Censorship: Censorship blocks something from being read, heard, or seen. To "censor" is to review something and to choose to remove or hide parts of it that are considered unacceptable.
A decision made by a private company to "choose what to include in what they publish" is *exactly* the act of blocking something from being read, heard, or seen by reviewing it and choosing to hide (not publish) it.
How do you figure that isn't censorship? It is literally the dictionary definition of censorship!
Censorship is when the government steps in and says you can't do that.
No definition anywhere of that word involves "government" - anywhere
The first amendment in the US even proves that. That is the amendment that says censorship performed BY the government is illegal.
Why specify censorship by the government if no other forms of censorship existed or were possible?
I don't know how useful you consider the site, but this morning's Firefox update broke YouTube for me.
If you uninstall Flash plugin from Firefox, Youtube will detect no flash plugin and instead use HTML5 video which works natively.
But just having the Flash plugin, be it disabled or blocked or if you have Javascript lie, will cause Youtube to fall back to trying (and failing) to use the Flash player.
A good "emergency" tip for youtube, although all the other websites without HTML5 video versions (aka all the other ones I use) will of course remain broken - or in the case of Flash per-page blocking, will break even further than before.
I don't know why youtube actually searches your extension list to choose flash vs html5 players instead of something more sane like checking if the plugin loaded on their page (to handle blocked and disabled flash), or just give you a choice which player to use...
Now if only blip and twitch would add html5 video support, for me at least much of this flash crap would be taken care of.
Fortunately you weren't trying out a beta on your production machine, so the two weeks without Win10 won't matter, right?
If course it matters, it's a beta! Duh.
That's two weeks of lost beta testing and compatibility verification with your companies software and existing infrastructure. That's potentially another two week delay in being able to successfully deploy it.
It may not matter much or a lot, but it certainly does matter.
In my case it only slightly matters, but I only have 45 days remaining of my free license for the new version of our ERP client I'm testing for compatibility. Now I admit I already ran into a couple show-stopper bugs with the ERP client, so I already know we won't be deploying in the next three months. But had those issues not already come up that would be roughly a third of my testing window gone.
You only don't think it doesn't matter and not care right up until something critical doesn't work, then you will complain I didn't do enough testing:P
As much as I tend to poke fun at your corporate overlords policies, a big congrats and thumbs up are in order to both the review team and whomever made that part of the java.com website!
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Uh, really? Can you name one website that uses Java heavily?
Here is one: Verify your Java Version [java.com]
Doesn't look too heavy of use to me.
With no Java in my browser, I can read all the text on that page, see all the menu links and even click them to go to the target pages, and see only a single Java applet (well, after clicking their agree button)
Even better, when I do try to detect my Java version I see text output on the page that is both A) there and readable, and B) factually correct!
It says it can't determine my Java version, which is fairly accurate as I have no Java for it to detect the version of. It doesn't show a blank page, or an error that Java isn't installed, or have most of the page missing like the original poster claimed would happen.
I have to admit, and I hate saying it about a company like Oracle, but that page is both very light on Java usage and probably one of the best implementations of graceful fail back and browser plugin handling in general that I've seen.
F'ing cruise ships have that... you'd think the island could afford ONE satlink. Just for emergencies.
That is pretty much the problem, they apparently only could afford the one backup radio link (after the problem of the primary fiber break of course)
The US territory depends on a single undersea fiber optic connection with Guam for its connectivity to the outside world (except for a backup microwave link, which was itself damaged during a recent storm)
So they could afford and did have One radio transceiver using a dish, and it was damaged as well.
As far as a ground station at the island goes, there is little difference to a large storm between a microwave transceiver and a satellite transceiver. If they still only had the one backup dish at the same location just of the other type, it would have been damaged just the same.
The obvious joke answer is: clearly they needed TWO backup links! Or to quote from Futurama:
Fry: What happened? Dr. Zoidberg: All six thousand hulls have been breached. Fry: Oh, the fools! Why didn't they build it with six thousand and one hulls? When will they learn?
About the only thing that can ever happen with this patent is to be used by a troll in case anyone does really manage to build a fusion power plant that uses some of the same terms used in this science fiction document, such as lasers.
The most wonderful thing about a patent troll attempting to sue me for successfully building a fusion power device, is that by definition I have just built a working fusion device!
