>>2 is a /comp/utard >>3 achieved Satori >>4 doesn't understand SICP >>5 is Richard Stallman >>6 is Steve Ballmer >>7 is Steve Job >>8 is a macfag >>9 is a Cfag >>10 is a schemer >>11 is a C++ noob >>12 thinks tail recursion is useless >>13 is a /b/tard new to /prog/ >>14 is a web 2.0 faggot >>15 is a web developer >>16 is an enterprise whore >>17 is a codemonkey >>18-999 are EXPERT PROGRAMMERS
There are so many steps involved in tweaking the last uumph out of your linux system- and it really is a work of art to pull it off- I have used many different kernels and all sorts of optimization combinations-yesterday I finally used -noatime and -notail for my reiserfs file system: The single biggest performance boost I have yet to see-now I can have gnome2.2 running using gnome-terminal to compile the latest j2sdk from source (nice -n 19)while browsing with mozilla while running e17 in a seperate login with two eterms and run Unreal Tournament at full speed (this with an apache webserver running for my dyndns pseudo-domain and a mysql for my answering-machine software for my isdn card-which keeps track of all incomming phonecalls and manages my telephone book app and ntfsd/sshd/dhcp server/squid)...