hint: go to your own user page (linked from any comment of yours; just bookmark it), and there it shows all your recent posts, with the number of replies. a hell of a lot easier than reloading stories just so you can grep for your nick and find if people replied.
my impression of EBay is that it's a place where it's much more easy to lose money than to win it, *especially* as a buyer. sure, there are success stories of unloading junk for far more than it's worth, but if you have some techie skills, how does it compare to your hourly rates at work? probably not that great, actually. I'm sure it's possible to get good buying deals on Ebay, but that'd be by finding things that look good to you but noone else is bidding on, rather than playing the competitive game of overbidding for that-thing-you-really-need. a popular auction is a near-guaranty that you'll get screwed: either you don't get the thing, or you're the one who was willing to pay the most for it, which means you're willing to pay more than the average of what people think it's worth. sounds mostly like a losing game to me.
blah blah blah. pick every possible different character trait, stick a name to it that makes it sound like a disorder (albeit mild; prefix the acronym with an 'M' for mild to make that clearer). at which point are we creating disorders that weren't a problem before, just by looking closely for and at them? I think we've been past that point for a while actually.
go ahead and label me as having MWZBDFPED (cookie points to whoever finds something that that could stand for, starting with Mild and ending with Disorder)...
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sure, but my point is that the OS will generally do a better job of deciding which data to keep in memory. if you are doing lots of CGI and exec'ing some interpreter often, do you really want to drive the interpreter's pages out of main memory so that some large gif file that hardly anyone visits anyway gets to stay there?
dunno what MFS stands for, but under Linux, FreeBSD or any other decent OS you do'nt need a ramdisk for your pages. the system already caches recently read files as appropriate, using all free memory for this, so explicitly setting a ramdisk won't increase performance, and could well decrease it by giving less memory to the OS for general purposes.
as for mod_perl, cgi, php and the like, they classify as "server-side programming", not dhtml (that's html + client-side scripting).
Main Entry: artful Pronunciation: 'ärt-f&l Function: adjective Date: 1615 1 : performed with or showing art or skill (an artful performance on the violin) 2 a : using or characterized by art and skill : DEXTEROUS (an artful prose stylist) b : adroit in attaining an end often by insinuating or indirect means : WILY (an artful cross-examiner) 3 : ARTIFICIAL (trim walks and artful bowers -- William Wordsworth) synonym see SLY - artfully/-f&-lE/ adverb - artfulness noun
memory is quite a big thing on webservers; I'd say put 128MB at least. go for 256MB if you need lots of scripting, and avoid CGI (use mod_perl or mod_php instead).
there's one hope still: the laziness and chaos that goes with the internet. everyone is a "publisher" here, including anyone who ever said something on a chatroom or sent an email. the apathy of all these "publishers" may well be our best hope against this.
yep. OTOH, they'll watch at 8pm (when they have time) that cool but unpopular thing that happened to air the day before at 3am. as far as I understand the cool thing about the TiVo is that y ou do'nt have to program it in advance: it just records all the time, over 24 hours or whatever the disk capacity is. so you don't have to plan in advance; when you feel like watching something, the entire last day's content is there, easily accessible. I can see people getting used to this enough to watch nearly *all* tv through it, even if it's airing at taht moment, so they can just press pause and go take a leak or whatever, and fast-forwading through ads. this has the potential for putting a lot of control back in the hands of users, which is (by dogma:P) always a good thing.
on the privacy side, there's the same problem as always: they'll try to collect profiles and once you're giving them to them you have no control. and it's hard to control what goes in and out of the modem connection; you tell the machine to do nothing but download the tv schedules, but how can you be sure it's not sending data back? if you're really paranoid you can always not plug it to a phone line, and I suppose it'd still work, but then you don't have nice access to programs by name.
not that I care personally... i'm not into tv anyway:) but I think tivo is a step forward in the right direction.
heh, so much for the "code freeze in 2 weeks" thing:) oh well we've known that Linux code freezes are quite fluid after all, and that's probably a good thing. good software comes out when it's ready, not when someone decides on a deadline.
