I thought it might be something like this for the Apple press crowd. Coming up to schristmas - new stuff - umm, well we got the 27" iMac, I mean who would have guessed that Apple would just keep making their flagship all-in-one bigger? and, um, some new CPUs. Oh, and may be a new tablet! Yes lets write about that! Afterall we can print 10 stories that contadict one another and it doesnt matter! And it gets eyeballs on our ads!
For me, I'm happy using the tablet I bought 4 years ago. What am I expecting from a new tablet? Everything my current HP TC4400 can do, but smaller, lighter, and better batterylife please. What is my use for a tablet - mobile coms and remote desktop console, note taking, and control console for switches when I actually have to go and visit them in a riser. It can run Windows 7, Linux, and at a pinch OS X - but wifi doesnt work on that, have to add a card. I can replace the HDD and memory to keep this aging clunker going along, and surprisingly, Windows 7 gave this a whole new lease of life. XP Tablet was crap, Vista was far too slow, now Linux and Win7 sit happily side by side - Linux boots slightly faster, but the crappy performance of the intel propriatary GMA950 video drivers in linux mean WIn7 feels a little better generally, but is missing many of the tools I use daily.
So I hope if Apple make a tablet, it is more like the modbook rather than a super-sized iPhone, but I bet I'm going to be dissapointed on that one.
Most of this I actually thought of as "Security Theater" Make people think they are being monitored and it stops the casual or accidental leak of information. Nothing to stop a "Trusted" employee signing out a document and walking away with it though.
I have worked at an office, I cant say where, but they had demagnetizers at the dor for nuking magnetic media, Cellphones and USB keys are banned. There is no white paper anywhere, only yellow coloured paper which the copiers scan as black. The desktop PCs are terminals with no USB posts accessable to the users, and the terminal software wont pass through a prtscreen key to windows. Some apps are even escured against having the clipboard work between it and any other app running in the session to prevent copy and pasting between apps. The only printers and copiers are in public locations, and require swipecards to login to copy or retrieve print jobs, images of the first pages are archived for every print and copy job.
Then there was the secure office where I wasnt even allowed to service PCs' If one broke or they had a problem, the PC would be left outside the door with the HDD removed, they imaged and ran their own desktop, and their network is isolated from the general LAN, no internet access from that office.
Man, what a bi*&ch of a place to work. Glad I only did occasional support there.
Run windows programs and windows malware. I'm happy, nearly all of the apps I use I've picked becuase they wrok in most major OSs. The only compromises I have made is EyeTV on my Mac, this is jsut the best PVR software you can get for $2000 that only takes 20 minutes to set up, and Visio in Windows as I have not found another drawing app that does exactly what Visio does with as many free objects and image libraries for documenting networks, flow charts etc. But that is just me. Ther might be people for which dealing with an open souce implimentation of Windows APIs is more fun than simply downloading a pirated copy of XP. But it cant be theft if you cant buy the product anymore is it?
Ive been using Handbrake just to make rips that will play properly on my iPhone, and my XBMC without lots of different versios. I've stopped encoding in DivX, but the fires are large for the same quality. Worse for downloads, but better portability for the devices I have, supports chapter marks, subtitles etc.
In my opionion, using reliable equipment means I have to work less frequently at 3:00am when something screws up or dies. The Cisco routers we use arn't cheap, but they are scaleble, run a familiar OS and integrate well with our security systems and monitoring, and they are basicly plug and play - we have config and complaince template, new ger is deployed, config uploaded to the router and that's it. Just rack it and plug in the cables.
Much less sweat than dealing with configuring a linux router from scratch.
I agree. If the content I could buy was free of DRM, I would do so. iTunes and Apple have made money off me this year with DRM free tracks. I bought none while they were locked down.
Applying for job as "Windows Evangelist" for a company offering Windows based solutions, Microsoft partner - and have a.mac account. 8) That might count against you.
Psystar had no respect for Apples intellectual property, why do you think they had hany interest in supporting you? After they were killed by the courts, who did you think would keep their systems operating? The magic IT fairies? Psystar were just ripping off other open EFI emulators anyway. Search around, there are plenty of legit free ones, not stolen copies like Psystar were shipping.
I've got a netbook that I can use for mail, calendar, websurfing, some games, has a touch screen, wifi, 3G cellular data, 16GB of local storage, I can place voice phone calls over cell when roaming, VoIP calls when I have wifi, batterly lasts most of the day, runs Unix and cost me less than NZ$600 - Apple just call it an iPhone though, not a netbook.
