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IE 11 Getting WebGL, SPDY/3, New Dev Tools
rescendent writes sends this report about new features in Internet Explorer 11:
"Microsoft released Windows Server ("Blue") to MSDN subscribers today, ahead of the BUILD conference later this week in San Francisco. The build provides us a number of clues as to what we will see in the official Windows 8.1 (Blue) preview. The server build number is 9341, the Windows 8.1 preview build will be: 6.3.9431.winmain_bluemp.130615-1214. IE11 scores 351/500 + 2 bonus point, and 25/25 for WebGL. Since this is a server build, the score may be a little higher than IE11 on Win 8.1, but this confirms WebGL for IE11. IE11 WebGL Conformance Test Results: 14,748 of 20,509 tests pass (71.9%). Many things seen in the Server 2012 R2 preview will also show up in the Windows 8.1 preview."
Server installations by default have the scheduler configured to prioritise services over UI applications, and to provide more deterministic scheduling at the expense of responsiveness to user input.
maybe they're going for "year of the windows server"?
To be fair, those TV's are probably all running Webkit.
I still prefer Chrome over Internet Explorer, but IE 10 (the "Metro" version anyway) isn't a mind-numbingly terrible piece of software in comparison to the competition. It's good to know that, however ironic it may be, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera are all working opposite Google to keep the web away from just a different monoculture.
Boot Windows, Linux, and ESX over the network for free.
You are correct - you can get the same results by adjusting settings and policies to match on pro and server. It's only the defaults that differ. Also, yes the included userland functionality is the big difference.
Swapped? What is this swap? I have 8GB of RAM, I neither need nor have swap. For people with too little memory to run anything without it, it's mandatory. To everyone else, it's just a way to slow down your computer.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The only valid reasons to disable swap are for security or to reduce wear on SSDs.
Bullshit, and also bullshit.
Disabling swap causes less unused memory to be allocated to buffers and storage caches which only hurts performance.
It would hurt performance, but I have more RAM than I actually need, so it doesn't. Meanwhile, swapping out so that you can have more room for buffers hurts performance, especially if you wind up having to swap back in.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Windows XP was released in October of 2001. That's also the same month Red Hat 7.2 was released. I guess you could say that was a good month for operating systems.
You know when Red Hat 7.2 was end-of-lifed? December 2003. Ten years ago.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.