Ask Moshe Bar about [your choice here] 473
Moshe Bar is (pick one) 1. A Linux kernel developer; 2. A motorcycle enthusiast; 3. The primary openMosix maintainer; 4. A respected Linux device driver writer; 5. Author of several books and many articles about Linux; 6. Newly married. 7. A Talmudic scholar; 8. All of the above. The correct answer is 8, and since in addition to (or perhaps because of) all this Moshe is a popular guy, this interview is here by reader request. (Yes, we take interview requests; send them to robin@roblimo.com.) Ask Moshe whatever you wish, one question per post. We'll send him 10 of the highest moderated questions and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us.
Bikes (Score:3, Interesting)
The name, innit. He's a poser. (Score:2)
If you've actually ridden Harleys and other bikes you'll know that Harley Davidson survive pretty much solely by marketing their name and selling you the Harley Davidson lifestyle.
Cruisers are really just toys to be brought out on sunny Sundays to pose round town.
Re:Bikes (Score:2, Insightful)
I am a cruiser rider, so I will limit my reply to thoes types of bikes.
the Heavier jappaneese cruisers are quite nice. I am fond of the Yammaha road-star Silverado, they come with a decent amount of chrome and good accessories. They also cost around 11-12 grand. The low-rider, which is a beautiful harley, comes with far more chrome although less accessories and costs a bit more at 14-15 grand, this is not even the cheepest harley, the cheepest electra-glide is even less expensive and comes with hard luggage. It is an excelent deal if you are looking for a bike that can do reasonably long trips in comfort.
'Thats realy the purpose of the harley... long rides in relative comfort. I know thats why I choose mine. Style is another consideration, as is ease of maintenence. I do a little work on my bike, and I am learning to take on larger and larger jobs. When I owned a japanees bike (my starter bikes, which all needed work at some point) I found that it was very difficult to work on the engines, they were cramped and not very serviceable, the harley, by comparison, has been much easier.
the choice between harley and BMW is a more difficult one, I guess for me it did come down to styling, and ride position. I like BMWs but the harley was the way I wanted to go.
Re:Bikes (Score:2, Interesting)
I have never liked the Valkarie. In addition I realy dont like the styling on any of the newer honda cruisers. for styling reasons alone, I would buy a V-star or Road-star before a recent model honda. Its just my opinion of course, other people might love them, but they just dont do it for me.
I used to like the Kawasakis but for reasons unknown the look of the 1500 cruiser do much for me anymore, and I think the roadstar is a better deal.
The reason I dont buy an old bike is that I dont have the time or skill to do a full rebuild on a bike... The new 88 ci engine from harley is a beautiful piece of work, and it will provide me with all the hours of riding that I desire this summer, and this winter I can tear it down and get my hands dirty.
thats what I am looking for in a bike, and the harley delivered it nicely. It also helps that I got a good deal on a bareley broken in 2000 FXDL (under 5k miles) with plenty of extras on it, most of which were things I would have spent money on anyway.
Dont get me wrong. I hold no ill will to japaneese bikes (even sport bikes, I kind of like them actualy) and you definitely pay a premium for the harley davidson, but for me, it was worth the money to get the exact bike I wanted. hopefully, with proper maintinence I will be riding it for years to come.
Nah, you want a nice little speed triple you do. (Score:2)
Most important question. (Score:4, Redundant)
Re:Most important question. (Score:5, Interesting)
You do all that and have a wife? How can you possibly find time for her? Does she want more time? Does she kernel hack with you?
Sidenote: Before people bitch about the 'one question rule', all of it could be slurped up into one question, I just broke it down so that its more readable
Re:Most important question. (Score:2)
That said, I find I don't have enough time in the day to do everything I want. Work during the day and evenings (depending on when I get up, how much work I have, etc). If I'm not working while I'm home, I try and either get some 3d graphics stuff done, or more traditional art. I also try and have a social life. I find that there just isn't enough time to get all the stuff done I'd like.
