mod this up! I've thought of the same thing, a FUSE filesystem, that it has been done already is nice. It doesn't rely on XBMC configuration and whatever the kid does or the means of access he uses, he won't see a list of "awesome movie with a cool name.avi" (read access denied) and interesting locked folders.
putting the command prompt in full screen and changing the Classic UI's colors. Admittedly I have to go down to these points (but I used those features in XP)
maybe the point is a $500 micro ATX box does about the same job. I've stacked up parts in a virtual basket to give exact same specs as your macintosh. i5 2.9GHz, 8GB ram, 1TB 7200 rpm HDD, and a GTX 650 (same thing as the 660M roughly, but with twice the ram). good 350W PSU. brand name case. That comes in at 494 euros with VAT included. (funnily it's the cheapest i5, cheapest HDD worth buying, lowest amount of ram worth buying and almost the cheapest graphics card worth buying too.)
The ia32 version has a lot of compatibillity : it still has the DOS/Windows 3.1 virtual machine. Running 20 or 25 year old software may be a nice thing to have for some. It can run decade old XP/2000 drivers (that is pretty amazing, you can get 3D acceleration of out this), and yes, installing on old computers too - I've seen it, though most likely a warez version.
Also if you can still read this there's quite a good topic about Mint on PAE there. You're not complelety left in the cold you have Mint 13 for a start (the Xfce version is excellent and not ugly), you're good to go for years with it ; then you have Mint LMDE which doesn't suffer of Ubuntu decisions and doesn't even require i686 to run.
Sadly Windows 8 requires PAE and NX bit, which depends on PAE and is found on some models of late Pentium 4, 64bit AMD processors and VIA CPU from some model onwards. So don't buy it. Also, thank Intel for leaving out PAE in your processor, it's an oddity maybe due to a hardware bug, as PAE works on Pentium pro/2/3/4.
If your card is too old (such as a Radeon 4850 or a 7600GT) you can't run Steam games on Linux, but you can run them on Windows. Also my superior sound card (Xonar DX) has inferior drivers (crackles when changing volume on VLC and issues in SNES emulators) Just because you can hook up your 15 year old SCSI scanner or a 1970s tty to your linux box doesn't mean everything works, or works with as little restrictions as possible.
And on Linux I can't find where the fuck the protocol "file:///" is registered, despite searching in the two registries I have (gconf-editor and dconf-editor). So, folder launchers open with the wrong file manager (Nautilus 3.4.x) even though I have a superior file manager installed (Nemo 1.1.2) that I have to launch manually through a run box. I was able to track the setting for the file manager that manages the desktop before in one of the registries, but for a reason I can't find it anymore. So I have a third file manager managing the desktop (Caja 1.2.x), with folders that open in it.
I had an easier time using a hacked explorer.exe in XP, and opening special folders with an UUID is just a feature. Use it or ignore it. I could do other niceties too, with arguments to control.exe for instance you can open the "Internet Options" at the relevant tab, where there are the proxy settings. It's easy you only need right-click on desktop, "new shortcut" while having a simple web page that tells you the arguments. Can do that with Linux? No, for anything you have to fuck around and give up half the time.
We used to have it much worse, the late eighties/early nineties had their share of dysmal ports of good games, rushed by companies with no input from the original authors and absolutely no control quality. I mean ports to C64, CPC, DOS etc. of great console and arcade games, but the Atari and Amiga versions might be fucked too, you never know. And by dysmal I mean not only hideous or using half or less the target hardware's abilities, but sometimes unplayable or unwinnable. TMNT is infamous for a jump that you can't do in the DOS version, but the worst I personnally witnessed is Street Fighter II on MS-DOS. Not shown : you have only one attack button to play this one.
They are already working on the former but they are still in denial about the latter. Doesn't ALSA have a software mixer module now? What do we actually need pulseaudio for any more? All we should need now is ALSA and JACK
Actually in my experience it's ALSA that craps out on me, with piece of crap drivers when using cards with a CMI 8xxx chipset (first 8738 then 8788). With the first one I had to wait one year (upgrade from ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04, semi-reluctant) to get rid of the terrible crap my speakers and ears had to suffer.
