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Comment Re:Are you catholic? (Score 1) 902

by sameerds (#26995337) Attached to: Designer Babies

Until birth, it's either a part of the mother's anatomy to do what she feels like (if it's implanted in the womb already) or just a thing in a glass if it's not.

Err no. The unborn baby is not part of the mother's anatomy. It's a separate living organism hiding itself from the mother's immune system. Practically a parasite.

Comment Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o (Score 2, Informative) 503

by sameerds (#26542273) Attached to: Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3?

Correction. Go-OO is not just some improved version, it is the the official version that you get in a number of distributions these days. Check their downloads page ... Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo carry it as the official "openoffice" package in their own repositories. And as far as I can make out, that is the case with openSUSE too.

Comment Re:You mean physical memory right :-) (Score 1) 983

by sameerds (#25999411) Attached to: Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems?

I highly recommend any Windows users or administrators read Mark Russinovich's latest blog entry Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory . It goes over all these things and describes the difference between virtual memory, committed memory, and why it really is important to have a paging file, even on that system with 8GB of physical RAM.

Ok, I decided to go and check out the linked article. Here's what he has to say (emphasis mine):

Some feel having no paging file results in better performance, but in general, having a paging file means Windows can write pages on the modified list (which represent pages that aren't being accessed actively but have not been saved to disk) out to the paging file, thus making that memory available for more useful purposes (processes or file cache).

I am not an expert at systems, but seems to me that he is saying that Windows tries to write disk buffers ("file cache"?) to the pagefile in order to make more space. That sounds quite stupid. Even if that is not the intended meaning, he still says that having a page file allows the system to swap out less actively accessed pages to the disk. But he misses the point then: people who disable page files for better performance want to disable exactly this behaviour. They don't want the system to swap out less active programs.

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