It's also very funny that in the spanish version of bing, searching for some terms shows the Encarta search page for that term as the first real link (after the ads), and Wikipedia in second place.
Use the "riskier" filesystem for the unimportant data (an desktop operative system can be reinstalled easily), use the stable filesystem for the data that matters (personal data that if you lose you won't be able to recover again). Whats wrong with that?
Barriers enabled by default. The fact that most of ext3 users are running without them is scary.
If you keep using ext3, enable them. They aren't enabled by default because they have a noticeable performance hit, but if you are paranoid about corruption, you really want them.
Because Ext4 is a mainstream filesystem. People has been getting zeroed files for _years_ with XFS, but only enthusiasts used it. Ext4 however is "mainstream" and needs to face problems that many other operative systems/filesystems don't need to fix because they aren't used very widely and their techy users will never step up and admit that their systems suck.
Not just filesystems, but also operative systems. Many other unix systems (if not all) don't protect users from the fsync/rename issue. If an app wants to be portable, it must use fsync.
All mobile phones are becoming smartphones. Google (and Apple, and everybody) don't care for "normal" mobiles, in a few years you will be able to buy androids/iphones for very low prices.
Well, no, it is completely different, other than having avatars and thumbnails. photophlow are flickr photos with a javascript chat. Wave are XML documents which are kept in sync via collaborative editing "protocols", and those documents can be text conversations, maps, videos, gadgets or any other thin.
Yes, Google has profits. Microsoft's online division, in the other hand, has been losing money for _years_. They don't make many money with the xbox division either. Windows, Office and server tools - those are the wash cows from where all their money comes from
The only way microsoft has succeeded in xbox and MSN/live is by using money from their cash cows to cover the loses.
Me neither. That's why I've switched to Juk (you know, that crappy music player included by default in KDE), which has a sane list management and at the same time is (unlike the old amarok 1.4) well integrated in KDE4. And despite of being far inferior "under the hood", I've found that it's exactly the kind of player that I want. I don't really want a player that shows me wikipedia info from that artist in the player. If anything, a link in the artist's name that opens his wikipedia page in a external konqueror window would be _more_ than enought. I don't want a player that instead of doing that, it revamps completely the player to use Plasma as a sort of kitchen-sink built-in UI designer just because the want to have a "clean" way to include rarely used applets such as the wikipedia one. It's the typical case of software overengineering, the player was completeley rewritten to handle well corner cases that most of people don't care about, greatly hurting in the process all the common cases. Right now, I think it's more easy to convert Juk in a decent player (it already is in many ways) that undo all the fuckup that has gone into Amarok 2.
That's stupid. Flash is great. Flash is the magic that makes youtube possible. I'm all for replacing it with HTML5, but it still is one of the most important pieces of the web.
Parallel port passthrough (vmware terminology) is the only thing stopping me from migrating many old win9x/dos computers to Ubuntu + VirtualBox for a bunch of local businesses.
kvm (which is way more integrated in Linux than virtualbox is) is supposed to support it, I've heard.
After an artificial black hole is created, things nearby fall into it very, very slowly.
I recently read a blog about the physics in this movie, and somewhere it explained that the gravity force is the same as before turning into a black hole. If our sun collapsed into a black hole, the gravity force the earth would suffer would have the same intensity as it has now.
Here's another hypotesis: Spain has the highest percentage of cocaine consumers of the world (it even surpassed EEUU in 2005 or so). Drug in europe is introduced in our beachs, so here in spain it's quite cheap.
Peoplesoft was competing with Oracle and oracle killed it to get rid of them, sun in the other hand was not competing with oracle - except for mysql, but why would them waste 7000 millions to get rid of mysql? In fact, sun as a company was dying. So this seems a completely different move. Either they were interested on not letting IBM/HP get bigger, or they are really interested in Sun. I think that both options are possible
Porting dtrace would be useless, Linux has pretty much catched up in that front - the only piece missing is the merge of utrace in the main kernel. In distros like Fedora, which include utrace, you already can use systemtap to probe both the kernel and userspace without problems (sure, it lacks the "final polish" of dtrace, but all the hard has been done)
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It's also very funny that in the spanish version of bing, searching for some terms shows the Encarta search page for that term as the first real link (after the ads), and Wikipedia in second place.
Use the "riskier" filesystem for the unimportant data (an desktop operative system can be reinstalled easily), use the stable filesystem for the data that matters (personal data that if you lose you won't be able to recover again). Whats wrong with that?
What do I gain by running with ext4?
Barriers enabled by default. The fact that most of ext3 users are running without them is scary.
