Full size is quite handy, since everything fits just the same as with your laptop desktop netbook and nas. It's a gateway port to be honest. Which you already have devices for. Think the first cable you tend to buy is micro usb (otg) to full size usb port cable. but that port gets too much stress as it is. Bluetooth is possibly a good alternative to the usb port. I would love a usb hub with bluetooth so i could just pair the hub and not need any cable hanging off my tablet and no port to break.
My tablet has both otg micro and a fullsize usb port. The full size port is a bit funny its meant to take a 3g module but it takes a usb stick or an external hdd (with psu) just fine. with the right usb hub everything else works.
I dual boot ubuntu and ics (shared kernel) and use a 16gb micro sd card as well, The microsd card is shared storage for ubuntu and android. Yesterday I installed a siemens programming ide to the tablet (its java based) plugged a usb serial port to a hub and now i can carry a tablet to do a job instead of a laptop.
My wishlist for a tablet is more ram and more open source drivers an omapfb is a bit too slow, there are sensors with no Linux support, and it is a shame i can't use them yet:).
See the thing about a tablet is it goes from a simple device to a work station if you want it too. Android is fine for tablet duty but I can do so much more when I boot a linux userland.
So more ram more open hardware drivers and keep the full size usb port since it lets me just plug in a usb drive a card reader even a dvd burner, or a laser printer, scanner. I'd like a separate power socket too. Without doubt i'd love that bluetooth enabled usb hub. The option of a wireless display connection would be icing on the cake.
seconded plasma active seems useful its stylish and above all easy to use. i`ve tried ubuntu even unity on this tablet and it is only workable with a mouse really. plasma active has a system of work spaces a bit like androids home screens. but there is a kind of dial effect to select the one you want. initially there is just one âoewelcomeâoe but you can create them as needed. the on screen keyboard appears when needed and is easy to type on. each activity space has its own background which makes them easy to identify. there does appear to be a bug as hitting return doesnt make a new line in this text box. It works in kwrite thou. I have only just installed plasma active on this archos g9 101. while i can easily switch between android and ubuntu with a multi boot option this currently requires a quick flash of the zimage to switch operating systems. somewhat awkward but it does seem a good enough os that there isnt an urgent need to switch. dispite my dislike of kde it is better for this tablet than gnome, unity, xfe and matchbox. Android is best thou at this stage. Anyway this is my first post from my archos g9 101 running plasma active.
The problem with Linux on a tablet is not installing Linux but making it usable with a touchscreen. A mouse orientated ui is not so usable when the pointer device is a finger, keyboard input is not so easy either pop up your touchscreen keyboard and you are losing a good part of your display and typically the entry point for the text you are attempting to enter.
The Desktop mouse keyboard interface just doesn't work well, on the positive side KDE plasma touch interface is coming along, and touch aware apps are being written.
What is needed is alternative views for graphical applications. The user interface needs to adapt to the environment the application finds itself in. In theory a lot of software is written with MVC as a design principle. In Linux most of the UI is built using GTK or QT it seems QT is being developed to take touchscreens into account but i have seen no sign of this with GTK.
Tablets seem to be a convertible device in many cases. Supporting a bare touchscreen use case yet relatively easy conversion to a desktop / laptop configuration. Archos as you mentioned typically have hdmi out and will easily take input from a physical keyboard and mouse.
It is reasonable to assume you could at some point have a tablet which can be used purely as a tablet, as a laptop with external keyboard mouse and as a workstation core with a larger screen and keyboard. With the tablet itself perhaps being used as a secondary display or digital input , handwriting , drawings diagrams formula ect.
With the creation of profiles for each configuration and a user interface which responds to each situation we would have an extremely powerful and useful tool. Currently I have a dualboot tablet running ics and ubuntu 12.04 ics is great at android type things ubuntu makes it easy to type a report (i tend to use a keyboard case and mouse with ubuntu) with a shared storage space i can use data under both systems.
There is also the annoyance that there is no good driver for the gpu,under ubuntu so ui things such as composite desktops are slow buggy or non existent. Also Video is laggy and jerky. More ram would also be nice. Hardware designs are not quite there with Archos I'd like a separate psu port and a fullsize usb port which isn't crippled and my g9 has a touchscreen which is a swine for generating ghost finger presses particularly in the corners. There are a good number of tablets with superior hardware to the archos.
I think we might find Linux ready for tablets next year / 2014 and hopefully Hardware with good drivers and more Ram in the same sort of time frame. Android itself is good at what it does, Linux needs to be as usable as Android along with the applications and uses Android does not cater for.
In the UK you can be "Sectioned" If you appear to be a danger to yourself or others but these days policy seems to be "Care in the community" or shut as many mental facilities as possible and let fate take care of the problem.
Trouble is it is cheaper to ignore the problem, than do anything about it.
I tried it with ubuntu on an archos G9 101 and touch orientated devices need a different interface to a desktop. Scroll bars are very tricky selecting a tool from the toolbox in the gimp for example too small to be usable. Now if you plug in a mouse and keyboard its pretty much the same as a 10 inch netbook. Theres a good number of gui's for linux but maybe kde plasma might be the only workable one. Theres a few things that need rethinking such as arranging text boxes to be visible when you bring up a keyboard even bringing up a keyboard when it is needed also needed.
