I use Xemacs with the Gnus newsreader with the nnml back end (that stores eache message in its own file) for my mail, and each message area in its own directory. It works fairly well, performance on a dual 466mhz celeron with 128MB ram is good. It takes about 1.5 min to open, or to switch from sort by date to threaded, sorted by date, in my largest message area, which has over 15000 unread messages totaling over 82MB, and a modest number of read and saved messages.
Right now, it hides deleted messages, and deletes them after 30 days (handy now and then) this also saves me the hassle of emptying a trash can now and then.
If I used scoring, I could do a lot of neat things, such as deleting unread messages that I am not likely to find interesting after a certain amount of time, or having me go straight to likely interesting messages when I open a message area.
I use BBDB for an adress book, (new homepage http://www.waider.ie/hacks/emacs/bbdb/ ) which can be synced with a palm pilot (just started to work) http://home.rochester.rr.com/tsdeweese/SyncBBDB.ht ml
Over all, I'm happy, I just need to learn a bit of emacs lisp.
It's at The Usual, which is at South 1st and San Salvador (first street south of San Carlos, the street the Convention Center is on). Used to be called FX, but that was a long time ago. Go out the east doors of the convention center, and it's less than half a block.
Does having an "s" at the end of your domain name make you suit happy? I am not a copy write lawer, but this seems a little slim to me, do we really want this? Yes, if M$ is closely following Digital Divas copywrite, perhaps, but trade mark? I have my doubts.
Try Tenba, www.tenba.com , they make cases for photograhic gear, and have branched out into laptop cases. I don't know if they are exciting enough for you, but they are tough and protective!
Enjoy your new anchor!
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One, fvwm is a window manager, gnome is something else. Are you sure you are current, for example, Red Hat 6.1 seems badly out of date, my Krud Feb 2000 (Red Hat 6.1 with curent versions of everything www.tummy.com/krud/ $55 for a cd a month for a year) system is MUCH better.
Yeah, they need a really stable benchmark release to get out there, but I think they are closer than you think.
I'm not sure what you mean by feature poor, give us some examples.
There are left anarchists, who make no sense at all to me, and right anarchists, who certianly are not socialists. Socialists think they are smart enough to tell other people what to do, and back up that advice with force. I don't see how that fits with anarchy, with having no athority.
You can have laws, a legal system, chairty, environmental protection, without a government.
So it depends who you ask, anarcho-libertarians are not socialists.
Ever occure to you that someone could be 100% guilty and 100% framed? That would apear to be the case here. The cops framed him, but it sure looks like he either killed the cop, or was trying to (with the uncaught acomplice). Or running towards a cop who was beating up his brother, with his (Mumia's) gun out was not a sign of hostile intent towards the cop?
There are plenty of clearly inocent people on death row. Sure, they are not charismatic, why not work to free them, instead of this guilty one?
My fav moment: The judge who turned down one of his appeals was a prosicutor in the case (you'd think he'd remove himself).
Well, you are kind of missing the point. Right now, the stack is one at a time, and that is why the Mindcraft benchmark had 4 network cards, so that Linux would bog on it.
I think the kernel people are a little to used to doing things the hard way (after all, they don't have any choice).
Besides, if the code for the threads is shared (and Linux is good about that), then you will not have misses for code, just data, and you will have a fair amount of that anyways (though more with threading).
Well, the core of the OS runs on the main cpu, the others are only usable by aplications.
Netware is super super fast, it is an example of care and tuning, and not needing locks because only one cpu runs the kernel (yeah, I know, there are locks for other stuff no doubt).
The 3.x series could serve a file request in 53 x86 instructions! Top that.
This is Alan Cox's point that Linux beats Solaris on single CPU machines because it is efficent, but this is reversed on multi processor boxes because Solaris is scalable, taken to it's logical extreme. There is no userland (non ring 0) on a 3.x server, and it cuts performance in half on a 4.x machine if you use it (on Linux, the kernel runs in ring 0, everything else runs ring 3).
Netware is in many ways an anacronism, file and print, historically a horible aplication server.
