> unless you have some sort of disposable cover over the iPad,
I keep it in a leatherette case and use a stick-on screen protector. I would *love* to have tear-away plastic or something, but haven't been using it heavily enough to need this yet.
(that's also why I was really hoping to get one of those $99 HP tablets, heh!)
For now, I navigate with my pinky after wiping off the nitrile glove on my coveralls. But you're right, if the garage was a common use place something *would* eventually happen to it. My paper shop manuals are well thumbed and full of greasy fingerprints, which illustrates your point nicely.
No big deal, though, the use-case is there, eventually tablets will get cheap enough that we won't care.
> There, I just saved you a couple hundred dollars (at least).
Can you "flip" the page to turn it?
I find touchscreen/gesture navigation to be especially effective when the time to reach from the piano and complete the navigation needs to be in the sub 100ms range.
> Though I wouldn't trust any of the music stands (except a conductor's) to protect the 'pad.
Actually, a regular stand works just fine -- assuming you have a decent one and not one of those flimsy pieces of crap. If it can hold a fake book, it can hold an iPad.
> if music sheet publishers suddenly decided to get on to an electronic format that > could compete with the paper equivalent
'most every book I have in paper is available in torrent-land as a PDF. There is a decent tool to manage them, iGigBook, that lets me search and find songs fast enough that it's useful in a live gig.
You can also buy songs in Sibelius Scorch format, Hal Leonard has been e-publishing like this for years with a HUGE catalog, and IIUC there is now a Scorch reader for iPad. The Scorch reader is actually an improvement on PDF; it will transpose sheet music, play it, and print it. The print out is virtually indistinguishable from store-bought sheets (except for the paper quality and size, natch).
I bought my iPad for sheet music -- it replaces a 4' stack of paper right now -- but use it for lots of other things, too. Like watching TV, reading books, casual surfing (e.g. reading gardening websites, flickr, etc), surfing for chords/lyrics, checking the thesaurus, etc.
It's also useful in the garage when I have the service manual for the vehicle I'm servicing (and/or AllData) in electronic format; it's much more convenient than a laptop when you're under a car looking at a diagram or checking a torque spec.
It's definitely not a replacement for anything, it's a whole new device. Whether it suits you is largely dependent on what you want to do with it.
Sounds like you either had the wrong customers, or the wrong employer.
Let's break down your rant: there are three things which are likely to go wrong:
1. The entire system goes down for a non-trivial period of time 2. An important piece of e-mail from a customer goes missing 3. The service is terminated
#1 hasn't happened in five years, and I doubt Google will drop the ball that badly. If they ever do, I'll throw a team at the problem and have a working (but inelegant) mail service back online the same day. Our domain's SOA has a 30 minute TTL for a reason..
#2 - in my line of business, important contracts *always* arrive after a voice telephone call. If something goes missing (and this happens, on occasion, due to sender error mostly), a phone call resolves it in short order.
#3 - if this happens - and it's unlikely - I'll have a new (inelegant) mail system up the same day, and backups restored the day after or so.
Why even pick something asexual? It is still possible in those cases (but incredibly unlikely) that a bug could crawl into two un-opened flowers and cross-pollinate before the anthers touch the stigmae.
I would chose something that is infertile instead, like garlic.
Maybe is companies spend a little less time running cables, configuring SANs, and patching OSes, they'll be able to focus on stuff like features, reliability security ?
Exactly. We're a software shop that has a pile of UNIX geeks and plenty of mail expertise. We outsourced mail and calendaring to Google a few years ago and couldn't be happier.
Why did we do this? The first clue was that *everybody* was forwarding their mail to gmail.com accounts because the search was so damn fast, and we knew what kind of money+time it would take to make our local stuff that fast.
Now we don't have that mystery missing-man-day every month when something inevitably goes wrong, allowing us to spend that much more time on software.
And, as a bonus, we have functionality we didn't before -- like exchange integration, so that meeting invites from our parters (using MS stacks) pop up on our iPhones.
I mean, really -- other than Larry and Sergei reading our mail, there really isn't much of a downside.
If he finds CAT3 and the phones only use one pair, he might hit the jackpot: you can run 10-base-T over CAT 3, as it is rated for 10 MHz / 100m IIRC.
This means getting a good network switch that you can program to automatically derate the ports to 10-base-T, playing some games in the PBX wiring closet, sticking wireless repeaters at the other end, and Bob's your uncle.
No hotel guest would complain about a 10Mbit network if the coverage was good and there weren't too many stations per AP.
