Well, I was a little curious and did find the site a little interesting. Since you name was in the linked email address it wasn't that hard to find. I was almost going to link to your/. id as well.
Your friend shouldn't have too much to worry about since the link was only in the comments and not on the front page.
Besides, now anyone else reading this who is interested in solving n-body problems can help. You might as well try to kill 2 birds.
Personally, I think the whole thing is a mess, and computer professionals should be working harder to enforce a consistent scheme. Unfortunately, only a minority of computer professionals seem interested in changing the status quo confusion. A minority of computer professionals defining 1KB = 1000B when everyone else is using 1KB = 1024KB only *adds* to the confusion. Maybe we should stop using the word "byte" when counting storage in base 10?
ZFS is a complete re-think of the whole filesystem stack. They are working on adding features common to other storage management systems. But what they have written so far is so different to the usual way of managing disks that they have no choice but to do everything differently.
Not necessarily. It depends on how oversubscribed the ISP is. Put it this way, if 50% of the P2P users in one location can completely flood the upload traffic of their ISP. Then even if the peers are more interconnected, they can still flood the upload traffic of the ISP, while allowing the other 50% of their aggregate bandwidth to be used among themselves.
The TCP checksum offloading on nForce 4 motherboards (I have one) were notorious for corrupting TCP packets and allowing them to be received by the application. That's the most likely kind of failure that would be able to reproduce this problem.
I think by 2012 or 2020 or so, it would be far more likely that all code will be compiled to an abstract representation like LLVM. With a JIT engine that will continuously analyse your code, refactoring into the longest execution pipeline it can manage, examine each step of that pipeline and assign each step to the single threaded CPU style or stream processing GPU style core that seems most appropriate.
I don't think this will be done at a raw hardware level. I imagine the optimisation process will be far too complex, and be continually improved by researchers. I can't imagine being able to implement anything like this in silicon.
4,666 files and folders (a total of 8.05GB)...
I used the same secondary drive as source and destination in all cases. It doesn't look like he only tested large sequential blocks, but I wonder where the real bottleneck was since he used the same destination drive for each test.
To adapt that idea slightly, I think the "keep this mode" modal dialog should be removed. Modal "are you sure?" dialogs suck for usability because people are so used to just clicking on the button to get rid of it.
Instead a back button should be added to the top left of the dialog. It should always be reachable no matter how silly the chosen screen size might be. And it should be trivial to activate via the keyboard since you may not be able to see anything if your monitor doesn't support the mode you chose.
Which brings me to another related idea. There really should be a default "safe mode" or "last mode" keyboard combination that can be triggered when the display dialog is not visible and it should work from the graphical login screen.
Our legal system expects any random sampling of 12 people to be able to rationally determine if someone actually did what they are accused of. And also if what they did is actually "wrong". They are expected to be able to do this without any formal training, without necessarily being able to tell you what they based their decision on.
If there is no rational God, where did this unwavering, absolute and consistent sense of right and wrong come from?
And WE used to educate them every September. That is until AOL based their business on getting everyone to connect to the internet without bothering to properly educate them.
Or cubit's "Measure this like Noah would have". Historically most forms of measurement were based on how someone else would have measured it. Most forms of measurement are based on body proportions or walking speed.
Most WUs take days... I'm not seeing the downside here. Even if it's just a way to get a single email through to someone and maybe get onto their whitelist. However, those spam botnets have a lot of CPU power at their disposal too. It would stop spam for a week and then we'd be stuck with it.
I'm a relative linux noob, but I wanted to run a server in my home for a few reasons (one of them being mythtv). However right now I can't start X. I get a white screen while gdmgreeter goes into a 100% CPU spin. I've tried reading all the logs that might be interesting, scanned through the man pages that seemed related, but I have no idea what could be causing the issue. While I haven't gone to the normal forum / irc based support I really shouldn't have to.
They also don't adjust their prices in other markets even when the exchange rate varies drastically. For example the cheapest Apple TV in Australia is AU$499, in the US it's $229. According to Apple the exchange rate is 0.45 when at the moment it's around 0.93. I know there are import tariffs and taxes that could add say 30% to the price, but a 100% increase is just ridiculous.
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Well, I was a little curious and did find the site a little interesting. Since you name was in the linked email address it wasn't that hard to find. I was almost going to link to your /. id as well.
