It obviously doesn't work in situations like this where the bug is in the runtime and not the application. RTFA.
FTFA:
Though we thought we had cleared all references to old entries in the list, because the objects were still registered as subscribers to an event, they were never getting deleted.
We added one line of code to remove the event subscription and, over the next three days, we successfully ran the car for 300 miles through the Mojave desert. As another poster points out, this is just an advert for a profiler, which helps people who use coding practises that they did not initially fully understand. As much as I wanted it to be a bug in the C# runtime, it's just another PEBKAC issue. The/. article introduction was wonderfully ambiguous on this point, if anything it was inflammatory ("C# memory leak"). Poor article selection if you ask me, but it's been many years since the/. editors genuinely cared about the content on this site rather than the number of hits/adclicks.
Just because Vista is stable for you, doesn't mean it is for everybody. I know plenty of people - including myself - who had bad initial experiences with Vista. Sure, it's shiney, but that's as good as it got for me. I dunno, maybe trying to unzip an eclipse download isn't something an OS like Vista should have to handle...:rolleyes:
This would read better:
My mother-in-law is a very unknowledgeable user. I bought her a computer a week after I bought mine and I set it up with [Ubuntu] (came with XP but [Ubuntu Feisty] had just been released so I [downloaded it for free]). My mother-in-law's biggest problem has always been her kids coming home to visit and downloading or installing crap. It's always been a challenge to lock her XP down. With [Ubuntu] it's a piece of cake. She runs as a standard user and since she isn't a power user, she rarely has to be bothered by UAC. When she is, it's no big deal to enter the admin password. Now when I go to visit I don't have to spend hours cleaning off viruses and spyware. It all just works. She's never had an issue and I never have to fix something using the [SSH server it came with] like I used to with her XP [over VNC which I had to install]. Aaaah... better.:-)
Actually, there's one key difference. This story is unfinished. There are two endings. One includes the phrase "malware and viruses" and the other doesn't. I'll let you wait for the virus/spyware world to catch up with Vista before you realise yours is the story with the bad ending. Then again, you can rewrite this story in a few years subbing Vista for XP, so bookmark this page and in a few years, when you come back to it, remember to thank me for saving you the effort to have to rewrite it.
I like Slashdot but lately it's becoming more and more like Digg. Er... ruh-eally... the whole M$/windoze thing and similar immature rants have been on/. long before digg even existed. In fact, given the fact/. is a traditional Linux stronghold in terms of readership, it might even be accurate to suggest the whole M$/windoze bashing culture originated here.
Or do you mean these days/.ers only make childish comments rather than posting goatse links (not seen that one for a few months altho I don't read the majority of comments) so have softened up to be more like digg commenters?
If you were hoping judges would see reason and realize that just using a program that could violate copyright law is about as illegal as leaving your back door unlocked, think again. I'm sorry but this "back door" analogy is bogus and we're shooting ourselves in the foot trying to play dumb like this. Using Kazaa/whatever is more like posting a sign on your FRONT door saying, "I have music, come grab a copy."
Don't get me wrong - I disagree with the extent of the damages and the litigation in the first place but playing dumb and equating file transfers (copies you implicitly sanction by using file sharing software) with burglary (somebody breaking into your house and removing your personal affects) will only help them bring down any attempts to justify file sharing protocols.
I agree the result in this case is ridiculous but the Howell's really should have hired a lawyer or at least got legal advice on their defense. They needed to emphasize that no illegal activity had occured. The galling aspect to this case is that they have been punished for future crimes - essentially the judge didn't buy their argument that they were only intending private sharing and that they would have gone on to share files with other Kazaa users in the future.
I think Kazaa need to change their logo. "Fast, safe, free." The terms 'safe' and 'free' are false advertising.
Students... are groups of young people with... copious amounts of free time I'm guessing you've never been a student. I'm guessing you've never been a student!
It's not university resources that is the cause of this backlash. When the RIAA was prosecuting citizens, these are busy people with little time and tight budgets and generally isolated from other people being pursued by the RIAA.
