Actually it's a design goal that not much changes. Which is why there may be something like 300 million users of Windows XP still. You could upgrade from Ubuntu 7.04 to this and not get lost. The rest is just newer versions of software or sysadmin crap (e.g. ubuntu nappy containers)
FYI the FGLRX is deprecated in Ubuntu 16.04 (or any distro of the same Xorg newness) and your A10 5800 will not be supported by the newer driver, so 'radeon' driver it is.
It's about how Gnome 3 has crapified gedit, evince etc. and uses non-standard GUI elements - Gnome-specific parts of GTK3 - in client-side decorated windows. Another reason is to remove a few dependencies, and in particular remove some of the distro-level hackery where Mint had gedit locked at version 2.30, so you couldn't install gedit 3. More generally it's part of removing warts that have historically made Cinnamon difficult to run on other distros, or some Gnome 3 applications on Cinnamon or Mint.
Holy grail for me would be to just run Windows 98 in a VM with a fully emulated GPU that has a Windows 98 driver (or XP, since that worked amazingly well with rather few exceptions in games. Or Win 7 32bit) But that doesn't really exist yet. Even when Wine works it's not always very practical to install the games or deal with cdrom images (which were useful on Windows to trick old games's CD check)
Mint is just Ubuntu, for your purposes. What it gives you is a good 2D desktop (except for the Cinnamon one which is 3D accelerated), that eliminates a potential source of problems. You also get to use Ubuntu ppas.
The force is said to permeate the universe. It's unexplained in the way we don't even have a definition for what intelligence in mind is. That it arises from all life and only life, and travels FTL is a bit meaningless or doubtful but it at least works universally and consistently. There are otherwise no deities, magic or wizards. Where I draw the line is predicting the future, even just the very near future. That's bollocks, and the force fails there - The Matrix has the same issue. Unless Vader tricks Luke into coming to save his friends by very long distance telepathy. (Like Palpatine would plant the death dreams in his future apprentice's brain)
Space is an ocean and the ocean is only ruled or patrolled by the navy. I'm not a great expert on the real world open ocean but even over here we mostly only have civilian cargo and military navies, not presidents, ministers, governors, senators, mayors, dukes etc. of the oceans.
I'm sure he meant secular. Although not much secular authority is shown either, except for a few simplified trials and putting Tom Paris in jail. It may be an ideal anarchy. Even the pseudo-military is lax and has very few ranks (I don't know about TOS though)
That's the main, or only objection I have. I suppose most people have the "apt-get install" version of Wine and not quite the freshest and latest, thus one may read reports of "Game X works perfectly" and not witness the same result.
I know you're replying to a troll but frankly, regarding 9) :
9) Boot with an absolutely non-critical hard drive removed, then the boot process hangs. If you're unlucky, the graphical boot splash feature may even hide the line "Press S) to continue, M) for maintenance". I'm lucky to know to press S. Maybe your system doesn't do that, but mine did with a major user-oriented distro. I tried adding "nofail" in the fstab options but it did the hang thing anyway.
A naive poweruser may also declare drives in the fstab without using UUIDs, leading to bullshitery as drives jump randomly between sda, sdb, sdc. That's another issue entirely.
I may call that 'paper cuts' to be nice. There are still room for improvement, as you may get bitten by something and most users might get stuck when facing such cases.
I always tend to think that the levels of energy contained in a single seat spaceplane with hyperdrive or a teleporter are huge enough that everyone is carrying around machines that could blow up like a dinosaur-killing meteorite, if the energy were to be "accidentally" released.
The phaser ray even has interesting properties, in that in disintegration mode it can make an alien vanish in a close quarters, enclosed space. So, where it did go? Perhaps it turned into transparent or invisible matter, but it did so at 99.9999999999999999% efficiency so as to not kill the person who shot with heat or gamma rays or what have you.
As for Star Wars, perhaps they need to take inspiration from how Indiana Jones deals with sword fights. Perhaps gunning down the Jedis the old fashioned way would work better. Instead of deflecting your "blaster" shots they'll meet some hot lead from bullets that went through the plasma blade. Problem solved.
