I thought text ads would be stupid till they were implemented at Kuro5hin.org. For some reason, I have to scan the text of a page when I first get to it. The only time I focus on a pic is if it relates to the article. But I always see, and usually remember, for a while, the textads on k5.
Although, that could be because the ads are put up, mostly, by people who make build that community.
...and maybe not. I'll give you the benifit of the doubt and respond as if you are not troling.
I have noticed that some linux distros are slow due to DHCP problems. I think emacs was the first text editor I ever saw that took time to look up the machine's FQDN and try to match what the DHCP server returned to entries in/etc/hosts and/etc/hostname. Make sure those entries are correct before you whine about system speed. Also take time to do 'hdparm -Tt/dev/hd[x]' You should see data transfer numbers in the range of 20MB to 50MB. Also, under KDE, take time to optimize your video driver.
It was taking like 3 minutes to start emacs and 5 minutes to start KDE. Other programs were also effected by the mismatched IP addresses. After I did a few tweaks (like 10 mnutes of work), emacs starts instantly and KDE is up in 10~20 seconds. Mozilla and OpenOffice are also very responsive.
AFAIRemember, Star office was really slow because it starts it's own desktop and loads a lot of drivers at startup. OpenOffice seems comprable to MS Office in startup speeds. But try to keep in mind that 90% of the programs you install under windows will add entries to the services tab of the MMC. This alows programs to start lightning fast because they are already mostly in memory.
Try this: On a fresh install of win2k/xp, look at 'msconfig' and the services list. Then install Office, Kazaa, Visio, Winamp, MusicMatch, etc... Then go back and look at the service list agian. Winamp and MusicMatch are very open about running in the background. Office and Kazaa use services to be sneaky. But don't be fooled, they are still running all the time. Slowly eating your memory.
To be fair, Mozilla and OpenOffice under Win32 use entries in 'msconfig' (i.e., your taskbar gets bigger) to speed up load times, but both programs tell you this at install time. They have to do this in order to have the appearance of speed comparable to MS IE and MS Office.
Oh, one more KDE tip: Make sure the 'fam' daemon is running before you start KDE. Somehow, the fam daemon indexes files needed by KDE in order to speed it up.
I have a similar service in Tokyo. They advertise anywhere from 64kbps up to 128kbps. I see, on average, 70kbps with peaks in the 110kbps range. I think the 110kbps peak is limited by the fact that windows sees it as a serial modem and limits the serial bus to 115200bps.
In any event, I pay about $80/month for unlimited service. The only down side is that the connection works by buffering and bursting in 500ms intervals. The server saves up 500ms of traffic and bursts it all at once. Then the modem responds. Completely useless for online gaming. Also it drops packets like a mofo. Methinks there is no real error-correction system between the modem and the cell-towers.
I have three 40gb hard drives and am looking for a similar solution. Basicly, I want 20gb for NTFS (win2k), 20gb for ext3 (linux), and 80gb of shared fat32 (raid0) space.
I'm gonna play around with this over the next few days. If I need info, can I send you an e-mail?
Can a TiVo permemantly archive shows to CDR in VCD format? Can a TiVo stream shows to different computers all over your house? Can a TiVo run BitchX? Or play MP3s? Or play DVDs?
As for the cost, most geeks have at least one spare computer laying around. Pick up a better tuner card and a good sound card and you are good to go.
The trick is to start recording 'show.avi' in one program and then start watching 'show.avi' in another program. Then you can pause your player while the recorder continues.
I know Mandrake has done this for a while. I think RedHat does the same. I can't remember with Gentoo, but I did try some hdparm flags and didn't notice any real change.
Basicly, do 'hdparm/dev/hd[x]' and look at the output. It will tell you which modes are in use for the current drive. Then do 'hdparm/dev/hd[x] -t' and see how fast your drive is running. Look at different optimize flags and test after each to find the best settings.
You can even use it to test cdroms and RAID arrays. Just remember that when you optimize an array, you want to optimize each disk (/dev/hd[x], not/dev/md[x]) seperately, but test the array as a whole.
