This can only result in this: 1. PC manufacturers, not asociated by Apple will go full Linux; 2. Apple's security department will face security breach hell; 3. People will return to Windows or switch to Linux.
Mac OS X security is a joke. Not by design, but by practical reality: 1. It's based on free software; 2. It's not patches as fast as that free software; 3. Since there is no security through obscurity, cracker will only need to subscribe to various free software mailing lists and acces CVS systems; 4. Wait for holes in FreeBSD to be explained on the mailing lists; 5. Look at the CVS fixes before and after the patched holes; 6. Laugh their asses of while Apple's security responds team waits arrogantly for weeks to months on end to supply updates, since Apple doesn't appear to need a lot fixes, because Mac OS X is supposedly the shit; 7. Bye bye Apple customers; 8. Ballmer: "Missed me?"; 9. Linus: "Don't go to the Darkside, Luke."
Rooting your device is difficult, so doing it yourself makes it so fscking easy for a cracker to use it?
And about that WiFi... Laptop: "Is my SSID HomeRouter1337 around? MITM attack script: change SSID to HomeRouter1337 HomeRouter1337~: "Right here baby 3" Laptop: "I wanna connect to 9gag so bad" HomeRouter1337~: "Not so fast, lolcats. I'v got badass security 'n shit, so why don't you prove you are not an evil scriptkiddy first?" Laptop: Don't worry man, the password is 1234luggage" MITM attack script: change WPA2-PSK to 1234luggage HomeRouter1337~: "Amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!" Laptop: "Give me bankofamerica.com" HomeRouter1337~: "Here's your login page" Laptop: "Here's John Doe, 1234password" MITM attack script: detecting bankofamerica domain with ngrep; send to cracker laptop and give the laptop a fake bankofamerica.com maintenence page "We're sorry, but login an hour from now while we ensure our security stays 1337" Cracker: "Lawl I can't believe people are so fscking stupid ^__^" FBI: "Hello hacker criminal"
X.org is now pretty much implemented as a State Tracker for Gallium3D;) 2D networking X11 stuff in Xlib doesn't work if compoziting and using 3D, so that's why X11 is being axed and replaced by HTML5 in the widget toolkits Qt and GTK, and also by Wayland. Wayland sits on top of what X.org now sits on, and is purely a Window Manager.
Xlib is outdated, even for X.org. X.org now uses XCB (X.org C-Bindings).
If you want to poke at the frame buffer, try directly talking to the Kernel Mode Setting driver;)
GPU drivers, today, aren't targetting hardware directly. It's not like one fires up Carmageddon, which talks to Glide, which talks to graphics card anymore.
Here's to illustrate what's going on, going from hardware to application: 0. Hardware: processes data; 1. Firmware: tells binary to go this way or that way; 2. Kernel drivers (called the Direct Rendering Manager): Memory manager buffers to time-slice between all kinds of GPGPU apps (like OpenGL, OpenCL, MPEG*-decoding, etc.), scheduler to schedule the apps and KMS for 2D shiny correct-resolution stuff; 3. Bytecode, aka IR (Intermediate Representation); 4. LLVM-driver to convert library (OpenGL, OpenCL, etc.) stuff to Gallium3D IR; 5. Library with routines from API to LLVM driver; 6. Apps/frameworks/whatever.
The driver for the UVD is called a state tracker (lib[5] plus driver[4]). Everything below [3] is graphics card specific. The rest is vendor-agnostic.
Since there needs to be a State Tracker, in this case a VDPAU implementation in the Mesa "pipe-video"-branche (merged with master), it's not AMD specific at all. (works with nouveau (Gallium3D nVidia driver) It is, however, called a driver.
Then there is the scheduler, memory and firmware stuff. They need to adress Gallium3D IR, by sending it to the appropriate driver.
So you will not, whatsoever, be looking at a single driver, to learn how AMD does their DRM. (as in Digital Rights Management, not to be confused with the Direct Rendering Manager)
It's like a Java VM, so with a correct LLVM CPU backend driver, one can run heavily threaded GPU stuff directly on the CPU, which is dumb as hell for end usage.
I've basically turned the firewall off, on the computer and at the router.
No least amount of privilages (see app armour as well), making you exposing functionality one can abuse. Very. Stupid.
Flash is installed, and disabled by default.
