They're both right: The network guy about trays being a great solution, and the office designer about trays being butt-ugly. However, why not work some type of panelling below, rising to the sides of the trays? I'm not a designer by far, but is seems to me that hiding the trays cannot be exceptionally difficult, and can be done with much freedom of style. And all of that should be open from the top, and far enough from the ceiling to keep easy access.
Next, the cables coming down. The covering should accomodate cabledrops without these having to "spill over", and in a way that keeps them very accessible. simple holes? Also, the cables themselves could be surrounded by some spiral or other form, lending them style and possibly even some strength. The spiral could even be strung between the casing and the desk, making it an active element of design, rather than a trick to 'hide the ugly cable'.
the panelings could be cut/painted in a themes shape/color, of be kept elegantly simple, depending on the design of the surrounding office.
As opposed to Java's "write once, debug everywhere", you mean:-)
I understand where you're coming from with that comment, however. When I tell folks I'm back to C/C++, the comments I get are mostly
"how will you get the horrible memory management right" "you will get into trouble with POINTERS" (the last word pronounced like "ZOMBIES" in a 1970's B-movie) "you'll get STACK OVERFLOW and you'll be hacked!"
This is mostly because all you young folks have stopped looking at C/C++ in school, and in the state they were at that point. Today, and for at least a decade, memory management is clean and easy to use, in C++, pointers have always been a matter of understanding how they work, to use them right, and compilers have come a very long way in warning us, and by now, not getting your boundaries right has about the connotation of not being literate, amongst developers. In other words, it's a matter of being a proficient developer, and that goes for Java as well.
Time has passed, the language, the standard libraries, and the developers have grown up. I'm just sad that many of us (including myself) have been side-tracked onto someone's corporate agenda, and that we're only waking up now.
In that sense, I'm glad that Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. Sun's "Unix Veterans" Aura my have prevented many from seeing Java for what it was. Oracle, certainly awakens no such emotions:-)
What makes me so very sad about the Java/J2EE situation, is that so many folks have wasted so much time and energy, and often written excellent code, to make Java/J2EE the platform that has the most comprehensive and the most advanced set of libraries available, while remaining, in my opinion, a misguided, marketing-driven, anachronistic attempt at domination, and a crippled language (forced GC, no delete operator).
All that wasted energy could have gone into a serious programming language and environments supporting it. If you look at what C++ has become, I feel Java is a joke, and J2EE Application Containers are a foolish attempt at replicating the functions of an OS. Java failed on the desktop, and is now Legacy in Enterprise environments, on the server-side. There's no future for it since young folks have moved on to more advanced languages, and old folks have stuck with C/C++ and will return to it (I know I am).
And Multiplatform? Gimme a Break! How many viable platforms do you think we have remaining, server-side? I think there's more than one (There's BSD and there's GNU/Linux, and there may one day be HURD), but guess what.. They're all "Not Unix" and therefore, easy to code for as if they were all Unix:-)
While I'm certainly one of those people that find it "mind-numbing" that someone would want to use tiny screens, tiny fiddly on-tiny-screen change-mode-every-3-keycaresses (can't make myself call *that* key-"stroke"s), wasting an entire hand holding the device, barely-past-modem-era-connections, modem-era-connection-reliability, etc.. in the first place, when large-screen laptops with decent keyboards and 100Mbit/s to the home and office are readily available, it can also be said that the only thing to be gained, in my view, the "mobile" aspect, reminds us of the *other* meaning of mind-numbing: It will numb your mind to be "online" and "reachable" all the time, because your mind *requires* being "offline" for its normal functioning.
Now.. driverless cars may be a solution.. give you time to daydream so your DMN can function properly, unless you spend the time "being online".. But I'm not charmed by any of the other "moonshots", either. For Glass, it's a matter of being able to take it off, and not becoming a Gargoyle. And Loon.. Are "rural areas" then to be Google's "persplex boxes" as in
Ow please.. This is so old.. haven't allowed pasword logins in the last decade or so.. Why on earth would anyone have allowed password logins for the last 10 years? Or: Ever? Someone that's savvy enough to get a shell account is savvy enough to use a key pair. It's 2013. I mean, seriously, PASSWORDS? for SSH?? You must be joking.