I have a Sun Type 5c keyboard and mouse rigged up to my Mac with the same layout you've got on the (inferior-feeling) Type 6 there.
The copy/undo etc keys are still quite useful; I was able remap those with Controller Mate IV to generate Mac shortcuts. That works because I can never remember if it's the curly key or the slashy key that is "cmd" -- I guess I should have labelled them with words instead of copying their symbols.
The one key I REALLY miss, though, is the "Again" key. If I could just find a way to push the keycode through the HID layer into X11 so it would be available to X-Emacs. That's the handiest key ever. It does whatever you just did.
The status bar wasn't just renamed, it was seriously improved now that it's a general-purpose bar, rather than *just* a status bar.
I put my location bar in it, so that I look at the bottom of the screen when typing in a URL, but at the top of the screen when looking for a tab. Keeping my head moving like that helps my neck.
So, to summarize: old - cannot be customized. new - can be customized, off by default.
> The problem seems to be Java-Programmers who > don't understand the concept of RAII.
Don't worry, most of them probably don't understand garbage collection, either. They just think it's a magical black box that does magic things... and then look bemused when they have a core leak.
> You have an out of support by 10 years system with no contract > and you want services from Oracle/Sun to support your system.
I want the same services that were present when I bought the product and got the OS license.
I don't think that's unreasonable -- you can't change what's been bought after the fact. Like my iPhone, I don't use it to listen to music, but if they turned around and disabled that function in an iOS update I would be livid.
Hell, I wouldn't even have been upset at being asked to pay two or three hundred dollars in order to download the firmware I wanted. But being quoted nearly $10,000 for sunsolve access for a server I bought for $3,400 new 10 years ago -- is ludicrous. You can't for one microsecond think that's reasonable.
So, take your shitty attitude and go piss up a rope.
Yeah. Jonathan fucked up sunsolve, but Larry's made it even worse.
You know what I had to do the other day? Go through a STACK of Ultra 5s looking for a motherboard with the right version of OpenBoot to work properly in the server I was repairing (which was running a printing press) based on an Ultra 10.
You know what the Sun^H^H^HOracle answer to my problem is? Re-validate the server because it's been out of support for 10 years (several thousand dollars and many days' wait), get a support contract on it, and then access SunSolve to download the right firmware. FUCK THAT. When I bought those boxes, I could just log in and download it. I should have spidered the damn site, I guess.
Hey, that's another thing. I re-built a Solaris 10 11/06 server the other day, and went to build SpiderMonkey on it. I need NSPR 4.7, that requires a patch to SUNWpr and SUNWprd. I had to crawl through old/export/home backups until I found the patches I wanted. To effing GPLd software. Couldn't download the patches from Sun any more. WTF!
I'm so pissed at Sun these days. I'm a legal Solaris license holder, running on Sun hardware that I don't have a support contract on. I do my own support, always have. Occasionally I buy support-by-the-hour if I get in over my head (but that hasn't happened in years).
So. Now I can't download security patches for the OS. That's right. If anybody finds a hole in the OS they can just drive a truck through and I can't do anything about it. Thank God I don't run any Sun-supplied daemons bare on the 'net.
And this really pisses me off, I have been a Sun customer since '98 and user since '92. I love the hardware, I love the OS, I love the storage arrays, I love the cluster software, I love the end-to-end-to-integration, but I hate the direction the business is taking.
I'm just really having a hard time finding good solutions to replace my Sun boxes. So far, LXC looks like a good substitute for sparse-root zones, but I haven't found things like SUNWstade, Sun Cluster, etc., that work nearly as well. Fortunately my development work is GNU-stack, so I'm not stuck porting away from Sun Forte.
GRR!
Sorry, just needed to vent. Very frustrated user here.
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> unless you have some sort of disposable cover over the iPad,
I keep it in a leatherette case and use a stick-on screen protector. I would *love* to have tear-away plastic or something, but haven't been using it heavily enough to need this yet.
(that's also why I was really hoping to get one of those $99 HP tablets, heh!)
For now, I navigate with my pinky after wiping off the nitrile glove on my coveralls. But you're right, if the garage was a common use place something *would* eventually happen to it. My paper shop manuals are well thumbed and full of greasy fingerprints, which illustrates your point nicely.
No big deal, though, the use-case is there, eventually tablets will get cheap enough that we won't care.
> There, I just saved you a couple hundred dollars (at least).
Can you "flip" the page to turn it?
