The 'dongle' referred to is probably the requirement to buy a MacOS-running computer to develop & publish in Xcode for iOS devices. (Since you can only legally virtualize MacOS on Apple-branded hardware; because Apple refuses to license OSX to be run on any virtualization host)
Leaving the controller running (Mine's running on an Ubuntu VM on my NAS) also lets you track bandwidth usage, in case you have limits or capacity issues you're trying to monitor for.
Also also, you can (OPTIONALLY) configure the controller for remote login - sign into https://unifi.ubnt.com/ and gain the ability to remotely manage your network.
MSPs use this extensively, I use it to help family that wanted a more secure option & replace an aging OpenWRT Buffalo device that only did 2.4GHz and wasn't getting updates anymore. (I update theirs shortly after I update mine) Could also link multiple sites off one controller, and just host it for them. (Bit involved to get it set up initially this way as you need DNS entries for the controller then; I haven't gone down this path yet so haven't confirmed how hard)
They also sell a CloudKey (Intel Compute Stick, basically) that can run the controller; but since it only has 8/16GB of flash they don't recommend doing logging on the device.
I was able to hook mine up to my Windows 7-running desktop, and use it for the Steam Big Picture mode; not everything worked out-of-the-box and I didn't putz with it to get it fully functional; but a little tweaking and it'd probably be perfect. (This was ~Sept 2013 or so)
There is also an Android App "Blue Board" that lets you use your Android phone or tablet as an input device on the Ouya (You install it on both the Ouya and controlling device). Makes keyboard input much easier (if you're using it for web surfing and such).
Because they've realized the 'Microsoft' name has such negative connotations in the consumer market, that they don't want CxO's shooting it down based on its name, and one that wasn't directly tied to their Windows environment, since its where they want you to run your Linux VMs "In The Cloud":
"...we knew that we needed to ensure that Windows is the best platform to run Linux workloads as well as open source components...."
BSA has Trademarks that are 'infringed' by this organization's name - which you are required to actively defend against anything that could be infringing - otherwise you lose your Trademark. (This is not true with Copyrights, just Trademarks)
As a fellow Eagle Scout, I agree it isn't wonderful or ideal behavior - but if they want to keep their name (and with all the splinter-orgs as a result of their recent decision regarding Youth membership, there are plenty) and uniqueness in 'Brand Identity' they have to do this.
That, and in the US, most carriers don't offer a 'discounted' service for buying the device outright (or bringing your own); so if you're going to use the service anyway, may as well get the discounted phone.
The phrase '$1 Billion' gets people to sit up and notice.
But most of this work won't benefit the Linux community and software at large, at least directly. It will be ancillary improvements; where something gets re-written/improved/fixed due to issues on the POWER architecture that happen to benefit everyone else too. Hopefully these are many and useful.
Still, any investment shows that Linux is Serious Business.
For situations where the agents can't talk back to the Puppet Master, you can push out the manifests (config files) to each host and apply them directly, locally. (As if it were a single, standalone machine)
Not sure if there is a way to push the results back to a Puppet Master for aggregation, but there may be a way to tackle that. (Or just back to a central logging server for parsing)
Also this way there is a globally-accessible and searchable database of all the materials and their various properties - so for your exotic project with a weird requirement, you can find the materials most appropriate to your situation.
This is useful for more than coming up with a single solar cell, it helps pave the groundwork for hundreds of varieties - each the best-fit for a different situation.
Example: Organic compounds may make sense if you can 'grow' the system for a self-repairing/expanding system, say in a biodome on Mars; or on a floating station in the Arctic; both of which you won't have an easy opportunity for a 'service call'. Identifying which one(s) work best in those environments will shave years off development time, allowing a focus on other design issues.
