Since almost forever konsole was my favorite term, and still is. All yakuake did was adding said drop down capability which helps to remove desktop clutter, and instant availability is nice too.
Long time I have been promising myself to try it out and recently I did. Basically it's network filesystem with local cache for offline usage. Setup, while not for Joe Average, is not as hard as it looks on the first sight. Syncing is done in background and this offline mode is exactly what I was looking for. Now I'm far from home but I have a snapshot of the shared directory which will update the server repository when I reconnect next time. If you have public IP address and DNS (for publishing some SRV records), you can even access it from everywhere (by design it's global filesystem).
But it's not perfect: - Small team, slow development - Lack of good GUI offering all necessary functionality, especially conflict resolution - CLI could be more consistent - Lack of explicit cache management - Poor handling of big volumes and big files (porn archive is out of question)
Nonetheless, as I stated, I use Coda everyday. Not for entire/home but for dedicated shared directory where I put stuff I know I will need to access from other machines.
P.S. Funny thing but when I was digging the subject about half year ago, I found no alternative offering similar semantics: shared filesystem with offline access capability (yeah, Andrew, but as Coda grew out of it, let's call it same family).
I second to this. The game is scariest of what I have tried - so scary I just couldn't finish is [as a Marine]. What's most fascinating is the very simple rules which caused such great effect:
1. Low/poor visuals, like stated in original article. 2. Again, extensive use of sound (also music, which enhances creepy atmosphere). 3. Low firepower. 4. Take away or limit The Most Powerful Spell Ever (Save&Reload, that is).
In such environment you don't need many aliens to make you shit your pants.
Oh, yes, and the motion scanner. This thing deserves own essay. You can't shoot while scanning, and vice versa. And while scanning you still don't really know where the guys are but the pings keep counting your time towards death...
Final note: if you see someone playing in the dark AvP as a Marine while wearing headphones, don't grab them suddenly from behind. Their life is hard enough at the moment.
I love it too. Bought one about ten years ago, overpaid like hell (airmail & customs) but never regretted for a while. I'd just like to add two things to consider:
1. It's much easier to learn touch typing on this keyboard than with traditional one. Why? The keys are aligned in vertical columns so you reach to them with up-down movement, not diagonal. And keycaps are nicely profiled so fingers just drop on them.
2. It's frackincrazyawesome for playing FPS/TPS games! In neutral EDSF position you have all expected keys under four of your fingers PLUS six under thumb. I'm not sure if it beats game pads but I never needed to check it out (we're talking about Jedi Academy, if you know what I mean). The only PITA are games hardcoded to use arrow keys - they just plainly suck.
Though not true RPG, Anachronox was very entertaining in many respects. One of the funnier quests in the game was to obtain a helmet the guards were wearing. To make task not too easy, the helmet had to be exactly no 5.
Ad. 2. Actually computer screens have much greater contrast than paper. The advantage of paper is its refelective nature which means it's better suited for changing ambient lighting conditions.
Why not to make a shredder from a Xerox photocopier?
Once in my former work I was a consultant and part of my job was to obtain weekly timesheet reports signed by local employee. Other duties involved shredding some sensitive documents which needed to be destroyed (no, I wasn't working for Enron). The catch: shredder was standing next to photocopy machine. From the day one I was sure disaster just has to happen, this way or another.
(No it hadn't happen for me, but as far as I know, devices still stand next to each other).
In fact, number factoring problem was one of the first showed to be efficiently solved using quantum computer. No so long after there was showed that quntum computation couldn't buy much more. That is, yes, it's massively parallell but it doesn't bring all exponential problems into polynominal time. It's just a bit better parallell computer.
A few years ago I was told about similar technique involving elctron beam (or something like this). Generally, physical access to anything means full access to all contained infomation. Old security principle.
On the one hand it means no equipment may be trusted since it comes to customer's hands. On the second, I see no problem if I can rip the data which belongs to me (I know, it's generally not the case when it comes to SC). Smart Cards always have been security by obscurity for me. This lesson the industry never learns, I'm afraid.
Forget everything else. The biggest thing that makes ICANN legitimate is that practically
every ISP in the world follows their lead.
That's the point! During various fights for who 'owns' Internet, it is
sometimes hard to keep in mind that it works by free cooperation of operators,
system, network admins and ordinary users. I know, range of importance varies
depending on how large network or how important server is you have influence at.
But the fact remains that if someone takes control over some important
part of the Internet, it's because everyone else acceppted it.
Slashdot Mirror
This is where the rowhammer vulnerability comes in.
Ah, then it suddenly starts making sense. Thanks.
OK, I get the deduplication part to save capacity. But aren't those deduped pages supposed to be treated in CoW manner?
