"NYET! We will no longer allow science to tell us what the laws that govern the universe are! Starting today, it is the law that will govern science!!"
Putin stole his ideas on how to control scientists from Stephen Harper! Canada first in the science of the scientific control of information coming out of scientists. Hell too bad we didn't patent it. Could sell like hot cakes when the Republicans resume control of the White House with their tighty whities in a few years. LOL
I just wonder if IBM is also working on low power (as in wattage). This seems to be the focus of server development at HP. Sure both IBM and HP are investing heavily in getting their gear to run the Linux kernel because in doing so they avail themselves of intelligent coders who are not churned out from the Microsoft's C# mills in colleges. They actually get individuals who think in processes at a lower level and have studied computer science not the world of computing according to Microsoft.
IBM has been rather secretive about their server chips lately, I would not at all be surprised if this move to ramp up server and work station software development is not rapidly followed with announcements of 64 bit low power chip designs with cache numbers that blow everybody else out of the water.
HP has bet the farm on low power Moonshot servers largely designed for clustered Linux applications. Interesting times ahead as HP and Dell are tied into and rely completely upon others for chips. IBM has spent heavily to avoid becoming another Intel bitch dog slave and just perhaps they are up to something revolutionary again.
What happened to the second law of thermodynamics?
As I read this, Windows is run in Wine which can then power the chip to run Windows.....
Guess this is why some people get a headache from wine. It must be the shit in wine that gives people headaches that can actually power a chip emulating Windows??? Personally wine that gives other people headaches gives me the squirts especially the red plonk from Washington State. Even some from California gives me the squirts!!!
Wouldn't it be appropriate if someone brought out a cheap wine called Windows Pentium Power House Red? Instead of drinking it you pour it over your motherboard!
That is the question from my perspective. Might even be a go with a cut down Ubuntu Studio for real time audio recording.
If the will run Mint LET ME AT EM!
What might be even more interesting is if Microsoft starts to deliberately issue a cheep starter version of Win8 to try to weasel users back to the one true Windows God. The worm has turned and it is running the Linux kernel this time around...LOL
avoid purchasing any of this electronic junk, turn off your TV, get off the couch, and go for a walk instead of developing type 2 diabetes
Amen to that! The techo babble gamers are headed for big bellies and fart for brains. The TV and techo gadgets is also one sure of the ways to increase the turnover in nursing homes.
Personally I really like the ability to come home load the pictures and movies of my last trip up a to a beautiful stretch of the river or lake while seeking anadromous and fresh water Oncorhynchus mykiss or my rare encounters with the elusive Oncorhynchus clarki clarki.
The ability to stream them directly to my Samsung TV from my laptop is great. NO HDMI cable required or if I decide get a Samsung DLNA capable Wifi camera and do it directly from the camera. As it is, instead I use a non wifi dlna Canon waterproof to record the trips. And especially the interesting and beautiful scenes I encounter during a productive fishing trip.:-)
So the technology is great but the implementation of the technology by Sony and Microsoft sucks! It does little other than encourage fat and stupid consumers to become little more than couch potatoes!
There is very little reason to believe PS4 and Xbone will be shipping with 'crippled' DNLA servers. You have to remember PS3 was one of the first widely available consumer devices to deploy DNLA.
Not that they cannot be a server but that they are not capable of receiving DLNA STANDARD push by design. If they will not even accept push from Sony's crippleware Android devices they just plain suck. Accepting push or play-to is a standard and they deliberately change the device DLNA to not accept Universal PNP. Same as Xbone except Microshaft deliberately obfuscates the protocol to only work with a heavily modified WMP interface , (so what's GNU).
At least Samsung is trying to make their devices in the spirit of UPNP that Intel created the DLNA api for in the first place.
This "all your files and music are belong to us" bullshit keeps me from putting either MS entertainment devices OR Sony's OR Apple's in my living room! PERIOD
The PS3 is well known for crippled DLNA that does not even accept push as a client, typical Sony crippleware device. So if I take my cell and try to push a pic or a vid to it, it is essentially useless. Sure I can pick up the controller and browse to a DLNA server and then just maybe if the server is written by the Google summer of code guys I just might be able to view my videos and picks but only by browsing to them on the device which sucks big time
Sorry but the crippled DLNA of both the Xbox and the PS3 makes them essentially just what they are toys, not great devices with a future in my living room. Until Microshaft and Sony realize the full potential of these devices and stop crippling what they are easily capable of doing at a software level with DLNA, Samsung smart tvs will keep invading more and more living rooms because they are more capable than these toys! Making users pay another 100 bucks for crippled gimmick screen mirror device like Apple TV is not selling me on Sony products.
Right now I am using a GNU UPNP AV Control Point on my laptop to push to a Samsung while I type this, heck I can even pause and replay or control the TV volume through push DLNA. SONY AND MICROSOFT are missing the boat big time and Samsung is starting to eat their breakfast in the home entertainment field and for good reason!
You don't need a special docking station anymore. All you need are an HDMI cable and whatever Bluetooth peripherals happen to be on hand.
Wrong and double wrong. In the secure environment of big companies the intranet connections ain't wifi. And most tablets don't do 10/100/1000 easily without a device specific dongle.
I would not put it past Microsoft doing some OS tweaks that make other OEMs have trouble with this feature on their devices, much the same as the Winmodem and wifi radio chip strategy back in the day to get rid of any possibility of any Linux distro catching on in a hurry. This is why desktops are still the norm in large banks and many still have early core processors and WinXP Pro because upgrading to Win7 is almost impossible with only 512meg or even 1gig of ram for that matter and upgrading the desktop ram is a tricky option more expensive than a service replacement of the unit.
