If you dig a bit in that website you'll find your answer:
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Don't expect magic where you can't even see competence.
... Looking back, most industry executives agreed that the singular moment that propelled Apple to its current 97% marketshare was a lone post on what was then just another Internet forum, and not the brain center for the world government it is today: "The post from '99 [99BottlesOfBeerInMyF] really just got things started," says Steve Jobs, "Up until then we were kind of sitting around wondering how to sell all those shiny computers. We knew about girls and cameras, but we didn't think of putting the two together." ninenine and autopr0n agree: "It wasn't so much what the girls said - we couldn't really hear them - but it was the surprised look on their faces and breasts. 'OMG! Pervert!' Man...still sends a shiver down my spine. 'Pervert!'. We weren't quite exploiting sex comercially before, and then, after that post it was like 'ok, we need to get to it and get this done.' And that's what we did." Coming up next on Behind the Games: 99's sex change operation, and '99's friend's battle with fame and amphetamines.
For your benefit, i went as far as reading up on it. If you google a bit, you find:
Matt Ayers, who is the Program Manager in the Microsoft Windows Client Performance group and basically owns the ReadyBoost feature, answers:
Q: What happens when you remove the drive?
A: When a surprise remove event occurs and we can't find the drive, we fall back to disk. Again, all pages on the device are backed by a page on disk. No exceptions. This isn't a separate page file store, but rather a cache to speed up access to frequently used data.
So what these gentlemen at Microsoft have is some data on disk that by having just been read or any other reason is deemed as desirable to be cached for faster access. In any sane architecture, you cache to RAM because that's where the orders-of-magnitude-benefit is to be found. But when you run out of ram you have to dump data to a storage device, like this USB solution. That is swapping, and these gentleman are swapping their disk cache to disk, which is telling.
This design assumes that a multi-gigabyte RAM system is trashing and:
1) The data required to regain responsiveness is to be found on the fast seek swap (USB device)
2) That data is also small enough that reading it from USB with AES encryption will be done in smaller time than a direct read from hard drive (which is heavily scheduled due to trashing)
3) That the load level is just enough to trash the high-transfer-speed hard drive but not trash the easily overwhelmed USB thingy they gave you at the last trade show.
4) Data write scenarios aren't even considered, since your data is either all the way to the hard disk (like a man, dammit) or still on a USB drive that can be surprise-removed without system failure (no failure but no integrity either)
What these gentlemen at Redmond wished they had written was a performance-aware multi-device swap system. Which would have been somewhat praise-worthy, if you ignore the fact that a single dedicated kernel hacker could probably do the same in Linux in a long afternoon.
What a fucking sad day this is, when swapping to usbflash is a "feature" (instead of having a proper swap architecture that _naturally_ allows swap on any device).
And what a fucking sad day this is when you have to explain generously to persistent ignorants why this is a bad idea. Swap to floppy, children, and witness computing at the speed of your own minds.
But, I must ask, how on earth do you guys perform these kinds of clean-ups?
Nobody can completelly clean a virus infected system. The ones that claim they did, didn't, but don't know enough about the subject to know they didn't.
To put it bluntly, computer security is like virginity. You either are or you aren't. If somehow, at any time, an "evil" binary run on your system, then the system may be in control of whoever wrote that binary in any number of ways.
So the wisdom of the unwashed masses that had these AWESOME ideas for apps that would totally change the world... distilled into nothingness! And they are surprised...
And i sure hope nobody that matters is seriously considering renaming reiserfs. If he did murder his wife (unknown at this time), that doesn't change the fact that he did create reiserfs nor the quality of that work. If he did do it, he should be prosecuted like anyone else but that doesn't change the past. We should be thankful that Mr. Reiser, in spite of all his ghosts, had the foresight to choose a free license for his work.
Well, according to the terrorists and their enablers, "Each monkey is first paralyzed, then has coils glued to her eyes during a single session that lasts up to 120 hours, and finally killed." It says nothing about why he did this or what the purpose was, which, I suppose, would make a difference.
Also, according to them, people at "Huntingdon Life Sciences" "punch baby beagles repeatedly in the face". I'm not sure what to make of this. Do researchers punch puppies? That seems kind of... odd. What's the point of that?
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And i hacked slashdot to change that IP byte to 345 to make you appear ignorant.
Novel became the Mr. Hands of the Linux world.
Brilliant!
That's an easy one, you just copy over the bread from your windows partition.
(i kid because i love)
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Don't expect magic where you can't even see competence.
You are taking the constructive approach. They are taking the power-trip approach. Different strokes...
