My guess would be memory fragmentation; Firefox requests and releases pools of memory from the OS rather than making OS level requests every time it needs memory, and unless a pool is completely unused, it can't be released.
So there is some additional overhead of space that is free for use by new internal requests, but can not be released back to the OS.
Material for which no source can be found should be validated the same way you would verify any other data. A minute or two of searching can usually locate sources. The reader can update the page to include the source, or delete the offending statement if no verification appears to exist.
This is the constructive way to handle the issue. To blindly delete without attempting to validate is simply vandalism.
There are lots of people who auto revert every change they see, in order to get their own change count up.
I gave up on Wikipedia after a struggle to get an entry for a local hiking trail updated with correct information; the article cited a several year old blog post about parts being closed for construction.
Every time I updated the entry to indicate that the trail was open (as the construction had finished years ago), and changed the references to point to current news articles and recent blog postings, it would be reverted within minutes by the same user.
The IRS does pay interest, if they owe you enough.
I found this out last year after a brokerage mixup resulted in a rather large refund; I was pleasantly surprised when they sent me a check and statement for the interest on the amount they owed me.
Actually it's not necessarily an interest free loan.
I had a rather complicated tax situation last year, and as part of it, I ended up massively overpaying, and then claiming back the overpayment. I'm not sure what the threshold is, but there was a line item for "Interest Paid" on the statement, and the IRS actually paid pretty decent interest for the couple of months they had my money.
I'm also amused by the letter I got from the IRS the other day reminding me to declare the interest they paid me. I may frame it.
The solution was to just keep writing data; the 2GB limit was on a single table file. When the amount of data exceeded 2GB, it would just create another file.
I have to admit; I liked the ISA riser card in my ancient crappy Packard Bell 386sx.
When you wanted to swap cards, you just undid one screw, and the whole assembly (riser card, and the surrounding frame that the cards screwed into) came out. You had unobstructed access to all of the cards, and just plugged the riser card back in once you were done.
I did like the system they had in place before that, where the name was just another field you filled out when making a comment, but it really wasn't sustainable in the long run.
I guess you got up a few minutes earlier than me back in 1997.
Anyone out there have any of the mugs that Rob made in an art class, and was selling?
I think you are missing one possible cause of the whining about "deletionism".
I see the problem as editors who revert any changes to articles without taking a moment to verify the fact before they remove it. Often a few seconds of search would have lead to a citation for the fact. Adding the citation would improve the article, whereas a knee jerk reaction to delete the new information leads to stagnation.
Often when I check the contribution history of the editors involved, it consists almost entirely of deleting statements that people have added.
I bought a pair of Infrant ReadyNas NV+ systems a couple of years ago; I kept one for myself, and gave one to my parents.
My computers back up to my nas box, my parent's computer backs up to their nas box.
I keep a ssh tunnel open between both of our networks, and each nas box uses rsync to back up to the other one.
The only problem I've run into so far is Comcast's 250 gig cap; but so far I've been edging in slightly under the limit.
I seem to recall X working decently over the internet back in 1994 or so; there used to be websites which would have you authorize them to access your local X server, before you clicked a link - a program running on the remote webserver would then open an X window on your desktop.
I think the Rome lab snowball cam was one such site; it was an early webcam that let you pretend to throw snowballs at people.
If you don't believe it, try the commands for yourself: -=-=-=-=- overmind% nslookup Default Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 > set querytype=a > www.google.com Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.l.google.com Addresses: 74.125.53.147, 74.125.53.104, 74.125.53.99, 74.125.53.103 Aliases: www.google.com > server 208.67.220.220 Default Server: resolver2.opendns.com Address: 208.67.220.220 > www.google.com Server: resolver2.opendns.com Address: 208.67.220.220 Non-authoritative answer: Name: google.navigation.opendns.com Addresses: 208.69.36.230, 208.69.36.231 Aliases: www.google.com -=-=-=- Talking to my local DNS server, www.google.com resolved to IP addresses in the 74.125.0.0/16 netblock, which is assigned to Google. Talking to resolver2.opendns.com, www.google.com resolved to 208.69.36.230 and 208.69.36.231, which have no reverse information, but are in the 208.69.32.0/21 netblock which is assigned to OpenDNS.
One of the reasons I wrote it was because I got tired of all of the contemporary fiction with computers that made you roll your eyes at how absurd the technology was. You know what I'm talking about: "It's a UNIX system -- I know this!".
If you are referring to the scene with the 3d interface from Jurassic Park, that was SGI's File System Navigator. I used to use it when I administered IRIX systems.
As for the other computer systems in the control room; most of them were running software which was available for IRIX at the time. According to one of SGI's press releases when the movie came out:
Because Silicon Graphics workstations are used by scientists and engineers to visualize and interpret complex data, existing software applications were easily modified for use in the film," said Harry Pforzheimer, director of corporate communications at Silicon Graphics. "Programs like EarthWatch Communications' EarthWatch(tm), which interprets weather data, and a 3D information navigator from Silicon Graphics, which lets users graphically fly through computer file system representations, provided perfect solutions to enhance the story line."
I think you could have picked far better examples of movies/fiction getting technology wrong than Jurassic Park.
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My guess would be memory fragmentation; Firefox requests and releases pools of memory from the OS rather than making OS level requests every time it needs memory, and unless a pool is completely unused, it can't be released.
So there is some additional overhead of space that is free for use by new internal requests, but can not be released back to the OS.
The general opinion is that the LGPL bars distribution of a statically linked binary containing non-GPL family code combined with LGPL code.
You might be able to get away with providing object code for both your binary and the library, but that makes RMS sad.
Nope ; the critical point for Nitrogen is 126.19 K at 3.3978 MPa.
