According to Birrell, the FreeBSD DTrace port passes 793 of Sun's 1039 tests for the application.
"That means that there are some very exciting traces that can be done on FreeBSD right now," he said. "Every syscall can be traced, including those that are loaded in kernel modules. Every function in the kernel can be traced from the low-level interrupts up."
While it's not as useful as the Solaris DTrace, it certainly looks like it's ready for primetime already.
Most of the time it takes me to open documents at work is the time taken to download it from some distant shared drive, the spead of the actual document matters little to me compared to the actual size of the file - that's where my wasted seconds a day go!
This is from the article, read it in a yoda voice: "Today a very important day for the music industry is"... although he has great use of the force, he doesn't make a very good editor!
Strange, they must've changed something... I used to be able to ssh in with root access - being able to "init 6" etc... I just ssh'ed in and I can no longer do this! Grrrr! Will have to talk to customer support.
$15 sounds like a lot for a vps to me! For example, I use Westhost, who offer a linux vps for $3.95 without MySQL or $6.95 with. I'm sure there's probably cheaper around but I've found them to be quite good.
"Nothing says impractical as typing C source code on a 3x4 numpad!"
Perhaps you should try a Treo then, it has a qwerty keyboard and I can ssh in to my home machine from it and use vi... it's great for when I leave my machine on all day and need to turn it off before my other half gets home - she likes to nag about electricity bills!
"I can't seem to find this "middle-click"-button that you speak of on my iBook.. Help, anyone?"
Sure, ctrl-left click usualy acts as a middle button in Firefox. Having said this I just tested this on my box and it works for opening links in new tabs but wouldn't close them. Not sure if TabMixPlus stopped the closing behaviour or not but you can change it back to ctrl-click closes tabs in the options. I use ctrl-click a lot on my laptop... why don't they make more laptops with middle buttons?? =/
I would blame it on Gnome or KDE rather than GTK - I use Fedora Core 5 with WindowMaker (not as a window manager for KDE or Gnome - just WindowMaker) and my machine flies - no GTK problems here.
"That is like saying Mandrake/Mandriva is a KDE version of RedHat, which is was many moons ago."
No, it's like saying Mandrake/Mandriva was originally a KDE version of RedHat! I know past & present tense is a tough thing to grasp... but hang in there!
Does anyone recognise the multilingual background in this screenshot? I've seen it before somewhere, while working for Sun I think... perhaps a Solaris screen... or something to do with the old java stations?
"Have you read the memo from those software people?" the Boss asks, tapping some paper on my desk.
"It's in my In Tray, I just haven't got round to reading it yet."
"It's on your DESK!"
"Yes, and my desk is my In Tray."
>Sigh< "Well can you read it now please?"
"Sure."
"RIGHT now please?"
"It's that urgent?"
"It wasn't two weeks ago when I put it.. on your.. In Tray, but it's urgent now."
"Why?"
"Because it's a special offer which expires today and they've just rung me about it and are going to call back in 10 minutes."
"Oh really. Well how's about we have a gander at it then while we wander back to your office for the call.. Blah, blah, secret weapon, blah, blah German spies, blah, blah."
"What the hell are you reading?" the Boss blurts, snatching the paper off me. "Secret weapons!?"
"It's just something I say to myself when wading through weasel words," I say, wresting the paper back from the Boss.
"What does it mean?"
"It means they're trying to shaft us."
"What? You haven't even read it all yet - there's more than one page!"
"Yes, but it starts 'Dear Valuable VIP Customer'. They may as well say 'Please drop your pants and bend over the table by that unnecessarily large hammer action masonry drill'."
"They're one of our software vendors, it's just a renewal notice."
"That remains to be seen," I say, flipping the page. "Blah, blah, blah, royal shafting."
"Where?"
"There," I say, pointing to the last page of the renewal invoice.
"It's just the bill!"
"Yes, but see the little boxes for you to tick the products you want to renew with larger boxes for the number of licenses that you wish to renew?"
"Yes."
"And all the boxes are empty?"
"Yes."
"How do they get filled in?"
"I suppose I fill them in."
"With what?"
"I tick the Boxes and enter the numbers."
"Which boxes and which numbers?" I ask.
