Occasionally if Google Search decides that your recent queries look like those of an abusive bot, such as pasting in your credit card number to see if it's on any public list, it'll return a CAPTCHA and/or links to popular Windows antivirus software instead of search results.
I agree, but only to the extent that you can keep others' paws off your Chromebook.
I was under the impression that installing Wine required putting the Chromebook in developer mode, and enabling developer mode caused the Chromebook's firmware to display an "OS verification is off" interstitial for 30 seconds every time the Chromebook is turned on. You can skip the interstitial by pressing Ctrl+D, but someone else who turns on your Chromebook doesn't know this, and the interstitial directs the user to press Space and then Enter to perform a factory reset, which wipes all data from the Chromebook. This causes the user to lose all data that hasn't been backed up yet as well as the use of Wine until the user can return home to reinstall it.
the only copy of a wedding video, fresh from the camera, stored on windows and because ohh ahh copyrighted music for which the owner does not permission is in the background
Next time try planning ahead and encouraging a policy to play only free music at weddings in your extended family.
it takes what, 1 hour or something to re-download one these days?
That depends on where you live. If you live within range of 12 Mbps cable or fiber with a data transfer allowance of several hundred GB/mo or larger, redownloads can finish overnight. But if you're stuck on DSL, satellite, or fixed cellular, you'll probably need to stick with discs except for sub-2 GB indie games.
Secretary Clinton, Governor Johnson, and Dr. Stein didn't have quite as obvious parallels with Hitler's rise to power, as explained in articles by Adam Tod Brown and Robert Evans.
"Linux KVM" as in "If you want to run Windows GUI apps and Linux GUI apps at once, buy a desktop PC with Windows and put it on a KVM with another desktop PC running Linux." Or do even low-end Intel CPUs support VT now?
That's fine if you want to make one change, not so fine if you want to make several changes for which the maintainers have suggested that you make separate pull requests. The only way I'm aware of to merge upstream changes into your fork is to clone the whole project, pull from upstream, commit your merge to your fork, and then push to your fork. Or did you mean deleting and recreating the fork for each pull request?
Linus Torvalds, creator of git, recommends linux, exclusively, I think. [...] When git came out, how much crying there was over the absence of a gui. What horror, command line interface ONLY!
Because running on Windows vs. GNU/Linux is orthogonal to GUI vs. command line, "Where's the X11 front end?" is still a valid question.
partition your repositories at project, application/subsystem, or API boundaries Git works fine if you have, say, one repository for the compiler support / standard library or vendor's SDK, another for your project's application, maybe a third for your-stuff specific libraries shared among multiple projects.
Unless you need the guarantee of atomicity to ensure that a change that happens to break the ABI between "your project's application" and "your-stuff specific libraries shared among multiple projects" doesn't end up breaking anything else.
You glue them together in the makefile common inclusions.
I'm interested. Can you link to an example of these "makefile common inclusions"? And how well does it work when the "your-stuff specific libraries" include C or C++ inline functions, or when different projects build the "your-stuff specific libraries" with different compile-time options? In these cases, you actually need to ensure each project has an updated copy of the library's source code rather than just building the library separately and copying it into the application as object code.
Commits are atomic within a repository. If you split the repository into multiple repositories, commits to things in separate repositories become no longer atomic.
Let me take two guesses as to why you might see a monolithic repository:
First, all applications with the potential to be shipped together may rely on common libraries, and the build process needs to know how to combine the libraries with the source code specific to each application. I'm under the impression that the logistics of this are similar when everything is in one repository.
Second, paid hosts of private Git repositories used to bill users per repository, not (say) per gigabyte of storage or data transfer. People would circumvent costs by using fewer repositories.
But if multiple applications in Office share a library, where do you put that library so that the build process for each Office application can see it? Are submodules or subtrees a good choice, and if "yes," which is more appropriate?
As opposed to something like EFF's HTTPS Everywhere project, which stores its FAQ in its Git repository. If you want to suggest a change to the user manual, you have to fork the project on GitHub, clone your fork to your local PC, make changes, commit and push them to your fork, and then make a pull request on GitHub. Not having to spend bandwidth (and potentially pay overage fees) on cloning the whole thing to your local PC would make it easier to suggest changes.
