You're aware that open-sourcing means the cruft will be removed within an hour of them releasing the software, right? Thus, no distro that doesn't have explicit licensing deals with Real to keep the cruft will have any popups.
We definately should get rid of NumLock and act like it is ON at all times!
Then why do we have a separate set of numeric keys in a better accesible place then? (Better accessible for a programmer, not for someone who inputs only numbers.)
While we're at it, can we get rid of NUM LOCK too? At least on normal 100+ key keyboards.
It should be on, not only by default, but all the time.
Now, are you fucking[1] out of your mind? Any system that has NumLock on by default is broken. Heck, any system that allows to turn NumLock on in the first place is broken.
Why the hell would I want to have two separate ways to type numbers? On the other hand, many programs use the normal arrows and the gray new-fangled[2] ones for separate functions.
[1]. Yeah, I'm riled up, but heretics have this effect on me. Now you'll start to claim that emacs or vi are usable or something. [2]. Well, perhaps not that new these days, but still, they were not there when I learned how to use a keyboard.
Only objects orbiting a star would be called planets. Charon doesn't orbit Pluto, they both orbit a point between them. In contrast, the Earth-Moon-system's center of gravity is inside Earth.
And the "planets" we know don't orbit a star, too. They orbit a point that lies between the star and a gas giant planet. The rest of is around 2/5 of Jupiter's mass, so it doesn't count that much.
This way, there are 0 planets in the Solar System according to your definition.
The whole difference between a "planet" and a "moon" is a fallacy. It assumes things can orbit only a physical object, and not an immaterial object like a center of mass. The "official" definition fails not only in the obvious Pluton-Charon case, but even for Sun-Jupiter (putting the smaller bodies aside for now). We orbit not the Sun, but the center of mass of the Solar system, which is actually outside the Sun itself.
Thus, with the difference between "planets" and "moons" away, the classification that matters is: * pieces of rock (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Phobos, Deimos, Europa,...) * sub-stellar balls of gas (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus) * pieces of dirty ice
And to make it even harder, there is absolutely no reasonable boundary between "almost big enough to fuse" and "one particle". The difference between a "pebble" and a "boulder" isn't tangible.
...game developer has ideas for games he'd like to develop! Film at 11....actually, considering the general state of the video game industry in recent years, maybe this is news after all.
I challenge you: name any recent game that is worth playing.
The game I played last: Super Mario Bros 3 (due to the recent/. poll). The game before: Master of Orion 2. The game before: Nethack. Oh, and that reaches the beginning of this year.
Generally, the game industry is getting as low as mainstream music these days.
I've seen a similar view. I've been to IOI'96 -- a guy from the Iranian team actually defended the censorship, claiming they have only a single 56k link (as of 1996) for the whole country on purpose! For them, faulty software/network has its benefits as it pulls people away from the "American way of life".
I downloaded the corpus, and indeed, you're right -- it's 10^8 bytes. The article is incorrect, it says 100M where it means 95.3M.
This inconsistency doesn't have any effect on the challenge, though -- that 50kEUR[1] is offered for compressing the given data corpus, not for compressing a string of 100MB.
[1] 1kEUR=1000EUR. 1M EUR=1000000EUR. 1KB=1024B. 1MB=1048576B. And by the way, what about fixing Slash to finally allow Unicode -- either natively or at least as HTML entities?
you can remove further packages if you desire, but third party programs (eg: Oracle) assume you have at least the minimal install
Er, wait, are we talking about Windows or some such? Don't tell me that the dependency system will let you remove packages that something depends on. If Oracle's RPMs don't have the correct dependencies specified, I wouldn't let them even near a toy system then.
Just try running configure or most similar shell scripts over NFS over network. The difference is about 100-fold.
It's not purely about speed, though. I do scp even among Xen domains inside the same physical machine. It's more about security separation.
Your post makes me want to hurt you. Badly.
If I pwn one of your boxes and want to hurt you, I'll be able to delete all your files in one go. To hurt me, you would have to pwn every machine on its own. There's no NIS, too, so to get the credentials you would have to rootkit my desktop and wait until I log onto the target VM -- this is the most vulnerable point as I don't log on from one VM to another. Pwning dom0 is not trivial, too -- I admit, it runs two services (ntpd because of Xen's limitations and sshd reachable from internal machines), but neither is an easy attack path.
Network filesystems are SLOW. When I want to copy a file over, I just scp it. In those rare cases when mounting something remotely would be beneficial, sshfs (a fuse plugin) works just fine on an ad-hoc basis.
And actually, the brunt of file copying I did recently was over subversion:p
Um, considering that in VM situations, most of that 1.2G can be in a shared read-only partition (or an LVM2 RW snapshot), and that modern hard drives are quite large, I respectfully disagree.
