It's easy for this to appear as contradictory statements and here's why.
Asus distances itself from Android netbook. Don't forget, Acer's an OEM. They build lots of devices. Building a sample laptop for Qualcomm has little to do with what happens with Acer branded products. Does Acer brand similar products to their OEM devices? Sure. Management at Acer will **only** follow Qualcomm, HP, Dell products with an Acer branded version they don't ever take huge leading gambles that would piss off Redmond.
When you release an ARM Processor based chipset in a netbook, you're actually distancing yourself from Windows and x86 applications. The 'you' in your statement is probably their OEM side building a product for bid. Microsoft knows they have no control over this end. Microsoft/Intel would go to Qualcomm and get the spec changed to suit them, at a cost to Microsoft. But that's how they'd do it.
just don't alarm our Redmond masters The OEM/ODM side doesn't really fear Microsoft. If it sells more devices with a Microsoft product on-board, then Microsoft it is! The same is true for the Acer-branded stuff. As long as a device with a Microsoft OS moves more product, Microsoft has some influence. At some point Microsoft runs out of resources to crowd out totally Free competitors. Hopefully that happens in my lifetime.
The chain of tools I used barely a month ago goes like this.
1. dd to get whatever can be had off the hardware and into a disk image. 2. testdisk recovers partition information to make the images mount-able. 3. foremost to recover files. Pay attention to the conf file. There are *lots* of options that will discover all kinds of files in various condition.
As someone who just went through this with my laptop, the last two things to remember: -You will need tons of disk space to work with the disk images and all of the files foremost recovers. -check your backup files very, very often. Bacula worked beautifully, but somehow the tar archives it created were corrupt.
I didn't bother to RTFA, but summary is inflamatory at best.
A public-facing, high-profile (perception) server gets compromised? That's not news.
Let's say it is news for a minute. What was the budget for this public-facing project? This is not a "major Army security lapse" by any stretch of the imagination.
Of course, my line of thinking wouldn't be widely accepted because it ignores the emotional response that the summary probably provokes in most people.
So, they use SIP to chat and handle voice. There's a protocol for presentation that's rolled into some SIP servers. You guys have no idea how powerful the SIP standard is. There isn't a client that handles it all yet.
Besides the very un-special nature of the application, I'd be interested to see if the Telcos will litigate Google on their gigantic pool of obvious patents. Either that or Google's paying them a 'vig' already.
Yeah, 2 whole megabytes may be too much. Remember there are *vastly* more small/dumb computing devices out there than the big-old desktop PC. So, maybe he's programming on a phone platform or some such and making a sincere effort to make something different.
I don't quite know what you are after, but I'll throw out SDL as a platform and SDL_svg. It may not fit in the requirements, but hey, it's worth a look.
Few of you probably know of the giant portrait camera(s) Polaroid built many years ago but I'm sure you have viewed images taken from them. This is probably the last, good, niche for the instant film process. I will stay consistent to my retro-digital geek cred and inform the ignorant that digital capture lacks cinematic quality. In 10 words or less, flesh tones+lighting reproduction are not as appealing and generally impossible to reproduce.
I imagine in about a decade a 'brilliant' photographer will 'discover' the cinematic qualities of film after the average consumer is already used to mega-pixel digital cameras and low-res output devices producing cartoon-like images.
They should abandon their small camera dream and go giant format. I know it sounds crazy, but the artist set will demand it when they see a great print that can't possibly be had in the same amount of time with digital. High-quality opticskk are most likely to be available at the giant-size too.
You don't want someone like me coming in and looking at your documentation and declaring you incompetent, it can cost you your job.
What else would you say/do? "This documentation is great!! You don't need me at all! Hire a couple of freshly minted Microsoft admins for peanuts and Bob's your uncle." No, the natural tendency for you/your org is to discredit past efforts to maximize billable hours.
Don't take that the wrong way though. What you describe is necessary and valuable in some organizations. I've seen too many projects blow through scope/scale/cost estimates by simply discrediting others when it wasn't justified.
the stateful tracking makes it work automatically That's great that it works for you, but Nokia's 25 page troubleshooting guide suggests there are many problem users.
It's clear by the number of comments looking for a 'good' voip client you may not have a handle upstream issues. The only way to actually get a handle on it is to debug the UDP traffic.
1. NATing Most home networking devices have poor support for media NATing. (RTP/UDP The ones that have decent support are cursed with firmware supporting a single VOIP provider. This is where a device you can install a Linux distro on is helpful, but only the first step. http://www.iptel.org/sipalg/ I've had problems on Cisco devices too, so don't think you can spend your way out of the problem.
