I would never use "the cloud" to backup my sensitive or personal data. Why are people doing this? It just seems like a bad idea to me all-around.
First of all, many user agreements transfer ownership of your data from you to them when you upload it.
Second, what are they going to do with your data? Sell it to advertisers? Divulge it to law enforcement? Police need a warrant to search my hard drive. They don't need a warrant if the cloud service just lets them in.
What if the cloud service gets hacked and my data is stolen? A service with gobs of data from thousands of people is a big target. My little ftp server is not.
What happens (as in the case of megaupload) if the service runs into legal trouble and my data is frozen, out of my reach... that sucks.
No i think i will stick with my personal, off-site ftp servers for backup. Cloud services are just trying to attract you, with the prize that you get to be lazy. And they get all your datas. not cool.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Touchscreens
Touchscreens can not replace a hardware keyboard... not until they evolve to provide tactile feedback to enable touch typing.
You can type with a mouse and an on-screen keyboard too. But nobody does.
The touchscreen is a great replacement for the mouse, touchpad, etc. It's a pointing device.
So why do laptops STILL come with touchpads instead of touchscreens?! lame.
You can type with a mouse and an on-screen keyboard too. But nobody does.
The touchscreen is a great replacement for the mouse, touchpad, etc. It's a pointing device.
So why do laptops STILL come with touchpads instead of touchscreens?! lame.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
CES 2012
Very disappointed in CES this year. Haven't seen very much I found interesting. Seems manufacturers are stumbling over themselves to port android to everything and in the mean time haven't made anything new.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
PuppyLinux
O-M-G! Puppy Linux!!! It's got puppies!!!
(and it installs to USB, boots to RAM, runs lightning fast on damn near any machine, and leaves no trace of itself. )
wicked!
(and it installs to USB, boots to RAM, runs lightning fast on damn near any machine, and leaves no trace of itself. )
wicked!
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Linux Mint + Mate
According to DistroWatch, Linux Mint has dethroned Ubuntu as the top linux distribution downloaded. To me the reason is clear: Gnome 3 sucks!
OK first some disclaimers: My first test of Gnome3 was on an atom powered (but still high-end) netbook. While this particular netbook chugged along just fine with Gnome2, it completely choked on Gnome3. On a nice big machine you won't notice a difference, but philosophically that upsets me. If Gnome3 did much more than Gnome2 then I wouldn't mind it hogging more system resources. But from what I can see, Gnome3 does less while still using more resources. It is horribly inefficient from my user perception.
Linux Mint comes with Gnome3 by default, but has another gui called MATE, intended to restore the Gnome2 user environment for people who need to get work done.
OK first some disclaimers: My first test of Gnome3 was on an atom powered (but still high-end) netbook. While this particular netbook chugged along just fine with Gnome2, it completely choked on Gnome3. On a nice big machine you won't notice a difference, but philosophically that upsets me. If Gnome3 did much more than Gnome2 then I wouldn't mind it hogging more system resources. But from what I can see, Gnome3 does less while still using more resources. It is horribly inefficient from my user perception.
Linux Mint comes with Gnome3 by default, but has another gui called MATE, intended to restore the Gnome2 user environment for people who need to get work done.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Gnome3
To everyone who defends Gnome3:
The entire spirit behind linux is giving the user ultimate control and a wealth of options. Fallback mode is not acceptable. There are 2 big problems with Gnome3:
1) the graphics code is so inefficient it can hardly run right now. older machines are just SOL. Newer machines are made sluggish by the inefficient graphics. They had to switch to lightdm just to make it run acceptably on modern machines.
2) New features of Gnome3 should be configurable and optional. If they truly are better you won't have to force people to use them. People will choose to use them on their own. The fact that you removed that option already makes me think people won't use it unless they're forced. But nobody is ever forced into one disto. We'll just switch! Makes me sad though, ubuntu was one of my favorite distros until now.
Update: everybody switched to Mint! Yay!
