Two problems: 1) X11 over SSH is fine, until the tunnel disconnects. Then all the apps go 2) VNC totally sucks performance-wise. If I'm forced to use VNC, these days I RDP to a Windows machine on the same network, and then do a nested VNC session from there. It performs better, especially when latency is above 100ms (as measured by 56 byte ping).
Is there no good UNIX remote access GUI protocol? Something that allows you to disconnect and reconnect? Years of using RDP to Windows boxes has left things like VNC totally irritating as it just doesn't work as well. I'm really surprised that Apple hasn't got a better solution for OS X too.
Just installed it on my Mac. It's horrible. It reminds me of using Word about eight years ago. I can't see what all the fuss about it is. I think I'll just by a modern Office Suite from Apple or Microsoft and not have to deal with this shit, neither of which are really that expensive. I guess you get what you pay for.
Sounds like free marketing for gmail.de. They get to ride on Google's brand name. People outside of the small clique here on/. are surprisingly dim about tech and computers, so if they hear of gmail, then they might not know the difference until long after they've signed up. If they're happy with the service I doubt they'll complain.
Did I read that right? You're complaining about the advertising? I don't care if it relevant or not, I'm not interested.
I'm from Toronto but living in Shanghai. I get a mix of ads for Toronto, which are utterly pointless as I don't live there any more, and most of the others are in Chinese, which I can't read and so utterly pointless. What seems to break things most is that my browser is set for en-GB (and then en-CA followed by en)... how many websites force you to the wrong version based on this? Stupid programming - use it for localising the diplay. Yes Yahoo Mail, the American date format is irritating and confusing when you're the only exposure to it in my life. And then sites like Yahoo Mail and Facebook can't keep up with all my time zone-changes, or just screw things up completely when I travel.
And if the teachers can't figure it out or understand it, do you think they will allow it in their classrooms or be able to utilise it to aid what they want to teach? It seems to me that a lot of teachers resist change at all costs, especially when their union is strong or when technology is involved. My gf is a teacher and has taught in more than one country - this is her current battle just trying to get a decent literacy programme off the ground, which you'd have thought would be readily understandable and supported by any decent teacher.
You're right: being proactive and working against this upfront is better than reactively punishing people. I think one point you miss though is more robust and stringent privacy laws, rather than letting businesses/etc self-regulate.
When I say team lead, it's actual a tech lead position: I R&D, prototype, architect and do the code reviews for our engineers who are spread between Europe, US and China, and if I have time I contribute code to tasks on a project's critical path. I think this means my opinion and experience counts for something when I comment on this issue.
Same experience for me. I graduated in 1996 and have been working as a software engineer, team lead and engineering manager ever since. I had programming experience as a hobby for more than 10 years before that. It's not something I have the time nor patience to debug - I don't care if FF is open source, it might as well be closed-source commercial software from my perspective. Nor is there a simple test case to reproduce the issue, but suffice it to say I've seen it over many years over many installations on my several OSes, with and without extensions installed. Dunno how many people have to chime in and say there's a problem before the Mozilla devs pay attention. If I were on the project my team would be running it in a profiler until it's resolved.
Can I assume then that you're finally accepting that there are serious memory leaks in Mozilla?
Shit doesn't just happen with software. Bad programming happens. Bad design happens. Bad attitudes happen. If somebody on my team espouses that attitude, I starting working on moving them off the team. They're not wanted.
Oh please. How about normal usage? I exited Firefox the other day as it was using 750MB of memory. When it restarted with all the tabs and their history: 135MB. It's been leaking memory for years, across many releases. Yes it should be fixed, but your response is also typical of the Mozilla devs. They're useless; I wouldn't hire them for my team. They'll deny there's ever a problem for years, and will normally be proven wrong. I stopped submitting issues to Bugzilla more than six years ago because it was clearly a waste of time. Don't get me started about the BITMAP resource leak they denied existed but caused Win2K to BSOD for me for two years. Of course it couldn't be an app that brings down the OS! Let's blame nVidia for their drivers, ignoring that only FF caused the crash, and that it had a serious resource leak. *sigh* Moving on...
