Wrong, Journaling filesystems insure a sane metadata state, they do nothing to protect data.
Er, you're wrong too. It depends on the FS and on the options you give it. Ext3, for instance can be told to journal file data as well as meta-data (using the journal=data option), but it's a pretty big performance hit.
Why does 'harmonisation' always mean to agree to the lowest possible standards?
The WTO is pushing everyone towards bare minimum environmental standards and worker rights; the US is pushing everyone to insane copyright lengths and high levels of corporate control of consumer goods (i.e. DMCA).
I went to a speech by David Suzuki, and he asked these same questions: Why can't we set our standards ever higher for _everyone_?
I'm waiting for it to have over 4000 packages tested and available. If you're talking about Debian, then ITYM <pinky pointingto="mouth">10 000 packages</pinky>.
I'm guessing Debian blew it with the long delay's between releases.
I doubt that. If people are willing to switch to Gentoo and compile their entire operating system, then I would imagine they would be comfortable running Sarge(testing) or even Sid(unstable), both of which have caused me far less problems than the various versions of RedHat and Mandrake I've tried.
And a lot of code in use today (sadly) was not written in languages as portable as C Hehehehehehehehehehehehe. I think someone's never had to port C code:-)
...the only danger in space is if we land on the terrible Planet of the Apes... wait a minute. Statue of Liberty... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
--Homer Simpson
It's a simple law of nature. Jamie Zawinski(one of the original Netscape/Mozilla developers) says:
Next, I designed, and Terry Weissman and I implemented, the Netscape Mail and News clients, versions 2.0 through 3.0. This was our contribution to the proof of the Law of Software Envelopment:
``Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.''
Of course, this is something that quite a few people have done (including, amongst many others exim). However, you have to get permission from every single person who has contributed to the project, which is a huge hassle. For example, Mozilla is still trying to find everyone who has contributed to it, so they can switch to a triple MPL/GPL/LGPL license.
Slashdot Mirror
OT, but interesting: GR actually places a limit on how rigid something can be! link. I always that was really cool.
:-)
Er, should I put in the obvious joke, or post it as a reply for double karma?
Seriously, how do people defend Bush? Clinton was a crappy president in a lot of ways (DMCA, weapons treaties, etc) and so is Bush.
You do realise that your country is holding people prisoner in Cuba in violation of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of Prisoners of War (and don't be nice to them!), right? And that your country has decided that doing something about the Greenhouse Effect is too expensive? Or that letting other countries try your soldiers on war crimes is too hard? And that getting rid of weapons of mass destruction is good, unless they're yours
Not that my country is innocent; Little Johnny locks up kids in the desert and uses the navy to storm refugee ships and then pays other countries to take the refugees of our hands.
WindowsNT uses the microkernel design
Er, no. It started off as microkernel, but things keep getting but into kernel space for performance reasons: thusly.
If history had changed and Minix took off instead of Linux, would we be better off today with the superiority of a microkernel design?
Hehe.
In conclusion: microkernels may or may not be theoretically `better', may or may not perform better, but they are fuckloads more work to do right.
If I'm paranoid enough to verify the signature, do you really think I'll be using the key someone posted on Slashdot?
Wrong, Journaling filesystems insure a sane metadata state, they do nothing to protect data.
Er, you're wrong too. It depends on the FS and on the options you give it. Ext3, for instance can be told to journal file data as well as meta-data (using the journal=data option), but it's a pretty big performance hit.
links: RedHat, LinuxWorld and LKML.
This article from the The Houston Chronicle
Ah, well it must be true!
Two words: Nirvana copyrights. Try asking google about "Courtney.Love Nirvana Copyright".
Or, better still, put a couple of dozen matches in the one foil tube, light it and watch fire and smoke shoot a good metre out the end of it.
Oh yeah, it's best if you point it away from your face when it ignites:)
Why does 'harmonisation' always mean to agree to the lowest possible standards?
The WTO is pushing everyone towards bare minimum environmental standards and worker rights; the US is pushing everyone to insane copyright lengths and high levels of corporate control of consumer goods (i.e. DMCA).
I went to a speech by David Suzuki, and he asked these same questions: Why can't we set our standards ever higher for _everyone_?
Just don't actually try to exercise any of your rights.
I'm waiting for it to have over 4000 packages tested and available.
If you're talking about Debian, then ITYM <pinky pointingto="mouth">10 000 packages</pinky>.
I'm guessing Debian blew it with the long delay's between releases.
I doubt that. If people are willing to switch to Gentoo and compile their entire operating system, then I would imagine they would be comfortable running Sarge(testing) or even Sid(unstable), both of which have caused me far less problems than the various versions of RedHat and Mandrake I've tried.
And a lot of code in use today (sadly) was not written in languages as portable as C
Hehehehehehehehehehehehe. I think someone's never had to port C code:-)
Obviously
Well...
Oh, that's right.
(+3, Insightful)?
Ah, I love Slashdot.I just wish I could meta-mod that moderation as "+5, Funny"8-()
Why not take an old version of Netscape for a spin?
Netscape 4.77 download page
Yes, it's slow and clunky and crashes like drunken fratboy in his dads' truck, but it is less memory hungry than Mozilla.
Next, I designed, and Terry Weissman and I implemented, the Netscape Mail and News clients, versions 2.0 through 3.0. This was our contribution to the proof of the Law of Software Envelopment:
Talking of vi and patches...
No one's as manly as Al Viro
Like this? :)
That's true. I guess I'm just saying that if you want to be sure, be explicit.
Of course, this is something that quite a few people have done (including, amongst many others exim). However, you have to get permission from every single person who has contributed to the project, which is a huge hassle. For example, Mozilla is still trying to find everyone who has contributed to it, so they can switch to a triple MPL/GPL/LGPL license.
(On a side note, he has uncovered some evidence that Harvey Ball *did not* invent the familiar yellow-faced smiley.)"
:-)
Everyone knows who invented the yellow smiley.