I have a 1st generation DVD-RAM (Panasonic LF-D103). I'm very happy with it, but I really only use for backups. You can write to it 100,000 times, I think the other re-writeables only support up to 1000 writes. I think it is supposed to last much longer too, 30yrs vs 10yrs.
The initial format may take 30mins, but after that formats only take 60secs, although there's no need to format as you can just delete all files.
I would recommend DVD-RAM as a backup solution (new DVD-RAM drives support approx 4.5GB per side of disk). I use one disk for each type of data (e.g. one disk for mp3/ogg, one disk for data). Remember to make off site backups (parents, friends house).
Consider for a moment though trying to troubleshoot code generated by a computer. Bad variable names would be just the start of your problems. The logic patterns employed would be essentially random to a human. Many of the patterns would be vestigial and wouldn't even be relevant, but you wouldn't even know that. Identifying the primary execution paths would be a huge chore... never mind actually understanding the basis for why the generated solution actually works.
How comfortable would you be deploying a solution (hardware or software) where the fundamental design isn't even understood? How the heck do you fix such a thing once it's deployed?
This sort of (non)design is often found in real code written by humans. Only difference is that the 'generated solution' doesn't usually work too well. I have many years exp fixing such things once deployed:-(
1) How do you work around the complete lack of server-side productivity software on Linux servers? By deploying Exchange, you can make scheduling a meeting as easy as sending an email with a time and having everyone click to confirm the meeting, which is then added to everyone's calendar. There is no solution like this without using Exchange (and I've looked.)
You can run a Lotus Domino server on Linux. It can handle the above and more.
I am under the impression that a great part of the fustration felt by the demonstrators at G7 meetings (and others) is due to the fact that these meetings are held in private.
If there was a rule that all meetings involving representatives of a democracy must be open to inspection by the voters then I believe there would not be so much fustration.
Of course the reason these meetings are held in secret is that the G7 leaders (and others) are discussing and agreeing things that their voters would not agree with. So much for democracy.
Imagine being able to add a new person to a single database and instantly give them the rights that they need to do their job across a network that spans the globe.:) Oh yeah, and it has to support single login.
Sounds much like Lotus Domino. Now there's a security architecture that would work well at the OS level.
It was the same/. story from which I heard of DeCSS.
I actually think/. is an excellent distributor of information, even if the headlines are often misleading!
Who exactly has control and why?
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No one has control of the direction that Linux(tm) goes in, at least no one can decide on their own.
The only kernel that Linus can control is his own Linux kernel. If IBM want to roll their own Linux kernel then they can, and so can anyone else.
Do all the distributions use 'straight' Linus Linux kernals, or do they patch them as they see fit? I don't actually know the answer to that one, but I'd guess that some at least use AC's Linux kernals.
Linus only appears to 'control' the ongoing direction due to people only using his kernels (or kernels derived from his).
Well, I can visualise some aspects of 4D, in the sense that I can get a good feel for the 4cube and other simple shapes after working out the properties.
Maybe Hawking can do this for an 11cube, maybe not. I'll refine my doubt to non-simple shapes in more than 4D.
Its really a question of what is meant by visualisation. Its probably too subjective to test if someone really can visualise something. A limited test would be to expect someone claiming the ability to visualise something to be able to answer questions about the object in less time than it takes to analytically work it out.
So if some one claimed to be able to visualise a cube in 4D we would ask how many sides or corners it has, and expect a prompt answer.
Now I have to work out the properties first, have them clear in my mind, and mull it over before I get a good feel for the 4cube. Once I've done that I can visualise what happens when it rotates (very slowly!), but not very well at all.
I expect that others can do this much better than I, but 11D? You've gotta be joking!
If you're on a one way trip and will loose contact with those you leave then who cares about the time passed for those you leave relative to your travel time?
Theoretically there is no relativistic restriction to travelling close to the soliav. On our own spacetime metric the distance and time taken to travel to a distant star would be less than it would appear to those we leave. Therefore we could reach a 'distant' star in a short time without needing generation ships or stasis, and all without breaking the soliav.
