04.09.09
IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 8th, 2009 – Part 1
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| mib_31gt4h | linux | Apr 08 00:02 |
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| mib_31gt4h | the best | Apr 08 00:03 |
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| Balrog_ | ?????? | Apr 08 00:08 |
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| balzac | ?? | Apr 08 00:44 |
| Balrog_ | I’m referring to mib_31gt4h | Apr 08 00:49 |
| Balrog_ | schestowitz: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/artic… | Apr 08 00:57 |
| Balrog_ | major league baseball dumps silver light for flash | Apr 08 00:57 |
| Balrog_ | not the best, but at least no more of that sl  |
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| _Hicham_ | Hi ! | Apr 08 01:08 |
| _Hicham_ | Anyone in here? | Apr 08 01:08 |
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| balzac | I left a stinging comment on fsdaily.com | Apr 08 03:00 |
| balzac | http://www.fsdaily.com/Industry/Three_… | Apr 08 03:00 |
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| SenorMig29 | I guess it goes without saying that Roy will be commenting on the /. posting about Monolight and Major League Baseball website | Apr 08 03:03 |
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| Ziggyfish | good afternoon all | Apr 08 03:19 |
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| oiaohm_ | I see the fall out from attacking tomtom is starting. | Apr 08 03:34 |
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| Ziggyfish | oiaohm_, ??? | Apr 08 03:47 |
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| oiaohm_ | More people are concidering if they should stay using .net and fat bacause of it Ziggyfish. | Apr 08 03:49 |
| Ziggyfish | oh, ok | Apr 08 03:49 |
| Ziggyfish | that’s good news | Apr 08 03:50 |
| oiaohm_ | http://www.microsoft-watch.com/c… Truth lies and stasticics | Apr 08 03:52 |
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 Greetings from Bill Gate’s back yard, comrades! |
Apr 08 03:58 | |
| I know, it’s late. | Apr 08 03:59 | |
| oiaohm_ | Pitty bill gates is not the head of MS any more or I would be suggesting land mining his backyard. | Apr 08 04:05 |
| Ziggyfish | oiaohm_, why not? | Apr 08 04:08 |
| Ziggyfish |  |
Apr 08 04:19 |
| Can’t get justice from a dead man. | Apr 08 04:20 | |
| Better to strip him of his ill gotten loot than to do something cruel. | Apr 08 04:20 | |
| Ziggyfish | why not do both | Apr 08 04:22 |
| oiaohm_ | Who said the land mines have to be killing versions. | Apr 08 04:23 |
| oiaohm_ | Something nasty but not leathal. | Apr 08 04:24 |
| oiaohm_ | Worst part about land mines is worring about where they are. | Apr 08 04:25 |
| oiaohm_ | Not the killing bit. | Apr 08 04:25 |
| oiaohm_ | http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/5/197 << Ok this is a really what the Linux bug. | Apr 08 04:36 |
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| This place is corporate dominated. | Apr 08 04:56 | |
| Worse than most places. | Apr 08 04:57 | |
| And get this …. twitter thinks people here are extremely confrontational. | Apr 08 04:57 | |
| They say the craziest things. It explains a lot of Steve Ballmer’s act. It’s just how people are here. | Apr 08 04:58 | |
| oiaohm_ | Ok so the place needs to be shaken up. | Apr 08 05:04 |
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| Oh, they are having quite a little shake up. Wamu, M$ and other giants they trusted are leaving them screwed. | Apr 08 05:11 | |
| The one night stand wakes up sore, oh my. | Apr 08 05:11 | |
| schestowitz | YEah, | Apr 08 05:26 |
| schestowitz | “One night stand” | Apr 08 05:26 |
| schestowitz | See James P transcript on MS evangelism | Apr 08 05:26 |
| tessier | Who is this? | Apr 08 05:26 |
| schestowitz | Let me get it.. | Apr 08 05:26 |
| schestowitz | http://boycottnovell.com/2009/02/08… | Apr 08 05:27 |
| Hi Roy! | Apr 08 05:29 | |
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| good night | Apr 08 05:40 | |
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| schestowitz | Animal rights group protests seal clubbing in World of Warcraft < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/0… > | Apr 08 05:45 |
| schestowitz | http://www.prwatch.org/node/8321 “The Canadian province of Alberta, which promotes the development of its tar sands oil, “has hired a team of consultants to improve [its] image in Washington ahead of climate-change talks.” The lobbyists, who Alberta is paying $40,000 a month, include former Michigan governor James Blanchard and former U.S. ambassador and Canadian diplomat Paul Fraser.” | Apr 08 05:52 |
| NeonFloss | we all hate that province | Apr 08 06:33 |
| NeonFloss | :p | Apr 08 06:33 |
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| schestowitz | Citrix (+MSFT) poisons DMTF http://www.tradingmarkets.com/… | Apr 08 06:38 |
| schestowitz | Silly Wintel press cites Didiot http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Texas-Tells… | Apr 08 06:49 |
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| schestowitz | http://techdirt.com/articles/2009… (Keep It Simple, Segway — Don’t Team Up With GM) | Apr 08 07:09 |
| schestowitz | “A banker in Texas who basically stopped taking on any new loans for years as he thought things were going out of control. In fact, he barely worked at all — stopping by just a few hours a day, playing board games with his staff, and even laying off about half of his employees.” | Apr 08 07:11 |
| schestowitz | “He did this while waiting for the market to collapse, knowing that things were way out of control. In return, he got investigated by regulators, who couldn’t understand why he wasn’t joining in the fun. ” http://techdirt.com/articles/200… | Apr 08 07:11 |
| schestowitz | SJVN’s pessimism neglects the fact that opponents of GNU/Linux are weakening and the platform grows in developing nations… http://blogs.computerworld.com/linux_desktop_neglect | Apr 08 07:29 |
| schestowitz | China will not follow if US commits to deep CO2 cuts: official < http://www.platts.com/Natural%20Gas/News/8… > | Apr 08 07:30 |
| schestowitz | I’m going to write about that Silver Lie failure of Microsoft, maybe today. Don’t know where to fit it yet… | Apr 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | Who would pay for this/ http://www.linuxpr.com/rel… | Apr 08 07:43 |
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| schestowitz | According to this < http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charl… >, if your kid downloads a song, the whole family could be banned from the Net. | Apr 08 08:02 |
| schestowitz | Effect of kickbacks? “I Want an Android Netbook, and I Want It With the Windows Version’s Specs” < http://ostatic.com/blog/i-want-an-… > | Apr 08 08:05 |
| schestowitz | “A group of newspaper CEOs is planning a hush-hush meeting this week outside an industry convention. First, they’ll have a barely-legal chat about all charging for online content….” < http://gawker.com/5199886/a-big-sec… > | Apr 08 08:05 |
| PetoKraus | schestowitz: yeah, the ostatic article is quite spot-on | Apr 08 08:08 |
| schestowitz | I think Dell has similar screwups | Apr 08 08:10 |
| schestowitz | Apple and the MAFIAA jack up the prices: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?… | Apr 08 08:16 |
| PetoKraus | everything is going up the price | Apr 08 08:17 |
| PetoKraus | i was buying a bike last week, cause my old one was stolen | Apr 08 08:17 |
| schestowitz | That’s another thing: crime | Apr 08 08:18 |
| PetoKraus | the some company’s entry level model is £50 more expensive (well, £100 for me, i got a deal last year) | Apr 08 08:18 |
| PetoKraus | and the components are WORSE than 2008 models | Apr 08 08:18 |
| schestowitz | How did it get stolen? | Apr 08 08:18 |
| schestowitz | No chain? | Apr 08 08:18 |
| PetoKraus | i had it locked with an U lock in the close of my flat | Apr 08 08:18 |
| PetoKraus | and they whacked the railing it was attached to | Apr 08 08:19 |
