I agree. 1280x800 is twice the PPI of a laptop, more than twice the PPI of a 2560 display too so surely it would be nice enough, and a ton better than the typical 7" tablet resolution : 800x480. For now I've seen a high PPI display once : Galaxy Note, 1280x800 on 5.3". I thought WTF? this looks like paper.
What's awesome is too read the summary when it says on the plus side it has a SD slot and video output. WTF? The typical tablet ONLY has a SD slot and a HDMI output (and a slave USB port, and a 3.5mm jack). I don't know why you would get a tablet without SD slot (without HDMI, maybe). You might as well say "This car only has a 200HP engine, but compared to the competition it has some perks like windshield wipers".
It has.. a stylus! now that's a feature that sets it apart because it seems you find it on PDA from the 90s, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Surface Pro but tablets usually don't have it. So the tablet seems high spec (if the display is up to par) and not expensive.
I do have a 64bit CPU and a 32bit OS (linux based), I'm contemplating whether upgrading the OS to a 64bit one or staying on 32bit. I have only 3GB RAM, and the 2GB process limit actually is a feature that prevents Firefox consuming all resources. When running on a 64 bit live USB, I had it eat all 3GB RAM + 1.9GB swap repeatedly which got the whole computer into a stand still till I managed to kill firefox or even just plugin-container from a VT-based terminal.
BTW last year I used a computer from 1999 with the latest Firefox. It's clearly faster and less leaky than using 3.0 or 3.6. If using old junk you very much want latest FF (you have to anyway because of the security fixes)
And those Atoms were 32bit only because Intel used that to artifically segregate between models and just disabled 64bit support from perfectly able 64bit silicon.
I first used the internet in the lates 90s, early 00s and there was no free usenet already. And I wonder if usenet was ever mostly a US-centric thing, I've never seen a usenet client running, ever (unless you want to count netscape/mozilla and such, but not running the news protocol) At most some people mentioned it on forums, but only for the warez and porn/etc. on the binary newsgroups.
What job are you doing?, say you're a code monkey shitting out XML and UML stuff and glue between Java, SAP and COBOL systems for Wall Street vampires or the US healthcare industry. That job is utterly miserable, so if your n+3 bosses were to decide you're to be chained to your desk with a handcuf, that would not be very demeaning to you.
Everything compiled or just-in-time compiled (javascript) will use the new registers, because it's machine code who uses the registers, not the human programmer. Every 64bit app will use them, the same way it is on PC.
When some web form demands me real name, address or country with no reason I do some Godwin law violation there. Or alternatively Afghanistan is the first country on the list, so there goes some Osama Bin Ladens on the internets. For my google account I put in some guy more creepy than Adolf as my real name (after being nagged for the 126th time), I could then see that changing it was not an option. In the end I deleted my google account since it was tied to my main e-mail address.
About pseudonyms, one mistake is using the same one on many services. Try destroying some old accounts if you can.
I wonder if there are new features removed from GTK3, or forced on users, or if GTK3 themes break again. This affects non Gnome 3 users sometimes (e.g. File/Open puts you into "Recently Used", wasting a bit of your time and clicks, in a app that uses GTK3.)
Yes, I know how. It's called "ordering a set of CDs or DVDs", like I used to do back in the 1990s and you can still do today.
I should have been more clear, it's "expert" knowledge as in like less than 1% people know you can do this, and then know what distros are available this way, which you may want to use, what's the software selection on those CD/DVD (fresh? old? semi-old? does it have Blender, Avidemux, etc.?) So Slackware is available on six CD or one DVD, Debian stable seems to be on 10 DVD. Well I guess I can grab them all, burn only the first one and then see if "apt-get install foo" prompts me to insert DVD 6..
