I've been using it for over half a year now on my RAID. The RAID shits itself regularly about once every week or two because of some hardware problem I can't be fucked to find - it hangs, i.e. I suddenly can't read/write to it and "echo flush-cache >/proc/rd/c0/user-command" never returns.
Since the end result of this is usually kicking the power switch, it is nice that ReiserFS does the journalling thing. Ever waited for fsck.ext2 to run on a 36G drive, virtual or otherwise?:)
I also use it on another box and on my workstation at work. No worries there.
Indeed. Web appliances are likely to come with support for Flash, MPG, AVI, QT, RealAudio, and maybe ASF. However, many people encode MPEGs and ASFs with wierd codecs that have to be separately fetched and installed, and which may not be, strictly speaking, legal - or legally ambiguous. For example, will the eVilla play.ASFs encoded with the "DivX;)" codec?
Also, what about plugins? There are tons of stupid plugins out there. Surely Sony can't expect all plugin authors to port their plugins to BeOS - never mind ActiveX controls.
Another thing that disappoints me about this appliance is that it uses Opera. I have used Opera before and in certain cases it is even more finnicky/broken than Netscape 4 about certain HTML formatting elements. Netscape 6 would have been a better choice. Paying Microsoft to port IE would have been even better than that; as anyone who has done development on mixed platforms for multiple browsers can attest, IE is far superior to either of the other two browsers.
Are you implying that MiniDisc technology is not an open industry standard? If so, you are mistaken. Many companies (Sony, Aiwa, Sharp, Kenwood, et cetera) make MD decks and portable units.
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Personally I think MD is ten times better as a way of transporting music because the media is twenty times cheaper per minute of high-quality music. I can store 72 or 80 minutes of music on a disc that costs between $2 and $5 (depending on whether I bought in bulk or not) and can be re-recorded, which lives in a protective cartridge. The quality of the sound is about as good as a 320Kb/s MP3. How much is it to buy solid-state memory technology with enough storage to house 72 or 80 minutes of MP3s at 240 or 320Kb/s? Even if all your MP3s are 128 or VBR, it's still tons more expensive.
The only drawback is that making a direct digital recording to a minidisc usually means the deck sets the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) flag on the disc, which means you can't digitally copy music off the MD. However, you can still copy music off the deck in analog format (obviously), and there are FAQs out there with regards to disabling SCMS.
Why would it mean more lines of code? I stretch my terminal to 132 columns when I program. One of the advantages of X is that you can choose different-sized fonts!
Really, I think the best solution is one of those monitors that swivels between portrait and landscape orientation, and the video driver decides which way to render it. I think ViewSonic or some such company made one for the Macintosh about 12 years ago. I don't know if anyone makes these any more.
I could be wrong, but I thought the DC ran on an SH4 processor, and this is an SH3 port. Am I right or am I mistaken?
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No it doesn't. You can still measure productivity, output, number of (or absence of) sick days, (to a certain extent) opinions of co-workers, etc. Most importantly, what do the reviews say? I don't know about MS, but at my company, when someone gets a review, they are supposed to read it and write in any comments and sign off on it. How do the reviews compare with measurable output?
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His post seems to me to be nothing more than an observation. He does not seem to be implying anything by it.
This will seem highly subjective and probably racist to some, but I gotta say it. I'm not posting as an AC either. Yay for me.
The segment of popular culture currently embraced by many (not all, thankfully!) "minorities" is ill. Have you watched UPN lately? I have. Many of the shows tailored to black/Spanish-speaking audiences (as indicated by cast members and cultural behaviors illustrated in the shows themselves) have flimsy plots and rely on immature humor and poor grammar. Since most people confuse/associate language with actual thought patterns, the slang and vernacular they use (thank God the words "nigger" and "nigga" are against FCC regulations!) are continually propagated into minority populations.
I have had a few friends over the years who are African blacks. They always say that blacks in Africa generally view blacks in America as being lazy, worthless wastes of skin. If minority popular culture is any indication (put in a Snoop Dogg CD and see if you can write the occurrances of the words "nigger" and "bitch" in under three digits), it is easy to see why such perceptions abound.
Certainly, white culture is not entirely clean. Look at South Park. Why do parents let their five-year-olds watch it? What a bunch of retards. But seriously, buy music by rock musicians and count occurrences of the word "nigger" (zero) and "bitch" (nearly zero).
So... what does minority pop culture neeed?
It needs less Snoop Doggs and more Will Smiths. Fewer people saying "nigger this, bitch that", and solving problems with violence of varying kinds, and more talk about having fun and emotions such as love (listen to "Miami" and "Just The Two Of Us" by Will Smith... Niggers? Bitches? Nowhere to be found.) It could also use some reinforcement of the ideologies of abstinence and safe sex and peaceful co-existence.
