NT4 Server on a DEC Alpha box, running MS Exchange 5.5 in 128MB RAM. That thing ran for years without a fault or unscheduled downtime, until one of the disc controller cards gave up the ghost. Couldn't find a replacement card, so we had to restore the backup onto the new machine - W2K server with Exchange 2K!
Hell no. From my limited exposure (hence the desire to hear more of it), there's an enormous variety of styles - modern/pop, tribal (for want of a better word), protest, rock, and yes, even rap. But what I heard earlier this afternoon had little to distinguish it from what I've heard on american - specifically USofA - rap-focussed stations.
I'd like to hear some variety - as I said above, there were 4 sequential tracks of rap, and that's where I lost interest.
I just went to the website and clicked on the player for the free stream. The first track sounded very much like rap. So did the second track. And the third track, and the fourth track.
If I want to listen to hip-hop/rap, I'll listen to a hip-hop/rap station - not one that claims to play african music.
My example was perhaps an outlier. I have 8GB in a Core i7 machine. That machine spends perhaps a quarter of its powered-on time rendering video. When that happens, it tops out on RAM - fortunately it's possible within the Adobe suite to limit the amount of RAM that it has access to, so I only give it access to about 6.5GB RAM, leaving the machine able to still run email and a couple of browser tabs without bogging down in swap.
Due to the nature of the Adobe product (and I've seen this complaint on user forums), the machine does NOT top out on CPU whilst rendering - maybe 70 or 80 %.
So, when rendering, there's some processing capacity unused (yes, I also have sloppy software), but I have to place an artificial limit on RAM access to leave me space to do other work at the same time (although I like your idea of going out to dinner).
Having read about other people turning off the windows pagefile when RAM is 8GB or greater, I decided to try an experiment. I rendered a video file with the pagefile on, then switched off the pagefile and rendered it again. There was no discernable difference in the amount of time taken to complete the job. I didn't control for all variables, but I've since left the pagefile off and haven't noticed any slowdowns.
1. There are these things called firmware and APIs, to allow access to the functions that hardware can provide, even functions not originally envisaged by the manufacturers. An SSHD manufacturer could provide firmware with an API to allow it to be used as reserved memory cache.
2. 24GB of RAM on a workstation, and it still wants to swap? That's either lazy work practices, sloppy application software, or you need to consider a minicomputer for your work. I used to run a minicomputer with 48 MB of main memory - yes, megabytes - supporting ~200 green screen terminals and a similar number of PCs - and they had sub-second response times with interactive application software. If a 24GB workstation still wants to swap memory pages, you're asking too much of it.
3. What I do on my PC earns me money, is that not worthwhile? The particular project that I 'braved' with no windows pagefile was an edit of footage of interviews with ageing WWII veterans, to preserve their stories. Would you consider that worthwhile?
Judgemental much? What part of the spectrum are you on?
If you were to design your whole system to this, a la AS400/iSeries/System i, you wouldn't need compression. Single level storage - a single address space for everything, and let the dedicated I/O controller sort out what needs to be in memory at any one time.
Or why not try it with hybrid disk? Use the disc's solid-state portion as a kind of reserved swap space.
Or, just put 8+GB of RAM in your machine and do away with pagefiles altogether. Seriously, I didn't notice any performance impact with Premiere Pro when I turned off the Windows pagefile.
I sympathise, I really do. I'm so pissed off with politicians and business who weasel their way around the science with transparent "concerns for jobs and the economy". Screw them - they don't get my vote, and as far as is practical, they don't get my $$$; e.g. I need a car to do my job, but I research the manufacturers carefully before making a decision to buy. Ditto my other purchasing decisions.
But I would rather my descendants be able retain some respect for me and my efforts to do better, rather than just giving up. If it did any good, I'd threaten the weasels with damnation on their descendants, but I think they're damned anyway.
I've got a Motorola Razr HD, a bit over 2 years old, and just out of warranty. It's still got a phenomenal battery life - almost 3 days with light use, and at least 1 day with heavy use.
I use the "smart actions" feature to schedule when certain features are off or on, e.g. between 10pm and 7am all radios are off. Don't need all that stuff while I'm asleep. GPS is off unless I actually want to use it, ditto bluetooth, wifi and mobile data. If the battery drops below 25%, all non-essential features are off or throttled.