One other note, the '-t' flag, like most synthetic tests, may not show the best settings for the drive. A lot of times a timed kernel compile (or my new fav test, a mozilla 1.0 compile) will reveal benifits, or detraction, not shown in a synthetic benchmark.
Sounds like a standard UPS system to me. You have the grid feeding banks of batteries. The batteries feed the hospital. The generators are between the grid and the batteries, but they are not wired in such a way as to allow a generator failure to disrupt pawer from the grid. If the grid fails, no one notices because the batteries are what feed the hospital. After a few minutes, the generators start and they keep the batteries full. Once the grid is back on, the generators shut down.
I'm not really sure where you are going with this reference to radio. Radio has nothing to do with mp3. When I buy a CD (which happens rarely), I convert it to mp3 and drop it into a directory on my hard drive. When I go to a LAN party, it is shared out along with ISOs (I create custom ISOs of my games and include the latest patches and nocd cracks, mainly because I hate looking for a CD to play a game) of my latest games. If someone wants an mp3, they take it.
The difference between this and radio, is that the person obtaining the mp3 from me never paid the license fee to the copyright holder, but he still has a permenant copy of the song. OK, you could record the song from the radio, but the quality would be crappy and most stations talk at the beginning of the song and fade another song into the end. If you listen to the radio, the station is paying the copyright holder for you. If i'm not mistaken, the fee can be quite high for the broadcaster.
I guess you could make an argument about my purchacing the disc pays the license for all the people I give the song to, but that's not really true in relation to radio.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is: Radio is _not_ free. Your fee is being paid by someone else.
BTW, the reason I share anything I buy with someone else is: The people who pirate something would have rarely bought it to begin with. And on top of that, it's my way of dumping the digital tea into the harbour.
If it's a criminal court, you have to answer the summons. Otherwise, you'd be in contempt of court. The judge would issue a bench warrant, and you'd be arrested. Stand-ins wouldn't work.
I wonder how far you'd get by getting a cheap-assed lawyer to defend you.
OK, incorperate a company with NO fundage whatsoever. Then have your cheap assed lawyer answer all the legal bull until you get to trial. Once you are in trial, do things like asking Steve Balmer if it'd be ok if you smash an XBOX you just bought. Then proceed to smash it. 2 days later, make him come back and ask him if it'd be ok if you unscrew the XBOX. Let him go back to Seattle. 2 days later, call him back and ask him if you can put a baseball card inside your XBOX.
Basicly, keep the CEOs of the companies there for the entire trial. Make it expensive for the company to defend itself. Call everyone from the guy that thought about the XBOX the first time all the way up to the very top of MS. And keep these hundreds of witnesses there the whole time. Call them to the stand and ask a question. Then just waste as much time as possible.
I wonder what the MS response would be to having hundreds of employees called away to trial would be? Couple that with their expensive assed lawyers, and you just made the trial painful to MS.
As long as they use distilled water in the system, it'd be ok. Water itself isn't conductive, just the impurities in it. You could flood the entire NOC and still have live traffic.
Of course, corrosion would be a major prob after the water was shut off.
I'd prefer to see someone do an ID sweep _with_ a modded XBOX in order to ban _all_ the legit XBOXen. Hell, you probably don't need an XBOX to do it. Just sniff the line and find the portion responsible for the ID code. Then set up a PC to generate those types of packets with different ID codes.
I'm sure they use some form of encryption on the network side, but _strong_ encryption would add a lot of delay.
Once they see that 90% of their network is banned, they'll freak. They will try to ban the IP generating the packets, then the entire subnet. Pretty soon, IRC will distribute the packet generator to thousands of geeks looking, not to kill, but to prove that banning modded XBOXen is stupid.
The answer to that problem is fairly simple: Block the networks sold to Chinese and Korean ISPs. It may seem harsh, but if the governments of those countries won't turn over suspected criminals, it may be the only choice. Kinda like a "Digital Embargo".
