If you're going to use KDE or Gnome, then I'd say it's natural to assume that you have a reasonably new computer.
There are a lot of other WM:s that work excellently with 128M: flux|commonbox, XFce4, ion...
Maybe they should introduce masturbation breaks, to keep those raging hormones at bay.
Just give each kid a private room, a connected computer and some kleenex, and I'm sure they'll calm down.
I'm swedish myself, but I actually laughed out loud when I saw this.
I just got the image of the Swedish Chef sitting on a cloud, looking down on us...
What if they look up the IP address of some public proxy and use that? Then the proxy would do the DNS lookups, wouldn't it?
If your kids are a bit computer literate - chances are that they will be, since you're posting at./;) - they will figure that out pretty quickly.
What are you talking about? The Linux kernel isn't exactly a complete application, but people seem to do fine with that.
Just like with all other OS/Free projects, I imagine there would be an 'official' repository. Of course there could be forks, but you don't have to use them if you don't want to.
The problem with Java now is that some bugs are just ignored, and left to rot (some for more than six years!). If it was free, then they would have been fixed a loong time ago.
I think there was some discussion as to whether this kernel should be 3.0 or not, since a lot of things have improved. But Linus, like a true Scandinavian, opted to be a bit more 'low-key' and go for 2.6.
I'm sure someone has a link somewhere, but I can't be bothered to find it...:)
The point of the new scheduler(s) is that most access to the disk by a process is sequential (i.e. many blocks at a time), so if another process wants to access some other part of the disk, it most often pays off to let that process wait for a while before serving it, since the original process most likely will want to get more data from your current block.
That way, you don't need to move the head nearly as much as if you responded directly to the other process.
Robert Love has written an excellent article about the new schedulers here: I/O Schedulers
The thing with Windows' startup time is that all services aren't started when you can log in. They are still loading in the background.
That's how it seems to load so fast.
Ugh, there's something about genkernel that rubs me the wrong way.
Why not just 'make oldconfig', make && make modules_install? It's not _that_ hard.
But to each his/her own...
That's what I love about physics: it's so out there that you'd think the person who just said something like that was smoking crack, if he didn't have a PhD.
Gravity bleeding between universes...
Who needs science fiction?
Good points.
But should we as developers really be responsible when/if the customers upgrade some vital part without at least checking with the guys who gave them the program?
Patches and upgrades can break stuff. That's true everywhere.
But this is really only an issue, IMHO, with proprietary code that can't be modified for some reason or another. Although that's no help for people who are stuck with it, I know, I know...
Here, OSS has a distinct advantage. I guess I was too stuck in that mindset: that you just change the code, recompile, and ship it.
Couldn't you just do a perl -pi -e 's/^enum$/__enum/i' on your java files? (First doing a grep -r __enum * on your source tree, so you don't accidentally name it to some existing variable)
Doesn't seem like too big a problem to me.
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If you're going to use KDE or Gnome, then I'd say it's natural to assume that you have a reasonably new computer.
There are a lot of other WM:s that work excellently with 128M: flux|commonbox, XFce4, ion...
It's not that big a deal, is it? Or am I missing something?
I thought most people enabled the OSS compatibility options in the kernel anyway?
Maybe they should introduce masturbation breaks, to keep those raging hormones at bay.
Just give each kid a private room, a connected computer and some kleenex, and I'm sure they'll calm down.
I'm swedish myself, but I actually laughed out loud when I saw this.
I just got the image of the Swedish Chef sitting on a cloud, looking down on us...
Doh... misspelled /.
Shouldn't post while deliriously sleepy.
What if they look up the IP address of some public proxy and use that? Then the proxy would do the DNS lookups, wouldn't it? ./ ;) - they will figure that out pretty quickly.
If your kids are a bit computer literate - chances are that they will be, since you're posting at
Unless you run xscreensaver-bsod ;)
What are you talking about? The Linux kernel isn't exactly a complete application, but people seem to do fine with that.
Just like with all other OS/Free projects, I imagine there would be an 'official' repository. Of course there could be forks, but you don't have to use them if you don't want to.
The problem with Java now is that some bugs are just ignored, and left to rot (some for more than six years!). If it was free, then they would have been fixed a loong time ago.
Well.. yeah? Anyone can (and many have) make a fork of the official Linux kernel. Check out the mm and ac branches on kernel.org, for example.
I think there was some discussion as to whether this kernel should be 3.0 or not, since a lot of things have improved. But Linus, like a true Scandinavian, opted to be a bit more 'low-key' and go for 2.6. :)
I'm sure someone has a link somewhere, but I can't be bothered to find it...
The point of the new scheduler(s) is that most access to the disk by a process is sequential (i.e. many blocks at a time), so if another process wants to access some other part of the disk, it most often pays off to let that process wait for a while before serving it, since the original process most likely will want to get more data from your current block.
That way, you don't need to move the head nearly as much as if you responded directly to the other process.
Robert Love has written an excellent article about the new schedulers here: I/O Schedulers
The thing with Windows' startup time is that all services aren't started when you can log in. They are still loading in the background.
That's how it seems to load so fast.
Use 'elevator=as' (or cfq, or deadline)
The anticipatory scheduler is the default for the vanilla 2.6 kernel.
We can only dream...
In a perfect (well, better anyway) world, that could happen
Yeah, we've talk about that for some time.
Maybe this is the last straw...
Ugh, there's something about genkernel that rubs me the wrong way.
Why not just 'make oldconfig', make && make modules_install? It's not _that_ hard.
But to each his/her own...
Well, that was my point too...
Sorry if I was a bit unclear.
Well, nature has had a tiny bit of more time to do her stuff than we have...
Someone needs a hug.
No, you're thinking about the Cosmos, which could consist of multiple universes.
That's what I love about physics: it's so out there that you'd think the person who just said something like that was smoking crack, if he didn't have a PhD.
Gravity bleeding between universes...
Who needs science fiction?
Good points.
But should we as developers really be responsible when/if the customers upgrade some vital part without at least checking with the guys who gave them the program?
Patches and upgrades can break stuff. That's true everywhere.
But this is really only an issue, IMHO, with proprietary code that can't be modified for some reason or another. Although that's no help for people who are stuck with it, I know, I know...
Here, OSS has a distinct advantage. I guess I was too stuck in that mindset: that you just change the code, recompile, and ship it.
Or do a search and replace with some nice Java IDE, Intellij IDEA for example.
Also spotted a typo: The 'i' should be a 'g'...
Couldn't you just do a perl -pi -e 's/^enum$/__enum/i' on your java files? (First doing a grep -r __enum * on your source tree, so you don't accidentally name it to some existing variable)
Doesn't seem like too big a problem to me.