Look, we all know where this is headed. Google is a web based company and they want to develop web based applications. Think about all they are doing in this space. Things like Chrome and that Native API browser stuff. They want to deliver applications over the web and are exploring all the possibilities to get the performance they need.
Web-delivered full-scale applications is what Google's goal is, I just know it. It's like a throwback to the Java days, but different.
I'm in the same boat. People keep saying it's fixed but that's not what I see. I'm running on 64-bit Linux using the Firefox 3.2 alpha daily builds and the memory usage seems no better than the old 3.0.6. It's faster but it still seems to suck up lots of memory over time.
Currently it's at 1.2 GB of RAM and has been running for about 24 hours. I have seen it use as much as 3 GB of RAM (out of 8 GB on my machine). It uses about 600 MB of RAM when first started with the same tabs I have open now. It's leaking somewhere.
I'll second this. In fact, I use nginx not only for load balancing but it serves as the primary web servers as well. I run dynamic content via FCGI daemons (PHP, Perl, etc).
The smallest machine I run is a little tiny Linux guy with 256 MB of RAM that handles tens of thousands of SMF forum hits a day. Additionally that same machine runs about 10 WordPress sites and two other low traffic SMF forums. I use SuperCache with Wordpress to make most of the content static, plus APC for all the PHP stuff (SMF has built-in APC support too).
With only 256 MB of RAM Apache could barely handle a couple users at a time. nginx is tiny and efficient the way a webserver should be.
Meh, I would not have seen it if it wasn't posted today. Who cares about a few duplicates every once in a while. You get a fresh update and maybe some new people talking about it.
It's not just marketing. They have always released Linux versions of the UT series and it has been great. This is why I bought the game soon after it was released. I had no reason to think there would not be a Linux client.
The last Linux release was back in the Quake days though, I guess without competition they don't mind stuffing the Linux version in the closet.
What pisses me off most is how if you even mention the Linux client on the Epic forums your post will be deleted and you will get banned. The whole history is erased and no one on the outside is the wiser. There is a huge community and uproar that has been oppressed.
I don't use Windows other than in a VM. I want my money back. Maybe we should all put our games together on a big truckload and ship them back to Epic with a demand for our money back.
Also, shouldn't a company who's focus is security, make sure they don't have a problem with such things as, oh I don't know... SQL Injection?
At this this point I don't have enough information to blame them (I DNRTFA).
I struggle with 3rd party software myself. I work in security also but I can't design, write and maintain every single possible piece of software I use. Therefore I'm pretty much always vulnerable to potentially embarrassing bugs in 3rd party software. I can use my knowledge to limit damage as much as possible but there is no way I could ever have time to make everything I use as secure as the software I write.
OpenID is suppose to help with that. It seems to be slowly gaining support but is still not nearly pervasive enough. It has the advantage of supporting much stronger multi-factor based authentication if you want it (smartcards, etc) and its decentralized nature means you're not putting all your eggs in one basket like most other single sign on solutions.
It might, however, stop email faking and sending from the zombie box itself, which would give a better point of control (because at the moment anyone can send emails that purport to be from Yahoo.com from their own box, if it is set up right, but a protocol that could fail connections claiming to be Yahoo.com emails that don't come from an approved Yahoo.com server would reduce the problem).
Note there is already a system for doing this. It called the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and uses DNS records to tell mail servers which machines are allowed to send mail for your domain.
This is not a perfect system though because often there is a legitimate need to use a different e-mail domain address than where your mail came from (eg. forwarding, etc). For that reason it doesn't appear that many mail servers are configured to check SPF records.
At the very least it seems like they would be good for pre-tagging SPAM (ie. still deliver it but add something to the header that says it could be spam).
Yep. I completely stopped buying anything from them after they never released the Unreal 3 client for Linux like they said they would. Since they have always supported Linux in the past I didn't worry. Ended up wasting my money on that game and now they lost me as a customer. I used to love the various Unreal titles because they all worked on Linux. Same with the Quake series.
Gaming has been going down the crapper for years now. Consoles suck even for casual gaming.
I don't think anyone should be using a page file at all if you have 4 GB or more of RAM. Maybe even 2 GB. It just doesn't make sense. With that much memory what good is a 512 MB page file going to do really? And if you're swapping more than 512 MB of RAM to disk your machine is going to be thrashing like mad and unusable anyway.
It's stupid that many OS's allocate 2 times your RAM as a page file. Are you really going to swap 8 GB of RAM to disk? I mean seriously, that would be unusable.
