That's not the impression I get from all that's been happening up there in NK lately. They aren't behaving by anyone's definition of "rational".
Kim Jong-un trying to unite people behind him by building up imaginary foreign threat? Not exactly a novel idea or completely without rationale. He's a new leader, people are unsure of his power and some might want to take his place or get rid of him.
For all practical purpose, they are 100% unpredictable. You have no way of telling what they're going to do next.
Probably next he will just make more threaths. Threats don't kill, but they can coinvince some potential competitors in the political elite of NK that Kim Jong-un is not weak. Whatever the case the NK's dictator loves his power and using nukes would be the fastest way to throw it all away. He won't do that. As stupid as it sounds he's not crazy. It's debatable if lust for power that goes beyond the needs of your people is sane, but then many if not all(?) of our leaders would be crazy.
I agree with most of above except your claim about lack of app development. While it's true for commercial apps, - not much incentive to develop there and never was due to Elop's decision to kill the platform before N9 was even released - influx of ported and new open source apps seems quite strong.
I'm just playing with a new Stellarium port http://thelarge.org/stellarium-n9/ (which is awesome) and few days ago I installed a new version of Rawcam http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=85512 . Many apps that I use frequently - Meecast, Meegopas, Mapsi and CuteTube to name some - have been updated regularly.
The thing I really like about N9 is that I can use same CLI tools that I use on my desktop. If some CLI tool is missing it's not hard to fire up scratchbox, wget the sources and compile it for Harmattan. Not to mention ability to ssh into it and use like any other linux device on my network.
Real multitasking with background sockets is nice too. I can fire up terminal on N9, ssh to my server, attach to screen session of irssi and have it there for basically forever and switch to the terminal app whenever I feel like reading discussions. WP8 would just close the connection when I switch ssh client to the background. I don't know how Android handles multitasking, probably better.
Nokia's Linux businesses? They have to be worth something to somebody. And anything is better than nothing, unless they get more for destroying them than selling them.
Nokia's Linux effort was worth billions to Microsoft. Billions to have it dead.
MS sees Linux as threat and it's their tune that Nokia dances to. Elop has gone out of his way* to ensure that there's no return to Linux at Nokia.
* Firing MeeGo and Meltemi teams and killing both projects, shutting down Salo factory where N9 was being made and laying off QT devs. Everything Linux related has been axed.
I should have included the bit before that. I know about that, but how does that affect its openness?
Aegis prevents messing with some of the system files, but it's not too hard to circumverent/disable Aegis alltogether. Install open kernel or use Inception.
Though I haven't bothered with either. Aegis hasn't (yet) come into my way when porting software to the phone or installing stuff from community repository with apt-get. Much of stuff in community repos are just stock debian armel packages, with slight modifications in control files.
If you know how to compile programs in Linux, then that's the only thing you need to know to port stuff to Harmattan. Install Scratchbox to your computer, log in to it, download sources, apt-get necessary -dev packages,./configure && make and scp resulting binaries to your phone. For extra points you can ofcourse roll it into debian package and kindly ask at #harmattan IRC channel for your package to be added to the community repository so that everyone can install it on their phones with apt-get.
N9 is just awesome. Swipe UI wipes the floor with Android and IOS + it really feels like a true Linux computer. Elop has made sure it's hard to get, but IMO it's easily worth all the money you throw for it.
Or perhaps Stalin who studied in the Tiflis Theological Seminary in order to become a priest?
However, the fate is unpredictable. He was expelled and instead of terrorising altar boys he ended up terrorising whole nations.
Where do the particles that form your physical self go when you die? Don't they become building blocks for other things?
The matter you consist of was born in stars. It has been part of many non-living as well as living things and by all likelyhood will continue to do so in the future.
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This was noticed when the ship stopped at Finland to load some wood products.
AFAIK it stopped in Finland to load few pieces of chain. Stopping in Finland if you are on the way from Germany to China makes very little sense (it's in the opposite direction), so maybe the whole stop was just to camouflage the ship's original route. However the ship got into a storm, called pilot for help and ended up being inspected.
It was found out that the freight was not correctly secured and had been thrown around during the storm. There was also some problems with ship's freight bill. 69 Patriot missiles were found that were not mentioned.
When questioned about the whole mess the shipping company said that the missiles were "probably loaded in by accident".
My guess is that these missiles were German second hand PAC-2s that have been legally sold to South-Korea. Why were they smuggling them? No idea.
which kinda defeats the point of the industries drive towards more efficient devices with longer battery life. I overclocked my netbook once. Most pointless thing I've ever done. It's now underclocked to eek out a little more battery life.....
