Pentium M mops the floor with AMD's mobile Athlons.
Whilst I agree the pentium M is very goot, athlons aren't really meant for mobile PC's, that's what the turion is for, and the Pentium M vs Turion is a much, much closer fight from some of the benchmarks I've seen (there was a laptop shootout a few weeks back in which there where some turions as well as centrino mobes).
I've used it before with the package that comes with sibelius and it works a treat.
It's also a damn fine film scanner for doing hobby stuff (it's got FARE level 2 which will do some pretty impressive retouching to remove scratches and particles)
Just tried it (with the word allow, which appears in disallows in your comment). If I put a space before and after the word in the search it doesn't highlight anything in your post. Granted this isn't very user friendly and there should probably be a checkbox on the search bar for this, but for someone who has a low UID on/. it should be a piece of cake to add the spaces.
However...unless you like reloading all of your HD content back onto hard drives and re-rendering all edits when one of these things crashes you'd probably be better off putting it in raid 0+1, the speed of raid 0 with the redundancy of raid 1.
1 The ability to switch off that utterly, utterly wretched spatial mode (which looks like a bad throwback to GUIs from the 1980s) from the apps preferences. It is totally unacceptable that you have to use a seperate preferences editor to do this. It's a setting of the app and should be adjustable from within the app itself. No excuses.
Edit -> Preferences -> Behaviour -> []Always open in browser windows
Make sure that's checked and spatial mode is off, without having to rely on a seperate preferences editor
...is open, it was postscript that was license encumbered (IIRC). There exists a multitude of programs that can read and write PDF's.
OpenOffice.org can export to PDF. Evince, gpdf etc. can read them. There are also third-party libraries that output PDF documents (some written in pure PHP, such as FPDF, which wouldn't be as probable without specs.
I do not want any closed-source tool based in MultiMAD code, so licenses such as the Apache one cannot be used
That precludes the BSD license as having any use for his problem. If he used the BSD license anyone could take his code, package it up, rename it and release it. As long as they then attributed that portions of the code are copyright by the original author (and include the list of disclaimers) they would be A.OK. and my programmer here would have no recourse.
What I would suggest is the LGPL for the core code, that way, any changes that directly affect it have to be made open, but other licensed programs (even closed source ones) can link to it under the terms.
...none of those internet pirates got a contract out on Loki's head, if they could afford $30k in bs lawyers fees they could certainly get him "whacked" so to speak.
all captchas should timeout after, oh, say 10 minutes?
In all honesty, do you really think you're going to get that many people to regularly visit a pr0n site? The sector is extreemly cut-throat and vastly bigger than the market can justifiably support (hence why many pr0n sites close each month).
The only way to get to the top of the engines in the first few months would be to use PPC advertising (costs money). After that, even if you get to the top of the SERPS by using nefarious means, you'll need to give people a viable reason to sign-up to your service, i.e. you'll need content which costs money (unless you want to steal it, at which point you can probably expect some real mean types to track you down and kill you, them porn businesspeople are crazy).
Therefore, high definition disc formats will probably be relegated for years, perhaps decades, to the audio/videophile segment - a very small fraction of the market
And how much do you want to bet that the industry 'tards will try and blame that on "rampant stealing of our hard earned IP", completely skirting over the fact that they've stolen the public domain from us, plus stolen many, many hours of our lives, not to mention a lot of hard earned money, watching rehashed drivel purporting to be films.
I seriously hope every single film studio that insists on not "getting it" fades into obscurity and dies a painful protracted death.
IIRC, the last version that I installed a few months ago did thunderbird indexing. I know that the very first version didn't, but they heard all the moaning and fixed that.
The reason lotus notes doesn't run (natively) on linux is that the codebase is apparently a tangled mess of hacks upon hacks upon internally created libraries upon more hacks upon the main codebase. It's a big problem for IBM to add features, let alone modularise and cross-platformise the code.
1) the memory leak problem is irritating and has remained unfixed for ages. The claimed workaround of editing a cache size setting, simply does not work.
As has been stated before, it's not a mermory leak, firefox by default was designed to use as many resources as are available, increasing responsiveness when the computer is not bogged down. When other applications require memory firefox gives it up without much of a fight.
2) pop-ups have started to appear which somehow bypass Firefox popup blocking.
Most of the time these will be dynamic divs set to float above the main body of text, in cases like this adblock comes to the rescue.
3) many Web pages do not work correctly on Firefox, or specifically require IE, or have browser checks which recognise some Netscapes but not Firefox.
