Loading the OS into ram is done by creating a RAMDISK filesystem which I believe is universal among most Linux distributions. If anyone's interested here's a link on how to do it: http://silent.gumph.org/content/4/1/011-linux-on-c f.html It's for compact flash but I'm sure it could be adapted to work on a USB stick without too much trouble.
Boot speed with a RAMDISK setup is not too great. During boot the kernel is loaded from the flash, a compressed filesystem is copied into ram from the flash and then that gets decompressed. The fastest I could get my 300Mhz PC104 system to boot to a console prompt was 67 seconds (and that's with a stripped out kernel and barely anything running on boot...maybe 10 processes). Also keep in mind that your main filesystem can only be about 2/3rds the size of memory or else you'll run out of room when it goes to decompress the RAMDISK filesystem (for example, an 80mb decompressed filesystem and 30mb compressed filesystem would be the max for a system with 128MB of ram).
How about New Bedfahd (New Bedford) and Fall Rivah (Fall River)? You can't forget the cities that export cocaine in quantities like they do! We supply the drug dealers for miles and miles.
I once saw a cashier handed a dollar bill at the store I work at in New Bedford which was COVERED with coke.
Whaling city - Whaling Industry + Big Fishing Port + Drug Imports = One Dirty City
The opposing view would be that since Linux competes with itself, through survivial-of-the-fittest, only the most prefered features get passed on. This process would make the OS stronger with each iteration. These iterations are more frequent than iterations of Windows.
This is fairly different from Redmond's approach of dictating what a Windows user wants and patching it to keep it working. Then maybe with the new version of Windows every 4 years or so (or maybe some large service pack) there will be some significant feature change.
There is a more consistent look and feel between Windows versions because features aren't competing side by side with each other. In Linux, there are competing desktop evironments, file structures, startup scripts, etc. Any featureset that is determined poor or redundant is dropped and the stronger featureset prevails.
Once the average joe comes along things like this are bound to happen.
Ignorance to how a simple bidding system works is not a good reason to bring about a class action lawsuit.
Each auction has a minimum bid increment. If you bid between increments, your bid will be accepted but will be overidden by a bid that cooperates with the minimum increment.
If you are the highest bidder already, tied for maximum bid, and proceed to bid again to raise your maximum bid then YOU ARE BIDDING AGAIN. The user is intentionally and knowingly bidding again even though they're already the highest bidder. Once another bid is placed you no longer have the first-bidder priviledge. Thus to maintain your status as highest bidder, the bid increases to the next increment to secure the lead. It's pretty simple.
It all boils down to: If you aren't willing to let your bid increase, don't increase your maximum bid. Ebay isn't twisting anyone's arm.
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So are you saying that while men in general don't like getting hit in the groin, women in general do?
Note to self: next time there's an awkward moment when on a date, hit her in the groin, she'll love it!
*ahem* It's tiger HAND
You probably don't even know Pen Missile
Loading the OS into ram is done by creating a RAMDISK filesystem which I believe is universal among most Linux distributions. If anyone's interested here's a link on how to do it: http://silent.gumph.org/content/4/1/011-linux-on-c f.html It's for compact flash but I'm sure it could be adapted to work on a USB stick without too much trouble.
Boot speed with a RAMDISK setup is not too great. During boot the kernel is loaded from the flash, a compressed filesystem is copied into ram from the flash and then that gets decompressed. The fastest I could get my 300Mhz PC104 system to boot to a console prompt was 67 seconds (and that's with a stripped out kernel and barely anything running on boot...maybe 10 processes). Also keep in mind that your main filesystem can only be about 2/3rds the size of memory or else you'll run out of room when it goes to decompress the RAMDISK filesystem (for example, an 80mb decompressed filesystem and 30mb compressed filesystem would be the max for a system with 128MB of ram).
How about New Bedfahd (New Bedford) and Fall Rivah (Fall River)? You can't forget the cities that export cocaine in quantities like they do! We supply the drug dealers for miles and miles. I once saw a cashier handed a dollar bill at the store I work at in New Bedford which was COVERED with coke. Whaling city - Whaling Industry + Big Fishing Port + Drug Imports = One Dirty City
This argument could go either way.
The opposing view would be that since Linux competes with itself, through survivial-of-the-fittest, only the most prefered features get passed on. This process would make the OS stronger with each iteration. These iterations are more frequent than iterations of Windows.
This is fairly different from Redmond's approach of dictating what a Windows user wants and patching it to keep it working. Then maybe with the new version of Windows every 4 years or so (or maybe some large service pack) there will be some significant feature change.
There is a more consistent look and feel between Windows versions because features aren't competing side by side with each other. In Linux, there are competing desktop evironments, file structures, startup scripts, etc. Any featureset that is determined poor or redundant is dropped and the stronger featureset prevails.
Once the average joe comes along things like this are bound to happen.
Ignorance to how a simple bidding system works is not a good reason to bring about a class action lawsuit.
Each auction has a minimum bid increment. If you bid between increments, your bid will be accepted but will be overidden by a bid that cooperates with the minimum increment.
If you are the highest bidder already, tied for maximum bid, and proceed to bid again to raise your maximum bid then YOU ARE BIDDING AGAIN. The user is intentionally and knowingly bidding again even though they're already the highest bidder. Once another bid is placed you no longer have the first-bidder priviledge. Thus to maintain your status as highest bidder, the bid increases to the next increment to secure the lead. It's pretty simple.
It all boils down to: If you aren't willing to let your bid increase, don't increase your maximum bid. Ebay isn't twisting anyone's arm.