Sort of, but no trade off on the login time. The restoration at login would be run at a low priority so that it wouldn't be noticeable. Plus, on a multiuser system, stuff that is used by multiple users could be shared, and even, if used by enough users, or some other criteria, it could be left in this space indefinately.
Yeah, it wouldn't be very useful for storage. But I can see how having a big chunck of ram disk space could speed a system up.
For instance. How about we take this guys idea, and write an algorithem to check which commands and apps a person runs. Each of them is given a priority, based on how often they are executed. Copy those commands onto the ram disk, and let the user execute them faster from there, without the need for disk i/o. Save the settings in a simple file, and upon log in, the user's frequenty loaded commands are quietly loaded into the ram disk.
I'd be pretty easy to make it work for multi user systems I would think. I guess mounting the ramdisk on like/ram, and making sure/ram/bin is first in your $PATH would do the trick. Could do this with main memory too, but it would be nice if we could use old simms and save ourselves that precious ram for running applications.
Okay, so I have 384 megs of ram in this box and I don't need it all, but like hell am I gonna share it!
I knew I should have started a pr0n site a few years back when my old friend Renee decided she wanted to get paid to make "movies". I was sitting on a gold mine, damnit!
were using slashdot to communicate, what the hell is your email address? or just pluck mine from above, or on my page, its easy to guess, if ya don't know what rot13 is.
Yet another "advanced" pr0n filter that no adult can seem to break, but every horny fifth grader on the planet will no the workarounds for in under 2 days.
Yeah, your probobly right. Even if it did..... what's gonna hold the temperature high enough to keep it as vapor? Anything that vaporized would probobly recondense after the bifg fireworks display was all done.
Now ya got me curious, let's do it! Nothing to lose but our lives!
We have enough nukes to blast the surface of this planet to pieces a couple who knows how many times over. But destorying a planet is tough, this isn't Star Wars, if you placed every working nuke on this planet, over the entire surface, evenly spread, and blew em all off simmoltaneously, the diameter of the earth wouldn't change all that much. Might knock a few steep mountains down, vaporize all organic material, and maybe even evaporate the oceans, but the rock would be largely uneffected...... it might liquify a lot of it for a short period of time, but you'd at best be left with a very igneous rock based shell.
People tend to think of nuclear weapons as just big conventional bombs. Nukes are thermonuclear fireballs, they have enough concussive force to blast buildings down, but not much else, and rock is pretty resistant to heat. Regular bombs rely a lot more on the concussive forces, which is why they leave big craters, and blast rocks apart.
Don't get me wrong, nukes have concussive force, but their big claim to fame is the heat and range, not the "knock down" capabilities. those are just handy side effects.
Well, its not like the microwave background, residual background noise from the big bang, which was x-ray's and gamma rays but has red shifted into the microwave band over the past what 16-17 billion years? But it is a substancial ammount of shifting when you take into account that it is a human trasmission. Its nothing huge, like solar masses moving away from us that are halfway accross the galaxy, but it is enough to basically garbal the transmission. But its fixable. So, I guess I should say, "Red shifted enough to be annoying," When it becomes untranslatable, then we'll talk about "beyond belief.";-)
As far as I know, the magnetometer is the only instrument on it still running. Everything else on it has been shut down to conserve power.
What I find really fascinating is that the radio waves that it sends back are red shifted beyond belief by the time they reach us. And with the earth's rotation around the sun, sometimes we are actually catching up with the probe, and sometimes were running away from it very quickly. So, there is no set mathetmatical formula to run the signal through and get it at the state it was in when the probe sent it. They have to run it through a bunch of variables just to understand what it sent back.
Take that into account, and the fact that modern computer's are too complex to talk to this thing (I think its on board "computer" has an instruction set of like, FOUR), and you have a technological marvel at work. Detecting the heiopause is cool, but I think that we can still use it at all is just fascinating and validates the project itself.
And for those of you who don't care, Nasa doesn't fund this anymore so its not costing you tax money. Its all volunteer driven, so quit complaining.
You serious? man, I don't like KDE, so I never had it installed, but I can see its good points, and I don't even use gnome. Everybody always asked me what I hated about Ximian, and until now, I never had an excuse, I just decided that advanced gnome was even more evil than regular gnome. Now I have ammo! Thanks! All my fellow lug'ers can stop bugging me to install Ximian on my box.
hey, speak for your own desktop. My Linux desktop looks nothing like windows and I like it that way. Gnome and KDE copy windows, Linux looks like whatever ya want it to.