Laptops are too much of a security risk in some places and the places that do allow them are likely to insist on strong drive encryption. So if they go out of the building they are useless except for the individual who has access. Some companies even require bios passwords to be set and no access to the local hdd files without an INTRANET LAN connection first for in house only devices essentially a bios lan boot block. Except for security stupid places like the government of Canada where a member of the government can take his laptop home and have his girl friend read through it LOL
The most important connection for the laptop is the local secure server over cat5 or 6 and into the com for telephone communications to the board rooms and outside lines which are all monitored and isolated. This is how banking and every company that requires absolute intranet security does it. If there is outside internet connection or wifi to outside internet it does not touch the local ip addresses at all, unless they are undergoing software work and this is only switched on manually from the server and only under very strict supervision with extreme authentication measures.
So Surface Pro tablets running low power chips that do not have a lot of horse power might catch on, but they could become a security nightmare if companies cannot easily enforce heavily locked drive encryption on Surface tablets the way they do with Lenovo, HP and Dell laptops. Either way I do not see them flying off the shelves any time ZUNE as most companies will just keep what they have, especially if they have already paid huge chunks of change for recent Win7 laptops.
Unless the Surface tablets running x86 haswells are much cheaper and will easily integrate into existing windows servers all the way back to server 2003 they will not see traction in the business market for at least 3 years. HP and most other manufactures are counting on Haswell to bring business back to the upgrade tread mill. SO IS MICROSOFT. However this time around if the costs are as high as they were with Windows 7, businesses will find a way to wait longer and the tablet revolution on the desktop will flop Haswell or no Haswell. There will be blood on the boardroom floor next year at Microsoft, especially if they try to end commercial support for XP and do not release a sensible cheap business workstation version of 8 or whatever that will run smoothly less than a gig of ram like XP!
Up in BC Canada at one time you had to be approved by the largest car sales mafia organization to be on a the BC public transit board. Rather like Milo Minderbinder.INC. Basically the same thing was true on the legislative side of the equation. There was and is not any real "PUBLIC" oversight of services it is all controlled behind the scenes. This state of affairs is spreading into every aspect of the political economy of the province. Essentially to paraphrase a well known American politician "The business of business is politics".
My wife who knew Alex Fraser and went to his wedding heard all about this situation. Since then not much has changed except Milo Minderbinder saw the light of day around the time of expo 86 and let the transit board build advanced public transit but only in the lower mainland, from which his organization(s) are profiting nicely to say the least. So far he has not approved any real rapid transit for his empire on Vancouver Island though as it would cut into car sales there to say the least.
So Texas is definitely not the only place where the politics of the car dominate things. I was offered an opportunity to run for the organization up in Northern British Columbia against the incumbent socialist MLA. I turned them down. However the individual who did accept the free ride into automotive politics, Al Passarell an NDP turn coat didn't live to make a difference. Though he could have and most likely would have. It is almost as if someone up there is pulling the strings in BC. The ghost of WAC Bennett is up in the clouds working a remote control and this is how the Sky Train really works it is not run by computer at all
Funny but in the many years since the Milo Minderbinder political organization magically disappeared from the landscape, in the background the same organization is still pulling the strings just under a more liberal banner!
Being a Canuck that has lived north of 60 I have seen incredible instances of the Northern Lights. What I always thought was strange was when the lights were in certain patterns and intensities I heard a strange crackling like static electric charges. Knowing that the lights originated from well beyond the atmosphere I just dismissed this as a fantasy. UNTIL one day having a beer in a pub in Watson Lake Yukon I overheard several people claiming to hear the lights the same way as I do!
THIS article finally confirms my suspicion that it is a normal response within some individuals to easily perceive light in an auditory fashion. Perhaps this is why mood lighting is so effective and disco balls were such a hit though they are essentially useless.
All though this explanation from some scientists defies this logic, I have been with other people in the pitch dark watching the lights at the same time and they did not hear the sounds I was experiencing and the sound was not at all as described in the article on Space. The sounds that happen to me are definitely like an electrical spark crackling not at all like applause!
Should be simple enough if you already know where the files are.
More correctly with a Mac it would be a simple shell script with elevated privilege to write to core directories. Same thing basically as a bash script run as root. Remember when Sony put a root kit on audio CDs? There were actually repair utilities created to remove it because the core files were so obfuscated in Windows that it was hard to remove at first until all the registry changes were found out.
Sony did not cave in at first LOL it took a concerted effort from users and sites like Slashdot to get the bastards to even admit to the existence of the malware!
This system intrusion was most likely done to inform the company when someone installed the software later, you know the old trick of leaving shit on the computer to keep track of customers habits. Much more reliable than website cookies which most users know how to delete even on a Mac, even some more skilled Windows users know how to show and remove the appropriate hidden files some shareware leaves under \userdata after removing "free trials" after running the installer but not accepting the license.
The problem with this company is that went beyond what windows crapware does and installed shit to protected areas of the Mac system on a free trial before the license was accepted and the rest of the software was installed. Either this was a genuine mistake or it was an illegal user tracking malware attack on Mac users.
Would be interesting to hear what the company says about it. I imagine that they are in extreme damage control mode the way Sony was after they got caught being a digital asshole.
Thanks for the giggle, just wondering what a Z10 will do under the same circumstances? Call 911 for you? If connected to a remote bluetooth heart monitor, inform relatives, update your facebook status, setup a reading of your will, and call an funeral parlor, do a sell off e-trade of all your holdings and add any profits to your portfolio account, the phone itself will automatically list itself on e-bay and wipe all personal data at the moment all transactions have been completed after your heart stops?
