I think he can't contact you. As far as I know, there is no private message feature in Slashdot, and you don't disclose your e-mail address in your profile either. Just sayin'.:)
The Linux kernel, for instance, keeps a blacklist for this issue instead
This is true. The blacklist is contained in drivers/ata/libata-core.c for anyone who wants to take a look at it.
To find it, in that file search for: static const struct ata_blacklist_entry ata_device_blacklist []
For SSDs with (queued) TRIM problems, that list seems to contain only Crucial/Micron M500/M550. There is a lot of other devices blacklisted for various reasons. Of course they aren't blacklisted completely but just some features are disabled in them.
As if Google ever gets anything right. Fail after fail. Their only successes are their acquisitions (Maps, YouTube). It's a wonder how they're even still in business.
Same reason as why Microsoft is still the king of the OS market with their crusty software: for new companies the barrier of entry to the field is too high.
3 months ago there was a Facebook job application which sought for people having the skills to improve Linux's network stack to match the performance of FreeBSD's.
Sure. You can download big archives of offline content. In Visual Studio, go to Help -> Add and Remove Help Content. You get the window shown in this picture.
You can probably infer whether the chip is working hard or not, and possibly hear it stepping clock frequencies. Maybe if the frame rate is locked to v-sync, you could also hear a beat frequency synchronous to fps. I don't think you can find out anything more specific than those kind of things. There's a lot of power filtering going on and the chip architecture is extremely complex.
Because 99.999% of users don't care enough to complain.
That would mean 1 / 100,000 users complain. I think more users care. 99.99% or even 99.9% might be a closer value to the amount of users that don't care.
Of course I'm just nitpicking and past your point, but there's a surprisingly big difference into how many 9s you slap there.:)
Same here. I bought two 128GB cards on eBay for $23 each. Only one showed up, and when I tested it with:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
it gives I/O error at about 8.2GB. Definitely not worth the aggravation.
No, no, don't do it that way. If you overwrite an SD card starting from the beginning, you will overwrite the Protected Area of the card. Also happens if you use the "format disk" function of an operating system on the card.
The SD Association has a special formatter which avoids this problem.
Maybe try reading the card instead of writing, to test for those cards which have missing flash. Or carefully skip the Protected Area with dd when writing.
I still want to believe that there are honest people who think that the artists and producers should be paid properly for their cool music and hard work.
iOS Safari is "special" and is the only iOS app that's allowed to have writable, executable pages. (As it is the only app allowed to run the JavaScript JIT compiler.)
Hmm... interesting... do PC web browsers do the same thing? In that case, one would think that if the OS implements NX protection, then the JS interpreter would not work.
You still need patrons for the big projects to develop them properly. It can be tricky to arrange. Those small GitHub projects are small enough maintainable by one man.
I never take a look at SMART values or do disk benchmarks. They just make me more stressful and paranoid. If it should occur, I'll let the drive die a mighty death and restore the latest backup to a new disk.
Here are the actual prices from MS catalogue as of today.
Visual Studio 2013 Community is intended for small teams and is $0. Even the free version is actually very feature-rich.
Visual Studio 2013 Professional is $499.
Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, the edition for big software houses, comes with MSDN subscription and a pony, and costs $13,299.
Of course this happens. The world is going to direction where people are rushed through some watered-down education (where they get no chance to fail a couple of times first or think things through). They learn to solve problems quickly with some high-level tools. The attention to detail and mastering things down to core essentials is slipping. The guy with the coolest TED talk wins. Others are boring nerds wasting their time with abstract concepts. And hey, quality assurance, what's that? We need to ship this thing quickly.
There's one catch though. According to the Mozilla e10s page, for now multi-process only means separating web content from the GUI. Having separate processes for each tab is coming later down the road.
It's kind of an interesting situation. GNOME itself isn't an recursive acronym but it encompasses the recursive acronym GNU. Does that make GNOME an recursive acronym?
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I think he can't contact you. As far as I know, there is no private message feature in Slashdot, and you don't disclose your e-mail address in your profile either. Just sayin'. :)
The Linux kernel, for instance, keeps a blacklist for this issue instead
This is true. The blacklist is contained in drivers/ata/libata-core.c for anyone who wants to take a look at it.
To find it, in that file search for: static const struct ata_blacklist_entry ata_device_blacklist []
For SSDs with (queued) TRIM problems, that list seems to contain only Crucial/Micron M500/M550. There is a lot of other devices blacklisted for various reasons. Of course they aren't blacklisted completely but just some features are disabled in them.
