The worst time of the year for the dogs...

The question has surfaced again and again: What is wrong with Window 8?

The question has surfaced again and again: What is wrong with Window 8?

for me it's not so much what is wrong with win 8 (complete lack of visual cues, inconsistency, etc) as what is wrong with the big picture.

for apple it's a no-brainer. their market penetration on desktop is minimal. they 'own' the tablet market for now. Even if Android devices are now going to invade the tablet market as they have with the smartphone market it doesn't mean a slowdown for apple. the market expands so quickly apple can still grow. if they can make macbooks and imacs a natural choice for ipad owners needing a desktop ot laptop computer that would mean a lot to them. so it will make sense to make macos more ios-like.

what i don't get is microsofts logic here. they have no market penetration whatsoever on tablet or phone. they 'own' the desktop. Why risk the desktop market in a first attempt to get into tablets? "the ui formerly known as metro" can get good for tablets once they fix the usability issues. expect win 9 to be much, much better. but i cannot see how win 8 can become good for a desktop. it's just all wrong. they are forcing this unfinished tablet-centered and very inflexible ui on desktop users who had enough trouble with the upgrade from 98 to xp. and they are surprised they didn't sell a lot of win 8 pc's for xmas?

why not go the more 'natural' route? Live with fragmentation for at least the first release, with the new ui only on tablet and phone releases. fix the problems. experiment with how it would be received on desktop (release it as a free extension for the desktop OS).

imho gnome did a few mistakes with gnome 3 and the way it was released. but gnome-shell is doing it right where win 8 is doing it wrong. by offering a set of visual cues, basic behaviour and workflow that is consistent, but with a completely minimal desktop that can then be expanded into what you need on a desktop or a tablet.

:-D

:-D

Originally shared by Володимир Івлієв

В Новом Году стереотипы вряд ли изменятся. Но может это к лучшему))

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This is definitely the last monday this year.

This is definitely the last monday this year. What a way to end 2012. On the other hand - the first monday in 2013 won't be until the 7th! Yay!

What makes people interesting?

What makes people interesting?

I would say having strong opinions, being free speaking, having a great sense of humor, intelligence in one of its many flavors... And probably a whole lot more.

A rather large percentage of my plusser friends are very open about being non-heterosexual. From what i see their struggles are very different around the globe. Even more of my plusser friends are heterosexual, but supportive of equal rights. I just want to give my support as well. We must respect each other. Feelings cannot be censored.

Originally shared by Edward Branley

THIS!

Christmas - ultimate payback time?

Christmas - ultimate payback time?

The church stole the pagan solstice celebration. Imagine the discussions and the worries as old traditions gave way or became twisted into christian-flavored caricatures.

Then Coca Cola redesigned St. Nicholas and the commercial onslaught started. Payback time! Every single worry the church has now is something they did on purpose to older beliefs.

Currently at 1800 retweets. Apparently struck a nerve.

Originally shared by Mary Mangan

Currently at 1800 retweets. Apparently struck a nerve.

https://twitter.com/PhilRodgers/status/283158876780630016

A girls best friend...

A girls best friend...

May you all have a peaceful christmas celebration.

How do people get crazy enough to become mass murderers?

How do people get crazy enough to become mass murderers?

First a disclaimer: I am in no way a psychologist or any other kind of professional on wetware. I am a computer geek/nerd/admin. You know what that means? Not exactly good on people skills. But here we go...

Questions have been voiced about why the mass murderers seem to be male, white middle class. A few possible explanations entered my mind today, centered on a few peculiarities in the american society as seen from the outside. I could be way off... Please don't feel insulted.

A psychologist claimed that a lot of the maya calendar hysteria was rooted in a need to fear something. To feel a contrast to our easy life. That without any fear in our lives we would go crazy.

And it struck me. The USA is the country of litigations. The country where everything has to be safe, or it will cost you. The country where people don't dare hold childrens birthday parties at home because they fear what would happen if a visitor hurt him/herself. Where playgrounds must be so safe the only reason children don't fall asleep is that they have never experienced a better one.

Add in double standards. Americans are extremely good there. Pretend to be so religious. Go to church. Because if you don't your environment will react. You can be the same person all you want, but if you don't pretend to be a good christian...

And remember to always be polite. Never, ever say a foul word or raise your voice. Talk behind peoples back instead of tackling them head on.

Do white middle class boys grow up with so few challenges and so few dangers that they have a bigger chance of going crazy? Do the double standards add to it? Do all kinds of minorities either have other family values or meet so many challenges that it actually saves them mentally? Do women meet so many challenges just for being women that they are saved? Or do they handle the problem differently?

Or is it just me who should go back to writing shell scripts instead of trying to understand people?

Happy new baktun everybody!

Happy new baktun everybody!
Remember to get the date right. I always mess up on new baktuns. Today is 13.0.0.0.0

Lets go!

Lets go!

Originally shared by ****

Where we goin'?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36kL2alg7Jk

funniest one so far today...

funniest one so far today...

Originally shared by Morten Larsen

Thank you for the invite! I'm looking forward to doing it #krysrocks  style!

F18, realmd and Active Directory

F18, realmd and Active Directory

In Fedora 18 there is no need to mess around with winbindd to log into your work account anymore. SSSD in combination with the new realmd and the new gnome user manager can autodiscover kerberos domains and set up automagically. Active Directory is supported. Just make sure you have realmd installed and you should get 'Enterprise login' as a choice when setting up a new user. A dropbox should list all autodiscovered domains.

I tried this the day after the beta was launched, and I had to set selinux to permissive mode to get it working.

Nice feature for enterprise users!

I can't help thinking this should be important

I can't help thinking this should be important

M83 'Midnight City' Official video

http://youtu.be/DJQQrjVmQG0

http://vimeo.com/55030013#

#ingressinvite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE

Hi.

Hi. I am a very long time Unix and Linux administrator (since SunOS 3.5 on Sun 3/280), and now mostly working in the RedHat family. Fedora on my laptop, and CentOS/RHEL on servers. Some Debian as well.

Windows 8 and deceptive marketing

Windows 8 and deceptive marketing

"New style" (The user interface formerly known as Metro) apps are single-window apps. The option to show part of another app on the screen doesn't seem to work very well. In practice you are supposed to work in one app at a time, just like the old Finder OS on the original Mac.

Shouldn't the name be changed to "Microsoft Window 8" then? And the logo changed to a single square, not the current one that seems to imply 4 simultaneous windows on the screen?

Plausible...

Plausible...

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