Augh! Too much mixing of English and Metric units!:)
BTW, if someone would just create a "turn signal ticket camera", ticket revenue would increase, people would actually be safer / less angry, and I'd be much less irritated at the gov't. In the quite rural area that I call home, the exact same roads that have 55MPH signs up now used to have 65MPH signs - back when cars were heavier, drum brakes were standard, and suspensions were designed for soft rides, not handling. The limit was reduced to improve fuel economy, not safety.
Of course, last night, that teenage girl who passed me in a Dodge Stratus traveling right at 100MPH (I paced her at 100 for a few seconds before we got back into some traffic) while she had *both* hands off of the wheel fixing her hair in moderate traffic should have been ticketed. I should have been ticketed too, probably, but I had both hands on the steering wheel and I slowed down to [about] the 65MPH limit when we got close to other cars again.:)
That little "updates are available" icon that shows up in the corner when updates are available - it's just a figment of your imagination. And the ease of clicking on the icon and then on "ok", why, even if the icon was real? That whole process would be far too difficult for the average computer user to deal with - if it wasn't non-existant.
I sure hope the patches to this *open source* browser are distributed, <sarcasm>instead of being hidden from the public like most fixes to open-source stuff</sarcasm>.
The file sharing process access files with the permissions of the connecting user. Multiple users, running programs on the same machine at the same time.
None the less, as I said in the parent, I don't generally consider windows outside of Terminal Server to be multi-user, even though applications can be added to make it look that way.
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Lynx or Mosaic I could see, or possibly "Netscape with auto-load images turned off", but I refuse to believe that anyone switched to IE because of performance. I don't know anyone perosnally who did it, therefore it could not have happened.
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You switched because IE rendered pages faster? That fraction of a second (or maybe even a second or two on a rare page at the time) actually made a difference? What? Prior to that, did you send email to all of the crappy web designers out there who didn't specify a width and height on their image tags?
IE dominated because it was free and bundled with Windows. There was only one person who switched because of the performance difference. Netscape eventually died because it took them too long to release a new product, and then they rushed in the last couple of months, releasing the biggest piece of shit ever. If they'd just waited a few more months...
It's pretty trivial to set up new instances of trac to correspond to new SVN repositories. If your repository contains multiple projects grouped by a folder, though, you have a point...
That's an undefined wiki page. I could set up that page to say that Van Gogh cut off his ear in exchange for a cheese sandwich and a coke if that's what I wanted people to believe, and it'd stay that way until someone changed it.
The same could be said about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh as well, I suppose, except that page (which actually has content) says that he "cut off part of his ear and gave it to a prostitute friend". It may say something about a cheese sandwich when it's next viewed, though.:)
A multi-user system allows multiple users to use the system at the same time. Accessing files via network file sharing counts as use. Otherwise, Win 95 and 98 don't count either, nor does NT prior to 4.0 (and 4.0's remote access wasn't exactly spectacular). I personally don't consider any version of Windows - save Termial Server - to be a multi-user system. That includes XP with the desktop switching thingie.
It was possible to run multiple instances of any version of windows, though, using DOS command switching utilites.:)
Yeah, and busy rsync sites regularly exclude everything in order to keep CPU overhead down - ignoring the observation that compression is handy when you're transferring parts of a file as opposed to the whole thing...
It actually supported most network logins at the time, but getting profiles and such to work was a pain, and it did a terrible job of separating different users. Windows has had multi-user support somewhat since windows for workgroups, AKA Windows 3.11.
There's also the overhead of compression, which admittedly doesn't make much sense on a file that's already bzipped. What they need is a caching rsync proxy that checks the file to see if it's changed since the last access.:)
More people should look in to noatime in general. The only use I have for atime is rendered moot by stupid network clients that feel compelled to recursively hit every file in a directory when they're browsing. Cough apple calculating size of folders via netatalk cough. Etc.
Debian unstable is generally stuff that's actually pretty stable compared to what goes in to other distros, and my experience with Gentoo has been different from yours. I have had 0 problems from emerge (portage). None. Granted, I've been using Linux for over a decade, but I don't believe that my success with Gentoo is based entirely on my experience with Linux.
I've never seen anyone who had problems with emerge breaking anything actually say what those problems were, though, so I'm a bit disinclined to believe the emerge was so much the problem as the user behind the keyboard. Two years ago, things may have been different, but so far teh only package-manager problems I've had were 1) the RPM database becomes corrupt, royally screwing my redhat system (would've screwed SuSE/etc just as hard), and 2) screwed up dependencies between RPMs.
