The first computer I ever owned was a Mac. From then on, even though I always also had a PC, (with BeOS and Windows both, incidentally).. I always switched to doing my stuff on the Mac when I wanted to de-stress myself. It wasn't really suitable for serious work except audio and graphics though, because OS 8x was prone to bringing down the entire farm when it crashed. When OSX appeared, having had some experience with unix-y systems already (I know.. i know.. BeOS is not unix related.. regardless) I soon got to like this BSD based system. Each major upgrade was better, faster, and more compatible than the previous.. and nothing was ever changed simply for "changes' sake". Even after classic compatibility was dropped in 10.5, there were workarounds (like Sheepshaver) that seemed to work, and the swich to Intel did open up the door for new opportunites. About the time that Steve Jobs first got sick, and (entirely understandably!) lost some of his focus, Snow Leopard (10.6) came out. No significant new features except the app store, but lots of functions were dumped, such as things power users had come to depend on being able to alter, for instance, contextual menus, and other tweaks that allowed for a smoother and faster workflow. Themes and other modifications, which can be very helpful also, as some were helpful in reducing eye fatigue, were completely blocked, putting some companies which had been the staunchest Apple supporters, entirely out of business.And, boy oh boy was it slower. On an iMac which was 3 months old when 10.6 came out, it ran more than four times as slow,. Finder windows would take 5 or 6 seconds to open, on a good day. In fact the Finder was worse than it had ever been before. I swear it felt as responsive as my old days with a 386 felt. My Vista partition on the same machine feels very snappy, in fact as responsive as Win95 feels on a P4. Not surprising, as the windows "experience index" showed 5.8, which, I gather, is a pretty good number. Anyways, every upgrade since then has been worse, and due to forced obsolescence, such as minimum requirements for an application, where there was no good reason for having to make the upgrade, other than due to the compiler they chose to use.
Every upgrade since 10.6 has introduced more bugs, incompatibilities, etc. I get that Apple doesn't like Java. But so what? I need it online. Why disable everybody's choice? Java now does not work at all online. Apps I bought not that long ago, are now useless. I get crashes again that bring down the whole PC, again. 8 gigs of memoryisn't even enough for the newest versions of OSX. If you think this comment is long you should see my list of all the thingts rthat were changed for chang's sakle, or functions that have been removed altogether. Did you know you no longer can even choose to do a search for *either* file name OR contemnts?. And because they have an extremely closed attitude to their programming, no third party tweaks appear any more. And soo much more wrong. The reason I wrote such a long comment is to show I am not a "mindless" Apple hater. I supported them for many many years. , and it is their current completrely disrespectful,arrogant, inefficiently coded, and poorly thought out attitude to their desktop OS (all recent traits that never would have appeared in the Jobs era) that raised my hackles., and I haven't even gone into the iMac graphics bug...Their attitude towards their devices is, also, I see, rubbing a lot of poeople the wrong way. Currently, however, I am willing to give all one more "good old college try" with Mavericks 'Nuff said..
I thought I'd check my email first, before gertting on my bike. Thanks a whole lot,/. Admittedly, the OP has a point. Of all the oldest friends I have from my school days, half have died due to bike accidents. HALF!! I may be a *little* safer than them as I use an electric bicycle, but I live in Can(Cannot)ada where we are restricted to 66.6 % of the power Americans are allowed to have for an electric bicycle. Here the Gov't has to approve and regulate everything, just like any commie country. And because we're limited to 18 miles per hour, drivers consider us a danger on the road and actually encourage accidents..
Because..Lion and Mountain Lion have completely steered me away from the Mac. I'm certainly willing to give it a go, just like I gave Lion a half year before deciding it was utter crap. It'd be a whole lot easier than migrating to an entirely new OS, such as Linux Mint.. However, going to clear a new partition to do the upgrade on, just in case...
So, I'm hopeful. Let's hope that the drop (for me) in usability of OSX was just an abberation...
If you have cable internet, you're already paying the SAME folks who bring you your TV. You're not paying the studios, but the ISP/TV content provider. How they get their money doesn't matter to them, as long as they can vacuum it out of your pockets...
You got PASCAL? You're so lucky. My U was stuck on TURING, because one of our profs who should have retired years previous only knew that, Simscript, and BASIC, and they had to have a course for him to teach because he had tenure. As soon as he was gone, they moved up to C.
