Well, I'm thinking more on a five year timeline. If they can make it that long Moore's law failing should help them even out.
Now if only AMD will dump that arm "seekoority" management core from their chips they introduced in 2013... Not having that was a big selling point between 2009-2013...
Catching up to Intel as they are starting to hit Moore's law will fix this. AMD needs to hope they can survive their bond debt and maybe restock their coffers with more antitrust money.
Great machine. 92 is basically the same, but with a dedicated Qwerty. Spectacular portable computer, and then the Algebra system which gives Mathematica a run for its money.
You know the TI-92 is going for about $30 on Ebay. Great portable and durable beginner's computer. Also gets them started with the idea of a computer as a machine that computes rather than a social media scam machine.
I'm feeling rather sad. AMD graphics still have completely open drivers. Nvidia relies on blobs at a level higher than on device firmware.
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Mostly this. The greatest thing keeping the entire free software thing afloat is the GCC toolchain being copyleft. GCC forces a least the CPU manufacturers into open-ish documentation even if the rest of the ecosystem doesn't follow.
There is are two easy solutions to Ext4 vs. SSD problems. The first is ReiserFS which is still eminently usable on Gentoo. The second is UFS which is available on the BSD's.
Probably faster to unplug the hard drive, order an adapter, and let UPS deliver it. The filesystem should be supported by any modern OS. If the disk works it will be a matter of browse and pluck.
What. Samsung became worse than the double I's of Intel and IBM? Most tech companies are indeed shitty. Most don't respect users and cater to lusers with their ease of use, plug n play, and just works over actually works bullshit. There's a lot of companies squeezing the oil snakes for their latest products, but samsung at least has the engineering talent to produce refrigerators and washer/dryer sets.
Right. Improved drive reliability still doesn't negate a need for backups. It's moved from NAND write wear to controller failure as the primary killer of SSD disks. On one hand this isn't very predictable, on the other measures to control the damage when it happens are available.
A number of 840 evo drives experienced substantial performance degradation much faster than was reasonable. That said I ended up getting an 850 evo recently because with Samsung's output volume I imagine their whiner/[just works] ratio is probably rather favourable to the consumer. In the past I mostly used Intel SSD's to great life span (storage needs began exceeding requirements well before hardware failure). When buying as SSD the big concern is going to be how many is the maker putting out versus how many complaints there are. Of course with the recent resurrection of storage firmware diddling in the news it would make sense to take measures to keep NSAware away from your drives as it can't be good for longevity or performance.
This. So much this. When these regressions happen there are people behind them. The great value of a Linus or a Theo is shaming this people out the door. At least this was caught in -Current and not -Stable. This incident appears to be at least as much a social engineering attack as a code quality issue.
Mostly the guide on ribalinux.blogspot.com did it. I didn't follow it exactly because who really wants/needs Dbus. If you google around there's plenty of workable guides, just make sure they point to more recent versions of OpenBSD. Installing XFCE now is as simple as pkg_add XFCE and editing a couple files to get it to automatically fire up by default.
The most time consuming part of the affair was getting a new wifi card that OpenBSD supports (~20 dollars) and reflashing my BIOS to remove the Wifi whitelist.
Actually you can do exactly this in PC-BSD, which is one of my dislikes of this desktop BSD effort. Its repository leans heavily on the linux compatibility layer instead of ported software.
LibreSSL attracted that Cook fellow to OpenBSD who has contributed substantially to a portability layer for it and he's now branching out last I hear to other OpenBSd derived tools portability efforts. It isn't much different that porting a Linux first program to a BSD except if it was born on a BSD first tytpically less porting effort is required.
That and it's more than two years out before they consider systemd. And yet many systemd fans point to Mint as an example of modern linux that just works.
Loving OpenBSD on a laptop. 15 minutes of futzing with configs and a beautiful desktop environment of your choice. I haven't loved this much since Solaris 8. (Oh and that Android is linux bsbs... Google doesn't use glibc for android, they use OpenBSD's libc)
But Linux Mint itself is still without systemd until at least 2017 by their own timeline and even then on their "Cinnamon" desktop spin they are still planning at least now to support multiple init systems when Linux Mint 18 comes out.
This. I mean Charlie Shrem getting half the jail time of the dude he play the prisoner dilemma game with simply because they both surrendered to the States attourney and Shrem was the better mole... Nothing about this process is justice. Preet Baharara and his legal team are the legal equivalent of pick up artists and they get hammered in appelate courts for this bullshit. Appeals though cost money.
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Well, I'm thinking more on a five year timeline. If they can make it that long Moore's law failing should help them even out. Now if only AMD will dump that arm "seekoority" management core from their chips they introduced in 2013... Not having that was a big selling point between 2009-2013...
Catching up to Intel as they are starting to hit Moore's law will fix this. AMD needs to hope they can survive their bond debt and maybe restock their coffers with more antitrust money.
