This trick is called "/var/log" - it usually holds more system feedback than you ever wanted to know. Also the command "dmesg" shows quite a lot of good info.
Sounds a bit like zero install, actually. It's basically a caching distributed filesystem thingy.
So for example if you wanted to run foo.com's program foo2000, you just start the executable file (dont remember paths exactly, so take this with a grain of salt)/0install/foo.com/foo2000/current/foo2k - and 0install connects to foo.com, and downloads that file. That file loads other data files, and they get downloaded too, and cached locally.
Now, lets say foo2000 depends on bar.org's libbar library to function. It just loads/0install/bar.org/libbar/2.3/libbar.so - and that gets downloaded and cached. (notice the link goes to a specific version of the library, so even if bar.org releases a new, api-breaking version, foo2000 will still use the old, working one..
Next time you start foo2000 it starts up just as fast as a normal program would, since all is on your harddrive, and nothing needs to be downloaded.
Heh. My brain needed around 2-3 hours to "wake up" every morning. Which meant that I almost never did anything and almost never learnt anything at the start of the school day.
There is almost a direct one-to-one correlation between doing homework and excelling in classes.
I stopped doing homework when I was around 12-13 (don't remember exactly), I've almost always been in top 5 of the class (and in logical stuff, like maths and physics and things like that, usually the best).
Having the ability to trudge through what sometimes seems to be busywork leads to stronger self-control
Now there's where the gotcha lies. I have terrible self-control, and really have to push myself to get just about anything done. I even have so low attention span that I often get bored of a movie before the intro is finished and go do something else (and that's MEANT to be entertaining, can you imagine what that will do to boring work?)
So the morale of my tale? Homework isn't neccesary connected with grades, but it's connected with the ability to get actual work done.
And by the way, I'm been taking Windows OS courses for the last two years - the most recent being Windows 2003 Server this past four months. And what a complicated, bloated piece of crap that is! Anybody trying to run something mission-critical on that POS has never heard of the KISS concept!
Amen to that.
Anyone who says even an idiot can admin that have obviously never met the average idiot. And those who say you don't need to be an expert to admin it have just as obviously never really used the system. (and they should be grateful for that).
Now, I think of myself as a fairly decent admin, but I fear working on MS servers, because I have no clue of what it'll do all by itself today. (Ritual suicide? Helpfully misconfigure half the system because I want to do some not-quite-standard thing? Or just plainly refuse to work?)
For those of you who says "Hah, you're just not good enough, you just don't know the system well enough." - That's right. I'll freely admit it. And I'll probably never know it good enough, even if I worked with windows for 10 more years. However, after only around 5 years of linux experience, I can predict exactly what the system can do in about 80% of the cases, and 90% of those I don't know can easily be undone again.
And because of that, I no longer have the urge to really learn windows "really good enough", and generally try to avoid it as best I can. (Of course, if it IS the best tool for the job, then it is the best tool for the job. No discussion)
The only other time I can remember right now is the chernobyl virus I mentioned in my first post. I noticed the slight slowdown on some program startups, and scanned the machine before it could do any serious damage.
I play drumset and listen a lot to music in my spare time, maybe that have affected my sensitivity to it too. *shrugs* one of life's little mysteries, I guess.
First, I'm not talking about the average human, I'm talking about me:-)
Secondly, I did benchmarking after the system was booted, and compared it to benchmarks from before the tweak, just to be sure. How else could I know that it was a 7% increase in speed? It suprised me too that I could notice such a small speed difference. But a fact is a fact, I did notice.
Back a few years, when I was an overclockoholic, I could notice speed differences between 5%-10%. (Like RAM got a 7% speed increase because of the latest bios tweak - I could "feel" it even before win(2k) was booted. It's weird, but true)
The last virus I got (chernobyl, IIRC) I noticed very early, on the start speed of a few programs. I scanned the computer before it managed to infect even 50 files.
I still am sensitive to timing, but not as extreme as I was back then.
Of course, that doesn't mean all viruses and similar can be noticed that way, but it also shows it's not something to just toss away, like you do.
Beagle is a content-indexing system similar to what every other operating system has.
And it extracts some metadata. And aint spotlight basically the same?
the kernel-integration part... file operations trigger import tasks.
You mean like how beage use inotify in the kernel?
Spotlight is shipping. Now. Released. Working. In actual production.
And Suse ships with Beage in version 9.3... which is already out, and have been for a time.
About query language and plugin support. Yeah, ok, beage doesn't have those.. Yet.
But if you call those two groundshaking innovative and otherworldly superior I'm gonna whack you with a rubber duck.
I still haven't seen the significantly large difference between those two that everyone else apparently sees.
You should check out http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/.
Especially http://nat.org/demos/ , and http://nat.org/demos/beagle-2.html
Now, I've never seen dashboard, and I'm sure it looks much snazzier, and probably have a lot of cool stuff, but to say they are two entirely different things sounds a bit weird..
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There's more important things "chicks" can have than a "hot" body. Like...helping you realize your dreams?
What if my dream includes chicks with hot bodies?
Ouch. My condolences :-(
As with everything else, there is a trick to it.
This trick is called "/var/log" - it usually holds more system feedback than you ever wanted to know. Also the command "dmesg" shows quite a lot of good info.
Sounds a bit like zero install, actually. It's basically a caching distributed filesystem thingy.
/0install/foo.com/foo2000/current/foo2k - and 0install connects to foo.com, and downloads that file. That file loads other data files, and they get downloaded too, and cached locally.
