The Windows Bubble will burst like the housing bubble. Everyone assumed that their homes were worth a certain amount of money. They kept doing things, like cashing out equity, based on those numbers. Then one day, we find that the numbers were off by a large amount. Chaos ensued.
The same will happen when it is discovered that there is nowhere near the number of MSFT installs as was assumed. The chaos will be glorious.
My first web design gig in 1995 was with a company that had me on a machine with way too little RAM for Photoshop. It was swapping constantly and I had 5 drives fling a head off the arms within 2 years. I was begging for 16 Meg (total) of RAM, but they never went for it.
When my 1yr2 old 4GB 266x CF (not cheap when I bought it) died I figured I was SOL. But, with one request for service they sent me an RMA # and I had a new one within a few weeks. I will definitely not feel the need to purchase SanDisk or Kingston for trustworthiness anymore.
Even though Lexar seems like a big name, they always felt a little sketchy to me. Maybe I associate them with Lexmark or Lex Luthor.
I read it 5 times in my iGoogle box, and then clicked "Show Original" because I could not figure out what this has to do with Wal-Mart. It's crazy how the brain works.
If you do not have your.ssh/config setup from ControlMaster, or know what that means... Study up! Specifying ControlMaster in my config saves me easily 45 minutes a day. (If you use svn+ssh:// there's a gotcha with a simple solution. Google for it.)
Don't forget that ssh can: 1. Be used to call remote processes, not just an interactive shell 2. Accept pipes to STDIN This allows you can tar something locally and untar it on the other side in one step. Why? If what you have to send across is huge, you don't have to consume disk space to create the local copy. Or, if you have to ssh from A-B, then B-C, then C-D just to get the huge collection of data from A-D, you don't have to wait for the tar to be created then sent 3 times. This is makes espionage super easy anywhere that you can find a path the the outside world where the router doesn't block ssh. Which most companies never think to do anyway.
I actually use it for good instead of evil though. My trick is to properly setup ssh public key authorization on a remote server in one step instead of two. Like so: tar cf -.ssh/authorized_keys2.ssh/id*.pub| ssh remoteserver "tar xf -; chmod 700.ssh"
replace "remoteserver" with "$1" and put than line in a bash script and you have a simple way to deploy your public key authorization to a severname given as the first argument. When you admin lots of boxes & VMs, growing daily, you have to find shortcuts.
We tagged this post as "Funny" because "Sad" wasn't an option. There are plenty of good reasons not to use screen, but Ctrl key bindings is not one of them. Those good reasons include: 1. I spend all my time in the GUI anyway. 2. I can't get anything done over SSH, I use VNC. 3. What's screen? I use DOSKey isn't that the same?
Thousands of old cellphones end up in landfills every year. At this point, most cellphones have USB sync/charge cords and/or Bluetooth. There is no reason why these devices couldn't be given a second life as a display widget. All they'd have to do is open up the protocols for flashing the firmware and drawing the display. All the rest of the stuff like the cell radio can stay closed.
I'd love to see the Go Green crowd get behind "tech rescue" schemes like this.
Ooops, I didn't realize I wasn't logged in. I'm the coward who posted this.:
When it comes to making a PVR, the VIA offerings seem so ideal. However, when we start looking at reality, the support for GPUs offered by VIA (and competitors) fail to meet today's needs. Should we be optimistic about seeing a VIA hardware and driver combination that can handle HD broadcast streams like the ones delivered by the SiliconDust HDHomeRun? http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun
I'm starting to get tired of _hearing myself_ say this, but it is not getting any better. When are they going to support us in our efforts to decode HD video on a GPU? We need ridiculously powerful CPU in a Linux machine to even come close to what a low power MSFT machine can do with HD video. The reason is that MSFT can offload the work to the GPU.
Seriously!!! What the heck is going on here? Why do the GPU makers want us to invest our money in CPUs instead of GPUs? Wouldn't ATI and nVidia rather get our money than driving us to give it to Intel and ADM? This is crazy.
