I installed Chrome OS Linux (0.9.576 RC) on my old 7-inch EEE 701.
Not so impressed. I had expected Google to make something really slim and easy, almost only for webbrowsing. Instead, everything just seems to be OpenSuse rebranded as Chrome OS. Even the bootloader says it boots OpenSuse, not Chrome. Audio didn't work out of the box. It forgot my wireless password on reboot.
Wayland programs will not be able to run remotely. X programs should still be possible to forward between two computers using Wayland, as long as the client runs X-server on top of Wayland. The appliation server (X client) should only need a few X libraries.
Not because you cant run it, but because you dont want to build for it and configure it. Connect a projector to a Linux computer and share the display. I wouldnt do that for my presentation without trying it first (and when I did try recently the computer crashed). Even Microsoft got this right now with Windows 7.
Seriously? In the Microsoft world, so much effort and money is put into upgrading things that are not supported anymore. I mean, if you have an environment with XP, Office 2003, Sharepoint 2003 and IE6... Just live with it as long as the hardware works? Everyting discontinued, and nothing can be upgraded without upgrading all the other things as well.
I must agree! IT people can prefer whatever they want (even Wintendo if they choose). But I am bored of those who say Windows is so much better, and who never used a Mac or Linux machine in their life.
I think this is the reason, more than anything else. In the article (the transition-PDF) Apple says that the MacMini is already their most popular server product. And a Mac Mini today is more capable than an XServe from a few years ago (performance-wise).
I can imagine neither the XServe nor the Mac Pro sell very many units. Maybe it simply makes sense to drop one of them. And, as someone else already wrote, the Mac Pro has not been upgraded in long. Maybe a rack-mountable (sideways) Mac Pro, with (optional) redundant power supply will show up... and then its just the 1U thing.
Maybe they plan to introduce a little mini-tower... 5.25-optical drives, 3.5-harddrives, replacable graphics adapter, aluminium body, fullsize-memory instead of laptop-memory, etc.
Of course it would be very popular, and maybe kill the Mac Pro. The iMac and MacMini sales would also suffer. But with the XServe gone, its a little bit more natural to introduce a new desktop model.
Simply an original Mac for those who build a Hackintosh today. A Mac for gamers. Maybe the most popular Mac ever?
Exactly... writing a simple application for X was arcane when I did it almost 10 years ago. Nobody really writes applications for X anymore - they write them for GTK, KDE.
Finally this happens... just a few years late. Apple got it right with Mac OS X - what has the rest of the *NIX community been doing all years when the solution was right in front of their nose? And since Mac OS X runs X applications properly, there is no worry this can not be done. It works today and it has been done.
I admit I have not contributed at all to this move either - but I welcome it now when I hear about it!
Application forwarding? This is not about killing the possibility to write applications for X, and forward them over X, if needed. This is about all graphical applications should not have to depend on TCP/IP.
If you have a router that is 6to4-capable, (ie, an Airport Extreme, or any router running DD-WRT or OpenWRT), you will have IPv6 independently of your ISP.
Your routers public IPv4 address is used to create a whole fully valid IPv6 subnet. All your hosts behind your router will get real public-accessible IPv6-addresses.
Even easier is to (on each host you want IPv6) install Miredo (implementing the Teredo protocol). In Ubuntu you basically make a
$apt-get install miredo Thats ALL to get an IPv6 address that truly works. Works though a normal NAT without opening any ports or anything.
It was long ago but I remember good overclocking. My PII 350 MHz ran perfectly at 392 MHz (bus at 112 MHz instead of 100 MHz). It made some sense (since a 400 Mhz CPU was about $150 more expensive) actually. Since then I have not attempted overclocking anything (perhaps because I got an Apple computer).
Is overclocking still worth it? Does it make sense?
Or is it mostly a challenge for fun and glory today?
I work for a company currently recruiting developers. I will share a few thoughts with you.
