yes, Novell is a true OS... it loads in much the same way that windows 9x loads. it loads DOS first, then when DOS has things set up correctly, it takes over, and gives you a true 32 bit OS. in a way, DOS acts like a boot loader, much like LILO, but a hell of a lot bigger...but back to the main point, it controls low level access to all of its devices... and once loaded, it dosent use DOS for any access to the hardware. Novell in my expierence is a very stable OS... I've never seen it lock solid (i've never used 5.x, only 4.11, 3.x), but it is kinda cryptic... if I used it regularly, I guess it wouldent be so bad, but I've never done that...
I always assumed that it was Springfield IL... There is a Nuclar Power plant not far from springfield... Clinton Nuclar power plant... It is a bit of a drive, but it is a fictonal cartoon anyway...
The united states was founded on revolution. It seams as though everyone forgets that. (this is aimed at the US, not AU). By taking away our free speech and guns, the government takes away that very thangs that created the government. Now I'm not advocating an overthrow of the US government, but mearly pointing out a fact. When the government DOES try to take away our firearms, then mabey it is time to overthrow the government. Infact, I would think that it is the responcibility of the citizens to do this. While the post I am replying to seams inflamitory, it has some real truth at the end... I wouldent laugh while shooting, but I sure as hell would shoot.
Why is it that many people seam to lump all americans in a single group. While I agree with you that american schools do not teach enough about other cultures, this does not mean that everyone is a ignorant slob. I for one tend to reserve opinion untill I have been given enough information. Not every american thinks that the sun stops at the US border, or only thinks that there are only 3 cities in Canada. The "Red Scare" as you put it did in fact happen, but its not like it is anything new. The Russians and Chinese government used the same type of propaganda to put down our own capitolist ideas. The main thing people need to do is to treat everyone as an individual, not to lump them into a group
|| I really don't think anyone who lives in a country who's leader is a manipulative 'playboy' has any right to go on about matters of good government.
Ok, that is just a little to far. First President Clinton's personal life has NOTHING to do with how he runs the country. In fact, he has done a rather good job running both the internal politics and economics of the US, and the forign relations. Secondaly, a citizen's personal beliefs do not always coenside with his nation's leader's opinions. What Clinton does has NO EFFECT on the validity of my opinions. This is the same principle used to say that all chineese were communist pigs, this just isn't true.
--I, for one, am I disgusted every time I click on
--"Read More..."
Then Don't click "Read More".
On a more serious side, here are some realy good opinions here on this site, and almost no subject is taboo (except if it is pro-microsoft)I think this site is perfect for nerds. Have you ever read a technical manual or text book. It is usualy a lot of junk with "perls" of information hiden in it. Slashdot is the same way, it has a lot of noise, but it also has quite a few "perls" in it. While main-stream media, and "normal" people might have trouble deciefring slashdot, I have no doubt that the average "NERD" gets through it as second nature.
I've tried applying the patch from/usr/src,/usr/src/linux, and/usr/src/linux/fs, but have no luck, all it does is spit random files everywhere and says `done` then I try to compile and it barfs
Then again, I pulled the IDE cable out of the drive when it was running. I bet that dident help the situation. Other then that, a 2.1.132 kernel mysteriously locked up on me, but that was a develoment kernel, and the machine had a 70+ day uptime. Also, I tried one of the latest 2.3.x kernels, and it crashed on me detecting the USB controler, but then I expected that:)
Here is something many peaple missed. With the exception of China, the most productive farm land in the world is located in the industrial nations. Here in Illinois, I would say that about 15-25% of all farm land goes un-used. Why? well, the last figures I saw said that one farm worker could produce enough food for 15 peaple. I believe that this is actualy higher now that farmers use GPS, and scince, this is now higher. if you look where the population is booming (S America, Pacific Islands/SE Asia, Africa), this is precisly where they have the worst farm land. Once Brazil gets done burning its way through the rain-forest, it will eventualy run into a food shortage. This will 1) decrease there population 2) increase there reliance on 1st world nations such as the US. I dont have any hard figures, but I doubt that the US and Canada could easly produce food for over 1 billion peaple with out much problem. I'm not saying that this is good, but there is definatly a trend that the best farm land is precicly where the population is ether decreasing or going to decrease.
