Re:So... how's the VM these days?
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Linux Kernel 2.4.10
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There are lot of changes in the VM. In fact it's almost entirely new with a big patch from Andrea Arcangeli.
Answering to another post, YES, it _should_ be better for listening MP3 files because the mmap used for most players should work nicely with the read-once technique.
Although cannnot be assure until is hard tested, Linus found several mistakes in the cache and page aging.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a kernel hacker (although I tried it;-). I just knew it reading every day the linux-kernel mailing list.
If it can compress to 0 bits, not only we can save lot of bandwidth transferring those 0 bytes, but also lot faster. Light-speed is only a limit if the transfered "thing" convey information, so we don't have such a limit.
Errr... just realised that most/. posts can be also transferred at higher speeds.
PS: did that information appear in early April? I missed it.
It wasn't any formal benchmark, just a small test of a young student which wasn't released for Slashdot or any publication. Just a game... We didn't (and the author neither) wanted it to appear in site as slashdot.
Sorry if it annoyed you. But don't complain to a guy who likes just to play around with Linux.
Unix is the only OS remaining whose GUI (a vast suite of code called the X Windows System) is separate from the OS in the old sense of the phrase. This is to say that you can run Unix in pure command-line mode if you want to, with no windows, icons, mouses, etc. whatsoever, and it will still be Unix and capable of doing everything Unix is supposed to do. But the other OSes: MacOS, the Windows family, and BeOS, have their GUIs tangled up with the old-fashioned OS functions to the extent that they have to run in GUI mode, or else they are not really running. So it's no longer really possible to think of GUIs as being distinct from the OS; they're now an inextricable part of the OSes that they belong to--and they are by far the largest part, and by far the most expensive and difficult part to create.
...
THE INTERFACE CULTURE
A few years ago I walked into a grocery store somewhere and was presented with the following tableau vivant: near the entrance a young couple were standing in front of a large cosmetics display. The man was stolidly holding a shopping basket between his hands while his mate raked blister-packs of makeup off the display and piled them in. Since then I've always thought of that man as the personification of an interesting human tendency: not only are we not offended to be dazzled by manufactured images, but we like it. We practically insist on it. We are eager to be complicit in our own dazzlement: to pay money for a theme park ride, vote for a guy who's obviously lying to us, or stand there holding the basket as it's filled up with cosmetics....
Excerpts of "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson.
I don't see what's the point discussing about the look, if there are other more interesting things to discuss.
IMHO, bith GNOME and KDE are not being very creative in the definition of a modern GUI, but following the old path already walked by Xerox/Smalltak, Apple, X11 and Windows.
What's new up in the desktop and user interface? Themes? Is that the most notable achievement?
Indeed, companies as Helixcode are not very innovative in their products. The only really new thing they've created is their new trendy name -Ximian.
It's not only me saying that, in every Icasa's interview he _himself_ says that they are reproducing icon by icon, step by step, cell by cell, MS programs (bloats and bugs...).
The GUI is going the change drastically in the following years, and OS companies are copying very old user interface paradigms and adding bloat and bloat: super colourful icons, themes, skins, gadgets, widgets and the slashdot news strip. But the basics are still the same, square windows and a 3 buttons mouse (well, sometimes) that still is useless for copying 7 bits ASCII text from a text editor to a text box in the browser.
What's about smart popups, sound, speech recognition, touch screens, smart desktops with really new capabilities (it seems that Apple is going in this direction) to organise documents in a more useful way to the user than the old and annoying tree-like folders and files and the always hidden trash bin?
What's about a CSCW desktop where you can share your documents, calendars, music, photos with your colleagues without starting 18 different programs and FTPing files to a server because your mailserver doesn't accept more than 3MB?.
GTK, GNOME, KDE or Ximian, still _very_ old paradigms with nicer memory eating and eyes hurting icons.
I see the next innovation will be the task bar in diagonal instead of the oldfashioned horizontal or vertical one.
--ricardo
Re:ZDNet boring recipes for Linux articles
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eWeek on Linux
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Nope, they are Adobe Distiller OCR mistakes. You know, a Spanish version...
But it's unbelievable how good it's in Spanish.
--ricardo
ZDNet boring recipes for Linux articles
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These are excerpts from ZDNet Linux Report Style Book that was stolen by a ZDNet worker. It's very interesting that, according to reliable sources, it looks quite similar to C|Net Style Book.
