Comment: Re:PulseAudio - indeed (Score 1) 254
criyztalizea is better than listening to crap that went through dynamic range compression.
Haha, you say that as if compressors haven't been around for decades. Have you ever heard a Frank Zappa record?
Comment: Re:web 101: don't run unknown javascripts (Score 1) 262
I prefer to, oh you know, not run an operating system that is susceptible to malware attacks.
HAHAHAHA!
Oh, you were being serious.
Comment: Re:Linus Torvalds and regression? (Score 1) 186
I run my recently upgraded desktop (Core i5-2500K) through a power meter and it is very easy to notice - Ubuntu 10.10 (kernel 2.6.35) idles at about 30W, while 11.04 (2.6.38) goes up to 35W. That's about 20% more.
I believe 2.6.36 introduced a problem with DRI on intel and some other video chipsets which led to a shitload of kworker wake ups. One of my laptops running Arch benefitted from a kernel parameters suggestion over here but by that stage I had a menu.lst as long as your arm full of attempts at a functional system (e.g. kernel
You can't catch every regression without owning all hardware and infinite time
Comment: Re:scraping the barrel (Score 1) 207
a whole os, distro and the highlights include enabling http pipelining and including a couple of browser add-ons, switching default search engine
Really ? really ?
That's the problem that needs solving, thru a new disto
Yep, that's right, a whole new distro... to enable something that not everybody thinks is a great idea... I mean, if you want to make 200 http connections per web page have at it, but do it on some other web, not the one that myself and others enjoy traffic from.
Comment: Re:This isn't exactly news... (Score 1) 305
Precisely. Japan's latest rock star is a discovery of the Whitman Campaign. Jerry Brown knows what I'm talkin' 'bout.
That guy is from Korea, not Japan. He just does a lot of covers of Japanese songs.
He's from Korea, but he's Big in Japan.
Comment: Re:This isn't exactly news... (Score 1) 305
Erm... yes, that's great and all. Except Hatsune Miku has been around since 2007, and versons of the the Vocaloid software that powers "her" has been around a good bit longer (since 2004 or so, I think). I'm pretty sure I heard reference to special-effects-heavy concerts more than a year ago.
Precisely. Japan's latest rock star is a discovery of the Whitman Campaign. Jerry Brown knows what I'm talkin' 'bout.
Comment: Re:Burying Bodies (Score 1) 172
I have seen the only Zombie movie I ever need to see. The rest have no rhythm.
"This video contains content from Vevo, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds" - that is a good-ass movie.
Comment: Re:Burying Bodies (Score 2, Insightful) 172
and the living won't be pestered with all those stupid zombie movies anymore.
cremation = no zombie.
Have you ever even seen a zombie movie?
Hint: Few feature the grave.
How Well Will Linux Handle Future Multicores?->
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eldavojohn writes "Multicore (think tens or hundreds of cores) will come at a price for current operating systems. A team at MIT found that as they approached 48 cores their operating system slowed down. After activating more and more cores in their simulation, a sort of memory leak occurred whereby data had to remain in memory as long as a core might need it in its calculations. But the good news is that in their paper (PDF), they showed that for at least several years Linux should be able to keep up with chip enhancements in the multicore realm. To handle multiple cores, Linux keeps a counter of which cores are working on the data. As a core starts to work on a piece of data, Linux increments the number. When the core is done, Linux decrements the number. As the core count approached 48, the amount of actual work decreased and Linux spent more time managing counters. But the team found that 'Slightly rewriting the Linux code so that each core kept a local count, which was only occasionally synchronized with those of the other cores, greatly improved the system's overall performance.' The researchers caution that as the number of cores skyrockets, operating systems will have to be completely redesigned to handle managing these cores and SMP. After reviewing the paper, one researcher is confident Linux will remain viable for five to eight years without need for a major redesign."
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Comment: Re:Why? (Score 5, Funny) 377
It's just a research venture. Intel is trying to figure out how McAfee can use up so much of a CPU that it should be put out of its misery.
Nah, Intel actually bought HP - McAfee just came bundled.