some sort of kiosk home automation interface. with all the apps and heavy lifting being done on the server. for what i want to do away from my desktop the only app missing is a IM client.
if you look at iptables you can in fact block outbound connections as well. So yes you can lock down all ports/addresses the machine has no business talking on/too.
your in car GPS is using the unscrambled height measurements so that you can know your true position? You did know that consumer GPS doesn't have the real height in it, right? it uses an altimiter to guess at your height. Now if you had to sign a paper and pass a background check and had a reason to have it (say you are the party responsible for maintaining the safe "cap" over a contaminated area) Expecting your GPS to be more accurate than your car is folly. your GPS is what? 3 feet? 5 feet? hmm pretty easy to get a 0 speed on that even when walking.:P
did you buy the ebook? or did you really rent it until they say otherwise for a one time fee? i'm pretty sure it is the latter. What you are looking for isn't the hardware, it's the software/formats.
try xrandr, or setting up the monitor section of your xorg.conf. Sorry i don't remember the commands been a long long time since i've had something other than an nvidia card. --primary for a --output section seems promising, "man xrandr"
wow, shocked, yet again the ATI drivers suck... but yes, some outputs don't work on all gpus, try a different one.(i know you have an intel something.)
compiz messes with wine on nvidia, i have it off *shrug*
i was under the impression that KMS was to prevent "flicker" when going from a VT to X. Not that it was going to boot any faster.
i'm not really shocked about the power usage, hmm same apps running, similar power draw. probably with very similar kernels. Tried enabling screen dimming and cpu speed throttling? adjusting things like how long/often the kernel writes to the drives (laptop mode)? i'm not that surprised that the desktop version of the distro hasn't set these things up for you.I hear there is a netbook version "remix?"
As a note, I've been running gentoo since 2003/2004, and before that i was running suse and redhat, earliest version of redhat i know i used was redhat 6. I probably played around on redhat 4 or 5. Be happy that you didn't have to write your own init system, or had to find rpms before a package manager.
*shaking stick* Now get off my lawn, whipper snapper!:P
actully for me it''s more like $0.50 a movie if i wanted to maximize my Netflix usage, with no late fees and no having to go out of my way at all. Most of the movies I own i have watched a lot, those I don't i'm not likely to own. If I liked it when it shipped to me, I probably went out and bought it when i wanted to see it again. All the movies from netflix are the same "price", unlike at blockbuster, also i get to keep them as long as i like, those things along with the fact that i send and receive movies from my mailbox a few feet from my house are the reasons blockbuster is not doing so well.
Chicken little is forgetting that my netflix queue is about 4 weeks long at the moment even on the 3 day turnaround (1 to get it, 1 to watch it, 1 to get it sent back). so since Netflix has a "add this upcomming movie to my queue" button, i don't think it will matter much to me.
multi headed/multi VT where both me and my wife have use of the same machine somewhat at the same time. to be fair, try getting plugging in of a flash drive to work on the same set up. I hear consolekit/policykit are susposted to help.
Really the only advantage i see of Pulse is the per app volume control. NAS (http://www.radscan.com/nas.html) and ESD (http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html) both provide the ability to pipe sound across the network. Now if Pulse could set that networked sound up based on SSH connections, and had a decent console app to change which sink to use (idk i haven't looked), it would be worth alot more to me. or if it had sinks and sources for macOSX/windows, i would be even more likely to set it up. think storage server hooked up the the stereo with a mac mini running boxee playing the content. Even better say i buy a N900, i should be able to advertise my server/desktop connected to the nice sound as a sink on the network, and have it show up, and be able to pulse that when you see this sink, make it the default.
There still should be documentation for this kind of a thing for distros. Not all of them are backed by for profit companies(or wealth individuals). Also most of my complaint is spending 3 hours tinkering with sound, to get it working again, with the very real chance that i may have to revert because a few of the apps i depend on don't work right.
