Seriously, this reminds me of an article I've read a few days ago about software being able to guess the characters pressed on a keyboard by listening to the sound and interval of they keypresses.
While traveling, especially around Europe, I've seen that they check both the boarding pass and ID at boarding time as well, well past security. Haven't seen this happening in the US yet.
I personally tend not to get into this sort of conversations as all the sources I personally have - from telly to the internet, give me information that is either 3rd, 4th hand or 5th hand, or that I have troubles considering authoritative. Buzz and word of mouth in the internet era is also not very reliable, see the many hoaxes we have...
I have opinions, but I consider them speculations at best based on the input I got, but I hardly ever feel like arguing about them, as... I think the foundations are too fragile for me to think it's worth trying to change other people's mind or to think that I am right (or wrong).
This would probably change if I had friends who could recount their experiences or provide first hand information.
I'm curious to see if this will change anything in practice.
In the past, I've bought several pieces of hardware that were supposedly certified or supported for , to only discover later that no, IPMI didn't really work in linux, you could only get the temperature out of half the sensors, or to get the full features out of ACPI / TPM / crypto chip or to get things to work you had to install shady 3rd party drivers that hadn't really been updated until 5 versions ago of the linux kernel. Ah! and don't run that command or use that feature, otherwise for some unknown reason the system freezes, or start returning buggy numbers.
I don't have any recent experience with HP - but will they provide updated drivers if it doesn't work on Ubuntu? Will they clearly specify on their website what works and what doesn't? how difficult will be to replace a component just because a feature I needed doesn't work on linux?
I don't see "being ceritified" or "being supported" as a boolean, it's more like a grey area for which you have to clearly define boundaries for it to have any meaning. The end result is that I always have to spend a few hours to research a new piece of hardware before I'm comfortable buying it, and even so... what looks good on paper doesn't turn out to be good in practice.
(writing from a lenovo laptop with an intel 5350 wireless adapter, supported in linux, that has had a firmware bug that would cause the wireless to hang from time to time on 802.11n networks...)
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eheh :-). Just jump while typing, that will do it.
Seriously, this reminds me of an article I've read a few days ago about software being able to guess the characters pressed on a keyboard by listening to the sound and interval of they keypresses.
While traveling, especially around Europe, I've seen that they check both the boarding pass and ID at boarding time as well, well past security. Haven't seen this happening in the US yet.
Seems like nobody here likes the idea of .* domain names. Is there anyone out there who likes it?
Are there public stats showing how many applications ICANN received, and for which names? /me really curious about the results.
I personally tend not to get into this sort of conversations as all the sources I personally have - from telly to the internet, give me information that is either 3rd, 4th hand or 5th hand, or that I have troubles considering authoritative. Buzz and word of mouth in the internet era is also not very reliable, see the many hoaxes we have...
I have opinions, but I consider them speculations at best based on the input I got, but I hardly ever feel like arguing about them, as... I think the foundations are too fragile for me to think it's worth trying to change other people's mind or to think that I am right (or wrong).
This would probably change if I had friends who could recount their experiences or provide first hand information.
I'm curious to see if this will change anything in practice.
In the past, I've bought several pieces of hardware that were supposedly certified or supported for , to only discover later that no, IPMI didn't really work in linux, you could only get the temperature out of half the sensors, or to get the full features out of ACPI / TPM / crypto chip or to get things to work you had to install shady 3rd party drivers that hadn't really been updated until 5 versions ago of the linux kernel. Ah! and don't run that command or use that feature, otherwise for some unknown reason the system freezes, or start returning buggy numbers.
I don't have any recent experience with HP - but will they provide updated drivers if it doesn't work on Ubuntu? Will they clearly specify on their website what works and what doesn't? how difficult will be to replace a component just because a feature I needed doesn't work on linux?
I don't see "being ceritified" or "being supported" as a boolean, it's more like a grey area for which you have to clearly define boundaries for it to have any meaning. The end result is that I always have to spend a few hours to research a new piece of hardware before I'm comfortable buying it, and even so... what looks good on paper doesn't turn out to be good in practice.
(writing from a lenovo laptop with an intel 5350 wireless adapter, supported in linux, that has had a firmware bug that would cause the wireless to hang from time to time on 802.11n networks...)