I use locally a set of scripts that remotly install a vnc, start it, connect to it and uninstall it on the end.
For more remote access, i use both teamviewer or jitsi.
Jitsi is a XMPP cliente in java, with great support for VOIP and Video, and allows remotly control the computer... so it's easy to start a session for people that i'm connected.
with a little script, you can ask to run a url that runs the jitsi, configure it (asking a name+email probably) and starting a chat. You can then ask for remote control the machine.
yes, teamviewer is simpler, but with jitsi you can control all the process
hey, Rome2 Total War will show up in SteamOS... so i'm happy. For others, is battlefield4 (that they said they want to port it) Some like Football manager... it's already released there are already some very good games in linux, with even more to come, but what you are not seeing is another thing:
Some engines are already ported, others are being ported (like cryengine ), opening other games to be able to run in linux just by pressing a checkbox. Several game companies are looking at the tools used internally and are migrating to a more compatible solution, to help any possible migration. Developers have now a more open mind when building a game, they don't want to be the one that is blocking any possible port.
this is the biggest change steam made, they manage to put linux in the radar for many key persons, specially after many game companies lost the android race by not even acknowledge it soon enough or important enough.
no need for that, you can go to the firefox preferences -> applications, search for pdf and choose from the default "preview in firefox" to "open with plugin" or "open to external application"
FSF and Stallman will say for sure that Steam have DRM, have closed source client and games, but by using gnu/linux will open the games and wor to a new platform, improving the linux hardware and software support. SteamOS, if really open as they say, will enable people to edit and change it... and maybe replace the closed parts with time.
And remember, Stallman one said that if the game engine is free software, the game content (story and music, maps, models, etc) can be closed (specially the story, where Stallman agree that is unique and personal work), as one can replace then and write another story.
It Valve someday replaces the client with a FLOSS version and removes the DRM, the FSF and Stallman would for sure totally accept then. If the games are also FLOSS, they would even recommended it!
that might be related with the PDFs you use... I open many PDFs and for me, just had one problem with one PDF (and it warned that didn't supported all features of that PDF) and a bug in oracle generated PDFs that PDF.js didn't include the known workaround. It's already fixed and should be release next version.
As for speed, yes, big PDFs are slower in PDF.js than native readers, specially for a quick scrolling the document. But quality, i don't see much difference... again, might be something related with your PDFs or system
right, everybody knowns that all resources you will ever need is oil, gas and coal !!!! let me guess... you are from the USA, right!?!
and by the way, having less production doesn't mean that they are at the max production, actually mean that they had little investment on the past. Only in the last few years they have invested more in prospecting new reserves and extracting then. For sure there is still many places not even tested that can be full of oil and gas... can you say the same thing on the USA?
OGG Vorbis can have the same quality using less space... that is why "MP3 Sucks"... it works, but its bigger than it needs to do the same job... on one music, not much wasted... on thousands is a different story
the opengl support in linux, cheap hardware and opening the game studios takes time. only this year you start to have many commercial games in linux being release month after month, instead of 2 or 3 per year
Thank you, but i spend all my day at work... where of course, i can't play... traveling home, i'm driving... so i can't also play at home, i'm in the couch relaxing... i can play some games in a tablet (not a small phone, forget that) or in the big screen. As most tablet games are simple, if i wan't a more rewarding game i must go the the PC (with linux)... or i can play directly on the TV. Valve helped in both solutions.
Mobile is for kids and teenagers, all rest prefer the office or the couch
steam now allows a game you own to the played by friends... you share a games the the other account can play it. If you try to start the games and other is playing, the remote "copy" is disabled and the owner can play it again. So setup a account for you and another for your wife and share games. If you both wan't to play the same game, you fall in to the "2 players, 2 licenses, please".
legally, your steam account ownership is not different from a car... both own it, only one can drive.
why the DRM in linux is that much different from in windows?
