Comment Re:Modern Technology more than IT (Score 1) 107
I know that of course, but I was reacting to the topic of the article - how modern technology would win WWII in minutes.
Comment Re:Modern Technology more than IT (Score 1) 107
Yeah, that's what I thought as well - 13 minutes (or possibly less) would be the approximate time of flight for a nuclear warhead armed ballistic missile fired from the UK to Germany.
Comment Re:What a waste (Score 5, Informative) 77
Nokia had the best hardware in the world but a terrible outdated OS. Then Microsoft came and killed the best hardware and replaced the OS with an even worse one.
Depends on what OS you mean - if Symbian then you are right, but Maemo/MeeGo/Harmattan were far ahead of their time.
Comment Re:launchd not as bad as systemd (Score 1) 165
But also nearly universally reviled.
Why does everyone care about saving five seconds during boot that will be completely overshadowed by the time you spend in BIOS POST?
Um, ever heard about containers, cloud images, disposable VMs, instant-on embedded appliances, etc. ?
Comment Re:FAQ (Score 1) 134
It has a resistive touchscreen. What's more they're saying they're going for resistive because it's "more accurate" than capacitive and capacitive would be a "step back."
Seems like you never used the N900 touchscreen - it not like the cheap resistive screens on low end phones, but a high quality one. It is just as usable as a capacitive screen for touch and can be used for *very precise* pointing. That's one of the reasons people have been using their N900s for drawing pictures and maps. Try to do that with a normal capacitive screen - it's like trying to draw in boxing gloves.
Comment Re:New buggy whip! (Score 1) 134
And how many open source smartphones did *you* build ? :P
Comment Re:Good news (Score 2) 30
Hey whaday know, it does have git. I hadn't noticed that, thanks for the tip.
The built in backup software (called vault, source code here: https://github.com/nemomobile/...) is based on git, that's why it is installed.
Comment Re:We Survived (Score 1) 207
You already can print a boat (a kayak).
Comment Re:What is the purple stuff? (Score 2) 69
Anyone who watched the launch video...what is the purple water looking stuff that the camera switched to a couple times?
It is a shot from inside of the liquid oxygen tank AFAIK.
Comment Re:That's really odd (Score 1) 170
Can it also do LVM2, BTRFS, advanced RAID, network storage and encryption ?
Comment Re:Tried it - hard dependency on Fedora? (Score 1) 170
Um yes - and the two people mentioned in the Announcement have @redhat.com addresses. ;-)
Comment Re:Blivet? (Score 1) 170
So we're stuck with either "impossible object" or "ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag".
Naming is hard, but it's not *that* hard.
You don't have much experience with data storage management, do you ? It makes much more sense in context.
Comment Re:What does it support that others don't? (Score 1) 170
Basically anything more advanced than "plain partitions with a classicla filesystem (EXT3/4, XFS, FAT) on top":
- LVM
- BTRFS
- RAID
- iSCSI
- multipath
etc.
Comment Re:Pottard will have this in systemd before weeks (Score 1) 170
Um, I don't think that is very likely:
Comment Re:Idiots (Score 1) 170
Um, Blivet GUI is jut a GUI frontend to the existing Blivet storage library that has been there for years (many, many years if you include the time it was part of the Anaconda core). Adding the same functionality to GParted or making GParted use Blivet on the other hand would be one big useless rewrite.
