Aside from internal storage(where 3rd parties have already released upgrades) what do they expect to be "upgrading" in these machines? Do they really think we are going to need 32 gigs of RAM in the next 5 years? Do they think that there ate actually laptops that let you upgrade the CPU? Or are they just bitching just to bitch? Don't like the trade offs Apple made to get a small form factor? Then don't ficking buy a retina MacBook pro. Was that REALLY so hard
WTF are you talking about the "obliteration of your server OS in 10.7"? The "server" OS has ALWAYS been merely a bunch of userlans services on top of the standard kernel, the only change in 10.7 is they started selling it that way.
"What the hell do you mean this Italian restaurant doesn't serve curry? I want curry damnit and anyone that doesn't want it is a complete idiot for not wanting curry. You idiots who eat what you like and not what I tell you to like are such sheep!"
That's basically what you just said. Get over yourself, your needs are not the only valid ones.
Yup, the rich bitching about how they shoulder a disproportionate % of the "tax burden" seem to fail to neglect to mention that they also collect a disproportionate amount of the benefits of taxes paid.
You have to think about what happens AFTER the malware is removed though(and this seems to be the issue that Microsoft is addressing) If the hosts file was not modified/restored after getting rid of the malware, then any sort of malicious entries it put into the hosts file will remain even after the initial attack agent is gone.
How pretell was overpaying for a quickly failing hardware manufacturer "long term planning"? If they wanted something long term they could have done a HELL of a lot better than Motorola.
Either:
A: they are desperately trying to do anything to help make their purchase of Motorola Mobile not look like the giant steaming turd that it is or
B: they purchased Motorola Mobile solely for this purpose...
Um, the public doesn't know it's a vulnerability for n+x weeks where x is the # of weeks between the vulnerability was created and when it was discovered.. The detection of the vulnerability isn't actually responsible for the vulnerability.... Your proposed solution would be the worst of both worlds.... Letting everyone, including potential attackers, know that vulnerabilities exist without actually giving anyone any real way to protect themselves as the announcements don't contain any real information....
Getting this far involved rather a lot of irritation at Apple for conspiring to do things in a range of non-standard ways, but it turns out that the real villains of the piece are Intel. The Thunderbolt controller in the Apples is an Intel part - the 82524EF, according to Apple. Given Intel's enthusiasm for Linux and their generally high levels of engagement with the Linux development community, it's disappointing[1] to discover that this controller has been shipping for over a year with (a) no Linux driver and (b) no documentation that would let anyone write such a driver. It's not even mentioned on Intel's website. So, thanks Intel. You're awful.
So yeah, dont let facts get in the way of your rant.
Your post makes no sense, you say you run Linux on Macs then go and lambast Apple hardware.... then why the fuck are you running Linux on a mac if you think Apple hardware is such garbage, why not just get something else? Me thinks you just like ranting against "the man" because somehow it will give you cred around here.
I would also add that given Chinese history(both recent and ancient) when that bubble bursts it is going to get particularly nasty for foreigners living in the country.... It already is starting to with China stepping up checking the ID of foreigners in the country, and if you dont have the proper ID on you...well expect to get a first hand tour of Chinas prisons...
Simpsons did it, see "Marge Gets a Job"...alas I cannot find a clip of the relevant portion but there is a joke where Marge is concerned that all the employees are depressed and/or suicidal, so she suggests piping in some Tom Jones music and having funny hat days....cut to the employees wearing funny hats and listening to Tom Jones, while still being depressed and suicidal...
With the caveat that you only do things the underlying OS can handle(though this is hardly unique to Java). If you use a garbage OS(read Windows) then what works perfectly on real OSs can often fail(shit like soft links and anything that opens more than a handful of TCP/IP sockets comes to mind). But then again if you are doing server side Windows you probably aren't a good coder to start with....