High end gaming on Linux, which would utilize the new advanced hardware, is somewhere in the future. But, HD video and Linux based HTPCs are in the present. MythTV is ready today. It was ready 2 years ago. If only the GPUs would open the door to HD video on hardware that couldn't heat a Canadian Movie Theater and sound like a jet engine.
If the GPU support would have been available 2 years ago when I gave up on my MythTV, by now Linux PVRs would be the most viable Home Theater solution "on the market". A huge opportunity was lost. I think that there is still more opportunity, but it is being piddled away.
Amen!! When I saw how much power I had to draw to do CPU decoding of HD and STILL have stuttering, I retired it in favor of having more time to spend with my newborn. That was 18 months ago. I was sure that the scene would be better by now, but it is not. It's very sad.
When I saw the title of this article, I thought this was the breakthrough I've been waiting for... so sad.
This drives me crazy! I have never heard a single valid argument for putting VGA on modern devices. To see my complete explanation or to try arguing pro-VGA, visit: http://www.bronosky.com/?p=54
If consumers can't be bothered with 5 minutes of research to avoid companies with poor privacy practices, there's absolutely no incentive for companies to spend the money to respect privacy.
These are the same consumers who tolerate IE. When have lowered the barriers to entry such that the markets are broken. I don't know the answer, but the problem is obvious to anyone other than the layman.
I tried to RTA, but couldn't stomach it. This/. caught my eye because I have found that "The Scientific Method" is either dead, forgotten, or something that my 9th grade biology teacher made up. I tried to explain to a colleague how my approach to all problem solving was taught to me by Mr. B... Dang, forgot his name! Anyway, when I tried to find an article on the steps, Hypothesis... Experiment... Conclusion, etc. I couldn't find anything anywhere. It's like it is even used anymore! I'm trying to convince people to use this method, and I can't even find an explanation to show anyone.
I was about to say that tiling with pentagons is possible thanks to grout. However, I was thinking, as I would assume the author was, of equiangular equilateral pentagons. Cool find though on the tiles.
I'm just looking for in GPU video decoding under Linux. There are TONS of fanless cards out there with the power to decode HD with MSFT-only drivers. I want the same thing on my MythTV system.
Okay, maybe not soon as is "soon someone will flame this comment", but in the near future we will see game developers abandon the MSFT-only tools that games require a MSFT OS. Games will come on bootable disks and you computer will be used like console hardware. This will be the only way for the game developers to get the hardware to deliver the performance they need. As Desktop OSes become more bloated and storage on removable disks becomes greater, this will be a natural progression. The result will succeed cross-platform gaming. It will be no-platform gaming.
Backup your data and do a clean install. This sounds like what happens to people that have made (even minor) changes to the Unix side of things and then tried to upgrade [first dot] versions. I'm a total hacker so I know better than to allow the upgrades to try and figure out what all I've done.
Another thing I would suggest is to never plug/unplug anything (other than power) with the lid shut. That behavior had a convert friend of mine complaining, "this thing crashes 80% of the time when I try to wake it or shut it down." Once I told him to stop that, he said it hasn't crashed once.
I will say that the Intel portables are no where near as stable as the PPC portables. I could swap peripherals anytime. I could shut the lid, remove the battery, replace it, and open it back up and keep working. I would have windows users in airports and on planes absolutely freak out at the sight of that. The PowerBooks were awsome!
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The Windows Bubble will burst like the housing bubble. Everyone assumed that their homes were worth a certain amount of money. They kept doing things, like cashing out equity, based on those numbers. Then one day, we find that the numbers were off by a large amount. Chaos ensued.
The same will happen when it is discovered that there is nowhere near the number of MSFT installs as was assumed. The chaos will be glorious.
My first web design gig in 1995 was with a company that had me on a machine with way too little RAM for Photoshop. It was swapping constantly and I had 5 drives fling a head off the arms within 2 years. I was begging for 16 Meg (total) of RAM, but they never went for it.