Apart from all the twisted psychosocial stuff, the attention span issues, etc.., I believe that at this point and with this kind of research questions being asked:
(4 min and onwards - LONG).. allowing a child anywhere near a source of modulated microwaves is irresponsible, and for the supposedly well-informed slashdot audience, in my view borders on the criminal:
Time will tell what that kind of exposure will have done to us.. As adults, we can decide for ourselves whether the risk is worth the benefits, but as children we cannot make such decisions and we're supposed to have adults to protect us. Even if you still believe that the research results are "inconclusive", and you're willing to take the bet for yourself, this is just not a risk you take with a child!
I see your point, and I also see the communications failure that is entirely my fault.
I'm writing about where I think we should take our dollar (euro.. etc).. to achieve our goals of security, safety, efficiency, privacy of our data, in the near future, you guys are writing about how this can or cannot be solved in the current situation, today. I think we should take those dollars (and those bytes) away from Big Data and towards ISP's that offer neutrality and high upload speeds, using tech like
and a web of trust + good encryption and your backup (and a lot of other things you now host somewhere) can transparently be HA over a whole bunch of machines of folks you know (and theirs on your H/W.) You don't have to pay for tier-1 storage, just duplicate more.
I believe our freedom requires the death of the C/S model, and a focus on improving the network itself to allow for full-featured P2P. Lots of little private clouds (cloudlets?) all over the Net, instead of a limited number of huge ones.
Sure, ok, but that only means you have a well-designed backup service, and that has nothing to do with where it stores its data: It could be saving to your own device, or to devices at one or more trusted parties *of your choice*. In essence, towards devices managed by people that you have a mutual agreement or a true definable trust relationship with.
I'd like to hear *one* example of a useful application that is better off in "the cloud" than implemented with other schemes, even a bunch of VM's in your own data center. All I can think of are one-off raw-power activities using only publicly available data. And even those could be distributed if you have an adequate web of trust.
Can we stop pretending that "The Cloud" has actual meaning, technical relevance, etc..? Do we really have to go back to the fracking mainframe with all our eggs into one (someone else's) basket, and at the mercy of whatever corporate greed du jour? Your Brains! They are SOOOO CLEAN!
We have so much computing power and bandwidth in the home and office that it should be perfectly feasible to go exactly the other way, do away with the stupid client/server model and go 100% P2P, keeping one's own data on one's own hardware in one's own home.
Don't know where you got the impression that I was somehow favouring Apple hardware, but I stand corrected nevertheless: I should have written "never run any non-free OS, or any code made by someone not truly supporting freedom, in the end".
Anything that substantially weakens the armies of the United States of Aggression must be cause for great rejoicing in much of the world. I would almost start to like Microsoft.. almost..
"Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."
I'm a CCSA.. I used to come into daily contact with CheckPoint NG.. Can't say I really enjoyed the experience. And the doc.. I really hated it.. "PhoneBoy" was our light in the dark and only good source of info indeed. So:
- If you don't have CP, don't buy it. If only because Israeli security software named "Checkpoint" is rather cynical given the way they treat Palestinians.. also because technically it's a monstrum.
but..
- If you *do* have CP: buy *any* and all new books PhoneBoy publishes on the subject! I mean it. doing so will save you much pain, an give you the real answers. Phoneboy is one of the few people around to understand CP totally, and to have access to the inside info, plus a lot of admin feedback. Plus no-nonsense and very professional attitude.
I'd been putting of buying one of these until one appeared that
- Played Ogg Vorbis - Had non-trivial storage capacity in a form-factor what fits my pockets. - Had non-trivial autonomy. - Management App that ran on Linux, or USB storage device simulation.
I must say I'm delighted so far. The cradle is plugged in to my stereo and is banging out Mussorgski (New Zealand Symphony Orchestra) with excellent dynamics and clarity.
I left it on and playing when going to sleep, yesterday evening. When I woke up 6 hours later the battery indicated "half", which is about right for the predicted 15-hour playtime. Of course I don't know if the battery indicator is has been weighed for linearity.
