Why not just boot from a linux boot floppy, copy over your lilo config file, and run lilo. MS doesnt destroy the partitions, it reclaims the MBR. If you want to go to the MS boot loader as default (dont know why you would want to) the all you do is type "Format/MBR" on the command line in dos. You just have to restore your mbr from lilo or grub (I dont know how to from grub, I still use lilo) if you want to use those instead of the crap boot loader from MS.
We, as techies/geeks/nerds/zelots , need to step back and take a look at this article. While I am glad to see that someone has said that SAMBA is faster than win2k3, there is no proof. We need to make sure that we dont become like the ones we usually bash and send out and praise biased testing without real world benchmarks with published results. All this article looks like when I read it was FUD. It gave no facts, but makes a wild claim. It is possible, but wild none the less. Careful, if the OSS community keeps putting out this stuff as fact without proof, we my just get hired to replace Darl when he gets fired.
I had a friend in school that has successfully ported osx to x86. It looked horrible (no proper video drivers) and next to none of his hardware worked. His mouse actually work though. I didn't believe it untill I saw the internals of his machine (PIII IIRC) but it would not run on any other machine. Maybe he was lucky, maybe its just the way he compiled it. I am still trying to figure out how he got the source, he claims he decompiled it. It can be done, but only mac could do it right. It would be cool, I would most definately give it a try.
The review about BSD was very balanced. He stated that it was alpha, and he would try a stable before makeing his choice.
The review about windows was just an excuse to professionally flame windows.
Yes, there are differences of the two os's he uses. 1. Cut and paste is different. Big Deal 2. IE is a piece of scrap compaired to Mozilla. I guess that depends on what you are used to using. Pressing ALT + TAB isnt any harder than switching tabs (I use mozilla and preferr it to though). 3. Cant find the calender by clicking on the clock. Try to double click! 4. Says that he cant and wont use windows becuase of how it acts. Fine, your not used to it and dont know its quirks. The comment "At least you're going from Windows to Linux, not the other way around." is the same type deal. Why do you think that windows users are so afraid to try *unix? It doesnt work the same way. 5. OH, just one last thing. You wouldnt install a program from source that you had never used before (say something like blender) and not read the manual. Every little nuance (cut and paste and the clock) are covered in the manual. READ IT.
In short, there is a learning curve when you switch from one os to another. In one week, the CTRL + V/C is the only way he learned to do it? He cant use his mouse? Part of the learning curve buddy. Imagine if you had never heard of using the middle mouse button for paste? You would find it difficult to do in linux, and you couldnt use your CTRL V/C.
Most of the things complained about are just part of the learning curve, and are mostly covered in the startup manuals. Just because something doesnt work the way you are use to using it doesnt mean it is inferior.
Oh, before you all flame me for being a windows lover, I use linux on both my machines at home and will not install windows.
You can't even point out an obvious flaw anymore? "We want to make lame-ass, shitty software, and don't you DARE point that out!"
Seriously, If Jacobs loses, he should sue MS. They told him how to do it, its in the help files. Just get your money back for the lawsuit plus 5 or 6 hundred thousand for the go of it. While your at it, make it a class action suit . LOL
Actually, the information came from a sound engineer at a recording studio. He also stated that digital will give better output because they didnt develop the analog that far. Take a good oscope to the signal source, you will see degrigation (sorry bout the spelling).
Thats my spam account, It doesnt matter if it dies. I have already recieved a few viruses sent there, but I dont dl attachments, and I dont use web browsers that support vb. Yahoo is used to the spam floods, Theyll get over it.
I see that JFS won in the bonnie test, but EXT2 put up one hell of a fight and won the other roundup. I didnt think EXT2 was a journaling file system. Is it fair to thow in a Non Journaling FS in a benchmark against a bunch of Journaling ones? If it isnt journaling, then I gess Im going with JFS.
If I am wrong, please either resopond to correct me or email me.