| PetoKraus | most probably with the lock | Apr 08 08:19 |
| PetoKraus | it’s “organized crime” | Apr 08 08:19 |
| PetoKraus | during that week, 2 other bikes were stolen from the same street | Apr 08 08:19 |
| PetoKraus | it took them 90 minutes – i came home at 2pm, and when i left at 3.30 it wasn’t there. | Apr 08 08:19 |
| PetoKraus | well well. | Apr 08 08:20 |
| schestowitz | So up to 90 mins | Apr 08 08:20 |
| PetoKraus | yeah | Apr 08 08:20 |
| PetoKraus | i mean, they must’ve been waiting for me coming home | Apr 08 08:20 |
| PetoKraus | anyway, i’m getting the new one insured, and I’m locking it IN the flat this time | Apr 08 08:21 |
| schestowitz | I had stuff stolen in 2003, but never after | Apr 08 08:22 |
| schestowitz | http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/04… KDE on copyrights… now that Microsoft lawyers spread lies about it, re: GPL | Apr 08 08:22 |
| schestowitz | Anti-FOSS from MS lawyers: http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechn… | Apr 08 08:23 |
| PetoKraus | well, this is the first thing I got stolen in what, 8 years | Apr 08 08:23 |
| PetoKraus | apart from | Apr 08 08:24 |
| PetoKraus | stealing music | Apr 08 08:24 |
| PetoKraus | stealing videos | Apr 08 08:24 |
| PetoKraus | etc | Apr 08 08:24 |
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| schestowitz | MS comes to the realisation that Windows is a scalability nightmare? http://blogs.zdnet.com/micr… | Apr 08 08:25 |
| schestowitz | Some guy installed the Novell virus and uploaded a clip to YouTube just now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPAo_lJAV8 | Apr 08 08:27 |
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| schestowitz | Mark Taylor shows in nice graphs the effects of moving to Free software < http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/ar… > | Apr 08 08:39 |
| schestowitz | Firefox gains a feature that I regularly use in Konqueror: http://www.pcworld.com/article/1626… | Apr 08 08:40 |
| schestowitz | Bill Beebe comes back to GNU/Linux. http://blogbeebe.blogspot.co… “And it’s amazing. Everything. Just. Bloody. Works. Everything.” | Apr 08 08:42 |
| schestowitz | PlateSpin made some headlines for Novell when it was acquired, but if you look closely, many of its chief people quit Novell (at least 3 I can think of) and the company’s product does not appear to have even gained much traction. | Apr 08 08:44 |
| schestowitz | Novell is like Microsoft… when it buys something it just ruins it. | Apr 08 08:45 |
| schestowitz | High uptime=bad. “this means a little over 3 years (like February 2006)… Wow… I said to myself: the old sysadmin didn’t care about kernel updates (@2.6.15). I said… hmm… maybe he was doing application upgrades at least; looking at mysql (@4.1.15 btw) this was up for 1043 days and 11:52 hrs.” | Apr 08 08:50 |
| schestowitz | “Should I be impressed? or disappointed about a poor job and lack of interest in system maintenance and upgrades from the previous admin? I was disappointed of course…” http://www.ducea.com/2009/04/07/do… | Apr 08 08:50 |
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| schestowitz | Zune not dead just yet… http://www.paidcontent.org/entry… | Apr 08 08:58 |
| schestowitz | Blockbuster might be going bankrupt: http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-blo… | Apr 08 09:00 |
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| PetoKraus | firefox under linux could use some PGO | Apr 08 09:23 |
| MinceR | j0 | Apr 08 09:24 |
| Eruaran | hello | Apr 08 09:26 |
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| PeterKraus | oh well, wireless routers | Apr 08 09:51 |
| schestowitz | Linux on your wrist: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news… | Apr 08 09:51 |
| PeterKraus | need restart like every other day | Apr 08 09:51 |
| MinceR | mine doesn’t | Apr 08 09:54 |
| PeterKraus | i get 400ms ping just to the router | Apr 08 09:57 |
| PeterKraus | ocassionally | Apr 08 09:57 |
| PeterKraus | after 3-4 days or so | Apr 08 09:57 |
| PeterKraus | it’s supposed to be a good one – Netgear Rangemax | Apr 08 09:58 |
| PeterKraus | i must have bad luck | Apr 08 09:58 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.youtube.com/watc… .. | Apr 08 10:39 |
| oiaohm | Looks like another month of panic Nvidia driver releases for Linux. | Apr 08 10:41 |
| oiaohm | It feels like Nvidia is desperatly searching for some feature that users cannot get else where so they can hold onto there binary driver. | Apr 08 10:42 |
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| _Hicham_ | Hi oiaohm! | Apr 08 10:45 |
| oiaohm | Hi _Hicham_ | Apr 08 10:45 |
| _Hicham_ | what r u up today? | Apr 08 10:46 |
| oiaohm | Its after work _Hicham_ | Apr 08 10:47 |
| _Hicham_ | u don’t work at home? | Apr 08 10:51 |
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| PeterKraus | one would think that black trousers would be quite hard to get dirty | Apr 08 11:16 |
| PeterKraus | well well | Apr 08 11:16 |
| PeterKraus | oiaohm: or they are, literally, releasing after every commit |
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| trmanco | Microsoft’s Patent War Against Linux: TomTom Settles, Linux Loses: http://www.linuxplanet.com/lin… | Apr 08 11:29 |
| PeterKraus | you have to be joking: http://online.wsj.com/articl… | Apr 08 11:30 |
| PeterKraus | 1) what idiot would connect the power grid PC network to the internet? | Apr 08 11:30 |
| PeterKraus | 2) yeah yeah, penetration, spies, blablabla | Apr 08 11:30 |
| trmanco | bullshit | Apr 08 11:31 |
| PeterKraus | i’d say so | Apr 08 11:31 |
| trmanco | blame the Chinese and the Russians, it’s always like this | Apr 08 11:31 |
| PeterKraus | yeah | Apr 08 11:32 |
| PeterKraus | but i’m wondering | Apr 08 11:32 |
| PeterKraus | having vital functions of nuclear plant on machine which is connected to the internet | Apr 08 11:32 |
| PeterKraus | that’s asking for trouble | Apr 08 11:32 |
| PeterKraus | and I don’t believe someone would do it. | Apr 08 11:32 |
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| trmanco | there are people in the world to do these kind of crazy things | Apr 08 11:35 |
| PeterKraus | i know a person who’d do it | Apr 08 11:36 |
| PeterKraus | and didn’t have a problem with that | Apr 08 11:36 |
| trmanco | http://www.stefanoforenza.com/tomboy… | Apr 08 11:36 |
| PeterKraus | anyway | Apr 08 11:37 |
| PeterKraus | ttyl | Apr 08 11:37 |
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| trmanco | later | Apr 08 11:37 |
| oiaohm | Black trouser + whiite chalk mess. | Apr 08 11:46 |
| DaemonFC | these Ubuntu kernels are just getting worse and worse | Apr 08 11:46 |
| DaemonFC | I compile my own and all the bugs go away | Apr 08 11:46 |
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| trmanco | I haven’t had a problem with Ubuntu kernels yet | Apr 08 11:49 |
| DaemonFC | do yourself a favor and don’t look at their config | Apr 08 11:49 |
| DaemonFC | the deeper you go the worse it gets | Apr 08 11:50 |
| DaemonFC | you can easily spend half an hour or more correcting their settings | Apr 08 11:50 |
| trmanco | never looked | Apr 08 11:51 |
| DaemonFC | They have it trying to be a desktop, laptop, and server kernel all at once | Apr 08 11:52 |
| trmanco | I don’t bother looking because as long as it works, it’s not a problem | Apr 08 11:52 |
| DaemonFC | with generic compiler settings | Apr 08 11:52 |
| DaemonFC | where everything possible is flipped on by default | Apr 08 11:52 |
| trmanco | hehe | Apr 08 11:52 |
| DaemonFC | oh, and they don’t select the Minstrel rate control algorithm | Apr 08 11:53 |
| DaemonFC | so your 54M wifi adapter could be a 1M wifi adapter even if you’re 5 feet from the router | Apr 08 11:54 |
| DaemonFC | B-) | Apr 08 11:54 |
| trmanco | on what kernel version? | Apr 08 11:54 |
| DaemonFC | 2.6.28 based | Apr 08 11:55 |
| DaemonFC | hard to tell, because they patch it with things that were never even meant to be put in 2.6.28 | Apr 08 11:55 |
| trmanco | true | Apr 08 11:55 |
| DaemonFC | they even managed to snag a few from the 2.6.30 development branch!!! | Apr 08 11:55 |
