On 05/05/2012 03:13 PM, MBR wrote:
On 5/4/2012 7:13 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Versioning isn't revision control. Revision control isn't versioning.
There is some overlap in what they do but they aren't the same thing.
--Rich P.
That's becoming clear. I'm trying to understand the difference.
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:10 PM, MBR m...@arlsoft.com wrote:
Other operating systems in existence at the time Unix was being designed
required you to call different system calls depending on what device you
were trying to do I/O to. And some operating systems knew about file types
and defined
On 5/7/2012 8:22 AM, Jerry Natowitz wrote:
So in essence, you want a filesystem that does the equivalent of
taking a snapshot every time the filesystem changes.
No. Saving or modifying a file on a versioning file system is
equivalent to RENAME FILE.TXT FILE.TXT;23, where 23 is the next
At least for interactive use, I recommend a dry run first -n. Even
if you stop the dry run after a screenful, you have a sanity test that
you didn't screw up the command (source, target, etc).
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 02:16:17AM -0400, Rich Braun wrote:
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 02:16:17 -0400
You took my comment out of context:
On 05/05/2012 03:13 PM, MBR wrote:
In the context of software development, it is much more important to
have a snapshot of ALL FILES at any point in time than one particular
file, since they depend on each other so heavily. Versioning
filesystems won't do that.
On 5/7/2012 11:32 AM, Jerry Natowitz wrote:
I was responding to MBR.
Yes, I see that, now, with my confusion being an example of seeing the
snapshot rather than the history. :)
--
Rich P.
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Tom Metro wrote:
Mostly is seems this is coming down to the issue of whether you can
patent an API - the names of classes, methods, and their arguments.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/jury-rules-google-violated-copyright-law-google-moves-for-mistrial.ars
...a San Francisco
We've all heard about Flashback, an exploit that starts from a security
hole in older versions of Java, a hole that Oracle patched months before
Apple got around to fixing the version they distribute. I let that
slide because Java isn't Apple's product.
Today, Apple's most secure operating
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 02:55:34PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
I used to describe Macintosh as the best Unix desktop in the world.
As of today I describe Macintosh as the most dangerous operating
system in the world. It's not the recent, highly-publicized flaws
in it. Rather, it's the
From: Matthew Kowalski [mailto:matt.kowal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 7:15 PM
I was able to use truncate -s 40G lun1.img and after restarting the
iscsitarget service Windows saw the larger disk. It works pretty well
and it's fast. Thanks for the help!
That sounds like a
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
I've been doing a bit of research for a coworker who broke her laptop,
and now wants to get a tablet. But she also wants to preserve her
pictures and stuff from her
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com wrote:
From: Matthew Kowalski [mailto:matt.kowal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 7:15 PM
I was able to use truncate -s 40G lun1.img and after restarting the
iscsitarget service Windows saw the larger disk. It works
From: Bill Bogstad [mailto:bogs...@pobox.com]
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 4:35 PM
Better then dd or truncate for the initial creation (or extensions)
would be the Linux specific fallocate program. On the appropriate
filesystem, it will allocate all the necessary data blocks to the
file,
On 5/7/2012 4:03 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
So to what do you attribute the decades-long constant stream of
serious security flaws in Microsoft's offerings? I guess it's not
the philosophies, the carelessness and ignorance, that permitted them
to occur in the first place. Seems to me Apple's
Hi All,
Anybody interested in trading a terabyte or so of space on one of their
gnu/linux servers for the same on one of mine? This is work related.
I'm in charge of IT for a small non-profit. I prefer doing this with a
small business or another non-profit rather than an individual. Feel
On May 7, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Apple isn't even making the attempt.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3715366
This has been known for THREE MONTHS. Admittedly, the place posted isn't
monitored for bug reports and such. But three months and nobody at Apple
raised a red
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