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Comment Re:Ahhh crime. (Score 1) 983

Yes, photos exist from memory cards that survived the Twin Towers collapse and bridge explosions, for example. In the case of the former, these were the last photos of an amazing photographer that himself perished.

I'm too tired now to cite these actual references, but in the case of the bridge explosion two cameras were setup one behind the other. Too much explosive was used and both cameras were destroyed, although the 2nd camera managed to capture the first, in front of it, actually beginning its destruction. The SD card on at least the 2nd camera was readable.

Comment Re:With sadness... (Score 2) 76

The link to that old blog post is very mis-leading, which was written at the height of the Nokia/Microsoft announcement, when the partners really really wanted to hype WP7. Let me quote the relevant text from the whole piece right here:

Under the new strategy, MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. MeeGo will place increased emphasis on longer-term market exploration of next-generation devices, platforms and user experiences. Nokia still plans to ship a MeeGo-related product later this year.

Okay Slashdotters, what is wrong with this? What better option are you suggesting, if you really like the idea of an open, linux phone? The timing of the Meego announcement today has everything to do with the upcoming Meego conference in a few days' time in San Francisco, where in all likelihood the Nokia N950 will be revealed. I saw the teaser video before YouTube pulled it and it looks sweet. What is not to like, other than Nokia dedicating less resources than before? They are NOT ending their Meego support, but they are looking for Slashdotting-type Devs to enbrace their new "elegant, Developer-focused" N950 hardware, along with Meego 1.2 available today for a range of mobile devices.

Comment Re:Is the lock in that strong? (Score 2) 129

The annual (linux) Meego conference is in a few days' time, in San Francisco. Google News (search) reveals that the Nokia N950, the successor to the N900 will be _probably_ be announced at this conference.

Nokia has never backed-off its support for Meego. Well, okay they have hyped and now focused development resources towards their M$ partnership, but to the extent possible given their current business strategies, they still support their prior open-source OS strategy. In other words, they haven't really backed-away from Meego, while they will support WP7 going-forward. (But in lieu of the recent M$ partnership, they need to hype M$, especially following that particular announcement).

http://sf2011.meego.com/

Vote with your feet folks. Meego is still a very good mobile OS worth buying and developing for; especially if you are developing for your own purposes. Today's news reinforces this.

Comment Nokia N900 Skype (etc.) integration is older (Score 1, Interesting) 83

As a Nokia N900 owner, I'm really impressed with the front facing video camera and skype integration. Skype is pre-installed, and Firefox mobile 3 is the default browser too. (Firefox 4 mobile is has officially been released for 1 month now for Maemo & Android and seems nice and faster too). Yesterday I did a 3.5 g skype video call that went really well between Europe and the USA, in the middle of a national holiday in the capital; the folks back home were impressed.

I digress. I like how the N900 profile feature lets me set availability to groups of apps like Skype, Jabber, SIP, etc. paired with my common net-connections like home wifi & mobile 3g. The contact book shows me who is online and available options to contact them, (Skype w/ status, SIP, cell, IM etc.) Also notifications is pretty sweet. It is a very nice linux PIM piece o' hardware. I for one, am looking forward to the next Meego device, the N950; to be most-likely announced next month at the Meego conference. (Where Meego 1.2 will also become available for N900 devices as well).

http://maemo.nokia.com/features/contacts/

http://sf2011.meego.com/

Comment Re:And here I thought... (Score 1) 418

Since you asked, I'll be pleased to elaborate.

The Drupal Devs do not care about providing any kind of backward compatibility, like you might expect from a one-click installer. The reason is because no one has any interest in supporting old open-source cruft; all resources go towards the new, latest tech.

This does not mean your data fails to upgrade! The procedure in a nutshell is to temporarily switch of all extraneous modules (contrib repos), then upgrade the content between versions, then add next-gen modules.

Of course many of those modules being used do not have next-gen versions, so you might need to upgrade that code yourself; hopefully contributing back to drupal.org. Or find a replacement functional solution and implement that, or wait for the module devs to provide these upgrades for you, or ditch the functionality altogether. The stakeholders must question whether resources merit such an upgrade, and when. No matter what, skilled labor or patience and determination are required to see and upgrade a drupal website well. Bottom line it is the contributed modules used that determine the complexity of the upgrade.

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