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.. and no IE option. They do not hold a gun to my head to force me to use it. Oh no. They lock the work pc down and stop paying my salary if I don't. Suck is the wage slave life.

No love for my fav browser here. There never is. Oh well.

Yeah same here. For me, it's not a problem of waiting but finding a normal phone. I used to have a clam-shell phone which broke 3 months ago. It's impossible to get a decent one where I live so I have to deal with a stupid ass key locking, screen scratching, humongous bar type phone.

So glad that Jobs is dead and I hope his ilk doesn't crop up again in my life time. So happy that Apple is losing ground. I have enough hippies around even without Apple encouraging it.

Good point about the filthy sensor - hadn't even thought of that. Yuk. (good one about the dog).

"what's so special about Bodhi compared to say, Kubuntu?"

First, I find Kubuntu buggy and bloated. The same goes for Gnome and it's GVFS crap and other bits.

Bodhi ran great on the slow system I tested it on.

The only failure IMO which kept me from using Bodhi was the lack of stunning and bug free themes. As is the case with several window managers, a lot or all of the pre-installed themes suck and suck hard. There were a few minor bugs with Bodhi which also steered me away.

All a person really needs to do is to install Debian minimal and build up from there.

TLDR; another promising, unique and lightweight distro falls.

another minor correction:

"while they continue to push mostly mundane Microsoft stories every day or every other day."

Should refer only to Slashr0t

minor correction -

"just like they failed to publish news of Robin William's death"

Soylent News may have reported this story but I know for a fact Slashr0t failed.

The story was submitted to all three sites.

The other two failed to publish them, just like they failed to publish news of Robin William's death while they continue to push mostly mundane Microsoft stories every day or every other day.

Slashd0t Beta: JUST IN! Bill Gates just picked his nose! Please face in the direction of ONE MICROSOFT WAY when you pray to Microsoft with your Microsoft Beads App.

I cannot see Seamonkey/Iceape in the list. That is the one I use on all my Linux setups, and it is also the one my folks use on their Windows PCs.

Not necessarily. I suspect it'll be the same as with cars. As some cars begin to support more and more automation, they'll need to still monitor surrounding spaces for manually operated vehicles (not to mention pedestrians, cyclists, animals, etc), and take appropriate action to avoid collisions. Airborne drones shouldn't be any different, but in the interest of safety and progress, maybe instead of doing nothing, you buy an inexpensive "broadcast beacon" that can let automated drones know there's a manually operated vehicle in the area, so give a wide berth if possible.

And rightly so. The trick will be policing all the unlicensed drones shipped in pieces from overseas and/or hand built, that don't obey or participate in the automated traffic control.

But I guess that's what new laws and enforcement are for.

I wonder if this will also affect smaller model aircraft. Maybe I should read the fine article.

already on soylent

In reply to the second question, yes, of course.

already posted on soylent.

already on Soylent

That's really two questions: (1) why is e17 more interesting/better than KDE as a desktop, and (2) why is it better to install Bodhi, which is an e17-focused distro than simply installing e17 on another distro?

With regard to the first question: different people like different desktops, so that's a tough question to take a position on without starting a flamewar. I find that e17 does everything KDE4 does but more prettily and by using fewer resources. It took a little while to figure out how e17 organizes its functionality (there are modules and shelves and gadgets and it's all slightly different). But once I figured it out, I liked it better.

As for the second question, the fact that Bodhi people spend all their time making e17 work well on Bodhi means that more care and attention have gone into the integration. E17 is available on opensuse, for example, but when I installed it I found it was not as well packaged, required a lot more effort to make useable, and in general wasn't as easy to use. That's no surprise - the opensuse people spend most of their time focusing on KDE4 and Gnome3, and e17 is of secondary importance to them.

Don't see how anyone can be anything but welcoming to this initiative. Something like this is the missing piece without which the FAA would be remiss NOT to be highly cautionary about mass civilian drone use. I would say this makes the FAA look smart for its existing stand, and a whole lot of clueless lay people are looking pretty dumb for seeing no problem with helter-skelter unregulated commercial drone use.

I'm not a fan of this kind of article.

So from an outsider's naive point of view, what's so special about Bodhi compared to say, Kubuntu? Or just using Wheezy/Jessie and installing E17? I mean, for it to work with no setup right out of the box is neat and all, but is that alone worth maintaining a whole separate distro?

Yep, I see no need to get a smart phone. And I see even less need to get a smart watch. If it's tethered to the phone to provide any functionality, then why would you need it? Doesn't the phone do that? They were right in calling it digital perfume.

Right next to Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.

this was covered at soylent and slashdot a week ago, and didn't get many comments

There is potentially hope, but I dunno. Bodhi had a pretty lively and vigorous community, and the distro's goals were pretty narrow and focused - provide E17 (and maybe now E18?) on a Ubuntu base. That means a bit more than just compiling and packaging, but there's at least some hope a dedicated general would like to step up and become admiral, or equivalent.

No need to duck, my anonymously cowardly friend. We covered PC-BSD two weeks ago: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-08-29/friday-distro-pc-bsd

Have a look at the search feature on the left. Search on the word Distro and you'll find the other 5 or 6 distros we've covered.
http://pipedot.org/search?needle=Distro&haystack=stories

But, but, don't you want the magic of paying for your morning coffee by scraping your $500 watch repeatedly against a filthy sensor next to the register at 7-11?

:)

(How do you get the earbuds to stay in the dog's ears? I assume the nano clips to the collar.)