In theory it should be possible to get tools such as gtk and qt to respond in a touch friendly way on a touch friendly device but there is a long way to go before you can just run what you want on a touch screen.
Looking from the outside, the word dispair seems to be appropriate. USA seems a reasonable place to live if you can make a success of your life. If you can't... well it seems to be the harshest first world country to live in.
Seriously if you ask google for directions for a to b then they need to know what a and b are. I honestly don't care what google knows and it is pretty pointless trying to target ads at me since i do not see them.
Now if I wanted to indulge in something that could cause problems if it was known I wouldn't ask google anything. Your privacy is only private if you don't tell anyone.
You should be able to use Ubuntu bootrepair to get debian booting I had the same issue yesterday with mint and the boot repair utility took me through repairing grub well replacing it with a version with the shim to boot a Linux os
Boot with a live USB stick install boot repair and it should work
erm no. I was given an ipad to see if i could figure out why it wasn't coming on after a Hard reset or 3 further googling revealed press home and power key for 10 seconds and home for another 5 seconds while in itunes and the device should be recognised and the firmware reloaded.
I don't think you can manage android devices either without some access to a pc of some sort on the plus side adb works nicely on Linux
Drivers I've just got a mouse driver working on my android tablet, its not a touch screen driver you need to drag it to get to click stuff. thats took a couple of days It does support an external keyboard and mouse but it loses its advantage as a tablet, bluetooth should be working but I can't get my keyboard to pair up with it compass , accelerometer gps no drivers set up yet hardware acceleration not yet( its a frame buffer).
Yet the potential is there, libre office is installed as is the gimp there is a full size usb port as well as the otg port. Probably can connect the same devices i use already on my netbook, running mint.
It's going to take a while to sort out all the hardware, and maybe a few more headaches like the one I have now. It's going to be handy to have the flexibility of Linux with the utility of Android.
Now which is better to spend your time creating your Linux tablet or to buy one preconfigured with all the hardware up and running?
That is the point, a preconfigured tablet or the hardwork to get it fully functional. Take your pick if it is what you want you now have options.
I'm already using it (1.13) it isn't too bad but there are a few bugs the major one being the hidden search box. it just needs a minor layout change and it would be spot on for me on Android.
More of a practical issue is ocring scanned texts. If your pdf is actually a series of pictures search isn't going to work. Some software can ocr but it tends to prefer straight typed lines so if the scan is slightly slanted the success rate of the ocr goes down if successful you can have an image with a hidden text layer behind it which should navigate you to the appropriate page.
it is a bit of an issue with lecture notes as often you are given a handout you make hand written notes on the handout and you have a bit too much work to do trying to make them into a really useful form for the tablet or laptop or ereader.
Autodesk do a handy app sketchbook express, its a sketch pad but it is useful for doing quick rough diagrams. it saves a few pages which would be hitting the bin not long after the scribbled idea gets used or rejected.
Ocr and handwriting recognition both can be issues. I believe the samsung one note has good handwriting recognition but I am not sure what is available for other tablets. A stylus of some sort is useful at times a rounded tip seems to work better than a flat one. There is a problem of storing a stylus with many tablets as they were not designed with this kind of input in mind.
Most tablets will support bluetooth keyboards and mice, some have full size usb host ports that will take a wireless keyboard dongle or an external hdd On android I find adb push foo.bar/mnt/storage a useful command yes i could connect to the network mount a share and copy, or copy to a flash drive or micro sd card but adb is less hassle. I've not tried scanning directly to my tablet yet My Archos 101 g9 does support dual boot of ubuntu and ics so i'd be optimistic that ubuntu could use my scanner directly and i can write to a shared location such as the mico sd card. Android has an interesting take on printer drivers I can share my printers with googles cloud printing service and run a service (built into/ shipped with the chrome browser). so tablet to cloud , cloud to my netbook and over my lan to my printers connected to my nas (running debian).
One more issue some pdf files are locked and cannot be edited or annotated. Some software will ignore this and let you annotate others will not.
In the article it states she searched in google which lead to the piratebay where she downloaded some files but they didn't work.
You make the leap that she must have used the torrent files with a torrent client. It makes more sense that she tried to play the torrent files in her music player which is why they didn't work.
That sounds reasonable for a 9 year old and the father buying her the cd that sounds reasonable and refusing to "settle" for music files that were not downloaded also a reasonable action.
Was the trigger for the raid evidence of downloading of the.torrent file or evidence of the IP of the nine year old being in the swarm? Also if the IP was in the swarm was the download complete or is a partial download enough, if so here is part of your next download 10.
Below a certain age, you just don't prosecute children even if it was an adult it would be theft, usually the shopkeeper and the parent(s) of the child will get together and have words with the child usually ending with the child apologising to the shop keeper. That is reasonable behaviour, an 8 am raid on a house and the seizing of the childs laptop isn't in any way reasonable.
As a parent you do not want your children breaking the law, I think most parents would having found that their young child went to pirate bay to download music would have said no you cant do that it's wrong and bought them the CD as that is the proper way to get the music. It's just one of the lessons of life that parents teach their kids.
