--*The* #1 reason why VESA died out, is because PCI was faster. Extrapolate.
--Yes, "classic" PCI will probably still be around for years because of compatibility/warehouse stock issues, but look at the vast majority of new motherboards in the last few years - ISA has pretty much died.
--If $DISTRO doesn't run/support a stock Linus kernel, I won't use it. Period. About the 1st thing I did when installing SuSE 7.3 (years ago) is upgrade the outdated (2.4.10?) kernel to the latest Linus 2.4 source code. Everything still worked.
--What good is your extra money if you never have TIME to do anything with it? What good is buying things with your extra money if you never spend any time at home?
--A balnace *has* to be struck between work and personal life. I don't care if you're a single bachelor even - if you devote your entire life to work, you rob yourself. Your employer does NOT CARE about you. Stand up for your personal time, and don't agree to be a slave.
--I'm using Knoppix/Debian's LVM on both IDE and SCSI drives on both of my home servers (different logical volumes tho.)
--As far as LVM being "ready for prime time" - well, it works - altho I haven't had to deal with a drive failure yet. It doesn't have a decent free frontend (ncurses) interface unless you use something like SuSE's LiveCD (yast) to set things up.
--BTW, I recommend using Reiserfs over LVM. Just my experience.
> Months later, I'm still in bad health, attitude hasn't really improved, and I have made the decision to let my college degree gather dust rather than go through that again. I'm looking at going into manual labor, if my health improves enough to allow it, and taking a handful of sleeping pills, if it doesn't.
--Seriously dude, get pro counseling. I say this as a friend, and as someone who has been thru the wringer personally as well. Get yourself healed mentally.
--It doesn't have a GOTO (or equivalent) - which is a major fault, but you can do lots of cool stuff with shell programming.
--After picking up a Bash programming book from O'Reilly I was able to write quite a lot of helpful scripts that are used almost every day on my Linux boxen.
http://safari.oreilly.com/?XmlId=1-56592-347-2 ( Online version ) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bash2/ ( Print version )
--Have a main actor or the producer come on-stage before the show starts and say something like this:
"Remember the episode(s) that **really sucked?** I want you to know that those episodes NEVER HAPPENED from the standpoint of this show. We're going forward, and we'd like you all to forget the bad stuff and concentrate on what we're developing plot-wise from here on. We have re-committed to developing this series in a quality way, and hope that you, the audience, are pleased with our efforts.
Thank you."
--God, I wish they would do this for Witchblade. The whole 1st year ROCKED until the **last freaking episode.** (Ex-fans of the series will know what I'm talking about; the whole stupid time-travel BOGOSITY.) Then the entire 2nd season sucked so bad, I stopped watching. Result: They cancelled the series, and for good reason. But maybe they could bring back the kind of quality that made us love the 1st season.
--Hans, why does the ' mkreiserfs ' program not have a switch to check for badblocks? Also, what does reiserfs *do* if a block goes bad or a reiserfs system is created on a device with bad blocks?
--Reiser4 was planned from the ground up to surpass v3. One of its features is delayed block allocation until write-to-disk, which is expected to make the whole filesystem much more efficient. They will also be making the size of the journal smaller, which should finally enable me to start using Reiserfs on 100-Meg Zip disks.:)
--Hans has said in the past that he believes filesystems should be re-written from scratch every few years, so they can take advantage of algorithm improvements and new concepts. He's making good on his word. The V4 whitepaper ( http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html ) is an interesting read, especially if you're into/understand database design.
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--Don't give them any more ideas!!
--*The* #1 reason why VESA died out, is because PCI was faster. Extrapolate.
--Yes, "classic" PCI will probably still be around for years because of compatibility/warehouse stock issues, but look at the vast majority of new motherboards in the last few years - ISA has pretty much died.
--If $DISTRO doesn't run/support a stock Linus kernel, I won't use it. Period. About the 1st thing I did when installing SuSE 7.3 (years ago) is upgrade the outdated (2.4.10?) kernel to the latest Linus 2.4 source code. Everything still worked.
--If I had mod points today, You'd get +1 Insightful.
Hell, I said the same thing about Klinton. :P
Orrin, is that you??
--Then perhaps the senator should be summarily kicked in the nuts for suggesting something as stupid as this.
--The American public needs to DE-ELECT and RETIRE Senator Hatch as soon as possible, it would seem!
