Erik Wikström wrote:
"640k should be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
(Allegedly from T. J. Watson)
Interestingly, I think this may end up being true if you replace
"computers" with "compute clouds"
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
Only if you use a broken web server. With a proper O(1) event
notification mechanism and async web servers, keep-alive is a huge win,
if you don't have a single server load high enough to run out of file
descriptors.
Heh... well:
- We only recently got proper O(1) even
Oliver Fromme wrote:
It's probably not useful for HTTP, because most of these
should be "keep alive" and/or use transfer encodings (which
Apache does by default for HTTP/1.1 connections).
Most large sites don't use keep alive. It ties up a worker thread
waiting for another request to come fro
Vladimir Mitiouchev wrote:
On 25 Oct 2006 13:38:43 GMT, Oliver Fromme
How does that work on the console, exactly? How
do you feed your public key into getty(8)? I don't
think that's supported.
Sorry, i missed "console", this thread is about ssh, as You say. :-)
Heh... I was going to say: I
Matthew Dillon wrote:
For that matter, for anyone who is serious about security, never
allow a passworded login (ssh or otherwise) for ANY account.
How do you log in at the console, then? Eventually, you have to log in
at a console *somewhere* (unless you have a com port jacked in to
Bryan Berch wrote:
So as long as you get a ethernet cable modem there should be no problem
connecting?
Nope. It's a fairly standard DHCP configuration.
Is there any thing special in configuring it to work with dragonfly or
is it just dhcp?
My DragonFly box doesn't actually connect directly
Bill Hacker wrote:
Caveat: Use some other mx for your e-mail, not comcast.
Our MX'en blacklist all of comcast, as they do nothing useful to block
outbound to port 25, and are *infested* with Win-Zombies.
I'm puzzled. Why block the Comcast SMTP server instead of just the
Comcast dynamic IP b
Bryan Berch wrote:
It is about I get rid of dial-up and get something faster. My only
other choice is Comcast broadband. My questions are:
1. Has any one used it and is it worth it?
2. What cable modem did you use?
I've been using it for ~3 years now. I've had two major issues during
th
Bill Hacker wrote:
David Cuthbert wrote:
Heh... imagine if the loopback interface actually required hardware.
Imagine? 'Remember when' you mean...
It exists because there was a time when hardware *was* required, and one
did not always have arms long enough...
I remember using
Erik Wikström wrote:
It's
easier to just pretend that it's a normal NIC just like any other
(though the driver does not require any special hardware).
Heh... imagine if the loopback interface actually required hardware.
"Yeah, I have sl0 going out to the net; sl1 has the Tx and Rx lines tied
Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 22.08.2006 um 08:39 schrieb David Cuthbert:
I don't get it. Why do people insist on using autoconf to adapt to an
OS' quirks when a package only supports one OS?
Maybe I'm missing something, but "Linux" isn't "one OS"
No, bu
Gergo Szakal wrote:
configure: error: Unknown or unsupported OS "dragonfly". Only linux and
gnu are supported.
I don't get it. Why do people insist on using autoconf to adapt to an
OS' quirks when a package only supports one OS?
(Reason #349234 why I hate autoconf...)
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
Which is the ultimate reason why I refuse to touch it. No program has
the right to assume anything about the size of FILE, period.
Except the C++ iostreams library (which is part of STL ). It
requires knowledge about the internals of stdin/stdout to perform
synchron
Petr Janda wrote:
Something freaky has happened. My 3rd disk's partitions are gone. I had a 1)
HURD 2) Windows 3) DragonFly. Now wanting to play some games i went to boot
WIndows and i found out the DragonFly partition is now covering the whole
disk. Does MBR have a modification timestamp? If y
Matthew Dillon wrote:
Most of the arguments quoted are incorrect. The one about the ECC
length is correct, but the inter-sector gap argument doesn't apply
to most modern drives because they already do full-track reads and
writes, without gaps between sectors.
Yeah, I'm a bit p
Matthew Dillon wrote:
I don't agree re: SCSI RAID. It used to be true that SCSI was
superior not just in the reliability of the bus protocol but also
in the actual hardware. I remember back in the day when seagate
waxed poetic about all the work they did to make their SCSI driv
Matthew Dillon wrote:
True to a degree, but I think software raid is even worse. [...]
And lets not even talk about the idiotic not-really-hardware-raid
controllers like (I think) the promise. That reaches a level of
craziness that makes me shudder.
Given some experience here,
Matthew Dillon wrote:
With all the NForce chipsets, in fact, because NVidia doesn't seem
to be very open-source friendly people.
Really? Of all the vendors (except maybe Intel), they seem to me the
most open (putting internal developers on open source projects, for
instance). Most o
Chris Csanady wrote:
I've watched ReiserFS crash and burn in horribly bad ways that the
resulting fsck upon reboot took a long weekend to complete.
Was this on an ATA disc by chance? I imagine that this sort of file
system would be extremely fragile with write caching. That aside, I
don't se
walt wrote:
Are you counting a crash as a form of 'reboot'? I can certainly
understand why a busy kernel developer might want to speed up
something he does many time a day -- but most sysadmins probably
never want to reboot...
Heh... a crash is not only "a form" but probably "the form" of rebo
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