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General Software Discussion / Re: File synchronization: moving away from incremental backup (HELP!)
« Last post by f0dder on October 02, 2008, 02:28 AM »MerleOne: how does it do it's job? Filter Driver, or filesystem notifications?
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Hey, I'm a gamer, what can you say?Buy a desktop computer that's actually suitable for games, and a lot cheaper? Wouldn't be surprised if you can get a decently powered desktop and a school/work laptop for the price of one of those "gaming laptops"... which tend to run like 30min max on battery-wreckedcarzz (October 01, 2008, 07:52 PM)
That leads me to RAM. Why the **** would someone pay that much for "Apple Certified RAM"?? It's insane! Like $80 for a GB! And Microsoft even went and took this point and accelerated it with Vista's ReadyBoost - so you don't even need to "upgrade" anymore if you run Vista, just pop in a flash drive - $20 for the Apple cost of $160+.I'm pretty sure you can install non-certified RAM in MAC, but you're obviously going to void your warranty if you open the box. And you can't compare ReadyBoost to adding more RAM, really. Seems to give mediocre results at < 2GB RAM, and more or less no advantage with >= 2GB. To be expected, though... RAM has several GB/s throughput, the fastest USB flashdrives are still, what, ~50MB/s or less?-wreckedcarzz
You can't even change the time zone WITHOUT AN ADMINISTRATOR!!!Can you do that on Windows? Even if you can, I'm pretty sure there's system policies that can be enabled that'll disable the feature - useful for public accessible machines, people always try to tamper with those.-wreckedcarzz
The freaking Apple Menu! So you have to drag the (slow, one button) mouse all the way across that amazing 21" screen (at the speed of 600DPI) to get from your Macintosh HD icon, to your Apple Menu.Can't the icon be moved? Can't you enable mouse acceleration? And can't you buy a n-button USB mouse and plug in? *rolleyes*-wreckedcarzz
And the system crashes. Mac's are supposed to be this whole crash proof system - the hardware works oh-so elegantly with the hardware, and it is a seamless environment where the loly-flowers fly in the wind and peace comes to the world. Then you get this little caution alert saying "Interrupting this program may lock up the system." You can't do anything because IT IS ALREADY LOCKED UP!Pre-OSX sucked because there was no real protection in the system... but does this also happen with OSX? I've only used Macs for very short periods of time at friends places etc., and I haven't had any crash experience (but oh, pre-OSX public machines... *b00m*, those were fragile).-wreckedcarzz
).The filter-driver mirroring method is darn useful though, and I haven't seen it in other apps...).For #3, I thought maybe the larger issue was making more memory available to ravenous apps. ('Sides, the topic's been sitting idle for a couple weeks and this is at least related.)And it indeed does that, for applications that have been linked so that they are flagged as "aware" of large memory - and that could be useful for particular memory slugs - but it still doesn't fix the "more than 3GB blue on 32bit client Windows versions". (32bit server versions can utilize PAE to use more than 4gig physical, but still of course only 32bit address space per app).[/url]
-Cavalcader (September 30, 2008, 06:50 AM)
Point taken about GPUs and the rest, but with a 256M graphics card it still leaves the other 3/4 gig for files & devices. (I'll have to do some more digging to see what a typical load would/should be.)Keep in mind that the kernel address space is also used for various kernel-mode structures (there's a lot of those), drivers, et cetera. 512meg video cards are becoming common now, there's even 1-gig cards, and some people are running 512meg (or even 1gig >_<) cards in SLI. Quickly adds up. I dunno if cards reserve their full memory capacity of address space, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do!-Cavalcader (September 30, 2008, 06:50 AM)
I'm thinking about a somewhat specific use in making mem available for Adobe (audio/video) & other multimedia apps.Could be useful. Iirc SQL server even uses the "address-windowing extensions" on 32bit server Windows, in order to be able to use more than 4GB physical memory (although in "chunks" or "windows").-Cavalcader (September 30, 2008, 06:50 AM)
I install XP 32-bit on the machine and fired up and I now have 3Gb (less 256Mb) Graphics memory pretty much spot on. I could add a graphics card and disable onboard graphics and gain the extra 256Mb but it seems to work pretty well. This is the first time I have jumped above 2Gb and I was quite surprised to see Windows announce that PAE had been automatically enabled.Windows should automatically turn on PAE if your CPU supports it, since PAE is required in order to use the CPU per-page no-execute bit... known as DEP under windows (yeah, there's some limited DEP for CPUs without NX-bit support). So it's not enabled PAE in order to utilize the memory, Microsoft intentionally crippled 32bit client versions of windows not to-Carol Haynes (September 30, 2008, 07:02 AM)
Can you really think that $3K for a high quality tower is insane?Yeah. That kind of cash should get you at least a quadcore with 8gigs of ram, GPU in the GeForce 8800 or better class, fast harddrives, high-quailty tower and powerful PSU.-donco666 (September 30, 2008, 12:00 AM)
</pedantic>F0dder: thanks for the pointer to filter driver! I think that's pretty much what I'm looking for to monitor the changes to files, right?Yup.-jgpaiva (September 28, 2008, 09:38 AM)
