Apps that use background hooks (music players, downloaders, runners, navigators...) will use some battery if not "quitted", and also other applications that opt in for background usage IF you have 'background app refresh' setting enabled (and most not advanced users have it since it's enabled by default...).
The situation is the same that has been since apple supports TRIM, the only difference is, like other says, that to make 3rd party SSDs work with trim you'll have to disable device signing.
That is not a "huge" security risk since that is a feature that you have from 10.10, so you are exposed to threat as you where before 10.10....
Plz remember that to disable kext signing you need the same privileges you need to replace a modified kext, so I don't see kext signing useful at all, and I disabled it on my two macs (both with 3rd party SSDs) that happily TRIM under 10.10....
The new beta looks is horrible, less space for the stories, unused borders, way too big font...
Please keep the classic look an option, not only for the near future.
I'll migrate to altslashdot.org or similar efforts if the new look is gonna be forced.
This is from a 15 years slashdot reader.
It's easy to explain... GoDaddy and other hosting companies use IIS to "keep" parked domains. Someone wrote that Microsoft pay them to use IIS... I don't know if it's true.
The only chart where IIS grow is present is the one that considers inactive sites.
Other sites show IIS is as dead as usual and the only growing web server is ngix, that is anyway often used only as frontend for apache...
I've read four pages of comments and not a single positive one, at least in the upvoted...
I've compiled my "survey", giving mostly negative feedbacks. I really hope that thing will NEVER go live, also the "classic" mode is a joke, it's as classic as One Direction are in music...
I have a pair of GPL apps on the AppStore myself (one of which, Eat the Whistle, is not free), but if you want to build a closed source app it may be problematic.
LGPL requires dynamic linkage, or object code redistribution, you cannot dynamic link libraries not present in the iOS sdk on the Apple App Store, or your app is rejected.
So you can publish to the App Store, but only if you build an opensource app, or if you distribute the object files for "relink" (not practical nor acceptable for closed source stuff).
There are a few well-known opensource libraries that, given this restriction, made a "mobile platform" exception to their licensing.
Other, like SDL, moved from LGPL to BSD.
I'm quite sure, given the "free" license of QT is based on LGPL, that a developer will need a commercial license from Digia to publish an iOS app on the App Store:(
I think pandas and the oriental style of pandaria are the reason I'm not playing anymore.
Only Hello Kitty could be a worse playable race than a fat panda.
Raids are not that bad, but too many mechanics, the daily grind is horrible, and there are one a few new dungeons (and none since 5.0...).
The burning crusade: an alien planet to "explore"
The lich king: a charismatic foe to kill
Cataclysm: a bad-ass dragon that destroyed the world
Pandaria: an island full of alchol-addicted pandas with laughable evil guys... (what the hell is a sha?:) )
Fastweb in Italy is using this method since a decade. And it works quite well. They offer fiber or ADSL depending from the user location.
Almost every internet service I used (IP blacklist, megaupload-like services...) know that behind a single fastweb IP there may be a million of users.
I've read the paper and I'd like to see the video the article talks about, but if I go to their site http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/vsv/ I only find a 'recursive' press release that points to the same URL to see the example video...
It was just matter of time, the first reviews of windows 8 were mainly from tech magazines/blog that need to keep their microsoft advertising revenue, now more and more real users are finding how painful is to use this two faced operative system.
Apple approached the "touch world" with a new OS that share only some API foundations with OSX, while Microsoft touched only the "surface" of the problem, trying to adapt is best horse (windows 7) to the "touch world"...
The result is awful, trying to use office on a RT tablet for a few minutes is enough to see how bad it is their tablet solution.... and the amount of "start menu tools" and "corner sensitivity remover" for the desktop version show how bad the metro interface is in a mouse/keyboard enviroment....
Please remove this post, the lamest programmer in the world will be able to avoid this "infection", as said by a lot of people QR codes contain binary datas or strings.
I think this is a tabloid level post, an insult to slashdot users.
I'm quite sure that if adblock plus will change this way it will loose part of his userbase... for instance for chrome there are at least two ad blockers (adblock - chromeaddblock.com, and adblockplus - addblockplus.org)
Don't update your VLC if you have OSX 10.4.x (or 10.3.9). VLC dropped 10.4 support for "technical reasons" in 1.0.0rc2, the newer version that works on 10.4 is 0.9.9a.
I agree that using glider or similar "bots" it's morally wrong and should cause the account ban, but I don't see how a court can decide that a program that interact somehow with another program is not legal...
I mean if I do "mv Wow.exe Wowz.exe" I'm legally persecutable?
That's a sad day for the USA law...
> Unfortunately for purchasers, the laptop won't boot on tuesday mornings until early afternoon,
> and some days you just won't be able to log in.
This if you live in USA, europeans will be unable to login wednesday:)...
Yes it's a joke for wow players since tuesday morning (in USA) and wednesday (in EU) there is the weekly server maintenance:)
As linux commercial game developer I have to say there are a few tech problems for developing linux games but these are obviously not connected with the desktop enviroment:)
The biggest problems are:
- 3d drivers not always available, and not as bug free as their windows counterparts, also when they are available different distro may offer them in different ways and be incompatibile with your game (eg Fedora puts 3d drivers not in/usr/lib and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to expose them).
- Different library ABIs, the bigger problem is in libstdc++, actually there are a few distro based on libstdc++5 and a few on libstdc++6, every C++ library used by a game must use the same c++ library, often this means override the system one, static link is often not an option because of LGPL licence and incompatibilities with external software (eg xfree/xorg).
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Apps that use background hooks (music players, downloaders, runners, navigators...) will use some battery if not "quitted", and also other applications that opt in for background usage IF you have 'background app refresh' setting enabled (and most not advanced users have it since it's enabled by default...).