I hope it's not Adobe Flash? Take Gnash for DRM'd YouTube. Use this for everything else: http://youtube.com/html5
And please don't tell me you need Flash for anything important. Widely spread closed source crap that is internet-only. (plugin, right?)
Javascript is disabled by default, but I can select sites on which to run it.
Entire... sites? Not individual scripts? Not per-session or whitelist?
In the unlikely event that I am pwned - how liable do you think I should be?
You did not actualy forgot to disable the file:/// protocol in use by your webbrowser, did you?
Are my precautions adequate?
Hahaha no. And don't tell me you automatically connect to WiFi, with any computing device you have under full control. (as in not a complete DRM castle, like an iPad. And please don't tell me that you root mobile stuff... do you?)
That's only one part of the problem. Now imagine making GHB available to all rapists. Yeah...
BTW the biggest problem with illicit drugs is that the people who take them regularly for a reason, aren't helped with therapy and 'real' medicine. Seriously...
So the point here is that the drug problem, anywhere, is lack of education. Also; the people who die from 'relatively safe' recreative use (say; 1-2mg MDMA per kilogram bodyweight per 3 months), die because of te lack of education. And they don't even have a problem because of drugs.
So basically drug problem is a problem with education, which can impair the economic and politics, which in turn leads to more people who want to escape from reality.
Yeah sure... why not legalize all medicine? To anyone? Oh wait... yeah I remember; because if not prescribed it can lead to this thing called death and sorts...
On a more technical note... oversampling eliminates Bayer pattern problems. For example, conventional 8MPix sensors include only 4Mpix green, 2Mpix red and 2Mpix blue pixels, which are interpolated to 8Mpix R, G, B image. With pixel oversampling, all pixels become true R, G, and B pixels. What’s more, based on Nyqvist theorem, you actually need oversampling for good performance. For example, audio needs to be sampled at 44 kHz to get good 22 kHz quality.
Now hands up who thinks that Canon will dump the consumer camera market?
Imagine you're Kim and this is the situation you are in: 1. You're smart and you've attended university in Sweden; 2. You survived a hit; 3. Your dad was butfsck psychotic and manic; 4. Your army wants you dead, because they are underfed; 5. The US wants you dead, because of your father. 6. All your aids are cut off; 7. Your dad's nuke can't reach the USA; 8. South Korea^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Everybody wants you dead.
This is what I think, Kim is planning: 1. Act as he does (happening right now); 2. Position 28.500 US soldiers in the range of your one nuke, inside the country that wants you dead; 3. Nuke the bastards; 4. Thereby making the US nuke your army (that wants you dead), along with the butfsck retarted and brainwashed population that is theoretically shit out of luck anyway; 5. Flee off to India to get a facelift that you pay for with the money that you acquired through your military industry; 6. Laugh your ass off, because the US can't even figure if you're dead, because they just nuked you, okay?
First make yourself look like an knowledgeable idiot, to hide that that you are not that stupid. By acting arrogant, nobody will ever even considder that you are smarter, not even a nanosecond.
Secondly, make your enemy arrogant (seems to work).
After that, hand your enemy your chess pieces, utilizing the trick that your pulled of at first. Make your enemy underestimate you.
Your enemy will be laughing his ass of, until he realizes he has positioned himself checkmate. He will not learn from his mistake, because nobody wants to question their own intelligence.
It's so fscking easy, nobody seems to notice it: 1. The song is looping, because it's something that loops, duh; 2. By engaging cognition into it, one can extend the loop and thus break past the trigger that keeps it looping.
So here we are, looking at the n-th rediscovery, posted on/.
Ubuntu is a great starting point. Not because it's exactly a clean Linux distro (more like hanging loose with duct tape and awesful customization), but because of the support community around it.
Once you get used to Linux-ing around, go to Fedora because it's new, clean and raw and thus learning material.
1. Ask your customers what they like/dislike/want; 2. Focus first on the primary features: -The best and fastest connectivity -Best batterylife -Best call quality -Best readeable screen in the sun -Pherhaps water proof phone for use in the rain? Nokia is working on it and it would be a massive selling point -Offline maps with offline GPS data to reduce data usage -Best HTMLv5 browser like Tizen, with deep phone integration, and multiple tabs and desktop grade browser features -insanely responsiveness -Insanely great API; as insaneley good as AmigaOS back in the day
Then focus on the best components like a camera that rivals the best consumer compact camera, a fast CPU, lots of RAM and a realy fast CPU. Have a robust body and look nice with the focus on useability, not design, like the Nokia E7-00.
