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What the P2098 code means?
P2098 is an OBD-II generic code for the engine control module (ECM) detecting the post catalyst O2 sensor fuel trim is testing too lean on a two trip minimum to set the code.
What causes the P2098 code?
The ECM is detecting the pre catalyst O2 sensor not working correctly and then monitors the post catalyst O2 sensor to see if the problem correlates to the pre catalyst O2 sensor on a two trip requirement.
The exhaust may have a leak or engine problem before the pre catalyst sensor.
The engine may have mechanical or fuel related issues causing the code.
The O2 sensor wiring or sensor is the failure.
What are the symptoms of the P2098 code?
The Check Engine light will be illuminated and the code is set in ECM memory as a fault after the two trips are completed back to back.
The ECM will go into failure mode for fuel control. This may cause lean or rich drive symptoms depending on the manufacture failure mode strategy.
If the problem goes away then the engine will go back to operating normal again, but will keep the Check Engine light on till it is cleared.
How does a mechanic diagnose the P2098 code?
Scans for codes and documents the code in the ECM and looks at the freeze frame data for failure.
Scans the ECM to see if the O2 sensors are indicating a problem on one or both sides of the engine. Notes to clear the code to get the engine out of failure mode fuel strategy.
Checks the engine for exhaust leaks, O2 sensor or wiring damage.
Checks the engine for any other codes that may cause the O2 sensors to fail.
Common mistakes when diagnosing the P2098 code?
Clearing ECM memory codes before checking the freeze frame data for the main failure problem, so the failure may be duplicated and repaired
Failing to clear the ECM codes to properly test the O2 sensors out of failure mode
Failing to verify and correct any exhaust leaks or other problems that may cause the code P2098
Failing to verify the O2 sensor operation is normal after the repairs are done
How serious is the P2098 code?
Code P2098 is a code indicating the ECM cannot control the fuel as it needs to since the O2 sensor is not giving the fuel control closed loop control it needs to control the fuel correctly.
What repairs can fix the P2098 code?
Clearing the code and repairing the exhaust leak
Replacing the pre catalyst O2 sensor or repair the wiring
Replace O2 sensors for the pre and post catalyst if they are damaged from an issue that has got repaired like a head gasket that leaked coolant into the exhaust
Additional comments for consideration regarding the P2098 code
Code P2098 will come on only after the ECM has detected the problem to happen for two complete drive cycles. The most common problem is an exhaust leak at the exhaust manifold gasket or flange. The repair of the exhaust may fix the code from coming back.
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As I beat a path on my rounds to preview gallery openings, I think about what I'm seeing and try to place it in a larger context.
Further evidence is the proliferation of social networking websites which allow artists to more readily keep track of one another and inform their fanbase of their growth and exhibitions.
And perhaps most importantly artists and collectors can communicate directly with one another without having to rely on a gallery's meddling mindset.
The Internet facilitates globalization. Artists can explore affinities with artists all over the planet instead of just down the hall. And now, when artists get dissatisfied with their exhibition possibilities, they can stage their own gatherings, without the expense of postage.
The practical, colloquial definition of an artist has changed. Instead of being "I am a good artist because I have a gallery," it has become "I am a good artist because I take responsibility for my art and my career and I do lots of things to enhance my success," whether or not they have a gallery.
Anni Holm is a perfect example. Loosely speaking, her art is about performance in public places. But at some point, she must have said to herself "Why stop there?" Opening this weekend is the second incarnation of artXposium. This show is a blast. It is out of town. You get a nice drive. There are 80 artists who have taken over a former, now vacant, hardware store that's going to get torn down someday and filled it with their own vision. No middleman. Just artists--and their artwork--cooperating. Some of it is truly outstanding. You'll meet people and see things that are memorable. You are also likely to experience some drek. This is a different kind of art event with it's own special energy--artists doing it for themselves. I just hope CamoSanta and MattressBunny play nice!
Liz Nielsen is another example of the multifacited, multidirectional artist. Besides making her own art, she works for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has just opened a gallery with Joshua Kozuh. Named Swimming Pool Project Space, the gallery does rather feel like a swimming pool, with its blue floor. Opening there tomorrow (Saturday, September 20th) is an all video exhibition curated by Alicia Eler who is an arts writer and curator, and Peregrine Honig who is an artist, curator and has her own gallery in Kansas City. This is what has to be done by the competent artist to create sufficient dialog and exposure possibilities; collaborate with friends, show art you like, grow your audience and get people working ensemble to raise the level in the pool together. I've watched all the videos by Rob Carter, Rochelle Feinstein, James Gulliver Hancock, Abhishek Hazra, Julie Lequin, Mioon, Julie Orser (my favorite), Luana Perilli and Taras Polataiko. I like the breadth of content and styles. And I like the juxtapositions. These artists come from all over: Korea, Italy, Ukraine, French Canada, Australia and the U.S.
Tony Fitzpatrick is the archetypal role model of the accomplished artist taking responsibility for his career. And he is generous. He is sharing his successes with younger artists, mentoring them in his storefront studio and on occasion exhibiting their art (and taking no commission when it sells). This evening is one of those occasions featuring the art of Steve Griff, who died recently and suddenly, but was fortunate enough (I guess) to have two pieces of his acquired posthumously by DePaul for their ever growing collection of Chicago art. Also on exhibit are Julie Murphy and Dmitry Samarov. Tony's doing a damned good thing here, besides his wonderful New Orleans project. He's sharing a lot of knowledge, insight and connections with a bunch of young artists who he has no reason to help, except that he cares. Impressive.
Do you see what is going on here? Artists are taking more and better responsibility for themselves. They are not adhering to business as usual. They are out there breaking the mold. And they are succeeding. The old model is not defunct, but it does feel dated.
There's a wonderful energy to the artist that takes more control over his or her success - and a comparable energy in the events they participate in. Tonight, and this weekend, are prime opportunities to get out there, to see it and to feel it.
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Originally posted by Universal Light
Just remember others hardships are only your own if you accept them to be.
Originally posted by TheOneElectric
What does an individual do if their life has been mostly neutral. Most negative opportunities are passed up because they are wrong on principle. Most positive actions are merely done out of thinking that they are the right thing to do, and not because I feel as I must do good. Most actions in life have been neutral. Meditation yields little to nothing, and my search for truth is ongoing because I simply desire to know the truth.
What occurs when I have not yet felt true empathy, but act in ways signifying that I have? What occurs when I desire for everyone on the planet to understand one another, but I can not feel anyone else's pain and merely respect them because I assume that everyone should be respected? What happens when I show empathy without feeling it?
Am I to not graduate? Am I to remain a child, confused yet hungry for answers?
What of those who feel that something grand awaits them and all others?
Originally posted by kennyb72
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This explanation sounds very much like ascension, but I assume from what you are saying, this harvesting is not religion specific.
Thanks for your previous response.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Somehow, Universal, I get the impression that I know you. I don't know what it is. Kind of weird.
Originally posted by TheOneElectric
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Why thank you, friend.
I am curious to the nature of this maybe coming ascension, revelations, harvesting or what have you. My actions are...well, not bad at all but at the same time, the good I assume I accomplish is just normal and neutral. I haven't been able to understand how one understands if they are truly awake, especially if I can not feel it within my being like others claim to. All I can feel is that something or another is approaching. Meditation allows me extreme calm for about 10mins after each session and nothing more as far as I can tell.
I'm just curious and am on a search for answers.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
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Well, from what I have garnished about the change or the coming "ascension" is that everything that is happening is a part of a "cleansing" process. It is necessary.
I am sure that you either know or have known, for example, people who "just couldn't stay out of trouble." Right? Well, from my understanding,it isn't because they are "bad" people. It is because they are in the process of sloughing off their negative energy.
I hope that helps a little. I mean I know that isn't specific to your situation, but it's a little insight that you or others may not have been aware of.
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I get that feeling sometimes, I usually put it down to an agreement or an understanding of our present situation. Something agreed upon before we started this incarnation.
We probably go back have a chuckle and compare notes after this life.


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Whole-body vibration improves walking function in individuals with spinal cord injury: A pilot study
Abstract:The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a 4 week period of Power Plate training on the walking function in stroke patients. 17 individuals with a Spinal Cord Injury participated in this study. All participants performed a Power Plate training 3 times a week for 4 week. After the 12 week intervention an increase in walking speed, cadence and step length and intralimb coordination was shown.Conclusion:The results of this study show that consistent use of the Power Plate machine by people with chronic, incomplete SCI, can help to increase walking speed, cadence and step length, all of which will help to improve walking function. An improvement in the consistency of intralimb coordination over multiple steps was also noted after use of the Power Plate machine.
