I was thinking more along the lines of whether Debian would recognize VMWare's virtual Ethernet adapter automatically, like Ubuntu does... but I'm just going to assume it does:)
VMWare Player is the toy edition, for people like me, who only need the VM for 15 minutes every few days... so no wonder you haven't used it if you use VMWare professionally;). No snapshots, no special features of any kind - just a simple VM that's a lot snappier and responsive than Virtualbox.
I did try installing Linux Mint (32-bit standard ed.) though, and that didn't work very well - first VMWare-boot after install just hung. Installing it straight on my old Thinkpad worked fine...:(
Not a bad idea - all I do after Ubuntu's started up is open the terminal and run a few bash scripts, so there's really no need for a GUI.
However, I really don't want to have to do a lot of low level driver setup stuff to get the system running - I do need Internet access, for instance, for Github... is there a command-line only distro that's similarly config-free to Ubuntu?
Bash scripts. I fire up the VM, type 20 letters and twenty minutes later I can flash my new kernel. For some reason I seem to have written Ubuntu kernel... my head must have been confused - I'm actually compiling Android kernels for my smartphone. I'd assume the Ubuntu kernel is bit more complicated and takes a lot longer to compile...
Are any of these plug-and-play in VMWare, like Ubuntu? I tried Linux Mint (regular, not Debian ed.), and VMWare wouldn't even boot it... a quick Google told me it would take longer than 5 minutes to get running, so I went back to Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity doesn't run in VMWare Player anyway, so I haven't seen that horror yet)...
Since I only need Linux for Ubuntu kernel compilation, it needs to run in VMWare... but Ubuntu is a bit annoying - the update manager keeps crashing (OK, probably because I only gave the VM 512MB of RAM, but isn't Linux in all shapes and forms supposed to be lightweight in terms of memory footprint?), there's weird graphical glitches (windows fading in and disappearing), and the elevation prompt (admin password when you change system settings and stuff like that) sometimes just freezes or disappears (try installing updates, authorization window pops up and crashes before you can enter your password, and then the update installation window won't respond because it's waiting for the authorization window)... meh.
Any recommendations for stuff that works OOTB with VMWare?
In the age of instant on devices, anything over 3 seconds until a device is up and running is far too much. My Thinkpad takes 2 seconds to wake to a system that's entirely usable - except Chrome locks up until it finds a WiFi connection, and that can take 20 seconds... bit annoying tbh.
I genuinely hope that this is possible. It would be great to have a company like Bose, which has an Apple-like (albeit a bit worse) reputation in the consumer audio world, start producing decent systems - the current pricing structure could definitely support that.
Just imagine - the tards buying BOSE because it says BOSE on it might actually get some decent sound for their money, and better sound makes the world a better place. Ever been to visit a friend for a few days and realized that you'd be without decent sound (except your headphones, maybe) for weeks because he uses a 4 gagillion Watt (PMPO of course) sound system that sounds like a dying cat as his stereo?
So according to your description, Ubuntu really is the Apple version of Debian... no more choice, but that makes it easy to use.
As someone who uses Ubuntu only on the odd occasion (almost exclusively the terminal and text editor, for compiling Android stuff), I've got to say that the approach actually isn't bad.
If I were to use Ubuntu as my main OS, however, I'm sure I'd feel annoyed quite quickly.
So... multiple aboriginal dialects, Maori, French and whatever those grass-skirt wearing folk in Hawaii speak? Good luck with that, shouldn't take more than a few years...:)
Hmmm, I think the filtering was limited to mostly child porn and other *really* illegal stuff. Haven't noticed anything else in the past ten years, and there wasn't ever anything in the news about this type of thing either.
Do you have any info to back up that statement? Genuinely interested here...
"To confirm Map Maker user contributions are accurate, each edit will be reviewed. After approval, the edits will appear in Google Maps within minutes..."
Probably not, but you can finally say, "Hey Google, Joe's Pizza closed up shop a year ago, there's a pet store in there now!". That's something I've been missing sorely around here in Germany... hope we're able to do this soon.
The OSM data license is an open-source license that would require Google to reciprocate and allow its map data to be used by the OSM project.... something that Google most definitely doesn't want to have happen.
Actualy, as I understand it, Google buys a lot of their mapping info from, well, companies that specialize in mapping, as well as business info (for POI)... so it's probably not something they're even allowed to open source, in many cases...
