100% Completely agreed. My company has been almost purely a Debian house for over a decade now, but we started to integrate FreeBSD into the mix a couple years back because of better ZFS support. And now with Debian becoming more and more of a problem for us to maintain now, we're exploring the option of migrating 100% over to FreeBSD. We only have 2 or 3 packages that are not ported over at this time that we use, and that's all that is holding us up now, the biggest of which being Galera support for MariaDB.
Since this change went into effect, my company's reach on Instagram has been cut in half. I guess we're just not all that interesting anymore according to their algorithm compared to how interesting we were before to the people that actually saw our content!?
Part of the reason for allowing device manufacturer to highly customize the OS is for the purpose of innovation. Android as a whole has a shitton of "extras" it can do now, thanks to it. These may not be features that YOU are personally using, but others are!
Some examples include: NFC support. Triple cameras (each with a different viewing angle). Infrared transceiver. Heart rate monitor. Fingerprint reader. Multiple SIMs. The ability to access multiple different types of networks beyond just a single carrier's support (better international roaming)
Okay, really curious on this one. I've looked at a few of these now at fully zoomed in detail. WHY did they use a camera with cheaper glass to do such a high detail scan of these works of art? Zoomed in at 100%, the images are quite soft, similar to a budget or mid-teir DSLR lens. Basically, give a DSLR a few motors to move it around the painting, and it could do the same exact thing, only with sharper detail because of the higher quality glass available for them. Considering that their intent was visual image quality, it pretty much seems like their implementation was entirely constructed by people who don't fully understand optical properties of glass in relation to capturing photographs.
And another note: They really need to get their laser based auto focus system corrected. There were a couple times I spotted portions of the image out of focus.
I'm on Gigabit FTTH. Speedtest.net gives me anywhere between 500mbps up/down to 850mbps depending on time of day and testing server selected. Fast.com is consistently giving me 20-25mbps results.
Oh also as a note: fast.com at least from my location, is resolving to Akamai Technologies servers. It is also resolving to a server in San Jose when I'm in Seattle. So the link speed anywhere in between could explain the extremely slow connection compared to the local Seattle based servers that Speedtest.net gives me.
Actually, sadly, yes, organizations use this shit. I've seen a few Bring Your Own Device networks (such as college campuses) that force you to install whatever "security" bullshit they shove down your throat in order to be allowed to access their network. One such thing I came across was indeed Norton's shitware.
The reason I love having extremely large MicroSD cards is because my cell phone is essentially a mobile crash kit. I keep things like OS ISOs, drivers, and repair utilities on my phone, in case I ever walk into a place and need to repair a computer system or server. There is also a samba server on my phone in case I need to quickly distribute files to multiple machines at once over a network, instead of a single machine over USB.
Wait, WHAT? I'm curious. How is a Sun guy thinking that MariaDB is "radical"? Considering MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, a Sun project, forked by the very founder of MySQL himself, in essence it IS the original Sun guys keeping it alive after the Oracle acquisition. If anything, the switch to MariaDB should have been a godsend for that old Sun guy!
Amazon apparently has no major issues taking Android and turning it into something entirely different, with their own interface and tools for their Fire line of products. Are these not available in the EU or somethin?
Prior to the gigabit rollout in my neighborhood which just happened this year, I had honestly considered the same. Cell phone internet in my area is cheaper than wired internet. The cell easily pulls 80mbps and an unlimited plan which supports tethering is well under $100/mo, whereas cable internet at 30/6mbps was $99/mo. Why honestly pay for both!? This is similar to why POTS systems are mostly dead, because why have one when you have a cell, too? (yes, there are a couple reasons that could be debated, but for the majority of people and situations, those corner cases are hardly a concern)
What's worse is that they dropped Windows Server 2008, which has the same kernel used for Vista. In corporate environments where switching out the OS is a hell of a lot easier said than done, this hurts significantly.
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I already have free texting and data when I travel to Canada (quick easy when living in Seattle), and now I get stock options too? SWEET!
100% Completely agreed. My company has been almost purely a Debian house for over a decade now, but we started to integrate FreeBSD into the mix a couple years back because of better ZFS support. And now with Debian becoming more and more of a problem for us to maintain now, we're exploring the option of migrating 100% over to FreeBSD. We only have 2 or 3 packages that are not ported over at this time that we use, and that's all that is holding us up now, the biggest of which being Galera support for MariaDB.