Actually, I think he means the thing that selectively , and secretly, removes portions from videos that they find "objectionable" And , same with comments.. Heven't you noticed just how many more "Comment removed Author withheld" notices have recently appeared on YT?
You are absolutely right. Women are aurally stimulated (no jokes, please!) men are visually stimulated. Simple as that. Any guy who has EVER gotten "lucky" KNOWS that it's what you say that gets you some. Cads and bounders have used this realization for centuries. "Romance" writers also know this all too well, and , in fact, most sucessful romance writers are, wait for it.. MEN. Why? Because the opposite is true in our ability to attract the otherr sex. Men are best AT words, and women are best AT portraying the *visual* component.. IE Oomen "dress up" to attract the opposite sex, and men use words..
They wood loose a spelling bea two.. there spelling is two terable to beleve. You should sea the terable spelling by professionals I sea on youtube..;-) I think "loose" and "there" are some of the most common examples I see misused, nearly 90% of the time. I think the problem is probably that the teachers are dyslexic uneducated buffoons, which naturally would contaminate any "education" they provide. If the teachers don't have basic math, grammar and spelling skills, then how could one possibly expect their students to have any either?
If you're not doing anything wrong, then you should not have any problem surrenduring all your rights and dignity, correct? Will you please bend over , now?.
I reiterate.. Just because criminals might operate torrents sites, that does not make all torrent site operators criminals. Anyone who supports this move is someone you would never have before found on/., IMHO
"an anonymous contributer writes.. there was an incident at Fukushima but nothing happened".... end of submission. Look I know the quality of submissions everywhere seems to have fallen, but , seriously.. Come on, guys..
I would not have known otherwise.. looks like all these issues of checking through/. issues has finally paid off. Who needs to know about our impending doom? When we get to see more William Hartnell in all his grumpiness? Happy days are here again lalala...
Huh? How can anyone possible have such a bent logic, as to not instantly know that value MUST directly determine price. It is simply that value is a, well, "value" judgement, and price is the next inevitable step, which ascribes a "trading value" to it..
Not everybody that uses benzos develops noticeable withdrawals.. unlike opioids, which has a component of duration involved, but is almost entirely dose dependant as to the likelihood of physical withdrawals , benzo withdrawal becomes more severe as the length of time on them increases. After a year, for instance, life threaatening withdrawawal can easily occur, especially if one is coming off the long half life (persistence on the body) ones. Complicating matters is that diazepam, for instance, breaks down into doxens of , also active, metabolites, a good half dozen of which are *also* marketed as tranks.. No kidding.. Coming off of that is like coming off six different prescriptions at the same time! And.. the stress on the body especially the CVS, is astonishingly severe, and the acute phase of withdrawal, (which is the worst part where fatalities are most likely to occur) can last, if untreated, over 30 days. If treated only to the extent needed to prevent the likelihood of death, this phase can last as long as 90 days, with BP as high as 230 over 160. Awful... And then theres the extended withdrawal where one can suffer nervous conditions, moderate visual and sensory disturbances. It is a horrible withdrawal indeed. Now.. compare this to opioid withdrawal with severe deep bone, spasms, pain chills and fever, for 4 to 5 days, and uncomfortable pain for anoither week, and that's pretty much it (other tham Methadone where you can triple that all around)..
Sure know which I'd choose. (None of the above...).
PS I am not (anymore) a T.V. I only play one on my doctor...;-)
Well, I just habitually allow for the file to acheive maximum size as per the partition.. I don't like having a swap file on a partition that is EVER used for another purpose as well. I'll check out the tips you mentioned however. THX
Actually, this thread has the answers to life, the universe, and everything. Pretty good for/. I previously was convinced that Dougie Adams had already solved it, but hey, what do I know?
Yes, you are correct, of course, swap space.. the allocated memory is up to the kernel.. Every other OS allows you to select a swap partition however, and it is this that an SSD would be ideal for...
