Yup, same here. Using Firefox 3.6.13 on Linux and CPU usage jumps to ~70% while having a single tab opened with this slashdot discussion. WHILE IDLE, after loading the page. What's up with that??
Front slashdot page keeps it at about 15% CPU.
Seriously Slashdot? 70% CPU just for having a page open?? I've gone through all the/. interface iterations (Including OMG ponies! which this new layout actually makes me miss) and got used to every one. But having the CPU usage equivalent of a kernel compilation just by having the browser sitting idle while I read a discussion is kind of a showstopper to me.
another thing i wish, though, is that the filesystem were more... i dont know what to call it. but i wish i could store more meta data about my files. i wish my filesystem had a comments field, and i wish that doing a directory listing would spit out file attributes like dimensions, content length, number of words, and whatever other stuff i could glean by hand. i just want it to all show up. hell, i wish i could do a recursive directory listing based on file type, not file name. and not based on the extension... cause who says i use extensions? (of course i do, what are you, daft?!) unless its a text file. unix spoiled me and i dont put extensions on those.
If you don't mind using a GUI file manager (I do mind, anyway), Nautilus lets you do most of that stuff: notes, metadata, searches.. even the "I-haven't-figured-them-out-yet" so called "emblems". Check it out.
a) Chips are already "stacked". Layer over layer of silicon.
b) If you are talking about stacking dice (That is, literally stacking chips inside the package) then the distance the information would have to travel when going trough the "vertical interconnects" would be thousands or tens of thousands bigger than the distance of any on-chip interconnection. Which means the communication between layers of stacked chips would be thousands of times slower. Not very good for microprocessors..
So what happens here? Will the cops go after the virtual pillagers who stealed his virtual stock (Out of wich he does make real money and can argue that they stole actual stock from his actual business model)?
I wonder if as this kind of virtual-real world mixtures come to play into the real-world economic system then will officials/authorities step in and regulate the virtual worlds or something..
Google for "peltier" for a while and get enlightened. A peltier device gets cooler on one side in the same proportion that the other side gets hotter. There's you coolant.
I think you should check first the source of this information. There's not a single reference about this issue in the Mexican Congress site nor in the Mexican news sites I checked.
Besides, maybe there is a misunderstanding here. The Federal Copyright law states that the Government may collect the patrimonial benefits *if and only if* the copyright holder dies and there is no one who can legally inherit the copyright.
Anyway, any email from a alleged company formed by "almost 10 IP experts" (Almost? 9 1/2 maybe?) and with a final sentence asking you to "Share this important notice" sounds to me like yet another e-mail hoax.
I as a Mexican and freddom advocate would be very upset about something like this and would certainly do whatever I could to oppose this. BUT: All I've seen so far is an e-mail from some alleged company composed by "almost 10 IP specialists" (Almost? 9 1/2 maybe?).
I've searched the recent logs of Mexican Congress' sessions and found not a single reference to the Copyright Law. Didn't find anything on Mexican news sites, either.
I did become a Linux convert thanks to Slackware. Also around '96 and with no prior Unix knowledge. I did spend almost two weeks trying to get X working on my 486 and God was it nice to see that little "X" in the center of my screen for the first time:-).
I started out on a thin Slackware version (Yes, it CAN get thinner) called DILinux (Drop-In Linux) that installed over UMSDOS. Anyone heard of it?
I didn't know what the kernel or gcc were. But I learned (Thanks to all README writers out there) that I needed them for configuring my sound card. Still remember those nights I spent up while downloading sources from tsx-11 and metalab:-)
As someone else posted, there's no better way to learn Linux than Slackware. At least to learn it *the right way*;-)
P.S. I still run nothing but Slackware on all my desktops and servers =)
Yes, I found out about this recently, and already patched checkinstall to use the right tar version if available. The issue was kind of confusing, though: having two different tar binaries in a Slackware system, with "tar" being the wrong one to use when building a Slackware package.
Feel free to contact me with any other issues about the way checkinstall creates the Slackware packages. Building proper packages for the system it is running on (Be it Slackware, Debian or RPM based) is very important for me. The Debian folks are particularly picky about this and we've managed to get checkinstall to build mostly Debian-compatible packages already, for example:-)
And has used it from the very beginning. So you could start recommending it right now;-).
Checkinstall was initially developed in the time when makepkg had no command line options to answer the questions about symlinks and permissions, so Checkinstall uses by default a makepkg from Slackware 7.1 which was hacked to not ask those questions and instead assume specific answers to them. And it has been updated with the changes and patches introduced in Slackware 8.0 and 8.1 (i.e. the "slack-desc" file with handy ruler and all)
Aditinally, you can still use Slackware's native makepkg if you set the MAKEPKG variable in checkinstall.
Considering the vast amount of open source software out there that include NO documentation and for which NO documentation even EXISTS, I wouldn't be so upset.
So they want to charge you for support? They can do it. They already gave you the source which is the important part.
You want premium support and a nicely printed manual? Pay for it. You don't want to pay? Read the source and figure out how it works. It really is that simple and you already do that for a lot of other open source projects, like I said before.
Well.. remember that Faraday guy they talked to you about in high school?
A nice addition to the transparent cases mods would be a thin, grounded chicken wire layer. It wouldn't be very visible and it would certainly reduce EMI to nearly zero if done right. Just like they do with microwave oven's doors.
I think it would add to the mod's looks, too!:-)
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Maybe bztank is the predecessor to bzflag: http://bzflag.org, a really addictive 3D tank game. Reminds me a lot of my early days with Netrek:-)
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Yup, same here. Using Firefox 3.6.13 on Linux and CPU usage jumps to ~70% while having a single tab opened with this slashdot discussion. WHILE IDLE, after loading the page. What's up with that??
