---The original Battle Chess for DOS also did the manual-lookup thing, only it was kind of neat - they had you lookup a particular move in a grandmaster-recreation game.
--Actually I *started* with SuSE 6.4 or thereabouts, and stayed with them up to/including 7.3 because of Yast. When they came out with 8.0 and said they were dropping the original, text-based Yast in favor of resource-intensive GUI-based Yast2, I said "Sorry, you've lost my business." Even sent a few emails to the company.
--Yes, I know Yast2 has a text-based mode, but part of the reason for me not liking 8.0 was that you couldn't even *install* w/o using GUI mode. This was significant departure from previous suse installs.
--However, I have used their live-cd (8.2?) to configure my XF86Config-4 file, and set up my LVM partitions. Their front-end utilities are some of the best around.
--Hey, I'm in IL,USA and dropped the $$ for 7.3DVD. I ran it for a couple years, and truth be told I thought it was better than Mandrake at the time. Then got fed up with the 2-gig filesize limitations and how hard it was to update the security/bugfixed packages. At one point I had downloaded over 1GIG of package updates!
--So when I discovered Knoppix, I installed it on a testbox first, then converted my SuSE server. Happily running Debian now.
--Perhaps it would be a good idea to keep the phone numbers and contact info for these minivan owners on hand, and *hire* them in the event of an emergency. It would probably help them pay off all that expensive equipment.;-)
> I started thinking about my chance of winning versus the payoff, and I realized that the casino still had a substantial advantage. At that moment, I started losing, and walked away empty handed.
"Hey, I'm floating 50,000 feet in the air! This is way cool!" ...
(5 minutes later) ...
"Hey, there's no way this can be happening, this is impossible!!" ...
(plummet) ...
(fatality)
...In Heaven:
St. Peter: Some people shouldn't think so dang much!
--The thing is, while they had a good opening weekend - the sales started to tank pretty much *immediately* after that as people realized how unbelievable the movie was. Especially the fight between Banner and his father.
--I predicted this months in advance based on the TV commercials and previews. I should have posted a journal entry saying "Teh Hulk is going to suck and there is NOTHING you can do about it."
--I feel sorry for Ang Lee tho. In the "making-of" behind the scenes you could see he really put his heart and soul into it. But suspension of disbelief only goes so far.
--It's kind of nice to have something of a "star to navigate by" in the person of RMS, but when you get a distro recommendation based on "ethical considerations" rather than WHAT FITS THE USER'S NEEDS, you have to decide if RMS is really the person you should be asking. RMS is rather hard to take in un-diluted doses, this is why the RMS Filter should be applied to all his output so that a happy medium can be found.
--Part of Linux's appeal is the freedom to CHOOSE. If the *only* software that RMS ever uses has to be "free" then sorry, he's missing out.
> Right now if I load Mozilla, 'dd' a 250MB file and re-load mozilla it doesn't hold moz in the cache. My OS should know that Moz is very 'hot' with several loads/day and it should keep all the metadata in the cache. I was also thinking that if we got really fancy, it could prefetch all the data in/usr/lib/mozilla and write a raw 'cache set' to swappable memory, loading a pre-organized directory of files from semi-swapped memory is probably faster than recursing the directories again and again, right?
--What do you expect, man? Do you have 2GB of memory to play around with?
--Two things you could try:
1. I was going to recommend you set the "sticky bit" on various Mozilla files: ' chmod -cv a+t path/filename ' -- but found out that Linux ignores it. ( STICKY FILES - On older Unix systems, the sticky bit caused executable files to be hoarded in swap space. This feature is not useful on modern VM systems, and the Linux kernel ignores the sticky bit on files. Other kernels may use the sticky bit on files for system-defined purposes. On some systems, only the superuser can set the sticky bit on files. ) == http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/chmod.1.html
2. The other solution is to make a Ramdisk that's a little bit bigger than the size of the mozilla package uncompressed, and copy the mozilla package files to it. Then set your PATH variable to check the ramdisk 1st. You also might have to muck about w/ ldconfig, but that's beyond my scope.
--40GB over 100MBit Ethernet still takes quite a while. Altho if the wire speed were faster or his files smaller, your idea would be a good alternative.
There's a thought... This is a 250GB drive, right? So you keep the whole thing Fat32, but make a loopback filesystem of whatever MacOsX supports as well as Linux (ext3?) that's ~170GB in size, dividing the drive in appx. half.
--That only applies to Compact Flash cards and the like, it's because of the way the memory is designed(kind of like physically pushing a ball thru a hole IIRC. After a while, the hole gets kind of, well, goatse'd.)
--The OP has an external HD, which doesn't have the same kind of write limits.
Slashdot Mirror
--For those not in the know, I believe he's talking about Heinlein's "The Moon is a harsh mistress":
h ar shmoon.html
http://www.cyberhaven.com/books/sciencefiction/
---The original Battle Chess for DOS also did the manual-lookup thing, only it was kind of neat - they had you lookup a particular move in a grandmaster-recreation game.
--Actually I *started* with SuSE 6.4 or thereabouts, and stayed with them up to/including 7.3 because of Yast. When they came out with 8.0 and said they were dropping the original, text-based Yast in favor of resource-intensive GUI-based Yast2, I said "Sorry, you've lost my business." Even sent a few emails to the company.
--Yes, I know Yast2 has a text-based mode, but part of the reason for me not liking 8.0 was that you couldn't even *install* w/o using GUI mode. This was significant departure from previous suse installs.
