Yeah, i second that... I remember how my slackware4 machine (libc5) would compile and run apps much faster than redhat 5.1 (glibc, but used an old kernel). Glibc seems massively more bloated and inefficient.
MPEG4 didn't even exist in those days, infact MPEG1 was invented very near to the death of commodore. The commodore CD32 was one of the first machines to play mpeg1 files (video cds) and required a dedicated decoder card to do it.
And the Amiga wasn't all that purpose-built... It had dedicated video and sound hardware, just like all modern computers do. It did the same thing as every modern machine does, it just did it a few years ahead of everyone else.
It really depends how many functions your gonna use from a particular lib, and how popular that lib is (how many other programs the typical user will have that use it). The hard part, is to know where to draw the line. And if people never use a lib that's not commonplace, then how does a new lib become commonplace?
Look at MemTotal, that's the available userland memory... If you know how much physical memory you have, then subtract the userland memory from the physical mem to see how much is being used by the kernel.
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To an extent... They will check that you negotiate SSL on the HTTPS port, but after that they can't see the traffic you transmit inside the SSL stream. So all you need, is a service that runs over SSL. Simple
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All free email providers keep your mail... You really think yahoo or hotmail are any different? At least google are up front about it... These services are not free, your just paying for the service with a method other than money. If you want a mail service that doesn't log your mail or try to sell you advertising, then you can pay for it directly using money instead.
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Microsoft software restriction policies are absoloutely trivial to circumvent, give it a try sometime. It's like putting up a curtain and a sign instead of a proper locked door.
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A mac wouldn't be a problem... Windows is the only os nowadays that still doesn't come with an SSH client by default. On a mac you could just use the default ssh client shipped with the os.
Associated with the application, in that you get different menu items for each application, just like you do with MacOS... And the menu bar is always at the top of the screen, just like with MacOS, as opposed to being inside of each window as it is on windows and usually X11 apps. As for the multiple screens, that was a very nice technique, similar to multiple desktops on a unix window manager but more powerfull, especially when you had limited colour palettes, since each screen on the amiga could have it's own palette. A lot of games used this technique too, for splitscreen modes, or one screen at the bottom for a control panel and the main visual for the game action.
Almost all rich people run a charity or two, and they're not running them for the good of others.
Donating money to charity is a good way to buy good publicity, and you get a good tax writeoff on money you donate. There are also a thousand and one other scams people can pull, like charging their expenses back to their charitable foundation.
Also large corporations donate their own products (microsoft is especially guilty of this) and claim tax breaks based on the retail prices of those products. In the case of software, the production cost is minimal, and in any other industry it will still cost the company less to produce than the retail cost, just that the margins are much higher with software.
Donating of products serves as self-promotion, increasing brand awareness and market share, while costing the company significantly less than they claim to have donated.
The Amiga had the menu bar at the top of the screen too, but it only became accessible by holding down the right mouse button (otherwise the top bar of the screen was just an information bar). While you were holding down the right button, focus-follows-mouse was disabled.
Well when you consider how many requests/second are going through an isp's proxy. Processing proxy requests is a much tougher task than just routing packets, and most isps don't dedicate powerfull enough hardware to the task. If your going to keep the cache on disk you need fast drives with low latency, and you still need a LOT of ram... And preferably several machines to keep the load spread out. Once one of the proxies gets heavily loaded it will lag serving requests and get backlogged.
There are old versions for solaris/sparc, but never for solaris/x86. There are no 64bit versions whatsoever, so amd64 users are forced to run a 32bit browser on windows/linux, most end up running a full 32bit os thus negating the benefits of a 64bit cpu. There are no native versions for BSD, bsd users have to run a browser under linux emulation. I don't think there is a native for OSX/x86 yet. The nokia internet tablet doesn't support flash, nor do many similar small devices. Even if you have a supported os, you need recent versions in order to use the latest flash plugins, lots of people use older os's and modern versions of mozilla happily. If you have anything even slightly obscure (linux/alpha, linux/sparc, irix etc) you can't use flash, but you can browse pretty much anything else (mozilla/konqueror exist for these platforms at the very least, and java)
If you have a fast connection to your ISP, but a slow upstream it's still very usefull.
The ISP can mirror a lot of content on local servers from which you can download at full speed. Peer-to-peer traffic between users on the same isp will work better, if your using bittorrent once one user of your isp becomes a seed your sorted and the strain on the backbone will decrease significantly. The ISP can proxy http traffic, so that static things like the icons on slashdot only need to travel down the backbone once for thousands of users.
Hopefully this will discourage the use of flash, and especially flash-only websites.
Search engines can't search inside flash Some systems have no flash plugin (macromedia are too stubborn to compile 64bit versions) A lot of companies have a policy of not allowing flash Flash files are large, and load slowly on slow connections (and lots of people use slow mobile connections nowadays)
I hate the attitude of most flash developers, who think that everyone runs windows as administrator and on a fast connection, many a time i have been told to go and buy a windows box by a flash developer when i complained that their site wouldn't display. It's nice to see their blind obedience to microsoft come to bite them in the ass.
