RDP/VNC - your remote desktop and all your remote applications sandboxed in a single window
X - your remote application living in it's own window, sharing the clipboard and drag just like applications written locally, each window independently resizable, dockable, movable just like a local app
X on top of Wayland? It's still only going to work if your remote application was written for X. When applications are written for Wayland you are out of luck.
So? If applications are no longer written to X but are written to Wayland directly then what use is an X server running in Wayland? In 2015 I will still be able to run 2012's software remotely but nothing new? With the biggest distros already claiming they will eventually switch to Wayland it's only a matter of time before this happens.
"WINE is a joke - it can't even run Simcity 2000 without crashing. "
Well.. Simcity 2000 is YOUR personal test. I run LTSpice in wine and it's great. I let my WoW account expire a couple of years ago but that ran good too when I played it. I honestly can't think of another Windows app that I need which doesn't have a native Linux version. Well... it might be nice to run a current version of IE now and then just to do compatibility tests for web browsing. With the popularity of Firefox and Chrome I don't really care that much though. I'd switch my wife's computer to Linux if Photoshop would run well. That's her needed app though, I don't have any use for it.
So you have your needs, I have mine and everyone else has their own. I doubt I am the only one who gets along just fine with Wine or maybe even with no Windows support at all.
I wouldn't give them TOO much credit. They are just reacting to a bunch of negative publicity as would just about any corp. On the other hand, Apple hater as I am I wouldn't dump on them about this too much either. It seems like just about everyone is using Foxconn but for some reason Apple was the only one taken to task about it. The pressure should have been on all Foxconn's customers back when the story broke about the nets being installed if not sooner.
I use IncarcerApp to do this on my iPad. It is a Cydia App, it requires jailbreaking. What it does is you define some unlikely keypress combo (default volume up up down down or something like that). Then it can lock out the home button and/or optionally lock out all screen touches, sleep button, etc. What you would do is start the video then press the magic combo with it set to lock the screen touches, home and sleep buttons. Then unless someone can guess the combo they are stuck!
If the police know this why don't they just shut their mouths and send an officer directly from the police station? Or at least call one through another channel, maybe a cellphone?
Just imagine what the planet will be like when strip mined oil shale is the primary source of energy. If running out of oil is the main motivation of change then that is the change we will get.
...the area around the worst nuclear disaster in world history. Years later, it has become a game preserve...
No. It's become the city of Hiroshima, just like it was before.
I work for a C# / Microsoft shop. Previously I worked for a PHP shop (developed on Mac but hosted on Linux). I gotta tell you... I understand wanting to leave a Microsoft shop. There are just so many unnecessary daily annoyances that come from Microsoft software. But... in my case... the owner/boss of the PHP shop was an a$$h0l3. The Microsoft shop I work for now is ran by really nice people and treats us great. I'm probably going to stay a very long time.
Please, don't get me wrong, I'm not crediting Microsoft for the goodness of my current employer or blaming PHP for the last one. I'm just saying that platform IS important but it's not the MOST important thing in a computer job. If your current employer (you didn't leave yet right?) are good people then I would recommend staying. At least be very cautious before switching. Make very sure you won't regret it.
The other day I was cleaning the garage and ran across an old Packard Bell Motherboard. Stamped right on it... Foxconn!! They made all that old Packard Bell garbage! Think about that the next time you buy something made there!
No. Encryption codes get constantly updated and they have ways of locking stolen/missing radios out. Think satellite radio but without the 'just keep it off after unsubscribing for a while' loophole.
I doubt it. It's not like cracking a computer program where anybody can download a copy or even rooting a phone or tablet where millions are already buying them anyway. To crack this you would have to buy a very expensive DSP and FPGA board. Then, once you have your crack the only practical way to share it is everyone else that wants to use it buys those expensive boards too. It's not like walking into a Best Buy and picking up the latest iDevice to take home and jailbreak.
A lot of comentors seem to be just fine with the idea of only the media having the scanners. Really?
1) You trust just a few privileged media groups to keep the police honest?
2) Surely not every small tv/radio station, newspaper, online journalist, etc... can be given a radio by the police. Who would manage it? Who would decide who qualifies? More likely just 1 or 2 big media outlets would be given radios, reinforcing the lead they have against their competition.
3) Privileged media companies that get radios might not want to report things that show the police in a bad light for fear of losing their radio
4) What about people in the general public that want to listen? They are both the taxpayers and the voters. Paying taxes gives them the right to here how their money is spent, voting gives them the need.
If there are a significant number of real examples of criminals getting away or police getting hurt b/c of scanners then I do get it. A compromise might be to give the public (as in everybody, not just a few media types) a delayed access while giving media a real time feed. Unfortunately there is no way to implement this that completely eliminates 2 & 3 but they could be reduced if you get rid of the scanner idea and just give them internet streams. The media version can be encrypted + password protected. It would be easier to manage and pay for than issuing radios. But please... consider the rest of the public too. At least give them a free, open stream even if it has to be time delayed. How about 1/2 hour?