2. ISP issues. I have seen ISP issues with VOIP media that does not originate from the ISP's VOIP service.
A simpler shot in the dark is to use an SIP proxy to handle the call. (STUN server) In some cases this works because the proxy goes to great effort to keep the connection alive at all times. Can you proxy a Skype call? Dunno if they support plain-vanilla SIP.
Without the big labels like [Valve,Adobe,protools,etc] developing their titles on Linux, you aren't going to see Linux widely used in desktop soon.
I would argue that the "killer application" for Linux will never be a niche that is already populated by software written for either Windows or Mac. Most people just don't work that way.
Linux adoption will continue to grow probably because it will fill needs the other platforms can't/won't.
Still, I strongly encourage you and Microsoft/Apple minions to keep thinking like that.
It took almost 3 months to get the sound working on Ubuntu I'm the first person to admit that alsa is not so much poorly documented, but so flexible that it's tough to wrap your head around setting up asoundrc
Even to this day I'm scared that if I lose the system I'll lose the configuration- it required editing different accounts, adding new packages, modifying them in a non-standard fashion, adding options that weren't documented...
And with Linux, upgrading/backing up all of this hard-won customization is easy. Very easy. You are trapped in Windows XP with no probable upgrade path on your current hardware.
Windows XP? Put it in and the sound comes out. You may not be the best candidate for Linux then. Many people aren't, but you seem to have had little difficulty customizing your distro to your needs. And yet you still complain bitterly.
It seems to me you are damning Windows with faint praise much more than whining about the effort it took you to learn how to do things differently. Linux is different, no responsible Linux user would tell you otherwise.
1. If it it bothers you enough to post on/. find another job. Seriously, if it's not a good personal fit, then find a place that is a better fit.
2. While you can probably work there for quite a while in this state, at some point the tension will probably do bad things to your overall physical/mental health.
3. that you never say anything bad or negative about the company, nor do you say anything bad or negative about anything.
I make mistakes and I'm not human perfection, so... Someone please explain how that works because I don't get it.
4. Please, tell me the name of this glorious organization so I can steer clear of this distopia.
I don't mean anything bad by SpringSource, but those of us in the trenches that have had their pre-purchase findings ignored in favor of some dog-awful monstrosity of an application understand that they probably don't have much of a chance unless they score better 'incentives' than an IBM or Microsoft rep. Along with some very flexible morals, it takes deeep pockets.
They are separate and generally speaking do not follow the same rules.
For example, Bank of America and Chase would not be required to follow these rules.
The 'backing off' doesn't surprise me one bit as the NCUA is probably in as much trouble as the FDIC with failed credit unions, and lack of funds to protect depositors.
On no uncertain terms, Microsoft has to deliver in October.
Why? OEM's and Microsoft have already sold it into retailers like Worst Buy. Do you think Exec's at Worst Buy want to miss their golden revenue generator in Q4? Acer clearly has been working with Microsoft to deliver #7 for the holiday. I'm sure HP has stuff in the pipe for the holidays too.
If the date slips. It will be an ugly couple of weeks inside Microsoft Retail Sales.
Consumers were already paying more for Intel's anti-competitive behavior. The costs of corruption were being factored into the cost of their products already.
My example is the number of packages in the Debian Free repository. There are, no doubt, quite a few licenses among those packages, but they meet Debian's high standards for Free software.
Businesses will always do their best to capture all of the value of the work of others. There are no end to schemes meant to capture the value of GPL software and prevent others from using them. Tivo's kernel hack come to mind....
Stories like this frequently conflate the smart card goings-on with the system functions.
In this case, the newsy bit about the smart card is they apparently have a new protocol for authenticating from the smart card. For those that don't know, there are many kinds of smart cards including ones that have an operating system on-board. Their protocol is probably employed on top of the smart card OS. Yes, you too can write your own authentication protocol and use it on a smart card.
The backend system appears to have new automagical features related to the status of the employee. Don't confuse the two like the summary has.
Oracle's stated goal is not just to own the server, but the desktop space.
Sun doesn't have a more useful desktop in any way. Who knows though, there have been plenty of dumb decisions in corporate America, thinking Sun's desktop is viable may be one of them.
