"If you are a tweak freak power user, forget Ubuntu. BASIC.. And yes, I enabled all the extra repositories. Still, BASIC..:
This stupid comment bothers me as it only represents FUD. How does Ubuntu (or any other distro) prevent you from tweaking your system, or being a so-called power user. Give me a break.
Last time I checked, the Ubuntu repo's had over 21,000 packages. What more do you want, and what does the repository have to do with it in the first place? What did you think would happen when you enabled more repos? The distro is supposed to automagically turn into Gentoo or "Enterprise Ready(TM)" ?
Amen! My second fan (the really noisy one) used to kick on when using or viewing sites that contained Flash on a regular basis (Ubuntu/Firefox). However, it isn't as loud since I opened the laptop and cleaned the dust out. I generally believe the programming and support for Linux is really second-rate. The worst part for me is that sometimes the browser doesn't include the library and I have to either restart the browser or use another one and Flash causes Firefox to segfault once or twice a day.
No, the summary is not fine. It seems everyone (developers) are not seeing the big picture. There are more statements made by Jobs on the NYT. He says: "That doesn't mean there's not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn't mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment."
_Controlled Environment_
See, Apple wants to ensure that the phone maintains a great user experience. Imagine the customer support nightmare for Apple and Cingular if third-party applications have problems. They do not want that! It's the same as opening and releasing Mac OS X to the masses of beige-boxes. They do not want to support your _extra_ problems caused by incompatible hardware and other junk you want to install. They will let independent developers make software for the iPhone, but they will control the install process, maybe through iTunes such as the games on the iPod.
On another note, I think the open source community needs to take a page from this. Tighter control on APIs/platforms/interfaces. Maybe we could get something stable that "just works(tm)".
Reference article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11cnd -apple.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Those don't look free to me. I can't believe people are charging for free books. The nay has this great service now when you want the books, they print them and mail them to you. But of course you have to be in the service. I have all of the NEETs.pdfs and I will send them to anyone that wants them... just hit me on email.
tenthconcept@NoSpamSir@gmail.com
You know, I absolutely hate these tech blogs that speculate about products before touching or seeing them. They fill my RSS reader with this crap on a daily basis. Most of these people write this bullshit to ride the hype of the announcement of the iPhone and get page views. Nothing more, nothing less. Check around the web (Technorati, etc.) and see about 20 articles of different flavors with titles such as "10 Most annoying features.." or "5 Reasons why iPhone will not sell.." etc. I hate these tech-speculators! Everyone these days THINK they have some insight over some market (or as they say in the blogosphere, "spaces").
I love your comment. It's small and really to the point of the state of Linux and the community in general. I personally enjoy the GNU/Linux ecosystem but there are too many choices sometimes. It seems as if the trend is to start a new project/distro/fork whenever someone believes that they could make something better, faster, slimmer, etc... Don't get me wrong, I love the amount of choices but I would rather see more consolidation of efforts. Instead of making a new distro with minor changes/patches, contribute to a major one... etc... Sometimes it's as we are going in circles.
Am I the only person that has noticed a significant rise of the use of the "fanboy/fanboi" word in 2006?
I cringe at every post where I see someone using this word and I feel like I am surrounded by kids (mostly on digg). It's plain stupid. No one uses this word in real life, do they? I can never imagine myself using this word in public.
Me: Hello, sir.. thanks for coming to assist me.
Best Buy CSR: Oh, no problem
Me: I want the PS3, could you get one for me?
BBCSR: Sure. Wait one sec,
BBCSR: Here you go sir... so, you're a Sony fanboy, huh?
Me: WTF did you call me?
This is why no one should take these articles seriously. They only serve to drive page views. These type of articles are the ones I hate most posted on the web.. someone authored a piece last year about driving web traffic and they said the easiest way it to write articles/blog posts with titles such as "10 Reasons you should...", "15 Most annoying..", "12 Applications you should have."
You get the point. I have digg in my RSS reader under Slashdot and I see at least 5 of these type of articles every single day and we hatesssss it.
The author is nitpicking at best, there is nothing really serious in there except for the complaint about Finder. Every other thing could probably be handled with some third party app.
Anyway, this is why I prefer the GNOME desktop to Aqua.
Listen, this whole story has enlightened me soooo much. I am glad he mentioned this so-called molehill. Posts such as these eventually reveal what is really happening within Microsoft (when current and former developers join the conversation with insider information).
With all of the recent happenings regarding Microsoft/Novell and the future release of Vista, this is EXACTLY what the Free Software world needs to EXPLOIT. Microsoft cannot not compete with the FOSS development models, practices and speed. We have the choices, the features, the advancements and of course, the freedom.
I can't wait until this community pulls together and releases a distro that is suitable for everyone.
