Among my group of friends we own 6 N900's the only ones who have problems with performance are the ones who are curious enough to enable development/testing repos, then go and install everything that sounds interesting...
The more technical folks realise that when performance starts to suffer, its probably because of something they did to their phone, so they go and look for something using stupid amounts of memory...
The people who are less technical blame the phone...
If your having problems and you dont know how to fix them, then reflash your phone to factory, and dont enable testing/development
If you actually know what your doing look for the memory hogs ( and yes one of the flashlight apps is a know memory hog )
Nokia sold you a phone that works great! it runs a standard linux system and isnt locked down!!!
its not their fault if you modify it to the point it runs like crap
if you need to be protected from yourself go buy an iphone ( or get someone who knows what they are doing to lock down your n900 for you )
This the the Relevant Section of the NFO Mentioned by the parent --
H2O does it again.........!!!
Although everybody thought that Syncrosoft and Steinberg had found the
ultimate protection, we prove otherwise.
We admit that it's getting harder and harder to do and this one may
possibly be the last one we do.
Due to the complex nature of the protection we thought of approaching
it from another direction.
The Emulation is now done on driver-level, which means that the Emu
essentially mimics a dongle, look in the License Control Center to
view the applications the Emu supports. By writing the Emu at driver
-level we probably went beyond cracking an application. The amount of
effort invested in this project is staggering , estimated at over 1500
manhours during cracking, developing & testing, and probably will
never be done again.
We hope u enjoy this release and the motto "if u use it alot then buy
it!" applies
PS1
Note to protection coders :
Unbelievable way you transform an application. We estimate that
between 30% & 40% of the application are wrapped in the script
protection. Protection is one thing but this surely effects an
application performance. You probably could get a performance gain of
50% without the protection!!
Think about this : Once broken, the protection is , what ????
it works as long as their website consumes less than 20% of the cpu on the hosting box, as soon as it consumes more, no one can access the site for a coupple of mins...
Samsung's Hybrid Hard Drive Exposed
Written by Iddo Genuth Thursday, 19 October 2006
Samsung is preparing to release a new Flash memory-assisted computer hard drive that boasts improved performance, reduced energy consumption, a faster boot time, and better reliability. The new hybrid hard drive will be released around the same time as the upcoming Windows Vista operating system and will be one of the first hardware designed specifically to benefit from it.
In mid-May 2006, Samsung unveiled a prototype hybrid hard drive (HHD) at WinHEC, the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. Samsung's prototype HHDs have a buffer of 128 or 256 MB, much larger than the 8-16 MB of cache in current hard drives. This new buffer differs from the existing cache buffer on hard drives not only in size but also in structure, composition, and qualities. Conventional cache is made out of volatile memory that is erased when the drive is powered down. HHDs add another layer of cache consisting of Flash memory that is non-volatile and can be accessed quickly when the drive is powered on. Adding a large buffer to a hard drive can also reduce the drive's power consumption, thereby increasing the battery life, and reducing the time required for the system to resume its operation after suspension. Indeed, boot or resume time will occur about twice as fast as conventional hard disk drives, saving 8-25 seconds, and laptop batteries will provide 20 - 30 minutes more power. Another added bonus of the HHD is the improved reliability due to less mechanical wear and tear.
Samsung and other manufacturers are currently pursuing Solid State Drive (SSD) technology (to be covered in an upcoming TFOT article). Currently Flash prices are too high to allow SSDs to replace standard hard drives of any reasonable size and, although Flash prices are continually falling, it will be several years until such a drive will become affordable to most users. Here enters the near-term solution for enjoying improved performance at a reasonable price - the hybrid hard drive, combining the low cost and large storage capacity of conventional hard drive technology with quick and low-power Flash memory.
