There must be more of us "few" than you think. I pay for 10 (their slowest speed BTW) and get 9.7. I switched after years of paying for an 8Mbps ADSL line that would max out at about 3.
It's becoming a moot point, anyway... Most people I know type the web address into the Google search box, then click on the link that appears
Yep, my wife does that even though I've tried explaining a number of times that typing the name of the site in the URL box on (most) modern browsers will likely show her the site she wants. She has her way of doing it and it works for her and she won't change. In light of this I think Google's idea to combine URL and search into just the one box was a very smart move.
Gartner's reported recently that 99.4% of all mobile applications sold in 2009 were for the iPhone. As we all know the iPad will run all of these. Now I know that a good number of the iPhone apps available today are a bit mediocre, but there are a lot that aren't. And the iPad Keynote already demonstrated how developers are taking these apps to the next level on the iPad by making good use of the extra cpu/gpu power, the larger viewable area and a larger touch interface for improved hands on manipulation of application elements (especially games).
It's applications that sell hardware and operating systems and attract a sizeable user base. The iPad won't be an overnight success - give it several months to a year to get going. Next christmas they'll be flying off the shelves like got cakes.
Well said. I showed my Wife the Apple introductory video of this and she was drooling my the end of it. She's made it pretty clear that if I choose to get one I'd better get one for her too or there will be trouble LOL.
Welcome to the real world, where teams of marketing professionals set price points based on perceived value, at levels they believe the market will stand. This has nothing to do with the actual cost of components. The fact is that even at $829 the top of the range iPad is considerably cheaper than alternative tablet devices. The proposed price for the HP iSlate is around $1500, and that looks like a "load of crap" compared to this (that's a quote from my wife).
If Apple do go down this route they had better leave the option open for users to change back to google if they see fit. I have no interest in using Bing - I'm very happy with the search results I get from google thanks.
And if Apple decide to do a Verison and take the choice away from me then I won't hesitate to take the option to jailbreak my iPhone: something I've never felt the need to do before now. I expect I would not be alone either.
I thought that Rapid files were deliberately anonymized and the only way to map content to something real was by links from blog or some other info site. I have used rapid in the past for a few things, but not for a long time.
Btw, how long does this -1 penalty of yours last for? I had a quick look at your comments and it goes back into early 2008. That seems a bit harsh: what on earth did you do to get that?
"Less than 24 hours after its release, pirated digital copies of the novel were found on file-sharing sites such as Rapidshare and BitTorrent. Within days, it had been downloaded for free more than 100,000 times"
Where do they get these numbers from? Do Rapidshare release download stats? Is there some secret BitTorrent download counter/tracker these people have access to? This has got to be a figure someone has just pulled out of their ass.
I'm running Chromium on F12 with an older x86-32 box and I don't think gears is available for me either (wasn't last time I checked). Gears is going end of life very soon anyway I think as offline functionality is going to be included in the browser.
AFAIK Webkit isn't the default on Konqueror, and there isn't an obvious way to make it so. I tried it recently and was only able to switch to webkit after I'd already loaded a page with khtml, and it didn't remember the change either. If I clicked on another link then the window went back to khtml again. khtml won't render Google Wave so if you're a Wave user then konqueror is a really bad choice. I remember I also stumbled on some other sites that broke badly trying to use KDE's webkit. It's a shame as webkit in konqueror is both faster and the rendered results look better than using khtml. Eventually I gave up trying with konqueror and went back to Chromium. It's non integration with KDE though is real pain (having to cut media URLs and paste them into kaffine all the time) so I've switched back to using Gnome again.
As for RSS, as many have pointed out, a Google RSS extension is just a couple of clicks away. It's adding shit like this into the browser by default (and creating bloat) when only a minority of people want to use it that way that's stupid. I'd rather use Google Reader.
How about using DRBD for Mysql High Availability clustering instead of NDBCLUSTER? In a nutshell, one DB instance is used to handle writes and this is synchronously replicated to a Heartbeat cluster standby node using DRBD. Asynchronous replication to more DBs handle all the reads (with load balancing between them). Use Sharding to scale out when you need more capacity.
...are listed here. Note the different tabs at the top for Linux, Windows, Mac, etc. Most of the Linux apps are cross platform. And there are a number listed and talked about in a Wave called "Getting Things Done 2.0" (if you have a Wave account).
I'm not sure. It might just be their some pages on their web site are out of date. For example their roadmap page says that 8.3 is a future release and features "Introducing mechanisms to better deal with temporary network failures for devices in primary-primary mode". But 8.3 is already out and a yum search shows 8.3.2 is available for F12 if I want it.
SPICE is supposed to have a good LAN performance, but still doesn't quite cut it for long latencies over the WAN
Can you back up that statement with something solid, or are you just being a nice VMware employee and FUDing the competition before it gets chance to eat your lunch?
Yes yes yes - but 99.9% of slashdot users have probably never seen VMS, never mind a VMS LAVC cluster, so they have no idea that even today their latest toys are still playing catch up. Hell, half of 'em probably weren't even born then.
