How ironic, posting this on slashdot when I find it's one of the worst CPU users to leave open thanks to allowing its ads to run. I want to do the right thing but the slashdot ads are surprisingly heavy CPU users. I find myself hitting escape as soon as the news articles have loaded to prevent the ads from loading since it always winds my laptop CPU fan up.
Read the posts. He may have been saying that it "can't cope" and used the % of cpu argument, but he also found that it shortened the time taken to complete his workload. quote: Frame time reduced by 2 mins on my O/C'd 3.8Ghz i7 920 (-bigadv -smp 8) with the bfs scheduler. I don't know how long the workload normally takes so it doesn't really say what percentage improvement that is, but it is exactly what you asked for. It's also interesting to note that this is on an 8 (logical) CPU machine.
These comments from -ck himself are relevant to this discussion as well:
A lot of useful discussion seems to have generated in response to people's _interpretation_ of my interview rather than what I actually said. For example, everyone seems to think I quit because CFS was chosen over SD (hint: it wasn't). Since it's generating good discussion I'll otherwise leave it as is.
I insert a fake email address into the comments section of the html such as mailto:blah@mydomain.com and have blah@mydomain.com redirect as an alias to newspam@mydomain.com which then trains my spam filter. Of course this means you definitely will get mail from the spam harvesters, but it also allows you to keep an old fashioned useful real link on your website to a real email address.
While people seem to think of mpeg as large and bulky they perhaps don't realise how flexible this format is. With mpeg2enc that comes from the mjpeg tools (for example) you can encode an mpeg2 file with absurdly low bitrates if you set the keyframe intervals to 10 seconds apart. This then pretty much reproduces the same quality as the wmv format. The main reason wmv is low bitrate is the flexibility in the format itself, by default using 10 second key frame intervals and wide ranges for the quality setting and limits on the bitrate. Simply reproducing those settings on mpeg2 gives the same results.
I've managed to squash down full length movies into surprisingly good quality CVDs (China Video Disc format) at 352x288 (PAL) that fit on one disc, far far exceeding the quality of VCDs which normally only fit an hour per disc. Just as a data point I find allowing massive range for bitrates and using a _fixed_ quality increases the quality and decreases the size. Note that setting a fixed quality improves the efficiency of every next frame's encoding if the quality level does not need to be adjusted.
I guess if anyone reads this they'll probably want to know the settings I use. Here's a sample of the mpeg2enc CVD quality command.
Note the max bitrate is set to the max of CVD/SVCD format (2500) and quality is set to 5. If the file is too big I simply increase the quality number till it fits. The extra settings for quality (-4 1 -2 1 -r 32) increase the encoding time dramatically but significantly decrease the overall bitrate.
The learning curve for this is somewhat steep but the reason noone does this is the application coders seem so wrapped up in mpeg4 encoding they forget why mpeg4 is actually a low bitrate codec, and mpeg 1/2 are standards we can use here and now.
My in-laws had heaps of virus problems with their machine and are basically clueless. Given how little they actually need to do on their machine I gave up rescuing them. I installed Mandrake and put four icons on the desktop -> internet (mozilla) email (kmail) documents (open office writer) and quicken (quicken with codeweavers wine). The machine autologs into kde as their one "user" and automatically restarts on X crash etc. I log in remotely once per month with root privileges and do any security upgrades needed. They have no idea what is actually happening, they are just happy it doesn't have the problems it used to have.
Of course everyone else's parents may have different requirements but that worked nicely for me, and I suspect most clueless users' requirements don't go beyond that.
Surely you should know by now that something doesn't have to be better to be a killer. All it has to be is the default choice in applications when run by people who don't know (read - most users).
Not really. Just between the 95th centiles alone there is a five fold variation in the amount of morphine required (for example) and this is not sex discriminatory. The body composition seems to account for most of the differences between men and women. The one scenario which is greatly different is pregnancy - the very high levels of progesterones in pregnancy actually make them significantly more sensitive to anaesthetic drugs.
Fortunately the cross tolerance between different drugs is not huge, but it is definitely present. Any central nervous system depressants taken for long periods can make you more resistant to anaesthetic drugs for that matter. You should definitely tell your anaesthetist accurately how much of any drug you take, and this can then be taken into consideration. Why worry about embarassment when your life is in their hands.
I'm a specialist anaesthetist and for many years we have anecdotal reports of redheads being more resistant to anaesthesia. We certainly find clinically that this is the case and also there is information that they are more likely to suffer a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). Many of these anecdotal reports are what start these interesting studies initially conducted on small samples and lead to serendipitous discoveries of how things work.
Great idea. I never stopped to think why my aim gateway worked fine. Perhaps every person needs a mini aim gateway instead of the aim gateway being on the central jabber servers...
I use the jabber messenger protocol in concert with numerous other protocols all the time to keep in touch with friends on other IM systems. However the AIM gateway commonly causes my jabber server to crash. Fortunately with jabber I can run my own server and have it restart whenever I need to so I don't need to rely on a central server's stability. Great idea, good protocol, still needs some bug fixing though.
There ARE other ways to support them financially
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People have been complaining about not being able to support them in financial ways other than buying the full priced boxed set. Actually there are two other ways.
