i have seen code where the comments were pretty much a discussion between developers over years. some comments were full arguments or mocking at somebody else's code.
In the past, you HAD to agree to permissions before installation. (unless you used cyanogenmod)
now, in Android 6.0, it disallows everything and asks you the first time it needs to access something. if you grant the permission, it is granted until you manually revoke it. if you deny it, it is denied until next time. if you deny it second time, it is denied forever (or until you manually grant it again).
i gave up on gapps (apps for google services). i run cyanogenmod without gapps with f-droid and amazon as my two package sources. if i need something from play store, i download it manually using RACCOON and install the apk. i use caldav-sync and carddav-sync to sync with google contacts and calendars.
It is a radical improvement to my life. No google tracking, longer battery life, fast bootup, longer battery life, phone uses less memory and i have a longer battery life.
Google do this all the time. EVERY EFFING TIME you install an application from non google-play source, it asks whether you'd like google to scan your applications for potential threats. there's no "Decline forever" option. google treat themselves differently.
I mostly don't care what terminal i use (i slightly prefer yakuake) as long as there is a font that looks good and a cursor that doesn't annoy me. I like the default terminal font OS X uses and love the red semitransparent cursor ChromeOS has. In fact, ChromeOS terminal also has a good font but OSX's is better. Does anybody know the name of that font?
The other font i'd want in my terminals is the pre-framebuffer-era vty font we all used. What's was that called?
i've tried cathode. once the novelty wore off and there were no more people around to show it off to, i stopped using it because of the same reasons we stopped using flickering monochrome CRT monitors.
every time i run gnome, i eventually start missing yakuake, so i install guake. and i'm always disappointed. inability to resize on the fly (with key combo), inability to split terminal horizontally and vertically, inability to rename tabs to something meaningful (and for the tab names to STAY that way).
i don't think you can make any money at those piracy levels. they way he described it was they ended up with loads of unfavourable reviews from people who didn't purchase the software and didn't use the latest version. people who were using buggy, malware ridden old versions were the loudest to complain.
a few months ago i watched a part of an interview with a CTO of a navigation software company (they have apps for ios/android/blackberry/wp8). i think it was Sygic but i'm not sure now. he said 92% of all android installations of their software were pirated vs a completely negligible percentile on iOS. they get telemetry data from the app so they know exact numbers. he also said that historically, the worst piracy was on symbian.
if i was getting such levels of piracy on my app, i'd just give up on that platform. with android 4.1, google announced paid applications will have apks encrypted with device specific keys so they can't be pirated but this is either not being used by many apps or somehow being circumvented. perhaps somebody could enlighten me?
i have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (very old in phone terms). i installed cyanogenmod 12.1 without gapps and use amazon appmarket for apps with caldav-sync and carddav-sync to sync with my google calendars/contacts. My phone boots up in 7 seconds unencrypted and 26 encrypted - that includes me typing encryption password. Battery now lasts 3 days instead of one.
If i need an app that's only available in google playstore, i use free java program called 'raccoon' to download it and install it manually. http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon
have you clicked and read the descriptions of ANY of those? osx has had just as many of these "viruses that require the user to be stupid AND do most of the virus' work".
btw, does "flashback" ring any bells? it forced apple to remove the "doesn't get pc viruses" from its "why you'll love a mac" page.
No matter what you sign, it is your job that's on the line, not theirs. My experience is primarily with Nexenta (SAN solutions provider), Juniper (network equipment), Dell and tier 1/2 connectivity providers. With all of them we pay for the highest possible support level. When part of our business stops because of a fault/bug with their product/service, they behave as if the word NOW meant at your leisure. Every single one of them does this. I submit a report and they guarantee a response within X hours. So what happens? They respond with the least possible effort 1 minute before hour X.
So I pick up the phone and start the usual ritual of "get me somebody who knows more about your product than i do". Followed by "No, that's not you. No, not even you. Still not you. Maybe you." And it all ends with "No, i am not interested in testing 5 different options and reporting back, I don't work for you. You f*cking test stuff and give me a result that works."
the only solution to problems is having robustness as an architectural requirement.
i used to be an adventurer like you. then i took systemd to my systems.
