I, too, seem to share the same typing style as you.
I'm in my mid twenties and have been coding since grade 5 (roughly age 10). Starting with HTML, Css and JavaScript/ActionScript.
I remember learning home row in grade 4 and completely abandoning it when I realized it was so inefficient for the stuff I enjoyed to do. On an unrelated note I was banned from school computters in grade 6 thru 8 (highscool starts in gr 9 here) for "hacking".
I just think that if the user can't even access the website without "modern" (per se.) Javascript is retarded. If you can't draw a semi usable website without it then your website is useless in my opinion. Javascript should Enhance the experience, not be the entire experience. There are certain use cases its acceptable (online games is the big one that comes to mind). But your blog doesn't need to be written in HTML5/JS, and not render anything without JS on.
I'm in my mid twenties and I do this for a living. If I depended on JS (or a framework) as heavily as developers seem to think is necessary these days I'd probably have to shoot myself.
One monitor with 8 virtual desktops has more screen real estate than 3 physical monitors for the cost of one monitor.
You can only focus on one screen at a time anyway, so what is the purpose of cocking your head over to look at something when you could simply switch virtual desktops?
I keep 8 available on my desktop workstations and 6 on my laptop.
That's what swap space is for (aka the pagefile on Windows).
Your system will try to dump memory into swap space. If you don't have swap space, on Linux at least, processes will fail to run and you'll get some messages in dmesg that you're running out of available RAM.
Depending on the application, the application that is trying to allocate memory may crash.
I have yet to see a full system hault brcause of it though.
In what situation would you need hardware accelerated access to two operating systems? Choose a host OS you use most and boot up your Guest OS on ome of those displays. Honestly I've never seen the value in multiple monitors. On linux we have Virtual Desktops for a reason.
Also I don't know anyone who would ever need to dual boot on a system with only 1GB of RAM. And if they did it was for gaming, and they wouldn't be limited by RAM as thry would have adequate hardware. And again, if they are gamers on a laptop, why the hell are they dual booting? Just spin up an OS under VirtualBox or similar ona Windows host.
I still fail to see any legitimate reason to dual boot in 2013.
Yeah not entirely sure how I managed to eff that up. I think in part was my slightly still hungover brain, and chasing after the kids and losing track of what I was writing (I'm on my phone writing these).
I meant to say "April, spilling into May".
I even previewed and read it back to myself before hitting submit.
Yeah around here we have a similar saying as well. March and June are the melt down, but its still cold. Specifically in my region, August is the only month in recorded history we haven't had a snow storm.
Generally the tail end of June and early July are nice out. Around mid July, the temp spikes upward of 30C... and August averages 30C and maxes out closer to 40C. Our weather is literally -40C to +40C not taking the "wind chill factor" into account (personally think its a load of bull).
Regarding taking over Alaska... has Palin died or left yet? Her veiws conflict with the majority of Canadians.
(Sorry about any spelling or grammatical errors.. writing this on phone touchscreen also Slashdot doesn't like my degree signs in the preview...)
Note: that's for 2 months of the year... and it only snows that bad 1-5 times a month.
Where the fuck do you live? 2 months out of the year? Ha! I wish.
I live in a city with a population around 35,000 people in Saskatchewan. We get dumped on from mid-october right thru May, spilling into early March.
My cities mayor and board members have their head up their ass, so snow removal takes days on busy streets and most residential areas get one or two pass-overs a year.
I have two cars, a small fairly efficient car my wife uses to go to work, and the family car, an AWD Chevy Equinox.
With good tires and driving with caution, she does well with the small car. Very rarely does she ever need to take the family car to work.
Our monthly gas buget is around $120. A little over what the insurance costs on my Equunox. Really gas prices are not terible, right now sitting at $1.09/L. I don't know the conversion off hand but roughly in my head that's around $4/US Gallon (if someone cares to do the math they are free to do so).
They have recently dropped support for anything up to the Radeon HD 4xxx. Which is not that old.
On the other hand, according to various articles on http://www.phoronix.com/ the open source Radeon drivers are making great progress. One drawback is that you may have to tinker with your Linux installation to get all of that: You will need the very latest source code, which probably means recompiling mesa and maybe the kernel;-)
I absolutely agree, it is not for the faint of heart or new users. I am sure as soon as the popular distros like Ubuntu, Mint and Arch shift into faster development cycles to keep up with the kernels new pace we will see things get easier for everyone.
I personally use Gentoo on my workstation since I built it and keep it current. Just upgraded my kernel to 3.7.1 with Gentoo patchset last night.
I am no stranger to compiling software and kernels.
As the other A/C has pointed out... AMD only dropped support for older cards. Honestly the open source drivers are great.
