3G too slow? I get over 500KiB/s when downloading something in the train here. When it comes down to basic surfing, anything beyond 2Mbps is good enough for me.
I've upgraded 2 machines from Jaunty to Karmic and both stopped rebooting/shutting down (they hang when trying to). But even besides that, loads of my settings got reset/removed. For example, I've lost all of my wifi profiles which is turning out to be quite a PITA.
Besides that, they were only 110 miles beyond their destination, that's about 11 minutes for a plane like this. So it's not like they flew way out of course.
It might be bullshit for most people, but I know multiple persons that will buy (including myself) after trying the game if we like it.
However... if it's a crappy game that's $20 for 2-3 hours of fun, than I won't buy it. If it's a game that offers days of fun and is well built. Than I'll buy it.
5? WIth a nice raidcard, full memory check and some other POST tests I've seen them easily go over 10 minutes. Some were definately close to 15 minutes from my experiences.
The question here is, what will you trade for this? Faster boot probably means something will be skipped.
Don't know about the UK but in the Netherlands Vodafone is one of the best in terms of coverage. It's still not all that great everywhere, but in general it's one of the best you can get.
And yes I'm a Vodafone customer, and no I'm not that satisfied (they gave me a 50MB limit per month which doesn't even cover my monthly mail traffic).
There is a difference between books and music in that aspect. Books offer real value over ebooks, most people I know prefer print over all the other options. But what would be the benefit of a CD over MP3? You would have to bring a large CD with a large CD player instead of a tiny MP3 player with no added value.
So... in terms of books, I don't think you have that much to worry about.
Personally, if I see an author offering an ebook for free online, I'll either buy the paper version or donate some money to the author if I like the read. With non-free ebooks I'll see if the ebook is worth reading and if it is, I'll buy the paper version.
Why would any company enter a challenge like that? What data recovery company would comply to this: "You also must publicly disclose in a reproducible manner the method(s) used to win the challenge."?
Regardless of wheter it is possible or not, it is definately not worth the trouble for anyone.
Seeing as how most slashdot articles don't hit till atleast a couple of days after the original article. I'd say it would probably have to be a week for it to be effective. After which it would be old news and not beneficial at all...
There is a very simple reason for it, speed is one of the few things that can be measured objectively. All forms of usability tests tend to vary per person.
That makes it really easy to post some benchmarks while any article about usability will be bashed to no end.
The memory leaks are indeed pretty bad, unless you restart it a atleast once a day it just starts to get horribly slow.
Besides that, Firefox has some other serious issues. For example, after installing Firefox it asks you if you want to enable auto-update, it doesn't seem to matter what you fill in, it automatically enables auto-update anyway... (tested on Fedora Core 8 with Firefox 3.0.6 downloaded from mozilla.org)
You are correct that a different DE doesn't need a new distro. I just used that as an example to show that there has to be a choice.
As for the core distribution with sub-distributions... how about Debian with the sub-distributions Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu and all the others? That's hardly a new concept, right?
Personally I prefer to work with KDE (3.5 mind you) but I know enough people that really like Gnome. Does this mean that either of these should stop to exist? No... most of us chose for Linux because you get the choice, not because you want everything to be chosen for you. If you prefer that, go for a Mac or something.
I think it's a great thing that there's diversity in Linux distributions, although I have to agree that there are some obsolete distros around. A lot of them do earn the right to exist.
That's because the Zend Lucene library is written in pure PHP, ergo... _really_ slow. Either use a C module or get SOLR to get it fast. In my simple tests the Python lucene libraries were about 100-500 times faster than the Zend PHP version, it's really one of the worst Lucene libraries around (in terms of speed).
