6) Finally your output chain should just allow everything:
# Accept everything:
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
Now this is just plain shitty advice.
Thanks for the four links to external articles, though. Hopefully people will use them as a starting point rather than your own rules when deciding on their firewall configuration.
Frankly for most people the existing 'HDTV' resolution has more than enough pixels, to get full benefit from increased number of pixels you would need a larger screen and sit closer to it. As it is, reading text on these high DPI screens is hard enough, and I often find myself increasing the default font size. This issue is particularly pronounced in laptop screens.
What I do want is more vertical resolution. The 16:9 craze means today we buy displays that are physcially larger and have more pixels overall than ten years ago, yet do not provide any more area for vertical display. You still have to scroll down far too much. It would be nice if someone still made decent, affordable 4:3 displays; a 1600 X 1200 in 21" format is going to be a killer!
Google analytics won't seem to slow down your website as long as you add it to the very bottom of your page, just before closing the html tag. The page and content will load quickly, even though the analytics might take another second the user doesn't care since everything else is alreasy visible on the screen.
These problems can happen with any company's product these days: Microsoft, Apple or even the open source OS like Linux or Freebsd. There are so many configurations to test that it is difficult to gurantee that the updates will work flaswlessly across the board.
It is nice that this issue can be fixed by users themselves without having to send the computers for repair.
It will take at least another 18 months before GPU encoding becomes seamless and the ideal solution for most users.
Intel is working on its own GPU, I am sure that they will exploit multimedia handling capabilities (video/photoshop) as one of the selling points of that GPU.
I have measured this by using a bandwidth metering program, and noticed that my usage does not go beyond 25 Gigabytes a month.
Of course, I do not run my home PC 24/7, but only about eight hours a day. And then there's the usual email, browsing, software download, radio, torrents etc. 35 GB should be enough for most. Heck, 95% would be happy with 25 GB/month or less at home!
Just welding shut in a steel case is not enough. You have to keep it in a regulated atmosphere. A straightforward way to do this is to make sure the media is enclosed in a pressurized nitrogen/inert gas container. The pressure doesn't have to be too high, just somewhat above the atmospheric pressure.
You can also set up a sensor alarm that will alert you when the pressure starts nearing atmospheric pressure. All you have to do is keep replacing the batteries on alarm.
Steel container might protect from physical damage, but atmospheric variables will still affect your media. Be mindful of that.
Hello, I have finally found a cure for this annoying problem!
Just go to about:config, then set the "browser.cache.memory.enable" to False (yeah, sounds counterproductive, I know). I also disabled smooth-scrolling while I was at it.
Now Firefox 3 is as fast as can be, even on heavy flash sites. Cheers guys!!
I have been using Firefox 3.0 with a new profile, but I have observed that it has absurdly high CPU usage.
For example, if I open just three tabs of slashdot, the usage jumps to 85-99% territory (and stays there even after the pages have stopped loading), and the computer starts locking up. Only two extensions too, adblock and flashblock.
Does anyone know what the hell is going on, and how to get this CPU usage to manageable 10% levels. I don't recall the exact number, but I do not think that the 2.xx ever got that high.
The hard-disk is the performance bottle-neck for so many users on desktop, that faster, lower latency and affordable storage would be a real boon.
Perhaps flash drives will not have the sheer storage volume of current magnetic disks in near future, but even if they can be used widely as a primary OS + Application installation drive, it will still benefit a great majority of people on desktop.
Servers (particularly the database which is a frequent bottleneck) and notebook computer of course will also reap the benefit.
It is good to see FreeBSD keep on going, but I cannot help but feel that all BSDs, to some extent, have become a very niche, and bit of a dead-end OS. Today if someone wants to move away from windows, they can go to Linux (free) or Mac (not-free).
Aside from server space, what does BSD bring to the average desktop user? Let's just say I want to move to a free OS, what exactly does FreeBSD offer that is not already available with any number of Linux distributions? And what purpose do two similar OS (Linux, BSD) serve when they pretty much appeal to the same segment of computer users.
Truly, sometimes I wonder if it might not be better to have *one* OSS alternative to Windows instead of having the developer resources working on two, parallel, different-under-the-surface-but-similar-in-usage operating systems .
Not really.
Most (actually all, I do not know exceptions) of the premium ice-creams available in market are premium simply because of the price, colorful packaging, advertising and branding (expensive==good stuff!).
If you study the ingredients they still have oils and "flavors" etc added. Expensive junk is still junk, you just pay more for it and of course it makes more profit to the manufacturers.
Looks like DIY/home-made is the only reasonable option left.
Just as long as it doesn't freeze in the lines. That should be easy enough to do. Just have a 'start mode' which unclogs and gets the circulation going with supplied heat, and during operation the hot water itself can be used to prevent freezing.
Better still do away with water all together and use a fluid more suitable to such tasks, just make it closed cycle so it all acts like a giant radiator.
Anandtech too have reviewed the Segate drive. Read carefully because unfortunately enough platter density and NCQ haven't really made this drive as fast as one would imagine.
In my experience with thousands of CDs, I can conclude:
1. The effect of the type of CD's is (slightly) overrated. We are told how the "golden-base" are superior to "silver-base" are superior to "green-base" CDs. True. But so far I have observed little difference between these, certaly not as large as advertised. I still use golden based for my work, though....
2. The biggest difference, instead, comes between the manufacturers. I now avoid Hewlett Packard like black plague. Other manufacturers quality seems to vary, but not as bad as HP.
3. Proper storage, that is, air conditioned(de-humified), dark, clean rooms is important.
Netware has been dead for some years now. THe advent of Linux has basically killed the use of Netware. The only place Netware is still installed is in already existing places, where, indeed it performs upto its reputation.