I could probably stand to spend less time surfing around sites that are pretty trivial, but that probably only takes up about an hour of the day, so I can't see that really giving me all that much more time.
On a side note, I find the moderation of my post, and of the parent post right after this thread funny. How can mine be redundant when it was posted a minute earlier? I know, I know, no use in talking about it, but the moderators are for sure on crack.
Re:Most important question. (Score:2, Funny)
*snort*
You don't have kids, do you?
Time (Score:2, Interesting)
As a device-driver writer... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:As a device-driver writer... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:As a device-driver writer... (Score:2)
Open Source (Score:3, Interesting)
Also, Do yout think that Germany's swich to open source will have a signifigant impact on the open source community and/or IT in general?
I have only one question: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I have only one question: (Score:2)
Or a brother named Hershel?
(I crack myself up)
openMosix (Score:4, Interesting)
Getting started as a kernel developer... (Score:3, Interesting)
With that in mind, are there any suggestions you could make to those of us interested in kernel development, on how to get started?
Thanks up front.
Re:Getting started as a kernel developer... (Score:3, Informative)
It's made for people just like you. *nod*
Talmud and Technology (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Talmud and Technology (Score:2)
> they apply to current/near-future technology?
On a related question about Jewish teachings and technology, I can't seem to get my Golem to work. I've mixed the four elements in the proper proportions and recited all the usual kabbalistic incantations, but the damn thing just won't come to life and smite my enemies.
So, what's the proper way to compile a Golem?
;-)
Re:Talmud and Technology (Score:3, Funny)
You've got the latest Shem and incantations, right? You can download patches by writing the correct command line and putting it under your pillow while you sleep. This is important, as some Eastern European developers have reported various crashes due to command conflicts. You have to be really careful here.
(There have also been some embarrassing incidents involving denial-of-service attacks with commands from untrusted users - this has been known to cause flooding)
So, what's the proper way to compile a Golem?
The HOWTO is way too long to list here, but I'll give you this tip: Make sure your Perl is up to date.
-- Yoz
Shut up, meathead (Score:2)
Re:Shut up, meathead (Score:2)
The Islamic world has had the divorce-via-email thing crop up at least twice that I know of.
The Christian world seems mostly concerned with the Internet as carrier of moral decay.
However, I have *NOT* heard of any recent discussion of similar religion-meets-technology from the Jewish world (at least not since "Is it OK to use a telephone on the Sabbath?")
Seemed like Moshe would be *the* person to ask.
Re:Shut up, meathead (Score:2)
However, I have *NOT* heard of any recent discussion of similar religion-meets-technology from the Jewish world (at least not since "Is it OK to use a telephone on the Sabbath?")
How about Jewwwwws Innnnnn Spaaaaaaace [nationalpost.com]?
Re:Talmud is JEWISH (Score:2)
The Haddath (sayings of the Prophet) would be closer in spirit to the Talmud.
-jon
Re:Talmud is JEWISH (Score:2)
That's incredible. Thanks for reinforcing all the Orthodox stereotypes of Reform Jews.
Re:Talmud and Technology (Score:2)
Different social groups (Score:5, Interesting)
Favorite historical figure.. (Score:2, Interesting)
What is your favorite Isreali historical figure?
BitKeeper (Score:5, Offtopic)
Re:BitKeeper (Score:2)
Congratulations (Score:2)
Popularity, Ease, Reliability Threshhold (Score:2)
Do you see Mosix becoming so easy to use, so powerful and so fault-tolerant that cheap clusters of commodity boxes will soon displace big proprietary SMP machines?
And, just to be totally random, have you found that your Talmudic studies have made you, as a person interfacing with other people, more easy to use, powerful, and fault-tolerant?
Re:Popularity, Ease, Reliability Threshhold (Score:2)
First, It's openMosix, not Mosix. Mosix is the legacy version that may not be open source at some point in the near future.
