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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 37-09
« Last post by f0dder on September 13, 2009, 07:09 AM »#2: aww 
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I h tried POWER CD/DVD RECOVERY, but that piece of Program is good for Scratched CD/DVD'S, it takes too long to retrieve the DATA: i simply exit the program.Try some patience?-hulkbuster (September 12, 2009, 11:15 PM)
Amen to thatHis best bet for safety would be TrueCrypt, but that's probably more than he wants/needs, and has some problems of it's ownI suggested this to him and he was overly ecstatic that he could do this. I guess this is more proof that consumers don't really know what they want.-f0dder (September 02, 2009, 12:34 AM)-alivingspirit (September 12, 2009, 11:55 PM)
My speed is 384kbps as that is what I pay for but.....my download speed is around 40kbps! Still better than dial up! It costs my friend I do some work for around R550 per month (+- $70) for my adsl line + 3 GB's of data...I hope that by "40kbps" you mean kbyte and not kbit... otherwise you're getting screwed pretty bad-CleverCat (September 12, 2009, 02:23 AM)
- and 3GB data per month? Uuuugh.For coding: Dina.Deozaan has gained +1 love.-Deozaan (September 11, 2009, 04:33 PM)
)I think you mistake efficiency for performance.No, I don't - I'm saying that if MP gets better performance than MT, it's because the MT is coded wrong. MT should give both performance and efficiency. Remember the thread is about coding multi-threading - this is why I'm arguing MT>MP.-MilesAhead (September 10, 2009, 08:27 PM)
If you find any multi-threaded free encoders that work faster than assigning an instance per core please let me know so I can use them.I haven't looked - but I somehow expect the "free" to be a bit of a problem. Multi-processing isn't easy to code-MilesAhead (September 10, 2009, 08:27 PM)
BTW: If hypnogogic state sounds too 'old hat' you can always refer to it by the more modern term: Zoned OutLucid in the sky with diamonds?-40hz (September 10, 2009, 10:29 PM)
So, for the most part FH is OK. There's no excessive thread usage. And I have little use for the bubbles anyway./me breathes a sigh of relief-mwang (September 10, 2009, 07:04 PM)
afa indication of efficiency I'd say the time to produce the video at the same or better quality is the measure.Yep
The CPU usage indicator only measures CPU usage.Yep
The fact that the multiprocessing approaches seem to have in common that they maximize the use of the CPU power and get done quickest is surely coincidental then according to your theory?Huh?
Thanks for your ideas I will keep trying until I make it workIt would by far be the most comfortable solution - virtual machines (especially with disk snapshots!) are so much easier to maintain than dualbooting, and it's much nicer just booting the VM than having to reboot your system.-czb (September 10, 2009, 01:54 PM)
- haven't really missed anything except for the mail-ticker so far.I don't have a link ready, but I remember reading a post by one of FH authors (on their support forum) stating that FH creates a new thread for every file it copies. If this is true, it's a really poor design. Starting a thread is "expensive" in CPU terms, and starting hundreds of threads at the same time is an awful idea. This is what "thread pools" were invented for. If you also have the "bubbles" (notifications) enabled, you can see FH memory use reach a gigabyte or so, as it creates hundreds and hundreds of windows. This might still (barely) work if if were written in C++, but a .Net app doing that sort of thing can really bring down the system.-tranglos (September 10, 2009, 07:19 AM)
(note: make a copy before opening, I don't know if sqlite3 will attempt to upgrade an older db on open, or only when modifications are done - but it'd suck if SpiderOak uses v2 format and suddenly the database is in v3 format ).). I'm not sure what the optimal thing to do, if I was to code a mailstore myself, would be - I'd probably lean towards a binary format split to into multiple files based on size, along with external index files... but there's issues with internal fragmentation and all sorts of other things.#6: Finally a REALLY good excuse to END my facebook account.Just set reasonable privacy settings, limit the information you share, and don't install crap apps? Problem solved-Edvard (September 09, 2009, 12:13 PM)
