Sometimes I feel like smashing my comp or repartitioning HDD when I think about windows swap behaviour. Then I remember I have still unfinished projects on windows.
When I run linux with 512MB of RAM, then it STARTS to use swap ONLY when this memory is used up.
When I run windows, it seems, that it writes EVERYTHING to SWAP and then retrieves memory pages only when really nessecary. And what does it use all the free memory for? o yeah, caching!
It's absolutely nessecary to swap out all the possible memory to copy 600MB file over the net, just because it's fun to release the memory when the copy operation finishes and watch continued HDD torture when I switch back to recent app.
On laptop this renders system pretty unusable for minutes after the copy.
And of course it's Very Funny to see, that system has 100..200MB FREE MEMORY and HDD led just doesn't go off after switshing to app left to the backround for a while.
And this is "tuned" system. Bloat-services switched off, many registry settings optimized, resident("update-clients") portions of various popular "default" software removed, so on. Seems like it's absolutely no use to do all this shit, as inactive programs will be swapped out of memory anyway after few seconds of idle time or when they stay on the background for few minutes..
And as I discovered after many days of frustrating web-search.. All this behaviour is totally normal and "correctly working" feature of windows!!!
I know now there are different hacky-smelling "solutions" for this, like various "memory-optimizers" and shit, but why-oh-why would I need any memory optimizing with 512MB and 200MB constantly free in the first place?!?!
If that's not "buggy".. what is?
Oh yea: even brand new CLEAN XP SP2 with 512MB RAM running doom3 (pretty well) for hour or two starts to freak out with the same swapping horror. Restarting DOOM3 will reset the situation.
So this XP Starter Edition is really good thing: opening one app and closing it before opening nextone seems to be the way microsoft thinks computers should be used these days.
I'm most happpy for myself too. I havent had active virus in my machines since '95.
then again I installed clean XP for a family i know. two teenage girls started to use it and I promised to educate them about internet and viruses next day.. I was late for about half hours. They managed to download some emails with screensavers named "pammypussyfuck.scr" and later explained, that they came from a friendly email and well, we wanted to see what it was! "luckily" antivirus updates for this particular worm were ready in server and automatic download would have updated them NEXT DAY
so you see, we can't be happy for everyone else.
my point is still: if you know how, you can keep XP healthy and happy, but you have to know very little to break it. people just do it. it's so easy. after that it's just the legacy of previous crashing windowses, that KEEPS it broken.
I was not saying, that computer crashes are microsoft-specific anomaly or that every single windows does that regularly.
those who know how to "keep it" manage to run pretty stable systems, even for years. but you gotta see what an average teenage girl can do to a fresh installation within a month!!
My point was, that when crashes happen, it's considered "something, that just happens" instead of something worth of investigating and finding a cure.
and in today's aggressive internet traffic this translates probably to few instances of spyware or it can be (and usually is) something far more nastier
most ordinary users think, that it's perfectly normal, that your computer crashes few times a day. they just let it go as "well, that happens" not knowing, not expecting and not caring for any particular reason.
this only single fact gives "excuse" for millions of lines poorly written code, (who cares, it happens anyway) and keeps thousands of "hacky" programs and viruses alive, while most of those crashes may be their "natural" side-effect, not nessecerily something, that would "normally" happen with healthy system..
..but it's NORMAL, that windows machines crash, so let's all thank microsoft for this "innovation" too!
I came from the showing and after waiting two hours for sunny morningdrawi... rendering by some kid-AI, who has never "seen" the sun I asked again:
What did I expect? Why was I SOOOOOO disappointed?
My answer: previous two movies build on something, urge you to think. They use, pretty loosely, you must admit, symbols, which are existing, many believe are existing or some of us think, that it would be kind of logical, if they existed. Those symbols are redefined using sci-fi terminology and re-associated somehow and more or less it makes kind of sense in techno-fairytale way.
I expected that the last movie would define some fundamental unification to show us some vision of working "whole" thing, but it just broke everything. It didn't tell us (at least to me) ANYTHING I didn't already know (didn't give me anything to dig out, think of). Even the things that somehow supported some imaginary plotline were something, that were already drawn out in past episodes or you have heard your grandma telling them, when you were 10 and just didn't care that much, to listen. By now (I'm way past 20) I have already discovered those things by myself, as would any thinking person at some point. This talk about equations? someone unbalancing them, and then waiting with sadistic joy, how they would rebalance themselves?! This is so fucking common sense, who they think they are surprising with that(just another sci-fi example: 5th element, breaking the glass) AGAIN?!?! But that's all the fun that's left after those events: just tweaking some variables and recalculating equations. Not your "deep grand point", is it?
They actually destroyed everything "FUN" and left us with the same boredom!! No Neo no superman-thing! "Let anyone who wants, out" ?! are they going to run TV-ads, like "want to see what all you bodybuilders really look like?"; "want to make your pointless existence more pointless? join us!".. How are they imagining to trick anybody to join the matrix online game after that? if everything continues to develop as one grand plot, I would have to code there again to earn my boring buck. I don't expect to get my own "construct program" to load "anything I need".