(I know Linux is great on the desktop now, it just needs further polish)
This guy isn't an analyst, he just someone inside of the "Web 2.0" hype-machine ring, along with Richard MacManus and Michael Arrington. They only exist to drive page views and traffic for ads on those boring blogs.
Alright, enough joking. Enough of the Balmer, chair and DRM jokes. It's time for industry leaders such as IBM, Intel and other supporters of F/OSS to step up to the plate and take action against these claims. Also, I haven't heard nothing from the likes of Linus and RMS. Where are they hiding?
I swithed over to Dapper around two months now and I initially had the same problems with the bcm43xx alpha drivers. My Broadcom 4306 chipset was working perfectly with ndiswrapper 1.0 and the Windows drivers that came with my HP laptop.
For some reason the firmware was not installed or not installed in the proper location.
After a couple hours of frustration, I looked around and found http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ (the drivers project page)
I downloaded the firmware, installed the tool (sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter) and extracted to/lib/firmware and modprobed the driver again and everything works, now.
Also, everything else works with Dapper on my three year old laptop (hibernation, multimedia keys, lcd dimming, volume keys, processor scaling, printer [OfficeJet 6100 all-in-one])
There maybe other upgrades to NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher that I havent covered here, but I just wanted to confirm the driver works.
I thought about how to approach this task last year, but I do not have enough knowlegde to complete the project. Ubuntu has a device database that collects trivial info after your install and reports it back to a web-based database.
There should be an application for all distros that reports back to one central db. Not only will we be able to collect tons of info, we could possibly find out a the installed user base of GNU/Linux.
As someone who spent 14 years in the United States Navy working with automation and control systems on gas-turbine powered cruisers and destroyers, let me please share my peace:
Automation and whatever that comes along within this space will never _replace_ manpower for a very long time. This has been discussed so much in the actual fleet.
You analysists and engineers sit back and develop solutions to many seaborne problems and they simply do not cut to the task.
Prime example: The Integrated Condition and Assesement System (ICAS) onboard the majority of the modern ships in the fleet is simply trash. Aquisition and deployment is tooo slow (years) and the systems are not designed for the environment in which they are placed. Could you imagine how many times I have been awaken at 2-4 AM to reboot this system (hosted on WinNT 4) ??? I'm not simply basing Microsoft here, but this system needs to be reliable. I'm not talking about somehting that is designed for use with some accounting application... We need something that's robust! Something specifically designed for shipboard use.
As far as everything else is concerned, the US Navy is not a corporation. We do not operate on Agile principles. New developments happen at a slow pace. Commands (orginizations, such as ships) do not handle changes easily. Everything happens sloooooowly.
I have mnuch more to say, but as a sailor, im drunk. gnite
Who wants to hear comments from someone that switches between three distros and two window managers on every release?
Snippets from the article:
"I will say again, Gnome 2.14 has definitely improved in its responsiveness, and is quite a pleasure to use (until KDE 4.0 comes out I will use only Gnome 2.14)."
"Finally, to summarize, although FC5 definitely is not the perfect linux operating system, it will be my primary desktop until Suse 10.1 & Ubuntu Dapper is released."
You would want to use migrations for a variety of reasons:
* Get away from the verbosity of SQL - define your schema in Ruby
* Migrations are "database agnostic"
* Version control of your schemas
I didn't understand the benefits at first, but after I started using them, I can't go back to SQL.
It also makes your application easy to deploy, for example: You have a make a open source app, you want configuration and deployment to be as easy as possible. You define your schemas using migrations and the users basically create the databases, configure the/rails_app/config/database.yml and run 'rake db_schema_import' and they are set!
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The Apple Developer Connection doesn't supply any attribution for their articles, but this one was written by none other than Mike Clark, who along with Dave Thomas runs the always-sold-out Pragmatic Studio series of Ruby on Rails and Ajax training.
Why does everyone seem to think that the only area that Google is great at is search, indexing and other related areas? The fact that Google has money to hire F/OSS programmers and other experts to push this products should mean something.
I saw this reported some where else last week, but I thought it wasn't true.
As a supporter and user of Ubuntu GNU/Linux since the first release, Warty I am pleased. More resources thrown at this distro is great news. Currently Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 works perfectly on my two machines (including P4 laptop) and Ubuntu has a great philosophy and community, along with great progress with making the Linux desktop experience better for everyone.
I wonder what exactly Google could bring to the table to help further along this great gem.
Slashdot Mirror
"If you are a tweak freak power user, forget Ubuntu. BASIC.. And yes, I enabled all the extra repositories. Still, BASIC..:
This stupid comment bothers me as it only represents FUD. How does Ubuntu (or any other distro) prevent you from tweaking your system, or being a so-called power user. Give me a break.