Secondly, clusters are no where near SMP in as far as what problems they are applicable to. Maybe if we get some sort of high speed commodity interconnect that lets us have shared memory between nodes, then we will be gettting somewhere, otherwise, clusters work on mostly CPU bound problems that don't rely on tons of shared communication between nodes.
His Byte Column (Score:2)
Your new motorcycle (Score:2)
Memory pooling. (Score:2)
Linux and Jewish Law (Score:5, Interesting)
By the same doctrine, computerized systems can be booted on the day before the sabbath and then put on an autmatic mode during the sabbath. During that time, a sysadmin can address important issues as they creep up, just like he would add a log to the fire he started before the sabbath.
Right? Please correct me if I'm not.
Okay, this said, is Linux kosher for the sabbath? Is it permissable to say, perform a checkfs during the holy day? What tasks can you perform and what tasks can't you?
Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:3, Interesting)
It's more that electricity is classified as 'fire' and electrical devices are subject to the laws governing fire. That is the case when the electricity has the potential to create a fire, because it creates heat or sparks. Solid-state electronics and LEDs are a different matter, but that's getting into some obscure rulings and in practice almost all electrical devices are treated as fire.
but the way I understand it, a fire cannot be started on the sabbath, but a fire can be maintained during the sabbath...just like he would add a log to the fire he started before the sabbath.
No, the fire can't be touched at all, except for reasons of safety. On holidays, which have a weaker set of restrictions, the fire can be tended.
By the same doctrine, computerized systems can be booted on the day before the sabbath and then put on an autmatic mode during the sabbath.
That's a different issue -- if a cron job or something similar is configured before the Sabbath starts, there's no problem with its running itself. Most religious Jewish homes have lights connected to timers for precisely that sort of thing.
Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:2)
Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:2)
My understanding is that the spark is considered "Creation", and that that's where the work comes in. Remember, Hashem did the WORK of CREATION in 6 days and on the seventh day he rested. So (in my imperfect understanding), creation is forbidden.
Oh, and observant Jews don't cook on Shabbat, either.
Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:4, Interesting)
However, there are numerous situations where making fire can be considered play.
Not by orthodox jews. "Work" is probably a poor translation into English of what is forbidden on the Sabbath. For example, a Rabbi and his staff are permitted to do their jobs on the Sabbath (it is their job). Likewise, there are several leisure activities which are forbidden. So the distinction isn't "fun vs. not fun" or "making money vs. not making money". Even if you like playiung video games or want to watch the hockey game, you can't.
"Doing Work" really means "using technology" or "doing creative things" or "transporting large objects outdoors", etc.
Note that I'm not Jewish either, but for 2 1/2 years I rented a basement apartment from an Orthodox Jewish family and learned a lot about the religion at that time.
An excellent read is Judaism 101 [jewfaq.org]
.Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:2)
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Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:2)
I know that I'm obviously not the right person to be discussing Jewish law, but I wanted to make sure that a comment about how it was probably okay to barbeque on the sabbath since that was a "fun" fire and not a "work" fire didn't go unchecked...
- awh
Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:2)
It is presumed that God enjoyed creating the world; it wasn't "work." But yet He took a break from creating.
A writer who loves to write or a painter who loves to paint would still be rejoined from partaking in their craft. And so would a kernel hacker.
-jon
Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:2)
Sorry, this won't fly with me.
Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:2)
I suspect that a Jewish person who observes the Sabbath would not take a job which required him to be on call from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. As such, I don't believe it is problematic. "The boss" would already know not to disturb the sabbath observer, and would have made prior arrangements.
Re:Linux and Jewish Law (Score:2)
I have a problem with this idea of "absolutely". What if the sysadmin's at his mother's funeral? What if he's in another country? What if he's in a coma? (Add a further thousand what-ifs) There are emergencies and there are emergencies.
There is no such thing as a 24x365-on-call human being. If your business can't get by without relying on a single individual's availability at any time, you'd better find some more people to put on call or find another business.
As a device driver writer... (Score:5, Interesting)
Is this a reasonable request? (doable?)
why/why not?