So you assume : - I have 60 euros or more to blow on a whim on a HDD (it's nice enough that I own one USB thumb drive) - That HDD would fit in the computer I wanted to use for this (a laptop with IDE HDD) - the distro I want to use or that people use is available as a big pile of DVDs (Ubuntu seems to have only installation isos, ditto Mint). Granted there's Debian, which is what I tried mirroring to a local copy but could get about 60% of what I needed - I may want to buy Debian has a big pile of DVD for who knows what price, or burn unreliable taxed DVD-R and read them in unreliable drives, and I would want to limit myself to installing on OS on PCs with a DVD drive. - I'm a liar, and people who maintain the scripts are liars too
Sorry for not doing the right thing, i.e. happening to own a spare 4TB volume raided and/or backuped sitting around. My idea anyway (I should not have blattered as much) was to have a local copy of a distro on a laptop, and a DCHP and PXE server running on the laptop that can serve the text mode installer for the distro. So that I can install an OS on a PC, old or new, with just a short RJ45 cable to the laptop. Select my laptop (say 192.168.1.1) as the software sources / distro mirror in the installer. Do the network installation that way and after the base OS is installed be able to install any software in the distro's main repos (which for debian or ubuntu is a huge collection of great stuff and crap)
I like network installations because it's cheaper than buying USB drives and optical media/drives, it seems faster and more reliable too. It works on PC that don't boot on USB. I would need a netbook with at least a 1.5TB 2.5" drive (ideally I'd like to mirror Debian stable, Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.04, all in 32 and 64bit ; then mirror the update repos too). I have a few 14 year old network cards that can boot, this can be inserted in a non-bootable PC during the initial installation. Downloading whole huge mirrors is fine, I can let the uncapped, unthrottled IPv6 DSL run for days.
tl;dr : I want to walk around with entire distros, have a sneakernet repo handy, not have to prepare subsets of software just the whole big thing. Of course you used to be able to do that with a half-dozen CD-R or less in the 90s but that can spiral out to dozens or hundreds of DVD.
Most people will try to install a program and will get something like "21 packages will be installed. Need to take 195MB in archives." If you have expert knowledge on how to install software (from distro) an offline way, that's interesting.
I tried to mirror debian wheezy i386, and I ran out of space after downloading 86GB (even excluding backports, updates, squeeze, jessie etc.). A guy on IRC had to tell me what the unofficial official program for replication is (some scripted rsync scripts) and that the official program (apt-mirror) was unsupported unused garbage. I needed an IPv6 connection too. Very funny. Still peeved I couldn't do what I wanted, because I wanted to believe if they didn't explain what the "all" architecture is, I hope I won't need it?
So no, I don't appreciate the subtle political hijack of the free software community by some weird market cult cleverly crafted as an ideological buffer between the rich and the poor, who are led to believe their liberation will come through the same rotten capitalist system that robbed them of their dignity and liberty in the first place.
I agree that libertarians are fake anarchists, but I'm more bothered by the GPLv3 debacle, which is in the process of making GCC irrelevant for one thing. Can't the FSF gurus just cancel it and let software stick with GPLv2 instead? Hell, Gnome 2, Gnome 3. GTK2, GTK3. GPLv2, GPLv3. There's a pattern. Also LGPL is what you use for libraries, not GPL.
I fear that by going one notch too far each time to preserve my "freedom" they will end up ruining everything. I guess RMS wants me to run in VESA graphics, with no sound and with no mp3, h264, xvid codecs, hard disk in IDE mode etc. I hope there's a Free driver to play sound over the PC speaker or for homemade "sound card" on parallel port. I still have old 3COM network cards which might work (if they're Free enough, at least those without EPROM will do). I'm ready for GNewSensE/HURD!
Agreed and whole countries get some of their population wired with DSL, fiber etc. only now I guess, or 4G/3G and microwave. Linux and open source software rely on broadband to install software, for development and collaboration, and cheap 24/7 servers on VMs are useful for project sites, repos, even screen sessions so you can stay on IRC channels. Open source relies on reliable power and bandwith infrastructure, moreso than Windows XP laptops and desktops.
It's only very recently getting started on cell phones, with Firefox OS. Cheap hardware with security and feature updates, no need for a google or microsoft or apple account, no-bullshit freedom, you'll just make compatible web apps and run or develop the server side stuff yourself, hosted at home or in a datacenter.
I think open source will be well useful and welcome in Brazil, Chile, Equator, Venezuala and other places.
