And like the Sirens beware what looks enticing from afar - the specs are great however the biggest problem with the Samsung Exynos processors appear to be that the largest consumer for Samsung ARM SoCs is Samsung and as such their external support, particularly for opensource projects is dire.
I don't have time to provide links but go and have a trawl through the Cyanogenmod and XDA developer forums in particular the comments from the developer Codeworkx.
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) have not yet moved on to the new Linux based Millenium trading platform - this is scheduled to happen on Feb 14th. It was supposed to have happened late last year but was delayed.
A subsiduary of the LSE, the Turquoise Multilateral trading Facility (MTF) has already migrated to the MIT platform though.
"the keyboard will soon be an irrelevance except for a few neandertal techno-luddites"
Then as a SysAdmin then spends 80-90% of his day in a command line interface (CLI) you can count me in the "neandertal techno-luddites" group that does not see the requirement keyboards disappearing anytime soon.
I can picture a SysAdmin dancing about like a frantic Raver on speed if front of a Kinect interface...its not pretty and not for me thanks.
I had high hopes for the Toshiba AC-100 but the reviews all say the same thing great hardware (with some odd keyboard decisions) badly let down by the Android implementation and self rolled App Store.
I don't understand why the OEMs seem so averse to taking a nice ARM netbook and partnering with one of the large and popular Linux distributions rather than rolling their own poor to unterley crap install or partner with some no name distribution, both of which fail to deliver a decent consumer experience or community.
ARM have been promising "ARM based laptops/netbooks will be out soon" for the last three years, so far their licensees and the OEMs have failed to deliver.
I'd say the market is there, I wonder now though if they'll just continue to chase Apple believing locked down tablets to be the market to chase rather than getting back to those of us who are waiting for a decent ARM netbook/laptop.
I really hope so, but I'm loosing faith that the popular Linux distributions will actually break out from their server (and to a small extent desktops) stronghold.
It's the OEM device manufacturers, if you look at the netbook/laptots debabcle, outside the rather significant Wintel strangulation, each OEM decided to roll their own or partner with some no name distribution for their initial Linux offerings which IMHO resulted in a rather poor consumer experience.
This gave Wintel their opportunity to get in a take control. You can see it happening again with Android, the frequently talked about fracturing of the platform will be matched by the plethroa of App Stores which are going to spring up.
Reviews of the Toshiba AC-100 all say the same thing great hardware (with some odd keyboard decisions) badly let down by the Android implementation and slef rolled App Store.
Unless an ARM OEM device and Android (or a popular big Linux distribtion) presents a decent consumer experience this will just be another "Year of the Linux..." meme in the making.
"and were branded as terrorists by the UK for doing so"
The legislation used to freeze the Icelandic banks assets were taken from "Part 2 (Freezing Orders) of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001".
Notice how the dramatic word "terrorism" is only one third of the title. If it had just been the "Crime and Security Act" none of the press would have made such a big deal out of it.
I had a Blackberry Storm foisted upon me (something about making the numbers up to get the next data bundle). But from the outset I made it very clear that outside of working hours the notification options will be set to Phone Calls Only (i.e. no tones or vibrate on texts and e-mails) and Iâ(TM)ll check e-mails at my leisure.
Without being to hostile or overzealous I find myself constantly having to remind people that e-mail is an asynchronous communications medium.
And as for the Storm - nice screen good for reading e-mails, business iPhone competitor it is not and so damn unresponsive at timesâ¦grrrrr. Iâ(TM)m glad I didnâ(TM)t pay for it, not checked if there are firmware updates but in its current form I wouldn't recommend it.
The project is fresh out development and your already whining for what it might not have.
And to think when the news first broke that this would be initially developed in house there was outrage, but you comment exemplifies why they started development away from the "community".
Question is are you going to do anything to help the project?
For all the WoW fans having trouble understanding what is so special about this, the EVE Universe is one big single realm (hosted on a cluster of servers).
So where as a single WoW realm (hosted on a cluster of servers?) can accommodate about 2000 concurrent online players the EVE Universe(realm) has now supported over 23000 concurrent online players.
