I can hardly run mirc with wine on a 1ghz computer
I ran mIRC with WINE on a 400Mhz computer, in KDE/RH9. Its performance was more than adequate - in fact, seeing as mIRC is quite the responsive application (it's not really doing all that much compared to say, Photoshop), I'd say it behaved damn well. As fast as mIRC runs on my XP 1800+ with Windows, so I'm not sure just how much faster you expect it to get:)
Perhaps your system is less than optimally configured?
I've noticed a pretty good correlation between bad ram and Red Hat's media check. Boot a Red Hat CD, run its media check - every ram stick I've ever had problems with fails it every time, and vice versa for generally good ram.
I assume it does a pretty good amount of calculation doing the md5 checking, and uses a fair chunk of the available ram to do it.
Call it superstition, but I've never seen bad ram that passed this test, nor good ram that failed it.
Sure, their government is oppressive (so is ours, its just a matter of degree).
A nice warm sunny day at 35 degrees Celcius is hot. The surface of the Sun at 6000 Celcius is also hot. Hydrogen bombs exploding and generating several MILLION degrees Celcius is also hot.
During a recent stint with a government agency who shall remain nameless (security research, in any event), we stumbled upon a pretty neat thing while using Google.
Basically, some admin had put up an entire test site, no index pages on lots of it, directly accesible databases, the works. Google cached the whole dang thing. We happened upon this while doing an unrelated search, and using the site: tag let us effectively pull the entire site out of Google's cache. The test site had long been pulled, but what Google had contained a LOT of sensitive information: things like home addresses, phone numbers, and personal email addresses of some very prominent business people, even some financial information. What was cool was finding links in the cache that still linked to some nice Access databases. Missing index.html, anyone? Yes, Google caches that:)
Anyway, we contacted the hosting company, and they must have done something, because within hours Google's cache no longer contained anything for them. I assume they contacted Google requesting the cache be cleared due to its sensitive nature. Google seems willing to do this if you can prove it's your own site.
Amazingly enough, not every one of the hundreds of thousands of people that visit Slashdot think the exact same thing on a particular subject. Some of us even drive SUVs.
The producer-consumer labels are just economics terms used to describe how our economy works.
By definition, as much as you don't like to admit it, you are a consumer - unless you never purchase/use something that someone else made.
If you're gonna get sensitive about the terminology, how about getting upset when people distinguish between "large corporations" and "people". After all, the former tends to be run by, and employ, the latter. By definition.
2 to 3 crashes a week is probably my Windows norm and enough to make me want to huge my Linux box when I finally get home.
I'm noticing a big trend in this story - many, MANY/.'ers saying "2 crashes a day is a lot, but I'm still seeing 2-3 a week". Are you people kidding? Are these work machines, where you have no choice about what goes in and on them?
When I was on 95 (arguably one of the most unstable Windows' out there) I regularly had it up for 2-3 weeks at a time. Most times *I* rebooted it because it was getting slow, not because it crashed.
Ever since 2000 came out, I've been pulling 6-8 weeks at a stretch up, and the only reason it's that low is occasionally I need a reboot for a service pack or other update, or I'm fiddling with hardware. In fact, in the past 3 years I think I've seen 2000 bluescreen twice.
So far with XP on the laptop for the past 3 months, it's bluescreened once, and I think that was because I hibernated with an active network connection on the wireless card, and took it out before waking the thing:)
I don't get it. I really don't get it. How the hell are you crashing your computers so often?
The local cable companies have been running this ad for the past few months:
A young boy goes into a grocery/convenience store, and pockets some candy. He leaves, the shopkeeper catches him, and the next shot is the cops bringing the kid home. So Dad and Junior are having a heart-to-heart, Dad is asking "where did you learn to steal?" Junior replies: "But Dad! You steal satellite signals!".
The commercial then cuts to a message to the effect of "theft is theft. stealing satellite signals is a crime. Sponsored by your local cable companies".
The first time I saw this, I would have sworn it was going to be a commercial paid for by the satellite providers in Canada. Nope, looks like the cable co's are feeling the pinch of DTV piracy in Canada (arrr matey).
