A "Reel" (one of maybe six making up the entire film) is one thing.
The article says it weighs about 40 pounds.
The whole film weighs a hella lot more than that... I remember lugging those things up the stairs... But the $60K price tag sounds right... for all those people wondering why they don't do 70MM -- it costs a LOT more than that for a 6 reel 70MM print!!
Anyway the article makes it sound like "they" got the whole movie.
Makes me wonder if they got just a reel. Also bewildering that there are apparently theatres that still use the dual-projector open-reel system (as opposed to a single-projector platter system, which *everybody* has nowadays... Any theatre that would be showing star wars... even in a smallish town.)
>Any bets as to whether some employees decided to >"acquire" it?
No doubt. Proj rooms usually have a door locked to a stairwell and another locked door to the proj. room. Sorry, I didn't really read the article. I must learn whether the print had already been spooled on the platter.
All kinds of things can happen from the moment the film is delivered until the (stoned, horribly underpaid) projectionist puts it together (usually at 3:00 AM on thursday nite)... Not all of them are malicious.
Where I wroked, somebody put "Raising Arizona" with a reel out of order.
"If Lucas was smart he would station a guard at each movie theater to watch over the film. "
So you wouldn't mind BillG stationing a guard in your network room? (He's smart too!)
Re:The problem with journaling file systems
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You misunderstand what JFS is all about. JFS does not function as revision control. It's not keeping a rollback buffer of the contents of your files, just the status of the filesystem.
It's all about filesystem integrity.
To quote Chris Tyler on the topic:
"A journalled file system writes all of the proposed changes to control structures (superblock directories, inodes) into a journalling area before making those writes to the actual filesystem, then removes them from the journal after they have been committed to disk. Thus if the system goes down, you can get the disk into a sane state by replaying/executing the intention journal instead of checking every structure; thus an fsck can take seconds instead of minutes (or hours).
For example, if you're going to unlink the last link to a file (aka delete the file), that involves an update to the directory, inode, and free list. If you're on a non-journalled system and update the directory only, you have a file with no link (see/lost+found); if you update the directory and inode only, you have blocks missing from your free list. Both of these require scanning the whole disk in order to fix; but a journalled system would just update the directory, inode, and free list from the journal and then it would be sane.
Problems with journalled filesystems include conflicts with caching systems (e.g., DPT controllers, RAID subsystems with cache) where the intention journal is not committed to physical disk before the writes to the filesystem commence."
For that matter, what if we promoted MS as well? While pointing out the shortcomings, boost them too! Then they would look even stupider attacking... somebody who promotes them... along with all the others.
MS was only able to do this against OS/2 and Java because IBM and Sun must justify their existence with dollars.
Linux only has to justify its existence with its own existence.
What they might accomplish is shutting us out of IT in business. Make it impossible for us to get high-end stuff like JFS or ORBs and so on, by influencing the people who would create those things.
"he didn't contribute anything to computer science per sae"
Has he not? Seems like he must have done something besides the linux kernel. Something not quite so sexy, perhaps, that everybody on the planet hasn't heard of or something?
I always thought it was odd how Linus had to take time out to do a Masters Thesis. (I mean, LINUX should have been worth a thesis). I think it's great that the University sees fit to award him a doctorate. Way better than giving one to some suit, or politician...
Yeah, but it's too late to prevent people from installing linux -- we already did that.
They are scrambling to stop something that has already happened.
Re:Debian's lackluster?
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I've seen dselect cause people to abandon it and install redhat. Myself included. I have a debian box, but I just don't want to face dselect ever again, so my other machines are redhat. Not that I stick with the distribution anyway.
"... Utilities that are far and away better than their counterparts on other UNIXes..."
What? Ever benchmarked gcc against a commercial compiler?
Well, yes, but there are other aspects to the point.
Would you rather have GNU find with, for example, the constraint options -mindepth -maxdepth, or the find that ships with solaris which lacks these? Would you prefer something like ncftp, or do you enjoy the default ftp client? Are you so enamoured of the stock vi that you don't want the luxury of something like elvis or vim? How about sh rather than zsh or bash?
The point is that GNU (and many other libre) utilities are (for the most part) far and away better than their counterparts. After using them, they make the originals look like utter crap.
"and you tell someone to stop distributing something because it is illegal, they are completely entitled to ignore you."
Actually, it's fairly easy to get a temporary order on this kind of thing. You can, if motivated, stop just about any action if it is the contention of a pending suit.
yabbut, your check won't be the only evidence presented to the jury! The original paperwork of the mortgage agreements will also be there (which is why you'd never even get a trial on this) and the original agreement says there are certain terms and conditions... The check with it's binding are also weighed with everything else, not in a vacuum. And their evidence is a pretty substantial stack of papers (as any of you who have ever bought a house will attest), and your evidence is a check (on which you may have written those words AFTER it was returned from the bank!!!)
