Well, that's not Firefox, though the code is the same - it's a customized build, under a different package name. So upgrading to it won't exactly upgrade my "Firefox" package, but rather install a new package that I'd use instead of Firefox. I'd have to reregister my symlinks and default apps to point to Swiftfox instead of Firefox, then switch back to Firefox when(/if) I upgrade to the full release of Firefox (and probably then remove Swiftfox).
It's a workable solution, but a little more complex than just actual "Firefox" packages containing the Beta releases. However, if Swiftfox is better than even the released Firefox, with no peculiar bugs of its own, then I might never switch back. But I'd sure prefer a package with as much inspection of the code for bugs and insecurities as Firefox's wildly popular package is.
I've got Firefox installed with APT on my Ubuntu system that's up to date, but the Beta (naturally) isn't available for upgrade.
If I upgrade it from the tarfile, will APT be able to continue to maintain Firefox against the official repositories? Or am I polluting my installation just to get the memory-eating v2.0.0.12 off my desktop ASAP?
Where can I find a.deb package of the Beta that won't cause any trouble? Maybe I could keep a Beta repo in my sources.list, and choose whether (or not) to upgrade to Betas through my update-manager as they're released.
so use Tor+Privoxy and encrypt your communications, let's see them selling that
btw: slashdot has set AC posts at -1 automatically so you're fucked if you don't login, this is quite ontopic as our account histories can easy be sold to whoever wants them, especially governments
TimeWarner owns _Time_ magazine and one of the biggest broadband networks, that carries millions of Americans' Internet, TV and also telephone. Of course its political propaganda magazine is going to lie about those Americans not caring that TimeWarner is spying on them without legal entitlement.
All this handwaving by Bush, his Republican Congressional minority (that was the majority that successfully hid these crimes for years of their joint reign), and the media corporations that all colluded to criminally spy on us are just more proof that they're guilty of those massive crimes. They're not covered by the existing laws that would have given them immunity from liability, if only they had even the slightest respect for the law. Instead they just did whatever they wanted, for the money and power it brings. And they plan to invade privacy as a top priority , which they've planned for quite a while.
Of course the corporations spying on you will lie to you about whether you care that they're spying on you. It's up to you: if you don't care that they're also lying to you about it to protect their own ass (and their ongoing, expanding criminal enterprise), then it's your fault, too.
Damn you rich! You already have your compensation. Damn you who are well-fed!You will know hunger. Damn you who laugh now! You will weep and grieve. Damn you when everybody speaks well of you!
The "hero", a person who will sacrifice themself for their community, who typically travels roundtrip between West and East to commit some dangerous act, learns something mysterious that is used to complete the task, and changes spirtually before they return, is my favorite monster.
The Greek-style hero is the most well known in America (and perhaps globally), but it's common to every human culture.
Why shouldn't governments run on the basis of faith lie when the truth is too much to bear?
And I'm not just talking theocracies. What else would we expect to hear in the US, except yet another chorus after the catastrophe hits saying "No one could have anticipated [this catastrophe people had warned would happen would happen]"?
Anyone else remember Katrina, 9/11/2001, the mortgage collapse, Iraq?
general.useragent.extra.firefox.InternetExplorerSignature user set string Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
I deleted the value and (right-clicked to) reset it, restarted Firefox, and all was well:).
Deleting cache and cookies didn't change anything. I used (firefox -ProfileManager) to create a test profile, which worked OK with maps.google.com . So I progressively copied directories files from my failing profile to replace their counterpart in the working profile. I deduced that prefs.js was causing the failure. So I recreated a new working test profile, copied my failing prefs.js into it, progressively deleted preference lines from the failing prefs.js until I found that it was that pref. Then I retested to see that that pref was the only difference, and deleted it using the about:prefs page GUI in my failing profile. Presto!
People now walk around cities around the world with RFID passports stuck in their pockets. That spooks can read from any distance, using "RFID rifles" and the like. Multiple RFID detectors can even see stereoscopically just where in 3D space the RFID tags are, and correlate their locations with data mined from retail transaction logs like buying in stores, paying for gas etc.