Now if only I had an excuse to shout "get off my lawn";-)
Don't hold your breath for dm-replicator, it's still a way off. And even when it does hit you'll only get active-passive replication. Active-active isn't even on the road map yet and DRBD has that today. In addition there is no support today for dm-replicator in any of the popular linux cluster stacks where DRBD is very well supported and has been for a many years.
What are you talking about? Tru64 has nothing that functions like DRBD and never has. You need to re-read what DRBD actually does because you're getting confused. Also, 15 years ago Tru64 was only 1 year old, only it wasn't Tru64 back then it was DEC OSF/1 and it was really quite crude and buggy compared to the Tru64 in circulation today. So you would not have had a very spectacular experience with it.
Hmm, my bad. Well I was half right. Google Chrome and Chroms OS seem to be a marketing moniker slapped on top of Chromium and Chromium OS. It's Chromium where the development is happening and the real code lives. There's no difference as far as I can see between the Chrome browser on Windows and the Chromium browser on Linux other than the name.
Try installing it then look for yourself: $ rpm -q chrome package chrome is not installed $ rpm -q chromium chromium-4.0.252.0-0.1.20091119svn32498.fc12.i686
Then starting it from the Applications menu:
Applications --> Internet --> Chromium Web Browser
Once it's started click on the Wrench icon, then clicking on "About Chromium".
First, there's no such this as Chrome (from Google) - there's Chromium the browser, which does exist for Linux and is kickass (I'm using it right now) and there's Chrome OS which - a) is linux, and b) can be downloaded in a VMware or VirtualBox image, so will run on any platform that supports those VMs.
Maybe you should use your brain before posting in future. Oh, right, you don't have one...
Did you even bother to read my 5 point list? Or perhaps you didn't understand it because you don't have any experience of an environment like that. It's nothing to do with trust. Even the most trustworthy and experienced person will make a mistake at some point in their working career: either by deleting the wrong file (or files) shutdown the wrong system, delete an LV and forget to take it out of fstab. I could go on, I've seen people do lots of silly things over the years and even done a couple myself. People are flawed: all it takes is a high pressure environment where the workload is too high, add excessive multitasking, a night of bad sleep with a moment of inattention, and whoops.. someone just typed 'crontab -r' instead of '-e' and removed it.
And so is your solution. It may be suitable for a home server or hobby workstation where you're the only user, but it is not fit for purpose in a place of work. Enterprise and big business - where serious people do real work on critical servers - need control and accountability through process. sudo enables that - unrestricted root account access does not.
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There must be more of us "few" than you think. I pay for 10 (their slowest speed BTW) and get 9.7. I switched after years of paying for an 8Mbps ADSL line that would max out at about 3.
It's becoming a moot point, anyway... Most people I know type the web address into the Google search box, then click on the link that appears
Yep, my wife does that even though I've tried explaining a number of times that typing the name of the site in the URL box on (most) modern browsers will likely show her the site she wants. She has her way of doing it and it works for her and she won't change. In light of this I think Google's idea to combine URL and search into just the one box was a very smart move.
Gartner's reported recently that 99.4% of all mobile applications sold in 2009 were for the iPhone. As we all know the iPad will run all of these. Now I know that a good number of the iPhone apps available today are a bit mediocre, but there are a lot that aren't. And the iPad Keynote already demonstrated how developers are taking these apps to the next level on the iPad by making good use of the extra cpu/gpu power, the larger viewable area and a larger touch interface for improved hands on manipulation of application elements (especially games).
It's applications that sell hardware and operating systems and attract a sizeable user base. The iPad won't be an overnight success - give it several months to a year to get going. Next christmas they'll be flying off the shelves like got cakes.
Well said. I showed my Wife the Apple introductory video of this and she was drooling my the end of it. She's made it pretty clear that if I choose to get one I'd better get one for her too or there will be trouble LOL.
Welcome to the real world, where teams of marketing professionals set price points based on perceived value, at levels they believe the market will stand. This has nothing to do with the actual cost of components. The fact is that even at $829 the top of the range iPad is considerably cheaper than alternative tablet devices. The proposed price for the HP iSlate is around $1500, and that looks like a "load of crap" compared to this (that's a quote from my wife).
If Apple do go down this route they had better leave the option open for users to change back to google if they see fit. I have no interest in using Bing - I'm very happy with the search results I get from google thanks.
And if Apple decide to do a Verison and take the choice away from me then I won't hesitate to take the option to jailbreak my iPhone: something I've never felt the need to do before now. I expect I would not be alone either.
Shame I don't have any mod points right now. That comic strip is quite funny and more on topic than off.
I thought that Rapid files were deliberately anonymized and the only way to map content to something real was by links from blog or some other info site. I have used rapid in the past for a few things, but not for a long time.
Btw, how long does this -1 penalty of yours last for? I had a quick look at your comments and it goes back into early 2008. That seems a bit harsh: what on earth did you do to get that?