Last time I checked, the Ubuntu repo's had over 21,000 packages. What more do you want, and what does the repository have to do with it in the first place? What did you think would happen when you enabled more repos? The distro is supposed to automagically turn into Gentoo or "Enterprise Ready(TM)" ?
Amen! My second fan (the really noisy one) used to kick on when using or viewing sites that contained Flash on a regular basis (Ubuntu/Firefox). However, it isn't as loud since I opened the laptop and cleaned the dust out. I generally believe the programming and support for Linux is really second-rate. The worst part for me is that sometimes the browser doesn't include the library and I have to either restart the browser or use another one and Flash causes Firefox to segfault once or twice a day.
No, the summary is not fine. It seems everyone (developers) are not seeing the big picture. There are more statements made by Jobs on the NYT. He says: "That doesn't mean there's not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn't mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment." _Controlled Environment_ See, Apple wants to ensure that the phone maintains a great user experience. Imagine the customer support nightmare for Apple and Cingular if third-party applications have problems. They do not want that! It's the same as opening and releasing Mac OS X to the masses of beige-boxes. They do not want to support your _extra_ problems caused by incompatible hardware and other junk you want to install. They will let independent developers make software for the iPhone, but they will control the install process, maybe through iTunes such as the games on the iPod. On another note, I think the open source community needs to take a page from this. Tighter control on APIs/platforms/interfaces. Maybe we could get something stable that "just works(tm)". Reference article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11cnd -apple.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
No thanks, I've already sent people free .pdfs from my collection (Navy vet)
There was an article on Slashdot the other day mentioning MIT's Open Course Ware. I've known about this for two years, but there is a GREAT class (w/ all videos) called 6.002 Circuits and Electronics, Fall 2000. It has all of video lectures! http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-a nd-Computer-Science/6-002Circuits-and-ElectronicsF all2000/CourseHome/index.htm
Those don't look free to me. I can't believe people are charging for free books. The nay has this great service now when you want the books, they print them and mail them to you. But of course you have to be in the service. I have all of the NEETs .pdfs and I will send them to anyone that wants them... just hit me on email.
tenthconcept@NoSpamSir@gmail.com
You know, I absolutely hate these tech blogs that speculate about products before touching or seeing them. They fill my RSS reader with this crap on a daily basis. Most of these people write this bullshit to ride the hype of the announcement of the iPhone and get page views. Nothing more, nothing less. Check around the web (Technorati, etc.) and see about 20 articles of different flavors with titles such as "10 Most annoying features.." or "5 Reasons why iPhone will not sell.." etc. I hate these tech-speculators! Everyone these days THINK they have some insight over some market (or as they say in the blogosphere, "spaces").
I dunno about you, but... I, for one, welcome our sexy ipod/revolutionary phone/internet communicator overlords.
You, sir, do not watch enough TV. This episode comes on at least one a month on Cold Cases.
I love your comment. It's small and really to the point of the state of Linux and the community in general. I personally enjoy the GNU/Linux ecosystem but there are too many choices sometimes. It seems as if the trend is to start a new project/distro/fork whenever someone believes that they could make something better, faster, slimmer, etc... Don't get me wrong, I love the amount of choices but I would rather see more consolidation of efforts. Instead of making a new distro with minor changes/patches, contribute to a major one... etc... Sometimes it's as we are going in circles.
Am I the only person that has noticed a significant rise of the use of the "fanboy/fanboi" word in 2006? I cringe at every post where I see someone using this word and I feel like I am surrounded by kids (mostly on digg). It's plain stupid. No one uses this word in real life, do they? I can never imagine myself using this word in public. Me: Hello, sir.. thanks for coming to assist me. Best Buy CSR: Oh, no problem Me: I want the PS3, could you get one for me? BBCSR: Sure. Wait one sec, BBCSR: Here you go sir... so, you're a Sony fanboy, huh? Me: WTF did you call me?
This is why no one should take these articles seriously. They only serve to drive page views. These type of articles are the ones I hate most posted on the web.. someone authored a piece last year about driving web traffic and they said the easiest way it to write articles/blog posts with titles such as "10 Reasons you should...", "15 Most annoying..", "12 Applications you should have." You get the point. I have digg in my RSS reader under Slashdot and I see at least 5 of these type of articles every single day and we hatesssss it. The author is nitpicking at best, there is nothing really serious in there except for the complaint about Finder. Every other thing could probably be handled with some third party app. Anyway, this is why I prefer the GNOME desktop to Aqua.
