NTL (now virgin media or something) had a large Linux/BSD repository covering all the major distros just a few hops away from me, and yes I got maximum speed downloading from it.
As somebody currently living in a hostel, perhaps I can give you some insight.
The council is paying 164 GBP per WEEK, and ontop of that I have to make my own contributions of 30 GBP per week, bringing the total to 194 per week that goes straight to the hostel owner. Basic facilities are provided (bathrooms, kitchens.. but no washer/dryer or cooking utensils) along with cleaning once or twice a week by the live-in management (who are paid 500 GBP per week). There are close to 20 people (all paying around the same rate) here at the moment, so even if we discount the management salary and 300 a week for expenses the place is still raking in nearly 3k GBP per WEEK.
Beleave me - hostels don't need to be paid for, they are easily profitable businesses, more profitable even than private accommidation if you were to split an identical house into rooms in the same area.
Completely offtopic, but I thought it'd be insightful for the well-to-do masses who aren't homeless or out of work.
rushmoredrive.com... it took a full minute with a blank screen until *anything* showed up
What on earth are all the "ctl00_ctl00_SitePageHeader _FloatingLogin1 _FloatingDialogLogin _ctl00_PasswordRequired" JavaScript variables from? I've seen that on another ASP.Net website, but thought it was just their programmers who were nuts.
YSlow says: 20 external javascript files 4 external stylesheets 14 css background images no E-Tags no far future expires headers
NTL/Virgin Media (aka those grubby bastards who snuggled up to the bucket of anal discharge formally known as Phorm) offer 20mbit cable though most popular areas in the UK, I was on it for a year or so before moving house.. and reguarly got 1.7/1.8 MiB/s
And they had a huge Linux/BSD mirror service that was only a few hops away, WIN!
Don't get me started on the slave labor... after all this terrorist shizzle they removed all the wastebins from the big stations so would-be terrorists couldn't plant bombs in them.
What did they do about all the rubbish collecting on the floor? Hired hundreds of minimum wage foreign nationals with no security vetting from countries which see terrorism far more frequently than the UK.
I live in London and I'm well aware of the problems and benefits of driving through it compared to using public transport.
One of my friends who drives everywhere thought it'd be a good idea to drive to Kings Cross from surrey, so me, another friend and the driver set off and get to about Croydon quite quickly, at this point I suggest we park the car somewhere safe and go there by public transport.
He refused even though we both tried to tell him about how much hell London is on a friday rush-hour, so the other passenger got out and said she would meet us at the venue leaving me to give the driver directions.
After about 3 hours we finally got there and had an earful from a very pissed off girlfriend who had to wait for ages on her own.
Anyway, I'd love to have free transport in London... or even if they could simplify the billing system to charge a reasonable fixed price for any journey that would be good too.
The point is that the LLVM project can do far more optimization before being compiled to bytecode than Adobe's ActionScript compiler is doing, and as a result it runs faster. Yes... Adobe's ActionScript compiler sucks at generating bytecode for their own VM, and even they admit it.
I don't know why most Linux distros seem to have gone down the '64bit only' road by default as it really makes no sense why you should want even the most mundane piece of software running as 64bit when there are no advantages and it never even comes close to the 32bit restrictions.
In Solaris land where we've had 64bit kernels as default for many more years almost all the applications are 32bit, and the only exceptions are your specialty apps (like databases, large financial apps, java app servers etc.) running as 64bit.
It still strikes me as really strange why anybody would want their web bowser or that buggy cpu-hog Flash running as a 64bit app...
The Fairtrade Foundation is quite notable for it's efforts to ensure a fair deal for the producers of goods and a hope to end near slave-like conditions for (among others) coffee and rice farmers; aiming to end exploitation.
The "gentleman's agreement" you speak of is between the large record labels and the shops. It *is* price fixing, for the benefit of the record labels alone rather than the creators of the content. I see many parallels between this and the arguments between trading companies and the "creators" in the crop fields.
