You mean how the "capacitors" are just etched parallel wires and the silicon is used as the dielectric?
Not just parallel-plate capacitances exist, there are also significant junction capacitances. Reverse biased PN junctions, basically diodes, are used to isolate the individual devices from the substrate; every reverse-biased diode is also a (nonlinear) capacitor.
SRAM also has parasitic capacitances within each cell, which could act enough like DRAM to enable it to hold some data without power. The DRAM capacitors are essentially parasitics as well, so don't disregard the parasitic capacitance in an SRAM cell as completely insignificant.
With more than 2gb your machine will surely crawl due to massive disk storms, with less than 512mb the Linux VM may not be happy (sometimes it just HAS to swap or go to the oom-killer). 512mb is probably overkill to prevent that scenario, but that's what I use.
I agree completely! This is one of the best features of gimp, especially when combined with windowmanager features like fluxbox' tabbing.
I say let the users choose how they want to work. This may mean implementing an alternate MDI *as an option* might be a good idea, so that people can use gimp that way if they want. Open-source software, in my mind, is about freedom of choice as well as freedom to distribute and/or modify.
Logitech makes the Marble Mouse - a finger-operated (not thumb) trackball. Usually found around $20 at Staples, 4 buttons on it, USB/PS2. Tracks very fast movements of the ball (aliasing threshold is very high). I use it to play FPS games all the time and it works very well. Highly recommended. I use these exclusively when I can help it.
Yeah, like our eyes can truly see 3d anyway... computer displays can take full advantage of the capabilities of our eyes wrt. 3d vision using stereo glasses.
It already is a word; it can in fact be any word, because there are an infinite number of ways of decoding that particular combination of hex digits into plaintext. It doesn't have to be ASCII.
I have an MSI P965 Platinum board and the cd drive attached to the JMicron IDE bridge is perfectly bootable and usable in Linux. The catch is finding a Linux livecd with support for the chip after the OS takes over; support for the JMB361 chip only seems to exist in very recent kernels. Any USB disks/cd drives attached to the motherboard USB are also bootable, so if you have an external CD this isn't a problem for installing. Haven't tried Windows and I have no intention to.
This whole article is a blatant troll. Gentoo's usability on a production server depends entirely on how you use it. It is up to the admin to manage updating software without breaking anything.
That said, what really ticks me off about Gentoo is when they make big, sweeping changes that aren't backwards compatible. For example: modular X. I know there was plenty of warning, but when modular X went stable all of a sudden *all* packages that needed X now depended on the modular X libs. If you had monolithic X installed, anything that requires X now generates many blockers. That's just *awesome*... you are forced into installing something you shouldn't have to install. The best solution to that problem was really to put all the modular X libs in/etc/portage/profile/package.provided, but that's an ugly hack.
Notice that he typed ls -1, not ls -l (ls -ONE, not ls -ELL). Big difference there, although the default for ls when outputting to a pipe is already -1.
I believe that would be the second "Holy Shit!" assuming all the kills (these 7 and the previous 2) were in the same combo. "Wicked Sick!" is a 30-kill spree.
I run vmware on my Linux laptop (gentoo) with a Win2k guest, and both of them have great hw 3d acceleration. The laptop is a Dell I5150 with the FX5200 64mb card. To get hw 3d inside vmware, you need to enable the experimental support for it, but it works fine. I had ut2k4 running inside the vmware instance for a test - the framerate hit was ~50%, and the texture coordinates were a bit screwed up, but it was perfectly usable.
Linux itself is definitely 'there' on this laptop - *everything* works completely. Nvidia card, truemobile 1300 (broadcom) b/g wireless through ndiswrapper, suspend2 hibernating to both disk and ram. Sound works fine, although it seems the built-in Intel audio has a fixed sample rate of 48khz so 44.1khz music can sound a little weird when you hook up a good set of headphones.
Linux on this thing FLIES compared to XP. With 1GB of ram and a 7200rpm disk, this 2003-era laptop runs rings around a lot of newer desktops.
Reminds me of some random movie I watched on TV a few years ago... a quick Google turns it up as Wargames (1983). Not exactly a good movie, but it's pretty relevant to this article.
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Dibs on the BRM V16.
Please don't give them any more ideas.
If your render jobs sit in userspace cranking away, doing very few syscalls, then the OS differences should not affect the numbers significantly.
