Did you ever ponder as to why I go to community college you niglet? Thanks to affirmative action I was fucked over more than you ever will be. I was one of those gifted students since 1st grade, I had gone all the way to 10th grade with straight A's, AP classes and all. Ashame but I was 20 points short when I took my SATs in 7th grade to go to Duke University. Anyways, when I moved schools they didn't offer gifted classes so I was crammed into those retarded "honors" classes. I became bored and stopped doing the classwork/homework but I never got lower than 94 on any test (finals included). I began to rage against the school. Who was there to greet me but a Dean of Students who didn't know where Kosovo is. Amazing huh? Or this one nouveaux riche nigger who thought it was innappropriate to have any disdain to "his" teachers. Thats just touching their ignorance. Eventually I befriended one of the assistant principals who felt great pity for my plight. She told me about my former guidance counselor. He was a spanish guy who was hired only because he spoke spanish! Now you should note that all of the other guidance counselors had at least 15 years teaching experience. He got it simply because he was spanish. Now then, he didn't add any of his students' grades properly, a full audit had to be done for students who's last names fell victim to him. Now to take the cake, when this new school dropped funding for gifted education they offered to send all of the students to the University of Central Florida free of charge and so long as they passed their classes there, they would given their HS diploma.
So where is this whole sympathetic feeling for those "less fortunate" than others? I don't see you whiny GNU losers commending community colleges. No, you're more elitist than the CFR. Yeah I know the place sucks but I made 70,000+ last year. Not too shabby for one year out of HS.
Yeah, I have an ID and yeah its still in the 5 digit range. So suck on that.
Hahaha, you make me laugh. It is rather obvious you are a conformist rebel. One of those trendy drones who love to attack capitalism.
In the software company store, I may still have the item, but I lost out on the possible services and the fab costs when you pirated my software. That is what my company runs on, not the physical product itself. You are obfuscating the two. If my company/software can do XYZ exponentially better than anyone else I should be rewarded, at least monetarily. You've been fed and swallowed the conformist rebel convential wisdom. Try thinking for yourself. I bet you're also one of those sheeple who defended napster.
You don't even have the balls on something as lame as/. to post normally. You are weak and worthless.
The teacher used Office because the whole world "voluntarily" uses Office, so he had to use it too.
FYI, OpenOffice can open/save in a multitude of MS Office formats. So no, he didn't have to use MS Office. Duh.
Did Microsoft get harmed? No. Licenses be damned, the richest corporation around decided to "punish" a teacher for no harm to itself.
Yes, Microsoft was harmed. So you think shoplifting is a victimless crime? It's funny how often red herring is used on here, like the whinny pinko who drew that this is akin to someone with AIDS in Africa. Yeah right.
The veteran Philadelphia computer teacher (who asked that his name be changed) never expected to be punished. He didn't even think what he'd done was wrong.
So he is a veteran computer teacher and he didn't know he was violating the EULA? He knew damn he was breaking the terms of the license but he installed it but it was for convenience's sake. By that kind of logic I'm not breaking the law when I run a red light when no one else is around. It's no different. I didn't think there was a cop around but suddenly my ass got busted.
"It was a minor violation," he says. "We use AppleWorks for word processing but I put Office on their computers because they couldn't read the Microsoft Word attachments they kept getting from the district's central office. It was easy to do, and it made sense since our schools are in dire financial straits."
This "veteran" computer teacher could have easily gone to Google and looked for a word processor. "Oh Wow, this OpenOffice looks good and its free!" If he doesn't like Microsoft's licensing games for Office then he isn't forced install it. He has choices.
Don't get me wrong now, I'm not defending Microsoft's products/practices but rather attacking this guys poor judgement call and general lack of A Clue. The real problem is that computer education (in high schools, DeVRY, ITT, community colleges) isn't computer education at all. It's a series of classes telling you how to use various Microsoft products - rather like booking a course in automobile mechanics and find yourself being taught how to drive a particular model of car.
No clue. Those GNU operating systems don't have good documentation. It may or may not, these days, but since they don't document it very well, (an artifact of not having any historical
perspective, which has evolved out of their lack of source code control), it's not worth it for me to go digging in their archives for what they've been doing since last Tuesday.