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Has anyone actualy worked with large FAT32 partisions. I would think that as a FAT32 approaches 100 Gig or so, it would become such a mess. What do you peaple that have FAT partisions on those 20+ gig drives see. Is it slugish. I quit using FAT partisions when a 3.2 Gig drive was average. Currently I use Ext2 on a 9 Gig disk.
I'm not an expert at coding browsers, but wouldent it be possible for KDE to take parts of Netscape (the layout engine) and put it into KDE. I'm not sure how lisencing would go with that, but it would give the equivelent of Win98/IE5 level of integration. I have never been a big fan of desktop integration, but I can see its uses, and it will eventualy come.
Sorry, I ment that half sarcasticaly since I am going to a school where the current equipement in the engineering school consists of electric drills, and other equipement out of the 50s and 60s. As far as the world goes, yes, quite a bit of it is stupid. It is usualy that "youthful exhuberance" of the kids right out of school that has a tendency to change things, even if only a small bit. Otherwise, wouldent society as a whole stagnate? Granted, I don't know everything, but if I think I do, won't I go out and atleast try to make a diffrence...
I think that a large number of students are far more willing to look at an idea from a fresh prospective then the general population (not to say that there aren't non-students that will do the same also). While all of us may not have 20 years in the business, most of us have atleast a fair ammount of expearance, and of course, we are always are on the cutting edge.
So, I personaly think that students add quite a bit to Slashdot.
But remember, unless your intent is to a) make a big hole in the ground. b) blow the hell out of a building or c) vaporize a lot of water. Nukes are most effective if they are deatonated several hundred feet off the ground. The reason for this is that the ground has a nasty tendency to take a lot of eneargy from the blast if it is deatonated at ground level. so if your intent is to kill the most peaple, or cause the most damage, stick it in a lear jet and make a low fly over a city.
Not entirly true. IIRC, an H-bomb works on the principle of having hydrogen ( mostly hydrogen, with various amounts of deterium and tritium, which are isatobes of hydrogen ) The trick is to speed up these elements fast enough to cause the colisions to fuse the hydrogen to helium(needs to raise the temp of hydrogen to 4x10^7 K). I know that this was done originaly with a Plutonium sphere, somewhat similer to the fat man bomb. It is theoreticaly posible to do this without a fission reaction(the sun is a good example of this), BUT it would take a lot of work. I believe they use plastic explocives to set off a small fission reaction, which in turn produces the fusion reaction. I believe that the first H-Bombs derived about 80-90% of the effect from the fusion, but now it is a LOT higher. As far as the nutrons go, they realy dont matter, the only thing that you need from the fission reaction is the heat it can produce
Any one know where I can get one for my P II-300. I hate it when peaple take the floppy out of the drive on my computer without un-mounting it, then they complain to me that the data got corrupted. I know enough not to do this, but Joe Blow down the hall that uses my computer in my dorm dosent. It would make things so much simpler for me, and not be that much trouble to do. It is nice that zip drives and CD-Rom drives lock the door when they are mounted. Thanks.....
With Unix, it was diffrent though. No one had to force unix on the universities, it just fit in well.
On another note, I know this is hapening because where I go to school, there isn't a single non Micro$oft machine outside ether the server room or the Engineering department(They are smart enough to use Suns).
>You build your NUMA box that has 1 fat highway, and it turns up like the subway systems in the metropolitan areas. The whole purpose of hypercube or 5-D torus is to have a shortest path to as many places as possible, instead of hopping onto that megapipe and making a stop at every node to see who wants to get off.
Technicaly you are correct. What I wanted to illistrate though is that in big NUMA boxes, you have one copy of the kernel running all processors. With a Beowulf system, and a Cray T3E I believe, you have a local copy of the kernel on each node of one or two processors. This negates the SMP problems of Linux on multi-CPU machines.
This is not true of Masively Parallel Systems such as boewulf. The problem with Linux and scalibility is more of a hardware problem then a software problem. While you aren't going to put Linux on a Sun E10k anytime soon, it was never ment to be on such a large SMP machine. The Intel SMP artecture is flawed in design. All processors share the same buss. Therefore if one processor can sustain 300M/sec of transfer, and you have 4 processors. That 800M/sec buss is going to slow down. now your processors are only 2/3 as efficient as they are in a single system. But you are probably going to be slower then this because most RAM has a sustained transfer rate of only 150-200M/sec. so you only use 1/2 of the processor.