I've played downloaded (from emusic.com) mp3's and self-ripped Oggs, so far, and they sound just great. I have them cross-faded, and ise nice classic VU-Meters for display.
After unpacking, connecting to the network (the Cradle has a 100BT connector - the device does DHCP or manual IP setting.) copying the jarball for the "Lite" versions (which is what the Java apps are called) to my laptop, and running it, nothing much worked,at first.
The app allowed me to delete the pre-stored tracks, and to copy new ones from my HD, but the player would not see them. Also, character translation didn't work very well in the app. So In checked out software and firmware versions on the support site, and the ones on the device and CD were hopelessly outdated already. After updating both (I had to drive to work to find a Windoze Box.. the updater is an exe file and will not work with Wine) everything was suddenly okay, and I'm now a happy Karma User.
One downside so far: The included earphones hurt my ears and don't sound too great. Both cushions spontaneously fell off as I was removing the plugs from my ears, and were lost, already.
"My Karma is Great":-) For what I know from 2 days ownership, I can certainly recommend it./hrf
Slashdot Mirror
They're both right: The network guy about trays being a great solution, and the office designer about trays being butt-ugly.
However, why not work some type of panelling below, rising to the sides of the trays? I'm not a designer by far, but is seems to me that
hiding the trays cannot be exceptionally difficult, and can be done with much freedom of style. And all of that should be open from the top,
and far enough from the ceiling to keep easy access.
Next, the cables coming down. The covering should accomodate cabledrops without these having to "spill over", and in a way that keeps them very accessible. simple holes? Also, the cables themselves could be surrounded by some spiral or other form, lending them style and possibly even some strength. The spiral could even be strung between the casing and the desk, making it an active element of design, rather than a trick to 'hide the ugly cable'.
the panelings could be cut/painted in a themes shape/color, of be kept elegantly simple, depending on the design of the surrounding office.
-f
second that.
Thie program comes with a brainwashing guarantee.
I mean: Google, Facebook and JPMorgan!
War is Peace!
Privacy is a crime!
Sell your friends!
Debt is your own fault!
Shut Up And Shop!
http://shop.geeksphone.com/en/phones/8-peak.html
CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 8225 1.2Ghz x2.
UMTS 850/1900/2100 (3G HSPA).
GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (2G EDGE).
Screen 4.3" qHD IPS Multitouch.
Camera 8 MP (back) + 2 MP (front).
4 GB (ROM) and 1 GB (RAM).
MicroSD, Wifi N, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, Radio FM, Light & Prox. Sensor, G-Sensor, Compass, GPS, MicroUSB, Flash (camera).
Battery 1800 mAh.
As opposed to Java's "write once, debug everywhere", you mean :-)
I understand where you're coming from with that comment, however.
When I tell folks I'm back to C/C++, the comments I get are mostly
"how will you get the horrible memory management right"
"you will get into trouble with POINTERS" (the last word pronounced like "ZOMBIES" in a 1970's B-movie)
"you'll get STACK OVERFLOW and you'll be hacked!"
This is mostly because all you young folks have stopped looking at C/C++ in school, and in the state they were at that point.
Today, and for at least a decade, memory management is clean and easy to use, in C++, pointers have always been a matter of
understanding how they work, to use them right, and compilers have come a very long way in warning us, and by now, not getting
your boundaries right has about the connotation of not being literate, amongst developers. In other words, it's a matter of being a proficient
developer, and that goes for Java as well.
Time has passed, the language, the standard libraries, and the developers have grown up. I'm just sad that many of us (including myself) have been
side-tracked onto someone's corporate agenda, and that we're only waking up now.
In that sense, I'm glad that Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. Sun's "Unix Veterans" Aura my have prevented many from seeing Java for what it was. Oracle, certainly awakens no such emotions :-)
What makes me so very sad about the Java/J2EE situation, is that so many folks have wasted so much time and energy,
and often written excellent code, to make Java/J2EE the platform that has the most comprehensive and the most advanced
set of libraries available, while remaining, in my opinion, a misguided, marketing-driven, anachronistic attempt at domination,
and a crippled language (forced GC, no delete operator).
