At the risk of self promotion, some irc networks _do_ do something about it. Of AfterNET, any IP listen in sorbs, njabl, blitzed, or from romania etc must login to connect. This results in much less spam and an overall better signal to noise ratio.
The republican party has been employing this theory for a couple of years now.
The idea is Rush and friends start using words that liberals use to argue for
liberal policy. They change the meaning of the words, or the context to turn them
around, thus making the liberal argument less convincing. It works quite well.
I think on some level Linux is a challange to aristocracy because it reduces
their power over your computer (and thereby, you). Hence, all the same groups
that hate democracy hate linux.
"Linux 2.6.6
[...] Changes: ...ext2 and ext3 filesystem performance was significantly improved.
"
And thats just from today's kernel release. What about all the changes between 2.4 and now?
Considering the conveniance of backward compatability, and the fact that ext3 wasn't the worst in every category, and it looks like maybe uses less cpu than some, it seems like ext3 is the hands-down winner of the test, not the looser. ext3 did as well in tests that IMO represent everyday use. Who creates 10k files in a folder? I would have liked to see a linux kernel COMPILE using the fs. Thats something we all could appreciate.
Many of those left working for high-tech firms in the USA have had added to their job duties, doing phone interviews of new-hires in India. I have heard rumors that at companies such as Intel it is not uncommon for the indian interviewees to use fraudulent techneques, such as having their more advanced friends do the entire enterview for them. Most americans can't tell the difference, and end up hiring someone other than who they interviewed for the job.
Is this a common practice? Have you heard of anyone doing this?
Debian, like many good tools (vi), can be hard for beginners. It has a lot of new commands to remember like apt-get, apt-cache and dpkg. It has "the debian way" of doing things, which newbies often tangle with before learning. It doesn't have an X based installer, etc.
The key is that once you do spend some time and learn it, the payoff is huge. Debian is a lot eaisier to run then most distros. When managing a lot of servers, you can do it more reliably and with less time using Debian over something else, due to the well-thought-out layout, and the killer package management system.
Its heartwarming to see that lots of people are willing to accept a learning curve for a better operating system. Long-run learning instead of short-run clicking.
One of my favorite reasons for using debian (besides the ideology of a 100% free OS) is the one givin by HP. If you write software or drivers for RedHat, they may only work on RedHat. But if you write software/drivers to go into debian, they work on ALL linux platforms.
"Olivine is also found in many iron-nickel meteorites. Not just as small grains but as significantly sized crystals sometimes occupying over 50% of the meteorites volume. Thinly cut slices of these meteorites are extremely attractive with the polished steel gray of the iron and the embedded grains of gemmy green olivine. The effect produces the closest mineral equilalent to stained glass artwork."
From http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/silicate/oli vine/olivine.htm
Perhapse the olivine is from whatever made that crator?
"The probe supposedly has enough nuclear fuel to last until 2020. Will it be able to find anything interesting outside the solar system in the next 17 years?"
If it goes much further, I bet it hits the screen.
It's ironic that IBM, with its roots in the computer industry, doesn't supply the processors for the main portion of the personal computer industry. Intel does.
Huh? Since at least the 8088 (the essental birth of the industry) IBM's PC's have always had Intel processors. The only irony is that IBM is now the "other" chipmaker competing with intel.
Hate to add to this thread.. but ever consider that taco has probably viewed this site on more monitors than anyone else in the world? He probably has a pretty good idea of what the green values above look like under various conditions and miscalibrations. Web designers have to put up with that crap all the time, nothing renders the same anywhere. Why would he care if your green was slightly darker than the green he sees on his monitor on his desk? If his desk were that much off he would have seen it somewhere else and noticed that it looked different and fixed it.. also, do you suppose it just HAPPENS that his favorite green is a websafe round number like 006666? If he had specified 146271 then I can see being picky about it. Web designers choose those because they are easy, and IT DOESNT REALLY MATTER. Web is about content, not about display accuracy.
For me, I know that if the winning shirt doesnt exactly match the color I see at my desk i'm not buyin one..
According to their "Interfaces" page, these guys designed the 'Re-get' download manager. It looks neat, but it contains the spyware called Cydoor and Timesink. Goes to show you that just coz someone can make pretty pictures about modern life, doesn't mean they understand it, or have a morals.
I have used windows both on the job, and at home since 3.0, and I can tell you that I have never needed to pull a file out of the recycle bin.
I've lost my work on bad floppies & hard drives a few times, plenty to learn to put a copy somewhere else every so often, and keep earlier stepping points in case a change that ment well was a disaster. In a network system with nightly backups you can accomplish this simply by saving a copy to the server now and then.
Or, don't delete documents at all. Everything gets moved to a cd, or an archive on a server. Disk space is cheap, why delete anything you might ever regret?