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Spite Marriage (1929) was the final silent film from Buster Keaton, one ofthe true geniuses of American cinema. Keaton stars as Elmer, a lowly pantspresser who falls in love with a gorgeous actress named Trilby Drew (DorothySebastian). Elmer is so utterly taken with Trilby, he attends no less than35 of her stage performances. In a cruel attempt to inspire jealousy in herleading man (Edward Earle), Trilby marries Elmer. It's not long beforeElmer realizes he's been played for a fool. Heartbroken, he leaves Trilby,only to end up shanghaied and forced to work on a rum-runner's boat (inreality, Keaton's personal yacht). After a boisterous, very unlikelyadventure at sea, Elmer wins Trilby for himself.
Spite Marriage was an unqualified success at the time of its release,even though Keaton wasn't particularly thrilled to participate in itscreation. He originally approached MGM production head Irving Thalberg withthe idea of shooting a comic Western co-starring himself and Marie Dressler.But the creative autonomy Keaton received while writing, filming, and actingin such pre-MGM masterpieces as Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) and TheGeneral (1927) was now a thing of the past.
Thalberg was constantly aware of the bottom line. He felt that Keaton'sprior films, which were partly created out of time-consuming improvisations,were not as profitable as they could have been. Buster's first feature withMGM, The Cameraman (1928), was rather carefully supervised and didconsiderable business at the box office. Thalberg was convinced that Keaton -strictly adhering to a completed script - would benefit the studio.
It's ironic that Keaton - whose career would collapse partially due to theonset of talkies - wanted Spite Marriage to be his first soundpicture. Though his brilliance as a physical performer was undeniable, herealized the success of Warner Bros.' The Jazz Singer (1927) markedthe beginning of the end of the silent era. While interested in thepossibilities of sound, Keaton, much like his comic peer, Charles Chaplin,was concerned that the new technology would be embraced to the eventualdetriment of his art. He envisioned a type of comedy that would rely mostlyon humorous sound effects. "It needn't be one long yak-yak," he toldThalberg.
Nevertheless, Thalberg insisted that Spite Marriage would becompletely silent...especially since MGM had only one set of sound equipmentat its disposal. Keaton and his director, Edward Sedgwick, forged aheadwhile chafing under the supervision of both Thalberg and producer LarryWeingarten, who happened to be married to Thalberg's sister. Luckily, thisfriction threw off some memorable sparks; many of the better moments inSpite Marriage arose via head-butting with the executives. "I'mafraid," Keaton said years later, "that Larry Weingarten was plenty sore,especially when the putting-the-bride-to-bed (sic) was such asuccess."
The sequence Keaton refers to is a genuine classic, in which he drunkenlyattempts to get an equally inebriated Sebastian into bed without waking herup. It's a tour de force of comic timing, as he hauls his co-star around ina variety of ungainly positions. (Gregory Peck can be seen enacting thesame routine, to less inspired effect, with Audrey Hepburn in RomanHoliday, 1953. Keaton also returned to it in the 1950s, frequentlyperforming it on stage with his third wife, Eleanor Norris.) Though herwork in this scene is severely inhibited by definition, Sebastian was thestrongest actress to ever share the screen with Keaton. Their ease with oneanother can be traced to the fact that they were enjoying what would becomea lengthy love affair while filming Spite Marriage.
Keaton and Sedgwick would go on to make seven more films together, all ofwhich were talkies and far less rewarding than Spite Marriage. It'san often under-appreciated treasure, and the last fully realized display ofKeaton's towering gifts as a filmmaker.
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Wait for http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html
Not any oficcial announce published. Look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2009-November/t...
Yes, OpenBSD takes consistency to a new level at least in *NIX. Consistency and thorough documentation of it is and always has been a prime goal of OpenBSD. If you want something with the consistency of OpenBSD but with more bleeding edge new features or drivers, NetBSD may be something you want to look at. I love OpenBSD but sometimes it just doesn't have the drivers needed for a particular setup, and NetBSD has always come to the rescue there. Essentially I see the three major BSDs like this: FreeBSD is pushing new features and trying new ideas all the time where OpenBSD is very conservative and only adopts things that are in perfect working order. NetBSD is sort of the middle guy, the one nobody really notices but holds the balance between the two extremes though it shares much more in common with OpenBSD than FreeBSD given that OpenBSD was, after all, a fork of NetBSD to begin with.
NetBSD does not have the same consistency as OpenBSD. Also your comments about device drivers could not be more wrong, especially for Wifi.
Exactly. I must agree with you. NetBSD seems to be less polished than OpenBSD. I have also used NetBSD in some appliances, but that was just not the right thing for the task. NetBSD is also quite chaotic OS - "unordered OpenBSD" as someone would say [that doesn't mean it's "bad" or something. It's just different. I agree that it has more things to offer on a bootup].
Can you elaborate on "less polished than OpenBSD"? Some random link:
Apart from the fact that OpenBSD has no SMP scalability (e.g. you buy and pay for 8-core machine, but in the result you get only 1-core, if using this system), it also "[w]ould not see more than 3 of the 16 GB of memory".
All systems in that list (and also DragonFlyBSD, although they still finishing SMP work, but will get there) are technologically much more advanced than OpenBSD.
I am not encouraging to flame which system is better, but if we discuss technical aspects, then please provide evidence.
P.S. That OpenSolaris graph is somewhat wrong, perhaps a regression. Solaris was one of the first UNIX systems which got proper SMP support much earlier than others, in 90s!
With pleasure. You see - it's all about the way you're actualy looking at the different projects. I am not talking about untested features, or features at all, I am not talking about the performance. I am talking about the quality, while you are referring to performance and features. Apparently OpenBSD is not about features and certainly not about the speed [I am sure you know it]. Code correctness and well-thought mechanisms - overall simplicity. That's what OpenBSD is all about. That means you'd obviously choose NetBSD/FreeBSD for multicore CPU env and high-end HW. OpenBSD is perfect for routers, firewalls, gateways and desktops [yes, at least for some of the users].
That's all.
Did all the necessary functionality for 64-bit NVidia support make it in to the 8.0 release?
Aparently so:
The wiki about this issue is outdated or there's still one thing not implemented.
I know I'll come out as a troll, but if your response to companies like nVidia or Skype is to work for them for free by emulating Windows and Linux or even rewriting kernel interfaces to suit their needs you are in for a nice ride.
Surely some people wouldn't use Linux or FreeBSD without wine and proprietary blobs. But is popularity worth crippling your OS?
In the end you are the one letting unchecked nVidia code run in kernel-mode watching your incoming packets or, more realistically, going to find that your 2-year old PC becomes a brick when nVidia et al. decide it is obsolete or not worthy and stop providing downloads for drivers.
In my opinion, you actually do more for Open Source buying open hardware(AMD, Intel) and actually using Windows proprietary drivers on it to play your silly games, than contributing "open source" FreeBSD or Linux support for companies like nVidia.
Surely some people wouldn't use Linux or FreeBSD without wine and proprietary blobs. But is popularity worth crippling your OS?
What makes you think that they are crippling FreeBSD by adding this functionality? Perhaps this functionality is useful, not only for nvidia, but for open source drivers, as well. Or perhaps these changes bring in other benefits to the operating system?
Announcement on the official forums:
Since there's no default desktop environment, it looks like any other vanilla install from your choice of Xfce, Gnome, KDE Software Compilation 4.3, or whatever. Or you can opt not to use Xorg at all, in which case you will have a terminal without VESA support (unless you patch it and recompile).
Sorry, maybe I missed the point but where exactly did I offend someone personally so that you would have to offend me? I criticized the FreeBSD project and the way it is conveyed ("We're better than Linux because we're better.") and I put down my arguments. You didn't provide any arguments but just called me an idiot.
Great discussion,
seriously if you make the comment, that a much used and well respected OS is pointless, when its just released its latest version - expect to get some grief. Certainly to suggest the need for professional help is over the top, but not to expect a reaction well that would show evidence of asperges (I don't suppose you did).
I note that you made references to the Debian installer - but doesn't Debian now offer a version with the Freebsd kernel presumably this would use the Debian installer and is evidence that the Debian project does not see Freebsd as pointless.
Personally I hope to find time to try out Freebsd and build a server that mirrors our current Linux server which uses opensuse and broke itself a little after updating. I doubt that Freebsd does that often - conservative stable sounds good to me in the right environment.
Wow, that sound almost exactly like the common "We're better than Windows because we're better" argument from Linux zealots.
