What are you talking about? The original post literally asked "Can Wine or other solutions run that software at a decent speed under Linux? Or is GPU-computing software written for the Windows platform unsuitable for use -- emulated or otherwise -- under Linux?"
If someone is trying to build up cheap compute boxes for an application already written, they may be looking to build it without having to buy a licence. Wine would satisfy this, a VM with Windows installed wouldn't.
My impression from hawguy's post is that most of the H1Bs are from Europe (I'm assuming Western Europe). These workers would at least have similar salary expectations as American workers, and not part of the "Hire cheap Indians" for which the H1B program is abused for. They are not the problem.
Get compatible Windows 7 hardware and you are good to go, Asus Z170 will work well and its fast.
Even God forbid Win 8.1 isn't too bad if you get Classic Shell.
It took Windows 10 to make Windows 8.1 look like a really good option. Only downside is marketshare is small compared to 7 (great for old hardware) and 10 (only going to get bigger.)
Say what you want about Apple, but they would never do shit like this.
Back when QuickTime was a required plugin for the Internet, before you knew it on your Windows PC, they had shoveled Safari and iTunes into what was supposed to be a "security update".
Lack of units means that it could be kelvin, feet, libraries of congress or any other unit of choice. Next time you try to be fancy by omitting units, don't.
In addition to AI being trendy, there are robots, specifically the idea that robots are going to replace jobs.
Machines, and automation have been replacing jobs since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and has been more aggressive with the invention of Microprocessors.
For some reason people seem to think that there's a new phenomenon where Lt. Commander Data and Bender are going to be replacing jobs.
Disabled by default, then enabled by default, then mandatory, then not able to be worked around. Give it time.
Windows dies when that happens.
It doesn't die, but it still happens.
Look at Secure boot. Required for W8 royalty OEM customers, but it requires a way of disabling it. With W10 it is required but the OEM can decide whether they want users to disable it or not. The next step is obvious. W10 has drastically larger marketshare than W8.x. Forced upgrades or otherwise.
All the "trusted computing is evil" stuff from 15 years ago is coming true!
94% of all programs won't run properly without those rights.
Unfortunately for the longest time developers for Windows got away with not giving half a shit about security. To make matters worse, when MS finally decided to tighten the screws, they went overboard by a long shot. You cannot even install a simple program without elevated rights.
Millions of corporate PCs run with users having user-only access, and it works fine. Browsers, media players, CAD programs, Office suites, all work fine.
In my experience the only programs that "have" to run admin rights are: -Low level tools eg: CPU-Z. This is expected as it needs to load low level kernel drivers. -Installers. This is expected as they are writing in common subdirs. In Linux you need elevation too. "Sudo apt-get install" -Old programs that were coded without any thought to admin rights.
A lot of times the old programs can be worked around. Either the users need write access in the program's "Program files" subdir, or users need write access to an HKLM registry key. These are the result of sloppy coding.
Since Vista was introduced 10 fucking years ago applications have been better coded at not requiring admin access at run time unless absolutely required.
With Windows 7 Microsoft transparently hid the UAC dialog's for a lot of system tasks. eg: If the user is admin, and wishes to set the clock, they can without UAC prompt.
UAC is also easier than sudo or OSX. You just have to click the fucking yes button, you don't even need to enter your password.
Streaming video websites which are opened in the foreground tab of the active window, because visiting those sites is indication of user intent to view the video. That's also, of course, TV-like by design.
If you mean video ONLY, you might be right. But not for something like Youtube.
I use Kodi to watch Youtube videos, and once in a while I see a video that I think "this is going to piss some people off", and open the browser to read the comments. As soon as I do, the video I just watched starts playing again.
By far, more often than not when I click on a Youtube link I want to view the video immediately. Exceptions are: -When I want to go to the channel page. I might revisit a channel frequently and hate having to pause the same intro video -Viewing my own videos to check the comments -Following up with comments on another video.
While I tend to agree, I think there are some times when it's appropriate to have auto-playing content (maybe only restricted to silent content). For example, multimedia-rich pages such as this benefit from a tasteful (in my opinion) use of multimedia.
That's a terrible multimedia rich page. It looks like it's supposed to be a written article but it takes over THE ENTIRE WINDOW to show a stupid video of a boat. Scroll down and it jars into a written article. Keep scrolling and it jars into another fucking full page video. Particularly annoying if you're scrolling at high speed. This is actually only of the worst fucking uses of autoplay video I've seen.
I also don't know what the deal is with blogs now deciding that all their images must be animated GIFs instead of stationary pictures.
