You guys are such hypocrites. When versions aren't released fast enough and you end up with memory leaks for months, you whine.
Uh, what?
Why do you need to go from version 9 to version 10 in order to fix a memory leak?
The only difference I've seen between 3.6 and whatever the heck version Ubuntu is shipping right now is that every new version has removed useful features or moved them around on the menus so I have to hunt around to find the damn things again.
I remember terminating the plugin-container process once after FF being opened for about 4 days, it took about a minute to terminate, probably taking a few months off my hard drives life with it.
You're complaining about Firefox memory usage because some plugin (presumably Flash) is sucking up a ton of RAM?
I trust Firefox with my privacy rights more than I trust Google, which is simply an advertising company.
Ditto. I don't trust Google at all, so the last thing I want to do is run their web browser as well as being tracked all over the web through whatever browser I am using.
And still Mozilla doesn't get a clue that some of the recent changes are driving away users. Amazing.
Every time Chrome gains market share, the Firefox developers think they need to make Firefox more like Chrome, when that's exactly what's driving people away.
I would be curious to hear in what ways you think Windows is fundamentally inferior to Linux.
The big problem with Windows is that it's tied to horrible design decisions made twenty years ago because if they change anything they'll break the proprietary, closed-source WhizzyWriter word processor from 1993 and customers will start whining.
Look at the security hole a while back with Windows loading DLLs from remote file servers when you started a program, for example. For decades Windows has loaded DLLs from the current directory when you started an application, and so various old programs rely on that behaviour and because they're closed source they can't be fixed and because Windows only sells through backward compatibility, users can't be told 'it's broken, tough'.
With Linux the vast majority of software is open source and will be fixed to work with any new changes, and old closed-source software 'it's broken, tough'.
Clearly you are clueless at reading Windows logs. Which is godawfully surprising since how easy it is.
It's easy because there's nothing of value in them.
'Service LoadsaBollocks crashed and restarted'.
Yep. That's real helpful.
When I replaced the disk on my laptop I was having a hard time figuring out why Windows didn't work after I reinstalled it, and the only useful message was something about 'Cryptographic service failed to start'. Eventually, a few hours later, I managed to figure out that what it really meant was 'Your recovery disk installed some kind of third-party 'disk accelerator' crap which doesn't work so I can't read the cryptograpy keys from the disk. Please uninstall that garbage'.
A little message like 'Cryptographic service couldn't read the key files' would have been a heck of a lot more useful.
If this was Linus' idea I bet the masses would follow.
If Linus was developing a replacement for syslog, it wouldn't suck.
The problem is that distros want to throw out something that works and replace it with some that sucks, mostly because 'Windows does it that way' or 'MacOS does it that way', or increasingly because 'iPad does it that way'.
We don't care, when their way sucks. Windows logging, for example, is a joke compared to syslog.
If you make the yellow longer, people will get used to it and run yellow lights that they would have stopped for before.
The idiots will. But sane people do stop when the light goes orange, so giving them more time to stop means they're less likely to end up going through the red because they can't stop in time.
It does have issues from time to time like when somebody swerves in front of you and slams on the brakes, but ultimately most of those problems aren't there if you keep adequate space ahead of you.
In Britain there's been a spate of people swerving in front of other cars and slamming on the brakes so they can make a big insurance claim, thanks to the belief that the person who hit them must have been driving too close.
Laws largely affect the sensible, law-abiding people who'd mostly act sensibly anyway. The idiots don't care because... they're idiots.
My god, it's not the fact that you're all blind, marketing driven sheeple that's so staggering, it's that Apple has the bare-faced audacity to lure you all in with the promise of thinking differenly, then send you out into the world to churn out the same propaganda.
The only slippery slope fallacy is the claim that when you give government new powers they won't abuse them and extend them to the ultimate limit. Occasionally that's true, but usually only because the powers become obsolete due to technological change, or because voters prevent them from doing so.
And I'm rather amused to see someone with 'Hail Eris' in their sig ranting about EVIL LIBERTARIANS.
As far as I'm aware, the only thing that's been proven to reduce the number of accidents at stop lights is to make the orange phase longer. This is why cities that want to increase revenue have often been found to have made the orange phase shorter.
The city I live in started recycling pickup a month or so ago, I just put the recyclables list up on the fridge. Problem fucking solved.
If recycling made sense, companies would be paying me for the time I spend recycling. Since they don't, it clearly doesn't make sense.