To fix this, you use 2 processor busses, and 2 memory busses. you fill these up, and you get 4 processor busses and 4 memory busses. now you need to connect these buss segments. You have several options. First, connect them within the same machine. This is what NUMA is. the other route is to put each bus in a seperate machine, each machine running a copy of the kernel localy, and connect each box together with a fast network. This is what boewulf is.
To give you an example. think of a highway system. If you have a lot of traffic switching lanes(busses) constantently, then it would be best to build one big 20 lane highway(NUMA). but if all the traffic basicaly keeps in its own lane, without much need to switch lanes(Inter Process Comunication) then it may be more economical to build 10 2lane highways(boewulf).
Infact ins't a cray T3E more of a boewulf type cluster of closly nit machines then a NUMA. I think each node on a T3E runs a local copy of the micro-kernel.
I know for a fact that Eterms work great in KDE. I use them everyday (I have a permanent E-term in my background). The only thing I dont like is the fact that you need to use Esetroot to get transparency. but it works great...
I was diagnosed with ADD my 7th grade year. I took medication through my freshman year in High School. I also tested high for ADD. I maintained a 3.4 GPA (non weighted, 5.4 weighted) throught HS. While some of the things that did go away came back (figiting with everything) some did not. I ended up teaching myself to focus on stuff that I never did before (boring lectures). In my opinion medication should be a last resort for ADD. Much can be accomplished with just being aware of the problem, and working throught it yourself, or with help.
Is it not possible to use floresent lights with a DC power source. If this was true, then there would be no or verry little flicker. All you would need is an in-expensive AC/DC bridge and possibaly a transformer. It is relatively easy and efficient to convert AC to DC. Could it be as easy as installing a module in each room to do this?
First of all, There were problems with the mindcraft benchmark. Anyone in there right minds that looked at the results knew they were skewed way off. So some peaple did some investigations, and found the problems. If you noticed, when they re-ran the tests at ZD labs, there were far fewer flaimers. There were plenty of peaple explaining why Linux dident do as well. If you have noticed many developers have taken it up to fix the problems.
Also note that they dident realy compare these results to NT directly. For all I know, the latest NT results were taken a year ago on a Quad Xenon 400 1M Cache. All this proves is that a Linux machine is capable of hanging with the big boys like Sun (as long as you dont get to the E10k stage) IBM, and the like. For all I know, they could test W2K tomarow, and beat the pants off of Linux.... But this would definatly prove that using Linux isn't a bad choice by any means.....
And what is your uptime, how many hits/hour do you deal with, is it static or dynamic content. I have a Dual P 133 with 128 Megs of RAM running Linux/apache. I know for a fact that it handles 5k hits/hour without even bringing the load over 0.01 If you want to do any remote administration, stay away from NT, you dont want to waste the precious bandwidth up with a PC-Anywhere connection. For a server that is co-located, or in any other way not always at the fingertips of the admin, NT is a joke. I know this from expearance. I HAVE tried to set up an NT server that was co-located, I was always over there working on it if I needed a change. I then put Linux on it, and have only needed to go over ther about twice a year to upgrade the kernel. NT may have a slight performance advantage if you have $14,000 to drop on a server, but if you want to start talking about $2,000 servers, Linux walks all over NT. Most peaple dont get it, the biggest problem with NT is remote administration and the damn BSODs. I can admin my box from any device that ether has a web-browser or a telnet client. I dont need to install special tools to admin it.
Well, from expearance, win 98 wont be stable with 1 gig. I once put 512Meg in a Win 98 system (we had 4 128M DIMMS at the shop, and I just wanted to see). Strange things started to happen, it blue screened quite a bit. It wasn't prity. I would say that you could stick 4 Gigs in a 98 machine, but it wouldent stay running for more then 5 minutes.
