~/art (stuff that I create and work on): git
~/compsci (for the uni course, mostly code and latex): git
~/fetches (random crap that gets downloaded to look at): not synced
~/music (guess): rsync
~/personal (various mostly text documents): git
~/photos (photos organised into $date-$eventtitle/$photonum.jpg then left alone): rsync
~/src (code I write): gets uploaded to FTP and the world backs it up for me:-)
I'm pretty sure pulseaudio takes care of this at a lower level; I've never tried it with multiple cards in one system, but it can route sound for different apps via sound cards on different networked PCs...
Nerds, which is what this website is for. If you're looking for some sort of pop culture website where things are only posted if they appeal to the majority, you're doing it wrong...
developers are going to need to get their shit together and: make webcams work (they don't in the majority of cases at the moment);
Funny you should say that -- I've just spent the morning trying to get some webcams working in windows, and failing (default windows does nothing, official drivers cause all video input related programs to crash when a webcam is inserted). Then plugging them into my linux box, works out of the box, first time:-)
Is that their primary choice though? If they had ranked the options as "let the OEM decide" (sensible, best), "ballot screen" (stupid, medium), "let microsoft do what they want" (illegal, worst), then technically "the EU would rather have a ballot screen" is true, but it's still a case of the media spinning things to get attention:P
OEMs pick an antivirus for their users: fine
OEMs pick image organisers for their users: also fine
OEMs pick ISP software for their users: no problem
OEMs are given the opportunity to pick browsers for their users: *shitstorm*
To me this looks like the media trolling for attention; in the real world OEMs will either bundle IE or IE + firefox, and no end user will notice any difference...
It means "the overall share of the market". If you're using it to measure quality or reliability or developer's dick size then you're doing it wrong, and that's not the statistic's fault...
Is 99% cached content, served as effectively static files
Google
Has some developers who have it installed; none of their major services are based on it
Facebook
According to the video of how it works, is basically a graph database, on top of a giant key:value table, on top of memcache, on top of mysql -- ie, they do their best to avoid actually hitting the database, and when they do, they only make use of the most basic functions (and it isn't even good enough for that, so they're working on a replacement)
Twitter
While large, it's hardly complicated in terms of database schema, and it/still/ falls over all the time:P
The other sites, I've never seen any behind the scenes reports on.
While "we have at least one copy of mysql installed somewhere in our organisation" is common, "we are using mysql as the central database for our heavily stressed mission critical systems, and it works great" is much rarer:-P
PostgreSQL scales well, but is fairly slow on average.
I spent months making my queries ugly and hacky and optimised for mysql, and my website would still grind at about 500 concurrent users. Out of curiosity I switched to postgres, code unchanged other than the minimum to be compatible and it ran fine up to around 1000. Then I rewrote the queries in order to make them simple and elegant, and postgres ran them/even faster/:P
It took almost 3 months to get the webcam working on Windows (and it occasionally bluescreens when plugged in). Even to this day I'm scared that if I lose the system I'll lose the configuration- it required downloading drivers from dodgy-looking websites, adding new packages, modifying them in a non-standard fashion, adding options that weren't documented...
Ubuntu? Put it in and the picture comes out.
I'll say the same thing about printers too- while the support is sometimes built in I still had to run some 20 programs to get it recognised at all, another to print in colour, the paper size option is visible in 10 places but only one of them acutally has any effect....
Nothing better to kill 2 hours of your precious life.
Morals of the story; 1) anecdotal evidence is not science, 2) no OS is ready for every desktop, you just have to pick the one which sucks least for your personal needs
Every nerd thinks all other nerds are pretty much the same and that they themselves are different and unique
Actually while I have seen some of that, I've also seen some of the opposite -- thin and successful nerds emphasising how they're fat losers on the inside, so that they can fit in better on IRC...