All that wasted energy could have gone into a serious programming language and environments supporting it. If you look
at what C++ has become, I feel Java is a joke, and J2EE Application Containers are a foolish attempt at replicating the functions of an OS.
Java failed on the desktop, and is now Legacy in Enterprise environments, on the server-side. There's no future for it since young folks have moved on to more advanced languages, and old folks have stuck with C/C++ and will return to it (I know I am).
And Multiplatform? Gimme a Break! How many viable platforms do you think we have remaining, server-side? I think there's more than one (There's BSD and there's GNU/Linux, and there may one day be HURD), but guess what.. They're all "Not Unix" and therefore, easy to code for as if they were all Unix :-)
While I'm certainly one of those people that find it "mind-numbing" that someone would want to use tiny screens, tiny fiddly on-tiny-screen change-mode-every-3-keycaresses (can't make myself call *that* key-"stroke"s), wasting an entire hand holding the device, barely-past-modem-era-connections, modem-era-connection-reliability, etc.. in the first place, when large-screen laptops with decent keyboards and 100Mbit/s to the home and office are readily available, it can also be said that the only thing to be gained, in my view, the "mobile" aspect, reminds us of the *other* meaning of mind-numbing: It will numb your mind to be "online" and "reachable" all the time, because your mind *requires* being "offline" for its normal functioning.
https://neurowiki2012.wikispaces.com/Default+Mode+Network
Now.. driverless cars may be a solution.. give you time to daydream so your DMN can function properly, unless you spend the time "being online".. But I'm not charmed by any of the other "moonshots", either. For Glass, it's a matter of being able to take it off, and not becoming a Gargoyle. And Loon.. Are "rural areas" then to be Google's "persplex boxes" as in
http://www.piers.org/piersonline/vol1/2k5hz_p638.pdf
to see if rural folk's albumin will leak out of their brains, as it did in the rats (sarcasm, but not quite crazy)?
-f
Ow please.. This is so old.. haven't allowed pasword logins in the last decade or so..
Why on earth would anyone have allowed password logins for the last 10 years? Or: Ever?
Someone that's savvy enough to get a shell account is savvy enough to use a key pair.
It's 2013. I mean, seriously, PASSWORDS? for SSH?? You must be joking.
-f
Apart from all the twisted psychosocial stuff, the attention span issues, etc..,
I believe that at this point and with this kind of research questions being asked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNNSztN7wJc&feature=player_embedded
(4 min and onwards - LONG) .. allowing a child anywhere near a source of modulated microwaves is irresponsible,
and for the supposedly well-informed slashdot audience, in my view borders on the criminal:
Time will tell what that kind of exposure will have done to us.. As adults, we can decide
for ourselves whether the risk is worth the benefits, but as children we cannot make such
decisions and we're supposed to have adults to protect us.
Even if you still believe that the research results are "inconclusive", and you're willing to take
the bet for yourself, this is just not a risk you take with a child!
I'd suggest you find an alternative technology..
WKR,
-f
Focusing on the network can also mean taking it back into our own hands:
https://commons.thefnf.org/index.php/FreeNetworkStack :-)
I see your point, and I also see the communications failure that is entirely my fault.
I'm writing about where I think we should take our dollar (euro.. etc).. to achieve our goals of security, safety, efficiency, privacy of our data, in the near future, you guys are writing about how this can or cannot be solved in the current situation, today. I think we should take those dollars (and those bytes) away from Big Data and towards ISP's that offer neutrality and high upload speeds, using tech like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-high-bit-rate_digital_subscriber_line_2
and a web of trust + good encryption and your backup (and a lot of other things you now host somewhere) can transparently be HA over a whole bunch of machines of folks you know (and theirs on your H/W.) You don't have to pay for tier-1 storage, just duplicate more.
I believe our freedom requires the death of the C/S model, and a focus on improving the network itself to allow for full-featured P2P. Lots of little private clouds (cloudlets?) all over the Net, instead of a limited number of huge ones.
-f
Sure, ok, but that only means you have a well-designed backup service, and that has nothing to do with where it stores its data: It could be saving to your own device, or to devices at one or more trusted parties *of your choice*. In essence, towards devices managed by people that you have a mutual agreement or a true definable trust relationship with.
