And many users with sensitive mouse wheels, such as myself, say fuck that. A key combination is much more effective for switching to a different workspace.
Once you go through the installation process from a stage3 (Complete base system, you need to put X and KDE/GNOME/Flux, whatever, which depending on your system can take time, though that statement is a given with KDE) and put all the other goodies you intend to use, then you can make a stage4 tarball of your system so that just in case you ever did need to do a reinstall, you already have an image to use. The stage4 process is well documented in the forums and on gentoo-wiki. I admit though it's a pain in the ass that the graphical installer isn't done yet (The last time I tried to use it it actually wiped all my partitions out. Stay. Away. I'm not overly interested in filing a bug report either, I'll take blame for that), but if you have the ability to burn DVDs you could always install Sabayon. There's also Vidalinux (VLOS). Apparently Sabayon even has a CD version available now for those of us that can't burn DVDs. These systems give you a completely built Gentoo desktop, drastically reducing the amount of time you have to wait for a usable system.
For what it's worth it's very easy to get your assortment of 32-bit applications and libraries working in a Gentoo setup.
Mplayer-bin in portage, firefox-bin, decent HOWTO in the forums to install mplayerplug-in-bin. Opera works just fine too.:)
I understand there are plenty of reasons to prefer something like Mandriva, but for what it's worth when you find out how to work Gentoo the right way, it is for the most part much more flexible than something like Mandriva, Fedora and Suse. HTH.
Ext3 uses as much disk space as any other traditional filesystem, as far as I know ReiserFS is the exception to the rule as long as you don't mount it with notail since the layout it uses enables it to store many small files in a single block. Tail packing increases external fragmentation and introduces a speed hit for an, on average, 5% increase in storage copacity when compared with ext2 (And I would presume ext3 since ext3 is simply a journal on top). ReiserFS may be good at fileserving, but the fact of the matter is it's best when dealing with tons of small files a lot of the time for maximum throughput, mailservers. I have never seen anyone argue that ReiserFS is not ideal for mailservers. Ext3 mounted in writeback mode is dangerous for poorly written programs but delivers solid performance in a lot of scenarios. Guru Labs tests
In any case, for what it's worth I use ext3 in journaled mode and it performs quite fast enough for my needs and I don't see "so much disk activity" but then again I'm using the system as a desktop/wanna-server, I'm not running benchmarks on it all the time simulating rediculous scenarios. I don't trust XFS because of how it aggressively makes use of RAM and a poorly designed program runs a good chance of losing data in the event of a power outage, and JFS is great for saving CPU cycles but it's throughput and latency isn't the best, though it's probably my second favorite journalled FS after ext3. Ext3 is reliable for me and when using dir_index and journalled data mode it does alright by me in terms of performance, and I enjoy the security of having full data and metadata journalling, which AFAIK ext3 is the only one that provides.
Ugh and I need a cup of coffee! I meant to say you'd see it perform slightly better on a more high-end CPU (than in the linked article) when it brings high load to your system during intensive IO.
Haha, thanks, I hadn't had a good laugh in a while. ReiserFS is for mail servers, I'd rather have compatability and greater stability (Though neither filesystem has caused me data loss, fsck likes me. Well, except Reiser4, that one didn't) for my desktop though, thanks anyways. I won't even get into technicals like how ReiserFS fragments horribly and quickly. It's a great filesystem that was put into maintenance mode way too soon, they should have done more with it instead of reinventing numerous wheels with Reiser4 and then bitching that it's not making it in the mainline kernel.
Ext3 doesn't seem very slow to me at all, but maybe I've mellowed out with regards to my Linux setups and think most of the time in the past I was simply having a placebo effect feeling. Interesting conclusion drawn here, too:
Conclusion : For quick operations on large file tree, choose Ext3 or XFS. Benchmarks from other authors have supported the use of ReiserFS for operations on large number of small files. However, the present results on a tree comprising thousands of files of various size (10KB to 5MB) suggest than Ext3 or XFS may be more appropriate for real-world file server operations. Even if JFS minimize CPU usage, it should be noted that this FS comes with significantly higher latency for large file tree operations.
Of course since ReiserFS loves CPU cycles, you'd see it perform slightly better when it brings high load to your system during intensive IO.
I guess we shouldn't inform people from now on that, hey, this news source might be a little more than biased. You want right-leaning bias, check out FOX News. You want in-your-face political agenda pushing, check out WND. This article should have never made it to the front page, especially if the people are too stupid to figure out how YouTube works. Nothing was censored here.