But after a quick glance it appears to be Darwin+GNU bits+FreeBSD Ports.
p.s. Why is he calling this version of Darwin "GNU-Darwin"? Is this a GNU project? Does he think that Darwin is really the GNU System?
Check out http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/. It's Darwin plus all the GNU stuff. They initially had problems getting applications so they decided to include FreeBSD's ports tree. It has worked wonderfully for them.
Seriously -- practices like this are becoming far too acceptable by the general public. Why? Does it start at home? Are we as a society raising drones who refuse to question authority or take an active role in something as running this city/county/country (i.e. voting)?
They are becoming all too common because of the media. Most people are pacifists by nature, they'll avoid confrontation at all costs. CNN(insert favorite govertainment channel here) will call something like the Million Mom March "groundbreaking" but will insert another adjective like "contraversial" in front of the Guns Owners of America. The sheeple automatically are drawn to a don't-rock-the-boat mentality.
Why do you think people accept drug tests being part of job interviews? If my employer can prove that my being a coke addict directly affects my job performance fine. But it's an invasion of privacy to see if I am indeed a coke addict. People are drawn to it because some Demopublican will mask it about being for the children.
It's very similar to what that idiot Steve Gibson is doing. Cnet, ZDnet, whatever-pc-magazine prints his half-baked theories about UNIX sockets in XP. Just having UNIX sockets isn't necessarily a bad thing, its in how they're used obviously. They follow his words since he has a flare for the dramatic and sounds very clueful to the average AOL user. UNIX sockets don't spoof packets, script-kiddies spoof packets. Look at those kennedy elitists: all of my unregistered handguns have kill less people than kennedy cars and golf clubs combined.
I've noticed a recent trend towards trashing FreeBSD's SMP because of "the giant spinlock." What people don't realize is that one large spinlock can be a viable method of locking for the purposes of threading (that is, multiprocessing). It would seem that someone who has a moderate clue about threading and writing SMP-capable operating systems has commented on this, and feels it's bogus, and one or more of the general breed of "BSD is ubersux" trolls has gotten a hold of this and thinks it's the ultimate death knell for FreeBSD/smp. Obviously, you don't really know much about locking at all. It should at least be pointed out that no matter how many locks you have, it is more important to keep the system OUT of a locked state as much as possible, and FreeBSD does this well enough. It's not as if the system is constantly locked and able to use only one CPU. Most processing occurs in userland, far away from kernel locks, so it doesn't tend to matter all that much. Now, granted, using one spinlock isn't necessarily the best way to do things, at least not in an OS. However, it's not the worst either. Combined with the fact that it allowed fairly rapid updating and deployment of FreeBSD/SMP, I think the choice to use that 'giant spinlock' was valid. It allowed SMP code that by all accounts worked better at least than the 2.0 Linux kernel's (if not 2.2 as well) to be deployed until a better solution could be created.
A better solution will be deployed in FreeBSD 5.0 with the introduction of SMPng. I do not doubt that the 2.4 Linux kernel does a better job at SMP than FreeBSD (release/stable) does, but I think it's worth noting that Linux's SMP has been now five or six years in the making to get to this point, and that the Linux and FreeBSD development and advancement models are significantly different. Where Linux takes gradual steps, FreeBSD (and BSDs in general) tend to take large leaps. That's just a difference in implementation timing. Furthermore, it's perfectly reasonable to expect two open-source systems to leapfrog each other in terms of capability as ideas and code move from one to the other, and it's really not something to gloat over. What one does better today, the other will do better tomorrow. It doesn't really matter. To those of you babbling on and on about 'the giant spinlock', you might want to go do some research into the theory, and practice, of implementing locks in threaded systems. Until then, shut up, please.
The reasoning behind I/O completion ports is that it permits you to do something on completion of I/O, such as initiate yet another I/O (a "feedme" signal that is delivered reliably as an event, unlike a UNIX signal, which is merely a persistant
condition).
You seem to leave out all the statistics about molestation that come from drug infested families. The kids who were molested usually grow up to molest their own children. The kids who grew up in these pee-pee stained heck holes often commit violent crimes when they get older as well.