If I remember correctly, there was a brief scandal when I lived in the UK when the newspapers discovered that councils were forcing people to separate 'recyclable' products into different bins, then loading them onto ships to be sent to China where they're dumped in holes in the ground because no-one actually wants any of that old crap.
Though I haven't researched it, I suspect much of the impetus behind such forward thinking, in the UK as well as on the continent, is because, as Lex Luthor so elequently "... they'll always need land. It's the one thing they're not making any more of." Not much land available to turn into landfills and you can't just dump it in the sea.
Uh, no. It's being pushed by the EU because of the greenie-weenies. Roughly 93% of the UK is not built on, so they can keep dumping garbage in landfills for a few million years before it becomes a probem.
Firstly we already pay for garbage collection in property taxes. So you'll have to cut property taxes and lay off all the garbage collectors.
Secondly, it will just mean that people dump their garbage at the side of the road, or in their neighbour's bin.
What exactly is supposed to be so awfully horrible about digging a few holes and throwing garbage into it? I realise that some parts of the world are so highly populated that it's not an option, but in most parts of the world this is just more stupid 'Green' nonsense that serves no purpose.
Doesn't this mean that the sterile wasteland that is permafrost would also come back to life again? I thought more life, especially plant life, was a good thing?
No. This is EVIL CAPITALIST OIL COMPANY plant life, which is bad.
Of course the whole thing is a load of bollocks, and people have far more important things to worry about right now than what some lefties claim might happen in a hundred years. The 'Global Warming' scam is dead.
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You guys are such hypocrites. When versions aren't released fast enough and you end up with memory leaks for months, you whine.
Uh, what?
Why do you need to go from version 9 to version 10 in order to fix a memory leak?
The only difference I've seen between 3.6 and whatever the heck version Ubuntu is shipping right now is that every new version has removed useful features or moved them around on the menus so I have to hunt around to find the damn things again.
I remember terminating the plugin-container process once after FF being opened for about 4 days, it took about a minute to terminate, probably taking a few months off my hard drives life with it.
You're complaining about Firefox memory usage because some plugin (presumably Flash) is sucking up a ton of RAM?
I trust Firefox with my privacy rights more than I trust Google, which is simply an advertising company.
Ditto. I don't trust Google at all, so the last thing I want to do is run their web browser as well as being tracked all over the web through whatever browser I am using.
And still Mozilla doesn't get a clue that some of the recent changes are driving away users. Amazing.
Every time Chrome gains market share, the Firefox developers think they need to make Firefox more like Chrome, when that's exactly what's driving people away.
And you're fscked when the 'community' decides that they're imposing censorship on your connection.
Every build of Android since, as I recall, 1.5, has been ported to x86. It's part of Intel's (silly) strategy to put Atoms in cell phones and tablets.
I'd like an Atom in my cellphone. Then I could use it as a hand-warmer in the winter.
I would be curious to hear in what ways you think Windows is fundamentally inferior to Linux.
The big problem with Windows is that it's tied to horrible design decisions made twenty years ago because if they change anything they'll break the proprietary, closed-source WhizzyWriter word processor from 1993 and customers will start whining.
Look at the security hole a while back with Windows loading DLLs from remote file servers when you started a program, for example. For decades Windows has loaded DLLs from the current directory when you started an application, and so various old programs rely on that behaviour and because they're closed source they can't be fixed and because Windows only sells through backward compatibility, users can't be told 'it's broken, tough'.
With Linux the vast majority of software is open source and will be fixed to work with any new changes, and old closed-source software 'it's broken, tough'.
Never tried to use linux in a diskless system though, so I have no idea how syslog would react.
I use linux on diskless systems; syslog writes to a RAM disk or over the LAN to a server which does have a disk.
Clearly you are clueless at reading Windows logs. Which is godawfully surprising since how easy it is.
It's easy because there's nothing of value in them.
'Service LoadsaBollocks crashed and restarted'.
Yep. That's real helpful.
When I replaced the disk on my laptop I was having a hard time figuring out why Windows didn't work after I reinstalled it, and the only useful message was something about 'Cryptographic service failed to start'. Eventually, a few hours later, I managed to figure out that what it really meant was 'Your recovery disk installed some kind of third-party 'disk accelerator' crap which doesn't work so I can't read the cryptograpy keys from the disk. Please uninstall that garbage'.
A little message like 'Cryptographic service couldn't read the key files' would have been a heck of a lot more useful.
If this was Linus' idea I bet the masses would follow.