You also teach your kids to stand up for themselves and don't be bullied, and stand up for your principles. If all that was downloaded was the torrent files who wouldn't refuse to settle ?
Take a look at the comments, and tell me there is no basis for the grand parents stereotype. it's not the grammar, so much as the tone and the arrogance of the comments.
The page provides a fairly basic tool to construct ladder logic the people commentating seem to think they can now get the page author to provide solutions to their individual problems.
Almost like you putting up a sign saying "here is a hammer you can take away and use". Random passers then approach you and say "build me a free house now", (because your time and knowledge is obviously worth nothing as you give tools away for free) and expecting that you will do it.
As an aside, I'm still looking for a graphical tool for putting together ladder logic on Linux or Android. Android has a few tools for programming and monitoring an actual PLC. I'm just looking for a tool to draw circuits instead of using a pencil and paper. A method for testing the design would be a welcome bonus. I would be surprised if no one has written such a tool already.
There are a couple of things, retrospectively you can give a much higher limit and allocate storage dynamically so your 160 gb diskfile is next to nothing when empty.
you can have fun with clonezilla and gparted iso files. create a new disk image of the size you want and boot from the iso's (cd drive) and gparted will copy the full disk drive to the empty disk disk drive and resize it to fit the partition. After that you just shut down disconnect the first drive connect the second drive to the first drives controller and you should be sorted It's been a few years since i had to do that so i'm fuzzy on the details.
There can be fun and games to be had converting disks between virtual disk formats i think that involved quemu and vboxmanage. Think i used quemu as a usb stick portable install to run my xp vm on some library computers that i wasn't allowed to install on.
Some of the portable versions of some apps can run with wine where the normal desktop install would fail. I think photoshop was one dodgy example.
I've used a couple of Vm's Virtualbox and vmware. Vmware workstation requires a licence to run the VM but could be used to configure a VM without a license, this may have changed. The VM could be then run for free using vmplayer. Virtualbox can be used for free with the community version or the personally licensed version which supports connecting usb devices.
That's pretty much my experience with vm's There is fun and games to be had with networking options and sharing data with VM's and there is also the question of hosting. Do you want a full blown OS running at the same time as your VM/S (grabbing a big chunk of resources) and should your disks be physical / virtual.
Then you can also move VM's between computer systems which I know nothing about. costs can be from free to very expensive.
Then of course there is the question of what guest OS can be run effectively in a VM and the applications of a VM you might want to just run a simple server or a full blown OS. Windows and Linux are usually easy to install in a VM but howabout OSX or android. Then there is the host cpu which also can be a major factor. Some people are running desktop versions of linux on android devices, ok not a VM as such but perhaps related.
I don't think i have mentioned every topic in relation to VM's but there is a lot of interesting things that could be discussed under the heading virtual machines. The least interesting of which is well you could just google that and the poster is being lazy.
As a jumping off point the original question is fine and ideal for professional and enthusiasts to run with in a myriad of directions. Hopefully everyone who is interested will learn something new to them or maybe spark an idea that may be useful to them personally or professionally.
As a master craftsman in your chosen field of endeavour isn't it a good thing to help guide the inexperienced? I agree that some questions have simple answers, but perhaps the real answer is not the solution to a particular problem but the methodology of solving that type of question. In this case the answer isn't quite as simple as use virtualbox or vmware but why would you choose one over the other.
And most people recognize that it's odd that tech geeks care so much about choices other people make, and about products they don't own.
Not really true , most people don't recognise anything that has no interest for them. However people do have an interest in other peoples choices if it could effect them or even if its just a subject they are interested in. Think of Sports, Politics , Religion, Vegans, Music, whatever.
maybe slightly off topic but some might find it interesting, i use 3g at home as i live out in the country, i bought an intellinet router which i'm fairly certain is Linux based. Anyway if you plug in a usb modem it connects to 3g. I also have an android mobile phone. both services use prepay credit.
last night i'm on my way home from buying credit for my phone or my modem, and thinking this is a pain if i put it on the modem i can't make calls or texts without moving the sim from the modem to the phone and i can't have net access on the lan without having the sim in the modem. Anyway I google cm7 usb tethering, and it basically says with linux plug the phone into a USB port and select usb tethering on the phone. So I thought router runs Linux would it work? Answer yes its recognised and works and is faster since the phones modem is twice the speed capability of the usb stick. (as it is the phone i used is a stock galaxy mini on 2.3 rooted but for this it doesn't need to be)
It's good but wait there is more. I have an iomega iconnect its a cheap nas with 4 usb ports for drives gigabit ethernet and wireless N wifi but mine has a copy of debian running as a dual boot on a usb flash card. So the artificial limitation of not being able to chain a secondary usb hub has been lifted:) so it's pretty much a given that i can connect my mobile to my nas and use the nas as a 3g router with a little bit of configuration. Which means I have a nice low powered router within my grasp which will give me network storage, wireless printing and scanning music and video streaming and as one of my usb disk adapters also has a built in usb sound card it can also be a networked media player too.
I bought the iconnect for about 50 euro but since its basically an arm soc running open source software then you could use a raspberry pi or a beagle board. The PI probably could work as an output device for your tv as well. Me i will probably just plug in my android tablet for streaming from the nas.