When you go to work building a bridge or building, you dont get an "undelete" in case it falls down, instead you plan your work and take precautions necessary.
When the power goes out, and everyone in the lab moans with the loss of work, I had recently saved my file.
... Can we all get the stupid trash can off our desktops now? Honestly, does anyone leave it on and actually go rescue things from it? When I click delete, I want the file deleted, not moved somewhere to be found by a nosy roomate or something. Just because something is cute doesn't mean it needs to be in gnome/kde/windows/apple/gem/whatever desktop. When people first encounter lack of trash on a unix box, they come running to the sysadmin, who tells them "You cannot undelete files, there gone there gone." Data isnt something to be hap-hazardly pushed about and retrieved from garbage cans. Back it up, keep track of it if its important. Trash cans encourage a lax attitude toward work habits on the computer.
We had no choice when napster came out, the p2p apps will use up all the bandwidth available slowing everything else to zilch. You can't provide enough bandwidth to satisfy them (obviously this is more important for a resnet than an ISP Though)
In some ways, this system is better than others such as banning p2p apps alltogether. 1 gig is a _LOT_ of bandwidth per day, if you think about it, especally if they only go after you when you abuse it multiple days in a row (we do this as well)
We are considering a system for the future using a rolling quota. Users get 1 gig a day which can store up if its not used (up to 3 gig worth) and "spent" however the user wants. If they go into negitive balance, they get throttled down to modem speeds until its positive again.
Its hard to be the "bad guy" and police bandwidth, but bandwidth costs money and somebody has to do something to keep costs down.
"The message is an interesting read, to say the least. instead of working the issue, NWLink's apparent (unofficial) solution to combating DDoS'es is to simply terminate the subscriber's connection. with all the slammer worms & Code Reds nowadays, NWLink should have no more customers left in about 2 years."
This is COMMON. On an IRC network I am involved with, over the years we have taken to asking potential new server links in advance what the ISP policy is on DDOS, because we found that many ISPs would simply let a customer go if they found out a DDOS was targeted at them. In addition, often times this was accompnied by a large fee for the overuse of bandwidth (don't let the door hit ya on the way out.)
To me, this is a crime, because the ISP (and their ISP, their ISP's ISP, etc) are responsible for the structure of the internet, its technologies, and its suseptability to DDOS in the first place. Its their technology, their problem. In addition, they could detect the problem when it does happen and filter it.
They provide bandwidth as a service.. if it can get tanked by a bunch of script-kiddies how is that not their fault, ultimately? How is it mine?
-Lecca
Slashdot Mirror
At the risk of self promotion, some irc networks _do_ do something about it. Of AfterNET, any IP listen in sorbs, njabl, blitzed, or from romania etc must login to connect. This results in much less spam and an overall better signal to noise ratio.
The republican party has been employing this theory for a couple of years now.
The idea is Rush and friends start using words that liberals use to argue for liberal policy. They change the meaning of the words, or the context to turn them around, thus making the liberal argument less convincing. It works quite well.
See here for a more in-depth discussion
Unfortunately, its encouraging for gruops that think they can change a negitive image by changing their name to something more appealing.
Doh! Just when you thought humans were intelegent..
I think on some level Linux is a challange to aristocracy because it reduces their power over your computer (and thereby, you). Hence, all the same groups that hate democracy hate linux.
Use linux because _THEY_ don't want you to. (:
"Overall Ext3 was disappointingly slow surprisingly often."
I disagree, plus this test is obsolete, why did he use a 2.4 kernel?!
from: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linux/?branch_id=463 39&release_id=160407
"Linux 2.6.6
...ext2 and ext3 filesystem performance was significantly improved.
"
[...]
Changes:
And thats just from today's kernel release. What about all the changes between 2.4 and now?
Considering the conveniance of backward compatability, and the fact that ext3 wasn't the worst in every category, and it looks like maybe uses less cpu than some, it seems like ext3 is the hands-down winner of the test, not the looser. ext3 did as well in tests that IMO represent everyday use. Who creates 10k files in a folder? I would have liked to see a linux kernel COMPILE using the fs. Thats something we all could appreciate.
There have been scattered reports of glowing green swarms attacking people at night in the woods
Many of those left working for high-tech firms in the USA have had added to their job duties, doing phone interviews of new-hires in India. I have heard rumors that at companies such as Intel it is not uncommon for the indian interviewees to use fraudulent techneques, such as having their more advanced friends do the entire enterview for them. Most americans can't tell the difference, and end up hiring someone other than who they interviewed for the job. Is this a common practice? Have you heard of anyone doing this?
If you read his answers, its pretty clear they have free access to the internet right now.
Debian, like many good tools (vi), can be hard for beginners. It has a lot of new commands to remember like apt-get, apt-cache and dpkg. It has "the debian way" of doing things, which newbies often tangle with before learning. It doesn't have an X based installer, etc.
