I hear this all the time. In YouTube, when you hit an incorrect copyright infringement claim or your video gets flagged for no good reason, it's very hard to actually reach a person who can fix it.
Breaking the law is breaking the law.. I can't wait for the coming DNS blocks. Finally a software developer or musician wont have to worry about starting a business and getting ripped off by people who want to enjoy his work for free.
MPAA may be full of shit, but at the same time it's annoying how anti-piracy comments always get robotically modded down in Slashdot. I just think it's good to look objectively at both sides of the coin.
Hmm, while we are at the subject, I have a quick Windows Flash question. I have recently experienced an issue where with Intel chips (GMA950, X3100) on various machines, the full-screen video looks blocky (it's not anti-aliased but scaled using the nearest-neighbor algorithm). Do you know how to fix this? Is the problem in the display driver or the Flash plugin? The "Enable hardware acceleration" is ticked in Flash and tinkering with the system tray Intel GPU settings tool does not help either. The sites I experience this with are YouTube and areena.yle.fi (but probably applies to all video).
For video, it would help a lot if someone wrote a solid HTML5 player with the simple YUV overlay playback, just like the stand-alone video players, which are fast. Works on every PC.
Here's a link to a MPlayer YouTube script which also allows playing on the fly. It uses youtube-dl as a helper to fetch the exact video location URL from which MPlayer starts buffering.
Now we just need a Firefox/Chrome extension to make a nicely clickable button which passes the browser URL to the script. One problematic thing here too is that while MPlayer can seek, it does seem to not know the length of the video, so I don't know the current position.
Over the last two years, disk drives have gotten bigger, they've gone from 1TB to 3TB, but they haven't gotten faster.
Technically they get faster every time the density increases, as there is more data passing under the head in a certain time and, it takes less travel to seek over a certain amount of data...
Only if it's sequential. Try having a 1 TB Postgres database (with dozens of tables) spread over 2 million data files and tell me how fast streaming off of disk is.
No, not only if it's sequential. If you have your 1TB database on 1TB disk vs. 2TB disk, the 1TB one will be faster as long as all the data stays at the beginning of the disk (and assuming they are equally fragmented). But ok, the best way to exploit this would be to speed up an OS by creating a small 50GB partition for the OS and leave the rest for a data partition. When you go up in capacities, the OS partition gets faster and faster.
Over the last two years, disk drives have gotten bigger, they've gone from 1TB to 3TB, but they haven't gotten faster.
Technically they get faster every time the density increases, as there is more data passing under the head in a certain time and, it takes less travel to seek over a certain amount of data...
I've been running Linux exclusively since 2004, but decided to give Windows 7 a try recently, and I've to say the overall experience was not good. For some reason Windows versions after XP (and particularly after 98) seem to love flogging the HDD. Windows 7 really excelled in this, and this continued even after I made sure to turn off the Indexing Service. It'd constantly decide to write/read from the disk, even when I had only an empty desktop idling by, without any applications open.
I actually had the opposite experience and found Windows 7 to be surprisingly snappy with a mechanical hard drive too (though, that was mostly a clean installation). But still, you're correct, Windows is generally quite horrible in terms of frequency of disk access. These days I just pour some hardware for the problem: a SSD is always in my requirements list for a Windows installation. Really saves some hair-pulling.
By my experience, the result has been usually that there is really no perceivable performance improvements and, there's a good chance that it's missing something which causes breakage in your distro. But for embedded systems it might be a good idea.
He's only missing the herd of officials buzzing along him.
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I did some testing with DEs lately and I my best friend I found from GNOME3 + Gnome Shell. Everything is nicely in its place, providing an intuitive, minimalist desktop. I had to hack the theme though, to not display titlebars when maximized, as the title is shown in the top bar anyway (tutorial). However the whole thing is quite similar to Unity, but for some reason Unity runs dog-slow (?). If you want a more full-fledged desktop, KDE4 seemed very snappy and smooth too.
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People kill themselves every single day for no reason, so damn it let the people build fake computers to open single doors.
And if you work at Foxconn, you can do both. :P
Anyone missing the pony pink, can invert the colors of Slashdot. There's a Compiz plugin for that.
I hear this all the time. In YouTube, when you hit an incorrect copyright infringement claim or your video gets flagged for no good reason, it's very hard to actually reach a person who can fix it.
Breaking the law is breaking the law.. I can't wait for the coming DNS blocks. Finally a software developer or musician wont have to worry about starting a business and getting ripped off by people who want to enjoy his work for free.
