Huh? EM fields can penetrate solids. Photons could certainly shoot through a certain thickness. It should be held with some skepticism, but I haven't RTFA'd.
There's work being done today to rework the JVM to more easily support shared hosting environments with secured memory pools and separate classloaders. It's coming. Sun and the Java community see this as a serious deficiency. Who knows when we'll see if resolved, however.
Unfortunately, that is not always necessarily true. In many waves of migrating software from 32bit to 64bit platforms, we've LOST 5-10% of our performance due to the extra overhead in transferring twice the data and in smaller effective cache sizes. By using 64 bit words you could conceivably add two 32bit integers in a single instruction with a single memory load, but that depends on having a really smart microarchitecture - arguably I'm unfamiliar with recent x86 instruction set changes.
Just because a program isn't 64 bit doesn't mean that the OS won't run it in your 64 bit memory. Your Firefox/Mozilla process may be 32 bit, but you can certainly run 16GB's worth of them on a 64bit OS.
Gentoo is kind of attractive in that fashion, because an update simply pulls updated packages. But the compilation stage is something I don't want to deal with. Can't have both I suppose. But I agree with you, the backporting is a Pain In The Ass.
Problems come from when you try to have two peer "master" repositories. I'm still having trouble working out the workflow issues around that. I have some web-based master repositories that I clone to my home PC (master master?), and some private repositories that I don't publish to the web for commercial work. I'm so invested in SVN and the great toolchain build around it (Tortoise, etc) I'm not interested in moving. It would be great if it was library-ized so other tools could use it.:-/
I do this with my webserver, synced to my master repository (push from home), my laptop, my office (pushed to webserver), then sync'd back to the master.
It's not seamless, but I see that SVK/git has motivated the SVN team to make adjunct tools like this easier to integrate with SVN.
Same here. I loved YaST, at the time (2005) it was the best system admin tool available (could still be, but I've gone mostly headless on Linux now). 10.1 was my last OpenSuSE download. I switched wholly to CentOS and have been experimenting with gentoo-based netboot images lately.
I got burned by not upgrading a hosted server from FC2 to FC4 then FC6 than FC8 and can no longer get security updates - I finally got p0wned by something fixed in FC8:(
And when my hosted servers run for YEARS without much maintenance, a five year promise for patches isn't necessarily great either... I want off the upgrade treadmill.
Most of the Eastern States can be driven across in less than two hours. New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey.
New York State is at least 4-6 hours from Massachusetts border to Buffalo. Scranton, PA to Pittsburgh, PA is at least 5-6 hours. Boston, MA to Los Angeles California can be done in three days with two drivers. My roommate, a lorry driver, can only legally make the trip in 5 days.
120 HOURS to cross the country.
The EU seems pretty small by comparison. Even our light rail system would take 4-5 days to get your from New York to California. You can run the Trans-siberian railroad in 7, and it's a much longer distance.
I'm not faulting the EU, I'm not apologizing for the fact that our central planning of the past 50 years was anything but. It's a shitstorm. Where I grew up (Worcester Country, Massachusetts) we used to have cow and milk and vegetable farms EVERYWHERE (1980's). They're all gone now, turned into subdivisions, quarter-acre postage logs with megahomes on them. So instead of having locally grown food, we pay a fuel surcharge on all our food. Instead of using cow manure to fertilize our food production, we pay a fuel surcharge in the form of chemical fertilizers.
We've done some stupid shit in the name of turning a profit, and pursuit of the American Dream (two cars in the garage, 2.54 kids, white picket fence, big back yard.
I want to bulldoze a 300m swatch of land from New York to LA, put four lanes of high-speed monorail, four dedicated trucking lanes, and a shitload of passenger lanes. But that doesn't solve anything. Most of our traffic is regional, 20-50mile short-hauls on highways, biways and city ways that haven't seen maintenance in twenty years.
And not a single one of them as ever been destroyed in combat, and the two that we have lost, we lost at GREAT depth. The risks of catastrophic failure have never materialized in Navy vessels.
Doesn't matter, if it's still producing heat, it's still useful as fuel. Preprocess it into high-concentrations, and reburn it until all you have is lead, strontium and irradiated Iron!:-)
Vista's memory footprint is it's Achille's heel. With the way that Windows gives preferential treatment of memory to caching, and it's aggressive swapping nature, if you do have a swapfile (with 1GB of memory today you need one), Windows will be swapping key chunks of itself back and forth to disk. With 2GB of memory it's still going to be doing that. With XP, it's not, until you have so many shell extensions and file image associations loaded that it takes forever to enumerate the icons and menus needed to render menus and dialogs.
