Yeah, but who is gonna support it? One of the nice part about these devices is that they are pretty much immune to malware, and from a software standpoint are nearly unbreakable. You give one to your mom and never do tech support again. Windows is find if you have the time, urge, and know-how to maintain it (or the cash to pay someone you trust to do it for you), but is completely inappropriate for the vast clueless masses. Surely you aren't arguing that Windows 8 is the future of computing on the low end?
My oldest has a class where the teacher provides Chromebooks. The school district already provides Google email for the kids, so it is a good fit. She claims it works just fine for what she does, and wants one at home to replace here old Dell laptop. I'm just hoping the new Haswell models to come out in time for X-Mas.
If you love your job, you are the 1%. Most people dread going to work. A 10% bump in pay is not going to change that for the vast majority of them. Money is just money, happiness is a state of being. Not long ago, I was offered a 50% raise to leave my senior position at a small company to go work for a much larger one. Negotiations went well until the very end. In the "afterhour" when it was apparent the job was mine, I happened to ask about the desktop. Being a senior employee at a small company, I am accustomed to having vast flexibility. The norm is two desktops, one Linux and another Windows for testing, with a trio of monitors, plus a Mac laptop so all the major platforms can be tested. I was informed they run Windows XP, IT evaluates ALL hardware requests, and that is that. It was then I realized that trading guru status in a small company for being just another random coder at a large corporation would require a huge revision of expectations. In the end my family helped me decide that time with them (work at home now), happiness with my day to day computing experience, and overall flexibility was worth more then a 25% raise after taxes and commuting expenses.
Your situation is yours however, good luck, and I hope it works out well for you.
Or at least it does in PHP 5.2, but in 5.3, not so much. There have been many of these little idiosyncrasies over the years, enough that my company moved our core product to Java long ago. Stupid stuff like that makes it impossible to upgrade the PHP version without major QA and developer time to address all the new "fixes" the PHP folks decided to introduce in the latest minor release. Meanwhile, my C and Java code from 2001 still runs just fine. That said, when I am coding something for fun, not for profit, I usually end up with PHP on the server side. PHP is coded by amateurs for amateurs. Keep it far and away from any critical systems and it can actually be kinda fun.
@Bonch: Congratulations, you are officially the Grinchy douche on Christmas.
OP: Great questions, I can not wait to see answers. Would love to hear more about what your software solution is for encoding, I've got a bunch of DVDs & Bluerays I would really like to get on the network, but a streamlined rip+encode+publish I have yet to achieve:-/ What are you using on the frontend? I've got various iDevices roaming about, and a Roku that does 720p for the projector, but haven't had much luck with mt-daapd so far.
I do not trust wireless for my projection room, I ran cat 6 everywhere when I moved in as nothing beats the reliability of copper. I've got a basement, so I put the server is right by the patch panel in the furnace room. Noise is definitely an issue. The only thing that scares me about the garage is bugs and what not gumming up the cooling enough to cause catastrophic failure. With a bunch of drives you need a bunch of airflow to keep everything cool, I can just imagine the intake fan sucking up mosquitoes, and coating the CPU cooling block with my dog's blood.
As far as rack vs tower, I started with a rack and ended up with towers. The rack systems just took up way too much floor space, and that space was poorly utilized to boot. It made a very large utility room feel much smaller.
Dirty hippies all over the world vow to not bath again until travesty corrected. How is this newsworthy? Business stay in business by making money, Canonical must start sometime.
You are mostly correct, abandoned works should be in the public domain after a reasonable period. I do not doubt that project G is in violation of the letter of the law, but is it really in violation of the spirit of the law?
There is little time left. Fortunately it is August and those in North America have the beach. For many, there is something surreal about watching a sunset over the water. It is an experience that crosses many personal divides. Spend what time you have left smiling my friend, you will thank yourself later.
Yes, the copyright laws need to change, I admit it. They need to change back much closer to what they were originally, about seven years. That would give artists time enough to make a living off their inventions. The perverse indefinite extension of copyright has enabled the masses to rationalize their actions. They are right, as are you. The artists must concede that they are not the new nobility, due to be rich for the actions of their grandparents. Resistance is of course futile.
I have run Linux on my desktop since RH 4.2 and have not used Windows seriously since NT4. I program in a dozen languages well enough to have a significant patch in the Postgres optimizer. My phone is four years old, I've replaced the screen once and the battery twice. I'm about as geeky as they get, but certainly not a gadget or Apple freak, and yet I bought an iPad yesterday.
Why? Because my wife's ancient iBook G4 is on it's last leg, and we have really come to love casual browsing in the living room. The iPad is not a computer, it is not terribly useful for general computing tasks. Anyone who has used one would understand this. It is however a gorgeous device that is braindead simple to use for its intended purpose. So much so that my 72 year old aunt, who refuses to touch a keyboard, actually surfed the web for the first time yesterday, and enjoyed the experience.
Hate on it all you want, but in ten years the only people with clunky old computers with keyboards will be those who write for a living (code or otherwise).
