> Oh, when did Firefox (or Chome, or Safari) fix the issue of using too much memory?
They've been working on it for about two years now. And note that I didn't say they fixed it, it's just its memory usage is more in-line with Chrome or Safari
I'm not sure what you're doing with your browsers to cause them to steadily increase in memory while doing nothing. But since it's happening across browsers, you might point the finger inward rather than outward
Is it fair to blame Firefox for an addon that is abandon-ware? There is a certain "meet in the middle" point that everyone had to get to before these kinds of updates were no longer necessary.
> Ah, the days of having to wait weeks to upgrade until my addons did.
This, along with the standard "Firefox uses too much memory", have not been even slightly relevant for years now. Firefox solved those particular issues, thanks mainly due to competition from Chrome.
To give an actual not-sarcastic answer (which is totally not my style): I'm not a fan of the change. But the "designed for tablets" virus has been spreading for a couple of years now, and was bound to hit slashdot. Beyond that I'm firmly in the "meh" camp. Slashdot has been my homepage for some 20 years now, but I hardly use it for anything beyond the-first-page-that-opens-before-I-surf-somewhere-else. If the design of that first page changes, it will hardly affect me.
Penn & Teller covered this in an episode of Bullsh!t. Test pilots who undergo high 'g' training report many of the same experiences of those who have had a near death experience. The g-forces force blood away from the brain, causing the same kind of starvation effect.
IANAL, but it seems to me this is evidence no different from a security camera in a bank or some such.
If the defense wants to argue that it's been tampered with, they would need to provide proof of such in order to get it not admitted. They can question it's validity all they want, but that won't prevent it being admitted into evidence.
to the tune of "if your'e happy & you know it"
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If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq. If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq. If the terrorists are frisky, Pakistan is looking shifty, North Korea is too risky, Bomb Iraq.
If we have no allies with us, bomb Iraq. If we think someone has dissed us, bomb Iraq. So to hell with the inspections, Let's look tough for the elections, Close your mind and take directions, Bomb Iraq.
It's "pre-emptive non-aggression", bomb Iraq. Let's prevent this mass destruction, bomb Iraq. They've got weapons we can't see, And that's good enough for me, 'Cos it's all the proof I need to Bomb Iraq.
If you never were elected, bomb Iraq. If your mood is quite dejected, bomb Iraq. If you think Saddam's gone mad, With the weapons that he had, (And he tried to kill your dad), Bomb Iraq.
If your corp'rate fraud is growin', bomb Iraq. If your ties to it are showin', bomb Iraq. If your politics are sleazy, And hiding that ain't easy, And your manhood's getting queasy, Bomb Iraq.
Fall in line and follow orders, bomb Iraq. For our might knows not our borders, bomb Iraq. Disagree? We'll call it treason, Let's make war not love this season, Even if we have no reason, Bomb Iraq.
The tidbit of code that does this is in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c in function __initfunc
The policy (as far as Linus is concerned) is that the P3 serial number will always automatically be disabled at boot, and that will not change. The reason (paraphrasing) is so vendors won't start using the serial number if it's never available.
You can read up on all of this on the Kernel Traffic web page.
Automatically ticketting speeders has been tried before in the US and didn't work at all. The problem (for the government:) is people are constitutionally guaranteed to face their accuser, and since you can't easily face a satellite, you're off scott free. This is the same thing that happened with the automated ticketting process they tried in Oregon or Washington where a camera would take a picture of a speeder. People started throwing the tickets away when they got them in the mail. Since no officer was involved, there was nothing the government could do when the cases came to court.
Maybe a better thing, in the long run, would just be to monitor but not ticket. The information could be tracked by the DMV and reported to the insurance carrier of the speeder, and they can up the rates.
As for automatic speed control, that's crap. That will create many more problems that it would solve. I couldn't imagine the number of accidents that would be caused when people suddenly lose control of their vehicle because it unexpectedly changes speed.
I think this is all slightly suspicious anyway. The first thing I would do when I got a new car would be to remove the offending device (just like the Linux kernel does with the P-III id). The government would likely use the device for tracking people, and that's a little too big-brotherish for me.