Those with mods mod parent up please!
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I'm sure Saucy will run on 3.11. There's already a release in the mainline PPA.
Thanks, great, think I will do a complete re-install though as there are a few things I have messed up trying to compile a specialized ffmpeg dlna stuff. What I am trying to do is create a real time dlna output with audio straight from input. Not an easy task. Would make a neat interface if you could create a stream directly from ffmpeg recording input. I am sure it can be done with existing libraries but scripting it is not easy.
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Sound fixes and hardware support are moving along at full steam. From what I am reading most of the problems with Dell laptops should be ironed out and some nasty problems with HDA intel on Baytrails are finally fixed.
What is really fantastic is the extended support for pro usb devices from Roland and Yamaha. It should be very possible to create a really effective cheap laptop DAW running Linux tuned for RT audio without having to mess install drivers the way you do with Windows. Not that you could not use these devices in the past it was just difficult to set them up correctly because alsa had trouble working with most Roland mixers and the like the only way to do it sometimes was using a stupid setup that was flaky as hell.
I hope this kernel version is adopted quickly by the Ubuntu Studio guys, but if necessary I will roll my own so I can use Roland usb devices with my laptop!
Last year my sister-in-law in Peru finally retired the Windows 95 laptop that we gave her in 2001, when we gave her a new laptop. My niece is still using the second-hand laptop that we gave her in 2006. IOW, they'll last a frack of a lot longer there than they would here, people will treat them with care because they're (comparatively) expensive and important.
I am writing this on an IBM T42 that was sold to me by the Gov of BC for 75 bucks. LOL It has lasted and works better than today's netbooks, at least running Linux. When I go to a coffee shop and type out a document or send an e-mail or phone someone with Google talk, use Google Earth to map out a trip or whatever like it was a more expensive newer i5, it amazes my boss who struggles doing the same things with his slow as a dog Sony 3 year old piece of crap with Windows 7.
So great hardware from 2005-2006 can still be useful even though it won't run Win7 or even XP SP3 worth beans. Keep it up Microsoft the more used cheap great hardware your operating system releases put on the market the better!
The optimizations, speed, ease of use and software advances that are happening in Linux Distos, Android and Chrome on tablets and netbooks and notebooks are starting to make the Windows operating system look primitive and kludged together instead of being designed for users. Within the next year or two finally people will start to see real alternatives to Windows and Mac on computing devices at least at the consumer level.
If OLPC catches on in cash strapped American public schools more and more kids will learn how to re-purpose their parents old Win XP and early Vista and Win7 laptops and computers. The rate of old computers heading to oriental sweat shops for recycling is about to slow big time. People cannot afford to just run out UPGRADE this time around. And this is why Win8 sales are in the tank it has as much to do with the economy as the obvious public hatred for the Metro interface IMO.
I am sure that the OLPC touch interface makes sense to a child, Metro seems to miss the fact that kids are not stupid and will learn things quickly, essentially Metro has no depth and less purpose it is a simple interface that does little and the fact that it is a constantly IN YOUR FACE screen instead of a well planned INTERFACE speaks volumes as to why Surface tablets are not catching on the way the iPads did.
The next move from Microsoft will be to try to dump a tonne of their unsold surface tablets on the public school systems dirt cheap, after all what the hell else can they do with them other than try to block OLPC and what Apple is up to for that matter. Interesting times ahead, especially as Win8.1 device sales tank this Christmas the way Win8 device sales did last year.
Uh, wasn't OLPC created to serve third-party countries, not first world countries?
Seriously have you had a look at Detroit lately? It is making some places in the so called third world look advanced. I don't think the Detroit public schools can afford to hand out iPads. Besides what good is a school system that relies upon system locked text books and expensive proprietary devices. I can see that standard text books can easily become something which are operating system agnostic and any move to make electronic text book media exclusive to one operating system like Apple or Microsoft should be fought for the sake of public education and the very future of the economy and our children.
I am almost willing to bet that a parent is not going to want to send their child to school with a 700 dollar iPad and make them a target on the bus or God forbid even the hallways and locker rooms! Sorry we are in desperate need of affordable devices for education especially in communities which are going bankrupt like Detroit.
The cost of MS office site licenses, adobe photo shop and a swack of other US written software just went up in New Zealand. Considering Microsoft cannot patent the essential xml word processing core that locks in cloud based MS office users and neither can the cloud xml routines in Photo Shop that lock the customer to both Microsoft and Adobe for off site file storage and or remote processing routines.
This was how this whole thing started with Microsoft applying to patent the cloud xml hooks in Word and New Zealand balking at the idea as being not unique enough to warrant a monopoly patent on cloud based word processing. Funny but Google has been doing cloud based word processing for years, now Microshaft comes along and tries to patent it. ROLF, problem is they already succeeded in North America and everybody ignores the fact.
I agree with your assessment. One huge problem was and is how they approached communication dev environments. The huge security issues with activeX dependent routines and how "explorer" could become a dangerous interface. We had tonnes of poorly written code using microsoft's development enviroments. Heck every other few weeks there are still "critical security updates for.net framwork".
By creating boat loads of dumb software writers that churned out code for XP that depended upon insecure networking interfaces they have done little more than create a huge resentment in the industry. It is still the case today that most large firms have to run large amounts of legacy activeX code on their intranet in "XP" mode that requires routines that would hose them if they were exposed to the internet.
XP was a great system for locking in customers and the huge problem it created was the fact that getting out of the trap of relying upon insecure software it created is too expensive for a large number of companies. Banks and many institutions still run XP terminals for this very reason, their internal software routines are all based upon core code that is not at all suited for a secure OS like Windows 7 that actually has sensible limited user privilege settings.