What was their expression??? (Score:3, Interesting)
Talk about priceless
Database Clusters (Score:5, Interesting)
As a cluster guru, I am curious about your take on database server clustering in both the commercial and the open-source space.
First, it appears that IBM DB2 has been wiping the floor with Oracle on the TPC benchmarks lately, and Oracle "RAC" has been a flop. However, IBM is not using any hardware from its proprietary server lines, but instead relies on clusters of "federated" databases running on 32 standard PCs running either Linux or Windows. It does appear that Oracle still generally beats IBM in raw performance on a single system (as IBM refuses to post any non-clustered benchmarks AFAIK).
Do you think that any of the hype over either of these vendors cluster packages is worth attention? Do you agree with Sun's claim that TPC(-C) no longer has any practical relevance? It all seems to be getting rather silly.
Second, is there any push to make any of the ACID-leaning open databases (Postgres, SAP-DB, etc.) fault-tolerant, perhaps using Mosix? I assume this would require modifications to Postgres enabling it to access raw partitions. Have you had any talks with the Red Hat Database people about cluster modifications to Postgres, just out of curiousity?
Re:Database Clusters (Score:2)
You are talking about fault tolerant clustering, which openMosix isn't. OM is parallel processing type clustering.
the future of linux (Score:2, Interesting)
Do you think the linux kernel, openMosix, and Open Source in general can break out of that stereotype?
Motorcycle Question (Score:3, Interesting)
As for me, I think someone is cashing in on a classic. Tis a shame.
It's 12:31 pm... (Score:2)
Not about Linux at all... (Score:5, Insightful)
Do you see any reconciliation between science and the G-d of the Torah? What about between Science and any sort of Creationism at all? Do you see the possibility that science, as it approaches the moment of Creation itself, becomes more in tune with religion? I guess a big part of what I'm asking - do you see a place for (or proof of) G-d in science?
Thanks...sorry this isn't the usual Slashdot fare, but I can't help but ask.
Question for "Dimwit" (Score:2)
A question back to you (and others): do you see any inherent division between science and the G-d of the Torah? Or between science and "God" as the English call it, or "Allah" as Muslims call it, etc.?
Re:Question for "Dimwit" (Score:2)
Re:Not about Linux at all... (Score:2)
I'm a Buddhist, so these questions are much easier for me, but I was raised Christian and still believe in a higher power, so I've put some thought into them. It's been a while since I've read the Bible, but I recall that there was enough ambiguity and strangeness in Genesis to allow room for things like Evolution if the reader was willing to put some though into it, as opposed to simply accepting the dogma handed to them at face value.
Re:Not about Linux at all... (Score:2)
Of course, as an atheist, I don't see this as evidence of creationism and evolution being compatable. I see it as evidence of the story being likely made up by ordinary humans at a time when people didn't realize what causes days and nights, and didn't realize that the length of a day is different depending on what planet you are talking about. The story was good enough to explain the unknown at the time, but later on as some of those unknowns became knowns, the errors in the explanation started to become noticable, and apologists started finding strange ways to patch around those errors.
Re:Not about Linux at all... (Score:2)
For all we know, God mandated evolution. There is a gap between percieved/measured reality and "Truth". I am completely comfortable with religion having free reign in this gap.
Re:Not about Linux at all...(update) (Score:2)
Sorry, just wanted to clear that up.
Re:Not about Linux at all... (Score:2)
"Religion answers the question "Why" and science answers the question "How". A poor mind confuses these questions, but most people can't outthink a grapefruit."
-jon
Re:Not about Linux at all... (Score:2)
First of all, the scientific method does not have the ability to prove any hypothesis for certain. Instead, science is only able to show that a hypothesis has held for certain conditions and has not yet been disproven. Therefore, the scientific method is unable to prove any hypothesis concerning the existence of God. Science merely has the potential to show that there is an effect similar to the existence of God, under certain conditions!
