Yeah but the way things are going the conditions might not be "just fine" one day, and we should be practicing with closed mini-biospheres and things now.
Wow, thats really shitty advice. What they are saying is "our drivers aren't really thread-safe". Anyone with a dual core machine would have the same issue. Hopefully that is fixed by now, as dual-core machines are more common than not.
And "IRQL Not less or equal" is a generic message that basically means that the driver tried to do something that it isn't allowed. If it was a normal user-mode application you'd get "this application has encountered a problem and will be closed" but in a driver you get a bluescreen.
And with his quake 2 problem, I'd guess he isn't using drivers with OpenGL support.
Dvorak is a clueless moron. Check out this rant of his in PC mag about about the windows XP "idle process" hogging his cpu and making the machine unusable. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1304348,00.asp
"When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what?"
Should have implemented Grand Central, I hear it's free and opensource. Even has the Apache license so that it allows use of the source code for the development of proprietary software.
You are missing the point. While Grand Central is a very cool system, its not designed to make multithreaded applications faster. Its designed to make it easier to write a multi-threaded app, or retrofit multi-threading into existing single-threaded code.
And that link you provided is interesting, but nowhere does it say anyone but microsoft wrote the TCP stack. All it says is it uses several existing TCP algorithms.
Yes, and yet modern day Maori have rights to issue themselves "Customary fishing permits" which are except from any bag limits or equipment restrictions that all other amateur fishermen must obey.
While they might not hagve an air defence force, I believe they recently started testing anti air missiles. Apparently their epsionage forces finally recovered the plans to what they call The Catapault.
(I'm Australian. I'm allowed to make these jokes).
I'm a NZer living in australia, and I approve of your joke:)
NZ is a great place, but I'm convinced that the population is just too small, and some of the people living there are just too much of a dead weight to really let the country succeed.
This is a shame, as there are some awesomely smart creative people there.
Maybe you think I'm splitting straws here, but I think this is an important distinction to make:
TC doesn't "close the analog hole". TC allows software to determine if the "analog hole" is open or closed.
For example: A software blu-ray player could use TC to determine if the system is trusted when it asserts that the output will not be sent to an analog output, or an unencrypted digital output.
TC does *not* stop you from running a different blu-ray player that will happily send the signal out over an analog or unencrypted digital link.
To me this isn't really taking away your freedoms. As the parent poster said, TC is another function of your computer that applications can use. Some applications might refuse to run, or run with reduced functionality if you don't have TC. To me TC isn't taking your freedoms away, the applications using it are.
I'm very happy your son is alive and well, but how does 5 weeks equal 25 weeks again?
You are right though, late term abortions are IMHO ethically very troubling. Mainly because there are more parents willing to adopt a baby than there babies.
But I have no problems at all with a woman getting an abortion in the first trimester. Don't ask me where the line is though.
You sure that this "siren" is infact caused by speeding?
I was in egypt a few years ago, and all the taxi drivers and most of the locals had installed a "manual override" switch on their dash for the car alarm. Basically they would flick the switch so the alarm would start howling, then they would drive like complete nutbars. Stuck behind a truck? Simple, your driver would flick the switch, honk their horn and flash their lights as quickly as possible and just pull out into oncoming traffic.
As far as I could gather, the road rules there were give way to the cars with louder alarms and horns, and ones where the driver was flashing their lights faster.
Exactly. I bet Steve Jobs would cream his pants if he could have OSX only run signed apps, like the iphone. He must get a big stiffie at the very thought.
Unfortunately for him microsoft have always made windows as open as possible (a little *too* open, given how easy it is for malware to infect it...) and users would never accept an OS like that.
And itunes... I don't see why this is such a big deal for palm. I've just brought a 2nd hand itouch to replace my dying karma (sob) and I've got to say itunes is the *worst* music manager I've ever used. Its shite. Rio music manager, which came with my karma in 2002 is more stable and easier to use.
The fact I'm locked into using itunes has turned me completely off the idea of getting an iphone. I can plug my nokia into USB, its mounted as a drive letter and I can just drag and drop folders of music directly into its filesystem. Thats how it should work.