Your friend shouldn't have too much to worry about since the link was only in the comments and not on the front page.
Besides, now anyone else reading this who is interested in solving n-body problems can help. You might as well try to kill 2 birds.
First result for "carey pridgeon" is nmod. If this is the right project, I'm not sure why he thought we could /. Google's servers.
ZFS is a complete re-think of the whole filesystem stack. They are working on adding features common to other storage management systems. But what they have written so far is so different to the usual way of managing disks that they have no choice but to do everything differently.
Not necessarily. It depends on how oversubscribed the ISP is. Put it this way, if 50% of the P2P users in one location can completely flood the upload traffic of their ISP. Then even if the peers are more interconnected, they can still flood the upload traffic of the ISP, while allowing the other 50% of their aggregate bandwidth to be used among themselves.
I'm pretty sure they fixed the problem a while ago. Download the latest drivers and you should be ok, assuming you still use the motherboard that is.
The TCP checksum offloading on nForce 4 motherboards (I have one) were notorious for corrupting TCP packets and allowing them to be received by the application. That's the most likely kind of failure that would be able to reproduce this problem.
I think by 2012 or 2020 or so, it would be far more likely that all code will be compiled to an abstract representation like LLVM. With a JIT engine that will continuously analyse your code, refactoring into the longest execution pipeline it can manage, examine each step of that pipeline and assign each step to the single threaded CPU style or stream processing GPU style core that seems most appropriate.
I don't think this will be done at a raw hardware level. I imagine the optimisation process will be far too complex, and be continually improved by researchers. I can't imagine being able to implement anything like this in silicon.
To adapt that idea slightly, I think the "keep this mode" modal dialog should be removed. Modal "are you sure?" dialogs suck for usability because people are so used to just clicking on the button to get rid of it.
Instead a back button should be added to the top left of the dialog. It should always be reachable no matter how silly the chosen screen size might be. And it should be trivial to activate via the keyboard since you may not be able to see anything if your monitor doesn't support the mode you chose.
Which brings me to another related idea. There really should be a default "safe mode" or "last mode" keyboard combination that can be triggered when the display dialog is not visible and it should work from the graphical login screen.
Last time I checked windows wouldn't let you go below 800x600 unless you called the ChangeDisplaySettings API directly.
Our legal system expects any random sampling of 12 people to be able to rationally determine if someone actually did what they are accused of. And also if what they did is actually "wrong". They are expected to be able to do this without any formal training, without necessarily being able to tell you what they based their decision on.
If there is no rational God, where did this unwavering, absolute and consistent sense of right and wrong come from?
Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. But a software clipboard hook will still get you.
Perhaps, if they had separate limits for visible and invisible characters.
Add 3 sine waves together offset by one third of a wave length. The up down motion of 3 cylinders cancel out, at least in one dimension.
... hash tree-like structures"Now, what was my password five years ago?"
1) fetch RSS page.
2) parse date and url from each item.
3) cut out ".print" from the url.
4) wget.
Also I noticed the embed button on the flash comic viewer exposes this url as well.
Or you could embed the time and GPS coordinates into a seemingly harmless web comic and see what happens.
And WE used to educate them every September. That is until AOL based their business on getting everyone to connect to the internet without bothering to properly educate them.
Or cubit's "Measure this like Noah would have". Historically most forms of measurement were based on how someone else would have measured it. Most forms of measurement are based on body proportions or walking speed.
Or the reverse, which can be worse. Where you write a well researched post that gets positively moderated, only to be edited into a goatse link.
I'm a relative linux noob, but I wanted to run a server in my home for a few reasons (one of them being mythtv). However right now I can't start X. I get a white screen while gdmgreeter goes into a 100% CPU spin. I've tried reading all the logs that might be interesting, scanned through the man pages that seemed related, but I have no idea what could be causing the issue. While I haven't gone to the normal forum / irc based support I really shouldn't have to.
They also don't adjust their prices in other markets even when the exchange rate varies drastically. For example the cheapest Apple TV in Australia is AU$499, in the US it's $229. According to Apple the exchange rate is 0.45 when at the moment it's around 0.93. I know there are import tariffs and taxes that could add say 30% to the price, but a 100% increase is just ridiculous.