It's a mount option -- in the case of data corruption, it's usually safer to go down instantly rather than continue. However, I don't expect anyone but the worst lunatics to set it on a FAT filesystem, especially one on an USB device.
Having the kernel crash (as opposed to a panic) due to a bug in a filesystem driver is another story. I've once discovered that a maliciously malformed filesystem can send everything into the la-la land. This is where Hurd's separation of kernel structures would be useful.
What they used, is one of the worst file systems in existence.
FAT has big granulation (even as FAT32), it doesn't scale well, long file names support is an ugly kludge, it gives very little chance for recovery if the filesystem gets corrupted, etc, etc.
Using any of existing file systems would give them a lot sturdier base than tweaking a CPM-era thing.
While breakages in unstable happen, it's still about as stable as Red Hat releases if not better. This means, you need to know how to fix things by hand, but it's in generally good shape. The maintainers hardly ever put useless/alpha software in unstable -- and in fact, even beta packages are rare and clearly marked as such.
For the "unstable to an user" version, try experimental. These packages can be dangerous and sometimes need to be rolled back by hand -- but, strangely enough, right at this moment experimental seems to be in as good shape as unstable. I've put my old broken-mobo-but-still-usually-working box to the current dist-upgrade -texperimental state and it's working just fine. Hell, it even stopped failing (it used to have hardware issues every a few hours when running unstable) -- but this may be a coincidence:p
Right... just like our feedback would have any effect. They have a very strong agenda, and they are the bad guys. The forum is supposed to give them advice about ways to enforce "intellectual property", and this means removing fair use rights, not protecting them.
Right, this means that in a period of million years the atmosphere we put on Mars will be mostly gone. And the terraforming we're talking about will take what, 100-1000 years? When the atmosphere escapes into space, we can simply repeat the process (assuming no maintenance on the way).
I assume that "triple the UV that reaches Earth" is a mistake, as that would make it close to Australia -- and somehow, judging from pesky Aussies blabbing around on/., there is no massive dying there -- but, selecting species that can survive the radiation is not that hard. We have bacteria that can survive both at temperatures of nearly +100 degrees and -60, we have bacteria that don't need oxygen, we have those who can live in a chloric atmosphere. We wouldn't even have to do any direct genetic manipulation other than simply selection.
This goes for surviving the UV. Getting water is something we are already able to do -- even if we don't have it in ready form, oxygen and hydrogen come in plentiful supplies. And for the nutrients, just take some protists with you. Heck, they most likely will be able to use the UV for photosynthesis.
Terraforming Mars is more a matter of a huge engineering project, as the technology we need is already discovered.
Too bad, there is a long way from having the DNA to recreating the species. Expression of the code depends too much on proteins that go with the cell.
It's like having the source code for Win2k, gcc (instead of MSVC and what not) and no build tools. With enough effort, you can compile it, but it's a long, arduous task, and you're unlikely to get the same end result.
It's not about moving to open platforms. It's about brandishing a stick they can show when negotiating with Microsoft. We're sure to see a silent nice fat contract pretty soon.
For the first, the corporate policy forbids IE anyway. For the second, I don't expect kernel developers or KDE guys to come from a Windows platform. And for the third, what's the point?
I see you're assuming that hackers break into computers, and the difference I'm talking about is the intent.
Wrong.
"Hacker" is a term for someone with an intimate knowledge of a certain system, and works on it with enthusiasm as opposed to grinding labour. It has nothing to do with security, and in fact, very rarely has. Hacking is about finding creative solutions -- and security is more based on being damn careful while coding and even more careful when reviewing the code.
Please, don't spread this confusion. Tabloid press and Microsoft FUD misuse this word enough.
Now, who dared to mod the parent down? It is informative:p
To combat any accusations of posting flamebait, I'm asking you what _useful_ sites use Flash? On Slashdot, the only recurring name is Homestarr Runner -- and some people, me included, don't enjoy it. This leaves Flash adverts at like 10% of webpages, and shooting them down is a good reason to keep yourself from installing Flash, or getting Flashblock if you insist on having it.
'de' stands for "out of"/"away from", 'fenester' for "window". "Defenestration" can mean both throwing something out through a window, or throwing the window itself away. It's just the former meaning that's used the most, as typically windows are firmly attached to walls, and thus hard to be thrown out.
Three years between point releases, 3.0 -> 3.1, is just much too long to wait.
There were 5 point releases since Woody. The step between Woody and Sarge is similar to those between Win95 and Win98 -- and just like products of the Evil Empire, the gap is three years.
