I've tried several Moz milestones, and this is the one that might allow me to torch Netscape from my hard drive (I'm posting this from 0.7 now). M12 was a good demo, but unusable. M16 showed promise, but was frustrating. M18 refused to install. I just downloaded 0.7 and love it. It's a little slow on my lowly P200/96MB, but I can live with it.
On win32, there is a shareware program that purports to do just that, called MemTurbo. It also claims to recover leaked or unused memory from applications.
Oh come on, people. He obviously meant to write "It's not LIKE bind holds the entire net together or anything." This is what we call "tongue-in-cheek".
Can anybody tell me what purpose the NFS box serves? Multiple load-balanced webservers connecting to a single SQL server -- that's commonplace, but I can't figure out what is on the NFS box or which other boxes need that data. Am I missing something? How about a Slashdot topology diagram?
They're canning the K6-2+ in favor of the Athlon Select, a socket-based Athlon core with 128KB on-die L2, for the low-end market. It will compete very well with the Celeron, as you can imagine.
Fortran itself has quite a limited number of serious users
Ummm...no. A huge number of serious scientific and engineering simulations are coded in Fortran. It is a fairly low-level language that has unmatched capabilities for optimization and parallelization.
1. Compiler optimiztions are very much tied to the architecture, so it's not surprising that the best compiler writers for a high-end RISC platform are indeed employed by same company. In this case, it's "a company like Compaq". The old Digital would have been no different.
2. If a 10% increase in hardware speed costs $10,000, then $400 for a compiler is nothing, even if the executable is only 10% faster than that of g77. And Lo and Behold, it runs on Linux, not the costly, closed-source Tru64 UNIX!
The 450 K6-3. On-die cache rules! However, because of that great cache, yield is low, so prices are still high. In fact, K6-3s with braindead cache are a big source of K6-2s. In the spring, two factors will change this:
1..18 micron process for the K6 line. Yield is better, prices drop
2. Compartmentalized caches. If one half the cache has flaws, they can keep the other 128KB of cache and sell it like that, for a reduced price. This will be done for Athlons, too.
This is not intended as a flame. I've read the appropriate links and could not see a good reason for doing this. FreeBSD is already a complete system with its own kernel, filesystem, utils, documentation etc. As is Debian GNU/Linux. I'm curious to know what advantages there would be in this system that aren't present in Debian or FreeBSD. Is this a step forward for Free Software? Or another example of UNIX fragmentation?
The use of the term virtual memory to mean swap filr/partition is a misnomer. Virtual memory is implemented all the time, regardless of swap usage. Each process has a page table which it uses to translate VM addresses to physical address. If a page has been swapped out to disk, a page fault is generated upon next request, and the data is retrieved back into RAM. If a page is in RAM, a process still has to go through VM to find its location. The only code that uses physical addressing directly is the kernel itself. The VM layer, AFAIK, is stricly limited to 32 bit addressing on 32 bit machines. Therefore, no single process could access more than 4GB out of the grand total. I've heard that under NT, Oracle and MS SQLServer are specially coded to work around this limitation, but I don't know the details.
And as for motherboards/chipsets, the Micron that ftp.cdrom.com uses has a max of 8GB of RAM, but only 4GB is used, being the max amount available to FreeBSD.
I read the novelizations of the Star Wars movies, but in general I have much better things to do than to immerse myself in a world of wacky gadgets and societal pontification. I get plenty of that already; just look around. Want amazing technical breakthroughs? Read Slashdot! Want police-state conspiracy theories? We got that, too! Want to latch into a planet-wide data dump? Hell, look no further!
What's that you say, you want fiction? James A. Michener is a good author, for one. The only sci-fi I'd read if I had spare time (what's that?) would be Neal Stephenson.
Slashdot Mirror
In the story above, the Gallery of CSS Descramblers has an English-language explanation of how CSS is decrypted, along with other neat stuff.
The number of simultaneous connections at cdrom.com is normally capped at 6000.
I've tried several Moz milestones, and this is the one that might allow me to torch Netscape from my hard drive (I'm posting this from 0.7 now). M12 was a good demo, but unusable. M16 showed promise, but was frustrating. M18 refused to install. I just downloaded 0.7 and love it. It's a little slow on my lowly P200/96MB, but I can live with it.
Go Mozilla!!!
On win32, there is a shareware program that purports to do just that, called MemTurbo. It also claims to recover leaked or unused memory from applications.