About the only place that autoplay videos / sound are acceptable are on audio or video sites (Youtube for example, with the caveat that it's annoying on the channel page)
Use the -d flag with pkunzip, otherwise, you might end up with a big stinking mess.
Why was this not the default?
ZIP files are still screwed. Do you want to "Extract here" or "Extract to archive.zip\".
Either you will clutter up your downloads folder in a similar "big stinking mess", or else you will end up with "archive.zip\archive\archive\files.exe"
Why can it not be smart enough to figure out if there's a parent sub-dir in the archive before creating nested redundant sub-dirs.
What is the actual source of the broadcasts that come in from these 3rd party plugins....???
In a lot of cases on Exodus plugin, it looks like a lot of content is hosted on Google Video. It's streaming from sites like this, not P2P like a Torrent, so MPAA would need access to server logs to figure out who even streamed the content.
Oh, they're awful. Shitty software, terrible interfaces and half the time at customer locations the important bits that show you networking configuration are needlessly locked out by the vendor.
And narcoleptic. They fall asleep after 10 seconds idle, and you have to press the stupid leaf button to wake it up, which takes 45 seconds to reinitialize, and the scanner buffer was limited to about 2 pages. I was able to corner the service tech once to get those limitations lifted (it sleeps now after 60 minutes, and can scan dozens of pages).
Occasionally the MFP would lock up. You send a job, select it, enter your code, and it would go "processing" indefinitely. Once I said "fucking piece of shit", pulled the plug out, and put it back in. Boss said "No need to be so violent, try properly shutting down the printer next time".
Aside from taking 5 minutes for a fucking printer to "shut down", he admitted that the next time this issue occurred, properly shutting it down didn't work, and pulling the plug did.
Yes, this. Someone mentioned convention centers and church bulletins as possible applications.
However, even these are limited as many of these documents are typically multiple-color at least on part of the page and/or they are being replaced with apps, screens all over the place, or other paper-less versions.
What percentage would be successfully collected, and would they be in good enough shape to be reused?
Although at so many offices there's a printer and then there's the inbox-type container with ream-and-a-half stack of printouts that nobody collects from the printer and that just sit there until the inbox overflows and somebody dumps the entire stack into the recycling bin.
Perhaps if the printer could do an erase stage at the start of a print job you could have a printer that automatically recycles the output bin after 30 minutes back to the tray so it could be erased again.
My workplace has been installing Multi-function copiers where print jobs have to be locked, and the user has to go to the printer, select their job(s) in the queue, and enter their password (usually 0000, 1234, or their phone extension) before it will print. Jobs automatically delete after 2-3 days. It drastically reduces the number of abandoned printouts.
Unfortunately these $10,000+ printers seem to be real pieces of shit, jamming constantly in very complicated manners, and requiring repairs all the time (both Ricoh and Xerox), even when new, while decades old Laserjet 5's keep printing and printing, needing nothing more than new toner cartridges, and the odd simple jam every couple thousand pages.
And in many cases the 100+ pages thrown in the bin weren't intended to be, there was just something wrong about it. The original intent was a permanent copy. So it's hard to predict ahead of time when "reusable paper" would be beneficial over normal paper.
I'll be honest, I just don't get the appeal. What the fuck do my appliances need connectivity for?
I like tech and all, but in my experience, the best, most robust appliances have minimal electronics. The KISS principal.
Fridge with mechanical thermostat, and mechanical defrost timer. Dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer with mechanical timers. Ranges with mechanical thermostats. Hell if you don't religiously use setback functionality, a mechanical thermostat is more reliable than a normal programmable, let-alone a NEST.
These appliances cost less, and run for decades without issue. And easier to find parts or jury-rig something when they do cause problems. Rather than "Logic board failed, new range is cheaper than a new logic board"
It needs good security though. Request permission for each device from each domain separately and require an admin password to authorize each and every device.
It's already a piss-off how many sites want to know my location, or want to add notifications to Chrome. Now there will be one more annoying popup from the web browser itself.
And preferably having most or all functionality without having to communicate with the author's server. For example Fitbit makes a native Windows application, but it just transfers data from the tracker to their servers, and requires their website to view any of it.
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Here is an actual video of it printing. The rest of the tour of this antique data center is interesting.
What are you talking about? The original post literally asked "Can Wine or other solutions run that software at a decent speed under Linux? Or is GPU-computing software written for the Windows platform unsuitable for use -- emulated or otherwise -- under Linux?"
If someone is trying to build up cheap compute boxes for an application already written, they may be looking to build it without having to buy a licence. Wine would satisfy this, a VM with Windows installed wouldn't.