Having a release every a couple of months is good for a desktop-only release with all the newest bells and whistles -- but for a server, I expect something that can be installed and largely forgotten.
No, Sarge should have been 4.0, but fixing that now would require too much last-minute effort. Bumping up the version number was simply forgotten, according to the relevant thread.
You don't want to ruin someone's ability to live for that period of time.
Having your driver's licence revoked is not having your ability to live ruined. The inability to drive a car is just a minor inconvenience.
I've been twice to the US, and I was shocked by the fact that someone not in a car is considered to be not a citizen. If you ask someone the way to something one street segment away, you get shown a long way around to the next parking lot, and then told the way from there -- people don't even realize you may actually be walking. Also, it seems that a driver's license is considered the only means of identification in those parts.
What US cities need is a public transit system and actual sidewalks. I am 27 and don't feel the need to own a car -- why would a programmer need one? I don't do tech support at distant customers, my workplace is 5min walk away, the train station is 8mins walk, and if I feel like having a trip to the woods, this is something that can be done with a bicycle. In Europe, we shop once-twice per day at corner shops instead of going to a supermarket once per two weeks -- this has the side effect of allowing us to eat good bread that won't survive a day instead of the sponges you buy in US shops. And, for some reason, WUI is not a crime:p
If you're a professional driver or a travelling salesman, then sure, being unable to drive would force you to learn a new occupation. But for everyone else, you simply need to realize that you rely on cars too much.
Right. This also lets the actual authors get the revenue they deserve instead of feeding the parasites. As Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary said, right after he split from KeenSpot, mere Google Adsense gave him three times that much.
Oh, and by the way, Schlock Mercenary is the best gem KeenSpot used to have -- and it's probably Howard who triggered the Black Label guys in the article.
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It's a mount option -- in the case of data corruption, it's usually safer to go down instantly rather than continue. However, I don't expect anyone but the worst lunatics to set it on a FAT filesystem, especially one on an USB device.
Having the kernel crash (as opposed to a panic) due to a bug in a filesystem driver is another story. I've once discovered that a maliciously malformed filesystem can send everything into the la-la land. This is where Hurd's separation of kernel structures would be useful.
What they used, is one of the worst file systems in existence.
FAT has big granulation (even as FAT32), it doesn't scale well, long file names support is an ugly kludge, it gives very little chance for recovery if the filesystem gets corrupted, etc, etc.
Using any of existing file systems would give them a lot sturdier base than tweaking a CPM-era thing.
While breakages in unstable happen, it's still about as stable as Red Hat releases if not better. This means, you need to know how to fix things by hand, but it's in generally good shape. The maintainers hardly ever put useless/alpha software in unstable -- and in fact, even beta packages are rare and clearly marked as such.
:p
For the "unstable to an user" version, try experimental. These packages can be dangerous and sometimes need to be rolled back by hand -- but, strangely enough, right at this moment experimental seems to be in as good shape as unstable. I've put my old broken-mobo-but-still-usually-working box to the current dist-upgrade -texperimental state and it's working just fine. Hell, it even stopped failing (it used to have hardware issues every a few hours when running unstable) -- but this may be a coincidence
Right... just like our feedback would have any effect.
They have a very strong agenda, and they are the bad guys. The forum is supposed to give them advice about ways to enforce "intellectual property", and this means removing fair use rights, not protecting them.
Right, this means that in a period of million years the atmosphere we put on Mars will be mostly gone.
And the terraforming we're talking about will take what, 100-1000 years? When the atmosphere escapes into space, we can simply repeat the process (assuming no maintenance on the way).
I assume that "triple the UV that reaches Earth" is a mistake, as that would make it close to Australia -- and somehow, judging from pesky Aussies blabbing around on /., there is no massive dying there -- but, selecting species that can survive the radiation is not that hard. We have bacteria that can survive both at temperatures of nearly +100 degrees and -60, we have bacteria that don't need oxygen, we have those who can live in a chloric atmosphere. We wouldn't even have to do any direct genetic manipulation other than simply selection.
This goes for surviving the UV. Getting water is something we are already able to do -- even if we don't have it in ready form, oxygen and hydrogen come in plentiful supplies. And for the nutrients, just take some protists with you. Heck, they most likely will be able to use the UV for photosynthesis.
Terraforming Mars is more a matter of a huge engineering project, as the technology we need is already discovered.
Too bad, there is a long way from having the DNA to recreating the species. Expression of the code depends too much on proteins that go with the cell.
It's like having the source code for Win2k, gcc (instead of MSVC and what not) and no build tools. With enough effort, you can compile it, but it's a long, arduous task, and you're unlikely to get the same end result.
