I've been playing with the Nokia N900 recently and it has flash. Works fine *except* when I tried to play a flash game that required click and drag to draw lines. I couldn't find a way to do it that didn't just end up with the page being dragged around rather than the line I was trying to draw.
It might just be that I don't know how to operate it properly, or it could be that there are a few input-related hurdles to get over, but fundamentally flawed? Don't see why at all.
I find that attitude patronising in the extreme. Many more than 1% are engineers. Engineering practice is defied by the discipline not some god of engineering and there are many good sets of practices in the industry.
Personally, I design and implement high throughput, low latency server software that deals with mission critical data and/or financial transactions. I consider myself an engineer. Please don't pull out either of the old fallacies that engineers are either personally, legally, responsible for any failing in their work (demonstrably untrue in civil or other engineering firms where the company may be responsible but the individual is not) or that "you're an engineer when the thing you designed kills someone if it goes wrong" because that puts many electronic engineers in the "not engineer" camp and many software guys in the engineer camp.
Is every programmer a "Software Engineer"? I don't know, but I dislike the dismissive attitude.
xorg.conf has always been too much like dark magic to me and I try to avoid doing anything to it where at all possible.
xrandr... I'm assuming that as your comfortable with xorg.conf you've tried the position arguments? When addind a second screen to a laptop I usually run something like -
xrandr --output VGA --preferred --left-of LVDS
Or if I want to make the external the primary then
Works for me! But then I'm a debian/gnome guy and I have no idea what ships with kubuntu. Also YMMV may vary depending on chipset. With nvidia you pretty much have to use the nvidia-settings GUI
I eventually found that under your home directory, somewhere buried beneath the.gconf,.gconf2 or.gnome settings directories there was a networking/wireless dir with another directory for every network it's ever been connected to. Delete that and it forgets. I don't know what's inside them because I didn't look but you may be able to change settings by editing the files you find there.
I went out of my way to answer the parent's question in a level headed way and stress that I was putting forward my (minority) opinions/experiences and not wide-reaching value judgements. WTF?
OK, so it's just my experience, and it was frustrating.
What I'm trying to put across is that command lines and config files suit some people, and where things go wrong (it's disingenuous to say they never do) I like the level of access I get to the internals on UNIXy systems.
"UNIX" the philosophy helped me there, not "UNIX" the opengroup specification.
This was windows 7 by the way. It could well be bad monitor info, but xrandr manged to pick up the correct mode list and preferred resolution/refresh info. I'm sure this is a niche problem, if it happened with everyone we would have heard of it. Nevertheless, the underlying point is not that "OMG Windows is so shit and broken!", because it's not.
In an effort to make things easier and better for most users, something which I think it is successful at, it hides a lot of things from people like me. I will freely admit to being an edge case!
When you fscked the system so badly it won't even boot, the ability to plug the drive in elsewhere, read the logs and tinker with everything from the kernel upwards has been a godsend. It's a long time since I've managed to screw up a windows box that badly, sure, but still..
As a software engineer with a very pronounced UNIX bias let me just say I don't like the way windows hides stuff.
Sure, sure, most people hate command lines and config files. I know this and I'm not arguing that everyone else is wrong and I am right, or that your grandmother should learn to love bash and xorg.conf or anmything else. I'm just putting across my perspective.
I don't like it when the computer does stuff automatically and gets it wrong, and provides no way to correct it. Example - Dual monitor setup on my laptop + DVI connected flat panel.
Linux - system boots up in single screen mode, I log into X and run xrandr to see available displays and modes, then run it again to set them up how I want. There is a gui option also. Windows - system boots up with the external screen primary but at the wrong resolution or refresh rate so nothing displays. I unplug the screen and windows (unlike linux) detects this and reconfigures to use a single screen. I log in. Bring up the display dialog and as the second screen isn't plugged in I get no options for it. I plug it in and windows switches back to dual screen at the wrong refresh rate and the panel stays blank. Now we're in a bind, I can;t get at the settings with the screen unplugged and I can't get at the settings applications with it plugged in. Eventually I figure out the key combos to grab and move the display dialog onto the secondary screen so I can fix the settings. Then we're ok.
Now, most people probably have their screens setup once and don't care after that, and sure as hell don't want to be messing with some hokey command line app called "xrandr", but for me it works the other way around.
