Just three years ago, Asus was still selling the EEE box, an Intel Atom powered PC. Because of the Vista fiasco, it still got a factory install with Windows XP.
Personally I agree with you but a lot of people are going to be without an upgrade path.
It's the password that I only use for all my forum accounts, so I don't really care if it's hacked or not. Should I post stupid stuff, then it's just the silly Android Forums hacker.
It's the password that I only use for all my forum accounts, so I don't really care if it's hacked or not. Should I post stupid stuff, then it's just the silly Android Forums hacker.
An Excel/Calc file. No DB setup, even though it acts like a DB. Almost as quick to open as a ext file. Has many many more feature than a text file. Also, consider using a Google Doc spreadsheet for even more features, at the cost of needing an internet connection to access.
I have always used a Google Docs spreadsheet for my projects. On the first sheet, we have the current bugs. On the second sheet, any screenshots along with their issue number. When these projects expanded, people could be invited and work on the same sheet. If there was a client involved, we'd export to PDF and mail it to them.
Go to Best Buy and look at the difference between the iPad2 and the iPad3
That's true, however, I think you shouldn't always do that. Because you only see the difference if you compare them.
If you don't, you'll be quite satisfied.
Currently my TV is an old 32" with a resolution of 900x400 or something. Of course, when I compare it to a HDTV or even HD-Ready TV, then it looks shit. But I don't.
tolerated KDE4 between crashes (now, thankfully, gone in newer versions)
I'm normally not that sentimental, but I really felt a sting of sadness reading this comment.
I remember ~15 years ago in uni, where I discovered Linux and found it was rock-stable compared to Windows. But nowadays, it doesn't feel like that at all, and I really feel sad for that.
I usually divide the project in three phases: start, beta release and final release. At the start, I require 50% payment. The beta release requires another 25% and the final release requires the rest of the money.
If you're then worried about the payments, I'd use an escrow service such as Elance.
I also was unpleasantly surprised by the prices of the commercial offerings (...) have a carpenter building a custom-made wooden desk, which will still be cheaper than the commercial offerings
That's some great info you've got there. I hope I'm not being rude here -- could you tell us what the carpenter asked for building the desk?
For about two years, I've administrated three RedHat 5 systems, which were upgraded every now and then until they reached 5.5. The memory on those systems varied between 128 and 512 MB memory, two were virtualized with Xen. It seemed that 384 MB was the lower limit for these systems to run "yum update" without hitting swap. These were standard LAMP webservers. Often, I'd shut down MySQL, Apache and Postfix to run yum.
Anyway, since you say you did fine with 256 MB, I'm going to revisit the scenario, and see if the latest yum versions are better.
Interesting; apparently your use case precludes the memory problems I've seen. Have you ever run "yum update", in which it encountered a libc update? Or perhaps an update to an X library? Basically anything that has a large number of dependencies. Also, you're increasing the memory we're talking about, we started with 512 MB, and you're now saying it works with less than a gig of RAM.
By contrast, apt-get works perfectly with 128 MB of ram.
One thing I'm wondering - how improved is their package management? As I've noted in the past, apt-get is far more advanced
People who still ask this question tend not to have used yum/rpm in about a decade.
That is just not true. I've used a cheap virtual machine with limited memory ( 512 MB) for hosting stuff, and I'm waiting for my Raspberry Pi to arrive which has 256 MB memory.
Using yum on such systems is utter, and complete, pain. It will simply not work with anything less than a gig of memory. Apt however, will work flawlessly. There is VERY MUCH room for improvement concerning package management.
It doesn't require building, but after nearly an hour of searching their website I still couldn't find a direct link to this:
It cost me all of 5 seconds. What are you trying to accomplish here? I definitely have the feeling you guys are trying to create the impression that Google is trying to hide the Chromium builds, or something.
- Go to google - Type "download chromium" - Click first link - Again, click the first prominently displayed link, which is in a bigger font, and printed bold
That's actually a pretty respectable list, although I don't know how deep your experience goes with each. In any case, if I were you, I'd start with a project in mind, and then choose one of your past languages that fits it best. From there, your experience will grow.