I just looked into setting up pulse on Gentoo, Arch, and LFS... It's a freeking nightmare. Nowhere is it mentioned what needs to be done to have 2 users on the same system have sounds played at the same time out of the same sink. It seems like you need to set the system-wide daemon up, but no "in event of a multi user desktop do foo". Why do i need to set up ALSA when i use pulse? ohh so apps that don't have pulse support can talk ALSA. and what about all of the problems with Wine and Pulse? To me the biggest advantage of pulse would be per app volume control. Now what would be even better is if i could say set up a reference sound to a min and max volume, and then never touch a volume slider again because the system would just normalize my audio for me.
So lets see hours of setting up pulse to get per volume sliders(and hoping it works with wine) or stick with ALSA and have everything "just work".... hard choice that one.
not only that, but I don't see that roof taking any sort of now load.
I wonder what wind speed will cause those panels to blow off the house.
What happens when it hails (grape sized and bigger) how many years will the panels last for?
Do they have an energy storage method, saying that by selling back to the grid they pay off the solar panels is silly because if everyone did this the price you sell back at would plummet.
What happens to this when it is -40F out?
What was the material cost as a percentage of the cost to build a similar sized conventional house?
What are the projected matinace costs over the life of the panels?
How quickly can a damaged panel be replaced? and can it be replaced on a live system or do the nearby panels need to covered up?
Can i run normal household appliances? how about semi uncommon ones; ex: Arc welder, a 3 axis mill?
Thats all i could think of off the top of my head. I'm sure i would have others walking around in the house.
let me know when apple leverages it's monopoly position in OS's to enter and dominate the browser market, and when Safari is almost entirety non standards compliant, and is required for even basic functions of main OS components (think windows updates, or embedding web content in winforms).
seeing as my bank has both my phone number and address, I would assume that any really important communication would be done via a paper mail to come in and talk to a banker, or a phone call to come in and talk to a banker. Also there is no way o provide my account number to a "bank" that called me and wanted me to verify it.
what if 2 months ago, before all of this you bought one? say you can't return it; do you A) toss it out, and spend another 500 on a new card, or B) use the "hack" mentioned in TFA. If you happen to have the spare ~500 I know a good place for you to donate it (my checking account)
but not any player can sync using itunes. Also can things like the pre update ratings on songs? does the xml file have the autoplaylist of the best rated oldest last play time songs in it? if not i can see where syncing via iTunes would be a good thing for the consumer. Also who whats to launch yet another app just to sync your device. I see both side of this, I understand that apple doesn't want to support other companies hardware/software but why not just look and if it's not apple, pop up a message saying that "apple inc. is not responsible for any malfunction of this device after syncing. Contact the manufacturer of the device for esupport" or some such and be done with the whole thing. I agree this is simmilar to MS looking to see which version of windows office is being installed to, and if it sees "WINE" it crashes, but edit WINE source to say "WHINE" instead and office is happy. IMHO Apple should just pop up a scarry message that you get every time a sync starts, when an non ipod connects. but let anything that can notify the service that it speaks iPod to sync.
I think you missed the big point here. How long does it take to fill a car full pf petrol? 5 minutes? 7 if you get a line at the till.
Now on a long trip with kids, 15-20 minutes would be a fine amount of time to stop, assuming there is a place for the kids to run around for a bit while the car charges. If it is just me by myself, I need a whole 5 minutes.
The problem I see with electric cars on trips exceeding their range, is I don't want to stop every 500 miles for 8+ hours just to "fill the tank". Even more annoying is when your trip is say 530 miles.(8 hours, 50minutes @ an average 60MPH) The problem here is that you'll want to stop and charge the car slightly before it runs out. Say 475 miles. if it takes 4 hours to fill up my total trip time is now close to 13 hours. It would probably have been 9-9.5 in a petrol car. If they can get charge times to say triple the time it takes to fill the tank, I'll stop caring much as long as the car goes 300+ miles, and I can easily find refilling stations on my route as needed via highway signs.
ME TO!
okay now that that is out of the way, i remember having to write words large numbers of time as "Spelling" homework back in elementary school. All that did for me is cause me to spell the words wrong if the first time i wrote it, i did it wrong. I learn best by doing, and by having my mistakes corrected as early in the process as possible.
