That's interesting that you say it is a new McCarthyism. I had come to the
same conclusion. We are seeing a general social breakdown in the United
States. Consider the Enron fraud and
the WorldCom fraud and the Tyco
fraud, for example. Large companies are self-destructing.
McCarthyism cannot be blamed on McCarthy. He was just one crazy person. There
are always crazy people. It was the people who participated and didn't speak
up that changed McCarthy from one crazy man to a social movement called
McCarthyism.
Portland has the largest
parkinside a city in the world. The park has over 74 miles of
wilderness hiking trails and 5,124 acres.
Portland is the home of Pink Martini, a
band that writes multi-cultural songs. One of Pink Martini's songs was once
one of the most popular songs in France. You can listen to the music video.
It's a 55 minute drive from downtown Portland to the
ski areas. "World Class
Skiing in Your Own Backyard."
The K-12 Linux Project, in
Portland, is one of the more successful projects for giving Linux to average
users, who in this case are students.
On the other hand: Q. Why do hippies come to Portland? A. Because there are
no jobs.
Many people don't like the months of rain every year. They say Portland is the
perfect place for slugs and ducks. (However, the rain cleans the air.) Those with the correct
philosophical orientation call it Liquid Sunshine.
I forgot, temporarily. Back when I did the testing, I found that the Linux version of FireFox failed in exactly the same way. However, when FireFox has memory leaks, Windows XP becomes unusable until rebooting. I never saw any evidence of OS instability in Linux.
Notice that two women posted messages to my Bugzilla report that said that Linux was unstable and Windows XP was reliable. I assume they are paid astro-turfers, or it is some joke that is funny only to them.
It's very interesting that you say that, because I've often thought that there was a bad interaction between FireFox and Windows XP.
In Windows XP, it is ALWAYS possible to make the problem happen simply by opening and closing enough instances and tabs of FireFox. Eventually, FireFox will be reported as using a huge amount of memory. I haven't tried Windows 2000.
Sometimes the problem has seemed associated with loading PDF files into FireFox tabs.
It's amazing to me that, after all these years, Windows memory management is still sloppy.
Something is wrong with MS memory management...
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Except that when you reach the memory limit in Windows XP, the OS often becomes unstable, and remains unstable until you reboot.
Something is wrong with MS memory management, but I have never been able to determine what makes it go bonkers.
You say, "All that you need to do...". That's a good nickname for Windows XP. It's an "All that you need to do..." operating system. Go a little bit deep into how it works, and you begin experiencing its sloppiness.
Sorry, Hagnat. I mean FESTAS, not PARTIDOS. Party as in having fun, not political party.
The number of parties, festas, is an index of happiness of the people. If we use that index, Brazil is at the top, and I don't know who is in second place.
Thanks for saying that, it's exactly what I would have said. With Linux, the virtual memory use seems to be much more orderly.
I reported the leak on October 17, 2003:
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I reported the memory leak on October 17, 2003:
Firefox 0.8: All instances crash. Memory leaks.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222660
(Copy and paste the link to view the bug report.)
Please add your experiences to the report.
I reported the same bug in Mozilla browser, a long time ago. Huge memory leaks have existed since Mozilla version 1.0.
A recent experience: After two days of opening and closing instances of FireFox, with two FireFox instances open and maybe 5 tabs total, the FireFox memory usage in Windows XP was 374,656 kilobytes. When I closed one of the instances, the memory usage went UP to 385,868 kilobytes.
When you reach the limit of installed memory, Windows XP has to do its terrible disk thrashing thing. If Bill Gates weren't so poor, he could fix that. The advantage of open source is that there is at least a chance that the FireFox bug will be fixed.
Aside from sending troops to fight in the Second World War, has there been any other Brazilian aggression outside the country since then?
(I'm certainly not worried about moderation, either. Sometimes topics come up, and need to be discussed. I think I made a good point, saying that Brazil is superior in some ways, but I want to get my facts straight.)
My post is directly relevant because it affects the entire way you understand the Slashdot article. Is the U.S. a superior nation, and Brazil is catching up? Or could the way things are done in Brazil teach us something, as the parent to my original post said?
You say the facts are distorted? Who should we believe, an AC or the authors of the 25 books linked in my post, that ALL say the U.S. government is corrupt? Are you saying that Bush and Cheney didn't go to jail for DUI? Are you saying Noel Bush was not actually arrested, even though USA Today printed an arrest photo? Are you saying there is no obesity problem in the United States?
