Open the Ubuntu software centre, click on the category 'office' and browse... Each software package collection got a summary of what it is (for) and what is does and doesn't.
Tom's Hardware created a series of articles about this? OH MY FSCKING GOD! What a bunch of total retards! Maybe even more retarded are the people that actually read this and even more retarded are the people that submit this to/. instead of Digg.com and even MORE retarded is the... *ok I'm not gonna say it*
The bug exists in the Kernel Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) which is part of the Gallium3D driver architecture.
GEM and TTM are kernel space memory managers and part of the new graphics driver stack. Only Intel uses (and created) GEM and therefore the problem is only with the Intel drivers. This is where the memory leak occurs and is exactly one of the pieces that has been backported.
In the past the FLOSS drivers where partly inside of X.org (2D) and Mesa (3D).
Currently Mesa is being fiddled with to run on top of the Gallium drivers (being a state tracker) and X.org is being prepared to become something that runs on top of the new driver stack as well (also as a state tracker).
Anyway... the problem occurs because of the kernel backporting and has nothing to do with X.org. xserver is slowly becomming useless as the Wayland display manager (made by a Red Hat employe) can also use the X.org client (it is a server) built on top of these techniques. The only problem for now is that GTK+ and QT4.x need to support Wayland, but it is all in the planning.
The horrors of X.org are becomming obsolete, one patch at a time;)
Steve Jobs aknowledges that he of course the Mac OS X platform is totally proprietary, but he then raises his concerns about the fact that he believes that the WORLD WIDE WEB should ALWAYS be OPEN.
And Steve Jobs completely nailed it: "New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."
Kaboom!
Signed, -Fedora user that buys AMD hardware to support AMD's new FLOSS and non-NDA-restrcited freely available documentation for everyone to be able to write a fully working driver for Radeon hardware
So how is that ribbon interface working out for you on your widescreen? Miss the space to actually see what your typing? I thought that Microsoft Office was a "What you see is what you get" editor.
And how are all those malware virusses and nasty shit affecting your Windows install? You can't detect a rootkit if you got 'em! If you got a virus scanner of some sort it will eat more CPU and more importantly HDD access time. Not to mention all the time and money due to power consumption by which you unnessecairily polute our planet with that takes up your life. Also the defragmentations and whatnot... Go no suspend to RAM with you driver? AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaahw that sucks... nobody will fix this for you in your binary blob. Aaaaawh too bad...
And all this reduced CPU time due to the DRM and whatever Windows is 'doing'...
Your window management SUCKS. You get no free of charge video editor that kicks the shit out of iMovie and Sony Vegas (KDenLive, yes Linux has the best video editing for a long while...)
Etc, etc, etc...
By using a free of charge, documented OS I am actually able to do a lot and fullfill all of my needs. You on the other hand are the retart in this case.
Okey thanks bye. Oh and please die from something very soon, or opt out for the castration clause, because if you reproduce you will statistically lower the entire worlds IQ avarage.
Oh and BTW, that comment of yours was processed by freedom and gratis software...:)
There is a difference between a lense that wears out over time of usage (products that are being consumed, like with a non-rechargeble battery) and a car that simply works, but after service got it's backseat stripped. But hey, you can still drive the car, right? So what's the problem. Many people will never use teh backseat when they buy a car when they travel...
Riiiight... A supernova occurs when a star reaches crticle mass (it burns up untill it reaches the last remaining mass), and then all the remaining chemicals burn all at once causing the explosion and uber death and... right....
Where was I? Oh yeah; when the mass in the experiment burns up there will be no remaining mass and even if it does it soooooooooooooooooo tiny and has sooooooooooo much low amount of mass that it will not even have the impact of a grenade.
Too bad for you that lawyer tactics won't work on/., simply because here be do morons and no laws, except for the warning that everything that you say can and will be used against you in the a court of internet forum.
And that can't be done while working on one of the hottest tech products around?
If it is your own product? Than yes. If you are just 'part' of a team and you do not get artistic freedom? Then, at least for me, that would be a giant no go. Well... not a no-go, just not worth of doing 90 hours/ week. Imagine you would instantly sleep when you go to bed (8 hours), you work from monday till sunday, all freaking year-in-year-out, and with only 3 hours of spare time per day and not counting time to travel. You might want to rethink about it now? Also not counting ANY breaks. So you'll pretty much sleep at Apple...