Apart from the reduction in Flash memory prices, hard drive manufacturers such as Samsung believe that we are about to undergo a major storage revolution in the next few years due to the upcoming release of Windows Vista. This new operating system from Microsoft will introduce three new performance-enhancing technologies: SuperFetch, ReadyBoost, and ReadyDrive. According to Microsoft, "SuperFetch understands which applications you use most, and preloads these applications into memory, so your system is more responsive". Windows ReadyBoost allows users to use a removable Flash memory device such as a USB thumb drive to improve system performance. ReadyBoost retrieves data stored on the Flash memory more quickly than data stored on the hard disk, decreasing the interval until the PC responds. Windows ReadyDrive enables Vista-based PCs equipped with an HHD to boot up faster, resume from hibernate in less time, preserve battery power, and improve hard disk reliability.
Hard disk platters are components of hard disk drives that consist of circular rigid disks that store magnetic data. While the platters in conventional hard drives rotate most of the time, thereby consuming a great deal of power, the platters in HHDs are usually at rest, as if they were off. In HHDs, incoming data is generally written to the Flash buffer and any saved documents are saved to the buffer, instead of being written to the hard drive each time. Only when the Flash buffer is almost full or when the user accesses a new file that is not stored on the buffer, will the HHD platter rotate or "spin up". Thus, the battery power of laptops with HHDs is preserved, extending battery life.
To learn more about Samsung's hybrid hard drive technology, TFOT interviewed Andy Yang, the Strategic Marketing Manager of Samsung's Memory Division.
While the network card Might improve the network connectivity for that one person, it more than likely does it by hurting the performance of the the network as a whole...
Changing the way that the network card responded so that rather than using a random backoff time it just retried staight away would decrease the network latency but if there were several of the cards on the network all trying to do the same thing the network would grind to a halt...
There are alot of protocols with backoffs etc which could be changed to improve the individuals connection but making them faster would be a BAD THING for the network as a whole!
but, there are also other things which could be done to improve network connectivity without hurting the network as a whole... just setting up some kind of QoS on the network card so that small packets like ping response would always get pushed to the front of the queue would improve the ping time signifigantly under non-idle situations...
arrggghhh!! NO, do you know how long it took me to find an ISP that would actually support spoofed source packets, even though our use for them wasnt evil!!! Just because there is evil uses for a technology doesnt mean that there arent also positive uses!!!
The Such and Such is evil lets block it mentality is not a good thing(TM)...
I can understand why spoofed source packets are bad and the majority of the time they are being used for illicit purposes, but should we ban bit torrent because the majority of the bittorrent traffic isnt good(TM)
vi/emacs is a bit like a racing game the default most intuitive layout isnt the best
Accelerate - Up Arrow Break - Down Arrow Left - Left Arrow Right - Right Arrow Gear Up - A Gear Down - Z
ok so thats easy to learn and really intiuitive... BUT
Accelerate - F Break - D Left - J Right - L Gear Up - I Gear Down - K
Driving using those keys while harder to learn is much faster and allows more flexability... other keys on the keyboard are also more accessable allowing for things like view changes and Nos etc
I have also been very hapy with my Sandisk Sansa e140
It has a base of 1Gb storage which is expandable using sd cards (so really its got unlimited storage), it has fm radio and works as a usb storage drive for both the onboard 1gb storage and for the connected sd card...
I have 3 sd cards which have each have different types of music on them and i have music that i listen too more often stored on the base flash drive
The SD cards beat the HELL out of sonys HI-MD as there are many many different sizes depending on what you want and they are solid state...
For doing every day tasks, such as reading email, surfing intarweb and writing documents, Linux, even on a crappy PC still beats the shit out of latest Windows offerings.
Linux is usable on low-end p2/celeron systems with as little as 128megs of memory, and Linux, properly installed, will function just fine with 256megs.
Try installing latest Windows 2000 or XP, and not only will the space they take up greatly exceed that of a proper Linux install, but they will be much slower, because while hardware advanced, Windows still uses technology from 20 years ago to talk with the graphics card, still Randomly Crashes, still lacks in PnP department (removing a "mounted" USB flash stick anyone?), still has abysmal support for various multimedia devices (no, the few tens reverse-engineered audio/video capture/etc drivers don't really count), etc etc.
