How about the vendors learn to code and stop writing shitty drivers! I mean they have the full spec on the cards and still cant produce a driver as stable as some guys reverse engineering! Vista had a driver model ready for how long? Its not even like the change was unexpected.
Arg the first insightful post but in such a stupid form!
On the one hand I want you to get modded up, as on a modern system being able to use software to render desktop effects will be useful (I wonder what the FPS on aero is though). However I also wish you to die a horrible and painful death for using the subject "lol" and ending an unpuctuated post with an emoticon.
Another feature would be automatically copying of frequently accessed files -- if a certain bunch of files on a website becomes popular, they would be transparently copied across the spindles to increase access time.
Why even put this in the filesystem, this is nothing script cant do in a fs agnostic way. Personally id rather features where moved out of the filesystems not into them, (like BSDs FS agnostic journaling), sure setting up all the separate tools to get the same effect is abit of a pain but that's what distros are for.
But reiserFS support is dwindling (on ubuntu it costs me 10 seconds during a 40 second boot and all i get, from various sources, is that reiserFS is not supported i should use ext3). Its a real shame that reiserFS isn't used by default on more desktop distros as its fsck is pretty quick, a boot with full fsck is still less than 2 minutes.
BTW does anybody on other distros using reiserFS get a 5 second do nothing break during startup ( bootchart shows as fsck zombing)? (in particular somebody running debian, it would be interesting if this is a ubuntu only feature)
are you just trolling or have you seriously never hear of magic numbers, I often forget to name the type of file and have never had any problems, but generally it is a good idea to use a file.type naming system because it means you can differentiate between text, scripts, configs, etc easily.
This is interesting, as there are three Atheros drivers, all different. Madwifi uses the HAL. Ath5 is in the Linux trunk and doesn't (I think). Ath9 was developed by Atheros and probably uses the HAL but I didn't check.
I dont quite get the point of this then TBH, i mean it is nice to open source their code, but given that it has pretty much been reverse engineered already, isn't it a bit late!?
WTF! i mean WTF!!! how did this get modded insightful? Any Linux system that is properly configured can hibernate there is no need for any hardware support for hibernate to work, all dodge drivers can just be unloaded reloaded!
Now if you meant suspend to ram, well madwifi has never given my system any problems when suspending to ram but this does (in theory) mean that the developers can delve deeper into the code should there be any.
"(A job listing at Valve looking for someone whose responsibilities would include 'Port[ing] Windows-based games to the Linux platform' would seem to support this.)"
For the 100th time, they have always had somebody porting windows games to Linux, nobody in their right mind runs servers on windows!!!
The Anthropic principle isn't that far from god, that's why scientists aren't very happy to just accept that "if it didn't work, we wouldn't be standing her talking about it" and would much rather test it.
What worries me is how little you have to know if your a creationist. How do they explain plastic, which is formed from oil, which takes hundreds of thousands of years to form, when the world is only ~4000 years old?
It was defiantly in [ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17 ] either check against a downloaded list or ask google about each one.
Submitting the hash of every site you visit makes it very easy for google to see if you have or haven't visited a site. all the hashing stops is google having a list of sites youve been to, but a rainbow table means they can instantly see everybody that has been to www.slashdot.org. It depends if it is now done by list or by actively checking (asa clarifies above that the default is using a list which allows me to maintain privacy )
I had a look through my settings, in 2.0 IRCC there was an option to download the list instead of checking as you browse, as i cant find the option anymore I'm quite disappointed that Mozilla have effectively compromised my privacy OR left me undefended.
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How do cutting edge distros compare actually? Im using ubuntu and it seams to be a bit too stable (as in old packages) for me.
firefox 3.1 is stable and it runs too, hell i even run it with flash x64 beta and it still runs and is stable (FOR ME). if your comparing betas or 'usable' betas thats fine but its not fair to compair usable betas with old software.
I have not played with Open solaris but ubuntu was running on ext2 with linux if you want performance you need to pick an alternative file system (i find reiserfs to be good but support for it seams dwindling and answers such as use a supported fs (despite reiserfs being supported) are not uncommon), anyway my point is that these tests are pointless!
firefox3 is faster, and 3.1 a significant improvement on that.
Regarding bootup time specifically, the initial boot may be slow due to extentions. Im always torn with regards to extensions, so i generally keep a lightweight Firefox but with a profile for development and another for timewasting (stumbleubon etc). However to speed it up you could try prelinking (uses no resources) or preloading (uses some idle disk access time and some ram cache) or both. On a 2.2ghz Turion on (1.25GB ) minefield starts up in seconds and new windows in 1 (no preloading/linking.
i noticed the flamebait tag? i dont quite get it though, sure its a Hard attack to pull off but given yahoo have ~1/3 of all webmail clients i think people would be up for giving it a try
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How about the vendors learn to code and stop writing shitty drivers! I mean they have the full spec on the cards and still cant produce a driver as stable as some guys reverse engineering! Vista had a driver model ready for how long? Its not even like the change was unexpected.
Arg the first insightful post but in such a stupid form!
