I had problems with Solaris 2.6 where I couldn't assign a priority to the swap areas. Compounding the fact is that Solaris has a 2GB max swap size per parition. This makes it difficult to have 2x physical RAM as swap on a system that has 4GB of memory and only 2 disks!
Hmmm... I can do most/all of that now in a Unix/X environment. The basic point is that if I have root access to a system, I can do anything. That's always been true of Unix, and is becoming increasing true with Windows NT.
Yup. The cover-your-ass position for Harvard in any matter similar to this is:
1. Take the site in question offline (done).
2. Make more backups of the questionable material, so that the lawyers can sort it out later. Especially if Harvard is sueing the site owner! How are they going to sue if they're destroying the evidence they need to sue?
I'm glad to see SGI's official blessing for XFree86, but I've been running this setup under Linux for 4 months already.
I purchased the SGI DFP Solution pack back in February. There was already support for it under XFree86 (3.3.3.1) and Xi's Accellerated X. After trying both for a while, I kept using XF86 because it seemed faster and more stable.
The only tricky part with XF86 is the modelines. I tried to figure out the proper modelines myself, but failed. I checked back at xfree.org and some kind soul had posted the correct ones. Popped them in and it works fine. 1600x1024 in glorious 32-bit. I still have problems with the console text being corrupted after exiting X, but that is a minor issue to me.
I have to agree with an earlier poster, the beta OpenGL driver for Windows isn't very good. It seems to run OK with Quake II and SiN, but Half-life crashes. And though it looks better, the software renderer runs faster on my system (PII 350MHz), so I still use that instead.
And that's just gaming, where 3D really does have several legitimate uses. Do you seriously think IRC will be replaced with something using avatars, either 2D or 3D? That we'll walk (or fly) our way around web sites? Don't kid me.
As for flying around web sites, it's already been done, and in some cases it's quite useful. Check out http://www.hyperwave.com. One of their viewers for web sites is uses VRML to show the documents and links. You can fly over the information landscape at the site and get a good idea of how the information is structured. They also have a more normal Windows Explorer style nested viewer of the links too. Both are at times handy.
Haven't you ever looked at a web page and wondered how much information lies behind each link? This is one way to get a "feel" for the web site without visiting each page.
A: As far as I'm concerned, it's free R&D. A lot of developers who have always preferred Unix are developing on Linux. The last thing in the world I want is some cool app and have my customer go, "Oh, God, if I only had Linux, I could get that app."
[Knocks metaphorically on Doug's head] Hello???? Is anyone in there? Where the developers lead, users will eventually follow, because that's where the applications will be.
As far as the Unix-at-home crowd of developers, the vast majority now use Linux or *BSD. Some people I know have Solaris x86. But SCO? Hah.
As a former SCO admin, I can say that I'm glad to be done with it. Of course I have myself to blame becuase I picked it. However, back in '92, there weren't as many choices for cheap Unix, and my company was on a very tight budget.
It's pretty bad when the mouse on my computer has more processing power than my first computer (early '80s). It sounds like MS's newest mouse blows away my 2nd and maybe 3rd computers as well!
I don't think that by trying to limit the bad you are also limiting the good.
The basic problem is that there's a lot of crap out there. On slashdot it consists of "me too", "first post", and off topic stuff. It had gotten to the point that I didn't read any comments because they were mostly bad, and I didn't have the time and inclination to wade to it looking for the gems.
With a good moderation system in place, I am much more likely to read through the discussion for an article.
I (and apparently others) need some way of filtering out most of the bad stuff. The question now becomes how to do so.
I sorta like one idea proposed earlier in the discussion, which seperates out the poster's reputation from the score of a particular post. That way you could filter based on the poster's reputation, the post's current score, or both.
Should I moderate a post, I'm not going to jack it down just because I don't agree with it. But I am going to jack it down if it's not interesting. I think most moderators will do that.
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I had problems with Solaris 2.6 where I couldn't assign a priority to the swap areas. Compounding the fact is that Solaris has a 2GB max swap size per parition. This makes it difficult to have 2x physical RAM as swap on a system that has 4GB of memory and only 2 disks!
