Using some of the reddit threads, I threw together a set of scripts, a custom preseed file, and a modified cdrom apt repo to do non-efi installs here,
https://github.com/ecliptik/steamos-custom/
Oracle is trying to enter the x86 virtualization market with Xen in a product called Oracle VM. I've used it, and it's ugly. Besides the PHB marketing tagling of "you can run Oracle on the entire stack!", I've seen no technical reasons to use it over KVM or VMWare in the enterprise.
There's a nice 20% project called Android-Scripting that lets you use scripting languages through an interpreter. Not exactly fast and lacks some features, but it makes it easy to get started with basic Android development in a language you're more familiar with.
I've had nothing but trouble with Intel wi-fi chipsets on Linux, even with the latest kernel and firmwares it's still not stable and after a while becomes frustrating. I'm running OpoenBSD on my laptop for the sole reason of having a stable wi-fi connection.
Miguel de Icaza posted a note this morning saying that after working with MS last night they now have a Moonlight add-on for 32/64-bit and PowerPC Firefox to stream the inauguration live from the official pic2009.org site. The install was quick, although the stream seems to stop and stutter frequently.
That's why Netflix offers "Instant" movies and tv shows, sure it's not the entire library but they're unlimited now and they're constantly adding more. Unfortunately it's only available for Windows, but it's still a nice addition to their already exceptional service at no extra cost.
I recently had a phone interview with Qualcomm for a position in their MediaFlow division. Apparently they are planning to use recently freed UHF frequencies to digitally broadcast "cable" TV directly to cell phones . I wouldn't be surprised if they continued to expand this type of service with the additional licenses they picked up in the auction.
Civilization has yet to make a console release, and it'll probably be sub-par.
Civilization: Revolution is coming out for PS3, Xbox 360 and the DS soon, and from what I've read it's not too bad. Unfortunately they Wii version is on hold at the moment, as I was hoping the Wii controls would finally bring a lot of these "PC Friendly" games to consoles.
If you don't think the U.S. doesn't have any real journalists you should check out Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. He's interesting, energetic, and covers stories that are rarely mentioned in the major news cycle. His special comments are also some of the best moments in modern TV news history:
I was thinking about this the other day, if we ever are able to travel to a point in space thousands of light years away from Earth it would be interesting to turn something like this back on our own planet and see into its past.
If we have sophisticated enough technology to get that far away I'm sure they'll be a telescope powerful enough to witness actual events as they unfold on the surface.
At 25 I just inherited my dad's vinyl collection and I've found they make music fun again. When digital distribution of started to catch on I stopped buying CDs, but then it felt like I was just buying filenames. Even when I occasionally bought a CD, I would just rip it to MP3 and put it on my shelf never to bother with it again. Convenient yes, fun not so much.
With vinyl all this convenience goes away. It's fun to go to the record store and sift through 1.00$ bins, or find pressings of newer groups. Then when you get home, you play it. You don't put it into your computer and hit button. You open it up, carefully take the disk out, notice the large liner notes, spin up the table and enjoy. It's more of an event than just rip. burn. play.
Sure it's analog, and there's the occasional distortion, but with a decent cartridge and stylus it's amazing how good new vinyl sounds. Finding spare sleeves to put your favorite albums in then putting the cover them on your wall make for some good excellent wall art too. To me it's similar to why I buy books even when I can get e-books. Life it's just about making everything streamlined and perfect, sometimes you need a little analog grit to keep it interesting.
Of course, I negated myself already by writing about ripping vinyl with 100% Free Software , but that's more for getting my dads old albums onto CD for him.
Yes, it still is supported, but it's only supported under the legacy driver which you need to dig into the Nvidia forums to find. If you try and use the most up-to-date driver with these older cards you'll get an error message in the installer telling you to use the legacy drivers.
I went down this road and followed their instructions, only to get a low res and odd looking desktop with the new legacy driver. After trying an array of different options and fixes in my X config file, I eventually had to drop back to the release before the legacy driver split in order to get a properly working desktop.
If you had referred me like the user you mentioned I would have been SOL on trying to get your game to work. At least if the driver was free I could have had a chance to figure out why exactly the old driver worked while new legacy driver didn't.
I would tend to agree with the points he brings up, but then I keep getting reminded about the City of Largo in Florida.
Six years ago I read about their linux terminal service project, in which the entire city was run using Linux apps like OpenOffice, Evolution, etc, and was blown away, thinking it was the future of Linux in the business world.