Granted, some site admins are still brain dead, however, the number of sites I've visited with problems has steadily decreased. Those that steadfastly refuse to cater to a growing market segment, f**k em, that's one of the reasons I stopped going to the odeon cinema chain (that and the fact that they suck).
It's been years since any decent bank has had a problem with alternative browsers, 99.9% of the large sites support firefox to some extent, pretty much all of the more "esoteric" popular sites are also compatible. Care to list some of the ones you find a problem?
was quite heavily re-written (hence the delayed launch date) by a company who was already au-fait with xbox development. I suspect they ripped out carmacks opengl code and put in a direct-x replacement, converting shaders manually etc. They also didn't have to deal with creating different render paths for different hardware (geforce 3 vs geforce fx vs radeon etc.) and only stuck to the nvidia card in the xbox, therefore reducing the amount of work required immensely.
...Rackspace could be sued (successfully) for violations of the Data Protection Act as there was no lawful warrant for the data on the server (as it resides in the UK and the subpoena was server to rackspace in Texas).
Personally I hope rackspace get raked over the coals for this one to serve as an example to other ISP's that this kind of flagrant disregard for privacy and the laws of the land cannot go unpunished.
It's the first step in getting consumers "buttered up" to accepting DRM on a much wider scale. Sure, today it's only to lock out non Apple PC's from running OS X, tomorrow just to get rid of piracy, then the day after you software stops working and you read the new updated EULA where you find out that, oh, actually you now have to pay a subscription to continue using the program. Not only that, you cannot reverse engineer your own data stored in files saved by that program because they are encrypted and thus only work with that program.
It will also be used to stifle interoperability, no more Koffice or OO.org being able to open Word files etc.
DRM is bad, just say no kids. Apple is small enough that consumers could make an example of them by voting with their wallets. Hopefully Apple realise this and will not start down that path.</tin-foil-hat>
...it's simply a test, nothing more, nothing less. What it tests ranges from the esoteric (embedded data in objects) to the plain (css positioning) to the bad (css that's bogus and should be parsed as such). It's a cool test suite but, just like acid 1, cannot test every little nuance/interaction or part of the css spec.
In fact, acid 1 was only concerned with the box model that, whilst important and the bane of many a css devs life, is small potatoes when it comes to some really cool stuff that's possible once you delve deeper.
As far as firefox failing the test, yes, it does indeed fail, but not that badly at all (the face is discernable with there only being a few problem rows). In explorer you cannot even tell that the thing is meant to draw a face, all you get is a red block at the bottom of the screen, the words hello world and a few random looking blocks elsewhere - that tells me (perhaps incorrectly) that the core CSS foundations of explorer when it comes to stuff tested by ACID 2 is severely broken (or just not implemented yet).
One thing is for sure, I hope they have some uber guys working on the new explorer team, with all the regressions that hacking a truly crufty codebase will create they are going to have their work cut out for them.
The reason the new generation of browsers, by which I mean written from scratch post css, i.e. khtml (and safari's webkit) and to a certain extent mozilla (not a total rewrite I believe, but still considerable), are doing so well standards wise is they learnt from past mistakes and tried to build an extensible platform from the ground up. Opera and Explorer have to keep hacking on features to a codebase that is now getting long in the tooth (10 years+ ?) and is for a field which has seen an almost unprecedented rate of change and standards adoption; No wonder it's so hard to get it right.
If microsoft really wanted to make a great product they would scrap what they have now and start again, from scratch and do it right. This will never happen of course because the only reason we are seeing any new development is because they are fearful mozilla and co will come and take away their prized future revenue making plans (leased software running on thin clients, no chance of piracy then;o)
I've not found that to be the case at all, in fact, if you are running PHP as an apache module with a bytecode cache and optimiser (like the free eAccelerator for instance) PHP positively flies.
...not so fast there sparky, a common misconception.
You are right in thinking that the true "guts" of the kernel is mach, however, it's only really used for the very very low level stuff and message passing, the rest of the system is provided by a BSD server for mach that takes care of 90% of the system duties. What apple have created is a bit of a bastard child of a microkernel and a monolithic kernel.
...compiling is, by and large, I/O bound, not CPU bound. Of course, modern optimizing compilers use more CPU than their older brethren, but the initial statement still holds true.
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Pentium M mops the floor with AMD's mobile Athlons.
Whilst I agree the pentium M is very goot, athlons aren't really meant for mobile PC's, that's what the turion is for, and the Pentium M vs Turion is a much, much closer fight from some of the benchmarks I've seen (there was a laptop shootout a few weeks back in which there where some turions as well as centrino mobes).
I've used it before with the package that comes with sibelius and it works a treat.
