You need backups because reiser doesn't supply good recovery/diagnostics tools. Why would you use a file system that doesn't have good recovery tools?
And how the fuck do you know that from his single anecdote? How do you know that the drive would have been recoverable if it was Ext2?
Just because he thought he could read data off of it doesn't mean that data was anything that still even vaguely resembled his files. For all you know it was just the controller chip spewing random bits ad infinitum.
Also, out of interest, how many times have you had HDDs die and then actually been able to recover stuff using ext2.fsck?
How many times have you accidently deleted files and then recovered them with the ext2 undelete tool? Has that tool even been updated in the last 5 years? I bet it wouldn't even compile.
Definitely make sure you have enough ground straps and a place to ground them to......
And make sure you remove those damn safety resistors. They are for pussies who lack faith in their own abilities. It also helps to add back that element of excitement that is so often missing in today's workshops.
Could someone who's already gone out and bought a Nano comment on the fast forward / rewind performance?
I ask because I own a Shuffle and I find its performance in this area to be somewhat dissapointing. Mainly the fact that it fast forwards about 1 second for every second that you hold down the button.
I realise that this will be modded troll due to the outrageous suggestion that an Apple product may be in some way imperfect, but an answer would be appreciated anyway. I expect that it's all my fault for being stupid and uncool enough to actually want to use this feature occasionally.
i like the idea of the daughter-board as you get less electrical interference from motherboard components.
Do you enclose your PCI cards in Faraday cages and filter all the signal and power lines on the PCI bus? No?
Then the level of electrical interference is exactly the same. If you plug the daughterboard into the motherboard the electrical environment is going to be exactly the same.
If you're worried about interference, go with an external Firewire/USB2 device.
Utilizing all 4 PLs would provide better security. Fortunately, the company I'm at now has done so.
There's more to a secure OS than privilege levels. Is your OS also completely free of any bugs that would allow privilege elevation?
You're not going to show us the code, so at the moment your OS is on the same level as snake oil encryption products. It may very well be the best thing since sliced bread, but we only have your word for that. And since you seem to think that being able to use Rings 0-3 on its own is enough to make your OS completely secure for all time, your word does not currently count for very much.
The led's used for this convert >99% of the electricity put into them into usable light.
Is that actually true? There must have been some major advances in LED efficiency recently, because I was under the impression that it was more like 30-40% at the high end.
A quick Google only gave efficiencies in lumens per watt and I'm far too lazy to try and work it out.
I am having trouble reconciling your description of ZFS as "real" with the fact that it hasn't actually been released.
Can you please provide detailed instructions on how we're going to get this "real FS"?
Are you suggesting that we steal the code out of Sun's Labs? I don't think your manager is going to be very happy with that suggestion when he finds out, is he now?
I hope you remembered to use an anonymizor like all the other Sun employees do when they're shilling on company time. Is that an official company policy by the way? Just curious.
At the moment her only option is email. Thats fine, until she spends most of her morning emailing the same file to people who suddenly decide they need a copy too (if its not her its her secretary).
I have a simple solution. When somebody new decides that they need a copy, she could just contact the last person she sent it to and ask them to forward it to the next recipient.
To get around the tedium of repeatedly sending e-mails she could simply phone that person or maybe even write a letter asking them to forward the e-mail to the requestor.
How long till we start measuring population density by data traffic?
When everybody has an equal ability to generate the traffic? Otherwise your study would conclude that most of the countries on Earth are almost entirely unpopulated.
Not to be a buzz kill, but it looks like we'll have to wait for a lot of development and middle ware maturity before we see the real potential in cell processors.
Yes, but why worry about something so trivial when we've got anti-gravity technology?
Blachford is just as qualified to talk about processor technology as he is about physics. He's an attention seeking charlatan lacking either the experience or qualifications to contribute anything but hype and bullshit. And he's becoming just as ubiquitous and irritating as that Piquapelle prick.
this is "geeks versus jocks" high school level of insight going on here
Do you know what I learnt in high school? I learnt how to begin sentences with capital letters and end them with full stops.
Seriously, there's people who can't spell and I have no problem with them. There are people who can't type and I have no problem with them.
And then there are people who can spell, who can type, have no problem using the English language but are just fucking lazy.
Now I know you're going to come back and call me shallow and obsessed with detail etc..etc..
But just answer this one question. Why the fucking fuck do you bother using commas and quotation marks? Do you have some kind of hardon for those but are disgusted by all other punctuation? Were you sexually abused by a full stop when you were a child?
Or are you a psychopath who gets a kick out of posting shit that's difficult to read on a public forum?
OS X, quite honestly after years of using Linux, is what Linux will always wish to become.
This is true - Linux has always wanted to become a closed source, proprietary OS controlled by a single corporation.
Oh, and you're right - OSX is not simply a BSD derivative that runs on over-priced toasters. It's a low performance BSD derivative that now runs on generic x86 hardware. I bet it must really hurt now that you don't feel quite so special.
I'm sure a quick circle jerk with all your Mac owning friends will make you feel better.
Q: What's worse than listening to an experienced writer who knows his tech speculate on what Intel's next chip will look like?