In windows you can also preload DLL that hijack system calls to report what ever you want. Most copy protections where cracked in windows and people still play and have games on it... why linux should be different? yes, might be easier in linux to break the DRM, but unlike consoles, steam games are usually cheap (even better with the discounts and humble bundles), the DRM is almost invisible to the user and they allow a game to be shared. So, even if some games will be pirated, most of the people will not care. Most of the "DRM" today is "you need a valid copy to play online", so having a pirated copy is a bit useless.
Finally, the DRM is user level, not kernel level... steam only talks to the kernel via the public API, so "no user level breaking" is permitted (by Linus and top developers orders)
Wine can still play DRM games just fine... and you control both the linux kernel and the "wine kernel", yet there is no major piracy problems due that... hell, i play some DRMed linux games on steam and searching for pirated copies of those games i found none (yet i can find windows pirated versions)... so again, what is the problem here?
It's worst than that, google and many other big sites have multiple certificates, so when you go to one of those sites you never know what certificate you will get... install certificate patrol on firefox (and https everywhere) and you will see how easy is to change certificates in google
what you don't understand is that the "POSIX compliant" is just a way to say "we can run almost any software that already exists in linux and other *nix"... so instead of a several hundred or android apps, people could run thousand of *nix apps, for whatever they wanted to do (be IRC and other chats, games, office, web, movies, etc). Porting from a "POSIX compliant" to another "POSIX compliant" is easy than rebuilding on a totally new stack. Most of the apps than run on Meego where almost just tuned to use the existent libraries and had GUI changes, to improve usability on touch screen... the concept works, look what the canonical wanted to do with their phone. a great way to extend your computer to a tablet, to a phone. that doesn't mean that you would run a full libreoffice in a phone, but you could view any file and do small changes... connect to a desktop, and jump from the "lightoffice" to the libreoffice.
your problem with libreoffice is the look of it? that says a lot on what are your priorities...
who cares what gnome3 does? who still uses gnome3 ? fedora users?
This is a distro problem, every distro that still wants to use gnome 3 will suffer from the lack of vision and deserve to lose their userbase. There are many window manager and desktop environments out therem choose that fits best to you, don't accept blindly what ever the distro have setup for you.
yes, it have some problems, but so does windows and macos graphic interfaces. Wayland MAY help fixing this, by replacing X11, but it also may only be a test bed for changing X11 internals to make it more efficient.
The main problem of X11 is that it stopped evolving for too long in the XFree86 times, losing several years of improvements and scaring developers off X11. By the time Xorg took over, most developers didn't want to mess with the low level X11, making even harder to recover from that features gap. But recovering X11 is possible (just like supporting X11 inside wayland is also possible)
Desura/desurium is the alternative to steam. It also have the linux games, the client is open source... and they are very friendly to open source games. So after a game is release for linux, there is no reason for not showing also in desura
thanks to those GNU fanatics, you have today the GNU/linux, working, open and powerful. Less open systems all died due the lack of hardware support. the fact that they allowed closed drivers didn't help then survive the windows hardware monopoly. Only Apple, Linux and *BSD manage to survive, the first by closing the hardware and paying for drivers, the others by being open. But look at *BSD... they CAN have closed drivers... but they have none (or near that). the lack of drivers is not a license problem, it's that many hardware makers really don't care about their users, for then the business ends after the sell.
Remember, every OS had drivers problems, even windows, with poor quality drivers in all windows versions... simply because the makers don't really care.
I prefer having working drivers that will work always than a sort of closed drivers, full of bugs that will not work in two years or in the most recent kernel... even if i have to wait a little more for then. Bad hardware or builders will be pushed aside with time if they have no good linux support. This is a better solution than having bad drivers for a eternity. This way you are also recompensing the good hardware builders. If a hardware (even if bad) is widely used (usually because it's cheap!) and have no drivers, those GNU fanatics will sooner or later pick up the job of reverse engineering and build a proper driver.