Being refused entry in to the US will cause you grief getting in to that country for the rest of your life. It will cause you grief with any kind of immigration or customs matter.
I recently applied to join the Nexxus programme, which is a zero-tolerance programme that expedites border crossings for US and Canadian residents. I applied as a Canadian citizen. They found a refused entry to the US from the year 2000 when I'd tried to enter on my British passport. Presumably the Canadian government had informed the US of my dual citizenship status. The refused entry was totally bogus, but wasted a load of my time and caused me undue concern. Now I'm happily by-passing the queues at the border, but I will still have to deal with this shit for years, and any time US border patrol decides to look more deeply at my records, they will delay me until the under qualified puppet on the border has talked his/her supervisor and been told to let me through.
Not just Europe. I saved $500 before tax buying my 15" MBP in California instead of at home in Toronto. Then the taxes are 8 and a bit % in CA, versus 13% in ON. Vastly higher in most of Europe.
Memory though I bought here. $770 for 4GB from Apple, or $130 from the shop just around the corner from me.
Perhaps you can tell me how to uninstall apps on the Mac? It seems like after a few years one would have an accumlation unwanted crap everywhere. Dragging the app from the Application folder to the trash doesn't uninstall everything else that app's installer has placed on the system. And, most apps don't appear to have uninstallers.
Yes, I have a MBP and love it, but let's not biased. I haven't had to reinstall Windows for years. One of my work laptops that I've spent thousands of hours on as a software developer (read: abusing the system) is still running its original XP install after more than four years. Never had to reinstall Windows 2000 either, which I used for years, except when I accidentally trashed part of the partition it was installed on playing around with Grub or Lilo from within Linux.
As for my Mac... well it keeps crashing and hanging up if I connect my external drive via ExpressCard (ExpressCard bought at the Apple Store no less), and VMWare keeps forcing me to reboot when it has problems. Of course, unlike the anti-Microsoft zealots on this site who'd blame both Microsoft and Windows for these kinds of issues, I'm not about to blame either Apple or OS X.
That's absolutely terribly advice telling people to install Windows to FAT32. Find some other way to share your files between the OSes if that's the only reason you're doing it. If it were possible, would you install Linux to FAT32? Didn't think so. So why be so foolish as to do the same with Windows?
What about buying an ADC membership? Discounts increase with increasing price of the hardware being bought too. Maybe on a MBP it will cover buying the Apple Care Protection Plan, which is awesome.
(2) The amount of money Sony just sent is proof that Blue-Ray sucks.
1) It's "Blu-ray".
2) Paramount were paid $150M to switch to HD DVD only. Based on the number of titles being put out (or market share), Paramount were paid far more relatively than this rumoured amount for Warner.
They probably already are. Back in October I was being by interviewed US immigration for enrollment in to the NEXUS programme. He tapped the details of my Canadian passport in to the computer and came back with a question about something that happened in the year 2000 when I was travelling on my British passport. I can only assume they got the information from the Canadians linking my two passports/nationalities, but I wouldn't put it passed them to have access to this information from the UK too.
And that's new in Vista? My laptop has exhibited that behaviour for years, under XP. There was even a time when the screen would flicker a few times after undocking, and then stay off. I'd have to navigate to the Display properties by memory using keyboard the keyboard and temporarily changing the screen res to bring it back to life.
If they've said 15GB for Vista Ultimate install, then they're lying, being deliberately misleading or just trying to spread FUD.
I've installed Ultimate many times, and it takes less than 8GB, including pagefile, hibernate file (or whatever it's called now), system restore information, etc.
Of course, I haven't read the article. This is/.