There are lots of cases where overclocking actually increases the battery life. If CPU does the calculation faster (considering that voltage stays the same) it spends more time idle and thus saves the battery.
Later someone points an RPG at the helicopter. Some claim this is the camera that is seen earlier, except the reporter wasn't the one standing there, and the RPG is much larger than the camera seen earlier.
The lens pointed at helicopter around the corner looks like Canon 500mm F4. Google it out if you can't tell the differrence between RPG and Canons gray/white professional lenses. (Hint: RPGs are thin, long and have very distinctive conical shaped charge at the end)
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About the only reason I use it these days I the debian packaging system, with out all the debian silliness.
Just curious. What is this "debian silliness" that you mention?
Go ahead look up the definition and yes that is what we have in this country now Fascism. You don't get it the media and the men behind the curtain wants you to use words like Corporatism because the world still remembers the horror fascism can bring.
Straight from horse's mouth:
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini.
What an utterly stupid comment. I've read a lot of dumb comments on slashdot, but... wow, yours might just be the stupidest thing I've read on the Internet......But really, why let facts stand in the way of your Green Religion that makes being an allegedly noble savage with a small carbon footprint the ideal human life?
No need to get so emotional.
What I mean is that there is different types of advancement. Hunter gatherers know their environment very well and can survive there. The most basic thing they usually learn is to respect the very resources their life depends on, because anything else means death. They have gathered knowledge during thousands of years that is essential to their survival. Which plants to eat and to use, what material is best used for what purpose and so forth. (What tree species/types would you use for a composite bow?) Just drop a random tourist deep into the jungles of Papua-New Guinea and see how long he/she survives. Or maybe Siberia? People don't automatically know how to build proper shelter from readily available materials in order to survive temperatures that plummet under -40ÂC or how to build tools for hunting and so forth. Indigenous tribes do know all that. Sure you can be proud that your culture developed windmills, sextants and aqueducts (did they?), but in such situation that knowledge won't keep you warm.
I think that it's very plausible that humans have evolved as a species into certain way of life (we were hunter gatherers for several hundred of thousand of years afterall) and that what we are today might not be natural or even best for us. It's likely just a runaway reaction caused by farming.
It's not nice of you to try to label me as some religious nutjob. I'm intrested in pondering things like this and I try to keep an open mind. I just think that there's no need to bash those that have lived as hunter gatherers as stupid and backwards. They have shitloads of knowledge that is relevant to their way of life.
While your method will probably produce a much leaner system, with slightly higher performance-per-clock-cycle, you are suggesting a system that requires a huge amount of "free time" to learn, and a willingness to dive head first into a tar pit of new knowledge. If you have a year or so to beat your head against a thousand brick walls while you climb a rather steep learning curve, then Gentoo is perfectly acceptable, and can (eventually) produce a leaner, cleaner server environment, tailored exactly to the task at hand.
I think that OP meant just the opposite of what you are saying. He's not suggesting gentoo due to small performance gains that you might or might not get from using it. Instead the point of his post is that by exposing yourself to how your system works you learn faster and save time in the end.
I started with gentoo stage 1 install when I was complete newbie to Linux and I've never regretted it. With the help of their good documentation it took me a day or two. I quickly switched to Ubuntu - and then Debian - afterwards, but as for educative task, installing gentoo from ground up was really worth it and has saved me from countless of hours of "hitting my head into brick wall" when dealing with random issues later on. The simple fact is that during those few days I learned more of Linux than I would have learned from years using Ubuntu.
The point is entirely about exposure and quick learning, not about what distro to use for the actual task. After you have learned the basics you'll do fine with all or any of them.
Why is it that the populations of humanity with the earliest head start (in terms of population establishment) ended up as the most primitive? I'm looking at you, Africa and now apparently Australia. This is absolutely not politically correct, but I'm sure you can agree that the Bantu and Aboriginal cultures shy in comparison to... well everyone else, who are at least capable of conquering their environment.
Is it less advanced to live in sustainable balance with your environment than to rape and conquer it (and other cultures)?
Let's see how our "advanced" culture looks 75.000 years from now.
Stop thinking "need" and start thinking "it's cool". I don't "need" a new computer right now, I
would do fine with this laptop at least 2 more years (already 2 years old). Still I'm buying one.
Where would we be today If everyone was just thinking about what they actually needed?
