512GB or 1TB in a SD card feels uneasy and who knows about the performance. At this point you could have a low end but real SSD on short M.2 form factor (which can have PCIe 1x or SATA interface), which is not a stretch given we used to have 1.8" HDD.
Have a USB3 interface to the computer even and now you can write at about the reading speed of your HDD. I hate how slow it is to write music to a thumb drive!, esp. when you're waiting on it before leaving the place. Real computer-grade storage on your MP3 player or mobile device makes the issue of navigating the tracks etc. go away. Scanning the tags or indexing can happen very fast and the SSD controller does all needed to keep latency down and have the flash not die. We have 256GB for $100 today and soon you can have one controller chip plus one (or two) flash chip made of stacked dies.
That is interesting, I seen an open source music player, lightweight-ish that "does it all" (library, file and directories access) written in python that would erratically crash when loading a few thousand tracks ; whereas a Windows 98 PC with winamp could eat a huge playlist and function the same as on a playlist a thousandth the size (ditto linux with audacious, xmms etc.) It may have improved after leaving the 0.x versioning but that piece of software didn't feel robust.
That may be an issue with modern software, "dynamic" and frameworky but if you push it it may crumble down, or not. Who knows.
The Kim family is particularly obsessed with movies, propaganda videos and generally controlling every single cultural product - songs, books, publicly visible pictures and statues. It's an autocracy, necrocracy, militarocracy (I hope that's not too terrible of a word) but also much a TVcracy with a level of control (domestically and what gets out) that you basically can't get anywhere else on the planet (or maybe in Taliban-style areas, where they have to resort to banning all music and all pictures with humans in it rather than be able to leverage them)
Kim Jong Il (not Un) was even a film producer and director or he styled himself as such. I don't believe North Korea was behind the attacks, nor can I deny it but Sony Pictures Entertainment is kind of a competitor to them and they like to have it humiliated, given their "criminal" attempt at defacing the Leader.
If you switch to FreeBSD then you'll have.. jails.. which are like entirely the same thing as containers.
Anyway it's the "Ubuntu Core" edition that's new, not containers, and it sure would be entirely optional. It seems to me it's a set of tools to spawn many copy-paste server instances in a gigantic "cloud" farm depending on level of activity or need to scale up. That's trendy but totally useless if you have the more usual need of caring about "that one server".
But a container is maybe like running a process as a chrooted user and not much more if you want to keep it at that. I will liken it to running Apache as non-root and using its virtual hosts features, perhaps that's similar work and benefits. So you might find some simple and boring tool if you ignore the hype and the various competing management layers. I seem to understand you can manage processes with cgroups to get the I/O, CPU, memory limits whether or not you use containers, too.
"Display Stream Compression" (deemed a "visually lossless" algorithm) should be or was to be an alternative to 4:2:0 I just learned that it did not make the cut to be included in the DP 1.3 spec sadly (maybe in a DP 1.3)
What's with the decreasing size of 1080p monitors? Seen a 15.6" 1080p and it is fairly hard to use with Windows 7's file manager. I have not tried scaling yet as the owner is the kind to jump at me if I do or change anything on that laptop. That is annoying for young (enough) users esp. as the thing is used with a touchpad.
27" 1080p has "too big" pixels but it's what users want. Had a 20" visible monitor running at 1280x960 and it was pretty sweet.
Indeed I wonder if a container is that much different from running a different user. The other day, I was lazy and just ssh -X localhost to get some web browser loading in a blank state. If I could get ssh running with a null cipher and have some GUI launcher with user selection I would kind of have "containerized desktop applications".
I think of it like running multiple DOS applications under Windows 3.1. Some VM things were happening but it was lightweight enough you didn't really have to care. Except Wolf 3D (as sole running DOS application) was slower. When Windows 95 came out we'd hold F8 and boot to DOS out of habit (and still made a proper config.sys) lol.
