A good idea for anti-patent people (and I have a few of these things and don't like them) is for the eff or somebody to create a easily search-able list of 'good ideas' top protect the ideas from being patented.
Headphones could be a LOT more reliable if someone would take some damned time to find a more reliable way to deliver signal than a tiny wiggly wire and a bit of rigid solder.
Aw, c'mon. There's no profit in that. Like you said: you keep buying Sennheiser, even though they're not reliable.
"Yeah, my 'kids' must be 'downloading' a lot of stuff. Don't worry I'll go spank them until they stop."
But if it turns out to be a virus, you get a) a happy customer, b) reduced bandwidth usage, and c) the world will be a slightly better place. All for a phone call.
"the right way to find the answer to something on the net isn't to simply ask (nobody will answer), but to confidently state something slightly wrong, whereupon heaps of people will pop up to correct you and prove themselves right."
Thus, in practice, when you have to do fsync() to guarantee the safety of the data, you effectively cannot use a large database consisting of a lots of very small files, as e.g. GConf does.
Close, but no cigar. The data we need safe is the one already on the disk: if you don't flush, you get to keep the old version already on the disk. This is what we're used to, and this is what we want. The problem with ext4: if you don't write the new version, you lose BOTH. What you get instead is an empty file, and hope it wasn't important.
Bogdan Gribincea wrote on 2009-01-22: (permalink)
It happend again. Somehow when trying to logout KDM crashed. After rebooting I had some zeroed config files in a few KDE apps, log files (pidgin).. I coverted / and/home back to EXT3. This is extremely annoying, reminds me of Windows 9x
My biggest mistake in that job was mentioning the word "ethics" to my manager. I was never promoted ^_^
Heh. I actually used the sentence "If you want to be ripped off that badly, I can get a colleague for you, but I won't sell you this" once. I was supposed to sell phone plans and horribly crappy and overpriced ADSL connections together. The phone part was good though.
In other words, if the programmer took on the burden of tons of work and complexity in order to replicate lots of the functionality of the file system and make it not the file system's problem, then it wouldn't be my problem.
In other words, if the programmer took on the burden to use a proper database interface for their database, it could have been optimized as such.
I do agree, however, that data loss is inexcusable under any circumstances. Isn't that why we have journals in the first place?
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there is cool stuff and stuff that will make the company money.
Like the endless meetings?
A good idea for anti-patent people (and I have a few of these things and don't like them) is for the eff or somebody to create a easily search-able list of 'good ideas' top protect the ideas from being patented.
Done.
And, or reasons of irony, I almost always fail to document those scripts.
Easy. Write a Perl script to document Perl scripts, and you won't even have an infinite loop.
Headphones could be a LOT more reliable if someone would take some damned time to find a more reliable way to deliver signal than a tiny wiggly wire and a bit of rigid solder.
Aw, c'mon. There's no profit in that. Like you said: you keep buying Sennheiser, even though they're not reliable.
And yanking things off my desk.
Doom 3, Nightmare, in total darkness except for the screen. You know what happens when your cat touches you?
"Yeah, my 'kids' must be 'downloading' a lot of stuff. Don't worry I'll go spank them until they stop."
But if it turns out to be a virus, you get a) a happy customer, b) reduced bandwidth usage, and c) the world will be a slightly better place. All for a phone call.
Can business get any more dehumanizing? I don't think so. I at least wouldn't want to work at a company like that.
Amen brother. Coincidentally, aren't these the same companies who never seem to come up with something original?
If the less successful, and therefore cheaper, societies were able to do science work well, they wouldn't be less successful, would they?
There is a difference between "having the brainpower and the education" and "having the money". You should know that.
that's what you get for abusing a free service. Happy now?
it is a fabricated digital facade, a impression you wish to create of yourself to be viewed by others be they strangers or friends.
Yes. Just like the one he's trying to create in court.
I'm not going to disagree with you in spirit, however, because this particular area of research has nothing to offer society.
That's what they said about quantum physics and computers.
I'd consider instant reliable 3D scanning generic enough to start playing around with.
"the right way to find the answer to something on the net isn't
to simply ask (nobody will answer), but to confidently state something
slightly wrong, whereupon heaps of people will pop up to correct you and
prove themselves right."
STOLE (yes stole)
Copied. Or did he delete the original after he was done?
Tho many will say 'good, jail him he's a bad person', few will understand what is really going on here.
Yeah, really bad. Tell me again: how many bankers, ex-presidents and the like have been arrested at gunpoint for fucking up the economy?
Sending a man to jail for a non-violent offense.
It isn't even a crime. Civil suit at best.
I used that same tool on another virus. Haven't had an issue since!
Me too. I can't find drive C: ever since.
The markups show there's a shortage of suppliers - due in part to law enforcement,
You haven't been to a lot of UK pubs lately, have you? The only shortage is in quality control.
Ok, so, I don't know much about the laws, but it is illegal, isn't it?
Did they do it with the permission and supervision of the police?
There will be a real life city raid (bloody revolution in Beijing)
Everyone knows you won't have a succesful raid without tanks.
Thus, in practice, when you have to do fsync() to guarantee the safety of the data, you effectively cannot use a large database consisting of a lots of very small files, as e.g. GConf does.
Close, but no cigar. The data we need safe is the one already on the disk: if you don't flush, you get to keep the old version already on the disk. This is what we're used to, and this is what we want. The problem with ext4: if you don't write the new version, you lose BOTH. What you get instead is an empty file, and hope it wasn't important.
Bogdan Gribincea wrote on 2009-01-22: (permalink)
It happend again. Somehow when trying to logout KDM crashed. After rebooting I had some zeroed config files in a few KDE apps, log files (pidgin).. /home back to EXT3. This is extremely annoying, reminds me of Windows 9x
I coverted / and
Think about it.
Except that NTFS does exactly the same thing. Perhaps GP meant it's not a filesystem bug.
"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'."
-- Linus Torvalds
My biggest mistake in that job was mentioning the word "ethics" to my manager. I was never promoted ^_^
Heh. I actually used the sentence "If you want to be ripped off that badly, I can get a colleague for you, but I won't sell you this" once. I was supposed to sell phone plans and horribly crappy and overpriced ADSL connections together. The phone part was good though.
I worked a total of four days there.
This is NOT a bug. Read the POSIX documents.
Ok, POSIX does not tell us it's bad. Yet it hurts end users. You know, the ones who you don't want fleeing back to Windows?
It just loses recent data if your system crashes before it has flushed what it's got in RAM to disk.
No, that's the bug. It loses ALL data. You get 0 byte files on reboot.
In other words, if the programmer took on the burden of tons of work and complexity in order to replicate lots of the functionality of the file system and make it not the file system's problem, then it wouldn't be my problem.
In other words, if the programmer took on the burden to use a proper database interface for their database, it could have been optimized as such.
I do agree, however, that data loss is inexcusable under any circumstances. Isn't that why we have journals in the first place?