I think a better comparison would be a piece of hardware that actually comes in the car--like the actual CD player--instead of CDs because nothing in Windows stops me from loading and running other software. I can change the CD player or other components in my car all I want. I can change some components in Windows, too; for example, I can replace the Explorer shell with KDE4 or Litestep.
I don't have the source for Windows so some things I would have to reverse-engineer or hack. I've not purchased a new car before but I assume they don't come with schematic diagrams.
I don't think Microsoft should have to make its products modular but it also shouldn't be able to do anything about people hacking it. Also, Ford doesn't make CD players or CDs.
Web browser, music player, X server--they take turns. It doesn't happen often and it's probably a bug in the software, such as an infinite loop. The important thing is, no matter how much CPU any process is using, anything else running with a priority >= the offending one should at least get a chance at having a few cycles . Unless there's a bug in the OS (or CPU?), it should be impossible for any process to lock up any other.
Perhaps the cause is a process looping on a system call; I'd say that's reason for a little kernel/user interface reform.
If a process using 100% of your cpu "cripples" your machine your OS is broken
I've had both Win and Lin do that (32- and 64-bit) on various computers. Preemtive multitasking on multiple CPUs should make it impossible yet it still happens. What's worse is that by the time top (or whatever process viewer) gets around to actually showing something--possibly 10 minutes later--the culprit process is done masturbating so you can't tell who it was. Something's just wrong when even a text-mode terminal takes minutes to do anything.
Once they have a list of IPs known (or believed) to be torrenting, they can then try to detect PeerGuardian by scanning those computers by connecting from other computers with IPs both on and off the blocklists. The ones that only accept connections from IPs not on the lists get prioritized as hardcore murderous raping Satan-worshipping butt-pirate pedophile terrorist athiests.
I used to have neighbors who would leave their air conditioners running all day, then, when they came home, they'd let the doors hang open for a while to let some warm in. Less stupid people could help, too.
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Eww!!
No credit to Maddox?
I think a better comparison would be a piece of hardware that actually comes in the car--like the actual CD player--instead of CDs because nothing in Windows stops me from loading and running other software. I can change the CD player or other components in my car all I want. I can change some components in Windows, too; for example, I can replace the Explorer shell with KDE4 or Litestep.
I don't have the source for Windows so some things I would have to reverse-engineer or hack. I've not purchased a new car before but I assume they don't come with schematic diagrams.
I don't think Microsoft should have to make its products modular but it also shouldn't be able to do anything about people hacking it. Also, Ford doesn't make CD players or CDs.
Web browser, music player, X server--they take turns. It doesn't happen often and it's probably a bug in the software, such as an infinite loop. The important thing is, no matter how much CPU any process is using, anything else running with a priority >= the offending one should at least get a chance at having a few cycles . Unless there's a bug in the OS (or CPU?), it should be impossible for any process to lock up any other.
Perhaps the cause is a process looping on a system call; I'd say that's reason for a little kernel/user interface reform.
I live in the US; Woohoo!
If a process using 100% of your cpu "cripples" your machine your OS is broken
I've had both Win and Lin do that (32- and 64-bit) on various computers. Preemtive multitasking on multiple CPUs should make it impossible yet it still happens. What's worse is that by the time top (or whatever process viewer) gets around to actually showing something--possibly 10 minutes later--the culprit process is done masturbating so you can't tell who it was. Something's just wrong when even a text-mode terminal takes minutes to do anything.
Don't feed them Red Bull.
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No, but I just went to Wikipedia and I feel enlightened.
I've died from it twice so far. It really is a bad way to go.
I'm not a part of a conspiracy or the Illuminati
That's just what you want me to believe. Anyway, what's a newspaper?
Once they have a list of IPs known (or believed) to be torrenting, they can then try to detect PeerGuardian by scanning those computers by connecting from other computers with IPs both on and off the blocklists. The ones that only accept connections from IPs not on the lists get prioritized as hardcore murderous raping Satan-worshipping butt-pirate pedophile terrorist athiests.
Too late! I already found it ... It's a trap!
I always wondered what happened to the scanner that I ordered in 1994!
Oh my shit! You fuckin' said "p**p"! I'm tattling!
Need to calculate bandwidth-vs-customers carefuly though; You do not want to oversell that bandwidth!
We need to change the name to Urectum to end that joke once and for all.
You could've gotten bonus points if you'd replied to yourself before posting.
I want both; people who are less stupid and fewer people who are stupid. Good point though. I should have hyphenated to yield "Less-stupid".
I used to have neighbors who would leave their air conditioners running all day, then, when they came home, they'd let the doors hang open for a while to let some warm in. Less stupid people could help, too.
I heard that if you say "Three Mile Island" into a mirror three times...
Now we know that some Google-bot has (or will have) indexed a flux capacitor at 88MPH.
You think that's fast? I just tried googling it and I got your comment with my reply!
"For instance"
I will beat that with null-blogging; all you can send is a null-terminator. After I get rich from that, I'll get double-rich with nega-blogging!