Yep, there are two things I don't like about the Linux scheduler:
1) No I/O awareness. When copying a bunch of big files around, I want that process to have lower possible priority, and not interfere with other system activities, like opening a new program, or doing small I/Os. Bottom line: give bulky transfers idle priority.
2) Lack of idle priority. I want to be able to run a process that only gets CPU time if there's nothing else to do. Even with the lowest possible priority, it will still eat some precious (~5% last time I checked) CPU time.
I heard, directly from the Mozilla guys (Asa and J.T.), that there's a plan to create a Javascript 2 that, combined with SVG, would replace Flash. The strange part is that Adobe itself is taking part of this process.
LaTeX is great if you accept one of the nice provided layouts (LaTeX calls them "document styles": article, book, letter, etc), and focus only on the content. Or, if you want to tweak these layout just a bit, or make even your own.
Maybe TeX can be useful if you want to make your own layout that has nothing to do with the LaTeX style, but I never had the guts to try to learn pure TeX. (LaTeX is easier than HTML).
Once I was making a Perl script to create sokoban sheets using LaTeX, and my friend told me it would be easier in Postscrip. I was skeptic at first, but let him show how Postscript works, and I was very pleased with it.
I wonder if AV vendors would be able to deliver a better product if they cut overhead and simply focused on developing and maintaining a product that worked efficiently and effectively for a decent price. I know I would prefer an AV solution that just did anti-virus very well and didn't involve a hard-press sales call every other week to evaluate their "security suite." You just described a Free anti-virus. Just substitute "vendors" for "developers/contributors", and "decent price" for "free".
I'm from Brazil, and has never been on a English-speaking country, yet I can read that without a problem. Maybe because I read at lot of English since I started using computers, back in 1989.
The inconvenience of running wine is greater than the inconvenience of running Pidgin instead of miranda.
P.s. check out pidgin Did you read my post? Or didn't you know that Gaim is the old Pidgin name?
Is it THAT hard to port it to linux? That would be a bless. I tried virtually all non-kde/gnome client out there, and choosed Gaim as the one that sucks less. (It can be compiled gtk-only, without gnome. I wish there were a gaim-gtk package for my distro.) Miranda is one of the few softwares I miss from my Windows days.
The "Terminator" movie is a single great movie. I don't consider it a trilogy, the sequels are crappy canned entertainment, which try destroy the magic of the original movie just to make Arnold be a hero, not a villain.
Exactly. This is a new condition of the environment we live in (even if this modification was made by ourselves). We must -- and will, as always -- adapt to it.
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Yep, there are two things I don't like about the Linux scheduler:
1) No I/O awareness. When copying a bunch of big files around, I want that process to have lower possible priority, and not interfere with other system activities, like opening a new program, or doing small I/Os. Bottom line: give bulky transfers idle priority.
2) Lack of idle priority. I want to be able to run a process that only gets CPU time if there's nothing else to do. Even with the lowest possible priority, it will still eat some precious (~5% last time I checked) CPU time.
I heard, directly from the Mozilla guys (Asa and J.T.), that there's a plan to create a Javascript 2 that, combined with SVG, would replace Flash. The strange part is that Adobe itself is taking part of this process.
Email, sure.
But not before I check the progress of my torrent/edonkey downloads.
I suppose you meant
n=$(( $n + 1 ))
recently I discovered that bash supports this too:
let n=n+1
or even
let n++
If you're going low level, why not Postscript?
LaTeX is great if you accept one of the nice provided layouts (LaTeX calls them "document styles": article, book, letter, etc), and focus only on the content. Or, if you want to tweak these layout just a bit, or make even your own.
Maybe TeX can be useful if you want to make your own layout that has nothing to do with the LaTeX style, but I never had the guts to try to learn pure TeX. (LaTeX is easier than HTML).
Once I was making a Perl script to create sokoban sheets using LaTeX, and my friend told me it would be easier in Postscrip. I was skeptic at first, but let him show how Postscript works, and I was very pleased with it.
LaTeX ftw!
Just substitute "vendors" for "developers/contributors", and "decent price" for "free".
And how will they compete with Free software anti-virus?
Any "standard" user that feels like that should be running Ubuntu (or an equivalent) anyway.
Slackware is not for them, and it's not Slackware's fault.
Anyone that says Slackware is the best is right, and others that say Slackware are inadequate, they are right too.
To each it's own.
Mario Quintana, a great writer and poet from Brazil, once said something like this:
"Poet is someone who say something anyone else could have said, but didn't."
mine is version independent.
Just find (or write) a greasemonkey script to translate it automatically, and stop complaining!
where monkeys can spell
I'm from Brazil, and has never been on a English-speaking country, yet I can read that without a problem.
Maybe because I read at lot of English since I started using computers, back in 1989.
Tivoisation doesn't mean "no embedding", instead it's more like "no need of a hardware key to run".
Yeah, I can picture the scene: Your dad catch you fucking your sister in the bathroom, and you say "I thought I was just masturbating!"
Miranda is one of the few softwares I miss from my Windows days.
Super Mario Bros.
You forgot to mention the most important factor (for me) of notebooks: battery life.
640Kb ought to be enough for anybody.
Besides, storage is easy. The hard part of the problem is to manage the information. How to translate that kind of question into a data search?
The "Terminator" movie is a single great movie.
I don't consider it a trilogy, the sequels are crappy canned entertainment, which try destroy the magic of the original movie just to make Arnold be a hero, not a villain.
Exactly.
This is a new condition of the environment we live in (even if this modification was made by ourselves).
We must -- and will, as always -- adapt to it.