Windows 2000 and XP both give preference to the cache, no matter what your system preferences are. I've had a network copy/backup going while trying to run Word, and the damned OS consumed 300 of 500MB of memory for the disk cache. It's a problem I've been trying to rememdy for a long time now. Supposedly there's a registry setting for the cache, and a size limiter, but I've not been able to get it to work...
Mozilla has the problem specifically because it's memory footprint gets so large with all those tabs. If you don't use process separated IExplore processes, you get the same problem with IE when it's footprint gets up around 70+ MB.
The only way to stop this madness on XP is to turn off the swapfile. I'd REALLY hate to see Linux go down this route. Big bloaty applications need to stay IN MEMORY unless there is memory pressure being exerted on the system. That is the only time swapping should occur.
Richard Dean Andersen scores a point of kharma every time some poor lowly schleb makes reference to "sorry, honey, I gotta McGyver this BBQ back into operation before the game"...
The whole 1995 thing relates to the women in combat doctrine that seems to have turned completely on it's head the past decade here in the States. Now even your daughters and mothers can go off to fight and die in some proxy war in some foreign country.
The scenario time and again in human warfare, up until about 1995, was this:
Man goes off to the front, fights and/or dies. Victor walks in, claims women and children for himself, rapes village, pillages women. No men left to fight, victor wins, earns peace for some odd years, or until next challenger comes along. rinse, recycle, repeat.
Now: man pushes button. Billions of men, woman and children are annihilated. Roaches take over. Lack of fertile childbearing women is the DOOM of mankind...
Let's face it guys, with this "mouse with two mothers" crap, it's just a matter of time before THEY don't need US anymore.
Can you imagine the entire world having PMS at once?
It wasn't a last ditch effort. From what I understand it was collusion on the part of the officers in charge to make what effectively was a suicide run against the U.S. when the war looked bleak.
http://www.wreckhunter.net/u-boats.htm
<quote> The only documented wartime sinking of a U-boat in New England waters occurred on May 5, 1945, when the U-853 torpedoed and sank the collier Black Point off Newport, Rhode Island.
When the war with Germany ended in May 1945, all German military vessels were ordered to surrender to allied forces. Soon after that order was given, a number of U-boats patrolling our east coast surrendered to the US and Canadian navies. Since the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (at Portsmouth, New Hampshire) was the largest submarine base on the US east coast, some 5 to 7 subs were towed to Portsmouth to be studied by the navy and await their fates. The subs surrendered in May 1945 included the U-234, U-805, U-873 and U-1228, and perhaps one or two more. The U-505, captured earlier by the U.S. Navy, was later towed to Portsmouth to join the collection. </quote>
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostsub/map.html N OVA records places U-869 off NJ coastline, possibly victim to her own torpedoes.
But you were right, the event I'm think of occurred shortly after hostilities began:
http://www.geocities.com/fort_tilden/uboats.html <quote> The "Pearl Harbor" of the Atlantic A few German U-boats were responsible for the sinking of a total of 397 ships in the first six months of 1942. There were 171 ships sunk off the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Florida, 62 sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, and 141 in the Caribbean. A total of 2,403 persons were killed and 1,178 were wounded. </quote>
not things like high-precision laser ring gyros, terminal guidance avionics and rocket engine technology. Nope. No chance in hell of China, within the next 5 years, manufacturing something like the Space Shuttle SSME high pressure turbopump. Hell, Pratt & Witney can barely get it right and they've had 25 years of experience.
To think the shuttle program hasn't had ONE in-flight SSME failure boggles my mind.
Look at people like Salon, who've managed to survive without popups or popunders. If you have interesting content, people will subject themselves to an ad on your behalf every day. CNN could learn a thing or two from this with their video archives. For every 3 or 4 video archives, I have to subject myself to an ad. It's a tradeoff. But it's one that doesn't piss me off by creating popups.
Yahoo does it with yahoogroups, that seems to not be stopping people from using yahoogroups.
Um, what popup blocker are you using that allows 1 out of a 100 ads through? Because I've been using IE 5/6 with NoPopIE and the Google toolbar for well over two years now, and I've had ZERO subvert that wall of impenetrability.:-)
No, I'd rather do what Salon.com does. Tease me with content, and if I want more, I pay for it by subjecting myself to ads on their behalf.
