Monitor your own resource usage and figure out what YOU require.
That on the face of it sounds like good advice, but the problem is that most people who are asking that question are just about to install a new operating system and want to know how to partition up their disk. It is catch 22 - you need to know how big to make that swap partition before installing the OS, but you can't figure out how big you need it until you have installed and run the OS. Once you've installed the OS and started using it, you can't change the size of the swap partition without major trauma. (Or you can use a swap file instead, but if you were prepared to settle for the inefficiencies of a swap file, you probably wouldn't be bothered if it wasn't the optimum size anyway!)
The only solution appears to be to install the OS twice, the first time with your best guess, then once you've figured out how much swap you really need, wipe the disk and start again. But most people would rather live with a sub-optimal swap partition than go through all that partition and install process a second time.
So the original question still stands. For those that don't want to faf around doing multiple installs, what is a good rule of thumb for the swap partition size?
Religion is the single defining characteristic of modern terrorists... nearly all terrorists are Muslims... Nearly all airplane hijackings and intentional attacks on civilians have been done in the name of Islam.
Let's stop just a minute...
Let's also leave aside that the above is simply wrong as a matter of fact...
Do you really think that doing something 'in the name of Islam' (or Christianity, or the Free Software Foundation, etc) automatically makes you a Muslim (or Christian, or Free Software advocate)?
I don't know where you stand on the FSF, but assuming you are broadly sympathetic to its aims, how would you feel if I suddenly started blowing up planes 'in the name of the FSF'?
Let's be rational about this. Anyone can claim to be associated with a particular movement or organisation. Whether you actually are can only be decided from whether your actions are in keeping with that organisation's goals.
I read somewhere (though I can't remember where) that most CPUs are now RISC designs under the skin. Even CPUs that have complex instruction sets only implement those as a thin layer on top of a fundamentally RISC architecture. Of course this raises the question of just how do you define RISC?
The wonderful beginners' feature of the 6502 command set was that it was so limited.
As AJS said, the 6502 was the inspiration for the ARM family, and RISC processors in general. The philosophy is why encumber a CPU with complex instructions that take several CPU cycles to execute, when a decent compiler can get the same work done with an optimised set of small instructions that execute in just one or two CPU cycles?
ARM was in fact an off-shoot from Acorn, the company that made the BBC Micro. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture It continues to amaze me that the first ARM prototype CPU back from the fabrication plant worked perfectly first time!
When's the last time you made a point to listen to a radio program, and only listen to a radio program in your home?
The last time I listened to the radio (yesterday evening). If there's one thing I can't stand, its radio (or TV) on as background wallpaper. If I'm not actively listening, I turn it off.
I imagine that Google will take a fairly conservative line. If it is questionable whether it really is malware, then they won't mark it as such. "I know it when I see it" is actually a much under-rated classification system (unless you make your living from arguing definitions).
My main concern is if you are doodling around in some package like iPhoto that auto-saves your changes, and you are making all sorts of experimental crops and enhancements to photos and then undoing them, is it going to save every single one? That's going to gobble a lot of disk space.
According to the Apple site, the default settings are to back up your entire computer every midnight. So it is not every version that is saved - just the last one you made that day.
Recently the Microsoft blog told us that some of our CSS hacks will stop working in IE7, a fact we detailed in our first IE7 article. While this is generally good news, it is a bit disturbing that the Holly hack in particular will cease to function while many of the layout problems it is meant to fix will still be there, and will still need fixing.
As such, you don't want to be saddled with... layout-bag-grid-column junk.
You want to build up that layout graphically...
The trouble with drag-and-drop UI designers is that the layout tends to break horribly when the window is resized or the font size changed. (I'm talking about VB, Delphi, and MFC here - there may be other frameworks that have found a way around this problem.) Designers who try to solve the problem by making their forms non-resizable should be taken outside and shot...