Too be honest, I didn't feel it would be worth my time to argue with your inane arguments.
No, I didn't call you an idiot. I argued that you may have some irrational anger against the BSD's that you for some reason felt complied to vent in this article's comments.
When I read your comment, and replace "*BSD" by "Linux" and "Linux" by "Windows", I actually have SUCH A GOOD TIME because you cover every one of my Linux-as-a-desktop experiences. And too bad we're not on LinuxNews.
Linux have useless hardware support (usb3.0) but still can't operate most graphic cards properly. Woohoo. BSD isn't that bad too. The ZFS block I don't understand, but you seem to imply that whatever technology linux copies will be better done. Okay, reeks of bias.
Scheduling, both Linux and BSD don't have desktop-oriented scheduling, and I think that yes, one would be hard pressed to feel the difference without heavy benchmarking tools. How does that mean that BSD is bad?
You know that Arch/Debian/Fedora use different yet all binary packages, while FreeBSD default to ports? At least compare it with Gentoo. Also, your install might use alot of Linux-flavored stuff, default on Linux but not BSD.
Who claims that? Fact is, BSD is rock solid, especially OpenBSD (though I had 0 problems with FreeBSD on my servers). From an admin PoV, the system is much more clean and comprehensive, have very nice technologies built-in (zfs, jails, to name those that I could not live without).
I'd put OpenBSD over any Linux on a sensitive server without even thinking though.
What's the point? Honestly, I like being on BSD, and I despise each and everyone of my Linux experiences. I always run in crap and band-aids, which almost never happened to me on FreeBSD. The system is clean, is NOT a mess, you know what's going on, and ports are pretty nice to use (though the same can be said about Gentoo). And the license is much less restrictive and matches my view of what freedom is.
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When was the last time you used Linux? 1995?
It's useless just because Windows doesn't support it? There are already USB3.0 devices out there and once USB3.0 will be on most mainboards and laptops, it will just work out of the box without a hassle. And it is as predictable as the snow in winter.
What *most* graphic cards? Linux Intel drivers are written by Intel (like the Windows drivers), nVidia's drivers share 90% of the Windows code (according to nVidia), so they are virtually the same. I can't speak for ATI because I use xf86-video-radeon there and those lack some functionality (which I blame ATI/AMD for). If I had the option, my graphics adapter would be Intel.
*BSD uses xorg and thus the same drivers like Linux. I don't see why *BSD should be better here.
The ZFS block I don't understand, but you seem to imply that whatever technology linux copies will be better done. Okay, reeks of bias.
I didn't say it's better on Linux. I just say you already have the equivalent functionality.
I used the binary ports.
See, that's what I meant. "It's rock-solid because it's rock-solid."
It depends on your point of view. The BSD-license means more freedom who uses code which is under the BSD-license. You can do whatever you want with the code without having to give anything back to the original authors. That's not what I prefer. I put my code under the GPL because I want people to give something back when they use my code. I prefer the GPL over BSD but it doesn't mean that either of them is more free, it's just two totally different goals.
What you mean is that your code can't be used in a derivative proprietary software product.
However companies are free to use it in a hardware product or use it to provide a service.
Companies are also free to look at your code and rewrite it. The GPL allows for this.
So you are deluding yourself if you think your code becomes part of some techno hippie collective that can't be exploited by corporate interests.
As for FreeBSD I found running a server with it far more satisfying than RHEL. I prefer having an OS designed from the top down, not as a kernel that is dumped for someone else to turn into a useful system. One of the other big benefits of running a BSD on the server is that you get to avoid the Linux community.
It's also plenty reliable.
Yes and it's nonsense to believe nobody gives something back.
I show you some of the big companies giving something back while using *BSD:
-trend micro
and so on, there are many more.
Some of them give money, others give code back or server hardware etc. pp.
I share this experience.
Yes. I would add dtrace. I'm familiar with means that are especially intended for server and development use coming from a Sun / Solaris background, so I'm happy to have the same or equal tools on a BSD platform.
Maybe this changes when Linux advances much more. I won't argue that it has already outperformed "Windows" in many fields (costs, stability, security, openness, conformness to standards etc.), but there are still fields where I do consider BSD being superior.
As a developer, those facts and the excellent DOCUMENTATION of the BSD operating systems make all of them a joy to use, allthough I would prefer FreeBSD on the desktop, as well as OpenBSD on the server. But that depends on the actual requirements...
zfs: Nice filesystem but the same will be on Linux with btrfs soon and it's probably going to be even better. And btrfs has been developed by the company which actually bought Sun, namely Oracle. Furthermore, what's actually what people are so crazy about zfs? You can have nearly all of those features with xfs+lvm as well (even snapshots) and you will much more flexible, zfs even lacks an fsck which *disqualifies* it's professional use (by professional I mean a SAN with 150+ harddisks and several TB of filesystem with hundreds of GB of userdata). And, yes, all filesystems corrupt, even zfs did. Check out the zfs ML. And when you have something like a SAN, you will get your SAN exposed to the operating system as one single block-device. So half of the zfs magic features will just be useless.
I've let to see BrtFS been used in production systems let alone storage systems that are been sold on the market, all I ever hear is "it's going to be ready real soon". Meanwhile ZFS is production ready and in actual usage. As for your argument about "professional use". I wonder why Sun sells a OpenStorage system using ZFS that scales to 288TB with 1TB disks (288 disks)? Perhaps you can pass me that crack pipe of yours.
The Linux trolls just keep coming from the woodworks.
This place has now more Linux advocacy than Slashdot. Good work. Job well done.
We get it. You convinced us.
Linux is the ultimate perfection of technology. There is no point to develop anything else. You can not even scratch an itch anymore because Linux has already done that. Linux is so much better. Linux will crush Microsoft. Linux will dominate the world. I love Linux. I hate everyone who does not love Linux. Google uses Linux. Linux runs on supercomputers and embedded devices. Linux has everything. It absorbs everything in its great power. Linux will solve the third world hunger. Linus Torvalds will win the Nobel price. Linux liberates me. Linux monoculture will save us from monoculture. Linux is so good that I must keep advocating it and crushing everything that comes to its path with vulgar display of power!
Let me enlighten you. :-)
In order to have a stable, fast, non-bloated, secure and easy to use OS.
That's quite possible. I may say that I'm using it exclusively on the desktop since version 4.0, as well as on many servers (along with OpenBSD and Solaris). At the moment, I don't feel a need for something else, allthough I'm often trying out various Linusi.
The installer does exactly what it is intended to: It assist you to install the OS. It can even be used via a serial line, and it can be scripted to work without interaction.
That's true. Because FreeBSD is an OS for servers, for desktops and for "mixed forms", there's no "default" install like with the many Linux distributions that primarily target desktop users (so they come with KDE or Gnome preinstalled, and with lots of applications).
The goal if this particular procedure is to make sure that ONLY the settings take effect that the user INTENTIONALLY made.
I don't use the installer very often, I have to admit. Only once - for installation. Everything else can be done without the installer, so I really don't mind how it looks like. It's seriously unimportant.
What do you expect? An installer that requires a recent high-end GPU, and that cannot be used via a remote line? This would make FreeBSD completely useless in certain settings.
I agree with that.
First of all, FreeBSD supports all STANDARD hardware, this means that you can use every device that follows certain standards. From its history as mainly server-oriented OS, the support for "modern hardware" (things that do not follow existing standards, but require a specific driver that isn't available for this OS) is not very good.
But keep in mind that if hardware vendors would be interested that you can run their devices on FreeBSD, they would (a) release drivers for it, (b) open the specification of their hardware so others could implement drivers or (c) make their devices follow existing standards so that they are supported "out of the box" by the OS.
It's a situation you'll find with Solaris even today: The range of supported hardware may be narrow - and may not include the most recent commodity hardware and geek toys - but the support is 100%.
How do you define this?
There's support for various chipsets. Still, not all of them that exist are supported, I did explain the reason before.
Often a problem of improperly implemented ACPI (done by the manufacturer).
Will be in 2010, too. It has been the case in the past and it will be the case in the future: Not every hardware will work on every OS.
A good way to avoid trouble is to FIRST check the hardware support lists of FreeBSD and the additional software products (especially regarding printing, that can be troublesome, too), and THEN buy. In this order.
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The installer does exactly what it is intended to: It assist you to install the OS. It can even be used via a serial line, and it can be scripted to work without interaction. [/q]
The installer isn't a problem merely because it's a throwback to the 1980s/1990s. It's more of a problem because it's confusing.
The people who don't need assistance don't get it and neither do the people who need it. It's not much worse than a big iron operating system but there is a whole lot less clarity or help.