Many products already ensure a fair distribution between everybody in the chain or like many charitable or non-profit businesses do they show which percentage of your cost goes where (roughly speaking..)
One example I think could do with this are electronic books. The Amazon Kindle and other readers allow you to buy the same books which are in-store for the same price, but the product you receive is an intangible digital copy with none of the distribution of production costs of dead-tree books.
I'm not proposing that this sort of thing will prevent piracy, price fixing or dishonest companies flogging content to death for mo' monies. It's not as direct as enforcing maximum costs (which brings a whole heap of problems) but brings with it the benefits of transparency and a new level of ethics which is only just being seen with the "carbon neutral" thing.
But will that be changing any time soon? We can all see financial problems on the horizon for Sun, yet they have the tech, people, products and customers to become much more like IBM.
This solution already exists in the form of one-time security codes like the RSA SecurID range of products. Basically it's a PRNG which spits out a number every few minutes which is unique to the customer.
Microsoft has also supported NUMA (in some form) in their server systems since Windows 2000, yet I don't think any of the big players support Windows (e.g. on SGI Altix systems) and it's very unlikely that Microsoft will gain any ground in this area.
All their HPC efforts seem to be towards homogeneous sets of boxen... still I wonder what the NT task manager would look like with 1024 cores!
I found Steam to be even better than pirating the games, if only for the statistics to show off and to keep track of friends & clan members (even when not playing online).
My laptop (ultra-slim 1ghz Toshiba Portege R100) running WinXP goes to sleep within 2 seconds of closing the lid, and is back again within another 2 seconds of opening the lid, and on a full battery can go several days in sleep mode.
I wonder why some people just get fucked over by Windows (especially Vista) while others dont..
I'm a known to be a socialist and an anti-capitalist, I have friends who've been jailed for computer-security related issues and for one reason or another have popped up in several (local & foreign) investigations.
Of course, I have a perfectly clean record, but I'm not sure I could deal with the disappointment of being rejected for security clearance.
Just playing devils advocate, but whats stopping them from writing down their new "acquisitions" on said piece of paper?
A better way of doing it would to give them entry wrist bands with a barcode on to allow free entry & exit, and backend inventory checking of their equipment.
Like... an optimizing compiler with OpenMP support that'll break down functions suitable for a GPGPU? Then based on some profiling data (both in development and runtime) it would automatically use the most optimized path, in similar vain to Intel's MT optimizations for their chips.
The Dell M6300 series laptops were reported to support up to 8gb of RAM, but their using standard Core2duo processors and on the Dell configurator it was only displaying 4gb.
The only other laptops I've seen which support 8gb or more is the General Dynamics "Bullfrog" series, one or two UltraSPARC IIIi at 1.2ghz with upto 8gb or 16gb depending on configuration, however it does weight 20lbs and will never run Windows.
I do think there's a middle point that's beneficial for all when enough self service checkouts are available. When I do my shopping at least half of the people there only have a single basket of stuff, yet have to queue up with at the same checkouts as people with large trolleys.
They will reduce wait time because self service checkouts are smaller and more compact, fitting 4 or 6 in the same area as two normal checkouts, meaning that while you may have to spend an additional 30 seconds fiddling with getting it working you would've avoided waiting 5 minutes behind a huge trolley load of stuff because of the increased throughput.
Or to put it in a way/. may understand more, it's simple QOS with prioritization of smaller packets, albeit applied to humans.
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"Please remove your item from the scales" WTF.. there's nothing on them "Please put your items in the bags to the left" I only got a sandwich and a can of coke! "Please put your items in the bags to the left" *hrmmm* "Please remove your item from the scales" *cancel*
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NTL (now virgin media or something) had a large Linux/BSD repository covering all the major distros just a few hops away from me, and yes I got maximum speed downloading from it.
Uh.... nice rant.
However, what has it got to do with more people shopping online on Monday?
As somebody currently living in a hostel, perhaps I can give you some insight.
