Good god, you are right. Linux USB support is terrible. At least, support for USB 2.0 is.
Example:
I plug my iPod classic 160gb into one of my laptop's USB ports, and get various ehci_hcd failure messages in kern.log. Of course, it works fine on the same laptop in Windows. Worse still, these bugs are known and basically marked "won't fix" everywhere they are filed, even after years.
This isn't FUD - do a simple google search for "ehci_hcd" and see all the problems with it.
The only real workaround that consistantly works for me (and this is for several USB hard drives on various machines also, not just ipods and not just one machine) is to remove this module, which lowers the device speed to USB 1.1
While this works, trying to use a 500GB hard drive with 1.1 speeds requires a masochistic sense of pleasure that I just don't possess.
Sad...
I've been very tempted to learn the details of the ehci_hcd problems and fix it myself, but this is a large undertaking for someone who isn't already familiar with the linux kernel code.
Or the Distros could include 32bit Firefox be default.
Both would solve the problem. And if you need Firefox to be 64bit you are surfing the wrong sites.
Every couple days my firefox3 ends up using ~1.5+ GB RSS on my ubuntu box. Hitting 4GB would probably only take me another 4 days or so, if it didn't crash or cause 15-20 second latencies on all page scrolls. Granted i have a 16GB machine, but still - It's not that i'm browsing horrible websites so much as firefox's use of memory is god-awful.
The effort will be watched and appreciated down the breadth of Silicon Valley, perhaps the only place a computer genius might find a jury of peers.
There, Hans Reiser's actions appear fairly reasonable, at least to people who spend much more time with computer code than with other humans.
Come on - the only place a half-crazed defense strategy can work is when pitched to computer geeks?
What what what?
This reminds me of an old email/fax scam trick. You start sending 1600 messages to people on a stock that's going to have big news the next day, either very good or very bad, no one knows. To 800 of those people, you say it will be good, and the other 800, you tell them it will be bad. The next day, you take the 800 who you predicted the right answer for, take another stock with big news coming out, and 400 of those people will end up with the right answer. Then 200, and on the 4th day, 100. Now for those 100 remaining people, you send a message saying that you've been giving valuable stock picks for the past 4 days and how much would they be willing to pay for your tips. The moral, everyone is a winner when your losers don't count. If you were hoping to find a good stock trader from this contest, this wasn't the way.
As made famous in S3E14 (Lisa the Geek) of The Simpsons.
Of course, it was about football, not stocks, there.
Don't believe it? Just take Linux as an example. MS can afford to essentially outlaw Linux if they wanted to (only the public backlash is holding them back).
Not a chance. Do you think an average Microsoft OS customer has a clue or cares in any way what they do with respect to Linux? Of course not.
Corporate sales might be hurt, or they might not. That's harder to say. However, to say that 'public backlash is the only thing holding them back' is to give yourself airs of grandiosity that you (and i) don't deserve.
In the grand scheme of things, home linux users (like us) barely register as a blip on the radar.
I think humans aren't wired right for the Internet. If only a few decades ago you knew a few hundred people doing something, it was probably something common and (so mostly) accepted in society. Your odd desires were maybe shared by one or two, tops. Now you got the Internet, and the rules have changed completely but we haven't. On the Internet, you can find confirmation for roughly anything.
This statement is just an observation that the internet is a massive force for globalization, not that the internet condones incorrect beliefs.
Unless, of course, it is proportional measures, not absolute magnitudes or counts, that you care about.
In which case you'd have an interesting point, devaluing of individual beliefs and group perspectives though it may be.
-dave-
Man, I hope this trickles down (Affordably) to the masses. Anything that hardens on impact would be great for those of us that attend protests. Its not so much the bullets and stabbing that worries me, but the savage beatings that we recieve. Though having protection is good when some rookie decides to fire rubber bullets into the crowd. Hasn't happened to me yet, but with how peacful protesters are being treated, its only a matter of time.
I narrowly escaped a robocop-clad policeman who threatened to beat me with his baton on the way to join the protest, when i was asking around for directions to the meeting spot.
It only got worse from there.
People were shot, tear gassed, and beaten right in front of me at my last protest.
He disputes the existence of a big bang, or any other kind of origin to the universe.
Paraphrasing the last page of his full paper, the universe is the manifestation of eternity and the infinite.
Personally, after reading his full paper once, I believe that I will have to re-re-re-read it before i can determine if there is a flaw in his reasoning.
However, I do think he is on to something.
There may well not have been a big bang, or any other definite "past origin" to the universe. It simply is, and always will be.
Google had the decision to either:
- Be present in China, albeit in mutilated form. The censorship would be declared, not secret. As such, Google's chinese services would not claim to comprehensively represent Google's services. - Not operate in China at all.
