Posts by Ilgaz

Google is huge

The reason why better filesystems hasn't went into Windows and Mac (via IFS, not a hack) is easy as nobody cared that much and the cost of getting the certificate it requires. Tests etc. Google is big and got money. After Nokia gave up symbian android will be the only smart phone os that relies on fat for that massive complex and personal data. Its fans can keep downvoting me, hope they never have to recover hundreds of photos because of a kernel crash etc.

shows something else is going on

Amazon actually owns the code and developers of mobireader which also has a perfect security record. So owning the code of similar app and not shipping kindle must have non technical reasons.

yes

Unlike your $10K/hour guys, he just asks for a freaking tea. He must be locked up in a cage and shown to public for that? You really dare to mock a UNIX legend's language? Heard his language credentials?

same here

Amusing that I finally broke the badly designed charger port of my e71 and I wonder around with a 3600 slide now.

What bugs me is the fact that this dumb phone has some real clever preferences and the stuff really matters, opera mini and nimbuzz works perfectly.

Funny that I was monkeying with offline profile to re-register to cell tower forgetting the fact that it takes 3 secs to reboot a feature phone.

As an ex sony ericsson k700i owner I fail to understand their decision too. I still miss my phone which is at bottom of some river now :)

it is crap

Until the market punishes microsoft to transform its sick like culture and nokia gets rid of the manager/suit leeches that put the company to this situation... Nothing good can come from them. In fact even if something comes good, it will spoil in future.

Orlowski being relatively nice

Care to talk to a symbian user (about 100m) about the junk shipped and the real problem of nokia is?

If Nokia and their fans have read that particular author's articles to this date we wouldn't be talking about this anyway. Ars being nice? They are based in USA which never ever seen a real symbian phone. That is the naive / good hearted explanation of course.

he could be

If you knew a bit of apple history, especially the case of them between microsoft and windows 1 at Japanese market, you wouldn't be that suprised.

could be true

As a coincidence I just watched History channel's Jefferson bio and there was something with his last days and his trying to keep living until 50th year anniversary of declaration of independence comes which he wrote.

blame the os

Don't blame the technology for your operating system issues. Trust me on that. It comes from the anarchic windows bluetooth past. As ms somehow let everyone go with their own,there are still 3 standard bluetooth cores to support on windows. If you don't believe me plug it to any mac no matter what version it runs and see how it runs without any driver or zip file.

Not sure about linux but it should be similar. Even as of 2011 advanced software must still support widcomm and microsoft stack same time.

I know why

Unless there is a huge bug in firmware or corrupt preference; your phone gets signal of an operator in another timezone and adjusts to it. That is why all phones (at least the ones I use) has preference to disable auto time update.

You think they will maintain Linux Skype?

If MS maintained Linux Skype, adding all new features, the (IT) World could take a deep breath and say "about time".

It won't happen, they haven't lived the paradigm shift IBM did in 90s, they are not a services giant. They hate people who doesn't "choose" their OS.

Skype has become de facto standard because of its truely massive multiplatform support thanks to use of qt frameworks. They ordered Nokia not to offer Qt for Windows Phone, a framework Nokia owns.

Fill in the dots.

SELinux

I bet NSA will contact them and talk about the SELinux they created themselves (still open source).

Absurd, running Windows and allowing Facebook! Yes, social network, with location etc.

Both are related

You know, it was Steve Jobs who brought down UNIX (yes, OS X is still UNIX and even certified) and Objective C (still c) to hands of general public.

Years ago, people imagined #login on a green monitor when you said UNIX, now some ordinary, a bit technically curious say "I heard this stability comes from the fact that it is UNIX with a nice interface."

Charity?

Spam is UNWANTED mail, the mail you haven't signed up for. Even if Mother Therasa rises up from grave and spams my mail address, she will be reported to spamcop.net .

Being a charity, assuming a religious holiday celebration, serving to "world peace" doesn't matter. I haven't signed up for that thing, you can't provide proof that I signed up (wrongfully called double opt-in) so you are spamming me.

No, unplug the server and ups

In Blackberry tradition and because how the OS/Network works, removing battery and re-plugging is a common "solution". You can bet a lot of BB users did today since to do anything related to BIS (e.g. activate subscription), operator instructs you to do so.

Sad thing is, I sense another MS Winphone partner (!) soon.

Thanks to people like that, oss exists.

Forger/Ignore who rms is and look to his CV with the perfect universities, excellent recommendations, published work used by other legendary developers (includlng the ms/apple elite) and highly prestigious labs.

Also try to imagine what kind of connections with such credentials would have. His linkedin page would be fun.

A person like that, instead of swimming in money, having multimillion dollar home, a car fleet and lost track of share options still wonders around and try to stop the ignorant being abused.

I have never shared his views and IMHO they are way beyond today's half human/half animalistic scheme of things but I just can't accept bunch of lifeless people who achieved nothing in life or would do very evil things for money act like he is some sort of freak.

Dictators were elected too

In Roman republic, Senate said "We are in crisis and last thing we would want would be little political, burocratic games" so they elected a dictator. Obviously, thanks to human nature, dictators were hard to get rid of once elected except one heroic general.

Kinda funny that Apple was also in similar shape when they had to call SJobs back.

It is the 20th and 21th centuries where dictator got its bad meaning.

That is how you sell software

By patching IE 6 and advertising the latest IE (even via portal partners), they get the respect/trust of companies and they also say "we do our best to upgrade our users".

They really did and keep doing whatever possible to make people upgrade the IE version. Same time, you just can't remotely disable IE 6 and literally effect World economy/health/whatever in a browser argameddon.

I am sure

I am sure IBM will spend billions to support Java 7 after Ellison childishly talked about "erasing them" once they reach their integer performance. Like every enterprise looks to integer benchmarks and decide to buy IBM, not because of support system or amazing backwards compatibility, trust etc. :)

Joking of course, I know Big Blue doesn't work that way.

Are you saying IBM doesn't support anything beyond 1.4? Mysterious really. Not into enterprise java thing so I shut up before saying anything stupid.

No it is that powerful

Firefox extension mechanism is massively powerful and they try to find a way to make it lighter, safer without making developers mad.

It is comparable to OS X Input Manager mechanism where Apple had to take serious steps while retaining compatibility. Mozila isn't Apple though so it will take a while.