Students... now... these are groups of young people with common interests and copious amounts of free time, who are looking for worthy causes to fight that can define their generation, and have much less to lose as they don't have mortgages, families, and savings. Except for lawyers, you couldn't target a worse group of people. Trying to come down harder on them will make them come together more and strengthen their resolve to stamp out this persecution, a perceived abuse of their civil and human rights.
Good. It's time the RIAA got it's ass kicked and it's especially humbling that it's students doing it - probably the worst offenders on the RIAA hitlist.
Anybody who has used Linux on a system that is not swimming in ram or >1Ghz CPU will have been afflicted by performance problems at some point.
My 700mhz celeron machine would frequently grind to a halt if it was overloaded. If I compiled whilst listening to music it would usually cause the audio to become laggy and choppy. (I had a SBAWE32.) Of course, with newer hardware like you kids are used to lately, none of these things will happen, but computers that are not new should not be consigned to the dustbin, and if we make Linux more responsive on old machine then maybe it will perform better on new machines too?
This article is certainly not bullshit. Con Kolivas is the voice of many Lusers who have witnessed such problems over the years.
Not always true. Look at the Ubuntu derivatives. They build upon Ubuntu, not duplicating effort. OFten they even give back upstream to Ubuntu. So now you have lots of distros working toward different goals yet helping eachother with the same problems. If anything, that's ideal.
Perhaps the reality is that Linux is not that great for clustering? Other operating systems are specifically designed with clustering in mind. DragonflyBSD springs to mind. From the DragonflyBSD website:
"The DragonFly project's ultimate goal is to provide generic clustering support natively in the kernel.
I don't know the specifics but maybe it was a case of square peg and round holes with Linux and clusters.
It has more applications, more libraries, more documentation - all from years of industry backing, making Java a behemoth when it comes to implementing anything. And Java has Eclipse, C# has Visual Studio. Eclipse is amazing. Visual Studio is, well, it's good but it does not compare to Eclipse in terms of features and extensibility and stability.
Recently I had to mine information from a Paradox 7 database. I had an existing C# middleware server to adapt to do this. Skip forward a month and it's all done using ODBC to make the connection. (We'll gloss over how the default MS driver only does Paradox 4/5 and not 7, forcing the usage of DataDirect's expensive ODBC driver.) So, go to the client to install it, and it doesn't work - turns out the DB is on a network share which appears local. Ok, so, inexperience on my part for not getting the full topology correct and replicating it in the development environment - not a C# problem itself. Turns out no ODBC driver will connect to a Paradox DB on a share, but a JDBC driver from hxxt will.
So, C#, can use anything in it right? After days trying to plug a JDBC driver into C# middleware I ditch it and rewrite the part the client needs purely in Java.
I've done in a few days what took a month using C#. The JDBC driver is lightening quick whereas ODBC was slow as hell and problematic at best. Eclipse is a dream to use compared to VS2005. SharpDevelop is miles off.
I can rely on Java and the Java world. I just can't say the same for C# and it's world.
We've got this saying for these things... "Shit happens."
No matter how advanced a civilization is, I'm sure they could not eliminate technical faults altogether or produce system that is impervious to all acts of nature.
Should they exist, I'm sure it is unlikely an alien space ship may crash. However, it is not impossible.
Also you speak as if it is the only alien visit we have had. If it turns out Roswell is real, then it is not unfair to assume we have been visited more than just once - only they happened to crash at Roswell.
Of course it could also be true that it was an elaborate border crossing attempt by some mute Mexicans who came from a family of prominent monobrows that Lt. Haut believed to be aliens because they could not communicate the origin of their deformity.
Although seriously, why is it taking so long to complete Spore development? The preview movies showcased what looked like a near-complete experience. Surely, beyond a few bugs and a bit of extra media, it can't have been too far away from being a playable game. Are they being perfectionists or maybe all was not what it seemed with those demonstrations. I'm guessing that more than a few cheap hacks were made to present the illusion of a grandiose game of evolution when it was probably a few not-so-impressive different games tied together with a whole lot of pre-prepared material. Great for getting investment, sucky for fans who drool over something that isn't [yet] real and even worse for investors who are taking a bigger gamble than they realise.
