Thank you for the suggestion. However, this doesn't seem to work for me.
I have English - US set up in my GMail settings and "English" seems to be the *only* option offered in the Google Voice settings. Also set me location and language to be in the US everywhere I could and no dice.
It will do an automatic btrfs snapshot of affected filesystems before every yum transaction so that you can go back to whatever point you want. Also, since it is partition dependent, you can rollback your system partition and not undo changes you may have made to your home directories if you have those on different partitions.
btrfs is quite powerful but I have found that the user/GUI tools have not come up to speed yet. I have been using btrfs from my F15 netbook and it seems to have caused no issues so far. However, enabling transparent compression and any tweaking has entailed editing/etc/fstab (never a thing to do lightly) and command lines.
Hopefully some of the GUI disk management tools will start to make available some of the capabilities of btrfs.
While the native firmware may not, OpenWRT and DD-WRT bring that support to a lot of routers.
When you sign up with a tunnel broker, you get a ridiculous number of IP addresses assigned to you (you get a whole subnet). So I think once people get the hang of it and their are rubber stamp solutions available, NAT will die off.
I see your point but I was just commenting why some might not see the integration of Google Voice and Google Talk. There is no integration at all outside of the US because there is no access to Google Voice. So outside the US it is not a Skype replacement due to not being able to call POTS.
Unfortunately, the same is true for any peer to peer protocol. NAT breaks the Internet and there will never be a perfect workaround.
Never say never. NAT will mostly die out with IPv6 given that each person could have many directly routable IP addresses and there will still be lots left over. You switch over for free right now with a tunnel broker if you want.
The auxiliary security aspect of NAT will keep it around for a while I think. But there are better options and a simple firewall rule on the router can replicate the same thing if you only want outgoing connections.
Sadly, Google Voice is not available to non-US users. Also, even if you lived in the US and obtained a Google Voice account, it is not usable when abroad. I am in that situation now unfortunately. If I use a VPN to connect out of the US, the Call option shows up in the GMail interface but not otherwise. It is kind of bizarre for them to limit this since computer to computer GTalk is not limited and it wouldn't seem to use up any more resources.
Actually, Matt Domsch is from Dell... not Redhat. So you can take the tinfoil-hat-of-conspiracy off (or put on another layer depending on your feelings towards Dell). This change is coming from an actual *need* from a certain segment of Linux users/admins. I suspect anyone who has had to deal with NIC failure/reconfiguration on a system with more than 2 cards will welcome this as it is trying to take advantage of newer BIOS technology to deterministically assign names to cards based on the actual physical location. Those with 2 or less will have to do little to no work in order to adapt to a change in nomenclature.
This change won't affect desktop people at all. The vast majority only have one NIC and they don't even know/care what it is called since Network Manager takes care of everything. Also, there are bug days being scheduled tomorrow to make sure that all the wrongly hard-coded scripts and programs are flushed out and fixed so hopefully we have a more manageable system going forward. If you care, participate in the bug days so that this change can be seamless:
The N900 is the way to go just for its flexibility: - no complicated jail-breaking needed or fighting with upstream to keep control of your phone's internals - can install a full Openssh stack or the lighter Dropbear if you don't need all features - several VNC clients available - full non-crippled browser - custom kernel available enabling various networking and filesystem modules - great contact manager with great VOIP connectivity (gtalk/SIP/Skype all even though 3G) - recently available custom wireless driver that allows full security testing (packet injection, full moitor mode, etc.) - and many more...
While the N900 might be a bit too much of a power tool for someone looking for a simple phone that works well, it is ideal for a technical person with Linux knowledge that can really take advantage of the wide-open underlying Linux base.
My only gripe with this phone is the battery life. You have to charge it every single day. Not a huge deal since it can charge from any USB port but still annoying on extended trips.
The ironic thing about this is if they had used some sort of copyleft license on the original lobbying material, this kind of sharing wouldn't have been an issue:]
Another way of looking at it would be: does it surprise anyone that many Republican economists would not want to respond to a survey if the facts don't support their political affiliations?
People don't like to put that kind of cognitive dissonance down on paper even though many people hold beliefs in their heads that don't connect with facts.
And I don't even use it (probably disqualifies me:P).
Actually... that makes you imminently qualified since your mind is not polluted with things like "facts" and "knowledge" about Vista. You might have a chance at saying nice things about it.
. Using vibration and rotation tests NASA scientists were able to confirm the center of gravity...
If they couldn't determine the center of gravity before they built the thing, they have some serious issues
It is the difference between theory and reality.
Due to non-homogenous material like composite honeycomb panels and things notoriously difficult to model like wiring bundles, you have to do a mass properties test to know (and adjust) the mass distribution within some tolerance permitted by the launch vehicle.