My experience with a cheap 64GB SSD (Kingspec) is completely different. I replaced my laptop's original 5400rpm Hitachi HDD with it. The boot time was reduced from circa 25s to 6s and most programs start without noticeable delay. And this is with low end SSD that connects to PATA interface. Boot performance seems to be mostly about low times for seeks and small reads in which pretty much any SSD runs circles around mechanical drives (seek times are generally 100-200x lower on SSDs). Low total bandwidth of the interface is really non-issue for most of my use. (no large copy operations between drives)
Did you align your partitions to the erase block boundary? Otherwise your SDD performance could be severely degraded as the drive has to do two read/modify/write cycles when one would suffice. These things (or the partitioning tools) are not yet plug and play.
Ted Tso has written informative article about aligning FS to erase block size, which can be found here.
Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, âCome, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Rotating the flat panel will enable it to collect many times what the tree can (which rotating does nothing for).
Many plants rotate their leaves to follow the sun (to maximize photosynthesis) and orientate them vertically during the night (in order to shade or protect them during the resting period).
I know this from watching my chilli plants grow. For them this action is more profound when they are young and growing fast. Older plants seem to be much lazier and slower in orienting their leaves. Maybe leaf quantity becomes quality of it's own and following the sun movent accurately becomes unnecessary or wastes more energy.
Really? Czechoslovakia was a Soviet satellite state, but Finland - while not in NATO - was not. I suspect the Soviets woudln't have dared invade Finland as it would have had a severe risk of military confrontation with the west. Likewise, I doubt NATO would have done anything to Finland to avoid a confrontation with the Soviets.
this article is interesting (I'm not able to check the validity).
So where does it say anything about listening posts and surveillance tech imports to Finland?
I'm Finnish and knowing our history I find it very unlikely.
Even if what you say is true, (Which I very much doubt) why didn't US use that advanced tech and it took Nokia to commercialize it? Here everyone and his mom had a small mobile phone while in the US they were priviledge of rich juppies (and even they had big luggable ones...strech to call them mobile).
Nokia (and Swedish Ericsson to some extent) had a good head start in mobile phone business during the 90s. Rest of the world catched and finally passed Finland in the mobile tech only during few recent years. Now Microsoft practically owns Nokia so we can say goodbye to any new innovation in mobile tech. It was fun while it lasted.:)
A Wikipedia article claims that "the U.S. promised to provide military force in aid of Sweden in case of Soviet aggression. Knowledge of this guarantee was by the Swedish governments kept from the Swedish public until 1994, when a Swedish research commission found evidence for it" - unfortunately without source.
And to our horror USSR promised Finns the same thing, which Finland politely rejected. NATO's plans (which Finnish military was aware of) were to obiliterate Finlands transportation network and airbases with tactical nukes in case Soviet forces crossed the border. During Soviet force movements and military excercises near the Finnish border bombers on the British airbases were fueled up and on standby.
The US gov't spent billions per year in Scandinavian investments during the cold war to spy on Russia. Much of the early Nokia research was an excuse to put up listening posts in odd places. Now all new funding is from retirement funds dumping cash they must invest every week. As a society are we making progress?
Did you just make that up yourself?
Nokia was making mostly rubber boots, tires and cables during the cold war era. Also as others have noted Finland was on wrong side. While it wasn't part of Warsaw pact it had very close relations to USSR from 1944 to 1990 so much that any military collaboration with US would have been extremely unwise and would have only hurt finnish national security. Having US listening posts in Finland would have been simply out of question.
By close relations I mean the situation where finnish politicians had to be constantly on their toes not to displease Soviet leadership. What happened in Czechoslovakia 1968 was fresh in everyones minds.
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Kim Jong-un trying to unite people behind him by building up imaginary foreign threat? Not exactly a novel idea or completely without rationale. He's a new leader, people are unsure of his power and some might want to take his place or get rid of him.
I agree with most of above except your claim about lack of app development. While it's true for commercial apps, - not much incentive to develop there and never was due to Elop's decision to kill the platform before N9 was even released - influx of ported and new open source apps seems quite strong.
I'm just playing with a new Stellarium port http://thelarge.org/stellarium-n9/ (which is awesome) and few days ago I installed a new version of Rawcam http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=85512 . Many apps that I use frequently - Meecast, Meegopas, Mapsi and CuteTube to name some - have been updated regularly.
The thing I really like about N9 is that I can use same CLI tools that I use on my desktop. If some CLI tool is missing it's not hard to fire up scratchbox, wget the sources and compile it for Harmattan. Not to mention ability to ssh into it and use like any other linux device on my network.
