I have a new idea on d-i/network-console: multi-console support (screen/tmux).
For d-i on normal PC, we can simply press alt-F2 to get a console almost anytime during install, but it's not easy for current network-console if there's no serial console. So I'm wondering whether it's possible to add screen/tmux support.
Yeah, it's not worth much, but now I can actually see the use...
The most lag for me comes from the network connection's lag and the overloaded servers on the other end that take hundreds of milliseconds to respond.
If we discount those, the important thing is the layout engine's performance. I don't think any of those benchmarks test it. It's something you can't really test without a physical stopwatch anyway.
The most slowness comes from the megabyte of HTML, megabyte of CSS, and megabyte of JavaScript the browser has to parse on every page load because nobody knows how to write light web pages any more, since eeeeverything needs jquery and a couple of other frameworks.
Many merchants only charge when they are ready to send the goods. If your order takes, say, a few days to fulfil, you'll get a denied transaction because the CVV has changed.
I suppose in these cases the merchant typically asks for valid credit card information again though, so it's not really more than a bit of a pain.
That's the basic reason why your cable modem at 35 Mbps is SO much cheaper than the 35 Mbps serving your office. Your office likely doesn't share the bandwidth with other companies, and doesn't share the cost. They get the full 35 Mbps 24/7 and pay the full $500 / month.
I'm confused. I know cable connections are shared (with the neighbourhood), but I have a DSL connection. It's not shared. It's not overpriced either. So how come it's so cheap?
It's also my idea that the reason business-class connections are expensive is because they have service level agreements, i.e. they have a person monitoring the connection for any cuts, ready to send out a service team if necessary.
Well, it seems I was wrong here. It was not that CSS rule that was at fault. It was the one on line 1155, called "ng-cloak". Apparently its inclusion "prevents flicker on page load", according to w3schools.
The mistake I did is understandable when you are dealing with 308 KB of CSS minified to a single line. (The line numbers I mentioned came from manually line-breaking the file.)
One web site I used to use apparently introduced Angular to its codebase.
With it, there came a super-long CSS rule that says display: none to pretty much everything. Every single page is completely blank to me now. (I'm a NoScript user.)
Here's the rule, at line 2248 (out of 2713) in angular-material.min.css:
@media (min-width:1280px) and (max-width:1919px){.hide-gt-md:not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-lg):not(.show),.hide-gt-sm:not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-lg):not(.show),.hide-gt-xs:not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-lg):not(.show),.hide-lg:not(.show-lg):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show),.hide:not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-lg):not(.show){display:none}
(There are three or four such identical rules, for different device widths.)
I definitely prefer NVidia's low key control panel on my home machine over the flashy horrific mess that AMD puts on my work laptop.
I have a Radeon chip and somehow I managed to install the drivers with no control centre or anything. There's no indication of ATI stuff in the control panel, nothing in the systray, nothing in Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced either.
All I can find is some.exes in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
Used 13-1-legacy_xp32_dd_ccc_whql.exe (106 MB) to install it back when I did.
Just saying that a bare-driver installation is possible.
The xscreensaver daemon is a critical piece of security software. The reason for this is that, as a screen locker, any bug in the program that causes it to crash will cause the screen to unlock. As soon as xscreensaver is no longer running, the screen is no longer locked. Therefore, great care must be taken to ensure that the daemon never crash. And that it especially never crash as a result of (hostile) input from the keyboard or mouse.
Indeed, integer performance is what I look for in a CPU too. There are large swathes of applications that have little to no need for floating point.
That is not to say that the Piledriver's (or whatever's) FPU is in any way deficient. I'm not sure why it's getting the bad rap it gets. Is it because compilers emit 80-bit FP maths by default? [1] (The FPU can't do the 64/64bit split then, so it effectively runs at 'half speed'. Or so I guess.)
[1] I recall there being some medium-size brouhaha happening a number of years ago when GCC decided to move to 80-bit over 64-bit for most FP operations. Even when the value will be truncated down to 64 bits anyway.
I stand corrected. People are finding ways to do things in ridiculously small amounts of disk space.
Come on, an installation of Win95 took, what, under 50 megabytes? It's not really a stretch to think that you could squeeze quite a bit into 16 MB, when you don't need graphics and stuff and especially when you add disk compression to the mix.
