But, that has no connection with the fact that leaving FF with open tabs alone for a week nearly doubles its memory footprint. That also has no connection with the fact that on my 3GB RAM + 3GB swap Windoze XP machine Chrome constantly thrashes, and my memory usage without open browsers is less than 1 gig total.
Now, I do realise than my habit of running multiple browsers with around 50 tabs open is not a socially accepted behaviour, but constantly adding features without addressing old issues seems futile. FF 3.0 did show a big improvement in memory management, and even bigger in stability. Yet, I am still seeing issues from years ago with plugins and memory.
Considering my browsing habits, I still haven't found a bookmark / tab tool that saves context - history and opened child tabs, let alone the content of the tab as it was when saved. With something like that, I probably would have no need for 50 tabs, and would stop complaining. One can dream...
If you figure out a way for technology to eliminate the scarcity of something as simple as water, then I will begin to take this concept seriously. Until then, it's more Wired Magazine nonsense, totally disconnected from the real world.
There is no scarcity of water, at least on Earth.
The water problem is a simple question of energy. Solving the energy requirements you can easily make water out of air (thick, not thin), seawater, or a septic stream. With very simple technology.
Patches the RDP server to accept more then one connection and does not kick of the console user. Been using it for several years so that I can run updates and fix client computers while they continue working. Since the patch reverts back a file from original WinXP (before service patches) I do believe it is completely legal.
I have read the comments about those devices being in place in some US airports, but I haven't seen any in Europe, yet.
This is still in its infancy. Give it a few years, and it will become something very much like the subject movie. In that form, it will not be intimidating any more to travelers, it will become just another corridor to pass through on the way to the airplane.
Unfortunately, this is going to be implemented sooner or later. Maybe not in this form or device, but it is a device that nicely complements the airport X-ray machines.
To the general public, this will mean less waiting time, faster boarding and less hassle through checkpoints. Most of them will look at this, if explained nicely, as a good thing.
...not having 500 tabs open, just because you want to read them in the next 3 years or something? ^^
You know, there is a feature called "bookmarks" for this.
Tabs and bookmarks are not the same. Not even in the same ballpark.
A bookmark has no history. I have no idea how I got to that page without the back button. I have no context for the link.
But something else is even more important. I need to see the page as is was in the moment I visited it. Not in the moment when, a few days/weeks later, I click on the bookmark.
Yes, I am the one that has three browsers open, each with several windows containing up to 20 tabs. Yes, I do need all of that. And yes, I have ScrapBook installed. It doesn't help much. Session Manager is quite good, surprisingly.
I am not an expert, but my limited knowledge says that we can kiss secure erase (fill with zero or random data) goodbye on SSD disks. It is becoming hard enough to be certain that you deleted/overwritten a file with copy-on-write (ZFS and such) but with wear leveling any secure erase attempt will probably still leave with copies of your data on disk.
Even a full wipe disk procedure will leave some remnants in remapped parts of flash storage.
I do hope that somebody is tackling this issue, but it seems to me that the solution will only be available on the disk firmware level.
An interpreter compiles each instruction every time it gets executed. JIT compiles blocks of code only on first execution. Next time, the compiled code is already in memory.
I am sitting here just now contemplating should I go iSCSI over Ethernet or NFS (over the same gigabit Ethernet) for a small VMware Server (to cheap for ESX) deployment.
My brain tells me that iSCSI should be faster and simpler - one filesystem layer less to translate - but it seems that NFS is simpler and not much slower; actually faster when sharing a datastore with multiple VMware physical servers.
Has anybody got experience on how linux NFS deals with large (10-100GB) files being mounted as virtual file systems on remote end? And which local filesystem would be ideal for sharing vmdk files over NFS?
Just the other day I read that we (Earth) are moving about 600km/s relative to the background cosmic radiation. I am not sure did they calculate the vector and how does that vector change over time.
There is absolutely nothing that can be done about this now. Software and abstractions are a lost cause.
In the whole picture, hardware is just another layer of abstraction, built of more interacting layers. But, todays hardware comes from several magnitudes lower number of suppliers than software and is much more tightly controlled and built to specs.
Another thing: hardware engineers are usually taught in universities. Software "engineers" are usually not.
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Art is very easy to define.
For something to be defined as art it has to have no purpose or function other than itself.
Oh, it is definitively my surfing habits.
But, that has no connection with the fact that leaving FF with open tabs alone for a week nearly doubles its memory footprint.
That also has no connection with the fact that on my 3GB RAM + 3GB swap Windoze XP machine Chrome constantly thrashes, and my memory usage without open browsers is less than 1 gig total.
Now, I do realise than my habit of running multiple browsers with around 50 tabs open is not a socially accepted behaviour, but constantly adding features without addressing old issues seems futile. FF 3.0 did show a big improvement in memory management, and even bigger in stability. Yet, I am still seeing issues from years ago with plugins and memory.
Considering my browsing habits, I still haven't found a bookmark / tab tool that saves context - history and opened child tabs, let alone the content of the tab as it was when saved. With something like that, I probably would have no need for 50 tabs, and would stop complaining. One can dream...
