for the vast majority of the Chinese people, over 90%, do not believe in the effectiveness of the rhino horns
So that's a target market of only 136 million?
with the exception of those living in the Hong Kong and surrounding region (mainly Guangzhou)
Oh, and they're only concentrated in one of the wealthiest areas? Definitely not a problem then.
Blame posix for making all the goddamn pthread *_timedlock() calls take an absolute real time instead of a monotonic clock.
In anycase, I'm not even going to bother doing anything fancy. I'll let the system suddenly be one second off and then correct itself over the next hour. I'm certainly not going to do something stupid like letting the seconds field increment to 60. Having the ntp base time even go through these corrections is already dumb enough. Base time should be some absolute measure and leap seconds should just be adjusted after the fact in a manner similar to timezones.
-Matt
The only TRIM use I recommend is running on it on an entire partition, e.g. like the swap partition, at boot, or before initializing a new filesystem. And that's it. It's an EXTREMELY dangerous command which results in non-deterministic operation. Not only do SSDs have bugs in handling TRIM, but filesystem implementations almost certainly also have ordering and concurrency bugs in handling TRIM. It's the least well-tested part of the firmware and the least well-tested part of the filesystem implementation. And due to cache effects, it's almost impossible to test it in a deterministic manner.
You can get close to the same performance and life out of your SSD without using TRIM by doing two simple things. First, use a filesystem with at least a 4KB block size so the SSD doesn't have to write-combine stuff on 512-byte boundaries. Second, simply leave a part of the SSD unused. 5% is plenty. In fact, if you have swap space configured on your SSD, that's usually enough on its own (since swap is not usually filled up during normal operation), as long as you TRIM it on boot.
-Matt
How many times have you used Notepad/Wordpad instead of Word?
I use the Mac equivalent, TextEdit, quite often for jotting down quick notes and for quickly opening text files (including rich text and Word docs where I don't really care about the formatting). TextEdit is a very thin wrapper around the NSTextView class, and so is the same sort of not-quite-demo-app as WordPad, which is a thin wrapper around Microsoft's rich text editor control. I have Word, Pages, OpenOffice and LibreOffice installed, but I probably use TextEdit more than all of them combined, because for most simple things it just gets out of the way.
I mean, come on... just when the graphics performance starts to get good, people all want bigger displays which halves the performance and then want to go even BIGGER and halve it again.
My perfectly good Sandybridge i7 can't drive this shit. Time to rotate in another workstation. Again.
Grumble.
-Matt
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?