Andrew
ps. I've actually been working on a 'different' theory of everything for some time now. One part of it is understanding tensor (complex vectors) components given that the distance a photon travels is zero. What sort of direction does it have in local flat spacetime? What does that say about Youngs double slit experiment?
pps. I may well have misunderstood the whole thing, but my BSc project was on the early universe of Kulza-Klein cosmologies in 4+N dimensions so I have no excuse...
I'm not sure how this applies to me, as I'm in the UK. I received the Complaint document. I'll be leaving the files for now, see how this pans out. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing illegal about these two files. If a court which has the UK within its jurisdiction tells me to remove the files I probably will.
When I was at uni we played pirated Doom and Doom2. A couple of years ago I copied a friends Quake CD.
Since then I've bought Doom, Quake and Quake2.
I've copied loads of tapes from friends in the past, and have now bought CDs for about a half of them.
The reason? When I was younger I had very little money, I couldn't have bought them. Now I have a job and I can - so I do.
Right or wrong? They haven't lost money. They weren't hurt. They didn't even know. Why should I not enjoy myself when those around me can, just because their parents can affort to give them money and mine couldn't?
I realise the last question ignores many issues, but those issues mean very little to those with no money. I have money now, and I pay my way. I wouldn't like anyone stealing from me, so those issues mean more to me now.
I'd be quite happy to see fragmentation of the kernel tree.
As long as there is no confusion about which version is the real Linux then I don't see a problem.
People can choose.
I've been thinking about OS design for a while (although I've haven't played around much at that level before). So I'm thinking the best way forward is to take the Linux source, learn how it works (am I being naive?) and then tinker. If something cool (but not suitable for a Linux Kernal patch) came out of it why shouldn't I put it on an FTP server somewhere and tell people about it. How does that harm anyone?
But you're talking about company X trying to make money and keep up with Linux updates, right? Agreed forking wouldn't make much sense, but I wouldn't feel the need to damn then.
I usually code to my collection (my kit holds 51 CDs) on random play. Includes loads of Goth (and Goth related) as well as Type 'O', Depeche Mode, NIN, Cure, FOTN, etc... Some Metal, Punk and Grundge as well.
Not much 'happy-happy joy-joy (in XTC)' in there at all.
I've found Alien Sex Fiend are good to code to while PIL's Metal Box album is the worst.
On a music related note, A large preportion of people I chat to at Slimelight (Goth-Industrial club, London) are programmers, web site designers, etc...
I had reason to hack the password for a shared drive in Win95 a while ago.
Took about 20 minutes:-)
The key in the reg (where else). Its encrypted so that character in the original maps to one in the result. Each character's encypted partner depends on the previous characters. So you can try for the first letter. Then when you have that go for the second, etc...
For me the 'right to privacy' is a statement of the fact that certain knowledge about myself is not available to others with out my cooperation (e.g. what I am thinking).
Do you have any plans to use a subscription system or time-limited licenses for retail Microsoft software (not web based, I want to know about Windows and Office retail, etc...)?
Question 3 (in 2 parts)
When will the OS lineage built upon 'Quick & Dirty Operating System (QDOS)' (the name of the OS BG bought, before he renamed it to MSDOS) finally end?
Why should we believe a word you say? (he had promised Win98 was the last, then Win98 2nd edition, and now Win Millennium; they are all GUI's which run on top of MSDOS).
The deep cover agent we have inside the NSA says they're planning to get agents to insert malicious code in year 2000 fixes Las Vegas just as everybodys sitting down for Christmas dinner.
It's the responsibility of parents to teach their children as they see fit. Even if that disagrees with the state or the moral majority.
Where would you draw the line? Would teaching communist values during the USA anti-communist era be child abuse? Many organisations which support the deporting of ethnics (etc..) claim not to be racist. How racist is too racist. Who decides. Thought police?
We don't need laws for this, we need information and discussion. Those girls are getting a poor start in life by our standards. We should try to help them, not lock up their parents.
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I have a 1st generation DVD-RAM (Panasonic LF-D103). I'm very happy with it, but I really only use for backups. You can write to it 100,000 times, I think the other re-writeables only support up to 1000 writes. I think it is supposed to last much longer too, 30yrs vs 10yrs.
