Re: "At 10 most slashdotters were still singing soprano and afraid of girl germs (It seems some still are)." < I believe young boys sing "Treble", not "Soprano", which is typically sung by girls, young or old.
-- TheScienceKid (2nd Tenor of four years)
P.S. I forgot to say "That's treble you beowulf cluster of insensitive clods in soviet russia there is no step 3 profit" or somesuch;)
... you insensitive clod;)... and I can't stand BICs or other ballpoint pens, although parker rollerballs are bearable, they're nowhere near as effortless as a good fountain pen... you... BIC user;)
Sorry, nothing much here... awfully sorry to follow up to my own post; I was simply correcting the omission of my presence in freenode's #irix at times.
Asperger's Syndrome is a part of the Autistic 'Spectrum' (which is actually more of a mesh) and was discovered by Hans Asperger to be a seperate condition in its own right.
What we now know as Asperger's Syndrome was previously thought to be a form of PDD-NOS (Pervasive Development Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified).
Hans showed by experiment that a group of children he was working with exposed a particular set of symptoms which were categorically different and it was seen to require its own 'label'.
Asperger's Syndrome often (you said often, frequently... no, I said often only once..</Gilbert and Sullivan - 'Modern Major General'>) involves obsessive behaviour such as the propensity to learn all of the rules of a structure (for example, the grammar of the English language or that of the high-level language, 'C') or to spend all day humming the same tune whilst tapping a spoon against the desk stapler;).
This is usually coupled with an inability to empathise with others which can result in a certain level of social ineptitude, although coping strategies can be put into place (or formed by the person in question) in order to handle common situations, upon which a further framework can be constructed, although I wouldn't refer to it as a "personality fault".
For reference, I am registered disabled as having Asperger's Syndrome and you can find me in freenode's #debian regularly (although I might not be around at the time) under the pseudonym of SquareRt, due to the fact that any nickname with "Root" in is (or, at least, was when I joined #debian originally) automatically banned when joining the room.
You can also find me on irc.nixhelp.org using the nickname SquareRoot in channel #linux. Other freenode channels I've been seen in include #squid, #sparc, #solaris, #debian-boot, #sgi, #wireless, #cisco, #madwifi, #math and #postfix, in no particular order.
I've been using Debian GNU/Linux for at least three years now and I look forward to talking to anyone who didn't die of boredom before reaching the end of this post.
I hope this post is considered on-topic, I've tried my best... I'll keep an eye out for replies for a little while but I may have to go for a spot of supper and some earl grey in a bit.
What you need is Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. You give paths weights such as distance over average speed, given speed limit and traffic patterns... so it might be 4 km divided by 45 km h^-1 on a particular road, giving roughly 0.1 h as a weight, where units are kilometres, kilometres per hour and hours respectively. Dijkstra's SPA works out the path with the least total weight. I worked on something like this as a prototype for a school intranet, using indexed PNGs and a server side app to change colours of paths and rooms (each room and path had a colour palette entry... set to white by default) depending on the selection by the user. It's a pretty simple algorithm, I don't have a copy here nor would I want to be slashdotted if I had a working implementation on my server, so do a google:)
Why not use DBAN ( http://dban.sourceforge.net/ )? That way you won't need to nanny it for very long. All it takes is for you to boot the cd or floppy and hit enter, it will do a secure wipe of all the partitions/disks it can find and you can almost certainly remove the floppy once it's started. It would be relatively trivial to set it to reboot when it's done too. This way, unless your friend has access to a scanning electron microscope ( hope he isn't a slashdot reader... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/0 3/0239230&tid=137&tid=134&tid=14 ) it's going to leave far less trace than wiping it in knoppix with ordinary unix tools.
What you may not have taken the time to observe is that when you run init with a name of telinit or with a process ID other than 1 it runs in 'telinit' mode. In this mode it passes a message via/dev/initctl (a FIFO) to tell the running copy of 'init' (the process responsible for initialising services and managing them thereafter) to perform a specific action (eg shutdown, reboot... etc)
if it's supposed to be some kind of binding agent, I would guess at glycerol (mix it with washing up liquid and water in the right ratio and you have perfect bubble solution:) hehe)
Oops... hit enter in the subject box (ouch). What I was trying to say was that the clipboard and selections systems on X are very simple and work very much like Windows and Mac OS (as jwz points out)... I'm sure there's a focused rant somewhere, but I can't find it now... simply, it's the applications that get it wrong. PRIMARY Selections should not interfere with CLIPBOARD Selections, such that one doesn't notice PRIMARY Selections unless one knows of them in advance (ie. CLIPBOARD should not change just because you highlighted some text)
"genesis@kurta:genesis$ bc bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. 715776/1024 699"
Don't be silly... you won't have to pay a totally bogus (Bill!) SCO fee... that joke is, like, so old now, it, like, literally, figuratively, as old as the, like, hills. I thought most excellent (Ted!) SGI had licensed SVR4 in perpetuity regardless?