On the one hand I want you to get modded up, as on a modern system being able to use software to render desktop effects will be useful (I wonder what the FPS on aero is though). However I also wish you to die a horrible and painful death for using the subject "lol" and ending an unpuctuated post with an emoticon.
Another feature would be automatically copying of frequently accessed files -- if a certain bunch of files on a website becomes popular, they would be transparently copied across the spindles to increase access time.
Why even put this in the filesystem, this is nothing script cant do in a fs agnostic way. Personally id rather features where moved out of the filesystems not into them, (like BSDs FS agnostic journaling), sure setting up all the separate tools to get the same effect is abit of a pain but that's what distros are for.
Shh! Its been months since the GPL2vGPL3 riots calmed down, i need my licensing flame war fix dammit!!!!
But reiserFS support is dwindling (on ubuntu it costs me 10 seconds during a 40 second boot and all i get, from various sources, is that reiserFS is not supported i should use ext3). Its a real shame that reiserFS isn't used by default on more desktop distros as its fsck is pretty quick, a boot with full fsck is still less than 2 minutes.
BTW does anybody on other distros using reiserFS get a 5 second do nothing break during startup ( bootchart shows as fsck zombing)? (in particular somebody running debian, it would be interesting if this is a ubuntu only feature)
are you just trolling or have you seriously never hear of magic numbers, I often forget to name the type of file and have never had any problems, but generally it is a good idea to use a file.type naming system because it means you can differentiate between text, scripts, configs, etc easily.
This is interesting, as there are three Atheros drivers, all different. Madwifi uses the HAL. Ath5 is in the Linux trunk and doesn't (I think). Ath9 was developed by Atheros and probably uses the HAL but I didn't check.
I dont quite get the point of this then TBH, i mean it is nice to open source their code, but given that it has pretty much been reverse engineered already, isn't it a bit late!?
WTF! i mean WTF!!! how did this get modded insightful? Any Linux system that is properly configured can hibernate there is no need for any hardware support for hibernate to work, all dodge drivers can just be unloaded reloaded!
Now if you meant suspend to ram, well madwifi has never given my system any problems when suspending to ram but this does (in theory) mean that the developers can delve deeper into the code should there be any.
Well AFAIK there is no itunes, safari, etc for linux so its obviously not that easy.
"(A job listing at Valve looking for someone whose responsibilities would include 'Port[ing] Windows-based games to the Linux platform' would seem to support this.)"
For the 100th time, they have always had somebody porting windows games to Linux, nobody in their right mind runs servers on windows!!!
The Anthropic principle isn't that far from god, that's why scientists aren't very happy to just accept that "if it didn't work, we wouldn't be standing her talking about it" and would much rather test it.
What worries me is how little you have to know if your a creationist. How do they explain plastic, which is formed from oil, which takes hundreds of thousands of years to form, when the world is only ~4000 years old?
Isn't life just the an efficient way to increase entropy (otherwise the chemicals would not have formed in the first amoeba)?
You want to pay for a $100 laptop now and get a $200 laptop in 3 years?
They're not random dammit! they always occur where the real part is a half, well the non-trivial crashes anyway.
That's just Giuliani's rule, since the primaries there has been a lack of mentioning 9/11, Ethanol-fueled is just trying to fill the quota.
Its OK im white though.
It was defiantly in [ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17 ] either check against a downloaded list or ask google about each one.
Submitting the hash of every site you visit makes it very easy for google to see if you have or haven't visited a site. all the hashing stops is google having a list of sites youve been to, but a rainbow table means they can instantly see everybody that has been to www.slashdot.org. It depends if it is now done by list or by actively checking (asa clarifies above that the default is using a list which allows me to maintain privacy )
I had a look through my settings, in 2.0 IRCC there was an option to download the list instead of checking as you browse, as i cant find the option anymore I'm quite disappointed that Mozilla have effectively compromised my privacy OR left me undefended.
How do cutting edge distros compare actually?
Im using ubuntu and it seams to be a bit too stable (as in old packages) for me.
firefox 3.1 is stable and it runs too, hell i even run it with flash x64 beta and it still runs and is stable (FOR ME). if your comparing betas or 'usable' betas thats fine but its not fair to compair usable betas with old software.
I have not played with Open solaris but ubuntu was running on ext2 with linux if you want performance you need to pick an alternative file system (i find reiserfs to be good but support for it seams dwindling and answers such as use a supported fs (despite reiserfs being supported) are not uncommon), anyway my point is that these tests are pointless!
firefox3 is faster, and 3.1 a significant improvement on that.
Regarding bootup time specifically, the initial boot may be slow due to extentions. Im always torn with regards to extensions, so i generally keep a lightweight Firefox but with a profile for development and another for timewasting (stumbleubon etc). However to speed it up you could try prelinking (uses no resources) or preloading (uses some idle disk access time and some ram cache) or both. On a 2.2ghz Turion on (1.25GB ) minefield starts up in seconds and new windows in 1 (no preloading/linking.
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Apple does tell you that they're going to install iTunes, by the way. Read the fucking popup in future.
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i noticed the flamebait tag? i dont quite get it though, sure its a Hard attack to pull off but given yahoo have ~1/3 of all webmail clients i think people would be up for giving it a try