With all thee devices, what you then need is some way to synchonise all the data. For me, My Mail is GMail, accessed with IMAP on local mail clients, calendars sych via iCal, bookmarks sych between firefox, safari and IE at home, on my mac and wifes PC, and on my work netbook and laptop, but running Linux, and my desktop runing XP using XMarks. Important shared data is stored with Google, sensitive data on an encrypted USB stick on my keyring. RSS feeds synched using Google Reader on Windows and Linux and NetNewswire on iPhone and Mac. Unwatched TV shows, Music and podcasts are synched on my iPhone, and can be streamed to wherever I am via services on my Mac if my iPhone is unavailable for some reason. However for my car I am going to have seperate devices, navman and an iPod Classic that I will synch occasionally. I'm gonig to build a carputer out of an old mac mini though that will evenually replace the stereo and will allow podcasts and music etc to be synched whenever in wifi range of the house.
General Punters expect too much local power in their netbook. The keep forgetting the first part of the name means it should leverage the NET for all it's heavy lifting. Mine acts as an X11, SSH, and Citrix client to work and home and is frikken brilliant, only cost $300 and is much more capable once I replaced the crippled linux it came with for Ubuntu. However it would be nice to have a faster HDD, and 1GB RAM...., doh - must remember, use the net, use the net. Windows7 will run on netbooks - sure, only if the netbook matches the specification of most laptops from three years ago, plus an extra GB of RAM.
Amazon shot themselves by forcing the kindle to be cell phone wireless only rather than allow 802.11x wifi as well. Servers and bandwidth - books are tiny compared to music and movies. I get 20G from my webhost for $15/month. That would host 20,000 book downloads or more. DRM - introducing their own costs again, Amazons own fault. No reason at all why ebooks couldnt be $0.5 each and still get more mony to the author than with a paper book. Making this inexpensive would also fight piracy, why waste all that time stripping DRM when the books are so cheap.
They already do allow authors to cut out the middelmen and go direct. As long as you hold the digital rights for your work, it can be easily formatted and uploaded for the kindle store, then you sit back and wait for your tiny percentage to roll in. But like with iPhones, you still have to market yourself like crazy as Amazon will put in no effort to get your book found when people are browsing.
For me, i started with BASIC on my Sinclair Spectrum, but what really heled were some good books with samples and an old Usborne book on how to write dventure games. I think for my kids, the issue will be setting the expectations lower. They want to crank out 3D first person shooters on the first day. I also thought maybe doing scripted objects for something like the Sims, but hard to get started on at a basic level. Logo is good as a basic starting instrution set, but maybe Applescrip is the closest you get to the easiest Basic script and run system now. Maybe a good use for an old second hand G4 Mac mini - their own real computer to just hack around on.
Well I guess if they are going to default to to a certain search engine, I guess they could make th edata free to that site -- oh, hangon, I'd probably still pay to use Google instead.
I was looking for a good linx based netbook, and there are almost none here in NZ - only one of the EEE models. I like the design ogf the HP mini note, but no linux option here in NZ on those, so I will end up buying one that ships with windows, and reinstall ubuntu on it. Another "Windows sale for MS, but not in real world usage, so those stats presented above are meaningless unless they can account for the shipped OS being replaced.
I would agree, but here in NZ Tivo have done a deal with Telecom so you can only get the online content if you use telecoms Xtra service for ADSL broadband. If you use cable through Telstra or some other naked DSL service, sorry, no access.
Now if he was duplicating the DVD with encryption intact, then this is legal. It is illegal there to break the encryption to change the content to another format. Eg. insert DVD - copy to.iso file, burn back to 7GB DVD, and this is legal, though highly wasteful of diskspace and defeats the real reason to rip the DVDs, which is to use them with a digital player. If using a player based on decss, then this is most likely illegal as there are no licences paid out for this library. Such is your freedom in the modern world.
Don't give newbies root 8) My kids happy play on my Mac as the prental control on that is friggin awesome - limit the UI, list only allowed apps, limit logon times and total hours per day. Their own first computers are going to be used Macs. They can run windows in a non persistant VM if they really need something in Win32, and the Xbox and Wii will be fine for games. Once they are browsing by thems selves, then I will also install Squid proxy on something to track their access. Have a secured location or vm for torrenting, and a simple rule - no pirated software. If someone cares that little about a software devs property, what makes you think they give a rats ass about your own property.
I've always thought it was hard enough to get apps and services I do want to install and get going on linx that some random piece of malware has no chance.