As far as disproving God, science does have the ability to disprove hypothesis. However, with the subject of God this ability may prove to fall short. Any evidence of the non-existence of God can be neatly explained away as "the mystery of God" and swept under the rug.
And people wonder why science and religion so seldom walk hand-in-hand...
Re:Not about Linux at all... (Score:3, Insightful)
Make that, when both science and religion are done correctly.
Correctly done science is certain to run into trouble with a religion asserting earth is flat, or sun circles around earth.
Re:Not about Linux at all... (Score:2)
The position that a particular proposed thing isn't known to exist is not an assertion! It's simply the default position you get when you can't find conclusive evidence. If you claim something exists, the burden of proof is on you. If someone doesn't think the thing exists, that isn't technically even a claim at all.
If you don't think that's the way logic works, then I invite you to pay me the $100 you owe me for the thing I did for you that you can't remember anymore. After all, you aren't going to be able to prove you *don't* owe me.
Re:Not about Linux at all... (Score:2)
#include philosophiX0r.h
I disagree with this statement slightly, even though it sounds like we are on the same philosophical page. So, for purposes of discussion, here's my $2/100...
Quite simply, any creative act requires two things: a mechanism and an intent. Science tells you 'who', 'what', 'where', 'when' and (if you do your homework, pay attention to nature and maybe get a little lucky) 'how'; Religion tells you 'why'. One is about *fact* while the other is about *truth*.
I still roll my eyes every time one of those Discovery Channel shows has some marine biologist denying the existence of God within two sentences of claiming that this species or that evolved such-and-such a feature with the *intent* of resolving some survivability issue.
Props to Einstein: when someone can write out a Hamiltonian that includes humor, I'll recant. God may or may not throw dice, but I *know* he doesn't own a pocket calculator.
Re:Not about Linux at all... (Score:2)
This is such a lame piece of brainwashed crap.
Religion has nothing to do with truth. It is about belief. Because you believe something to be true doesn't make it "The Truth".
If you can't even seperate your belief from an actual truth (which of course there are whole philosophical discourses debating the existence of any such thing) then you are very close minded.
Seriously, if you have or will have children, what are you going to tell them?
God made the world etc. This is an absolute truth.
Or are you going to be honest with them and say, "I believe that this is true. Not everyone does."
And assuming that you are a christian, would you go on to say, "In fact most of the people in the world do not believe what I do".
The first is brainwashing pure and simple. Sort of screws up the whole free will thing.
The second is honesty.
How will you treat your children?
Re:question? (Score:2)
I am not a Jew, though, so if I'm mistaken in anything I've said here, I'd appreciate a correction.
Re:question? (Score:2)
Here's an answer from jewfaq.org [jewfaq.org].
In short, Orthodox Jews can not print the name of God on paper (actually, they can, but then they are forbidden from destroying or defacing that paper). Recent decisions from whoever it is decides these things state that writing on a computer is not considered permanent (so, for example, you could type "GOD" on a computer and backspace over it), but observant Jews like to write "G-D" even so, because it's possible that someone else will print out the page/message and deface or destroy it
ok, so I admit it... (Score:3, Interesting)
however, it says here you develop drivers.
how does one get into that sort of thing starting out? obviously you've been doing it for a while. how would someone who has a base understanding of assembly and C get into this? it's a big field, and I wouldn't know where to start, but I would like to help some day.
status of migrating sockets development (Score:2, Interesting)
And what about other forms of IPC communication? is there a (performance) contrainidication on their use on mosix clusters?
What area of law are you studying? (Score:5, Interesting)
Maintaining perspective while maintaining code (Score:2)
Boycotting Israel and Israeli technology (Score:2, Troll)
Some of these "freethinkers" have come to the conclusion that Israel is a racist theocracy no better than the WW2 German Nationialism that spawned it. Right or wrong, this viewpoint exists, and my question is based not on the debatable truth of this view but rather on its existence.
