Yes, but hibernating and restoring an OS image could be too slow. On my notebook hibernating 4 GB or RAM and restoring it takes longer than rebooting and restarting every single open application. Probably Android and ChromeOS don't use all of that RAM (but Ubuntu does) and there are many storage systems faster than my 5,400 rpm hard disk. Anyway the switching time is critical. What I saw in those video is a fast way of switching, not much worse than alt-tab or clicking on a VM window. A 5 s switch time would be OK, 30 seconds would be unbearable when one knows there are better alternatives.
I used to develop Ruby on Rails applications on a Windows XP box. I had a Linux VM (actually a colinux Windows process) with the database and the application server, because running RoR on Windows is so painful and furthermore I had to deploy on linux anyway. I used Windows for all the client applications (the browser, occasional use of graphic programs). I edited with emacs inside colinux. Then I realized that all the software I was using was open source (thunderbird, open office, media players, etc) and reformatted my pc to linux. I'm using a few Virtualbox Windows VMs to test with IE now but my workflow greatly improved by developing on the native platform I'm developing for. And no, I don't need Windows for games (that would have been a problem).
Or he can see UV reflected by sunscreen lotions. That would be a good test to check if he can really see UV. I guess that the reflected wavelengths of different products might vary and he might not be able to see all of them, nevertheless a crowded beach should provide a good enough sample.
I checked that on my Linux box right now: 10 tabs open in Firefox: 1% CPU, 3 tabs open in Chromium on Google Docs: 6% CPU. Is it possible that your 15% CPU usage depends on the sites you have opened in your tabs? You should start with an empty browser, add one site per time and check if any of them makes your CPU usage spike.
Italy recently slowed down the release cycle of its governments (3 since 2001). The post WWII governments of Japan seem a much more appropriate target for this kind of jokes. They've always been much faster at creating new governments than the Italians (50 vs 21 after WWII). The question is: which is Chrome and which is Firefox?:-)
If we do, just flash it with Cyanogenmod or other stuff like that and turn it into in a cheap standard Android tablet.
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Please allow me to disagree. The taskbar is useless if you have two or three of windows open: just alt-tab or click on the windows to switch among them. When you have 20 windows and you know where they are (which desktop, which position, just buried under other windows) the compiz cube and the taskbar are handy. I get seasick with the screen zooming in and out and all the windows moving, and I don't get seasick at sea. Furthermore, the gnome way of switching between windows is a plain loss of time. It's a very cool way of impressing the friends when using your pc as a home theater but a very annoying one to get some real work done. Obviously this is subjective but my desktop effectiveness ranking is Gnome Classic > Unity > Gnome Shell. I'll hold on Gnome Classic as long as I can and then switch to something else. Furthermore I don't care about all the integrations the Gnome devs are proud about.
However I understand that leaving Gnome as it was two years ago would probably mean killing the project. Those devs are not paid to do some boring minor maintenance for the next ten years, they'd rather leave to start something new. They didn't, so they invented this new Gnome Shell to keep up their interest in the project and add the features they like. There was probably no alternative, I don't have the money to hire them and keep my desktop working as it is:-)
I tried the Android version of FF7 but I think I'll stay on Dolphin HD even if has some random crashes. Dolphin feels a little more responsive and it's much better at reflowing the page. Commenting here on/. with Firefox is nearly impossible: it's very difficult make the keyboard appear when tapping the text area.
I'd say, Dolphin comes first despite the crashes, the Android browser and Firefox are almost level: the stock browser is better at basic functionality, FF is better at anything else. Too bad the basic functionality must be done right.
I'm Italian. We use either tunnel or galleria. They are almost the same to us, with tunnel possibly referring to longer gallerie (tunnels). The tunnels under the alps are all called tunnels or with the other Italian word traforo.