Make sure that you also launch the smartphone era into a real pocket computer era. This means having the option of a closed DRM appstore, but also a truely open platform and then never switch CPU architecture and never break any API. You can do this with API versioning, like Microsoft uses DLL versioning.
The rest is up to marketing and consumer feedback.
I hope people will switch to 4G as soon as possible, so that 3G will be freed up for me, so I can enjoy my E7-00 untill it dies.
If Nokia doesn't have the best HTMLv5 experience and Whatsapp (or whatever will be required by then), awesome battery life, offline maps, full qwerty keyboard, kickass camera and all the other superb features of my current phone (that excludes the camera), I will not buy a Nokia device, ever again, unless Nokia ships a full featured Linux phone.
I hope the Nokia board realizes that they do not have a single unique selling point anymore. I also hope that if they make a comeback with a good phone, their entire marketing department gets fired and replaced with competent staff that CAN ACTUALY INFORM THE PUBLIC AND DUMBASS REVIEWER ABOUT THE PRODUCT, so it won't fail like Symbian has failed to sell enough.
iPhones suck at basic functionality. Android is a horrible piece of shit, and I say that as I Linux fanboy. BlackBerry doesn't even begin to cover what I actualy use a phone for, on the go. Everybody just likes to rave about how much of a computer the non-Symbian smartphones are, while they are FAR from being an actual computer.
So please Nokia, stop the madness. Ditch Windows Phone when you've created a MOBILE COMPUTER 'phone', that actually runs a fullblown Linux install and NEVER EVER listen to these review 'experts' EVER AGAIN. Instead you might want to listen to your CUSTOMER FEEDBACK?
If you think that systemd is just a rewrite because someone didn't like launchd, you are dead wrong.
Systemd does a lot more than simply launching. A simple websearch reveals that it does way more than just that.
For example: 1. Using cgroups to keep track of processes, even after double forking, so that it can launch/kill services on demand, so everything you do requires absolutely the most minimum amount of services. Say if you don't use Bluetooth; it doesn't run. If you do want to use it, then it automatically gets killed, so save useless CPU cycles; 2. Since it keep track, you don't have to assign users to certain groups anymore and logout everytime you want to update the environment; 3. It enables multi-seat setups and when you hook up a new screen, keyboard and mouse into a USB hub, it wilt automatically launch a new user session for you and prompts for a graphical login on the new screen, automatically; 4. And so on and so forth...
Compatibility issues with what? PulseAudio sits on top of ALSA or OSS; it doesn't replace it at all. That means that all the ALSA/OSS apps can still run on ALSA/OSS. PulseAudio is a routing thing.
SystemD works with SysV init scripts, but whoever wants to go that route is not thinking straight.
PulseAudio combined with SystemD allows for multi-seat setups, semi-parallel boot of sequential boot dependancie chains (with sockets) and doesn't lose track of processes after lots of forking.
OK you have to learn the Good Stuff before you dive in, but the power of Linux is not being required to internally stay like old crap, so that it may evolve not to become a giant pile of bitrot like Windows.
As of yet, I have never, ever had a problem with PulseAudio, not even when it was first introduced on Ubuntu. Many problems with PA come from not-so-strict ALSA and OSS drivers. Doing homework on Linux compatibility pays off.
It's realy simple: using these balls propperly, meaning realy getting them up to speed, requires a lot of force to keep them leveled. Force is being applied by muscles. Just like lifting weights; the more you do, the stronger you get.
After a couple of weeks, my wrist realy grew in diameter. After I stopped, it shrank a little.
The difference in wrist diameter was the difference between my watch fitting loose and tightly around my wrists.
Many females who do work by hand, who develop strong muscles in the wrist, develop the tunnel problem. Males don't suffer from it that much. So females are not recommended getting such a ball.
TL;DR: male wrists get stronger, females develop the tunnel problem
man random gives: reading too much chunks of entropy will cause slow down for other users. Every app in Crapdroid is 'sandboxed' by creating a new user session per app.
The evidence for why Android sucks, can be read in the internal emails, used in the Oracle Vs. Google "ahmygod they stole our APIs!" court case.
Most definately! Android and iOS are like "app-buckets", whereas Symbian features all kinds of functionality that these app-buckets simply do not have, which have to be complemented with apps, but kind of suck.
