Looking at texts and playing music, the basic things are probably the only things most people would use on one.
Yep, and for those tasks a smartphone is sufficient already. We have to imagine apps that would explicitly benefit from the smartwatch characteristics over smartphone's.
Just because they run Linux it does NOT mean they have old PCs. Some people are intelligent enough to extract themselves from the Apple and Microsoft monopolies and run an open operating system that allows them full control over how their computer operates.
Yes and no. You could as well say that with Win or Mac you get full benefit out of your computer because all the hardware works to its greatest potential, due to optimized drivers (good performance and fully working power saving features).
Lolwut? So when I connect to my corporate network to do legal stuff I get a paycheck for, I am a pirate?
If you are using VPN for the purpose, then yes, you can be suspected to be a pirate. Not proven though.
Same deal with BitTorrent: if you are found transmitting BitTorrent traffic, there's a very high chance that you are a pirate. This despite the fact that BitTorrent is used for various legitimate purposes too.
I have had problems with the touchpad being extremely sensitive out of the box. Also Linux does not have a good graphical settings tool for touchpads. KDE's comes closest but still lacks the richness of the Windows counterparts.
Don't they just look like USB mice to the OS if you don't take advantage of Synaptics-specific features?
You can still be hacked by guessing what your internal IP scheme is
That is not true. It is hard to get such traffic to be routed appropriately, and most public routers drop traffic assigned to private IP ranges anyway.
Rather surprisingly, I have also been quite happy with the developments of the open source Radeon driver under Linux. Works great and the performance is excellent.
LOL, then I can only conclude you never actually used Windows 3.1.
Which is exactly what he said:
A screen I honestly did not know existed, although Windows 3.1 is so old that I'd have been a kid, so maybe it popped up all the time if you used computers daily back then. I have no idea.
Yes, old BSOD was great tool for the IT crowd. The Windows 8.1 gives now just a page with awfully large text saying something like "sorry, something was wrong, we're rebooting." Good luck with finding the reason for the crash and most importantly, fixing the problem. This dumbing down of software is just disgusting.
Check out Minidump files. There's a good amount of information stored about the cause of a BSOD.
Even the Visual Studio 2013 is designed for the tablet users, I wonder why they still support programming at all, as it is is assumed to be too hard for their customers.
Visual Studio 2013 is a normal desktop application just like the previous versions of Visual Studio.
Well, that's interesting, because TFA precisely talks about Ballmer designing the Windows 3.1 BSOD. The BSOD in the article looks different than your screenshot.
Most likely there are multiple BSODs in Windows 3.1, and Ballmer designed one of them.
I'd like to have the *option* to continue to save my work even if there was a chance of data corruption. For example, take the common NT blue screen IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. That fact that my buggy network driver tried to access paged memory in the wrong sequence is miles away from catastrophic.
Believe or not, but such situation is actually catastrophic. A network driver might feel like a small component of your system, but as it happens to be tightly integrated into kernel space and when it does something illegal, there's a real risk of data corruption or other system misbehavior.
Actually, with NT6, display drivers were moved into userspace, so if a display driver crashes, one just gets a blank screen for a couple of seconds, and after that a system tray popup informing about the driver restart.
I don't mean to sound morbid here, I am just starting to think that this whole thing is pretty darn pointless, If you want to donate money to ALS, do it... but this ice bucket challenge thing is turning into a competition of who can one-up who in how they go about it, and I think it's now only a matter of time before somebody gets seriously hurt or killed.
Actually this is the perfect way to collect donations for a good cause: create a silly meme and create a culture of making a donation when doing it. People love this kind of shit.
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I have not had many encounters like that.
That is actually an interesting theory.
Looking at texts and playing music, the basic things are probably the only things most people would use on one.
Yep, and for those tasks a smartphone is sufficient already. We have to imagine apps that would explicitly benefit from the smartwatch characteristics over smartphone's.
Good point, I have to agree with that. Many OpenGL implementations under Windows are rather crusty. The main emphasis is clearly on DirectX.
Also, under Linux you get OpenGL 2.1 support on Intel gen4 hardware, while those are limited on 1.5 on Windows. :)
Just because they run Linux it does NOT mean they have old PCs. Some people are intelligent enough to extract themselves from the Apple and Microsoft monopolies and run an open operating system that allows them full control over how their computer operates.
Yes and no. You could as well say that with Win or Mac you get full benefit out of your computer because all the hardware works to its greatest potential, due to optimized drivers (good performance and fully working power saving features).