Sadly this game is only freeware. If it were open source, I'm sure there would be enough people interested in porting it to Linux for there to be a native client.
I don't understand freeware games. Why limit it to just being freeware? Why not make it really properly Free then the community can fix problems, can port code, can bring new features to the table.
However that is the right of the author, to choose under what terms they can disclose their software. I just don't understand it. If you give the game away for free, why not make it Free Software and everybody wins? Nobody is going to steal your code - forks only usually happen for very good reasons (codebase stagnation and survival, different direction, etc).
Not only that, but the 48K was the toughest piece of computing equipment I ever had. As an intolerant little kid, I remember throwing it, stamping on it, and generally treating it like shit. Once a key fell off. Other than that it worked flawlessly. It was an awesome way to vent anger when those 5 minute loads repeatedly failed.
Not only that, but this is a review of a project that is being merged back into the original; Compiz.
What's the point in running a story about something that is basically going to disappear? A compiz article would be much more appropriate since that is even installed on a default Ubuntu installation these days. Beryl is just the name for a now-dead fork.
Really, and do you think they'll magically be developed to the standard that Compiz/Beryl are already at? Do you think Compiz/Beryl/Merged-project are about to just stop development? Metacity and KWin are being left behind at a staggering pace. They will continue to serve their respective desktops as basic window managers that provide the essential functions necessary for working in a 2D desktop environment. Beryl/Compiz are the future, now.
They can't leave! If they do, I will have read the 45 page install manual for nothing!
Not at all. What most people do not realise about Gentoo is that most of the value is educational. Like most people, I used it for a while until I got sick of so much compiling, but what I learnt from the installation procedure (installed it a few times) and from the various challenges / problems that such a cutting edge distro is hampered by when it comes to getting things to work, I learnt an incredible amount about Linux.
Now if I have a problem with my much simpler Ubuntu setup, I have no trouble sorting it out because I'm confident and knowledgeable about the Linux environment I'm working in. I would never have attained that kind of knowledge through using something that hides all the complexities of a Linux system - and those complexities are incredibly intimidating to somebody who hasn't had a learning experience and all of a sudden has a problem with their "easy-to-use" distribution.
I would recommend installing Debian or Gentoo or both to anybody serious about administering Linux environments. There's no substitute for getting your hands dirty. You want to be a mechanic? Get under the car.
Play Dune II then get back to us on why people don't like C&C. C&C did nothing but give a new image to an existing game. That's all Westwood have done for years with that. Even 10 years later with Dune III then gameplay was identical to Dune II and the inbetween C&C releases. Honestly, the unoriginality of Westwood has disgusted me for years and I'm mystified as to how the majority of the gaming community has failed to realise this.
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Just because Vista is stable for you, doesn't mean it is for everybody. I know plenty of people - including myself - who had bad initial experiences with Vista. Sure, it's shiney, but that's as good as it got for me. I dunno, maybe trying to unzip an eclipse download isn't something an OS like Vista should have to handle... :rolleyes:
Actually, there's one key difference. This story is unfinished. There are two endings. One includes the phrase "malware and viruses" and the other doesn't. I'll let you wait for the virus/spyware world to catch up with Vista before you realise yours is the story with the bad ending. Then again, you can rewrite this story in a few years subbing Vista for XP, so bookmark this page and in a few years, when you come back to it, remember to thank me for saving you the effort to have to rewrite it.
Or do you mean these days
Don't get me wrong - I disagree with the extent of the damages and the litigation in the first place but playing dumb and equating file transfers (copies you implicitly sanction by using file sharing software) with burglary (somebody breaking into your house and removing your personal affects) will only help them bring down any attempts to justify file sharing protocols.
