1. if a process uses 100% cpu for more than 5 seconds and is not the primary app that has focus in its window.. then... change its process priority to below normal until the user stops moving the mouse for 30 seconds or no kb activity for 2mins.
2. hire some real programmers that have >15 yrs experience, not some jocks that learned java in 2002 and now call them selves "professionals"
3. stop outsourcing to cheap lands, hire some linux coders at $100/ph to fix your dumb apps that use 18 layers of OO and.net
4. fix task manager to show the damn last Event Log item for that application.
5. FIRE all your product managers that obviously are clueless, let the engineers make something cool, and give a finger to marketing.
Tell them they need to hire us programmers at 10cents/5seconds, or 15cents/160characters of source code so we can help devise a accounting system to keep track of this. If marketing cant improve network usage, that their fault.
What they really want is predictable reveneue per customer so they can report it on the stock market updates.
I have an idea, remove all plans, make all sms's 2c ea, and voice 10c/min. Thats easy maths. Oh and also give prepaid people a 10% discount, because its money up front. Simple billing/simple marketing, build it and they will come.
Look at petrol, its the same price no matter what its usage. I can buy 20cents worth for the same per drop price as 40 gallons.
Seriously, who makes a damn sat with no backup or backdoor telemetry. Even something at 50bits/second on UHF, anything to send debugs/logs anything, a simpler smaller computer not using the main powergrid, but something small maybe even normal batteries, but kicks in for 10mins/day every 2 days or something.
Too much object orientation with dependancies is a killer. More independant systems, even some using analogue instead of digital may sound old school, but often has a better success rate.
Or maybe they launched a dual combo one, and this is a decoy part that detached, while the real sat part is doing its secret stuff in a hidden orbit all painted black. Im sure they can fake its orbit/failure to look like its 12tonnes even though it could be a 1tonne shell with 50lb thrusters.
If laws have to be specific and not biased or vague, why cannot they be a psuedo code/flow charts... rather than stupid archaic fucked up english that would not even get a 1% in an english exam.
It appears to me that both the law is written in the wrong language and its as buggy as win95 with no patches.
Because they are so old, when they were 18/19yo, I bet all those judges boned a 16/17yo at the time. Ofcourse that activity was 100% legal in the old days. Hell, I saw a doco of 38yo getting married to a 16yo in the 50s. 100% legit and legal, not today , its evil now.
The only 3 things I look for on the web re weather are
1) 4 day forecast in the morning 2) radar if its raining to decide if to go now or later (people with cars dont care) 3) hourly temps for the past 24hrs
If in doubt, make a damn advance config option to specify "are you a technical geek and want more techy info" how hard is it for dynamic screens, static designs are so 1985 like DOS.
I thought that the guys high up actually believe that jesus will come in aid if there is WW3, and half the planet nuked, thats why they are actively and indirectly making sure it happens, kind of like teasing god to wakeup and come down here or we will nuke the whole earth.
I hope they realize, that most likely the aliens will come down save the earth then kill all those who started this nutcase warfare.
And got a badge, and a fake police history check....
Oh man LEOs do a good job, its just that they have dual roles.... one to protect the public, and two to protect the govt and VIPs, or are their priorities the other way around?
Maybe people smoke a lot of cigs that cause the fans to slow down reducing the cooling?
I do not smoke indoors, but theres a lot of traffic nearby that could have small particles. Any way, I have had two devices, one kitchen and one dvd that died due to the fans slowing down by 50% caused by gunk in the fan bearings.
These were ofcourse fans made in Shenzen or something province, probably cheap ass armatures that make crud shit that looks good on day one but wont last 12 months, bring back the german engineering where shit lasts 50 years!!.
Lesson learned, check the movement of fans every 3 months, if theres significant friction, replace quickly, send an email to the non existant companies that cannot read english. Its not just china, taiwan does it too, factory managers replacing parts with 10cent cheaper parts that have lower tollerances but improves their bottom line. I hope one day those cheap components cause their cheap $2000 cars to fall apart while driving.
Ok apples developers... either go back to school or listen to Mr God here.
1. Every fucking failure point MUST log an error message with a severity number, so it can be filtered out. Every damn if() else... LogError( "my stupid code failed coz im a looser" );
Sure your code could be 10% larger with 1meg of text errors, but its better than Windows Lookalike software that magically fails.
