The limitations of ZFS are designed to be so large that they will never be encountered in any practical operation. When contemplating the capacity of this system, Bonwick stated "Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans.
That is, until next week, when some guy in Peoria manages to do just that by trying to create a single mirror of all the pr0n on the Internet.
While it can be debated whether such an action by Microsoft would spur the mass adoption of non-Windows operating systems, one thing is clear: the number of bots/potential bots will go down, possibly dramataically. I mean, how many computers out there are suspected of running illegitimate copies of Windows? I mean, the low end would say at least 10%, though a more reasonable picture would probably be much higher.
Considering that Windows (particularly XP, but any version, really) is so aggressively attacked by rootkits, trojan horses, and other kinds of malware that are used to create botnets, one could assume that by eliminating, say 35% of the Windows installed base, the number of bots would go down by about the same, provided that the people running pirated copies of Windows are representative of the entire set of Windows users.
This, of course, means that there will, for a time, be 35% less spam, spyware, and other shit being spewed over the Internet, again keeping with the same assumption. Of course, 35% is a number I just pulled out of my ass and could be substituted with any percentage. I honestly don't know about the number of pirated Windows copies that are in circulation. However, I know the number is significant, and the elimination of these computers from the Internet will probably be a good thing.
As for pirated copies of Windows that aren't connected to the Internet, well, they're not going to get shut down, but they're also nut pumping out any of the crap, either.
However, this option assumes that Microsoft is willing to go all nuclear on its user base, which I doubt. It certainly would not be good business sense to drive your current user base to use the competition, even if they're pirating your product. Furthermore, doing so is also bad corperate karma (yeah, companies have karma, too) and terrible PR. No ammount of money can rebuild a reputation for a company if its actions now mean that little Johnny can't do his homework because his computer got nuked by Microsoft's death ray.
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Last I checked, that's exactly what it was. About the only downside I've seen with ext3 is that while it's compatable with ext2, the drivers for Windows and Mac OS X don't really work too well with that journaling layer. Between losing the journaling and reading files on other systems, personally, I'd rather skip the fsck. Besides, it's not like I don't have plenty of FAT32 drives just lying around the house/dorm room/wherever I am.
No. Buy MSFT. Without Gates holding the company back, they might actually do something interesting. Gates isn't a programming genius. In fact, he's quite mediocre. What he is good at is shrewd and (dare I say it) evil business practices, and making a pound of turd look like a pound of gold.
Now, if they'd just get rid of Ballmer, the company might actually be going places.
Ah, but Edgy isn't for the suits. It's for the sandal-wearing geeks who want to play. Dapper is the one for the suits. And honestly, I could use it for three years, even if Gnome 2.14 will suck in six months' time.
Hopefully, this would mean going further than saying, "Google, motherfucker! Can you use it?"
I've seen many cases where that was the answer given to questions asked about how one could learn more about a computer subject. Of course, I'm paraphrasing the Samuel L. "Snakes on a Plane" Jackson book on computer literacy, but the actual responses are, in many cases, not that far from the quote. Perhaps if those of us who actually know what we're talking about would be a little more patient with people, they might be slightly more willing to pay attention to us.
And I don't like blue that much as a desktop theme color. Besides, Dapper is supposed to be the last of the brown releases. Besides, it gives Ubuntu a unique look, so that when I see someone using Human (or the new UbuntuLooks, which is a brown Clearlooks), I know it's most likely Ubuntu. Frankly, most GNOME/KDE distros all look the same to me.
Of course, if brown's that big of an issue, and you insist on blue, go with Kubuntu. Or, for something really different and interesting, Xubuntu, which has just released its first ISOs. The 4.3/4.4 Xfce release series takes a lot in its form and layout from Gnome, while actually improving upon the old Xfce feature set.
Actually, Linspire is the Linspire of Debian. Or did you forget that Linspire is a member of the DCC Alliance?
But seriously, apt is truly a wonderful thing. Sure, it doesn't have the ricer appeal of Portage*, that child of Python and Subversion, but it's quick and it works far better than RPM or a Windows MSI. As for apt, it came from Debian as well.
*No, I've never used Gentoo, as I have far more important things to do than a Stage 1 install, which while no longer supported, is how I'd want to do it. It's an interesting concept, really.
Well, if you're willing to run Dapper now, you can have all the goodness of gstreamer 0.10.0. That's right, it's already integrated into Dapper--quite well, mind you.
1. Most Americans aren't Mormons. Mormonism hasn't even existed as long as the US. How could your religion (and your faith, which derives from said religion) have influenced "values that have always been America's morality" before it existed?