IE5 was great. Fast, low on RAM, rendered all of Web 1.0 as expected, turned into an FTP file manager on ftp:// addresses, displayed a lot of porn pop-ups.
But making a web browser is basically as complex as a whole OS. More like GNU Hurd than a text editor or pdf reader.
This is like a version 0.1 version of an OS where it supports 64 CPUs efficiently and has OpenGL graphics (for Quake and teapots exclusively), but mouse, printing and USB 2.0 support are completely missing, dhcp is broken and the console displays garbage if you try to use color text, to give a silly example of an unimportant feature. There are many browsers out there but most wrap around Webkit or simply don't support most of the features, leaving only a handful big engines able to run 99+% of the web. With that analogy Lynx is DOS, dillo is Windows 3.1, gecko is Linux, webkit is BSD, blink is a different BSD, presto is your favorite dead OS, Microsoft Edge Explorer is, er, the worst cable box firmare you've ever used or something:).
Just saying, as far as desktop linux is concerned I'm not sold on "smooth", "accelerated" and "animated" UI yet. The overhead as well as risks of something going wrong defeat it IMO, unless you have a fast CPU with built-in or recent well supported GPU.
So I'm grudgingly waiting for Wayland of all things, hopefully with good drivers for most cards (nouveau drivers are excused, use them as best effort depending on your hardware/software), hoping it actually works at reducing CPU overhead too, leaving aside desktop environment (xfce etc.) support. If Servo runs well on unaccelerated graphics or whatever basic 2D acceleration is, then great. If Servo is useful even on VESA driver, remote display, virtual machine then great too.
According to the article IMAX provides the signed hardware and media you refer to. It's likely ad hoc licensing, TFA refers to a competitor that does that at $500 per viewing.
Given that the screen is "small" I doubt they will use such a powerful light source. You would blind the people that are supposed to watch the movie anyway. I suppose "IMAX" is a brand, because I've seen IMAX over 20 years ago : the movie was on film, the screen was a dome and we wore LCD shutter glasses. Thus for years I thought the IMAX format was that;)
The home theatre is said to use two 4K projectors, in other terms a couple video projectors.
Yes but motherboards with the Displayport out are a rarity, especially with AMD motherboards for APU. Low end graphics cards get no love either : the semi-current AMD low end is R7 240, and has no Displayport. It's not even low end enough for fanless. You could get an R7 360 : it's way overpowered (similar to Xbox One) but with a big fan and modern power manamagement it would be quiet ; it supports the "AMDGPU" driver on Ubuntu 16 and such. It has the same tech revision as an APU like AMD A8-7600. There is nvidia GTX 750 if you consider it as a proprietary-driver-only card.
Nvidia has much better presence on the low end (e.g. GT710 is two gens old whereas R5 230 is renamed Radeon HD 5000/6000 tech, and is still sold despite driver development being halted) but no Displayport for you and the GT710 is not new enough for full HDMI 2.0 yet.
Basically : a big fuck you to low end users and low end upgraders.
I guess people have to stop believing war "makes us safer" and that war "saves lives". Guess what? We're finding out the reverse is true. Big damn surprise.
It's been a HALF DECADE, flying frighteningly fast since like half the countries in the region have pursued some stupid scheme to try to get the president of Turkey's neighbouring country killed. Stop trying to make Syria "safe" from itself. You've "save lived" from the brutal tyrant's claws enough.
Dumbfucks. What if this happened in say the US, perpetrated by Canadians and their Alaskans and Greenlandic sympathizers?, while the US, France and Britain try to get the Canadian prime minister killed and keep sending weekly container ships of weapons to Canada. Well, after five years try to stop doing stupid shit like that. Your Canadians and Alaskans happen to spill over and do whatever they've been used to do for so long but in an inconvenient place, that's all. And Russia is sort of barely holding a portion the mess, working with the Canadian military, at the invitation of the Canadian governement. They were across Sarah Palin's house, afterall.
For further clarification, I once read about that story after I was pointed out I was wrong to believe in it. Even back then it was a rather speculative paper, and consisted in looking after every single bit trying to find remanence, like, mmmm.... I think there's 70% probability there used to be a 1 here.