I was going post at the top level but the above comment sums up what I was going to say.
Having been through some business training recently you have to ask what is your IT departments mandate/goals and are they in line with the rest of the company or your department. Its can be quite illuminating that when you drill down to the core purpose of some departments you can find that they are not supposed to do what you/everybody expects.
You should try it with your own job roles and departments, examine the work that is performed keep asking why you do it and eventually you get to the core reason (I forget what the name for the methodology is called). If you have a job role or department mandate there can be quite a gulf when compared.
Well we keep seeing the "white virus" explained as a computer/network immune system. Well ok lets consider this for a second or two my immune system is restricted to my body, my phagocytes don't go invading other people in a bid to help them out.
So the same should be applied to the software immune system, after all nature knows its shit better than we do.
Filtering is all very well and good - but ultimately it is an arms race that no side will win. Battles may be won but the war will rage on.
The most effective method I have used is whitelists - if your names not down your not getting to my inbox. All other mails are placed in a pending folder where I currently have to manually check the mails - filtering cold be performed on these mails to cut out the really obvious spams and save me some time.
Human authenticators could be used to move mails not on the white list to a more privileged folder than the pending (to be reviewed) or straight to your inbox. But I expect at some point in the spam wars tricking human authenticators will be on the cards.
I personally find the white list method as used by hushmail works wonderfully.
"That being said, I think that "word processing" computers should remain Mac OS or Windows."
Why? Other than both platforms supporting word what do they offer over Linux for something as simple as word processing?
To be perfectly honest GUI based word processing is the worst thing to start learning word processing. Why, because the moment people are introduced to say Word they forget about conentent and spend most of their time messing around with fonts and formating.
My CS teachers at school (who were great) taught us not to mess with formatting and concentrate on the content above all else - formating came last. A lesson very well learnt that has stayed with me.
I know the features can be ignored within a GUI but try telling that to new users.
I was merely passing on some information I thought relevant and I persoanlly thought that during the documentary they appeared impartial. Someone else watching the same documentary may have thought different.
The documentary was a fly on the wall thing so they could have used editing to influence the perception.
In general the BBC are impartial and don't tend to sensationalise news - why well similar to Al Jazerra they don't just cater for the UK/Arab audience. Remember not all the Arab states liked the Saddam regime so the news can not be completly biased towards them/it.
Incidentally, al-Jazeera's old head was on the payroll of Iraqi intelligence, for what that's worth...
I didn't know that...but its not suprising. People of power within any organisations being the pockets of security services/governments is pretty much the norm the world over.
I watched a BBC documenty about Al Jazerra filmed during the Iraq conflict. While their slant may be towards their regions audience I found them to be quite imapartial. Sure they showed pictures of captured/dead coalition soldiers (God rest their souls) that western audiences found disagreeable - but at the end of the day they showed no censorship in favour of coalition or Iraq sides**.
I'd much prefer to see both sides of the story than be force fed the propagander of a single side - ours or theirs.
**Al Jazerra stopped reporting any Iraq news for a day as the the Iraq government wanted two of their reporters removing for showing coalition progress in to Baghdad - the Iraq government relented and asked Al Jazerra back.
Questions is will it all go about circle and the currently developed countries US/Western EU become cheaper than elsewhere or will the world economies stablise with economic wealth and labour dispersed globally.
Excuse the spelling I'm tired and am having trouble thinking.
If ISP's need illegal P2P file sharing to sustain their business then their demise is inevitable and the internet's importance is vastly over estimated.
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And like the Sirens beware what looks enticing from afar - the specs are great however the biggest problem with the Samsung Exynos processors appear to be that the largest consumer for Samsung ARM SoCs is Samsung and as such their external support, particularly for opensource projects is dire.
I don't have time to provide links but go and have a trawl through the Cyanogenmod and XDA developer forums in particular the comments from the developer Codeworkx.
http://www.google.com/search?q=codeworkx+cyanogenmod+Exynos
Support for Exynos based devices is far behind that of Qualcomm and TI OMAP that are reputed to be much more friendly to (opensource) developers.
