I'm fine with that - I want one of these so bad, you could probably just charge me now:D
I am a HUGE moleskine nut, and the one-note style interface is great, because I'm a complete one-note addict. This basically pushes all my buttons, which the iPad did not.
We'll see how it translates into reality, of course. That's always different:)
I would like to think that nobody here has to worry about step 3:)
But if they did, you'd want a custom-built USB drive with say, C4, or some heavy acid packets in it. Something you could rely on to self-destruct if you didn't activate it properly.
I would like to think that any agency that has this sort of data has these sorts of precautions. Unfortunately, I bet that some bean counter decided not to get that option and put countless lives at risk.
All my data is type 1 in your list. I encrypt all of it, mainly because I tend to lose drives. No sense making it *too* easy on people:)
If it were something like that, you can just deny to use the password via the 5th amendment (in the US anyhow).
The point is that you don't want anyone able to use the drive as evidence. Encryption isn't really 'all that', depending on how important you are.
Also - simply encrypting can make some charges appear more valid. "Why would you hide if you had nothing to hide?". It's BS but doesn't stop the argument. I say encrypt EVERYTHING, all the time, by default.
I tried a microwave oven once. Worked perfectly (smelled awful), so... it's not hard if you're trying!
I imagine hooking it up to a brief 220 voltage source would probably do the trick as well - and laundering often works too. Not enough to be relied on, however, since I've laundered 3 flash drives and 1 worked.
Not a thing... but the person paying the piper picks the tune.
There's a difference between me paying you to just "write open source" and "write this product as an open source product". Sure it's open source, but you're writing what you're asked to write.
Which is still good... but it also means that companies who pay to create opensource products benefit from having better opensource code.
All PBIs are a delta snapshot of a specific PC-BSD release, and then whatever that app needs to run.
Therefore a PBI built on 8.0-RELEASE will not install on a PC-BSD 7 system. At all. It won't partially install and break things, it just won't install.
That's the whole point of the design. It's like someone else said with the app store, or like building from ports. If your system is wrong, it stops and says "Sorry". It won't break your system. The PBI builder is designed to be version locked.
Let's take Rhythmbox as an example. It's a Gnome App. It requires some (but not all) of the Gnome tools to run. It's a bit heftier than it would be if Gnome were installed by default, but not nearly as big as the full Gnome install. Gnome is, btw, unsupported. The PBI was created because people are allowed to create PBIs for unsupported software, as long as the ports exist:)
By contrast, if we look at Amarok, it has just the Amarok specific stuff since KDE is part of the default install.
I actually have an app that predates facebook itself, I think (I'm not 100% sure when facebook was started) that produces RSS feeds from serverlogs, and takes actions based on these messages (including email, page, etc).
It's also been BSD licensed since 2006... when did facebook start this stuff?
Well, the synaptic analogy is for the Linux guys:D
I couldn't agree more with the 'getting to a desktop' part. There are some gotchas and some non-intuitive steps to getting KDE or Gnome running on a BSD box (like installing X11, configuring/etc/ttys and whatnot). So PC-BSD is very good at being a clicky-clicky come back later to a desktop kind of thing.
I still prefer the FreeBSD vanilla, just because I don't care for KDE, but I very much respect what they've done.
Actually, there are a lot of problems with PowerDevil and the current Nvidia driver. It'll run forever with the VESA driver, or text only, but that's no fun:D
You can, of course, enable powerd manually (it's installed... just change enable_powerd="NO" to enable_powerd="YES" in the rc.conf)
But in my testing, this resulted in a plain black screen. What I do is much less user friendly. I change the CPU speed based on a script whenever it goes on battery.
This is something that *really* needs to be fixed.
I'm a huge fan of the PBIs and I think they're a really good way to quickly install objects that would otherwise require ports and complex dependencies.
The best part is they don't interfere with each other, unlike some of the apt-get/yum type packages. For the most part they encapsulate everything that would have been in the ports build.
