I already wondered about the heise.de title blaming the file system. Now Slashdot repeats it.
I have seen the same on FreeBSD using UFS (with soft updates).
KDE4 is supposed to be portable enough to run on file systems that have no data journaling or a guarantee for operations on different files to be written in a certain order without issuing a sync.
I tend to lean to the left side of the political spectrum, but two threads of liberal thought piss me off more than just about anything:
If you are so scientific minded, you should have realized that there are more dimensions than one to describe your political view. If you just go one dimension up than "left" and "liberal" are two different directions (at least if "left"/"right" is your economical opinion). Moreover, this has nothing to do with "liberal".
Is it difficult to make your argument without relying on general support for your political point of view?
anti nuke environmentalists and autism/vaccine linkers.
Now you lost all your credibility. What does "anti nuke environmentalists" have to do with it? How are they the same as "autism/vaccine linkers"?
Both group are as bad as any anti science fundamentalist
Anti science? I know the Physics behind nuclear energy pretty well (some years of university helped, but were not necessary) and I understand that modern reactors may be pretty save, maybe better if compared with some alternatives like climate change due to CO2 pollution.
Anyhow, being skeptical about our capability to deal with the nuclear waste for the time it poses a thread to the environment is anti scientific where? Here in Germany, there is no place for final storage of waste, yet, because many experiments failed. There are waste amounts of money being spend cleaning a salt dome because it eventually leaked. Money that is never added to the price of nuclear energy.
Being skeptical about the ability of companies maximizing profit to use the full security potential of modern reactors is anti scientific in which way? There have been so many reports of nuclear accidents that were swept under the rug -- or could-have-been accidents because of safety procedures not followed due to profit reasons. Being skeptical about our Governments to act in a way to change that is anti scientific? I guess there is much more evidence to back up these fears than evidence that we have working regulations.
I can understand why people see nuclear power saving us, but being of another opinion has nothing to do with "don't mess with mother nature".
From the source: 'Solomon also points out that these dissenting scientists - over 9,000 of whom hold Ph.Ds -- [...] far exceed the count of UN IPCC "scientists"'. As dubious as some of the results of the IPCC might have been put together, counting the number of scientists from random professions opposing it and comparing that to an expert panel seems a really qualified approach.
Last month, the source cited had an article starting with 'I admire President Bush. I think he is a good man and I have said so before.' Other articles go in the same direction.
Coming from Europe, I see that they are very _American_ "thinkers" as we saw the USA during the last years.
That is not interesting. Most people outside the US consider this an narrow minded, selfish, unscientific view endangering the world.
There are a lot of things that are very hard to justify for Israel, which is a nation that is considered democratic, developed and that plays a role on the international scene.
By many political scientist, Israel is not considered democratic, since it lacks many aspects of a modern democracy. (Israel is an important military ally of the USA and thus considered democratic.)
There can be no peace with people that don't even recognise Israel's right to exist.
Does Israel acknowledge the right of Palestine to exists as a state? Why should Hamas do that unilaterally as a precondition to even start with negotiations?
Hamas stated that it would be possible to have a long-lasting ceasefire with Israel, indicating that they mean an indefinite one. Of course, this is not accepting the state, but it is as far as they can go without loosing credibility among their followers. It should be a starting point for negotiations.
Besides, the most important point is that only a minority on both sides does not want peace. Why does the majority let these extremists win?
Why is evacuation of Israeli colonies in the West Bank unrealistic? Israel evacuated their colonies in Gaza, they can do it in the West Bank.
The settlements in Gaza were rather small, supported only by a minority of the Israeli population, especially with the huge military budget that was only for protecting few settlers.
A few smaller settlements in the West Bank will eventually be given up, like the one in Hebron that is illegal even from the Israeli point of view (but still protected by military).
The larger settlements in the West Bank, especially the ones around Jerusalem, have recently been enlarged -- there is now a ring around Jerusalem separating the Arabic quarters of Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Why do you think they are there? If there is not a huge turn in position of the government -- which is currently unrealistic -- these will not be given up.