Microsoft screwed up their big hit operating system XP's UAC so badly that a culture of writing core routines without consideration of UAC became the norm. Then when things screwed up the IT guys and gals had to run out and sell the bosses on add on security controls from someone other than Microsoft. This is why the snake oil sales of security software exploded in the first place.
Vista tried to fix this problem but focused on Palladium. Windows 7 got multi-user privilege going properly to a certain extent but still relies upon.net code that can and does leave holes in because those who code for it are largely ignorant of how to secure things. Secure Computing or Palladium does not at all address these problems and the move to so called "trusted computing" has backfired on Microsoft. Most savvy IT managers know this and tell their bosses that moving past XP will not actually gain any real security benefits because of legacy activeX and.net code. The lack of sensible security methods in the first place within the windows networking code base has created a whale floundering on the beach.
Microsoft's core business is ripe for the picking and I would not at all be surprised if we do not see some company or group of companies gang up and beat them up. A joint venture between hardware and software companies could do it. Who knows just maybe IBM will get it's revenge by releasing a killer db, office suite, server combo that can run old XP code sand boxed faster than a windows server. LOL
Just maybe Ballmer's legacy will be the complete ruin of the once stellar bunch of corporate software raiders that Microsoft was. Problem is they have run out of ideas and truly innovative companies to usurp. We are currently at a technology bubble interface. The only advances will be things like HP's low power Moonshot servers. Unless something really shocking like Microsoft merging with Intel and actually starting to produce real physical product they are really in trouble this time around.
There will be huge mergers soon in the tech industry, one that might shock everybody might be IBM an HP. Or the complete purchase of Dell by Microsoft, or as stated a merger between Microsoft and Intel. INTERESTING TIMES AHEAD and there will be blood on the floor of the stock exchange to be certain.
The word you meant to use is "kernel" as in "'kernel of truth." It's at the center, the core, the essential part. "Colonel" is a rank or designation, especially of the military. The more you know!
Some people use auto spell correction and don't even look at the results. This is why his use of the word colonel has a cap letter.
On a Windows2000 forum years ago I called myself Colonel_Panic just for a laugh. It went over the head of the Windows only zealots on the forum, but it was good for a laugh when asking questions about debugging hardware bsods on Win2000 installs that I was administering at the time. Funny part is one nasty bsod was from a belkin card we were using. Ran it on a Slackware install an it was fine but it caused havoc with Win2000 installs even though the Win98 drivers were fine. Wound up costing a few grand to fix we just replaced the cards. LOL
Here is an angle for drones everyone forgets. Just image the enhanced ability to snoop for the national enquirer. My prediction is that freelance photo hogs will be using them soon. It will be as big as photoshop is for making celebs look bad. Ethics will always be trumped by big bucks with these guys. You can bet that there will be people screaming for "no fly zones" all over the planet as this starts to happen.
The other aspect is liability for the ones that crash, just suppose one starts a fire somewhere in a national park or on private land. Some of them are big enough that they could give you a really good hair cut to say the least.
Nothing around runs faster than good old slackware and a pure xfce DE
Archlinux/slackware w/ Openbox,Xmonad, dwm, i3 etc etc does, in my tests openbox consumes less resources than xfce.
why would any linux user want to emulate a mac ?
To a certain extent you are right. But at least xfce can easily be made to do things the way you want them. I have found that if you strip it down thunar is really a great file manager and that xfce does not hang or cludge up launchers the way other desktops do. I remember the Mac wantabee desktop OS called Dream which only proved that you could fool mac user into thinking you were using OS 10 LOL. Fact is that xfce runs really well if you want speed and you know how to set it up. Sure there are DEs which use less resources but a decent setup with xfce4.XX will run fast on old P11 450s and 512 meg of ram if you know what you are doing and how to set up a linux box the right way.
The days of running on less than 512 meg of ram are dead, though it is possible with some skinny desktops that are essentially just a way to run an x session.
This is the beauty of linux you can run old hardware and make it work well on the net on just about anything out there!
These guys making a skinny Mac UI look alike is nothing new, I have been thinking of doing a Win95 clone DE just for laughs.
Hell you can even rename the file manager to explorer...who cares. ROLF
Can't you guys just let us have a menu where we can select a program from a list of all the ones already installed and let us put our crap on the desktop?
Every GUI OS designer wants to present stuff stylishly and enforce some good file housekeeping paradigm, must of us users just want to be able to select (not find) our installed programs and store files were we expect them.
Screen organization and the other stuff of elementary is nice, if you are going to be inspired by Apple, include letting us put stuff on the desktop and give us a thing like "applications folder" were we can quickly browse installed programs.
xfce in pure form without some cludged up distros' customizations. Nothing around runs faster than good old slackware and a pure xfce DE. Simple mouse activated menu anywhere on the desktop and easily customizable. Zenwalk was great at one time but seems to have gone down hill.
Patrick has it nailed, keep the OS clean as a whistle and avoid too much ln -s crap built in the install scripts. This is the whole problem with most distros, you spend way too much time trying to find how the linked libs work and each distro pollutes usr and obfuscates how to compile source! If someone uses a lib then you can bet instead of keeping the build environment simple they will change core directories to make their build not work with other distros. MINT has become a hodge podge of libs splattered all over the place in usr so have all the Ubuntu variants. LSB is a joke when distros deliberately obfuscate core functionality.
For instance once upon a time you could just go to usr/lib/*browser/plugins folder and drop adobe flash.so into it. Now installing a flash plugin is so stupidly obfuscated that you need a frigging distro specific plugin installer to do the deed. THIS IS WHY Adobe and others have stopped supporting linux. Can you blame them for not wanting to field questions on their forums from Linux newbees wondering why they can't use flash from Adobe like they can with Windows?