Otherwise, "scrambled" in reference to "encrypted"
Ironically you go on this rant about how "uneducated" the American public is while fucking up the basic details of what you claim to know so much about. The term "cryptographically scrambled" is much more accurate than saying "encrypted", because guess what, the passwords ARENT encrypted, they are hashed. "Scrambled" and "Hashed" in reference to passwords are sort of similar, though scrambled in reference to words usually implies some sort of random re-ordering of the letters, for example
password
becomes
wasspdor
In essence, if you are going to criticize the way someone tries to inform the public about a technical issue, please don't substitute "dumbed-down" for "wrong", because "dumbed-down" is always better than "wrong"
For servers who have lots of available memory slots it's not necassarilu a problem(though memory is still orders of magnitude faster than SSDs, so depending on your workflow you may be able to get just as good performance by using that memory for caching, but those gains can often be difficult to realize...), but for notebooks it's a huge issue. Not very many notebooks(which is what TFA was discussing) can go to 32 gigs of ram, so performance gains tend to be pretty limited
The article doesnt mention any other software(mostly OS) requirements for the accelerators, which is a pretty big deal. Basically there are 2 ways to cache:
1. On the file level, which isnt very resource intensive(there aren't nearly as many files as blocks on a disk), but requires that the accelerator be able to read file system metadata(and of course be able to intercept OS calls) which severely restricts what kind of file system, and really even operating systems, you can use with the accelerator or
2. Block-level caching. Much more generic, can really be used with any file system as the blocks, not any file system metadata, are the only thing that is used. However managing all that block information comes at a cost, either in main memory or more expensive hardware. For instance Flashcache requires about 500 megs of memory to manage a 300GB disk. Depending on your usage this may be acceptable(though is memory really that much cheaper than ssds nowadays?) but for most it isnt.
From the article I can assume that they only tested Windows, and that really limits its usefulness.
Flashcache is a block-level caching algorithm, which means that it will work with any device, but it takes a metric TON of memory as it has to retain cache info for every block on the device. If you have the memory then yeah, you can get some speedup from it, but if you are memory constrained eating up that much memory for the small performance boost isn't worth it.
You are right, I say that in order to reduce cooling costs we mandate that all Korean women aged 18-35 must walk around naked during the summer months. Save the earth!
I would love to see some of the diffs for the(Itanium-specific) patches they submit. My guess is it will be a masterpiece of passive-aggressive coding.
I say have a computerized gun set up directly behind each athlete and program it to shoot them all at once. That will get them running, and will actually make watching it fun:p
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Aside from internal storage(where 3rd parties have already released upgrades) what do they expect to be "upgrading" in these machines? Do they really think we are going to need 32 gigs of RAM in the next 5 years? Do they think that there ate actually laptops that let you upgrade the CPU? Or are they just bitching just to bitch? Don't like the trade offs Apple made to get a small form factor? Then don't ficking buy a retina MacBook pro. Was that REALLY so hard
WTF are you talking about the "obliteration of your server OS in 10.7"? The "server" OS has ALWAYS been merely a bunch of userlans services on top of the standard kernel, the only change in 10.7 is they started selling it that way.
"What the hell do you mean this Italian restaurant doesn't serve curry? I want curry damnit and anyone that doesn't want it is a complete idiot for not wanting curry. You idiots who eat what you like and not what I tell you to like are such sheep!"
That's basically what you just said. Get over yourself, your needs are not the only valid ones.
Yup, the rich bitching about how they shoulder a disproportionate % of the "tax burden" seem to fail to neglect to mention that they also collect a disproportionate amount of the benefits of taxes paid.
You have to think about what happens AFTER the malware is removed though(and this seems to be the issue that Microsoft is addressing) If the hosts file was not modified/restored after getting rid of the malware, then any sort of malicious entries it put into the hosts file will remain even after the initial attack agent is gone.
How pretell was overpaying for a quickly failing hardware manufacturer "long term planning"? If they wanted something long term they could have done a HELL of a lot better than Motorola.
Either:
A: they are desperately trying to do anything to help make their purchase of Motorola Mobile not look like the giant steaming turd that it is or
B: they purchased Motorola Mobile solely for this purpose...
Um, the public doesn't know it's a vulnerability for n+x weeks where x is the # of weeks between the vulnerability was created and when it was discovered.. The detection of the vulnerability isn't actually responsible for the vulnerability.... Your proposed solution would be the worst of both worlds.... Letting everyone, including potential attackers, know that vulnerabilities exist without actually giving anyone any real way to protect themselves as the announcements don't contain any real information....
Getting this far involved rather a lot of irritation at Apple for conspiring to do things in a range of non-standard ways, but it turns out that the real villains of the piece are Intel. The Thunderbolt controller in the Apples is an Intel part - the 82524EF, according to Apple. Given Intel's enthusiasm for Linux and their generally high levels of engagement with the Linux development community, it's disappointing[1] to discover that this controller has been shipping for over a year with (a) no Linux driver and (b) no documentation that would let anyone write such a driver. It's not even mentioned on Intel's website. So, thanks Intel. You're awful.
