The article says that in coal-powered plants this mechanism is unnecessary because the turbine is supplied with the constant amount of pressure that runs it at optimal capacity, I guess that hydro-electric turbines are also supplied with constant water pressure and this kind of technology is largely unnecessary.
Not really, moreover I think this is the time to make Palin jokes, previously all Palin said scared the hell out of me, but now we all can fully appreciate her stupidity.
Shouldn't 1Gbps saturate the drives. 1Gbps = 125MBps, I doubt that RAID 5 array could perform that fast. Maybe SMB protocol is the real bottleneck. I've tried copying files from an NFS drive over a gigabit and I got maximum speed of about 22MBps which should leave the link not all that busy.
I'd say I'd stay on the safe side and follow this rule - my laptop has 1.2G of ram and even at the times when I have lots of applications open under KDE3.5: 5 firefox windows with 15-20 tabs each, evolution, amarok, a couple of krusader instances, 3 consoles with 5 tabs each, eclipse and apache2 running in the background, I've never seen swap usage go over 100Mbytes, so I can say, that for normal work I don't need more than 256 Megs of swap, however, hibernation to disk dumps memory into swap space, so I need at least 1x for Ram for that. So I guess the new rule of thumb is:
Swap space = 1x Ram + (Swap at peak memory usage)
Of course I use LVM for virtualizing partitions, so resizing a partition is not nearly as painful as it used to be. Also I suggest reading man pages for swapon, swapoff and mkswap; You'd be amazed the flexibility of linux when managing swap partition/files.
You can always choose to install only the base system ~130 packages or so, ~400 MBytes on disk. It's pretty barebone but you can build any environment you like from scratch without incurring bloat.
The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License "The Affero General Public License, often abbreviated as Affero GPL and AGPL (and sometimes informally called the Affero license) refers to two distinct, though historically related, free software licenses: (1) the Affero General Public License, version 1 (published by Affero, Inc. in March 2002, and based closely on the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2)), and (2) the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and closely resembling the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3))."
If FSF considers it to be free software, how it is not free software, and by a lot of people you mean who?
Evolution is not a religion, evolution is a scientific theory that attempts to explain the development of the species and it is not a philosophy. If you want to describe some weird-ass obscure self-hating atheist, or for that matter religious system of beliefs, then call it that, and don't link it to evolution.
Even if humans are just animals with free will, *WE* are social animals, and morals and perception of right and wrong haven't just appear from thin air, they were tested by thousand years of existence of human society, should I say that they have evolved?
And I'm much more comfortable of knowing that the justification for every decision I make comes from my judgment on how it is going to affect me and people around me, and not because a supreme being said so in a holy book.
People who argue that the religion is the only way humans can stay human, with full knowledge of about inquisition and endless wars that were caused and/or justified by a particular religion are so full of shit, and who moderated you insightful anyway?
I just don't get it. Okay the gov. tests all the beef and get 35 false positives, what prevents them, before publishing the result to run the test again and make sure that it is in fact a false positive, before releasing results to the public. I know in reality everything is more complicated than this, but this basic idea should work.
"Just because Japan and Korea have decided to cave and let misguided public sentiment trump sound mathematical policy is no reason for the U.S. to follow suit. If anything, I would rather we spend that extra money to teach people basic statistics as part of the required educational curriculum."
It's all good an well from a statistical point of view, but do you really want to be in 0.17% that gets mad cow disease? If the public wants to pay more for safer meat why not let them, and who are you to say that the public is misguided in wanting that.
This thing works on Debian Testing/Iceweasel & Conqueror. It affects Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V options, but doesn't seem to affect unix type of copy/paste - when you select text to copy, and paste it using middle mouse button.
The only problem is that what he did behind the scenes could never be proven. I might say that he ate newborn babies behind the scene and my statement would be just as credible as yours.
I think the author of the article doesn't realize the difference between the legacy code and kernel architecture. Kernel architecture of windows is fine - its a hybrid kernel, which in general similar to Linux, you're not able to run in HPC on it, but hey, it is better than DOS! It's the legacy code that creates so much bloat, and swapping out the kernel won't change anything if the same mountain of code still runs.
Of course Microsoft could create virtualization layer, but then Linux has Qemu, Xen and Wine, and OS X has Parallels and Wine, and of course there is VMware, so if Microsoft would ever support legacy code through virtualization, alternative implementation of it would be release pretty quickly, and everybody here knows how Microsoft likes competition.
My guess there will be dying for the next 10-15 agonizing years, dragging any progress in the industry with them.
For some reason this argument was valid to sentence people to death on Nuremberg Trials, but now to make telcos fiscally responsible for their complicit actions in illegal wiretapping - oh no poor telcos. I guess it is more than naive to expect little fish to be convicted before the main guys fall.
Mod me down as troll but OpenOffice Impress was kind of pathetic. Last time I needed to prepare presentation in it, Impress was really bad - it would use about 50% of the CPU when I was editing text, do something really annoying every two minutes, and crash every fifteen minutes. However, when I tried to reproduce that stuff with my old presentation using OpenOffice 2.4, these bugs got all fixed.
Also Impress seem to be the worse part of OpenOffice, Write and Calc are pretty good, at least for the last two years of using them I didn't notice any significant problems.
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The article says that in coal-powered plants this mechanism is unnecessary because the turbine is supplied with the constant amount of pressure that runs it at optimal capacity, I guess that hydro-electric turbines are also supplied with constant water pressure and this kind of technology is largely unnecessary.
Not really, moreover I think this is the time to make Palin jokes, previously all Palin said scared the hell out of me, but now we all can fully appreciate her stupidity.
