35-420mm? Yikes! "Outstanding lens" isn't just about focal length, it's about *quality*; everything I've seen about the Minolta Z range has not impressed me in this regard. The Lumix didn't impress me either; the chromic abberation I saw on pretty much every single shot almost made my eyes bleed:/
My Olympus C-750 Ultra Zoom was very nice, though, so it's not unthinkable to produce a decent UZ lens around this price range; I'd be surprised if they aren't simply pushing things too far in an effort to make for more impressive numbers though:(
Uh, *glances about*, all my old stuff seems to be working fine, thanks. The existance of newer, better products doesn't seem to have made anything suddenly die. Entropy makes things stop working, not progress.
Sure, but you ran it surrounded by air; in a vaccum there's significantly less material for the CPU to heat up; you've just got whatever you attach to the heat generating bits and normal radiative cooling. Vaccum makes for a good insulator.
Picture quality seems to be going down, actually. The megapixel race is seriously hampering a lot of the recent prosumer cameras IMO; as CCD density increases, so does noise, to the point at which even ISO 50 is too noisy and grainy for my taste in the newest 8MP cameras:(
As for quality of the rest of the camera, well, that seems to be going up; image stabilisation, faster processing, more powerful interfaces, higher resolution LCD's and EVF's, and more flexible, higher quality lenses. If they just reverse the trend towards insanely dense CCD's with more noise than a jet aircraft, I'll be a happy bunny willing to part with a significant amount of money.
I have my tab list down the left hand side of my display. Keeps tabs at a fixed size, and handy for times like now when I've got 19 of them open. I do the same with the task bar (on a different monitor); works well with a sufficiently high resolution display.. and enough monitors. With large monitors I find it annoying having text extending across the entire width of the monitor anyway, so sacrificing a bit of horizontal screen space is actually quite nice.
Anyway, Opera quite happily opens windows just like IE; if you don't find tabs suit your browsing style, don't use them. If you do find some use for them, you can still create new tabs even in SDI mode, similar to Mozilla.
Opera includes a popup blocker (F12, b), and is bundled with a load of user stylesheets, one of which is designed to block banner adverts and such -- View -> Style -> Hide certain sized elements. You can of course write your own too; I did. JavaScript's abilities can be restricted using Preferences -> Multimedia -> JavaScript Options. I think you can also create custom buttons to turn any of these things on/off with a single click, and of course keyboard shortcuts to do the same, but this will involve some.ini file editing.
Preferences -> Windows -> Window Handling -> Prefer seperate windows.
You can still use tabs inside each window, but by default they'll open in seperate ones.
Keybindings, menus and such can all be changed by editing or downloading third party.ini files, and of course there's plenty that can be changed entirely inside Opera.
Don't forget AMD's upcoming low power AMD64s and (if you're rich) Opterons. 30-45W:)
Getting easier to see how they're going to cope with dual core now; at this rate they'll end up running cooler than my old 1.4GHz Thunderbird, even without clock scaling.
The license of OpenSSL is a conjunction of two licenses, One of them being the license of SSLeay. You must follow both. The combination results in a copyleft free software license that is incompatible with the GNU GPL. It also has an advertising clause like the original BSD license and the Apache license.
Has this changed? The FAQ suggests things are a little shaky.
Not that I much care; BSD's my preferred license, FreeBSD is my preferred OS, so it's all good. Makes a change from the opposite being the problem (GPL code in BSDish apps).
Er, that's the point; you can't use OpenSSL in a GPL app, even if you're just dynamically linking the library in. The GPL wants to spread to cover the linked in library, but can't because the Apache license includes restrictions which aren't in the GPL -- much like the original BSD license.
Sorry, did I come across as someone who doesn't know what these licenses mean?
Fair enough. I guess the confusion arrises because the "Free Software Movement" typically refers only to GPL licensed stuff. I can certainly remember reading articles by such people as RMS whinging about the term "Free Software" being diluted by other less restrictive licenses, but that was so long ago I really don't remember the details.
