Posts by Jamie Jones

Production-ready ZFS offers cosmic-scale storage for Linux

Re: @ Jamie Jones

"I was sweeping the "GPL - bah!" side under "maybe idealist", though calling out separately "maybe pragmatic" would have been clearer."

Oh, I see now. Sorry for being (slightly) sarcastic in my reply!

From the wiki link:

"....that the engineers who had written the Solaris kernel requested that the license of OpenSolaris be GPL-incompatible. "Mozilla was selected partially because it is GPL incompatible. That was part of the design when they released OpenSolaris...."

Assuming that is correct, that may again have been because they didn't like the inherent rules of the GPL rather than "It's GPL,ARRRGH"

But I see your point. There are fanbois on both sides :)

Re: > scrawl "except for ZFS which is ok so far as we're concerned" somewhere in the middle of GPL2

"Is llvm-as and llvm-ld/link usable instead, in a clang-based work-flow, or have they got rid of them completely now ?"

I'm not sure. There's some chatter here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-June/025558.html

Re: > scrawl "except for ZFS which is ok so far as we're concerned" somewhere in the middle of GPL2

"Afaik there is no bsd licensed assembler or linker. clang isn't enough if it is still using binutils.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/"

True, and thanks for the link. I don't know when "ld" and "as" will be ready, but as your link points out, it's on the cards, and the intention is to have them done in time for 10.X

https://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDToolchain

Re: > scrawl "except for ZFS which is ok so far as we're concerned" somewhere in the middle of GPL2

"with Sun electing to deliberately make it incompatible with GPL, for reasons apparently obscure (maybe idealist, maybe corporate screwing around)"

Couldn't it occur to you that maybe - just maybe - Sun, like others, do not like the GPL?

FreeBSD is also actively removing all GPL stuff from the base ( I think replacing gcc with clang in version 10.X is the last thing on the list)

Congress plans to make computer crime law much, much worse

Re: Computers legally are Sidewalks, not bedrooms

explain your downvote!

Re: Computers legally are Sidewalks, not bedrooms

" Computers are like sidewalks. No one can construct or otherwise emplace anything on your sidewalk, so to that extent, it belongs to you. They can't dig a hole in it either. But mainly sidewalk law says that if it is your sidewalk, you are on the hook if anything hazardous about it damages anyone else."

Hence the mad law that says you are responsible for clearing up the snow on the pavement ("sidewalk") outside your house.

In the UK, all those responsibilities fall on the local councils

Public cloud will grow when experienced IT folks DIE

Re: Reality Check

Don't forget, "outsourcing" has been going on for some time already, where the companies still host their own servers, but the 'outsourcing company' looks after them via remote links. Surely this has the benefits of 'the cloud' but without the drawbacks,

I am NOT a PC repair man. I will NOT get your iPad working

Re: Community?

Some of the replies and downvotes prove my point.

Otherwise, yeah, true, there is 'taking the piss', and how well you know your neighbours, but the reason I asked "where you live" is that when I was living in London for 10 years, I didn't even know what profession my neighbours had.

Here (South Wales) a family member recently had suspected heart problems, and as my car was out of action at the time, we asked neighbours for a lift. One said "why don't you go and see X" [ one of the doctors ] - she then took it on herself to call X, who called straight around, did some tests and eventually all was ok. When he left, he said (paraphrased) "If you EVER have any issue, any time, day or night, then always call on me first" - I know the other doctor and paramedic would also be as happy to help.

I'm sorry that this is so alien to some of you that you had to downvote me, but I knew that would happen, because living in a city, I met loads of people just like you.

Community?

I'd be interested to know where you lot live, and how close inside/to the city you are.

I'll gladly help out my neighbours with computing problems... But then, 2 of my neighbours are doctors, and one a paramedic.. I am glad they don't have your ethos!

Living in the middle of a big city? Your broadband may still be crap

Re: Four Yorkshiremen

> I used to dream of having two cups...

You only have one cup? I hear there's a video on youtube about that...

Software glitch WIPES OUT listings of 10,000 eBay sellers

Re: Effectively another "cloud" failure.

"Like one company that had a 300 page DR manual that was supposed to be issued to staff in the event of a disaster. Come the disaster, a murder in the estate their office was in, they discovered the only copies were kept in the office the police had sealed off and no one was allowed in.

I knew of a company that did rigorous backups, and verifications/test restores of those backups, and housed them in a to-spec fire safe.

The building (including their office) went up in a big bang following an IRA bomb. It turned out that the backup tapes were fine.... but it was about 3 weeks before police/forensics/safety officers would let anyone in to retrieve them!

Re: Restore not so simple

"Depending on the nature of the backups, a simple restore may not be an option, since that would then wipe out all the stuff that's been changed since the backup. It's more of a "restore somewhere else, and merge the old with the new".

I would say that the majority of restores work that way - unless you totally close down the system whilst doing the restore.

In my last job, when we've had to restore due to broken disks etc,., the users still want to be able to write/read *new* email / documents etc. They don't want to be without access to the system for 5 hours or more.