While it would be possible for various [Linux] distributions to get their keys added, that wouldn't help anyone who wanted to run a tweaked version of the "approved" bootloader or kernel. Distributors would not be able to release their private keys to allow folks to sign their own binaries either. Each key is just as valid as any other, so malware authors would just pick up those keys to sign their wares. Exposed keys would also find their way onto the forbidden list rather quickly one suspects.
This reminds me of the way keys are used to protect DVDs and we all remember what happened.
It's easy to watch robot horses racing on TV. Those horses have wheels instead of legs and jockeys are fastened and shielded in a protected saddle because of the speed those robots can reach. The historic tracks are Indianapolis, Monaco and Monza. There are also some unofficial steeplechasing races even if those robots don't seem very fit for that.
Good idea, but apparently not in direction Mozilla is heading to. If they'll ever do that, being able to run the bleeding edge and the stable one at the same time would be nice for the developers who have to support customers and don't want to be forced to run it in a VM or having to close the bleeding edge browser with 20+ tabs open.
Yes, that's the only scaring thing about this continuous upgrade proposal: the new undesired features that replace the old ones that "just work".
The history of my upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 so far is telling (I keep changes noted down in a wiki to be able to fix/rebuild the system just in case anything goes wrong). Login with the Gnome classic desktop, not Unity, reconfigured compiz, removed some icons from the panel (I have only one panel at the bottom), restored the scrollbars in Nautilus. Run into this compiz bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/803296 and reverted to old compiz. That seems to have completely killed Unity, not that I care, but it also fired up metacity as window manager, I googled a fix for that. The PDF printer was completely lost, that happens every time, I reinstalled it. The WiFi driver got lost in the upgrade, first time it happens, I googled how to add it back to the kernel. Lot of noise in Skype, it turned out that the mic boost went to 100%, had to put it back down close to 0%. Unison didn't change of version but didn't work any more, had to download the latest version and compile it from source on all my machines (must be the same version).
Actually, I had more eventful upgrades in the past. This one was almost smooth. As a nice side effect of googling the solutions for my problems I discovered the inotify tools and ionice which really help me in some of my daily activities. Maybe a continuous upgrade won't have killed my WiFi and my PDF printer but overall, being hit by all the other problems twice per year is bearable, every month would be a distro-switcher.
What a surprise (not). In other news "Crackable PCs decreed the success of the PC". You can install any OS on any computer, maybe with some gimmicks as in the case of Hackintoshes. That's why you can start with Windows XP, install Vista, then Win7 or Linux all on the same hardware. Most computers run the same OS for all their lifetime but crackability of computer is taken for granted by everybody. Is it not a surprise that the crackability of those little but quite powerful computers known as smartphones and tablets could be a very desirable feature at least for some people. The surprise is that they've been locked down and consumers seldom raised an eyebrow. There have been attempts at building locked down PCs but they went nowhere. Would anybody buy a locked down computer? Even Macs are not locked down. Why tablets and smartphones should be any different?
Even C++ would be Danish but Stroustrup was working at the Bell Labs when he invented it, furthermore it's an enhancement of C so let's say that the language comes from the US.
Open air, exposed to weather is not a good environment for long term storage of anything. Just think about the difference in the conservation status of the exposed and the buried parts of Pompeii. The buried ones will be well conserved even when those M-disc will be unreadable, that is when nobody has a reader for them anymore and nobody cares about building a new one from the specs, if they ever find them.
All the comments have been about ISPs but the request to disclose passwords applies to websites as well. Indians will say goodbye to storing hashed passwords, they must be clear text or encrypted with a password stored on the server, which is a little more inconvenient for an attacker. So this is a request that enforces a bad practice and lowers security for everybody, even for people outside India as it increases the global pool of crackable accounts which can be used to do nasty things.
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Yes, but hibernating and restoring an OS image could be too slow. On my notebook hibernating 4 GB or RAM and restoring it takes longer than rebooting and restarting every single open application. Probably Android and ChromeOS don't use all of that RAM (but Ubuntu does) and there are many storage systems faster than my 5,400 rpm hard disk. Anyway the switching time is critical. What I saw in those video is a fast way of switching, not much worse than alt-tab or clicking on a VM window. A 5 s switch time would be OK, 30 seconds would be unbearable when one knows there are better alternatives.
