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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:51:15 +0100, Jan-Erik Soderholm
wrote: Den 2018-01-08 kl. 23:47, skrev Doomsdrzej: On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:55:47 +0000, Tim Streater wrote: In article , Bill Gunshannon wrote: On 01/08/2018 02:59 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: If you run the gasoline engine on bio-fuels produced from plants growing *today*, there is no issue with the C02 emissions. Funny, Europe seems to have changed their tune on that one lately. Well the stupid Germans shut down a lot of their non-polluting nukes, in favour of old power stations burning lignite (the worst possible fuel you could use). That's what happens with their stupid political system. The same political system that assumed that importing a million low-IQ, rapey and murdery Muslim negroes from Africa was going to be a great idea? Those that thought so has left the government. This has nothing to do with any "politcal system"... When did Merkel leave the government? Do tell! |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flawforces Linux, Windows redesign
Den 2018-01-08 kl. 23:55, skrev Doomsdrzej:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:51:15 +0100, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: Den 2018-01-08 kl. 23:47, skrev Doomsdrzej: On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:55:47 +0000, Tim Streater wrote: In article , Bill Gunshannon wrote: On 01/08/2018 02:59 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: If you run the gasoline engine on bio-fuels produced from plants growing *today*, there is no issue with the C02 emissions. Funny, Europe seems to have changed their tune on that one lately. Well the stupid Germans shut down a lot of their non-polluting nukes, in favour of old power stations burning lignite (the worst possible fuel you could use). That's what happens with their stupid political system. The same political system that assumed that importing a million low-IQ, rapey and murdery Muslim negroes from Africa was going to be a great idea? Those that thought so has left the government. This has nothing to do with any "politcal system"... When did Merkel leave the government? Do tell! Ah, you were talkning about Germany. OK, then don't ask me... :-) |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flawforces Linux, Windows redesign
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Rene Lamontagne wrote: On 01/08/2018 1:56 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: Den 2018-01-08 kl. 19:10, skrev Doomsdrzej: On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:11:20 -0500, nospam wrote: In article , Doomsdrzej wrote: If you buy a Chrysler, you can expect a problem every 500 miles. nonsense. I speak as someone who actually owned a Chrysler and know just how awful they are. To juge a whole car brand from one single car is just as trying to juge the Global Warming from the amount of snow on ones own backyard. Exactly, My father in law Had a 1968 Chrysler Stn wagon, 224,000 miles best car he ever owned. My son had a 1988 Toyota ForeRunner 241,000 miles, 1 PS pump, warranty Great. He then had a 2003 Chevy Silverado 195,000 KM,nary a problem . He also had a Dodge Magic wagon, Piece of crap So now you can say there are millions of good ones and yes a few lemons. Rene |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flawforces Linux, Windows redesign
On 01/08/2018 05:51 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
The Jeeps I have worked on over the years where all junk. The Gm Silverdos trucks were all pretty good. The Caravans where super scrap material. My wife was a die hard Jeep owner until two in a row, brand new purchases both lemons. One leaked like a sieve through the sun roof not only resulting in wet feet from the soaked carpet but playing havoc with the electronics, too. In the shop more than a dozen times and they could not even fix the drain that was supposed to keep the water out of the cabin. Now she is a Honda CRV customer and on her fourth. With the exception of the truck with the 6 cylinder engine that the Army bought back in the early 70's they used to be great. Today, garbage. I am on my third Silverado. Second brand new. With the exception of the Onstar crap you get stuck with on most cars today, I am completely satisfied and will continue to buy another every couple of years. Would never own any kind of a van, well, except maybe for an antique VW. bill |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flawforces Linux, Windows redesign
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Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: Den 2018-01-08 kl. 21:05, skrev chrisv: Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: Think about this. That waste heat wasn't free. It's unused energy. That means you've had to put much more potential into the gasoline engine to get what you need. With electric, less energy is required. Of course, the heat is nice when it's cold. Still, from an energy perspective, the gasoline engine is rather wasteful. Try tracing the power from the battery in the car all the way back to it's origination. Take all the "efficiencies" into consideration. Now tell me how wasteful the gasoline engine really is. The problem is not efficient of the engine is as such. The problem is that it in most cases is burning fosile fules and releasing CO2 that was "in the loop" millions of years ago. Yet another subject shift. Much of our electricity comes from burning coal or natural gas, BTW. With “our” I guess you are talking of the world at large, right? How electricity is produced is highly depending on where you live. But, of course, the electricity generation must also switch to renewable sources. There is no difference in electricity generation from driving combustion engines in that regard. It has both to minimize the use of fossil fuels. But there are also a lot of other things that has to be done. Such us moving the real short distances work travels to cycling, where that works, or to community transportation. And of course a continued move of the car fleet to smaller and less gasoline hungry models. The most environment friendly mile is the mile that was never travelled. |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
