Hey blixel, could you please email me what kernel/ohci driver versions/hw config you're using to mount multiple firewire drives successfully in Linux? I'm running 2.4.20 on a dual PPro mobo with an OHCI-compliant card and my system locks hard if there is more than one Firewire drive attached (seems to happen when copying data between them).
Did you install newer ohci drivers from sourceforge or what? I'd love to know.
Does anyone know if support for more than one firewire drive is stable yet? My machine locked hard (no panic even) with the last 2.4.x kernel I tried... one 1394 drive is fine, but add two and things went very badly. The ieee1394 project on sourceforge didn't have any news about this bug, last time I checked.
I'd dearly love to get my machine running mirrored filesystems on multiple firewire drives -- easy hot-swapped, redundant, portable storage.
Someone please email me if they've had any success (what exact kernel version you used, etc.)
I agree with the parent -- I'm doing it myself on a cable line as well. The IP can, technically, change whenever the cable co. wants, but on average it changes every 8 months for me:-). That's nearly as good as static!
But I had a lot of reliability issues with granitecanyon.com (thought this was two years ago) -- I transferred all my domains to joker.com, who will serve out your zonefiles as well. They are much more reliable in my experience and your changes propagate within a few hours, so downtime is minimal. (For a volunteer site, a few hours every six months isn't a big deal...)
I'm also fortunate to have a local cable co. that doesn't filter any ports at all.
Yes, but it's also possible to not have as many children, and reduce/eliminate human population growth. This isn't the same at all as advocating the killing of existing humans; let's just not have as many kids, and stop growing beyond our means to support ourselves!
I see nothing inhumane in a society where people have to win a lottery to have children (no discrimination based on race, wealth, etc.) or a percentage-of-earnings tax on children beyond a certain number. This would curb our growth without a massacre taking place. If only we could help third world countries to accept such programs as well... poverty conditions force people to want 12 kids just so there's someone to take care of them in old age..
If the cards are actually tied to your identity, just swap them with a friend/stranger who has charged their smart card up with the same amount of cash. That should confuse the logs a bit.. especially if each person then swaps with someone else, ad infinitum. (Of course, if this became widespread it might be made illegal to give away your card... then it amounts to a national ID card.)
It's still rough around the edges (some parser bugs in the syntax checker) but the team is very responsive to bug reports and suggestions. It's got real potential. And it's GPL, so get in there and help them out!
Oh, it isn't that bad. My father had a stroke and was scheduled for an MRI within a week. A friend of mine had a growth on his testicle and had a full biopsy as well the MRI the next day. This was in Alberta, Canada. I know there are sometimes holdups, but it's still not as bad as you say. I think the doctor's judgement of the direness of the situation is important in placing people on the priority queue.
It should be pointed out that, in Canada, your friend *can* give you a copy -- the Canadian Blank Media Levy you pay every time you purchase blank recordable media is there because you have, under Canadian copyright law, the right to copy these works, even to give to friends.
I'm having trouble understanding why people here are trashing exim; as someone else already said, Debian uses it as their default mail server; it asks a few easy to understand questions, and just works. It's much friendlier than sendmail.
As for security, I haven't audited the code myself (honestly, have you?). However, I *do* subscribe to the BUGTRAQ mailing list, and have seen maybe two advisories on exim over the last two years -- as opposed to literally dozens for sendmail.
Oh, and the configuration file doesn't look like line noise:-).
"Graduate students are wasting 3 years of their lives soldering and repairing robots, instead of making them smart. It's really shocking."
Yeah, much more shocking than the -- decades -- he (and others in the 'hard AI' camp) have been spending? They've made oh-so-much more progress, haven't they?
Rodney Brookes made more progress with his robots in the early nineties than the whole hard AI camp did in 3 decades. I remember seeing a documentary once comparing this huge robot which used a traditional procedural program to navigate through a boulder-strewn field. It took about 3 HOURS to decide where to put its foot next. Meanwhile, little subsumption architecture-based robots were crawling around like ants, in real-time. (Oh, and some of them had to learn to walk from first principles every time they were turned on -- only took about half an hour!) That's the most damning evidence of the failure of hard AI I can think of.
As others here have said, what good is a brain until we get a useful BODY working? Manueverability and acute senses are a must before an artificial intelligence can do anything useful, or learn from its environment effectively.
The last thing keeping me from switching 100% to Linux is Sonic Foundry and their 'No plans for Linux' policy. I would (really, I'm not just saying this) PAY GOOD MONEY for Acid Pro v2.0 or equivalent for Linux.
Are you listening, Sonic Foundry guys? MUSICIANS WILL PAY MONEY FOR LINUX APPS! I already bought the Windoze version, I'd BUY IT AGAIN FOR LINUX!
I and many others said this on Sonic Foundry's own web boards, but they seem to be thicker than a brick wall and can't see the demand.
Just make sure it's as easy to use (the key bindings are all-important here -- they just make so much sense in SF's programs, it makes Adobe stuff feel klunky in comparison) as the Windoze versions.
I haven't had a chance to try Audacity and some of the other Linux audio apps lately.. if they're OK, then I guess I can switch without SF's support. Oh well, lost revenue for them..
You should get in contact with The Mars Society, http://www.marssociety.org/. I think they'd fit with your vision -- especially with the recent NASA budget slash-and-burn. The Mars Society is pushing for an implementation of Robert Zubrin's 'Mars Direct' settlement plan. You should email them with your "open space" idea, it sounds great to me.
Also read "The Case for Mars" by Zubrin if you haven't yet. The guy is an ex-NASA bigwig who makes a very convincing case that we could go to and permanently settle Mars TODAY using off-the-shelf technology, for a cheap price too.