Time passed, and when this didn't happen I gradually forgot about it, until the city came up in a comment this week pointing to the lead admins blog on the new system they're putting in. Not only has Linux satisfying their business needs since 2001, but they're also adding cutting edge features like 3D desktops and all sorts of crazy features.
So how is it that this guy can claim that Linux has kept failing over and over again, when Largo has a dream Linux business system running right now?
I remember reading about the City of Largo's thin client setup six years ago and that's great it's still going strong and the admin keeps a blog detailing it.
I didn't even know it was possible to run 3D desktops over a network like that, and the menu system he's devising with launching different apps off of multiple app servers is brilliant.
Now excuse me while I trudge off to manually update adobe on 60+ computers...
Suprisingly while playing Wii sports a message pops up every half hour or so between games suggesting you take a break. It's accompanied by a picture of a Wiimote on a table next to an open window. Which either suggests you jump out it or actually go outside. Here's a page with a screen of it.
Even since OpenBSD started to "theme" each release I've been disappointed in the merchandise. The artwork is great, but it's just something I wouldn't want to hang on my wall or wear in public.
Thankfully you can still order stuff from old releases. My personal favourite is the poster from 2.9, which is simple and illustrates exactly what OpenBSD is about but professional enough you could hang it your office. I'd buy something every release if they were more like that.
If you're running a WSUS server and your computer gets it's updates from it it's easy to ignore it.
Create a new group can call it something like NoIE7, add your computer and any other computers you don't want to have it, then when IE7 comes down the automatic update pipe next month, change it's group approval to "Not Approved". Voila.
He's right, it's an issue with the IDE Drivers. Before you swap motherboards on a Win2k+ install make sure that the IDE driver in device manager is set to generic. Otherwise you'll get that dreaded STOP Error.
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I remember getting a glquake.exe that would run on any opengl video card, not just a 3DFX. Was this just a figment of my imagination, or was there really such an executable that would turn Quake into pure 3d goodness for all?
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Using some of the reddit threads, I threw together a set of scripts, a custom preseed file, and a modified cdrom apt repo to do non-efi installs here, https://github.com/ecliptik/steamos-custom/
Don't over look the Instant Upload feature, it allows you to store photos and video directly to your Google account from your phone.
Handy in situations when the cops see you recording them and try and destroy your phone
Buried in the Intel Motheboard PDF on page 10 section 6.8 it says they're using CentOS 5.2 as the OS:
Also, in the chassis design it seems there are rubber passthrus to allow cables to go between servers above and below each other.
Virtualbox is their consumer x86 virtualization product, Oracle VM is their x86 enterprise virtualization solution; clusters, high-availability, etc.
Think of it like this:
Virtualbox = VMware Workstation
Oracle VM = ESX/vSphere
Oracle is trying to enter the x86 virtualization market with Xen in a product called Oracle VM. I've used it, and it's ugly. Besides the PHB marketing tagling of "you can run Oracle on the entire stack!", I've seen no technical reasons to use it over KVM or VMWare in the enterprise.
Or Python or Perl on Android
There's a nice 20% project called Android-Scripting that lets you use scripting languages through an interpreter. Not exactly fast and lacks some features, but it makes it easy to get started with basic Android development in a language you're more familiar with.
https://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
I've had nothing but trouble with Intel wi-fi chipsets on Linux, even with the latest kernel and firmwares it's still not stable and after a while becomes frustrating. I'm running OpoenBSD on my laptop for the sole reason of having a stable wi-fi connection.
Miguel de Icaza posted a note this morning saying that after working with MS last night they now have a Moonlight add-on for 32/64-bit and PowerPC Firefox to stream the inauguration live from the official pic2009.org site. The install was quick, although the stream seems to stop and stutter frequently.
That's why Netflix offers "Instant" movies and tv shows, sure it's not the entire library but they're unlimited now and they're constantly adding more. Unfortunately it's only available for Windows, but it's still a nice addition to their already exceptional service at no extra cost.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070116-8627.htmlI recently had a phone interview with Qualcomm for a position in their MediaFlow division. Apparently they are planning to use recently freed UHF frequencies to digitally broadcast "cable" TV directly to cell phones . I wouldn't be surprised if they continued to expand this type of service with the additional licenses they picked up in the auction.
Civilization: Revolution is coming out for PS3, Xbox 360 and the DS soon, and from what I've read it's not too bad. Unfortunately they Wii version is on hold at the moment, as I was hoping the Wii controls would finally bring a lot of these "PC Friendly" games to consoles.