You crapflood my networks, and I'll ask you nicely to disable the crapflooders. You refuse, and I'll just take care of it myself.
AGP is only useful for one-way communication. Great for shoving data to the monitor, but sucks for pulling data from an outside source. I'd say if you really wanted a challenge, use the memory bus for networking. The prob would be timeouts while waiting for the data to be pulled across the wire from the other machines' memory bank.
Or, go for broke and use the second processor slot in a dual mobo.
On the cheap end, you could use the USB and a null-modem cable there to link 2 boxes.
Uuh, I mean null-card connection. I have never really looked at the PCI spec from an eletrical engineer standpoint, but there are probably power leads, data leads, timing leads, and ground leads on there.
The data leads should be easy...TX to RX. Although they may use a full-duplex lead where the data shares the bus based on clock pulses.
The power could be dropped, as both machines already have the proper power requirements. The ground leads could be tied together if you wanted, but dropping them shouldn't have too much impact on the final outcome.
The tricky part would be the clock pulses. In order to keep the data integrity, you need to have both bachines on the same clock. The easy way would be to take the crystal from one motherboard and wire it to the other. Same crystal, same clock pulse.
Then drivers would be needed to make the other computer look like an attached device. Shouldn't be too difficult. Just take a NIC driver and modify it...heavily.
I think an easier option would be to share data across the IDE bus. Make an IDE driver look like a NIC driver and send IP across IDE. In fact, I remember Linux Journal publishing an article about someone doing IP over SCSI about 2 years ago. Get some SCSI cards and make your own version of a CDDI network ring.
LFS was a great tool for me. Before LFS, I didn't really understand how to customize my bash prompt, controll where software was installed to, edit runlevel and startup scripts, or a thousand other things that any Linux user SHOULD be able to do.
But, alas, what killed it for me was the complexity of the modern desktop. KDE was easy to compile and install, but a thousand neat little features of KDE (like the audio cd to mp3 interface) never worked right. Any time I saw something cool, I needed to go back and recompile some new flag into some library...and then recompile everything thay used that lib. It was a major PITA.
LFS should be everyone's first distro. The ammount of knowledge you gain from struggling with something as simple as getting 'ls' to output in colors will help tremendously in the rest of your linux journey. That being said, the LFS community probably isn't up to the task of supporting hundreds (thousands) of newbies. Especially if they bombard the IRC channels with even a tenth of the questions I laid on those guys.
LFS is awesome for a learning tool, and I want to thank the LFS community for their project/product.
Something is either on topic, or off topic. No two ways about it. The mention of "emerge" in a discusion about a Debian review is, quite frankly, off topic. It should be modded as such.
I'd like to echo the fact that these things are powerful. After racing (non competitively) electric buggies (1/12 and 1/10) for years, I bought a 1/8 nitro buggie. After about 6 months of playing, I sold it for about half of what it was worth.
The thing would accelerate so fast that the tires (superglued to the aluminum rims) would break the seals. I eventually moved to epoxy to stop that from happening.
My next prob was accelerating out of a turn. I could accelerate off the start with no probs, but after letting off the throttle for a few seconds before a turn, a touch of breaks, then punch it out of a turn...all I'd see was my car doing doughnuts. I upgraded to 4wd and played with toe-in/camber to control that.
Anyway, to keep it comfortable at full speed, I ended up adjusting the throttle to only open to halfway. About 2 weeks after I sold it, they guy was wa the track and he jumped the car over his mini-van. The thing was literally about 10 feet above the ground moving at about 50mph.
I was glad to see that my car had gone to a loving home...And my eletric car was happy to get soem attention agian.
>To the point of ADDING weight to the cars if needed.
Keep in mind that NASCAR/CART remove as much weight as possible. Then they go back and add weight to specific places on the car to make it handel properly. By doing this, they can get the weight lower on the car to decrease the effect of centripital force twisting the body out of a turn.
My first distro was Debian. I love the apt system. I cannot, however, live without software RAID.
