.. will disallow a login for some certain period of time following three or four incorrect passwords. So while it is of course quite awful that many passwords can be guessed within 75 tries after using this method, it maybe not mean that the user's account will be compromised immediately. Even then, an administrator should be alerted by the time logging in has been disabled two or three times.
Yeah, I had found those links as well. But I was hoping that somebody had done a more recent (ie. within the last month, if not sooner) evaluation of the performance of various filesystems. A lot of developments take place within the course of a year, so I would be hesitant to take such results as worthwhile in this day and age.
I did research this matter. Unfortunately, all of the available evaluations are at least a year old, if not more. I frankly will not rely on results that may not be applicable any more, due to recent ReiserFS4 developments. That said, I appreciate your effort to moderate me down.
Of course the implementation of Linux differs significantly from FreeBSD. Nobody is suggesting otherwise. But from the perspective of an end user, especially when using them as workstation operating systems, the two systems appear nearly identical.
That said, if I can untar the latest Mozilla source snapshot far faster under FreeBSD than Linux, for whatever reason, I'll use FreeBSD. But I would like to know why the UFS2 filesystem of FreeBSD appears so to be faster than of the ReiserFS3 filesystem of Linux. And also if the ReiserFS4 filesystem will offer improved performance under Linux.
I recently switched a laptop from Linux with ReiserFS3 filesystems to FreeBSD 5.4 using UFS2 filesystems. The size of the filesystems were the same, and the usage pattern (program development, web browsing, etc.) the same.
The UFS2 filesystems had the feel of being quicker than the ReiserFS3 filesystems. That said, I do not have any numerical data to back this up. However, untarring a large tarball consisting of many smallish files under FreeBSD felt quicker than doing the same under Linux.
Would this difference be caused by the filesystems themselves, or would it most likely be a difference between the Linux and FreeBSD IO subsystems? Would ReiserFS4 be more comparable, if not better than, FreeBSD's UFS2 for workstation-style workloads?
It is important for them to take the actions of Sun into account while discussing the future of Apple. Indeed, these days were are seeing an effort by Sun to reattract some of the more technical users they have lost.
Sun is now putting out powerful, relatively inexpensive Opteron-based workstations that run Solaris 10. They could, in theory, provide what Apple is providing for developers, but with some added benefits.
Since they're not as gung-ho with the media industries as Apple is, they should not feel the need to incorporate DRM into their systems. That alone will be a major purchasing factor in many technical users' eyes.
If they're able to get their act together and provide a very fast, very efficient desktop Java implementation, then they could lure developers away from Apple.
Sun has the potential to regain their late-1980's, mid-1990's reputation as the supreme workstation vendor. While there were some doubts as to their direction the past few years, it appears as though they are on-track and soon to be very successful.
As a developer, I'm far more interested in a forum on the future of Objective-C. While a totally fantastic language, it still is lacking some amenities one expects from modern languages. Automated garbage collection is one such example. There are rumors (as recently as April) that Apple is/was working on a garbage collection system for Objective-C.
That seems a bit short-sighted. Suppose intelligent life develops on a planet without an abundance of fossil fuels, or such fuel is extremely difficult to extract. That shoots to hell Category 0. And if Category 0 is unattainable, then how would this civilization manage to get to the other categories? His thinking is far too earth-centric.
Don't worry. Science will still progress. It will just be in places like China and Europe, where actual scientific progress and achievement is considered more important than appealing to everybody's religious belief system.
I know people who majored in Journalism. While not stupid people, they are often not very science-minded. They got into journalism because they liked writing, and hated math. To expect them to become scientific experts, as well as journalistic masters and mistresses, is somewhat extreme.
.. stick with the science journals! At least there the articles will have been written by scientists, rather than mainstream media journalists. Let the everyday individual read the consumer newspaper and magazine articles, while people looking for correctness can go right to the source.
Science is complex. More often than not very well-trained and experienced scientists get it completely wrong. That said, somebody with a minimal scientific background (ie. a Journalism major) will very often screw up more complicated scientific articles. But likewise, many scientists dislike writing such articles. So we end up with a situation where those in the know would rather not write, and those not in the know are the ones who do write. And the result is lousy scientific articles.
Printers these fast are often quite dangerous. A mistake can often be very costly and disruptive.
For instance, we had a new coder working on one of our projects. We had an array of fast laserjet printers, but even then they were nowhere near this fast. In any case, our new coder somehow managed to dump our entire codebase out to the printers. So out go 15 million lines of COBOL and C to our array of printers.
The coder doesn't realize what is happening at first. We estimated that about 200000 sheets of paper were printed before he got a call from the printing room asking him if there was a problem. After realizing that there was, and being unable to cancel the print job, he was at a loss. They couldn't just pull the plug on the printer array, as it'd take a day just to get the system back online. Eventually somebody was able to stop it, but it wasn't until after nearly 600000 sheets of paper had been wasted.