Name the two OSs with no vm and no protected memory: Netware and Macintosh (this is way back when).
Netware is like Linux using loadlin, except you can quit to dos, or unload it and reclaim the memory (as linux does). Saing it is a dos app is like saying linux is if you use loadlin.
A software modem could be a huge win. First off, you are no longer pushing your data through a 16 byte fifo buffer, that is costing you over 300 interupts a second at 53k, and that boils down to a lot of cpu time. Second, the modem hardware is good for at least 60ms of your latency, acording to the guy behind an old popular macintosh network game Bolo, which was writen to studdy networking issues.
So a software modem that knew ip could help a lot, and be much nicer than an old style hardware modem
To free a slave, you had to post a fairly large bond, and he did not have the money. Also, he thought slavery was dieing out, as it seemed to be, until the invention of the cotton gin.
Problem being, MS has their own APIs that their apps use, and that do not get published. And of course, the documentation they do provide is never complete.
Rember Real and Apple both making the same "mistake"? Were they both dumb the same way with their player? Or was it MS again?
On the 386/387, SX was in refernce to bus width, and also to memory address bus width, 16bits for data, 24 for address (16MB max on those). On the 486, things get funny. Sure, the basics were that the DX had the FPU, and the SX did not, but then you had IBM's Blue Lightning, which had the 16/24 bus of the 386, but it had a 16 rather than 8KB cache, which made up the perfomance. Then there were things like the SL, the X4's that were really X3, that a Pentium is more like a 486 Pro, and the P6 (Pentium Pro, Pentium2/3, Xeon) has NOTHING to do with the Pentium, aside from running x86 code, internaly quite different, but a Pentium is just a 486 with a new FPU and a second, half crippled iteger unit.
Intel isn't. But they have people making sure that they stay legal at all levels of the company, so although they may skirt the law, they generally do not blatantly violate it, unlike Micro$oft. A monopoly is not in its self ilegal, using a monopoly to lock out competitors is.
But Intel is looking prety desperate with regard to the Athlon and Rambus issues. Screwing up bigtime, and scrambling to scare motherboard makers into not supporting AMD.
We archive a fair bit of video, I guess we have somewhere over 2 terabytes (107 20GB (native) 8mm tapes) and zillions of CDs of audio. We use an app we wrote, and a human to feed the drives (ever price these things? A human looks fairly reasonable). We have 21 CD drives and 11 tape drives, plus 3 tape drives for writing new tapes (one off site, one on site backup, one for the "changer"). We use Solaris on ultras for it. We also have 200GB of disk for caching the data, and are going to expand that.
Well, ext3 is fairly simply, on disk it is ext2 with a log file (its self a regular file), reiserfs is coming along. What goes in may not be feature complete, but from the word on the reiserfs mailing list is that they both will make it into 2.4, and should be in 2.3 fairly soon. Perhaps they will be flagged experimental in the early 2.4 kernels.
At least two journaled file systems will be in 2.4. Reiserfs and ext3 should both make it in. Posibly XFS as well (not heard any news about that one). Hey, and 64GB max memory in 2.4 as well (still 4GB max per process though).
1- But I don't want to replace my system, dual PPro 150's, 128MB RAM, nice case, PC Power & Cooling power supply, none of it will work in a new system, and I am happy enough with it now.
1a-a hardware decoder will always be less of a strain on the system than doing it in software. DMA from the drive to the card, and from the card to your video card. Shouldn't eat more than a few % of your cpu.
2-I cannot argue with that, IF you have a fast enough cpu. In a GPL sense, not as long as there are patents on any part of it, and I expect there are.
3&4-well, yeah.
5-hey, and they don't take a PCI slot anyways. But I'm not replacing my Libretto any time soon either. And I bet hardware is easier on your battery. If you have the space, why not use hardware?
There is a place for hardware decoders, yeah, next summer, when I upgrade to a dual 1ghz Athlon system, software will be great, but until I get around to it (and it may be longer than that), hardware is the only way for me to watch it. Well, when it finally works under Linux.
