WTF is this? This might be the silliest and most stupid slashdot post ever.
Not only is it total non-sence made by a 4 year old kid, but it's also not news. Also, it has nothing to 'report'. It's like saying 'My cat is fluffy, and the earth is round!'...
Another prime example of the messed up state that the US is in currently.
Should one cry or weep over these sort of things?
I suppose the bottom line is that it is sad the length you guys have to go to protect yourself from Random and Non-Specific Evil People (TM) lurking in every possible corner of your country. Be they real or imaginative!;)
In Norway little old ladies CAN actually walk in dark allies with $1000 in their purse. And little children would be able to relatively safely take candy from strangers. Our reality, your utopia?
But then again, if your people were as safe as us, you might start thinking about actually important stuff when you wouldn't have to spend 95% of your time worrying. Like, reading the fiscal budget, reading non-biased and intelligent news, thinking before you elect your representatives, and possibly even pondering if iris scanning at schools really are such a neat idea!
Not trolling here, just making a point about how the rest of the world sees your self-induced state of utter paranoia...
Officially it means: "Private Branch Exchange (private telephone switchboard)"
In reality it is a switchboard placed inside your house or office commonly. You know, "press 1 for an outbound line" sort of thing!
It's like a router with a NAT... Only for telephones not the internet...
As China refuses to let go off Taiwan, it is still (at least politically) owned by China.
So, they could just roll out Red Flag Linux real quick!
Screw the capitalists/monopolists/satanic-worshippers/anti-c hrists/[insert random irrational stereotypical offensive word here] at Microsoft and get some real bad-assed red commie powers!
Has anyone else noticed how it used to be NY times who got linked by slashdot twice a week, but now it seems to be space.com that's shelled out for an exclusive slashdot linkage?:p
Perhaps next month slashdot will have exciting news about every new bangbus.com video... Or follow closely the movements of the latest additions to russianladies.com?
God knows...:/
I'd whole heartedly reccommend http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streami ng/.
It's free, and public source, and seriously enterprise ready! I will even stream MPEG4/2/1 streams, and Quicktime player(among others) have recently added support for MPEG streams.
It's a killer application, with no real match...:D
The only imaginable way to get petabyte on commodity hardware that I can think of is to build a seriously huge Beowulf cluster. But putting a singular FS on about ~500 seperate computers in a cluster is rather madness...
Take the good advice many fellow slashdotters has made, do NOT use a singular filesystem that spans 1 PetaByte or more...
Here in Norway, I've just upgraded my 4Mbps ADSL connection to 25Mbps ADSL2+.
25Mbps costs about $40/m here in Norway. And you can get 10Mbps for $30/m now...
>;)
Then again, in sweden you can get 100Mbps for $40/m...... Darn swedes!
Microsoft released something with sources...
Quick! Someone brutally abuse their trust by ripping off the design and idea. Release a fully (and better) working Linux VirtualWiFi driver by tomorrow!
Open Source lisences like the GPL are essential to keep it from being overly commersial and propetary.
Also, stop whining about Linux not conquering the desktop market. Its such a lame thing to expect. Linux is in the very nature more powerful, customizable and directed to towards a technical audience. That's its strong point! We don't want a playmobile OS to power the largest and most essential data cluster and connections point of the modern world do we?
Linux/BSD excells in networking, clustering, and large scale deployment... Lets keep it that way shall we?
Some one would have to refactorize Linux into an operative system without a networked X-server system on top of a command line, and make it truly pretty with colourful round boxes if you'd want it to indeed take over the desktop market.
95% of the PC users are 40-50 y.o. dads and moms playing Solitair and reading cnn.com. Wake up folks.
Use Linux/BSD for what its meant to be used for, and what no other OS can match it at!
NB: Not flamebaiting here, as I do enjoy using Ubuntu Linux for my desktop, but I also consider my geekdom to be way above the average PC user!
In 5 years google will have finished development of Web 3.0 with all its wonders, and perhaps SUN gets along for the ride as well.
In 7 years a near-bankrupt Microsoft and SCO will file anti-trust lawsuits against Google/SUN for monopolizing the collected information of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun.
Microsoft wins round one, but then IBM suddenly appears and sues both Microsoft and SCO for IP theft, and IBM wins.
Google/SUN/IBM will win, and Gates/McBride will cry...
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Heated styrofoam! The humanity! :o
WTF is this? This might be the silliest and most stupid slashdot post ever.
Not only is it total non-sence made by a 4 year old kid, but it's also not news. Also, it has nothing to 'report'. It's like saying 'My cat is fluffy, and the earth is round!'...
I'm so gonna sue Id Software for not letting me know about the NOCLIP cheat in Quake 1!
An act of rampant homosexuality and/or zealous religious non-sense! ;o
Another prime example of the messed up state that the US is in currently.
;)
Should one cry or weep over these sort of things?
I suppose the bottom line is that it is sad the length you guys have to go to protect yourself from Random and Non-Specific Evil People (TM) lurking in every possible corner of your country. Be they real or imaginative!
In Norway little old ladies CAN actually walk in dark allies with $1000 in their purse. And little children would be able to relatively safely take candy from strangers. Our reality, your utopia?
