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Is this a real problem, or a subtle joke about the nature of fractals? Mousewheel zoom is all it takes. Of course, if you don't have a mousewheel on your system, you'll have to code up a different solution.
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David O'Neil wrote: a subtle joke about the nature of fractals This exactly
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First time that my garlic comes up any significant, so I do not know if there is any relation between the thickness of the stem and the bulb size to be, but if there I may have some apple-size garlic bulbs down in the soil...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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There are, of course, different breeds of garlic, but I've always found that the really grow best after a good solid freeze - often poking through the snow in late February. If it's elephant garlic, then apples sized is about normal (depending upon the type of apples you like).
Somehow, it doesn't seem like this post will be at all helpful.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I hope this garlic will be good with a bit of cold (3-5 C) as show and freezing cold is not guaranteed here, just because we call it winter
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I don't really think so, no. I've grown heaps of garlic.
Size is also not an indicator of quality. I tell my wife that all the time
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Yes, generally speaking the thicker the stem the bigger the bulb. You'll find out in the summer.
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Everybody else.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Everyone loses when the Beeb is involved...everyone.
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On the same note, if all politicians, bankers and lawyers were sitting in lifeboats on the North Atlantic in the middle of a raging storm, who would be saved?
The world.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Regrettably, even sharks won't eat lawyers, so some of them would survive ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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North Atlantic, rough waters and freezing temperatures. I don't think we really need much help from the sharks.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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All those politicians - the volume of hot air would warm the water pretty quick, and the sharks would follow.
We'd need a lawyer seeking missile system.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I used to have connections, but why don't we just improve the plan? We need a big ship that seems unsinkable with security doors that help only if the water does not get over a certain mark and trap many peaople inside. Too few lifeboats would also help. Has anyone rebuilt the Titanic yet? Let's treat all those guy to the maiden voyage.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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A CEO, a lawyer, and a priest, friends since college, are out on a boat deep-sea fishing. A squall rolls in and the boat capsizes, leaving the three men treading water. Fins start circling around them, hungry sharks.
The next day a Coast Guard cutter is performing search-and-rescue when they find the lawyer, the lone survivor, floating amongst the circling sharks. A young seaman asks the captain "Sir? How did he survive? Why didn't the sharks eat him like the other two?"
"Profesional courtesy", the captain replied.
Software Zen: delete this;
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it is called professional courtesy.
darn someone beat me too it. LOL
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Problem is, all the sharks (fish type) would tow them back to land as a professional courtesy.
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Justin's mommy doesn't allow him to play with knives.
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There was another question (in General Programming) regarding RAM extension from 8 to 16 GByte. I was tempted to add a comment: Well, if you can't make it work, then relax: You need no more that 8 GByte!
I didn't make the comment. This user might belong to that tiny little fraction of users actually running applications with huge working sets. Every now and then, when meeting someone in person (not on the net) claiming that then "must" have 16 GByte, or their PC will be slow as a turtle, I ask them: Show me! Reboot your PC, start the programs you usually have active, and let's see what Resource Monitor says is 'In Use'! ... OK, open some large files, maybe the data segments will grow huge ...
Most of those I challenge have to dig up every piece of software they've got to come even close to the 8 GByte mark. And we all know that lots of the 'In Use' pages contain initialization code/data, or rarely used functions/data: If they were paged out, maybe a 'print' operation would be delayed by 30 or 40 milliseconds, but who would notice?
The 'real' working set is usually significantly lower than even the 'In use' size.
To prove my point, I wish I had a utility that could cause Windows to flush all its pageable memory and clear the cache/'Standby', so that all pages would have to be brought in from backing store. And 30 seconds after the cleanup operation, all active pages in memory would be those actively referenced the last 30 seconds, giving a reasonable idea about the real working set size. Your real RAM requirements.
Will Windows allow such RAM cleanup? (In other words: Is there an API for requesting such operations?)
If the answer is 'yes', has anyone created any utility to do it?
Preferably, the utility should be a service running cleanup at regular, configurable intervals, and it should be able to log 'In Use', 'Modified' and cache/'Standby' sizes, both before and after the cleanup. A switch for flushing modified pages as part of the cleanup would be a bonus. I take for granted that Administrator privileges are required to run it; that is OK.
If such a utility is available, I suspect that lots of people would be in for a surprise.
(Note: I am not talking about huge computer centers with true experts keeping the hardware configuration tuned at all times, but about hobbyists and small scale developers - and also developers in larger companies insisting that they need 16 or 32 GByte on their frontend PCs to edit files using vi, for compilation on the company build server park.)
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I admit I only read half of your post, but I'd like to point out that if the page file is enabled, then the RAM use will *never* (OK, rarely) go above approx 50 to 60%. (Not scientific. Those are just my observations.)
If you really want to see how much RAM you require for your applications, temporarily disable the page file and then do the test.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: the RAM use will *never* (OK, rarely) go above approx 50 to 60%
Hold my beer.
A month ago one of my utilities was topping out the RAM usage on a 16GB system and crashing every day. I fixed it, so now RAM usage stays at about 26% .
Also, some systems -- such as SQL Server -- can be configured to carve out a huge chunk of RAM for their exclusive use.
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Thank you for the correction.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Also, some systems -- such as SQL Server -- can be configured to carve out a huge chunk of RAM for their exclusive use. For a backend server, that may be a good idea. A similar decision may be done for the disk storage: A single huge contiguous file is allocated, and the DBMS manages the space its own way, rather than, say, create individual files for each table (relation).
Then again: If you configure your DBMS to carve out a huge chunk of RAM for its exclusive use, then you know what you are doing. (Or possibly: You don't know what you are doing ... ) I'd expect that from highly qualified DBMS managers at a computing center. If the default configuration of a DBMS for home or small office use allocates reserves several gigabyte of RAM for itself, I might question that decision.
(Note: I do not question a qualified DBMS manager who allocates 75% of the RAM to the DBMS of the computing center!)
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Sure I can disable the page file, but that won't let me distinguish between RAM pages actually accessed, distinct from those occupying physical RAM because noone has required the page to be purged to free up RAM space. Maybe it was last referenced ten minutes ago, and never will be referenced again in this program run.
I see no logical reason why enabling the page file would not "go above approx 50 to 60%", if there really is a need for more RAM. (To be frank: Some of those who claim that they "must" have 16 GByte RAM, but unable to give a demo showing more than 8 GByte RAM might be likely to make claims in that direction: The reason why they don't go above 8 GByte is that Windows won't let them, but rather flush them to the paging file. If that was true, what would the benefit of spending money on the upper 8 GByte of RAM?)
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