Actually, I would love that. I use FreeBSD myself as desktop and server, but I'd be very interested to read about using OpenBSD or PC/BSD or DragonFly or NetBSD or whatever else is out there.

On the bright side he could also cover BSD variants *ducks*

Perhaps next gen wifi stations could have ant radio support... hey dude, my modem does DSL, LAN, WAN, a/b/g/n300/n600DB and ANT!

TOR? Ha! In my day we had to shout incomprehensible garbage at each other to communicate in secret. Both ways! In the snow! Using our own cipher books and decrypter rings!

Looks like a step towards making science fiction into science fact. Now. Where is my automagical healing machine?

I wholeheartedly agree. I, too, am sorry that this is the first I am hearing of this distro. But at least Pipedot reported about it, unlike Slashdot, SoylentNews and other sites.

From the user viewpoint this really sucks, though we can all understand Jeff's priorities.

This makes the applephone look like a terrible deal - it doesn't do much, requires a huge investment (new phone plus watch) and requires the phone to mostly be in your pocket anyway, so what's the point?

My magic combo is still:
regular old stupid wristwatch
fatty smartphone in the pocket when I need it
ipod nano for music while I walk the dog

No convergence for me!

Good point. Maybe they don't offer a torrent anymore? You might want to make sure it's the latest version. I downloaded by FTP or HTTP from their site last time. Since it's a CD-size distro, it's a 600MB download, which is reasonable and doesn't take too long.

Write back later and tell us what you thought of the distro!

What about CEPH on btrfs versus CEPH on ZFS ? Does anyone have some clue baout that? I would be _verY_ interseted about this one topic but never cross any reading about the later...

glad to read such a news here, even if it the first time I read about this specific distro...

I'm supposed to have this Monday off!

I find I tend to only have soft spots for a few English dubbed Animes, mostly ones I was exposed to as a child. One of them in Sailor Moon of course. But I generally agree with the watch it with subs for every other single Anime mantra. English dubs COULD be good but it seems the studios do not go to the effort to get voice actors that match the original Japanese voice actors in tone or character, I find it to be a real shame. I've also had the unfortunate experience of purchasing a few dubbed Animes and the extras on one certain series had the voice actors doing a commentary, one episode the voice actors were making FUN of the show. Never again Mad Man. Never. Again.

I thought I'd give this one a try today. Couldn't find the torrent on their downloads page - http://www.absolutelinux.org/download.shtml - which is strange.

A quick google found it on linuxtracker.org - http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=6a842a8597786a1659220dd961e279fd6a2d6747

Given how much fake software is floating around these days it is always good to have a link from the official site.

Perhaps they made the watch smart enough to continue running without the phone present ..

Now I am wondering how this compares to the Pebble. From CNET:

The Good: The Pebble Watch is waterproof, runs a ton of apps, and works with both iOS and Android phones. A new app store improves the whole experience.
The Bad: A lack of touch screen and multitasking limits the capability of apps; scratch-prone polycarbonate design doesn't feel nearly as impressive as the Pebble Steel.
The Bottom Line: With a major software update and new app store, the original Pebble gets a new lease on life -- a less stylish but arguably better value than the newer Steel.

Some info on the apple watch:

• The Apple Watch is a music player like an iPod
• has a fitness tracker with heart-rate measurements
• can send and receive messages, calls and audio recordings
• It's meant to stay paired and connected while you wear it for most features, but it also does some things while disconnected, too.
• supports Apple Pay
• has heart-rate tracking technology
• will only work with iPhone
• Storage: unknown
• ETA: mid 2015

This is where your iPod comes in...

File a bug for captcha issues - http://bugs.pipedot.org/

Yup, and mine was the "I think I see your problem" which was of course sarcastic but could conceivably be considered trolling by someone without a sense of humor. There are one or two registered Pipedot users who have very itchy downmodding fingers. It wouldn't be as big a problem if a single negative didn't make comments disappear. It's not fair to the CONVERSATION.

Yeah, that's the thing - I'm not sure how many of those things the watch is gonna do without the phone in proximity.

Enable closed captions. They are there.

Small bug when I added "-" to the list of allowed characters in a URL for a title. Should be fixed now.

Going running with a 5" smart phone is quite annoying.

Let us make it shorter. Going running [...] is quite annoying.

The question makes no sense. The question you should be asking is "is there any reason to prefer btrfs", and the answer is, at this time, no. ZFS is not "getting there", it is THERE. Has been for a while. Super stable. btrfs is still very much in development. A very slow development.

If you really, really, really must insist on the question as framed, here are some reasons:
* I do not believe btrfs has as yet any counterpart to raidz, raidz2, or raidz3
* snapshots are handled in a very clumsy manner in btrfs, and very succinctly in ZFS
* ZFS has no fsck because by design it doesn't need one. btrfs needs fsck and has only a limited version as yet.
* ZFS filesets are much more versatile than btrfs subvolumes.
* Creation and destruction of ZFS filesets is essentially instantaneous. As I remember it, btrfs like ext2/3/4, etc, is emphatically not.
* Many, many more reasons.

> So... They think there is a market for a watch. Interesting.

The market for a watch exists, yes.

Going running with a 5" smart phone is quite annoying. Having an unobtrusive watch which does GPS, timing and logging, pulse monitoring, SMS, NFC for small purchases, music, etc. which is fully interoperable with the rest of your mobile devices will be a big thing for a lot of people.

Lots and lots of young people go out running or cycling and have the disposable cash. I know a number of non-geeks who want one of these watches badly.

That short anime is most impressive. Sub for it would be nice for those of us who don't understand Japanese :)