From my Fedora Linux box at home I administer remote Linux and Windows machines. I connect to the Windows ones through RDP (via the rdesktop tool) and the Linux ones with X11 forwarding through an ssh tunnel. The RDP one gives me an entire windows desktop that I can navigate straight away before the first X11 window has appeared.
Having said that I'm convinced something is fundamentally broken in remote X for recent builds. Not that it ever ran well over low-bandwidth connections, but I'm sure it was never this bad.
At the same time, I'm trying to fix some of the problems with composite that we still have in the X server; input redirection, window resizing, syncing to vblank, throttling of animations and atomic, consistent redrawing.
That feature alone would make this rewrite worthwhile. This has been missing from our desktops for far too long.
The dolphin is the one that fascinates me. While they can enter something similar to regular sleep as we understand it, they usually shut down one brain hemisphere at a time, keeping one eye open watching for predators.
I notice you mention RAID controllers. Is this entirely for performance reasons or is there something else there?
The reason I ask is that my experience has led me to conclude that the best RAID is software. I've had battery-backed up RAID controllers fail on me and take out the DATA (not just a disk, but the data on the whole array) in an attempt at auto-recovery.
These days I boot my OS off a single drive, which then joins a RAID 1 mirror. The critical data is kept on a RAID-5 volume, which can of course encompass partitions on the first two drives.
I've done this on at least half a dozen servers, both Windows Server and Linux. And the Linux raid tools are parsecs ahead of what Windows offers. They really are.
"Where will our data be located?", and "what assurances are there of its integrity and security?".
Of course I'm still very suspicious of this recent trend of outsourcing such business-critical services to external parties. I don't see what's wrong with a box running Postfix and a webdav ics calendar.
It was also done much earlier and so much better on OS/2. The Launchpad did pretty much the same thing as the Dock, but also had the concept of drawers, so any icon on the launchpad could extend (orthogonally to the launchpad) to reveal more icons (or, being object oriented, more drawers).
It was great - one could have a drawer for games, comms, productivity, whatever and leave as many open or closed as one desired.
It also sounds a lot like something Nintendo would do:
The Nintendo Wii has region locking, and many games (such as Zelda) use it. The Nintendo Gamecube and SNES also had region locking, though more primitive. The Sony PSP supports region locking of UMD movies and games, but no games are locked. The Sony PS3 supports some degree of region locking for games, but no games are locked.
(Please someone correct me if I'm wrong about any of these)
1. I'm sorry that is just not true. What you're describing is a Faraday Cage, which needs to be built rather carefully, and then is usually tuned to cancel only certain frequency ranges. A plane just doesn't block cell phone signals. Unless the ones I've been on have had repeaters somewhere in them.
2. Agreed, if you're near a metropolitan area. Between cities you might see three or four, but that's just a guess.
Wow, my $30 Nokia must really be something special then. I can make calls and SMSs just fine when in such a Faraday Cage sitting on a runway waiting for clearance.
What? When did I say I was giving anything away? I/share/ my work with others, and require that those who benefit share any improvements they make. That's quite different.
So, now that you're all into giving freely, I assume you'll also be relinquishing your copyright of your work (removing all references to your name of course) and donating it all to the Public Domain? That's where it would do the most good, isn't it?
If you based your work on my work, then yes. Why should you get to use my code that I put out to be shared if you're not going to share what you've done with it?
What you're suggesting sounds a lot like what Disney have done - take public domain stories, adapt them to movies, and fight tooth-and-nail to keep control of them.
Distribution isn't the problem. Is hasn't been for nearly a decade.
The problem is promotion. You can put up your music for purchase just about anywhere, but "who's gonna buy it, kid - you?".
That's where the labels hold power. They control how much exposure (advertising, radio time, etc) your music gets. I suppose you could try and promote your own music, but spamming is generally frowned upon.
You mean those crappy monochrome pictures you see in art galleries that you need to be looking at 100% square on to get anything other than horrible distortions?
Look, I think holograms are cool and all, just like I did back in the '80s when they were the next big thing. And they don't seem to have improved much since.
But... but CDs are made out of a polycarbonate. The samt hing that Bullet-Proof Vests are made of! They're therefore unscratchable! (See, I remember the late 80's well)
Sapphire! We need to make CDs out of Aluminium Oxide. First we need to mass-produce the stuff in enough volume that the perceived volume goes down. And then use it on PDA, phone, ogg player screens while we're at it.
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That statement is categorically false.
From my Fedora Linux box at home I administer remote Linux and Windows machines. I connect to the Windows ones through RDP (via the rdesktop tool) and the Linux ones with X11 forwarding through an ssh tunnel. The RDP one gives me an entire windows desktop that I can navigate straight away before the first X11 window has appeared.
Having said that I'm convinced something is fundamentally broken in remote X for recent builds. Not that it ever ran well over low-bandwidth connections, but I'm sure it was never this bad.