Indeed, printers these fast can be extremely useful, but when massive amounts of data are accidentally printed on them, the paper (and thus financial) losses can be extreme.
No, it is a new feature. Much like speed enhancements to the latest Linux or FreeBSD kernels are considered "new features". In the case of hard drives, the "new feature" is a higher capacity.
Slackware is obviously a Linux distro, you cockmunching cousin-fucking sheep-humping anal-pounding sumbitch-licking scrotum-tweaking rectum-diddling piss ninny!
You should be careful not to overload the laptop's power supply. I recall a co-worker putting (if you can image this) 8 10000 RPM SCSI drives into a single Sun SPARCstation box. Somehow he wired it up, and turned on the machine. All of a sudden the power cable connecting the drives together started melting, and burst into flames. Even though he unplugged the system quickly, the power surge still severely damaged the mother board. Destroyed the SCSI controller completely.
When you go around claiming that Windows is the right tool for the right job, you'd better be using it. It's as simple as that, my Mexican friend. I'm not sure why you're having so much trouble comprehending such a simple concept.
You failed to comprehend the situation. It doesn't matter if he's running his pro-Windows site on Windows 98 or Windows XP Home or Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista. What matters is that he is running his pro-Windows site on some version of Windows. As such, you're still in the wrong.
News that isn't exciting is just stuff that happened. I wrote an email today, does that qualify as news?
Yes, you writing that email is news. Perhaps your idea of "news" has been tainted by watching too much FOX, CNN or MSNBC. News doesn't have to involve gratuitous destruction, violence and death.
That said, it's important that the community be kept up-to-date about technological developments such as this. Had I not been made aware of it now, I may not have found out about these drives existing until I next went to purchase a laptop.
Windows Server 2003 exists, and is a very real product used by many hosting firms. They can and should be running their pro-Windows forums on such servers.
You realize this is news, correct? This is a site that does attempt to inform the readers about recent events (such as the release of this hard drive). Maybe it's not the most exciting news, but nevertheless it is still news.
Even though we know there will be new releases of the Linux kernel in the future (just as we know hard drives will have larger and larger capacities), it is important that such news be posted about here, so we can be alerted to the developments.
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.. will disallow a login for some certain period of time following three or four incorrect passwords. So while it is of course quite awful that many passwords can be guessed within 75 tries after using this method, it maybe not mean that the user's account will be compromised immediately. Even then, an administrator should be alerted by the time logging in has been disabled two or three times.
Yeah, I had found those links as well. But I was hoping that somebody had done a more recent (ie. within the last month, if not sooner) evaluation of the performance of various filesystems. A lot of developments take place within the course of a year, so I would be hesitant to take such results as worthwhile in this day and age.
I did research this matter. Unfortunately, all of the available evaluations are at least a year old, if not more. I frankly will not rely on results that may not be applicable any more, due to recent ReiserFS4 developments. That said, I appreciate your effort to moderate me down.
Of course the implementation of Linux differs significantly from FreeBSD. Nobody is suggesting otherwise. But from the perspective of an end user, especially when using them as workstation operating systems, the two systems appear nearly identical.
That said, if I can untar the latest Mozilla source snapshot far faster under FreeBSD than Linux, for whatever reason, I'll use FreeBSD. But I would like to know why the UFS2 filesystem of FreeBSD appears so to be faster than of the ReiserFS3 filesystem of Linux. And also if the ReiserFS4 filesystem will offer improved performance under Linux.
I recently switched a laptop from Linux with ReiserFS3 filesystems to FreeBSD 5.4 using UFS2 filesystems. The size of the filesystems were the same, and the usage pattern (program development, web browsing, etc.) the same.
The UFS2 filesystems had the feel of being quicker than the ReiserFS3 filesystems. That said, I do not have any numerical data to back this up. However, untarring a large tarball consisting of many smallish files under FreeBSD felt quicker than doing the same under Linux.
Would this difference be caused by the filesystems themselves, or would it most likely be a difference between the Linux and FreeBSD IO subsystems? Would ReiserFS4 be more comparable, if not better than, FreeBSD's UFS2 for workstation-style workloads?
How does the performance of Reiser4 compare to that of Reiser3, XFS, JFS, EXT2/3, UFS, UFS2, etc., in quantitative terms, for various applications?
It is important for them to take the actions of Sun into account while discussing the future of Apple. Indeed, these days were are seeing an effort by Sun to reattract some of the more technical users they have lost.
Sun is now putting out powerful, relatively inexpensive Opteron-based workstations that run Solaris 10. They could, in theory, provide what Apple is providing for developers, but with some added benefits.
Since they're not as gung-ho with the media industries as Apple is, they should not feel the need to incorporate DRM into their systems. That alone will be a major purchasing factor in many technical users' eyes.
If they're able to get their act together and provide a very fast, very efficient desktop Java implementation, then they could lure developers away from Apple.
