Or even if there is too much clutter by having every single file show the extension then exe files should be an exception (and.bat,.scr etc.). This solves the problem.
The reason that firefox eats memory is that it decides to cache a nice lot of stuff for you in the memory since from it's point of view you don't seem to be using it. Like the original parent who is using 871MB of 2GB so he has 1100MB free thus surely firefox using 327 is no problem. Just for reference In my house there is a machine which runs firefox perfectly which has 128mb of RAM. It is not quite as fast because it cannot cache so much stuff and I guess there tend to be fewer tabs open than with the version we have on our more powerful machine. Also chrome tends to use more memory in my experience and this is because of the overhead due to having more processes (Google did say this as well).
I don't have a netbook but I have a PC with less ram (768 mb) which is about 7.5 years old now so the processor isn't all that fast etc. Since in the article they mentioned that it seemed to be the rma which caused the problem with office anyway, I would not say that this is good performance at all. On my PC I regularly run openoffice, firefox, IM client, music player. This is on Ubuntu with fancy compiz effects enabled with my PC which has less ram than a netbook and I have no problems.
Also I know somebody with a cheap netbook and I have seen them happily using a web browser and office suite on it without trouble, again using linux.
I bought an old PC for £30 from ebay, found the motherboard didn't work. The seller was decent so they sent me another PC which did work so I then got to put the extra ram and hard drive into the new PC making it a little nicer.
I installed slackware on it just to see what it was like. It worked fairly nicely once I had found out that you need to run the startx to get away from the scary command prompt which filled the screen. I never really did much on it since I had no internet connection but I taught me a little.
I then played around with various live CD's and installed a few distro's in Virtualbox on my main PC. Eventually in February this year I installed Ubuntu on my main machine dual booting with XP. I have booted into XP about 5 times since then and am now very happy with my system. And of course I had my first OS upgrade on Thursday.
I have actually tried eclipse and I found that because my hardware is somewhat old (7 years) it runs too sluggishly to be nice to use. Apart from games there is not much other software which I have come across which I have had any problems with. Thus I would be forced to conclude that the Java performance is not actually good enough for my needs with this.
Video doesn't have problems with latency. Bandwidth is more important. The video gets buffered on the local machine so any latency will be absorbed by the buffer. It is only when there is not enough bandwidth that the buffer runs out and you get problems.
Intuitive design (This is huge to me and why linux still fails to be a great desktop OS)
Can you explain your reasoning behind this? I have been running Ubuntu for a couple of months and I found it was far more intuitive than windows.
Firstly you have three different menu's, Applications, Places and System. This makes it easier to find things than in Windows which bungs it all in one start menu.
Secondly the applications menu is well organised by category rather than by company. So instead of windows where to find my scanner I have to remember it is in the Epson folder I can look in graphics and pick the one with XSane Image Scanner as the name.
The places menu is pretty obvious, giving a list of possible places I want to go to. Bookmarks are useful here but I didn't find these intuitive, still you get sane defaults so not being able to work out how to change them easily isn't any worse then windows.
Add/Remove Applications is pretty good because you can actually add software (I know you can add a few windows components but this is not obvious) so this makes it very easy to find new software as long as it is fairly mainstream.
What you have missed is that since WW2 the US has never fought a nation which could bring troops against it in a serious battle. Instead every war has been against guerilla style fighters which is an entirely different kind of war. There is the odd case such as the first gulf war where the US fought directly against an enemy which was trying to prevent them entering territory but this was over very rapidly.
If you do try this be sure to use a virtual machine or a real low powered machine. Web browsers adjust their memory usage based on what system they run on and with other factors like cpu speed it is very difficult to extrapolate from a fast machine to a slow one.
This seems to be the perfect example of how not to be a Linux critic. Even if the criticism is valid it is said in a way which is aggressive and non constructive. This actually has a negative effect on Linux criticism. If you were a developer and you received a message worded like that blog you would most likely just discard it or reply in some unproductive way. And this would put the developer off future criticism as well.
I do use Gnome and like it but some of the development decisions do seem to be slightly off. Recently there was a mess with the session restore functionality which they are trying to switch to a new system but they removed the old one before they had finished the new so the 2.24 release just has a piece of UI which does not do anything. It may be good changing the system but putting a broken new one into a release isn't the way to do it.
No you are misunderstanding the main issue in the bug report. ext4 is truncating the file opened with the O_TRUNCATE then there can be a long delay before the new file is written. Thus the system crashes and the old file got wiped clean and the new file isn't written. Other filesystems do both operatiosn at the same time which would seem to be the logical way to do this to avoid data loss.
Technically the ext4 system is working perfectly correctly since you asked for the file to be truncated when it was opened. However this interpretation of the spec is perhaps not the most sensible since I would consider it reasonable that if I give the two operations to the file system 1ms apart that it would not decide to run the truncate more than 30 seconds before the new write.