I may or may not be a lawyer, for all you know, but I have spent as much time in courtrooms as most civil litigators.
Then they should have coded something more secure! (So secure that simply having the source available isn't enough to break its protocol. cf. RSA).
The odds of me giving up my privacy, versus the odds of my finding something that may be construed as a sign of possible intelligence?
I think my privacy is more important to me than my desire to know if there is intelligence in the universe. Really. I've begged off this project. Thanks for letting me know about it though!
I guess having the balls, taking the authority to say "This is crap. Throw it away. Whoever wrote this doesn't know what they're doing. Here is the right way." is not why they hired you? I would make it clear in the interview that I epect my advice to be followed. Take authority. That's how you get authority in corporate america. You just take it.
" Forget it. You get married, you show up at work the next day or else your job won't be here when you get back."
You were still there that same afternoon? Your co-workers too? Shame on you.
"We're losing people due to the awful work conditions. "
Losing not nearly enough people, or they might get a wake-up call.
Posts like yours serve to remind me that the job market must not be as soft as people lead me to believe. (If it's so good out there, your shop would be well out of business by now.)
I went into Electronic Boutique, asked about the Linux version, first got dumb looks, then hostility (or maybe I read discomfort as hostility). It was sort of weird. The guy did end up giving me a card with the district mgr's number or whatever, but the thrill is gone if I have to ask for it. I got the cold shoulder even though I was buying $80 worth of games...
You'd consider it a bug in an environment that assuredly will never encounter the japanese language? (one where the mere appearance of the language would consistute a bug??)
"When you sign a check, and give it to the cashier, how does he/she know it's your signature? If it isn't, but it's sort of close, how do you dis-prove it to your bank? $100 check, $200 for handwriting analysis..."
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A "Reel" (one of maybe six making up the entire
:-)
film) is one thing.
The article says it weighs about 40 pounds.
The whole film weighs a hella lot more than
that... I remember lugging those things up the
stairs... But the $60K price tag sounds right...
for all those people wondering why they don't do
70MM -- it costs a LOT more than that for a 6 reel
70MM print!!
Anyway the article makes it sound like "they"
got the whole movie.
Makes me wonder if they got just a reel. Also
bewildering that there are apparently theatres
that still use the dual-projector open-reel system
(as opposed to a single-projector platter system,
which *everybody* has nowadays... Any theatre
that would be showing star wars... even in a smallish town.)
Is Menomonie smaller than "smallish" though
>Any bets as to whether some employees decided to >"acquire" it?
No doubt. Proj rooms usually have a door locked
to a stairwell and another locked door to the proj. room. Sorry, I didn't really read the article. I must learn whether the print had
already been spooled on the platter.
All kinds of things can happen from the moment
the film is delivered until the (stoned, horribly
underpaid) projectionist puts it together (usually
at 3:00 AM on thursday nite)... Not all of them
are malicious.
Where I wroked, somebody put "Raising Arizona"
with a reel out of order.
"If Lucas was smart he would station a guard at each movie theater to watch over the film. "
So you wouldn't mind BillG stationing a guard
in your network room? (He's smart too!)
You misunderstand what JFS is all about.
/lost+found); if you update the directory and inode
JFS does not function as revision control.
It's not keeping a rollback buffer of the
contents of your files, just the status of
the filesystem.
It's all about filesystem integrity.
To quote Chris Tyler on the topic:
"A journalled file system writes all of the proposed changes to control structures (superblock directories, inodes) into a journalling area before making those writes to the actual filesystem, then
removes them from the journal after they have been committed to disk. Thus if the system goes
down, you can get the disk into a sane state by replaying/executing the intention journal instead of
checking every structure; thus an fsck can take seconds instead of minutes (or hours).
For example, if you're going to unlink the last link to a file (aka delete the file), that involves an
update to the directory, inode, and free list. If you're on a non-journalled system and update the
directory only, you have a file with no link (see
only, you have blocks missing from your free list. Both of these require scanning the whole disk in
order to fix; but a journalled system would just update the directory, inode, and free list from the
journal and then it would be sane.
Problems with journalled filesystems include conflicts with caching systems (e.g., DPT controllers,
RAID subsystems with cache) where the intention journal is not committed to physical disk before
the writes to the filesystem commence."
For that matter, what if we promoted MS
as well? While pointing out the shortcomings,
boost them too! Then they would look even stupider attacking... somebody who promotes
them... along with all the others.
"Make IE not render pages generated by Apache"
There's a move that would have people at their
door with pitchforks and torches!!!
That would outrage a lot more folks than just
the Linux community. For instance, all those
customers of ISPs running apache for their
virtualhosts.
"Orignially, Linux did not depend on popularity to continue"
And did it ever? If one person uses it, it continues.