I suppose that membership of a particular ethnic group is just a fact of background - there are no moral aspects to race. The same isn't true of religion. But in the case of Judaism the issue is blurred because we use the same word to refer to the race as we do to refer to the religion. Then there is the political state of Israel, which is neither a religion nor a race... In my previous post, I was referring exclusively to the religion, but I didn't make that clear.
This kind of confusion is nothing new. John the baptist had this to say:
"And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The axe is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire." (Matthew 3:9-10).
Jesus had something similar to say - see John chapter 8.
I'm not sure if any of this helps. I've no idea if the war-mongers in Israel claim to be jewish in the religious sense.
I hesitate over dignifying the above with a response, but I am utterly fed up with this kind of childish name-calling.
As a Christian, I have no particular reason to defend Islam, but I've seen enough of attacks on religions where the attack is based entirely on the behaviour of a small minority who probably don't even deserve to be called followers of that religion in the first place.
So, to put the record straight, in response to your question "What are the core tenets of Islam?":
1. "I testify that there is no god but God (Arabic:Allah) and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of God."
2. Prayer five times a day.
3. Personal resonsibility to give alms to the poor.
Not much there about calling for the destruction of Israel or supporting terrorists, is there?
Now the question remains: "Do the leaders of the political state of Israel and their supporters, based on their recent actions, deserve to be called Jews?"
Lulu doesn't appear to accept DocBook formatted material, which is a pity. I know that you can generate a PDF and submit that, but given the state of current open-source formatting-object processors, that's not going to lead to the most professional results.
There must be a niche market for DocBook publishing, including for those who want it, generating the XSLT templates for the particular look, corporate style, etc, that the customer wants.
The should have used spirits cooling (and a freezer that goes up to 11...)
(Yes, I know it is an old link. Shame that totl doesn't get updated these days.)
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If you are talking about digital camera RAW file formats, I've been using Udi Fuch's ufraw GIMP plug-in for a while now. It is based on David Coffin's dcraw code, so it opens most RAW formats currently on the market. ufraw has progressed enormously in the past year or so. Initially, colour rendering took a lot of tweaking, but now it gives natural looking colours straight away. I haven't directly compared it with Bibble, Raw Developer, etc yet, but it certainly beats hands down the Pentax software that came with my camera.
Email is dying... I try to get everything I can out of my email box and into RSS: These include news alerts, NASA website articles / press releases,...
I think you must be quite unusual in having a significant proportion of your (potential) email coming from mass mailing lists. My guess is that for most people, 90% of their email usage is direct contact between two people. I find it hard to see how RSS and other subscription technologies can fit with my own pattern of email usage, which is exclusively individuals being able to contact me completely unsolicited, and me being able to do likewise.
Yes, RSS is a better technology for receiving 'broadcast' information on an opt-in basis, but I've never used email for that sort of thing anyway. You might as well say that the telephone is a dying technology - as radio receivers become more common place, everyone will start throwing away their telephones and start listening to the news on the radio instead...
Implementing this idea would also mean that people would soon lose the ability to read the vast body of works already written in English; a huge translation effort would have to be undertaken
This has already happened in the last 30 or so years with so-called gender-neutral language. There is a significant number of people around now who genuinely believe when they read something written more than 30 years ago that pronouns like 'he', 'his', 'himself', etc, can only apply to the male half of the population.
Unfortunately, as has already been pointed out many times, tabs break alignment when the tab width is changed.
E.g. ^---void myFunction(int a, ^---^---^---^---^---int b); becomes ^-void myFunction(int a, ^-^-^-^-^-int b); when the tab width is changed from 4 to 2.
The only way to fix this with ordinary tabs and spaces is to insist that the number of tabs in a particular block is kept constant and spaces are added for alignment, e.g. (with . representing space)
^---void myFunction(int a, ^---................int b);
The trouble is that the difference between tabs and spaces is invisible and it is completely unrealistic to expect a team of programmers to stick to such an error-prone scheme.