2. Homosexual rule book? You've read it? You have it? That must mean you're GAY! (Not that there's anything wrong with that, y'know.)
3. Conservatives got beat? When? Last I saw, they were running this country!
4. The Government is hostile to moral and religious ideals? Really? Again, news to me, as it seems that those that scream loudest about their religious affiliations get elected the quickest in this country.
5. Yeah, the homos are out to get into everything. Now be a good little victim and bend over, would ya'? I've got a friend with a massive boner because you're turning him on, and he needs to, er, take care of the situation.
I must beg to differ. The music store is the primary reason I switched to iTunes back in my Windows days. This is before I got an iPod (and a year before I'd even thought of trying out Linux).
That said, there already is a replacement for the music store (that's actually using the iTunes Music Store) on Linux. It's called Sharpmusique, and no, there's no DRM. But if you think that ease of use has anything to do with iTunes being popular, you've got to be kidding. It's one hell of a complex application that most people cannot understand without sitting down and figuring it out, which can take up to three weeks for some people. Heck, my mother cannot figure it out.
The DRM isn't necessary, but the store is. Too bad that the best way to do that (Sharpmusique) has some legal issues attached.
I'm not sure that T-Max is being discontinued. It was a Kodak product. And they're crazy if they discontinue the chemistry, as that was such a joy to use, as you bought it in liquid state. I remember having to manage a high school darkroom for three years, and I don't think I could have taken the daily mixing of powdered film developer. Granted, I kept a good amount of mixed Dektol on hand, but I couldn't quite make sense of mixing up more than a jug or two of film developer, simply because we only had two classes a day that used the lab, and most of that time was spent printing, not developing film.
But yeah, it's not fair that 35mm is going so soon. I wanted to have my own darkroom, too.
Ah, but wall-sized photos aren't done with 35 millimeter cameras. That negative is too small. Normally, you're lucky to get passable 11x17 frames out of a 35 mm exposure. Normally, if you want to make really huge-ass prints, you use a large format camera, using a 4"x5" or 8"x10" plate film. Even most magazine portraits are made using medium format (120/220) film. About the only major professional uses of 35 mm film are in newspapers, where the printers use a 100 dpi printer (anything more on newsprint looks ugly, trust me) and stock photography (which also has a large amount of medium format use). Sometimes event photographers use 35 mm, especially when light cannot be controlled, as 35 mm allows for more exposure latitude and faster film.
And I'll tell you something about photojournalism: four years ago, the digital cameras were good enough for that purpose. My 8 megapixel Canon Rebel XT sports too much of a CCD for its intended use (as a newspaper camera).
But yeah, if you were to make an 8"x10" CCD that has the same pixel density as my camera, you'd have a damn good photo, even blown up to wall size. However, I doubt that most would be able to afford that camera, as big CCDs are expensive to make and deal with.
Actually, only Georgia was a penal colony. Virginia, New York (by the Dutch), New Jersey (by the Sweeds) and the Carolinas were set up as commercial colonies, Maryland was a refuge for Catholics, Pennsylvania, Deleware, and Rhode Island were founded by religious discontents that the Puritans who founded Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire didn't want (Quakers for Pennsylvania and Deleware, and basically anyone that wasn't in any other religious group for Rhode Island).
What I think he means to say that he's gotten to a point in the story, where, if he cannot find another way of continuing it, he's fine with where it's been left off.
At least, that's how I read things. Your milage may vary.
Well, at least that makes things a little more clear. I want to know how Jewel felt in the pilot of Firefly (by which I mean "Serenity", not "The Train Job") when she had to kiss Nathan on the cheek, given the fact that he smelled so bad.
Though, honestly, I hope he does find another way to tell the story.
Perhaps I should share the story of the freshman bio (for majors) midterm I took while still drunk from partying the night before and got a B. Or the time when I completely forgot about the existance of blue books until I showed up to an English exam (to my defense, it had been some time since I took a final that wasn't multiple choice, due to being a hard science major).
Well, as a Wikipedia editor, I would hope that Jimbo tries to make it a source of unbiased research, but alas, there are parts of it that cannot be taken as such. It's a matter of using proper judgment as to sorting the crap from the good stuff.
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The limitations of ZFS are designed to be so large that they will never be encountered in any practical operation. When contemplating the capacity of this system, Bonwick stated "Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans.
That is, until next week, when some guy in Peoria manages to do just that by trying to create a single mirror of all the pr0n on the Internet.
While it can be debated whether such an action by Microsoft would spur the mass adoption of non-Windows operating systems, one thing is clear: the number of bots/potential bots will go down, possibly dramataically. I mean, how many computers out there are suspected of running illegitimate copies of Windows? I mean, the low end would say at least 10%, though a more reasonable picture would probably be much higher.