If Linus was developing a replacement for syslog, it wouldn't suck.
The problem is that distros want to throw out something that works and replace it with some that sucks, mostly because 'Windows does it that way' or 'MacOS does it that way', or increasingly because 'iPad does it that way'.
We don't care, when their way sucks. Windows logging, for example, is a joke compared to syslog.
If you have write access to the log, you're root, so that's a pointless complaint.
If you want secure logging you have to send the logs to another machine.
Bingo. When your system is failing horribly, which is more likely to work: writing text to a file, or writing data to an SQL database?
99.9% of the time syslog data isn't of much value. The 0.1% when it is is the 0.1% when things aren't working right.
If you make the yellow longer, people will get used to it and run yellow lights that they would have stopped for before.
The idiots will. But sane people do stop when the light goes orange, so giving them more time to stop means they're less likely to end up going through the red because they can't stop in time.
It does have issues from time to time like when somebody swerves in front of you and slams on the brakes, but ultimately most of those problems aren't there if you keep adequate space ahead of you.
In Britain there's been a spate of people swerving in front of other cars and slamming on the brakes so they can make a big insurance claim, thanks to the belief that the person who hit them must have been driving too close.
Laws largely affect the sensible, law-abiding people who'd mostly act sensibly anyway. The idiots don't care because... they're idiots.
Now they're going to learn another lesson: 3) don't get in bed with Microsoft.
My god, it's not the fact that you're all blind, marketing driven sheeple that's so staggering, it's that Apple has the bare-faced audacity to lure you all in with the promise of thinking differenly, then send you out into the world to churn out the same propaganda.
You don't know much about how cults work, do you?
SLIPPERY SLOPE FALLACY DETECTED.
The only slippery slope fallacy is the claim that when you give government new powers they won't abuse them and extend them to the ultimate limit. Occasionally that's true, but usually only because the powers become obsolete due to technological change, or because voters prevent them from doing so.
And I'm rather amused to see someone with 'Hail Eris' in their sig ranting about EVIL LIBERTARIANS.
Who cares if we can "catch" more people?
The people who add the fines to their revenue.
As far as I'm aware, the only thing that's been proven to reduce the number of accidents at stop lights is to make the orange phase longer. This is why cities that want to increase revenue have often been found to have made the orange phase shorter.
How does composting actually help the planet? I'm honestly confused.
It makes hippies feel good, and ensures a healthy rat population.
The government could just refuse to pay for picking up waste that is compostable unless it is separated.
And we could then vote them out at the next election.
Really? Come on; how lazy can you get?
The city I live in started recycling pickup a month or so ago, I just put the recyclables list up on the fridge. Problem fucking solved.
If recycling made sense, companies would be paying me for the time I spend recycling. Since they don't, it clearly doesn't make sense.
If I remember correctly, there was a brief scandal when I lived in the UK when the newspapers discovered that councils were forcing people to separate 'recyclable' products into different bins, then loading them onto ships to be sent to China where they're dumped in holes in the ground because no-one actually wants any of that old crap.
Though I haven't researched it, I suspect much of the impetus behind such forward thinking, in the UK as well as on the continent, is because, as Lex Luthor so elequently "... they'll always need land. It's the one thing they're not making any more of." Not much land available to turn into landfills and you can't just dump it in the sea.
Uh, no. It's being pushed by the EU because of the greenie-weenies. Roughly 93% of the UK is not built on, so they can keep dumping garbage in landfills for a few million years before it becomes a probem.
charge $2 per garbage bag collected
Yeah, that'll work.
Firstly we already pay for garbage collection in property taxes. So you'll have to cut property taxes and lay off all the garbage collectors.
Secondly, it will just mean that people dump their garbage at the side of the road, or in their neighbour's bin.
What exactly is supposed to be so awfully horrible about digging a few holes and throwing garbage into it? I realise that some parts of the world are so highly populated that it's not an option, but in most parts of the world this is just more stupid 'Green' nonsense that serves no purpose.
Attract Rats, which breed and make more Rats.
Yeah, we started getting rodents in our back yard after our neighbour set up a compost pile. We're not terribly impressed.
Doesn't this mean that the sterile wasteland that is permafrost would also come back to life again? I thought more life, especially plant life, was a good thing?
No. This is EVIL CAPITALIST OIL COMPANY plant life, which is bad.
Of course the whole thing is a load of bollocks, and people have far more important things to worry about right now than what some lefties claim might happen in a hundred years. The 'Global Warming' scam is dead.