| DaemonFC | heh | Apr 08 11:56 |
| DaemonFC | Usually they try to solve one problem, create 5 more, and then invalidate all your bug reports | Apr 08 11:56 |
| DaemonFC | cause it works for them | Apr 08 11:56 |
| oiaohm | That would be the patches they recently put forward to be merged. | Apr 08 11:56 |
| oiaohm | Beware Ubuntu does have a few kernel patchs that are not in any branch. | Apr 08 11:57 |
| DaemonFC | it’s easier to use official kernel source | Apr 08 11:57 |
| DaemonFC | and build your own | Apr 08 11:57 |
| DaemonFC | but they’ve screwed something in Ubuntu up | Apr 08 11:58 |
| DaemonFC | cause the 2.6.30 rc1 won’t even boot | Apr 08 11:58 |
| DaemonFC | it says init has been tainted then freezes | Apr 08 11:58 |
| DaemonFC | for some reason, they put a patch in 2.6.29 that makes xfs_fsr freak out | Apr 08 12:02 |
| DaemonFC | apparently it works now in 2.6.30 rc1 but that won’t boot |
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| DaemonFC | I’ll just wait patiently | Apr 08 12:02 |
| trmanco | http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/04/log… | Apr 08 12:03 |
| oiaohm | Yes you have to replace init to use generic on Ubuntu. | Apr 08 12:04 |
| oiaohm | Does a non standard syscall. | Apr 08 12:04 |
| oiaohm | Ubuntu is very quickly becoming not Linux. | Apr 08 12:05 |
| DaemonFC | no, it just stopped working at 2.6.29-git13 | Apr 08 12:07 |
| DaemonFC | any kernel before that will boot | Apr 08 12:07 |
| DaemonFC | it’s probably a kernel bug | Apr 08 12:08 |
| DaemonFC | it’s usually better to just ride out a kernel version til they don’t support it anymore then move to the oldest one they support | Apr 08 12:09 |
| DaemonFC | 2.6.29 is still incredibly buggy | Apr 08 12:09 |
| DaemonFC | the new xfs_fsr problems are caused by a patch in 2.6.29 that requires a new version of xfsprogs | Apr 08 12:10 |
| DaemonFC | I could probably be clever and just steal them from Debian Sid | Apr 08 12:11 |
| schestowitz | trmanco: thanks, already in BN | Apr 08 12:12 |
| DaemonFC | it’s a shame that XFS has had such a cold reception | Apr 08 12:13 |
| DaemonFC | everyone is marvelling at the wonderful new features in Ext4 that have been in XFS for the last 15 years | Apr 08 12:13 |
| MinceR | such as random data corruption? | Apr 08 12:13 |
| DaemonFC | only if you’re an idiot | Apr 08 12:14 |
| DaemonFC | or turn barriers off | Apr 08 12:14 |
| DaemonFC | see first comment | Apr 08 12:14 |
| DaemonFC | the problem with data corruption in Ext4 is not an Ext4 bug | Apr 08 12:14 |
| DaemonFC | Ext4 never got the data because it was never REQUESTED to be committed to the disk | Apr 08 12:15 |
| DaemonFC | by some criminally stupid people at GNOME/KDE etc | Apr 08 12:15 |
| MinceR | or you get a power outage | Apr 08 12:15 |
| MinceR | or your graphics driver hangs x | Apr 08 12:15 |
| DaemonFC | no, you don’t understand how this is supposed to work | Apr 08 12:15 |
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| MinceR | nobody does | Apr 08 12:15 |
| DaemonFC | Ext3 has the same “problem” | Apr 08 12:15 |
| DaemonFC | it just hides it | Apr 08 12:16 |
| MinceR | all that matters is that POSIX doesn’t say that data shouldn’t be randomly destroyed, so this is compliant behavior | Apr 08 12:16 |
| DaemonFC | If nothing requests data committed, Ext3 does it every 5 seconds anyway | Apr 08 12:16 |
| MinceR | yes, ext3 hides the problem by not trashing my data | Apr 08 12:16 |
| MinceR | how bad it is for me! | Apr 08 12:16 |
| DaemonFC | Ext3 is hacking its way around an application problem | Apr 08 12:16 |
| DaemonFC | that has nothing to do with the file system | Apr 08 12:16 |
| oiaohm | Ever used nilfs | Apr 08 12:16 |
| DaemonFC | and has trained programmers to be lazy, sloppy idiots | Apr 08 12:16 |
| DaemonFC | MinceR: It slows the file system down considerably, and the point is that there is an ioctl to request data be comnmitted | Apr 08 12:17 |
| DaemonFC | and bad apps don’t use that | Apr 08 12:17 |
| DaemonFC | they rely on Ext3′s bad/incorrect behavior | Apr 08 12:17 |
| MinceR | it has trained programmers in the past before it even existed | Apr 08 12:18 |
| MinceR | it’s that bad! | Apr 08 12:18 |
| DaemonFC | Really the entire way KDE and GNOME store settings is pretty fucking stupid | Apr 08 12:18 |
| MinceR | because it doesn’t use a registry? :> | Apr 08 12:18 |
| oiaohm | nilfs copes quite well with KDE and Gnome stupidity. | Apr 08 12:18 |
| DaemonFC | tons of little bitty files that are constantly being written to | Apr 08 12:18 |
| MinceR | constantly? really? | Apr 08 12:19 |
| DaemonFC | frankly GNOME and KDE are both a pile of shit | Apr 08 12:19 |
| DaemonFC | it’s jsut that KDE is worse | Apr 08 12:19 |
| oiaohm | Its not constant. | Apr 08 12:19 |
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| MinceR | it’s just that neither are a pile of shit and kde is better. | Apr 08 12:19 |
| MinceR | but you’re trying to defend crap filesystems that kill data. | Apr 08 12:19 |
| DaemonFC | MinceR: When you have a SET of files for every program | Apr 08 12:20 |
| oiaohm | nilfs is a snapshoting filessytem. | Apr 08 12:20 |
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| DaemonFC | where any one of them, probably most are not committed to disk at any time | Apr 08 12:20 |
| oiaohm | Snapshotting is really the cure. | Apr 08 12:20 |
| DaemonFC | you’re asking for data corruption | Apr 08 12:20 |
| MinceR | and i’m not getting it | Apr 08 12:20 |
| MinceR | i suffer so much | Apr 08 12:20 |
| oiaohm | Registry under windows can completely cease to exist. | Apr 08 12:20 |
| DaemonFC | Ext3 still has a 5 second window | Apr 08 12:20 |
| MinceR | windows can completely cease to exist | Apr 08 12:20 |
| MinceR |  |
Apr 08 12:20 |
| oiaohm | Yep 1 file completely left the face of earth. | Apr 08 12:20 |
| oiaohm | No more windows boot at all. | Apr 08 12:21 |
| MinceR | DaemonFC: ext3 writes metadata _after_ data was written | Apr 08 12:21 |
| DaemonFC | MinceR: And you’re not Eric Sandeen or Ted Ts’o | Apr 08 12:21 |
| MinceR | DaemonFC: that’s the key. | Apr 08 12:21 |
| MinceR | DaemonFC: i’m happy i’m not Ted Ts’o | Apr 08 12:21 |
| DaemonFC | I’d imagine they know what they’re saying | Apr 08 12:21 |
| DaemonFC | that’s the difference | Apr 08 12:21 |
| MinceR | i’d hate to explain my way around a fs bug i’ve written instead of fixing it. | Apr 08 12:21 |
| DaemonFC | Ext3 is the file system with the incorrect behavior | Apr 08 12:21 |
| MinceR | DaemonFC: well, i’m sure you don’t know what you’re saying | Apr 08 12:21 |
| DaemonFC | I say they should refuse to fix it | Apr 08 12:21 |
| oiaohm | Nilfs and btrfs both most likely heavly used in future both have snapshoting. | Apr 08 12:21 |
| DaemonFC | and stop Ext3 from doing it | Apr 08 12:21 |
| MinceR | i say you should use /dev/null as your block device | Apr 08 12:22 |
| DaemonFC | and point people at the GNOME/KDE fucktards | Apr 08 12:22 |
| oiaohm | Ext3 is doing data proteciton correct. | Apr 08 12:22 |
| MinceR | it’s POSIX compliant! | Apr 08 12:22 |
| DaemonFC | when they lose data for no reason | Apr 08 12:22 |
| oiaohm | With snapshotting. | Apr 08 12:22 |
| MinceR | better yet, use windows 3.1 | Apr 08 12:22 |
| trmanco | … | Apr 08 12:22 |
| trmanco | FAT | Apr 08 12:22 |
| oiaohm | You can always roll back before thes stuff up DaemonFC | Apr 08 12:22 |
| MinceR | then you’ll be free from gnome, kde, modern filesystems, etc. | Apr 08 12:22 |
| DaemonFC | There is really no POSIX way of handling an unclean shutdown | Apr 08 12:22 |
| DaemonFC | so you lose again | Apr 08 12:22 |
| MinceR | so it’s forbidden by your religion to handle it? | Apr 08 12:22 |
| DaemonFC | tradition says play back the journal even if it contains garbage | Apr 08 12:23 |
| MinceR | if it isn’t in POSIX then it’s forbidden to innovate? | Apr 08 12:23 |
| oiaohm | There is no way ever of perfectly handling a unclean shutdown without building in filesystem support for it. | Apr 08 12:23 |
| MinceR | i’d rather have a file with a little garbage in it than one that’s truncated to 0 bytes | Apr 08 12:23 |