A little surprised OpenSSL isn't GPL compatible. Kind of ironic that it's compatible with closed source apps like my favourite SSH client but not with GPL software.
Smart and experienced people get things wrong too, especially when working on things where their normal techniques work poorly. I dare say they realised their old system was badly suited to their needs and needed a *lot* of work to put right, to the point at which it was cheaper just to rewrite from scratch in an easy language. That suggests to me their original software was pretty badly designed, even if that design would work well on a more traditional site.
OpenSSL is not Free software. That'd be the GNU TLS library; OpenSSL is under a BSD-style license. Would you have prefered them to validate GNU TLS because it's Free?
Never learnt to use vi or emacs properly, huh? Editing with just a keyboard is a *lot* more flexible than you seem to think (arrow keys only? wtf?). And they can (*gasp*!) use the mouse too.
"There are lots of third-party replacements shells for Windows."
A shell isn't the same as a window manager; that's more about replacing explorer than the window management system and the start menu etc.
I'd be interested in any recommendations for such replacements; the task bar is annoyingly inflexible, and XP *still* has major windowing bugs I first saw in 95. Preferably something that doesn't involve manually editing large config files.
"For the vast majority of users, this useless. Give them a straight kernal and a full screen command line prompt and the first thing they will ask is a windows interface."
Plenty of distros boot to a full GUI and install plenty of useful software by default. If anything it's Windows which comes with the bare minimum, with you providing "the axel, car body and leather seats". FreeBSD comes with my favourite third party mail client, servers, languages, development tools, editors, shells, system monitors and browsers bundled; WinXP certainly doesn't.
Not quite -- it does, however, seem to sync in three seperate groups:
reboot(8) syncs disks.
reboot(8) sends TERM signals.
reboot(8) syncs every 3 seconds for up to 60 while vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin changes.
reboot(8) sends KILL signals.
reboot(2) is called, which calls boot(), which syncs in a loop 20 times, backing off from 1/20th to 1 second while there are active buffers.
If any active buffers remain, the disk is left mounted so it's fscked next boot.
Now, if only shutdown(8) called sync once, we'd be up to a maximum of 42... maybe I missed one. Nice function name in there at least; die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog().
You really wanted to know all that didn't you? Hello? Bah.
I've seen PHP *functions* 1,000 lines long dealing with complex DB queries (and templating and such, *sigh*); an 8,000+ line Java class which appears to handle all interaction with a DB isn't that unlikely. Of course, if they're writing code that badly, PHP is probably better suited to their skill set. Ugh.
As for accessing the db directly, maybe the parent means it does all the sockets and MySQL protocol stuff itself. *shrug*.
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Well, you can make PHP which scales like crap and Java which scales as high as your bandwidth will allow, and vice versa. Java has architectural differences which make it potentially better suited to scaling high (both in terms of handling lots of users and in managing lots of complexity), but you need to have some clue to actually exploit them.
It's like comparing MySQL and Oracle; they both do largely the same thing, but Oracle's a lot more advanced and aimed a lot higher. From the article summary, it sounds like this guy just doesn't need that extra power. Good for him, I hope he's happy, but like you I don't share his low standards in languages -- my last few bits of web development have been with Ruby and FastCGI, and I'm not looking forward to my next bit of PHP maintainence.
With 2 * 1280*1024, I find the most effecient thing to do is put the taskbar down the left hand side of display 1. Leaves more room for taskbar based system monitors and such too, while giving you plenty of room for all your taskbar entries.
I do the same with Opera's tabs on display 2, which is just as well given I sometimes even overflow *that*.
Maybe not obvious to everyone, but obvious enough to anyone sufficiently versed in the problem domain, surely? Being a pretty poor solution I'm not surprised it's taken this long to appear.