After booting the Woody CD, I tried "modprobe md", only to discover that it isn't supported. I went on the assumption that it was compiled in, but alas, "mkraid" was nowhere to be found. The only real option was to install to a/dev/hda1, then move that to/dev/md0. Too much work for too little return. If your distro doesn't support my needs, there are hundreds more that do.
I'd also like to see a source compile option added. If apt was combined with Gentoo's emerge, Debian would be almost unstopable.
Now hold on a second there. Whenever someone mentions RPM, somebody throws up an apt-get comment. Whenever KDE is mentioned, Gnome is also in the discussion. Emacs and Vi, linux and gnu/hurd, Intel and AMD.
You cannot have a discussion about a thing without mentioning the competitors/alternatives. Apt brings a lot to the table, so does emerge and rpm. A discussion about Debian IS a discussion about apt. And belive you, me, we Mandrake folk had to put up with a lot of apt-get comments over the years, so you Debian types can bite the bullet and listen to what the Gentoo evangelists have to say.
Now, in all seriousness, in a Debian discussion, any comment that is not about Debian should be modded down as off-topic. Likewise, all comments should be about the core story. But the truth of the matter is this: The moderators have spoken. They (me included) want different points of view in every story. Listening to and being around people who disagree is what makes sites like this popular.
Down my cheek as I type this. I remember, back in tha' day:
Before I joined the military, I loved building RC airplanes. But moving every 2 years makes having a big project impractical. I took up 3d modeling as a substitute.
I started with the Rhino3d beta test. The problem was, Rhino lacked (and probably still lacks) a good render engine. So, I'd have Rhino open to my project, and BMRT ready to run in a command box. I remember the frustration of trying to figure out lighting and cameras as arguments to a command-line call of BMRT. Those were the days.
It almost feels like being told a friend I haven't seen in years has died. I gots to remember to pour a swig from tha' 40oz on tha' ground for my fallen homie...or something like that.
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I thought text ads would be stupid till they were implemented at Kuro5hin.org. For some reason, I have to scan the text of a page when I first get to it. The only time I focus on a pic is if it relates to the article. But I always see, and usually remember, for a while, the textads on k5.
Although, that could be because the ads are put up, mostly, by people who make build that community.
He was arrested in the US. Not that I agree with him being arrested, but if he knew he was violating a US law, he should have never come to the US.
...and maybe not. I'll give you the benifit of the doubt and respond as if you are not troling.
/etc/hosts and /etc/hostname. Make sure those entries are correct before you whine about system speed. Also take time to do 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hd[x]' You should see data transfer numbers in the range of 20MB to 50MB. Also, under KDE, take time to optimize your video driver.
I have noticed that some linux distros are slow due to DHCP problems. I think emacs was the first text editor I ever saw that took time to look up the machine's FQDN and try to match what the DHCP server returned to entries in
It was taking like 3 minutes to start emacs and 5 minutes to start KDE. Other programs were also effected by the mismatched IP addresses. After I did a few tweaks (like 10 mnutes of work), emacs starts instantly and KDE is up in 10~20 seconds. Mozilla and OpenOffice are also very responsive.
AFAIRemember, Star office was really slow because it starts it's own desktop and loads a lot of drivers at startup. OpenOffice seems comprable to MS Office in startup speeds. But try to keep in mind that 90% of the programs you install under windows will add entries to the services tab of the MMC. This alows programs to start lightning fast because they are already mostly in memory.
Try this: On a fresh install of win2k/xp, look at 'msconfig' and the services list. Then install Office, Kazaa, Visio, Winamp, MusicMatch, etc... Then go back and look at the service list agian. Winamp and MusicMatch are very open about running in the background. Office and Kazaa use services to be sneaky. But don't be fooled, they are still running all the time. Slowly eating your memory.
To be fair, Mozilla and OpenOffice under Win32 use entries in 'msconfig' (i.e., your taskbar gets bigger) to speed up load times, but both programs tell you this at install time. They have to do this in order to have the appearance of speed comparable to MS IE and MS Office.
