Compiling the software doesn't give you any more knowledge about the system.
How does installing gentoo from the command line give any more knowledge than installing a base debian/slackware/arch/openna/whatever system and using apt/pacman/swaret etc. to install the base system from binaries?
The only thing I learnt from the Gentoo installs I did was that you can set the timezone by linking/etc/localtime to the correct file - which I only ever needed to know in Gentoo, as every other distro had some easier-to-use config setting (text file and/or GUI) to set it.
you've apparently not tried writing a paper in MS Word...
I think I've found the source of your problem: you're using *Word* to write an academic paper. Why would anyone in their right mind do that? Does no one use LaTeX anymore? Even the most Microsofty conferences I've been to accept PDF submissions.
I guess that story a while back about Microsoft's bug-hunting techniques and how bad they were was pretty accurate. How does that get past automated testing at MS? They always go on about how they test so thoroughly and have thousands of machines running tests constantly.
AFAIK, freeing the memory marks it as available for the OS to reuse elsewhere.
The fact that many OS's will not *actually* release the memory straight away if there isn't much pressure on memory in order to reduce memory fragmentation and speed up allocations for the program doesn't alter the fact that it is at least available - you don't have a second operating system running inside the main OS.
>And how exactly does a C/C++ program release memory to the system?
With delete/free maybe? Freeing the memory explicitly allows the OS to decide when it will reallocate that memory to something else, rather than the VM, which has no knowledge of other processes.
Even if you have enough swap, wasting available physical memory will kill performance as the OS swaps data in and out.
...college dorm rooms with Asian and European foreign exchange students.
I think you're probably basing your conclusions on a skewed sample. Generally, the students who want to and are allowed to go on exchange programs are the brighter ones - they have to show a certain level of ability before they are allowed to go. At least, that's what happened at my (UK) uni.
I just say that because your experience of K-12 education sounds exactly like my experience of UK secondary school (which is meant to be ages 11-16, but I was pulled out and sent to a private school at 12 when my parents realised just how little I was learning). I don't think it's just a US problem.
Brian: Friends, we must unite to fight the common enemy! Everyone: The People's Front of Judea!? Where!
For god's sake, they're both Unix-like operating systems. There's not a huge difference between them for most purposes, I don't think anyone who's not a complete fanbot would say either is objectively better than the other for all purposes.
"War in Iraq Going Good" "Iraqi's enjoying newfound freedoms"
Did I miss something? I can't say I've seen anything like those stories on the news (in the UK, anyway). Virtually every story about Iraq seems to end with some sort of hornet's nest analogy, grim shots of burnt out vehicles or a reminder of the death toll so far.
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I hope you're joking - you did read the "minimum graphics card Geforce 3" requirement, right?
Compiling the software doesn't give you any more knowledge about the system.
/etc/localtime to the correct file - which I only ever needed to know in Gentoo, as every other distro had some easier-to-use config setting (text file and/or GUI) to set it.
How does installing gentoo from the command line give any more knowledge than installing a base debian/slackware/arch/openna/whatever system and using apt/pacman/swaret etc. to install the base system from binaries?
The only thing I learnt from the Gentoo installs I did was that you can set the timezone by linking
you've apparently not tried writing a paper in MS Word...
I think I've found the source of your problem: you're using *Word* to write an academic paper. Why would anyone in their right mind do that? Does no one use LaTeX anymore? Even the most Microsofty conferences I've been to accept PDF submissions.
I guess that story a while back about Microsoft's bug-hunting techniques and how bad they were was pretty accurate.
How does that get past automated testing at MS? They always go on about how they test so thoroughly and have thousands of machines running tests constantly.
Why switch languages? Checked memory access is easily implementable in C/C++. I'd post a quick example but the lameness filter is too annoying.
Because that way doesn't converge.
Unless you're confused over his reversed notation (using n as the unknown, x as the known) and mean solving analytically? He's trying to get n=f(x):
n^n=x
take nth root:
n=x^(1/n)
then where? I'll admit I'm an engineer, not a mathmatician, so my analytical solution skills are very rusty.
If you're going to do it numerically, that's the worst possible way to do it. The simplest way is:
rearrange:
n*ln(n)=ln(x)
n=ln(x)/ln(n)
iterative form
--> n(n+1) = ln(x) / ln(n)
then put a first guess in (say, 7) and keep iterating until the answer converges. Takes 25 iterations in this case to five dp.
There's always the KDE printer setup system. Far superior to the CUPS web-page way.
Odd. I run GNOME 2.6 on my P3-600 laptop with 192Mb and it runs fine.
I've had plenty of freezes with GDM on logging out - mostly fixable with a ctrl-alt-backspace, but it means session saving rarely works.
According to the documentation on IBM's site, the PPC 970 is "based on the POWER4". It's a single core version, with the SIMD engine added on.
s@G4/G5@G3/G4/G5@g
Doesn't MacOSX also require a G4/G5? AFAIK,they are modified POWER4s with Altivec, not POWER5s.
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You get *paid* to hang out on Slashdot and discuss Free Software? No fair...
AFAIK, freeing the memory marks it as available for the OS to reuse elsewhere.
The fact that many OS's will not *actually* release the memory straight away if there isn't much pressure on memory in order to reduce memory fragmentation and speed up allocations for the program doesn't alter the fact that it is at least available - you don't have a second operating system running inside the main OS.
>And how exactly does a C/C++ program release memory to the system?
With delete/free maybe? Freeing the memory explicitly allows the OS to decide when it will reallocate that memory to something else, rather than the VM, which has no knowledge of other processes.
Even if you have enough swap, wasting available physical memory will kill performance as the OS swaps data in and out.
A few years back people would have been asking the reverse.
I think you're probably basing your conclusions on a skewed sample. Generally, the students who want to and are allowed to go on exchange programs are the brighter ones - they have to show a certain level of ability before they are allowed to go. At least, that's what happened at my (UK) uni.
I just say that because your experience of K-12 education sounds exactly like my experience of UK secondary school (which is meant to be ages 11-16, but I was pulled out and sent to a private school at 12 when my parents realised just how little I was learning). I don't think it's just a US problem.
Somebody modded that informative!? Here's a clue - the link doesn't go to a site related to this story and most definitely isn't work safe.
Brian: Friends, we must unite to fight the common enemy!
Everyone: The People's Front of Judea!? Where!
For god's sake, they're both Unix-like operating systems. There's not a huge difference between them for most purposes, I don't think anyone who's not a complete fanbot would say either is objectively better than the other for all purposes.
http://www.linuxsucks.org/read.html?postid=8345&re plies=39&page=1
Erm, just select the text to copy, press ctrl-C. Then select the text to delete, press ctrl-V. Not that hard a concept, is it?
The select-to-copy and ctrl-C clipboards are completely separate. Try using some *nix software before posting.
"War in Iraq Going Good" "Iraqi's enjoying newfound freedoms"
Did I miss something? I can't say I've seen anything like those stories on the news (in the UK, anyway). Virtually every story about Iraq seems to end with some sort of hornet's nest analogy, grim shots of burnt out vehicles or a reminder of the death toll so far.