One thing that's hard to measure is desktop performance.
I have a crap all in one mobo, with shared memory Graphics without DRI support (ok i needed a pc quick), KDE is super clunkey under 2.4, with the CK performance patchset.
Under 2.5 the desktop is quick and smooth, applicartion seem to load a lot faster, Java applets don't hog the CPU.
So, if your running linux on the desktop, and you feel sufficiently compitent. Start testing 2.5.
I do tend to umm.. be a bit zen with my writing, just think how hard it is for me to understand everyone else.
Anyhow, I could think of anything better the 'operating system' for the performance hit area, it covers micro kernels in hardware etc...
I wanted an answer about the overhead, when sending encrypted data over the bus not the overhead of actually encrypting the data in the first palce, though the encrytion will cause some entra latency.
Ok, you've picked up on popular figures. I'm sure MLK done a lot, and formed a figure head for a lot of people (to kinda hide behind), but where would he have been without all the small people standing behind him. Dead a lot sooner, or going mad somewhere by now.
RMS is also kinda a good example,though not a law breaker, people like to poke at him because he's a ranting evil commie. But he's still there and doing quite a good job too. Where would he be without all us other evil ranting commies to back him up and help write code etc...
Ok from my own home, posted on a public forum, shared through P2P across the world.
I've also sat down infront of riot police, caused no end of anoyance and disruption when I refused to give my address over when purchisng a TV card (they have that kinda law in the UK), and I only used it to record onto my PC from a camera.
Look at the price of old ram, when serial ATA kicks in the demand for old IDE drives will drop, reducing volumes and increasing overheads. The price will go down for a litle bit to clear out ond drives and then climb.
If they could double or tripple the current performance at less than 5 times the cost they would wipe most othe companies out of existance. Get no end of ACSI programs instead of IBM getting them etc....
So either they can, and it's toooo expensiveor they can't (except by sticking 20mb of cache and 5 cores on the die)
It could also be a good argument for not documenting code. I found 2 bugs in the USB layer because the documentation was poor, so I had to go through the code and find out what was going on.
also I now more about USB then I would care to, and have a fair knowlage of the inner workings of USB on linux.
This is only part of the picture. I want to know what code has been looked at and what hasn't. Then I can look at areas that have been left for a while or havn't been audited at all.
Also raising a bug, the code looks a bit shit, is poorly written and probably has a few bugs (in the design), wouldn't get you too far...
Code documentation is also a bit poor (from the OSS projects I've looked at), if I implement a RFC or spec, I usually referance the RFC or spec sections in the code. so/* whatever implmenets RFC 123 section 9.8 */ myfunction(){/*RFC 123 sec 5.6 populate the buffer*/
}
Some can then look at the code and the RFC and easly perform an audit.
Well in the UK if not Europe, interoperability is protected. So I can reverse engineer ITunes (protocol or whatever) so that I can put a hook into a function to operate with ITunes.
Though I'm not sure why anyone would bother with ITunes given Apples record of friendliness.
Whilst not quite in the random eye meaning of the article.
OSS does need proper audit and change tracking. I've looked thorough quite a bit of OSS, and I've fixed a few bugs, But apart from a patch there's no real way to track what code I thought needed atention, what was good and what was a mess.
Patches are good for tracking maturity/stability if used well, a section of the code that hasn't been patched for a while is either very stable or needs looking at.
brain surgery is rairly (if atall) used for that type of condition. THey use something far less accurate like prozak or ECT (pumping you full of many volts)
31 Number of people in UK prisons (TODAY) 69,696 32 Number of people in prison last year (to the day) 66,522 33 Yearly increase in prison population 3,254 or 4.8%
34 Decrease in adult males population this week 2,100 35 increase in young 21 males population this week 730
36 Total number of Males in prison 68181 37 Maximum operational capicity for male prisoners 70,395 38 Time till the prisons are full less than 6 months.
Ok for those who don't know what a square inch is, it's about the length from the top of you thumb to the first joint.
For those who don't know what a CM is ummm...... fuck um...... um..... um.... it's um.... um..... Well you couldgoto france or measure the earth and work it out that way.
The Japanise also use tangable measurements when selling houses, the floor space is measured in tatami mats.
Were lauginh with you, it's just you don't realise that you should be laughing.
I get up, go to work, come home etc... Fuck me that's weird. Whenever I buy something I'm helping pay toward advertising that may support the media companies that then lobby the government to take any right I might have away.... fuck me that's even more screwed up.
I pay tax to keep people in prison, who I don't believe should be there in the first place. That's just compleatly fucked up.
When things are that fucked up there's not much more you can do than laugh.
If you live anywhere else apart from the 'former?' USSR you'd see how much people laugh at the United Corporation of America. Even some americans laugh at the mess your in.
In Europe the only country in which Anti-Americanism went down (more people like america) was France, france still has the hightest amount of anti-americanism in europe.
The only country (not sure how many were serveyed) with less than 50% anti-americanism is the former USSR, even in Israle there Anti-American.
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One thing that's hard to measure is desktop performance.
I have a crap all in one mobo, with shared memory Graphics without DRI support (ok i needed a pc quick), KDE is super clunkey under 2.4, with the CK performance patchset.
Under 2.5 the desktop is quick and smooth, applicartion seem to load a lot faster, Java applets don't hog the CPU.
So, if your running linux on the desktop, and you feel sufficiently compitent. Start testing 2.5.
I do tend to umm.. be a bit zen with my writing, just think how hard it is for me to understand everyone else.
Anyhow, I could think of anything better the 'operating system' for the performance hit area, it covers micro kernels in hardware etc...
I wanted an answer about the overhead, when sending encrypted data over the bus not the overhead of actually encrypting the data in the first palce, though the encrytion will cause some entra latency.