Love? As they said: just another definition, a word, a rule in "game". Not your all defining point either.
Ok, maybe Love is "fun", while it clouds your analytical mind. Works for someone with un-modifiable instincts, but for machines, with backups and interchangeable parts?! That again does not define really anything except some context-dependent purpose... Again nothing new...
But purpose? Cause and effect? It's good to know, there is a reason why I have to go and pee every now and then, but again: probably I'm old enough to figure that one out myself...
I didn't expect, that they would tell me "how can I get out of here":)) but I expected some great story, some entertainment, instead of sci-fi retelling of things every grandma can tell you.
And why I liked X-men 2? Not considering the deepness of the story, characters did "what they seemingly wanted" and you didn't have to shout: "stupid, why didn't you do this, instead of that stupid stunt?!?!?!?!?!"... It felt just right what they did in this fairytale.
In this last matrix, while I was waiting for the movie to go on... it just felt plain wrong!!
This train station-thing was REAAAAALLLYYYY artificial for my analytical mind... (well, some "old ugly hacker-program" supposedly built this Neo-ghost-compatible transfer-plug-in accidentally resembling a "limbo" from countless fairytales ( bible? ) and computer games, daaaah?! )
And specially while this mystical machine-attack, where sentinels acted EXTREAMLY stupid?! everybody who has ever played some starcraft or C&C knows, that only way to destroy a force many times more powerful is to know exactly from where it's coming and expecting, that after a savegame those things come and act stupid exactl
instead of educating a bright person they can now pay for their advocates and office expenses. oh right, maybe toss few bucks to those labels too, who give 25 cents to.. I don't know.. britney?
..that part of programming IS engineering. I know this, because I need the feeling of "creating something" and I don't relay on random occurrences in this process. But I accept fully, that being able to call yourself "software engineer" you would have to be given this title, by definition sitting in front of computer and knowing all about programming doesn't make you an engineer, even if you can create better programs than "actual engineers". the highest title I would grant myself is self-educated professional. I think this gap between "better than good programmers" and "software engineers" is simply academically accepted training because the real-world performance of MANY of those better than good programmers is greatly superior compared to most of the certified guys. it's just the question of discipline.
I have also worked for some "economical software service" firm, where I grew bored fast, because all the programmers they would ever need were code-monkeys who modify the pre-packaged modules for custom needs. And there might be a line of some sort between "creating" and modifying..
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Sometimes I feel like smashing my comp or repartitioning HDD when I think about windows swap behaviour. Then I remember I have still unfinished projects on windows. When I run linux with 512MB of RAM, then it STARTS to use swap ONLY when this memory is used up. When I run windows, it seems, that it writes EVERYTHING to SWAP and then retrieves memory pages only when really nessecary. And what does it use all the free memory for? o yeah, caching! It's absolutely nessecary to swap out all the possible memory to copy 600MB file over the net, just because it's fun to release the memory when the copy operation finishes and watch continued HDD torture when I switch back to recent app. On laptop this renders system pretty unusable for minutes after the copy. And of course it's Very Funny to see, that system has 100..200MB FREE MEMORY and HDD led just doesn't go off after switshing to app left to the backround for a while. And this is "tuned" system. Bloat-services switched off, many registry settings optimized, resident("update-clients") portions of various popular "default" software removed, so on. Seems like it's absolutely no use to do all this shit, as inactive programs will be swapped out of memory anyway after few seconds of idle time or when they stay on the background for few minutes.. And as I discovered after many days of frustrating web-search .. All this behaviour is totally normal and "correctly working" feature of windows!!!
I know now there are different hacky-smelling "solutions" for this, like various "memory-optimizers" and shit, but why-oh-why would I need any memory optimizing with 512MB and 200MB constantly free in the first place?!?!
If that's not "buggy" .. what is?
Oh yea: even brand new CLEAN XP SP2 with 512MB RAM running doom3 (pretty well) for hour or two starts to freak out with the same swapping horror. Restarting DOOM3 will reset the situation.
So this XP Starter Edition is really good thing: opening one app and closing it before opening nextone seems to be the way microsoft thinks computers should be used these days.
I'm most happy for you!
I'm most happpy for myself too. I havent had active virus in my machines since '95.
then again I installed clean XP for a family i know. two teenage girls started to use it and I promised to educate them about internet and viruses next day.. I was late for about half hours. They managed to download some emails with screensavers named "pammypussyfuck.scr" and later explained, that they came from a friendly email and well, we wanted to see what it was! "luckily" antivirus updates for this particular worm were ready in server and automatic download would have updated them NEXT DAY
so you see, we can't be happy for everyone else.
my point is still: if you know how, you can keep XP healthy and happy, but you have to know very little to break it. people just do it. it's so easy. after that it's just the legacy of previous crashing windowses, that KEEPS it broken.