The extremists on both side do not want to resolve the conflict, partially because they believe that they are chosen to live there, partially, because they would loose many followers, if people realize that they can in fact live with each other. Unfortunately, these extremists are influential.
In any case, basic administration and navigation are all the same across the nixes, as long as you're using Bash.
And do not forget to write scripts that assume that/bin/sh is bash -- with them you can administrate every single Unix you find on this planet (aside from the few that try to be POSIX compliant).
is that the reason, why in freebsd the binaries' names are a total chaos of upper and lower case?
I do not know what you are talking about. In the base, the only command with uppercase (that does not work in lower case as well as CC and cc) is IPXrouted.
granted, i like freebsd. but debian feel a lot more coherent than freebsd.
Looking only at wireless: What do I need in FreeBSD? ifconfig. What do I need in Linux? ifconfig, iwconfig, iwlist, and depending on the chipset maybe something more. wpa_supplicant has 1 interface for bsd (not counting ndis) and how many for Linux? Ok, they fixed that during the last few kernel releases, but it was a mess for a few years. In FreeBSD the interfaces are named as the drivers, in Linux, often wlanX, but for some drivers ethX and for some like the driver as ath0. FreeBSD got vap (virtual interfaces) in 8-CURRENT -- with the same syntax for all wireless drivers. Linux got it earlier... obviously without consistency.
With OpenBSD, you do not need wpa_supplicant, but ifconfig can do WPA, too...
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Neither is Israel as argued by many political scientist. (I am not one, so look out for better sources if my arguments sound clumsy.)
You know that elected Arabic Israeli representatives have to agree to Israel being a Jewish state? Otherwise they cannot go into parliament. Do you think the Arabic minority feels represented by them? And then, no one will work with them on principle -- many members of parliament will leave once the Arabic representatives are speaking.
Moreover, Israel occupies a country. The Palestinians are not given citizenship. Is that democratic?
If an Arabic Israeli citizen chooses to live in the West Bank for some time, he will lose his citizenship (and right to vote, return to Israel, etc.). Weird democratic country.
The refugees are denied their right (human rights carta) to return home -- because Israel is afraid not to have a Jewish majority anymore. Is it democratic to select your citizens like that?
Israel fails many aspects of a modern democracy.
Probably not part of the theory, but if a minority of extremists in power does everything not to come to peace with the Palestinians, which the majority wants in some way or another, there is something wrong. The same applies for the Palestinian side, of course, but the West Bank and Gaza is not a modern democracy, either, aside from the fact that they are occupied and cannot rule themselves anyhow.
Contrary to anything anticipated, a German court just ruled that someone did a criminal act connecting to an open wifi.
The DHCP package you take as an invitation was interpreted by the court as a telecommunication message not intended for the recipient and thus illegal to read.
Anyway, are you implying because they mention java,.net and have flash on the YDN homepage that makes yahoo as "unopen" as ms? As I said, it is not about Yahoo. It is about the original post claiming that Windows and FreeBSD do not go well along, Microsoft would advertise FreeBSD, and a link to that page to show what Yahoo was all about.
The Link contained a lot of technology that goes along a lot better with Windows than FreeBSD. Moreover it advertises the use of proprietary technology such as Flash and not FreeBSD. Or should I look at what kind of server is behind the page?
I know that Yahoo is used as a reference what a big company uses FreeBSD, but the site in question just shows a company giving developers tools to build application that work with their services and OpenID, which aims to be a competitor to the Passport in a more open way, because Passport failed. For me, presenting the whole thing in Flash, hints that "open" is more a buzzword here than the spirit behind it. That might be wrong, but it does not really matter for my point.
I do not really know how "open" Yahoo is, but this site does not show me anything.