... Looking back, most industry executives agreed that the singular moment that propelled Apple to its current 97% marketshare was a lone post on what was then just another Internet forum, and not the brain center for the world government it is today: "The post from '99 [99BottlesOfBeerInMyF] really just got things started," says Steve Jobs, "Up until then we were kind of sitting around wondering how to sell all those shiny computers. We knew about girls and cameras, but we didn't think of putting the two together." ninenine and autopr0n agree: "It wasn't so much what the girls said - we couldn't really hear them - but it was the surprised look on their faces and breasts. 'OMG! Pervert!' Man...still sends a shiver down my spine. 'Pervert!'. We weren't quite exploiting sex comercially before, and then, after that post it was like 'ok, we need to get to it and get this done.' And that's what we did." Coming up next on Behind the Games: 99's sex change operation, and '99's friend's battle with fame and amphetamines.
(a tribute)
For your benefit, i went as far as reading up on it. If you google a bit, you find:
Matt Ayers, who is the Program Manager in the Microsoft Windows Client Performance group and basically owns the ReadyBoost feature, answers:
Q: What happens when you remove the drive?
A: When a surprise remove event occurs and we can't find the drive, we fall back to disk. Again, all pages on the device are backed by a page on disk. No exceptions. This isn't a separate page file store, but rather a cache to speed up access to frequently used data.
So what these gentlemen at Microsoft have is some data on disk that by having just been read or any other reason is deemed as desirable to be cached for faster access. In any sane architecture, you cache to RAM because that's where the orders-of-magnitude-benefit is to be found. But when you run out of ram you have to dump data to a storage device, like this USB solution. That is swapping, and these gentleman are swapping their disk cache to disk, which is telling. This design assumes that a multi-gigabyte RAM system is trashing and:
1) The data required to regain responsiveness is to be found on the fast seek swap (USB device)
2) That data is also small enough that reading it from USB with AES encryption will be done in smaller time than a direct read from hard drive (which is heavily scheduled due to trashing)
3) That the load level is just enough to trash the high-transfer-speed hard drive but not trash the easily overwhelmed USB thingy they gave you at the last trade show.
4) Data write scenarios aren't even considered, since your data is either all the way to the hard disk (like a man, dammit) or still on a USB drive that can be surprise-removed without system failure (no failure but no integrity either)
What these gentlemen at Redmond wished they had written was a performance-aware multi-device swap system. Which would have been somewhat praise-worthy, if you ignore the fact that a single dedicated kernel hacker could probably do the same in Linux in a long afternoon.
What a fucking sad day this is, when swapping to usbflash is a "feature" (instead of having a proper swap architecture that _naturally_ allows swap on any device).
And what a fucking sad day this is when you have to explain generously to persistent ignorants why this is a bad idea. Swap to floppy, children, and witness computing at the speed of your own minds.
No, actually you stumbled upon the very problem with rpm. :D
When showing processor information i get a list of strings like mmx, sse, etc for processor capabilities. Is there such a string for this capability?
For once, i must say it:
ME TOO!
Actually, his talking points have such little reality to them and are so little-minded that it is clear he was briefed by an anti-opensource advocate.
Nobody can completelly clean a virus infected system. The ones that claim they did, didn't, but don't know enough about the subject to know they didn't.
To put it bluntly, computer security is like virginity. You either are or you aren't. If somehow, at any time, an "evil" binary run on your system, then the system may be in control of whoever wrote that binary in any number of ways.
Its only funny because its true.
So the wisdom of the unwashed masses that had these AWESOME ideas for apps that would totally change the world... distilled into nothingness! And they are surprised...
Ah, to be young again!
Hearing flash sound on Kubuntu Linux is still a hit and miss, miss, miss game...
And i sure hope nobody that matters is seriously considering renaming reiserfs. If he did murder his wife (unknown at this time), that doesn't change the fact that he did create reiserfs nor the quality of that work. If he did do it, he should be prosecuted like anyone else but that doesn't change the past. We should be thankful that Mr. Reiser, in spite of all his ghosts, had the foresight to choose a free license for his work.
Clearly, your points 2 and 3 are already part of the "???" list item. They define cluelessness.
You must be new here...
No worries, if the black hole becomes a problem we'll just ship it to the Sun.
Nah, it would work just as well.
"It's a skateboard with a motor"
and it doesnt work on water!
Also, according to them, people at "Huntingdon Life Sciences" "punch baby beagles repeatedly in the face". I'm not sure what to make of this. Do researchers punch puppies? That seems kind of... odd. What's the point of that?
The coils won't stay glued.