First of all, I'd like to thank you all for the early wake-up call this morning.:)
The reason that the site was running rather slowly through the first hour or two of the slashdotting was that we were pegged at 100mbps through our load balancer. It appears as though we've got about five mbps of slack in the line now, so the site should be performing better than it was previously.
I suppose that this is the reason that companies such as Akamai exist.;)
If you need a good review before seeing a movie, try www.theonionavclub.com -- they're critical of everything, so if they give it a good review, it's almost sure to be worth your time.
Incorrect.
The "make" command takes care of the parallelism by using a dependancy file (Makefile). If a makefile is written poorly (sequential compile commands with no dependancy information given) then you will get no gain from forking additional make processes as the compile commands will execute sequentially on *one* processor.
GCC itself does not utilize more than one processor.
has worked on linux for at least the past year. Read up a little. Even the vanilla implementation of Wine will do it (albeit with a few sound lag issues). Download the transgaming source and compile (or pay for binaries) and give it a spin.
Your best bet is probably mplayer without the gui. I've not tried it myself, but the way the audio and video output plugins work, I would expect you could output to dxr2 without xlibs.
The build process invokes "javac" in order to complete the compile. I didn't have it on my search path the first time I built.
It defineately compiles bytecode.
on a ppro 180, ssh can't push more than 15 mbit. For slower machines or with many concurrent connections or a need to run other processes while there is a high network load, a faster machine is required, or a faster language.
By using C for the ssh implmentation, I can push 15 mbit instead of 8.
Bandwidth usage is polled and charged accordingly.
(Unfortunately, the university that I work with was polled for their bandwidth usage right after the release of the mandrake iso's... our ISP tried to charge us nearly 500K because they thought that was our *usual* bandwidth utilization. A little more research showed that our bandwith utilization was not so exorbitant, and we were not erroneously charged.)
In cable modem, there are physically 12 or so downstream frequencies and 4 upstream frequencies. On any given cable modem segment, you can get about 10-12 mbps down and only 2 mbps up.
Cable companies don't limit you because they want to eliminate servers, they limit upstream because they *have* to.
Virus scanners frequently employ the use of heuristic virus pattern matching -- that is, defining something as a virus because of the actions that it takes. If the behaviour of one virus matches another known virus, a virus scanner should detect that virus -- therefore it shouldn't matter what version of some virus a person has, so long as the behaviour is relatively the same.
a satellite built by Naval Academy midshipmen with off-the-shelf parts from Radio Shack is exceeding all expectations
And it's exceeding mine too.:-) Approximately 3 out of every 5 things that I've gotten at radio shack have either been broken when I got them home or they broke shortly later. I can recall a CD player that *melted*, audio cabling that had breaks in the wires, and broken rj-45 connectors off hand...
If this thing can go another week, i'll be really impressed.
Eye candy or efficiency?
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KDE Wins 3 awards
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· Score: 1, Insightful
KDE has come a long ways since its inception and I applaud the developers that have worked so hard to bring it up to this point. It offers a nice UI that's intuitive for users of either macOS or windows to get used to. And it's pretty.
Things that don't get much press, though, are the fast and efficient windowmanagers that, IMO, are able to accomplish a lot more. What about fvwm2, a completely customizable and scriptable windowmanager. Or ion, recently published on slashdot. The folks that worked on windowmaker also have done a great job.
All in all, I think that the developers working on KDE have done a stunning job, but it's equally amazing that new linux users aren't exposed as much to the "choice" that makes the linux operating system what it is. I switch windowmanagers every so often, and each of gets things done in its own unique way. I think the cake goes to fvwm for its efficiency, though. Too bad it doesn't get press because it's not as "pretty" as other wms out there.
It depends on the distance to the earth's center of mass. Double the distance from the center of the earth, and you'll quarter your effective weight. Since the radius of the earth is roughly 3960 miles, and these guys are planning on going to about 26 miles up, they're going to weigh 98% of what they do on earth.
Talk about ultra slim-fast. Not much of an effect, really.
It takes a hefty dose of RAM, but if you have it, it's a great development environment. Personally, i've got over a gig, so it doesn't phase me (shouldn't everyone have that much, considering prices?)
It almost completely eliminates lookups to the API for obscure function calls as it autocompletes as you type and gives you usage information -- big time saver there.
I have a friend that had both of his burners die in XP as soon as he installed non-MS burning software. He spent well over 6 hours trying to get it to work, but eventually just settled on using the MS included burner (he's pretty proficient at that sort of thing, too)
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First of all, I'd like to thank you all for the early wake-up call this morning. :)
;)
The reason that the site was running rather slowly through the first hour or two of the slashdotting was that we were pegged at 100mbps through our load balancer. It appears as though we've got about five mbps of slack in the line now, so the site should be performing better than it was previously.