If you would have read the article you wouldn't have anything to be upset over other than the fact that there are people on YouTube who think it's tripe. I'm not even going to get into that though because quite frankly a flame war is the last thing I want to get involved in.
What's to stop a grassroots fundraising effort aimed at getting a license for the 64bit edition of the software? Nothing. CoLinux will run without complaint on 32bit systems, as well.
There is an option in ever build of Vista out there right in the boot menu when you press F8 to disable the requirement that kernel-mode drivers be signed. You can use this option to boot Vista, install an unsigned driver in your 64bit environment (Since that's the only environment that requires this, and I believe it's the same for XP x64 Edition), and you're off using your shiny unsigned driver.
I'd rather developers either pay the license fee if they truly require kernel-mode access so that they're showing an honest effort that they intend to create a high-quality product, or just don't write code that requires such access. The only software I use that requires access like this right now is Peerguardian and Ext2IFS (In XP), but I don't use the 64-bit Windows builds, I prefer to keep things simple since compatibility is important to me.
I'll admit that I was wrong in what I said, since I was just a little put off by yet another person taking that lofty attitude I see so many times when a discussion arises on the internet. Instead of saying anything of substance, you said, and I quote, "Well, point me at a peer reviewed scientific study that shows that most killers aren't wracked with guilt. Come on. You said you had evidence." That's a pretty asshole attitude to bring to the table, and so far I haven't seen a study or statistics being brought out for either side (My articles I linked to specifically dealt with a certain subsect, which depending on your definition can include a very large percentage of criminals).
I'm having a hard time finding anything either way, but I do know that there are a lot of studies that show that ex-convicts are far more likely to be involved in criminal activities including homicide. In any case, to me I'd rather have these people locked up for an extremely long time if not for life for killing another person. I don't support the death penalty because I recognize that our legal system, while doing a good job of not bringing about false convictions, does have those from time to time. People have been released from prison after many many years based on new evidence from techniques that simply weren't available back then that prove their innocence. I do not care if a murderer feels remorse at any point, I care that they broke the law in a very serious way. Life is something to treat with sanctity and respect, and the laws should enforce that view, not say "Oh well as long as you're sorry it's OK!" or "Ah, you say you did it in a fit of rage? Well, how justified!"
The driver signing is only required on the 64bit edition, just like XP 64bit Edition. To quote this article:
The basic premise is that protected content can't be successfully protected on 32-bit Vista, since there's no driver signing requirement. So only 64-bit Vista will be able to play commercial, protected, high definition DVD content.
As far as I know, these requirements are for kernel-mode drivers, as well.
The thing is you think you've met 2 people who killed people, you don't know how many you've come across in your lifetime. Furthermore, I don't socialize with people like that knowingly (Though I have been threatened with my life on a few occasions, even by a family member) but my thing is not an eye for an eye, because there are always going to be times where someone is wrongly accused of something as heinous as murder. My thing is it's wrong to kill someone, and it's especially wrong to kill someone out of rage. There are exceptions to this rule such as warfare, but I'm not talking about war.
I understand that there are plenty of people who come around and do some great things, even while in prison (Stanley Williams, for example), but those are the exception, not the rule.
On general crime and why I am ultimately skeptical, here's one link specifically about the situation in Britain as of December 2005. More convicts reoffend after release from jail, and another from Sweden check where it talks about reoffending. I know in my experience that this is the case far too many times, as well. YMMV, but I stick to what I say here.
Quite frankly, I don't care if the person is a psychopath or not, I don't have any sympathy for murderers and while I don't necessarily endorse the death penalty, I don't think these people are deserving of a second chance. Crime of passion? Heat of the moment? I don't care, you killed someone. Call me cold-hearted, but I'm not the one killing anyone.
No, they don't. The PC is, has always been, and always will be a general purpose utility that can be constructed by anyone who wishes to do so. The XBox and other entertainment consoles are not. Microsoft is in no more a position to eliminate fair use rights than any other company with as much influence in fields related to this subject matter. I can think of no better way to drive users to the competition than to force DRM on it's users. Until they do so, you're talking out of your ass with your "boiling the frog" reasoning that works for many things but not something like this. Quite frankly, it's as maddening in it's lack of logic as the slippery slope argument can often times be. I can tell from your sigs though that DRM is your personal bogeyman.