Did you just call Nicholas Blachford "an experienced writer who knows his tech"? Bwhahahahha!
There's no way of saying this without resorting to flamebait I'm afraid. You are fucking retarded.
As punishment, go and read his ideas for anti-gravity machines until the rest of your tragically un-critical brain dribbles out of your ears.
As a final thought I'd just like to point out that many Slashdotters do actually have jobs, some of them in IT, which makes them infinitely more qualified to comment than BlachTard.
But then I realised that it would be cheaper just to move to Pluto where cooling would be an easy-to-solve problem.
How did you work that out? Since there is no air or likely any other significant atmosphere on Pluto the only way of dissipating heat will be through radiation.
How you going to get rid of the heat? Wait until your CPU is glowing red hot?
Isn't the majority of OSS a "scratch an itch" hobby?
Yes, but that's not relevant here because Zeta isn't OSS. This is a half finished commercial OS that gets sold to unsuspecting Germans on their shopping channel as a WinXP replacement.
Allowances can be made for people that write software for no personal benefit even if it's rough round the edges. No such allowances should be made for commercial software vendors, especially these clowns.
The guy might have been slightly trollish in the apple-cock statement, but I'd personally of modded it funny:P
Yes, but you have a sense of humour. I've found that the set of people with a sense of humour and the set of people who own Apple products very rarely intersect.
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Try to bring it up in Firefox and you get a blank screen... :(
Yeah, right.
You know when you went through all of the Javascript options and disabled them because you're a super-1337 security guru?
Well, funnily enough there are side effects.
Did I just see what I thought I saw?
Nope. It's just the iTunes newsletter being incorrectly identified as spam.
I do hope you enjoy being chased to the far corners of the universe before being dismembered by a herd of rabid Apple zelaots.
You need backups because reiser doesn't supply good recovery/diagnostics tools. Why would you use a file system that doesn't have good recovery tools?
And how the fuck do you know that from his single anecdote? How do you know that the drive would have been recoverable if it was Ext2?
Just because he thought he could read data off of it doesn't mean that data was anything that still even vaguely resembled his files. For all you know it was just the controller chip spewing random bits ad infinitum.
Also, out of interest, how many times have you had HDDs die and then actually been able to recover stuff using ext2.fsck?
How many times have you accidently deleted files and then recovered them with the ext2 undelete tool? Has that tool even been updated in the last 5 years? I bet it wouldn't even compile.
And - he apparently also has a fine sense of humor:
"Google, because they are in the honeymoon phase, people think that they do all things at all times in all ways."
Sorry, I can't find any humour in that sentence. In fact I'm not sure I can even find any fucking meaning in that sentence.
Unless, perhaps, you find really bad grammar amusing.
Definitely make sure you have enough ground straps and a place to ground them to......
And make sure you remove those damn safety resistors. They are for pussies who lack faith in their own abilities. It also helps to add back that element of excitement that is so often missing in today's workshops.
Keeping the CD's and keys with the machine makes a software audit easier. This copy and key are installed on this machine.
Great idea! Because you know this is the sort of thing the average Slashdotter is always losing sleep over.
Could someone who's already gone out and bought a Nano comment on the fast forward / rewind performance?
I ask because I own a Shuffle and I find its performance in this area to be somewhat dissapointing. Mainly the fact that it fast forwards about 1 second for every second that you hold down the button.
I realise that this will be modded troll due to the outrageous suggestion that an Apple product may be in some way imperfect, but an answer would be appreciated anyway. I expect that it's all my fault for being stupid and uncool enough to actually want to use this feature occasionally.
As a mainly KDE user, it pains me to say this but the new Gnome work looks really awesome.
It may well look great but have you actually used it? Because in my experience that is where things usually start to go downhill, fast.
i like the idea of the daughter-board as you get less electrical interference from motherboard components.
Do you enclose your PCI cards in Faraday cages and filter all the signal and power lines on the PCI bus? No?
Then the level of electrical interference is exactly the same. If you plug the daughterboard into the motherboard the electrical environment is going to be exactly the same.
If you're worried about interference, go with an external Firewire/USB2 device.
Utilizing all 4 PLs would provide better security. Fortunately, the company I'm at now has done so.
There's more to a secure OS than privilege levels. Is your OS also completely free of any bugs that would allow privilege elevation?
You're not going to show us the code, so at the moment your OS is on the same level as snake oil encryption products. It may very well be the best thing since sliced bread, but we only have your word for that. And since you seem to think that being able to use Rings 0-3 on its own is enough to make your OS completely secure for all time, your word does not currently count for very much.
Because it's a particularly intelligent and well written comment. Not only does it have punctuation, but it's actually in the right places as well.
This makes it virtually unique in Slashdot history. Hang on, I've just realised that he used the word "affect" correctly. It is unique.
The led's used for this convert >99% of the electricity put into them into usable light.
Is that actually true? There must have been some major advances in LED efficiency recently, because I was under the impression that it was more like 30-40% at the high end.
A quick Google only gave efficiencies in lumens per watt and I'm far too lazy to try and work it out.