Otherwise, spin stablized orbital injection burns might not give enough forward thrust due to product of inertia wobble.
The trouble I found recently when submitting a paper was not LaTeX (or LyX) per se but the journal side not having a their own accepted document class even though they said that LaTeX was an acceptable format for submission.
After about a *year* of vague feedback, I finally realized that they were not accepting my final edits due to the numbering format of the references! Since I wasn't worrying about that due to the separation of content and style with LaTeX, it took a while to figure out that they didn't have their own class they were going to apply and wanted me to do style editing. Since I couldn't find a class that matched what they wanted, I ended up having to recreate all the references manually... kind of defeating a lot of the purpose of using LaTeX.
Looking at the final paper in the journal, it looks like they went and manually retyped everything in Word anyways. It was frustrating that they accepted TeX yet completely ignored what makes it great for journal submissions.
From reading the linked articles, it seems the main difference is the way work is managed.
With BONIC, clients redundantly get sent out chunks of work that get send out again if they expire without some response. So this can lead to really large and unpredictable lag times between work scheduling and work completion. Which is great for some tasks but not so great for others.
With Condor, from the Condor website under the clearly indicated link "What is Condor?", "Should Condor detect that a machine is no longer available (such as a key press detected), in many circumstances Condor is able to transparently produce a checkpoint and migrate a job to a different machine which would otherwise be idle." So this means that work units are done with some consistent timing at the expense of increased complexity.
This represents a pretty large difference in how the two systems operate. So before calling someone else an idiot for not doing their research, you should at least do your own or fall under the same label by your own criteria.
Hmm... as many as, as much as, or maybe they're inflating the figures to show what macho investigators they are. It just sounds a lot "better" than "no more than" which is logically equivalent but not spinly equivalent.
You are correct... with one picture you don't have any depth information on any point other than where the known target is. It is not impossible if they take more than one picture from different perspectives though.
However, nothing on the website indicates how many pictures you need to take for their software to work. I suspect it is not just as simple as taking one picture and being done with it. Digital photogrammetry generally takes a fair amount of post-processing.
This whole response sounded like it came right out of the marketing department. Nearly every Q&A followed the model: Q: Please comment about point A. A: Well point B is great and that is why you should give us more money.
I think that I am going to recompile Firefox tonight, replace all Firefox references and icons with that of Internet Explorer and release it branded as Microsoft Internet Explorer since MS doesn't feel all that strongly about trademarks... that certainly satisfies MozCorp's branding policy.;]
I fully admit that what I described is not a selling point for the vast majority... there a dozens of other selling points that would appeal to the general public. I was just answering your question. If you need something that acts as a USB host out of the box for most devices then the 770 is certainly not ideal. You are best to look elsewhere. However, you likely won't find it in Sony's offering and it will likely be 4-5x the cost like the OQO. However, if the market was big enough, it would be a no-brainer for a company to offer, to those people who don't want to deal with that stuff, something 770 specific to power USB devices and software to support many common devices.
The 770's strength is in its flexibility and openness. Some people need to be given one option to choose from and that defines what they need if the marketting is strong enough. Other people want a tool that is a good fit for most jobs and want something that will evolve beyond what it was initially built for to fit future needs. I would say the 770 is an affordable tool that fits most jobs well and you can stretch its functionality quite far.
I use mine regularly for: - SIP voice chats and IM - quickly checking my Gmail or a web site - portable digital photo album for friends - mp3 music player - Bluetooth GPS compatible map viewer - jotting down some notes - drawing a sketch for later drafting - viewing a calendar and recording appointments - ebook reader (its high pixel density and button layout makes it *fantastic* for this)
I am very happy with the functionality during the tasks above and I find having this funtionality (that *does* fit in your back pocket) great. I find that $400 is a reasonable amount for the above list. Others may disagree.
This is not somethign new to the new OS version. Right from the start, with the flasher software (or with a/proc hack) you could switch the USB port to host mode.
The trick is that the USB chip and port are not powered from the internal battery so you have to supply power through the USB cable as if it were a client. There are simple wiring hacks detailed to do this to make a special USB cable or you can just use a USB gender changer to connect the 770 to the host side of a powered USB hub and some cheap hubs will back-feed the correct power to the 770. You can then plug in a keyboard if you want or a USB thumbdrive, etc.
This is not supported by the OS but it is not prevented by the OS either. You don't have to do anything to have the keyboard work and have to run a mount command manually on the command line to mount a USB HD/flashdrive and put a link in manually for the drive to show up in the built-in file manager.
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Thank you for the suggestion. However, this doesn't seem to work for me.
I have English - US set up in my GMail settings and "English" seems to be the *only* option offered in the Google Voice settings. Also set me location and language to be in the US everywhere I could and no dice.
