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  • #51
    Originally posted by Qaridarium
    dude you just don't get my point
    That's because you talk in riddles Try writing in your native language and then translate with babelfish, maybe then people will understand you.

    Das ist, weil du in R?tseln zu sprechen Versuchen Sie, in Ihrer Muttersprache und dann ?bersetzen mit babelfish, vielleicht dann werden die Menschen verstehen.

    no its not wrong to call for money ! means you are wrong!

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    • #52
      Originally posted by mattst88 View Post
      You might want to investigate LWN.net, where you're not allowed to read articles for a week unless you paid for a subscription. The trick is to find out why people are willing to do that with LWN but not with Phoronix. Hint: sensationalism does not fly very well when your readers are mostly hackers and power users.
      I think this is a really excellent point.

      It would be very interesting to see some subscriber and revenue numbers from LWN and Phoronix. I doubt we'll ever see that though.
      i still wonder why people bitch and nag (RealNC a prime example) and don't just erase the phoronix bookmark

      its not forced on you i think

      also constructive criticism is fundamentally different than nagging

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      • #53
        Originally posted by mattst88 View Post
        It would be very interesting to see some subscriber and revenue numbers from LWN and Phoronix. I doubt we'll ever see that though.
        I will release Phoronix Premium subscriber numbers and at the moment it's only around 200, which is quite low in relation to everything else.
        Michael Larabel
        https://www.michaellarabel.com/

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        • #54
          Originally posted by Qaridarium
          i'm sure Microsoft lose the battle only because of this kind of regression testing.
          Microsoft's regression testing (and testing in general) is ridiculously well done compared to anything the Linux community has managed so far. They have entire teams of top-paid SDETs whose sole job is to design, build, and conduct tests with tools that are significantly more powerful than anything the FOSS community has available yet. There's a reason you don't see a lot of people complaining that something like Win7 SP1 screwed up their computers while it seems that every 6 months the Linux distros manage to fuck up something that worked in their previous release just fine despite hoards of testers (and their many eyes) using the distro's pre-release repos. MS has a very impressive and professional process; it's something to be emulated, not panned.

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          • #55
            Originally posted by elanthis View Post
            Microsoft's regression testing (and testing in general) is ridiculously well done compared to anything the Linux community has managed so far. (...) There's a reason you don't see a lot of people complaining that something like Win7 SP1 screwed up their computers.
            Whoehaha! Are you trolling or what?

            Win7 64bit SP1 screwed my CS4 bridge http://forums.adobe.com/message/3575134
            Windows 7 SP1 Screwed up my PC!!!! http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...7-166f6b0152da
            Windows 7 SP1 screwed my media pc. Blue screen every hour now http://amplicate.com/hate/sp1
            Am I screwed having just tried to install SP1 for Windows 7 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...0131709AAUhHUx
            My Windows 7 SP1 installation nightmare! http://www.w7forums.com/my-windows-7...re-t10303.html
            Service Pack 1 has screwed up Windows 7. Help! http://forum.notebookreview.com/wind...ws-7-help.html
            And this is just the tip of the iceberg. I could spam this forum for years with links to people complaining about problems they have with Windows 7.

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            • #56
              I find it interesting how Michael asks for a little help, then everyone ignores him and bitches.

              Here's the dmesg output you requested. Arch Linux, 2.6.39.1 with ck and bfq patches.

              Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

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              • #57
                Dein Deutsch ist aber keinesfalls fehlerfrei...

                Please stop those pointless language fights, they are completely off-topic.


                My gratitude for finding that regression, I could totally reproduce it using fedora 14/15 and scientific linux (with custom kernel).

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                • #58
                  Originally posted by Michael View Post
                  P.S. can anyone not running Ubuntu on Linux 2.6.38+ that thinks they're affected by the power regression paste their dmesg output?
                  Arch with linux 2.6.39: http://pastebin.com/jd1u7EpS

                  Thanks for your hard work, Michael!

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                  • #59
                    Originally posted by Qaridarium
                    German vs the Auto translator = FAIL
                    Can you translate this for me my German friend? Google fails me here...

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                    • #60
                      Michael's not doing anything wrong

                      He's under no obligation to go to the effort of finding any regressions at all. The reason he does so is money, which is the reason a lot of other people work on linux as well. So if he wants to maximize the revenue he can make, good for him. Every time he delays an article to maximize revenue he risks someone else coming along and scooping the story - if no one else is working on the problem or has figured it out, he can do whatever he wants.

                      Besides, lots of websites don't publish new articles during the weekend. They don't specifically mention that it's because they want higher ad revenue during the week, but I'm sure that's one of the reasons. Michael is just honest about it. And really, in the future he should stop that - all it ever does is bring up these arguments in the comments. No one would have said anything if he had just left it at "waiting to hear back from subsystem maintainer, will have news on Monday".

                      I would love more technical articles, interviews with developers, etc., but that's obviously not Michael's forte and the website is free. So none of us really have any right to complain - if you think the website sucks so much, just stop coming. That will reduce Michael's ad revenue anyway, which I'm sure is a much better way to incentivize him to change the website than complaining here.
                      Last edited by smitty3268; 26 June 2011, 06:14 PM.

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