How is running a 32-bit version of an OS on 64-bit hardware "wasteful"? Unless you are running apps that specifically lend themselves to the 64-bit architecture (and you probably aren't) or need 4GB+ of RAM (and can't get a PAE kernel), you won't notice the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit.
Actually, you will probably notice the difference. On 64-bit, apps won't work, drivers won't exist and all your applications will take more memory due to the increased pointer size.
That defeats one of the primary benefits of the linux kernel for the end user: You plug a device in and it usually just works. No driver installers, no unhelpful dialog saying "Should I search for a driver for you?" and no unnecessary vendor crapware added to the system tray.
30MB is a fairly trivial amount of disk space and these modules at worse add a small performance penalty to boot times and no performance penalty to runtime.
Windows Vista has cut down my phone calls of, "My computer is acting strange. Can you help?" by orders of magnitude. I just say, "Sorry, I've never used Vista. I can't help." Oh, how I love Vista...
In 5 years, they will be planning KDE5. Another wholesale breaking of the DE. There is no, "hindsight is a perfect science" here. The changed the fundamental way that everything worked and then were surprised that adoption wasn't positive. Sounds like... Hmmm... Vista...
This is just pure insanity. I'm a Linux user and I have no qualms about saying so. You are saying, "Well, it's just the initial release. I'm sure it will get better in like *5* more releases". How can you possibly justify that when the vast majority of the people here that say, "Well, Vista will be better with SP1" get flamed. KDE4 is literally the linux equivalent of Vista. After 5 service packs (and possibly renaming it KDE 5), it might be usable.
It's a disaster and a lesson to those that would try to re-write good things because, "We know better".
A big upside to this approach is that if you are actually able to saturate the SATA 2 buses with the drive, you are in luck because you are now using a bus that's a few orders of magnitude faster.
Your script wouldn't work unless you first adjusted the journal commit time of all your ext3 partitions and adjusted the dirty page writeback time. See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=839998
* {ac,battery,resume,start}.d/90-hdparm.sh: don't just check whether
laptop-mode is configured to control the drives, also check whether
laptop-mode itself is *enabled*. Finally closes LP: #59695.
-- Steve Langasek Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:50:10 +0000
Just run apt-get update && apt-get install acpi-support.
The fact that most of/etc/acpi/*.d hasn't worked since Hardy when pm-utils was introduced makes me think that this problem isn't actually fixed. Specifically, it's not going to work after suspend/resume.
There is no mystery as to what the numbers are. You can use smartctl to check these numbers. Also, high Load_Cycle_Count is listed as an Old_Age state by SMART and not a Pre_Fail state so, getting to the "maximum" value isn't actually very dangerous.
And why is someone he didn't vote for coming to power? Because we still respect the will of the people in this country. We actually are a democracy and don't have hand picked successors.
You make it sound as if anyone not "hand picked" stands even a slight chance of becoming president. They don't. The president hopefuls are hand picked. Not by the people but by the people that have enough power and money to be in a position to decide who best serves their interests.
There is a difference between regular criminal mischief and war, and a difference between American citizens protected under the constitution and people from other countries. Most reasonable people recognize this. During wars especially, but even when not at war, the US (and all other nations) have the right to spy on each other without asking for a warrant from the international court. Only our own citizens are protected from illegal search and seizure under the constitution. Foreign enemy terrorists are not. Sorry.
How many times did you say "war" in that paragraph? A lot. The U.S. is not in a "war" where there is any real danger that another state is going to invade and fundamentally change the country. If that were the case then, yes, blatant wartime paranoid powers would be appropriate to save the country. The U.S. is in no danger of being invaded by another country and so all of these "wartime" powers that the government has enacted are about power and control. They have nothing to do with keeping the population safe. If they did, they would outlaw cars because FAR more people are killed by cars each year than by terrorists.
US$35/hr to code in VB? I'm going to have to assume the benefits were good. Something along the lines of, "Location: Strip Club". I can think of no other plausible reason to subject yourself to that pain for so little money.
