Comment Re:Stupidity at Google, guess they have the money. (Score 1) 260
No, I don't believe that...
Comment Stupidity at Google, guess they have the money... (Score 0) 260
IPv6 will be very important next year... ... so we are told for 15 years now.
It will just never happen.
Running out of IPv4 addresses internally... give me a break - who believes that?
NAT is the answer delivered for a long time now. And it will remain there forever. Amen.
Comment Re:Filosophy and history (Score 1) 467
Yeah, our spelling sucks, and our politicians even think language problems are worthwhile arguing about :-D
Comment Filosophy and history (Score 3, Insightful) 467
I have been professionally teaching IT people since 1998. That's a really long time. It's not exactly the same as freshmen. Though I learned some things over the years:
Don't forget to talk about the history and the philosophy; while it might seem less important than getting everything in their heads; motivation is key. Because it's hard. Really hard; for them in the beginning. Motivation is everything. Don't waste your time with complicated stuff which can be easier (such as trying to fill their head with vim as joe is there too - if they like Linux, later they'll come back to vim).
Talk about the hippy-like Richard Stallman who got everything started and what the Free Software Foundation is all about; freedom in a digital future and such. And about the 'other side' within the community with the 'OpenSource' people who just think it's very convenient to be able to work together, but not morally wrong to write proprietary software. Whichever you prefer; 'welcome to the opensource community'.
Involve them.
If you can come up with something which can help them to accomplish something; go for it. Whether it's a LAMP box with Dyndns or something completely different. If they think something is 'stupid', point out that it's OpenSource, so they have the freedom to change it and fix it according to their wishes.
And don't forget: 'Have Fun!' ;-D
Good luck!
Jasper
Don't forget to talk about the history and the philosophy; while it might seem less important than getting everything in their heads; motivation is key. Because it's hard. Really hard; for them in the beginning. Motivation is everything. Don't waste your time with complicated stuff which can be easier (such as trying to fill their head with vim as joe is there too - if they like Linux, later they'll come back to vim).
Talk about the hippy-like Richard Stallman who got everything started and what the Free Software Foundation is all about; freedom in a digital future and such. And about the 'other side' within the community with the 'OpenSource' people who just think it's very convenient to be able to work together, but not morally wrong to write proprietary software. Whichever you prefer; 'welcome to the opensource community'.
Involve them.
If you can come up with something which can help them to accomplish something; go for it. Whether it's a LAMP box with Dyndns or something completely different. If they think something is 'stupid', point out that it's OpenSource, so they have the freedom to change it and fix it according to their wishes.
And don't forget: 'Have Fun!'
Good luck!
Jasper
Comment point being? (Score 2) 60
... and they discovered it's utterly uselessness?
Comment Just an improvement on a bad programming technique (Score 1) 298
Basically he starts out with doing the wrong thing and improves it:
Allocating too much memory in userspace so the system starts swapping.
And then he comes up with a more efficient way to use the often swapped in and out memory pages.
Better programming is: keep all the junk you need quick in real memory, leave enough space for filesystem caching as well and prevent the OS from most swap activity.
Comment Finally, the horrror ends! (Score 2, Insightful) 96
Old Linux guys like me remember the time when they introduced this in 'enterprise kernels'. At that time it made sence, because in the 2.4 series there were good and... well _bad_ kernels. Some may argue that that still was the case in the early 2.6 tree. But that has been a long time in the past...
The current situation is that the backporting policy basically sucks _bigtime_.
It means that new hardware isn't out of the box supported by the 'enterprise distros' and that installing ubuntu with a new kernel is a no-brainer.
It also means that - especially in the case of Red Hat, the kernel is so heavily patched, that it can lead to stability problems and introduces 'unusual problems' as opposed to the vanilla kernel.
Backporting things for an old kernel and overly patching the vanilla kernel is basically saying: 'we know it better than the kernel developers'. And, sorry, that simply isn't true!
As someone being heavily involved in Linux Enterprise support since 1998, and thus shaping it too, I can only hope that this is a sign of better things to come and an abandonment of the outdated, stupid and un-enterprise policy which only makes Linux look bad.
