I upgraded from RH 9 to Fedora Core 1 a few months ago.
One thing it changes that you may not be aware of is:
In RedHat, the IDE-SCSI module does not treat ide disks as SCSI devices (only CD-RWs and Tape drives)
Fedora Core 1's IDE-SCSI module treats ide disks as SCSI devices.
This means, if you plug in a SCSI disk (or something like a USB keyfob that emulates one) and you have ide_scsi.o loaded (ie you've burned a CD since the last reboot), the new device may not appear where you expected.
Trust me, greping for your partition boundaries ("ReIsEr4") because you "#/sbin/dosformat/dev/sda"'d is no fun.
With server side XSL, many XSL transformations have to share the same CPU. With client-side XSL, the viewer's CPU does the transformation. All the server CPU needs to do is blast bits from the filesystem to the network. This saves the website money, and the viewer time.
The linked patent doesn't seem to be related to the story.
The key feature of the story seems to be the volume of the card (8GB), but the Patent is for linking a single flash device to multiple interfaces (ATAPI, GSM, and UART, specifically).
Isn't it better to have US businesses be the leades in the global economey or is it better to let foreign companies grow past us and eventually take over our companies?
Once it's a publicly traded company with subsidiaries and partnerships in multiple countries it doesn't really matter. The ships will be re-flagged, the profits will be transfer priced to tax havens, and the plants will be upgraded to wherever labour and environmental standards are the worst.
With agreements like the MAI, it doesn't really matter where the head office is. If the company's publicly traded, it'll be held by Institutional investors and round and round the profits go. The only ones that see the benefits are the executives.
Outsourcing = profits, profits = better bottom line, better bottom line = growth, growth = more jobs.
Here's where you're wrong. Profits do not lead to growth; Growth may be a strategy to increase profits. Growth (in business terms) may not lead to more jobs, or those jobs may be elsewhere.
The desire for more profits may lead to expansion, but only if that's what will result in higher profits. Take Porsche for example. Increasing their production capacity tenfold would likely lead to lower net profit, as it would erode their sticker price. Prestige is their buying motivation. Make Porsches commonplace and you lose the prestige.
In the forest industry, it was quite common in the 90's for a company to open one new higher capacity plant while closing an old plant. The old plant often employed more people (the new one was more mechanized). The company has grown, but less people are employed.
Similarly, An auto manufacturer may "grow", increasing it's production capacity by outsourcing parts that had been produced in-house to multiple offshore subsidiaries. By shifting it's ratios of parts supplied by each plant they can keep costs the lowest, while billing the highest in the countries with the lowest effective taxes (transfer pricing). Now the company has grown by increasing it's profits, but there are less jobs.
Offshoring depends on the market for your product not decreasing to increase profits. Unfortunately, if production is commonly offshored from the consuming market, incomes fall in the market, leading to less sales, which decreases profits.
(For those who've never taken an ethics course, this is called Kant's Categorical Imperative.)
More jobs and growing economy helps us all
This is only true is the growth is distributed evenly. Logic does not bear your assertion out.
A "growing economy", in business terms simply means that larger amounts of money are being transferred. If I were to sell you a rock for a promissory note for 200 trillion dollars, then buy the rock back for the promissory note, we would have increased the GDP by 400 trillion dollars, which is about 4000%. But who did this benefit? Only me, as I'd now have an asset with a book value of 200 trillion dollars (liquidating this asset is annother matter).
Much of what goes on in the economy (and one of the areas of largest growth) is companies acquiring eachother and merging. Often this is done by a stock swap. If two large companies swap stock at market value, the book value of the transaction adds to the GDP, and it appears that the economy has grown. Rarely are jobs created by stock swaps. The merged company may decide to grow, but often the reason to merge is something that precludes growth.
I take it you've never looked at the images on one of those security tapes. Most of the ones I've seen (store cameras) Try to cram 24 hours of footage from 4 cameras on 1 2-hour VHS tape. There's hardly ever enough detail to identify anyone. You can tell what someone did, if you already know who it is (ie the clerk), but not who someone is.
Just incase you didn't already know it, the scenes on TV where they zoom in and "enhance" images from surveilance tapes are blown way out of porportion. Reality doesn't even come close.
