I've been following all the kernel releses, and their bugs. I was just curious, what is the best way to tell which kernel is currently the most stable, without jumping immediately to the latest release? Obviously there is no way of knowing if it is, without it being out there for at least a couple of weeks.
I was hoping that kernel.org or somewhere would list what is currently the most stable. I know that from roughly 2.4.5 through to 2.4.11 or so suffer from some sort of swapping/memory leak, I can't remember. This is just from loosely following what has been posted to slashdot in the past few weeks.
Is there any resource tracking for this? What is the most stable of the latest kernels?
I set up WindowsFX here, and I used it for all of 1/2 hour before scrapping it. I thought that having a couple of 'always on top' windows as transparent would be cool, but it's really quite annoying once you use it. And this was just my shell window.
I find it more useful to be creative in the layout of your windows, so you can see the important parts of all of them (eg. my irc-shell window resides in the lower left of the screen, and I can only see the bottom three lines, but that's all I need to see).
...how something like this could have creeped in, and be missed? Was it a last-minute change that just didn't have time for testing, or was it (bad)luck-of-the-draw that no one noticed it?
Shade put it best. I'm not actually hoping the guy dies. I'm betting when it comes down to the wire, he's not going to actually go through with it, because he just doesn't have the abilities. I've seen articles on this guy before, and he's somewhat of a shyster. Hell, he's only gotten up to 5,000 feet! I mean, sure, that's better than nothing, but there's no way he's going to hit the second and third stages of an honest-to-goodnes all-growed-up vehicle launch! Nice trolling yourself, btw.
hey, it's not like it's been modded up, if you're just here for the relevant posts, set your threshold higher than one, you won't even know that I'm here.
You mean, to run down there, look through their stuff, determine what's not broken/breaking, get it home, rebuild the thing so it meets my specific needs, unplug my current one (which is also acting as my firewall/router/gateway/webserver, hook it all up, cross my fingers and hope it boots the first time...just to try KDE, and move up 100 MHz?
I know you meant well, but I just wanted to maybe try a new window manager...
I do have Xwindows installed on my box, but I only run it on occasion. When I do, I usually run it with WindowMaker to avoid the overhead of larger things like KDE/Gnome. This is just an old p90 w/ 40 megs of RAM, would it be able to hack KDE? I keep hearing all these great things about it, what are it's limits? Anyone running it on a similar setup?
Well, traditionally under both Unix and DOS you used subdirectories to group related files. So Microsoft Office got it's own folder, CDE got it's own folder, X Windows got it's own folder, Oracle got it's own folder...
No BBQ? But you need to be eating chunks of flesh, especially while the gibs are flying by your head...or are you just so hardcore that you eat them raw?:)
I can't speak for Wil or Wesley Crusher, but I find attractive geek girls are somewhat hard to come by, and when you find them, they're usually taken. What I want to know is, where are they supposed to be found? I go out to the clubs (I like dancing, and my friends are all there too) but my roommate and I came to the conclusion several years ago that most probably don't go out to the clubs, sitting around online about as much as we did.
Why oh why are we programming the robots to do this at this stage? Why not also make a database of all the ways to kill a human, and store it in the robot for "safe keeping" too?
6) We all liked how they made it seem like this is the first time they've really gone away from Earth.
That reminds me, after all that's happened to them in just this episode...I'm hoping that in the next couple of episodes, they'll have some people wanting to head back, not realizing the isolation that space travel would cause...I mean, it's the first time most of them have been so so far away!
They have beam weapons, but hey, we have beam weapons nowadays. As for their shielding, what I gathered was they have armour plating, which they're running some type of charge through to strengthen it. And the transporter is still very experimental, they said it had just been cleared for organic matter, and the other person said,"You mean fruits and vegetables, right?" Did you see the look on the captain's face when they beamed him up?
As far as gravity goes, they seemed to only be able to mimick gravity, and poorly at best, since there's a "sweet spot" in the ship. In all I'm happy with it, since they don't have any form of projected 'force' energy.
The guy was basically saying that a lot of first-timers to the big craft tend to overcompensate wildly, because everything you do is slower, bigger, more weight behind it, etc.
Just to get the plane from their original altitudes of 30,000 feet down to the ground without causing the craft to disintegrate is a feat. It's a lot more than just 'point plane in direction a.' Plus they were able to hit the tower on first pass, not easy either, for beginners.
I'm personally already overwhelmed with e-mail from my superiors and customers, not to mention my wife and kids, and my fishing buddies have me on a dozen mailing lists about fishing I don't really need to be on."
