You wouldn't believe the number of "patches" my wife submits daily to "improve" me. Then my kids have their suggestions about how I can do everything better than I am. If I google my name thousands (literally) of hits come back, many of those are in response to RFC's caused by my asking questions or giving opinions on the net. It's a constant race to stay one e-mail address ahead of the spammers and my IM client is constantly in motion due to one customer passing my contact info on to another.
I've quite a large number of servers that regularly require new HDD's What happens if I only lose 1 of 20 disk array, because the new disk is encrypted and the others aren't, do I have to replace the entire array? Also in a Raid array how do I give each individual drive it's password, or do I have to buy a matched set with the same "key"? Do I now have to go box to box entering "passwords" for startup every time I rebuild a 500 or 1000 box cluster? (Image push) Basically I'd say it's a cute gimmick for laptops but not nearly so useful in the back room.
If it is using muscular sensors to "detect" sounds then wouldn't it be possible to create one that would allow the mute to speak? One would think that an English to English or Chinese to Chinese translation would allow then to perfect the detection process, and aid any number of people who can't for whatever reason speak but who can mouth words.
(I won't say install Ubuntu, Kubuntu is much better.) However I'd rather get down to what really works in a situation like this. Don't lock them down. Anything an adult imposes will be viewed as a challenge and "Repressing their inner need to grow" However if they choose a security team, they get involved (even if it's just listening) with the process of locking down the systems, seeing how the bad guys work and what to do about it. Suddenly they are no longer "The schools computers" but their computers.
If the students themselves are in charge of the lock down then if and when one of their own walks outside the line they are much more effective at pulling their peers back in line than you can be (except in extreme cases, like theft.) Not to mention the shear volume of knowledge even the slowest learner will acquire during the process. Put that budding script kiddy in a position where his/her reputation as "cool" is on the line ( SK " Oh man that's ripe any fool can hack that" Teacher "OK since you know the hacks, how about showing us the blocks.") Sure they will push back but be sympathetic and understanding saying "That's OK I'm sure you really don't know that much about this anyway."
People protect what they own. Give these kids a sense of ownership.
I mean seriously... Not one, not one single ancient Egyptian is alive. Think about it they all used nano tech and they are all dead. Coincidence? I think not! (Have you any idea how hard it is to act like a Bush with a straight face.:) )
As members of my Gen (Baby Boomers) and the Gen that immediately followed (GenX) start to kick the bucket the overall maturity level will I'm sure, begin to increase. Either that or the boomes will have destroyed enough to make it a moot point.
1. It says "Speeds Up to" Somewhere somehow someone gets the speed advertised, under ideal conditions.
2. Why doesn't the internet get faster:
a. I can't download faster than you can upload. So the Asynchronous lack of speed means nothing moves faster than the slowest side.
b. The more people with high bandwidth connect to the net the slower the sites they go to becomes, including popular bandwidth testing sites!
c. Bandwidth capping, many sites cap their speed so as to not overwhelm the customers they had in 2000 (meaning the same companies who code only for IE 5.0)
d. Poor router configuration. Not by your ISP but by the "backbone" providers in between. I've actually worked at an ISP where customers dropped peering agreements because bandwidth was better if we didn't peer with them.(bad routers at our peering provider)
e. Poor site design. I spent a whole day trying to explain to a company why a 1mb webpage was slower than a 30k page from their competitor.
f. You get used to speed. Much like how you used to buy this really great sounding stereo, only to realize 6 months later that it sounds like crap.
g. Poor quality bandwidth testing. Just because you only get 750kbps between you and the testor doesn't mean that's all the bandwidth you have, it means that's all the bandwidth you can get. Switches, Nics, Routers etc all affect what happens.
The purpose of the GPL, as I have grown to understand it, is to ensure innovation is possible, and in fact encouraged. While preserving the rights of the creators of said technology in a manor they saw fit. Now the GPL is being used to stifle innovation. Shame too, Kororaa was a very enjoyable way to experiment with coming technology, without destroying my working environment.
Nearly every "pay for play" copy of Linux comes with nvidia and or ati commercial drivers included. It would seem that the biggest crime committed by kororaa was the crime of popularity. I guess it's easier to squash the little guys than to go up against the big boys. Call this flame bait if you must, but the GPL used to be a tool to enlighten not a bat to beat people up with.
Let me be the first to point out something..... YOU are a user. Yep So if all users and dumb, and you are a user, then you too are dumb. If you are dumb then your statement looses validity.
