those new SDLT 320 drives will read the old DLT 10/20 format that is about 8 years old at least.
There is no such thing as DLT 10/20. 10GB/20GB would have been the TZ87 format, which went on DLT3 tapes.
SDLT will read, but not write, DLT4 tapes, which came out about 10 years ago. AFAICR, the oldest format for DLT4 tapes is 20GB native (40GB compressed).
Methinks you dropped your sense of humor that day you chose Womens Studies as your college major.
But then again, since "regular" chicks really do care about superficial things like what kind of clothes that guys wear(*), why shouldn't a guy geek think that geek chicks care about superficial stuff like uptime?
(*) Be reasonable: I'm talking about basic stuff like whether the clothes are clean.
For me, none of the 2.6 kernels (2.6.1, 2.6.3, 2.6.5, and 2.6.6) I've tried will work with my firewire drive... All requests for help on the linux-kernel and ieee1394 mailing lists have either fallen on deaf ears or resulted in suggestions that didn't work. The same drive works fine with the 2.4 kernels.
My external drive works on 2.4.24 (the last 2.4 kernel I tried) and 2.6.3, but not 2.6.[456]. I also emailed bcollins, but also got no response.:(
Maybe 2.6.7 will work, but I'm not holding my breath.
The RG span is higher, but only 400m long, whereas the (gag) French bridge is 2,460m, which, in my mind, makes it a much more difficult engineering chalenge.
Geez, I just downloaded the installer, cp'ed the 2 files to/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and Flash 7 worked. A Debian user who can't do that should go to Lindows.
And yes, I noticed a definite decrease in CPU usage over Flash 6.
One of the reasons I stopped using Mozilla was the bloat. I do not need one tool that does: web browsing, email, usenet, html editing and, now, ftp upload.
One of the perennial criticisms of MS software is the bloat. Is bloatware some how ok if it's open source? Of course it isn't.
Adding yet another piece of unnecessary functionality to Mozilla makes it less, not more, attractive.
If you used Debian/Knoppix/Libranet, you could
just install mozilla-browser as opposed to mozilla-mailnews.
After looking at the RSS of both firefox & mozilla-browser, after many hours of surfing, with many open windows, I find that the amount of memory used by ff is almost the same a mozilla, and I like Mozilla's feature-set (even though it's currently using 305MB RAM).
Gah!! dBaseX is about as far from being a relational DBMS as possible. In fast, it's not a DBM*S* at all: the programmer has to do everything except manage the indexes.
Postgres does ACID-compliant transactions and is much faster and more scalable than Ingres, and actually supports SQL-92, and triggers, and stored procs, and many many other modern features.
Because PostgreSQL doesn't have PITR, so fails the "Durability" portion of ACID.
I'd never run a mission-critical DB off an RDBMS that isn't fully ACID. Yes, I'm anal that way, but that's what happens after you've worked with a real RDBMS running on a great OS for a while.
I heard the same "you need hardly any proc power to browse the WWW, read e-mail, or do IM chat" type of comments back when 120 MHz chips were high-end and P75s were in the low-end computers. And that was true then, too, but it doesn't seem to stop the standard chips from becoming 25-or-so times faster.
Not much "power" is needed to display a mostly text page with a few static images, but the WWW has changed since 1998.
Now, it's not uncommon to have pages with 3 or 4 complicated Flash animations, and loads of animated GIFs. That puts a significant burden on a CPU.
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Biggest problem is speed, ~6-8M/sec on a good day. You haven't optimized for speed, then. Are you overloading the SCSI bus?
those new SDLT 320 drives will read the old DLT 10/20 format that is about 8 years old at least.
There is no such thing as DLT 10/20. 10GB/20GB would have been the TZ87 format, which went on DLT3 tapes.
SDLT will read, but not write, DLT4 tapes, which came out about 10 years ago. AFAICR, the oldest format for DLT4 tapes is 20GB native (40GB compressed).
so I don't have to have a different copy of the same file for each browser I use.
One word: symlink.
Did your kids not call you dad, but instead called you "Brother"? Perhaps "Big Brother"? :-)
But seriously, that is a parent's job....
Now if the TV only had a little telnet daemon that would spit back what channel was being displayed at that moment, life would be good.