The key is that once you do spend some time and learn it, the payoff is huge. Debian is a lot eaisier to run then most distros. When managing a lot of servers, you can do it more reliably and with less time using Debian over something else, due to the well-thought-out layout, and the killer package management system.
Its heartwarming to see that lots of people are willing to accept a learning curve for a better operating system. Long-run learning instead of short-run clicking.
One of my favorite reasons for using debian (besides the ideology of a 100% free OS) is the one givin by HP. If you write software or drivers for RedHat, they may only work on RedHat. But if you write software/drivers to go into debian, they work on ALL linux platforms.
Surprising new image from the mars rover
Perhapse the olivine is from whatever made that crator?
mod this up if you think the new half-screen "Advertisement" sucks ass.
... we call it "Turquoise"
Hate to add to this thread.. but ever consider that taco has probably viewed this site on more monitors than anyone else in the world? He probably has a pretty good idea of what the green values above look like under various conditions and miscalibrations. Web designers have to put up with that crap all the time, nothing renders the same anywhere. Why would he care if your green was slightly darker than the green he sees on his monitor on his desk? If his desk were that much off he would have seen it somewhere else and noticed that it looked different and fixed it.. also, do you suppose it just HAPPENS that his favorite green is a websafe round number like 006666? If he had specified 146271 then I can see being picky about it. Web designers choose those because they are easy, and IT DOESNT REALLY MATTER. Web is about content, not about display accuracy.
For me, I know that if the winning shirt doesnt exactly match the color I see at my desk i'm not buyin one..
According to their "Interfaces" page, these guys designed the 'Re-get' download manager. It looks neat, but it contains the spyware called Cydoor and Timesink. Goes to show you that just coz someone can make pretty pictures about modern life, doesn't mean they understand it, or have a morals.
I have used windows both on the job, and at home since 3.0, and I can tell you that I have never needed to pull a file out of the recycle bin.
I've lost my work on bad floppies & hard drives a few times, plenty to learn to put a copy somewhere else every so often, and keep earlier stepping points in case a change that ment well was a disaster. In a network system with nightly backups you can accomplish this simply by saving a copy to the server now and then. Or, don't delete documents at all. Everything gets moved to a cd, or an archive on a server. Disk space is cheap, why delete anything you might ever regret?
When you go to work building a bridge or building, you dont get an "undelete" in case it falls down, instead you plan your work and take precautions necessary.
When the power goes out, and everyone in the lab moans with the loss of work, I had recently saved my file.
... Can we all get the stupid trash can off our desktops now? Honestly, does anyone leave it on and actually go rescue things from it? When I click delete, I want the file deleted, not moved somewhere to be found by a nosy roomate or something.
Just because something is cute doesn't mean it needs to be in gnome/kde/windows/apple/gem/whatever desktop.
When people first encounter lack of trash on a unix box, they come running to the sysadmin, who tells them "You cannot undelete files, there gone there gone."
Data isnt something to be hap-hazardly pushed about and retrieved from garbage cans. Back it up, keep track of it if its important. Trash cans encourage a lax attitude toward work habits on the computer.
We had no choice when napster came out, the p2p apps will use up all the bandwidth available slowing everything else to zilch. You can't provide enough bandwidth to satisfy them (obviously this is more important for a resnet than an ISP Though)
In some ways, this system is better than others such as banning p2p apps alltogether. 1 gig is a _LOT_ of bandwidth per day, if you think about it, especally if they only go after you when you abuse it multiple days in a row (we do this as well)
We are considering a system for the future using a rolling quota. Users get 1 gig a day which can store up if its not used (up to 3 gig worth) and "spent" however the user wants. If they go into negitive balance, they get throttled down to modem speeds until its positive again.
Its hard to be the "bad guy" and police bandwidth, but bandwidth costs money and somebody has to do something to keep costs down.
Maybe its just the light...?
This is COMMON. On an IRC network I am involved with, over the years we have taken to asking potential new server links in advance what the ISP policy is on DDOS, because we found that many ISPs would simply let a customer go if they found out a DDOS was targeted at them. In addition, often times this was accompnied by a large fee for the overuse of bandwidth (don't let the door hit ya on the way out.)
To me, this is a crime, because the ISP (and their ISP, their ISP's ISP, etc) are responsible for the structure of the internet, its technologies, and its suseptability to DDOS in the first place. Its their technology, their problem. In addition, they could detect the problem when it does happen and filter it.
They provide bandwidth as a service.. if it can get tanked by a bunch of script-kiddies how is that not their fault, ultimately? How is it mine? -Lecca
Check out http://average.matrix.net/Daily/markR.html if you want to really see whats going on in detail.