(Currently) $23 USD for the eBook, and $45 USD for the Print + eBook access, and no Amazon-Kindle-DRM. (But you can still get it in a.mobi format for your Kindle, in addition to ePub and PDF)
Because if you can build one at 3% and one at 9% but all other costs being the same, you build the 9% one. They're figuring out which is the most efficient so they know what order to look at capabilities/options on. Start with the most efficient, and work your way down the list until you find one that meets the other criteria.
It has 1024 Shader Processors ("Radeon Cores" in the summary), and (stock) is clocked at 860MHz. The 8670D included in this new APU has 384 Shader Processors, and is clocked at 844MHz. So about 2/5ths of the computing power; presuming all other factors are equal.
So while for high-end gaming, it won't quite cut it (Turning on most of the shiny and enabling it across 3 monitors with Eyefinity would make it beg) - it should be plenty powerful for light/medium gaming on a single monitor, or any light/moderate duties across multiple monitors with Eyefinity.
No, the worst possible use case would be remote X11 over a RFC 1149 compliant connection. (Although 2549 adds QoS, or RFC 6214, for those that use IPv6)
I recall using this in college, in 2003, to reimage our 'learning' workstations. (After we'd break them, like discovering that Windows 98 SE would let you format the OS volume, and not crash.)
Funny that Google (one of the backers of CISPA) announces something that will catch everyone's eyes and ears on the same day CISPA goes to the Senate floor for a vote.
Any web-based client *should* (unless they use a plugin or other weird config tool) save any filters, etc. to the web-based-profile (Like GMail does). Otherwise, if you choose Thunderbird (or any other sane client) you could just copy over the profile between installs. Even across OSes.
I've successfully used a singular Thunderbird profile on both a Windows and Linux boot off the same machine; granted Linux access to the NTFS partition Windows sat on and it used that profile directory. Been copying it forward to new installs for a few years now.
Migrating towards a VM (that gets backed up regularly) holding the 'core' stuff that doesn't sync well (Firefox and Chrome both do; so can run that on whatever) - then just use that VM for non-GMail email, and whatever else is worth consolidating down to one machine.
Build in a longer delay before the cross-traffic gets a green after the red goes on. Justification: Do they want to be known as the City that let someone die because they didn't account for physics when timing the light? I've noticed that some places do leave a little bit more 'buffer' for that reason. Make sure its in the meeting notes that Jim, Joe and Bob were against looking into adding the time, and someone's comment about it being their fault if something happens. (Or talk to the engineering/maintenance department involved; talk about a theoretical or real close-call that would've been a non-issue by a 1-2 second delay)
The original devs are all gone, they're basically adding a few new structures and calling it a new release, it still has some game-breaking bugs that have persisted for 3 or 4 releases now.
I highly recommend Tropico 4 - you end up with more control over individual structures than you did with the Sim City series, but it is equally fun.
Sadly, Tropico 4 has an online-required component - you have to create an account and sign in to launch it each time. About the only issue I have with it, otherwise it is awesome. (I haven't tried it offline, my laptop won't run it well so I play other games when traveling)
Because after 2 years (typical contract length, 1-year contracts exist but not commonly signed) you're more likely to sign a new contract for a new device, and forget to unlock it. Also if you travel outside their service area, they get to bill you for obscenely priced 'roaming' fees. Calls, texts and data jump to ridiculous rates.
TL;DR: They do it because they can get away with it, and its profitable.
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The 'dongle' referred to is probably the requirement to buy a MacOS-running computer to develop & publish in Xcode for iOS devices. (Since you can only legally virtualize MacOS on Apple-branded hardware; because Apple refuses to license OSX to be run on any virtualization host)
Leaving the controller running (Mine's running on an Ubuntu VM on my NAS) also lets you track bandwidth usage, in case you have limits or capacity issues you're trying to monitor for.
Also also, you can (OPTIONALLY) configure the controller for remote login - sign into https://unifi.ubnt.com/ and gain the ability to remotely manage your network.
