They may be cheap to develop, but if it involves using the Nintendo Wii store -- absolutely archaic interface and terribly slow even over a fast connection -- I will pass. I had some credits and tried to locate something worth buying... I didn't have the patience. Sorry.
In Red Hat systems, look in the/etc/pam.d folder. Interesting files there include "login", which can be thought of as a stack (or list) of rules determining which methods of authentication are allowed. In some versions of Fedora / RHEL you had to edit this to allow VNC login as root.
Like many things, when properly configured, it's like magic. When something is wrong, it can be a PIA to find the issue.
Hmmm. I just checked my old MySpace account and saw the list of friends was empty and I, too, was apparently "following" a bunch of people I despise. I canceled the account.
I did note that it won't let you cancel unless you select a reason why -- you get all the way to the last page but their "final" cancel button (the one that sends you the email which requires you to re-enter your email address and click once again to cancel) does NOTHING unless you selected a reason why earlier in the process.
A rooted Nook Color is $250. An iPad is $350. That's $100. Let's ignore the small difference in price and address the other issues first.
While it's commendable that you could write an Android app to solve a limitation, that's not for everyone. Too many things don't work or aren't available on Android right now compared to iPhone / iPad. It's unknown whether the existing Android devices, including the Nook Color, will be compatible or upgradable when the new apps arrive. For me, I have simple requirements that Android does not satisfy. Where is the Cisco client which works over IPSec? It does not exist for Android, so the Android-based tablet we tested won't work with our Cisco VPN routers. Where is Netflix? Since it was yanked, they're not even sure if Honeycomb devices will be able to run it. Where is the Android device management, the one which allows us to configure policy, integrate with our domain, or remote wipe the devices? Haven't seen it, unless you count the $7 per month plan from Sprint or you want to purchase some 3rd party app(s).
I work with systems and processes all day. When I get home I want to just relax and have stuff work, not fight with it. For $100 savings, maybe these things don't interest you, but if I'm justifying a purchase and the "full" version is only $100 more on a $250 purchase, I typically spend the $100. I don't have to root it, I don't have to spend time trying to get stuff to work with it. That gives me more time for whatever. Of course YMMV.
Perhaps you misread "demographic majority" as "democratic majority", I don't know. I don't see anything incendiary in that comment, or anything directly pertaining to politics.
The comment, in my interpretation, basically says "people who are offended at this have some experience with someone close to them (perhaps themselves) being teased/persecuted/discriminated against. These people [who don't understand why this would be hurtful] tend to be offended at other things, such as religious rights and gay marriage."
I could go further to say that people who are more tolerant of others do so with an understanding of the negative effects of intolerance. I think that's insightful.
For some non-zero use cases, the Apple iPad is the best available device. So long as this remains non-zero, some people will be buying it for those uses.
But the far more interesting question is, "Why does it matter if they just want it, rather than need it?". If there were limited supply, and owning one meant taking it away from someone who needed it, I could see your point.
And as far as your comment goes about paying anything for Apple products, so what? Apple attracts not just people who are attracted to the design, but also those who need a reliable piece of tech to fulfill a need. That's why it's news whenever there's a problem, it's unusual. It's not a news article when another commodity PC craps out, or when Windows bluescreens or reboots, but in the Apple world it's news. Until Apple products become as virus-prone, until the user experience drops to the non-Apple level, until the hardware becomes as troublesome as the rest of the market, Apple will remain on top. Some of us will pay for that.
Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see it anywhere. It's possible that the new Slashdot format has hidden something from me. Can you quote where this was said?
Where's the apps for that Nook Color? Where's the ecosystem? Far more important than the hardware itself are all the integrated things. Unfortunately it's very difficult for a latecomer to gather enough people to make that happen. I believe eventually Android will gather enough mass to get some of the kinks worked out... always good to have competition. But in the meantime it's still a bit of hit-and-miss.
