LWN: Comments on "More stuff for 2.6.19"

More stuff for 2.6.19

dlang — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:46:10 +0000

blank DVD's run <$1usd each (single layer, double layer blanks are still ~$2.50)

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kleptog — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:50:42 +0000

If a string with the form |program is written to /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern, all core dumps will be piped to the given program instead of being written to disk.

Now that's a nifty idea I'd never though of...

Dual sided media

jzbiciak — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:42:04 +0000

Something tells me it's less popular than even floppy-tape is... Something about holding 400K tops (with a custom format, that is).

Dual sided media

shredwheat — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:19:45 +0000

You can make some media dual sided by cutting along the edge. Unfortunately this type of media has fallen out of use.

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jbailey — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:24:45 +0000

Wow. So that's like $30 for the drive, and somewhere in the neighbourhood of $30 for the media!

*sigh* I think all of my drives are dual layer now, but I keep waiting for the media to come down in price.

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jzbiciak — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:44:04 +0000

But at $30 a piece, you can by dual layer DVD burners by the 3 pack and still be cheaper than a 1x CD burner was back when "huge" HDs were smaller than dual-layer DVD-Rs. :-)

And for the record, I haven't had any problems yet with my NEC DVD burners. And if it fails, I can replace it for less than the cost of a night out.

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nix — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:40:01 +0000

Hm, 1.6Gb is rather quaint? I'm still backing up a lot of stuff to CD-Rs: 700Mb or so per CD...

What probably is true is that the *devices* that ftape drove are probably on their last legs, so it's sensible to move to something else for that reason alone. CD writers aren't so obsolete: although eventually DVD writers might supplant them, they're so much more annoying to use than CD writers that that might take some time. (I've bought three DVD readers and two DVD writers in my time. *Not one* works properly in Windows or Linux, in each case because of blatant drive hardware problems; e.g. head misalignment or in one case a dry joint leading to intermittent power to the lasers. It's about as clapped out as the high-speed USB situation, where transferring more than a few Mb at high speed causes a lot of USB controllers to corrupt it... do no removable storage vendors *test* their designs?)

wireless extensions

johill — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:57:18 +0000

the WE-21 changes are being reverted again because they break things