If you can't make the distinction that murdering someone is wrong, then you have serious problems. My point stands. Common sense has never been common, though.
Wow, a piece of software (In this case the WGA servers) had a glitch, I am totally amazed. When are we going to finally get software that never ever screws up and affects a large amount of people and companies? Thisnever happens with F/OSS! There are plenty of bugs that are hunted and eliminated on a daily basis in many projects. I'm not saying Linux or F/OSS sucks, because quite frankly I'm eagerly awaiting my next purchase of a hard drive so I can get my Gentoo installed again (Maybe even take a look at the latest Slackware since it's been a while, but probably Gentoo). I'm just saying you can't expect software to be perfect. In Microsoft's case though, if they don't patch bugs people bitch. If they do patch bugs people bitch even more. Bart Simpson said it best, " Well... You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.".
As an aside, people running rolling distributions like Gentoo that don't have as tight a security/stability screening process that, say, Debian does, are at even greater risk than most other Linux users of royally screwing their computer if they end up getting bit by a nasty bug in some random piece of software. I always tell people looking for filesystem choice advice, for example, to avoid finding their answers in something like the Gentoo Forums (Great for many other things though), since it's pretty easy to FUBAR things when you think you're a hotshot putting all your critical data on bleeding edge code, then calling a project crap because you got cut.
By and large, though, if you don't steal, the measures don't bother you. And if you do steal, the measures don't bother you, unless you are noobcake.
Smoking causes damage to many parts of one's body regardless of whether that damage kills you or not. Smoking is not safe for anyone, and I say this as a smoker. Don't be an r tard.
Are there plenty of people who feel remorse for killing people if it was a crime of passion or one that they didn't truly want to do but felt compelled to anyways? Sure. But it goes both ways, and there are plenty of people who quite honestly are so deranged that they don't feel any remorse for what they've done. A peer-reviewed scientific study showing that most killers aren't wracked with guilt? I doubt anyone has the time or inclination to play Search-Engine-Monkey for you. Go ahead and get evidence your evidence before you start demanding it from other people. There are plenty of cases where the fact of the matter is that these killers are remorseless, you only have to know an inkling about psychology to understand that. In fact, plenty of these murderers feel justified fully in their actions.
Listen to elucido, he's trying to help you understand the situation. Most people who kill do it because they have serious problems.
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And many users with sensitive mouse wheels, such as myself, say fuck that. A key combination is much more effective for switching to a different workspace.
Once you go through the installation process from a stage3 (Complete base system, you need to put X and KDE/GNOME/Flux, whatever, which depending on your system can take time, though that statement is a given with KDE) and put all the other goodies you intend to use, then you can make a stage4 tarball of your system so that just in case you ever did need to do a reinstall, you already have an image to use. The stage4 process is well documented in the forums and on gentoo-wiki. I admit though it's a pain in the ass that the graphical installer isn't done yet (The last time I tried to use it it actually wiped all my partitions out. Stay. Away. I'm not overly interested in filing a bug report either, I'll take blame for that), but if you have the ability to burn DVDs you could always install Sabayon. There's also Vidalinux (VLOS). Apparently Sabayon even has a CD version available now for those of us that can't burn DVDs. These systems give you a completely built Gentoo desktop, drastically reducing the amount of time you have to wait for a usable system.
For what it's worth it's very easy to get your assortment of 32-bit applications and libraries working in a Gentoo setup.
Mplayer-bin in portage, firefox-bin, decent HOWTO in the forums to install mplayerplug-in-bin. Opera works just fine too. :)
I understand there are plenty of reasons to prefer something like Mandriva, but for what it's worth when you find out how to work Gentoo the right way, it is for the most part much more flexible than something like Mandriva, Fedora and Suse. HTH.
Anonymous Cowards say the darndest things!
Sounds like you may have benefitted from using a fresh profile and importing your bookmarks/cookies from the old one to the new.
