--Dude, Reiserfs is TINY compared to XFS: (lsmod output)
Module Size Used by Not tainted
xfs 511026 0
reiserfs 161008
ext3 62880
> With ReiserFS you often stumble into incompatibilities with other things in the kernel, such as NFS and LVM.
--Patently false. My SCSI and IDE LVM setup both use Reiserfs, and I have had no problems with using NFS to access Reiserfs partitions or volumes. Some older SuSE NFS userspace implementations had to have a hashed_inodes entry in/etc/exports, (I'm talking SuSE 6.4 and 7.3 here) but I'm using nfs-kernel-server in Debian/Knoppix and it hasn't had any issues.
--If you haven't tried Reiserfs lately, give it a shot. Most of the "problems" people think it has have been fixed for a long time and it's been rock-solid stable for me for ~3 years.
--Actually I won't consider this "finished" until they get *all* the moons in place for the various planets. A new moon was discovered only a few months ago.
--You better hope it either stays in Oregon (or even better - is NEVER implemented.) What passes in one state can be taken up by another.
--As soon as I saw this article I yelled (mentally) "This CANNOT be allowed to happen!" Seriously, would you ever want the government tracking your every move with GPS?? And then charging you MONEY for it? Geez.
> It will probably be another century or two until technology is up to that.
--No. It shouldn't *have* to be that way! We put a man on the moon within 10 years due to Kennedy's vision and boldness, we should be able to say+do the same for a Moon base.
--The US economy is stagnant because there are no "frontiers" anymore. We can *do* this, we just don't have the *will* or the *mandate* to do so.
--I can't take credit for this idea (saw it on/. a few months ago) but I truly believe the economy would start to SKYROCKET if something like the following happened:
o Prez declares that all space-based development efforts will be tax-free for the next 20 years.
o R+D goes into overdrive developing tech that can only be done in space.
o Permanent moon base inside of 15 years, with an inexpensive and reliable way opened up for colonization. Volunteers? Hell *I'd* go - and so would most of the people reading this forum, I bet. "First post" from the Moon!!
--Seriously, wouldn't you like to help found a new nation on the Moon? Personally, I would love to help terraform it. I wanna see some of these science-fiction stories I've been reading all my life come into existence before I die!!
--Personally, I'd rather be sending astronauts into space and developing a permanent presence there (moonbases anyone? saturn exploration anyone? asteroid mining?... Bueller?) rather than listening intently for some stupid signal that might never arrive.
> I don't care if it requires a blood sample to boot, it means that I won't have to do any browser detection or special cases to deliver a site to my clients...
> They'd have difficulty pulling that one off; as their employer, AOL is subject to vicarious liability - within certain limits, it doesn't matter whether it was authorized or not, AOL are still stuck with it.
--Something tells me that if this kind of thing happens ONE MORE TIME, Nullsoft may just be disbanded and the offending employee(s) scattered to the winds. With my luck, if I were working there it would ALREADY have happened long since!
--Hopefully the software will live on somehow tho, and find legit application in the world at large. AOL are p*ssies for "fearing legal consequences of the software."
--Agreed, this is one of/.'s best articles ever. Now for the newbie:
HOWTO close certain ports on your Linux machine: (this is an example Debian/Knoppix installed-to-HD box)
#### Cut+paste after these lines into/usr/local/bin/stopsvcs #### Don't forget to chmod u+x stopsvcs, run as root.
#!/bin/sh # Close port 21: /etc/init.d/proftpd stop
# Close all offered ports in/etc/inetd.conf: /etc/init.d/inetd stop
# Close port 111: /etc/init.d/portmap stop
#Close port 25: killall smail
ps ax
##########
1. Run the nmap commands described by Fyodor in question #9 against ' localhost ' as root. BE SURE that you are not connected to the Internet while doing so, JIC**.
2. You can run ' lsof |grep 9999 |grep LISTEN ' where 9999 is a port number indicated by nmap. Use the '/etc/init.d/blah stop ' method to be nice, or ' killall blah ' to stop the service in question. (Note: omit the ' |grep LISTEN ' when doing lsof for UDP ports.
3. Check results with ' ps ax ' and another ' nmap ' run. For suspicious/unknown ports, ' less/etc/services ' and correlate with the lsof results.
> I would really like for the Galaxy to be much like Isaac Asimov wrote in his Robot Series and Foundation Series. There is still all of the good and bad of human nature, but we will be free of these earthly bounds and able to go just about anywhere we please.