Of course, PC-BSD is better for the masses but the FreeBSD installer has been a sore point for a long time and I seem to remember the "don't bother us with it" attitude.
The "sysinstall" installer will be obsoleted one day. At the moment, the FreeBSD developers are more busy with more important things. With "important" I mean things that are more important to the users of FreeBSD, such as the improved USB subsystem.
Could you be more specific? I don't understand what you mean, but I would like to.
Please don't get me wrong: I don't use sysinstall very often, so maybe you can enlighten me about confusing things that I've never encountered.
As I said, the FreeBSD developers are aware of the fact that sysinstall has to say goodbye one day.
There are already interesting projects - interesting for the "first sight effect" and of course from a technical point of view:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall/SurveyOfExistingInstallers (note Pros and Cons)
as well as
"You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression"
Could you be more specific? I don't understand what you mean, but I would like to.
Please don't get me wrong: I don't use sysinstall very often, so maybe you can enlighten me about confusing things that I've never encountered.
I can't be more specific right now but I tried 3 times to install version 7.2 and failed to even set the partition to BSD, even though it showed marked in fdisk. I did however manage to overwrite GRUB with BTX and couldn't even get that to function for me. :-D I sort of recovered this by installing Mepis Antix, with the lightweight IceWM, but I can't get to Windows so far.
There were plenty of options in the FreeBSD installation. I recall using the default installation option, instead of the, ummm, medium option, or the expert option.
I'm to blame for not doing research and just trying it but I like to see how things work. I truly expected to do more than just overwrite GRUB but that's the only thing that I was able to accomplish. After all, I've done installations of various operating systems on hundreds of machines.
Installer: OK, I agree.
Software: *shrug* wholly different system, wholly different license, wholly different development process, wholly different outlook on what the OS should be. If you want Linux, go use Linux.
ZFS: ZFS is a fine FS, and leagues above what FreeBSD did have. If some of the recent additions to better apply roll-backs can be used, it will remain a fine FS for a long time.
Scheduling: matching BeOS will not take good scheduling. I'd dare say you could do it without very good scheduling. BeOS was designed with interactivity in mind from the GUI you looked at down to the core where it talked to hardware. You need the whole software system done that way to get back to that point. Hence Haiku. The great scheduling is good for things like heavily multithreaded media encoding, DB apps, embarrassingly parallel web app requests, etc.. If you want some better interactive scheduling, get a Linux kernel w/ BFS (uClib for the apps won't hurt a bit, either).
Package management: I've never stuck with a FreeBSD release long, so n/a.
Reliability: Linux has reliability/compatibility issues mostly regarding desktop users. Time and time again, it shows that's it's really a server OS. It beats out much of the competition, but it ain't perfect.
The point? Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, et al, aren't doing what they think are the right things to do, dammit. And others agree with them. So they are doing it their way, and there are users that like it.
Checo out PC-BSD, a desktop-oriented FreeBSD version which features a GUI installer. Is this more the way you think an installer should look like?
I have many friends who use PC-BSD on their desktops and are completely happy with it, no issues so far. So I would recommend it to try for everyone who things that FreeBSD is "too old-fashioned". PC-BSD comes with KDE and many applications preinstalled, as well as an innovative package installer which can be used with a web browser. Well, in my opinion, manually downloading things from the web and clicking on it - to install a program - is quite old-fashioned... :-)
That's a good statement. Nobody is forcing anyone to use FreeBSD. It has its places and its users. If you don't want to belong to them, it's completely okay.
You say it: For a long time. I prefer carefully engineered and implemented filesystems over those that appear and disappear in masses. For storage facilities, a reliable filesystem is very important. I'm familiar with ZFS, coming from a Solaris background. While I was comfortable with UFS, ZFS has a lot to offer. I would rather stay with ZFS than migrating all data from one file system to another one.
The native tools of FreeBSD offer you a good basis for managing your software, be it in binary form or by source. Additional programs, such as portmaster, make things much more comfortable. Of course, there are GUI frontends for them so you can manage your software with the mouse.
Well, I never had performance problems on my desktop. Sometimes, I read stories about Linux users complaining that their audio is skipping or that video playback gets desynchonized from audio. I cannot imagine that. It's 2009. Computing power is much more than some years ago. One of my first systems was a 150 MHz Pentium (1 - one, to emphasize this) with 64 (later 128) MB EDO RAM. I could compile the kernel, download an ISO via FTP, burn a CD, browse the web with a responsive Opera and have XMMS play MP3 files AT THE SAME TIME and WITHOUT SKIPPING AUDIO. It's true!
I think most performance issues on the desktop are related to the more and more upcoming tradition of bloat. I have told here (at OSNews) that bload isn't bad per se, and that it is needed (or at least an unavoidable side-effect) for modern software creation, a result of reducing development costs and always using the most modern technology. I have often complained that the "feeled overall speed" of applications is reduced when the programs are updated, usually in order to use a newer version of a library, e. g. the translation from Gtk 1 to Gtk 2. It may be that those new libraries offer new functionality, but what's the point when a program doesn't use it? You get a new interface, wow, but the program needs much more time to come up, and even worse, accessibility is reduced (e. g. the doubleclick = select doesn't work anymore in Gtk 2 since the list entries do switch into input fields, but those input fields lose focus and can't be fed by the edit buffer via the middle mouse button). The joy of the new modularized X is another topic. While it is great not to need xorg.conf in order to access modern GPUs, it can cause trouble when you can't get things working with new X that worked flawlessly in old X (e. g. XFree86), especially when you need specific settings (e. g. a german keyboard layout). The place of a centralized configuraton file (xorg.conf) has been abandoned in favour of various configuration files (for HAL, for DBUS, for PolicyKit etc.), and some of them require XML editing (instead of often more comfortable plain text). Finally, there's not sufficient documentation for those settings, or the settings are changing from day to day, so documentation isn't up to date.
Yes, to sum it up: There are many things that make me wish FreeBSD would be better, but in fact, those things aren't caused by FreeBSD! Most annoyances are grounded in incompatible hardware and bloated software.
It sometimes makes me angry, but when things don't work, I simply don't use them, because I don't need them. And just for toying around, it's not worth being angry. Life's hard enough. :-)
Guy's... it's always the same argument between Linux and BSD. This has been going on since the turn of the century (feels like)... even the words are still the same.
Question: When will this end?
Why can't we just choose the operating system of our choice... live and let live, and stop putting the other down!
But that *is* what we're actually doing, isn't it?
I agree with that, but still, there are individual opinions that form criticism about some particular OS. It's worth discussing them, because they can lead to improvements in this OS. An example is the rewrite of FreeBSD's USB subsystem.
No... you are not! You are grumbling amongst one another without asking yourselves why??? It's the same old crap between Linux and BSD - get over it and keep progressing. It's OPENSOURCE advancing in ways it never has before, not whose making the better opensource.
Whether we know it or not - "We have to get there together".
What precisely am I not? Agreeing to stop putting others down? Sure I am, and I'd like you to show me where, in your opinion, you have a problem with my statements. (I am not so stupid to insist on an error I made, so please show me.)
So you see my postings as a kind of "BSD is better than Linux"? If you think so, read again please. Personally, I see the future of Linux and the BSDs side by side, inspiring each other, and being better suitable for a particular task than the other, even if it's just for a certain amount of time.
That's a statement I would have no problem to share. In my opinion, the future is open source, but there will always be places and times for closed source programs.
If this is not what you meant to refer to, please be more specific, and keep in mind that English is not my native language. Thank you.
What precisely am I not? Agreeing to stop putting others down? Sure I am, and I'd like you to show me where, in your opinion, you have a problem with my statements. (I am not so stupid to insist on an error I made, so please show me.)
Take a look at the message board...
So you see my postings as a kind of "BSD is better than Linux"? If you think so, read again please. Personally, I see the future of Linux and the BSDs side by side, inspiring each other, and being better suitable for a particular task than the other, even if it's just for a certain amount of time.
If you feel this way, then you got it.
That's a statement I would have no problem to share. In my opinion, the future is open source, but there will always be places and times for closed source programs.
Again... you got the message.
If this is not what you meant to refer to, please be more specific, and keep in mind that English is not my native language. Thank you. "
Your english is fine... you simply got the message while answering your own question.
Thank you.
I've used PC-BSD, but for me, it has practically nothing over a good Linux. But, once you get below the GUI, it is different enough that I can't go and dismiss it.
It may be 2009, but good hardware isn't dead. My Mobile Pentium III 1.13 Thinkpad, with its SuperSavage video, will not die. And, until it does, or a netbook with an equivalent display and keyboard come around, I'm not ditching it.