MSPs use this extensively, I use it to help family that wanted a more secure option & replace an aging OpenWRT Buffalo device that only did 2.4GHz and wasn't getting updates anymore. (I update theirs shortly after I update mine) Could also link multiple sites off one controller, and just host it for them. (Bit involved to get it set up initially this way as you need DNS entries for the controller then; I haven't gone down this path yet so haven't confirmed how hard)
They also sell a CloudKey (Intel Compute Stick, basically) that can run the controller; but since it only has 8/16GB of flash they don't recommend doing logging on the device.
I was able to hook mine up to my Windows 7-running desktop, and use it for the Steam Big Picture mode; not everything worked out-of-the-box and I didn't putz with it to get it fully functional; but a little tweaking and it'd probably be perfect. (This was ~Sept 2013 or so)
There is also an Android App "Blue Board" that lets you use your Android phone or tablet as an input device on the Ouya (You install it on both the Ouya and controlling device). Makes keyboard input much easier (if you're using it for web surfing and such).
...and will likely suffer the same fate.
You're describing UltraVNC Single Click: http://www.uvnc.com/products/u...
http://devnull-as-a-service.com/ - as long as we're outsou^h^h^h^h^h^hmoving everything to a managed service, why not /dev/null too?
http://semiaccurate.com/2013/10/21/microsoft-admits-image-net-consumer-negative/
Because they've realized the 'Microsoft' name has such negative connotations in the consumer market, that they don't want CxO's shooting it down based on its name, and one that wasn't directly tied to their Windows environment, since its where they want you to run your Linux VMs "In The Cloud":
"...we knew that we needed to ensure that Windows is the best platform to run Linux workloads as well as open source components. ..."
http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2013/07/24/what-s-new-in-2012-r2-enabling-open-source-software.aspx
BSA has Trademarks that are 'infringed' by this organization's name - which you are required to actively defend against anything that could be infringing - otherwise you lose your Trademark. (This is not true with Copyrights, just Trademarks)
As a fellow Eagle Scout, I agree it isn't wonderful or ideal behavior - but if they want to keep their name (and with all the splinter-orgs as a result of their recent decision regarding Youth membership, there are plenty) and uniqueness in 'Brand Identity' they have to do this.
That, and in the US, most carriers don't offer a 'discounted' service for buying the device outright (or bringing your own); so if you're going to use the service anyway, may as well get the discounted phone.
The phrase '$1 Billion' gets people to sit up and notice.
But most of this work won't benefit the Linux community and software at large, at least directly. It will be ancillary improvements; where something gets re-written/improved/fixed due to issues on the POWER architecture that happen to benefit everyone else too. Hopefully these are many and useful.
Still, any investment shows that Linux is Serious Business.
So does that mean when the servers are down, I'm supposed to pull the secretary into the meeting where we try to fix it?
How about the janitors?
You let the folks you hired for that task, work on that task. You don't reassign everyone to focus on one thing, that is overkill and a waste.
For situations where the agents can't talk back to the Puppet Master, you can push out the manifests (config files) to each host and apply them directly, locally. (As if it were a single, standalone machine)
Not sure if there is a way to push the results back to a Puppet Master for aggregation, but there may be a way to tackle that. (Or just back to a central logging server for parsing)
Also this way there is a globally-accessible and searchable database of all the materials and their various properties - so for your exotic project with a weird requirement, you can find the materials most appropriate to your situation.
This is useful for more than coming up with a single solar cell, it helps pave the groundwork for hundreds of varieties - each the best-fit for a different situation.
Example: Organic compounds may make sense if you can 'grow' the system for a self-repairing/expanding system, say in a biodome on Mars; or on a floating station in the Arctic; both of which you won't have an easy opportunity for a 'service call'. Identifying which one(s) work best in those environments will shave years off development time, allowing a focus on other design issues.
http://www.packtpub.com/puppet-3-beginners-guide/book
(Currently) $23 USD for the eBook, and $45 USD for the Print + eBook access, and no Amazon-Kindle-DRM. (But you can still get it in a .mobi format for your Kindle, in addition to ePub and PDF)
Because if you can build one at 3% and one at 9% but all other costs being the same, you build the 9% one. They're figuring out which is the most efficient so they know what order to look at capabilities/options on. Start with the most efficient, and work your way down the list until you find one that meets the other criteria.