OK, lets consider that this computer has a hard drive failure. Lets also assume that this computer is a Gateway 7450R rackmount server. Now consider that this is a relatively cheap server with scsi 160 in raid 5. No problem that your hd just crapped out. Run that with two ov these servers and cluster them, you have total redundancy. You could even shoot the other node in the head and it would still keep on trucking. 8 grand and a bookshelf in your closet is more than enough to replace a room full of equipment, Im sold.
I work in a message center in the millitary. My particular equip was manufactured in the early 80's. It is a lot more complicated than the cash register (sorts messages by clearance and by priority, multiple recipients and the ability to expand infinantly). This can now be replaced by a duel 1000 xenon server (well, three duel........) but it was just decommissioned last year. Reliabiltiy is hard to get, and when you get kit that is capable of doing it, you keep it. I understand the need for a reliable system. Good to see that others understand that 80%, 90% or 95% just isnt good enough some times. My system (other than minitureizing some components) was designed in the 70's.
RMS is a big pusher for OSS and Free software. You all (those who are like no RMS???) keep referring to him as GNU. Yes, that is a term, it just says that its not unix. His idea are what have made him as big as he is, that and the whole BSD thing:)
I agree, he has been a very important force in the development of free/open source software. I dont think he has influenced the technology as much as we give him credit for. People say that without him, GNU wouldnt exist, true. Free/Open Source Software has been around since the 60'S!! I dont think RMS is 60 years old (had to be about 20 at the youngest to be involved in IT at the time). The ideas he promotes so loudly have been around before him, and they would be around without him still. He (I am not sure, so correct me if I am wrong) did give us the GPL ( or influenced its writing heavily). Linux very well could have been written without GNU as oss still. On the other hand, Linus has only made it because Linux is taking vast amounts of the market (even M$ uses linux load balencing servers like akaimi.net) in the recent years. Linux is starting to snowball in a way that Linus never could have expected, nor even really intended to. BSD has its loyal fans, I have never used it, but I have no doubt that it is a very solid os and is quite capable. BSD just isnt making the waves that Linux is.
* all references to Linux actually are for GNU/Linux.
I dont know xml, or how it works or parses and crap. But wouldn't moving the system calls to the client speed up the server side but bog down the client with no effective gains to the end user? I dont program and am pretty ignorant when it comes to this stuff. Looking at the other posts though, the xml will slow down the server. With the client doing even more work (system calls) to the client, wont that also slow down the who damn thing? Could someone be kind enough to explain this to me.
I for one, not even going to say that, will at least try it out. If it is faster, great, if not, boo hoo. I like that there are atleast options though.
Second, I havent noticed speed issues with XFree86. I seem to get the same type speed using the winblows game engines as I do the OpenGL. When else would you need speed from your graphics system. OK, well, besides graphic design (which I think is more processor and memory intensive and less dependent on the graphics engines/backends, but I could be wrong)
Digital isnt perfect. Audio is analog, and even using pcm, you still loose something when you go to digital. Digital uses a series of 1's and 0's (like this even has to be said). When recording in digital, when it is time to sample, the program (or recording hardware) looks to see if the tone is higher than the last. If this is so, there is a 1, if not, it is a 0. Every 1 is in relation to the last sampled piece. You can create a very good sound that looks like a sine wave when you look at it, but it cannot be a true sine wave (analog audio) because there are changes (possibly) between sample times. This is why stuff recorded with a higher sample rate sounds so much better than low sample rates.
With that said, Digital allows to make a perfect copy of another digital stream. My cd changer has digital out, and my computer has digital in. Simple fix, even if it does take a few hours to get the blank spaces out and cut the tracks and title etc. etc. etc.
Yeah, this is a little off topic, but the info may help people make more enlightened statements about perfect recording. The only way you can make a perfect recording is usnig analog recording direct from the source. You will lose something the first time you convert it to digital going to the cd. Every time after that you convert the music (digital to analog or analog to digital) you are going to loose something. I dont mind using my 24 bit digital to analog converter because it sounds good enough to me, if it didn't, it wouldnt matter cause thats all my sound card can output anyways.
