Re:I vote for et cetera
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Define - /etc?
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Doesn't "/var" stand for "variable data", meaning things that change during time, so that if you put them there you can mount other directories (e.g./usr, Unix System Resorces, read-only)? Or did I miss something? Anyway, no clue about what/etc stands for!
Firefox DeerPark latest 1.6a1 20051125 -> perfect, I wish WoW had the same frame rate...;) Safari (OS X 10.4.3 with all standard updates) -> a bit slower... Shiira 1.1 -> same as Safari, maybe a bit faster (should have the same engine as Safari, though) Opera 8.5 -> Browser incompatibility... yadda yadda...
Anyway I think the most interesting test would be some kind of IE7 on some Vista's Beta...
Well, on my 15" pb (1.25ghz), f12 brings up dashboard quite fast. It takes something like 1/3 sec, for the eye-candy effect...
Sure, there are other things where OS X sucks, but dashboard isn't one of these, I think. e.g. I personally hate:
that you don't have some ctrl-alt-f1 that brings up a text console to kill some processes when they go crazy (and no, Terminal often doesn't help), even ctrl-alt-canc and taskmgr is better than command-option-esc!
that file associations have their own life, I've told my system dozen of times that I want.doc to open in NeoOffice, and not in Abiword!
I had problems with DejaVu (backup sw, doesn't start, current version complains about OS version too old (!)), old version of Desktop Manager (CVS works fine), SPSS (doesn't start) and some Mail.app plugins (Mail Appetizer, HTTPMail, GPGMail and mailpriority), having all of them installed and seeing Mail.app not working, I removed ~/Library/Mail and let it start from scratch, reimporting then all my mailboxes. Probably that was a problem related to a single plugin, I didn't investigate (I just needed my mail back quickly). Aside from this, Tiger works really fine, maybe not as stable as 10.3.9, but surely ready for production use.
I'm Italian and I think I've seen all the original episodes when I was 8 years old or so. I've watched all the first episode on this site, and I can't wait for it to come out in Italy!
Just tested with Camino 0.8.2, it worked. Just hope they will fix it quickly. It DIDN'T work with Shiira 0.9.3 (build 041201), the browser sent me to the right window (this is certainly related with some versions of Safari and Konqueror not being affected, since Shiira should be KHTML-based)...
You can also find this idea in "the Invincible" by Stanislaw Lem. Big and heavily armed space ship is sent to investigate on a desert world, to understand where living beings have gone. They soon realized that the only "surviving" thing are clouds of nano-robots, as big as small insects, which represent the final stage of evolution of both organic and inorganic life.
Downloaded, compiled and installed. Working since 4 hours on a Slackware-9.0-current, asus L8460K notebook (p3/1000, 256mb ram, i440bx, S3 savage/MX, ess allegro) and quite standard compilation options (acpi, alsa, pcmcia, usb, netfilter, no ipv6, preemptible kernel). Applied patch as seen on LKML (see here) for vfsmount.
Happy testing!
As a POST RedHat/Windows guy, I must say that I've been very glad about leaving out all the graphical stuff and to be able to set up a really minimalistic (means easy to maintain, to control and to configure), without being forced to do/install anything to "please" the distro (as you have to do with other distros). The same way, I've been very pleased to discover the good-old-command-prompt:)
...but I started reading Slashdot regualrly on that day, because all the news websites were "/.ed" and this was the only webiste I knew that was still working...
I've seen one. We installed a small cluster of 3 P166MMX nodes as a course project for my University (Computer Science) while studying Computer Networks. It was a test cluster, in order to implement a bigger one over our laboratories (more than 200 computers running RedHat). The result was that a cluster is really useless, unless your network is REALLY fast (the 3 nodes migrated processes only if they were connected over a 100mb network, with a 10mb network they didn't migrate anything, due to the high cost of migration). Then we realized that, if we wanted to implement a cluster over those three laboratories we should have doubled our internal network, to sustain the high network traffic (believe me: you have never seen "network load" unless you have seen a cluster), so we will probably buy a small bunch of Athlon XPs and we will deploy them as dedicated cluster machines. And this is only a matter of latency.
I'm a CS students. My first programming course was based on Scheme (sort of LISP, so the course itself was mainly based on functional programming). Anyway, the most interesting exercise I was given was a small URIM emulator. URIM is a simplified abstract machine (it just has 3 instructions: set-to-zero, increment-by-one, compare-and-jump-if-equal) we used in some programming exercises.
Also, check your internal network, if you got so many hits in such a short time!!
Re:Instability with the preempt patch?
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Kernel 2.4.17 Out
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I had some problems, too. I ran RML patch on 2.4.14 on an k6-III and I've experienced strange locks of the system (Slackware 8.0 with some updates). Suddenly everything freezed and remained blocked for about a minute, then everything got back to normal. It could happen around one time every two hours. After I updated to 2.4.16 (and didn't install the RML patch), I've never experienced this kind of problems (but my gateway's Davicom ethernet card seem not to like the new kernel very much).