Front slashdot page keeps it at about 15% CPU.
Seriously Slashdot? 70% CPU just for having a page open?? I've gone through all the /. interface iterations (Including OMG ponies! which this new layout actually makes me miss) and got used to every one. But having the CPU usage equivalent of a kernel compilation just by having the browser sitting idle while I read a discussion is kind of a showstopper to me.
Running on dual core i3 @2.40 GHz, FYI.
another thing i wish, though, is that the filesystem were more... i dont know what to call it. but i wish i could store more meta data about my files. i wish my filesystem had a comments field, and i wish that doing a directory listing would spit out file attributes like dimensions, content length, number of words, and whatever other stuff i could glean by hand. i just want it to all show up. hell, i wish i could do a recursive directory listing based on file type, not file name. and not based on the extension... cause who says i use extensions? (of course i do, what are you, daft?!) unless its a text file. unix spoiled me and i dont put extensions on those.
If you don't mind using a GUI file manager (I do mind, anyway), Nautilus lets you do most of that stuff: notes, metadata, searches.. even the "I-haven't-figured-them-out-yet" so called "emblems". Check it out.
a) Chips are already "stacked". Layer over layer of silicon.
b) If you are talking about stacking dice (That is, literally stacking chips inside the package) then the distance the information would have to travel when going trough the "vertical interconnects" would be thousands or tens of thousands bigger than the distance of any on-chip interconnection. Which means the communication between layers of stacked chips would be thousands of times slower. Not very good for microprocessors..
So what happens here? Will the cops go after the virtual pillagers who stealed his virtual stock (Out of wich he does make real money and can argue that they stole actual stock from his actual business model)?
I wonder if as this kind of virtual-real world mixtures come to play into the real-world economic system then will officials/authorities step in and regulate the virtual worlds or something..
Yes, but can it stop plasma torps? what about phasers?? :-)
Google for "peltier" for a while and get enlightened. A peltier device gets cooler on one side in the same proportion that the other side gets hotter. There's you coolant.
I think you should check first the source of this information. There's not a single reference about this issue in the Mexican Congress site nor in the Mexican news sites I checked.
Besides, maybe there is a misunderstanding here. The Federal Copyright law states that the Government may collect the patrimonial benefits *if and only if* the copyright holder dies and there is no one who can legally inherit the copyright.
Anyway, any email from a alleged company formed by "almost 10 IP experts" (Almost? 9 1/2 maybe?) and with a final sentence asking you to "Share this important notice" sounds to me like yet another e-mail hoax.
I as a Mexican and freddom advocate would be very upset about something like this and would certainly do whatever I could to oppose this. BUT: All I've seen so far is an e-mail from some alleged company composed by "almost 10 IP specialists" (Almost? 9 1/2 maybe?).
I've searched the recent logs of Mexican Congress' sessions and found not a single reference to the Copyright Law. Didn't find anything on Mexican news sites, either.
I personally think this may as well be a hoax.
I did become a Linux convert thanks to Slackware. Also around '96 and with no prior Unix knowledge. I did spend almost two weeks trying to get X working on my 486 and God was it nice to see that little "X" in the center of my screen for the first time :-).
:-)
;-)
I started out on a thin Slackware version (Yes, it CAN get thinner) called DILinux (Drop-In Linux) that installed over UMSDOS. Anyone heard of it?
I didn't know what the kernel or gcc were. But I learned (Thanks to all README writers out there) that I needed them for configuring my sound card. Still remember those nights I spent up while downloading sources from tsx-11 and metalab
As someone else posted, there's no better way to learn Linux than Slackware. At least to learn it *the right way*
P.S. I still run nothing but Slackware on all my desktops and servers =)
So I guess mankind may as well send a spaceship there and find out about the all-mighty monoliths preparing for sparking life in Europa.
Yes, I found out about this recently, and already patched checkinstall to use the right tar version if available. The issue was kind of confusing, though: having two different tar binaries in a Slackware system, with "tar" being the wrong one to use when building a Slackware package.
:-)
Feel free to contact me with any other issues about the way checkinstall creates the Slackware packages. Building proper packages for the system it is running on (Be it Slackware, Debian or RPM based) is very important for me. The Debian folks are particularly picky about this and we've managed to get checkinstall to build mostly Debian-compatible packages already, for example
And has used it from the very beginning. So you could start recommending it right now ;-).
Checkinstall was initially developed in the time when makepkg had no command line options to answer the questions about symlinks and permissions, so Checkinstall uses by default a makepkg from Slackware 7.1 which was hacked to not ask those questions and instead assume specific answers to them. And it has been updated with the changes and patches introduced in Slackware 8.0 and 8.1 (i.e. the "slack-desc" file with handy ruler and all)
Aditinally, you can still use Slackware's native makepkg if you set the MAKEPKG variable in checkinstall.
Considering the vast amount of open source software out there that include NO documentation and for which NO documentation even EXISTS, I wouldn't be so upset.
So they want to charge you for support? They can do it. They already gave you the source which is the important part.
You want premium support and a nicely printed manual? Pay for it. You don't want to pay? Read the source and figure out how it works. It really is that simple and you already do that for a lot of other open source projects, like I said before.
Well.. remember that Faraday guy they talked to you about in high school?
:-)
A nice addition to the transparent cases mods would be a thin, grounded chicken wire layer. It wouldn't be very visible and it would certainly reduce EMI to nearly zero if done right. Just like they do with microwave oven's doors.
I think it would add to the mod's looks, too!
Maybe bztank is the predecessor to bzflag: http://bzflag.org, a really addictive 3D tank game. Reminds me a lot of my early days with Netrek :-)