I heard the AC thing is about mushrooms growing in it, which could somehow contaminate you or whatever, so you had to run the AC once in a while (even in winter) just to vent the air out. About HDDs there's a saying the bearing fluid can solidify, after about a decade. So maybe you need to spin archival HDDs once every three years or whatever abritrary time you choose.
Actually the A10-6800K is a re-release of the 5800K, but with more complex power management and new sensors bolted onto the chip ; motherboard/chipset are the same too and as far as I can tell the chipset are the same than with former APUs on socket FM1. The GPU has the same architecture as the Radeon 6970, released in December 2010.
They can : a buddy has a dual core Atom and Xubuntu 13.04. You get 2D display at the correct resolution, and even software OpenGL with llvmpipe (Google Earth launches and executes rather than give you a black screen or an error message). But it's all raw unaccelerated X11 : in VLC you have to choose the X11 output (xv bugs if the video is scaled). Youtube video is choppy but somewhat usable, at least for 360p.
At least your Atom has Intel graphics and not that sucky PowerVR with no drivers, so I would like it over some alternatives for a 40%-decent desktop ('cos I don't want to say half-decent)
I wonder how a desktop with a Pentium 3 733 compares (with ATI Rage Pro and 440BX, or with Intel graphics)
Slight difference, the AMD parts embeds 10 gigabit ethernet controllers (four or two, I dunno), while the Intel part embeds four gigabit ones. That may turn the power efficiency around, if you needeed such fast controllers for networking / I/O. AMD may be open to doing custom SoC for some big customer too, with some other specialized units. Seems AMD would go in places Avoton won't, like high speed network appliances, will still be usable for web hosting and the like. Avoton is just easier for low cost VPS renting as you can just install any x86 linux distro or BSD, it runs Windows too (until Microsoft eventually comes out with an ARM version of Windows Server)
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b) is achievable if you go there with cyanide pills.
I agree. 1280x800 is twice the PPI of a laptop, more than twice the PPI of a 2560 display too so surely it would be nice enough, and a ton better than the typical 7" tablet resolution : 800x480.
For now I've seen a high PPI display once : Galaxy Note, 1280x800 on 5.3". I thought WTF? this looks like paper.
What's awesome is too read the summary when it says on the plus side it has a SD slot and video output. WTF? The typical tablet ONLY has a SD slot and a HDMI output (and a slave USB port, and a 3.5mm jack). I don't know why you would get a tablet without SD slot (without HDMI, maybe). You might as well say "This car only has a 200HP engine, but compared to the competition it has some perks like windshield wipers".
It has.. a stylus! now that's a feature that sets it apart because it seems you find it on PDA from the 90s, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Surface Pro but tablets usually don't have it.
So the tablet seems high spec (if the display is up to par) and not expensive.
What's the "social media" stuff?, there's not any word about this, barring the summary describing chat as a social feature.
I do have a 64bit CPU and a 32bit OS (linux based), I'm contemplating whether upgrading the OS to a 64bit one or staying on 32bit. I have only 3GB RAM, and the 2GB process limit actually is a feature that prevents Firefox consuming all resources. When running on a 64 bit live USB, I had it eat all 3GB RAM + 1.9GB swap repeatedly which got the whole computer into a stand still till I managed to kill firefox or even just plugin-container from a VT-based terminal.
BTW last year I used a computer from 1999 with the latest Firefox. It's clearly faster and less leaky than using 3.0 or 3.6. If using old junk you very much want latest FF (you have to anyway because of the security fixes)
And those Atoms were 32bit only because Intel used that to artifically segregate between models and just disabled 64bit support from perfectly able 64bit silicon.
I first used the internet in the lates 90s, early 00s and there was no free usenet already. And I wonder if usenet was ever mostly a US-centric thing, I've never seen a usenet client running, ever (unless you want to count netscape/mozilla and such, but not running the news protocol)
At most some people mentioned it on forums, but only for the warez and porn/etc. on the binary newsgroups.
What job are you doing?, say you're a code monkey shitting out XML and UML stuff and glue between Java, SAP and COBOL systems for Wall Street vampires or the US healthcare industry. That job is utterly miserable, so if your n+3 bosses were to decide you're to be chained to your desk with a handcuf, that would not be very demeaning to you.
