Filters, every fan should have one. I wish there were standard 120mm mounted filters. Think about all the dust that DOES end up in your case and you'll realize it's a great way to filter the air. Also dampening is awesome.... get with it case manufacturers.
Banks should make some haste an move to EMV. SmartCards cannot be skimmed. Smartcard can be cracked, but usually that's for cheap smartcards with some old and proprietary encryption method. EMV is much safer. There are currently some ways to abuse EMV , but it currently requires a stolen card and a man in the middle attack that puts the criminal at much greater risk than skimming
I work in software testing. And what the Danish Specialisterne is doing is well known in the test world. But it works best in very structured environments. In general, a consultant without autism will be responsible for the test plan, contact with clients etc. The tester will need a well defined base for testing. That may be finished cases, or a well defined design which they need to transfer into cases using a test method decided upon by the consultant. These people are often quite talented and smart, just not at interaction with others and in unstructured processes.
The mix can work really well. The people talented at making the plans, and the interaction with other teams, often loose focus when the work gets to be more tedious. But in an environment where documentation leaves to be desired, or where they work with agile development, or exploratory testing, I expect that it will not fit as well. There are still quite some companies though that work quite structured. Testing for medical grade hard and software, transactions in banking or conformance testing spring to mind.
Sadly, yes. I got an Eeepc linux version, but the default linux was so bad and restrictive it was painful to use it. And I couldn't get the wireless to work on Ubuntu mixed and unmixed and some other version.
Get the kernel from them and every flavour of Ubuntu will work fine. I myself use Crunchbang Linux EEEPC version, but before that I used the kernel from array with Xubuntu. That worked flawlessly
But your point is equally true. But the fact that there was a problem in itself is not good enough reason to abandon a technology. In the example of sidekick it was one service provider that screwed up. Doesn't mean that all service providers have bad or no backup in place.
I would love to have this in my monitor. Turn it on, within a couple of seconds I can do most things while I wait for the computer to boot, fsck etc. Especially when I'm tinkering around with the desktop and have to deal with reboots. Just make sure that it shares keyboard and mouse with the desktop. (sort of a build in KVM in the Monitor) I think there will be many times that I wouldn't even boot the desktop anymore. Especially If I just want to do some quick email checking etc.
In a (HD)TV this would also be great. Headers of new mail running at the bottom of the screen just like breaking news in news channels. If such an email triggers you, just put Chrome OS full screen and (if combined with a wireless keyboard), read the whole mail, maybe look something up on the internet etc.
If you add virtualisation, you could also use it in your dekstop. Chrome OS as the host, and then run vms of full desktops as you please but you would still be online quickly while you wait for vms to load
It is not gonna replace my desktop OS. But I see a lot of potential!
Years ago I worked on something that has some similarities to Chrome OS (http://www.simpc.nl). And of course the same things were being said about it as now on Chrome OS;-) (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/05/01/13/0033206/simPC---Your-Grandparents-New-Computer?art_pos=1)
It had a lot of the same features: runs on flash, read-only file system, 'firmware approach' mostly online and webbased apps, low requirements on hardware (VIA C3). Resulting in much easier to use, more secure and tamperproof system then a full desktop. Although I believe that Google will do a lot better job.
What most people failed to see then as they do now is that a lot of people don't care about the PC. They care about being online.
I'm glad to see Google building something similar and open source. There are much more uses for a webbased desktop. And other service suppliers could build something with Chromium OS. At the time we thought about Xul applications for companies (we were working with Firefox). But these days I would go for HTML5.
It is not necessarily so that the netbook with such a system is unusable without the internet available. We had a very simple system that checked for the availability of the internet at startup. Without internet it would simply load a local desktop (which can be an html file). And doesn't Google docs have offline capabilities as well?
Personally I'm gonna give Chromium OS a change on my netbook if it allows me to play videofiles, (so if mplayer or VLC can be run, I'm good). I use a netbook daily while commuting in the train. And aside from internet stuff, playing episodes of TV-shows is the only thing I do on that thing in the train.
Slashdot Mirror
On Slashdot we respect the wisdom of the elders...
I'm sure some of them say: Dupe!
does it run Linux?
Yes it does, and if your systems supports it can even run Windows....
He is really being a dick there. There's a "porn store" for the iPhone as well, called "Mobile Safari". If anything, the prices are lower.
He's got balls though, if he think he can be a bigger dick than those in the porn business
Filters, every fan should have one. I wish there were standard 120mm mounted filters. Think about all the dust that DOES end up in your case and you'll realize it's a great way to filter the air. Also dampening is awesome.... get with it case manufacturers.
They exist, see here.
To be fair, the other 992 suggestions requested pics of the Mars Face specifically.
They'll get to that, but their Photoshop specialist is currently working on the Prius project.
However, last night, Australia's Communications Minister Stephen Conroy denied he had had any approach from US State Department Officials."
Filter must already be working then
Been in favour of of that for some time now: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1403461&cid=29754057&art_pos=28
They could add extra security such as make sure Firefox will only go to pre-configured ip-adresses
based on my visits to the UK: beer
next thing you'll tell me is that balance is a natural phenomenon.
