I actually did a class project on this in grad school. So did these guys. They did it for ext2, I did it for ext3.
So yes, it is possible. It can be done a couple of different ways:
move any deleted stuff to/trash, possibly replicating the directory structure underneath
move any deleted files to./.trash
The first has the advantage of confining all deleted items to one location, but has the disadvantage of possibly crossing filesystem boundaries, causing a world of headache.
The second is simpler, keeps deleted items close to their original location, and doesn't need to worry about filesystem boundaries.
I went with the first approach; it was a pain to implement, but yes, it worked. I think the guys I linked to did the second approach.
Filesystem drivers can be a dangerous place to do kernel hacking. Especially if it's the filesystem you boot from (then you need to build your own initial ramdisk - I used yaird). So go for it if you want to, but be prepared to endure some truly funky things in your filesystem (reboots fix most of the problems I saw. except when it kernel panicked on boot).
It's included in the bill. There was a class-action settlement with them not too long ago for all those who owned their own modems. IIRC, joining the settlement got you a whopping $1 off your monthly bill for a year or two.
I've got back problems, so a chair like that is quite enticing. My concern is about the length of the chair. I see from their website, that the chair is 71" long, which is less than 6 feet. I'm worried that my head would be on the metal bar, which would force me to slouch down, which would defeat the whole point of the chair.
Have you ever had problems with hitting the metal bar near your head, and how tall are you? I'm 5'10", so I guess I'm a little taller than average.
Seriously, the amount of time, thought, and effort that goes into cheating is enormous. If they focused instead on actually learning things, the tests wouldn't be so scary, and they'd actually earn their place in a university.
"This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience.
Countless millions of customers have complained about spyware and viruses for years but it takes an MS exec to fumble before their eyes open?
To be fair, it's one thing to hear about the horrors of spyware/adware, but it's something else entirely to actually see a machine completely taken over.
I had heard the stories, and read the complaints about spyware and XP. I'd heard the stats about how quickly a fresh XP system is compromised simply by connecting it to the internet. But I'd never seen it until a couple years ago.
A family from church asked me to look at their computer. Their description of it turned out to be on the mild side. It had so much adware/spyware that it was completely unusable. Popups galore, and other ridiculous nastiness. On a system with 128 MB RAM (yes most users do have far less than a gig), this really made it bad.
It took a while, but I was able to clean off most of the malware (Adaware and Spybot to the rescue!). The rest I had to get by hand. It took a long time, but it really opened my eyes to just how bad the spyware problem really is. My system never had anything significant found by any spyware scanner. I like to think I'm good at practicing safe surfing, which average users know nothing about (ooh, a shiny screensaver).
That said, it's a good thing they're finally opening their eyes to the spyware problem. Hopefully this will help things.
I'll chime in with a tip I got from a friend of mine:
Hit back. In front of a teacher.
Bullies operate in the shadows. They won't hit you back in the presence of a teacher or principal. It also forces the administration to do something about it if it's right in their face.
Your ideas intrigue me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Actually, I'd just like to be able to see this. I was so disappointed with Matrix 2 and 3, that I'd already decided they weren't worth watching again, but this cut sounds interesting enough to see. So I'll chime in with the others asking for a torrent.
I just bought my PowerBook G4. But then again, it runs all my current software/games flawlessly.
I'm curious about that. I've been considering getting a mac laptop (not sure yet about ibook/powerbook), and my big concern is about games. The big games I play (Warcraft 3, UT2k4) are already available for the mac, but I have been completely unable to find any information about how well they run on the mac. Tons of sites (such as anandtech) compare PC hardware, so I know what to expect in that regard, but what of the Mac?
So my questions for you:
What powerbook do you have?
What games do you play on it?
What kind of performance/framerate do you get?
This guy did actually spend time in NY for work, and doesn't dispute that he should pay taxes for that time. What about workers who travel around the country (for support, or sales, or whatever). Are they suddenly liable to be taxed in multiple states?
It seems like the guy should just set up his own "company", and any time spent in NY is only business travel (not taxed), and his income would come from his company in his own state (not taxed). That would leave the issue of company taxes. I'm not savvy with tax law, but would selling a service across state lines get taxed?
