Yeah, that's what I thought as well - 13 minutes (or possibly less) would be the approximate time of flight for a nuclear warhead armed ballistic missile fired from the UK to Germany.
Nokia had the best hardware in the world but a terrible outdated OS. Then Microsoft came and killed the best hardware and replaced the OS with an even worse one.
Depends on what OS you mean - if Symbian then you are right, but Maemo/MeeGo/Harmattan were far ahead of their time.
It has a resistive touchscreen. What's more they're saying they're going for resistive because it's "more accurate" than capacitive and capacitive would be a "step back."
Seems like you never used the N900 touchscreen - it not like the cheap resistive screens on low end phones, but a high quality one. It is just as usable as a capacitive screen for touch and can be used for *very precise* pointing. That's one of the reasons people have been using their N900s for drawing pictures and maps. Try to do that with a normal capacitive screen - it's like trying to draw in boxing gloves.
Um, Blivet GUI is jut a GUI frontend to the existing Blivet storage library that has been there for years (many, many years if you include the time it was part of the Anaconda core). Adding the same functionality to GParted or making GParted use Blivet on the other hand would be one big useless rewrite.
"The need of a new partition manager stems from the fact that none of the existing GUI partitioning tools supports all modern storage technologies"
Does the backend -and kickstart, support all those "modern storage technologies"?
That's the important part. For a GUI-based installation, the ability to format -and install into, a single root partition is good enough for me.
Yes - the blivet storage management library supports alsmost any existing data storage technology you can come up with and then some more. Thats the reason why Blivet GUI came to be - the functionality is already there, it just needs to be exposed by a graphical user interface.
Blivet GUI is a frontend to the Blivet storage management library, which already supports RAID and BTRFS just fine. It is just not yet supported in the GUI, but I suppose it should be added soon.
Actually, I remember reading an English language "how to handle a Soyuz capsule landing in your backyard" manual, IIRC it was published somewhere on nasaspaceflight . It was written in such a manner that it could be given out to local administration, should the capsule land in an unplanned area by accident.
Nevertheless, it was quite an interesting read - how to help the cosmonauts open the capsule with a special wrench mounted on the outside of the capsule, to watch out for automatically deployed boom antennas, etc.
I remember reading some reply from the designers to the issue of solar panel wipers. IIRC they thought about it but it would be too heavy, could scratch the panels and would have many moving components and motors that could easily break down. Also, it seems that Martian sand devils do the job just fine.:)
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I know that of course, but I was reacting to the topic of the article - how modern technology would win WWII in minutes.
Yeah, that's what I thought as well - 13 minutes (or possibly less) would be the approximate time of flight for a nuclear warhead armed ballistic missile fired from the UK to Germany.
Nokia had the best hardware in the world but a terrible outdated OS. Then Microsoft came and killed the best hardware and replaced the OS with an even worse one.
Depends on what OS you mean - if Symbian then you are right, but Maemo/MeeGo/Harmattan were far ahead of their time.
But also nearly universally reviled.
Why does everyone care about saving five seconds during boot that will be completely overshadowed by the time you spend in BIOS POST?
Um, ever heard about containers, cloud images, disposable VMs, instant-on embedded appliances, etc. ?
It has a resistive touchscreen. What's more they're saying they're going for resistive because it's "more accurate" than capacitive and capacitive would be a "step back."
Seems like you never used the N900 touchscreen - it not like the cheap resistive screens on low end phones, but a high quality one. It is just as usable as a capacitive screen for touch and can be used for *very precise* pointing. That's one of the reasons people have been using their N900s for drawing pictures and maps. Try to do that with a normal capacitive screen - it's like trying to draw in boxing gloves.
And how many open source smartphones did *you* build ? :P
Hey whaday know, it does have git. I hadn't noticed that, thanks for the tip.
The built in backup software (called vault, source code here: https://github.com/nemomobile/...) is based on git, that's why it is installed. :)
You already can print a boat (a kayak).
Anyone who watched the launch video...what is the purple water looking stuff that the camera switched to a couple times?
It is a shot from inside of the liquid oxygen tank AFAIK.
Can it also do LVM2, BTRFS, advanced RAID, network storage and encryption ?
Um yes - and the two people mentioned in the Announcement have @redhat.com addresses. ;-)
So we're stuck with either "impossible object" or "ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag".
Naming is hard, but it's not *that* hard.
You don't have much experience with data storage management, do you ? It makes much more sense in context. :)
etc.
Um, I don't think that is very likely:
https://lists.fedoraproject.or...
Um, Blivet GUI is jut a GUI frontend to the existing Blivet storage library that has been there for years (many, many years if you include the time it was part of the Anaconda core). Adding the same functionality to GParted or making GParted use Blivet on the other hand would be one big useless rewrite.
Talk is cheap - bugreports/logs or it din't happen. :P
It is based on the blivet storage management library:
https://github.com/dwlehman/bl...
Which is also used by the Anaconda Fedore/Red Hat Enterprise Linux installer:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki...
And Open LMI:
https://fedorahosted.org/openl...
But it might indeed use libparted to create the actual partitions.
"The need of a new partition manager stems from the fact that none of the existing GUI partitioning tools supports all modern storage technologies"
Does the backend -and kickstart, support all those "modern storage technologies"?
That's the important part. For a GUI-based installation, the ability to format -and install into, a single root partition is good enough for me.
Yes - the blivet storage management library supports alsmost any existing data storage technology you can come up with and then some more. Thats the reason why Blivet GUI came to be - the functionality is already there, it just needs to be exposed by a graphical user interface.
Lets say that storage management is a rather interesting area to be involved in. ;-)
This is an email from Lennart Poettering to the Fedora Devel list dissing the Blivet GUI project due to implementation details:
https://lists.fedoraproject.or...
So Lennart Poettering actually really is involved, but in a rather different way than you would expect. :)
Blivet GUI is a frontend to the Blivet storage management library, which already supports RAID and BTRFS just fine. It is just not yet supported in the GUI, but I suppose it should be added soon.
Actually, I remember reading an English language "how to handle a Soyuz capsule landing in your backyard" manual, IIRC it was published somewhere on nasaspaceflight . It was written in such a manner that it could be given out to local administration, should the capsule land in an unplanned area by accident.
Nevertheless, it was quite an interesting read - how to help the cosmonauts open the capsule with a special wrench mounted on the outside of the capsule, to watch out for automatically deployed boom antennas, etc.
Looks like the manual is also included in this article: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=815
I remember reading some reply from the designers to the issue of solar panel wipers. IIRC they thought about it but it would be too heavy, could scratch the panels and would have many moving components and motors that could easily break down. Also, it seems that Martian sand devils do the job just fine. :)
Skynet ? :)
Well, I have an old 2005 candy-bar Nokia for that, and my N900 for the rest. :)