Just like you I hated the idea of systemd. Now, I put it everywhere I can. Sure I don't like the extra functions it's supposed to take over, but as an init system, it is more elegant than anything else on gnu/linux. The only difference between systemd's and Solaris SMF's philosophy is that solaris programmers knew when to stop adding features.
what about first commander chakotay's arc spanning the entire series? i thought his struggle was the hardest of them all. the doctor performed so many miracles, yet he was unable to change chakotay's gender through the entire season. that poor gentle woman trapped in a man's body... it broke my heart.
Why does every tv series these days HAVE to have a happily married homosexual couple in a prominent place? Is there a recently passed law that forces writers/producers to do this? I personally don't care if somebody marries a transgendered 6 legged donkey but this recent trend just feels so forcible - e.g. the flash, the arrow.
It is almost as preposterous as having a black norse god Heimdall in Thor. Just why?
Gay people I know don't go around saying: "Hello, I'm Paul and I'm GAAAAAAAY and I have a husband and we're happy!!!" They say things like "I'm f*cking tired and this sandwich is f*cking awful. I need to take a piss and buy oranges after work."
i, personally, have yet to see a system better than an elected (time limited) benevolent dictatorship. a dictator who can make rules and loosen/tighten them as needed. but it is important not to have an arsehole as the dictator.
hmm i'm trying to do:wq but no command line appears. thus no search and replace either. no proper visual block selection. yeah, this vim emulation isn't for me.
i used to hate systemd. then i was forced to use it while building a redhat based cluster. on the one hand, it's an excellent init system and i absolutely love it for that - it's like finally having Solaris SMF on linux. on the other, it's a horrible everything else. it stands like a wall between you and problem resolution when things don't work. it presents incomplete riddles instead of information about services that cannot start.
i agree with the first sentence and partially agree with the second.
i feel like the excitement of linux desktop is disappearing. i.e. gnome looks amateurish but has well integrated apps. kde looks more professional, but feels like mess where barely anything works as it should. enlightenment is like going a decade back in time - what the hell is samsung doing with it? unity is too simplistic, cinnamon is the definition of "nothing exciting".
in gnu/linux in general, package manager is nothing special anymore, win/mac have it too. stuff like cgroups, containers, fs snapshots are nothing to be excited about as an ordinary desktop user. there are no linux only killer apps.
and stuff is complicated and buggy. i have yet to meet a fedora/centos person who has selinux/firewalld enabled and is able to get work done. also, good luck debugging your setup with systemctl and journald. in ubuntu, it's almost impossible to get a bug fixed. you either fix it youself or go upstream, then open bug report in debian and then in ubuntu. then you create fake accounts (to say it affects me too) to get some attention to the bug report and hope that in a year+ a new ubuntu version will have it fixed. and they're not stupid ui issues, but big stuff like server installer not working with usb keyboards, nfs not mounting with exec,dev,suid if -o users is present, etc..
windows/mac still suck a lot more (believe me i've tried switching to osx), but they have a lot more 'killer' apps.
that's a nice chart you've found there. i found the ranking a little disconnected from reality but then i looked at the "ranking method" and felt satisfied i was right.
all is still well with the world, sqlite is still 10x more popular than all the competitors combined.
EVERY effing time somebody asks something on slashdot, a smartarse like you has to come to the rescue with their stupid assumptions and questions trying to ridicule the question as invalid.
I too am looking for a note-taking software that isn't a wiki or a ms onenote. but to get to an answer, i have to read through drivel such as yours. maybe there should be a separate quota for OFFTOPIC downvoting points. e.g 100 offtopic points every day for every user.
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i have seen code where the comments were pretty much a discussion between developers over years. some comments were full arguments or mocking at somebody else's code.
i don't have amazon's claws in my phone. i have one app from them - app store.
