An app can make it's own swap file and use that - eg you can set a RAM limit on the GIMP, and once you go over that limit, images that you've opened but not touched for a while end up in files like ~/tmp/gimp-12345.xcf. It's more autosave/autoload than swap in the OS sense, but it has the same effect.
Lots of people have pointed out how this would be a bad idea for big companies to use, but what about smaller people? If someone were to make a free 3D comic (a la Red vs Blue), I'd gladly help in the rendering of it.
(Yes, a joke. I tried making a program that analyses local files to get links between them, it's much harder than it seems, especially when you get into analisys of binary formats...)
So much time spent on JOSRTS and I STILL couldn't get you to learn patience
JOSRTS taught me that if things aren't done soon, then people get bored and go away (not to say there should be a rush, but things should be done) - Seeing as I spent several months checking the forum daily even when nobody posted, I'd think that very patient indeed...
Also, the forum is broken now, so not even me & Virum (he came back after a few months, wondering where everyone else went) can get on with things, which is a bummer. My final exams & stuff are over in 2 weeks, and I was hoping to spend my holiday getting JOSRTS to the point where it did something:( (Before the forum died I got some code done, but I never did a UI or main function, so you can see what should happen by looking at the code, but nothing actually does anything:/ linky. Also, the game got moved to space, to simplify some things so that we could get the project made in series rather than in parallel ^_^)
Yeah, I'm just ranting after being annoyed by the people I was talking about. I had to rant somewhere, and slashdot seems a good a place as any:)
I simply got in the habit of first asking, "did you try the 'man' command?" Usually they'd sheepishly go back and try the 'man' command. If 'man' didn't help, then I'd answer their question. Over time, they simply stopped asking me and looked it up for themselves. I never once had to be rude to anyone. You shouldn't have to be either.
That is what I do, normally, it's just some people keep on asking, even when they've been pointed at the answer page many times. I'm very nice generally, but it annoys me when a person keeps asking questions that they could easily google for answers to - Or times like when my family keep calling for help with MS Office, and I type their query into the office assistant and the answer comes up.
I know that it's good to be patient, but after the hundredth cycle of "Give me information on foo!", "Did you check google?", "No (or) I tried, but couldn't find anything", "here, your answer lies in the first hit for 'foo'", "oh, thanks", it all starts to get tiring...
I would help him, if he would say what his problem is. Questions like "I can't find drivers for my fooAudio2000 sound card, where are they?" will get good responses, while "OMFG!! My sound card of non-specific brand are not worxorz!! Linux sucks!!!111" will just attract flames. (leetness added for emphasis, and because 90% of problems I deal with myself are phrased as the above)
don't you people think that you should be using polite language to discuss the issue?
You try and remain polite after the 20th person today asks a question that's answered in the FAQ, linked from the front page of the website, with the text "Read the FAQ before asking questions, it almost certainly has your answer" on it...
Instead users are assailed as "stoopid"
[big][red][flashing]This is the FAQ, your answer is in here, READ THIS PAGE[/flashing][/red][/big] - please explain how a perfectly intelligent person will miss that...
I've found that most of the time RTFM + flames is a *good* answer - it trains the user to look things up for themselves rather than to get me to look it up for them. When RL people come to me with problems, I tell them to fetch the manual, then I look through it myself, then tell them to read out loud a specific section of said manual. Normally half way through, they realise that the answer was there all along, and meekly walk away, their problem solved.
So, your lost some data, what *is* a useful response?
I find that asking a question like "my power cut, and my ext2 partition is damaged, how do I get my data back?" works fine, just saying "my power cut, and my ext2 partition is damaged" won't get any good _answers_, because you didn't ask a good _question_ (Or any question at all, actually). All you've done is state that ext2 is bad, in a forum of ext2 lovers, which is surely a bad thing.
the most significant change to the service will be that it will only offer freely available technical software resources. Scholarly and Academic resources will no longer be mirrored.
So I can keep using gigabytes of bandwidth running "emerge sync && emerge -uD world" every day, but I can't get at some research PDFs? Are they really saying that?
Q) How many slashdotters does it take to point out that the patent isn't on translucency, but *time dependant* translucency.
A) I count 20 so far, mostly modded "insightful", and not one of them modded "redundant"
I know it's a pain, but as well as reading the title of the story, try and read the first 5 or so comments to see that all 5 of them are discussing the point that you're just about to make. Please.
Hmmm, looking on google, they're both used often and interchangably (Some also call it software change management). But IMHO source code management is better, seeing as it manages source code. Software configuration management is illogical, seeing as it doesn't manage configuration of software (unless you count version controlling a.conf file)...
(you need funny-manpages installed though. I still get a few paragraphs into the funny pages before I realise that they're not the documentation I'm looking for:)
Why not just put the numbers in/proc (or/sys), and let the user try them out?
Give a pseudofile for what gets RAM priority (root's apps, disk cache, user apps, whatever else), one for how aggressively to free RAM, how long to wait before a page counts as old, and let people customise.
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An app can make it's own swap file and use that - eg you can set a RAM limit on the GIMP, and once you go over that limit, images that you've opened but not touched for a while end up in files like ~/tmp/gimp-12345.xcf. It's more autosave/autoload than swap in the OS sense, but it has the same effect.
that's a word o_O?