--What good is your extra money if you never have TIME to do anything with it? What good is buying things with your extra money if you never spend any time at home?
--A balnace *has* to be struck between work and personal life. I don't care if you're a single bachelor even - if you devote your entire life to work, you rob yourself. Your employer does NOT CARE about you. Stand up for your personal time, and don't agree to be a slave.
--Not if they turn them off... :b
--Of course, they could always subcontract out to Pixar.
--Try 27 Megs, and that's .bz2. Gzip'd is over 30Megs.
--Um, please consider that MIR lasted for *years* beyond it's intended lifetime, as well. Put it that light, the project was a roaring success.
--Sorry, that means use Reiserfs *along with* LVM.
--I'm using Knoppix/Debian's LVM on both IDE and SCSI drives on both of my home servers (different logical volumes tho.)
--As far as LVM being "ready for prime time" - well, it works - altho I haven't had to deal with a drive failure yet. It doesn't have a decent free frontend (ncurses) interface unless you use something like SuSE's LiveCD (yast) to set things up.
--BTW, I recommend using Reiserfs over LVM. Just my experience.
> Months later, I'm still in bad health, attitude hasn't really improved, and I have made the decision to let my college degree gather dust rather than go through that again. I'm looking at going into manual labor, if my health improves enough to allow it, and taking a handful of sleeping pills, if it doesn't.
--Seriously dude, get pro counseling. I say this as a friend, and as someone who has been thru the wringer personally as well. Get yourself healed mentally.
--Best of luck to ya.
--It doesn't have a GOTO (or equivalent) - which is a major fault, but you can do lots of cool stuff with shell programming.
( Online version )
--After picking up a Bash programming book from O'Reilly I was able to write quite a lot of helpful scripts that are used almost every day on my Linux boxen.
http://safari.oreilly.com/?XmlId=1-56592-347-2
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bash2/
( Print version )
--Free mod to the 1st one that posts a "Thieves World" reference...
--But gzip -9 creates similar-sized files (usually only a couple of meg difference for large ones) and is MUCH FASTER than bzip2.
"Armor plated cockroaches!" Favorite line of the movie.
--Have a main actor or the producer come on-stage before the show starts and say something like this:
"Remember the episode(s) that **really sucked?** I want you to know that those episodes NEVER HAPPENED from the standpoint of this show. We're going forward, and we'd like you all to forget the bad stuff and concentrate on what we're developing plot-wise from here on. We have re-committed to developing this series in a quality way, and hope that you, the audience, are pleased with our efforts.
Thank you."
--God, I wish they would do this for Witchblade. The whole 1st year ROCKED until the **last freaking episode.** (Ex-fans of the series will know what I'm talking about; the whole stupid time-travel BOGOSITY.) Then the entire 2nd season sucked so bad, I stopped watching. Result: They cancelled the series, and for good reason. But maybe they could bring back the kind of quality that made us love the 1st season.
Maybe.
--Seeing that list reminded me... I hope they bring back Michael Ironside.
--Dr. Susan Calvin, and yes. George Powell was the other expert, and some of their adventures are pretty funny...
s /m2582. htm
Thx to Google for the help.
http://www.essaymill.com/free_essays/inmer
--Ah, Theora... I immediately thought of her when I saw the name; interesting that the codec is actually *based* on who came to mind.
p /pays/ amanda47.jpg
--Yeah, she was hot:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/amanda.pays/scans
> You can't ignore the crappy historic stability record.
--(shrug) Sure I can. As I said, I've been using it for ~3 YEARS with *no problems.* What are the *dates* on those archives you're talking about?
--Hans, why does the ' mkreiserfs ' program not have a switch to check for badblocks? Also, what does reiserfs *do* if a block goes bad or a reiserfs system is created on a device with bad blocks?
--Reiser4 was planned from the ground up to surpass v3. One of its features is delayed block allocation until write-to-disk, which is expected to make the whole filesystem much more efficient. They will also be making the size of the journal smaller, which should finally enable me to start using Reiserfs on 100-Meg Zip disks. :)
--Hans has said in the past that he believes filesystems should be re-written from scratch every few years, so they can take advantage of algorithm improvements and new concepts. He's making good on his word. The V4 whitepaper ( http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html ) is an interesting read, especially if you're into/understand database design.