Ext3 uses as much disk space as any other traditional filesystem, as far as I know ReiserFS is the exception to the rule as long as you don't mount it with notail since the layout it uses enables it to store many small files in a single block. Tail packing increases external fragmentation and introduces a speed hit for an, on average, 5% increase in storage copacity when compared with ext2 (And I would presume ext3 since ext3 is simply a journal on top). ReiserFS may be good at fileserving, but the fact of the matter is it's best when dealing with tons of small files a lot of the time for maximum throughput, mailservers. I have never seen anyone argue that ReiserFS is not ideal for mailservers. Ext3 mounted in writeback mode is dangerous for poorly written programs but delivers solid performance in a lot of scenarios. Guru Labs tests
In any case, for what it's worth I use ext3 in journaled mode and it performs quite fast enough for my needs and I don't see "so much disk activity" but then again I'm using the system as a desktop/wanna-server, I'm not running benchmarks on it all the time simulating rediculous scenarios. I don't trust XFS because of how it aggressively makes use of RAM and a poorly designed program runs a good chance of losing data in the event of a power outage, and JFS is great for saving CPU cycles but it's throughput and latency isn't the best, though it's probably my second favorite journalled FS after ext3. Ext3 is reliable for me and when using dir_index and journalled data mode it does alright by me in terms of performance, and I enjoy the security of having full data and metadata journalling, which AFAIK ext3 is the only one that provides.
Ugh and I need a cup of coffee! I meant to say you'd see it perform slightly better on a more high-end CPU (than in the linked article) when it brings high load to your system during intensive IO.
Haha, thanks, I hadn't had a good laugh in a while. ReiserFS is for mail servers, I'd rather have compatability and greater stability (Though neither filesystem has caused me data loss, fsck likes me. Well, except Reiser4, that one didn't) for my desktop though, thanks anyways. I won't even get into technicals like how ReiserFS fragments horribly and quickly. It's a great filesystem that was put into maintenance mode way too soon, they should have done more with it instead of reinventing numerous wheels with Reiser4 and then bitching that it's not making it in the mainline kernel.
Ext3 doesn't seem very slow to me at all, but maybe I've mellowed out with regards to my Linux setups and think most of the time in the past I was simply having a placebo effect feeling. Interesting conclusion drawn here, too:
Of course since ReiserFS loves CPU cycles, you'd see it perform slightly better when it brings high load to your system during intensive IO.
Haha, I love WND polls.
I guess we shouldn't inform people from now on that, hey, this news source might be a little more than biased. You want right-leaning bias, check out FOX News. You want in-your-face political agenda pushing, check out WND. This article should have never made it to the front page, especially if the people are too stupid to figure out how YouTube works. Nothing was censored here.
If you would have read the article you wouldn't have anything to be upset over other than the fact that there are people on YouTube who think it's tripe. I'm not even going to get into that though because quite frankly a flame war is the last thing I want to get involved in.
What's to stop a grassroots fundraising effort aimed at getting a license for the 64bit edition of the software? Nothing. CoLinux will run without complaint on 32bit systems, as well.
In short, yes.
There is an option in ever build of Vista out there right in the boot menu when you press F8 to disable the requirement that kernel-mode drivers be signed. You can use this option to boot Vista, install an unsigned driver in your 64bit environment (Since that's the only environment that requires this, and I believe it's the same for XP x64 Edition), and you're off using your shiny unsigned driver.
I'd rather developers either pay the license fee if they truly require kernel-mode access so that they're showing an honest effort that they intend to create a high-quality product, or just don't write code that requires such access. The only software I use that requires access like this right now is Peerguardian and Ext2IFS (In XP), but I don't use the 64-bit Windows builds, I prefer to keep things simple since compatibility is important to me.
I'll admit that I was wrong in what I said, since I was just a little put off by yet another person taking that lofty attitude I see so many times when a discussion arises on the internet. Instead of saying anything of substance, you said, and I quote, "Well, point me at a peer reviewed scientific study that shows that most killers aren't wracked with guilt. Come on. You said you had evidence." That's a pretty asshole attitude to bring to the table, and so far I haven't seen a study or statistics being brought out for either side (My articles I linked to specifically dealt with a certain subsect, which depending on your definition can include a very large percentage of criminals).
I'm having a hard time finding anything either way, but I do know that there are a lot of studies that show that ex-convicts are far more likely to be involved in criminal activities including homicide. In any case, to me I'd rather have these people locked up for an extremely long time if not for life for killing another person. I don't support the death penalty because I recognize that our legal system, while doing a good job of not bringing about false convictions, does have those from time to time. People have been released from prison after many many years based on new evidence from techniques that simply weren't available back then that prove their innocence. I do not care if a murderer feels remorse at any point, I care that they broke the law in a very serious way. Life is something to treat with sanctity and respect, and the laws should enforce that view, not say "Oh well as long as you're sorry it's OK!" or "Ah, you say you did it in a fit of rage? Well, how justified!"
