Well, let's look at that. 888948 is allocated, which means 143824 is WASTED. You're wasting about 20% of your memory. Period. You should fix your cache settings. Now, you're complaining that your operating system is using too much memory?
Which requires a question: How much is it actually using: used - buffers - cached, or the number in the second line, which is 425428. Now, that's 425MB for KDE or Gnome, plus a kernel, plus drivers, plus Firefox (easily 300MB on its own). And I notice your swap file is about 30% full, so I'd bet you were recently running more than just DE and browser. Memory isn't released for shared libraries immediately, because chances are another app will want that library soon.
Care to guess how much RAM my Windows Vista machine takes at idle, minus cache? I'll give you a hint, it's a fuckload more.
I have a linux GUI running on a screamer of a 386 laptop with 4MB of system ram(why? I was bored). Good thing you can turn off the bloated-but-pretty KDE and use the svelte-but-sparse XFCE and friends. Linux can run on anything that somebody takes the time to wrangle it into.
Medium well?...philistine. Go to a good steak house(i.e., not Ruth's Chris or anything similar), get either a Kobe steak or some well-aged American knock-off, order it medium rare with a good wine, and get nothing else. That's Heaven in the form of food.
I, for one, don't have a clue what he's talking about. And it's really tough to Google punctuation these days. And for some reason I had 15 mod points when I logged in, so I really wanted to go on a mad modding rampage.
That's why he has a +2 karma bonus, and you're a piece of trash without the balls to even log in and insult him with your name showing. ...besides, I *like* his blogs. They're at least much more interesting than my cheeto-eating life.
So I was reading one of your links with interest, seeing as it's been a long time since I got into a really juicy conspiracy theory. Those internet vandals keep debunking the good ones! And I came across this:
As they watched in shock and awe, randomly typed letters scrolled across a screen. The words were gibberish.
The sender "left breadcrumbs," Hank related. The deliberately attached ISP (Internet Service Provider) pointed to China.
This was bad enough. But what really freaked out the officers was the realization that none of these "stand alone" machines was online. None of them contained a modem! So, first there's an "ISP" attached, and then there's no modem. It gets better.
How did the PLA hack supposedly secure air force computers lacking network modems? Just like as select power companies can now pipe the Internet to home computers through electrical power lines, the Chinese were able to play on SAC's supposedly secure computers through the AC power cables connecting them to the national power... "grid". Okay. The PRC has invented the fantastic ability to first, hack into the U.S. national power grid from China and modulate a signal onto the power line. Then they somehow direct this signal unerringly into one of the U.S. government's most secure facilities, with filtered power, constant battery backup, and their own generators for extra backup. Then this super-powered signal hacks its way through the power supply unit (how? I haven't the slightest clue. Genius!) and gets into the CPU. And with all that fantastic power, what does China do? They type "gibberish."
What does that mean, pray tell? Once you've defined it, tell us exactly why that definition cannot be applied to rock music, superhero movies, children's comic books, odd translations of the christian holy book, tabloids, romance novels (trashy or high-class), or the Illiad?
For that matter, why do YOU get to decide what countless millions of people do with their free time? Who gave YOU that right?
I'm willing to bet his "hour" of weeding isn't completely accurate. As well, he hasn't mentioned the time taken to initially prepare his growing plot and the investment in whatever space-age technology keeps bugs and critters out of his patch. However, it most certainly can be an investment, as long as you're not growing zucchini. Certain times of the year around here, you can't even give those things away. I usually just leave buckets of them in people's cars at Church on Sunday. I don't even go to Church, but it's a great place to get rid of excess produce.
Most? No. I've been working or playing with IBM PC-compatibles since I was 12 when Dad brought a second-hand 286 home from work. I've never seen a single battery that was welded in. Anecdotal evidence, of course, but I've laid eyes on easily hundreds of different mainboards. I certainly wouldn't purchase a board where you couldn't replace the only piece guaranteed to die in ~5 years.
You can be sued for anything. Being sued for something doesn't mean that act is: illegal, immoral, unethical, or mean.
That said, many many jurisdictions in the United States have a so-called "Good Samaritan" law. This is a law that protects you from criminal charges and--depending on the state--lawsuits. For instance, the law in Texas is quite broad and protects anyone who acts in good faith from any civil damages. On the other hand, California's law is much more strict, and protects only licensed EMTs, Doctors, Nurses, etc. at the actual scene of an emergency.
Or, like I've done several times when I wanted to comment on *why* I modded something up or down, he logged out and then made an anonymous comment. (yes, I checked afterwards, the moderation stays)
"perephriel (god why is Firefox's spellcheck so retarded?)"
Peripheral. It's phonetic. \p-'ri-f(-)rl\. Don't blame the spell checker when the problem is clearly yours. Hell, Google knows what you mean by "perephriel", but that's only because Google's been filtering the sewers of humanity since it was switched on. If it ever goes sentient, we're all fucked.
