seriously ? it is named "Malicious Software Removal Tool" ? so we could call it... "ms removal tool". that's the best name of software coming from microsoft in a long time.
not quite. first, for corporate networks central servers with nomachine's nx clients could be quite worth exploring.
second, you define distributed systems (i don't like that 'cloud' term) as something controlled and deployed remotely, by somebody else. but what if you had an opportunity to link all your home devices in a single computer - your pda/phone, your storage box, your workstation, your laptop - so that they distribute load as appropriate, reducing the time that's needed for generating some image or whatever heavier task at hand ?
even better - imagine you could shut down your laptop, go to your workstation and revive all the open applications that have seamlessly migrated to the other, online devices in your distributed system. now imagine such a system, comprised of many devices with some redundancy between them, so that even if your laptop crashes, you can continue work on your unsaved document on any other machine linked in that system.
i know i would love such a system. on the other hand, while plan9 is doing something vaguely similar to this, i don't think even they are any close to bringing such a system to the enduser.
while article/summary is not the best, i would still want email client to be threaded. i want the interface to be responsive and fast while it sends, receives, checks for mail, filters spam, compacts mailboxes and does whatever it needs under the hood. same goes for my audio player, my web browser, everything - if something can slow down my interaction with it, i want to to happen in a separate thread/process.
"lack of adequate backup software" - really ? i applaud lacie for not spending their money on another crappy software that will become obsolete in few years. backup software, especially consumer level, has become a commodity quite some time ago. i like lacie as a company so far, they even were listed as a supporter of k3b some time ago - wondering why they disappeared;) i have to admit that seeing them listed as the good guys on the k3b page motivated me to purchase overe time 4 (so far) external hdd products from them:)
but in decimal/metric system, fractionals make sense. converting or grasping is trivial, as opposed to imperial system. there realy is a reason why sane countries use metric. even atom and his package sing about it !
Dynamic range (the ability to hold shadows and highlights in a high contrast scene without a lot of fiddling) has lots of room to grow. That seems to be a tough nut to crack, especially in the smaller sensors.
exactly. while for static scenes enfuse (http://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse) does an excellent job, dynamic ones are not doable that way. though i have to admit that good low-light performance goal is indeed proper, having low noise result on a high iso image would also be pretty awesome.
i've only used it a couple of times, but it worked just fine, except maybe being hard to use.
tomtom could improve it, adding ext3 support, making it integrated, creating easy installation process - and that should cost them less in the end.
it could be then distributed with their units & over the web - as already noted, windows users are used to separate installer for many devices anyway. if it is made lean, mean, fast & unobtrusive, users will accept that.
it might as well become widespread enough to warrant inclusion in some oem installs (small chance, but hey) - and that would be a huge step away from reliance on ms for a universal fs.
it's not like you have an unique idea;) opensuse projct has been working on single click install - basically, there's a single file you click. then, under the hood, it makes all the required magic for your package manager - that might involve adding new repositories, installing required dependencies... http://en.opensuse.org/One_Click_Install i tried this on latest opensuse version, and it really works:) it did ask for confirmation on most steps, asked whether i want to keep the repository configured after the package is installed - but that's about it.
Market share is irrelevant to Linux. Or at least it is to me.
it's not. unless you fancy shopping for days to get some widely used device that finally would work, having almost no usable wireless, 3d accelerator and other devices... bigger marketshare means more support from vendors - which is important for wide range of hardware support - but it also means more developers (including the ones hired by aforementioned vendors) that actually deliver said drivers. and this is also true for userland software. unless you are fine with server-alike workstation, that is at least as important as proper hardware support.
1. use ltsp, nx or some mix of these so that all applications run un a server. have no user writable location mounted with exec. do not install solitaire. do not allow to change browser preferences or any other systemwide configuration.
2. if you have invested in local desktops... well, basically do the same, except you might have to add (already mentioned) puppet or cfengine.
if the machine/environment does not allow user to install or set up any additional software, and user profile contains little important personal configuration, there's little to be broken.
of course, data should be kept in servers that are properly backed up, but that's a completely different issue from the original problem.
and the yellow page design hurts my eyes. i couldn't find a feature list, but i assume that saving filled forms (or form support at all ?) isn't available. while it has potential, feature parity and exceeding will be required to gain some serious marketshare.
for every, no. in general, yes. we had a corruption scandal where politicans and other persons were involved in a bribing attempt that got widely publicised - it was called -gate, by the name of the city where the corruption attempt occured. it sounded lame, but journalists liked it. of course, nobody who actually organised it was charged with anything:)
pdf is way more open than doc. wayway more open than this abomination silverlight. not sure about that "whatever" you mentioned. it's been bad enough with flash, we really don't need another shitty provider of tech that everybody thinks is shiny enough to use everywhere. especially when requires for government contracts.
