I saw on Kernel Traffic that there were some freaky filesystem corruption problems in the 2.2.x series... and I think I may have experienced this. Anyone know if this has been nailed down yet? ----
While the sensors are cool, and I think Phil et. al. have done a great job, I'd probably put the I2C modules you guys did right up there as well - it seems to have emerged as the de facto I2C stack. The bttv driver is porting over to it.... ----
You flatter yourselves to the point of selfdeceptive conceipt. CNN is not scanning Slashdot for article leads. Trust me on this one.
Who's talking about CNN? The question was asked - was it a Windows or a Linux hack originally? I attempted to answer that question. I must confess that I have NO idea why you posted that comment.
Up from $6-$8 per share to... *gasp* $8.25! These guys just OOZE confidence!
Hrm. The only thing that makes me feel better is that a quick check of techstocks.com, fool.com, and ragingbull.com shows that nobody has even started any message boards for LINX yet. For those of you that frequent these boards, do your best to educate. The link above (http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-11/l w-11-linuxone.html) is a great place to start.
People whine about Red Hat going corporate, and Corel GPL violations, which is fine. Let's keep them honest. But if you really want to defend Linux's integrity as it enters the corporate world, debunking LinuxOne is probably a great place to start. ----
First, sorry for my poor spelling of "independent":)
here is more information on the raid, and a snippet:
The search warrant was served by a squad of eight French policemen accompanied by a locksmith. They had instructions to copy all papers with the word "Leonardo" on them. More absurdly, they had instructions to log into the Internet from my mother's home, presumably to show that the Leonardo web sites could be accessed from this location. They left with copies of papers dating back to the 1960s.
It's not an independant source, but the link to Leonardo Online tells their side of the story... nothing about the police raid except in the headline. ----
A stock split doesn't make anybody any money. If you had $1000 of RHAT immediately pre-split, you'll have $1000 of RHAT immediately post-split.
Kind of like the guy who went in to buy a pizza, and they asked if he wanted it cut into 8 pieces or 6 pieces. He said "better make it 6, I could never eat 8 pieces..." ----
If you want to point to outside certification, take a look at http://www.redhat.com/legal/y2k_statement.html
In it, they say:
We are pleased to disclose that the core system components of Red Hat Linux, versions 5.2 and 6.0, on Intel architecture have been independently certified as Year 2000 compliant.
and they define "core" as:
1.Commands
after at hwclock convdate crontab date ftpshut ls rdate sleep touch usradd hwclock telnet ftp
2.Daemons
httpd ftpd telnetd inted atd crond
3.libc
strptime asctime gmtime mktime int time_t struct tm
Not exactly the entire distribution... but at least most of the time-related functions... ----
You could say the same thing about any open source project when it was first getting off the ground.
A free unix? Don't kid yourself, buddy. A free desktop? It'll never happen. Free SMB networking? No way, too hard.
It's ludicrous to point at something that's under development, complain about it's shortcomings, then extrapolate that "it'll never happen."
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Hrm, perhaps... although it's possible that if um... drips don't go in the normal (down) direction, you could be in for a surprise. Or new (previously impossible) positions that make things like diaphragms not work so well. Or the weightless shape of the uterus making an IUD ineffective... I'm not completely convinced. Hormonal contraceptives would probably be ok.
And yeah, morning-after pills would probably be helpful, but still...
A chemically induced abortion would remain an option, and I'm sure no one would ever know about it... but I still think that would be a tragic/traumatic experience.
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Fertilization isn't necessarily the point :)
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At least not on a 2.5 year Mars mission. I think you'd want to be pretty damn sure that you didn't wind up pregnant on a 2.5 year space mission... in fact, I wonder if they'd require sterilization beforehand. I mean... nobody knows how well contraceptives would work in zero-gravity, and a pregnancy could be disastrous and/or tragic...
Ok, getting OFF topic now... what happens in meta moderation when someone sees the "+1 insightful" (or whatever it was) on this one-liner, and then marks THAT "unfair?" It'd be nice to be able to see the sequence of moderation. I suppose this should move over to j a w a d 's thread. ----
Rob - god, I thought I'd never advocate this, but perhaps it's time to start blocking subnets. Look at the comments on this article.... this is a very interesting article, but it's essentially been hit with a denial of service attack.
I don't know if you keep information on the IPs of posters (I guess I hope you don't) but criminy - block that Natalie Portman bastard.
This is no different than the ORBS anti-spam system. It's not censorship, it's excercising control over YOUR system. If it's abused this pathetically, I think it's time to take control.
Perhaps blocking a subnet is extreme. But can you continue to ignore this....?
Looking at that page, the way to get "platinum" status is to make 75 trades (that's $1500 in commissions) in 3 months. Then you get to be "platinum" for the next three months, and get a better shot at IPOs.
This is from the same people who say they're looking for people to buy and hold the IPO shares for a long time.
SO - make an average of over 1 trade per day for three months, then you're eligible for an IPO. Yeah, they're looking for long-term stock holders, alright... ----
Slashdot Mirror
Checklist posted earlier was for 2.3.x -> 2.4
:)
This article was about the 2.2.14 release.
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I saw on Kernel Traffic that there were some freaky filesystem corruption problems in the 2.2.x series... and I think I may have experienced this. Anyone know if this has been nailed down yet?
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Take a look at it here...
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Well, "org" is NOT only for nonprofits... but I agree that "com" is a more appropriate TLD for Slashdot at this point.
:)
Hey, if sunsite can change, I think we'll survive a Slashdot move, as well.
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It's pretty, intuitive, and it does everything, and does it well. Nuff said.