I used to develop Ruby on Rails applications on a Windows XP box. I had a Linux VM (actually a colinux Windows process) with the database and the application server, because running RoR on Windows is so painful and furthermore I had to deploy on linux anyway. I used Windows for all the client applications (the browser, occasional use of graphic programs). I edited with emacs inside colinux. Then I realized that all the software I was using was open source (thunderbird, open office, media players, etc) and reformatted my pc to linux. I'm using a few Virtualbox Windows VMs to test with IE now but my workflow greatly improved by developing on the native platform I'm developing for. And no, I don't need Windows for games (that would have been a problem).
Or he can see UV reflected by sunscreen lotions. That would be a good test to check if he can really see UV. I guess that the reflected wavelengths of different products might vary and he might not be able to see all of them, nevertheless a crowded beach should provide a good enough sample.
I checked that on my Linux box right now: 10 tabs open in Firefox: 1% CPU, 3 tabs open in Chromium on Google Docs: 6% CPU. Is it possible that your 15% CPU usage depends on the sites you have opened in your tabs? You should start with an empty browser, add one site per time and check if any of them makes your CPU usage spike.
FF has got a plugin sandbox since 3.6.4 (maybe not on OS X). All plugins are in a separate process, but only one process for all plugins of all tabs.
Tested on a European SGS2 bought in May: it stays locked. Definitely a regression of the AT&T model.
Bug fix: 50 vs 41, not 50 vs 21.
Italy recently slowed down the release cycle of its governments (3 since 2001). The post WWII governments of Japan seem a much more appropriate target for this kind of jokes. They've always been much faster at creating new governments than the Italians (50 vs 21 after WWII). The question is: which is Chrome and which is Firefox? :-)
If we do, just flash it with Cyanogenmod or other stuff like that and turn it into in a cheap standard Android tablet.
Please allow me to disagree. The taskbar is useless if you have two or three of windows open: just alt-tab or click on the windows to switch among them. When you have 20 windows and you know where they are (which desktop, which position, just buried under other windows) the compiz cube and the taskbar are handy. I get seasick with the screen zooming in and out and all the windows moving, and I don't get seasick at sea. Furthermore, the gnome way of switching between windows is a plain loss of time. It's a very cool way of impressing the friends when using your pc as a home theater but a very annoying one to get some real work done. Obviously this is subjective but my desktop effectiveness ranking is Gnome Classic > Unity > Gnome Shell. I'll hold on Gnome Classic as long as I can and then switch to something else. Furthermore I don't care about all the integrations the Gnome devs are proud about.
However I understand that leaving Gnome as it was two years ago would probably mean killing the project. Those devs are not paid to do some boring minor maintenance for the next ten years, they'd rather leave to start something new. They didn't, so they invented this new Gnome Shell to keep up their interest in the project and add the features they like. There was probably no alternative, I don't have the money to hire them and keep my desktop working as it is :-)
I tried the Android version of FF7 but I think I'll stay on Dolphin HD even if has some random crashes. Dolphin feels a little more responsive and it's much better at reflowing the page. Commenting here on /. with Firefox is nearly impossible: it's very difficult make the keyboard appear when tapping the text area.
I'd say, Dolphin comes first despite the crashes, the Android browser and Firefox are almost level: the stock browser is better at basic functionality, FF is better at anything else. Too bad the basic functionality must be done right.
By the way, I checked how to setup a private sync server http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html even if it seems I won't need one.
I'm Italian. We use either tunnel or galleria. They are almost the same to us, with tunnel possibly referring to longer gallerie (tunnels). The tunnels under the alps are all called tunnels or with the other Italian word traforo.
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This reminds me of the way keys are used to protect DVDs and we all remember what happened.