I find touchscreen/gesture navigation to be especially effective when the time to reach from the piano and complete the navigation needs to be in the sub 100ms range.
> Though I wouldn't trust any of the music stands (except a conductor's) to protect the 'pad.
Actually, a regular stand works just fine -- assuming you have a decent one and not one of those flimsy pieces of crap. If it can hold a fake book, it can hold an iPad.
> if music sheet publishers suddenly decided to get on to an electronic format that
> could compete with the paper equivalent
'most every book I have in paper is available in torrent-land as a PDF. There is a decent tool to manage them, iGigBook, that lets me search and find songs fast enough that it's useful in a live gig.
You can also buy songs in Sibelius Scorch format, Hal Leonard has been e-publishing like this for years with a HUGE catalog, and IIUC there is now a Scorch reader for iPad. The Scorch reader is actually an improvement on PDF; it will transpose sheet music, play it, and print it. The print out is virtually indistinguishable from store-bought sheets (except for the paper quality and size, natch).
I bought my iPad for sheet music -- it replaces a 4' stack of paper right now -- but use it for lots of other things, too. Like watching TV, reading books, casual surfing (e.g. reading gardening websites, flickr, etc), surfing for chords/lyrics, checking the thesaurus, etc.
It's also useful in the garage when I have the service manual for the vehicle I'm servicing (and/or AllData) in electronic format; it's much more convenient than a laptop when you're under a car looking at a diagram or checking a torque spec.
It's definitely not a replacement for anything, it's a whole new device. Whether it suits you is largely dependent on what you want to do with it.
> I just cannot see what a 'pad can do that a notebook cannot do better
I'd like to see you fit a notebook on a music stand.
> We politely declined his request.
If this predated /etc/shadow, I would have just mailed him back his root password. :)
Sounds like you either had the wrong customers, or the wrong employer.
Let's break down your rant: there are three things which are likely to go wrong:
1. The entire system goes down for a non-trivial period of time
2. An important piece of e-mail from a customer goes missing
3. The service is terminated
#1 hasn't happened in five years, and I doubt Google will drop the ball that badly. If they ever do, I'll throw a team at the problem and have a working (but inelegant) mail service back online the same day. Our domain's SOA has a 30 minute TTL for a reason..
#2 - in my line of business, important contracts *always* arrive after a voice telephone call. If something goes missing (and this happens, on occasion, due to sender error mostly), a phone call resolves it in short order.
#3 - if this happens - and it's unlikely - I'll have a new (inelegant) mail system up the same day, and backups restored the day after or so.
Why even pick something asexual? It is still possible in those cases (but incredibly unlikely) that a bug could crawl into two un-opened flowers and cross-pollinate before the anthers touch the stigmae.
I would chose something that is infertile instead, like garlic.
Exactly. We're a software shop that has a pile of UNIX geeks and plenty of mail expertise. We outsourced mail and calendaring to Google a few years ago and couldn't be happier.
Why did we do this? The first clue was that *everybody* was forwarding their mail to gmail.com accounts because the search was so damn fast, and we knew what kind of money+time it would take to make our local stuff that fast.
Now we don't have that mystery missing-man-day every month when something inevitably goes wrong, allowing us to spend that much more time on software.
And, as a bonus, we have functionality we didn't before -- like exchange integration, so that meeting invites from our parters (using MS stacks) pop up on our iPhones.
I mean, really -- other than Larry and Sergei reading our mail, there really isn't much of a downside.
If he finds CAT3 and the phones only use one pair, he might hit the jackpot: you can run 10-base-T over CAT 3, as it is rated for 10 MHz / 100m IIRC.
This means getting a good network switch that you can program to automatically derate the ports to 10-base-T, playing some games in the PBX wiring closet, sticking wireless repeaters at the other end, and Bob's your uncle.
No hotel guest would complain about a 10Mbit network if the coverage was good and there weren't too many stations per AP.
I have a Sun Type 5c keyboard and mouse rigged up to my Mac with the same layout you've got on the (inferior-feeling) Type 6 there.
The copy/undo etc keys are still quite useful; I was able remap those with Controller Mate IV to generate Mac shortcuts. That works because I can never remember if it's the curly key or the slashy key that is "cmd" -- I guess I should have labelled them with words instead of copying their symbols.
The one key I REALLY miss, though, is the "Again" key. If I could just find a way to push the keycode through the HID layer into X11 so it would be available to X-Emacs. That's the handiest key ever. It does whatever you just did.