When going to BFS fixes audio and X problems, something else is going on, deep down in there, and it's not good. Then, X won't even do double buffering (not strictly a Linux problem)...come on, it's 2009, and Windows did it with the same hardware back in 2001, when the thing was brand new. Videos above about 400x300 simply don't play right with X. That's why I made such a bit comparing to BeOS: a better OS scheduler would (and DOES) go a long way, but it wouldn't be quite as critical, if the rest of the software were made to be lighter, and made with a more of a 'big picture' view of software usage (as opposed to, 'my program is all that runs for me, so that's what I design for').
Trying OSes like DeLi, it's obvious that the problems go down deep into the software infrastructure (though that distro, in particular, is a bit too geared to very old hardware, with matching older kernels and such, for my daily use).
Well, I have the same experiences. Personally, I would not use it because it's very KDE centric (and I'm not a big fan of KDE, I have to admit), but it's a great OS for novice users. The advantage for me (as a professional user) is that, despite all the fancy GUI stuff, it's FreeBSD under the hood, the OS I'm most comfortable with. So if a friend has a problem with his PC-BSD installation, it's easy to use "basic means" of FreeBSD for diagnostics and intervention.
But as you said, for some fields of use, especially when a user requires "Flash" and some "nich market programs" such as native Mathematica or MatLab, he would be better off using a Linux distribution.
I know that, because I realize it every day. Furthermore, I know that often people have problems getting fancy hardware (especially USB stuff and some wireless devices) working correctly with FreeBSD. The same applies to "egg-laying wool milk sow" type printers that require very specific drivers. Why doesn't this disturb me? Because I simply refuse to buy such devices. I'm happy with used office-class devices, such as a good laser printer that can understand PS and PCL and can communicate through ethernet, or a good SCSI scanner. Of course, that's extraordinary, I can understand that, but it is a good example that FreeBSD has no problems talking to hardware that has been designed to run for a long time (in opposite to our "modern" throw-away-after-use hardware).
This applies to most of my home IT infrastructure. :-)
Now that you know a bit about the kind of IT stuff I'm using I can try to introduce why I so much like the FreeBSD OS:
With every release, the system provides more features and runs faster ON THE SAME HARDWARE. It's so great to see that - you update your system, your system runs better!
Still, there's a downside: What the OS gives, the applications take away. X runs slower, libraries need more time to load, things that worked before need some intervention to work again.
After all, and I need to emphasize this, it is not the fault of the FreeBSD developers. I always keep in mind that they are delivering a great OS for free.
I can use the same modern OS on new hardware, as well as on my old hardware that is still working flawlessly, and I can profit from the advantages of this OS, no matter which platform I run it on, or how good the resources are that this particular platform provides.
Of course, this is just my very individual point of view. And I'm not so stubborn that I could not image ditching FreeBSD one day - it will surely happen when it doesn't run the applications anymore that I need, or when it forces me to buy things I don't want to buy, or when it simply runs too slow. (By the way, this is one reason why I don't like KDE very much, next to its insufficient german language support.)
That's one thing I've always like about FreeBSD: sound just works! Their modified version of OSSv3 that supports in-kernel mixing, auto-device cloning (apps just open /dev/dsp, the kernel auto-maps that to either a hardware channel (/dev/dsp0, /dev/dsp1) or a software channel (/dev/dsp0.0, /dev/dsp0.1) and everything just works and sounds nice. Been that way since the 4.x days (possibly earlier, but I didn't use FreeBSD as a desktop until 4.0, 3.x was just on servers).
It still boggles me why the Linux devs went the ALSA route instead of just fixing OSSv3 like the rest of the Unix world did. Talk about cutting yourself off, and creating lock-in.
A lot of my Linux-using aquaintances don't believe me when I tell them that FreeBSD uses OSS and has all the features that ALSA was supposed to bring, and still hasn't delivered (even with PulseAudio).
In the 4.x days, sound was a bit complicated because it required you to build a custom kernel, as far as I remember, because the KLD infrastructure wasn't so comfortable those days. Took 24 hours on my 150 MHz P1. :-) Today, you can just kldload the proper module and sound runs.
But all imaginable sound devices worked, starting with an ISA SoundBlaster, and today I'm using a PCI sound card that supports the cmi driver - I try to avoid using the AC'97 kind "sound emulator through CPU". Works like a charm, and worked for many years. It's interesting that playing audio doesn't create massive CPU load on FreeBSD systems.
One problem I see is the already present idea to moving all stuff to USB; I'm talking about "USB sound cards", USB microphones, USB headphones and other stuff. Support for them may lack.
But as I said earlier: I don't own it - I don't care for it. :-)
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Because there are users that do not need or want "Flash" and Mathematica on their mail servers. :-)
Seriously: You basically choose an OS from your requirements. If "Flash" is one of them, FreeBSD may require you to invest some more time in getting it up and running (and: Yes, you can actually run "Flash" on FreeBSD, but there are better platforms for that.)
You're confusing things. The Linux ABI is not an emulator. It is what ABI says: an alternative binary interface which translates Linux calls into FreeBSD calls, easily spoken.
Wine is a very useful tool to get the "Windows" stuff running if you really need to. Many programs can be run that way, but I agree, not all of them.
That's correct.
Deprecated? Surely not.
It seems that the scheduler doesn't have impact on the general operations speed, but on the speed still available when the system is on load. While I found that Linux systems can freeze if you create enough load (e. g. "while true; do firefox &; done"), while FreeBSD can still accept commands. But I have to admit that my "Linux years" (of testing and comparing) are already over.
This may actually be true in present.
Have you thought about all the corresponding dependencies of the dependencies? It would be interesting to make a comparison in a quite controllable environmen (disk I/O, network, CPU speed and disks).
I do prefer the binary installation methods (e. g. pkg_add -r) over the compilation methods (e. g. with portmaster, portupgrade or "make install"), but for some cases, especially when you intentionally WANT to set build-time options, compiling is neccessary.
Depends mostly on the hardware and how you treat it.
Well, Linux has been a mature OS for quite a long time already.
Great OS. =^_^=
Depends on your work. For example, my grandmother is still using her DOS computer with GeoWorks Ensemble and a dotmatrix printer. Okay, that's not the example you would take into mind, but... :-)
Speaking for me: I am performing ALL my tasks with this OS. I am sure that I could do that with Linux, too, but then, I would be missing lots of things.
Let me name few of them:
FreeBSD offers EXCELLENT documentation. Every program of the OS has a manpage, available right after installation. No web browser and Internet connection required. The same applies to kernel interfaces, system calls, maintenance procedures and configuration files.
Most programs follow this tradidion. Compare "man opera" and "man mencoder" to, let's say, "man firefox" or "man acroread".
The file system hierarchy (see "man hier") is well intended. I don't need to search for files because I can PREDICT where they are located. Everything that belongs to the system is stored in the appropriate directories (given some UNIX history knowledge). Third-party software (installed by ports or packages) does reside in the /usr/local subtree. I can remove this subtree whithout affecting the OS, which means that it remains fully functional even if I remove all other programs.
FreeBSD has a very friendly and helpful community. Especially its mailing lists are full of people who are more than willing to help you if you run into trouble.
I completely agree with you that FreeBSD isn't an "egg-laying wool milk sow", a kind of "one size fits all" OS. Its uses may be very specific (e. g. mail or web server, forensic data recovery system), but can be quite generic, too (e. g. WLAN capable laptop for outdoor activity, everyday working and gaming PC).
All it takes to come into good contact with the OS is that the user is willing to learn, which primarily means to read and to use the brain. That's nothing special.
I see that you seem to have used FreeBSD, but you didn't "fall in love" with this OS. Well, you surely made a different choice. It's obvious that you could not understand why others are using FreeBSD, so I hope my explainations could make things a bit more clear.
I don't mean to insite anger into anyone, so please accept my apologies if this does offend.
The BSD heritage comes from true UNIX source code. Add to the fact that the BSD releases are basically coherent and complete UNIX environments as well as a free UNIX flavor with concise documentation (the FreeBSD handbook as well as the man pages), it's difficult to argue against BSD. I am not a coder, but believe me (and explore if you don't) when I say this. Go ahead and compare the man pages on GNU/Linux distributions with BSD. <poke>BSD man pages don't end with "For more information, use GNU info" (which contains the same text as the man page</poke>
FreeBSD isn't a be-all end-all operating system. However, it is a very solid UNIX. Being mainly a GNU/Linux user myself, reading your comment has made my BSD-using friend's sarcastic comment more understandable: "Linux is for Microsoft haters. BSD is for those who love UNIX" (or something in that context).