I also remembering being "taught" algebra in middle school and in early highschool and getting lower marks for not showing my work for a problem like (x+3)/5=3. (x=12 in this for those of you to lazy to solve it.) because i solved the whole thing in my head in a fraction of a second, and wrote down x=12.
Doing large numbers of new things on my own(like fractions in the GP) will either do nothing because i already know them, or ingrain the incorrect way of doing them so well that it will take a lot of work to remove it.
there is a way at least on linux to do both addressing types you wanted. look up HAL phys, and vendor/model ID addressing. The phys ports are not numbered 1,2,3,4,N but it does work. I had a mouse with a special symbol in it's vendor/model ID so i had to use phys port addressing. The only way something like this will beat USB3 is if it provides power over the connection as well. As for using it for everything, does that mean i'll be able to plug my mouse into my video card, and my monitor into my motherboard and not notice at all? It would be great to have one universal connector so i could then just tell grandma "yea, go ahead and just plug it in only one way to plug it in. should then just pop up/work/etc" As far as using it for displays, does that mean my video card will need to be able to address 254 displays at the same time?
"every new Linux kernel release drops support for a few legacy bits of hardware to keep the kernel from becoming over-sized."
very little seems to get dropped out of the main line kernel. I think you are mixing up "pre-compiled kernel that Ubuntu shipped me" with "Kernel source from www.kernel.org". in fact i saw support for the TV tuner of my voodoo3500TV card added about 6 months back, and how new is that card?
I will give you that on a Dell/HP/lenovo/etc machine the hard ware compatibility is there. Try installing Win7 on my Transmeta TM5800 with 256MB ram and a messed up mach64 pci video card. Guess what, gentoo and Arch would both be quite happy to be there, were it not for the broken harddrive. I'm betting almost none of the important hardware works under Win7(wifi/video/cpu frequency scaling/maybe even the IDE driver.) Add to that the fact that i need to set the network card into 10MB mode instead of 100MB mode, and you'll see why it's not always the case that windows has better hardware support.
best quickest link i found for it. http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/fujitsu-lifebook-p2110-crusoe/1707-3121_7-20034121.html
I bet i can get arch up and running with full hardware support(even the buttons on the bezzel faster than you can install win7 on it with the same hardware compatibility.
Also Ubuntu != Linux (yes i'm a ubuntu hater, because of problems like these.
I'm betting the issue with the install is that the installer is expecting the cdrom to be the first "scsi"(read anything using the new ata/scsi stacks) device, I would sugest making sure that your cdrom dive is plugged into the first sata port and trying again. If that doens't fix it there may be a cdrom=/dev/sdX option you can pass. I have never been able to get ubuntu installed, but managed(4 years ago) to install gentoo on the above laptop, my old desktop and my (was tp of the line) AM2 rig. I also have installed Arch in a KVM virtual machine. So it's not the the unbuntu installer is too hard.
This is just the strap, probably something like http://www.polarusa.com/us-en/products/accessories/WearLink_Strap . I'm betting all this device is going to be used for is being able to put a hard number on the grade for the day. "jimmy i see you kept your heart rate above the target for 10 minutes today, you needed 15 minutes to get an A, so you get a B." Something like that. Most heart monitors these days have a watch like computer and a strap with a detachable transmitter. It would seem that this a good thing for the school to have each student acquire, for health reasons. I wonder about who/how they will be fitted on the female students as the transmitters need to rest on the sternum, just below the bust. In my Wife's case that is just under the bottom edge of her sports bra. Any ways, the strap i linked is $18US, I'm assumming the school is handling the actual order and shipping , and in that case it may be less than that. Also before someone jumps on it, I would also hope that the school is providing one to those students that could not afford it.
and what if the human is loaded with the tools to examine it? say we run into a interesting microbe, and the guy we send down doesn't really know microbes? Or doesn't know how to handle whatever it is that we find on the surface once we get there. Also as other have pointed out that getting something as squishy as a human down to mars, and then back up (i think thats a silly requirement, one way trip, make sure you advertise it as such.) Is a huge task, one that would probably be made easier by doing a better survay of mars with robots with human overlords in orbit while working out how to get the humans down there with them. You would also have to figure out a way to the decontaminate the humans before disambarking on mars, and then again once they get back on the space ship. I wouldn't want to bring back anything infectious from mars. Even ignoring the landing humans on the surface part. The humans will be in space for ~2 years (if i'm remembering the RTT of a trp to mars), I want to see you work out a way to feed them for that long, let alone keep them in extreame captivity for that long without them going crazy. No inducing comas isn't an option, due to teh extreme atrophy that would cause. In short it's going to be a huge engineering chalange to even get a flyby of mars with humans. I'd gladly help pay for it, if it is a milestone on the road to some real collonazation, or deep space effort.