Ok, you've picked up on popular figures. I'm sure MLK done a lot, and formed a figure head for a lot of people (to kinda hide behind), but where would he have been without all the small people standing behind him.
,though not a law breaker, people like to poke at him because he's a ranting evil commie. But he's still there and doing quite a good job too. Where would he be without all us other evil ranting commies to back him up and help write code etc...
Dead a lot sooner, or going mad somewhere by now.
RMS is also kinda a good example
Well, if you just encrypting a stream fast and in hardware using a standard RSA or A-Symetric algorythm then the data is less compressable.
I didn't see any mention of compression of data in the DRMalike.
One extra thought, encrypted data is less compressible. Big performance hit if your encapsulating encrypted data.
hmm... Well he didn't answer the question, more avioded it.
Any extra header data will have to travel around the system bus reducing bandwith.
Any processing overhead will introduce latency, not a nice thing to have kicking around.
So it may not affect the CPU in terms of processing overhead but there's an overall systems performance hit.
Ok from my own home, posted on a public forum, shared through P2P across the world.
I've also sat down infront of riot police, caused no end of anoyance and disruption when I refused to give my address over when purchisng a TV card (they have that kinda law in the UK), and I only used it to record onto my PC from a camera.
So, I'm doing all this behind closed doors.
for real taste of random noise check this out
Maybe in your world, but in my world it isn't.
This is called civil disobedience.
Though I'd rather take from people willing to give.
Look at the price of old ram, when serial ATA kicks in the demand for old IDE drives will drop, reducing volumes and increasing overheads. The price will go down for a litle bit to clear out ond drives and then climb.
Companies often use GTK because it's the non-cost closed source option.
With QT it's either open up you code under GPL, or pay us. Which I think is by far the best option.
Also QT runs on hand helds and the like and it's C++
If they could double or tripple the current performance at less than 5 times the cost they would wipe most othe companies out of existance. Get no end of ACSI programs instead of IBM getting them etc....
So either they can, and it's toooo expensiveor they can't (except by sticking 20mb of cache and 5 cores on the die)
IIS doesn't have a monopoly, it doesn't even have market lead. .NET
But SFAIK they only ship IIS with ASP and maybe
It could also be a good argument for not documenting code.
I found 2 bugs in the USB layer because the documentation was poor, so I had to go through the code and find out what was going on.
also I now more about USB then I would care to, and have a fair knowlage of the inner workings of USB on linux.
I think you'd take a hard core dumping if you did.
This is only part of the picture.
/* whatever /*RFC 123 sec 5.6 populate the buffer*/
I want to know what code has been looked at and what hasn't. Then I can look at areas that have been left for a while or havn't been audited at all.
Also raising a bug, the code looks a bit shit, is poorly written and probably has a few bugs (in the design), wouldn't get you too far...
Code documentation is also a bit poor (from the OSS projects I've looked at), if I implement a RFC or spec, I usually referance the RFC or spec sections in the code. so
implmenets RFC 123 section 9.8 */
myfunction(){
}
Some can then look at the code and the RFC and easly perform an audit.
Well in the UK if not Europe, interoperability is protected.
So I can reverse engineer ITunes (protocol or whatever) so that I can put a hook into a function to operate with ITunes.
Though I'm not sure why anyone would bother with ITunes given Apples record of friendliness.
Whilst not quite in the random eye meaning of the article.
OSS does need proper audit and change tracking.
I've looked thorough quite a bit of OSS, and I've fixed a few bugs,
But apart from a patch there's no real way to track what code I thought needed atention, what was good and what was a mess.
Patches are good for tracking maturity/stability if used well, a section of the code that hasn't been patched for a while is either very stable or needs looking at.
brain surgery is rairly (if atall) used for that type of condition.
THey use something far less accurate like prozak or ECT (pumping you full of many volts)
31 Number of people in UK prisons (TODAY) 69,696
32 Number of people in prison last year (to the day) 66,522
33 Yearly increase in prison population 3,254 or 4.8%
34 Decrease in adult males population this week 2,100
35 increase in young 21 males population this week 730
36 Total number of Males in prison 68181
37 Maximum operational capicity for male prisoners 70,395
38 Time till the prisons are full less than 6 months.
Ok for those who don't know what a square inch is, it's about the length from the top of you thumb to the first joint.
For those who don't know what a CM is ummm...... fuck um...... um..... um.... it's um.... um..... Well you couldgoto france or measure the earth and work it out that way.
The Japanise also use tangable measurements when selling houses, the floor space is measured in tatami mats.
By the time you manage to read through the standard XHTML 3.0 will be out.
w3c standards always read like RFC's written by martians, if RFC's wern't hard enough to read.
We design aned document things first, work out the bugs in the high level design and then code.
Well maybe not all the time and with serveral itterations, but I only manage your credit raiting, not you kernel VM.
Were lauginh with you, it's just you don't realise that you should be laughing.
I get up, go to work, come home etc...
Fuck me that's weird.
Whenever I buy something I'm helping pay toward advertising that may support the media companies that then lobby the government to take any right I might have away.... fuck me that's even more screwed up.
I pay tax to keep people in prison, who I don't believe should be there in the first place. That's just compleatly fucked up.
When things are that fucked up there's not much more you can do than laugh.
Please look up third world.
'First world' == us,
'Second world' == evil commie bastards
'Third world' == everyone else (mainly dictators)
If you live anywhere else apart from the 'former?' USSR you'd see how much people laugh at the United Corporation of America. Even some americans laugh at the mess your in.
In Europe the only country in which Anti-Americanism went down (more people like america) was France, france still has the hightest amount of anti-americanism in europe.
The only country (not sure how many were serveyed) with less than 50% anti-americanism is the former USSR, even in Israle there Anti-American.
No trolling, it's just the truth.