The rumour going around the people who work on the disk subsystem in Linux is that certain lots/fabrication plats have lots of problems, and others are A-OK.
I recently got to experience the latter, when I got a machine with six of these disks as a RAID. To date, FIVE of the disks have had to be replaced, thanks God that did not include the system disk...
kernel.org is down for the count; unfortunately, we can't get it restarted until at the earliest some time tomorrow (there are some issues that hadn't been resolved yet after the move, and remote management when the kernel deadlocks fall into that category...)
I would like to say that RSI is definitely real, and that it definitely can be made better with heat treatments, better ergonomics, etc. Switching to an ergonomic keyboard has done wonders for my hands, but they still hurt every now and then. Hand massages seem to help, too.
Actually, the reason we're not seeing mixed languages used a lot is that the infrastructure hasn't been in place. Mixing languages within a system is frequently highly desirable, especially when you consider what "mixing languages" really mean. Yes, one can go the Microsoft route and have a completely different system for each language, including differerent APIs, but that doesn't really help me as a Swedish-speaking individual who want to do my Japanese homework online.
<...> tags isn't the way to go, either; the only way you can make that work sensibly is by having a single encoding internally, which is typically going to be Unicode.
That being said, there is no question it will take time to catch on, as people open up to the abilities that this provides, and tools start supporting it.
Yes, antimatter as it is currently produced is quite inefficient. However, it is the most compact fuel that exists (in fact, it's the most compact fuel that can exist), so you don't need a whole lot of it. Since your efficiency starts going down exponentially once the mass of fuel is similar to the mass of the payload (and all current rockets are way beyond that point), even a very small amount of antimatter can replace an awful lot of fuel. Of course, what we really ought to be doing is to work for better antimatter manufacturing techniques -- now there is an example on what until recently was nothing but "pie in the sky" basic research now having an obvious application.
Speaking for myself, the big issues are (a) being up front about what is expected, and (b) not prohibit me from doing Open Source work separately. If you want to sweeten the deal (if you have a candidate you really want to woe) you can allow them to spend some amount of work time on Open Source projects. Finally, a useful thing is to institute an Open Source policy for noncore techology software -- at every software company I know of, there is tons of software written for various reasona that have very little to do with the actual products being developed. Such software (usually tools) you may want to be able to consider if they can be Open Sourced.
I haven't had any problems, and I have a spindle which is almost two years old. Still burns fine. Just avoid AZO media and go with cyanine (decent) or phtalocyanine (much better) and it should be just fine.
It seems it would be a lot cheaper, and probably more secure, to just encrypt the hard disk. That way, if someone can get to the disk, it still doesn't do you any good.
If you own the copyright, you can release it under as many licenses as you want. However, if you have used source from other people, you probably want to make sure that either they agree to release copyright claim, or agree to the relicensing.
One problem with scramjets is that they must operate at or above some low-integer Mach number (usually 2-4). The "sc" stands for supersonic combustion. This, obviously, means that some other engine has to be used to bring it up to those speeds.
Conventional turbine engines can of course be used, but they don't really like getting all the way up into the scramjet operating range. Thus, there has been a lot of research into engines that can work both as ramjets (subsonic combustion) and scramjets (supersonic combustion). Whereas they would still need to be moving around Mach 1 before they can start operating, it means conventional engines would be used for less of the flight, OR that the use of rocket combustion (bring your own oxygen) for the initial part of the flight without a serious weight problem. After all, the whole point with this whole thing is to avoid the rocket weight problem of having to bring your own oxidizer and just use the O2 in the air. Since for an H2-fuelled engine the oxygen is 8/9 of the weight, the advantage is obvious.
(Did I mention that I really hate that Slashdot don't let you use <SUB> and <SUP>?!?)
For the trademark to have been "used in commerce", there has to have been ONE well-documented transaction using the name. Sell ONE copy of your CD to someone outside the group (not a relative), make sure you get a receipt, and now you have used your trademark in commerce. This is done all the time.
