To reduce -a lot- the disk activity, mount all your FS with the 'noatime,nodiratime' options in fstab.
This will prevent Linux to update the files access time when they are read.
I'm always surprised by the comments regarding Japan, the Japanese and their behavior.
I lived the iPhone "revolution" from the inside in Japan, and the 3Gs being -now- at the top of the sales is not a surprise.
Initially, a bit more than a year ago, when SoftBank released the iPhone, it didn't work well for a number of reasons
1. The success abroad of the iPhone made the competition on the watch, this was reflected by a lot of bad publicity directed to the iPhone in the news
2. SoftBank initial contract requested to make an advance of 70,000 yen, besides the regular fees
3. SoftBank and their many pitiful shops gave an image (at the time) that did not go in par with the luxurious iphone
4. Many critics emerged (cannot change battery, fingernail insensitive screen, no TV, slow battery life [was true at the time], no cut&paste, can be slow)
5. Finally, many people were waiting for their contract with their current carrier to end.
Then at the end of 2008, SoftBank offered the iPhone (8GB) for zero yen (16GB was 400yen/m). From that time, little by little, it interested more and more people.
Most of the foreigners I know got an iPhone.
I would say that things started to change from Spring 2009.
Japanese amazing applications started to be advertised on TV etc...
Then arrived the 3Gs (June) and, at the same time, more and more Japanese wanted an iPhone.
The Japanese prefer the latest releases, and there is not much difference between the price of the 3Gs (monthly) compared to the 3G 16B.
Thus, when the "iPhone mania" started, everybody got the last one: the 3Gs.
The sales recommend the 3Gs simply because it is the last, and it's faster, longer battery life AND because the compass eases a lot the GPS navigation.
Not the voice control! Please, this is a joke. Nobody cares about that, here.
It made a hissing noise, I threw the device out of the back door, and within 30 seconds there was a pop, a big puff of smoke and it went 10ft in the air
Moral: while it is cheaper, don't buy your iPod in Irak...
Well, I can't mod up your comment so I'll just say this is one of the funniest and less predictable remark I read on/. lately.
Keep up the good work;-)
In Japan the situation is pretty similar, while probably cheaper overall.
From a few years back, the trend is the sale of a device for zero yen, while subscribing a 2-years contract.
The "zero yen" is actually "You pay xxx yen monthly and, monthly, the carrier reimburses xxx yen" giving a zero-yen illusion (xxx being the actual devicePrice / 24).
You may cancel the contract at anytime, but you'll have to pay the xxx * remaining-months (24 - months you paid) yen to the carrier.
It is a good way to keep customers for at least 2 years.
The iPhone 3G for instance is "free" (2 years contract) since March 2009.
Researchers found that males can adjust the speed and effectiveness of their sperm by regulating the amount of seminal fluid they produce during copulation
While I belong to the men species, I thought, in all fairness, that we have to add something here. The more aroused the female is, the more vaginal lubrication fluid she secretes. This fluid makes a more aqueous environment favorable to sperm mobility. Meaning, the more a man is attractive, the more the female will help sperm mobility.
the major factor preventing businesses from transferring their communication interface from Outlook to Google Apps is employees' unwillingness to give up a tool that's so familiar
Reversely, it happens to be one of the reasons people do not want to give up the Google search engine in favor of Bing: "a tool that is so familiar".
Just FYI, Bing is a search engine, not a browser.
And as for "Bing is not Google" (cf to Gnu's not Unix) I'm sorry to tell you this was largely utilized around/. a while ago...
Google mail was working fairly well for a long time while flanked with a Beta label.
Amusingly, Google translation being probably at its best does not have any "Beta" label - while the quality of the translations (I'm interested in the Japanese to English translations) is so desperately poor that I usually have to do a manual lengthy kanji by kanji research all the time.
Translation is certainly the least of Google worries - it should deserve a big Beta somewhere (or even Alpha).
What the hell is wrong with the Japanese? What practical purpose does this serve?
I do not agree. A big difference between Japan and the West is that Japanese do not live/feel this like a constraint. And a guy won't be fired because "he cannot smile".
There are many other similar aspects of the Japanese companies that would be hard to understand West side. This one is certainly humorous and original, thus it was publicized.
Thanks to its arrogant success Windows attracted a large number of parasites eager to get a piece of the gold cake, and some security software companies (eg Symantec) concluded deals with well-known computer brands to become an unconditional part of the machine package (along with Windows). Those deals must have been rewarding: despite the many complaints (slow system, reboots, special devices failures, detection errors etc...) the parasite software is currently still "offered" with Windows (via subscription or free 6 months...) from the makers. The endless easy-money situation was not an incentive for security soft companies to make any effort towards improvements, and their poor quality software had an obvious negative impact on the Windows image. Microsoft had to react.
Hopefully this will mark the end of a parasite anti-virus software epoch - if Microsoft performs better...
Since the AF crash was (likely) due to inaccurate speed sensors readings ([likely] being frozen), computers relying on systems being mistaken cannot take the right decisions.
Question is: are humans eyes able to assess the speed of their engine at such an altitude, with no visual landmark - avoiding the crash?
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As long as Chrome allows the download of Firefox...
To reduce -a lot- the disk activity, mount all your FS with the 'noatime,nodiratime' options in fstab.
This will prevent Linux to update the files access time when they are read.
The main gain is the size of the OS, it fits on a floppy! That may cope with some specific industrial needs.
Besides, I'd have made a few routines in ASM then used a good old C program for the rest.