Another thing minorities REALLY, REALLY, REALLY need to ditch is the "I'm the victim" / "The whole world owes me something because my ancestors were enslaved" business. Living in the past is the doorway to decadence. Your ancestors were enslaved? POOR BABY. Guess what? Most slaves were ALREADY SLAVES IN AFRICA before they were BARTERED FOR GUNS AND BLANKETS AND SHINY THINGS to white slave-shippers. Your ancestors got in a war with a neighboring tribe and LOST. Then they got ENSLAVED. Then they got SOLD TO AMERICANS. They were slaves regardless of whether they were kept in Africa by Africans, or sold to and shipped by Americans.
There is no race on this planet which has not been both enslaved and the enslaver NUMEROUS TIMES. The past is full of rotten behavior by lots of people, but this is now and we need to start working towards the future.
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Maybe he DAREs do that because, like me, he sees minorities using food stamps to buy food and then loading it into Lexuses in the parking lot. Being a minority is not a crime. There is no basis behind making statements to the effect that white people are somehow "better." However, I have seen numerous minorities take advantage of society's bleeding-heart sensitivity to a person's ethnicity and gender and use this sensitivity to commit acts of laziness and unethicality. They are just as bad as the ignorant fools who dance around in bedsheets and light crosses on fire; they say pretty much the same things - just worded differently.
Try being one of two white students in a high school classroom full of blacks and hispanics. Feel like a semester's worth of torment and being the butt of every last joke, and being afraid to retaliate? Racism works both ways, and there was no shortage of slurs against whites during my 9th grade year. Minorities who cry "Racism!" every time someone treats them as other than kings get no love from me because I know the vast majority of them have debased innocent white people at one time or another. If someone is actively being racist, yes, that needs to be stopped, but I think that minorities are using the cry of "Racism!" much like the boy who cried wolf - and sooner or later, they are going to regret saying it when it wasn't warranted instead of saving it for when it was.
If I ever come to power, I am going to make it my mission to utterly destroy affirmitive action and make it law that no corporation may hire anyone on any basis other than qualifications relevant to the work being done. Having "quotas" that grant preference by race or gender instead of qualifications is just as evil as saying "I don't hire niggers or spicks, and a woman's place is in the kitchen." Affirmitive action is racism and sexism, all rolled into one.
That would sort of imply that the species in question had ten fingers or tentacles or dicks or whatever they would count on. If you convert 1'x4'x9' into meters, you still have the exact same ratio, just with decimals.
Well, shit, they already make you take general-ed courses anyway.:)
If you ask me, it's BS designed to keep more professors employed. They should give you pass/fail on subjects not related to your major. Getting a D in physical geography should not stop you from getting into the school you want and majoring in CS or CIS. Go on, make nebulous arguments about how it shows you can "stick to it" or whatever. I'll still argue it's nonsense to punish a person for doing poorly in a subject that has NOTHING to do with that person's major.
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I recently landed a programming position and I'm not even done with my AS yet, let alone near transferring to a real 4-year.
CIS? Aha, that's nice. CS? I see. That's great. WHERE'S YOUR PORTFOLIO.
Know why I got in? I had the portfolio. College is not enough to get you a good job with certain employers - they want to see demonstrated ability; a piece of college stationery saying you have a degree is nice, but not enough of a reason to say yes or no. I'm still in college, but taking it nice and slow. I'm not about to leave a job that pays as much as mine does to be a poor college puke for two years, but I'm continuing my education anyway because I might not always want to work at my present company.
Yeah, but in what field? What is true in one company may not be true in another.
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I think that everyone, whether they major in CS or CIS, should take at least one assembly language. It teaches so much about CPU architecture that later on, you can look at behaviors in other programming languages and divine the way they do certain things at the machine language (i.e. assembly language but uglier, raw hex codes instead of mnemonics) level.
I knew nothing but BASIC when I was a kid. Then, when I went to college, the first programming language I signed up for was Assembly. I fell in love with it immediately; suddenly I had access to the full resources of the CPU, rather than being locked inside the protective bubble that is BASIC.
Aside from learning a lot about machine architecture, ASM really forces you to think about how to solve a problem. You don't have access to all kinds of libraries and fancy language constructs (unless you think "org 100h" is fancy). You want to multiply something larger than the machine's registers? You have to put some work into it. If your machine has 32-bit registers, and you need to work with a 64-bit number, you can't just mul two registers and expect to get the right answer. So assembly teaches a lot of logic and it sneaks in a little math as well.
You'd have to implement a completely separate bus or you'd risk getting severely bogged down. You'd have to make a dedicated bus that went from the CPU to a dedicated slot and then to the hard-drive controller. Doing this on a PCI bus like that which exists today would not be particularly efficient. Certain IDE and SCSI drives talk at 100MHz and up; having disk I/O passing over the PCI bus TWICE (CPU -> TRAM -> HD) isn't the way to go, since your Ethernet, video, and other PCI devices are also competing for time on the bus.