China doesn't need Google very much; they already have Yahoo, MSN, et al. As such, Google declining to operate in China would do almost nothing to further the cause of free speech because it would not damage the opponents of free speech in the slightest.
Because Google lacks the potential to "further" the cause of free speech in this altercation, their failure to advance that cause in China is not sufficient to warrant the claim of evilness.
DISCLAIMER: In the future, I may work or contract for Google or some subsidiary. Such is my profession.
Despite that, I must say: I agree completely with you! People who are too idealistic seem to forget that it is trivial for China to block google, should google fail to comply with searches originating in China. That leaves people who use "unsanctioned" access methods (proxies, etc) to have access to ALL of google info. HOWEVER, anyone who would do that then, could STILL do so now. So, the options become:
Google is blocked in China, but people who REALLY want to see censored content still can (using google, or anything else)
Google is NOT blocked in China, and people who REALLY want to see censored content still can (using google, or anything else), but people who AREN'T looking for censored content can still find it, using google.
To be honest, I can't see the problem here, so long as google makes it clear to the googlee that they are being censored for reasons beyond google's control.
The entire point in government originally was that it was free individuals working together to accomplish something. That's what, "Of the People, By the People, For the People," means. It's corrupted now.
Sorry, but I gotta call shenanigans to this statement. Granted it is "patriotic" and all, but it simply isn't correct.
First off, since you use "of the people,..." I must assume you are referring to the government of the USA.
Second, assuming (First) is correct, you are still wrong since "Of the people..." does not appear in any founding document for USA. It appears in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which occurred nearly 87 years after the country was formed. I don't believe that you can attribute this phrase as being "originally" the point.
Easy. Earth is currently used as a stress test environment for souls, which are created defective but can repair themselves by accepting grace through faith. Those that pass the stress test go to heaven, and those that fail are tossed in the landfill [wikipedia.org]. Allowing souls to remain defective yet still pass wouldn't be "benevolent" for anyone involved.
What a great explanation.
Until just recently I was one of the hoardes of people who subscriped to the grandparent's thought process. Just recently i've begun to come to the conclusion that your statement is essentially correct.
You can't fool me....there ain't no Sanity Clause...
:D Nice. However, funny as it may be, communists around here in eastern Europe used to teach their children that a certain "Grandpa Frost" arrives every new year to give presents. That guy wore chothes suspiciously similar to the western Santa.
I hope I am missing your humor, but he was talking abou the Marx brothers, not Marxism.
You know... Groucho Marx...
But I cannot remember if this was from Opera or Duck Soup. Hrmm...
Actually, what they do best is copy another technology, use their hype machine to convince people that they've added a little to it, and then try to destroy it.
I hope you aren't referring to BitTorrent, because they do NOT copy BT. The novel portion of the whitepaper describing the system is the use of network encoding, not tit-for-tat.
But soon after I finished its implementation, I discovered that all the ideas authored in the Rateless paper were actually covered by patents of Digital Fountain, meaning that Petar's company, Rateless, had to develop a different, proprietary coding mechanism that is outside the patents of DF, and I can't release my code!
I know Petar, and he's actually patenting his modifications to his new codes as well, so don't plan on using those without a license. =)
Although, he has discussed with me the possibility of releaseing a GPL version of them (new Rateless codes) for non-profit usage, so all is not lost.;-) I'll chat with him some more tonight about this if I get the chance.
Also, I've only read a portion (3/4ths) of that paper, but I don't think that they use XOR in network coding. Rather, it is of the following form:
An file is split into N blocks B1, B2,..., Bn.
An encoded block E is produced by picking random coefficients C1, C2,..., Cn, and producing:
E = B1*C1 + B2*C2 +... + Bn*Cn
across a fixed-bit-length field (say, 2**16)
This encoded block is sent along with the vector:
V=[C1, C2,..., Cn]
Receiving enough of these, and solving the system of equations which result, allows a reconstruction of the original file.
An apparent benefit over erasure codes is the ability for nodes with partial file knowledge to re-encode the blocks which THEY have, and still be useful.
As a p2p coder, I am quite interested in Network coding (and erasure encoding) so am studying them intensely...
the punishments don't fit the crimes in the US. while drug use/possession might be illegal elsewhere, it's not as major an offense as it is here. prison time for possession of marijuana. it's a non-violent crime. how about a fine or community service instead? the's why our prisons are over-crowded, there's too many non-violent "criminals" locked up. drugs shouldn't even be illegal here. and don't go and say "your username contains 420, so of course you think that" because i just got in the habit of adding that after my name when "rizzo" didn't work. there's just no really good reason for drugs to be illegal while alcohol and cigarettes are legal.