My impression from hawguy's post is that most of the H1Bs are from Europe (I'm assuming Western Europe). These workers would at least have similar salary expectations as American workers, and not part of the "Hire cheap Indians" for which the H1B program is abused for. They are not the problem.
For the Authentic Text interface experience, I like Far Manager which is under a modified BSD licence.
Get compatible Windows 7 hardware and you are good to go, Asus Z170 will work well and its fast.
Even God forbid Win 8.1 isn't too bad if you get Classic Shell.
It took Windows 10 to make Windows 8.1 look like a really good option. Only downside is marketshare is small compared to 7 (great for old hardware) and 10 (only going to get bigger.)
Say what you want about Apple, but they would never do shit like this.
Back when QuickTime was a required plugin for the Internet, before you knew it on your Windows PC, they had shoveled Safari and iTunes into what was supposed to be a "security update".
Lack of units means that it could be kelvin, feet, libraries of congress or any other unit of choice.
Next time you try to be fancy by omitting units, don't.
How much is that in Medium-sized dustbins?
In addition to AI being trendy, there are robots, specifically the idea that robots are going to replace jobs.
Machines, and automation have been replacing jobs since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and has been more aggressive with the invention of Microprocessors.
For some reason people seem to think that there's a new phenomenon where Lt. Commander Data and Bender are going to be replacing jobs.
Disabled by default, then enabled by default, then mandatory, then not able to be worked around. Give it time.
Windows dies when that happens.
It doesn't die, but it still happens.
Look at Secure boot. Required for W8 royalty OEM customers, but it requires a way of disabling it. With W10 it is required but the OEM can decide whether they want users to disable it or not. The next step is obvious. W10 has drastically larger marketshare than W8.x. Forced upgrades or otherwise.
All the "trusted computing is evil" stuff from 15 years ago is coming true!
I'm pretty sure with Vista, 10 years ago, where there was the push to run users as non-elevated, a lot of developers smartened up.
94% of all programs won't run properly without those rights.
Unfortunately for the longest time developers for Windows got away with not giving half a shit about security. To make matters worse, when MS finally decided to tighten the screws, they went overboard by a long shot. You cannot even install a simple program without elevated rights.
Millions of corporate PCs run with users having user-only access, and it works fine. Browsers, media players, CAD programs, Office suites, all work fine.
In my experience the only programs that "have" to run admin rights are:
-Low level tools eg: CPU-Z. This is expected as it needs to load low level kernel drivers.
-Installers. This is expected as they are writing in common subdirs. In Linux you need elevation too. "Sudo apt-get install"
-Old programs that were coded without any thought to admin rights.
A lot of times the old programs can be worked around. Either the users need write access in the program's "Program files" subdir, or users need write access to an HKLM registry key. These are the result of sloppy coding.
Since Vista was introduced 10 fucking years ago applications have been better coded at not requiring admin access at run time unless absolutely required.
With Windows 7 Microsoft transparently hid the UAC dialog's for a lot of system tasks. eg: If the user is admin, and wishes to set the clock, they can without UAC prompt.
UAC is also easier than sudo or OSX. You just have to click the fucking yes button, you don't even need to enter your password.
Streaming video websites which are opened in the foreground tab of the active window, because visiting those sites is indication of user intent to view the video. That's also, of course, TV-like by design.
If you mean video ONLY, you might be right. But not for something like Youtube.
I use Kodi to watch Youtube videos, and once in a while I see a video that I think "this is going to piss some people off", and open the browser to read the comments. As soon as I do, the video I just watched starts playing again.
By far, more often than not when I click on a Youtube link I want to view the video immediately. Exceptions are:
-When I want to go to the channel page. I might revisit a channel frequently and hate having to pause the same intro video
-Viewing my own videos to check the comments
-Following up with comments on another video.
While I tend to agree, I think there are some times when it's appropriate to have auto-playing content (maybe only restricted to silent content). For example, multimedia-rich pages such as this benefit from a tasteful (in my opinion) use of multimedia.
That's a terrible multimedia rich page. It looks like it's supposed to be a written article but it takes over THE ENTIRE WINDOW to show a stupid video of a boat. Scroll down and it jars into a written article. Keep scrolling and it jars into another fucking full page video. Particularly annoying if you're scrolling at high speed. This is actually only of the worst fucking uses of autoplay video I've seen.
I also don't know what the deal is with blogs now deciding that all their images must be animated GIFs instead of stationary pictures.
About the only place that autoplay videos / sound are acceptable are on audio or video sites (Youtube for example, with the caveat that it's annoying on the channel page)
Hear hear.
I start to seriously miss the 1990ies web, with frames, the blink tag, and netscape now buttons.
