Oh, Linux systems will do that too. Got a dodgy IDE cable and a weekly prelink job? Eventually the system will corrupt a few bytes here and there and it's all over.
There are a lot of games where I've seen people complain about the AI. The idiots are playing on Normal or even Easy!
Yeah, some games make it Hard by boosting the enemy armor and giving them more damage. But not the best ones. The best games are nerfing the AI on Easy or Regular just so you can win.
Don't complain about the AI unless you've played the game on the higher difficulty levels.
I don't agree with the court decision regarding FLIR. It will simply hold back progress. I want my own pair of full-spectrum sunglasses.
At some point in the future, it should become everyone else's responsibility to wear clothes and not put transparent siding on their houses. They need to install RF shielding and IR blocking. Anything else is like walking around nude while living in a glass house and asking people not to look.
It would be better for the court to have declared FLIR invasive for only a specific time period. After 5-10 years, assume everyone interested in privacy has upgraded.
You only need rootfs, which is a special type of ramfs that loads the initramfs image. initramfs is loaded by the bootloader, so probably GRUB or LILO or ELILO.
Then if every other filesystem was based on FUSE, you would load the initramfs with the FUSE module, the FUSE setup programs and a config file.
XFS is tons faster than Ext3. Ext3 is nearly the slowest file system on the planet. Defaulting to ordered mode made it worse.
Using anything that called fsync could cause Ext3 up to 30 second delays because all of your much loved ordering guarantees forced a complete flush of the entire journal and all related data.
It's not an excuse for XFS, it is just the choice made between perfectly slow and safe or ridiculously fast and not safe at all. XFS is quite fast and mostly safe. Ext3 is safe and slow.
Their developers need to actually run it on a 64-bit Vista machine. I mean, really, they must have never seen one.
I wrote them a big pile of complaints, comparing their crap to how Steam got everything right. I suppose I should try it again at some point to see if they improved anything. Possibly they'll have Vista supported by the time Win 7 arrives.
Anyone at his ISP, anyone with physical access to the telecom CO or anyone at his ISP's ISP has exactly the same ability to do MITM and sniffing.
I knew an admin who worked for a tier 1 network provider years ago who liked to play games with people on IRC. First he'd reconfigure a core route to broadcast a higher priority for routing their netblock through his ISP. Then all their IP traffic was at his mercy.
This kind of thing is trivial.
So yes, your network security is no better than anyone who has a WAP attached to their outgoing network connection. Assuming otherwise is stupid.
If the WAP is on the outside of the firewall, on a DMZ or between a firewall sandwich, having an open WAP is just as secure as being on the Internet at all.
I believe I read somewhere or other that branch predictors need a certain number of instructions between the branch instruction and the branch target in order to do a good job. If the only instruction in the loop is a single increment, that might explain the problem. Unrolling the loop so it has more instructions might fix it.
1. Once the application is developed, you will be told that there is a hard requirement that no one knew of, until faced with waiting 5 seconds per record commit.
2. Once the application is developed, rewriting it in C++ is almost as difficult as writing it that way from the first.
it's not at all clear to me that a document good enough to allow a working plugin would not be derivative.
That is the point of the reverse engineering. For example, Wine is reverse engineered, and no one seriously claims Wine is derivative of Windows source code.
I agree and I don't think faster CPUs and bigger/more GPUs is the place to spend PC money. I think fast storage is where to spend it.
The biggest cause of "feeling slow" on the PC is RAM and disk. Get 4 GB RAM, then spend on disk. Get a Intel SSD or a Velociraptor or 15K SAS RAID. Get a dedicated battery backed RAID controller with a GB cache. Get an iSCSI card for your gaming machine, rip out all its hard drives and build all of the above into a dedicated SAN system for your house. When gigabit iSCSI isn't enough, go for Fibre Channel, 10 gigabit iSCSI or InfiniBand.
You can spend loads more "ultimate" cash this way and get amazing performance results that are more useful than another 30 FPS.
MS changed the Vista task manager to avoid telling you the correct number
In fact, all they did was change a default. Are you too lazy to click on Task Manager's View->Select Columns menu option?
For memory options you've got your Working Set, Peak Working Set, Working Set Delta, Private Working Set, Commit Size, Paged Pool, and Non-paged Pool. Pick one.