I was not saying, that computer crashes are microsoft-specific anomaly or that every single windows does that regularly.
those who know how to "keep it" manage to run pretty stable systems, even for years. but you gotta see what an average teenage girl can do to a fresh installation within a month!!
My point was, that when crashes happen, it's considered "something, that just happens" instead of something worth of investigating and finding a cure.
and in today's aggressive internet traffic this translates probably to few instances of spyware or it can be (and usually is) something far more nastier
most ordinary users think, that it's perfectly normal, that your computer crashes few times a day. they just let it go as "well, that happens" not knowing, not expecting and not caring for any particular reason.
this only single fact gives "excuse" for millions of lines poorly written code, (who cares, it happens anyway) and keeps thousands of "hacky" programs and viruses alive, while most of those crashes may be their "natural" side-effect, not nessecerily something, that would "normally" happen with healthy system..
Yesterday I liked matrix A LOT.
I came from the showing and after waiting two hours for sunny morningdrawi... rendering by some kid-AI, who has never "seen" the sun I asked again:
What did I expect? Why was I SOOOOOO disappointed?
My answer: previous two movies build on something, urge you to think. They use, pretty loosely, you must admit, symbols, which are existing, many believe are existing or some of us think, that it would be kind of logical, if they existed. Those symbols are redefined using sci-fi terminology and re-associated somehow and more or less it makes kind of sense in techno-fairytale way.
I expected that the last movie would define some fundamental unification to show us some vision of working "whole" thing, but it just broke everything. It didn't tell us (at least to me) ANYTHING I didn't already know (didn't give me anything to dig out, think of). Even the things that somehow supported some imaginary plotline were something, that were already drawn out in past episodes or you have heard your grandma telling them, when you were 10 and just didn't care that much, to listen. By now (I'm way past 20) I have already discovered those things by myself, as would any thinking person at some point. This talk about equations? someone unbalancing them, and then waiting with sadistic joy, how they would rebalance themselves?! This is so fucking common sense, who they think they are surprising with that(just another sci-fi example: 5th element, breaking the glass) AGAIN?!?! But that's all the fun that's left after those events: just tweaking some variables and recalculating equations. Not your "deep grand point", is it?
They actually destroyed everything "FUN" and left us with the same boredom!! No Neo no superman-thing!
"Let anyone who wants, out" ?! are they going to run TV-ads, like "want to see what all you bodybuilders really look like?"; "want to make your pointless existence more pointless? join us!"..
How are they imagining to trick anybody to join the matrix online game after that? if everything continues to develop as one grand plot, I would have to code there again to earn my boring buck. I don't expect to get my own "construct program" to load "anything I need".
Love? As they said: just another definition, a word, a rule in "game". Not your all defining point either.
Ok, maybe Love is "fun", while it clouds your analytical mind. Works for someone with un-modifiable instincts, but for machines, with backups and interchangeable parts?! That again does not define really anything except some context-dependent purpose... Again nothing new...
But purpose? Cause and effect? It's good to know, there is a reason why I have to go and pee every now and then, but again: probably I'm old enough to figure that one out myself...
I didn't expect, that they would tell me "how can I get out of here" :)) but I expected some great story, some entertainment, instead of sci-fi retelling of things every grandma can tell you.
And why I liked X-men 2? Not considering the deepness of the story, characters did "what they seemingly wanted" and you didn't have to shout: "stupid, why didn't you do this, instead of that stupid stunt?!?!?!?!?!"... It felt just right what they did in this fairytale.
In this last matrix, while I was waiting for the movie to go on... it just felt plain wrong!!
This train station-thing was REAAAAALLLYYYY artificial for my analytical mind... (well, some "old ugly hacker-program" supposedly built this Neo-ghost-compatible transfer-plug-in accidentally resembling a "limbo" from countless fairytales ( bible? ) and computer games, daaaah?! )
And specially while this mystical machine-attack, where sentinels acted EXTREAMLY stupid?! everybody who has ever played some starcraft or C&C knows, that only way to destroy a force many times more powerful is to know exactly from where it's coming and expecting, that after a savegame those things come and act stupid exactl
..what a victory!!
instead of educating a bright person they can now pay for their advocates and office expenses. oh right, maybe toss few bucks to those labels too, who give 25 cents to.. I don't know.. britney?
what can i say, great country you have there.
..that part of programming IS engineering. I know this, because I need the feeling of "creating something" and I don't relay on random occurrences in this process. But I accept fully, that being able to call yourself "software engineer" you would have to be given this title, by definition sitting in front of computer and knowing all about programming doesn't make you an engineer, even if you can create better programs than "actual engineers". the highest title I would grant myself is self-educated professional. I think this gap between "better than good programmers" and "software engineers" is simply academically accepted training because the real-world performance of MANY of those better than good programmers is greatly superior compared to most of the certified guys. it's just the question of discipline.
I have also worked for some "economical software service" firm, where I grew bored fast, because all the programmers they would ever need were code-monkeys who modify the pre-packaged modules for custom needs. And there might be a line of some sort between "creating" and modifying..