I moderate for the Ubuntu forums and even with hundreds of legitimate posts per day, we have no trouble keeping the spam count very low. The reason is that it's very easy to remove it. We use Spam Decimator for vBulletin and it's literally two clicks to go from "This is Spam" to "This is deleted and the IP has been banned". You probably can't prevent spam but, you can make your life easier by finding a way to deal with it so effectively that it becomes pointless for the spammers to spam.
I'm not sure how "Applications I don't use" are bloat. With machines with disks in the 500GB to 1TB range, an extra 50M of dormant software doesn't seem very detrimental to me.
That sounds more like a bug than a feature. Why should the way I choose to view my desktop have any effect on the way others choose to view theres? Your description of the reason this happens seems logical but, the fact that it happens is beyond comprehension.
First of all, the automobile represents freedom. Freedom to go where you want, when you want. You are not tied to mass transit schedules and routes.
Yes, I can see how a $30,000 loan represents freedom. Nothing says "Freedom" like paying $400 a month for the car and then $200 a month on insurance and then only using your monstrosity to drive to work.
The responses of "Use Ubuntu instead" are not all based on fanboi-ism. Most are probably based on the fact that the question as asked is not a solvable problem. In that case, "You can't but, I've used another OS to accomplish this very thing for my parents and it's worked very well" seems like helpful advice to me.
I agree. Jeremy Allison seems like a nice enough guy and his contributions are surely appreciated but, there was very little content to this interview. I'm not sure why this particular interview is worth putting on the front page other than getting people riled up into a Gnome vs. KDE war.
Actually, I would argue that gtk (gnome) apps are probably easiest to develop in perl. Not only are the gtk wrappers for perl intuitive to use but, in some cases, they are a huge improvement over other languages. For example the way Lists/Trees are handled in the gtk wrappers for perl is one of the slickest ways I've seen to handle a complex widget.
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How is running a 32-bit version of an OS on 64-bit hardware "wasteful"? Unless you are running apps that specifically lend themselves to the 64-bit architecture (and you probably aren't) or need 4GB+ of RAM (and can't get a PAE kernel), you won't notice the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit.
Actually, you will probably notice the difference. On 64-bit, apps won't work, drivers won't exist and all your applications will take more memory due to the increased pointer size.
That defeats one of the primary benefits of the linux kernel for the end user: You plug a device in and it usually just works. No driver installers, no unhelpful dialog saying "Should I search for a driver for you?" and no unnecessary vendor crapware added to the system tray.
30MB is a fairly trivial amount of disk space and these modules at worse add a small performance penalty to boot times and no performance penalty to runtime.
It's simple. The human body is evil. Unless it's been shot or otherwise maimed.
Windows Vista has cut down my phone calls of, "My computer is acting strange. Can you help?" by orders of magnitude. I just say, "Sorry, I've never used Vista. I can't help." Oh, how I love Vista...
You must be married.
I use Kate a lot for programming C++ and Actionscript projects.
Stopped reading your wall of words right about there.
In 5 years, they will be planning KDE5. Another wholesale breaking of the DE. There is no, "hindsight is a perfect science" here. The changed the fundamental way that everything worked and then were surprised that adoption wasn't positive. Sounds like... Hmmm... Vista...
This is just pure insanity. I'm a Linux user and I have no qualms about saying so. You are saying, "Well, it's just the initial release. I'm sure it will get better in like *5* more releases". How can you possibly justify that when the vast majority of the people here that say, "Well, Vista will be better with SP1" get flamed. KDE4 is literally the linux equivalent of Vista. After 5 service packs (and possibly renaming it KDE 5), it might be usable.
It's a disaster and a lesson to those that would try to re-write good things because, "We know better".
A big upside to this approach is that if you are actually able to saturate the SATA 2 buses with the drive, you are in luck because you are now using a bus that's a few orders of magnitude faster.
Your script wouldn't work unless you first adjusted the journal commit time of all your ext3 partitions and adjusted the dirty page writeback time. See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=839998
The fix is already included in the accepted updates:
acpi-support (0.114-0intrepid1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low
* {ac,battery,resume,start}.d/90-hdparm.sh: don't just check whether
laptop-mode is configured to control the drives, also check whether
laptop-mode itself is *enabled*. Finally closes LP: #59695.
-- Steve Langasek Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:50:10 +0000
Just run apt-get update && apt-get install acpi-support.
