Dude, get a grip. Would you hire back the same stubborn idiots that let the previous incarnation of the company FAIL in the 1st place?? Who's to say they wouldn't do the same to you?
--I can already watch Netflix streaming in Vmware Workstation/Player (Win7--64 guest) running on a 64-bit Linux host with accelerated video drivers - which I believe is a better and more natural arrangement. WINE's work, while nice to have, is not the only way to accomplish these things.
--I've said it before and I'll say it again: we SHOULD NOT sacrifice Saturday delivery. Once we do, we will NEVER get it back. The Pony Express riders are practically spinning in their graves at the very thought. We used to have STANDARDS, dammit! Dropping Saturday delivery is just lazy thinking.
--For me, it's mostly a Netflix DVD delivery thing - why should I have to wait until Monday if I would otherwise have it Saturday?? However, there are lots of people that get PAID on Friday. Think about that.
--You're a Friend, so pls take this in the spirit that it's intended.;-)
--I have had trouble with the last couple of Linux Mint revs and driver regressions when trying to upgrade on the same hardware. Right now I can only run Mint 11 on my 6-core AMD box, or else I don't have sound ++ maybe some video / screen saver stability problems. Very disappointing. Although, there are quite a number of Debian-derived distros out there, and I haven't really tried poking around to see what might work because of time constraints -- I just need it to Work. (Ultimate Edition just revved 3.5--64 tho, FYI!)
--However - Windows doesn't go along with just (1) driver from the OEMs for the life of the OS. Network drivers get updated, video card drivers especially, and I've seen a few other things as well (even printer drivers.)
--The difference being, mainly, that if you have a good developer working on the driver, it will likely get fixed quicker on the Linux side (and if you can work with the source code, you can try and fix it yourself.) With a proprietary driver vendor, it might be weeks/months/years/never.
--You sir, are a jackass. Cause for termination, indeed. Obviously you've never spent time without a job, scrambling to eat and try to survive - much less pay your bills. You arrogant idiot.
--I use nano, jstar, mcedit, whatever comes to hand and is installed on the box. Only use vi if there's nothing better. I stopped using EDLIN back when Xtree Pro Gold came out, because **it was a better tool.**
--Cause for a friendly warning, I would accept. Cause for termination? FU.
Anyone who actually grew up in Chicago will always (still) refer to it as the Sears Tower. Just like the White Sox play in Comiskey Park. Macy's never should have renamed Marshall Fields.
--Oh, for mod points. I try to drill this into every freakin' workaholic and "I'm letting that wait until my golden years" dork that I meet. Leisure time is priceless, and (continued) life is not guaranteed.
--Save up for a while if you must, but do it while you can (enjoy it.)
--Sorry bout that; it's just the way you came across. Personally, I had only a vague idea that Reiser4 was still in semi-active development until I saw this Slashdot headline.
--I did come up with a few links, but as for when $bug was fixed in Reiserfs, you would prolly have to search the kernel mailing lists or the project's home page.
--I really like JFS. I use it for everything except root (ext4) because it's good for running VMs off of - it doesn't use a lot of CPU. (Which I found out via a Slashdot benchmark-comparison article, a number of years ago.) And it runs well on USB/Firewire external drives.
--However, the JFS codebase hasn't had really any updates outside of maintenance and compatibility for quite a while now, and my limited experiments revealed that ext4 was passing it for speed. So some of my USB external drives are on ext4 now.
--I really wish something like Google Summer of Code would revisit JFS and upgrade its features/throughput for more modern hardware; but it's solid enough that I still use it for the majority of my stuff. (And FSCK on JFS doesn't take long at all.)
--I call BS on this - I used Reiserfs in "production" on my systems for years. Yes, there were some problems with loopback/VM filesystems, but they fixed that bug a long time ago. There *is* a reiserfsck utility. Yes, it could use some improvements and a bit more paranoia for fixups in real-world cases, but it's not like it doesn't exist at all.
