I read the article (I know that's a suprise to many) but didn't see it saying exactly *who* is going to be releasing this next week. If they don't know at this point, it would be safe to bet that someone next week may *announce* a release but there's no way we'll actually see a release.
Also, I don't know if I see a benefit in Moblin. It is so far removed from what we're used to after some twenty years of Mac and Windows and X guis.
I tried it back in may and thought it intriguing but very different.
Okay, so now we have a.net runtime (mono) on the iPhone. Can we safely assume that the plethora of mono apps can be ported? (http://www.mono-project.com/Software)
Hmm - I could see playing Donkey.NET (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=990D0EC1-23EA-4408-898D-1FD5727A8890&displaylang=en) playing on the iPhone.
Interesting comment. Oddly enough - even though I have big hands (I'm 6'4") I prefer to do most of my work on my laptop. I currently have an HP/Compaq mobile workstation with a touch pad and a separate number pad.
I'll often even use VNC or rdesktop to remote into one of my other workstations just to keep using the same keyboard.:P
" It will need to do accelerated testing to show the impact of decades of wear on the new mirrors in desert conditions" - I wonder how different these mirrors are to current mirrors. After alll, we've had solar mirrror array systems here in Southern California heating up gas for over twenty years - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Energy_Generating_Systems. I pass by one of them whenever I head up north to June or Mammoth Lake.
The article (and others I've googled) says nothing abut what the technology will be. I wonder if it would be like the ESA improvements for the satellites - http://www.rssd.esa.int/SA/PLANCK/include/payl/node5.html
I also have a proxy laptop running at my house. In that manner I get to proxy my connection through my home network for things that need speed such as youtube.
Actually I can tweet (though I usually don't) and use FB from the blackberry. Being a PHB, I'm in an office and removed from my staff. They can yell but I don't hear them. I only can yell at my secretary.
I have no idea about a moblin=based device. I run that in VirtualBox with some interest.
As for an android-based netbook, I don't think there's enough interest. I saw some rumblings a few months ago - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10297268-1.html - but that's all.
Seriously, I wonder if this will become at all embedded in corporate america. So far, all I see (and use day/night) are blackberry devices. How long will that last? I'd love to see an android device in my business but have doubts about the adoption rate.
Patching the DB? No - these are modules that are being either patched, updated, or added. This is a pretty big program with over 350,000 lines of (C#) code, some 80 assemblies on the servers (there are about 35 servers running the application services) and handles around 2,000 simultaneous users. The database is decent sized - it has around 80 tables. Some of the bigger ones have more than 275,000,000 rows.
I have seven developers writing and fixing code and five analysts testing, reporting bugs and validating fixes.
Nah, 300 fixes isn't *that* big a deal.:P
The really big deal - and the reason we've been testing this build for over a month already - is the fact that we are now ready to accept credit/debit card payments as a payment type in the point-of--sale module. We previously only had cash, check and house charges. Now all the accounting functions have to ensure proper accountability of the new payment type and all 78 reports need to be able to property credit where appropriate.
"hv (Microsoft Hyper-V) drivers. Over 200 patches make up the massive cleanup effort needed to just get this code into a semi-sane kernel coding style (someone owes me a bit bottle of rum for that work!) Unfortunately the Microsoft developers seem to have disappeared, and no one is answering my emails. If they do not show back up to claim this driver soon, it will be removed in the 2.6.33 release. So sad..."
In other words, there is some coding to do. Did the Kernel devs coordinate with the managers at MS to ensure resources would be available to work on these patches? (200 patches is not a lot in my opinion. I have a minor patch coming out on the 21st for my in-house system with 2000+ users and it has over 300 fixes.)
I wonder if there was a minor miscommunication......hmm - hyper-v in Linux?
I have various usb keys and use them among my various systems - win2k, Vista, XP, Ubuntu 9.x, openSUSE 11.x - and have not had an issue with "moutning." In fact, I'd say the last time I had an issue was with SUSE 9.1.
I guess the filesystem of choice is FAT32, which is older but mostly works. I have yet to been given a "do you want to open this?" on Nautilus or Konqueror.