Oh, one more KDE tip: Make sure the 'fam' daemon is running before you start KDE. Somehow, the fam daemon indexes files needed by KDE in order to speed it up.
I have a similar service in Tokyo. They advertise anywhere from 64kbps up to 128kbps. I see, on average, 70kbps with peaks in the 110kbps range. I think the 110kbps peak is limited by the fact that windows sees it as a serial modem and limits the serial bus to 115200bps.
In any event, I pay about $80/month for unlimited service. The only down side is that the connection works by buffering and bursting in 500ms intervals. The server saves up 500ms of traffic and bursts it all at once. Then the modem responds. Completely useless for online gaming. Also it drops packets like a mofo. Methinks there is no real error-correction system between the modem and the cell-towers.
Still, it beats 56k modems.
I have three 40gb hard drives and am looking for a similar solution. Basicly, I want 20gb for NTFS (win2k), 20gb for ext3 (linux), and 80gb of shared fat32 (raid0) space.
I'm gonna play around with this over the next few days. If I need info, can I send you an e-mail?
Have you thought about drafting a howto?
Can a TiVo permemantly archive shows to CDR in VCD format? Can a TiVo stream shows to different computers all over your house? Can a TiVo run BitchX? Or play MP3s? Or play DVDs?
As for the cost, most geeks have at least one spare computer laying around. Pick up a better tuner card and a good sound card and you are good to go.
The trick is to start recording 'show.avi' in one program and then start watching 'show.avi' in another program. Then you can pause your player while the recorder continues.
I know Mandrake has done this for a while. I think RedHat does the same. I can't remember with Gentoo, but I did try some hdparm flags and didn't notice any real change.
/dev/hd[x]' and look at the output. It will tell you which modes are in use for the current drive. Then do 'hdparm /dev/hd[x] -t' and see how fast your drive is running. Look at different optimize flags and test after each to find the best settings.
/dev/md[x]) seperately, but test the array as a whole.
Basicly, do 'hdparm
You can even use it to test cdroms and RAID arrays. Just remember that when you optimize an array, you want to optimize each disk (/dev/hd[x], not
One other note, the '-t' flag, like most synthetic tests, may not show the best settings for the drive. A lot of times a timed kernel compile (or my new fav test, a mozilla 1.0 compile) will reveal benifits, or detraction, not shown in a synthetic benchmark.
Sounds like a standard UPS system to me. You have the grid feeding banks of batteries. The batteries feed the hospital. The generators are between the grid and the batteries, but they are not wired in such a way as to allow a generator failure to disrupt pawer from the grid. If the grid fails, no one notices because the batteries are what feed the hospital. After a few minutes, the generators start and they keep the batteries full. Once the grid is back on, the generators shut down.
I'm not really sure where you are going with this reference to radio. Radio has nothing to do with mp3. When I buy a CD (which happens rarely), I convert it to mp3 and drop it into a directory on my hard drive. When I go to a LAN party, it is shared out along with ISOs (I create custom ISOs of my games and include the latest patches and nocd cracks, mainly because I hate looking for a CD to play a game) of my latest games. If someone wants an mp3, they take it.
The difference between this and radio, is that the person obtaining the mp3 from me never paid the license fee to the copyright holder, but he still has a permenant copy of the song. OK, you could record the song from the radio, but the quality would be crappy and most stations talk at the beginning of the song and fade another song into the end. If you listen to the radio, the station is paying the copyright holder for you. If i'm not mistaken, the fee can be quite high for the broadcaster.
I guess you could make an argument about my purchacing the disc pays the license for all the people I give the song to, but that's not really true in relation to radio.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is: Radio is _not_ free. Your fee is being paid by someone else.
BTW, the reason I share anything I buy with someone else is: The people who pirate something would have rarely bought it to begin with. And on top of that, it's my way of dumping the digital tea into the harbour.
If it's a criminal court, you have to answer the summons. Otherwise, you'd be in contempt of court. The judge would issue a bench warrant, and you'd be arrested. Stand-ins wouldn't work.