So I'm feeling like it has never been possible, but we could wonder what can be done today, if throwing millions of dollars at an old 20MB or 10MB hard drive.
At least for hard disk drives, what happened to just using the low level tools? Historically it was dead easy to run them from DOS. Still looks like it's possible, e.g. with Seagate it's an.iso file that is distributed.
Seagate is not responsible for lost user data. Erase Drive is available for Seagate or Maxtor drives only. Five choices are available under this section:
Secure Erase. This method uses the drive firmware to erase the data by overwriting the data with zeros. In Enhanced Erase mode, all previously written user data shall be overwritten, including sectors that are no longer in use due to reallocation. Secure Erase requires a user password to run which is deleted at the conclusion of the procedure. If your drive does not have a user password, SeaTools for DOS will set a temporary password "idrive" without the quotes. This password will be removed at the end of the Secure Erase so you never need to actually use it to access your drive. If... BLAH BLAH BLAH
No idea if you have a UEFI computer, maybe you need to use BIOS emulation, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't because you lack BIOS emulation etc. But then, they've got a Windows version as well. The pdf for that is harder to read says it's from October 2015. It has a changelog. It's more terse but says stuff like : http://www.seagate.com/files/w...
- SED Crypto Erase Self-Encrypting Drive Instant Secure Erase. If the drive supports hardware encryption, this menu will be displayed. Like Full Erase this command will permanently destroy access to all user data on the drive, but will do so by the erasure of the drive encryption key which takes less than one minute to complete. Both SAS and SATA drives are supported, but the boot drive should not be listed as an available choice.
- Sanitize Erase Write zeros to all user data sectors on the SATA drive including unallocated and cache sectors. This command is mostly found on SSD drives
So, a quote, with a bolding on what I thought was fun.
Explanation
According to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-88: Guidelines for Media Sanitization, Secure Erase is "An overwrite technology using firmware based process to overwrite a hard drive. Is a drive command defined in the ANSI ATA and SCSI disk drive interface specifications, which runs inside drive hardware. It completes in about 1/8 the time of 5220 block erasure." The guidelines also state that "degaussing and executing the firmware Secure Erase command (for ATA drives only) are acceptable methods for purging." Benefits
Can securely wipe most PATA/SATA hard drives manufactured this century
Reportedly restores peak performance to SSD drives (though SE fails to securely wipe some SSDs) [hummm...]
hdparm/Linux offers much better hardware support than HDDErase/MS-DOS Overwrites blocks marked as bad by the hard drive (which DBAN and similar tools ignore)
Though speed (vs. block erase wiping tools like DBAN) is often cited, the difference is negligible.*
See the second photo? Here you can see, except the first item :
- a stylus, because the computer is for the user's content first and foremost - a desktop class keyboard with a small clever layout, and wired, because we can handle it and not waste battery in both devices! and other bluetooth wastes like latency, pairing and leaking IDs. USB-C solves the cable, since it's small and all ends are the same. - black and white display (for certain definitions of black and of white). When I write, or I draw, or I type - no needing to worry about fecking color. Battery savings. Readable under all lights with minuscule power use. Use hatching and such in "app" graphical content. World maps, illustrated books and manga dealt with it. - pocketable memory cards. Make them work with NFC if a big ass slot piss you off, whatever, I don't care! I can't hear you! Memory cards and USB drives are currently sized for rats not humans. You have to have special considerations to carry them and keep a mental note of what's on them. A flat memory card that's sturdy, just thick enough to not bend, indestructable, can write on it even with the wrong pen and can contain as much as 46603 floppies if I need it or whatever? Gimme please.
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Actually it's a design goal that not much changes. Which is why there may be something like 300 million users of Windows XP still.
You could upgrade from Ubuntu 7.04 to this and not get lost.
The rest is just newer versions of software or sysadmin crap (e.g. ubuntu nappy containers)
They have "xreader"! Although it may just be a tweaked build of atril that's slightly better when run without MATE.
FYI the FGLRX is deprecated in Ubuntu 16.04 (or any distro of the same Xorg newness) and your A10 5800 will not be supported by the newer driver, so 'radeon' driver it is.
