Disclaimer, I work for Canonical and worked with the VLC devs on the snap.
The snap of VLC is nearer 190MB, not 700MB for data-transfer and on-disk size comparisons. All snaps are loop-mounted squashfs files. What you are "du"ing is the mounted read-only files. The actual snap file is in `/var/lib/snapd/snaps/` and on my system is 189MB. The snap contains not only VLC but a bunch of libraries of course. However the bulk of the space (300MB uncompressed) is taken up by VLC plugins which make the snap a great out of the box experience of many users, whatever their use case.
Sure we need to optimise startup time, and that work is ongoing. We could certainly trim the snap down a bit, and I will be looking at that when I'm back from vacation.
They asked people to step up and help out with the production of Gobuntu. Pretty much nobody did. Compare that with the massive community behind Ubuntu itself, and other derivatives such as Xubuntu, Mythbuntu and so on.
Kinda telling when on the Gobuntu list there are lots of freedom-lovers who talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
We interviewed Mark Shuttleworth on our little podcast http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/ and he spelled out the reasons why, and that after 8.04, Gobuntu is effectively dead.
You still get an option "F6" in the Ubuntu installer now which does much the same thing, but it's incorporated into Ubuntu now, rather than being a separate derivative. Also means you have to download an ISO which contains non-free stuff which you don't then install. You can bet some people will get their knickers in a twist over that alone!
Firstly these servers were not "Canonical Hosted" as the anonymous readers suggests. They were hosted in a DC which Canonical paid for, but the community maintained them. So Canonical system admins had very little to do with them.
My site - http://screencasts.ubuntu.com was one of them that was affected, so I was of course concerned that there might be some data loss. I only use SCP to copy files up to the site, and logon with my ssh key, so don't think that all Ubuntu community members are using FTP, weak passwords and really old software, it only takes _one_ though to naff it up for everyone else.
The Canonical system admins (on top of the work they already do) migrated the services from those servers to their own DC very quickly. My site went down on Tuesday and was back by Friday. For free hosting and oodles of bandwidth, I'm happy with that downtime - for a community site.
No, kvm doesn't require the guest to be modded. I have virtual machines that I have been running for ages under qemu (both with the proprietary kqemu module and without). I just started running those same images with kvm, and they Just Work (TM).
A I understand it kvm makes use of the VT instructions present in modern CPUs to make QEMU nice and zippy. Older CPUs don't have those instructions so they would still "need" kqemu to make QEMU go full speed.
I'm looking forward to the special blend of geeky chat with some friends I've met online, learning new stuff from the developers of the products I use every day, beer, a few games of Enemy Territory, listening in on a recording of LUGRadio and generally having a bit of a laugh with some friends.
I created a natty PDF which shows what's on in an easily digestable form. Almost time to print out and highlight!
Trepia - the 'iChat on crack' geograpically-based instant messenger - was co-started by the sameguy as YouTube.
Trepia never really got going. Partly due to a small userbase (compared with every other IM), windows-only client (it *just* worked under WINE), and pretty poor location detection (you had to tell it where you are).
Looks like Meetro are taking over that spot, although I note they don't have non-windows clients either.
Hmmm, they're not gassing people of a different race/ideology/religion, but they are making it more difficult for the consumer.. not *quite* hitler territory..
Maybe not legally.. but there's definately a difference. You'd throw away a cartridge after use (or maybe refill it if you're one of those cheapo-hippy types:P ) but a DVD you tend to keep and get used again and again..
It's an access point that can be joined with other access points to form a "Mesh". So for example you can put a bunch of them in a town and share one or two internet connections to people who dont have such a connection. Also useful for networking over distances that one single AP wouldn't cover (by chaining them together through the airwaves).
Jon Anderson pioneered this with his boxen, see http://www.locustworld.com/
In the UK the "countdown" markers 3, 2, 1 are at 300, 200 and 100 yards respectively.
That's one thing I found very frustrating about US freeways. The signs are often "just" before the exit, rather than (as in the UK) 1 mile, 1/2 mile, 300, 200, 100 yards.
Ah, yes of course, I forgot that. I visited the US recently and got into a discussion about weight. I mentioned stones and everyone looked at me as though I was some kind of loony.
I actually don't know my weight in any other measurement than stones and pounds!
A lot of us brits, even those taught the metric system at work, still talk in feet and inches. Our road signs (like US ones) are all in Miles, and I don't see that changing any time soon. We buy beer and milk in pints and mostly weigh in stones and pounds and not kilos. Speed over water and air is still measured in knots, and our road speed limits are in miles per hour.
So whilst we have "adopted" the metric system we still use the "old" measurements day-to-day.
Whatever the legal outcome, the fact that people I know who never normally talk about this kind of stuff are starting to get 'interested' in Linux is a good thing (tm) for sure.
I've just got back from the Hampshire LUG meet where we had a good few 'noob' people arrive. We had a good chin-wag about SCO, and generally chewed the fat about all things Linux.
Non-Linux literate people just don't realize how big this open source thing is getting. It's great!
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Disclaimer, I work for Canonical and worked with the VLC devs on the snap.
The snap of VLC is nearer 190MB, not 700MB for data-transfer and on-disk size comparisons. All snaps are loop-mounted squashfs files. What you are "du"ing is the mounted read-only files. The actual snap file is in `/var/lib/snapd/snaps/` and on my system is 189MB. The snap contains not only VLC but a bunch of libraries of course. However the bulk of the space (300MB uncompressed) is taken up by VLC plugins which make the snap a great out of the box experience of many users, whatever their use case.