You must be lucky. My instance is using 1.5GB, after about a week of runtime.
Oh well, Chrome does top it at over 2 gigs.
There is no scarcity of water, at least on Earth.
The water problem is a simple question of energy. Solving the energy requirements you can easily make water out of air (thick, not thin), seawater, or a septic stream. With very simple technology.
Like a simple desalination osmosis pump.
Try this http://www.kood.org/terminal-server-patch/
Works great on WinXP SP2 & SP3.
Patches the RDP server to accept more then one connection and does not kick of the console user. Been using it for several years so that I can run updates and fix client computers while they continue working. Since the patch reverts back a file from original WinXP (before service patches) I do believe it is completely legal.
Anyone else remember when VMS was the usual target, and Unix the "safe" OS?
It means that the end of the world is imminent.
Quick, grab that towel!
I have read the comments about those devices being in place in some US airports, but I haven't seen any in Europe, yet.
This is still in its infancy. Give it a few years, and it will become something very much like the subject movie. In that form, it will not be intimidating any more to travelers, it will become just another corridor to pass through on the way to the airplane.
It will become invisible.
Amazing how fiction becomes reality.
Unfortunately, this is going to be implemented sooner or later. Maybe not in this form or device, but it is a device that nicely complements the airport X-ray machines.
To the general public, this will mean less waiting time, faster boarding and less hassle through checkpoints. Most of them will look at this, if explained nicely, as a good thing.
Well, as long as it is not the NSA, we have nothing to worry about...
+ GTA, so you could do all the aforementioned criminal stuff
Plus Ports of Call, so you could move your car from continent to continent.
We must not forget Oil Imperium, because you will need a lot of oil to power the cars and ships.
Add a dash of Flight Simulator for flying, and it could be finished.
More or less.
...not having 500 tabs open, just because you want to read them in the next 3 years or something? ^^
You know, there is a feature called "bookmarks" for this.
Tabs and bookmarks are not the same.
Not even in the same ballpark.
A bookmark has no history. I have no idea how I got to that page without the back button. I have no context for the link.
But something else is even more important. I need to see the page as is was in the moment I visited it. Not in the moment when, a few days/weeks later, I click on the bookmark.
Yes, I am the one that has three browsers open, each with several windows containing up to 20 tabs. Yes, I do need all of that. And yes, I have ScrapBook installed. It doesn't help much. Session Manager is quite good, surprisingly.
x = x + y
y = x - y
x - x - y
Much less CPU intensive.
You obviously never heard of multicasting.
Works wonders if the Internet routers are set up correctly.
I am not an expert, but my limited knowledge says that we can kiss secure erase (fill with zero or random data) goodbye on SSD disks.
It is becoming hard enough to be certain that you deleted/overwritten a file with copy-on-write (ZFS and such) but with wear leveling any secure erase attempt will probably still leave with copies of your data on disk.
Even a full wipe disk procedure will leave some remnants in remapped parts of flash storage.
I do hope that somebody is tackling this issue, but it seems to me that the solution will only be available on the disk firmware level.
An interpreter compiles each instruction every time it gets executed.
JIT compiles blocks of code only on first execution. Next time, the compiled code is already in memory.
Define Internet?
Nobody can sell you 6Mb Internet access. They can sell you 6Mb to the ISP local loop, or the ISP backbone, or the AT&T backbone or Cogent or...
And the backbone costs a lot more than standard DSL/cable pricing. And it still is NOT the Internet.
The fact is that you got a 6Mb link to the nearest concentrator (DSLAM or ethernet switch) and that's it.
Unfortunately, no more, no less.
Their answer would be simple: buy ESX, buy FC storage, buy buy...
I am trying to skip some of those buy steps for my small deployment.
I am sitting here just now contemplating should I go iSCSI over Ethernet or NFS (over the same gigabit Ethernet) for a small VMware Server (to cheap for ESX) deployment.
My brain tells me that iSCSI should be faster and simpler - one filesystem layer less to translate - but it seems that NFS is simpler and not much slower; actually faster when sharing a datastore with multiple VMware physical servers.
Has anybody got experience on how linux NFS deals with large (10-100GB) files being mounted as virtual file systems on remote end? And which local filesystem would be ideal for sharing vmdk files over NFS?
Just the other day I read that we (Earth) are moving about 600km/s relative to the background cosmic radiation. I am not sure did they calculate the vector and how does that vector change over time.
Software development and debugging.
Now for unsolicited... Ask Microsoft.
CRT will survive only until SED products hit the market.
It is supposed to be the only true less bulky CRT replacement.
There is absolutely nothing that can be done about this now. Software and abstractions are a lost cause.
In the whole picture, hardware is just another layer of abstraction, built of more interacting layers. But, todays hardware comes from several magnitudes lower number of suppliers than software and is much more tightly controlled and built to specs.
Another thing: hardware engineers are usually taught in universities. Software "engineers" are usually not.