I actually got a bit pissed off with NetworkManager on gnome desktops a little while ago because it hides all its settings and profiles away too, and it's quite tricky to find how to get it to stop connecting to a wireless LAN it's been connected to before. I found this windowsy and annoying.
So yeah, unless things are seemless and perfect (which it seems nobody has got right yet, though I can't comment on Mac) I prefer being able to get dirty with relative ease. I realise that this is more of a power-user than coder example, but I think it reflects the sort of class of problems we unixy types have with MS. I think. Feel free to to inform me otherwise.
I picked up a one million line codebase with one other engineer. Sure we don't know it inside out, but we're able to work with it. I'm never going to know it like I wrote it myself, but well enough to maintian and add functionality, sure.
Nokia has around 50% of the global smartphone market sewn up, with RIM coming in second and apple behind them. If they aren't big in the US that doesn't mean they aren't huge absolutely everywhere else, and beating the crap out of both google and apple in every market bar one.
Well executed DRM is DRM your customers never see, hear or even become conscious of. All DRM is removed by pirates pretty sharply.
Given DRM costs money, why bother?
I'm not a pirate, I buy games. DRM pisses me off and makes me less likely to buy games. I'm sure that I'm in a tiny demographic, but saving money on not having DRM and gaining a few more sales would seem to be a good thing, no?
I would like to see android as a downloadable set of *stuff* for generic linux, allowing you to run android apps alongside X apps. it looks like Michael Frey has been working on it, though with mixed results.
As for dual boot I saw this page here and it looked interesting. I very much doubt it's a polished or finished thing that can access all the hardware properly, but it is at least booting.
"I mean shouldn't people who have done bad things be allowed to make remorse and NOT have to feel guilty their whole lives????"
That depends on what you mean about not having to feel guilty. Coming to terms with what put them in that situation, why they did what they did and how they can live a good life afterwards? hell yes.
Blaming the victim andmaking excuses about why it wasn't so bad and wasn't your fault? Less so. Those are excuses.
Hell, being a C programmer with a good reputation and a decade of experience will get you pretty well paid too. Not close to what you can pull down as an Oracle DBA working for the financial sector though.
You're right - specialise (in something hard!) take on more design, architecture, team leading, managing projects etc and you will go far.
Me, I've spent 10 years doing what I wanted (C, basically extended exercises in algebra, cipher puzzles and resource IMHO, lots of fun) and being paid well for my efforts. If or when I tire of it I should be able to make a move into management and more generic skills.
Now those things are perfectly possible, yes. A full x86 emulator with wine (or Reactos or even real windows) would work fine, but will be dog-slow compared to native execution.
And compiling requires source, or intent on the part of the original author to make a version for the target platform.
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What do you mean by the linux community?
I agree that the likes of redhat probably won't support this any time soon. But Debian? Gentoo? Or a community like xbox-linux could spring up. Some of the linux community are probably quite excited by this.
No Cedega for you!
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Sorry, but Wine and its derivatives can only ever work on x86 hardware (or hardware with x86 compatibility) as I understand it. You can move binaries between OS's by emulating.intercepting.translating system calls, but not between architectures.
It would need native linux games to be compiled for PPC, preferably designed and built specially for Cell hardware.
I'm all for this hack and opening the platform up, but it's already a great media center IMHO.
Just load up some UPnP/DLNA software (some are mentioned up-page, I use MediaTomb) and browse your media straight from the PS3 XMB interface. We use it all the time.
yes, it could do with some more formats supported, but it's pretty good on most stuff.
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I've had lots of luck with MediaTomb, and if you need to set up transcoding-on-the-fly for unsupported formats then you can.
Errr - NO! Hom,ebrew not already possible.
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You can't access some of the hardware, particularly the GFX from an "Other OS" and the new slim models don't even support the Other OS option, so no, this is not just for cheating and piracy and there is no current way to run homebrew well.
We can even run linux better in a hacked system as currently the graphics performance is pretty dreadful. There is far more to life than piracy and cheating. I welcome this development.
Helll, I'd welcome it even if there were few to no forseeable applications, just the opening up of a new computer platform...
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Ah, that helped, thanks.
It's a bit unwieldy, but it does work.
I've been playing with the Nokia N900 recently and it has flash. Works fine *except* when I tried to play a flash game that required click and drag to draw lines. I couldn't find a way to do it that didn't just end up with the page being dragged around rather than the line I was trying to draw.