Why? Without the ruling in Sony v. Universal that found Betamax recorders legal to sell in the United States, there would be no VCR, no DVR, and probably not even camcorders for the amateur market.
in many countries we have a legal right to return anything bought online for any reason within a certain time frame
Do "many countries" require the seller to refund shipping and cover return shipping for "works as advertised, but buyer didn't like it" returns? If not, how much can one expect to spend on return shipping trying to find the perfect laptop? Or if so, how many immigrants can "many countries" absorb?
Considering the webserver we had was only a quad-core, that would have been 62.5% of the available CPU time just for HTTPS encryption
But you also said there's "very little actual per-request dynamic server-side processing", which would presumably easily fit in the remaining 37.5 percent.
And run the clients on what, particularly when a student's parents don't subscribe to high-speed Internet at home? In case you meant that the student should use an X server on a Windows 10 Cloud laptop to view an IDE running on an application server operated by the school through LTE tethering, that tends to run $10 per GB in Microsoft's home country. How much data per hour does an X server transfer when running a popular IDE?
[thinkpenguin.com]: nothing bigger or smaller than 14 inches. What company that isn't a Linux Mint partner makes laptops that work well with Linux Mint?
System76
On System76.com, I see 14", 15", and 17". You have a point on the bigger side but not on the smaller side.
Last time I checked, Dell sold a 13 inch XPS that runs Linux, but I've read elsewhere that Dell requires buyers to provide a valid company name.
I looked it up, and "marching orders" more generally means "orders to move on". Microsoft wants laptop makers to move on from excessive focus on feature-poor laptops toward making PCs that take advantage of new features in Windows 10.Anniversary.
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Occasionally if Google Search decides that your recent queries look like those of an abusive bot, such as pasting in your credit card number to see if it's on any public list, it'll return a CAPTCHA and/or links to popular Windows antivirus software instead of search results.
my cynical self makes me wonder if this is a trial balloon for upcoming releases of Windows.
I'll believe it's a trial balloon for eliminating third-party stores once Visual Studio is available in the form of a "Windows Store app".
I agree, but only to the extent that you can keep others' paws off your Chromebook.
I was under the impression that installing Wine required putting the Chromebook in developer mode, and enabling developer mode caused the Chromebook's firmware to display an "OS verification is off" interstitial for 30 seconds every time the Chromebook is turned on. You can skip the interstitial by pressing Ctrl+D, but someone else who turns on your Chromebook doesn't know this, and the interstitial directs the user to press Space and then Enter to perform a factory reset, which wipes all data from the Chromebook. This causes the user to lose all data that hasn't been backed up yet as well as the use of Wine until the user can return home to reinstall it.
the only copy of a wedding video, fresh from the camera, stored on windows and because ohh ahh copyrighted music for which the owner does not permission is in the background
Next time try planning ahead and encouraging a policy to play only free music at weddings in your extended family.
What pocket-size hardware firewall do you recommend for use with a laptop computer?
if you are a private person the sales tax/VAT is collected by the seller.
How does the EU get a seller with no assets in the EU to collect EU VAT?
it takes what, 1 hour or something to re-download one these days?
That depends on where you live. If you live within range of 12 Mbps cable or fiber with a data transfer allowance of several hundred GB/mo or larger, redownloads can finish overnight. But if you're stuck on DSL, satellite, or fixed cellular, you'll probably need to stick with discs except for sub-2 GB indie games.
Secretary Clinton, Governor Johnson, and Dr. Stein didn't have quite as obvious parallels with Hitler's rise to power, as explained in articles by Adam Tod Brown and Robert Evans.
"Linux KVM" as in "If you want to run Windows GUI apps and Linux GUI apps at once, buy a desktop PC with Windows and put it on a KVM with another desktop PC running Linux." Or do even low-end Intel CPUs support VT now?
That's fine if you want to make one change, not so fine if you want to make several changes for which the maintainers have suggested that you make separate pull requests. The only way I'm aware of to merge upstream changes into your fork is to clone the whole project, pull from upstream, commit your merge to your fork, and then push to your fork. Or did you mean deleting and recreating the fork for each pull request?
With what did Office Open XML (OOXML) clash? The free office suite was using Open Document Format (ODF) at the time.