And that can't be done while working on one of the hottest tech products around? Some people actually enjoy the work they do, work with awesome people, and would call "being a major contributor to a device that tens of millions of people around the world use for hours every day," "pretty awesome."
Of course. However I would never trade my life for not being recognised for something I am not solely responsible for and my name would never be known for and thus not recognised.
My brain works a little different. My pressure is fixing what is in my mind not right. If I see a plastic MP3 player from cheap ass company X, the first thing I think is "Why the hell not shape it like this, rearange that, name it Y and change the freaking [insert_something_here_followed_by_:]tronics name into Z.
Working at Apple would never put me in such a position.
You seem to view work as something which must be dull, boring, and soul-crushing. I feel sorry for you, if that's the type of work you do.
I do actually currently doing such a thing, but only for half a year to earn money to go something in my country that is considdered university grade in the USA.
Awesome job: it stresses you out so much that while sleep derived you forget your mobile phone that is sooooooooooooo special to you that you can't even remember to put it back in your pocket after you made a call.
It's a phone. You throw away your entire social life to work on mobile... phone...
Good luck building your resume... I, for one, would like to look back on my life when I'm on my deathbed thinking I had the time of my life, met awesome people, did awesome things and had a lot of fun.
This guy would probably look back and think: If only I didn't waste my youth designing a mobile phone with the logo of a shiny piece of fruit on the back so that I could afford to live somewhere with a bigger backyard.
Lolwut? 'Just' flattening 'it'? Do you know anything about rendering? Two different angles means two different non-fixed pipes. You don't have the slightest clue...
It will probably be gone at some point... Probably not in five years though...
You see; back in the day you had a desktop computer and you could also use an app to be able to browse this new thing called the world wide web.
Today, who doesn't have internet? No e-mail... like WTF.
So when everything is connected, a web browser is too oldfasioned for all this tech that has become common.
In Linux I already stopped using the web browser for YouTube and just use Totem. As a KDE user it is still better to browse YouTube in GTK+ than in Flash, realy.
The same thing will happen for games. In Windows just press Start -> Games -> Browse -> Click To Play.
Using one app for all of that tech is just not modern anymore. Google Chrome OS is pushing this but in the extreme direction of Web only. This is a bit too much and rather stupid. I'd rather wish it would be just integrated into the desktop environment...
But that will take some time of course. However the effects are already visible: In the Apple realm there is a YouTube app for the iPhone and the Mac OS X Front Row (media centre thing) and TV both have YouTube integration. Phones and camera's are doing all kinds off upload directly to Facebook, YouTube, etc. Linux has YouTube apps too. Both in KDE4 and on a Mac you have webslices as they are called and in Windows this is called the Active Desktop or something where you can just drag a piece of a website onto the desktop as a widget. Steam browses the web for you when browsing games and downloads and manages them. It is just stored localy (and it should).
These things will only increasingly happen. The Web will probably get back to minimalistic HTML(5) and this we can see already going to be killing Flash and all that crap. The rest of the protocols will embed themselves in user-space.
Wrong! Autists only think of themselves. They assume that what they think, everybody else thinks without communicating while communication is required to get something across.
If somebody says; well everybody know that-... Well maybe not everybody knows.
But the skill in seeking expected balance between common knowledge and needing citations is what many social inapt people lack.
You might want to reconsidder that statement.
Also; getting laid has more to do with "You can't possibly expect me to pick... You?!" anti-social stands than "Hey yeah I heared that last night! I feel so badly for-..." - FAIL!
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Open the Ubuntu software centre, click on the category 'office' and browse... Each software package collection got a summary of what it is (for) and what is does and doesn't.
Tom's Hardware created a series of articles about this? OH MY FSCKING GOD! What a bunch of total retards! Maybe even more retarded are the people that actually read this and even more retarded are the people that submit this to /. instead of Digg.com and even MORE retarded is the... *ok I'm not gonna say it*
Is the web an iPhone? Or is the iPhone pherhaps a MDA that can browse it?
Also, last time I checked, Webkit was more web standards compliant that the half-assed somewhat compliant Gecko rendering engine... But whatever...
The bug exists in the Kernel Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) which is part of the Gallium3D driver architecture.
GEM and TTM are kernel space memory managers and part of the new graphics driver stack. Only Intel uses (and created) GEM and therefore the problem is only with the Intel drivers. This is where the memory leak occurs and is exactly one of the pieces that has been backported.
