"If "power flickers" happen that often to you, maybe you should have the electrical wiring in you home examined. Or maybe, with your grid, you need an UPS?"
You genuinely don't have personal systems get improper shutdowns a couple times a month? It really isn't that often. And I definitely don't need to buy a UPS to make up for an unstable fs. FAT was hardly indestructable and it wasn't as fast as ext2 imho but it could still handle a few improper shutdowns a week for a year or two without issue. Longer than windows could go before bitrotting in any case.
"What a load of rubbish! Linux was perfectly usable and stable even before ext3 came around, and perfectly fit to be used as a mission critical server! (which many companies actually did!)"
A mission critical server is a completely different scenerio and I deployed no shortage of them during the ext2 period. A mission critical server has redundant power supplies, each plugged to a different circuit and UPS buffered and backed with at least one of those circuits backed by a diesel generator. If you had four or five improper shutdowns during the life of a server something was wrong.
"The reason why ext3 was eventually needed is because disks became big enough that fsck was starting to take unreasonably long times (in the rare event of a crash), and so something more efficient was needed."
And because fsck failed to recover the ext2 filesystem about 20% of the time.
Sure I've got UPS's. They aren't for my desktops and old laptops though.
"Ah rubbish. All PC OS's from the 90s when linux started had filesystems you wouldn't trust a business with"
Nonsense the only other PC OS worth mentioning was Windows and it had FAT32. Granted FAT didn't have any fancy features and you'd have to wait for a scandisk but you could power the system off unsafely every day for a year without doing any significant damage.
EXT2 was faster than FAT32 but forget my business. I couldn't trust my disposable personal system to it. Even I can't afford to waste time reloading an OS every few days. Especially one that required as much tinkering as 90's desktop linux.
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"I'd say too conservative, if they were only updating the third digit every few months."
I beg to differ. This is the kernel not some userland app or even a daemon. Stable releases are supposed to be reliable enough to trust with billions of dollars in data flow and human life support systems on the day of release.
Actually if I have any complaint about Linux its the fact that most of your assistance comes from google (the same with any os/complex hardware) and there is so much outdated documentation out there.
Someone whose card wasn't detected might well find information telling them how to play with those obsolete technologies. You might even still be able to install some of the stuff it tells you to. Actually with old documentation it likely tells you download some tarball onto your binary distro and./configure, make, make install it! I know far too many people who turn perfectly good systems into nasty unworkable crap that way. The sad thing is they are usually older *nix hackers who learned things this way before repos existed and were fairly complete.
Seriously kids install binaries for your distro. Failing that, alter distro source rpms to build rpms that are as you need them. Failing that use an rpm explicitly marked as arch independent and alter it and any dependencies to match their labels on your distro (yum localinstall NOT rpm -i). Failing that, build an rpm that does so yourself. Replace all that with debs where appropriate in deb land. If you have a guide that starts by telling you to download a tarball and install it then try getting the rpm and following from there if you can't find one specific to your distro.
"Journaling makes sense for servers; not so much for personal boxes."
I'm sorry my friend but you must be insane. I don't go uncleanly powering off my boxes intentionally but it still happens a couple times over the course of a month for various reasons (power flickers and the like). In my experience ext2 will fsck its way back to functionality 4 or 5 times tops before it won't fix or the data lost in the fixing is something critical.
Linux was a fun toy and nothing more before ext3 because ext2 is the most destructible filesystem on earth. Don't get me wrong, I played with that toy but that is all it was.
That is great in a world where the senate does its job and approves any candidate who is not obviously unqualified that the Presidents appoints to a position.
Here in the real world the senate twists it's token approval authority to hijack the appointment process and deny perfectly qualified candidates. Or in this case to not only deny candidates but castrate an entire government agency.
I wasn't alive during the 50's, 60's, and 70's and I was under 10 when 1990 hit. My teens were during the 90's. If anything my taste for 90's music should be starting to get dated.
There is still good new music coming out. Even in the genre's I mentioned as having less quality music. It's the signal-to-noise ratio that has dropped.
"Why wasn't the traditional recording industry killed many decades ago then?"
The music didn't used to be all shit. The music of the 50's, 60's, and 70's was damn good. The 80's was in decline but still had quite a bit of quality music. The 90's was in serious decline with pretty much all the good music produced by bands that became popular in those previous decades. It's only gotten worse from there.
Rap, Gangsta, and Hip-hop are all expression of commercialization. There aren't many examples of real music hidden in these genre. If there is any depth its just tossed in there to appeal to kids who want to pretend there is depth to their lifestyle. Most of it lacks even that, its just some random computer tuned vocals on top of some sort of beat that you can dance to.