Why did Patrick drop Gnome? It was because these guys pulled the same crap and obfuscated where things go and made including gnome on in a distro a royal PITA. Once upon a time installing linux and running it was fun, now because of differences between how distros splatter around libs it is a steep learning curve to even do something as simple as install the latest Google Earth.
I do not see this distro as being any different except that being coded in vala it might just be more multimedia friendly as there was some good work being done with DLNA and vala for GNOME 3 of all places. So if anything this distro could beat Ubuntu to the punch with communication through DLNA to things like Samsung phones and the like. Nifty things like playing vids pictures, and music through DLNA directly to your laptop desktop, something that should happen very soon with Linux if the distros stop bashing each other by obfuscating access to libs.
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"NYET! We will no longer allow science to tell us what the laws that govern the universe are! Starting today, it is the law that will govern science!!"
Putin stole his ideas on how to control scientists from Stephen Harper! Canada first in the science of the scientific control of information coming out of scientists. Hell too bad we didn't patent it. Could sell like hot cakes when the Republicans resume control of the White House with their tighty whities in a few years. LOL
Just take close in photos of all the smudges on the "retinal" display screen extrapolate 3d from it and print it with a 3d printer. Presto access.
IBM has been rather secretive about their server chips lately, I would not at all be surprised if this move to ramp up server and work station software development is not rapidly followed with announcements of 64 bit low power chip designs with cache numbers that blow everybody else out of the water.
HP has bet the farm on low power Moonshot servers largely designed for clustered Linux applications. Interesting times ahead as HP and Dell are tied into and rely completely upon others for chips. IBM has spent heavily to avoid becoming another Intel bitch dog slave and just perhaps they are up to something revolutionary again.
INTERESTING times ahead!
What happened to the second law of thermodynamics? As I read this, Windows is run in Wine which can then power the chip to run Windows.....
Guess this is why some people get a headache from wine. It must be the shit in wine that gives people headaches that can actually power a chip emulating Windows??? Personally wine that gives other people headaches gives me the squirts especially the red plonk from Washington State. Even some from California gives me the squirts!!! Wouldn't it be appropriate if someone brought out a cheap wine called Windows Pentium Power House Red? Instead of drinking it you pour it over your motherboard!
Or was it Windows was powered by Intel, NOW YOU ARE telling me that Intel can power a chip by EMULATION INSTEAD OF WINDOWS?
What might be even more interesting is if Microsoft starts to deliberately issue a cheep starter version of Win8 to try to weasel users back to the one true Windows God. The worm has turned and it is running the Linux kernel this time around...LOL
avoid purchasing any of this electronic junk, turn off your TV, get off the couch, and go for a walk instead of developing type 2 diabetes
Amen to that! The techo babble gamers are headed for big bellies and fart for brains. The TV and techo gadgets is also one sure of the ways to increase the turnover in nursing homes.
Personally I really like the ability to come home load the pictures and movies of my last trip up a to a beautiful stretch of the river or lake while seeking anadromous and fresh water Oncorhynchus mykiss or my rare encounters with the elusive Oncorhynchus clarki clarki.
The ability to stream them directly to my Samsung TV from my laptop is great. NO HDMI cable required or if I decide get a Samsung DLNA capable Wifi camera and do it directly from the camera. As it is, instead I use a non wifi dlna Canon waterproof to record the trips. And especially the interesting and beautiful scenes I encounter during a productive fishing trip. :-)
So the technology is great but the implementation of the technology by Sony and Microsoft sucks! It does little other than encourage fat and stupid consumers to become little more than couch potatoes!
So.... You are taking the wait and see approach?
There is very little reason to believe PS4 and Xbone will be shipping with 'crippled' DNLA servers. You have to remember PS3 was one of the first widely available consumer devices to deploy DNLA.
Not that they cannot be a server but that they are not capable of receiving DLNA STANDARD push by design. If they will not even accept push from Sony's crippleware Android devices they just plain suck. Accepting push or play-to is a standard and they deliberately change the device DLNA to not accept Universal PNP. Same as Xbone except Microshaft deliberately obfuscates the protocol to only work with a heavily modified WMP interface , (so what's GNU).
At least Samsung is trying to make their devices in the spirit of UPNP that Intel created the DLNA api for in the first place. This "all your files and music are belong to us" bullshit keeps me from putting either MS entertainment devices OR Sony's OR Apple's in my living room! PERIOD
The PS3 is well known for crippled DLNA that does not even accept push as a client, typical Sony crippleware device. So if I take my cell and try to push a pic or a vid to it, it is essentially useless. Sure I can pick up the controller and browse to a DLNA server and then just maybe if the server is written by the Google summer of code guys I just might be able to view my videos and picks but only by browsing to them on the device which sucks big time
Sorry but the crippled DLNA of both the Xbox and the PS3 makes them essentially just what they are toys, not great devices with a future in my living room. Until Microshaft and Sony realize the full potential of these devices and stop crippling what they are easily capable of doing at a software level with DLNA, Samsung smart tvs will keep invading more and more living rooms because they are more capable than these toys! Making users pay another 100 bucks for crippled gimmick screen mirror device like Apple TV is not selling me on Sony products.
Right now I am using a GNU UPNP AV Control Point on my laptop to push to a Samsung while I type this, heck I can even pause and replay or control the TV volume through push DLNA. SONY AND MICROSOFT are missing the boat big time and Samsung is starting to eat their breakfast in the home entertainment field and for good reason!