There is pretty much nothing that can prevent such a device from simply making the patent troll disappear, almost literally (OK technically the atoms the patent troll used to consist of would not be destroyed, they would simply be rearranged into a non-trollish and non-living form, diluted over a much larger volume of space than previously arranged)
One will not get far in life pissing off the only person with a functional fusion device, and there is next to nothing that could be done to stop them:P
Going off of TV episodes, some books, and the borg documentary, the borg queen has said on a few occasions that certain species are put to certain tasks to be most efficient.
The Klingons were assimilated for physical strength requiring tasks, not brain/CPU power.
The Voth however were assimilated for their technology (roughly equal to the borg) and their brain power, and used mainly to advance the borgs theoretical physics and such. The Voth also had transwarp technology independently developed, and while it may have been ret-con'ed in it was stated this is where the borg got it from too.
The Kazon on the other hand were avoided for assimilation completely, as the species was deemed too stupid and incapable for anything, and their very presence in the borg collective took them that much further away from "perfection"
Can someone please explain the significance and consequences of publishing this: GeoTrust_SigningCertificateExported_2011.pfx
It's another couple good patters for antivirus software to look for and trigger upon finding. Anyone infected with their rootkitted drivers four years ago and haven't had the malware update may find out about being infected with it.
If they used the same company name for their 2015 certificate as is used in the certs published, that would be another signature for AV software to trigger on if they kept your rootkitted drivers updated.
That's about it however.
The certificate is long expired so can't be used to sign any new code with. You can also be pretty certain their next certificate (to be issued any day now, if not already) will be under a different name as well.
That's software doing exactly as instructed, and as expected. The question is: Is the software working perfectly to be considered a software fault?
A developer or operator fault most certainly. But there was no part of the software doing anything it wasn't told. No part that had any expectation of working differently than it did.
Here we call that operator error.
"I right clicked this file and selected delete. When it asked if I was sure I clicked Yes. Now I'm shocked, appalled, and confused why that file got deleted!! Your software is broken!"
Now arguably we don't know the exact details of this particular case, it very well Could have been a software fault and it wasn't reported as such. It could also have been a fault with the documentation, where even if the command worked as originally intended, it didn't work as documented. Honestly with such a complex system it could have been one or more of any number of things.
I'm making no claim to what actually happened. Just providing example on how such a "Not a software fault" situation could have happened.
So a "flaw" in the command sequence isn't a software fault?
I don't see why it must be.
Imagine you wrote a shell script to first create a temp folder, then recursively delete the source data folder, followed by copying the source folder to the new temp folder.
Oops, your data is gone!
Is that a fault with the delete command doing exactly as you instructed it to? Or is that a fault in your sequence commands in the script?
I think that's actually a pretty good minimum standard for friendship.
The new relationship standards:
A friend is someone you share wifi passwords with. A best friend is someone that helps hide the bodies. True love is when you merge your media collections.
As for the modpack, these days I mainly use the direwolf20 pack from FTB launcher. I think it's only just over 100 mods. I also used to play the TolkenCraft pack (no idea how many mods it used)
As for my world age, it was generated this year so ~6 months old. I couldn't tell you play time, but I'm not really near the god-tier you describe. I do have a small-to-medium AE setup if that counts:P
Also upon generating a new world I see similar results, although in that case the client is being pretty busy generating the new world, so I'm not sure if that counts. But how long should initial world gen take? Shouldn't the lag be mostly gone in 10-15 minutes? Yes it certainly has less lag after those 10 minutes, but it is still pretty bad as previously described.
Back in the 1.2.5 days and Tekkit, I recall seeing insane FPS rates in the f3 debug screen. Like on the scale of 400 (I'm pretty sure that was on my gtx275 but I don't remember) Granted plenty of other problems back then, but still...
Now for the bits that stand out above the rest from your post:
...you have no clue how java garbage collection works, do you. Please go educate yourself [vazkii.us] and then fix your settings. Better yet, just re-create the default profile, because it's already optimized for most use cases. The default "profile" that Minecraft runs under gives you 1gb of RAM, which is about perfect.
First, thank you for the link.
Second, NO, of course I don't have any Java clues, I'm no Java developer. Why would you even assume I would? I only use Java because another program I desire to run needs it.
I can't really be expected to customize my Java settings when no one has said that is needed. So I naturally left everything default. And yes, it is 64 bit Java JRE
My only conclusions are that you're either you're doing it (somehow) very, very wrong...or you're intentionally spreading FUD.
Yea thanks for suggesting I'm spreading FUD. Let me guess: "Can not reproduce, didn't try or listen to explanation. Closing ticket as NOFIX"
Seriously.. I was/am sitting here offering to run any and whatever actual tests, benchmarks, debugging, and anything else I could do to show the results of these problems to your own levels of expectation... so clearly FUD is a worth mentioning option.