yeah it does. it has to involve mapping memory zones on demand instead of keeping the same lot of things mapped at the same time. the good old equation that 32bit = 64Gb doesn't mean that you can put 4Gb of RAM in your memory and use it: you need virtual addresses for all kinds of pages that are either paged out or mapped to disk and set to load on demand. and Linux so far has been mapping kernel memory while userlevel code runs too, with just the permissions changed, b/c it's cheaper to do this than to remap it for every syscall and unmap it on the way back. I have no idea how much of this scheme this new patch changes.
according to some posts in linux-kernel, the BSDs have never made it a big priority to avoid TLB flushes, and Linux has. the BSDs do get performances in the same ballpark as Linux, so I guess it's a decent tradeoff either way (If I understand right, Linux goes more for latency, and the BSDs more for bandwith).
on a completely unrelated point, I wonder if this new 4GB support is a compile-time option, or if it can be somehow enabled at runtime without a performance hit when it's disabled. that would be neat, but it does sound a bit improbable for a change like this.
what's the point of giving 2GB to the OS? I know the NT kernel is obsese compared to Linux, but still... that sounds like some serious overkill to me, and using almost half of your machine's memory as page cache (in Linux terms, I'm sure NT has an equivalent that's calle dsomething else) doesn't strike me as a very balanced use of a large box.
yep. for all the fears people had (and FUD that got spread) about the commercialization of Linux, here we see the Open Source (and specifically the GPL) magic working just right. Large companies like Siemens suddently find it (financially) worthwhile to contribute to an open project. this is a huge ball that got rolling; it's not just a bunch of hackers competing with MS (and Solaris and...), now it's large companies and their resources, too. and to think that some MS drone was quoted saying that "the linux hype has peaked" just a few days ago... boy he's in for a surprise:)
Cloning always seemed to be to be the duplication of the body(or parts therof) with sped up growth and no mind/soul.
that's the SF definition of cloning (for some SF authors; not that there's anything wrong with it as a fiction premise anyway). in biology, cloning is pretty much exactly what was done to Dolly.
either you've been reading to much Greg Egan recently, or you need to go out (no, not go: run) and grab a few of his books, with a virtual guarantee that you'll love them.
same here. zip drives are nice and all, but they're expensive, and the standards haven't quite solidified yet (uh, is this a zip100 or a zip250 or a jazz or a syquest or a...??), and netowkring doesn't always work (e.g while you're installing). for the peanuts they cost, I sure think good old floppies are useful.
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not to mention the name. how can we even talk of a planet if we don't know its name?
hint: go to your own user page (linked from any comment of yours; just bookmark it), and there it shows all your recent posts, with the number of replies. a hell of a lot easier than reloading stories just so you can grep for your nick and find if people replied.
my impression of EBay is that it's a place where it's much more easy to lose money than to win it, *especially* as a buyer. sure, there are success stories of unloading junk for far more than it's worth, but if you have some techie skills, how does it compare to your hourly rates at work? probably not that great, actually. I'm sure it's possible to get good buying deals on Ebay, but that'd be by finding things that look good to you but noone else is bidding on, rather than playing the competitive game of overbidding for that-thing-you-really-need. a popular auction is a near-guaranty that you'll get screwed: either you don't get the thing, or you're the one who was willing to pay the most for it, which means you're willing to pay more than the average of what people think it's worth. sounds mostly like a losing game to me.
go ahead and label me as having MWZBDFPED (cookie points to whoever finds something that that could stand for, starting with Mild and ending with Disorder) ...
Newsflash: Web cartoonist and artist known by the mysterious name of Nitrozac marries an entity known even more mysteriously as Anonymous Coward. The ceremony was conducted in utter secrecy, and the only picture that leaked out is one of a boot, allegedly Nitrozac's. Little is known about Anonymous Coward; some sources say that it could be a collective, or virtual entity. The Vatican was not available for comment on this strange wedding.