Real multitasking with background sockets is nice too. I can fire up terminal on N9, ssh to my server, attach to screen session of irssi and have it there for basically forever and switch to the terminal app whenever I feel like reading discussions. WP8 would just close the connection when I switch ssh client to the background. I don't know how Android handles multitasking, probably better.
Except that if you want to get into politics in Israel you have to recognize the state of Israel as a Jewish state.
In other words, people who belong to certain religious group are more equal than others.
Nokia's Linux effort was worth billions to Microsoft. Billions to have it dead.
MS sees Linux as threat and it's their tune that Nokia dances to. Elop has gone out of his way* to ensure that there's no return to Linux at Nokia.
* Firing MeeGo and Meltemi teams and killing both projects, shutting down Salo factory where N9 was being made and laying off QT devs. Everything Linux related has been axed.
Aegis prevents messing with some of the system files, but it's not too hard to circumverent/disable Aegis alltogether. Install open kernel or use Inception.
./configure && make and scp resulting binaries to your phone. For extra points you can ofcourse roll it into debian package and kindly ask at #harmattan IRC channel for your package to be added to the community repository so that everyone can install it on their phones with apt-get.
Though I haven't bothered with either. Aegis hasn't (yet) come into my way when porting software to the phone or installing stuff from community repository with apt-get. Much of stuff in community repos are just stock debian armel packages, with slight modifications in control files.
If you know how to compile programs in Linux, then that's the only thing you need to know to port stuff to Harmattan. Install Scratchbox to your computer, log in to it, download sources, apt-get necessary -dev packages,
N9 is just awesome. Swipe UI wipes the floor with Android and IOS + it really feels like a true Linux computer. Elop has made sure it's hard to get, but IMO it's easily worth all the money you throw for it.
Or perhaps Stalin who studied in the Tiflis Theological Seminary in order to become a priest? However, the fate is unpredictable. He was expelled and instead of terrorising altar boys he ended up terrorising whole nations.
Where do the particles that form your physical self go when you die? Don't they become building blocks for other things?
The matter you consist of was born in stars. It has been part of many non-living as well as living things and by all likelyhood will continue to do so in the future.
WM: Fluxbox and backgrounds with feh.
FM: ROX-Filer, BASH
Audio: ALSA
Multimedia: MPlayer, SMPlayer, Audacious and Geeqie.
Messaging: Pidgin or irssi with irssi-xmpp plugin.
Photo editing: ufraw and GIMP.
WWW: Iceweasel(Firefox) and Chromium.
And no need to take part in DM fights :)
AFAIK it stopped in Finland to load few pieces of chain. Stopping in Finland if you are on the way from Germany to China makes very little sense (it's in the opposite direction), so maybe the whole stop was just to camouflage the ship's original route. However the ship got into a storm, called pilot for help and ended up being inspected.
It was found out that the freight was not correctly secured and had been thrown around during the storm. There was also some problems with ship's freight bill. 69 Patriot missiles were found that were not mentioned.
When questioned about the whole mess the shipping company said that the missiles were "probably loaded in by accident".
My guess is that these missiles were German second hand PAC-2s that have been legally sold to South-Korea. Why were they smuggling them? No idea.
There are lots of cases where overclocking actually increases the battery life. If CPU does the calculation faster (considering that voltage stays the same) it spends more time idle and thus saves the battery.
Do you understand farsi? Did they actually say that the drone was shot down or that it was brought down?
It wouldn't be the first time someone got the translation wrong,
The lens pointed at helicopter around the corner looks like Canon 500mm F4. Google it out if you can't tell the differrence between RPG and Canons gray/white professional lenses. (Hint: RPGs are thin, long and have very distinctive conical shaped charge at the end)
Just curious. What is this "debian silliness" that you mention?
Straight from horse's mouth:
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini.
No need to get so emotional.
What I mean is that there is different types of advancement. Hunter gatherers know their environment very well and can survive there. The most basic thing they usually learn is to respect the very resources their life depends on, because anything else means death. They have gathered knowledge during thousands of years that is essential to their survival. Which plants to eat and to use, what material is best used for what purpose and so forth. (What tree species/types would you use for a composite bow?) Just drop a random tourist deep into the jungles of Papua-New Guinea and see how long he/she survives. Or maybe Siberia? People don't automatically know how to build proper shelter from readily available materials in order to survive temperatures that plummet under -40ÂC or how to build tools for hunting and so forth. Indigenous tribes do know all that. Sure you can be proud that your culture developed windmills, sextants and aqueducts (did they?), but in such situation that knowledge won't keep you warm.
