It requires them to run with performance, yes. It falls back to pure emulation when they aren't available, because it *is* still qemu as well.
Meanwhile, my crystal ball shows me that VT-capable hardware is not going away, so the "tiny fraction" will become the majority. It seems important to consider them when thinking of future directions.
Don't forget Gentoo has its own weird (but improved, IMHO) system. If only their package management was as nice as their init stuff.
For my own software, I prefer to write an init-script for Ye Olde sysvinit and the actual distro I'm currently running, and leave others out in the cold.
"I also question whether it was wise to change or set defaults in a "1.0" milestone release."
Defaulting to "Desktop" (including, stupidly, on Linux) changed with the new download manager, which debuted in 0.8, IIRC. It's definitely not something altered after 0.9.
Apparently, it "uses less electricity" at lower Hz.
It does. If you're sweeping an electron beam more times per second, you need to accelerate the electrons more to deflect it faster, which requires more energy. Simple physics. Try sticking a wattmeter in the line and testing it.
So, on regular A9.com they will recognize your Amazon.com cookie?... Hm, I don't really know why this is bothering me so much.
Maybe because a9.com theoretically shouldn't be able to read amazon.com cookies?
I don't know the exact mechanism behind a9, but with my fascist cookie policies, I have noticed that disabling third party cookies does nothing against third party cookies from iframes or JavaScript. They could be using some variant on that.
It would be interesting to incorporate the drivers onto the pice of hardware.
I'm not so sure I'd want people to be able to plug some device into my computer and have it start running random code. That way lies madness.
It would be interesting to try to get these same drivers working on different architectures. You'd end up with something like ACPI or Java, where the "driver code" is written to some virtual machine that the host OS has to interpret. (And people thought loadable modules were "slow"? Ha!)
But what about a fork at this point? All this politicizing is really annoying and it hinders adoption of Linux.
I fail to see how forking the kernel will reduce politicizing. You'll just end up with a slightly different set of politics around each fork, and create religious wars about which one is Better(TM). And if the traditional holy wars (Emacs vs. vi) are any guide, neither one will become universally accepted; your fork will just shoot adoption in the foot.
Doesn't Unix time wrap around some time in 2035? I think the kernel stores time since the Epoch at least in milliseconds, if not nanoseconds...
No. For one, keeping 1,000 times the precision would cost a tad more than 4.4% of the time period. Also, the higher-precision timers keep a pair of ints with Unix times (whole seconds) in one and the nanoseconds in the other, thus managing to use 64 bits and still be limited to the 31-bit (since time_t is signed) Unix epoch.
I haven't seen any documentation on it. I saw the news when it was checked in, and it comes up on the Mozillazine forums from time to time. Other than that, it's fairly secret.
(One cool thing that mozilla has is a "once through" setting for images. I haven't found this on any other browser, and it really helps free up the cpu, while letting you see such things when you download them and are actually looking at the window. I wonder if firefox will ever pick this up?)
Enter "about:config" in the location bar, click the filter box, enter "anim", wait a second. You should get the single result "image.animation_mode". Right-click that line, select "Modify", enter "once" in the box, and click "OK". Voila! Any future windows/tabs opened will only loop images once, and this is saved in your profile automagically.
Having to use about:config sure sucks. I'd fix it, but the developers won't listen to anything regarding their lame decisions because they're the almighty "professional" UI designers.
Indeed, and such service is not "on the way", it is already provided by BellSouth... on the good days.
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If you're using pc104 or pc105 as the keyboard model in XF86Config, XFree86 will map Super (Mod4) to the left windows key by default. Then you can bind all your window manager shortcuts to the windows key. (Very useful on 1.x versions of GIMP that used Alt+Tab for layer cycling.)
Most other WMs also allow for shortcuts to be driven by the win keys.
On a related note, I've noticed that a lot of "messy" people seem to know where everything is.
For me, my memory works best in the time domain. If I have several piles of stuff, all the items in the pile have temporal locality. So when I need something, I can quickly find the right pile because I remember when I last needed it, and the piles provide that information.
Once I figured this out, I developed an excellent algorithm for those concentration/memory games (e.g. on cell phones.) I spiral around the outside ring, and when I see a symbol the second time, I can generally get back to the original in one attempt.
I've seen a toy like it as well; one row of LEDs, limited to 8 letters, with a 2-letter code for each letter. The column of LEDs would display letters-remaining and code-remaining status, but being on the opposite side of the wand from the keypad, it wasn't all that useful.
At any rate, it took a lot of practice in front of a mirror (make sure it's showing up backwards) to get the rhythm right. Only the guy who owned it could use it with any sort of proficiency.
But only if the focus is inside the location bar already. Otherwise it may clear something else (lines in text{,area} elements), open the page source, or even do nothing if Mozilla has placed focus in the bit bucket for the time being. Moz's focus handling is so sucky, you can probably get the page source for a tab not even currently displayed if you tried hard enough. (C-u C-tab doesn't count!)
I think you're confusing virtual and physical memory. Even in the case of highly fragmented RAM, an application can be given a "continuous" chunk of memory from its perspective even though the physical pages backing them are scattered around in RAM. That's why the page tables (and TLB) exist.
"If my domain has sent a large number of emails with a very low score of spam, it will be more legitimate than one who has sent only a few emails or has sent mostly spam."
What happens when $VIRUS turns your domain name into a spamfest? If you're supporting any normal users at all, you're likely going to find it hard to maintain that reputation.
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It requires them to run with performance, yes. It falls back to pure emulation when they aren't available, because it *is* still qemu as well.