I guess all in all this is a pretty good example of what is possible with a bit of open source software and Linux based devices and of course i can do the configuration over the Lan using ssh from my netbook running Mint.
Hows that for freedom using open source software, I guess it could be done using Windows or OSX but I doubt it would be so easy or so cheap.
Android really isn't that bad, in fact its quite useful since it has a great ecosystem of apps that are not available for most linux versions at little cost. I want to see Android apps on the linux desktop you can get so far with Virtualbox and even boot some images on a netbook but it's not there yet not so easy to just pull an app from the playstore and just run it. Maybe we need a bridge board similar to the ones you used to be able to get for the Amiga (ok that was an 8086 in those days ). If android ran X then it would be possible to integrate your phone into your linux desktop i'm sure somebody has idea's on how to do it:)
Now when you post something on your wall facebook will only notify 15% of your friends of your post unless you choose to promote it and they want serious money to do so.
As an experiment i posted a link to the dangerous minds story and asked my friends to comment if they saw that post. well that was around 10 hours ago and so far only 1 friend bothered to comment and they posted the link to me in the first place!
You can try your own experiments and see if you can find the reach of your posts. For companies who have built a following on facebook this quite disastrous but if your using facebook to keep in touch with friends and family, good luck with that because facebook isn't letting you do that anymore either if my experiment is anything to go by.
Samsung did a photo frame which was able to be used as a display port device. making it work as a second monitor I did have it in mind as a portable second monitor for a netbook. Some reason USB display port devices cost stupid money, as in more than the frame would cost. hopefully they have dropped to a price point where they are reasonable.
My Nas is hacked to run debian,I guess it could be used with display port and a photo frame as a display usb sound cards are supported also...
Heck, every time something about evolution pops up, there's a ton of people here saying the earth is 6000 years old, evolution is false, etc. I don't remember that happening here in the 90s.
That is just trolling. On the positive side there are a lot less of GNAA, Nambia trolls for example these days, You can't expect everything to remain the same but with millions of registered users there is bound to be a change in what gets covered on Slashdot on the plus side there is usually less than 500 comments on any particular article, so if something has interest to just a few hundred users it can be an article on slashdot. Choose what to read, don't bother with stuff that doesn't interest you. This site is its users and if something interests you talk about it!
If you don't then there will be changes you don't like and little that caters to your interest. You can't blame slashdot changing to cater for new users interests if you don't find slashdot interesting any more and don't contribute yourself.
read that and then contrast with this from ubuntu.com
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'.
You might think with these radically differences this might be a bad fit.
Maybe it was a few years back, but Ubuntu doesn't seem to even being developed by the same people who made it great. At least there are good alternatives to Ubuntu. Although if Mint doesn't stop with the configuring firefox to expressly not have google as a default search option or make it easy to add they will be losing users too.
Bilingual means you speak/write/read a language as well as your native one.
Well according to your definition I am bilingual, I would also add a fourth criteria think!
I am not claiming to be 100 percent proficient in any language, I would however claim my knowledge of English is superior to my knowledge of Polish. I have a more diverse choice of words at my command in English due to being better read in the English language. I speak read and write and think in both languages everyday.
Obviously English culture has had a greater influence on me than Polish.
Take the simple pocket calculator lets use it to multiply 2 numbers together say 8*7 = 56 now most of us would just do that in our heads but a slightly more complicated case say 113 * 58 and it becomes a more significant effort. Easy to do if you have a calculator or a piece of paper and a pen.
I am bilingual to an extent, I can converse in English and Polish how ever if I use google translate I can form more complex sentences and frame idea's and concepts that my poor old brain would struggle to produce in Polish. Google Chrome will with an extension let me say the words in English and translate for me and even say the words for me too. It isn't perfect but one thing i do notice is that my brain also caches some of the words I don't recall or even ever learnt before, so actually my Polish knowledge increases as I use the "cloud" to enhance my abilities.
Augmentation of the brain by the cloud, we are not the borg just yet but we do have access to the human collective more commonly known as the Internet. Is it so far away that I might wear an ear piece of some sort that listens to the voices around me and gives me the English translation. technically it could be done. how about an app that listens to the conversations around me and lets me highlight key words and fetch me related information?
As an example this morning there was a conversation about the band Skunk Anansie googling this let me know they formed in 94 split up and reformed in 2009 also they released a video and new single three days ago. I was aware of them from the 90's but I had forgotten pretty much everything about them. might it be possible to gather this information fairly automatically? say with a small touch screen device that can listen to conversation and allow me to highlight words and bring up additional information.
Is this the kind of thing that Ray is actually talking about? Arguably we are already augmenting our brains with the cloud as he puts it, We just don't call it that.
Just got an email from google saying i was right about the error i found and they would email me when it is fixed (which may be months). I notified them at the weekend and 2 days later i have a reply not too shoddy really.
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Full size is quite handy, since everything fits just the same as with your laptop desktop netbook and nas.
It's a gateway port to be honest. Which you already have devices for. Think the first cable you tend to buy is micro usb (otg) to full size usb port cable. but that port gets too much stress as it is. Bluetooth is possibly a good alternative to the usb port. I would love a usb hub with bluetooth so i could just pair the hub and not need any cable hanging off my tablet and no port to break.
