...it's actually only using 30% of the total cpu time. It won't just ramp up to use the entire cpu.
It may actually be using the entire CPU, but not reporting it via "top".
Unless I'm mistaken, CPU used by the back-end IO processing - the act of the CPU coordinating traffic between the computer's bus and the devices that are being written to and from, are not actually charged to the process or thread.
That is, the details of how much CPU are used by the IO system aren't written to the process header, because the process header isn't in the computable scope (an area defined by a set of active register values). Ergo, "top" doesn't report that CPU because it isn't there. (Old VMS systems had a parameter that simulated this, called "Iota" (measured in microfortnights, oddly enough) that was added in back when charging for CPU usage was in vogue.)
What that seems to indicate is that the problem may not be in the operating system per se, but in the driver and/or the device. The culture of one IO per byte may still exist in some buried (or should be buried) hardware devices. The IO needs to be blocked up a bit I think to get the performance you need for seamless music delivery.
Record companies have a monopoly on the music they sell.
Maybe not monopoly, as the RIAA actually represents several companies, so it would be difficult to say there was insufficient competition and make it stick.
On the other hand, however, anti-trust might be an interesting path to change - if enough judges see enough instances of RIAA acting contrary to the spirit of RICO they may just eventually want a balancer - and it would be a good thing if it happened.
On the gripping hand, they can take their gold-plated buggy whips and wave them from their nether orifices. I buy indie music off the web, and it's good, and the rest I make myself. More will if this goes on, I trust. I'd bring back folk music (the real stuff) if it would help.
I believe we should drop the speed limit to zero. It's clear that speed costs lives - a speed limit of zero would clear the problem up overnight. And we should be forced to drive three horsepower rubber cars with a planter in the back.
Don't forget to set your hosts file to read only. There's bastards out there who will rewrite it for you. Ads.
I have a huge hosts file too. But it's mostly for homing out annoyances.
Tip: Use Notepad++ for editing your hosts file instead of standard Notepad. The former preserves the lack-of-extent Hosts requires. The latter adds.txt, and you're stuck shuffling file names around. Nice little editor, too.
Paradise! Why, in my day we actually omitted the part about telling young people so that others could chime in with their own witty versions. We only dreamed of cutting off a funny thread of posts at the knees like you just did.
Don't let that stop you! GCOS allowed forward references.
Apparently there are a lot of rogue acetylene canisters catching fire in London on a regular basis
It's not just the acetylene. The gas is often stored in suspension in liquid acetone, which is also flammable and can be explosive, as well as being a solvent for everything from nail polish to styrofoam. That stuff's nasty.
My first thought meme was "Yes, but does it run Linux?" ("Megatux". Duh.) Then I thought - hang on, how can you develop a botnet that runs on Linux in the first place? And if you did, how would it reflect the nature of real botnets if those millions of operating systems weren't running NT4 or variants?
Then it got surreal - I imagined all those bots emulating the game of life , with little dots flashing on and off, and little gliders and factories...
Both hats? But -- then you would have a cavity resonance between the two dissimilar metals, which is exactly what Pnee, the dog-faced boy from Pluto wants us to do!
A good school will still teach older technologies if and only if they're still used.
Or foundational. A knowledge of how computers work at the assembler level will improve performance when they advance to more modern tools.
My favorite example is one where a fresh engineer was getting four transactions per hour on a simple address parse, using a programming language that allowed a high level of abstraction. His set of several hundred "elseif"'s was, on the face of it, very logical. But what it did to the stack physics on the computer he was running on was totally over the top.
We taught him the case statement later, but switching to a simple list of "if...endif" first cured the problem. The old hands saw what he was doing immediately, but he remained perplexed to the end.
So leaping ahead to teh 1337 tools is all well and good, but if you do prepare to be mystified in embarrassing ways if you do.
Personally, I'd be happy to live in tubes and push buttons . And when are we going to build our O'Neill spheres out in L5? If our climate is irrevocably destroyed, I'd prefer to observe it from altitude.
But there are lots of places that aren't prone to disasters at all. North Dakota, for instance. When was the last time you heard of a disaster there? Or Montana.
North Dakota, perhaps, but it's not all that stable in Montana. Montana has earthquakes, geysers and a lot of hot rock near the surface. Ref. Yellowstone Park).
Solves the 'not in my backyard' problem. Well, until a tornado picks up the lab and drops it in somebody's backyard...
