The Fosters we drink here in North America is brewed in Canada by Molson. (That's why the cans still say "Imported" here in the US. Imported, yes, but not from Australia.)
(Oops, got carried away there.) For me, I happen to enjoy Cooper's Stout. Basically, from the sounds of it, Fosters is about as authentic as Outback Steakhouse.
Aha, that was the name. I was thinking that was the name, but it seemed too similar to the name of the bar at the Steigenberger Hotel in Frankfurt, named "Con.nex.ion." Given how little sleep I got going from that bar, to my room, to the plane, I figured my memory was playing tricks on me. I guess it wasn't.:-)
Anyway, looking over on Boeing's website, it appears it was slightly cheaper than I was remembering. (I was thinking the cost was in euros, not dollars.) From the site:
$26.95 for entire flight, including connecting flights within 24 hours of signing in.*
Compare that to the $30+ my employer paid per night for my land-based WiFi while I was in Germany, that was quite cheap. Here in the states, it's more like $10-$12 per night, but again, that's on the ground, not at 30,000 ft.
I seem to recall paying on the order of $30-40 for WiFi on a flight from Frankfurt back to Dallas, but I could be misremembering. I do remember thinking it was pretty reasonable for WiFi access at 30,000ft. Except around Greenland, the link was good for most of the flight and not too laggy.
In my case, I spent half my time chatting w/ folks over IM clients and catching up on email, Slashdot and Fark, though. I doubt Webaroo could fill in for those.
Hmm... I'm guessing bandwidth better be cheaper than ads, otherwise they lose money with every page served. So, if the ads bring in more than the bandwidth costs, they still lose money here.
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FWIW, I'm with you on just about all that. Only, personally, I prefer Mutt to Pine, since I started w/ dmail and Elm. With appropriate filters, Mutt seems to handle HTML and Word docs acceptably most of the time. (I use elinks and wvText for those two file types.) And then there's GPG for the occasional encrypted email I need to send.
All that said, I still use GMail for my personal mail. I use Mutt for most of my work email.
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
The main thing is the overall working set system wide. As long as your TLB has a form of "PID filter," then you don't pay the TLB flush cost across tasks. In that case, you start gaining performance the total working set of the machine fits nicely in the TLB.
Of course, how much of a difference it makes depends on the CPU. As I recall on the Athlon 64s, it has 32 TLB entries at L1 for 4K pages, and 512 entries at L2. (There are actually 40 TLB entries at L1. The remaining 8 are for 2MB/4MB pages.) This works out pretty nicely, as the total working set the 4K pages can cover is 128K at L1 (twice the L1D cache capacity), and 2MB at L2 (between 1x and 4x the L2 cache capacity). Thus, it seems unlikely that a workload that plays well in the cache would play poorly in the TLB.
I have no great love for RH. (In fact, I moved from RH to Ubuntu. I did purchase RH 4.2, 5.2 and 6.0 long ago.) Something to keep in mind is that folks like Ingo Molnar, Alan Cox and many others derive a paycheck from what RH pulls in, and, well, it's kinda hard to ignore their contribution to Linux.
Granted, in RH's absence, maybe OSDL or Ubuntu could pick them up? Hard to say.
RHEL has a huge market among IT depts what want "legitimate" distros backed by "legitimate and stable" service contracts. (My employer seems to have standardized on RHEL.) Thus, CentOS will have its place in shops with shoestring budgets, and RHEL will latch on to the Fortune 500.
The increased knowledge base behind RHEL and RHELesqe distros will increase the relative value of RHEL. So, I disagree w/ the notion that CentOS is a complete leech. Simultaneously, I disagree with the idea that everyone who currently uses RHEL should just switch to CentOS because it's free (gratis). If nothing else, those support contracts for RHEL should be useful.
As with many things in the C standard, void main() is syntactically valid, but has no place in a conforming program, except perhaps inside a comment or a string.
Huh, weird. I still get 9440 hits for Joe Zbiciak. I still get as many even when I turn off the Personalized Search feature. And in the first 20 pages or so, there are very few hits for a "Joe" or a "Zbiciak" that isn't me.
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Nah... I think he's just saying he leans a little more to the right than the left. Even I as a stark lefty can see that.
You do realize that:
(Oops, got carried away there.) For me, I happen to enjoy Cooper's Stout. Basically, from the sounds of it, Fosters is about as authentic as Outback Steakhouse.
--JoeAha, that was the name. I was thinking that was the name, but it seemed too similar to the name of the bar at the Steigenberger Hotel in Frankfurt, named "Con.nex.ion." Given how little sleep I got going from that bar, to my room, to the plane, I figured my memory was playing tricks on me. I guess it wasn't. :-)
Anyway, looking over on Boeing's website, it appears it was slightly cheaper than I was remembering. (I was thinking the cost was in euros, not dollars.) From the site:
Compare that to the $30+ my employer paid per night for my land-based WiFi while I was in Germany, that was quite cheap. Here in the states, it's more like $10-$12 per night, but again, that's on the ground, not at 30,000 ft.