So I am a little stumped.
On top of that, I am quite certain that this isn't going to affect upgrades at all.
The partition layout/filesystem types that you had before are going to be the ones you have after just like the vast majority of upgrades before now.
So no one's existing files are going to be affected.
There was already a yum plugin for this (yum-plugin-fs-shapshot) as far back as F13 as mentioned here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs_in_Fedora_13
It will do an automatic btrfs snapshot of affected filesystems before every yum transaction so that you can go back to whatever point you want. Also, since it is partition dependent, you can rollback your system partition and not undo changes you may have made to your home directories if you have those on different partitions.
btrfs is quite powerful but I have found that the user/GUI tools have not come up to speed yet. I have been using btrfs from my F15 netbook and it seems to have caused no issues so far. However, enabling transparent compression and any tweaking has entailed editing /etc/fstab (never a thing to do lightly) and command lines.
Hopefully some of the GUI disk management tools will start to make available some of the capabilities of btrfs.
DD-WRT does support IPv6 and has some setup info here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6
While the native firmware may not, OpenWRT and DD-WRT bring that support to a lot of routers.
When you sign up with a tunnel broker, you get a ridiculous number of IP addresses assigned to you (you get a whole subnet). So I think once people get the hang of it and their are rubber stamp solutions available, NAT will die off.
I see your point but I was just commenting why some might not see the integration of Google Voice and Google Talk. There is no integration at all outside of the US because there is no access to Google Voice. So outside the US it is not a Skype replacement due to not being able to call POTS.
Unfortunately, the same is true for any peer to peer protocol. NAT breaks the Internet and there will never be a perfect workaround.
Never say never. NAT will mostly die out with IPv6 given that each person could have many directly routable IP addresses and there will still be lots left over. You switch over for free right now with a tunnel broker if you want.
The auxiliary security aspect of NAT will keep it around for a while I think. But there are better options and a simple firewall rule on the router can replicate the same thing if you only want outgoing connections.
Sadly, Google Voice is not available to non-US users. Also, even if you lived in the US and obtained a Google Voice account, it is not usable when abroad. I am in that situation now unfortunately. If I use a VPN to connect out of the US, the Call option shows up in the GMail interface but not otherwise. It is kind of bizarre for them to limit this since computer to computer GTalk is not limited and it wouldn't seem to use up any more resources.
Actually, Matt Domsch is from Dell ... not Redhat. So you can take the tinfoil-hat-of-conspiracy off (or put on another layer depending on your feelings towards Dell). This change is coming from an actual *need* from a certain segment of Linux users/admins. I suspect anyone who has had to deal with NIC failure/reconfiguration on a system with more than 2 cards will welcome this as it is trying to take advantage of newer BIOS technology to deterministically assign names to cards based on the actual physical location. Those with 2 or less will have to do little to no work in order to adapt to a change in nomenclature.
This change won't affect desktop people at all. The vast majority only have one NIC and they don't even know/care what it is called since Network Manager takes care of everything. Also, there are bug days being scheduled tomorrow to make sure that all the wrongly hard-coded scripts and programs are flushed out and fixed so hopefully we have a more manageable system going forward. If you care, participate in the bug days so that this change can be seamless:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_With_Biosdevname
The N900 is the way to go just for its flexibility: ...
- no complicated jail-breaking needed or fighting with upstream to keep control of your phone's internals
- can install a full Openssh stack or the lighter Dropbear if you don't need all features
- several VNC clients available
- full non-crippled browser
- custom kernel available enabling various networking and filesystem modules
- great contact manager with great VOIP connectivity (gtalk/SIP/Skype all even though 3G)
- recently available custom wireless driver that allows full security testing (packet injection, full moitor mode, etc.)
- and many more
While the N900 might be a bit too much of a power tool for someone looking for a simple phone that works well, it is ideal for a technical person with Linux knowledge that can really take advantage of the wide-open underlying Linux base.
My only gripe with this phone is the battery life. You have to charge it every single day. Not a huge deal since it can charge from any USB port but still annoying on extended trips.
The new element will be named Jumbonion, of course.
The ironic thing about this is if they had used some sort of copyleft license on the original lobbying material, this kind of sharing wouldn't have been an issue :]
... doesn't a slug outperform Vista?
Another way of looking at it would be: does it surprise anyone that many Republican economists would not want to respond to a survey if the facts don't support their political affiliations?
People don't like to put that kind of cognitive dissonance down on paper even though many people hold beliefs in their heads that don't connect with facts.
And I don't even use it (probably disqualifies me :P).
Actually ... that makes you imminently qualified since your mind is not polluted with things like "facts" and "knowledge" about Vista. You might have a chance at saying nice things about it.