First, you should talk to your boss and say that you would like to get more challenging tasks than just the QA you do. The company should encourage you to grow within the organization. If they do not encourage you, or if you do not have that kind of relationship to your boss, you should leave anyways.
Second, a few years in QA is a merit for a programmer I would say. I think a few years in operations is an excellent merit to. There are so many programmers who just write code without seeing it being deployed, maintained or really run. The important thing is that you have kept your programming skills up to date.
Now, too many years in any position can indicate lack of ambition (but switching all the time is even worse). Participation in Open Source projects is one way to show extra ambition and knowledge. What is also very good is running your own business: i.e. building (web) solutions as a consultant.
How enthusiastic are you about coding? If you are a programmer, you do not stop coding, even if you have another job. If you have not coded for fun in your spare time, maybe you should consider another career (perhaps in QA instead).
Try TinyXP (Rev 09). It is illegal. It is free as in beer. It can be found on your favourite torrent site. It is "better than the real stuff".
A thought... now when MS is not even selling XP anymore, how criminal can it really be to warez it? I mean, (C)-law is about making sure the producer of something is the one getting paid for copies. But if the producer refuses to provide copies in any form (and used copies are not completely ok, because of Genuine Advantage and stuff), can it really be illegal to make/use your own copy?
I felt like trying something with more anonymization than Torrent a few months ago, and gave Gnunet 0.8 a try. I was not that impressed. Is Freenet better, more relevant, more mature?
I cant even start Wine... out of the box Kubuntu installation, all updates applied... system completely freezes... power button needed. So, for running the only game I care about (Ports Of Call), Vista is my platform... no problems there. Have a VIA C3 Nehemia - probably there is a Wine problem with it.
Probably nobody read this storya anymore but parent describes the problem with the method in the easiest and most obvious way....but I cant resist saying that in the Paper they say that "other choices are possible" about the delay lines... I cant tell if there are any other ways to choose delay lines that are not exponential.
Just a little hint about audio quality on live365.
First I found the audio quality horrible. Then, on the computer I mixed the audio down quite much, and turned up quite much on amplifier - that helped a lot. Probably my computer gave too strong output signal, or some digital amplification process didnt work well.
Now I find the audio quality quite decent.
I use Kubuntu and Firefox. I open the audio stream file with VLC.
I used to listen to music quite much. I bought everything on CD. My iPod made me listen to my music more, and I bought more and more music. After a while they started putting copy-protection on CDs. Around that time I more or less stopped buying music - not as a statement... but I was annoyed and I didnt really find so much interesting music either.
A few days ago I tried www.live365.com, which I havnt used in years. It is great! If it remains open I believe I will subscribe to it (to get CD-quality no-ad radio, that I can play in my HIFI-system at home). I also think I will start buying CDs with those artists I discover at live365. Really. No promises, no threats. I just think live365 may help me find CDs to buy. If they close it I doubt I will discover those artists.
Not even the Ultimate License allows you to watch/play DRMd content in a virtual machine. It is impossible to technically restrict what can be done with content as soon as it is played in a Virtual Machine. Audio is especially easy to make perfect digital copies of, even if it is DRMd.
Allowing home editions of Vista to be run in Virtual Machines would essentially make the DRM protection in Vista useless.
Even with Vista Ultimate you are not allowed to watch/play DRM-contents in a virtual machine. You can easily copy DRM-protected audio/video (especially easy with audio) if you playback it in a virtual machine and record it on the host.
So, you have no sympathy for paying customers because many other people in the same country presumably did not pay? I think there are about 1300 million Chineese - you should allow yourself not to judge them all together.
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I installed Chrome OS Linux (0.9.576 RC) on my old 7-inch EEE 701.
Not so impressed. I had expected Google to make something really slim and easy, almost only for webbrowsing. Instead, everything just seems to be OpenSuse rebranded as Chrome OS. Even the bootloader says it boots OpenSuse, not Chrome. Audio didn't work out of the box. It forgot my wireless password on reboot.