"I DON'T BLOODY KNOW!" the Boss snaps, getting a little tired of the interrogation.
"And there's my point. We don't even USE some of this software, so suddenly you'd start paying maintenance on software we don't have. More importantly, after we've been paying for... I dunno... three years, they'll say there's a major release and we need to pay for that, which we we'll do because we're paying maintenance on it so we must be using it somewhere. The best bit though, is the number of licenses. We're a Valuable VIP Customer..."
"What does that mean?"
"It means they think we're stupid and have lots of money to spend. If we're that valuable surely they'd REMEMBER the number of licenses we had and just prefill in the form for us."
"So they're.........?"
"Wanting us to do one of two things - mistakenly fill in the form with an overly large number so they make a bit more cash. OR, mistakenly fill in the form with a low number so they wait a couple of months before saying that a routine license review noticed we underestimated our licenses by a certain amount and that because the expiry period has passed these licenses now cost an extortionate amount. 'Which would still be cheaper than involving the legal representatives of our two companies'..."
"So how many licenses do we use?"
"Who knows? The larger the company the more obscure the number of licenses held. When it's completely impossible you become a Valuable VIP customer."
"So what are we going to do?"
"Well you could go from room to room counting licenses."
"I don't thi..."
"Or we could force an application out to every desktop to report licenses - which would upset the civil libertarians who'd think we we
Nautilus controls the desktop aswell as being a file manager. If you just want the file manager use "nautilus --no-desktop", alternatively set GConf, see this post.
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Errr... the buyer is the one on trial already!
"Now compare this to Birrell's announcement:..."
Also from tfa:
According to Birrell, the FreeBSD DTrace port passes 793 of Sun's 1039 tests for the application.
"That means that there are some very exciting traces that can be done on FreeBSD right now," he said. "Every syscall can be traced, including those that are loaded in kernel modules. Every function in the kernel can be traced from the low-level interrupts up."
While it's not as useful as the Solaris DTrace, it certainly looks like it's ready for primetime already.
Most of the time it takes me to open documents at work is the time taken to download it from some distant shared drive, the spead of the actual document matters little to me compared to the actual size of the file - that's where my wasted seconds a day go!
"I for one welcome our new mind-reading overlords!"
/.!
I for one welcome the lack of originality on
It's normally just called coagulant, anything else is just a brand name, for example hatchwells trimmex.
Cool, I can turn my PII 300 into a 800mhz?? Why wasn't I told about this before?!?
This is from the article, read it in a yoda voice: "Today a very important day for the music industry is"... although he has great use of the force, he doesn't make a very good editor!
Strange, they must've changed something... I used to be able to ssh in with root access - being able to "init 6" etc... I just ssh'ed in and I can no longer do this! Grrrr! Will have to talk to customer support.
$15 sounds like a lot for a vps to me! For example, I use Westhost, who offer a linux vps for $3.95 without MySQL or $6.95 with. I'm sure there's probably cheaper around but I've found them to be quite good.
"What is it exactly that the 'clueless morons' do that you don't?"
/.? Even a windows user who runs admin with no av or firewall and reads /. has to be a geek right?? =P
Post on
Errr... A lot of Sun customers use Volume Manager (VxVM) on Solaris, in fact you can buy it direct from Sun!
I'd be soooo lost without my middle click on my solaris & linux boxes - middle click pastes selected text.
I vote for the 700p - I have a 650 and there's absolutley no way I'd go to a 700w!
"Nothing says impractical as typing C source code on a 3x4 numpad!"
Perhaps you should try a Treo then, it has a qwerty keyboard and I can ssh in to my home machine from it and use vi... it's great for when I leave my machine on all day and need to turn it off before my other half gets home - she likes to nag about electricity bills!
You want a multi-threaded browser? Why?? It's hardly a cpu intensive application.
"I can't seem to find this "middle-click"-button that you speak of on my iBook.. Help, anyone?"
Sure, ctrl-left click usualy acts as a middle button in Firefox. Having said this I just tested this on my box and it works for opening links in new tabs but wouldn't close them. Not sure if TabMixPlus stopped the closing behaviour or not but you can change it back to ctrl-click closes tabs in the options. I use ctrl-click a lot on my laptop... why don't they make more laptops with middle buttons?? =/
"Blame it on GTK."