I suggest building the Icarus Array of Blindsight.
It's easy to watch robot horses racing on TV. Those horses have wheels instead of legs and jockeys are fastened and shielded in a protected saddle because of the speed those robots can reach. The historic tracks are Indianapolis, Monaco and Monza. There are also some unofficial steeplechasing races even if those robots don't seem very fit for that.
Good idea, but apparently not in direction Mozilla is heading to. If they'll ever do that, being able to run the bleeding edge and the stable one at the same time would be nice for the developers who have to support customers and don't want to be forced to run it in a VM or having to close the bleeding edge browser with 20+ tabs open.
Yes, that's the only scaring thing about this continuous upgrade proposal: the new undesired features that replace the old ones that "just work".
The history of my upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 so far is telling (I keep changes noted down in a wiki to be able to fix/rebuild the system just in case anything goes wrong). Login with the Gnome classic desktop, not Unity, reconfigured compiz, removed some icons from the panel (I have only one panel at the bottom), restored the scrollbars in Nautilus. Run into this compiz bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/803296 and reverted to old compiz. That seems to have completely killed Unity, not that I care, but it also fired up metacity as window manager, I googled a fix for that. The PDF printer was completely lost, that happens every time, I reinstalled it. The WiFi driver got lost in the upgrade, first time it happens, I googled how to add it back to the kernel. Lot of noise in Skype, it turned out that the mic boost went to 100%, had to put it back down close to 0%. Unison didn't change of version but didn't work any more, had to download the latest version and compile it from source on all my machines (must be the same version).
Actually, I had more eventful upgrades in the past. This one was almost smooth. As a nice side effect of googling the solutions for my problems I discovered the inotify tools and ionice which really help me in some of my daily activities. Maybe a continuous upgrade won't have killed my WiFi and my PDF printer but overall, being hit by all the other problems twice per year is bearable, every month would be a distro-switcher.
What a surprise (not). In other news "Crackable PCs decreed the success of the PC". You can install any OS on any computer, maybe with some gimmicks as in the case of Hackintoshes. That's why you can start with Windows XP, install Vista, then Win7 or Linux all on the same hardware. Most computers run the same OS for all their lifetime but crackability of computer is taken for granted by everybody. Is it not a surprise that the crackability of those little but quite powerful computers known as smartphones and tablets could be a very desirable feature at least for some people. The surprise is that they've been locked down and consumers seldom raised an eyebrow. There have been attempts at building locked down PCs but they went nowhere. Would anybody buy a locked down computer? Even Macs are not locked down. Why tablets and smartphones should be any different?
OPA is the Italian acronym for a takeover bid. The Opa language looks good for finance! :-)
Don't worry, RoR is well alive. I'm paying my bills by writing RoR web apps. I'm sending another invoice to a customer for a RoR project next week.
Among the major computer languages PHP is Danish with a Canadian citizenship, Python is Dutch, LUA is Brazilian and Ruby is Japanese despite its English name.
Even C++ would be Danish but Stroustrup was working at the Bell Labs when he invented it, furthermore it's an enhancement of C so let's say that the language comes from the US.
Henry Ford is leaving Ford. Thank you CmdrTaco!
FF5 it also a lot faster. That's the first thing you notice after the GUI.
Open air, exposed to weather is not a good environment for long term storage of anything. Just think about the difference in the conservation status of the exposed and the buried parts of Pompeii. The buried ones will be well conserved even when those M-disc will be unreadable, that is when nobody has a reader for them anymore and nobody cares about building a new one from the specs, if they ever find them.
All the comments have been about ISPs but the request to disclose passwords applies to websites as well. Indians will say goodbye to storing hashed passwords, they must be clear text or encrypted with a password stored on the server, which is a little more inconvenient for an attacker. So this is a request that enforces a bad practice and lowers security for everybody, even for people outside India as it increases the global pool of crackable accounts which can be used to do nasty things.