No matter what pressure it is, you have to keep it below -146.96 C ( -232.52800 F, 227.14200 Ra ) if you want to keep it from evaporating.
X0 was the shortest text output from the modem; I usually went for the opposite extreme with X4, so it would log everything while it was connecting.
I remember that for a while my lines were in horrible shape, so I would use s7=255 to disable the dropout detection, and ride out the line noise.
Material for which no source can be found should be validated the same way you would verify any other data. A minute or two of searching can usually locate sources. The reader can update the page to include the source, or delete the offending statement if no verification appears to exist.
This is the constructive way to handle the issue. To blindly delete without attempting to validate is simply vandalism.
There are lots of people who auto revert every change they see, in order to get their own change count up.
I gave up on Wikipedia after a struggle to get an entry for a local hiking trail updated with correct information; the article cited a several year old blog post about parts being closed for construction.
Every time I updated the entry to indicate that the trail was open (as the construction had finished years ago), and changed the references to point to current news articles and recent blog postings, it would be reverted within minutes by the same user.
Small primes are even better.
There is an ATA command called "TRIM". If a device supports it, the OS can tell it that a group of sectors is no longer needed, and should be wiped.
The core of the old "blue amberol" cylinders is made of plaster of Paris, and gradually expands over time as it absorbs water.
That will eventually happen to all of the old cylinders. The pressure will become too great, and they will shatter.
The IRS does pay interest, if they owe you enough.
I found this out last year after a brokerage mixup resulted in a rather large refund; I was pleasantly surprised when they sent me a check and statement for the interest on the amount they owed me.
FYI: the IRS does pay interest if they owe you enough.
I had a mixup with unneeded backup withholding being withheld from the total proceeds of a stock sale, so I had a rather large refund last year.
I was pleasantly surprised to receive an additional check and statement in the mail shortly after I filed my return.
The statement said that the additional payment was for interest, and the IRS sent me a 1099G for the interest this year.
Actually it's not necessarily an interest free loan.
I had a rather complicated tax situation last year, and as part of it, I ended up massively overpaying, and then claiming back the overpayment. I'm not sure what the threshold is, but there was a line item for "Interest Paid" on the statement, and the IRS actually paid pretty decent interest for the couple of months they had my money.
I'm also amused by the letter I got from the IRS the other day reminding me to declare the interest they paid me. I may frame it.
Time to switch to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 perhaps?
The solution was to just keep writing data; the 2GB limit was on a single table file. When the amount of data exceeded 2GB, it would just create another file.
I have to admit; I liked the ISA riser card in my ancient crappy Packard Bell 386sx.
When you wanted to swap cards, you just undid one screw, and the whole assembly (riser card, and the surrounding frame that the cards screwed into) came out. You had unobstructed access to all of the cards, and just plugged the riser card back in once you were done.
I did like the system they had in place before that, where the name was just another field you filled out when making a comment, but it really wasn't sustainable in the long run.
I guess you got up a few minutes earlier than me back in 1997.
Anyone out there have any of the mugs that Rob made in an art class, and was selling?
I think you are missing one possible cause of the whining about "deletionism".
I see the problem as editors who revert any changes to articles without taking a moment to verify the fact before they remove it.
Often a few seconds of search would have lead to a citation for the fact.
Adding the citation would improve the article, whereas a knee jerk reaction to delete the new information leads to stagnation.
Often when I check the contribution history of the editors involved, it consists almost entirely of deleting statements that people have added.
It's a regional eccentricity from the southern US; they tend to refer to all carbonated beverages as "Coke".
There's a nice map showing regional terms at the Pop vs Soda Page.
ELKS Linux should run on it; start digging through the files in http://sourceforge.net/projects/elks/files/.
I bought a pair of Infrant ReadyNas NV+ systems a couple of years ago; I kept one for myself, and gave one to my parents.
My computers back up to my nas box, my parent's computer backs up to their nas box.
I keep a ssh tunnel open between both of our networks, and each nas box uses rsync to back up to the other one.
The only problem I've run into so far is Comcast's 250 gig cap; but so far I've been edging in slightly under the limit.
I seem to recall X working decently over the internet back in 1994 or so; there used to be websites which would have you authorize them to access your local X server, before you clicked a link - a program running on the remote webserver would then open an X window on your desktop.
I think the Rome lab snowball cam was one such site; it was an early webcam that let you pretend to throw snowballs at people.
If you don't believe it, try the commands for yourself:
-=-=-=-=-
overmind% nslookup
Default Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
> set querytype=a
> www.google.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.l.google.com
Addresses: 74.125.53.147, 74.125.53.104, 74.125.53.99, 74.125.53.103
Aliases: www.google.com
> server 208.67.220.220
Default Server: resolver2.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.220.220
> www.google.com
Server: resolver2.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.220.220
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.navigation.opendns.com
Addresses: 208.69.36.230, 208.69.36.231
Aliases: www.google.com
-=-=-=-
Talking to my local DNS server, www.google.com resolved to IP addresses in the 74.125.0.0/16 netblock, which is assigned to Google.
Talking to resolver2.opendns.com, www.google.com resolved to 208.69.36.230 and 208.69.36.231, which have no reverse information, but are in the 208.69.32.0/21 netblock which is assigned to OpenDNS.
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse has a searchable database of DMCA notices, and other take down requests, but they rely on either the sender or receiver to report it to them.
If you are referring to the scene with the 3d interface from Jurassic Park, that was SGI's File System Navigator. I used to use it when I administered IRIX systems.
As for the other computer systems in the control room; most of them were running software which was available for IRIX at the time. According to one of SGI's press releases when the movie came out:
I think you could have picked far better examples of movies/fiction getting technology wrong than Jurassic Park.
I've got 15 year old Laphoraig here.