i share your pain - these days if you ever google for a linux issue all that comes back are ubuntu forums where in the majority of cases there are questions without answers, or there are just plain incorrect answers.
and there's too much of this "don't fix it upstream, just install it from this unofficial ppa instead" going on. in the fedora/debian communities things get fixed.
ubuntu has dumbed down linux to the level of macosx/windows, and linux has suffered for it.
Or at least buy a second drive to put in the CD-ROM bay (assuming you have BIOS access). But really it is taking the piss using a work laptop for watching pr0n.
flash is no faster than an html5 player because i have to turn off video acceleration in flash anyway as its so buggy - from turning skintones blue to crackling audio to just crashing the browser.
Last time I looked at the code it was just things like busybox.tar.gz and kernel.tar.gz, just to comply with the GPL. You can download all that lot from Sourceforge FFS.
Its not like you can actually compile you own Kindle OS from what they're distributing, there's no Makefile or documentation on how all the bits glue together.
Its certainly not like Android where you can compile your own phone OS (if you have the proprietary blobs for gfx/gps etc.)
You know where this came from? All those people who have Google as their homepage and don't even use the URL bar.
I know competent computer users who type website addresses into google and then click the top search result. At the other extreme I know non-savvy's who have no idea what the URL bar is for or that its even somewhere to type.
The same thing happened to the bookmarks toolbar - it was the coolest thing to happen to Firefox (2?) and in 4 they hide it by default!
i think you kind of missed the point there - i know ibm made the deathstar, i meant that when/if wdc buy hitachi, they will take the deskstar design (that hitachi inherited from ibm) and make is shit again.
I noticed today that there's a shedload of bad links left in google's cache.
try searching for just about anything to do with solaris and you get links to sun pages that now just redirect you to oracle's completely useless "Oracle Documentation" page which seems to be almost entirely about the database.
virtualbox seems to be able the only software now owned by oracle that it doesn't seem intent on killing off.
So exactly which politician is taking the M$ bribes then? Come on, name and shame time.
Sticking with MSIE is just dependence on an archaic IT infrastructure, and no respect for security, but forcing the use of OOXML just makes no sense other than for vendor lock-in.
It actually sounds quite likely to me, and makes sense a bit. If you go by the stereotypes you've got:
Safari: Mac users, i.e. not a huge amount of brains but lots of cash, easily duped, faithful.
MSIE: Windows users, i.e. stupid, plus they're using the browser that came with their machine and is known for poor security, so not tech-savvy at all, Joe Public make be lower income.
Firefox: Linux users, i.e. more intelligent, possibly not as much disposable income. If its Windows FF then more brains than MSIE users.
Chrome: see Firefox, plus could be smartphone users so tech-savvy possibly business people and higher income.
Opera: well who uses Opera these days, very niche, so possibly used to paying more for things. Could be smartphone users so tech-savvy possibly business people and higher income.
These are pretty stereotypical (and I expect I sound like an arsehole) but I expect that's what the ratings are based on, not scientific research.
I agree its very naughty to bias, but I wouldn't put it past the credit industry.
This problem is highly visible in VMs. When you have one VM doing write-heavy disk IO, the other VMs suffer.
yes, this is the only time i've ever seen the problem myself - apply a patch cluster to a solaris vm or compile xbmc in a win2003 vm and watch the other vm's just crawl.
doesn't affect the host though, so i assumed it a virtualbox bug.
I tried to sell Plone as an alternative to SharePoint once, everyone was very impressed with Plone and shocked at the hardware requirements of SharePoint (and shitty performance of the VirtualServer setup the Microsoft salesmen demoed!) and the fact that the whole company would have to upgrade from MSIE6.
The factor that killed Plone was no Single Sign On via AD, which SharePoint had out of the box of course.
There was a commercial Plone plugin for SSO which required Samba3 and all sorts of OpenLDAP hacks (or it had to run on Windows) to even partially work, but then the FOSS argument and reuse of existing *Sun* hardware went out of the window.
Until Plone integrates with Enterprisey vendor lock-in stuff like AD/Exchange, it isn't going to be gaining any traction. Still you've got to give it to Microsoft, SharePoint is rubbish but somehow they still manage to sell it.