I already and once again grant I could be doing something wrong. So what the fuck do I do to do it right?!
A fresh install of FTB, fresh download of modpack, on an updated Java with default settings... On a 6-7 month old Win7 Pro install.
I did run IE once to download Steam and a package from microsoft. All minecraft related files came from my main PC (although all came directly from Oracle, Mojang, and FTB) In-client downloads, windows updates, and a MS security essentials DL from microsoft, are the only other internet usage that PC sees. No other web browsing is done from there. (As nice as MSSE is on system resources, I can't say I trust it completely)
But despite all that, and not that I'm trying to force you to help me, but if there is nothing that will convince you of what I'm saying (as seems to be the case) then you have no justification for calling me a liar.
Sorry for the double-reply, but after answering your direct complain I forgot to put in my on-topic reply.
Using Minecraft for education is a completely valid option to be considered.
I know from experience it can do so quite well in some cases, being both on the instructor and student side of things within minecraft.
I was an instructor teaching Lua programming using ComputerCraft on a server setup specifically for education.
I was also a student in various vanilla redstone classes, as my redstone skills are quite lacking compared to even a moderately advanced builder.
Some of the articles listed classes sound like they would work great within minecraft especially creative design, physics, and math, but even advanced math like logic and branching out into either programming or electronic/logic design is a wonderful fit.
I admit to being curious and confused on the history lessons being better in Minecraft, but if someone with more teaching skills than I have wishes to give it a try at making it work, more power to them!
I'm sorry you are having clock malfunctions, but just so you know the current year is 2015:P
But seriously, when modded minecraft takes 6+ gigs of ram to load in 15 minutes, and after that gives you mainly 1 frame every 3 seconds lasting up to a half a minute, with spurts of 10 frames a second for a couple seconds, it's really hard to give good words to any of the components involved.
But OK, modded minecraft isn't fair. So how about vanella minecraft?
The stock 1.7.10 client under Java 7 (the last cross-platform version), or even the stock 1.8 client under Java 8 (with lwjgl 2.0, which is windows only for now) - I get between 20 and 25 frames a second with the occasional one second lock up every few minutes.
This is on an i7-5820k and Nvidia GTX 970 with 32GB ram - a PC that ranks 97% world wide in 3dmark.
Again, it is extremely difficult to give any good words to any component involved here.
The joke used to be "Can it run Crysis?", but since the answer is now "Yes, at 120fps on a 4k display" the joke has become "But can it run modded minecraft?"
Note I am refraining from putting any blame squarely on any single component involved here, including Java. (My only real Java-ish related complaint is the sorry state of lwjgl 2.0, but even that isn't a Java problem specifically and so shouldn't count)
If you would like me to run any specific benchmarks on my PC to give the supporting numbers, please feel free to ask. Just let me know what and how and I'll post up the results. For a baseline, I do own 3dmark, as well as some current high end games like Crysis, Shadow of Mordor, and GTAV which I can benchmark side by side. What I sadly do not have is any form of screen capture software, nor the experience with such software to produce a video.
Do I trust them to respond in a certain way under a given set of circumstances? Yes, I believe I can predict exactly how they will abuse and eventually clusterfuck OpenDNS, and I predict it will not be pretty.
But do I trust them to have my best interests at heart? Hell no.
No.... That has nothing to do with IPv6, it has to do with what those VPN's support. What that statistic really means is that 11 out of fourteen VPN providers don't really support IPv6 in the first place.
Well if IPv6 packets can pass at all, clearly they support IPv6.
The problem is that they likely are accidentally supporting it with no knowledge about doing so.
Would you put your Windows box on the IPv4 Internet with no firewall what so ever? I don't mean having a firewall and accidentally misconfiguration it, I mean having a firewall and not adding a single rule.
Well, that's exactly what these VPN providers did for the IPv6 protocol. They have zero IPv6 firewall rules.
So while inbound IPv4 packets are filtered with a default deny rule and any allow rules the customer wants, also likely filtering some outbound as well, their IPv6 rules are default allow.
Odds are if you fired up a PC with IPX or NetBEUI as the protocol, their firewall would gladly allow that traffic unfiltered as well.
For example in the Linux iptables packet filter, you can disable the IPv6 protocol completely with a single command: iptables -I INPUT -p 41 -j DROP
If course using IPv6 properly is a bit more work, as you have to allow the ipv6 protocol in the main iptables, and use ip6tables or something like that for filter rules on the other IP stack.