How does someone zap their passport with an RFID embedded in it, without damaging the passport itself?
I got the tile. Before I blow away all my useful history/state with (firefox -ProfileManager), is there another, less intrusive way I can test that technique? Like creating a new user with no profile, or creating them and running (firefox -ProfileManager) to blow away their profile? Maybe I have created a root user profile and should blow that away?
As for my router, it doesn't have a problem with max connections, which is rather high. And I don't want to turn off synflood protection. If that is the problem, why would that have changed, though I haven't changed my router since well before the problem started (and progressed from the zoom/pan widgets to the whole app)?
Anyone know why my Google Maps pages suddenly turned blank sometime last fall, when I apt-get upgraded a whole bunch of apps in Ubuntu (sometime after the release of 7.10)? I don't know which upgraded app caused it, because there was a week or two with a lot of upgrades on different days, after which maps.google.com stopped working, and I can't roll each back just to get back the Google maps - there's too many, and I'm too busy. I've searched the Web several times over the past 3-4 months, but no sign of anyone else having the problem.
I hit any maps.google.com page, any location or zoom, any of the different search/businesses/directions functions, and all I get is a page with the Search Results / Directions left column totally blank (under the two tabs). And the main map panel totally blank, light grey (the same color as this Slashdot submit form background), but with its upper right corner holding a small rectangle saying "Terrain" above a small "+" shape of blank white boxes where the NSEW/. scrolling controls were, and under that the zoom slider also just a blank white square above a blank white rectangle streching down to a blank white square, with a slider "knob" visible. But the slider doesn't slide, the clicking those controls doesn't do anything (though my cursor turns into a "clickable" hand icon over them). Over the main map my cursor stays an arrow, and clicking/dragging has no effect.
My Java/Javascript settings are all the same as before, allowing them. I've tried removing and installing Java and Flash, upgrading them, but no improvement. The pan/zoom controls actually went blank first, sometime in the late Summer (between 7.04 and 7.10), but it was no big deal, though I tried to search for others with the problem (and a solution) to no avail.
Any ideas? It all just looks like the sky on an heavy overcast day, so I guess I've had a limited "Google Sky" on my browser for almost half a year now, and I want to go back to the old Earth view instead:).
There's no programming model to get 4 TFLOPS in any usable program. Those supercomputers are built to support highly efficient programming exploiting their HW. Which get at least 5.99TFLOPS out of a theoretical 10TFLOPS. There's not going to be any SW getting even 2TFLOPS out of this jazzed-up PC. Especially since most of the GFLOPS are on the GPUs, which won't run general purpose apps. GPGPU is very limited, and not getting full efficiency out of parallel HW, either.
FWIW, the PS3 could actually get more of its HW potential, since its SPEs are much more programmable with generic DSP than are GPUs - though it's got only 150GFLOPS in HW, and delivers about 100GFLOPS on Linpack 4Kx4K. The PS3 RSX does 1.8TFLOPS theoretical max, but it's not available without a Sony developer license, and therefore not under Linux - and again, it's a GPU, not a CPU or even a DSP.
So this computer is just a casemodded PC. Not a supercomputer.
I use Linux because it has all the software I want. Since I use a Debian-type distro, that SW is all available with a click. Securely, with subscribed upgrades. And those upgrades come frequently, whenever anyone works on it, while many others test it for security and performance.
And since it's Linux, it doesn't have all the software I don't want. Viruses, sure, but all that crap SW that clutters Windows, like that crap bundled with the OS, or all the workarounds and utilities for dealing with a closed, broken OS.
Along the same lines, I use an x86 because it runs Linux. If it didn't, I wouldn't bother, because it wouldn't run my SW.