I watched the Lynch movie as a teenager back in the late 80s long before I read the book. Therefore I did and do not have the book snob attitude to pre-judge the movie by. I only read the book because of the captivating feel of the movie and the intriguing storyline. The made-for-TV remake was closer to the book, but far from enthralling.
I think Lynch is a lot like Kuberick. You either love his stuff or hate hate it, there is little in between.
Mr. Albanach Surly should also mention that both the programs he linked are basically dead, unmaintained relics. One of the wikipedia pages he linked even mentioned this. He did actually read what he linked, right?
The OP has asked a very interesting question though. If you could take something like xmove or Xpra and make an awesome window manager aware/compatible, it would be very interesting software indeed.
The postgres community definitely rocks, both on IRC and the mailing lists. That is the major reason my company uses it pretty much exclusively anymore, because we feel confident that whatever problems we run into we can work through.
BTW, David Fetter is in this thread, just look for dfetter with the four digit/. ID with the highly rated post...
I happen to know that right after the Columbia accident, all the telemetry data was loaded into a PG database and that is what was used for analysis. At one point tracking the entire.org domain was done with PG as well. I've always thought of MySQL as a racehorse, no other horses can compete for speed when running around a short track (IE read-mostly website). PG is more of a draft horse, able to plow the fields, or pull the wagon, or do a million other things that MySQL is not appropriate for. Oracle would be an Elephant, too huge and expensive to maintain for most things while SQL Server would be a mule, a hopefully sterile off-breed of a horse (Sybase) and a donkey (Windows).
THIS! Holy hell they look like canvas. You can see a distortion pattern running top to bottom and left to right, but it isn't at a 90 it is funky. Hopefully something was just whack and once they finish tweaking everything the noise will disappear. If not then at least it is the ESA (!NASA) that borked it this time?
My freshman year I bought every textbook and hauled them all around. Then I came to realize that in most classes I didn't actually need the book in class, so I started leaving it in my car or at home. By my senior year I only bought two books for nine classes. I found that in most classes (all but math) that simply going to class, taking good notes, and studying the material with my study group was enough for me to learn it, the book was just dead weight.
Funny I read the affidavit and the DHCP logs certainly indicated he was the one who set up the gay email/coming out prank, but I didn't see where/how they tied him to hacking the grade server...
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Yeah, but who is gonna support it? One of the nice part about these devices is that they are pretty much immune to malware, and from a software standpoint are nearly unbreakable. You give one to your mom and never do tech support again. Windows is find if you have the time, urge, and know-how to maintain it (or the cash to pay someone you trust to do it for you), but is completely inappropriate for the vast clueless masses. Surely you aren't arguing that Windows 8 is the future of computing on the low end?
My oldest has a class where the teacher provides Chromebooks. The school district already provides Google email for the kids, so it is a good fit. She claims it works just fine for what she does, and wants one at home to replace here old Dell laptop. I'm just hoping the new Haswell models to come out in time for X-Mas.
If you love your job, you are the 1%. Most people dread going to work. A 10% bump in pay is not going to change that for the vast majority of them. Money is just money, happiness is a state of being. Not long ago, I was offered a 50% raise to leave my senior position at a small company to go work for a much larger one. Negotiations went well until the very end. In the "afterhour" when it was apparent the job was mine, I happened to ask about the desktop. Being a senior employee at a small company, I am accustomed to having vast flexibility. The norm is two desktops, one Linux and another Windows for testing, with a trio of monitors, plus a Mac laptop so all the major platforms can be tested. I was informed they run Windows XP, IT evaluates ALL hardware requests, and that is that. It was then I realized that trading guru status in a small company for being just another random coder at a large corporation would require a huge revision of expectations. In the end my family helped me decide that time with them (work at home now), happiness with my day to day computing experience, and overall flexibility was worth more then a 25% raise after taxes and commuting expenses.
Your situation is yours however, good luck, and I hope it works out well for you.
Or at least it does in PHP 5.2, but in 5.3, not so much. There have been many of these little idiosyncrasies over the years, enough that my company moved our core product to Java long ago. Stupid stuff like that makes it impossible to upgrade the PHP version without major QA and developer time to address all the new "fixes" the PHP folks decided to introduce in the latest minor release. Meanwhile, my C and Java code from 2001 still runs just fine. That said, when I am coding something for fun, not for profit, I usually end up with PHP on the server side. PHP is coded by amateurs for amateurs. Keep it far and away from any critical systems and it can actually be kinda fun.
Cool, I do not need to remember what 2+2 is anymore, now I can just Google it!
@Bonch: Congratulations, you are officially the Grinchy douche on Christmas.
OP: Great questions, I can not wait to see answers. Would love to hear more about what your software solution is for encoding, I've got a bunch of DVDs & Bluerays I would really like to get on the network, but a streamlined rip+encode+publish I have yet to achieve :-/ What are you using on the frontend? I've got various iDevices roaming about, and a Roku that does 720p for the projector, but haven't had much luck with mt-daapd so far.