Of course, I think the whole thing's just stupid. Disk space is ridiculously cheap, and if you've got a computer powerful enough to run Vista properly, then the size of the base Vista install is rather irrelevant as you've also probably got lots of disk space too, IMHO. But of course people like to think they're special and elite, and superior. Go for it guys... I'll just stick with the default install and use the time I save not tweaking the system doing something better... like being away from the computer socialising.
To most movie watchers, HD DVD offers no more than BD. At this point it is really no more capable than BD. In the past it could do secondary video. So what? I guess right now they can AACS protect more things on the disc besides the video streams, and they can AACS protect downloads (coming to BD anyway)... but I know how supportive you are of that.
Ethernet is only a requirement for BDLive capable players. It's not a spec requirement for all players though. And it's nothing new - that item has been in the spec for profile 2.0 players for a long time (my copy of the BD spec from nearly two years ago has it).
Really, who cares? Attachments of documents are generally several orders of magnitude larger than a bloated message sent in both plain text, bloated HTML and RTF. Messages are small. Disk space is cheap and plentiful. I have GBs of PSTs going back to 1999 at my current job. The space is irrelevant. It's the volume of messages that is the problem (I'm sending about 2,000-3,000/yr at the moment, and receiving several times that), but that's what X1 is for. Oh, I've worked from home since 1999, am involved with several projects, and my direct team members are split between Europe, China, Japan, Australia and both coasts of N.America - so the volume of email is fine by me as it's the only way we can communicate (try getting those people on the phone at the same time!)
I always switch my systems off, and failures are extremely rare. The computers I have around here vary in range from three to 12 years. Perhaps you should try turning them off whenever you don't use them over the next five years and see if that really makes a differemce... I don't think it will. Even the use of standby is better than nothing, but hibernate is good to and really doesn't present much cost in restarting. You'll find if you have many systems that they spend surprising lengths of time off and you'll wonder why you felt the need to run them all the time.
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Two problems:
1) X11 over SSH is fine, until the tunnel disconnects. Then all the apps go
2) VNC totally sucks performance-wise. If I'm forced to use VNC, these days I RDP to a Windows machine on the same network, and then do a nested VNC session from there. It performs better, especially when latency is above 100ms (as measured by 56 byte ping).
Is there no good UNIX remote access GUI protocol? Something that allows you to disconnect and reconnect? Years of using RDP to Windows boxes has left things like VNC totally irritating as it just doesn't work as well. I'm really surprised that Apple hasn't got a better solution for OS X too.
Just installed it on my Mac. It's horrible. It reminds me of using Word about eight years ago. I can't see what all the fuss about it is. I think I'll just by a modern Office Suite from Apple or Microsoft and not have to deal with this shit, neither of which are really that expensive. I guess you get what you pay for.
Sounds like free marketing for gmail.de. They get to ride on Google's brand name. People outside of the small clique here on /. are surprisingly dim about tech and computers, so if they hear of gmail, then they might not know the difference until long after they've signed up. If they're happy with the service I doubt they'll complain.
Did I read that right? You're complaining about the advertising? I don't care if it relevant or not, I'm not interested.
I'm from Toronto but living in Shanghai. I get a mix of ads for Toronto, which are utterly pointless as I don't live there any more, and most of the others are in Chinese, which I can't read and so utterly pointless. What seems to break things most is that my browser is set for en-GB (and then en-CA followed by en)... how many websites force you to the wrong version based on this? Stupid programming - use it for localising the diplay. Yes Yahoo Mail, the American date format is irritating and confusing when you're the only exposure to it in my life. And then sites like Yahoo Mail and Facebook can't keep up with all my time zone-changes, or just screw things up completely when I travel.
Advertising: intrusive waste of space.
And if the teachers can't figure it out or understand it, do you think they will allow it in their classrooms or be able to utilise it to aid what they want to teach? It seems to me that a lot of teachers resist change at all costs, especially when their union is strong or when technology is involved. My gf is a teacher and has taught in more than one country - this is her current battle just trying to get a decent literacy programme off the ground, which you'd have thought would be readily understandable and supported by any decent teacher.
