So they know about the problem, but don't take any steps to solve it. That's comforting. The exact same SQL works without any odd ROUND() usage or any modification in PostgreSQL.
Bullshit. You haven't looked at it hard enough then. I used to work at a university that had 26,000+ users using an AFS filestore for their homedirs and for distributed apps across several miles of campus.
I'm sure this thing has more than surpassed terabyte size by now. It was always fast and always reliable, except when the one of server's SCSI cards would melt and start spewing errors.
AFS is better than most people give it credit for. I'll admit, it isn't easy to set up, but all the features that you get for that initial work are well worth it.
Intelligence is often judged first by ones appearence. She has yet to break my initial stereotype. Hence my stereotype, without further information, is correct.
The use of literally in the method in which I did is a common and often unnoticed mistake. [1] My apologies for not being as studious as you. In my opinion criticizing one's grammar in an online forum is the highest form of pedantery.
So please sheath your Pedant Broadsword +5 and make a worthwhile point.
Speaking of plain old dumb... Have you look at Mrs. W. Bush lately?
Seriously, look at a picture, or watch a video of her. Look into her eyes, and you'll see that there is literally nothing behind them. It's almost like you can see right to the back of her skull. I've never seen a person who looked this braindead before.
It gets really creepy if you look at her for too long.
Anyway, not only do you get a silent keyboard, but it's nicer on your fingers and hands because you barely have to press to get a keystroke to register. It also brings with it a numerous amount of gestures that you can use for common things, the website has flash animations of most of the gestures. The nicest thing by far tho, is the fact that you don't have to move your hand to use the mouse anymore. Dropping two fingers on the right side of the keyboard gets you a mouse. After about an hour of using it it becomes rather natural.
Anyway, the price point is a bit much for some people (approx. $350), but for me it is well worth the money.
* OpenAFS doesn't run nicely (read: at all) on FreeBSD (tested with -STABLE on i386 and -CURRENT on sparc64). Doesn't matter if you're running it on Linux, of course.
How long has it been since you tried this? I seem to remember the OpenAFS team fixing a lot of their FreeBSD issues. I know OpenBSD recommends OpenAFS as a network file store. Even then you could try ARLA (?). Should be able to Google for it. IIRC Arla fully supports FreeBSD as both a client and a server.
* AFS uses it's own filesystem rather than riding on top of the O/S. That's fine, and better for security, but sucks if you want to do something fancy like distribute the same filesystem via samba, NFSv3 and AFS simultaneously.
I agree there can be/some/ issues with installing software, but anything worth it's salt shouldn't break too badly. Some quick permissions fixing can be done and if you have the top-level directory permissioned right then it isn't an issue. I wouldn't ever suggest using AFS as your root fs.:)
Even then the poster isn't asking for a software repository, he's/she's asking for a networked filesystem that provides some sort of offline use. Which is exactly the niche AFS fills.
Frankly AFS is what you want and what you need. I used to work at a site with over 26,000 AFS users and it was a magical system. It is hard to setup, I'll grant you that, but only the first time. After you've got it down once it's old hat after that.
My biggest issue when I was setting it up was Kerberos integration, can be tricky but the guys on the OpenAFS mailing-lists are incredibly nice and knowledgable. Some other issues are daemons that like to write to user home dirs won't work real well unless you find a way to have them get an AFS token or Kerb ticket.
If I were you I would SERIOUSLY consider AFS, don't listen to those who would say it's old and outdated, because it's not. OpenAFS is being actively developed and new features are being added all the time.
Feel free to email me if you want and I'll discuss the advantages/disadvantages further or help you get resources to set up your AFS system.
Read the Swing release notes dude. They support GTK theming as long as it uses a certain GTK engine. They are attempting to support all GTK engines, but evidently it's not easy.
This is cool and all, but what I don't get is why OpenBSD still doesn't have SMP support. Is it because they focus so much on security that other things fall by the wayside or is SMP insecure?:)
I won't use OpenBSD until SMP gets in. Until then, I'll stick with FreeBSD.