It might be "only one-fifth that of the US" right now but I would imagine that is going to grow pretty quickly as China develops.
Investment for the future and all that...
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) have not yet moved on to the new Linux based Millenium trading platform - this is scheduled to happen on Feb 14th. It was supposed to have happened late last year but was delayed.
A subsiduary of the LSE, the Turquoise Multilateral trading Facility (MTF) has already migrated to the MIT platform though.
"the keyboard will soon be an irrelevance except for a few neandertal techno-luddites"
Then as a SysAdmin then spends 80-90% of his day in a command line interface (CLI) you can count me in the "neandertal techno-luddites" group that does not see the requirement keyboards disappearing anytime soon.
I can picture a SysAdmin dancing about like a frantic Raver on speed if front of a Kinect interface...its not pretty and not for me thanks.
I had high hopes for the Toshiba AC-100 but the reviews all say the same thing great hardware (with some odd keyboard decisions) badly let down by the Android implementation and self rolled App Store.
I don't understand why the OEMs seem so averse to taking a nice ARM netbook and partnering with one of the large and popular Linux distributions rather than rolling their own poor to unterley crap install or partner with some no name distribution, both of which fail to deliver a decent consumer experience or community.
ARM have been promising "ARM based laptops/netbooks will be out soon" for the last three years, so far their licensees and the OEMs have failed to deliver.
I'd say the market is there, I wonder now though if they'll just continue to chase Apple believing locked down tablets to be the market to chase rather than getting back to those of us who are waiting for a decent ARM netbook/laptop.
I really hope so, but I'm loosing faith that the popular Linux distributions will actually break out from their server (and to a small extent desktops) stronghold.
It's the OEM device manufacturers, if you look at the netbook/laptots debabcle, outside the rather significant Wintel strangulation, each OEM decided to roll their own or partner with some no name distribution for their initial Linux offerings which IMHO resulted in a rather poor consumer experience.
This gave Wintel their opportunity to get in a take control. You can see it happening again with Android, the frequently talked about fracturing of the platform will be matched by the plethroa of App Stores which are going to spring up.
Reviews of the Toshiba AC-100 all say the same thing great hardware (with some odd keyboard decisions) badly let down by the Android implementation and slef rolled App Store.
Unless an ARM OEM device and Android (or a popular big Linux distribtion) presents a decent consumer experience this will just be another "Year of the Linux..." meme in the making.
"and were branded as terrorists by the UK for doing so"
The legislation used to freeze the Icelandic banks assets were taken from "Part 2 (Freezing Orders) of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001".
Notice how the dramatic word "terrorism" is only one third of the title. If it had just been the "Crime and Security Act" none of the press would have made such a big deal out of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icesave_dispute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism,_Crime_and_Security_Act_2001#Part_2_.28Freezing_orders.29
But hey, the propogation of nonsense is more fun.
I had a Blackberry Storm foisted upon me (something about making the numbers up to get the next data bundle). But from the outset I made it very clear that outside of working hours the notification options will be set to Phone Calls Only (i.e. no tones or vibrate on texts and e-mails) and Iâ(TM)ll check e-mails at my leisure.
Without being to hostile or overzealous I find myself constantly having to remind people that e-mail is an asynchronous communications medium.
And as for the Storm - nice screen good for reading e-mails, business iPhone competitor it is not and so damn unresponsive at timesâ¦grrrrr. Iâ(TM)m glad I didnâ(TM)t pay for it, not checked if there are firmware updates but in its current form I wouldn't recommend it.
I didn't know that - thanks :)
Its a good day when you learn something new.
The project is fresh out development and your already whining for what it might not have.
And to think when the news first broke that this would be initially developed in house there was outrage, but you comment exemplifies why they started development away from the "community".
Question is are you going to do anything to help the project?
Can't be bothered to check the article links hey? Check the Novell link.
http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/
For all the WoW fans having trouble understanding what is so special about this, the EVE Universe is one big single realm (hosted on a cluster of servers).