The "huge flash sign" you speak about is some Yahoo developer explaining why OpenID, a vendor neutral, OPEN technology is a big step for Yahoo. You know, they adopted that technology for their 250 million accounts lately. Hopefully you didn't miss that news with whatever block you use. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) Flash is rather unstable on my FreeBSD system. I only try to use it, if I think it is really worse it. Some company presenting their "OPEN" technology in such an "OPEN" way does not belong in this category. These people in the "REAL WORLD" sometimes have a weird perspective on things I fortunately can afford to ignore. Is OpenID a success? Not yet and I seriously doubt it will be... but maybe.
My parent talked about FreeBSD and Windows not going along very well and directs me to a site that has Flash and promotes.Net (and Java). I think someone is rather clueless. It is not about Yahoo. It is this site that makes me laugh as a prove that Microsoft and Yahoo do not fit together.
You may call me childish. Fortunately, I can afford not to be one of your "REAL" developers.
I suggest Slashdot people who thinks Yahoo is lame because of their homepage check http://developer.yahoo.com/ to see what Yahoo actually is. Huge Flash sign thanks to Flashblock... lame side indeed.
> What happened to firewire? All signs point to it going extinct in the very near future....
Since for everyone else it is IEEE 1394, which simply does not sound very sexy, I have an idea who is in the position to let FireWire die. Anyhow, I will refrain from naming it here, since it would be all too unpopular...
> Don't forget ending.il and replacing it with whatever the 'Palestinians want to call the place. After all, anti-semitism
What does antisemitism has to do with that? Can't you distinguish between Jewish religion and the state of Israel?
The Jewish religion is respected by most Palestinians -- it is just the politics of the current government of the state of Israel that they do not agree with... wonder why, being occupied and having your every-day life made as miserable as possible.
Of course I know that Israel sees itself as the Jewish state -- every member of parliament has to agree to that, even the ones from the Arabic parties, who lose their credibility over that. Why do you try to spread this confusion of religion and state here? People from most countries try to distinguish the two.
And of course this is off-topic -- but how could the parent be rated "Insightful"...
This is totally OT. What does ndiswrapper have to do with Linux/BSD licensed drivers?
Calling OpenBSD a distro (it is an OS) and saying that you would never touch it shows even more that you have no clue what you are talking about. (If you have read the philosophy behind OpenBSD, you would probably agree that there are some applications for it.)
ndiswrapper is a Linux project. There is ndis for FreeBSD, which is similar (creating kernel modules from Windows network drivers, but not for USB devices). On OpenBSD, there is nothing like that, AFAIK. For a good reason.
OpenBSD replaced the Atheros HAL, because they consider it not acceptable to have non open code running on the CPU -- running Windows drivers would not make too much sense, if you consider this. (Also, there are no kernel modules in OpenBSD.)
I'm disappointed that I will not be able to play with this new toy any time soon as I don't think I will be buying new hardware any time soon. You can always emulate modern hardware...
Of course, I want it to work with arabtex as I know no other mean to get LaTeX to support Arabic.
The non-official branch Emacs-bidi would be a solution, if there was a way to compile it on Windows. I do not see it. Additionally, I got NTEmacs to display Arabic characters (left-to-right...), but I was never able to input them, since simply switching the Windows keyboard driver to Arabic produces quite different characters and Emacs does not have a keyboard driver. Though, the bidi version probably does.
AFAIK, lyx does not work with NTEmacs. (And I do not like generated LaTeX source code.)
VMware might be a solution, though the hassle of setting it up and exchanging files would go beyond simply using a unicode supporting editor (I found Yudit, but I do not like the interface too much) and forget about the LaTeX integration. Though for the person that needs it, having an external command line for compiling and displaying would be a lot of trouble.
The official bidi support for Emacs would be best (and definitely integrated into the Windows version), but with the rate Emacs is evolving, I do not see it before the person that needs it has finished university.;-)
Using (NT)Emacs and AUCTeX for Math stuff, I have not gotten this to work for Arabic language input. (I recommeded LaTeX to some Islamic Sciences student after something got screwed up in OpenOffice.org, again. For German or English texts it was nice...)
