I was almost thinking the same.. though I would probably leave IE10 for testing against.. would like to get rid of the Metro UI, and have the win7 start/taskbar.
Ditto on the above comments... TomatoUSB + Asus RT-N16 is about the best combo available. I've used RT-N12's as well, but they don't seem to be as stable, and had trouble getting an N12 into bridge mode (would brick itself, sftp for recovery).
The problem is that people will take things as written and twist it into their own context to suit their own needs. Not in the context of men standing up to tyranny of government.
For win7, you can middle-click the icon in the taskbar to launch a new instance... or right-click, then "Application Name". It's surprising how something like this isn't something more people know about.
And the searchbox is really handy.. I have about the 7-9 apps I use most in the taskbar, then use the search box for about everything else.. SUPER, a few characters, maybe an arrow key, then enter... works really well, almost never search through the programs list anymore. I haven't used KDE in a long while, I tried 4 briefly, but not a big fan of the configuration screens for it, and I run far more gnome/gtk+ apps than I do KDE apps in that space.
Agreed, setting up Debian for a desktop environment can be challenging.. Ubuntu/Mint take care of a lot of that.. I've been using Mint/XFCE as my preferred Linux VM for about a year now, and actually like it a lot.
Personally, I *really* like the Windows 7 interface of those I've tried. XFCE and LXDE are second and third respectively... though each leaves something to be desired.. I was pretty happy with a tweaked Gnome 2 as well... I just find the convenience of having my most used apps already on the toolbar, with a shared icon, and shared space with new launches. I like the reduced system tray in Windows as well. I like that more system utilities in Gnome have better integration, even if third party efforts though. I also like some of the skins for Gnome a lot. It would be nice to have a very simply skinnable UI in Linux similar to Litestep, which was always my fav 3rd party desktop UI kit in windows until Win7.
While X11 was originally designed that way, 3D especially along with other graphics acceleration makes that type of disconnect perform badly. I would like to see something new, with X11 support still baked in for native UI. I think most people have moved more to remote desktop solutions like RDP and VNC as X11 over the internet, for example, at higher resolutions just performs rather poorly, and is a bandwidth hog.
No, but most CD/DVD/BluRay drives look the same, and I could easily mistake one for another at a glance.. that's it.. Plextor/TDK/Sony Design Patent Battle Royal!!!!
You design a tablet that is easily hand held with a flat screen, at a widely readable size, that is a compact as possible, and see how many designs you come up with that aren't similar. the iPad itself is very similar to several devices from years before the iPad.
According to some supporters, it looks like you're breeding serial killers at that point... do we execute anyone who works as a censor for X days too many?
7.5 is the new release version of "Phone"... 7 is the current release of windows/phone. 8 is the next version (expected late next year) that will unify the API structures. Your comment doesn't make sense.
There are plenty of.Net binaries that run cross platform... Mainly those designed with portability in mind... I suppose you could list the number of gtk+ or qt based apps that are magically cross platform? Cross platform support for a complex application isn't always a simple thing... And in Java dependencies on on native libraries is even harder to support cross platform than with.Net.
That aside... I don't trust MS to keep supporting their phone platform infrastructure yet. It's outside their core structure, and MS has a history of dropping edge case support.
Umn.. both iPhone and Andriod pre-date Windows Phone 7+.. maybe you had an older windows mobile version of a phone. Windows Phone 7 isn't bad.. I just don't trust MS with my networked data after various times they've dropped support for similar initiatives. I'm pretty happy with Android, and have been a user since the G1, not on Boost with a rooted Samsung Prevail... If MS is still supporting any infrastructure they have in 3-5 years, I may consider it again.
In terms of workstation (equivalent to some server systems), the pricing is pretty competitive.. where Apple falters is the lower end workstation offerings (sub $2000). I usually to my desktop/workstation builds in the $1200-2000 range, where a Mac Pro isn't an option.
I think that OOo should just be moved under the LibreOffice management, and LO rebranded back to OO... just to preserve the branding OOo has built (for what it's worth).
I don't know that I would go that far, there are a lot of internal line of business web based applications... Many of these will use differing backend languages, but at least some JavaScript on the client-side. I would also say there is more business (internal) application development, that is web based, than the total of embedded systems programming.
I don't have a doubt in my mind that C is very widely used at systems level development, or that there is a lot of it. Only that there are more high-level language developers building web based applications for intranet/extranet use than any other segment... the only real commonality is JavaScript, not that it's the largest part of most of their jobs, but that the diversity of backend tools drops off that aspect.
I will say that most of those using JavaScript don't know the language all that well, and that someone who writes C code at least once a week is has better knowledge of the C language, than a typical JS dev does JS... As much as I like JS, I think there are a lot of people writing/using butchered code.