Salon got it right, IMHO. Going to a subscription model, keeping content available for everyone else, but still earning revenue to stay afloat without pissing off the universe with Popups.
Once upon a time, I was stuck on a plane ride from Georgia, I think. Atlanta. Anywho, I sat next to this marketing guy for a good three hours, and in between the mindnumbing explanation how our seat cushions would double as a floatie in the event of a water crash^Wlanding and our arrival over stinky Boston Harbor, he made the insightful comment that if an ad is bad enough that you remember it, then the ad has paid itself off, because mindshare, good or bad, is good. At least now, the product is known to you, whereas before, it might not have been.
And I contend that because I have a Terminal Server CAL on the server itself, and only one person at a time can use said CAL, that it doesn't fscking matter WHAT client I connect with.
Cheaper, and with modern manufacturing techniques, you can still makes a compartmentalized "bag", if you will" that will hold it's pressure even if some of the rest of it is punctured.
Plus it's lighter, easier to ship/store, and probably cheaper to manufacture.
Most people don't know this, but 5 U2's had virtual OWNERSHIP of the east coast of the United states for about 6 days. I know one sits off RI which I hope to dive this summer (if the grave robbers haven't gotten it banned). Another one, IIRC sits off the coast of New Jersey, after terrorizing NYC shipping for several days.
From what I understand, these attacks came shortly before Germany surrended, but my failing memory isn't 100% on it.
Yeah, it's a bit hypocritical. On the upside, however, it's still GPL'd so you can change the DRM to your hearts content or remove it altogether. Try that with the DRM coming out of the recording industry.
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Did not know that. Thanks!
Windows 2000 and XP both give preference to the cache, no matter what your system preferences are. I've had a network copy/backup going while trying to run Word, and the damned OS consumed 300 of 500MB of memory for the disk cache. It's a problem I've been trying to rememdy for a long time now. Supposedly there's a registry setting for the cache, and a size limiter, but I've not been able to get it to work...
Mozilla has the problem specifically because it's memory footprint gets so large with all those tabs. If you don't use process separated IExplore processes, you get the same problem with IE when it's footprint gets up around 70+ MB.
The only way to stop this madness on XP is to turn off the swapfile. I'd REALLY hate to see Linux go down this route. Big bloaty applications need to stay IN MEMORY unless there is memory pressure being exerted on the system. That is the only time swapping should occur.
Did you even read the grandparent?
Get a grip, dude.
Richard Dean Andersen scores a point of kharma every time some poor lowly schleb makes reference to "sorry, honey, I gotta McGyver this BBQ back into operation before the game"...
Yea, I sure feel GOOD about my ancestors kicking all those Indians off OUR land so we could grow food, be fruitful and multiple...
Longer and healthier does not necessarily indicate happier.
I want them to give me wings... :-) I'm sick of drinking Redbull, and I *STILL* can't fly like in the commercials...
Silly replying to myself...
The whole 1995 thing relates to the women in combat doctrine that seems to have turned completely on it's head the past decade here in the States. Now even your daughters and mothers can go off to fight and die in some proxy war in some foreign country.
The scenario time and again in human warfare, up until about 1995, was this:
Man goes off to the front, fights and/or dies. Victor walks in, claims women and children for himself, rapes village, pillages women. No men left to fight, victor wins, earns peace for some odd years, or until next challenger comes along. rinse, recycle, repeat.
Now: man pushes button. Billions of men, woman and children are annihilated. Roaches take over. Lack of fertile childbearing women is the DOOM of mankind...
Let's face it guys, with this "mouse with two mothers" crap, it's just a matter of time before THEY don't need US anymore.
Can you imagine the entire world having PMS at once?
And mono would have been started/spearheaded by someone else (cuz Miguel would have been prohibited, I'm sure, from working on it).
It wasn't a last ditch effort. From what I understand it was collusion on the part of the officers in charge to make what effectively was a suicide run against the U.S. when the war looked bleak.
N OVA records places U-869 off NJ coastline, possibly victim to her own torpedoes.