Unavoidable questions
- questions for Linus and gang:
Do you think Linux is ready for the enterprise?
When are you going to start the new development branch?
Do you think a kernel branch could affect negatively?
Do you agree in that Linux is still not ready for supporting workloads required by applications like ERP...?
What are your goals going forward?
Do you think that those performance issues have been/will be resolved?
Do you think Linux caoul be a Windows competitor in the desktop war?
What do you mean with "World Domination"?
...
Unavoidable Expert/Journalist Comments in a Linux article.
Linux 2.4 in big leap in the field of a enterprise class OS.
It's still lacks of security featurs as entreprise class Unices.
It's still lacks, but improvements can be seen in every release, of the performance figures as enterprise class OSes for loaded web servers and multiples interfaces.
There is still a way to go before it becomes a true mission-critical, enterprise-class...
It's enterprise ready for certain applications.
We welcome the developers efforts to make Linux more robust and scalable.
It's still needed the support for journaling file system
While a few IT managers are beginning to move critical applications... other don't dude...
Linux, in its last reincarnation, has got a better support for SMP, storage and huge RAM demanded by enterprise class databases.
With the open-source kernel, you can make changes to it so that it fit your needs.
The slides were obviously converted to PDF from PP. And PDF is not the best format for presentations, at least with Acrobat Reader, you can put it in fullscreen.
Furthermore, every company in Spain, small or large, that maintains any kind of customers database, must be registered and obey strict regulations regarding the non-disclosure and protection of the data.
Spamm is prohibited in Spain, the regular ticket (how do you say, fine?) is about u$s 50.000 if a company is found guilty.
Also, any video camera that is located in public areas must be registered, approved and controlled by goverment agencies. Companies have a short period of time for keeping those videos or images, they have to be destroyed after the time has expired.
I don't know how this works in USA, but according to the amount of USA companies' spamms I am receiving every day, I don't believe USA is more "sensitive" than Europe regarding with privacy issues.
Try registering yourself in some large USA companies with a fake name (or in some conferences), and wait for a couple of hours before receiving new spams directed to that fake name.
They already realised it. You can read in the page:
(Note: If you have arrived at this site through inappropriate references via a search engine, please be assured that we did not utilize this language in our site, our HTML, nor in our internet promotion of this site. What happened was the result of a malicious act and we are pursuing remedies through the efforts of our staff and attorneys.)
I hope I am not liable in Spain for using those words. Please don't tell them where Spain is.
Several months ago, just before MS Media 7 was released (which has a better MPEG4 encoder), I evaluated in depth Real Video and MS Video for a video streaming start-up in South America.
We evaluated compression and required bandwidth for different lighting conditions and compression methods.
The idea was to allow best video quality for 28.8, 56 and 64 kbps connections for the southamerican audience (which means automatic support for different bandwidths). The test was done with a cheap Osprey 101 (videocard+NTSC camera).
The clear winner was MS Video, and it was a suprise, the "smoothing" (sorry, I don't remember the precise name) filter aplied in the player allowed us to put the windows at a 200% size of the original and the image quality looked pretty the same.
I give you the parameters we found as the best for our requirements:
3. I meant (or tried to) that sorting might be very expensive and if they dump some info in temp files, that info is already available at indexes when dealing with single tables.
1&2. We had problems with LO+transation in PHP4 and PG7.0. The LO remained unaccesible for several minutes and the calling PHP program stayed deadlocked.
6. When downloading files from the webserver, almost everything is done by PHP, which stores the file in a server disk. What I meant is that when importing from a client (front end) program that can run in the same machine as the backend or in another... PG doesn't allow it.
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Answering to another post, YES, it _should_ be better for listening MP3 files because the mmap used for most players should work nicely with the read-once technique.
Although cannnot be assure until is hard tested, Linus found several mistakes in the cache and page aging.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a kernel hacker (although I tried it ;-). I just knew it reading every day the linux-kernel mailing list.
3,290,000 to be precise. But that number in not important, but which ones appear first.
What? It's Minix, Minix, Minix. Xenix was always proprietary, and is going to die as such.
OTH, Minix was ergh... shared source? It died anyway...
Errr... just realised that most /. posts can be also transferred at higher speeds.
PS: did that information appear in early April? I missed it.
Plan B: buy Caldera.
