I don't quite understand it. Why don't all Laptops have Trackpoints by now?
I hate those touchpads and so do most pople I know. I hardly see a laptop without a mouse connected, while I even prefer a Trackpoint over a mouse.
The availability of a trackpoint in the eee device class would be the most important reason for my decision making. Even more important than the runtime.
If there's really that much oil, then some of the energy in it could be used to suck the CO2 and other emissions into liquid or solid byproducts, sunk into plastics or other materials we'd use to make things out of, instead of just letting all that pollution spew into the air. last I checked the devices used to free the air of CO2 were pretty cheap and ran on solar energy and water. As a byproduct they produced wood.
I'm probably sitting on my silverspoon fed horse right now. But I EARNED the right of free speach by learning to communicate. We are human. Taking that right away from us is a human rights violation. And while you obviously would love to kill to protect your rights I'm prepared to die for my rights. Especially when it comes to this whole terrorism thing.
huh? Linux is the OS with the best hardware support you can get.
I have never installed Windows without having to get 90% of the drivers from cds or the web. With Linux otoh the hardware support became that good that youll have less trouble just buying something and see if it works than figure out what works beforehand. And whats even better: no installing drivers necessary. they all are already there.
Please name a couple of devices that dont already work in linux. I can think of only one: bisoncam. and driver support is on its way.
I dont remember benefitting from anything microsoft did ever. I had a microsoft natural elite keyboard once. It was when the rumour was spread that microsoft cant get anything right but hardware. The thing died after spilling a minor amount of liquid over it. It seemed almost as if some wet sneezing would have been sufficient. Also while Microsoft has been the leader in market share for quite a long time that hardly ever happened technology wise. There always have been alternatives. Most of the time they were superior.
distributors are definately in the process of getting io down. So is Linus himself.
quote from http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/5/171 :
"change relatime updates to be performed once per day."
It's not only the livetime of flash memory that benefits from this. also power consumption and noise goes down for hdds. and overall io performance benefits fromsuch improvements,too.
About the swap: just keep it big enough so the Kernel can free the ram of some unused data, but not a lot bigger. Twice the size of the ram is nonsense these days.. if you run out of buffers and cache you don't have enough ram. if you have enough ram swap is hardly used.
Regarding degradation due to needles and quality shift due to needle choice: Many modern turntables actually use a laser instead of a needle. Of course, this means that the audio is digitally sampled at the vinyl.... reading it by a laser doesnt necessarily mean it needs a digital step. The Laserdisc did that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc#Technical_information. using pits and grooves,though. but I dont see why the reflection of the laser beam on vinyl couldnt be interpreted analogous.
What I imagine to be pretty hard is to keep the laser following the groove. it'd have to swing forth and back to find the edges of the groove all the time. alternatively a second laser could be used to follow the groove, while the laser following it only reads the data. But this needs insanely high mechanical precision. I'd be glad to see some technical information about actual "laser vinyl scanners" and how they work.
What all linux distros miss is a mechanism that allows to install software as a user. and by that I don't mean system wide but in your home directory or in a group wide directory. as any software that doesn'T need to run as root can be compiled and installed in $HOME anyways the package management should support that.
Of course I don't want a mini distro to be used in your home directory but instead packages that can be installed both sysem wide or in your home directory with intelligent dependency resolving. While it is a little tricky to automatically remove a users own package once it appears as a sysem wide directory, or reinstall it once the system wide version disappears, I think it is doable.
The only way to know a chip actually does what it is supposed to do is opening it and looking at it under a really good microscope. if the voting process happens in a black box you cannot know what happens inside . No matter how many scientists are working on it you never will have a secure enough system.
even if the hardware isn't programmable you can not trust it: chips can be resoldered, and if it is all put in a big blob of glue you can not validate the hardware any more.
this is a security analysis of a voting machine in the netherlands that was abused to play chess http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/image s/9/91/Es3b-en.pdf
and here is a podcast in german about that hack:
http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre039.html
Voting machines as they are are pretty much as good as they can get. There is no way a Compuiter could ever be trusted to do exactly what it is expected to do, and no way to be 100% sure it has not been tempered with. Those machines will always be unfit for public voting.
As a voter I have several rights that a machine can never provide. I'm guaranteed by law that my vote is secret. But it has been shown that the electromagnetic radiation of voting machines can be measured accurately enough to draw some conclusions about what has been voted.
Also I have the right to know how the voting works. Everybody can understand how counting votes with pen and paper works. Understanding a voting machine is pretty much impossible without a CS degree. Even if the sourcecode for both the hardware and Software was available pretty much nobody can tell if the machine actually does what it claims to do. Also there is hardly any chance to get an actual Rom dump to compare the sources you are looking at with the code that is running on the computer.
Installing software from a public repository always requires that you are able to trust that source. This problem has become even worse here in the Germany now that our government wants to install trojans on computers. Being able to decide yourself whose packages you trust and verifying that source is essential.
ALso I thinmk the registry is a great thing if used properly. I wouldn't mind if evry program registered there as long as it gets completely remove from tere on removal.