I could learn it, and I probably will use the formatting for the links, but its not too difficult for people to read the post and type it in a new tab. This also stops from going ohhh, a link, lets click it and/. some poor site.
When you hang up, you are actually switching lines. Since the machine isnt designed to flash to another line, then it has to wait for it to disconnect. For this to happen, it takes 7 seconds for the line to come open again. I have had problems with this when trying to get though to a very busy number before.
Dial, busy tone, hang up, Dial , busy tone, hang up, busy tone, wtf, cuss, pull phone out of wall.
Am I the only one that has had this issue?
take the names on the sites listed above, the cities as well and plug them in at www.switchboard.com sorry, but dont know html to format it. Yeah, flame me all you want, I just never wanted to learn it.
Yes, the military vaccinated its troops, and then sent most of em to the desert. They dont send people that are already effected with HIV on deployments, and we aint bangen the locals, so of course the risk goes down. Now we have to monitor the numbers after we all get back and unleashed back on the general popluace.
It is hard for the American heart to forgive even perceived violation of the free speech ethic.
Havent done much time in the millitary have you. Free speach is something that doesnt really exist in this country.
It goes something like this "your right to swing your fists ends at my nose"
I cannot say anything bad about a person or business because it is slanderous. I cannot write it because it is lible. I cannot speak my mind in my company because it is against the corporations ideals and I get fired.
You will all say what the goverment / big corporations want you to say or you will be punished by them.
I am in the millitary, if I were to say that "G. Bush is a moron" I can go to jail. I do not say that, it is just an example. He maybe a little gungho though:)
easy way. Autoplay is only enable for drive letters d:\ and e:\ in win2k. Just right click on mycomputer, click manage, click disk manager, right click your cd drive, click change drive letter, change to anything other than previously mentioned letters and be done with it. I dont know about xp, but I think this might work as well
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Why not just boot from a linux boot floppy, copy over your lilo config file, and run lilo. MS doesnt destroy the partitions, it reclaims the MBR. If you want to go to the MS boot loader as default (dont know why you would want to) the all you do is type "Format /MBR" on the command line in dos. You just have to restore your mbr from lilo or grub (I dont know how to from grub, I still use lilo) if you want to use those instead of the crap boot loader from MS.
We, as techies/geeks/nerds/zelots , need to step back and take a look at this article. While I am glad to see that someone has said that SAMBA is faster than win2k3, there is no proof. We need to make sure that we dont become like the ones we usually bash and send out and praise biased testing without real world benchmarks with published results. All this article looks like when I read it was FUD. It gave no facts, but makes a wild claim. It is possible, but wild none the less. Careful, if the OSS community keeps putting out this stuff as fact without proof, we my just get hired to replace Darl when he gets fired.
I had a friend in school that has successfully ported osx to x86. It looked horrible (no proper video drivers) and next to none of his hardware worked. His mouse actually work though. I didn't believe it untill I saw the internals of his machine (PIII IIRC) but it would not run on any other machine. Maybe he was lucky, maybe its just the way he compiled it. I am still trying to figure out how he got the source, he claims he decompiled it. It can be done, but only mac could do it right. It would be cool, I would most definately give it a try.
The review about BSD was very balanced. He stated that it was alpha, and he would try a stable before makeing his choice.
The review about windows was just an excuse to professionally flame windows.
Yes, there are differences of the two os's he uses.
1. Cut and paste is different. Big Deal
2. IE is a piece of scrap compaired to Mozilla. I guess that depends on what you are used to using. Pressing ALT + TAB isnt any harder than switching tabs (I use mozilla and preferr it to though).
3. Cant find the calender by clicking on the clock. Try to double click!
4. Says that he cant and wont use windows becuase of how it acts. Fine, your not used to it and dont know its quirks. The comment "At least you're going from Windows to Linux, not the other way around." is the same type deal. Why do you think that windows users are so afraid to try *unix? It doesnt work the same way.
5. OH, just one last thing. You wouldnt install a program from source that you had never used before (say something like blender) and not read the manual. Every little nuance (cut and paste and the clock) are covered in the manual. READ IT.