Just use a PC to submit your bid
right. with which operating system btw ? why didn't you specify vendor ? maybe such a procurement site could require a specific cpu and ram vendor, wouldn't that be a good idea ? and hey, there probably is a way to require submitters using a specific power grid.
it sounds like you are currently solving many problems with single tool. at least attempting to. i would suggest spreading it out. for simple questions, leave jabber nad implement forum. make it so that helpdesk personnel rarely answers on jabber (peer help), and somewhat answers on forums. maybe even give moderator rights to some sane user, if you can find one. phpbb might work for that.
create a location that could collect these answers from jabber and forum in a way _users_ can easily find and understand that - i'd choose wiki (mediawiki), because users could eventually fix a problem here or there that documentation author would never notice.
now, when simple problems are covered by the above solutions, a proper tracker might be useful to handle and, well, track, more serious problems - or anything that takes more time to do. having used quite many of those systems, i'd personally prefer bugzilla. while it is said to be primarily a bug tracking system, it would still do better at general purpose helpdesk software than many that are marketed as such.
now, what i'd suggest staying away from - computer associates unicenter/servicedesk solution;> - though i hope you would have no considered it anyway.
assus seems to have gone the same way - linux machines have twice smaller (as in capacity) hdd/ssd. that kinda pisses me off. is there any vendor that produces good quality hardware, offers nice international warranties and actually sells linux netbook cheaper than the windows version ? asus lost a sale or two with that strategy...
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seriously ? it is named "Malicious Software Removal Tool" ? so we could call it... "ms removal tool".
that's the best name of software coming from microsoft in a long time.
what's wrong with qt on mac ?
like this ?
hehe. find a journalist, tell them that you were not allowed to explain your opinion on the site - try to create streisandeffect ;)
not quite.
first, for corporate networks central servers with nomachine's nx clients could be quite worth exploring.
second, you define distributed systems (i don't like that 'cloud' term) as something controlled and deployed remotely, by somebody else. but what if you had an opportunity to link all your home devices in a single computer - your pda/phone, your storage box, your workstation, your laptop - so that they distribute load as appropriate, reducing the time that's needed for generating some image or whatever heavier task at hand ?
even better - imagine you could shut down your laptop, go to your workstation and revive all the open applications that have seamlessly migrated to the other, online devices in your distributed system. now imagine such a system, comprised of many devices with some redundancy between them, so that even if your laptop crashes, you can continue work on your unsaved document on any other machine linked in that system.
i know i would love such a system. on the other hand, while plan9 is doing something vaguely similar to this, i don't think even they are any close to bringing such a system to the enduser.
"massive investments by companies in huge single points of fa cloud computing facilities"
ok, what's "fa cloud computing" ? can we invest in that ?
while article/summary is not the best, i would still want email client to be threaded.
i want the interface to be responsive and fast while it sends, receives, checks for mail, filters spam, compacts mailboxes and does whatever it needs under the hood. same goes for my audio player, my web browser, everything - if something can slow down my interaction with it, i want to to happen in a separate thread/process.
"lack of adequate backup software" - really ? ;) :)
i applaud lacie for not spending their money on another crappy software that will become obsolete in few years. backup software, especially consumer level, has become a commodity quite some time ago.
i like lacie as a company so far, they even were listed as a supporter of k3b some time ago - wondering why they disappeared
i have to admit that seeing them listed as the good guys on the k3b page motivated me to purchase overe time 4 (so far) external hdd products from them
so they could implement it in php and be done with that ? :> )
(yeah, filesystem in php. bite me
what do you paste in chromium ?
but in decimal/metric system, fractionals make sense. converting or grasping is trivial, as opposed to imperial system. there realy is a reason why sane countries use metric. even atom and his package sing about it !
haha. i was like "omfg, how do they keep it operating at 100 degrees ? it gotta be boiling".
down with the imperial units on teh internets.
somehow i fear it would fall into the 'I'm sure it sounded good in your head' category
Dynamic range (the ability to hold shadows and highlights in a high contrast scene without a lot of fiddling) has lots of room to grow. That seems to be a tough nut to crack, especially in the smaller sensors.
exactly. while for static scenes enfuse (http://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse) does an excellent job, dynamic ones are not doable that way.