I'm always surprised by the comments regarding Japan, the Japanese and their behavior. I lived the iPhone "revolution" from the inside in Japan, and the 3Gs being -now- at the top of the sales is not a surprise.
Initially, a bit more than a year ago, when SoftBank released the iPhone, it didn't work well for a number of reasons
1. The success abroad of the iPhone made the competition on the watch, this was reflected by a lot of bad publicity directed to the iPhone in the news
2. SoftBank initial contract requested to make an advance of 70,000 yen, besides the regular fees
3. SoftBank and their many pitiful shops gave an image (at the time) that did not go in par with the luxurious iphone
4. Many critics emerged (cannot change battery, fingernail insensitive screen, no TV, slow battery life [was true at the time], no cut&paste, can be slow)
5. Finally, many people were waiting for their contract with their current carrier to end.
Then at the end of 2008, SoftBank offered the iPhone (8GB) for zero yen (16GB was 400yen/m). From that time, little by little, it interested more and more people. Most of the foreigners I know got an iPhone.
I would say that things started to change from Spring 2009. Japanese amazing applications started to be advertised on TV etc...
Then arrived the 3Gs (June) and, at the same time, more and more Japanese wanted an iPhone.
The Japanese prefer the latest releases, and there is not much difference between the price of the 3Gs (monthly) compared to the 3G 16B.
Thus, when the "iPhone mania" started, everybody got the last one: the 3Gs.
The sales recommend the 3Gs simply because it is the last, and it's faster, longer battery life AND because the compass eases a lot the GPS navigation.
Not the voice control! Please, this is a joke. Nobody cares about that, here.
It made a hissing noise, I threw the device out of the back door, and within 30 seconds there was a pop, a big puff of smoke and it went 10ft in the air
Moral: while it is cheaper, don't buy your iPod in Irak...
Diamonds often help to heal love's wounds as well.
Well, I can't mod up your comment so I'll just say this is one of the funniest and less predictable remark I read on /. lately.
Keep up the good work ;-)
Maybe. But I find a bit scary that nobody noticed in space the large "object" before it crashed into Jupiter.
In Japan the situation is pretty similar, while probably cheaper overall. From a few years back, the trend is the sale of a device for zero yen, while subscribing a 2-years contract. The "zero yen" is actually "You pay xxx yen monthly and, monthly, the carrier reimburses xxx yen" giving a zero-yen illusion (xxx being the actual devicePrice / 24). You may cancel the contract at anytime, but you'll have to pay the xxx * remaining-months (24 - months you paid) yen to the carrier. It is a good way to keep customers for at least 2 years. The iPhone 3G for instance is "free" (2 years contract) since March 2009.
Researchers found that males can adjust the speed and effectiveness of their sperm by regulating the amount of seminal fluid they produce during copulation
While I belong to the men species, I thought, in all fairness, that we have to add something here. The more aroused the female is, the more vaginal lubrication fluid she secretes. This fluid makes a more aqueous environment favorable to sperm mobility. Meaning, the more a man is attractive, the more the female will help sperm mobility.
the major factor preventing businesses from transferring their communication interface from Outlook to Google Apps is employees' unwillingness to give up a tool that's so familiar
Reversely, it happens to be one of the reasons people do not want to give up the Google search engine in favor of Bing: "a tool that is so familiar".
The post I was replying to was (seemingly) deleted (!). So mine doesn't make sense anymore...
Just FYI, Bing is a search engine, not a browser. And as for "Bing is not Google" (cf to Gnu's not Unix) I'm sorry to tell you this was largely utilized around /. a while ago...
Google mail was working fairly well for a long time while flanked with a Beta label. Amusingly, Google translation being probably at its best does not have any "Beta" label - while the quality of the translations (I'm interested in the Japanese to English translations) is so desperately poor that I usually have to do a manual lengthy kanji by kanji research all the time. Translation is certainly the least of Google worries - it should deserve a big Beta somewhere (or even Alpha).
What the hell is wrong with the Japanese? What practical purpose does this serve?
I do not agree. A big difference between Japan and the West is that Japanese do not live/feel this like a constraint. And a guy won't be fired because "he cannot smile". There are many other similar aspects of the Japanese companies that would be hard to understand West side. This one is certainly humorous and original, thus it was publicized.
Thanks to its arrogant success Windows attracted a large number of parasites eager to get a piece of the gold cake, and some security software companies (eg Symantec) concluded deals with well-known computer brands to become an unconditional part of the machine package (along with Windows). Those deals must have been rewarding: despite the many complaints (slow system, reboots, special devices failures, detection errors etc...) the parasite software is currently still "offered" with Windows (via subscription or free 6 months...) from the makers. The endless easy-money situation was not an incentive for security soft companies to make any effort towards improvements, and their poor quality software had an obvious negative impact on the Windows image. Microsoft had to react. Hopefully this will mark the end of a parasite anti-virus software epoch - if Microsoft performs better...
Since the AF crash was (likely) due to inaccurate speed sensors readings ([likely] being frozen), computers relying on systems being mistaken cannot take the right decisions. Question is: are humans eyes able to assess the speed of their engine at such an altitude, with no visual landmark - avoiding the crash?
Turkey fell for this US Army honeypot. And Slashdotters play the game. Oops!
Did some researchers, by chance, try such a random arrangement of nanoparticles a few weeks ago in Mexico?
Chrome is a trap! This is why there is no version for Linux...
Nice 17 pages Ubuntu install guide. The 850 pages guide "Getting used to Open Office from MS Office" is yet to come.