I routinely run UNIX based servers with no swap partition, because I know the maximum working set is much smaller than the available RAM.
That's incredibly dumb. FreeBSD, for example, uses slow times stretches to pre-emptively copy idle resident processes to SWAP - not moving them, but copying them - so that a lot of RAM is available on an instant's notice should a process suddenly need it. Maybe Linux does this now, too, but I haven't looked into it. By disabling swap, you're removing a huge optimization that makes a difference in the real world and gaining absolutely nothing in return.
You know, it's funny, I've been reading a lot about 1930s Germany lately, and what you said describes the German view of Jews to a T. Including the 'seperate them from us' and 'they are no longer human' part. And here it is, modded to +5 Insightful on Slashdot.
Technology is America's last standing dominant industry. Patent trolls are targeting American companies solely and directly, hamstringing our citizens while allowing the rest of the world's industries to flourish unhampered, and very literally gaining personal riches by undermining our economy. I truly meant it when I described their actions as criminal and treasonous.
Your comparison of the prosecution of criminals to the execution of innocents is factually invalid, historically inaccurate, and remarkably callous.
There has evolved in our society a class of villains who would destroy the republic for love of profit. They are amoral and sociopathic, delighting in the money they steal from its citizens, allowed to thrive by our fatally broken legal system, and in the end relying on the armed strength of the government to confiscate their misgotten gains.
I no longer see a reason why these subpeople should be allowed to walk freely among the citizens of our country. They are guilty of treason by criminal negligence, and have forfeited their right to be considered equals under the law by their utter contempt of the same.
The uppercase "Agile" always refers to someone's attempted implementation of the former, and is generally a disaster and/or sham. This description is consistent with what I've seen so far.
All these years I thought I was just hacking code, but as it turns out I was practicing Agile development. I are teh cool.
It's not. The LGPL is the Lesser GPL because its requirements on distributors are less than that of the full GPL.
As factually incorrect as mr_matticus is throughout the rest of this thread, he's correct here. The LGPL used to be the "Library GPL" until the FSF renamed it to "Lesser" to make it sound less desirable (which I happen to think was a good idea, but that's beside the point).
I can't speak for everyone, but for me the dealbreaker is that Opera isn't Free Software. There are enough FOSS options out there which support enough of Opera's features that I have no urge to hitch my fortunes to a proprietary application.
I'm not saying it's a bad browser or begrudging anyone else who chooses to use it, but it just doesn't have anything to offer me. I suspect that I'm not alone on this.
Unfortunately, for me, it also had a habit of not properly repainting the window. I could browse to a page, and as it rendered, it would "forget" to erase the previous stuff it drew, leading to a huge mess.
I have similar problems under X with the closed source NVidia drivers and "backing store" enabled. Random bits of windows stay there forever until you force them to be repainted by scrolling around or changing virtual desktops, etc. That tended to manifest with FF3 when I was typing in the address bar and using the arrow keys to flip through matching history items, and I'd end up with several entries highlighted.
And what flavor is your anti-Kool-Aid. You seem to be on a mission to discount any of Apple's efforts.
I wrote that on a Mac, sparky. That doesn't change the fact that Apple LGPL'ed WebKit because they had no choice in the matter, not because of their magnificent charity toward mankind. Who knows - maybe they would've done so anyway if they'd written it from scratch? We'll never know because that's not the route they picked.
Or even version control. As much love as Git and Subversion get around here, I'm surprised you don't hear more people advocating using them for config files.
What kind of environment are you in where you don't first test your patches that are going out to live production machines? Regardless of the fact that it is linux and not windows, you should always test your patches before you roll them production.
Disclaimer: I test first.
You know, lot of people work in small shops that can't afford multiple redundant servers. I suspect that business with a single DNS/web/mailserver are a lot more common than Slashdotters this morning seem to thing. What are those admins supposed to do? They're receiving a critical security patch from a trusted vendor, and I imagine a lot of them feel pretty safe applying that to their sole production server. This doesn't make them stupid or incompetent.
I have the luxury of lots of hardware that can fill in for other gear in a pinch, but lots of people don't. They don't deserve scorn for it.
Actually, rather than seeing a cap on punitive damages I would just like to see the requirement that you be able to prove malice on the part of the person who harmed you before you can get punitive damages.
I wasn't proposing a cap on damages, but a cap on how much the plaintiff could actually collect. GM maliciously and negligently makes bad breaks that kill people? Sue them for $100M, but don't expect to personally see it. But I'd be perfectly OK with a sane compromise like yours that reserves punishment for people who actually deserve to be punished.