Even when I had 2 GB of RAM I never used a swap file and now with low-end machines running 8+ GB (only about $100 of RAM), page files just don't make sense any more.
Old Metallica is excellent and classic. Everything up until the Black album. In my book it debatable whether or not the Black album itself is good, I prefer the older stuff but the Black album is not all bad.
But they are greedy litigious assholes considering all the crap they have pulled in recent years that basically shows they don't get it when it comes to modern music distribution. Alienate your fans, way to go!
In the beginning I really liked the show. It had a good mix of action, technology and drama. However, the last few seasons have been fairly "meh" for me because it has turned almost completely into a soap opera. Don't get me wrong, the soap opera stuff is OK but now there very little of the original mix that attracted me in the first place. It's just not the same show that it started out as.
Does anyone know if drives with firmware SD04 are affected?
I have a 500 GB (ST3500320AS) that appears in the "affected" list but as this is one of the first 7200.11 drives made it has firmware SD04. This firmware supposedly has an issue where the 32 MB cache does not work correctly but as far as I can tell I don't have that issue.
This issue of the drive dieing on reboot is the one that scares me but I can't tell if SD04 has this problem. Are there other reasons why I might want to upgrade from SD04?
It's great that Canonical is doing well but I would argue that Ubuntu has considerably more than 10000 developers. A huge chunk of Ubuntu's work is or was done by Debian and below Debian is the thousands of developers mostly working for free. That's a massive mostly volunteer effort that needs to be factored in before you can say how great Canonical is.
This should be great for their fledgling space program and will prove they're committed to a peaceful future. They have vast quantities of old Silkworms laying around ready to be made into food. Gives a whole new meaning to the term explosive diarrhea though.
I agree with your other stuff but I just wanted to point out that I think Songbird thoroughly beats any other music player. It's still in its infancy and has some warts but it has been one of my favorite apps for a long time now. I'm also a heavy Firefox and Thunderbird user so it fits right in.
The thing about Songbird is that it's already set for the whole multimedia-web-blah-blah experience. As far as I know nothing other than Songbird and iTunes does all that very well. I know some will say "but I just want a music player" and that's fine too but some of us enjoy a rich experience.
I don't think so. GNOME is more that a GUI toolkit and as a developer I much prefer many of the GNOME API's over KDE. I have always hated Gtk+ though. Switching GNOME to use Qt would make more sense than ditching all the other excellent GNOME stuff.
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There is also now Qt Creator which show some promise as a cross-platform IDE.
Really, all they did was show people something disturbing then immediately distract them with Tetris afterwards. I'm positive they could have districted them with anything and it would make a difference.
It is common knowledge that the best way to remember something is to put it in your brain then recall it over increasingly long periods of time. If you don't recall it (what they call "flashback" in the article) then the memory will naturally fade. It is at the beginning of a memory when it is weakest so it makes sense that if you distract someone and prevent them from recalling the memory then it will quickly fade.
Consider how much energy it would take to move this massively long cable. There is no way in hell that is going to be efficient. You're going to be wasting a massive amount of energy as you move the entire cable the whole time the thing is climbing.
To the naive this approach seems workable because it looks simple. The fact is that it takes a certain amount of energy to do things and this is probably a very poor method that will become quite obvious at the scale we are talking about. In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics and all that...
Then you have to consider the wear and tear on the mechanical parts, especially that really expensive long cable into space. This just seems like a bad idea all around.
Looks interesting. I remember playing the Champions paper-and-pencil RPG back in the 80's (in fact I still have the rule books). I have no idea if this game is related to that in any way.
Apparently I'm most similar to Doctor Destroyer. He reminds me of Magneto which I have to admit has always been my favorite Marvel character.
While I think every programmer worth their salt should know at least one functional language, I think the ALGOL-like (or C-like if you will) imperative languages will continue to dominate. I believe they work more like the human mind. More like the way we do elementary math. I think we will just get better compilers and libraries that will help with the parallelism.
Another thing that is interesting is that scripting languages and virtual machines really seem to be the future for programming. The problem is currently very few of these languages even support threads, let alone anything more sophisticated.
VMware is the one application I simply can not do without. Is there anything equivalent for FreeBSD?
I used to run BSD a bit back in the 90's and I have long wanted to run it as my workstation OS, especially now to get ZFS. However, without a good virtualization solution there is no way.
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Look, we all know where this is headed. Google is a web based company and they want to develop web based applications. Think about all they are doing in this space. Things like Chrome and that Native API browser stuff. They want to deliver applications over the web and are exploring all the possibilities to get the performance they need.