If you keep using ext3, enable them. They aren't enabled by default because they have a noticeable performance hit, but if you are paranoid about corruption, you really want them.
Because Ext4 is a mainstream filesystem. People has been getting zeroed files for _years_ with XFS, but only enthusiasts used it. Ext4 however is "mainstream" and needs to face problems that many other operative systems/filesystems don't need to fix because they aren't used very widely and their techy users will never step up and admit that their systems suck.
but the apps will fail on other filesystems
Not just filesystems, but also operative systems. Many other unix systems (if not all) don't protect users from the fsync/rename issue. If an app wants to be portable, it must use fsync.
All mobile phones are becoming smartphones. Google (and Apple, and everybody) don't care for "normal" mobiles, in a few years you will be able to buy androids/iphones for very low prices.
Well, no, it is completely different, other than having avatars and thumbnails. photophlow are flickr photos with a javascript chat. Wave are XML documents which are kept in sync via collaborative editing "protocols", and those documents can be text conversations, maps, videos, gadgets or any other thin.
Yes, Google has profits. Microsoft's online division, in the other hand, has been losing money for _years_. They don't make many money with the xbox division either. Windows, Office and server tools - those are the wash cows from where all their money comes from
The only way microsoft has succeeded in xbox and MSN/live is by using money from their cash cows to cover the loses.
You're old (compared with newborns)
Now you are a bit older.
Now older.
Older, older, older!
Quick, open a blog before you die! :(
But, I cannot wait till 2.2 and 2.3
Me neither. That's why I've switched to Juk (you know, that crappy music player included by default in KDE), which has a sane list management and at the same time is (unlike the old amarok 1.4) well integrated in KDE4. And despite of being far inferior "under the hood", I've found that it's exactly the kind of player that I want. I don't really want a player that shows me wikipedia info from that artist in the player. If anything, a link in the artist's name that opens his wikipedia page in a external konqueror window would be _more_ than enought. I don't want a player that instead of doing that, it revamps completely the player to use Plasma as a sort of kitchen-sink built-in UI designer just because the want to have a "clean" way to include rarely used applets such as the wikipedia one. It's the typical case of software overengineering, the player was completeley rewritten to handle well corner cases that most of people don't care about, greatly hurting in the process all the common cases. Right now, I think it's more easy to convert Juk in a decent player (it already is in many ways) that undo all the fuckup that has gone into Amarok 2.
People use that for years, but flash won, guess why?
Flash is ugly, slow and just plain annoying.
That's stupid. Flash is great. Flash is the magic that makes youtube possible. I'm all for replacing it with HTML5, but it still is one of the most important pieces of the web.
So what is SVG supposed to be?
Postgresql has a terrible marketing and image, mysql doesn't.
Parallel port passthrough (vmware terminology) is the only thing stopping me from migrating many old win9x/dos computers to Ubuntu + VirtualBox for a bunch of local businesses.
kvm (which is way more integrated in Linux than virtualbox is) is supposed to support it, I've heard.
After an artificial black hole is created, things nearby fall into it very, very slowly.
I recently read a blog about the physics in this movie, and somewhere it explained that the gravity force is the same as before turning into a black hole. If our sun collapsed into a black hole, the gravity force the earth would suffer would have the same intensity as it has now.
Here's another hypotesis: Spain has the highest percentage of cocaine consumers of the world (it even surpassed EEUU in 2005 or so). Drug in europe is introduced in our beachs, so here in spain it's quite cheap.
eeh..."already" -> "before"
Except that if you look at the patch, you will see it's not just "a constant change". If it was this easy, it would have been done already.
I think it is a waste of taxes to have people writting post in twitter. Seriously. I'm not american so they're not my taxes, but still looks stupid.
Are you aware that Linux 2.6.3 is 5 years old? Linux increased the default group limit in the following release, 2.6.4, to 65536
As far as I know, that proyect is dead. The last time I read something about it, it was about some X.org extensions that were added to the core.
Peoplesoft was competing with Oracle and oracle killed it to get rid of them, sun in the other hand was not competing with oracle - except for mysql, but why would them waste 7000 millions to get rid of mysql? In fact, sun as a company was dying. So this seems a completely different move. Either they were interested on not letting IBM/HP get bigger, or they are really interested in Sun. I think that both options are possible
Porting dtrace would be useless, Linux has pretty much catched up in that front - the only piece missing is the merge of utrace in the main kernel. In distros like Fedora, which include utrace, you already can use systemtap to probe both the kernel and userspace without problems (sure, it lacks the "final polish" of dtrace, but all the hard has been done)
No, you mean pre-GEM drivers. GEM, modesetting and DRI2 have fixed the X.org driver model.