Come to think of it, my cameras memory cards (xD and SD) are all FAT32 and so are my sons' R4DS cards.
IIRC, when HD and Blu Ray were fighting it was over the rights to the movies from big-name studios like Disney and Sony (duh!) and Fox.
Now, it will be MyHotBabes Studios competing with BrownWrappedPackage Inc.
Exactly. I keep trying to persuade those that supposedly are in charge of these things that you cannot patent numbers. (i.e. you can't patent the algorythim for.mp3 or for.jpg or.doc or whatever) because they already exist.
You can copyright them, but then that is a different set of laws.
I think the main issue here is copying. Copying does not equal stealing. In the example, I can lend someone my car and they will eventually (hopefully) return it. However, if I supposedly lend them my copy of Led Zeppelin IV in.ogg or.flac format, they can "steal" it by making a copy.
Well, if they take my car - i.e. they steal it - I don't have it back.
If they "steal" my copy of music/software/games then I still have it. There's no difference to me, as I still possess what I purchased/obtained.
I think the powers-that-be need to get their minds around this concept.
Oh, I wonder if there's a crack yet for Windows 7...
This is very highly cool. I wish I had the time and money to spend on such an endeavor.
However, my question is - how does one get to the CLI and type in the inevitable commands that must be run to make things work??
Believe it or not, that's our primary backup system solutions for our first-tier offsite - one mile away - building. We have a few 1TB drives containing primary sql servers and associated applications. Monthly we test these and make sure they work.
We do a daily transfer of data to the drives to ensure they have at least that days' worth of information.
Keep in mind, too, that you want to point fingers at the vendor if/when something goes horribly wrong.
Fro the diesel generator? I have no clue. I'm a PHB over app development. The systems and the infrastructrure people are responsible for the generator. I know that - monthly - they shut off the power to the building and ensure the KVM keeps the server room and associated items live during the 15 seconds or so it takes the generator to kick in and power the rest of the building.
We have a seven-story building with about 1500 staff members and roughly 900 workstations/peripherals.
Though I don't run a datacenter, I do rely heavily on one. My co-manager is in charge of keeping my 80 TB of data online 24/7 using redundant HP StorageWorks 8000 EVA units.
These cost a bit and have drives which fail at a fairly infrequent rate. It doesnt' hurt that the data center is kept at 64 degrees by two (redundant) chillers and has 450 KVa redundant power conditioners keeping the electricity on at all times. (We do shut off the power to the building once a month to check these and the diesel generator housed on the premises as well.)
Now - paying $x,xxx per year for maintenance on these units is cheap insurance in my mind. If something goes wrong, HP is available 24/7 to be onsite with replacement parts. This has - in fact happened - during the past few years. A controller on the array went bad, causing disk read failures. We instantly called HP, had a tech onsite, and had the controller replaced within a few hours of the problem being detected.
OTOH - for someone's 4 petabyte home pr0n collection, this might be a good idea!:P
IIRC, the employees were given free use of gym clothes and shower facilities. The gym clothes were laundered and it was expected that employees take part.
You know, if you treat your customers right and treat your employees right, you don't need (or want) to work off of price.
Just look at Nordstrom.
I remember a similar story in 1998, when I read an article (I still have clipped) from Fast Company Magazine (http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/21/sanity.html) where they were exceptional to their employees. They had free onsite daycare, free clinics, a mandatory gym...
As a result, they were reported to keep thier employee turnover rates down, had happier customers and saved a bundle in the long run.
I didn't see it in the article - and got sidelined by the whole PAE thing - but I seem to remember changing my Windows NT 4.0 Workstation to NT 4.0 Server by simply loading the HKLM hive (from another machine) and changing one value.
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I read the article (I know that's a suprise to many) but didn't see it saying exactly *who* is going to be releasing this next week. If they don't know at this point, it would be safe to bet that someone next week may *announce* a release but there's no way we'll actually see a release.
Also, I don't know if I see a benefit in Moblin. It is so far removed from what we're used to after some twenty years of Mac and Windows and X guis.