Of course, implementing a separate bus will take millions in research (after all, it has to be done right), but once everything is decided on, it's probably only $20 or so in extra hardware. In theory, all you'd need is another PCI bridge chip or similar. Ever seen the inside of a NetApp? The motherboard has a CPU, space for RAM, a PCI bridge, and some slots. Nothing else. Extremely simple.
Four days ago when I was trying to install something that depended on GTK, I discovered a broken dependency that exists in both the stable and unstable dists. Debian's idea of QA has cost me several reinstalls over the years because sometimes the package managers don't thoroughly check for these conflicts.
Overall, though, the dependency problem is minor, but broken packages DO sneak into unstable and stable (!!!!!) every now and then.
Sure it does. I use a Linux box at work. The browser (Netscape) is ass but other than that it's great. When you are a UNIX developer, it is a great choice for an O/S. Other departments also run Linux.
At home I run both. Windows is on the desktop machine because, well, I have certain standards for ease-of-use. My server boxes both run Linux because trying to do all the same stuff under Win9x or WinNT would be a joke.
How about just using the right tool for the right job?
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I think maybe you're looking for Veritas.
Since the end result of this is usually kicking the power switch, it is nice that ReiserFS does the journalling thing. Ever waited for fsck.ext2 to run on a 36G drive, virtual or otherwise? :)
I also use it on another box and on my workstation at work. No worries there.
Also, what about plugins? There are tons of stupid plugins out there. Surely Sony can't expect all plugin authors to port their plugins to BeOS - never mind ActiveX controls.
Another thing that disappoints me about this appliance is that it uses Opera. I have used Opera before and in certain cases it is even more finnicky/broken than Netscape 4 about certain HTML formatting elements. Netscape 6 would have been a better choice. Paying Microsoft to port IE would have been even better than that; as anyone who has done development on mixed platforms for multiple browsers can attest, IE is far superior to either of the other two browsers.
(pulling out the Offtopic Soapbox)
Personally I think MD is ten times better as a way of transporting music because the media is twenty times cheaper per minute of high-quality music. I can store 72 or 80 minutes of music on a disc that costs between $2 and $5 (depending on whether I bought in bulk or not) and can be re-recorded, which lives in a protective cartridge. The quality of the sound is about as good as a 320Kb/s MP3. How much is it to buy solid-state memory technology with enough storage to house 72 or 80 minutes of MP3s at 240 or 320Kb/s? Even if all your MP3s are 128 or VBR, it's still tons more expensive.
The only drawback is that making a direct digital recording to a minidisc usually means the deck sets the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) flag on the disc, which means you can't digitally copy music off the MD. However, you can still copy music off the deck in analog format (obviously), and there are FAQs out there with regards to disabling SCMS.
Really, I think the best solution is one of those monitors that swivels between portrait and landscape orientation, and the video driver decides which way to render it. I think ViewSonic or some such company made one for the Macintosh about 12 years ago. I don't know if anyone makes these any more.
Yeah, I've always wanted to read Slashdot while taking a shit!
I could be wrong, but I thought the DC ran on an SH4 processor, and this is an SH3 port. Am I right or am I mistaken?
No it doesn't. You can still measure productivity, output, number of (or absence of) sick days, (to a certain extent) opinions of co-workers, etc. Most importantly, what do the reviews say? I don't know about MS, but at my company, when someone gets a review, they are supposed to read it and write in any comments and sign off on it. How do the reviews compare with measurable output?
His post seems to me to be nothing more than an observation. He does not seem to be implying anything by it.
The segment of popular culture currently embraced by many (not all, thankfully!) "minorities" is ill. Have you watched UPN lately? I have. Many of the shows tailored to black/Spanish-speaking audiences (as indicated by cast members and cultural behaviors illustrated in the shows themselves) have flimsy plots and rely on immature humor and poor grammar. Since most people confuse/associate language with actual thought patterns, the slang and vernacular they use (thank God the words "nigger" and "nigga" are against FCC regulations!) are continually propagated into minority populations.
I have had a few friends over the years who are African blacks. They always say that blacks in Africa generally view blacks in America as being lazy, worthless wastes of skin. If minority popular culture is any indication (put in a Snoop Dogg CD and see if you can write the occurrances of the words "nigger" and "bitch" in under three digits), it is easy to see why such perceptions abound.
Certainly, white culture is not entirely clean. Look at South Park. Why do parents let their five-year-olds watch it? What a bunch of retards. But seriously, buy music by rock musicians and count occurrences of the word "nigger" (zero) and "bitch" (nearly zero).
So... what does minority pop culture neeed?
