I have read a document which tells me the following 4 things are done by the RAM embedded on disk driver controller. But I don't know what's difference between buffer and cache. Thanks!
RAM on disk drive controllers
1 firmware
2 speed matching buffer
3 prefetching buffer
4 cache (1 Reply)
Happy New Year!
There are currently four UNIX.COM achievement awards up for grabs, as the say. Here they are, in no particular order:
The Order of the Raven
The Order of the Hippo
The Order of the Spider
The Order of the Dragon
Don't ask me what they mean, or who who will get those... (0 Replies)
Dear All,
Here is the current status of the badging system:
The Beta 1 phase of the new badging system is close to completion.
42 prototype badges have been "allocated"
6 prototype badge slots are held in reserve
The "alert you have new badges" prototype is running and is currently... (4 Replies)
Here is the current array of the short description of badges for the new prototype badging system (Beta 1) with 42 icons allocated (prototype logic written) and 6 reserved (for future use);
<?php
$badges_desc = array(
"fauser" => "Total Post Count",
"faaward" => "First Post",
... (6 Replies)
Dear All,
We have a lot of amazing moderators and other very talented unix.com members who provide tireless top quality free technical support assistance to others. As a service to those long term unix.com members, I am making a new Patreon BBCODE badge available which can be posted in forum... (8 Replies)
Another major upgrade on the new UserCP today. I have created the "My Badges" page in the new control panel, and it's looking very cool :)
If you have visited the new UserCP recently, you will more-than-likely need to close your browser (completely) and then restart it to clear out the old... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gtimer
GTIMER(1) GTimer GTIMER(1)NAME
gtimer - an application for recording time spent on user-defined tasks.
SYNOPSIS
gtimer [-midnight offset] [-weekstart day] [-nosplash] [-resume] [-start task]
DESCRIPTION
GTimer allows the user to time one or more activities. Users define tasks that can be timed. Text annotations can also be added to tasks.
Reports can be generated that summarize time spent and annotations.
OPTIONS -midnight offset
Specify the offset of midnight to use. Users can allow time spent after midnight to be recorded for the previous day. For exam-
ple, the command
gtimer -midnight 400
will not consider everything 3:59AM the previous day.
-weekstart day
Specify which day of the week should be considered the beginning of the week when generating reports. day should be a number
between 0 and 6, where 0 is Sunday. For example, the command
gtimer -weekstart 1
will use Monday as the first day of the week for all weekly reports. The default is 0 (Sunday).
-resume Start timing any tasks that were still be timed when GTimer last exited.
-start taskname
Start timing the specified task immediately. This option can be used more than once on the command line. For example, you can
start a tasks with:
gtimer -start 'GTimer development'
-nosplash
Do not display the splash window on startup.
FILES
~/.gtimer/ data storage
SEE ALSO enscript(1), lpr(1)AUTHOR
Craig Knudsen <cknudsen@cknudsen.com> <http://www.cknudsen.com/>
GTimer WWW home page: <http://www.cknudsen.com/gtimer/>
GTimer Mar 19, 2003 GTIMER(1)