When the PBI is updated, you get a notification and can just clicky click to upgrade it (without trashing the rest of your system just because Gimp 9.9 requires some lib that everything else hates)
Easy to make too - just get the PBI installer, and then build them from the existing port. Porting still remains an exercise for the reader;)
Installing Firefox, Quake, America's Army, Rhythmbox or Gnome like this is awesome. I hope that it takes off as a model.
And this is a BIG improvement over version 7. Still some bugs to be worked out, but it's got far better integration with the PBI installer (similar to synaptic), a very good GUI installer, and the very latest nvidia drivers.
Very nice, very well executed. They turned it out pretty fast too.
This article is more than 10 years late... is this just because the dude crashed his plane into the IRS building?
Most programmers/IT people have long gotten around this by having multiple contracts and/or multiple employees. It's not really all that hard, and if your independent company only has one contract and one employee you're basically already working for them.
This does not in *any way* discourage the next Microsoft. Or the next Google or Facebook, BTW... obviously, since both came up after this law;)
Take note of parent! It's an important posts! Because it is exactly wrong.
This is exactly why the iPad has a chance of success: It's not about the features, it's not about more capable netbooks, just as it wasn't about more capable phones being available back with the iPhone. If the iPad delivers the features users want then that counts magnitudes more than a netbook chugging along trying to open Photoshop with limited resources.
I agree with you here, and you have a point.
There's a core group of/.'ers that'll never wake up to this though, that sees the world in black and white and therefore must hate whatever device that doesn't do everything. And bless all those nerds, this simply isn't a device for them. What matters is if the iPad can enable tech-illiterate people to easily create documents, easily browse the web, easily email people, and maybe even discovering an app or two along the way. That's a powerful promise, that's a recipe for success,. Just like it was for the iPhone.
Well, here I think you're wrong, but I'm pretty much wait and see on any new Apple product these days. I don't hate it, but I too (like the AC gp) have had far more useful and productive devices that weren't so popular. The Palm III, the Palm V, the HP Jornada - all fantastic and high productivity devices for me. I don't have an iPhone, but I do have an Android phone. I think it's one of the better toys out there, but they're both real short on *useful*. Blackberry really has a TON of highly useful and productive stuff for their phones. It's quite a powerful (and ugly) tool.
(caveat: Whether or not the iPad will actually succeed remains to be seen, but it doesn't hinge on whether or not a netbook might be capable of more. That's not how the market works (see: the iPhone) and it is imo a damn narrow-minded attitude to put forth)
You're right here - some of Apple's cooler ideas have been complete flops. I was a Newton guy, and I lusted after the cube as well (though I wanted a better video card - the stock one was junk).
Actually the issue I have with Apple right now (and the reason I no longer buy their stuff) is that they're SO far behind on the price/performance curve. Not being a granny or whatever I prefer to get a lot more horsepower per dollar. I want Intel i7's with 64GB of RAM for my video editing, TYVM. RAM really counts when doing certain tasks (like photoshop, video editing, etc). I happen to *like* Aperture, Final Cut and Garage Band, but the Adobe suite is every bit as good (better in some cases) and I can use it on much more powerful hardware.
Also - Adobe CS4 and DigiDesign ProTools support both Apple and Windows, so you're able to make these choices easily.
On topic with the iPad and "magic", though - I think the iPad was disappointing because of the jumped up phone concept. I like to have a chat client up, listen to music, and code/edit simultaneously. If a simple Android phone or NetBook can do this, why can't an iPad? I'm not asking to run SETI@HOME in the background - but at least be able to use that screen real estate for more than one app.
The iPad 3Gs Pro will probably be right up my alley when it finally shows. Or if they actually do handwriting recognition... because I *like* to write. I hate capacitive fingers-only screens.
No, they're stuck on the "Microsoft and other companies pay us a ton of money" factor.
I like MS as much as the next person (har) and I think that pay-for-play software has it's place. I like Photoshop, Final Cut, Oracle, etc. However it is really pretty stupid that people want to make consumption mandatory.
