What would be cool is if Microsoft released software that allowed someone to simultaneously open multiple O/S's at the same time in a non-virtualized environment.
How is this possible without virtualization of some kind be it hardware or software? Oh wait its not...
You can mount any cleanly unmounted ext3 filesystem as ext2 by any kernel with ext2 support(it doesnt need any ext3 code at all, compiled without ext3 support, years before ext3 ever came out). ext3 is backwards compatible, meaning using it does not preclude you from using that filesystem as ext2 with ext2 drivers. It has nothing to do with moving ext3 drivers into an older kernel.
ext4 conversely will not be completely backwards compatible, which means you cannot simply mount a ext4 filesystem as ext3.
I repeat this has nothing to do with moving code into older kernel versions. This is about backwards compatibility.
The article says "On the downside, the new ext4 filesystem will offer only limited backward compatibility with ext3-aware Linux kernels."
Well if you had a clue, you would know that this is in reference to the fact that you can mount a ext3 file system as ext2 from a kernel that doesn't have support for ext3. It just doesn't journal. They were simply stating that this rather useful feature that made ext2->ext3 migration so painless will likely not be as simple in ext3->ext4 migration.
With that in mind, the rest of your post can be safely ignored or moderated into oblivion, thanks for playing!!
Work accounts for 50% of my gas usage. My car gets 31mpg on average(requires premium gas however) and is a car I enjoy very much, so i don't feel the need to change cars.
Whats the next suggestion, stop doing things on the weekend?
Bottom line is that gas prices matter, and I do my best to keep costs down. Hence the 31mpg car, buying gas from the cheaper stations, and using a cash back credit card(5% on gas purchases) and paying it off before any fees or interest are applied.
I think its funny that people can very easily say "oh move closer to work", "get a job closer to where you live" or "just buy a more fuel efficient car" as though any of those things actually translate to overall savings. Buying a new car would cost me more than I'd save. New house, holy crap even more. New job, ain't any jobs as good as the one I have now near home. Ultimately the people who suggest this kind of tripe either can't do the rudimentary math or are talking trash from the parents basement on a computer bought by their parents dollars.
You make 3 assumptions and I only consider one of them to be right. $3 gal is the one I'd consider "right". I get 31mpg average in my car, and only ~50% of my driving is commuting to and from work. My commute is 82 miles(41 each way).
I'm definitely saving more by doing this commute rather than moving closer or getting a lower paying job, but that wasn't the point of my post. The point is that when I pass one gas station that says 2.90 and the next one says 2.94, I make sure I get gas at the one thats cheaper. Furthermore I cheapen my gas expense by paying for all gas purchases on a Credit Card that offers cash back(5%) on each purchase of gas(I pay the bill each month before any interest gets attached).
Above all, what i'm saying is that gas prices matter, a difference of a few cents at the pump stacks up to a sizable difference for me at the end of a year.
I also don't agree with regulation, other than forcing competition. Currently there is far too much consensus between gas stations over the prices they charge at the pump.
The reason we care so much is that many of us spend more on gas than any other commodity. We consider it as essential as food. And its price varies wildly from season to season. I spend roughly $300 US each month on gas currently, and when it was higher you bet your ass I cared that I was spending an extra $50 a month.
However, I've always disagreed with this argument. I use the Mafia example. Let's say the government DOES get a grant to tap a criminal's phone line. Then YOU call him... now YOUR call is being tapped because of who you called. That's the way it works. Otherwise the government has to have permission to tap both parties phones. That's ridiculous.
How about this just means the conversation can only be used against the person who had a warrant issued. Lets say they are tapping mafia don Al's phone, and I call Al and say "yo dude I just killed a guy" they should not be able to use this phone conversation against me in court.
This seems logical to me since the warrant was not issued to find evidence in a crime that they suspect I committed and is (likely) outside the scope of the warrant that was issued.
How is this hard to understand? The studio makes a movie, they own it, they copyright it. Only they have the legal authority to distribute it and edit it for content. Seriously is it hypocritical if I report my car stolen when someone steals it to go to the grocery store and when i get it back immediately drive it to the grocery store myself? Its my damn car I can do with it as I please if you want to make a clean movie by all means produce and make a movie without violence or swearing then sell it. But you cannot take mine and clean it up without my express permission.
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Anyone who tries to argue that one successful show is better than another successful show is an idiot, and you might as well be trying to prove the existence or non-existence of god, or the general superiority of one OS over another.
or better yet, show me an example of one of your design documents that you think does a great job of conveying your design to someone else?
Unfortunately I can't do that as I'm pretty sure it would be violating contracts with my employer, however one thing thats worked extremely well for us in the past, is building the class specifications in a wiki(this is usually during implementation though rather than prior to and ends up being documentation after the project is 'complete') most of our implementation design is beaten like a dead horse in massive emails that end up functioning similiar to RFCs. We have even done flow in the wiki that ended up reading like a choose your own adventure with some success.
