Sure. You can reference swap files the very same way you reference swap partitions in/etc/fstab, and also have more than one swap-file/partition in use at a time. Just create an empty, non-sparse file using, for example, `dd if=/dev/zero of=/SWAP bs=1M count=1024` (this exact invocation will make it 1G in size), run `mkswap` against it, and add that resulting file's pathname to your fstab the same way you did with your swap partitions' device node. Run `swapon -a` to activate it for this uptime - done.
That enables swap - it doesn't mean it'll ever be used. Which is what I guess the OP is asking (a Linux sysadmin without a clue).
First, as you've suggested create a swap partition or a swap file (for performance put one on every non-RAIDed drive). Then set swappiness.
Choose a value between 0 and 100 where 0 means the kernel tries to keep everything in RAM and not cached to disk and 100 means it aggressively caches to disk to free RAM. The default in Debian is 60, which is OK but conservative. Laptop users should in any case use a low value to reduce writing to disk (because writing to disk negates benefits of power management and runs down your battery very quickly).
# echo 'vm.swappiness=20' >>/etc/sysctl.conf
If you really want permanent swap (a compelling use case would be best).
# echo 'vm.swappiness=100' >>/etc/sysctl.conf
Fucknose why anyone would actually want that though.
No. But thanks for writing a bunch of words about it that was safely able to avoid reading.
There's a surprise - you see the world through filters. Which'd be why you don't read a response to a post that had nothing to do with the post you replied to. How ironic.
It meant that I could avoid the bit about aesthetics being the opposite of usability,
Comprehension is clearly not your strong suite - or were you just blinded by some sort of product loyalty. Re-read what I wrote. Hint: I never said aesthetics was the opposite of usability - you've got that arse-backwards.
One of the problems with fanbois is that they believe everyone else is a fanboi - some sort of Iron Age tribal mentality. Many of us don't brand worship - even those of us who are pro-Open Source.
I use Linux for everything - because it suits my needs and I have the ability, and knowledge, to do so. I'm not anti-Microsoft or anti-Apple. When dealing with clients who have no interest in learning to be sys-admins I generally recommend they use either Microsoft or Apple - not Linux. If they have already invested time in learning Microsoft - or need to use a lot of Microsoft application I tell them to use Windows. For people new to computing, who don't wish to learn to be a sysadmin, I recommend Apple. There is no one-size-fits-all solution... unless you're blinkered by brand affiliation and biased by an over-investment in your own choices.
Yes. National philosophy. Which I guess explains why Iceland, Ireland, and now Finland are having the same issues with recession and increased unemployment.
Interesting take on the video. Or did you ignore it so you could wank on about economics?
Just out of curiosity... how do you find life without a sense of humour?
It's not Germany's fault that Greece didn't live within their means.
Is it Greece's fault that their economy wasn't massively financed by "aid" from other countries like Germany? And no, I recognise both the factors behind the reasoning and basis of their possible economies are massively different - but try telling that to someone "you can't all have nice cars like the tourrerists"
Britain's brightest minds anticipated and analysed the whole Greece v.s Germany problem some years back. The core problems are not economical or resource based - it's all a matter of national philosophy.
Apple don't actually spend as much on advertising as people seem to believe.
They don't? How interesting. Not the, um, news that "they don't spend as much as people think" (an outstanding example of marketing sophism) - just the broken logic behind the making of the statement and the weird way brand worshippers go about validating their beliefs. He said something about marketing, and Apple - better find a way to put the focus on premium.
Did I say Apple spent a lot on advertising? That they spent more than Microsoft? Is it even tangentially relevant? No. But do tell me more and I'll bookmark it under "cure for insomnia".
Here's a suggestion. Write a book about it, it's sure to be a best-seller - if big pharma don't get an injunction against it for hurting sleeping pill sales.
Do you find Apple products "sexy"? If so, do you think there's anything weird about feeling that way about inanimate objects (Apple or not)? I don't know if people who find Apple products sexy should be trusted in private around old Braun products (hey, you started the marketing tangent). Does Apple spend more on marketing than Microsoft? Dunno - they certainly produce more aesthetically pleasing objects, and I don't hold that aesthetically pleasing doesn't mean more usable (quite the opposite). Apple and MS market to different segments, and in general terms MS marketing focus is all over the place - but mainly aimed at "Joe Six-Pack" (which they've been quite successful at). When the Embalmer had control the market was cheesy second-hand car dealer style promotions of the type that might take customers away from Wallmart - but not Marks & Spenser. (not much has changed).