My tablet has both otg micro and a fullsize usb port. The full size port is a bit funny its meant to take a 3g module but it takes a usb stick or an external hdd (with psu) just fine. with the right usb hub everything else works.
I dual boot ubuntu and ics (shared kernel) and use a 16gb micro sd card as well, The microsd card is shared storage for ubuntu and android. Yesterday I installed a siemens programming ide to the tablet (its java based) plugged a usb serial port to a hub and now i can carry a tablet to do a job instead of a laptop.
My wishlist for a tablet is more ram and more open source drivers an omapfb is a bit too slow, there are sensors with no Linux support, and it is a shame i can't use them yet :).
See the thing about a tablet is it goes from a simple device to a work station if you want it too. Android is fine for tablet duty but I can do so much more when I boot a linux userland.
So more ram more open hardware drivers and keep the full size usb port since it lets me just plug in a usb drive a card reader even a dvd burner, or a laser printer, scanner. I'd like a separate power socket too.
Without doubt i'd love that bluetooth enabled usb hub. The option of a wireless display connection would be icing on the cake.
seconded plasma active seems useful its stylish and above all easy to use. i`ve tried ubuntu even unity on this tablet and it is only workable with a mouse really. plasma active has a system of work spaces a bit like androids home screens. but there is a kind of dial effect to select the one you want. initially there is just one âoewelcomeâoe but you can create them as needed. the on screen keyboard appears when needed and is easy to type on. each activity space has its own background which makes them easy to identify. there does appear to be a bug as hitting return doesnt make a new line in this text box. It works in kwrite thou. I have only just installed plasma active on this archos g9 101. while i can easily switch between android and ubuntu with a multi boot option this currently requires a quick flash of the zimage to switch operating systems. somewhat awkward but it does seem a good enough os that there isnt an urgent need to switch. dispite my dislike of kde it is better for this tablet than gnome, unity, xfe and matchbox. Android is best thou at this stage. Anyway this is my first post from my archos g9 101 running plasma active.
The problem with Linux on a tablet is not installing Linux but making it usable with a touchscreen. A mouse orientated ui is not so usable when the pointer device is a finger, keyboard input is not so easy either pop up your touchscreen keyboard and you are losing a good part of your display and typically the entry point for the text you are attempting to enter.
The Desktop mouse keyboard interface just doesn't work well, on the positive side KDE plasma touch interface is coming along, and touch aware apps are being written.
What is needed is alternative views for graphical applications. The user interface needs to adapt to the environment the application finds itself in. In theory a lot of software is written with MVC as a design principle. In Linux most of the UI is built using GTK or QT it seems QT is being developed to take touchscreens into account but i have seen no sign of this with GTK.
Tablets seem to be a convertible device in many cases. Supporting a bare touchscreen use case yet relatively easy conversion to a desktop / laptop configuration.
Archos as you mentioned typically have hdmi out and will easily take input from a physical keyboard and mouse.
It is reasonable to assume you could at some point have a tablet which can be used purely as a tablet, as a laptop with external keyboard mouse and as a workstation core with a larger screen and keyboard. With the tablet itself perhaps being used as a secondary display or digital input , handwriting , drawings diagrams formula ect.
With the creation of profiles for each configuration and a user interface which responds to each situation we would have an extremely powerful and useful tool. Currently I have a dualboot tablet running ics and ubuntu 12.04 ics is great at android type things ubuntu makes it easy to type a report (i tend to use a keyboard case and mouse with ubuntu) with a shared storage space i can use data under both systems.
There is also the annoyance that there is no good driver for the gpu,under ubuntu so ui things such as composite desktops are slow buggy or non existent. Also Video is laggy and jerky. More ram would also be nice. Hardware designs are not quite there with Archos I'd like a separate psu port and a fullsize usb port which isn't crippled and my g9 has a touchscreen which is a swine for generating ghost finger presses particularly in the corners. There are a good number of tablets with superior hardware to the archos.
I think we might find Linux ready for tablets next year / 2014 and hopefully Hardware with good drivers and more Ram in the same sort of time frame. Android itself is good at what it does, Linux needs to be as usable as Android along with the applications and uses Android does not cater for.
In the UK you can be "Sectioned" If you appear to be a danger to yourself or others but these days policy seems to be "Care in the community" or shut as many mental facilities as possible and let fate take care of the problem.
Trouble is it is cheaper to ignore the problem, than do anything about it.
I tried it with ubuntu on an archos G9 101 and touch orientated devices need a different interface to a desktop. Scroll bars are very tricky selecting a tool from the toolbox in the gimp for example too small to be usable. Now if you plug in a mouse and keyboard its pretty much the same as a 10 inch netbook. Theres a good number of gui's for linux but maybe kde plasma might be the only workable one. Theres a few things that need rethinking such as arranging text boxes to be visible when you bring up a keyboard even bringing up a keyboard when it is needed also needed.
In theory it should be possible to get tools such as gtk and qt to respond in a touch friendly way on a touch friendly device but there is a long way to go before you can just run what you want on a touch screen.