My guess would be that it could upset suggestable young children who get a message from the TV telling them "Santa Won't Be Coming To Your House This Christmas!" in between episodes of "Barney Teaches You How To Sit In Front Of A Television For Six Hours A Day" and run crying to their parents.
...as all the other replies to the parent seem to have done. See http://www.libranet.com/features.html and notice that it is 100% Debian compatible (ie based on it.)
It seems like a logical choice as it has a reputation for having consolidated admin tools above and beyond the standard debian tools (which are quite superior in themselves)... although I haven't used it much... the last libranet machine I worked on was upgraded to debian stable 3.0 as that was what I (the only person with any linux admin knowledge in the whole college) was familiar with.
As an aside, our college has [thanks to my assistance and co-operation with the administrators] gone from a school with more holes in the internet filtering than dear Eliza's bucket to being practically hermetically sealed.
Examples of this (and other improvements) over the past two years include...
Time-based squid rules for disabling class access for typing/coursework IT sessions etcetera. Thankyou follow-x-forwarded-for patch for squid:)
Dansguardian in stealth mode producing knowledge reports for each user. Thankyou identd for windows which we renamed to drwho.exe as a scifi reference that has led to our students not noticing the involvement of a certain time lord.
A linux bridge to the internet that automatically DNATs connection attempts to our parent proxy to our local proxy if the source ip is not one of our servers;) This has stopped even the most determined students from accessing our provider [EMBC]'s proxies
A brand new web design that permits members of staff to, among other things..
Post news articles for the front page and department sites
(When completed) control internet access to their classrooms
Upload new designs for their web subsites which automatically get appended and prepended with the official headers and footers, respectively
Create and upload articles/classroom resources that are available in their sites via a simple function call that will be searchable once the site re-structure is decided on.
Locate parts of the building (via red links) on a map where the current location is highlighted in green and the destination in red, although this is currently limited to a subset of the map until I can get a more accurate entire map from the premises department.
which you can see a development mirror of at my apache server on DSL so don't slashdot me;)
Since you don't have any more free slots, why not set up an older machine with a NIC and a few matrox graphics cards (I bet you could fit a GigE card and five triple-head parhelia cards in there.... just need to win the irish lottery now, eh?) and use DMX to distribute your display over 18 (that's your 3 + 15) screens? It'd be a pain scrolling slashdot though;)
So, here's that url...
http://dmx.sourceforge.net/
...but don't answer yet... just look what else you get...
You may jest, but you should bear in mind that if because of what you've said, someone goes and creates a partition for/etc, they could well right royally SCREW up their system.
A lot of the content of/etc needs to be available early in the boot process such as/etc/inittab. If you WERE to do this you would be advised to use an initrd to mount/etc before init launches.
Otherwise you can have the (fun, fun) headache of synchronising a copy of/etc/inittab and/etc/fstab (not to mention the content of/etc/rc.d and/etc/init.d if you don't use the old monolithic inittab style) from the/etc partition to the / partition at shutdown...
I've done something similar on a machine that was tftp booted with a ramdisk image. It's/etc directory was symlinked into an AFS location where the files were stored on the network, along with a copy of boot-critical files and directories placed in AFS's mountpoint for before afsd is run, although it did end up being VERY messy when I mixed it with large amounts of functionality like kerberos support (which meant adding in time synchronisation)... you get the picture.
In conclusion, I'd say that it's not really worth it. After all, your/etc is just about the only thing on / that DOES change.... your/bin,/sbin and/lib shouldn't change much. Also,/usr/var/tmp/boot/opt (if your distribution has it ) and/root (if it's used at all) should all be seperate partitions.
Likewise,/mnt and/dev rarely change. If you run an AFS server, vicepa, vicepb.... etc until viceiv MUST be partitions in their own right.
Slashdot Mirror
Blockquoteth the poster..
Sam 'the spam' Osbourne perhaps?
Re: "At 10 most slashdotters were still singing soprano and afraid of girl germs (It seems some still are)." < I believe young boys sing "Treble", not "Soprano", which is typically sung by girls, young or old.
;)
-- TheScienceKid (2nd Tenor of four years)
P.S. I forgot to say "That's treble you beowulf cluster of insensitive clods in soviet russia there is no step 3 profit" or somesuch
Argos.co.uk, the site of a MAJOR chain store in the UK used to deny access to their site if you weren't using IE.