Everything compiled or just-in-time compiled (javascript) will use the new registers, because it's machine code who uses the registers, not the human programmer. Every 64bit app will use them, the same way it is on PC.
99% people don't know Usenet exist, and it is/was behind a paywall if you want to access it. So people used the web instead.
When some web form demands me real name, address or country with no reason I do some Godwin law violation there. Or alternatively Afghanistan is the first country on the list, so there goes some Osama Bin Ladens on the internets. For my google account I put in some guy more creepy than Adolf as my real name (after being nagged for the 126th time), I could then see that changing it was not an option. In the end I deleted my google account since it was tied to my main e-mail address.
About pseudonyms, one mistake is using the same one on many services. Try destroying some old accounts if you can.
I wonder if there are new features removed from GTK3, or forced on users, or if GTK3 themes break again. This affects non Gnome 3 users sometimes (e.g. File/Open puts you into "Recently Used", wasting a bit of your time and clicks, in a app that uses GTK3.)
Yes, I know how. It's called "ordering a set of CDs or DVDs", like I used to do back in the 1990s and you can still do today.
I should have been more clear, it's "expert" knowledge as in like less than 1% people know you can do this, and then know what distros are available this way, which you may want to use, what's the software selection on those CD/DVD (fresh? old? semi-old? does it have Blender, Avidemux, etc.?)
So Slackware is available on six CD or one DVD, Debian stable seems to be on 10 DVD. Well I guess I can grab them all, burn only the first one and then see if "apt-get install foo" prompts me to insert DVD 6..
So you assume :
- I have 60 euros or more to blow on a whim on a HDD (it's nice enough that I own one USB thumb drive)
- That HDD would fit in the computer I wanted to use for this (a laptop with IDE HDD)
- the distro I want to use or that people use is available as a big pile of DVDs (Ubuntu seems to have only installation isos, ditto Mint). Granted there's Debian, which is what I tried mirroring to a local copy but could get about 60% of what I needed
- I may want to buy Debian has a big pile of DVD for who knows what price, or burn unreliable taxed DVD-R and read them in unreliable drives, and I would want to limit myself to installing on OS on PCs with a DVD drive.
- I'm a liar, and people who maintain the scripts are liars too
Sorry for not doing the right thing, i.e. happening to own a spare 4TB volume raided and/or backuped sitting around.
My idea anyway (I should not have blattered as much) was to have a local copy of a distro on a laptop, and a DCHP and PXE server running on the laptop that can serve the text mode installer for the distro.
So that I can install an OS on a PC, old or new, with just a short RJ45 cable to the laptop. Select my laptop (say 192.168.1.1) as the software sources / distro mirror in the installer. Do the network installation that way and after the base OS is installed be able to install any software in the distro's main repos (which for debian or ubuntu is a huge collection of great stuff and crap)
I like network installations because it's cheaper than buying USB drives and optical media/drives, it seems faster and more reliable too. It works on PC that don't boot on USB. I would need a netbook with at least a 1.5TB 2.5" drive (ideally I'd like to mirror Debian stable, Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.04, all in 32 and 64bit ; then mirror the update repos too). I have a few 14 year old network cards that can boot, this can be inserted in a non-bootable PC during the initial installation. Downloading whole huge mirrors is fine, I can let the uncapped, unthrottled IPv6 DSL run for days.
tl;dr : I want to walk around with entire distros, have a sneakernet repo handy, not have to prepare subsets of software just the whole big thing. Of course you used to be able to do that with a half-dozen CD-R or less in the 90s but that can spiral out to dozens or hundreds of DVD.
Most people will try to install a program and will get something like "21 packages will be installed. Need to take 195MB in archives." If you have expert knowledge on how to install software (from distro) an offline way, that's interesting.
I tried to mirror debian wheezy i386, and I ran out of space after downloading 86GB (even excluding backports, updates, squeeze, jessie etc.). A guy on IRC had to tell me what the unofficial official program for replication is (some scripted rsync scripts) and that the official program (apt-mirror) was unsupported unused garbage. I needed an IPv6 connection too. Very funny. Still peeved I couldn't do what I wanted, because I wanted to believe if they didn't explain what the "all" architecture is, I hope I won't need it?