I've only seen a couple of Apple TV ads over the years,
Apple invest heavily in product placement advertising - so you've seen lots of Apple advertising in movies, entertainment news, slashdot stories, and music videos.
Isn't being a victim of a shark attack a matter of choice? Even so, the odds of getting bit by a shark are probably higher than the odds of you entering a gay marriage. (If you are a normal person).
I don't mean to offend anyone by saying that they might be abnormal, but lets face it. Getting bit by a shark is pretty high up there on the freak accident scale, so you gotta believe that taking it up the ass, even by accident, is pretty rare. Now, all this says nothing of Justin Beiber, but I suppose it's just as well. No sense inciting people on subjects nobody really cares about.
Is that an effort at stupid humour - or are you just being effortlessly stupid? It reads like clumsy satire but something tells me it's not - it's just the way you "think".
And now we know why Linux will never be more then a blip on the desktop radar. That superiority complex drives everyone away.
That must be the reason. Not marketing, or level of difficulty - just lack of people using it that don't make you feel stupid.
[note to Supreme Commander of The Linux Desktop War - the coward is onto something] What do you mean there is no "Supreme Commander"? No "the Linux Desktop"? No Linux Desktop War!! WTF - there must be a war. This is just not football! I bought facepaint and everything (sob)
So, they're interested in why the sharks are curious.
They heard gay marriage was legal.
Oh right. I suppose you reckon it's just a coincidence that people had been playing Justin Bieber music on the pier in each and every instance of a shark attack. It's not like they can just climb out of the water and politely request people turn that crap off - the poor bastards can't climb and they don't have voice boxes.
But yeah - let's blame the sharks. And gay marriage.
No. Real money is created out of paper, ink, and metal.
How interesting. More real than precious metal coinage? More real than a cheque?
And here I was thunking that some forms of currency are just promises worth less than the paper they're printed on (like cheques - except you pin your trust on unknown people) - and all this time the promise is of tangible value, not some sort of fiat where value can be modified by the whim of a government. Bet the Greeks are relieved.
It's not a "dupe". "Dupe" implies that it's a "duplicate". That is, an exact word-for-word copy. Anyone who can read can clearly see that there are significant differences between the two. Yes, the general idea is the same, but it's obviously not a "dupe". Besides, it's actually very relevant to this discussion. Microsoft is on the ascendancy again with Edge. If Mozilla doesn't shape up then everything good they've accomplished with Firefox in the last decade will be rendered totally irrelevant. Instead of just an IE monoculture like we used to have, we're now heading into a Chrome monoculture, with the only other viable alternative being Edge. It doesn't have to be this way, of course, if Mozilla just did the right thing and stopped screwing around with Firefox. All they need to do is go back to giving us a good, usable browser.
Yeah - you changed a couple of words, so it's not a dupe. Right.
Recent browser market share stats [caniuse.com] show that all versions of Firefox Desktop are only around 8% of the market. Firefox 38 is only at 7.45%, so we can expect Firefox 39 to be below that, possibly forever. Firefox for Android is at 0.14% (yes, that's a leading 0!), and Firefox isn't really a viable option on iOS.
[--vitriolic rant--predictions of imminent doom--]
And it's still bullshit. Did you spend long trying to find figures that support your Mozilla hate? What's you association with that site which plucks it's bullshit figures out of it's arse?
I've previously pointed at reliable, undistorted figures. And shown why the figures you point to are,um, distorted - that you base your claim of 8% on are bullshit, real life figure is 12 - 20% - but you keep spewing the big lie like you've an agenda, or some organic problem.
Have you allowed for the vast changes in the market i.e desktop no longer is the majority platform type?
What the fuck are you talking about? The stats linked to in that earlier comment clearly show that the desktop is the "majority platform type"!
Which I've already demonstrated is bullshit. You've managed to find the only source of stats that support your view... (how lucky is that?). How's that big lie working out for you?
And the flaws in the reporting i.e. Firefox is counted as Firefox, but Iceweasel, PaleMoon, and a myriad of other builds of Firefox aren't.