"without ever dealing with a corporation that's selective, expensive, and difficult to work with"
Feeling the traditional recording entities are selective, expensive, and difficult to work with is probably what he meant by "fed up with the state of music" most people still think of the state of music via the recording dinosaurs as "the state of music."
The whole social media and file sharing thing is the real reason the recording industry fights piracy so hard. They don't want to lose control of distribution.
People who love music are going to make music regardless. Yes they usually take artist stance to get laid, but that's the reason anyone takes up any stance. People can and do make music every day knowing they have no real chance of becoming a rockstar or seeing rockstar cash and they will continue to do so if there is no recording industry.
He means mankind. Mankind created music before the recording industry and will do so after. Those who are only in it for the money make shit commercialized crap music with no soul anyway.
People signing with labels is just evidence that people will take money (regardless of whether they would have created music without it or not) when offered and that the recording industry owns lots and lots of monopoly and political power. For instance, here in the US if you want to stream your own music via online radio you have to pay per play royalties to the big studios... who have no claim on said music.
The reason the music industry fights file sharing so hard isn't because it costs them money, its because it erodes their control of distribution.
"Fantasy" themes are generally based on mythical creatures and legends that stem from the UK. Hell even today you can't scan through 8hrs of BBC without finding something that is based on Robin Hood, Arthur/Merlin, Druids, or Sherlock Holmes so apparently the UK associates the UK with these themes as well. They even continue to add to it, the latest popular addition being Harry Potter. Again tying sorcery with the UK.
Definitely not cost effective at the residential level but it should be more cost effective in a large installation like Google's. But this isn't a cost saving measure at the residential level its a green feature.
It's actually a hell of a lot more important a green feature than any carbon reduction. In the US we've invested heavily in the water supply but the fresh water supply is rapidly depleting.
Or the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry could just buy anti-aircraft artillery and mount it on a ship flying no flag or flying a flag of convenience. It's in international waters so they can shot them down for the price of bullets rather than missiles and with no repercussion.
Presumably my example is repeatable and not merely anecdotal since it should be the same experience found by anyone who creates an account and doesn't use it.
I hypothesized elsewhere that the difference might be the training that you've done where I've done none. It doesn't explain how spammers got my never used account information unless yahoo account lists have been compromised at some point.
By volatile substances I assume you mean all substances. A phase change from liquid to a gas requires heat energy (taken from anything close by and therefore cooling it) and a change from gas to liquid releases energy (warming anything near by).
The same concept is used in your typical AC system but the difference is that Google trades coolant efficiency for thermal efficiency. Essentially they throw away the water where your AC system changes it back to liquid and heat syncs that to an air cooled system, both the additional phase change and heat sync/air cool system cause additional losses in thermal efficiency.
"You can also use a source-separating toilet [holon.se] separating the urine and the fecal matter. The urine is rich in nutrients for plant life."
That might help offset the PH imbalance caused by the high soap content in shower water. Maybe when mixed with the shower water the concentration is dilute but generally speaking urine is very concentrated nitrogen fertilizer and doesn't contain the balanced nutrient profile that is required for a plant to support the rapid vegetative growth that will be caused by the nitrogen.
Grey water is going to be high in soap and detergent so doesn't it slowly alter the PH of the soil, resulting in nutrient lockout and killing some of your plants slowly?
My greater concern is the massive volume of spam coming in given the fact that I've never used the address. It seems like yahoo's account list must have been compromised.
Baffling, it really is. I have a yahoo account I don't use for anything, not spam crap, not anything. It gets several hundred spam a day that fly past the filter.
"The point is that the documentation for Alexander the Great is considered reliable"
Because it is corroborated by physical evidence and there isn't especial reason to question its validity. You can't dismiss the corroborating physical evidence. One piece of physical evidence trumps a hundred writings from the most credible of historical authors. With written works you can hypothesize with physical evidence you can theorize.
"The earliest document we have concerning Jesus was written less than 20 years after his death"
If you are saying 20 years you could only be referring to the christian interpolations into the works of Josephus. The earliest works concerning Jesus (as a man or otherwise) are Biblical. Refer to the earliest known fragments section of the table linked below. The supposed "dates determined by scholars" are speculation.
"This does not make the accounts of his life accurate, but it makes it improbable that he never lived."
All it makes probable is that someone took accounts of the deity Mithra and combined them with their own Jewish legends to invent a messiah. Rather than claiming to be that person they claimed to have seen a vision of him or met someone who met someone who met him years ago. That is far easier than actually claiming to be a deity with powers yourself and just as effective to build a cult around.
There is more evidence that a man named Hercules once lived than jesus.
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"If "power flickers" happen that often to you, maybe you should have the electrical wiring in you home examined. Or maybe, with your grid, you need an UPS?"