In the past, you HAD to agree to permissions before installation. (unless you used cyanogenmod)
now, in Android 6.0, it disallows everything and asks you the first time it needs to access something. if you grant the permission, it is granted until you manually revoke it. if you deny it, it is denied until next time. if you deny it second time, it is denied forever (or until you manually grant it again).
i gave up on gapps (apps for google services). i run cyanogenmod without gapps with f-droid and amazon as my two package sources. if i need something from play store, i download it manually using RACCOON and install the apk. i use caldav-sync and carddav-sync to sync with google contacts and calendars.
It is a radical improvement to my life. No google tracking, longer battery life, fast bootup, longer battery life, phone uses less memory and i have a longer battery life.
Google do this all the time. EVERY EFFING TIME you install an application from non google-play source, it asks whether you'd like google to scan your applications for potential threats. there's no "Decline forever" option. google treat themselves differently.
I mostly don't care what terminal i use (i slightly prefer yakuake) as long as there is a font that looks good and a cursor that doesn't annoy me. I like the default terminal font OS X uses and love the red semitransparent cursor ChromeOS has. In fact, ChromeOS terminal also has a good font but OSX's is better. Does anybody know the name of that font?
The other font i'd want in my terminals is the pre-framebuffer-era vty font we all used. What's was that called?
i've tried cathode. once the novelty wore off and there were no more people around to show it off to, i stopped using it because of the same reasons we stopped using flickering monochrome CRT monitors.
every time i run gnome, i eventually start missing yakuake, so i install guake. and i'm always disappointed. inability to resize on the fly (with key combo), inability to split terminal horizontally and vertically, inability to rename tabs to something meaningful (and for the tab names to STAY that way).
i don't think you can make any money at those piracy levels. they way he described it was they ended up with loads of unfavourable reviews from people who didn't purchase the software and didn't use the latest version. people who were using buggy, malware ridden old versions were the loudest to complain.
a few months ago i watched a part of an interview with a CTO of a navigation software company (they have apps for ios/android/blackberry/wp8). i think it was Sygic but i'm not sure now. he said 92% of all android installations of their software were pirated vs a completely negligible percentile on iOS. they get telemetry data from the app so they know exact numbers. he also said that historically, the worst piracy was on symbian.
if i was getting such levels of piracy on my app, i'd just give up on that platform. with android 4.1, google announced paid applications will have apks encrypted with device specific keys so they can't be pirated but this is either not being used by many apps or somehow being circumvented. perhaps somebody could enlighten me?
i have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (very old in phone terms). i installed cyanogenmod 12.1 without gapps and use amazon appmarket for apps with caldav-sync and carddav-sync to sync with my google calendars/contacts. My phone boots up in 7 seconds unencrypted and 26 encrypted - that includes me typing encryption password. Battery now lasts 3 days instead of one.
If i need an app that's only available in google playstore, i use free java program called 'raccoon' to download it and install it manually. http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon
have you clicked and read the descriptions of ANY of those? osx has had just as many of these "viruses that require the user to be stupid AND do most of the virus' work".
btw, does "flashback" ring any bells? it forced apple to remove the "doesn't get pc viruses" from its "why you'll love a mac" page.
http://www.welivesecurity.com/...
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com...
let us not forget big iron also uses snapshots. thus making this encrypting thingy almost a non-problem.
until we type "snapper rollback ..." or "zfs rollback ...". then we can continue eating donuts and browsing slashdot.
No matter what you sign, it is your job that's on the line, not theirs. My experience is primarily with Nexenta (SAN solutions provider), Juniper (network equipment), Dell and tier 1/2 connectivity providers. With all of them we pay for the highest possible support level. When part of our business stops because of a fault/bug with their product/service, they behave as if the word NOW meant at your leisure. Every single one of them does this. I submit a report and they guarantee a response within X hours. So what happens? They respond with the least possible effort 1 minute before hour X.