Oasis-open seems to be the latest standard, IIRC it's based on the OOo format, and I think KOffice may be adopting it in the next major version.
It's only illegal if you copy something you don't own without the author's permission, as it always has been...
Lots of people have pointed out how this would be a bad idea for big companies to use, but what about smaller people? If someone were to make a free 3D comic (a la Red vs Blue), I'd gladly help in the rendering of it.
(Yes, a joke. I tried making a program that analyses local files to get links between them, it's much harder than it seems, especially when you get into analisys of binary formats...)
So much time spent on JOSRTS and I STILL couldn't get you to learn patience
JOSRTS taught me that if things aren't done soon, then people get bored and go away (not to say there should be a rush, but things should be done) - Seeing as I spent several months checking the forum daily even when nobody posted, I'd think that very patient indeed...
Also, the forum is broken now, so not even me & Virum (he came back after a few months, wondering where everyone else went) can get on with things, which is a bummer. My final exams & stuff are over in 2 weeks, and I was hoping to spend my holiday getting JOSRTS to the point where it did something :( (Before the forum died I got some code done, but I never did a UI or main function, so you can see what should happen by looking at the code, but nothing actually does anything :/ linky. Also, the game got moved to space, to simplify some things so that we could get the project made in series rather than in parallel ^_^)
Yeah, I'm just ranting after being annoyed by the people I was talking about. I had to rant somewhere, and slashdot seems a good a place as any :)
I simply got in the habit of first asking, "did you try the 'man' command?" Usually they'd sheepishly go back and try the 'man' command. If 'man' didn't help, then I'd answer their question. Over time, they simply stopped asking me and looked it up for themselves. I never once had to be rude to anyone. You shouldn't have to be either.
That is what I do, normally, it's just some people keep on asking, even when they've been pointed at the answer page many times. I'm very nice generally, but it annoys me when a person keeps asking questions that they could easily google for answers to - Or times like when my family keep calling for help with MS Office, and I type their query into the office assistant and the answer comes up.
I know that it's good to be patient, but after the hundredth cycle of "Give me information on foo!", "Did you check google?", "No (or) I tried, but couldn't find anything", "here, your answer lies in the first hit for 'foo'", "oh, thanks", it all starts to get tiring...
Wha? Please explain...
I would help him, if he would say what his problem is. Questions like "I can't find drivers for my fooAudio2000 sound card, where are they?" will get good responses, while "OMFG!! My sound card of non-specific brand are not worxorz!! Linux sucks!!!111" will just attract flames. (leetness added for emphasis, and because 90% of problems I deal with myself are phrased as the above)
don't you people think that you should be using polite language to discuss the issue?
You try and remain polite after the 20th person today asks a question that's answered in the FAQ, linked from the front page of the website, with the text "Read the FAQ before asking questions, it almost certainly has your answer" on it...
Instead users are assailed as "stoopid"
[big][red][flashing]This is the FAQ, your answer is in here, READ THIS PAGE[/flashing][/red][/big] - please explain how a perfectly intelligent person will miss that...
I've found that most of the time RTFM + flames is a *good* answer - it trains the user to look things up for themselves rather than to get me to look it up for them. When RL people come to me with problems, I tell them to fetch the manual, then I look through it myself, then tell them to read out loud a specific section of said manual. Normally half way through, they realise that the answer was there all along, and meekly walk away, their problem solved.
So, your lost some data, what *is* a useful response?
I find that asking a question like "my power cut, and my ext2 partition is damaged, how do I get my data back?" works fine, just saying "my power cut, and my ext2 partition is damaged" won't get any good _answers_, because you didn't ask a good _question_ (Or any question at all, actually). All you've done is state that ext2 is bad, in a forum of ext2 lovers, which is surely a bad thing.
But who's the mother o_O?
Bullshit?
Maybe someone carved a bunch of random letters just so that they could look down from heaven at all us idiots trying to figure it out?
So I can keep using gigabytes of bandwidth running "emerge sync && emerge -uD world" every day, but I can't get at some research PDFs? Are they really saying that?
A) I count 20 so far, mostly modded "insightful", and not one of them modded "redundant"
I know it's a pain, but as well as reading the title of the story, try and read the first 5 or so comments to see that all 5 of them are discussing the point that you're just about to make. Please.
/me points to the title - "Slashdot. News for Nerds"
So. Fscking. Cool.
Hmmm, looking on google, they're both used often and interchangably (Some also call it software change management). But IMHO source code management is better, seeing as it manages source code. Software configuration management is illogical, seeing as it doesn't manage configuration of software (unless you count version controlling a .conf file)...
You don't get it because it's wrong :P. It's source code management, hence it managing source code.
(you need funny-manpages installed though. I still get a few paragraphs into the funny pages before I realise that they're not the documentation I'm looking for :)
Use FireFox.
Give a pseudofile for what gets RAM priority (root's apps, disk cache, user apps, whatever else), one for how aggressively to free RAM, how long to wait before a page counts as old, and let people customise.
Erm, my k6/266 runs zsnes, and the games work fine with sound, but I have to have frameskip set to 3/4
Windows gets one huge patch per month, linux apps get patched whenever they need it.