I think that it's very plausible that humans have evolved as a species into certain way of life (we were hunter gatherers for several hundred of thousand of years afterall) and that what we are today might not be natural or even best for us. It's likely just a runaway reaction caused by farming.
It's not nice of you to try to label me as some religious nutjob. I'm intrested in pondering things like this and I try to keep an open mind. I just think that there's no need to bash those that have lived as hunter gatherers as stupid and backwards. They have shitloads of knowledge that is relevant to their way of life.
I think that OP meant just the opposite of what you are saying. He's not suggesting gentoo due to small performance gains that you might or might not get from using it. Instead the point of his post is that by exposing yourself to how your system works you learn faster and save time in the end.
I started with gentoo stage 1 install when I was complete newbie to Linux and I've never regretted it. With the help of their good documentation it took me a day or two. I quickly switched to Ubuntu - and then Debian - afterwards, but as for educative task, installing gentoo from ground up was really worth it and has saved me from countless of hours of "hitting my head into brick wall" when dealing with random issues later on. The simple fact is that during those few days I learned more of Linux than I would have learned from years using Ubuntu.
The point is entirely about exposure and quick learning, not about what distro to use for the actual task. After you have learned the basics you'll do fine with all or any of them.
Is it less advanced to live in sustainable balance with your environment than to rape and conquer it (and other cultures)?
Let's see how our "advanced" culture looks 75.000 years from now.
Living sustainably on a healthy planet?
My experience with a cheap 64GB SSD (Kingspec) is completely different. I replaced my laptop's original 5400rpm Hitachi HDD with it. The boot time was reduced from circa 25s to 6s and most programs start without noticeable delay. And this is with low end SSD that connects to PATA interface. Boot performance seems to be mostly about low times for seeks and small reads in which pretty much any SSD runs circles around mechanical drives (seek times are generally 100-200x lower on SSDs). Low total bandwidth of the interface is really non-issue for most of my use. (no large copy operations between drives)
Did you align your partitions to the erase block boundary? Otherwise your SDD performance could be severely degraded as the drive has to do two read/modify/write cycles when one would suffice. These things (or the partitioning tools) are not yet plug and play.
Ted Tso has written informative article about aligning FS to erase block size, which can be found here.
What happens to the goats?
But who came up with Ctrl+g for find in Linux? It's used in gedit and some other programs.
Gedit uses Ctrl-f for find.
Rotating the flat panel will enable it to collect many times what the tree can (which rotating does nothing for).
Many plants rotate their leaves to follow the sun (to maximize photosynthesis) and orientate them vertically during the night (in order to shade or protect them during the resting period). I know this from watching my chilli plants grow. For them this action is more profound when they are young and growing fast. Older plants seem to be much lazier and slower in orienting their leaves. Maybe leaf quantity becomes quality of it's own and following the sun movent accurately becomes unnecessary or wastes more energy.
Yes really. Everything you say is correct though.
So where does it say anything about listening posts and surveillance tech imports to Finland? I'm Finnish and knowing our history I find it very unlikely.
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Even if what you say is true, (Which I very much doubt) why didn't US use that advanced tech and it took Nokia to commercialize it? Here everyone and his mom had a small mobile phone while in the US they were priviledge of rich juppies (and even they had big luggable ones...strech to call them mobile).
Nokia (and Swedish Ericsson to some extent) had a good head start in mobile phone business during the 90s. Rest of the world catched and finally passed Finland in the mobile tech only during few recent years. Now Microsoft practically owns Nokia so we can say goodbye to any new innovation in mobile tech. It was fun while it lasted.
And to our horror USSR promised Finns the same thing, which Finland politely rejected. NATO's plans (which Finnish military was aware of) were to obiliterate Finlands transportation network and airbases with tactical nukes in case Soviet forces crossed the border. During Soviet force movements and military excercises near the Finnish border bombers on the British airbases were fueled up and on standby.
Did you just make that up yourself?
Nokia was making mostly rubber boots, tires and cables during the cold war era. Also as others have noted Finland was on wrong side. While it wasn't part of Warsaw pact it had very close relations to USSR from 1944 to 1990 so much that any military collaboration with US would have been extremely unwise and would have only hurt finnish national security. Having US listening posts in Finland would have been simply out of question.
By close relations I mean the situation where finnish politicians had to be constantly on their toes not to displease Soviet leadership. What happened in Czechoslovakia 1968 was fresh in everyones minds.