True enough - when I get in my car in the summer (southwestern US) and it easily is above115F outside, it's probably a lovely 130F+ inside. A phone with an operating range that low is kinda pointless.
Seriously though - shouldn't whatever board certifies these devices at least require them to be certified for a reasonable temperature range?
I'm referring to the 6 million iPhone and Android twitter/facebook/linked-in feed tracker and update apps.
They're not only a huge security hole (giving an unknown third-party your login details), they also frequently inject ads and such into your feeds and do things like auto post "user is using service on the iPhone!" and the like.
Direct example from this morning (name omitted): "User is now using the new LinkedIn for iPhone application. Get it now " Does this add value? Not to me. Is this a real status update? No. Just spam.
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Google, being the power house that it is, could easily build the apps and operability that Twitter has.
Oh please, no - the apps and all that crap are why I ditched twitter and facebook and the rest. No more freaking retarded data mining nuisance apps!
I find this to be dead on, though. Hardly anyone puts up with the BS that is IT past 40. Heck, most people start planning their retirement (defined as "any work not related to IT") in the first 5 years.
I know I have - and I've only spent a bit over 15 years doing this pro, and I'm almost ready to get the heck out for good.
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I'm fine with that - I want one of these so bad, you could probably just charge me now :D
I am a HUGE moleskine nut, and the one-note style interface is great, because I'm a complete one-note addict. This basically pushes all my buttons, which the iPad did not.
We'll see how it translates into reality, of course. That's always different :)
Not to mention, the lack of some of these addons (no xmarks bookmark sync, flashblock barely works) actually keep me from using Chrome.
I just gave it another whirl, and on my machine it is a bit faster... but I'd have to port all my passwords by hand. Between 7 machines.
No thanks.
I would like to think that nobody here has to worry about step 3 :)
But if they did, you'd want a custom-built USB drive with say, C4, or some heavy acid packets in it. Something you could rely on to self-destruct if you didn't activate it properly.
I would like to think that any agency that has this sort of data has these sorts of precautions. Unfortunately, I bet that some bean counter decided not to get that option and put countless lives at risk.
All my data is type 1 in your list. I encrypt all of it, mainly because I tend to lose drives. No sense making it *too* easy on people :)
If it were something like that, you can just deny to use the password via the 5th amendment (in the US anyhow).
The point is that you don't want anyone able to use the drive as evidence. Encryption isn't really 'all that', depending on how important you are.
Also - simply encrypting can make some charges appear more valid. "Why would you hide if you had nothing to hide?". It's BS but doesn't stop the argument. I say encrypt EVERYTHING, all the time, by default.
I tried a microwave oven once.
Worked perfectly (smelled awful), so... it's not hard if you're trying!
I imagine hooking it up to a brief 220 voltage source would probably do the trick as well - and laundering often works too. Not enough to be relied on, however, since I've laundered 3 flash drives and 1 worked.
Not a thing... but the person paying the piper picks the tune.
There's a difference between me paying you to just "write open source" and "write this product as an open source product". Sure it's open source, but you're writing what you're asked to write.
Which is still good... but it also means that companies who pay to create opensource products benefit from having better opensource code.
I think that's pretty much it :)
Glad I could help - it's a pretty cool tool. :D
I'm playing with trying to get some other WMs and DEs in there
Ok, I think you missed something.
All PBIs are a delta snapshot of a specific PC-BSD release, and then whatever that app needs to run.
Therefore a PBI built on 8.0-RELEASE will not install on a PC-BSD 7 system. At all. It won't partially install and break things, it just won't install.
That's the whole point of the design. It's like someone else said with the app store, or like building from ports. If your system is wrong, it stops and says "Sorry". It won't break your system. The PBI builder is designed to be version locked.