though i have to admit that good low-light performance goal is indeed proper, having low noise result on a high iso image would also be pretty awesome.
i've only used it a couple of times, but it worked just fine, except maybe being hard to use.
tomtom could improve it, adding ext3 support, making it integrated, creating easy installation process - and that should cost them less in the end.
it could be then distributed with their units & over the web - as already noted, windows users are used to separate installer for many devices anyway. if it is made lean, mean, fast & unobtrusive, users will accept that.
it might as well become widespread enough to warrant inclusion in some oem installs (small chance, but hey) - and that would be a huge step away from reliance on ms for a universal fs.
it's not like you have an unique idea ;) :)
opensuse projct has been working on single click install - basically, there's a single file you click. then, under the hood, it makes all the required magic for your package manager - that might involve adding new repositories, installing required dependencies...
http://en.opensuse.org/One_Click_Install
i tried this on latest opensuse version, and it really works
it did ask for confirmation on most steps, asked whether i want to keep the repository configured after the package is installed - but that's about it.
it's not. unless you fancy shopping for days to get some widely used device that finally would work, having almost no usable wireless, 3d accelerator and other devices...
bigger marketshare means more support from vendors - which is important for wide range of hardware support - but it also means more developers (including the ones hired by aforementioned vendors) that actually deliver said drivers.
and this is also true for userland software. unless you are fine with server-alike workstation, that is at least as important as proper hardware support.
while i rarely need to transcode media, i have stumbled upon mencoder/ffmpeg manpages, so i decided to look at mediacoder.
for the record, it seems to be a windows app, and linux as supported platform is mentioned only "Linux with Wine (most features work)".
1. use ltsp, nx or some mix of these so that all applications run un a server. have no user writable location mounted with exec. do not install solitaire. do not allow to change browser preferences or any other systemwide configuration.
2. if you have invested in local desktops... well, basically do the same, except you might have to add (already mentioned) puppet or cfengine.
if the machine/environment does not allow user to install or set up any additional software, and user profile contains little important personal configuration, there's little to be broken.
of course, data should be kept in servers that are properly backed up, but that's a completely different issue from the original problem.
and the yellow page design hurts my eyes.
i couldn't find a feature list, but i assume that saving filled forms (or form support at all ?) isn't available.
while it has potential, feature parity and exceeding will be required to gain some serious marketshare.
for every, no. in general, yes. :)
we had a corruption scandal where politicans and other persons were involved in a bribing attempt that got widely publicised - it was called -gate, by the name of the city where the corruption attempt occured. it sounded lame, but journalists liked it.
of course, nobody who actually organised it was charged with anything
pdf is way more open than doc. wayway more open than this abomination silverlight. not sure about that "whatever" you mentioned.
it's been bad enough with flash, we really don't need another shitty provider of tech that everybody thinks is shiny enough to use everywhere. especially when requires for government contracts.
Just use a PC to submit your bid
right. with which operating system btw ?
why didn't you specify vendor ? maybe such a procurement site could require a specific cpu and ram vendor, wouldn't that be a good idea ? and hey, there probably is a way to require submitters using a specific power grid.
it sounds like you are currently solving many problems with single tool. at least attempting to.
i would suggest spreading it out.
for simple questions, leave jabber nad implement forum. make it so that helpdesk personnel rarely answers on jabber (peer help), and somewhat answers on forums. maybe even give moderator rights to some sane user, if you can find one. phpbb might work for that.
create a location that could collect these answers from jabber and forum in a way _users_ can easily find and understand that - i'd choose wiki (mediawiki), because users could eventually fix a problem here or there that documentation author would never notice.
now, when simple problems are covered by the above solutions, a proper tracker might be useful to handle and, well, track, more serious problems - or anything that takes more time to do.
having used quite many of those systems, i'd personally prefer bugzilla. while it is said to be primarily a bug tracking system, it would still do better at general purpose helpdesk software than many that are marketed as such.
now, what i'd suggest staying away from - computer associates unicenter/servicedesk solution ;> - though i hope you would have no considered it anyway.
The image files names from recent documents looked like child porn.
ok, so now he has to provide files with the same filenames ? what about doing just that - like in hot chick with nice pussy ?
assus seems to have gone the same way - linux machines have twice smaller (as in capacity) hdd/ssd.
that kinda pisses me off. is there any vendor that produces good quality hardware, offers nice international warranties and actually sells linux netbook cheaper than the windows version ?
asus lost a sale or two with that strategy...