About damn time I say. Solaris and *BSD, of course, have had this capability for ages.
Adding support for zero copy transmit in Linux has been a major chore since all of the networking stacks and drivers are designed for skbuffs which contain only a single linear buffer per packet, whereas other implementations (i.e. BSD, Solaris, NT) allow fragmented packets where the header is in one fragment and the payload is in the other fragments (the payload can be fragmented if it crosses a page boundary). In short, it allows the Linux tcp/ip stack to forego the user space to kernel space transition before transmitting it (a server's ratio of tx to receive is roughly 10:1).
It looks like not all of the drivers have replaced those skbuffs yet. Its a start...
XFS is really great but XFS is still beta and not merged with the main kernel tree, which is also a BIG problem. Ever see the fallout when Alexander Viro (kernel VFS hacker) takes a newly merged filesystem to task ? It is not pretty.
Nothing. Just like they did to that stupid kid in singapore with his fat whiny whore of a mother. He got caned and deserved it. He broke that countries laws and had to deal with it.
As with all Unix and Unix-like operating systems, time and dates represented internally as the number of seconds since the UNIX Epoch, which was the 1st of January 1970 UTC.
32-bit systems can only store a maximum of 2^31 non-negative seconds (2,147,483,648 seconds or about 68 years). Which means that 32-bit UNIX systems won't be able to process time beyond 19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM UTC.
One of the common solutions will be to switch to 64-bit architecture systems that can store a maximium of 2^63 non-negative seconds (9,223,372,036,854,775,808 [9.2 Quintillion] seconds or about 292.27 Billion years), which would be sufficient for quite a long time!
It's a golden drop of communism that can be realized in our time and under our terms.
We already realized those golden drops of communism. How I long for the days of being sent to gulags because I said something distasteful with the premier. Oh but not just me, but also all my family, friends and neighbors. I miss being executed within three days of conviction then having the bullet used to kill me charged to any of my remaining family. I miss the 60+ million killed in big government enforced purges. We killed more than you Hitler (you patsy)! I miss the forced breeding of athletes. Isn't eugenics great?! I miss the forced drug use by athletes as well. Come on! I'm sure you remember Hairy Chest Helga and those good times in Stink Finger Park. Don't forget Uncy Pol Pot and the Khmere Rouge! Nice guys. I would trust them with my daughter. Cannabalism and Genocide = Good. GI Bombers = Bad.
Oh yeah and the absence of capitolism is great too. At least we all starve together. I don't want the opportunity to provide for my family just because I'm more intelligent and entreprenuerial than you (well if the govt allowed that trait).
Taken from a liberal standpoint they have the worst record on "human rights violations". They ignore the environment only to further their communist regime (all commi countries do this). They have the harshest death penalty and penal code in the world. They execute the "guilty" three days after sentencing. Kill you executioner style then charge the bullet to your family. Real nice. I wish I lived there.
Now from a conservative stance. They are communist. The whole execution thing still applies as does the penal code. Fifteen years for jaywalking in a military run prison is overkill. Religion is outlawed. Look what they did to all the Buddhists and Catholics. What about their actions against Taiwan? Why not just go talk to Harry Wu about his experiences in China? Harry Wu. Conservative or Liberal, China is a threat to our Constitutional Republic and all the world's FREE democracies.
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It would've been a lot better if the Germans beat the Russians. Just as if England had actually sided with the protestant Germans in WW1 communism never would've taken off.
However, many GNU/Linux newbies are under the impression that bash is the standard UNIX shell, which is NOT the case. There are endless differences; RTFM. The two good reasons to make your sysadmin install bash anyway are these: awesome command-line completion and the best EMACS command-line editor available!
Except that most linux types call/bin/sh are really for/bin/bash:) Oh well.
Americans seems to have this "thing" for the nazis, a sort of distant admiration (know any war gamers?). It bothers me.
Yes they were evil but not nearly as evil as any of the communist regimes. Six million killed in nazi camps to over 60 million killed in soviet gulags. So who would you prefer to have as a neighbor: a clean cut business man who murdered his family in their sleep with a gun or a guy who just slaughted them with an ax? This whole sympathetic view of communists scares me.
The Russians are too often portrayed in WW2 movies as nazi cannon fodder.
Uhm...they were. They were often sent without any guns just like WW1.
the germans didn't have a chance of beating the Soviet Army, one front, two fronts, doesn't matter.