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yes, Novell is a true OS... it loads in much the same way that windows 9x loads. it loads DOS first, then when DOS has things set up correctly, it takes over, and gives you a true 32 bit OS. in a way, DOS acts like a boot loader, much like LILO, but a hell of a lot bigger...but back to the main point, it controls low level access to all of its devices... and once loaded, it dosent use DOS for any access to the hardware. Novell in my expierence is a very stable OS... I've never seen it lock solid (i've never used 5.x, only 4.11, 3.x), but it is kinda cryptic... if I used it regularly, I guess it wouldent be so bad, but I've never done that...
I always assumed that it was Springfield IL... There is a Nuclar Power plant not far from springfield... Clinton Nuclar power plant... It is a bit of a drive, but it is a fictonal cartoon anyway...
The united states was founded on revolution. It seams as though everyone forgets that. (this is aimed at the US, not AU). By taking away our free speech and guns, the government takes away that very thangs that created the government. Now I'm not advocating an overthrow of the US government, but mearly pointing out a fact. When the government DOES try to take away our firearms, then mabey it is time to overthrow the government. Infact, I would think that it is the responcibility of the citizens to do this. While the post I am replying to seams inflamitory, it has some real truth at the end... I wouldent laugh while shooting, but I sure as hell would shoot.
Why is it that many people seam to lump all americans in a single group. While I agree with you that american schools do not teach enough about other cultures, this does not mean that everyone is a ignorant slob. I for one tend to reserve opinion untill I have been given enough information. Not every american thinks that the sun stops at the US border, or only thinks that there are only 3 cities in Canada. The "Red Scare" as you put it did in fact happen, but its not like it is anything new. The Russians and Chinese government used the same type of propaganda to put down our own capitolist ideas. The main thing people need to do is to treat everyone as an individual, not to lump them into a group
|| I really don't think anyone who lives in a country who's leader is a manipulative 'playboy' has any right to go on about matters of good government.
Ok, that is just a little to far. First President Clinton's personal life has NOTHING to do with how he runs the country. In fact, he has done a rather good job running both the internal politics and economics of the US, and the forign relations. Secondaly, a citizen's personal beliefs do not always coenside with his nation's leader's opinions. What Clinton does has NO EFFECT on the validity of my opinions. This is the same principle used to say that all chineese were communist pigs, this just isn't true.
--I, for one, am I disgusted every time I click on
--"Read More..."
Then Don't click "Read More".
On a more serious side, here are some realy good opinions here on this site, and almost no subject is taboo (except if it is pro-microsoft)I think this site is perfect for nerds. Have you ever read a technical manual or text book. It is usualy a lot of junk with "perls" of information hiden in it. Slashdot is the same way, it has a lot of noise, but it also has quite a few "perls" in it. While main-stream media, and "normal" people might have trouble deciefring slashdot, I have no doubt that the average "NERD" gets through it as second nature.
I've tried applying the patch from /usr/src, /usr/src/linux, and /usr/src/linux/fs, but have no luck, all it does is spit random files everywhere and says `done` then I try to compile and it barfs
any help would be appreciated
Then again, I pulled the IDE cable out of the drive when it was running. I bet that dident help the situation. Other then that, a 2.1.132 kernel mysteriously locked up on me, but that was a develoment kernel, and the machine had a 70+ day uptime. Also, I tried one of the latest 2.3.x kernels, and it crashed on me detecting the USB controler, but then I expected that :)
if it is -10 outside, you'd definatly need to pay me to drink that ice cube. then again, they end up saving on refrigeration at the temp:)
Here is something many peaple missed. With the exception of China, the most productive farm land in the world is located in the industrial nations. Here in Illinois, I would say that about 15-25% of all farm land goes un-used. Why? well, the last figures I saw said that one farm worker could produce enough food for 15 peaple. I believe that this is actualy higher now that farmers use GPS, and scince, this is now higher. if you look where the population is booming (S America, Pacific Islands/SE Asia, Africa), this is precisly where they have the worst farm land. Once Brazil gets done burning its way through the rain-forest, it will eventualy run into a food shortage. This will 1) decrease there population 2) increase there reliance on 1st world nations such as the US. I dont have any hard figures, but I doubt that the US and Canada could easly produce food for over 1 billion peaple with out much problem. I'm not saying that this is good, but there is definatly a trend that the best farm land is precicly where the population is ether decreasing or going to decrease.