I'm a single person with no kids -- why the hell should I carry life insurance? Does that mean my life is only worth the cost of my funeral?
Financially? Yeah, it does. The point of life insurance is to compensate people for the income you'll no longer be able to provide for them, plus a bit to cover your final expenses. For instance, if I die, my wife will be paid for quite a few years of my salary, because she would be able to use that money if I were still alive. Who would be put in a financial bind if you died?
Now, I know that comes across as more cold and harsh than I mean, and I'm not saying that my life is more valuable than yours in any other sense. From a strictly financial perspective, though, it is.
Fixed that for you;) Sorry, I couldn't help but think of all of the "reputable" used car salesmen and loan shark^W^Wpayday lenders I've seen on the back of the phone book.
I never said that I only dislike personal injury lawyers.:-) I saw a comparison ad from rent-to-own company A highlighting how much cheaper they were than rent-to-own company B. For instance, you could get a $500 laptop from A for only $1750, whereas B would charge up to $2500. Now, I love capitalism and I'm firmly behind the idea of consenting adults to work out contracts amongst themselves, but that's just repulsive.
My for tort reform: tax punitive damages at 100%. That way you still have the ability to punish a large corporation if they deserve it, but there's no longer a profit motive. My dad's idea: you shouldn't be able to sue for wrongful death damages for more money than the person carried in life insurance. If they only took out a $20,000 policy, they shouldn't be able to claim $4,000,000 in actual damages.
Yeah, I read up on Edwards. He had a couple of lawsuits that seemed vaguely reasonable, but a few others that were just awful.
I don't dislike attorneys in general! All of the business-oriented ones I've dealt with have been decent, intelligent people. Still, if you're an attorney and your face is on the back of then phone book, then you need shot.
According to an econ professor I had, those groups of "intelligent" people who think that the tax rate is higher than the optimal value are not economists.
Interestingly enough, I heard the exact opposite from mine. Go figure.
100% - when the tax rate is expressed as the percentage of the cost to the buyer that goes to the government.
I read once (on Slashdot, so here's your grain of salt) that at one time the theoretical highest marginal income tax bracket in Sweden (Switzerland?) was 190%, so that each dollar you earned actually cost you. That was one of the reasons for tossing in the higher numbers, along with the fact that if I'd picked one set number - no matter how high - some jackass would feel the need to prove me wrong.
Keyword: "much". He was better, if still in the ballpark.
Would you still think that if you were genuinely injured and had your insurance company try to shove some "settlement" down your throat that didn't even come close to paying for your medical bills?
My wife's a doctor, and consequently I know quite a few. Malpractice lawsuits have driven up insurance rates, but an even more insidious cost is the amount of defensive medicine being practiced these days. Ever notice that you get a chest x-ray if you go to the doctor with bronchitis? That because someone, somewhere missed a lung cancer diagnosis because it mimicked something benign, then lost a few million in court. Your doctor doesn't want to be the one to make that mistake a second time.
The extra vigilance is good to a point, but eventually you reach a point where diagnostic resources are overwhelmed and little marginal good is done ("Think you have a hangnail? We better do an MRI to rule out a rare bone condition that only 3 people have.") We're almost at that point today, and I place the blame squarely at the feet of Edwards and his colleagues. He was the last person I wanted to have one breath away from being in charge of the country's medical system.
So instead of voting for the unknown quality that came across as wholly fake and manufactured you voted for the known incompetent quality that came across as wholly fake and manufactured?
Again, it was opinion. At least Bush said some of the things I wanted to hear, on balance. I truly saw him as the lesser evil and voted accordingly.
I regret now that I didn't vote for Badnarik. The Republican candidate is 99% likely to carry my state anyway, so I'm pretty sure I'm voting 3rd party.
Slashdot Mirror
I routinely run UNIX based servers with no swap partition, because I know the maximum working set is much smaller than the available RAM.
That's incredibly dumb. FreeBSD, for example, uses slow times stretches to pre-emptively copy idle resident processes to SWAP - not moving them, but copying them - so that a lot of RAM is available on an instant's notice should a process suddenly need it. Maybe Linux does this now, too, but I haven't looked into it. By disabling swap, you're removing a huge optimization that makes a difference in the real world and gaining absolutely nothing in return.
