A Web OS? Are You Dense? – Ted Dziuba
All this crap about moving everything into another 5 layers of abstraction down just means we’re never going to have a computer that’s visibly any faster than an Apple // to any user sitting in front of it… Sure, it can recalculate your spreadsheet faster (as long as it’s not an online spreadsheet running in a browser), but menus take longer to appear.
Evolution: why exactly do you need 89MB when you start yet 898MB now?
Somehow I feel that 4GB of physical memory and 4GB of swap (well.. 2GB used) should be enough to run an email client, web browser, office suite, play some tunes, use a calendar, IRC and IM.
GIMPshop.com – A GIMP hack by Scott Moschella
“For example, the GPL does not necessarily allow access to the original source code”
umm… a FAIL that’s perhaps EPIC.
(Courtesy of Mary Gardiner’s identi.ca feed)
I like it.
UI looks more polished (maybe QT4 renders nicer on my Ubuntu GNOME based desktop… but it certainly looks more like the rest of my apps).
Possibly a bit faster?
64bit guests – WIN!
Shared Folders still cause the XP guest to panic if i try to do anything non-trivial (e.g. build, run cmake). I still use Samba on host to share with guest – which works okay, but isn’t super-happy-fun-time fast.
Seemless mode is a bit nicer, the Windows task bar sits above the GNOME task bar, making it a lot easier to interact. It’s not perfect yet, you can still get some real visual oddities, but it’s pretty sweet.
When just using normal, in window, it can cause X to use a bit much CPU, which goes away when the VirtualBox window is minimised – leading to faster compiles in guest.
Having a guest running (in this case Windows XP) does cause a lot more CPU wakeups – draining battery life.
I wish the snapshots showed how large they were, it’s currently kinda guesswork to work out how much disk space a snapshot is using.
yeah, one about internet in new apartment. really feeling that at the moment… except it’s a house, not apartment.
Bought an Unwired prepaid thing today… just to tide me over for the 5-7 working days (at least) before they (being Telstra) actually get my phone line working (and then DSL can get connected).
gah, gah gah.
Jut got a phone call letting me know that settlement has all gone through. I now own[1] a house.
[1] where “own” is really “owe a lot of money on”
I’m really excited about this… it may cure my addiction/hatred of Evolution (at least for task management).
Thanks to Glynn for pointing me to the right thread on opensolaris.org (in a comment on my Good adventures with OpenSolaris post). The package verification thingy (pkg verify -v -f SUNWfirefox) did actually throw an error (indicating some sort of problem). So that’s pretty neat. The fact that it got into trouble in the first place isn’t good, but corruption detection is the next best thing.
I still occationally hit the bug in VirtualBox where if you have 127.0.0.1 in your resolv.conf on your host (e.g. running a local caching nameserver), VirtualBox passes this through to the guest, so the guest tries to use the guest 127.0.0.1 as a nameserver – this usually doesn’t work so well.
The good news is, Firefox now works in my OpenSolaris VM.
The bad news is that even though I’ve gone and set my keyboard layout as DVORAK (with the Input Method Switcher applet), whath should be ctrl-l (for location bar) in Firefox, actually brings up the Print dialog (on DVORAK, L is where P is on QWERTY).
But, I’ve managed to download bazaar now, and the install was simple (just follow INSTALL in the bzr tarball). At some point I’ll badger someone to make an OpenSolaris package for it so you could do “pkg install bzr”, but you can’t do that yet.
The next challenge will be to branch repositories from the host onto a temp drive, build and test.
stayed awake, good lunch. even been spending afternoon sending paperwork for bank for home loan (requiring lots of it now.. is just the way it is now). but now it’s starting to hit me (the jetlag thing). feeling tired, a bit hungry, not wanting to move enough to make food (or rather going out to get food to then make food). so now feeling down, everything sucks and cold and hungry. I miss the summer time of Portland. no doubt feel better in morning, but the few hours of going “need to stay awake or tz fucked”… gah. i hate the first day back from travel.
Head on over to the OnlineBackup – MySQL Forge Wiki and your able to get a built preview release with Encryption support. I welcome and encourage feedback!OnlineBackup – MySQL Forge Wiki
I just got notice that an offer I made on a property was accepted. Yay! Going to have a house now!
Let me know if anything broke. Seems like a decent upgrade though. WP alread was really nice, and it’s just getting better!
Andrew Pollock makes the observation that a microblogging (twitter or whatever) stream added to a regular blog doesn’t add much for the reader… I’ve been debating this myself ever since I installed the WordPress Plugin that does twitter integration.
One motivation was “I don’t like everything being tied up in some proprietary system” and wanting a copy of my data somewhere. On the other hand, what I write into twitter isn’t exactly that-scottish-play and loosing it all would probably be a net gain for humanity.
So… do I turn off the Twitter plugin? I’m erring on the side of “yes, turn it off”. Thoughts?
New preview includes:
bzr branch lp:~stewart-flamingspork/mysql-server/stew-encrypted-backup-preview2
(you can pull this directly into the previous preview1 branch, it’s just 2 extra patches).
Examples:
Enjoy! Feedback is very muchly appreciated.
I’ve just pushed to launchpad, a set of patches that implement AES encryption support for MySQL Online Backup. You will need to build –with-ssl to get support for encrypted online backup.
Encrypted backup files have no recognisable header – they’re just a stream of random bytes. Encryption and compression also works, and when you encrypt, you should also use compression (compress first, then encrypt).
Source tree: https://code.launchpad.net/~stewart-flamingspork/mysql-server/stew-encrypted-backup-preview1
Bzr command: bzr branch lp:~stewart-flamingspork/mysql-server/stew-encrypted-backup-preview1
Thread on internals@ with patchset: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/35759
Build instructions: be sure to ./configure –with-ssl
Example usage:
UPDATE: preview1 is no more, preview2 is now out, contains extra stuff (see next blog post)
Blogging from a Blogger Zone…. I feel kinda dirty.
Everytime somebody says “Web 2.0”, a kitten dies.
Mike told me there’s a book. It’s a real book. Epic FAIL.
How do I make an existing project (let’s say, MySQL) switch from generating a config.h that has #undef HAVE_FOO to one that generates #define HAVE_FOO 0 instead?
Why? Well, here’s why:
Testing for features should be done by including “config.h” and using #if HAVE_<feature>. Use of #if (rather than #ifdef) allows the gcc -Wundef flag to warn users about features which aren’t defined 1 or 0 in config.h.