It's also a damn fine film scanner for doing hobby stuff (it's got FARE level 2 which will do some pretty impressive retouching to remove scratches and particles)
Just tried it (with the word allow, which appears in disallows in your comment). If I put a space before and after the word in the search it doesn't highlight anything in your post. Granted this isn't very user friendly and there should probably be a checkbox on the search bar for this, but for someone who has a low UID on /. it should be a piece of cake to add the spaces.
However...unless you like reloading all of your HD content back onto hard drives and re-rendering all edits when one of these things crashes you'd probably be better off putting it in raid 0+1, the speed of raid 0 with the redundancy of raid 1.
1 The ability to switch off that utterly, utterly wretched spatial mode (which looks like a bad throwback to GUIs from the 1980s) from the apps preferences. It is totally unacceptable that you have to use a seperate preferences editor to do this. It's a setting of the app and should be adjustable from within the app itself. No excuses.
Edit -> Preferences -> Behaviour -> []Always open in browser windows
Make sure that's checked and spatial mode is off, without having to rely on a seperate preferences editor
You can get IIRC 2.8 from:
http://www.cygwin.com
...is open, it was postscript that was license encumbered (IIRC). There exists a multitude of programs that can read and write PDF's.
OpenOffice.org can export to PDF. Evince, gpdf etc. can read them. There are also third-party libraries that output PDF documents (some written in pure PHP, such as FPDF, which wouldn't be as probable without specs.
...specifically
I do not want any closed-source tool based in MultiMAD code, so licenses such as the Apache one cannot be used
That precludes the BSD license as having any use for his problem. If he used the BSD license anyone could take his code, package it up, rename it and release it. As long as they then attributed that portions of the code are copyright by the original author (and include the list of disclaimers) they would be A.OK. and my programmer here would have no recourse.
What I would suggest is the LGPL for the core code, that way, any changes that directly affect it have to be made open, but other licensed programs (even closed source ones) can link to it under the terms.
...none of those internet pirates got a contract out on Loki's head, if they could afford $30k in bs lawyers fees they could certainly get him "whacked" so to speak.
...with the 8 SPU's is they are essentially 8 altivec units attached to one, slow, general purpose Power based core.
You could only achieve close to that 800% speed increase if all of the code for all of those functions was able to be vectorized.
The reason cell is (theoretically) good for games is because things like physics and collision detection are highly vectorizable.
Also throw into the mix the fact that each SPU has hardly any cache and any sort of general computation looks out of the question.
Cell is a very interesting architecture for a very narrow set of computational problems, nothing more.
all captchas should timeout after, oh, say 10 minutes?
In all honesty, do you really think you're going to get that many people to regularly visit a pr0n site? The sector is extreemly cut-throat and vastly bigger than the market can justifiably support (hence why many pr0n sites close each month).
The only way to get to the top of the engines in the first few months would be to use PPC advertising (costs money). After that, even if you get to the top of the SERPS by using nefarious means, you'll need to give people a viable reason to sign-up to your service, i.e. you'll need content which costs money (unless you want to steal it, at which point you can probably expect some real mean types to track you down and kill you, them porn businesspeople are crazy).
Therefore, high definition disc formats will probably be relegated for years, perhaps decades, to the audio/videophile segment - a very small fraction of the market
And how much do you want to bet that the industry 'tards will try and blame that on "rampant stealing of our hard earned IP", completely skirting over the fact that they've stolen the public domain from us, plus stolen many, many hours of our lives, not to mention a lot of hard earned money, watching rehashed drivel purporting to be films.
I seriously hope every single film studio that insists on not "getting it" fades into obscurity and dies a painful protracted death.
...a pioneer in the truest sense of the word. I found out he had a brain tumour a few weeks ago. Hope he died surrounded by friends and family.
IIRC, the last version that I installed a few months ago did thunderbird indexing. I know that the very first version didn't, but they heard all the moaning and fixed that.
The reason lotus notes doesn't run (natively) on linux is that the codebase is apparently a tangled mess of hacks upon hacks upon internally created libraries upon more hacks upon the main codebase. It's a big problem for IBM to add features, let alone modularise and cross-platformise the code.
1) the memory leak problem is irritating and has remained unfixed for ages. The claimed workaround of editing a cache size setting, simply does not work.
As has been stated before, it's not a mermory leak, firefox by default was designed to use as many resources as are available, increasing responsiveness when the computer is not bogged down. When other applications require memory firefox gives it up without much of a fight.
2) pop-ups have started to appear which somehow bypass Firefox popup blocking.
Most of the time these will be dynamic divs set to float above the main body of text, in cases like this adblock comes to the rescue.
