Only if you see it from a pure technical standpoint. Photography also is art though, and instant films are the medium some people prefer due to the involved process and style of results. Take a look at sites like POLANOIR, Polanoid, or the various groups on Flickr (my polaroid set).
Have you found a way to switch between workspaces _without_ animations. That is without rotating cubes, sliding desktops,...
The only two things holding be back from using compiz are this animated workspace switching (it gets quite annoying if you switch a lot) and that partly offscreen windows are visible on adjacent workspaces.
eth0 gets renamed as eth1 somehow during card init
The kernel doesn't guarantee any specific interface initialization order but it's easy to give interfaces persistent names with udev and iftab (at least in Dapper, I don't know if Breezy has that functionality too). Just put something like
lan0 mac 00:12:79:59:8D:38
wifi mac 00:0B:CD:5C:9E:2A
I also doubt security is a high priority task for the WordPress developers. The last few security fix releases were done quite silently. No announcements on release mailing list, no notes on the main WordPress site -- just posts on the development blog which didn't even mention what was broken and who might be affected. (See WordPress Security Annoyances).
Nevertheless, I'm running a modified WordPress version on my site. Admin access is only possible via SSL with a known certificate. (Setup described at Securing WordPress Admin Access With SSL)
Exactly. I just found a whole page of this by searching 'web proxy' without the quotes and going down the search results to about page 6 or so. Interesting, when I reloaded the page all of that/url?sa= stuff was gone and the links were direct again.
I guess it's a Google feature. They use the click-tracking URLs very sparingly. That makes it harder for SEOs to manipulate rankings that way.
So either there still is a problem with the JVM limiting memory usage to 4GB or the documentation is wrong. Don't have a Sun box with more than 4GB RAM handy to test this out on. But I think it is a JVM issue.
No, the documentation is wrong. The limits only apply to the 32-bit versions.
Yes, I did the 1.4 port and helped Sun integrating it into their 1.5 codebase.
That is interesting. On all benchmarks i have seen, blackdown is the slowest of all JVM's.
There are quite a few old benchmarks on the net which compare Blackdown Java using the Classic VM with Sun Java using the HotSpot VM. That's an unfair comparison (at least performance-wise).
If you have a benchmark that compares the two VMs in a similar setup (e.g. Blackdown 1.4.2 HotSpot Client VM vs. Sun 1.4.2 HotSpot Client VM on the same machine) and Blackdown loses, then please mail me a link.
Our tests say, that our version is always at least as fast as Sun's version. For some things (e.g. Java2D operations) our VM is noticeably faster.
(Note that the AMD64 HotSpot VM has no Client mode. So if you compare it to the x86 version, make sure you enable Server mode for the x86 version too.)
I guess the amd port should be good if Sun used it, or otherwise they just wanted to get any version amd64 compatible.
It's faster than the 32-bit x86 VM on the same machine in almost all benchmarks.
"You can allocate as much memory as you like using the right java command line flags"
Try this on a 16 gigs of memory Solaris 10K:
byte[] b = new byte[3000L * 1000L * 1000L];
That's a limitation of the current spec: Arrays can only have up 2^31 elements. But that limits the mem you can use for a single array, it's not overall limit.
Says the max memory allocatable is 2048M? 2 gigs is a lot of memory, but I'm not sure this is as much memory as I want though.
This is a JVM issue, not a language issue. There is nothing in the language spec limiting memory support to 2GB anymore than Windows C language programs are limited to 2GB of memory.
It's no VM issue, it's a OS issue. Java can only use as much memory as the OS gives to processes. On 32-bit Linux/x86 you can get pretty close to 4G with a customized kernel.
There is no real reason why Sun (or any other JVM provider) couldn't and doesn't provide a 64 bit JVM that can access more than 4GB of memory.
Sun and other VM providers (e.g. Blackdown:-) already provide 64-bit VMs!
Anything that needs decent threads support for instance, woody's glibc doesn't support NPTL.
Also, it defeats the purpose of a distribution if you have to build and maintain apache2, mysql-4.1, cyrus-2.1, exim-4, etc yourself.
And no, running testing or backports doesn't solve that. There are no timely security updates for testing and backports.
Perhaps I'm simply naive about PPC32/64 porting issues (okay, no, I'm not), but y'all are aware that the recent JDKs have full source available?
Yes, you're a bit naive here: About 95% of the JDK source is easy to port to new architectures but the remaining 5% are hard. For porting HotSpot to a new architecture you have to implement a runtime macro assembler and at least one runtime compiler (code generator + runtime infrastructure for HotSpot Client and/or Server).
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There's no need for instant film anymore.
Only if you see it from a pure technical standpoint. Photography also is art though, and instant films are the medium some people prefer due to the involved process and style of results. Take a look at sites like POLANOIR, Polanoid, or the various groups on Flickr (my polaroid set).
The subjectAltName option is nicer but some browser have problems with it.
Real powerusers write their own ipfw rules! But that's not the point.
Have you found a way to switch between workspaces _without_ animations. That is without rotating cubes, sliding desktops, ...
The only two things holding be back from using compiz are this animated workspace switching (it gets quite annoying if you switch a lot) and that partly offscreen windows are visible on adjacent workspaces.
I use the Bookmark Sync and Sort add-on to synchronize my bookmarks over my own WebDAV server. The add-on works with FTP too.
I only allow access to the admin pages when the client presents a known SSL certificate: Securing WordPress 2 Admin Access With SSL
You can get back bash as /bin/sh by doing "sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash" and selecting "No".
I also doubt security is a high priority task for the WordPress developers. The last few security fix releases were done quite silently. No announcements on release mailing list, no notes on the main WordPress site -- just posts on the development blog which didn't even mention what was broken and who might be affected. (See WordPress Security Annoyances).
Nevertheless, I'm running a modified WordPress version on my site. Admin access is only possible via SSL with a known certificate. (Setup described at Securing WordPress Admin Access With SSL)
I'm using netfilter's ipt_recent module to block IPs that flood the ssh port temporarily. Here's the configuration I use for shorewall.
I guess it's a Google feature. They use the click-tracking URLs very sparingly. That makes it harder for SEOs to manipulate rankings that way.
That would allow me to work fulltime on the ppc port. For some, yes. For others I'll put some results on our site after the next release.
If you have a benchmark that compares the two VMs in a similar setup (e.g. Blackdown 1.4.2 HotSpot Client VM vs. Sun 1.4.2 HotSpot Client VM on the same machine) and Blackdown loses, then please mail me a link.
Our tests say, that our version is always at least as fast as Sun's version. For some things (e.g. Java2D operations) our VM is noticeably faster.
(Note that the AMD64 HotSpot VM has no Client mode. So if you compare it to the x86 version, make sure you enable Server mode for the x86 version too.)
It's faster than the 32-bit x86 VM on the same machine in almost all benchmarks.Also, it defeats the purpose of a distribution if you have to build and maintain apache2, mysql-4.1, cyrus-2.1, exim-4, etc yourself.
And no, running testing or backports doesn't solve that. There are no timely security updates for testing and backports.
... surely will improve the iTunes per iPod ratio.