*snicker* I've been using UNIX for a bit over thirteen years.
SLOWLY AND CAREFFULLY: The number of files on your fucking disk makes no difference, it's what your CPU is actually doing at any given time.
So, call it what the fuck you like, disks are big these days. If you actually boot every service you've got installed, yes, it will slow down. But just having software installed does not slow your computer down.
Typing this from a Ubuntu box which is running pretty quick, but still has lots of packages installed.
Heh. I picked up a copy of sendmail for $3 NZD in Palmerston North. The reason being that the university used postfix and the local ISP used postfix leaving no-one who wanted or needed to know about sendmail.
Quantum leap: (adj.) literally, to move by the smallest amount theoretically possible. In advertising, to move by the largest leap imaginable (in the mind of the advertiser). There is no contradiction.
On behalf of the EU, let me apologise for actually enforcing competition regulations and not rolling over like the DoJ. We'll try to do better next time.
DEC OSF 4.0 certainly allowed you to delete/vmunix and/genvmunix while the box was running.
No, I never found out who did this, but I did have a big surprise when rebooting a server which was 3 hours drive away. "It'll be down for a couple of minutes, that's all."
Stuff like this gives me the giggles. Some people here call Europe 'socialist' and then we find out that the USA is doing stuff that would NEVER be considered - in UK at least - because it's a huge distortion of a free market by the state.
The DHS did not exist under Clinton. Nice try, cluebie.
Lots, gigs, of data was siphoned off US servers in the last few years. Hypothesised by some as Chinese attacks, although a lot of compromised servers exist in China and could have been used to bounce off.
Er, what? CSIRO doesn't just make this shit up you know.
Fuel load is one factor. Another factor is the number of days when it's really hot and really windy, and it's this latter that's projected to increase. The Aussies would need to cut the fuel load to keep the risk of significant bush fires the same, assuming the trend of increasing temperatures and decreasing rainfall continues.
Shouldn't Climate Change have actually reduced fuel load by killing the trees?
Huh? Trees survive drought pretty well, and Eucalypts at least seem to enjoy high temperatures. Why should they get killed off by hotter, drier summers?
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In the US and Europe sure. Which may or may not be the reason e.g. Toyota are kicking the crap out of General Motors right now.
I'm surprised this comment didn't cause mysql, or whatever back-end /. uses, to die in a huge embarrassment overload.
I look forward to next week on /.: Quantum Electrondynamics: Feynmann's work is "conflicting where not simply wrong" and other inspiring comments.
I maintain that's a transcription error of "sire" - which is what they called Arthur elsewhere in the script.
You didn't need to know that.
*snicker* I've been using UNIX for a bit over thirteen years.
SLOWLY AND CAREFFULLY: The number of files on your fucking disk makes no difference, it's what your CPU is actually doing at any given time.
So, call it what the fuck you like, disks are big these days. If you actually boot every service you've got installed, yes, it will slow down. But just having software installed does not slow your computer down.
Typing this from a Ubuntu box which is running pretty quick, but still has lots of packages installed.
An admirable sentiment Mr. cens0r, but Jack Valenti is dead.
Heh. I picked up a copy of sendmail for $3 NZD in Palmerston North. The reason being that the university used postfix and the local ISP used postfix leaving no-one who wanted or needed to know about sendmail.
Agreed. Please everyone call them "residents of West Island".
Quantum leap: (adj.) literally, to move by the smallest amount theoretically possible. In advertising, to move by the largest leap imaginable (in the mind of the advertiser). There is no contradiction.
- Tonkin's First Computer Dictionary
s/when we starting whining about napster/right after the Black Album, when we realised people would buy whatever shit we put out/
I get four nines quite easily with RAID on a decent server, thank you very much. That's 4 min/month downtime, which is quite a lot.
Oops. Remember you can't get 4 nines uptime because you have to patch the fuckers every month.
Reminds me of sendmail for NT. All the ease of use of sendmail, with all the stability under load of Microsoft Windows.
Can't think why I've never seen it deployed IRL.
On behalf of the EU, let me apologise for actually enforcing competition regulations and not rolling over like the DoJ. We'll try to do better next time.
You're one of the guys who asks me if they should delete photos off their hard disk if their computer is slow, aren't you?
Amount of installed software/data makes no frickin difference, what matters is the processes currently executing.
DEC OSF 4.0 certainly allowed you to delete /vmunix and /genvmunix while the box was running.
No, I never found out who did this, but I did have a big surprise when rebooting a server which was 3 hours drive away. "It'll be down for a couple of minutes, that's all."
The_Book_of_Heroic_Failures by Stephen Pile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Heroic_Failures
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Heroic-Failures-Official-Handbook/dp/0708819087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236237653&sr=8-1
Definitely recommended reading.
So basically "Disclaimer: I actually know what I'm talking about"?
Only on /.
And we're hauling our foreign secretary over the coals regarding allegations of torture, where as the USA couldn't give two shits it seems.
UK is not a fascist dictatorship for fuck's sake. If you'd been to a proper police state, OR the UK you would know that.
Having said that, I'd take Obama over Brown (or Cameron) any day. You got me there.
Stuff like this gives me the giggles. Some people here call Europe 'socialist' and then we find out that the USA is doing stuff that would NEVER be considered - in UK at least - because it's a huge distortion of a free market by the state.
Funnily enough, I get ... The Pirate Bay website. Top music torrent is U2:No Line on the Horizon if you don't believe me.
(Damn filter, posted anon the first time and now I can't post as myself unless I stick this bit in.)
Eh, what? I'm in the UK and I have no problem using bt to download Linux ISOs.
Eh? I'm cross-compiling glibc for ppc. OK, it's not nice, but it wasn't as bad as I was expecting.
If you have your cross-compiler built properly, it should be fairly straightforward.
The DHS did not exist under Clinton. Nice try, cluebie.
Lots, gigs, of data was siphoned off US servers in the last few years. Hypothesised by some as Chinese attacks, although a lot of compromised servers exist in China and could have been used to bounce off.
e.g. http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/china-accused-of-stealing-american-technology/2007/11/16/1194766968231.html
Er, what? CSIRO doesn't just make this shit up you know.
Fuel load is one factor. Another factor is the number of days when it's really hot and really windy, and it's this latter that's projected to increase. The Aussies would need to cut the fuel load to keep the risk of significant bush fires the same, assuming the trend of increasing temperatures and decreasing rainfall continues.
Huh? Trees survive drought pretty well, and Eucalypts at least seem to enjoy high temperatures. Why should they get killed off by hotter, drier summers?
Your point about fuel load is spot on though.