For containers I believe and hope that at least the disk cache is one and the same for all apps (one SMARTDRV.EXE for all processes). With cgroups containers trivially get a "RAM quota" rather than old-style fixed RAM for every VM but I bet you knew that ; at least that becomes kernel's job rather than hypervisor's job. It feels like a container vs a VM is like using a directory vs a partition or a thread vs a process, different way to do about the same thing. And most people don't need more than multitasking and directories.
Also why I was pissed about the decision to kill Khadafi. Libya financed that sattelite and was thus was committed to slashing the cost of communications in Africa (a few orders of magnitude more expensive than in the First World). But as the country was too independant and there was an opportunity with "Arab spring" to get rid of it, the US decided the "revolution" would happen and now the country is ruined, and Islamic State.
So Africa is trapped by yet another disaster decided by idiots and criminals in suits.
I browsed the internet with ads for so many years, they didn't really bother me and the flash was blocked (but available) with flashblock. I finally had to give in and install Adblock Plus everywhere (even on throwaway firefox profiles) because friends rely too much on youtube for music. Then I realized that we're in the days of needing multiple gigabytes of memory for browsing, and bandwith isn't getting better (maxed out DSL lines) or even going backwards (using a wifi hotspot). The web content is huge and inefficient so it uses too many CPU cycles, too much memory and too much bandwith. An adblocker has become a way to trim that down, especially as the average PC is about 5 to 7 year old. And that's not touching the security issue, for people on Windows or maybe OS X (and arguably everyone, because the tracking still happens if you have a 100% secure OS and browser)
Arguing againt an ad blocker is thus becoming like arguing against firewalls, antiviruses and spam filters. Afterall a firewall hurts communication products (IM, etc.), an antivirus hurts a program that would like to patch a binary on the fly and a spam filter hurts commercial prospection.
Microsoft relies on cracked versions for its market share so they don't make it too hard (though, I saw a Windows 8.x PC that simply whined every 24 hours and you had to hit win, esc or alt-tab to make it go away)
What's more boring about a server install is 1) they do enforce the TSE / RDS licenses (maybe CAL, I don't know) though there might be further cracks for that. 2) "free" antiviruses refuse to run. They're "free, as long as you do what we want". Damn.
Windows server + antivirus + allowing of remote applications and desktops would be a bit like running Linux and Wine, in that you can do whatever (have my desktop be a DHCP, proxy and what not? sure, if that's what I want), with some things worse (less so with Windows 10 / Server 2015) and some things better (like games running, game installers and/or DRM running, high quality drivers and sound with less CPU use etc. and a shit ton of software available.)
surely something could be done, even for desktops. Most time you leave the PC idle, there's the browser using a lot of CPU cycles just to stand still - typically an idle browser is the most consuming process or group of processes, even when you use the computer for something else.
A "battery saver" GUI would be useful, whether I have a battery or not, so that it can limit the browser by using cgroups (probably) to e.g. forbid it using more than 5% CPU or 0.5% CPU. I wonder how many kilowatt-hours are wasted by idling browsers.
I am out of touch with these uses, sure you can do something by only using cell phones. In my country using random credit card is not a common use, instead we've used cheques (which have their own issues of trust and so aren't accepted everywhere or for every amount) and then we got smartcard debit cards in 1992 I believe, what americans call "chip and pin". So culturally at least, there aren't really alternate payment means for random mundane transactions, it's mostly done with the "big" things (cash, and debit card with chip now linked to either Visa or Mastercard), if you pay with credit it's for house, car etc. or some really big store chain, else a credit company will transfer funds on your banking account and you'll pay with cash or debit card.
I would agree if you could run the server-side software yourself, by that I mean your own "google account" system you log into, your own instance of gmail and your own "google docs", all free and open source software.
These days teens, earlier twenties and pre-teens are exposed to these systems where "everything is a search" or "everything is an app" and so it's already getting to the point where someone older has to explain what a file is (!). The young can't use a file manager, can't use a regular desktop application and opening a command line scares them away or have you asking what you're "programming" or "hacking".
In a decade we'll fully realize it. People aged 40 to 50 will be computer litterate and young teens will be computer illliterate, inverting the stereotype of the 1990s.