Why is this guy getting email from fishing buddies at work? If he's so overwhelmed with email, he should have a separate account for this.
I have an account I use for work, and a web-based account that I hand out to friends. This is essential for when things get busy, I can't be bothered with the 'silly joke' emails, and such.
Hopefully this guy could talk to his wife and kids and have them not send email unless it's essential. I almost never email people I see everyday because I see them everyday. If I need to get ahold of them, I usually phone them.
Most of the people being 'overwhelmed' sound like they just need to be taught how to manage it. Occasionally you need to blast a friend or two who gets upset because you don't immediately reply to emails/IMs. They have to understand that you do other things. You are not at their beck-and-call. And email is definitely not infallable.
You say there is no established etiquette for this, but I find several if I type this into a search engine. SOme people just need to be taught this as new people get online everyday (and some people that have been here awhile haven't had it explained properly yet).
Well, they did say much of the expenses came from paying facilities to test their bargain-basement ideas. So you would assume that subsequent stages wouldn't require quite so much testing, unless they're making radical changes.
"The greater the mind, the greater the need for simplicity of play."
I think that this would be a very sterile environment indeed if all we had were serious comments on each subject. I myself look for both funny and interesting comments on a subject, to keep my interest and to just have fun.
I look forward to the 'geek jokes,' funny remarks said on a subject that only we would get. I think it makes for a better sense of comradery with the people around here.
I do like the suggestion of having the option in the slashcode to filter out Funny, but I would be the last person to use it.
They do have this, however, you have to upgrade to Office Security Patch 1/1a, and then possibly apply Office Service Pack 2. However, most people never bother doing this, and their website doesn't exactly make it easy to obtain these (let alone figure out what exactly it is that you need).
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It's 5:06pm EST, and it's already slowing down from when I started reading it. Had one page fail to load, but then it recovered upon reloading.
I've been following all the kernel releses, and their bugs. I was just curious, what is the best way to tell which kernel is currently the most stable, without jumping immediately to the latest release? Obviously there is no way of knowing if it is, without it being out there for at least a couple of weeks.
I was hoping that kernel.org or somewhere would list what is currently the most stable. I know that from roughly 2.4.5 through to 2.4.11 or so suffer from some sort of swapping/memory leak, I can't remember. This is just from loosely following what has been posted to slashdot in the past few weeks.
Is there any resource tracking for this? What is the most stable of the latest kernels?
I set up WindowsFX here, and I used it for all of 1/2 hour before scrapping it. I thought that having a couple of 'always on top' windows as transparent would be cool, but it's really quite annoying once you use it. And this was just my shell window.
I find it more useful to be creative in the layout of your windows, so you can see the important parts of all of them (eg. my irc-shell window resides in the lower left of the screen, and I can only see the bottom three lines, but that's all I need to see).
So I guess for linux users, the email would probably look like the following:
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please make sure you are root when you execute this file.
Thanks,
The FBI
...how something like this could have creeped in, and be missed? Was it a last-minute change that just didn't have time for testing, or was it (bad)luck-of-the-draw that no one noticed it?
Shade put it best. I'm not actually hoping the guy dies. I'm betting when it comes down to the wire, he's not going to actually go through with it, because he just doesn't have the abilities. I've seen articles on this guy before, and he's somewhat of a shyster. Hell, he's only gotten up to 5,000 feet! I mean, sure, that's better than nothing, but there's no way he's going to hit the second and third stages of an honest-to-goodnes all-growed-up vehicle launch! Nice trolling yourself, btw.
I read the article, and "85% success" in space travel is still 100% dead.
...is going to get the title Best Darwin Award Ever.
No hard feelings, I can appreciate 'before-coffee' attitude. :)
I know this would have been more appropriate in a KDE forum/newsgroup/etc, but I do respect the opinion (and swiftness) of the Slashdot crowd.
hey, it's not like it's been modded up, if you're just here for the relevant posts, set your threshold higher than one, you won't even know that I'm here.
Umm...savings?
You mean, to run down there, look through their stuff, determine what's not broken/breaking, get it home, rebuild the thing so it meets my specific needs, unplug my current one (which is also acting as my firewall/router/gateway/webserver, hook it all up, cross my fingers and hope it boots the first time...just to try KDE, and move up 100 MHz?
I know you meant well, but I just wanted to maybe try a new window manager...
