Which is fair, but if the OP really wanted to listen to this content, a couple of clicks would re-enable Flash for that session so he could use it, if the OP was using Firefox. Flash certainly can use your webcam, but right clicking a Flash object, going to settings, and a click of a checkbox denies Flash access to your webcam.
Look, I hate Flash too in a lot of ways. On OS X, it's still a dog, stealing copious amounts of CPU at times, and hanging the browser at others. The Windows version is still the cleanest implementation, but it's far from perfect. On the other hand, Adobe seems oddly committed to polishing it up, because it's nearly a standard at this point, and I'd much prefer they win over Silverlight -- because Silverlight is the only browser plugin to date that has successfully brought my machine to a kernel panic. No one doubts that Flash needs a lot of work, but the complaints people have are easily fixable with an extension or simply some smart use of the computer. Those without the necessarily intelligence to successfully disable this stuff generally don't care about what Flash does in the first place.
It's ignorance on the part of flash developers, just like HTML designers who don't use ALT tags on images. Adobe provides the technology, developers just don't care.
Flash allows you to have text alternates to every element on the page, and screen readers can hook into them just like any other web plugin. As I am not blind, I do not have a screen reader, so I can't answer your question. I can tell you quite confidently that the OP did not have this as his argument.
Really? Flash is pretty easy to use, too. You just install the plugin, and bam, it works. Amazingly enough, this is relevant to Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Wow. Technology.
It's amazing. A few years ago, people would whine about using RealAudio to distribute. Then they'd whine about WMA, because it wasn't cross platform. Then they'd whine about MP3 because of licensing. Now, sites are using a cross platform, semi open distribution method that is nearly ubiquitous, and now people want to make things up to whine about. Just install Flash.
You're paying a little over $50/month for connections that most of us dreamt of ten years ago, and you're whining about a hard limit of 250gb before/you get a phone call/? Do you know how much you have to pay for 250gb of transfer from a reasonably well known colocation provider?
I'm just happy there's a hard limit in place, so I can keep an eye on RRD. Even with working from home and torrenting like mad, I don't come even close to that limit.
Yep. But note that in this posting, it doesn't say what core features are offered, only that developer access to the API has been taken away. It's very possible, and very likely that the core features of most mobiles are there -- OBEX, DUN, Headset.
If you read the article, you'd see the API was for third party applications to extend bluetooth. Android phones will be able to connect to headsets just fine, and a software update will add further support.
Python, I can agree with, but Ruby? It effectively looks the same as Perl when it's all said and done. It encourages the same use of odd characters, shortcuts, whitespace issues, and poorly managed namespaces that Perl does.
Unfortunately, we only had two machines available for testing, representing the two configurations of hardware we were using. The upgrade went off without a hitch.
Okay, I'll give in. md on Linux is mostly broken, but is almost usable for personal needs, as long as you have the time to take care of it when things go wrong.
No offense taken, but your first line is a typical response from most linux users -- anything that goes wrong is either an admin issue or a hardware issue.
First, md forgetting drives is not a hardware issue. Linux sees the drive, the serial number of the drive is the same, the hardware does not change, the hardware works. Sometimes, you will boot, and it just loses the configuration, so you reconfigure the array, and wait for it to check everything out. For two hours. At 3am.
Wiping out configuration during upgrades happened for two consecutive releases of the master distribution. Everything is backed up, but 3/4's of the machines didn't boot properly after md was upgraded. Turned out this was a pretty known issue. No one ever thought that people would want things migrated. Everyone seems to have a few hours to manually move arrays over.
Look, I'm all for great, open, free technology. The problem is, most people don't think about the big picture. LVM and MD are fine for personal machines that don't do much more than serve up files, or play music, or what have you. Technology like ZFS is designed to be bulletproof, documented, and it has to be supported. Not only that, but given the right amount of RAM, ZFS can outperform many off the shelf RAID systems, and give you flexibility in mirroring, snapshots, and drive support that LVM cannot possibly compare to.
The only reason ZFS hasn't had much news in Linux land is that it 'wasn't invented here' and it isn't GPL. Last I heard, there was a movement underway to reimplement ZFS under the GPL. I would imagine we'll see something in five years or so.
Only when it forgets where drives are, or wipes configuration during upgrades, or the fact that it's slower than software raid setups in FreeBSD or even Mac OS X.
md on a single box occasionally works. Managing 120 machines with md became a reason to never use md again.