The initial format may take 30mins, but after that formats only take 60secs, although there's no need to format as you can just delete all files.
I would recommend DVD-RAM as a backup solution (new DVD-RAM drives support approx 4.5GB per side of disk). I use one disk for each type of data (e.g. one disk for mp3/ogg, one disk for data). Remember to make off site backups (parents, friends house).
This sort of (non)design is often found in real code written by humans. Only difference is that the 'generated solution' doesn't usually work too well. I have many years exp fixing such things once deployed :-(
mb is millibit - not very useful Mb is megabit MB is megabyte But see also kibi (Ki), mebi (Mi), gibi (Gi), tebi (Ti), pebi (Pi) and exbi (Ei).
Note that AWT is covered in the first edition which can be downloaded for free and comes on a CD with the book.
See also footnotes 75 and 78.
Have you read the book?
You can run a Lotus Domino server on Linux. It can handle the above and more.
Compasses answer the question "which direction is magnetic north". They won't need to be relabeled.
Developers I work with are asked to do, at least, an update on each file they are about to edit. We almost never have conflicts with CVS.
I am under the impression that a great part of the fustration felt by the demonstrators at G7 meetings (and others) is due to the fact that these meetings are held in private.
If there was a rule that all meetings involving representatives of a democracy must be open to inspection by the voters then I believe there would not be so much fustration.
Of course the reason these meetings are held in secret is that the G7 leaders (and others) are discussing and agreeing things that their voters would not agree with. So much for democracy.
Sounds much like Lotus Domino. Now there's a security architecture that would work well at the OS level.
It was the same /. story from which I heard of DeCSS.
I actually think /. is an excellent distributor of information, even if the headlines are often misleading!
No one has control of the direction that Linux(tm) goes in, at least no one can decide on their own.
The only kernel that Linus can control is his own Linux kernel. If IBM want to roll their own Linux kernel then they can, and so can anyone else.
Do all the distributions use 'straight' Linus Linux kernals, or do they patch them as they see fit? I don't actually know the answer to that one, but I'd guess that some at least use AC's Linux kernals.
Linus only appears to 'control' the ongoing direction due to people only using his kernels (or kernels derived from his).
My apologies if someone has already pointed this out.
There is a discussion on DeCSS on CNN at this URL
http://community.cnn.com/cgi-bin /WebX?13@@.ee71559
Well, I can visualise some aspects of 4D, in the sense that I can get a good feel for the 4cube and other simple shapes after working out the properties.
Maybe Hawking can do this for an 11cube, maybe not. I'll refine my doubt to non-simple shapes in more than 4D.
Its really a question of what is meant by visualisation. Its probably too subjective to test if someone really can visualise something. A limited test would be to expect someone claiming the ability to visualise something to be able to answer questions about the object in less time than it takes to analytically work it out.
So if some one claimed to be able to visualise a cube in 4D we would ask how many sides or corners it has, and expect a prompt answer.
Now I have to work out the properties first, have them clear in my mind, and mull it over before I get a good feel for the 4cube. Once I've done that I can visualise what happens when it rotates (very slowly!), but not very well at all.
I expect that others can do this much better than I, but 11D? You've gotta be joking!
soliav = speed of light in a vacuum
If you're on a one way trip and will loose contact with those you leave then who cares about the time passed for those you leave relative to your travel time?
Theoretically there is no relativistic restriction to travelling close to the soliav. On our own spacetime metric the distance and time taken to travel to a distant star would be less than it would appear to those we leave. Therefore we could reach a 'distant' star in a short time without needing generation ships or stasis, and all without breaking the soliav.
Andrew
ps. I've actually been working on a 'different' theory of everything for some time now. One part of it is understanding tensor (complex vectors) components given that the distance a photon travels is zero. What sort of direction does it have in local flat spacetime? What does that say about Youngs double slit experiment?
pps. I may well have misunderstood the whole thing, but my BSc project was on the early universe of Kulza-Klein cosmologies in 4+N dimensions so I have no excuse...