But the code the interpreter is running, is what language again? That's like saying all JavaScript written in Visual Studio is really.Net, or in Eclipse is really Java.
I think it's to integrate a map/reduce structure into SQL server... I haven't RTFA, but that is about it... I wouldn't necessarily expect them to use Hadoop directly, but to support Hadoop's interfaces. My $0.02 on this. I know a lot of people are using MongoDB, and other document centric datastores lately, and MS is moving to compete in their tool space. More power to them, doesn't mean it'll be my first choice.
This is emphatically not a trolling comment. I would say the most widely used programming language today is JavaScript.
That said, Dennis Ritchie is a father to modern computing. He wrote the language and platform that is the foundation of most computing in the world today. Including languages, styles and techniques that expanded on those foundations. The core of Unix is everywhere, and it's influence is seen at the near bare metal level of most computer systems (including Windows from NT forward, Linux and OSX). To me this is a far sadder day in the course of a technology based world that the loss of Steve Jobs.
I think it comes down to having 4-5 different vendors for a purpose that could, at least in theory, easily be serviced by one provider. I think that amazon's mp3 cloud is at least interesting, but I also use dropbox, and gdocs. It would be really cool to have them in one service, that integrated well. I think that many people were hoping to have that in apple's cloud service offering. Apple was/is in a unique position to offer that. MS has tried a few times, but floundered.
I have to agree. MS had a few chances now, and keep changing/transfering/rebranding their cloud storage offering. I've been a very happy dropbox user since early on... I keep my (encrypted) portable keepass, and a truecrypt volume for the stuff that I want secret.. the rest is documents I just want access to wherever I am (synced to several of my computers)... It just works, and does it surprisingly well. It would be nice to have an "Enterprise" version, where a company can act as a host for a version of that, for synchronizing websites/servers, and desktop clients. I know windows can use remote profile directories, and it works okay, but not as quickly, or smoothly. I also no that rsync does a good job, and use it, again not as smoothly.
Considering that apple has always been a champion of a "just works" philosophy, it is a bit odd to see them falter here.
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I was almost thinking the same.. though I would probably leave IE10 for testing against.. would like to get rid of the Metro UI, and have the win7 start/taskbar.
Ditto on the above comments... TomatoUSB + Asus RT-N16 is about the best combo available. I've used RT-N12's as well, but they don't seem to be as stable, and had trouble getting an N12 into bridge mode (would brick itself, sftp for recovery).
But... but.. Obama... "Constitutional Scholar"....
The problem is that people will take things as written and twist it into their own context to suit their own needs. Not in the context of men standing up to tyranny of government.
You should have patented the design, then you could now sue *big company* for big bucks... the system works!
-- troll comment meant in sarcasm.
I had a few 20GB IBM Death/DeskStar drives when they came out... raid-0, fast as sin at the time.. dead in 2 months, both of them.
For win7, you can middle-click the icon in the taskbar to launch a new instance... or right-click, then "Application Name". It's surprising how something like this isn't something more people know about. And the searchbox is really handy.. I have about the 7-9 apps I use most in the taskbar, then use the search box for about everything else.. SUPER, a few characters, maybe an arrow key, then enter... works really well, almost never search through the programs list anymore. I haven't used KDE in a long while, I tried 4 briefly, but not a big fan of the configuration screens for it, and I run far more gnome/gtk+ apps than I do KDE apps in that space.
Agreed, setting up Debian for a desktop environment can be challenging.. Ubuntu/Mint take care of a lot of that.. I've been using Mint/XFCE as my preferred Linux VM for about a year now, and actually like it a lot.
Personally, I *really* like the Windows 7 interface of those I've tried. XFCE and LXDE are second and third respectively... though each leaves something to be desired.. I was pretty happy with a tweaked Gnome 2 as well... I just find the convenience of having my most used apps already on the toolbar, with a shared icon, and shared space with new launches. I like the reduced system tray in Windows as well. I like that more system utilities in Gnome have better integration, even if third party efforts though. I also like some of the skins for Gnome a lot. It would be nice to have a very simply skinnable UI in Linux similar to Litestep, which was always my fav 3rd party desktop UI kit in windows until Win7.
While X11 was originally designed that way, 3D especially along with other graphics acceleration makes that type of disconnect perform badly. I would like to see something new, with X11 support still baked in for native UI. I think most people have moved more to remote desktop solutions like RDP and VNC as X11 over the internet, for example, at higher resolutions just performs rather poorly, and is a bandwidth hog.
No, but most CD/DVD/BluRay drives look the same, and I could easily mistake one for another at a glance.. that's it.. Plextor/TDK/Sony Design Patent Battle Royal!!!!