What are you using Lynx to connect to the ftp server? That's the reason it's slow. Try a real client like NcFTP and when you do, make sure to take note of the sheer power.
mget blah[1,2,3].iso....
Get the drift? HTTP indexes are rather stupid if you ask me, it's FTP without the features. And before you whine "But I don't need the features", neither do I most of the time, but it's nice when they're there.
Hmmm. I personally wouldn't do that. Maybe I'm just really old school, but I've always tried to keep magnets and computer components away from each other.:)
This is what I don't understand. Why EVER sell your company? Blizzard makes money, period. Same thing with/. Why sell to VA? They lose money, and fast! I'm afraid that/. is going to go under with VA and I'm going to lose a good news source.
So what happens if Blizzard's people STOP being willing drones and say "Up yours Vivendi"?
Why can't you just enjoy the invention?
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Come on people. You just here about this thing, and your already hounding IT. Just concede that your a little disappointed, but that it's still REALLY QUITE NIFTY.
Comments like "Uh, I'ma buy me one uh them motor-ceecles instead. Hyuk, hyuk", just prove your ignorance and your willingness to add to the problem of pollution.
I for one (on a measly college student wage, no less) will purchase one as soon as I can.
Depends on what you mean, I'll assume you mean that the major version number went up. In that case you use a really cool piece o' software called portupgrade...You run portupgrade with the package who's major number changed and it finds all packages that require it and recompiles them. It takes a while, but it's worth it.
I just did a portupgrade and png-1.2.0 the other day and it took all day to do it (Dual P3 600s), but it was worth it. I got all my fun little compiler flags in and everything fits my system like a glove.
All I really have to say here is "whoopty-friggin'-doo". I've been using XFree4.0(.1) since the day it (they) were released. Gimme a break. If you can't learn to compile, go back to the "other" OS.
Besides, you can't add -funroll-loops, -ffast-math, etc. with a deb...You'll get about a 20% speed increase if you use the right options.
How many times have you gone into a LAN party, installed Windows and tried to get networking configured? It almost NEVER works.
We have to start our LAN parties at about 3:00p to get all the crap setup so that we can play by 9:00p (mind you we have BIG LAN parties, i.e. 130 people).
When I installed Linux about 1.5 years ago, I still used Windows for gaming and things. When I saw Quake3 for Linux, I said "Schweet". Picked it up and got it working.
The first time I installed it, I had a prob with the Mesa libraries, but that happened only the first time, and it was sufficiently covered in FAQs.
When I showed up at the LAN party with Linux, I was nearly laughed out of the building! I toughed it out though. By the end of the night they had all changed their tune, I had been playing Q3 with the bots for about an hour before anyone got in on the game, and then only 3 or 4 people. After about 2 hours, everyone finally had there computers up and we had a decent party. The next LAN party, I helped a few people with a Linux install and we were up and running in no time.
I love Linux, and I will be a diehard Linux buff until my final breath.
Now I know how all of you OS/2 users feel. Hang in there guys, your plight reminds me of the Chicago Cubs' motto..."Maybe next year."
If you use the Win32 point release you can use the Linux version on Windows. So it really doesn't make sense to ship TWO versions. I'd like to see some hybrid CDs. I don't particularly care for Windows, and if I have to reboot just to play a game, it's irritating. UT and Q3A have shown developers what can be done with a little time and effort. I really don't mind going out and buying a Windows game and then patching it, or downloading some binaries. If the games are coded well, like Starcraft, they run well under WINE. I have to admit that Starcraft runs better under WINE than in Windows.
Developers, if your listening, give us something for Linux support.
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Holy crap! And you used it at 60Hz ?!?!
I almost pass out if I'm near a monitor that's less than 75Hz.
I can't talk/work with anyone near a PC if it's refresh rate is too low. Looks like a strobe light when I turn my head.
So they know about the problem, but don't take any steps to solve it. That's comforting. The exact same SQL works without any odd ROUND() usage or any modification in PostgreSQL.