Here is the rationale for the GTK3 X-apps and a couple finished example of them.
http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2016/02/the-first-two-x-apps-are-ready/
It's about how Gnome 3 has crapified gedit, evince etc. and uses non-standard GUI elements - Gnome-specific parts of GTK3 - in client-side decorated windows.
Another reason is to remove a few dependencies, and in particular remove some of the distro-level hackery where Mint had gedit locked at version 2.30, so you couldn't install gedit 3. More generally it's part of removing warts that have historically made Cinnamon difficult to run on other distros, or some Gnome 3 applications on Cinnamon or Mint.
Earlier blog post on it
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2985
Nope, not at all.
This is for the text editor and pdf viewer etc.
I would try a Wine ppa.
Holy grail for me would be to just run Windows 98 in a VM with a fully emulated GPU that has a Windows 98 driver (or XP, since that worked amazingly well with rather few exceptions in games. Or Win 7 32bit)
But that doesn't really exist yet.
Even when Wine works it's not always very practical to install the games or deal with cdrom images (which were useful on Windows to trick old games's CD check)
Mint is just Ubuntu, for your purposes. What it gives you is a good 2D desktop (except for the Cinnamon one which is 3D accelerated), that eliminates a potential source of problems. You also get to use Ubuntu ppas.
The force is said to permeate the universe. It's unexplained in the way we don't even have a definition for what intelligence in mind is. That it arises from all life and only life, and travels FTL is a bit meaningless or doubtful but it at least works universally and consistently.
There are otherwise no deities, magic or wizards.
Where I draw the line is predicting the future, even just the very near future. That's bollocks, and the force fails there - The Matrix has the same issue. Unless Vader tricks Luke into coming to save his friends by very long distance telepathy. (Like Palpatine would plant the death dreams in his future apprentice's brain)
Space is an ocean and the ocean is only ruled or patrolled by the navy. I'm not a great expert on the real world open ocean but even over here we mostly only have civilian cargo and military navies, not presidents, ministers, governors, senators, mayors, dukes etc. of the oceans.
I'm sure he meant secular.
Although not much secular authority is shown either, except for a few simplified trials and putting Tom Paris in jail.
It may be an ideal anarchy. Even the pseudo-military is lax and has very few ranks (I don't know about TOS though)
Does it run in Ubuntu 12.04's Wine?
That's the main, or only objection I have. I suppose most people have the "apt-get install" version of Wine and not quite the freshest and latest, thus one may read reports of "Game X works perfectly" and not witness the same result.
I know you're replying to a troll but frankly, regarding 9) :
9) Boot with an absolutely non-critical hard drive removed, then the boot process hangs. If you're unlucky, the graphical boot splash feature may even hide the line "Press S) to continue, M) for maintenance". I'm lucky to know to press S.
Maybe your system doesn't do that, but mine did with a major user-oriented distro. I tried adding "nofail" in the fstab options but it did the hang thing anyway.
A naive poweruser may also declare drives in the fstab without using UUIDs, leading to bullshitery as drives jump randomly between sda, sdb, sdc. That's another issue entirely.
I may call that 'paper cuts' to be nice. There are still room for improvement, as you may get bitten by something and most users might get stuck when facing such cases.
I always tend to think that the levels of energy contained in a single seat spaceplane with hyperdrive or a teleporter are huge enough that everyone is carrying around machines that could blow up like a dinosaur-killing meteorite, if the energy were to be "accidentally" released.
The phaser ray even has interesting properties, in that in disintegration mode it can make an alien vanish in a close quarters, enclosed space. So, where it did go? Perhaps it turned into transparent or invisible matter, but it did so at 99.9999999999999999% efficiency so as to not kill the person who shot with heat or gamma rays or what have you.
As for Star Wars, perhaps they need to take inspiration from how Indiana Jones deals with sword fights. Perhaps gunning down the Jedis the old fashioned way would work better. Instead of deflecting your "blaster" shots they'll meet some hot lead from bullets that went through the plasma blade. Problem solved.
IE5 was great. Fast, low on RAM, rendered all of Web 1.0 as expected, turned into an FTP file manager on ftp:// addresses, displayed a lot of porn pop-ups.