True, although only N270 and N280 are x86-32.
at some point you'll be unable to remember things that happened recently such as whether you put your pants on this morning
You don't have to remember the event of putting them on. You can just quickly check if you are wearing them right now.
I hardly would call free copies of entertainment to be "information". You are talking about this like it is some deprivation of free speech.
Lolwut? So when I connect to my corporate network to do legal stuff I get a paycheck for, I am a pirate?
If you are using VPN for the purpose, then yes, you can be suspected to be a pirate. Not proven though.
Same deal with BitTorrent: if you are found transmitting BitTorrent traffic, there's a very high chance that you are a pirate. This despite the fact that BitTorrent is used for various legitimate purposes too.
...have to VPN in to the work network to deal with switches or to check the status of an outage, I'm automatically assumed to be a pirate?
Ah yes, "deal with switches or to check the status of an outage", so that's what kids call pirating these days...
When the partition tools jumped the shark and started using those 10^x units instead of 2^x, one can not be sure what is the actual alignment anymore.
Today it is practically always 1MB (1,048,576 bytes).
fdisk can do exact cylinders but complained about uefi
You probably mean GPT. There seems to a tool called gptfdisk that solves the problem.
I think SSD partition alignment "just works" for all modern partitioning tools. It should be fine.
Linux and Linux distros have always taken the priority to ship cutting edge features over tried-and-true software.
I've never had any problems with touchpads.
I have had problems with the touchpad being extremely sensitive out of the box. Also Linux does not have a good graphical settings tool for touchpads. KDE's comes closest but still lacks the richness of the Windows counterparts.
Don't they just look like USB mice to the OS if you don't take advantage of Synaptics-specific features?
Basically yes, although they are PS/2 devices.
You can still be hacked by guessing what your internal IP scheme is
That is not true. It is hard to get such traffic to be routed appropriately, and most public routers drop traffic assigned to private IP ranges anyway.
Rather surprisingly, I have also been quite happy with the developments of the open source Radeon driver under Linux. Works great and the performance is excellent.
But it does not help to say that NAT is not a firewall. By default it blocks all incoming connections and that's what I want. Yes, I am secure.
However I agree with your comment that IPSec does not work over NAT. That is true and I see a value in having encrypted connections.
NAT is much simpler to use than setting up a firewall. And why would I want my personal network to use public IP addresses anyway?
For SOHO environments NAT is the perfect tool.
And replace NAT with public IP addresses with complicated firewall setups.
LOL, then I can only conclude you never actually used Windows 3.1.
Which is exactly what he said:
A screen I honestly did not know existed, although Windows 3.1 is so old that I'd have been a kid, so maybe it popped up all the time if you used computers daily back then. I have no idea.
Yes, old BSOD was great tool for the IT crowd. The Windows 8.1 gives now just a page with awfully large text saying something like "sorry, something was wrong, we're rebooting." Good luck with finding the reason for the crash and most importantly, fixing the problem. This dumbing down of software is just disgusting.
Check out Minidump files. There's a good amount of information stored about the cause of a BSOD.
Even the Visual Studio 2013 is designed for the tablet users, I wonder why they still support programming at all, as it is is assumed to be too hard for their customers.
Visual Studio 2013 is a normal desktop application just like the previous versions of Visual Studio.
I prefer the Windows 3.1 BSoD
Well, that's interesting, because TFA precisely talks about Ballmer designing the Windows 3.1 BSOD. The BSOD in the article looks different than your screenshot.
Most likely there are multiple BSODs in Windows 3.1, and Ballmer designed one of them.
I'd like to have the *option* to continue to save my work even if there was a chance of data corruption. For example, take the common NT blue screen IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. That fact that my buggy network driver tried to access paged memory in the wrong sequence is miles away from catastrophic.
Believe or not, but such situation is actually catastrophic. A network driver might feel like a small component of your system, but as it happens to be tightly integrated into kernel space and when it does something illegal, there's a real risk of data corruption or other system misbehavior.
Actually, with NT6, display drivers were moved into userspace, so if a display driver crashes, one just gets a blank screen for a couple of seconds, and after that a system tray popup informing about the driver restart.
I don't mean to sound morbid here, I am just starting to think that this whole thing is pretty darn pointless, If you want to donate money to ALS, do it... but this ice bucket challenge thing is turning into a competition of who can one-up who in how they go about it, and I think it's now only a matter of time before somebody gets seriously hurt or killed.
Actually this is the perfect way to collect donations for a good cause: create a silly meme and create a culture of making a donation when doing it. People love this kind of shit.