Banks should make some haste an move to EMV. SmartCards cannot be skimmed. Smartcard can be cracked, but usually that's for cheap smartcards with some old and proprietary encryption method. EMV is much safer. There are currently some ways to abuse EMV , but it currently requires a stolen card and a man in the middle attack that puts the criminal at much greater risk than skimming
There is a RickBlockPlugin for Firefox. Install that, and you should be safe.
Rick Rolling, told you Microsoft is evil ;-)
...this is the first touchpad I was ever excited about. And the first device since the N900.
So you haven't been exited about a device since September last year.... Hard times
About 45 minutes into the three hour exam in the freezing cold gym at University of Toronto, I just about gnawed my hand off.
But that was the test. If you manage not to gnaw your hand of, you've proven to be smarter than a rat....
(maybe I should ease up on the Dilberts)
ok ok, but you gotta admit, going from !!'s and **'s to colored fonts was pretty innovative
Fine, but they can pry that 'fad' out of my cold dead fingers!
I for one never heard of this film and now just started the torrent.
I even named my cat Zelda, so I want to see this film ;-)
But you'd have to calibrate the system, which would require something that most slashdotters don't have access to....
don't be insensitive, there are enough slashdotters that can afford an inflatable doll
There are more in Holland, i.e. http://www.itist.nl/
I work in software testing. And what the Danish Specialisterne is doing is well known in the test world. But it works best in very structured environments. In general, a consultant without autism will be responsible for the test plan, contact with clients etc. The tester will need a well defined base for testing. That may be finished cases, or a well defined design which they need to transfer into cases using a test method decided upon by the consultant. These people are often quite talented and smart, just not at interaction with others and in unstructured processes.
The mix can work really well. The people talented at making the plans, and the interaction with other teams, often loose focus when the work gets to be more tedious. But in an environment where documentation leaves to be desired, or where they work with agile development, or exploratory testing, I expect that it will not fit as well.
There are still quite some companies though that work quite structured. Testing for medical grade hard and software, transactions in banking or conformance testing spring to mind.
Sadly, yes. I got an Eeepc linux version, but the default linux was so bad and restrictive it was painful to use it. And I couldn't get the wireless to work on Ubuntu mixed and unmixed and some other version.
http://www.array.org/ubuntu/
Get the kernel from them and every flavour of Ubuntu will work fine.
I myself use Crunchbang Linux EEEPC version, but before that I used the kernel from array with Xubuntu. That worked flawlessly
what do have against programming in assembly? ;-)
But your point is equally true. But the fact that there was a problem in itself is not good enough reason to abandon a technology. In the example of sidekick it was one service provider that screwed up. Doesn't mean that all service providers have bad or no backup in place.
I would love to have this in my monitor. Turn it on, within a couple of seconds I can do most things while I wait for the computer to boot, fsck etc. Especially when I'm tinkering around with the desktop and have to deal with reboots. Just make sure that it shares keyboard and mouse with the desktop. (sort of a build in KVM in the Monitor)
I think there will be many times that I wouldn't even boot the desktop anymore. Especially If I just want to do some quick email checking etc.
In a (HD)TV this would also be great. Headers of new mail running at the bottom of the screen just like breaking news in news channels. If such an email triggers you, just put Chrome OS full screen and (if combined with a wireless keyboard), read the whole mail, maybe look something up on the internet etc.
If you add virtualisation, you could also use it in your dekstop. Chrome OS as the host, and then run vms of full desktops as you please but you would still be online quickly while you wait for vms to load
It is not gonna replace my desktop OS. But I see a lot of potential!
2- we can't trust the cloud to not lose our data (sidekick fiasco)
If all new technology was abandoned at the first problem or fiasco, we'd still be hunters and gatherers
(now sitting back to see if this turns into a discussion if we would even have made into becoming hunters and gatherers to begin with ;-)
Years ago I worked on something that has some similarities to Chrome OS (http://www.simpc.nl). And of course the same things were being said about it as now on Chrome OS;-) (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/05/01/13/0033206/simPC---Your-Grandparents-New-Computer?art_pos=1)
It had a lot of the same features: runs on flash, read-only file system, 'firmware approach' mostly online and webbased apps, low requirements on hardware (VIA C3). Resulting in much easier to use, more secure and tamperproof system then a full desktop. Although I believe that Google will do a lot better job.
What most people failed to see then as they do now is that a lot of people don't care about the PC. They care about being online.
I'm glad to see Google building something similar and open source. There are much more uses for a webbased desktop. And other service suppliers could build something with Chromium OS. At the time we thought about Xul applications for companies (we were working with Firefox). But these days I would go for HTML5.
It is not necessarily so that the netbook with such a system is unusable without the internet available. We had a very simple system that checked for the availability of the internet at startup. Without internet it would simply load a local desktop (which can be an html file). And doesn't Google docs have offline capabilities as well?
Personally I'm gonna give Chromium OS a change on my netbook if it allows me to play videofiles, (so if mplayer or VLC can be run, I'm good). I use a netbook daily while commuting in the train. And aside from internet stuff, playing episodes of TV-shows is the only thing I do on that thing in the train.