Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Sujeet Ghanvat
Hi Aditya,Nice observation. It can be explained with slightly modified Parkinson's law : "Data expands to fill the space available for storage" Its going to happen more in future. Paul Graham has nicely talked about it in his article Hundred-

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Kapil Kaisare
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Aditya Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got thinking for a moment today about the amount of memory that > our computer systems today use. Of course, if you are a 'computer > scientist' you can safely ignore this and say you have infinite > memory. > Anyw

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 10:15:46 Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > > No. Thing is the memory usage varies with amount of installed RAM, at > > least in linux. If you have same installation on a 512MB RAM and 128 MB > > RAM machine and start identic

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 29 September 2008 20:36:17 Aditya Godbole wrote: >> >> No. Thing is the memory usage varies with amount of installed RAM, at least >> in >> linux. If you have same installation o

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for October 2008 is scheduled on Saturday 4th October 2008, 4 pm @ SICSR

2008-10-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for October 2008 is scheduled on Saturday 4th October 2008, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: Updates and discussions about the software freedom day event which was he

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Kapil Kaisare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Aditya Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings. > > Your system need not be as bloated as you say it is. > > I run an XUbuntu setup, having replaced XFCE with Xmonad. I use mc as my

[PLUG] Statistics and Pune Linux UG [OT]

2008-10-01 Thread म.हा.सा.ग.र
I did a simple very nominal visible analysis of the PLUG archives... of-course I was *thin/king in Marathi! The result: Of-course, the works of Shakespear can be repeated by 1000 monkeys randomly jumping on the keyboard with probability of 0.01%. Look at the size of raw archives over the period