Anyone that's been doing this for awhile knows to let fresh releases sink-in to the mud awhile before stepping on them. You can't expect glibc and linker updates to treat applications the same - especially when it comes to the sketchiness of closed-source binaries (nvidia xorg for instance).
Anyone that's been running desktop Linux for a few years knows to keep/home on a separate partition just in case you need to format/reinstall the system.
Anyone that's been runnning destkop Linux for more than 10 years will have a second boot partition for testing new releases.
There are tools avaialable to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot when you upgrade Linux. Some hints for you:
- fdisk
create one swap partition
create 2 boot partitions
create one partition dedicated to LVM
- lvm partitions for tmp, home, slash1, slash2, usr1, usr2, var1, var2 - raw partitions are boot1, boot2 - never let a new release install grub over your working install - learn how to boot knoppix and use grub-install --root-directory
So much for the "DoD's MIL-STD 810F heat, dust and vibration requirements"* It looks cool as shit, but that's about it. I guess the only requirement to meet DoD specs is testosterone appeal.
I vote for that one too. The "adjust skill" option is nice when you are doing multiplayer, like Unreal Tournament, so the bots just aren't easy frags. Quake3 Arena lets you add bots (on the fly) at different skill levels so newbie players have something to kill (co-op), but there are still some targets running around that you can't just run down with a shotgun.
Some games simply suck-ass when the game adjusts to your level: Guild Wars: beating a map, gaining several levels, and then getting a quest later that takes you through the same map. All the monsters are now the equivalent of chuck norris and it takes you two more days to get through the same stupid map.
Best thing I can suggest is make your game mod'able and offer an editor for download. You gain enthusiasm/publicity that can carry the interest in between releases, and there is a lot of creativity and fun being built in your user base.
> We're talking billions of tons of contaminated soil, water, > radioactive waste, old landfills. What do you propose is done with it?
Why not build on the concept of the space elevator and "elevate" this stuff into orbit on a trajectory into the sun? Seriously - why leave it on earth at all? The technology seems to be developing to make something like this plausible.
Too much money pushing in the other direction. Hate to sound cynical but freedom in any form is about money and neither redhat or sflc have enough of it to affect patent reform as it relates to software.
I'm concerned of the potential that malware has to disrupt civilian systems from stuff like waste treatment all the way to energy facilities. The same vulnerabilities that allow your bank creds to be pwned are the same one that could be used to disrupt systems we need for heat or clean water. There neds to be stiffer penalties for neglecting to fix security problems.
Don't know about the rest of the world but I rarely 'dispose' of gear. There is always some piss-poor excuse for keeping that 486dx around. Maybe it's just sentiment.
Prroblem is that most people have infected windows pcs out of ignorance and not so much as apathy. Cutting iff their service will just add to the confusion.
Oracle is going to need to do a better job with solaris than it did with Unbreakable Linux. If that's any indication what is in store for IBM, then Oracle is just focused on damage control via loud_mouth marketing campaigns. There was a lot of doubt with UL, and now Oracle not only hhas a new OS to manage, but a fairly large collection of high end hardware to peddle. They are not accustomed to so much responsibility. IBM is.
> Me, I could care less if someone is tracking where I am or what I am > doing. What difference does it make?
You've obviously never had to lay-low for a while. Ever been stalked by a psychotic ex? Or the ex-bf/gf of a recent break-up?
Some of us haven't made exactly stellar choices in life. And sometimes when people are in an extreme emotional state, it's nice to give them time to cool off while not giving them more information than what's prudent.
The potential for someone to google my cell GPS makes the hair on my neck stand up. Even though I make better choices these days, not everyone forgives-and-forgets.
It's a nice marketing strategy -- "My cores outnumber your cores" -- but where is the performance gain when the CPU speed is almost half that of a dual-core 3.2GHZ?
Would be nice if the firefox process that does the heavy-lifting could change it's uid to something other than the person running firefox; although not a perfect solution, it could minimize data loss due to web-based compromise if process id does not have access to $HOME.
So let's say Ty Coon Devices releases a device that runs millions of applications and has a worldwide customer base in the bizillions. The consumer electronics market wants in on the pie, so a slough of 3rd-party hardware devices are sold which integrate with Ty Coon Mobile. Infrastructures and economies are built upon the Ty Coon platform. Everyone is ecstatic and really doesn't care that the platform is locked tight and Ty Coon decides what can run on it's device and what it can integrate with. Some years later, Ty Coon decides it want's to "upgrade" it's platform. You don't get a choice whether your extension or derived work is sanctioned to work with the new upgrade. You just cross your fingers. Nevermind that Some Other Big Company decides to offer Ty Coon a buttload of cash to make the device "less friendly" with some of the competing software/hardware devices on the market. You still can only just cross your fingers. There is nothing guaranteed with proprietary platforms either. You're in the same friggin boat. It's just a different color. At least if you have a Free/open platform, you have a chance at making things compatible.
It amazes me how advanced this system* was for it's time and that it didn't catch on better than it did. The graphics and sound (just for starters) was many years ahead of it's time; x86 was still in EGA and speaker beeps at the time.
The number of Filesystems is related to interoperability. It's not something you find much in proprietary software, so your confusion is understandable/excusable.
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"Anyone can try out the Unreal Development Kit powered by Unreal Engine 3" ...as long as your on windows
...or tequila
Anyone that's been doing this for awhile knows to let fresh releases sink-in to the mud awhile before stepping on them. You can't expect glibc and linker updates to treat applications the same - especially when it comes to the sketchiness of closed-source binaries (nvidia xorg for instance).
Anyone that's been running desktop Linux for a few years knows to keep /home on a separate partition just in case you need to format/reinstall the system.