If you don't think the U.S. doesn't have any real journalists you should check out Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. He's interesting, energetic, and covers stories that are rarely mentioned in the major news cycle. His special comments are also some of the best moments in modern TV news history:
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Special Comments
I was thinking about this the other day, if we ever are able to travel to a point in space thousands of light years away from Earth it would be interesting to turn something like this back on our own planet and see into its past.
If we have sophisticated enough technology to get that far away I'm sure they'll be a telescope powerful enough to witness actual events as they unfold on the surface.
At 25 I just inherited my dad's vinyl collection and I've found they make music fun again. When digital distribution of started to catch on I stopped buying CDs, but then it felt like I was just buying filenames. Even when I occasionally bought a CD, I would just rip it to MP3 and put it on my shelf never to bother with it again. Convenient yes, fun not so much.
With vinyl all this convenience goes away. It's fun to go to the record store and sift through 1.00$ bins, or find pressings of newer groups. Then when you get home, you play it. You don't put it into your computer and hit button. You open it up, carefully take the disk out, notice the large liner notes, spin up the table and enjoy. It's more of an event than just rip. burn. play.
Sure it's analog, and there's the occasional distortion, but with a decent cartridge and stylus it's amazing how good new vinyl sounds. Finding spare sleeves to put your favorite albums in then putting the cover them on your wall make for some good excellent wall art too. To me it's similar to why I buy books even when I can get e-books. Life it's just about making everything streamlined and perfect, sometimes you need a little analog grit to keep it interesting.
Of course, I negated myself already by writing about ripping vinyl with 100% Free Software , but that's more for getting my dads old albums onto CD for him.
Yes, it still is supported, but it's only supported under the legacy driver which you need to dig into the Nvidia forums to find. If you try and use the most up-to-date driver with these older cards you'll get an error message in the installer telling you to use the legacy drivers.
I went down this road and followed their instructions, only to get a low res and odd looking desktop with the new legacy driver. After trying an array of different options and fixes in my X config file, I eventually had to drop back to the release before the legacy driver split in order to get a properly working desktop.
If you had referred me like the user you mentioned I would have been SOL on trying to get your game to work. At least if the driver was free I could have had a chance to figure out why exactly the old driver worked while new legacy driver didn't.
I would tend to agree with the points he brings up, but then I keep getting reminded about the City of Largo in Florida.
Six years ago I read about their linux terminal service project, in which the entire city was run using Linux apps like OpenOffice, Evolution, etc, and was blown away, thinking it was the future of Linux in the business world.
Time passed, and when this didn't happen I gradually forgot about it, until the city came up in a comment this week pointing to the lead admins blog on the new system they're putting in. Not only has Linux satisfying their business needs since 2001, but they're also adding cutting edge features like 3D desktops and all sorts of crazy features.
So how is it that this guy can claim that Linux has kept failing over and over again, when Largo has a dream Linux business system running right now?
Am I missing something here?
There already is an incentive to use CFLS:
Cheaper electric bill every month
I remember reading about the City of Largo's thin client setup six years ago and that's great it's still going strong and the admin keeps a blog detailing it.
I didn't even know it was possible to run 3D desktops over a network like that, and the menu system he's devising with launching different apps off of multiple app servers is brilliant.
Now excuse me while I trudge off to manually update adobe on 60+ computers...
Suprisingly while playing Wii sports a message pops up every half hour or so between games suggesting you take a break. It's accompanied by a picture of a Wiimote on a table next to an open window. Which either suggests you jump out it or actually go outside. Here's a page with a screen of it.
Even since OpenBSD started to "theme" each release I've been disappointed in the merchandise. The artwork is great, but it's just something I wouldn't want to hang on my wall or wear in public.
Thankfully you can still order stuff from old releases. My personal favourite is the poster from 2.9, which is simple and illustrates exactly what OpenBSD is about but professional enough you could hang it your office. I'd buy something every release if they were more like that.
If you're running a WSUS server and your computer gets it's updates from it it's easy to ignore it.
Create a new group can call it something like NoIE7, add your computer and any other computers you don't want to have it, then when IE7 comes down the automatic update pipe next month, change it's group approval to "Not Approved". Voila.
Firefox uses a few Vi keybindings too, for example hit / for a search.
I also seem to remember hjkl working for navigation in an older release but I think they removed it.
He's right, it's an issue with the IDE Drivers. Before you swap motherboards on a Win2k+ install make sure that the IDE driver in device manager is set to generic. Otherwise you'll get that dreaded STOP Error.
Here's a good link for it:
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/moth erboard/problems.htm
I remember getting a glquake.exe that would run on any opengl video card, not just a 3DFX. Was this just a figment of my imagination, or was there really such an executable that would turn Quake into pure 3d goodness for all?
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