In my mind we need to drop the Microsoft/Apple attitude that users = idiot. If you build systems for idiots only idiots will use your system. Generally I've found that the #1 reason users I work with generally do stupid things because I've either, Improperly documented or explained what something did or how it worked, or because I created something that blocked their ability to do their job.
Very often users tend to view the people at help desks as idiots because regardless of problem the reaction and lack of willingness to care are obvious from the start. Even cultural attitudes are ignored in the move to "cater to the idiot who uses our product" In one contry clucking your tounge may be a sign of rapt attention. But in the country the user is in it may be a sign of a smug and condiscending attitude.
In one of the first lessons taught in management classes you will learn that a team of idiots is lead by an idiot. I claim that the same is true here as well. If you have idiots for users it's because you have idiots for techs.
...and that is the Windows concept of "Bringing the main frame to the desktop". In the windows concept of development the objective was to allow everyone to have their own personal mainframe. All applications run and are installed locally. The idea of a distributed computer, (as apposed to distributed computing, altogether different subject), is a totally foreign idea to windows. I can't for example, run an instance of word which displays on my screen, from another computer without bringing the entire desktop, and all of it's bells and whistles along with it.
The era of "The network is the computer" though long possible in *nix, is just now being forced upon, and in many ways leaving Windows behind. With a *nix box (and Apple runs *nix with a hobbled desktop, looks good though) you can actually have a display in location A and apps running on B C D E F and the data stored on a SAN or NAS system in location G.
IMHO over the next few years you are going to see an increase in powerful, portable, displays that access applications and data from multiple locations as if it was all held in the palm of your hand. These systems will have little if any OS or storage locale to the device. Those orgainizations still tied to the old model of immobile all in one devices, or pay by the installation software model, will slowly at first, and eventually significantly loose market share. Many will go the way of Harvard Graphics.
Already if you are outside the US you are seeing the beginning of what I'm refering to. Many so called "3rd world" Nations have little if any land line setup for telephones. But everyone has a cell. In more advanced countries outside of the US people are in large numbers giving up their home phone and just using cellular systems. Already a large chunk of the bay area is free wireless, or soon to be free (legitimate free not war driving style) San Jose the heart of the Silicon Valley will the the last to go since it's the largest city and the one with the most attention from ComCast and AT&T.
The era of the PC gone. Not really. However the era of the putty colored tower with a 2 ton monitor, is IMHO already going bye bye. As time and the advantages of mobility become something bean counters can count. Then increased interoperability will be the order of the day. No longer will just the exchange of data be enough. The sharing of the means to manipulate the data will also be required. Sooner or later it will be learned that contolling the code is a waste of time and money. Controlling the API is where it's at.
People. One of my first jobs in the industry was with a streaming real time video company that was doing real time porn videos to 56k modems! Give me a freaking break. The load is on the server serving the video nothing else. To the rest of the path it's just a data stream and it doesn't care what the content. Is. On a BS scale of 1 to 10 this is a 12 for sure.
You see I can picture a car going forward and back. It has a front and a back. This plus the convention of designation means that one is forwared and one is Reverse.
However with light this seems a bit odd. I mean if you had a perfect mirror and held it at exactly 90 degrees to the beam of light would it be going backwards or forwards to where it came from. I suppose if I think of it as obsorbtion, in that the origination source takes back the energy it pushed out it could be considered backwards. But then wouldn't this make a black hole a reverse Sun?
In short. This is most likely why I'm in applied Physics (EE) not Theoretical Physics.
Sorry but this isn't a nautilus feature. Oh yes you can do this using nautilus but all it really is a a short bit of code to do this
mount -o loop [ insert variable name of some.iso ]
and then point a file browser at it by iconifying the command. AKA mime types, and default actions. I can do the same thing with Konqueror, Midnight Commander, Rox File Manager, Krusador and more. Yes Windows can't do this. Windows doesn't have by default a loopback mount system. However programs for windows have provided overly inept versions of this, often at huge prices.
The only real damage here is glorifying nautilus as if it where something new and exiciting when in fact it's not really that different from all of it' peers. The article is good yes. However to be touted on/. as a new and extremely innovative approach is both incorrect and voraciously inaccurate.
At the risk of being a bit "me-too'ish" I'd bet that your statement will fall in line with a lot of, if not the vast majority of, the Linux community. In fact the idea of a periodic. "bug cycle" isn't such a bad idea no matter what the product. All the time you see application releases where the developer says that it was pretty much a bug fix release. You don't have to constantly be adding new features to justify updates.
The ultimate challenge, to all kernel developers. Code that compiles without warnings. Now that, is something I'd love to see. Probably won't, but I feel it's a notable challenge.