Anyone that's been runnning destkop Linux for more than 10 years will have a second boot partition for testing new releases.
There are tools avaialable to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot when you upgrade Linux. Some hints for you:
- fdisk
create one swap partition
create 2 boot partitions
create one partition dedicated to LVM
- lvm partitions for tmp, home, slash1, slash2, usr1, usr2, var1, var2
- raw partitions are boot1, boot2
- never let a new release install grub over your working install
- learn how to boot knoppix and use grub-install --root-directory
So much for the "DoD's MIL-STD 810F heat, dust and vibration requirements"*
It looks cool as shit, but that's about it. I guess the only requirement to meet DoD specs is testosterone appeal.
[*] -
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/super-rugged-latitude-e6400-xfr-is-tougher-than-you/
preferred 39 days of abstinence to 6 months!
I vote for that one too. The "adjust skill" option is nice when you are doing multiplayer, like Unreal Tournament, so the bots just aren't easy frags. Quake3 Arena lets you add bots (on the fly) at different skill levels so newbie players have something to kill (co-op), but there are still some targets running around that you can't just run down with a shotgun.
Some games simply suck-ass when the game adjusts to your level: Guild Wars: beating a map, gaining several levels, and then getting a quest later that takes you through the same map. All the monsters are now the equivalent of chuck norris and it takes you two more days to get through the same stupid map.
Best thing I can suggest is make your game mod'able and offer an editor for download. You gain enthusiasm/publicity that can carry the interest in between releases, and there is a lot of creativity and fun being built in your user base.
> We're talking billions of tons of contaminated soil, water,
> radioactive waste, old landfills. What do you propose is done with it?
Why not build on the concept of the space elevator and "elevate" this stuff into
orbit on a trajectory into the sun? Seriously - why leave it on earth at all?
The technology seems to be developing to make something like this plausible.
Too much money pushing in the other direction. Hate to sound cynical but freedom in any form is about money and neither redhat or sflc have enough of it to affect patent reform as it relates to software.
> carry a spare battery.
Be careful not to put any paperclips or change in the same pocket as the
battery.
I'm concerned of the potential that malware has to disrupt civilian systems from stuff like waste treatment all the way to energy facilities. The same vulnerabilities that allow your bank creds to be pwned are the same one that could be used to disrupt systems we need for heat or clean water. There neds to be stiffer penalties for neglecting to fix security problems.
Don't know about the rest of the world but I rarely 'dispose' of gear. There is always some piss-poor excuse for keeping that 486dx around. Maybe it's just sentiment.
Prroblem is that most people have infected windows pcs out of ignorance and not so much as apathy. Cutting iff their service will just add to the confusion.
Oracle is going to need to do a better job with solaris than it did with Unbreakable Linux. If that's any indication what is in store for IBM, then Oracle is just focused on damage control via loud_mouth marketing campaigns. There was a lot of doubt with UL, and now Oracle not only hhas a new OS to manage, but a fairly large collection of high end hardware to peddle. They are not accustomed to so much responsibility. IBM is.
> Me, I could care less if someone is tracking where I am or what I am
> doing. What difference does it make?
You've obviously never had to lay-low for a while. Ever been stalked by a psychotic ex? Or the ex-bf/gf of a recent break-up?
Some of us haven't made exactly stellar choices in life. And sometimes when people are in an extreme emotional state, it's nice to give them time to cool off while not giving them more information than what's prudent.
The potential for someone to google my cell GPS makes the hair on my neck stand up. Even though I make better choices these days, not everyone forgives-and-forgets.
It's a nice marketing strategy -- "My cores outnumber your cores" -- but where is the performance gain when the CPU speed is almost half that of a dual-core 3.2GHZ?
"That's no moon... It's a space station!" -Obi-Wan Kenobi
I wonder what happened to the nuke that was sitting behind the timer.
Would be nice if the firefox process that does the heavy-lifting could change it's uid to something other than the person running firefox; although not a perfect solution, it could minimize data loss due to web-based compromise if process id does not have access to $HOME.
Pick one. Anything is better than insert-proprietary-vendor-lockin-format-here.
So let's say Ty Coon Devices releases a device that runs millions of applications and has a worldwide customer base in the bizillions. The consumer electronics market wants in on the pie, so a slough of 3rd-party hardware devices are sold which integrate with Ty Coon Mobile. Infrastructures and economies are built upon the Ty Coon platform. Everyone is ecstatic and really doesn't care that the platform is locked tight and Ty Coon decides what can run on it's device and what it can integrate with. Some years later, Ty Coon decides it want's to "upgrade" it's platform. You don't get a choice whether your extension or derived work is sanctioned to work with the new upgrade. You just cross your fingers. Nevermind that Some Other Big Company decides to offer Ty Coon a buttload of cash to make the device "less friendly" with some of the competing software/hardware devices on the market. You still can only just cross your fingers. There is nothing guaranteed with proprietary platforms either. You're in the same friggin boat. It's just a different color. At least if you have a Free/open platform, you have a chance at making things compatible.
I've seen radio buttons (dd_wrt) that un-mask the password for trouble shooting. This is kinda nice.
tar cvf - /home | bzip2 | aespipe -w 10 -K /etc/homekey.gpg | bittorrent archive.`date +%s`.foo
It amazes me how advanced this system* was for it's time and that it didn't catch on better than it did. The graphics and sound (just for starters) was many years ahead of it's time; x86 was still in EGA and speaker beeps at the time.
[*] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga#Graphics
The number of Filesystems is related to interoperability. It's not something you find much in proprietary software, so your confusion is understandable/excusable.
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