Did you actually look at the stats page? Look at the very bottom, where it says
Pale Moon 25.5 0.006%
Do you even look at what you're quoting? I've bolded it for you in case your lips got sore and it's stopped you reading it. Cherry pick much? Where did I say PaleMoon was not counted? I clearly said it was counted as not Firefox
I looked at and responded to all your "points". You, on the other hand ignored the ones I made. How convenient.
Mobile platform browser figure sources aren't given, Desktop platform figures come from StatCounter - I don't know who the fuck they are - and no one I know does either
Netmarketshare says 12.06% , a 3% drop since August last year. Probably a more reliable figure for the broad range of web servers, and similar to other figures from the largest websites.
Wikipedia - from reputable sources which are listed
As of February 2015, Firefox has between 12% and 20% of worldwide usage as a "desktop" browser, making it, per different sources, the third most popular web browser
Note the "reference" you quote, that I provide evidence to show is distorted, claims to use StatCounter as it's source, and "various" otherunnamed sources (you probably missed that, ironically. It's "at the very bottom" of your "source"). Then somehow manages to come up with market share figures that don't even agree with the source they do quote (17.87%) using stats from, wait for it -StatCounter.
A long way from the 8% you claim. Smells like bullshit, looks like bullshit, and it fell out the backend of a bull. So yeah - your claims from which you extrapolate imminent demise are bullshit. If you weren't trying so hard you'd know that Firefox market share peaked back in 2009 when it lost it's new factor with the Eternal September mob. You're a latecomer to the end of the world predicting club.
Iceweasel isn't even listed because, guess what, NOBODY USES IT!
Oh right - Debian is part of the Mozilla marketing grand conspiracy is it? And denial is a river in Egypt.
But really, none of those are Firefox. Firefox is Firefox. Iceweasel is kind of Firefox, but it's not Firefox. Pale Moon is not Firefox.
Bullshit. The only differences with Iceweasel is the name and longer support for security patching. PaleMoon is a fork only by technicality (it's interface contain a few hundred lines of different code, and config defaults are "optimised").
Face it, Firefox is dying off. It's losing users left and right. It's marching full speed into its own grave!
Dear coward, there are 15 stories listed on/. these days, there were 10 then (no need to reach for your calculator - that's 50% more). Compare apples with oranges much?
The 15 stories in your first link include how many that use drama and rhetoric to direct readers to advertising driven sites that have merely reposted stories from elsewhere? Or do you consider a "story" about the fucking muppets something that wouldn't get rightfully slammed as clickbait spam if it was run today - you muppet.
Today's stories:-
curl,grep,sed,foobar Brain-Inspired 'Memcomputer' Constructed Microsoft Edge, HTML5, and DRM Researcher Who Reported E-voting Vulnerability Targeted By Police Raid in Argentina Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On When Nerds Do BBQ Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular Solar Impulse 2 Completes Record-Breaking Flight Wired Cautions Would-Be Drone Photogs on the 4th Someone Will Die Playing a Game In Virtual Reality Machine Learning System Detects Emotions and Suicidal Behavior How To Design Robot Overlords For "Robot Overlords" In Response to Open Letter, France Rejects Asylum For Julian Assange Japanese Court Orders Google To Delete Past Reports Of Man's Molestation Arrest Turing Near Ready To Ship World's First Liquid Metal Android Smartphone
I guess you'd call them all click-bait huh? No - what percentage then?
From the archived page you reference - fourth story, about fucking muppets, (which may be too personal for you to call it clickbait). "This Week's Episode - Will War of the Worlds' aliens scare off our cranky coots? Will Bewitched be the end of Will? Plus, Pepe the Prawn begs Miss Congeniality to cuff him.". 10% bin-spam I'd of called it then. Now it's just over-hyped bullshit that doesn't belong on/. (that's long hand for click-bait).
More ads - yeah, more troll posters, yeah, are the stories generally lower quality since Cowboy left, yeah. Do I think the current "story" about leased LEDs is spam - yeah (that's why I block all that shit). Are more people submitting spam as stories - yeah. Are people using comment to promote their products (like a recent scifi "writer and his sockpuppets) yeah. Are a huge percentage of so-called stories on the wider internet (from which/. sources it's stories) clickbait - absolutely. Are as many people using Firehose - no, and they don't seem to mark much as bin-spam.
Face it, Paco.
Go fuck yourself with a garden tool you moronic bigot.
You, on the other hand, need your own damned custom browser! LOL I am impressed. I think you have some sort of record (for intentional use) with the number of BHOs that you have going.