When my 1yr2 old 4GB 266x CF (not cheap when I bought it) died I figured I was SOL. But, with one request for service they sent me an RMA # and I had a new one within a few weeks. I will definitely not feel the need to purchase SanDisk or Kingston for trustworthiness anymore.
Even though Lexar seems like a big name, they always felt a little sketchy to me. Maybe I associate them with Lexmark or Lex Luthor.
I read it 5 times in my iGoogle box, and then clicked "Show Original" because I could not figure out what this has to do with Wal-Mart. It's crazy how the brain works.
There is no Linux port for QuickTime. I suggestion you try VLC. ;-)
If you do not have your .ssh/config setup from ControlMaster, or know what that means... Study up! Specifying ControlMaster in my config saves me easily 45 minutes a day. (If you use svn+ssh:// there's a gotcha with a simple solution. Google for it.)
Don't forget that ssh can:
1. Be used to call remote processes, not just an interactive shell
2. Accept pipes to STDIN
This allows you can tar something locally and untar it on the other side in one step. Why? If what you have to send across is huge, you don't have to consume disk space to create the local copy. Or, if you have to ssh from A-B, then B-C, then C-D just to get the huge collection of data from A-D, you don't have to wait for the tar to be created then sent 3 times. This is makes espionage super easy anywhere that you can find a path the the outside world where the router doesn't block ssh. Which most companies never think to do anyway.
I actually use it for good instead of evil though. My trick is to properly setup ssh public key authorization on a remote server in one step instead of two. Like so: .ssh/authorized_keys2 .ssh/id*.pub| ssh remoteserver "tar xf -; chmod 700 .ssh"
tar cf -
replace "remoteserver" with "$1" and put than line in a bash script and you have a simple way to deploy your public key authorization to a severname given as the first argument. When you admin lots of boxes & VMs, growing daily, you have to find shortcuts.
We tagged this post as "Funny" because "Sad" wasn't an option. There are plenty of good reasons not to use screen, but Ctrl key bindings is not one of them. Those good reasons include:
1. I spend all my time in the GUI anyway.
2. I can't get anything done over SSH, I use VNC.
3. What's screen? I use DOSKey isn't that the same?
Nothing like it exists yet... http://userscripts.org/tags/slashdot
They even heart PHP! http://www.microsoft.com/uk/servers/winclientshearts/
Next thing you know they will have Django Ponies on their "I'm a PC" commercials. http://djangopony.com/
Thousands of old cellphones end up in landfills every year. At this point, most cellphones have USB sync/charge cords and/or Bluetooth. There is no reason why these devices couldn't be given a second life as a display widget. All they'd have to do is open up the protocols for flashing the firmware and drawing the display. All the rest of the stuff like the cell radio can stay closed.
I'd love to see the Go Green crowd get behind "tech rescue" schemes like this.
Ooops, I didn't realize I wasn't logged in. I'm the coward who posted this.:
When it comes to making a PVR, the VIA offerings seem so ideal. However, when we start looking at reality, the support for GPUs offered by VIA (and competitors) fail to meet today's needs. Should we be optimistic about seeing a VIA hardware and driver combination that can handle HD broadcast streams like the ones delivered by the SiliconDust HDHomeRun? http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun
I'm starting to get tired of _hearing myself_ say this, but it is not getting any better. When are they going to support us in our efforts to decode HD video on a GPU? We need ridiculously powerful CPU in a Linux machine to even come close to what a low power MSFT machine can do with HD video. The reason is that MSFT can offload the work to the GPU.
Seriously!!! What the heck is going on here? Why do the GPU makers want us to invest our money in CPUs instead of GPUs? Wouldn't ATI and nVidia rather get our money than driving us to give it to Intel and ADM? This is crazy.
