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Glad he was so diplomatic and respectful to Gary, his so-called friend.

Maybe Gary really does need to ditch his list and all his other half-finished projects. Or maybe not. My divorce was long and drawn out. I decided "I would like to get divorced" a year before I shared that information with my spouse. We had a verbal agreement for a year before we filed papers. It was another 10 months before he physically moved out and about 2.5 more years before it was finalized. During that time, some guy told me 'You aren't really going to get divorced!' His major malfunction: He appeared to be attracted to me and had been burned by someone who told him she would leave her live-in boyfriend and get with him.* She didn't and he was projecting that experience onto me, apparently missing the critical detail that my statements about my plans never once included "and get with you" because, unlike this other gal he knew, I wasn't trying to manipulate him. I was just talking about my life and my life plans didn't in any way need to fit some schedule of his.

I have no idea if Gary is some loser who will never go anywhere or if, instead, Gary just has a different internal process and time frame than Max does. But Gary might want to get new friends, ones who respect him and don't talk trash about him on the world wide web.

* Don't ever believe this kind of statement from anyone. A) Most of the time they will not leave. B) In cases where they do leave, you are probably next. Studies show that people often start an affair as a means to get out of a relationship. The affair is likely to end not long after their primary relationship ends. C) If they will leave another to get with you, they will leave you for someone else. So don't be an idiot. This is almost never the means to the end if you are looking for "happily ever after".
Have you tried Fireworks? The vector/pixel and features geared towards UI design are great for web and digital. I would have thought the best chance at cracking the Adobe market share would be to create a tool to replace Fireworks. Fireworks' slow but steady adaptation by the design community, its serious bugs and slow evolution make it a great target for competition. Just not seeing anyone attempting to disrupt and replace it!
Officially "Sevärdhet" ("Place of interest") in Swedish, doesn't have to be a historic site.
I used to enjoy tweaking config to get dual monitors to work etc, but now I'm sick of it.

That's why there's a control panel for this. Or you can type "xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --left-of LVDS1". As long as you don't buy AMD GPUs, it all Just Works :)
Galaxies are not spaceships. Just because the natural expansion of the universe affects galaxies (and everything else) doesn't mean it's possible to artificially expand and contract the universe.
Please don't say 'disrupt'. I've tried Fireworks aswell. But the reasons alot of us web designers use Photoshop is to create photorealistic elements in our design, even in interface design. I not, I could have just used CSS3, to suggest a possible extreme alternative.
This is true, but it sure would be nice if SOME vendor would take that advantage to linux. Lenovo or dell, for instance, if they decided to support ubuntu, could roll out a turnkey system that would probably work quite well with carefully chosen components.

It would take years of this attention to detail to catch up to MacOS though.
I saw a news bit about how breakout ISPs in the UK are selling 100mbps(I believe I might be wrong on the speed) for as low as 6.99 quid. American utility bubble? I think so. At this point I am positive the Verizons and the Comcasts could offer free service to everyone of there existing customers and still make positive returns from just new contracts. Can somebody please tell me exactly what you are paying for with 100Mbps for 199.99? Are they using solid gold equipment? There can't possibly be that much overheard, someone please set me straight.
Nice to see an effort being made.

Bring on the FTTH providers!
They must have tested on some subset of hardware though. Just tell us what it was.
It seems like most of your complaints have to do with KDE.
> The true beauty of Linux is the way that the OS improves over time. Problems are ironed out, and legacy hardware support is often ongoing. I think this is unique to Linux.

I'm sorry, but the statement that linux improves over time, and thay's unique to linux has really no basis in reality. Both Windows and MacOS do improve over time, we could argue which of those three does the best job, but I don't really think linux would be the winner in that comparison either.

I don't have any experience with other OSes than those 3 mentioned, so somebody else can chip in.
PulseAudio has been crap for ages, and its rate of improvement is lethargic at best. What frustrates me most about PA is that one of the big selling points was "network transparency" a la X; however X it would seem is to be deprecated with graphics network transparency along with it. So why do we stick with PA then? Audio on Linux has more layers than an onion. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktops at the moment, when I move to the next LTS I will be moving to Xubuntu and leave all the GNOME/Unity/Wayland crap behind. If a X extension comes along that allows remote compositing and local display (a la VNC) in a native window by window fashion I will be a truly happy boy.
How Open-Source works?
This is the Hacker Mindset: If you realize something is lacking, invest some time to learn the basics about it. More often than not, the basics will be enough to improve you workflow dramatically.

And besides, it will grant you the insight necessary to make informed decisions about how to specialize.

