Comment Re:Who has the market share? (Score 1) 336
<tt>Wikimedia has a better breakdown of users that incudes device access<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems<br></tt>
Comment get a good scanner (Score 1) 3
Did this earlier this year. First step is to have a good double sided sheet fed scanner.. I got a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 ADF that is linux friendly. http://www.sane-project.org/ has a full list. gscan2pdf is a great piece of software that does most of the work.
For OCR - I basically only do on a windows virtualbox session with commercial software. Open source was not of sufficient quality at this point (although some people have had success with tesseract for OCR). I only do that on occasion. Most cases (receipts) I just use a good file name.
For sorting the scans I simply use a very good file name and folder name combination. Search via file or GNU locate works fine.
For backup I simply use bittorent sync plus a external hdd
For OCR - I basically only do on a windows virtualbox session with commercial software. Open source was not of sufficient quality at this point (although some people have had success with tesseract for OCR). I only do that on occasion. Most cases (receipts) I just use a good file name.
For sorting the scans I simply use a very good file name and folder name combination. Search via file or GNU locate works fine.
For backup I simply use bittorent sync plus a external hdd
Comment Re:code size (Score 1) 362
the question is more around maintenance and ease of understanding... which may be more important in the server space than boot times.
Comment code size (Score 2) 362
Size and complexity
Upstart (1.5): 285 files, ~185k lines, ~97k C
Debian: sysvinit + 120 files, 5.8k lines
systemd (v44+): dbus + glib + 900 files, 224k lines, 125k C
sysvinit: 560kB, 75 files, ~15k lines
Debian startup is smallest, it's only shell with sysvinit (C) as dependency
Upstart is about 10 times bigger in terms of lines of code/text. Most of the extra complexity size comes from C.
systemd is about 10 times bigger, like upstart. But with the mandatory deps it blows up to about one hundred times the code footprint! Most of the extra code is in mandatory dependencies, but the systemd core is also bigger than anything else.
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems
Upstart (1.5): 285 files, ~185k lines, ~97k C
Debian: sysvinit + 120 files, 5.8k lines
systemd (v44+): dbus + glib + 900 files, 224k lines, 125k C
sysvinit: 560kB, 75 files, ~15k lines
Debian startup is smallest, it's only shell with sysvinit (C) as dependency
Upstart is about 10 times bigger in terms of lines of code/text. Most of the extra complexity size comes from C.
systemd is about 10 times bigger, like upstart. But with the mandatory deps it blows up to about one hundred times the code footprint! Most of the extra code is in mandatory dependencies, but the systemd core is also bigger than anything else.
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems
Comment 2 OS goes to 3 OS.. (Score 1) 479
There is no way they can compete against Chinese OEM manufacturers - they will eat their lunch.
Throw away current decent dev tools for new ones never makes sense
This seems like an all out gamble that they can take on RIM in the corporate market with MS's backing
They can't completely dump Symbian and Meego will continue without them.
Throw away current decent dev tools for new ones never makes sense
This seems like an all out gamble that they can take on RIM in the corporate market with MS's backing
They can't completely dump Symbian and Meego will continue without them.
Comment Re:Try it safely on your PC with Firefox Portable (Score 2) 190
Fund that the directory is now \Data\plugins - copied over the files on the locked down pc and everything worked....
Comment Re:Try it safely on your PC with Firefox Portable (Score 1) 190
Anyway of getting flash working? Normally you copy flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll to \App\firefox\plugins\. However that directory no longer exists.. Any suggestions?
Comment MaxDB? (Score 1) 207
My pet theory is that SAP is helping block the merger due to Mysql MAXDB. Which I believe used to be Adibas from SAP.
If Oracle get it hands on that they could hurt SAP revenues and grab SAP customers. I don't believe the EU will back down. I wonder it that could kill the merger?
If Oracle get it hands on that they could hurt SAP revenues and grab SAP customers. I don't believe the EU will back down. I wonder it that could kill the merger?
Comment N900 vs iPhone v3 vs Palm Pre (Score 1) 484
In terms of hack-ability it seems like the ranking is
Nokia Maemo(with slimmed down X.org), Pre (directfb - framebuffer driver), Android (java rendering), Apple (I don't know about Symbian).
I have to hand it to Palm - their approach of porting webkit to run in directfb is a nice Idea.
Personally I think the future of app development on these phones is simply to use HTML 5
Nokia Maemo(with slimmed down X.org), Pre (directfb - framebuffer driver), Android (java rendering), Apple (I don't know about Symbian).
I have to hand it to Palm - their approach of porting webkit to run in directfb is a nice Idea.
Personally I think the future of app development on these phones is simply to use HTML 5