Has anyone actualy worked with large FAT32 partisions. I would think that as a FAT32 approaches 100 Gig or so, it would become such a mess. What do you peaple that have FAT partisions on those 20+ gig drives see. Is it slugish. I quit using FAT partisions when a 3.2 Gig drive was average. Currently I use Ext2 on a 9 Gig disk.
I'm not an expert at coding browsers, but wouldent it be possible for KDE to take parts of Netscape (the layout engine) and put it into KDE. I'm not sure how lisencing would go with that, but it would give the equivelent of Win98/IE5 level of integration. I have never been a big fan of desktop integration, but I can see its uses, and it will eventualy come.
we are always are on the cutting edge
Sorry, I ment that half sarcasticaly since I am going to a school where the current equipement in the engineering school consists of electric drills, and other equipement out of the 50s and 60s. As far as the world goes, yes, quite a bit of it is stupid. It is usualy that "youthful exhuberance" of the kids right out of school that has a tendency to change things, even if only a small bit. Otherwise, wouldent society as a whole stagnate? Granted, I don't know everything, but if I think I do, won't I go out and atleast try to make a diffrence...
I'mnot sure how to take that last comment...
I think that a large number of students are far more willing to look at an idea from a fresh prospective then the general population (not to say that there aren't non-students that will do the same also). While all of us may not have 20 years in the business, most of us have atleast a fair ammount of expearance, and of course, we are always are on the cutting edge.
So, I personaly think that students add quite a bit to Slashdot.
But remember, unless your intent is to a) make a big hole in the ground. b) blow the hell out of a building or c) vaporize a lot of water. Nukes are most effective if they are deatonated several hundred feet off the ground. The reason for this is that the ground has a nasty tendency to take a lot of eneargy from the blast if it is deatonated at ground level. so if your intent is to kill the most peaple, or cause the most damage, stick it in a lear jet and make a low fly over a city.
Not entirly true. IIRC, an H-bomb works on the principle of having hydrogen ( mostly hydrogen, with various amounts of deterium and tritium, which are isatobes of hydrogen ) The trick is to speed up these elements fast enough to cause the colisions to fuse the hydrogen to helium(needs to raise the temp of hydrogen to 4x10^7 K). I know that this was done originaly with a Plutonium sphere, somewhat similer to the fat man bomb. It is theoreticaly posible to do this without a fission reaction(the sun is a good example of this), BUT it would take a lot of work. I believe they use plastic explocives to set off a small fission reaction, which in turn produces the fusion reaction. I believe that the first H-Bombs derived about 80-90% of the effect from the fusion, but now it is a LOT higher. As far as the nutrons go, they realy dont matter, the only thing that you need from the fission reaction is the heat it can produce
Any one know where I can get one for my P II-300. I hate it when peaple take the floppy out of the drive on my computer without un-mounting it, then they complain to me that the data got corrupted. I know enough not to do this, but Joe Blow down the hall that uses my computer in my dorm dosent. It would make things so much simpler for me, and not be that much trouble to do. It is nice that zip drives and CD-Rom drives lock the door when they are mounted. Thanks.....
With Unix, it was diffrent though. No one had to force unix on the universities, it just fit in well.
On another note, I know this is hapening because where I go to school, there isn't a single non Micro$oft machine outside ether the server room or the Engineering department(They are smart enough to use Suns).
>You build your NUMA box that has 1 fat highway, and it turns up like the subway systems in the metropolitan areas. The whole
purpose of hypercube or 5-D torus is to have a shortest path to as many places as possible, instead of hopping onto that megapipe
and making a stop at every node to see who wants to get off.
Technicaly you are correct. What I wanted to illistrate though is that in big NUMA boxes, you have one copy of the kernel running all processors. With a Beowulf system, and a Cray T3E I believe, you have a local copy of the kernel on each node of one or two processors. This negates the SMP problems of Linux on multi-CPU machines.