Could dedicated database hardware outperform generic x86/sparc in the same way that GPUs are several orders of magnitude faster than software rendering? I would presume that databases are too large and varied compared to the "run a single task 2 million times in parallel" of graphics, but I am not a database coder...
How long until we have a 3D compositing window manager for our in-browser desktops?
(Nearly 20 years of hardware and software improvements, and the pinnacle of our achievements is exactly what we started with, but slower. With all the effort that's gone into making javascript fast, wouldn't it have been easier to make downloading random binaries from the internet safe?)
In my anecdote, windows needed me to google some websites and download extra drivers for my video card, sound, webcam, graphics tablet, and phone; now with official drivers installed, plugging in the webcam makes XP bluescreen, and the phone only works as USB storage. On ubuntu, everything worked out of the box. Even plugging in my phone pops up a dialog asking me what my phone provider is so that it can set up GPRS, which is something I wasn't expecting any OS to handle.
If we're using anecdotes as facts, I'd say ubuntu wins:-P
Either that, or the published reason: A feature all google services must have is "profit", and gmail is still lacking that feature. (FYI: I'm using the paid-for google apps bundle, and it's not marked as beta)
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Linux IMHO should not be incorporating Microsoft's standards in any form. Doing so could lead to litigation, and eventually the death of the system.
Should we also shun the UNIX specification, and ANSI C? (Both from convicted monopolist and lawyer-happy AT&T)
~/art (stuff that I create and work on): git :-)
~/compsci (for the uni course, mostly code and latex): git
~/fetches (random crap that gets downloaded to look at): not synced
~/music (guess): rsync
~/personal (various mostly text documents): git
~/photos (photos organised into $date-$eventtitle/$photonum.jpg then left alone): rsync
~/src (code I write): gets uploaded to FTP and the world backs it up for me
Slightly tangential, but having sent several bug reports regarding ugly interfaces, I ponder tying them together in something like a constructive criticism blog; some random recent examples being an official KDE4 screenshot showing how "good" it looks, the default mythbuntu theme (yes, all these styles are a single theme), and some things which are just plain ugly.
Good idea / bad idea? Would anybody benefit from a collection of "what not to do"'s? Anybody interested in writing up some criticisms of their own?
I'm pretty sure pulseaudio takes care of this at a lower level; I've never tried it with multiple cards in one system, but it can route sound for different apps via sound cards on different networked PCs...
EU Fusion Experiment's Financial Woes Get More Concrete
From the sounds of things, what they want is more money...
Who gives a shit ?
Nerds, which is what this website is for. If you're looking for some sort of pop culture website where things are only posted if they appeal to the majority, you're doing it wrong...
developers are going to need to get their shit together and: make webcams work (they don't in the majority of cases at the moment);
Funny you should say that -- I've just spent the morning trying to get some webcams working in windows, and failing (default windows does nothing, official drivers cause all video input related programs to crash when a webcam is inserted). Then plugging them into my linux box, works out of the box, first time :-)
You come up with a neat idea, then discover that someone more famous than you had a similar idea, and spend the rest of your life being called a copy cat :(
the EU would rather have a "ballot screen"
Is that their primary choice though? If they had ranked the options as "let the OEM decide" (sensible, best), "ballot screen" (stupid, medium), "let microsoft do what they want" (illegal, worst), then technically "the EU would rather have a ballot screen" is true, but it's still a case of the media spinning things to get attention :P
OEMs pick image organisers for their users: also fine
OEMs pick ISP software for their users: no problem
OEMs are given the opportunity to pick browsers for their users: *shitstorm*
To me this looks like the media trolling for attention; in the real world OEMs will either bundle IE or IE + firefox, and no end user will notice any difference...
This was acceptable, at the time, because we believed that evolution would eventually win, the strong would survive, the weak would die
We did? I've always liked having choice :/
Also, your ideals imply that the end of evolution is a good thing...
