The legendary shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark is screening next month at the first ever large scale Fan Film convention in Worcester, Mass.
Being a former Worcester resident, I found this odd for three reasons:
Worcester got mentioned on/.
The event is in Worcester instead of Boston.
Something is actually happening in Worcester.
Oh, and before you ask, it's pronounced "Wuss-tah" not "Whore-sesster".
That being said, please come! It'll be a hoot if lots of/. readers show up!
USF Corporation to Close Red Star Operating Company
It's a company press release. They're going to blame anyone they can, and the Teamsters were the scapegoat in this case, because of their "job action". This company was dying due to mismanagement, and failing their customers and their employees. Blaming the Teamsters was an easy way out.
Don't rely on a bunch of political hacks like the Teamsters to help you with your career. They're a bunch of ignorant thugs, and don't give a rat's ass about your job
If I were you, I would be careful about saying things like this in a public forum. You don't want to offend anyone you might have to rely on later.
-- only their ability to extract union dues from you to prop up their political power.
The union dues go to support an organization which lobbys for ME, as opposed to IEEE dues, which help support a standards organization and their agenda. That's the difference. Professional organizations are no longer for the professional. They have their own agendas that don't include members. Don't believe me? Look at the latest ACM ballot, and read what each candidate had to say. They don't give a rat's ass about the members, as long as they buy magazines.
Maybe the AFL-CIO or UAW would be up to the task? They're only a postage stamp or a phone call away.
Get the Teamsters involved! Think about it: If IT workers were Teamsters, and there was a contract disagreement between IT and management, then NOTHING would get shipped ANYWHERE by truck. That would really be an issue for most large corporations.
Don't rely on professional organizations like the IEEE and ACM to help you with your career. These are international organizations, and don't give a rat's ass about IT in the USA.
It has never worked with any distro to my knowledge. Use partition magic and you should be fine.
It has worked fine for me in every Redhat since 6.0 and every Mandrake since 7.
PartitionMagic has also worked, although there were some issues with PM 7 that repartitioning with DiskDrake solved.
That said, I like OS development a lot. If I get enthusiastic enough about some idea (not just writing another UNIX clone), I will happily hack away.
Did anybody write a nice free exokernel yet? That's something I'd be interested in messing with. Different personalities could be plugged into it depending on the application.
As a sidenote, watch the movie Still We Believe for an inside view of how Boston fans related to the Boston Red Sox.
I just saw that movie, and I have to say that this was the first time I have ever laughed that hard in a theater. Everyone in the theater was equally amused. If you're not from Massachusetts, you probably won't think it's quite that funny, but it is still a well done documentary.
Seriously, I can write a kernel in a day, in x86 assembly. Give me a week and I can make it do proper multitasking and write a shell and a few proof of concept apps.
Thats not the filesystem, it's some attribute of your computer or the way in which you invoked dd.
Hmmm, lets break this down a little bit. The poster said:
I performed a dd to copy the one partition into the other. I returned 10 hours later, to find it still running.
I wise up, pop in a Linux rescue CD, and perform the dd in about 20 minutes.
In other words, he used dd on both operating systems.
That being said, I don't think that it's reasonable to assume that he invoked dd with drastically different options on each operating system. Maybe he did, but I doubt it. It just doesn't make sense to suddenly remember the blocksize option when switching operating systems. In other words, if he forgot the blocksize option on one OS, he would most likely forget it on the other.
Thus, it doesn't matter how he invoked dd. Linux would still end up being faster for him, because he would have used the same options on each OS.
Now, assuming that there isn't some important message in the manual, like, "you must always use a blocksize of 8192 when using dd on QNX", I don't think the difference in speed is due to the way in which he invoked dd. I don't think the speed difference is necessarily due to filesystem implementation, either.
What I'd be curious to know is how each OS recognized the capabilities of his drive and IDE controller.
That was put there for 68ks such as the 68EC060 which had no MMU, not coldfire
Yeah! Way to serve the guy who wrote the support for the earlier ColdFire chips! Greg was obviously talking out his ass and doesn't know anything about the code he wrote. IT'S ON!
Where I'm from in rural Herefordshire, one end of my village sounds very different from the other, a matter of about 3 miles.
Uh, I bet it does. However, I was asking specifically about counties in Massachusetts, USA and the differences in accents between them in response to the poster of my previous post. AFAIK, there is no Herefordshire in MA.
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Being a former Worcester resident, I found this odd for three reasons:
Oh, and before you ask, it's pronounced "Wuss-tah" not "Whore-sesster".
That being said, please come! It'll be a hoot if lots of /. readers show up!