But I have one major problem with it. I wear glasses. Because of specific problems I can't do contacts (I often work in an environment that has trace elements that contacts may (do) concentrate to unhealthy levels) So I stick with glasses. Now if something like this could be attached to my glasses..... that would be treat.
The problem is one of doing things in software the way Automobile companies did in the 60's and Japan stopped doing in the 70's. Traditionally in software development you design... then send to engineering to build then send to QA for an endless cycle of test bitch fix bitch retest bitch fix bitch test bitch deadline ooops market.
QA should be involved the moment some fool says "I have an idea" and stay in the loop all the way. Testing in increments as things are built. I've done more in a white paper on my site as for writing this all up but this is the jist. Integration of Quality control from the start means less problems. The idea of. I'll fix it later sucks because it never gets to be later.
Seriously, have you tried his spreadsheets in gnumeric. I've not run across anything our office M$ bigot can do that this won't read. (He tries hard to get me to stop using Linux.) Or you can move everyone to Linx and the use wine to run the Excell reader. (since you only need to read not edit.)
That actually would be a good thing. Since there are a large number of office version outside of support yet still in use (like office 97) that this plug-in is supposed to work with. It could well backfire if MS makes it not work with the new versions. One more reason for users not to upgrade. Since 9 times out of 10 the reason people give seems to be "I use doc files because everyone else uses doc files" Now you change that so you have a single iso standard (yes odf is now an iso standard) that everyone except the new users of MS Office can use. The the pencil pushers go. "Spend money, less compatability" "Don't spend money, get compatablilty" With a switch to OOo they save money (costs to pay techs to install and then need to deal with productivity drop while people learn new software.) With this plugin they don't spend money. (user installable and they already know how to use the product.) Later during a normal upgrade cycle they can make the switch or stick decision as appropriate.
Now MS is in a corner. Do they fight and risk loosing or do they not fight and risk loosing.
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You wouldn't believe the number of "patches" my wife submits daily to "improve" me. Then my kids have their suggestions about how I can do everything better than I am. If I google my name thousands (literally) of hits come back, many of those are in response to RFC's caused by my asking questions or giving opinions on the net. It's a constant race to stay one e-mail address ahead of the spammers and my IM client is constantly in motion due to one customer passing my contact info on to another.
Ok so I'm a disgruntled ex-republican. (Independent since 2000!)
I've quite a large number of servers that regularly require new HDD's What happens if I only lose 1 of 20 disk array, because the new disk is encrypted and the others aren't, do I have to replace the entire array? Also in a Raid array how do I give each individual drive it's password, or do I have to buy a matched set with the same "key"? Do I now have to go box to box entering "passwords" for startup every time I rebuild a 500 or 1000 box cluster? (Image push) Basically I'd say it's a cute gimmick for laptops but not nearly so useful in the back room.
Am I the only one who read the title and immediately thought of Dick Cheney?
If it is using muscular sensors to "detect" sounds then wouldn't it be possible to create one that would allow the mute to speak? One would think that an English to English or Chinese to Chinese translation would allow then to perfect the detection process, and aid any number of people who can't for whatever reason speak but who can mouth words.
(I won't say install Ubuntu, Kubuntu is much better.) However I'd rather get down to what really works in a situation like this. Don't lock them down. Anything an adult imposes will be viewed as a challenge and "Repressing their inner need to grow" However if they choose a security team, they get involved (even if it's just listening) with the process of locking down the systems, seeing how the bad guys work and what to do about it. Suddenly they are no longer "The schools computers" but their computers. If the students themselves are in charge of the lock down then if and when one of their own walks outside the line they are much more effective at pulling their peers back in line than you can be (except in extreme cases, like theft.) Not to mention the shear volume of knowledge even the slowest learner will acquire during the process. Put that budding script kiddy in a position where his/her reputation as "cool" is on the line ( SK " Oh man that's ripe any fool can hack that" Teacher "OK since you know the hacks, how about showing us the blocks.") Sure they will push back but be sympathetic and understanding saying "That's OK I'm sure you really don't know that much about this anyway." People protect what they own. Give these kids a sense of ownership.
Ohhhhh myyyyyy god.... I don't even know where to begin with comments... wow.
I mean seriously... Not one, not one single ancient Egyptian is alive. Think about it they all used nano tech and they are all dead. Coincidence? I think not! (Have you any idea how hard it is to act like a Bush with a straight face. :) )
Hello anybody there? hey is this mic turned on? How come I don't hear anything. What's that music?