I'll give a few examples of why I choose a Nokia E7-00 (a $600 phone at that time) after Android, even though I'm a fan of Linux on the desktop and free software in general: -Offline maps, with walking directions; -Build in VoIP straight from the dialer app; -Build in streaming internet radio (simply paste an URL and go); -Support for most audio formats; -Dolby Digital built in; -USB host, so I can use a USB stick to bypass the laptop boot everytime I need to print a document; -Official, full range MSOffice suite and HDMI out, which in combination with USB host for a mouse can make presentations that much easyer; -No credit card needed for app purchases (just on top of the monthly phone bill); -Slide to unlock holding turns of LED flash light, with a brightness you can lit an entire room with; -Full multiple Exchange support; -FileSystem support; -BlueTooth music streaming, that compared to iOS, actualy doesn't skip every now and then; -Other exclusive apps (like for example a YouTube downloader which pulls even DRM Vevo horror just fine, so I don't have to consume my entire data plan, every time I want some new music on the go).
And next to obviously better hardware than any other phone (except killer CPU which you don't even need with Symbian): -Battery kicks ass; -Connectivity kicks ass; -ClearBlack display kicks ass if, you know, you want to use your phone outside?; -Nice keyboard.
And then tons of usability things. I'll keep this phone until it breaks or HTMLv5 starts to realy take off on a sane mobile platform that doesn't suck balls in ways like it's 1999 all over again.
An ice age is not a multi-variable problem. Understanding how they came to be and changing the climate, however, is.
Since it is difficult in how it forms and goes away, I said it was dangerous to engineer a climate change, because it's a damn difficult multi-variable problem, and chances are we won't be able to predict the side effects of changing the delicate climate.
Yet I like to see anyone deny that we're still in an ice age, and how the ice is still melting more than there's water being frozen, anualy.
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This can only result in this:
1. PC manufacturers, not asociated by Apple will go full Linux;
2. Apple's security department will face security breach hell;
3. People will return to Windows or switch to Linux.
Mac OS X security is a joke. Not by design, but by practical reality:
1. It's based on free software;
2. It's not patches as fast as that free software;
3. Since there is no security through obscurity, cracker will only need to subscribe to various free software mailing lists and acces CVS systems;
4. Wait for holes in FreeBSD to be explained on the mailing lists;
5. Look at the CVS fixes before and after the patched holes;
6. Laugh their asses of while Apple's security responds team waits arrogantly for weeks to months on end to supply updates, since Apple doesn't appear to need a lot fixes, because Mac OS X is supposedly the shit;
7. Bye bye Apple customers;
8. Ballmer: "Missed me?";
9. Linus: "Don't go to the Darkside, Luke."
Rooting your device is difficult, so doing it yourself makes it so fscking easy for a cracker to use it?
And about that WiFi...
Laptop: "Is my SSID HomeRouter1337 around?
MITM attack script: change SSID to HomeRouter1337
HomeRouter1337~: "Right here baby 3"
Laptop: "I wanna connect to 9gag so bad"
HomeRouter1337~: "Not so fast, lolcats. I'v got badass security 'n shit, so why don't you prove you are not an evil scriptkiddy first?"
Laptop: Don't worry man, the password is 1234luggage"
MITM attack script: change WPA2-PSK to 1234luggage
HomeRouter1337~: "Amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!"
Laptop: "Give me bankofamerica.com"
HomeRouter1337~: "Here's your login page"
Laptop: "Here's John Doe, 1234password"
MITM attack script: detecting bankofamerica domain with ngrep; send to cracker laptop and give the laptop a fake bankofamerica.com maintenence page "We're sorry, but login an hour from now while we ensure our security stays 1337"
Cracker: "Lawl I can't believe people are so fscking stupid ^__^"
FBI: "Hello hacker criminal"
X.org is now pretty much implemented as a State Tracker for Gallium3D ;) 2D networking X11 stuff in Xlib doesn't work if compoziting and using 3D, so that's why X11 is being axed and replaced by HTML5 in the widget toolkits Qt and GTK, and also by Wayland. Wayland sits on top of what X.org now sits on, and is purely a Window Manager.
Xlib is outdated, even for X.org. X.org now uses XCB (X.org C-Bindings).
If you want to poke at the frame buffer, try directly talking to the Kernel Mode Setting driver ;)
This isn't the 90's anymore...
GPU drivers, today, aren't targetting hardware directly. It's not like one fires up Carmageddon, which talks to Glide, which talks to graphics card anymore.