On a LFS 2.4 kernel I had maybe 4. On Debian 2.6 kernel I have 91 modules loaded and many of them are for hardware which I don't have
Could you not have started your comment with that line? Then I could have avoided wasting my time reading the rest of it.
Are you saying that you can successfully build an LFS system, but you can't work out how to stop kernel modules from loading?
What exactly did you learn from LFS?
I am having trouble reconciling your description of ZFS as "real" with the fact that it hasn't actually been released.
Can you please provide detailed instructions on how we're going to get this "real FS"?
Are you suggesting that we steal the code out of Sun's Labs? I don't think your manager is going to be very happy with that suggestion when he finds out, is he now?
I hope you remembered to use an anonymizor like all the other Sun employees do when they're shilling on company time. Is that an official company policy by the way? Just curious.
At the moment her only option is email. Thats fine, until she spends most of her morning emailing the same file to people who suddenly decide they need a copy too (if its not her its her secretary).
I have a simple solution. When somebody new decides that they need a copy, she could just contact the last person she sent it to and ask them to forward it to the next recipient.
To get around the tedium of repeatedly sending e-mails she could simply phone that person or maybe even write a letter asking them to forward the e-mail to the requestor.
Don't worry, there's no need to thank me.
How long till we start measuring population density by data traffic?
When everybody has an equal ability to generate the traffic? Otherwise your study would conclude that most of the countries on Earth are almost entirely unpopulated.
Please tell me you're not a statistician.
Not to be a buzz kill, but it looks like we'll have to wait for a lot of development and middle ware maturity before we see the real potential in cell processors.
Yes, but why worry about something so trivial when we've got anti-gravity technology?
http://www.blachford.info/quantum/gravity.html
And faster than light travel?
http://www.blachford.info/quantum/fastlight.html
Blachford is just as qualified to talk about processor technology as he is about physics. He's an attention seeking charlatan lacking either the experience or qualifications to contribute anything but hype and bullshit. And he's becoming just as ubiquitous and irritating as that Piquapelle prick.
Does this mean that Linux will come up with an OpenBSD compatibility module to take advantage of the OpenBSD drivers?
Haven't quite got your head round this "Open Source" stuff yet, have you?
this is "geeks versus jocks" high school level of insight going on here
Do you know what I learnt in high school? I learnt how to begin sentences with capital letters and end them with full stops.
Seriously, there's people who can't spell and I have no problem with them. There are people who can't type and I have no problem with them.
And then there are people who can spell, who can type, have no problem using the English language but are just fucking lazy.
Now I know you're going to come back and call me shallow and obsessed with detail etc..etc..
But just answer this one question. Why the fucking fuck do you bother using commas and quotation marks? Do you have some kind of hardon for those but are disgusted by all other punctuation? Were you sexually abused by a full stop when you were a child?
Or are you a psychopath who gets a kick out of posting shit that's difficult to read on a public forum?
OS X, quite honestly after years of using Linux, is what Linux will always wish to become.
This is true - Linux has always wanted to become a closed source, proprietary OS controlled by a single corporation.
Oh, and you're right - OSX is not simply a BSD derivative that runs on over-priced toasters. It's a low performance BSD derivative that now runs on generic x86 hardware. I bet it must really hurt now that you don't feel quite so special.
I'm sure a quick circle jerk with all your Mac owning friends will make you feel better.
Q: What's worse than listening to an experienced writer who knows his tech speculate on what Intel's next chip will look like?
Did you just call Nicholas Blachford "an experienced writer who knows his tech"? Bwhahahahha!
There's no way of saying this without resorting to flamebait I'm afraid. You are fucking retarded.
As punishment, go and read his ideas for anti-gravity machines until the rest of your tragically un-critical brain dribbles out of your ears.
As a final thought I'd just like to point out that many Slashdotters do actually have jobs, some of them in IT, which makes them infinitely more qualified to comment than BlachTard.
But then I realised that it would be cheaper just to move to Pluto where cooling would be an easy-to-solve problem.
How did you work that out? Since there is no air or likely any other significant atmosphere on Pluto the only way of dissipating heat will be through radiation.
How you going to get rid of the heat? Wait until your CPU is glowing red hot?
Looks like its nothing more then just some storage space.. Big deal..
Now if you can actuall run applications on it, now that would be something to look at.
I bow before your superior reading comprehension skills, oh mighty one.
Did it not occur to you that a 400Mhz PPC processor and 64MB of RAM was a little excessive for a USB storage device?
Isn't the majority of OSS a "scratch an itch" hobby?
Yes, but that's not relevant here because Zeta isn't OSS. This is a half finished commercial OS that gets sold to unsuspecting Germans on their shopping channel as a WinXP replacement.
Allowances can be made for people that write software for no personal benefit even if it's rough round the edges. No such allowances should be made for commercial software vendors, especially these clowns.
The guy might have been slightly trollish in the apple-cock statement, but I'd personally of modded it funny :P
Yes, but you have a sense of humour. I've found that the set of people with a sense of humour and the set of people who own Apple products very rarely intersect.