This is not true of Masively Parallel Systems such as boewulf. The problem with Linux and scalibility is more of a hardware problem then a software problem. While you aren't going to put Linux on a Sun E10k anytime soon, it was never ment to be on such a large SMP machine. The Intel SMP artecture is flawed in design. All processors share the same buss. Therefore if one processor can sustain 300M/sec of transfer, and you have 4 processors. That 800M/sec buss is going to slow down. now your processors are only 2/3 as efficient as they are in a single system. But you are probably going to be slower then this because most RAM has a sustained transfer rate of only 150-200M/sec. so you only use 1/2 of the processor.
To fix this, you use 2 processor busses, and 2 memory busses. you fill these up, and you get 4 processor busses and 4 memory busses. now you need to connect these buss segments. You have several options. First, connect them within the same machine. This is what NUMA is. the other route is to put each bus in a seperate machine, each machine running a copy of the kernel localy, and connect each box together with a fast network. This is what boewulf is.
To give you an example. think of a highway system. If you have a lot of traffic switching lanes(busses) constantently, then it would be best to build one big 20 lane highway(NUMA). but if all the traffic basicaly keeps in its own lane, without much need to switch lanes(Inter Process Comunication) then it may be more economical to build 10 2lane highways(boewulf).
Infact ins't a cray T3E more of a boewulf type cluster of closly nit machines then a NUMA. I think each node on a T3E runs a local copy of the micro-kernel.
I know for a fact that Eterms work great in KDE. I use them everyday (I have a permanent E-term in my background). The only thing I dont like is the fact that you need to use Esetroot to get transparency. but it works great...
I was diagnosed with ADD my 7th grade year. I took medication through my freshman year in High School. I also tested high for ADD. I maintained a 3.4 GPA (non weighted, 5.4 weighted) throught HS. While some of the things that did go away came back (figiting with everything) some did not. I ended up teaching myself to focus on stuff that I never did before (boring lectures). In my opinion medication should be a last resort for ADD. Much can be accomplished with just being aware of the problem, and working throught it yourself, or with help.
Is it not possible to use floresent lights with a DC power source. If this was true, then there would be no or verry little flicker. All you would need is an in-expensive AC/DC bridge and possibaly a transformer. It is relatively easy and efficient to convert AC to DC. Could it be as easy as installing a module in each room to do this?
First of all, There were problems with the mindcraft benchmark. Anyone in there right minds that looked at the results knew they were skewed way off. So some peaple did some investigations, and found the problems. If you noticed, when they re-ran the tests at ZD labs, there were far fewer flaimers. There were plenty of peaple explaining why Linux dident do as well. If you have noticed many developers have taken it up to fix the problems.
Also note that they dident realy compare these results to NT directly. For all I know, the latest NT results were taken a year ago on a Quad Xenon 400 1M Cache. All this proves is that a Linux machine is capable of hanging with the big boys like Sun (as long as you dont get to the E10k stage) IBM, and the like. For all I know, they could test W2K tomarow, and beat the pants off of Linux.... But this would definatly prove that using Linux isn't a bad choice by any means.....
And what is your uptime, how many hits/hour do you deal with, is it static or dynamic content. I have a Dual P 133 with 128 Megs of RAM running Linux/apache. I know for a fact that it handles 5k hits/hour without even bringing the load over 0.01 If you want to do any remote administration, stay away from NT, you dont want to waste the precious bandwidth up with a PC-Anywhere connection. For a server that is co-located, or in any other way not always at the fingertips of the admin, NT is a joke. I know this from expearance. I HAVE tried to set up an NT server that was co-located, I was always over there working on it if I needed a change. I then put Linux on it, and have only needed to go over ther about twice a year to upgrade the kernel. NT may have a slight performance advantage if you have $14,000 to drop on a server, but if you want to start talking about $2,000 servers, Linux walks all over NT. Most peaple dont get it, the biggest problem with NT is remote administration and the damn BSODs. I can admin my box from any device that ether has a web-browser or a telnet client. I dont need to install special tools to admin it.
Well, from expearance, win 98 wont be stable with 1 gig. I once put 512Meg in a Win 98 system (we had 4 128M DIMMS at the shop, and I just wanted to see). Strange things started to happen, it blue screened quite a bit. It wasn't prity. I would say that you could stick 4 Gigs in a 98 machine, but it wouldent stay running for more then 5 minutes.