Everything is easier if the builder helps... so if you want o point fingers to someone, point to the hardware builds that don't give proper support for their hardware, not to the GNU fanatics. Even if you may not always agree with then, what you have today is because they didn't ever gave up.
Not only they manage to leave Elop behind, but scrap the mobile business that he destroyed. If Elop manage to get to the CEO of MS, we will all win, as clearly he will slowly destroy MS from inside.
i just feel sad for all those nokia workers...
Nokia still have the patents and can now freely build a phone with android or meego (now Tizen) (probably can't call it nokia phone, call it smart-nokia)... what a killer move!!
would you prefer to be ignored, with all your work and the patchs never getting merged and you didn't even knew why?
That is the "correct and polite" way... but totally useless.
And no, being polite and slowly trying to explain the errors will not work, too much people around, any manager will get tired of repeating the same thing over and over, and so getting more rude as time goes by.
Please note that Linus is usually not rude for newbies, only for people that are around for sometime, specially for maintainers. Those should already know what is allowed or what is not and if maintainers, Linus already have some trust on then... if they fail that trust, Linus will be very direct.
If you work with other top kernel developers (check the *BSD) you will see the same problem, with ones being more rude than others (ie: Theo de Raadt)
If you are comparing with enterprise development, think again. Those can also be rude... but even if they are not, they are probably playing the ignore card, the faking/lying card or simple the "i can get you fired" card. And don't forget the "i'm the boss" card, where you don't even try to be a smartass and always do what you are being told.
Finally, even if that attitude might scare some developers, at least have manage to keep the linux development together, there is no forks, so it isn't that much a problem.
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I use locally a set of scripts that remotly install a vnc, start it, connect to it and uninstall it on the end.
For more remote access, i use both teamviewer or jitsi.
Jitsi is a XMPP cliente in java, with great support for VOIP and Video, and allows remotly control the computer... so it's easy to start a session for people that i'm connected.
with a little script, you can ask to run a url that runs the jitsi, configure it (asking a name+email probably) and starting a chat. You can then ask for remote control the machine.
yes, teamviewer is simpler, but with jitsi you can control all the process
hey, Rome2 Total War will show up in SteamOS... so i'm happy.
For others, is battlefield4 (that they said they want to port it)
Some like Football manager... it's already released
there are already some very good games in linux, with even more to come, but what you are not seeing is another thing:
Some engines are already ported, others are being ported (like cryengine ), opening other games to be able to run in linux just by pressing a checkbox.
Several game companies are looking at the tools used internally and are migrating to a more compatible solution, to help any possible migration.
Developers have now a more open mind when building a game, they don't want to be the one that is blocking any possible port.
this is the biggest change steam made, they manage to put linux in the radar for many key persons, specially after many game companies lost the android race by not even acknowledge it soon enough or important enough.
no need for that, you can go to the firefox preferences -> applications, search for pdf and choose from the default "preview in firefox" to "open with plugin" or "open to external application"
exactly!
FSF and Stallman will say for sure that Steam have DRM, have closed source client and games, but by using gnu/linux will open the games and wor to a new platform, improving the linux hardware and software support. SteamOS, if really open as they say, will enable people to edit and change it... and maybe replace the closed parts with time.
And remember, Stallman one said that if the game engine is free software, the game content (story and music, maps, models, etc) can be closed (specially the story, where Stallman agree that is unique and personal work), as one can replace then and write another story.
It Valve someday replaces the client with a FLOSS version and removes the DRM, the FSF and Stallman would for sure totally accept then. If the games are also FLOSS, they would even recommended it!
that might be related with the PDFs you use...
I open many PDFs and for me, just had one problem with one PDF (and it warned that didn't supported all features of that PDF) and a bug in oracle generated PDFs that PDF.js didn't include the known workaround. It's already fixed and should be release next version.