If you understand UNIX (not the userland, but what it means to be UNIX, such as the system calls), I am unable to understand why UNIX-loving GNU/Linux users would hate on BSDs. Solid implementation. Solid documentation. Solid userland. What is there to hate?
If GNU/Linux is your favorite UNIX-like OS, more power to you. It is mine too. Just don't forget that the current socket implementations (and a lot of commonly-used technologies) originated in BSD hackers.
You don't have to use it over your favorite GNU/Linux distribution if your current OS suits you best. Some people choose BSD for the philosophical difference in the license. Others are just used to the BSD style init over the SYSV implementations. To each, their own.
What's worse than that are all the man pages on Linux systems that are basically empty shells with "someone write a man page" in them. A lot of man pages on Debian systems are just placeholders like that. I find myself going to http://man.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi a lot when using Linux systems. It's just easier than trying to track down where the "real" info is located (project website, info, README hidden somewhere, etc).
This is how I've seen it in a lot of .sigs:
Linux is for those who hate Windows.
BSD is for those who love UNIX.
Anyone that wants to learn about their OS, learn about their computer, learn about networking, learn about GUIs, etc. IOW, anyone who actually wants to learn, would do well by installing/using a BSD (not just FreeBSD).
They're not for the fainthearted, or the lazy, or the pointy-clicky crowd.
You don't need to be a super-genius to use a BSD, but you will find yourself a heck of a lot smarter after using it for a few months.
Yes, sysinstall is not the prettiest installer ever. But, how often do you run an installer? Once? Twice? Maybe three times if you really screw things up?
There are multiple projects underway (bsdinstaller, finstall, something else) to come up with nicer installers. Instead of complaining so much, how about joining in and helping bring forth "the world's greatest OS installer ever".
Sure, you can't just grab any old piece of crap hardware device off the shelf of the nearest Radio Shack. But the devices that are supported tend to be very well supported. IOW, it's a quality vs quantity thing. And server hardware tends to be very well supported, since FreeBSD is geared more toward servers than desktops (not to say it's bad as a desktop).
btrfs is currently a joke, and under heavy development. It's not even listed as experimental yet. There's still another 3-5 years before btfs will be useful and usable.
I take it you've never actually tried to manage a multi-TB storage setup with LVM, and ZFS. If you had, you'd realise just how much of a joke your statement is. You really cannot compare LVM with ZFS. They are two very different concepts.
For example, you have to set aside disk space ahead of time in the LVM volume group in order to be able to use LVM snapshots down the road.
LVM still uses a "partition and format" layout, where you have to initially decide how big to make things, and later hope you have enough room to expand your LVs and filesystems. ZFS uses a pooled storage setup, whereby every filesystem has access to every single byte of storage in the pool. No need to guess at how large to make things initially. You just set ZFS quotas if you want to make sure one filesystem can't hog all the space in the pool.
ZFS doesn't come with a separate "fsck" tool because it doesn't need one. It comes with background scrubbing (zpool scrube <poolname>) that does the same as fsck ... but while the server is up and running, and the filesystems are live. It also comes with the ability to rollback to a previous transaction group at boot, which puts you back at a known-good, consistent setup (something none of the "fsck" tools can do).
I challenge you to try and manage over 10 TB of disk space with LVM + XFS, with persistent snapshots. I've tried to do this with hardware RAID, LVM, and XFS. It's not fun, or easy, or stable. Yet I do this on a daily basis using FreeBSD + ZFS, even replicated across two locations.
Not if your SAN is using ZFS. Then it doesn't matter what the OS on the other side is using. Which is the whole point. You can put ext2 onto an iSCSI-exported ZVol and still have access to snapshots, transactions/journalling, checksumming, dedupe, etc.
FreeBSD and Linux are virtually identical now in terms of scheduling, as seen by all the MySQL and Postgresql benchmarks that have been done. For a while Linux was ahead. Then FreeBSD was ahead. Then Linux. The FreeBSD. See how this works?
The major difference between the two, though, is that it's virtually impossible to overload a FreeBSD system to the point where you can't SSH in to fix it. Yet, it's overly simple to overload a Linux box to the point you can't even login to the console.
If you have to ask that, then you've missed the point. Obviously, FreeBSD is not for you. That doesn't apply to the thousands of people that are actively using FreeBSD every day.
User friendly installation is not that important. You only install the damn thing once on a system, and it only takes 20 minutes or so, compared to the thousands of hours of use the system give. The FreeBSD installer is straight forward, too, and results in a fully configured system.
You obviously don't understand the ports system.
When you install a port, the source is downloaded and compiled, as are the package's dependencies. You can customize each package fully, so if you remove features which also remove dependencies, those dependencies aren't built. You can also easily create installable binary packages to be transported to other systems or archived.
If you need packages right away, a simple pkg_add -r <pkgname> should suffice. Many of the ports are available that way. It is very easy and fast.
Also, Linux ABI emulation is remarkable. It has been a while since FreeBSD was on my desktop, but as an example, it ran Unreal Tournament 2004 at a 35% higher framerate than Linux did, and even slightly higher than XP at certain resolutions. This was using the nVidia drivers.
The few other frequent-use cases mirrored those results, with FreeBSD running desktop Linux apps at the same speed or faster. Anything with graphics ran much, much better.
Also, perhaps the biggest reason why FreeBSD is so cool: The FreeBSD Handbook.
I have yet to see any document for any operating system that compares. There are really good ones out there for Windows, Solaris, Red Hat, etc etc, that are great, but they are not free.
You dont understand ZFS. The main point of using ZFS, is that your data is safe. No other solution h/w raid or s/w raid offers the same level of data safety that ZFS does.
With time, your data will be slowly corrupted. Some of the problems your drives can detect and correct, but some of the problems are not correctable. But the worst point is, some of the problems are not even DETECTABLE by h/w! Your bits will rot. Without no one telling you. Look at a spec of a new drive: "irrecoverable error: 1 in 10^14 bits".
ZFS corrects those errors and also DETECTS errors your h/w will let through. Read here for more information on this, if you really value your data:
All the rest ZFS goodies are just icing on the cake: simplicity, performance, snapshots, etc etc.
Even if ZFS was cumbersome to use and slow - I would still use it. Because I value may data. That is the most precious things I have. The h/w can be repaired or bought anew, but data can not. Read that link and you will see the single only reason to use ZFS: it guarantees your data. All other solutions, does not. Of course they offer some rudimentary protection but the thing is: they trust the underlying h/w! If the h/w can not detect errors, the solutions cant do shit. ZFS does not trust the underlying h/w and does double checks all the time. All other solutions trust the underlying h/w.
Great news. Thanks FreeBSD people! One thing I'd like to say is that the "FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Release Notes" and "FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Announcement" are both read as technical documents with technical jargon used. That's fine for most of your users I guess but not mainstream users. Look at how Firefox does release notes and announcements, much easier to read but they do provide the technical information for those who want to know. Maybe you don't care about mainstream acceptance, I don't know. Either way, thank you!
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What is ZFS? It's not a hyperlink. Is it for my new webcam? I don't know. Yes, I'm being a little facetious.
Reads a little better. But I did that one for free.
I can rewrite my flash drive from the ground-up? What's a USB target? Is that a new USB dartboard game that helps me hit the target?
Simplistic, yes. Confusing? No. You could even make a 'more information' link after it!
Or it could be said like this...
Edited 2009-11-27 07:33 UTC
is ZFS 13 the latest and greatest version of that filesystem? Does it include the changes recently discussed here (which allow rolling back a damaged pool so it can be imported and used again)?
I've been searching but couldn't find anything... (that's probably my fault, I know )
I've been searching but couldn't find anything... (that's probably my fault, I know )
No latest Pool Version is 22. See the following links:
The actual on disk format is version 4:
From reading through FreeBSD release notes it would seem that they had been using Pool version 6, so with this release they have gained some newer features from pool versions 7-13.
I've been searching but couldn't find anything... (that's probably my fault, I know )
No latest Pool Version is 22. See the following links: "
Also commonly written as ZFSv6, ZFSv13, ZFSv22, etc. IOW, the pool version is the ZFS version.