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... who automatically thinks about his trusty old Cobra MKII when he hears the term 'Lagrange point'? :-)
Sigh.
Hey blixel, could you please email me what kernel/ohci driver versions/hw config you're using to mount multiple firewire drives successfully in Linux? I'm running 2.4.20 on a dual PPro mobo with an OHCI-compliant card and my system locks hard if there is more than one Firewire drive attached (seems to happen when copying data between them).
Did you install newer ohci drivers from sourceforge or what? I'd love to know.
Thanks!
Does anyone know if support for more than one firewire drive is stable yet? My machine locked hard (no panic even) with the last 2.4.x kernel I tried... one 1394 drive is fine, but add two and things went very badly. The ieee1394 project on sourceforge didn't have any news about this bug, last time I checked.
I'd dearly love to get my machine running mirrored filesystems on multiple firewire drives -- easy hot-swapped, redundant, portable storage.
Someone please email me if they've had any success (what exact kernel version you used, etc.)
I agree with the parent -- I'm doing it myself on a cable line as well. The IP can, technically, change whenever the cable co. wants, but on average it changes every 8 months for me :-). That's nearly as good as static!
But I had a lot of reliability issues with granitecanyon.com (thought this was two years ago) -- I transferred all my domains to joker.com, who will serve out your zonefiles as well. They are much more reliable in my experience and your changes propagate within a few hours, so downtime is minimal. (For a volunteer site, a few hours every six months isn't a big deal...)
I'm also fortunate to have a local cable co. that doesn't filter any ports at all.
Yes, but it's also possible to not have as many children, and reduce/eliminate human population growth. This isn't the same at all as advocating the killing of existing humans; let's just not have as many kids, and stop growing beyond our means to support ourselves!
I see nothing inhumane in a society where people have to win a lottery to have children (no discrimination based on race, wealth, etc.) or a percentage-of-earnings tax on children beyond a certain number. This would curb our growth without a massacre taking place. If only we could help third world countries to accept such programs as well... poverty conditions force people to want 12 kids just so there's someone to take care of them in old age..
If the cards are actually tied to your identity, just swap them with a friend/stranger who has charged their smart card up with the same amount of cash. That should confuse the logs a bit.. especially if each person then swaps with someone else, ad infinitum. (Of course, if this became widespread it might be made illegal to give away your card... then it amounts to a national ID card.)
http://www.icsharpcode.net/
It's still rough around the edges (some parser bugs in the syntax checker) but the team is very responsive to bug reports and suggestions. It's got real potential. And it's GPL, so get in there and help them out!
Oh, it isn't that bad. My father had a stroke and was scheduled for an MRI within a week. A friend of mine had a growth on his testicle and had a full biopsy as well the MRI the next day. This was in Alberta, Canada. I know there are sometimes holdups, but it's still not as bad as you say. I think the doctor's judgement of the direness of the situation is important in placing people on the priority queue.
It should be pointed out that, in Canada, your friend *can* give you a copy -- the Canadian Blank Media Levy you pay every time you purchase blank recordable media is there because you have, under Canadian copyright law, the right to copy these works, even to give to friends.
I'm having trouble understanding why people here are trashing exim; as someone else already said, Debian uses it as their default mail server; it asks a few easy to understand questions, and just works. It's much friendlier than sendmail.
:-).
As for security, I haven't audited the code myself (honestly, have you?). However, I *do* subscribe to the BUGTRAQ mailing list, and have seen maybe two advisories on exim over the last two years -- as opposed to literally dozens for sendmail.
Oh, and the configuration file doesn't look like line noise
.. like a radiation detector and some way of detecting remote life forms and we've got our first true tricorder!
"Graduate students are wasting 3 years of their lives soldering and repairing robots, instead of making them smart. It's really shocking."
Yeah, much more shocking than the -- decades -- he (and others in the 'hard AI' camp) have been spending? They've made oh-so-much more progress, haven't they?
Rodney Brookes made more progress with his robots in the early nineties than the whole hard AI camp did in 3 decades. I remember seeing a documentary once comparing this huge robot which used a traditional procedural program to navigate through a boulder-strewn field. It took about 3 HOURS to decide where to put its foot next. Meanwhile, little subsumption architecture-based robots were crawling around like ants, in real-time. (Oh, and some of them had to learn to walk from first principles every time they were turned on -- only took about half an hour!) That's the most damning evidence of the failure of hard AI I can think of.
As others here have said, what good is a brain until we get a useful BODY working? Manueverability and acute senses are a must before an artificial intelligence can do anything useful, or learn from its environment effectively.
The last thing keeping me from switching 100% to Linux is Sonic Foundry and their 'No plans for Linux' policy. I would (really, I'm not just saying this) PAY GOOD MONEY for Acid Pro v2.0 or equivalent for Linux.
Are you listening, Sonic Foundry guys? MUSICIANS WILL PAY MONEY FOR LINUX APPS! I already bought the Windoze version, I'd BUY IT AGAIN FOR LINUX!
I and many others said this on Sonic Foundry's own web boards, but they seem to be thicker than a brick wall and can't see the demand.
Just make sure it's as easy to use (the key bindings are all-important here -- they just make so much sense in SF's programs, it makes Adobe stuff feel klunky in comparison) as the Windoze versions.
I haven't had a chance to try Audacity and some of the other Linux audio apps lately.. if they're OK, then I guess I can switch without SF's support. Oh well, lost revenue for them..
Also read "The Case for Mars" by Zubrin if you haven't yet. The guy is an ex-NASA bigwig who makes a very convincing case that we could go to and permanently settle Mars TODAY using off-the-shelf technology, for a cheap price too.