But you think that Oracle bought Sun for its hardware and will now switch to Solaris, and drop Linux? Is that correct? It's not that simple. Solaris has more features for big iron. For commodity hardware, Linux absolutely rocks. IMHO, they can easily support both Linux and Solaris on the Sales/Service side and not confuse anyone or cannibalize either customer base. But they desperately need to do a better job at running OSS-like projects if they want Solaris to stay vaguely relevant.
I would argue hardware is where Oracle saw the value in Sun. IMHO, there should be a home for Solaris at Oracle simply because it's a strong, viable server OS.
History has shown Sun has terrible problems running open source projects larger than their own paid contributors. I don't see Oracle improving or even interested in this.
Most of Sun's software projects will fade into oblivion as GPL'd abandonware because nearly all of them are also-ran projects started as Sun's version of things like Flash.
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It's easy for this to appear as contradictory statements and here's why.
Asus distances itself from Android netbook.
Don't forget, Acer's an OEM. They build lots of devices. Building a sample laptop for Qualcomm has little to do with what happens with Acer branded products. Does Acer brand similar products to their OEM devices? Sure. Management at Acer will **only** follow Qualcomm, HP, Dell products with an Acer branded version they don't ever take huge leading gambles that would piss off Redmond.
When you release an ARM Processor based chipset in a netbook, you're actually distancing yourself from Windows and x86 applications.
The 'you' in your statement is probably their OEM side building a product for bid. Microsoft knows they have no control over this end. Microsoft/Intel would go to Qualcomm and get the spec changed to suit them, at a cost to Microsoft. But that's how they'd do it.
just don't alarm our Redmond masters
The OEM/ODM side doesn't really fear Microsoft. If it sells more devices with a Microsoft product on-board, then Microsoft it is! The same is true for the Acer-branded stuff. As long as a device with a Microsoft OS moves more product, Microsoft has some influence. At some point Microsoft runs out of resources to crowd out totally Free competitors. Hopefully that happens in my lifetime.
The chain of tools I used barely a month ago goes like this.
1. dd to get whatever can be had off the hardware and into a disk image.
2. testdisk recovers partition information to make the images mount-able.
3. foremost to recover files. Pay attention to the conf file. There are *lots* of options that will discover all kinds of files in various condition.
As someone who just went through this with my laptop, the last two things to remember:
-You will need tons of disk space to work with the disk images and all of the files foremost recovers.
-check your backup files very, very often. Bacula worked beautifully, but somehow the tar archives it created were corrupt.
I didn't bother to RTFA, but summary is inflamatory at best.
A public-facing, high-profile (perception) server gets compromised? That's not news.
Let's say it is news for a minute. What was the budget for this public-facing project? This is not a "major Army security lapse" by any stretch of the imagination.
Of course, my line of thinking wouldn't be widely accepted because it ignores the emotional response that the summary probably provokes in most people.
So, they use SIP to chat and handle voice. There's a protocol for presentation that's rolled into some SIP servers. You guys have no idea how powerful the SIP standard is. There isn't a client that handles it all yet.
Besides the very un-special nature of the application, I'd be interested to see if the Telcos will litigate Google on their gigantic pool of obvious patents. Either that or Google's paying them a 'vig' already.
Yeah, 2 whole megabytes may be too much. Remember there are *vastly* more small/dumb computing devices out there than the big-old desktop PC. So, maybe he's programming on a phone platform or some such and making a sincere effort to make something different.
I don't quite know what you are after, but I'll throw out SDL as a platform and SDL_svg. It may not fit in the requirements, but hey, it's worth a look.
This is a point worth considering. A similarly important point, where is the money coming from for the non-U.S.clones?
The most simple explanation is $250,000 in debt happens very quickly once the lawyers bills start hitting the books
Few of you probably know of the giant portrait camera(s) Polaroid built many years ago but I'm sure you have viewed images taken from them. This is probably the last, good, niche for the instant film process. I will stay consistent to my retro-digital geek cred and inform the ignorant that digital capture lacks cinematic quality. In 10 words or less, flesh tones+lighting reproduction are not as appealing and generally impossible to reproduce.
http://www.bwphotopro.com/Site/Trausch.html
I imagine in about a decade a 'brilliant' photographer will 'discover' the cinematic qualities of film after the average consumer is already used to mega-pixel digital cameras and low-res output devices producing cartoon-like images.
They should abandon their small camera dream and go giant format. I know it sounds crazy, but the artist set will demand it when they see a great print that can't possibly be had in the same amount of time with digital. High-quality opticskk are most likely to be available at the giant-size too.
That's my lunatic rant for the day.