What scares me most is
This Article.
Even understanding that one of the assumptions was that any two pairs of hosts communicate at the same rate, It's frightening.
Theoretically wiping out 40 million hosts in under a minute....
I'm guessing that a real-world implementation would probably take closer to 20 minutes, but still it's mighty frightening.
Just about the only way I could see to stop it's spread would be to make smart routers, switches, and even hubs that quickly seal off any services on which there is a sudden surge of SYNs from random hosts.
Make the OpenPGP signing element (and key) hard-wired into the Camera's Firmware. also make it so you can't get the private key out (or change it) without breaking the camera case. Put the public key on each memory card that's inserted, and have the public key fingerprint etched on the case right next to the serial number.
Now, if there's any doubt that a particular picture was taken by a specific camera and hasn't been modified
Produce the undamaged camera
Compare it's key fingerprint etched on the case to the key used to verify the image.
If the case is cracked, the trail of posesion is broken.
If you want to post pictures anonymously, don't include the IMG#####.asc file.
So then the Defense lawyer presents as Defence exhibit 1 the camera alleged to have taken the picture, and points out all the wires sticking out of it.
I'm pretty sure that most of the people who were serious in the thread about slashdot personals
were serious because they wanted to find someone who's got compatible interests to them.
Instead, we got Match.com, which, being a general singles site, has the same selection of people as your local singles bar.
It would have been much better to build something closer to sciconnect.com, but with a geek slant, rather than a science slant.
How can the international community promote the freedom to use information technology for fair and lawful purposes (ie no DRM, free use of strong cryptography)?
Now, I know I'm responding to an Offtopic troll, but...
OpenGL is an API for talking to a Vector and/or Raster drawing subsystem. It works for 3d and 2d drawing. Where hardware acceleration for vector drawing exists (ie most modern desktops) OpenGL can send the drawing commands direct to the Video Card, without rasterizing the result first. This means that vector applications (such as SVG rendering) can operate a whole lot faster, and are simpler to code.
Where the application is not running on the same machine as the display, sending GLX vector commands rather than rasterized images can be much faster. Also, it does not load the machine significantly more than having application-side rasterization where acceleration hardware doesn't exist.
So by working on OpenGL (which is mostly a server issue, not an XLib issue), developers are working on SVG, Animated Everything, and faster 2d.
* receiving from the gift giver an indication that the gift is to be delivered to the recipient and an electronic mail address of the recipient; and
* sending to a gift delivery computer system an indication of the gift and the received electronic mail address, wherein the gift delivery computer system coordinates delivery of the gift by
* sending an electronic mail message addressed to the electronic mail address of the recipient requesting that the recipient provide delivery information including a postal address for the gift; and
* upon receiving the delivery information, electronically initiating delivery of the gift in accordance with the received delivery information.
We allow ordering of gifts, but the sender enters the shipping info.
Remember "Lord Black of Cross-Harbour" (Conrad Black)? He couldn't get knighted because the Liberal Caucus thought he was a scoundrel, so he got a UK citizenship. If Parliament consented, he'd be "Lord Black of Winnipeg".
Find all the groups of cables that go from one place to annother, ie (Desktop->Back of computer (mouse, keyboard, microphone, monitor, video camera)) and (Shelf of computers->Powerbar (power cables)) and (Shelf of computers->Router (Cat-5s))
Now tape each group together so it forms one mega-cable.
Just be really carefull when you replace a device that you don't cut any cables when you cut the tape. I did this myself; last time I replaced my mouse I also had to replace my keyboard.
MS is evil because they will not release source code of vital components like encryption for peer review.
MS is evil because they embrace standards, but add slight incompatabilities so that other programs will not work.
MS is evil because they leverage their near monopoly on desktop operating systems to force competitors out of other markets such as browsers, instant-messaging, email clients, and digital music retailing.
MS is evil because they use their near monopoly along with proprietary file formats to force competitors out of markets like spreadsheets, word processors, and presentation software.
MS is evil because they promote sham certifications that de-value real understanding and de-skill the workforce.
Slashdot Mirror
I upgraded from RH 9 to Fedora Core 1 a few months ago.