The council is paying 164 GBP per WEEK, and ontop of that I have to make my own contributions of 30 GBP per week, bringing the total to 194 per week that goes straight to the hostel owner.
Basic facilities are provided (bathrooms, kitchens.. but no washer/dryer or cooking utensils) along with cleaning once or twice a week by the live-in management (who are paid 500 GBP per week).
There are close to 20 people (all paying around the same rate) here at the moment, so even if we discount the management salary and 300 a week for expenses the place is still raking in nearly 3k GBP per WEEK.
Beleave me - hostels don't need to be paid for, they are easily profitable businesses, more profitable even than private accommidation if you were to split an identical house into rooms in the same area.
Completely offtopic, but I thought it'd be insightful for the well-to-do masses who aren't homeless or out of work.
Then why is it being printed?
So they can courier it across the city... post it in the mail... send it via carrier pidgeon etc.
Doesn't hold water, sorry.
rushmoredrive.com... it took a full minute with a blank screen until *anything* showed up
What on earth are all the "ctl00_ctl00_SitePageHeader _FloatingLogin1 _FloatingDialogLogin _ctl00_PasswordRequired" JavaScript variables from? I've seen that on another ASP.Net website, but thought it was just their programmers who were nuts.
YSlow says:
20 external javascript files
4 external stylesheets
14 css background images
no E-Tags
no far future expires headers
Yes I've seen these too, control boxes for various road side things with a solar panel ontop.
What I think he meant though was using solar panels as the actual pavement... yeah like people walking over them!
NTL/Virgin Media (aka those grubby bastards who snuggled up to the bucket of anal discharge formally known as Phorm) offer 20mbit cable though most popular areas in the UK, I was on it for a year or so before moving house.. and reguarly got 1.7/1.8 MiB/s
And they had a huge Linux/BSD mirror service that was only a few hops away, WIN!
Are you sure you don't want to port Bochs first so you can run Java on Windows 98 in your Flash?
Don't get me started on the slave labor... after all this terrorist shizzle they removed all the wastebins from the big stations so would-be terrorists couldn't plant bombs in them.
What did they do about all the rubbish collecting on the floor? Hired hundreds of minimum wage foreign nationals with no security vetting from countries which see terrorism far more frequently than the UK.
*facepalm*
I live in London and I'm well aware of the problems and benefits of driving through it compared to using public transport.
One of my friends who drives everywhere thought it'd be a good idea to drive to Kings Cross from surrey, so me, another friend and the driver set off and get to about Croydon quite quickly, at this point I suggest we park the car somewhere safe and go there by public transport.
He refused even though we both tried to tell him about how much hell London is on a friday rush-hour, so the other passenger got out and said she would meet us at the venue leaving me to give the driver directions.
After about 3 hours we finally got there and had an earful from a very pissed off girlfriend who had to wait for ages on her own.
Anyway, I'd love to have free transport in London... or even if they could simplify the billing system to charge a reasonable fixed price for any journey that would be good too.
The point is that the LLVM project can do far more optimization before being compiled to bytecode than Adobe's ActionScript compiler is doing, and as a result it runs faster.
Yes... Adobe's ActionScript compiler sucks at generating bytecode for their own VM, and even they admit it.
I don't know why most Linux distros seem to have gone down the '64bit only' road by default as it really makes no sense why you should want even the most mundane piece of software running as 64bit when there are no advantages and it never even comes close to the 32bit restrictions.
In Solaris land where we've had 64bit kernels as default for many more years almost all the applications are 32bit, and the only exceptions are your specialty apps (like databases, large financial apps, java app servers etc.) running as 64bit.
It still strikes me as really strange why anybody would want their web bowser or that buggy cpu-hog Flash running as a 64bit app...
The Fairtrade Foundation is quite notable for it's efforts to ensure a fair deal for the producers of goods and a hope to end near slave-like conditions for (among others) coffee and rice farmers; aiming to end exploitation.
