Another way of looking at it is a 1 inch puddle of of water covering 1 acre is going to weigh approximately 100 tonnes. Falling at 10 MPH, (~4.5 m/s) and using E = 0.5mv^2 the maximum amount of kinetic energy here is approximately 1 Megajoule, which over an hour is about 280 watts.
I believe he is talking about remote protocol and access abstraction in whatever library is used to access the filesystem (gnome-vfs), rather than calling your PDF viewer from your browser by name. It is a subtle but important difference, network transparency in all apps.
Perhaps this will change now gnome-vfs has been replaced by "GIO" and moved into glib.
One of the things I love about Wine is, using the virtual desktop setting, you can run many DirectX games in a window, which you simply can't do on Windows.
The NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver is rarely the cause of X or kernel hangs and crashes. In 2 years of using NVIDIA drivers on bleeding edge vanilla mainline kernels i've only had to wait for a new release *once* and *never* had a kernel panic that resulted from it.
My ISP does anti-viral scanning on outgoing mail via SMTP. Does this mean they, and every other similarly setup ISP, are paying royalties to Trend Micro?
If so, I think I quite fancy changing ISPs. I could be paying to support this ludicrous patent.
Despite what has been 'leaked' about Windows 7 I don't think we'll see it until 2010, when support for 2000 and XP has completely dropped (Although promptly after XP SP3 is out we probably going to see a slow fade where MS evaluate whether they are going to port their new apps (like IE8) back to XP anyway).
By 2010, people using XP will have no real choice but to move on, at which point they'll be looking at the then, hopefully, stable, fast reliable Vista vs the new 'bleeding edge' Windows 7 RTM. What do you think they're gonna choose?..thats right, Vista.
-...unless he had incorporated someone else's (non-GPL compatible) code which would make his original choice in licensing illegal to start with.
-...unless he violated a patent, and is being sued for it, which would make further and past distribution illegal in regions in which the patent was valid and render the license irrelevant regardless of what rights you have.
I've worked it out, essentially if you install Windows Live Messenger you have to untick a tonne of boxes in the installer to avoid installing other "Live" software (I forget the names, I haven't booted into Vista in a while). These then appear if you subscribe to "Microsoft Update" (which is useful for updating Office etc)
Now seems like a good time to put in a plug for the Mess.beMess Patch, which can strip out all the bloat, all the ads and all the 'extra services and features' that come with Windows Live Messenger and leave you with a relatively clean and usable client.
On a somewhat related note, have Vista users noticed the new 'Live' programs available optionally through Windows Update?
While the results are great, and I love FreeBSD, it is important to put these results into perspective.
If you look on pages 17 and 18 you can see Linux 2.6.22 compared very well to FreeBSD 7.0 on the PostgreSQL and MySQL transaction tests. In fact it says "2.6.22 is still 15% slower than FreeBSD 7.0".
Personally I would like to see the results against 2.6.24 when it ships, now the new CFS scheduler has had a tiny bit more development.
Microsoft's heard of Flash, I'm sure, but I'm also sure they prefer their own in-house developed stuff to anything coming out of a competitor. Microsoft weren't competing with Adobe with Flash *until* they brought out Silverlight.
In my experience all the current "3D"*/"accelerated" desktop environment enhancements (atleast available on the Linux platform) require more CPU time as well.
* Why the hell do people call them this when they are not even rendered to give the user a 3D perspective?
I was speaking to a X driver developer on IRC a few weeks back, and in the course of discussion, he claimed AMD hadn't yet released specs for the 3D engine of *any* of their GPU's yet. Is this true?
On an unrelated note I know I can't verify the age of EVERY person in my "adult entertainment" collection, if you define child pornography as strictly as 17 years and 364 days old then yes I may have some on my hard drive... oops:p
This is one of the problems with Porn 2.0 (Porn on Web 2.0, i.e. user generated porn), professional pornography is supposed to go through certain legal requirements to ensure all participants are 18/, and they keep records. Amateur content uploaded to the porn equivalents of YouTube however, have no guarantees whatsoever.
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Yeah ...except you're forgetting about the privacy concerns, which IMHO are much more scary than someone simply using my bandwidth.
Or just type "su" to drop into a full super user environment?
Another way of looking at it is a 1 inch puddle of of water covering 1 acre is going to weigh approximately 100 tonnes. Falling at 10 MPH, (~4.5 m/s) and using E = 0.5mv^2 the maximum amount of kinetic energy here is approximately 1 Megajoule, which over an hour is about 280 watts.