So I pick up the phone and start the usual ritual of "get me somebody who knows more about your product than i do". Followed by "No, that's not you. No, not even you. Still not you. Maybe you." And it all ends with "No, i am not interested in testing 5 different options and reporting back, I don't work for you. You f*cking test stuff and give me a result that works."
the only solution to problems is having robustness as an architectural requirement.
i used to be an adventurer like you. then i took systemd to my systems.
Just like you I hated the idea of systemd. Now, I put it everywhere I can. Sure I don't like the extra functions it's supposed to take over, but as an init system, it is more elegant than anything else on gnu/linux. The only difference between systemd's and Solaris SMF's philosophy is that solaris programmers knew when to stop adding features.
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what about first commander chakotay's arc spanning the entire series? i thought his struggle was the hardest of them all. the doctor performed so many miracles, yet he was unable to change chakotay's gender through the entire season. that poor gentle woman trapped in a man's body... it broke my heart.
Why does every tv series these days HAVE to have a happily married homosexual couple in a prominent place? Is there a recently passed law that forces writers/producers to do this? I personally don't care if somebody marries a transgendered 6 legged donkey but this recent trend just feels so forcible - e.g. the flash, the arrow.
It is almost as preposterous as having a black norse god Heimdall in Thor. Just why?
Gay people I know don't go around saying: "Hello, I'm Paul and I'm GAAAAAAAY and I have a husband and we're happy!!!" They say things like "I'm f*cking tired and this sandwich is f*cking awful. I need to take a piss and buy oranges after work."
i, personally, have yet to see a system better than an elected (time limited) benevolent dictatorship. a dictator who can make rules and loosen/tighten them as needed. but it is important not to have an arsehole as the dictator.
hmm i'm trying to do :wq but no command line appears. thus no search and replace either. no proper visual block selection. yeah, this vim emulation isn't for me.
i used to hate systemd. then i was forced to use it while building a redhat based cluster. on the one hand, it's an excellent init system and i absolutely love it for that - it's like finally having Solaris SMF on linux. on the other, it's a horrible everything else. it stands like a wall between you and problem resolution when things don't work. it presents incomplete riddles instead of information about services that cannot start.
i agree with the first sentence and partially agree with the second.
i feel like the excitement of linux desktop is disappearing. i.e. gnome looks amateurish but has well integrated apps. kde looks more professional, but feels like mess where barely anything works as it should. enlightenment is like going a decade back in time - what the hell is samsung doing with it? unity is too simplistic, cinnamon is the definition of "nothing exciting".
in gnu/linux in general, package manager is nothing special anymore, win/mac have it too. stuff like cgroups, containers, fs snapshots are nothing to be excited about as an ordinary desktop user. there are no linux only killer apps.
and stuff is complicated and buggy. i have yet to meet a fedora/centos person who has selinux/firewalld enabled and is able to get work done. also, good luck debugging your setup with systemctl and journald. in ubuntu, it's almost impossible to get a bug fixed. you either fix it youself or go upstream, then open bug report in debian and then in ubuntu. then you create fake accounts (to say it affects me too) to get some attention to the bug report and hope that in a year+ a new ubuntu version will have it fixed. and they're not stupid ui issues, but big stuff like server installer not working with usb keyboards, nfs not mounting with exec,dev,suid if -o users is present, etc..
windows/mac still suck a lot more (believe me i've tried switching to osx), but they have a lot more 'killer' apps.
that's a nice chart you've found there. i found the ranking a little disconnected from reality but then i looked at the "ranking method" and felt satisfied i was right.
all is still well with the world, sqlite is still 10x more popular than all the competitors combined.
EVERY effing time somebody asks something on slashdot, a smartarse like you has to come to the rescue with their stupid assumptions and questions trying to ridicule the question as invalid.
I too am looking for a note-taking software that isn't a wiki or a ms onenote. but to get to an answer, i have to read through drivel such as yours. maybe there should be a separate quota for OFFTOPIC downvoting points. e.g 100 offtopic points every day for every user.