MS was only able to do this against OS/2 and
Java because IBM and Sun must justify their
existence with dollars.
Linux only has to justify its existence with
its own existence.
What they might accomplish is shutting us
out of IT in business. Make it impossible for
us to get high-end stuff like JFS or ORBs and
so on, by influencing the people who would
create those things.
"he didn't contribute anything to computer science per sae"
Has he not?
Seems like he must have done something besides
the linux kernel. Something not quite so sexy,
perhaps, that everybody on the planet hasn't heard of or something?
I always thought it was odd how Linus had to take
time out to do a Masters Thesis. (I mean, LINUX
should have been worth a thesis). I think it's
great that the University sees fit to award him
a doctorate. Way better than giving one to some
suit, or politician...
If you thought the 50's cookbook site was good,
see http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/2066/
The Ultimate Bad Candy Page.
The rate the world's worst candy from
"Almost Tolerable, Semi Edible" to the "Ultimate
Horror, Hell on Earth"
Two and a half stars. Check it out!
Maybe you don't realize the extent of
the tradition at MIT, in the spirit of
which this hack is performed...
Yeah, but it's too late to prevent people
from installing linux -- we already did that.
They are scrambling to stop something that has
already happened.
I've seen dselect cause people to abandon it
and install redhat. Myself included.
I have a debian box, but I just don't want to
face dselect ever again, so my other machines
are redhat. Not that I stick with the distribution anyway.
"... Utilities that are far and away better than their counterparts on other UNIXes
What? Ever benchmarked gcc against a commercial compiler?
Well, yes, but there are other aspects to the point.
Would you rather have GNU find with, for example,
the constraint options -mindepth -maxdepth, or
the find that ships with solaris which lacks these? Would you prefer something like ncftp,
or do you enjoy the default ftp client? Are you
so enamoured of the stock vi that you don't want the luxury of something like elvis or vim?
How about sh rather than zsh or bash?
The point is that GNU (and many other libre) utilities are (for the most part) far and away better than their counterparts.
After using them, they make the originals look like utter crap.
"and you tell someone to stop distributing something because it is illegal, they are completely entitled to ignore
you."
Actually, it's fairly easy to get a temporary
order on this kind of thing. You can, if motivated, stop just about any action if it
is the contention of a pending suit.
yabbut, your check won't be the only evidence
presented to the jury! The original paperwork
of the mortgage agreements will also be there
(which is why you'd never even get a trial on this) and the original agreement says there are
certain terms and conditions... The check with
it's binding are also weighed with everything else, not in a vacuum. And their evidence is
a pretty substantial stack of papers (as any of
you who have ever bought a house will attest),
and your evidence is a check (on which you may
have written those words AFTER it was returned
from the bank!!!)
I may or may not be a lawyer, for all you know,
but I have spent as much time in courtrooms as
most civil litigators.
Then they should have coded something more
secure! (So secure that simply having the
source available isn't enough to break its
protocol. cf. RSA).
The odds of me giving up my privacy, versus
the odds of my finding something that may
be construed as a sign of possible intelligence?
I think my privacy is more important to me than
my desire to know if there is intelligence in
the universe. Really. I've begged off this
project. Thanks for letting me know about it though!
How do they get around the A.D.A.? (There
are Americans without eyes...)
"I'm confused why people are so worried about distribution of the trailers. "
You can print a hella good bootleg poster
from a 35mm trailer frame.
I guess having the balls, taking the authority
to say "This is crap. Throw it away. Whoever
wrote this doesn't know what they're doing. Here
is the right way." is not why they hired you?
I would make it clear in the interview that I
epect my advice to be followed. Take authority.
That's how you get authority in corporate america.
You just take it.
" Forget it. You get married, you show up at work the next day or else your
job won't be here when you get back."
You were still there that same afternoon?
Your co-workers too?
Shame on you.
"We're losing people due to the awful work conditions. "
Losing not nearly enough people, or they might
get a wake-up call.
Posts like yours serve to remind me that
the job market must not be as soft as people
lead me to believe. (If it's so good out there,
your shop would be well out of business by now.)
At least they don't have to worry about NT.
I went into Electronic Boutique, asked
about the Linux version, first got dumb looks,
then hostility (or maybe I read discomfort as
hostility). It was sort of weird.
The guy did end up giving me a card with
the district mgr's number or whatever, but
the thrill is gone if I have to ask for it.
I got the cold shoulder even though I was
buying $80 worth of games...
Hmm. Wonder if I'll ever shop there again?
You'd consider it a bug in an environment that
assuredly will never encounter the japanese
language? (one where the mere appearance of
the language would consistute a bug??)
"When you sign a check, and give it to the cashier, how does he/she know it's your signature? If it isn't, but it's sort of close, how do you
dis-prove it to your bank? $100 check, $200 for handwriting analysis..."
They take my thumbprint...