I do have Xwindows installed on my box, but I only run it on occasion. When I do, I usually run it with WindowMaker to avoid the overhead of larger things like KDE/Gnome. This is just an old p90 w/ 40 megs of RAM, would it be able to hack KDE? I keep hearing all these great things about it, what are it's limits? Anyone running it on a similar setup?
Well, traditionally under both Unix and DOS you used subdirectories to group related files. So Microsoft Office got it's own folder, CDE got it's own folder, X Windows got it's own folder, Oracle got it's own folder...
What's a folder?
No BBQ? But you need to be eating chunks of flesh, especially while the gibs are flying by your head...or are you just so hardcore that you eat them raw? :)
I think most of the midwest was fogged out. It was foggy here in Toronto, and I see reports of fog in Pittsburg and Chicago too.
Damn, and I've been hyping this to my friends too...
I can't speak for Wil or Wesley Crusher, but I find attractive geek girls are somewhat hard to come by, and when you find them, they're usually taken. What I want to know is, where are they supposed to be found? I go out to the clubs (I like dancing, and my friends are all there too) but my roommate and I came to the conclusion several years ago that most probably don't go out to the clubs, sitting around online about as much as we did.
Valley Girls get boring after five minutes.
Why oh why are we programming the robots to do this at this stage? Why not also make a database of all the ways to kill a human, and store it in the robot for "safe keeping" too?
6) We all liked how they made it seem like this is the first time they've really gone away from Earth.
That reminds me, after all that's happened to them in just this episode...I'm hoping that in the next couple of episodes, they'll have some people wanting to head back, not realizing the isolation that space travel would cause...I mean, it's the first time most of them have been so so far away!
Did they mention the crew compliment?
They have beam weapons, but hey, we have beam weapons nowadays. As for their shielding, what I gathered was they have armour plating, which they're running some type of charge through to strengthen it. And the transporter is still very experimental, they said it had just been cleared for organic matter, and the other person said,"You mean fruits and vegetables, right?" Did you see the look on the captain's face when they beamed him up?
:)
As far as gravity goes, they seemed to only be able to mimick gravity, and poorly at best, since there's a "sweet spot" in the ship. In all I'm happy with it, since they don't have any form of projected 'force' energy.
Of course I'm talking out my sci-fi ass here.
I know .sig replies are dumb, but I just had to say I love your .sig.
Did you read the articles?
The guy was basically saying that a lot of first-timers to the big craft tend to overcompensate wildly, because everything you do is slower, bigger, more weight behind it, etc.
Just to get the plane from their original altitudes of 30,000 feet down to the ground without causing the craft to disintegrate is a feat. It's a lot more than just 'point plane in direction a.' Plus they were able to hit the tower on first pass, not easy either, for beginners.
Not that a lot of beginners do things like this.
I'm personally already overwhelmed with e-mail from my superiors and customers, not to mention my wife and kids, and my fishing buddies have me on a dozen mailing lists about fishing I don't really need to be on."
Why is this guy getting email from fishing buddies at work? If he's so overwhelmed with email, he should have a separate account for this.
I have an account I use for work, and a web-based account that I hand out to friends. This is essential for when things get busy, I can't be bothered with the 'silly joke' emails, and such.
Hopefully this guy could talk to his wife and kids and have them not send email unless it's essential. I almost never email people I see everyday because I see them everyday. If I need to get ahold of them, I usually phone them.
Most of the people being 'overwhelmed' sound like they just need to be taught how to manage it. Occasionally you need to blast a friend or two who gets upset because you don't immediately reply to emails/IMs. They have to understand that you do other things. You are not at their beck-and-call. And email is definitely not infallable.
You say there is no established etiquette for this, but I find several if I type this into a search engine. SOme people just need to be taught this as new people get online everyday (and some people that have been here awhile haven't had it explained properly yet).
Well, they did say much of the expenses came from paying facilities to test their bargain-basement ideas. So you would assume that subsequent stages wouldn't require quite so much testing, unless they're making radical changes.
"The greater the mind, the greater the need for simplicity of play."
I think that this would be a very sterile environment indeed if all we had were serious comments on each subject. I myself look for both funny and interesting comments on a subject, to keep my interest and to just have fun.
I look forward to the 'geek jokes,' funny remarks said on a subject that only we would get. I think it makes for a better sense of comradery with the people around here.
I do like the suggestion of having the option in the slashcode to filter out Funny, but I would be the last person to use it.
They do have this, however, you have to upgrade to Office Security Patch 1/1a, and then possibly apply Office Service Pack 2. However, most people never bother doing this, and their website doesn't exactly make it easy to obtain these (let alone figure out what exactly it is that you need).