Not to be a troll or off topic, but if people would partition their drives up correctly, you wouldn't have to blow away all your settings when you need to do a reinstall.
Course, the people who know how to partition up their drives never seem to do reinstalls anways.
So we take the root space away from one group and hand it to someone else. I fail to see any change other than the fact that he has about five bazillion tld's available (Or gTLD's, whatever). Sounds to me like he just wants to stir up trouble more than anything, or he has his eyes set on the distant distant future, this isn't something that big bussiness is going to adopt, anytime soon, if ever. Massive fast spaced change just doesn't happen, otherwise dos legacy support would have been gone a decade ago.
Trust me, its moving away, the tides act to slow the earth's rotation, because its transfers the rotational energy to the moon, which causes it to gain momentum, hence, it is slowly escaping the earth's gravitational feild. Jesus, learn something other than watching that bullshit they show on tv for once....
and no duh its april first, this was a lame attempt at some bad april fool's day comedy, its lame, I'm just intolerant of people being outright dumb.
Look, if your gonna say something this lame to get your ass on slashdot you might as well get your facts straight. The moon is moving AWAY from the earth!!!!! NOT CLOSER! Are you mental or have you never taken an intro to astro class ever?!?!?!
People have been foretelling the doom of the pc for ages. I personally don't see it happening. Maybe ist the general uselessness of all the current information appliances when compared to a nice pc, or the fact that I have been hearing, "don't buy a computer, they aren't gonna be around in a year," since 1992, but I just don't buy it. Hell, even Bill Gates has stated that the pc is far more useful than pundits give it credit for. One of the few things I have ever agreed with him on.
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Sort of, but no trade off on the login time. The restoration at login would be run at a low priority so that it wouldn't be noticeable. Plus, on a multiuser system, stuff that is used by multiple users could be shared, and even, if used by enough users, or some other criteria, it could be left in this space indefinately.
Yeah, it wouldn't be very useful for storage. But I can see how having a big chunck of ram disk space could speed a system up.
/ram, and making sure /ram/bin is first in your $PATH would do the trick. Could do this with main memory too, but it would be nice if we could use old simms and save ourselves that precious ram for running applications.
For instance. How about we take this guys idea, and write an algorithem to check which commands and apps a person runs. Each of them is given a priority, based on how often they are executed. Copy those commands onto the ram disk, and let the user execute them faster from there, without the need for disk i/o. Save the settings in a simple file, and upon log in, the user's frequenty loaded commands are quietly loaded into the ram disk.
I'd be pretty easy to make it work for multi user systems I would think. I guess mounting the ramdisk on like
Okay, so I have 384 megs of ram in this box and I don't need it all, but like hell am I gonna share it!
I knew I should have started a pr0n site a few years back when my old friend Renee decided she wanted to get paid to make "movies". I was sitting on a gold mine, damnit!
exactly my point, its an enhancement, unless your a hosting company.... then it makes sense that the web if your medium.
its ten years old, and yet no one has discovered a viable bussiness model for the internet based company.
23 of em.... and all of them have something wrong with all of them.... its sort of like governments.
were using slashdot to communicate, what the hell is your email address? or just pluck mine from above, or on my page, its easy to guess, if ya don't know what rot13 is.
And your the Hun that goes to cwru and used to go to sfs right? Creepy, how ya doin man?
Yet another "advanced" pr0n filter that no adult can seem to break, but every horny fifth grader on the planet will no the workarounds for in under 2 days.
Yeah, your probobly right. Even if it did..... what's gonna hold the temperature high enough to keep it as vapor? Anything that vaporized would probobly recondense after the bifg fireworks display was all done.
Now ya got me curious, let's do it! Nothing to lose but our lives!
How would the GPL hold up in a large, drawn out, court battle? In yoiur honest opinion. IE, is the license enforceable?
We have enough nukes to blast the surface of this planet to pieces a couple who knows how many times over. But destorying a planet is tough, this isn't Star Wars, if you placed every working nuke on this planet, over the entire surface, evenly spread, and blew em all off simmoltaneously, the diameter of the earth wouldn't change all that much. Might knock a few steep mountains down, vaporize all organic material, and maybe even evaporate the oceans, but the rock would be largely uneffected...... it might liquify a lot of it for a short period of time, but you'd at best be left with a very igneous rock based shell.