My point is that it is no more considerate to insist on tabs than it is to insist on spaces. Both schemes have disadvantages as has already been stated. My personal view is that it is easier to tolerate an indentation width that differs from your preferred, than broken alignment, so I insist on spaces. Of course that is a value judgement, but it is no less valid than yours.
I used to have NTL cable on their 2Mbps tarrif. But after a long argument about their use of RBLs to block emails from even entering their networks (not just spam emails) I moved to a 1Mbps ADSL plan with PlusNet. What has surprised me is that in normal web browsing I haven't noticed the reduction in speed at all. I'm now paying £15 a month, which is considerably less than I paid NTL. NTL were fine when everything was working, but they are well known for their almost non-existant customer service. If something breaks, you're screwed.
I can see this device finding a place in the home as a media centre. Having no moving parts, it would be completely silent. It would of course have to be linked to a server, but imagine being able to plug a display directly into a wall socket. It could also find a place in the kitchen - no danger of spilling liquids onto a wall socket, and no worktop space taken up.
I wonder whether it could be viable to add enough extra flash memory to make one of these into a web server based on Linux? It would be the idea low power and silent server. At only 5 watts power consumption, there would be little reason not to leave one of these switched on 24x7.
Here in the UK, pay as you go is quite popular. Unlike monthly contracts, you have to pay for the phone initially, but then after that you only pay for the calls that you make. When your credit runs out you can't make any more calls until you add a bit more credit. For people like me it's an ideal solution, because if I don't make any calls, I don't pay anything. And if someone steals my phone, they can't do any worse than use up the £5 or so credit that is on it.
I'm not saying that you don't have a very good reason for the way you use it (although I'm a little curious about what it is)
I resisted having one for a long time, and my friends kept telling me I should have one for emergency use. Eventually I saw this one for £20 (pay as you go) on Amazon and caved in. In fact I have also ended up using it to tell someone what time my train is due in if I'm expecting to be met.
There are cell phones like this you know. I haven't researched the subject myself, except to say that I have a Motorola C115. It is tiny, it does voice calls and text messages, and if you only turn it on briefly once every few days or so, the battery lasts for more than six months (yes, really). I've had mine nearly a year now and only charged it twice.
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That on the face of it sounds like good advice, but the problem is that most people who are asking that question are just about to install a new operating system and want to know how to partition up their disk. It is catch 22 - you need to know how big to make that swap partition before installing the OS, but you can't figure out how big you need it until you have installed and run the OS. Once you've installed the OS and started using it, you can't change the size of the swap partition without major trauma. (Or you can use a swap file instead, but if you were prepared to settle for the inefficiencies of a swap file, you probably wouldn't be bothered if it wasn't the optimum size anyway!)
The only solution appears to be to install the OS twice, the first time with your best guess, then once you've figured out how much swap you really need, wipe the disk and start again. But most people would rather live with a sub-optimal swap partition than go through all that partition and install process a second time.
So the original question still stands. For those that don't want to faf around doing multiple installs, what is a good rule of thumb for the swap partition size?
Let's stop just a minute...
Let's also leave aside that the above is simply wrong as a matter of fact...
Do you really think that doing something 'in the name of Islam' (or Christianity, or the Free Software Foundation, etc) automatically makes you a Muslim (or Christian, or Free Software advocate)?
I don't know where you stand on the FSF, but assuming you are broadly sympathetic to its aims, how would you feel if I suddenly started blowing up planes 'in the name of the FSF'?
Let's be rational about this. Anyone can claim to be associated with a particular movement or organisation. Whether you actually are can only be decided from whether your actions are in keeping with that organisation's goals.
I read somewhere (though I can't remember where) that most CPUs are now RISC designs under the skin. Even CPUs that have complex instruction sets only implement those as a thin layer on top of a fundamentally RISC architecture. Of course this raises the question of just how do you define RISC?