I don't have any experience with an H1-B, but my gf does. She's a staffing coordinator at a rather large company in Silicon Valley. She explained to me the common practise (not her practise, she just handles temps) a few days ago. According to her:
Indians are brought over in boatloads. They're granted H1-B's, and several are crammed into a tiny apartment. They're paid way below the current rate, so they can't afford to move, or do anything social, or afford "luxuries" like cable tv. This works out perfectly for the employer--since the employee doesn't have anything to do other than work, they spend ~10-14 hours a day working.
I replaced a guy at a job a few years back who was stuck like this. He had a ton more experience than I did, but he was getting paid roughly the same as I was, even though I was a newhire with almost no experience.
I pay $50/month for ADSL 1.5 Mbit down/128 Kbit up. To get such a great deal, I had to sign a one-year agreement, and the first three month's bills included the price of the equipment and installation... about $120 per month (I was one of the first to sign up, the price has gone down).
I rave to anyone who listens about my service. I've got a Linux box as my gateway that's been up for 50 days now, and has several active connections to the internet that have been up just as long. I may not get the speed of the cable-modemers, but I don't get their problems either.
You are somehow under the misconception that you own (at least partially) public property. Go into a library and take a computer. See how far you get with it. When you're standing in front of the judge some weeks later, explain it to him/her. See if he/she doesn't laugh at you outright.
The US government dumps billions of dollars each year into the echelon project, and into the NSA. Yet I have no say as to what they do, even though that equipment supposedly is 'owned by *me*' (as you say).
Let me alter my example:
Censorship: you're saying something that a government finds offensive, so they shut you up.
Not Censorship: you're saying something (over a government-owned megaphone) that the government finds offensive, so they take their megaphone... forcing you to buy your own if you want to still be heard.
Another example: Playboy has the right (under the constitution) to print their soft porn nudie magazines and sell them. That does not mean the government is obligated to provide printing presses or retail outlets for playboy magazines to be printed and sold.
This all hangs on one issue: I have the constitutional right to free speech... does that mean the government is automatically obligated, at its own expense, to make sure that each and every american hears it (or is at least able to)? If I want to get up in front of the LA Watts district and preach about the KKK (which I seriously don't), is the government required to pay to set up a podium, microphones & speakers... or am I required to provide my own?
Censorship: you're standing in public giving opinions I don't like, and I tell you to shut up.
Not censorship: you're standing in public giving opinions I don't like using my megaphone, and I take away my megaphone.
People need to stop whining censorship every time someone tells them they can't do something. Just because you have the right to free speech does not mean
you have the right to use it irresponsibly
you have the right to use someone else's property to exercise your right.
The property in question is owned by the library. That gives the library full rights to say what the equipment can and can't be used for. Also note the goverment is not saying it is "against the law" to use the equipment in such a manner, only that the library will receive no federal funding if it is used in such a manner.
I have little doubt this legislation will eventually be shot down for the right reasons (defining standards by which libraries should operate are too vague... what's porn and not porn, etc).
Most overclockers I know (myself included) spend maybe $20-$30 on cooling: a larger fan/heatsink combo & some heatsink compound... then we just leave the side of our case off to improve ventilation.
It's only those extreme cases of people with Kryotech systems or people who submerge their mobos in mineral oil that you ever hear about.
I went to a local mom-and-pop shop (lots of those in the Bay Area) and got two PPGA 300A's in the same day--they didn't have them in stock, but they got them for me before the close of the business day. Price was $69 each. Not too hard to track down, and not too pricey. Both overclocked fine, the only juju required was some heatsink compound.
Nutshell: I've already burned some Debian CD's in preparation for switching my computers from Redhat to Debian.
My opinion of Redhat has been slowly going downhill. I don't know whether some of the things posted about them are true or not (i.e. Redhat deliberately not complying with the LSB, or their certification methods, or other things), and I really don't care. They're getting too big for their britches. I chose Linux to move away from the omnipresent corporation, and now here is one forming in our back yard.
Don't take this as an extremist point of view, however. Most of Redhat's connections benefit the entire Linux community, not just themselves. They should keep doing what they can until it doesn't work for them anymore.
I'm just not willing to support their business oriented model anymore. Debian here I come.
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> Oh, when did Firefox (or Chome, or Safari) fix the issue of using too much memory?