One thing it changes that you may not be aware of is:
In RedHat, the IDE-SCSI module does not treat ide disks as SCSI devices (only CD-RWs and Tape drives)
Fedora Core 1's IDE-SCSI module treats ide disks as SCSI devices.
This means, if you plug in a SCSI disk (or something like a USB keyfob that emulates one) and you have ide_scsi.o loaded (ie you've burned a CD since the last reboot), the new device may not appear where you expected.
Trust me, greping for your partition boundaries ("ReIsEr4") because you "#/sbin/dosformat /dev/sda"'d is no fun.
With server side XSL, many XSL transformations have to share the same CPU. With client-side XSL, the viewer's CPU does the transformation. All the server CPU needs to do is blast bits from the filesystem to the network. This saves the website money, and the viewer time.
Using XSL allows me to seperate Content, Presentation, and Navigation.
By putting just article text in an XML file, presentation in XSL and CSS, and Navigation in RSS files, I can make a site way more flexible.
If a site detects XSL capable browsers, Once the XSL, RSS, CSS, and images are in the viewers cache, article downloads are really fast.
It also means I don't have to dynamically generate or hand edit a zillion HTML files every time there's a new article to link to.
You mean like beer companies?
The linked patent doesn't seem to be related to the story.
The key feature of the story seems to be the volume of the card (8GB), but the Patent is for linking a single flash device to multiple interfaces (ATAPI, GSM, and UART, specifically).
Once it's a publicly traded company with subsidiaries and partnerships in multiple countries it doesn't really matter. The ships will be re-flagged, the profits will be transfer priced to tax havens, and the plants will be upgraded to wherever labour and environmental standards are the worst.
With agreements like the MAI, it doesn't really matter where the head office is. If the company's publicly traded, it'll be held by Institutional investors and round and round the profits go. The only ones that see the benefits are the executives.
Here's where you're wrong. Profits do not lead to growth; Growth may be a strategy to increase profits. Growth (in business terms) may not lead to more jobs, or those jobs may be elsewhere.
The desire for more profits may lead to expansion, but only if that's what will result in higher profits. Take Porsche for example. Increasing their production capacity tenfold would likely lead to lower net profit, as it would erode their sticker price. Prestige is their buying motivation. Make Porsches commonplace and you lose the prestige.
In the forest industry, it was quite common in the 90's for a company to open one new higher capacity plant while closing an old plant. The old plant often employed more people (the new one was more mechanized). The company has grown, but less people are employed.
Similarly, An auto manufacturer may "grow", increasing it's production capacity by outsourcing parts that had been produced in-house to multiple offshore subsidiaries. By shifting it's ratios of parts supplied by each plant they can keep costs the lowest, while billing the highest in the countries with the lowest effective taxes (transfer pricing). Now the company has grown by increasing it's profits, but there are less jobs.
Offshoring depends on the market for your product not decreasing to increase profits. Unfortunately, if production is commonly offshored from the consuming market, incomes fall in the market, leading to less sales, which decreases profits.
(For those who've never taken an ethics course, this is called Kant's Categorical Imperative.)
This is only true is the growth is distributed evenly. Logic does not bear your assertion out.
A "growing economy", in business terms simply means that larger amounts of money are being transferred. If I were to sell you a rock for a promissory note for 200 trillion dollars, then buy the rock back for the promissory note, we would have increased the GDP by 400 trillion dollars, which is about 4000%. But who did this benefit? Only me, as I'd now have an asset with a book value of 200 trillion dollars (liquidating this asset is annother matter).
Much of what goes on in the economy (and one of the areas of largest growth) is companies acquiring eachother and merging. Often this is done by a stock swap. If two large companies swap stock at market value, the book value of the transaction adds to the GDP, and it appears that the economy has grown. Rarely are jobs created by stock swaps. The merged company may decide to grow, but often the reason to merge is something that precludes growth.
I take it you've never looked at the images on one of those security tapes. Most of the ones I've seen (store cameras) Try to cram 24 hours of footage from 4 cameras on 1 2-hour VHS tape. There's hardly ever enough detail to identify anyone. You can tell what someone did, if you already know who it is (ie the clerk), but not who someone is.