I had to disable nearly all of the stock Google apps - music, movies, news,etc, turned auto-sync off, turned auto-updates off, and disabled Google Play Store. I replaced a lot of them with alternatives. It's not that the Google apps weren't working, but they were almost constantly fetching updates.
After the update to kitkat, I noticed reduced battery life so I installed GSAM battery monitor and let it collect stats for a few charge cycles. One thing that stood out - kernel wakelocks. There's a process called "emu_det" that seems to fire up whenever a cable is plugged in, either for charging only, or for data transfer. It pretty much doesn't let the kernel go to sleep, even when the cable is removed. I couldn't find out much about it, except that a reboot was needed to kill it.
Now that the phone's out of warranty, I'll look into unlocking the bootloader (you can get the instructions from the Motorola website, after all the usual "void your warranty" stuff) and seeing what's out there in terms of an alternative, e.g. Cyanogen
Apology accepted:-) and I apologise for spouting off before seeking clarification.
My point about daily energy consumption was that it is possible, and not particularly difficult, to drastically reduce energy consumption in many domestic situations, regardless of whether you have solar panels or not.
Switch to LED lighting, dry your clothes on an outside line (if you have the weather for it), examine your use of any electric heating elements - maybe switch to gas or even wood for heating.
As for commerce and industry, while aluminium smelting (for example) isn't going to reduce its electricity consumption, commercial office spaces can. Reflective film on windows, retro-fitting insulation where it's possible/practical, adjusting thermostats upwards a bit in summer and downwards a bit in winter, will all contribute to energy and cost savings.
P.S. My only blackout was deliberate, when I just kept turning lights and appliances on to see when the overload breakers would trip.
What the hell kind of building codes even allow those kinds of batteries OVER PEOPLE'S HEADS?
And FWIW, I've been living off-grid for almost 20 years. My last energy consumption survey was ~8kWh/day. Two adults, two children, fridge, freezer, computers, TV, automatic washing machine, gas stove, wood range, etc. Yes, I have a petrol generator for backup, but it doesn't get used very often. There are very few limitations on solar for domestic use.
"which computer? I have seven" "all of them sir" "even the ones not connected to the internet? which one do you want me to turn on?" "any computer, sir" "so, what are the error messages?"
and so on. Had one of them on the line for almost 20 minutes. In the end he screamed obscenities at me and HE hung up. I told one girl her mother would be ashamed of her, I told another one I couldn't get to the computer because I had a broken leg. Even told another that the call would be traced because I was on a silent number and in the witness protection scheme and the SSB would be breaking down their door any minute.
It's quite a challenge, coming up with something original that'll disrupt their script and waste their time. I plan to learn some insults in Hindi, that'll be fun.
"Your computer is sending us error messages sir" Hindi: f*ck off you untouchable pig-f*cking corpse-handler. Your mother suckles..... well, you get the idea.
Gets Cryptolocker installed. Via Group Policy, it prevents, among other things, anything being executed from the user's temp directory/ies - which is where email attachments are placed for whatever operation they require - picture preview, etc. It's not a guarantee, but it presents a big obstacle to any attacker attempting to fool a user into executing their code simply by opening an email.
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NT4 Server on a DEC Alpha box, running MS Exchange 5.5 in 128MB RAM. That thing ran for years without a fault or unscheduled downtime, until one of the disc controller cards gave up the ghost. Couldn't find a replacement card, so we had to restore the backup onto the new machine - W2K server with Exchange 2K!
Oh, well done. I'd give you a mod point +1 Funny, were I not already part of the discussion.
Well done, you. Keep it up and I look forward to more of your contributions. Nothing like joining the hoi-polloi for a bit of classy debate.
Hell no. From my limited exposure (hence the desire to hear more of it), there's an enormous variety of styles - modern/pop, tribal (for want of a better word), protest, rock, and yes, even rap. But what I heard earlier this afternoon had little to distinguish it from what I've heard on american - specifically USofA - rap-focussed stations.
I'd like to hear some variety - as I said above, there were 4 sequential tracks of rap, and that's where I lost interest.
How does this apply to restaurant reviewers who would like to compare, say, one chef's idea of vegetables with that of another chef.