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While the sensors are cool, and I think Phil et. al. have done a great job, I'd probably put the I2C modules you guys did right up there as well - it seems to have emerged as the de facto I2C stack. The bttv driver is porting over to it....
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Who's talking about CNN? The question was asked - was it a Windows or a Linux hack originally? I attempted to answer that question. I must confess that I have NO idea why you posted that comment.
(Did you get a receit with that conceipt?)
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The original program was written for Windows. See this message. For the whole chronology, including how it got to Linux, take a look here .
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Uh huh. And the original question was clearly asking about linuxone.COM (wondering if there was any connection, I assume).
Sheesh indeed!
I wonder if the current owner of linuxone.com would be willing to put up a few quicky links to the various articles exposing LinuxOne?
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Up from $6-$8 per share to... *gasp* $8.25! These guys just OOZE confidence!
l w-11-linuxone.html) is a great place to start.
Hrm. The only thing that makes me feel better is that a quick check of techstocks.com, fool.com, and ragingbull.com shows that nobody has even started any message boards for LINX yet. For those of you that frequent these boards, do your best to educate. The link above (http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-11/
People whine about Red Hat going corporate, and Corel GPL violations, which is fine. Let's keep them honest. But if you really want to defend Linux's integrity as it enters the corporate world, debunking LinuxOne is probably a great place to start.
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here is more information on the raid, and a snippet:
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It's not an independant source, but the link to Leonardo Online tells their side of the story... nothing about the police raid except in the headline.
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But now I see what you're talking about Thanks for the hint, AC.
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Yes, that was nitpicky. :)
:)
Perhaps you pronounce things completely differently than I do, but to me...
buh ~= the "a" in ago, and
zahr (if it were a word) would be pronounced exactly like the first part of "arm" with a "z" in front of it.
However, I'm not a particularly cunning linguist, so feel free to tear that apart, too.
(Actually, Webster's isn't much help, because their example for how to pronounce the sound \a:\ when it's spelled "aa" is the word... "bazaar")
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Webster's collegiate says... oh heck, I can't make backwards upside down "e" things...
:)
b(e-upsidedown)-'z(a-with-umlaut)r
sort of like "buh-ZAHR" I think.
Or maybe it's guh-NOME.
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[Guess who feels stupid now!!!]
:-)
I give up... you?
A stock split doesn't make anybody any money. If you had $1000 of RHAT immediately pre-split, you'll have $1000 of RHAT immediately post-split.
Kind of like the guy who went in to buy a pizza, and they asked if he wanted it cut into 8 pieces or 6 pieces. He said "better make it 6, I could never eat 8 pieces..."
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If you want to point to outside certification, take a look at http://www.redhat.com/legal/y2k_statement.html
In it, they say:
We are pleased to disclose that the core system components of Red Hat Linux, versions 5.2 and 6.0, on Intel architecture have been independently certified as Year 2000 compliant.
and they define "core" as:
1.Commands
after
at
hwclock
convdate
crontab
date
ftpshut
ls
rdate
sleep
touch
usradd
hwclock
telnet
ftp
2.Daemons
httpd
ftpd
telnetd
inted
atd
crond
3.libc
strptime
asctime
gmtime
mktime
int time_t
struct tm
Not exactly the entire distribution... but at least most of the time-related functions...
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You could say the same thing about any open source project when it was first getting off the ground.
A free unix? Don't kid yourself, buddy.
A free desktop? It'll never happen.
Free SMB networking? No way, too hard.
It's ludicrous to point at something that's under development, complain about it's shortcomings, then extrapolate that "it'll never happen."
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Hrm, perhaps... although it's possible that if um... drips don't go in the normal (down) direction, you could be in for a surprise. Or new (previously impossible) positions that make things like diaphragms not work so well. Or the weightless shape of the uterus making an IUD ineffective... I'm not completely convinced. Hormonal contraceptives would probably be ok.
:)
And yeah, morning-after pills would probably be helpful, but still...
A chemically induced abortion would remain an option, and I'm sure no one would ever know about it... but I still think that would be a tragic/traumatic experience.
So there.
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At least not on a 2.5 year Mars mission. I think you'd want to be pretty damn sure that you didn't wind up pregnant on a 2.5 year space mission... in fact, I wonder if they'd require sterilization beforehand. I mean... nobody knows how well contraceptives would work in zero-gravity, and a pregnancy could be disastrous and/or tragic...
Surely they've contemplated that scenario?
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Ok, getting OFF topic now...
what happens in meta moderation when someone sees the "+1 insightful" (or whatever it was) on this one-liner, and then marks THAT "unfair?" It'd be nice to be able to see the sequence of moderation. I suppose this should move over to j a w a d 's thread.
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Oh, that's good. That way I'll still be able to see the 'Natalie P0rtman' categories. :/
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Come on over here and we can talk at length. :)
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I don't know if you keep information on the IPs of posters (I guess I hope you don't) but criminy - block that Natalie Portman bastard.
This is no different than the ORBS anti-spam system. It's not censorship, it's excercising control over YOUR system. If it's abused this pathetically, I think it's time to take control.
Perhaps blocking a subnet is extreme. But can you continue to ignore this....?
Perhaps this could be discussed over here
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Looking at that page, the way to get "platinum" status is to make 75 trades (that's $1500 in commissions) in 3 months. Then you get to be "platinum" for the next three months, and get a better shot at IPOs.
This is from the same people who say they're looking for people to buy and hold the IPO shares for a long time.
SO - make an average of over 1 trade per day for three months, then you're eligible for an IPO. Yeah, they're looking for long-term stock holders, alright...
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