In short, there is a learning curve when you switch from one os to another. In one week, the CTRL + V/C is the only way he learned to do it? He cant use his mouse? Part of the learning curve buddy. Imagine if you had never heard of using the middle mouse button for paste? You would find it difficult to do in linux, and you couldnt use your CTRL V/C.
Most of the things complained about are just part of the learning curve, and are mostly covered in the startup manuals. Just because something doesnt work the way you are use to using it doesnt mean it is inferior.
Oh, before you all flame me for being a windows lover, I use linux on both my machines at home and will not install windows.
It has about as much chacne of that as teaching me how to spell
Isnt that what MS says about Linux?
You can't even point out an obvious flaw anymore? "We want to make lame-ass, shitty software, and don't you DARE point that out!"
Seriously, If Jacobs loses, he should sue MS. They told him how to do it, its in the help files. Just get your money back for the lawsuit plus 5 or 6 hundred thousand for the go of it. While your at it, make it a class action suit . LOL
Actually, the information came from a sound engineer at a recording studio. He also stated that digital will give better output because they didnt develop the analog that far. Take a good oscope to the signal source, you will see degrigation (sorry bout the spelling).
Hey , I just program the equipment, and that is 4 letter commands. I couldnt spell to save my life :)
Thats my spam account, It doesnt matter if it dies.
I have already recieved a few viruses sent there, but I dont dl attachments, and I dont use web browsers that support vb. Yahoo is used to the spam floods, Theyll get over it.
I see that JFS won in the bonnie test, but EXT2 put up one hell of a fight and won the other roundup. I didnt think EXT2 was a journaling file system. Is it fair to thow in a Non Journaling FS in a benchmark against a bunch of Journaling ones? If it isnt journaling, then I gess Im going with JFS.
If I am wrong, please either resopond to correct me or email me.
scythefwd@yahoo.com
Uhhh, Sun ships a version of solaris for the x86 procs.
OK, lets consider that this computer has a hard drive failure. Lets also assume that this computer is a Gateway 7450R rackmount server. Now consider that this is a relatively cheap server with scsi 160 in raid 5. No problem that your hd just crapped out. Run that with two ov these servers and cluster them, you have total redundancy. You could even shoot the other node in the head and it would still keep on trucking. 8 grand and a bookshelf in your closet is more than enough to replace a room full of equipment, Im sold.
I work in a message center in the millitary. My particular equip was manufactured in the early 80's. It is a lot more complicated than the cash register (sorts messages by clearance and by priority, multiple recipients and the ability to expand infinantly). This can now be replaced by a duel 1000 xenon server (well, three duel........) but it was just decommissioned last year. Reliabiltiy is hard to get, and when you get kit that is capable of doing it, you keep it. I understand the need for a reliable system. Good to see that others understand that 80%, 90% or 95% just isnt good enough some times. My system (other than minitureizing some components) was designed in the 70's.
RMS is a big pusher for OSS and Free software. You all (those who are like no RMS???) keep referring to him as GNU. Yes, that is a term, it just says that its not unix. His idea are what have made him as big as he is, that and the whole BSD thing :)
I agree, he has been a very important force in the development of free/open source software. I dont think he has influenced the technology as much as we give him credit for. People say that without him, GNU wouldnt exist, true. Free/Open Source Software has been around since the 60'S!! I dont think RMS is 60 years old (had to be about 20 at the youngest to be involved in IT at the time). The ideas he promotes so loudly have been around before him, and they would be around without him still. He (I am not sure, so correct me if I am wrong) did give us the GPL ( or influenced its writing heavily). Linux very well could have been written without GNU as oss still. On the other hand, Linus has only made it because Linux is taking vast amounts of the market (even M$ uses linux load balencing servers like akaimi.net) in the recent years. Linux is starting to snowball in a way that Linus never could have expected, nor even really intended to. BSD has its loyal fans, I have never used it, but I have no doubt that it is a very solid os and is quite capable. BSD just isnt making the waves that Linux is.