I understand your point completely, but since I don't game much, I need the lcd's. The eyestrain is so much lower after hours of coding. Or reading slashdot;-)
this fascination of humans fighting machines, humans vs. machines as it's portayed by the media. To me, as a card carrying nerd, these matches are more like humnas testing machines. And the machines clearly are not good enough. Yet.
Slashdot Mirror
6) Finally your output chain should just allow everything:
# Accept everything: iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
Now this is just plain shitty advice.
Thanks for the four links to external articles, though. Hopefully people will use them as a starting point rather than your own rules when deciding on their firewall configuration.
What I do want is more vertical resolution. The 16:9 craze means today we buy displays that are physcially larger and have more pixels overall than ten years ago, yet do not provide any more area for vertical display. You still have to scroll down far too much. It would be nice if someone still made decent, affordable 4:3 displays; a 1600 X 1200 in 21" format is going to be a killer!
Google analytics won't seem to slow down your website as long as you add it to the very bottom of your page, just before closing the html tag. The page and content will load quickly, even though the analytics might take another second the user doesn't care since everything else is alreasy visible on the screen.
Sheldon? That sounds like something Sheldon would say!
It is nice that this issue can be fixed by users themselves without having to send the computers for repair.
http://anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3448
It will take at least another 18 months before GPU encoding becomes seamless and the ideal solution for most users.
Intel is working on its own GPU, I am sure that they will exploit multimedia handling capabilities (video/photoshop) as one of the selling points of that GPU.
I have measured this by using a bandwidth metering program, and noticed that my usage does not go beyond 25 Gigabytes a month.
Of course, I do not run my home PC 24/7, but only about eight hours a day. And then there's the usual email, browsing, software download, radio, torrents etc. 35 GB should be enough for most. Heck, 95% would be happy with 25 GB/month or less at home!
Just welding shut in a steel case is not enough. You have to keep it in a regulated atmosphere. A straightforward way to do this is to make sure the media is enclosed in a pressurized nitrogen/inert gas container. The pressure doesn't have to be too high, just somewhat above the atmospheric pressure.
You can also set up a sensor alarm that will alert you when the pressure starts nearing atmospheric pressure. All you have to do is keep replacing the batteries on alarm.
Steel container might protect from physical damage, but atmospheric variables will still affect your media. Be mindful of that.
Just go to about:config, then set the "browser.cache.memory.enable" to False (yeah, sounds counterproductive, I know). I also disabled smooth-scrolling while I was at it.
Now Firefox 3 is as fast as can be, even on heavy flash sites. Cheers guys!!
For example, if I open just three tabs of slashdot, the usage jumps to 85-99% territory (and stays there even after the pages have stopped loading), and the computer starts locking up. Only two extensions too, adblock and flashblock.
Does anyone know what the hell is going on, and how to get this CPU usage to manageable 10% levels. I don't recall the exact number, but I do not think that the 2.xx ever got that high.
Perhaps flash drives will not have the sheer storage volume of current magnetic disks in near future, but even if they can be used widely as a primary OS + Application installation drive, it will still benefit a great majority of people on desktop.
Servers (particularly the database which is a frequent bottleneck) and notebook computer of course will also reap the benefit.
It is good to see FreeBSD keep on going, but I cannot help but feel that all BSDs, to some extent, have become a very niche, and bit of a dead-end OS. Today if someone wants to move away from windows, they can go to Linux (free) or Mac (not-free). Aside from server space, what does BSD bring to the average desktop user? Let's just say I want to move to a free OS, what exactly does FreeBSD offer that is not already available with any number of Linux distributions? And what purpose do two similar OS (Linux, BSD) serve when they pretty much appeal to the same segment of computer users. Truly, sometimes I wonder if it might not be better to have *one* OSS alternative to Windows instead of having the developer resources working on two, parallel, different-under-the-surface-but-similar-in-usage operating systems .
Not really. Most (actually all, I do not know exceptions) of the premium ice-creams available in market are premium simply because of the price, colorful packaging, advertising and branding (expensive==good stuff!). If you study the ingredients they still have oils and "flavors" etc added. Expensive junk is still junk, you just pay more for it and of course it makes more profit to the manufacturers. Looks like DIY/home-made is the only reasonable option left.
Better still do away with water all together and use a fluid more suitable to such tasks, just make it closed cycle so it all acts like a giant radiator.
Anandtech too have reviewed the Segate drive. Read carefully because unfortunately enough platter density and NCQ haven't really made this drive as fast as one would imagine.
1. The effect of the type of CD's is (slightly) overrated. We are told how the "golden-base" are superior to "silver-base" are superior to "green-base" CDs. True. But so far I have observed little difference between these, certaly not as large as advertised. I still use golden based for my work, though....
2. The biggest difference, instead, comes between the manufacturers. I now avoid Hewlett Packard like black plague. Other manufacturers quality seems to vary, but not as bad as HP.
3. Proper storage, that is, air conditioned(de-humified), dark, clean rooms is important.
For many indivisuals consider AOL IM a game in itself...
Netware has been dead for some years now. THe advent of Linux has basically killed the use of Netware. The only place Netware is still installed is in already existing places, where, indeed it performs upto its reputation.
Now will M$, of all companies, pick up the tab if some one's caught "pirating" content via p2p on its platform?
Nobody wants it. And it makes everybody uncomfortable.
So can you tell me, Is BSD dying?
I understand your point completely, but since I don't game much, I need the lcd's. The eyestrain is so much lower after hours of coding. Or reading slashdot ;-)
this fascination of humans fighting machines, humans vs. machines as it's portayed by the media. To me, as a card carrying nerd, these matches are more like humnas testing machines. And the machines clearly are not good enough. Yet.
Simple. By legislation.
Not that clearchannel are saints...