I was really surprised when Corel came out with Corel Linux. It seemed to me to be just another Caldera waiting to happen. Corel's value to the Linux community is in providing commercial applications -- especially WordPerfect office.
The reason these early machines were 18/36 bits derives from a bit of historical accident: a lot of the early machines used for scientific computation had "at least 10 digits" as a requirement. 10 decimal digits translate to 34 bits. Add a sign bit and you have 35 bits. The EDVAC (successor to the ENIAC) actually used 35 bits, 2's complement, but it turns out that having an odd number of bits on a machine that supported halfword operations was an unbelievable pain, so machines quickly added one more bit to get to an even 36.
A friend of mine actually got fired (not from a dot-com at all) by mistake... he was recently hired, and they went to verify his credentials. Unfortunately his university had suffered a paperwork mishap, and the person on the phone told them that he didn't have his degree! Now, rather than calling him in, and giving him a chance to explain himself, they told everyone else in the office that he had gotten fired before they even talked to him. Now, it took only 15 minutes for him to straighten out the mistake at the university, but they fired him anyway. Another example on how not to treat your people...
Fifth - Good luck trying to get the governments of the US, Russia and Canada to agree on any of the details. I expect the wrangling by them, as well as the unions and other people who would want a peice of this to eat up 60 billion just amongst themselves. And that is before any track is laid.
You can start by noting that Russia has a nonstandard track gauge... something about the czars being afraid of the railroad being used by invading enemy armies...
Did someone clue these people into the fact that there *ARE* only 4 billion IP addresses, and that over 1/4 of the address space is currently unpopulated?
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These arguments sound an awful lot like the FSF' "Linux is not an operating system, Linux is GNU, even though we were pooh-poohing it and calling it nasty names for the first several years of its existence"...
I think this is very sad. Having very cheap missions that fail is not a good thing, but it's not an inherently bad thing either. Let's say you can 200 missions with a 50% success rate, or 100 missions with a 95% success rate. Which is better? The former will still give you more successful missions. Unfortunately, it is politically impossible for NASA -- politicians seem fundamentally incapable of distinguish between robotic and manned missions, it seems (for manned missions, "once you put a person on the spaceship, the primary mission of that spaceship becomes the safety of the human", and a high accident rate is intolerable.)
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Unfortunately that picture is not at all of Andrea Archangeli, who is most definitely male. Sorry.
The rumour going around the people who work on the disk subsystem in Linux is that certain lots/fabrication plats have lots of problems, and others are A-OK.
I recently got to experience the latter, when I got a machine with six of these disks as a RAID. To date, FIVE of the disks have had to be replaced, thanks God that did not include the system disk...
You should always be able to get to a mirror via ftp..kernel.org, e.g. ftp.us.kernel.org.
http://master.kernel.org/mirrors/nindex.shtml
You can access the mirror list at:
http://master.kernel.org/mirrors/nindex.html
Are there any RPMs anywhere for RedHat 7.1 (seawolf)? The only ones on ftp.kde.org seem to be for 7.2beta (roswell)...
I would like to say that RSI is definitely real, and that it definitely can be made better with heat treatments, better ergonomics, etc. Switching to an ergonomic keyboard has done wonders for my hands, but they still hurt every now and then. Hand massages seem to help, too.
<...> tags isn't the way to go, either; the only way you can make that work sensibly is by having a single encoding internally, which is typically going to be Unicode.
That being said, there is no question it will take time to catch on, as people open up to the abilities that this provides, and tools start supporting it.
What is wrong with the term "megapixel" (when spelled properly, of course)? It is descriptive and makes perfect sense.
Yes, antimatter as it is currently produced is quite inefficient. However, it is the most compact fuel that exists (in fact, it's the most compact fuel that can exist), so you don't need a whole lot of it. Since your efficiency starts going down exponentially once the mass of fuel is similar to the mass of the payload (and all current rockets are way beyond that point), even a very small amount of antimatter can replace an awful lot of fuel. Of course, what we really ought to be doing is to work for better antimatter manufacturing techniques -- now there is an example on what until recently was nothing but "pie in the sky" basic research now having an obvious application.