As members of my Gen (Baby Boomers) and the Gen that immediately followed (GenX) start to kick the bucket the overall maturity level will I'm sure, begin to increase. Either that or the boomes will have destroyed enough to make it a moot point.
1. It says "Speeds Up to" Somewhere somehow someone gets the speed advertised, under ideal conditions.
2. Why doesn't the internet get faster:
a. I can't download faster than you can upload. So the Asynchronous lack of speed means nothing moves faster than the slowest side.
b. The more people with high bandwidth connect to the net the slower the sites they go to becomes, including popular bandwidth testing sites!
c. Bandwidth capping, many sites cap their speed so as to not overwhelm the customers they had in 2000 (meaning the same companies who code only for IE 5.0)
d. Poor router configuration. Not by your ISP but by the "backbone" providers in between. I've actually worked at an ISP where customers dropped peering agreements because bandwidth was better if we didn't peer with them.(bad routers at our peering provider)
e. Poor site design. I spent a whole day trying to explain to a company why a 1mb webpage was slower than a 30k page from their competitor.
f. You get used to speed. Much like how you used to buy this really great sounding stereo, only to realize 6 months later that it sounds like crap.
g. Poor quality bandwidth testing. Just because you only get 750kbps between you and the testor doesn't mean that's all the bandwidth you have, it means that's all the bandwidth you can get. Switches, Nics, Routers etc all affect what happens.
To admit that the draft dodging liberal Republicans have won..... /. affect.
http://www.buffalobeast.com/99/policestate.htm
or
http://www.alternet.org/story/36553/
Same article just two links to spread the
The purpose of the GPL, as I have grown to understand it, is to ensure innovation is possible, and in fact encouraged. While preserving the rights of the creators of said technology in a manor they saw fit. Now the GPL is being used to stifle innovation. Shame too, Kororaa was a very enjoyable way to experiment with coming technology, without destroying my working environment.
Nearly every "pay for play" copy of Linux comes with nvidia and or ati commercial drivers included. It would seem that the biggest crime committed by kororaa was the crime of popularity. I guess it's easier to squash the little guys than to go up against the big boys. Call this flame bait if you must, but the GPL used to be a tool to enlighten not a bat to beat people up with.
Let me be the first to point out something..... YOU are a user. Yep So if all users and dumb, and you are a user, then you too are dumb. If you are dumb then your statement looses validity.
In my mind we need to drop the Microsoft/Apple attitude that users = idiot. If you build systems for idiots only idiots will use your system. Generally I've found that the #1 reason users I work with generally do stupid things because I've either, Improperly documented or explained what something did or how it worked, or because I created something that blocked their ability to do their job.
Very often users tend to view the people at help desks as idiots because regardless of problem the reaction and lack of willingness to care are obvious from the start. Even cultural attitudes are ignored in the move to "cater to the idiot who uses our product" In one contry clucking your tounge may be a sign of rapt attention. But in the country the user is in it may be a sign of a smug and condiscending attitude.
In one of the first lessons taught in management classes you will learn that a team of idiots is lead by an idiot. I claim that the same is true here as well. If you have idiots for users it's because you have idiots for techs.
konqueror in kde 3.5 however is not beta.and does pass acid2
...and that is the Windows concept of "Bringing the main frame to the desktop". In the windows concept of development the objective was to allow everyone to have their own personal mainframe. All applications run and are installed locally. The idea of a distributed computer, (as apposed to distributed computing, altogether different subject), is a totally foreign idea to windows. I can't for example, run an instance of word which displays on my screen, from another computer without bringing the entire desktop, and all of it's bells and whistles along with it.
The era of "The network is the computer" though long possible in *nix, is just now being forced upon, and in many ways leaving Windows behind. With a *nix box (and Apple runs *nix with a hobbled desktop, looks good though) you can actually have a display in location A and apps running on B C D E F and the data stored on a SAN or NAS system in location G.
IMHO over the next few years you are going to see an increase in powerful, portable, displays that access applications and data from multiple locations as if it was all held in the palm of your hand. These systems will have little if any OS or storage locale to the device. Those orgainizations still tied to the old model of immobile all in one devices, or pay by the installation software model, will slowly at first, and eventually significantly loose market share. Many will go the way of Harvard Graphics.
Already if you are outside the US you are seeing the beginning of what I'm refering to. Many so called "3rd world" Nations have little if any land line setup for telephones. But everyone has a cell. In more advanced countries outside of the US people are in large numbers giving up their home phone and just using cellular systems. Already a large chunk of the bay area is free wireless, or soon to be free (legitimate free not war driving style) San Jose the heart of the Silicon Valley will the the last to go since it's the largest city and the one with the most attention from ComCast and AT&T.
