I don't have hard data yet, but I'm finding that EL7 is much much faster than EL6 on the same hardware for the workloads I've tried so far.
I don't know that tuned is most responsible, but I can see that it's running and that's what it's supposed to do.
I realize that the kernel is better and perhaps XFS helps, but those alone seem insufficient to realize the difference.
Anyway, it's somewhat along the direction people are talking about, even if only minimally.
No, this is the old "Reefer Madness" mentality, meant to make happy both the Puritans and the prison profiteers while keeping the politicians in an elevated state of power.
What actually happens, and Portugal ran this experiment with a sample size of over 8 million people during the past decade, is that when drug use is decriminalized, the usage rate quickly falls to about half.
Most of those are people who are no longer afraid to seek treatment. Some are folks who wind up court-ordered to get treatment, and a few were drug users who were only doing it because drugs seemed cool because they were illegal.
At the end, though, the incontrovertible fact is that the community has half the number of drug users as it did under Prohibition. Prohibitionists are responsible for a doubling of the drug usage rate in the community. Does that seem counter-intuitive? So what? The data is in.
Got anything better?
Remove the laws and regulations holding back community fiber projects.
"Editors"
Hey, kudos to whomever diverted them from Ft. Detrick to the NIH, back in the day. Anonymous, forgotten hero.
If civilian commercial aviation is becoming fair game
Dude, 350 million dead in the last century alone. Every one is a tragedy, but one airplane hardly compares.
And by the way, why would a commercial airliner fly through such an airspace anyway?
Because the time & fuel savings were weighed to be more significant than any risks to commercial air traffic? Until today.
Systemd vs init: It's a Swiss Army knife vs a chef's knife. A shiny abomination that does "everything" complexly and half-assed,
systemd needs improvements in many areas - I can't argue with that.
However, it's worth noting that in my past few days of playing with CentOS 7, it's been tremendously faster than CentOS 6 on every workload I've been able to throw at it.
I haven't done a deep dive to figure out why exactly, but I have noticed 'tuned' running, doing some dynamic system optimizations, it seems via systemd's control of cgroups.
Lennart's handling of bug reports makes my blood boil as much as the next guy, but there may very well be some baby in that dirty bathwater.
Google cache has the first link but it also does not mention platforms!
The 486, Pentium Pro, P2, and P3 were all fine. It was only the P4 diversion that was a disaster.
Timing is everything, of course. If the iMac had been built on Intel Apple probably would have had to stay with a P3 for cooling/heat/noise reasons. That might have worked technically (the P3 continued to do well against the P4 on benchmarks) but it would have been heavily marketed against by its competitors.
The iMac actually is what saved Apple because by offering industrial design and fashion instead of raw tech and logic, they set themselves up to realize the iPod market, and the rest is history.
But given NeXTStep's legendary portability, it's no secret that early iMacs were PPC because that's what Apple was building - not because Jobs wasn't looking to move the company to new ISAs since he got there. Those things take time.
The resources needed are well within what can be fielded by a medium sized corporation or street gang.
Which goes both ways. There are simply vastly more people who are willing to hire a corporation to protect their assets than there are people willing to hire a corporation to take others' assets. The numbers are on the side of the good guys and rapid communications systems like the Internet makes such mutual protection systems even more feasible.
In a "free market", people can still come and bulldoze your house. Who is going to stop them?
You have two choices: you can hire your preferred protection agency directly, and get a discount rate on your homeowners insurance, or your insurance company may have a large-scale deal with one that makes that a better option.
Or you can not buy insurance and protection and go it alone with your shotgun, but that doesn't seem like the wisest of approaches. But if it comes to it, and a conference center developer wants to raze your neighborhood to take your property, at least he won't have a gang with an ultimate claim on violence to use to do it (c.f.
Even if he succeeds, that conference center developer is going to get the worst of reputations and likely be excluded from other geographic regions by force.
If you actually care to learn about some of the proposed solutions to a violence-based society, in regards to security, here's an easy way to do it that takes less than an hour:
Human nature dictates that those with power will always try to exploit the weak. The basic tenants of good government is to balance this equation in favor of the common good.
By giving people in the government power. You do realize how this seems to an alien observer?
so, apparently it's only worth $60k to them.
If Joss Wheadon isn't writing it, it's going to be a disaster. And I doubt he'd agree to it.
Dynamically binding, you realize the magic. Statically binding, you see only the hierarchy.