Considering that Windows (particularly XP, but any version, really) is so aggressively attacked by rootkits, trojan horses, and other kinds of malware that are used to create botnets, one could assume that by eliminating, say 35% of the Windows installed base, the number of bots would go down by about the same, provided that the people running pirated copies of Windows are representative of the entire set of Windows users.
This, of course, means that there will, for a time, be 35% less spam, spyware, and other shit being spewed over the Internet, again keeping with the same assumption. Of course, 35% is a number I just pulled out of my ass and could be substituted with any percentage. I honestly don't know about the number of pirated Windows copies that are in circulation. However, I know the number is significant, and the elimination of these computers from the Internet will probably be a good thing.
As for pirated copies of Windows that aren't connected to the Internet, well, they're not going to get shut down, but they're also nut pumping out any of the crap, either.
However, this option assumes that Microsoft is willing to go all nuclear on its user base, which I doubt. It certainly would not be good business sense to drive your current user base to use the competition, even if they're pirating your product. Furthermore, doing so is also bad corperate karma (yeah, companies have karma, too) and terrible PR. No ammount of money can rebuild a reputation for a company if its actions now mean that little Johnny can't do his homework because his computer got nuked by Microsoft's death ray.
Last I checked, that's exactly what it was. About the only downside I've seen with ext3 is that while it's compatable with ext2, the drivers for Windows and Mac OS X don't really work too well with that journaling layer. Between losing the journaling and reading files on other systems, personally, I'd rather skip the fsck. Besides, it's not like I don't have plenty of FAT32 drives just lying around the house/dorm room/wherever I am.
There's a part on the diagram for the motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane?
Oh, wait. Wrong SOAP.
No. Buy MSFT. Without Gates holding the company back, they might actually do something interesting. Gates isn't a programming genius. In fact, he's quite mediocre. What he is good at is shrewd and (dare I say it) evil business practices, and making a pound of turd look like a pound of gold.
Now, if they'd just get rid of Ballmer, the company might actually be going places.
Ah, but Edgy isn't for the suits. It's for the sandal-wearing geeks who want to play. Dapper is the one for the suits. And honestly, I could use it for three years, even if Gnome 2.14 will suck in six months' time.
Hopefully, this would mean going further than saying, "Google, motherfucker! Can you use it?"
I've seen many cases where that was the answer given to questions asked about how one could learn more about a computer subject. Of course, I'm paraphrasing the Samuel L. "Snakes on a Plane" Jackson book on computer literacy, but the actual responses are, in many cases, not that far from the quote. Perhaps if those of us who actually know what we're talking about would be a little more patient with people, they might be slightly more willing to pay attention to us.
Win.
What are you talking about? An astrologer would be more accurate.
Of course, everything he's saying here is in the realm of "duh." He's not prognosticating, he's just spouting off shit.
And I don't like blue that much as a desktop theme color. Besides, Dapper is supposed to be the last of the brown releases. Besides, it gives Ubuntu a unique look, so that when I see someone using Human (or the new UbuntuLooks, which is a brown Clearlooks), I know it's most likely Ubuntu. Frankly, most GNOME/KDE distros all look the same to me.
Of course, if brown's that big of an issue, and you insist on blue, go with Kubuntu. Or, for something really different and interesting, Xubuntu, which has just released its first ISOs. The 4.3/4.4 Xfce release series takes a lot in its form and layout from Gnome, while actually improving upon the old Xfce feature set.
Actually, Linspire is the Linspire of Debian. Or did you forget that Linspire is a member of the DCC Alliance?
But seriously, apt is truly a wonderful thing. Sure, it doesn't have the ricer appeal of Portage*, that child of Python and Subversion, but it's quick and it works far better than RPM or a Windows MSI. As for apt, it came from Debian as well.
*No, I've never used Gentoo, as I have far more important things to do than a Stage 1 install, which while no longer supported, is how I'd want to do it. It's an interesting concept, really.
Firey Fox! Well, provided you can get approval from MoFo/MoCo to do that. On second thought, maybe that isn't such a good idea.
Well, if you're willing to run Dapper now, you can have all the goodness of gstreamer 0.10.0. That's right, it's already integrated into Dapper--quite well, mind you.
To respond to each of those quotes in turn:
1. Most Americans aren't Mormons. Mormonism hasn't even existed as long as the US. How could your religion (and your faith, which derives from said religion) have influenced "values that have always been America's morality" before it existed?