I guess this stuff is well tested for AC'97 and Intel HDA, Sound blaster live! and Sound blaster 128, and that's it. Anything less common and you run the risk of getting a piece of crap driver and pray for it getting better when you install a new OS one year from now (hint : with my current card it didn't). Pulseaudio? To me it's a convenient, additional global volume control before raw master, which I can use without crackles, unlike VLC's volume control on my computer. I also use it once every two monthes to lower Firefox's volume.
So, Vietnam invaded Vietnam?, Yougoslavia invaded Yougoslavia and Kosovo invaded Kosovo? etc. WTF are you smoking. Don't forget the US invaded Iraq, made it a failed state (that worked) and planned to attack Iraq's neighbors (that failed)
Why should I bother? You're just quoting youtube videos. Occupation of Iraq : about 1 million dead. This is quite known. Stealing water and wiping your ass with the 4th Geneva Convention? That's just your state running a military occupation but colonizing the territory, and it's still an occupation if you don't annex it.
a dual core Atom will probably win an encoding benchmark but I'd safely bet a Pentium 4 3GHz still is faster for a single-threaded task such as browsing a web page.
And a new motherboard costs more than those 8GB. Why that fallacy that everyone owns a very recent computer? Mine is only three year old and stuck at 2GB.
blah blah blah Look! We're better than Iran, so let us go on stealing water and wiping our ass with the 4th Geneva Convention, because we're a democracy blah blah blah
missing from your bar graph : millions of dead caused by the US.
Although, the wars we're currently fighting are against an enemy whose most advanced communication system is a HAM radio. They wouldn't stand much to lose from denial jamming.
Really? The enemy uses satellite phones, maybe wifi 5.5 GHz links, or even a frequency hopping software defined radio - the design is here for all to see with the help of GNU Radio. Strong encryption is a possiblity (I don't think the NSA can even break your ssh or the https for your webmail, and those come for free).
So, the enemy may get some quite advanced technologies by ordering them on ebay or tinkering with things. Even deploy some Wimax or LTE-Advanced but granted, many of these things are probably very easy to jam - saturate their well-known spectrums. But, is it so easy to do for wide bands of multi-GHz frequency, and at a long range, I don't know. We also have wars that are remotely fought - Pakistan, Lybia, Syria, so no big trucks on the ground to use the jamming toys. I guess the "enemy" is often free to use satellite phone and even GPS. But all that stuff would have to be properly studied, these thoughts come from my ass.
It may be the well known industrial failure on geforce 8/9, sometimes referred as "bumpgate". Somewhat related to switching to lead-free soldering I believe. It's terrible but there haven't been something like that since.
Well, if you do remote X11 on a server, you're probably going to run lightweight things such as a graphical emacs or some crappy gtk interface or whatever, not a web browser or libreoffice or gimp.
If you run such light and old-school things that will mostly show you text, check boxes, combo boxes and the like you may reasonably get by with the stupid X11 and its needless round trips. Especially with the reasonably good bandwith and latency you should get from the hosting you dearly pay for.
You have no clue, when doing X over ssh, the X11 server AND window manager run on your local computer not the remote host. This mean you can run a graphical app on your server, such as a graphical frontend or a file manager, without Xorg or a window manager installed on the server. On the Windows side, you only need putty and Xming ; remote windows behave seamlessly like local Windows windows, though a braindead container window managed by the piece of shit twm is an option.
You could look at Dokan sshfs on Windows, Dokan is basically a FUSE implementation in.NET. A bit buggy and slow but it does work, even mouting your remote ssh share on a drive letter such as "R:" or "P:" or whatever. Windows does support mounting anything in a folder too but sticking with the stupid CP/M drive letters is simple enough too.
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mod this up!