It might just be that I don't know how to operate it properly, or it could be that there are a few input-related hurdles to get over, but fundamentally flawed? Don't see why at all.
I find that attitude patronising in the extreme. Many more than 1% are engineers. Engineering practice is defied by the discipline not some god of engineering and there are many good sets of practices in the industry.
Personally, I design and implement high throughput, low latency server software that deals with mission critical data and/or financial transactions. I consider myself an engineer. Please don't pull out either of the old fallacies that engineers are either personally, legally, responsible for any failing in their work (demonstrably untrue in civil or other engineering firms where the company may be responsible but the individual is not) or that "you're an engineer when the thing you designed kills someone if it goes wrong" because that puts many electronic engineers in the "not engineer" camp and many software guys in the engineer camp.
Is every programmer a "Software Engineer"? I don't know, but I dislike the dismissive attitude.
xorg.conf has always been too much like dark magic to me and I try to avoid doing anything to it where at all possible.
xrandr... I'm assuming that as your comfortable with xorg.conf you've tried the position arguments? When addind a second screen to a laptop I usually run something like -
xrandr --output VGA --preferred --left-of LVDS
Or if I want to make the external the primary then
xrandr --output VGA --preferred; xrandr --output LVDS --preferred --right-of LVDS
Works for me! But then I'm a debian/gnome guy and I have no idea what ships with kubuntu. Also YMMV may vary depending on chipset. With nvidia you pretty much have to use the nvidia-settings GUI
I eventually found that under your home directory, somewhere buried beneath the .gconf, .gconf2 or .gnome settings directories there was a networking/wireless dir with another directory for every network it's ever been connected to. Delete that and it forgets. I don't know what's inside them because I didn't look but you may be able to change settings by editing the files you find there.
Seriously, why am I modded troll?
I went out of my way to answer the parent's question in a level headed way and stress that I was putting forward my (minority) opinions/experiences and not wide-reaching value judgements. WTF?
OK, so it's just my experience, and it was frustrating.
What I'm trying to put across is that command lines and config files suit some people, and where things go wrong (it's disingenuous to say they never do) I like the level of access I get to the internals on UNIXy systems.
"UNIX" the philosophy helped me there, not "UNIX" the opengroup specification.
This was windows 7 by the way. It could well be bad monitor info, but xrandr manged to pick up the correct mode list and preferred resolution/refresh info. I'm sure this is a niche problem, if it happened with everyone we would have heard of it. Nevertheless, the underlying point is not that "OMG Windows is so shit and broken!", because it's not.
In an effort to make things easier and better for most users, something which I think it is successful at, it hides a lot of things from people like me. I will freely admit to being an edge case!
Ah yes, that is nice.
When you fscked the system so badly it won't even boot, the ability to plug the drive in elsewhere, read the logs and tinker with everything from the kernel upwards has been a godsend. It's a long time since I've managed to screw up a windows box that badly, sure, but still..
As a software engineer with a very pronounced UNIX bias let me just say I don't like the way windows hides stuff.
Sure, sure, most people hate command lines and config files. I know this and I'm not arguing that everyone else is wrong and I am right, or that your grandmother should learn to love bash and xorg.conf or anmything else. I'm just putting across my perspective.
I don't like it when the computer does stuff automatically and gets it wrong, and provides no way to correct it. Example - Dual monitor setup on my laptop + DVI connected flat panel.
Linux - system boots up in single screen mode, I log into X and run xrandr to see available displays and modes, then run it again to set them up how I want. There is a gui option also.
Windows - system boots up with the external screen primary but at the wrong resolution or refresh rate so nothing displays. I unplug the screen and windows (unlike linux) detects this and reconfigures to use a single screen. I log in. Bring up the display dialog and as the second screen isn't plugged in I get no options for it. I plug it in and windows switches back to dual screen at the wrong refresh rate and the panel stays blank. Now we're in a bind, I can;t get at the settings with the screen unplugged and I can't get at the settings applications with it plugged in. Eventually I figure out the key combos to grab and move the display dialog onto the secondary screen so I can fix the settings. Then we're ok.
Now, most people probably have their screens setup once and don't care after that, and sure as hell don't want to be messing with some hokey command line app called "xrandr", but for me it works the other way around.
I actually got a bit pissed off with NetworkManager on gnome desktops a little while ago because it hides all its settings and profiles away too, and it's quite tricky to find how to get it to stop connecting to a wireless LAN it's been connected to before. I found this windowsy and annoying.