The Chinese saw the evils of drugs (remember the Boxer Rebellion?) and faught the British who were forcing opium on them.
I felt the drug war is an excellent example of why the western world is not free, or based in liberty
We have freedom (albeit not much since we're being disarmed) but I don't have the right to go and rape. I might feel great for a moment as my thighs quiver while I penetrate that really hot cheerleader but it hurts society more than it helps me.
Just because you don't like churches doesn't mean everything they've done is evil. You don't have to toss the baby out with the bathwater. That kind of logic is popular with Demopublicans. Show some logic instead of sophistry.
In FreeBSD-CURRENT, background fscks are now a reality (with softupdates). That means that there's really no fsck on boot, but rather a background process that maintains consistency using idle cycles. And if it gets interrupted, that doesn't matter either, because it'll just pick up where it left off as its changes are bound by softupdates as well. Isn't that neat?
Yeah, and we all know that globalization and the UN are really good things. I don't agree in giving a foreign consortium of criminals sovreignty over my entire justice system.
Initially the US government didn't have parties. The Founding Fathers saw the evils in it and strongly urged people to stay away from it but they couldn't outright ban political parties. Go and read some stuff by Jefferson, Madison and Washington.
But here's the thing about our Constitutional Republic; the government is designed to not have a leader. Three branches all having equal (supposedly) power was the architecture.
This whole "fearless leader" bit is just out of the worship exalted by the elitist media (NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN).
He doesn't seem to be as mentally broken as the man he advises.
Ok Bush may be stupid, he flunked out of college once. But I never see you bash Al Gump who flunked out of college twice.
You're just another one of those conformist rebels who love to hate capitalism yet love the life it is providing you. You hate capitalists but love capital.
Not a problem. How about one of his involvements in selling the presidency to business?
Or how about one of him and Herr Reno covering up federal racketeering charges against Fuhr Clinton.
What about when he was a huge proponent of Carnivore and how he urged Congress to further wiretapping legislation? I wish I could find a URL for it though, specifically of him at the National Press Club. Stop being a CommiCrat and show some coherency.
The story starts in 1992 when AT&T developed secure telephones untappable by the federal government. The company planned to make them available to the American public. Instead, the Clinton administration interceded and bought up all the phones with a secret slush fund. The plan also involved refitting the phones with a new chip called "Clipper," which would permit the government to tap the phones easily once they found their way back into the hands of American consumers.
By 1994, White House aide John Podesta had been called into the inner circle of the Clipper project. Meanwhile, Podesta's brother, Tony, a lobbyist and fund-raiser was representing AT&T. His donors and clients, including AT&T, were invited to participate in trade trips to China and obtain valuable export deals with Beijing. Only a year earlier, John Podesta had signed a legal statement promising not to engage in any conflicts of interest involving his brother.
Yet it is not so great that FreeBSD will replace it with BSDi's SMP code.
No code is being replaced. They're not merging the BSD/OS 5.0 experimental kernel at all; SMPng is based off of some of the design concepts in it.
If FreeBDS 5.0 really does get an "entirely overhauled SMP structure" in six months, then it will be just that: immature code that's only been around a few months.
*BSD tests it first before releasing it. It makes more sense then to throw it to the public. When was the last time a *BSD had an ontime release?
If FreeBSD's TCP/IP is so kewl, then why doesn't anyone submit SPECweb benchmarks using FreeBSD for the 1 CPU category? Linux wipes the floor with Solaris, AIX, Tru64, and Windows 2000.
It's not Linux thats wiping the floor, its TUX; the tiny in-kernel httpd that is designed for TRIVIAL matters. Putting the daemon inkernel is a glaring risk. It doesn't match the completeness of other userland servers like Apache.
The future, IMHO, is a log structured file system with NO journaling and atomic updates. This creature already exists, and it is called FFS with Soft Updates, from the FreeBSD developers. Here is the breakdown.
Journalling is tricky, as it requires lots of intervention at other places in the kernel. You need to keep something synchronous - journalling just makes that something very small. Atomic updates avoid synchronous issues altogether. Instead, they structure the file system in groups of data and metadata. In each group, there is an atomic bit. When set, it means the group is intact. So, upon looking through the groups, you can immediately determine which ones are intact and which are incomplete. Recovery is REALLY fast after a power outage, in theory even faster than a journal recovery.