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Ah.. it's really late now.. I should have asked if "aluminum foil" hats work also, and do I have to take them off when getting an EEG ;-)
The first computer I ever owned was a Mac. From then on, even though I always also had a PC, (with BeOS and Windows both, incidentally).. I always switched to doing my stuff on the Mac when I wanted to de-stress myself. It wasn't really suitable for serious work except audio and graphics though, because OS 8x was prone to bringing down the entire farm when it crashed. When OSX appeared, having had some experience with unix-y systems already (I know.. i know.. BeOS is not unix related.. regardless) I soon got to like this BSD based system. Each major upgrade was better, faster, and more compatible than the previous.. and nothing was ever changed simply for "changes' sake". Even after classic compatibility was dropped in 10.5, there were workarounds (like Sheepshaver) that seemed to work, and the swich to Intel did open up the door for new opportunites. About the time that Steve Jobs first got sick, and (entirely understandably!) lost some of his focus, Snow Leopard (10.6) came out. No significant new features except the app store, but lots of functions were dumped, such as things power users had come to depend on being able to alter, for instance, contextual menus, and other tweaks that allowed for a smoother and faster workflow. Themes and other modifications, which can be very helpful also, as some were helpful in reducing eye fatigue, were completely blocked, putting some companies which had been the staunchest Apple supporters, entirely out of business.And, boy oh boy was it slower. On an iMac which was 3 months old when 10.6 came out, it ran more than four times as slow,. Finder windows would take 5 or 6 seconds to open, on a good day. In fact the Finder was worse than it had ever been before. I swear it felt as responsive as my old days with a 386 felt. My Vista partition on the same machine feels very snappy, in fact as responsive as Win95 feels on a P4. Not surprising, as the windows "experience index" showed 5.8, which, I gather, is a pretty good number. Anyways, every upgrade since then has been worse, and due to forced obsolescence, such as minimum requirements for an application, where there was no good reason for having to make the upgrade, other than due to the compiler they chose to use. Every upgrade since 10.6 has introduced more bugs, incompatibilities, etc. I get that Apple doesn't like Java. But so what? I need it online. Why disable everybody's choice? Java now does not work at all online. Apps I bought not that long ago, are now useless. I get crashes again that bring down the whole PC, again. 8 gigs of memoryisn't even enough for the newest versions of OSX. If you think this comment is long you should see my list of all the thingts rthat were changed for chang's sakle, or functions that have been removed altogether. Did you know you no longer can even choose to do a search for *either* file name OR contemnts?. And because they have an extremely closed attitude to their programming, no third party tweaks appear any more. And soo much more wrong. The reason I wrote such a long comment is to show I am not a "mindless" Apple hater. I supported them for many many years. , and it is their current completrely disrespectful ,arrogant, inefficiently coded, and poorly thought out attitude to their desktop OS (all recent traits that never would have appeared in the Jobs era) that raised my hackles., and I haven't even gone into the iMac graphics bug...Their attitude towards their devices is, also, I see, rubbing a lot of poeople the wrong way. Currently, however, I am willing to give all one more "good old college try" with Mavericks 'Nuff said..
I never heard of it....
I thought I'd check my email first, before gertting on my bike. Thanks a whole lot, /. Admittedly, the OP has a point. Of all the oldest friends I have from my school days, half have died due to bike accidents. HALF!! I may be a *little* safer than them as I use an electric bicycle, but I live in Can(Cannot)ada where we are restricted to 66.6 % of the power Americans are allowed to have for an electric bicycle. Here the Gov't has to approve and regulate everything, just like any commie country. And because we're limited to 18 miles per hour, drivers consider us a danger on the road and actually encourage accidents..
Because..Lion and Mountain Lion have completely steered me away from the Mac. I'm certainly willing to give it a go, just like I gave Lion a half year before deciding it was utter crap. It'd be a whole lot easier than migrating to an entirely new OS, such as Linux Mint.. However, going to clear a new partition to do the upgrade on, just in case... So, I'm hopeful. Let's hope that the drop (for me) in usability of OSX was just an abberation...
If you have cable internet, you're already paying the SAME folks who bring you your TV. You're not paying the studios, but the ISP/TV content provider. How they get their money doesn't matter to them, as long as they can vacuum it out of your pockets...
We don't have that here.. how can you get it? ;-)
Ah but they're "Hi-Def" half hour commercials ;-)
Oh i so donn't want to delete my comments but having mod points i should use them to mod you up as rioutously funny...
If I hadn't had to learn binary in the 70's, I probably wouldn't have been so turned off computers that I never got back into them till the late 90's
You got PASCAL? You're so lucky. My U was stuck on TURING, because one of our profs who should have retired years previous only knew that, Simscript, and BASIC, and they had to have a course for him to teach because he had tenure. As soon as he was gone, they moved up to C.