Ya got THAT right!
I imagine the purpose of keeping pot illegal involves:
- Appropriation of property
- Industrial prison complex / Cheap labor
- Control over (generally) opposing political party members, inc. voting rights for the same
Plenty of other reasons, none of which are the "claims" made by average right-wing religious person who tries to convince me why they SHOULD be kept illegal...
The next update on the remarkable and heroic journey will be available here on Tuesday, April 25, at 10:00 am CET (04:00 am EST).
Tuesday April 25 is a year from today!
Yeah, I noticed that as well the first time I read through the article.
However, when I went to go post this, I noticed your post. When I double checked the article, to be sure that we weren't mistaken, here is what it had been updated to:
The next update on the remarkable and heroic journey will be available here on
Tuesday, April 26, at 10:00 am CET (04:00 am EST).
Maybe they read your comment and noticed the typo? Perhaps he will try after all? Ha!
That's like saying, "Computers have been around for hundreds of years. Just ask Charles Babbage."
Hearing his name, and although it's WAY offtopic, I was reminded of a famous quote from him.
It is the quote I use to console my girlfriend, who does email tech support.
I just tell her, "there have always been AOL users, see?"
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
The fundamental problem with surveillance is that it takes its cue from the military. The military ethos, as espoused by our administration, is pre-emptive strike. That means force. We will win through force, invasive force, whether it's a bullet in the abdomen or a camera recording conversations.
Preach it, brother!
You have nailed my thoughts and concerns down almost exactly.
Wish I had the mod points for ya (and that you could go to +6! =)
As Bill Waterson said (creator of Calvin and Hobbes,) "Sometimes I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there is that it hasn't tried to contact us yet."
You recall correctly, wish I had some mod points for ya.
I already typed up my thoughts on this letter here.
Choice quote: (paraphrased, since I'm too lazy to copy from that link I posted)
P2p allows users to have files uploaded from their computer while the computer is off.
Man are we smart!
Gimme a break...
-dave-
NOTE: I do not represent the views of either the owner of officers of FreePeers, INC.
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Example:
I plug my iPod classic 160gb into one of my laptop's USB ports, and get various ehci_hcd failure messages in kern.log. Of course, it works fine on the same laptop in Windows. Worse still, these bugs are known and basically marked "won't fix" everywhere they are filed, even after years.
This isn't FUD - do a simple google search for "ehci_hcd" and see all the problems with it.
The only real workaround that consistantly works for me (and this is for several USB hard drives on various machines also, not just ipods and not just one machine) is to remove this module, which lowers the device speed to USB 1.1
While this works, trying to use a 500GB hard drive with 1.1 speeds requires a masochistic sense of pleasure that I just don't possess.
Sad...
I've been very tempted to learn the details of the ehci_hcd problems and fix it myself, but this is a large undertaking for someone who isn't already familiar with the linux kernel code.
-dave-
Every couple days my firefox3 ends up using ~1.5+ GB RSS on my ubuntu box. Hitting 4GB would probably only take me another 4 days or so, if it didn't crash or cause 15-20 second latencies on all page scrolls. Granted i have a 16GB machine, but still - It's not that i'm browsing horrible websites so much as firefox's use of memory is god-awful.
-dave-
Come on - the only place a half-crazed defense strategy can work is when pitched to computer geeks?
What what what?
-dave-
As made famous in S3E14 (Lisa the Geek) of The Simpsons.
Of course, it was about football, not stocks, there.
-dave-
Not a chance. Do you think an average Microsoft OS customer has a clue or cares in any way what they do with respect to Linux? Of course not.
Corporate sales might be hurt, or they might not. That's harder to say. However, to say that 'public backlash is the only thing holding them back' is to give yourself airs of grandiosity that you (and i) don't deserve.
In the grand scheme of things, home linux users (like us) barely register as a blip on the radar.
-dave-
(providing a reality check)
Unless, of course, it is proportional measures, not absolute magnitudes or counts, that you care about.
In which case you'd have an interesting point, devaluing of individual beliefs and group perspectives though it may be. -dave-
Boy are you lucky
I narrowly escaped a robocop-clad policeman who threatened to beat me with his baton on the way to join the protest, when i was asking around for directions to the meeting spot.
It only got worse from there.
People were shot, tear gassed, and beaten right in front of me at my last protest.
-dave-
He disputes the existence of a big bang, or any other kind of origin to the universe.
Paraphrasing the last page of his full paper, the universe is the manifestation of eternity and the infinite.
Personally, after reading his full paper once, I believe that I will have to re-re-re-read it before i can determine if there is a flaw in his reasoning.
However, I do think he is on to something.
There may well not have been a big bang, or any other definite "past origin" to the universe. It simply is, and always will be.