2. Give your software away for free to universities, more users equals more testers equals better quality feedback especially from smart users, if you loose $100million in sales there who cares, all those
students will then recommend apple in corporate environments, not MS puke ware.
3. Listen to your beta testers, users, tell your product manager "oh yeah im am doing those 8 bug fixes", but sneak in some lower pri ones that are high profile and embarrassing.
More info at financialsense.com and shadowstats dot org i think, but google it.
Its pure utter fraud, but sactioned and legal. Id love to walk up to an apple store and say, "heres $9000 I printed on my inkjet, can I buy that powerbook/iphone/itouch+28in lcd"
How many apps require more than 2 gigs ram? buggy leaky apps? Firefox? (if it was diff process per tab it wouldnt)
Seriously, you would need to push hard to use more than 2gig ram per one app, DBs are split between multiple processes and threads etc... the cache would be the largest path.
In any case, any 32bit app can use 64bit numbers.
Its truely rare for any app to need access to >2gig ram in one second, anything infrequent can be cached etc... HD video editing might need it, but still not hard for 32bit apps, maybe CAD programs that use 2 billion rivets when designing a space station?
My point is that its only beneficial for hardcore servers and high end stuff.
Very few people do cad3d or HD video editing in proportion to all users. Still usefull, but its hardly a hobby requirement.
What Does SyncToy Do? SyncToy synchronizes the files in folders of your choosing. It does so by copying, renaming, and deleting files. What's So Special About SyncToy? There are many ways to copy files in a Windows® environment. However, SyncToy is faster, easier to configure, more transparent, and easier to repeat than: Using Drag and Drop from Windows Explorer, Using Copy or XCopy from the command line, Building batch files and/or scripts to automate file copy operations, Using offline folders, or Using Windows Briefcase. How Does SyncToy Deliver These Benefits? SyncToy helps you save time, minimize network usage, and save disk space by only copying when necessary.
The simple, fast, and familiar Windows interface lets you point and click to define your folders and the SyncToy actions you want performed on each folder pair. You choose the appropriate action when you create a folder pair, and the action determines how SyncToy handles file conflicts such as:
Files that have been renamed in both folders, Files deleted from one folder and renamed in the other, Files renamed in one folder and modified in the other, and Many other file conflict situations. SyncToy enables you to save how you want your folder pairs synced so you can sync again and again with a single click of a button.
SyncToy lets you sync a single pair of folders or all of your folder pairs with a single click. You can even set up SyncToy to run unattended .
The powerful preview feature in SyncToy shows you exactly what is going to happen before any files are touched. Preview even gives you a chance to unselect any proposed actions before you start.
Use synctoy, its MSs attempt at an rsync clone which is quite ok, though could be better for once off 'copys'
It does all you want, the way you want it, its what should be in the OS by default!!!
Im sure explorer has 15 years of legacy code and exceptions and 100 levels of tree decisions, its probly why they dont want to change too much, especially if its bad code thats been cleaned up.
Having had past experience with smpte re video editing etc... why on earth do those machines need CONTINOUS timing, surely all they need is a start trigger and off they go using their own clocks. Its not like they need to individually slowdown/speed up because you just said that cannot be done, tho it should have been possible with multi smpte signals from a generator with individual speed controls/pause/restart modes.
Even in more past earlier days on Amigas using 3 to do music+stuff, we only syncronized the trigger and bang it off went within 20ms of each other. Enough for any audio/video sync to be perfect.
For the modern coders, please remember, do not trust the OS, it can go wrong, even windows doesnt keep two copies of the SYSTEM registry (idiots), so I remind you, when ever you write to config files/data files, keep the previous copy as a.old and do not overwrite the current one, but rename it to.tmp and write to a.new then rename to the.final when done, to avoid any sudden errors. More prudent hardcore coders will keep 10 historical copies just incase.
Was the world a dangerous bad place 40 years ago? No cameras or radar guns, everyone was happy, people still sped.
What you fail to realize is that people are pissed of that the error margin is so small, doing 5% over the limit is hardly justified. 60km to 63km is easy to do if for various reasons a speedo might be 1km out (analogue is so not accurate), different tires, and subconciously keeping up with the car ahead.
Sure, doing 75 in a 60 zone is over the top, but 63, get real.