Either way, allowing everything (no matter what protocol) has always been said to be unwise, and now these companies and their customers can see why.
Fucking lawyers just never stop. Google illegally copied Oracle's shit. Deal with it.
The 13 words in your post are currently under copyright protection and owned by me. (As symbols required for interaction are now copyrightable, aka APIs, aka all words in a language)
You can paypal my $10000 per word usage licensing fee and I will refrain from opening a lawsuit against you.
Your faith in humanity is commendable, but misplaced. Your argument is that companies that abuse their users and the trust those users place into it will lose them.
For what it's worth, it was exactly that which drove me away from yahoo search and onto google search back in 98-99.
And I never did mind that yahoo search had links at the top to yahoo maps and yahoo games and such, nor do I mind google doing the same.
It was actually the 20+ ads on the main yahoo page (top, left, right, and center) that drove the last nail in. At least on that one aspect, google continues to win by a landslide to this day.
Yes it was mildly annoying when google changed their sponsored ads from having a nice different color background from the search results, but even now there is still a nice and noticeable yellow "Ad" icon next to those results that serves the same purpose.
It sounds like your opinion on where the threshold for abuse falls differs from mine, but for me personally google still hasn't crossed it. It's just surprising and saddening that no one else seems to believe me regarding my opinion, saying I must be wrong or worse a stupid idiot for making an informed conscious choice in the matter...
Linux is great in many respects, but with most popular Linux distros, having a clean filesystem structure and code/config/data set-up are not among them. Maintaining most real world Linux-based systems is absurdly complicated as a direct result.
The only part I've found complex is finding out where and how various apps actually store their data, particularly when I don't really have much interest in the app.
Apart from that however, system restoration is pretty trivial.
For example, let's say a basic Apache webserver. Apache stores it's master website in/var/www and personal websites under a users homedir.
So you have a pre-backup script (or just a cronjob) that runs: dpkg --get-selections >/root/current-packages.txt
Backups should always consist of/root ,/home , and/etc no matter what. As mentioned with Apache, we need to add/var/www to that mix.
Now to do a restore, you install from the debian disc, then restore your directories from backup. Then run: apt-get update && dpkg --set-selections/root/current-packages.txt && apt-get install
At that point all your software and dependencies are back from the listing in/root , and services started up from your own configs in/etc , and in this case Apache is happily again serving from/var/www and homedirs.
That's it. One CD boot, one reboot into the live OS, and a few commands to restore all data/software/apps/libraries/dependencies which get started after install and run from your edited configs just as before.
Again, the only real trick is not missing any application data. Especially from a sysadmin point of view. A user of the machine asks for WierdSQL. What do I care about learning a new SQL server? I just want to make sure I can make consistent and regular backups of its data. I don't want to hear someone say "Oh the raw DBs are in/var/blah/blah" which are always in use and always changing. I want to hear "Use this command to backup the data to date/time stamped.bak files where ever, then go backup that whereever dir - and here are the commands to restore.bak files into a fresh install"
For servers I setup for myself, it's pretty guaranteed I either know the software already and can answer all of the above questions, or I'm just learning it and so there is no risk or useful data to be lost and it doesn't matter. But for servers I run for others, yes it can be a lot more work to learn those things, and is certainly not nearly as fun as the former.
(What is the average throughput of a spoken conversation, anyway? Maybe 1200 baud on a good day?)
1200 baud is actually a pretty accurate guestimation.
75 and 300 baud was way slower than my reading speed.
1200 baud was the point that certain cases (say transferring an ascii text file) was pretty much equal or just slightly faster than reading speed, only balanced out by the relatively slower ANSI "box" characters being added to the mix and/or ANSI color codes that took more bytes to send.
2400 baud was the point things were beyond reading speed by a large enough amount that most all "baud frustrations" disappeared.
Granted this was all reading speed and not verbal communication, of which the latter is possibly faster. But even then I would still only say "1200-2400 baud" as a good range for generic spoken communication, and only faster than that when both parties know the terms and higher level ideas being conveyed ahead of time.
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No, that's not censorship.
That's an editorial decision being made by a private company as they choose what to include in what they publish
http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/censorship
Censorship: Censorship blocks something from being read, heard, or seen.
To "censor" is to review something and to choose to remove or hide parts of it that are considered unacceptable.
A decision made by a private company to "choose what to include in what they publish" is *exactly* the act of blocking something from being read, heard, or seen by reviewing it and choosing to hide (not publish) it.
How do you figure that isn't censorship? It is literally the dictionary definition of censorship!
Censorship is when the government steps in and says you can't do that.
