The way those filesystems do it is that they implement an allocator of resources beneath the actual "filesystem", so that you can snapshot things by marking blocks CoW and then allocating non-filesystem space for the metadata.
As it happens, ext and friends don't roll that way, so adding that functionality breaks compatibility with those filesystems.
Also, most of the new filesystems which allow snapshots in the way I describe have some awesome problems - like needing to truncate a file in order to rm when the filesystem is full, because the way the allocator structure works means that you can't know ahead of time how much space it takes to atomically delete a file, either...
NTFS itself is case-sensitive - the Windows interface on top of it is case-preserving and disallows collisions in case-insensitive cases, but NTFS itself allows multiple files which would collide in a really case-insensitive filesystem.
If you don't believe me, go mount a filesystem using NTFS-3G, make two files which would collide on a case-insensitive filesystem, and be amazed as it fails to panic.
Or, if you really want proof, go read the NTFS specifications about how it behaves in various namespaces.
IT@JH (the enterprise university-wide technical department) has Linux running on a number of servers, though they would love it if you'd only run RHEL4 and nothing else, for reasons too complicated to go into.
The new VPN software claims to support Linux, but doesn't, and one look at the installer script shows it couldn't have possibly worked for a very long time.
The undergraduate networking documentation has Linux explanations (though conveniently this is "plug in, have fun", with a few notes for brokenness in an old version of NetworkManager and another footnote for WICD being Just Broken in certain forms of PEAP).
So, sort of.
But heaven forbid you call the support line about Linux. They'll make a best-effort attempt to fix it, but...I've seen them claim that having Ubuntu in your boot menu could cause your optical drive to not work. At all. (As in, physically won't eject, after a hard power cycle.)
Actually, Blizzard has mentioned plans for special ladders for e.g. DotA-style things that end up with lives of their own.
I imagine they readily have the infrastructure to host limited-scope events like that in place in the code (or, if not, at least planned for release...)
I got to clean out a system with this about a week ago. It was really nasty.
The worst part was that I spent the better part of two days trying to figure out why the search links were still being poisoned, even after nothing on several LiveCDs found anything...it turned out that it had installed an invisible Firefox plugin/extension which was doing it.
tl;dr of all the IANAL posts: It's not legal, but it's possible the school could punish you if you refused.
Since she went in without asking explicitly, THAT is illegal s&s, and you can hand her ass to her legally, though they'd make an implied consent argument.
Simon Travaglia originally scored a TRS-80 out of a bin at the university he worked for at the time, and he wrote out a few articles of the Striped Irregular Bucket. Within that bloody machine came the character of the BOFH, and the rest...is something.
I'm enjoying my MPMan (well, actually, an F20V, not the F10, to be accurate) - I've had a Zen, an iPod, and a few other things, but I keep coming back to the F20V like an old friend.
Even though it only takes data transfer over proprietary parallel.
Even though it doesn't support VBR MP3s because it apparently doesn't support some bitrates.
Because it hasn't broken in almost a decade of use.
The "phone" bits give you as much control as they legally can - if you could screw with the phone protocol/frequency usage, it wouldn't be licensed for use in the US (I don't know about other countries and their regulatory bodies).
You do get as much control as is feasible of the GSM unit via serial, though.:)
They're also considering making a purely Free unit.
They actually include the rudimentary hardware diagnostic tool in the BIOS, and then when finished it prompts you to run the complete diagnostic tool from a CD.
They do not provide images of these CDs, you get one when your system arrives, and if you ever lose it Dell charges you for another one if you ever really need it.
(Incidentally, I've been running Linux on my Dell laptop for several years, and I've had problems sometimes getting them to ship the correct replacement part, but never on the part of anyone who's had to do any work on the machine. They've all said something to the effect of "Oh Linux okay", and not cared. Also, I've never had them claim when I've filed a problem that it was Linux's fault.)
They also include their Dell MediaCenter stuff for laptops with more heat dissipation than sense on a small partition on the drive, so it's not as though they're unfamiliar with the procedure.
confirming this - we have an IPX and IPC laying around, and they're nifty.
Any older Sparcstations that are on the smaller side are pretty cool, really.
Additionally, older SGI machines have some of the most awesome startup noises ever, as well as demonstrating that old hardware doesn't have to look like a pile of metal.
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The way those filesystems do it is that they implement an allocator of resources beneath the actual "filesystem", so that you can snapshot things by marking blocks CoW and then allocating non-filesystem space for the metadata.
As it happens, ext and friends don't roll that way, so adding that functionality breaks compatibility with those filesystems.
Also, most of the new filesystems which allow snapshots in the way I describe have some awesome problems - like needing to truncate a file in order to rm when the filesystem is full, because the way the allocator structure works means that you can't know ahead of time how much space it takes to atomically delete a file, either...
You're just wrong.
NTFS itself is case-sensitive - the Windows interface on top of it is case-preserving and disallows collisions in case-insensitive cases, but NTFS itself allows multiple files which would collide in a really case-insensitive filesystem.
