Do you have devils like portmap, inetd, httpd on your system? NO - they're called daemons, so is this horned BSD mascot. % man devil man: no entry for devil in the manual.
% man daemon DAEMON(3)NetBSD Programmer's Manual DAEMON(3) NAME daemon - run in the background LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) [...]
If mathematics haven't changed and I'm not stupid Tue Mar 3 01:34:48 UTC 1998 (888888888) was the last 'all even' and Fri Oct 15 15:06:39 UTC 1999 (939999999) the last 'all odd'.
BTW: The next Millienium^3 will begin at: Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001 (1000000000) We should be prepared!
This is just a guess: Is it possible, that the (journalled) Windows NT Filesystem is poorly designed or implemented in W2k and uses [too many] synchronous writes?
A few days ago I've read about Sprite's (later 4.4BSD, now NetBSD) Log-structured File System (LFS, see http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/lfs.html). LFS is specially designed to speed up writes, so the paper I'v read discusses them a lot...
> I don't think that's how it works. When you use up your mod points, doesn't someone else get mod > points?
I don't know, and honestly I don't care much about someone else points.:-)
I do care about *my* points and what I can do with them. If I waste them on an AC flooding slashdot I don't have them anymore and God or/dev/random knows when I will get some new points.
> But what's the point of moderating a +3 up to a +4
I only moderate articles with Score==2 up doesn't make much sense to me and points would be wasted as well. (I think we agree here)
It's like giving someone who has already won dozens of prizes and earned much respect an award instead of a promising newcomer. (Hint, Hint, slashdot beanies, hint, hint...)
> when you could be helping get rid of a slew of huge, random, content-free posts?
We will never get rid of them this way. I may be able to moderate 5 of them down, but he can write 100s and more of them. This way he will "win" like Zap Brannigan against the killbots (Futurama):
"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."
My limit would have been 5 posts - that's pretty lousy, isn't it?
> I want to see Crusoe vs StrongARM. And I want to see Crusoe vs ARM's ARM10 (400 Dhrystone 2.1 MIPS at 300 MHz... optional Vector Floating-Point unit capable of delivering 600 MFLOPS... )
The StrongARM design is over four years old now and developement of the StrongARM family has nearly stopped after Intel bought it from Digital Fastest StrongARM when launched (5th Feb. 1996): 200Mhz SA110, fastet StrongARM Digital made: 233Mhz SA110, fastest StrongARM Intel makes now: 233MHz SA110...
> I encourage the moderators to send those posts to oblivion--at least -2, if possible.
I think moderators don't get enough moderation points for that. When I get points I wouldn't waste them on moderating posts like those down (Well, moderating a troll down is like beating a masochist, isn't it?).
IMHO moderation points are just too - hmm- precious for things like that. I rather save them so I can rate a few good posts up.
I'm not that sure on this one (more stable than fvwm? - I don't think so), but IMHO WindowMaker is the most *balanced* (between stability, features and look) windowmanager for X11. And that's why I use it.
Paul Vixie: the author of BIND and the founder of the Internet Software Consortium.
Not only Bind, he's also done a much improved version of cron wich made it into many UNIX distributions (the so called "Vixie-cron", type mancron|grep-ivixie to see if it's installed on your system).
But I want to extend this to the whole crew of the ISC:
They're not only producing and maintaining
BIND,
INN and
DHCP for UNIX,
they also provide webspace, rackspace and/or bandwidth for
NetBSD,
Sendmail and
Xfree86.
Oh, and they run one of the root name servers.
And they do a lot of other things for us (Some mirrors, archives, surveys...)
Well, I do email-stuff with mutt, browse the web with my web browser, use the zshell as interactive shell, tetris to play tetris, *VIM* to edit texts (vi, if vim is not installed)... the list goes on and on.
In other words: For every job I use the best tools available and not a single mediocre tool for every job. Do you see Formula-one mechanics changing wheels with swiss-army knife like "one-for-everything" tools?
It's worth noting that the Pentium Pro/II/III have a 48-bit segmented addressing mode, allowing physical memory beyond 4GB. Nobody uses this yet, but it's in there.
Maybe FreeBSD makes use of it (from the FreeBSD handbook, maybe slightly out-of-date):
Unlike Linux, FreeBSD does NOT map all of physical memory into KVM. This means that FreeBSD can handle memory configurations up to 4G on 32 bit platforms. In fact, if the mmu were capable of it, FreeBSD could theoretically handle memory configurations up to 8TB on a 32 bit platform. However, since most 32 bit platforms are only capable of mapping 4GB of ram, this is a moot point.
But I don't know, if it really can do it with >4GB on x86. I'm more the NetBSD guy...
Slashdot Mirror
I'd say it's more US vs. The World (e.g. Airbus).
And the #1 reason:
You can read in the "Article Info" box:
"By Van Smith".
I have made no assumption about your English at all. My English is pretty sure worse than yours.
Devils = evil
Daemons = good
So if you call it Devil you say it's evil but as we all know it's not.
Have a look at
http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html
or
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html
to learn more about the daemon.
It's no devil!
Do you have devils like portmap, inetd, httpd on your system? NO - they're called daemons, so is this horned BSD mascot. % man devilman: no entry for devil in the manual.
% man daemon
DAEMON(3)NetBSD Programmer's Manual DAEMON(3)
NAME
daemon - run in the background
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
[...]
I agree.
"Manfred" is the best proposal I've read so far.
SuSE friends may call him "Mannie" then.