Be it 2, 5 or 26 euros I always prefer to pay cash, especially if it's to "real people" rather than supermarkets and other huge "machines". Drawing cash at the ATM is free for me (I can even use any brand of ATM) and I like giving 50 euro-cent coins to bums so they're around half way to getting a beer or bread.
So : transactions costs are always free to me (except debit card's monthly fee) but if I use cash the shopkeeper, haircutter, snack merchant etc. gets more money, and I can get change which then enables me other transactions. Go to a vegetable stall at an open air market : it's not even wired to electricity. Possible to have a small system on battery with 3G modem but it's surely uneconomical to lease and what if the merchant never used an iphone or an android?, how to explain a consumer what he should do, what if there's malware etc. Who can carry a few groceries but can't be arsed to carry a low volume of coins and bills?
That's what pocket computers of the 80s and 90s did, but with one key on the keyboard per application (calendar, phone book, text editor, calculator, file transfer). Feel free to invent another such computer.
Mint with Mate is very adequate to replace Ubuntu 8.04, 10.04 etc. and Mint Xfce likewise can replace seamlessly enough an old Xubuntu. (e.g. for one friend going from Xubuntu 8.04 to Mint 13 Xfce was about perfect) A nicety is support has been increased from 3 years to 5 years, that's entirely from the Ubuntu upstream.
I only ever wrote in cursive, because that's the norm in my country. So I print slow and ugly. I would have to train to write in printing, with examples and a new "character font" to learn.
To be precise, highest efficiency of PSU is for 50% to 60% of nominal power drawn and the PSU efficiency is over 90% then, or even is 92%. 8% of 300W is 24 watts, easily dissipated. If that's 30 watts well that's still easy and the fan is ridiculously quiet.
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512GB or 1TB in a SD card feels uneasy and who knows about the performance.
At this point you could have a low end but real SSD on short M.2 form factor (which can have PCIe 1x or SATA interface), which is not a stretch given we used to have 1.8" HDD.
Have a USB3 interface to the computer even and now you can write at about the reading speed of your HDD. I hate how slow it is to write music to a thumb drive!, esp. when you're waiting on it before leaving the place.
Real computer-grade storage on your MP3 player or mobile device makes the issue of navigating the tracks etc. go away. Scanning the tags or indexing can happen very fast and the SSD controller does all needed to keep latency down and have the flash not die. We have 256GB for $100 today and soon you can have one controller chip plus one (or two) flash chip made of stacked dies.
That is interesting, I seen an open source music player, lightweight-ish that "does it all" (library, file and directories access) written in python that would erratically crash when loading a few thousand tracks ; whereas a Windows 98 PC with winamp could eat a huge playlist and function the same as on a playlist a thousandth the size (ditto linux with audacious, xmms etc.)
It may have improved after leaving the 0.x versioning but that piece of software didn't feel robust.
That may be an issue with modern software, "dynamic" and frameworky but if you push it it may crumble down, or not. Who knows.
The Kim family is particularly obsessed with movies, propaganda videos and generally controlling every single cultural product - songs, books, publicly visible pictures and statues.
It's an autocracy, necrocracy, militarocracy (I hope that's not too terrible of a word) but also much a TVcracy with a level of control (domestically and what gets out) that you basically can't get anywhere else on the planet (or maybe in Taliban-style areas, where they have to resort to banning all music and all pictures with humans in it rather than be able to leverage them)
Kim Jong Il (not Un) was even a film producer and director or he styled himself as such.
I don't believe North Korea was behind the attacks, nor can I deny it but Sony Pictures Entertainment is kind of a competitor to them and they like to have it humiliated, given their "criminal" attempt at defacing the Leader.
I thought the Sony Playstation Network had a big breach with millions of user account details and credit card information stolen.
If you switch to FreeBSD then you'll have.. jails.. which are like entirely the same thing as containers.
Anyway it's the "Ubuntu Core" edition that's new, not containers, and it sure would be entirely optional. It seems to me it's a set of tools to spawn many copy-paste server instances in a gigantic "cloud" farm depending on level of activity or need to scale up. That's trendy but totally useless if you have the more usual need of caring about "that one server".