In the past the FLOSS drivers where partly inside of X.org (2D) and Mesa (3D).
Currently Mesa is being fiddled with to run on top of the Gallium drivers (being a state tracker) and X.org is being prepared to become something that runs on top of the new driver stack as well (also as a state tracker).
Anyway... the problem occurs because of the kernel backporting and has nothing to do with X.org. xserver is slowly becomming useless as the Wayland display manager (made by a Red Hat employe) can also use the X.org client (it is a server) built on top of these techniques. The only problem for now is that GTK+ and QT4.x need to support Wayland, but it is all in the planning.
The horrors of X.org are becomming obsolete, one patch at a time ;)
Oh yeah... GEM, part of KMS, part of the backporting horror...
Don't worry though... non-Intel users should be fine. Non-Intel FLOSS or binary drivers are both free from this problem...
Steve Jobs aknowledges that he of course the Mac OS X platform is totally proprietary, but he then raises his concerns about the fact that he believes that the WORLD WIDE WEB should ALWAYS be OPEN.
And Steve Jobs completely nailed it:
"New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."
Kaboom!
Signed,
-Fedora user that buys AMD hardware to support AMD's new FLOSS and non-NDA-restrcited freely available documentation for everyone to be able to write a fully working driver for Radeon hardware
Is this piece of junk costing NASA millions?
Or is the R&D costing millions and does this thing itself cost a lot less to reproduce?
Just a minor question, of course...
Caused by heavily packporting features from xserver 1.8 back to 1.7 and KMS from Linux 2.6.34 back to 2.6.32.
Seriously... what where they thinking? Getting such a huge memmory leak was just being ASKED FOR!
Ahwesome, my PSP has also never died on me and I don't own a PS3... But is your name Cybercifrado? Then I didn't rethorically ask you :)
So how is that ribbon interface working out for you on your widescreen? Miss the space to actually see what your typing? I thought that Microsoft Office was a "What you see is what you get" editor.
And how are all those malware virusses and nasty shit affecting your Windows install? You can't detect a rootkit if you got 'em!
If you got a virus scanner of some sort it will eat more CPU and more importantly HDD access time. Not to mention all the time and money due to power consumption by which you unnessecairily polute our planet with that takes up your life. Also the defragmentations and whatnot... Go no suspend to RAM with you driver? AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaahw that sucks... nobody will fix this for you in your binary blob. Aaaaawh too bad...
And all this reduced CPU time due to the DRM and whatever Windows is 'doing'...
Your window management SUCKS. You get no free of charge video editor that kicks the shit out of iMovie and Sony Vegas (KDenLive, yes Linux has the best video editing for a long while...)
Etc, etc, etc...
By using a free of charge, documented OS I am actually able to do a lot and fullfill all of my needs. You on the other hand are the retart in this case.
Okey thanks bye. Oh and please die from something very soon, or opt out for the castration clause, because if you reproduce you will statistically lower the entire worlds IQ avarage.
Oh and BTW, that comment of yours was processed by freedom and gratis software... :)
So how's that red ring of death working out for you ;) :P
There is a difference between a lense that wears out over time of usage (products that are being consumed, like with a non-rechargeble battery) and a car that simply works, but after service got it's backseat stripped. But hey, you can still drive the car, right? So what's the problem. Many people will never use teh backseat when they buy a car when they travel...
But I can see your point :P
"class action those motherfuckers into honesty."
Legendary one-liner of classical proportions that even Dirty Harry can't top!
Riiiight... A supernova occurs when a star reaches crticle mass (it burns up untill it reaches the last remaining mass), and then all the remaining chemicals burn all at once causing the explosion and uber death and... right....
Where was I? Oh yeah; when the mass in the experiment burns up there will be no remaining mass and even if it does it soooooooooooooooooo tiny and has sooooooooooo much low amount of mass that it will not even have the impact of a grenade.
Conclusion: Care!
Yeah I can see what I did there :')
Not being a native Englisch speaker count as an excuse? ^^,
Too bad for you that lawyer tactics won't work on /., simply because here be do morons and no laws, except for the warning that everything that you say can and will be used against you in the a court of internet forum.
Good luck with your carrier, noob...
Ever heared about Unigene? It's Win, Lin and Mac and tesselation and OpenGL 4.x and DirectX 11 support.
Commercial, so not FLOSS...