Pity those who never investigate and always bow before 'I can't do it', without even having tried. Without a desire to know, nothing can be achieved.
I regard Unity and Gnome shell as still being experimental, and not delivering a very comprehensive or polished experience. If you want to get serious work done then stick with Gnome 2.x (for example Mint 11).
Maybe there is room then for a short HOWTO on finding hardware. Not an extensive compatibility list, but some hardware that is known to work well to make the purchasing process easier.
For 199.99, it has to be the best there is. Why else would it be the most expensive?

Maybe they run dedicated coax from the head-end to your home's groundblock?

Business Fios sustained 35Mbps up/35Mbps down w/ fixed IP is only $130/month.
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Same in Norway, and I assume this is how these signs are used throughout the Nordic countries. "Severdighet" could also be roughly translated into "tourist attractions", as they are mostly used for that.

http://i.imgur.com/0jdn2.jpg
With Windows, I've found that driver support often halts once a manufacturer has provided it's obligatory release. I think this is a limitation of the commercial closed source model that Windows (and OS X) follow.

I think an open source model encourages iterative improvement which isn't tied to commercial product releases.

This was the basis for my comment.
I've been able to do similar things. Stream audio over the network from my HTPC to my laptop, and use my laptop headphones to listen to a movie that I'm watching (on the HTPC).
This is not just used in Northern Europe it is sometimes used on American maps to indicate places of interests when there is already a heavy amount of key symbols used. This is a great read and its no surprise Susan Kare referenced a international symbol dictionary, a mark of a true designer using a recognizable and readable symbol for a very important command, a true genius. If you swap out historic with place of interest to "copy" it makes a lot more sense. I wish people would take this care in designing symbols today, I've seen some freakish ones as of late on mobile phones, and especially touch devices. Have we forgotten a touch button is still a command button?
It's not unwarranted paranoia, it's treating people — and employers are people, by the way — with consideration, respect, and discretion.
"I just want to get some work done, I don’t want to waste my time debugging all kind of crap."

That's basically it. It's not the drivers, it's not the bugs - it's the culture. The culture of Linux seems to be that every user should be a programmer and should help debug the OS. If you are one, and want to help - great, go ahead! As for me, I have other things to do and I expect the OS, shell and file manager to Just Work.
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Yes I think this is exactly what bothers me about it too. The fact that I use bookmarks and send links to others makes the information slightly skewed.

I also think, maybe I'm missing something. Maybe it's actually decent information to have. For instance, if you send a link with source=newsletter to somebody, it still is the newsletter that brought both of you to the site. You may not have visited otherwise. And your friend, probably even less so.

I don't know. I still don't like seeing it. It really does defeat the purpose of making your site have pretty links.
Short tags are why I don't need a template engine for PHP. And can write <?=$name?> instead of <?php echo $name;?>. This had been a unique feature that no other scripting language offers. This is a historic sign indicating that PHP was designed for the web.
LinuxCertified.com sells laptops preinstalled and tested with Linux. In former days, they were rebrands of generally-cheap machines (e.g. rebranded eMachines), but now they're selling a variety of unbranded machine as well as certified Lenovo laptops.
My relevant experience is with my htpc running linux and my linux/hackintosh dual boot machine.

Both machines are fully supported by Linux and the hackintosh is supported by community kernel extensions. Getting linux up and running for the htpc required a lot of fiddling with config files... adding refresh rates to X manually, custom ALSA configs to enable the audio device to show up correctly, accept the correct sample rates and stream 5.1 properly, adding extra PPAs to get video drivers that support one of the various forms of accelerated video decoding, scripts to shut down gnome when xbmc is running because it interferes with rendering for some unknown reason, messing with launchd because it launched programs that rely on all filesystems being mounted before they were mounted... that's just off the top of my head.

The hackintosh required a boot cd and a package for drivers that weren't natively supported. Once the drivers were installed, it worked. That's it. Everything that took days of tinkering and forum searching on linux just worked.

I have years of experience with linux and this was my first time trying OS X on an unsupported machine. So no, I'm not misinformed and no I'm not trolling, I thought HN was supposed to be civilized :/
You will want to run it in a VM to separate the service from the rest of your system, if possible.

It needs very little CPU but, should have about 2GB of RAM due to a big Java component, and because it periodically kicks off programs to clean things up every few minutes.

A bit of a pain to set up, but once set up it works quite well. It might have too many features - if you want something a lot simpler, look for "qmail toaster" or a good guide to setting up Postfix.
Welcome to grown-up computing (c.f. marco Arment http://articles.marco.org/145 )
Right, until there's malware that can kill chrome.
5 square miles down, 3,500,000 to go. Sounds like a plan to me.
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So what about
programs that use the non-tethering apn to download data to the phone then transfer from the phone to another device without using standard "tethering" techniques?

