mnathani: xmonad is a tiling wm, which means (broadly speaking) windows equally share screen space maximally. ex: if you have 4 windows open, they all take up 1/4 of the screen. And some people prefer that (like me, at least on *nix systems. I just don't like it on Winders and OSX) how does xmonad compare to ion? Hello? hi. .. RUDE AND RUDE. heh double xp weekend for members in planetside = lots of new targets to kill i was annoying high BR VS and TR players w/my reset NC character, capndelicious yeah killed a couple BR100 MLG idiot pilots with a stock reaver w/airhammer (reaver shotgun) and got rage tells from them :) i was wondering why i seemed to have suddenly gotten better, turns out a lot of lower BRs muahaha but yeah i should try piloting again repairing maxes all day gets old yeah i get really tired of support stuff after a while. i gave up on squad/platoon stuff for a long time because it turns into REPAIR/HEAL ME NAOOOO i need a gun with a lower recoil than the one I have currently i wish the corvus was available for VS engineers that thing has absurdly manageable recoil and is pinpoint accurate https://www.planetside2.com/players/#!/5428013610399066945/ man i need to play more only BR16 :( geez, i need to play less haha almost 17 mercutio: There's a certain amount of functional overlap in all tiling wm's... I wouldn't say one is better than the other though, it all depends on your usage. Give 'em all a try and see what fits you best. The big ones I know of are awesomewm (my current preference), xmonad (my previous preference, but I didn't like Haskell and awesome was being talked up quite a bit), i3 (pretty cool, but its global tagging didn't work well for me with multiple monitors) There are plenty of others too, but I can't think of their names (I want to say spectrwm and stumpwm too, but can't recall of those are real and tiling) I use i3wm (another tiling wm) now, after phlux in here mentioned it. :) heh… my friend texted "OTW ETA TEN" (on the way in ten minutes), and I replied "OMG WTF BBQ". Apparently he was unfamiliar with the meme. lol brycec: i've only tried ion and awesome but been using ion since 2001... i kind of want to try subtle when i tried googling gah, weechat keeps wigging out and drawing weird it's like split at the 2/3 mark, and the whole right side of my terminal is filled with |............ tmux does that sometimes oh, ok, so it's tmux? are you using tmux? yep try resizing it slightly? yeah, if there are two windows to the same session, it can only paint the smallest window so maybe you have it open twice? that's gotta be it yeah oh what randal said makes more sense i do, on my workstation yup now i know - small window open on my windows box upstairs haha heh i've had some kind of screen corruption with weechat too terminal on my mac is screen width and drops down like the console in quake yeah, i had corruption w/weechat and i resolved it with /window refresh yeah, I'm really liking tmux never go back to scren screen too was just gonna try the steam streaming thing on my mac (from my pc) just to check it out finally got all my ports rebuilt in poudriere nice - resolved the python thing? yeah, now I just have to find a time to uninstall all the existing packages, and reinstall the new ones RandalSchwartz: mosh + tmux + weechat = pure joy. most + tmux + emacs :) mosh there is just something amazing about being able to establish an ssh session, travelling between various networks with different IP's, different latencies, etc.. and never haing to re-establish the SSH session. just open up my laptop, and I'm instantly back in my session. yeah… mosh is cool I have clients in alaska, with 1700ms round trip times, and 70% packet loss. mosh isn't cool.. its a necessity ;) especially with --predict=experimental lol sounds like when I'm on a cruise ship 800 ms ping it took me a bit of time to get used to the vi/vim visual artifact oddities with teh experimental prediction, but now it's second nature. @google mosh 1,150,000 total results returned for 'mosh', here's 3 Mosh: the mobile shell (http://mosh.mit.edu/) Mosh automatically roams as you move between Internet connections. Use Wi-Fi on the train, Ethernet in a hotel, and LTE on a beach: you'll stay logged in. Mosh (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosh_(software)) In computing, Mosh (mobile shell) is a tool used to connect from a client computer to a server over the Internet, to run a remote terminal. Mosh is similar to SSH, ... Urban Dictionary: Mosh (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mosh) To mosh: A way of expressing yourself at an mental rock/punk concert. Almost always done in a "pit" with extremely cool people who you don't even k... So it's just like what, buffered screen over ssh? No though I'm having trouble explaining what it *is* but "screen" isn't part of it It's just a more reliable transport for high-latency/loss links It uses SSH to connect and authenticate with the remote host, then uses its mosh protocol (UDP) to transfer encrypted data In addition to a more resilient protocol, it features "prediction" for the client eg. rather than waiting for the 'g' you just typed to be drawn by the far-side, it draws the 'g' itself and it will update it once the far-end does. Was it a US holiday today/yesterday? Yes yes yup memorial day whats a good *nix utility that can copy a bunch of small files using multiple threads? @google "copy multiple files using multiple threads linux" 0 total results returned for '"copy multiple files using multiple threads linux"', here's 0 @google copy multiple files using multiple threads linux 946,000 total results returned for 'copy multiple files using multiple threads linux', here's 3 Copy-on-write - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write) Copy-on-write stems from the understanding that when multiple separate tasks use ... When there are many separate processes all using the same resource it is ... Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service or file systems such as btrfs in Linux. pysendfile - A Python interface to sendfile(2) syscall - Google Project ... (http://code.google.com/p/pysendfile/) sendfile(2) is a system call which provides a "zero-copy" way of copying data from one ... This is particularly useful when sending a file over a socket (e.g. FTP). ... These are the results I get on my Linux 2.6.38 box, AMD dual-core 1.6 GHz: ... files support; Mac OSX; Sun OS; FreeBSD flag argument; multiple threads ( release . Thread-local storage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread-local_storage) This is sometimes needed because normally all threads in a process share the same ... local to threads, because each thread has its own stack, residing in a different memory location. ... Each thread has its own copy of the thread-local storage table. ... Namespace level (global) variables; File static variables; Function static ... Why would you want that? Recursively copy files from one disk to another yeah, what is up with the multi thread req? My use case is a windows box that needs to be backed up before it can be re-formatted normally I boot into a live linux disk and simply scp or tar the files to another location but this time I came across a machine with around 350 GB of files small and large and cp took almost 4 hours to complete to another local disk Threading would make it slower, if anything. ^^ Easy to test - run several cp's concurrently, each handling a different subdirectory (or rsync, or tar|tar...) would multiple instances of an ftp client work, each set to skip if the file exists? all the ftp clients set to upload the same directory to the same server They'd probably run all over one another mnathani: What is the bottleneck in your use case? (eg: they'd all say "XYZ doesn't exist" at the same) the single thread or process working on an individual file, one by one It's not i/o? CaZe: not i/o if I was doing like one large file, more likely to hit i/o limit but 100,000 small files like few kb not so much