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some sort of kiosk home automation interface. with all the apps and heavy lifting being done on the server. for what i want to do away from my desktop the only app missing is a IM client.
if you look at iptables you can in fact block outbound connections as well. So yes you can lock down all ports/addresses the machine has no business talking on/too.
how about the moving van? Ever move a family of four in a house? or hell either of my grandmothers.
your in car GPS is using the unscrambled height measurements so that you can know your true position? You did know that consumer GPS doesn't have the real height in it, right? it uses an altimiter to guess at your height. Now if you had to sign a paper and pass a background check and had a reason to have it (say you are the party responsible for maintaining the safe "cap" over a contaminated area) Expecting your GPS to be more accurate than your car is folly. your GPS is what? 3 feet? 5 feet? hmm pretty easy to get a 0 speed on that even when walking. :P
did you buy the ebook? or did you really rent it until they say otherwise for a one time fee? i'm pretty sure it is the latter. What you are looking for isn't the hardware, it's the software/formats.
As a note, I've been running gentoo since 2003/2004, and before that i was running suse and redhat, earliest version of redhat i know i used was redhat 6. I probably played around on redhat 4 or 5. Be happy that you didn't have to write your own init system, or had to find rpms before a package manager.
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*shaking stick* Now get off my lawn, whipper snapper!
you are plotting the wrong things, try "getting something useful done" on the X and "amount of learning needed" on the Y.
actully for me it''s more like $0.50 a movie if i wanted to maximize my Netflix usage, with no late fees and no having to go out of my way at all. Most of the movies I own i have watched a lot, those I don't i'm not likely to own. If I liked it when it shipped to me, I probably went out and bought it when i wanted to see it again. All the movies from netflix are the same "price", unlike at blockbuster, also i get to keep them as long as i like, those things along with the fact that i send and receive movies from my mailbox a few feet from my house are the reasons blockbuster is not doing so well.
Chicken little is forgetting that my netflix queue is about 4 weeks long at the moment even on the 3 day turnaround (1 to get it, 1 to watch it, 1 to get it sent back). so since Netflix has a "add this upcomming movie to my queue" button, i don't think it will matter much to me.
there are micro A and micro B ports, so they could have been those he was referring too
multi headed/multi VT where both me and my wife have use of the same machine somewhat at the same time. to be fair, try getting plugging in of a flash drive to work on the same set up. I hear consolekit/policykit are susposted to help.
Really the only advantage i see of Pulse is the per app volume control. NAS (http://www.radscan.com/nas.html) and ESD (http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html) both provide the ability to pipe sound across the network. Now if Pulse could set that networked sound up based on SSH connections, and had a decent console app to change which sink to use (idk i haven't looked), it would be worth alot more to me. or if it had sinks and sources for macOSX/windows, i would be even more likely to set it up. think storage server hooked up the the stereo with a mac mini running boxee playing the content. Even better say i buy a N900, i should be able to advertise my server/desktop connected to the nice sound as a sink on the network, and have it show up, and be able to pulse that when you see this sink, make it the default.
There still should be documentation for this kind of a thing for distros. Not all of them are backed by for profit companies(or wealth individuals). Also most of my complaint is spending 3 hours tinkering with sound, to get it working again, with the very real chance that i may have to revert because a few of the apps i depend on don't work right.
