Besides which, if anyone DID devise a system that properly credited discoveries, Crick and Watson would be all but written out of the DNA story and Rosalind Franklin (the least-talked-about person) would be an instant megastar.
She isn't the least-talked-about person, there's a fourth person you don't even mention who gets talked about less. IIRC she never admitted the possibility of a helical structure for DNA, which was the important discovery, she just made the observations that allowed the discovery to be made, the credit for the discovery belongs to others, just like we credit Newton rather than Kepler for the discovery of gravity. The other reason she's talked about less than Crick and Watson is she didn't get the nobel prize for it owing to being dead - which was mostly her own fault for never bothering to wear a lead apron when working with x-rays.
Good for you, but with some 2.6 releases I've had trouble getting it to stay up for more than an hour. A stable kernel should be stable for all hardware and kernel configurations (or at least any kernel configuration with "prompt for development code/drivers" disabled)
a "my distro is cooler than yours" dick-waving contest!
You mean you came to slashdot expecting something else?
Anyway, stories about a particular distro or piece of software always promote the software in question. The cinelerra story described it as the best linux video program, firefox stories often call it the best open source web browser (even though that's patently not true, IMO) etc.
Others will disagree with me but I still find 2.6 kernels to be unstable more often than not (see my journal). As a more server-oriented distribution, stability is perhaps more important with slackware than many distributions, and it's good to see Pat's priorities reflect that.
Having reiser4 in there alongside the VFS layer would seem to fit in perfectly with the kernel paradigm that insisted the ide driver remained separate from the scsi one and on the same level, even when that requires introducing the separate block device layer above them.
Now, those numbers assumed we're moving at max velocity, but we're obviously not or the light would never have caught us.
We're moving pretty close to the speed of light, as shown by the fact it's taken 13 billion light years to by probably a lot less than 1.4 billion. The expansion of the universe is happening at the speed of light at the edges.
But... if we're moving more slowly, then all those numbers get smaller...And if the numbers get smaller, that might put the center of the universe *past* where that explosion occurred!
Certainly. We don't know enough to locate the centre of the universe from observations like this. Bottom line it could have been any "side" of us, with respect to the centre of the universe. 1.4 Billion LY is plenty big enough for there to be enough "space" on each side of us, because the expansion of the universe is really fast.
But no matter what... this tells me that the farthest we can possibly "see" is just barely (if you call 700 million light years "barely") past the center of the universe!
Is that right? Can we really only "see" half of the universe?
We can see pretty much all of the universe because, looking that far away, we're looking back to when that was the whole size of the universe. So we can only see 700 million LY past the centre of the universe - but we see it at a time when the universe was only 700 million LY in radius. The remnants of whatever produced this gamma ray burst could be 26 billion light years away by now, because they're expanding away from the centre of the universe too.
The kernel developers aren't really that conservative, reiser4 is twice as stable as plenty of things that have gone into 2.6, easily. This is pure politics.
Most countries are only independent because they seceded at some point. If people want to split from their country it's generally because their government has been really bad, in which case they should be able to do so.
That's how companies grow. Well, no, they can expand their core business, but ebay has the online auction market pretty much sewn up. For some reason it's not good enough for shareholders for the company to be turning a profit, they have to be seen to be expanding.
If my firewall doesn't allow by default then it's going to be turned off entirely sooner or later when I can't get something working. The system should be secure without the firewall (just don't run unnecessary services), the firewall is there for an extra layer when exploits are found (by blocking specific exploits), to protect servers that don't need to be public (but this is not strictly necessary since internal auth methods should be good enough, leaving a non-public service open is far better than blocking one that's meant to be public.) and to give an uncompromised log of any intrusions which do occur (which is just as easy with default permit)
It's worse than that. The Mafia will, by and large, do what you're paying them for - stop anyone else trying to do what they're doing. If you pay off one DDOSer there's nothing that stops another one coming around next week.
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However, not replying when you're asked about it is very suspicious.