I tried it back in may and thought it intriguing but very different.
http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090526_moblin_browser.jpg
http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090526_moblin_desktop.jpg
Also - do they have flash plugins for the moblin browser? Will people want to use Firefox? Wine?
Darn - I was hoping to have the ever-helpful beagle running on the iPhone.
LOL
:P
.net runtime (mono) on the iPhone. Can we safely assume that the plethora of mono apps can be ported? (http://www.mono-project.com/Software)
Okay, so now we have a
Hmm - I could see playing Donkey.NET (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=990D0EC1-23EA-4408-898D-1FD5727A8890&displaylang=en) playing on the iPhone.
Interesting comment. Oddly enough - even though I have big hands (I'm 6'4") I prefer to do most of my work on my laptop. I currently have an HP/Compaq mobile workstation with a touch pad and a separate number pad.
:P
I'll often even use VNC or rdesktop to remote into one of my other workstations just to keep using the same keyboard.
You need to tell us why the person didn't like it.
I wouldn't mind buying one, but fear my hands will be too big.
However, for my kids - who arleady use 100% Linux - they'd be great.
that's not the one near kramer junction? I was referring to the one just north of kramer junction - which is also north of lancaster.
" It will need to do accelerated testing to show the impact of decades of wear on the new mirrors in desert conditions" - I wonder how different these mirrors are to current mirrors. After alll, we've had solar mirrror array systems here in Southern California heating up gas for over twenty years - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Energy_Generating_Systems. I pass by one of them whenever I head up north to June or Mammoth Lake.
The article (and others I've googled) says nothing abut what the technology will be. I wonder if it would be like the ESA improvements for the satellites - http://www.rssd.esa.int/SA/PLANCK/include/payl/node5.html
Ouch! I'm surprised they pay attention.
I also have a proxy laptop running at my house. In that manner I get to proxy my connection through my home network for things that need speed such as youtube.
lol!
Twitter at work? That shouldn't be.
*cough* tor *cough*
Actually I can tweet (though I usually don't) and use FB from the blackberry. Being a PHB, I'm in an office and removed from my staff. They can yell but I don't hear them. I only can yell at my secretary.
I have no idea about a moblin=based device. I run that in VirtualBox with some interest.
As for an android-based netbook, I don't think there's enough interest. I saw some rumblings a few months ago - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10297268-1.html - but that's all.
(Sorry, had to do it!)
Seriously, I wonder if this will become at all embedded in corporate america. So far, all I see (and use day/night) are blackberry devices. How long will that last? I'd love to see an android device in my business but have doubts about the adoption rate.
Patching the DB? No - these are modules that are being either patched, updated, or added. This is a pretty big program with over 350,000 lines of (C#) code, some 80 assemblies on the servers (there are about 35 servers running the application services) and handles around 2,000 simultaneous users. The database is decent sized - it has around 80 tables. Some of the bigger ones have more than 275,000,000 rows.
:P
I have seven developers writing and fixing code and five analysts testing, reporting bugs and validating fixes.
Nah, 300 fixes isn't *that* big a deal.
The really big deal - and the reason we've been testing this build for over a month already - is the fact that we are now ready to accept credit/debit card payments as a payment type in the point-of--sale module. We previously only had cash, check and house charges. Now all the accounting functions have to ensure proper accountability of the new payment type and all 78 reports need to be able to property credit where appropriate.
From the blog,
...hmm - hyper-v in Linux?
"hv (Microsoft Hyper-V) drivers. Over 200 patches make up the massive cleanup effort needed to just get this code into a semi-sane kernel coding style (someone owes me a bit bottle of rum for that work!) Unfortunately the Microsoft developers seem to have disappeared, and no one is answering my emails. If they do not show back up to claim this driver soon, it will be removed in the 2.6.33 release. So sad..."
In other words, there is some coding to do. Did the Kernel devs coordinate with the managers at MS to ensure resources would be available to work on these patches? (200 patches is not a lot in my opinion. I have a minor patch coming out on the 21st for my in-house system with 2000+ users and it has over 300 fixes.)
I wonder if there was a minor miscommunication...
Cool!