They've been working on it for about two years now. And note that I didn't say they fixed it, it's just its memory usage is more in-line with Chrome or Safari
I'm not sure what you're doing with your browsers to cause them to steadily increase in memory while doing nothing. But since it's happening across browsers, you might point the finger inward rather than outward
Is it fair to blame Firefox for an addon that is abandon-ware? There is a certain "meet in the middle" point that everyone had to get to before these kinds of updates were no longer necessary.
I'm not a fan of the new firefox UI, but
> Ah, the days of having to wait weeks to upgrade until my addons did.
This, along with the standard "Firefox uses too much memory", have not been even slightly relevant for years now. Firefox solved those particular issues, thanks mainly due to competition from Chrome.
To give an actual not-sarcastic answer (which is totally not my style): I'm not a fan of the change. But the "designed for tablets" virus has been spreading for a couple of years now, and was bound to hit slashdot. Beyond that I'm firmly in the "meh" camp. Slashdot has been my homepage for some 20 years now, but I hardly use it for anything beyond the-first-page-that-opens-before-I-surf-somewhere-else. If the design of that first page changes, it will hardly affect me.
I may not have a 4 digit id, but I have a 5 digit one. Please listen to the voices of experience here.
Shush, you.
Penn & Teller covered this in an episode of Bullsh!t. Test pilots who undergo high 'g' training report many of the same experiences of those who have had a near death experience. The g-forces force blood away from the brain, causing the same kind of starvation effect.
IANAL, but it seems to me this is evidence no different from a security camera in a bank or some such.
If the defense wants to argue that it's been tampered with, they would need to provide proof of such in order to get it not admitted. They can question it's validity all they want, but that won't prevent it being admitted into evidence.
Take a look at this screen grab. I've circled the left turn control signals. They're clearly red as the car is coming into the intersection.
Nice. I wondered if anyone would pop up older than me. Good to see you :).
879048 is old? Who knew.
If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq.
If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq.
If the terrorists are frisky,
Pakistan is looking shifty,
North Korea is too risky,
Bomb Iraq.
If we have no allies with us, bomb Iraq.
If we think someone has dissed us, bomb Iraq.
So to hell with the inspections,
Let's look tough for the elections,
Close your mind and take directions,
Bomb Iraq.
It's "pre-emptive non-aggression", bomb Iraq.
Let's prevent this mass destruction, bomb Iraq.
They've got weapons we can't see,
And that's good enough for me,
'Cos it's all the proof I need to
Bomb Iraq.
If you never were elected, bomb Iraq.
If your mood is quite dejected, bomb Iraq.
If you think Saddam's gone mad,
With the weapons that he had,
(And he tried to kill your dad),
Bomb Iraq.
If your corp'rate fraud is growin', bomb Iraq.
If your ties to it are showin', bomb Iraq.
If your politics are sleazy,
And hiding that ain't easy,
And your manhood's getting queasy,
Bomb Iraq.
Fall in line and follow orders, bomb Iraq.
For our might knows not our borders, bomb Iraq.
Disagree? We'll call it treason,
Let's make war not love this season,
Even if we have no reason,
Bomb Iraq.
The policy (as far as Linus is concerned) is that the P3 serial number will always automatically be disabled at boot, and that will not change. The reason (paraphrasing) is so vendors won't start using the serial number if it's never available.
You can read up on all of this on the Kernel Traffic web page.
Automatically ticketting speeders has been tried before in the US and didn't work at all. The problem (for the government :) is people are constitutionally guaranteed to face their accuser, and since you can't easily face a satellite, you're off scott free. This is the same thing that happened with the automated ticketting process they tried in Oregon or Washington where a camera would take a picture of a speeder. People started throwing the tickets away when they got them in the mail. Since no officer was involved, there was nothing the government could do when the cases came to court.
Maybe a better thing, in the long run, would just be to monitor but not ticket. The information could be tracked by the DMV and reported to the insurance carrier of the speeder, and they can up the rates.
As for automatic speed control, that's crap. That will create many more problems that it would solve. I couldn't imagine the number of accidents that would be caused when people suddenly lose control of their vehicle because it unexpectedly changes speed.