...and it comes from Microsoft. So they can say they were under attack by terrorists and their products were sabotaged by them, instead that "buggy by nature".
The company where I was employed one year ago had shared plugs for ethernet and phone. They set up every plug in the wall according to their needs. This could be very good, since it gave all the things a good modularity, but they had lots of problems (mainly about performance on the ethernet side). I can't tell you whether this problem was related to the shared plugs or to the ethernet structure. I know nothing about how this could have been done (except that they didn't use Voice over IP). Just be warned about possible problems of this solution...
I think Linux and Windows just have different learning curves, and this can create some confusion about their costs.
On Windows: you learn quickly the first steps, you can manage lots of basic things and you're happy. Your system administrator is happy, too. Once you become a smarter user, you find many lack of features you'd like to see, or you can realize that some things you'd like to do are just very difficult to carry out (think about the Registry, about restoring a complete configuration for your workstation, or simply about file permissions on Win2k). Your system administrator isn't happy anymore: he must care about security, his users aren't easy to manage anymore, he must check file sharings, resource access and so on.
On Linux: you start it. You can't understand what it's doing. You just see tons of senseless writings. You start X. You can't understand why you can't put your favorite app's icon in Enlightenment menus. If you stay on it, you can understand its power. You learn that with some text files (sometimes easy and well commented) you can handle everything (no complicated Registry) and that you can do big things in few minutes (e.g. upgrading Squid and ProFTPd in less than 20 minutes, or reinstalling a full-featured workstation in 2 hours, just importing a configuration you've already made). And, most of all, you don't need a well trained MCSE to do these things.
So, Linux can be time expensive, but only in the first time. This is why most of Linux users and system administration have started using it in their spare time. Once you've learnt the basics, you can save a lot of time. Once you've learnt shell scripting and a bit of programming, you can save weeks of work.
My (around) $999 box at University has been slashdotted (on FTP, not on HTTP) and it hasn't been able to stand for more than 3 hours. The effect passed in a couple of days. The network administrator just went to my desk asking why it had served around 20Gb of data in less than 24 hours... Maybe linking your site to Slashdot is a good crash-test benchmark...
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Doesn't "/var" stand for "variable data", meaning things that change during time, so that if you put them there you can mount other directories (e.g. /usr, Unix System Resorces, read-only)? Or did I miss something? Anyway, no clue about what /etc stands for!
World of Starcraft? You silly n00b, that's Universe of Starcraft :)
Firefox DeerPark latest 1.6a1 20051125 -> perfect, I wish WoW had the same frame rate... ;)
Safari (OS X 10.4.3 with all standard updates) -> a bit slower...
Shiira 1.1 -> same as Safari, maybe a bit faster (should have the same engine as Safari, though)
Opera 8.5 -> Browser incompatibility... yadda yadda...
Anyway I think the most interesting test would be some kind of IE7 on some Vista's Beta...
Sure, there are other things where OS X sucks, but dashboard isn't one of these, I think. e.g. I personally hate:
I had problems with DejaVu (backup sw, doesn't start, current version complains about OS version too old (!)), old version of Desktop Manager (CVS works fine), SPSS (doesn't start) and some Mail.app plugins (Mail Appetizer, HTTPMail, GPGMail and mailpriority), having all of them installed and seeing Mail.app not working, I removed ~/Library/Mail and let it start from scratch, reimporting then all my mailboxes. Probably that was a problem related to a single plugin, I didn't investigate (I just needed my mail back quickly).
Aside from this, Tiger works really fine, maybe not as stable as 10.3.9, but surely ready for production use.
I'm Italian and I think I've seen all the original episodes when I was 8 years old or so. I've watched all the first episode on this site, and I can't wait for it to come out in Italy!
Missing a classic "paranoia is a virtue" from "Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO" by David A. Wheeler? How could it be?
May I also suggest the good ubuntu port for PowerPC? I'm using that on my 15" Al, aside with OS X, and it seems to be built very well...
Just tested with Camino 0.8.2, it worked. Just hope they will fix it quickly.
It DIDN'T work with Shiira 0.9.3 (build 041201), the browser sent me to the right window (this is certainly related with some versions of Safari and Konqueror not being affected, since Shiira should be KHTML-based)...
You can also find this idea in "the Invincible" by Stanislaw Lem. Big and heavily armed space ship is sent to investigate on a desert world, to understand where living beings have gone. They soon realized that the only "surviving" thing are clouds of nano-robots, as big as small insects, which represent the final stage of evolution of both organic and inorganic life.
;)
Amazon page.