Blatantly wrong propaganda such as this turns my stomach, but they sure have my parents convinced - they now are very nervous about the cryptography course I'm taking next year, because I told them I could use that knowledge to help decrpyt satellite signals.
I would love to keep some of these comments in this thread and let the writers read them in 15 years when their 8 year old daughter is walking to school through their neighborhood containing ??? sex offenders (remember how y'all objected to the 2009 criminal notification proposal due to it's implemetation of rfid tags?).
Children are abused by people they know and trust at least an order of magnitude more often than by complete strangers.
By that logic, if we're really concerned for children's wellbeing, we should immediately sever all contact from family members and place them in anonymous state-run housing.
I would guess it's been a long time since you've been a kid.
Most parents' ideas as to what is 'safe' for their child, and what is not, has little to do with actual safety.
Witness how many people won't let their children go out on Hallowe'en, because they've heard that people poison candy. Yet to date there hasn't been a single documented case of a stranger poisoning children on Hallowe'en.
Unfortunately, too many parents over-react, and end up stifling their kids' lives, because of some nebulous 'safety' issue that isn't real. I can see something like 24-7 tracking becoming a great excuse for kids to *really* hate their parents.
(The above posted by a 28 year old who feels a lot closer to childhood than most parents)
Over-protective parents can also lead to kids who never learn how to do anything on their own, because they've never been allowed to.
Over-protective parents can also lead to kids using drugs, participating in drive-by shootings, winning the school talent show, and becoming president of the United States.
Taxes aren't that bad here, especially when you factor in the cost of medical insurance. (I make ~$60k/yr CDN and pay about 28% taxes without loopholes, so duh!)
The rate for income between $30k and $60k in Manitoba is a combined 37%, give or take. It only gets worse from there. I haven't met many Americans paying $1000 a month for health insurance.
Tack on 14% sales tax, several HUNDRED percent alcohol and tobacco tax, entertainment tax, gasoline tax...
There's a reason our 'tax-free' day is in July, and this is for the *average* taxpayer.
Never mind the costs involved with our so-called 'free' healthcare: ambulance fees, prescription fees, room fees, fees for crutches... there's a reason most working Canadians have supplementary medical insurance. Healthcare simply isn't free here.
Having said that, I'm very happy to know that if I get smacked up on the freeway tonight, they won't let me die based on my bank account. (does this actually happen in the USA, or is this propaganda?)
If you know that you've not stolen anything (which should be rather easy to know...), stand up for your rights if you're accused of something.
Yeah, because people are never wrongfully accused, or convicted, based on incomplete or even entirely false evidence.
Personally, I can't afford the legal fees I'd need just to be able to shop in the UK. I take things off shelves all the time and put them back in the wrong place.
If you put it down elsewhere, the RFID reader at the door never sees it leave, so it never sounds the alarm.
If the alarm *only* goes off if you leave and the door picks up the RFID, why use an RFID in the first place? This is exactly how stores prevent shoplifting today, but with simple magnetic strips.
Does it somehow prevent shoplifting to know just *what* is being shoplifted, the minute you leave the store? I think not.
I'm still missing why they have to snap your photo to help keep shoplifting down.
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I can hardly run mirc with wine on a 1ghz computer
:)
I ran mIRC with WINE on a 400Mhz computer, in KDE/RH9. Its performance was more than adequate - in fact, seeing as mIRC is quite the responsive application (it's not really doing all that much compared to say, Photoshop), I'd say it behaved damn well. As fast as mIRC runs on my XP 1800+ with Windows, so I'm not sure just how much faster you expect it to get
Perhaps your system is less than optimally configured?
We used to live in caves.
And we used to have an average life expectancy of under 30.
Thanks, I'll pass.
I've noticed a pretty good correlation between bad ram and Red Hat's media check. Boot a Red Hat CD, run its media check - every ram stick I've ever had problems with fails it every time, and vice versa for generally good ram.
I assume it does a pretty good amount of calculation doing the md5 checking, and uses a fair chunk of the available ram to do it.
