A colleague of mine used to work at Google and told me there is considerable pressure put on you to come up with something concrete and constructive from that 10%. It's not a free time to just dick about with whatever takes your fancy, it has to be for the betterment of Google.
Hopefully no you can't turn it off; because if you can then miscreants out there will find a way to turn it off for you, without your knowing about it. More to the point it won't be you that get hit like that, you're obviously intelligent/paranoid enough to notice. It'll be your computer illiterate friends and neighbors.
Oh come now, fellow old timer, you can do better than that. Surely you remember MWM (Motif Window Manager) and twm (Tom's Window Manager)? All this fancy GNOME stuff; kids today don't know how good they've got it. Heck, I remember when, to get to the internet, we had to use special routers that used DECnet to encapsulate TCP/IP packets, because the latter was so new. The www hadn't been invented yet and spam only existed in tins.
They're going after somewhere between iPhone and Android, which is a sweet spot
What sweet spot? The iPhone and Android overlap, there's nothing in between. If there were and there was nothing in that space already, it would be dead zone.
They were just universally stupid in the questions they asked. They did not at all understand the kinds of positions they were hiring for and had a very much "One size fits all" attitude.
Another frustrating practice: You reply to a new job Ad the day after its published, but the recruiter says you're too late. Usually this means they've been given a job spec from the employer with instructions to vet the applicants, select the best, then submit maybe the top three. This goes out to 2-3 agencies. What happens in practice is that the first three applicants to tick the skills and experience boxes get forwarded in the first day and that's it. There's no real vetting done by the agency at all. Never mind that you might be able to run rings around the other applicants, the employer isn't even going to find out you exist. If you want in, you have to trawl the job sites 2-3 times a day and hit apply as soon as you spot anything interesting. No time to tailor your CV to the prospective job. I have two brothers who both contract and both say the same thing: it's a numbers game. You have to be quick, and then for every 10 jobs applied for expect 1 telephone interview request.
I remember a system crash/panic message from back in the days of Ultrix (an early version of Unix from Digital Equipment Co. that ran on MIPS). It read: "Mrs Fletcher has fallen down again and can't get up". Some engineer's idea of a joke. DEC were forced to change it though as affected customers were not amused.
Almost, but not quite. There shouldn't be a comma before "and" in the first sentence. The remainder of the sentence, "may have had the ability for some time", isn't an independent clause.
The comma before "but" was correct as, "chrome now has resource blocking abilities", is an independent clause.
That's absolutely fascinating. I had no idea wood gas even existed, never mind that people have powered cars with it in the past. Bloody cheap too (compared to UK fuel prices).
You may not see it, but it's there. Try grabbing a URL by its icon and dropping it into an editor or spreadsheet and the http:/// prefix reappears. So the change is just cosmetic.
It was running Windows, they demo'd it running Windows, then they scrapped the Windows version. What does that say about running Windows on a Slate / Tablet device? Clearly the experience is very below par.
Canonical don't have that kind of spare cash, plus they're focused on improving Ubuntu's profitability and growing its customer base. Asking Novell customers to throw the baby out with the bath water and move from an rpm based system to one based on deb; totally different admin tools, etc and pretty much new 'everything' is a big ask.
Red Hat don't need to saddle themselves with a millstone like that either just to get a few extra enterprise customers that they'll have a good chance of winning anyway if Novell get broken up and sold. Hint: companies usually only merge or get swallowed if their product sets are complementary and don't overlap. There's way too much overlap between Red Hat and Novell's Linux division and very little extra value. Even worse, Red Hat could find they wouldn't be able to kill off SuSE right away due to contractual obligations that Novell have with their customers. So Red Hat would have to fund parallel development for a number of years until they converted ex-Novel customers (or frightened them off). That's expensive when the customer base is small.
Bah, fud and rubbish. Ext4 used to be a bit faster than btrfs but as of 2.6.33-rc4 (back in January) that situation has reversed, as Phoronix discovered when they tested it. And as for on disk format changes they've already stated that there won't be any more changes now unless they find any critical bugs that require it.
I imagine that btrfs, with its built in compression, will make an excellent target f/s for rsync. The target f/s can then be backed up to tape for offsite storage using whatever your favourite tool happens to be (Amanda, Bacula, Data Protector, Netbackup, etc). That's one of the uses I have in mind for it when I believe it's stable and battle tested enough for production use. But then I'm a big fan of diskdisktape solutions, especially using rsync. Fast to backup and fast to restore, and (most important) it's available for use when you do a rescue boot from CD/DVD/PXE.
Same as "him" just replace the first letter. There are no vowels after the i so there's nothing to change the sound. You wouldn't pronounce zip as zeep or z-eye-p, and vim is no different.
Yes, you're missing a mouse. Applications (games specifically) need to be modified to make use of accelerometer and touch input to be useful on a tablet device. The better games exploit this by adding gestures and multi-touch input to enhance game interaction. You can see this for yourself: there's a 1:28 demo of the iPad version of N.O.V.A where they show all this stuff off.
Well that's what you get for making the stupid decision to be an early adopter on your primary desktop. What kind of idiot installs a dripping wet software release on the system they depend on every day. You should either install it on a test system first, or in a VM to see if it's going to run smoothly or cause you a head ache. I'll bet you didn't even bother to do a full system backup before hand, and just jumped in with both feet.
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Guinness is an Irish dry stout, and Ireland is not part of the UK.
It's not fizzy either, so if you've been served "Cold, stale coffee mixed with seltzer water" and told it was guinness, then you've been had.
A colleague of mine used to work at Google and told me there is considerable pressure put on you to come up with something concrete and constructive from that 10%. It's not a free time to just dick about with whatever takes your fancy, it has to be for the betterment of Google.