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35-420mm? Yikes! "Outstanding lens" isn't just about focal length, it's about *quality*; everything I've seen about the Minolta Z range has not impressed me in this regard. The Lumix didn't impress me either; the chromic abberation I saw on pretty much every single shot almost made my eyes bleed :/
:(
My Olympus C-750 Ultra Zoom was very nice, though, so it's not unthinkable to produce a decent UZ lens around this price range; I'd be surprised if they aren't simply pushing things too far in an effort to make for more impressive numbers though
Uh, *glances about*, all my old stuff seems to be working fine, thanks. The existance of newer, better products doesn't seem to have made anything suddenly die. Entropy makes things stop working, not progress.
Sure, but you ran it surrounded by air; in a vaccum there's significantly less material for the CPU to heat up; you've just got whatever you attach to the heat generating bits and normal radiative cooling. Vaccum makes for a good insulator.
Picture quality seems to be going down, actually. The megapixel race is seriously hampering a lot of the recent prosumer cameras IMO; as CCD density increases, so does noise, to the point at which even ISO 50 is too noisy and grainy for my taste in the newest 8MP cameras :(
As for quality of the rest of the camera, well, that seems to be going up; image stabilisation, faster processing, more powerful interfaces, higher resolution LCD's and EVF's, and more flexible, higher quality lenses. If they just reverse the trend towards insanely dense CCD's with more noise than a jet aircraft, I'll be a happy bunny willing to part with a significant amount of money.
Don't forget region coding. Way to artificially segment your market so you can more thoroughly exploit it.
Are HD's not classed as electronics?
I have my tab list down the left hand side of my display. Keeps tabs at a fixed size, and handy for times like now when I've got 19 of them open. I do the same with the task bar (on a different monitor); works well with a sufficiently high resolution display.. and enough monitors. With large monitors I find it annoying having text extending across the entire width of the monitor anyway, so sacrificing a bit of horizontal screen space is actually quite nice.
.ini file editing.
:)
Anyway, Opera quite happily opens windows just like IE; if you don't find tabs suit your browsing style, don't use them. If you do find some use for them, you can still create new tabs even in SDI mode, similar to Mozilla.
Opera includes a popup blocker (F12, b), and is bundled with a load of user stylesheets, one of which is designed to block banner adverts and such -- View -> Style -> Hide certain sized elements. You can of course write your own too; I did. JavaScript's abilities can be restricted using Preferences -> Multimedia -> JavaScript Options. I think you can also create custom buttons to turn any of these things on/off with a single click, and of course keyboard shortcuts to do the same, but this will involve some
my.opera.com and news.opera.com may be of use if you need help
Preferences -> Windows -> Window Handling -> Prefer seperate windows.
.ini files, and of course there's plenty that can be changed entirely inside Opera.
You can still use tabs inside each window, but by default they'll open in seperate ones.
Keybindings, menus and such can all be changed by editing or downloading third party
Don't forget AMD's upcoming low power AMD64s and (if you're rich) Opterons. 30-45W :)
Getting easier to see how they're going to cope with dual core now; at this rate they'll end up running cooler than my old 1.4GHz Thunderbird, even without clock scaling.
Has this changed? The FAQ suggests things are a little shaky.
Not that I much care; BSD's my preferred license, FreeBSD is my preferred OS, so it's all good. Makes a change from the opposite being the problem (GPL code in BSDish apps).
Er, that's the point; you can't use OpenSSL in a GPL app, even if you're just dynamically linking the library in. The GPL wants to spread to cover the linked in library, but can't because the Apache license includes restrictions which aren't in the GPL -- much like the original BSD license.
Sorry, did I come across as someone who doesn't know what these licenses mean?
Fair enough. I guess the confusion arrises because the "Free Software Movement" typically refers only to GPL licensed stuff. I can certainly remember reading articles by such people as RMS whinging about the term "Free Software" being diluted by other less restrictive licenses, but that was so long ago I really don't remember the details.
A little surprised OpenSSL isn't GPL compatible. Kind of ironic that it's compatible with closed source apps like my favourite SSH client but not with GPL software.