What I need: an editor with LaTeX-commands integration that supports UTF-8 with right-to-left Arabic input. Currently I need it on Windows, but I prefer an open source solutions that will work on *nix, too. (Or a *nix program that will compile on Windows.)
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I already wondered about the heise.de title blaming the file system. Now Slashdot repeats it.
I have seen the same on FreeBSD using UFS (with soft updates).
KDE4 is supposed to be portable enough to run on file systems that have no data journaling or a guarantee for operations on different files to be written in a certain order without issuing a sync.
I tend to lean to the left side of the political spectrum, but two threads of liberal thought piss me off more than just about anything:
If you are so scientific minded, you should have realized that there are more dimensions than one to describe your political view. If you just go one dimension up than "left" and "liberal" are two different directions (at least if "left"/"right" is your economical opinion). Moreover, this has nothing to do with "liberal".
Is it difficult to make your argument without relying on general support for your political point of view?
anti nuke environmentalists and autism/vaccine linkers.
Now you lost all your credibility. What does "anti nuke environmentalists" have to do with it? How are they the same as "autism/vaccine linkers"?
Both group are as bad as any anti science fundamentalist
Anti science? I know the Physics behind nuclear energy pretty well (some years of university helped, but were not necessary) and I understand that modern reactors may be pretty save, maybe better if compared with some alternatives like climate change due to CO2 pollution.
Anyhow, being skeptical about our capability to deal with the nuclear waste for the time it poses a thread to the environment is anti scientific where? Here in Germany, there is no place for final storage of waste, yet, because many experiments failed. There are waste amounts of money being spend cleaning a salt dome because it eventually leaked. Money that is never added to the price of nuclear energy.
Being skeptical about the ability of companies maximizing profit to use the full security potential of modern reactors is anti scientific in which way? There have been so many reports of nuclear accidents that were swept under the rug -- or could-have-been accidents because of safety procedures not followed due to profit reasons. Being skeptical about our Governments to act in a way to change that is anti scientific? I guess there is much more evidence to back up these fears than evidence that we have working regulations.
I can understand why people see nuclear power saving us, but being of another opinion has nothing to do with "don't mess with mother nature".
From the source: 'Solomon also points out that these dissenting scientists - over 9,000 of whom hold Ph.Ds -- [...] far exceed the count of UN IPCC "scientists"'. As dubious as some of the results of the IPCC might have been put together, counting the number of scientists from random professions opposing it and comparing that to an expert panel seems a really qualified approach.
Last month, the source cited had an article starting with 'I admire President Bush. I think he is a good man and I have said so before.' Other articles go in the same direction.
Coming from Europe, I see that they are very _American_ "thinkers" as we saw the USA during the last years.
That is not interesting. Most people outside the US consider this an narrow minded, selfish, unscientific view endangering the world.
There are a lot of things that are very hard to justify for Israel, which is a nation that is considered democratic, developed and that plays a role on the international scene.
By many political scientist, Israel is not considered democratic, since it lacks many aspects of a modern democracy. (Israel is an important military ally of the USA and thus considered democratic.)
There can be no peace with people that don't even recognise Israel's right to exist.
Does Israel acknowledge the right of Palestine to exists as a state? Why should Hamas do that unilaterally as a precondition to even start with negotiations?
Hamas stated that it would be possible to have a long-lasting ceasefire with Israel, indicating that they mean an indefinite one. Of course, this is not accepting the state, but it is as far as they can go without loosing credibility among their followers. It should be a starting point for negotiations.
Besides, the most important point is that only a minority on both sides does not want peace. Why does the majority let these extremists win?
Why is evacuation of Israeli colonies in the West Bank unrealistic? Israel evacuated their colonies in Gaza, they can do it in the West Bank.