Hopefully no you can't turn it off; because if you can then miscreants out there will find a way to turn it off for you, without your knowing about it. More to the point it won't be you that get hit like that, you're obviously intelligent/paranoid enough to notice. It'll be your computer illiterate friends and neighbors.
Oh come now, fellow old timer, you can do better than that. Surely you remember MWM (Motif Window Manager) and twm (Tom's Window Manager)? All this fancy GNOME stuff; kids today don't know how good they've got it. Heck, I remember when, to get to the internet, we had to use special routers that used DECnet to encapsulate TCP/IP packets, because the latter was so new. The www hadn't been invented yet and spam only existed in tins.
Me too.
No multi-tasking, no cut and paste. And how many apps does it run? Applications sell smart phones, not operating systems.
What sweet spot? The iPhone and Android overlap, there's nothing in between. If there were and there was nothing in that space already, it would be dead zone.
Another frustrating practice: You reply to a new job Ad the day after its published, but the recruiter says you're too late. Usually this means they've been given a job spec from the employer with instructions to vet the applicants, select the best, then submit maybe the top three. This goes out to 2-3 agencies. What happens in practice is that the first three applicants to tick the skills and experience boxes get forwarded in the first day and that's it. There's no real vetting done by the agency at all. Never mind that you might be able to run rings around the other applicants, the employer isn't even going to find out you exist. If you want in, you have to trawl the job sites 2-3 times a day and hit apply as soon as you spot anything interesting. No time to tailor your CV to the prospective job. I have two brothers who both contract and both say the same thing: it's a numbers game. You have to be quick, and then for every 10 jobs applied for expect 1 telephone interview request.
Wasn't the original old lady called Mrs Fletcher?
I remember a system crash/panic message from back in the days of Ultrix (an early version of Unix from Digital Equipment Co. that ran on MIPS). It read: "Mrs Fletcher has fallen down again and can't get up". Some engineer's idea of a joke. DEC were forced to change it though as affected customers were not amused.
Almost, but not quite. There shouldn't be a comma before "and" in the first sentence. The remainder of the sentence, "may have had the ability for some time", isn't an independent clause.
The comma before "but" was correct as, "chrome now has resource blocking abilities", is an independent clause.
Do I get my grammar nazi badge now?
Microsoft have been doing that for years. Windows New Technology anyone?
That's absolutely fascinating. I had no idea wood gas even existed, never mind that people have powered cars with it in the past. Bloody cheap too (compared to UK fuel prices).
Thanks.
That wouldn't leave me with very many people to talk to ;)
So after we move away from powering cars using fossil fuels, what do you propose we power them with if not electricity?
You may not see it, but it's there. Try grabbing a URL by its icon and dropping it into an editor or spreadsheet and the http:/// prefix reappears. So the change is just cosmetic.
It was running Windows, they demo'd it running Windows, then they scrapped the Windows version. What does that say about running Windows on a Slate / Tablet device? Clearly the experience is very below par.
Canonical don't have that kind of spare cash, plus they're focused on improving Ubuntu's profitability and growing its customer base. Asking Novell customers to throw the baby out with the bath water and move from an rpm based system to one based on deb; totally different admin tools, etc and pretty much new 'everything' is a big ask.
Red Hat don't need to saddle themselves with a millstone like that either just to get a few extra enterprise customers that they'll have a good chance of winning anyway if Novell get broken up and sold. Hint: companies usually only merge or get swallowed if their product sets are complementary and don't overlap. There's way too much overlap between Red Hat and Novell's Linux division and very little extra value. Even worse, Red Hat could find they wouldn't be able to kill off SuSE right away due to contractual obligations that Novell have with their customers. So Red Hat would have to fund parallel development for a number of years until they converted ex-Novel customers (or frightened them off). That's expensive when the customer base is small.
Bah, fud and rubbish. Ext4 used to be a bit faster than btrfs but as of 2.6.33-rc4 (back in January) that situation has reversed, as Phoronix discovered when they tested it. And as for on disk format changes they've already stated that there won't be any more changes now unless they find any critical bugs that require it.
I've not heard of one.
I imagine that btrfs, with its built in compression, will make an excellent target f/s for rsync. The target f/s can then be backed up to tape for offsite storage using whatever your favourite tool happens to be (Amanda, Bacula, Data Protector, Netbackup, etc). That's one of the uses I have in mind for it when I believe it's stable and battle tested enough for production use. But then I'm a big fan of diskdisktape solutions, especially using rsync. Fast to backup and fast to restore, and (most important) it's available for use when you do a rescue boot from CD/DVD/PXE.
I'm curious, what does df report when using subvolumes? Do all the subvolumes (including the 'default') show the same amount of available space?
That's just the difference between a PC server .vs. a legacy *nix server. They're all like that, regardless of brand.
Same as "him" just replace the first letter. There are no vowels after the i so there's nothing to change the sound. You wouldn't pronounce zip as zeep or z-eye-p, and vim is no different.
Yes, you're missing a mouse. Applications (games specifically) need to be modified to make use of accelerometer and touch input to be useful on a tablet device. The better games exploit this by adding gestures and multi-touch input to enhance game interaction. You can see this for yourself: there's a 1:28 demo of the iPad version of N.O.V.A where they show all this stuff off.
Ah, what you need is the To Many Tabs extension. Just what the doctor ordered :)
Well that's what you get for making the stupid decision to be an early adopter on your primary desktop. What kind of idiot installs a dripping wet software release on the system they depend on every day. You should either install it on a test system first, or in a VM to see if it's going to run smoothly or cause you a head ache. I'll bet you didn't even bother to do a full system backup before hand, and just jumped in with both feet.
Fools rush in where angels ... 'n all that !