Is a third world country one of those that is always making war on its neighbors? (The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War. The last Brazilian aggression outside the country was in 1822, I'm told.)
When you say "third world country" you give an impression that the U.S. is superior in every way. That impression is false. In general, Brazilians are much happier than Americans. People in the U.S. use more legal drugs than those of any nation that has ever existed. The U.S. is the most obese country in the history of the world; eating when not hungry is an index of unhappiness.
A higher percentage of U.S. citizens go to prison or jail than any country in the entire history of the world. For example,
2) Run Remapkey.exe to Remap the Windows Keyboard Layout anyway you want.
For some very strange reason, this sometimes does not work reliably in a DOS window when using a PS/2 to USB converter for the keyboard. Since the remapping is done at a fundamental level, the failure is difficult to understand.
The small adapter you in the photo to which you link has no electronics
inside. It is only a connector adapter. Some mice have PS/2 connectors with
extra pins that are needed with USB. When you use the provided adapter, those
USB pins are connected. Only the mice with the extra USB arrangement work with
the little adapters, not all PS/2 mice.
It's a fact that the more complicated PS2 to USB adapters do not always work
reliably in Windows XP.
We redefine the Caps Lock key to be a Control key. All the adapters work well
with this configuration with desktop computers. They work only sometimes with
Toshiba laptops. Literally, sometimes Control-C will be Control-C, and
sometimes Control-C will just type the letter C. This keeps switching back and
forth as long as you type into a DOS editor. There is some order to it, but I
haven't taken the time to discover what the order is. There is no problem with
Windows programs.
How is this possible? Keyboard re-definition (Remapkey.exe in the Windows
Resource Kit Tools) is supposed to work at a very low level. How can it work
sometimes, and not others?
I discussed this issue with Microsoft tech support, and the representative
said that he found a PS2 to USB adapter that did work reliably. However, he
said it had no markings on it, and he didn't know where he got it. To him,
that resolved the issue. To me, it seemed like he was lying.
I know many Slashdot readers will be deeply, deeply shocked when I say this,
but that is not the only quirky behavior in Windows XP. I just finished with a
conference call with three Microsoft tech support people that lasted an hour
and 26 minutes. In preparation for that call I wrote this article: Windows XP problems: Port
Re-direction.
As a result of the discussion, I discovered a theory. All four of us agreed
during the call that Windows XP is constantly reorganizing itself. The
intermittent failures discussed in the article occur because sometimes the
port redirection command is executed before the system has loaded the code
that gives access to the ports, and sometimes it loads it after.
I made a password list for a customer, that, over time, has grown to 3,849 words. (There is a lot of explanation about how accounts are configured.)
I encrypted that list with an unguessable password that includes punctuation and numbers, using the excellent GnuPG.
I sent the encrypted file by email to every responsible person who works for the customer, including the CEO. I demanded that everyone learn the master password, because otherwise, if something happened to me, they would have problems with their accounts and web site. I also copied the file to their hard drives.
Although I have made several demands in strong language, no one, NO ONE, has bothered to get the master password from me, even though I have suggested it in person to several people several times. So, they have the file, but have no access to it.
The fact is, the new world of computing (okay, not new to me or you) requires a huge cultural change, and the average person has mostly not gone very far in making that change.
Glad to see GIMP getting an award. The new version is excellent on Windows XP, too. Amazing! If you need a program to edit photos, GIMP is all you need.
Slashdot Mirror
Whoops, forgot the link: Cow Art in Portland.
Also, don't forget the cow art.
Okay, third largest. Thanks for the correction.
Interesting. Second largest park, then.
"The guy was complicit in the most heinous ongoing crime since the 1940s..."
What about the U.S. government killing 2,000,000 Vietnamese? Where does that fit in?
What about the fact that the U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War: History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories. Where does that fit in?
That's interesting that you say it is a new McCarthyism. I had come to the same conclusion. We are seeing a general social breakdown in the United States. Consider the Enron fraud and the WorldCom fraud and the Tyco fraud, for example. Large companies are self-destructing.
The U.S. government is another example: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
McCarthyism cannot be blamed on McCarthy. He was just one crazy person. There are always crazy people. It was the people who participated and didn't speak up that changed McCarthy from one crazy man to a social movement called McCarthyism.
Yes, welcome, Linus!!!
If you need some help in getting oriented or someone to show you around, send me an email.