Plan C: buy Ximian.
I found the following files in a W98SE with IE automatic update verification enabled:
Sorry if it annoyed you. But don't complain to a guy who likes just to play around with Linux.
--ricardo
1. The maxclients in php.ini doesn't work.
2. We want MySQL !!!
Right now, the author is doing more extensive tests. We will put them is a static page.
Hope the server is still alive when I arrive home.
Cheers, assasins;-)
--ricardo
You should tell ne before you try to slashdot us ;-) So, I could have time to increase the PG backend.
Hope we can keep it running now... (poor PIII 500Mhz)
--ricardo
Oh my God...
- Where will we store all ac pre-patches produces by such a beast?
- How can Linus survive to the amount of patches submitted to him?
- Can we provide him/them with Linux0.99 so he can stabilise it and backport support for USB?
- Who is going to afford the shampoo?
--ricardoUnix is the only OS remaining whose GUI (a vast suite of code called the X Windows System) is separate from the OS in the old sense of the phrase. This is to say that you can run Unix in pure command-line mode if you want to, with no windows, icons, mouses, etc. whatsoever, and it will still be Unix and capable of doing everything Unix is supposed to do. But the other OSes: MacOS, the Windows family, and BeOS, have their GUIs tangled up with the old-fashioned OS functions to the extent that they have to run in GUI mode, or else they are not really running. So it's no longer really possible to think of GUIs as being distinct from the OS; they're now an inextricable part of the OSes that they belong to--and they are by far the largest part, and by far the most expensive and difficult part to create.
...
THE INTERFACE CULTURE
A few years ago I walked into a grocery store somewhere and was presented with the following tableau vivant: near the entrance a young couple were standing in front of a large cosmetics display. The man was stolidly holding a shopping basket between his hands while his mate raked blister-packs of makeup off the display and piled them in. Since then I've always thought of that man as the personification of an interesting human tendency: not only are we not offended to be dazzled by manufactured images, but we like it. We practically insist on it. We are eager to be complicit in our own dazzlement: to pay money for a theme park ride, vote for a guy who's obviously lying to us, or stand there holding the basket as it's filled up with cosmetics. ...
Excerpts of "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson.
Worth a read.
--ricardo
Sorry, I wanted to say "eager for karma".
Sorry again, I mispelled, it's "plagiarism". But the text box it's tiny, and English it's not my mother tongue.
And again, at least I use my real name, my real email and my real URL to say that the previous message was already posted.
And last but not least, I didn't care you, the plagiarist who call me dumbass, could moderate it down.
STOP copying old posts just to get your karma up.
--ricardo
Yeap, another plagiarist eager for. This document was copied from previous Slashdot articles:
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http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/23/2021213.s
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/12/1528230.s
--ricardo
Fo example:
- Miró: Simple programs, almost naive. Few calls, it needs more work.
- Klee: Asshole!!!, he wrote four functions and want me to approve him. Draw it again Sam.
- Picasso: He doesn't know in deep about structured programming. Better improve the code, it's a mess.
- Dalí: This guys knows about object oriented programming.
- Impressionist: It's a master in programming, but may be the code has too many functions and it's hard to understand. Better to crisp it slightly.
As you see, the program is useful too.--ricardo Estilo Dalí: muy bien estructurada u orientada a objetos. Impresionista: el hombre es un monstruo de la programación.
IMHO, bith GNOME and KDE are not being very creative in the definition of a modern GUI, but following the old path already walked by Xerox/Smalltak, Apple, X11 and Windows.
What's new up in the desktop and user interface? Themes? Is that the most notable achievement?
Indeed, companies as Helixcode are not very innovative in their products. The only really new thing they've created is their new trendy name -Ximian.
It's not only me saying that, in every Icasa's interview he _himself_ says that they are reproducing icon by icon, step by step, cell by cell, MS programs (bloats and bugs...).
The GUI is going the change drastically in the following years, and OS companies are copying very old user interface paradigms and adding bloat and bloat: super colourful icons, themes, skins, gadgets, widgets and the slashdot news strip. But the basics are still the same, square windows and a 3 buttons mouse (well, sometimes) that still is useless for copying 7 bits ASCII text from a text editor to a text box in the browser.
What's about smart popups, sound, speech recognition, touch screens, smart desktops with really new capabilities (it seems that Apple is going in this direction) to organise documents in a more useful way to the user than the old and annoying tree-like folders and files and the always hidden trash bin?