You're right: being proactive and working against this upfront is better than reactively punishing people. I think one point you miss though is more robust and stringent privacy laws, rather than letting businesses/etc self-regulate.
When I say team lead, it's actual a tech lead position: I R&D, prototype, architect and do the code reviews for our engineers who are spread between Europe, US and China, and if I have time I contribute code to tasks on a project's critical path. I think this means my opinion and experience counts for something when I comment on this issue.
Same experience for me. I graduated in 1996 and have been working as a software engineer, team lead and engineering manager ever since. I had programming experience as a hobby for more than 10 years before that. It's not something I have the time nor patience to debug - I don't care if FF is open source, it might as well be closed-source commercial software from my perspective. Nor is there a simple test case to reproduce the issue, but suffice it to say I've seen it over many years over many installations on my several OSes, with and without extensions installed. Dunno how many people have to chime in and say there's a problem before the Mozilla devs pay attention. If I were on the project my team would be running it in a profiler until it's resolved.
Can I assume then that you're finally accepting that there are serious memory leaks in Mozilla?
Shit doesn't just happen with software. Bad programming happens. Bad design happens. Bad attitudes happen. If somebody on my team espouses that attitude, I starting working on moving them off the team. They're not wanted.
Oh please. How about normal usage? I exited Firefox the other day as it was using 750MB of memory. When it restarted with all the tabs and their history: 135MB. It's been leaking memory for years, across many releases. Yes it should be fixed, but your response is also typical of the Mozilla devs. They're useless; I wouldn't hire them for my team. They'll deny there's ever a problem for years, and will normally be proven wrong. I stopped submitting issues to Bugzilla more than six years ago because it was clearly a waste of time. Don't get me started about the BITMAP resource leak they denied existed but caused Win2K to BSOD for me for two years. Of course it couldn't be an app that brings down the OS! Let's blame nVidia for their drivers, ignoring that only FF caused the crash, and that it had a serious resource leak. *sigh* Moving on...
What kind of engineers use [Fahrenheit] and inches?
Being refused entry in to the US will cause you grief getting in to that country for the rest of your life. It will cause you grief with any kind of immigration or customs matter.
I recently applied to join the Nexxus programme, which is a zero-tolerance programme that expedites border crossings for US and Canadian residents. I applied as a Canadian citizen. They found a refused entry to the US from the year 2000 when I'd tried to enter on my British passport. Presumably the Canadian government had informed the US of my dual citizenship status. The refused entry was totally bogus, but wasted a load of my time and caused me undue concern. Now I'm happily by-passing the queues at the border, but I will still have to deal with this shit for years, and any time US border patrol decides to look more deeply at my records, they will delay me until the under qualified puppet on the border has talked his/her supervisor and been told to let me through.
Not just Europe. I saved $500 before tax buying my 15" MBP in California instead of at home in Toronto. Then the taxes are 8 and a bit % in CA, versus 13% in ON. Vastly higher in most of Europe.
Memory though I bought here. $770 for 4GB from Apple, or $130 from the shop just around the corner from me.
Perhaps you can tell me how to uninstall apps on the Mac? It seems like after a few years one would have an accumlation unwanted crap everywhere. Dragging the app from the Application folder to the trash doesn't uninstall everything else that app's installer has placed on the system. And, most apps don't appear to have uninstallers.
Yes, I have a MBP and love it, but let's not biased. I haven't had to reinstall Windows for years. One of my work laptops that I've spent thousands of hours on as a software developer (read: abusing the system) is still running its original XP install after more than four years. Never had to reinstall Windows 2000 either, which I used for years, except when I accidentally trashed part of the partition it was installed on playing around with Grub or Lilo from within Linux.