You've run ZFS in production, yet you can't see the improvement on Linux's model? You mean the fact that md is completely broken and LVM is unreliable and slow by comparison?
The iPhone has a larger capacity battery than many of those models. There's also not one single Nokia model on that list, and the N95 outlasts the iPhone easily.
Apparently, the people you know are not very intelligent, considering they fell for a scam. There are many many users on Craigslist who use it quite successfully, it just takes a little smarts. If you can't handle that, then newspaper ads, eBay, and signs in your yard are going to be just as scary for you.
I think the only reason people post is because of how big of a deal people make MySQL... even though it's slow, unreliable, difficult to scale, and yet, people flock to it.
Because it isn't 1912, and we aren't on the Titanic. They can say with reasonable confidence that it's difficult to find the underlying issue, but nothing is hackproof, or sinkproof, or lameproof.
Or, maybe Firefox 2 sucked that much. I was running the Firefox 3 alphas long ago, only because the RAM situation in 2.x was so atrocious. I had to upgrade my wife as well, because I got sick of hearing from the living room, "I thought you said Firefox was better?" as her system ground to a halt.
Oh, no, no, no. Linux completely blows at I/O. The amount of iowait I deal with on anything less than pure SCSI disks is insane for any operating system, and it is handily beaten by FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows.
Have you ever used S60? It's a fine mobile operating system and easy to use. I'm certainly optimistic about their touch interface.
Also, you'll be able to tether your computer to it, will play audio over A2DP, allow non-Nokia authorized software to run on it, have an SDK that doesn't require a Mac... shall I continue?
FireWire requires an actual IO controller, where USB 2 relies on the CPU and the driver.
In short -- FireWire is faster and requires far less load on the target machine. The downside is the initial cost is higher. I find it pays for itself pretty quick.
Why have I never seen Vala featured on Slashdot before? If anything, the language intrigues me, and seems to be a nice way to get OO GTK going on without silly C hacks or writing it in Perl/Python.
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But it is installable with a commonly available 32 bit wrapper on most if not all major distributions, making it effectively a non-issue.
Which is fair, but if the OP really wanted to listen to this content, a couple of clicks would re-enable Flash for that session so he could use it, if the OP was using Firefox. Flash certainly can use your webcam, but right clicking a Flash object, going to settings, and a click of a checkbox denies Flash access to your webcam.
Look, I hate Flash too in a lot of ways. On OS X, it's still a dog, stealing copious amounts of CPU at times, and hanging the browser at others. The Windows version is still the cleanest implementation, but it's far from perfect. On the other hand, Adobe seems oddly committed to polishing it up, because it's nearly a standard at this point, and I'd much prefer they win over Silverlight -- because Silverlight is the only browser plugin to date that has successfully brought my machine to a kernel panic. No one doubts that Flash needs a lot of work, but the complaints people have are easily fixable with an extension or simply some smart use of the computer. Those without the necessarily intelligence to successfully disable this stuff generally don't care about what Flash does in the first place.
It's ignorance on the part of flash developers, just like HTML designers who don't use ALT tags on images. Adobe provides the technology, developers just don't care.
Hell if I know. :)
Flash allows you to have text alternates to every element on the page, and screen readers can hook into them just like any other web plugin. As I am not blind, I do not have a screen reader, so I can't answer your question. I can tell you quite confidently that the OP did not have this as his argument.
Really? Flash is pretty easy to use, too. You just install the plugin, and bam, it works. Amazingly enough, this is relevant to Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Wow. Technology.
It's amazing. A few years ago, people would whine about using RealAudio to distribute. Then they'd whine about WMA, because it wasn't cross platform. Then they'd whine about MP3 because of licensing. Now, sites are using a cross platform, semi open distribution method that is nearly ubiquitous, and now people want to make things up to whine about. Just install Flash.
You're paying a little over $50/month for connections that most of us dreamt of ten years ago, and you're whining about a hard limit of 250gb before /you get a phone call/? Do you know how much you have to pay for 250gb of transfer from a reasonably well known colocation provider?
I'm just happy there's a hard limit in place, so I can keep an eye on RRD. Even with working from home and torrenting like mad, I don't come even close to that limit.
Yep. But note that in this posting, it doesn't say what core features are offered, only that developer access to the API has been taken away. It's very possible, and very likely that the core features of most mobiles are there -- OBEX, DUN, Headset.