Also if you look carefully even using a method of saving a file than renaming the new file to the old file so that at all times you have at least 1 file on the disk in a complete state. This can also lose you data because the filesystem may optimise by doing the rename before the new file is written. So to make it would safely you need to use an fsync() command to make sure the new file is written before you rename. So basically as the application developer you are being asked to jump through loops because the filesystem has decided that it does not wish to group operations to a file and can do things like renaming a file before it has been written. It follows the spec but it appears the spec is not the epitomy of perfection.
This would exaggerate the problem rather than decrease it. The people who you sent to prison for minor offences would surely be less likely to re-offend and therefore be more profitable.
It is a good addition but the problem is that users will not see it that way. Many people will assume that since they have this wonderful technology there is not any need for a password as well.
Given that 3.1 has an entirely new javascript engine if there is still a javascript memory leak in 3.2 then I would imagine that this would be a different bug and thus your comment is irrelevant to the story.
The main difference here is that Firefox's auto update feature updates Firefox and not anything else and also the auto updates are security patches and bug fixes. Also if you don't want auto updates then you should turn off the auto update feature. it is clear what an auto update does.
As far as I am aware this is a standard windows update. It would have been added in the usual update procedure which is authorised. The main problem is the fact that they installed it in a product which they did not make without explicitly saying that this was happening.
At my school firefox does actually work to get past the internet filters because they are set up so that Internet Explorer always uses a proxy so the proxy server does the filtering. Setting the router to put all traffic through the filter would obviously be far too difficult.
Having recently taken GCSE (1.5 years ago) I feel able to say that IT GCSE was the poorest GCSE that I had to take. Many of the others could be considered worthwhile but IT was pretty shocking. I know a couple of people who got 7-8 A* and the rest A with a B in IT. One of them could code actionscript and make flash movies and the other was hardly incompentant. However you got other people who could just about use word processors and basic spreadsheets who got an A* by just following instructions blindly and learning a revision guide.
The coursework markign system in IT was junk basically because it required lower level work for the higher level to be counted. Theoretically you could do an outstandnig piece of coursework which got 90% of the marks, miss out one simple section from the start, and lose the marks. The worst thing was that you had to show it in the documentation so you could lose the marks for the creation of the new document in it's own folder or whatever which has clearly been done given the fact that there was actually something produced but if you hadn't got annotated screenshots you would get no marks.
Many of the other GCSEs were worthwhile however especially the more traditional subjects.
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Or even if there is too much clutter by having every single file show the extension then exe files should be an exception (and .bat, .scr etc.). This solves the problem.
The reason that firefox eats memory is that it decides to cache a nice lot of stuff for you in the memory since from it's point of view you don't seem to be using it. Like the original parent who is using 871MB of 2GB so he has 1100MB free thus surely firefox using 327 is no problem. Just for reference In my house there is a machine which runs firefox perfectly which has 128mb of RAM. It is not quite as fast because it cannot cache so much stuff and I guess there tend to be fewer tabs open than with the version we have on our more powerful machine. Also chrome tends to use more memory in my experience and this is because of the overhead due to having more processes (Google did say this as well).
I don't have a netbook but I have a PC with less ram (768 mb) which is about 7.5 years old now so the processor isn't all that fast etc. Since in the article they mentioned that it seemed to be the rma which caused the problem with office anyway, I would not say that this is good performance at all. On my PC I regularly run openoffice, firefox, IM client, music player. This is on Ubuntu with fancy compiz effects enabled with my PC which has less ram than a netbook and I have no problems.
Also I know somebody with a cheap netbook and I have seen them happily using a web browser and office suite on it without trouble, again using linux.
That is for written works. This is talking about a different situation if you cared to RTFA. It is 70 years past the creation of the work.
I bought an old PC for £30 from ebay, found the motherboard didn't work. The seller was decent so they sent me another PC which did work so I then got to put the extra ram and hard drive into the new PC making it a little nicer.
I installed slackware on it just to see what it was like. It worked fairly nicely once I had found out that you need to run the startx to get away from the scary command prompt which filled the screen. I never really did much on it since I had no internet connection but I taught me a little.
I then played around with various live CD's and installed a few distro's in Virtualbox on my main PC. Eventually in February this year I installed Ubuntu on my main machine dual booting with XP. I have booted into XP about 5 times since then and am now very happy with my system. And of course I had my first OS upgrade on Thursday.
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I have actually tried eclipse and I found that because my hardware is somewhat old (7 years) it runs too sluggishly to be nice to use. Apart from games there is not much other software which I have come across which I have had any problems with. Thus I would be forced to conclude that the Java performance is not actually good enough for my needs with this.
Video doesn't have problems with latency. Bandwidth is more important. The video gets buffered on the local machine so any latency will be absorbed by the buffer. It is only when there is not enough bandwidth that the buffer runs out and you get problems.
You will be fine buying from any vendor. You may need to find some drivers yourself but other than that you should not have any problems.
Intuitive design (This is huge to me and why linux still fails to be a great desktop OS)
Can you explain your reasoning behind this? I have been running Ubuntu for a couple of months and I found it was far more intuitive than windows.