The whole situation of commuting vs. telecommuting vs. business travel can get very sticky very fast.
Just as obvious that Firefox is a firefighting program that calculates how the fire will spread and devises countermeasures with the cunning of the fox.
Oh that's what this Firefox thing is? and I thought it was a computer game based on Samson and the Philistines...
I just tried to install the 64-bit version of fedora core 2 as a dual boot with XP last night. I just have IDE, not SATA, so I didn't expect a problem. The install program outright crashed, but not before it destroyt the boot sector and partition table on my hard drive. ALL data from my hard drive was lost, and I had to reformat and reinstall XP. Needless to say, I'm going to just stick with XP, and not go back to linux.
I'm not anti linux, it'd be nice to have a viable alternative to windows, but having tried out 3 different distros in recent weeks, I still haven't been able to get a decent desktop system. Suse came closest, but considering mandrake wouldn't recognize my network card, and fedora killed my hard drive, that's not saying much.
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So it seems that the best way to compete with Skype is to be a Facebook app. Everyone uses it.
And why do you think crazy people are old? Crazyism is alive and well too.
For weird news, I usually go to News of the Weird
It's only a once-a-week newsletter, but it's still great.
So yes, it is possible. It can be done a couple of different ways:
- move any deleted stuff to
/trash, possibly replicating the directory structure underneath
- move any deleted files to
./.trash
The first has the advantage of confining all deleted items to one location, but has the disadvantage of possibly crossing filesystem boundaries, causing a world of headache.The second is simpler, keeps deleted items close to their original location, and doesn't need to worry about filesystem boundaries.
I went with the first approach; it was a pain to implement, but yes, it worked. I think the guys I linked to did the second approach.
Filesystem drivers can be a dangerous place to do kernel hacking. Especially if it's the filesystem you boot from (then you need to build your own initial ramdisk - I used yaird). So go for it if you want to, but be prepared to endure some truly funky things in your filesystem (reboots fix most of the problems I saw. except when it kernel panicked on boot).
It's included in the bill. There was a class-action settlement with them not too long ago for all those who owned their own modems. IIRC, joining the settlement got you a whopping $1 off your monthly bill for a year or two.
Since you brought money into this, I'll share one of my favorite "proofs":
$1 = 100 c
= (10 c) ^2
= ($.10) ^2
= $.01
= 1c
So, a dollar equals a penny!
I've got a question about that chair.
I've got back problems, so a chair like that is quite enticing. My concern is about the length of the chair. I see from their website, that the chair is 71" long, which is less than 6 feet. I'm worried that my head would be on the metal bar, which would force me to slouch down, which would defeat the whole point of the chair.
Have you ever had problems with hitting the metal bar near your head, and how tall are you? I'm 5'10", so I guess I'm a little taller than average.
any info you can provide would be great, thanks.
You could prepare for the test by studying...
Seriously, the amount of time, thought, and effort that goes into cheating is enormous. If they focused instead on actually learning things, the tests wouldn't be so scary, and they'd actually earn their place in a university.
That's why I saved this conversation between Dilbert and a random coworker:
Bob: Hey, Dilbert, would you mind stopping by my house after work and seeing if you can fix my computer?
Dilbert: Sure. And while I do that you can be at my house cleaning the grout in my shower.
Bob (looking horrified): That's crazy talk.
Dilbert: Hey, I'm not the one who majored in comparative literature.
I had heard the stories, and read the complaints about spyware and XP. I'd heard the stats about how quickly a fresh XP system is compromised simply by connecting it to the internet. But I'd never seen it until a couple years ago.
A family from church asked me to look at their computer. Their description of it turned out to be on the mild side. It had so much adware/spyware that it was completely unusable. Popups galore, and other ridiculous nastiness. On a system with 128 MB RAM (yes most users do have far less than a gig), this really made it bad.
It took a while, but I was able to clean off most of the malware (Adaware and Spybot to the rescue!). The rest I had to get by hand. It took a long time, but it really opened my eyes to just how bad the spyware problem really is. My system never had anything significant found by any spyware scanner. I like to think I'm good at practicing safe surfing, which average users know nothing about (ooh, a shiny screensaver).