Not just parallel-plate capacitances exist, there are also significant junction capacitances. Reverse biased PN junctions, basically diodes, are used to isolate the individual devices from the substrate; every reverse-biased diode is also a (nonlinear) capacitor.
SRAM also has parasitic capacitances within each cell, which could act enough like DRAM to enable it to hold some data without power. The DRAM capacitors are essentially parasitics as well, so don't disregard the parasitic capacitance in an SRAM cell as completely insignificant.
swap_size = min(2gb, max(512mb, phyram * 2))
With more than 2gb your machine will surely crawl due to massive disk storms, with less than 512mb the Linux VM may not be happy (sometimes it just HAS to swap or go to the oom-killer). 512mb is probably overkill to prevent that scenario, but that's what I use.
I agree completely! This is one of the best features of gimp, especially when combined with windowmanager features like fluxbox' tabbing.
I say let the users choose how they want to work. This may mean implementing an alternate MDI *as an option* might be a good idea, so that people can use gimp that way if they want. Open-source software, in my mind, is about freedom of choice as well as freedom to distribute and/or modify.
I think the parent post contains fail, aren't raw values like that of type int (signed, 32-bit if you're using gcc on x86_64)?
Logitech makes the Marble Mouse - a finger-operated (not thumb) trackball. Usually found around $20 at Staples, 4 buttons on it, USB/PS2. Tracks very fast movements of the ball (aliasing threshold is very high). I use it to play FPS games all the time and it works very well. Highly recommended. I use these exclusively when I can help it.
Yeah, like our eyes can truly see 3d anyway... computer displays can take full advantage of the capabilities of our eyes wrt. 3d vision using stereo glasses.
Vim 7.1 uses 3.1m resident for me.
It already is a word; it can in fact be any word, because there are an infinite number of ways of decoding that particular combination of hex digits into plaintext. It doesn't have to be ASCII.
I have an MSI P965 Platinum board and the cd drive attached to the JMicron IDE bridge is perfectly bootable and usable in Linux. The catch is finding a Linux livecd with support for the chip after the OS takes over; support for the JMB361 chip only seems to exist in very recent kernels. Any USB disks/cd drives attached to the motherboard USB are also bootable, so if you have an external CD this isn't a problem for installing. Haven't tried Windows and I have no intention to.
This whole article is a blatant troll. Gentoo's usability on a production server depends entirely on how you use it. It is up to the admin to manage updating software without breaking anything.
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided, but that's an ugly hack.
That said, what really ticks me off about Gentoo is when they make big, sweeping changes that aren't backwards compatible. For example: modular X. I know there was plenty of warning, but when modular X went stable all of a sudden *all* packages that needed X now depended on the modular X libs. If you had monolithic X installed, anything that requires X now generates many blockers. That's just *awesome*... you are forced into installing something you shouldn't have to install. The best solution to that problem was really to put all the modular X libs in
The robot on top of your asteroid will now explode.
*boom*
Notice that he typed ls -1, not ls -l (ls -ONE, not ls -ELL). Big difference there, although the default for ls when outputting to a pipe is already -1.
I believe that would be the second "Holy Shit!" assuming all the kills (these 7 and the previous 2) were in the same combo. "Wicked Sick!" is a 30-kill spree.
I run vmware on my Linux laptop (gentoo) with a Win2k guest, and both of them have great hw 3d acceleration. The laptop is a Dell I5150 with the FX5200 64mb card. To get hw 3d inside vmware, you need to enable the experimental support for it, but it works fine. I had ut2k4 running inside the vmware instance for a test - the framerate hit was ~50%, and the texture coordinates were a bit screwed up, but it was perfectly usable.
Linux itself is definitely 'there' on this laptop - *everything* works completely. Nvidia card, truemobile 1300 (broadcom) b/g wireless through ndiswrapper, suspend2 hibernating to both disk and ram. Sound works fine, although it seems the built-in Intel audio has a fixed sample rate of 48khz so 44.1khz music can sound a little weird when you hook up a good set of headphones.
Linux on this thing FLIES compared to XP. With 1GB of ram and a 7200rpm disk, this 2003-era laptop runs rings around a lot of newer desktops.
Does it run Linux? ... Oh wait...
You can save even more time by ignoring the "reply to this" link too!
Reminds me of some random movie I watched on TV a few years ago... a quick Google turns it up as Wargames (1983). Not exactly a good movie, but it's pretty relevant to this article.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/
Not quite, try "Award you shall win!"