I guess not. A terminated process leaving almost 100 MBytes RAM? That's not good. It should have free()d them up. I guess that when FF reaches certain RAM or time limits it swaps in.
From the graph in TFA it seems that IE tries to collect and use as many RAM as possible until there's no more, and begins using the swap file, while FF (of either version) humbly swaps in after a certain time. In that case FF is destined to die as a result of lacking of food in the ecosystem.
And they are running the test in Windows. Who knows whether there's not an undocumented feature of IE which is telling it's O$ to swap *all* FF's RAM into disk? Or even freeing FF's memory? The predator always wins.
The whole Windows security "issue" is strictly educational. The underlying OS has a very solid security framework that IMHO is better than Linux because it's more granular.
Then what about SELinux? You can consult Chapter 3 of the book "SELinux by Example", where we can see how the architecture is designed. I think SELinux is effectively much more granular than either naked Linux or Windows. The matter may not be "strictly educational" as you suggest. Windows got a lot of stuff messed up. I don't think it's a good design that you can use a Web browser running ActiveX to do the OS update. A Web browser should be intended to be just a Web browser and no more --- no privilege to access the most importan files of the OS. (That's not only the fault of the browser --- it's the design). In Linux things are more or less organized,/bin/ls is just/bin/ls and would never try to automatically mount the USB disk. So it's easier to seperate the privileges. Also that makes fine-grained control more comfortable.
Even if the security framework of Windows is at least as concrete as that of Linux, things are different when we come to the implementation. If M$ writes (and they are really doing so) poor code they screw up your box, because they are poor, and because only they know the real thing inside it. With Linux you can put more trust into the OS which is designed, implemented and distributed by people you don't know. The quality speaks.
That's because most of the Chinese people dare not make a different sound abouth the whole shebang.
AFAIK many of the my fellow Chinese people don't think that Taiwan or Tibet is necessarily part of China in any sense. Some of them just don't care that much about who is ruling these places. However, it is quite natural that they remain relatively silent under the current situation.
There's just a lot of information you can get even from within the Great Firewall. I can read news about the matter from agencies such as the International Herald Tribune at www.iht.com (although they are not quite neutral about everything). As the saying goes, seek, and you shall find. Yesterday I was walking in my campus in Beijing, and a student was selling used books by the roadside--- among a lot of technical references and textbooks there was one about the truth about the Tian'anmen Massacre, and nobody is preventing him from doing so. Remember there are some 1.3 billion people here, and it's impossible to keep everybody thinking the same.
But it is really possible to keep most of them from speaking about their opinions. You know your Big Brother is operating your routers.
In fact, YouTube had been banned even before Sunday in China. Since the Icelandic singer Björk's gave her live performance in Shanghai lastweek, singing a song "Declaring Independence" with the cry "Tibet! Tibe!", the trouble with YouTube began.
I haven't checked the TFA from Wired though. It seemed to be banned also. (I'm here in China.)
Any scientific journal should, imho, understand that they root in the Bazaar, not the Cathedral, and there's no such thing like a Cathedral in the scientific community.
I think it's good to review this speech by Ginsparg in 1996. As long as the well-respected journals as PRL allow authors to upload their works to ArXiv they should also permit similar uses, especially made by the authors themselves. (Many of the papers from ArXiv are preprints, but there are also a lot of them are uploaded after being accepted or published in a journal.)
Yes, I was learning Python by myself and wrote a script using the HTTPLib package. Purely for an exercise. The script just greps information from a Web server's HTTP response header. By careless misconfiguration the script started an infinite loop! And I was banned by Slashdot (yes I was connecting to Slashdot, my favorate Website). I sent an Email to expain and I'm here again.
Your missiles, please.
PS. This is really terrible to admit. In punishment to the troublemaking script I mv'ed it to/dev/null. That's cruel.
Yahoo gives your account info to the Communist government. You can do a search (persumably not a Yahoo search) on the fucking web about a case that Yahoo giving the account access and mail contents of a human-right activist to the Party-runned security departments, who later imprisoned him. I'm not feeling like doing the search myself because I don't quite like triggering the Great Firewall this week. I am an Anonymous Coward. (Big-Brother: No you're not.)
As for Google, if only they could implement mail search with regular expressions and more advanced scripting of mail filters.
This is offtopic. Please mod this down.
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One of the most ancient sites.
The calendar on their index page reads "December 24, 107" (The calendar is at the bottom-right corner. Chinese reads dates in Y-M-D order.)
Well, there has been a historical tradition of corruption in China.
but according to Georgiadis's paper, they're different in nature. Wolfram guess they're 'minimal' in size (plz see the Georgiadis paper for the exact definition) but they are discovered not to be so.
I'm not one in the circle of CA and I don't understand all the significance about these arguments. But I don't think disproving some conjectures are "inflammatory" in mathematics. It seems some people are not satisfied with Wolfram's style (e.g. his failure in acknowledgin/interpreting other people's researches), but as for the FA it is essentially an objective argument about some mathematical facts.