And what if you want to add a package to only one of the VMs?
I put things into separate Xen domains nearly only for security. Having potentially vulnerable crap like php or python on only a single VM means that only that single VM will be endangered when a new hole is discovered. And when you don't have even things like wget installed, most attackers who pwn you will move to an easier target. Not to mention that I would want to see the face of that script kiddie once he notices the box has only IPv6 connectivity:p
Well, Red Hat is right in some point: indeed, Xen won't work well with Red Hat systems.
But, no one said it's Xen's fault. It's just the fact that cramming ten virtual machines into a single system is not a good idea when the minimal install is 1.2GB like with Red Hat's latest offerings, crawling with memory-hungry daemons. I keep whining on Debian's mailing lists about unneeded cruft like inetd or portmap in the default system, as IMHO 100MB is way too bloated. And 100MB, is, well, a bit less than 1.2GB.
(Disclaimer: the figure of 1.2GB is something I vaguely remember reading about on/., I haven't touched Red Hat in >3 years. But if at the time it was the mother of all bloat, I doubt the situation has changed.)
There is a similar case with Oracle. The default minimal install takes 800MB _RAM_ for a single instance, experienced DBAs claim you can go down as low as 300MB. MySQL is functional in 32MB, and shines in 64MB -- more memory is needed only if the dataset is big. For 34 databases on my old non-partitioned server there is only one over 100MB and three over 10MB -- I guess this is the typical distribution.
Neither Red Hat nor Oracle are capable of scaling down; Xen is worthless if you can't trim down your virtual machines.
Yeah, but for this action to succeed, you need just a single department.
I'm not claiming that this particular plot was staged; but we have seen way too many similar plots in Russia and Poland to not suspect foul play. Most were done with skill -- but if you want a totally obvious example of a half-assed job, what about the gas pipeline from Russia to Georgia that got blown up this winter?
I'm not saying that this case was fake, but had I been in the UK government, I would just gather up a bunch of random folks with arabic background. The current gov absolutely needs a success story like this to stay afloat. Already way too much people realize that the fearmongering is not aimed at making citizens safe.
You can call that evil, but it's already well known that the government is evil and has no qualms against lying to the voters. And, like with falsifying creationism, there is no way to be certain the plot was genuine -- at most, you can prove a given plot was staged up. In this case, I would rather believe the conspiracy theorists -- no sane intelligence agency would wait until the terrorists are about to board the planes.
Upgrading to version 1.1.5 is extremely urgent. [...] The rails team has decided to wait a short time before disclosure so that people can have a chance to upgrade their servers before would-be-assailants are armed."
Well, well. I'm not that afraid of kiddies who lack the clue to run diff.
Let me abuse Slashdot's pagerank 9 web space to advertise aaron@angband.pl, zeke@angband.pl (for spammers with a reverse collating order), sales@angband.pl and so on.
It's a good idea. And for mailing lists with public archives, including your traps in the headers and/or.sig will let you get a better spread.
Blocking cookies breaks too many websites. Making them last only for a session is probably what you want.
I personally use "ask me every time" together with saving the answer -- it can be a bit annoying whenever I visit something with plenty of 3rd party shitvertisements/tracking, but this way you can have both your Slashdot/etc preferences saved and privacy everywhere else.
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You're aware that open-sourcing means the cruft will be removed within an hour of them releasing the software, right? Thus, no distro that doesn't have explicit licensing deals with Real to keep the cruft will have any popups.
Why the hell would I want to have two separate ways to type numbers?
On the other hand, many programs use the normal arrows and the gray new-fangled[2] ones for separate functions.
[1]. Yeah, I'm riled up, but heretics have this effect on me. Now you'll start to claim that emacs or vi are usable or something.
[2]. Well, perhaps not that new these days, but still, they were not there when I learned how to use a keyboard.
This way, there are 0 planets in the Solar System according to your definition.
The whole difference between a "planet" and a "moon" is a fallacy. It assumes things can orbit only a physical object, and not an immaterial object like a center of mass. The "official" definition fails not only in the obvious Pluton-Charon case, but even for Sun-Jupiter (putting the smaller bodies aside for now). We orbit not the Sun, but the center of mass of the Solar system, which is actually outside the Sun itself.
...)
Thus, with the difference between "planets" and "moons" away, the classification that matters is:
* pieces of rock (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Phobos, Deimos, Europa,
* sub-stellar balls of gas (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus)
* pieces of dirty ice
And to make it even harder, there is absolutely no reasonable boundary between "almost big enough to fuse" and "one particle". The difference between a "pebble" and a "boulder" isn't tangible.