As for speed, yes, big PDFs are slower in PDF.js than native readers, specially for a quick scrolling the document. But quality, i don't see much difference... again, might be something related with your PDFs or system
html5 can replace flash, check this link on how firefox can replace flash
still not perfect, but getting better. it will replace flash, just like PDF.js can replace PDF plugins in browsers
right, everybody knowns that all resources you will ever need is oil, gas and coal !!!! let me guess... you are from the USA, right!?!
and by the way, having less production doesn't mean that they are at the max production, actually mean that they had little investment on the past. Only in the last few years they have invested more in prospecting new reserves and extracting then. For sure there is still many places not even tested that can be full of oil and gas... can you say the same thing on the USA?
OGG Vorbis can have the same quality using less space... that is why "MP3 Sucks" ... it works, but its bigger than it needs to do the same job... on one music, not much wasted... on thousands is a different story
the opengl support in linux, cheap hardware and opening the game studios takes time. only this year you start to have many commercial games in linux being release month after month, instead of 2 or 3 per year
Thank you, but i spend all my day at work... where of course, i can't play...
traveling home, i'm driving... so i can't also play
at home, i'm in the couch relaxing... i can play some games in a tablet (not a small phone, forget that) or in the big screen. As most tablet games are simple, if i wan't a more rewarding game i must go the the PC (with linux)... or i can play directly on the TV. Valve helped in both solutions.
Mobile is for kids and teenagers, all rest prefer the office or the couch
not any more...
steam now allows a game you own to the played by friends... you share a games the the other account can play it. If you try to start the games and other is playing, the remote "copy" is disabled and the owner can play it again. So setup a account for you and another for your wife and share games. If you both wan't to play the same game, you fall in to the "2 players, 2 licenses, please".
legally, your steam account ownership is not different from a car... both own it, only one can drive.
why the DRM in linux is that much different from in windows?
In windows you can also preload DLL that hijack system calls to report what ever you want. Most copy protections where cracked in windows and people still play and have games on it... why linux should be different? yes, might be easier in linux to break the DRM, but unlike consoles, steam games are usually cheap (even better with the discounts and humble bundles), the DRM is almost invisible to the user and they allow a game to be shared. So, even if some games will be pirated, most of the people will not care. Most of the "DRM" today is "you need a valid copy to play online", so having a pirated copy is a bit useless.
Finally, the DRM is user level, not kernel level... steam only talks to the kernel via the public API, so "no user level breaking" is permitted (by Linus and top developers orders)
Wine can still play DRM games just fine... and you control both the linux kernel and the "wine kernel", yet there is no major piracy problems due that... hell, i play some DRMed linux games on steam and searching for pirated copies of those games i found none (yet i can find windows pirated versions)... so again, what is the problem here?
It's worst than that, google and many other big sites have multiple certificates, so when you go to one of those sites you never know what certificate you will get...
install certificate patrol on firefox (and https everywhere) and you will see how easy is to change certificates in google
what you don't understand is that the "POSIX compliant" is just a way to say "we can run almost any software that already exists in linux and other *nix"... so instead of a several hundred or android apps, people could run thousand of *nix apps, for whatever they wanted to do (be IRC and other chats, games, office, web, movies, etc). Porting from a "POSIX compliant" to another "POSIX compliant" is easy than rebuilding on a totally new stack. Most of the apps than run on Meego where almost just tuned to use the existent libraries and had GUI changes, to improve usability on touch screen...
the concept works, look what the canonical wanted to do with their phone. a great way to extend your computer to a tablet, to a phone. that doesn't mean that you would run a full libreoffice in a phone, but you could view any file and do small changes... connect to a desktop, and jump from the "lightoffice" to the libreoffice.
your problem with libreoffice is the look of it? that says a lot on what are your priorities...
who cares what gnome3 does? who still uses gnome3 ? fedora users?
This is a distro problem, every distro that still wants to use gnome 3 will suffer from the lack of vision and deserve to lose their userbase. There are many window manager and desktop environments out therem choose that fits best to you, don't accept blindly what ever the distro have setup for you.