I do not trust wireless for my projection room, I ran cat 6 everywhere when I moved in as nothing beats the reliability of copper. I've got a basement, so I put the server is right by the patch panel in the furnace room. Noise is definitely an issue. The only thing that scares me about the garage is bugs and what not gumming up the cooling enough to cause catastrophic failure. With a bunch of drives you need a bunch of airflow to keep everything cool, I can just imagine the intake fan sucking up mosquitoes, and coating the CPU cooling block with my dog's blood.
As far as rack vs tower, I started with a rack and ended up with towers. The rack systems just took up way too much floor space, and that space was poorly utilized to boot. It made a very large utility room feel much smaller.
Dirty hippies all over the world vow to not bath again until travesty corrected. How is this newsworthy? Business stay in business by making money, Canonical must start sometime.
You are mostly correct, abandoned works should be in the public domain after a reasonable period. I do not doubt that project G is in violation of the letter of the law, but is it really in violation of the spirit of the law?
I was in London last year and took quite a few photos with an DSLR. Hell, I even got a bobby to pose for me.
There is little time left. Fortunately it is August and those in North America have the beach. For many, there is something surreal about watching a sunset over the water. It is an experience that crosses many personal divides. Spend what time you have left smiling my friend, you will thank yourself later.
Yes, the copyright laws need to change, I admit it. They need to change back much closer to what they were originally, about seven years. That would give artists time enough to make a living off their inventions. The perverse indefinite extension of copyright has enabled the masses to rationalize their actions. They are right, as are you. The artists must concede that they are not the new nobility, due to be rich for the actions of their grandparents. Resistance is of course futile.
I agree, Flash has been trash from the get go. The sooner it dies, the better off we all are.
HTML5 FTW
I have run Linux on my desktop since RH 4.2 and have not used Windows seriously since NT4. I program in a dozen languages well enough to have a significant patch in the Postgres optimizer. My phone is four years old, I've replaced the screen once and the battery twice. I'm about as geeky as they get, but certainly not a gadget or Apple freak, and yet I bought an iPad yesterday.
Why? Because my wife's ancient iBook G4 is on it's last leg, and we have really come to love casual browsing in the living room. The iPad is not a computer, it is not terribly useful for general computing tasks. Anyone who has used one would understand this. It is however a gorgeous device that is braindead simple to use for its intended purpose. So much so that my 72 year old aunt, who refuses to touch a keyboard, actually surfed the web for the first time yesterday, and enjoyed the experience.
Hate on it all you want, but in ten years the only people with clunky old computers with keyboards will be those who write for a living (code or otherwise).
Amen.
Does Win7/Vista still hang for a few seconds every time you click on the empty optical drive in Explorer?
Besides, my gigantor monitor is a Samsung.
I watched the Lynch movie as a teenager back in the late 80s long before I read the book. Therefore I did and do not have the book snob attitude to pre-judge the movie by. I only read the book because of the captivating feel of the movie and the intriguing storyline. The made-for-TV remake was closer to the book, but far from enthralling.
I think Lynch is a lot like Kuberick. You either love his stuff or hate hate it, there is little in between.
Mr. Albanach Surly should also mention that both the programs he linked are basically dead, unmaintained relics. One of the wikipedia pages he linked even mentioned this. He did actually read what he linked, right?
The OP has asked a very interesting question though. If you could take something like xmove or Xpra and make an awesome window manager aware/compatible, it would be very interesting software indeed.
The postgres community definitely rocks, both on IRC and the mailing lists. That is the major reason my company uses it pretty much exclusively anymore, because we feel confident that whatever problems we run into we can work through.
BTW, David Fetter is in this thread, just look for dfetter with the four digit /. ID with the highly rated post...
I happen to know that right after the Columbia accident, all the telemetry data was loaded into a PG database and that is what was used for analysis. At one point tracking the entire .org domain was done with PG as well. I've always thought of MySQL as a racehorse, no other horses can compete for speed when running around a short track (IE read-mostly website). PG is more of a draft horse, able to plow the fields, or pull the wagon, or do a million other things that MySQL is not appropriate for. Oracle would be an Elephant, too huge and expensive to maintain for most things while SQL Server would be a mule, a hopefully sterile off-breed of a horse (Sybase) and a donkey (Windows).
THIS! Holy hell they look like canvas. You can see a distortion pattern running top to bottom and left to right, but it isn't at a 90 it is funky. Hopefully something was just whack and once they finish tweaking everything the noise will disappear. If not then at least it is the ESA (!NASA) that borked it this time?
My freshman year I bought every textbook and hauled them all around. Then I came to realize that in most classes I didn't actually need the book in class, so I started leaving it in my car or at home. By my senior year I only bought two books for nine classes. I found that in most classes (all but math) that simply going to class, taking good notes, and studying the material with my study group was enough for me to learn it, the book was just dead weight.
Oh come on, everyone knows the hand scrawled notes in the margins is where you find the most interesting spells.
Is a slideshow on my old Dell D820 (core duo, 2 gigs of ram, FF 3.5, Ubuntu Hardy)
Stupid geek squad!
Sure wish I had mod points. +1 Underrated...
Funny I read the affidavit and the DHCP logs certainly indicated he was the one who set up the gay email/coming out prank, but I didn't see where/how they tied him to hacking the grade server...