I heard in another thread that one guy said:

I can run my Window’s laptop using my iPhone. I get access to all the same files and functionality. Technically, I’m tethered to my laptop via the internet. I even tether my iPad to my iPhone and then connect over the internet to my PC. Triple tether. Ponder that one for a minute AT&T.

That is technically tethering. But, something has to be done to stop the double dipping that these companies do. It's so aholish.

Executive - "Hehe, Our company runs internet to our customers through one data network, and I know that hotspots aren't everywhere, and older smartphones can tether and allow them to use internet anywhere they have cellular service without a traditional hotspot, so now that they are keeping up with the jones' and upgraded to the newer smartphone we can start charging them for an 'extra' service to allow them to tether using the same data network we already provide them and then cap that so now using the same data network that they had previously had 'unlimited' data on, we can force them to use significantly less data for more money and then sell their shoes back to them by charging them for functionality that is already built into smartphones since smartphones were created and make bundles of free money from services and functionality already provided to the customer without any extra work or modifications on our end. Hmmm <executive sniffs own armpits> does anyone smell sh*t?"
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From what I have read System76 is a linux only computer vendor that has very strong hardware support.
I disagree, I think there is still value in knowing where the link originally came from (the one that was posted to Hacker News), even if you get lots of secondary traffic. Using referrer logs you can probably differentiate between "real" views from RSS and the ones that were propagated by a re-posting of that link.
http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&produc...
"There is a 100/10/1 "rule of thumb" with social services." Where did this come from? Is it a rule he just made up?
You'd be surprised at the variety of hardware that's supported. Loads of graphics cards, many sound devices, nearly anything USB, lots of chipsets and CPUs.
Is that an issue outside of video drivers?
I can't tell if you are serious enough.. there's no way Comcast is going to run a dedicated line for you for $200/mo. The only reason I can see for the increased price is it means they can fit less people per node, so they end up needing more.
Indeed, I am a Mac user, after using Linux and BSD from 1994 to ~2007. But I have a Linux machine for work that requires plenty of (affordable!) CPU power and memory. I recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 on that machine, and this is one of the very first times I thought "they get it". Unity is a fresh breath of air compared to the old 'let's hide applications deep in menus'-paradigm. Unity makes applications quickly accessible and manageable. It's not there yet, but it is going in the right direction.
How's CIFS/SambaFS or NFS support these days? I remember people spouting how Mac 'just works' when I could easily cause a kernel panic if the mount started timing out (or if I put the machine to sleep without unmounting it).
and then charge them for each additional 1gb of data over their contractual cap which doesn't really cost us much more to provide since the infrastructure is already in place. <executive sniffs air again> There's that sh*t smell again?
"[..]You can't say that about Linux"

I don't see how you can make a categorical statement declaring that as long as drivers are written for OS X, OS X is more reliable than Linux.

Hackintosh != most people's experience of OS X.

Your experience will be particular to the hardware you chose, and the implementations you chose to follow.

In the same sense, I wouldn't declare that Linux is more reliable than 'X' because again, there are far too may variables involved to make a fair comparison.

I think a far more pragmatic approach is to accept that Linux can provide a very robust desktop solution - if the necessary investment in time and research is carried out. Largely, imo OS X is successful because this research has already been carried out on the users' behalf.
I can understand switching to Mac if you are fed up with Linux, but I can't imagine switching to Windows. I use Ubuntu happily everyday without any of the problems that the author cited and when I'm forced to use Windows it is highly annoying. The Macs look great but I am happy in my Ubuntu world. Windows is so irritating to use I just don't understand the reasoning.
> Seems fundamentally flawed.

Would you call your RL social presence flawed? If you're not physically with a group of friends, your social presence in their group is also "offline" physically, but you are still socially present in the group through their thoughts and conversations.

If you think, however, that the data-hungry "social" model of FB is the way to go, then yes, the FreedomBox is fundamentally flawed for you. Point being that the makers of FreedomBox think the FB model is fundamentally flawed.
I saw this newly added Netflix streaming documentary. I wonder if it is the same type of spider?

It is French, called Microcosmos.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117040/
That makes sense. Basically, when you buy new hardware, you have to be pretty diligent about kernel releases for a few months after the hardware is released.