Looking from the outside, the word dispair seems to be appropriate. USA seems a reasonable place to live if you can make a success of your life. If you can't ... well it seems to be the harshest first world country to live in.
Seriously
if you ask google for directions for a to b then they need to know what a and b are. I honestly don't care what google knows and it is pretty pointless trying to target ads at me since i do not see them.
Now if I wanted to indulge in something that could cause problems if it was known I wouldn't ask google anything. Your privacy is only private if you don't tell anyone.
You should be able to use Ubuntu bootrepair to get debian booting I had the same issue yesterday with mint and the boot repair utility took me through repairing grub well replacing it with a version with the shim to boot a Linux os
Boot with a live USB stick install boot repair and it should work
erm no.
I was given an ipad to see if i could figure out why it wasn't coming on after a Hard reset or 3 further googling revealed press home and power key for 10 seconds and home for another 5 seconds while in itunes and the device should be recognised and the firmware reloaded.
I don't think you can manage android devices either without some access to a pc of some sort on the plus side adb works nicely on Linux
Drivers
I've just got a mouse driver working on my android tablet, its not a touch screen driver you need to drag it to get to click stuff. thats took a couple of days It does support an external keyboard and mouse but it loses its advantage as a tablet, bluetooth should be working but I can't get my keyboard to pair up with it compass , accelerometer gps no drivers set up yet hardware acceleration not yet( its a frame buffer).
Yet the potential is there, libre office is installed as is the gimp there is a full size usb port as well as the otg port. Probably can connect the same devices i use already on my netbook, running mint.
It's going to take a while to sort out all the hardware, and maybe a few more headaches like the one I have now. It's going to be handy to have the flexibility of Linux with the utility of Android.
Now which is better to spend your time creating your Linux tablet or to buy one preconfigured with all the hardware up and running?
That is the point, a preconfigured tablet or the hardwork to get it fully functional. Take your pick if it is what you want you now have options.
I'm already using it (1.13) it isn't too bad but there are a few bugs the major one being the hidden search box. it just needs a minor layout change and it would be spot on for me on Android.
More of a practical issue is ocring scanned texts. If your pdf is actually a series of pictures search isn't going to work. Some software can ocr but it tends to prefer straight typed lines so if the scan is slightly slanted the success rate of the ocr goes down if successful you can have an image with a hidden text layer behind it which should navigate you to the appropriate page.
it is a bit of an issue with lecture notes as often you are given a handout you make hand written notes on the handout and you have a bit too much work to do trying to make them into a really useful form for the tablet or laptop or ereader.
Autodesk do a handy app sketchbook express, its a sketch pad but it is useful for doing quick rough diagrams. it saves a few pages which would be hitting the bin not long after the scribbled idea gets used or rejected.
Ocr and handwriting recognition both can be issues. I believe the samsung one note has good handwriting recognition but I am not sure what is available for other tablets. A stylus of some sort is useful at times a rounded tip seems to work better than a flat one. There is a problem of storing a stylus with many tablets as they were not designed with this kind of input in mind.
Most tablets will support bluetooth keyboards and mice, some have full size usb host ports that will take a wireless keyboard dongle or an external hdd On android I find adb push foo.bar /mnt/storage a useful command yes i could connect to the network mount a share and copy, or copy to a flash drive or micro sd card but adb is less hassle. I've not tried scanning directly to my tablet yet My Archos 101 g9 does support dual boot of ubuntu and ics so i'd be optimistic that ubuntu could use my scanner directly and i can write to a shared location such as the mico sd card. Android has an interesting take on printer drivers I can share my printers with googles cloud printing service and run a service (built into/ shipped with the chrome browser). so tablet to cloud , cloud to my netbook and over my lan to my printers connected to my nas (running debian).
One more issue some pdf files are locked and cannot be edited or annotated. Some software will ignore this and let you annotate others will not.
In the article it states she searched in google which lead to the piratebay where she downloaded some files but they didn't work.
You make the leap that she must have used the torrent files with a torrent client. It makes more sense that she tried to play the torrent files in her music player which is why they didn't work.
That sounds reasonable for a 9 year old and the father buying her the cd that sounds reasonable and refusing to "settle" for music files that were not downloaded also a reasonable action.
Was the trigger for the raid evidence of downloading of the .torrent file or evidence of the IP of the nine year old being in the swarm? Also if the IP was in the swarm was the download complete or is a partial download enough, if so here is part of your next download 10.
Below a certain age, you just don't prosecute children even if it was an adult it would be theft, usually the shopkeeper and the parent(s) of the child will get together and have words with the child usually ending with the child apologising to the shop keeper. That is reasonable behaviour, an 8 am raid on a house and the seizing of the childs laptop isn't in any way reasonable.
As a parent you do not want your children breaking the law, I think most parents would having found that their young child went to pirate bay to download music would have said no you cant do that it's wrong and bought them the CD as that is the proper way to get the music. It's just one of the lessons of life that parents teach their kids.
You also teach your kids to stand up for themselves and don't be bullied, and stand up for your principles. If all that was downloaded was the torrent files who wouldn't refuse to settle ?
Agreed speaking a second language isn't the easiest thing to do, most people will make some errors.