The "gentleman's agreement" you speak of is between the large record labels and the shops. It *is* price fixing, for the benefit of the record labels alone rather than the creators of the content. I see many parallels between this and the arguments between trading companies and the "creators" in the crop fields.
Many products already ensure a fair distribution between everybody in the chain or like many charitable or non-profit businesses do they show which percentage of your cost goes where (roughly speaking..)
One example I think could do with this are electronic books. The Amazon Kindle and other readers allow you to buy the same books which are in-store for the same price, but the product you receive is an intangible digital copy with none of the distribution of production costs of dead-tree books.
I'm not proposing that this sort of thing will prevent piracy, price fixing or dishonest companies flogging content to death for mo' monies. It's not as direct as enforcing maximum costs (which brings a whole heap of problems) but brings with it the benefits of transparency and a new level of ethics which is only just being seen with the "carbon neutral" thing.
But will that be changing any time soon? We can all see financial problems on the horizon for Sun, yet they have the tech, people, products and customers to become much more like IBM.
This solution already exists in the form of one-time security codes like the RSA SecurID range of products.
Basically it's a PRNG which spits out a number every few minutes which is unique to the customer.
Microsoft has also supported NUMA (in some form) in their server systems since Windows 2000, yet I don't think any of the big players support Windows (e.g. on SGI Altix systems) and it's very unlikely that Microsoft will gain any ground in this area.
All their HPC efforts seem to be towards homogeneous sets of boxen... still I wonder what the NT task manager would look like with 1024 cores!
Did you mean Vista RC1?
I found Steam to be even better than pirating the games, if only for the statistics to show off and to keep track of friends & clan members (even when not playing online).
My laptop (ultra-slim 1ghz Toshiba Portege R100) running WinXP goes to sleep within 2 seconds of closing the lid, and is back again within another 2 seconds of opening the lid, and on a full battery can go several days in sleep mode.
I wonder why some people just get fucked over by Windows (especially Vista) while others dont..
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong/right ?
I'm a known to be a socialist and an anti-capitalist, I have friends who've been jailed for computer-security related issues and for one reason or another have popped up in several (local & foreign) investigations.
Of course, I have a perfectly clean record, but I'm not sure I could deal with the disappointment of being rejected for security clearance.
Just playing devils advocate, but whats stopping them from writing down their new "acquisitions" on said piece of paper?
A better way of doing it would to give them entry wrist bands with a barcode on to allow free entry & exit, and backend inventory checking of their equipment.
Like... an optimizing compiler with OpenMP support that'll break down functions suitable for a GPGPU? Then based on some profiling data (both in development and runtime) it would automatically use the most optimized path, in similar vain to Intel's MT optimizations for their chips.
The Dell M6300 series laptops were reported to support up to 8gb of RAM, but their using standard Core2duo processors and on the Dell configurator it was only displaying 4gb.
The only other laptops I've seen which support 8gb or more is the General Dynamics "Bullfrog" series, one or two UltraSPARC IIIi at 1.2ghz with upto 8gb or 16gb depending on configuration, however it does weight 20lbs and will never run Windows.
I do think there's a middle point that's beneficial for all when enough self service checkouts are available. When I do my shopping at least half of the people there only have a single basket of stuff, yet have to queue up with at the same checkouts as people with large trolleys.
They will reduce wait time because self service checkouts are smaller and more compact, fitting 4 or 6 in the same area as two normal checkouts, meaning that while you may have to spend an additional 30 seconds fiddling with getting it working you would've avoided waiting 5 minutes behind a huge trolley load of stuff because of the increased throughput.
Or to put it in a way /. may understand more, it's simple QOS with prioritization of smaller packets, albeit applied to humans.
"Please remove your item from the scales"
WTF.. there's nothing on them
"Please put your items in the bags to the left"
I only got a sandwich and a can of coke!
"Please put your items in the bags to the left"
*hrmmm*
"Please remove your item from the scales"
*cancel*
I hate those infernal machines!