Sun has the potential to regain their late-1980's, mid-1990's reputation as the supreme workstation vendor. While there were some doubts as to their direction the past few years, it appears as though they are on-track and soon to be very successful.
As a developer, I'm far more interested in a forum on the future of Objective-C. While a totally fantastic language, it still is lacking some amenities one expects from modern languages. Automated garbage collection is one such example. There are rumors (as recently as April) that Apple is/was working on a garbage collection system for Objective-C.
That seems a bit short-sighted. Suppose intelligent life develops on a planet without an abundance of fossil fuels, or such fuel is extremely difficult to extract. That shoots to hell Category 0. And if Category 0 is unattainable, then how would this civilization manage to get to the other categories? His thinking is far too earth-centric.
Don't worry. Science will still progress. It will just be in places like China and Europe, where actual scientific progress and achievement is considered more important than appealing to everybody's religious belief system.
I know people who majored in Journalism. While not stupid people, they are often not very science-minded. They got into journalism because they liked writing, and hated math. To expect them to become scientific experts, as well as journalistic masters and mistresses, is somewhat extreme.
.. stick with the science journals! At least there the articles will have been written by scientists, rather than mainstream media journalists. Let the everyday individual read the consumer newspaper and magazine articles, while people looking for correctness can go right to the source.
Science is complex. More often than not very well-trained and experienced scientists get it completely wrong. That said, somebody with a minimal scientific background (ie. a Journalism major) will very often screw up more complicated scientific articles. But likewise, many scientists dislike writing such articles. So we end up with a situation where those in the know would rather not write, and those not in the know are the ones who do write. And the result is lousy scientific articles.
Yep, implementing new procedures to prevent similar situations was also part of the cost of this accident. Besides the wasted time, paper and toner.
"You sleep with your hard drive, don't you?"
No, sir. I sleep with your father.
Printers these fast are often quite dangerous. A mistake can often be very costly and disruptive.
For instance, we had a new coder working on one of our projects. We had an array of fast laserjet printers, but even then they were nowhere near this fast. In any case, our new coder somehow managed to dump our entire codebase out to the printers. So out go 15 million lines of COBOL and C to our array of printers.
The coder doesn't realize what is happening at first. We estimated that about 200000 sheets of paper were printed before he got a call from the printing room asking him if there was a problem. After realizing that there was, and being unable to cancel the print job, he was at a loss. They couldn't just pull the plug on the printer array, as it'd take a day just to get the system back online. Eventually somebody was able to stop it, but it wasn't until after nearly 600000 sheets of paper had been wasted.
Indeed, printers these fast can be extremely useful, but when massive amounts of data are accidentally printed on them, the paper (and thus financial) losses can be extreme.
No, it is a new feature. Much like speed enhancements to the latest Linux or FreeBSD kernels are considered "new features". In the case of hard drives, the "new feature" is a higher capacity.
Slackware is obviously a Linux distro, you cockmunching cousin-fucking sheep-humping anal-pounding sumbitch-licking scrotum-tweaking rectum-diddling piss ninny!
You should be careful not to overload the laptop's power supply. I recall a co-worker putting (if you can image this) 8 10000 RPM SCSI drives into a single Sun SPARCstation box. Somehow he wired it up, and turned on the machine. All of a sudden the power cable connecting the drives together started melting, and burst into flames. Even though he unplugged the system quickly, the power surge still severely damaged the mother board. Destroyed the SCSI controller completely.
I'm not the biggest fan of Slashdot kernel articles either, but at least they generally discuss new features.
These hard drives do indeed have a new feature: increased capacity over previous drives.
When you go around claiming that Windows is the right tool for the right job, you'd better be using it. It's as simple as that, my Mexican friend. I'm not sure why you're having so much trouble comprehending such a simple concept.
You failed to comprehend the situation. It doesn't matter if he's running his pro-Windows site on Windows 98 or Windows XP Home or Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista. What matters is that he is running his pro-Windows site on some version of Windows. As such, you're still in the wrong.
News that isn't exciting is just stuff that happened. I wrote an email today, does that qualify as news?
Yes, you writing that email is news. Perhaps your idea of "news" has been tainted by watching too much FOX, CNN or MSNBC. News doesn't have to involve gratuitous destruction, violence and death.
That said, it's important that the community be kept up-to-date about technological developments such as this. Had I not been made aware of it now, I may not have found out about these drives existing until I next went to purchase a laptop.
Windows Server 2003 exists, and is a very real product used by many hosting firms. They can and should be running their pro-Windows forums on such servers.
You realize this is news, correct? This is a site that does attempt to inform the readers about recent events (such as the release of this hard drive). Maybe it's not the most exciting news, but nevertheless it is still news.
Even though we know there will be new releases of the Linux kernel in the future (just as we know hard drives will have larger and larger capacities), it is important that such news be posted about here, so we can be alerted to the developments.