If you don't believe me, go mount a filesystem using NTFS-3G, make two files which would collide on a case-insensitive filesystem, and be amazed as it fails to panic.
Or, if you really want proof, go read the NTFS specifications about how it behaves in various namespaces.
I'm genuinely curious how you produced an AC's name.
...it varies.
IT@JH (the enterprise university-wide technical department) has Linux running on a number of servers, though they would love it if you'd only run RHEL4 and nothing else, for reasons too complicated to go into.
The new VPN software claims to support Linux, but doesn't, and one look at the installer script shows it couldn't have possibly worked for a very long time.
The undergraduate networking documentation has Linux explanations (though conveniently this is "plug in, have fun", with a few notes for brokenness in an old version of NetworkManager and another footnote for WICD being Just Broken in certain forms of PEAP).
So, sort of.
But heaven forbid you call the support line about Linux. They'll make a best-effort attempt to fix it, but...I've seen them claim that having Ubuntu in your boot menu could cause your optical drive to not work. At all. (As in, physically won't eject, after a hard power cycle.)
Actually, Blizzard has mentioned plans for special ladders for e.g. DotA-style things that end up with lives of their own.
I imagine they readily have the infrastructure to host limited-scope events like that in place in the code (or, if not, at least planned for release...)
I got to clean out a system with this about a week ago. It was really nasty.
The worst part was that I spent the better part of two days trying to figure out why the search links were still being poisoned, even after nothing on several LiveCDs found anything...it turned out that it had installed an invisible Firefox plugin/extension which was doing it.
Exciting, huh?
Google Cache only covers some content, and only until it expires from Google's search results.
archive.org would probably be up for mirroring it, but it's unclear that they have all of it.
Not going to help you - most filesystems are growable but not shrinkable online.
Clearly, we mirror it all onto archive.org.
tl;dr of all the IANAL posts:
It's not legal, but it's possible the school could punish you if you refused.
Since she went in without asking explicitly, THAT is illegal s&s, and you can hand her ass to her legally, though they'd make an implied consent argument.
Just so you know - the Seagate update utility *IS* a FreeDOS boot image. :)
Damn, apparently my reply button missed? I don't really think so, but Slashdot disagrees.
No, but neither do most researchers, so it's okay.
No, but neither do most researchers.
My T61p is perfectly fine with this, and hasn't had a terrible problem after 30 seconds.
I wonder what's going on for you guys. Maybe we should compare /dev and *ix versions?
Not true.
It might not do it nicely for you by default, but you can configure udev rules to guarantee the mount points correctly.
Simon Travaglia originally scored a TRS-80 out of a bin at the university he worked for at the time, and he wrote out a few articles of the Striped Irregular Bucket. Within that bloody machine came the character of the BOFH, and the rest...is something.
http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard8.html
I'm enjoying my MPMan (well, actually, an F20V, not the F10, to be accurate) - I've had a Zen, an iPod, and a few other things, but I keep coming back to the F20V like an old friend.
Even though it only takes data transfer over proprietary parallel.
Even though it doesn't support VBR MP3s because it apparently doesn't support some bitrates.
Because it hasn't broken in almost a decade of use.
The "phone" bits give you as much control as they legally can - if you could screw with the phone protocol/frequency usage, it wouldn't be licensed for use in the US (I don't know about other countries and their regulatory bodies).
:)
You do get as much control as is feasible of the GSM unit via serial, though.
They're also considering making a purely Free unit.
It's on the wish list, so whenever they start actively looking into the post-GTA02 revs of it, this will probably show up if enough people want it.
That's precisely the point.
Any GSM carrier (mostly) doesn't care what phone you run as long as you pay and it doesn't do something that will get them in legal trouble.
Yes to all (2.5G for now - I have no idea what the cycle for getting 3G looks like).
They actually include the rudimentary hardware diagnostic tool in the BIOS, and then when finished it prompts you to run the complete diagnostic tool from a CD.
They do not provide images of these CDs, you get one when your system arrives, and if you ever lose it Dell charges you for another one if you ever really need it.
(Incidentally, I've been running Linux on my Dell laptop for several years, and I've had problems sometimes getting them to ship the correct replacement part, but never on the part of anyone who's had to do any work on the machine. They've all said something to the effect of "Oh Linux okay", and not cared. Also, I've never had them claim when I've filed a problem that it was Linux's fault.)
They also include their Dell MediaCenter stuff for laptops with more heat dissipation than sense on a small partition on the drive, so it's not as though they're unfamiliar with the procedure.
In conclusion, Dell is just being ridiculous.
confirming this - we have an IPX and IPC laying around, and they're nifty.
Any older Sparcstations that are on the smaller side are pretty cool, really.
Additionally, older SGI machines have some of the most awesome startup noises ever, as well as demonstrating that old hardware doesn't have to look like a pile of metal.
This is the "unstable" version.
Dapper is the "stable" version.
When they release a new "stable" version, you can start complaining. However, Dapper is still recommended for those who want it to Just Work.