/0install/bar.org/libbar/2.3/libbar.so - and that gets downloaded and cached. (notice the link goes to a specific version of the library, so even if bar.org releases a new, api-breaking version, foo2000 will still use the old, working one..
So for example if you wanted to run foo.com's program foo2000, you just start the executable file (dont remember paths exactly, so take this with a grain of salt)
Now, lets say foo2000 depends on bar.org's libbar library to function. It just loads
Next time you start foo2000 it starts up just as fast as a normal program would, since all is on your harddrive, and nothing needs to be downloaded.
Please! Think of the children!
Heh. My brain needed around 2-3 hours to "wake up" every morning. Which meant that I almost never did anything and almost never learnt anything at the start of the school day.
There is almost a direct one-to-one correlation between doing homework and excelling in classes.
I stopped doing homework when I was around 12-13 (don't remember exactly), I've almost always been in top 5 of the class (and in logical stuff, like maths and physics and things like that, usually the best).
Having the ability to trudge through what sometimes seems to be busywork leads to stronger self-control
Now there's where the gotcha lies. I have terrible self-control, and really have to push myself to get just about anything done. I even have so low attention span that I often get bored of a movie before the intro is finished and go do something else (and that's MEANT to be entertaining, can you imagine what that will do to boring work?)
So the morale of my tale? Homework isn't neccesary connected with grades, but it's connected with the ability to get actual work done.
And by the way, I'm been taking Windows OS courses for the last two years - the most recent being Windows 2003 Server this past four months. And what a complicated, bloated piece of crap that is! Anybody trying to run something mission-critical on that POS has never heard of the KISS concept!
Amen to that.
Anyone who says even an idiot can admin that have obviously never met the average idiot.
And those who say you don't need to be an expert to admin it have just as obviously never really used the system. (and they should be grateful for that).
Now, I think of myself as a fairly decent admin, but I fear working on MS servers, because I have no clue of what it'll do all by itself today. (Ritual suicide? Helpfully misconfigure half the system because I want to do some not-quite-standard thing? Or just plainly refuse to work?)
For those of you who says "Hah, you're just not good enough, you just don't know the system well enough." - That's right. I'll freely admit it. And I'll probably never know it good enough, even if I worked with windows for 10 more years. However, after only around 5 years of linux experience, I can predict exactly what the system can do in about 80% of the cases, and 90% of those I don't know can easily be undone again.
And because of that, I no longer have the urge to really learn windows "really good enough", and generally try to avoid it as best I can. (Of course, if it IS the best tool for the job, then it is the best tool for the job. No discussion)
What's the source of these numbers?
His arse.
Actually, they didn't forget 3ware.
The cards didn't fit in the cabinet.
Because now it's THEIR monopoly. The rest is just politics.
eff-tee-pee :-)
Great speed, simple to work with. More clients than you can shake a stick at.
The only other time I can remember right now is the chernobyl virus I mentioned in my first post. I noticed the slight slowdown on some program startups, and scanned the machine before it could do any serious damage.
I play drumset and listen a lot to music in my spare time, maybe that have affected my sensitivity to it too. *shrugs* one of life's little mysteries, I guess.
First, I'm not talking about the average human, I'm talking about me :-)
Secondly, I did benchmarking after the system was booted, and compared it to benchmarks from before the tweak, just to be sure. How else could I know that it was a 7% increase in speed? It suprised me too that I could notice such a small speed difference. But a fact is a fact, I did notice.
I don't have a clue as of how to moderate this.
Funny? Interesting? I think we need a "+1 Scary"...
Back a few years, when I was an overclockoholic, I could notice speed differences between 5%-10%. (Like RAM got a 7% speed increase because of the latest bios tweak - I could "feel" it even before win(2k) was booted. It's weird, but true)
The last virus I got (chernobyl, IIRC) I noticed very early, on the start speed of a few programs. I scanned the computer before it managed to infect even 50 files.
I still am sensitive to timing, but not as extreme as I was back then.
Of course, that doesn't mean all viruses and similar can be noticed that way, but it also shows it's not something to just toss away, like you do.
They only said they would give away the unsucessful stuff. The blue screen tech appear to be very sucessful indeed.
The userbase.
Of curse this doesn't matter much for a company-only IM service, but for the average person it's an important feature.
I won't bet against you. I don't think even the mighty Borg can handle a rabid Stallman.
Too much text, too little geek porn.
Laugh.. Please?
Yeah, as you guessed, I meant spotlight.
... file operations trigger import tasks.
.. Yet.
Lets compare a little:
Beagle is a content-indexing system similar to what every other operating system has.
And it extracts some metadata. And aint spotlight basically the same?
the kernel-integration part
You mean like how beage use inotify in the kernel?
Spotlight is shipping. Now. Released. Working. In actual production.
And Suse ships with Beage in version 9.3... which is already out, and have been for a time.
About query language and plugin support. Yeah, ok, beage doesn't have those
But if you call those two groundshaking innovative and otherworldly superior I'm gonna whack you with a rubber duck.
I still haven't seen the significantly large difference between those two that everyone else apparently sees.
ReactOS and Wine share the code, IIRC. So if one can run the games, the other will probably be able too.
You should check out http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/.
Especially http://nat.org/demos/ , and http://nat.org/demos/beagle-2.html
Now, I've never seen dashboard, and I'm sure it looks much snazzier, and probably have a lot of cool stuff, but to say they are two entirely different things sounds a bit weird..
May I suggest Ubuntu? Yeah, it has gotten a lot of media attention lately, and there's a damn good reason for it :-)
I think I speak for all of us when I say we should forget this windows stuff and go back to bit-switching.