I play games just fine in X11...
yes, it have some problems, but so does windows and macos graphic interfaces. Wayland MAY help fixing this, by replacing X11, but it also may only be a test bed for changing X11 internals to make it more efficient.
The main problem of X11 is that it stopped evolving for too long in the XFree86 times, losing several years of improvements and scaring developers off X11. By the time Xorg took over, most developers didn't want to mess with the low level X11, making even harder to recover from that features gap. But recovering X11 is possible (just like supporting X11 inside wayland is also possible)
only time will tell...
Desura/desurium is the alternative to steam. It also have the linux games, the client is open source... and they are very friendly to open source games.
So after a game is release for linux, there is no reason for not showing also in desura
thanks to those GNU fanatics, you have today the GNU/linux, working, open and powerful. Less open systems all died due the lack of hardware support. the fact that they allowed closed drivers didn't help then survive the windows hardware monopoly. Only Apple, Linux and *BSD manage to survive, the first by closing the hardware and paying for drivers, the others by being open. But look at *BSD... they CAN have closed drivers... but they have none (or near that). the lack of drivers is not a license problem, it's that many hardware makers really don't care about their users, for then the business ends after the sell.
Remember, every OS had drivers problems, even windows, with poor quality drivers in all windows versions... simply because the makers don't really care.
I prefer having working drivers that will work always than a sort of closed drivers, full of bugs that will not work in two years or in the most recent kernel... even if i have to wait a little more for then.
Bad hardware or builders will be pushed aside with time if they have no good linux support. This is a better solution than having bad drivers for a eternity. This way you are also recompensing the good hardware builders.
If a hardware (even if bad) is widely used (usually because it's cheap!) and have no drivers, those GNU fanatics will sooner or later pick up the job of reverse engineering and build a proper driver.
Everything is easier if the builder helps... so if you want o point fingers to someone, point to the hardware builds that don't give proper support for their hardware, not to the GNU fanatics. Even if you may not always agree with then, what you have today is because they didn't ever gave up.
add the "Don't Starve" to the list!
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WTF!!
don't NASA know how to use HTML5 and javascript?
Not only they manage to leave Elop behind, but scrap the mobile business that he destroyed.
If Elop manage to get to the CEO of MS, we will all win, as clearly he will slowly destroy MS from inside.
i just feel sad for all those nokia workers...
Nokia still have the patents and can now freely build a phone with android or meego (now Tizen) (probably can't call it nokia phone, call it smart-nokia)... what a killer move!!
read closely:
EUR 1.65 billion to license Nokia's patents,
MS will license Nokia patent, it will not acquire then
Simply reply "Fifth Amendment" and require a lawyer if they try to charge you with anything
Simply deny it...
"I can't remember the password right now" or "i dont use email, just SMS"
or create a a email in gmail and leave it empty (or register a few stupid websites) and give that password when they ask
would you prefer to be ignored, with all your work and the patchs never getting merged and you didn't even knew why?
That is the "correct and polite" way... but totally useless.
And no, being polite and slowly trying to explain the errors will not work, too much people around, any manager will get tired of repeating the same thing over and over, and so getting more rude as time goes by.
Please note that Linus is usually not rude for newbies, only for people that are around for sometime, specially for maintainers. Those should already know what is allowed or what is not and if maintainers, Linus already have some trust on then... if they fail that trust, Linus will be very direct.
If you work with other top kernel developers (check the *BSD) you will see the same problem, with ones being more rude than others (ie: Theo de Raadt)
If you are comparing with enterprise development, think again. Those can also be rude... but even if they are not, they are probably playing the ignore card, the faking/lying card or simple the "i can get you fired" card. And don't forget the "i'm the boss" card, where you don't even try to be a smartass and always do what you are being told.
Finally, even if that attitude might scare some developers, at least have manage to keep the linux development together, there is no forks, so it isn't that much a problem.