A built-in, out-facing webcam would be great! "Bobby! Stop whacking off to Red Shoe Diaries and go to sleep!!".
Chicks don't care blah, blah blah...
Methinks you dropped your sense of humor that day you chose Womens Studies as your college major.
But then again, since "regular" chicks really do care about superficial things like what kind of clothes that guys wear(*), why shouldn't a guy geek think that geek chicks care about superficial stuff like uptime?
(*) Be reasonable: I'm talking about basic stuff like whether the clothes are clean.
For me, none of the 2.6 kernels (2.6.1, 2.6.3, 2.6.5, and 2.6.6) I've tried will work with my firewire drive... All requests for help on the linux-kernel and ieee1394 mailing lists have either fallen on deaf ears or resulted in suggestions that didn't work. The same drive works fine with the 2.4 kernels.
:(
My external drive works on 2.4.24 (the last 2.4 kernel I tried) and 2.6.3, but not 2.6.[456]. I also emailed bcollins, but also got no response.
Maybe 2.6.7 will work, but I'm not holding my breath.
I work with secretaries who would use up 1GB of storage a year if they didn't delete any emails.
That's truly stunning.
The 36,000 email archive of the Evolution mailing list is only 105,500,082 bytes. Many of those emails are HTML, to boot.
Or "I didn't know McDonalds coffee was hot and that if I drive with a cup between my legs and hit a bump in the road, that I'll get scalded".
Even if you only had one address space, any virtual address can be mapped to any physical address. (with a resolution of some page size)
Specifically, you have one physical address space, and the CPU's MMU makes it so that every process' virtual base address is 0.
The RG span is higher, but only 400m long, whereas the (gag) French bridge is 2,460m, which, in my mind, makes it a much more difficult engineering chalenge.
Anyone who thinks ESR is a leftist know nothing about his views.
And yes, I noticed a definite decrease in CPU usage over Flash 6.
Umm, excuse me? How many US troops are in Iraq now?
If they want land from someone it'll be Russia....
Absolutely. Southern Siberia is a big place.
If you used Debian/Knoppix/Libranet, you could just install mozilla-browser as opposed to mozilla-mailnews.
After looking at the RSS of both firefox & mozilla-browser, after many hours of surfing, with many open windows, I find that the amount of memory used by ff is almost the same a mozilla, and I like Mozilla's feature-set (even though it's currently using 305MB RAM).
Gah!! dBaseX is about as far from being a relational DBMS as possible. In fast, it's not a DBM*S* at all: the programmer has to do everything except manage the indexes.
R:Base was the first uP RDBMS.
Because PostgreSQL doesn't have PITR, so fails the "Durability" portion of ACID.
I'd never run a mission-critical DB off an RDBMS that isn't fully ACID. Yes, I'm anal that way, but that's what happens after you've worked with a real RDBMS running on a great OS for a while.
Do you know what the fsck you're talking about, or are you just blowing sh*t out your rectum?
Ingres began life in 1977, and was taken commercial in 1985, so it's probably older than you are.
I heard the same "you need hardly any proc power to browse the WWW, read e-mail, or do IM chat" type of comments back when 120 MHz chips were high-end and P75s were in the low-end computers. And that was true then, too, but it doesn't seem to stop the standard chips from becoming 25-or-so times faster.
Not much "power" is needed to display a mostly text page with a few static images, but the WWW has changed since 1998.
Now, it's not uncommon to have pages with 3 or 4 complicated Flash animations, and loads of animated GIFs. That puts a significant burden on a CPU.
8086- it's basically only an 8-bit processor
It's 16-bit
no good for multi-tasking.
Not true.
meaning that it was runing at a whole 8 Mhz
"Turbo" was relevant up to when 386's hit ~33MHz, and referred to 8088s, 8086s, 80286s & 80386s.
opposed to the 4.77Mhz of the orginal IBM PC-XT
The original was the IBM PC. The XT was released 2 years later.
The abbreviation for hertz is Hz, not hz.
Well, at least you were correct when you said "4.77".
And that would be... an American public school?
How does that make it a cathedral? Linux is still open; it will just be "tracked" in the future.
Depends on which race.
The Windstar is the old name of the current Freestar.
but I actually lose skills the more I use it. I've used Debian for 2 years now, and those are my exact thoughts, and for the exact same reason.