You design a tablet that is easily hand held with a flat screen, at a widely readable size, that is a compact as possible, and see how many designs you come up with that aren't similar. the iPad itself is very similar to several devices from years before the iPad.
And when they came for me... there was nobody left to stand up.
According to some supporters, it looks like you're breeding serial killers at that point... do we execute anyone who works as a censor for X days too many?
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anodized aluminum might be cool, and lighter than steel.. I think the wing-style doors are lame though.
7.5 is the new release version of "Phone"... 7 is the current release of windows/phone. 8 is the next version (expected late next year) that will unify the API structures. Your comment doesn't make sense.
There are plenty of .Net binaries that run cross platform... Mainly those designed with portability in mind... I suppose you could list the number of gtk+ or qt based apps that are magically cross platform? Cross platform support for a complex application isn't always a simple thing... And in Java dependencies on on native libraries is even harder to support cross platform than with .Net.
That aside... I don't trust MS to keep supporting their phone platform infrastructure yet. It's outside their core structure, and MS has a history of dropping edge case support.
Umn.. both iPhone and Andriod pre-date Windows Phone 7+ .. maybe you had an older windows mobile version of a phone. Windows Phone 7 isn't bad.. I just don't trust MS with my networked data after various times they've dropped support for similar initiatives. I'm pretty happy with Android, and have been a user since the G1, not on Boost with a rooted Samsung Prevail... If MS is still supporting any infrastructure they have in 3-5 years, I may consider it again.
In terms of workstation (equivalent to some server systems), the pricing is pretty competitive.. where Apple falters is the lower end workstation offerings (sub $2000). I usually to my desktop/workstation builds in the $1200-2000 range, where a Mac Pro isn't an option.
I think that OOo should just be moved under the LibreOffice management, and LO rebranded back to OO... just to preserve the branding OOo has built (for what it's worth).
I don't know that I would go that far, there are a lot of internal line of business web based applications... Many of these will use differing backend languages, but at least some JavaScript on the client-side. I would also say there is more business (internal) application development, that is web based, than the total of embedded systems programming.
I don't have a doubt in my mind that C is very widely used at systems level development, or that there is a lot of it. Only that there are more high-level language developers building web based applications for intranet/extranet use than any other segment... the only real commonality is JavaScript, not that it's the largest part of most of their jobs, but that the diversity of backend tools drops off that aspect.
I will say that most of those using JavaScript don't know the language all that well, and that someone who writes C code at least once a week is has better knowledge of the C language, than a typical JS dev does JS... As much as I like JS, I think there are a lot of people writing/using butchered code.
But the code the interpreter is running, is what language again? That's like saying all JavaScript written in Visual Studio is really .Net, or in Eclipse is really Java.
I think it's to integrate a map/reduce structure into SQL server... I haven't RTFA, but that is about it... I wouldn't necessarily expect them to use Hadoop directly, but to support Hadoop's interfaces. My $0.02 on this. I know a lot of people are using MongoDB, and other document centric datastores lately, and MS is moving to compete in their tool space. More power to them, doesn't mean it'll be my first choice.
This is emphatically not a trolling comment. I would say the most widely used programming language today is JavaScript.
That said, Dennis Ritchie is a father to modern computing. He wrote the language and platform that is the foundation of most computing in the world today. Including languages, styles and techniques that expanded on those foundations. The core of Unix is everywhere, and it's influence is seen at the near bare metal level of most computer systems (including Windows from NT forward, Linux and OSX). To me this is a far sadder day in the course of a technology based world that the loss of Steve Jobs.
I think it comes down to having 4-5 different vendors for a purpose that could, at least in theory, easily be serviced by one provider. I think that amazon's mp3 cloud is at least interesting, but I also use dropbox, and gdocs. It would be really cool to have them in one service, that integrated well. I think that many people were hoping to have that in apple's cloud service offering. Apple was/is in a unique position to offer that. MS has tried a few times, but floundered.
I have to agree. MS had a few chances now, and keep changing/transfering/rebranding their cloud storage offering. I've been a very happy dropbox user since early on... I keep my (encrypted) portable keepass, and a truecrypt volume for the stuff that I want secret.. the rest is documents I just want access to wherever I am (synced to several of my computers)... It just works, and does it surprisingly well. It would be nice to have an "Enterprise" version, where a company can act as a host for a version of that, for synchronizing websites/servers, and desktop clients. I know windows can use remote profile directories, and it works okay, but not as quickly, or smoothly. I also no that rsync does a good job, and use it, again not as smoothly.
Considering that apple has always been a champion of a "just works" philosophy, it is a bit odd to see them falter here.