What about hibernation? Part of what makes your PC seem "slow" is having to turn it on and off, and waiting for the OS to boot. How long does Linux take to resume from hibernation? At most few seconds. I have a laptop with 1.5gb of memory with Linux and it takes about 15 seconds to hibernate or resume. Last I checked, Windows developers were worrying about reducing their several-minutes-long boot sequence. I'm not even going to mention hibernation because I know that doesn't work properly in Windows.
So here you have it. Is Windows REALLY slow? Yep. Considering the alternatives, it's a lot slower! And when Vista comes out this or next year (who cares when, it will be awful anyway) - it will be even slower. With instant-on (Which will crash 75% of the time), even slower hibernation, and with new Intel CPUs/chipsets which support deeper sleep levels with more power savings, you'll always notice your PC being slow. It will never be ready to use when you want.
Im an australian and i am Outraged... I dont want to have to try and get around filters like this, i dont want to have to apply for filters to be removed from my internet connection This is australia THIS IS NOT FUCKING CHINA!
"almost two-thirds of parents don't have internet filters on their family computers," Mr Beazley said. did he stop to think that maybe two-thirds decided that they didnt want their internet access restricted or were already filtering their connection using a method which wasnt included in their "statistics".
The current opt-in system works well and should be LEFT ALONE!
"research suggests that the exposure of children and others in the community to this sickening content can lead to aggression towards women and child abuse."
In fact a quick google returns many opposing views eg
"Research by Goldstein et al. shows that sex offenders generally had less contact with erotica in their formative years than did non-offenders and typically had a sexually repressed childhood and sexually repressive parents"
Anyway, Im very upset to even read this and [Insert insults and offensive comment directed at Kim Beazley Here].
Im currently seeding 16 files and downloading 1, the only complaint that i have is that you cant throttle the total speed of all the torrents... but this is only because each torrent uses a seperate bittornado process... but tc makes it easy to do anyway:)
Yeah, at a place i previously worked we did a similar thing...
We would play small simple games at lunch (Think Flash Games), though we usally didnt take anymore than the alloted hour:)
After hours was a different thing all together, we would play Half-life, Counter-strike, TFC, DOD and many other games... We would usually play for about 1.5 to 2 hours each day...
and Managment Loved it... Why? Simple...anyone working overtime who was having problems with computers could still call IT... and they didnt have to pay us to be there for the extra time...
I also found that out of every place i have ever worked the team morale was much much much higher...
Windows support better than linux support... pfft yeah sure maybe if the problem is DIRECTLY related to Windows....
We currently have a windows server which crashes every day, we could work out the problem with it, so we called microsoft after "4 WEEKS" they politley informed us that the problem was caused by a third part application running on our server... and we had to PAY them to tell us this!!
At least on our debian servers we arent going to be told that... but then again i havent yet ever had to call a linux helpdesk...
BTW, we have 4 Windows 2003 servers and 5 Debian Linux Servers and the only problems we have with the linux servers have been when they couldnt look up a user via ldap because the windows had CRASHED...
The way they do this is actually much less efficent than it could be!
it should be performed similar to the way NO2 is used on sports cars with the trucker changing bottles when required and the injection controled by a new EMS it would work out signifigantly cheaper to buy and run and deliver more power and better milage
the truck isnt optimised to make hydrogen so having it do it instead is far less efficent than buying it made from natural gas by a gas company and means that benifits of using hydrogen as a catalyst are reduced
Slashdot Mirror
they are in his compiler!
Among my group of friends we own 6 N900's the only ones who have problems with performance are the ones who are curious enough to enable development/testing repos, then go and install everything that sounds interesting...
The more technical folks realise that when performance starts to suffer, its probably because of something they did to their phone, so they go and look for something using stupid amounts of memory...
The people who are less technical blame the phone...