I just looked into setting up pulse on Gentoo, Arch, and LFS... It's a freeking nightmare. Nowhere is it mentioned what needs to be done to have 2 users on the same system have sounds played at the same time out of the same sink. It seems like you need to set the system-wide daemon up, but no "in event of a multi user desktop do foo". Why do i need to set up ALSA when i use pulse? ohh so apps that don't have pulse support can talk ALSA. and what about all of the problems with Wine and Pulse? To me the biggest advantage of pulse would be per app volume control. Now what would be even better is if i could say set up a reference sound to a min and max volume, and then never touch a volume slider again because the system would just normalize my audio for me.
So lets see hours of setting up pulse to get per volume sliders(and hoping it works with wine) or stick with ALSA and have everything "just work".... hard choice that one.
dmix, it should just work if it doesn't you may need to set it up... google == friend
Thats all i could think of off the top of my head. I'm sure i would have others walking around in the house.
let me know when apple leverages it's monopoly position in OS's to enter and dominate the browser market, and when Safari is almost entirety non standards compliant, and is required for even basic functions of main OS components (think windows updates, or embedding web content in winforms).
seeing as my bank has both my phone number and address, I would assume that any really important communication would be done via a paper mail to come in and talk to a banker, or a phone call to come in and talk to a banker. Also there is no way o provide my account number to a "bank" that called me and wanted me to verify it.
what if 2 months ago, before all of this you bought one? say you can't return it; do you A) toss it out, and spend another 500 on a new card, or B) use the "hack" mentioned in TFA. If you happen to have the spare ~500 I know a good place for you to donate it (my checking account)
and the druids were standing around saying, "this one and that one, can we swap them around?"
but not any player can sync using itunes. Also can things like the pre update ratings on songs? does the xml file have the autoplaylist of the best rated oldest last play time songs in it? if not i can see where syncing via iTunes would be a good thing for the consumer. Also who whats to launch yet another app just to sync your device. I see both side of this, I understand that apple doesn't want to support other companies hardware/software but why not just look and if it's not apple, pop up a message saying that "apple inc. is not responsible for any malfunction of this device after syncing. Contact the manufacturer of the device for esupport" or some such and be done with the whole thing. I agree this is simmilar to MS looking to see which version of windows office is being installed to, and if it sees "WINE" it crashes, but edit WINE source to say "WHINE" instead and office is happy. IMHO Apple should just pop up a scarry message that you get every time a sync starts, when an non ipod connects. but let anything that can notify the service that it speaks iPod to sync.
I think you missed the big point here. How long does it take to fill a car full pf petrol? 5 minutes? 7 if you get a line at the till.
Now on a long trip with kids, 15-20 minutes would be a fine amount of time to stop, assuming there is a place for the kids to run around for a bit while the car charges. If it is just me by myself, I need a whole 5 minutes.
The problem I see with electric cars on trips exceeding their range, is I don't want to stop every 500 miles for 8+ hours just to "fill the tank". Even more annoying is when your trip is say 530 miles.(8 hours, 50minutes @ an average 60MPH) The problem here is that you'll want to stop and charge the car slightly before it runs out. Say 475 miles. if it takes 4 hours to fill up my total trip time is now close to 13 hours. It would probably have been 9-9.5 in a petrol car. If they can get charge times to say triple the time it takes to fill the tank, I'll stop caring much as long as the car goes 300+ miles, and I can easily find refilling stations on my route as needed via highway signs.
ME TO! okay now that that is out of the way, i remember having to write words large numbers of time as "Spelling" homework back in elementary school. All that did for me is cause me to spell the words wrong if the first time i wrote it, i did it wrong. I learn best by doing, and by having my mistakes corrected as early in the process as possible.
I also remembering being "taught" algebra in middle school and in early highschool and getting lower marks for not showing my work for a problem like (x+3)/5=3. (x=12 in this for those of you to lazy to solve it.) because i solved the whole thing in my head in a fraction of a second, and wrote down x=12.
