I always make a point to reinstall Windows on machines. The last few pre-loaded Windows machines I've seen have had serious issues. Either they had.5MB of RAM free, or they iad huge software conflicts. Unfortunately, these days you're lucky if you get a real copy of Windows to reinstall. My VAIO came with a System Recovery disk, but even that isn't a real reinstall. After I select the option to just install Windows, it creates a user for me, it installs BatteryScope, it installs PowerPanel, etc. I just can't do a 100% clean real installation of Windows unless I own my own copy.
Re:How many consoles do I get then?
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All that good stuff is part of your keymap. If you redesign a keymap that changes the assignment of the VT switching keys, you're set. For all the kernel is concerned, you can make it ALt+1, Alt+2, or even Shift+Ctrl+X for your X tty.
Re:Similar to FreeBSD jail()
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They may have the same result, but unlike jail() this thing requires you to run a kernel under your kernel. FreeBSD's jail() uses the system kernel. There is no second kernel running under it. You get less of a cpu hit with jail().
Re:How many consoles do I get then?
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You can already work on 16 consoles. All you have to do is modify your/etc/inittab file to run more gettys. See the init(8) amdn agetty/mingetty(8) manpages.
[10/05/00 @ 22:03:58] [new/912] what irc client ya using now? (nd)
Actually, there were 912 questions submitted to the queue.
That is just shy of 1000. There were 111 that made it through.
As Hemos states in a comment further down, the Slashdot crew had no selection over the questions that they were presented. The best they could do was say "ask a real question, next." There were hundreds of questiosn being submitted, and there were two to three (depending on the time) people going through them trying to weed out spam and duplicates. You can not expect the outcome to be perfect, as that is not a perfect way to do such things. We are working on newer and better ways to filter the queue of questions, but until then this is what we have. The goal was to get questions that would have more than a 'yes' or 'no' answer and would promote further talking from the guests. Similar and duplicate questions were deleted, as were spam. You have to remember that 'spam' is based on somebody's point of view. What one thinks of as spam, another might not. There were three people managing the queue, and they could have considered something spam that you would not.
Feel free to make a new one that can take the input of the text log and output something in HTML. The current script was given to me by jwz. I am happy with it so I have no incentive to update it. If you can present something better, I'd be interrested to see it and possibly use it.
FAQ stands for "Frequently Asked Question". As an admin on SlashNET, I can tell you that there were many duplicate questiosn we had to weed out as people were asking them. It was obvious we (not including me, as I did not maintain the question queue) missed some. Because of teh nature of the acronym FAQ, I think that it doesn't matter what the question is about, but the fact that it is a question that is asked a lot. Is it wrong to have questions in the Slashdot FAQ which cover views and thoughts of the people behind the Slashdot website itself?
I've played hours of video games and I am not violent because of them god damn it. If anybody tries to tell me so, I'll break their arms and shove them so far down their throut that their fingertips cause their stomach to explode and they die of internal bleeding. I WILSAFJLKAWJR@#OI!$YU@#(!)*Y%UR#)*(.... See?
Re:Washington DC latitude
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I'm nowhere near DC, so please do fire your missile. Hopefully you'll take out some unneeded senators or something...
Ouch. That's got to be expensive. You should be using Cheap Long Distance Wireless Networking! All you need is a few million signal boosting antennae, and you'll be on your way.
Re:Washington DC latitude
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More specificly, 38.92056 Latitude, -77.06575 Longitude, 0 Altitude
I've found that to be a new "feature". Instead of daily updates like they say and it used to be, over the last few months its been getting slower and slower. I've seen the db go for two or three days without an update. It's like it was on crontab, but some idiot erased it and is doing it manually now since he doesn't know how to work crontab... quite sad really. Somebody needs to just bomb NSI into the ground.
I think that is what happens when a news(?) site begins to decay... The moderators and operators who are supposed to treat people and opinions equally begin to take sides based on their feelings and beliefs. Just because the moderator had a beef against FreeBSD, which a good majority of the Linux community appears to have, the article gets marked down. I do not understand what is with the BSD and Linux wars. People are entitled to their opinions and freedom to use whatever they want. I, myself, prefer FreeBSD as a server because some of its features such as saving system cores in kernel panics, its fast and efficent networking, its stability and ease of admining, and its logical layout. Unlike Linux, all the sources are nicely put before the operator in/usr/src, so you can find the source to ANYTHING on your system. Before people start bashing on Linux, BSD, and *even* Windows, I would hope they would at least have the decency to try it for a long enough period of time that they get a good opinion. The Linux community has dissappointed me lately because of behavior like this. I've even found myself branding things before I fully try them, such as Enlightenment, GNOME, and KDE. Would you try it before you rate it? I'm also tired of hearing about licenses. It doesn't matter if soemthing is put under the GPL or BSDL. Both licenses allow distribution. It should be the programmer's choice as to which he uses. I'm even okay with commercial licenses, if the software is good enough (such as WordPerfect). For those of you who claimed this story was Microsoft FUD to confuse the Linux community, I have not much to say to you. If you really think Microsoft would use one opensource operating system as a sword against another to defend their commercial box of exploding blue monkeys, you need help. Even if they did, we should not fall for such stupid things. For gods sakes, read the BSD license and then the GPL license, they have the same goals. They just have different guidelines in the way they reach the goals. Basicly, before you start replying with random crap to a story, think about what the hell the story is about and think about what you are saying. The Linux and BSD community could work together if the two sides would just quit picking fights with petty words like the comments I see attached to this article.