I'm inclined to think that the problems people have on Gentoo are related to messing with things outside of the "Gentoo" way. Install a package outside of emerge without injecting it / making an eBuild? Move some config files around? Mixing stable with unstable? Problems might happen.
Like I said, two years ago things may have been different, or you might have hit a real bug, but I'm running 12 Gentoo machines right now on a mixture of architectures (x86 and PPC), and with sane CFLAGS / USE options I've not seen a single problem in the year or so that they've been up. During that year, most all of the packages have been updated at least once, including things like baselayout.
I dunno, I think that acceptance of adequacy may have been fueled by greed, but that the low standards are behind the problem. Greed would exist either way, but it took acceptance of sub-par products to make realization of the greed possible.
Larry Wall was right - good programmers have a sense of Hubris, and want to make their programs "right" whether anyone else will notice or not.
I've gotta crap right now. It'd sure be handy if a robot would take care of that, so I could keep working... I'm glad that's the next thing, so I don't have to wait for a bunch of useless inventions between the "computer controlled solonoids which have surely never been seen before" and the "robot that takes a crap for me".
So it's perfectly OK to do things sub-optimally, even if all it would take is a general understanding of the most basic programming practices to make a product orders of magnitude better? "Well, it mostly works, even though it's dog slow." Do you run Windows?:)
The observation that doing things wrong doesn't always run one's employer into the ground does not magically justify doing things wrong. It's this acceptence of adequecy that's behind the poor state of many things today, but that's a rant for later. My post's good enough for now.;)
Statically linked binaries don't care if the system libraries move. That's what static linking is - the opposite of dynmaic linking. Upgrading libraries that are dynamically linked can cause problems if the upgraded libraries change the interface in a non-upgradeable way, but that doesn't happen often.
You need to get rid of the tilde and run stable, among other things (such as using "uppercase" in sentences).
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Augh! Too much mixing of English and Metric units! :)
:)
BTW, if someone would just create a "turn signal ticket camera", ticket revenue would increase, people would actually be safer / less angry, and I'd be much less irritated at the gov't. In the quite rural area that I call home, the exact same roads that have 55MPH signs up now used to have 65MPH signs - back when cars were heavier, drum brakes were standard, and suspensions were designed for soft rides, not handling. The limit was reduced to improve fuel economy, not safety.
Of course, last night, that teenage girl who passed me in a Dodge Stratus traveling right at 100MPH (I paced her at 100 for a few seconds before we got back into some traffic) while she had *both* hands off of the wheel fixing her hair in moderate traffic should have been ticketed. I should have been ticketed too, probably, but I had both hands on the steering wheel and I slowed down to [about] the 65MPH limit when we got close to other cars again.
That little "updates are available" icon that shows up in the corner when updates are available - it's just a figment of your imagination. And the ease of clicking on the icon and then on "ok", why, even if the icon was real? That whole process would be far too difficult for the average computer user to deal with - if it wasn't non-existant.
I sure hope the patches to this *open source* browser are distributed, <sarcasm>instead of being hidden from the public like most fixes to open-source stuff</sarcasm>.
The file sharing process access files with the permissions of the connecting user. Multiple users, running programs on the same machine at the same time.
None the less, as I said in the parent, I don't generally consider windows outside of Terminal Server to be multi-user, even though applications can be added to make it look that way.
Lynx or Mosaic I could see, or possibly "Netscape with auto-load images turned off", but I refuse to believe that anyone switched to IE because of performance. I don't know anyone perosnally who did it, therefore it could not have happened.
So there.
Augh! Too much slang! :)
You switched because IE rendered pages faster? That fraction of a second (or maybe even a second or two on a rare page at the time) actually made a difference? What? Prior to that, did you send email to all of the crappy web designers out there who didn't specify a width and height on their image tags?
IE dominated because it was free and bundled with Windows. There was only one person who switched because of the performance difference. Netscape eventually died because it took them too long to release a new product, and then they rushed in the last couple of months, releasing the biggest piece of shit ever. If they'd just waited a few more months...
It's pretty trivial to set up new instances of trac to correspond to new SVN repositories. If your repository contains multiple projects grouped by a folder, though, you have a point...
That's an undefined wiki page. I could set up that page to say that Van Gogh cut off his ear in exchange for a cheese sandwich and a coke if that's what I wanted people to believe, and it'd stay that way until someone changed it.
:)
The same could be said about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh as well, I suppose, except that page (which actually has content) says that he "cut off part of his ear and gave it to a prostitute friend". It may say something about a cheese sandwich when it's next viewed, though.
