laptop. It's guaranteed to be installed on any Unix machine so I can get a consistent environment if I need to.
Actually you should do:
apt-get remove --purge emacs
That should free up a couple gigs.
I tried the Familiar distro on an ipaq once and the usability was horrible. The package-install-over-wireless was nice but there weren't really any good packages to install. I tried QPE and it occasionally crashed. X worked but there were no usable PDA-type apps.
PalmOS has definately got Linux beat in the PDA arena.
> put links on your web pages based on what the web page is about
Blasphemy! That makes too much sense for slashdot.