So yeah, dont let facts get in the way of your rant.
Your post makes no sense, you say you run Linux on Macs then go and lambast Apple hardware.... then why the fuck are you running Linux on a mac if you think Apple hardware is such garbage, why not just get something else? Me thinks you just like ranting against "the man" because somehow it will give you cred around here.
You forgot the shitty hours and pay
I would also add that given Chinese history(both recent and ancient) when that bubble bursts it is going to get particularly nasty for foreigners living in the country.... It already is starting to with China stepping up checking the ID of foreigners in the country, and if you dont have the proper ID on you...well expect to get a first hand tour of Chinas prisons...
Simpsons did it, see "Marge Gets a Job"...alas I cannot find a clip of the relevant portion but there is a joke where Marge is concerned that all the employees are depressed and/or suicidal, so she suggests piping in some Tom Jones music and having funny hat days....cut to the employees wearing funny hats and listening to Tom Jones, while still being depressed and suicidal...
With the caveat that you only do things the underlying OS can handle(though this is hardly unique to Java). If you use a garbage OS(read Windows) then what works perfectly on real OSs can often fail(shit like soft links and anything that opens more than a handful of TCP/IP sockets comes to mind). But then again if you are doing server side Windows you probably aren't a good coder to start with....
Otherwise, "scrambled" in reference to "encrypted"
Ironically you go on this rant about how "uneducated" the American public is while fucking up the basic details of what you claim to know so much about. The term "cryptographically scrambled" is much more accurate than saying "encrypted", because guess what, the passwords ARENT encrypted, they are hashed. "Scrambled" and "Hashed" in reference to passwords are sort of similar, though scrambled in reference to words usually implies some sort of random re-ordering of the letters, for example
password
becomes
wasspdor
In essence, if you are going to criticize the way someone tries to inform the public about a technical issue, please don't substitute "dumbed-down" for "wrong", because "dumbed-down" is always better than "wrong"
Just get a couple of different colors of body paint, and hey, your only limited by your imagination(and perhaps public decency laws)
Neither are plots based on good stories, but that doesnt seem to stop him from making money....
For servers who have lots of available memory slots it's not necassarilu a problem(though memory is still orders of magnitude faster than SSDs, so depending on your workflow you may be able to get just as good performance by using that memory for caching, but those gains can often be difficult to realize...), but for notebooks it's a huge issue. Not very many notebooks(which is what TFA was discussing) can go to 32 gigs of ram, so performance gains tend to be pretty limited
Because its a garbage operating system? Seriously, not separating the logical and physical volume layout? How fucking retarded can you get?
Nice troll, but you lose(unless you dont count 220.5 as >=220.5
The article doesnt mention any other software(mostly OS) requirements for the accelerators, which is a pretty big deal. Basically there are 2 ways to cache:
1. On the file level, which isnt very resource intensive(there aren't nearly as many files as blocks on a disk), but requires that the accelerator be able to read file system metadata(and of course be able to intercept OS calls) which severely restricts what kind of file system, and really even operating systems, you can use with the accelerator
or
2. Block-level caching. Much more generic, can really be used with any file system as the blocks, not any file system metadata, are the only thing that is used. However managing all that block information comes at a cost, either in main memory or more expensive hardware. For instance Flashcache requires about 500 megs of memory to manage a 300GB disk. Depending on your usage this may be acceptable(though is memory really that much cheaper than ssds nowadays?) but for most it isnt.
From the article I can assume that they only tested Windows, and that really limits its usefulness.
Flashcache is a block-level caching algorithm, which means that it will work with any device, but it takes a metric TON of memory as it has to retain cache info for every block on the device. If you have the memory then yeah, you can get some speedup from it, but if you are memory constrained eating up that much memory for the small performance boost isn't worth it.
You are right, I say that in order to reduce cooling costs we mandate that all Korean women aged 18-35 must walk around naked during the summer months. Save the earth!
I would love to see some of the diffs for the(Itanium-specific) patches they submit. My guess is it will be a masterpiece of passive-aggressive coding.
I say have a computerized gun set up directly behind each athlete and program it to shoot them all at once. That will get them running, and will actually make watching it fun :p