You don't want someone like me coming in and looking at your documentation and declaring you incompetent, it can cost you your job.
What else would you say/do? "This documentation is great!! You don't need me at all! Hire a couple of freshly minted Microsoft admins for peanuts and Bob's your uncle." No, the natural tendency for you/your org is to discredit past efforts to maximize billable hours.
Don't take that the wrong way though. What you describe is necessary and valuable in some organizations. I've seen too many projects blow through scope/scale/cost estimates by simply discrediting others when it wasn't justified.
Is this really difficult?
For some, yes it is.
the stateful tracking makes it work automatically
That's great that it works for you, but Nokia's 25 page troubleshooting guide suggests there are many problem users.
http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/2e470bc4-236d-48e2-bc96-977784811af8/Nokia_S60_VoIP_Implementation_Troubleshooting_Guide.html
Very nice guide for generalized VOIP problems!
This should look *remarkably* familiar to some of you. http://www.counterpath.net/x-lite.html&active=4
It's clear by the number of comments looking for a 'good' voip client you may not have a handle upstream issues. The only way to actually get a handle on it is to debug the UDP traffic.
1. NATing Most home networking devices have poor support for media NATing. (RTP/UDP The ones that have decent support are cursed with firmware supporting a single VOIP provider. This is where a device you can install a Linux distro on is helpful, but only the first step. http://www.iptel.org/sipalg/ I've had problems on Cisco devices too, so don't think you can spend your way out of the problem.
2. ISP issues. I have seen ISP issues with VOIP media that does not originate from the ISP's VOIP service.
A simpler shot in the dark is to use an SIP proxy to handle the call. (STUN server) In some cases this works because the proxy goes to great effort to keep the connection alive at all times. Can you proxy a Skype call? Dunno if they support plain-vanilla SIP.
Welcome to VOIP!
1. They totally missed on the Tablet PC concept and burned OEM's on it. Don't worry J's going to fix it!
2. They *totally* screwed device developers by dropping their OEM DRM scheme and release one of their own. Don't worry J's going fix the Zune.
3.They totally missed integrating new HID in xbox. Don't worry J's going to fix that too!
4. J's going to be working on an operating system GUI in about a decade. He'll fix that too!
What are the chances just one of those things will work out well for Microsoft?
Without the big labels like [Valve,Adobe,protools,etc] developing their titles on Linux, you aren't going to see Linux widely used in desktop soon.
I would argue that the "killer application" for Linux will never be a niche that is already populated by software written for either Windows or Mac. Most people just don't work that way.
Linux adoption will continue to grow probably because it will fill needs the other platforms can't/won't.
Still, I strongly encourage you and Microsoft/Apple minions to keep thinking like that.
It took almost 3 months to get the sound working on Ubuntu
I'm the first person to admit that alsa is not so much poorly documented, but so flexible that it's tough to wrap your head around setting up asoundrc
Even to this day I'm scared that if I lose the system I'll lose the configuration- it required editing different accounts, adding new packages, modifying them in a non-standard fashion, adding options that weren't documented...
And with Linux, upgrading/backing up all of this hard-won customization is easy. Very easy. You are trapped in Windows XP with no probable upgrade path on your current hardware.
Windows XP? Put it in and the sound comes out.
You may not be the best candidate for Linux then. Many people aren't, but you seem to have had little difficulty customizing your distro to your needs. And yet you still complain bitterly.
It seems to me you are damning Windows with faint praise much more than whining about the effort it took you to learn how to do things differently. Linux is different, no responsible Linux user would tell you otherwise.
1. If it it bothers you enough to post on /. find another job. Seriously, if it's not a good personal fit, then find a place that is a better fit.
2. While you can probably work there for quite a while in this state, at some point the tension will probably do bad things to your overall physical/mental health.
3. that you never say anything bad or negative about the company, nor do you say anything bad or negative about anything.
I make mistakes and I'm not human perfection, so... Someone please explain how that works because I don't get it.
4. Please, tell me the name of this glorious organization so I can steer clear of this distopia.
I don't mean anything bad by SpringSource, but those of us in the trenches that have had their pre-purchase findings ignored in favor of some dog-awful monstrosity of an application understand that they probably don't have much of a chance unless they score better 'incentives' than an IBM or Microsoft rep. Along with some very flexible morals, it takes deeep pockets.
They are separate and generally speaking do not follow the same rules.
For example, Bank of America and Chase would not be required to follow these rules.