"I'm a food blogger, this photograph is fair use blah blah blah review, criticism, etc"
My, what an erudite response. Why deign to descend and partake of discourse with we mere plebeians, when you have such a command of the language?
I made a mistake, then acknowledged it and rectified it. Not sure what your point is?
Are you trying to imply that I'm ignorant? At least I don't post AC. When will you correct that fault?
I just went to the website and clicked on the player for the free stream. The first track sounded very much like rap. So did the second track. And the third track, and the fourth track.
If I want to listen to hip-hop/rap, I'll listen to a hip-hop/rap station - not one that claims to play african music.
I mean, international access outside of africa. Obviously there is already international access.
I wonder what the majors will have to say about this?
I'd subscribe just to get access to the music.
My example was perhaps an outlier. I have 8GB in a Core i7 machine. That machine spends perhaps a quarter of its powered-on time rendering video. When that happens, it tops out on RAM - fortunately it's possible within the Adobe suite to limit the amount of RAM that it has access to, so I only give it access to about 6.5GB RAM, leaving the machine able to still run email and a couple of browser tabs without bogging down in swap.
Due to the nature of the Adobe product (and I've seen this complaint on user forums), the machine does NOT top out on CPU whilst rendering - maybe 70 or 80 %.
So, when rendering, there's some processing capacity unused (yes, I also have sloppy software), but I have to place an artificial limit on RAM access to leave me space to do other work at the same time (although I like your idea of going out to dinner).
Having read about other people turning off the windows pagefile when RAM is 8GB or greater, I decided to try an experiment. I rendered a video file with the pagefile on, then switched off the pagefile and rendered it again. There was no discernable difference in the amount of time taken to complete the job. I didn't control for all variables, but I've since left the pagefile off and haven't noticed any slowdowns.
1. There are these things called firmware and APIs, to allow access to the functions that hardware can provide, even functions not originally envisaged by the manufacturers. An SSHD manufacturer could provide firmware with an API to allow it to be used as reserved memory cache.
2. 24GB of RAM on a workstation, and it still wants to swap? That's either lazy work practices, sloppy application software, or you need to consider a minicomputer for your work. I used to run a minicomputer with 48 MB of main memory - yes, megabytes - supporting ~200 green screen terminals and a similar number of PCs - and they had sub-second response times with interactive application software. If a 24GB workstation still wants to swap memory pages, you're asking too much of it.
3. What I do on my PC earns me money, is that not worthwhile? The particular project that I 'braved' with no windows pagefile was an edit of footage of interviews with ageing WWII veterans, to preserve their stories. Would you consider that worthwhile?
Judgemental much? What part of the spectrum are you on?
Maybe someday there will be a non-Unix OS that isn't shit, but I am not holding my breath.
Well then, perhaps you need to get out more, and don't limit yourself to Unix or Windows.
If you were to design your whole system to this, a la AS400/iSeries/System i, you wouldn't need compression. Single level storage - a single address space for everything, and let the dedicated I/O controller sort out what needs to be in memory at any one time.
Or why not try it with hybrid disk? Use the disc's solid-state portion as a kind of reserved swap space.
Or, just put 8+GB of RAM in your machine and do away with pagefiles altogether. Seriously, I didn't notice any performance impact with Premiere Pro when I turned off the Windows pagefile.
I sympathise, I really do. I'm so pissed off with politicians and business who weasel their way around the science with transparent "concerns for jobs and the economy". Screw them - they don't get my vote, and as far as is practical, they don't get my $$$; e.g. I need a car to do my job, but I research the manufacturers carefully before making a decision to buy. Ditto my other purchasing decisions.
But I would rather my descendants be able retain some respect for me and my efforts to do better, rather than just giving up. If it did any good, I'd threaten the weasels with damnation on their descendants, but I think they're damned anyway.
I've got a Motorola Razr HD, a bit over 2 years old, and just out of warranty. It's still got a phenomenal battery life - almost 3 days with light use, and at least 1 day with heavy use.
I use the "smart actions" feature to schedule when certain features are off or on, e.g. between 10pm and 7am all radios are off. Don't need all that stuff while I'm asleep. GPS is off unless I actually want to use it, ditto bluetooth, wifi and mobile data. If the battery drops below 25%, all non-essential features are off or throttled.