You know, it's funny, I've been reading a lot about 1930s Germany lately, and what you said describes the German view of Jews to a T. Including the 'seperate them from us' and 'they are no longer human' part. And here it is, modded to +5 Insightful on Slashdot.
Technology is America's last standing dominant industry. Patent trolls are targeting American companies solely and directly, hamstringing our citizens while allowing the rest of the world's industries to flourish unhampered, and very literally gaining personal riches by undermining our economy. I truly meant it when I described their actions as criminal and treasonous.
Your comparison of the prosecution of criminals to the execution of innocents is factually invalid, historically inaccurate, and remarkably callous.
There has evolved in our society a class of villains who would destroy the republic for love of profit. They are amoral and sociopathic, delighting in the money they steal from its citizens, allowed to thrive by our fatally broken legal system, and in the end relying on the armed strength of the government to confiscate their misgotten gains.
I no longer see a reason why these subpeople should be allowed to walk freely among the citizens of our country. They are guilty of treason by criminal negligence, and have forfeited their right to be considered equals under the law by their utter contempt of the same.
The uppercase "Agile" always refers to someone's attempted implementation of the former, and is generally a disaster and/or sham. This description is consistent with what I've seen so far.
All these years I thought I was just hacking code, but as it turns out I was practicing Agile development. I are teh cool.
It's not. The LGPL is the Lesser GPL because its requirements on distributors are less than that of the full GPL.
As factually incorrect as mr_matticus is throughout the rest of this thread, he's correct here. The LGPL used to be the "Library GPL" until the FSF renamed it to "Lesser" to make it sound less desirable (which I happen to think was a good idea, but that's beside the point).
I can't speak for everyone, but for me the dealbreaker is that Opera isn't Free Software. There are enough FOSS options out there which support enough of Opera's features that I have no urge to hitch my fortunes to a proprietary application.
I'm not saying it's a bad browser or begrudging anyone else who chooses to use it, but it just doesn't have anything to offer me. I suspect that I'm not alone on this.
Unfortunately, for me, it also had a habit of not properly repainting the window. I could browse to a page, and as it rendered, it would "forget" to erase the previous stuff it drew, leading to a huge mess.
I have similar problems under X with the closed source NVidia drivers and "backing store" enabled. Random bits of windows stay there forever until you force them to be repainted by scrolling around or changing virtual desktops, etc. That tended to manifest with FF3 when I was typing in the address bar and using the arrow keys to flip through matching history items, and I'd end up with several entries highlighted.
Could something like that be affecting you?
And what flavor is your anti-Kool-Aid. You seem to be on a mission to discount any of Apple's efforts.
I wrote that on a Mac, sparky. That doesn't change the fact that Apple LGPL'ed WebKit because they had no choice in the matter, not because of their magnificent charity toward mankind. Who knows - maybe they would've done so anyway if they'd written it from scratch? We'll never know because that's not the route they picked.
WebKit was developed by Apple, originally as a fork of KHTML for their Safari browser.
Do you prefer the cherry or grape Kool-Aid?
Apple open-sourced WebKit
KDE open-sourced KHTML. Apple didn't have a choice in the matter.
and it was so good that many of its improvements were copied back into KHTML.
It was so divergent that the KDE folks pretty much had to accept WebKit as the new KHTML if they wanted to accept the improvements.
As you said, don't let reality get in the way.
That does not address the duplication of "=".
I know, I submitted a former employer
Oh behalf of everyone here: fuck you. Seriously.
Summary: keep backups. :-)
You claimed innocence by significant digits and the cop bought it? Well played, good sir!
Or even version control. As much love as Git and Subversion get around here, I'm surprised you don't hear more people advocating using them for config files.
What kind of environment are you in where you don't first test your patches that are going out to live production machines? Regardless of the fact that it is linux and not windows, you should always test your patches before you roll them production.
Disclaimer: I test first.
You know, lot of people work in small shops that can't afford multiple redundant servers. I suspect that business with a single DNS/web/mailserver are a lot more common than Slashdotters this morning seem to thing. What are those admins supposed to do? They're receiving a critical security patch from a trusted vendor, and I imagine a lot of them feel pretty safe applying that to their sole production server. This doesn't make them stupid or incompetent.
I have the luxury of lots of hardware that can fill in for other gear in a pinch, but lots of people don't. They don't deserve scorn for it.
So, /tmp/input.1249a8az.pr0 was a program, /dev/ttyP0 returned a filename, then you'd cat that file to view the results? Wacky, man.
In Soviet Russia, sofa lazy-boys you!