If you want maximum compatibility with everything, go for hardware that's a generation old. (Pre-Sandy-Bridge processors are pretty good and they are still sold new. So it's not a huge compromise if you value your time more than you value having the absolute newest stuff.)
Apple also dropped server support (e.g. Xserve).
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Google Chromebook will have updates but they will be of chrome browser types where they happen behind the scenes and downloads are tiny. You restart your browser and you are on a new version. No one even cares what version of chrome browser you are running now, because they have made versions obsolete. That being said it is a little curious why they had to do it on first boot for 7 minutes. But everyone who is used to microsoft PC's please 7 minutes is like a blink of an eye we have dealt with microsoft's day long updates for 2 decades now.
There is an inordinate amount of philosophising in the freedombox camp. Really it's just a distro project, and nearly all of the packages required already exist. What remains is just an easy installation procedure such that you can enter some details and are then ready to go. They should put the philosophy and speculation about alternative platforms to one side and make a serious effort to start releasing early, because there are folks out there who could really benefit from these devices.
There is significant delineation between "learning to program" and "becoming a programmer."
In the author's context, it was a simple make vs. buy decision. A simple script was better than the alternatives available, and was a more suitable solution to hack it together. Would his hack be production-ready/salable? No.

But, how many projects have you worked on where the if the client had built a basic prototype, it would improve your ability as a contractor to build it right? The client would have more appreciation/context for the level and scope of work needed for the project. How much more work would there be if every grocery-store clerk had such basic knowledge and appreciation? Is he going to make the job market more competitive in programming? No.

The result of an influx of beginner programmers (or a society-wide basic threshold of programming knowledge), IMO, would be more and better end products, reduced frustration on all sides, and more innovation. I hired teams/contractors for projects in the past, and was unhappy with the result. And I attribute it not to the level of competence of the contractor, but my own. I've taken up the mantle and begun learning to program over the last year (Python/RoR/PHP/JavaScript/HTML5/CSS), and am working on building my own prototypes. But I know I can't much get beyond that, and will need-and be better able-to identify, recruit, and collaborate with professionals to take those prototypes to the next level.

Many professional programmers are autodidacts, not university-trained computer scientists. You have to start somewhere. It is easy to find a free/cheap programming book and "get started." But that is a far cry from building a testable, scalable solution.

In today's society, where technology is ubiquitous, the author's call for programming to be a basic educational goal is appropriate. His eloquent framework about reimagining the "interfaces of our lives" carries weight. If the average person gave more thought to these issues, and had a basic understanding of the technology needed to pursue such innovation, the impact would be significant.

The world needs more autodidacts, and people who think critically about their environment. More education all around is a good thing for not just technology but society in general. Would these newfound beginner hackers detract or add value? I believe the latter.
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> What confuses me is why anyone would switch from Linux to Windows if they do anything where Linux had the upper hand?

Makes as much sense as switching to OS X. The Mac OS is not Linux.

If you're developing for Linux, or using something like GHC where the OS X version is a least-favorite stepchild, or if you need package management as capable as APT or the FreeBSD Ports Collection – then if you aren't running Linux as your desktop OS, you're most likely running it in a VM, regardless of whether your host OS is OS X or Windows. In fact the author explicitly says he's doing as much.

So "somewhat but not quite like Linux" isn't something the author would strictly need to look for in his host OS. Intead he can take other factors into account, such as reliability, performance, available applications, and hardware choice, quality, and cost.
It's precisely the features-level thinking that gets in the way of a usable Linux desktop.

How many more reimplementations of basic functionality on the major desktop environments do we need? It seems like whatever the current window manager is, and however well it works, it'll be thrown out and a new one will take it's place, and take a few years to do what the old one did. We'll throw out the audio stack again at some point. X isn't good enough, so we'll throw that out. Since Wayland isn't network transparent, there will be twelve different ways to add it back in and five incompatible ways to run old X applications on top of it. When those aren't sufficient, we'll throw it out again and start over, ad nauseum. And this applies to most things on the system that are "good enough".

Linux on the desktop is stuck in the 90% category, where 90% is implemented (and as we know, this represents 10% of the work). It's always tempting to avoid the unsexy 90% of the work and write from scratch. The end result is throwing increasing amounts of the baby out with the bathwater.
Just curious, why would anyone need 1Gbps internet right now? And what %of the population is that which needs it?
My point is that the gap is closing. Linux has caught up to the pack in many areas and has even taken the lead in some (like package management). So it doesn't have to speed up in order to one day win.

But it does have to adapt to the changes in the technology landscape that are happening right now i.e. "post-PC" devices and "big data". These are the biggest changes Linux has ever seen and, unlike the web, they don't particularly work in its favor.
If the amount was ordinate, they wouldn't have come up with the idea and work on the implementation in the first place. So the issue is what you think about their philosophy and implementation.
Ive grown to love this feature on linux. Any idea if theres a way to do the same thing on Windows? (netflix sigh)
I mean like IE6 and XP. I remember Microsoft marketing their deep integration (not to mention ActiveX). End result, we still suffer IE6 to this day. I don't mind tight web integration, as long as it respect standards and and extensions are ... explicit extensions. Because we'll probably suffer IE10 for many years to come .... Let's hope it will be standard compliant (I don't hold my breath though).