In the "developed" countries, probably, the researchers have a lot of support from the government, and have loads of money to lure people from *our* countries. I don't even want to list the names of Indians who might be behind some successful products developed by them away from India.
The point I want to make is - We have been looted and cheated over centuries. Our resources have been plundered by invaders. We are still too young (as a free country), and the benefits of medical science improvements before improvements in education led to a population explosion. Now we have a lot of poor and illiterate people to support and hence have no proper support in core technical areas from the government. Given all this, I think we people are managing it quite well.
Of course they are important. But who says that having an I-Bone means neglecting them in the first place? The backbone is a step in the right direction, connecting more people, letting information flow smootly, and in the long way helping in better education. Having hospitals need not really mean that the government build each and every hospital. The government provides the facilities, and it's upto the citizens to use such infrastructure and help the society. A good information backbone might be able to save quite a few lives too!
* Compile a new Kernel (preferably with the new VM) and take out all of the unneccesary items and compile as much as possible into the kernel instead of modules.
Does this really help? AFAIK, it does not.
In fact, if you have, for example, sound support compiled in as modules, it helps if you don't load the sound modules if you are not going to listen to any audio. Less RAM. This is not possible if it's compiled into the kernel.
There are other reasons. Once, apparently, my 8139too driver had a bug, and i couldn't connect anywhere. I shut down my network, unloaded the module, and reloaded. It was fine again (atleast until I hit that bug again, which I don't remember hitting again;-)
Had it been compiled in, rebooting would have been the only way out! (And that blemishes my machine's records of uptimes;-)
But why would someone now want to use ext2 given that (aparently, from the postings above), ext3 does a much better job (and so do other JFSes). Why spend time on ext2 development? Or is that going to affect ext3 too? So, that ext3 is faster than now?
BTW, ext3 is doing a wonderful job on my desktop. One more thumb up...;-)
(Modified a bit because the comments.pl on slashdot would crib about some junk chars)
It is clear that BSD is going off the deep end.
Linux ATA Development has a Legal signed NDA for the proper development of
the complete and correct FastTrak(tm) open sources driver.
I will soon publish the complete header codes in a original header w/
a Linux ATA Development Copyright and Promise Technologies Copyright.
The driver will have a GPL statement be issued in the headers and source
files to prevent the usage in BSDish environments. I have not tolerance
for being labled a thief.
I will prove the point that Linux does not "STEAL IP", then watch BSD
"borrow" from Linux. Just like we will watch 48-BIT Addressing be
borrowed without credit. Just like we will watch the new Ultra133 drivers
be borrowed without credit. BSD has no legal documentation to develop
these changes or access to hardware. We will watch and prove where IP
comes from in the world of storage.
Ever noticed how Linux had Ultra100 support 10 minutes after the release
of public information on June 5, 2000 8:00am PDT?
For now the Linux Open Source drivers for SoftRAID need to go away.
Not to worry they will return in full swing.
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:32:52 -0800
From: ---deleted---
To: Andre Hedrick
Subject: RE: Research FastTrak66 Ultra ATA/66
Hi Andre,
Very interesting work, I can't guess how you did it. Here is our beta
driver for the Fasttrak. This is the one I told you about. It uses our Raid
engine (engine3.a). Sorry, but as I mentioned there is no possibility of us
releasing the source code for this. However you can get a good idea of how
the engine works by viewing our driver source. Please do not distribute
this driver or the engine binary to anyone. I've included some quick
documentation too, I remember there is one step missing but it is obvious.
begin 600 FT03.TGZ
<BIG SNIP>
end
Here is the proof that I could have done this long before the BSD folks
had a clue about soft raid engines wrt addon cards.
It's not funny!
In fact, I wonder how Slashdot isn't/.ed! Do you guys have a BIG F-A-T pipe which others don't?
Or is it just linux which keeps it cruising?
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, you lost me.
...distinguish their importance. You mean, impotence?
In the "developed" countries, probably, the researchers have a lot of support from the government, and have loads of money to lure people from *our* countries. I don't even want to list the names of Indians who might be behind some successful products developed by them away from India.