That should be:
If they couldn't determine the center of gravity before they built the thing, they have some serious issues
It is the difference between theory and reality.
Due to non-homogenous material like composite honeycomb panels and things notoriously difficult to model like wiring bundles, you have to do a mass properties test to know (and adjust) the mass distribution within some tolerance permitted by the launch vehicle.
Otherwise, spin stablized orbital injection burns might not give enough forward thrust due to product of inertia wobble.
The trouble I found recently when submitting a paper was not LaTeX (or LyX) per se but the journal side not having a their own accepted document class even though they said that LaTeX was an acceptable format for submission.
After about a *year* of vague feedback, I finally realized that they were not accepting my final edits due to the numbering format of the references! Since I wasn't worrying about that due to the separation of content and style with LaTeX, it took a while to figure out that they didn't have their own class they were going to apply and wanted me to do style editing. Since I couldn't find a class that matched what they wanted, I ended up having to recreate all the references manually ... kind of defeating a lot of the purpose of using LaTeX.
Looking at the final paper in the journal, it looks like they went and manually retyped everything in Word anyways. It was frustrating that they accepted TeX yet completely ignored what makes it great for journal submissions.
From reading the linked articles, it seems the main difference is the way work is managed.
With BONIC, clients redundantly get sent out chunks of work that get send out again if they expire without some response. So this can lead to really large and unpredictable lag times between work scheduling and work completion. Which is great for some tasks but not so great for others.
With Condor, from the Condor website under the clearly indicated link "What is Condor?", "Should Condor detect that a machine is no longer available (such as a key press detected), in many circumstances Condor is able to transparently produce a checkpoint and migrate a job to a different machine which would otherwise be idle." So this means that work units are done with some consistent timing at the expense of increased complexity.
This represents a pretty large difference in how the two systems operate. So before calling someone else an idiot for not doing their research, you should at least do your own or fall under the same label by your own criteria.
My guess would be that he can retire on his MS earnings.
You are correct ... with one picture you don't have any depth information on any point other than where the known target is. It is not impossible if they take more than one picture from different perspectives though.
However, nothing on the website indicates how many pictures you need to take for their software to work. I suspect it is not just as simple as taking one picture and being done with it. Digital photogrammetry generally takes a fair amount of post-processing.
This whole response sounded like it came right out of the marketing department.
Nearly every Q&A followed the model:
Q: Please comment about point A.
A: Well point B is great and that is why you should give us more money.
I think that I am going to recompile Firefox tonight, replace all Firefox references and icons with that of Internet Explorer and release it branded as Microsoft Internet Explorer since MS doesn't feel all that strongly about trademarks ... that certainly satisfies MozCorp's branding policy. ;]
I fully admit that what I described is not a selling point for the vast majority ... there a dozens of other selling points that would appeal to the general public. I was just answering your question. If you need something that acts as a USB host out of the box for most devices then the 770 is certainly not ideal. You are best to look elsewhere. However, you likely won't find it in Sony's offering and it will likely be 4-5x the cost like the OQO. However, if the market was big enough, it would be a no-brainer for a company to offer, to those people who don't want to deal with that stuff, something 770 specific to power USB devices and software to support many common devices.
The 770's strength is in its flexibility and openness. Some people need to be given one option to choose from and that defines what they need if the marketting is strong enough. Other people want a tool that is a good fit for most jobs and want something that will evolve beyond what it was initially built for to fit future needs. I would say the 770 is an affordable tool that fits most jobs well and you can stretch its functionality quite far.
I use mine regularly for:
- SIP voice chats and IM
- quickly checking my Gmail or a web site
- portable digital photo album for friends
- mp3 music player
- Bluetooth GPS compatible map viewer
- jotting down some notes
- drawing a sketch for later drafting
- viewing a calendar and recording appointments
- ebook reader (its high pixel density and button layout makes it *fantastic* for this)
I am very happy with the functionality during the tasks above and I find having this funtionality (that *does* fit in your back pocket) great. I find that $400 is a reasonable amount for the above list. Others may disagree.
This is not somethign new to the new OS version. Right from the start, with the flasher software (or with a /proc hack) you could switch the USB port to host mode.
The trick is that the USB chip and port are not powered from the internal battery so you have to supply power through the USB cable as if it were a client. There are simple wiring hacks detailed to do this to make a special USB cable or you can just use a USB gender changer to connect the 770 to the host side of a powered USB hub and some cheap hubs will back-feed the correct power to the 770. You can then plug in a keyboard if you want or a USB thumbdrive, etc.
This is not supported by the OS but it is not prevented by the OS either. You don't have to do anything to have the keyboard work and have to run a mount command manually on the command line to mount a USB HD/flashdrive and put a link in manually for the drive to show up in the built-in file manager.