I seem to recall reading about cell phone blocking paint and wall paper. I doubt these require FCC approval. On the other hand, they're harder to get rid of when you use the building for a new purpose, and no longer care about cell blocking. The illegal electronic jammers that they probably want to get FCC approval for could be turned off as soon as they were no longer necessary.
Konqueror has its own built-in java support. It talks to the JVM using a different method that doesn't rely on Sun being nice and building a web plugin.
Yes. The IcedTea web plugin talks to OpenJDK (not GCJ), but that wasn't Sun's doing. That's the GCJ plugin ported over to OpenJDK.
You're right Java in the browser is 64-bit capable now, but that's not in any way due to Sun's generosity.
Maybe he's doing it to prove the existance of a DRM rootkit for a legal challenge, and he has some kind of attorney-client privelage. But then he should talk to forensics experts, not Slashdot.
Given the phrase "English law" it seems that you might all be arguing about different countries. The commissioning party is advised to seek legal advice in their own country and not rely on slashdotters to tell them what the default is in their country.
to be an even bigger livesaver when developing on an embedded system that would log, but would unlink and rotate the log several times even a short debugging session
Not exactly. Assume he wins and that he refuses to resign. He gets to serve in the Senate instead of prison. NOTHING stops a congresscritter from freely traveling to Congress when it is about to go into session. If he decides that is how he wants to roll he can drive down the freeway shooting an Uzi and when a cop pulls him over all he has to do is flash his ID and say he is headin' to Congress and that is that. They can file charges, fine him, do anything else they want but that can't impede his travel. Only Congress itself can expel a member and it takes a supermajority to do it. Hopefully the Senate will throw his ass out on a 99-1 vote, but this IS congress we are talking about.
You're lucky the system actually works here in the United States and that the two political parties don't try to persecute each other into the ground. This is a *very* important protection of our democracy that he could serve in Senate if elected, and it would trump his sentence. Otherwise, it would be really easy to prevent a popular dissident from sitting in Senate by convicting him in a show trial.
The senate ethics committee can recommend that the he be expelled from senate by a 2/3 vote. The ethics committee has recommended such things before, but nobody's ever been expelled because they all resign first.
The more likely possibility, however, is that Senator Stevens' close senate race has just gone down a series of tubes because of this.
My suggestion is to use a whole lot less. I personally never use more than about 100MB swap unless the offending process should rightly be destined for the Out-Of-Memory process killer anyway.
I only ever trigger the out-of-process memory killer when doing development. If I do, it means that (a) the program needs to be redesigned to use less RAM because even if I had lots of swap it would be too slow anyway, and (b) the extra swap is just making it take longer to regain control of my computer.
If you plan to do suspend to disk, then you should have more swap, ideally a bit more than you have RAM. Maybe someone could comment on the sanity of the following strategy for this:
I would have 2 swap partitions. One with the amount of swap space that you want to have under normal usage, and another equal to the size of physical RAM. Set up only the first one to be used at system startup. Run swapon on the second one (to make a disk area the size of RAM available) right before suspending to disk.
Would it slow down the wakeup process too much to run swapoff on that extra space right after waking up? Or does the OS only recover things from disk as it needs them?
This always happens when the economy is down, in many fields. People who aren't enticed out into the working world by lots of easy money jobs will take the time (when they're not making money anyway) to retrain. I doubt this is happening with CS more than with other fields.
The most valuable thing I've learned watching Fedora is this: Patience. It takes time and steady, incremental growth to build a solid community. If you'd asked me two years into Fedora's development whether the project would succeed, I'd have been somewhat skeptical, but looking at the project five years down the road, I'm convinced.
Perhaps his admin would agree to do it for him, so that he might at least try it out. (If that works, it couldn't be too hard for the admins to combine the command line tool with a web interface so that anyone who wanted company wide could opt into IMAP.)
It's already on Deletionpedia (specifically it's mentioned on the front page), so it would break a rule that Deletionpedia includes "all things and only things that were deleted from wikipedia" if Deletionpedia had not, itself, been deleted from wikipedia.
You probably want to use the Ruby documentation at noobkit.com, and gem server for your more obscure RubyGems.
In general, I'm not really happy with any of the Ruby sites, because Rdoc is missing some important features, making it really difficult to determine what files to include when you want a certain functionality. I have described this problem and what I feel the solution should be at ruby-talk:295589 but nobody's done anything about it AFAIK.
I haven't read the Unified GC Theory, but here is my take on it:
Read the paper. It explains that the kinds of optimizations that are applied to tracing GC's start to give them the characteristics of reference counting GC's, and the kinds of optimizations that are applied to reference counting GC's start to give them the characteristics of tracing GC's.
The USDA has the authority and mandate to ensure that there is no fraud with respect to food quality. It's their job to ensure that companies aren't selling snake oil drugs and passing them off as effective, and it's their job to ensure that companies aren't selling dangerous drugs and passing them off as effective.
And the USDA should ensure that tests are administered properly and meaningfully if it's within their power to do so, rather than waiting for a lawsuit that may or may not come.
Risking the wrath of responders who will claim I don't know the difference between California and Illinois (I do. I got my bachelors in CA, and I'm getting my PhD in IL), I'll mention that at UC Davis, old computers (and other interesting equiptment) are sent to the UC Davis Bargain Barn where they're sold.
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I seem to recall reading about cell phone blocking paint and wall paper. I doubt these require FCC approval. On the other hand, they're harder to get rid of when you use the building for a new purpose, and no longer care about cell blocking. The illegal electronic jammers that they probably want to get FCC approval for could be turned off as soon as they were no longer necessary.