| MinceR | or filled with zeroes | Apr 08 12:23 |
| oiaohm | Max suppot for unclean is nilfs. | Apr 08 12:23 |
| DaemonFC | If it’s on a hard disk, it’s at risk of a million things that can and do go wrong | Apr 08 12:23 |
| DaemonFC | I’m sure if your disk crashes, Ext3 was at fault | Apr 08 12:23 |
| DaemonFC | because it didn’t stop the head from colliding | Apr 08 12:24 |
| oiaohm | Under nilfs if you have tones of diskspace nothing ever gets deleted. | Apr 08 12:24 |
| schestowitz | Just the other day we had a Word user here whose file was zeroed IIRC | Apr 08 12:24 |
| MinceR | it would probably be better if on the case of corruption it would be copied or moved to /lost+found though | Apr 08 12:24 |
| schestowitz | Nice going, Windows. | Apr 08 12:24 |
| oiaohm | You delete a file under nilfs it still there in the checkpoints. | Apr 08 12:24 |
| oiaohm | You edit a file unedited is still there in the checkpoints. | Apr 08 12:24 |
| DaemonFC | I’ve never had XFS lose anything, I’ve had multiple Ext3 columes before I started using XFS that had gotten to where they would not boot up | Apr 08 12:25 |
| trmanco | schestowitz, that’s a feature… to save space | Apr 08 12:25 |
| DaemonFC | usually it woulkd crash and fsck would spend HOURS and then admit the Ext3 partition was fucked | Apr 08 12:25 |
| DaemonFC | and that was that | Apr 08 12:25 |
| oiaohm | What mode were you using. | Apr 08 12:25 |
| DaemonFC | so you make your backups you take your chances | Apr 08 12:25 |
| oiaohm | Please don’t be writeback. | Apr 08 12:25 |
| DaemonFC | but XFS is a much better fs than Ext3 | Apr 08 12:26 |
| oiaohm | That was always a sucker to go the way of dead. | Apr 08 12:26 |
| DaemonFC | ordered | Apr 08 12:26 |
| oiaohm | I guess early on. | Apr 08 12:26 |
| MinceR | i’ve had XFS lose files but not ext3 | Apr 08 12:26 |
| oiaohm | And got one of the ordered bugs. | Apr 08 12:26 |
| MinceR | therefore (by your logic), ext3 is a much better fs than XFS. | Apr 08 12:26 |
| MinceR | QED. | Apr 08 12:26 |
| oiaohm | journal mode of ext3 is solid. | Apr 08 12:26 |
| DaemonFC | trusting any file system on a hard disk is like saying you can poke one hole in a condom or 3 | Apr 08 12:27 |
| DaemonFC | and saying the one with one is more trustworthy | Apr 08 12:27 |
| MinceR | like i said, use /dev/null. | Apr 08 12:27 |
| oiaohm | Also journal mode is slower. | Apr 08 12:27 |
| DaemonFC | Ext3 uses an inordinate amount of space for the journal | Apr 08 12:27 |
| MinceR | oiaohm: afaik ordered writes are just as solid | Apr 08 12:27 |
| DaemonFC | and other overhead | Apr 08 12:27 |
| oiaohm | Price of data protection. | Apr 08 12:28 |
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| MinceR | also, /dev/null doesn’t even rely on HDD hardware so you avoid those problems too! | Apr 08 12:28 |
| DaemonFC | ordered is slower than writeback, but it’s stil lcompletely possible to have a file system that’s corrupt beyond repair, or a clean fsck with data loss | Apr 08 12:28 |
| DaemonFC | (my favorite) | Apr 08 12:28 |
| oiaohm | Ext3 is not protected from harddrive defects. | Apr 08 12:29 |
| DaemonFC | XFS has better disk tools than Ext* anyway | Apr 08 12:29 |
| oiaohm | Neither is XFS | Apr 08 12:29 |
| vida18 | 8 April, 2009: KOffice 2.0 RC 1 released | Apr 08 12:29 |
| vida18 | http://www.koffice.org/releases/2…. | Apr 08 12:29 |
| DaemonFC | xfs_repair can at least get the partition to mount again if nothing else | Apr 08 12:29 |
| DaemonFC | e2fsck can’t even give you that | Apr 08 12:29 |
| DaemonFC | anyway, XFS was built for an OS that was much more capable than Linux | Apr 08 12:31 |
| DaemonFC | probably still is in some ways | Apr 08 12:31 |
| DaemonFC | and for machines that were much more powerful than a PC | Apr 08 12:31 |
| DaemonFC | and probably still are | Apr 08 12:31 |
| DaemonFC | in outfits that most likely had a UPS regardless of file system cause if they get any data loss they lose millions of dollars | Apr 08 12:32 |
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| DaemonFC | anyway, MinceRs point is moot anyway when a 15 minute backup battery in a surge protector is all of like $30 | Apr 08 12:33 |
| oiaohm | DaemonFC there are other tools to use other than e2fsck | Apr 08 12:33 |
| oiaohm | on ext2/3/4 to bring them back to life. | Apr 08 12:33 |
| DaemonFC | e2fsprogs is a joke | Apr 08 12:34 |
| oiaohm | e2fsck will not just create new structs. | Apr 08 12:34 |
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| oiaohm | I have had xfs_repair give a user like a blank drive before. | Apr 08 12:34 |
| oiaohm | Not nice. | Apr 08 12:34 |
| oiaohm | Personally I prefer it to fail so data recovery can be done. | Apr 08 12:35 |
| iwmw | may be that drive contained windows xp installation | Apr 08 12:35 |
| DaemonFC | was it MOUNTED? | Apr 08 12:35 |
| MinceR | DaemonFC: and how do you propose a surge protector should protect against driver bugs? | Apr 08 12:35 |
| DaemonFC | that’s the best way to fuck a file system in Linux no matter what | Apr 08 12:35 |
| DaemonFC | fsck while mounted | Apr 08 12:35 |
| trmanco | anybody heard of Gnote? | Apr 08 12:35 |
| oiaohm | No it was not mounted. | Apr 08 12:35 |
| trmanco | c++ port of tomboy | Apr 08 12:36 |
| oiaohm | Person had the idea that xfs_repair would get them out of trouble. | Apr 08 12:36 |
| trmanco | novell/monosoft just took a kick in th arse | Apr 08 12:36 |
| DaemonFC | MinceR: Turn the computer off and cancel your AOL? | Apr 08 12:36 |
| oiaohm | xfs_repair will always give a mountable partion even if it make it like a blank drive. | Apr 08 12:36 |
| DaemonFC | shit, I don’t know B-) | Apr 08 12:36 |
| iwmw | trmanco: in which way? | Apr 08 12:36 |
| MinceR | DaemonFC: go back to your friends at ##windows | Apr 08 12:36 |
| oiaohm | Personally I hate xfs_repair | Apr 08 12:37 |
| DaemonFC | because we know that all hardware and software is 100% reliable | Apr 08 12:37 |
| oiaohm | It has a habit of just making my job of getting data back harder. | Apr 08 12:37 |
| DaemonFC | and if it jsut wasn’;t for XFS fucking it all up | Apr 08 12:37 |
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| iwmw | *teasing* DaemonFC got a windows friends XD | Apr 08 12:37 |
| oiaohm | I know hardware is not reliable | Apr 08 12:38 |
| DaemonFC | Ext3 is pretty damned ugly no matter how much lipstick you put on it | Apr 08 12:38 |
| iwmw | nothing is realiable while you rely on it | Apr 08 12:38 |
| oiaohm | Ext4 will be the last in the Ext line of filesystems. | Apr 08 12:38 |
| oiaohm | XFS will also have to go by by in time. | Apr 08 12:39 |
| MinceR | ext4 isn’t only damned ugly, it also loses data | Apr 08 12:39 |
| DaemonFC | the recoverability is thanks to hacks and it being primitive, slow, and prone to fragmentation | Apr 08 12:39 |
| MinceR | so thanks, i’ll go with ext3 for now. | Apr 08 12:39 |
| MinceR | and you’ll always have /dev/null. | Apr 08 12:39 |
| *iwmw suspects that ext2 is quite enough | Apr 08 12:39 | |
| DaemonFC | I’d never use Ext3 again | Apr 08 12:39 |
| oiaohm | ext2 your are nuts iwmw | Apr 08 12:39 |
| DaemonFC | nah, XFS is the best that Linux has | Apr 08 12:39 |
| MinceR | …if you like losing data | Apr 08 12:40 |
| DaemonFC | that’s only cause ZFS doesn’t run on it | Apr 08 12:40 |
| DaemonFC | and BtrFS is still experimental | Apr 08 12:40 |
| oiaohm | XFS and EXT3 are about equal in there own ways. | Apr 08 12:40 |
| iwmw | … every toad boasts it’s swamp | Apr 08 12:40 |
| MinceR | ZFS doesn’t run on it because sun is scared shitless of Linux | Apr 08 12:40 |
| DaemonFC | no, it’s cause Richard Hippie Stallman says their license is not GPL compatible | Apr 08 12:40 |
| DaemonFC | if Stallman changed his mind, ZFS could go in | Apr 08 12:41 |
| DaemonFC | there’s nothing non-free about CDDL | Apr 08 12:41 |
| DaemonFC | that’s what happens when you let a religious group loose developing an OS | Apr 08 12:41 |
| iwmw | DaemonFC: hey, smoking weed is useful | Apr 08 12:42 |
| DaemonFC | Well, if you hate CDDL | Apr 08 12:42 |