The game I played last: Super Mario Bros 3 (due to the recent
Generally, the game industry is getting as low as mainstream music these days.
I've seen a similar view. I've been to IOI'96 -- a guy from the Iranian team actually defended the censorship, claiming they have only a single 56k link (as of 1996) for the whole country on purpose! For them, faulty software/network has its benefits as it pulls people away from the "American way of life".
This inconsistency doesn't have any effect on the challenge, though -- that 50kEUR[1] is offered for compressing the given data corpus, not for compressing a string of 100MB.
[1] 1kEUR=1000EUR. 1M EUR=1000000EUR. 1KB=1024B. 1MB=1048576B.
And by the way, what about fixing Slash to finally allow Unicode -- either natively or at least as HTML entities?
Compared to 104857600, you at least got some compression.
In hosts, you can't have wildcards. In bind, you can. So... (hint, hint)?
It's not purely about speed, though. I do scp even among Xen domains inside the same physical machine. It's more about security separation.
If I pwn one of your boxes and want to hurt you, I'll be able to delete all your files in one go. To hurt me, you would have to pwn every machine on its own. There's no NIS, too, so to get the credentials you would have to rootkit my desktop and wait until I log onto the target VM -- this is the most vulnerable point as I don't log on from one VM to another. Pwning dom0 is not trivial, too -- I admit, it runs two services (ntpd because of Xen's limitations and sshd reachable from internal machines), but neither is an easy attack path.Network filesystems are SLOW. When I want to copy a file over, I just scp it. In those rare cases when mounting something remotely would be beneficial, sshfs (a fuse plugin) works just fine on an ad-hoc basis.
:p
And actually, the brunt of file copying I did recently was over subversion
And even if you insist, X was _designed_ to be accessed remotely. No need to use VNC -- it would just destroy window integration.
I put things into separate Xen domains nearly only for security. Having potentially vulnerable crap like php or python on only a single VM means that only that single VM will be endangered when a new hole is discovered. And when you don't have even things like wget installed, most attackers who pwn you will move to an easier target. Not to mention that I would want to see the face of that script kiddie once he notices the box has only IPv6 connectivity :p
Well, Red Hat is right in some point: indeed, Xen won't work well with Red Hat systems.
/., I haven't touched Red Hat in >3 years. But if at the time it was the mother of all bloat, I doubt the situation has changed.)
But, no one said it's Xen's fault. It's just the fact that cramming ten virtual machines into a single system is not a good idea when the minimal install is 1.2GB like with Red Hat's latest offerings, crawling with memory-hungry daemons. I keep whining on Debian's mailing lists about unneeded cruft like inetd or portmap in the default system, as IMHO 100MB is way too bloated. And 100MB, is, well, a bit less than 1.2GB.
(Disclaimer: the figure of 1.2GB is something I vaguely remember reading about on
There is a similar case with Oracle. The default minimal install takes 800MB _RAM_ for a single instance, experienced DBAs claim you can go down as low as 300MB. MySQL is functional in 32MB, and shines in 64MB -- more memory is needed only if the dataset is big. For 34 databases on my old non-partitioned server there is only one over 100MB and three over 10MB -- I guess this is the typical distribution.
Neither Red Hat nor Oracle are capable of scaling down; Xen is worthless if you can't trim down your virtual machines.
Too bad, the US federal law doesn't have any provisions against SLAPPs.
Yeah, but for this action to succeed, you need just a single department.
I'm not claiming that this particular plot was staged; but we have seen way too many similar plots in Russia and Poland to not suspect foul play. Most were done with skill -- but if you want a totally obvious example of a half-assed job, what about the gas pipeline from Russia to Georgia that got blown up this winter?
I'm not saying that this case was fake, but had I been in the UK government, I would just gather up a bunch of random folks with arabic background. The current gov absolutely needs a success story like this to stay afloat. Already way too much people realize that the fearmongering is not aimed at making citizens safe.
You can call that evil, but it's already well known that the government is evil and has no qualms against lying to the voters. And, like with falsifying creationism, there is no way to be certain the plot was genuine -- at most, you can prove a given plot was staged up. In this case, I would rather believe the conspiracy theorists -- no sane intelligence agency would wait until the terrorists are about to board the planes.
It's a good idea. And for mailing lists with public archives, including your traps in the headers and/or
Blocking cookies breaks too many websites. Making them last only for a session is probably what you want.
I personally use "ask me every time" together with saving the answer -- it can be a bit annoying whenever I visit something with plenty of 3rd party shitvertisements/tracking, but this way you can have both your Slashdot/etc preferences saved and privacy everywhere else.
But at least it looks like my code isn't the only place invaded by quote-abducting aliens.
There's a bit of difference in hardness between obsidian and, even impure, diamond.