If you read the article, you'd see the API was for third party applications to extend bluetooth. Android phones will be able to connect to headsets just fine, and a software update will add further support.
Python, I can agree with, but Ruby? It effectively looks the same as Perl when it's all said and done. It encourages the same use of odd characters, shortcuts, whitespace issues, and poorly managed namespaces that Perl does.
Disclaimer: I'm a Perl developer.
Unfortunately, we only had two machines available for testing, representing the two configurations of hardware we were using. The upgrade went off without a hitch.
Hooray, surprises.
Okay, I'll give in. md on Linux is mostly broken, but is almost usable for personal needs, as long as you have the time to take care of it when things go wrong.
No offense taken, but your first line is a typical response from most linux users -- anything that goes wrong is either an admin issue or a hardware issue.
First, md forgetting drives is not a hardware issue. Linux sees the drive, the serial number of the drive is the same, the hardware does not change, the hardware works. Sometimes, you will boot, and it just loses the configuration, so you reconfigure the array, and wait for it to check everything out. For two hours. At 3am.
Wiping out configuration during upgrades happened for two consecutive releases of the master distribution. Everything is backed up, but 3/4's of the machines didn't boot properly after md was upgraded. Turned out this was a pretty known issue. No one ever thought that people would want things migrated. Everyone seems to have a few hours to manually move arrays over.
Look, I'm all for great, open, free technology. The problem is, most people don't think about the big picture. LVM and MD are fine for personal machines that don't do much more than serve up files, or play music, or what have you. Technology like ZFS is designed to be bulletproof, documented, and it has to be supported. Not only that, but given the right amount of RAM, ZFS can outperform many off the shelf RAID systems, and give you flexibility in mirroring, snapshots, and drive support that LVM cannot possibly compare to.
The only reason ZFS hasn't had much news in Linux land is that it 'wasn't invented here' and it isn't GPL. Last I heard, there was a movement underway to reimplement ZFS under the GPL. I would imagine we'll see something in five years or so.
Only when it forgets where drives are, or wipes configuration during upgrades, or the fact that it's slower than software raid setups in FreeBSD or even Mac OS X.
md on a single box occasionally works. Managing 120 machines with md became a reason to never use md again.
You've run ZFS in production, yet you can't see the improvement on Linux's model? You mean the fact that md is completely broken and LVM is unreliable and slow by comparison?
Really? Because I hear a lot about it, and then when you look at the hard data, you guys are just as short sited as we are.
You also don't do votes for 75% of the positions we do.
The iPhone has a larger capacity battery than many of those models. There's also not one single Nokia model on that list, and the N95 outlasts the iPhone easily.
Apparently, the people you know are not very intelligent, considering they fell for a scam. There are many many users on Craigslist who use it quite successfully, it just takes a little smarts. If you can't handle that, then newspaper ads, eBay, and signs in your yard are going to be just as scary for you.
I think the only reason people post is because of how big of a deal people make MySQL... even though it's slow, unreliable, difficult to scale, and yet, people flock to it.
Yay, community, I guess.
Because it isn't 1912, and we aren't on the Titanic. They can say with reasonable confidence that it's difficult to find the underlying issue, but nothing is hackproof, or sinkproof, or lameproof.
I'm curious about the moderator that modded this "Offtopic" in a topic about "why" and "how fast" people upgraded to Firefox 3.
Or, maybe Firefox 2 sucked that much. I was running the Firefox 3 alphas long ago, only because the RAM situation in 2.x was so atrocious. I had to upgrade my wife as well, because I got sick of hearing from the living room, "I thought you said Firefox was better?" as her system ground to a halt.
Oh, no, no, no. Linux completely blows at I/O. The amount of iowait I deal with on anything less than pure SCSI disks is insane for any operating system, and it is handily beaten by FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows.
Have you ever used S60? It's a fine mobile operating system and easy to use. I'm certainly optimistic about their touch interface.
Also, you'll be able to tether your computer to it, will play audio over A2DP, allow non-Nokia authorized software to run on it, have an SDK that doesn't require a Mac... shall I continue?
FireWire requires an actual IO controller, where USB 2 relies on the CPU and the driver.
In short -- FireWire is faster and requires far less load on the target machine. The downside is the initial cost is higher. I find it pays for itself pretty quick.
Why have I never seen Vala featured on Slashdot before? If anything, the language intrigues me, and seems to be a nice way to get OO GTK going on without silly C hacks or writing it in Perl/Python.
When on earth did this happen?