ReiserFS and XFS are also really great, so these have log structure (or btree) and journalling. However, ReiserFS is broken with NFS constanly, and that is a BIG problem. Not to mention the version in 2.4.x is incompatible with the version in the 2.2.x tree. Don't let the XFS 1.0 version fool you. Ever see the fallout when Alexander Viro (kernel VFS hacker) takes a newly merged filesystem to task ?? It is not pretty.
Tux2 is still vaporware. But it will be great when it comes out. Ext3 has some advantages. It has been running stably for a long time now under development. It is journaled, and has a small code base. It also only exists for the 2.2 kernel series. Phillips is also making a judgment call. He wants to build on ext2 with tux2. Ext2 is not log structured, which is why ReiserFS can beat it in well-structure benchmark tests run by Hans.
And the future for linux file systems?? I don't know, it is always interesting to see where things will head. The world is clamoring for easy crash recovery, and ext2's days are numbered. I think most people would be quite happy to simply add journaling to ext2. Or atomic updates. So I predict, after consulting the crystal ball, that tux2 develops a large following after release, and that Phillips then adds btree searches and log structuring, making it the first linux file system with all that. That would then bring the state of the art file systems for linux up to par with those of FreeBSD. Of course, in linux at that time you can also use JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, or ext3 journaled file systems. But journaling is worse than atomic updates, both for complexity and speed. Soft updates are more flexible than journaling, and - with a filesystem whose basic structures are designed to take advantage - perform better than journaling. I find it just slightly weird that there's so much focus on journaling when a superior alternative is known.
but if China were that bad a place to live, I think all the people would move out.
The ones who can save up some money to flee the country do try to get out. They often end up on the coast of California only to be sent back. I wonder why all the East Germans didn't try to flee communist oppression. Oh wait, they did and they often died trying even if it meant the parents died and the child lives (remind anyone of Elian)? Goly gee, I guess living in a country where once found guilty I'm executed within three days executioner style and then have the bullet charged to my family isn't heaven on earth.
Think about it. When was the last time you heard someone being all self righteous, saying that they want someone shut up because they are profane, obscene or nude? How many times out of 10 would this person not openly say that they are against freedom of speech, that they want what you can say to be limitted, that they cherish the thought of censorship.
They're called Democrats and Republicans. The Demopublicans to some. I live in an area where the local republicans are putting up stupid laws on certain "adult clubs" and the democrats are saying Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is too violent and is the cause of all violence.
Maybe they should move to China and see what they think of censorship. They MIGHT actually like it. Think of the people in Singapore... Don't some of their policies remind you of your mother?
The Nazi's and Soviets remind me of my mother. The Soviet used to airbrush out in photoes comrades who had "fallen" and then eliminate documents of their existence. Remind that crappy film Enemy at the Gates? What they don't tell you in that pinko film is after the war, the Soviet hero is sent to prison for 20 years for saying politically unfavorable things. Censorship is great! I like it. You say something I don't like I'll tell Big Brother and you go to a gulag for eternity.
The world is a place burgeoning with different ideas and people. Some people don't like to be around people with different ideas.
Whine whine whine. The world is also burgeoning with people like Kruschev, Pol Pot, Mao and Hitler. Nyah, lets let them continue to take away freedoms for the sake of diversity. I'm still trying to figure out who benefits because of diversity? I want quality not quantity. Try to use an ounce of logic in your reasoning.
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So where is this whole sympathetic feeling for those "less fortunate" than others? I don't see you whiny GNU losers commending community colleges. No, you're more elitist than the CFR. Yeah I know the place sucks but I made 70,000+ last year. Not too shabby for one year out of HS.
Yeah, I have an ID and yeah its still in the 5 digit range. So suck on that.
In the software company store, I may still have the item, but I lost out on the possible services and the fab costs when you pirated my software. That is what my company runs on, not the physical product itself. You are obfuscating the two. If my company/software can do XYZ exponentially better than anyone else I should be rewarded, at least monetarily. You've been fed and swallowed the conformist rebel convential wisdom. Try thinking for yourself. I bet you're also one of those sheeple who defended napster.