Because OSM and OSM based products suck. I wish they didn't, and I'd love to use them, but they're pretty much useless for anything real-world - at least here in Germany.
I've tried a bunch of OSM based Android apps for both general mapping and navigation, and the maps just aren't up to par... crowdsourcing is great and all, but it's just not complete or detailed enough.
Now adding to or correcting Google's maps... that I could see working...
Have you SEEN the Euro version of the Galaxy S? Hell, that thing looks so much like a 3G(S) that I'm surprised the lawsuit took this long to materialize...
Manufacturers: Please don't screw over Android users by making us out to be iPhone owner wannabes who had to settle for less...
Aren't you worried your additional closing parenthesis without an opening one will cause the world to implode? Or do quotation marks negate the world-imploding power of a previously unopened closing parenthesis?
It's probably the offsite backups that make up the difference... even my lowly 1MBit upstream is capable of a rough 2.5GB per night, assuming an average upload speed of only 100kB/s and 6 hours of time to upload per night (so ~75GB/month). With 10MBit upload, you could use up 750GB in a month in offsite backups alone... Okay, Rsync should reduce that hugely, but you get the idea;)
You're aware that the "library paradigm" you describe is available on, well, pretty much EVERY other player available for PC OS's, right? Even Winamp has a media library (which happens to be much, much more customizable than iTunes')... Songbird, Foobar, Mediamonkey, WMP, Amarok... need I go on?
I never said that a PC with a 600W PSU actually draws 600W - just that they use a lot more power than a laptop, which generally draws between 10 and 40W depending on the load and hardware... and that's INCLUDING the screen, which typically isn't the case for PC power consumption figures.
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I was thinking more along the lines of whether Debian would recognize VMWare's virtual Ethernet adapter automatically, like Ubuntu does... but I'm just going to assume it does :)
VMWare Player is the toy edition, for people like me, who only need the VM for 15 minutes every few days... so no wonder you haven't used it if you use VMWare professionally ;). No snapshots, no special features of any kind - just a simple VM that's a lot snappier and responsive than Virtualbox.
I did try installing Linux Mint (32-bit standard ed.) though, and that didn't work very well - first VMWare-boot after install just hung. Installing it straight on my old Thinkpad worked fine... :(
Not a bad idea - all I do after Ubuntu's started up is open the terminal and run a few bash scripts, so there's really no need for a GUI.
However, I really don't want to have to do a lot of low level driver setup stuff to get the system running - I do need Internet access, for instance, for Github... is there a command-line only distro that's similarly config-free to Ubuntu?
Bash scripts. I fire up the VM, type 20 letters and twenty minutes later I can flash my new kernel. For some reason I seem to have written Ubuntu kernel... my head must have been confused - I'm actually compiling Android kernels for my smartphone. I'd assume the Ubuntu kernel is bit more complicated and takes a lot longer to compile...
Are any of these plug-and-play in VMWare, like Ubuntu? I tried Linux Mint (regular, not Debian ed.), and VMWare wouldn't even boot it... a quick Google told me it would take longer than 5 minutes to get running, so I went back to Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity doesn't run in VMWare Player anyway, so I haven't seen that horror yet)...
Since I only need Linux for Ubuntu kernel compilation, it needs to run in VMWare... but Ubuntu is a bit annoying - the update manager keeps crashing (OK, probably because I only gave the VM 512MB of RAM, but isn't Linux in all shapes and forms supposed to be lightweight in terms of memory footprint?), there's weird graphical glitches (windows fading in and disappearing), and the elevation prompt (admin password when you change system settings and stuff like that) sometimes just freezes or disappears (try installing updates, authorization window pops up and crashes before you can enter your password, and then the update installation window won't respond because it's waiting for the authorization window)... meh.
Any recommendations for stuff that works OOTB with VMWare?
Not only is the resolution actually lower, when you use them at the specified resolution, text looks all jagged and rough-edged... :(
In the age of instant on devices, anything over 3 seconds until a device is up and running is far too much. My Thinkpad takes 2 seconds to wake to a system that's entirely usable - except Chrome locks up until it finds a WiFi connection, and that can take 20 seconds... bit annoying tbh.