A multi-user system allows multiple users to use the system at the same time. Accessing files via network file sharing counts as use. Otherwise, Win 95 and 98 don't count either, nor does NT prior to 4.0 (and 4.0's remote access wasn't exactly spectacular). I personally don't consider any version of Windows - save Termial Server - to be a multi-user system. That includes XP with the desktop switching thingie.
:)
It was possible to run multiple instances of any version of windows, though, using DOS command switching utilites.
if($post =~ /^(?:.+\s)?phat[\s\.,]/i){
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Yeah, and busy rsync sites regularly exclude everything in order to keep CPU overhead down - ignoring the observation that compression is handy when you're transferring parts of a file as opposed to the whole thing...
It supported "family login"! :)
It actually supported most network logins at the time, but getting profiles and such to work was a pain, and it did a terrible job of separating different users. Windows has had multi-user support somewhat since windows for workgroups, AKA Windows 3.11.
I like "My Only Problems Are Repairs" and "Mostly Old Parts And Rust"...
Though, BMW = "Bought My Wife" is my all-time favorite automotive acronym.
http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/humor-09.html
There's also the overhead of compression, which admittedly doesn't make much sense on a file that's already bzipped. What they need is a caching rsync proxy that checks the file to see if it's changed since the last access. :)
More people should look in to noatime in general. The only use I have for atime is rendered moot by stupid network clients that feel compelled to recursively hit every file in a directory when they're browsing. Cough apple calculating size of folders via netatalk cough. Etc.
Debian unstable is generally stuff that's actually pretty stable compared to what goes in to other distros, and my experience with Gentoo has been different from yours. I have had 0 problems from emerge (portage). None. Granted, I've been using Linux for over a decade, but I don't believe that my success with Gentoo is based entirely on my experience with Linux.
I've never seen anyone who had problems with emerge breaking anything actually say what those problems were, though, so I'm a bit disinclined to believe the emerge was so much the problem as the user behind the keyboard. Two years ago, things may have been different, but so far teh only package-manager problems I've had were 1) the RPM database becomes corrupt, royally screwing my redhat system (would've screwed SuSE/etc just as hard), and 2) screwed up dependencies between RPMs.
I'm inclined to think that the problems people have on Gentoo are related to messing with things outside of the "Gentoo" way. Install a package outside of emerge without injecting it / making an eBuild? Move some config files around? Mixing stable with unstable? Problems might happen.
Like I said, two years ago things may have been different, or you might have hit a real bug, but I'm running 12 Gentoo machines right now on a mixture of architectures (x86 and PPC), and with sane CFLAGS / USE options I've not seen a single problem in the year or so that they've been up. During that year, most all of the packages have been updated at least once, including things like baselayout.
YMMV.
I dunno, I think that acceptance of adequacy may have been fueled by greed, but that the low standards are behind the problem. Greed would exist either way, but it took acceptance of sub-par products to make realization of the greed possible.
Larry Wall was right - good programmers have a sense of Hubris, and want to make their programs "right" whether anyone else will notice or not.
7 gallons? Shaken? Isn't that, like, 56+ pounds of fluid? Seems like a bit of a hassle to shake for 10 minutes or better... :)
So you're the one who bought those Glade "scent stories" things. I was wondering who in the heck that was... :)
If people can't see the difference, why in the heck would they want to pay for something that makes the picture better in imperceptible ways?
:)
Yeah, I buy (and design) stuff that makes things better in imperceptible ways all the time, but it's still a valid question.
I've gotta crap right now. It'd sure be handy if a robot would take care of that, so I could keep working... I'm glad that's the next thing, so I don't have to wait for a bunch of useless inventions between the "computer controlled solonoids which have surely never been seen before" and the "robot that takes a crap for me".
We did not compensate anyone's health, reputation, or employment
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Compensate? Do researchers normally pay anyone's healty, reputation, or employment in some form?
So it's perfectly OK to do things sub-optimally, even if all it would take is a general understanding of the most basic programming practices to make a product orders of magnitude better? "Well, it mostly works, even though it's dog slow." Do you run Windows? :)
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The observation that doing things wrong doesn't always run one's employer into the ground does not magically justify doing things wrong. It's this acceptence of adequecy that's behind the poor state of many things today, but that's a rant for later. My post's good enough for now.
Statically linked binaries don't care if the system libraries move. That's what static linking is - the opposite of dynmaic linking. Upgrading libraries that are dynamically linked can cause problems if the upgraded libraries change the interface in a non-upgradeable way, but that doesn't happen often.
You need to get rid of the tilde and run stable, among other things (such as using "uppercase" in sentences).