IE is an inferior product. It always has been. The market share it has received is solely attributable to the bundling with the Microsoft operating systems.
I have to disagree with you. I used to use Netscape 4 on Windows 95 and 98. I switched to using IE intentionally. Versions 5 and 6 were better than Netscape. Lots better. It was faster, more responsive and had better compatibility with everything.
Later I started using Mozilla on Linux, but still used IE on Windows. It wasn't until Mozilla became Firefox and it lost the email, the IRC and whatever other junk it had that, in my opinion, it became a better browser than IE.
This is because most people in America are impatient short-sighted optimists who can't manage their debt.
The current economy is making it difficult to borrow money, so individuals and companies that are living beyond their means and shoring it up with debt are in trouble.
People who have money saved up might want to spend it on a nice gaming computer. It helps the economy, even. You wouldn't want poor Intel and Dell to go out of business would you?
Except that the constant GC cycles prevent this, and if a Java heap does get paged out, it kills performance because it will periodically get paged in by GC even if it really isn't used for anything.
This is generally only true if you let the Java VM use *FIVE TIMES* as much RAM as a C program. Java needs that much RAM to do efficient garbage collection. Using less than that causes more collection cycles to run, slowing everything down.
The other bad thing about Java is that if your program ever needs to use 300 MB, it will *always* use 300 MB forever after.
The answer to why/PAE and/3GB are not defaults is 3rd party drivers.
Yes, believe it or not, there are Windows drivers that believe user-space pointers and kernel-space pointers will always and forever be in the same 2GB memory spaces they have always been in.
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Oh, Linux systems will do that too. Got a dodgy IDE cable and a weekly prelink job? Eventually the system will corrupt a few bytes here and there and it's all over.
There are a lot of games where I've seen people complain about the AI. The idiots are playing on Normal or even Easy!
Yeah, some games make it Hard by boosting the enemy armor and giving them more damage. But not the best ones. The best games are nerfing the AI on Easy or Regular just so you can win.
Don't complain about the AI unless you've played the game on the higher difficulty levels.
I don't agree with the court decision regarding FLIR. It will simply hold back progress. I want my own pair of full-spectrum sunglasses.
At some point in the future, it should become everyone else's responsibility to wear clothes and not put transparent siding on their houses. They need to install RF shielding and IR blocking. Anything else is like walking around nude while living in a glass house and asking people not to look.
It would be better for the court to have declared FLIR invasive for only a specific time period. After 5-10 years, assume everyone interested in privacy has upgraded.
You only need rootfs, which is a special type of ramfs that loads the initramfs image. initramfs is loaded by the bootloader, so probably GRUB or LILO or ELILO.
Then if every other filesystem was based on FUSE, you would load the initramfs with the FUSE module, the FUSE setup programs and a config file.
XFS is tons faster than Ext3. Ext3 is nearly the slowest file system on the planet. Defaulting to ordered mode made it worse.
Using anything that called fsync could cause Ext3 up to 30 second delays because all of your much loved ordering guarantees forced a complete flush of the entire journal and all related data.
It's not an excuse for XFS, it is just the choice made between perfectly slow and safe or ridiculously fast and not safe at all. XFS is quite fast and mostly safe. Ext3 is safe and slow.
I tried Impulse and wanted to like it.
But it's hideous.
Their developers need to actually run it on a 64-bit Vista machine. I mean, really, they must have never seen one.
I wrote them a big pile of complaints, comparing their crap to how Steam got everything right. I suppose I should try it again at some point to see if they improved anything. Possibly they'll have Vista supported by the time Win 7 arrives.
No need to exaggerate. It only takes half a week.
If God meant Man to fly He would have given us wings. So don't bother inventing airplanes.
If Evolution meant Man to fly it would have evolved us wings. So don't bother inventing airplanes.
Both pretty silly arguments!
If Evolution meant Man to be immune to the flu, we would be, so don't bother trying.
Equally silly and is theological because it treats Evolution as if it was perfect and all-knowing, i.e. God.
Anyone at his ISP, anyone with physical access to the telecom CO or anyone at his ISP's ISP has exactly the same ability to do MITM and sniffing.