* all references to Linux actually are for GNU/Linux.
I dont know xml, or how it works or parses and crap. But wouldn't moving the system calls to the client speed up the server side but bog down the client with no effective gains to the end user? I dont program and am pretty ignorant when it comes to this stuff. Looking at the other posts though, the xml will slow down the server. With the client doing even more work (system calls) to the client, wont that also slow down the who damn thing? Could someone be kind enough to explain this to me.
I for one, not even going to say that, will at least try it out. If it is faster, great, if not, boo hoo. I like that there are atleast options though. Second, I havent noticed speed issues with XFree86. I seem to get the same type speed using the winblows game engines as I do the OpenGL. When else would you need speed from your graphics system. OK, well, besides graphic design (which I think is more processor and memory intensive and less dependent on the graphics engines/backends, but I could be wrong)
Digital isnt perfect. Audio is analog, and even using pcm, you still loose something when you go to digital. Digital uses a series of 1's and 0's (like this even has to be said). When recording in digital, when it is time to sample, the program (or recording hardware) looks to see if the tone is higher than the last. If this is so, there is a 1, if not, it is a 0. Every 1 is in relation to the last sampled piece. You can create a very good sound that looks like a sine wave when you look at it, but it cannot be a true sine wave (analog audio) because there are changes (possibly) between sample times. This is why stuff recorded with a higher sample rate sounds so much better than low sample rates. With that said, Digital allows to make a perfect copy of another digital stream. My cd changer has digital out, and my computer has digital in. Simple fix, even if it does take a few hours to get the blank spaces out and cut the tracks and title etc. etc. etc. Yeah, this is a little off topic, but the info may help people make more enlightened statements about perfect recording. The only way you can make a perfect recording is usnig analog recording direct from the source. You will lose something the first time you convert it to digital going to the cd. Every time after that you convert the music (digital to analog or analog to digital) you are going to loose something. I dont mind using my 24 bit digital to analog converter because it sounds good enough to me, if it didn't, it wouldnt matter cause thats all my sound card can output anyways.
Well, you could just post a link on /. and ask for a legal DDOS. That will most definately test your infrastructure.
I could learn it, and I probably will use the formatting for the links, but its not too difficult for people to read the post and type it in a new tab. This also stops from going ohhh, a link, lets click it and /. some poor site.
When you hang up, you are actually switching lines. Since the machine isnt designed to flash to another line, then it has to wait for it to disconnect. For this to happen, it takes 7 seconds for the line to come open again. I have had problems with this when trying to get though to a very busy number before. Dial, busy tone, hang up, Dial , busy tone, hang up, busy tone, wtf, cuss, pull phone out of wall. Am I the only one that has had this issue?
take the names on the sites listed above, the cities as well and plug them in at
www.switchboard.com
sorry, but dont know html to format it. Yeah, flame me all you want, I just never wanted to learn it.
Yes, the military vaccinated its troops, and then sent most of em to the desert. They dont send people that are already effected with HIV on deployments, and we aint bangen the locals, so of course the risk goes down. Now we have to monitor the numbers after we all get back and unleashed back on the general popluace.
It is hard for the American heart to forgive even perceived violation of the free speech ethic.
:)
Havent done much time in the millitary have you. Free speach is something that doesnt really exist in this country.
It goes something like this "your right to swing your fists ends at my nose"
I cannot say anything bad about a person or business because it is slanderous. I cannot write it because it is lible. I cannot speak my mind in my company because it is against the corporations ideals and I get fired.
You will all say what the goverment / big corporations want you to say or you will be punished by them.
I am in the millitary, if I were to say that "G. Bush is a moron" I can go to jail. I do not say that, it is just an example. He maybe a little gungho though
Imagine a beowulf made of these? I have and I need a towel
easy way. Autoplay is only enable for drive letters d:\ and e:\ in win2k. Just right click on mycomputer, click manage, click disk manager, right click your cd drive, click change drive letter, change to anything other than previously mentioned letters and be done with it. I dont know about xp, but I think this might work as well