| MinceR | there’s nothing non-free about CDDL, the only tiny little problem with it is that it isn’t GPL-compatible | Apr 08 12:42 |
| DaemonFC | stop using Firefox | Apr 08 12:42 |
| MinceR | that’s the whole reason CDDL exists | Apr 08 12:42 |
| MinceR | and that’s the only reason Sun uses it on ZFS | Apr 08 12:42 |
| trmanco | what’s wrong with Firefox? it’s success? | Apr 08 12:42 |
| DaemonFC | they based CDDL on the Mozilla license | Apr 08 12:42 |
| oiaohm | Firefox is not GPL. | Apr 08 12:42 |
| DaemonFC | so Firefox is not free | Apr 08 12:42 |
| MinceR | because as i’ve mentioned, they’re scared shitless of Linux | Apr 08 12:42 |
| DaemonFC | by your definition | Apr 08 12:42 |
| DaemonFC | or Stallman’s | Apr 08 12:42 |
| MinceR | they know their dinosaur Slowlaris is dying and they believe this will save it | Apr 08 12:43 |
| DaemonFC | why would they be? | Apr 08 12:43 |
| oiaohm | CDDL has a few things altered from Mozillas licences. | Apr 08 12:43 |
| iwmw | DaemonFC: so what’s the most gpl and good browser? | Apr 08 12:43 |
| DaemonFC | Solaris is better in many ways | Apr 08 12:43 |
| MinceR | perhaps in your imagination. | Apr 08 12:43 |
| DaemonFC | but all the software I use is Linux-only | Apr 08 12:43 |
| MinceR | yes, we know, you use Linux and you hate every single bit about it | Apr 08 12:43 |
| oiaohm | Solarias is better in some ways. | Apr 08 12:43 |
| MinceR | we feel so sorry for you. | Apr 08 12:43 |
| oiaohm | Lack of hardware support for solaris killed it. | Apr 08 12:43 |
| DaemonFC | Have fun with Ext3 and 4k stacks | Apr 08 12:43 |
| DaemonFC | B-) | Apr 08 12:43 |
| iwmw | guys, what’s the most gpl and sane browser? | Apr 08 12:43 |
| MinceR | have fun with random data loss | Apr 08 12:44 |
| MinceR | sane browser? that would be a good idea. | Apr 08 12:44 |
| DaemonFC | if XFS has any flaws it’s because it’s too good for Linux | Apr 08 12:44 |
| oiaohm | konq is gpl. | Apr 08 12:44 |
| MinceR | lol | Apr 08 12:44 |
| iwmw | lol, konq is not good yet | Apr 08 12:44 |
| trmanco | galean | Apr 08 12:44 |
| trmanco | sorry, Epiphany | Apr 08 12:45 |
| oiaohm | All current filesystems have flaws DaemonFC | Apr 08 12:45 |
| oiaohm | XFS is just getting feature long in tooth. | Apr 08 12:45 |
| DaemonFC | Konqueror: Great until you try to load a flash applet, try to hit ctrl+enter, try to autoscroll, or try to sign into XBOX forums or your bank’s website | Apr 08 12:45 |
| oiaohm | Lot of new features need to be added to XFS to keep up. | Apr 08 12:45 |
| iwmw | trmanco: galean is 3 years old | Apr 08 12:45 |
| trmanco | galeon too | Apr 08 12:45 |
| iwmw | (last version of it) | Apr 08 12:45 |
| DaemonFC | there’s quite a bit of work being done on XFS in 2.6.30 | Apr 08 12:46 |
| trmanco | LOL, 2006, you’re right | Apr 08 12:46 |
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| DaemonFC | 61 patches landed in the merge window alone | Apr 08 12:46 |
| iwmw | i feel like installing epiphany | Apr 08 12:46 |
| DaemonFC | not BtrFS-killer stuff, but it’ll keep it going | Apr 08 12:46 |
| DaemonFC | Linux has a major Not Invented Here syndrome a lot of the time | Apr 08 12:47 |
| DaemonFC | I mean they threw away Reiser4 entirely, and went with an upgrade of Ext3!?!? | Apr 08 12:47 |
| DaemonFC | They’re smoking crack | Apr 08 12:47 |
| oiaohm | XFS does not have file based snapshotting. | Apr 08 12:48 |
| DaemonFC | and Ext4 does? | Apr 08 12:48 |
| oiaohm | Ext4 is the last of its line. | Apr 08 12:48 |
| DaemonFC | Ext4=Welcome to 1994 | Apr 08 12:48 |
| iwmw | watch them start ext5 right before the release of ext4 | Apr 08 12:48 |
| oiaohm | Because it cannot be updated to include the features systems in future will need. | Apr 08 12:48 |
| oiaohm | No there is no Ext5 | Apr 08 12:49 |
| DaemonFC | BtrFS will replace it | Apr 08 12:49 |
| DaemonFC | I’m pretty sure | Apr 08 12:49 |
| iwmw | ha, they are preparing it as a surprise, oiaohm | Apr 08 12:49 |
| oiaohm | That is the path. | Apr 08 12:49 |
| DaemonFC | you see how eager Linus is to get his hands on it | Apr 08 12:49 |
| MinceR | how complete was reiser4? | Apr 08 12:49 |
| oiaohm | BtrFS is the one after ext4 iwmw | Apr 08 12:49 |
| iwmw | not complete, MinceR | Apr 08 12:49 |
| DaemonFC | BtrFS will be able to upgrade over Ext3/4 | Apr 08 12:49 |
| DaemonFC | in place | Apr 08 12:49 |
| oiaohm | BtrFS can also do that with XFS | Apr 08 12:49 |
| DaemonFC | MinceR: Reiser4 is complete | Apr 08 12:49 |
| MinceR | did kernel developers understand the design of reiser4 completely? | Apr 08 12:50 |
| iwmw | oiaohm: is btrfs user-ready? | Apr 08 12:50 |
| DaemonFC | and you can patch your kernel to use it | Apr 08 12:50 |
| DaemonFC | or use an mm kernel | Apr 08 12:50 |
| oiaohm | Not yet iwmw | Apr 08 12:50 |
| oiaohm | Its the development line iwmw | Apr 08 12:50 |
| MinceR | (i thought it was dropped because they relied on Hans Reiser to finish it) | Apr 08 12:50 |
| DaemonFC | MinceR: Nothing in Reiser4 requires Hans Reiser, it is GPL’d | Apr 08 12:50 |
| DaemonFC | and the kernel guys are jerks | Apr 08 12:50 |
| DaemonFC | even though Many NameSys employees still maintain it | Apr 08 12:50 |
| MinceR | sure, but someone has to understand the design to really build on it/modify it | Apr 08 12:51 |
| MinceR | ic | Apr 08 12:51 |
| iwmw | what’s the best one to use at home for speed of usual file ops without searching or smth, oiaohm? | Apr 08 12:51 |
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| iwmw | i mean stable and fast | Apr 08 12:51 |
| DaemonFC | MinceR: You’d like Reiser4, it was atomic | Apr 08 12:51 |
| oiaohm | Stable is a very changable word. | Apr 08 12:51 |
| DaemonFC | meaning it could never allow an incomplete transaction to bork the file system | Apr 08 12:51 |
| MinceR | i heard it was going to be very innovative | Apr 08 12:51 |
| MinceR | with new ways to organize files, perhaps… or was that another NameSys project? | Apr 08 12:52 |
| oiaohm | And due to driver defects Reiser4 can still take it self out. | Apr 08 12:52 |
| iwmw | yeah, it shouldn’t lose data when i press reset and no data loss on it’s own wanting | Apr 08 12:52 |
| DaemonFC | If you do a side by side comparison of file systems on Wikipedia | Apr 08 12:52 |
| DaemonFC | Reiser4 and BtrFS have the best features | Apr 08 12:52 |
| oiaohm | Nilfs has it place too. | Apr 08 12:53 |
| DaemonFC | Reiser4 had a lot of really neat ideas | Apr 08 12:53 |
| DaemonFC | and all the good stuff from XFS | Apr 08 12:53 |
| DaemonFC | B-) | Apr 08 12:53 |
| oiaohm | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS << Read this devil DaemonFC | Apr 08 12:53 |
| DaemonFC | 8 Exbibyte files? | Apr 08 12:54 |
| DaemonFC | damn | Apr 08 12:54 |
| DaemonFC | that’s the same as XFS | Apr 08 12:55 |
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| oiaohm | Yep but stronger | Apr 08 12:55 |
| DaemonFC | XFS has a max volume size of 16 Exbibytes | Apr 08 12:55 |
| DaemonFC | Ext4′s is 1 Exbibyte | Apr 08 12:55 |
| oiaohm | There is nilfs2 as well. | Apr 08 12:55 |
| DaemonFC | but due to limitations in e2fsprogs…… | Apr 08 12:56 |
| DaemonFC | Ext4 is limited to 16 TB | Apr 08 12:56 |
| DaemonFC | just like Ext3 | Apr 08 12:56 |
| DaemonFC | yeah, that’s still huge by desktop PC standards | Apr 08 12:57 |
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| DaemonFC | but it’s not much by the standards of some professional uses | Apr 08 12:57 |
| DaemonFC | brb | Apr 08 12:57 |
| oiaohm | nilfs is great for configuration directories. | Apr 08 12:57 |
| MinceR | oiaohm: nilfs seems really nice | Apr 08 12:58 |
| oiaohm | Its not perfect. | Apr 08 12:59 |
| oiaohm | http://www.nilfs.org/en/current_status.html << As plained features show. | Apr 08 12:59 |
| oiaohm | But nilfs2 enters mainline with 2.6.30 | Apr 08 12:59 |
| oiaohm | Simple fact stuff like ext and xfs are going to become old hat most likely by end of year. | Apr 08 13:00 |
| MinceR | “Simultaneously mountable” means using the same SAN volume from multiple machines at the same time? | Apr 08 13:00 |
