Does this bring a new meaning to the BSoD or what?
Hey, it's an upgrade! It's from a tunnel with light (don't go into the light!) to the Blue Screen of Death with a helpful synopsis of cause of death (thus saving expensive autopsies) and an easy to use method for reincarnation (Ctrl-Alt-Delete).
Can't you just see it?
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your body.
The problem seems to be caused by the following file: EXCESSIVE_NET_USAGE.INI
10_TOO_MANY_YEARS_ON_SLASHDOT
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your brain. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any Windows updates you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching and shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select "mnt condom".
This is Slashdot! This is not the NYT! The technical aptitude of readers is such that you can deign to give a brief technical overview of what the new device does in the article summary.
What version of FF do you have? FF used to have horrible mem problems for me, but FF 2 has fixed much of that. I have 2.0.6 and have 24 tabs open at 167 MB.
You really don't need to flame to make your points.
2 GB: I have the same software running across all the machines I manage--some of them are 500 Mhz, 256 Mb, Win 98 machines--and I use them on a regular basis without trouble. They perform well.
VI: Please suggest some windows alternatives to oo. I use linux strictly for servers.
Hardcore geeks: No, actually I don't know that. If you would point me to benchmarks to show my ignorance, I would be grateful. Alternatively, as the remark above indicates, suggest some alternatives to the software I listed that I can test for myself.
I realized that I haven't had much experience with some of the software that was being presented as being Slashdot-Certified Bloat-Free(TM), so I downloaded one of the suggestions--Opera--and compared it to Firefox. Firefox took only 16% more ram even though it was loaded down with add-ons. Needless to say it didn't inspire confidence in all the claims that are being bandied about.
I would be open to suggestions of other software with similar features to the ones I listed that are less bloated. I would be delighted to find more efficient alternatives.
Ok, I took what you said seriously and compared Opera and Firefox. I went to iGoogle and opened a total of 23 tabs in both by clicking the news links to open in new tab. Here are the results: Firefox, 166 MB ram; Opera, 143 MB. As a web developer, I have a profusion of SEO and web dev add-ons installed in FF that make my job far easier. That 16% ram diff is not enough for me to call the far more functional FF bloatware.
Thank you all for your kind mod points, though those funny mod points weren't exactly my goal. If you would give me just a moment, I would like to defend my unintentional humor.
I am an IT Manager, not a professional developer. For myself, those apps run great on my 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2 GB ram. In answer to your question, yes, I run all of them. In fact, right now I have Thunderbird (760 MB Inbox), Google Desktop (incl sidebar with weather, world clock, resource monitor, netstat, and news), 35 tabs in FF, 22 ooWriter windows, 1 ooCalc, 1 ooDraw, e-Sword, Azureus, AVG, gTalk, Spyware Doctor, MSNmsg, Skype, JVM, and VNC Server open. I am using 55% of my memory and 26% of CPU.
All software has a tradeoff between resource usage and features. Yes, vi is less resource intensive than oo, but it really doesn't have the features I'm looking for. The same with many of these other programs. I think the resource usage is reasonable and not excessive for the features they provide. Now let me hasten to add that I am not dissing all of you hardcore geeks that do so much for us in wringing every last CPU cycle out of programs and optimizing code. I know just enough about several different languages to appreciate the difficulty in writing well-designed, optimized code.
As an IT Manager, I also see bloat as encompassing quite a bit more than memory usage. I see spyware, invasiveness, extraneous tray icons, poor design, excessive features, adware, unnecessary background processes, etc, etc as all part of bloatware. These are not attributes of any of the programs I listed.
I appreciate your consistency and honesty. The atheist/macro-evolutionists I have debated over the years have often tried to deny that the moral reasoning you elucidated so well is a logical, integral, and inescapable result of their world view.
Maybe they should look into the cause of the disproportionate numbers?
Yeah, like maybe more ethnic minorities are committing more crimes?
All races have equal worth. All cultures/socioeconomic structures do not. Call me politically incorrect, but Thai culture is far better than Cannibal culture.
The crime disparity is not racial, it's cultural/socioeconomic. Whites who follow an inner-city culture have just as high crime rates.
Exactly. A much more interesting question would be: What country sends the most spam per internet connected computer? or What country sends the most spam per gigabit of international bandwidth?
It is not evil of Google to help a corp get their message out. In fact, it doesn't matter what you believe about Sicko, the public is helped when both sides effectively present their case to the public. The public will decide.
The article is fairly light on details, but it would be interesting to see how the system differentiates from a driver talking on a cell phone versus a mere passenger.
From the details I gleaned, this seems to be a device that would be in a police car. It could isolate which car is using a cell phone, then the officer could do a visual check to see if there is a passenger or just a single driver (in metro areas, a vast amount of the time it is only a single driver). It would simply be a somewhat objective measure of whether a cell phone was in use in the car. It's better than, "I saw him using a cell phone."
This won't solve the problem of distinguishing between OnStar or passenger cell phone use, and driver cell phone use. However, both of those variables are objective, easily verifiable facts after the stop. Its purpose seems to be an objective replacement for (and automation of) the officer's visual testimony of a cell phone being used. Nothing more.
Exactly. His problem was not his description of the internet as a "series of tubes", but rather his problem was that he was a Republican being discussed on Slashdot.
I would say that free software, if anything, is the realm of the more libertarian among us.