However here is a page i found recently.
http://plc-course.com/Sample-PLC-projects/plc-ladder-logic-simulator.html
Take a look at the comments, and tell me there is no basis for the grand parents stereotype.
it's not the grammar, so much as the tone and the arrogance of the comments.
The page provides a fairly basic tool to construct ladder logic the people commentating seem to think they can now get the page author to provide solutions to their individual problems.
Almost like you putting up a sign saying "here is a hammer you can take away and use". Random passers then approach you and say "build me a free house now", (because your time and knowledge is obviously worth nothing as you give tools away for free) and expecting that you will do it.
As an aside, I'm still looking for a graphical tool for putting together ladder logic on Linux or Android. Android has a few tools for programming and monitoring an actual PLC. I'm just looking for a tool to draw circuits instead of using a pencil and paper. A method for testing the design would be a welcome bonus. I would be surprised if no one has written such a tool already.
There are a couple of things, retrospectively you can give a much higher limit and allocate storage dynamically so your 160 gb diskfile is next to nothing when empty.
you can have fun with clonezilla and gparted iso files. create a new disk image of the size you want and boot from the iso's (cd drive) and gparted will copy the full disk drive to the empty disk disk drive and resize it to fit the partition. After that you just shut down disconnect the first drive connect the second drive to the first drives controller and you should be sorted It's been a few years since i had to do that so i'm fuzzy on the details.
There can be fun and games to be had converting disks between virtual disk formats i think that involved quemu and vboxmanage. Think i used quemu as a usb stick portable install to run my xp vm on some library computers that i wasn't allowed to install on.
Some of the portable versions of some apps can run with wine where the normal desktop install would fail. I think photoshop was one dodgy example.
There is no real substitute for experience.
I've used a couple of Vm's Virtualbox and vmware. Vmware workstation requires a licence to run the VM but could be used to configure a VM without a license, this may have changed. The VM could be then run for free using vmplayer. Virtualbox can be used for free with the community version or the personally licensed version which supports connecting usb devices.
That's pretty much my experience with vm's There is fun and games to be had with networking options and sharing data with VM's and there is also the question of hosting. Do you want a full blown OS running at the same time as your VM/S (grabbing a big chunk of resources) and should your disks be physical / virtual.
Then you can also move VM's between computer systems which I know nothing about.
costs can be from free to very expensive.
Then of course there is the question of what guest OS can be run effectively in a VM and the applications of a VM you might want to just run a simple server or a full blown OS. Windows and Linux are usually easy to install in a VM but howabout OSX or android.
Then there is the host cpu which also can be a major factor.
Some people are running desktop versions of linux on android devices, ok not a VM as such but perhaps related.
I don't think i have mentioned every topic in relation to VM's but there is a lot of interesting things that could be discussed under the heading virtual machines. The least interesting of which is well you could just google that and the poster is being lazy.
As a jumping off point the original question is fine and ideal for professional and enthusiasts to run with in a myriad of directions. Hopefully everyone who is interested will learn something new to them or maybe spark an idea that may be useful to them personally or professionally.
As a master craftsman in your chosen field of endeavour isn't it a good thing to help guide the inexperienced?
I agree that some questions have simple answers, but perhaps the real answer is not the solution to a particular problem but the methodology of solving that type of question. In this case the answer isn't quite as simple as use virtualbox or vmware but why would you choose one over the other.
And most people recognize that it's odd that tech geeks care so much about choices other people make, and about products they don't own.
Not really true , most people don't recognise anything that has no interest for them.
However people do have an interest in other peoples choices if it could effect them or even if its just a subject they are interested in. Think of Sports, Politics , Religion, Vegans, Music, whatever.
maybe slightly off topic but some might find it interesting, i use 3g at home as i live out in the country, i bought an intellinet router which i'm fairly certain is Linux based. Anyway if you plug in a usb modem it connects to 3g.
I also have an android mobile phone. both services use prepay credit.
last night i'm on my way home from buying credit for my phone or my modem, and thinking this is a pain if i put it on the modem i can't make calls or texts without moving the sim from the modem to the phone and i can't have net access on the lan without having the sim in the modem. Anyway I google cm7 usb tethering, and it basically says with linux plug the phone into a USB port and select usb tethering on the phone. So I thought router runs Linux would it work? Answer yes its recognised and works and is faster since the phones modem is twice the speed capability of the usb stick. (as it is the phone i used is a stock galaxy mini on 2.3 rooted but for this it doesn't need to be)
It's good but wait there is more. I have an iomega iconnect its a cheap nas with 4 usb ports for drives gigabit ethernet and wireless N wifi but mine has a copy of debian running as a dual boot on a usb flash card. So the artificial limitation of not being able to chain a secondary usb hub has been lifted :) so it's pretty much a given that i can connect my mobile to my nas and use the nas as a 3g router with a little bit of configuration. Which means I have a nice low powered router within my grasp which will give me network storage, wireless printing and scanning music and video streaming and as one of my usb disk adapters also has a built in usb sound card it can also be a networked media player too.
I bought the iconnect for about 50 euro but since its basically an arm soc running open source software then you could use a raspberry pi or a beagle board. The PI probably could work as an output device for your tv as well. Me i will probably just plug in my android tablet for streaming from the nas.
