Somehow, using all available RAM for file caching seems to me to be leading to a potential RAM-thrash as you load up some useful applications. So please, educate me, and explain how this is not a problem.
As you load "useful applications", cache memory is freed for them. Surely, this is obvious ?
The last mainstream OS to have a static cache was MacOS Classic. Before that, it was OS/2. Windows has had a dynamic disk cache since 1995 ('92 if you want to include Windows NT).
Doesn't require advanced knowledge to make sense of that ouput, or understand how memory is being used.
Yes, it does. Even a "power user" is probably only going to understand "free", while Active/Inactive/Wired/Cache/Buf will just come across as static. Heck, I spent years adminning FreeBSD systems and I had to go and remind myself exactly what was what just then.
The typical end user only barely grasps the difference between the RAM and permanent storage, on a good day.
It pays for it because for just about everything there is a paging cost, even if its a deferred write to the page file. In an environment where paging is not typically required, it means Windows is technically running slower than need be.
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But now that RAM is cheap and plentiful, in my opinion, their "optimization" now only serves to slow systems down and confuse the hell out of people who don't understand how Windows uses paging.
If pages are being written out when the system is otherwise idle (as Windows does), then there is no "slowdown".
So back to your question. Would a full nude photo of your 14 year old daughter be considered anything less than child pornography? Not just nudes shot by herself or her boyfriend, but nudes shot by an adult, who is in a position of authority over her. A person she didn't even know was watching her. They weren't peeping through an open window. Despite her beliefs that she was alone and unseen, safe in her own room.
Like I said, I hope not. It'd basically make any photos I might take at a nude beach that just happened to catch someone under 18 in the background, child pornography (or at risk of being so).
Wouldn't you now admit that those pictures were pornography created by a pedophile, and look for the absolutely worst sentence you could as the prosecution to give them?
Hell no. Though, of course, I believe in proportional responses, not "save the children at all costs" hysteria. Someone undressing is not inherently pornography, and even if someone is playing peeping tom at a minor, it's highly unlikely they are deserving of the same sentencing as someone coercing or physically harming a child with the intent of producing material to be provided to others.
No shit. Not that I advocate underage people doing anything, but all it takes is one girl changing clothes in her room with the laptop turned on, and then they have a stack of federal charges.
I would like to think that the system is not yet insane enough such that "changing clothes" qualifies as "pornography".
Certainly under linux ram used as disk cache is marked "free".
In top it appears as "buffers" or "cached". We have numerous servers with 32G of RAM, of which ~29G ends up being used as disk cache ("free" hovers around zero, and a little - maybe a few 10s to 100s of MB - of swap is used).
Windows is targeted because of the poor security choices from Microsoft. To name a few, ()patch Tuesday, ()cannot delete opened file, ()No distinction between administrator and normal user, ()backward compatibility back to DOS, ()GUI in server and for administration tasks,()no distinction between executables and normal files,()whole hard drive is writable, ()complex database for configuration and the list goes on.
These are all disingenuous at best, flat-out false at worst. Surely you can do better ?
Searching a subfolder inside your inbox still doesn't work (it will find items but you can't open them), It has the must unusual ideas about drag and drop attachments (sometimes it just attaches a GIF icon, but not the document itself), And my favorite, it will randomly exit with an error (an error has occured, would you like to send a report?), when right clicking selected text to change the typeface...
Can't say I've seen any of these problems, ever. Do you have any custom extensions or plugins for your Outlook install ?
and how well publicised is this? That is the first time I've ever heard that!
About as much as it can be - which is to say that it shouldn't take someone actually interested in filtering software more than a few minutes of clicking around in the "support" or "FAQ" pages of their (or any) ISP.
Completely aside, proprietary software tends to reinvent everything with every project. Security in open source software has a few independently developed components that can be reused across a range of software. Teams focus on that one component, and when that project updates every connected piece of software improves. In proprietary software all compatibility and integration is explicit; every application seems to live in its own special bubble rather than being integrated. For cross project integration and compatibility, nothing comes close to Linux/FLOSS environment.
It's like you've taken how the world actually works, then reversed everything and proclaimed it awesome. Are you a libertarian, by any chance ?
Don't be so hasty. Software is something that can be made for love of the art.
I don't disagree [0].