That's curious. I've never seen a different approach made (for dynamic content HTTP requests). Things like FastCGI are the norm for me. What alternatives exist, and who/what uses them?
All that tells us is that Windows is better in one-on-one duels. Were they carried out with sabres or with guns? I think Apple would have an edge with sabres.
Second, BSD can taken... and re-copyrighted... and is no longer free.
No, BSD code can be distributed under a different licence, but it cannot be re-copyrighted nor cannot it be re-licensed without the copyright holder's approval.
The last bit was what happened with the Atheros driver thing in Linux. Someone thought they could strip the BSD licence off the files and replace it with GPL.
(Also, you're spreading that lie where BSD code can be 'closed' -- the original copy still remains open and free, does it not?)
and uses crappy old Mpeg 2 compression so the data is at least 10x the size it should be.
I think you are overestimating modern codecs. H264 is only about twice as space efficient as MPEG-2, for the same quality. The most modern codec we have, H265, has a 20-25 % edge over H264.
Yes, you can squeeze video to 400-800 kbps if you want, but high quality still takes high bit rates.
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Samsung is not exactly making an effort in making it succeed. The three phones listed are for the Indian market only.
That being said, $10k is a lot of money in India.
Thanks, I was wondering what GNU Screen was doing in an installer ... except that your post doesn't actually really illuminate the situation at all.
Anyway, I followed your links for a bit and here's (some) description of it : https://lists.debian.org/debia...
I have a new idea on d-i/network-console: multi-console support (screen/tmux).
For d-i on normal PC, we can simply press alt-F2 to get a console
almost anytime during install, but it's not easy for current
network-console if there's no serial console.
So I'm wondering whether it's possible to add screen/tmux support.
Yeah, it's not worth much, but now I can actually see the use ...
Oh so which is it? They're asian or pakistani?
In the UK, Asian = South Asian; people from the Indian subcontinent. Brown people.
In the US, Asian = East Asian; China, Korea etc. Yellow people.
Wiktionary, "Asian", senses 3 and 4
Just look at what happened to DuckDuckGo's or Soylentnews' TOR nodes: they've disappeared, because they didn't get enough traffic.
That's odd. When I duckduckgo for 'duckduckgo onion', I still get the "DuckDuckGo is available on Tor" message with a link to 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
Besides, aren't those all JavaScript benchmarks?
I couldn't care less about JS performance.
The most lag for me comes from the network connection's lag and the overloaded servers on the other end that take hundreds of milliseconds to respond.
If we discount those, the important thing is the layout engine's performance. I don't think any of those benchmarks test it. It's something you can't really test without a physical stopwatch anyway.
The most slowness comes from the megabyte of HTML, megabyte of CSS, and megabyte of JavaScript the browser has to parse on every page load because nobody knows how to write light web pages any more, since eeeeverything needs jquery and a couple of other frameworks.
>but my (obscure game)
Ah, the last refuge of the Windows shill - windows is a game launcher.
Hey, I play pretty much exclusively obscure games and I resent that.
If you publish source using BSD or MIT or similar licenses you should expect and like to be ripped off.
In fact, you should probably be proud that someone found use for your code.
My test goes like this:
Dear Aunt
Let's set so double the killer delete select all.
So, the summary should go:
"Martin Shkreli, known for having the most punchable face on earth, says he's interested in buying 4chan" ?
For online use, there's a bigger flaw:
Many merchants only charge when they are ready to send the goods. If your order takes, say, a few days to fulfil, you'll get a denied transaction because the CVV has changed.
I suppose in these cases the merchant typically asks for valid credit card information again though, so it's not really more than a bit of a pain.
That's the basic reason why your cable modem at 35 Mbps is SO much cheaper than the 35 Mbps serving your office. Your office likely doesn't share the bandwidth with other companies, and doesn't share the cost. They get the full 35 Mbps 24/7 and pay the full $500 / month.
I'm confused. I know cable connections are shared (with the neighbourhood), but I have a DSL connection. It's not shared. It's not overpriced either. So how come it's so cheap?
It's also my idea that the reason business-class connections are expensive is because they have service level agreements, i.e. they have a person monitoring the connection for any cuts, ready to send out a service team if necessary.
Well, it seems I was wrong here. It was not that CSS rule that was at fault. It was the one on line 1155, called "ng-cloak". Apparently its inclusion "prevents flicker on page load", according to w3schools.