On 2018-01-08 16:49:08 +0000, Doomsdrzej said:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:38:58 +1300, Your Name wrote: You still running that 50 year old computer with no issues? Or even 2-3 years. I used a PowerMac G3 for nearly 20 years without major problems, until a major fault somewhere in the IO system on the motherboard meant I was forced to upgrade to a new Mac. Even the original hard drive was still working ... and is still working, now in an external USB enclosure. That's pretty impressive. It died about March last year. I would still be using it now if it hadn't died. It was still running Mac OS X 10.2 (released August 2002). I would still probably have been using Mac OS 9, if it wasn't for an incomptent ISP who wouldn't fix their servers! What kind of server issues affected only Mac OS 9? I am sincerely curious. For people using a dial-up internet connection, the ISP's authentication servers would ocassionally stop working (probably due to a system update) meaning users couldn't log on. The original ISP fixed the issue relatively quickly the couple of times I managed to finally get the (non)Help Desk drones to understand the issue was at their end and not mine. Unfortuantely the ISP was then bought up by Vodafone New Zealand who are utterly useless. They did fix the problem when it first showed up again, but the next time they screwed me about for weeks saying they would fix it, and then finally admitted they weren't going to bother. The problem apparently only affect those still using Mac OS 9 or older (and only via that ISP - it worked fine when I tested other ISPs via friend's log-ins), so the only way solution was to upgrade to Mac OS X, so I was forced to install 10.1. I later upgraded to 10.2, although I regretted that a littel because it was more buggy than 10.1. Vodafone New Zealand also showed their uselessness (and greediness since they didn't decrease the fees!) by shutting down the Usenet server, and a couple of months ago they shut down their email servers as well. The only other issue was web browsers becoming less compatible, so I was about to update it to Mac OS X 10.3 (released in October 2003). I will also have had my current car (and only car I've owned) for 20 years this year, but it was four years old when I bought it. It also still runs fine with only normal wear and tear problems. It's just passed 200,000kms, so is due for it's second cambelt replacement ... at twice the price of the first one! Had I not ruined its paint job by trying to do the work myself, I wouldn't have been embarrassed to drive my Volvo over its 210,000 km. I would have had it for thirteen years. I saw a car like mine advertised on a local eBay clone website recently which had done over 300,000kms. The starting bid price was WAY too high - at least four times what it was really worth. There was another one before Christmas in even worse condition, but lower mileage, for about the same price. The sellers were simply trying to cash-in on the model's now-popularity with the hoon / boy racer brigade for modifying. But I do know quite a few iMacs (both CRT and LCD models) from around that same period that have either had multiple dead hard drives or completely failed), possibly due to the all-in-one design and heat issues over time. I owned an iBook G3 back in 2002 and I can't imagine still working on it today even though it likely would have managed to do pretty much everything I would need for it to. Even maxed out at 640MB of RAM, that thing was slow. Mac OS being the bloated behemoth that it is didn't help. It ran Mac OS 9.2.2 beautifully though. When my PowerMac G3 died, I did switch over to a iBook G4 for a couple of months to finish off some work I was in the middle of, but that laptop had already been having problems and quickly died under daily use (it was a hand-me-down from another family member - the battery never worked, one shift key was broken, the power socket kept coming loose and needing re-soldering, etc.). The PowerMac G3 had only 128MB RAM. I was using it pretty much every day to do all sorts of things, including DTP with Adobe's apps. I can't remember how much RAM the iBook G4 had - possibly just the standard 512MB. I was also had only a dial-up internet connection with it and the laptop, and both used with a 17" CRT display. The forced upgrade to a new Mac Mini, with MacOS X 10.12 and all new apps, as well as a broadband connection was a bit of a culture shock ... although my job meant I have always been helping people with their newer Macs anyway. Even though my exposure to Mac OS 8/9 was fairly limited, I liked the operating system quite a bit and switched over to it for a while when I got my iBookl G3 (600MHz). OS X was so sluggish that Mac OS 9 felt rewarding to use but the apps for it were already disappearing at that point and, if I remember correctly, I didn't like the way it multitasked. Mac OS 9 multitasked fine, but it didn't co-operatively multitask, which meant some (badly written) applications could hog the system resources. I never really had any problem with the speed of the OSes running on my PowerMac G3, and that was only 266MHz. It even ran Windoze (95? Can't remember now) under emulation at a usable, if slow, speed. It was unsurprisingly horribly slow at Nintendo GameCube emulation though. :-) Yes, it could take a few minutes to generate a PDF from InDesign or an hour or so to render a short video clip, but it was easy enough to do something else and levave it to run. |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