Sure we need to optimise startup time, and that work is ongoing. We could certainly trim the snap down a bit, and I will be looking at that when I'm back from vacation.
http://www.thelinuxlink.net/ has a comprehensive list.
They asked people to step up and help out with the production of Gobuntu. Pretty much nobody did. Compare that with the massive community behind Ubuntu itself, and other derivatives such as Xubuntu, Mythbuntu and so on.
Kinda telling when on the Gobuntu list there are lots of freedom-lovers who talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
We interviewed Mark Shuttleworth on our little podcast http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/ and he spelled out the reasons why, and that after 8.04, Gobuntu is effectively dead.
You still get an option "F6" in the Ubuntu installer now which does much the same thing, but it's incorporated into Ubuntu now, rather than being a separate derivative. Also means you have to download an ISO which contains non-free stuff which you don't then install. You can bet some people will get their knickers in a twist over that alone!
http://www.whoisd.com/oldestcom.php is the list I have had in my bookmark for a good few years..
It's in the works :)
Good question. I don't know. I know it's a protocol that lots of web-newbies ask for. I guess someone made the duff decision to allow it.
Firstly these servers were not "Canonical Hosted" as the anonymous readers suggests. They were hosted in a DC which Canonical paid for, but the community maintained them. So Canonical system admins had very little to do with them.
My site - http://screencasts.ubuntu.com was one of them that was affected, so I was of course concerned that there might be some data loss. I only use SCP to copy files up to the site, and logon with my ssh key, so don't think that all Ubuntu community members are using FTP, weak passwords and really old software, it only takes _one_ though to naff it up for everyone else.
The Canonical system admins (on top of the work they already do) migrated the services from those servers to their own DC very quickly. My site went down on Tuesday and was back by Friday. For free hosting and oodles of bandwidth, I'm happy with that downtime - for a community site.
No, kvm doesn't require the guest to be modded. I have virtual machines that I have been running for ages under qemu (both with the proprietary kqemu module and without). I just started running those same images with kvm, and they Just Work (TM).
On Linux it's easy to tell if you have VT..
/proc/cpuinfo
/proc/cpuinfo
egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)'
if that returns anything you have VT, if it doesn't, you don't.
Here's what I get on my desktop (Intel Core 2 Duo).
alan@wopr:~$ egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)'
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
There is a list on the Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization) of supported chips.
A I understand it kvm makes use of the VT instructions present in modern CPUs to make QEMU nice and zippy. Older CPUs don't have those instructions so they would still "need" kqemu to make QEMU go full speed.
I'm looking forward to the special blend of geeky chat with some friends I've met online, learning new stuff from the developers of the products I use every day, beer, a few games of Enemy Territory, listening in on a recording of LUGRadio and generally having a bit of a laugh with some friends. I created a natty PDF which shows what's on in an easily digestable form. Almost time to print out and highlight!
Trepia - the 'iChat on crack' geograpically-based instant messenger - was co-started by the same guy as YouTube.
Trepia never really got going. Partly due to a small userbase (compared with every other IM), windows-only client (it *just* worked under WINE), and pretty poor location detection (you had to tell it where you are).
Looks like Meetro are taking over that spot, although I note they don't have non-windows clients either.
Hmmm, they're not gassing people of a different race/ideology/religion, but they are making it more difficult for the consumer.. not *quite* hitler territory..
Maybe not legally.. but there's definately a difference. You'd throw away a cartridge after use (or maybe refill it if you're one of those cheapo-hippy types :P ) but a DVD you tend to keep and get used again and again..
true, none of which look as cute tho
It's an access point that can be joined with other access points to form a "Mesh". So for example you can put a bunch of them in a town and share one or two internet connections to people who dont have such a connection. Also useful for networking over distances that one single AP wouldn't cover (by chaining them together through the airwaves).
Jon Anderson pioneered this with his boxen, see http://www.locustworld.com/
In the UK the "countdown" markers 3, 2, 1 are at 300, 200 and 100 yards respectively.
That's one thing I found very frustrating about US freeways. The signs are often "just" before the exit, rather than (as in the UK) 1 mile, 1/2 mile, 300, 200, 100 yards.
Ah, yes of course, I forgot that. I visited the US recently and got into a discussion about weight. I mentioned stones and everyone looked at me as though I was some kind of loony.
I actually don't know my weight in any other measurement than stones and pounds!
A lot of us brits, even those taught the metric system at work, still talk in feet and inches. Our road signs (like US ones) are all in Miles, and I don't see that changing any time soon. We buy beer and milk in pints and mostly weigh in stones and pounds and not kilos. Speed over water and air is still measured in knots, and our road speed limits are in miles per hour.
So whilst we have "adopted" the metric system we still use the "old" measurements day-to-day.
Bah!
Who invented the term "penny" in the first place?
After all it's UK citizens who pay for the BBC through our license fee. We paid for the programmes to be made initially.
Why should we foot the (substantial) bill to serve up our programming to other countries in the world?
If they want to see the programmes they should subscribe to BBC World or BBC Prime.
what difference does that make?
they plan to add the chip to cars during their MOT..
Whatever the legal outcome, the fact that people I know who never normally talk about this kind of stuff are starting to get 'interested' in Linux is a good thing (tm) for sure.
I've just got back from the Hampshire LUG meet where we had a good few 'noob' people arrive. We had a good chin-wag about SCO, and generally chewed the fat about all things Linux.
Non-Linux literate people just don't realize how big this open source thing is getting. It's great!
You can't seriously compare MSSQL with MYSQL surely?
I agree with you on most points, but that one's tricky to swallow.
In car MP3 player. That was basically a pc which was removable. It had a docking station which you used to squirt your MP3s onto it with.
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