And how is this different from functionality of modprobe tool that does exactly that?
Shouldn't 1Gbps saturate the drives. 1Gbps = 125MBps, I doubt that RAID 5 array could perform that fast. Maybe SMB protocol is the real bottleneck. I've tried copying files from an NFS drive over a gigabit and I got maximum speed of about 22MBps which should leave the link not all that busy.
I'd say I'd stay on the safe side and follow this rule - my laptop has 1.2G of ram and even at the times when I have lots of applications open under KDE3.5: 5 firefox windows with 15-20 tabs each, evolution, amarok, a couple of krusader instances, 3 consoles with 5 tabs each, eclipse and apache2 running in the background, I've never seen swap usage go over 100Mbytes, so I can say, that for normal work I don't need more than 256 Megs of swap, however, hibernation to disk dumps memory into swap space, so I need at least 1x for Ram for that. So I guess the new rule of thumb is: Swap space = 1x Ram + (Swap at peak memory usage) Of course I use LVM for virtualizing partitions, so resizing a partition is not nearly as painful as it used to be. Also I suggest reading man pages for swapon, swapoff and mkswap; You'd be amazed the flexibility of linux when managing swap partition/files.
You can always choose to install only the base system ~130 packages or so, ~400 MBytes on disk. It's pretty barebone but you can build any environment you like from scratch without incurring bloat.
Microsoft - because they're in for the love of being evil.
Somebody mod parent down.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
"Preamble
The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
"The Affero General Public License, often abbreviated as Affero GPL and AGPL (and sometimes informally called the Affero license) refers to two distinct, though historically related, free software licenses: (1) the Affero General Public License, version 1 (published by Affero, Inc. in March 2002, and based closely on the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2)), and (2) the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and closely resembling the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3))."
If FSF considers it to be free software, how it is not free software, and by a lot of people you mean who?
Does network-manager counts?
Does network-manager count?
And the liquid is usually glycol, not water.
apt-get install libdvdcss2
k9copy is really nice to, and everything could be find in debian-multimedia repository.
-1 Utterly and horribly wrong.
Evolution is not a religion, evolution is a scientific theory that attempts to explain the development of the species and it is not a philosophy. If you want to describe some weird-ass obscure self-hating atheist, or for that matter religious system of beliefs, then call it that, and don't link it to evolution.
Even if humans are just animals with free will, *WE* are social animals, and morals and perception of right and wrong haven't just appear from thin air, they were tested by thousand years of existence of human society, should I say that they have evolved?
And I'm much more comfortable of knowing that the justification for every decision I make comes from my judgment on how it is going to affect me and people around me, and not because a supreme being said so in a holy book.
People who argue that the religion is the only way humans can stay human, with full knowledge of about inquisition and endless wars that were caused and/or justified by a particular religion are so full of shit, and who moderated you insightful anyway?
I just don't get it. Okay the gov. tests all the beef and get 35 false positives, what prevents them, before publishing the result to run the test again and make sure that it is in fact a false positive, before releasing results to the public. I know in reality everything is more complicated than this, but this basic idea should work.
"Just because Japan and Korea have decided to cave and let misguided public sentiment trump sound mathematical policy is no reason for the U.S. to follow suit. If anything, I would rather we spend that extra money to teach people basic statistics as part of the required educational curriculum."
It's all good an well from a statistical point of view, but do you really want to be in 0.17% that gets mad cow disease? If the public wants to pay more for safer meat why not let them, and who are you to say that the public is misguided in wanting that.
This thing works on Debian Testing /Iceweasel & Conqueror. It affects Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V options, but doesn't seem to affect unix type of copy/paste - when you select text to copy, and paste it using middle mouse button.
Not to be cold and uncaring, but apparently what most people think about spammers is true.
Hardly foolproof - well that's an understatement; since most of these systems could be easily defeated with a can opener.
The only problem is that what he did behind the scenes could never be proven. I might say that he ate newborn babies behind the scene and my statement would be just as credible as yours.
Get your girlfriend a docking station - let all the crap stay on a $10 keyboard that could be replaced every month.
I think the author of the article doesn't realize the difference between the legacy code and kernel architecture. Kernel architecture of windows is fine - its a hybrid kernel, which in general similar to Linux, you're not able to run in HPC on it, but hey, it is better than DOS! It's the legacy code that creates so much bloat, and swapping out the kernel won't change anything if the same mountain of code still runs.
Of course Microsoft could create virtualization layer, but then Linux has Qemu, Xen and Wine, and OS X has Parallels and Wine, and of course there is VMware, so if Microsoft would ever support legacy code through virtualization, alternative implementation of it would be release pretty quickly, and everybody here knows how Microsoft likes competition.
My guess there will be dying for the next 10-15 agonizing years, dragging any progress in the industry with them.
For some reason this argument was valid to sentence people to death on Nuremberg Trials, but now to make telcos fiscally responsible for their complicit actions in illegal wiretapping - oh no poor telcos. I guess it is more than naive to expect little fish to be convicted before the main guys fall.
You can buy a bunch of usb dongles, usb 2.0 pci adapters, and some duct tape, you can build a kick ass freenas server.
I have two words for you: Incremental Backups
Mod me down as troll but OpenOffice Impress was kind of pathetic. Last time I needed to prepare presentation in it, Impress was really bad - it would use about 50% of the CPU when I was editing text, do something really annoying every two minutes, and crash every fifteen minutes. However, when I tried to reproduce that stuff with my old presentation using OpenOffice 2.4, these bugs got all fixed.
Also Impress seem to be the worse part of OpenOffice, Write and Calc are pretty good, at least for the last two years of using them I didn't notice any significant problems.