Here's to illustrate what's going on, going from hardware to application:
0. Hardware: processes data;
1. Firmware: tells binary to go this way or that way;
2. Kernel drivers (called the Direct Rendering Manager): Memory manager buffers to time-slice between all kinds of GPGPU apps (like OpenGL, OpenCL, MPEG*-decoding, etc.), scheduler to schedule the apps and KMS for 2D shiny correct-resolution stuff;
3. Bytecode, aka IR (Intermediate Representation);
4. LLVM-driver to convert library (OpenGL, OpenCL, etc.) stuff to Gallium3D IR;
5. Library with routines from API to LLVM driver;
6. Apps/frameworks/whatever.
The driver for the UVD is called a state tracker (lib[5] plus driver[4]). Everything below [3] is graphics card specific. The rest is vendor-agnostic.
Since there needs to be a State Tracker, in this case a VDPAU implementation in the Mesa "pipe-video"-branche (merged with master), it's not AMD specific at all. (works with nouveau (Gallium3D nVidia driver) It is, however, called a driver.
Then there is the scheduler, memory and firmware stuff. They need to adress Gallium3D IR, by sending it to the appropriate driver.
So you will not, whatsoever, be looking at a single driver, to learn how AMD does their DRM. (as in Digital Rights Management, not to be confused with the Direct Rendering Manager)
It's like a Java VM, so with a correct LLVM CPU backend driver, one can run heavily threaded GPU stuff directly on the CPU, which is dumb as hell for end usage.
Or someone with a Core i5 laptop who wants dedicated playback to safe battery life.
Where do I fit into all of this?
Let's see...
I run Linux Mint Debian.
Ouch... App Armour instead of SELinux.
I've basically turned the firewall off, on the computer and at the router.
No least amount of privilages (see app armour as well), making you exposing functionality one can abuse. Very. Stupid.
Flash is installed, and disabled by default.
I hope it's not Adobe Flash? Take Gnash for DRM'd YouTube. Use this for everything else:
http://youtube.com/html5
And please don't tell me you need Flash for anything important.
Widely spread closed source crap that is internet-only. (plugin, right?)
Javascript is disabled by default, but I can select sites on which to run it.
Entire... sites? Not individual scripts? Not per-session or whitelist?
In the unlikely event that I am pwned - how liable do you think I should be?
You did not actualy forgot to disable the file:/// protocol in use by your webbrowser, did you?
Are my precautions adequate?
Hahaha no. And don't tell me you automatically connect to WiFi, with any computing device you have under full control. (as in not a complete DRM castle, like an iPad. And please don't tell me that you root mobile stuff... do you?)
That's only one part of the problem. Now imagine making GHB available to all rapists. Yeah...
BTW the biggest problem with illicit drugs is that the people who take them regularly for a reason, aren't helped with therapy and 'real' medicine. Seriously...
So the point here is that the drug problem, anywhere, is lack of education. Also; the people who die from 'relatively safe' recreative use (say; 1-2mg MDMA per kilogram bodyweight per 3 months), die because of te lack of education. And they don't even have a problem because of drugs.
So basically drug problem is a problem with education, which can impair the economic and politics, which in turn leads to more people who want to escape from reality.
Yeah sure... why not legalize all medicine? To anyone? Oh wait... yeah I remember; because if not prescribed it can lead to this thing called death and sorts...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
People with higher standards; me for example.
Gnome 2 is horrible.
And to quote the PDF:
On a more technical note...
oversampling eliminates Bayer pattern problems. For example, conventional 8MPix sensors include only
4Mpix green, 2Mpix red and 2Mpix blue pixels, which are interpolated to 8Mpix R, G, B image. With pixel
oversampling, all pixels become true R, G, and B pixels. What’s more, based on Nyqvist theorem, you
actually need oversampling for good performance. For example, audio needs to be sampled at 44 kHz
to get good 22 kHz quality.
Now hands up who thinks that Canon will dump the consumer camera market?