People tend to think of nuclear weapons as just big conventional bombs. Nukes are thermonuclear fireballs, they have enough concussive force to blast buildings down, but not much else, and rock is pretty resistant to heat. Regular bombs rely a lot more on the concussive forces, which is why they leave big craters, and blast rocks apart.
Don't get me wrong, nukes have concussive force, but their big claim to fame is the heat and range, not the "knock down" capabilities. those are just handy side effects.
it has that paper clip thiong to help you get more confused!
Well, its not like the microwave background, residual background noise from the big bang, which was x-ray's and gamma rays but has red shifted into the microwave band over the past what 16-17 billion years? But it is a substancial ammount of shifting when you take into account that it is a human trasmission. Its nothing huge, like solar masses moving away from us that are halfway accross the galaxy, but it is enough to basically garbal the transmission. But its fixable. So, I guess I should say, "Red shifted enough to be annoying," When it becomes untranslatable, then we'll talk about "beyond belief." ;-)
As far as I know, the magnetometer is the only instrument on it still running. Everything else on it has been shut down to conserve power.
What I find really fascinating is that the radio waves that it sends back are red shifted beyond belief by the time they reach us. And with the earth's rotation around the sun, sometimes we are actually catching up with the probe, and sometimes were running away from it very quickly. So, there is no set mathetmatical formula to run the signal through and get it at the state it was in when the probe sent it. They have to run it through a bunch of variables just to understand what it sent back.
Take that into account, and the fact that modern computer's are too complex to talk to this thing (I think its on board "computer" has an instruction set of like, FOUR), and you have a technological marvel at work. Detecting the heiopause is cool, but I think that we can still use it at all is just fascinating and validates the project itself.
And for those of you who don't care, Nasa doesn't fund this anymore so its not costing you tax money. Its all volunteer driven, so quit complaining.
You serious? man, I don't like KDE, so I never had it installed, but I can see its good points, and I don't even use gnome. Everybody always asked me what I hated about Ximian, and until now, I never had an excuse, I just decided that advanced gnome was even more evil than regular gnome. Now I have ammo! Thanks! All my fellow lug'ers can stop bugging me to install Ximian on my box.
hey, speak for your own desktop. My Linux desktop looks nothing like windows and I like it that way. Gnome and KDE copy windows, Linux looks like whatever ya want it to.
Not to be a troll or off topic, but if people would partition their drives up correctly, you wouldn't have to blow away all your settings when you need to do a reinstall.
Course, the people who know how to partition up their drives never seem to do reinstalls anways.
So we take the root space away from one group and hand it to someone else. I fail to see any change other than the fact that he has about five bazillion tld's available (Or gTLD's, whatever). Sounds to me like he just wants to stir up trouble more than anything, or he has his eyes set on the distant distant future, this isn't something that big bussiness is going to adopt, anytime soon, if ever. Massive fast spaced change just doesn't happen, otherwise dos legacy support would have been gone a decade ago.
aren't we all? sorry, I can get pretty nasty sometimes.
Uhhh, no!
Trust me, its moving away, the tides act to slow the earth's rotation, because its transfers the rotational energy to the moon, which causes it to gain momentum, hence, it is slowly escaping the earth's gravitational feild. Jesus, learn something other than watching that bullshit they show on tv for once....
and no duh its april first, this was a lame attempt at some bad april fool's day comedy, its lame, I'm just intolerant of people being outright dumb.
does that make keeping more than one core dump on hand being constipated?
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Sorry, but that's abotu what I think of this apil fools days rush of bs here at
...that, and I think these pills are doing something to me.
What the fuck is this? I hate microsoft as much as anyone, but come on, give it a rest.
And my apologies to all you non-Parisian frogs who actually aren't all that bad.
Look, if your gonna say something this lame to get your ass on slashdot you might as well get your facts straight. The moon is moving AWAY from the earth!!!!! NOT CLOSER! Are you mental or have you never taken an intro to astro class ever?!?!?!
People have been foretelling the doom of the pc for ages. I personally don't see it happening. Maybe ist the general uselessness of all the current information appliances when compared to a nice pc, or the fact that I have been hearing, "don't buy a computer, they aren't gonna be around in a year," since 1992, but I just don't buy it. Hell, even Bill Gates has stated that the pc is far more useful than pundits give it credit for. One of the few things I have ever agreed with him on.