| MinceR | (read-write?) | Apr 08 13:00 |
| PeterKraus | hmm | Apr 08 13:01 |
| MinceR | i’m not really sure filesystems can become “old hat” in one year :> | Apr 08 13:01 |
| oiaohm | main mount read-write | Apr 08 13:01 |
| trmanco | versioning filesystem? | Apr 08 13:01 |
| PeterKraus | i don’t think i’ll switch soon | Apr 08 13:01 |
| PeterKraus | it’ll require too much work | Apr 08 13:01 |
| MinceR | btrfs & co still need a lot of testing | Apr 08 13:01 |
| iwmw | i gonna switch to fat32… | Apr 08 13:01 |
| MinceR | and support in major distro releases | Apr 08 13:01 |
| iwmw | and use wubi | Apr 08 13:01 |
| MinceR | iwmw: ew | Apr 08 13:01 |
| oiaohm | snapshots mounts read only as many as you want MinceR | Apr 08 13:01 |
| MinceR | i know | Apr 08 13:01 |
| iwmw | MinceR: after all these talks | Apr 08 13:01 |
| oiaohm | That is what simultaneously mountable is about. | Apr 08 13:02 |
| MinceR | oiaohm: when/how are checkpoints created — automatically or manually? | Apr 08 13:02 |
| oiaohm | nilfs automatically creates checkpoints. | Apr 08 13:02 |
| MinceR | oiaohm: so simultaneous mounts are for readonly snapshots only, right? | Apr 08 13:02 |
| oiaohm | You turn the ones you want out of the checkpoints into snapshots. | Apr 08 13:03 |
| MinceR | ic | Apr 08 13:03 |
| oiaohm | Ie it will garbage collect checkpoints not snapshots. | Apr 08 13:03 |
| oiaohm | Basically its a delayed deleting filesystem. | Apr 08 13:03 |
| oiaohm | What can be really really handy at times. | Apr 08 13:04 |
| PeterKraus | i wonder what’s the storage req | Apr 08 13:04 |
| oiaohm | nilfs is more storage using. | Apr 08 13:04 |
| oiaohm | fall back locations are not free of course. | Apr 08 13:04 |
| MinceR | i see some things are still missing | Apr 08 13:05 |
| oiaohm | Between nilfs and btrfs we will have two great filesystems. | Apr 08 13:05 |
| oiaohm | In time. | Apr 08 13:05 |
| oiaohm | making most of the filesystems we use now look like crap. | Apr 08 13:06 |
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| oiaohm | snapshots also make things like timevault and equal look extreamly disk wasting. | Apr 08 13:06 |
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| oiaohm | No limit on the number of snapshots until the volume gets full << yes nilfs only starts overwriting files when disk gets full. | Apr 08 13:08 |
| PeterKraus | well yeah | Apr 08 13:08 |
| oiaohm | btrfs design should allow it to upgrade any filesystem to its self. | Apr 08 13:08 |
| PeterKraus | yeah | Apr 08 13:08 |
| PeterKraus | that’s what i’m looking for | Apr 08 13:09 |
| PeterKraus | if it gives me smooth transition from JFS | Apr 08 13:09 |
| PeterKraus | comparable stability | Apr 08 13:09 |
| PeterKraus | and better performance | Apr 08 13:09 |
| DaemonFC | well if it can do that, then why can’t it upgrade itself to new on-disk formats? | Apr 08 13:09 |
| PeterKraus | i’m sold | Apr 08 13:09 |
| oiaohm | It can downgrade as well DaemonFC | Apr 08 13:09 |
| oiaohm | We just have to wait for btrfs to complete. | Apr 08 13:10 |
| oiaohm | You now see why lots of us are following it PeterKraus | Apr 08 13:10 |
| PeterKraus | well | Apr 08 13:10 |
| PeterKraus | i don’t because i’m satisfied with JFS | Apr 08 13:10 |
| DaemonFC | I’ve been a huge fan of XFS ever since I used IRIX | Apr 08 13:10 |
| DaemonFC | but XFS didn’t used to be all that stable on Linux because of deficiencies in Linux | Apr 08 13:11 |
| PeterKraus | heh | Apr 08 13:11 |
| DaemonFC | that’s mostly been ironed out in recent kernels | Apr 08 13:11 |
| PeterKraus | i didn’t use XFS | Apr 08 13:11 |
| PeterKraus | at all | Apr 08 13:11 |
| DaemonFC | Linux 2.4 was a joke | Apr 08 13:11 |
| PeterKraus |  |
Apr 08 13:11 |
| schestowitz | Hey, iwmw. Thanks. | Apr 08 13:11 |
| DaemonFC | but it was enough to give XFS a bad name | Apr 08 13:11 |
| DaemonFC | |
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| iwmw | schestowitz: about what? | Apr 08 13:12 |
| iwmw | i didn’t seem to do anything here, just asking stupid questions | Apr 08 13:13 |
| PeterKraus | heh | Apr 08 13:13 |
| PeterKraus | i am a bit sad about the state of Reiser4 | Apr 08 13:13 |
| PeterKraus | i wanted to try it | Apr 08 13:13 |
| PeterKraus | but it seems most of the good ideas from it went into btrfs | Apr 08 13:14 |
| oiaohm | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFS… Really if you could work out how to get snapshotting into jfs it would be worth while keeping around. | Apr 08 13:14 |
| iwmw | yeah, none of you can be satisfied that’s already stable and working and is kinda enough | Apr 08 13:14 |
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| iwmw | you definitely need that latest builds of some unstable but promising fs | Apr 08 13:14 |
| PeterKraus | iwmw: i’m satisfied with my old trusty JFS |
Apr 08 13:14 |
| schestowitz | oiaohm: Konq is Lgpl AFAIK | Apr 08 13:14 |
| iwmw | PeterKraus: and i’m satisfied with ext3 | Apr 08 13:14 |
| oiaohm | I do data recovery. | Apr 08 13:15 |
| iwmw | i don’t screw my filesystems | Apr 08 13:15 |
| oiaohm | I get lots and lots people who do stupid things. | Apr 08 13:15 |
| oiaohm | Like deleting files then wanting them back. | Apr 08 13:15 |
| iwmw | yeah, they use windows | Apr 08 13:15 |
| oiaohm | So I want something that can run idiot proff. | Apr 08 13:16 |
| iwmw | it’s common thing in windows to delete something that you “didn’t want to” | Apr 08 13:16 |
| oiaohm | Yes under windows they empty the recycle bin as well. | Apr 08 13:16 |
| iwmw | i didn’t do that for 10 years already may be | Apr 08 13:16 |
| oiaohm | Best protection for them is snapshotting filesystems of some form. | Apr 08 13:16 |
| iwmw | yeah, weekly backuping | Apr 08 13:17 |
| oiaohm | and backups. | Apr 08 13:17 |
| iwmw | of /dev/random | Apr 08 13:17 |
| oiaohm | Just put it this way I have a lot higher standard on what a file system has to be. | Apr 08 13:17 |
| oiaohm | At the rate btrfs and nilfs are developing I might at long last have filesystems I like. | Apr 08 13:18 |
| oiaohm | ZFS almost made it. | Apr 08 13:18 |
| schestowitz | iwmw: I was catching up | Apr 08 13:19 |
| iwmw | XD | Apr 08 13:19 |
| MinceR | oiaohm: well, you could use LVM to make snapshots under JFS | Apr 08 13:20 |
| schestowitz | Didn’t H-P released a UNIX FS as gplv2 about 8 months ago?? | Apr 08 13:20 |
| schestowitz | No word since then… | Apr 08 13:20 |
| MinceR | i almost learned how to do that with LVM+ext3 but then btrfs was announced |
Apr 08 13:20 |
| MinceR | schestowitz: i faintly remember it | Apr 08 13:20 |
| oiaohm | Per file based is what I prefered to have. MinceR | Apr 08 13:20 |
| MinceR | but it was mentioned more as a source for snippets to implement some new fs for some reason | Apr 08 13:21 |
| schestowitz | Many FSs arrive just to die | Apr 08 13:21 |
| schestowitz | Lots of competition | Apr 08 13:21 |
| oiaohm | Its a lot lighter on disk access. | Apr 08 13:21 |
| oiaohm | and usage | Apr 08 13:21 |
| schestowitz | But LogFS for example is optimised for other purposes | Apr 08 13:21 |
| MinceR | is there an FS that can make a snapshot that isn’t of the whole volume? | Apr 08 13:21 |
| schestowitz | NTFS/FAT* are like Windows… one size fits all, implemented poorly. | Apr 08 13:21 |
| oiaohm | NTFS and FAT are both getting to the end of there useful lives. | Apr 08 13:23 |
| oiaohm | MinceR: nilfs does snapshots per file. | Apr 08 13:23 |
| MinceR | ic | Apr 08 13:24 |
| MinceR | i almost switched to ext3cow | Apr 08 13:24 |
| MinceR | then i noticed that you can’t delete snapshots. :/ | Apr 08 13:24 |
| oiaohm | Early nilfs you could not either. | Apr 08 13:25 |
| oiaohm | reason why nilfs2 appeared | Apr 08 13:25 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft will deliver WinFS | Apr 08 13:26 |
| schestowitz | …when Duken Nukem Forver is out | Apr 08 13:26 |
| iwmw | they said they are developing it XD | Apr 08 13:26 |
| schestowitz | And when Zune “f*ing kills” iPod | Apr 08 13:26 |
| schestowitz | I heard that Oracle wanted ZFS but went ahead of btrfs because of licensing | Apr 08 13:27 |