Sarge, aka Debian 3.1, is the codename of the next release... and like the other child poster said, they're named after characters in Toy Story.
For example, the development branch is called Sid, because Sid was the kid next door who broke the toys.
If you look at the Debian Archive you'll see old distributions included bo, buzz, hamm, rex and slink.
Ciao,
TSK (611371).
... you insensitive clod ;)... and I can't stand BICs or other ballpoint pens, although parker rollerballs are bearable, they're nowhere near as effortless as a good fountain pen... you... BIC user ;)
Ciao,
611371.
Sorry, nothing much here... awfully sorry to follow up to my own post; I was simply correcting the omission of my presence in freenode's #irix at times.
Ciao.
Asperger's Syndrome is a part of the Autistic 'Spectrum' (which is actually more of a mesh) and was discovered by Hans Asperger to be a seperate condition in its own right.
;).
What we now know as Asperger's Syndrome was previously thought to be a form of PDD-NOS (Pervasive Development Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified).
Hans showed by experiment that a group of children he was working with exposed a particular set of symptoms which were categorically different and it was seen to require its own 'label'.
Asperger's Syndrome often (you said often, frequently... no, I said often only once..</Gilbert and Sullivan - 'Modern Major General'>) involves obsessive behaviour such as the propensity to learn all of the rules of a structure (for example, the grammar of the English language or that of the high-level language, 'C') or to spend all day humming the same tune whilst tapping a spoon against the desk stapler
This is usually coupled with an inability to empathise with others which can result in a certain level of social ineptitude, although coping strategies can be put into place (or formed by the person in question) in order to handle common situations, upon which a further framework can be constructed, although I wouldn't refer to it as a "personality fault".
For reference, I am registered disabled as having Asperger's Syndrome and you can find me in freenode's #debian regularly (although I might not be around at the time) under the pseudonym of SquareRt, due to the fact that any nickname with "Root" in is (or, at least, was when I joined #debian originally) automatically banned when joining the room.
You can also find me on irc.nixhelp.org using the nickname SquareRoot in channel #linux. Other freenode channels I've been seen in include #squid, #sparc, #solaris, #debian-boot, #sgi, #wireless, #cisco, #madwifi, #math and #postfix, in no particular order.
I've been using Debian GNU/Linux for at least three years now and I look forward to talking to anyone who didn't die of boredom before reaching the end of this post.
I hope this post is considered on-topic, I've tried my best... I'll keep an eye out for replies for a little while but I may have to go for a spot of supper and some earl grey in a bit.
Regards,
TheScienceKid (611371).
What you need is Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. :)
You give paths weights such as distance over average speed, given speed limit and traffic patterns... so it might be 4 km divided by 45 km h^-1 on a particular road, giving roughly 0.1 h as a weight, where units are kilometres, kilometres per hour and hours respectively.
Dijkstra's SPA works out the path with the least total weight. I worked on something like this as a prototype for a school intranet, using indexed PNGs and a server side app to change colours of paths and rooms (each room and path had a colour palette entry... set to white by default) depending on the selection by the user.
It's a pretty simple algorithm, I don't have a copy here nor would I want to be slashdotted if I had a working implementation on my server, so do a google
Not to be overly pedantic, but the subject of this discussion is Internet Televison Content Coming of Age... should it not be Televis_I_on?
Regards,
L. Ed. C.
(Slashdot ID TheScienceKid)
Why not use DBAN ( http://dban.sourceforge.net/ )? That way you won't need to nanny it for very long.0 3/0239230&tid=137&tid=134&tid=14 ) it's going to leave far less trace than wiping it in knoppix with ordinary unix tools.
All it takes is for you to boot the cd or floppy and hit enter, it will do a secure wipe of all the partitions/disks it can find and you can almost certainly remove the floppy once it's started.
It would be relatively trivial to set it to reboot when it's done too.
This way, unless your friend has access to a scanning electron microscope ( hope he isn't a slashdot reader... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/
What you may not have taken the time to observe is that when you run init with a name of telinit or with a process ID other than 1 it runs in 'telinit' mode. In this mode it passes a message via /dev/initctl (a FIFO) to tell the running copy of 'init' (the process responsible for initialising services and managing them thereafter) to perform a specific action (eg shutdown, reboot... etc)
if it's supposed to be some kind of binding agent, I would guess at glycerol (mix it with washing up liquid and water in the right ratio and you have perfect bubble solution :) hehe)
...oh and I'm gonna need you to come in on sunday as well to clear up the backlog. Mmmkay?