Excuse me? The Germans almost won. If there hadn't been some rumblings in Yugoslavia (and we all know that kind of terrain just swallows up infantry), Germany would have had more than enough to capture the Kremlin. That delayed them a coupled months before marching into the soviet union. Time that they needed before the Russian winter set in. Same kinda thing happened to Napoleon.
Though you do have some valid points about attacking the Romanian flank. The soviets attacked them because they were by far the weakest. It would have been radically different if they attack a German division but oh well. The nazi's were freezing to death before this well before any counter-attack.
That's right, their concern wasn't helping the group, it was getting people into a room where they could make sales pitches.
So what? They were allowing the useage of their facilities. You can brag to people that you have meetings at some SGI place while they're at their local library for meetings. Its the price to pay for being able to hold gatherings at SGI's pad. They're a company in it to make money, not to give a bunch of crazy GPL nutties something for nothing.
Making it easier to run Linux binaries on BSD systems makes it that much less likely for software vendors to produce native BSD binaries.
Why should they develop native apps when they run faster on *BSD with the Linuxator? If you check CD#2 in your FreeBSD CD set (the commercial demo one) many of the companies are supporting them for FreeBSD under the Linux compatability layer.
I'd rather see the effort spent on 'Binary compatibility to run Linux apps' be used to encourage vendors to produce native BSD binaries.
Already being done. LokiGames (LokiSoft?) is already doing that.
Some might claim that this shows the technical superiority of BSD, but in my opinion Linux emulation is harmful to the future of BSD operating systems.
It's not really emulation in a true sense. Most "Linux software" isn't "Linux software" but "Unix software" and compiles and runs on FreeBSD just fine. FreeBSD has Linux BINARY support, so if the source isn't available (StarOffice, VMWare, etc) you can still run your choice of programs. It doesn't do this via "emulation" but by translating Linux syscalls into FreeBSD syscalls where everything is executed natively.
Ah, but what makes you think the compiler is intrinsically compromised? Sure you might compile X program but then lets say the compiler doesn't see the Y string of code in it so it puts it in. You go to rewrite that compiler but the compiler you're compiling the compiler with is tainted; it'll just redo that new compiler as well forcing you go to back to the very beginning. I think it was Bill Joy who wrote something like that.
Think about it. You're installing hw onto an OS that doesn't recognize it since the OS came out before the hw did.
Try instaling Linux 2.0.11 and see if your cards are automatically recognized. You'd see that the micro-kernel does have its benefits in the MS world. It might not optimize it but it lets you go online to get the newest drivers faster than using a dumb terminal to recompile.
Try not to worship Linux so much. It's not the Messiah.
IBM Linux commercial. It has got Captain Cisco in it but I haven't seen it on TV with that line of commercials with him in it. I guess they've been saving it.
He's saying that there is no real way to remove all the loopholes but eliminate as many of them and eliminate that nasty class warfare the democrats play with a flat tax.
You brought in braindead consumerism which is immaterial to the argument. The constant advertisements are an eyesore. But the ones here in the good ol' US of A are nothing compared to the bombardment I saw in the UK and France. Advertisements on all over soccer jerseys, a redundancy with TV commercials, and coating of the underground with them as well. Alas, they are a bi-product of collusion and oligopolies.
I'll be right along your side bringing an end to NBC's Just See TV with Friends and Fraser, the extermination of SUV's and their owners, et al.
Yes, you have very valid points depicting the degradation of a society but they are misplaced in this particular topic.
This book shows something that is highly politically incorrect. A lot of it deals with "cultural relativism" thats been all the rage by conformist rebel liberals for the past twenty years or so. Some cultures facilitate and nurture progress exponentially faster than others. Yes there are other externalities that have hindered progress but thats like saying everyone is fat because of a glandular problem.
Now this isn't to say that race X is superior to race Y (as many drones are quick to play the race card). But a society that has perfectionist attitudes doubled with a "keeping up with the Jones'" outlook have and do progress faster.
Adaptation is necessary for progress. The Europeans took a lot of the practices from the Muslim world under Sulliman(sp?). And before that, the Muslims copied the Indians who were benefitting from the Oriental societies who were the mightiest of the time. Think where we would be if Pope Sylvester the II hadn't been educated by the Muslims; he's the one who introduced arabic numerals to the west. The western world has only been dominant now for at most 500 years (and some would say for less).