Memory pools are made so that you can have a large real block of ram used for lots of small allocations, and you could have different sized pools for different sized 'puddles'. Now if you allocate ram using handles, and not pointers, it gives the memory allocator/manager the abillity to defrag the ram as it is... as long as apps can signify that X bit of ram is not in use during X time slot, ie semaphore based ram allocs in pools with access locks.
Sure its something that should be OS specific, but for an app that is used on multi OSes of different versions, its sometimes good to re-wrap this on a higher level if you cannot trust the OS to do it right all the time.
oh and having 64meg or so of never-page-out ram can be helpfull too.
Cache the html, and small images, and push larger images to the disk cache. End result, much less ram use, and nearly the same speed.
But todays webpages, most are dynamic and not static, so caching it useless, how about a do not cache list of domains!!! Just about every page i do a back on, its never instantly refreshed from ram, its reconnects to the server, re-renders, re-downloads everything because its all php/asp/cfm stuff.
On another suggestion, how about give firefox the Vista feature of using a flash drive for cache. Its MORE SECURE, leave no traces on the desktop, and use much less ram, if the file IO is comparable to ram io. We only need recall speeds of 100ms, which is fast enough for any response.
When cloning my linux from old hd to new hd, I accidentally forgot to change the label name back for the root= entry in grub. and couldnt boot unless I fixed it with the repair CD console login.
Its as fragile as boot.ini, though I personally have a few copies of it and/boot.copy/local/boot.old
What linux needs is like the old VMS days of auto versioning, grub.conf;1 etc...
If its a system core component config, then its smart to do it for that, HD space is plenty for text files.
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Use xplorer2 lite, its free and cool, dual pane, with tabs. kicks ass over MSs
No moto, they skimp on ram and features. Nokia nope, as Sony are the only ones who can do the best 3d + multitask java apps on phones.
1. if a process uses 100% cpu for more than 5 seconds and is not the primary app that has focus in its window.. then...
.net
change its process priority to below normal until the user stops moving the mouse for 30 seconds or no kb activity for 2mins.
2. hire some real programmers that have >15 yrs experience, not some jocks that learned java in 2002 and now call them selves "professionals"
3. stop outsourcing to cheap lands, hire some linux coders at $100/ph to fix your dumb apps that use 18 layers of OO and
4. fix task manager to show the damn last Event Log item for that application.
5. FIRE all your product managers that obviously are clueless, let the engineers make something cool, and give a finger to marketing.
Sounds like accountants are lazy bastards.
Tell them they need to hire us programmers at 10cents/5seconds, or 15cents/160characters of source code so we
can help devise a accounting system to keep track of this. If marketing cant improve network usage, that their fault.
What they really want is predictable reveneue per customer so they can report it on the stock market updates.
I have an idea, remove all plans, make all sms's 2c ea, and voice 10c/min. Thats easy maths. Oh and also give prepaid people a 10% discount, because
its money up front. Simple billing/simple marketing, build it and they will come.
Look at petrol, its the same price no matter what its usage. I can buy 20cents worth for the same per drop price as 40 gallons.
Seriously, who makes a damn sat with no backup or backdoor telemetry. Even something at 50bits/second on UHF, anything to send debugs/logs anything, a simpler smaller
computer not using the main powergrid, but something small maybe even normal batteries, but kicks in for 10mins/day every 2 days or something.
Too much object orientation with dependancies is a killer. More independant systems, even some using analogue instead of digital may sound old school, but often
has a better success rate.
Or maybe they launched a dual combo one, and this is a decoy part that detached, while the real sat part is doing its secret stuff in a hidden orbit all painted black.
Im sure they can fake its orbit/failure to look like its 12tonnes even though it could be a 1tonne shell with 50lb thrusters.
If laws have to be specific and not biased or vague, why cannot they be a psuedo code/flow charts... rather than stupid archaic
fucked up english that would not even get a 1% in an english exam.
It appears to me that both the law is written in the wrong language and its as buggy as win95 with no patches.
Because they are so old, when they were 18/19yo, I bet all those judges boned a 16/17yo at the time. Ofcourse that activity was 100% legal in the old days.
Hell, I saw a doco of 38yo getting married to a 16yo in the 50s. 100% legit and legal, not today , its evil now.
The only 3 things I look for on the web re weather are
1) 4 day forecast in the morning
2) radar if its raining to decide if to go now or later (people with cars dont care)
3) hourly temps for the past 24hrs
If in doubt, make a damn advance config option to specify "are you a technical geek and want more techy info" how hard is it for dynamic screens, static designs are so 1985 like DOS.