Some web developers develop for all browsers, I'm one of them, I use tools to do that - many of them Firefox extensions. As long as the browser loads quickly I'm happy - I avoid crappy extensions, of which there are plenty, which slow the browser or cause it crash. Likewise shitty page design and bad javascript - of which, unfortunately, like unrepentant idiots, there are far too many.
If another browser works best for your needs - more power to you. Choice is good.
This is exactly the kind of fearmongering clickbait that the Slashdot of old was not subject to and its editors didn't fall for. If I would want to read crap like this I'd visit Kotaku, Gawker or Polygon.
You're not from around here are you? That, or your memories are damaged - 'cause ten years ago we did get this sort of bullshit ('course we didn't call it click-bait then - just spam).
Nothing like advertising: "Someone actually died from playing this game, causing it to be banned in 12 states" to ensure it'll be the top ranking game for months to come.
It could be true. In which case - don't play VR games on rooftops or in traffic. Or get a life.
Some inveterate gamers are not social outcasts. I know someone who met one.[/sarcasm]
Yeah - I looked for the paper that won him the Amdocs prize but couldn't find it. All reports seem to be, um, based on this story. Which is where I found he trained the system using two Fffacebook pages:
posts on Hebrew-language Facebook pages that are almost pure opinion, called “superior and condescending people” and “ordinary and sensible people.” The pages are basically forums for people to let off steam about things and events that get them mad, a substitute for actually confronting the offending person. Between them, the two pages have about 150,000 “likes,” and active traffic full of snarky, sarcastic, and sometimes sincere comments on politics, food, drivers, and much more.
“Now, the system can recognize patterns that are either condescending or caring sentiments and can even send a text message to the user if the system thinks the post may be arrogant,” explained Saig.
[ 328.0081004] Overtones Warning (bug): Optional FUBAR field Gpe1Block has zero address or length: 0x000000000000102C/0x0 (Sarcasm overflow)
So it's a startup pitch - expect optimistic projections of outcomes. It's even possible (would it detect that) it's based on pure supposition - you know, like maybe the opinion of the machine learning program matched a readers take on those Fffacebook pages.
[...] They've also effectively killed Thunderbird.[...]
They no longer devote paid resources to develop new features and versions (which IMO, is a good thing). - rumors of it's death are grossly exaggerated. Mozilla still actively devotes paid resources to the security side of things, and community development is still strong. Lots of Open Source projects do well without the original upstream development - some do even better (LibreOffice). In this case we'd like to keep the current situation as it is to ensure integration with Firefox - but if Mozilla completely severs it's involvement development of Thunderbird is very unlikely to stop.
tl;dr? Mozilla still supports their original ESR commitments and have announced no plans to change that.
I just don't get Mozilla. Firefox's share of the market has dropped so much. Recent browser market share stats show that all versions of Firefox Desktop are only around 8% of the market.
Have you allowed for the vast changes in the market i.e desktop no longer is the majority platform type? And the flaws in the reporting i.e. Firefox is counted as Firefox, but Iceweasel, PaleMoon, and a myriad of other builds of Firefox aren't.
Notes:- PaleMoon is listed as a type that is not listed - but others variants aren't even acknowledged. Mobile platform browser figure sources aren't given, Desktop platform figures come from StatCounter - I don't know who the fuck they are - and no one I know does either. Perhaps that makes their "figures" even more irrelevant than those from Alexis (every admin I know refuses to use Alexis). So I don't know that those figures are particularly meaningful - at least to me. Disclaimer: I go by awstats reports from sites I manage.
Netmarketshare says 12.06%, a 3% drop since August last year. Probably a more reliable figure for the broad range of web servers, and similar to other figures from the largest websites.
Apropos of the story - I've already disabled Pocket as it's of no interest to me.
The circuit board from an old IDE drive re-purposed as a networked device for controlling an irrigation system. Seemed obvious when I looked at it - after it'd been done. I/O, CPU, Flash, JTAG header, stepper motor controller - dirt cheap, tiny, low power, and built for harsh conditions.
What I meant to say, to you, was along the lines of; Yeah. I found it a bit odd that they were "seeing" things in the other person's post. It was remarkable how much insight they could gather from those limited sentences. Their ability to grasp a person's mental health status with so limited information should be lauded and investigated as they truly can change the psychiatric medical field. I suspect they will get a Nobel Prize and be featured on the cover of both Time and Rolling Stone magazines. Also, the ladies will be impressed so they will further their genetic profile far and wide.