Yes. This is slashdot. Trolls are not judged on the quality or relevancy of their trolling material, they are instead judged on the quality of their javascript. Magnificent.
I'm not sure what sort of a moron would consider those CURRENT instructions. Those are first, for TWO releases ago(equivalent to windows 95, if the latest Ubuntu is equivalent to XP), and secondly those are the instructions to install the BETA video driver. As somebody who's actually USED Ubuntu for the last few years, here's how normal people install nvidia's proprietary driver:
1. Open the "Restricted Drivers Manager" from the helpful notification icon in the system tray (1 click) 2. Click "Enable" (1 click) 3. Click "Close" (1 click) 4. Reboot (2 clicks)
Five clicks, and the driver Just Works. Last time I installed the new NVidia driver on my windows box, it crashed hard and I had to reinstall the entire system. Guess which operating system is easier for inexperienced people?
I notice you didn't feel confident enough in Monster cables to attach a name to this drivel. Is that, perhaps, because the "revolutionary" products they produced are, in fact, over-priced and over-hyped garbage, no better than bulk 12-gauge for any consumer use?
I like your way of thinking. Steal a car = death penalty
Perhaps being stupid online should carry, not the death penalty perhaps(it is a lesser crime), but perhaps the penalty of having your index fingers severed so you can't spew your mental diarrhea for everyone else to deal with?
Of course, being a minor, oh Anonymous Troll that you are, you'd be spared that penalty.
You're suggesting that only 1,000 "good guys" have died in Iraq during this conflict? You're out of your gourd. From May 2003 to April 2008 there were 4,342 confirmed military deaths for the coalition forces.
Hi, oh Anonymous Coward. You may have forgotten something, seeing as you've been posting on Slashdot since before CmdrTaco registered, but "Anonymous Coward" isn't exactly a "low uid". In point of fact, I'd say you rank at just about a 12-digit UID.
Go troll Digg, that's a good place for idiots who have nothing better to do than spew pointless venom.
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1032772 888948 143824 0 66088 397432
-/+ buffers/cache: 425428 607344
Swap: 1052216 323804 728412
Well, let's look at that. 888948 is allocated, which means 143824 is WASTED. You're wasting about 20% of your memory. Period. You should fix your cache settings. Now, you're complaining that your operating system is using too much memory?
Which requires a question: How much is it actually using: used - buffers - cached, or the number in the second line, which is 425428. Now, that's 425MB for KDE or Gnome, plus a kernel, plus drivers, plus Firefox (easily 300MB on its own). And I notice your swap file is about 30% full, so I'd bet you were recently running more than just DE and browser. Memory isn't released for shared libraries immediately, because chances are another app will want that library soon.
Care to guess how much RAM my Windows Vista machine takes at idle, minus cache? I'll give you a hint, it's a fuckload more.
I have a linux GUI running on a screamer of a 386 laptop with 4MB of system ram(why? I was bored). Good thing you can turn off the bloated-but-pretty KDE and use the svelte-but-sparse XFCE and friends.
Linux can run on anything that somebody takes the time to wrangle it into.
I know how steaks are supposed to be cooked. If it doesn't sit up and moo while you're eating it, it's overcooked.
Medium well? ...philistine. Go to a good steak house(i.e., not Ruth's Chris or anything similar), get either a Kobe steak or some well-aged American knock-off, order it medium rare with a good wine, and get nothing else. That's Heaven in the form of food.
I, for one, don't have a clue what he's talking about. And it's really tough to Google punctuation these days. And for some reason I had 15 mod points when I logged in, so I really wanted to go on a mad modding rampage.
That's why he has a +2 karma bonus, and you're a piece of trash without the balls to even log in and insult him with your name showing.
...besides, I *like* his blogs. They're at least much more interesting than my cheeto-eating life.
The sender "left breadcrumbs," Hank related. The deliberately attached ISP (Internet Service Provider) pointed to China.
This was bad enough. But what really freaked out the officers was the realization that none of these "stand alone" machines was online. None of them contained a modem! So, first there's an "ISP" attached, and then there's no modem. It gets better. How did the PLA hack supposedly secure air force computers lacking network modems? Just like as select power companies can now pipe the Internet to home computers through electrical power lines, the Chinese were able to play on SAC's supposedly secure computers through the AC power cables connecting them to the national power... "grid". Okay. The PRC has invented the fantastic ability to first, hack into the U.S. national power grid from China and modulate a signal onto the power line. Then they somehow direct this signal unerringly into one of the U.S. government's most secure facilities, with filtered power, constant battery backup, and their own generators for extra backup. Then this super-powered signal hacks its way through the power supply unit (how? I haven't the slightest clue. Genius!) and gets into the CPU. And with all that fantastic power, what does China do? They type "gibberish."
"Porn has 0 productive value."