That said, it's a good thing they're finally opening their eyes to the spyware problem. Hopefully this will help things.
oh, if only...
I'll chime in with a tip I got from a friend of mine:
Hit back. In front of a teacher.
Bullies operate in the shadows. They won't hit you back in the presence of a teacher or principal. It also forces the administration to do something about it if it's right in their face.
Food for thought.
Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, OMG TERRORISM!!!!!!!!!!!
oh man, I read that like Ballmer's "developers, developers, developers, developers"
I have a sudden image in my head of Bush prancing around repeating endlessly:
Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism...
Your ideas intrigue me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Actually, I'd just like to be able to see this. I was so disappointed with Matrix 2 and 3, that I'd already decided they weren't worth watching again, but this cut sounds interesting enough to see. So I'll chime in with the others asking for a torrent.
You can have a bookmarklet to automatically do that for you:
javascript:( function() { var i,x,t; function R(t) { while(t.indexOf("!")!=-1) t=t.replace("!"," NOT."); return t } function F(n,i) { t=n.tagName; if(i=n.data)n.data=R(i); if(t!="SCRIPT"&&t!="STYLE") for(i=0;x=n.childNodes[i];++i) F(x) } F(document) })()
or one to just turn '!' into '.'
javascript:( function() { var i,x,t; function R(t) { while(t.indexOf("!")!=-1) t=t.replace("!","."); return t } function F(n,i) { t=n.tagName; if(i=n.data)n.data=R(i); if(t!="SCRIPT"&&t!="STYLE") for(i=0;x=n.childNodes[i];++i) F(x) } F(document) })()
There's probably a better way to write those bookmarklets; I'm only a beginner in javascript.
I just bought my PowerBook G4. But then again, it runs all my current software/games flawlessly.
I'm curious about that. I've been considering getting a mac laptop (not sure yet about ibook/powerbook), and my big concern is about games. The big games I play (Warcraft 3, UT2k4) are already available for the mac, but I have been completely unable to find any information about how well they run on the mac. Tons of sites (such as anandtech) compare PC hardware, so I know what to expect in that regard, but what of the Mac?
So my questions for you:
What powerbook do you have?
What games do you play on it?
What kind of performance/framerate do you get?
Here's a thought: What about business travel?
This guy did actually spend time in NY for work, and doesn't dispute that he should pay taxes for that time. What about workers who travel around the country (for support, or sales, or whatever). Are they suddenly liable to be taxed in multiple states?
It seems like the guy should just set up his own "company", and any time spent in NY is only business travel (not taxed), and his income would come from his company in his own state (not taxed). That would leave the issue of company taxes. I'm not savvy with tax law, but would selling a service across state lines get taxed?
The whole situation of commuting vs. telecommuting vs. business travel can get very sticky very fast.
Yes, and watch out for those grapes. They're sour
No you won't.
Just as obvious that Firefox is a firefighting program that calculates how the fire will spread and devises countermeasures with the cunning of the fox.
Oh that's what this Firefox thing is? and I thought it was a computer game based on Samson and the Philistines...
Did you Adblock ebay?
It's Hoggle!
I just tried to install the 64-bit version of fedora core 2 as a dual boot with XP last night. I just have IDE, not SATA, so I didn't expect a problem. The install program outright crashed, but not before it destroyt the boot sector and partition table on my hard drive. ALL data from my hard drive was lost, and I had to reformat and reinstall XP. Needless to say, I'm going to just stick with XP, and not go back to linux.
I'm not anti linux, it'd be nice to have a viable alternative to windows, but having tried out 3 different distros in recent weeks, I still haven't been able to get a decent desktop system. Suse came closest, but considering mandrake wouldn't recognize my network card, and fedora killed my hard drive, that's not saying much.
Try about 113,880 hours
Well, you can wait 13 years to see it if you want, the rest of us will see it in 13 months.
1 year, 1 month, 13 days = 9792 hours
13 years = 4748 days = 113,952 hours
binary digit was shortened to bit
Don't forget what trinary digit would be shortened to...