You genuinely don't have personal systems get improper shutdowns a couple times a month? It really isn't that often. And I definitely don't need to buy a UPS to make up for an unstable fs. FAT was hardly indestructable and it wasn't as fast as ext2 imho but it could still handle a few improper shutdowns a week for a year or two without issue. Longer than windows could go before bitrotting in any case.
"What a load of rubbish! Linux was perfectly usable and stable even before ext3 came around, and perfectly fit to be used as a mission critical server! (which many companies actually did!)"
A mission critical server is a completely different scenerio and I deployed no shortage of them during the ext2 period. A mission critical server has redundant power supplies, each plugged to a different circuit and UPS buffered and backed with at least one of those circuits backed by a diesel generator. If you had four or five improper shutdowns during the life of a server something was wrong.
"The reason why ext3 was eventually needed is because disks became big enough that fsck was starting to take unreasonably long times (in the rare event of a crash), and so something more efficient was needed."
And because fsck failed to recover the ext2 filesystem about 20% of the time.
Sure I've got UPS's. They aren't for my desktops and old laptops though.
"Ah rubbish. All PC OS's from the 90s when linux started had filesystems you wouldn't trust a business with"
Nonsense the only other PC OS worth mentioning was Windows and it had FAT32. Granted FAT didn't have any fancy features and you'd have to wait for a scandisk but you could power the system off unsafely every day for a year without doing any significant damage.
EXT2 was faster than FAT32 but forget my business. I couldn't trust my disposable personal system to it. Even I can't afford to waste time reloading an OS every few days. Especially one that required as much tinkering as 90's desktop linux.
"I'd say too conservative, if they were only updating the third digit every few months."
I beg to differ. This is the kernel not some userland app or even a daemon. Stable releases are supposed to be reliable enough to trust with billions of dollars in data flow and human life support systems on the day of release.
I could see Linux making inroads into the business desktop world if it ever got a decent exchange replacement.
Actually if I have any complaint about Linux its the fact that most of your assistance comes from google (the same with any os/complex hardware) and there is so much outdated documentation out there.
Someone whose card wasn't detected might well find information telling them how to play with those obsolete technologies. You might even still be able to install some of the stuff it tells you to. Actually with old documentation it likely tells you download some tarball onto your binary distro and ./configure, make, make install it! I know far too many people who turn perfectly good systems into nasty unworkable crap that way. The sad thing is they are usually older *nix hackers who learned things this way before repos existed and were fairly complete.
Seriously kids install binaries for your distro. Failing that, alter distro source rpms to build rpms that are as you need them. Failing that use an rpm explicitly marked as arch independent and alter it and any dependencies to match their labels on your distro (yum localinstall NOT rpm -i). Failing that, build an rpm that does so yourself. Replace all that with debs where appropriate in deb land. If you have a guide that starts by telling you to download a tarball and install it then try getting the rpm and following from there if you can't find one specific to your distro.
"Journaling makes sense for servers; not so much for personal boxes."
I'm sorry my friend but you must be insane. I don't go uncleanly powering off my boxes intentionally but it still happens a couple times over the course of a month for various reasons (power flickers and the like). In my experience ext2 will fsck its way back to functionality 4 or 5 times tops before it won't fix or the data lost in the fixing is something critical.
Linux was a fun toy and nothing more before ext3 because ext2 is the most destructible filesystem on earth. Don't get me wrong, I played with that toy but that is all it was.
That is great in a world where the senate does its job and approves any candidate who is not obviously unqualified that the Presidents appoints to a position.
Here in the real world the senate twists it's token approval authority to hijack the appointment process and deny perfectly qualified candidates. Or in this case to not only deny candidates but castrate an entire government agency.
I wasn't alive during the 50's, 60's, and 70's and I was under 10 when 1990 hit. My teens were during the 90's. If anything my taste for 90's music should be starting to get dated.
There is still good new music coming out. Even in the genre's I mentioned as having less quality music. It's the signal-to-noise ratio that has dropped.
"Why wasn't the traditional recording industry killed many decades ago then?"
The music didn't used to be all shit. The music of the 50's, 60's, and 70's was damn good. The 80's was in decline but still had quite a bit of quality music. The 90's was in serious decline with pretty much all the good music produced by bands that became popular in those previous decades. It's only gotten worse from there.
Rap, Gangsta, and Hip-hop are all expression of commercialization. There aren't many examples of real music hidden in these genre. If there is any depth its just tossed in there to appeal to kids who want to pretend there is depth to their lifestyle. Most of it lacks even that, its just some random computer tuned vocals on top of some sort of beat that you can dance to.
"without ever dealing with a corporation that's selective, expensive, and difficult to work with"
Feeling the traditional recording entities are selective, expensive, and difficult to work with is probably what he meant by "fed up with the state of music" most people still think of the state of music via the recording dinosaurs as "the state of music."