"Why"? Users who can't be repeatedly milked for more and more money are useless. There is no reason to support them.
Right, that's why you get an "unrelated" person to do the actual downloading.
Unfortunately, all it takes for ??AA is having an employee or an "unrelated" person to download the file to produce the proof.
It's not about moving to open platforms. It's about brandishing a stick they can show when negotiating with Microsoft. We're sure to see a silent nice fat contract pretty soon.
The niches I can name outright include:
- corporate intrawebs
- highly-technical sites for non-MS environments
- addons.mozilla.org
For the first, the corporate policy forbids IE anyway. For the second, I don't expect kernel developers or KDE guys to come from a Windows platform. And for the third, what's the point?Please don't buy into the anecdote your freshman CS teacher told the class one day.
Hmm... is that a troll that I smell?
I see you're assuming that hackers break into computers, and the difference I'm talking about is the intent.
Wrong.
"Hacker" is a term for someone with an intimate knowledge of a certain system, and works on it with enthusiasm as opposed to grinding labour.
It has nothing to do with security, and in fact, very rarely has. Hacking is about finding creative solutions -- and security is more based on being damn careful while coding and even more careful when reviewing the code.
Please, don't spread this confusion. Tabloid press and Microsoft FUD misuse this word enough.
"Hacker culture" or "bottom-sucking cracker thieves culture"?
We have enough media confusing "hacker" and "cracker" already.
Now, who dared to mod the parent down? It is informative :p
To combat any accusations of posting flamebait, I'm asking you what _useful_ sites use Flash? On Slashdot, the only recurring name is Homestarr Runner -- and some people, me included, don't enjoy it.
This leaves Flash adverts at like 10% of webpages, and shooting them down is a good reason to keep yourself from installing Flash, or getting Flashblock if you insist on having it.
Or, just use a car that doesn't have its breaks easily accessible to every outsider.
"Our computer" (old "My computer")
"Collective" (old "Network neighbourhood")
"Contact with the masses" (old "Internet" -> MSIE)
Toss in a red-and-yellow UI theme, a sicle&hammer icon and the Internationale playing in the background...
Just follow that word's ethymologic.
'de' stands for "out of"/"away from", 'fenester' for "window".
"Defenestration" can mean both throwing something out through a window, or throwing the window itself away. It's just the former meaning that's used the most, as typically windows are firmly attached to walls, and thus hard to be thrown out.
Compare with detangle or debone.
What, did you expect that a mere asteroid can be a bigger disaster than us? Hah!
Three years between point releases, 3.0 -> 3.1, is just much too long to wait.
There were 5 point releases since Woody.
The step between Woody and Sarge is similar to those between Win95 and Win98 -- and just like products of the Evil Empire, the gap is three years.
Having a release every a couple of months is good for a desktop-only release with all the newest bells and whistles -- but for a server, I expect something that can be installed and largely forgotten.
No, Sarge should have been 4.0, but fixing that now would require too much last-minute effort. Bumping up the version number was simply forgotten, according to the relevant thread.
You don't want to ruin someone's ability to live for that period of time.
:p
Having your driver's licence revoked is not having your ability to live ruined. The inability to drive a car is just a minor inconvenience.
I've been twice to the US, and I was shocked by the fact that someone not in a car is considered to be not a citizen. If you ask someone the way to something one street segment away, you get shown a long way around to the next parking lot, and then told the way from there -- people don't even realize you may actually be walking. Also, it seems that a driver's license is considered the only means of identification in those parts.
What US cities need is a public transit system and actual sidewalks. I am 27 and don't feel the need to own a car -- why would a programmer need one? I don't do tech support at distant customers, my workplace is 5min walk away, the train station is 8mins walk, and if I feel like having a trip to the woods, this is something that can be done with a bicycle. In Europe, we shop once-twice per day at corner shops instead of going to a supermarket once per two weeks -- this has the side effect of allowing us to eat good bread that won't survive a day instead of the sponges you buy in US shops.
And, for some reason, WUI is not a crime
If you're a professional driver or a travelling salesman, then sure, being unable to drive would force you to learn a new occupation. But for everyone else, you simply need to realize that you rely on cars too much.
Right. This also lets the actual authors get the revenue they deserve instead of feeding the parasites. As Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary said, right after he split from KeenSpot, mere Google Adsense gave him three times that much.
Oh, and by the way, Schlock Mercenary is the best gem KeenSpot used to have -- and it's probably Howard who triggered the Black Label guys in the article.