If your having problems and you dont know how to fix them, then reflash your phone to factory, and dont enable testing/development
If you actually know what your doing look for the memory hogs ( and yes one of the flashlight apps is a know memory hog )
Nokia sold you a phone that works great! it runs a standard linux system and isnt locked down!!!
its not their fault if you modify it to the point it runs like crap
if you need to be protected from yourself go buy an iphone ( or get someone who knows what they are doing to lock down your n900 for you )
End Rant
This the the Relevant Section of the NFO Mentioned by the parent
--
H2O does it again.........!!!
Although everybody thought that Syncrosoft and Steinberg had found the
ultimate protection, we prove otherwise.
We admit that it's getting harder and harder to do and this one may
possibly be the last one we do.
Due to the complex nature of the protection we thought of approaching
it from another direction.
The Emulation is now done on driver-level, which means that the Emu
essentially mimics a dongle, look in the License Control Center to
view the applications the Emu supports. By writing the Emu at driver
-level we probably went beyond cracking an application. The amount of
effort invested in this project is staggering , estimated at over 1500
manhours during cracking, developing & testing, and probably will
never be done again.
We hope u enjoy this release and the motto "if u use it alot then buy
it!" applies
PS1
Note to protection coders :
Unbelievable way you transform an application. We estimate that
between 30% & 40% of the application are wrapped in the script
protection. Protection is one thing but this surely effects an
application performance. You probably could get a performance gain of
50% without the protection!!
Think about this : Once broken, the protection is , what ????
it works as long as their website consumes less than 20% of the cpu on the hosting box, as soon as it consumes more, no one can access the site for a coupple of mins...
Samsung's Hybrid Hard Drive Exposed
Written by Iddo Genuth Thursday, 19 October 2006
Samsung is preparing to release a new Flash memory-assisted computer hard drive that boasts improved performance, reduced energy consumption, a faster boot time, and better reliability. The new hybrid hard drive will be released around the same time as the upcoming Windows Vista operating system and will be one of the first hardware designed specifically to benefit from it.
In mid-May 2006, Samsung unveiled a prototype hybrid hard drive (HHD) at WinHEC, the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. Samsung's prototype HHDs have a buffer of 128 or 256 MB, much larger than the 8-16 MB of cache in current hard drives. This new buffer differs from the existing cache buffer on hard drives not only in size but also in structure, composition, and qualities. Conventional cache is made out of volatile memory that is erased when the drive is powered down. HHDs add another layer of cache consisting of Flash memory that is non-volatile and can be accessed quickly when the drive is powered on. Adding a large buffer to a hard drive can also reduce the drive's power consumption, thereby increasing the battery life, and reducing the time required for the system to resume its operation after suspension. Indeed, boot or resume time will occur about twice as fast as conventional hard disk drives, saving 8-25 seconds, and laptop batteries will provide 20 - 30 minutes more power. Another added bonus of the HHD is the improved reliability due to less mechanical wear and tear.
Samsung and other manufacturers are currently pursuing Solid State Drive (SSD) technology (to be covered in an upcoming TFOT article). Currently Flash prices are too high to allow SSDs to replace standard hard drives of any reasonable size and, although Flash prices are continually falling, it will be several years until such a drive will become affordable to most users. Here enters the near-term solution for enjoying improved performance at a reasonable price - the hybrid hard drive, combining the low cost and large storage capacity of conventional hard drive technology with quick and low-power Flash memory.
Apart from the reduction in Flash memory prices, hard drive manufacturers such as Samsung believe that we are about to undergo a major storage revolution in the next few years due to the upcoming release of Windows Vista. This new operating system from Microsoft will introduce three new performance-enhancing technologies: SuperFetch, ReadyBoost, and ReadyDrive. According to Microsoft, "SuperFetch understands which applications you use most, and preloads these applications into memory, so your system is more responsive". Windows ReadyBoost allows users to use a removable Flash memory device such as a USB thumb drive to improve system performance. ReadyBoost retrieves data stored on the Flash memory more quickly than data stored on the hard disk, decreasing the interval until the PC responds. Windows ReadyDrive enables Vista-based PCs equipped with an HHD to boot up faster, resume from hibernate in less time, preserve battery power, and improve hard disk reliability.