My HTPC is a few years old, it has an onboard Radeon HD 3200 (ITX board). Again, using the open source Radeon drivers, it works excellent. Direct BluRay rips play flawless on 1080P display, audio over HDMI.
Recently received a new laptop as a gift. It has a Radeon HD 7500M in it. Using the open source drivers I have not had any problems. I don't play video games so I really can't tell you what to expect there, though.
It's been a rough road but KMS is starting to mature and "Just Works" in most sutations... I don't think the Ati Catalyst drivers support KMS yet.
You are not the Original Slashdot Story Poster, you are not a part of the discussion. I'm sorry that you can't buy apps from the app store, but there are probably other reasons rather than "Google won't let me". More likely it is a Government thing. I really don't know, I live in Canada.
I'm not saying everyone is cheap. You clearly want to buy apps, but the original story poster/is deliberately/ being cheap and he just told everyone on Slashdot he is a cheapskate under thw guise of trying to call someone out on a GPL Violation.
Good to know -- I'll be sure to stay away from that experiment.
I, on the other hand, will be seeking out OSes that are well-designed for the type of workload I have, and are well-tuned to the form factor that I use.
Well there are many choices. You don't say if you have a preference or not. Try out Arch, Slackware or even Gentoo/Funtoo.
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I'm in Canada, and the rules may be different but since they have DNA that narrows down to these twins, they are suspects.
Since they are suspects in fairly serious crime, interrogation amd a polygraph would be the simplest amd probably cheapest route at this point.
Again, laws may be different over there.
I, too, seem to share the same typing style as you.
I'm in my mid twenties and have been coding since grade 5 (roughly age 10). Starting with HTML, Css and JavaScript/ActionScript.
I remember learning home row in grade 4 and completely abandoning it when I realized it was so inefficient for the stuff I enjoyed to do. On an unrelated note I was banned from school computters in grade 6 thru 8 (highscool starts in gr 9 here) for "hacking".
Wow $750,000 seems a little steep...
I see what you did there.
I use Javascript, I'm not saying its not useful.
I just think that if the user can't even access the website without "modern" (per se.) Javascript is retarded. If you can't draw a semi usable website without it then your website is useless in my opinion. Javascript should Enhance the experience, not be the entire experience. There are certain use cases its acceptable (online games is the big one that comes to mind). But your blog doesn't need to be written in HTML5/JS, and not render anything without JS on.
I'm in my mid twenties and I do this for a living. If I depended on JS (or a framework) as heavily as developers seem to think is necessary these days I'd probably have to shoot myself.
I just experienced this issue today. Not jQuery, it was a regular XHR request.
My work around was to force no-cache and way past expiry dates in the HTTP return headers.
This was IE 8 or 9 on Win 7. (I don't know which version. I only boot it up in VirtualBox when someone complains)
I'm a web developer and I agree with you sort of. Developers have become way too fucking dependant on JS and frameworks like jQuery, Mootools and YUI.
What I don't agree with you on is your Privacy arguement. I don't see how it causes privacy issues. You can track people without javascript.
As for security that is unfortunately an implementation issue and/or convenience tradeoff. JavaScript itself is not insecure.
One monitor with 8 virtual desktops has more screen real estate than 3 physical monitors for the cost of one monitor.
You can only focus on one screen at a time anyway, so what is the purpose of cocking your head over to look at something when you could simply switch virtual desktops?
I keep 8 available on my desktop workstations and 6 on my laptop.
That's what swap space is for (aka the pagefile on Windows).
Your system will try to dump memory into swap space. If you don't have swap space, on Linux at least, processes will fail to run and you'll get some messages in dmesg that you're running out of available RAM.
Depending on the application, the application that is trying to allocate memory may crash.
I have yet to see a full system hault brcause of it though.
In what situation would you need hardware accelerated access to two operating systems? Choose a host OS you use most and boot up your Guest OS on ome of those displays. Honestly I've never seen the value in multiple monitors. On linux we have Virtual Desktops for a reason.
Also I don't know anyone who would ever need to dual boot on a system with only 1GB of RAM. And if they did it was for gaming, and they wouldn't be limited by RAM as thry would have adequate hardware. And again, if they are gamers on a laptop, why the hell are they dual booting? Just spin up an OS under VirtualBox or similar ona Windows host.
I still fail to see any legitimate reason to dual boot in 2013.
2-3 days a week, actually. Gentoo/Funtoo host and various guests.
Having to reboot my system to use another OS is inconvenient.
Install Ubuntu and run Windows under VirtualBox, or vice versa if you're a gamer.
I honestly don't understand why anyone dual boots anymore. I just seems inconvenient, in my opinion.
MJ. You from around here?
Yeah not entirely sure how I managed to eff that up. I think in part was my slightly still hungover brain, and chasing after the kids and losing track of what I was writing (I'm on my phone writing these).