As for my Mac... well it keeps crashing and hanging up if I connect my external drive via ExpressCard (ExpressCard bought at the Apple Store no less), and VMWare keeps forcing me to reboot when it has problems. Of course, unlike the anti-Microsoft zealots on this site who'd blame both Microsoft and Windows for these kinds of issues, I'm not about to blame either Apple or OS X.
That's absolutely terribly advice telling people to install Windows to FAT32. Find some other way to share your files between the OSes if that's the only reason you're doing it. If it were possible, would you install Linux to FAT32? Didn't think so. So why be so foolish as to do the same with Windows?
What about buying an ADC membership? Discounts increase with increasing price of the hardware being bought too. Maybe on a MBP it will cover buying the Apple Care Protection Plan, which is awesome.
(2) The amount of money Sony just sent is proof that Blue-Ray sucks.
1) It's "Blu-ray".
2) Paramount were paid $150M to switch to HD DVD only. Based on the number of titles being put out (or market share), Paramount were paid far more relatively than this rumoured amount for Warner.
What interactive features exactly does HD DVD have that Blu-ray doesn't? Oh, none.
"2. Can the US integrate out system into theirs?"
They probably already are. Back in October I was being by interviewed US immigration for enrollment in to the NEXUS programme. He tapped the details of my Canadian passport in to the computer and came back with a question about something that happened in the year 2000 when I was travelling on my British passport. I can only assume they got the information from the Canadians linking my two passports/nationalities, but I wouldn't put it passed them to have access to this information from the UK too.
And that's new in Vista? My laptop has exhibited that behaviour for years, under XP. There was even a time when the screen would flicker a few times after undocking, and then stay off. I'd have to navigate to the Display properties by memory using keyboard the keyboard and temporarily changing the screen res to bring it back to life.
If they've said 15GB for Vista Ultimate install, then they're lying, being deliberately misleading or just trying to spread FUD.
/.
I've installed Ultimate many times, and it takes less than 8GB, including pagefile, hibernate file (or whatever it's called now), system restore information, etc.
Of course, I haven't read the article. This is
Of course, I think the whole thing's just stupid. Disk space is ridiculously cheap, and if you've got a computer powerful enough to run Vista properly, then the size of the base Vista install is rather irrelevant as you've also probably got lots of disk space too, IMHO. But of course people like to think they're special and elite, and superior. Go for it guys... I'll just stick with the default install and use the time I save not tweaking the system doing something better... like being away from the computer socialising.
To most movie watchers, HD DVD offers no more than BD. At this point it is really no more capable than BD. In the past it could do secondary video. So what? I guess right now they can AACS protect more things on the disc besides the video streams, and they can AACS protect downloads (coming to BD anyway)... but I know how supportive you are of that.
Ethernet is only a requirement for BDLive capable players. It's not a spec requirement for all players though. And it's nothing new - that item has been in the spec for profile 2.0 players for a long time (my copy of the BD spec from nearly two years ago has it).
Really, who cares? Attachments of documents are generally several orders of magnitude larger than a bloated message sent in both plain text, bloated HTML and RTF. Messages are small. Disk space is cheap and plentiful. I have GBs of PSTs going back to 1999 at my current job. The space is irrelevant. It's the volume of messages that is the problem (I'm sending about 2,000-3,000/yr at the moment, and receiving several times that), but that's what X1 is for. Oh, I've worked from home since 1999, am involved with several projects, and my direct team members are split between Europe, China, Japan, Australia and both coasts of N.America - so the volume of email is fine by me as it's the only way we can communicate (try getting those people on the phone at the same time!)
I always switch my systems off, and failures are extremely rare. The computers I have around here vary in range from three to 12 years. Perhaps you should try turning them off whenever you don't use them over the next five years and see if that really makes a differemce... I don't think it will. Even the use of standby is better than nothing, but hibernate is good to and really doesn't present much cost in restarting. You'll find if you have many systems that they spend surprising lengths of time off and you'll wonder why you felt the need to run them all the time.