But then again, if your people were as safe as us, you might start thinking about actually important stuff when you wouldn't have to spend 95% of your time worrying. Like, reading the fiscal budget, reading non-biased and intelligent news, thinking before you elect your representatives, and possibly even pondering if iris scanning at schools really are such a neat idea!
Not trolling here, just making a point about how the rest of the world sees your self-induced state of utter paranoia...
Argh, you beat me to being the first comment posted from Mini! :/
Managed to get the exact same timestamp as you though...
The million-year-old ice digs up YOU!
...fear the ice, I tell ya!
Officially it means: "Private Branch Exchange (private telephone switchboard)" In reality it is a switchboard placed inside your house or office commonly. You know, "press 1 for an outbound line" sort of thing!
It's like a router with a NAT... Only for telephones not the internet...
Is it just me, or did slashdot suddenly turn slow after this feature was introduced today?
:'(
Perhaps its just the fact that a million users wants to fiddle with the new Sections bar at once? Or does it somehow put extra load on the servers?
As China refuses to let go off Taiwan, it is still (at least politically) owned by China.c hrists/[insert random irrational stereotypical offensive word here] at Microsoft and get some real bad-assed red commie powers!
So, they could just roll out Red Flag Linux real quick!
Screw the capitalists/monopolists/satanic-worshippers/anti-
Meine Mutter ist ein Hund, und ich mag Suppe an Sonntag essen!
Min mor er en hund, og jeg liker å spise suppe på søndager!
See?
German != Norwegian.
Germany != Norway.
If further is desired, please study a map of Europe...
Has anyone else noticed how it used to be NY times who got linked by slashdot twice a week, but now it seems to be space.com that's shelled out for an exclusive slashdot linkage? :p
:/
Perhaps next month slashdot will have exciting news about every new bangbus.com video... Or follow closely the movements of the latest additions to russianladies.com?
God knows...
Microsoft pwned this guy :/
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm :)
See article 19, and then go back to being geeks
Case closed, its as easy as that...
w00t, I read a comment somewhere about the new FreeBSD logo looking like kirby(the nintendo blob thing which swallow air).
:D
You can all judge by this gif animation I made , I feel its a damn good match.
Short skirts... *drool* Coincidentally, Buffy/Xena/et al wears short skirts as well...
I'd whole heartedly reccommend http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streami ng/.
It's free, and public source, and seriously enterprise ready! I will even stream MPEG4/2/1 streams, and Quicktime player(among others) have recently added support for MPEG streams.
It's a killer application, with no real match... :D
That's one really frikkin long post! I stopped reading after the third paragraph :/
Sure, it quite possibly *can* be done. In the same way that you could theoretically build a spaceshuttle from a T-Ford and lots of old spraycans!p 12000/index.html or even http://www.sun.com/storage/highend/9990/index.xml.
When you're aiming for extreme solutions, you have to use quite extreme components. Think http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/ http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/x
The only imaginable way to get petabyte on commodity hardware that I can think of is to build a seriously huge Beowulf cluster. But putting a singular FS on about ~500 seperate computers in a cluster is rather madness...
Take the good advice many fellow slashdotters has made, do NOT use a singular filesystem that spans 1 PetaByte or more...
Here in Norway, I've just upgraded my 4Mbps ADSL connection to 25Mbps ADSL2+.
25Mbps costs about $40/m here in Norway. And you can get 10Mbps for $30/m now...
>;)
Then again, in sweden you can get 100Mbps for $40/m...... Darn swedes!
Microsoft released something with sources...
Quick! Someone brutally abuse their trust by ripping off the design and idea. Release a fully (and better) working Linux VirtualWiFi driver by tomorrow!
Hack evil minions! Hack hack hack!!!
From the obviously-ancient-topnews section;
Bush gets reelected as President for his second term!
Giant-Tsunami hits the Pacific Ocean!
Time Warner aquires AOL Online!
Yes, but its also very late here... ;)
Open Source lisences like the GPL are essential to keep it from being overly commersial and propetary.
Also, stop whining about Linux not conquering the desktop market. Its such a lame thing to expect. Linux is in the very nature more powerful, customizable and directed to towards a technical audience. That's its strong point! We don't want a playmobile OS to power the largest and most essential data cluster and connections point of the modern world do we? Linux/BSD excells in networking, clustering, and large scale deployment... Lets keep it that way shall we?
Some one would have to refactorize Linux into an operative system without a networked X-server system on top of a command line, and make it truly pretty with colourful round boxes if you'd want it to indeed take over the desktop market. 95% of the PC users are 40-50 y.o. dads and moms playing Solitair and reading cnn.com. Wake up folks.
Use Linux/BSD for what its meant to be used for, and what no other OS can match it at!
NB: Not flamebaiting here, as I do enjoy using Ubuntu Linux for my desktop, but I also consider my geekdom to be way above the average PC user!
In 5 years google will have finished development of Web 3.0 with all its wonders, and perhaps SUN gets along for the ride as well.
In 7 years a near-bankrupt Microsoft and SCO will file anti-trust lawsuits against Google/SUN for monopolizing the collected information of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun.
Microsoft wins round one, but then IBM suddenly appears and sues both Microsoft and SCO for IP theft, and IBM wins.
Google/SUN/IBM will win, and Gates/McBride will cry...