I agree the result in this case is ridiculous but the Howell's really should have hired a lawyer or at least got legal advice on their defense. They needed to emphasize that no illegal activity had occured. The galling aspect to this case is that they have been punished for future crimes - essentially the judge didn't buy their argument that they were only intending private sharing and that they would have gone on to share files with other Kazaa users in the future.
I think Kazaa need to change their logo. "Fast, safe, free." The terms 'safe' and 'free' are false advertising.
If you look closely at the images, you can see a constellation of stars in the shape of a gun...
The real question is, who fired it?
For the record, I have.
It's not university resources that is the cause of this backlash. When the RIAA was prosecuting citizens, these are busy people with little time and tight budgets and generally isolated from other people being pursued by the RIAA.
Students... now... these are groups of young people with common interests and copious amounts of free time, who are looking for worthy causes to fight that can define their generation, and have much less to lose as they don't have mortgages, families, and savings. Except for lawyers, you couldn't target a worse group of people. Trying to come down harder on them will make them come together more and strengthen their resolve to stamp out this persecution, a perceived abuse of their civil and human rights.
Good. It's time the RIAA got it's ass kicked and it's especially humbling that it's students doing it - probably the worst offenders on the RIAA hitlist.
OMG people even have to steal comments these days?
I wrote this comment on kerneltrap.
Christ, that's incredible. Nice one "bconway".
Anybody who has used Linux on a system that is not swimming in ram or >1Ghz CPU will have been afflicted by performance problems at some point.
My 700mhz celeron machine would frequently grind to a halt if it was overloaded. If I compiled whilst listening to music it would usually cause the audio to become laggy and choppy. (I had a SBAWE32.) Of course, with newer hardware like you kids are used to lately, none of these things will happen, but computers that are not new should not be consigned to the dustbin, and if we make Linux more responsive on old machine then maybe it will perform better on new machines too?
This article is certainly not bullshit. Con Kolivas is the voice of many Lusers who have witnessed such problems over the years.
Not always true. Look at the Ubuntu derivatives. They build upon Ubuntu, not duplicating effort. OFten they even give back upstream to Ubuntu. So now you have lots of distros working toward different goals yet helping eachother with the same problems. If anything, that's ideal.
Perhaps the reality is that Linux is not that great for clustering? Other operating systems are specifically designed with clustering in mind. DragonflyBSD springs to mind. From the DragonflyBSD website:
"The DragonFly project's ultimate goal is to provide generic clustering support natively in the kernel.I don't know the specifics but maybe it was a case of square peg and round holes with Linux and clusters.
The healthcare system employs people... *shrugs*
I'll give you the #1 reason Java pwns C#: depth
It has more applications, more libraries, more documentation - all from years of industry backing, making Java a behemoth when it comes to implementing anything. And Java has Eclipse, C# has Visual Studio. Eclipse is amazing. Visual Studio is, well, it's good but it does not compare to Eclipse in terms of features and extensibility and stability.
Recently I had to mine information from a Paradox 7 database. I had an existing C# middleware server to adapt to do this. Skip forward a month and it's all done using ODBC to make the connection. (We'll gloss over how the default MS driver only does Paradox 4/5 and not 7, forcing the usage of DataDirect's expensive ODBC driver.) So, go to the client to install it, and it doesn't work - turns out the DB is on a network share which appears local. Ok, so, inexperience on my part for not getting the full topology correct and replicating it in the development environment - not a C# problem itself. Turns out no ODBC driver will connect to a Paradox DB on a share, but a JDBC driver from hxxt will.
So, C#, can use anything in it right? After days trying to plug a JDBC driver into C# middleware I ditch it and rewrite the part the client needs purely in Java.
I've done in a few days what took a month using C#. The JDBC driver is lightening quick whereas ODBC was slow as hell and problematic at best. Eclipse is a dream to use compared to VS2005. SharpDevelop is miles off.
I can rely on Java and the Java world. I just can't say the same for C# and it's world.
We've got this saying for these things... "Shit happens."