I have various usb keys and use them among my various systems - win2k, Vista, XP, Ubuntu 9.x, openSUSE 11.x - and have not had an issue with "moutning." In fact, I'd say the last time I had an issue was with SUSE 9.1. I guess the filesystem of choice is FAT32, which is older but mostly works. I have yet to been given a "do you want to open this?" on Nautilus or Konqueror. Come to think of it, my cameras memory cards (xD and SD) are all FAT32 and so are my sons' R4DS cards.
IIRC, when HD and Blu Ray were fighting it was over the rights to the movies from big-name studios like Disney and Sony (duh!) and Fox. Now, it will be MyHotBabes Studios competing with BrownWrappedPackage Inc.
Exactly. I keep trying to persuade those that supposedly are in charge of these things that you cannot patent numbers. (i.e. you can't patent the algorythim for .mp3 or for .jpg or .doc or whatever) because they already exist.
You can copyright them, but then that is a different set of laws.
I think the main issue here is copying. Copying does not equal stealing. In the example, I can lend someone my car and they will eventually (hopefully) return it. However, if I supposedly lend them my copy of Led Zeppelin IV in .ogg or .flac format, they can "steal" it by making a copy.
Well, if they take my car - i.e. they steal it - I don't have it back.
If they "steal" my copy of music/software/games then I still have it. There's no difference to me, as I still possess what I purchased/obtained.
I think the powers-that-be need to get their minds around this concept.
Oh, I wonder if there's a crack yet for Windows 7...
Yeah, my bad. I saw that was a keypad upon further inspection of the very quick video. Kind of reminds me of the TRS-80 CoCo.
This is very highly cool. I wish I had the time and money to spend on such an endeavor. However, my question is - how does one get to the CLI and type in the inevitable commands that must be run to make things work??
Believe it or not, that's our primary backup system solutions for our first-tier offsite - one mile away - building. We have a few 1TB drives containing primary sql servers and associated applications. Monthly we test these and make sure they work. We do a daily transfer of data to the drives to ensure they have at least that days' worth of information. Keep in mind, too, that you want to point fingers at the vendor if/when something goes horribly wrong.
Fro the diesel generator? I have no clue. I'm a PHB over app development. The systems and the infrastructrure people are responsible for the generator. I know that - monthly - they shut off the power to the building and ensure the KVM keeps the server room and associated items live during the 15 seconds or so it takes the generator to kick in and power the rest of the building. We have a seven-story building with about 1500 staff members and roughly 900 workstations/peripherals.
These cost a bit and have drives which fail at a fairly infrequent rate. It doesnt' hurt that the data center is kept at 64 degrees by two (redundant) chillers and has 450 KVa redundant power conditioners keeping the electricity on at all times. (We do shut off the power to the building once a month to check these and the diesel generator housed on the premises as well.)
Now - paying $x,xxx per year for maintenance on these units is cheap insurance in my mind. If something goes wrong, HP is available 24/7 to be onsite with replacement parts. This has - in fact happened - during the past few years. A controller on the array went bad, causing disk read failures. We instantly called HP, had a tech onsite, and had the controller replaced within a few hours of the problem being detected.
OTOH - for someone's 4 petabyte home pr0n collection, this might be a good idea! :P
IIRC, the employees were given free use of gym clothes and shower facilities. The gym clothes were laundered and it was expected that employees take part.
You know, if you treat your customers right and treat your employees right, you don't need (or want) to work off of price.
Just look at Nordstrom.
I remember a similar story in 1998, when I read an article (I still have clipped) from Fast Company Magazine (http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/21/sanity.html) where they were exceptional to their employees. They had free onsite daycare, free clinics, a mandatory gym...
As a result, they were reported to keep thier employee turnover rates down, had happier customers and saved a bundle in the long run.
I didn't see it in the article - and got sidelined by the whole PAE thing - but I seem to remember changing my Windows NT 4.0 Workstation to NT 4.0 Server by simply loading the HKLM hive (from another machine) and changing one value.
...oh yes: Kernel-WindowsMaxMemAllowedx86
Reading further....
Okay.