Exactly. Open source is the free market ideal: the most efficient production of the most effective product for the best price.
Socialism would parallel Microsoft: big, centralized bureaucracy telling everyone exactly how they must live their life, which formats to use, monopolies on various services, insanely expensive, etc
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Exactly. When MS does it, it's a monopoly. When Apple does it, it's a good idea.
If we do this, we need to make sure and remember to turn off disasters.
This is Slashdot! This is not the NYT! The technical aptitude of readers is such that you can deign to give a brief technical overview of what the new device does in the article summary.
Shoulda used pimp-my-gimp.blogspot.com
E=m.c^2 is wrong. You don't want to concatenate m and c^2.
And here I thought from reading the headline that we were finally starting to win the imperial/metric war!
What version of FF do you have? FF used to have horrible mem problems for me, but FF 2 has fixed much of that. I have 2.0.6 and have 24 tabs open at 167 MB.
You really don't need to flame to make your points.
2 GB: I have the same software running across all the machines I manage--some of them are 500 Mhz, 256 Mb, Win 98 machines--and I use them on a regular basis without trouble. They perform well.
VI: Please suggest some windows alternatives to oo. I use linux strictly for servers.
Hardcore geeks: No, actually I don't know that. If you would point me to benchmarks to show my ignorance, I would be grateful. Alternatively, as the remark above indicates, suggest some alternatives to the software I listed that I can test for myself.
I realized that I haven't had much experience with some of the software that was being presented as being Slashdot-Certified Bloat-Free(TM), so I downloaded one of the suggestions--Opera--and compared it to Firefox. Firefox took only 16% more ram even though it was loaded down with add-ons. Needless to say it didn't inspire confidence in all the claims that are being bandied about.
I would be open to suggestions of other software with similar features to the ones I listed that are less bloated. I would be delighted to find more efficient alternatives.
Ok, I took what you said seriously and compared Opera and Firefox. I went to iGoogle and opened a total of 23 tabs in both by clicking the news links to open in new tab. Here are the results: Firefox, 166 MB ram; Opera, 143 MB. As a web developer, I have a profusion of SEO and web dev add-ons installed in FF that make my job far easier. That 16% ram diff is not enough for me to call the far more functional FF bloatware.
Wow!! I am impressed with TrueCrypt! It takes real skill to program 63 bit drivers!
Thank you all for your kind mod points, though those funny mod points weren't exactly my goal. If you would give me just a moment, I would like to defend my unintentional humor. I am an IT Manager, not a professional developer. For myself, those apps run great on my 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2 GB ram. In answer to your question, yes, I run all of them. In fact, right now I have Thunderbird (760 MB Inbox), Google Desktop (incl sidebar with weather, world clock, resource monitor, netstat, and news), 35 tabs in FF, 22 ooWriter windows, 1 ooCalc, 1 ooDraw, e-Sword, Azureus, AVG, gTalk, Spyware Doctor, MSNmsg, Skype, JVM, and VNC Server open. I am using 55% of my memory and 26% of CPU. All software has a tradeoff between resource usage and features. Yes, vi is less resource intensive than oo, but it really doesn't have the features I'm looking for. The same with many of these other programs. I think the resource usage is reasonable and not excessive for the features they provide. Now let me hasten to add that I am not dissing all of you hardcore geeks that do so much for us in wringing every last CPU cycle out of programs and optimizing code. I know just enough about several different languages to appreciate the difficulty in writing well-designed, optimized code. As an IT Manager, I also see bloat as encompassing quite a bit more than memory usage. I see spyware, invasiveness, extraneous tray icons, poor design, excessive features, adware, unnecessary background processes, etc, etc as all part of bloatware. These are not attributes of any of the programs I listed.
Here's my list: OpenOffice, e-Sword, Firefox, Google Desktop, TightVNC, Thunderbird, Picasa, AVG Anti-Virus, GIMP, IrfanView, VLC Media Player, FileZilla, 7zip
Stupid lame filter nuked my <ul>
I appreciate your consistency and honesty. The atheist/macro-evolutionists I have debated over the years have often tried to deny that the moral reasoning you elucidated so well is a logical, integral, and inescapable result of their world view.
Of course they don't have "crime". Crime is merely the accepted norm.
Yeah, like maybe more ethnic minorities are committing more crimes?
All races have equal worth. All cultures/socioeconomic structures do not. Call me politically incorrect, but Thai culture is far better than Cannibal culture.
The crime disparity is not racial, it's cultural/socioeconomic. Whites who follow an inner-city culture have just as high crime rates.
Exactly. A much more interesting question would be: What country sends the most spam per internet connected computer? or What country sends the most spam per gigabit of international bandwidth?
It is not evil of Google to help a corp get their message out. In fact, it doesn't matter what you believe about Sicko, the public is helped when both sides effectively present their case to the public. The public will decide.
*cringe*
Exactly. His problem was not his description of the internet as a "series of tubes", but rather his problem was that he was a Republican being discussed on Slashdot.
Exactly. Open source is the free market ideal: the most efficient production of the most effective product for the best price.
Socialism would parallel Microsoft: big, centralized bureaucracy telling everyone exactly how they must live their life, which formats to use, monopolies on various services, insanely expensive, etc
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A side note, while we're on the subject, did you know that the Bible mentions igniting farts?