Call it superstition, but I've never seen bad ram that passed this test, nor good ram that failed it.
Sure, their government is oppressive (so is ours, its just a matter of degree).
A nice warm sunny day at 35 degrees Celcius is hot. The surface of the Sun at 6000 Celcius is also hot. Hydrogen bombs exploding and generating several MILLION degrees Celcius is also hot.
It's just a matter of degree.
During a recent stint with a government agency who shall remain nameless (security research, in any event), we stumbled upon a pretty neat thing while using Google.
:)
:)
Basically, some admin had put up an entire test site, no index pages on lots of it, directly accesible databases, the works. Google cached the whole dang thing. We happened upon this while doing an unrelated search, and using the site: tag let us effectively pull the entire site out of Google's cache. The test site had long been pulled, but what Google had contained a LOT of sensitive information: things like home addresses, phone numbers, and personal email addresses of some very prominent business people, even some financial information. What was cool was finding links in the cache that still linked to some nice Access databases. Missing index.html, anyone? Yes, Google caches that
Anyway, we contacted the hosting company, and they must have done something, because within hours Google's cache no longer contained anything for them. I assume they contacted Google requesting the cache be cleared due to its sensitive nature. Google seems willing to do this if you can prove it's your own site.
Oh, and they also moved their databases
Consequently, I have accidently closed windows in Windows numerous times (even though I use Windows rarely)
s/even though/because, and you've just explained your problem.
It's all about what you're used to.
You mean you can't hear the sounds of electrons whizzing around an Aluminum nucleus? Or the ever-annoying ping of cosmic rays bouncing off nuclei??
Amazingly enough, not every one of the hundreds of thousands of people that visit Slashdot think the exact same thing on a particular subject. Some of us even drive SUVs.
Wow! Individual thought! Whod'a thunk it?
If any manager or businessman begins an assertion with "There's no question", "Clearly", or "It's obvious", that assertion is nothing of the sort.
Sounds like most of my university math professors...
you will see almost an opposite coorlation.
Coorlation?
Is that, like, the relationship between how much beer I've drank and um, you know, like how bad my english on Slashdot becomes?
The producer-consumer labels are just economics terms used to describe how our economy works.
By definition, as much as you don't like to admit it, you are a consumer - unless you never purchase/use something that someone else made.
If you're gonna get sensitive about the terminology, how about getting upset when people distinguish between "large corporations" and "people". After all, the former tends to be run by, and employ, the latter. By definition.
I'm pretty sure the poster was implying that Slashdot is *more* interactive than a mmporg.
Smart bug-finders are just waiting for the pot to grow a little more before reporting the bug. Wait for one more, and double your money!
2 to 3 crashes a week is probably my Windows norm and enough to make me want to huge my Linux box when I finally get home.
/.'ers saying "2 crashes a day is a lot, but I'm still seeing 2-3 a week". Are you people kidding? Are these work machines, where you have no choice about what goes in and on them?
:)
I'm noticing a big trend in this story - many, MANY
When I was on 95 (arguably one of the most unstable Windows' out there) I regularly had it up for 2-3 weeks at a time. Most times *I* rebooted it because it was getting slow, not because it crashed.
Ever since 2000 came out, I've been pulling 6-8 weeks at a stretch up, and the only reason it's that low is occasionally I need a reboot for a service pack or other update, or I'm fiddling with hardware. In fact, in the past 3 years I think I've seen 2000 bluescreen twice.
So far with XP on the laptop for the past 3 months, it's bluescreened once, and I think that was because I hibernated with an active network connection on the wireless card, and took it out before waking the thing
I don't get it. I really don't get it. How the hell are you crashing your computers so often?
I've been doing it for several years now, as I put myself through school.
I still do a damn good job.
Not everyone thinks as you do, "this job sucks, so after any length of time I'll just start slacking off", some of us have a work ethic.
The local cable companies have been running this ad for the past few months:
A young boy goes into a grocery/convenience store, and pockets some candy. He leaves, the shopkeeper catches him, and the next shot is the cops bringing the kid home. So Dad and Junior are having a heart-to-heart, Dad is asking "where did you learn to steal?" Junior replies: "But Dad! You steal satellite signals!".