While there do exist 11 dimensional theories (including some versions of SuperString) the author is still an ass (at least on one point).
It galvanised him and forced him to solve problems not on a blackboard but geometrically and pictorially in his head - in 11 dimensions.
There is no way even SH could solve problems geometrically and pictorially in 11 dimensions in his head.
I doubt very much that anyone can picture more than 4 dimensions in their head.
Andrew
Here's a friendly link to the etoy site.
Beware the blinking text.
I'm Doe Defendent 34. They got the URL wrong, the correct links are below.
css-auth.tar.gz
DeCSS.zip
I'm not sure how this applies to me, as I'm in the UK. I received the Complaint document. I'll be leaving the files for now, see how this pans out. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing illegal about these two files. If a court which has the UK within its jurisdiction tells me to remove the files I probably will.
Andrew Cottrell
Since then I've bought Doom, Quake and Quake2.
I've copied loads of tapes from friends in the past, and have now bought CDs for about a half of them.
The reason? When I was younger I had very little money, I couldn't have bought them. Now I have a job and I can - so I do.
Right or wrong? They haven't lost money. They weren't hurt. They didn't even know. Why should I not enjoy myself when those around me can, just because their parents can affort to give them money and mine couldn't?
I realise the last question ignores many issues, but those issues mean very little to those with no money. I have money now, and I pay my way. I wouldn't like anyone stealing from me, so those issues mean more to me now.
As long as there is no confusion about which version is the real Linux then I don't see a problem.
People can choose.
I've been thinking about OS design for a while (although I've haven't played around much at that level before). So I'm thinking the best way forward is to take the Linux source, learn how it works (am I being naive?) and then tinker. If something cool (but not suitable for a Linux Kernal patch) came out of it why shouldn't I put it on an FTP server somewhere and tell people about it. How does that harm anyone?
But you're talking about company X trying to make money and keep up with Linux updates, right? Agreed forking wouldn't make much sense, but I wouldn't feel the need to damn then.
Please enlighten me if I've missed something here
Not much 'happy-happy joy-joy (in XTC)' in there at all.
I've found Alien Sex Fiend are good to code to while PIL's Metal Box album is the worst.
On a music related note, A large preportion of people I chat to at Slimelight (Goth-Industrial club, London) are programmers, web site designers, etc...
Took about 20 minutes :-)
The key in the reg (where else). Its encrypted so that character in the original maps to one in the result. Each character's encypted partner depends on the previous characters. So you can try for the first letter. Then when you have that go for the second, etc...
For me the 'right to privacy' is a statement of the fact that certain knowledge about myself is not available to others with out my cooperation (e.g. what I am thinking).
Sounds like a 'natural right' to me.
If, despite your best efforts (see http://www.openso urce.ac.uk/mirrors/www.opensource.org/halloween/), open standards prevail as the mechanism for intra-software communication and data storage how will Microsoft compete?
Question 2
Do you have any plans to use a subscription system or time-limited licenses for retail Microsoft software (not web based, I want to know about Windows and Office retail, etc...)?
Question 3 (in 2 parts)
When will the OS lineage built upon 'Quick & Dirty Operating System (QDOS)' (the name of the OS BG bought, before he renamed it to MSDOS) finally end?
Why should we believe a word you say? (he had promised Win98 was the last, then Win98 2nd edition, and now Win Millennium; they are all GUI's which run on top of MSDOS).
The deep cover agent we have inside the NSA says they're planning to get agents to insert malicious code in year 2000 fixes Las Vegas just as everybodys sitting down for Christmas dinner.
Where would you draw the line? Would teaching communist values during the USA anti-communist era be child abuse? Many organisations which support the deporting of ethnics (etc..) claim not to be racist. How racist is too racist. Who decides. Thought police?
We don't need laws for this, we need information and discussion. Those girls are getting a poor start in life by our standards. We should try to help them, not lock up their parents.
The USA domains end in .us
Seems most USA registrants were given international domains at the expense of the rest of the world. So much for a global internet...?
p.s. The internet was created by USA? I don't think so. Each country created it's own networks. Only when they joined was the i'net created.
USA gets credit for the protocols though AFAIK.