Well, throw transitor count in there, and see just how much that 8080 (or 8008? I know you can boot Z80 cp/m on a 486, so...) compatability costs Intel! It is HUGE, the x86 is a tribute to the skill of Intel's designers and manufacturing, and of course the money they get from the high margin volume that they sell.
It's like making a flat head harley do 200 mph, sure you could, given absurd amounts of effort, but I can go buy a new bike that with a small effort will crack 200 mph (heck, the new ones will do it stock with the right conditions).
Emacs/Xemacs running any of the mail programs with The Insidious Big Brother Database http://pw2.netcom.com/~simmonmt/bbdb/index.html get version 2.00.06 by the way. I use it with VM, I am moving to Gnus (news reader that does mail under X/Emacs) because it should handle large mail boxes better.
BBDB should do what you want, I like it well enough.
We run custom aps that talk to Sybase. Our users have to reboot multiple times a day, sometimes even once an hour. Ultimately, moving to web apps, or Linux would help a lot, because one app dieing would be far less likely to force a reboot, thus saving a fair bit of time.
Yes, I know, it is our custom apps.
But last time I ran NT4 (SP3) I had to reboot twice a week, with Linux, I still have to restart Netscape twice a week, but that is it. Not X, not other apps.
In another paycheck or two, I'll be switching over to KRUD, Kevin's Redhat Uber Distribution. It is a mere $44 a year with monthly CD updates. I will no longer have get and install Xemacs:) No free support, but you didn't want that anyways.
http://www.tummy.com/krud/
"Kevin Fenzi, co-author of the Linux Security HOWTO, and a senior member of tummy.com has created a distribution based on Red Hat which includes the most up to date security and application errata. This distribution, called KRUD, also included a variety of other freely distributable software."
Nope, MIT's wearables group has been kicking that idea around for years. http://rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/ is one of the people involved. Interesting stuff.
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I use Xemacs with the Gnus newsreader with the nnml back end (that stores eache message in its own file) for my mail, and each message area in its own directory. It works fairly well, performance on a dual 466mhz celeron with 128MB ram is good. It takes about 1.5 min to open, or to switch from sort by date to threaded, sorted by date, in my largest message area, which has over 15000 unread messages totaling over 82MB, and a modest number of read and saved messages.
t ml
Right now, it hides deleted messages, and deletes them after 30 days (handy now and then) this also saves me the hassle of emptying a trash can now and then.
If I used scoring, I could do a lot of neat things, such as deleting unread messages that I am not likely to find interesting after a certain amount of time, or having me go straight to likely interesting messages when I open a message area.
I use BBDB for an adress book, (new homepage http://www.waider.ie/hacks/emacs/bbdb/ ) which can be synced with a palm pilot (just started to work) http://home.rochester.rr.com/tsdeweese/SyncBBDB.h
Over all, I'm happy, I just need to learn a bit of emacs lisp.
It's at The Usual, which is at South 1st and San Salvador (first street south of San Carlos, the street the Convention Center is on). Used to be called FX, but that was a long time ago. Go out the east doors of the convention center, and it's less than half a block.
and that would be where?
Does having an "s" at the end of your domain name make you suit happy? I am not a copy write lawer, but this seems a little slim to me, do we really want this? Yes, if M$ is closely following Digital Divas copywrite, perhaps, but trade mark? I have my doubts.
Try Tenba, www.tenba.com , they make cases for photograhic gear, and have branched out into laptop cases. I don't know if they are exciting enough for you, but they are tough and protective!
Enjoy your new anchor!
One, fvwm is a window manager, gnome is something else. Are you sure you are current, for example, Red Hat 6.1 seems badly out of date, my Krud Feb 2000 (Red Hat 6.1 with curent versions of everything www.tummy.com/krud/ $55 for a cd a month for a year) system is MUCH better.
Yeah, they need a really stable benchmark release to get out there, but I think they are closer than you think.
I'm not sure what you mean by feature poor, give us some examples.
There are left anarchists, who make no sense at all to me, and right anarchists, who certianly are not socialists. Socialists think they are smart enough to tell other people what to do, and back up that advice with force. I don't see how that fits with anarchy, with having no athority.