You don't need a special docking station anymore. All you need are an HDMI cable and whatever Bluetooth peripherals happen to be on hand.
Wrong and double wrong. In the secure environment of big companies the intranet connections ain't wifi. And most tablets don't do 10/100/1000 easily without a device specific dongle.
I would not put it past Microsoft doing some OS tweaks that make other OEMs have trouble with this feature on their devices, much the same as the Winmodem and wifi radio chip strategy back in the day to get rid of any possibility of any Linux distro catching on in a hurry. This is why desktops are still the norm in large banks and many still have early core processors and WinXP Pro because upgrading to Win7 is almost impossible with only 512meg or even 1gig of ram for that matter and upgrading the desktop ram is a tricky option more expensive than a service replacement of the unit.
Laptops are too much of a security risk in some places and the places that do allow them are likely to insist on strong drive encryption. So if they go out of the building they are useless except for the individual who has access. Some companies even require bios passwords to be set and no access to the local hdd files without an INTRANET LAN connection first for in house only devices essentially a bios lan boot block. Except for security stupid places like the government of Canada where a member of the government can take his laptop home and have his girl friend read through it LOL
The most important connection for the laptop is the local secure server over cat5 or 6 and into the com for telephone communications to the board rooms and outside lines which are all monitored and isolated. This is how banking and every company that requires absolute intranet security does it. If there is outside internet connection or wifi to outside internet it does not touch the local ip addresses at all, unless they are undergoing software work and this is only switched on manually from the server and only under very strict supervision with extreme authentication measures.
So Surface Pro tablets running low power chips that do not have a lot of horse power might catch on, but they could become a security nightmare if companies cannot easily enforce heavily locked drive encryption on Surface tablets the way they do with Lenovo, HP and Dell laptops. Either way I do not see them flying off the shelves any time ZUNE as most companies will just keep what they have, especially if they have already paid huge chunks of change for recent Win7 laptops.
Unless the Surface tablets running x86 haswells are much cheaper and will easily integrate into existing windows servers all the way back to server 2003 they will not see traction in the business market for at least 3 years. HP and most other manufactures are counting on Haswell to bring business back to the upgrade tread mill. SO IS MICROSOFT. However this time around if the costs are as high as they were with Windows 7, businesses will find a way to wait longer and the tablet revolution on the desktop will flop Haswell or no Haswell. There will be blood on the boardroom floor next year at Microsoft, especially if they try to end commercial support for XP and do not release a sensible cheap business workstation version of 8 or whatever that will run smoothly less than a gig of ram like XP!
My wife who knew Alex Fraser and went to his wedding heard all about this situation. Since then not much has changed except Milo Minderbinder saw the light of day around the time of expo 86 and let the transit board build advanced public transit but only in the lower mainland, from which his organization(s) are profiting nicely to say the least. So far he has not approved any real rapid transit for his empire on Vancouver Island though as it would cut into car sales there to say the least.
So Texas is definitely not the only place where the politics of the car dominate things. I was offered an opportunity to run for the organization up in Northern British Columbia against the incumbent socialist MLA. I turned them down. However the individual who did accept the free ride into automotive politics, Al Passarell an NDP turn coat didn't live to make a difference. Though he could have and most likely would have. It is almost as if someone up there is pulling the strings in BC. The ghost of WAC Bennett is up in the clouds working a remote control and this is how the Sky Train really works it is not run by computer at all
Funny but in the many years since the Milo Minderbinder political organization magically disappeared from the landscape, in the background the same organization is still pulling the strings just under a more liberal banner!
THIS article finally confirms my suspicion that it is a normal response within some individuals to easily perceive light in an auditory fashion. Perhaps this is why mood lighting is so effective and disco balls were such a hit though they are essentially useless.
All though this explanation from some scientists defies this logic, I have been with other people in the pitch dark watching the lights at the same time and they did not hear the sounds I was experiencing and the sound was not at all as described in the article on Space. The sounds that happen to me are definitely like an electrical spark crackling not at all like applause!
Should be simple enough if you already know where the files are.
More correctly with a Mac it would be a simple shell script with elevated privilege to write to core directories. Same thing basically as a bash script run as root. Remember when Sony put a root kit on audio CDs? There were actually repair utilities created to remove it because the core files were so obfuscated in Windows that it was hard to remove at first until all the registry changes were found out.
Sony did not cave in at first LOL it took a concerted effort from users and sites like Slashdot to get the bastards to even admit to the existence of the malware!
This system intrusion was most likely done to inform the company when someone installed the software later, you know the old trick of leaving shit on the computer to keep track of customers habits. Much more reliable than website cookies which most users know how to delete even on a Mac, even some more skilled Windows users know how to show and remove the appropriate hidden files some shareware leaves under \userdata after removing "free trials" after running the installer but not accepting the license.
The problem with this company is that went beyond what windows crapware does and installed shit to protected areas of the Mac system on a free trial before the license was accepted and the rest of the software was installed. Either this was a genuine mistake or it was an illegal user tracking malware attack on Mac users.
Would be interesting to hear what the company says about it. I imagine that they are in extreme damage control mode the way Sony was after they got caught being a digital asshole.
Thanks for the giggle, just wondering what a Z10 will do under the same circumstances? Call 911 for you? If connected to a remote bluetooth heart monitor, inform relatives, update your facebook status, setup a reading of your will, and call an funeral parlor, do a sell off e-trade of all your holdings and add any profits to your portfolio account, the phone itself will automatically list itself on e-bay and wipe all personal data at the moment all transactions have been completed after your heart stops? Those with mods mod parent up please!
I'm sure Saucy will run on 3.11. There's already a release in the mainline PPA.