It's not that I can't be away from my phone for 30 minutes, but rather that I can be less bored while I'm on the treadmill.
Are people who listen to music on public transport addicted to music?
Imagine sticking your tongue in her nostril because of lag...
I genuinely hope that this is possible. It would be great to have a company like Bose, which has an Apple-like (albeit a bit worse) reputation in the consumer audio world, start producing decent systems - the current pricing structure could definitely support that.
Just imagine - the tards buying BOSE because it says BOSE on it might actually get some decent sound for their money, and better sound makes the world a better place. Ever been to visit a friend for a few days and realized that you'd be without decent sound (except your headphones, maybe) for weeks because he uses a 4 gagillion Watt (PMPO of course) sound system that sounds like a dying cat as his stereo?
So according to your description, Ubuntu really is the Apple version of Debian... no more choice, but that makes it easy to use.
As someone who uses Ubuntu only on the odd occasion (almost exclusively the terminal and text editor, for compiling Android stuff), I've got to say that the approach actually isn't bad.
If I were to use Ubuntu as my main OS, however, I'm sure I'd feel annoyed quite quickly.
So... multiple aboriginal dialects, Maori, French and whatever those grass-skirt wearing folk in Hawaii speak? Good luck with that, shouldn't take more than a few years... :)
Hmmm, I think the filtering was limited to mostly child porn and other *really* illegal stuff. Haven't noticed anything else in the past ten years, and there wasn't ever anything in the news about this type of thing either.
Do you have any info to back up that statement? Genuinely interested here...
"To confirm Map Maker user contributions are accurate, each edit will be reviewed. After approval, the edits will appear in Google Maps within minutes..."
From the Google Blog entry...
Probably not, but you can finally say, "Hey Google, Joe's Pizza closed up shop a year ago, there's a pet store in there now!". That's something I've been missing sorely around here in Germany... hope we're able to do this soon.
The OSM data license is an open-source license that would require Google to reciprocate and allow its map data to be used by the OSM project.... something that Google most definitely doesn't want to have happen.
Actualy, as I understand it, Google buys a lot of their mapping info from, well, companies that specialize in mapping, as well as business info (for POI)... so it's probably not something they're even allowed to open source, in many cases...
Because OSM and OSM based products suck. I wish they didn't, and I'd love to use them, but they're pretty much useless for anything real-world - at least here in Germany.
I've tried a bunch of OSM based Android apps for both general mapping and navigation, and the maps just aren't up to par... crowdsourcing is great and all, but it's just not complete or detailed enough.
Now adding to or correcting Google's maps... that I could see working...
Have you SEEN the Euro version of the Galaxy S? Hell, that thing looks so much like a 3G(S) that I'm surprised the lawsuit took this long to materialize...
Manufacturers: Please don't screw over Android users by making us out to be iPhone owner wannabes who had to settle for less...
Aren't you worried your additional closing parenthesis without an opening one will cause the world to implode? Or do quotation marks negate the world-imploding power of a previously unopened closing parenthesis?
It's probably the offsite backups that make up the difference... even my lowly 1MBit upstream is capable of a rough 2.5GB per night, assuming an average upload speed of only 100kB/s and 6 hours of time to upload per night (so ~75GB/month). With 10MBit upload, you could use up 750GB in a month in offsite backups alone... Okay, Rsync should reduce that hugely, but you get the idea ;)
You're aware that the "library paradigm" you describe is available on, well, pretty much EVERY other player available for PC OS's, right? Even Winamp has a media library (which happens to be much, much more customizable than iTunes')... Songbird, Foobar, Mediamonkey, WMP, Amarok... need I go on?
Or, instead of buying a new shiny ass POS laptop, buy a used Latitude, Thinkpad, Precision M series or EliteBook... Imma go hug my Thinkpads now. :)
A desktop with similar performance characteristics (Core i7 quad, Radeon HD 4870 graphics) is going to draw 150-200W when idle.
+ at least 2 monitors at 40W a piece... why buy a Radeon 4870 if you're not going to hook up a screen (or 6)? :D
I never said that a PC with a 600W PSU actually draws 600W - just that they use a lot more power than a laptop, which generally draws between 10 and 40W depending on the load and hardware... and that's INCLUDING the screen, which typically isn't the case for PC power consumption figures.
Ah gotcha, that makes sense.