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The problem is google. They're simply unreliable. Go try it from a
...
You can check on Google's understanding
with wine/winetricks with the standard
browser plugins for Windows' browsers has been problematic.
Depending on the web site this may not matter to you.
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. I would start with the
equivalent PUEL version which can be found on this page:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_3_2
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your shiny
new 802.11n gear might be limited by only having 100Mbit wired ports.
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[question about CPU caches]
Up to 12 MB, but you have to look at how it's split between cores, and how
it's split between code and data. If you have to have all
evaporate. OTOH, you might then have cause to
sue your former employer. Isn't the law wonderful? :-)
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P.S. I am not a lawyer. The above is purely speculation.
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really don't know.
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inbound traffic on IPv6?
Please clarify. Do you mean statically allowing inbound packets? Or
'punching holes'
as I suggested in an earlier note at the request of internal systems?
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then you have identified multiple nodes behind the NAT bridge. There
are other ways; these just happen to be two of the easiest ones.
Did you mean TCP sequence numbers? Otherwise, I'm not sure
what you mean and would be interested in learning more.
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console is closer then microwave oven. They want
the app store model. No one would be buying these devices if they
were the equivalent of a TV, radio, or cable set top box. (Varied
media content, but functionality completely controlled by the device
vendor.)
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
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Not completely. Game console is closer then microwave oven. They want
the app store model. No one would be buying these devices if they
were the equivalent of a TV
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help some, but probably not enough. Since I hoped to read technical
publications
on my 'book' reader, I think I see a tablet of some sort in my future.
Take
.
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com wrote:
On May 4, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
snip
Legally, everything I've ever read says
are
doing maps to kernel AIO)
If you have multiple reader/writer processes of the same files then
kernel AIO might
do caching/readahead better through more sharing of memory, etc.
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for the entire Red Hat kernel
should still be available.
Is Red Hat actually going to distribute binary kernel objects for
which source code is
not available? This seems like an obvious GPL violation to me.
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, but no more as I can already add
an additional drive/storage directory to MythTV with relative ease.
If I cared more about my media files and unRAID was available in my
current software, I might use it. I'm probably not going to switch
everything around just to start using it.
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote:
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It also says that the individual data drives are formatted with
ReiserFS.
That doesn't bode well. Not exactly a popular choice these days, having
been mostly abandoned for ext3.
Thanks for your
with the Antec Twelve Hundred case, available from
Microcenter for $185?
From what I can tell, most of the drive bays are internal and as a
result not hot swappable. It you can schedule downtime to replace
a drive in your RAID array, then maybe that doesn't matter to you.
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100%. In the Physical layers section, it
makes it clear that SAS drives
will NOT plug into SATA controllers, but SATA drives can plug into SAS
controllers. (SATA signals
are a subset of SAS signals.)
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Dan Feenberg
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--
http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby
I know why. None of the cheapest ten graphics cards had DP (some had
DVI as well as HDMI). More then 50% of the most expensive cards had
DP. I'm not into heavy graphics/gaming so in my universe DP doesn't
exist. That's a bit surprising if DP is royalty free, but it is what
it is.
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/
Luciole - https://launchpad.net/luciole
Experiences? Other recommendations?
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want them. My guess
is that this is for the people who are on the cheap $8 a month Limited
Basic plan. Think retiree on a fixed income who just wants to keep
watching the broadcast channels they always have and doesn't want any
new fangled gadgets.
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P.S. I disconnected my converter box
it and that end users can be sued
directly. You and I might not be worth their while to sue, but if
Amazon started using ZFS implementations in Linux/FreeBSD as part of
EC2 they might get a call.
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of such apparent misstatements
on others who might have been more willing to consider your opinions.
I say this because I actually want to hear the best possible, well
researched and reasoned opposing arguments that I can find.
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P.S. I'm not above pointing out your apparent error
preconceptions with less
thought and perhaps over-analyze those that don't. In the end
though, I hope that I'm able to accept well-reasoned conclusions even
if I don't like the results.
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com wrote:
(100 patentable ideas) != (100 patent applications). Often times, one
patent application includes many patentable ideas, some of them are included
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang hsuan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com wrote:
Software developers are smart people. It would not take too much of your
time to learn the basics of patent application drafting. The USPTO's
and AMD
eventually added much better support via VT-X/AMD-V, but at least some
AMD 64 bit cpus could support software assisted virtualization without
it.
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
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Instructions that accessed hardware and other specialized instructions
were either trapped or replaced in line by calls to vmware code.
Look up trap-and-emulate
://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2008-November/msg0.html
which gives several hacky ways to do snapshot cloning. I would
suggest more investigation/careful testing before depending on this
though.
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to accomplish?
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to anything which is free after a year?
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a
pile of tapes unless they keep a database of filenames/versions/tapes.
Does anybody know if LVM pays attention to TRIMs at all? At this
point, this is idle speculation on my part. I haven't researched or
thought it through.
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cares (and I'm not actually sure about Oracle).
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from the outside.
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which requires too much manual intervention to work
well.
I would welcome a BLU presentation on Unison and similar software for
file syncing. Back in 2010 there was a presentation of on-line
backups, but I consider this to be a different (albeit related) topic.
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. (Someone wanted to
avoid downtime.)
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partially out of a sock are potentially
dangerous, but don't seem too bad as long as you are careful.
