What's that "supermarket" thing you're talking about? Outside the US we have regular shops every second corner: I live in the suburbs yet there's six grocery shops I can get to crossing a street at most once, two of them fairly large (for Polish rather than US standards). Supermarkets around here are also notorious for cheating with expired food, something corner shops don't dare to.
Bread is what makes using supermarkets a bad idea: it is good for two days. I've seen bread in the US, you solve this problem by not having edible bread in the first place: that earthy sponge has never been good so it can't get worse:p
The page cache is directly usable, ARC is not. There's no "buffer" in a 'normal' setup -- all of memory serves as a LRU-ish cache of recently accessed pages.
To use ZFS, at least 1 GB of memory is recommended (for all architectures) but more is helpful as ZFS needs *lots* of memory. Depending on your workload, it may be possible to use ZFS on systems with less memory, but it requires careful tuning to avoid panics from memory exhaustion in the kernel.
Yeah... 1GB memory just to run it. I'll pass. Somehow ext4 or btrfs have no problems running efficiently on a phone.
It's a cpanel vulnerability, Apache is merely modified by the payload to help it spread. Seriously, giving a web server process root -- what the hell are those guys thinking?
And there are some who, on principle, never buy anything DRMed, including what some of you call "light" DRM like Steam. Sorry, but light rape is still rape.
A filesystem that takes most of the machine's memory might be usable on a NAS, but not on a system whose purpose is something else than being a dedicated file server.
When it comes to data safety, btrfs has been production ready for a few years already. There are issues with latency -- largely fixed -- and dealing with asinine abuse of fsync(). That's also mostly dealt with, although there's no real full fix other than fixing problematic software in the first place. There's no real way to have efficient cow/etc and fast fsync together, but you don't need the latter if the filesystem can do transactions for you.
So we have a filesystem with a number of safety features but relatively new code vs one with code/design that's 40 years old but has hardly any safety features at all. I'd say, it's ext4 that's not production ready: a no-op backup can take half an hour (a big spinning disk that holds a bunch of vservers).
Sadly, Gnome 3.8 "classic mode" is a bad joke that has the superficial look of some details but hardly any of the functionality.
Just install MATE or XFCE and never look at Gnome again. From the direction they're going it doesn't seem Gnome 3 has any chances of being usable this decade.
Gnome 2 just won't work with the new gimp and vice versa.
Gimp works just fine with MATE or XFCE, heck, all of these use gtk-2 rather than the pile of regressions called gtk-3. On most distributions you can't install "real" Gnome 2 any more because Gnome 3 hijacked its names despite having little to do with it, but that's been worked around.
They are attention seekers. If you want to tell them what their tantrum causes, please send to info@fermaregreenhill.net your, uhm, fan mail. Mine was:
Let's estimate the damage you sick fucks just did.
For an easier estimation, let's replace the psychiatry lab with a cancer research one. Let's guess that in the world we have, say, 1000 such labs. It's safe to assume a cure for cancer will be found -- maybe in 5 years, maybe 20, maybe 50, but ultimately, it will. Thus, delaying such a lab's research by X, you delay all labs worldwide by X/1000. Wikipedia says in 2007 there was 7.9 mln cancer deaths worldwide. Thus, delaying a lab by mere three months will cause as many deaths as September 11 attacks.
According to what guys from University of Milan say, "it will take years to recover their work" -- let's take this as 2.5 years, ie, 30 months. The lab you vandalized didn't research cancer but psychiatric diseases like autism or schizophrenia. I'd say curing a single schizophrenia patient (a debilitating disease) is worth at least 1/10 of saving a cancer victim.
Congratulations, you just caused as much suffering as muslims at WTC.
I guess Italian police and justice system is as incompetent as in most other countries, but there's hope you will receive at least a small sliver of your just reward.
And to add insult to injury, these mice you released are not able to survive in the wild in the first place. They don't know how to forage, seek shelter, hide from predators and so on.
Why won't they force the terrorists to repay every penny lost due to the attack? While it's unlikely they'd have enough assets to cover losses, it will at least be a deterrent. Even if the researchers got back all grant money lost this way, it won't bring us back the time lost, but at least that's something.
This particular lab worked on psychiatric diseases which rarely cause death but "merely" cripple the person's life. For a more clear example, let's take a cancer lab, let's assume there's 1000 such labs worldwide. This means, an attack that delays the lab's research by just three months causes more deaths than September 11 attacks.
the thing uses the u-boot based bootloader which you can only talk to over serial) which pretty much makes their serial debug board mandatory if you want to do any tinkering with the OS (rather than just download someone else's media center build and run it).
Depends on what tinkering you have in mind. I for one don't mess with the bootloader, yet otherwise the system hardly resembles the pre-made Debian image I started from. I do have a number of chroots as well, including a raspbian one, which needs 5 minutes for a build that takes 8 hours on raspberry. Yes, 5 minutes vs 8 hours. No wonders I love this box.