Really, you think that's respectable? I think that's fairly substandard, actually. - You're a teenager, and you learn BASIC - You get computer classes at high school and learn Pascal - You do college, and learn Java, C, C++, PHP, and Javascript (and of course HTML and CSS) - You have a job during college, and learn Perl/CGI and Visual Basic (and some more HTML/CSS) - Your land your first job, you do PL/SQL, XML, Java and lots of shell scripting. The secretary asks you to automate something and you learn vbscript. - You buy an iPhone, so you learn Objective-C - Your second job, you learn to apply XSLT on your XML datagrams - Your third job, you learn Python besides C and C++ Totalling, depending on how you count: 10-15 languages
This is all totally standard, unless you're one of those people who actually studied business administration, and is in IT for the money.
Your staff leaving their computer unlocked, their door unlocked, and their office unattended, and no-one noticing are much worse security issues...
Yeah, the secretary might have her handbag in the office, in which case you could find cool stuff like used handkerchiefs or even a spare panty or somesuch!
*pauses* *coughs* I'm merely pointing this out as a purely hypothetical case, of course. I don't condone, nor have ever engaged in any such activities. *looks down* *hurries away*
Even with tall towers, it's very hard to obtain a line of sight path between two points on earth more than about 50 miles apart
That was a big disadvantage with MASERs. However, what I propose, is data transfer using high-powered LASERs. Initial handshaking will be done by "creating" a line of sight path before communications can start in lower-power mode:D
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Just three years ago, Asus was still selling the EEE box, an Intel Atom powered PC. Because of the Vista fiasco, it still got a factory install with Windows XP.
Personally I agree with you but a lot of people are going to be without an upgrade path.
It's the password that I only use for all my forum accounts, so I don't really care if it's hacked or not. Should I post stupid stuff, then it's just the silly Android Forums hacker.
HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS
It appears that the change password page is Slashdotted
It's the password that I only use for all my forum accounts, so I don't really care if it's hacked or not. Should I post stupid stuff, then it's just the silly Android Forums hacker.
An Excel/Calc file. No DB setup, even though it acts like a DB. Almost as quick to open as a ext file. Has many many more feature than a text file. Also, consider using a Google Doc spreadsheet for even more features, at the cost of needing an internet connection to access.
I have always used a Google Docs spreadsheet for my projects. On the first sheet, we have the current bugs. On the second sheet, any screenshots along with their issue number. When these projects expanded, people could be invited and work on the same sheet. If there was a client involved, we'd export to PDF and mail it to them.
a bunch of sluts who will bend over when a big contract is involved.
You say that like it's something bad!
That could be re-written as: nVidia has chosen to be hogtied by NDAs with other companies.
Go to Best Buy and look at the difference between the iPad2 and the iPad3
That's true, however, I think you shouldn't always do that. Because you only see the difference if you compare them.
If you don't, you'll be quite satisfied.
Currently my TV is an old 32" with a resolution of 900x400 or something. Of course, when I compare it to a HDTV or even HD-Ready TV, then it looks shit. But I don't.
tolerated KDE4 between crashes (now, thankfully, gone in newer versions)
I'm normally not that sentimental, but I really felt a sting of sadness reading this comment.
I remember ~15 years ago in uni, where I discovered Linux and found it was rock-stable compared to Windows. But nowadays, it doesn't feel like that at all, and I really feel sad for that.
Or the mace in my pants, baby!!
(Christ, I'm 35, I need to grow up.)
That's a very sharp quote. Mediocre quality wood alone would cost EUR. 600 here in Europe. Thanks for replying!
I usually divide the project in three phases: start, beta release and final release. At the start, I require 50% payment. The beta release requires another 25% and the final release requires the rest of the money.
If you're then worried about the payments, I'd use an escrow service such as Elance.
I also was unpleasantly surprised by the prices of the commercial offerings (...) have a carpenter building a custom-made wooden desk, which will still be cheaper than the commercial offerings
That's some great info you've got there. I hope I'm not being rude here -- could you tell us what the carpenter asked for building the desk?