You don't even have the balls on something as lame as
Duh.
The teacher used Office because the whole world "voluntarily" uses Office, so he had to use it too.
FYI, OpenOffice can open/save in a multitude of MS Office formats. So no, he didn't have to use MS Office. Duh.
Did Microsoft get harmed? No. Licenses be damned, the richest corporation around decided to "punish" a teacher for no harm to itself.
Yes, Microsoft was harmed. So you think shoplifting is a victimless crime? It's funny how often red herring is used on here, like the whinny pinko who drew that this is akin to someone with AIDS in Africa. Yeah right.
So he is a veteran computer teacher and he didn't know he was violating the EULA? He knew damn he was breaking the terms of the license but he installed it but it was for convenience's sake. By that kind of logic I'm not breaking the law when I run a red light when no one else is around. It's no different. I didn't think there was a cop around but suddenly my ass got busted.
"It was a minor violation," he says. "We use AppleWorks for word processing but I put Office on their computers because they couldn't read the Microsoft Word attachments they kept getting from the district's central office. It was easy to do, and it made sense since our schools are in dire financial straits."
This "veteran" computer teacher could have easily gone to Google and looked for a word processor. "Oh Wow, this OpenOffice looks good and its free!" If he doesn't like Microsoft's licensing games for Office then he isn't forced install it. He has choices.
Don't get me wrong now, I'm not defending Microsoft's products/practices but rather attacking this guys poor judgement call and general lack of A Clue. The real problem is that computer education (in high schools, DeVRY, ITT, community colleges) isn't computer education at all. It's a series of classes telling you how to use various Microsoft products - rather like booking a course in automobile mechanics and find yourself being taught how to drive a particular model of car.
Looking at the new SGI logo is like having a 10 pound roast pulled out of your ass with a plastic fork.
But after a quick glance it appears to be Darwin+GNU bits+FreeBSD Ports.
Check out http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/. It's Darwin plus all the GNU stuff. They initially had problems getting applications so they decided to include FreeBSD's ports tree. It has worked wonderfully for them.
They are becoming all too common because of the media. Most people are pacifists by nature, they'll avoid confrontation at all costs. CNN(insert favorite govertainment channel here) will call something like the Million Mom March "groundbreaking" but will insert another adjective like "contraversial" in front of the Guns Owners of America. The sheeple automatically are drawn to a don't-rock-the-boat mentality.
Why do you think people accept drug tests being part of job interviews? If my employer can prove that my being a coke addict directly affects my job performance fine. But it's an invasion of privacy to see if I am indeed a coke addict. People are drawn to it because some Demopublican will mask it about being for the children.
It's very similar to what that idiot Steve Gibson is doing. Cnet, ZDnet, whatever-pc-magazine prints his half-baked theories about UNIX sockets in XP. Just having UNIX sockets isn't necessarily a bad thing, its in how they're used obviously. They follow his words since he has a flare for the dramatic and sounds very clueful to the average AOL user. UNIX sockets don't spoof packets, script-kiddies spoof packets. Look at those kennedy elitists: all of my unregistered handguns have kill less people than kennedy cars and golf clubs combined.
I've noticed a recent trend towards trashing FreeBSD's SMP because of "the giant spinlock." What people don't realize is that one large spinlock can be a viable method of locking for the purposes of threading (that is, multiprocessing). It would seem that someone who has a moderate clue about threading and writing SMP-capable operating systems has commented on this, and feels it's bogus, and one or more of the general breed of "BSD is ubersux" trolls has gotten a hold of this and thinks it's the ultimate death knell for FreeBSD/smp. Obviously, you don't really know much about locking at all. It should at least be pointed out that no matter how many locks you have, it is more important to keep the system OUT of a locked state as much as possible, and FreeBSD does this well enough. It's not as if the system is constantly locked and able to use only one CPU. Most processing occurs in userland, far away from kernel locks, so it doesn't tend to matter all that much. Now, granted, using one spinlock isn't necessarily the best way to do things, at least not in an OS. However, it's not the worst either. Combined with the fact that it allowed fairly rapid updating and deployment of FreeBSD/SMP, I think the choice to use that 'giant spinlock' was valid. It allowed SMP code that by all accounts worked better at least than the 2.0 Linux kernel's (if not 2.2 as well) to be deployed until a better solution could be created.