The situation is the same that has been since apple supports TRIM, the only difference is, like other says, that to make 3rd party SSDs work with trim you'll have to disable device signing. That is not a "huge" security risk since that is a feature that you have from 10.10, so you are exposed to threat as you where before 10.10.... Plz remember that to disable kext signing you need the same privileges you need to replace a modified kext, so I don't see kext signing useful at all, and I disabled it on my two macs (both with 3rd party SSDs) that happily TRIM under 10.10....
In Italy everyone use whatsapp, no other messaging apps are considered, fron teenagers to adults!
The new beta looks is horrible, less space for the stories, unused borders, way too big font... Please keep the classic look an option, not only for the near future. I'll migrate to altslashdot.org or similar efforts if the new look is gonna be forced. This is from a 15 years slashdot reader.
It's easy to explain... GoDaddy and other hosting companies use IIS to "keep" parked domains. Someone wrote that Microsoft pay them to use IIS... I don't know if it's true. The only chart where IIS grow is present is the one that considers inactive sites. Other sites show IIS is as dead as usual and the only growing web server is ngix, that is anyway often used only as frontend for apache...
I've read four pages of comments and not a single positive one, at least in the upvoted... I've compiled my "survey", giving mostly negative feedbacks. I really hope that thing will NEVER go live, also the "classic" mode is a joke, it's as classic as One Direction are in music...
I have a pair of GPL apps on the AppStore myself (one of which, Eat the Whistle, is not free), but if you want to build a closed source app it may be problematic. LGPL requires dynamic linkage, or object code redistribution, you cannot dynamic link libraries not present in the iOS sdk on the Apple App Store, or your app is rejected. So you can publish to the App Store, but only if you build an opensource app, or if you distribute the object files for "relink" (not practical nor acceptable for closed source stuff). There are a few well-known opensource libraries that, given this restriction, made a "mobile platform" exception to their licensing. Other, like SDL, moved from LGPL to BSD.
I'm quite sure, given the "free" license of QT is based on LGPL, that a developer will need a commercial license from Digia to publish an iOS app on the App Store :(
I think pandas and the oriental style of pandaria are the reason I'm not playing anymore. Only Hello Kitty could be a worse playable race than a fat panda. Raids are not that bad, but too many mechanics, the daily grind is horrible, and there are one a few new dungeons (and none since 5.0...). The burning crusade: an alien planet to "explore" The lich king: a charismatic foe to kill Cataclysm: a bad-ass dragon that destroyed the world Pandaria: an island full of alchol-addicted pandas with laughable evil guys... (what the hell is a sha? :) )
Fastweb in Italy is using this method since a decade. And it works quite well. They offer fiber or ADSL depending from the user location. Almost every internet service I used (IP blacklist, megaupload-like services...) know that behind a single fastweb IP there may be a million of users.
I've read the paper and I'd like to see the video the article talks about, but if I go to their site http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/vsv/ I only find a 'recursive' press release that points to the same URL to see the example video...
It was just matter of time, the first reviews of windows 8 were mainly from tech magazines/blog that need to keep their microsoft advertising revenue, now more and more real users are finding how painful is to use this two faced operative system. Apple approached the "touch world" with a new OS that share only some API foundations with OSX, while Microsoft touched only the "surface" of the problem, trying to adapt is best horse (windows 7) to the "touch world"... The result is awful, trying to use office on a RT tablet for a few minutes is enough to see how bad it is their tablet solution.... and the amount of "start menu tools" and "corner sensitivity remover" for the desktop version show how bad the metro interface is in a mouse/keyboard enviroment....
Is slashdot funded by M$? :) I see no other reason this "article" should stay in first page!
Please remove this post, the lamest programmer in the world will be able to avoid this "infection", as said by a lot of people QR codes contain binary datas or strings. I think this is a tabloid level post, an insult to slashdot users.
I'm quite sure that if adblock plus will change this way it will loose part of his userbase... for instance for chrome there are at least two ad blockers (adblock - chromeaddblock.com, and adblockplus - addblockplus.org)
Don't update your VLC if you have OSX 10.4.x (or 10.3.9). VLC dropped 10.4 support for "technical reasons" in 1.0.0rc2, the newer version that works on 10.4 is 0.9.9a.
The comic pages in the /. link are partially slashdotted...
Google has posted an official (fast) link for it:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome
I thought there should be at least two foundations to win against the evil Bill Gates emipire!
I agree that using glider or similar "bots" it's morally wrong and should cause the account ban, but I don't see how a court can decide that a program that interact somehow with another program is not legal... I mean if I do "mv Wow.exe Wowz.exe" I'm legally persecutable? That's a sad day for the USA law...
> Unfortunately for purchasers, the laptop won't boot on tuesday mornings until early afternoon, > and some days you just won't be able to log in. This if you live in USA, europeans will be unable to login wednesday :) ...
Yes it's a joke for wow players since tuesday morning (in USA) and wednesday (in EU) there is the weekly server maintenance :)
As linux commercial game developer I have to say there are a few tech problems for developing linux games but these are obviously not connected with the desktop enviroment :)
The biggest problems are:
- 3d drivers not always available, and not as bug free as their windows counterparts, also when they are available different distro may offer them in different ways and be incompatibile with your game (eg Fedora puts 3d drivers not in /usr/lib and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to expose them).
- Different library ABIs, the bigger problem is in libstdc++, actually there are a few distro based on libstdc++5 and a few on libstdc++6, every C++ library used by a game must use the same c++ library, often this means override the system one, static link is often not an option because of LGPL licence and incompatibilities with external software (eg xfree/xorg).
Anyone can give a link to this shocking image? :)