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11-saucy/
Thanks, great, think I will do a complete re-install though as there are a few things I have messed up trying to compile a specialized ffmpeg dlna stuff. What I am trying to do is create a real time dlna output with audio straight from input. Not an easy task. Would make a neat interface if you could create a stream directly from ffmpeg recording input. I am sure it can be done with existing libraries but scripting it is not easy.
What is really fantastic is the extended support for pro usb devices from Roland and Yamaha. It should be very possible to create a really effective cheap laptop DAW running Linux tuned for RT audio without having to mess install drivers the way you do with Windows. Not that you could not use these devices in the past it was just difficult to set them up correctly because alsa had trouble working with most Roland mixers and the like the only way to do it sometimes was using a stupid setup that was flaky as hell.
I hope this kernel version is adopted quickly by the Ubuntu Studio guys, but if necessary I will roll my own so I can use Roland usb devices with my laptop!
Last year my sister-in-law in Peru finally retired the Windows 95 laptop that we gave her in 2001, when we gave her a new laptop. My niece is still using the second-hand laptop that we gave her in 2006. IOW, they'll last a frack of a lot longer there than they would here, people will treat them with care because they're (comparatively) expensive and important.
I am writing this on an IBM T42 that was sold to me by the Gov of BC for 75 bucks. LOL It has lasted and works better than today's netbooks, at least running Linux. When I go to a coffee shop and type out a document or send an e-mail or phone someone with Google talk, use Google Earth to map out a trip or whatever like it was a more expensive newer i5, it amazes my boss who struggles doing the same things with his slow as a dog Sony 3 year old piece of crap with Windows 7.
So great hardware from 2005-2006 can still be useful even though it won't run Win7 or even XP SP3 worth beans. Keep it up Microsoft the more used cheap great hardware your operating system releases put on the market the better!
The optimizations, speed, ease of use and software advances that are happening in Linux Distos, Android and Chrome on tablets and netbooks and notebooks are starting to make the Windows operating system look primitive and kludged together instead of being designed for users. Within the next year or two finally people will start to see real alternatives to Windows and Mac on computing devices at least at the consumer level.
If OLPC catches on in cash strapped American public schools more and more kids will learn how to re-purpose their parents old Win XP and early Vista and Win7 laptops and computers. The rate of old computers heading to oriental sweat shops for recycling is about to slow big time. People cannot afford to just run out UPGRADE this time around. And this is why Win8 sales are in the tank it has as much to do with the economy as the obvious public hatred for the Metro interface IMO.
I am sure that the OLPC touch interface makes sense to a child, Metro seems to miss the fact that kids are not stupid and will learn things quickly, essentially Metro has no depth and less purpose it is a simple interface that does little and the fact that it is a constantly IN YOUR FACE screen instead of a well planned INTERFACE speaks volumes as to why Surface tablets are not catching on the way the iPads did.
The next move from Microsoft will be to try to dump a tonne of their unsold surface tablets on the public school systems dirt cheap, after all what the hell else can they do with them other than try to block OLPC and what Apple is up to for that matter. Interesting times ahead, especially as Win8.1 device sales tank this Christmas the way Win8 device sales did last year.
Uh, wasn't OLPC created to serve third-party countries, not first world countries?
Seriously have you had a look at Detroit lately? It is making some places in the so called third world look advanced. I don't think the Detroit public schools can afford to hand out iPads. Besides what good is a school system that relies upon system locked text books and expensive proprietary devices. I can see that standard text books can easily become something which are operating system agnostic and any move to make electronic text book media exclusive to one operating system like Apple or Microsoft should be fought for the sake of public education and the very future of the economy and our children.
I am almost willing to bet that a parent is not going to want to send their child to school with a 700 dollar iPad and make them a target on the bus or God forbid even the hallways and locker rooms! Sorry we are in desperate need of affordable devices for education especially in communities which are going bankrupt like Detroit.
The cost of MS office site licenses, adobe photo shop and a swack of other US written software just went up in New Zealand. Considering Microsoft cannot patent the essential xml word processing core that locks in cloud based MS office users and neither can the cloud xml routines in Photo Shop that lock the customer to both Microsoft and Adobe for off site file storage and or remote processing routines. This was how this whole thing started with Microsoft applying to patent the cloud xml hooks in Word and New Zealand balking at the idea as being not unique enough to warrant a monopoly patent on cloud based word processing. Funny but Google has been doing cloud based word processing for years, now Microshaft comes along and tries to patent it. ROLF, problem is they already succeeded in North America and everybody ignores the fact.
By creating boat loads of dumb software writers that churned out code for XP that depended upon insecure networking interfaces they have done little more than create a huge resentment in the industry. It is still the case today that most large firms have to run large amounts of legacy activeX code on their intranet in "XP" mode that requires routines that would hose them if they were exposed to the internet.
XP was a great system for locking in customers and the huge problem it created was the fact that getting out of the trap of relying upon insecure software it created is too expensive for a large number of companies. Banks and many institutions still run XP terminals for this very reason, their internal software routines are all based upon core code that is not at all suited for a secure OS like Windows 7 that actually has sensible limited user privilege settings.
Microsoft screwed up their big hit operating system XP's UAC so badly that a culture of writing core routines without consideration of UAC became the norm. Then when things screwed up the IT guys and gals had to run out and sell the bosses on add on security controls from someone other than Microsoft. This is why the snake oil sales of security software exploded in the first place.
