Any chance lightdm depends on gnome? You might want to check
/var/log/apt/history.log (or ~.N.gz) to see if lightdm (or some other
important package) was removed along gnome. Also "dpkg -l lightdm*" might
help.
I'm not a Trisquel user (just guessing) so please take it with a grain of
I have no tactics so please stop looking for such and assigning them to me. I
am simply allergic to people deliberately twisting the meaning of what is
being said. It's time wasting and annoying.
Protecting forum posts with copyright and licenses is insanity. If 2 people
communicate by
Is there is even software in themes?
> I will never accept anything from anyone who
> tells me "I can potentially help" and then imposes regulations on that
> "help" (however 'ethical' anyone may consider that).
I thought that if a program works as expected and is open and transparent we
don't need additional freedoms. :)
I've
Is safe to install themes from https://www.gnome-look.org?
Can this file be malwares?
"Or can it be other reasons to use older kernels?"
Yes, I suppose there could be any number of reasons. One I can think of is
the radeon kernel module. On newer kernel versions the module is known to
fall over and die when the proprietary junk is not present, resulting in the
computer
Thank you for the discussion. :-)
> Here is a Shell script, "fact.sh", that reads integers on the standard
input and factorizes them:
Thank you for elaborating on this. Actually your example perfectly falls
within "caching for a strategic reason". There are 2 points in your example,
deserving further elaboration.
> No copyright would actually mean the classical copyright, under the Berne
convention.
"No copyright" would mean that if my whole post was just these 2 words. But
those 2 words are extracted from a sentence which contains additional and
essential info.
https://unlicense.org/
> Good
Here is a Shell script, "fact.sh", that reads integers on the standard input
and factorizes them:
#!/bin/sh
while read nb
do
factor $nb
done
Calling it with twice the same integer and measuring the overall run time:
$ printf
Interesting. I think I understand a little better now. There are still some
things I find strange though.
Let's say you're using the latest kernel and everything seems to be working
fine, is it logical to say that it's recommended to use the newest one then?
Or can it be other reasons to use
This is sheer nonsense and yet another attempt to renew someone's favorite
discussion about 4 freedoms and all the rest of it.
Everybody can observe that you are, once again, the one bringing back the
four freedoms.
The GitHub repo I opened will use "The Unlicense" which means no copyright
heyjoe's insistence that "scarce" just means "finite" is nothing more than a
linguistic distraction to avoid admitting that no one ever said RAM was
infinite. MB has already clarified what he means by "scarce". I use the same
exact definition. If you or heyjoe want to use "scarce" to mean
Without a © it is basically public domain, and cannot be subjected to a
license.
If only that could be the case! Unfortunately, under the Berne convention
(signed by almost all the countries in the world), the copyright is
automatic. The "classical" copyright I mean. Where you are
DFSG is not 100% compatible with GNU FSDG.
That said, the reason for the assertion that WebEngine is non-free is that
it's based on Chromium. I have never seen anyone actually evidence the claim
that Chromium is proprietary.
> It is just that the kernel cannot take initiatives that require
application-level knowledge (such as the fact that a function will often be
called with the same arguments). The programmer has to do the work in that
case.
No, it is perfectly within the kernel's initiative. Kernel does not
You see, we are back to the subtleties between grand design and tactical
design choices. It really depends on for which purpose you allocate RAM.
I agree. There is no reason to re-implement what the kernel does (probably
better).
If it is for *direct* data caching, then it is both
Resources are always scarce (limited) and should be used responsibly.
>>> They are always limited. They are not always scarce.
>> Scarce means restricted in quantity.
>No, it does not. It means "insufficient to satisfy the need or demand":
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scarce
Arguing with fruits is a waste of time.
Etymologies are not definitions. The source you cite tells it on its front
page:
Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant
https://www.etymonline.com
In the case of "scarce", the page you show says "c. 1300". So, that is what
what "scarce" meant circa
> The kernel cannot know a costly function will be frequently called with the
same arguments and will always return the same value given the same arguments
(i.e., does not depend on anything but its arguments). A cache at the
application-level is not reimplementing the caches at
> For a (any) licence to take legal effect, the work has to be legally owned
by some entity, i.e. copyrighted, AFAIK.
Exactly. There is no such thing as anonymous copyright holder or licensor.
You can't go to court and say "I am the completely anonymous person of that
forum post and
And also because DRAM is accessed page-wise. Changing page is much more
expensive than accessing data on the same (already selected) page.
Yes, there is that too. And accessing recent pages is fast thanks to yet
another cache, the translation lookaside buffer:
For a (any) licence to take legal effect, the work has to be legally owned by
some entity, i.e. copyrighted, AFAIK.
Without a © it is basically public domain, and cannot be subjected to a
license. So, I gather that MagicBanana is not demanding, but kindly
requesting that the work to be
> So you are pasting lines of code in a public forum claiming that by using
this code any completely anonymous person is signing a legal agreement with
you (an anonymous licensor) and that that this has legal power? Are you
serious?
Why should it matter where he releases his software?
Hi Guys where do we meet? Preferably around 19:00, when all the talks are
over...
Now you can type another 50 pages of argumentation that the dictionary of
your choice is the ultimate source of truth, how wrong everyone else is and
that this is very related to lightweight browsers.
> The obvious thing to do is that, you must allocate no more RAM than you
really need, and leave the rest (deciding what to do with free RAM) to the
kernel.
Glad to see that at least 1 person understands what was saying.
> Qupzilla has severe freedom issues according to Hyperbola - it depends on
nonfree qt5-webengine.
Are you sure about that?
Initially I had taken your word for it, then recently wanted to check it for
myself. Both Qupzilla and all its dependencies (including libqt5webengine*)
are in the
> Manipulating data that is sequentially stored in RAM is faster because of
CPU cache and sequential prefetching
And also because DRAM is accessed page-wise. Changing page is much more
expensive than accessing data on the same (already selected) page.
> The same idea, at another level,
> The program I work on (pattern mining, nothing to do with Web browsers) is
a 650 kB binary which can easily use GB of RAM
Dedicated software usually has its own very peculiar resource needs. Once I
was working on an R program of 100K or so in size that consumed moderate RAM
while maxing
Thanks but I automation like this (based on ">50%" or similar) seems
dangerous to me. These are important settings and my plan is to give the user
the ability to control what he sets, not some automatic script.
> By the way, all the software I write, including the two scripts in this
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