I have two ARM systems at home. One is QNAP TS-110 1-bay Home NAS Server powered by Debian ARM Linux and another one is Raspberry Pi powered by Raspbian(again Debian -> Linux) which serve as XBMC media center application. They are contrast to each other, But mostly I am not disappointed in finding the package due to its ARM nature. I had to compile the source of eGalax touch screen for Raspberry system (it is DIY). I was not able to find dropbox support for ARM system (it is closed source). Except a very few (not show stopper) issues, it is as cool as x86.
In India, at least 15 major languages are there. In most part of India (especially South India where most IT people are there) people don't speak Hindi. Learning Hindi won't be much useful. All educated people here communicate in English, in practical English is the official language.
Google chrome provides security warning while trying to navigate to suspicious site. Will this be available while generating/clicking shortened link from any browser - I mean independent of browser capability and settings?
Though I am a supporter of OpenOffice, many times I get annoyed with cluttered user interface (derived from MS Office). Why can't some one think of simple user interface like one Chrome did to browsers?
>if you make crap so long as people buy it it looks like contradicting statement - how come a crap can be sold? In such a case, you don't need engineering team at all...:-)
I think Google try to bring some wallpaper kind of stuff to its Chrome OS which is mostly a browser. It is a trial run to get a feel of it..:-) looks ugly?, just remove it. IMHO I need better index than better background
>This kind of simple overview documents should be enough all modules in kernel will be more helpful for young developers. Correction: This kind of simple overview documents **for all modules** in kernel will be more helpful for young developers.
Why the Google Chrome Browser 5.0.366.2 dev behaves strange while I am typing in text box? often cursor is absconded:-):-)
The first reason it seems to be "the geeky look and feel" of open source world, which stops them to communicate with the community project. See all these mailing lists - if any noob asks some basic question, how he would be treated? we know.... The projection of vi and emacs as the only editors to do all these stuff... rude behaviour of many geeks keep the young programmers away... there is no updated docs on kernel tree... In this scenario, if a young programmer is interested in kernel dev, it is great - he is **really** interested to hard core stuff - may be the geek's world consider all these as entrance test to kernel dev:-):-)
Second reason could be market value. I have supported a few college projects. IMHO the most students don't want to work in a project which does **not have any job market value** compared to VC++,.Net, Java, Web programming kind of stuff. When I tried to mentor development of a linux based communication framework project to one of the top most university's (in India) students as a project, It happened to me that I had to do complete coding and explaining them the code flow. I made them to understand the project.
Third reason could be development tools. The above mentioned students were very much interested in VB:-) Because the user interface is the one which attracted them towards it.
Though I am not a kernel programmer, occasionally I make my hands dirty... I hacked a modem driver to make my ISP provided modem to work in linux - it was around 10 years before - this was my first kernel look - I didn't get any materials to guide on code... just hours and hours of debugging, at last got it done. That is the reason when it was happened to dig through a network card driver, I just documented it for beginners (like me) like this http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2006/07/31/linux-ethernet-network-device-driver-a-flow-of-code/. This kind of simple overview documents should be enough all modules in kernel will be more helpful for young developers.
Sorry, I don't have good news for you. Govt. is slowly moving towards outsourcing of essential tasks to proven private companies, which can't be done by pretty old Govt. officials. Unique Citizen ID project is one such which is lead by the Ex-CEO of Infosys, the No. 1 IT company.
Yes, you are right! India's both strength and weakness lies in Democracy. That is the reason behind India's moderate growth compared to China's aggressive.
In the backdrop of Google vs China, we can't even imagine Google vs India. Here in India, you have freedom to express what you think. Here the limitation is you can't do as you wish freely due to practical issues like massive population, corrupted politicians (not political system) and bureaucrats and last but not least people's expectation that some one will/should come and solve our problem like a super man. China tackles all the above issues with one single weapon called Dictatorship in the name of Communism. So their pace may be better than India **as of now**.
But it is true that growth of a nation is **not** 100m race, it is marathon - you need consistent performance and more resilience. After all Country is nothing but the people. What the govt. is going to achieve by isolating its people from the main stream of world? In Tamil, there is a saying - "What you are going to achieve by buying painting at the cost of your eyes?"
I am afraid that I may be biased towards India, since I am an Indian. But I take US as dream role model for our country's political system. The democracy in US is the one which has driven it so far. We are lucky to have such a democracy in India. In US, the people's real patriotism lies in being true to the social setup (basically adhering to the rules and regulation of the society). But it is unfortunate that here in India patriotism is judged on your emotional show case than how sincere you are towards country's growth.
What about API for app developers? In my understanding, MeeGo is not going to have a unique app stack like Android does have. MeeGo's compatibility with desktop will bring existing great apps to Mobile device. That is good one. But there is no well defined API (like iPhone and Android) to make it happen.
How about my understanding?
Just slip a Linux Live CD and boot. You will find your windows partition mounted (or ready to mount) on File manager. Click.. Click.. Click.. PhD is done:-)
I agree to your points. But I don't consider the *six month release cycle* for non-techies who don't want bleeding edge apps and features. For them there is a LTS release. When a user face such issue during LTS 2 LTS upgrade, it should be considered in par with Windows, whose release cycle is too long.
But the internet media hype about "Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 9.10" kind of stupid comparison just to boost their hits.
Highly biased decision! What he has done to this world on peace? He has not even completed any remarkable task in his own country...Best joke of the year!
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I have two ARM systems at home. One is QNAP TS-110 1-bay Home NAS Server powered by Debian ARM Linux and another one is Raspberry Pi powered by Raspbian(again Debian -> Linux) which serve as XBMC media center application. They are contrast to each other, But mostly I am not disappointed in finding the package due to its ARM nature. I had to compile the source of eGalax touch screen for Raspberry system (it is DIY). I was not able to find dropbox support for ARM system (it is closed source). Except a very few (not show stopper) issues, it is as cool as x86.
that too being in India, I don't even bother about Netflix support.