The point I want to make is - We have been looted and cheated over centuries. Our resources have been plundered by invaders. We are still too young (as a free country), and the benefits of medical science improvements before improvements in education led to a population explosion. Now we have a lot of poor and illiterate people to support and hence have no proper support in core technical areas from the government. Given all this, I think we people are managing it quite well.
0.8 cents / minutes ==> "airtime for voice"
The Internet access charges ( data services, if you will ) - none initially. You are "always on".
See, that's cheap! Right?
... piracy is no more unholy ;-)
GNUten Tag, GNU/Germany!
I too managed to do it without the subscription.
Depends on how you choose your mirrors.
When you surf, you look at the surrounding text too.
What's interesting here is that they claim that they completely ignore the text of the page.
Of course they are important. But who says that having an I-Bone means neglecting them in the first place?
The backbone is a step in the right direction, connecting more people, letting information flow smootly, and in the long way helping in better education.
Having hospitals need not really mean that the government build each and every hospital. The government provides the facilities, and it's upto the citizens to use such infrastructure and help the society.
A good information backbone might be able to save quite a few lives too!
Bah!
I realize that 1st of April is far away.
Or, is my clock screwed?
* Compile a new Kernel (preferably with the new VM) and take out all of the unneccesary items and compile as much as possible into the kernel instead of modules.
;-)
;-)
Does this really help? AFAIK, it does not.
In fact, if you have, for example, sound support compiled in as modules, it helps if you don't load the sound modules if you are not going to listen to any audio. Less RAM. This is not possible if it's compiled into the kernel.
There are other reasons. Once, apparently, my 8139too driver had a bug, and i couldn't connect anywhere. I shut down my network, unloaded the module, and reloaded. It was fine again (atleast until I hit that bug again, which I don't remember hitting again
Had it been compiled in, rebooting would have been the only way out! (And that blemishes my machine's records of uptimes
But why would someone now want to use ext2 given that (aparently, from the postings above), ext3 does a much better job (and so do other JFSes). Why spend time on ext2 development? Or is that going to affect ext3 too? So, that ext3 is faster than now?
... ;-)
BTW, ext3 is doing a wonderful job on my desktop. One more thumb up
Yes, there's an error. Remove the two instances of
deactivate_page from loop.c (linux/drivers/block/loop.c)
It's been posted on the lkml.
(Modified a bit because the comments.pl on slashdot would crib about some junk chars)
It is clear that BSD is going off the deep end.
Linux ATA Development has a Legal signed NDA for the proper development of
the complete and correct FastTrak(tm) open sources driver.
I will soon publish the complete header codes in a original header w/
a Linux ATA Development Copyright and Promise Technologies Copyright.
The driver will have a GPL statement be issued in the headers and source
files to prevent the usage in BSDish environments. I have not tolerance
for being labled a thief.
I will prove the point that Linux does not "STEAL IP", then watch BSD
"borrow" from Linux. Just like we will watch 48-BIT Addressing be
borrowed without credit. Just like we will watch the new Ultra133 drivers
be borrowed without credit. BSD has no legal documentation to develop
these changes or access to hardware. We will watch and prove where IP
comes from in the world of storage.
Ever noticed how Linux had Ultra100 support 10 minutes after the release
of public information on June 5, 2000 8:00am PDT?
For now the Linux Open Source drivers for SoftRAID need to go away.
Not to worry they will return in full swing.
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:32:52 -0800
From: ---deleted---
To: Andre Hedrick
Subject: RE: Research FastTrak66 Ultra ATA/66
Hi Andre,
Very interesting work, I can't guess how you did it. Here is our beta
driver for the Fasttrak. This is the one I told you about. It uses our Raid
engine (engine3.a). Sorry, but as I mentioned there is no possibility of us
releasing the source code for this. However you can get a good idea of how
the engine works by viewing our driver source. Please do not distribute
this driver or the engine binary to anyone. I've included some quick
documentation too, I remember there is one step missing but it is obvious.
begin 600 FT03.TGZ
<BIG SNIP>
end
Here is the proof that I could have done this long before the BSD folks
had a clue about soft raid engines wrt addon cards.
Regards,
Andre Hedrick
It's not funny! In fact, I wonder how Slashdot isn't /.ed! Do you guys have a BIG F-A-T pipe which others don't?
Or is it just linux which keeps it cruising?