#1. Getting management to say "OK we'll let the deadline slide, max out the budget and reduce some functionality/ease-of-use so we can fix the security flaws".
#2. Getting minimum wage Java programmers to understand/care about securing their code.
Things are not helped by the sad state of so-called security products by the likes of Symantec that seem very popular with PHB's, they must have a lot of sales reps hanging around golf courses.
Its also a bit much Google bitching about other people's security - wardriving streetview anyone?
Well yeah except HP is the other company who is buying up all the crap software; so now we only have Symantec and HP to hate, oh and I guess Novell (kernel) Microsoft (everything), Apple (Flash), Google (Streetview), IBM (malware) and Oracle (OpenSolaris). Wow, thinking about it, can any company do anything right?
I actually tried PGP Desktop 10 the other day and it really is rubbish for 180 quid. Their registration server has been offline for 5 years their software won't work with any OpenPGP keyservers.
Seahorse on Linux is a much better frontend, GnuPG2 a better backend, and I expect LUKS is a better full disk encryption system too (PGP's one is bound to have a backdoor) all for free too.
a security "ninja" who uses windows xp for everything? its a bit like a design "guru" who uses mspaint on a monochrome monitor.
and yeah its kind of obvious its not really down to the language, its down to the programmer. a little surprised by the stats though - i'd have thought perl hackers would have more security know-how than your average java monkey.
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i share your pain - these days if you ever google for a linux issue all that comes back are ubuntu forums where in the majority of cases there are questions without answers, or there are just plain incorrect answers.
and there's too much of this "don't fix it upstream, just install it from this unofficial ppa instead" going on. in the fedora/debian communities things get fixed.
ubuntu has dumbed down linux to the level of macosx/windows, and linux has suffered for it.
Or at least buy a second drive to put in the CD-ROM bay (assuming you have BIOS access). But really it is taking the piss using a work laptop for watching pr0n.
flash is no faster than an html5 player because i have to turn off video acceleration in flash anyway as its so buggy - from turning skintones blue to crackling audio to just crashing the browser.
vdpau in smplayer works fine thanks.
from what i've heard you're shit out of luck with anything hd if you're talking mpeg2 or xvid; which kills my dvb-s dream :-(
not calibre's fault. and it converts textual pdf's just fine, just don't throw too many images etc. at it, which would be crap on a kindle anyway.
Last time I looked at the code it was just things like busybox.tar.gz and kernel.tar.gz, just to comply with the GPL. You can download all that lot from Sourceforge FFS.
Its not like you can actually compile you own Kindle OS from what they're distributing, there's no Makefile or documentation on how all the bits glue together.
Its certainly not like Android where you can compile your own phone OS (if you have the proprietary blobs for gfx/gps etc.)
and it should be "i couldn't care less"
I wonder how much development time has been wasted saving you 12 seconds per month?
Development time that could have been used fixing Gnome3, PulseAudio, Systemd......
Wow one guy is responsible for the three worst things to happen to Linux in the last few years and he's still doing interviews?
I bet he's working on Gnome3 too isn't he?!
You know where this came from? All those people who have Google as their homepage and don't even use the URL bar.
I know competent computer users who type website addresses into google and then click the top search result. At the other extreme I know non-savvy's who have no idea what the URL bar is for or that its even somewhere to type.
The same thing happened to the bookmarks toolbar - it was the coolest thing to happen to Firefox (2?) and in 4 they hide it by default!
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Does that make sense to anyone?
i think you kind of missed the point there - i know ibm made the deathstar, i meant that when/if wdc buy hitachi, they will take the deskstar design (that hitachi inherited from ibm) and make is shit again.
the op obviously hasn't tried the "latest" 2.1 beta of skype for linux - i expect he's been using skype 5 on windows/osx.
From someone whose Hitachi backup drive just saved his bacon when his 4th WDC drive this year failed, I'd say this is bad news.
Maybe its time to buy a shedload of these 3Tb drives before WDC gets their hands on them and they become Deathstars again.
I have Windows7/XP boxes that now only ever boot to Linux and a MacOSX box that has been replaced (and outperformed) by a cheaper Linux box
I only ever use Linux on my desktops, laptops, phones, routers, servers etc; anything else is like going back to 1992.