Imagine you're Kim and this is the situation you are in:
1. You're smart and you've attended university in Sweden;
2. You survived a hit;
3. Your dad was butfsck psychotic and manic;
4. Your army wants you dead, because they are underfed;
5. The US wants you dead, because of your father.
6. All your aids are cut off;
7. Your dad's nuke can't reach the USA;
8. South Korea^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Everybody wants you dead.
This is what I think, Kim is planning:
1. Act as he does (happening right now);
2. Position 28.500 US soldiers in the range of your one nuke, inside the country that wants you dead;
3. Nuke the bastards;
4. Thereby making the US nuke your army (that wants you dead), along with the butfsck retarted and brainwashed population that is theoretically shit out of luck anyway;
5. Flee off to India to get a facelift that you pay for with the money that you acquired through your military industry;
6. Laugh your ass off, because the US can't even figure if you're dead, because they just nuked you, okay?
The perfect con... Seen the movie?
First make yourself look like an knowledgeable idiot, to hide that that you are not that stupid. By acting arrogant, nobody will ever even considder that you are smarter, not even a nanosecond.
Secondly, make your enemy arrogant (seems to work).
After that, hand your enemy your chess pieces, utilizing the trick that your pulled of at first. Make your enemy underestimate you.
Your enemy will be laughing his ass of, until he realizes he has positioned himself checkmate. He will not learn from his mistake, because nobody wants to question their own intelligence.
Lols...
Yeah this solution was known for years.
It's so fscking easy, nobody seems to notice it:
1. The song is looping, because it's something that loops, duh;
2. By engaging cognition into it, one can extend the loop and thus break past the trigger that keeps it looping.
So here we are, looking at the n-th rediscovery, posted on /.
Ubuntu is a great starting point. Not because it's exactly a clean Linux distro (more like hanging loose with duct tape and awesful customization), but because of the support community around it.
Once you get used to Linux-ing around, go to Fedora because it's new, clean and raw and thus learning material.
But before you shift to Fedora, watch the excellent noob-friendly Hacktip series from Hak5:
http://hak5.org/category/episodes/haktip
Now tell me; since Flash and Silverlight will exist, anyway... How are we going to keep the web open, exactly?
The answer is simple, but not easy.
1. Ask your customers what they like/dislike/want;
2. Focus first on the primary features:
-The best and fastest connectivity
-Best batterylife
-Best call quality
-Best readeable screen in the sun
-Pherhaps water proof phone for use in the rain? Nokia is working on it and it would be a massive selling point
-Offline maps with offline GPS data to reduce data usage
-Best HTMLv5 browser like Tizen, with deep phone integration, and multiple tabs and desktop grade browser features
-insanely responsiveness
-Insanely great API; as insaneley good as AmigaOS back in the day
Then focus on the best components like a camera that rivals the best consumer compact camera, a fast CPU, lots of RAM and a realy fast CPU. Have a robust body and look nice with the focus on useability, not design, like the Nokia E7-00.
Make sure that you also launch the smartphone era into a real pocket computer era. This means having the option of a closed DRM appstore, but also a truely open platform and then never switch CPU architecture and never break any API. You can do this with API versioning, like Microsoft uses DLL versioning.
The rest is up to marketing and consumer feedback.
I hope people will switch to 4G as soon as possible, so that 3G will be freed up for me, so I can enjoy my E7-00 untill it dies.
If Nokia doesn't have the best HTMLv5 experience and Whatsapp (or whatever will be required by then), awesome battery life, offline maps, full qwerty keyboard, kickass camera and all the other superb features of my current phone (that excludes the camera), I will not buy a Nokia device, ever again, unless Nokia ships a full featured Linux phone.
I hope the Nokia board realizes that they do not have a single unique selling point anymore. I also hope that if they make a comeback with a good phone, their entire marketing department gets fired and replaced with competent staff that CAN ACTUALY INFORM THE PUBLIC AND DUMBASS REVIEWER ABOUT THE PRODUCT, so it won't fail like Symbian has failed to sell enough.
iPhones suck at basic functionality. Android is a horrible piece of shit, and I say that as I Linux fanboy. BlackBerry doesn't even begin to cover what I actualy use a phone for, on the go. Everybody just likes to rave about how much of a computer the non-Symbian smartphones are, while they are FAR from being an actual computer.
So please Nokia, stop the madness. Ditch Windows Phone when you've created a MOBILE COMPUTER 'phone', that actually runs a fullblown Linux install and NEVER EVER listen to these review 'experts' EVER AGAIN. Instead you might want to listen to your CUSTOMER FEEDBACK?
Good-fscking-bye...
If you think that systemd is just a rewrite because someone didn't like launchd, you are dead wrong.
Systemd does a lot more than simply launching. A simple websearch reveals that it does way more than just that.