My point was, however, that "for the love of it" is not a convincing argument why a given endeavour will produce a better outcome. It also rather arrogantly assumes that people getting paid can't be people also doing something because they enjoy it.
I don't see why you put forward examples about making one's own tools or medicines by way of ridicule as this was not the GP's thrust. Free Software developers are well known for sharing code which implies using others, they call it "libraries", fucknuts, and the idea is to avoid as much DIY as possible.
The OSS world is _renowned_ for reinventing the wheel.
[0] Well, apart from the "art" bit. The typical piece of code is no more "art" than a McMansion is "architecture", and the typical programmer more like Bob the Builder than Michelangelo.
Welcome to the world where you can make PREDICTIONS about the tide and the moon which ACTUALLY COME TRUE EVERY SINGLE TIME WITH A STUNNING DEGREE OF ACCURACY and show you have a useful model with gravity.
Can you predict how high up the beach the water will be, at any given second ?
MS software is way too willing to execute code in an email or on a web page just because they wanted to do something flashy without putting any responsibility on the user to know what the heck was going on.
Pretty much all the examples of this I can think of not only leave the decision in the hands of the user, but default to "Do not do this".
I know what you mean. I only drive cars that have been hand-assembled by individuals working out of their backyards. Similarly, I wouldn't dream of visiting a doctor who didn't make all his own tools or who sent me to an apothecarist who wasn't personally assembling all his medicine from locally-sourced ingredients.
I'd say that the majority of families that I've seen have asked about internet filtering. Many people do want it.
And they can get it - right now - without the rest of us having to suffer. All ISPs in Australia must provide customers with filtering software if they want it.
I suspect I know what you're driving at, but would you care to frame it less rhetorically? I'm disinclined to launch skeet for you, but I'm happy to discuss your objections should you desire to actually voice them.
You appear to be criticising a lack of innovation. I want to understand what qualifies as "innovation" to you, so I know whether your criticism is reasonable, or standard Slashdot anti-Microsoft rhetoric.
The issue with athletic events is whether or not the actual event ("performance") is copyrightable. If it is copyrightable, then such things as the unauthorized republishing of final scores, descriptions of plays or strategies, etc. might well be copyright infringement, unless saved by fair use. If athletic events are not copyrightable, then those same republished scores and descriptions are not infringements (though the video broadcast would probably still be copyrightable, as there was a director making creative choices about which video feeds to use for the broadcast, and the cameramen practicing their craft as well). In other words, the key issue isn't the uncopyrightability of facts, but whether the athletic event itself is subject to copyright.
Interestingly enough, live sports broadcasts are one of the few things it *is* legal to record at home in Australia, precisely because of their "live" (ie: not scripted/produced/"creative") nature.
Every dollar they make today, from any product, is because they won the browser war. The predictions from 1996 turned out correct: the browser *is* the operating system; the browser *is* the platform on which software is developed.
Uh, what ? Exchange+Outlook, word-processed documents, data analysis (Excel), presentations (Powerpoint), pretty much any specialised application (publishing, CAD/CAM, etc) are all where the big bucks are made for most software vendors. Almost inherently, just about everything deployed via a web browser has to be done for "free" (ie: at no cost to the user).
But Office hasn't changed meaningfully in 6-12 years--sure there are new features that some folks like, but when I switched from WordPerfect 5.1 to Office 97 (?) that was the last time I noticed a significant change in feature set and usability. And the Windows OS has had a lot of changes under the hood, but XP to Windows 7 is much the same progression as Office 97 to Office 2007--security and cosmetics but no real innovation.
Can you define what you mean by "innovation" ? Examples would be best.
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Somehow, using all available RAM for file caching seems to me to be leading to a potential RAM-thrash as you load up some useful applications. So please, educate me, and explain how this is not a problem.
As you load "useful applications", cache memory is freed for them. Surely, this is obvious ?
The last mainstream OS to have a static cache was MacOS Classic. Before that, it was OS/2. Windows has had a dynamic disk cache since 1995 ('92 if you want to include Windows NT).
Doesn't require advanced knowledge to make sense of that ouput, or understand how memory is being used.
Yes, it does. Even a "power user" is probably only going to understand "free", while Active/Inactive/Wired/Cache/Buf will just come across as static. Heck, I spent years adminning FreeBSD systems and I had to go and remind myself exactly what was what just then.