How many people use GPIO on these boards? A small, small minority. Pretty much everyone else who's not content with a media center will want a decent CPU instead. It's a fully fledged general purpose computer. Not some android toy, but something that's good enough to be one's primary machine with a real OS.
Price of the board doesn't matter much compared to accessories needed, your time, etc. There's a bunch of overpriced boards within $250-$450, but you can get a nice 4*2.0 GHz, 2GB ram one for $89 (plus at least a $9 non-standard power brick). A wee bit better than 1-core 1.0GHz BeagleBone in this article.
The specs sheet says 1.7GHz that can be overclocked to 2.0, but one I got was already at 2.0 the first time I plugged it in.
There's only one big shameful downside: the graphics card supports only vertical resolutions of 720 and 1080, thus requiring a monitor of utterly useless proportions. My rasPi has seen around half an hour of monitor time total, so I guess this is not a big loss.
3GB typically. That limit applies only per process, and it's pretty rare for a typical user to have a single process that big.
Then, you have netbooks and/or vserver hosting where the entire [virtual] machine doesn't have that much physical memory.
x32 is also noticeably faster: over i386 for anything that wants registers, over amd64 for anything with more pointers than CPU's cache. Benchmarks vary wildly, but figures around 7% faster than amd64 are typical.
kernel and compiler support is there, not sure about all the userspace stuff.
Just debootstrap it from Daniel Schepler's repository. Most of the work has since moved to official second-class repositories (AKA debian-ports), but because of the freeze, you want both, So after debootstrapping, echo "deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unstable main" >>/etc/apt/sources.list and you're set.
The U.S. was founded on certain principles that were ironically considered extremely liberal at the time, but now would be classified as extremely conservative according to a European mentality.
Well, we still don't have a strong right to free speech (truthful "libel" in UK, "insulting religious values" in Poland, a crapload of things in Germany, etc), and a complete lack of other basic human rights such as the right to self-defense (which has mostly gone away in the US as well, despite unambiguous wording in your constitution).
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Then where do you get bread during most of the week?
What's that "supermarket" thing you're talking about? Outside the US we have regular shops every second corner: I live in the suburbs yet there's six grocery shops I can get to crossing a street at most once, two of them fairly large (for Polish rather than US standards). Supermarkets around here are also notorious for cheating with expired food, something corner shops don't dare to.
Bread is what makes using supermarkets a bad idea: it is good for two days. I've seen bread in the US, you solve this problem by not having edible bread in the first place: that earthy sponge has never been good so it can't get worse :p
The page cache is directly usable, ARC is not. There's no "buffer" in a 'normal' setup -- all of memory serves as a LRU-ish cache of recently accessed pages.
Quoting the ZFS Guide:
To use ZFS, at least 1 GB of memory is recommended (for all architectures) but more is helpful as ZFS needs *lots* of memory. Depending on your workload, it may be possible to use ZFS on systems with less memory, but it requires careful tuning to avoid panics from memory exhaustion in the kernel.
Yeah... 1GB memory just to run it. I'll pass. Somehow ext4 or btrfs have no problems running efficiently on a phone.
Entertainment serves no vital purpose, self-defense does. That changes the threshold for acceptable danger.
Of course, this doesn't answer the question who gave the government rights to ban fun toys because "think of the children".
Then why exactly cars haven't been banned yet?
Even worse, breathing air causes millions of deaths every year, let's ban air!
cpanel
It's a cpanel vulnerability, Apache is merely modified by the payload to help it spread. Seriously, giving a web server process root -- what the hell are those guys thinking?
YHBT. The kernel has nothing to do with HOSTS files.
"It's just the bad 95% of us that give the rest a bad name" -- Ray Beckerman (quoted from memory, might be inexact)
And there are some who, on principle, never buy anything DRMed, including what some of you call "light" DRM like Steam. Sorry, but light rape is still rape.
Yeah, that's some pot/kettle 'black'
More like pot calling the refrigerator black.
A filesystem that takes most of the machine's memory might be usable on a NAS, but not on a system whose purpose is something else than being a dedicated file server.
When it comes to data safety, btrfs has been production ready for a few years already. There are issues with latency -- largely fixed -- and dealing with asinine abuse of fsync(). That's also mostly dealt with, although there's no real full fix other than fixing problematic software in the first place. There's no real way to have efficient cow/etc and fast fsync together, but you don't need the latter if the filesystem can do transactions for you.
So we have a filesystem with a number of safety features but relatively new code vs one with code/design that's 40 years old but has hardly any safety features at all. I'd say, it's ext4 that's not production ready: a no-op backup can take half an hour (a big spinning disk that holds a bunch of vservers).
