When you run ps on Cygwin on Windows you are seeing the actual Windows processes, everything you do in the shell is on the Windows machine. Without Cygwin; Windows IMHO is nowhere near as friendly, at the CLI. I can completely get along fine on Windows without Cygwin (when I have to run Windows) but it makes the experience tolerable to have it. It makes Windows like Linux at the CLI.
I get your points and see it like this, Red Hat is like Ford. Solid, reliable, sometimes quite innovative. Yet the desktop Linux market slipped right by them for like ... years. One has to wonder what could cause such slippage. Ubuntu is more like Samsung to me than Sony. The innovation is off the chart, not everything hits, a lot doesn't but what it does do is cause others to strive and that is leadership.
It's an excellent article, at least three different times I caught myself shaking my head in agreement. I really liked, "Congratulations, you’ve just invented Waterfall.".
I don't know if it was intentional but the name reminds me of the character JJ in the TV series Good Times. Awesome show that was. It sounds solid overall but one thing caught my eye, "A client can connect to any node to read the data. Similar to writes, a node serves the read request if it owns the data, otherwise it forwards the read request to the data owning node in the same rack.". I wonder if that could lead to an owning node arbitration storm when more than one node in a rack owns the data?
For those commentators deriding Linux attempting to make FreeBSD sound better; you're doing your chosen OS a disservice. Instead, you should highlight why you like your OS and not try to denigrate Linux.
I have zero issues with Linux drivers? If anything I've had a better experience with Linux drivers than Windows. I could go through a laundry list of devices I buy, plug in and they just work on Linux (Ubuntu). My experience wasn't that way back when I ran Windows more. I'd buy a new printer and couldn't use it until I'd ran the installation software. On Linux just plug and play. Same with my headsets, Bluetooth, phones, etc. etc.
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 and had to stop to check if systemd is installed, it is. Ubuntu operates the same for me today as 12 did. I don't have any issues with it. I wrote a Java system service the other day and installed it with the usual update-rc.d command like I've done in 12 and it runs fine so for me systemd has nothing to do with my choice to stay with Linux, Ubuntu specifically. It certainly wouldn't drive me away, I wasn't aware it was even there. Like Ubuntu, and Linux overall...it just works (apparently).
The guy said, "smartphones simply enable you to do things that you can't otherwise do". People were taking pictures with their cameras long before smartphones and uploading them. I was using Microsoft StreetMaps (I think that was the name) and a $100 GPS serial device to map trips around the SFBA. People have used a compass to navigate for thousands of years. So yes, smartphones don't do things you can't do otherwise; they are just compact and more fun, if you can them in your pocket. If you can't then you might want to look at a small laptop or notebook, more bang for the buck.
My smartphone has 2 Gigs of RAM and most of it is wasted. Games on phones aren't even interesting because my fingers slide right off the screen when the action gets fast. Give me a PC with 2 Gigs of RAM and I can do amazing things with it, a mouse and a keyboard. Every single phone app I use is an exercise in futility or it feels that way. Touch is a terrible HID. Smart phones are handy when you don't have anything else but man I really prefer anything else, I'm considering buying a Chrome laptop or Surface if I can wipe them and install Ubuntu on them and can plug in a SIM card; not a bigger phone, a real computer.
It looks pretty, it looks like it might end the hide and seek with attachments on a smart phone client; not a problem on a desktop but I can never find the attachments in Gmail on the phone. I'm not sure I like that idea that it decides what's important and highlights it; probably because it would get it right most of the time. I could get used to it.
Loved that game, it was for me like a light hearted version of GTA without all the dark overtones. That's really what would make SimCity a game I would have kept upgrading to; that and support for Linux. Their main page says PC/Mac. So PC means Personal Computer, wonder if my PC running Ubuntu counts? I'm guessing no. I'd have kept upgrading the BattleField games too but EA seems to not be interested in this.
It's the daemonizing part that complicates things. Running java -jar MyApp.jar is easy, running it under the control of a system init script, dealing with how to ensure it's restartable as other daemons, logging, log rotation, where Java is really located on the system are all variables that affect any daemonized application; not just Java apps but ones written in any language, Ruby, Python, C or C++.
Docker seems like a good way to "contain" the problem domain challenges I outlined, hoping anyway.
I'm considering Docker for a small side project I have where I want to deploy a Runnable Java Jar as a daemon. Getting Java paths right across different Linux distributions can be a hassle, hoping Docker will help me solve this. For that matter, getting a daemon (service) running correctly on different Linux'es is one more thorn I'd rather not have to deal with.
In bootcamp I once had a temperature around 97 something. The doctor took it with two different thermometers not believing it. I felt fine. Apparently that temperature's not considered abnormal: http://www.webmd.boots.com/a-to-z-guides/normal-body-tempera...
I don't want some honking monstrosity on my wrist pretending to be a watch. I want my Nexus One back with expandable storage and more than 200 Megs space for apps and a camera as good as in my 5. You know...a phone, smart, one each.
It seems like we just got the Nexus 5, the Nexus One is still fun to pull out and mess with. The One was the perfect size. I'm not even sure the 6 would fit in my pants pocket? Seems like it would jab into my groin when driving. Storage isn't even listed or Chrome's Ctrl+F can't find it? Does it have external storage or expandable storage? The 5 messed this up.
Brilliant guy, speaker. I now get why something that's relatively easy for me to make might actually be worth more than a few bucks per hour to a lot of people.
>> For example, if your job is writing custom software, it becomes progressively harder to find problems that don't already have open source solutions.
Open Source is just software, solutions take people. It will continue to be the case for the next 50 to 100 years. The computer industry is still a baby learning to crawl.
This is interesting. I think it could be a smart move. A business with a hardware focus is so different from one with a software/services focus. PC's didn't die the death that some in the mobile industry predicted; in fact they are coming back strong:
I don't think what they did to you guys was legal:
"“Consumers who purchase cellular data plans should be able to use them without fear that their personal
Internet connection will be blocked by their hotel or conference center,”"
It's interesting to note but bandwidth is going to be expensive for me compared to Linode's no charge for the first 2 TB. With Google this would come to $240 if I'm calculating it right.