| MinceR | schestowitz: will WinFS be used on the Phantom console? :> | Apr 08 13:27 |
| schestowitz | Oracle not competes with Sun (mysql) | Apr 08 13:27 |
| oiaohm | btrfs snapshots are whole volume but iniside the same volume. | Apr 08 13:28 |
| MinceR | and will it ship with a Glaze3D GPU? :> | Apr 08 13:28 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: they said winfs won’t die | Apr 08 13:28 |
| MinceR | |
Apr 08 13:28 |
| schestowitz | They tossed it for people to play with | Apr 08 13:28 |
| oiaohm | So blocks can be shared so saving on disk space MinceR | Apr 08 13:28 |
| schestowitz | Like Longhorn | Apr 08 13:28 |
| schestowitz | And Singularity | Apr 08 13:28 |
| MinceR | well, something that wasn’t even born won’t die | Apr 08 13:28 |
| schestowitz | Will Singularity ever produce anythiing? | Apr 08 13:28 |
| schestowitz | No. | Apr 08 13:28 |
| schestowitz | They call it a “research project” | Apr 08 13:28 |
| iwmw | it’s better with torrents killing zune and ipod | Apr 08 13:29 |
| schestowitz | Codename for “failure” | Apr 08 13:29 |
| schestowitz | “We didn’t fail, it was just research” | Apr 08 13:29 |
| schestowitz | WinFS had some promise when they canned it | Apr 08 13:29 |
| schestowitz | The promise that something would come out of it | Apr 08 13:29 |
| oiaohm | WinFS had a problem. | Apr 08 13:29 |
| MinceR | that’s the kind of “research” they do and are so damn proud of | Apr 08 13:29 |
| oiaohm | They were trying to make historic NTFS act like a database. | Apr 08 13:29 |
| schestowitz | But the Windows kernel is apparently too complex even for 10s of 1000s of MS engineers to put WinFS-like functionality in | Apr 08 13:30 |
| MinceR | others call such things “failed projects” and call actual research research. | Apr 08 13:30 |
| schestowitz | Linux already has that | Apr 08 13:30 |
| schestowitz | Nothing ever came out of the WinFS thing since 2006 | Apr 08 13:30 |
| schestowitz | Nothing | Apr 08 13:30 |
| MinceR | has anyone even seen winfs work at all? | Apr 08 13:30 |
| schestowitz | Nada | Apr 08 13:30 |
| schestowitz | Zilch | Apr 08 13:30 |
| schestowitz | With longhorn, at least some people kicked it about | Apr 08 13:30 |
| oiaohm | Define work MinceR | Apr 08 13:30 |
| schestowitz | Then Microsoft issued a C&D | Apr 08 13:30 |
| *iwmw wants 8EiB hdd to create 8eib files | Apr 08 13:30 | |
| iwmw | with nilfs | Apr 08 13:31 |
| MinceR | oiaohm: store, retrieve and list files | Apr 08 13:31 |
| schestowitz | Singularity — no word, either | Apr 08 13:31 |
| oiaohm | If you call file create times make 50 times longer ok MinceR | Apr 08 13:31 |
| MinceR | (and to do a kind of query winfs was supposed to offer as new stuff) | Apr 08 13:31 |
| schestowitz | Singularity was shelved some months ago, then Mary Jo Foley and MS ilk blogged about it | Apr 08 13:31 |
| oiaohm | Same with file update times. | Apr 08 13:31 |
| schestowitz | Nothing since | Apr 08 13:31 |
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| schestowitz | It’s abandonware | Apr 08 13:31 |
| MinceR | i doubt that fits the definition of abandonware | Apr 08 13:32 |
| oiaohm | MS has only done minor things in the core of there OS. | Apr 08 13:32 |
| schestowitz | cause of the licence? | Apr 08 13:32 |
| schestowitz | Well, watch the licence. | Apr 08 13:32 |
| schestowitz | It’s abhorrent | Apr 08 13:32 |
| schestowitz | Something about being permitted only in academia | Apr 08 13:32 |
| schestowitz | Not for profit | Apr 08 13:32 |
| oiaohm | Linux is ahead in cpu support. | Apr 08 13:32 |
| schestowitz | Even the GPL is FAT better | Apr 08 13:32 |
| oiaohm | MS brags about getting up to 255 | Apr 08 13:32 |
| schestowitz | It encourages making money | Apr 08 13:32 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft is against it | Apr 08 13:33 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft OSS — for MS freetards | Apr 08 13:33 |
| MinceR | because it wasn’t ever released | Apr 08 13:33 |
| schestowitz | Linux does 2^12 CPUs | Apr 08 13:33 |
| MinceR | abandonware is old sw that was released (and sold, if applicable) for a while and the owner stopped caring since, so it’s unobtainable from them now, and so other groups are spreading it | Apr 08 13:34 |
| iwmw | wow | Apr 08 13:34 |
| schestowitz | MS does 2^8 you say, but I think more, oiaohm | Apr 08 13:34 |
| oiaohm | MS clusters above that. | Apr 08 13:34 |
| schestowitz | oiaohm: no way for Microsoft to win this | Apr 08 13:34 |
| schestowitz | Need inspired development | Apr 08 13:34 |
| schestowitz | Big (>1000 cpus) machines run Linux | Apr 08 13:34 |
| schestowitz | Top500 runs Linux 94% of the time, so IBM keeps paying for development | Apr 08 13:35 |
| oiaohm | And 4096 machines are starting to look small too. | Apr 08 13:35 |
| schestowitz | People like T’so | Apr 08 13:35 |
| oiaohm | There are companies who want 2^16 or greater core numbers. | Apr 08 13:36 |
| oiaohm | In equal to a single system. | Apr 08 13:36 |
| oiaohm | Call it a never be done thing. | Apr 08 13:36 |
| schestowitz | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegene “# A large number of nodes (scalable in increments of 1024 up to at least 65,536)” | Apr 08 13:36 |
| schestowitz | That’s 2^16 | Apr 08 13:37 |
| schestowitz | (or more0 | Apr 08 13:37 |
| oiaohm | When you know the numbers 255 in single system not clustered is not even a computer in supper computer users minds. | Apr 08 13:38 |
| iwmw | supercomputer users are not users | Apr 08 13:38 |
| schestowitz | Clients | Apr 08 13:38 |
| iwmw | with terminals | Apr 08 13:38 |
| oiaohm | I was refering to the company as the user. | Apr 08 13:39 |
| schestowitz | Weather forecasts.. | Apr 08 13:39 |
| trmanco | 2^16 cpus,,,,, insane | Apr 08 13:40 |
| iwmw | oh… seers are quite enough to predict the weather | Apr 08 13:40 |
| *trmanco wipes his mouth | Apr 08 13:40 | |
| iwmw | they are much cheaper | Apr 08 13:40 |
| oiaohm | There are plans to build bigger trmanco | Apr 08 13:40 |
| trmanco | wow | Apr 08 13:40 |
| oiaohm | Yes 2^16 appears as a single machine from the running OS. | Apr 08 13:41 |
| trmanco | I still live with, lets see now | Apr 08 13:41 |
| trmanco | 1 | Apr 08 13:41 |
| oiaohm | Is kinda scary. | Apr 08 13:41 |
| oiaohm | Then cluster them. | Apr 08 13:41 |
| oiaohm | You have to remember 4096 basically fits in a bar fridge. | Apr 08 13:41 |
| iwmw | why would you want to cluster 2^16 cpus? | Apr 08 13:41 |
| oiaohm | It gets worse. | Apr 08 13:42 |
| oiaohm | They are thinking about hybred gpu cpu at 2^16 size. | Apr 08 13:42 |
| iwmw | perverts | Apr 08 13:42 |
| trmanco |  |
Apr 08 13:42 |
| iwmw | it’s intel’s dream | Apr 08 13:42 |
| iwmw | to run free raytracing library on it | Apr 08 13:43 |
| oiaohm | GPU can be used for general data processing. | Apr 08 13:43 |
| iwmw | they didn’t even wanna implement it themselves | Apr 08 13:43 |
| oiaohm | They are very good at processing dna and other things. | Apr 08 13:43 |
| iwmw | dna processing… what do you want to process in there? | Apr 08 13:43 |
| oiaohm | Maybe it might be big enough to computer replicate a human cell. | Apr 08 13:43 |
| trmanco | pipelining? | Apr 08 13:44 |
| trmanco | something that cpu’s don’t have… i think | Apr 08 13:44 |
| iwmw | what? | Apr 08 13:44 |
| oiaohm | Where is the fasterst data processing chip in most computers? | Apr 08 13:45 |
| trmanco | gpu? | Apr 08 13:45 |
| iwmw | gpu | Apr 08 13:45 |
| iwmw | lol | Apr 08 13:45 |
| oiaohm | GPU by mills | Apr 08 13:45 |
| trmanco | I’ve read this somewhere | Apr 08 13:45 |
| trmanco | long time ago | Apr 08 13:45 |
| oiaohm | Most can simply chew threw 16 times as much as the fastest cpu. | Apr 08 13:45 |
| iwmw | yeah, but they chew in a very limited way | Apr 08 13:46 |
| trmanco | people would use there gpu for the distributed computing thing | Apr 08 13:46 |
| iwmw | even though they do it much faster | Apr 08 13:46 |
| trmanco | stuff like folding | Apr 08 13:46 |
| oiaohm | Yep. | Apr 08 13:46 |
| oiaohm | folding predicting dna. | Apr 08 13:46 |
| trmanco | yeah, that stuff | Apr 08 13:46 |