Sadly, Gnome 3.8 "classic mode" is a bad joke that has the superficial look of some details but hardly any of the functionality.
Just install MATE or XFCE and never look at Gnome again. From the direction they're going it doesn't seem Gnome 3 has any chances of being usable this decade.
Gnome 2 just won't work with the new gimp and vice versa.
Gimp works just fine with MATE or XFCE, heck, all of these use gtk-2 rather than the pile of regressions called gtk-3. On most distributions you can't install "real" Gnome 2 any more because Gnome 3 hijacked its names despite having little to do with it, but that's been worked around.
They are attention seekers. If you want to tell them what their tantrum causes, please send to info@fermaregreenhill.net your, uhm, fan mail. Mine was:
Let's estimate the damage you sick fucks just did.
For an easier estimation, let's replace the psychiatry lab with a cancer
research one. Let's guess that in the world we have, say, 1000 such labs.
It's safe to assume a cure for cancer will be found -- maybe in 5 years,
maybe 20, maybe 50, but ultimately, it will. Thus, delaying such a lab's
research by X, you delay all labs worldwide by X/1000. Wikipedia says in
2007 there was 7.9 mln cancer deaths worldwide. Thus, delaying a lab
by mere three months will cause as many deaths as September 11 attacks.
According to what guys from University of Milan say, "it will take years to
recover their work" -- let's take this as 2.5 years, ie, 30 months. The lab
you vandalized didn't research cancer but psychiatric diseases like autism
or schizophrenia. I'd say curing a single schizophrenia patient (a
debilitating disease) is worth at least 1/10 of saving a cancer victim.
Congratulations, you just caused as much suffering as muslims at WTC.
I guess Italian police and justice system is as incompetent as in most
other countries, but there's hope you will receive at least a small sliver
of your just reward.
And to add insult to injury, these mice you released are not able to survive
in the wild in the first place. They don't know how to forage, seek
shelter, hide from predators and so on.
Why won't they force the terrorists to repay every penny lost due to the attack? While it's unlikely they'd have enough assets to cover losses, it will at least be a deterrent. Even if the researchers got back all grant money lost this way, it won't bring us back the time lost, but at least that's something.
This particular lab worked on psychiatric diseases which rarely cause death but "merely" cripple the person's life. For a more clear example, let's take a cancer lab, let's assume there's 1000 such labs worldwide. This means, an attack that delays the lab's research by just three months causes more deaths than September 11 attacks.
the thing uses the u-boot based bootloader which you can only talk to over serial) which pretty much makes their serial debug board mandatory if you want to do any tinkering with the OS (rather than just download someone else's media center build and run it).
Depends on what tinkering you have in mind. I for one don't mess with the bootloader, yet otherwise the system hardly resembles the pre-made Debian image I started from. I do have a number of chroots as well, including a raspbian one, which needs 5 minutes for a build that takes 8 hours on raspberry. Yes, 5 minutes vs 8 hours. No wonders I love this box.
How many people use GPIO on these boards? A small, small minority. Pretty much everyone else who's not content with a media center will want a decent CPU instead. It's a fully fledged general purpose computer. Not some android toy, but something that's good enough to be one's primary machine with a real OS.
The specs sheet says 1.7GHz that can be overclocked to 2.0, but one I got was already at 2.0 the first time I plugged it in.
There's only one big shameful downside: the graphics card supports only vertical resolutions of 720 and 1080, thus requiring a monitor of utterly useless proportions. My rasPi has seen around half an hour of monitor time total, so I guess this is not a big loss.
except the ability to access more than 4GB of RAM
3GB typically. That limit applies only per process, and it's pretty rare for a typical user to have a single process that big.
Then, you have netbooks and/or vserver hosting where the entire [virtual] machine doesn't have that much physical memory.
x32 is also noticeably faster: over i386 for anything that wants registers, over amd64 for anything with more pointers than CPU's cache. Benchmarks vary wildly, but figures around 7% faster than amd64 are typical.
kernel and compiler support is there, not sure about all the userspace stuff.
Just debootstrap it from Daniel Schepler's repository. Most of the work has since moved to official second-class repositories (AKA debian-ports), but because of the freeze, you want both, So after debootstrapping, echo "deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unstable main" >>/etc/apt/sources.list and you're set.
AMD smokes Intel in performance/price for most stuff that can be parallelized. It's only single thread performance where Intel wins.
The U.S. was founded on certain principles that were ironically considered extremely liberal at the time, but now would be classified as extremely conservative according to a European mentality.
Well, we still don't have a strong right to free speech (truthful "libel" in UK, "insulting religious values" in Poland, a crapload of things in Germany, etc), and a complete lack of other basic human rights such as the right to self-defense (which has mostly gone away in the US as well, despite unambiguous wording in your constitution).