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their domain so you can afford to whitelist the domains that haven't
yet done so.)
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that way either.
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technologies
to quickly reconfigure systems; but you actually own (or at least
long-term lease access to) the equipment.
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Jerry Feldman wrote:
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As I understand it, they are required by FCC regulations to transmit
rebroadcasts of over the air channels in the clear.
They must provide free equipment
reach down into direct classroom support as
well. Moodle seems to be the name that pops up most often.
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headway on this.
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Reason? Also, do you mean actual physical geometry or the lies that
all drives seem to give now? (Which from what I've seen on a random
collection of drives seem to all
to have the CPU always run as fast as it can
while there are running tasks, and then halt the processor when it is
truley idle.
Depends on the kind of task. Some tasks have time limits (viewing a
video) rather then fixed computational goals.
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entire output is wall clock constrained then it gets messier. I'm
aware that studies of particular hardware/software have shown that run
fast and stop is better then run slow. But this isn't like algorithms
analysis where you can say that something is always true.
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for me. VirtualBox --help describes several command line
options which don't seem to be documented in any of the manuals or the
on-line help that is part of the default install. As you suggested,
installing the guest tools is always a good idea as well.
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an uptime status page, that might tell you something as well.
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with lots of grandiose claims and even before the trial starts large
chunks have already been tossed.
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) so that read() returns zeroed blocks until the block
is actually written. This can be as almost as fast as sparse
allocation, but guarantees space is available when you finally need
it.
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kernel the bcache
(http://lwn.net/Articles/496782/) block device uses an SSD as a fast
cache for your spinning platters.
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ping 127.0.0.1 $HOME/xxx
===
and then run
at -f foo now
The tail -f $HOME/xxx does exactly what you want (one line every second).
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I would suggest that you speak to Verizon directly about this.
That seems like the best advice.
I can see how Verizon would do this as a bundling approach. If you want
the iPhone from us, then you need
.
In either case, I would still suggest setting up temperature
monitoring of all your drives.
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tablets that they did with smartphones.
So there is my two cents as well...
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It's not just design. It's understanding the fickle nature of the consumer
marketplace. Neither Google nor Motorola Mobility grok that the way Apple
does, and putting
speeds.
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in the rack.
That sounds like a lot of extra latency for looking up simple things
(i.e UID - username mappings i.e. ls -l). I don't know if local
caching is included the standard LDAP/NSS setup, but I would check
myself to be sure.
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changes.
The result will be rsync will end up sending the whole thing each
time. This would still be better then the gpged tar file though.
It would also probably not be a good idea to use the -z option with
rsync as the files will have already been compressed by gpg.
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you have more drives to resell/repurpose (a plus) or trash (a
minus) when the inevitable forklift upgrade occurs.
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enough that anyone would notice?
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the physical ext4 partitions for data access. I wouldn't want
to share OS configuration files between your native Linux HOST and
your Linux GUEST.
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is involved is an incredibly
huge red flag. Is there a way to run the simulations with a pseudo-random
number generator with a known initial seed? If only for testing purposes
(like this), it is often helpful when something like this comes up.
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, but any other suggestions for Firefox
would be appreciated.
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Why don't you just create one session and reuse it? For example, create a
VNC
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Some applications (i.e. Firefox) are also problematic. I've dealt with
that by having different profiles, but any other suggestions
year old that are a higher
priority.
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I think a similar argument could be made about screen locking.
Users should just be educated to log out every time they
go to the bathroom
-e ssh -i
Personally, I usually write a trivial shell script to encompass all of the
ssh arguments that I want and invoke it as:
rsync -e special-ssh-script-for-this-backup
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to attack it?
For systems that support the Linux Standard Base (LSB), the
/etc/lsb-release file and lsb_release command are good ways to
get OS information.
For hardware, if you are running as root and it is installed; the
dmidecode command is a good start.
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of running a
PAE kernel and wanted to stick with a 32-bit user space.) Turns out
it actually ran fairly well.Unfortunately, I seem to recall that
Ubuntu's update manager was confused by this setup. In addition,
getting Virtualbox working in that environment didn't look to be
easy...
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FYI,
Jim Gettys is speaking about buffer bloat at this Wednesday's BBLISA
meeting at MIT.I suspect that many members of BLU will be
interested in this topic.
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would just avoid Lenovo systems.
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It looks like at least some Lenovo UEFI systems are SERIOUSLY broken.
This actually has nothing to do with whether secure booting is turned
in various orders to do so and through the resulting files to
figure out what happened. You will have to debug the program
(script) to figure out what happened.
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that is typically available on Ubuntu CDs:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/CDIntegrityCheck
and see if it complains. Manufacturing errors certainly can happen.
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the guest OS doesn't care, but the
VM software does. Or at least that's what I've seen when I try to set
things up that way. I've never tracked down the technical reason for
VB's concern though.
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may be confusing the FSF with the BSA (Business Software Alliance).
The BSA does license enforcement for commercial software and my vague
recollection is that they are pretty draconian about it.
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free software
licenses. I would request that you provide some evidence of this.
I'm not saying they didn't make some money (I don't know). I'm just
suggesting that it is not substantial.
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very well have developed an internal cost structure that make going in
the opposite direction infeasible.
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potential internal critics to silently let it pass them by then to
make a potential enemy.
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human intervention to make them work, then it wouldn't
matter; but it seems unlikely that is going to happen any time soon.
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