I've thought of the same thing, a FUSE filesystem, that it has been done already is nice. It doesn't rely on XBMC configuration and whatever the kid does or the means of access he uses, he won't see a list of "awesome movie with a cool name.avi" (read access denied) and interesting locked folders.
putting the command prompt in full screen and changing the Classic UI's colors. Admittedly I have to go down to these points (but I used those features in XP)
maybe the point is a $500 micro ATX box does about the same job. I've stacked up parts in a virtual basket to give exact same specs as your macintosh. i5 2.9GHz, 8GB ram, 1TB 7200 rpm HDD, and a GTX 650 (same thing as the 660M roughly, but with twice the ram). good 350W PSU. brand name case. That comes in at 494 euros with VAT included. (funnily it's the cheapest i5, cheapest HDD worth buying, lowest amount of ram worth buying and almost the cheapest graphics card worth buying too.)
I don't feel attacked much and by the way, it isn't there in mimeapps.list.
damn, all of this is true for 7 but on 8 I don't know what they have or have not removed (a lot of CPU support at least, since the NX bit is needed)
The ia32 version has a lot of compatibillity : it still has the DOS/Windows 3.1 virtual machine. Running 20 or 25 year old software may be a nice thing to have for some. It can run decade old XP/2000 drivers (that is pretty amazing, you can get 3D acceleration of out this), and yes, installing on old computers too - I've seen it, though most likely a warez version.
Also if you can still read this there's quite a good topic about Mint on PAE there.
You're not complelety left in the cold you have Mint 13 for a start (the Xfce version is excellent and not ugly), you're good to go for years with it ; then you have Mint LMDE which doesn't suffer of Ubuntu decisions and doesn't even require i686 to run.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=117368
Sadly Windows 8 requires PAE and NX bit, which depends on PAE and is found on some models of late Pentium 4, 64bit AMD processors and VIA CPU from some model onwards.
So don't buy it. Also, thank Intel for leaving out PAE in your processor, it's an oddity maybe due to a hardware bug, as PAE works on Pentium pro/2/3/4.
If your card is too old (such as a Radeon 4850 or a 7600GT) you can't run Steam games on Linux, but you can run them on Windows. Also my superior sound card (Xonar DX) has inferior drivers (crackles when changing volume on VLC and issues in SNES emulators)
Just because you can hook up your 15 year old SCSI scanner or a 1970s tty to your linux box doesn't mean everything works, or works with as little restrictions as possible.
And on Linux I can't find where the fuck the protocol "file:///" is registered, despite searching in the two registries I have (gconf-editor and dconf-editor). So, folder launchers open with the wrong file manager (Nautilus 3.4.x) even though I have a superior file manager installed (Nemo 1.1.2) that I have to launch manually through a run box.
I was able to track the setting for the file manager that manages the desktop before in one of the registries, but for a reason I can't find it anymore. So I have a third file manager managing the desktop (Caja 1.2.x), with folders that open in it.
I had an easier time using a hacked explorer.exe in XP, and opening special folders with an UUID is just a feature. Use it or ignore it. I could do other niceties too, with arguments to control.exe for instance you can open the "Internet Options" at the relevant tab, where there are the proxy settings. It's easy you only need right-click on desktop, "new shortcut" while having a simple web page that tells you the arguments. Can do that with Linux? No, for anything you have to fuck around and give up half the time.
We used to have it much worse, the late eighties/early nineties had their share of dysmal ports of good games, rushed by companies with no input from the original authors and absolutely no control quality. I mean ports to C64, CPC, DOS etc. of great console and arcade games, but the Atari and Amiga versions might be fucked too, you never know.
And by dysmal I mean not only hideous or using half or less the target hardware's abilities, but sometimes unplayable or unwinnable. TMNT is infamous for a jump that you can't do in the DOS version, but the worst I personnally witnessed is Street Fighter II on MS-DOS. Not shown : you have only one attack button to play this one.
They are already working on the former but they are still in denial about the latter. Doesn't ALSA have a software mixer module now? What do we actually need pulseaudio for any more? All we should need now is ALSA and JACK
Actually in my experience it's ALSA that craps out on me, with piece of crap drivers when using cards with a CMI 8xxx chipset (first 8738 then 8788). With the first one I had to wait one year (upgrade from ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04, semi-reluctant) to get rid of the terrible crap my speakers and ears had to suffer.