Pray tell, how does one restart a machine from a bootdisk and zero out a password while keeping it running 24x7? =/
It means "the overall share of the market". If you're using it to measure quality or reliability or developer's dick size then you're doing it wrong, and that's not the statistic's fault...
Wikipedia
Is 99% cached content, served as effectively static files
Google
Has some developers who have it installed; none of their major services are based on it
Facebook
According to the video of how it works, is basically a graph database, on top of a giant key:value table, on top of memcache, on top of mysql -- ie, they do their best to avoid actually hitting the database, and when they do, they only make use of the most basic functions (and it isn't even good enough for that, so they're working on a replacement)
Twitter
While large, it's hardly complicated in terms of database schema, and it /still/ falls over all the time :P
The other sites, I've never seen any behind the scenes reports on.
While "we have at least one copy of mysql installed somewhere in our organisation" is common, "we are using mysql as the central database for our heavily stressed mission critical systems, and it works great" is much rarer :-P
PostgreSQL scales well, but is fairly slow on average.
I spent months making my queries ugly and hacky and optimised for mysql, and my website would still grind at about 500 concurrent users. Out of curiosity I switched to postgres, code unchanged other than the minimum to be compatible and it ran fine up to around 1000. Then I rewrote the queries in order to make them simple and elegant, and postgres ran them /even faster/ :P
It took almost 3 months to get the webcam working on Windows (and it occasionally bluescreens when plugged in). Even to this day I'm scared that if I lose the system I'll lose the configuration- it required downloading drivers from dodgy-looking websites, adding new packages, modifying them in a non-standard fashion, adding options that weren't documented...
Ubuntu? Put it in and the picture comes out.
I'll say the same thing about printers too- while the support is sometimes built in I still had to run some 20 programs to get it recognised at all, another to print in colour, the paper size option is visible in 10 places but only one of them acutally has any effect....
Nothing better to kill 2 hours of your precious life.
Morals of the story; 1) anecdotal evidence is not science, 2) no OS is ready for every desktop, you just have to pick the one which sucks least for your personal needs
Every nerd thinks all other nerds are pretty much the same and that they themselves are different and unique
Actually while I have seen some of that, I've also seen some of the opposite -- thin and successful nerds emphasising how they're fat losers on the inside, so that they can fit in better on IRC...
(original)
Could dedicated database hardware outperform generic x86/sparc in the same way that GPUs are several orders of magnitude faster than software rendering? I would presume that databases are too large and varied compared to the "run a single task 2 million times in parallel" of graphics, but I am not a database coder...
Putting mood stabilizers in water. Fuck, that's a creepy thought.
It is? The government here have been doing that for years, nobody really seems that bothered by it...
How long until we have a 3D compositing window manager for our in-browser desktops?
(Nearly 20 years of hardware and software improvements, and the pinnacle of our achievements is exactly what we started with, but slower. With all the effort that's gone into making javascript fast, wouldn't it have been easier to make downloading random binaries from the internet safe?)
WASTE... has no central server.
the server has to be able to log any conversations that occur
(Aside from being the complete opposite of what's being asked for here, it is an acceptable chat system...)
Fact is Linux isn't ready. Period. STILL
Is any OS? :-P
My story summary, DRIVER PROBLEMS:
In my anecdote, windows needed me to google some websites and download extra drivers for my video card, sound, webcam, graphics tablet, and phone; now with official drivers installed, plugging in the webcam makes XP bluescreen, and the phone only works as USB storage. On ubuntu, everything worked out of the box. Even plugging in my phone pops up a dialog asking me what my phone provider is so that it can set up GPRS, which is something I wasn't expecting any OS to handle.
If we're using anecdotes as facts, I'd say ubuntu wins :-P
Either that, or the published reason: A feature all google services must have is "profit", and gmail is still lacking that feature. (FYI: I'm using the paid-for google apps bundle, and it's not marked as beta)
...may as well not read slashdot today
So... don't? It's not like one day of not-slacking will hurt *that* much :P