Another instance is with the US and Japan. Japan was still a feudal society until the end of the 19th century. The Americans came into the Japanese harbor and let off some cannons. The Japanese were impressed. They realised their ways were inferior to the industrialized western ways. They sent their scholars to the US and Europe to learn all that was possible. And after 40 years they were as advanced as any western society.
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Wrong! According to McKusick he really doesn't have a name. But if a name must be given Beastie is preferred. Keep saying BSD aloud to yourself; it will sound like Beastie. Similar to the way Acadien became Cajun.
Right, but vi in some implementation is on every UNIX box you'll come across so its best to learn vi. Now I prefer GNU emacs but its not always there so its best to learn vi primarily. The students will be in his class for 75 minutes so yes, they do have the time to spend "dealing" with vi.
BTW, pico is included with pine. Its the editor pine calls on.
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Adding support for zero copy transmit in Linux has been a major chore since all of the networking stacks and drivers are designed for skbuffs which contain only a single linear buffer per packet, whereas other implementations (i.e. BSD, Solaris, NT) allow fragmented packets where the header is in one fragment and the payload is in the other fragments (the payload can be fragmented if it crosses a page boundary). In short, it allows the Linux tcp/ip stack to forego the user space to kernel space transition before transmitting it (a server's ratio of tx to receive is roughly 10:1).
It looks like not all of the drivers have replaced those skbuffs yet. Its a start...
XFS is really great but XFS is still beta and not merged with the main kernel tree, which is also a BIG problem. Ever see the fallout when Alexander Viro (kernel VFS hacker) takes a newly merged filesystem to task ? It is not pretty.
Nothing. Just like they did to that stupid kid in singapore with his fat whiny whore of a mother. He got caned and deserved it. He broke that countries laws and had to deal with it.
32-bit systems can only store a maximum of 2^31 non-negative seconds (2,147,483,648 seconds or about 68 years). Which means that 32-bit UNIX systems won't be able to process time beyond 19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM UTC.
One of the common solutions will be to switch to 64-bit architecture systems that can store a maximium of 2^63 non-negative seconds (9,223,372,036,854,775,808 [9.2 Quintillion] seconds or about 292.27 Billion years), which would be sufficient for quite a long time!
We already realized those golden drops of communism. How I long for the days of being sent to gulags because I said something distasteful with the premier. Oh but not just me, but also all my family, friends and neighbors. I miss being executed within three days of conviction then having the bullet used to kill me charged to any of my remaining family. I miss the 60+ million killed in big government enforced purges. We killed more than you Hitler (you patsy)! I miss the forced breeding of athletes. Isn't eugenics great?! I miss the forced drug use by athletes as well. Come on! I'm sure you remember Hairy Chest Helga and those good times in Stink Finger Park. Don't forget Uncy Pol Pot and the Khmere Rouge! Nice guys. I would trust them with my daughter. Cannabalism and Genocide = Good. GI Bombers = Bad.
Oh yeah and the absence of capitolism is great too. At least we all starve together. I don't want the opportunity to provide for my family just because I'm more intelligent and entreprenuerial than you (well if the govt allowed that trait).
Go read the story on Harry Wu and stop defending another evil communist nation.
Now from a conservative stance. They are communist. The whole execution thing still applies as does the penal code. Fifteen years for jaywalking in a military run prison is overkill. Religion is outlawed. Look what they did to all the Buddhists and Catholics. What about their actions against Taiwan? Why not just go talk to Harry Wu about his experiences in China? Harry Wu. Conservative or Liberal, China is a threat to our Constitutional Republic and all the world's FREE democracies.
a thousand pardons then.
It would've been a lot better if the Germans beat the Russians. Just as if England had actually sided with the protestant Germans in WW1 communism never would've taken off.
Except that most linux types call /bin/sh are really for /bin/bash :) Oh well.
Yes they were evil but not nearly as evil as any of the communist regimes. Six million killed in nazi camps to over 60 million killed in soviet gulags. So who would you prefer to have as a neighbor: a clean cut business man who murdered his family in their sleep with a gun or a guy who just slaughted them with an ax? This whole sympathetic view of communists scares me.
The Russians are too often portrayed in WW2 movies as nazi cannon fodder.