The whole social media and file sharing thing is the real reason the recording industry fights piracy so hard. They don't want to lose control of distribution.
People who love music are going to make music regardless. Yes they usually take artist stance to get laid, but that's the reason anyone takes up any stance. People can and do make music every day knowing they have no real chance of becoming a rockstar or seeing rockstar cash and they will continue to do so if there is no recording industry.
He means mankind. Mankind created music before the recording industry and will do so after. Those who are only in it for the money make shit commercialized crap music with no soul anyway.
People signing with labels is just evidence that people will take money (regardless of whether they would have created music without it or not) when offered and that the recording industry owns lots and lots of monopoly and political power. For instance, here in the US if you want to stream your own music via online radio you have to pay per play royalties to the big studios... who have no claim on said music.
The reason the music industry fights file sharing so hard isn't because it costs them money, its because it erodes their control of distribution.
No artist can create a true expression if he can afford the cream for his ruptured hemorrhoids. True story.
"Fantasy" themes are generally based on mythical creatures and legends that stem from the UK. Hell even today you can't scan through 8hrs of BBC without finding something that is based on Robin Hood, Arthur/Merlin, Druids, or Sherlock Holmes so apparently the UK associates the UK with these themes as well. They even continue to add to it, the latest popular addition being Harry Potter. Again tying sorcery with the UK.
Definitely not cost effective at the residential level but it should be more cost effective in a large installation like Google's. But this isn't a cost saving measure at the residential level its a green feature.
It's actually a hell of a lot more important a green feature than any carbon reduction. In the US we've invested heavily in the water supply but the fresh water supply is rapidly depleting.
Or the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry could just buy anti-aircraft artillery and mount it on a ship flying no flag or flying a flag of convenience. It's in international waters so they can shot them down for the price of bullets rather than missiles and with no repercussion.
Presumably my example is repeatable and not merely anecdotal since it should be the same experience found by anyone who creates an account and doesn't use it.
I hypothesized elsewhere that the difference might be the training that you've done where I've done none. It doesn't explain how spammers got my never used account information unless yahoo account lists have been compromised at some point.
By volatile substances I assume you mean all substances. A phase change from liquid to a gas requires heat energy (taken from anything close by and therefore cooling it) and a change from gas to liquid releases energy (warming anything near by).
The same concept is used in your typical AC system but the difference is that Google trades coolant efficiency for thermal efficiency. Essentially they throw away the water where your AC system changes it back to liquid and heat syncs that to an air cooled system, both the additional phase change and heat sync/air cool system cause additional losses in thermal efficiency.
I did as you asked and the first hit is below. I can definitely see how that can cool a datacenter.
http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2007/virgin-money-romp-in-the-garden/
"You can also use a source-separating toilet [holon.se] separating the urine and the fecal matter. The urine is rich in nutrients for plant life."
That might help offset the PH imbalance caused by the high soap content in shower water. Maybe when mixed with the shower water the concentration is dilute but generally speaking urine is very concentrated nitrogen fertilizer and doesn't contain the balanced nutrient profile that is required for a plant to support the rapid vegetative growth that will be caused by the nitrogen.
Grey water is going to be high in soap and detergent so doesn't it slowly alter the PH of the soil, resulting in nutrient lockout and killing some of your plants slowly?
ROFLMAO. For every reply you get an angel loses its wings.
Maybe it gets better with training?
My greater concern is the massive volume of spam coming in given the fact that I've never used the address. It seems like yahoo's account list must have been compromised.
"I prfer yahoo for real mail"
Baffling, it really is. I have a yahoo account I don't use for anything, not spam crap, not anything. It gets several hundred spam a day that fly past the filter.
"In the context, "the Lord" is clearly Jesus"
According to you.
"The point is that the documentation for Alexander the Great is considered reliable"
Because it is corroborated by physical evidence and there isn't especial reason to question its validity. You can't dismiss the corroborating physical evidence. One piece of physical evidence trumps a hundred writings from the most credible of historical authors. With written works you can hypothesize with physical evidence you can theorize.
"The earliest document we have concerning Jesus was written less than 20 years after his death"
If you are saying 20 years you could only be referring to the christian interpolations into the works of Josephus. The earliest works concerning Jesus (as a man or otherwise) are Biblical. Refer to the earliest known fragments section of the table linked below. The supposed "dates determined by scholars" are speculation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_the_Bible#The_New_Testament
"This does not make the accounts of his life accurate, but it makes it improbable that he never lived."
All it makes probable is that someone took accounts of the deity Mithra and combined them with their own Jewish legends to invent a messiah. Rather than claiming to be that person they claimed to have seen a vision of him or met someone who met someone who met him years ago. That is far easier than actually claiming to be a deity with powers yourself and just as effective to build a cult around.
There is more evidence that a man named Hercules once lived than jesus.