Web-delivered full-scale applications is what Google's goal is, I just know it. It's like a throwback to the Java days, but different.
I'm in the same boat. People keep saying it's fixed but that's not what I see. I'm running on 64-bit Linux using the Firefox 3.2 alpha daily builds and the memory usage seems no better than the old 3.0.6. It's faster but it still seems to suck up lots of memory over time.
Currently it's at 1.2 GB of RAM and has been running for about 24 hours. I have seen it use as much as 3 GB of RAM (out of 8 GB on my machine). It uses about 600 MB of RAM when first started with the same tabs I have open now. It's leaking somewhere.
I'll second this. In fact, I use nginx not only for load balancing but it serves as the primary web servers as well. I run dynamic content via FCGI daemons (PHP, Perl, etc).
The smallest machine I run is a little tiny Linux guy with 256 MB of RAM that handles tens of thousands of SMF forum hits a day. Additionally that same machine runs about 10 WordPress sites and two other low traffic SMF forums. I use SuperCache with Wordpress to make most of the content static, plus APC for all the PHP stuff (SMF has built-in APC support too).
With only 256 MB of RAM Apache could barely handle a couple users at a time. nginx is tiny and efficient the way a webserver should be.
Meh, I would not have seen it if it wasn't posted today. Who cares about a few duplicates every once in a while. You get a fresh update and maybe some new people talking about it.
I can't even tell from the website and searching doesn't turn up much of anything. What did it do? What is a social bookmarking service?
It's not just marketing. They have always released Linux versions of the UT series and it has been great. This is why I bought the game soon after it was released. I had no reason to think there would not be a Linux client.
The last Linux release was back in the Quake days though, I guess without competition they don't mind stuffing the Linux version in the closet.
What pisses me off most is how if you even mention the Linux client on the Epic forums your post will be deleted and you will get banned. The whole history is erased and no one on the outside is the wiser. There is a huge community and uproar that has been oppressed.
I don't use Windows other than in a VM. I want my money back. Maybe we should all put our games together on a big truckload and ship them back to Epic with a demand for our money back.
Also, shouldn't a company who's focus is security, make sure they don't have a problem with such things as, oh I don't know... SQL Injection?
At this this point I don't have enough information to blame them (I DNRTFA).
I struggle with 3rd party software myself. I work in security also but I can't design, write and maintain every single possible piece of software I use. Therefore I'm pretty much always vulnerable to potentially embarrassing bugs in 3rd party software. I can use my knowledge to limit damage as much as possible but there is no way I could ever have time to make everything I use as secure as the software I write.
Exactly.
OpenID is suppose to help with that. It seems to be slowly gaining support but is still not nearly pervasive enough. It has the advantage of supporting much stronger multi-factor based authentication if you want it (smartcards, etc) and its decentralized nature means you're not putting all your eggs in one basket like most other single sign on solutions.
It might, however, stop email faking and sending from the zombie box itself, which would give a better point of control (because at the moment anyone can send emails that purport to be from Yahoo.com from their own box, if it is set up right, but a protocol that could fail connections claiming to be Yahoo.com emails that don't come from an approved Yahoo.com server would reduce the problem).
Note there is already a system for doing this. It called the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and uses DNS records to tell mail servers which machines are allowed to send mail for your domain.
This is not a perfect system though because often there is a legitimate need to use a different e-mail domain address than where your mail came from (eg. forwarding, etc). For that reason it doesn't appear that many mail servers are configured to check SPF records.
At the very least it seems like they would be good for pre-tagging SPAM (ie. still deliver it but add something to the header that says it could be spam).
Yep. I completely stopped buying anything from them after they never released the Unreal 3 client for Linux like they said they would. Since they have always supported Linux in the past I didn't worry. Ended up wasting my money on that game and now they lost me as a customer. I used to love the various Unreal titles because they all worked on Linux. Same with the Quake series.
Gaming has been going down the crapper for years now. Consoles suck even for casual gaming.
I don't think anyone should be using a page file at all if you have 4 GB or more of RAM. Maybe even 2 GB. It just doesn't make sense. With that much memory what good is a 512 MB page file going to do really? And if you're swapping more than 512 MB of RAM to disk your machine is going to be thrashing like mad and unusable anyway.
It's stupid that many OS's allocate 2 times your RAM as a page file. Are you really going to swap 8 GB of RAM to disk? I mean seriously, that would be unusable.