No definition anywhere of that word involves "government" - anywhere
The first amendment in the US even proves that. That is the amendment that says censorship performed BY the government is illegal.
Why specify censorship by the government if no other forms of censorship existed or were possible?
Escalate like this?
http://betanews.com/wp-content...
If Reddit allows that, next thing you know it may escalate up to the Dyson gangstas siphoning the dirt out of our cars for their pics:
http://dbagging.com/wp-content...
Then where would America be!
I don't know how useful you consider the site, but this morning's Firefox update broke YouTube for me.
If you uninstall Flash plugin from Firefox, Youtube will detect no flash plugin and instead use HTML5 video which works natively.
But just having the Flash plugin, be it disabled or blocked or if you have Javascript lie, will cause Youtube to fall back to trying (and failing) to use the Flash player.
A good "emergency" tip for youtube, although all the other websites without HTML5 video versions (aka all the other ones I use) will of course remain broken - or in the case of Flash per-page blocking, will break even further than before.
I don't know why youtube actually searches your extension list to choose flash vs html5 players instead of something more sane like checking if the plugin loaded on their page (to handle blocked and disabled flash), or just give you a choice which player to use...
Now if only blip and twitch would add html5 video support, for me at least much of this flash crap would be taken care of.
Fortunately you weren't trying out a beta on your production machine, so the two weeks without Win10 won't matter, right?
If course it matters, it's a beta! Duh.
That's two weeks of lost beta testing and compatibility verification with your companies software and existing infrastructure. That's potentially another two week delay in being able to successfully deploy it.
It may not matter much or a lot, but it certainly does matter.
In my case it only slightly matters, but I only have 45 days remaining of my free license for the new version of our ERP client I'm testing for compatibility.
Now I admit I already ran into a couple show-stopper bugs with the ERP client, so I already know we won't be deploying in the next three months. But had those issues not already come up that would be roughly a third of my testing window gone.
You only don't think it doesn't matter and not care right up until something critical doesn't work, then you will complain I didn't do enough testing :P
As much as I tend to poke fun at your corporate overlords policies, a big congrats and thumbs up are in order to both the review team and whomever made that part of the java.com website!
Shh! Please don't jinx me.
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Uh, really? Can you name one website that uses Java heavily?
Here is one: Verify your Java Version [java.com]
Doesn't look too heavy of use to me.
With no Java in my browser, I can read all the text on that page, see all the menu links and even click them to go to the target pages, and see only a single Java applet (well, after clicking their agree button)
Even better, when I do try to detect my Java version I see text output on the page that is both
A) there and readable, and
B) factually correct!
It says it can't determine my Java version, which is fairly accurate as I have no Java for it to detect the version of.
It doesn't show a blank page, or an error that Java isn't installed, or have most of the page missing like the original poster claimed would happen.
I have to admit, and I hate saying it about a company like Oracle, but that page is both very light on Java usage and probably one of the best implementations of graceful fail back and browser plugin handling in general that I've seen.
F'ing cruise ships have that... you'd think the island could afford ONE satlink. Just for emergencies.
That is pretty much the problem, they apparently only could afford the one backup radio link
(after the problem of the primary fiber break of course)
The US territory depends on a single undersea fiber optic connection with Guam for its connectivity to the outside world (except for a backup microwave link, which was itself damaged during a recent storm)
So they could afford and did have One radio transceiver using a dish, and it was damaged as well.
As far as a ground station at the island goes, there is little difference to a large storm between a microwave transceiver and a satellite transceiver. If they still only had the one backup dish at the same location just of the other type, it would have been damaged just the same.
The obvious joke answer is: clearly they needed TWO backup links!
Or to quote from Futurama:
Fry: What happened?
Dr. Zoidberg: All six thousand hulls have been breached.
Fry: Oh, the fools! Why didn't they build it with six thousand and one hulls? When will they learn?
WHAT radioactive materials?
Fusion doesn't use any.
I'm almost certain any such device will contain at least one atom with an atomic weight above lead, which by definition is a radioactive particle :P
About the only thing that can ever happen with this patent is to be used by a troll in case anyone does really manage to build a fusion power plant that uses some of the same terms used in this science fiction document, such as lasers.
The most wonderful thing about a patent troll attempting to sue me for successfully building a fusion power device, is that by definition I have just built a working fusion device!
