I own a ReadyNAS Duo. While it has Gigabit network, my drives have a throughput of 30MBytes/s (which I find ridiculous since my much older and cheaper laptop disk is twice as fast). So regardless of the network throughput the internal slowness of (I guess) the motherboard will already hold you out.
Some other comments: PROS: At least until the last OS iteration from Netgear they used a Debian based system. So you could just use apt to get new stuff installed. The Netgear forums are busy and provide useful answers to questions. The Duo specifically is small and silent, and was therefore approved by the girlfriend. Can be programmed to turn/off on specific time periods of the day, which is ideal for a home file server.
CONS: The processor (sparc arch) is quite slow. The Debian dist they are based on is "sarge" (not maintained anymore), you can't upgrade the system (with another Debian system), and their own ReadyNas software is installed in a subsystem so changing its options through the command line remotely with ssh is not straightforward.
Jesus fucking Christ indeed! I mean when will the grammar nazis here become aware that not everybody in the Internet speaks English as their first language?
I think the point was that Sun could easily sell solutions with MySQL without buying the company. So in essence they spent $1 billion on the name.
I believe that part of the purpose of a buyout such as that is to also get hold of the developers.
I am not saying that the whole deal was worth 1 billion, but you have to take the "getting the core developers to be on our boat" into account as well.
WTF? I make a comment about how an article about science (in this case archeology) only seems to get people interested in arguing about religion, and that gets moded troll?
How I am trolling by asking for suggestions of more science oriented forums?
Is it trolling to express lack of interest in off-topic discussions?
I understand that the job of the moderation system is to keep the good posts visible, and off-topic, flame stuff down.
Still science posts are often the hallmark of how this system doens't work. News on science, people only talk about religion. How the bible this and that....
Does anyone has recommendations of better science news forums? Where you know, people actually focus on Science?
Though one could argue that in this case, you can make informed shopping of quality bricks. So I guess, this is not directly what the linked article relates to, but more like expensive big iron main frame computers, which most people don't actually need, so most people don't actually pay for it.
That bug report also applies to fresh installs. If you read the whole thing (which is fairly long, I know); you will see that the problem also hits new installs and different file systems.
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Disk access has been slowing everything down.
Variable elimination has been done, to varying extent, by multiple people here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094
Many here without any specific knowledge of problem are giving it 10 seconds thought, waving hands and saying that the article is a flamebait.
Being a Ubuntu user since Feisty, I believe that the article is spot on. The reason I say this is because there is a huge problem with desktop responsiveness, and it started after Feisty:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094
This is NOT the plausible small hit due to increase in hardware support. The problem reported by so many on that bug report above is about having a modern system hanging for 1 or 2 seconds (or more), for operations that were "instantaneous" on Feisty.
FWIW, in the LWN comments about 8.10 there is yet another person mentioning the same issue: problems with kernels after Feisty http://lwn.net/Articles/304710/
The UK has a higher proportion of its population in relative low income than most other EU countries: of the 27 EU countries, only 5 have a higher rate than the UK. The proportion of people living in relative low income in the UK is twice that of the Netherlands and one-and-a-half times that of both France and Germany
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So? Download and build your own kernel..
Or get Windows or Mac and never have to hear that.
I bet you buy your LEGO preassembled too.
I bet he bought his TV and refrigerator preassembled too.
(don't flame me bro, I also use Linux all the time, but you asked for it;-))
Right now the ONLY logical reasons to move to a Linux based PC is 1) cost and 2) boot time when run in minimalist mode. Otherwise an XP machine is far better for the availability of apps and consistency of experience.
Linux will actually work if installed on a SSD storage?
It took me some time to (re)find this link... This people will serve you Gutenberg project texts on a series of specific formats (or custom created PDFs or HTML). To the best of my knowledge, there is no other site like this.
Pick a book. On the right side, you will find a button free download and some 500 formating choices (many custom, many gadget-specific).
PS I have no relation whatsoever with manybooks, but I was horrified that it took me so long to find them again at Google).
I'd say that IMHO you don't sound like you know what you are talking about. You are talking about some hypothetical eReader, we are talking about the reading experience actually provided by them (software + hardware)
How many inches did your 800x600 monitor had?
These readers have 6 inches screens. Not only that,
you don't have the same freedom of zooming into the text that an old pc would give you
you don't have the same page navigation ease that a pc with a mouse or arrow buttons give you.