I think this is all slightly suspicious anyway. The first thing I would do when I got a new car would be to remove the offending device (just like the Linux kernel does with the P-III id). The government would likely use the device for tracking people, and that's a little too big-brotherish for me.
I don't have any experience with an H1-B, but my gf does. She's a staffing coordinator at a rather large company in Silicon Valley. She explained to me the common practise (not her practise, she just handles temps) a few days ago. According to her:
Indians are brought over in boatloads. They're granted H1-B's, and several are crammed into a tiny apartment. They're paid way below the current rate, so they can't afford to move, or do anything social, or afford "luxuries" like cable tv. This works out perfectly for the employer--since the employee doesn't have anything to do other than work, they spend ~10-14 hours a day working.
I replaced a guy at a job a few years back who was stuck like this. He had a ton more experience than I did, but he was getting paid roughly the same as I was, even though I was a newhire with almost no experience.
I pay $50/month for ADSL 1.5 Mbit down/128 Kbit up. To get such a great deal, I had to sign a one-year agreement, and the first three month's bills included the price of the equipment and installation... about $120 per month (I was one of the first to sign up, the price has gone down).
I rave to anyone who listens about my service. I've got a Linux box as my gateway that's been up for 50 days now, and has several active connections to the internet that have been up just as long. I may not get the speed of the cable-modemers, but I don't get their problems either.
The US government dumps billions of dollars each year into the echelon project, and into the NSA. Yet I have no say as to what they do, even though that equipment supposedly is 'owned by *me*' (as you say).
Let me alter my example:
Censorship: you're saying something that a government finds offensive, so they shut you up.
Not Censorship: you're saying something (over a government-owned megaphone) that the government finds offensive, so they take their megaphone... forcing you to buy your own if you want to still be heard.
Another example: Playboy has the right (under the constitution) to print their soft porn nudie magazines and sell them. That does not mean the government is obligated to provide printing presses or retail outlets for playboy magazines to be printed and sold.
This all hangs on one issue: I have the constitutional right to free speech... does that mean the government is automatically obligated, at its own expense, to make sure that each and every american hears it (or is at least able to)? If I want to get up in front of the LA Watts district and preach about the KKK (which I seriously don't), is the government required to pay to set up a podium, microphones & speakers... or am I required to provide my own?
Censorship: you're standing in public giving opinions I don't like, and I tell you to shut up.
Not censorship: you're standing in public giving opinions I don't like using my megaphone, and I take away my megaphone.
People need to stop whining censorship every time someone tells them they can't do something. Just because you have the right to free speech does not mean
The property in question is owned by the library. That gives the library full rights to say what the equipment can and can't be used for. Also note the goverment is not saying it is "against the law" to use the equipment in such a manner, only that the library will receive no federal funding if it is used in such a manner.
I have little doubt this legislation will eventually be shot down for the right reasons (defining standards by which libraries should operate are too vague... what's porn and not porn, etc).
It's only those extreme cases of people with Kryotech systems or people who submerge their mobos in mineral oil that you ever hear about.
Also, the cache on Real P-II's only runs at half the CPU speed (200 Mhz on a 400 Mhz P-II), while on a Celeron, the cache is full speed.
You'd be amazed at how much the speed offsets the size.
You're certainly correct about the bottlenecks.
I went to a local mom-and-pop shop (lots of those in the Bay Area) and got two PPGA 300A's in the same day--they didn't have them in stock, but they got them for me before the close of the business day. Price was $69 each. Not too hard to track down, and not too pricey. Both overclocked fine, the only juju required was some heatsink compound.
Nutshell: I've already burned some Debian CD's in preparation for switching my computers from Redhat to Debian.
My opinion of Redhat has been slowly going downhill. I don't know whether some of the things posted about them are true or not (i.e. Redhat deliberately not complying with the LSB, or their certification methods, or other things), and I really don't care. They're getting too big for their britches. I chose Linux to move away from the omnipresent corporation, and now here is one forming in our back yard.
Don't take this as an extremist point of view, however. Most of Redhat's connections benefit the entire Linux community, not just themselves. They should keep doing what they can until it doesn't work for them anymore.
I'm just not willing to support their business oriented model anymore. Debian here I come.
The corrected link
83 Ultra 10's will do that, I guess :)
oh well, back to work.