it would be interesting if they could build an "undo" command into the filesystem. i dont know much about journalling filesystems, but maybe the journal could be used to work backwards. but i am just rambling out of my depth now:)
That isn't getting it straight at all. Thats just a bunch of handwaving. His point was that XFS omits some of the journaling features that ext3 includes so that it can perform faster. And then he gave perfectly acceptable examples of where this might make XFS the better choice.
From wikipedia "A straw man argument is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent."
basicly he was being perfectly reasonable, and you are a sarcastic stroppy little prick who is making shit up to try and save face.
you can do things en masse with the command line if you're remotely programmerish, but for the GUI-only user i dont know what kind of things there are.
the problem wasnt having a mass of files with the wrong permissions - it was having certain key files that needed to be precisely picked out and given exactly the right ownership. just converting everything in the/etc folder to be owned by your user account would be even an worse thing to do than running apps as root.
to be honest there's no reason the average user would be in the situation in the first place - it was only me being dangerous with a little bit of knowledge that caused me to have to follow through and actually understand what i had been messing with.
there is a timeout on sudo - so if you keep typing sudo commands within a minute(ish) of each other it wont ask you for a password over and over again. but then if you stop for a minute or two, it then would ask for the password again. you can also use "sudo su" to make sudo stick permanently for that terminal session.
The other real benefit for not logging in as root is the problem with file ownership. Any files created by the root user cant be read or edited by anyone else unless you specifically set the permissions. This becomes a problem when config and data files associated with certain applications get created when you are the root user. it ends up breaking the application for anyone else who tries to run it. so NEVER start an application with sudo. i really messed up my ubuntu installation once by running a media player as root to get round some bug or other. it started a chain reaction whereby more and more apps need to be runs as root becuase more and more files were getting owned by root. eventually the window manager wouldnt start so all i could do was log in to a terminal. luckily i found a webforum where all this was explained, and i managed to methodically change file permissions back to what they should be through the terminal. (i've never had a problem with ubuntu that required a reinstall!)
obviously certain admin apps need root access, and they use "gksudo" which is a GUI interface to sudo that pops up the "please enter your password" box in gnome or KDE when you do stuff like open the network settings dialog.
no probs - the sudo command just lets you execute something as the root (or "administrator" in windows) user. the root user account in ubuntu does exist, but the password is randomised so you cant log in as root (trust me this is a very good thing). the Sudo service has a list of users who are allowed to pass it commands, and you only have to know your own password authenticate yourself to sudo, and therefore execute root commands.
"I've been to the UK (London and surrounding areas in particular) quite a few times, and there's cameras all over the damn place. Not to mention signs warning you that you're under surveillance."
yeah, in some town centres, highly populated public areas as a subsititute for having patrolling police officers, hardly an invasion of privacy. the insinuation i was arguing against is that britain is some kind of big brother totalitarian state with cameras EVERYWHERE which it isnt at all.
"Or, lemme guess, you don't have any violent crime in the UK, do you? "
A lot less than america.
"Good, I hope you enjoy the shit out of living in the UK. As long as you keep it over there, and don't expect me to give a rat's ass what kind of resolutions the bitch-ass U.N. passes, I think we can get along just fine. "
You sound like a pouting 3 year old.
"And I gotta love your bit about having been through all the arguments over firearms. What a cheapshit way to try to get the last word - "nope!heard it all before! not listening! got my fingers in my ears...nyah-nyah!".
Not really, as i quite clearly stated, the argument is pointless beucase neither of us will "win" but if you really want to go through it read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics . there; now all the points have been made, and neither of us thinks any differently.
Well, how about you write your code only for portland, then have portland as a dependancy? I think that's the whole point. Sure that doesnt help legacy systems, but the point is, from now on, linux distros can integrate portland, and future apps can rely on portland. The step has to be taken somewhen.
you really dont need to know about that stuff for day to day use.
just remember for admin commands you have to put "sudo" at the beginning, so all it is is "sudo apt-get install " all the dependancies are dealt with automatically.
clicking on "advanced" in the package manager gui launches "synaptic" which is the debian package manager, which gives you gui access to everything the apt-get command does (and its all searchable). the command line to be honest is a really useful shortcut in most cases. ie if you ask someone on a forum how to install minesweeper, they can say, "yeah, type sudo apt-get install minesweeper" instead of giving you long winded directions on where to click through to get to the gui installer etc.
the alternative CD just uses the text-mode "Curses" installer program that debian uses. Its a bit crude looking and possibly daunting to noobs but it is less resource intensive. There is no "live" OS on the alternative CD, you just get to install it from scratch. This was also the installer that Breezy used, except it needed 192MBs for some reason, which was annoying as breezy only needed 128mbs to run. This was fixed in Dapper i believe, but i've only ever upgraded to dapper, so i don't know what he installation process is like.