The entire spirit behind linux is giving the user ultimate control and a wealth of options. Fallback mode is not acceptable. There are 2 big problems with Gnome3:
1) the graphics code is so inefficient it can hardly run right now. older machines are just SOL. Newer machines are made sluggish by the inefficient graphics. They had to switch to lightdm just to make it run acceptably on modern machines.
2) New features of Gnome3 should be configurable and optional. If they truly are better you won't have to force people to use them. People will choose to use them on their own. The fact that you removed that option already makes me think people won't use it unless they're forced. But nobody is ever forced into one disto. We'll just switch! Makes me sad though, ubuntu was one of my favorite distros until now.
Update: everybody switched to Mint! Yay!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Ornery Ostrich
Dear Canonical....
Just because tablets are the new hip thing with the iOS and android fanboys doesn't mean I want my desktop OS to look a damn thing like a tablet!!!
I've been a linux user since the late 90's but sometime around Karmic I went whole-hog and deleted windows altogether. I use ubuntu for everything, both work and fun. But work is the important one. I use my ubuntu laptop for WORK. Serious work.
I already avoid upgrading linux because I know I'm going to spend the next few days fighting with xorg.conf and getting basic support for my hardware. But now, on top of that, I have to install a separate display manager and a separate desktop environment because you wanted to make your linux OS tablet friendly?!?!
Ok, seriously... how many tablets out there actually run ubuntu??? Bueller?? I've never seen one. Maybe a few convertible notebooks could benefit from it. I've never even seen a *modern* tablet that could even take a linux install... they are all locked down like mobile phones with mobile phone operating systems which is A MAJOR STEP BACKWARD from where computers are today.
Gnome3? Forget that. You just crushed linux's big advantage of being light, fast, and great for older hardware. Its even slower than KDE.
Unity? DO NOT WANT!!! What good does that do on a desktop? Or even a laptop? Canonical is pumping out a tablet OS as if there are tablets out there to run it! Are they taking an "if we build it, they will come" approach? Oh and where the hell is the default session setting? Gone I see?
OK... count to 10.... breathe....
Time to switch to a new distro. Maybe CentOS or Xbuntu.
Oh... and one more thing.... thanks Nvidia for disabling overscan correction at 1080. Like that is going to stop linux people doing anything.
Update: After years of struggling, Canonical finally abandoned Unity altogether. Ubuntu went from being #1 on distrowatch to a distant 4th. Mint gave us back ubuntu with a classic MATE desktop and it surged to #1.
Just because tablets are the new hip thing with the iOS and android fanboys doesn't mean I want my desktop OS to look a damn thing like a tablet!!!
I've been a linux user since the late 90's but sometime around Karmic I went whole-hog and deleted windows altogether. I use ubuntu for everything, both work and fun. But work is the important one. I use my ubuntu laptop for WORK. Serious work.
I already avoid upgrading linux because I know I'm going to spend the next few days fighting with xorg.conf and getting basic support for my hardware. But now, on top of that, I have to install a separate display manager and a separate desktop environment because you wanted to make your linux OS tablet friendly?!?!
Ok, seriously... how many tablets out there actually run ubuntu??? Bueller?? I've never seen one. Maybe a few convertible notebooks could benefit from it. I've never even seen a *modern* tablet that could even take a linux install... they are all locked down like mobile phones with mobile phone operating systems which is A MAJOR STEP BACKWARD from where computers are today.
Gnome3? Forget that. You just crushed linux's big advantage of being light, fast, and great for older hardware. Its even slower than KDE.
Unity? DO NOT WANT!!! What good does that do on a desktop? Or even a laptop? Canonical is pumping out a tablet OS as if there are tablets out there to run it! Are they taking an "if we build it, they will come" approach? Oh and where the hell is the default session setting? Gone I see?
OK... count to 10.... breathe....
Time to switch to a new distro. Maybe CentOS or Xbuntu.
Oh... and one more thing.... thanks Nvidia for disabling overscan correction at 1080. Like that is going to stop linux people doing anything.
Update: After years of struggling, Canonical finally abandoned Unity altogether. Ubuntu went from being #1 on distrowatch to a distant 4th. Mint gave us back ubuntu with a classic MATE desktop and it surged to #1.
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