Yeah, something stinks anyway. I've had Chrome open for weeks at a time with (currently) 114 tabs between 14 windows and there's a handful of Chrome processes with more than 200Mb, one with 500 (probably gmail).
I do ad block, and a lot of ads are notorious for leaky flash scripts... so perhaps that's the issue?
Can I take a guess that your 6-8 tabs were all running McAfee Enterprise Security Manager?
I'd be rapt if that POS could run in less than 1GB in any browser over a weekend.
Regardless, there's limits to what the browser can take the blame for; if you run flash/etc with a million memory leaks in it, anything is going to grind to a halt.
I'm somewhat assuming that Opera (and Safari) are both keeping 100s of tabs "open" in the loosly defined way that Android keeps 100s of apps "open"; i.e. they're really not and as soon as they get focus they have to reload.
Chrome on Windows seems to do the same thing, these days. It will still consume all available RAM first before it starts caching, but seems to avoid swapfile. My experience on older macs was they treated swapfile like real memory so you only got application caching once you ran out of RAM + swapfile, which is awful. The solution was to have lots of RAM.. which they don't.
I'm not sure if the difference is in the OS or the Chrome build, or just that I don't regularly use a machine with less than 8GB of RAM, but I do note that Windows always seems to be hovering around 7GB of 8GB used and what becomes slow is opening new tabs as Chrome swaps out old ones. The rest of the OS doesn't suffer at all.
Not gains on the company assets, gains on the shares everyone involved holds.
Whatever man, I'm sure you're right, Charter are clearly some kind of magical business that can lose money every year for 10-20 years and no one is worried. They're not arranging their finances to minimize their tax obligations and expressing their profits elsewhere.
Further you read the further you get an explanation of why they have had steady value increase regardless of the merger.
They would be making $billion profits if they weren't spending all their money on capital and interest. Instead they're getting $billion increases in value, and not blah blah future earnings Apple/Facebook value, tangible assets.
Looking at the figures for the last few quarters at Charter, I'm going to suggest there's some "accounting" going on: March 31, 2017 1.52% Dec. 31, 2016 4.42% Sept. 30, 2016 1.88% June 30, 2016 49.78%
I don't think a company struggling to make a profit stock goes from $228 to $327 in the same period.
I'm curious, do you favour health insurance for just the healthy and wealthy (i.e. those that don't need it) or do you think you should have single-payer and the half-arsedness of the ACA was the problem?
While I agree with you, I can't say much different for RedHat either...
I was just looking for a "should work on this hardware" distro that had a decent GUI (Gnome's not perfect either), got any suggestions?
Also.. does anyone in the Linux world have a touchpad driver that even attempts to do palm detection? I'd be ok with something as coarse as "If I've just typed anything at all, disable the god damn touchpad for 2 seconds".
Yes, to be completely fair I had Windows 10 on it previously, and at one point they released an update that made the OS blue-screen every time you connected to a WiFi router... so not perfect. It was eventually patched, but that required a dongle to be able to download. Even uninstalling the patched driver and installing an older replacement was reversed by Windows "healing" until MS decided to release a patch themselves.
I didn't run 16.04 on it because I don't care for Unity, I'd rather run Windows, plus if I was going to double down on an old version I'd probably try and get CentOS 6 running;p
My real bugbear is that people can suggest systemd is superior because you can restart a service to fix one of it's faults.. like you couldn't always restart a service to fix Linux. Rebooting is sure as hell not my first instinct on Linux like it is in Windows.
Yeah, most recent install of a systemd operating system on a machine that was sold with linux:
- Ubuntu 17.04, on an XPS 13 (sold with Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS) - Fresh install (wipe disk entirely, no dual boot) - Had to disable UEFI to get it to install (first attempt apparently installed ok, but there was "nothing to boot"). - Booted in ok - Went to sleep that night - Couldn't connect to WiFi when it resumed the next day - Couldn't reboot without a long "systemd is fubar, I will wait 3 minutes for this non-responsive subsystem before shutting down" delay - WiFi came back on boot - WiFi never survives sleep
Apparently such a common problem that someone on here lauded Systemd as an advance because this works: sudo systemctl restart network-manager.service
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Yeah, something stinks anyway. I've had Chrome open for weeks at a time with (currently) 114 tabs between 14 windows and there's a handful of Chrome processes with more than 200Mb, one with 500 (probably gmail).
I do ad block, and a lot of ads are notorious for leaky flash scripts... so perhaps that's the issue?
Can I take a guess that your 6-8 tabs were all running McAfee Enterprise Security Manager?
I'd be rapt if that POS could run in less than 1GB in any browser over a weekend.
Regardless, there's limits to what the browser can take the blame for; if you run flash/etc with a million memory leaks in it, anything is going to grind to a halt.
I'm somewhat assuming that Opera (and Safari) are both keeping 100s of tabs "open" in the loosly defined way that Android keeps 100s of apps "open"; i.e. they're really not and as soon as they get focus they have to reload.