The typical end user only barely grasps the difference between the RAM and permanent storage, on a good day.
It pays for it because for just about everything there is a paging cost, even if its a deferred write to the page file. In an environment where paging is not typically required, it means Windows is technically running slower than need be.
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But now that RAM is cheap and plentiful, in my opinion, their "optimization" now only serves to slow systems down and confuse the hell out of people who don't understand how Windows uses paging.
If pages are being written out when the system is otherwise idle (as Windows does), then there is no "slowdown".
So back to your question. Would a full nude photo of your 14 year old daughter be considered anything less than child pornography? Not just nudes shot by herself or her boyfriend, but nudes shot by an adult, who is in a position of authority over her. A person she didn't even know was watching her. They weren't peeping through an open window. Despite her beliefs that she was alone and unseen, safe in her own room.
Like I said, I hope not. It'd basically make any photos I might take at a nude beach that just happened to catch someone under 18 in the background, child pornography (or at risk of being so).
Wouldn't you now admit that those pictures were pornography created by a pedophile, and look for the absolutely worst sentence you could as the prosecution to give them?
Hell no. Though, of course, I believe in proportional responses, not "save the children at all costs" hysteria. Someone undressing is not inherently pornography, and even if someone is playing peeping tom at a minor, it's highly unlikely they are deserving of the same sentencing as someone coercing or physically harming a child with the intent of producing material to be provided to others.
No shit. Not that I advocate underage people doing anything, but all it takes is one girl changing clothes in her room with the laptop turned on, and then they have a stack of federal charges.
I would like to think that the system is not yet insane enough such that "changing clothes" qualifies as "pornography".
Certainly under linux ram used as disk cache is marked "free".
In top it appears as "buffers" or "cached". We have numerous servers with 32G of RAM, of which ~29G ends up being used as disk cache ("free" hovers around zero, and a little - maybe a few 10s to 100s of MB - of swap is used).
Security is not proportional to popularity.
Frequency and consequences of exploitation (which is what people here generally mean when they say "security"), however, is.
Windows is targeted because of the poor security choices from Microsoft. To name a few, ()patch Tuesday, ()cannot delete opened file, ()No distinction between administrator and normal user, ()backward compatibility back to DOS, ()GUI in server and for administration tasks,()no distinction between executables and normal files,()whole hard drive is writable, ()complex database for configuration and the list goes on.
These are all disingenuous at best, flat-out false at worst. Surely you can do better ?
That Apache argument is one of the best I have heard.
No, it's idiotic. If for no other reason than because Apache servers are such a tiny minority of computers in the first place.
Being the most popular of an insignificant proportion, is no different to just being an insignificant proportion.
Searching a subfolder inside your inbox still doesn't work (it will find items but you can't open them), It has the must unusual ideas about drag and drop attachments (sometimes it just attaches a GIF icon, but not the document itself), And my favorite, it will randomly exit with an error (an error has occured, would you like to send a report?), when right clicking selected text to change the typeface...
Can't say I've seen any of these problems, ever. Do you have any custom extensions or plugins for your Outlook install ?
He is out for himself and himself alone, [...]
That's pretty much the definition of chaotic neutral, which Riddick most certainly is.
If he were "chaotic evil", he would never have gone back to the others, or would only have done so to lure them out to be eaten by the beasties.
and how well publicised is this? That is the first time I've ever heard that!
About as much as it can be - which is to say that it shouldn't take someone actually interested in filtering software more than a few minutes of clicking around in the "support" or "FAQ" pages of their (or any) ISP.
The law was enacted around 2000, from memory.
Completely aside, proprietary software tends to reinvent everything with every project. Security in open source software has a few independently developed components that can be reused across a range of software. Teams focus on that one component, and when that project updates every connected piece of software improves. In proprietary software all compatibility and integration is explicit; every application seems to live in its own special bubble rather than being integrated. For cross project integration and compatibility, nothing comes close to Linux/FLOSS environment.
It's like you've taken how the world actually works, then reversed everything and proclaimed it awesome. Are you a libertarian, by any chance ?
Don't be so hasty. Software is something that can be made for love of the art.
I don't disagree [0].
My point was, however, that "for the love of it" is not a convincing argument why a given endeavour will produce a better outcome. It also rather arrogantly assumes that people getting paid can't be people also doing something because they enjoy it.
