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I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Turns out that this feature have been renamed and given a new description in Windows 7, perhaps to avoid confusion?
(see attachment in previous post)-Dirhael (March 13, 2009, 09:23 AM)- about time. Still shouldn't be in the GUI though, and the description is still missleading.
-f0dder (March 13, 2009, 12:11 PM)
But imho, 1GB of memory should be just fine for XP systems that aren't running extreme memory hogs (firefox doesn't even come close).-f0dder (March 12, 2009, 10:43 AM)
Well, imho the writeback delay for EXT4 is a bit on the insane side, but it's still the other software that's broken, not the filesystem. That this huge delay smokes out some of the bad software (especially when it's as high-profile as KDE!), I think it's worth keeping for a while. It's amazing when developers don't read the documentation, that you don't get any sync guarantees without a fsync call is pretty well-documented-f0dder (March 12, 2009, 04:27 PM)
So, what is the problem. POSIX fundamentally says that what happens if the system is not shutdown cleanly is undefined. If you want to force things to be stored on disk, you must use fsync() or fdatasync(). There may be performance problems with this, which is what happened with FireFox 3.0[1] --- but that's why POSIX doesn't require that things be synched to disk as soon as the file is closed.
[1] http://shaver.off.ne...cers-and-curveballs/
So, why wasn't this a problem before in the past? Well, ext3 by default has a commit interval of 5 seconds, and has data=ordered. What does this mean? Well, every 5 seconds, the ext3 journal is committed; this means that any changes in since the last commit are now guaranteed to survive an unclean shutdown. The journalling mode data=ordered means that only metadata is written in the journal, but data is ordered; this means that before the commit takes place, any data blocks are associated with inodes that are about to be committed in that transaction will be forced out to disk. This is primarily done for security reasons; if this was not done, then any newly allocated blocks might still contain previous data belonging to some other file or user, and after a crash, accessing that file might result in a user seeing someone else's mail or p0rn, and that's unacceptable from a security perspective.
However, this had the side effect of essentially guaranteeing that anything that had been written was guaranteed to be on disk after 5 seconds. (This is somewhat modified if you are running on batteries and have enabled laptop mode, but we'll ignore that for the purposes of this discussion.) Since ext3 became the dominant filesystem for Linux, application writers and users have started depending on this, and so they become shocked and angry when their system locks up and they lose data --- even though POSIX never really made any such guaranteed. (We could be snide and point out that they should have been shocked and angry about crappy proprietary, binary-only drivers that no one but the manufacturer can debug, or angry at themselves for not installing a UPS, but that's not helpful; expectations are expectations, and it's hard to get people to change those expectations, even when they aren't good for themselves or the environment --- such as Americans living in exburgs driving SUV's getting shocked and angry when gasoline hit $4/gallon, and their 90 minute daily commute started getting expensive. :-)
) but here's a link to the original article Slashdot is quoting in case anybody's interested.
Using Performance
The Windows Performance tool is composed of two parts: System Monitor and Performance Logs and Alerts. With System Monitor, you can collect and view real-time data about memory, disk, processor, network, and other activity in graph, histogram, or report form. Through Performance Logs and Alerts you can configure logs to record performance data and set system alerts to notify you when a specified counter's value is above or below a defined threshold.
Open Performance.
Notes
To open Performance, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Performance.
For information about using Performance Logs and Alerts, in Performance, on the Action menu, click Help. For information about using System Monitor, in the console tree, click System Monitor, and then, on the System Monitor toolbar, click the Help button.
(Glen "Tuna breath" Willow? Excellent credit rating? Now that's one smart and successful cat IMHO.-40hz (March 11, 2009, 10:23 AM)
So that's what happened to Steve Martin's cat! All those years of wearing the bunny ears with the fake arrow through the head and forging Steve's signature in order to cash his cheques must have paid off-Darwin (March 11, 2009, 11:28 AM)
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Good to see so many people here moving to Mac!You like seeing people moving to overpriced hardware and an even more tightly controlled closed ecosystem than Windows?-justice (March 10, 2009, 10:27 AM)-f0dder (March 10, 2009, 10:29 AM)
Well, at least Asus recognized it and owned up to the mistake.-zridling (October 10, 2008, 01:28 PM)
Head over to www.crucial.com and have the scan tool there get the info for you. I've bought all my RAM upgrades there (minus one that was incompatible) and they all work perfectly-wreckedcarzz (March 09, 2009, 06:35 PM)
I just had the impression that it was going to be an actual comparison.-J-Mac (March 08, 2009, 11:28 AM)
I typically don't like watching movies based on a book that I've recently read, because Hollywoodalwaystends toaddchange the story.-Mizraim (March 08, 2009, 09:15 AM)
Anyone seen the movie yet? Everyone I know who might go with me is 15 or younger (my kids are 4 and 6), so I haven't had a chance to get out to see it-Darwin (March 08, 2009, 08:55 AM)
Gotta love that! Reading the comments is almost more fun than reading the blog post! A whole lot of "Stepford" fans there.-J-Mac (March 07, 2009, 11:37 PM)
It is more than two years old, and IMO it doesn't tell me anything at all about the various To-do list apps - it just lists them and shows a few (very few) sharing options, like "RSS, email".
Or am I missing it?-J-Mac (March 08, 2009, 12:02 AM)
Sunday, March 01, 2009Link: http://linuxlock.blo...ion-creeps-into.html
Tempers Flare as Recession Creeps into Tech Industry
Putting fuel in my truck was the last place I expected to get into a confrontation. Especially concerning Free Open Source Software. I mean, come on..
>>Open source will not save Windows, POSIX compatibility will.-electronixtar (March 06, 2009, 05:57 AM)
Compare 40+ Online To-Do Lists
Fri, 03/06/2009 - 01:31 — Rhiannon
* Tech Treats
This site compares over 40 different online To-Do lists.
One of the neat things about this site is that it lists the additional features of each program other than the standard options most to-do's have, like creating and deleting things, editing, and adding lists and tasks.
The list includes some of the most popular online to-list sites such as Backpack and Remember The Milk. Also listed are many that look useful but that I haven't heard of.
If the perfect online to-do list hasn't dropped into your lap yet, have a look here.
Comparison of Online To-Do Lists
Signing off,
Rhiannon