I had to disable nearly all of the stock Google apps - music, movies, news,etc, turned auto-sync off, turned auto-updates off, and disabled Google Play Store. I replaced a lot of them with alternatives. It's not that the Google apps weren't working, but they were almost constantly fetching updates.
After the update to kitkat, I noticed reduced battery life so I installed GSAM battery monitor and let it collect stats for a few charge cycles. One thing that stood out - kernel wakelocks. There's a process called "emu_det" that seems to fire up whenever a cable is plugged in, either for charging only, or for data transfer. It pretty much doesn't let the kernel go to sleep, even when the cable is removed. I couldn't find out much about it, except that a reboot was needed to kill it.
Now that the phone's out of warranty, I'll look into unlocking the bootloader (you can get the instructions from the Motorola website, after all the usual "void your warranty" stuff) and seeing what's out there in terms of an alternative, e.g. Cyanogen
Apology accepted :-) and I apologise for spouting off before seeking clarification.
My point about daily energy consumption was that it is possible, and not particularly difficult, to drastically reduce energy consumption in many domestic situations, regardless of whether you have solar panels or not.
Switch to LED lighting, dry your clothes on an outside line (if you have the weather for it), examine your use of any electric heating elements - maybe switch to gas or even wood for heating.
As for commerce and industry, while aluminium smelting (for example) isn't going to reduce its electricity consumption, commercial office spaces can. Reflective film on windows, retro-fitting insulation where it's possible/practical, adjusting thermostats upwards a bit in summer and downwards a bit in winter, will all contribute to energy and cost savings.
P.S. My only blackout was deliberate, when I just kept turning lights and appliances on to see when the overload breakers would trip.
Who the hell puts batteries on the ROOFTOP?
What the hell kind of building codes even allow those kinds of batteries OVER PEOPLE'S HEADS?
And FWIW, I've been living off-grid for almost 20 years. My last energy consumption survey was ~8kWh/day. Two adults, two children, fridge, freezer, computers, TV, automatic washing machine, gas stove, wood range, etc. Yes, I have a petrol generator for backup, but it doesn't get used very often. There are very few limitations on solar for domestic use.
I hope your service fee increases by the square of the number of incidents?
On a related note, I have to thank Microsoft for Windows 10. I think it'll make me rich. I've bumped my hourly rate by 10% for Win 10 service calls.
We just found Gerry Harvey's /. handle.
Seriously, they want to drop the threshold to AUD$20? I thought it was uneconomic to collect the tax below purchases of AUD$100?
I'll just buy books one at a time. Makes no difference to me, the book depository has free shipping.
Oh, surely you can do better than that?
"which computer? I have seven"
"all of them sir"
"even the ones not connected to the internet? which one do you want me to turn on?"
"any computer, sir"
"so, what are the error messages?"
and so on. Had one of them on the line for almost 20 minutes. In the end he screamed obscenities at me and HE hung up. I told one girl her mother would be ashamed of her, I told another one I couldn't get to the computer because I had a broken leg. Even told another that the call would be traced because I was on a silent number and in the witness protection scheme and the SSB would be breaking down their door any minute.
It's quite a challenge, coming up with something original that'll disrupt their script and waste their time. I plan to learn some insults in Hindi, that'll be fun.
"Your computer is sending us error messages sir"
Hindi: f*ck off you untouchable pig-f*cking corpse-handler. Your mother suckles..... well, you get the idea.
Try this:
http://serverfault.com/questio...
Oh, bloody hell.
Cryptoprevent from FoolishIT
Gets Cryptolocker installed. Via Group Policy, it prevents, among other things, anything being executed from the user's temp directory/ies - which is where email attachments are placed for whatever operation they require - picture preview, etc. It's not a guarantee, but it presents a big obstacle to any attacker attempting to fool a user into executing their code simply by opening an email.
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I just went to vimeo and searched for "pixels".
Lots of content with "pixels in the title, including the original short.
Perhaps someone at vimeo woke up, or perhaps someone at entura has been reading /. or other tech news sites.
Has anyone got a screen grab of that search returning nothing, or DMCA takedown notifications?
White, light gray, and dark gray are the choices.
Chalk up another win for the design team.