The Xoom is too expensive right now, unless the whole point is to buy things that aren't Apple products. It will drop in price, or something will come along to replace it. One of the biggest strengths of Android is also one of its biggest weaknesses -- all those manufacturers jockeying for marketshare and competing with one another, increasing fragmentation and confusing customers.
For you maybe. But that's the great thing -- if you can make a device that fills a need (or addresses a want) for at least some people, and can sell them for more than their cost of manufacture, you can make money.
Chia pets aren't a need, yet they sell well. Big-screen TV's aren't a need but they sell well. Sportscars aren't a need but they sell well. The iPad fills a need or addresses a want for the people who are buying it. Is that so bad?
GP's post wasn't intended as a personal affront, but it seems you took it that way. Maybe when you grow older you will feel differently.
Personally, I winced when I saw TFS... one of those "what idiot approved this crap?" moments. Even if someone thought for a moment that this was humorous in some dark way, a night's sleep on it should have resulted in it dying quietly.
The Kensington Expert Mouse in general works very well. It is extremely accurate, the ball is easy to remove, the ball socket and insides are easy to clean, and the software is pretty good. The weight of the ball is nice too -- not too light, not too heavy. I've had 2 of them and used them off-and-on since the mid 90's (the top of the rubber scroll wheel eventually disintegrated after 5 or 6 years of finger friction). It's built well.
The bad? I find that after prolonged use I have to switch it out with something that has less of an angle, and I've tried various things as shims. I'd prefer the angle to be adjustable or even flat. I've gone so far as to turn it 180 degrees (reversed) to see if that worked... it's close.
Well color me surprised. Just for fun, type "Florian Mueller Microsoft" into your search engine of choice and read some of the results from the first page. This guy pretends to be a friend of Open Source, but his actions speak otherwise. I would be ashamed, after taking money from Red Hat, to be writing articles attempting to cause them grief.
I bought an RND-2000 and 2 fairly slow 2TB drives (5900 rpm for less noise) since it was to be installed in my bedroom. I got the whole thing shipped with 2 drives for around $430
Software-wise it's fairly nice, with support for Time Machine, AFP, CIFS etc and works great for any single task. But ask it to do more than 1 task and it just doesn't have the horsepower -- for instance copying a large file and trying to play a song causes the song playback to be delayed. If you're using an iPad to stream music or video that also works fine -- unless there's a Time Machine backup going. Then you are delayed; you can't even navigate to different folders from the iDevice. The RISC chip used in the RND-2000 is just soooo slow. Although I can ssh to it (a big plus when the AFP goes nuts and I can no longer delete folders with strange names) and even use rsync on it, it's substantially faster to mount the drive and run rsync from my Mac... this thing is really CPU-bound.
The good news is that while it's copying a file, it gets around 2GB/minute with journaling disabled, jumbo frames turned on, over a GbE network which is pretty good. I know the next model up is around $1000 but I would probably go with the upgrade unless it's truly something you want to use as a single person and don't need simultaneous stuff going on.
Flash on Mac is a dog... the temps go way up causing the fans spin up noisily, and the browser actually stutters. You can almost feel it straining. Nothing else I run causes this behavior; it's immediate as soon as you wander over to a page using Flash (AutoCAD under DOSBox, XP under Parallels, OpenOffice / LibreOffice, Gimp, Thunderbird, iPhoto / iLife '09, iTunes, X11 etc -- as well as all kinds of other web content and other sites all work fine without the high temps or fans kicking in).
It's a mutually beneficial decision... Apple's decision to disallow Flash becomes a moot point, and Adobe gets an excuse to create another tool to sell. The end-users don't care what it's called so long as it works on all their devices.
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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/ is helpful -- I printed and older version of it 2-up and duplexed it, then comb-bound it. It's been very handy.
Yes.
Please don't wish another Bush on us. Or a Palin. Or a Cheney.
+1 Female
Condolences to Miss Piggy. I bet she will be devastated by the news.