Listen, this whole story has enlightened me soooo much. I am glad he mentioned this so-called molehill. Posts such as these eventually reveal what is really happening within Microsoft (when current and former developers join the conversation with insider information). With all of the recent happenings regarding Microsoft/Novell and the future release of Vista, this is EXACTLY what the Free Software world needs to EXPLOIT. Microsoft cannot not compete with the FOSS development models, practices and speed. We have the choices, the features, the advancements and of course, the freedom. I can't wait until this community pulls together and releases a distro that is suitable for everyone. (I know Linux is great on the desktop now, it just needs further polish)
This guy isn't an analyst, he just someone inside of the "Web 2.0" hype-machine ring, along with Richard MacManus and Michael Arrington. They only exist to drive page views and traffic for ads on those boring blogs.
Alright, enough joking. Enough of the Balmer, chair and DRM jokes. It's time for industry leaders such as IBM, Intel and other supporters of F/OSS to step up to the plate and take action against these claims. Also, I haven't heard nothing from the likes of Linus and RMS. Where are they hiding?
I swithed over to Dapper around two months now and I initially had the same problems with the bcm43xx alpha drivers. My Broadcom 4306 chipset was working perfectly with ndiswrapper 1.0 and the Windows drivers that came with my HP laptop.
/lib/firmware and modprobed the driver again and everything works, now.
For some reason the firmware was not installed or not installed in the proper location.
After a couple hours of frustration, I looked around and found http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ (the drivers project page)
I downloaded the firmware, installed the tool (sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter) and extracted to
Also, everything else works with Dapper on my three year old laptop (hibernation, multimedia keys, lcd dimming, volume keys, processor scaling, printer [OfficeJet 6100 all-in-one])
There maybe other upgrades to NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher that I havent covered here, but I just wanted to confirm the driver works.
- Good Luck
I thought about how to approach this task last year, but I do not have enough knowlegde to complete the project. Ubuntu has a device database that collects trivial info after your install and reports it back to a web-based database.
There should be an application for all distros that reports back to one central db. Not only will we be able to collect tons of info, we could possibly find out a the installed user base of GNU/Linux.
As someone who spent 14 years in the United States Navy working with automation and control systems on gas-turbine powered cruisers and destroyers, let me please share my peace:
Automation and whatever that comes along within this space will never _replace_ manpower for a very long time. This has been discussed so much in the actual fleet.
You analysists and engineers sit back and develop solutions to many seaborne problems and they simply do not cut to the task.
Prime example: The Integrated Condition and Assesement System (ICAS) onboard the majority of the modern ships in the fleet is simply trash. Aquisition and deployment is tooo slow (years) and the systems are not designed for the environment in which they are placed. Could you imagine how many times I have been awaken at 2-4 AM to reboot this system (hosted on WinNT 4) ??? I'm not simply basing Microsoft here, but this system needs to be reliable. I'm not talking about somehting that is designed for use with some accounting application... We need something that's robust! Something specifically designed for shipboard use.
As far as everything else is concerned, the US Navy is not a corporation. We do not operate on Agile principles. New developments happen at a slow pace. Commands (orginizations, such as ships) do not handle changes easily. Everything happens sloooooowly.
I have mnuch more to say, but as a sailor, im drunk. gnite
Who wants to hear comments from someone that switches between three distros and two window managers on every release?
Snippets from the article:
"I will say again, Gnome 2.14 has definitely improved in its responsiveness, and is quite a pleasure to use (until KDE 4.0 comes out I will use only Gnome 2.14)."
"Finally, to summarize, although FC5 definitely is not the perfect linux operating system, it will be my primary desktop until Suse 10.1 & Ubuntu Dapper is released."
Sounds like a fair weather guy to me.
You would want to use migrations for a variety of reasons:
/rails_app/config/database.yml and run 'rake db_schema_import' and they are set!
* Get away from the verbosity of SQL - define your schema in Ruby
* Migrations are "database agnostic"
* Version control of your schemas
I didn't understand the benefits at first, but after I started using them, I can't go back to SQL.
It also makes your application easy to deploy, for example: You have a make a open source app, you want configuration and deployment to be as easy as possible. You define your schemas using migrations and the users basically create the databases, configure the
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The Apple Developer Connection doesn't supply any attribution for their articles, but this one was written by none other than Mike Clark, who along with Dave Thomas runs the always-sold-out Pragmatic Studio series of Ruby on Rails and Ajax training.
The PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) and the automation of the "Picker" system.
Why does everyone seem to think that the only area that Google is great at is search, indexing and other related areas? The fact that Google has money to hire F/OSS programmers and other experts to push this products should mean something.
I saw this reported some where else last week, but I thought it wasn't true.
As a supporter and user of Ubuntu GNU/Linux since the first release, Warty I am pleased. More resources thrown at this distro is great news. Currently Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 works perfectly on my two machines (including P4 laptop) and Ubuntu has a great philosophy and community, along with great progress with making the Linux desktop experience better for everyone.
I wonder what exactly Google could bring to the table to help further along this great gem.