But a container is maybe like running a process as a chrooted user and not much more if you want to keep it at that. I will liken it to running Apache as non-root and using its virtual hosts features, perhaps that's similar work and benefits. So you might find some simple and boring tool if you ignore the hype and the various competing management layers. I seem to understand you can manage processes with cgroups to get the I/O, CPU, memory limits whether or not you use containers, too.
in DP 1.3a, maybe.
"Display Stream Compression" (deemed a "visually lossless" algorithm) should be or was to be an alternative to 4:2:0
I just learned that it did not make the cut to be included in the DP 1.3 spec sadly (maybe in a DP 1.3)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
What's with the decreasing size of 1080p monitors? Seen a 15.6" 1080p and it is fairly hard to use with Windows 7's file manager. I have not tried scaling yet as the owner is the kind to jump at me if I do or change anything on that laptop.
That is annoying for young (enough) users esp. as the thing is used with a touchpad.
27" 1080p has "too big" pixels but it's what users want. Had a 20" visible monitor running at 1280x960 and it was pretty sweet.
Indeed I wonder if a container is that much different from running a different user. The other day, I was lazy and just ssh -X localhost to get some web browser loading in a blank state. If I could get ssh running with a null cipher and have some GUI launcher with user selection I would kind of have "containerized desktop applications".
I think of it like running multiple DOS applications under Windows 3.1. Some VM things were happening but it was lightweight enough you didn't really have to care. Except Wolf 3D (as sole running DOS application) was slower. When Windows 95 came out we'd hold F8 and boot to DOS out of habit (and still made a proper config.sys) lol.
For containers I believe and hope that at least the disk cache is one and the same for all apps (one SMARTDRV.EXE for all processes). With cgroups containers trivially get a "RAM quota" rather than old-style fixed RAM for every VM but I bet you knew that ; at least that becomes kernel's job rather than hypervisor's job.
It feels like a container vs a VM is like using a directory vs a partition or a thread vs a process, different way to do about the same thing. And most people don't need more than multitasking and directories.
Also why I was pissed about the decision to kill Khadafi. Libya financed that sattelite and was thus was committed to slashing the cost of communications in Africa (a few orders of magnitude more expensive than in the First World). But as the country was too independant and there was an opportunity with "Arab spring" to get rid of it, the US decided the "revolution" would happen and now the country is ruined, and Islamic State.
So Africa is trapped by yet another disaster decided by idiots and criminals in suits.
Please make and publish software that can block your fucking posts?
I browsed the internet with ads for so many years, they didn't really bother me and the flash was blocked (but available) with flashblock.
I finally had to give in and install Adblock Plus everywhere (even on throwaway firefox profiles) because friends rely too much on youtube for music. Then I realized that we're in the days of needing multiple gigabytes of memory for browsing, and bandwith isn't getting better (maxed out DSL lines) or even going backwards (using a wifi hotspot). The web content is huge and inefficient so it uses too many CPU cycles, too much memory and too much bandwith. An adblocker has become a way to trim that down, especially as the average PC is about 5 to 7 year old. And that's not touching the security issue, for people on Windows or maybe OS X (and arguably everyone, because the tracking still happens if you have a 100% secure OS and browser)
Arguing againt an ad blocker is thus becoming like arguing against firewalls, antiviruses and spam filters. Afterall a firewall hurts communication products (IM, etc.), an antivirus hurts a program that would like to patch a binary on the fly and a spam filter hurts commercial prospection.
Microsoft relies on cracked versions for its market share so they don't make it too hard (though, I saw a Windows 8.x PC that simply whined every 24 hours and you had to hit win, esc or alt-tab to make it go away)
What's more boring about a server install is 1) they do enforce the TSE / RDS licenses (maybe CAL, I don't know) though there might be further cracks for that. 2) "free" antiviruses refuse to run. They're "free, as long as you do what we want". Damn.