That's not a supercomputer at all. It's just a casemodded,liquid cooled, 2-x86 CPU PC with 4 graphics cards:
The system was initially slated to use Intel's maligned V8 platform, but was later changed to the current Skulltrail - incorporating two quad-core CPUs natively running at 3.2GHz on a motherboard that supported four graphics cards - when the design became available.
The only thing any supercomputer has to do with that machine is that the vendor's tech director bought an old Cray:
A little-known fact is that Armari's technical director, Dan Goldsmith, being the eccentric chap he is, bought a decommissioned Cray supercomputer - used in the Cold War - a while back. Cray's extra-large computers (by today's standards) required some serious cooling, as you would expect, and Cray engineered some class-leading liquid cooling to keep the voluminous beast operating within tolerances.
Dan has used the inspiration from Cray's research, and indeed the coolant itself, which works in a temperature-range of -110C through to 90C, as a base for the XCP (eXtreme Concept Prototype) - the total immersion model.
I bet my P4/4.3GHz non-super computer is faster than that old Cray. And there's no way a single 2*4*x86+4*GPU PC is a supercomputer at all.
Yeah, because we should get political news filtered by software made by an official monopoly. According to some worthless, manipulative "Conservative / liberal" label.
It's bad enough that the MS-NBC news channel still has Microsoft's name on it, and that ABC/Disney CBS/Viacom NBC/GE and Fox/Murdoch all get to filter our news according to some fake, superficial "balance" between them. We should trust Microsoft to tell us the news on which Microsoft's own fate hangs?
This House standdown didn't happen overnight. It really crossed a watershed when Chris Dodd hung his entire presidential campaign on fighting telco amnesty, and didn't let go. Even today's performance was the product of careful working of the rules to create a final line in the sand, and then stop amnesty from crossing it.
Republicans have gamed this system for years, decades. Democrats are finally working the game to protect us, and just not their own asses. But it doesn't mean they just picked it up last night.
It's even better than that. It means Democrats have finally invested time and effort (and no doubt a lot of money) in fighting to protect the Constitution. And the reward is that they won one. So we owe them our gratitude and respect. Because that's what will keep them coming back - and because we owe it to ourselves to do whatever we can to get that.
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Is there a tool like NDepend for Linux?
Is there one that can analyze both the source code (in C or C++) and the DB schema SQL that the code runs against?
That can show lots of classes, inheritance, tables and relations, without overwhelming the view?
Well, that's not Firefox, though the code is the same - it's a customized build, under a different package name. So upgrading to it won't exactly upgrade my "Firefox" package, but rather install a new package that I'd use instead of Firefox. I'd have to reregister my symlinks and default apps to point to Swiftfox instead of Firefox, then switch back to Firefox when(/if) I upgrade to the full release of Firefox (and probably then remove Swiftfox).
It's a workable solution, but a little more complex than just actual "Firefox" packages containing the Beta releases. However, if Swiftfox is better than even the released Firefox, with no peculiar bugs of its own, then I might never switch back. But I'd sure prefer a package with as much inspection of the code for bugs and insecurities as Firefox's wildly popular package is.
I've got Firefox installed with APT on my Ubuntu system that's up to date, but the Beta (naturally) isn't available for upgrade.
.deb package of the Beta that won't cause any trouble? Maybe I could keep a Beta repo in my sources.list, and choose whether (or not) to upgrade to Betas through my update-manager as they're released.
If I upgrade it from the tarfile, will APT be able to continue to maintain Firefox against the official repositories? Or am I polluting my installation just to get the memory-eating v2.0.0.12 off my desktop ASAP?
Where can I find a
You make good points.
TimeWarner owns _Time_ magazine and one of the biggest broadband networks, that carries millions of Americans' Internet, TV and also telephone. Of course its political propaganda magazine is going to lie about those Americans not caring that TimeWarner is spying on them without legal entitlement.
All this handwaving by Bush, his Republican Congressional minority (that was the majority that successfully hid these crimes for years of their joint reign), and the media corporations that all colluded to criminally spy on us are just more proof that they're guilty of those massive crimes. They're not covered by the existing laws that would have given them immunity from liability, if only they had even the slightest respect for the law. Instead they just did whatever they wanted, for the money and power it brings. And they plan to invade privacy as a top priority , which they've planned for quite a while.