| oiaohm | Very complex operation. | Apr 08 13:46 |
| *iwmw suspects that gpu is not suited for that stuff | Apr 08 13:47 | |
| iwmw | gpus don’t support complex operations | Apr 08 13:47 |
| oiaohm | Folding home project showed it clear that it is. | Apr 08 13:47 |
| oiaohm | DNA is really not that complex. | Apr 08 13:47 |
| oiaohm | You have a crap load of it. | Apr 08 13:47 |
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| oiaohm | And somewhere in there is the bit of information you need. | Apr 08 13:48 |
| iwmw | yeah, plenty of dna spam | Apr 08 13:48 |
| DaemonFC | why would I give my CPU time | Apr 08 13:48 |
| DaemonFC | to a drug company | Apr 08 13:48 |
| DaemonFC | for free? | Apr 08 13:48 |
| iwmw | some people like to spam with dna info | Apr 08 13:48 |
| oiaohm | Viruses | Apr 08 13:48 |
| zer0c00l | Hugh Jackman Heartbroken by Wolverine Leak:http://www.people.com/people/arti… |
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| iwmw | oiaohm: no, it’s pr0n | Apr 08 13:49 |
| oiaohm | There are a lot of trapped viruses in your dna iwmw | Apr 08 13:49 |
| iwmw | so every other adult male should be put to jail | Apr 08 13:49 |
| trmanco | http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bi… | Apr 08 13:50 |
| iwmw | hm… something’s really wrong about ati-nvidia | Apr 08 13:52 |
| zer0c00l | trmanco, what is that? | Apr 08 13:52 |
| trmanco | zer0c00l, stats from Standford’s folding thing | Apr 08 13:53 |
| trmanco | Stanford’s* | Apr 08 13:53 |
| oiaohm | Great the most usless addition exofs | Apr 08 13:53 |
| oiaohm | You need a object based storage back end to use it. | Apr 08 13:54 |
| iwmw | zer0c00l: it’s just a statistics on how many hardware participated in computing distributed stuff | Apr 08 13:55 |
| zer0c00l | |
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| zer0c00l | Folding@home is a distributed computing project — people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. | Apr 08 13:57 |
| zer0c00l | cool | Apr 08 13:57 |
| iwmw | yeah… they also pay for electricity that this compy consumes | Apr 08 13:57 |
| iwmw | and after their gpus work 24/30 the latter are almost dead | Apr 08 13:58 |
| oiaohm | tomoyo secuirty frame work is in. | Apr 08 14:02 |
| oiaohm | That makes 3 to choose from in the default kernel. | Apr 08 14:02 |
| DaemonFC | Tomoyo………You mean the one that is only documented well in Japanese | Apr 08 14:02 |
| DaemonFC | and only shipping with TurboLinux and Mandriva | Apr 08 14:02 |
| DaemonFC | for some messed up reason, Ubuntu is using AppArmor | Apr 08 14:03 |
| oiaohm | They are working on translating to english. | Apr 08 14:04 |
| DaemonFC | personally I’d rather they didn’t use anything | Apr 08 14:04 |
| DaemonFC | if they’re going to damage the OS, why does it have to be over something so easy to bypass? | Apr 08 14:04 |
| oiaohm | Tomoyo is not easy to bypass. | Apr 08 14:04 |
| DaemonFC | all MAC damages the OS | Apr 08 14:05 |
| DaemonFC | and makes it more difficult to use | Apr 08 14:05 |
| oiaohm | 2.6.30 and up has file based filtering for mac but apparmor has not be updated yet to use it. | Apr 08 14:05 |
| oiaohm | People can say that about all secuirty settings DaemonFC | Apr 08 14:05 |
| DaemonFC | the ones that don’t fuck you over with benign tasks (SELinux) are completely useless (AppArmor) | Apr 08 14:06 |
| oiaohm | Wrong user settings can get in way too so we should do away with multiable users. | Apr 08 14:06 |
| oiaohm | That is basically your logic. | Apr 08 14:06 |
| oiaohm | MAC should exist in a OS. | Apr 08 14:06 |
| DaemonFC | no, I just say don’t force it on people that never asked for it | Apr 08 14:06 |
| oiaohm | But it should not be a bug bear to fix either. | Apr 08 14:06 |
| DaemonFC | like I said | Apr 08 14:07 |
| DaemonFC | worthless (AppArmor) | Apr 08 14:07 |
| DaemonFC | gulag (SELinux) | Apr 08 14:07 |
| oiaohm | None is not a solution. | Apr 08 14:07 |
| oiaohm | Tomoyo is more friendly other than its manual. | Apr 08 14:07 |
| oiaohm | Not being english. | Apr 08 14:08 |
| oiaohm | smack is also more friendly than selinux. | Apr 08 14:08 |
| oiaohm | Ubuntu has the option of three. Apparmor smack and selinux. | Apr 08 14:08 |
| DaemonFC | yeah, and they’re making the system depend more on AppArmor lately | Apr 08 14:09 |
| oiaohm | If apparmor gets fixed the way Tomoyo is for file based it will become secure. | Apr 08 14:09 |
| oiaohm | It the IF bit. As far as I know no one is working on apparmor. | Apr 08 14:10 |
| oiaohm | Lead developer for appamor works with smack these days. | Apr 08 14:10 |
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| Omar87 | Hi | Apr 08 14:11 |
| iwmw | is selinux kinda useless or useless only for most of users? | Apr 08 14:11 |
| iwmw | can a user be forced to run everything through selinux/ | Apr 08 14:12 |
| oiaohm | Selinux is not useless. More can be annoying like a incorrectly set firewall. | Apr 08 14:12 |
| oiaohm | Only problem with Selinux is that it configuration files are not what you call easy reading. | Apr 08 14:13 |
| DaemonFC | AVC Denial! You tried to open your text editor | Apr 08 14:13 |
| DaemonFC | AVC Denial: You tried to open a program in Wine | Apr 08 14:13 |
| DaemonFC | AVC Denial: You attempted to log in! | Apr 08 14:13 |
| oiaohm | Yep set wrong. | Apr 08 14:13 |
| oiaohm | Annoying as hell. | Apr 08 14:13 |
| DaemonFC | AVC Denial: Just for the hell of it! | Apr 08 14:13 |
| iwmw | from what i read you can run anything leaving selinux behind | Apr 08 14:14 |
| oiaohm | No there is always a trigger. | Apr 08 14:14 |
| iwmw | AVC Denial: You powered up the computer | Apr 08 14:14 |
| oiaohm | You can set allow everything rules in selinux. | Apr 08 14:14 |
| oiaohm | Its highly flexable. | Apr 08 14:15 |
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| oiaohm | selinux is also shows you that root user is virtual. | Apr 08 14:15 |
| oiaohm | Ie selinux can even block root users from being able to do anything. | Apr 08 14:15 |
| oiaohm | If set wrong. | Apr 08 14:15 |
| oiaohm | Correctly set selinux just works away in background without bothering you. | Apr 08 14:16 |
| iwmw | hm… restricted root user… | Apr 08 14:16 |
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| oiaohm | Even without selinux you can built a linux kernel where root user is powerless. | Apr 08 14:16 |
| oiaohm | Only thing that gives root user power is capiblities set on the user. | Apr 08 14:17 |
| DaemonFC | I pretty much just untick most things where they say “If in doubt, answer N” | Apr 08 14:17 |
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| iwmw | what’s the main reason to use selinux? | Apr 08 14:17 |
| DaemonFC | all the obvious crap like “Parallel Port Support” | Apr 08 14:17 |
| DaemonFC | debugging crap | Apr 08 14:17 |
| DaemonFC | legacy crap | Apr 08 14:17 |
| oiaohm | selinux basically put sandboxs around applications. | Apr 08 14:18 |
| DaemonFC | anything marked deprecated | Apr 08 14:18 |
| oiaohm | and services. | Apr 08 14:18 |
| iwmw | oiaohm: but what’s the reason to do so? | Apr 08 14:18 |
| oiaohm | Reducing the damage they can do if they get exploited. | Apr 08 14:18 |
| iwmw | aww | Apr 08 14:18 |
| iwmw | that’s pretty paranoid | Apr 08 14:18 |
| DaemonFC | tickless kernel is the most damnable thing ever | Apr 08 14:18 |
| DaemonFC | |
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| oiaohm | Do you run a virus scanner iwmw | Apr 08 14:18 |
| iwmw | no | Apr 08 14:19 |
| oiaohm | On windows. | Apr 08 14:19 |
| iwmw | oh, i run it once a 2 years | Apr 08 14:19 |
| iwmw | some very free scanner | Apr 08 14:19 |
| oiaohm | Mostly because under windows there are that many threats you have to. | Apr 08 14:19 |
| iwmw | the last i ran it was a week ago | Apr 08 14:19 |
| Eruaran | Our ClarkConnect server has a virus scanner | Apr 08 14:19 |
| Eruaran | But we leave it off | Apr 08 14:19 |
| iwmw | so i’m free for 2 years | Apr 08 14:20 |
| oiaohm | For linux there are not that many viruses. | Apr 08 14:20 |
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