Living in Portland is far better than in NoCal. NoCal has too many cars and bad smog.
Here's useful info:
Portland has the largest bookstore in the world.
Portland borders on the confluence of the Willamette River and the Columbia River, one of the largest rivers in the world.
One of the 7 WindSurfing Wonders of the World is in the Columbia River Gorge, on the eastern edge of the Portland metropolitan area.
Portland has one of the largest and most successful dealers in contemporary art in the world. The gallery has a funny name, but shows the work of over 1,100 artists.
Portland has the largest park inside a city in the world. The park has over 74 miles of wilderness hiking trails and 5,124 acres.
Portland is the home of Pink Martini, a band that writes multi-cultural songs. One of Pink Martini's songs was once one of the most popular songs in France. You can listen to the music video.
It's a 55 minute drive from downtown Portland to the ski areas. "World Class Skiing in Your Own Backyard."
The K-12 Linux Project, in Portland, is one of the more successful projects for giving Linux to average users, who in this case are students.
On the other hand: Q. Why do hippies come to Portland? A. Because there are no jobs.
Many people don't like the months of rain every year. They say Portland is the perfect place for slugs and ducks. (However, the rain cleans the air.) Those with the correct philosophical orientation call it Liquid Sunshine.
I check Google News frequently, because if the world ended, how else would I know?
I expect there would be a story something like, "The world has ended, if you are still working, you are out of touch."
What is the proper way to behave when the world ends? Do you make backups and shut down your computer?
Don't do anything radical, because it might be a mistake.
Off topic: I put some links together of the 36 books and movies that say that the U.S. government has become corrupt: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
I forgot, temporarily. Back when I did the testing, I found that the Linux version of FireFox failed in exactly the same way. However, when FireFox has memory leaks, Windows XP becomes unusable until rebooting. I never saw any evidence of OS instability in Linux.
Notice that two women posted messages to my Bugzilla report that said that Linux was unstable and Windows XP was reliable. I assume they are paid astro-turfers, or it is some joke that is funny only to them.
It's very interesting that you say that, because I've often thought that there was a bad interaction between FireFox and Windows XP.
In Windows XP, it is ALWAYS possible to make the problem happen simply by opening and closing enough instances and tabs of FireFox. Eventually, FireFox will be reported as using a huge amount of memory. I haven't tried Windows 2000.
Sometimes the problem has seemed associated with loading PDF files into FireFox tabs.
It's amazing to me that, after all these years, Windows memory management is still sloppy.
Just make a new tab and paste the URL to that.
Except that when you reach the memory limit in Windows XP, the OS often becomes unstable, and remains unstable until you reboot.
Something is wrong with MS memory management, but I have never been able to determine what makes it go bonkers.
You say, "All that you need to do...". That's a good nickname for Windows XP. It's an "All that you need to do..." operating system. Go a little bit deep into how it works, and you begin experiencing its sloppiness.
If you lived in the U.S., you would soon become VERY tired of easy women.
Sorry, Hagnat. I mean FESTAS, not PARTIDOS. Party as in having fun, not political party.
The number of parties, festas, is an index of happiness of the people. If we use that index, Brazil is at the top, and I don't know who is in second place.
Thanks for saying that, it's exactly what I would have said. With Linux, the virtual memory use seems to be much more orderly.
I reported the memory leak on October 17, 2003:
Firefox 0.8: All instances crash. Memory leaks.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22266
(Copy and paste the link to view the bug report.)
Please add your experiences to the report.
I reported the same bug in Mozilla browser, a long time ago. Huge memory leaks have existed since Mozilla version 1.0.
A recent experience: After two days of opening and closing instances of FireFox, with two FireFox instances open and maybe 5 tabs total, the FireFox memory usage in Windows XP was 374,656 kilobytes. When I closed one of the instances, the memory usage went UP to 385,868 kilobytes.
When you reach the limit of installed memory, Windows XP has to do its terrible disk thrashing thing. If Bill Gates weren't so poor, he could fix that. The advantage of open source is that there is at least a chance that the FireFox bug will be fixed.
I think that countries should be rated by the number of parties, not the number of dollars. In that case, Brazil wins.
Thanks. I knew a little about that war, but didn't remember it involved Brazil. I found it on Google: Brazil occupied Paraguay until 1878.
Aside from sending troops to fight in the Second World War, has there been any other Brazilian aggression outside the country since then?
