Typical: active web browsing, a few dozen windows open (tabs are for OSes without virtual desktops), and an uptime of about a month.
At that point I restart it, or the OS kills the damn thing for being too much of a hog. I have no doubt that firefox would consume infinite memory if this were possible.
Year by year, the software grows. Plan for regular desktop apps that consume multiple gigabytes. Some of the latest apps are even written in Python, C#, and Java. (less leaky perhaps, but the data structures are not even remotely lean)
You have a GUI to run: 600 MB for firefox, 1800 MB for OpenOffice.org, 100 MB for X, 100 MB for desktop odds and ends, 300 MB for Evolution or Thunderbird, and 10 MB for old-style stuff running in the background.
Total: 2910 MB
Yep, you need a gigabyte of swap. OpenOffice.org was made 64-bit clean for a reason. If you plan ahead, not wanting to reallocate disk space in the next few years, you'll allow for this:
2 GB for firefox, 5 GB for OpenOffice.org, 1/2 GB for X, 1/2 GB for desktop odds and ends, 1 GB for Evolution or Thunderbird, and 10 MB for old-style stuff running in the background
That's 9.01 GB. You're exactly 7.01 GB short, so you'll be needing that swap space before you know it.
Don't agree that global warming is man-made, severe, and long-term? You lose. Maybe the oil industry will throw you a few bucks for the paper, making your research look tainted.
The reviewers have their own careers at stake. If you don't support their little club, you're the enemy.
Sorry to hear you picked a worthless subject to major in. Hopefully you can take some night classes to learn a useful trade. I've heard that being an EMT is pretty decent, if you don't mind blood and gore and the mentally ill. Jobs involving care for the elderly should be picking up in the coming years. Plumbers and electricians do OK. Perhaps the military will take you; they provide for all your basic needs and you get to see the world.
Comparative religeon is worthless, with or without the damn Koran. You aren't going to use that to build a car, CPU, or ship.
Atmospheric science is effectively worthless because there are too many students. A fresh graduate is rather unlikely to get a job. We have more meteorologists than we know what to do with.
Useful: knowing how to build toys cheaper than the Chinese can build them.
Interstate highways in Alabama are useful because they help to drive the US economy.
Suppose you get involved in a wreak, then a lawsuit or criminal proceeding. It's OK to use data which both cars provide, but what if one car collects more data than the other?
Data which is provided by only one car should only be usable for proving innocence. To prove guilt should require that equivalent data be available from all vehicles involved in the incident.
The current definition of AIDS includes a finding of HIV. That's plain unfair.
We might just as well define a car accident to be a collision between vehicles which occurs when at least one of the drivers is drunk. Then we could say that all car accidents are caused by being drunk.
An immuno-deficiency can be caused by lots of things. Transplant patients take drugs to cause an Aquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome. All transplants would have AIDS except that AIDS is defined to include a finding of HIV.
Suggesting that AIDS (the symptoms, not the defective definition) can be caused by non-HIV is perfectly reasonable. Clearly HIV is a big cause. Chemotherapy would be another cause.
There are a few places in Texas that can ship you beef from grass-fed longhorn cattle. They pack it in dry ice. You can also get goat meat. Sometimes they also have mostly grass-fed (some flax seed too) chicken, pork, and elk.
The kernel certainly does not support traditional Chinese, Thai and Arabic text rendering. Point to the source code; mere parsing of UTF-8 will not do the job.
Also, WTF? Outside of graphics mode, you get 256 different characters. You can go to 512 on VGA sometimes. You'll need many thousand characters to do a traditional Chinese installer. Text mode in no way lets you do a cursive script, which is required for Arabic. Thai is a bit of both, sort of.
Navigating an unfamiliar tree in text mode is a pain in the ass. The only decent way to navigate a tree in text mode is via command line with tab completion, but that sucks when you are unfamiliar with the tree. You need tree navigation to customize the list of packages to install.
Not everybody can read a language that works fine with 256 fixed-size characters. There exist languages like traditional Chinese, Thai, and Arabic. You won't get these people to suddenly switch to a more practical alphabet.
Completion bars are more readable with graphics. It's nice to see a diagram of how the hard drive is partitioned. Scroll bars are fast and informative.
There have been at least three machines where everybody on the net got to log in as root. SE Linux stopped people from messing things up, despite really having UID 0.
The nicest one is down now, but the FAQ is an interesting thing to read:
Don't worry about explosive decompression. It is unlikely. Most likely, the bullet will just cause a leak.
It's not as if this is a crystal spacecraft!
Ever punch a hole in a pressurized aluminum soda can? Even if you put the can in a campfire, 2/3 of the time you'll just make the tab pop open. Airplanes are like that, not like lightbulbs.
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Fedora Core 6 test 2 packages it as 64-bit.
About the only 32-bit thing left, besides libraries, is grub.
Typical: active web browsing, a few dozen windows open (tabs are for OSes without virtual desktops), and an uptime of about a month.
At that point I restart it, or the OS kills the damn thing for being too much of a hog. I have no doubt that firefox would consume infinite memory if this were possible.
Year by year, the software grows. Plan for regular desktop apps that consume multiple gigabytes. Some of the latest apps are even written in Python, C#, and Java. (less leaky perhaps, but the data structures are not even remotely lean)
You have a GUI to run: 600 MB for firefox, 1800 MB for OpenOffice.org, 100 MB for X, 100 MB for desktop odds and ends, 300 MB for Evolution or Thunderbird, and 10 MB for old-style stuff running in the background.