Hard disk platters are components of hard disk drives that consist of circular rigid disks that store magnetic data. While the platters in conventional hard drives rotate most of the time, thereby consuming a great deal of power, the platters in HHDs are usually at rest, as if they were off. In HHDs, incoming data is generally written to the Flash buffer and any saved documents are saved to the buffer, instead of being written to the hard drive each time. Only when the Flash buffer is almost full or when the user accesses a new file that is not stored on the buffer, will the HHD platter rotate or "spin up". Thus, the battery power of laptops with HHDs is preserved, extending battery life.
To learn more about Samsung's hybrid hard drive technology, TFOT interviewed Andy Yang, the Strategic Marketing Manager of Samsung's Memory Division.
Q: How does the H
While the network card Might improve the network connectivity for that one person, it more than likely does it by hurting the performance of the the network as a whole...
L OHA_protocol
IE see the ALOHA protocol...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_protocol#The_A
Changing the way that the network card responded so that rather than using a random backoff time it just retried staight away would decrease the network latency but if there were several of the cards on the network all trying to do the same thing the network would grind to a halt...
There are alot of protocols with backoffs etc which could be changed to improve the individuals connection but making them faster would be a BAD THING for the network as a whole!
but, there are also other things which could be done to improve network connectivity without hurting the network as a whole... just setting up some kind of QoS on the network card so that small packets like ping response would always get pushed to the front of the queue would improve the ping time signifigantly under non-idle situations...
arrggghhh!! NO, do you know how long it took me to find an ISP that would actually support spoofed source packets, even though our use for them wasnt evil!!! Just because there is evil uses for a technology doesnt mean that there arent also positive uses!!!
The Such and Such is evil lets block it mentality is not a good thing(TM)...
I can understand why spoofed source packets are bad and the majority of the time they are being used for illicit purposes, but should we ban bit torrent because the majority of the bittorrent traffic isnt good(TM)
vi/emacs is a bit like a racing game the default most intuitive layout isnt the best
Accelerate - Up Arrow
Break - Down Arrow
Left - Left Arrow
Right - Right Arrow
Gear Up - A
Gear Down - Z
ok so thats easy to learn and really intiuitive... BUT
Accelerate - F
Break - D
Left - J
Right - L
Gear Up - I
Gear Down - K
Driving using those keys while harder to learn is much faster and allows more flexability... other keys on the keyboard are also more accessable allowing for things like view changes and Nos etc
They are now... Ebay bought them not long ago...
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Now where is my chocolate bar?
I currently avoid Java like the plauge, my reasons are the same reasons that java isnt included in debian... http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ ch5.html#s-license-concerns
if they address those license concers i would be much happier...
IIRC Floppy disks rarely use fat32 ... too much overhead... fat16 or fat12 are better choices...
I have also been very hapy with my Sandisk Sansa e140
1 024-Sansa_e140_Digital_Audio_Player_1GB.aspx
It has a base of 1Gb storage which is expandable using sd cards (so really its got unlimited storage), it has fm radio and works as a usb storage drive for both the onboard 1gb storage and for the connected sd card...
I have 3 sd cards which have each have different types of music on them and i have music that i listen too more often stored on the base flash drive
The SD cards beat the HELL out of sonys HI-MD as there are many many different sizes depending on what you want and they are solid state...
linky for those interested
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1208)-SDMX2-
Here i fixed your article for you...
For doing every day tasks, such as reading email, surfing intarweb and writing documents, Linux, even on a crappy PC still beats the shit out of latest Windows offerings.
Linux is usable on low-end p2/celeron systems with as little as 128megs of memory, and Linux, properly installed, will function just fine with 256megs.
Try installing latest Windows 2000 or XP, and not only will the space they take up greatly exceed that of a proper Linux install, but they will be much slower, because while hardware advanced, Windows still uses technology from 20 years ago to talk with the graphics card, still Randomly Crashes, still lacks in PnP department (removing a "mounted" USB flash stick anyone?), still has abysmal support for various multimedia devices (no, the few tens reverse-engineered audio/video capture/etc drivers don't really count), etc etc.