Yes it is substantially better and a much smaller footprint. But if you really want to be impressed just keep waiting till you hear them say 1.0 is released and the difference will be stark by then.
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How ironic, posting this on slashdot when I find it's one of the worst CPU users to leave open thanks to allowing its ads to run. I want to do the right thing but the slashdot ads are surprisingly heavy CPU users. I find myself hitting escape as soon as the news articles have loaded to prevent the ads from loading since it always winds my laptop CPU fan up.
have you tried ionice?
ionice has no effect on disk writes, and writing is where the problem occurs.
Read the posts. He may have been saying that it "can't cope" and used the % of cpu argument, but he also found that it shortened the time taken to complete his workload. quote: Frame time reduced by 2 mins on my O/C'd 3.8Ghz i7 920 (-bigadv -smp 8) with the bfs scheduler.
I don't know how long the workload normally takes so it doesn't really say what percentage improvement that is, but it is exactly what you asked for. It's also interesting to note that this is on an 8 (logical) CPU machine.
...and it was almost ready for the desktop.
I insert a fake email address into the comments section of the html such as mailto:blah@mydomain.com and have blah@mydomain.com redirect as an alias to newspam@mydomain.com which then trains my spam filter. Of course this means you definitely will get mail from the spam harvesters, but it also allows you to keep an old fashioned useful real link on your website to a real email address.
Try entering just "area 51" in the search dialog box of http://maps.google.com/
Since this is Slashdot and pedantry rules - it is 43 Kelvin, not 43 degrees Kelvin.
And does anyone think Microsoft would even notice a $9 million bill? Their phone bills are probably larger than this.
I've managed to squash down full length movies into surprisingly good quality CVDs (China Video Disc format) at 352x288 (PAL) that fit on one disc, far far exceeding the quality of VCDs which normally only fit an hour per disc. Just as a data point I find allowing massive range for bitrates and using a _fixed_ quality increases the quality and decreases the size. Note that setting a fixed quality improves the efficiency of every next frame's encoding if the quality level does not need to be adjusted.
I guess if anyone reads this they'll probably want to know the settings I use. Here's a sample of the mpeg2enc CVD quality command.Note the max bitrate is set to the max of CVD/SVCD format (2500) and quality is set to 5. If the file is too big I simply increase the quality number till it fits. The extra settings for quality (-4 1 -2 1 -r 32) increase the encoding time dramatically but significantly decrease the overall bitrate.
The learning curve for this is somewhat steep but the reason noone does this is the application coders seem so wrapped up in mpeg4 encoding they forget why mpeg4 is actually a low bitrate codec, and mpeg 1/2 are standards we can use here and now.
Oh yeah I forgot I put solitaire/freecell as well for my father in law who is quite addicted to it.
My in-laws had heaps of virus problems with their machine and are basically clueless. Given how little they actually need to do on their machine I gave up rescuing them. I installed Mandrake and put four icons on the desktop -> internet (mozilla) email (kmail) documents (open office writer) and quicken (quicken with codeweavers wine). The machine autologs into kde as their one "user" and automatically restarts on X crash etc. I log in remotely once per month with root privileges and do any security upgrades needed. They have no idea what is actually happening, they are just happy it doesn't have the problems it used to have.
Of course everyone else's parents may have different requirements but that worked nicely for me, and I suspect most clueless users' requirements don't go beyond that.
Surely you should know by now that something doesn't have to be better to be a killer. All it has to be is the default choice in applications when run by people who don't know (read - most users).
Well this should make a change to the usual derogatory /. comments on how bad the laws are in our country.
Not really. Just between the 95th centiles alone there is a five fold variation in the amount of morphine required (for example) and this is not sex discriminatory. The body composition seems to account for most of the differences between men and women. The one scenario which is greatly different is pregnancy - the very high levels of progesterones in pregnancy actually make them significantly more sensitive to anaesthetic drugs.
Fortunately the cross tolerance between different drugs is not huge, but it is definitely present. Any central nervous system depressants taken for long periods can make you more resistant to anaesthetic drugs for that matter. You should definitely tell your anaesthetist accurately how much of any drug you take, and this can then be taken into consideration. Why worry about embarassment when your life is in their hands.
I'm a specialist anaesthetist and for many years we have anecdotal reports of redheads being more resistant to anaesthesia. We certainly find clinically that this is the case and also there is information that they are more likely to suffer a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). Many of these anecdotal reports are what start these interesting studies initially conducted on small samples and lead to serendipitous discoveries of how things work.
Great idea. I never stopped to think why my aim gateway worked fine. Perhaps every person needs a mini aim gateway instead of the aim gateway being on the central jabber servers...
I use the jabber messenger protocol in concert with numerous other protocols all the time to keep in touch with friends on other IM systems. However the AIM gateway commonly causes my jabber server to crash. Fortunately with jabber I can run my own server and have it restart whenever I need to so I don't need to rely on a central server's stability. Great idea, good protocol, still needs some bug fixing though.
You can buy GPL'd cd's.
You can make a donation to the development area of your choice.
Yes it is substantially better and a much smaller footprint. But if you really want to be impressed just keep waiting till you hear them say 1.0 is released and the difference will be stark by then.