I'm from China. According to my knowledge (yes I may be wrong) there is a corrupted and politics-oriented jurisdiction system in China but these judges in Beijing are simply performing the practice of Foolishness, which is very unusual.
And the "new" copyright law... What the fuck is that? I'm not a lawyer but I think I'll be digging in the library for a while in search of the new law. OK if there is really such a piece of crap in our laws there must be some fucking shit in the head of the congressmen or are they using a M$-made statistics software for the put-up-your-hand-and-say-yes-now-please-or-you-are-fucked National Congress?
Yes this law that asks internet search providers to be liable to the contents of their search results, if exists, is suicidal. No matter what's the reason for such a law come into being it would sooner or later kill the whole search engine industry. By then, nobody can perform Web-searches any more, including those fucking law makers themselves. Students and teachers in colleges may no longer search Google scholar, Scirus or even use services like JSTOR or ProQuest. Businesses may no longer find each other over the internet. Communist party may no longer poison or censor Web applications (contributing further to the rate of unemployment).
Maybe I'm wrong but I would still say that there's no reason for such a law to exist, even if we consider the very nature of the Chinese government. Perhaps tomorrow my library would tell me "sorry we no longer provide book search services because we can't be liable of the search results. Those books may contain non-communism-compliant material or other law-infringing contents."
Surely the weakest part is between the chair and the keybord.
A search on secunia tells a story of an old Linux virus (or rather, a piece of malware). The virus comes from a phishing mail in C sourcecode. Unless the luser has root privilege and is nuts, nothing could happen at all.
Consider one day M$ is dead and every luser in the corner of the world runs a Linux desktop. Then the luser happily su and make install, without even a single glance at the sourcecode.
In TFA it says:
The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. Opera has requested the Commission to take the necessary actions to compel Microsoft to give consumers a real choice and to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer.
Opera ASA is also suing M$ for "not following accepted web standards", which is not a part of an OS.
it might be that Opera was written with GTK
I think the opera browser for desktop is linked to the QT libraries, at least so on a Fedora distro. Not sure whether this is true for Windoze or mobile phones.
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Hey, why not bundle gcc and the kernel with it :-P
Will my Linux box supposed to run the driver?
No. The pop-up window with a red X on it says: An unknown error occured. The error was: Program exited successfully.
I guess not. A terminated process leaving almost 100 MBytes RAM? That's not good. It should have free()d them up. I guess that when FF reaches certain RAM or time limits it swaps in.
From the graph in TFA it seems that IE tries to collect and use as many RAM as possible until there's no more, and begins using the swap file, while FF (of either version) humbly swaps in after a certain time. In that case FF is destined to die as a result of lacking of food in the ecosystem.
And they are running the test in Windows. Who knows whether there's not an undocumented feature of IE which is telling it's O$ to swap *all* FF's RAM into disk? Or even freeing FF's memory? The predator always wins.
Then what about SELinux? You can consult Chapter 3 of the book "SELinux by Example", where we can see how the architecture is designed. I think SELinux is effectively much more granular than either naked Linux or Windows. The matter may not be "strictly educational" as you suggest. Windows got a lot of stuff messed up. I don't think it's a good design that you can use a Web browser running ActiveX to do the OS update. A Web browser should be intended to be just a Web browser and no more --- no privilege to access the most importan files of the OS. (That's not only the fault of the browser --- it's the design). In Linux things are more or less organized, /bin/ls is just /bin/ls and would never try to automatically mount the USB disk. So it's easier to seperate the privileges. Also that makes fine-grained control more comfortable.
Even if the security framework of Windows is at least as concrete as that of Linux, things are different when we come to the implementation. If M$ writes (and they are really doing so) poor code they screw up your box, because they are poor, and because only they know the real thing inside it. With Linux you can put more trust into the OS which is designed, implemented and distributed by people you don't know. The quality speaks.
damn,
s/processed/process/g
Really terrible.
Especially in Soviet Russia, where your processed forks you into the background and renices you.
That's because most of the Chinese people dare not make a different sound abouth the whole shebang.
AFAIK many of the my fellow Chinese people don't think that Taiwan or Tibet is necessarily part of China in any sense. Some of them just don't care that much about who is ruling these places. However, it is quite natural that they remain relatively silent under the current situation.
There's just a lot of information you can get even from within the Great Firewall. I can read news about the matter from agencies such as the International Herald Tribune at www.iht.com (although they are not quite neutral about everything). As the saying goes, seek, and you shall find. Yesterday I was walking in my campus in Beijing, and a student was selling used books by the roadside--- among a lot of technical references and textbooks there was one about the truth about the Tian'anmen Massacre, and nobody is preventing him from doing so. Remember there are some 1.3 billion people here, and it's impossible to keep everybody thinking the same.
But it is really possible to keep most of them from speaking about their opinions. You know your Big Brother is operating your routers.
yup, the TFA. Like I often say "the http protocol". :-P
In fact, YouTube had been banned even before Sunday in China. Since the Icelandic singer Björk's gave her live performance in Shanghai lastweek, singing a song "Declaring Independence" with the cry "Tibet! Tibe!", the trouble with YouTube began.