Meanwhile, my crystal ball shows me that VT-capable hardware is not going away, so the "tiny fraction" will become the majority. It seems important to consider them when thinking of future directions.
Don't forget Gentoo has its own weird (but improved, IMHO) system. If only their package management was as nice as their init stuff.
For my own software, I prefer to write an init-script for Ye Olde sysvinit and the actual distro I'm currently running, and leave others out in the cold.
"I also question whether it was wise to change or set defaults in a "1.0" milestone release."
Defaulting to "Desktop" (including, stupidly, on Linux) changed with the new download manager, which debuted in 0.8, IIRC. It's definitely not something altered after 0.9.
True enough, but your use of quotation marks left it unclear whether you thought the quote was false or merely pointless.
It does. If you're sweeping an electron beam more times per second, you need to accelerate the electrons more to deflect it faster, which requires more energy. Simple physics. Try sticking a wattmeter in the line and testing it.
Maybe because a9.com theoretically shouldn't be able to read amazon.com cookies?
I don't know the exact mechanism behind a9, but with my fascist cookie policies, I have noticed that disabling third party cookies does nothing against third party cookies from iframes or JavaScript. They could be using some variant on that.
Nothing new to see here, then. Psyco, Transmeta, and valgrind all operate on variations on this same theme (dynamic recompiling).
I'm not so sure I'd want people to be able to plug some device into my computer and have it start running random code. That way lies madness.
It would be interesting to try to get these same drivers working on different architectures. You'd end up with something like ACPI or Java, where the "driver code" is written to some virtual machine that the host OS has to interpret. (And people thought loadable modules were "slow"? Ha!)
...where you will promptly find one of the enduring mysteries of CUPS. Which user/pass does it want?
I fail to see how forking the kernel will reduce politicizing. You'll just end up with a slightly different set of politics around each fork, and create religious wars about which one is Better(TM). And if the traditional holy wars (Emacs vs. vi) are any guide, neither one will become universally accepted; your fork will just shoot adoption in the foot.
Would you like to wait 45 minutes for the daemon to poll again once you plug something in?
No. For one, keeping 1,000 times the precision would cost a tad more than 4.4% of the time period. Also, the higher-precision timers keep a pair of ints with Unix times (whole seconds) in one and the nanoseconds in the other, thus managing to use 64 bits and still be limited to the 31-bit (since time_t is signed) Unix epoch.
I haven't seen any documentation on it. I saw the news when it was checked in, and it comes up on the Mozillazine forums from time to time. Other than that, it's fairly secret.
Enter "about:config" in the location bar, click the filter box, enter "anim", wait a second. You should get the single result "image.animation_mode". Right-click that line, select "Modify", enter "once" in the box, and click "OK". Voila! Any future windows/tabs opened will only loop images once, and this is saved in your profile automagically.
Having to use about:config sure sucks. I'd fix it, but the developers won't listen to anything regarding their lame decisions because they're the almighty "professional" UI designers.
No, millibits per second.
Indeed, and such service is not "on the way", it is already provided by BellSouth... on the good days.
If you're using pc104 or pc105 as the keyboard model in XF86Config, XFree86 will map Super (Mod4) to the left windows key by default. Then you can bind all your window manager shortcuts to the windows key. (Very useful on 1.x versions of GIMP that used Alt+Tab for layer cycling.)
Most other WMs also allow for shortcuts to be driven by the win keys.
You might find dnsmasq useful, depending on the size of that network. Local DNS, recursive lookups, and DHCP rolled into one convenient package.
On a related note, I've noticed that a lot of "messy" people seem to know where everything is.
For me, my memory works best in the time domain. If I have several piles of stuff, all the items in the pile have temporal locality. So when I need something, I can quickly find the right pile because I remember when I last needed it, and the piles provide that information.
Once I figured this out, I developed an excellent algorithm for those concentration/memory games (e.g. on cell phones.) I spiral around the outside ring, and when I see a symbol the second time, I can generally get back to the original in one attempt.
I've seen a toy like it as well; one row of LEDs, limited to 8 letters, with a 2-letter code for each letter. The column of LEDs would display letters-remaining and code-remaining status, but being on the opposite side of the wand from the keypad, it wasn't all that useful.
At any rate, it took a lot of practice in front of a mirror (make sure it's showing up backwards) to get the rhythm right. Only the guy who owned it could use it with any sort of proficiency.
"Also, Ctrl-U clears the location bar."
But only if the focus is inside the location bar already. Otherwise it may clear something else (lines in text{,area} elements), open the page source, or even do nothing if Mozilla has placed focus in the bit bucket for the time being. Moz's focus handling is so sucky, you can probably get the page source for a tab not even currently displayed if you tried hard enough. (C-u C-tab doesn't count!)
Oh, I see. You're talking about applications' spaces instead of pagecache.
I think you're confusing virtual and physical memory. Even in the case of highly fragmented RAM, an application can be given a "continuous" chunk of memory from its perspective even though the physical pages backing them are scattered around in RAM. That's why the page tables (and TLB) exist.
"A compressed file on my hard drive looks very different from its uncompressed instance that's been decoded and loaded into memory."
You're using a compressed filesystem? Where do I get one of those? It'd sure be handy for backups...
Then you creepy Power Users should be allowed to turn it on and leave us poor n00bs without this confusing backwards cruft...
"If my domain has sent a large number of emails with a very low score of spam, it will be more legitimate than one who has sent only a few emails or has sent mostly spam."
What happens when $VIRUS turns your domain name into a spamfest? If you're supporting any normal users at all, you're likely going to find it hard to maintain that reputation.