Yes! Last holiday season, over 10% of purchases made using Visa were online (Source - PDF). If you are familiar with trends, 10% is critical mass, the point at which a concept takes off. The Internet is very much an entrenched part of the first-world economy.
So amaroK is *nix only... so use *nix. KDE rules my desktop.
amaroK will be ported to Windows once the KDE libraries have been ported to Win32.
amaroK isn't perfect, however. It does crash/hang a lot. Barring that, it is the best music player out there. I have roughly 10,000 songs in my collection, and that does make amaroK a bit of a memory hog. Using MySQL for a database is roughly equivalent for memory usage, and I didn't notice a difference in speed for it, either.
Yeah, that's definitely a shift that's going to happen.
From what I hear, some ISP's are having issues with network saturation causing delays: e.g. ACK TCP packets not getting through. Instead of being smart and prioritizing traffic, they're simply rate limiting certain classes of traffic -- not allowing bittorrent users their full share of available bulk-priority bandwidth. It's like using a hammer on a screw.
What a lot of ISP's are doing is outright rate limiting, not simply prioritizing. It would be acceptable to put P2P stuff at a lower priority to keep other services fast, but ISPs are simply rate limiting P2P traffic to lower the amount of bandwidth being used.
There's more to it than that. Most home DSL and cable connections have a large buffer in the modem (several seconds worth of traffic). If you allow a queue of any sort to build up in there, then time-sensitive packets get delayed as they have to wait their turn in the queue. When you implement traffic shaping, you can limit the outgoing traffic to slightly slower than the modem upload speed, which moves the queue to your router -- which can then put the high priority packets out immediately. This allows me to use bittorrent at 95% of the link capacity with no noticeable slowdown, where before, I had to limit it to about 70% to avoid the queue in the modem. I also use Azureus.
That's why traffic shaping exists. I even do it on my home router. I can leave bittorrent running with several active torrents, using 95% of my available bandwidth up and down, yet still have snappy ssh, http, vnc, email, dns, voip, etc. All I did was configure my Linksys router to prioritize that traffic over bittorrent, letting bittorrent use the rest. Granted, my home network is nothing major, but anyone who has managed a network should see this as the obvious solution. Anyone who doesn't know about traffic shaping shouldn't be managing a network in the first place.
Are you trying to tell us you've changed "flavors"?
Yeah, the universe ran out of vanilla, so it's substituting a rich, creamy chocolate. Unfortunately, since neutrinos rarely interact with matter, of which women are made, this will little positive impact upon your life.
There are many companies that do exactly this: you ship them the CD's and they'll rip them for you. If your time is worth money, they're certainly worth Googling. The good ones include album covers, etc. I imagine they simply keep a ripped (wav) copy of each CD that passes through their hands to speed up the process for future customers.
If you're not writing to the files extensively, ext3 is perfectly fine. If you don't need the data journalling, read `man mount` regarding ext3 mount options.
Personally, I'm using XFS for the same task. Why? Because it segments the filesystem, allowing segment locking instead of filesystem locking, which is nice if you're writing multiple big files at once. I've never had a problem with it.
If you are getting countless IO errors, have you done a `badblocks` on the disk? Have you tried a different IO card or disk?
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Looks like it's not such a wii little graphics card after all!
Fact: Inhaling crystalline silica dust can lead to silicosis or cancer.
I can think of much more interesting things to inhale than sand, such as, say... asbestos.
Vigo's after Oscar... quick! Check for a river of slime running under Redmond!
Might as well rename tha'un named after m'arse while yer at it.
You miss the point: if you shake a lego brick light saber, you look like a dork. If you shake a Mac laptop light saber, you look like a rich dork.
Yeah, but a Mac laptop gives you +2 points for style.
Do we really depend so much on the internet?
Yes! Last holiday season, over 10% of purchases made using Visa were online (Source - PDF). If you are familiar with trends, 10% is critical mass, the point at which a concept takes off. The Internet is very much an entrenched part of the first-world economy.
Thanks for the info!
Where did they get the caffeine in such a form? The only way I know of getting it is in little bitter pills.
So amaroK is *nix only... so use *nix. KDE rules my desktop.
amaroK will be ported to Windows once the KDE libraries have been ported to Win32.
amaroK isn't perfect, however. It does crash/hang a lot. Barring that, it is the best music player out there. I have roughly 10,000 songs in my collection, and that does make amaroK a bit of a memory hog. Using MySQL for a database is roughly equivalent for memory usage, and I didn't notice a difference in speed for it, either.
It figures it would take a RocketScientist to figure that out.
Yeah, that's definitely a shift that's going to happen.
From what I hear, some ISP's are having issues with network saturation causing delays: e.g. ACK TCP packets not getting through. Instead of being smart and prioritizing traffic, they're simply rate limiting certain classes of traffic -- not allowing bittorrent users their full share of available bulk-priority bandwidth. It's like using a hammer on a screw.
What a lot of ISP's are doing is outright rate limiting, not simply prioritizing. It would be acceptable to put P2P stuff at a lower priority to keep other services fast, but ISPs are simply rate limiting P2P traffic to lower the amount of bandwidth being used.
There's more to it than that. Most home DSL and cable connections have a large buffer in the modem (several seconds worth of traffic). If you allow a queue of any sort to build up in there, then time-sensitive packets get delayed as they have to wait their turn in the queue. When you implement traffic shaping, you can limit the outgoing traffic to slightly slower than the modem upload speed, which moves the queue to your router -- which can then put the high priority packets out immediately. This allows me to use bittorrent at 95% of the link capacity with no noticeable slowdown, where before, I had to limit it to about 70% to avoid the queue in the modem. I also use Azureus.
That's why traffic shaping exists. I even do it on my home router. I can leave bittorrent running with several active torrents, using 95% of my available bandwidth up and down, yet still have snappy ssh, http, vnc, email, dns, voip, etc. All I did was configure my Linksys router to prioritize that traffic over bittorrent, letting bittorrent use the rest. Granted, my home network is nothing major, but anyone who has managed a network should see this as the obvious solution. Anyone who doesn't know about traffic shaping shouldn't be managing a network in the first place.
Maybe these ones will work better?
Are you trying to tell us you've changed "flavors"?
Yeah, the universe ran out of vanilla, so it's substituting a rich, creamy chocolate. Unfortunately, since neutrinos rarely interact with matter, of which women are made, this will little positive impact upon your life.
There are many companies that do exactly this: you ship them the CD's and they'll rip them for you. If your time is worth money, they're certainly worth Googling. The good ones include album covers, etc. I imagine they simply keep a ripped (wav) copy of each CD that passes through their hands to speed up the process for future customers.
Ironically, that DOES WORK in Windows' Minesweeper.
That's it! I'm naming my next pet rat Glibc.
No, some of the replies were written in green ink, and when they tried to print it on green paper, they were invisible! Nyah!
You forgot a mount point... or is that defined in fstab?
If you're not writing to the files extensively, ext3 is perfectly fine. If you don't need the data journalling, read `man mount` regarding ext3 mount options.
Personally, I'm using XFS for the same task. Why? Because it segments the filesystem, allowing segment locking instead of filesystem locking, which is nice if you're writing multiple big files at once. I've never had a problem with it.
If you are getting countless IO errors, have you done a `badblocks` on the disk? Have you tried a different IO card or disk?
Don't be retarded: FAT16 can't store more than 4 GB of data, which most DVD's exceed.
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Really? They can tell I eat oats?