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I thought it might be something like this for the Apple press crowd. Coming up to schristmas - new stuff - umm, well we got the 27" iMac, I mean who would have guessed that Apple would just keep making their flagship all-in-one bigger? and, um, some new CPUs. Oh, and may be a new tablet! Yes lets write about that! Afterall we can print 10 stories that contadict one another and it doesnt matter! And it gets eyeballs on our ads!
For me, I'm happy using the tablet I bought 4 years ago. What am I expecting from a new tablet? Everything my current HP TC4400 can do, but smaller, lighter, and better batterylife please. What is my use for a tablet - mobile coms and remote desktop console, note taking, and control console for switches when I actually have to go and visit them in a riser. It can run Windows 7, Linux, and at a pinch OS X - but wifi doesnt work on that, have to add a card. I can replace the HDD and memory to keep this aging clunker going along, and surprisingly, Windows 7 gave this a whole new lease of life. XP Tablet was crap, Vista was far too slow, now Linux and Win7 sit happily side by side - Linux boots slightly faster, but the crappy performance of the intel propriatary GMA950 video drivers in linux mean WIn7 feels a little better generally, but is missing many of the tools I use daily.
So I hope if Apple make a tablet, it is more like the modbook rather than a super-sized iPhone, but I bet I'm going to be dissapointed on that one.
Most of this I actually thought of as "Security Theater" Make people think they are being monitored and it stops the casual or accidental leak of information. Nothing to stop a "Trusted" employee signing out a document and walking away with it though.
Similar, but for a free country, not the USA 8)
I have worked at an office, I cant say where, but they had demagnetizers at the dor for nuking magnetic media, Cellphones and USB keys are banned. There is no white paper anywhere, only yellow coloured paper which the copiers scan as black. The desktop PCs are terminals with no USB posts accessable to the users, and the terminal software wont pass through a prtscreen key to windows.
Some apps are even escured against having the clipboard work between it and any other app running in the session to prevent copy and pasting between apps.
The only printers and copiers are in public locations, and require swipecards to login to copy or retrieve print jobs, images of the first pages are archived for every print and copy job.
Then there was the secure office where I wasnt even allowed to service PCs' If one broke or they had a problem, the PC would be left outside the door with the HDD removed, they imaged and ran their own desktop, and their network is isolated from the general LAN, no internet access from that office.
Man, what a bi*&ch of a place to work. Glad I only did occasional support there.
Run windows programs and windows malware. I'm happy, nearly all of the apps I use I've picked becuase they wrok in most major OSs. The only compromises I have made is EyeTV on my Mac, this is jsut the best PVR software you can get for $2000 that only takes 20 minutes to set up, and Visio in Windows as I have not found another drawing app that does exactly what Visio does with as many free objects and image libraries for documenting networks, flow charts etc.
But that is just me. Ther might be people for which dealing with an open souce implimentation of Windows APIs is more fun than simply downloading a pirated copy of XP. But it cant be theft if you cant buy the product anymore is it?
Ive been using Handbrake just to make rips that will play properly on my iPhone, and my XBMC without lots of different versios. I've stopped encoding in DivX, but the fires are large for the same quality. Worse for downloads, but better portability for the devices I have, supports chapter marks, subtitles etc.
You could boost the cannon with laser lift too, and the ocean provides good cooling 8)
In my opionion, using reliable equipment means I have to work less frequently at 3:00am when something screws up or dies. The Cisco routers we use arn't cheap, but they are scaleble, run a familiar OS and integrate well with our security systems and monitoring, and they are basicly plug and play - we have config and complaince template, new ger is deployed, config uploaded to the router and that's it. Just rack it and plug in the cables.
Much less sweat than dealing with configuring a linux router from scratch.
I agree. If the content I could buy was free of DRM, I would do so. iTunes and Apple have made money off me this year with DRM free tracks. I bought none while they were locked down.
Applying for job as "Windows Evangelist" for a company offering Windows based solutions, Microsoft partner - and have a .mac account. 8) That might count against you.
Psystar had no respect for Apples intellectual property, why do you think they had hany interest in supporting you? After they were killed by the courts, who did you think would keep their systems operating? The magic IT fairies?
Psystar were just ripping off other open EFI emulators anyway. Search around, there are plenty of legit free ones, not stolen copies like Psystar were shipping.
I've got a netbook that I can use for mail, calendar, websurfing, some games, has a touch screen, wifi, 3G cellular data, 16GB of local storage, I can place voice phone calls over cell when roaming, VoIP calls when I have wifi, batterly lasts most of the day, runs Unix and cost me less than NZ$600 - Apple just call it an iPhone though, not a netbook.
With all thee devices, what you then need is some way to synchonise all the data.