It's not psychosis - it's psychic abilities. Obviously.
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Sure. You can reference swap files the very same way you reference swap partitions in /etc/fstab, and also have more than one swap-file/partition in use at a time. Just create an empty, non-sparse file using, for example, `dd if=/dev/zero of=/SWAP bs=1M count=1024` (this exact invocation will make it 1G in size), run `mkswap` against it, and add that resulting file's pathname to your fstab the same way you did with your swap partitions' device node. Run `swapon -a` to activate it for this uptime - done.
That enables swap - it doesn't mean it'll ever be used. Which is what I guess the OP is asking (a Linux sysadmin without a clue).
First, as you've suggested create a swap partition or a swap file (for performance put one on every non-RAIDed drive). Then set swappiness.
Choose a value between 0 and 100 where 0 means the kernel tries to keep everything in RAM and not cached to disk and 100 means it aggressively caches to disk to free RAM. The default in Debian is 60, which is OK but conservative. Laptop users should in any case use a low value to reduce writing to disk (because writing to disk negates benefits of power management and runs down your battery very quickly).
If you really want permanent swap (a compelling use case would be best).
Fucknose why anyone would actually want that though.
Do you find Apple products "sexy"?
No. But thanks for writing a bunch of words about it that was safely able to avoid reading.
There's a surprise - you see the world through filters. Which'd be why you don't read a response to a post that had nothing to do with the post you replied to. How ironic.
It meant that I could avoid the bit about aesthetics being the opposite of usability,
Comprehension is clearly not your strong suite - or were you just blinded by some sort of product loyalty. Re-read what I wrote. Hint: I never said aesthetics was the opposite of usability - you've got that arse-backwards.
One of the problems with fanbois is that they believe everyone else is a fanboi - some sort of Iron Age tribal mentality. Many of us don't brand worship - even those of us who are pro-Open Source.
I use Linux for everything - because it suits my needs and I have the ability, and knowledge, to do so. I'm not anti-Microsoft or anti-Apple. When dealing with clients who have no interest in learning to be sys-admins I generally recommend they use either Microsoft or Apple - not Linux. If they have already invested time in learning Microsoft - or need to use a lot of Microsoft application I tell them to use Windows. For people new to computing, who don't wish to learn to be a sysadmin, I recommend Apple. There is no one-size-fits-all solution... unless you're blinkered by brand affiliation and biased by an over-investment in your own choices.
Yes. National philosophy. Which I guess explains why Iceland, Ireland, and now Finland are having the same issues with recession and increased unemployment.
Interesting take on the video. Or did you ignore it so you could wank on about economics?
Just out of curiosity... how do you find life without a sense of humour?
It's not Germany's fault that Greece didn't live within their means.
Is it Greece's fault that their economy wasn't massively financed by "aid" from other countries like Germany? And no, I recognise both the factors behind the reasoning and basis of their possible economies are massively different - but try telling that to someone "you can't all have nice cars like the tourrerists"
Britain's brightest minds anticipated and analysed the whole Greece v.s Germany problem some years back. The core problems are not economical or resource based - it's all a matter of national philosophy.
Not marketing,
Apple don't actually spend as much on advertising as people seem to believe.
They don't? How interesting. Not the, um, news that "they don't spend as much as people think" (an outstanding example of marketing sophism) - just the broken logic behind the making of the statement and the weird way brand worshippers go about validating their beliefs. He said something about marketing, and Apple - better find a way to put the focus on premium.
Did I say Apple spent a lot on advertising? That they spent more than Microsoft? Is it even tangentially relevant? No. But do tell me more and I'll bookmark it under "cure for insomnia".
Here's a suggestion. Write a book about it, it's sure to be a best-seller - if big pharma don't get an injunction against it for hurting sleeping pill sales.
Do you find Apple products "sexy"? If so, do you think there's anything weird about feeling that way about inanimate objects (Apple or not)? I don't know if people who find Apple products sexy should be trusted in private around old Braun products (hey, you started the marketing tangent). Does Apple spend more on marketing than Microsoft? Dunno - they certainly produce more aesthetically pleasing objects, and I don't hold that aesthetically pleasing doesn't mean more usable (quite the opposite). Apple and MS market to different segments, and in general terms MS marketing focus is all over the place - but mainly aimed at "Joe Six-Pack" (which they've been quite successful at). When the Embalmer had control the market was cheesy second-hand car dealer style promotions of the type that might take customers away from Wallmart - but not Marks & Spenser. (not much has changed).