A better solution will be deployed in FreeBSD 5.0 with the introduction of SMPng. I do not doubt that the 2.4 Linux kernel does a better job at SMP than FreeBSD (release/stable) does, but I think it's worth noting that Linux's SMP has been now five or six years in the making to get to this point, and that the Linux and FreeBSD development and advancement models are significantly different. Where Linux takes gradual steps, FreeBSD (and BSDs in general) tend to take large leaps. That's just a difference in implementation timing. Furthermore, it's perfectly reasonable to expect two open-source systems to leapfrog each other in terms of capability as ideas and code move from one to the other, and it's really not something to gloat over. What one does better today, the other will do better tomorrow. It doesn't really matter. To those of you babbling on and on about 'the giant spinlock', you might want to go do some research into the theory, and practice, of implementing locks in threaded systems. Until then, shut up, please.
He meant as in the 4.x branch being akin to Linux 2.2.x
The reasoning behind I/O completion ports is that it permits you to do something on completion of I/O, such as initiate yet another I/O (a "feedme" signal that is delivered reliably as an event, unlike a UNIX signal, which is merely a persistant
condition).
The Chinese saw the evils of drugs (remember the Boxer Rebellion?) and faught the British who were forcing opium on them.
I felt the drug war is an excellent example of why the western world is not free, or based in liberty
We have freedom (albeit not much since we're being disarmed) but I don't have the right to go and rape. I might feel great for a moment as my thighs quiver while I penetrate that really hot cheerleader but it hurts society more than it helps me.
Just because you don't like churches doesn't mean everything they've done is evil. You don't have to toss the baby out with the bathwater. That kind of logic is popular with Demopublicans. Show some logic instead of sophistry.
In FreeBSD-CURRENT, background fscks are now a reality (with softupdates). That means that there's really no fsck on boot, but rather a background process that maintains consistency using idle cycles. And if it gets interrupted, that doesn't matter either, because it'll just pick up where it left off as its changes are bound by softupdates as well. Isn't that neat?
Double Vaginal/Double anal is too art!
Initially the US government didn't have parties. The Founding Fathers saw the evils in it and strongly urged people to stay away from it but they couldn't outright ban political parties. Go and read some stuff by Jefferson, Madison and Washington.
This whole "fearless leader" bit is just out of the worship exalted by the elitist media (NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN).
Yeah, you always know you can get reliable and fair Supreme Court rulings when your golf buddy (Breyer) is on it.
Ok Bush may be stupid, he flunked out of college once. But I never see you bash Al Gump who flunked out of college twice.
You're just another one of those conformist rebels who love to hate capitalism yet love the life it is providing you. You hate capitalists but love capital.
Or how about one of him and Herr Reno covering up federal racketeering charges against Fuhr Clinton.
What about when he was a huge proponent of Carnivore and how he urged Congress to further wiretapping legislation? I wish I could find a URL for it though, specifically of him at the National Press Club. Stop being a CommiCrat and show some coherency.
By 1994, White House aide John Podesta had been called into the inner circle of the Clipper project. Meanwhile, Podesta's brother, Tony, a lobbyist and fund-raiser was representing AT&T. His donors and clients, including AT&T, were invited to participate in trade trips to China and obtain valuable export deals with Beijing. Only a year earlier, John Podesta had signed a legal statement promising not to engage in any conflicts of interest involving his brother.
No code is being replaced. They're not merging the BSD/OS 5.0 experimental kernel at all; SMPng is based off of some of the design concepts in it.
If FreeBDS 5.0 really does get an "entirely overhauled SMP structure" in six months, then it will be just that: immature code that's only been around a few months.
*BSD tests it first before releasing it. It makes more sense then to throw it to the public. When was the last time a *BSD had an ontime release?
If FreeBSD's TCP/IP is so kewl, then why doesn't anyone submit SPECweb benchmarks using FreeBSD for the 1 CPU category? Linux wipes the floor with Solaris, AIX, Tru64, and Windows 2000.