And that can't be done while working on one of the hottest tech products around?
If it is your own product? Than yes. If you are just 'part' of a team and you do not get artistic freedom? Then, at least for me, that would be a giant no go. Well... not a no-go, just not worth of doing 90 hours/ week. Imagine you would instantly sleep when you go to bed (8 hours), you work from monday till sunday, all freaking year-in-year-out, and with only 3 hours of spare time per day and not counting time to travel. You might want to rethink about it now? Also not counting ANY breaks. So you'll pretty much sleep at Apple...
And that can't be done while working on one of the hottest tech products around? Some people actually enjoy the work they do, work with awesome people, and would call "being a major contributor to a device that tens of millions of people around the world use for hours every day," "pretty awesome."
Of course. However I would never trade my life for not being recognised for something I am not solely responsible for and my name would never be known for and thus not recognised.
My brain works a little different. My pressure is fixing what is in my mind not right. If I see a plastic MP3 player from cheap ass company X, the first thing I think is "Why the hell not shape it like this, rearange that, name it Y and change the freaking [insert_something_here_followed_by_:]tronics name into Z.
Working at Apple would never put me in such a position.
You seem to view work as something which must be dull, boring, and soul-crushing. I feel sorry for you, if that's the type of work you do.
I do actually currently doing such a thing, but only for half a year to earn money to go something in my country that is considdered university grade in the USA.
Awesome job: it stresses you out so much that while sleep derived you forget your mobile phone that is sooooooooooooo special to you that you can't even remember to put it back in your pocket after you made a call.
It's a phone. You throw away your entire social life to work on mobile... phone...
Good luck building your resume... I, for one, would like to look back on my life when I'm on my deathbed thinking I had the time of my life, met awesome people, did awesome things and had a lot of fun.
This guy would probably look back and think: If only I didn't waste my youth designing a mobile phone with the logo of a shiny piece of fruit on the back so that I could afford to live somewhere with a bigger backyard.
My $0,02...
Lolwut? 'Just' flattening 'it'? Do you know anything about rendering? Two different angles means two different non-fixed pipes. You don't have the slightest clue...
It will probably be gone at some point... Probably not in five years though...
You see; back in the day you had a desktop computer and you could also use an app to be able to browse this new thing called the world wide web.
Today, who doesn't have internet? No e-mail... like WTF.
So when everything is connected, a web browser is too oldfasioned for all this tech that has become common.
In Linux I already stopped using the web browser for YouTube and just use Totem. As a KDE user it is still better to browse YouTube in GTK+ than in Flash, realy.
The same thing will happen for games. In Windows just press Start -> Games -> Browse -> Click To Play.
Using one app for all of that tech is just not modern anymore. Google Chrome OS is pushing this but in the extreme direction of Web only. This is a bit too much and rather stupid. I'd rather wish it would be just integrated into the desktop environment...
But that will take some time of course. However the effects are already visible:
In the Apple realm there is a YouTube app for the iPhone and the Mac OS X Front Row (media centre thing) and TV both have YouTube integration.
Phones and camera's are doing all kinds off upload directly to Facebook, YouTube, etc.
Linux has YouTube apps too.
Both in KDE4 and on a Mac you have webslices as they are called and in Windows this is called the Active Desktop or something where you can just drag a piece of a website onto the desktop as a widget.
Steam browses the web for you when browsing games and downloads and manages them. It is just stored localy (and it should).
These things will only increasingly happen. The Web will probably get back to minimalistic HTML(5) and this we can see already going to be killing Flash and all that crap. The rest of the protocols will embed themselves in user-space.
Just my idea...
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything"
90 hours/week... This guy is insane and should get a better job.
ET phone home?
What would you do after all the research you find that the answer to the greatest mystery in life is... 42?
You go like... "Is this it?!"
-"Damn... for the love of telepathy, what do we do now?"
"Fsck it, let's fire up Quake 25!"
Wrong! Autists only think of themselves. They assume that what they think, everybody else thinks without communicating while communication is required to get something across.
If somebody says; well everybody know that-... Well maybe not everybody knows.
But the skill in seeking expected balance between common knowledge and needing citations is what many social inapt people lack.
You might want to reconsidder that statement.
Also; getting laid has more to do with "You can't possibly expect me to pick... You?!" anti-social stands than "Hey yeah I heared that last night! I feel so badly for-..." - FAIL!