I don't see why you put forward examples about making one's own tools or medicines by way of ridicule as this was not the GP's thrust. Free Software developers are well known for sharing code which implies using others, they call it "libraries", fucknuts, and the idea is to avoid as much DIY as possible.
The OSS world is _renowned_ for reinventing the wheel.
[0] Well, apart from the "art" bit. The typical piece of code is no more "art" than a McMansion is "architecture", and the typical programmer more like Bob the Builder than Michelangelo.
Welcome to the world where you can make PREDICTIONS about the tide and the moon which ACTUALLY COME TRUE EVERY SINGLE TIME WITH A STUNNING DEGREE OF ACCURACY and show you have a useful model with gravity.
Can you predict how high up the beach the water will be, at any given second ?
MS software is way too willing to execute code in an email or on a web page just because they wanted to do something flashy without putting any responsibility on the user to know what the heck was going on.
Pretty much all the examples of this I can think of not only leave the decision in the hands of the user, but default to "Do not do this".
I know which one I trust.
I know what you mean. I only drive cars that have been hand-assembled by individuals working out of their backyards. Similarly, I wouldn't dream of visiting a doctor who didn't make all his own tools or who sent me to an apothecarist who wasn't personally assembling all his medicine from locally-sourced ingredients.
* File Locked rather than writeable by administrator for upgrade purposes.
Firstly, what do you mean ? Secondly, how is this a security issue ?
* Ring 1 or higher code being able to write to Ring 0 locations.
More details, please.
* Administrative users necessary to run most things (MS software or otherwise).
An application issue. Has nothing to do with the kernel at all, let alone its design.
* Proprietary networking.
TCP/IP is proprietary ?
* Lack of regression testing (LAND should just never have happened).
A process problem, nothing to do with design.
I'd say that the majority of families that I've seen have asked about internet filtering. Many people do want it.
And they can get it - right now - without the rest of us having to suffer. All ISPs in Australia must provide customers with filtering software if they want it.
It would take about 200TB to record a lifetime of audio at CD quality.
Sure, but would you want to record your *life* with the empty soundstage and lack of warmth inherent to mere "CD quality" ?
I suspect I know what you're driving at, but would you care to frame it less rhetorically? I'm disinclined to launch skeet for you, but I'm happy to discuss your objections should you desire to actually voice them.
You appear to be criticising a lack of innovation. I want to understand what qualifies as "innovation" to you, so I know whether your criticism is reasonable, or standard Slashdot anti-Microsoft rhetoric.
The issue with athletic events is whether or not the actual event ("performance") is copyrightable. If it is copyrightable, then such things as the unauthorized republishing of final scores, descriptions of plays or strategies, etc. might well be copyright infringement, unless saved by fair use. If athletic events are not copyrightable, then those same republished scores and descriptions are not infringements (though the video broadcast would probably still be copyrightable, as there was a director making creative choices about which video feeds to use for the broadcast, and the cameramen practicing their craft as well). In other words, the key issue isn't the uncopyrightability of facts, but whether the athletic event itself is subject to copyright.
Interestingly enough, live sports broadcasts are one of the few things it *is* legal to record at home in Australia, precisely because of their "live" (ie: not scripted/produced/"creative") nature.
Every dollar they make today, from any product, is because they won the browser war. The predictions from 1996 turned out correct: the browser *is* the operating system; the browser *is* the platform on which software is developed.
Uh, what ? Exchange+Outlook, word-processed documents, data analysis (Excel), presentations (Powerpoint), pretty much any specialised application (publishing, CAD/CAM, etc) are all where the big bucks are made for most software vendors. Almost inherently, just about everything deployed via a web browser has to be done for "free" (ie: at no cost to the user).
But Office hasn't changed meaningfully in 6-12 years--sure there are new features that some folks like, but when I switched from WordPerfect 5.1 to Office 97 (?) that was the last time I noticed a significant change in feature set and usability. And the Windows OS has had a lot of changes under the hood, but XP to Windows 7 is much the same progression as Office 97 to Office 2007--security and cosmetics but no real innovation.
Can you define what you mean by "innovation" ? Examples would be best.
Neiter does evolution.
You do not understand evolution, and should not talk about it.