Just incase you didn't already know it, the scenes on TV where they zoom in and "enhance" images from surveilance tapes are blown way out of porportion. Reality doesn't even come close.
What scares me most is This Article. Even understanding that one of the assumptions was that any two pairs of hosts communicate at the same rate, It's frightening.
Theoretically wiping out 40 million hosts in under a minute....
I'm guessing that a real-world implementation would probably take closer to 20 minutes, but still it's mighty frightening.
Just about the only way I could see to stop it's spread would be to make smart routers, switches, and even hubs that quickly seal off any services on which there is a sudden surge of SYNs from random hosts.
If it were that easy, nobody would be using GnuPG or PGP.
Easy enough...
Make the OpenPGP signing element (and key) hard-wired into the Camera's Firmware. also make it so you can't get the private key out (or change it) without breaking the camera case. Put the public key on each memory card that's inserted, and have the public key fingerprint etched on the case right next to the serial number.
Now, if there's any doubt that a particular picture was taken by a specific camera and hasn't been modified
If the case is cracked, the trail of posesion is broken.
If you want to post pictures anonymously, don't include the IMG#####.asc file.
So then the Defense lawyer presents as Defence exhibit 1 the camera alleged to have taken the picture, and points out all the wires sticking out of it.
IANALI'm pretty sure that most of the people who were serious in the thread about slashdot personals were serious because they wanted to find someone who's got compatible interests to them.
Instead, we got Match.com, which, being a general singles site, has the same selection of people as your local singles bar.
It would have been much better to build something closer to sciconnect.com, but with a geek slant, rather than a science slant.
One valid XHTML+CSS site I built Crashed the machine when viewed on MSIE6.0 on Windows 2000 Professional.
You can get the source from www.kernel.org.
You're welcome to modularize the scheduler policy yourself.
I imagine you'd want this to be a compile-time option, and not a module though. It'd be difficult to schedule the loading of the scheduler module...
Good luck getting your patches accepted.
Given Iraq's clean-slate status:
How can the international community promote the freedom to use information technology for fair and lawful purposes (ie no DRM, free use of strong cryptography)?
Now, I know I'm responding to an Offtopic troll, but...
OpenGL is an API for talking to a Vector and/or Raster drawing subsystem. It works for 3d and 2d drawing. Where hardware acceleration for vector drawing exists (ie most modern desktops) OpenGL can send the drawing commands direct to the Video Card, without rasterizing the result first. This means that vector applications (such as SVG rendering) can operate a whole lot faster, and are simpler to code.
Where the application is not running on the same machine as the display, sending GLX vector commands rather than rasterized images can be much faster. Also, it does not load the machine significantly more than having application-side rasterization where acceleration hardware doesn't exist.
So by working on OpenGL (which is mostly a server issue, not an XLib issue), developers are working on SVG, Animated Everything, and faster 2d.
We're in Canada, how can we help you?
We allow ordering of gifts, but the sender enters the shipping info.
Remember "Lord Black of Cross-Harbour" (Conrad Black)? He couldn't get knighted because the Liberal Caucus thought he was a scoundrel, so he got a UK citizenship. If Parliament consented, he'd be "Lord Black of Winnipeg".
Most of which is based on "Creation Science".
uCLinux has been ported to some 68K derivatives. See their Ports Page.
Laptop users.
Find all the groups of cables that go from one place to annother, ie (Desktop->Back of computer (mouse, keyboard, microphone, monitor, video camera)) and (Shelf of computers->Powerbar (power cables)) and (Shelf of computers->Router (Cat-5s))
Now tape each group together so it forms one mega-cable.
Just be really carefull when you replace a device that you don't cut any cables when you cut the tape. I did this myself; last time I replaced my mouse I also had to replace my keyboard.
MS is evil because they will not release source code of vital components like encryption for peer review.
MS is evil because they embrace standards, but add slight incompatabilities so that other programs will not work.
MS is evil because they leverage their near monopoly on desktop operating systems to force competitors out of other markets such as browsers, instant-messaging, email clients, and digital music retailing.
MS is evil because they use their near monopoly along with proprietary file formats to force competitors out of markets like spreadsheets, word processors, and presentation software.
MS is evil because they promote sham certifications that de-value real understanding and de-skill the workforce.
shall I go on?