--JoeI seem to recall paying on the order of $30-40 for WiFi on a flight from Frankfurt back to Dallas, but I could be misremembering. I do remember thinking it was pretty reasonable for WiFi access at 30,000ft. Except around Greenland, the link was good for most of the flight and not too laggy.
In my case, I spent half my time chatting w/ folks over IM clients and catching up on email, Slashdot and Fark, though. I doubt Webaroo could fill in for those.
--JoeHmm... I'm guessing bandwidth better be cheaper than ads, otherwise they lose money with every page served. So, if the ads bring in more than the bandwidth costs, they still lose money here.
Durrh... somehow the wrong URL ended up getting pasted. Let's try this again.
Somebody ought to send Dr. Thornton this even-handed, thoughtful rebuttal by Jack T. Chick.
FWIW, I'm with you on just about all that. Only, personally, I prefer Mutt to Pine, since I started w/ dmail and Elm. With appropriate filters, Mutt seems to handle HTML and Word docs acceptably most of the time. (I use elinks and wvText for those two file types.) And then there's GPG for the occasional encrypted email I need to send.
All that said, I still use GMail for my personal mail. I use Mutt for most of my work email.
--JoeAs the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
The main thing is the overall working set system wide. As long as your TLB has a form of "PID filter," then you don't pay the TLB flush cost across tasks. In that case, you start gaining performance the total working set of the machine fits nicely in the TLB.
Of course, how much of a difference it makes depends on the CPU. As I recall on the Athlon 64s, it has 32 TLB entries at L1 for 4K pages, and 512 entries at L2. (There are actually 40 TLB entries at L1. The remaining 8 are for 2MB/4MB pages.) This works out pretty nicely, as the total working set the 4K pages can cover is 128K at L1 (twice the L1D cache capacity), and 2MB at L2 (between 1x and 4x the L2 cache capacity). Thus, it seems unlikely that a workload that plays well in the cache would play poorly in the TLB.
--JoeDarn it, I read this post without my tinfoil accessories.
--JoeSince when are the PowerPC G4 and G5 x86 systems? Or are you saying you don't run those anymore and you just included them for completeness?
Look up "tail packing."
I know I certainly never imagined I'd see a porn star dressed up as Mario. (Link is SFW)
I guess you didn't look at the picture?
I have no great love for RH. (In fact, I moved from RH to Ubuntu. I did purchase RH 4.2, 5.2 and 6.0 long ago.) Something to keep in mind is that folks like Ingo Molnar, Alan Cox and many others derive a paycheck from what RH pulls in, and, well, it's kinda hard to ignore their contribution to Linux.
Granted, in RH's absence, maybe OSDL or Ubuntu could pick them up? Hard to say.
RHEL has a huge market among IT depts what want "legitimate" distros backed by "legitimate and stable" service contracts. (My employer seems to have standardized on RHEL.) Thus, CentOS will have its place in shops with shoestring budgets, and RHEL will latch on to the Fortune 500.
The increased knowledge base behind RHEL and RHELesqe distros will increase the relative value of RHEL. So, I disagree w/ the notion that CentOS is a complete leech. Simultaneously, I disagree with the idea that everyone who currently uses RHEL should just switch to CentOS because it's free (gratis). If nothing else, those support contracts for RHEL should be useful.
--JoeAnd here I thought OC was just a Freudian slip Obsessive-Compulsive....
As with many things in the C standard, void main() is syntactically valid, but has no place in a conforming program, except perhaps inside a comment or a string.
--JoeWhy yes, my UID is prime also.
Hardly.
OMG, this song isn't you is it? Drew Barrymore's Dealer: John Holmes, Jr.
--JoeWell, given that I go by Joe or Joseph, and putting my name in quotes enforces an ordering, a real test would be to search for "Joe Zbiciak" OR "Zbiciak Joe" OR "Joseph Zbiciak" OR "Zbiciak Joseph", and that search turns up over 10,000 hits. Page 24 of that search is full of links that all point to me. Heck, even page 26, the last Google will give me all point to me.
And Michigan would be where I'm from. :-) I'm probably the only Zbiciak in Texas at the moment.
Huh, weird. I still get 9440 hits for Joe Zbiciak. I still get as many even when I turn off the Personalized Search feature. And in the first 20 pages or so, there are very few hits for a "Joe" or a "Zbiciak" that isn't me.
My wife didn't take my last name. Her last name is "Philips," which is rather common. My last name, Zbiciak, is much less common.