The commercial then cuts to a message to the effect of "theft is theft. stealing satellite signals is a crime. Sponsored by your local cable companies".
The first time I saw this, I would have sworn it was going to be a commercial paid for by the satellite providers in Canada. Nope, looks like the cable co's are feeling the pinch of DTV piracy in Canada (arrr matey).
Blatantly wrong propaganda such as this turns my stomach, but they sure have my parents convinced - they now are very nervous about the cryptography course I'm taking next year, because I told them I could use that knowledge to help decrpyt satellite signals.
Nice world we live in, eh?
I would love to keep some of these comments in this thread and let the writers read them in 15 years when their 8 year old daughter is walking to school through their neighborhood containing ??? sex offenders (remember how y'all objected to the 2009 criminal notification proposal due to it's implemetation of rfid tags?).
You mentioned strawmen?
Children are abused by people they know and trust at least an order of magnitude more often than by complete strangers.
By that logic, if we're really concerned for children's wellbeing, we should immediately sever all contact from family members and place them in anonymous state-run housing.
I would guess it's been a long time since you've been a kid.
Most parents' ideas as to what is 'safe' for their child, and what is not, has little to do with actual safety.
Witness how many people won't let their children go out on Hallowe'en, because they've heard that people poison candy. Yet to date there hasn't been a single documented case of a stranger poisoning children on Hallowe'en.
Unfortunately, too many parents over-react, and end up stifling their kids' lives, because of some nebulous 'safety' issue that isn't real. I can see something like 24-7 tracking becoming a great excuse for kids to *really* hate their parents.
(The above posted by a 28 year old who feels a lot closer to childhood than most parents)
Over-protective parents can also lead to kids who never learn how to do anything on their own, because they've never been allowed to.
Over-protective parents can also lead to kids using drugs, participating in drive-by shootings, winning the school talent show, and becoming president of the United States.
can != will
Taxes aren't that bad here, especially when you factor in the cost of medical insurance. (I make ~$60k/yr CDN and pay about 28% taxes without loopholes, so duh!)
The rate for income between $30k and $60k in Manitoba is a combined 37%, give or take. It only gets worse from there. I haven't met many Americans paying $1000 a month for health insurance.
Tack on 14% sales tax, several HUNDRED percent alcohol and tobacco tax, entertainment tax, gasoline tax...
There's a reason our 'tax-free' day is in July, and this is for the *average* taxpayer.
Never mind the costs involved with our so-called 'free' healthcare: ambulance fees, prescription fees, room fees, fees for crutches... there's a reason most working Canadians have supplementary medical insurance. Healthcare simply isn't free here.
Having said that, I'm very happy to know that if I get smacked up on the freeway tonight, they won't let me die based on my bank account. (does this actually happen in the USA, or is this propaganda?)
Usually those that laugh about socialism tend to be the ones on the receiving end.
Those of us paying for you don't laugh at the concept, we laugh at the abusers.
If you know that you've not stolen anything (which should be rather easy to know...), stand up for your rights if you're accused of something.
Yeah, because people are never wrongfully accused, or convicted, based on incomplete or even entirely false evidence.
Personally, I can't afford the legal fees I'd need just to be able to shop in the UK. I take things off shelves all the time and put them back in the wrong place.
If you put it down elsewhere, the RFID reader at the door never sees it leave, so it never sounds the alarm.
If the alarm *only* goes off if you leave and the door picks up the RFID, why use an RFID in the first place? This is exactly how stores prevent shoplifting today, but with simple magnetic strips.
Does it somehow prevent shoplifting to know just *what* is being shoplifted, the minute you leave the store? I think not.
I'm still missing why they have to snap your photo to help keep shoplifting down.
Trust me, Lucas isn't an expert in quantum physics or anything.
He just found a cool-sounding word, used it in error, and has to live with it for the rest of his life.
It's called "people who make movies aren't necessarily PhD's in particle physics, faster than light travel, xenobiology..." syndrome.