What's about a CSCW desktop where you can share your documents, calendars, music, photos with your colleagues without starting 18 different programs and FTPing files to a server because your mailserver doesn't accept more than 3MB?.
GTK, GNOME, KDE or Ximian, still _very_ old paradigms with nicer memory eating and eyes hurting icons.
I see the next innovation will be the task bar in diagonal instead of the oldfashioned horizontal or vertical one.
--ricardo
But it's unbelievable how good it's in Spanish.
--ricardo
Unavoidable questions - questions for Linus and gang:
- Do you think Linux is ready for the enterprise?
- When are you going to start the new development branch?
- Do you think a kernel branch could affect negatively?
- Do you agree in that Linux is still not ready for supporting workloads required by applications like ERP...?
- What are your goals going forward?
- Do you think that those performance issues have been/will be resolved?
- Do you think Linux caoul be a Windows competitor in the desktop war?
- What do you mean with "World Domination"?
...
Unavoidable Expert/Journalist Comments in a Linux article.- Linux 2.4 in big leap in the field of a enterprise class OS.
- It's still lacks of security featurs as entreprise class Unices.
- It's still lacks, but improvements can be seen in every release, of the performance figures as enterprise class OSes for loaded web servers and multiples interfaces.
- There is still a way to go before it becomes a true mission-critical, enterprise-class...
- It's enterprise ready for certain applications.
- We welcome the developers efforts to make Linux more robust and scalable.
- It's still needed the support for journaling file system
- While a few IT managers are beginning to move critical applications... other don't dude...
- Linux, in its last reincarnation, has got a better support for SMP, storage and huge RAM demanded by enterprise class databases.
- With the open-source kernel, you can make changes to it so that it fit your needs.
- ...
--ricardoSorry.
--ricardo
--ricardo
We are, mostly, teleline haters ;-), I would say that Teleline and Terra-Lycos are the Spanish AOL.
Most of their SMTP daemons are unprotected and relying spam mails.
--ricardo
Spamm is prohibited in Spain, the regular ticket (how do you say, fine?) is about u$s 50.000 if a company is found guilty.
Also, any video camera that is located in public areas must be registered, approved and controlled by goverment agencies. Companies have a short period of time for keeping those videos or images, they have to be destroyed after the time has expired.
I don't know how this works in USA, but according to the amount of USA companies' spamms I am receiving every day, I don't believe USA is more "sensitive" than Europe regarding with privacy issues.
Try registering yourself in some large USA companies with a fake name (or in some conferences), and wait for a couple of hours before receiving new spams directed to that fake name.
--ricardo
Searched the web for Linda Chavez labor secretary. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,390. Search took 0.08 seconds
--ricardo
(Note: If you have arrived at this site through inappropriate references via a search engine, please be assured that we did not utilize this language in our site, our HTML, nor in our internet promotion of this site. What happened was the result of a malicious act and we are pursuing remedies through the efforts of our staff and attorneys.)
I hope I am not liable in Spain for using those words. Please don't tell them where Spain is.
--ricardo
We evaluated compression and required bandwidth for different lighting conditions and compression methods.
The idea was to allow best video quality for 28.8, 56 and 64 kbps connections for the southamerican audience (which means automatic support for different bandwidths). The test was done with a cheap Osprey 101 (videocard+NTSC camera).
The clear winner was MS Video, and it was a suprise, the "smoothing" (sorry, I don't remember the precise name) filter aplied in the player allowed us to put the windows at a 200% size of the original and the image quality looked pretty the same.
I give you the parameters we found as the best for our requirements:
Bandwidth: Multiple. 22Kbps, 29Kbps, 34Kbps.
Audio codec: ACELP.net, 5Kbps, 8000Hz, Mono.
Video codec: MPEG-4 Video Codec V3, 15Fps, 176x144, 8 Sec/lFrame.
Hope this helps.
--ricardo
1&2. We had problems with LO+transation in PHP4 and PG7.0. The LO remained unaccesible for several minutes and the calling PHP program stayed deadlocked.
6. When downloading files from the webserver, almost everything is done by PHP, which stores the file in a server disk. What I meant is that when importing from a client (front end) program that can run in the same machine as the backend or in another... PG doesn't allow it.
--ricardo