Let's take Rhythmbox as an example. It's a Gnome App. It requires some (but not all) of the Gnome tools to run. It's a bit heftier than it would be if Gnome were installed by default, but not nearly as big as the full Gnome install. Gnome is, btw, unsupported. The PBI was created because people are allowed to create PBIs for unsupported software, as long as the ports exist :)
By contrast, if we look at Amarok, it has just the Amarok specific stuff since KDE is part of the default install.
Hope that makes a bit more sense?
Actually, the default install includes KDE (which is the only fully supported desktop), so any KDE app uses merely it's specific dependencies.
I'm sure I can run a vmstat or whatever you'd like and show you that the vast majority of the memory used is KDE, as opposed to any of the PBI apps.
But you are, of course, entitled to your opinion :)
I actually have an app that predates facebook itself, I think (I'm not 100% sure when facebook was started) that produces RSS feeds from serverlogs, and takes actions based on these messages (including email, page, etc).
It's also been BSD licensed since 2006... when did facebook start this stuff?
http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/20/26/
Pretty much everything that isn't included in the base install of the system. Each one is a full delta snapshot, so far as I understand it.
Yes. This is less disk efficient, but FAR more user time efficient, which is kind of the point.
Well, the synaptic analogy is for the Linux guys :D
I couldn't agree more with the 'getting to a desktop' part. There are some gotchas and some non-intuitive steps to getting KDE or Gnome running on a BSD box (like installing X11, configuring /etc/ttys and whatnot). So PC-BSD is very good at being a clicky-clicky come back later to a desktop kind of thing.
I still prefer the FreeBSD vanilla, just because I don't care for KDE, but I very much respect what they've done.
Actually, there are a lot of problems with PowerDevil and the current Nvidia driver. :D
It'll run forever with the VESA driver, or text only, but that's no fun
You can, of course, enable powerd manually (it's installed... just change enable_powerd="NO" to enable_powerd="YES" in the rc.conf)
But in my testing, this resulted in a plain black screen. What I do is much less user friendly. I change the CPU speed based on a script whenever it goes on battery.
This is something that *really* needs to be fixed.
ROFL
I think the point is that PBIs are internally consistent, whereas a deb or rpm can make system-wide changes.
If I install a deb that upgrades something in /usr/lib without intending to, other apps may have issues.
I'm a huge fan of the PBIs and I think they're a really good way to quickly install objects that would otherwise require ports and complex dependencies.
The best part is they don't interfere with each other, unlike some of the apt-get/yum type packages. For the most part they encapsulate everything that would have been in the ports build.
When the PBI is updated, you get a notification and can just clicky click to upgrade it (without trashing the rest of your system just because Gimp 9.9 requires some lib that everything else hates)
Easy to make too - just get the PBI installer, and then build them from the existing port. Porting still remains an exercise for the reader ;)
Installing Firefox, Quake, America's Army, Rhythmbox or Gnome like this is awesome. I hope that it takes off as a model.
And this is a BIG improvement over version 7. Still some bugs to be worked out, but it's got far better integration with the PBI installer (similar to synaptic), a very good GUI installer, and the very latest nvidia drivers.
Very nice, very well executed. They turned it out pretty fast too.
This article is more than 10 years late... is this just because the dude crashed his plane into the IRS building?
Most programmers/IT people have long gotten around this by having multiple contracts and/or multiple employees. It's not really all that hard, and if your independent company only has one contract and one employee you're basically already working for them.
This does not in *any way* discourage the next Microsoft. Or the next Google or Facebook, BTW... obviously, since both came up after this law ;)
Take note of parent! It's an important posts!
Because it is exactly wrong.
This is exactly why the iPad has a chance of success: It's not about the features, it's not about more capable netbooks, just as it wasn't about more capable phones being available back with the iPhone. If the iPad delivers the features users want then that counts magnitudes more than a netbook chugging along trying to open Photoshop with limited resources.
I agree with you here, and you have a point.