So where as a single WoW realm (hosted on a cluster of servers?) can accommodate about 2000 concurrent online players the EVE Universe(realm) has now supported over 23000 concurrent online players.
Now that is something special.
I was going post at the top level but the above comment sums up what I was going to say.
Having been through some business training recently you have to ask what is your IT departments mandate/goals and are they in line with the rest of the company or your department. Its can be quite illuminating that when you drill down to the core purpose of some departments you can find that they are not supposed to do what you/everybody expects.
You should try it with your own job roles and departments, examine the work that is performed keep asking why you do it and eventually you get to the core reason (I forget what the name for the methodology is called). If you have a job role or department mandate there can be quite a gulf when compared.
Well we keep seeing the "white virus" explained as a computer/network immune system. Well ok lets consider this for a second or two my immune system is restricted to my body, my phagocytes don't go invading other people in a bid to help them out.
So the same should be applied to the software immune system, after all nature knows its shit better than we do.
Try http://www.freedom2surf.net/
The Bacterial Matrix
Filtering is all very well and good - but ultimately it is an arms race that no side will win. Battles may be won but the war will rage on.
The most effective method I have used is whitelists - if your names not down your not getting to my inbox. All other mails are placed in a pending folder where I currently have to manually check the mails - filtering cold be performed on these mails to cut out the really obvious spams and save me some time.
Human authenticators could be used to move mails not on the white list to a more privileged folder than the pending (to be reviewed) or straight to your inbox. But I expect at some point in the spam wars tricking human authenticators will be on the cards.
I personally find the white list method as used by hushmail works wonderfully.
Like the sig :)
"That being said, I think that "word processing" computers should remain Mac OS or Windows."
Why? Other than both platforms supporting word what do they offer over Linux for something as simple as word processing?
To be perfectly honest GUI based word processing is the worst thing to start learning word processing. Why, because the moment people are introduced to say Word they forget about conentent and spend most of their time messing around with fonts and formating.
My CS teachers at school (who were great) taught us not to mess with formatting and concentrate on the content above all else - formating came last. A lesson very well learnt that has stayed with me.
I know the features can be ignored within a GUI but try telling that to new users.
I was merely passing on some information I thought relevant and I persoanlly thought that during the documentary they appeared impartial. Someone else watching the same documentary may have thought different.
The documentary was a fly on the wall thing so they could have used editing to influence the perception.
In general the BBC are impartial and don't tend to sensationalise news - why well similar to Al Jazerra they don't just cater for the UK/Arab audience. Remember not all the Arab states liked the Saddam regime so the news can not be completly biased towards them/it.
Incidentally, al-Jazeera's old head was on the payroll of Iraqi intelligence, for what that's worth...
I didn't know that...but its not suprising. People of power within any organisations being the pockets of security services/governments is pretty much the norm the world over.
"can't be as bad as what it was being used for"
What providing a different point of view?
I watched a BBC documenty about Al Jazerra filmed during the Iraq conflict. While their slant may be towards their regions audience I found them to be quite imapartial. Sure they showed pictures of captured/dead coalition soldiers (God rest their souls) that western audiences found disagreeable - but at the end of the day they showed no censorship in favour of coalition or Iraq sides**.
I'd much prefer to see both sides of the story than be force fed the propagander of a single side - ours or theirs.
**Al Jazerra stopped reporting any Iraq news for a day as the the Iraq government wanted two of their reporters removing for showing coalition progress in to Baghdad - the Iraq government relented and asked Al Jazerra back.
Questions is will it all go about circle and the currently developed countries US/Western EU become cheaper than elsewhere or will the world economies stablise with economic wealth and labour dispersed globally.
Excuse the spelling I'm tired and am having trouble thinking.
I didn't spot that :)
This will be one of those saga's that become a part of computing history.
The plot twists and turns are making this into a very intersting story.
If ISP's need illegal P2P file sharing to sustain their business then their demise is inevitable and the internet's importance is vastly over estimated.