Nice explanation though.
sure, but my point is that the OS will generally do a better job of deciding which data to keep in memory. if you are doing lots of CGI and exec'ing some interpreter often, do you really want to drive the interpreter's pages out of main memory so that some large gif file that hardly anyone visits anyway gets to stay there?
as for mod_perl, cgi, php and the like, they classify as "server-side programming", not dhtml (that's html + client-side scripting).
Main Entry: artful /-f&-lE/ adverb
Pronunciation: 'ärt-f&l
Function: adjective
Date: 1615
1 : performed with or showing art or skill (an artful performance on the violin)
2 a : using or characterized by art and skill : DEXTEROUS (an artful prose stylist) b : adroit in attaining an end often by insinuating or indirect means : WILY (an artful cross-examiner) 3 : ARTIFICIAL (trim walks and artful bowers -- William Wordsworth)
synonym see SLY
- artfully
- artfulness noun
So, it doesn't have to mean "dishonest".
memory is quite a big thing on webservers; I'd say put 128MB at least. go for 256MB if you need lots of scripting, and avoid CGI (use mod_perl or mod_php instead).
and, according to the site, uses wxWindows as the graphics toolkit.
wow, neat. it's not often that one hears an explanation of a christian point that comes across as making some amount of sense.
there's one hope still: the laziness and chaos that goes with the internet. everyone is a "publisher" here, including anyone who ever said something on a chatroom or sent an email. the apathy of all these "publishers" may well be our best hope against this.
on the privacy side, there's the same problem as always: they'll try to collect profiles and once you're giving them to them you have no control. and it's hard to control what goes in and out of the modem connection; you tell the machine to do nothing but download the tv schedules, but how can you be sure it's not sending data back? if you're really paranoid you can always not plug it to a phone line, and I suppose it'd still work, but then you don't have nice access to programs by name.
not that I care personally... i'm not into tv anyway :) but I think tivo is a step forward in the right direction.
just a typo...
wow that's a user of my irc client! ;)
i'd guess it doesn't affect it at all. ia64 has plenty of address space, so there's probably no need to play remapping tricks there.
heh, so much for the "code freeze in 2 weeks" thing :) oh well we've known that Linux code freezes are quite fluid after all, and that's probably a good thing. good software comes out when it's ready, not when someone decides on a deadline.
yeah it does. it has to involve mapping memory zones on demand instead of keeping the same lot of things mapped at the same time. the good old equation that 32bit = 64Gb doesn't mean that you can put 4Gb of RAM in your memory and use it: you need virtual addresses for all kinds of pages that are either paged out or mapped to disk and set to load on demand. and Linux so far has been mapping kernel memory while userlevel code runs too, with just the permissions changed, b/c it's cheaper to do this than to remap it for every syscall and unmap it on the way back. I have no idea how much of this scheme this new patch changes.
on a completely unrelated point, I wonder if this new 4GB support is a compile-time option, or if it can be somehow enabled at runtime without a performance hit when it's disabled. that would be neat, but it does sound a bit improbable for a change like this.
what's the point of giving 2GB to the OS? I know the NT kernel is obsese compared to Linux, but still... that sounds like some serious overkill to me, and using almost half of your machine's memory as page cache (in Linux terms, I'm sure NT has an equivalent that's calle dsomething else) doesn't strike me as a very balanced use of a large box.
yep. for all the fears people had (and FUD that got spread) about the commercialization of Linux, here we see the Open Source (and specifically the GPL) magic working just right. Large companies like Siemens suddently find it (financially) worthwhile to contribute to an open project. this is a huge ball that got rolling; it's not just a bunch of hackers competing with MS (and Solaris and ...), now it's large companies and their resources, too. and to think that some MS drone was quoted saying that "the linux hype has peaked" just a few days ago... boy he's in for a surprise :)
either you've been reading to much Greg Egan recently, or you need to go out (no, not go: run) and grab a few of his books, with a virtual guarantee that you'll love them.
same here. zip drives are nice and all, but they're expensive, and the standards haven't quite solidified yet (uh, is this a zip100 or a zip250 or a jazz or a syquest or a...??), and netowkring doesn't always work (e.g while you're installing). for the peanuts they cost, I sure think good old floppies are useful.