For example:
1. Using cgroups to keep track of processes, even after double forking, so that it can launch/kill services on demand, so everything you do requires absolutely the most minimum amount of services. Say if you don't use Bluetooth; it doesn't run. If you do want to use it, then it automatically gets killed, so save useless CPU cycles;
2. Since it keep track, you don't have to assign users to certain groups anymore and logout everytime you want to update the environment;
3. It enables multi-seat setups and when you hook up a new screen, keyboard and mouse into a USB hub, it wilt automatically launch a new user session for you and prompts for a graphical login on the new screen, automatically;
4. And so on and so forth...
Compatibility issues with what? PulseAudio sits on top of ALSA or OSS; it doesn't replace it at all. That means that all the ALSA/OSS apps can still run on ALSA/OSS. PulseAudio is a routing thing.
SystemD works with SysV init scripts, but whoever wants to go that route is not thinking straight.
PulseAudio combined with SystemD allows for multi-seat setups, semi-parallel boot of sequential boot dependancie chains (with sockets) and doesn't lose track of processes after lots of forking.
OK you have to learn the Good Stuff before you dive in, but the power of Linux is not being required to internally stay like old crap, so that it may evolve not to become a giant pile of bitrot like Windows.
As of yet, I have never, ever had a problem with PulseAudio, not even when it was first introduced on Ubuntu. Many problems with PA come from not-so-strict ALSA and OSS drivers. Doing homework on Linux compatibility pays off.
Gyroscopes are keeping themselves leveled, oops. What I meant was keeping it up to speed while leveled.
Data isn't everything.
It's realy simple: using these balls propperly, meaning realy getting them up to speed, requires a lot of force to keep them leveled. Force is being applied by muscles. Just like lifting weights; the more you do, the stronger you get.
After a couple of weeks, my wrist realy grew in diameter. After I stopped, it shrank a little.
The difference in wrist diameter was the difference between my watch fitting loose and tightly around my wrists.
Many females who do work by hand, who develop strong muscles in the wrist, develop the tunnel problem. Males don't suffer from it that much. So females are not recommended getting such a ball.
TL;DR: male wrists get stronger, females develop the tunnel problem
man random gives: reading too much chunks of entropy will cause slow down for other users. Every app in Crapdroid is 'sandboxed' by creating a new user session per app.
The evidence for why Android sucks, can be read in the internal emails, used in the Oracle Vs. Google "ahmygod they stole our APIs!" court case.
Most definately! Android and iOS are like "app-buckets", whereas Symbian features all kinds of functionality that these app-buckets simply do not have, which have to be complemented with apps, but kind of suck.
I'll give a few examples of why I choose a Nokia E7-00 (a $600 phone at that time) after Android, even though I'm a fan of Linux on the desktop and free software in general:
-Offline maps, with walking directions;
-Build in VoIP straight from the dialer app;
-Build in streaming internet radio (simply paste an URL and go);
-Support for most audio formats;
-Dolby Digital built in;
-USB host, so I can use a USB stick to bypass the laptop boot everytime I need to print a document;
-Official, full range MSOffice suite and HDMI out, which in combination with USB host for a mouse can make presentations that much easyer;
-No credit card needed for app purchases (just on top of the monthly phone bill);
-Slide to unlock holding turns of LED flash light, with a brightness you can lit an entire room with;
-Full multiple Exchange support;
-FileSystem support;
-BlueTooth music streaming, that compared to iOS, actualy doesn't skip every now and then;
-Other exclusive apps (like for example a YouTube downloader which pulls even DRM Vevo horror just fine, so I don't have to consume my entire data plan, every time I want some new music on the go).
And next to obviously better hardware than any other phone (except killer CPU which you don't even need with Symbian):
-Battery kicks ass;
-Connectivity kicks ass;
-ClearBlack display kicks ass if, you know, you want to use your phone outside?;
-Nice keyboard.
And then tons of usability things. I'll keep this phone until it breaks or HTMLv5 starts to realy take off on a sane mobile platform that doesn't suck balls in ways like it's 1999 all over again.
An ice age is not a multi-variable problem. Understanding how they came to be and changing the climate, however, is.
Since it is difficult in how it forms and goes away, I said it was dangerous to engineer a climate change, because it's a damn difficult multi-variable problem, and chances are we won't be able to predict the side effects of changing the delicate climate.
Yet I like to see anyone deny that we're still in an ice age, and how the ice is still melting more than there's water being frozen, anualy.