Windows server + antivirus + allowing of remote applications and desktops would be a bit like running Linux and Wine, in that you can do whatever (have my desktop be a DHCP, proxy and what not? sure, if that's what I want), with some things worse (less so with Windows 10 / Server 2015) and some things better (like games running, game installers and/or DRM running, high quality drivers and sound with less CPU use etc. and a shit ton of software available.)
surely something could be done, even for desktops. Most time you leave the PC idle, there's the browser using a lot of CPU cycles just to stand still - typically an idle browser is the most consuming process or group of processes, even when you use the computer for something else.
A "battery saver" GUI would be useful, whether I have a battery or not, so that it can limit the browser by using cgroups (probably) to e.g. forbid it using more than 5% CPU or 0.5% CPU. I wonder how many kilowatt-hours are wasted by idling browsers.
Did she almost notice there are no security updates for LMDE?, that's the very slight issue with it. It will be all changed with LMDE2.
I am out of touch with these uses, sure you can do something by only using cell phones. In my country using random credit card is not a common use, instead we've used cheques (which have their own issues of trust and so aren't accepted everywhere or for every amount) and then we got smartcard debit cards in 1992 I believe, what americans call "chip and pin".
So culturally at least, there aren't really alternate payment means for random mundane transactions, it's mostly done with the "big" things (cash, and debit card with chip now linked to either Visa or Mastercard), if you pay with credit it's for house, car etc. or some really big store chain, else a credit company will transfer funds on your banking account and you'll pay with cash or debit card.
I would agree if you could run the server-side software yourself, by that I mean your own "google account" system you log into, your own instance of gmail and your own "google docs", all free and open source software.
These days teens, earlier twenties and pre-teens are exposed to these systems where "everything is a search" or "everything is an app" and so it's already getting to the point where someone older has to explain what a file is (!). The young can't use a file manager, can't use a regular desktop application and opening a command line scares them away or have you asking what you're "programming" or "hacking".
In a decade we'll fully realize it. People aged 40 to 50 will be computer litterate and young teens will be computer illliterate, inverting the stereotype of the 1990s.
Be it 2, 5 or 26 euros I always prefer to pay cash, especially if it's to "real people" rather than supermarkets and other huge "machines". Drawing cash at the ATM is free for me (I can even use any brand of ATM) and I like giving 50 euro-cent coins to bums so they're around half way to getting a beer or bread.
So : transactions costs are always free to me (except debit card's monthly fee) but if I use cash the shopkeeper, haircutter, snack merchant etc. gets more money, and I can get change which then enables me other transactions.
Go to a vegetable stall at an open air market : it's not even wired to electricity. Possible to have a small system on battery with 3G modem but it's surely uneconomical to lease and what if the merchant never used an iphone or an android?, how to explain a consumer what he should do, what if there's malware etc. Who can carry a few groceries but can't be arsed to carry a low volume of coins and bills?
That's what pocket computers of the 80s and 90s did, but with one key on the keyboard per application (calendar, phone book, text editor, calculator, file transfer).
Feel free to invent another such computer.
Mint with Mate is very adequate to replace Ubuntu 8.04, 10.04 etc. and Mint Xfce likewise can replace seamlessly enough an old Xubuntu. (e.g. for one friend going from Xubuntu 8.04 to Mint 13 Xfce was about perfect)
A nicety is support has been increased from 3 years to 5 years, that's entirely from the Ubuntu upstream.
I only ever wrote in cursive, because that's the norm in my country. So I print slow and ugly. I would have to train to write in printing, with examples and a new "character font" to learn.
Fair argument.
Sometimes you will see several inputs on a PC monitor e.g. HDMI, DVI or DP, and VGA.
TVs had better speakers 20 years ago : in a LCD monitor or TV there's simply not enough physical room for decent speakers.
To be precise, highest efficiency of PSU is for 50% to 60% of nominal power drawn and the PSU efficiency is over 90% then, or even is 92%. 8% of 300W is 24 watts, easily dissipated. If that's 30 watts well that's still easy and the fan is ridiculously quiet.