Honestly, MS has done some shitty things in the past, but their behavior in the last 10 years has nearly redeemed them in my eyes. Apple on the other hand scare the shit out of me.
you said it... *one* of the project goals is compatibility with.net.
To achieve compatibility mono has implemented possibly patent-encumbered microsoft.* base class libraries. But this is intended for compatibility only. If you were writing something specifically for mono you'd use alternative base class libriries, using GTK# etc.
As the OP stated, mono will be split into the "safe" (covered by the ECMA spec, and covered by microsoft's promise) libraries and "maybe safe" libraries which are implementations of the microsoft.* namespace etc etc.
If you are writing an app that is designed to run on mono as well as MS.net you'd obviously be much better off sticking to the "safe" libraries.
Agreed. I've only very, very, very rarely seen problems on an NTFS volume - and I've never seen one that was completely toast.
My current desktop machine at home has a dying motherboard, which has been giving me bluescreens, reboots and hard lockups on win7 for the last 6 months. Normally daily, my best uptime has been nearly a week, and my worst has been 30 seconds.
I've put up with it because I don't have the cash to replace it right now, and that machine is only used for web, email and kids movies.
But what has impressed me is after undoubtably hundreds of lockups and hardware resets - often while doing things like copying files I've yet to have any sort of file system corruption.
SQL Server most definitely can use multiple CPUs to process a single query. For nasty report queries etc it can speed things up significantly.
The problem is there is a large amount of cost in splitting the query into multiple parallel tasks and then merging the results, and for a simple query this outweighs the gains made. SQL Server's default config can be a bit trigger-happy in deciding to do a parallel query, for OLTP applications I normally disable it.
I have yet to see anything that beats Master of Orion's AI
But to be fair I've played very few strategy games in the last 10 years, so shoot me down if I'm talking out my arse:)
In MOO the AI would recognise your tactics, and make moves specifically to counter them. You couldn't keep using a winning strategy.
A good tactic early in the game was to build a large number (thousands) of tiny cheap ships loaded to the brim with MIRV missiles which would overwhelm the defences of the far larger, well equipped and expensive enemy ships.
The AI would then counter by building a large number of small defensive ships, and equipping ships with ECM units, displacement devices etc which made missiles ineffective.
Man that game was good. Perfect blend of simple gameplay and deep strategy. I've never played anything else as good, modern 4x space games all seem to be about micromanagement.
I can't believe I'm sticking up for vista, but.....
2. winsxs folder. This is actually a folder full of hard links. Its isn't _really_ 10gb. some info here
4. I've had maybe half a dozen compatibility issues with vista since I started using it over two years ago. In my current job there is a crapload of dodgy activeX web apps and VB6 apps, none have a problem. The ODBC drivers we use for connections to an informix database works _fine_ in vista, and the dates on those binaries is 1996. Infact, they work better in vista than in XP or anything else. Certain types of connections with these drivers never worked at all in applications deployed with ClickOnce on XP.... but in vista they work fine.
7. I got vista preinstalled 2+ years ago on a Dell Latitude D820. At that stage I had a lot of bluescreens etc caused by the USB stack, video drivers etc etc but since SP1 came out it has been rock solid. I use suspend/resume and I only ever reboot my machine if there is an update I want to install. I guess it probably gets rebooted on average every 6 weeks or so. I don't think I've had a bluescreen in at least 12 months.
You may well be right on your other points, I don't know. Vista still has issues and feels very bloated compared to 7, but IMHO it is a shame it has struggled to throw off the bad reputation it gained when it launched.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah but the way things are going the conditions might not be "just fine" one day, and we should be practicing with closed mini-biospheres and things now.
Wow, thats really shitty advice. What they are saying is "our drivers aren't really thread-safe". Anyone with a dual core machine would have the same issue. Hopefully that is fixed by now, as dual-core machines are more common than not.
And "IRQL Not less or equal" is a generic message that basically means that the driver tried to do something that it isn't allowed. If it was a normal user-mode application you'd get "this application has encountered a problem and will be closed" but in a driver you get a bluescreen.
And with his quake 2 problem, I'd guess he isn't using drivers with OpenGL support.