Yep, I think 'the goalposts' move in the majority of data restores

Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system

Re: @tempemeaty - @China always has their own way, perhaps that's a positive

@AC, you realise you just neatly made 'tempemeaty"'s point?

Dongle smut Twitstorm claims second scalp

What a rant!

Did you read her blog page? Obsessive, much?

They were stupid childish idiots, she didn't need write a thesis about it. She's done 'womens rights' more harm than good.

p.s. What was William Riker from Star Trek: TNG doing at a python conference anyway?

NASA chief: Earth is DOOMED if we spot a big asteroid at short notice

Re: Just warp them through

"Hurry up Carter. I can see my house from here"

@ShelLuser Re: Why one country ?

I agree. I never thought I'd hear myself saying this about American policy, but, yes, other countries should be contributing to the NASA project too

300 UK domains pilfered, MASSIVE security lapse blamed

Re: Bear in mind who they are

FTP? That may be your problem right there.. Don't suppose you were using telnet for interactive access also?

Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 internet map

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Stupid flame wars, ridiculous analogies... (we even had a car analogy in a recent posting)

All we need now is for people to not bother reading the articles and the comments section of El Reg will be just like slashdot!

Huawei USB modems vulnerable

mi-fi

Does this affect the mi-fi too?

Who's riddling Windows PCs with gaping holes? It's your crApps

Re: with different permissions "modify files outside own directory" etc

FreeBSD, you mean?

Infinite loop: the Sinclair ZX Microdrive story

@Crisp: Re: These were great

awwwwww, how about this? http://www.encho.me/antattack/

$1.5k per complaint. Up to 1,900 gTLDs. Brand owners, prepare to PAY

Re: Cluster...

@pylets : I'd *really* like to see that happen.. Of course there have been alternate root exercises before, but if properly organised, and ready to go when the icann mess goes tits-up, there may be a real chance to avert this "cluster ...."

UK's £500m web dole queue project director replaced after JUST 4 months

That's your problem right there:

" moved sideways "

Amazon tries to shut .book in face of authors, publishers

Heirarchies......

"The potential for abuse seems limitless," argued Authors Guild president Scott Turrow."

..... as all El Reg readers have been saying since this was first announced.

How will adverts (in print or vision) for lesser known companies list their website address? Seeing "mydomain.com" . ".co.uk" etc. makes it obvious.

You'd end up with them saying stuff like "website address: mydomain" or "http://mydomain/"

"mydomain.com" is cleaner, and instantly recognised

hierarchies

'Wireless charging' in Galaxy S4 will betray Samsung's best pal

Re: Car Chair?

"High chair."

I'm in the UK and I would use "car seat" not "car chair" for similar reasons

@AC 23:22 Re: I think you mean to say it can be debated if porn was the decisive factor.

."Mass debated you mean?"

Ooooh, we have a cunning linguist in our midst!

Deja vote: Iran blocks VPN use ahead of elections

Re: shock

"'I'm a dinner jacket'"

"After dinner chat" surely..... Or is a relation I've not heard of running?

The supercomputers LIED: UK rainfall is rising, but won't drown our phones

Re: Jam Jars in the sea?

Damn. It's so obvious now you mention it!

Jam Jars in the sea?

How do they manage to get data for the sea areas?

LHC spots mesons flipping between matter and antimatter

Errrrrrrr

Could you please redo this article as a series of photos, using playmobil characters?

Trying to make sense of this drove me quarkers

/gets coat

Google offers limited data on National Security Letters

"land of the free"

etc.

Facebook builds 'McDipper' – memcached for flash

McDipper

Hark! I hear the distant rumblings of a gavel (Anyone think of a better collective noun for lawyers?) of Mcdonalds lawyers coming.

Twenty classic arcade games

Re: This is an outrage

> No Afterburner on the list? For shame, sir!

I managed to read this post 8 times, due to the fact the pages had the "top scored posts" at the bottom of every bloody page.

*why*? Even on single pages reading a "top reply" first may be senseless if you don't see what it's a reply to,

If it ain't broke, don't break it :(

REG FAIL

Google open sources very slow compression algorithm

Re: zlib compression

"@jamie jones

bzip is not "inflate" compatible on the decompression end."

Thanks for pointing that out, I missed the bit about it being compatible with current decoders.

Benchmarks....

No testing of bzip2 or xz in the benchmarks...

Big Blighty telcos ordered to block three BitTorrent search sites

"Have they not learnt from the proliferation of Pirate Bay proxies that are out there?"

Well, it's been 10 hours since this article was posted, so I presume proxies for these three specific sites have already been set up!

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Barbra Streisand!

Look out! Peak wind is coming, warns top Harvard physicist

@contents may vary: Re: One question I have always asked myself

ooops, I see you answered my question before i asked it *blush*

Re: One question I have always asked myself

One thing I've been curious of, is what happens to the wind without wind turbines. I'd expect, that if wind hit a mountain etc., some of the energy would be absorbed as heat.