The concept is silly because it was largely a joke. At least the thread subject got it ;)
Smart and experienced people get things wrong too, especially when working on things where their normal techniques work poorly. I dare say they realised their old system was badly suited to their needs and needed a *lot* of work to put right, to the point at which it was cheaper just to rewrite from scratch in an easy language. That suggests to me their original software was pretty badly designed, even if that design would work well on a more traditional site.
OpenSSL is not Free software. That'd be the GNU TLS library; OpenSSL is under a BSD-style license. Would you have prefered them to validate GNU TLS because it's Free?
Never learnt to use vi or emacs properly, huh? Editing with just a keyboard is a *lot* more flexible than you seem to think (arrow keys only? wtf?). And they can (*gasp*!) use the mouse too.
A shell isn't the same as a window manager; that's more about replacing explorer than the window management system and the start menu etc.
I'd be interested in any recommendations for such replacements; the task bar is annoyingly inflexible, and XP *still* has major windowing bugs I first saw in 95. Preferably something that doesn't involve manually editing large config files.
Plenty of distros boot to a full GUI and install plenty of useful software by default. If anything it's Windows which comes with the bare minimum, with you providing "the axel, car body and leather seats". FreeBSD comes with my favourite third party mail client, servers, languages, development tools, editors, shells, system monitors and browsers bundled; WinXP certainly doesn't.
- reboot(8) syncs disks.
- reboot(8) sends TERM signals.
- reboot(8) syncs every 3 seconds for up to 60 while vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin changes.
- reboot(8) sends KILL signals.
- reboot(2) is called, which calls boot(), which syncs in a loop 20 times, backing off from 1/20th to 1 second while there are active buffers.
- If any active buffers remain, the disk is left mounted so it's fscked next boot.
Now, if only shutdown(8) called sync once, we'd be up to a maximum of 42... maybe I missed one. Nice function name in there at least; die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog().You really wanted to know all that didn't you? Hello? Bah.
The link on that page even says: http://www.filedonkey.com/url.html?md4=13e34731bbd 23648d3b66ccdc5f955f6. Any idea how much weaker md4 is than md5?
I've seen PHP *functions* 1,000 lines long dealing with complex DB queries (and templating and such, *sigh*); an 8,000+ line Java class which appears to handle all interaction with a DB isn't that unlikely. Of course, if they're writing code that badly, PHP is probably better suited to their skill set. Ugh.
As for accessing the db directly, maybe the parent means it does all the sockets and MySQL protocol stuff itself. *shrug*.
Well, you can make PHP which scales like crap and Java which scales as high as your bandwidth will allow, and vice versa. Java has architectural differences which make it potentially better suited to scaling high (both in terms of handling lots of users and in managing lots of complexity), but you need to have some clue to actually exploit them.
It's like comparing MySQL and Oracle; they both do largely the same thing, but Oracle's a lot more advanced and aimed a lot higher. From the article summary, it sounds like this guy just doesn't need that extra power. Good for him, I hope he's happy, but like you I don't share his low standards in languages -- my last few bits of web development have been with Ruby and FastCGI, and I'm not looking forward to my next bit of PHP maintainence.
Er, sorry, but it's not a lot of work to define a constant and use it where you would have put a number. Not even if you're in a hurry.
Remind me not to hire you to maintain our 100,000 user web application.
With 2 * 1280*1024, I find the most effecient thing to do is put the taskbar down the left hand side of display 1. Leaves more room for taskbar based system monitors and such too, while giving you plenty of room for all your taskbar entries.
I do the same with Opera's tabs on display 2, which is just as well given I sometimes even overflow *that*.
Of course I get your point; it's just diluted somewhat when my initial reaction to your comment is "Um, of course they should!" :)
Maybe not obvious to everyone, but obvious enough to anyone sufficiently versed in the problem domain, surely? Being a pretty poor solution I'm not surprised it's taken this long to appear.