Incredibly misleading title. These devs made a Go alternative implementation of bitcoind. This is danger of taking press release titles at face value.
This. Actual professional communication is tense, and doesn't pad criticisms. It isn't bullying, it is efficiency.
Great machine. 92 is basically the same, but with a dedicated Qwerty. Spectacular portable computer, and then the Algebra system which gives Mathematica a run for its money.
You know the TI-92 is going for about $30 on Ebay. Great portable and durable beginner's computer. Also gets them started with the idea of a computer as a machine that computes rather than a social media scam machine.
But each subscriber gets a different "color" or frequency of light on the fiber. Much less crowded that wireless in a populated area.
I'm feeling rather sad. AMD graphics still have completely open drivers. Nvidia relies on blobs at a level higher than on device firmware.
Mostly this. The greatest thing keeping the entire free software thing afloat is the GCC toolchain being copyleft. GCC forces a least the CPU manufacturers into open-ish documentation even if the rest of the ecosystem doesn't follow.
There is are two easy solutions to Ext4 vs. SSD problems. The first is ReiserFS which is still eminently usable on Gentoo. The second is UFS which is available on the BSD's.
Maybe I'm in a weird situation, but on OpenBSD my AMD mobile processor has been great at HD video.
Probably faster to unplug the hard drive, order an adapter, and let UPS deliver it. The filesystem should be supported by any modern OS. If the disk works it will be a matter of browse and pluck.
What. Samsung became worse than the double I's of Intel and IBM? Most tech companies are indeed shitty. Most don't respect users and cater to lusers with their ease of use, plug n play, and just works over actually works bullshit. There's a lot of companies squeezing the oil snakes for their latest products, but samsung at least has the engineering talent to produce refrigerators and washer/dryer sets.
Right. Improved drive reliability still doesn't negate a need for backups. It's moved from NAND write wear to controller failure as the primary killer of SSD disks. On one hand this isn't very predictable, on the other measures to control the damage when it happens are available.
This. SLC offers a "promise" of greater longevity with lots of write cycling. Still when most SSD's fail they die at the controller.
A number of 840 evo drives experienced substantial performance degradation much faster than was reasonable. That said I ended up getting an 850 evo recently because with Samsung's output volume I imagine their whiner/[just works] ratio is probably rather favourable to the consumer. In the past I mostly used Intel SSD's to great life span (storage needs began exceeding requirements well before hardware failure). When buying as SSD the big concern is going to be how many is the maker putting out versus how many complaints there are. Of course with the recent resurrection of storage firmware diddling in the news it would make sense to take measures to keep NSAware away from your drives as it can't be good for longevity or performance.
This. So much this. When these regressions happen there are people behind them. The great value of a Linus or a Theo is shaming this people out the door. At least this was caught in -Current and not -Stable. This incident appears to be at least as much a social engineering attack as a code quality issue.
Mostly the guide on ribalinux.blogspot.com did it. I didn't follow it exactly because who really wants/needs Dbus. If you google around there's plenty of workable guides, just make sure they point to more recent versions of OpenBSD. Installing XFCE now is as simple as pkg_add XFCE and editing a couple files to get it to automatically fire up by default. The most time consuming part of the affair was getting a new wifi card that OpenBSD supports (~20 dollars) and reflashing my BIOS to remove the Wifi whitelist.
Actually you can do exactly this in PC-BSD, which is one of my dislikes of this desktop BSD effort. Its repository leans heavily on the linux compatibility layer instead of ported software.
LibreSSL attracted that Cook fellow to OpenBSD who has contributed substantially to a portability layer for it and he's now branching out last I hear to other OpenBSd derived tools portability efforts. It isn't much different that porting a Linux first program to a BSD except if it was born on a BSD first tytpically less porting effort is required.
PC-BSD started Lumina very recently and haven't taken it out of Beta yet. Probably best to give it a little more time.
That and it's more than two years out before they consider systemd. And yet many systemd fans point to Mint as an example of modern linux that just works.
Loving OpenBSD on a laptop. 15 minutes of futzing with configs and a beautiful desktop environment of your choice. I haven't loved this much since Solaris 8. (Oh and that Android is linux bsbs... Google doesn't use glibc for android, they use OpenBSD's libc)
But Linux Mint itself is still without systemd until at least 2017 by their own timeline and even then on their "Cinnamon" desktop spin they are still planning at least now to support multiple init systems when Linux Mint 18 comes out.
This. I mean Charlie Shrem getting half the jail time of the dude he play the prisoner dilemma game with simply because they both surrendered to the States attourney and Shrem was the better mole... Nothing about this process is justice. Preet Baharara and his legal team are the legal equivalent of pick up artists and they get hammered in appelate courts for this bullshit. Appeals though cost money.