I guess this stuff is well tested for AC'97 and Intel HDA, Sound blaster live! and Sound blaster 128, and that's it. Anything less common and you run the risk of getting a piece of crap driver and pray for it getting better when you install a new OS one year from now (hint : with my current card it didn't).
Pulseaudio? To me it's a convenient, additional global volume control before raw master, which I can use without crackles, unlike VLC's volume control on my computer. I also use it once every two monthes to lower Firefox's volume.
So, Vietnam invaded Vietnam?, Yougoslavia invaded Yougoslavia and Kosovo invaded Kosovo? etc. WTF are you smoking.
Don't forget the US invaded Iraq, made it a failed state (that worked) and planned to attack Iraq's neighbors (that failed)
Why should I bother? You're just quoting youtube videos. Occupation of Iraq : about 1 million dead. This is quite known. Stealing water and wiping your ass with the 4th Geneva Convention? That's just your state running a military occupation but colonizing the territory, and it's still an occupation if you don't annex it.
CDs are crap anyway, the smaller the size, the less likely you'll get reading errors.
a dual core Atom will probably win an encoding benchmark but I'd safely bet a Pentium 4 3GHz still is faster for a single-threaded task such as browsing a web page.
And a new motherboard costs more than those 8GB. Why that fallacy that everyone owns a very recent computer? Mine is only three year old and stuck at 2GB.
blah blah blah Look! We're better than Iran, so let us go on stealing water and wiping our ass with the 4th Geneva Convention, because we're a democracy blah blah blah
missing from your bar graph : millions of dead caused by the US.
Although, the wars we're currently fighting are against an enemy whose most advanced communication system is a HAM radio. They wouldn't stand much to lose from denial jamming.
Really? The enemy uses satellite phones, maybe wifi 5.5 GHz links, or even a frequency hopping software defined radio - the design is here for all to see with the help of GNU Radio. Strong encryption is a possiblity (I don't think the NSA can even break your ssh or the https for your webmail, and those come for free).
So, the enemy may get some quite advanced technologies by ordering them on ebay or tinkering with things. Even deploy some Wimax or LTE-Advanced but granted, many of these things are probably very easy to jam - saturate their well-known spectrums. But, is it so easy to do for wide bands of multi-GHz frequency, and at a long range, I don't know. We also have wars that are remotely fought - Pakistan, Lybia, Syria, so no big trucks on the ground to use the jamming toys. I guess the "enemy" is often free to use satellite phone and even GPS. But all that stuff would have to be properly studied, these thoughts come from my ass.
ECC memory should address concerns about cosmic rays well enough, and is bog down standard.
It may be the well known industrial failure on geforce 8/9, sometimes referred as "bumpgate". Somewhat related to switching to lead-free soldering I believe. It's terrible but there haven't been something like that since.
Neither does that plane.
Well, if you do remote X11 on a server, you're probably going to run lightweight things such as a graphical emacs or some crappy gtk interface or whatever, not a web browser or libreoffice or gimp.
If you run such light and old-school things that will mostly show you text, check boxes, combo boxes and the like you may reasonably get by with the stupid X11 and its needless round trips. Especially with the reasonably good bandwith and latency you should get from the hosting you dearly pay for.
You have no clue, when doing X over ssh, the X11 server AND window manager run on your local computer not the remote host. This mean you can run a graphical app on your server, such as a graphical frontend or a file manager, without Xorg or a window manager installed on the server. On the Windows side, you only need putty and Xming ; remote windows behave seamlessly like local Windows windows, though a braindead container window managed by the piece of shit twm is an option.
You could look at Dokan sshfs on Windows, Dokan is basically a FUSE implementation in .NET. A bit buggy and slow but it does work, even mouting your remote ssh share on a drive letter such as "R:" or "P:" or whatever. Windows does support mounting anything in a folder too but sticking with the stupid CP/M drive letters is simple enough too.