Firstly you have three different menu's, Applications, Places and System. This makes it easier to find things than in Windows which bungs it all in one start menu.
Secondly the applications menu is well organised by category rather than by company. So instead of windows where to find my scanner I have to remember it is in the Epson folder I can look in graphics and pick the one with XSane Image Scanner as the name.
The places menu is pretty obvious, giving a list of possible places I want to go to. Bookmarks are useful here but I didn't find these intuitive, still you get sane defaults so not being able to work out how to change them easily isn't any worse then windows.
Add/Remove Applications is pretty good because you can actually add software (I know you can add a few windows components but this is not obvious) so this makes it very easy to find new software as long as it is fairly mainstream.
What you have missed is that since WW2 the US has never fought a nation which could bring troops against it in a serious battle. Instead every war has been against guerilla style fighters which is an entirely different kind of war. There is the odd case such as the first gulf war where the US fought directly against an enemy which was trying to prevent them entering territory but this was over very rapidly.
If you do try this be sure to use a virtual machine or a real low powered machine. Web browsers adjust their memory usage based on what system they run on and with other factors like cpu speed it is very difficult to extrapolate from a fast machine to a slow one.
This seems to be the perfect example of how not to be a Linux critic. Even if the criticism is valid it is said in a way which is aggressive and non constructive. This actually has a negative effect on Linux criticism. If you were a developer and you received a message worded like that blog you would most likely just discard it or reply in some unproductive way. And this would put the developer off future criticism as well.
Well in Ubuntu it is in the menu under the name XSane Image Scanner which is a bit more explanatory.
I do use Gnome and like it but some of the development decisions do seem to be slightly off. Recently there was a mess with the session restore functionality which they are trying to switch to a new system but they removed the old one before they had finished the new so the 2.24 release just has a piece of UI which does not do anything. It may be good changing the system but putting a broken new one into a release isn't the way to do it.
The article is dated March 28, 2008 so perhaps this would explain?
No you are misunderstanding the main issue in the bug report. ext4 is truncating the file opened with the O_TRUNCATE then there can be a long delay before the new file is written. Thus the system crashes and the old file got wiped clean and the new file isn't written. Other filesystems do both operatiosn at the same time which would seem to be the logical way to do this to avoid data loss.
Technically the ext4 system is working perfectly correctly since you asked for the file to be truncated when it was opened. However this interpretation of the spec is perhaps not the most sensible since I would consider it reasonable that if I give the two operations to the file system 1ms apart that it would not decide to run the truncate more than 30 seconds before the new write.
Also if you look carefully even using a method of saving a file than renaming the new file to the old file so that at all times you have at least 1 file on the disk in a complete state. This can also lose you data because the filesystem may optimise by doing the rename before the new file is written. So to make it would safely you need to use an fsync() command to make sure the new file is written before you rename. So basically as the application developer you are being asked to jump through loops because the filesystem has decided that it does not wish to group operations to a file and can do things like renaming a file before it has been written. It follows the spec but it appears the spec is not the epitomy of perfection.
This would exaggerate the problem rather than decrease it. The people who you sent to prison for minor offences would surely be less likely to re-offend and therefore be more profitable.
It is a good addition but the problem is that users will not see it that way. Many people will assume that since they have this wonderful technology there is not any need for a password as well.
Given that 3.1 has an entirely new javascript engine if there is still a javascript memory leak in 3.2 then I would imagine that this would be a different bug and thus your comment is irrelevant to the story.
The main difference here is that Firefox's auto update feature updates Firefox and not anything else and also the auto updates are security patches and bug fixes. Also if you don't want auto updates then you should turn off the auto update feature. it is clear what an auto update does.
As far as I am aware this is a standard windows update. It would have been added in the usual update procedure which is authorised. The main problem is the fact that they installed it in a product which they did not make without explicitly saying that this was happening.
At my school firefox does actually work to get past the internet filters because they are set up so that Internet Explorer always uses a proxy so the proxy server does the filtering. Setting the router to put all traffic through the filter would obviously be far too difficult.
But who needs to know this fancy html tag stuff when you can just use Frontpage?
Having recently taken GCSE (1.5 years ago) I feel able to say that IT GCSE was the poorest GCSE that I had to take. Many of the others could be considered worthwhile but IT was pretty shocking. I know a couple of people who got 7-8 A* and the rest A with a B in IT. One of them could code actionscript and make flash movies and the other was hardly incompentant. However you got other people who could just about use word processors and basic spreadsheets who got an A* by just following instructions blindly and learning a revision guide.
The coursework markign system in IT was junk basically because it required lower level work for the higher level to be counted. Theoretically you could do an outstandnig piece of coursework which got 90% of the marks, miss out one simple section from the start, and lose the marks. The worst thing was that you had to show it in the documentation so you could lose the marks for the creation of the new document in it's own folder or whatever which has clearly been done given the fact that there was actually something produced but if you hadn't got annotated screenshots you would get no marks.
Many of the other GCSEs were worthwhile however especially the more traditional subjects.