Much technology development, and many great programmers (Arnold Robbins comes to mind) are resident in Israel. Is it legitimate (from your perspective as a student of the Talmud) to use one's influence to dissuade one's employer from using technology developed in Israel, if one has anti-Zionist beliefs? What if using one's position to show solidarity with the oppressed Semitic peoples of Israel and Palestine is a disservice to one's employer? Is the responsibility to the employer greater than the responsibility to personal conscience?
And finally, does it make a difference if you're Jewish, and have spent countless hours in thought, study and prayer before arriving at the decision to boycott Israel?
Re:Boycotting Israel and Israeli technology (Score:2)
Re:Boycotting Israel and Israeli technology (Score:2)
Shocking, simply shocking. In tomorrow's question, we're going to wonder why American Indians don't trust the US Government.
-jon
Re:Boycotting Israel and Israeli technology (Score:2)
I believe by "ancestral homeland" you mean the land that they commited genocide on the previous occupants of to steal because their god told them to. The jews had no right to Israel at all. Now I'm not saying that it was necessarily a bad thing to have created Israel, but assuming they had some sort of entitlement to it is dead wrong.
It was only their homeland thousands of years ago because they murdered every man woman and child who already lived there to steal their land.
This is stated quite clearly in the bible. They, in fact, brag about it.
Please spare me the flamebait and racist accusations. This post is neither. It is fact, you can look it up.
Re:Boycotting Israel and Israeli technology (Score:2)
One of those countries is democratic, socialist-capitalist, with freedom of the press, an independent judiciary, religious freedom, and a vibrant educational system. A Budweiser-esque beer called Macabee is available for purchase.
The other is a theocratic, klepto-dictatorship with full censorship over the press and internet, where women are forbidden to drive, beaten if they go out in public with sufficient coverings, forbids any sort of religious minority from existing, and graduates more students in religious studies than engineering. Oh, and possessing beer will get you 50 lashes in the public square.
Please tell me if you can't see a difference.
-jon
UnitedLinux (Score:3, Interesting)
Which one? (Score:5, Funny)
The future of Mosix (Score:2)
Altough Mosix may be seen as a process dispatching tool (a la PVM), albeit automatic and without requiring specific application coding, some people envision much more for it.
Specifically, uses may range from creating distributed fault-tolerant systems to providing a platform for mobile agents and other forms of code mobility.
If this is the desired route, current obstacles lay in I/O portability, including disk, but especially network.
Is this where you think Mosix needs to go? What do you envision a future "completed" Mosix system doing?
Future directions for scalable computing? (Score:2)
In the broad sense, where do you see scalable large computer systems going in the long (10+ year) term? Think of all the competing methods to attain scalbility (SMP, NUMA, application-layer clustering, tight single system image clustering, etc) - which model or hybrid of models do you expect will succeed in the long run as the primary architecture for heavy computing - and is the answer different for databases or other data-centric needs?
Single Memory Space for openMosix (Score:5, Interesting)
Is there any work planned to enhance openMosix to support a single memory space among all nodes or to otherwise allow implicit sharing of memory? Is this what the "network RAM" research is attempting?
Implementing something along these lines in an efficient manner would hugely expand the range of problems that openMosix could be used to tackle.
Imagine being able to split a database transaction into hundreds of parts and run it in parallel on hundreds of openMosix nodes with a terabyte or more of combined RAM. The processes that share data would automatically migrate to the same node. Mmmmm good!
Congratulations... (Score:3, Interesting)
Introducing a Ms. usually complicates the hacker lifestyle. Despite good intentions on both sides, scheduling conflicts erupt and something has to give.
How well does Ms. Bar understand your {"fascination", "interest", "obsession", "devotion"} to computing? How about your other hobbies and interests?
IBM and Hercules? (Score:5, Interesting)
You've mentioned Hercules in your column a couple of times, both quite favorably. Thanks!
One industry analyst from Germany has claimed repeatedly that IBM is getting ready to slap down Hercules with its lawyers, on the basis of some unspecified violations of their intellectual property rights. He's said that it's not just patent infringement, but refuses to go into exactly what else.
