I'm always amazed when I see comments like this. On my home computer, Firefox has been running since mid October and is fine (about 120M resident, 200M virtual).
I use NoScript with only a few sites white-listed. Is that why I don't see memory issues? I'm running on Linux. Is that why I don't see memory issues?
I do use Flash and Java, often heavily, so that can't be it.
SUSE can't release it under GPL unless the patent protection applies to anyone who might use it or modify it. If it's not legally redistributable, it can't be GPL'd.
You can bet that Novell's lawyers were very careful to get the wording they wanted in whatever contracts they signed with Microsoft.
How could a recorded message possibly qualify as a survey?
Also, do the exemtions for political calls cover recorded messages with political content?
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Even if they're of one mind now, putting pressure on Dell, HP, and the rest might make them change their minds later. The key is to make this as visible an issue as possible.
Talk to the chip manufacturers. Talk to the OEMs. Talk to the people who do the purchasing for your company. If you're lucky, they might start asking the right questions when they place an order. That's the kind of thing that makes Dell/HP/etc take notice.
Deallocating/Reallocating is preferable to being swapped out because a different app needs the space.
Can you please post the technical reasoning behind this statement?
It seems to me that allocating and then reusing memory is advantageous when compared to pedantically deallocating/reallocating memory in just about every way assuming you have sufficient swap space. It reduces the number of system calls and even though you may have increased the number of page faults, page faults are largely handled by hardware whereas allocation/deallocation is completely handled by the OS (and are, therefore, more expensive).
There is a difference between weapons and things that are not intended to be weapons but could be used as such. For example, a baseball bat is not generally classified as a weapon, but could easily be used as one.
I don't know. Few people upgrade their version of Windows unless they're getting a new machine. However, lots of people are discovering that a 3 year old computer is perfectly capable of doing what they need it to do and so doesn't really need to be replaced unless the hardware is failing.
Even more interesting, for the first time ever, Apple's offerings are starting to be percieved as a real alternative that is, arguably, comparably priced.
It will be interesting to see what impact, if any, Vista has on the sale of Apple's computers.
He's not asking for source to the blob. He's asking for the right to freely distribute the blob instead of requiring the user to click through a license agreement to download the blob.
Such mismatches are generally caused when you sync against a tree while it's being updated. You can simply sync again after a reasonable wait or use ebuild to create your own digests (wish I'd learned to use ebuild sooner...).
True and Gentoo sucks on both accounts most of the time.
Over the years I've made extensive use of both the Gentoo forums and the Gentoo Bugzilla and have found both to provide quick and high quality feedback. Perhaps all these years I've just been asking easy questions, but it seems to me that Gentoo Q&A is excellent.
I do periodically run into QA problems, but they are always short-lived and the solution is generally on the forums or bugzilla before I've noticed the problem.
The first thing I noticed when I emerged the VIM 7 was the hilighing of matched parens (not to be confused with 'showmatch' that bounces the cursor to the matching paren when you're typing).
The article says that this behavior can be turned off by typing:NoMatchParen. I've verified that this works when in VIM, but I can't get it to work in my.vimrc.
Has anyone figured out how to turn this behavior off from.vimrc?
If it's common, we'll know about it soon. The fact that this is the first we've heard about it makes me think that, in fact, this is an unusual practice.
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I'm always amazed when I see comments like this. On my home computer, Firefox has been running since mid October and is fine (about 120M resident, 200M virtual).
I use NoScript with only a few sites white-listed. Is that why I don't see memory issues?
I'm running on Linux. Is that why I don't see memory issues?
I do use Flash and Java, often heavily, so that can't be it.
SUSE can't release it under GPL unless the patent protection applies to anyone who might use it or modify it. If it's not legally redistributable, it can't be GPL'd.
You can bet that Novell's lawyers were very careful to get the wording they wanted in whatever contracts they signed with Microsoft.
How could a recorded message possibly qualify as a survey?
Also, do the exemtions for political calls cover recorded messages with political content?
Even if they're of one mind now, putting pressure on Dell, HP, and the rest might
make them change their minds later. The key is to make this as visible an issue
as possible.
