When you're stuck using it on a 128MB box that you can't upgrade, yes it does make a difference. Especially considering Windows XP is nowhere near as bloated.
The only other language I know of that even allows file sourcing over HTTP is PHP, and there it's a gaping security hole that defaults to off. In everything else, the dependencies *get installed to the local file system*.
Most of my apps are using obscene amounts of RAM these days. Gaim/Pidgin for example, going by the RSS value, is using 32MB even when minimised to systray with no active conversations. The XFCE settings daemon is another 20, and that doesn't even have a GUI. Doesn't help much when I dumped KDE for it in the first place to try and fix exactly this...
If you think calling the beige box a modem is bad, you're lucky. I have to deal with relatives. Apparently everything displayed on screen is "a website", the PC is a "hard disk" and Firefox is antivirus. It took me months just to get the clue into their dense skulls that no, Fx is not a virus, stop fscking deleting it the minute I leave.
I wouldn't mind being able to do that - where I live there's zero signal anyway. Most of the radio's unusable too, outside of local stations (and even those fuzz up if someone walks past my room).
The reason Goldeneye was popular at the time was that it had a level of realism nothing else had. That includes the "limited" analogue stick. If you doubt that, go outside and try spinning around at 10RPM yourself for three seconds.
In my school, it happened so often at one point (read: 20+ days out of every month) that they started covering up smoke alarms to stop it.
This is one of the rare situations I'd condone the use of CCTV in public schools. Catch the idiots, kick them out, then (most importantly) get rid of the cameras.
In some ways, the BBC in the UK operates like scientology. You have to pay them money for pretty much the rest of your life, and it's almost impossible to leave.
I guess at a stretch you could say the CoS picked a fight with an organised religion 1000 times stronger than it.
ATI has opened the driver because they realise it's now next to worthless anyway: The open source people have created something that just works better in every way (except maybe speed), and they did it just stabbing blindly at registers. Their in-house programmers have reams of documentation to work with, so they have no excuse whatsoever for being behind. They should be fired, after the suits that perpetuated the whole "we can't open the code" farce for a decade.
nVidia doesn't get as much flak because they at least pretend to care. That, and they don't leave early adopters with bricked hardware (not even 2D drivers) for over half a year.
They're jackasses for respecting the trademark licensing agreement for the Firefox name and logos? If not that, then what? Are they supposed to break the law to get in your goody-goody list? Fuck you.
This is a cheap hardware project, not the world police force. OLPC is no more responsible for the US government not giving a shit about its citizens any more than it is responsible for the other corrupt third-world governments.
I had a P2 running XP until a few months ago too, wasn't my main PC though. It died a horrible spyware-laden death at the hands of the rest of my family to the point where it took 3 minutes to boot, another minute until the desktop responded to right click and five more to stop thrashing. Instead of throwing it out, I stuck Knoppix in it.
Has anyone had the same treatment for speaking out against christianity, islam, judaism, buddhism, etc?
Well, I heard that story about someone getting stoned to death for solely religious reasons a few days ago, but nobody cares since it's in the middle east.
Slashdot Mirror
At this price, I'd rather spend the extra for 6 discs and RAID5 the backup. Better than the risk of having five very expensive coasters.
For price-to-capacity ratio, it sounds far better value than any Blu-Ray drive on the market.
When you're stuck using it on a 128MB box that you can't upgrade, yes it does make a difference.
Especially considering Windows XP is nowhere near as bloated.
The only other language I know of that even allows file sourcing over HTTP is PHP, and there it's a gaping security hole that defaults to off. In everything else, the dependencies *get installed to the local file system*.
That wouldn't work either. There aren't enough atoms on earth to store the data.
Most of my apps are using obscene amounts of RAM these days. Gaim/Pidgin for example, going by the RSS value, is using 32MB even when minimised to systray with no active conversations. The XFCE settings daemon is another 20, and that doesn't even have a GUI. Doesn't help much when I dumped KDE for it in the first place to try and fix exactly this...
But where are you going to find a mirror willing to host a file 2^132 bytes in size?
I'm using NO_HZ on my P4 desktop. It was horrible in old patches, but the version in the mainline kernel (>= .20) is solid as a rock.
I gave the powertop thing a try the other day. Seems the worst offender on my machine is MPD, even when it's not doing anything.
Maybe they should steal a few ideas from SELinux then, since it can block exactly that sort of stuff.
Installing squid to do that is just overkill. He's using Apache, it can be done with about 4 lines in a config file.
If you think calling the beige box a modem is bad, you're lucky. I have to deal with relatives. Apparently everything displayed on screen is "a website", the PC is a "hard disk" and Firefox is antivirus.
It took me months just to get the clue into their dense skulls that no, Fx is not a virus, stop fscking deleting it the minute I leave.
Straight from google's built-in calculator:
10 Gbps / c * 100 km = 437.209131 kilobytes
I wouldn't mind being able to do that - where I live there's zero signal anyway. Most of the radio's unusable too, outside of local stations (and even those fuzz up if someone walks past my room).
The reason Goldeneye was popular at the time was that it had a level of realism nothing else had. That includes the "limited" analogue stick. If you doubt that, go outside and try spinning around at 10RPM yourself for three seconds.
They have, but nowhere inside inside their main division.
In my school, it happened so often at one point (read: 20+ days out of every month) that they started covering up smoke alarms to stop it.
This is one of the rare situations I'd condone the use of CCTV in public schools. Catch the idiots, kick them out, then (most importantly) get rid of the cameras.
In some ways, the BBC in the UK operates like scientology.
You have to pay them money for pretty much the rest of your life, and it's almost impossible to leave.
I guess at a stretch you could say the CoS picked a fight with an organised religion 1000 times stronger than it.
ATi's linux driver won't be slower on this card for at least half a year.
;-)
After all, it can't be slower if it doesn't exist
ATI has opened the driver because they realise it's now next to worthless anyway: The open source people have created something that just works better in every way (except maybe speed), and they did it just stabbing blindly at registers. Their in-house programmers have reams of documentation to work with, so they have no excuse whatsoever for being behind. They should be fired, after the suits that perpetuated the whole "we can't open the code" farce for a decade.
nVidia doesn't get as much flak because they at least pretend to care. That, and they don't leave early adopters with bricked hardware (not even 2D drivers) for over half a year.
They're jackasses for respecting the trademark licensing agreement for the Firefox name and logos? If not that, then what?
Are they supposed to break the law to get in your goody-goody list? Fuck you.
This is a cheap hardware project, not the world police force. OLPC is no more responsible for the US government not giving a shit about its citizens any more than it is responsible for the other corrupt third-world governments.
I had a P2 running XP until a few months ago too, wasn't my main PC though. It died a horrible spyware-laden death at the hands of the rest of my family to the point where it took 3 minutes to boot, another minute until the desktop responded to right click and five more to stop thrashing.
Instead of throwing it out, I stuck Knoppix in it.
Is something bigger going on that we don't know about? Just wondering.
Word processors can read HTML files just fine. It's only the writing of them that's a problem.
Well, I heard that story about someone getting stoned to death for solely religious reasons a few days ago, but nobody cares since it's in the middle east.