-dave-
DISCLAIMER: In the future, I may work or contract for Google or some subsidiary. Such is my profession.
Despite that, I must say: I agree completely with you! People who are too idealistic seem to forget that it is trivial for China to block google, should google fail to comply with searches originating in China. That leaves people who use "unsanctioned" access methods (proxies, etc) to have access to ALL of google info. HOWEVER, anyone who would do that then, could STILL do so now. So, the options become:
To be honest, I can't see the problem here, so long as google makes it clear to the googlee that they are being censored for reasons beyond google's control.
My $0.02
-dave-
Sorry, but I gotta call shenanigans to this statement. Granted it is "patriotic" and all, but it simply isn't correct.
First off, since you use "of the people, ..." I must assume you are referring to the government of the USA.
Second, assuming (First) is correct, you are still wrong since "Of the people..." does not appear in any founding document for USA. It appears in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which occurred nearly 87 years after the country was formed. I don't believe that you can attribute this phrase as being "originally" the point.
Sorry!
-dave-
What a great explanation.
Until just recently I was one of the hoardes of people who subscriped to the grandparent's thought process. Just recently i've begun to come to the conclusion that your statement is essentially correct.
Bravo on the eloquent phrasing.
-dave-
I hope I am missing your humor, but he was talking abou the Marx brothers, not Marxism.
You know... Groucho Marx...
But I cannot remember if this was from Opera or Duck Soup. Hrmm...
-dave-
I hope you aren't referring to BitTorrent, because they do NOT copy BT. The novel portion of the whitepaper describing the system is the use of network encoding, not tit-for-tat.
Get the facts... =)
-dave at limewire-
I know Petar, and he's actually patenting his modifications to his new codes as well, so don't plan on using those without a license. =)
Although, he has discussed with me the possibility of releaseing a GPL version of them (new Rateless codes) for non-profit usage, so all is not lost. ;-) I'll chat with him some more tonight about this if I get the chance.
Also, I've only read a portion (3/4ths) of that paper, but I don't think that they use XOR in network coding. Rather, it is of the following form:
An file is split into N blocks B1, B2, ..., Bn. ..., Cn, and producing:
An encoded block E is produced by picking random coefficients C1, C2,
E = B1*C1 + B2*C2 + ... + Bn*Cn
across a fixed-bit-length field (say, 2**16)
This encoded block is sent along with the vector:
V=[C1, C2, ..., Cn]
Receiving enough of these, and solving the system of equations which result, allows a reconstruction of the original file.
An apparent benefit over erasure codes is the ability for nodes with partial file knowledge to re-encode the blocks which THEY have, and still be useful.
As a p2p coder, I am quite interested in Network coding (and erasure encoding) so am studying them intensely...
-dave at limewire-
Ya got THAT right!
I imagine the purpose of keeping pot illegal involves:
- Appropriation of property
- Industrial prison complex / Cheap labor
- Control over (generally) opposing political party members, inc. voting rights for the same
Plenty of other reasons, none of which are the "claims" made by average right-wing religious person who tries to convince me why they SHOULD be kept illegal...
sigh...
-dave-
That was one of the all-time funniest posts I have seen here on /., and that is a hard thing to achieve.
-dave-
Yeah, I noticed that as well the first time I read through the article.
However, when I went to go post this, I noticed your post. When I double checked the article, to be sure that we weren't mistaken, here is what it had been updated to:
Maybe they read your comment and noticed the typo? Perhaps he will try after all? Ha!
-dave-
It's not that hard to spot on a phone.
-dave-
Hearing his name, and although it's WAY offtopic, I was reminded of a famous quote from him.
It is the quote I use to console my girlfriend, who does email tech support.
I just tell her, "there have always been AOL users, see?"
Cheers!
-vDave420
Feel free to toss me an GMail invite.
dave [AT] freepeers [DASH] com.
DASH = DOT
Thanks in advance!
-dave-
Yes.
-dave-Preach it, brother!
You have nailed my thoughts and concerns down almost exactly.
Wish I had the mod points for ya (and that you could go to +6! =)
-dave-
You recall correctly, wish I had some mod points for ya.
-dave-
I expect you will receive one soon, as eDonkey was listed, I believe, (along with the company I work for, BearShare) as being intended recipients.
We will both receive one soon, probably hand delivered. =)
-dave-
Note: IAAP2PD
I already typed up my thoughts on this letter here.
Choice quote: (paraphrased, since I'm too lazy to copy from that link I posted)
P2p allows users to have files uploaded from their computer while the computer is off.
Man are we smart!
Gimme a break...
-dave-
NOTE: I do not represent the views of either the owner of officers of FreePeers, INC.