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http://www.wreckhunter.net/u-boats.htm
<quote>
The only documented wartime sinking of a U-boat in New England waters occurred on May 5, 1945, when the U-853 torpedoed and sank the collier Black Point off Newport, Rhode Island.
When the war with Germany ended in May 1945, all German military vessels were ordered to surrender to allied forces. Soon after that order was given, a number of U-boats patrolling our east coast surrendered to the US and Canadian navies. Since the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (at Portsmouth, New Hampshire) was the largest submarine base on the US east coast, some 5 to 7 subs were towed to Portsmouth to be studied by the navy and await their fates. The subs surrendered in May 1945 included the U-234, U-805, U-873 and U-1228, and perhaps one or two more. The U-505, captured earlier by the U.S. Navy, was later towed to Portsmouth to join the collection.
</quote>
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostsub/map.html
But you were right, the event I'm think of occurred shortly after hostilities began:
http://www.geocities.com/fort_tilden/uboats.htm
<quote>
The "Pearl Harbor" of the Atlantic
A few German U-boats were responsible for the sinking of a total of 397 ships in the first six months of 1942. There were 171 ships sunk off the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Florida, 62 sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, and 141 in the Caribbean. A total of 2,403 persons were killed and 1,178 were wounded.
</quote>
not things like high-precision laser ring gyros, terminal guidance avionics and rocket engine technology. Nope. No chance in hell of China, within the next 5 years, manufacturing something like the Space Shuttle SSME high pressure turbopump. Hell, Pratt & Witney can barely get it right and they've had 25 years of experience.
To think the shuttle program hasn't had ONE in-flight SSME failure boggles my mind.
Look at people like Salon, who've managed to survive without popups or popunders. If you have interesting content, people will subject themselves to an ad on your behalf every day. CNN could learn a thing or two from this with their video archives. For every 3 or 4 video archives, I have to subject myself to an ad. It's a tradeoff. But it's one that doesn't piss me off by creating popups.
Yahoo does it with yahoogroups, that seems to not be stopping people from using yahoogroups.
Um, what popup blocker are you using that allows 1 out of a 100 ads through? Because I've been using IE 5/6 with NoPopIE and the Google toolbar for well over two years now, and I've had ZERO subvert that wall of impenetrability. :-)
YMMV.
No, I'd rather do what Salon.com does. Tease me with content, and if I want more, I pay for it by subjecting myself to ads on their behalf.
Salon got it right, IMHO. Going to a subscription model, keeping content available for everyone else, but still earning revenue to stay afloat without pissing off the universe with Popups.
Once upon a time, I was stuck on a plane ride from Georgia, I think. Atlanta. Anywho, I sat next to this marketing guy for a good three hours, and in between the mindnumbing explanation how our seat cushions would double as a floatie in the event of a water crash^Wlanding and our arrival over stinky Boston Harbor, he made the insightful comment that if an ad is bad enough that you remember it, then the ad has paid itself off, because mindshare, good or bad, is good. At least now, the product is known to you, whereas before, it might not have been.
Ergo, the 7up commercials.
And I contend that because I have a Terminal Server CAL on the server itself, and only one person at a time can use said CAL, that it doesn't fscking matter WHAT client I connect with.
IMHO.
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Shades of grey...
doh!!!!
u-boats, not u2's
A Patriot anti-blimp battery?
Ah, I'll finally have some targets worthy of my trebuchet...
Muuuhahahahahahahahaha...
Got any links?
Cheaper, and with modern manufacturing techniques, you can still makes a compartmentalized "bag", if you will" that will hold it's pressure even if some of the rest of it is punctured.
Plus it's lighter, easier to ship/store, and probably cheaper to manufacture.
Just a guess.
Most people don't know this, but 5 U2's had virtual OWNERSHIP of the east coast of the United states for about 6 days. I know one sits off RI which I hope to dive this summer (if the grave robbers haven't gotten it banned). Another one, IIRC sits off the coast of New Jersey, after terrorizing NYC shipping for several days.
From what I understand, these attacks came shortly before Germany surrended, but my failing memory isn't 100% on it.
Radioactive chocolate? ;-)
Yeah, it's a bit hypocritical. On the upside, however, it's still GPL'd so you can change the DRM to your hearts content or remove it altogether. Try that with the DRM coming out of the recording industry.