Since this change went into effect, my company's reach on Instagram has been cut in half. I guess we're just not all that interesting anymore according to their algorithm compared to how interesting we were before to the people that actually saw our content!?
Perfect timing, since a post just went live on the /. homepage about the latest Linux kernel not being able to boot!
Part of the reason for allowing device manufacturer to highly customize the OS is for the purpose of innovation. Android as a whole has a shitton of "extras" it can do now, thanks to it. These may not be features that YOU are personally using, but others are!
Some examples include: NFC support. Triple cameras (each with a different viewing angle). Infrared transceiver. Heart rate monitor. Fingerprint reader. Multiple SIMs. The ability to access multiple different types of networks beyond just a single carrier's support (better international roaming)
Not sure what you considered "Abandoned"? The Nexus 7 is currently sitting at Android 6.0.1, Security patch level May 1st, 2016.
Maybe *THIS* is why Google France got raided!? Someone got pissed off for being locked up in a room!
That's the sound the microwave makes when the burritos are done!
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Okay, really curious on this one. I've looked at a few of these now at fully zoomed in detail. WHY did they use a camera with cheaper glass to do such a high detail scan of these works of art? Zoomed in at 100%, the images are quite soft, similar to a budget or mid-teir DSLR lens. Basically, give a DSLR a few motors to move it around the painting, and it could do the same exact thing, only with sharper detail because of the higher quality glass available for them. Considering that their intent was visual image quality, it pretty much seems like their implementation was entirely constructed by people who don't fully understand optical properties of glass in relation to capturing photographs.
And another note: They really need to get their laser based auto focus system corrected. There were a couple times I spotted portions of the image out of focus.
I'm on Gigabit FTTH. Speedtest.net gives me anywhere between 500mbps up/down to 850mbps depending on time of day and testing server selected. Fast.com is consistently giving me 20-25mbps results.
Oh also as a note: fast.com at least from my location, is resolving to Akamai Technologies servers. It is also resolving to a server in San Jose when I'm in Seattle. So the link speed anywhere in between could explain the extremely slow connection compared to the local Seattle based servers that Speedtest.net gives me.
Actually, sadly, yes, organizations use this shit. I've seen a few Bring Your Own Device networks (such as college campuses) that force you to install whatever "security" bullshit they shove down your throat in order to be allowed to access their network. One such thing I came across was indeed Norton's shitware.
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2) Bluetooth Headset
3) PROFIT!
The reason I love having extremely large MicroSD cards is because my cell phone is essentially a mobile crash kit. I keep things like OS ISOs, drivers, and repair utilities on my phone, in case I ever walk into a place and need to repair a computer system or server. There is also a samba server on my phone in case I need to quickly distribute files to multiple machines at once over a network, instead of a single machine over USB.
Google Voice. Unlimited free calling to US/Canada. So that negates the whole Skype minutes thing.
i still use qbasic, you insensitive clod!
Wait, WHAT? I'm curious. How is a Sun guy thinking that MariaDB is "radical"? Considering MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, a Sun project, forked by the very founder of MySQL himself, in essence it IS the original Sun guys keeping it alive after the Oracle acquisition. If anything, the switch to MariaDB should have been a godsend for that old Sun guy!
But just look at how successful Volkswagen has been at lowering their emissions! Surely these signatures are working wonders!
Good thing I already installed the patch for Oracle MySQL, it is called MariaDB!
Amazon apparently has no major issues taking Android and turning it into something entirely different, with their own interface and tools for their Fire line of products. Are these not available in the EU or somethin?
Prior to the gigabit rollout in my neighborhood which just happened this year, I had honestly considered the same. Cell phone internet in my area is cheaper than wired internet. The cell easily pulls 80mbps and an unlimited plan which supports tethering is well under $100/mo, whereas cable internet at 30/6mbps was $99/mo. Why honestly pay for both!? This is similar to why POTS systems are mostly dead, because why have one when you have a cell, too? (yes, there are a couple reasons that could be debated, but for the majority of people and situations, those corner cases are hardly a concern)
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Simple, someone was just testing edge cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What's worse is that they dropped Windows Server 2008, which has the same kernel used for Vista. In corporate environments where switching out the OS is a hell of a lot easier said than done, this hurts significantly.
Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/927/