(I'm certainly not worried about moderation, either. Sometimes topics come up, and need to be discussed. I think I made a good point, saying that Brazil is superior in some ways, but I want to get my facts straight.)
My post is directly relevant because it affects the entire way you understand the Slashdot article. Is the U.S. a superior nation, and Brazil is catching up? Or could the way things are done in Brazil teach us something, as the parent to my original post said?
You say the facts are distorted? Who should we believe, an AC or the authors of the 25 books linked in my post, that ALL say the U.S. government is corrupt? Are you saying that Bush and Cheney didn't go to jail for DUI? Are you saying Noel Bush was not actually arrested, even though USA Today printed an arrest photo? Are you saying there is no obesity problem in the United States?
I agree with the points you are making, but I don't think it is proper to use the term "3rd world countries".
Third world countries? Are those countries with corrupt elections, corrupt judges, and corrupt government leadership?
Is a third world country one of those that is always making war on its neighbors? (The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War. The last Brazilian aggression outside the country was in 1822, I'm told.)
When you say "third world country" you give an impression that the U.S. is superior in every way. That impression is false. In general, Brazilians are much happier than Americans. People in the U.S. use more legal drugs than those of any nation that has ever existed. The U.S. is the most obese country in the history of the world; eating when not hungry is an index of unhappiness.
A higher percentage of U.S. citizens go to prison or jail than any country in the entire history of the world. For example,
President George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
President George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest
Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest
Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest
Here's the official way of remapping keys in Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server:
1) Download the Resource Kit Tools.
2) Run Remapkey.exe to Remap the Windows Keyboard Layout anyway you want.
For some very strange reason, this sometimes does not work reliably in a DOS window when using a PS/2 to USB converter for the keyboard. Since the remapping is done at a fundamental level, the failure is difficult to understand.
The small adapter you in the photo to which you link has no electronics inside. It is only a connector adapter. Some mice have PS/2 connectors with extra pins that are needed with USB. When you use the provided adapter, those USB pins are connected. Only the mice with the extra USB arrangement work with the little adapters, not all PS/2 mice.
It's a fact that the more complicated PS2 to USB adapters do not always work reliably in Windows XP.
We redefine the Caps Lock key to be a Control key. All the adapters work well with this configuration with desktop computers. They work only sometimes with Toshiba laptops. Literally, sometimes Control-C will be Control-C, and sometimes Control-C will just type the letter C. This keeps switching back and forth as long as you type into a DOS editor. There is some order to it, but I haven't taken the time to discover what the order is. There is no problem with Windows programs.
How is this possible? Keyboard re-definition (Remapkey.exe in the Windows Resource Kit Tools) is supposed to work at a very low level. How can it work sometimes, and not others?
I discussed this issue with Microsoft tech support, and the representative said that he found a PS2 to USB adapter that did work reliably. However, he said it had no markings on it, and he didn't know where he got it. To him, that resolved the issue. To me, it seemed like he was lying.
I know many Slashdot readers will be deeply, deeply shocked when I say this, but that is not the only quirky behavior in Windows XP. I just finished with a conference call with three Microsoft tech support people that lasted an hour and 26 minutes. In preparation for that call I wrote this article: Windows XP problems: Port Re-direction.
As a result of the discussion, I discovered a theory. All four of us agreed during the call that Windows XP is constantly reorganizing itself. The intermittent failures discussed in the article occur because sometimes the port redirection command is executed before the system has loaded the code that gives access to the ports, and sometimes it loads it after.
In this case, we're an independent company, and the passwords are for other things than user passwords, mostly.
I made a password list for a customer, that, over time, has grown to 3,849 words. (There is a lot of explanation about how accounts are configured.)
I encrypted that list with an unguessable password that includes punctuation and numbers, using the excellent GnuPG.
I sent the encrypted file by email to every responsible person who works for the customer, including the CEO. I demanded that everyone learn the master password, because otherwise, if something happened to me, they would have problems with their accounts and web site. I also copied the file to their hard drives.
Although I have made several demands in strong language, no one, NO ONE, has bothered to get the master password from me, even though I have suggested it in person to several people several times. So, they have the file, but have no access to it.
The fact is, the new world of computing (okay, not new to me or you) requires a huge cultural change, and the average person has mostly not gone very far in making that change.
Glad to see GIMP getting an award. The new version is excellent on Windows XP, too. Amazing! If you need a program to edit photos, GIMP is all you need.