For me, My Mail is GMail, accessed with IMAP on local mail clients, calendars sych via iCal, bookmarks sych between firefox, safari and IE at home, on my mac and wifes PC, and on my work netbook and laptop, but running Linux, and my desktop runing XP using XMarks.
Important shared data is stored with Google, sensitive data on an encrypted USB stick on my keyring. RSS feeds synched using Google Reader on Windows and Linux and NetNewswire on iPhone and Mac.
Unwatched TV shows, Music and podcasts are synched on my iPhone, and can be streamed to wherever I am via services on my Mac if my iPhone is unavailable for some reason.
However for my car I am going to have seperate devices, navman and an iPod Classic that I will synch occasionally. I'm gonig to build a carputer out of an old mac mini though that will evenually replace the stereo and will allow podcasts and music etc to be synched whenever in wifi range of the house.
General Punters expect too much local power in their netbook. The keep forgetting the first part of the name means it should leverage the NET for all it's heavy lifting.
Mine acts as an X11, SSH, and Citrix client to work and home and is frikken brilliant, only cost $300 and is much more capable once I replaced the crippled linux it came with for Ubuntu.
However it would be nice to have a faster HDD, and 1GB RAM...., doh - must remember, use the net, use the net.
Windows7 will run on netbooks - sure, only if the netbook matches the specification of most laptops from three years ago, plus an extra GB of RAM.
Amazon shot themselves by forcing the kindle to be cell phone wireless only rather than allow 802.11x wifi as well. Servers and bandwidth - books are tiny compared to music and movies. I get 20G from my webhost for $15/month. That would host 20,000 book downloads or more. DRM - introducing their own costs again, Amazons own fault. No reason at all why ebooks couldnt be $0.5 each and still get more mony to the author than with a paper book. Making this inexpensive would also fight piracy, why waste all that time stripping DRM when the books are so cheap.
They already do allow authors to cut out the middelmen and go direct. As long as you hold the digital rights for your work, it can be easily formatted and uploaded for the kindle store, then you sit back and wait for your tiny percentage to roll in. But like with iPhones, you still have to market yourself like crazy as Amazon will put in no effort to get your book found when people are browsing.
For me, i started with BASIC on my Sinclair Spectrum, but what really heled were some good books with samples and an old Usborne book on how to write dventure games. I think for my kids, the issue will be setting the expectations lower. They want to crank out 3D first person shooters on the first day. I also thought maybe doing scripted objects for something like the Sims, but hard to get started on at a basic level. Logo is good as a basic starting instrution set, but maybe Applescrip is the closest you get to the easiest Basic script and run system now. Maybe a good use for an old second hand G4 Mac mini - their own real computer to just hack around on.
Well I guess if they are going to default to to a certain search engine, I guess they could make th edata free to that site -- oh, hangon, I'd probably still pay to use Google instead.
Now if only textbooks came as e-books, then this whole tech would be un necessary.
I was looking for a good linx based netbook, and there are almost none here in NZ - only one of the EEE models. I like the design ogf the HP mini note, but no linux option here in NZ on those, so I will end up buying one that ships with windows, and reinstall ubuntu on it. Another "Windows sale for MS, but not in real world usage, so those stats presented above are meaningless unless they can account for the shipped OS being replaced.
I would agree, but here in NZ Tivo have done a deal with Telecom so you can only get the online content if you use telecoms Xtra service for ADSL broadband. If you use cable through Telstra or some other naked DSL service, sorry, no access.
Then boycott their service. If enough people do it, they will have to change their delivery.
Now if he was duplicating the DVD with encryption intact, then this is legal. It is illegal there to break the encryption to change the content to another format. .iso file, burn back to 7GB DVD, and this is legal, though highly wasteful of diskspace and defeats the real reason to rip the DVDs, which is to use them with a digital player.
Eg. insert DVD - copy to
If using a player based on decss, then this is most likely illegal as there are no licences paid out for this library.
Such is your freedom in the modern world.
Don't give newbies root 8)
My kids happy play on my Mac as the prental control on that is friggin awesome - limit the UI, list only allowed apps, limit logon times and total hours per day. Their own first computers are going to be used Macs. They can run windows in a non persistant VM if they really need something in Win32, and the Xbox and Wii will be fine for games. Once they are browsing by thems selves, then I will also install Squid proxy on something to track their access. Have a secured location or vm for torrenting, and a simple rule - no pirated software. If someone cares that little about a software devs property, what makes you think they give a rats ass about your own property.
I've always thought it was hard enough to get apps and services I do want to install and get going on linx that some random piece of malware has no chance.