3) many Web pages do not work correctly on Firefox, or specifically require IE, or have browser checks which recognise some Netscapes but not Firefox.
Granted, some site admins are still brain dead, however, the number of sites I've visited with problems has steadily decreased. Those that steadfastly refuse to cater to a growing market segment, f**k em, that's one of the reasons I stopped going to the odeon cinema chain (that and the fact that they suck).
It's been years since any decent bank has had a problem with alternative browsers, 99.9% of the large sites support firefox to some extent, pretty much all of the more "esoteric" popular sites are also compatible. Care to list some of the ones you find a problem?
was quite heavily re-written (hence the delayed launch date) by a company who was already au-fait with xbox development. I suspect they ripped out carmacks opengl code and put in a direct-x replacement, converting shaders manually etc. They also didn't have to deal with creating different render paths for different hardware (geforce 3 vs geforce fx vs radeon etc.) and only stuck to the nvidia card in the xbox, therefore reducing the amount of work required immensely.
...we slashdotted the U.S. Patent Office, booyah! Is the linked page failing to load for anyone else?
...Rackspace could be sued (successfully) for violations of the Data Protection Act as there was no lawful warrant for the data on the server (as it resides in the UK and the subpoena was server to rackspace in Texas).
Personally I hope rackspace get raked over the coals for this one to serve as an example to other ISP's that this kind of flagrant disregard for privacy and the laws of the land cannot go unpunished.
It's the first step in getting consumers "buttered up" to accepting DRM on a much wider scale. Sure, today it's only to lock out non Apple PC's from running OS X, tomorrow just to get rid of piracy, then the day after you software stops working and you read the new updated EULA where you find out that, oh, actually you now have to pay a subscription to continue using the program. Not only that, you cannot reverse engineer your own data stored in files saved by that program because they are encrypted and thus only work with that program.
It will also be used to stifle interoperability, no more Koffice or OO.org being able to open Word files etc.
DRM is bad, just say no kids. Apple is small enough that consumers could make an example of them by voting with their wallets. Hopefully Apple realise this and will not start down that path.</tin-foil-hat>
...it's simply a test, nothing more, nothing less. What it tests ranges from the esoteric (embedded data in objects) to the plain (css positioning) to the bad (css that's bogus and should be parsed as such). It's a cool test suite but, just like acid 1, cannot test every little nuance/interaction or part of the css spec.
In fact, acid 1 was only concerned with the box model that, whilst important and the bane of many a css devs life, is small potatoes when it comes to some really cool stuff that's possible once you delve deeper.
As far as firefox failing the test, yes, it does indeed fail, but not that badly at all (the face is discernable with there only being a few problem rows). In explorer you cannot even tell that the thing is meant to draw a face, all you get is a red block at the bottom of the screen, the words hello world and a few random looking blocks elsewhere - that tells me (perhaps incorrectly) that the core CSS foundations of explorer when it comes to stuff tested by ACID 2 is severely broken (or just not implemented yet).
One thing is for sure, I hope they have some uber guys working on the new explorer team, with all the regressions that hacking a truly crufty codebase will create they are going to have their work cut out for them.
The reason the new generation of browsers, by which I mean written from scratch post css, i.e. khtml (and safari's webkit) and to a certain extent mozilla (not a total rewrite I believe, but still considerable), are doing so well standards wise is they learnt from past mistakes and tried to build an extensible platform from the ground up. Opera and Explorer have to keep hacking on features to a codebase that is now getting long in the tooth (10 years+ ?) and is for a field which has seen an almost unprecedented rate of change and standards adoption; No wonder it's so hard to get it right.
If microsoft really wanted to make a great product they would scrap what they have now and start again, from scratch and do it right. This will never happen of course because the only reason we are seeing any new development is because they are fearful mozilla and co will come and take away their prized future revenue making plans (leased software running on thin clients, no chance of piracy then ;o)
However, PHP runs pitifully slow
I've not found that to be the case at all, in fact, if you are running PHP as an apache module with a bytecode cache and optimiser (like the free eAccelerator for instance) PHP positively flies.
...are you going to get a proc capable of encoding 30 divx streams simultaneously?
...not so fast there sparky, a common misconception.
You are right in thinking that the true "guts" of the kernel is mach, however, it's only really used for the very very low level stuff and message passing, the rest of the system is provided by a BSD server for mach that takes care of 90% of the system duties. What apple have created is a bit of a bastard child of a microkernel and a monolithic kernel.
...compiling is, by and large, I/O bound, not CPU bound. Of course, modern optimizing compilers use more CPU than their older brethren, but the initial statement still holds true.