You can have laws, a legal system, chairty, environmental protection, without a government.
So it depends who you ask, anarcho-libertarians are not socialists.
Ever occure to you that someone could be 100% guilty and 100% framed? That would apear to be the case here. The cops framed him, but it sure looks like he either killed the cop, or was trying to (with the uncaught acomplice). Or running towards a cop who was beating up his brother, with his (Mumia's) gun out was not a sign of hostile intent towards the cop?
There are plenty of clearly inocent people on death row. Sure, they are not charismatic, why not work to free them, instead of this guilty one?
My fav moment: The judge who turned down one of his appeals was a prosicutor in the case (you'd think he'd remove himself).
Gawd, I need a spellchecker!
Well, you are kind of missing the point. Right now, the stack is one at a time, and that is why the Mindcraft benchmark had 4 network cards, so that Linux would bog on it.
I think the kernel people are a little to used to doing things the hard way (after all, they don't have any choice).
Besides, if the code for the threads is shared (and Linux is good about that), then you will not have misses for code, just data, and you will have a fair amount of that anyways (though more with threading).
Well, it's not much faster than PCI, has a theoretical 132MBS, and I know people who have tested it at over 100MBS, so close enough.
People doing cluster computing need more bandwidth, so they will welcome cheaper gigabit.
From your server to the switch you need more bandwith. With Linux's single threaded ip stack, being able to have one NIC rather than several is good.
And lastly, I want to be able to stream uncompressed video around my lan at home.
Well, the core of the OS runs on the main cpu, the others are only usable by aplications.
Netware is super super fast, it is an example of care and tuning, and not needing locks because only one cpu runs the kernel (yeah, I know, there are locks for other stuff no doubt).
The 3.x series could serve a file request in 53 x86 instructions! Top that.
This is Alan Cox's point that Linux beats Solaris on single CPU machines because it is efficent, but this is reversed on multi processor boxes because Solaris is scalable, taken to it's logical extreme. There is no userland (non ring 0) on a 3.x server, and it cuts performance in half on a 4.x machine if you use it (on Linux, the kernel runs in ring 0, everything else runs ring 3).
Netware is in many ways an anacronism, file and print, historically a horible aplication server.
Name the two OSs with no vm and no protected memory: Netware and Macintosh (this is way back when).
Netware is like Linux using loadlin, except you can quit to dos, or unload it and reclaim the memory (as linux does). Saing it is a dos app is like saying linux is if you use loadlin.
A software modem could be a huge win. First off, you are no longer pushing your data through a 16 byte fifo buffer, that is costing you over 300 interupts a second at 53k, and that boils down to a lot of cpu time. Second, the modem hardware is good for at least 60ms of your latency, acording to the guy behind an old popular macintosh network game Bolo, which was writen to studdy networking issues.
So a software modem that knew ip could help a lot, and be much nicer than an old style hardware modem
To free a slave, you had to post a fairly large bond, and he did not have the money. Also, he thought slavery was dieing out, as it seemed to be, until the invention of the cotton gin.
Problem being, MS has their own APIs that their apps use, and that do not get published. And of course, the documentation they do provide is never complete.
Rember Real and Apple both making the same "mistake"? Were they both dumb the same way with their player? Or was it MS again?
On the 386/387, SX was in refernce to bus width, and also to memory address bus width, 16bits for data, 24 for address (16MB max on those). On the 486, things get funny. Sure, the basics were that the DX had the FPU, and the SX did not, but then you had IBM's Blue Lightning, which had the 16/24 bus of the 386, but it had a 16 rather than 8KB cache, which made up the perfomance. Then there were things like the SL, the X4's that were really X3, that a Pentium is more like a 486 Pro, and the P6 (Pentium Pro, Pentium2/3, Xeon) has NOTHING to do with the Pentium, aside from running x86 code, internaly quite different, but a Pentium is just a 486 with a new FPU and a second, half crippled iteger unit.
rant off
Intel isn't. But they have people making sure that they stay legal at all levels of the company, so although they may skirt the law, they generally do not blatantly violate it, unlike Micro$oft. A monopoly is not in its self ilegal, using a monopoly to lock out competitors is.