You can rotate the screen but often enough you can't just scroll left or right to center the text in the display. You can't scroll at many file format displays.
Please, mod parent "UN"informative.
I have a Hanlin eReader and reading PDFs which were not specifically produced for its screen size AND screen resolution is a RPITA.
The GP question is spot on: there is a lot of interesting content on the web that I would like to read comfortably in my Hanlin.
However, if you can only get said content as PDF you really need something like pdfcrop.pl.
If you can recreate the PDF, use bitstream-charter fonts as these were made to be used in low resolution devices.
When I insert a DVD on Windows XP, there is no "left button" menu option "Rip Media to disk".
Neither in Ubunt^H^H^H^H^H Linux.
Any motivated person with plausible computer skills can do it, but the vast and absolute majority of users cannot. Besides you would still have to hook up the computer (or some media streamer to the big TV).
I also (respectfully) disagree with the ease of downloading. It really depends about who you are thinking about. Due to media pressure a lot of intelligent people (who use computers everyday at work) think that P2P is some forum infested by child pornographers and are afraid of getting close to it.
4. Lastly but most importantly -- there is no "problem".
Various candidates for the problem to which id cards are the solution have been proposed and they have
all been found wanting.
Very nice post. But I disagree on a minor thing with it. When you said there is no problem, you should have said there is no "justification". IMHO the "problem" that they are trying to solve is "lack of total control over population", and as such it exists.
In my country we had paper ID cards with fingerprint printed on it. Now we have smard cards and the fingerprint is in a file inside chip, and it's not readable. So, it's actually improving privacy, not making it less.
A scanned copy is still a bit-map image of the document, which will be much harder to use in forgeries. A digital copy would be a perfect copy, ready to be burned on another chip. And should be much faster to copy.
Once somebody has a device that circumvents the built in copy protection (have you ever heard of "copy protection" that truly prevents copying?), anyone handling your ID will be able to make a copy of the fingerprints, perhaps even wirelessly.
The clerk at the hotel will only have to have it in his hands for some seconds to pass your ID into his unofficial reader.
Don't confuse system administration with user experience.
I thought that what the GP was describing was exactly the user experience. From the user point of view the layer at which the problem lies is absolutely irrelevant.
If you want to talk about the programming merits of the Gnome devs, you should break things into layers and look at the layer that Gnome occupies. if you want to talk about user experience, well, do as the GP and look at what the user gets by using all the layers put together.
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Some other comments:
PROS: At least until the last OS iteration from Netgear they used a Debian based system. So you could just use apt to get new stuff installed. The Netgear forums are busy and provide useful answers to questions. The Duo specifically is small and silent, and was therefore approved by the girlfriend. Can be programmed to turn/off on specific time periods of the day, which is ideal for a home file server.
CONS: The processor (sparc arch) is quite slow. The Debian dist they are based on is "sarge" (not maintained anymore), you can't upgrade the system (with another Debian system), and their own ReadyNas software is installed in a subsystem so changing its options through the command line remotely with ssh is not straightforward.
Jesus fucking Christ indeed! I mean when will the grammar nazis here become aware that not everybody in the Internet speaks English as their first language?
It is not. The Firefox logo is not free. Thus, any software that includes that logo is non-free also, and Debian developers know it very well
What about software whose documentation is not "Free"? Like the GNU project documentation?
What do you say about that? Where is my "unconstrained right to learn, and to change the docs as I see fit"?
I mention that since Debian folks at least have the consistency of also considering that also as "non-Free'.
I think the point was that Sun could easily sell solutions with MySQL without buying the company. So in essence they spent $1 billion on the name.
I believe that part of the purpose of a buyout such as that is to also get hold of the developers.
I am not saying that the whole deal was worth 1 billion, but you have to take the "getting the core developers to be on our boat" into account as well.
How I am trolling by asking for suggestions of more science oriented forums?
Is it trolling to express lack of interest in off-topic discussions?
Still science posts are often the hallmark of how this system doens't work. News on science, people only talk about religion. How the bible this and that....
Does anyone has recommendations of better science news forums? Where you know, people actually focus on Science?
Though one could argue that in this case, you can make informed shopping of quality bricks. So I guess, this is not directly what the linked article relates to, but more like expensive big iron main frame computers, which most people don't actually need, so most people don't actually pay for it.
KLM, from the Netherlands, uses Linux for in-flight entertainment too.