There is pretty much nothing that can prevent such a device from simply making the patent troll disappear, almost literally (OK technically the atoms the patent troll used to consist of would not be destroyed, they would simply be rearranged into a non-trollish and non-living form, diluted over a much larger volume of space than previously arranged)
One will not get far in life pissing off the only person with a functional fusion device, and there is next to nothing that could be done to stop them :P
Going off of TV episodes, some books, and the borg documentary, the borg queen has said on a few occasions that certain species are put to certain tasks to be most efficient.
The Klingons were assimilated for physical strength requiring tasks, not brain/CPU power.
The Voth however were assimilated for their technology (roughly equal to the borg) and their brain power, and used mainly to advance the borgs theoretical physics and such.
The Voth also had transwarp technology independently developed, and while it may have been ret-con'ed in it was stated this is where the borg got it from too.
The Kazon on the other hand were avoided for assimilation completely, as the species was deemed too stupid and incapable for anything, and their very presence in the borg collective took them that much further away from "perfection"
PS, sorry... </nerd>
Can someone please explain the significance and consequences of publishing this:
GeoTrust_SigningCertificateExported_2011.pfx
It's another couple good patters for antivirus software to look for and trigger upon finding.
Anyone infected with their rootkitted drivers four years ago and haven't had the malware update may find out about being infected with it.
If they used the same company name for their 2015 certificate as is used in the certs published, that would be another signature for AV software to trigger on if they kept your rootkitted drivers updated.
That's about it however.
The certificate is long expired so can't be used to sign any new code with.
You can also be pretty certain their next certificate (to be issued any day now, if not already) will be under a different name as well.
That's software.
That's software doing exactly as instructed, and as expected.
The question is: Is the software working perfectly to be considered a software fault?
A developer or operator fault most certainly. But there was no part of the software doing anything it wasn't told. No part that had any expectation of working differently than it did.
Here we call that operator error.
"I right clicked this file and selected delete. When it asked if I was sure I clicked Yes. Now I'm shocked, appalled, and confused why that file got deleted!! Your software is broken!"
Now arguably we don't know the exact details of this particular case, it very well Could have been a software fault and it wasn't reported as such.
It could also have been a fault with the documentation, where even if the command worked as originally intended, it didn't work as documented.
Honestly with such a complex system it could have been one or more of any number of things.
I'm making no claim to what actually happened.
Just providing example on how such a "Not a software fault" situation could have happened.
So a "flaw" in the command sequence isn't a software fault?
I don't see why it must be.
Imagine you wrote a shell script to first create a temp folder, then recursively delete the source data folder, followed by copying the source folder to the new temp folder.
Oops, your data is gone!
Is that a fault with the delete command doing exactly as you instructed it to?
Or is that a fault in your sequence commands in the script?
I think that's actually a pretty good minimum standard for friendship.
The new relationship standards:
A friend is someone you share wifi passwords with.
A best friend is someone that helps hide the bodies.
True love is when you merge your media collections.
Allow me to summarize a reply.
As for the modpack, these days I mainly use the direwolf20 pack from FTB launcher. I think it's only just over 100 mods.
I also used to play the TolkenCraft pack (no idea how many mods it used)
As for my world age, it was generated this year so ~6 months old. I couldn't tell you play time, but I'm not really near the god-tier you describe. I do have a small-to-medium AE setup if that counts :P
Also upon generating a new world I see similar results, although in that case the client is being pretty busy generating the new world, so I'm not sure if that counts.
But how long should initial world gen take? Shouldn't the lag be mostly gone in 10-15 minutes?
Yes it certainly has less lag after those 10 minutes, but it is still pretty bad as previously described.
Back in the 1.2.5 days and Tekkit, I recall seeing insane FPS rates in the f3 debug screen. Like on the scale of 400 (I'm pretty sure that was on my gtx275 but I don't remember)
Granted plenty of other problems back then, but still...
Now for the bits that stand out above the rest from your post:
...you have no clue how java garbage collection works, do you. Please go educate yourself [vazkii.us] and then fix your settings. Better yet, just re-create the default profile, because it's already optimized for most use cases. The default "profile" that Minecraft runs under gives you 1gb of RAM, which is about perfect.
First, thank you for the link.
Second, NO, of course I don't have any Java clues, I'm no Java developer. Why would you even assume I would?
I only use Java because another program I desire to run needs it.
I can't really be expected to customize my Java settings when no one has said that is needed.
So I naturally left everything default.
And yes, it is 64 bit Java JRE
My only conclusions are that you're either you're doing it (somehow) very, very wrong...or you're intentionally spreading FUD.
Yea thanks for suggesting I'm spreading FUD.