I saw a documentary about that once. Apparently it caused some very strange mutations where the lab landed; there was evidence of quite a number of unusually small people, strange soporific meteorological events, at least one animal with increased intelligence (at the expense of certain other survival attributes) and one person with a markedly green complexion and behavior anomalies, rendered vulnerable by becoming highly water soluble. I think the pathogens were carried in eggs with a human vector.
Don't sign a contract that requires you to hand over your intellectual property rights if retaining them is so important to you
I think the fundamental problem we have with copyright laws is not whether they exist, but whether or not the author/creative artist receives compensation for their work, no? That is to say, for example, a recording artist deserves reasonable pay for their effort, yet the RIAA will likely (and IMO reasonably) be vilified until the end of history as the 21st century incarnation of the devil himself.
How about this for a change: Amend the copyright laws (and perhaps patent as well) such that only the creator of the work can own the copyright/patent for the term of their own life. Not extendable, and not transferrable, ever.
This would remove the secondary industry in creative intellectual property (which I view as somewhat parasitic) and change the focus to the artists and their works again.
I've had friends move from printing script to cursive - not because it was faster, but because it was easier. And if you're in a situation where computers simply aren't appropriate (trust me, they still exist) yet you need to jot down a lot of information, you may need to do a lot of writing. Back when cursive was the standard way of recording information, it was used by people who preferred it because, properly learned, you could write in cursive script much longer than you could print text by hand.
As a calligrapher, I'd just as soon children be taught chancery cursive (or italic, call it what you will).
You're joking, right? Carolingian Minuscule is where it's at (although a good Insular Majiscule isn't to be sneezed at for long term archival text).
All kidding aside, Carolingian Minuscule is a good foundation script. Just remember that the letters need to be drawn, more than "written" at the start. Follow the strokes from a good Ductus to see how to efficiently and easily draw each character.
Many good calligraphy references may be found by fossicking through SCA references, as they have a culture of keeping ancient calligraphy and illumination techniques alive.
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What, you wanted Linux support for a Fender Twin Reverb?
Talk to me when you can get it to support an Acoustic Tuned-Tube bass amp.
Ahh... the smell of cooking wood...
...it's actually only using 30% of the total cpu time. It won't just ramp up to use the entire cpu.
It may actually be using the entire CPU, but not reporting it via "top".
Unless I'm mistaken, CPU used by the back-end IO processing - the act of the CPU coordinating traffic between the computer's bus and the devices that are being written to and from, are not actually charged to the process or thread.
That is, the details of how much CPU are used by the IO system aren't written to the process header, because the process header isn't in the computable scope (an area defined by a set of active register values). Ergo, "top" doesn't report that CPU because it isn't there. (Old VMS systems had a parameter that simulated this, called "Iota" (measured in microfortnights, oddly enough) that was added in back when charging for CPU usage was in vogue.)
What that seems to indicate is that the problem may not be in the operating system per se, but in the driver and/or the device. The culture of one IO per byte may still exist in some buried (or should be buried) hardware devices. The IO needs to be blocked up a bit I think to get the performance you need for seamless music delivery.
Record companies have a monopoly on the music they sell.
Maybe not monopoly, as the RIAA actually represents several companies, so it would be difficult to say there was insufficient competition and make it stick.
On the other hand, however, anti-trust might be an interesting path to change - if enough judges see enough instances of RIAA acting contrary to the spirit of RICO they may just eventually want a balancer - and it would be a good thing if it happened.
On the gripping hand, they can take their gold-plated buggy whips and wave them from their nether orifices. I buy indie music off the web, and it's good, and the rest I make myself. More will if this goes on, I trust. I'd bring back folk music (the real stuff) if it would help.
I believe we should drop the speed limit to zero. It's clear that speed costs lives - a speed limit of zero would clear the problem up overnight. And we should be forced to drive three horsepower rubber cars with a planter in the back.
a death knight, a warlock and a therapist are in a bar ..
"So, when did you first believe Chuck Norris was your father? (DK drops bloodworms) Ewwww... what are those?
Isn't 0.0.0.0 the broadcast address? Likely blocked by your router then. Comma si, comma sa.
It's generally in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
Don't forget to set your hosts file to read only. There's bastards out there who will rewrite it for you. Ads. I have a huge hosts file too. But it's mostly for homing out annoyances. Tip: Use Notepad++ for editing your hosts file instead of standard Notepad. The former preserves the lack-of-extent Hosts requires. The latter adds .txt, and you're stuck shuffling file names around. Nice little editor, too.