WindowsNT never had the performance degradation from extended use that XP/2000 does, and that stems directly from the ActiveX/Association/Shell integration crap that XP fostered. It's nice, it's featureful, but in the end, it kills performance.
Vista does not SNAP like XP does, even running IE 7/FF3, and nevermind running VMware server on my system. I couldn't do it with Vista and 2GB, but I can with XP. They aren't the fastest VMs in the world, but at least with them running I can be using Eclipse and building projects while still reading my mail. If I want.
Sorry, I used it, on brand new hardware with shit-gobs of memory. Vista is a dog. I like what they were trying to do with it, and liked a lot of the UI enhancements, but I bought a fast laptop to get work done, not wait for windows to pop open.
If you noticed, the rabbit's pink. The whole marketing program is a mind-numbingly awesome appeal to women to use Energizer batteries to power their vibrators.
Who said I had faith in God? I could have faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Cthulu, or some silly version of Universalism. Ultimately it doesn't matter, hence the point of faith. It's NOT rational, no matter how you describe what you have faith in. I have faith that tomorrow the sun will rise in the east. Just because it's happened 10000 times in my lifetime doesn't mean it'll happen tomorrow.
<quote> I have my faith, that's all I need </quote>
Yea, I suppose that was a moronic way of showing the dichotomy of proving God was real. Eh.:-) Nice response, though.
Why bother, when they could just use OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, or one of the hundreds of commercial and non-commercial forks of the Original One True BSD?
Linux is nothing special, except for that GPL thing.
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I used a relatively older OfficeJet 3055 with Vista before I upgraded back to XP...
I didn't get network printing configured (wrong software package) but usb printing was just fine.
They are not. HPijis is a great package for using HP printers in Linux.
Huh? EM fields can penetrate solids. Photons could certainly shoot through a certain thickness. It should be held with some skepticism, but I haven't RTFA'd.
Am I dyslexic? I thought it was Kotar-Kelly?
Are you using a JDK from 1995? Hotspot fixed VM->native performance issues nearly a decade ago.
There's work being done today to rework the JVM to more easily support shared hosting environments with secured memory pools and separate classloaders. It's coming. Sun and the Java community see this as a serious deficiency. Who knows when we'll see if resolved, however.
Unfortunately, that is not always necessarily true. In many waves of migrating software from 32bit to 64bit platforms, we've LOST 5-10% of our performance due to the extra overhead in transferring twice the data and in smaller effective cache sizes. By using 64 bit words you could conceivably add two 32bit integers in a single instruction with a single memory load, but that depends on having a really smart microarchitecture - arguably I'm unfamiliar with recent x86 instruction set changes.
Just because a program isn't 64 bit doesn't mean that the OS won't run it in your 64 bit memory. Your Firefox/Mozilla process may be 32 bit, but you can certainly run 16GB's worth of them on a 64bit OS.
Gentoo is kind of attractive in that fashion, because an update simply pulls updated packages. But the compilation stage is something I don't want to deal with. Can't have both I suppose. But I agree with you, the backporting is a Pain In The Ass.
Problems come from when you try to have two peer "master" repositories. I'm still having trouble working out the workflow issues around that. I have some web-based master repositories that I clone to my home PC (master master?), and some private repositories that I don't publish to the web for commercial work. I'm so invested in SVN and the great toolchain build around it (Tortoise, etc) I'm not interested in moving. It would be great if it was library-ized so other tools could use it. :-/
You are right, to a point:
Democrats want to take your money and give it to everyone else, the needy, the poor, the disenfranchised.
Republicans want to take your money and give it to big business.
May I suggest SVK?
I do this with my webserver, synced to my master repository (push from home), my laptop, my office (pushed to webserver), then sync'd back to the master.
It's not seamless, but I see that SVK/git has motivated the SVN team to make adjunct tools like this easier to integrate with SVN.
SVK. I do have a few problems with the way SVN/SVK works and the way I want to use it...
But I love it for distributed development.
Seriously, is that something worth arguing about???
Same here. I loved YaST, at the time (2005) it was the best system admin tool available (could still be, but I've gone mostly headless on Linux now). 10.1 was my last OpenSuSE download. I switched wholly to CentOS and have been experimenting with gentoo-based netboot images lately.