It's not Linux thats wiping the floor, its TUX; the tiny in-kernel httpd that is designed for TRIVIAL matters. Putting the daemon inkernel is a glaring risk. It doesn't match the completeness of other userland servers like Apache.
Journalling is tricky, as it requires lots of intervention at other places in the kernel. You need to keep something synchronous - journalling just makes that something very small. Atomic updates avoid synchronous issues altogether. Instead, they structure the file system in groups of data and metadata. In each group, there is an atomic bit. When set, it means the group is intact. So, upon looking through the groups, you can immediately determine which ones are intact and which are incomplete. Recovery is REALLY fast after a power outage, in theory even faster than a journal recovery.
ReiserFS and XFS are also really great, so these have log structure (or btree) and journalling. However, ReiserFS is broken with NFS constanly, and that is a BIG problem. Not to mention the version in 2.4.x is incompatible with the version in the 2.2.x tree. Don't let the XFS 1.0 version fool you. Ever see the fallout when Alexander Viro (kernel VFS hacker) takes a newly merged filesystem to task ?? It is not pretty.
Tux2 is still vaporware. But it will be great when it comes out. Ext3 has some advantages. It has been running stably for a long time now under development. It is journaled, and has a small code base. It also only exists for the 2.2 kernel series. Phillips is also making a judgment call. He wants to build on ext2 with tux2. Ext2 is not log structured, which is why ReiserFS can beat it in well-structure benchmark tests run by Hans.
And the future for linux file systems?? I don't know, it is always interesting to see where things will head. The world is clamoring for easy crash recovery, and ext2's days are numbered. I think most people would be quite happy to simply add journaling to ext2. Or atomic updates. So I predict, after consulting the crystal ball, that tux2 develops a large following after release, and that Phillips then adds btree searches and log structuring, making it the first linux file system with all that. That would then bring the state of the art file systems for linux up to par with those of FreeBSD. Of course, in linux at that time you can also use JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, or ext3 journaled file systems. But journaling is worse than atomic updates, both for complexity and speed. Soft updates are more flexible than journaling, and - with a filesystem whose basic structures are designed to take advantage - perform better than journaling. I find it just slightly weird that there's so much focus on journaling when a superior alternative is known.
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The United States isn't a democracy. Just because we might democracy in patches doesn't make us a democracy. The US is a Constitutional Republic.
The ones who can save up some money to flee the country do try to get out. They often end up on the coast of California only to be sent back. I wonder why all the East Germans didn't try to flee communist oppression. Oh wait, they did and they often died trying even if it meant the parents died and the child lives (remind anyone of Elian)? Goly gee, I guess living in a country where once found guilty I'm executed within three days executioner style and then have the bullet charged to my family isn't heaven on earth.
Think about it. When was the last time you heard someone being all self righteous, saying that they want someone shut up because they are profane, obscene or nude? How many times out of 10 would this person not openly say that they are against freedom of speech, that they want what you can say to be limitted, that they cherish the thought of censorship.
They're called Democrats and Republicans. The Demopublicans to some. I live in an area where the local republicans are putting up stupid laws on certain "adult clubs" and the democrats are saying Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is too violent and is the cause of all violence.
Maybe they should move to China and see what they think of censorship. They MIGHT actually like it. Think of the people in Singapore... Don't some of their policies remind you of your mother?
The Nazi's and Soviets remind me of my mother. The Soviet used to airbrush out in photoes comrades who had "fallen" and then eliminate documents of their existence. Remind that crappy film Enemy at the Gates? What they don't tell you in that pinko film is after the war, the Soviet hero is sent to prison for 20 years for saying politically unfavorable things. Censorship is great! I like it. You say something I don't like I'll tell Big Brother and you go to a gulag for eternity.
The world is a place burgeoning with different ideas and people. Some people don't like to be around people with different ideas.
Whine whine whine. The world is also burgeoning with people like Kruschev, Pol Pot, Mao and Hitler. Nyah, lets let them continue to take away freedoms for the sake of diversity. I'm still trying to figure out who benefits because of diversity? I want quality not quantity. Try to use an ounce of logic in your reasoning.