But making a web browser is basically as complex as a whole OS. More like GNU Hurd than a text editor or pdf reader.
This is like a version 0.1 version of an OS where it supports 64 CPUs efficiently and has OpenGL graphics (for Quake and teapots exclusively), but mouse, printing and USB 2.0 support are completely missing, dhcp is broken and the console displays garbage if you try to use color text, to give a silly example of an unimportant feature. :).
There are many browsers out there but most wrap around Webkit or simply don't support most of the features, leaving only a handful big engines able to run 99+% of the web.
With that analogy Lynx is DOS, dillo is Windows 3.1, gecko is Linux, webkit is BSD, blink is a different BSD, presto is your favorite dead OS, Microsoft Edge Explorer is, er, the worst cable box firmare you've ever used or something
Just saying, as far as desktop linux is concerned I'm not sold on "smooth", "accelerated" and "animated" UI yet.
The overhead as well as risks of something going wrong defeat it IMO, unless you have a fast CPU with built-in or recent well supported GPU.
So I'm grudgingly waiting for Wayland of all things, hopefully with good drivers for most cards (nouveau drivers are excused, use them as best effort depending on your hardware/software), hoping it actually works at reducing CPU overhead too, leaving aside desktop environment (xfce etc.) support.
If Servo runs well on unaccelerated graphics or whatever basic 2D acceleration is, then great. If Servo is useful even on VESA driver, remote display, virtual machine then great too.
I'm only saying that because I never knew Dell even sold Android tablets. Heard a bit of Venue as Windows x86 tablets.
According to the article IMAX provides the signed hardware and media you refer to. It's likely ad hoc licensing, TFA refers to a competitor that does that at $500 per viewing.
Given that the screen is "small" I doubt they will use such a powerful light source. You would blind the people that are supposed to watch the movie anyway. ;)
I suppose "IMAX" is a brand, because I've seen IMAX over 20 years ago : the movie was on film, the screen was a dome and we wore LCD shutter glasses. Thus for years I thought the IMAX format was that
The home theatre is said to use two 4K projectors, in other terms a couple video projectors.
Yes but motherboards with the Displayport out are a rarity, especially with AMD motherboards for APU.
Low end graphics cards get no love either : the semi-current AMD low end is R7 240, and has no Displayport. It's not even low end enough for fanless. You could get an R7 360 : it's way overpowered (similar to Xbox One) but with a big fan and modern power manamagement it would be quiet ; it supports the "AMDGPU" driver on Ubuntu 16 and such. It has the same tech revision as an APU like AMD A8-7600.
There is nvidia GTX 750 if you consider it as a proprietary-driver-only card.
Nvidia has much better presence on the low end (e.g. GT710 is two gens old whereas R5 230 is renamed Radeon HD 5000/6000 tech, and is still sold despite driver development being halted) but no Displayport for you and the GT710 is not new enough for full HDMI 2.0 yet.
Basically : a big fuck you to low end users and low end upgraders.
Tachyons upgraded my computer to Windows 3010.
Or it was Windows Phone 7.5
I guess people have to stop believing war "makes us safer" and that war "saves lives". Guess what? We're finding out the reverse is true. Big damn surprise.
It's been a HALF DECADE, flying frighteningly fast since like half the countries in the region have pursued some stupid scheme to try to get the president of Turkey's neighbouring country killed. Stop trying to make Syria "safe" from itself. You've "save lived" from the brutal tyrant's claws enough.
Dumbfucks.
What if this happened in say the US, perpetrated by Canadians and their Alaskans and Greenlandic sympathizers?, while the US, France and Britain try to get the Canadian prime minister killed and keep sending weekly container ships of weapons to Canada.
Well, after five years try to stop doing stupid shit like that.
Your Canadians and Alaskans happen to spill over and do whatever they've been used to do for so long but in an inconvenient place, that's all. And Russia is sort of barely holding a portion the mess, working with the Canadian military, at the invitation of the Canadian governement. They were across Sarah Palin's house, afterall.
It's rather decent, to the contrary. For that kind of money we used to get a desktop PC that was almost exclusively used for games and entertainment.