There's a core group of /.'ers that'll never wake up to this though, that sees the world in black and white and therefore must hate whatever device that doesn't do everything. And bless all those nerds, this simply isn't a device for them. What matters is if the iPad can enable tech-illiterate people to easily create documents, easily browse the web, easily email people, and maybe even discovering an app or two along the way. That's a powerful promise, that's a recipe for success,. Just like it was for the iPhone.
Well, here I think you're wrong, but I'm pretty much wait and see on any new Apple product these days. I don't hate it, but I too (like the AC gp) have had far more useful and productive devices that weren't so popular. The Palm III, the Palm V, the HP Jornada - all fantastic and high productivity devices for me.
I don't have an iPhone, but I do have an Android phone. I think it's one of the better toys out there, but they're both real short on *useful*. Blackberry really has a TON of highly useful and productive stuff for their phones. It's quite a powerful (and ugly) tool.
(caveat: Whether or not the iPad will actually succeed remains to be seen, but it doesn't hinge on whether or not a netbook might be capable of more. That's not how the market works (see: the iPhone) and it is imo a damn narrow-minded attitude to put forth)
You're right here - some of Apple's cooler ideas have been complete flops. I was a Newton guy, and I lusted after the cube as well (though I wanted a better video card - the stock one was junk).
Actually the issue I have with Apple right now (and the reason I no longer buy their stuff) is that they're SO far behind on the price/performance curve. Not being a granny or whatever I prefer to get a lot more horsepower per dollar. I want Intel i7's with 64GB of RAM for my video editing, TYVM. RAM really counts when doing certain tasks (like photoshop, video editing, etc). I happen to *like* Aperture, Final Cut and Garage Band, but the Adobe suite is every bit as good (better in some cases) and I can use it on much more powerful hardware.
Also - Adobe CS4 and DigiDesign ProTools support both Apple and Windows, so you're able to make these choices easily.
On topic with the iPad and "magic", though - I think the iPad was disappointing because of the jumped up phone concept. I like to have a chat client up, listen to music, and code/edit simultaneously. If a simple Android phone or NetBook can do this, why can't an iPad? I'm not asking to run SETI@HOME in the background - but at least be able to use that screen real estate for more than one app.
The iPad 3Gs Pro will probably be right up my alley when it finally shows. Or if they actually do handwriting recognition... because I *like* to write. I hate capacitive fingers-only screens.
Ha! True enough :D
It's always a game of follow the money, even in opensource development (where, as some studies so loudly proclaim, it's largely commercial devs).
No, they're stuck on the "Microsoft and other companies pay us a ton of money" factor.
I like MS as much as the next person (har) and I think that pay-for-play software has it's place. I like Photoshop, Final Cut, Oracle, etc. However it is really pretty stupid that people want to make consumption mandatory.
True enough - when I get in my car in the summer (southwestern US) and it easily is above115F outside, it's probably a lovely 130F+ inside. A phone with an operating range that low is kinda pointless.
Seriously though - shouldn't whatever board certifies these devices at least require them to be certified for a reasonable temperature range?
No, though those are especially odious.
I'm referring to the 6 million iPhone and Android twitter/facebook/linked-in feed tracker and update apps.
They're not only a huge security hole (giving an unknown third-party your login details), they also frequently inject ads and such into your feeds and do things like auto post "user is using service on the iPhone!" and the like.
Direct example from this morning (name omitted):
"User is now using the new LinkedIn for iPhone application. Get it now "
Does this add value? Not to me. Is this a real status update? No. Just spam.
Google, being the power house that it is, could easily build the apps and operability that Twitter has.
Oh please, no - the apps and all that crap are why I ditched twitter and facebook and the rest. No more freaking retarded data mining nuisance apps!
Gotta love it :)
I find this to be dead on, though. Hardly anyone puts up with the BS that is IT past 40. Heck, most people start planning their retirement (defined as "any work not related to IT") in the first 5 years.
I know I have - and I've only spent a bit over 15 years doing this pro, and I'm almost ready to get the heck out for good.
What happened to the far right "impose morality and open media on the government, and leave the citizens in charge"?
Can we mod our gov -1 redundant?