I may be totally wrong here, so feel free to correct me, but wouldn't this mean that loads of turbines would reduce global temperature because they'd be removing frictional heat otherwise caused by the wind?

North Korean citizens told: Socialist haircuts are a thing... go get some

"This is the reality of the socialist dream"

This is the what Americans think is the reality of the socialist dream

There. Fixed it for you.

The damn pinko commie/socialist propaganda in America.. Most Americans wouldn't recognise a true socialist or have a clue what socialism stands for. And the irony is that most Americans that fall into this bracket are the ones that benefit most from some of the American "socialist" laws,,,,,, Medicare, state aid etc,

US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'

Re: Entirely Typical

"How's that secular, gun-free utopia that is Britain working out for you?"

Also great for me too..

But here's another thing about many Americans. If you dare criticise anything to do with America, they automatically assume that we are saying that Britain is "best". It's that jingoistic attitude they are brought up with, such as their sickenly over-patriotic allegiance to the flag crap they do everyday in school.

I think life in Britain is much better than life in America for many different reasons (I have many close American friends). Do I think Britain is the best place to live?

No - I am ready to admit and confront our problems, and not bury my head in the sand,. Secondly, I'm not arrogant to make such a statement when I know very little about the vast majority of countries in the world.

BBC World Service in a jam as China blocks broadcasts

Don't forget Freeview

"The World Service has over 230 million listeners globally but is also broadcast on AM, FM and digital satellite and cable. ®

..... and terrestrial Freeview on channel 710, and I'd guess on DAB too....

Review: Britain's 4G smartphones

Re: 8Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up HSPA+ speeds

I just got 9738kbps down and 3389kbps via mi-fi on three, and have also seen it higher than that.

£61 versus my current £22 a month? I don't think so!

Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant

Re: @Jamie Jones - UEFI

Anonymous coward wrote: "ALSA and udev problems does not entitle Microsoft to prevent every other OS from booting on a general purpose PC. What's your point here ?

I went off on a tangent a bit, about how some people who generally want openness really mean "so it will work with Linux", but I agree with your comment above. The point is, I'm sure that if the UEFI issue *didn't* affect Linux distros, there would hardly be a whimper from many of the Linux people about openness and the freedom to run *any* OS.

Altes Schlactross wrote: "Mr Jones is just a $hill."

I never normally reply to people who use "$" instead of "s". It smacks of immaturity. But thanks for helping prove my point - just because I dare criticise something to do with Linux, I'm automatically an MS groupie?

I use Linux, but it's not my primary system. Apart from fixing friends computers, I haven't used any MS products in over 10 years. (And no, this doesn't mean I'm an Apple shill either) - Thank-you for your response, though!

Re: UEFI

" All I ever want in a BIOS is hardware initialization and a boot menu that can load ELF images from ext2/3/4

..... and all MS supposedly want is hardware that can load MS images....

So how are you any different?

What about the people who want to boot ufs2 or something else for that matter...

People often moan that Americans think the world consists of "America" and "Not America"

Unfortunately, many Linux people think the OS world consists of "Linux" and "Not Linux"

Linux comes out with ALSA (with the L actually standing for 'Linux)' simply because they couldn't get right their version of OSS (mixing/latency problems which are non-existent in other OSs).

devfs doesn't work properly, but instead of fixing it, they come up with udev : http://linux.about.com/od/srl_howto/a/hwtsrl12t07.htm

Sigh. Linux may be open-source, but you have to laugh when the linux people say how 'free' and portable Linux stuff is when compared to MS windows, but "embrace and extend" can often be applied to Linux/GNU and apps too

Microsoft secure Azure Storage goes down WORLDWIDE

Re: SSL Certs - the new single point of failure

"Like the fire that destroyed a company HQ taking all its data with it, and the offsite tapes turned out to be blank.."

I used to work for a company that was affected by the IRA Manchester bomb around 20ish years ago. Equipment was trashed, but the backups were in the firesafe, and were fine..... It just took over 2 weeks before police/forensics/health and safety would let anyone in to get them!

In the meantime, all the disaster recovery team could do was rebuild the server (as new) and create new accounts for the staff.....

4G in the UK? Why the smart money still says 'Meh'

@Tony Chandler Re: 4G/3G

Similar here.

Speedtest,net just showed my three "mi-fi" giving me 9.73Mbs down, and 2.67Mbs up. Although 'down' is not as fast as I get at home (16Mbs) it's more than good enough.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2526453324.png

So you won a 4G licence. The Freeview interference squad wants a word

Re: Sigh

You wouldn't need an 8 port LNB. You'd only need 4 ports. One each for vertical high band, vertical low band, horizontal high band, and horizontal low band.

Using a special splitter box, these 4 inputs can drive any number of satellite receivers.

Re: Sigh

Wenvoe transmits channel 4 and s4c

Clarkson: 'I WILL find and KILL the spammers who hacked me'

Re: Stupid little boy

Sigh.... Talking about age, I remember a time where the comments section on El Reg wasn't like reading slashdot comments.....