Of course the corporations spying on you will lie to you about whether you care that they're spying on you. It's up to you: if you don't care that they're also lying to you about it to protect their own ass (and their ongoing, expanding criminal enterprise), then it's your fault, too.
Actually, that's a mistake. It's in the about:configs page.
The "hero", a person who will sacrifice themself for their community, who typically travels roundtrip between West and East to commit some dangerous act, learns something mysterious that is used to complete the task, and changes spirtually before they return, is my favorite monster.
The Greek-style hero is the most well known in America (and perhaps globally), but it's common to every human culture.
Why shouldn't governments run on the basis of faith lie when the truth is too much to bear?
And I'm not just talking theocracies. What else would we expect to hear in the US, except yet another chorus after the catastrophe hits saying "No one could have anticipated [this catastrophe people had warned would happen would happen]"?
Anyone else remember Katrina, 9/11/2001, the mortgage collapse, Iraq?
How long is not too long, but long enough to zap it? Is there a way to test it, short of crossing a border?
Thanks, knowing it wouldn't clobber the rest of my existing profile let me use it with wild abandon, and I fixed the problem.
It was a config:
I deleted the value and (right-clicked to) reset it, restarted Firefox, and all was well
Deleting cache and cookies didn't change anything. I used (firefox -ProfileManager) to create a test profile, which worked OK with maps.google.com . So I progressively copied directories files from my failing profile to replace their counterpart in the working profile. I deduced that prefs.js was causing the failure. So I recreated a new working test profile, copied my failing prefs.js into it, progressively deleted preference lines from the failing prefs.js until I found that it was that pref. Then I retested to see that that pref was the only difference, and deleted it using the about:prefs page GUI in my failing profile. Presto!
Thanks for helping. I'm back on the map
People now walk around cities around the world with RFID passports stuck in their pockets. That spooks can read from any distance, using "RFID rifles" and the like. Multiple RFID detectors can even see stereoscopically just where in 3D space the RFID tags are, and correlate their locations with data mined from retail transaction logs like buying in stores, paying for gas etc.
How does someone zap their passport with an RFID embedded in it, without damaging the passport itself?
Thanks for helping :).
I got the tile. Before I blow away all my useful history/state with (firefox -ProfileManager), is there another, less intrusive way I can test that technique? Like creating a new user with no profile, or creating them and running (firefox -ProfileManager) to blow away their profile? Maybe I have created a root user profile and should blow that away?
As for my router, it doesn't have a problem with max connections, which is rather high. And I don't want to turn off synflood protection. If that is the problem, why would that have changed, though I haven't changed my router since well before the problem started (and progressed from the zoom/pan widgets to the whole app)?
I don't have any extra ad blocking installed or enabled, other than the default Firefox popup block.
Except that I haven't seen anyone else with Ubuntu mention this problem, even though Ubuntu is the most popular desktop distro.
So despite your personal dislike of Ubuntu, there's no evidence that Ubuntu itself is to blame.
Anyone know why my Google Maps pages suddenly turned blank sometime last fall, when I apt-get upgraded a whole bunch of apps in Ubuntu (sometime after the release of 7.10)? I don't know which upgraded app caused it, because there was a week or two with a lot of upgrades on different days, after which maps.google.com stopped working, and I can't roll each back just to get back the Google maps - there's too many, and I'm too busy. I've searched the Web several times over the past 3-4 months, but no sign of anyone else having the problem.
:).
I hit any maps.google.com page, any location or zoom, any of the different search/businesses/directions functions, and all I get is a page with the Search Results / Directions left column totally blank (under the two tabs). And the main map panel totally blank, light grey (the same color as this Slashdot submit form background), but with its upper right corner holding a small rectangle saying "Terrain" above a small "+" shape of blank white boxes where the NSEW/. scrolling controls were, and under that the zoom slider also just a blank white square above a blank white rectangle streching down to a blank white square, with a slider "knob" visible. But the slider doesn't slide, the clicking those controls doesn't do anything (though my cursor turns into a "clickable" hand icon over them). Over the main map my cursor stays an arrow, and clicking/dragging has no effect.