MPAA may be full of shit, but at the same time it's annoying how anti-piracy comments always get robotically modded down in Slashdot. I just think it's good to look objectively at both sides of the coin.
Unscaled, so no excuses about overlays.
Even unscaled the YUV overlay helps a lot, as the YUV->RGB colorspace conversion is then done by the GPU with its dedicated circuitry instead of CPU.
Thank you for the tip. :)
Hmm, while we are at the subject, I have a quick Windows Flash question. I have recently experienced an issue where with Intel chips (GMA950, X3100) on various machines, the full-screen video looks blocky (it's not anti-aliased but scaled using the nearest-neighbor algorithm). Do you know how to fix this? Is the problem in the display driver or the Flash plugin? The "Enable hardware acceleration" is ticked in Flash and tinkering with the system tray Intel GPU settings tool does not help either. The sites I experience this with are YouTube and areena.yle.fi (but probably applies to all video).
For video, it would help a lot if someone wrote a solid HTML5 player with the simple YUV overlay playback, just like the stand-alone video players, which are fast. Works on every PC.
Here's a link to a MPlayer YouTube script which also allows playing on the fly. It uses youtube-dl as a helper to fetch the exact video location URL from which MPlayer starts buffering.
Now we just need a Firefox/Chrome extension to make a nicely clickable button which passes the browser URL to the script. One problematic thing here too is that while MPlayer can seek, it does seem to not know the length of the video, so I don't know the current position.
Good point, but you still get an advantage, as there is now three times more data under the heads at any moment.
If you haven't seen it already, here's the ABC News clip of the Foxconn factory to get a glimpse inside.
the 1TB one will be faster
Correcting myself: that should of course be that the 2TB will be faster.
Over the last two years, disk drives have gotten bigger, they've gone from 1TB to 3TB, but they haven't gotten faster.
Technically they get faster every time the density increases, as there is more data passing under the head in a certain time and, it takes less travel to seek over a certain amount of data...
Only if it's sequential. Try having a 1 TB Postgres database (with dozens of tables) spread over 2 million data files and tell me how fast streaming off of disk is.
No, not only if it's sequential. If you have your 1TB database on 1TB disk vs. 2TB disk, the 1TB one will be faster as long as all the data stays at the beginning of the disk (and assuming they are equally fragmented). But ok, the best way to exploit this would be to speed up an OS by creating a small 50GB partition for the OS and leave the rest for a data partition. When you go up in capacities, the OS partition gets faster and faster.
Over the last two years, disk drives have gotten bigger, they've gone from 1TB to 3TB, but they haven't gotten faster.
Technically they get faster every time the density increases, as there is more data passing under the head in a certain time and, it takes less travel to seek over a certain amount of data...
Then you could also give Windows 7 a shot. ;)
Progress like Gnome 3 and Unity?
Sure. KDE4 is nice too.
Desktop Linux is slowly but steadily making progress and getting more polished every day. Who knows if at some point we pass the critical mark.
I've been running Linux exclusively since 2004, but decided to give Windows 7 a try recently, and I've to say the overall experience was not good. For some reason Windows versions after XP (and particularly after 98) seem to love flogging the HDD. Windows 7 really excelled in this, and this continued even after I made sure to turn off the Indexing Service. It'd constantly decide to write/read from the disk, even when I had only an empty desktop idling by, without any applications open.
I actually had the opposite experience and found Windows 7 to be surprisingly snappy with a mechanical hard drive too (though, that was mostly a clean installation). But still, you're correct, Windows is generally quite horrible in terms of frequency of disk access. These days I just pour some hardware for the problem: a SSD is always in my requirements list for a Windows installation. Really saves some hair-pulling.
The difference might not be noticeable unless you're actually measuring boot up time, in bootstrapping the OS it usually makes a big difference.
Ah yes, I haven't really measured the boot time.
By my experience, the result has been usually that there is really no perceivable performance improvements and, there's a good chance that it's missing something which causes breakage in your distro. But for embedded systems it might be a good idea.
He's only missing the herd of officials buzzing along him.
I did some testing with DEs lately and I my best friend I found from GNOME3 + Gnome Shell. Everything is nicely in its place, providing an intuitive, minimalist desktop. I had to hack the theme though, to not display titlebars when maximized, as the title is shown in the top bar anyway (tutorial). However the whole thing is quite similar to Unity, but for some reason Unity runs dog-slow (?). If you want a more full-fledged desktop, KDE4 seemed very snappy and smooth too.
*Lowers the grammar nazi shotgun*
Well said!
You can create some stuff at least in OpenTTD too: here's a neat 7-segment LED counter made with trains.