--Um, you *do* know that the Empire Asimov wrote about was in a state of decadance and DECLINE?;-) Also, Spacer society was introverted and dying off slowly, while Earth was being held back...
--It may not necessarily fit the initial description of what he's looking to read, but I guarantee he'll be enthralled with it for at LEAST a summer or two:
The "Left Behind" novels - it's up to 11 books [[obligatory Spinal Tap reference here]] in the series, surpassing L.Ron Hubbard's crappy "dekalogy" - and the next one is coming out next year. Five straight #1 entries on the NYT bestseller lists.
http://www.leftbehind.com/
--A few books into the series, there *is* a mention of portable computers and cell phones that are beyond anything we have now... But it's not exactly tech-centered. I'm a fast reader, and managed to devour the entire series by starting back in late February - but this guy will probably be hooked for a long time.:)
--Actually yahoo's spam blocking is really quite good. Satisfied user since ~1996 or '97. Even if they block some stuff you're subscribed to, you can instantly tell them to un-block in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
--Dude, Reiserfs is TINY compared to XFS: (lsmod output)
Module Size Used by Not tainted
xfs 511026 0
reiserfs 161008
ext3 62880
> With ReiserFS you often stumble into incompatibilities with other things in the kernel, such as NFS and LVM.
--Patently false. My SCSI and IDE LVM setup both use Reiserfs, and I have had no problems with using NFS to access Reiserfs partitions or volumes. Some older SuSE NFS userspace implementations had to have a hashed_inodes entry in /etc/exports, (I'm talking SuSE 6.4 and 7.3 here) but I'm using nfs-kernel-server in Debian/Knoppix and it hasn't had any issues.
--If you haven't tried Reiserfs lately, give it a shot. Most of the "problems" people think it has have been fixed for a long time and it's been rock-solid stable for me for ~3 years.
--If you lost data, that's *your* fault. This is why we have a little something called "backups."
--I've been using Reiserfs since SuSE 6.(2?) and never had a problem with it. Believe me, it's stable.
+1 for "obscure use of MIDI" in a humorous reference... :)
--Actually I won't consider this "finished" until they get *all* the moons in place for the various planets. A new moon was discovered only a few months ago.
--Gesundheit! :P
--Five hours after the story was posted, and it's still slashdotted all to hell...
--Of course, the true uber-geek knows how to use the three shells!!
("Be Well" them for me.)
...a Jacuzzi in the room, and a bidet in the bathroom. NOTHING. If this room of the "future" don't have those, guess who ain't stayin' there. :b
--You better hope it either stays in Oregon (or even better - is NEVER implemented.) What passes in one state can be taken up by another.
--As soon as I saw this article I yelled (mentally) "This CANNOT be allowed to happen!" Seriously, would you ever want the government tracking your every move with GPS?? And then charging you MONEY for it? Geez.
--Voila, you get Velcro Lizard! *rimshot*
> It will probably be another century or two until technology is up to that.
/. a few months ago) but I truly believe the economy would start to SKYROCKET if something like the following happened:
--No. It shouldn't *have* to be that way! We put a man on the moon within 10 years due to Kennedy's vision and boldness, we should be able to say+do the same for a Moon base.
--The US economy is stagnant because there are no "frontiers" anymore. We can *do* this, we just don't have the *will* or the *mandate* to do so.
--I can't take credit for this idea (saw it on
o Prez declares that all space-based development efforts will be tax-free for the next 20 years.
o R+D goes into overdrive developing tech that can only be done in space.
o Permanent moon base inside of 15 years, with an inexpensive and reliable way opened up for colonization. Volunteers? Hell *I'd* go - and so would most of the people reading this forum, I bet. "First post" from the Moon!!
--Seriously, wouldn't you like to help found a new nation on the Moon? Personally, I would love to help terraform it. I wanna see some of these science-fiction stories I've been reading all my life come into existence before I die!!
--Yep, I'll take over-engineering almost any time. Build it to last, it makes for less of a hassle.
> unless, of course, ET lives due north or south...
--Heh; I guess that's *one* way to hide in plain sight... One of my favorite theories is that they're just on the opposite side of the sun.
--Personally, I'd rather be sending astronauts into space and developing a permanent presence there (moonbases anyone? saturn exploration anyone? asteroid mining? ... Bueller?) rather than listening intently for some stupid signal that might never arrive.
o The butler did it.