Very good novel
Downloaded, compiled and installed. Working since 4 hours on a Slackware-9.0-current, asus L8460K notebook (p3/1000, 256mb ram, i440bx, S3 savage/MX, ess allegro) and quite standard compilation options (acpi, alsa, pcmcia, usb, netfilter, no ipv6, preemptible kernel). Applied patch as seen on LKML (see here) for vfsmount.
Happy testing!
As a POST RedHat/Windows guy, I must say that I've been very glad about leaving out all the graphical stuff and to be able to set up a really minimalistic (means easy to maintain, to control and to configure), without being forced to do/install anything to "please" the distro (as you have to do with other distros). The same way, I've been very pleased to discover the good-old-command-prompt :)
OMG!!! Europe is already so infested by Smarts that we are sending some on the Moon!!!
I don't want even a small cable to reduce my sewer bandwidth...
...but I started reading Slashdot regualrly on that day, because all the news websites were "/.ed" and this was the only webiste I knew that was still working...
I've seen one. We installed a small cluster of 3 P166MMX nodes as a course project for my University (Computer Science) while studying Computer Networks. It was a test cluster, in order to implement a bigger one over our laboratories (more than 200 computers running RedHat). The result was that a cluster is really useless, unless your network is REALLY fast (the 3 nodes migrated processes only if they were connected over a 100mb network, with a 10mb network they didn't migrate anything, due to the high cost of migration). Then we realized that, if we wanted to implement a cluster over those three laboratories we should have doubled our internal network, to sustain the high network traffic (believe me: you have never seen "network load" unless you have seen a cluster), so we will probably buy a small bunch of Athlon XPs and we will deploy them as dedicated cluster machines.
And this is only a matter of latency.
Just cleaning my nerdish horn.
Should I be Chinese, I'd use OpenBSD... ...er... ..."sure" :)
...just to be...
Obviously bleeding edge :)
Just hope we won't have to wait some months to get the new current (like we did with 8.0).
I'm a CS students. My first programming course was based on Scheme (sort of LISP, so the course itself was mainly based on functional programming). Anyway, the most interesting exercise I was given was a small URIM emulator. URIM is a simplified abstract machine (it just has 3 instructions: set-to-zero, increment-by-one, compare-and-jump-if-equal) we used in some programming exercises.
Also, check your internal network, if you got so many hits in such a short time!!
I had some problems, too. I ran RML patch on 2.4.14 on an k6-III and I've experienced strange locks of the system (Slackware 8.0 with some updates). Suddenly everything freezed and remained blocked for about a minute, then everything got back to normal. It could happen around one time every two hours. After I updated to 2.4.16 (and didn't install the RML patch), I've never experienced this kind of problems (but my gateway's Davicom ethernet card seem not to like the new kernel very much).
...and it comes from Microsoft. So they can say they were under attack by terrorists and their products were sabotaged by them, instead that "buggy by nature".
The company where I was employed one year ago had shared plugs for ethernet and phone. They set up every plug in the wall according to their needs. This could be very good, since it gave all the things a good modularity, but they had lots of problems (mainly about performance on the ethernet side). I can't tell you whether this problem was related to the shared plugs or to the ethernet structure. I know nothing about how this could have been done (except that they didn't use Voice over IP). Just be warned about possible problems of this solution...
I think Linux and Windows just have different learning curves, and this can create some confusion about their costs.
On Windows: you learn quickly the first steps, you can manage lots of basic things and you're happy. Your system administrator is happy, too. Once you become a smarter user, you find many lack of features you'd like to see, or you can realize that some things you'd like to do are just very difficult to carry out (think about the Registry, about restoring a complete configuration for your workstation, or simply about file permissions on Win2k). Your system administrator isn't happy anymore: he must care about security, his users aren't easy to manage anymore, he must check file sharings, resource access and so on.
On Linux: you start it. You can't understand what it's doing. You just see tons of senseless writings. You start X. You can't understand why you can't put your favorite app's icon in Enlightenment menus. If you stay on it, you can understand its power. You learn that with some text files (sometimes easy and well commented) you can handle everything (no complicated Registry) and that you can do big things in few minutes (e.g. upgrading Squid and ProFTPd in less than 20 minutes, or reinstalling a full-featured workstation in 2 hours, just importing a configuration you've already made). And, most of all, you don't need a well trained MCSE to do these things.
So, Linux can be time expensive, but only in the first time. This is why most of Linux users and system administration have started using it in their spare time. Once you've learnt the basics, you can save a lot of time. Once you've learnt shell scripting and a bit of programming, you can save weeks of work.
My (around) $999 box at University has been slashdotted (on FTP, not on HTTP) and it hasn't been able to stand for more than 3 hours. The effect passed in a couple of days. The network administrator just went to my desk asking why it had served around 20Gb of data in less than 24 hours... Maybe linking your site to Slashdot is a good crash-test benchmark...