Dvorak is a clueless moron. Check out this rant of his in PC mag about about the windows XP "idle process" hogging his cpu and making the machine unusable.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1304348,00.asp
Should have implemented Grand Central, I hear it's free and opensource. Even has the Apache license so that it allows use of the source code for the development of proprietary software.
I mean they already borrowed the TCP IP stack.
You are missing the point.
While Grand Central is a very cool system, its not designed to make multithreaded applications faster. Its designed to make it easier to write a multi-threaded app, or retrofit multi-threading into existing single-threaded code.
And that link you provided is interesting, but nowhere does it say anyone but microsoft wrote the TCP stack. All it says is it uses several existing TCP algorithms.
>
I am responding to RMS's last post which is pretty much content free, but does contain another personal attack against me.
Could you give a reference, please?
Here you go.
"(Miguel de Icaza) is basically a traitor to the Free Software community"
Even if you are only running 32bit apps if you have more than 3gb of ram you should still windlows x64.
on a 64 bit OS each 32bit app can use 4bg of ram. Not many apps require more than 4gb.
Yes, and yet modern day Maori have rights to issue themselves "Customary fishing permits" which are except from any bag limits or equipment restrictions that all other amateur fishermen must obey.
While they might not hagve an air defence force, I believe they recently started testing anti air missiles. Apparently their epsionage forces finally recovered the plans to what they call The Catapault.
(I'm Australian. I'm allowed to make these jokes).
I'm a NZer living in australia, and I approve of your joke :)
NZ is a great place, but I'm convinced that the population is just too small, and some of the people living there are just too much of a dead weight to really let the country succeed.
This is a shame, as there are some awesomely smart creative people there.
Ahh whoops, just realised I misread your original comment.
You'd be much better off trying to find / engineer a bug that can change lead into gold.
If you had something that could convert U-235 to U-238, then lead into gold isn't that much harder.
Maybe you think I'm splitting straws here, but I think this is an important distinction to make:
TC doesn't "close the analog hole". TC allows software to determine if the "analog hole" is open or closed.
For example: A software blu-ray player could use TC to determine if the system is trusted when it asserts that the output will not be sent to an analog output, or an unencrypted digital output.
TC does *not* stop you from running a different blu-ray player that will happily send the signal out over an analog or unencrypted digital link.
To me this isn't really taking away your freedoms. As the parent poster said, TC is another function of your computer that applications can use. Some applications might refuse to run, or run with reduced functionality if you don't have TC. To me TC isn't taking your freedoms away, the applications using it are.
You know that some people with XXY chromosomes are identified as female right?
--
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
/quote>
When I first read your post I thought your sig was part of the post and not a sig.
Nearly blew breakfast out my nose.
A sledgehammer is also a local privilege escalation.
Actually, I'd class a sledgehammer as more of a denial of service attack.
Have you seen the movie "The Island".
Get it out. Good movie, and about exactly what you want to do.
I nearly skipped it when I saw it was directed by Michael Bay, but trust me, it doesn't suck!
I'm very happy your son is alive and well, but how does 5 weeks equal 25 weeks again?
You are right though, late term abortions are IMHO ethically very troubling. Mainly because there are more parents willing to adopt a baby than there babies.
But I have no problems at all with a woman getting an abortion in the first trimester. Don't ask me where the line is though.
You sure that this "siren" is infact caused by speeding?
I was in egypt a few years ago, and all the taxi drivers and most of the locals had installed a "manual override" switch on their dash for the car alarm. Basically they would flick the switch so the alarm would start howling, then they would drive like complete nutbars. Stuck behind a truck? Simple, your driver would flick the switch, honk their horn and flash their lights as quickly as possible and just pull out into oncoming traffic.
As far as I could gather, the road rules there were give way to the cars with louder alarms and horns, and ones where the driver was flashing their lights faster.
Truly, truly terrifying, I tell you.
Exactly. I bet Steve Jobs would cream his pants if he could have OSX only run signed apps, like the iphone. He must get a big stiffie at the very thought.
Unfortunately for him microsoft have always made windows as open as possible (a little *too* open, given how easy it is for malware to infect it...) and users would never accept an OS like that.