I've only seen a couple of Apple TV ads over the years,
Apple invest heavily in product placement advertising - so you've seen lots of Apple advertising in movies, entertainment news, slashdot stories, and music videos.
Dear Coward
Isn't being a victim of a shark attack a matter of choice? Even so, the odds of getting bit by a shark are probably higher than the odds of you entering a gay marriage. (If you are a normal person). I don't mean to offend anyone by saying that they might be abnormal, but lets face it. Getting bit by a shark is pretty high up there on the freak accident scale, so you gotta believe that taking it up the ass, even by accident, is pretty rare. Now, all this says nothing of Justin Beiber, but I suppose it's just as well. No sense inciting people on subjects nobody really cares about.
Is that an effort at stupid humour - or are you just being effortlessly stupid? It reads like clumsy satire but something tells me it's not - it's just the way you "think".
And now we know why Linux will never be more then a blip on the desktop radar. That superiority complex drives everyone away.
That must be the reason. Not marketing, or level of difficulty - just lack of people using it that don't make you feel stupid.
[note to Supreme Commander of The Linux Desktop War - the coward is onto something] What do you mean there is no "Supreme Commander"? No "the Linux Desktop"? No Linux Desktop War!! WTF - there must be a war. This is just not football! I bought facepaint and everything (sob)
So, they're interested in why the sharks are curious.
They heard gay marriage was legal.
Oh right. I suppose you reckon it's just a coincidence that people had been playing Justin Bieber music on the pier in each and every instance of a shark attack. It's not like they can just climb out of the water and politely request people turn that crap off - the poor bastards can't climb and they don't have voice boxes.
But yeah - let's blame the sharks. And gay marriage.
Most money is created out of thin air (by adjusting the percentage of deposited money banks are required to keep).
Um, maybe you mean "value".
Pro-tip: people who wear dead men's shoes sometimes use satire.
No. Real money is created out of paper, ink, and metal.
How interesting. More real than precious metal coinage? More real than a cheque?
And here I was thunking that some forms of currency are just promises worth less than the paper they're printed on (like cheques - except you pin your trust on unknown people) - and all this time the promise is of tangible value, not some sort of fiat where value can be modified by the whim of a government. Bet the Greeks are relieved.
Dear coward,
It's not a "dupe". "Dupe" implies that it's a "duplicate". That is, an exact word-for-word copy. Anyone who can read can clearly see that there are significant differences between the two. Yes, the general idea is the same, but it's obviously not a "dupe". Besides, it's actually very relevant to this discussion. Microsoft is on the ascendancy again with Edge. If Mozilla doesn't shape up then everything good they've accomplished with Firefox in the last decade will be rendered totally irrelevant. Instead of just an IE monoculture like we used to have, we're now heading into a Chrome monoculture, with the only other viable alternative being Edge. It doesn't have to be this way, of course, if Mozilla just did the right thing and stopped screwing around with Firefox. All they need to do is go back to giving us a good, usable browser.
Yeah - you changed a couple of words, so it's not a dupe. Right.
Recent browser market share stats [caniuse.com] show that all versions of Firefox Desktop are only around 8% of the market. Firefox 38 is only at 7.45%, so we can expect Firefox 39 to be below that, possibly forever. Firefox for Android is at 0.14% (yes, that's a leading 0!), and Firefox isn't really a viable option on iOS. [--vitriolic rant--predictions of imminent doom--]
And it's still bullshit. Did you spend long trying to find figures that support your Mozilla hate? What's you association with that site which plucks it's bullshit figures out of it's arse?
I've previously pointed at reliable, undistorted figures. And shown why the figures you point to are,um, distorted - that you base your claim of 8% on are bullshit, real life figure is 12 - 20% - but you keep spewing the big lie like you've an agenda, or some organic problem.
Dear Coward,
Have you allowed for the vast changes in the market i.e desktop no longer is the majority platform type?
What the fuck are you talking about? The stats linked to in that earlier comment clearly show that the desktop is the "majority platform type"!
Which I've already demonstrated is bullshit. You've managed to find the only source of stats that support your view... (how lucky is that?). How's that big lie working out for you?