Or Ghostery
For about two years, I've administrated three RedHat 5 systems, which were upgraded every now and then until they reached 5.5. The memory on those systems varied between 128 and 512 MB memory, two were virtualized with Xen. It seemed that 384 MB was the lower limit for these systems to run "yum update" without hitting swap. These were standard LAMP webservers. Often, I'd shut down MySQL, Apache and Postfix to run yum.
Anyway, since you say you did fine with 256 MB, I'm going to revisit the scenario, and see if the latest yum versions are better.
Interesting; apparently your use case precludes the memory problems I've seen. Have you ever run "yum update", in which it encountered a libc update? Or perhaps an update to an X library? Basically anything that has a large number of dependencies. Also, you're increasing the memory we're talking about, we started with 512 MB, and you're now saying it works with less than a gig of RAM.
By contrast, apt-get works perfectly with 128 MB of ram.
Perhaps for the incidental installation of an editor that has hardly any libraries it depends on.
One thing I'm wondering - how improved is their package management? As I've noted in the past, apt-get is far more advanced
People who still ask this question tend not to have used yum/rpm in about a decade.
That is just not true. I've used a cheap virtual machine with limited memory ( 512 MB) for hosting stuff, and I'm waiting for my Raspberry Pi to arrive which has 256 MB memory.
Using yum on such systems is utter, and complete, pain. It will simply not work with anything less than a gig of memory. Apt however, will work flawlessly. There is VERY MUCH room for improvement concerning package management.
It doesn't require building, but after nearly an hour of searching their website I still couldn't find a direct link to this:
It cost me all of 5 seconds. What are you trying to accomplish here? I definitely have the feeling you guys are trying to create the impression that Google is trying to hide the Chromium builds, or something.
- Go to google
- Type "download chromium"
- Click first link
- Again, click the first prominently displayed link, which is in a bigger font, and printed bold
Lightning is weird and it is very difficult to predict what may be harmed by a strike.
Just like my ex-wife!
Not even Apple does this in their walled garden.
I'd say that Apple does exactly that with the Mac App Store.
That's actually a pretty respectable list, although I don't know how deep your experience goes with each. In any case, if I were you, I'd start with a project in mind, and then choose one of your past languages that fits it best. From there, your experience will grow.
Really, you think that's respectable? I think that's fairly substandard, actually.
- You're a teenager, and you learn BASIC
- You get computer classes at high school and learn Pascal
- You do college, and learn Java, C, C++, PHP, and Javascript (and of course HTML and CSS)
- You have a job during college, and learn Perl/CGI and Visual Basic (and some more HTML/CSS)
- Your land your first job, you do PL/SQL, XML, Java and lots of shell scripting. The secretary asks you to automate something and you learn vbscript.
- You buy an iPhone, so you learn Objective-C
- Your second job, you learn to apply XSLT on your XML datagrams
- Your third job, you learn Python besides C and C++
Totalling, depending on how you count: 10-15 languages
This is all totally standard, unless you're one of those people who actually studied business administration, and is in IT for the money.
OTOH, the processor fairy that visited me last gave me a 486 for my 386sx. That was a long time ago.
A long long time ago
I can still remember
How Apple used to make me smile
Bye bye big iPad CPU die
The new iPad is so quick
it's almost making me cry
Et cetera.
Your staff leaving their computer unlocked, their door unlocked, and their office unattended, and no-one noticing are much worse security issues ...
Yeah, the secretary might have her handbag in the office, in which case you could find cool stuff like used handkerchiefs or even a spare panty or somesuch!
*pauses* *coughs* I'm merely pointing this out as a purely hypothetical case, of course. I don't condone, nor have ever engaged in any such activities. *looks down* *hurries away*
Even with tall towers, it's very hard to obtain a line of sight path between two points on earth more than about 50 miles apart
That was a big disadvantage with MASERs. However, what I propose, is data transfer using high-powered LASERs. Initial handshaking will be done by "creating" a line of sight path before communications can start in lower-power mode :D
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