--Regardless of what you think of Hans, technically the Reiserfs filesystem has potential and could use some more active developers to tune for modern use-cases. I used to use Reiserfs exclusively for my root filesystems (lots of small files, which benefit from the tail-packing feature in Reiserfs) and Squid filesystems.
--Once things started going south and distros deprecated support for it in the install ISO's, I switched to JFS for everything except root (which is now ext4) and haven't looked back. But I still think the filesystem itself has technical merit, and would benefit from further development and mainline inclusion.
--Yes, and it makes TERRIFIC bloody sense to have a method of TRACKING those Concerned Citizens(TM) who want to have a look at the leaked documents. Jazus. Implement a paywall on a site that is supposedly concerned with the public interest?? WTF were they thinking!?
--The kernel is already bloated enough, thank you - let's keep crap like this out of it. It's not even relevant for most of the Linux user base.
--I doubt it would ever be approved by the kernel maintainers anyhow, but you never know, there might be someone crazy enough that thinks this is somehow a good idea. Sigh
--That's all fine, well and good - until you get a bug in the source code that "automagically" gets sent out to 10,000 endpoints and breaks everything.
--Crap Cleaner software can help with the patch/update detritus. I have nothing to do with the company, but after I backup, I run CC and then do a Registry scan twice - and the patch files get cleaned up. Just FYI
Slashdot Mirror
...Jake? Is that you?
/ Stonebender or Blues, take your pick ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan's_Crosstime_Saloon
--Bah. Anthony Ainley was the best Master - hands down. ;-)
/ wishes they could bring him back
// haz a sad, he died in 2004 :(
Dude, get a grip. Would you hire back the same stubborn idiots that let the previous incarnation of the company FAIL in the 1st place?? Who's to say they wouldn't do the same to you?
--I can already watch Netflix streaming in Vmware Workstation/Player (Win7--64 guest) running on a 64-bit Linux host with accelerated video drivers - which I believe is a better and more natural arrangement. WINE's work, while nice to have, is not the only way to accomplish these things.
--I've said it before and I'll say it again: we SHOULD NOT sacrifice Saturday delivery. Once we do, we will NEVER get it back. The Pony Express riders are practically spinning in their graves at the very thought. We used to have STANDARDS, dammit! Dropping Saturday delivery is just lazy thinking.
--For me, it's mostly a Netflix DVD delivery thing - why should I have to wait until Monday if I would otherwise have it Saturday?? However, there are lots of people that get PAID on Friday. Think about that.
--Dude, 1998 called; they said they just stopped caring about OS/2 and wanted you to know.
/ former Warp user
--You're a Friend, so pls take this in the spirit that it's intended. ;-)
--I have had trouble with the last couple of Linux Mint revs and driver regressions when trying to upgrade on the same hardware. Right now I can only run Mint 11 on my 6-core AMD box, or else I don't have sound ++ maybe some video / screen saver stability problems. Very disappointing. Although, there are quite a number of Debian-derived distros out there, and I haven't really tried poking around to see what might work because of time constraints -- I just need it to Work. (Ultimate Edition just revved 3.5--64 tho, FYI!)
--However - Windows doesn't go along with just (1) driver from the OEMs for the life of the OS. Network drivers get updated, video card drivers especially, and I've seen a few other things as well (even printer drivers.)
--The difference being, mainly, that if you have a good developer working on the driver, it will likely get fixed quicker on the Linux side (and if you can work with the source code, you can try and fix it yourself.) With a proprietary driver vendor, it might be weeks/months/years/never.
Regards :)
--You sir, are a jackass. Cause for termination, indeed. Obviously you've never spent time without a job, scrambling to eat and try to survive - much less pay your bills. You arrogant idiot.
--I use nano, jstar, mcedit, whatever comes to hand and is installed on the box. Only use vi if there's nothing better. I stopped using EDLIN back when Xtree Pro Gold came out, because **it was a better tool.**
--Cause for a friendly warning, I would accept. Cause for termination? FU.
Anyone who actually grew up in Chicago will always (still) refer to it as the Sears Tower. Just like the White Sox play in Comiskey Park. Macy's never should have renamed Marshall Fields.
It's a Chicago thing.