Speaking for myself, the big issues are (a) being up front about what is expected, and (b) not prohibit me from doing Open Source work separately. If you want to sweeten the deal (if you have a candidate you really want to woe) you can allow them to spend some amount of work time on Open Source projects. Finally, a useful thing is to institute an Open Source policy for noncore techology software -- at every software company I know of, there is tons of software written for various reasona that have very little to do with the actual products being developed. Such software (usually tools) you may want to be able to consider if they can be Open Sourced.
I haven't had any problems, and I have a spindle which is almost two years old. Still burns fine. Just avoid AZO media and go with cyanine (decent) or phtalocyanine (much better) and it should be just fine.
It seems it would be a lot cheaper, and probably more secure, to just encrypt the hard disk. That way, if someone can get to the disk, it still doesn't do you any good.
If you own the copyright, you can release it under as many licenses as you want. However, if you have used source from other people, you probably want to make sure that either they agree to release copyright claim, or agree to the relicensing.
Conventional turbine engines can of course be used, but they don't really like getting all the way up into the scramjet operating range. Thus, there has been a lot of research into engines that can work both as ramjets (subsonic combustion) and scramjets (supersonic combustion). Whereas they would still need to be moving around Mach 1 before they can start operating, it means conventional engines would be used for less of the flight, OR that the use of rocket combustion (bring your own oxygen) for the initial part of the flight without a serious weight problem. After all, the whole point with this whole thing is to avoid the rocket weight problem of having to bring your own oxidizer and just use the O2 in the air. Since for an H2-fuelled engine the oxygen is 8/9 of the weight, the advantage is obvious.
(Did I mention that I really hate that Slashdot don't let you use <SUB> and <SUP>?!?)
For the trademark to have been "used in commerce", there has to have been ONE well-documented transaction using the name. Sell ONE copy of your CD to someone outside the group (not a relative), make sure you get a receipt, and now you have used your trademark in commerce. This is done all the time.
I was really surprised when Corel came out with Corel Linux. It seemed to me to be just another Caldera waiting to happen. Corel's value to the Linux community is in providing commercial applications -- especially WordPerfect office.
The reason these early machines were 18/36 bits derives from a bit of historical accident: a lot of the early machines used for scientific computation had "at least 10 digits" as a requirement. 10 decimal digits translate to 34 bits. Add a sign bit and you have 35 bits. The EDVAC (successor to the ENIAC) actually used 35 bits, 2's complement, but it turns out that having an odd number of bits on a machine that supported halfword operations was an unbelievable pain, so machines quickly added one more bit to get to an even 36.
Another option is to use a Netscape autoproxy config, where you can tell it to proxy all *.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1.
A friend of mine actually got fired (not from a dot-com at all) by mistake... he was recently hired, and they went to verify his credentials. Unfortunately his university had suffered a paperwork mishap, and the person on the phone told them that he didn't have his degree! Now, rather than calling him in, and giving him a chance to explain himself, they told everyone else in the office that he had gotten fired before they even talked to him. Now, it took only 15 minutes for him to straighten out the mistake at the university, but they fired him anyway. Another example on how not to treat your people...
As always... http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/
You can start by noting that Russia has a nonstandard track gauge... something about the czars being afraid of the railroad being used by invading enemy armies...
Did someone clue these people into the fact that there *ARE* only 4 billion IP addresses, and that over 1/4 of the address space is currently unpopulated?
These arguments sound an awful lot like the FSF' "Linux is not an operating system, Linux is GNU, even though we were pooh-poohing it and calling it nasty names for the first several years of its existence"...
I think this is very sad. Having very cheap missions that fail is not a good thing, but it's not an inherently bad thing either. Let's say you can 200 missions with a 50% success rate, or 100 missions with a 95% success rate. Which is better? The former will still give you more successful missions. Unfortunately, it is politically impossible for NASA -- politicians seem fundamentally incapable of distinguish between robotic and manned missions, it seems (for manned missions, "once you put a person on the spaceship, the primary mission of that spaceship becomes the safety of the human", and a high accident rate is intolerable.)
Pity.