Back to Ubuntu 10.10 I think.
Wayland programs will not be able to run remotely. X programs should still be possible to forward between two computers using Wayland, as long as the client runs X-server on top of Wayland. The appliation server (X client) should only need a few X libraries.
Not because you cant run it, but because you dont want to build for it and configure it. Connect a projector to a Linux computer and share the display. I wouldnt do that for my presentation without trying it first (and when I did try recently the computer crashed). Even Microsoft got this right now with Windows 7.
Or, what was cool then is commodity now, and they need to go on to innovate?
Seriously? In the Microsoft world, so much effort and money is put into upgrading things that are not supported anymore. I mean, if you have an environment with XP, Office 2003, Sharepoint 2003 and IE6... Just live with it as long as the hardware works? Everyting discontinued, and nothing can be upgraded without upgrading all the other things as well.
I must agree! IT people can prefer whatever they want (even Wintendo if they choose). But I am bored of those who say Windows is so much better, and who never used a Mac or Linux machine in their life.
I think this is the reason, more than anything else. In the article (the transition-PDF) Apple says that the MacMini is already their most popular server product. And a Mac Mini today is more capable than an XServe from a few years ago (performance-wise).
I can imagine neither the XServe nor the Mac Pro sell very many units. Maybe it simply makes sense to drop one of them. And, as someone else already wrote, the Mac Pro has not been upgraded in long. Maybe a rack-mountable (sideways) Mac Pro, with (optional) redundant power supply will show up... and then its just the 1U thing.
Just a dream...
Maybe they plan to introduce a little mini-tower... 5.25-optical drives, 3.5-harddrives, replacable graphics adapter, aluminium body, fullsize-memory instead of laptop-memory, etc.
Of course it would be very popular, and maybe kill the Mac Pro. The iMac and MacMini sales would also suffer. But with the XServe gone, its a little bit more natural to introduce a new desktop model.
Simply an original Mac for those who build a Hackintosh today.
A Mac for gamers.
Maybe the most popular Mac ever?
Exactly... writing a simple application for X was arcane when I did it almost 10 years ago. Nobody really writes applications for X anymore - they write them for GTK, KDE.
Finally this happens... just a few years late. Apple got it right with Mac OS X - what has the rest of the *NIX community been doing all years when the solution was right in front of their nose? And since Mac OS X runs X applications properly, there is no worry this can not be done. It works today and it has been done.
I admit I have not contributed at all to this move either - but I welcome it now when I hear about it!
Application forwarding? This is not about killing the possibility to write applications for X, and forward them over X, if needed. This is about all graphical applications should not have to depend on TCP/IP.
Someone moderated you Insightful. Makes me wonder...
And about modern technology...
Maybe rewriting GCC in python, and rewriting python in Assembler?
I know someone else already mentioned 6to4 but...
If you have a router that is 6to4-capable, (ie, an Airport Extreme, or any router running DD-WRT or OpenWRT), you will have IPv6 independently of your ISP.
Your routers public IPv4 address is used to create a whole fully valid IPv6 subnet. All your hosts behind your router will get real public-accessible IPv6-addresses.
Even easier is to (on each host you want IPv6) install Miredo (implementing the Teredo protocol). In Ubuntu you basically make a
$apt-get install miredo
Thats ALL to get an IPv6 address that truly works. Works though a normal NAT without opening any ports or anything.
It was long ago but I remember good overclocking. My PII 350 MHz ran perfectly at 392 MHz (bus at 112 MHz instead of 100 MHz). It made some sense (since a 400 Mhz CPU was about $150 more expensive) actually. Since then I have not attempted overclocking anything (perhaps because I got an Apple computer).
Is overclocking still worth it? Does it make sense?
Or is it mostly a challenge for fun and glory today?
I work for a company currently recruiting developers. I will share a few thoughts with you.