They may be cheap to develop, but if it involves using the Nintendo Wii store -- absolutely archaic interface and terribly slow even over a fast connection -- I will pass. I had some credits and tried to locate something worth buying... I didn't have the patience. Sorry.
In Red Hat systems, look in the /etc/pam.d folder. Interesting files there include "login", which can be thought of as a stack (or list) of rules determining which methods of authentication are allowed. In some versions of Fedora / RHEL you had to edit this to allow VNC login as root.
Like many things, when properly configured, it's like magic. When something is wrong, it can be a PIA to find the issue.
+1 Insightful.
Troll? Really? A Bob Marley lyric? I believe it's Redemption Song.
Hmmm. I just checked my old MySpace account and saw the list of friends was empty and I, too, was apparently "following" a bunch of people I despise. I canceled the account.
I did note that it won't let you cancel unless you select a reason why -- you get all the way to the last page but their "final" cancel button (the one that sends you the email which requires you to re-enter your email address and click once again to cancel) does NOTHING unless you selected a reason why earlier in the process.
Right-clicking on the arrow does the same.
A rooted Nook Color is $250. An iPad is $350. That's $100. Let's ignore the small difference in price and address the other issues first.
While it's commendable that you could write an Android app to solve a limitation, that's not for everyone. Too many things don't work or aren't available on Android right now compared to iPhone / iPad. It's unknown whether the existing Android devices, including the Nook Color, will be compatible or upgradable when the new apps arrive. For me, I have simple requirements that Android does not satisfy. Where is the Cisco client which works over IPSec? It does not exist for Android, so the Android-based tablet we tested won't work with our Cisco VPN routers. Where is Netflix? Since it was yanked, they're not even sure if Honeycomb devices will be able to run it. Where is the Android device management, the one which allows us to configure policy, integrate with our domain, or remote wipe the devices? Haven't seen it, unless you count the $7 per month plan from Sprint or you want to purchase some 3rd party app(s).
I work with systems and processes all day. When I get home I want to just relax and have stuff work, not fight with it. For $100 savings, maybe these things don't interest you, but if I'm justifying a purchase and the "full" version is only $100 more on a $250 purchase, I typically spend the $100. I don't have to root it, I don't have to spend time trying to get stuff to work with it. That gives me more time for whatever. Of course YMMV.
Perhaps you misread "demographic majority" as "democratic majority", I don't know. I don't see anything incendiary in that comment, or anything directly pertaining to politics.
The comment, in my interpretation, basically says "people who are offended at this have some experience with someone close to them (perhaps themselves) being teased/persecuted/discriminated against. These people [who don't understand why this would be hurtful] tend to be offended at other things, such as religious rights and gay marriage."
I could go further to say that people who are more tolerant of others do so with an understanding of the negative effects of intolerance. I think that's insightful.
For some non-zero use cases, the Apple iPad is the best available device. So long as this remains non-zero, some people will be buying it for those uses.
But the far more interesting question is, "Why does it matter if they just want it, rather than need it?". If there were limited supply, and owning one meant taking it away from someone who needed it, I could see your point.
And as far as your comment goes about paying anything for Apple products, so what? Apple attracts not just people who are attracted to the design, but also those who need a reliable piece of tech to fulfill a need. That's why it's news whenever there's a problem, it's unusual. It's not a news article when another commodity PC craps out, or when Windows bluescreens or reboots, but in the Apple world it's news. Until Apple products become as virus-prone, until the user experience drops to the non-Apple level, until the hardware becomes as troublesome as the rest of the market, Apple will remain on top. Some of us will pay for that.
Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see it anywhere. It's possible that the new Slashdot format has hidden something from me. Can you quote where this was said?
Where's the apps for that Nook Color? Where's the ecosystem? Far more important than the hardware itself are all the integrated things. Unfortunately it's very difficult for a latecomer to gather enough people to make that happen. I believe eventually Android will gather enough mass to get some of the kinks worked out... always good to have competition. But in the meantime it's still a bit of hit-and-miss.