Oiy!
James
Hmmm... I can do most/all of that now in a Unix/X environment. The basic point is that if I have root access to a system, I can do anything. That's always been true of Unix, and is becoming increasing true with Windows NT.
James
Yup. The cover-your-ass position for Harvard in any matter similar to this is:
1. Take the site in question offline (done).
2. Make more backups of the questionable material, so that the lawyers can sort it out later. Especially if Harvard is sueing the site owner! How are they going to sue if they're destroying the evidence they need to sue?
Something just doesn't make sense.
I'm glad to see SGI's official blessing for XFree86, but I've been running this setup under Linux for 4 months already.
I purchased the SGI DFP Solution pack back in February. There was already support for it under XFree86 (3.3.3.1) and Xi's Accellerated X. After trying both for a while, I kept using XF86 because it seemed faster and more stable.
The only tricky part with XF86 is the modelines. I tried to figure out the proper modelines myself, but failed. I checked back at xfree.org and some kind soul had posted the correct ones. Popped them in and it works fine. 1600x1024 in glorious 32-bit. I still have problems with the console text being corrupted after exiting X, but that is a minor issue to me.
I have to agree with an earlier poster, the beta OpenGL driver for Windows isn't very good. It seems to run OK with Quake II and SiN, but Half-life crashes. And though it looks better, the software renderer runs faster on my system (PII 350MHz), so I still use that instead.
And that's just gaming, where 3D really does have several legitimate uses. Do you seriously think IRC will be replaced with something using avatars, either 2D or 3D? That we'll walk (or fly) our way around web sites? Don't kid me.
As for flying around web sites, it's already been done, and in some cases it's quite useful. Check out http://www.hyperwave.com. One of their viewers for web sites is uses VRML to show the documents and links. You can fly over the information landscape at the site and get a good idea of how the information is structured. They also have a more normal Windows Explorer style nested viewer of the links too. Both are at times handy.
Haven't you ever looked at a web page and wondered how much information lies behind each link? This is one way to get a "feel" for the web site without visiting each page.
Did anyone notice this part:
Q: But you see Linux providing modules for SCO?
A: As far as I'm concerned, it's free R&D. A lot of developers who have always preferred Unix are developing on Linux. The last thing in the world I want is some cool app and have my customer go, "Oh, God, if I only had Linux, I could get that app."
[Knocks metaphorically on Doug's head] Hello???? Is anyone in there? Where the developers lead, users will eventually follow, because that's where the applications will be.
As far as the Unix-at-home crowd of developers, the vast majority now use Linux or *BSD. Some people I know have Solaris x86. But SCO? Hah.
As a former SCO admin, I can say that I'm glad to be done with it. Of course I have myself to blame becuase I picked it. However, back in '92, there weren't as many choices for cheap Unix, and my company was on a very tight budget.
Yeah, but if you're running Debian, you can use the alien utility.
And it's not that hard to install RPM on some other distribution.
This tells you how old I am...
It's pretty bad when the mouse on my computer has more processing power than my first computer (early '80s). It sounds like MS's newest mouse blows away my 2nd and maybe 3rd computers as well!
I don't think that by trying to limit the bad you are also limiting the good.
The basic problem is that there's a lot of crap out there. On slashdot it consists of "me too", "first post", and off topic stuff. It had gotten to the point that I didn't read any comments because they were mostly bad, and I didn't have the time and inclination to wade to it looking for the gems.
With a good moderation system in place, I am much more likely to read through the discussion for an article.
I (and apparently others) need some way of filtering out most of the bad stuff. The question now becomes how to do so.
I sorta like one idea proposed earlier in the discussion, which seperates out the poster's reputation from the score of a particular post. That way you could filter based on the poster's reputation, the post's current score, or both.
Should I moderate a post, I'm not going to jack it down just because I don't agree with it. But I am going to jack it down if it's not interesting. I think most moderators will do that.