The mistake I did is understandable when you are dealing with 308 KB of CSS minified to a single line. (The line numbers I mentioned came from manually line-breaking the file.)
It was actually a hobby paid-out-of-one's-pocket web site, not a business-run one. No advertisements that I've noticed.
I should've foreseen that something like this would happen when they said they were looking for "UX experts" about a year ago.
One web site I used to use apparently introduced Angular to its codebase.
With it, there came a super-long CSS rule that says display: none to pretty much everything. Every single page is completely blank to me now. (I'm a NoScript user.)
Here's the rule, at line 2248 (out of 2713) in angular-material.min.css:
@media (min-width:1280px) and (max-width:1919px){.hide-gt-md:not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-lg):not(.show),.hide-gt-sm:not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-lg):not(.show),.hide-gt-xs:not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-lg):not(.show),.hide-lg:not(.show-lg):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show),.hide:not(.show-gt-xs):not(.show-gt-sm):not(.show-gt-md):not(.show-lg):not(.show){display:none}
(There are three or four such identical rules, for different device widths.)
I definitely prefer NVidia's low key control panel on my home machine over the flashy horrific mess that AMD puts on my work laptop.
I have a Radeon chip and somehow I managed to install the drivers with no control centre or anything. There's no indication of ATI stuff in the control panel, nothing in the systray, nothing in Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced either.
All I can find is some .exes in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
Used 13-1-legacy_xp32_dd_ccc_whql.exe (106 MB) to install it back when I did.
Just saying that a bare-driver installation is possible.
They wrote and/or published a lot of platformer games in the early 1990s.
I was quite fond of Crystal Caves myself.
Zero-days that are used in a targetted attack, analysed. *That* is newsworthy.
Well, slashdotworthy in any case.
You can't publish what hasn't been leaked. And what's a better motivation for a hacker than a personal grudge?
If the screen locker succeeds, it is secure and you can't break out of it.
Unless it crashes. That was the problem with XLock: some of its screensavers tended to crash, which killed the process and the screen lock with it.
Jamie Zawinski wrote something about it: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
The xscreensaver daemon is a critical piece of security software. The reason for this is that, as a screen locker, any bug in the program that causes it to crash will cause the screen to unlock. As soon as xscreensaver is no longer running, the screen is no longer locked. Therefore, great care must be taken to ensure that the daemon never crash. And that it especially never crash as a result of (hostile) input from the keyboard or mouse.
Indeed, integer performance is what I look for in a CPU too. There are large swathes of applications that have little to no need for floating point.
That is not to say that the Piledriver's (or whatever's) FPU is in any way deficient. I'm not sure why it's getting the bad rap it gets. Is it because compilers emit 80-bit FP maths by default? [1] (The FPU can't do the 64/64bit split then, so it effectively runs at 'half speed'. Or so I guess.)
[1] I recall there being some medium-size brouhaha happening a number of years ago when GCC decided to move to 80-bit over 64-bit for most FP operations. Even when the value will be truncated down to 64 bits anyway.
I stand corrected. People are finding ways to do things in ridiculously small amounts of disk space.
Come on, an installation of Win95 took, what, under 50 megabytes? It's not really a stretch to think that you could squeeze quite a bit into 16 MB, when you don't need graphics and stuff and especially when you add disk compression to the mix.
That's curious. I've never seen a different approach made (for dynamic content HTTP requests). Things like FastCGI are the norm for me. What alternatives exist, and who/what uses them?
All duel booted in windows,
All that tells us is that Windows is better in one-on-one duels. Were they carried out with sabres or with guns? I think Apple would have an edge with sabres.
Second, BSD can taken... and re-copyrighted... and is no longer free.
No, BSD code can be distributed under a different licence, but it cannot be re-copyrighted nor cannot it be re-licensed without the copyright holder's approval.
The last bit was what happened with the Atheros driver thing in Linux. Someone thought they could strip the BSD licence off the files and replace it with GPL.
(Also, you're spreading that lie where BSD code can be 'closed' -- the original copy still remains open and free, does it not?)
and uses crappy old Mpeg 2 compression so the data is at least 10x the size it should be.
I think you are overestimating modern codecs. H264 is only about twice as space efficient as MPEG-2, for the same quality. The most modern codec we have, H265, has a 20-25 % edge over H264.
Yes, you can squeeze video to 400-800 kbps if you want, but high quality still takes high bit rates.