Ahh, I see. So the box is a recording/publishing device, that uses the USB key to identify you and publish your audio to the correct website. So more than one organisation could use the same box / webserver to publish their stuff. Aaaaah now it makes sense - its like a cheap radio station that any one with a key can use to output content.
The article didnt convey this information very clearly. That's a pretty cool gizmo; they should do a video one.
The thing is most of the GUI of firefox is written in javascript, so this new javascript gives them more of an ability to write reliable code. And thinking about it, a browser with 10% market share can hardly embrace, extend and extinguish. Anyone who writes some javascript that only works in the latest version of one browser which has a 10% market share total including all the older versions obviously isn't interested in including the vast majority of the population in their userbase.
no one's blaming you for anything. they're just saying that for almost no effort, the problem can become a non issue for you. unless you want to cut of your nose to spite your face just to make a point, good luck with that, i'm sure anyone gives a shit.
can you blame them for that motto? i assue you're american. what if the international community decided to assist the jewish community to invade the US and claim control of everywhere but florida and nevada, call it "isreal" and then spend the next 50 years bulldozing what remains of the US any time any americans decide to try and do something about the fact their country was stolen from them.
isreal just wants to be left alone with their stolen land.
recommended minimum is 256 mb, but i think the live cd will run on 192. I believe it would be horrificly slow though. The Breezy text mode installer required 192 megs otherwise it hung halfway through (why didnt they have a dialog that told you you didnt have enough RAM?) but i believe the text mode installer on the "alternative" dapper cd will run on 128mbs.
I don't get it. So you plug in a USB key and it records from the Mic input to the USB key. then you plug it into a webserver, and i assume use a GUI to import the audio file into your website. This is hardly a quantum leap over just recording an mp3 on your pc and uploading it to the web, except you have to buy a $2000 webserver and have physical access to it.
The more free RAM you have the faster your system will go, because the OS uses free RAM space to cache files from the hard disk. Kind of like the opposite of a swap file. And if you think having a swap file and a disk cache on at the same time is silly and inefficient, for some reason it isnt. I think it's to do with having the right stuff in the right place at the right time.
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isnt UV/electromagnetic radiation what the solar panels want?
it would be interesting if they could build an "undo" command into the filesystem. i dont know much about journalling filesystems, but maybe the journal could be used to work backwards. but i am just rambling out of my depth now :)
hahahahahah, if i had the points, i'd mod you up
That isn't getting it straight at all. Thats just a bunch of handwaving. His point was that XFS omits some of the journaling features that ext3 includes so that it can perform faster. And then he gave perfectly acceptable examples of where this might make XFS the better choice.
From wikipedia "A straw man argument is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent."
basicly he was being perfectly reasonable, and you are a sarcastic stroppy little prick who is making shit up to try and save face.
you can do things en masse with the command line if you're remotely programmerish, but for the GUI-only user i dont know what kind of things there are.
/etc folder to be owned by your user account would be even an worse thing to do than running apps as root.
the problem wasnt having a mass of files with the wrong permissions - it was having certain key files that needed to be precisely picked out and given exactly the right ownership. just converting everything in the
to be honest there's no reason the average user would be in the situation in the first place - it was only me being dangerous with a little bit of knowledge that caused me to have to follow through and actually understand what i had been messing with.
there is a timeout on sudo - so if you keep typing sudo commands within a minute(ish) of each other it wont ask you for a password over and over again. but then if you stop for a minute or two, it then would ask for the password again. you can also use "sudo su" to make sudo stick permanently for that terminal session.
The other real benefit for not logging in as root is the problem with file ownership. Any files created by the root user cant be read or edited by anyone else unless you specifically set the permissions. This becomes a problem when config and data files associated with certain applications get created when you are the root user. it ends up breaking the application for anyone else who tries to run it. so NEVER start an application with sudo. i really messed up my ubuntu installation once by running a media player as root to get round some bug or other. it started a chain reaction whereby more and more apps need to be runs as root becuase more and more files were getting owned by root. eventually the window manager wouldnt start so all i could do was log in to a terminal. luckily i found a webforum where all this was explained, and i managed to methodically change file permissions back to what they should be through the terminal. (i've never had a problem with ubuntu that required a reinstall!)
obviously certain admin apps need root access, and they use "gksudo" which is a GUI interface to sudo that pops up the "please enter your password" box in gnome or KDE when you do stuff like open the network settings dialog.
no probs - the sudo command just lets you execute something as the root (or "administrator" in windows) user. the root user account in ubuntu does exist, but the password is randomised so you cant log in as root (trust me this is a very good thing). the Sudo service has a list of users who are allowed to pass it commands, and you only have to know your own password authenticate yourself to sudo, and therefore execute root commands.