The status bar wasn't just renamed, it was seriously improved now that it's a general-purpose bar, rather than *just* a status bar.
I put my location bar in it, so that I look at the bottom of the screen when typing in a URL, but at the top of the screen when looking for a tab. Keeping my head moving like that helps my neck.
So, to summarize: old - cannot be customized. new - can be customized, off by default.
I agree with you, not such a huge pain.
Don't worry. Teal'c will take care of Apophis.
You're an idiot.
Klines means "thousands of lines", and is actually probably annoying to type on an iPad because I bet auto-correct doesn't know that.
> The problem seems to be Java-Programmers who
> don't understand the concept of RAII.
Don't worry, most of them probably don't understand garbage collection, either. They just think it's a magical black box that does magic things... and then look bemused when they have a core leak.
It also makes a fabulous garbage dump!
Let me know when you figure that out, I have an E3000, an E450 or two and a bunch of E420Rs to get rid of.
(Any wierd nerds reading this? They're yours if you can come pick 'em up!)
Last I checked, copyright violations were torts, not crimes.
I dunno, man.
I only get 51 mpg on my bike. That's not much different from 54.5.
> You have an out of support by 10 years system with no contract
> and you want services from Oracle/Sun to support your system.
I want the same services that were present when I bought the product and got the OS license.
I don't think that's unreasonable -- you can't change what's been bought after the fact. Like my iPhone, I don't use it to listen to music, but if they turned around and disabled that function in an iOS update I would be livid.
Hell, I wouldn't even have been upset at being asked to pay two or three hundred dollars in order to download the firmware I wanted. But being quoted nearly $10,000 for sunsolve access for a server I bought for $3,400 new 10 years ago -- is ludicrous. You can't for one microsecond think that's reasonable.
So, take your shitty attitude and go piss up a rope.
I bet it would cost a lot more than $2500 if she needed a plate and screws in that arm.
I wonder what it would cost if she'd fallen backwards, hit her head, and needed a CT scan?
Hey, Peter -- if you get sick of Switzerland, think about moving to Canada. I'd be happy to have you as my neighbour.
Yeah. Jonathan fucked up sunsolve, but Larry's made it even worse.
You know what I had to do the other day? Go through a STACK of Ultra 5s looking for a motherboard with the right version of OpenBoot to work properly in the server I was repairing (which was running a printing press) based on an Ultra 10.
You know what the Sun^H^H^HOracle answer to my problem is? Re-validate the server because it's been out of support for 10 years (several thousand dollars and many days' wait), get a support contract on it, and then access SunSolve to download the right firmware. FUCK THAT. When I bought those boxes, I could just log in and download it. I should have spidered the damn site, I guess.
Hey, that's another thing. I re-built a Solaris 10 11/06 server the other day, and went to build SpiderMonkey on it. I need NSPR 4.7, that requires a patch to SUNWpr and SUNWprd. I had to crawl through old /export/home backups until I found the patches I wanted. To effing GPLd software. Couldn't download the patches from Sun any more. WTF!
I'm so pissed at Sun these days. I'm a legal Solaris license holder, running on Sun hardware that I don't have a support contract on. I do my own support, always have. Occasionally I buy support-by-the-hour if I get in over my head (but that hasn't happened in years).
So. Now I can't download security patches for the OS. That's right. If anybody finds a hole in the OS they can just drive a truck through and I can't do anything about it. Thank God I don't run any Sun-supplied daemons bare on the 'net.
And this really pisses me off, I have been a Sun customer since '98 and user since '92. I love the hardware, I love the OS, I love the storage arrays, I love the cluster software, I love the end-to-end-to-integration, but I hate the direction the business is taking.
I'm just really having a hard time finding good solutions to replace my Sun boxes. So far, LXC looks like a good substitute for sparse-root zones, but I haven't found things like SUNWstade, Sun Cluster, etc., that work nearly as well. Fortunately my development work is GNU-stack, so I'm not stuck porting away from Sun Forte.
GRR!
Sorry, just needed to vent. Very frustrated user here.
So, I'm no expert here, but is it REALLY possible to design a building which does not resonate at any frequency?
Your SIM trick is useless, AFAIK -- IIUC the HLR knows your IMEI
> Problem is, he sent 117 patches in the form of 117 emails,
Seriously?! I would have told him to fuck off and submit a single patch with the bug tracker.
I'm assuming git can do ~ "hg diff" and lkml has some kind of bug tracker? Or are they still in comp.sources.* mode?