Bullshit. You haven't looked at it hard enough then. I used to work at a university that had 26,000+ users using an AFS filestore for their homedirs and for distributed apps across several miles of campus.
I'm sure this thing has more than surpassed terabyte size by now. It was always fast and always reliable, except when the one of server's SCSI cards would melt and start spewing errors.
AFS is better than most people give it credit for. I'll admit, it isn't easy to set up, but all the features that you get for that initial work are well worth it.
I'm sorry I find that silken panties and luxurious fabrics make me feel pretty. :)
:)
Perhaps your prod at my (assumed) lifestyle could suggest something more insidious in yours. Hiding something are we?
Intelligence is often judged first by ones appearence. She has yet to break my initial stereotype. Hence my stereotype, without further information, is correct.
The use of literally in the method in which I did is a common and often unnoticed mistake. [1] My apologies for not being as studious as you. In my opinion criticizing one's grammar in an online forum is the highest form of pedantery.
So please sheath your Pedant Broadsword +5 and make a worthwhile point.
[1] Reference to common mistake about the use of the word "literally".
Speaking of plain old dumb... Have you look at Mrs. W. Bush lately?
Seriously, look at a picture, or watch a video of her. Look into her eyes, and you'll see that there is literally nothing behind them. It's almost like you can see right to the back of her skull. I've never seen a person who looked this braindead before.
It gets really creepy if you look at her for too long.
I too would highly recommend this keyboard. Here is a link for those of you who are Google deficient.
Fingerworks TouchStream LP
Anyway, not only do you get a silent keyboard, but it's nicer on your fingers and hands because you barely have to press to get a keystroke to register. It also brings with it a numerous amount of gestures that you can use for common things, the website has flash animations of most of the gestures. The nicest thing by far tho, is the fact that you don't have to move your hand to use the mouse anymore. Dropping two fingers on the right side of the keyboard gets you a mouse. After about an hour of using it it becomes rather natural.
Anyway, the price point is a bit much for some people (approx. $350), but for me it is well worth the money.
Or backup volumes? :)
Oh how wonderful to be able to snapshot and backup an entire volume without user interruption.
How long has it been since you tried this? I seem to remember the OpenAFS team fixing a lot of their FreeBSD issues. I know OpenBSD recommends OpenAFS as a network file store. Even then you could try ARLA (?). Should be able to Google for it. IIRC Arla fully supports FreeBSD as both a client and a server.
Samba is supported somehow IIRC, but I KNOW that AFS over NFS is supported because it's in the docco... Appendix A. Managing the NFS/AFS Translator
I agree there can be /some/ issues with installing software, but anything worth it's salt shouldn't break too badly. Some quick permissions fixing can be done and if you have the top-level directory permissioned right then it isn't an issue. I wouldn't ever suggest using AFS as your root fs. :)
Even then the poster isn't asking for a software repository, he's/she's asking for a networked filesystem that provides some sort of offline use. Which is exactly the niche AFS fills.
Frankly AFS is what you want and what you need. I used to work at a site with over 26,000 AFS users and it was a magical system. It is hard to setup, I'll grant you that, but only the first time. After you've got it down once it's old hat after that.
My biggest issue when I was setting it up was Kerberos integration, can be tricky but the guys on the OpenAFS mailing-lists are incredibly nice and knowledgable. Some other issues are daemons that like to write to user home dirs won't work real well unless you find a way to have them get an AFS token or Kerb ticket.
If I were you I would SERIOUSLY consider AFS, don't listen to those who would say it's old and outdated, because it's not. OpenAFS is being actively developed and new features are being added all the time.
Feel free to email me if you want and I'll discuss the advantages/disadvantages further or help you get resources to set up your AFS system.
Read the Swing release notes dude. They support GTK theming as long as it uses a certain GTK engine. They are attempting to support all GTK engines, but evidently it's not easy.