What does that mean, pray tell? Once you've defined it, tell us exactly why that definition cannot be applied to rock music, superhero movies, children's comic books, odd translations of the christian holy book, tabloids, romance novels (trashy or high-class), or the Illiad?
For that matter, why do YOU get to decide what countless millions of people do with their free time? Who gave YOU that right?
I do not have a beard, I do not write code, and I read Slashdot. That's 3, that's statistically significant, PUBLISH!
Can you get laid watching Gilligan's Island?
I suppose if it was the right girl, and she happened to have an island fetish...maybe.
Can you get laid meeting people on the Internet?
Well, yes, duh. But it'll be a 45-year-old FBI agent pretending to be that hawtie sweet-16 camgirl.
I'm willing to bet his "hour" of weeding isn't completely accurate. As well, he hasn't mentioned the time taken to initially prepare his growing plot and the investment in whatever space-age technology keeps bugs and critters out of his patch. However, it most certainly can be an investment, as long as you're not growing zucchini.
Certain times of the year around here, you can't even give those things away. I usually just leave buckets of them in people's cars at Church on Sunday. I don't even go to Church, but it's a great place to get rid of excess produce.
Most? No. I've been working or playing with IBM PC-compatibles since I was 12 when Dad brought a second-hand 286 home from work. I've never seen a single battery that was welded in. Anecdotal evidence, of course, but I've laid eyes on easily hundreds of different mainboards. I certainly wouldn't purchase a board where you couldn't replace the only piece guaranteed to die in ~5 years.
You can be sued for anything. Being sued for something doesn't mean that act is: illegal, immoral, unethical, or mean.
That said, many many jurisdictions in the United States have a so-called "Good Samaritan" law. This is a law that protects you from criminal charges and--depending on the state--lawsuits. For instance, the law in Texas is quite broad and protects anyone who acts in good faith from any civil damages. On the other hand, California's law is much more strict, and protects only licensed EMTs, Doctors, Nurses, etc. at the actual scene of an emergency.
Know the law in your state! http://www.cprinstructor.com/legal.htm
"One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist."
Nuh-uh!
Or, like I've done several times when I wanted to comment on *why* I modded something up or down, he logged out and then made an anonymous comment. (yes, I checked afterwards, the moderation stays)
"perephriel (god why is Firefox's spellcheck so retarded?)"
Peripheral. It's phonetic. \p-'ri-f(-)rl\. Don't blame the spell checker when the problem is clearly yours. Hell, Google knows what you mean by "perephriel", but that's only because Google's been filtering the sewers of humanity since it was switched on. If it ever goes sentient, we're all fucked.
Yes. This is slashdot. Trolls are not judged on the quality or relevancy of their trolling material, they are instead judged on the quality of their javascript. Magnificent.
The term you were looking for is "defame".
Other correct terms would be, "harass", "torment", "trouble", "irk", "bedevil", "beleaguer", or "plague".
I'm not sure what sort of a moron would consider those CURRENT instructions. Those are first, for TWO releases ago(equivalent to windows 95, if the latest Ubuntu is equivalent to XP), and secondly those are the instructions to install the BETA video driver. As somebody who's actually USED Ubuntu for the last few years, here's how normal people install nvidia's proprietary driver:
1. Open the "Restricted Drivers Manager" from the helpful notification icon in the system tray (1 click)
2. Click "Enable" (1 click)
3. Click "Close" (1 click)
4. Reboot (2 clicks)
Five clicks, and the driver Just Works. Last time I installed the new NVidia driver on my windows box, it crashed hard and I had to reinstall the entire system. Guess which operating system is easier for inexperienced people?
I notice you didn't feel confident enough in Monster cables to attach a name to this drivel. Is that, perhaps, because the "revolutionary" products they produced are, in fact, over-priced and over-hyped garbage, no better than bulk 12-gauge for any consumer use?
I like your way of thinking.
Steal a car = death penalty
Perhaps being stupid online should carry, not the death penalty perhaps(it is a lesser crime), but perhaps the penalty of having your index fingers severed so you can't spew your mental diarrhea for everyone else to deal with?
Of course, being a minor, oh Anonymous Troll that you are, you'd be spared that penalty.
You're suggesting that only 1,000 "good guys" have died in Iraq during this conflict? You're out of your gourd. From May 2003 to April 2008 there were 4,342 confirmed military deaths for the coalition forces.
If you had been reading, the parent post referred specifically to the story. Gameplay and graphics have absolutely nothing to do with the story line.
I absolutely love that entire series. Then again, I'm definitely a McCaffrey fanboi, anything written in her universe makes me giddy.
Hi, oh Anonymous Coward. You may have forgotten something, seeing as you've been posting on Slashdot since before CmdrTaco registered, but "Anonymous Coward" isn't exactly a "low uid". In point of fact, I'd say you rank at just about a 12-digit UID.
Go troll Digg, that's a good place for idiots who have nothing better to do than spew pointless venom.