What about hibernation? Part of what makes your PC seem "slow" is having to turn it on and off, and waiting for the OS to boot. How long does Linux take to resume from hibernation? At most few seconds. I have a laptop with 1.5gb of memory with Linux and it takes about 15 seconds to hibernate or resume. Last I checked, Windows developers were worrying about reducing their several-minutes-long boot sequence. I'm not even going to mention hibernation because I know that doesn't work properly in Windows.
So here you have it. Is Windows REALLY slow? Yep. Considering the alternatives, it's a lot slower! And when Vista comes out this or next year (who cares when, it will be awful anyway) - it will be even slower. With instant-on (Which will crash 75% of the time), even slower hibernation, and with new Intel CPUs/chipsets which support deeper sleep levels with more power savings, you'll always notice your PC being slow. It will never be ready to use when you want.
Im an australian and i am Outraged... I dont want to have to try and get around filters like this, i dont want to have to apply for filters to be removed from my internet connection This is australia THIS IS NOT FUCKING CHINA!
"almost two-thirds of parents don't have internet filters on their family computers," Mr Beazley said. did he stop to think that maybe two-thirds decided that they didnt want their internet access restricted or were already filtering their connection using a method which wasnt included in their "statistics".
The current opt-in system works well and should be LEFT ALONE!
"research suggests that the exposure of children and others in the community to this sickening content can lead to aggression towards women and child abuse."
In fact a quick google returns many opposing views eg
"Research by Goldstein et al. shows that sex offenders generally had less contact with erotica in their formative years than did non-offenders and typically had a sexually repressed childhood and sexually repressive parents"
Anyway, Im very upset to even read this and [Insert insults and offensive comment directed at Kim Beazley Here].
Im currently seeding 16 files and downloading 1, the only complaint that i have is that you cant throttle the total speed of all the torrents... but this is only because each torrent uses a seperate bittornado process... but tc makes it easy to do anyway :)
or put new computer in old case.. no fight...
This is just forcing people to use things like proxies or one of the many projects designed to bypass chinas tough filters...
Yeah, at a place i previously worked we did a similar thing...
:)
We would play small simple games at lunch (Think Flash Games), though we usally didnt take anymore than the alloted hour
After hours was a different thing all together, we would play Half-life, Counter-strike, TFC, DOD and many other games... We would usually play for about 1.5 to 2 hours each day...
and Managment Loved it... Why? Simple...anyone working overtime who was having problems with computers could still call IT... and they didnt have to pay us to be there for the extra time...
I also found that out of every place i have ever worked the team morale was much much much higher...
Major Realease only means that there was major code changes to get there...
Not that there were major new features added
Windows support better than linux support... pfft yeah sure maybe if the problem is DIRECTLY related to Windows....
We currently have a windows server which crashes every day, we could work out the problem with it, so we called microsoft after "4 WEEKS" they politley informed us that the problem was caused by a third part application running on our server... and we had to PAY them to tell us this!!
At least on our debian servers we arent going to be told that... but then again i havent yet ever had to call a linux helpdesk...
BTW, we have 4 Windows 2003 servers and 5 Debian Linux Servers and the only problems we have with the linux servers have been when they couldnt look up a user via ldap because the windows had CRASHED...
The way they do this is actually much less efficent than it could be!
it should be performed similar to the way NO2 is used on sports cars with the trucker changing bottles when required and the injection controled by a new EMS it would work out signifigantly cheaper to buy and run and deliver more power and better milage
the truck isnt optimised to make hydrogen so having it do it instead is far less efficent than buying it made from natural gas by a gas company and means that benifits of using hydrogen as a catalyst are reduced
Gcalctool
:)
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The answer is "Error"
That must be what they are running on their webservers... SLASHDOTTED! :)
3 de279fee8e0ea48/index.html
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/c4d983f435b90444