Forcing people to use particular programs doesn't seem to do microsoft any harm... Their marketshare would be a fraction of what it is now if people weren't forced by proprietary formats, apis, protocols or whatever else.
Argue with the judge? that's exactly what microsoft does, and they drag it out as long as they can... They did it in the US antitrust trial, and now they're doing it in Europe. They shouldn't be allowed to argue or negotiate their punishment once the court has found against them, they should simply be punished, and for that sentence to be carried out as it would with an individual who was found guilty by a court.
I have a similar problem with a guy who keeps calling me up and trying to order takeaway. Although once i tell him it's a wrong number, he apologises and hangs up, but then still calls again a few days later.
I often found myself highly tempted to produce poor approximations of the food he was trying to order, deliver it and demand an extortionate amI have a similar problem with a guy who keeps calling me up and trying to order takeaway. Although once i tell him it's a wrong number, he apologises and hangs up, but then still calls again a few days later.
I often found myself highly tempted to produce poor approximations of the food he was trying to order, deliver it and demand an extortionate amount of money for it.ount of money for it.
Because where does it stop... Browser and instant messenger today... what next? Any bundling gives microsoft an unfair advantage, and lets them pedal inferior products while still gaining market share.
In a few years time, what's to stop windows costing $5000 and come bundled with everything anyone is likely to use, including hardware?
Not the whole machine, only those processes which were accessing the NFS.. If the entire system was using an nfs root, then it will lock up but what else would you expect? Surely having it lock up until the server comes back is hugely preferable to a complete crash.
Also, you can specify various mount options for NFS, the key ones being: hard intr soft
Soft will behave like samba, any disconnection will break file locks and cause fuckups on any program accessing the NFS, but the rest of the system will remain up.
Hard is the default, like you described earlier.
Intr is an option to hard, that will let you interrupt any process which is hung due to a downed NFS share (although you can just wait for the server to come back)
I always mount NFS with hard,intr but i still usually wait for the server to return, i don't like the idea of losing my work because a fileserver got rebooted.
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Yeah, i second that...
I remember how my slackware4 machine (libc5) would compile and run apps much faster than redhat 5.1 (glibc, but used an old kernel). Glibc seems massively more bloated and inefficient.
MPEG4 didn't even exist in those days, infact MPEG1 was invented very near to the death of commodore. The commodore CD32 was one of the first machines to play mpeg1 files (video cds) and required a dedicated decoder card to do it.
And the Amiga wasn't all that purpose-built... It had dedicated video and sound hardware, just like all modern computers do. It did the same thing as every modern machine does, it just did it a few years ahead of everyone else.
It really depends how many functions your gonna use from a particular lib, and how popular that lib is (how many other programs the typical user will have that use it).
The hard part, is to know where to draw the line. And if people never use a lib that's not commonplace, then how does a new lib become commonplace?
Look at MemTotal, that's the available userland memory... If you know how much physical memory you have, then subtract the userland memory from the physical mem to see how much is being used by the kernel.
To an extent...
They will check that you negotiate SSL on the HTTPS port, but after that they can't see the traffic you transmit inside the SSL stream. So all you need, is a service that runs over SSL. Simple
All free email providers keep your mail... You really think yahoo or hotmail are any different?
At least google are up front about it... These services are not free, your just paying for the service with a method other than money.
If you want a mail service that doesn't log your mail or try to sell you advertising, then you can pay for it directly using money instead.
Microsoft software restriction policies are absoloutely trivial to circumvent, give it a try sometime. It's like putting up a curtain and a sign instead of a proper locked door.
A mac wouldn't be a problem...
Windows is the only os nowadays that still doesn't come with an SSH client by default.
On a mac you could just use the default ssh client shipped with the os.
Helvetica is designed to be printed on high resolution printers, whereas arial is designed to be displayed on low resolution screens...
Some of sweden's laws on alcohol purchase/consumption are much harsher than those in other countries too...
Associated with the application, in that you get different menu items for each application, just like you do with MacOS... And the menu bar is always at the top of the screen, just like with MacOS, as opposed to being inside of each window as it is on windows and usually X11 apps.
As for the multiple screens, that was a very nice technique, similar to multiple desktops on a unix window manager but more powerfull, especially when you had limited colour palettes, since each screen on the amiga could have it's own palette.
A lot of games used this technique too, for splitscreen modes, or one screen at the bottom for a control panel and the main visual for the game action.
Almost all rich people run a charity or two, and they're not running them for the good of others.
Donating money to charity is a good way to buy good publicity, and you get a good tax writeoff on money you donate. There are also a thousand and one other scams people can pull, like charging their expenses back to their charitable foundation.