2. Homosexual rule book? You've read it? You have it? That must mean you're GAY! (Not that there's anything wrong with that, y'know.)
3. Conservatives got beat? When? Last I saw, they were running this country!
4. The Government is hostile to moral and religious ideals? Really? Again, news to me, as it seems that those that scream loudest about their religious affiliations get elected the quickest in this country.
5. Yeah, the homos are out to get into everything. Now be a good little victim and bend over, would ya'? I've got a friend with a massive boner because you're turning him on, and he needs to, er, take care of the situation.
I must beg to differ. The music store is the primary reason I switched to iTunes back in my Windows days. This is before I got an iPod (and a year before I'd even thought of trying out Linux).
That said, there already is a replacement for the music store (that's actually using the iTunes Music Store) on Linux. It's called Sharpmusique, and no, there's no DRM. But if you think that ease of use has anything to do with iTunes being popular, you've got to be kidding. It's one hell of a complex application that most people cannot understand without sitting down and figuring it out, which can take up to three weeks for some people. Heck, my mother cannot figure it out.
The DRM isn't necessary, but the store is. Too bad that the best way to do that (Sharpmusique) has some legal issues attached.
I'm not sure that T-Max is being discontinued. It was a Kodak product. And they're crazy if they discontinue the chemistry, as that was such a joy to use, as you bought it in liquid state. I remember having to manage a high school darkroom for three years, and I don't think I could have taken the daily mixing of powdered film developer. Granted, I kept a good amount of mixed Dektol on hand, but I couldn't quite make sense of mixing up more than a jug or two of film developer, simply because we only had two classes a day that used the lab, and most of that time was spent printing, not developing film.
But yeah, it's not fair that 35mm is going so soon. I wanted to have my own darkroom, too.
Ah, but wall-sized photos aren't done with 35 millimeter cameras. That negative is too small. Normally, you're lucky to get passable 11x17 frames out of a 35 mm exposure. Normally, if you want to make really huge-ass prints, you use a large format camera, using a 4"x5" or 8"x10" plate film. Even most magazine portraits are made using medium format (120/220) film. About the only major professional uses of 35 mm film are in newspapers, where the printers use a 100 dpi printer (anything more on newsprint looks ugly, trust me) and stock photography (which also has a large amount of medium format use). Sometimes event photographers use 35 mm, especially when light cannot be controlled, as 35 mm allows for more exposure latitude and faster film.
And I'll tell you something about photojournalism: four years ago, the digital cameras were good enough for that purpose. My 8 megapixel Canon Rebel XT sports too much of a CCD for its intended use (as a newspaper camera).
But yeah, if you were to make an 8"x10" CCD that has the same pixel density as my camera, you'd have a damn good photo, even blown up to wall size. However, I doubt that most would be able to afford that camera, as big CCDs are expensive to make and deal with.
Actually, only Georgia was a penal colony. Virginia, New York (by the Dutch), New Jersey (by the Sweeds) and the Carolinas were set up as commercial colonies, Maryland was a refuge for Catholics, Pennsylvania, Deleware, and Rhode Island were founded by religious discontents that the Puritans who founded Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire didn't want (Quakers for Pennsylvania and Deleware, and basically anyone that wasn't in any other religious group for Rhode Island).
What I think he means to say that he's gotten to a point in the story, where, if he cannot find another way of continuing it, he's fine with where it's been left off.
At least, that's how I read things. Your milage may vary.
Well, at least that makes things a little more clear. I want to know how Jewel felt in the pilot of Firefly (by which I mean "Serenity", not "The Train Job") when she had to kiss Nathan on the cheek, given the fact that he smelled so bad.
Though, honestly, I hope he does find another way to tell the story.
No, it isn't.
Biology, however, is. And that is my major.
Perhaps I should share the story of the freshman bio (for majors) midterm I took while still drunk from partying the night before and got a B. Or the time when I completely forgot about the existance of blue books until I showed up to an English exam (to my defense, it had been some time since I took a final that wasn't multiple choice, due to being a hard science major).
But yeah, I haven't had many fun exploits.
From Uncyclopedia, you can put him on your Linux box as well.
/usr/bin
/usr/bin$ sudo ln sudo fucking
/usr/bin$ fucking ln gdm google
/usr/bin$ fucking killall google
~$ cd
Yeah, it's an old edit. The new one is neither valid nor on topic.
Well, as a Wikipedia editor, I would hope that Jimbo tries to make it a source of unbiased research, but alas, there are parts of it that cannot be taken as such. It's a matter of using proper judgment as to sorting the crap from the good stuff.
No, I'm not. That move was particularly wanky on his part. But the rest of it seems to be along the lines of facts.