Hello, guys! I've been working on and now I'm looking for some job in tech. Because Slashdot is a job board, do you guys have any ideas?
Well, as you said, Slashdot is a job board, so just use it: http://slashdot.org/job_board.pl
As if Google ever gets anything right. Fail after fail. Their only successes are their acquisitions (Maps, YouTube). It's a wonder how they're even still in business.
Same reason as why Microsoft is still the king of the OS market with their crusty software: for new companies the barrier of entry to the field is too high.
3 months ago there was a Facebook job application which sought for people having the skills to improve Linux's network stack to match the performance of FreeBSD's.
Sure. You can download big archives of offline content. In Visual Studio, go to Help -> Add and Remove Help Content. You get the window shown in this picture.
You can probably infer whether the chip is working hard or not, and possibly hear it stepping clock frequencies. Maybe if the frame rate is locked to v-sync, you could also hear a beat frequency synchronous to fps. I don't think you can find out anything more specific than those kind of things. There's a lot of power filtering going on and the chip architecture is extremely complex.
Because 99.999% of users don't care enough to complain.
That would mean 1 / 100,000 users complain. I think more users care. 99.99% or even 99.9% might be a closer value to the amount of users that don't care.
Of course I'm just nitpicking and past your point, but there's a surprisingly big difference into how many 9s you slap there. :)
Same here. I bought two 128GB cards on eBay for $23 each. Only one showed up, and when I tested it with:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
it gives I/O error at about 8.2GB. Definitely not worth the aggravation.
No, no, don't do it that way. If you overwrite an SD card starting from the beginning, you will overwrite the Protected Area of the card. Also happens if you use the "format disk" function of an operating system on the card.
The SD Association has a special formatter which avoids this problem.
Maybe try reading the card instead of writing, to test for those cards which have missing flash. Or carefully skip the Protected Area with dd when writing.
Sadly, I don't. Although that's still not a reason to pirate. Piracy gives always the wrong message: that you don't want to pay anyone anything.
I still want to believe that there are honest people who think that the artists and producers should be paid properly for their cool music and hard work.
iOS Safari is "special" and is the only iOS app that's allowed to have writable, executable pages. (As it is the only app allowed to run the JavaScript JIT compiler.)
Hmm... interesting... do PC web browsers do the same thing? In that case, one would think that if the OS implements NX protection, then the JS interpreter would not work.
Does it allow it to fall to unencrypted?
You still need patrons for the big projects to develop them properly. It can be tricky to arrange. Those small GitHub projects are small enough maintainable by one man.
I never take a look at SMART values or do disk benchmarks. They just make me more stressful and paranoid. If it should occur, I'll let the drive die a mighty death and restore the latest backup to a new disk.
They are stored as XML files. See Application Settings Overview for more information.
Here are the actual prices from MS catalogue as of today.
Visual Studio 2013 Community is intended for small teams and is $0. Even the free version is actually very feature-rich.
Visual Studio 2013 Professional is $499.
Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, the edition for big software houses, comes with MSDN subscription and a pony, and costs $13,299.
Then Thunderbird would probably fail to connect as it can't establish the encrypted connection.
3 - 2 - 1 .. Some kid brings a speaker plugged in to a cellphone/whatever plays gunfire gets school shut down for the day...
Then punish that kid for setting off a false alarm, just like you would someone messing with the fire alarm system with fake cues.
How can this work? Wouldn't the client notice that the STARTTLS command did not complete successfully and/or that the session is not encrypted?
Email software should simply drop support for unencrypted SMTP, or report a big warning if the server doesn't support it.
Mozilla Thunderbird already shows a big scary warning when you try to set up an account without encryption.
Of course this happens. The world is going to direction where people are rushed through some watered-down education (where they get no chance to fail a couple of times first or think things through). They learn to solve problems quickly with some high-level tools. The attention to detail and mastering things down to core essentials is slipping. The guy with the coolest TED talk wins. Others are boring nerds wasting their time with abstract concepts. And hey, quality assurance, what's that? We need to ship this thing quickly.
That is true.
There's one catch though. According to the Mozilla e10s page, for now multi-process only means separating web content from the GUI. Having separate processes for each tab is coming later down the road.
It's kind of an interesting situation. GNOME itself isn't an recursive acronym but it encompasses the recursive acronym GNU. Does that make GNOME an recursive acronym?