At the same time, I'm trying to fix some of the problems with composite that we still have in the X server; input redirection, window resizing, syncing to vblank, throttling of animations and atomic, consistent redrawing.
That feature alone would make this rewrite worthwhile. This has been missing from our desktops for far too long.
The dolphin is the one that fascinates me. While they can enter something similar to regular sleep as we understand it, they usually shut down one brain hemisphere at a time, keeping one eye open watching for predators.
Forgive my naivety, but isn't the Constitution the document that defines the role of President, Vice President etc?
Therefore in these so-called Constitution-Free Zones, Bush isn't the President, federal law doesn't apply and it's anarchy all round, right?
I notice you mention RAID controllers. Is this entirely for performance reasons or is there something else there?
The reason I ask is that my experience has led me to conclude that the best RAID is software. I've had battery-backed up RAID controllers fail on me and take out the DATA (not just a disk, but the data on the whole array) in an attempt at auto-recovery.
These days I boot my OS off a single drive, which then joins a RAID 1 mirror. The critical data is kept on a RAID-5 volume, which can of course encompass partitions on the first two drives.
I've done this on at least half a dozen servers, both Windows Server and Linux. And the Linux raid tools are parsecs ahead of what Windows offers. They really are.
You should. The fact that the fastest, cheapest storage solution is also the least reliable should give you some clue to that.
How putting on his own website, "I am not a filmmaker".
What, did they hire the New BSG CG team for this?
That, my friend, would be the sweet sound of tinnitus.
It astonishes me how much FUD appears here
being bald puts you at a higher risk of skin cancer.
So does being white-skinned btw :)
"Where will our data be located?", and "what assurances are there of its integrity and security?".
Of course I'm still very suspicious of this recent trend of outsourcing such business-critical services to external parties. I don't see what's wrong with a box running Postfix and a webdav ics calendar.
100%, since it did collide with the earth :)
It was also done much earlier and so much better on OS/2. The Launchpad did pretty much the same thing as the Dock, but also had the concept of drawers, so any icon on the launchpad could extend (orthogonally to the launchpad) to reveal more icons (or, being object oriented, more drawers).
It was great - one could have a drawer for games, comms, productivity, whatever and leave as many open or closed as one desired.
It also sounds a lot like something Nintendo would do:
The Nintendo Wii has region locking, and many games (such as Zelda) use it.
The Nintendo Gamecube and SNES also had region locking, though more primitive.
The Sony PSP supports region locking of UMD movies and games, but no games are locked.
The Sony PS3 supports some degree of region locking for games, but no games are locked.
(Please someone correct me if I'm wrong about any of these)
Tell me - might you like Guitar Hero or an FPS if they weren't mainstream?
1. I'm sorry that is just not true. What you're describing is a Faraday Cage, which needs to be built rather carefully, and then is usually tuned to cancel only certain frequency ranges. A plane just doesn't block cell phone signals. Unless the ones I've been on have had repeaters somewhere in them.
2. Agreed, if you're near a metropolitan area. Between cities you might see three or four, but that's just a guess.
Wow, my $30 Nokia must really be something special then. I can make calls and SMSs just fine when in such a Faraday Cage sitting on a runway waiting for clearance.
What? When did I say I was giving anything away? I /share/ my work with others, and require that those who benefit share any improvements they make. That's quite different.
So, now that you're all into giving freely, I assume you'll also be relinquishing your copyright of your work (removing all references to your name of course) and donating it all to the Public Domain? That's where it would do the most good, isn't it?
If you based your work on my work, then yes. Why should you get to use my code that I put out to be shared if you're not going to share what you've done with it?
What you're suggesting sounds a lot like what Disney have done - take public domain stories, adapt them to movies, and fight tooth-and-nail to keep control of them.
Distribution isn't the problem. Is hasn't been for nearly a decade.
The problem is promotion. You can put up your music for purchase just about anywhere, but "who's gonna buy it, kid - you?".
That's where the labels hold power. They control how much exposure (advertising, radio time, etc) your music gets. I suppose you could try and promote your own music, but spamming is generally frowned upon.
You mean those crappy monochrome pictures you see in art galleries that you need to be looking at 100% square on to get anything other than horrible distortions?
Look, I think holograms are cool and all, just like I did back in the '80s when they were the next big thing. And they don't seem to have improved much since.
But... but CDs are made out of a polycarbonate. The samt hing that Bullet-Proof Vests are made of! They're therefore unscratchable! (See, I remember the late 80's well)
Sapphire! We need to make CDs out of Aluminium Oxide. First we need to mass-produce the stuff in enough volume that the perceived volume goes down. And then use it on PDA, phone, ogg player screens while we're at it.
I also expect someone to fill the gap, and I promise you'll not like who I'm thinking of.
...buy a second AP?
You're kidding, right? Though I am impressed by this new level of Nintendo fanboyism, even for /.