This is cool and all, but what I don't get is why OpenBSD still doesn't have SMP support. Is it because they focus so much on security that other things fall by the wayside or is SMP insecure? :)
I won't use OpenBSD until SMP gets in. Until then, I'll stick with FreeBSD.
What are you using Lynx to connect to the ftp server? That's the reason it's slow. Try a real client like NcFTP and when you do, make sure to take note of the sheer power.
mget blah[1,2,3].iso....
Get the drift? HTTP indexes are rather stupid if you ask me, it's FTP without the features. And before you whine "But I don't need the features", neither do I most of the time, but it's nice when they're there.
"with a Glock in each hand and a Venti Latte in the other."
So three hands? Perhaps these "Californians" should get to work, with three hands I'm betting you could do a lot more.
There is a binary CD now... Packages that most people install right away are pre-built on the CD.
Hmmm. I personally wouldn't do that. Maybe I'm just really old :)
school, but I've always tried to keep magnets and computer
components away from each other.
This is what I don't understand. Why EVER sell your company? Blizzard makes money, period. Same thing with /. Why sell to VA? They lose money, and fast! I'm afraid that /. is going to go under with VA and I'm going to lose a good news source.
So what happens if Blizzard's people STOP being willing drones and say "Up yours Vivendi"?
Come on people. You just here about this thing, and your already hounding IT. Just concede that your a little disappointed, but that it's still REALLY QUITE NIFTY.
Comments like "Uh, I'ma buy me one uh them motor-ceecles instead. Hyuk, hyuk", just prove your ignorance and your willingness to add to the problem of pollution.
I for one (on a measly college student wage, no less) will purchase one as soon as I can.
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Depends on what you mean, I'll assume you mean that the major version number went up. In that case you use a really cool piece o' software called portupgrade...You run portupgrade with the package who's major number changed and it finds all packages that require it and recompiles them. It takes a while, but it's worth it.
I just did a portupgrade and png-1.2.0 the other day and it took all day to do it (Dual P3 600s), but it was worth it. I got all my fun little compiler flags in and everything fits my system like a glove.
All I really have to say here is "whoopty-friggin'-doo". I've been using XFree4.0(.1) since the day it (they) were released. Gimme a break. If you can't learn to compile, go back to the "other" OS.
Besides, you can't add -funroll-loops, -ffast-math, etc. with a deb...You'll get about a 20% speed increase if you use the right options.
PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE TROLL (see above.) :P
How many times have you gone into a LAN party, installed Windows and tried to get networking configured? It almost NEVER works.
We have to start our LAN parties at about 3:00p to get all the crap setup so that we can play by 9:00p (mind you we have BIG LAN parties, i.e. 130 people).When I installed Linux about 1.5 years ago, I still used Windows for gaming and things. When I saw Quake3 for Linux, I said "Schweet". Picked it up and got it working.
The first time I installed it, I had a prob with the Mesa libraries, but that happened only the first time, and it was sufficiently covered in FAQs.
When I showed up at the LAN party with Linux, I was nearly laughed out of the building! I toughed it out though. By the end of the night they had all changed their tune, I had been playing Q3 with the bots for about an hour before anyone got in on the game, and then only 3 or 4 people. After about 2 hours, everyone finally had there computers up and we had a decent party. The next LAN party, I helped a few people with a Linux install and we were up and running in no time.
I love Linux, and I will be a diehard Linux buff until my final breath.
Now I know how all of you OS/2 users feel. Hang in there guys, your plight reminds me of the Chicago Cubs' motto..."Maybe next year."
If you use the Win32 point release you can use the Linux version on Windows. So it really doesn't make sense to ship TWO versions. I'd like to see some hybrid CDs. I don't particularly care for Windows, and if I have to reboot just to play a game, it's irritating. UT and Q3A have shown developers what can be done with a little time and effort. I really don't mind going out and buying a Windows game and then patching it, or downloading some binaries. If the games are coded well, like Starcraft, they run well under WINE. I have to admit that Starcraft runs better under WINE than in Windows.
Developers, if your listening, give us something for Linux support.