This may sound willy nilly but honestly massive projects exist that do far less, look at the BSDs for instance.
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No, please replace UML in everyones minds with User Mode Linux so never again will the horror that is Unified Modeling Language be forced upon us.
In Finland, wherever you erect a house is considered completely private property, but if you own forest beyond your back yard, you can't prevent people from using it.
This makes perfect sense, as the only other alternative would be for the government to own all forests, to prevent crazy landowners from destroying everyone else's enjoyment.
How can you even remotely consider that a landowner actually OWNS that land if he does not have the simple right of preventing others from taking its resources without permission? Berries on MY land are MY berries, if you take them, you are stealing MY berries. What you have described is simple, homeowners have 0 property rights.
In practice, it means you can't start posting stupid signs telling people what they're allowed to do. Just like that website couldn't...
Yet its ok for other land owners to post stupid signs telling me how to use their land? Example: the government is a fairly large landowner, and streets are riddled with signs telling me to stop, slow down, no left turn, one way, do not enter.
Again all that you have demonstrated is that in Finland, landowners have 0 rights, their is actually no reason to own or take care of or protect property in Finland.
In america we have whats called the 5th amendment. Which should mean that I have protection under the law to not be forced to answer questions that incriminate myself. What is your password? and what is your encryption key? should be similiar to Where were you the night the victim was shot? I don't have to answer if i believe that in answering the question it will incriminate me in a crime.
eventually the graphics systems manufacturers are going to have to cave to market forces and support the open source system.
Cave into what? you already said use the proprietary drivers, the hardware manufacturers aren't caving in Linux is. And as long as Linux accepts binary drivers manufacturers will continue to make them.
Honestly, Theo has it right on this one, just look at the progress OpenBSD has made with the RAID device manufacturers.
easiest way to tell them apart is weight, older pennies way consistently(but slightly) more, less than a gram difference but measurable. Could easily build a machine that sorts them based on weight.
Namely why is valid BSD news getting rejected time and time again. Example DragonFlyBSD release 1.4 happened several days ago and all submissions to/. have been rejected. I'm not asking for front page, how about just BSD section thats valid and to some pretty big news.
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I'd recommend forgetting about a CS degree, computers are on their way out.
For a degree thats always in incredibly high demand.
English.
What would be cool is if Microsoft released software that allowed someone to simultaneously open multiple O/S's at the same time in a non-virtualized environment.
How is this possible without virtualization of some kind be it hardware or software? Oh wait its not...
You can mount any cleanly unmounted ext3 filesystem as ext2 by any kernel with ext2 support(it doesnt need any ext3 code at all, compiled without ext3 support, years before ext3 ever came out). ext3 is backwards compatible, meaning using it does not preclude you from using that filesystem as ext2 with ext2 drivers. It has nothing to do with moving ext3 drivers into an older kernel.
ext4 conversely will not be completely backwards compatible, which means you cannot simply mount a ext4 filesystem as ext3.
I repeat this has nothing to do with moving code into older kernel versions. This is about backwards compatibility.
The article says "On the downside, the new ext4 filesystem will offer only limited backward compatibility with ext3-aware Linux kernels."
Well if you had a clue, you would know that this is in reference to the fact that you can mount a ext3 file system as ext2 from a kernel that doesn't have support for ext3. It just doesn't journal. They were simply stating that this rather useful feature that made ext2->ext3 migration so painless will likely not be as simple in ext3->ext4 migration.
With that in mind, the rest of your post can be safely ignored or moderated into oblivion, thanks for playing!!
It isn't slander if its true...
That's reverse pyschology, clearly beyond the intellectual level of Bush Administration.
Work accounts for 50% of my gas usage. My car gets 31mpg on average(requires premium gas however) and is a car I enjoy very much, so i don't feel the need to change cars.
Whats the next suggestion, stop doing things on the weekend?
Bottom line is that gas prices matter, and I do my best to keep costs down. Hence the 31mpg car, buying gas from the cheaper stations, and using a cash back credit card(5% on gas purchases) and paying it off before any fees or interest are applied.
I think its funny that people can very easily say "oh move closer to work", "get a job closer to where you live" or "just buy a more fuel efficient car" as though any of those things actually translate to overall savings. Buying a new car would cost me more than I'd save. New house, holy crap even more. New job, ain't any jobs as good as the one I have now near home. Ultimately the people who suggest this kind of tripe either can't do the rudimentary math or are talking trash from the parents basement on a computer bought by their parents dollars.
You make 3 assumptions and I only consider one of them to be right. $3 gal is the one I'd consider "right". I get 31mpg average in my car, and only ~50% of my driving is commuting to and from work. My commute is 82 miles(41 each way).
I'm definitely saving more by doing this commute rather than moving closer or getting a lower paying job, but that wasn't the point of my post. The point is that when I pass one gas station that says 2.90 and the next one says 2.94, I make sure I get gas at the one thats cheaper. Furthermore I cheapen my gas expense by paying for all gas purchases on a Credit Card that offers cash back(5%) on each purchase of gas(I pay the bill each month before any interest gets attached).