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I believe he is talking about remote protocol and access abstraction in whatever library is used to access the filesystem (gnome-vfs), rather than calling your PDF viewer from your browser by name. It is a subtle but important difference, network transparency in all apps.
Perhaps this will change now gnome-vfs has been replaced by "GIO" and moved into glib.
One of the things I love about Wine is, using the virtual desktop setting, you can run many DirectX games in a window, which you simply can't do on Windows.
Bullshit.
The NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver is rarely the cause of X or kernel hangs and crashes. In 2 years of using NVIDIA drivers on bleeding edge vanilla mainline kernels i've only had to wait for a new release *once* and *never* had a kernel panic that resulted from it.
Windows XP came out in August of 2001, it is only 6 and a half years old.
Does totem-gstreamer even play DVD's? I've never been able to get it to work...
My ISP does anti-viral scanning on outgoing mail via SMTP. Does this mean they, and every other similarly setup ISP, are paying royalties to Trend Micro?
If so, I think I quite fancy changing ISPs. I could be paying to support this ludicrous patent.
Despite what has been 'leaked' about Windows 7 I don't think we'll see it until 2010, when support for 2000 and XP has completely dropped (Although promptly after XP SP3 is out we probably going to see a slow fade where MS evaluate whether they are going to port their new apps (like IE8) back to XP anyway).
..thats right, Vista.
By 2010, people using XP will have no real choice but to move on, at which point they'll be looking at the then, hopefully, stable, fast reliable Vista vs the new 'bleeding edge' Windows 7 RTM. What do you think they're gonna choose?
At the moment installing SP1 RC's requires three seperate trips to Windows Update, and three reboots.
My guess is MS will push out the pre-requisite updates for SP1 this coming February Patch Tuesday, and SP1 a week or two later.
- ...unless he had incorporated someone else's (non-GPL compatible) code which would make his original choice in licensing illegal to start with.
...unless he violated a patent, and is being sued for it, which would make further and past distribution illegal in regions in which the patent was valid and render the license irrelevant regardless of what rights you have.
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Nothing in licensing is clean cut.
I've worked it out, essentially if you install Windows Live Messenger you have to untick a tonne of boxes in the installer to avoid installing other "Live" software (I forget the names, I haven't booted into Vista in a while). These then appear if you subscribe to "Microsoft Update" (which is useful for updating Office etc)
Now seems like a good time to put in a plug for the Mess.be Mess Patch, which can strip out all the bloat, all the ads and all the 'extra services and features' that come with Windows Live Messenger and leave you with a relatively clean and usable client.
On a somewhat related note, have Vista users noticed the new 'Live' programs available optionally through Windows Update?
While the results are great, and I love FreeBSD, it is important to put these results into perspective.
If you look on pages 17 and 18 you can see Linux 2.6.22 compared very well to FreeBSD 7.0 on the PostgreSQL and MySQL transaction tests. In fact it says "2.6.22 is still 15% slower than FreeBSD 7.0".
Personally I would like to see the results against 2.6.24 when it ships, now the new CFS scheduler has had a tiny bit more development.
Show me the source and prove it.
For LVM, one has to partition the disks first.
No you don't, LVM Physical Volumes can be initialised straight onto whole unpartitioned disks (/dev/sda).
Mostly, a waste of GPU time
In my experience all the current "3D"*/"accelerated" desktop environment enhancements (atleast available on the Linux platform) require more CPU time as well.
* Why the hell do people call them this when they are not even rendered to give the user a 3D perspective?
You might want to rethink that..
Other than the specs released back in September, have AMD even released full specifications to their full range of GPU's yet?
I was speaking to a X driver developer on IRC a few weeks back, and in the course of discussion, he claimed AMD hadn't yet released specs for the 3D engine of *any* of their GPU's yet. Is this true?
Your link takes me to some Holdenville/MyMiniCity bullshit. Link spam, ignore parent.
or "Windows XP x64 Edition" which is basically the same thing.
On an unrelated note I know I can't verify the age of EVERY person in my "adult entertainment" collection, if you define child pornography as strictly as 17 years and 364 days old then yes I may have some on my hard drive... oops :p
This is one of the problems with Porn 2.0 (Porn on Web 2.0, i.e. user generated porn), professional pornography is supposed to go through certain legal requirements to ensure all participants are 18/, and they keep records. Amateur content uploaded to the porn equivalents of YouTube however, have no guarantees whatsoever.