And itunes... I don't see why this is such a big deal for palm. I've just brought a 2nd hand itouch to replace my dying karma (sob) and I've got to say itunes is the *worst* music manager I've ever used. Its shite. Rio music manager, which came with my karma in 2002 is more stable and easier to use.
The fact I'm locked into using itunes has turned me completely off the idea of getting an iphone. I can plug my nokia into USB, its mounted as a drive letter and I can just drag and drop folders of music directly into its filesystem. Thats how it should work.
Honestly, MS has done some shitty things in the past, but their behavior in the last 10 years has nearly redeemed them in my eyes. Apple on the other hand scare the shit out of me.
Damn straight. I still check back every month or two to see if there are any new ones.
you said it... *one* of the project goals is compatibility with .net.
To achieve compatibility mono has implemented possibly patent-encumbered microsoft.* base class libraries. But this is intended for compatibility only. If you were writing something specifically for mono you'd use alternative base class libriries, using GTK# etc.
As the OP stated, mono will be split into the "safe" (covered by the ECMA spec, and covered by microsoft's promise) libraries and "maybe safe" libraries which are implementations of the microsoft.* namespace etc etc.
If you are writing an app that is designed to run on mono as well as MS .net you'd obviously be much better off sticking to the "safe" libraries.
Agreed. I've only very, very, very rarely seen problems on an NTFS volume - and I've never seen one that was completely toast.
My current desktop machine at home has a dying motherboard, which has been giving me bluescreens, reboots and hard lockups on win7 for the last 6 months. Normally daily, my best uptime has been nearly a week, and my worst has been 30 seconds.
I've put up with it because I don't have the cash to replace it right now, and that machine is only used for web, email and kids movies.
But what has impressed me is after undoubtably hundreds of lockups and hardware resets - often while doing things like copying files I've yet to have any sort of file system corruption.
Very nice post, I like the idea of linking radical tree-huggers to hard-core conservatives. :)
Hat off to you sir, Best slashdot post I've read in months.
SQL Server most definitely can use multiple CPUs to process a single query. For nasty report queries etc it can speed things up significantly.
The problem is there is a large amount of cost in splitting the query into multiple parallel tasks and then merging the results, and for a simple query this outweighs the gains made. SQL Server's default config can be a bit trigger-happy in deciding to do a parallel query, for OLTP applications I normally disable it.
I have yet to see anything that beats Master of Orion's AI
But to be fair I've played very few strategy games in the last 10 years, so shoot me down if I'm talking out my arse :)
In MOO the AI would recognise your tactics, and make moves specifically to counter them. You couldn't keep using a winning strategy.
A good tactic early in the game was to build a large number (thousands) of tiny cheap ships loaded to the brim with MIRV missiles which would overwhelm the defences of the far larger, well equipped and expensive enemy ships.
The AI would then counter by building a large number of small defensive ships, and equipping ships with ECM units, displacement devices etc which made missiles ineffective.
Man that game was good. Perfect blend of simple gameplay and deep strategy. I've never played anything else as good, modern 4x space games all seem to be about micromanagement.
You missed Stop All Production
Sorry After Purchase
I can't believe I'm sticking up for vista, but.....
2. winsxs folder. This is actually a folder full of hard links. Its isn't _really_ 10gb. some info here
4. I've had maybe half a dozen compatibility issues with vista since I started using it over two years ago. In my current job there is a crapload of dodgy activeX web apps and VB6 apps, none have a problem. The ODBC drivers we use for connections to an informix database works _fine_ in vista, and the dates on those binaries is 1996. Infact, they work better in vista than in XP or anything else. Certain types of connections with these drivers never worked at all in applications deployed with ClickOnce on XP.... but in vista they work fine.
7. I got vista preinstalled 2+ years ago on a Dell Latitude D820. At that stage I had a lot of bluescreens etc caused by the USB stack, video drivers etc etc but since SP1 came out it has been rock solid. I use suspend/resume and I only ever reboot my machine if there is an update I want to install. I guess it probably gets rebooted on average every 6 weeks or so. I don't think I've had a bluescreen in at least 12 months.
You may well be right on your other points, I don't know. Vista still has issues and feels very bloated compared to 7, but IMHO it is a shame it has struggled to throw off the bad reputation it gained when it launched.