The Xoom is too expensive right now, unless the whole point is to buy things that aren't Apple products. It will drop in price, or something will come along to replace it. One of the biggest strengths of Android is also one of its biggest weaknesses -- all those manufacturers jockeying for marketshare and competing with one another, increasing fragmentation and confusing customers.
For you maybe. But that's the great thing -- if you can make a device that fills a need (or addresses a want) for at least some people, and can sell them for more than their cost of manufacture, you can make money.
Chia pets aren't a need, yet they sell well. Big-screen TV's aren't a need but they sell well. Sportscars aren't a need but they sell well. The iPad fills a need or addresses a want for the people who are buying it. Is that so bad?
...there's really no reason for people to have one other than "I want it.
Sure there is. "It's convenient and I can afford it" works very well for most of us.
GP's post wasn't intended as a personal affront, but it seems you took it that way. Maybe when you grow older you will feel differently.
Personally, I winced when I saw TFS... one of those "what idiot approved this crap?" moments. Even if someone thought for a moment that this was humorous in some dark way, a night's sleep on it should have resulted in it dying quietly.
The Kensington Expert Mouse in general works very well. It is extremely accurate, the ball is easy to remove, the ball socket and insides are easy to clean, and the software is pretty good. The weight of the ball is nice too -- not too light, not too heavy. I've had 2 of them and used them off-and-on since the mid 90's (the top of the rubber scroll wheel eventually disintegrated after 5 or 6 years of finger friction). It's built well.
The bad? I find that after prolonged use I have to switch it out with something that has less of an angle, and I've tried various things as shims. I'd prefer the angle to be adjustable or even flat. I've gone so far as to turn it 180 degrees (reversed) to see if that worked... it's close.
Well color me surprised. Just for fun, type "Florian Mueller Microsoft" into your search engine of choice and read some of the results from the first page. This guy pretends to be a friend of Open Source, but his actions speak otherwise. I would be ashamed, after taking money from Red Hat, to be writing articles attempting to cause them grief.
Works on iPad. Good stuff, cleverly done!
I bought an RND-2000 and 2 fairly slow 2TB drives (5900 rpm for less noise) since it was to be installed in my bedroom. I got the whole thing shipped with 2 drives for around $430
Software-wise it's fairly nice, with support for Time Machine, AFP, CIFS etc and works great for any single task. But ask it to do more than 1 task and it just doesn't have the horsepower -- for instance copying a large file and trying to play a song causes the song playback to be delayed. If you're using an iPad to stream music or video that also works fine -- unless there's a Time Machine backup going. Then you are delayed; you can't even navigate to different folders from the iDevice. The RISC chip used in the RND-2000 is just soooo slow. Although I can ssh to it (a big plus when the AFP goes nuts and I can no longer delete folders with strange names) and even use rsync on it, it's substantially faster to mount the drive and run rsync from my Mac... this thing is really CPU-bound.
The good news is that while it's copying a file, it gets around 2GB/minute with journaling disabled, jumbo frames turned on, over a GbE network which is pretty good. I know the next model up is around $1000 but I would probably go with the upgrade unless it's truly something you want to use as a single person and don't need simultaneous stuff going on.
Flash on Mac is a dog... the temps go way up causing the fans spin up noisily, and the browser actually stutters. You can almost feel it straining. Nothing else I run causes this behavior; it's immediate as soon as you wander over to a page using Flash (AutoCAD under DOSBox, XP under Parallels, OpenOffice / LibreOffice, Gimp, Thunderbird, iPhoto / iLife '09, iTunes, X11 etc -- as well as all kinds of other web content and other sites all work fine without the high temps or fans kicking in).
It's a mutually beneficial decision... Apple's decision to disallow Flash becomes a moot point, and Adobe gets an excuse to create another tool to sell. The end-users don't care what it's called so long as it works on all their devices.