And the flaws in the reporting i.e. Firefox is counted as Firefox, but Iceweasel, PaleMoon, and a myriad of other builds of Firefox aren't.
Did you actually look at the stats page? Look at the very bottom, where it says
Pale Moon 25.5 0.006%
Do you even look at what you're quoting? I've bolded it for you in case your lips got sore and it's stopped you reading it. Cherry pick much? Where did I say PaleMoon was not counted? I clearly said it was counted as not Firefox
I looked at and responded to all your "points". You, on the other hand ignored the ones I made. How convenient.
Mobile platform browser figure sources aren't given, Desktop platform figures come from StatCounter - I don't know who the fuck they are - and no one I know does either
Netmarketshare says 12.06% , a 3% drop since August last year. Probably a more reliable figure for the broad range of web servers, and similar to other figures from the largest websites.
Wikipedia - from reputable sources which are listed
As of February 2015, Firefox has between 12% and 20% of worldwide usage as a "desktop" browser, making it, per different sources, the third most popular web browser
Note the "reference" you quote, that I provide evidence to show is distorted, claims to use StatCounter as it's source, and "various" other unnamed sources (you probably missed that, ironically. It's "at the very bottom" of your "source"). .
Then somehow manages to come up with market share figures that don't even agree with the source they do quote (17.87%) using stats from, wait for it -StatCounter
A long way from the 8% you claim. Smells like bullshit, looks like bullshit, and it fell out the backend of a bull. So yeah - your claims from which you extrapolate imminent demise are bullshit.
If you weren't trying so hard you'd know that Firefox market share peaked back in 2009 when it lost it's new factor with the Eternal September mob. You're a latecomer to the end of the world predicting club.
Iceweasel isn't even listed because, guess what, NOBODY USES IT!
Oh right - Debian is part of the Mozilla marketing grand conspiracy is it? And denial is a river in Egypt.
But really, none of those are Firefox. Firefox is Firefox. Iceweasel is kind of Firefox, but it's not Firefox. Pale Moon is not Firefox.
Bullshit. The only differences with Iceweasel is the name and longer support for security patching. PaleMoon is a fork only by technicality (it's interface contain a few hundred lines of different code, and config defaults are "optimised").
Face it, Firefox is dying off. It's losing users left and right. It's marching full speed into its own grave!
Sounds like it's a football fan thing....
You
Dear coward, there are 15 stories listed on /. these days, there were 10 then (no need to reach for your calculator - that's 50% more). Compare apples with oranges much?
The 15 stories in your first link include how many that use drama and rhetoric to direct readers to advertising driven sites that have merely reposted stories from elsewhere? Or do you consider a "story" about the fucking muppets something that wouldn't get rightfully slammed as clickbait spam if it was run today - you muppet.
Today's stories:-
I guess you'd call them all click-bait huh? No - what percentage then?
From the archived page you reference - fourth story, about fucking muppets, (which may be too personal for you to call it clickbait). "This Week's Episode - Will War of the Worlds' aliens scare off our cranky coots? Will Bewitched be the end of Will? Plus, Pepe the Prawn begs Miss Congeniality to cuff him.". 10% bin-spam I'd of called it then. Now it's just over-hyped bullshit that doesn't belong on /. (that's long hand for click-bait).
More ads - yeah, more troll posters, yeah, are the stories generally lower quality since Cowboy left, yeah. Do I think the current "story" about leased LEDs is spam - yeah (that's why I block all that shit). Are more people submitting spam as stories - yeah. Are people using comment to promote their products (like a recent scifi "writer and his sockpuppets) yeah. Are a huge percentage of so-called stories on the wider internet (from which /. sources it's stories) clickbait - absolutely. Are as many people using Firehose - no, and they don't seem to mark much as bin-spam.
Face it, Paco.
Go fuck yourself with a garden tool you moronic bigot.
You, on the other hand, need your own damned custom browser! LOL I am impressed. I think you have some sort of record (for intentional use) with the number of BHOs that you have going.
Some web developers develop for all browsers, I'm one of them, I use tools to do that - many of them Firefox extensions. As long as the browser loads quickly I'm happy - I avoid crappy extensions, of which there are plenty, which slow the browser or cause it crash. Likewise shitty page design and bad javascript - of which, unfortunately, like unrepentant idiots, there are far too many.
If another browser works best for your needs - more power to you. Choice is good.
No wonder your browser is slow with all that shit.