For further clarification, I once read about that story after I was pointed out I was wrong to believe in it.
Even back then it was a rather speculative paper, and consisted in looking after every single bit trying to find remanence, like, mmmm.... I think there's 70% probability there used to be a 1 here.
So I'm feeling like it has never been possible, but we could wonder what can be done today, if throwing millions of dollars at an old 20MB or 10MB hard drive.
At least for hard disk drives, what happened to just using the low level tools? .iso file that is distributed.
Historically it was dead easy to run them from DOS. Still looks like it's possible, e.g. with Seagate it's an
See there, page 6/20, section G. : (an emphasis added)
http://www.seagate.com/files/s...
Seagate is not responsible for lost user data. Erase Drive is available for Seagate or Maxtor drives only. ... BLAH BLAH BLAH
Five choices are available under this section:
Secure Erase. This method uses the drive firmware to erase the data by overwriting the data
with zeros. In Enhanced Erase mode, all previously written user data shall be overwritten,
including sectors that are no longer in use due to reallocation. Secure Erase requires a user
password to run which is deleted at the conclusion of the procedure. If your drive does not have
a user password, SeaTools for DOS will set a temporary password "idrive" without the quotes.
This password will be removed at the end of the Secure Erase so you never need to actually use
it to access your drive. If
No idea if you have a UEFI computer, maybe you need to use BIOS emulation, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't because you lack BIOS emulation etc.
But then, they've got a Windows version as well. The pdf for that is harder to read says it's from October 2015. It has a changelog.
It's more terse but says stuff like :
http://www.seagate.com/files/w...
- SED Crypto Erase
Self-Encrypting Drive Instant Secure Erase. If the drive supports hardware
encryption, this menu will be displayed. Like Full Erase this command will permanently destroy
access to all user data on the drive, but will do so by the erasure of the drive encryption key which
takes less than one minute to complete. Both SAS and SATA drives are supported, but the boot
drive should not be listed as an available choice.
- Sanitize Erase
Write zeros to all user data sectors on the SATA drive including unallocated and
cache sectors. This command is mostly found on SSD drives
Failing vendor tools, see what the FLOSS punks have
https://tinyapps.org/docs/wipe...
So, a quote, with a bolding on what I thought was fun.
Explanation
According to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-88: Guidelines for Media Sanitization, Secure Erase is "An overwrite technology using firmware based process to overwrite a hard drive. Is a drive command defined in the ANSI ATA and SCSI disk drive interface specifications, which runs inside drive hardware. It completes in about 1/8 the time of 5220 block erasure." The guidelines also state that "degaussing and executing the firmware Secure Erase command (for ATA drives only) are acceptable methods for purging."
Benefits
Can securely wipe most PATA/SATA hard drives manufactured this century
Reportedly restores peak performance to SSD drives (though SE fails to securely wipe some SSDs) [hummm...]
hdparm/Linux offers much better hardware support than HDDErase/MS-DOS
Overwrites blocks marked as bad by the hard drive (which DBAN and similar tools ignore)
Though speed (vs. block erase wiping tools like DBAN) is often cited, the difference is negligible.*
See the second photo? Here you can see, except the first item :
- a stylus, because the computer is for the user's content first and foremost
- a desktop class keyboard with a small clever layout, and wired, because we can handle it and not waste battery in both devices! and other bluetooth wastes like latency, pairing and leaking IDs. USB-C solves the cable, since it's small and all ends are the same.
- black and white display (for certain definitions of black and of white). When I write, or I draw, or I type - no needing to worry about fecking color. Battery savings. Readable under all lights with minuscule power use. Use hatching and such in "app" graphical content. World maps, illustrated books and manga dealt with it.
- pocketable memory cards. Make them work with NFC if a big ass slot piss you off, whatever, I don't care! I can't hear you! Memory cards and USB drives are currently sized for rats not humans. You have to have special considerations to carry them and keep a mental note of what's on them.
A flat memory card that's sturdy, just thick enough to not bend, indestructable, can write on it even with the wrong pen and can contain as much as 46603 floppies if I need it or whatever? Gimme please.