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IT IS NOT THAT IT HAS GONE AWAY, IT IS THAT THE CURRENT GENERATION IS IMPLEMENTING CRAP CLONES OUT OF IGNORANCE AND HUBRIS!!!
Multiseat is a dirty hack. It is about using software to build a terminal out of a random collection of screens and input devices. All it has really done is give us yet another "session" to mentally track, in the form of consolekit/logind, on top of the kernel and X provides ones.
And it is not about thin clients, thin clients btw is yet another Windows-ism, it is about the concepts embedded in the unix concept that current day devs seems to either sidestep or downplay while building house of cards in userspace that poorly replicate said concepts.
Unix have all kinds of funny things if all happens within a single box.
If you want to send someone a message, there is write (if the person have mesg set to yes). There is also talk, but it requires its own daemon.
Seriously, _nix started out in the mainframe era. Meaning that the basic assumption was multiple terminals hooked up to a single computer, with a different user on each terminal.
Sadly we have a generation or more that grew up with single user computers, and seems to insist on turning _nix into that rather than embrace what it can offer.
Samba is a "mess" because anything Microsoft is a mess to be compatible with if you are not MS.
That said, sharing files across networks is a hell all its own. In particular if you want something to just automagically appear in some GUI across the office/world/whatever.
Only "reliable" ones are those that require the user at the other end to know what address to enter to get access.
Netsurf can be compiled for framebuffer, and that variant can also be used in X (and imo is much easier to get compiling than the GTK UI).
The process Google has set up is an outcome of DCMA, because Youtube can only operate as long as they can claim DCMA "safe harbor" status.
Yep. You do not have an account on each, you have a Google account that allows you to access all of google's services. And once it is closed, it is game over.
Most people didn't notice this until G+ hit the net, and some kids used their gmail account (set up with parental knowledge and support) got closed because G+ found out they were under 13.
Others have discovered that if their app on Google Play gets into trouble, bye bye gmail etc.
It is a downright hamfisted system, and likely an outcome of Google's drive to automate all the tings...
Dunno if it is still the case, but trains used to offer that as well.
Gets a guy thinking about those old flying boat routes.
Enough to register on sensors, not enough to trigger an immediate evacuation?
Err, when it didn't get the outcome the brass wanted they reset the whole event and set strict rules on the red side.
Since WW2, the "wars" have been mismatched to the extreme (never mind that in both world wars USA came in late, and never had its industrial capacity threatened).
The closest to a symmetrical war was in Korea, after China sent troops. And that war has never really been resolved.
Also went in late in both wold wars, when the other side was basically exhausted.
Never mind never having had to operate the industry under 24/7 bombardment.
Never mind that Win95 didn't need a GPU that could push millions of polygons just to draw its UI...
I suspect that the eternal problem will be that of context.
Back when Google started out, they bet the farm on the idea that more links pointing to a document meant that said document was informative.
These days though, i wonder if what we are looking for is more hair. That what we are looking for depends on a context that can't be properly included in the search terms used.
On top of this "naive" metrics like link counts are no longer a viable measure for what to elevate to the top of the search results.
I think the term used is emergent complexity.
So when you go from particle physics to chemistry, new complexities emerge that can't be explained in the realm of particle physics alone (iirc).
sadly certain "sciences" still cling to the idea that they can simply aggregate the results from multiple of their "particles" and get a solution for larger systems.
An idea that, thanks to US mass media exports, seems to be spreading to other parts of the world...
Gets me thinking about the term evercrack...
And with the kernel showing up in things like the spacex rockets, that is the sensible solution.
But damn it was easy and flexible to mod.
I find useful from time to time (when i am using the mouse to browse anyways). that's in part why i never really got comfortable with the "tabs in titlebar" thing, as i am used to being able to double click the tab bar to get a new tab. But applying that to the tabbed titlebar instead toggle the maximized state of the window.
Lets aim it at the LKML. ;)
The latter was basically my thing in the neighborhood for a time. Started out with BNC connected coax and then upgraded the kit to TP and hubs/switches. Crazy thing is that i had perhaps the shittiest internet connection around...
Two things.
firstly this got me thinking of the interplay between MLK and Malcolm X.
Secondly, overton windows.
Not sure if any of those brands try to blast firmware updates over the net with a "push to prod" mentality...
This reads like something out of a cyberpunk story...
> Thankfully the rockets fly with a heavily customized Linux install.
And this is why Torvalds takes kernel API stability seriously...