Re: A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

2007-11-11 Thread mike ledoux
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:46:46PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > I did go looking for information. What I found suggests the > architects just don't get it, and are not interested in getting it. > > Example: When PulseAudio (which also apparently depends on D-BUS) > was made the default on Fedora

Re: A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

2007-11-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 11, 2007 3:23 PM, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe ConsoleKit was introduced to support multiple user desktop > switching. From what I found, ConsoleKit was introduced to replace pam_console. Reportedly, pam_console was buggy and could not handle multi-headed systems. Wh

Re: A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

2007-11-11 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: > In Fedora 8, a daemon has shown up called "ConsoleKit". The job of > this daemon is apparently to track login sessions. Why on God's green > Earth do we need a daemon -- an always running background process -- > for this? It could just as easily be done using library routin

Re: Odd www log entries: Accelerated browsing the culprit?

2007-11-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 11, 2007 9:52 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can the browser possibly know what to download for a page if > it hasn't even seen the page yet? One other explanation could be that the HTML page is cached on the client, but the prerequisite resources (images, CSS, etc.) are not cached

Re: Ignition (was Re: tftp config problem (ltsp))

2007-11-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 11, 2007 11:29 AM, Coleman Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you looked into the ethernet switch as the culprit, rather than the > cards / drivers themselves? It's not a problem with the switch, the cards, the drivers, or anything by itself. It's not an implementation defect at all.

Re: [OT] Understatement

2007-11-11 Thread Dan Jenkins
Jeff Macdonald wrote: On 10/31/07, Dan Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From a BBC article on IPv6 vs. IPv6 (Vint Cerf is pushing for the transition as he anticipates address exhaustion in 2010/2011): IPv6 will create 340 trillion trillion trillion separate addresses, enough to satis

Re: Ignition (was Re: tftp config problem (ltsp))

2007-11-11 Thread Coleman Kane
Ben Scott wrote: > On Nov 10, 2007 5:05 PM, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> all I said was that problems like bitrate mismatches at >> the PHY level or receiver overruns due to protocol errors >> are "unlikely" to be the culprit. >> > > They may be "unlikely", but they su

Odd www log entries: Accelerated browsing the culprit?

2007-11-11 Thread VirginSnow
I've been noticing some odd entries in my www server logs. What I'm seeing is page requisites being requested before the page requiring them. I have an HTML file with links to a few CSS stylesheets and JPG images. But I'm receiving & serving requests for the stylesheets & images before requests

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-11 Thread k4ghp
I did. They don't. Actually they do serve Goffstown within 18000' of the switching station. I'm 28000' out. It will probably get here eventually. I've been checking a couple of times a year but it's going to require a line upgrade that Verizon seems unlikely to do, particularly if another I