Chrome on Windows seems to do the same thing, these days. It will still consume all available RAM first before it starts caching, but seems to avoid swapfile. My experience on older macs was they treated swapfile like real memory so you only got application caching once you ran out of RAM + swapfile, which is awful. The solution was to have lots of RAM.. which they don't.
I'm not sure if the difference is in the OS or the Chrome build, or just that I don't regularly use a machine with less than 8GB of RAM, but I do note that Windows always seems to be hovering around 7GB of 8GB used and what becomes slow is opening new tabs as Chrome swaps out old ones. The rest of the OS doesn't suffer at all.
Something to do with not enough RAM installed and inability to do anything about it?
There's also some really nice places in the South Pacific that have no tax.
Mind, you. The roads are terrible... and the internet is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Enjoy!
Nah, I hate those asshats. But they sure know headline figures like Net Profit Margin alone aren't representative of a company's position.
Not gains on the company assets, gains on the shares everyone involved holds.
Whatever man, I'm sure you're right, Charter are clearly some kind of magical business that can lose money every year for 10-20 years and no one is worried. They're not arranging their finances to minimize their tax obligations and expressing their profits elsewhere.
We should set up a gofundme page to help out.
Yeah, that's why capital gains tax doesn't exist. Oh, wait....
Further you read the further you get an explanation of why they have had steady value increase regardless of the merger.
They would be making $billion profits if they weren't spending all their money on capital and interest. Instead they're getting $billion increases in value, and not blah blah future earnings Apple/Facebook value, tangible assets.
What they are /not/ is doing it tough.
Looking at the figures for the last few quarters at Charter, I'm going to suggest there's some "accounting" going on:
March 31, 2017 1.52%
Dec. 31, 2016 4.42%
Sept. 30, 2016 1.88%
June 30, 2016 49.78%
I don't think a company struggling to make a profit stock goes from $228 to $327 in the same period.
The access is free you nimrod, no one said the roads were free, they're what's called a "common good".
Aww princess. Your $50 donation to charity that mostly goes to covering costs of soliciting donations is super appreciated.
I'm curious, do you favour health insurance for just the healthy and wealthy (i.e. those that don't need it) or do you think you should have single-payer and the half-arsedness of the ACA was the problem?
Sadly the XPS13 has a Broadcom WiFi chip that requires the non-free drivers, so Debian is out.
Fedora is a bit too cutting edge for me, I've only ever used it when the hardware is too new to load RedHat/CentOS.
While I agree with you, I can't say much different for RedHat either...
I was just looking for a "should work on this hardware" distro that had a decent GUI (Gnome's not perfect either), got any suggestions?
Also.. does anyone in the Linux world have a touchpad driver that even attempts to do palm detection? I'd be ok with something as coarse as "If I've just typed anything at all, disable the god damn touchpad for 2 seconds".
"had to"?
Yeah, I haven't needed to do a reinstall cycle just to clean up Windows since Windows 7.
I suspect it also his main dodgy porn site machine too if it's getting rebuilt twice a year.
How do you bore a bot?
How do you read an ASCII or a database file?
Answer:
ASCII -- with just about anything you like, there's thousands of ways to read/write/edit it
database -- by converting it to ASCII
Are you trying to suggest AIX is easier to use than Linux?
Yes, to be completely fair I had Windows 10 on it previously, and at one point they released an update that made the OS blue-screen every time you connected to a WiFi router... so not perfect. It was eventually patched, but that required a dongle to be able to download. Even uninstalling the patched driver and installing an older replacement was reversed by Windows "healing" until MS decided to release a patch themselves.
I didn't run 16.04 on it because I don't care for Unity, I'd rather run Windows, plus if I was going to double down on an old version I'd probably try and get CentOS 6 running ;p
My real bugbear is that people can suggest systemd is superior because you can restart a service to fix one of it's faults.. like you couldn't always restart a service to fix Linux. Rebooting is sure as hell not my first instinct on Linux like it is in Windows.
That's what Reddit is for, after all.
Pure capitalism is the equivalent of dropping a shark into a tank of feeder fish and expecting a balanced ecosystem to form.
What really happens is the shark eats all the fish then dies.
Pure socialism has the inverse problem.
Neither of them are workable without elements of the other balancing the system.
Nice troll. 5/10.
Yeah, most recent install of a systemd operating system on a machine that was sold with linux:
- Ubuntu 17.04, on an XPS 13 (sold with Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS)
- Fresh install (wipe disk entirely, no dual boot)
- Had to disable UEFI to get it to install (first attempt apparently installed ok, but there was "nothing to boot").
- Booted in ok
- Went to sleep that night
- Couldn't connect to WiFi when it resumed the next day
- Couldn't reboot without a long "systemd is fubar, I will wait 3 minutes for this non-responsive subsystem before shutting down" delay
- WiFi came back on boot
- WiFi never survives sleep
Apparently such a common problem that someone on here lauded Systemd as an advance because this works:
sudo systemctl restart network-manager.service
Yeah, great. Windows is doomed.