I wonder how far you'd get by getting a cheap-assed lawyer to defend you.
OK, incorperate a company with NO fundage whatsoever. Then have your cheap assed lawyer answer all the legal bull until you get to trial. Once you are in trial, do things like asking Steve Balmer if it'd be ok if you smash an XBOX you just bought. Then proceed to smash it. 2 days later, make him come back and ask him if it'd be ok if you unscrew the XBOX. Let him go back to Seattle. 2 days later, call him back and ask him if you can put a baseball card inside your XBOX.
Basicly, keep the CEOs of the companies there for the entire trial. Make it expensive for the company to defend itself. Call everyone from the guy that thought about the XBOX the first time all the way up to the very top of MS. And keep these hundreds of witnesses there the whole time. Call them to the stand and ask a question. Then just waste as much time as possible.
I wonder what the MS response would be to having hundreds of employees called away to trial would be? Couple that with their expensive assed lawyers, and you just made the trial painful to MS.
As long as they use distilled water in the system, it'd be ok. Water itself isn't conductive, just the impurities in it. You could flood the entire NOC and still have live traffic.
Of course, corrosion would be a major prob after the water was shut off.
I'd prefer to see someone do an ID sweep _with_ a modded XBOX in order to ban _all_ the legit XBOXen. Hell, you probably don't need an XBOX to do it. Just sniff the line and find the portion responsible for the ID code. Then set up a PC to generate those types of packets with different ID codes.
I'm sure they use some form of encryption on the network side, but _strong_ encryption would add a lot of delay.
Once they see that 90% of their network is banned, they'll freak. They will try to ban the IP generating the packets, then the entire subnet. Pretty soon, IRC will distribute the packet generator to thousands of geeks looking, not to kill, but to prove that banning modded XBOXen is stupid.
The answer to that problem is fairly simple: Block the networks sold to Chinese and Korean ISPs. It may seem harsh, but if the governments of those countries won't turn over suspected criminals, it may be the only choice. Kinda like a "Digital Embargo".
You crapflood my networks, and I'll ask you nicely to disable the crapflooders. You refuse, and I'll just take care of it myself.
I loved OMNI as a kid. I especially remember their reflective covers playing tricks on my depth perception.
www.omnimag.com/
AGP is only useful for one-way communication. Great for shoving data to the monitor, but sucks for pulling data from an outside source. I'd say if you really wanted a challenge, use the memory bus for networking. The prob would be timeouts while waiting for the data to be pulled across the wire from the other machines' memory bank.
Or, go for broke and use the second processor slot in a dual mobo.
On the cheap end, you could use the USB and a null-modem cable there to link 2 boxes.
Uuh, I mean null-card connection. I have never really looked at the PCI spec from an eletrical engineer standpoint, but there are probably power leads, data leads, timing leads, and ground leads on there.
The data leads should be easy...TX to RX. Although they may use a full-duplex lead where the data shares the bus based on clock pulses.
The power could be dropped, as both machines already have the proper power requirements. The ground leads could be tied together if you wanted, but dropping them shouldn't have too much impact on the final outcome.
The tricky part would be the clock pulses. In order to keep the data integrity, you need to have both bachines on the same clock. The easy way would be to take the crystal from one motherboard and wire it to the other. Same crystal, same clock pulse.
Then drivers would be needed to make the other computer look like an attached device. Shouldn't be too difficult. Just take a NIC driver and modify it...heavily.
I think an easier option would be to share data across the IDE bus. Make an IDE driver look like a NIC driver and send IP across IDE. In fact, I remember Linux Journal publishing an article about someone doing IP over SCSI about 2 years ago. Get some SCSI cards and make your own version of a CDDI network ring.
LFS was a great tool for me. Before LFS, I didn't really understand how to customize my bash prompt, controll where software was installed to, edit runlevel and startup scripts, or a thousand other things that any Linux user SHOULD be able to do.