I meant to say "April, spilling into May".
I even previewed and read it back to myself before hitting submit.
Yeah around here we have a similar saying as well. March and June are the melt down, but its still cold. Specifically in my region, August is the only month in recorded history we haven't had a snow storm.
Generally the tail end of June and early July are nice out. Around mid July, the temp spikes upward of 30C... and August averages 30C and maxes out closer to 40C. Our weather is literally -40C to +40C not taking the "wind chill factor" into account (personally think its a load of bull).
Regarding taking over Alaska... has Palin died or left yet? Her veiws conflict with the majority of Canadians.
(Sorry about any spelling or grammatical errors.. writing this on phone touchscreen also Slashdot doesn't like my degree signs in the preview...)
Note: that's for 2 months of the year... and it only snows that bad 1-5 times a month.
Where the fuck do you live? 2 months out of the year? Ha! I wish.
I live in a city with a population around 35,000 people in Saskatchewan. We get dumped on from mid-october right thru May, spilling into early March.
My cities mayor and board members have their head up their ass, so snow removal takes days on busy streets and most residential areas get one or two pass-overs a year.
I have two cars, a small fairly efficient car my wife uses to go to work, and the family car, an AWD Chevy Equinox.
With good tires and driving with caution, she does well with the small car. Very rarely does she ever need to take the family car to work.
Our monthly gas buget is around $120. A little over what the insurance costs on my Equunox. Really gas prices are not terible, right now sitting at $1.09/L. I don't know the conversion off hand but roughly in my head that's around $4/US Gallon (if someone cares to do the math they are free to do so).
If you use latest stable apache (and you should if you use SSL/TLS) those commands will raise an error.
You must use "Require all denied" if you don't have mod_access_compat installed & enabled.
Should also mention my HTPC and Laptop are also using Gentoo/Funtoo.
They have recently dropped support for anything up to the Radeon HD 4xxx. Which is not that old.
On the other hand, according to various articles on http://www.phoronix.com/ the open source Radeon drivers are making great progress. One drawback is that you may have to tinker with your Linux installation to get all of that: ;-)
You will need the very latest source code, which probably means recompiling mesa and maybe the kernel
I absolutely agree, it is not for the faint of heart or new users. I am sure as soon as the popular distros like Ubuntu, Mint and Arch shift into faster development cycles to keep up with the kernels new pace we will see things get easier for everyone.
I personally use Gentoo on my workstation since I built it and keep it current. Just upgraded my kernel to 3.7.1 with Gentoo patchset last night.
I am no stranger to compiling software and kernels.
As the other A/C has pointed out... AMD only dropped support for older cards. Honestly the open source drivers are great.
My HTPC is a few years old, it has an onboard Radeon HD 3200 (ITX board). Again, using the open source Radeon drivers, it works excellent. Direct BluRay rips play flawless on 1080P display, audio over HDMI.
Recently received a new laptop as a gift. It has a Radeon HD 7500M in it. Using the open source drivers I have not had any problems. I don't play video games so I really can't tell you what to expect there, though.
It's been a rough road but KMS is starting to mature and "Just Works" in most sutations... I don't think the Ati Catalyst drivers support KMS yet.
From everyone here on Slashdot: http://cdn.spyparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Shut_up_and_take_my_money.jpg
Just a quick note, as someone who has been fiddling with Node.js, they specifically say not to use Nginx or Apache as a front end proxy.
Varnish seems to be the "just works" go to for Node.js proxies.
Touchscreen on el cheapo Android phone. :-)
He has pumped a lot of money into the community (regardless if he's setting himself up to make more, he's taking a hell of a gamble).
They have dedicated full time staff working on stuff they give away for free.
Ubuntu is workong with hardware and software companies to bring things to Ubuntu (usable by anyone who uses Linux, not just Ubuntu).
Giving people freedom of choice is what open source is all about, and Ubuntu has exposed very many people to this ecosystem (per se).
Again how does this relate to the topic at hand?
You are not the Original Slashdot Story Poster, you are not a part of the discussion. I'm sorry that you can't buy apps from the app store, but there are probably other reasons rather than "Google won't let me". More likely it is a Government thing. I really don't know, I live in Canada.
I'm not saying everyone is cheap. You clearly want to buy apps, but the original story poster /is deliberately/ being cheap and he just told everyone on Slashdot he is a cheapskate under thw guise of trying to call someone out on a GPL Violation.
Good to know -- I'll be sure to stay away from that experiment.
I, on the other hand, will be seeking out OSes that are well-designed for the type of workload I have, and are well-tuned to the form factor that I use.
Well there are many choices. You don't say if you have a preference or not. Try out Arch, Slackware or even Gentoo/Funtoo.