For Windows/Mac to ever be usable on the desktop, they at least need package management and less vendor-lock-in.
I noticed today that there's a shedload of bad links left in google's cache.
try searching for just about anything to do with solaris and you get links to sun pages that now just redirect you to oracle's completely useless "Oracle Documentation" page which seems to be almost entirely about the database.
virtualbox seems to be able the only software now owned by oracle that it doesn't seem intent on killing off.
So exactly which politician is taking the M$ bribes then? Come on, name and shame time.
Sticking with MSIE is just dependence on an archaic IT infrastructure, and no respect for security, but forcing the use of OOXML just makes no sense other than for vendor lock-in.
come on, get us some youtube.
urgh, i can see the "syfy" guys planning the movie already - what is it with them and shark films?
Did anyone else read that as "JBoss ASS Performance"?
It actually sounds quite likely to me, and makes sense a bit. If you go by the stereotypes you've got:
Safari: Mac users, i.e. not a huge amount of brains but lots of cash, easily duped, faithful.
MSIE: Windows users, i.e. stupid, plus they're using the browser that came with their machine and is known for poor security, so not tech-savvy at all, Joe Public make be lower income.
Firefox: Linux users, i.e. more intelligent, possibly not as much disposable income. If its Windows FF then more brains than MSIE users.
Chrome: see Firefox, plus could be smartphone users so tech-savvy possibly business people and higher income.
Opera: well who uses Opera these days, very niche, so possibly used to paying more for things. Could be smartphone users so tech-savvy possibly business people and higher income.
These are pretty stereotypical (and I expect I sound like an arsehole) but I expect that's what the ratings are based on, not scientific research.
I agree its very naughty to bias, but I wouldn't put it past the credit industry.
This problem is highly visible in VMs. When you have one VM doing write-heavy disk IO, the other VMs suffer.
yes, this is the only time i've ever seen the problem myself - apply a patch cluster to a solaris vm or compile xbmc in a win2003 vm and watch the other vm's just crawl. doesn't affect the host though, so i assumed it a virtualbox bug.
I tried to sell Plone as an alternative to SharePoint once, everyone was very impressed with Plone and shocked at the hardware requirements of SharePoint (and shitty performance of the VirtualServer setup the Microsoft salesmen demoed!) and the fact that the whole company would have to upgrade from MSIE6.
The factor that killed Plone was no Single Sign On via AD, which SharePoint had out of the box of course.
There was a commercial Plone plugin for SSO which required Samba3 and all sorts of OpenLDAP hacks (or it had to run on Windows) to even partially work, but then the FOSS argument and reuse of existing *Sun* hardware went out of the window.
Until Plone integrates with Enterprisey vendor lock-in stuff like AD/Exchange, it isn't going to be gaining any traction. Still you've got to give it to Microsoft, SharePoint is rubbish but somehow they still manage to sell it.
#1. Getting management to say "OK we'll let the deadline slide, max out the budget and reduce some functionality/ease-of-use so we can fix the security flaws".
#2. Getting minimum wage Java programmers to understand/care about securing their code.
Things are not helped by the sad state of so-called security products by the likes of Symantec that seem very popular with PHB's, they must have a lot of sales reps hanging around golf courses.
Its also a bit much Google bitching about other people's security - wardriving streetview anyone?
Well yeah except HP is the other company who is buying up all the crap software; so now we only have Symantec and HP to hate, oh and I guess Novell (kernel) Microsoft (everything), Apple (Flash), Google (Streetview), IBM (malware) and Oracle (OpenSolaris). Wow, thinking about it, can any company do anything right?
I actually tried PGP Desktop 10 the other day and it really is rubbish for 180 quid. Their registration server has been offline for 5 years their software won't work with any OpenPGP keyservers.
Seahorse on Linux is a much better frontend, GnuPG2 a better backend, and I expect LUKS is a better full disk encryption system too (PGP's one is bound to have a backdoor) all for free too.
a security "ninja" who uses windows xp for everything? its a bit like a design "guru" who uses mspaint on a monochrome monitor.
and yeah its kind of obvious its not really down to the language, its down to the programmer. a little surprised by the stats though - i'd have thought perl hackers would have more security know-how than your average java monkey.