Talk to the chip manufacturers.
Talk to the OEMs.
Talk to the people who do the purchasing for your company. If you're lucky,
they might start asking the right questions when they place an order. That's
the kind of thing that makes Dell/HP/etc take notice.
Could you tell us something about the sites you were visiting
...Java? ...Flash? ...Javascript? ...Just plain html?
when you experienced this horrible memory leak problem?
Are we talking sites with...
That might help us figure out what's going on.
Mod parent +1 Insightful.
He's hit the nail on the head.
I would argue that it's already reached critical mass.
The vast majority of web sites already test against gecko/firefox/whatever to make
sure their sites work correctly. What more do you need?
Deallocating/Reallocating is preferable to being swapped out because a different app needs the space.
Can you please post the technical reasoning behind this statement?
It seems to me that allocating and then reusing memory is advantageous when compared
to pedantically deallocating/reallocating memory in just about every way assuming you
have sufficient swap space. It reduces the number of system calls and
even though you may have increased the number of page faults, page faults are
largely handled by hardware whereas allocation/deallocation is completely
handled by the OS (and are, therefore, more expensive).
I used to use Session Saver, but recently I've been
getting that same functionality from Tab Mix Plus.
Lets me get away with one less extension.
You would prefer that the ISP incurs liability so that the poster can
post content that he has no right to post?
What sense does that make?
You and I may not agree with most intellectual property law, but as long as
it's the law, you can hardly fault the ISP for complying with it.
That sounds suspiciously like it follows the school year...
There is a difference between weapons and things that are not
intended to be weapons but could be used as such. For example,
a baseball bat is not generally classified as a weapon, but
could easily be used as one.
Should be ban all baseball bat related research?
either way people will be forced to use it.
I don't know. Few people upgrade their version of Windows
unless they're getting a new machine. However, lots of people
are discovering that a 3 year old computer is perfectly capable
of doing what they need it to do and so doesn't really
need to be replaced unless the hardware is failing.
Even more interesting, for the first time ever, Apple's
offerings are starting to be percieved as a real alternative
that is, arguably, comparably priced.
It will be interesting to see what impact, if any, Vista has
on the sale of Apple's computers.
Soft tissue (brians, organs) would be the first to go.
Bones are pretty tough.
He's not asking for source to the blob.
He's asking for the right to freely
distribute the blob instead of requiring
the user to click through a license
agreement to download the blob.
What were your disappointments with openntp?
I run mostly stable and haven't had any non-trivial problems.
Really, I don't see any of the problems that people seem to be
complaining about here (I maintain 6 gentoo boxes with different
configurations).
Such mismatches are generally caused when you sync against a tree while it's
being updated. You can simply sync again after a reasonable wait or use ebuild
to create your own digests (wish I'd learned to use ebuild sooner...).
True and Gentoo sucks on both accounts most of the time.
Over the years I've made extensive use of both the Gentoo forums and
the Gentoo Bugzilla and have found both to provide quick and high
quality feedback. Perhaps all these years I've just been asking easy
questions, but it seems to me that Gentoo Q&A is excellent.
I do periodically run into QA problems, but they are always short-lived
and the solution is generally on the forums or bugzilla before I've
noticed the problem.
Sorry about replying to my own post, but I just figured out
.vimrc, put:
how to do it and thought I'd share the solution.
In
let loaded_matchparen=1
This will prevent the paren matching module from being loaded.
The first thing I noticed when I emerged the VIM 7 was
:NoMatchParen. I've verified that this works .vimrc.
.vimrc?
the hilighing of matched parens (not to be confused with
'showmatch' that bounces the cursor to the matching
paren when you're typing).
The article says that this behavior can be turned off
by typing
when in VIM, but I can't get it to work in my
Has anyone figured out how to turn this behavior off
from
If it's common, we'll know about it soon. The fact that this is the
first we've heard about it makes me think that, in fact, this is
an unusual practice.
Time will tell.
There is no "The Desktop".
The year of Linux on my desktop was 2000.
Didn't it take XP 5 years to break 50% penetration?
What makes you think that Vista will fare any better?
How exactly is this dictated by the laws of physics?