The settlements in Gaza were rather small, supported only by a minority of the Israeli population, especially with the huge military budget that was only for protecting few settlers.
A few smaller settlements in the West Bank will eventually be given up, like the one in Hebron that is illegal even from the Israeli point of view (but still protected by military).
The larger settlements in the West Bank, especially the ones around Jerusalem, have recently been enlarged -- there is now a ring around Jerusalem separating the Arabic quarters of Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Why do you think they are there? If there is not a huge turn in position of the government -- which is currently unrealistic -- these will not be given up.
The extremists on both side do not want to resolve the conflict, partially because they believe that they are chosen to live there, partially, because they would loose many followers, if people realize that they can in fact live with each other. Unfortunately, these extremists are influential.
In any case, basic administration and navigation are all the same across the nixes, as long as you're using Bash.
And do not forget to write scripts that assume that /bin/sh is bash -- with them you can administrate every single Unix you find on this planet (aside from the few that try to be POSIX compliant).
is that the reason, why in freebsd the binaries' names are a total chaos of upper and lower case?
I do not know what you are talking about. In the base, the only command with uppercase (that does not work in lower case as well as CC and cc) is IPXrouted.
granted, i like freebsd. but debian feel a lot more coherent than freebsd.
Looking only at wireless: What do I need in FreeBSD? ifconfig. What do I need in Linux? ifconfig, iwconfig, iwlist, and depending on the chipset maybe something more. wpa_supplicant has 1 interface for bsd (not counting ndis) and how many for Linux? Ok, they fixed that during the last few kernel releases, but it was a mess for a few years. In FreeBSD the interfaces are named as the drivers, in Linux, often wlanX, but for some drivers ethX and for some like the driver as ath0. FreeBSD got vap (virtual interfaces) in 8-CURRENT -- with the same syntax for all wireless drivers. Linux got it earlier... obviously without consistency.
With OpenBSD, you do not need wpa_supplicant, but ifconfig can do WPA, too...
Your problem is outdated. (Well, kind of.)
There is a DVD installer and there is this commit that is supposed to fix excessive disk swapping: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-stable/2008-October/000079.html
(It is in 6-STABLE, 7-STABLE, and 8-CURRENT. It will be in every upcoming REALSE including 7.1. 6.4 barely got missed, but who does new installs from 6.X anyhow?)
> But Singapore is not a democratic country.
Neither is Israel as argued by many political scientist. (I am not one, so look out for better sources if my arguments sound clumsy.)
You know that elected Arabic Israeli representatives have to agree to Israel being a Jewish state? Otherwise they cannot go into parliament. Do you think the Arabic minority feels represented by them? And then, no one will work with them on principle -- many members of parliament will leave once the Arabic representatives are speaking.
Moreover, Israel occupies a country. The Palestinians are not given citizenship. Is that democratic?
If an Arabic Israeli citizen chooses to live in the West Bank for some time, he will lose his citizenship (and right to vote, return to Israel, etc.). Weird democratic country.
The refugees are denied their right (human rights carta) to return home -- because Israel is afraid not to have a Jewish majority anymore. Is it democratic to select your citizens like that?
Israel fails many aspects of a modern democracy.
Probably not part of the theory, but if a minority of extremists in power does everything not to come to peace with the Palestinians, which the majority wants in some way or another, there is something wrong. The same applies for the Palestinian side, of course, but the West Bank and Gaza is not a modern democracy, either, aside from the fact that they are occupied and cannot rule themselves anyhow.
Contrary to anything anticipated, a German court just ruled that someone did a criminal act connecting to an open wifi.
The DHCP package you take as an invitation was interpreted by the court as a telecommunication message not intended for the recipient and thus illegal to read.
The Link contained a lot of technology that goes along a lot better with Windows than FreeBSD. Moreover it advertises the use of proprietary technology such as Flash and not FreeBSD. Or should I look at what kind of server is behind the page?