Anyone who knows more about this??
As AJS said, the 6502 was the inspiration for the ARM family, and RISC processors in general. The philosophy is why encumber a CPU with complex instructions that take several CPU cycles to execute, when a decent compiler can get the same work done with an optimised set of small instructions that execute in just one or two CPU cycles?
ARM was in fact an off-shoot from Acorn, the company that made the BBC Micro. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture It continues to amaze me that the first ARM prototype CPU back from the fabrication plant worked perfectly first time!
The last time I listened to the radio (yesterday evening). If there's one thing I can't stand, its radio (or TV) on as background wallpaper. If I'm not actively listening, I turn it off.
I imagine that Google will take a fairly conservative line. If it is questionable whether it really is malware, then they won't mark it as such. "I know it when I see it" is actually a much under-rated classification system (unless you make your living from arguing definitions).
According to the Apple site, the default settings are to back up your entire computer every midnight. So it is not every version that is saved - just the last one you made that day.
-- from Position is Everything, the authors of the Holly Hack.
The trouble with drag-and-drop UI designers is that the layout tends to break horribly when the window is resized or the font size changed. (I'm talking about VB, Delphi, and MFC here - there may be other frameworks that have found a way around this problem.) Designers who try to solve the problem by making their forms non-resizable should be taken outside and shot...
I suppose that membership of a particular ethnic group is just a fact of background - there are no moral aspects to race. The same isn't true of religion. But in the case of Judaism the issue is blurred because we use the same word to refer to the race as we do to refer to the religion. Then there is the political state of Israel, which is neither a religion nor a race... In my previous post, I was referring exclusively to the religion, but I didn't make that clear.
This kind of confusion is nothing new. John the baptist had this to say:
"And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The axe is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire." (Matthew 3:9-10).
Jesus had something similar to say - see John chapter 8.
I'm not sure if any of this helps. I've no idea if the war-mongers in Israel claim to be jewish in the religious sense.
I hesitate over dignifying the above with a response, but I am utterly fed up with this kind of childish name-calling.
As a Christian, I have no particular reason to defend Islam, but I've seen enough of attacks on religions where the attack is based entirely on the behaviour of a small minority who probably don't even deserve to be called followers of that religion in the first place.
So, to put the record straight, in response to your question "What are the core tenets of Islam?":
1. "I testify that there is no god but God (Arabic:Allah) and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of God."
2. Prayer five times a day.
3. Personal resonsibility to give alms to the poor.
4. Fasting during the month of Ramadan.
5. A pilgrimage to Mecca at least once.
(Information taken from Wikipedia.)
Not much there about calling for the destruction of Israel or supporting terrorists, is there?
Now the question remains: "Do the leaders of the political state of Israel and their supporters, based on their recent actions, deserve to be called Jews?"
Lulu doesn't appear to accept DocBook formatted material, which is a pity. I know that you can generate a PDF and submit that, but given the state of current open-source formatting-object processors, that's not going to lead to the most professional results.
There must be a niche market for DocBook publishing, including for those who want it, generating the XSLT templates for the particular look, corporate style, etc, that the customer wants.
The should have used spirits cooling (and a freezer that goes up to 11...)
(Yes, I know it is an old link. Shame that totl doesn't get updated these days.)
If you are talking about digital camera RAW file formats, I've been using Udi Fuch's ufraw GIMP plug-in for a while now. It is based on David Coffin's dcraw code, so it opens most RAW formats currently on the market. ufraw has progressed enormously in the past year or so. Initially, colour rendering took a lot of tweaking, but now it gives natural looking colours straight away. I haven't directly compared it with Bibble, Raw Developer, etc yet, but it certainly beats hands down the Pentax software that came with my camera.
Is this an exampe of egg-streme programming?
Or have reports of overheating MacBooks been egg-sagerated?