Vista tried to fix this problem but focused on Palladium. Windows 7 got multi-user privilege going properly to a certain extent but still relies upon .net code that can and does leave holes in because those who code for it are largely ignorant of how to secure things. Secure Computing or Palladium does not at all address these problems and the move to so called "trusted computing" has backfired on Microsoft. Most savvy IT managers know this and tell their bosses that moving past XP will not actually gain any real security benefits because of legacy activeX and .net code. The lack of sensible security methods in the first place within the windows networking code base has created a whale floundering on the beach.
Microsoft's core business is ripe for the picking and I would not at all be surprised if we do not see some company or group of companies gang up and beat them up. A joint venture between hardware and software companies could do it. Who knows just maybe IBM will get it's revenge by releasing a killer db, office suite, server combo that can run old XP code sand boxed faster than a windows server. LOL
Just maybe Ballmer's legacy will be the complete ruin of the once stellar bunch of corporate software raiders that Microsoft was. Problem is they have run out of ideas and truly innovative companies to usurp. We are currently at a technology bubble interface. The only advances will be things like HP's low power Moonshot servers. Unless something really shocking like Microsoft merging with Intel and actually starting to produce real physical product they are really in trouble this time around.
There will be huge mergers soon in the tech industry, one that might shock everybody might be IBM an HP. Or the complete purchase of Dell by Microsoft, or as stated a merger between Microsoft and Intel. INTERESTING TIMES AHEAD and there will be blood on the floor of the stock exchange to be certain.
The word you meant to use is "kernel" as in "'kernel of truth." It's at the center, the core, the essential part. "Colonel" is a rank or designation, especially of the military. The more you know!
Some people use auto spell correction and don't even look at the results. This is why his use of the word colonel has a cap letter. On a Windows2000 forum years ago I called myself Colonel_Panic just for a laugh. It went over the head of the Windows only zealots on the forum, but it was good for a laugh when asking questions about debugging hardware bsods on Win2000 installs that I was administering at the time. Funny part is one nasty bsod was from a belkin card we were using. Ran it on a Slackware install an it was fine but it caused havoc with Win2000 installs even though the Win98 drivers were fine. Wound up costing a few grand to fix we just replaced the cards. LOL
The other aspect is liability for the ones that crash, just suppose one starts a fire somewhere in a national park or on private land. Some of them are big enough that they could give you a really good hair cut to say the least.
Rename it Windows CE Caveat Emptor
Nothing around runs faster than good old slackware and a pure xfce DE
Archlinux/slackware w/ Openbox,Xmonad, dwm, i3 etc etc does, in my tests openbox consumes less resources than xfce. why would any linux user want to emulate a mac ?
To a certain extent you are right. But at least xfce can easily be made to do things the way you want them. I have found that if you strip it down thunar is really a great file manager and that xfce does not hang or cludge up launchers the way other desktops do. I remember the Mac wantabee desktop OS called Dream which only proved that you could fool mac user into thinking you were using OS 10 LOL. Fact is that xfce runs really well if you want speed and you know how to set it up. Sure there are DEs which use less resources but a decent setup with xfce4.XX will run fast on old P11 450s and 512 meg of ram if you know what you are doing and how to set up a linux box the right way. The days of running on less than 512 meg of ram are dead, though it is possible with some skinny desktops that are essentially just a way to run an x session. This is the beauty of linux you can run old hardware and make it work well on the net on just about anything out there! These guys making a skinny Mac UI look alike is nothing new, I have been thinking of doing a Win95 clone DE just for laughs. Hell you can even rename the file manager to explorer ...who cares. ROLF
Can't you guys just let us have a menu where we can select a program from a list of all the ones already installed and let us put our crap on the desktop?
Every GUI OS designer wants to present stuff stylishly and enforce some good file housekeeping paradigm, must of us users just want to be able to select (not find) our installed programs and store files were we expect them.
Screen organization and the other stuff of elementary is nice, if you are going to be inspired by Apple, include letting us put stuff on the desktop and give us a thing like "applications folder" were we can quickly browse installed programs.
xfce in pure form without some cludged up distros' customizations. Nothing around runs faster than good old slackware and a pure xfce DE. Simple mouse activated menu anywhere on the desktop and easily customizable. Zenwalk was great at one time but seems to have gone down hill.
Patrick has it nailed, keep the OS clean as a whistle and avoid too much ln -s crap built in the install scripts. This is the whole problem with most distros, you spend way too much time trying to find how the linked libs work and each distro pollutes usr and obfuscates how to compile source! If someone uses a lib then you can bet instead of keeping the build environment simple they will change core directories to make their build not work with other distros. MINT has become a hodge podge of libs splattered all over the place in usr so have all the Ubuntu variants. LSB is a joke when distros deliberately obfuscate core functionality.
For instance once upon a time you could just go to usr/lib/*browser/plugins folder and drop adobe flash.so into it. Now installing a flash plugin is so stupidly obfuscated that you need a frigging distro specific plugin installer to do the deed. THIS IS WHY Adobe and others have stopped supporting linux. Can you blame them for not wanting to field questions on their forums from Linux newbees wondering why they can't use flash from Adobe like they can with Windows?
Why did Patrick drop Gnome? It was because these guys pulled the same crap and obfuscated where things go and made including gnome on in a distro a royal PITA. Once upon a time installing linux and running it was fun, now because of differences between how distros splatter around libs it is a steep learning curve to even do something as simple as install the latest Google Earth.
I do not see this distro as being any different except that being coded in vala it might just be more multimedia friendly as there was some good work being done with DLNA and vala for GNOME 3 of all places. So if anything this distro could beat Ubuntu to the punch with communication through DLNA to things like Samsung phones and the like. Nifty things like playing vids pictures, and music through DLNA directly to your laptop desktop, something that should happen very soon with Linux if the distros stop bashing each other by obfuscating access to libs.