I knew an admin who worked for a tier 1 network provider years ago who liked to play games with people on IRC. First he'd reconfigure a core route to broadcast a higher priority for routing their netblock through his ISP. Then all their IP traffic was at his mercy.
This kind of thing is trivial.
So yes, your network security is no better than anyone who has a WAP attached to their outgoing network connection. Assuming otherwise is stupid.
If the WAP is on the outside of the firewall, on a DMZ or between a firewall sandwich, having an open WAP is just as secure as being on the Internet at all.
I believe I read somewhere or other that branch predictors need a certain number of instructions between the branch instruction and the branch target in order to do a good job. If the only instruction in the loop is a single increment, that might explain the problem. Unrolling the loop so it has more instructions might fix it.
More axioms:
1. Once the application is developed, you will be told that there is a hard requirement that no one knew of, until faced with waiting 5 seconds per record commit.
2. Once the application is developed, rewriting it in C++ is almost as difficult as writing it that way from the first.
it's not at all clear to me that a document good enough to allow a working plugin would not be derivative.
That is the point of the reverse engineering. For example, Wine is reverse engineered, and no one seriously claims Wine is derivative of Windows source code.
Except that real "trusted computing" using a TPM chip doesn't store the key in the CPU or in RAM, it is stored in the TPM.
I agree and I don't think faster CPUs and bigger/more GPUs is the place to spend PC money. I think fast storage is where to spend it.
The biggest cause of "feeling slow" on the PC is RAM and disk. Get 4 GB RAM, then spend on disk. Get a Intel SSD or a Velociraptor or 15K SAS RAID. Get a dedicated battery backed RAID controller with a GB cache. Get an iSCSI card for your gaming machine, rip out all its hard drives and build all of the above into a dedicated SAN system for your house. When gigabit iSCSI isn't enough, go for Fibre Channel, 10 gigabit iSCSI or InfiniBand.
You can spend loads more "ultimate" cash this way and get amazing performance results that are more useful than another 30 FPS.
I bet I know the problem. Serious Diablo 2 gamers run a cracked version. (Game CD? What? Under some pile back of the closet.)
The original copy protect junk probably dies on 64-bit.
MS changed the Vista task manager to avoid telling you the correct number
In fact, all they did was change a default. Are you too lazy to click on Task Manager's View->Select Columns menu option?
For memory options you've got your Working Set, Peak Working Set, Working Set Delta, Private Working Set, Commit Size, Paged Pool, and Non-paged Pool. Pick one.
IE is an inferior product. It always has been. The market share it has received is solely attributable to the bundling with the Microsoft operating systems.
I have to disagree with you. I used to use Netscape 4 on Windows 95 and 98. I switched to using IE intentionally. Versions 5 and 6 were better than Netscape. Lots better. It was faster, more responsive and had better compatibility with everything.
Later I started using Mozilla on Linux, but still used IE on Windows. It wasn't until Mozilla became Firefox and it lost the email, the IRC and whatever other junk it had that, in my opinion, it became a better browser than IE.
This is because most people in America are impatient short-sighted optimists who can't manage their debt.
The current economy is making it difficult to borrow money, so individuals and companies that are living beyond their means and shoring it up with debt are in trouble.
People who have money saved up might want to spend it on a nice gaming computer. It helps the economy, even. You wouldn't want poor Intel and Dell to go out of business would you?
When everyone has a nano-replicator in their garage how are you proposing to stop them backing up their new Benz? DRM?
It's a Space 1999 reference I think. Not that I've ever seen the show.
Yes, and if you combine this with a memory pool strategy like Apache uses, it works very well because when you drop a pool, that memory is reclaimed.
Except that the constant GC cycles prevent this, and if a Java heap does get paged out, it kills performance because it will periodically get paged in by GC even if it really isn't used for anything.
This is generally only true if you let the Java VM use *FIVE TIMES* as much RAM as a C program. Java needs that much RAM to do efficient garbage collection. Using less than that causes more collection cycles to run, slowing everything down.
The other bad thing about Java is that if your program ever needs to use 300 MB, it will *always* use 300 MB forever after.
The answer to why /PAE and /3GB are not defaults is 3rd party drivers.
Yes, believe it or not, there are Windows drivers that believe user-space pointers and kernel-space pointers will always and forever be in the same 2GB memory spaces they have always been in.