The BSD vs Linux flame wars are sometimes close to the religious ones While I was reading the fun, I felt compelled to share short opinion - FreeBSD is great (I don't know about the rest of the family) in some fashion - for example running an overloaded server with approximatelly 5000 users for over an year, with the right hardware and software - apache, FTPD, SSHD, Sendmail, spamassassin, etc, and so on. This was from a sysadmin PoV. We had to reboot for both software updates - 5.4 to 6.0 and hardware additions. No OS pain, no security issues caused by the OS. For Desktop I use Linux. Had somewhat painful experience with PCBSD 1.4, while I was running 1.2 quite successfully for some time. Then, I realizied I had to compile a software for more than 6 hours, which was unacceptable. Then ended up in the Linux world - Slackware, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse. So, it will depend on the task. If you are not OK with one or either of the OSes, don't use them, the communities don't need trolls.
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What great timing. I have been wanting to rebuild my Debian 5.0 based server/gateway for some time. I just was going to see if FreeBSD would fit the requirements tonight and I see that they have released a new version! awesome. I am really excited to try ZFS as I currently use md (mdadm) linux software raid to function as a file server.
Are there binary releases of all packages or only some? I really prefer binary based distributions. I have used gentoo in the past and decided the wait was not worth the customization ability. Though on a server I could deal with it since it is not as likely you will need to install new software like on a desktop/workstation.
*me gets torrents going*
There are binary packages, but they are likely to lag behind the port versions. See pkg_add(1). And pay special attention to the -r flag. It might be enough to get you started, and newer versions are just a portupgrade (port-mgmt/portupgrade) away. Or, you could just bite the bullet and just compile your ports, turning them into packages which you can deploy on other FreeBSD machines you support. This is what I do, and it works well.


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Monica Horan, activist artist
In her first scene in the ensemble play "Different Words for the Same Thing," actress Monica Horan sits at a table in a doughnut shop, talking to another character. After finishing her doughnut, she reaches across the table, snatches up her companion's confection, and quietly chews it as the audience bursts into laughter.
It's that kind of comic timing that got Horan cast in the show, which plays through June 1 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Of course, it helped that she's also an accomplished actress, best known for playing Amy MacDougall Barone on the hit sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond." Horan's husband, Philip Rosenthal, was also the show's creator and executive producer.
"Monica is warm and genuine, and damn funny all the time," said Neel Keller, director of "Different Words." "Having her in the room during rehearsals, there was a sense of lightness."
Horan got her start as a stage actress, graduating with a degree in theater performance from Hofstra University and then moving to Manhattan to perform in off-off Broadway shows. She's kept her acting chops alive in some very small venues here in Los Angeles since "Raymond" finished its run in 2005, but for her return to the professional stage, she said, she wanted to find a play that matched her values.
"I wanted to do work that elevated," she said. "Otherwise, it's cheap funny. It's dirty funny. It's degrading funny. I always used to joke that I'm the Tipper Gore of television," she said, laughing. When she found out about "Different Words for the Same Thing," by young playwright Kimber Lee, she knew she wanted to be involved. The play is set in the small town of Nampa, Idaho, and revolves around a family torn apart by the death of a daughter. After a long absence, the family's other daughter comes back from Chicago to try to reconnect the three generations of her multiethnic middle-class family.
Horan plays Dottie, an Evangelical Christian and town gossip. "It was great to get inside the head of a fundamentalist person," Horan said. But she acknowledged that getting comfortable with the role wasn't easy. In the play, Dottie tries to dissuade a young white girl from dating a Latino teen "from the wrong side of the tracks," and she refers to Asian-Americans as "Orientals." But Horan wasn't turned off by her character's backwardness.
"What's at the core of it, though, is a love for other people. So all these terrible things she says, what she's really saying is, 'I really care about you, and this is the way I think it is.' It's just" — Horan paused and laughed — "different words for the same thing."
The way people express their beliefs has long been a subject of fascination for Horan. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she worked with USC's Center for Religion & Civic Culture to coordinate meetings with Muslims and other members of the faith community. She even played an Amish woman in a guest appearance on the TV series "Hot in Cleveland."
Horan was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism when she and Rosenthal married in 1990. "His grandmother did not want to meet me, because I was not Jewish," she said. As it turned out, when Horan was 13, her grandfather died — and that's when she learned he wasn't her biological grandfather. She discovered that her mother's real father was Jewish. Now, Horan serves on the board of her synagogue, Temple Israel of Hollywood, as well as on its arts council.
When she isn't acting on TV or onstage, she's an active philanthropist, advocating for public school theater and arts programs. "It's a civil rights issue," she said about dwindling budgets for arts education. "We're trying to create a pipeline to college, as opposed to a pipeline to prison."
"Children stay in school, and perform better, when arts is part of the curriculum," Horan said. "All of us here in Los Angeles, because we've had some success as a result of our life in the arts, need to get on board with helping L.A. Unified, the public school system, really reach the mandate to make arts part of the Common Core curriculum."
To that end, Horan is an executive board member for Inner-City Arts in downtown Los Angeles, and the nonprofit's state-of-the-art Rosenthal Theater bears her family's name. The organization, which provides arts education to elementary-, middle- and high-school students, has a $4 million annual budget, and educates thousands of students and teachers in drama, ceramics, animation and other art forms.
"She's absolutely committed to education reform, and how arts can be a part of that," said Bob Smiland, president and CEO of Inner-City Arts. He said Horan often drops by to lend a hand during workshops and training sessions. "She serves a valuable role as a board member but is equally valuable as a volunteer."
Horan and her husband also founded The Flourish Foundation, which funds theater, dance and music workshops for Los Angeles youth. The nonprofit has given out about $500,000 in the past five years for teacher residencies, student scholarships and classroom grants to help integrate arts into classrooms.
"Monica and I were the first in our families to go to college," said Kevin Kane, executive director of The Flourish Foundation. The two met as teenagers, in a ninth-grade production of "Fiddler on the Roof" in Philadelphia. "We understand the obstacles and challenges facing these first-generation kids," Kane said. "We know what that path is like. And now we have the privilege of seeing them develop into amazing teachers and artists and citizens, knowing that we're making a difference."
Horan also offers support via the Rosenthal Family Foundation, which issues grants for arts education and projects such as City Year, an AmeriCorps service program, and Food Forward, a fruit distribution program. The foundation also created a two-year, grant-funded arts education reporter position at Los Angeles public radio station KPCC-FM and helps fund a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal funding of arts education. It also supports the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Horan and Rosenthal also are major supporters of Democratic political candidates. They've hosted fundraisers for Minnesota Sen. Al Franken and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. In January, the couple hosted first lady Michelle Obama for a $1,000-per-ticket backyard reception at their Hancock Park home. Later, at the $32,400-per-person discussion in their home theater, the first lady talked about the upcoming midterm elections. The event raised nearly $700,000 for the Democratic National Committee.
"She's a very real, impassioned, practical person," Horan said of Obama. "The politicians, it's important for them to have these living-room events, because they can hear what people care about, one-on-one." The day of the fundraiser, the first lady tweeted that arts education is "linked to better grades, test scores, motivation & social skills."
Horan said Obama recently invited her to the White House to attend an upcoming arts event, but she regretfully had to decline. "I have a performance that day," Horan said with a laugh.
"Different Words for the Same Thing" is at the Kirk Douglas through June 1.


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Even then at 12 years old, Kristen Stewart was dead set on being herself while pursuing a serious acting career.
Footage of a young Stewart — then promoting the 2002 film Panic Room — recently surfaced on the web, and it looks like the Twilight actress hasn't changed much since then.
"I like to surf. I like to skateboard," Stewart said in the Access Hollywoodinterview, remaining faithful to her famous tomboy image. "I like hanging out with my friends."
When asked to try on wetsuits during a shopping trip at a local surf shop, the modest teen quickly shot down the idea.
"No, no," she said, crossing her arms. "That'll be too tight."
Stewart, who is now 22, has since starred in the highly successful Twilight franchise and wowed critics with her work in indie favorites such as On the Road and Into the Wild.
"I think if you want to get to the ultimate point of being the best that you can be, you have to be serious about what you do," a young Stewart said in 2002.
Her Panic Room costar, Academy Award winner Jodie Foster, echoes her sentiments in a recent letter addressing the backlash Stewart received amid news that she had cheated on her boyfriend Robert Pattinson with Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders.
"In my era, through discipline and force of will, you could still manage to reach for a star-powered career and have the authenticity of a private life …" Foster, 49, writes in the emotional essay. "Not anymore … I've said it before and I will say it again: if I were a young actor today I would quit before I started. If I had to grow up in this media culture, I don't think I could survive it emotionally."
"Eventually this all passes … You survive," she concludes. "Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and—finally—the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you."