Doing large numbers of new things on my own(like fractions in the GP) will either do nothing because i already know them, or ingrain the incorrect way of doing them so well that it will take a lot of work to remove it.
there is a way at least on linux to do both addressing types you wanted. look up HAL phys, and vendor/model ID addressing. The phys ports are not numbered 1,2,3,4,N but it does work. I had a mouse with a special symbol in it's vendor/model ID so i had to use phys port addressing. The only way something like this will beat USB3 is if it provides power over the connection as well. As for using it for everything, does that mean i'll be able to plug my mouse into my video card, and my monitor into my motherboard and not notice at all? It would be great to have one universal connector so i could then just tell grandma "yea, go ahead and just plug it in only one way to plug it in. should then just pop up/work/etc" As far as using it for displays, does that mean my video card will need to be able to address 254 displays at the same time?
"every new Linux kernel release drops support for a few legacy bits of hardware to keep the kernel from becoming over-sized."
very little seems to get dropped out of the main line kernel. I think you are mixing up "pre-compiled kernel that Ubuntu shipped me" with "Kernel source from www.kernel.org". in fact i saw support for the TV tuner of my voodoo3500TV card added about 6 months back, and how new is that card?
I will give you that on a Dell/HP/lenovo/etc machine the hard ware compatibility is there. Try installing Win7 on my Transmeta TM5800 with 256MB ram and a messed up mach64 pci video card. Guess what, gentoo and Arch would both be quite happy to be there, were it not for the broken harddrive. I'm betting almost none of the important hardware works under Win7(wifi/video/cpu frequency scaling/maybe even the IDE driver.) Add to that the fact that i need to set the network card into 10MB mode instead of 100MB mode, and you'll see why it's not always the case that windows has better hardware support.
best quickest link i found for it. http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/fujitsu-lifebook-p2110-crusoe/1707-3121_7-20034121.html
I bet i can get arch up and running with full hardware support(even the buttons on the bezzel faster than you can install win7 on it with the same hardware compatibility.
Also Ubuntu != Linux (yes i'm a ubuntu hater, because of problems like these.
I'm betting the issue with the install is that the installer is expecting the cdrom to be the first "scsi"(read anything using the new ata/scsi stacks) device, I would sugest making sure that your cdrom dive is plugged into the first sata port and trying again. If that doens't fix it there may be a cdrom=/dev/sdX option you can pass. I have never been able to get ubuntu installed, but managed(4 years ago) to install gentoo on the above laptop, my old desktop and my (was tp of the line) AM2 rig. I also have installed Arch in a KVM virtual machine. So it's not the the unbuntu installer is too hard.
This is just the strap, probably something like http://www.polarusa.com/us-en/products/accessories/WearLink_Strap . I'm betting all this device is going to be used for is being able to put a hard number on the grade for the day. "jimmy i see you kept your heart rate above the target for 10 minutes today, you needed 15 minutes to get an A, so you get a B." Something like that. Most heart monitors these days have a watch like computer and a strap with a detachable transmitter. It would seem that this a good thing for the school to have each student acquire, for health reasons. I wonder about who/how they will be fitted on the female students as the transmitters need to rest on the sternum, just below the bust. In my Wife's case that is just under the bottom edge of her sports bra. Any ways, the strap i linked is $18US, I'm assumming the school is handling the actual order and shipping , and in that case it may be less than that. Also before someone jumps on it, I would also hope that the school is providing one to those students that could not afford it.
and what if the human is loaded with the tools to examine it? say we run into a interesting microbe, and the guy we send down doesn't really know microbes? Or doesn't know how to handle whatever it is that we find on the surface once we get there. Also as other have pointed out that getting something as squishy as a human down to mars, and then back up (i think thats a silly requirement, one way trip, make sure you advertise it as such.) Is a huge task, one that would probably be made easier by doing a better survay of mars with robots with human overlords in orbit while working out how to get the humans down there with them. You would also have to figure out a way to the decontaminate the humans before disambarking on mars, and then again once they get back on the space ship. I wouldn't want to bring back anything infectious from mars. Even ignoring the landing humans on the surface part. The humans will be in space for ~2 years (if i'm remembering the RTT of a trp to mars), I want to see you work out a way to feed them for that long, let alone keep them in extreame captivity for that long without them going crazy. No inducing comas isn't an option, due to teh extreme atrophy that would cause. In short it's going to be a huge engineering chalange to even get a flyby of mars with humans. I'd gladly help pay for it, if it is a milestone on the road to some real collonazation, or deep space effort.