My boot partition for 98SE takes up 228MB. Even after all my installed apps dumped their crap in the c:\windows directory.
Just to put things in perspective...
Oh come on, people. He obviously meant to write "It's not LIKE bind holds the entire net together or anything." This is what we call "tongue-in-cheek".
Moderate +1 Funny and leave it.
Fill it with salsa, some giant corn chips...
Can anybody tell me what purpose the NFS box serves? Multiple load-balanced webservers connecting to a single SQL server -- that's commonplace, but I can't figure out what is on the NFS box or which other boxes need that data. Am I missing something? How about a Slashdot topology diagram?
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Jennicam is down
Who taught her web-admin stuff,
Cmdr Taco?
They're canning the K6-2+ in favor of the Athlon Select, a socket-based Athlon core with 128KB on-die L2, for the low-end market. It will compete very well with the Celeron, as you can imagine.
Well, under the code page there's an indication that this is feasible. You did read the links, didn't you?
At the bottom it says POV Ray was used for the animations. It's an open source asteroid!
MP3 = MPEG1 layer 3
I.e., the audio component of MPEG1.
Moderate the above post down, somebody.
It's polite to give credit.
Gcc was conceived from the start as a Free(tm) compiler to run on commodity hardware.
This one wasn't. For each purpose there is a license.
Are the Open Source zealouts at it again?
Fortran itself has quite a limited number of serious users
Ummm...no. A huge number of serious scientific and engineering simulations are coded in Fortran. It is a fairly low-level language that has unmatched capabilities for optimization and parallelization.
For God's sake, take a look at O'Reilly's High Performance Computing"
And don't whine about the license.
1. Compiler optimiztions are very much tied to the architecture, so it's not surprising that the best compiler writers for a high-end RISC platform are indeed employed by same company. In this case, it's "a company like Compaq". The old Digital would have been no different.
2. If a 10% increase in hardware speed costs $10,000, then $400 for a compiler is nothing, even if the executable is only 10% faster than that of g77. And Lo and Behold, it runs on Linux, not the costly, closed-source Tru64 UNIX!
Christ, what a bargain!
see subject
The 450 K6-3. On-die cache rules! However, because of that great cache, yield is low, so prices are still high. In fact, K6-3s with braindead cache are a big source of K6-2s. In the spring, two factors will change this:
.18 micron process for the K6 line. Yield is better, prices drop
1.
2. Compartmentalized caches. If one half the cache has flaws, they can keep the other 128KB of cache and sell it like that, for a reduced price. This will be done for Athlons, too.
7 MB in debug mode.
This is not intended as a flame. I've read the appropriate links and could not see a good reason for doing this. FreeBSD is already a complete system with its own kernel, filesystem, utils, documentation etc. As is Debian GNU/Linux. I'm curious to know what advantages there would be in this system that aren't present in Debian or FreeBSD. Is this a step forward for Free Software? Or another example of UNIX fragmentation?
The use of the term virtual memory to mean swap filr/partition is a misnomer. Virtual memory is implemented all the time, regardless of swap usage. Each process has a page table which it uses to translate VM addresses to physical address. If a page has been swapped out to disk, a page fault is generated upon next request, and the data is retrieved back into RAM. If a page is in RAM, a process still has to go through VM to find its location. The only code that uses physical addressing directly is the kernel itself. The VM layer, AFAIK, is stricly limited to 32 bit addressing on 32 bit machines. Therefore, no single process could access more than 4GB out of the grand total. I've heard that under NT, Oracle and MS SQLServer are specially coded to work around this limitation, but I don't know the details.
And as for motherboards/chipsets, the Micron that ftp.cdrom.com uses has a max of 8GB of RAM, but only 4GB is used, being the max amount available to FreeBSD.
I read the novelizations of the Star Wars movies, but in general I have much better things to do than to immerse myself in a world of wacky gadgets and societal pontification. I get plenty of that already; just look around. Want amazing technical breakthroughs? Read Slashdot! Want police-state conspiracy theories? We got that, too! Want to latch into a planet-wide data dump? Hell, look no further!
We're living in the future, people!
Our Dumb Century
Now *that's* a book.
What's that you say, you want fiction? James A. Michener is a good author, for one. The only sci-fi I'd read if I had spare time (what's that?) would be Neal Stephenson.
If you get Error 503, keep hitting Reload until it burps out the text. Slow, but not dead.
1. Cost is irrelevant for many -- pirated software is ubiquitous where I live.
2. There's always *BSD.