Above all, what i'm saying is that gas prices matter, a difference of a few cents at the pump stacks up to a sizable difference for me at the end of a year.
I also don't agree with regulation, other than forcing competition. Currently there is far too much consensus between gas stations over the prices they charge at the pump.
The reason we care so much is that many of us spend more on gas than any other commodity. We consider it as essential as food. And its price varies wildly from season to season. I spend roughly $300 US each month on gas currently, and when it was higher you bet your ass I cared that I was spending an extra $50 a month.
It's like arguing whether peanut butter sandwiches are better than tuna.
I'll bite...
I prefer peanut butter AND tuna sandwiches.
However, I've always disagreed with this argument. I use the Mafia example. Let's say the government DOES get a grant to tap a criminal's phone line. Then YOU call him... now YOUR call is being tapped because of who you called. That's the way it works. Otherwise the government has to have permission to tap both parties phones. That's ridiculous.
How about this just means the conversation can only be used against the person who had a warrant issued. Lets say they are tapping mafia don Al's phone, and I call Al and say "yo dude I just killed a guy" they should not be able to use this phone conversation against me in court.
This seems logical to me since the warrant was not issued to find evidence in a crime that they suspect I committed and is (likely) outside the scope of the warrant that was issued.
How is this hard to understand? The studio makes a movie, they own it, they copyright it. Only they have the legal authority to distribute it and edit it for content. Seriously is it hypocritical if I report my car stolen when someone steals it to go to the grocery store and when i get it back immediately drive it to the grocery store myself? Its my damn car I can do with it as I please if you want to make a clean movie by all means produce and make a movie without violence or swearing then sell it. But you cannot take mine and clean it up without my express permission.
Ill bite. Futurama, No God, BSD...
P.S.: Yes I am an idiot.
I typically use pmwiki and pmwikidraw is pretty slick as well, should have mentioned that the first time, probably superior to jspwiki by far.
http://jspwiki.org/wiki/WikiWhiteboardPlugin lets you draw and save sketches in your wiki, I havent used it but I've often thought about it.
or better yet, show me an example of one of your design documents that you think does a great job of conveying your design to someone else?
Unfortunately I can't do that as I'm pretty sure it would be violating contracts with my employer, however one thing thats worked extremely well for us in the past, is building the class specifications in a wiki(this is usually during implementation though rather than prior to and ends up being documentation after the project is 'complete') most of our implementation design is beaten like a dead horse in massive emails that end up functioning similiar to RFCs. We have even done flow in the wiki that ended up reading like a choose your own adventure with some success.
This may sound willy nilly but honestly massive projects exist that do far less, look at the BSDs for instance.
No, please replace UML in everyones minds with User Mode Linux so never again will the horror that is Unified Modeling Language be forced upon us.
In Finland, wherever you erect a house is considered completely private property, but if you own forest beyond your back yard, you can't prevent people from using it.
This makes perfect sense, as the only other alternative would be for the government to own all forests, to prevent crazy landowners from destroying everyone else's enjoyment.
How can you even remotely consider that a landowner actually OWNS that land if he does not have the simple right of preventing others from taking its resources without permission? Berries on MY land are MY berries, if you take them, you are stealing MY berries. What you have described is simple, homeowners have 0 property rights.
In practice, it means you can't start posting stupid signs telling people what they're allowed to do. Just like that website couldn't...
Yet its ok for other land owners to post stupid signs telling me how to use their land? Example: the government is a fairly large landowner, and streets are riddled with signs telling me to stop, slow down, no left turn, one way, do not enter.
Again all that you have demonstrated is that in Finland, landowners have 0 rights, their is actually no reason to own or take care of or protect property in Finland.
In america we have whats called the 5th amendment. Which should mean that I have protection under the law to not be forced to answer questions that incriminate myself. What is your password? and what is your encryption key? should be similiar to Where were you the night the victim was shot? I don't have to answer if i believe that in answering the question it will incriminate me in a crime.
Actually the 12" PowerBook ships with the DVI and VGA dongles, I'm assuming this laptop does as well.
Cave into what? you already said use the proprietary drivers, the hardware manufacturers aren't caving in Linux is. And as long as Linux accepts binary drivers manufacturers will continue to make them.
Honestly, Theo has it right on this one, just look at the progress OpenBSD has made with the RAID device manufacturers.
where is the moderation for -1 spineless?
easiest way to tell them apart is weight, older pennies way consistently(but slightly) more, less than a gram difference but measurable. Could easily build a machine that sorts them based on weight.
I know, and when i attempt to submit an article to it, about valid news, IE dragonflybsd just released a new version... It gets rejected.
Namely why is valid BSD news getting rejected time and time again. Example DragonFlyBSD release 1.4 happened several days ago and all submissions to /. have been rejected. I'm not asking for front page, how about just BSD section thats valid and to some pretty big news.