Almost everyone around here is able to speak and understand english enough to get around (actually, the complaint I always hear from foreigners is that everyone speaks english so they can't learn Dutch) and all the Computer Science Master courses are given in English. And from my experience, the Bachelors are also given in English if there's even a single non-dutch student in the room;)
Yeah but that's Sony, with Sony batteries you'll never reach the promised number because the battery will go up in flames before that;)
I would like to see some independent news about this battery though, 5000-6000 charges sounds great but I'll believe it when I see it. I really doubt it will be feasible to pump currents like these in a laptop. Perhaps nice for electric cars though:)
Yes and no... Indeed, 32 bit operating systems can't address more than 2^32 bytes, but 3GiB isn't getting close to that. My workstation is running 32 bit Linux and I get nearly all of my 4GiBs of ram (output from/proc/meminfo: MemTotal: 4144020 kB). So something could have been done better in Windows, not that the difference is important most of the time, but it's the thought that counts.
As for my opinion on Vista, I just got a new laptop this week which was shipped with Vista Ultimate edition, altough I have to say it's been pretty stable and really fast, the interface lacks all forms of logic if you ask me. It took me minutes to find the real status of my network device (ip address and stuff like that, yes I know I can type ipconfig but the graphical one _should_ be easily available). I can't say I find the OS bad in terms of stability (altough Lenovo might have been doing a good job on the T61p) but on usability Vista is horrible if you ask me.
Within a couple of hours I installed Linux on it since it was just driving me crazy, not even mentioning the enormous disk usage (the windows folder alone took 10+ GiB).
My conclusion, as long as I can I'll stay away from Vista. Altough it has some nice new features which I really like (instant searching for example) the pros don't overcome the cons for me.
Since the computers produce a lot of heat the humidity wouldn't be much of a problem, try putting a computer in a humid garage, the computer will be just about the only thing dry in there.
I do wonder how much this thing will really save, I wouldn't be so surprised if the costs are comparable to the normal installation (remember, the normal installation costs for these things is near 0, they just need a power, network and water plug). If they'd just put the server somewhere with some other cooling source available (a lake for example?) it would probably be even cheaper.
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3G too slow? I get over 500KiB/s when downloading something in the train here. When it comes down to basic surfing, anything beyond 2Mbps is good enough for me.
Guess you were lucky, I was less fortunate.
I've upgraded 2 machines from Jaunty to Karmic and both stopped rebooting/shutting down (they hang when trying to). But even besides that, loads of my settings got reset/removed. For example, I've lost all of my wifi profiles which is turning out to be quite a PITA.
Besides that, they were only 110 miles beyond their destination, that's about 11 minutes for a plane like this. So it's not like they flew way out of course.
It might be bullshit for most people, but I know multiple persons that will buy (including myself) after trying the game if we like it.
However... if it's a crappy game that's $20 for 2-3 hours of fun, than I won't buy it. If it's a game that offers days of fun and is well built. Than I'll buy it.
So my question here, how crappy is his game?
5? WIth a nice raidcard, full memory check and some other POST tests I've seen them easily go over 10 minutes. Some were definately close to 15 minutes from my experiences.
The question here is, what will you trade for this? Faster boot probably means something will be skipped.
Don't know about the UK but in the Netherlands Vodafone is one of the best in terms of coverage. It's still not all that great everywhere, but in general it's one of the best you can get.
And yes I'm a Vodafone customer, and no I'm not that satisfied (they gave me a 50MB limit per month which doesn't even cover my monthly mail traffic).
Great idea but it won't work ;)
They only block people that filled in those countries, if you tell msn you live in some other country it will simply work.
There is a difference between books and music in that aspect. Books offer real value over ebooks, most people I know prefer print over all the other options. But what would be the benefit of a CD over MP3? You would have to bring a large CD with a large CD player instead of a tiny MP3 player with no added value.
So... in terms of books, I don't think you have that much to worry about.
Personally, if I see an author offering an ebook for free online, I'll either buy the paper version or donate some money to the author if I like the read. With non-free ebooks I'll see if the ebook is worth reading and if it is, I'll buy the paper version.
Why would any company enter a challenge like that? What data recovery company would comply to this: "You also must publicly disclose in a reproducible manner the method(s) used to win the challenge."?
Regardless of wheter it is possible or not, it is definately not worth the trouble for anyone.
Seeing as how most slashdot articles don't hit till atleast a couple of days after the original article. I'd say it would probably have to be a week for it to be effective. After which it would be old news and not beneficial at all...