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CRMX Unity, SuperNova 2.0, and a dozen new OEMs have been announced by LumenRadio in conjunction with the PLASA 2011 show in London, September 11-14. unity.jpg
CRMX Unity is a new technology platform from LumenRadio offering intuitive and effortless network and device management across wired and wireless networks. CRMX Unity allows lighting professionals and novices alike:
1. Full lighting system visualization, configuration, monitoring, alarms, and logging for all connected RDM devices under one unified interface.
2. Total transparency in network protocol conversion between manufacturer specific, public domain and industry standard protocols.
3. Unified connectivity and control across wired and wireless networks.
CRMX Unity will be on exhibit at the PLASA Innovation Gallery and available for hands-on demonstration in LumenRadio's booth. This showcase offers an excellent introduction to the exciting future of DMX, RDM, and Ethernet connectivity and networking.
SuperNova 2.0 with enhanced RDM, Ethernet, and user interface functionality, including full integration with CRMX Unity and wired RDM communication, will also be released at PLASA 2011. Other feature additions include support for the recently released Art-Net 3 specification and IP independent discovery of CRMX Ethernet enabled transmitters.
LumenRadio has in addition to expanded product ranges from current OEMs such as ROBE and GDS, also announced a dozen new OEM relationships, making CRMX the fastest growing wireless lighting control technology. Clay Paky, Philips Vari-Lite, Philips Selecon, SRS, and LDDE are a few of the new manufacturers that have chosen CRMX for their products to ensure industry leading wireless performance and reliability. The full list of new OEMs will be available at PLASA as part of LumenRadio's new product catalog.
"We are very pleased to be the preferred vendor of wireless technology for some of the strongest and most innovative brands in our industry. We see this as confirmation that our relentless focus on technology and product development has paid off and will pave the immediate way for further strong growth in both OEM relationships and product sales", says Hans Lau, Director of OEM at LumenRadio.
The entire CRMX product line, including the new Unity and SuperNova 2.0, as well as all the familiar faces of LumenRadio's staff can be found in stand 1-F49 at the PLASA show.


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Boy with Chrysanthemums
circa 1936-1937
Eugene H. Thomason (American, 1895 - 1972)
Eugene Thomason was born in South Carolina and moved to Charlotte with his family in 1911 at the age of sixteen. By 1920 he had relocated to New York to pursue his interest in art at the Art Students League, where he studied under John Sloan. Soon, however, Thomason met Sloan's colleague George Luks, who had a tremendous influence on him and who soon became one of his close personal friends. The two started an art school together in 1925 and Luks was a frequent visitor at Thomason's home in the North Carolina mountains in the 1930s and 1940s.
While the pose of the boy in this large-scale portrait is reminiscent of Rodin's famous 1880 sculpture The Thinker, the rough surface, thick layers of paint, and everyday subject matter all suggest the impact that working with Luks had upon Thomason's art. Thomason left New York in 1932; by 1934 he was living in Charlotte, where this painting was likely created. He was one of the first artists to have a solo exhibition at The Mint Museum, which displayed a selection of his recent paintings in 1937, just a year after it opened to the public.
Place object was created: United States
oil paint, canvas
Measurements: frame height: 49 inches frame width: 43.5 inches canvas height: 41.38 inches canvas width: 35.25 inches frame depth: 2.75 inchesGift of Dr. A. Everett James, Jr. and Jeannette Cross James 1981.82
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Mutt Mixer Bulldog Play Time
The other week, a few of us from Trupanion attended the CityDog Magazine Mutt Mixer and we got to meet some great pet owners and their adorable canine companions! Here is a fun video we took of some Bulldogs playing with a 15 week old puppy.
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The inaugural Maui Film Festival Visionary Award went to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama during his recent trip to Maui on April 24. The fest organizers said the honor expressed the org's "appreciation for the many ways in which the deep wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism has inspired our commitment to present movies that set free tears of laughter, sorrow and joy in a world that doesn't always seem to make sense."
The actress will receive the Nova Award. She has "The Flock," "Stadust" and "Evening" on deck this year.
The veteran actor will get the Navigator Award, bestowed on an artist who can sail through the shark-infested waters of Hollywood with his or her integrity intact. Currently onscreen in "Mr. Brooks," the Oscar winner's roles span every genre. Hurt's got several films stacked up like 747s ready for takeoff in the next 18 months, including "Vantage Point" with Dennis Quaid and Sean Penn's "Into the Wild."


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The Diary Corporation's head office was established in 2013 in Tucson, AZ. While our core team continues to be based in Tucson, we currently total 45 employees and consultants worldwide.
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The first prototype of The Diary was developed in New Zealand in 2010. Many members of our international development team are still based in New Zealand.
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The Diary Corporation has an exclusive partnership with T-GAIA Corporation to offer its products and services in the Japan market*.
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Even the Christmas/Chanukah season does not generate as much anticipation as SF Beer week does in our household.
First up, an opening ceremony tapping of the official SF Beer week ale, New Albion, at City Beer Store, which only Joe managed to make it to.
He really enjoyed the New Albion Ale, and said it was very drinkable – light with a nice malt side to it and had good flavor for a over 30 year old recipe. Before running out to the next event, he grabbed a quick taste of Pliny the Younger. Mmmmm…delicious.
Then, on to the Jug Shop, where I and two of our friends met up with him to taste the full lineup of Sierra Nevada beer. I'd had the Bigfoot before, but it was still my favorite of the night. I also enjoyed the Porter, and the Torpedo continues to be one of our new favorite beers. I find it infinitely more drinkable than their standard pale ale, which is far too bitter for me.
It was a pretty low-key event, with no big surprises. The Jug Shop has tastings every Friday night, though, and I'm looking forward to attending some of those. A great start to the festivities!
UP NEXT: Follow Joe to the East Bay for The Bistro's Doube IPA Festival in Hayward!


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Earth mother, Attachment parent, Continuum parent, Conscious parenting, Mindful parenting…
There are so many movements, labels and styles of parenting around these days, and they are all doing wonders for our children as we bring back the natural parenting practices that enable our children to thrive. But these labels can also be intimidating to mothers not in the "natural parenting" crowd.
They can even seem alienating and cliquey, so for mothers who have heard these labels and have made the decision to steer well clear, thinking we are all some kind of perfectionist super Mama's, I want to let you in on a little secret….
You may be more of an Attachment Parent than you think!
Let me break down for you what we really do:
- We respect our children
- We follow their lead when it comes to food, sleep and things that concern them
- We talk to them and set boundaries
- We discuss and role model, rather than punish and reward
- We make mistakes
- Then we apologise for them
- We listen to them
- We trust them
- We love them unconditionally
I'm willing to bet that if you though you were nothing like us weird Attachment/Continuum/Conscious/Earth mama/Natural parenting types, you might be realising that we aren't so different after all, am I right?
The labels are great when they work for you, but just like anything in life, you don't have to tick all the boxes to qualify as the perfect parent. What works for your family, might not work for the next, but there are a few key aspects that can make the difference between joyful parenting and happy children, or stressed out parents in constant conflict with their offspring.
When it comes down to it, we all have one thing in common. We know what it feels like to have *our hearts go walking around outside our bodies, and we wouldn't change it for the world.
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*Taken from a quote by Elizabeth Stone


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The Guardian reports that schools in Southern California have removed the dictionary from classrooms because it contains dirty words. No, really. I think this is how civilizations collapse:
Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms…after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for "oral sex."
Merriam Webster's 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth grade classrooms (for children aged nine to 10) in Menifee Union school district, has been pulled from shelves over fears that the "sexually graphic" entry is "just not age appropriate."
The dictionary's online definition of the term is "oral stimulation of the genitals". "It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature," district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper.
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1 dead, 3 injured when small plane crashes in NY
EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – A single-engine plane flown by a pilot making a practice landing crashed in New York on Sunday, killing a passenger and injuring the pilot and two other passengers.
The plane crashed into four parked cars at Republic Airport on Long Island at 9 a.m. Sunday, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said.
Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the pilot of the Marchetti four-seater was practicing landing the plane by making repeated approaches or "touch and goes" when he crashed.
"There was no indication from the pilot that there was any problem," Peters said. "No mayday or distress message from the plane."
Passenger Ed Cerverizzo, 75, of Garden City, was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Massapequa, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The pilot, Gus Halouvas, 55, of North Bellmore, was taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow with spinal injuries.
Passenger William Mancusi, 83, of Brooklyn, was taken to Nassau University Medical Center for treatment of facial lacerations. Passenger Charles Bianculli, 61, of Lindenhurst, was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, where was listed in critical condition.
No one was injured on the ground, Suffolk police said.
Both the police and the FAA were investigating the crash.
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