It needs less Snoop Doggs and more Will Smiths. Fewer people saying "nigger this, bitch that", and solving problems with violence of varying kinds, and more talk about having fun and emotions such as love (listen to "Miami" and "Just The Two Of Us" by Will Smith... Niggers? Bitches? Nowhere to be found.) It could also use some reinforcement of the ideologies of abstinence and safe sex and peaceful co-existence.
Another thing minorities REALLY, REALLY, REALLY need to ditch is the "I'm the victim" / "The whole world owes me something because my ancestors were enslaved" business. Living in the past is the doorway to decadence. Your ancestors were enslaved? POOR BABY. Guess what? Most slaves were ALREADY SLAVES IN AFRICA before they were BARTERED FOR GUNS AND BLANKETS AND SHINY THINGS to white slave-shippers. Your ancestors got in a war with a neighboring tribe and LOST. Then they got ENSLAVED. Then they got SOLD TO AMERICANS. They were slaves regardless of whether they were kept in Africa by Africans, or sold to and shipped by Americans.
There is no race on this planet which has not been both enslaved and the enslaver NUMEROUS TIMES. The past is full of rotten behavior by lots of people, but this is now and we need to start working towards the future.
Maybe he DAREs do that because, like me, he sees minorities using food stamps to buy food and then loading it into Lexuses in the parking lot. Being a minority is not a crime. There is no basis behind making statements to the effect that white people are somehow "better." However, I have seen numerous minorities take advantage of society's bleeding-heart sensitivity to a person's ethnicity and gender and use this sensitivity to commit acts of laziness and unethicality. They are just as bad as the ignorant fools who dance around in bedsheets and light crosses on fire; they say pretty much the same things - just worded differently.
If I ever come to power, I am going to make it my mission to utterly destroy affirmitive action and make it law that no corporation may hire anyone on any basis other than qualifications relevant to the work being done. Having "quotas" that grant preference by race or gender instead of qualifications is just as evil as saying "I don't hire niggers or spicks, and a woman's place is in the kitchen." Affirmitive action is racism and sexism, all rolled into one.
That would sort of imply that the species in question had ten fingers or tentacles or dicks or whatever they would count on. If you convert 1'x4'x9' into meters, you still have the exact same ratio, just with decimals.
If you ask me, it's BS designed to keep more professors employed. They should give you pass/fail on subjects not related to your major. Getting a D in physical geography should not stop you from getting into the school you want and majoring in CS or CIS. Go on, make nebulous arguments about how it shows you can "stick to it" or whatever. I'll still argue it's nonsense to punish a person for doing poorly in a subject that has NOTHING to do with that person's major.
CIS? Aha, that's nice. CS? I see. That's great. WHERE'S YOUR PORTFOLIO.
Know why I got in? I had the portfolio. College is not enough to get you a good job with certain employers - they want to see demonstrated ability; a piece of college stationery saying you have a degree is nice, but not enough of a reason to say yes or no. I'm still in college, but taking it nice and slow. I'm not about to leave a job that pays as much as mine does to be a poor college puke for two years, but I'm continuing my education anyway because I might not always want to work at my present company.
Yeah, but in what field? What is true in one company may not be true in another.
I knew nothing but BASIC when I was a kid. Then, when I went to college, the first programming language I signed up for was Assembly. I fell in love with it immediately; suddenly I had access to the full resources of the CPU, rather than being locked inside the protective bubble that is BASIC.
Aside from learning a lot about machine architecture, ASM really forces you to think about how to solve a problem. You don't have access to all kinds of libraries and fancy language constructs (unless you think "org 100h" is fancy). You want to multiply something larger than the machine's registers? You have to put some work into it. If your machine has 32-bit registers, and you need to work with a 64-bit number, you can't just mul two registers and expect to get the right answer. So assembly teaches a lot of logic and it sneaks in a little math as well.
Of course, implementing a separate bus will take millions in research (after all, it has to be done right), but once everything is decided on, it's probably only $20 or so in extra hardware. In theory, all you'd need is another PCI bridge chip or similar. Ever seen the inside of a NetApp? The motherboard has a CPU, space for RAM, a PCI bridge, and some slots. Nothing else. Extremely simple.
You don't have to answer that or anything else a pedo asks you.
Anyone who is in favor of "affirmitive action" is by definition in favor of racist practices.
It's a joke, man. Posse Fokker. Pussy Fucker. Get it?
Overall, though, the dependency problem is minor, but broken packages DO sneak into unstable and stable (!!!!!) every now and then.
Yeah!!! The world needs more "horny removers"!!!
Yeah, same to you, buddy!
At home I run both. Windows is on the desktop machine because, well, I have certain standards for ease-of-use. My server boxes both run Linux because trying to do all the same stuff under Win9x or WinNT would be a joke.
How about just using the right tool for the right job?