In India, at least 15 major languages are there. In most part of India (especially South India where most IT people are there) people don't speak Hindi. Learning Hindi won't be much useful. All educated people here communicate in English, in practical English is the official language.
I don't think it is dead. It is considered as cheaper laptop with compact spec.
You have posted what exactly I am doing. thanks~
Google chrome provides security warning while trying to navigate to suspicious site. Will this be available while generating/clicking shortened link from any browser - I mean independent of browser capability and settings?
Though I am a supporter of OpenOffice, many times I get annoyed with cluttered user interface (derived from MS Office). Why can't some one think of simple user interface like one Chrome did to browsers?
>if you make crap so long as people buy it :-)
it looks like contradicting statement - how come a crap can be sold? In such a case, you don't need engineering team at all...
I think Google try to bring some wallpaper kind of stuff to its Chrome OS which is mostly a browser. It is a trial run to get a feel of it.. :-) looks ugly?, just remove it. IMHO I need better index than better background
Can some one tell me what could be idea behind buying Mandriva for these two companies? I am totally illiterate on these stuff :-)
>This kind of simple overview documents should be enough all modules in kernel will be more helpful for young developers.
Correction: This kind of simple overview documents **for all modules** in kernel will be more helpful for young developers.
Why the Google Chrome Browser 5.0.366.2 dev behaves strange while I am typing in text box? often cursor is absconded :-) :-)
The first reason it seems to be "the geeky look and feel" of open source world, which stops them to communicate with the community project. See all these mailing lists - if any noob asks some basic question, how he would be treated? we know.... The projection of vi and emacs as the only editors to do all these stuff... rude behaviour of many geeks keep the young programmers away... there is no updated docs on kernel tree... In this scenario, if a young programmer is interested in kernel dev, it is great - he is **really** interested to hard core stuff - may be the geek's world consider all these as entrance test to kernel dev :-) :-)
Second reason could be market value. I have supported a few college projects. IMHO the most students don't want to work in a project which does **not have any job market value** compared to VC++, .Net, Java, Web programming kind of stuff. When I tried to mentor development of a linux based communication framework project to one of the top most university's (in India) students as a project, It happened to me that I had to do complete coding and explaining them the code flow. I made them to understand the project.
Third reason could be development tools. The above mentioned students were very much interested in VB :-) Because the user interface is the one which attracted them towards it.
Though I am not a kernel programmer, occasionally I make my hands dirty... I hacked a modem driver to make my ISP provided modem to work in linux - it was around 10 years before - this was my first kernel look - I didn't get any materials to guide on code... just hours and hours of debugging, at last got it done. That is the reason when it was happened to dig through a network card driver, I just documented it for beginners (like me) like this http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2006/07/31/linux-ethernet-network-device-driver-a-flow-of-code/. This kind of simple overview documents should be enough all modules in kernel will be more helpful for young developers.
Sorry, I don't have good news for you. Govt. is slowly moving towards outsourcing of essential tasks to proven private companies, which can't be done by pretty old Govt. officials. Unique Citizen ID project is one such which is lead by the Ex-CEO of Infosys, the No. 1 IT company.
may be... but they are major in India :-)
Yes, you are right! India's both strength and weakness lies in Democracy. That is the reason behind India's moderate growth compared to China's aggressive.
In the backdrop of Google vs China, we can't even imagine Google vs India. Here in India, you have freedom to express what you think. Here the limitation is you can't do as you wish freely due to practical issues like massive population, corrupted politicians (not political system) and bureaucrats and last but not least people's expectation that some one will/should come and solve our problem like a super man. China tackles all the above issues with one single weapon called Dictatorship in the name of Communism. So their pace may be better than India **as of now**.
But it is true that growth of a nation is **not** 100m race, it is marathon - you need consistent performance and more resilience. After all Country is nothing but the people. What the govt. is going to achieve by isolating its people from the main stream of world? In Tamil, there is a saying - "What you are going to achieve by buying painting at the cost of your eyes?"
I am afraid that I may be biased towards India, since I am an Indian. But I take US as dream role model for our country's political system. The democracy in US is the one which has driven it so far. We are lucky to have such a democracy in India. In US, the people's real patriotism lies in being true to the social setup (basically adhering to the rules and regulation of the society). But it is unfortunate that here in India patriotism is judged on your emotional show case than how sincere you are towards country's growth.
What about API for app developers? In my understanding, MeeGo is not going to have a unique app stack like Android does have. MeeGo's compatibility with desktop will bring existing great apps to Mobile device. That is good one. But there is no well defined API (like iPhone and Android) to make it happen. How about my understanding?
Can't start windows - good thing resulted in no access to his data - bad thing
possibly you would have updated linux, by any chance? :-)
me too :-) but all these problems are applicable only at works where i have to live (??) with windows.
do you think that revealing that you are using windows at home will be a **decent** excuse? better tell them that your dog ate it :-)
Just slip a Linux Live CD and boot. You will find your windows partition mounted (or ready to mount) on File manager. Click.. Click.. Click.. PhD is done :-)
I agree to your points. But I don't consider the *six month release cycle* for non-techies who don't want bleeding edge apps and features. For them there is a LTS release. When a user face such issue during LTS 2 LTS upgrade, it should be considered in par with Windows, whose release cycle is too long. But the internet media hype about "Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 9.10" kind of stupid comparison just to boost their hits.
Highly biased decision! What he has done to this world on peace? He has not even completed any remarkable task in his own country...Best joke of the year!