Even when I had 2 GB of RAM I never used a swap file and now with low-end machines running 8+ GB (only about $100 of RAM), page files just don't make sense any more.
Old Metallica is excellent and classic. Everything up until the Black album. In my book it debatable whether or not the Black album itself is good, I prefer the older stuff but the Black album is not all bad.
But they are greedy litigious assholes considering all the crap they have pulled in recent years that basically shows they don't get it when it comes to modern music distribution. Alienate your fans, way to go!
In the beginning I really liked the show. It had a good mix of action, technology and drama. However, the last few seasons have been fairly "meh" for me because it has turned almost completely into a soap opera. Don't get me wrong, the soap opera stuff is OK but now there very little of the original mix that attracted me in the first place. It's just not the same show that it started out as.
Does anyone know if drives with firmware SD04 are affected?
I have a 500 GB (ST3500320AS) that appears in the "affected" list but as this is one of the first 7200.11 drives made it has firmware SD04. This firmware supposedly has an issue where the 32 MB cache does not work correctly but as far as I can tell I don't have that issue.
This issue of the drive dieing on reboot is the one that scares me but I can't tell if SD04 has this problem. Are there other reasons why I might want to upgrade from SD04?
It's great that Canonical is doing well but I would argue that Ubuntu has considerably more than 10000 developers. A huge chunk of Ubuntu's work is or was done by Debian and below Debian is the thousands of developers mostly working for free. That's a massive mostly volunteer effort that needs to be factored in before you can say how great Canonical is.
I have to admit, posting from your table lamp is quite impressive. What browser does it run?
This should be great for their fledgling space program and will prove they're committed to a peaceful future. They have vast quantities of old Silkworms laying around ready to be made into food. Gives a whole new meaning to the term explosive diarrhea though.
"Make dinner, not war" is what I always say.
Where is the music player that beats Amarok?
I agree with your other stuff but I just wanted to point out that I think Songbird thoroughly beats any other music player. It's still in its infancy and has some warts but it has been one of my favorite apps for a long time now. I'm also a heavy Firefox and Thunderbird user so it fits right in.
The thing about Songbird is that it's already set for the whole multimedia-web-blah-blah experience. As far as I know nothing other than Songbird and iTunes does all that very well. I know some will say "but I just want a music player" and that's fine too but some of us enjoy a rich experience.
I don't think so. GNOME is more that a GUI toolkit and as a developer I much prefer many of the GNOME API's over KDE. I have always hated Gtk+ though. Switching GNOME to use Qt would make more sense than ditching all the other excellent GNOME stuff.
There is also now Qt Creator which show some promise as a cross-platform IDE.
Really, all they did was show people something disturbing then immediately distract them with Tetris afterwards. I'm positive they could have districted them with anything and it would make a difference.
It is common knowledge that the best way to remember something is to put it in your brain then recall it over increasingly long periods of time. If you don't recall it (what they call "flashback" in the article) then the memory will naturally fade. It is at the beginning of a memory when it is weakest so it makes sense that if you distract someone and prevent them from recalling the memory then it will quickly fade.
Consider how much energy it would take to move this massively long cable. There is no way in hell that is going to be efficient. You're going to be wasting a massive amount of energy as you move the entire cable the whole time the thing is climbing.
To the naive this approach seems workable because it looks simple. The fact is that it takes a certain amount of energy to do things and this is probably a very poor method that will become quite obvious at the scale we are talking about. In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics and all that...
Then you have to consider the wear and tear on the mechanical parts, especially that really expensive long cable into space. This just seems like a bad idea all around.
Looks interesting. I remember playing the Champions paper-and-pencil RPG back in the 80's (in fact I still have the rule books). I have no idea if this game is related to that in any way.
Apparently I'm most similar to Doctor Destroyer. He reminds me of Magneto which I have to admit has always been my favorite Marvel character.
While I think every programmer worth their salt should know at least one functional language, I think the ALGOL-like (or C-like if you will) imperative languages will continue to dominate. I believe they work more like the human mind. More like the way we do elementary math. I think we will just get better compilers and libraries that will help with the parallelism.
Another thing that is interesting is that scripting languages and virtual machines really seem to be the future for programming. The problem is currently very few of these languages even support threads, let alone anything more sophisticated.
VMware is the one application I simply can not do without. Is there anything equivalent for FreeBSD?
I used to run BSD a bit back in the 90's and I have long wanted to run it as my workstation OS, especially now to get ZFS. However, without a good virtualization solution there is no way.