Thats my only real complaint. Can we shrink the memory usage?
It will be done, as far as I know.
Right now, with FB and TB, they are more working on features and bugs than on optimizations, but I've read that they plan to have both use the same API and thus you could have both running with a small memory footprint.
Probably not practical to do right now because things change so much...
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I guess we can all move on up to BitTorrent:D
BitTorrent is too centralized for this kind of things (large scale, anyway).
IMO, even a Celeron 2.0GHz will do for most jobs. Also, put a lot of RAM in the box and you are much better off than with a faster processor.
Yes, but the point is that for exactly the same price, or a lower price, you could get a better CPU (AMD); so if you like RAM so much, buy an AMD that is cheaper but performs better than the intel and add even more RAM.
We don't need to be paid for implementing these kind of features.. we just need to know what the public wants and what the projects needs. And if the public wants it, then why don't any of the developers want it? And if they do, then why hasn't it been implemented already? Some of these features seem pretty trivial to implement to me.
I'm not a coder, but I get the feeling that often things don't get done because they are boring and not glamourous enough; coders seem to like working on building fun new apps (even competing with other mature apps) better than consolidating, streamlining and integrating existing stuff.
Maybe it's just me, but this site doesn't seem as publicized as most other OSS sites. I've never stumbled on it before, anyway. It should be linked from the big site more prominently.
The downside of course is the only big Fondations (Apache, Gnome, etc) have money to spend because they get it from the industry (like Intel, IBM,...)
Small donations are the way of the future!
A fund should be set up where people can donate money that would be allocated to bounties, and they could either select on which task they want their money to be allocated to drop it in a pool of ressources that would be allocated through some kind of more or less democratic process (secure online polls/surveys?)
As far as I know this thing doesn't exist in the open source world. Correct me if I'm wrong.
It's all good and well to program for love and pride, but these rewards will help the project move over some of the less glamourous problems.
Consolidation is important in the Linux world; if coders spent more time on it instead of creating new competing apps (not that there's not a place for that), the world would be a better place.
If you like Consider Phlebas a lot, I'd recommend the first book by a fairly new author. It's called Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan. Great hard-boiled style. In fact it's the book I picked up when I put Perdido down, and it washed the taste right out.
We seem to have similar tastes; I finished reading _Altered Carbon_ a week ago and loved it.
Have you read Morgan's other book set in the same universe, _Broken Angels_?
I hear different, in a good way, and *even better*!
You haven't read Iain M. Banks yet, have you? Highly recommended, start with Consider Phlebas and work your way through to his masterpiece, Use of Weapons.
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Actually, it's in his info at the top of his post:
by gnu-generation-one (717590) on Sunday December 07, @12:10PM (#7653838) (http://konspire.sourceforge.net/)
Thats my only real complaint. Can we shrink the memory usage?
It will be done, as far as I know.
Right now, with FB and TB, they are more working on features and bugs than on optimizations, but I've read that they plan to have both use the same API and thus you could have both running with a small memory footprint.
Probably not practical to do right now because things change so much...
I guess we can all move on up to BitTorrent :D
BitTorrent is too centralized for this kind of things (large scale, anyway).
Instead, check out eMule and Soulseek.
IMO, even a Celeron 2.0GHz will do for most jobs. Also, put a lot of RAM in the box and you are much better off than with a faster processor.
Yes, but the point is that for exactly the same price, or a lower price, you could get a better CPU (AMD); so if you like RAM so much, buy an AMD that is cheaper but performs better than the intel and add even more RAM.
ahh the slashdot troll...
Yes, but admit that you would miss it if it was gone.
So now that Apple uses *BSD, is it dying twice as fast?
(laughing in astonished horror) This guy needs a laptop that's got some rubber armor or something!
With gear prices decreasing all around, maybe they'll come up with disposable laptops soon.
Care to give some examples to back up your claim?
Oh, and Google runs on Linux. Checkmate.
(I'm just kidding -- I'm not really into the holy war myself... Both Linux and *BSD are great)
Oh man, I did it again... I didn't get that it was meant as a joke.
Or was it?
[pause]
Ever wondered why forests are disappearing at this rate?
Ah!
e-commerce and books.
How geekier can you get?
I bet that they even sell old UNIX books...
And it's a good thing for us book lovers too.
More used books available online, but especially more OUT OF PRINT used books...
So the first thing that you see when you go to the Novell page is a guy laying on his back, arms cross behind his head.
Are they saying that we are lazy?
What if you are looking for Kazaa-lite?
However, it was my understanding that power consumption will often go up with smaller geometries [...]
Not only that, but heat dissipation can become a problem too since you have as much, or more, heat to dissipate from a smaller surface area.
We don't need to be paid for implementing these kind of features.. we just need to know what the public wants and what the projects needs. And if the public wants it, then why don't any of the developers want it? And if they do, then why hasn't it been implemented already? Some of these features seem pretty trivial to implement to me.
I'm not a coder, but I get the feeling that often things don't get done because they are boring and not glamourous enough; coders seem to like working on building fun new apps (even competing with other mature apps) better than consolidating, streamlining and integrating existing stuff.
Interesting indeed.
Maybe it's just me, but this site doesn't seem as publicized as most other OSS sites. I've never stumbled on it before, anyway. It should be linked from the big site more prominently.
The downside of course is the only big Fondations (Apache, Gnome, etc) have money to spend because they get it from the industry (like Intel, IBM,...)
Small donations are the way of the future!
A fund should be set up where people can donate money that would be allocated to bounties, and they could either select on which task they want their money to be allocated to drop it in a pool of ressources that would be allocated through some kind of more or less democratic process (secure online polls/surveys?)
As far as I know this thing doesn't exist in the open source world. Correct me if I'm wrong.
It's all good and well to program for love and pride, but these rewards will help the project move over some of the less glamourous problems.
Consolidation is important in the Linux world; if coders spent more time on it instead of creating new competing apps (not that there's not a place for that), the world would be a better place.
You forgot to mention Soviet Russia...
Maybe you haven't heard, but IBM has been a hardware vendor for some time now. The might even have a better reputation than Gateway.
There's not "might" about it, sonny.
Thanks for the Jonathon Lethem recommendation, I'll check it out.
If you like Consider Phlebas a lot, I'd recommend the first book by a fairly new author. It's called Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan. Great hard-boiled style. In fact it's the book I picked up when I put Perdido down, and it washed the taste right out.
We seem to have similar tastes; I finished reading _Altered Carbon_ a week ago and loved it.
Have you read Morgan's other book set in the same universe, _Broken Angels_?
I hear different, in a good way, and *even better*!
You haven't read Iain M. Banks yet, have you? Highly recommended, start with Consider Phlebas and work your way through to his masterpiece, Use of Weapons.
Surprised nobody at slashdot has made this connection so far.
Probably because Google's ad are not popups and won't be blocked.