I'm pretty sure AC #53795299 is referring to the MTP backend of GNOME Virtual File System.
Linus Torvalds, creator of git, recommends linux, exclusively, I think. [...] When git came out, how much crying there was over the absence of a gui. What horror, command line interface ONLY!
Because running on Windows vs. GNU/Linux is orthogonal to GUI vs. command line, "Where's the X11 front end?" is still a valid question.
So buy a bigger disk. They're cheap.
Not if you want both the speed of an SSD and enough capacity for your project in a laptop that's practical to carry.
partition your repositories at project, application/subsystem, or API boundaries Git works fine if you have, say, one repository for the compiler support / standard library or vendor's SDK, another for your project's application, maybe a third for your-stuff specific libraries shared among multiple projects.
Unless you need the guarantee of atomicity to ensure that a change that happens to break the ABI between "your project's application" and "your-stuff specific libraries shared among multiple projects" doesn't end up breaking anything else.
You glue them together in the makefile common inclusions.
I'm interested. Can you link to an example of these "makefile common inclusions"? And how well does it work when the "your-stuff specific libraries" include C or C++ inline functions, or when different projects build the "your-stuff specific libraries" with different compile-time options? In these cases, you actually need to ensure each project has an updated copy of the library's source code rather than just building the library separately and copying it into the application as object code.
Commits are atomic within a repository. If you split the repository into multiple repositories, commits to things in separate repositories become no longer atomic.
Let me take two guesses as to why you might see a monolithic repository:
First, all applications with the potential to be shipped together may rely on common libraries, and the build process needs to know how to combine the libraries with the source code specific to each application. I'm under the impression that the logistics of this are similar when everything is in one repository.
Second, paid hosts of private Git repositories used to bill users per repository, not (say) per gigabyte of storage or data transfer. People would circumvent costs by using fewer repositories.
But if multiple applications in Office share a library, where do you put that library so that the build process for each Office application can see it? Are submodules or subtrees a good choice, and if "yes," which is more appropriate?
As opposed to something like EFF's HTTPS Everywhere project, which stores its FAQ in its Git repository. If you want to suggest a change to the user manual, you have to fork the project on GitHub, clone your fork to your local PC, make changes, commit and push them to your fork, and then make a pull request on GitHub. Not having to spend bandwidth (and potentially pay overage fees) on cloning the whole thing to your local PC would make it easier to suggest changes.
And im still pissed over betamax
Why? Without the ruling in Sony v. Universal that found Betamax recorders legal to sell in the United States, there would be no VCR, no DVR, and probably not even camcorders for the amateur market.
in many countries we have a legal right to return anything bought online for any reason within a certain time frame
Do "many countries" require the seller to refund shipping and cover return shipping for "works as advertised, but buyer didn't like it" returns? If not, how much can one expect to spend on return shipping trying to find the perfect laptop? Or if so, how many immigrants can "many countries" absorb?
using a modern cypher, like AES will eat up around 2.5 cores by itself if your data rate is ~1gb/s
Newer server CPUs have hardware acceleration for AES, or you can put crypto in a shader and run it on a GPU.
Considering the webserver we had was only a quad-core, that would have been 62.5% of the available CPU time just for HTTPS encryption
But you also said there's "very little actual per-request dynamic server-side processing", which would presumably easily fit in the remaining 37.5 percent.
And run the clients on what, particularly when a student's parents don't subscribe to high-speed Internet at home? In case you meant that the student should use an X server on a Windows 10 Cloud laptop to view an IDE running on an application server operated by the school through LTE tethering, that tends to run $10 per GB in Microsoft's home country. How much data per hour does an X server transfer when running a popular IDE?
[thinkpenguin.com]: nothing bigger or smaller than 14 inches. What company that isn't a Linux Mint partner makes laptops that work well with Linux Mint?
System76
On System76.com, I see 14", 15", and 17". You have a point on the bigger side but not on the smaller side.
Last time I checked, Dell sold a 13 inch XPS that runs Linux, but I've read elsewhere that Dell requires buyers to provide a valid company name.
I looked it up, and "marching orders" more generally means "orders to move on". Microsoft wants laptop makers to move on from excessive focus on feature-poor laptops toward making PCs that take advantage of new features in Windows 10.Anniversary.