The driver signing is only required on the 64bit edition, just like XP 64bit Edition. To quote this article:
As far as I know, these requirements are for kernel-mode drivers, as well.
The thing is you think you've met 2 people who killed people, you don't know how many you've come across in your lifetime. Furthermore, I don't socialize with people like that knowingly (Though I have been threatened with my life on a few occasions, even by a family member) but my thing is not an eye for an eye, because there are always going to be times where someone is wrongly accused of something as heinous as murder. My thing is it's wrong to kill someone, and it's especially wrong to kill someone out of rage. There are exceptions to this rule such as warfare, but I'm not talking about war.
I understand that there are plenty of people who come around and do some great things, even while in prison (Stanley Williams, for example), but those are the exception, not the rule.
On general crime and why I am ultimately skeptical, here's one link specifically about the situation in Britain as of December 2005. More convicts reoffend after release from jail, and another from Sweden check where it talks about reoffending. I know in my experience that this is the case far too many times, as well. YMMV, but I stick to what I say here.
Quite frankly, I don't care if the person is a psychopath or not, I don't have any sympathy for murderers and while I don't necessarily endorse the death penalty, I don't think these people are deserving of a second chance. Crime of passion? Heat of the moment? I don't care, you killed someone. Call me cold-hearted, but I'm not the one killing anyone.
No, they don't. The PC is, has always been, and always will be a general purpose utility that can be constructed by anyone who wishes to do so. The XBox and other entertainment consoles are not. Microsoft is in no more a position to eliminate fair use rights than any other company with as much influence in fields related to this subject matter. I can think of no better way to drive users to the competition than to force DRM on it's users. Until they do so, you're talking out of your ass with your "boiling the frog" reasoning that works for many things but not something like this. Quite frankly, it's as maddening in it's lack of logic as the slippery slope argument can often times be. I can tell from your sigs though that DRM is your personal bogeyman.
If you can't make the distinction that murdering someone is wrong, then you have serious problems. My point stands. Common sense has never been common, though.
Wow, a piece of software (In this case the WGA servers) had a glitch, I am totally amazed. When are we going to finally get software that never ever screws up and affects a large amount of people and companies? This never happens with F/OSS! There are plenty of bugs that are hunted and eliminated on a daily basis in many projects. I'm not saying Linux or F/OSS sucks, because quite frankly I'm eagerly awaiting my next purchase of a hard drive so I can get my Gentoo installed again (Maybe even take a look at the latest Slackware since it's been a while, but probably Gentoo). I'm just saying you can't expect software to be perfect. In Microsoft's case though, if they don't patch bugs people bitch. If they do patch bugs people bitch even more. Bart Simpson said it best, " Well... You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.".
As an aside, people running rolling distributions like Gentoo that don't have as tight a security/stability screening process that, say, Debian does, are at even greater risk than most other Linux users of royally screwing their computer if they end up getting bit by a nasty bug in some random piece of software. I always tell people looking for filesystem choice advice, for example, to avoid finding their answers in something like the Gentoo Forums (Great for many other things though), since it's pretty easy to FUBAR things when you think you're a hotshot putting all your critical data on bleeding edge code, then calling a project crap because you got cut.
By and large, though, if you don't steal, the measures don't bother you. And if you do steal, the measures don't bother you, unless you are noobcake.
I wish I had mod points for you...
Well isn't that special?
Smoking causes damage to many parts of one's body regardless of whether that damage kills you or not. Smoking is not safe for anyone, and I say this as a smoker. Don't be an r tard.
Here's a lot of reading material. Some more. A little more. And to top things off here's another article.
Are there plenty of people who feel remorse for killing people if it was a crime of passion or one that they didn't truly want to do but felt compelled to anyways? Sure. But it goes both ways, and there are plenty of people who quite honestly are so deranged that they don't feel any remorse for what they've done. A peer-reviewed scientific study showing that most killers aren't wracked with guilt? I doubt anyone has the time or inclination to play Search-Engine-Monkey for you. Go ahead and get evidence your evidence before you start demanding it from other people. There are plenty of cases where the fact of the matter is that these killers are remorseless, you only have to know an inkling about psychology to understand that. In fact, plenty of these murderers feel justified fully in their actions.
Listen to elucido, he's trying to help you understand the situation. Most people who kill do it because they have serious problems.