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I think you must be quite unusual in having a significant proportion of your (potential) email coming from mass mailing lists. My guess is that for most people, 90% of their email usage is direct contact between two people. I find it hard to see how RSS and other subscription technologies can fit with my own pattern of email usage, which is exclusively individuals being able to contact me completely unsolicited, and me being able to do likewise.
Yes, RSS is a better technology for receiving 'broadcast' information on an opt-in basis, but I've never used email for that sort of thing anyway. You might as well say that the telephone is a dying technology - as radio receivers become more common place, everyone will start throwing away their telephones and start listening to the news on the radio instead...
This has already happened in the last 30 or so years with so-called gender-neutral language. There is a significant number of people around now who genuinely believe when they read something written more than 30 years ago that pronouns like 'he', 'his', 'himself', etc, can only apply to the male half of the population.
No it won't. The relative horizontal position of 'myFunction' and 'int' changes with the tab width.
Unfortunately, as has already been pointed out many times, tabs break alignment when the tab width is changed.
E.g.
^---void myFunction(int a,
^---^---^---^---^---int b);
becomes
^-void myFunction(int a,
^-^-^-^-^-int b);
when the tab width is changed from 4 to 2.
The only way to fix this with ordinary tabs and spaces is to insist that the number of tabs in a particular block is kept constant and spaces are added for alignment, e.g. (with . representing space)
^---void myFunction(int a,
^---................int b);
The trouble is that the difference between tabs and spaces is invisible and it is completely unrealistic to expect a team of programmers to stick to such an error-prone scheme.
My point is that it is no more considerate to insist on tabs than it is to insist on spaces. Both schemes have disadvantages as has already been stated. My personal view is that it is easier to tolerate an indentation width that differs from your preferred, than broken alignment, so I insist on spaces. Of course that is a value judgement, but it is no less valid than yours.
I used to have NTL cable on their 2Mbps tarrif. But after a long argument about their use of RBLs to block emails from even entering their networks (not just spam emails) I moved to a 1Mbps ADSL plan with PlusNet. What has surprised me is that in normal web browsing I haven't noticed the reduction in speed at all. I'm now paying £15 a month, which is considerably less than I paid NTL. NTL were fine when everything was working, but they are well known for their almost non-existant customer service. If something breaks, you're screwed.
I can see this device finding a place in the home as a media centre. Having no moving parts, it would be completely silent. It would of course have to be linked to a server, but imagine being able to plug a display directly into a wall socket. It could also find a place in the kitchen - no danger of spilling liquids onto a wall socket, and no worktop space taken up.
I wonder whether it could be viable to add enough extra flash memory to make one of these into a web server based on Linux? It would be the idea low power and silent server. At only 5 watts power consumption, there would be little reason not to leave one of these switched on 24x7.
Here in the UK, pay as you go is quite popular. Unlike monthly contracts, you have to pay for the phone initially, but then after that you only pay for the calls that you make. When your credit runs out you can't make any more calls until you add a bit more credit. For people like me it's an ideal solution, because if I don't make any calls, I don't pay anything. And if someone steals my phone, they can't do any worse than use up the £5 or so credit that is on it.
I'm not saying that you don't have a very good reason for the way you use it (although I'm a little curious about what it is)
I resisted having one for a long time, and my friends kept telling me I should have one for emergency use. Eventually I saw this one for £20 (pay as you go) on Amazon and caved in. In fact I have also ended up using it to tell someone what time my train is due in if I'm expecting to be met.
Only a couple of people have my mobile number, and they know not to use it to contact me unless they don't mind waiting a week for a response.
On that basis, switching it on a couple of times a week to check for messages/texts seems fine to me.
There are cell phones like this you know. I haven't researched the subject myself, except to say that I have a Motorola C115. It is tiny, it does voice calls and text messages, and if you only turn it on briefly once every few days or so, the battery lasts for more than six months (yes, really). I've had mine nearly a year now and only charged it twice.