--Oh, for mod points. I try to drill this into every freakin' workaholic and "I'm letting that wait until my golden years" dork that I meet. Leisure time is priceless, and (continued) life is not guaranteed.
--Save up for a while if you must, but do it while you can (enjoy it.)
--Catting an iso may have unexpected results, especially if it's bootable; I would definitely recommend using dd in all cases for that.
...and it's pining for the fjords ;-)
--You never know - with the right gun-fu, you me be able to get them to listen to Reason...
/ better not be obscure
--Sorry bout that; it's just the way you came across. Personally, I had only a vague idea that Reiser4 was still in semi-active development until I saw this Slashdot headline.
--I did come up with a few links, but as for when $bug was fixed in Reiserfs, you would prolly have to search the kernel mailing lists or the project's home page.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reiser4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4#History_of_Reiser4
https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ
--I really like JFS. I use it for everything except root (ext4) because it's good for running VMs off of - it doesn't use a lot of CPU. (Which I found out via a Slashdot benchmark-comparison article, a number of years ago.) And it runs well on USB/Firewire external drives.
--However, the JFS codebase hasn't had really any updates outside of maintenance and compatibility for quite a while now, and my limited experiments revealed that ext4 was passing it for speed. So some of my USB external drives are on ext4 now.
--I really wish something like Google Summer of Code would revisit JFS and upgrade its features/throughput for more modern hardware; but it's solid enough that I still use it for the majority of my stuff. (And FSCK on JFS doesn't take long at all.)
...and for completeness:
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/reiser4progs
The following utilities to manage Reiser4 filesystems are provided:
- debugfs.reiser4
*** - fsck.reiser4
- measurefs.reiser4
- mkfs.reiser4
--Again, I'm going to call BS on you because you obviously haven't done your research - this is from Linux Mint 11:
$ dpkg -L reiserfsprogs /. /sbin /sbin/mkreiserfs /sbin/reiserfsck =-- Note /sbin/resize_reiserfs /sbin/debugreiserfs /sbin/reiserfstune /sbin/mkfs.reiserfs /sbin/fsck.reiserfs =-- Note
--Please stop posting FUD and things that are obviously and verifiably untrue.
--I call BS on this - I used Reiserfs in "production" on my systems for years. Yes, there were some problems with loopback/VM filesystems, but they fixed that bug a long time ago. There *is* a reiserfsck utility. Yes, it could use some improvements and a bit more paranoia for fixups in real-world cases, but it's not like it doesn't exist at all.
--Regardless of what you think of Hans, technically the Reiserfs filesystem has potential and could use some more active developers to tune for modern use-cases. I used to use Reiserfs exclusively for my root filesystems (lots of small files, which benefit from the tail-packing feature in Reiserfs) and Squid filesystems.
--Once things started going south and distros deprecated support for it in the install ISO's, I switched to JFS for everything except root (which is now ext4) and haven't looked back. But I still think the filesystem itself has technical merit, and would benefit from further development and mainline inclusion.
--I would tend to agree. Putting in the " Help\About " screen would probably be acceptable; putting it in an Easter egg might be better.
--Yes, and it makes TERRIFIC bloody sense to have a method of TRACKING those Concerned Citizens(TM) who want to have a look at the leaked documents. Jazus. Implement a paywall on a site that is supposedly concerned with the public interest?? WTF were they thinking!?
--The kernel is already bloated enough, thank you - let's keep crap like this out of it. It's not even relevant for most of the Linux user base.
--I doubt it would ever be approved by the kernel maintainers anyhow, but you never know, there might be someone crazy enough that thinks this is somehow a good idea. Sigh
--That's all fine, well and good - until you get a bug in the source code that "automagically" gets sent out to 10,000 endpoints and breaks everything.
" Hey, you're lucky you weren't alive during the Microsoft conflict. Hell, we were beating each other with our own severed limbs. "
/ JX ;-)
--Crap Cleaner software can help with the patch/update detritus. I have nothing to do with the company, but after I backup, I run CC and then do a Registry scan twice - and the patch files get cleaned up. Just FYI