I learned C/C++ and Java first. Then PHP/Javascript. I remember weak/no typing feeling so strange! It took me a while just to 'get it'. Now I program C# at work but still code PHP from time to time at home. I miss weak typing! Strong typing really does suck IMHO. It seems like 2/3 of my code now is just checking that data will 'fit' in another type, casting it, checking that the casting succeded...
I know a lot of people defend strong typing because it is supposed to somehow save them from writing bugs. The excuse I usually hear is something about you might 'forget' what type a variable is and try to misuse it. It seems to me you should know what that variable represents before you try to use it for anything and the 'type' should come naturally from there!
One of my favorite patterns in PHP is to fetch a list of things by id number. Then I have an accessor that first checks to see if what is stored is a number or an object. If it's a number it fetches whatever information that id represents, wraps it in an object and puts it back in the very same variable that used to hold the id. Then it just returns the contents of the variable. If it is already an object it can skip the fetching and just return the object. Of course you can implement Lazy Fetching in a strongly typed language too but I just like that neatness of having one variable which holds either the id or the object rather than two of two different types. So long as I only access it through my accessor method (which PHP has __get and __set for which I really like) I don't have to ever think about what is actually stored there. It will be an object if and when I need it.
Of course I'm on a tangent now, you are less likely to do something like this in javascript but my point is that loose typing can be really nice once you get used to it.
Yes and no. Real tin foil really is tin, not aluminum. I think it used to be the norm but it isn't used as often as aluminum foil anymore. It still is available in most grocery stores, just more expensive.
"Microsoft has announced that it will require OEMs of devices running Windows 8 for ARM to configure UEFI such that it won't boot anything but Windows 8."
Yes, software and hardware manufacturers and vendors have been all over themselves scrambling to figure out how they can get those 'scared' customers because they know that is the largest market. Options have been disappearing from operating systems and application menus for a long time now. In doing so the computer geek market is getting pretty much abandoned by it's own industry. It's not just Apple but Apple seems to be the worst.
This wasn't necessary. Surely functionality can be tucked away in deep menus/exert admin screens that the 'scared' users would never even think to discover. A 'geek' shouldn't have to resort to 'jailbreaking' just to make their device work the way he/she wants.
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SSH - text only
RDP/VNC - your remote desktop and all your remote applications sandboxed in a single window
X - your remote application living in it's own window, sharing the clipboard and drag just like applications written locally, each window independently resizable, dockable, movable just like a local app
X on top of Wayland? It's still only going to work if your remote application was written for X. When applications are written for Wayland you are out of luck.
So? If applications are no longer written to X but are written to Wayland directly then what use is an X server running in Wayland? In 2015 I will still be able to run 2012's software remotely but nothing new? With the biggest distros already claiming they will eventually switch to Wayland it's only a matter of time before this happens.
Lots of stuff in Cydia isn't free. In fact some of it is pretty expensive.
Oh yay! Wayland! A complete neutering of Linux's remote capabilities! It really will be just like Windows!
Wow! I thought I was the only one on Slashdot who could see this! I'm not alone!
"WINE is a joke - it can't even run Simcity 2000 without crashing. "
Well.. Simcity 2000 is YOUR personal test. I run LTSpice in wine and it's great. I let my WoW account expire a couple of years ago but that ran good too when I played it. I honestly can't think of another Windows app that I need which doesn't have a native Linux version. Well... it might be nice to run a current version of IE now and then just to do compatibility tests for web browsing. With the popularity of Firefox and Chrome I don't really care that much though. I'd switch my wife's computer to Linux if Photoshop would run well. That's her needed app though, I don't have any use for it.
So you have your needs, I have mine and everyone else has their own. I doubt I am the only one who gets along just fine with Wine or maybe even with no Windows support at all.
I wouldn't give them TOO much credit. They are just reacting to a bunch of negative publicity as would just about any corp. On the other hand, Apple hater as I am I wouldn't dump on them about this too much either. It seems like just about everyone is using Foxconn but for some reason Apple was the only one taken to task about it. The pressure should have been on all Foxconn's customers back when the story broke about the nets being installed if not sooner.
Apple is going to sue!
I use IncarcerApp to do this on my iPad. It is a Cydia App, it requires jailbreaking. What it does is you define some unlikely keypress combo (default volume up up down down or something like that). Then it can lock out the home button and/or optionally lock out all screen touches, sleep button, etc. What you would do is start the video then press the magic combo with it set to lock the screen touches, home and sleep buttons. Then unless someone can guess the combo they are stuck!
I use this with my 2 y/o daughter.
Really? Then why is the original parent of this thread currently a +5 as I write this?
If the police know this why don't they just shut their mouths and send an officer directly from the police station? Or at least call one through another channel, maybe a cellphone?
Just imagine what the planet will be like when strip mined oil shale is the primary source of energy. If running out of oil is the main motivation of change then that is the change we will get.
Yeah but how much power did that floor heater take?
...the area around the worst nuclear disaster in world history. Years later, it has become a game preserve...