But, alas, what killed it for me was the complexity of the modern desktop. KDE was easy to compile and install, but a thousand neat little features of KDE (like the audio cd to mp3 interface) never worked right. Any time I saw something cool, I needed to go back and recompile some new flag into some library...and then recompile everything thay used that lib. It was a major PITA.
LFS should be everyone's first distro. The ammount of knowledge you gain from struggling with something as simple as getting 'ls' to output in colors will help tremendously in the rest of your linux journey. That being said, the LFS community probably isn't up to the task of supporting hundreds (thousands) of newbies. Especially if they bombard the IRC channels with even a tenth of the questions I laid on those guys.
LFS is awesome for a learning tool, and I want to thank the LFS community for their project/product.
Something is either on topic, or off topic. No two ways about it. The mention of "emerge" in a discusion about a Debian review is, quite frankly, off topic. It should be modded as such.
I'd like to echo the fact that these things are powerful. After racing (non competitively) electric buggies (1/12 and 1/10) for years, I bought a 1/8 nitro buggie. After about 6 months of playing, I sold it for about half of what it was worth.
The thing would accelerate so fast that the tires (superglued to the aluminum rims) would break the seals. I eventually moved to epoxy to stop that from happening.
My next prob was accelerating out of a turn. I could accelerate off the start with no probs, but after letting off the throttle for a few seconds before a turn, a touch of breaks, then punch it out of a turn...all I'd see was my car doing doughnuts. I upgraded to 4wd and played with toe-in/camber to control that.
Anyway, to keep it comfortable at full speed, I ended up adjusting the throttle to only open to halfway. About 2 weeks after I sold it, they guy was wa the track and he jumped the car over his mini-van. The thing was literally about 10 feet above the ground moving at about 50mph.
I was glad to see that my car had gone to a loving home...And my eletric car was happy to get soem attention agian.
>To the point of ADDING weight to the cars if needed.
Keep in mind that NASCAR/CART remove as much weight as possible. Then they go back and add weight to specific places on the car to make it handel properly. By doing this, they can get the weight lower on the car to decrease the effect of centripital force twisting the body out of a turn.
My first distro was Debian. I love the apt system. I cannot, however, live without software RAID.
/dev/hda1, then move that to /dev/md0. Too much work for too little return. If your distro doesn't support my needs, there are hundreds more that do.
After booting the Woody CD, I tried "modprobe md", only to discover that it isn't supported. I went on the assumption that it was compiled in, but alas, "mkraid" was nowhere to be found. The only real option was to install to a
I'd also like to see a source compile option added. If apt was combined with Gentoo's emerge, Debian would be almost unstopable.
Now hold on a second there. Whenever someone mentions RPM, somebody throws up an apt-get comment. Whenever KDE is mentioned, Gnome is also in the discussion. Emacs and Vi, linux and gnu/hurd, Intel and AMD.
You cannot have a discussion about a thing without mentioning the competitors/alternatives. Apt brings a lot to the table, so does emerge and rpm. A discussion about Debian IS a discussion about apt. And belive you, me, we Mandrake folk had to put up with a lot of apt-get comments over the years, so you Debian types can bite the bullet and listen to what the Gentoo evangelists have to say.
Now, in all seriousness, in a Debian discussion, any comment that is not about Debian should be modded down as off-topic. Likewise, all comments should be about the core story. But the truth of the matter is this: The moderators have spoken. They (me included) want different points of view in every story. Listening to and being around people who disagree is what makes sites like this popular.
Down my cheek as I type this. I remember, back in tha' day:
Before I joined the military, I loved building RC airplanes. But moving every 2 years makes having a big project impractical. I took up 3d modeling as a substitute.
I started with the Rhino3d beta test. The problem was, Rhino lacked (and probably still lacks) a good render engine. So, I'd have Rhino open to my project, and BMRT ready to run in a command box. I remember the frustration of trying to figure out lighting and cameras as arguments to a command-line call of BMRT. Those were the days.
It almost feels like being told a friend I haven't seen in years has died. I gots to remember to pour a swig from tha' 40oz on tha' ground for my fallen homie...or something like that.