High end gaming on Linux, which would utilize the new advanced hardware, is somewhere in the future. But, HD video and Linux based HTPCs are in the present. MythTV is ready today. It was ready 2 years ago. If only the GPUs would open the door to HD video on hardware that couldn't heat a Canadian Movie Theater and sound like a jet engine.
If the GPU support would have been available 2 years ago when I gave up on my MythTV, by now Linux PVRs would be the most viable Home Theater solution "on the market". A huge opportunity was lost. I think that there is still more opportunity, but it is being piddled away.
I also develop for Atmel micros and prefer OSX as my workstation. (All though professionally, I refuse to use anything but Linux servers.)
A few months ago, I converted to OSX my carpool partner who develops Atmel and PIC processors.
So, now the tally is up to 4 embedded coders who use OSX and read /.
While I'm at it, we're both heterosexuals, so we're breaking all kinds on Apple stigmas here today!
Amen!! When I saw how much power I had to draw to do CPU decoding of HD and STILL have stuttering, I retired it in favor of having more time to spend with my newborn. That was 18 months ago. I was sure that the scene would be better by now, but it is not. It's very sad.
When I saw the title of this article, I thought this was the breakthrough I've been waiting for... so sad.
While you are at it... STOP PUTTING VGA ON YOUR MOBOs!!!! --> See: http://www.bronosky.com/?p=54
This drives me crazy! I have never heard a single valid argument for putting VGA on modern devices. To see my complete explanation or to try arguing pro-VGA, visit: http://www.bronosky.com/?p=54
After seeing what missile systems are capable of I fail to be impressed by new tracking systems like this.
"Named after the snake of the same name"
If consumers can't be bothered with 5 minutes of research to avoid companies with poor privacy practices, there's absolutely no incentive for companies to spend the money to respect privacy.
These are the same consumers who tolerate IE. When have lowered the barriers to entry such that the markets are broken. I don't know the answer, but the problem is obvious to anyone other than the layman.
I tried to RTA, but couldn't stomach it. This /. caught my eye because I have found that "The Scientific Method" is either dead, forgotten, or something that my 9th grade biology teacher made up. I tried to explain to a colleague how my approach to all problem solving was taught to me by Mr. B... Dang, forgot his name! Anyway, when I tried to find an article on the steps, Hypothesis... Experiment... Conclusion, etc. I couldn't find anything anywhere. It's like it is even used anymore! I'm trying to convince people to use this method, and I can't even find an explanation to show anyone.
I was about to say that tiling with pentagons is possible thanks to grout. However, I was thinking, as I would assume the author was, of equiangular equilateral pentagons. Cool find though on the tiles.
I'm just looking for in GPU video decoding under Linux. There are TONS of fanless cards out there with the power to decode HD with MSFT-only drivers. I want the same thing on my MythTV system.
Okay, maybe not soon as is "soon someone will flame this comment", but in the near future we will see game developers abandon the MSFT-only tools that games require a MSFT OS. Games will come on bootable disks and you computer will be used like console hardware. This will be the only way for the game developers to get the hardware to deliver the performance they need. As Desktop OSes become more bloated and storage on removable disks becomes greater, this will be a natural progression. The result will succeed cross-platform gaming. It will be no-platform gaming.
Insert your adjective here.
Backup your data and do a clean install. This sounds like what happens to people that have made (even minor) changes to the Unix side of things and then tried to upgrade [first dot] versions. I'm a total hacker so I know better than to allow the upgrades to try and figure out what all I've done.
Another thing I would suggest is to never plug/unplug anything (other than power) with the lid shut. That behavior had a convert friend of mine complaining, "this thing crashes 80% of the time when I try to wake it or shut it down." Once I told him to stop that, he said it hasn't crashed once.
I will say that the Intel portables are no where near as stable as the PPC portables. I could swap peripherals anytime. I could shut the lid, remove the battery, replace it, and open it back up and keep working. I would have windows users in airports and on planes absolutely freak out at the sight of that. The PowerBooks were awsome!