Even irritating flashing animated-GIF ads from the era are better than what we have now. At least they were efficient with their use of bandwidth.
FTFA:
if you're not a fan of this change, there will be a setting to turn audio autoplay off.
Just like how there's a setting in newsfeed to show "Most recent" instead of "Top stories" that is ALWAYS honored?
get to the racket-makers, they've already finished their annoying videos (or just replaying them over and over!).
Some move on and start autoplaying videos unrelated to the original article.
Use the -d flag with pkunzip, otherwise, you might end up with a big stinking mess.
Why was this not the default?
ZIP files are still screwed. Do you want to "Extract here" or "Extract to archive.zip\".
Either you will clutter up your downloads folder in a similar "big stinking mess", or else you will end up with "archive.zip\archive\archive\files.exe"
Why can it not be smart enough to figure out if there's a parent sub-dir in the archive before creating nested redundant sub-dirs.
My question to him was...and never got answered.
What is the actual source of the broadcasts that come in from these 3rd party plugins....???
In a lot of cases on Exodus plugin, it looks like a lot of content is hosted on Google Video. It's streaming from sites like this, not P2P like a Torrent, so MPAA would need access to server logs to figure out who even streamed the content.
Oh, they're awful. Shitty software, terrible interfaces and half the time at customer locations the important bits that show you networking configuration are needlessly locked out by the vendor.
And narcoleptic. They fall asleep after 10 seconds idle, and you have to press the stupid leaf button to wake it up, which takes 45 seconds to reinitialize, and the scanner buffer was limited to about 2 pages. I was able to corner the service tech once to get those limitations lifted (it sleeps now after 60 minutes, and can scan dozens of pages).
Occasionally the MFP would lock up. You send a job, select it, enter your code, and it would go "processing" indefinitely. Once I said "fucking piece of shit", pulled the plug out, and put it back in. Boss said "No need to be so violent, try properly shutting down the printer next time".
Aside from taking 5 minutes for a fucking printer to "shut down", he admitted that the next time this issue occurred, properly shutting it down didn't work, and pulling the plug did.
Yes, this. Someone mentioned convention centers and church bulletins as possible applications.
However, even these are limited as many of these documents are typically multiple-color at least on part of the page and/or they are being replaced with apps, screens all over the place, or other paper-less versions.
What percentage would be successfully collected, and would they be in good enough shape to be reused?
Although at so many offices there's a printer and then there's the inbox-type container with ream-and-a-half stack of printouts that nobody collects from the printer and that just sit there until the inbox overflows and somebody dumps the entire stack into the recycling bin.
Perhaps if the printer could do an erase stage at the start of a print job you could have a printer that automatically recycles the output bin after 30 minutes back to the tray so it could be erased again.
My workplace has been installing Multi-function copiers where print jobs have to be locked, and the user has to go to the printer, select their job(s) in the queue, and enter their password (usually 0000, 1234, or their phone extension) before it will print. Jobs automatically delete after 2-3 days. It drastically reduces the number of abandoned printouts.
Unfortunately these $10,000+ printers seem to be real pieces of shit, jamming constantly in very complicated manners, and requiring repairs all the time (both Ricoh and Xerox), even when new, while decades old Laserjet 5's keep printing and printing, needing nothing more than new toner cartridges, and the odd simple jam every couple thousand pages.
And in many cases the 100+ pages thrown in the bin weren't intended to be, there was just something wrong about it. The original intent was a permanent copy. So it's hard to predict ahead of time when "reusable paper" would be beneficial over normal paper.
I'll be honest, I just don't get the appeal. What the fuck do my appliances need connectivity for?
I like tech and all, but in my experience, the best, most robust appliances have minimal electronics. The KISS principal.
Fridge with mechanical thermostat, and mechanical defrost timer. Dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer with mechanical timers. Ranges with mechanical thermostats. Hell if you don't religiously use setback functionality, a mechanical thermostat is more reliable than a normal programmable, let-alone a NEST.
These appliances cost less, and run for decades without issue. And easier to find parts or jury-rig something when they do cause problems. Rather than "Logic board failed, new range is cheaper than a new logic board"
It needs good security though. Request permission for each device from each domain separately and require an admin password to authorize each and every device.
It's already a piss-off how many sites want to know my location, or want to add notifications to Chrome. Now there will be one more annoying popup from the web browser itself.
The solution is simple: do not use anything with bluetooth.
Better solution: use Firefox.
moz://a will rush to add it by v53. It may double RAM usage, but they won't really care.
And preferably having most or all functionality without having to communicate with the author's server. For example Fitbit makes a native Windows application, but it just transfers data from the tracker to their servers, and requires their website to view any of it.