:(
I got burned by not upgrading a hosted server from FC2 to FC4 then FC6 than FC8 and can no longer get security updates - I finally got p0wned by something fixed in FC8
And when my hosted servers run for YEARS without much maintenance, a five year promise for patches isn't necessarily great either... I want off the upgrade treadmill.
Most of the Eastern States can be driven across in less than two hours. New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey.
New York State is at least 4-6 hours from Massachusetts border to Buffalo. Scranton, PA to Pittsburgh, PA is at least 5-6 hours. Boston, MA to Los Angeles California can be done in three days with two drivers. My roommate, a lorry driver, can only legally make the trip in 5 days.
120 HOURS to cross the country.
The EU seems pretty small by comparison. Even our light rail system would take 4-5 days to get your from New York to California. You can run the Trans-siberian railroad in 7, and it's a much longer distance.
I'm not faulting the EU, I'm not apologizing for the fact that our central planning of the past 50 years was anything but. It's a shitstorm. Where I grew up (Worcester Country, Massachusetts) we used to have cow and milk and vegetable farms EVERYWHERE (1980's). They're all gone now, turned into subdivisions, quarter-acre postage logs with megahomes on them. So instead of having locally grown food, we pay a fuel surcharge on all our food. Instead of using cow manure to fertilize our food production, we pay a fuel surcharge in the form of chemical fertilizers.
We've done some stupid shit in the name of turning a profit, and pursuit of the American Dream (two cars in the garage, 2.54 kids, white picket fence, big back yard.
I want to bulldoze a 300m swatch of land from New York to LA, put four lanes of high-speed monorail, four dedicated trucking lanes, and a shitload of passenger lanes. But that doesn't solve anything. Most of our traffic is regional, 20-50mile short-hauls on highways, biways and city ways that haven't seen maintenance in twenty years.
And not a single one of them as ever been destroyed in combat, and the two that we have lost, we lost at GREAT depth. The risks of catastrophic failure have never materialized in Navy vessels.
Doesn't matter, if it's still producing heat, it's still useful as fuel. Preprocess it into high-concentrations, and reburn it until all you have is lead, strontium and irradiated Iron! :-)
Vista's memory footprint is it's Achille's heel. With the way that Windows gives preferential treatment of memory to caching, and it's aggressive swapping nature, if you do have a swapfile (with 1GB of memory today you need one), Windows will be swapping key chunks of itself back and forth to disk. With 2GB of memory it's still going to be doing that. With XP, it's not, until you have so many shell extensions and file image associations loaded that it takes forever to enumerate the icons and menus needed to render menus and dialogs.
WindowsNT never had the performance degradation from extended use that XP/2000 does, and that stems directly from the ActiveX/Association/Shell integration crap that XP fostered. It's nice, it's featureful, but in the end, it kills performance.
Vista does not SNAP like XP does, even running IE 7/FF3, and nevermind running VMware server on my system. I couldn't do it with Vista and 2GB, but I can with XP. They aren't the fastest VMs in the world, but at least with them running I can be using Eclipse and building projects while still reading my mail. If I want.
Sorry, I used it, on brand new hardware with shit-gobs of memory. Vista is a dog. I like what they were trying to do with it, and liked a lot of the UI enhancements, but I bought a fast laptop to get work done, not wait for windows to pop open.
Ionic, you have to use the word Ionic to make it sell... Anything gold or ionic sells.
If you noticed, the rabbit's pink. The whole marketing program is a mind-numbingly awesome appeal to women to use Energizer batteries to power their vibrators.
Who said I had faith in God? I could have faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Cthulu, or some silly version of Universalism. Ultimately it doesn't matter, hence the point of faith. It's NOT rational, no matter how you describe what you have faith in. I have faith that tomorrow the sun will rise in the east. Just because it's happened 10000 times in my lifetime doesn't mean it'll happen tomorrow.
:-) Nice response, though.
<quote> I have my faith, that's all I need </quote>
Yea, I suppose that was a moronic way of showing the dichotomy of proving God was real. Eh.
Peace.
God, by definition, cannot be objectively disproven or proven except through observation, Ie. being a god.
I have my faith, that's all I need.
Why bother, when they could just use OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, or one of the hundreds of commercial and non-commercial forks of the Original One True BSD?
Linux is nothing special, except for that GPL thing.