No matter how advanced a civilization is, I'm sure they could not eliminate technical faults altogether or produce system that is impervious to all acts of nature.
Should they exist, I'm sure it is unlikely an alien space ship may crash. However, it is not impossible.
Also you speak as if it is the only alien visit we have had. If it turns out Roswell is real, then it is not unfair to assume we have been visited more than just once - only they happened to crash at Roswell.
Of course it could also be true that it was an elaborate border crossing attempt by some mute Mexicans who came from a family of prominent monobrows that Lt. Haut believed to be aliens because they could not communicate the origin of their deformity.
For me, living in Manchester, England, the main barrier to using a bike is the bloodey weather. It rains, lots.
Although seriously, why is it taking so long to complete Spore development? The preview movies showcased what looked like a near-complete experience. Surely, beyond a few bugs and a bit of extra media, it can't have been too far away from being a playable game. Are they being perfectionists or maybe all was not what it seemed with those demonstrations. I'm guessing that more than a few cheap hacks were made to present the illusion of a grandiose game of evolution when it was probably a few not-so-impressive different games tied together with a whole lot of pre-prepared material. Great for getting investment, sucky for fans who drool over something that isn't [yet] real and even worse for investors who are taking a bigger gamble than they realise.
That's why they have categories, so just pay attention to the tech-related categories.
Sadly this game is only freeware. If it were open source, I'm sure there would be enough people interested in porting it to Linux for there to be a native client. I don't understand freeware games. Why limit it to just being freeware? Why not make it really properly Free then the community can fix problems, can port code, can bring new features to the table. However that is the right of the author, to choose under what terms they can disclose their software. I just don't understand it. If you give the game away for free, why not make it Free Software and everybody wins? Nobody is going to steal your code - forks only usually happen for very good reasons (codebase stagnation and survival, different direction, etc).
Sorry, you are correct, I meant the 48k+.
Not only that, but the 48K was the toughest piece of computing equipment I ever had. As an intolerant little kid, I remember throwing it, stamping on it, and generally treating it like shit. Once a key fell off. Other than that it worked flawlessly. It was an awesome way to vent anger when those 5 minute loads repeatedly failed.
Not only that, but this is a review of a project that is being merged back into the original; Compiz. What's the point in running a story about something that is basically going to disappear? A compiz article would be much more appropriate since that is even installed on a default Ubuntu installation these days. Beryl is just the name for a now-dead fork.
Really, and do you think they'll magically be developed to the standard that Compiz/Beryl are already at? Do you think Compiz/Beryl/Merged-project are about to just stop development? Metacity and KWin are being left behind at a staggering pace. They will continue to serve their respective desktops as basic window managers that provide the essential functions necessary for working in a 2D desktop environment. Beryl/Compiz are the future, now.
They can't leave! If they do, I will have read the 45 page install manual for nothing!
Not at all. What most people do not realise about Gentoo is that most of the value is educational. Like most people, I used it for a while until I got sick of so much compiling, but what I learnt from the installation procedure (installed it a few times) and from the various challenges / problems that such a cutting edge distro is hampered by when it comes to getting things to work, I learnt an incredible amount about Linux.
Now if I have a problem with my much simpler Ubuntu setup, I have no trouble sorting it out because I'm confident and knowledgeable about the Linux environment I'm working in. I would never have attained that kind of knowledge through using something that hides all the complexities of a Linux system - and those complexities are incredibly intimidating to somebody who hasn't had a learning experience and all of a sudden has a problem with their "easy-to-use" distribution.
I would recommend installing Debian or Gentoo or both to anybody serious about administering Linux environments. There's no substitute for getting your hands dirty. You want to be a mechanic? Get under the car.
Play Dune II then get back to us on why people don't like C&C. C&C did nothing but give a new image to an existing game. That's all Westwood have done for years with that. Even 10 years later with Dune III then gameplay was identical to Dune II and the inbetween C&C releases. Honestly, the unoriginality of Westwood has disgusted me for years and I'm mystified as to how the majority of the gaming community has failed to realise this.