Oops... hit enter in the subject box (ouch). What I was trying to say was that the clipboard and selections systems on X are very simple and work very much like Windows and Mac OS (as jwz points out)... I'm sure there's a focused rant somewhere, but I can't find it now... simply, it's the applications that get it wrong. PRIMARY Selections should not interfere with CLIPBOARD Selections, such that one doesn't notice PRIMARY Selections unless one knows of them in advance (ie. CLIPBOARD should not change just because you highlighted some text)
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
...belong to us" ?
...a part of dtrace? My goodness... they only just got that and now you say they're losing it?
You can always rant about Duke Nukem Forever
"genesis@kurta:genesis$ bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
715776/1024
699"
Don't be silly... you won't have to pay a totally bogus (Bill!) SCO fee... that joke is, like, so old now, it, like, literally, figuratively, as old as the, like, hills. I thought most excellent (Ted!) SGI had licensed SVR4 in perpetuity regardless?
My guess would be that it could upset suggestable young children who get a message from the TV telling them "Santa Won't Be Coming To Your House This Christmas!" in between episodes of "Barney Teaches You How To Sit In Front Of A Television For Six Hours A Day" and run crying to their parents.
Just a thought.
...as all the other replies to the parent seem to have done. See http://www.libranet.com/features.html and notice that it is 100% Debian compatible (ie based on it.)
It seems like a logical choice as it has a reputation for having consolidated admin tools above and beyond the standard debian tools (which are quite superior in themselves)... although I haven't used it much... the last libranet machine I worked on was upgraded to debian stable 3.0 as that was what I (the only person with any linux admin knowledge in the whole college) was familiar with.
As an aside, our college has [thanks to my assistance and co-operation with the administrators] gone from a school with more holes in the internet filtering than dear Eliza's bucket to being practically hermetically sealed.
Examples of this (and other improvements) over the past two years include...
Thankyou follow-x-forwarded-for patch for squid
Thankyou identd for windows which we renamed to drwho.exe as a scifi reference that has led to our students not noticing the involvement of a certain time lord.
This has stopped even the most determined students from accessing our provider [EMBC]'s proxies
- Post news articles for the front page and department sites
- (When completed) control internet access to their classrooms
- Upload new designs for their web subsites which automatically get appended and prepended with the official headers and footers, respectively
- Create and upload articles/classroom resources that are available in their sites via a simple function call that will be searchable once the site re-structure is decided on.
- Locate parts of the building (via red links) on a map where the current location is highlighted in green and the destination in red, although this is currently limited to a subset of the map until I can get a more accurate entire map from the premises department.
which you can see a development mirror of at my apache server on DSL so don't slashdot meRegards,
The Science Kid
The three homonyms you may find useful to remember...
** cite
** sight
and
** site
see http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html#cite
Take a butchers hook (look) at http://www.computerhope.com/fchlp.htm ... contains switch info etcetera
Since you don't have any more free slots, why not set up an older machine with a NIC and a few matrox graphics cards (I bet you could fit a GigE card and five triple-head parhelia cards in there.... just need to win the irish lottery now, eh?) and use DMX to distribute your display over 18 (that's your 3 + 15) screens? It'd be a pain scrolling slashdot though ;)
So, here's that url...
http://dmx.sourceforge.net/
Dynamic MAXSCREENS
Regards,
TheScienceKid
You may jest, but you should bear in mind that if because of what you've said, someone goes and creates a partition for /etc, they could well right royally SCREW up their system.
A lot of the content of /etc needs to be available early in the boot process such as /etc/inittab. If you WERE to do this you would be advised to use an initrd to mount /etc before init launches.
Otherwise you can have the (fun, fun) headache of synchronising a copy of /etc/inittab and /etc/fstab (not to mention the content of /etc/rc.d and /etc/init.d if you don't use the old monolithic inittab style) from the /etc partition to the / partition at shutdown...
I've done something similar on a machine that was tftp booted with a ramdisk image. It's /etc directory was symlinked into an AFS location where the files were stored on the network, along with a copy of boot-critical files and directories placed in AFS's mountpoint for before afsd is run, although it did end up being VERY messy when I mixed it with large amounts of functionality like kerberos support (which meant adding in time synchronisation)... you get the picture.
In conclusion, I'd say that it's not really worth it. After all, your /etc is just about the only thing on / that DOES change.... your /bin, /sbin and /lib shouldn't change much. Also, /usr /var /tmp /boot /opt (if your distribution has it ) and /root (if it's used at all) should all be seperate partitions.
Likewise, /mnt and /dev rarely change. If you run an AFS server, vicepa, vicepb.... etc until viceiv MUST be partitions in their own right.