> Same goes for SETI.. Tho' if you run more than
> 1 client you end up getting the same blocks
> unless
No, you don't. It *may* happen that you get the same blocks twice for some reasons, but generally you get different blocks.
I'm running two clients on two different computers with one account for ~5 months now.
If mathematics haven't changed and I'm not stupid
Tue Mar 3 01:34:48 UTC 1998 (888888888)
was the last 'all even' and
Fri Oct 15 15:06:39 UTC 1999 (939999999)
the last 'all odd'.
BTW: The next Millienium^3 will begin at:
Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001 (1000000000)
We should be prepared!
(Is your computer E1G (Epoch 10^9) ready?)
"Pentiums+ are risc inside, they just have hardware translators to handle all the legacy code."
This is just another way to say "microcode". But RISC means the absence of microcode. This fuss about "RISC inside" is just a marketing gag.
Same for NetBSD:
See NetBSD/hpcmips for MIPS based PDAs.
There's of course a SH3 port as well: NetBSD/SH3, but they currently don't support any SH3-handhelds (AFAIK).
This is just a guess:
Is it possible, that the (journalled) Windows NT
Filesystem is poorly designed or implemented in W2k and uses [too many] synchronous writes?
A few days ago I've read about Sprite's (later
4.4BSD, now NetBSD) Log-structured File System (LFS, see http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/lfs.html).
LFS is specially designed to speed up writes,
so the paper I'v read discusses them a lot...
I wouldn't call the OS that gets second
most press, hype and F.U.D. an "Underdog OS".
"American"? What's that?
Ah - You mean Spanish, right?
> I don't think that's how it works. When you use up your mod points, doesn't someone else get mod
:-)
/dev/random knows when I will get some new points.
> points?
I don't know, and honestly I don't care much about someone else points.
I do care about *my* points and what I can do with them. If I waste them on an AC flooding slashdot I don't have them anymore and God or
> But what's the point of moderating a +3 up to a +4
I only moderate articles with Score==2 up doesn't make
much sense to me and points would be wasted as well. (I think we agree here)
It's like giving someone who has already won dozens of prizes and earned much respect an
award instead of a promising newcomer. (Hint,
Hint, slashdot beanies, hint, hint...)
> when you could be helping get rid of a slew of huge, random, content-free posts?
We will never get rid of them this way. I may be able to moderate 5 of them down, but he can write 100s and more of them. This way he will "win" like Zap Brannigan against the killbots (Futurama):
"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."
My limit would have been 5 posts - that's pretty lousy, isn't it?
> I want to see Crusoe vs StrongARM. ... )
And I want to see Crusoe vs ARM's ARM10 (400 Dhrystone 2.1 MIPS at 300 MHz... optional Vector Floating-Point unit capable of delivering 600 MFLOPS
The StrongARM design is over four years old now and developement of the StrongARM family has nearly stopped after Intel bought it from Digital Fastest StrongARM when launched (5th Feb. 1996): 200Mhz SA110, fastet StrongARM Digital made: 233Mhz SA110, fastest StrongARM Intel makes now: 233MHz SA110...
> I encourage the moderators to send those posts to oblivion--at least -2, if possible.
I think moderators don't get enough moderation points for that. When I get points I wouldn't waste them on moderating posts like those down (Well, moderating a troll down is like beating a masochist, isn't it?).
IMHO moderation points are just too - hmm- precious for things like that. I rather save them so I can rate a few good posts up.
Linux \subset OSS, but not Linux = OSS. (I wish LaTex would have a \subsetnoteq...)
I know, slashdot doesn't have an OpenSource topic [yet], but "Linux" doesn't match this
any better than "GNU is Not Unix", "BSD", or even "Apache" do.
Maybe "The Almighty Buck" (money) since we're talking about getting $$$ here...
I'm not that sure on this one (more stable than fvwm? - I don't think so), but IMHO WindowMaker is the most *balanced* (between stability, features and look) windowmanager for X11. And that's why I use it.
Paul Vixie: the author of BIND and the founder of the Internet Software Consortium.
Not only Bind, he's also done a much improved version of cron wich made it into many UNIX distributions (the so called "Vixie-cron", type mancron|grep-ivixie to see if it's installed on your system).
But I want to extend this to the whole crew of the ISC:
They're not only producing and maintaining
- BIND,
- INN and
- DHCP for UNIX,
they also provide webspace, rackspace and/or bandwidth forOh, and they run one of the root name servers.
And they do a lot of other things for us (Some mirrors, archives, surveys...)
Thank you, ISC!
Well, I do email-stuff with mutt, browse the
web with my web browser, use the zshell as interactive shell, tetris to play tetris, *VIM* to edit texts (vi, if vim is not installed)... the list goes on and on.
In other words: For every job I use the best
tools available and not a single mediocre tool for every job. Do you see Formula-one mechanics changing wheels with swiss-army knife like "one-for-everything" tools?
I'll beat that.
:-).
My New Year's Eve will be even more boring than yours!
It's worth noting that the Pentium Pro/II/III have a 48-bit segmented addressing mode, allowing physical memory beyond 4GB. Nobody uses this yet, but it's in there.
Maybe FreeBSD makes use of it (from the FreeBSD handbook, maybe slightly out-of-date):
But I don't know, if it really can do it with >4GB on x86. I'm more the NetBSD guy...
Why has nearly every BSD story a "Linux link" at the top of the "Related Links" section?
How does Linux relate to this FreeBSD release?
I don't see any BSD links in Linux stories...
Please explain!
Well, you can calculate stuff like this...
Will you show up for every typo I make?