[Asus' phone] will roll out sometime in the first half of 2009 (we're guessing late first half),
Open ink pot has released the first "free" Linux firmware to run on e-readers:
http://openinkpot.org/
That bug report also applies to fresh installs. If you read the whole thing (which is fairly long, I know); you will see that the problem also hits new installs and different file systems.
Disk access has been slowing everything down.
Variable elimination has been done, to varying extent, by multiple people here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094
Thw slow down since Feisty I am aware of has nothing to do with desktop environment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094
Being a Ubuntu user since Feisty, I believe that the article is spot on. The reason I say this is because there is a huge problem with desktop responsiveness, and it started after Feisty: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094
This is NOT the plausible small hit due to increase in hardware support. The problem reported by so many on that bug report above is about having a modern system hanging for 1 or 2 seconds (or more), for operations that were "instantaneous" on Feisty.
FWIW, in the LWN comments about 8.10 there is yet another person mentioning the same issue: problems with kernels after Feisty http://lwn.net/Articles/304710/
The UK has a higher proportion of its population in relative low income than most other EU countries: of the 27 EU countries, only 5 have a higher rate than the UK. The proportion of people living in relative low income in the UK is twice that of the Netherlands and one-and-a-half times that of both France and Germany
So? Download and build your own kernel..
Or get Windows or Mac and never have to hear that.
I bet you buy your LEGO preassembled too.
I bet he bought his TV and refrigerator preassembled too.
(don't flame me bro, I also use Linux all the time, but you asked for it ;-))
The problem of "voting" in France is about the same size as voting in the state of Sao Paulo.
Right now the ONLY logical reasons to move to a Linux based PC is 1) cost and 2) boot time when run in minimalist mode. Otherwise an XP machine is far better for the availability of apps and consistency of experience.
Linux will actually work if installed on a SSD storage?
This people will serve you Gutenberg project texts on a series of specific formats (or custom created PDFs or HTML). To the best of my knowledge, there is no other site like this.
manybooks
Pick a book. On the right side, you will find a button free download and some 500 formating choices (many custom, many gadget-specific).
PS I have no relation whatsoever with manybooks, but I was horrified that it took me so long to find them again at Google).
How many inches did your 800x600 monitor had?
These readers have 6 inches screens. Not only that,
You can rotate the screen but often enough you can't just scroll left or right to center the text in the display. You can't scroll at many file format displays.
I have a Hanlin eReader and reading PDFs which were not specifically produced for its screen size AND screen resolution is a RPITA.
The GP question is spot on: there is a lot of interesting content on the web that I would like to read comfortably in my Hanlin.
When I insert a DVD on Windows XP, there is no "left button" menu option "Rip Media to disk".
Neither in Ubunt^H^H^H^H^H Linux.
Any motivated person with plausible computer skills can do it, but the vast and absolute majority of users cannot. Besides you would still have to hook up the computer (or some media streamer to the big TV).
I also (respectfully) disagree with the ease of downloading. It really depends about who you are thinking about. Due to media pressure a lot of intelligent people (who use computers everyday at work) think that P2P is some forum infested by child pornographers and are afraid of getting close to it.
4. Lastly but most importantly -- there is no "problem". Various candidates for the problem to which id cards are the solution have been proposed and they have all been found wanting.
Very nice post. But I disagree on a minor thing with it. When you said there is no problem, you should have said there is no "justification". IMHO the "problem" that they are trying to solve is "lack of total control over population", and as such it exists.
BTW, a good movie to watch about the UK is Taking Liberties.
In my country we had paper ID cards with fingerprint printed on it. Now we have smard cards and the fingerprint is in a file inside chip, and it's not readable. So, it's actually improving privacy, not making it less.
A scanned copy is still a bit-map image of the document, which will be much harder to use in forgeries. A digital copy would be a perfect copy, ready to be burned on another chip. And should be much faster to copy.
Once somebody has a device that circumvents the built in copy protection (have you ever heard of "copy protection" that truly prevents copying?), anyone handling your ID will be able to make a copy of the fingerprints, perhaps even wirelessly.
The clerk at the hotel will only have to have it in his hands for some seconds to pass your ID into his unofficial reader.
Don't confuse system administration with user experience.
I thought that what the GP was describing was exactly the user experience. From the user point of view the layer at which the problem lies is absolutely irrelevant.
If you want to talk about the programming merits of the Gnome devs, you should break things into layers and look at the layer that Gnome occupies. if you want to talk about user experience, well, do as the GP and look at what the user gets by using all the layers put together.