Slow - not my browser - just you, or maybe you just have reading difficulties.
This is exactly the kind of fearmongering clickbait that the Slashdot of old was not subject to and its editors didn't fall for. If I would want to read crap like this I'd visit Kotaku, Gawker or Polygon.
You're not from around here are you? That, or your memories are damaged - 'cause ten years ago we did get this sort of bullshit ('course we didn't call it click-bait then - just spam).
People die playing 'regular' games because they forget to eat etc.
That's why the sandwich was invented (just like Columbus discovered North America and Cook discovered Australia).
Nothing like advertising: "Someone actually died from playing this game, causing it to be banned in 12 states" to ensure it'll be the top ranking game for months to come.
It could be true. In which case - don't play VR games on rooftops or in traffic. Or get a life.
Some inveterate gamers are not social outcasts. I know someone who met one.[/sarcasm]
Yeah - I looked for the paper that won him the Amdocs prize but couldn't find it. All reports seem to be, um, based on this story. Which is where I found he trained the system using two Fffacebook pages:
posts on Hebrew-language Facebook pages that are almost pure opinion, called “superior and condescending people” and “ordinary and sensible people.” The pages are basically forums for people to let off steam about things and events that get them mad, a substitute for actually confronting the offending person. Between them, the two pages have about 150,000 “likes,” and active traffic full of snarky, sarcastic, and sometimes sincere comments on politics, food, drivers, and much more.
“Now, the system can recognize patterns that are either condescending or caring sentiments and can even send a text message to the user if the system thinks the post may be arrogant,” explained Saig.
System Alert - Possible Arrogance Detected - user message issued
So it's a startup pitch - expect optimistic projections of outcomes. It's even possible (would it detect that) it's based on pure supposition - you know, like maybe the opinion of the machine learning program matched a readers take on those Fffacebook pages.
The problem is also exampled by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
That's a completely different "problem" to your original complaint. For completeness I've addressed it - in context, further down.
[...] They've also effectively killed Thunderbird.[...]
They no longer devote paid resources to develop new features and versions (which IMO, is a good thing). - rumors of it's death are grossly exaggerated. Mozilla still actively devotes paid resources to the security side of things, and community development is still strong. Lots of Open Source projects do well without the original upstream development - some do even better (LibreOffice). In this case we'd like to keep the current situation as it is to ensure integration with Firefox - but if Mozilla completely severs it's involvement development of Thunderbird is very unlikely to stop.
tl;dr? Mozilla still supports their original ESR commitments and have announced no plans to change that.
I just don't get Mozilla. Firefox's share of the market has dropped so much. Recent browser market share stats show that all versions of Firefox Desktop are only around 8% of the market.
Have you allowed for the vast changes in the market i.e desktop no longer is the majority platform type? And the flaws in the reporting i.e. Firefox is counted as Firefox, but Iceweasel, PaleMoon, and a myriad of other builds of Firefox aren't.
Notes:- PaleMoon is listed as a type that is not listed - but others variants aren't even acknowledged. Mobile platform browser figure sources aren't given, Desktop platform figures come from StatCounter - I don't know who the fuck they are - and no one I know does either. Perhaps that makes their "figures" even more irrelevant than those from Alexis (every admin I know refuses to use Alexis). So I don't know that those figures are particularly meaningful - at least to me. Disclaimer: I go by awstats reports from sites I manage.
Netmarketshare says 12.06%, a 3% drop since August last year. Probably a more reliable figure for the broad range of web servers, and similar to other figures from the largest websites.
Apropos of the story - I've already disabled Pocket as it's of no interest to me.
The circuit board from an old IDE drive re-purposed as a networked device for controlling an irrigation system. Seemed obvious when I looked at it - after it'd been done. I/O, CPU, Flash, JTAG header, stepper motor controller - dirt cheap, tiny, low power, and built for harsh conditions.
Seems logical. And unlikely - for good reasons.
What I meant to say, to you, was along the lines of; Yeah. I found it a bit odd that they were "seeing" things in the other person's post. It was remarkable how much insight they could gather from those limited sentences. Their ability to grasp a person's mental health status with so limited information should be lauded and investigated as they truly can change the psychiatric medical field. I suspect they will get a Nobel Prize and be featured on the cover of both Time and Rolling Stone magazines. Also, the ladies will be impressed so they will further their genetic profile far and wide.
It's not psychosis - it's psychic abilities. Obviously.