So no, I don't appreciate the subtle political hijack of the free software community by some weird market cult cleverly crafted as an ideological buffer between the rich and the poor, who are led to believe their liberation will come through the same rotten capitalist system that robbed them of their dignity and liberty in the first place.
I agree that libertarians are fake anarchists, but I'm more bothered by the GPLv3 debacle, which is in the process of making GCC irrelevant for one thing. Can't the FSF gurus just cancel it and let software stick with GPLv2 instead? Hell, Gnome 2, Gnome 3. GTK2, GTK3. GPLv2, GPLv3. There's a pattern. Also LGPL is what you use for libraries, not GPL.
I fear that by going one notch too far each time to preserve my "freedom" they will end up ruining everything. I guess RMS wants me to run in VESA graphics, with no sound and with no mp3, h264, xvid codecs, hard disk in IDE mode etc. I hope there's a Free driver to play sound over the PC speaker or for homemade "sound card" on parallel port. I still have old 3COM network cards which might work (if they're Free enough, at least those without EPROM will do). I'm ready for GNewSensE/HURD!
By that metric Playstation 4 is another type of BSD, so I guess it's the same as using linux, right?
Agreed and whole countries get some of their population wired with DSL, fiber etc. only now I guess, or 4G/3G and microwave. Linux and open source software rely on broadband to install software, for development and collaboration, and cheap 24/7 servers on VMs are useful for project sites, repos, even screen sessions so you can stay on IRC channels.
Open source relies on reliable power and bandwith infrastructure, moreso than Windows XP laptops and desktops.
It's only very recently getting started on cell phones, with Firefox OS. Cheap hardware with security and feature updates, no need for a google or microsoft or apple account, no-bullshit freedom, you'll just make compatible web apps and run or develop the server side stuff yourself, hosted at home or in a datacenter.
I think open source will be well useful and welcome in Brazil, Chile, Equator, Venezuala and other places.
Time to upgrade that Pentium 3 to Windows 7 (really, if it has at least 768MB or 1024MB memory it's a realistic proposition to do that)
And you can disable drawing the content of windows when they move. I did it on the Xfce I'm currently using.
I heard the AC thing is about mushrooms growing in it, which could somehow contaminate you or whatever, so you had to run the AC once in a while (even in winter) just to vent the air out.
About HDDs there's a saying the bearing fluid can solidify, after about a decade. So maybe you need to spin archival HDDs once every three years or whatever abritrary time you choose.
Rsync to a second drive with a cron job?
Actually the A10-6800K is a re-release of the 5800K, but with more complex power management and new sensors bolted onto the chip ; motherboard/chipset are the same too and as far as I can tell the chipset are the same than with former APUs on socket FM1. The GPU has the same architecture as the Radeon 6970, released in December 2010.
They can : a buddy has a dual core Atom and Xubuntu 13.04. You get 2D display at the correct resolution, and even software OpenGL with llvmpipe (Google Earth launches and executes rather than give you a black screen or an error message).
But it's all raw unaccelerated X11 : in VLC you have to choose the X11 output (xv bugs if the video is scaled). Youtube video is choppy but somewhat usable, at least for 360p.
At least your Atom has Intel graphics and not that sucky PowerVR with no drivers, so I would like it over some alternatives for a 40%-decent desktop ('cos I don't want to say half-decent)
I wonder how a desktop with a Pentium 3 733 compares (with ATI Rage Pro and 440BX, or with Intel graphics)
Slight difference, the AMD parts embeds 10 gigabit ethernet controllers (four or two, I dunno), while the Intel part embeds four gigabit ones. That may turn the power efficiency around, if you needeed such fast controllers for networking / I/O.
AMD may be open to doing custom SoC for some big customer too, with some other specialized units.
Seems AMD would go in places Avoton won't, like high speed network appliances, will still be usable for web hosting and the like. Avoton is just easier for low cost VPS renting as you can just install any x86 linux distro or BSD, it runs Windows too (until Microsoft eventually comes out with an ARM version of Windows Server)