I would blame it on Gnome or KDE rather than GTK - I use Fedora Core 5 with WindowMaker (not as a window manager for KDE or Gnome - just WindowMaker) and my machine flies - no GTK problems here.
You mean this? I remember it looking more similar...
"That is like saying Mandrake/Mandriva is a KDE version of RedHat, which is was many moons ago."
No, it's like saying Mandrake/Mandriva was originally a KDE version of RedHat! I know past & present tense is a tough thing to grasp... but hang in there!
It was originally a german translation of Slackware.
Does anyone recognise the multilingual background in this screenshot? I've seen it before somewhere, while working for Sun I think... perhaps a Solaris screen... or something to do with the old java stations?
Episode 14
"Have you read the memo from those software people?" the Boss asks, tapping some paper on my desk.
"It's in my In Tray, I just haven't got round to reading it yet."
"It's on your DESK!"
"Yes, and my desk is my In Tray."
>Sigh< "Well can you read it now please?"
"Sure."
"RIGHT now please?"
"It's that urgent?"
"It wasn't two weeks ago when I put it.. on your.. In Tray, but it's urgent now."
"Why?"
"Because it's a special offer which expires today and they've just rung me about it and are going to call back in 10 minutes."
"Oh really. Well how's about we have a gander at it then while we wander back to your office for the call.. Blah, blah, secret weapon, blah, blah German spies, blah, blah."
"What the hell are you reading?" the Boss blurts, snatching the paper off me. "Secret weapons!?"
"It's just something I say to myself when wading through weasel words," I say, wresting the paper back from the Boss.
"What does it mean?"
"It means they're trying to shaft us."
"What? You haven't even read it all yet - there's more than one page!"
"Yes, but it starts 'Dear Valuable VIP Customer'. They may as well say 'Please drop your pants and bend over the table by that unnecessarily large hammer action masonry drill'."
"They're one of our software vendors, it's just a renewal notice."
"That remains to be seen," I say, flipping the page. "Blah, blah, blah, royal shafting."
"Where?"
"There," I say, pointing to the last page of the renewal invoice.
"It's just the bill!"
"Yes, but see the little boxes for you to tick the products you want to renew with larger boxes for the number of licenses that you wish to renew?"
"Yes."
"And all the boxes are empty?"
"Yes."
"How do they get filled in?"
"I suppose I fill them in."
"With what?"
"I tick the Boxes and enter the numbers."
"Which boxes and which numbers?" I ask.
"I DON'T BLOODY KNOW!" the Boss snaps, getting a little tired of the interrogation.
"And there's my point. We don't even USE some of this software, so suddenly you'd start paying maintenance on software we don't have. More importantly, after we've been paying for... I dunno... three years, they'll say there's a major release and we need to pay for that, which we we'll do because we're paying maintenance on it so we must be using it somewhere. The best bit though, is the number of licenses. We're a Valuable VIP Customer..."
"What does that mean?"
"It means they think we're stupid and have lots of money to spend. If we're that valuable surely they'd REMEMBER the number of licenses we had and just prefill in the form for us."
"So they're... ... ...?"
"Wanting us to do one of two things - mistakenly fill in the form with an overly large number so they make a bit more cash. OR, mistakenly fill in the form with a low number so they wait a couple of months before saying that a routine license review noticed we underestimated our licenses by a certain amount and that because the expiry period has passed these licenses now cost an extortionate amount. 'Which would still be cheaper than involving the legal representatives of our two companies'..."
"So how many licenses do we use?"
"Who knows? The larger the company the more obscure the number of licenses held. When it's completely impossible you become a Valuable VIP customer."
"So what are we going to do?"
"Well you could go from room to room counting licenses."
"I don't thi..."
"Or we could force an application out to every desktop to report licenses - which would upset the civil libertarians who'd think we we
My PII 300Mhz still has a use as a Bering uClibc firewall... it's even underclocked to save on power/noise.
howabout here... or here... or even here!
Nautilus controls the desktop aswell as being a file manager. If you just want the file manager use "nautilus --no-desktop", alternatively set GConf, see this post.