Konqueror has its own built-in java support. It talks to the JVM using a different method that doesn't rely on Sun being nice and building a web plugin.
Yes. The IcedTea web plugin talks to OpenJDK (not GCJ), but that wasn't Sun's doing. That's the GCJ plugin ported over to OpenJDK.
You're right Java in the browser is 64-bit capable now, but that's not in any way due to Sun's generosity.
I'm fairly sure I have a working 64-bit Java plugin, via OpenJDK.
You mean IcedTea, which uses the open source gcjwebplugin. None of Sun's involvement whatsoever.
Maybe he's doing it to prove the existance of a DRM rootkit for a legal challenge, and he has some kind of attorney-client privelage. But then he should talk to forensics experts, not Slashdot.
And we are sick and tired of software authors placing draconian measures on all consumers because of a few bad apples.
I don't brew coffee, but this actually sounds reasonable, or close to reasonable. (It certainly makes up a large percentage of the difference)
Given the phrase "English law" it seems that you might all be arguing about different countries. The commissioning party is advised to seek legal advice in their own country and not rely on slashdotters to tell them what the default is in their country.
tail and head - tail -f is a lifesaver
I found
to be an even bigger livesaver when developing on an embedded system that would log, but would unlink and rotate the log several times even a short debugging session
And in that situation he would keep his seat, because he needs 2/3 to be expelled. But since he's been convicted, probably some republicans go along.
Multicast, sir. Like SureWest is already doing.
You're lucky the system actually works here in the United States and that the two political parties don't try to persecute each other into the ground. This is a *very* important protection of our democracy that he could serve in Senate if elected, and it would trump his sentence. Otherwise, it would be really easy to prevent a popular dissident from sitting in Senate by convicting him in a show trial.
The senate ethics committee can recommend that the he be expelled from senate by a 2/3 vote. The ethics committee has recommended such things before, but nobody's ever been expelled because they all resign first.
The more likely possibility, however, is that Senator Stevens' close senate race has just gone down a series of tubes because of this.
My suggestion is to use a whole lot less. I personally never use more than about 100MB swap unless the offending process should rightly be destined for the Out-Of-Memory process killer anyway.
I only ever trigger the out-of-process memory killer when doing development. If I do, it means that (a) the program needs to be redesigned to use less RAM because even if I had lots of swap it would be too slow anyway, and (b) the extra swap is just making it take longer to regain control of my computer.
If you plan to do suspend to disk, then you should have more swap, ideally a bit more than you have RAM. Maybe someone could comment on the sanity of the following strategy for this:
I would have 2 swap partitions. One with the amount of swap space that you want to have under normal usage, and another equal to the size of physical RAM. Set up only the first one to be used at system startup. Run swapon on the second one (to make a disk area the size of RAM available) right before suspending to disk.
Would it slow down the wakeup process too much to run swapoff on that extra space right after waking up? Or does the OS only recover things from disk as it needs them?
This always happens when the economy is down, in many fields. People who aren't enticed out into the working world by lots of easy money jobs will take the time (when they're not making money anyway) to retrain. I doubt this is happening with CS more than with other fields.
Lessons learned from five years of Fedora
The most valuable thing I've learned watching Fedora is this: Patience. It takes time and steady, incremental growth to build a solid community. If you'd asked me two years into Fedora's development whether the project would succeed, I'd have been somewhat skeptical, but looking at the project five years down the road, I'm convinced.
Solaris may be similar.
Perhaps his admin would agree to do it for him, so that he might at least try it out. (If that works, it couldn't be too hard for the admins to combine the command line tool with a web interface so that anyone who wanted company wide could opt into IMAP.)
I'm not sure I believe the video either.
It's already on Deletionpedia (specifically it's mentioned on the front page), so it would break a rule that Deletionpedia includes "all things and only things that were deleted from wikipedia" if Deletionpedia had not, itself, been deleted from wikipedia.
It figures that this article would be an interview. That way Simon Peyton-Jones didn't need to evaluate the answer to any question until it was asked.
You probably want to use the Ruby documentation at noobkit.com, and gem server for your more obscure RubyGems.
In general, I'm not really happy with any of the Ruby sites, because Rdoc is missing some important features, making it really difficult to determine what files to include when you want a certain functionality. I have described this problem and what I feel the solution should be at ruby-talk:295589 but nobody's done anything about it AFAIK.
Here's a non-ACM link.
I suppose I ought to give you a link to the paper.
I haven't read the Unified GC Theory, but here is my take on it:
Read the paper. It explains that the kinds of optimizations that are applied to tracing GC's start to give them the characteristics of reference counting GC's, and the kinds of optimizations that are applied to reference counting GC's start to give them the characteristics of tracing GC's.
The USDA has the authority and mandate to ensure that there is no fraud with respect to food quality. It's their job to ensure that companies aren't selling snake oil drugs and passing them off as effective, and it's their job to ensure that companies aren't selling dangerous drugs and passing them off as effective.
And the USDA should ensure that tests are administered properly and meaningfully if it's within their power to do so, rather than waiting for a lawsuit that may or may not come.
Risking the wrath of responders who will claim I don't know the difference between California and Illinois (I do. I got my bachelors in CA, and I'm getting my PhD in IL), I'll mention that at UC Davis, old computers (and other interesting equiptment) are sent to the UC Davis Bargain Barn where they're sold.