I'd like to hear *one* example of a useful application that is better off in "the cloud" than implemented with other schemes, even a bunch of VM's in your own data center. All I can think of are one-off raw-power activities using only publicly available data. And even those could be distributed if you have an adequate web of trust.
Can we stop pretending that "The Cloud" has actual meaning, technical relevance, etc..?
Do we really have to go back to the fracking mainframe with all our eggs into one (someone else's) basket,
and at the mercy of whatever corporate greed du jour? Your Brains! They are SOOOO CLEAN!
We have so much computing power and bandwidth in the home and office that it should be perfectly feasible
to go exactly the other way, do away with the stupid client/server model and go 100% P2P, keeping
one's own data on one's own hardware in one's own home.
ISP's that go symmetric and neutral will survive.
If the military don't behave now that they're in power again,
the Egyptians will get
http://www.wickedlasers.com/arctic .. and do actual damage ..
-f
Don't know where you got the impression that I was somehow favouring Apple hardware, but I stand corrected nevertheless: I should have written "never run any non-free OS, or any code made by someone not truly supporting freedom, in the end".
What we need is boards that are user-rekeyable. That way we can insure that our boards will never run Windows again.
Blackadder wasn't anywhere near the king when it happened.
Ignore User-Agent and redirect any request containing one or more headers starting in "X-MS" to http://www.kmfms.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/
auto-fire at red blinking LED or any source of modulated microwaves.
Anything that substantially weakens the armies of the United States of Aggression must be cause for great rejoicing in much of the world. I would almost start to like Microsoft.. almost..
"Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."
http://www.uzbl.org/
http://www.uzbl.org/
..how fast you can make windows go?
Yawn.. It's a bit like discussing how fast OS/2 is..
Get over it.
I'm a CCSA.. I used to come into daily contact with CheckPoint NG.. Can't say I really enjoyed the experience. And the doc.. I really hated it..
"PhoneBoy" was our light in the dark and only good source of info indeed. So:
- If you don't have CP, don't buy it. If only because Israeli security software named "Checkpoint" is rather cynical given the way they treat Palestinians.. also because technically it's a monstrum.
but..
- If you *do* have CP: buy *any* and all new books PhoneBoy publishes on the subject! I mean it. doing so will save you much pain, an give you the real answers. Phoneboy is one of the few people around to understand CP totally, and to have access to the inside info, plus a lot of admin feedback. Plus no-nonsense and very professional attitude.
Just got my Karma yesterday.
:-) /hrf
I'd been putting of buying one of these until one appeared that
- Played Ogg Vorbis
- Had non-trivial storage capacity in a form-factor what fits my pockets.
- Had non-trivial autonomy.
- Management App that ran on Linux, or USB storage device simulation.
I must say I'm delighted so far. The cradle is plugged in to my stereo and is banging out Mussorgski (New Zealand Symphony Orchestra) with excellent dynamics and clarity.
I left it on and playing when going to sleep, yesterday evening. When I woke up 6 hours later the battery indicated "half", which is about right for the predicted 15-hour playtime. Of course I don't know if the battery indicator is has been weighed for linearity.
I've played downloaded (from emusic.com) mp3's and self-ripped Oggs, so far, and they sound just great. I have them cross-faded, and ise nice classic VU-Meters for display.
After unpacking, connecting to the network (the Cradle has a 100BT connector - the device does DHCP or manual IP setting.) copying the jarball for the "Lite" versions (which is what the Java apps are called) to my laptop, and running it, nothing much worked,at first.
The app allowed me to delete the pre-stored tracks, and to copy new ones from my HD, but the player would not see them. Also, character translation didn't work very well in the app.
So In checked out software and firmware versions on the support site, and the ones on the device and CD were hopelessly outdated already.
After updating both (I had to drive to work to find a Windoze Box.. the updater is an exe file and will not work with Wine) everything was suddenly okay, and I'm now a happy Karma User.
One downside so far: The included earphones hurt my ears and don't sound too great. Both cushions spontaneously fell off as I was removing the plugs from my ears, and were lost, already.
"My Karma is Great"
For what I know from 2 days ownership, I can certainly recommend it.