I don't think it's useful - but still. Linux has support for multiple mice and keyboards quite some time now. With multiple screens that even is somwhat useful. Now if you really must have multiple Xservers running on one Monitor you could always run Xephyr.
No Idea how whoever wrote the article got the idea there were multiple OSes running,though.
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I don't quite understand it. Why don't all Laptops have Trackpoints by now? I hate those touchpads and so do most pople I know. I hardly see a laptop without a mouse connected, while I even prefer a Trackpoint over a mouse. The availability of a trackpoint in the eee device class would be the most important reason for my decision making. Even more important than the runtime.
Wrong again. it's "Panther" in German, too. It's just pronounced differently.
I'm probably sitting on my silverspoon fed horse right now. But I EARNED the right of free speach by learning to communicate. We are human. Taking that right away from us is a human rights violation.
And while you obviously would love to kill to protect your rights I'm prepared to die for my rights. Especially when it comes to this whole terrorism thing.
huh? Linux is the OS with the best hardware support you can get. I have never installed Windows without having to get 90% of the drivers from cds or the web. With Linux otoh the hardware support became that good that youll have less trouble just buying something and see if it works than figure out what works beforehand. And whats even better: no installing drivers necessary. they all are already there. Please name a couple of devices that dont already work in linux. I can think of only one: bisoncam. and driver support is on its way.
Nautical is not a SI prefix. So what current standard defines nm to be nautical miles? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix
really. STOP IT!
I dont remember benefitting from anything microsoft did ever. I had a microsoft natural elite keyboard once. It was when the rumour was spread that microsoft cant get anything right but hardware. The thing died after spilling a minor amount of liquid over it. It seemed almost as if some wet sneezing would have been sufficient.
Also while Microsoft has been the leader in market share for quite a long time that hardly ever happened technology wise. There always have been alternatives. Most of the time they were superior.
This is just an announcement for a series of articles. or did I miss something?
distributors are definately in the process of getting io down. So is Linus himself. quote from http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/5/171 : "change relatime updates to be performed once per day." It's not only the livetime of flash memory that benefits from this. also power consumption and noise goes down for hdds. and overall io performance benefits fromsuch improvements,too. About the swap: just keep it big enough so the Kernel can free the ram of some unused data, but not a lot bigger. Twice the size of the ram is nonsense these days.. if you run out of buffers and cache you don't have enough ram. if you have enough ram swap is hardly used.
What all linux distros miss is a mechanism that allows to install software as a user. and by that I don't mean system wide but in your home directory or in a group wide directory. as any software that doesn'T need to run as root can be compiled and installed in $HOME anyways the package management should support that. Of course I don't want a mini distro to be used in your home directory but instead packages that can be installed both sysem wide or in your home directory with intelligent dependency resolving. While it is a little tricky to automatically remove a users own package once it appears as a sysem wide directory, or reinstall it once the system wide version disappears, I think it is doable.
You already can buy a truly open phone at http://www.openmoko.com/ .
wow. another reason I'm glad not to be a U.S. citizen. It keeps amazing me how the U.S. lacks so many of what I consider core democratic rights.
The only way to know a chip actually does what it is supposed to do is opening it and looking at it under a really good microscope. if the voting process happens in a black box you cannot know what happens inside . No matter how many scientists are working on it you never will have a secure enough system. even if the hardware isn't programmable you can not trust it: chips can be resoldered, and if it is all put in a big blob of glue you can not validate the hardware any more. this is a security analysis of a voting machine in the netherlands that was abused to play chess http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/image s/9/91/Es3b-en.pdf
and here is a podcast in german about that hack:
http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre039.html
Voting machines as they are are pretty much as good as they can get. There is no way a Compuiter could ever be trusted to do exactly what it is expected to do, and no way to be 100% sure it has not been tempered with. Those machines will always be unfit for public voting. As a voter I have several rights that a machine can never provide. I'm guaranteed by law that my vote is secret. But it has been shown that the electromagnetic radiation of voting machines can be measured accurately enough to draw some conclusions about what has been voted. Also I have the right to know how the voting works. Everybody can understand how counting votes with pen and paper works. Understanding a voting machine is pretty much impossible without a CS degree. Even if the sourcecode for both the hardware and Software was available pretty much nobody can tell if the machine actually does what it claims to do. Also there is hardly any chance to get an actual Rom dump to compare the sources you are looking at with the code that is running on the computer.
You have to read between the lines. Being told to use vi for those changes means "stop fucking up system wide defaults as root or get a clue".
Installing software from a public repository always requires that you are able to trust that source. This problem has become even worse here in the Germany now that our government wants to install trojans on computers. Being able to decide yourself whose packages you trust and verifying that source is essential. ALso I thinmk the registry is a great thing if used properly. I wouldn't mind if evry program registered there as long as it gets completely remove from tere on removal.
I don't think it's useful - but still. Linux has support for multiple mice and keyboards quite some time now. With multiple screens that even is somwhat useful. Now if you really must have multiple Xservers running on one Monitor you could always run Xephyr. No Idea how whoever wrote the article got the idea there were multiple OSes running,though.