Paradise! Why, in my day we actually omitted the part about telling young people so that others could chime in with their own witty versions. We only dreamed of cutting off a funny thread of posts at the knees like you just did.
Don't let that stop you! GCOS allowed forward references.
Apparently there are a lot of rogue acetylene canisters catching fire in London on a regular basis
It's not just the acetylene. The gas is often stored in suspension in liquid acetone, which is also flammable and can be explosive, as well as being a solvent for everything from nail polish to styrofoam. That stuff's nasty.
Teleoperated machines have a colloquial term in two syllables, the "Waldo". This from an old Heinlein story "Waldo & Magic Incorporated".
Then it got surreal - I imagined all those bots emulating the game of life , with little dots flashing on and off, and little gliders and factories...
Ok, I'll go back to work now.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
But can ye tell the young'uns about that nowadays? Noooo...
A good school will still teach older technologies if and only if they're still used.
Or foundational. A knowledge of how computers work at the assembler level will improve performance when they advance to more modern tools.
My favorite example is one where a fresh engineer was getting four transactions per hour on a simple address parse, using a programming language that allowed a high level of abstraction. His set of several hundred "elseif"'s was, on the face of it, very logical. But what it did to the stack physics on the computer he was running on was totally over the top.
We taught him the case statement later, but switching to a simple list of "if...endif" first cured the problem. The old hands saw what he was doing immediately, but he remained perplexed to the end.
So leaping ahead to teh 1337 tools is all well and good, but if you do prepare to be mystified in embarrassing ways if you do.
I can't think of a single reason that this information should have been classified. Pictures of ice!
Yes - water we looking for?
Personally, I'd be happy to live in tubes and push buttons . And when are we going to build our O'Neill spheres out in L5? If our climate is irrevocably destroyed, I'd prefer to observe it from altitude.
That's because nobody has tried a car analogy yet.
It's like giving people free rides in your car then being sued by taxi drivers.
But there are lots of places that aren't prone to disasters at all. North Dakota, for instance. When was the last time you heard of a disaster there? Or Montana.
North Dakota, perhaps, but it's not all that stable in Montana. Montana has earthquakes, geysers and a lot of hot rock near the surface. Ref. Yellowstone Park).
I've got a theory - it must be Bunnies! They've got those hoppy feet and twitchy little noses.
Solves the 'not in my backyard' problem. Well, until a tornado picks up the lab and drops it in somebody's backyard...
I saw a documentary about that once. Apparently it caused some very strange mutations where the lab landed; there was evidence of quite a number of unusually small people, strange soporific meteorological events, at least one animal with increased intelligence (at the expense of certain other survival attributes) and one person with a markedly green complexion and behavior anomalies, rendered vulnerable by becoming highly water soluble. I think the pathogens were carried in eggs with a human vector.
Andromeda Strain
Don't sign a contract that requires you to hand over your intellectual property rights if retaining them is so important to you
I think the fundamental problem we have with copyright laws is not whether they exist, but whether or not the author/creative artist receives compensation for their work, no? That is to say, for example, a recording artist deserves reasonable pay for their effort, yet the RIAA will likely (and IMO reasonably) be vilified until the end of history as the 21st century incarnation of the devil himself.
How about this for a change: Amend the copyright laws (and perhaps patent as well) such that only the creator of the work can own the copyright/patent for the term of their own life. Not extendable, and not transferrable, ever.
This would remove the secondary industry in creative intellectual property (which I view as somewhat parasitic) and change the focus to the artists and their works again.
Disclaimer: I have rotten handwriting.
As a calligrapher, I'd just as soon children be taught chancery cursive (or italic, call it what you will).
You're joking, right? Carolingian Minuscule is where it's at (although a good Insular Majiscule isn't to be sneezed at for long term archival text).
All kidding aside, Carolingian Minuscule is a good foundation script. Just remember that the letters need to be drawn, more than "written" at the start. Follow the strokes from a good Ductus to see how to efficiently and easily draw each character.
Many good calligraphy references may be found by fossicking through SCA references, as they have a culture of keeping ancient calligraphy and illumination techniques alive.
Integer*16 I
Real*4 Still
Real*4 Think
Integer*16 In
Real*4 Fortran
C you insensitive clod!