Note that Alon Zakai, who published this demo, is also the person who wrote the Emscripten LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler. So I think he does deserve a cookie.:)
This is a feature we want to add, but we haven't got it yet. Until then, you can try the Bigger Text add-on, which adds simple font size controls instead.
The Android version uses the Android NDK to run Firefox's existing C and C++ code. A pure Java version would require rewriting all of that code in Java, which is a much harder task.
There's a bug that causes random system freezes on the original Droid and the Droid 2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602252
Unfortunately we just discovered this today, too late to fix it for beta 1. We'll fix it before the stable release, of course.
The beta release requires a newer processor than the Hero. See the system requirements page for details, and an experimental (non-optimized) build for older and low-end phones.
Note: I am on the Mobile Firefox development team.
Load time is definitely an issue on Maemo. The built-in MicroB browser uses "faststart" which means that it starts a process when the device starts up, and that process stays in memory even after you close the browser. Firefox 1.1 doesn't use faststart, but we and Nokia are working on it for version 2 which will be the default MeeGo browser.
The "fennec" process running after you close the window is a bug, and one that I don't think we've seen before. If you'd like to help us solve it, you can report it here or to bugzilla.mozilla.org. Thanks!
Note: I am on the FIrefox Mobile development team.
MeeGo for Handsets is actually based heavily on Maemo. From our point of view at least, it's an incremental change rather than a complete replacement. Firefox for MeeGo will be an evolution of Firefox for Maemo. Of course, it helps that the bulk of Firefox code is already platform- and toolkit-agnostic - for example, we already have Qt builds for Maemo 5.
But you can still do several in a first programming course. That's exactly what my intro CS course did. We worked with a functional language, an object-oriented language, a low-level assembly language, a logic programming language, and also theoretical constructs like finite automata.
The XO screen has a 200dpi grayscale reflective mode that's a lot like e-ink. Comparing my XO to my friend's Kindle, the XO has lower contrast but much higher resolution. Both are quite easy on the eyes.
Well, obviously you need a good teacher if you expect to teach anything. A tool alone doesn't teach. But in the hands of oa teacher who understands it, Logo is a great tool for teaching everything from beginning programming to AI and natural language processing. Read Seymour Papert's 1980 book Mindstorms for a description of how Logo worked when it was used well, as opposed to how it works when used poorly.
The caption for the picture as "drunken pirate". I am not saying that what they did was right but one can assume that there was alcohol in said cup. And that she's really a pirate!
"And if I install the desktop edition on my machine that does have a graphics card, and I want to run assorted servers on it, what will I find missing in this distribution?" Nothing. It's the same distribution. No matter which flavor you install initially, you can still use the package management tools to install any package from the Ubuntu repository.
"Now there's this fuzzy, apparently undocumented desktop/server distinction, so I have a 50% chance of guessing the wrong one." The difference is just in the default packages that are installed. The server installation doesn't include the Gnome desktop by default. Open your package manager and look at the dependencies for the "ubuntu-desktop" and "ubuntu-server" packages to see the exact list of defaults for each flavor.
These are just the defaults. You can still install Gnome or KDE on your "server", or MySQL on your "desktop". You can even install ubuntu-server and ubuntu-desktop if you want all of the default packages from both flavors.
No, A disc doesn't just contain a list of keys; it is encrypted such that only valid keys (i.e. keys not revoked when the disc was printed) can decrypt it. You can't just skip a step -- without a valid key, you can't decrypt the disc. Ed Felten has more info.
The latest OS upgrades have made my 770 a lot more stable and a little faster than it used to be. It's still slower than I'd like. I can't wait to try the 800.
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If you want to upgrade from 6.06 LTS to 6.10, run the following command (either via ALT-F2 or a terminal):
gksu "update-manager -c"
The -c switch tells it to look for upgrades at all. By default the 6.06 LTS release will not offer that automatically because of its long support cycle and high stability.
If you have a working network connection, it should then inform you about a new release and offer to upgrade your system.
The PDF file takes only two pages of text (and one page with a picture) to explain how and why ThreeBallot works. The rest of the file is discussion of variations, security analysis, comparison with other systems, and citations.
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Note that Alon Zakai, who published this demo, is also the person who wrote the Emscripten LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler. So I think he does deserve a cookie. :)
This is a feature we want to add, but we haven't got it yet. Until then, you can try the Bigger Text add-on, which adds simple font size controls instead.
The Android version uses the Android NDK to run Firefox's existing C and C++ code. A pure Java version would require rewriting all of that code in Java, which is a much harder task.
This article explains why the beta uses so much storage, and how we're making it smaller and faster in the next release.
See bug 591661 where this is reported - one of the comments has a (slightly annoying) workaround to use your own sync server in Fennec.
There's a bug that causes random system freezes on the original Droid and the Droid 2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602252 Unfortunately we just discovered this today, too late to fix it for beta 1. We'll fix it before the stable release, of course.
The beta release requires a newer processor than the Hero. See the system requirements page for details, and an experimental (non-optimized) build for older and low-end phones.
Note: I am on the Mobile Firefox development team.
Load time is definitely an issue on Maemo. The built-in MicroB browser uses "faststart" which means that it starts a process when the device starts up, and that process stays in memory even after you close the browser. Firefox 1.1 doesn't use faststart, but we and Nokia are working on it for version 2 which will be the default MeeGo browser.
The "fennec" process running after you close the window is a bug, and one that I don't think we've seen before. If you'd like to help us solve it, you can report it here or to bugzilla.mozilla.org. Thanks!
Note: I am on the FIrefox Mobile development team.
MeeGo for Handsets is actually based heavily on Maemo. From our point of view at least, it's an incremental change rather than a complete replacement. Firefox for MeeGo will be an evolution of Firefox for Maemo. Of course, it helps that the bulk of Firefox code is already platform- and toolkit-agnostic - for example, we already have Qt builds for Maemo 5.
Same here, also on an older AMD box.
Unfortunately, they can't all be first.
But you can still do several in a first programming course. That's exactly what my intro CS course did. We worked with a functional language, an object-oriented language, a low-level assembly language, a logic programming language, and also theoretical constructs like finite automata.
The XO screen has a 200dpi grayscale reflective mode that's a lot like e-ink. Comparing my XO to my friend's Kindle, the XO has lower contrast but much higher resolution. Both are quite easy on the eyes.
Sounds like they've been reading Halting State, the new sci-fi novel by Charles Stross involving gaming and British intelligence services.
Well, obviously you need a good teacher if you expect to teach anything. A tool alone doesn't teach. But in the hands of oa teacher who understands it, Logo is a great tool for teaching everything from beginning programming to AI and natural language processing. Read Seymour Papert's 1980 book Mindstorms for a description of how Logo worked when it was used well, as opposed to how it works when used poorly.
These are just the defaults. You can still install Gnome or KDE on your "server", or MySQL on your "desktop". You can even install ubuntu-server and ubuntu-desktop if you want all of the default packages from both flavors.
No, A disc doesn't just contain a list of keys; it is encrypted such that only valid keys (i.e. keys not revoked when the disc was printed) can decrypt it. You can't just skip a step -- without a valid key, you can't decrypt the disc. Ed Felten has more info.
No, he's talking about groups like Seattle Wireless who are building free metropolitan area networks.
The latest OS upgrades have made my 770 a lot more stable and a little faster than it used to be. It's still slower than I'd like. I can't wait to try the 800.
The PDF file takes only two pages of text (and one page with a picture) to explain how and why ThreeBallot works. The rest of the file is discussion of variations, security analysis, comparison with other systems, and citations.