"I've been to the UK (London and surrounding areas in particular) quite a few times, and there's cameras all over the damn place. Not to mention signs warning you that you're under surveillance."
yeah, in some town centres, highly populated public areas as a subsititute for having patrolling police officers, hardly an invasion of privacy. the insinuation i was arguing against is that britain is some kind of big brother totalitarian state with cameras EVERYWHERE which it isnt at all.
"Or, lemme guess, you don't have any violent crime in the UK, do you? "
A lot less than america.
"Good, I hope you enjoy the shit out of living in the UK. As long as you keep it over there, and don't expect me to give a rat's ass what kind of resolutions the bitch-ass U.N. passes, I think we can get along just fine. "
You sound like a pouting 3 year old.
"And I gotta love your bit about having been through all the arguments over firearms. What a cheapshit way to try to get the last word - "nope!heard it all before! not listening! got my fingers in my ears...nyah-nyah!". Not really, as i quite clearly stated, the argument is pointless beucase neither of us will "win" but if you really want to go through it read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics . there; now all the points have been made, and neither of us thinks any differently.
because he's alan partridge. the next slashdot submission will be "how do you make pornography come on my tv?" or "does anyone fancy a drink?"
Well, how about you write your code only for portland, then have portland as a dependancy? I think that's the whole point. Sure that doesnt help legacy systems, but the point is, from now on, linux distros can integrate portland, and future apps can rely on portland. The step has to be taken somewhen.
you really dont need to know about that stuff for day to day use. just remember for admin commands you have to put "sudo" at the beginning, so all it is is "sudo apt-get install " all the dependancies are dealt with automatically.
clicking on "advanced" in the package manager gui launches "synaptic" which is the debian package manager, which gives you gui access to everything the apt-get command does (and its all searchable). the command line to be honest is a really useful shortcut in most cases. ie if you ask someone on a forum how to install minesweeper, they can say, "yeah, type sudo apt-get install minesweeper" instead of giving you long winded directions on where to click through to get to the gui installer etc.
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the brilliance of the light emitted has little to do with the range of colours the TV can produce. Seeing more shades of red isnt going to blind you.
the alternative CD just uses the text-mode "Curses" installer program that debian uses. Its a bit crude looking and possibly daunting to noobs but it is less resource intensive. There is no "live" OS on the alternative CD, you just get to install it from scratch. This was also the installer that Breezy used, except it needed 192MBs for some reason, which was annoying as breezy only needed 128mbs to run. This was fixed in Dapper i believe, but i've only ever upgraded to dapper, so i don't know what he installation process is like.
Ahh, I see. So the box is a recording/publishing device, that uses the USB key to identify you and publish your audio to the correct website. So more than one organisation could use the same box / webserver to publish their stuff. Aaaaah now it makes sense - its like a cheap radio station that any one with a key can use to output content.
The article didnt convey this information very clearly. That's a pretty cool gizmo; they should do a video one.
The thing is most of the GUI of firefox is written in javascript, so this new javascript gives them more of an ability to write reliable code. And thinking about it, a browser with 10% market share can hardly embrace, extend and extinguish. Anyone who writes some javascript that only works in the latest version of one browser which has a 10% market share total including all the older versions obviously isn't interested in including the vast majority of the population in their userbase.
no one's blaming you for anything. they're just saying that for almost no effort, the problem can become a non issue for you. unless you want to cut of your nose to spite your face just to make a point, good luck with that, i'm sure anyone gives a shit.
can you blame them for that motto? i assue you're american. what if the international community decided to assist the jewish community to invade the US and claim control of everywhere but florida and nevada, call it "isreal" and then spend the next 50 years bulldozing what remains of the US any time any americans decide to try and do something about the fact their country was stolen from them.
isreal just wants to be left alone with their stolen land.
recommended minimum is 256 mb, but i think the live cd will run on 192. I believe it would be horrificly slow though. The Breezy text mode installer required 192 megs otherwise it hung halfway through (why didnt they have a dialog that told you you didnt have enough RAM?) but i believe the text mode installer on the "alternative" dapper cd will run on 128mbs.
I don't get it. So you plug in a USB key and it records from the Mic input to the USB key. then you plug it into a webserver, and i assume use a GUI to import the audio file into your website. This is hardly a quantum leap over just recording an mp3 on your pc and uploading it to the web, except you have to buy a $2000 webserver and have physical access to it.
am i missing the point or something?
is it possible to shift the ISS to a more useful/practical orbit?
that's still a pitifully small amount of complexity compared the possible permutations of functionality windows has to deal with.
The more free RAM you have the faster your system will go, because the OS uses free RAM space to cache files from the hard disk. Kind of like the opposite of a swap file. And if you think having a swap file and a disk cache on at the same time is silly and inefficient, for some reason it isnt. I think it's to do with having the right stuff in the right place at the right time.
writing a program to verify to correctness of another program wouldnt solve anything. it jut introduces an infinite regression.
if a case hinged on this one solitary piece of evidence, it would need to be thoroughly manually reverified to make sure it was accurate.