As of Bison version 1.24, we have changed the distribution terms for `yyparse' to permit using Bison's output in non-free programs. Formerly, Bison parsers could be used only in programs that were free software. The other GNU programming tools, such as the GNU C compiler, have never had such a requirement. They could always be used for non-free software. The reason Bison was different was not due to a special policy decision; it resulted from applying the usual General Public License to all of the Bison source code.
We thank everybody who attended the XMMS forum and made it turn out as well as it did. If you were unable to attend, you can get the log from our FTP site:
The official SlashNET Log of mandrake's forum can be slashdotted from ftp://ftp.slashnet.org/pub/slashnet/forums/
That directory contains gzipped logs of most of our post forums (the really really old ones weren't logged). Feel free to repost unmodified versions on other sites. We should have it on our website pretty soon.
I'd like to note that the SlashNET link on Slashdot pages is wrong. Our new webpage is at http://www.slashnet.org/
[Questions] gassy asks: mandrake linux.... pure coincidence? [mandrake] heh [mandrake] you don't know how many times people ask me that [mandrake] in fact, the day I found out they had chosen my handle was right after linux expo [mandrake] and they even knew who I was but sent me email saying somehting like "well, we've already sent in the CD to be mastered, sorry" [mandrake] the only thing that really bothers me is that they trademarked my name. [mandrake] annoying [mandrake] but oh well
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I always make a point to reinstall Windows on machines. The last few pre-loaded Windows machines I've seen have had serious issues. Either they had .5MB of RAM free, or they iad huge software conflicts. Unfortunately, these days you're lucky if you get a real copy of Windows to reinstall. My VAIO came with a System Recovery disk, but even that isn't a real reinstall. After I select the option to just install Windows, it creates a user for me, it installs BatteryScope, it installs PowerPanel, etc. I just can't do a 100% clean real installation of Windows unless I own my own copy.
All that good stuff is part of your keymap. If you redesign a keymap that changes the assignment of the VT switching keys, you're set. For all the kernel is concerned, you can make it ALt+1, Alt+2, or even Shift+Ctrl+X for your X tty.
They may have the same result, but unlike jail() this thing requires you to run a kernel under your kernel. FreeBSD's jail() uses the system kernel. There is no second kernel running under it. You get less of a cpu hit with jail().
You can already work on 16 consoles. All you have to do is modify your /etc/inittab file to run more gettys. See the init(8) amdn agetty/mingetty(8) manpages.
[10/05/00 @ 22:03:58] [new/912] what irc client ya using now? (nd)
Actually, there were 912 questions submitted to the queue.
That is just shy of 1000. There were 111 that made it through.
As Hemos states in a comment further down, the Slashdot crew had no selection over the questions that they were presented. The best they could do was say "ask a real question, next." There were hundreds of questiosn being submitted, and there were two to three (depending on the time) people going through them trying to weed out spam and duplicates. You can not expect the outcome to be perfect, as that is not a perfect way to do such things. We are working on newer and better ways to filter the queue of questions, but until then this is what we have. The goal was to get questions that would have more than a 'yes' or 'no' answer and would promote further talking from the guests. Similar and duplicate questions were deleted, as were spam. You have to remember that 'spam' is based on somebody's point of view. What one thinks of as spam, another might not. There were three people managing the queue, and they could have considered something spam that you would not.
Feel free to make a new one that can take the input of the text log and output something in HTML. The current script was given to me by jwz. I am happy with it so I have no incentive to update it. If you can present something better, I'd be interrested to see it and possibly use it.
FAQ stands for "Frequently Asked Question". As an admin on SlashNET, I can tell you that there were many duplicate questiosn we had to weed out as people were asking them. It was obvious we (not including me, as I did not maintain the question queue) missed some. Because of teh nature of the acronym FAQ, I think that it doesn't matter what the question is about, but the fact that it is a question that is asked a lot. Is it wrong to have questions in the Slashdot FAQ which cover views and thoughts of the people behind the Slashdot website itself?