Same here, I only use last.fm (as I did with audioscrobbler in the past) as a log of what I listen to so I can find music I like to hear.
I've never used the streaming feature as I didn't see much use to it.
There is a very simple reason for it, speed is one of the few things that can be measured objectively. All forms of usability tests tend to vary per person.
That makes it really easy to post some benchmarks while any article about usability will be bashed to no end.
The memory leaks are indeed pretty bad, unless you restart it a atleast once a day it just starts to get horribly slow.
Besides that, Firefox has some other serious issues. For example, after installing Firefox it asks you if you want to enable auto-update, it doesn't seem to matter what you fill in, it automatically enables auto-update anyway... (tested on Fedora Core 8 with Firefox 3.0.6 downloaded from mozilla.org)
You are correct that a different DE doesn't need a new distro. I just used that as an example to show that there has to be a choice.
As for the core distribution with sub-distributions... how about Debian with the sub-distributions Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu and all the others? That's hardly a new concept, right?
Indeed, one size simply doesn't fit all.
Personally I prefer to work with KDE (3.5 mind you) but I know enough people that really like Gnome. Does this mean that either of these should stop to exist? No... most of us chose for Linux because you get the choice, not because you want everything to be chosen for you. If you prefer that, go for a Mac or something.
I think it's a great thing that there's diversity in Linux distributions, although I have to agree that there are some obsolete distros around. A lot of them do earn the right to exist.
That's because the Zend Lucene library is written in pure PHP, ergo... _really_ slow. Either use a C module or get SOLR to get it fast. In my simple tests the Python lucene libraries were about 100-500 times faster than the Zend PHP version, it's really one of the worst Lucene libraries around (in terms of speed).
Almost everyone around here is able to speak and understand english enough to get around (actually, the complaint I always hear from foreigners is that everyone speaks english so they can't learn Dutch) and all the Computer Science Master courses are given in English. And from my experience, the Bachelors are also given in English if there's even a single non-dutch student in the room ;)
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Yeah but that's Sony, with Sony batteries you'll never reach the promised number because the battery will go up in flames before that ;)
I would like to see some independent news about this battery though, 5000-6000 charges sounds great but I'll believe it when I see it. I really doubt it will be feasible to pump currents like these in a laptop. Perhaps nice for electric cars though :)
It's 3 bytes actually, he added a space there ;)
Wouldn't that invalidate the "lucky" part of "I'm feeling lucky"? How is it "feeling lucky" if you know where you're going?
Yes and no... Indeed, 32 bit operating systems can't address more than 2^32 bytes, but 3GiB isn't getting close to that. My workstation is running 32 bit Linux and I get nearly all of my 4GiBs of ram (output from /proc/meminfo: MemTotal: 4144020 kB). So something could have been done better in Windows, not that the difference is important most of the time, but it's the thought that counts.
As for my opinion on Vista, I just got a new laptop this week which was shipped with Vista Ultimate edition, altough I have to say it's been pretty stable and really fast, the interface lacks all forms of logic if you ask me. It took me minutes to find the real status of my network device (ip address and stuff like that, yes I know I can type ipconfig but the graphical one _should_ be easily available). I can't say I find the OS bad in terms of stability (altough Lenovo might have been doing a good job on the T61p) but on usability Vista is horrible if you ask me.
Within a couple of hours I installed Linux on it since it was just driving me crazy, not even mentioning the enormous disk usage (the windows folder alone took 10+ GiB).
My conclusion, as long as I can I'll stay away from Vista. Altough it has some nice new features which I really like (instant searching for example) the pros don't overcome the cons for me.
Since the computers produce a lot of heat the humidity wouldn't be much of a problem, try putting a computer in a humid garage, the computer will be just about the only thing dry in there.
I do wonder how much this thing will really save, I wouldn't be so surprised if the costs are comparable to the normal installation (remember, the normal installation costs for these things is near 0, they just need a power, network and water plug). If they'd just put the server somewhere with some other cooling source available (a lake for example?) it would probably be even cheaper.
pun intended ;)