There's a very interesting comparison between libumem (mtmalloc) and Hoard at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-d... (HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755621). How do you view this class of allocators to tcmalloc, jemalloc, ptmalloc3, etc., specially in the concurrent multi-cpu scenario?

Here's what I'll be reading on allocators tonight, any further suggestions (following all the links in comments is part of the deal)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_dynamic_memory_allocation

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scalable-...

http://locklessinc.com/benchmarks_allocator.shtml

http://blog.reverberate.org/2009/02/20/one-malloc-to-rule-th...

See also: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/03/the-end-...

In the general case, Dropbox benefits from unused (but paid for) capacity, while users want a fixed price, even if they're overpaying (compared to use). For some products, pay-as-you-use seems better and more attractive, but Dropbox wants simplicity and ubiquity, so I don't think that model would be better for them.

See http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/18/the-truth-about-oversel... for a related discussion.

sorry, I meant as i new product for advanced people, dropbox should not do it, that would be stupid.

I just miss a service, where I pay for what i use, and I would then hear if hackers also wanted that? or they where just fine with dropbox two packages :)

TSA has a recent blog post[1] about how that is a myth, where people keep mentioning that it has happened before (maybe not to armed soldiers).

[1] http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/tsa-taking-nail-clippers-from-so...

Great way to sum it up, by that measure I'm a clear introvert. That doesn't mean shy, quiet in gatherings or even unhappy in company of others, but group time is exhausting and alone time is, as you say, recharge time.

Should I edit to "Ubuntu may break virtual terminals on some graphic cards" to better reflect content or leave the original title?

I suggest you check the Extended Support Release, tailored for your usecase: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

For some context:

https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozill...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise

AFAIK, Unladen was a 20% project for a couple (less than 5) Googlers, running without any corporate support beyond the 20% system.

See http://webtide.intalio.com/2012/03/jetty-spdy-is-joining-the... for a hyperbolic endorsement.

To sum it up, clients (SPDY enabled by default in FF13 and already in Chrome) and servers (Apache, nginx, Jetty, node, Google sites) are becoming available, some niches (mobile, high latency) are bound to benefit a lot and it's a good (better?) solution for the general case.

I would guess they did and that they were probably selected. It's just that the list is still incomplete (180 orgs selected, displaying less than 100 as of right now).