Let me guess: "Can not reproduce, didn't try or listen to explanation. Closing ticket as NOFIX"
Seriously.. I was/am sitting here offering to run any and whatever actual tests, benchmarks, debugging, and anything else I could do to show the results of these problems to your own levels of expectation... so clearly FUD is a worth mentioning option.
I already and once again grant I could be doing something wrong.
So what the fuck do I do to do it right?!
A fresh install of FTB, fresh download of modpack, on an updated Java with default settings...
On a 6-7 month old Win7 Pro install.
I did run IE once to download Steam and a package from microsoft. All minecraft related files came from my main PC (although all came directly from Oracle, Mojang, and FTB)
In-client downloads, windows updates, and a MS security essentials DL from microsoft, are the only other internet usage that PC sees. No other web browsing is done from there.
(As nice as MSSE is on system resources, I can't say I trust it completely)
But despite all that, and not that I'm trying to force you to help me, but if there is nothing that will convince you of what I'm saying (as seems to be the case) then you have no justification for calling me a liar.
Sorry for the double-reply, but after answering your direct complain I forgot to put in my on-topic reply.
Using Minecraft for education is a completely valid option to be considered.
I know from experience it can do so quite well in some cases, being both on the instructor and student side of things within minecraft.
I was an instructor teaching Lua programming using ComputerCraft on a server setup specifically for education.
I was also a student in various vanilla redstone classes, as my redstone skills are quite lacking compared to even a moderately advanced builder.
Some of the articles listed classes sound like they would work great within minecraft especially creative design, physics, and math, but even advanced math like logic and branching out into either programming or electronic/logic design is a wonderful fit.
I admit to being curious and confused on the history lessons being better in Minecraft, but if someone with more teaching skills than I have wishes to give it a try at making it work, more power to them!
2005 called, it wants its complaint back.
I'm sorry you are having clock malfunctions, but just so you know the current year is 2015 :P
But seriously, when modded minecraft takes 6+ gigs of ram to load in 15 minutes, and after that gives you mainly 1 frame every 3 seconds lasting up to a half a minute, with spurts of 10 frames a second for a couple seconds, it's really hard to give good words to any of the components involved.
But OK, modded minecraft isn't fair. So how about vanella minecraft?
The stock 1.7.10 client under Java 7 (the last cross-platform version), or even the stock 1.8 client under Java 8 (with lwjgl 2.0, which is windows only for now) - I get between 20 and 25 frames a second with the occasional one second lock up every few minutes.
This is on an i7-5820k and Nvidia GTX 970 with 32GB ram - a PC that ranks 97% world wide in 3dmark.
Again, it is extremely difficult to give any good words to any component involved here.
The joke used to be "Can it run Crysis?", but since the answer is now "Yes, at 120fps on a 4k display" the joke has become "But can it run modded minecraft?"
Note I am refraining from putting any blame squarely on any single component involved here, including Java.
(My only real Java-ish related complaint is the sorry state of lwjgl 2.0, but even that isn't a Java problem specifically and so shouldn't count)
If you would like me to run any specific benchmarks on my PC to give the supporting numbers, please feel free to ask. Just let me know what and how and I'll post up the results.
For a baseline, I do own 3dmark, as well as some current high end games like Crysis, Shadow of Mordor, and GTAV which I can benchmark side by side.
What I sadly do not have is any form of screen capture software, nor the experience with such software to produce a video.
With all the clever hacks and workarounds people are posting, I'm ashamed to say my best is using a steak knife as a screwdriver.
It could be worse. I'm eating steak off of a screwdriver :{
Who here trust Cisco?
That depends which definition of trust you mean.
Do I trust them to respond in a certain way under a given set of circumstances?
Yes, I believe I can predict exactly how they will abuse and eventually clusterfuck OpenDNS, and I predict it will not be pretty.
But do I trust them to have my best interests at heart?
Hell no.
No.... That has nothing to do with IPv6, it has to do with what those VPN's support. What that statistic really means is that 11 out of fourteen VPN providers don't really support IPv6 in the first place.
Well if IPv6 packets can pass at all, clearly they support IPv6.
The problem is that they likely are accidentally supporting it with no knowledge about doing so.
Would you put your Windows box on the IPv4 Internet with no firewall what so ever?
I don't mean having a firewall and accidentally misconfiguration it, I mean having a firewall and not adding a single rule.
Well, that's exactly what these VPN providers did for the IPv6 protocol. They have zero IPv6 firewall rules.
So while inbound IPv4 packets are filtered with a default deny rule and any allow rules the customer wants, also likely filtering some outbound as well, their IPv6 rules are default allow.