TFA states:
Where do they get these numbers from? Do Rapidshare release download stats? Is there some secret BitTorrent download counter/tracker these people have access to? This has got to be a figure someone has just pulled out of their ass.
I'm running Chromium on F12 with an older x86-32 box and I don't think gears is available for me either (wasn't last time I checked). Gears is going end of life very soon anyway I think as offline functionality is going to be included in the browser.
AFAIK Webkit isn't the default on Konqueror, and there isn't an obvious way to make it so. I tried it recently and was only able to switch to webkit after I'd already loaded a page with khtml, and it didn't remember the change either. If I clicked on another link then the window went back to khtml again. khtml won't render Google Wave so if you're a Wave user then konqueror is a really bad choice. I remember I also stumbled on some other sites that broke badly trying to use KDE's webkit. It's a shame as webkit in konqueror is both faster and the rendered results look better than using khtml. Eventually I gave up trying with konqueror and went back to Chromium. It's non integration with KDE though is real pain (having to cut media URLs and paste them into kaffine all the time) so I've switched back to using Gnome again.
As for RSS, as many have pointed out, a Google RSS extension is just a couple of clicks away. It's adding shit like this into the browser by default (and creating bloat) when only a minority of people want to use it that way that's stupid. I'd rather use Google Reader.
Here's another link with a better explanation and a nice pretty picture :)
How about using DRBD for Mysql High Availability clustering instead of NDBCLUSTER? In a nutshell, one DB instance is used to handle writes and this is synchronously replicated to a Heartbeat cluster standby node using DRBD. Asynchronous replication to more DBs handle all the reads (with load balancing between them). Use Sharding to scale out when you need more capacity.
I'm not sure. It might just be their some pages on their web site are out of date. For example their roadmap page says that 8.3 is a future release and features "Introducing mechanisms to better deal with temporary network failures for devices in primary-primary mode". But 8.3 is already out and a yum search shows 8.3.2 is available for F12 if I want it.
Can you back up that statement with something solid, or are you just being a nice VMware employee and FUDing the competition before it gets chance to eat your lunch?
Yes yes yes - but 99.9% of slashdot users have probably never seen VMS, never mind a VMS LAVC cluster, so they have no idea that even today their latest toys are still playing catch up. Hell, half of 'em probably weren't even born then.
Now if only I had an excuse to shout "get off my lawn" ;-)
Don't hold your breath for dm-replicator, it's still a way off. And even when it does hit you'll only get active-passive replication. Active-active isn't even on the road map yet and DRBD has that today. In addition there is no support today for dm-replicator in any of the popular linux cluster stacks where DRBD is very well supported and has been for a many years.
What are you talking about? Tru64 has nothing that functions like DRBD and never has. You need to re-read what DRBD actually does because you're getting confused. Also, 15 years ago Tru64 was only 1 year old, only it wasn't Tru64 back then it was DEC OSF/1 and it was really quite crude and buggy compared to the Tru64 in circulation today. So you would not have had a very spectacular experience with it.
There's a nice walk through of some of the KDE 4.4 additions in this YouTube clip. The Window Grouping preview starts at 4:28 into the show.
Ha, you're just pissed because you hitched all your wagons to slowlaris, and now you can't play with the worlds fastest browser. Looooser :-P
Hmm, my bad. Well I was half right. Google Chrome and Chroms OS seem to be a marketing moniker slapped on top of Chromium and Chromium OS. It's Chromium where the development is happening and the real code lives. There's no difference as far as I can see between the Chrome browser on Windows and the Chromium browser on Linux other than the name.
Try installing it then look for yourself:
$ rpm -q chrome
package chrome is not installed
$ rpm -q chromium
chromium-4.0.252.0-0.1.20091119svn32498.fc12.i686
Then starting it from the Applications menu:
Applications --> Internet --> Chromium Web Browser
Once it's started click on the Wrench icon, then clicking on "About Chromium".
It's there and it's real.
First, there's no such this as Chrome (from Google) - there's Chromium the browser, which does exist for Linux and is kickass (I'm using it right now) and there's Chrome OS which - a) is linux, and b) can be downloaded in a VMware or VirtualBox image, so will run on any platform that supports those VMs.
Maybe you should use your brain before posting in future. Oh, right, you don't have one...
Did you even bother to read my 5 point list? Or perhaps you didn't understand it because you don't have any experience of an environment like that. It's nothing to do with trust. Even the most trustworthy and experienced person will make a mistake at some point in their working career: either by deleting the wrong file (or files) shutdown the wrong system, delete an LV and forget to take it out of fstab. I could go on, I've seen people do lots of silly things over the years and even done a couple myself. People are flawed: all it takes is a high pressure environment where the workload is too high, add excessive multitasking, a night of bad sleep with a moment of inattention, and whoops .. someone just typed 'crontab -r' instead of '-e' and removed it.
And so is your solution. It may be suitable for a home server or hobby workstation where you're the only user, but it is not fit for purpose in a place of work. Enterprise and big business - where serious people do real work on critical servers - need control and accountability through process. sudo enables that - unrestricted root account access does not.