Here is your Radeon HD7850: http://www.gpureview.com/Radeon-HD-7850-card-678.html
It has 1024 Shader Processors ("Radeon Cores" in the summary), and (stock) is clocked at 860MHz. The 8670D included in this new APU has 384 Shader Processors, and is clocked at 844MHz. So about 2/5ths of the computing power; presuming all other factors are equal.
So while for high-end gaming, it won't quite cut it (Turning on most of the shiny and enabling it across 3 monitors with Eyefinity would make it beg) - it should be plenty powerful for light/medium gaming on a single monitor, or any light/moderate duties across multiple monitors with Eyefinity.
No, the worst possible use case would be remote X11 over a RFC 1149 compliant connection. (Although 2549 adds QoS, or RFC 6214, for those that use IPv6)
You can update and keep TabKit:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabkit-2nd-edition/
(If that is what was holding you back; the original dev disappeared so someone forked it and has kept it current)
Here's how Norton did it, back in the late 1990's: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH106806
I recall using this in college, in 2003, to reimage our 'learning' workstations. (After we'd break them, like discovering that Windows 98 SE would let you format the OS volume, and not crash.)
Funny that Google (one of the backers of CISPA) announces something that will catch everyone's eyes and ears on the same day CISPA goes to the Senate floor for a vote.
I think the AC (Anonymous Coward) was referring to "before" (the first two frames).
Now there is 1.
Any web-based client *should* (unless they use a plugin or other weird config tool) save any filters, etc. to the web-based-profile (Like GMail does). Otherwise, if you choose Thunderbird (or any other sane client) you could just copy over the profile between installs. Even across OSes.
I've successfully used a singular Thunderbird profile on both a Windows and Linux boot off the same machine; granted Linux access to the NTFS partition Windows sat on and it used that profile directory. Been copying it forward to new installs for a few years now.
Migrating towards a VM (that gets backed up regularly) holding the 'core' stuff that doesn't sync well (Firefox and Chrome both do; so can run that on whatever) - then just use that VM for non-GMail email, and whatever else is worth consolidating down to one machine.
Build in a longer delay before the cross-traffic gets a green after the red goes on. Justification: Do they want to be known as the City that let someone die because they didn't account for physics when timing the light? I've noticed that some places do leave a little bit more 'buffer' for that reason. Make sure its in the meeting notes that Jim, Joe and Bob were against looking into adding the time, and someone's comment about it being their fault if something happens. (Or talk to the engineering/maintenance department involved; talk about a theoretical or real close-call that would've been a non-issue by a 1-2 second delay)
Go read the forums on Steam - linked here for ease: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=742
The original devs are all gone, they're basically adding a few new structures and calling it a new release, it still has some game-breaking bugs that have persisted for 3 or 4 releases now.
I highly recommend Tropico 4 - you end up with more control over individual structures than you did with the Sim City series, but it is equally fun.
Steam even has the Collector's Bundle (Game + Expansion + all the DLCs) on sale for $9.99 through March 15, 2013. http://store.steampowered.com/sub/19282/
Sadly, Tropico 4 has an online-required component - you have to create an account and sign in to launch it each time. About the only issue I have with it, otherwise it is awesome. (I haven't tried it offline, my laptop won't run it well so I play other games when traveling)
Because after 2 years (typical contract length, 1-year contracts exist but not commonly signed) you're more likely to sign a new contract for a new device, and forget to unlock it. Also if you travel outside their service area, they get to bill you for obscenely priced 'roaming' fees. Calls, texts and data jump to ridiculous rates.
TL;DR: They do it because they can get away with it, and its profitable.