I thought that the guys high up actually believe that jesus will come in aid if there is WW3, and half the planet nuked, thats why they are actively
and indirectly making sure it happens, kind of like teasing god to wakeup and come down here or we will nuke the whole earth.
I hope they realize, that most likely the aliens will come down save the earth then kill all those who started this nutcase warfare.
And got a badge, and a fake police history check....
Oh man LEOs do a good job, its just that they have dual roles.... one to protect the public, and two to protect the govt and VIPs, or are their priorities the other way around?
Maybe people smoke a lot of cigs that cause the fans to slow down reducing the cooling?
I do not smoke indoors, but theres a lot of traffic nearby that could have small particles. Any way, I have had two devices, one kitchen and one dvd that died
due to the fans slowing down by 50% caused by gunk in the fan bearings.
These were ofcourse fans made in Shenzen or something province, probably cheap ass armatures that make crud shit that looks good on day one but wont last 12 months, bring back
the german engineering where shit lasts 50 years!!.
Lesson learned, check the movement of fans every 3 months, if theres significant friction, replace quickly, send an email to the non existant companies that cannot read english.
Its not just china, taiwan does it too, factory managers replacing parts with 10cent cheaper parts that have lower tollerances but improves their bottom line. I hope one day those
cheap components cause their cheap $2000 cars to fall apart while driving.
Ok apples developers... either go back to school or listen to Mr God here.
1. Every fucking failure point MUST log an error message with a severity number, so it can be filtered out. Every damn if() else... LogError( "my stupid code failed coz im a looser" );
Sure your code could be 10% larger with 1meg of text errors, but its better than Windows Lookalike software that magically fails.
2. Give your software away for free to universities, more users equals more testers equals better quality feedback especially from smart users, if you loose $100million in sales there who cares, all those
students will then recommend apple in corporate environments, not MS puke ware.
3. Listen to your beta testers, users, tell your product manager "oh yeah im am doing those 8 bug fixes", but sneak in some lower pri ones that are high profile and embarrassing.
More info at financialsense.com and shadowstats dot org i think, but google it.
Its pure utter fraud, but sactioned and legal. Id love to walk up to an apple store and say, "heres $9000 I printed on my inkjet, can I buy that powerbook/iphone/itouch+28in lcd"
US army detonated a few nukes at 350km alt, close to shuttle height, quite big ones and pretty. http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/nuclear-test-9.jpg
Im sure this would have been noticed by someone given the burst of gamma rays etc...
How many apps require more than 2 gigs ram? buggy leaky apps? Firefox? (if it was diff process per tab it wouldnt)
Seriously, you would need to push hard to use more than 2gig ram per one app, DBs are split between multiple processes and threads etc... the cache would
be the largest path.
In any case, any 32bit app can use 64bit numbers.
Its truely rare for any app to need access to >2gig ram in one second, anything infrequent can be cached etc...
HD video editing might need it, but still not hard for 32bit apps, maybe CAD programs that use 2 billion rivets when designing a space station?
My point is that its only beneficial for hardcore servers and high end stuff.
Very few people do cad3d or HD video editing in proportion to all users. Still usefull, but its hardly a hobby requirement.
You could have just used synctoy, and saved your coding efforts.
SyncToy
SyncToy: the smart way to copy files, at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx
What Does SyncToy Do?
SyncToy synchronizes the files in folders of your choosing. It does so by copying, renaming, and deleting files.
What's So Special About SyncToy?
There are many ways to copy files in a Windows® environment. However, SyncToy is faster, easier to configure, more transparent, and easier to repeat than:
Using Drag and Drop from Windows Explorer,
Using Copy or XCopy from the command line,
Building batch files and/or scripts to automate file copy operations,
Using offline folders, or
Using Windows Briefcase.
How Does SyncToy Deliver These Benefits?
SyncToy helps you save time, minimize network usage, and save disk space by only copying when necessary.
The simple, fast, and familiar Windows interface lets you point and click to define your folders and the SyncToy actions you want performed on each folder pair. You choose the appropriate action when you create a folder pair, and the action determines how SyncToy handles file conflicts such as:
Files that have been renamed in both folders,
Files deleted from one folder and renamed in the other,
Files renamed in one folder and modified in the other, and
Many other file conflict situations.