The fact that most of /etc/acpi/*.d hasn't worked since Hardy when pm-utils was introduced makes me think that this problem isn't actually fixed. Specifically, it's not going to work after suspend/resume.
There is no mystery as to what the numbers are. You can use smartctl to check these numbers. Also, high Load_Cycle_Count is listed as an Old_Age state by SMART and not a Pre_Fail state so, getting to the "maximum" value isn't actually very dangerous.
And why is someone he didn't vote for coming to power? Because we still respect the will of the people in this country. We actually are a democracy and don't have hand picked successors.
You make it sound as if anyone not "hand picked" stands even a slight chance of becoming president. They don't. The president hopefuls are hand picked. Not by the people but by the people that have enough power and money to be in a position to decide who best serves their interests.
There is a difference between regular criminal mischief and war, and a difference between American citizens protected under the constitution and people from other countries. Most reasonable people recognize this. During wars especially, but even when not at war, the US (and all other nations) have the right to spy on each other without asking for a warrant from the international court. Only our own citizens are protected from illegal search and seizure under the constitution. Foreign enemy terrorists are not. Sorry.
How many times did you say "war" in that paragraph? A lot. The U.S. is not in a "war" where there is any real danger that another state is going to invade and fundamentally change the country. If that were the case then, yes, blatant wartime paranoid powers would be appropriate to save the country. The U.S. is in no danger of being invaded by another country and so all of these "wartime" powers that the government has enacted are about power and control. They have nothing to do with keeping the population safe. If they did, they would outlaw cars because FAR more people are killed by cars each year than by terrorists.
US$35/hr to code in VB? I'm going to have to assume the benefits were good. Something along the lines of, "Location: Strip Club". I can think of no other plausible reason to subject yourself to that pain for so little money.
1) Better tools... improve EPIC. Perl lacks a good IDE.
Why would you need an IDE to write a single line of code?
Forcing the player to restarting huge segments at the smallest error is a very cheap way to make something "difficult".
Seeing as this is modded to (5: Insightful) I am going to have to assume that no nethack players have mod points today.
I moderate for the Ubuntu forums and even with hundreds of legitimate posts per day, we have no trouble keeping the spam count very low. The reason is that it's very easy to remove it. We use Spam Decimator for vBulletin and it's literally two clicks to go from "This is Spam" to "This is deleted and the IP has been banned". You probably can't prevent spam but, you can make your life easier by finding a way to deal with it so effectively that it becomes pointless for the spammers to spam.
I'm not sure how "Applications I don't use" are bloat. With machines with disks in the 500GB to 1TB range, an extra 50M of dormant software doesn't seem very detrimental to me.
That sounds more like a bug than a feature. Why should the way I choose to view my desktop have any effect on the way others choose to view theres? Your description of the reason this happens seems logical but, the fact that it happens is beyond comprehension.
SAVE THE CHILDREN!
First of all, the automobile represents freedom. Freedom to go where you want, when you want. You are not tied to mass transit schedules and routes.
Yes, I can see how a $30,000 loan represents freedom. Nothing says "Freedom" like paying $400 a month for the car and then $200 a month on insurance and then only using your monstrosity to drive to work.
The responses of "Use Ubuntu instead" are not all based on fanboi-ism. Most are probably based on the fact that the question as asked is not a solvable problem. In that case, "You can't but, I've used another OS to accomplish this very thing for my parents and it's worked very well" seems like helpful advice to me.
I agree. Jeremy Allison seems like a nice enough guy and his contributions are surely appreciated but, there was very little content to this interview. I'm not sure why this particular interview is worth putting on the front page other than getting people riled up into a Gnome vs. KDE war.
Actually, I would argue that gtk (gnome) apps are probably easiest to develop in perl. Not only are the gtk wrappers for perl intuitive to use but, in some cases, they are a huge improvement over other languages. For example the way Lists/Trees are handled in the gtk wrappers for perl is one of the slickest ways I've seen to handle a complex widget.
I generally ask for payment based on the OS that I'm asked to install or fix:
Install/Fix Ubuntu: A beer
Install/Fix XP: A six pack of beer
Install/Fix Vista: A keg of beer, blow and hookers