Uhm...they were. They were often sent without any guns just like WW1.
the germans didn't have a chance of beating the Soviet Army, one front, two fronts, doesn't matter.
Excuse me? The Germans almost won. If there hadn't been some rumblings in Yugoslavia (and we all know that kind of terrain just swallows up infantry), Germany would have had more than enough to capture the Kremlin. That delayed them a coupled months before marching into the soviet union. Time that they needed before the Russian winter set in. Same kinda thing happened to Napoleon.
Though you do have some valid points about attacking the Romanian flank. The soviets attacked them because they were by far the weakest. It would have been radically different if they attack a German division but oh well. The nazi's were freezing to death before this well before any counter-attack.
So what? They were allowing the useage of their facilities. You can brag to people that you have meetings at some SGI place while they're at their local library for meetings. Its the price to pay for being able to hold gatherings at SGI's pad. They're a company in it to make money, not to give a bunch of crazy GPL nutties something for nothing.
No, he just posed one other alternative. Try to come up with some other ones that are viable and whose economic policies didn't pan out.
Why should they develop native apps when they run faster on *BSD with the Linuxator? If you check CD#2 in your FreeBSD CD set (the commercial demo one) many of the companies are supporting them for FreeBSD under the Linux compatability layer.
I'd rather see the effort spent on 'Binary compatibility to run Linux apps' be used to encourage vendors to produce native BSD binaries.
Already being done. LokiGames (LokiSoft?) is already doing that.
Some might claim that this shows the technical superiority of BSD, but in my opinion Linux emulation is harmful to the future of BSD operating systems.
It's not really emulation in a true sense. Most "Linux software" isn't "Linux software" but "Unix software" and compiles and runs on FreeBSD just fine. FreeBSD has Linux BINARY support, so if the source isn't available (StarOffice, VMWare, etc) you can still run your choice of programs. It doesn't do this via "emulation" but by translating Linux syscalls into FreeBSD syscalls where everything is executed natively.
Ah, but what makes you think the compiler is intrinsically compromised? Sure you might compile X program but then lets say the compiler doesn't see the Y string of code in it so it puts it in. You go to rewrite that compiler but the compiler you're compiling the compiler with is tainted; it'll just redo that new compiler as well forcing you go to back to the very beginning. I think it was Bill Joy who wrote something like that.
Try instaling Linux 2.0.11 and see if your cards are automatically recognized. You'd see that the micro-kernel does have its benefits in the MS world. It might not optimize it but it lets you go online to get the newest drivers faster than using a dumb terminal to recompile.
Try not to worship Linux so much. It's not the Messiah.
stop whining.
Linux RAID? Linux should worry about good SCSI first.
IBM Linux commercial. It has got Captain Cisco in it but I haven't seen it on TV with that line of commercials with him in it. I guess they've been saving it.
He's saying that there is no real way to remove all the loopholes but eliminate as many of them and eliminate that nasty class warfare the democrats play with a flat tax.
Uhm....they kinda are. That's what the whole article was just about: New Kernel Security Features in 2.4.
I'll be right along your side bringing an end to NBC's Just See TV with Friends and Fraser, the extermination of SUV's and their owners, et al.
Yes, you have very valid points depicting the degradation of a society but they are misplaced in this particular topic.
Now this isn't to say that race X is superior to race Y (as many drones are quick to play the race card). But a society that has perfectionist attitudes doubled with a "keeping up with the Jones'" outlook have and do progress faster.
Adaptation is necessary for progress. The Europeans took a lot of the practices from the Muslim world under Sulliman(sp?). And before that, the Muslims copied the Indians who were benefitting from the Oriental societies who were the mightiest of the time. Think where we would be if Pope Sylvester the II hadn't been educated by the Muslims; he's the one who introduced arabic numerals to the west. The western world has only been dominant now for at most 500 years (and some would say for less).
Another instance is with the US and Japan. Japan was still a feudal society until the end of the 19th century. The Americans came into the Japanese harbor and let off some cannons. The Japanese were impressed. They realised their ways were inferior to the industrialized western ways. They sent their scholars to the US and Europe to learn all that was possible. And after 40 years they were as advanced as any western society.
Wrong! According to McKusick he really doesn't have a name. But if a name must be given Beastie is preferred. Keep saying BSD aloud to yourself; it will sound like Beastie. Similar to the way Acadien became Cajun.
BTW, pico is included with pine. Its the editor pine calls on.