What effect would you think that taking such an action would have on IBM once the open source community finds out?
Thread migration (Score:3, Interesting)
This design goal isn't always realized though, because OpenMosix works with processes as the atomic work-distribution unit, and not treads. ie. OpenMosix can't migrate multithreaded apps.
Is thread support planned for *any* future version of OpenMosix?
a mature kernel? (Score:4, Interesting)
I can't help thinking that the Linux kernel may be a little like string theory in physics. String theory tends to attract young people who are the most talented of all, and you have to wonder whether their talents are being wasted, since string theory might not even reflect reality.
Re:a mature kernel? (Score:2)
If Linux were a microkernel, then I'd probably say that it could actually be "finished", as far as any software project can be said to be finished. A microkernel basically provides the minimum necessary services for an operating system, such as a scheduler and memory management.
Monolithic kernels, which provide much more than absolutely necessary, do not seem able to achieve any degree of being finished. Look at khttpd, the the kernel httpd implementation. Is this necessary? No, of course not, not even in anyone's wildest dreams. Is it nifty or useful? Sure. Could we stick anything else in the kernel that's nifty or useful? Sure. So, by my way of thinking, there is no time that a "bloated", (to use a loaded word - maybe "inclusive" or "feature-rich" would be better) monolithic kernel could ever be close to finished.
Specific parts of the kernel may very well be finished, with only tweaks and bug-fixes necessary. Most drivers are in this state. SCSI, TCP/IP packet filtering, SMP (especially high-end SMP with 8+ processors), and the filesystem code are in constant flux. None of them have stayed even remotely similar between any recent major kernel versions (2.0 through 2.4). However, look at how stable the Alpha port is or how little the IDE subsystem has changed from 1.0 to 2.4 (one major change, which basically added EIDE support and Ultra DMA).
So, there's no prayer of the kernel being finished, but there is a good chance that the SCSI subsystem will be finally etched in stone, much like the IDE subsystem.
People of faith in Free Software (Score:2, Interesting)
How is that you relate your Jewish faith with the work as a Free Software developer, and the central tenets of the Free Software movement?
Practical OpenMosix (Score:3, Interesting)
a liittle clarity on the Jewish p.o.v. (Score:2, Interesting)
There have been a lot of posts about conflicts or lackof with Halachik (orthodox) Judaism and tech. I'm sure Moshe knows his stuff and I'm also sure that he would be embarassed to be called a Talmud scholar. However, could he/you perhaps spend some time dispelling myths and explaining facts about some of the issues. I don't think a discussion on using email as a shaliach (third party) for divorce papers is necessary or the difference between "G-D" on paper and "God" on a computer screen (which is a comlex issue. But ideas about how the sabbath fits in with practical life and place of God in his personal life would be illuminating.
Useless use of linux (Score:2, Interesting)
What would you like to see on linux that would fit that category?
Fast compile server (Score:2, Interesting)
What solution have you used?
Did you look at using ram disks?
Re: interviews (Score:2)
Re: interviews (Score:2)
And yes, you did miss it [slashdot.org]. I paid close attention to this one, as one of my questions was asked. (#10)
Re:2. A motorcycle enthusiast; (Score:2, Funny)
So are most Linux users.
Re:2. A motorcycle enthusiast; (Score:2)
Oh, the irony of that sig...
No more |propaganda| (Score:3, Insightful)
No offense, but what sort of question is that? I don't imagine that any reasonable person would be in favour of the on-going conflict. Nor do I see how any decent sort of person would claim that the death count (on all sides) is not yet high enough. The violence is so self-defeating. As we brutalize others, so do we brutalize ourselves.
What do you think about massacre that Isreali soldiers commited in refugee camp in Jenin?
Why not ask him how he feels about the suicide bombers who deliberately choose to attack non-combatants?
Could we leave the partisanship aside and discuss things relevant to the