In article , Your Name
wrote: It was still running Mac OS X 10.2 (released August 2002). I would still probably have been using Mac OS 9, if it wasn't for an incomptent ISP who wouldn't fix their servers! What kind of server issues affected only Mac OS 9? I am sincerely curious. For people using a dial-up internet connection, the ISP's authentication servers would ocassionally stop working (probably due to a system update) meaning users couldn't log on. The original ISP fixed the issue relatively quickly the couple of times I managed to finally get the (non)Help Desk drones to understand the issue was at their end and not mine. Unfortuantely the ISP was then bought up by Vodafone New Zealand who are utterly useless. They did fix the problem when it first showed up again, but the next time they screwed me about for weeks saying they would fix it, and then finally admitted they weren't going to bother. The problem apparently only affect those still using Mac OS 9 or older (and only via that ISP - it worked fine when I tested other ISPs via friend's log-ins), so the only way solution was to upgrade to Mac OS X, so I was forced to install 10.1. there is no reason why you (or anyone) would have had to upgrade to mac os x just to connect to an isp, assuming the isp supported standard ppp dial-up connections. if your isp was doing something non-standard, then *they* are the problem, not the mac. I later upgraded to 10.2, although I regretted that a littel because it was more buggy than 10.1. nonsense. 10.2 was *much* better than 10.1. Even though my exposure to Mac OS 8/9 was fairly limited, I liked the operating system quite a bit and switched over to it for a while when I got my iBookl G3 (600MHz). OS X was so sluggish that Mac OS 9 felt rewarding to use but the apps for it were already disappearing at that point and, if I remember correctly, I didn't like the way it multitasked. Mac OS 9 multitasked fine, but it didn't co-operatively multitask, which meant some (badly written) applications could hog the system resources. wrong on that too. mac os *did* cooperatively multitask (as well as preemptive in some cases). badly written apps can hog any system. try a fork bomb on unix. |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
On Jan 8, 2018, Doomsdrzej wrote
(in ): On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:11:20 -0500, wrote: In , Doomsdrzej wrote: If you buy a Chrysler, you can expect a problem every 500 miles. nonsense. I speak as someone who actually owned a Chrysler and know just how awful they are. I had a Chrysler Pacifica, it ran very well until at about 22K miles the V6 engine threw a rod, and smashed a hole in the crankcase. I had to dive through all sorts of hoops with regard to the warranty. Eventually they gave me an astonishing deal on a loaded Chrysler 300C with a nice V8 Hemi. The 300C gave me good service until I traded it on a Mercedes E350. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
On Jan 8, 2018, Doomsdrzej wrote
(in ): On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 20:56:16 +0100, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: Den 2018-01-08 kl. 19:10, skrev Doomsdrzej: On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:11:20 -0500, wrote: In , Doomsdrzej wrote: If you buy a Chrysler, you can expect a problem every 500 miles. nonsense. I speak as someone who actually owned a Chrysler and know just how awful they are. To juge a whole car brand from one single car is just as trying to juge the Global Warming from the amount of snow on ones own backyard. You're right. I should have bought another Jeep after the awful experience with my Patriot just to make sure that they're not all bad. What a moron I was to complement my super-reliable BMW 428i with an Infiniti QX30 when I could have gotten a Dodge Caravan! Seriously though, Chrysler and its subsidiaries are at the bottom of *every* reliability list. In fact, I bought the Jeep to prove to myself and the world that the brand WASN'T bad and that it was merely soiled by the fact that its owners took poor care of the vehicles. Seven years of misery and repairs later and I will never touch another Chrysler again. I might give GM a chance one day but I doubt it. Our family had one Chrysler product which proved to be pretty indestructible, my father’s 1958 Desoto Firedome, which was sold in the late 1960s with over 300,000 miles on the clock. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flawforces Linux, Windows redesign
Den 2018-01-09 kl. 01:13, skrev Wolf K:
On 2018-01-08 14:59, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: [...] If you run the gasoline engine on bio-fuels produced from plants growing *today*, there is no issue with the C02 emissions. There is a net addition to the CO2 load, because it costs energy (ie, fuel) to produce the biofuel. If that "fule" is also bio-fule, I see no issue here. I don't expect the amount of input fuel to be higher than the produced amount... That cost can be stated as the proportion of the fuel needed to produce it. That is, how many litres of some fuel does it take to produce 100 litres of the stuff? A few years ago, Scientific American published an article analysing this question. In terms of energy cost/litre, gasoline was the cheapest at less than 10%. Other fuels (diesel, jet, bunker C, etc) were 50% to 10% more expensive. Biofuel was even more expensive. Ethanol costs more energy to produce than it contains. In addition, as with all energy produced centrally in wholesale quantities and dispensed locally in retail quantities, there is the energy cost of distribution. Even electricity has a distribution cost: on average, 10% of every kilowatt-hour produced at the generating station has to be allowed for as line loss, transformer loss, etc. Ultimately, all costs are energy. Dollar costs don't express energy cost differences very well. "Carbon footprint" is better, but it's still only a rough measure of the energy consumedÂ* by a person or other entity. So the question is, how much of the energy we produce does any actually useful work? Very, very little. Consider that in a typical commute by car about 90% of the available energy is used to move the car and its occupant. Since only about 25% to 30% of the fuel's energy is converted into work (the rest is waste heat), that means only about 3% of the energy in the fuel is used to move the driver. Correct. We must remodel our way of living to a situation with far less travel in general. Modern technologies are extremely wasteful of energy. |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
Scott Dorsey wrote:
Efficiency of the motors is very close to 100%. No it's not. Don't confuse motors with heaters. -- "The massive amount of rampant piracy in the Android Linux ecosystem shows that Linux users are willing to steal a 99-cent app rather than pay for it legally." - trolling fsckwit "Ezekiel" |
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Den 2018-01-09 kl. 10:58, skrev Tim Streater:
In article , Wolf K wrote: On 2018-01-08 14:59, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: [...] If you run the gasoline engine on bio-fuels produced from plants growing *today*, there is no issue with the C02 emissions. There is a net addition to the CO2 load, because it costs energy (ie, fuel) to produce the biofuel. That cost can be stated as the proportion of the fuel needed to produce it. That is, how many litres of some fuel does it take to produce 100 litres of the stuff? And how much land to produce the 100 litres each year every year? Or to produce enough biofuel for one vehicle's annual driving? What kind of "vehicle"? You can probably forget all those V8's... No, bio-fuel is not the only solution. There will be other fueld neededf and at the samre time another way to "build" our communities that does not need the amount of car travels as today. And bio-fuel is not only about growing stuff out on the fields, it is also gas produced from ordinary household waste. |
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Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flawforces Linux, Windows redesign
On 01/08/2018 11:52 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On Jan 8, 2018, Doomsdrzej wrote (in ): On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 20:56:16 +0100, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: Den 2018-01-08 kl. 19:10, skrev Doomsdrzej: On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:11:20 -0500, wrote: In , Doomsdrzej wrote: If you buy a Chrysler, you can expect a problem every 500 miles. nonsense. I speak as someone who actually owned a Chrysler and know just how awful they are. To juge a whole car brand from one single car is just as trying to juge the Global Warming from the amount of snow on ones own backyard. You're right. I should have bought another Jeep after the awful experience with my Patriot just to make sure that they're not all bad. What a moron I was to complement my super-reliable BMW 428i with an Infiniti QX30 when I could have gotten a Dodge Caravan! Seriously though, Chrysler and its subsidiaries are at the bottom of *every* reliability list. In fact, I bought the Jeep to prove to myself and the world that the brand WASN'T bad and that it was merely soiled by the fact that its owners took poor care of the vehicles. Seven years of misery and repairs later and I will never touch another Chrysler again. I might give GM a chance one day but I doubt it. Our family had one Chrysler product which proved to be pretty indestructible, my father’s 1958 Desoto Firedome, which was sold in the late 1960s with over 300,000 miles on the clock. There is a big difference between the 1958 company and today. bill |
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Tim Streater wrote:
And how much land to produce the 100 litres each year every year? Or to produce enough biofuel for one vehicle's annual driving? It takes a lot of land, but you can think of this as being an alternate solar power method. The sun grows the plants, the plants make the fuel. It's not very efficient but it's very clean and it works well in warm climates where land is cheap, such as Brazil. Brazil has pretty much weaned themselves off of imported oil with a huge push toward bioethanol in the 1970s. However, high sugar prices since 2010 or so have made oil more competitive there. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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