Dude, they have been extremely lucky to be in such a great show!
I second to this.
Since almost forever konsole was my favorite term, and still is. All yakuake did was adding said drop down capability which helps to remove desktop clutter, and instant availability is nice too.
Your hate really does not matter as long as you keep giving them your money.
Long time I have been promising myself to try it out and recently I did. Basically it's network filesystem with local cache for offline usage. Setup, while not for Joe Average, is not as hard as it looks on the first sight. Syncing is done in background and this offline mode is exactly what I was looking for. Now I'm far from home but I have a snapshot of the shared directory which will update the server repository when I reconnect next time. If you have public IP address and DNS (for publishing some SRV records), you can even access it from everywhere (by design it's global filesystem).
But it's not perfect:
- Small team, slow development
- Lack of good GUI offering all necessary functionality, especially conflict resolution
- CLI could be more consistent
- Lack of explicit cache management
- Poor handling of big volumes and big files (porn archive is out of question)
Nonetheless, as I stated, I use Coda everyday. Not for entire /home but for dedicated shared directory where I put stuff I know I will need to access from other machines.
P.S. Funny thing but when I was digging the subject about half year ago, I found no alternative offering similar semantics: shared filesystem with offline access capability (yeah, Andrew, but as Coda grew out of it, let's call it same family).
Cheers,
Greg
I second to this. The game is scariest of what I have tried - so scary I just couldn't finish is [as a Marine]. What's most fascinating is the very simple rules which caused such great effect:
1. Low/poor visuals, like stated in original article.
2. Again, extensive use of sound (also music, which enhances creepy atmosphere).
3. Low firepower.
4. Take away or limit The Most Powerful Spell Ever (Save&Reload, that is).
In such environment you don't need many aliens to make you shit your pants.
Oh, yes, and the motion scanner. This thing deserves own essay. You can't shoot while scanning, and vice versa. And while scanning you still don't really know where the guys are but the pings keep counting your time towards death...
Final note: if you see someone playing in the dark AvP as a Marine while wearing headphones, don't grab them suddenly from behind. Their life is hard enough at the moment.
I love it too. Bought one about ten years ago, overpaid like hell (airmail & customs) but never regretted for a while. I'd just like to add two things to consider:
1. It's much easier to learn touch typing on this keyboard than with traditional one. Why? The keys are aligned in vertical columns so you reach to them with up-down movement, not diagonal. And keycaps are nicely profiled so fingers just drop on them.
2. It's frackincrazyawesome for playing FPS/TPS games! In neutral EDSF position you have all expected keys under four of your fingers PLUS six under thumb. I'm not sure if it beats game pads but I never needed to check it out (we're talking about Jedi Academy, if you know what I mean). The only PITA are games hardcoded to use arrow keys - they just plainly suck.
Cheers
--
Krecik
Though not true RPG, Anachronox was very entertaining in many respects. One of the funnier quests in the game was to obtain a helmet the guards were wearing. To make task not too easy, the helmet had to be exactly no 5.
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Oh, how about Fallout 2 with Talking Head?
Ad. 2. Actually computer screens have much greater contrast than paper. The advantage of paper is its refelective nature which means it's better suited for changing ambient lighting conditions.
Why not to make a shredder from a Xerox photocopier?
Once in my former work I was a consultant and part of my job was to obtain weekly timesheet reports signed by local employee. Other duties involved shredding some sensitive documents which needed to be destroyed (no, I wasn't working for Enron). The catch: shredder was standing next to photocopy machine. From the day one I was sure disaster just has to happen, this way or another.
(No it hadn't happen for me, but as far as I know, devices still stand next to each other).
In fact, number factoring problem was one of the first showed to be efficiently solved using quantum computer. No so long after there was showed that quntum computation couldn't buy much more. That is, yes, it's massively parallell but it doesn't bring all exponential problems into polynominal time. It's just a bit better parallell computer.
A few years ago I was told about similar technique involving elctron beam (or something like this). Generally, physical access to anything means full access to all contained infomation. Old security principle.
On the one hand it means no equipment may be trusted since it comes to customer's hands. On the second, I see no problem if I can rip the data which belongs to me (I know, it's generally not the case when it comes to SC). Smart Cards always have been security by obscurity for me. This lesson the industry never learns, I'm afraid.
Has been there any legitimate[1] use of DMCA?
[1] For "as intended by legislators" definition of "legitimate".
Just wandering...
That's the point! During various fights for who 'owns' Internet, it is sometimes hard to keep in mind that it works by free cooperation of operators, system, network admins and ordinary users. I know, range of importance varies depending on how large network or how important server is you have influence at. But the fact remains that if someone takes control over some important part of the Internet, it's because everyone else acceppted it.