Total: 2910 MB
Yep, you need a gigabyte of swap. OpenOffice.org was made 64-bit clean for a reason. If you plan ahead, not wanting to reallocate disk space in the next few years, you'll allow for this:
2 GB for firefox, 5 GB for OpenOffice.org, 1/2 GB for X, 1/2 GB for desktop odds and ends, 1 GB for Evolution or Thunderbird, and 10 MB for old-style stuff running in the background
That's 9.01 GB. You're exactly 7.01 GB short, so you'll be needing that swap space before you know it.
Don't agree that global warming is man-made, severe, and long-term? You lose. Maybe the oil industry will throw you a few bucks for the paper, making your research look tainted.
The reviewers have their own careers at stake. If you don't support their little club, you're the enemy.
Sorry to hear you picked a worthless subject to major in. Hopefully you can take some night classes to learn a useful trade. I've heard that being an EMT is pretty decent, if you don't mind blood and gore and the mentally ill. Jobs involving care for the elderly should be picking up in the coming years. Plumbers and electricians do OK. Perhaps the military will take you; they provide for all your basic needs and you get to see the world.
Hmmm. Accompanied by beautiful women or just mosquitos and snakes?
Comparative religeon is worthless, with or without the damn Koran. You aren't going to use that to build a car, CPU, or ship.
Atmospheric science is effectively worthless because there are too many students. A fresh graduate is rather unlikely to get a job. We have more meteorologists than we know what to do with.
Useful: knowing how to build toys cheaper than the Chinese can build them.
Interstate highways in Alabama are useful because they help to drive the US economy.
It's part of the group punishment we deserve because some nudists ate God's fruit without permission.
If you want to study that stuff on your own dime, go right ahead.
If the rest of us are paying though, it's a different matter. We need:
math, engineering of all types, accounting, computer science, economics...
What is going to drive our economy? I'm sorry to say this, but evolutionary biology is some rather expensive and unnecessary training for a fry cook.
Suppose you get involved in a wreak, then a lawsuit or criminal proceeding. It's OK to use data which both cars provide, but what if one car collects more data than the other?
Data which is provided by only one car should only be usable for proving innocence. To prove guilt should require that equivalent data be available from all vehicles involved in the incident.
To avoid the addictive problems of morphine, we invented heroin. Oops.
The current definition of AIDS includes a finding of HIV. That's plain unfair.
We might just as well define a car accident to be a collision between vehicles which occurs when at least one of the drivers is drunk. Then we could say that all car accidents are caused by being drunk.
An immuno-deficiency can be caused by lots of things. Transplant patients take drugs to cause an Aquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome. All transplants would have AIDS except that AIDS is defined to include a finding of HIV.
Suggesting that AIDS (the symptoms, not the defective definition) can be caused by non-HIV is perfectly reasonable. Clearly HIV is a big cause. Chemotherapy would be another cause.
Herpes is life-long.
Warts can keep coming back, and they give you cancer.
Plenty of "curable" things leave you (or your baby) with permanent damage.
There are a few places in Texas that can ship you beef from grass-fed longhorn cattle. They pack it in dry ice. You can also get goat meat. Sometimes they also have mostly grass-fed (some flax seed too) chicken, pork, and elk.
The kernel certainly does not support traditional Chinese, Thai and Arabic text rendering. Point to the source code; mere parsing of UTF-8 will not do the job.
Also, WTF? Outside of graphics mode, you get 256 different characters. You can go to 512 on VGA sometimes. You'll need many thousand characters to do a traditional Chinese installer. Text mode in no way lets you do a cursive script, which is required for Arabic. Thai is a bit of both, sort of.
So there is TATP and thermite... what else?
I'm thinking phosphorous and perchlorates.
All you need: rust, aluminum, a strip of magnesium foil as a fuse, and a lighter.
That gives you thermite. Below your seat is some flammable stuff including the content of a very large fuel tank.
Navigating an unfamiliar tree in text mode is a pain in the ass. The only decent way to navigate a tree in text mode is via command line with tab completion, but that sucks when you are unfamiliar with the tree. You need tree navigation to customize the list of packages to install.
Not everybody can read a language that works fine with 256 fixed-size characters. There exist languages like traditional Chinese, Thai, and Arabic. You won't get these people to suddenly switch to a more practical alphabet.
Completion bars are more readable with graphics. It's nice to see a diagram of how the hard drive is partitioned. Scroll bars are fast and informative.
There have been at least three machines where
everybody on the net got to log in as root.
SE Linux stopped people from messing things up,
despite really having UID 0.
The nicest one is down now, but the FAQ is
an interesting thing to read:
http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/play.html
You also need a silver cross and some Holy Water.
It's a dog infection. Dogs can get infected by dogs.
If you prefer to be less specific, it's an animal infection. The dogs get infected by animal cells.
You need to support the proposed Alaska-Siberia crossing. With that, you really could take the train to Europe.
Go from Brazil to the UK even.
Don't worry about explosive decompression. It is unlikely. Most likely, the bullet will just cause a leak.
It's not as if this is a crystal spacecraft!
Ever punch a hole in a pressurized aluminum soda can? Even if you put the can in a campfire, 2/3 of the time you'll just make the tab pop open. Airplanes are like that, not like lightbulbs.
Freight often moves at 40 MPH. It rarely, if ever, goes above 70 MPH. Freight doesn't complain if the track is bumpy.
There is no desire to keep the tracks in decent condition. Being cheap is what matters.
FWIW, the USA is very good about shipping freight by rail. Europe more often has to use trucks. Rail is great for freight.
Defer it -- not tonight dear, I have a headache
Delegate it -- go fuck yourself
Delete it -- I'm leaving you