But Intel is looking prety desperate with regard to the Athlon and Rambus issues. Screwing up bigtime, and scrambling to scare motherboard makers into not supporting AMD.
We archive a fair bit of video, I guess we have somewhere over 2 terabytes (107 20GB (native) 8mm tapes) and zillions of CDs of audio. We use an app we wrote, and a human to feed the drives (ever price these things? A human looks fairly reasonable). We have 21 CD drives and 11 tape drives, plus 3 tape drives for writing new tapes (one off site, one on site backup, one for the "changer"). We use Solaris on ultras for it. We also have 200GB of disk for caching the data, and are going to expand that.
Well, ext3 is fairly simply, on disk it is ext2 with a log file (its self a regular file), reiserfs is coming along. What goes in may not be feature complete, but from the word on the reiserfs mailing list is that they both will make it into 2.4, and should be in 2.3 fairly soon. Perhaps they will be flagged experimental in the early 2.4 kernels.
At least two journaled file systems will be in 2.4. Reiserfs and ext3 should both make it in. Posibly XFS as well (not heard any news about that one). Hey, and 64GB max memory in 2.4 as well (still 4GB max per process though).
1- But I don't want to replace my system, dual PPro 150's, 128MB RAM, nice case, PC Power & Cooling power supply, none of it will work in a new system, and I am happy enough with it now.
1a-a hardware decoder will always be less of a strain on the system than doing it in software. DMA from the drive to the card, and from the card to your video card. Shouldn't eat more than a few % of your cpu.
2-I cannot argue with that, IF you have a fast enough cpu. In a GPL sense, not as long as there are patents on any part of it, and I expect there are.
3&4-well, yeah.
5-hey, and they don't take a PCI slot anyways. But I'm not replacing my Libretto any time soon either. And I bet hardware is easier on your battery. If you have the space, why not use hardware?
There is a place for hardware decoders, yeah, next summer, when I upgrade to a dual 1ghz Athlon system, software will be great, but until I get around to it (and it may be longer than that), hardware is the only way for me to watch it. Well, when it finally works under Linux.
Well, throw transitor count in there, and see just how much that 8080 (or 8008? I know you can boot Z80 cp/m on a 486, so...) compatability costs Intel! It is HUGE, the x86 is a tribute to the skill of Intel's designers and manufacturing, and of course the money they get from the high margin volume that they sell.
It's like making a flat head harley do 200 mph, sure you could, given absurd amounts of effort, but I can go buy a new bike that with a small effort will crack 200 mph (heck, the new ones will do it stock with the right conditions).
Emacs/Xemacs running any of the mail programs with The Insidious Big Brother Database http://pw2.netcom.com/~simmonmt/bbdb/index.html get version 2.00.06 by the way. I use it with VM, I am moving to Gnus (news reader that does mail under X/Emacs) because it should handle large mail boxes better.
BBDB should do what you want, I like it well enough.
We run custom aps that talk to Sybase. Our users have to reboot multiple times a day, sometimes even once an hour. Ultimately, moving to web apps, or Linux would help a lot, because one app dieing would be far less likely to force a reboot, thus saving a fair bit of time.
Yes, I know, it is our custom apps.
But last time I ran NT4 (SP3) I had to reboot twice a week, with Linux, I still have to restart Netscape twice a week, but that is it. Not X, not other apps.
In another paycheck or two, I'll be switching over to KRUD, Kevin's Redhat Uber Distribution. It is a mere $44 a year with monthly CD updates. I will no longer have get and install Xemacs :) No free support, but you didn't want that anyways.
http://www.tummy.com/krud/
"Kevin Fenzi, co-author of the Linux Security HOWTO, and a senior member of tummy.com has created a distribution based on Red Hat which includes the most up to date security and application errata. This distribution, called KRUD, also included a variety of other freely distributable software."
Nope, MIT's wearables group has been kicking that idea around for years. http://rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/ is one of the people involved. Interesting stuff.