The 'backing off' doesn't surprise me one bit as the NCUA is probably in as much trouble as the FDIC with failed credit unions, and lack of funds to protect depositors.
http://www.cutimes.com/Pages/News.aspx
On no uncertain terms, Microsoft has to deliver in October.
Why? OEM's and Microsoft have already sold it into retailers like Worst Buy. Do you think Exec's at Worst Buy want to miss their golden revenue generator in Q4? Acer clearly has been working with Microsoft to deliver #7 for the holiday. I'm sure HP has stuff in the pipe for the holidays too.
If the date slips. It will be an ugly couple of weeks inside Microsoft Retail Sales.
Consumers were already paying more for Intel's anti-competitive behavior. The costs of corruption were being factored into the cost of their products already.
What disappoints me more is the moral turpitude that is rewarded and clearly condoned at Intel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_turpitude
I do it with a neighbor. I have 'commercial' ISP subscription, so servers are okay.
They hardly use any bandwidth and pay less than they would if they got service on their own.
We both get a good deal out of it.
My example is the number of packages in the Debian Free repository. There are, no doubt, quite a few licenses among those packages, but they meet Debian's high standards for Free software.
Businesses will always do their best to capture all of the value of the work of others. There are no end to schemes meant to capture the value of GPL software and prevent others from using them. Tivo's kernel hack come to mind....
Stories like this frequently conflate the smart card goings-on with the system functions.
In this case, the newsy bit about the smart card is they apparently have a new protocol for authenticating from the smart card. For those that don't know, there are many kinds of smart cards including ones that have an operating system on-board. Their protocol is probably employed on top of the smart card OS. Yes, you too can write your own authentication protocol and use it on a smart card.
The backend system appears to have new automagical features related to the status of the employee. Don't confuse the two like the summary has.
OT, I have always thought that "the way forward" in infosec was loosely decentralized smart card infrastructure, but the powerful among us like their power optimized and centralized. Too bad two, the only smart card developers left work exclusively for gov't contractors.
Even further OT: A 'fun' OSS project for those inclined would be to port a BSD to one of these low-cost suckers. http://www.st.com/stonline/stappl/productcatalog/app?path=/comp/stcom/PcStComRPNTableView.onClickFromProductTree&primaryheader=Smartcard%20ICs&secondaryheader=ST32%2032-bit%20Smartcard%20ICs%20for%20Mobile&subclassheader=ST32%2C%2032-bit%20Flash%20Microcontrollers&subclassid=1192.0&count=3&producttype=
In theory, these have a crypto accelerator: http://www.st.com/stonline/stappl/productcatalog/app?path=/comp/stcom/PcStComRPNTableView.onClickFromProductTree&primaryheader=Smartcard%20ICs&secondaryheader=ST19%20Smartcard%20ICs&subclassheader=ST19%2C%20Crypto-Processor%20Solutions&subclassid=1118.0&count=4&producttype=
Oracle's stated goal is not just to own the server, but the desktop space.
Sun doesn't have a more useful desktop in any way. Who knows though, there have been plenty of dumb decisions in corporate America, thinking Sun's desktop is viable may be one of them.
But you think that Oracle bought Sun for its hardware and will now switch to Solaris, and drop Linux? Is that correct?
It's not that simple. Solaris has more features for big iron. For commodity hardware, Linux absolutely rocks. IMHO, they can easily support both Linux and Solaris on the Sales/Service side and not confuse anyone or cannibalize either customer base. But they desperately need to do a better job at running OSS-like projects if they want Solaris to stay vaguely relevant.
I would argue hardware is where Oracle saw the value in Sun. IMHO, there should be a home for Solaris at Oracle simply because it's a strong, viable server OS.
History has shown Sun has terrible problems running open source projects larger than their own paid contributors. I don't see Oracle improving or even interested in this.
Most of Sun's software projects will fade into oblivion as GPL'd abandonware because nearly all of them are also-ran projects started as Sun's version of things like Flash.
These comparisons don't help Linux.
The phenomena of giving someone a third choice often drives them to choose from the first two is well known.
They should have used a summary with the new features in this version instead of more comparisons that don't matter.
I'll take the kernel with *no* Digital Restrictions Management.
I just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze and it's in decent shape already.
At the moment there are no show-stopper bugs for your plain-vanilla desktop use. You can pull kde4.2 from sid too.
I'm having no performance issues with KDE4.2 eye candy on a Thinkpad T42. Way to go!!
Note, last week's build of the Squeeze net installer didn't work. Do a basic Lenny install then upgrade into Squeeze.