One thing I'd like to see for Christmas is Sonic Adventure 2. The previews of that game looked amazing. I'd also like a NIC for my DC.
I've played hours of video games and I am not violent because of them god damn it. If anybody tries to tell me so, I'll break their arms and shove them so far down their throut that their fingertips cause their stomach to explode and they die of internal bleeding. I WILSAFJLKAWJR@#OI!$YU@#(!)*Y%UR#)*(.... See?
I'm nowhere near DC, so please do fire your missile. Hopefully you'll take out some unneeded senators or something...
Ouch. That's got to be expensive. You should be using Cheap Long Distance Wireless Networking! All you need is a few million signal boosting antennae, and you'll be on your way.
More specificly, 38.92056 Latitude, -77.06575 Longitude, 0 Altitude
If you are interrested in this or you can't see it, this site has everything you could ever want to see or know about the Northern Lights.
SlashNET has a JAVA client that lets you connect to the network. It's somewhat crude compared to a standard client, but it works.
4 FreeBSD servers, 2 Linux servers, and 1 NetBSD server. Plus services run on a FreeBSD server along with the website.
I've found that to be a new "feature". Instead of daily updates like they say and it used to be, over the last few months its been getting slower and slower. I've seen the db go for two or three days without an update. It's like it was on crontab, but some idiot erased it and is doing it manually now since he doesn't know how to work crontab... quite sad really. Somebody needs to just bomb NSI into the ground.
I think that is what happens when a news(?) site begins to decay... The moderators and operators who are supposed to treat people and opinions equally begin to take sides based on their feelings and beliefs. Just because the moderator had a beef against FreeBSD, which a good majority of the Linux community appears to have, the article gets marked down. I do not understand what is with the BSD and Linux wars. People are entitled to their opinions and freedom to use whatever they want. I, myself, prefer FreeBSD as a server because some of its features such as saving system cores in kernel panics, its fast and efficent networking, its stability and ease of admining, and its logical layout. Unlike Linux, all the sources are nicely put before the operator in /usr/src, so you can find the source to ANYTHING on your system. Before people start bashing on Linux, BSD, and *even* Windows, I would hope they would at least have the decency to try it for a long enough period of time that they get a good opinion. The Linux community has dissappointed me lately because of behavior like this. I've even found myself branding things before I fully try them, such as Enlightenment, GNOME, and KDE. Would you try it before you rate it? I'm also tired of hearing about licenses. It doesn't matter if soemthing is put under the GPL or BSDL. Both licenses allow distribution. It should be the programmer's choice as to which he uses. I'm even okay with commercial licenses, if the software is good enough (such as WordPerfect). For those of you who claimed this story was Microsoft FUD to confuse the Linux community, I have not much to say to you. If you really think Microsoft would use one opensource operating system as a sword against another to defend their commercial box of exploding blue monkeys, you need help. Even if they did, we should not fall for such stupid things. For gods sakes, read the BSD license and then the GPL license, they have the same goals. They just have different guidelines in the way they reach the goals. Basicly, before you start replying with random crap to a story, think about what the hell the story is about and think about what you are saying. The Linux and BSD community could work together if the two sides would just quit picking fights with petty words like the comments I see attached to this article.
As of Bison version 1.24, we have changed the distribution terms for `yyparse' to permit using Bison's output in non-free programs. Formerly, Bison parsers could be used only in programs that were free software. The other GNU programming tools, such as the GNU C compiler, have never had such a requirement. They could always be used for non-free software. The reason Bison was different was not due to a special policy decision; it resulted from applying the usual General Public License to all of the Bison source code.
ftp://ftp.slashne t.org/pub/slashnet/forums/xmms_06-19-1999.txt.gz.
That directory also contains the logs of several past forums, including the mandrake forum.
That directory contains gzipped logs of most of our post forums (the really really old ones weren't logged). Feel free to repost unmodified versions on other sites. We should have it on our website pretty soon.
I'd like to note that the SlashNET link on Slashdot pages is wrong. Our new webpage is at http://www.slashnet.org/
I can't seem to find my fire tipped icepick... maybe next time
[mandrake] heh
[mandrake] you don't know how many times people ask me that
[mandrake] in fact, the day I found out they had chosen my handle was right after linux expo
[mandrake] and they even knew who I was but sent me email saying somehting like "well, we've already sent in the CD to be mastered, sorry"
[mandrake] the only thing that really bothers me is that they trademarked my name.
[mandrake] annoying
[mandrake] but oh well
That answer your question?