She isn't the least-talked-about person, there's a fourth person you don't even mention who gets talked about less. IIRC she never admitted the possibility of a helical structure for DNA, which was the important discovery, she just made the observations that allowed the discovery to be made, the credit for the discovery belongs to others, just like we credit Newton rather than Kepler for the discovery of gravity. The other reason she's talked about less than Crick and Watson is she didn't get the nobel prize for it owing to being dead - which was mostly her own fault for never bothering to wear a lead apron when working with x-rays.
Good for you, but with some 2.6 releases I've had trouble getting it to stay up for more than an hour. A stable kernel should be stable for all hardware and kernel configurations (or at least any kernel configuration with "prompt for development code/drivers" disabled)
Example. Give an example. Then we have some basis for discussion.
You mean you came to slashdot expecting something else?
Anyway, stories about a particular distro or piece of software always promote the software in question. The cinelerra story described it as the best linux video program, firefox stories often call it the best open source web browser (even though that's patently not true, IMO) etc.
Others will disagree with me but I still find 2.6 kernels to be unstable more often than not (see my journal). As a more server-oriented distribution, stability is perhaps more important with slackware than many distributions, and it's good to see Pat's priorities reflect that.
Since it was forced. Remember all those "free ipod" links in sigs a few months ago? This is exactly the same thing.
Having reiser4 in there alongside the VFS layer would seem to fit in perfectly with the kernel paradigm that insisted the ide driver remained separate from the scsi one and on the same level, even when that requires introducing the separate block device layer above them.
We're moving pretty close to the speed of light, as shown by the fact it's taken 13 billion light years to by probably a lot less than 1.4 billion. The expansion of the universe is happening at the speed of light at the edges.
But... if we're moving more slowly, then all those numbers get smaller...And if the numbers get smaller, that might put the center of the universe *past* where that explosion occurred!
Certainly. We don't know enough to locate the centre of the universe from observations like this. Bottom line it could have been any "side" of us, with respect to the centre of the universe. 1.4 Billion LY is plenty big enough for there to be enough "space" on each side of us, because the expansion of the universe is really fast.
But no matter what... this tells me that the farthest we can possibly "see" is just barely (if you call 700 million light years "barely") past the center of the universe!
Is that right? Can we really only "see" half of the universe?
We can see pretty much all of the universe because, looking that far away, we're looking back to when that was the whole size of the universe. So we can only see 700 million LY past the centre of the universe - but we see it at a time when the universe was only 700 million LY in radius. The remnants of whatever produced this gamma ray burst could be 26 billion light years away by now, because they're expanding away from the centre of the universe too.
You're already doing that by running windows at all.
The kernel developers aren't really that conservative, reiser4 is twice as stable as plenty of things that have gone into 2.6, easily. This is pure politics.
Isn't that a linux option that you can change in /proc (how much to use for file buffers)?
It's ready, the stable release was a few months back, it's just not in the kernel for political reasons.
Linus was less mature than he was.
Most countries are only independent because they seceded at some point. If people want to split from their country it's generally because their government has been really bad, in which case they should be able to do so.
With the amount of flash and other crap on the web these days, I wouldn't call that a downside.
GNAA isn't racist, they just say gay nigger a lot to offend people.
With all the "google CEO sneezes" type stories we get here, the submitter could be forgiven for thinking they're the same thing.
That's how companies grow. Well, no, they can expand their core business, but ebay has the online auction market pretty much sewn up. For some reason it's not good enough for shareholders for the company to be turning a profit, they have to be seen to be expanding.
The second half is from my old sig, I followed the instructions in someone's sexually reproducing sig.
Believe it or not, that wasn't me.
If my firewall doesn't allow by default then it's going to be turned off entirely sooner or later when I can't get something working. The system should be secure without the firewall (just don't run unnecessary services), the firewall is there for an extra layer when exploits are found (by blocking specific exploits), to protect servers that don't need to be public (but this is not strictly necessary since internal auth methods should be good enough, leaving a non-public service open is far better than blocking one that's meant to be public.) and to give an uncompromised log of any intrusions which do occur (which is just as easy with default permit)
Isn't gossip popular *because* it's interesting? Informative would be a moderation to complain about.
It's worse than that. The Mafia will, by and large, do what you're paying them for - stop anyone else trying to do what they're doing. If you pay off one DDOSer there's nothing that stops another one coming around next week.
No, but you can buy them wholesale if you know the right people.