I don't know. However on suspend to RAM, I expect things not to be pretty if power gets capped for whatever reason (from power outage through blown fuse to accidentally pulling the wrong plug). I just feel safer when my computer isn't dependent on continuous power supply. Also, on thunderstorms, it's a good idea to disconnect the computer because of possible lightning damages. That's not possible with suspend to RAM.
That's why I never use suspend to RAM with my desktop (the laptop is different because it has a battery).
I typically suspend to disk. It's not quite as fast as suspend to RAM, but still significantly faster than shutdown/reboot, and I can disconnect power.
I'm pretty sure the users of this browser-only feature would keep it in browser-only mode almost all the time, and only boot into the real OS when they want to change something.
I don't see any value of the feature for the normal end user, but I guess it would be quite useful for public terminals. You generally don't want the users to run arbitrary software on those computers.
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Well, Arabic Pacman has of course a few extra rules:
There's Ramadan, a time where Pacman isn't allowed to eat anything. Eating during that time decreases score instead of increasing it. There's the suicide attack option: Pacman can explode, which costs one life, but kills all the ghosts close to it (adding to the score accordingly).
Thanks for the link. However it still does only part of the problem: You still would have to have a way to create a script detailing the current configuration of the Firefox windows, and apply it only in case of a Firefox restart (and deal with the fact that Firefox window titles change as web pages are loaded, and two non-equivalent windows may have the exact same titles).
Indeed, I don't think there's a way to solve the problem without considerable cooperation between Firefox and the window manager (which would probably mean a window manager aware Firefox extension).
Someone above mentioned VirtualAlloc with MEM_RESET for Windows. I don't know if it has the right semantics, though.
But if it only works on some operating systems, then just use it on those operating systems. It's better to be a memory hog only on operating systems which don't provide the necessary support, than to be a memory hog everywhere. After all, the behaviour on other operating systems will be just the same behaviour as the current one, so it's not making things worse. But on operating systems supporting it, it will make things better.
Do you possibly have a browser setting or extension enabled which forces the browser always to use the secure (encrypted) version of a web site if available? If so, you probably have to disable that to see the traditional Google page.
Endianness issues alone can fuck up plenty of code
Unless you are coding device drivers or the like (in which case the JVM wouldn't be very helpful anyway), the endianness shouldn't affect your code at all. If it does, you've done something wrong.
RAII worked in C++ even since pre-standard times. Indeed, all you need for it are constructors and destructors, which are quite fundamental parts of C++.
Exceptions were more of a problem, but you don't need those for RAII; managing resources with RAII works equally well also with return (or any other form of flow control and error reporting, with the exception of longjmp).
The mail omitted a crucial advise: "Please log in and change your password to a new value as soon as possible." Since the reset password was transmitted unencrypted over email, it should not be treated as secure.
Unfortunately it only works well if all your windows are on the same desktop, which seldom is the case for me. In other words, after a Firefox restart I have to move every window back to where it belongs.
Seriously, I read "resigned from Google" and had to take a few minutes to get my mind around that concept. Especially if he was a coder. They treat coders like demi-gods.
Well, maybe that's the problem: He didn't want to be treated as mere demigod.:-)
Well the last attempt at violating a godly patent (the patent on a method to distinguish good and evil using a fruit) ended with being thrown out of paradise.
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I don't know. However on suspend to RAM, I expect things not to be pretty if power gets capped for whatever reason (from power outage through blown fuse to accidentally pulling the wrong plug). I just feel safer when my computer isn't dependent on continuous power supply. Also, on thunderstorms, it's a good idea to disconnect the computer because of possible lightning damages. That's not possible with suspend to RAM.
That's why I never use suspend to RAM with my desktop (the laptop is different because it has a battery).
I typically suspend to disk. It's not quite as fast as suspend to RAM, but still significantly faster than shutdown/reboot, and I can disconnect power.
I'm pretty sure the users of this browser-only feature would keep it in browser-only mode almost all the time, and only boot into the real OS when they want to change something.
I don't see any value of the feature for the normal end user, but I guess it would be quite useful for public terminals. You generally don't want the users to run arbitrary software on those computers.
Well, Arabic Pacman has of course a few extra rules:
There's Ramadan, a time where Pacman isn't allowed to eat anything. Eating during that time decreases score instead of increasing it.
There's the suicide attack option: Pacman can explode, which costs one life, but kills all the ghosts close to it (adding to the score accordingly).
It also may mean that the change actually made the site worse.
Thanks for the link. However it still does only part of the problem: You still would have to have a way to create a script detailing the current configuration of the Firefox windows, and apply it only in case of a Firefox restart (and deal with the fact that Firefox window titles change as web pages are loaded, and two non-equivalent windows may have the exact same titles).
Indeed, I don't think there's a way to solve the problem without considerable cooperation between Firefox and the window manager (which would probably mean a window manager aware Firefox extension).
Someone above mentioned VirtualAlloc with MEM_RESET for Windows. I don't know if it has the right semantics, though.
But if it only works on some operating systems, then just use it on those operating systems. It's better to be a memory hog only on operating systems which don't provide the necessary support, than to be a memory hog everywhere. After all, the behaviour on other operating systems will be just the same behaviour as the current one, so it's not making things worse. But on operating systems supporting it, it will make things better.
Do you possibly have a browser setting or extension enabled which forces the browser always to use the secure (encrypted) version of a web site if available?
If so, you probably have to disable that to see the traditional Google page.
Unless you are coding device drivers or the like (in which case the JVM wouldn't be very helpful anyway), the endianness shouldn't affect your code at all. If it does, you've done something wrong.
RAII worked in C++ even since pre-standard times. Indeed, all you need for it are constructors and destructors, which are quite fundamental parts of C++.
Exceptions were more of a problem, but you don't need those for RAII; managing resources with RAII works equally well also with return (or any other form of flow control and error reporting, with the exception of longjmp).
s/there is no/the programmers don't use the/
You do realise Russia isn't in the US right? :)
But I guess U.S. banks also do business in Russia.
You insert the money? Don't you have bank accounts in Russia?
But the software told them the salesmen weren't lying!
The mail omitted a crucial advise:
"Please log in and change your password to a new value as soon as possible."
Since the reset password was transmitted unencrypted over email, it should not be treated as secure.
From what I understand, on Linux madvise with option MADV_DONTNEED is exactly that.
In a sense, xulrunner is Firefox.
Of course, they are not responsible for Flash; that's Adobe.
And BTW, I've found Firefox running orders of magnitude more stable since I religiously avoid displaying PDFs inline.
Shouldn't madvise be sufficient?
Unfortunately it only works well if all your windows are on the same desktop, which seldom is the case for me. In other words, after a Firefox restart I have to move every window back to where it belongs.
You would prefer them to be an uncompiled program?
They discovered monopoles ? Do you have any reference for that, because I'm pretty sure it would give the finder a direct nobel price.
I think one was found in Redmond. :-)
On a more serious note, maybe he confused it with the the discovery of magnetic monopoles as quasiparticles.
Seriously, I read "resigned from Google" and had to take a few minutes to get my mind around that concept. Especially if he was a coder. They treat coders like demi-gods.
Well, maybe that's the problem: He didn't want to be treated as mere demigod. :-)
That's a common misinterpretation. In reality, it's Microsoft Word.
But I was created not by godly power, but by my parents having sex.
Well the last attempt at violating a godly patent (the patent on a method to distinguish good and evil using a fruit) ended with being thrown out of paradise.