Comments for Blog of Julian Andres Klode http://juliank.wordpress.com Debian Developer | Ubuntu Member | Fellow of FSFE | SPI contributing member Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:24:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Back to the ’90s – Bye PC, welcome back thin clients by Daeng Bo http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/back-to-the-90s-bye-pc-welcome-back-thin-clients/#comment-1002 Daeng Bo Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:24:28 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=304#comment-1002 Notme, You can compile it and boot it off of a USB thumb drive. Google is targeting new hardware of certain specs, but that doesn't mean that you can't use it with your old hardware if it's supported. Google does a good job of keeping my data available. They just recently added a method to back up all Google Docs with a single operation. (You could always do twenty at a time, but that can get painful if there are hundreds.) Google allows you to export blogs, notebooks, mail, contacts ... basically everything. My data is mine. Thin clients were always a good idea when the network and servers were capable of keeping up. A lot of places are good on that front. A lot still aren't, but the number is smaller every day. In addition, the web app model is moving further from thin and closer to client-server as the apps get more dynamic. The app is loaded once (or is cached). Notme,
You can compile it and boot it off of a USB thumb drive. Google is targeting new hardware of certain specs, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t use it with your old hardware if it’s supported.

Google does a good job of keeping my data available. They just recently added a method to back up all Google Docs with a single operation. (You could always do twenty at a time, but that can get painful if there are hundreds.) Google allows you to export blogs, notebooks, mail, contacts … basically everything. My data is mine.

Thin clients were always a good idea when the network and servers were capable of keeping up. A lot of places are good on that front. A lot still aren’t, but the number is smaller every day. In addition, the web app model is moving further from thin and closer to client-server as the apps get more dynamic. The app is loaded once (or is cached).

]]> Comment on Back to the ’90s – Bye PC, welcome back thin clients by notme http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/back-to-the-90s-bye-pc-welcome-back-thin-clients/#comment-1001 notme Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:32:14 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=304#comment-1001 I don't think too many people going to be happy when they find out Chrome OS going to require new hardware purchases....starting with SSDs which are not cheap and the prices will stay high if Google gets in bed with the hardware sellers. I don’t think too many people going to be happy when they find out Chrome OS going to require new hardware purchases….starting with SSDs which are not cheap and the prices will stay high if Google gets in bed with the hardware sellers.

]]> Comment on Back to the ’90s – Bye PC, welcome back thin clients by Vadi http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/back-to-the-90s-bye-pc-welcome-back-thin-clients/#comment-1000 Vadi Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:46:11 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=304#comment-1000 I don't think it is. ChromeOS won't be playing my fav PC games for a while. I don’t think it is.

ChromeOS won’t be playing my fav PC games for a while.

]]> Comment on Back to the ’90s – Bye PC, welcome back thin clients by Cov http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/back-to-the-90s-bye-pc-welcome-back-thin-clients/#comment-999 Cov Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:50:14 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=304#comment-999 No, I do not use GMail, do not use Google Maps (which are crap anyway) and do not use Google Docs. And nothing will convince me to use these. Google is for web searches and that's all. No, I do not use GMail, do not use Google Maps (which are crap anyway) and do not use Google Docs. And nothing will convince me to use these.
Google is for web searches and that’s all.

]]> Comment on Back to the ’90s – Bye PC, welcome back thin clients by Tim http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/back-to-the-90s-bye-pc-welcome-back-thin-clients/#comment-997 Tim Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:34:39 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=304#comment-997 Google is a new kind of company. They are not IBM, MS or Apple. They know that if they betray the users trust or give infos to the wrong people (they denied german authorities access to users email) users might retaliate and move to Bing or whatever. They want to all our data to compute targeted ads .. I have adblock and don't really care ;) So I still think no company really likes me, but Google is better than the rest. If Chrome OS netbooks are cheap enough and really only have FOSS drivers I will tell my friends and family to buy them. Google is a new kind of company.

They are not IBM, MS or Apple. They know that if they betray the users trust or give infos to the wrong people (they denied german authorities access to users email) users might retaliate and move to Bing or whatever. They want to all our data to compute targeted ads .. I have adblock and don’t really care ;)

So I still think no company really likes me, but Google is better than the rest.

If Chrome OS netbooks are cheap enough and really only have FOSS drivers I will tell my friends and family to buy them.

]]> Comment on My First upload with new source format by My First upload with new source format | Python Developer India http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/my-first-upload-with-new-source-format/#comment-995 My First upload with new source format | Python Developer India Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:25:08 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=302#comment-995 [...] Follow this link: My First upload with new source format [...] [...] Follow this link: My First upload with new source format [...]

]]> Comment on I’m back by Julian Andres Klode http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/im-back/#comment-988 Julian Andres Klode Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:09:26 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-988 Thanks, the workaround works. I also submitted https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/461062 with a video showing the problem, so it can be solved correctly in the future. Thanks, the workaround works. I also submitted https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/461062 with a video showing the problem, so it can be solved correctly in the future.

]]> Comment on I’m back by Daniel T Chen http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/im-back/#comment-987 Daniel T Chen Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:18:01 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-987 There are two parts to the dB bug: 1) Your codec is misreporting something. This can be worked around in linux. 2) PA doesn't yet have a blacklist for these instances, but you could pass ignore_dB=1 to module-udev-detect (in ~/.pulse/default.pa or /etc/pulse/default.pa). There are two parts to the dB bug:
1) Your codec is misreporting something. This can be worked around in linux.
2) PA doesn’t yet have a blacklist for these instances, but you could pass ignore_dB=1 to module-udev-detect (in ~/.pulse/default.pa or /etc/pulse/default.pa).

]]> Comment on Chromium on Linux can print now by reikred http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/chromium-on-linux-can-print-now/#comment-976 reikred Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:53:00 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=287#comment-976 I have installed chromium-4.0.220.0-0.1.20090930svn27599.fc10.i386.rpm an printing does NOT work. It produces the "Aw snap!" page. What plugin does print use? Is it libunixprintplugin.so from mozilla? I have installed

chromium-4.0.220.0-0.1.20090930svn27599.fc10.i386.rpm

an printing does NOT work. It produces the “Aw snap!” page.

What plugin does print use? Is it libunixprintplugin.so from mozilla?

]]> Comment on The APT2 project by Vida más allá de APT: Cupt y APT2 « J4v0's Blog http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/the-apt2-project/#comment-973 Vida más allá de APT: Cupt y APT2 « J4v0's Blog Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:08:19 +0000 http://juliank.wordpress.com/?p=274#comment-973 [...] APT2 está escrito en el nuevo lenguaje Vala y es principalmente una biblioteca para trabajar con los repositorios de Debian y sus paquetes. APT2 sólo requiere de GLib, Gee y libarchive, o alrededor de 2 Mb de espacio, lo que puede hacerlo especialmente atractivo en aquellos entornos con consideraciones de almacenamiento, como los embebidos. [...] [...] APT2 está escrito en el nuevo lenguaje Vala y es principalmente una biblioteca para trabajar con los repositorios de Debian y sus paquetes. APT2 sólo requiere de GLib, Gee y libarchive, o alrededor de 2 Mb de espacio, lo que puede hacerlo especialmente atractivo en aquellos entornos con consideraciones de almacenamiento, como los embebidos. [...]

]]>