I dunno...if doing this professionally, I'd say concentrate more on RHEL. From my experience, that is the predominate (if not only) version of Linux out there in big business and govt. server rooms.
Let's not forget that Ubuntu is based on Debian which is just as good a server OS as RHEL is, no LTS policy like Ubuntu has unfortunately.
My own observation from where I work: 67 Ipads, 123 iphones, 35 android based phones, and 1 bluetooth keyboard. The bluetooth keyboard is used with an android phone.
If you're gonna' do that, you might as well hook your phone up to a monitor. Seems like there are plenty of apps out there that let you access or display your phone on your desktop PC or laptop, but vice-versa has been a no-show lately, at least on iOS.
in NYC so many people have wifi that i get better performance with cat5. i got tired of my xbox disconnecting from Live and started using Cat5 instead.
i have something like 20 hot spots around me. 5GHz will be nice for a few years until everyone gets on it as well.
I have that same problem down here in Louisville, KY. The downtown area is chock full of Wi-Fi hotspots. I thought having a dual-band router would help with this problem, but apparently not. The extent to which each device on my network has problems connecting is different (and from day-to-day for that matter), but my XBox hardly has any connection problems. Go figure.
Well, those are certainly some reasons to use Linux from Scratch or Gentoo. However, you haven't given us any reasons not to use Linux Mint except the nebulous comment about "true traditional systems."
OK, here's another one for ya'. Not much of a user base, except in North America (according to DistroWatch). Not to mention all that the Cinnamon desktop offers is eye candy and bogs down my system in particular (fixed that by switching to XFCE).
This is a horrible release and should be skipped. If Fedora continues to go in this direction, I will have to abandon it, despite the fact that the only other decent alternative is Ubuntu, and I despise it. I've been an RH/Fedora user since 1999 or so.
That's all fine 'n dandy if you're into Ubuntu. But if you want to stick with a RedHat-based distro (as is Fedora), you should give OpenSUSE, CentOS or Mageia a look. Given all three a try in VB and they're all pretty nice. Mageia has the newest version of the Linux kernel (3.8.0).
With the department of homeland security recommendations perhaps we can finally move on and get rid of these dinosaurs that are a liability to our employers.
Maybe when Barack Obama isn't president anymore. Right now he's fucking up our economy and I don't see any business wanting to upgrade their computers, no mater what the DHS says, anytime soon.
The originals are what should be modded funny.
The cult of anti-intellectualism has achieved new lows.
Backing up your photos is not a bother. There are a legion of tools that will make it easy and automated and will even ensure that your data is offsite. Doing it manually is also pretty trivial too.
You could simply have a directory called "Stuff I Want to Keep" and just copy that from place to place using the GUI of your choice.
Storage is big cheap and plentiful. Interfaces are shiny and happy. Most people could preserve their most prized data on the phones.
Again, the problem isn't preservation. The real problem is control. What you really have to worry about is Instagram changing it's terms of service or losing your phone on the train.
This makes me think of all the cloud services out there that we can use to do this kinda' thing. Dropbox and Skydrive especially come to mind because they now have smart TV apps. The Dropbox app is on Roku and the Skydrive app is on the XBox 360. Not sure if any such services have apps actually loaded into any smart TVs, but these both let you view your photos on your TV and present them nicely.
As if you needed another reason.
Exactly. Solution? Don't buy a Surface if you want to run Linux / Android on it.
It's so deliciously simple.
I don't like Win8 either.
Guess what? I haven't bought it.
Just more reason to double-down on ultrabooks running Windows 7. I'm sure these'll be going the way of the dinosaur sometime down the road. But these look to be just the ticket for anyone who wants a dual-bootable PC with a near tablet-like form factor
Everyone keeps saying how Windows RT and the Surface is terrible for businesses because you can't use Office RT for profit or you can't manage the devices with group policies, you can't run legacy software.... well yeah. That's what the Surface Pro is for... hence the "Pro" moniker. Surface Pro does absolutely everything a Windows 8 desktop does. Sure it's going to be heavier and cost a little more, but that's the price you pay for all that extra functionality.
Not to mention having to wait three months to get one. Microsoft's idea of not simultaneously releasing Surface with RT and Surface with 8 Pro is completely stupid!
Also considering the initial startup costs, just to break in would be very difficult. Cell towers are not cheap, nor the network wot support them.
Not to mention much less real estate to put up towers in the UK as compared to the good ol' USA, unless you plan on installing them in the Scottish highlands. where they'd most surely become loch-ness monster food. Aye!!
as long as you have a good network link and you better hope it's cap free and don't even think of roaming as it can cost $10 or more pre MEG!!
Sure makes me long for the days of 'muni-wi-fi', wi-fi you could access from nearly anywhere in the city for free. A big thing from about 2006-2008, most cities scrapped the project after it bled cash.
Android? You are weird. A nice Linux with KDE is what this hardware needs.
Linux on all computers, that's what the planet needs!
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