No. It's become the city of Hiroshima, just like it was before.
I work for a C# / Microsoft shop. Previously I worked for a PHP shop (developed on Mac but hosted on Linux). I gotta tell you... I understand wanting to leave a Microsoft shop. There are just so many unnecessary daily annoyances that come from Microsoft software. But... in my case... the owner/boss of the PHP shop was an a$$h0l3. The Microsoft shop I work for now is ran by really nice people and treats us great. I'm probably going to stay a very long time.
Please, don't get me wrong, I'm not crediting Microsoft for the goodness of my current employer or blaming PHP for the last one. I'm just saying that platform IS important but it's not the MOST important thing in a computer job. If your current employer (you didn't leave yet right?) are good people then I would recommend staying. At least be very cautious before switching. Make very sure you won't regret it.
Is that a bad thing?
where ya been? http://tinyurl.com/6tcer3h
The other day I was cleaning the garage and ran across an old Packard Bell Motherboard. Stamped right on it... Foxconn!! They made all that old Packard Bell garbage! Think about that the next time you buy something made there!
No. Encryption codes get constantly updated and they have ways of locking stolen/missing radios out. Think satellite radio but without the 'just keep it off after unsubscribing for a while' loophole.
I doubt it. It's not like cracking a computer program where anybody can download a copy or even rooting a phone or tablet where millions are already buying them anyway. To crack this you would have to buy a very expensive DSP and FPGA board. Then, once you have your crack the only practical way to share it is everyone else that wants to use it buys those expensive boards too. It's not like walking into a Best Buy and picking up the latest iDevice to take home and jailbreak.
A lot of comentors seem to be just fine with the idea of only the media having the scanners. Really?
1) You trust just a few privileged media groups to keep the police honest?
2) Surely not every small tv/radio station, newspaper, online journalist, etc... can be given a radio by the police. Who would manage it? Who would decide who qualifies? More likely just 1 or 2 big media outlets would be given radios, reinforcing the lead they have against their competition.
3) Privileged media companies that get radios might not want to report things that show the police in a bad light for fear of losing their radio
4) What about people in the general public that want to listen? They are both the taxpayers and the voters. Paying taxes gives them the right to here how their money is spent, voting gives them the need.
If there are a significant number of real examples of criminals getting away or police getting hurt b/c of scanners then I do get it. A compromise might be to give the public (as in everybody, not just a few media types) a delayed access while giving media a real time feed. Unfortunately there is no way to implement this that completely eliminates 2 & 3 but they could be reduced if you get rid of the scanner idea and just give them internet streams. The media version can be encrypted + password protected. It would be easier to manage and pay for than issuing radios. But please... consider the rest of the public too. At least give them a free, open stream even if it has to be time delayed. How about 1/2 hour?
I learned C/C++ and Java first. Then PHP/Javascript. I remember weak/no typing feeling so strange! It took me a while just to 'get it'. Now I program C# at work but still code PHP from time to time at home. I miss weak typing! Strong typing really does suck IMHO. It seems like 2/3 of my code now is just checking that data will 'fit' in another type, casting it, checking that the casting succeded...
I know a lot of people defend strong typing because it is supposed to somehow save them from writing bugs. The excuse I usually hear is something about you might 'forget' what type a variable is and try to misuse it. It seems to me you should know what that variable represents before you try to use it for anything and the 'type' should come naturally from there!
One of my favorite patterns in PHP is to fetch a list of things by id number. Then I have an accessor that first checks to see if what is stored is a number or an object. If it's a number it fetches whatever information that id represents, wraps it in an object and puts it back in the very same variable that used to hold the id. Then it just returns the contents of the variable. If it is already an object it can skip the fetching and just return the object. Of course you can implement Lazy Fetching in a strongly typed language too but I just like that neatness of having one variable which holds either the id or the object rather than two of two different types. So long as I only access it through my accessor method (which PHP has __get and __set for which I really like) I don't have to ever think about what is actually stored there. It will be an object if and when I need it.
Of course I'm on a tangent now, you are less likely to do something like this in javascript but my point is that loose typing can be really nice once you get used to it.
Yes and no. Real tin foil really is tin, not aluminum. I think it used to be the norm but it isn't used as often as aluminum foil anymore. It still is available in most grocery stores, just more expensive.
"Microsoft has announced that it will require OEMs of devices running Windows 8 for ARM to configure UEFI such that it won't boot anything but Windows 8."
Citation please
Yes, software and hardware manufacturers and vendors have been all over themselves scrambling to figure out how they can get those 'scared' customers because they know that is the largest market. Options have been disappearing from operating systems and application menus for a long time now. In doing so the computer geek market is getting pretty much abandoned by it's own industry. It's not just Apple but Apple seems to be the worst.
This wasn't necessary. Surely functionality can be tucked away in deep menus/exert admin screens that the 'scared' users would never even think to discover. A 'geek' shouldn't have to resort to 'jailbreaking' just to make their device work the way he/she wants.