First, you should talk to your boss and say that you would like to get more challenging tasks than just the QA you do. The company should encourage you to grow within the organization. If they do not encourage you, or if you do not have that kind of relationship to your boss, you should leave anyways.
Second, a few years in QA is a merit for a programmer I would say. I think a few years in operations is an excellent merit to. There are so many programmers who just write code without seeing it being deployed, maintained or really run. The important thing is that you have kept your programming skills up to date.
Now, too many years in any position can indicate lack of ambition (but switching all the time is even worse). Participation in Open Source projects is one way to show extra ambition and knowledge. What is also very good is running your own business: i.e. building (web) solutions as a consultant.
How enthusiastic are you about coding? If you are a programmer, you do not stop coding, even if you have another job. If you have not coded for fun in your spare time, maybe you should consider another career (perhaps in QA instead).
Try TinyXP (Rev 09). It is illegal. It is free as in beer. It can be found on your favourite torrent site. It is "better than the real stuff".
A thought... now when MS is not even selling XP anymore, how criminal can it really be to warez it? I mean, (C)-law is about making sure the producer of something is the one getting paid for copies. But if the producer refuses to provide copies in any form (and used copies are not completely ok, because of Genuine Advantage and stuff), can it really be illegal to make/use your own copy?
I felt like trying something with more anonymization than Torrent a few months ago, and gave Gnunet 0.8 a try. I was not that impressed. Is Freenet better, more relevant, more mature?
VIA drivers... was a hell to make 1366x768 work (on my LCD TV)... probably worth investigating if I can do something about X/drivers. Thanx
I cant even start Wine... out of the box Kubuntu installation, all updates applied... system completely freezes... power button needed. So, for running the only game I care about (Ports Of Call), Vista is my platform... no problems there. Have a VIA C3 Nehemia - probably there is a Wine problem with it.
Probably nobody read this storya anymore but parent describes the problem with the method in the easiest and most obvious way. ...but I cant resist saying that in the Paper they say that "other choices are possible" about the delay lines... I cant tell if there are any other ways to choose delay lines that are not exponential.
Just a little hint about audio quality on live365.
First I found the audio quality horrible. Then, on the computer I mixed the audio down quite much, and turned up quite much on amplifier - that helped a lot. Probably my computer gave too strong output signal, or some digital amplification process didnt work well.
Now I find the audio quality quite decent.
I use Kubuntu and Firefox. I open the audio stream file with VLC.
I used to listen to music quite much. I bought everything on CD. My iPod made me listen to my music more, and I bought more and more music. After a while they started putting copy-protection on CDs. Around that time I more or less stopped buying music - not as a statement... but I was annoyed and I didnt really find so much interesting music either.
A few days ago I tried www.live365.com, which I havnt used in years. It is great! If it remains open I believe I will subscribe to it (to get CD-quality no-ad radio, that I can play in my HIFI-system at home). I also think I will start buying CDs with those artists I discover at live365. Really. No promises, no threats. I just think live365 may help me find CDs to buy. If they close it I doubt I will discover those artists.
Not even the Ultimate License allows you to watch/play DRMd content in a virtual machine. It is impossible to technically restrict what can be done with content as soon as it is played in a Virtual Machine. Audio is especially easy to make perfect digital copies of, even if it is DRMd.
Allowing home editions of Vista to be run in Virtual Machines would essentially make the DRM protection in Vista useless.
Even with Vista Ultimate you are not allowed to watch/play DRM-contents in a virtual machine. You can easily copy DRM-protected audio/video (especially easy with audio) if you playback it in a virtual machine and record it on the host.
So, you have no sympathy for paying customers because many other people in the same country presumably did not pay? I think there are about 1300 million Chineese - you should allow yourself not to judge them all together.
They're crooks, stealing from people, and crooks don't get much sympathy.
If you tried actually talking to people you would see that most people have much more sympathy with the pirates than with the industry.
I have found exceptions: people who believe market economy and copyright laws are there for companies, not for humanity.