:(
:P
oo Everybody dies at the end.
oo He leaves her/she leaves him (but they get back together)
o He's/she's NOT REALLY DEAD and will come back to life.
oo There will be a chase scene. Perhaps more than one.
oo There WILL BE a fight of some kind.
oo There's a built-in sequel - they even do it just for the money sometimes, and to Hell with the plot.
o TLG are DEAD. Get over it.
o SW Episode III will probably suck too. So will Hulk.
o Gollum dies.
o Your popcorn has been pissed in, and you probably deserve your money back.
--Now please excuse me, I have to go watch Finding Nemo again.
> I don't care if it requires a blood sample to boot, it means that I won't have to do any browser detection or special cases to deliver a site to my clients...
--Don't give MS any more ideas!!
> They'd have difficulty pulling that one off; as their employer, AOL is subject to vicarious liability - within certain limits, it doesn't matter whether it was authorized or not, AOL are still stuck with it.
--Something tells me that if this kind of thing happens ONE MORE TIME, Nullsoft may just be disbanded and the offending employee(s) scattered to the winds. With my luck, if I were working there it would ALREADY have happened long since!
--Hopefully the software will live on somehow tho, and find legit application in the world at large. AOL are p*ssies for "fearing legal consequences of the software."
--Agreed, this is one of /.'s best articles ever. Now for the newbie:
/usr/local/bin/stopsvcs
/etc/init.d/proftpd stop
/etc/inetd.conf:
/etc/init.d/inetd stop
/etc/init.d/portmap stop
/etc/init.d/blah stop ' method to be nice, or ' killall blah ' to stop the service in question. (Note: omit the ' |grep LISTEN ' when doing lsof for UDP ports.
/etc/services ' and correlate with the lsof results.
HOWTO close certain ports on your Linux machine: (this is an example Debian/Knoppix installed-to-HD box)
#### Cut+paste after these lines into
#### Don't forget to chmod u+x stopsvcs, run as root.
#!/bin/sh
# Close port 21:
# Close all offered ports in
# Close port 111:
#Close port 25:
killall smail
ps ax
##########
1. Run the nmap commands described by Fyodor in question #9 against ' localhost ' as root. BE SURE that you are not connected to the Internet while doing so, JIC**.
2. You can run ' lsof |grep 9999 |grep LISTEN ' where 9999 is a port number indicated by nmap. Use the '
3. Check results with ' ps ax ' and another ' nmap ' run. For suspicious/unknown ports, ' less
**JIC == JustInCase
> I would really like for the Galaxy to be much like Isaac Asimov wrote in his Robot Series and Foundation Series. There is still all of the good and bad of human nature, but we will be free of these earthly bounds and able to go just about anywhere we please.
;-) Also, Spacer society was introverted and dying off slowly, while Earth was being held back...
--Um, you *do* know that the Empire Asimov wrote about was in a state of decadance and DECLINE?
--It may not necessarily fit the initial description of what he's looking to read, but I guarantee he'll be enthralled with it for at LEAST a summer or two:
:)
The "Left Behind" novels - it's up to 11 books [[obligatory Spinal Tap reference here]] in the series, surpassing L.Ron Hubbard's crappy "dekalogy" - and the next one is coming out next year. Five straight #1 entries on the NYT bestseller lists.
http://www.leftbehind.com/
--A few books into the series, there *is* a mention of portable computers and cell phones that are beyond anything we have now... But it's not exactly tech-centered. I'm a fast reader, and managed to devour the entire series by starting back in late February - but this guy will probably be hooked for a long time.
--Yep, and it's shore hard ta be fooled by them there banner-ads when ye're runnin' Linux, buoy!!
http://www.quaker80.com/docs/Once%20in%20a%20Lifet ime.htm :)
--That's great, too bad it will probably cost between $400-$500.
> The solution is to use a finger-like protocol...
:)
--No.
--The solution is to find a spammer that has sent this garbage to children, whether "with intent" or not, and do the following:
o Prove beyond reasonable doubt that this is the guy.
o Drag him by the hair out of his house.
o Call the local news affiliate.
o PUBLICALLY EXECUTE HIM. On Live National TV. (I doubt there's a jury in the COUNTRY that would convict you, esp. if the spammer lives in the South.)
--Set a few graphic examples and watch the incoming spam magically disappear!
[[/satire]] (Or is it?)
--Actually yahoo's spam blocking is really quite good. Satisfied user since ~1996 or '97. Even if they block some stuff you're subscribed to, you can instantly tell them to un-block in the future.