I guess all in all this is a pretty good example of what is possible with a bit of open source software and Linux based devices and of course i can do the configuration over the Lan using ssh from my netbook running Mint.
Hows that for freedom using open source software, I guess it could be done using Windows or OSX but I doubt it would be so easy or so cheap.
Android really isn't that bad, in fact its quite useful since it has a great ecosystem of apps that are not available for most linux versions at little cost. I want to see Android apps on the linux desktop you can get so far with Virtualbox and even boot some images on a netbook but it's not there yet not so easy to just pull an app from the playstore and just run it. Maybe we need a bridge board similar to the ones you used to be able to get for the Amiga (ok that was an 8086 in those days ). If android ran X then it would be possible to integrate your phone into your linux desktop i'm sure somebody has idea's on how to do it :)
You might have noticed Facebooks promote button recently.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/facebook_i_want_my_friends_back explains it better than I can
Now when you post something on your wall facebook will only notify 15% of your friends of your post unless you choose to promote it and they want serious money to do so.
As an experiment i posted a link to the dangerous minds story and asked my friends to comment if they saw that post. well that was around 10 hours ago and so far only 1 friend bothered to comment and they posted the link to me in the first place!
You can try your own experiments and see if you can find the reach of your posts. For companies who have built a following on facebook this quite disastrous but if your using facebook to keep in touch with friends and family, good luck with that because facebook isn't letting you do that anymore either if my experiment is anything to go by.
Samsung did a photo frame which was able to be used as a display port device. making it work as a second monitor I did have it in mind as a portable second monitor for a netbook. Some reason USB display port devices cost stupid money, as in more than the frame would cost. hopefully they have dropped to a price point where they are reasonable.
My Nas is hacked to run debian,I guess it could be used with display port and a photo frame as a display usb sound cards are supported also...
Heck, every time something about evolution pops up, there's a ton of people here saying the earth is 6000 years old, evolution is false, etc. I don't remember that happening here in the 90s.
That is just trolling. On the positive side there are a lot less of GNAA, Nambia trolls for example these days, You can't expect everything to remain the same but with millions of registered users there is bound to be a change in what gets covered on Slashdot on the plus side there is usually less than 500 comments on any particular article, so if something has interest to just a few hundred users it can be an article on slashdot. Choose what to read, don't bother with stuff that doesn't interest you. This site is its users and if something interests you talk about it!
If you don't then there will be changes you don't like and little that caters to your interest. You can't blame slashdot changing to cater for new users interests if you don't find slashdot interesting any more and don't contribute yourself.
you might think that but life of brian was banned in a few places
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Top-ten-movies-banned-in-Ireland-124842519.html
surprisingly the meaning of life got banned as well!
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-allentown-amazon-complaints-20110917,0,7937001,full.story
read that and then contrast with this from ubuntu.com
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'.
You might think with these radically differences this might be a bad fit.
Maybe it was a few years back, but Ubuntu doesn't seem to even being developed by the same people who made it great. At least there are good alternatives to Ubuntu. Although if Mint doesn't stop with the configuring firefox to expressly not have google as a default search option or make it easy to add they will be losing users too.
Bilingual means you speak/write/read a language as well as your native one.
Well according to your definition I am bilingual, I would also add a fourth criteria think!
I am not claiming to be 100 percent proficient in any language, I would however claim my knowledge of English is superior to my knowledge of Polish. I have a more diverse choice of words at my command in English due to being better read in the English language. I speak read and write and think in both languages everyday.
Obviously English culture has had a greater influence on me than Polish.
Perhaps Ray is simply expressing himself badly.
Take the simple pocket calculator lets use it to multiply 2 numbers together say 8*7 = 56 now most of us would just do that in our heads but a slightly more complicated case say 113 * 58 and it becomes a more significant effort. Easy to do if you have a calculator or a piece of paper and a pen.
I am bilingual to an extent, I can converse in English and Polish how ever if I use google translate I can form more complex sentences and frame idea's and concepts that my poor old brain would struggle to produce in Polish. Google Chrome will with an extension let me say the words in English and translate for me and even say the words for me too. It isn't perfect but one thing i do notice is that my brain also caches some of the words I don't recall or even ever learnt before, so actually my Polish knowledge increases as I use the "cloud" to enhance my abilities.
Augmentation of the brain by the cloud, we are not the borg just yet but we do have access to the human collective more commonly known as the Internet. Is it so far away that I might wear an ear piece of some sort that listens to the voices around me and gives me the English translation. technically it could be done.
how about an app that listens to the conversations around me and lets me highlight key words and fetch me related information?
As an example this morning there was a conversation about the band Skunk Anansie googling this let me know they formed in 94 split up and reformed in 2009 also they released a video and new single three days ago.
I was aware of them from the 90's but I had forgotten pretty much everything about them. might it be possible to gather this information fairly automatically? say with a small touch screen device that can listen to conversation and allow me to highlight words and bring up additional information.
Is this the kind of thing that Ray is actually talking about? Arguably we are already augmenting our brains with the cloud as he puts it, We just don't call it that.
Just got an email from google saying i was right about the error i found and they would email me when it is fixed (which may be months). I notified them at the weekend and 2 days later i have a reply not too shoddy really.