Now you tell me.
What's up with Op Ivy in your sig?
Actually, rather than seeing a cap on punitive damages I would just like to see the requirement that you be able to prove malice on the part of the person who harmed you before you can get punitive damages.
I wasn't proposing a cap on damages, but a cap on how much the plaintiff could actually collect. GM maliciously and negligently makes bad breaks that kill people? Sue them for $100M, but don't expect to personally see it. But I'd be perfectly OK with a sane compromise like yours that reserves punishment for people who actually deserve to be punished.
I'm a single person with no kids -- why the hell should I carry life insurance? Does that mean my life is only worth the cost of my funeral?
Financially? Yeah, it does. The point of life insurance is to compensate people for the income you'll no longer be able to provide for them, plus a bit to cover your final expenses. For instance, if I die, my wife will be paid for quite a few years of my salary, because she would be able to use that money if I were still alive. Who would be put in a financial bind if you died?
Now, I know that comes across as more cold and harsh than I mean, and I'm not saying that my life is more valuable than yours in any other sense. From a strictly financial perspective, though, it is.
Fixed that for you ;) Sorry, I couldn't help but think of all of the "reputable" used car salesmen and loan shark^W^Wpayday lenders I've seen on the back of the phone book.
I never said that I only dislike personal injury lawyers. :-) I saw a comparison ad from rent-to-own company A highlighting how much cheaper they were than rent-to-own company B. For instance, you could get a $500 laptop from A for only $1750, whereas B would charge up to $2500. Now, I love capitalism and I'm firmly behind the idea of consenting adults to work out contracts amongst themselves, but that's just repulsive.
My for tort reform: tax punitive damages at 100%. That way you still have the ability to punish a large corporation if they deserve it, but there's no longer a profit motive. My dad's idea: you shouldn't be able to sue for wrongful death damages for more money than the person carried in life insurance. If they only took out a $20,000 policy, they shouldn't be able to claim $4,000,000 in actual damages.
Yeah, I read up on Edwards. He had a couple of lawsuits that seemed vaguely reasonable, but a few others that were just awful.
I don't dislike attorneys in general! All of the business-oriented ones I've dealt with have been decent, intelligent people. Still, if you're an attorney and your face is on the back of then phone book, then you need shot.
And then we feed your corpse to pigs. Iraqi Pigs.
They have pigs in Iraq? Glad to see they've relaxed a bit.
According to an econ professor I had, those groups of "intelligent" people who think that the tax rate is higher than the optimal value are not economists.
Interestingly enough, I heard the exact opposite from mine. Go figure.
100% - when the tax rate is expressed as the percentage of the cost to the buyer that goes to the government.
I read once (on Slashdot, so here's your grain of salt) that at one time the theoretical highest marginal income tax bracket in Sweden (Switzerland?) was 190%, so that each dollar you earned actually cost you. That was one of the reasons for tossing in the higher numbers, along with the fact that if I'd picked one set number - no matter how high - some jackass would feel the need to prove me wrong.
No disagreements on the rest.
Didn't you just undercut your own argument?
Keyword: "much". He was better, if still in the ballpark.
Would you still think that if you were genuinely injured and had your insurance company try to shove some "settlement" down your throat that didn't even come close to paying for your medical bills?
My wife's a doctor, and consequently I know quite a few. Malpractice lawsuits have driven up insurance rates, but an even more insidious cost is the amount of defensive medicine being practiced these days. Ever notice that you get a chest x-ray if you go to the doctor with bronchitis? That because someone, somewhere missed a lung cancer diagnosis because it mimicked something benign, then lost a few million in court. Your doctor doesn't want to be the one to make that mistake a second time.
The extra vigilance is good to a point, but eventually you reach a point where diagnostic resources are overwhelmed and little marginal good is done ("Think you have a hangnail? We better do an MRI to rule out a rare bone condition that only 3 people have.") We're almost at that point today, and I place the blame squarely at the feet of Edwards and his colleagues. He was the last person I wanted to have one breath away from being in charge of the country's medical system.
So instead of voting for the unknown quality that came across as wholly fake and manufactured you voted for the known incompetent quality that came across as wholly fake and manufactured?
Again, it was opinion. At least Bush said some of the things I wanted to hear, on balance. I truly saw him as the lesser evil and voted accordingly.
I regret now that I didn't vote for Badnarik. The Republican candidate is 99% likely to carry my state anyway, so I'm pretty sure I'm voting 3rd party.