I know that Yahoo is used as a reference what a big company uses FreeBSD, but the site in question just shows a company giving developers tools to build application that work with their services and OpenID, which aims to be a competitor to the Passport in a more open way, because Passport failed. For me, presenting the whole thing in Flash, hints that "open" is more a buzzword here than the spirit behind it. That might be wrong, but it does not really matter for my point.
I do not really know how "open" Yahoo is, but this site does not show me anything.
My parent talked about FreeBSD and Windows not going along very well and directs me to a site that has Flash and promotes
You may call me childish. Fortunately, I can afford not to be one of your "REAL" developers.
> What happened to firewire? All signs point to it going extinct in the very near future....
Since for everyone else it is IEEE 1394, which simply does not sound very sexy, I have an idea who is in the position to let FireWire die. Anyhow, I will refrain from naming it here, since it would be all too unpopular...
> Don't forget ending .il and replacing it with whatever the 'Palestinians want to call the place. After all, anti-semitism
What does antisemitism has to do with that? Can't you distinguish between Jewish religion and the state of Israel?
The Jewish religion is respected by most Palestinians -- it is just the politics of the current government of the state of Israel that they do not agree with... wonder why, being occupied and having your every-day life made as miserable as possible.
Of course I know that Israel sees itself as the Jewish state -- every member of parliament has to agree to that, even the ones from the Arabic parties, who lose their credibility over that. Why do you try to spread this confusion of religion and state here? People from most countries try to distinguish the two.
And of course this is off-topic -- but how could the parent be rated "Insightful"...
This is totally OT. What does ndiswrapper have to do with Linux/BSD licensed drivers?
Calling OpenBSD a distro (it is an OS) and saying that you would never touch it shows even more that you have no clue what you are talking about. (If you have read the philosophy behind OpenBSD, you would probably agree that there are some applications for it.)
ndiswrapper is a Linux project. There is ndis for FreeBSD, which is similar (creating kernel modules from Windows network drivers, but not for USB devices). On OpenBSD, there is nothing like that, AFAIK. For a good reason.
OpenBSD replaced the Atheros HAL, because they consider it not acceptable to have non open code running on the CPU -- running Windows drivers would not make too much sense, if you consider this. (Also, there are no kernel modules in OpenBSD.)
For FreeBSD, you may also use freebsd-update http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-u pdate&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable, which is very convenient... not only the "commercial Linux verdors" give you binary patches.
MS could not stand the fact that the plug-in of the Open Document Foundation was so secretive. Thus, they bought it and released it as Open Source...
Of course, I want it to work with arabtex as I know no other mean to get LaTeX to support Arabic.
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The non-official branch Emacs-bidi would be a solution, if there was a way to compile it on Windows. I do not see it. Additionally, I got NTEmacs to display Arabic characters (left-to-right...), but I was never able to input them, since simply switching the Windows keyboard driver to Arabic produces quite different characters and Emacs does not have a keyboard driver. Though, the bidi version probably does.
AFAIK, lyx does not work with NTEmacs. (And I do not like generated LaTeX source code.)
VMware might be a solution, though the hassle of setting it up and exchanging files would go beyond simply using a unicode supporting editor (I found Yudit, but I do not like the interface too much) and forget about the LaTeX integration. Though for the person that needs it, having an external command line for compiling and displaying would be a lot of trouble.
The official bidi support for Emacs would be best (and definitely integrated into the Windows version), but with the rate Emacs is evolving, I do not see it before the person that needs it has finished university.
Using (NT)Emacs and AUCTeX for Math stuff, I have not gotten this to work for Arabic language input. (I recommeded LaTeX to some Islamic Sciences student after something got screwed up in OpenOffice.org, again. For German or English texts it was nice...)
What I need: an editor with LaTeX-commands integration that supports UTF-8 with right-to-left Arabic input. Currently I need it on Windows, but I prefer an open source solutions that will work on *nix, too. (Or a *nix program that will compile on Windows.)