The era of the PC gone. Not really. However the era of the putty colored tower with a 2 ton monitor, is IMHO already going bye bye. As time and the advantages of mobility become something bean counters can count. Then increased interoperability will be the order of the day. No longer will just the exchange of data be enough. The sharing of the means to manipulate the data will also be required. Sooner or later it will be learned that contolling the code is a waste of time and money. Controlling the API is where it's at.
People. One of my first jobs in the industry was with a streaming real time video company that was doing real time porn videos to 56k modems! Give me a freaking break. The load is on the server serving the video nothing else. To the rest of the path it's just a data stream and it doesn't care what the content. Is. On a BS scale of 1 to 10 this is a 12 for sure.
You see I can picture a car going forward and back. It has a front and a back. This plus the convention of designation means that one is forwared and one is Reverse. However with light this seems a bit odd. I mean if you had a perfect mirror and held it at exactly 90 degrees to the beam of light would it be going backwards or forwards to where it came from. I suppose if I think of it as obsorbtion, in that the origination source takes back the energy it pushed out it could be considered backwards. But then wouldn't this make a black hole a reverse Sun? In short. This is most likely why I'm in applied Physics (EE) not Theoretical Physics.
Sorry but this isn't a nautilus feature. Oh yes you can do this using nautilus but all it really is a a short bit of code to do this
/. as a new and extremely innovative approach is both incorrect and voraciously inaccurate.
mount -o loop [ insert variable name of some.iso ]
and then point a file browser at it by iconifying the command. AKA mime types, and default actions. I can do the same thing with Konqueror, Midnight Commander, Rox File Manager, Krusador and more. Yes Windows can't do this. Windows doesn't have by default a loopback mount system. However programs for windows have provided overly inept versions of this, often at huge prices.
The only real damage here is glorifying nautilus as if it where something new and exiciting when in fact it's not really that different from all of it' peers. The article is good yes. However to be touted on
At the risk of being a bit "me-too'ish" I'd bet that your statement will fall in line with a lot of, if not the vast majority of, the Linux community. In fact the idea of a periodic. "bug cycle" isn't such a bad idea no matter what the product. All the time you see application releases where the developer says that it was pretty much a bug fix release. You don't have to constantly be adding new features to justify updates.
The ultimate challenge, to all kernel developers. Code that compiles without warnings. Now that, is something I'd love to see. Probably won't, but I feel it's a notable challenge.
But I have one major problem with it. I wear glasses. Because of specific problems I can't do contacts (I often work in an environment that has trace elements that contacts may (do) concentrate to unhealthy levels) So I stick with glasses. Now if something like this could be attached to my glasses..... that would be treat.
The problem is one of doing things in software the way Automobile companies did in the 60's and Japan stopped doing in the 70's. Traditionally in software development you design... then send to engineering to build then send to QA for an endless cycle of test bitch fix bitch retest bitch fix bitch test bitch deadline ooops market. QA should be involved the moment some fool says "I have an idea" and stay in the loop all the way. Testing in increments as things are built. I've done more in a white paper on my site as for writing this all up but this is the jist. Integration of Quality control from the start means less problems. The idea of. I'll fix it later sucks because it never gets to be later.
Their add service only runs if you are using Internet Exploder, er Explorer.
Seriously, have you tried his spreadsheets in gnumeric. I've not run across anything our office M$ bigot can do that this won't read. (He tries hard to get me to stop using Linux.) Or you can move everyone to Linx and the use wine to run the Excell reader. (since you only need to read not edit.)
That actually would be a good thing. Since there are a large number of office version outside of support yet still in use (like office 97) that this plug-in is supposed to work with. It could well backfire if MS makes it not work with the new versions. One more reason for users not to upgrade. Since 9 times out of 10 the reason people give seems to be "I use doc files because everyone else uses doc files" Now you change that so you have a single iso standard (yes odf is now an iso standard) that everyone except the new users of MS Office can use. The the pencil pushers go. "Spend money, less compatability" "Don't spend money, get compatablilty" With a switch to OOo they save money (costs to pay techs to install and then need to deal with productivity drop while people learn new software.) With this plugin they don't spend money. (user installable and they already know how to use the product.) Later during a normal upgrade cycle they can make the switch or stick decision as appropriate.
Now MS is in a corner. Do they fight and risk loosing or do they not fight and risk loosing.