Hahaha LOL!
Actually, I think he means the thing that selectively , and secretly, removes portions from videos that they find "objectionable" And , same with comments.. Heven't you noticed just how many more "Comment removed Author withheld" notices have recently appeared on YT?
You are absolutely right. Women are aurally stimulated (no jokes, please!) men are visually stimulated. Simple as that. Any guy who has EVER gotten "lucky" KNOWS that it's what you say that gets you some. Cads and bounders have used this realization for centuries. "Romance" writers also know this all too well, and , in fact, most sucessful romance writers are, wait for it.. MEN. Why? Because the opposite is true in our ability to attract the otherr sex. Men are best AT words, and women are best AT portraying the *visual* component.. IE Oomen "dress up" to attract the opposite sex, and men use words..
The humans don't realize their reality isn't in a machine, it's in a virtual machine. Unlike you history repeating humans, we learn from our mistakes.
You darn tootin' machines are all alike. You might learn from your mistakes, if you were capable of recognizing you made them ;-)
They wood loose a spelling bea two.. there spelling is two terable to beleve. You should sea the terable spelling by professionals I sea on youtube.. ;-) I think "loose" and "there" are some of the most common examples I see misused, nearly 90% of the time. I think the problem is probably that the teachers are dyslexic uneducated buffoons, which naturally would contaminate any "education" they provide. If the teachers don't have basic math, grammar and spelling skills, then how could one possibly expect their students to have any either?
If you're not doing anything wrong, then you should not have any problem surrenduring all your rights and dignity, correct? Will you please bend over , now?. I reiterate.. Just because criminals might operate torrents sites, that does not make all torrent site operators criminals. Anyone who supports this move is someone you would never have before found on /., IMHO
"an anonymous contributer writes.. there was an incident at Fukushima but nothing happened" .... end of submission. Look I know the quality of submissions everywhere seems to have fallen, but , seriously.. Come on, guys..
I would not have known otherwise.. looks like all these issues of checking through /. issues has finally paid off. Who needs to know about our impending doom? When we get to see more William Hartnell in all his grumpiness? Happy days are here again lalala...
Huh? How can anyone possible have such a bent logic, as to not instantly know that value MUST directly determine price. It is simply that value is a, well, "value" judgement, and price is the next inevitable step, which ascribes a "trading value" to it..
Not everybody that uses benzos develops noticeable withdrawals.. unlike opioids, which has a component of duration involved, but is almost entirely dose dependant as to the likelihood of physical withdrawals , benzo withdrawal becomes more severe as the length of time on them increases. After a year, for instance, life threaatening withdrawawal can easily occur, especially if one is coming off the long half life (persistence on the body) ones. Complicating matters is that diazepam, for instance, breaks down into doxens of , also active, metabolites, a good half dozen of which are *also* marketed as tranks.. No kidding.. Coming off of that is like coming off six different prescriptions at the same time! And.. the stress on the body especially the CVS, is astonishingly severe, and the acute phase of withdrawal, (which is the worst part where fatalities are most likely to occur) can last, if untreated, over 30 days. If treated only to the extent needed to prevent the likelihood of death, this phase can last as long as 90 days, with BP as high as 230 over 160. Awful... And then theres the extended withdrawal where one can suffer nervous conditions, moderate visual and sensory disturbances. It is a horrible withdrawal indeed. Now.. compare this to opioid withdrawal with severe deep bone, spasms, pain chills and fever, for 4 to 5 days, and uncomfortable pain for anoither week, and that's pretty much it (other tham Methadone where you can triple that all around).. Sure know which I'd choose. (None of the above...). PS I am not (anymore) a T.V. I only play one on my doctor... ;-)
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Well, I just habitually allow for the file to acheive maximum size as per the partition.. I don't like having a swap file on a partition that is EVER used for another purpose as well. I'll check out the tips you mentioned however. THX
Actually, this thread has the answers to life, the universe, and everything. Pretty good for /. I previously was convinced that Dougie Adams had already solved it, but hey, what do I know?
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Yes, you are correct, of course, swap space.. the allocated memory is up to the kernel.. Every other OS allows you to select a swap partition however, and it is this that an SSD would be ideal for...