Submission + - Kerneltrap is back!
internet-redstar writes: After a year and a half of inactivity, KernelTrap.org is back. As a primary source for condensed easy to read and to follow kernel discussions, it's great for those of us who have the intrest and need to follow up the kernel project on a regular basis without having to wade through the entire Linux Kernel Mailing List. KernelTrap managed to upgrade to Drupal 6, and new posts talk about removing the Big Kernel Lock, Memory Compaction, Properly creating and testing patches and the difficult path to 2.6.34-rc4.
Submission + - First Hexacore Laptop Launched (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: Eurocm has just announced that its D900F Panther chassis can now be configured with Intel’s Core i7 980X desktop Gulftown CPU, which features six cores and a clock speed of 3.33GHz. With a TDP of 130W, the processor alone will consume more power than many whole laptops when it’s running at full pelt, and it’s going to get hot, too.
Nevertheless, Eurocom is confident that its chassis is up to the task. The Panther series of LGA1366 laptops has been doing the rounds for a few months now, and in August 2009 the company revealed that the chassis would be able to handle a quad-core 3.33GHz Core i7 975X CPU. Clearly no stranger to building high-powered laptops, Eurocom reckons it can handle a six-core CPU, too.
Nevertheless, Eurocom is confident that its chassis is up to the task. The Panther series of LGA1366 laptops has been doing the rounds for a few months now, and in August 2009 the company revealed that the chassis would be able to handle a quad-core 3.33GHz Core i7 975X CPU. Clearly no stranger to building high-powered laptops, Eurocom reckons it can handle a six-core CPU, too.
Submission + - Does water still flow on the Red Planet? (discovermagazine.com)
The Bad Astronomer writes: "A series of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show tantalizing evidence of transient liquid water flowing down sand dunes. Dozens of gullies are seen, and their structure is better explained by liquid water running down the dunes than flowing dislodged sand. Not only that, but the length of the gullies increases between pictures, meaning this is happening right now. Liquid water can only last a few seconds or minutes before boiling away in the low atmospheric pressure on Mars, so if these grooves really are due to water, it's only a short-term phenomena. But any liquid water at all is amazing, and something of an enigma for scientists to explain."
Submission + - Apache Foundation Attacked, Passwords Stolen (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: Combining a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability with a TinyURL redirect, hackers successfully broke into the infrastructure for the open-source Apache Foundation in what is being described as a "direct, targeted attack." The hackers hit the server hosting the software that Apache.org uses to it to track issues and requests and stole passwords from all users. The software was hosted on brutus.apache.org, a machine running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS, the group said.
Comment Re:Which path for Apple, the light or the dark? (Score 1) 711
As if a monopoly can not excert excessive power on the market...
Comment Which path for Apple, the light or the dark? (Score 2, Insightful) 711
I think the choices Steve is making are very clear: the choice is: MacOS or iPhoneOS. Light or Dark. It is clear he's made the choice for an era of darkness... sadly enough it will only make the Mac platform less popular amongst techies who where the primary adopters after MacOS X.
And the economics of a closed fully controlled platform, have been in Steve's dreams since the seventies. Luckily we all know it will ultimately utterly fail, as so many closed platforms in the past. It will take a while. It might be hard for hackers such as us, but we will prevail! Sad to see Apple go down like this, was a big fan, contributor, promotor, book writer, journalist and so on for years.
I am really disappointed in Steve. At least Google tries a little bit to 'do no evil', Steve makes beautiful things, but with a very bitter taste! Facebook group: iPad is an attack on our freedom
Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It 165
ccktech writes "As reported by NPR and Chemistry world, the journal Science has a paper by David Ehre, Etay Lavert, Meir Lahav, and Igor Lubomirsky [note: abstract online; payment required to read the full paper] of Israel's Weizmann Institute, who have figured out a way to freeze pure water by warming it up. The trick is that pure water has different freezing points depending on the electrical charge of the surface it resides on. They found out that a negatively charged surface causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than a positively charged surface. By putting water on the pyroelectric material Lithium Tantalate, which has a negative charge when cooler but a positive change when warmer; water would remain a liquid down to -17 degrees C., and then freeze when the substrate and water were warmed up and the charge changed to positive, where water freezes at -7 degrees C."
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