I haven't checked the TFA from Wired though. It seemed to be banned also. (I'm here in China.)
Any scientific journal should, imho, understand that they root in the Bazaar, not the Cathedral, and there's no such thing like a Cathedral in the scientific community.
I think it's good to review this speech by Ginsparg in 1996. As long as the well-respected journals as PRL allow authors to upload their works to ArXiv they should also permit similar uses, especially made by the authors themselves. (Many of the papers from ArXiv are preprints, but there are also a lot of them are uploaded after being accepted or published in a journal.)
Yes, I was learning Python by myself and wrote a script using the HTTPLib package. Purely for an exercise. The script just greps information from a Web server's HTTP response header. By careless misconfiguration the script started an infinite loop! And I was banned by Slashdot (yes I was connecting to Slashdot, my favorate Website). I sent an Email to expain and I'm here again.
Your missiles, please.
PS. This is really terrible to admit. In punishment to the troublemaking script I mv'ed it to /dev/null. That's cruel.
Malware being shipped with hardware is hardly news. It is the common practice of computer vendors who ship their hardware with Windows pre-installed.
I thought it would be about stealing the wifi hardware... well not
Yahoo gives your account info to the Communist government. You can do a search (persumably not a Yahoo search) on the fucking web about a case that Yahoo giving the account access and mail contents of a human-right activist to the Party-runned security departments, who later imprisoned him. I'm not feeling like doing the search myself because I don't quite like triggering the Great Firewall this week. I am an Anonymous Coward. (Big-Brother: No you're not.)
As for Google, if only they could implement mail search with regular expressions and more advanced scripting of mail filters.
This is offtopic. Please mod this down.
oops. forgot to check the "post anonymously" box. i'm shot!
Or simulated annealing algorithm would do.
reference: M-x doctor-mode RET
Are they trying to patent the tech from EMACS psychotherapist mode, make a poor, inferior implementation of it, sue RMS, and then PROFIT???
One of the most ancient sites.
The calendar on their index page reads "December 24, 107" (The calendar is at the bottom-right corner. Chinese reads dates in Y-M-D order.)
Well, there has been a historical tradition of corruption in China.
Yes the difference are "slight"...
but according to Georgiadis's paper, they're different in nature. Wolfram guess they're 'minimal' in size (plz see the Georgiadis paper for the exact definition) but they are discovered not to be so.
I'm not one in the circle of CA and I don't understand all the significance about these arguments. But I don't think disproving some conjectures are "inflammatory" in mathematics. It seems some people are not satisfied with Wolfram's style (e.g. his failure in acknowledgin/interpreting other people's researches), but as for the FA it is essentially an objective argument about some mathematical facts.
Correct me if I make a mistake.
Poor scipy.org. It seems to be slashdotted.
And by baiting /., GNU Octave won over SciPy this time. :P
I'm from China. According to my knowledge (yes I may be wrong) there is a corrupted and politics-oriented jurisdiction system in China but these judges in Beijing are simply performing the practice of Foolishness, which is very unusual.
And the "new" copyright law... What the fuck is that? I'm not a lawyer but I think I'll be digging in the library for a while in search of the new law. OK if there is really such a piece of crap in our laws there must be some fucking shit in the head of the congressmen or are they using a M$-made statistics software for the put-up-your-hand-and-say-yes-now-please-or-you-are-fucked National Congress?
Yes this law that asks internet search providers to be liable to the contents of their search results, if exists, is suicidal. No matter what's the reason for such a law come into being it would sooner or later kill the whole search engine industry. By then, nobody can perform Web-searches any more, including those fucking law makers themselves. Students and teachers in colleges may no longer search Google scholar, Scirus or even use services like JSTOR or ProQuest. Businesses may no longer find each other over the internet. Communist party may no longer poison or censor Web applications (contributing further to the rate of unemployment).
Maybe I'm wrong but I would still say that there's no reason for such a law to exist, even if we consider the very nature of the Chinese government. Perhaps tomorrow my library would tell me "sorry we no longer provide book search services because we can't be liable of the search results. Those books may contain non-communism-compliant material or other law-infringing contents."
Nuts.
Surely the weakest part is between the chair and the keybord.
A search on secunia tells a story of an old Linux virus (or rather, a piece of malware). The virus comes from a phishing mail in C sourcecode. Unless the luser has root privilege and is nuts, nothing could happen at all.
Consider one day M$ is dead and every luser in the corner of the world runs a Linux desktop. Then the luser happily su and make install, without even a single glance at the sourcecode.
The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. Opera has requested the Commission to take the necessary actions to compel Microsoft to give consumers a real choice and to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer.
Opera ASA is also suing M$ for "not following accepted web standards", which is not a part of an OS.
I think the opera browser for desktop is linked to the QT libraries, at least so on a Fedora distro. Not sure whether this is true for Windoze or mobile phones.