Also large corporations donate their own products (microsoft is especially guilty of this) and claim tax breaks based on the retail prices of those products. In the case of software, the production cost is minimal, and in any other industry it will still cost the company less to produce than the retail cost, just that the margins are much higher with software.
Donating of products serves as self-promotion, increasing brand awareness and market share, while costing the company significantly less than they claim to have donated.
The Amiga had the menu bar at the top of the screen too, but it only became accessible by holding down the right mouse button (otherwise the top bar of the screen was just an information bar). While you were holding down the right button, focus-follows-mouse was disabled.
Well when you consider how many requests/second are going through an isp's proxy. Processing proxy requests is a much tougher task than just routing packets, and most isps don't dedicate powerfull enough hardware to the task.
If your going to keep the cache on disk you need fast drives with low latency, and you still need a LOT of ram... And preferably several machines to keep the load spread out. Once one of the proxies gets heavily loaded it will lag serving requests and get backlogged.
There are old versions for solaris/sparc, but never for solaris/x86.
There are no 64bit versions whatsoever, so amd64 users are forced to run a 32bit browser on windows/linux, most end up running a full 32bit os thus negating the benefits of a 64bit cpu.
There are no native versions for BSD, bsd users have to run a browser under linux emulation.
I don't think there is a native for OSX/x86 yet.
The nokia internet tablet doesn't support flash, nor do many similar small devices.
Even if you have a supported os, you need recent versions in order to use the latest flash plugins, lots of people use older os's and modern versions of mozilla happily.
If you have anything even slightly obscure (linux/alpha, linux/sparc, irix etc) you can't use flash, but you can browse pretty much anything else (mozilla/konqueror exist for these platforms at the very least, and java)
If you have a fast connection to your ISP, but a slow upstream it's still very usefull.
The ISP can mirror a lot of content on local servers from which you can download at full speed.
Peer-to-peer traffic between users on the same isp will work better, if your using bittorrent once one user of your isp becomes a seed your sorted and the strain on the backbone will decrease significantly.
The ISP can proxy http traffic, so that static things like the icons on slashdot only need to travel down the backbone once for thousands of users.
Hopefully this will discourage the use of flash, and especially flash-only websites.
Search engines can't search inside flash
Some systems have no flash plugin (macromedia are too stubborn to compile 64bit versions)
A lot of companies have a policy of not allowing flash
Flash files are large, and load slowly on slow connections (and lots of people use slow mobile connections nowadays)
I hate the attitude of most flash developers, who think that everyone runs windows as administrator and on a fast connection, many a time i have been told to go and buy a windows box by a flash developer when i complained that their site wouldn't display. It's nice to see their blind obedience to microsoft come to bite them in the ass.
Forcing people to use particular programs doesn't seem to do microsoft any harm... Their marketshare would be a fraction of what it is now if people weren't forced by proprietary formats, apis, protocols or whatever else.
They released a browser? what browser was that?
Argue with the judge? that's exactly what microsoft does, and they drag it out as long as they can... They did it in the US antitrust trial, and now they're doing it in Europe.
They shouldn't be allowed to argue or negotiate their punishment once the court has found against them, they should simply be punished, and for that sentence to be carried out as it would with an individual who was found guilty by a court.
Microsoft never have had much to do with standards, other than to completely ignore them and create their own stuff regardless.
I have a similar problem with a guy who keeps calling me up and trying to order takeaway. Although once i tell him it's a wrong number, he apologises and hangs up, but then still calls again a few days later.
I often found myself highly tempted to produce poor approximations of the food he was trying to order, deliver it and demand an extortionate amI have a similar problem with a guy who keeps calling me up and trying to order takeaway. Although once i tell him it's a wrong number, he apologises and hangs up, but then still calls again a few days later.
I often found myself highly tempted to produce poor approximations of the food he was trying to order, deliver it and demand an extortionate amount of money for it.ount of money for it.
The parent post was specifically talking about Oracle, which he claimed was hard to install on Linux.
If your using Postgres or Mysql then the installation issues are moot, since both come by default with several linux distributions anyway.
Because where does it stop...
Browser and instant messenger today... what next? Any bundling gives microsoft an unfair advantage, and lets them pedal inferior products while still gaining market share.
In a few years time, what's to stop windows costing $5000 and come bundled with everything anyone is likely to use, including hardware?
Not the whole machine, only those processes which were accessing the NFS.. If the entire system was using an nfs root, then it will lock up but what else would you expect? Surely having it lock up until the server comes back is hugely preferable to a complete crash.
Also, you can specify various mount options for NFS, the key ones being:
hard
intr
soft
Soft will behave like samba, any disconnection will break file locks and cause fuckups on any program accessing the NFS, but the rest of the system will remain up.
Hard is the default, like you described earlier.
Intr is an option to hard, that will let you interrupt any process which is hung due to a downed NFS share (although you can just wait for the server to come back)
I always mount NFS with hard,intr but i still usually wait for the server to return, i don't like the idea of losing my work because a fileserver got rebooted.