I suppose that this is the reason that companies such as Akamai exist.
Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) Voted against the patriot act.
Actually, the only games that I *have* played recently have been 10 years old. A lot of the classics are every bit as good as what is available now.
If you need a good review before seeing a movie, try www.theonionavclub.com -- they're critical of everything, so if they give it a good review, it's almost sure to be worth your time.
From:
women = (evil) ^ 2
Follows:
women = +/- evil
There are those of us who know and associate with women who possess negative evil.
Anyone using raid-0 through software in linux will likely want to hold off, as an array that can do 50 mb/s in 2.4.21 only pulls 15 mb/s in 2.6.
/dev/md0 (as suggested on lkml)
This is with hdparm -a 512
It could be that the PDC20265 card support just got much worse, as each of the drives on that card had their IO potential cut in half, however.
Incorrect. The "make" command takes care of the parallelism by using a dependancy file (Makefile). If a makefile is written poorly (sequential compile commands with no dependancy information given) then you will get no gain from forking additional make processes as the compile commands will execute sequentially on *one* processor. GCC itself does not utilize more than one processor.
has worked on linux for at least the past year. Read up a little. Even the vanilla implementation of Wine will do it (albeit with a few sound lag issues). Download the transgaming source and compile (or pay for binaries) and give it a spin.
Works fine for me.
Your best bet is probably mplayer without the gui. I've not tried it myself, but the way the audio and video output plugins work, I would expect you could output to dxr2 without xlibs.
The build process invokes "javac" in order to complete the compile. I didn't have it on my search path the first time I built. It defineately compiles bytecode.
on a ppro 180, ssh can't push more than 15 mbit. For slower machines or with many concurrent connections or a need to run other processes while there is a high network load, a faster machine is required, or a faster language. By using C for the ssh implmentation, I can push 15 mbit instead of 8.
Wow. Never had an open pipe?
Bandwidth usage is polled and charged accordingly.
(Unfortunately, the university that I work with was polled for their bandwidth usage right after the release of the mandrake iso's... our ISP tried to charge us nearly 500K because they thought that was our *usual* bandwidth utilization. A little more research showed that our bandwith utilization was not so exorbitant, and we were not erroneously charged.)
In cable modem, there are physically 12 or so downstream frequencies and 4 upstream frequencies. On any given cable modem segment, you can get about 10-12 mbps down and only 2 mbps up.
Cable companies don't limit you because they want to eliminate servers, they limit upstream because they *have* to.
Read up.
Virus scanners frequently employ the use of heuristic virus pattern matching -- that is, defining something as a virus because of the actions that it takes. If the behaviour of one virus matches another known virus, a virus scanner should detect that virus -- therefore it shouldn't matter what version of some virus a person has, so long as the behaviour is relatively the same.
a satellite built by Naval Academy midshipmen with off-the-shelf parts from Radio Shack is exceeding all expectations
And it's exceeding mine too. :-) Approximately 3 out of every 5 things that I've gotten at radio shack have either been broken when I got them home or they broke shortly later. I can recall a CD player that *melted*, audio cabling that had breaks in the wires, and broken rj-45 connectors off hand...
If this thing can go another week, i'll be really impressed.
KDE has come a long ways since its inception and I applaud the developers that have worked so hard to bring it up to this point. It offers a nice UI that's intuitive for users of either macOS or windows to get used to. And it's pretty.
Things that don't get much press, though, are the fast and efficient windowmanagers that, IMO, are able to accomplish a lot more. What about fvwm2, a completely customizable and scriptable windowmanager. Or ion, recently published on slashdot. The folks that worked on windowmaker also have done a great job.
All in all, I think that the developers working on KDE have done a stunning job, but it's equally amazing that new linux users aren't exposed as much to the "choice" that makes the linux operating system what it is. I switch windowmanagers every so often, and each of gets things done in its own unique way. I think the cake goes to fvwm for its efficiency, though. Too bad it doesn't get press because it's not as "pretty" as other wms out there.
It depends on the distance to the earth's center of mass. Double the distance from the center of the earth, and you'll quarter your effective weight. Since the radius of the earth is roughly 3960 miles, and these guys are planning on going to about 26 miles up, they're going to weigh 98% of what they do on earth.
Talk about ultra slim-fast. Not much of an effect, really.
It takes a hefty dose of RAM, but if you have it, it's a great development environment. Personally, i've got over a gig, so it doesn't phase me (shouldn't everyone have that much, considering prices?)
It almost completely eliminates lookups to the API for obscure function calls as it autocompletes as you type and gives you usage information -- big time saver there.
I have a friend that had both of his burners die in XP as soon as he installed non-MS burning software. He spent well over 6 hours trying to get it to work, but eventually just settled on using the MS included burner (he's pretty proficient at that sort of thing, too)