My Java/Javascript settings are all the same as before, allowing them. I've tried removing and installing Java and Flash, upgrading them, but no improvement. The pan/zoom controls actually went blank first, sometime in the late Summer (between 7.04 and 7.10), but it was no big deal, though I tried to search for others with the problem (and a solution) to no avail.
Any ideas? It all just looks like the sky on an heavy overcast day, so I guess I've had a limited "Google Sky" on my browser for almost half a year now, and I want to go back to the old Earth view instead
You're such a fanboy.
There's no programming model to get 4 TFLOPS in any usable program. Those supercomputers are built to support highly efficient programming exploiting their HW. Which get at least 5.99TFLOPS out of a theoretical 10TFLOPS. There's not going to be any SW getting even 2TFLOPS out of this jazzed-up PC. Especially since most of the GFLOPS are on the GPUs, which won't run general purpose apps. GPGPU is very limited, and not getting full efficiency out of parallel HW, either.
FWIW, the PS3 could actually get more of its HW potential, since its SPEs are much more programmable with generic DSP than are GPUs - though it's got only 150GFLOPS in HW, and delivers about 100GFLOPS on Linpack 4Kx4K. The PS3 RSX does 1.8TFLOPS theoretical max, but it's not available without a Sony developer license, and therefore not under Linux - and again, it's a GPU, not a CPU or even a DSP.
So this computer is just a casemodded PC. Not a supercomputer.
What's more annoying? How about patenting a business practice? How about patenting SW?
Pretty goddamn "annoying".
I use Linux because it has all the software I want. Since I use a Debian-type distro, that SW is all available with a click. Securely, with subscribed upgrades. And those upgrades come frequently, whenever anyone works on it, while many others test it for security and performance.
And since it's Linux, it doesn't have all the software I don't want. Viruses, sure, but all that crap SW that clutters Windows, like that crap bundled with the OS, or all the workarounds and utilities for dealing with a closed, broken OS.
Along the same lines, I use an x86 because it runs Linux. If it didn't, I wouldn't bother, because it wouldn't run my SW.
The only thing any supercomputer has to do with that machine is that the vendor's tech director bought an old Cray:
I bet my P4/4.3GHz non-super computer is faster than that old Cray. And there's no way a single 2*4*x86+4*GPU PC is a supercomputer at all.
And that case is hella ugly.
I think the Washington Post is perfectly balanced for wrapping fish.
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TrollMods are exactly the kinds of consumers of cooked news Microsoft wants for its latest fiasco.
Yeah, because we should get political news filtered by software made by an official monopoly. According to some worthless, manipulative "Conservative / liberal" label.
It's bad enough that the MS-NBC news channel still has Microsoft's name on it, and that ABC/Disney CBS/Viacom NBC/GE and Fox/Murdoch all get to filter our news according to some fake, superficial "balance" between them. We should trust Microsoft to tell us the news on which Microsoft's own fate hangs?
I wouldn't wrap fish with a Microsoft news site.
This House standdown didn't happen overnight. It really crossed a watershed when Chris Dodd hung his entire presidential campaign on fighting telco amnesty, and didn't let go. Even today's performance was the product of careful working of the rules to create a final line in the sand, and then stop amnesty from crossing it.
Republicans have gamed this system for years, decades. Democrats are finally working the game to protect us, and just not their own asses. But it doesn't mean they just picked it up last night.
It's even better than that. It means Democrats have finally invested time and effort (and no doubt a lot of money) in fighting to protect the Constitution. And the reward is that they won one. So we owe them our gratitude and respect. Because that's what will keep them coming back - and because we owe it to ourselves to do whatever we can to get that.