--However, I have used their live-cd (8.2?) to configure my XF86Config-4 file, and set up my LVM partitions. Their front-end utilities are some of the best around.
--Hey, I'm in IL,USA and dropped the $$ for 7.3DVD. I ran it for a couple years, and truth be told I thought it was better than Mandrake at the time. Then got fed up with the 2-gig filesize limitations and how hard it was to update the security/bugfixed packages. At one point I had downloaded over 1GIG of package updates!
--So when I discovered Knoppix, I installed it on a testbox first, then converted my SuSE server. Happily running Debian now.
--Perhaps it would be a good idea to keep the phone numbers and contact info for these minivan owners on hand, and *hire* them in the event of an emergency. It would probably help them pay off all that expensive equipment. ;-)
> I started thinking about my chance of winning versus the payoff, and I realized that the casino still had a substantial advantage. At that moment, I started losing, and walked away empty handed.
...
...
...
...
...In Heaven:
"Hey, I'm floating 50,000 feet in the air! This is way cool!"
(5 minutes later)
"Hey, there's no way this can be happening, this is impossible!!"
(plummet)
(fatality)
St. Peter: Some people shouldn't think so dang much!
Earth to kootch, ever heard of "matinee prices"?
j.k. - I hear you, man.
--I usually check Hollywood Bitchslap, and try to contribute my rating after seeing the movie as well.
http://hollywoodbitchslap.com/
--Sometimes things go really fast on that site, so click on "Reviews" and look around for your movie of choice.
...and the Foot icon should also be applied to all SCO articles. :b
--The thing is, while they had a good opening weekend - the sales started to tank pretty much *immediately* after that as people realized how unbelievable the movie was. Especially the fight between Banner and his father.
--I predicted this months in advance based on the TV commercials and previews. I should have posted a journal entry saying "Teh Hulk is going to suck and there is NOTHING you can do about it."
--I feel sorry for Ang Lee tho. In the "making-of" behind the scenes you could see he really put his heart and soul into it. But suspension of disbelief only goes so far.
Solution to hard-to-install:n oppix/
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/k
--It's kind of nice to have something of a "star to navigate by" in the person of RMS, but when you get a distro recommendation based on "ethical considerations" rather than WHAT FITS THE USER'S NEEDS, you have to decide if RMS is really the person you should be asking. RMS is rather hard to take in un-diluted doses, this is why the RMS Filter should be applied to all his output so that a happy medium can be found.
--Part of Linux's appeal is the freedom to CHOOSE. If the *only* software that RMS ever uses has to be "free" then sorry, he's missing out.
FYI, driver 4496 is out now.
> Right now if I load Mozilla, 'dd' a 250MB file and re-load mozilla it doesn't hold moz in the cache. My OS should know that Moz is very 'hot' with several loads/day and it should keep all the metadata in the cache. I was also thinking that if we got really fancy, it could prefetch all the data in /usr/lib/mozilla and write a raw 'cache set' to swappable memory, loading a pre-organized directory of files from semi-swapped memory is probably faster than recursing the directories again and again, right?
l
--What do you expect, man? Do you have 2GB of memory to play around with?
--Two things you could try:
1. I was going to recommend you set the "sticky bit" on various Mozilla files:
' chmod -cv a+t path/filename ' -- but found out that Linux ignores it. ( STICKY FILES - On older Unix systems, the sticky bit caused executable files to be hoarded in swap space. This feature is not useful on modern VM systems, and the Linux kernel ignores the sticky bit on files. Other kernels may use the sticky bit on files for system-defined purposes. On some systems, only the superuser can set the sticky bit on files. ) == http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/chmod.1.htm
2. The other solution is to make a Ramdisk that's a little bit bigger than the size of the mozilla package uncompressed, and copy the mozilla package files to it. Then set your PATH variable to check the ramdisk 1st. You also might have to muck about w/ ldconfig, but that's beyond my scope.
--That's all I can think of ATM.
--Bah, unless I'm *really* interested in the testing process, I skim thru 2-3 pages and then skip right to the Conclusion at the end.
(obscure)
I Echo that sentiment!
(Six foot tall Rabbit/human hybrid female enters the room)
...
...
...
"The first REAL Playboy bunny!"
(crickets chirping)
(Wild applause)
> I often need to move 40GB+ database dumps.
--40GB over 100MBit Ethernet still takes quite a while. Altho if the wire speed were faster or his files smaller, your idea would be a good alternative.
There's a thought... This is a 250GB drive, right? So you keep the whole thing Fat32, but make a loopback filesystem of whatever MacOsX supports as well as Linux (ext3?) that's ~170GB in size, dividing the drive in appx. half.
Just a wild thought.
Eh, pay no mind ta me, I'm rambling.
--That only applies to Compact Flash cards and the like, it's because of the way the memory is designed(kind of like physically pushing a ball thru a hole IIRC. After a while, the hole gets kind of, well, goatse'd.)
--The OP has an external HD, which doesn't have the same kind of write limits.
Geez, now you're making it sound more like Groundhog Day or Clean Slate ( http://www.imdb.com/Title?0109443 )... ;-)
...Don't we all just wish it could be that easy?
Well, ya can't blame them too much, I think they're all volunteers over there.
But it *is* amazing that this has been going on since March(!!)
--Sounds like they should switch to vsftpd. (I switched to that from proftpd.)
--It's not easy being green... /Kermit
Try ' dpkg -l | less ' and ' dpkg -L pkgname ' to get the files that the pkg contains.
--It IS version 0.4a after all... Pretty much an alpha release I'd say. But I wouldn't even *release* a version with the menus that b0rked...