Don't laugh. You know what a wood louse or sow bug is?
Well, they have larger underwater cousins, which are sometimes called "sea roaches".
You can see them live at the New England Aquarium.
It's a company press release. They're going to blame anyone they can, and the Teamsters were the scapegoat in this case, because of their "job action". This company was dying due to mismanagement, and failing their customers and their employees. Blaming the Teamsters was an easy way out.
Don't rely on a bunch of political hacks like the Teamsters to help you with your career. They're a bunch of ignorant thugs, and don't give a rat's ass about your job
If I were you, I would be careful about saying things like this in a public forum. You don't want to offend anyone you might have to rely on later.
-- only their ability to extract union dues from you to prop up their political power.
The union dues go to support an organization which lobbys for ME, as opposed to IEEE dues, which help support a standards organization and their agenda. That's the difference. Professional organizations are no longer for the professional. They have their own agendas that don't include members. Don't believe me? Look at the latest ACM ballot, and read what each candidate had to say. They don't give a rat's ass about the members, as long as they buy magazines.
Get the Teamsters involved! Think about it: If IT workers were Teamsters, and there was a contract disagreement between IT and management, then NOTHING would get shipped ANYWHERE by truck. That would really be an issue for most large corporations.
Don't rely on professional organizations like the IEEE and ACM to help you with your career. These are international organizations, and don't give a rat's ass about IT in the USA.
It has worked fine for me in every Redhat since 6.0 and every Mandrake since 7.
PartitionMagic has also worked, although there were some issues with PM 7 that repartitioning with DiskDrake solved.
You start each OS at ten paces and which ever is the last one standing wins?
Yeah! Partitons are for wusses. "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda" all the way, man. I just boot off of CD, and keep my data on the HD.
Well, that was a joke, but you're right.
The market is already overloaded:
- SkyOS
- GNU/Fiwix
That said, I like OS development a lot. If I get enthusiastic enough about some idea (not just writing another UNIX clone), I will happily hack away.Did anybody write a nice free exokernel yet? That's something I'd be interested in messing with. Different personalities could be plugged into it depending on the application.
No it wasn't.
However, Microsoft is referenced as an author for the following DHCP related RFCs:
- RFC 3004 - The User Class Option for DHCP
- RFC 3456 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4)Configuration of IPsec Tunnel Mode
You were probably thinking of Dynamic Configuration of Link-Local IPv4 Addresses, which was developed partly by Microsoft, but is an Internet draft, not an RFC.That's Tsarist Russia. The Tunguska blast occurred in 1908.
Only if it's 4:20!
It was much closer to being a rip-off of Anthem than Brave New World.
THX 1138 vs Equality 7-2521???
I just saw that movie, and I have to say that this was the first time I have ever laughed that hard in a theater. Everyone in the theater was equally amused. If you're not from Massachusetts, you probably won't think it's quite that funny, but it is still a well done documentary.
It's not on Freshmeat yet. What's keeping you?
Hmmm, lets break this down a little bit. The poster said:
In other words, he used dd on both operating systems.
That being said, I don't think that it's reasonable to assume that he invoked dd with drastically different options on each operating system. Maybe he did, but I doubt it. It just doesn't make sense to suddenly remember the blocksize option when switching operating systems. In other words, if he forgot the blocksize option on one OS, he would most likely forget it on the other.
Thus, it doesn't matter how he invoked dd. Linux would still end up being faster for him, because he would have used the same options on each OS.
Now, assuming that there isn't some important message in the manual, like, "you must always use a blocksize of 8192 when using dd on QNX", I don't think the difference in speed is due to the way in which he invoked dd. I don't think the speed difference is necessarily due to filesystem implementation, either.
What I'd be curious to know is how each OS recognized the capabilities of his drive and IDE controller.
No, you aren't.
Yeah! Way to serve the guy who wrote the support for the earlier ColdFire chips! Greg was obviously talking out his ass and doesn't know anything about the code he wrote. IT'S ON!
Okay, so follow me on this one...
If you rearrange the letters in, "Santa", you get, "SATAN".
Satan is a demon.
BSD has a daemon as a mascot.
So... The Daemon made him do it!
Ohhhhh! That sucked.
Uh, I bet it does. However, I was asking specifically about counties in Massachusetts, USA and the differences in accents between them in response to the poster of my previous post. AFAIK, there is no Herefordshire in MA.
Fark and ArsTechnica probably have articles too.
The /. editors are terrible.
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Ouch! Wouldn't toilet paper be a little softer than book pages?
Wow! What are your women like?
Would you like to enter into a contract with me? It's all just minute details. Here, just sign on the dotted line... ;)