Odds are if you fired up a PC with IPX or NetBEUI as the protocol, their firewall would gladly allow that traffic unfiltered as well.
For example in the Linux iptables packet filter, you can disable the IPv6 protocol completely with a single command:
iptables -I INPUT -p 41 -j DROP
If course using IPv6 properly is a bit more work, as you have to allow the ipv6 protocol in the main iptables, and use ip6tables or something like that for filter rules on the other IP stack.
Either way, allowing everything (no matter what protocol) has always been said to be unwise, and now these companies and their customers can see why.
Fucking lawyers just never stop.
Google illegally copied Oracle's shit. Deal with it.
The 13 words in your post are currently under copyright protection and owned by me.
(As symbols required for interaction are now copyrightable, aka APIs, aka all words in a language)
You can paypal my $10000 per word usage licensing fee and I will refrain from opening a lawsuit against you.
As you say, pay up and deal with it.
Your faith in humanity is commendable, but misplaced. Your argument is that companies that abuse their users and the trust those users place into it will lose them.
For what it's worth, it was exactly that which drove me away from yahoo search and onto google search back in 98-99.
And I never did mind that yahoo search had links at the top to yahoo maps and yahoo games and such, nor do I mind google doing the same.
It was actually the 20+ ads on the main yahoo page (top, left, right, and center) that drove the last nail in. At least on that one aspect, google continues to win by a landslide to this day.
Yes it was mildly annoying when google changed their sponsored ads from having a nice different color background from the search results, but even now there is still a nice and noticeable yellow "Ad" icon next to those results that serves the same purpose.
It sounds like your opinion on where the threshold for abuse falls differs from mine, but for me personally google still hasn't crossed it.
It's just surprising and saddening that no one else seems to believe me regarding my opinion, saying I must be wrong or worse a stupid idiot for making an informed conscious choice in the matter...
Linux is great in many respects, but with most popular Linux distros, having a clean filesystem structure and code/config/data set-up are not among them. Maintaining most real world Linux-based systems is absurdly complicated as a direct result.
The only part I've found complex is finding out where and how various apps actually store their data, particularly when I don't really have much interest in the app.
Apart from that however, system restoration is pretty trivial.
For example, let's say a basic Apache webserver. /var/www and personal websites under a users homedir.
Apache stores it's master website in
So you have a pre-backup script (or just a cronjob) that runs:
dpkg --get-selections >/root/current-packages.txt
Backups should always consist of /root , /home , and /etc no matter what. /var/www to that mix.
As mentioned with Apache, we need to add
Now to do a restore, you install from the debian disc, then restore your directories from backup. /root/current-packages.txt && apt-get install
Then run:
apt-get update && dpkg --set-selections
At that point all your software and dependencies are back from the listing in /root , and services started up from your own configs in /etc , and in this case Apache is happily again serving from /var/www and homedirs.
That's it. One CD boot, one reboot into the live OS, and a few commands to restore all data/software/apps/libraries/dependencies which get started after install and run from your edited configs just as before.
Again, the only real trick is not missing any application data. Especially from a sysadmin point of view. /var/blah/blah" which are always in use and always changing. .bak files where ever, then go backup that whereever dir - and here are the commands to restore .bak files into a fresh install"
A user of the machine asks for WierdSQL. What do I care about learning a new SQL server? I just want to make sure I can make consistent and regular backups of its data.
I don't want to hear someone say "Oh the raw DBs are in
I want to hear "Use this command to backup the data to date/time stamped
For servers I setup for myself, it's pretty guaranteed I either know the software already and can answer all of the above questions, or I'm just learning it and so there is no risk or useful data to be lost and it doesn't matter.
But for servers I run for others, yes it can be a lot more work to learn those things, and is certainly not nearly as fun as the former.
(What is the average throughput of a spoken conversation, anyway? Maybe 1200 baud on a good day?)
1200 baud is actually a pretty accurate guestimation.
75 and 300 baud was way slower than my reading speed.
1200 baud was the point that certain cases (say transferring an ascii text file) was pretty much equal or just slightly faster than reading speed, only balanced out by the relatively slower ANSI "box" characters being added to the mix and/or ANSI color codes that took more bytes to send.
2400 baud was the point things were beyond reading speed by a large enough amount that most all "baud frustrations" disappeared.
Granted this was all reading speed and not verbal communication, of which the latter is possibly faster.
But even then I would still only say "1200-2400 baud" as a good range for generic spoken communication, and only faster than that when both parties know the terms and higher level ideas being conveyed ahead of time.