SyncToy enables you to save how you want your folder pairs synced so you can sync again and again with a single click of a button.
SyncToy lets you sync a single pair of folders or all of your folder pairs with a single click. You can even set up SyncToy to run unattended .
The powerful preview feature in SyncToy shows you exactly what is going to happen before any files are touched. Preview even gives you a chance to unselect any proposed actions before you start.
Use synctoy, its MSs attempt at an rsync clone which is quite ok, though could be better for once off 'copys'
It does all you want, the way you want it, its what should be in the OS by default!!!
Im sure explorer has 15 years of legacy code and exceptions and 100 levels of tree decisions, its probly why they
dont want to change too much, especially if its bad code thats been cleaned up.
Having had past experience with smpte re video editing etc... why on earth do those machines need CONTINOUS timing, surely all they need is a start
.old and do not overwrite the current one, but rename it to .tmp .new then rename to the .final when done, to avoid any sudden errors. More prudent hardcore coders will keep 10 historical copies just incase.
trigger and off they go using their own clocks. Its not like they need to individually slowdown/speed up because you just said that cannot be done, tho
it should have been possible with multi smpte signals from a generator with individual speed controls/pause/restart modes.
Even in more past earlier days on Amigas using 3 to do music+stuff, we only syncronized the trigger and bang it off went within 20ms of each other. Enough
for any audio/video sync to be perfect.
For the modern coders, please remember, do not trust the OS, it can go wrong, even windows doesnt keep two copies of the SYSTEM registry (idiots), so
I remind you, when ever you write to config files/data files, keep the previous copy as a
and write to a
If we all could have 8hrs quality of sleep in 3hrs in a burst mode, then it would be great.
And if you do need to skip 1 day every few weeks then so be it, hey I went with 1 day a week without a sleep for 3 months and it was ok.
Was the world a dangerous bad place 40 years ago? No cameras or radar guns, everyone was happy, people still sped.
What you fail to realize is that people are pissed of that the error margin is so small, doing 5% over the limit is hardly justified. 60km to 63km is easy
to do if for various reasons a speedo might be 1km out (analogue is so not accurate), different tires, and subconciously keeping up with the car ahead.
Sure, doing 75 in a 60 zone is over the top, but 63, get real.
Buy a damn real phone, unlocked. Like Sony ones. Anything else... junk it.
If todays youth like to drink underage and party, why are they so eager to bend over and take it up the a$$ with paid ring tones?
Memory pools are made so that you can have a large real block of ram used for lots of small allocations, and you could have different sized pools
for different sized 'puddles'. Now if you allocate ram using handles, and not pointers, it gives the memory allocator/manager the abillity to defrag the ram
as it is... as long as apps can signify that X bit of ram is not in use during X time slot, ie semaphore based ram allocs in pools with access locks.
Sure its something that should be OS specific, but for an app that is used on multi OSes of different versions, its sometimes good to re-wrap this
on a higher level if you cannot trust the OS to do it right all the time.
oh and having 64meg or so of never-page-out ram can be helpfull too.
Cache the html, and small images, and push larger images to the disk cache. End result, much less ram use, and nearly the same speed.
But todays webpages, most are dynamic and not static, so caching it useless, how about a do not cache list of domains!!! Just about
every page i do a back on, its never instantly refreshed from ram, its reconnects to the server, re-renders, re-downloads everything because
its all php/asp/cfm stuff.
On another suggestion, how about give firefox the Vista feature of using a flash drive for cache. Its MORE SECURE, leave no traces on the desktop, and use much
less ram, if the file IO is comparable to ram io. We only need recall speeds of 100ms, which is fast enough for any response.
You are allowed to destroy your own IP, as govt offices do when they get ousted in elections, they shred 100s of boxes of records.
Oh and btw, what the authorities dont know, they shouldnt know, and if you only know, then its ok to destroy that 'ip'
but google on how to do it smartly. read a few mafia books, its not your job as the defendant to make the prosecuting parties job easier.
When cloning my linux from old hd to new hd, I accidentally forgot to change the label name back for the root= entry in grub. and couldnt boot unless I fixed it with the repair CD console login.
/boot.copy /local/boot.old
Its as fragile as boot.ini, though I personally have a few copies of it and
What linux needs is like the old VMS days of auto versioning, grub.conf;1 etc...
If its a system core component config, then its smart to do it for that, HD space is plenty for text files.