So yeah, unless things are seemless and perfect (which it seems nobody has got right yet, though I can't comment on Mac) I prefer being able to get dirty with relative ease. I realise that this is more of a power-user than coder example, but I think it reflects the sort of class of problems we unixy types have with MS. I think. Feel free to to inform me otherwise.
From what I understand, HDDVD would have got region codes if/when it hit the mainstream. They are a poison that all the content people buy into.
40K Sizeable? Hell no.
I picked up a one million line codebase with one other engineer. Sure we don't know it inside out, but we're able to work with it. I'm never going to know it like I wrote it myself, but well enough to maintian and add functionality, sure.
I'm pretty sure bankruptcy doesn't free you from civil penalties like this. I'm willing to be corrected though.
Ummm, what the HELL are youy smoking?
Nokia has around 50% of the global smartphone market sewn up, with RIM coming in second and apple behind them. If they aren't big in the US that doesn't mean they aren't huge absolutely everywhere else, and beating the crap out of both google and apple in every market bar one.
Well executed DRM is DRM your customers never see, hear or even become conscious of.
All DRM is removed by pirates pretty sharply.
Given DRM costs money, why bother?
I'm not a pirate, I buy games. DRM pisses me off and makes me less likely to buy games. I'm sure that I'm in a tiny demographic, but saving money on not having DRM and gaining a few more sales would seem to be a good thing, no?
I would like to see android as a downloadable set of *stuff* for generic linux, allowing you to run android apps alongside X apps. it looks like Michael Frey has been working on it, though with mixed results.
As for dual boot I saw this page here and it looked interesting. I very much doubt it's a polished or finished thing that can access all the hardware properly, but it is at least booting.
It's not even an OS for the n900, it's on an emulator.
No lack of kudos for it, but it's not like it's native... I have heard of one dual booting Maemo and Android, which I thought was pretty cool.
"I mean shouldn't people who have done bad things be allowed to make remorse and NOT have to feel guilty their whole lives????"
That depends on what you mean about not having to feel guilty. Coming to terms with what put them in that situation, why they did what they did and how they can live a good life afterwards? hell yes.
Blaming the victim andmaking excuses about why it wasn't so bad and wasn't your fault? Less so. Those are excuses.
Hell, being a C programmer with a good reputation and a decade of experience will get you pretty well paid too. Not close to what you can pull down as an Oracle DBA working for the financial sector though.
You're right - specialise (in something hard!) take on more design, architecture, team leading, managing projects etc and you will go far.
Me, I've spent 10 years doing what I wanted (C, basically extended exercises in algebra, cipher puzzles and resource IMHO, lots of fun) and being paid well for my efforts. If or when I tire of it I should be able to make a move into management and more generic skills.
Nobody said that.
But it's not what was proposed (wine/cedega) and is likely to be very slow.
Now those things are perfectly possible, yes. A full x86 emulator with wine (or Reactos or even real windows) would work fine, but will be dog-slow compared to native execution.
And compiling requires source, or intent on the part of the original author to make a version for the target platform.
What do you mean by the linux community?
I agree that the likes of redhat probably won't support this any time soon. But Debian? Gentoo? Or a community like xbox-linux could spring up.
Some of the linux community are probably quite excited by this.
Sorry, but Wine and its derivatives can only ever work on x86 hardware (or hardware with x86 compatibility) as I understand it. You can move binaries between OS's by emulating.intercepting.translating system calls, but not between architectures.
It would need native linux games to be compiled for PPC, preferably designed and built specially for Cell hardware.
I'm all for this hack and opening the platform up, but it's already a great media center IMHO.
Just load up some UPnP/DLNA software (some are mentioned up-page, I use MediaTomb) and browse your media straight from the PS3 XMB interface. We use it all the time.
yes, it could do with some more formats supported, but it's pretty good on most stuff.
I've had lots of luck with MediaTomb, and if you need to set up transcoding-on-the-fly for unsupported formats then you can.
You can't access some of the hardware, particularly the GFX from an "Other OS" and the new slim models don't even support the Other OS option, so no, this is not just for cheating and piracy and there is no current way to run homebrew well.
We can even run linux better in a hacked system as currently the graphics performance is pretty dreadful. There is far more to life than piracy and cheating. I welcome this development.
Helll, I'd welcome it even if there were few to no forseeable applications, just the opening up of a new computer platform...