Posts by Gerhard den Hollander 238 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Feb 2007
You need to sideload snap if you want to access the googlplay store. If you can find the raw apk file, you can just doubleclick it.
2 caveats:
1) corporate phones usually have a security policy that disables debug mode, so no sideloading possible
2) some android apps rely on the Google play api (e.g. For in game purchases) and Google play api is not supported on bb10.
So Google maps will work fine, plants vs zombies 2 fails to start.
As a recent owner of a Q10 (to replace a dead bold 9x00) I have to say this device is sweet.
The android compatibility layer is great, some of my favorite apps are now available as .apk's (endomorphpo, spotify, google maps).
The new UI takes some getting used to, but is actually very easy to use.
It has a physical keyboard ... honestly, if you do more than a few emaisl a day, physical keyboards are soo much better than touchscreens.
It finally has a decent webbrowser
And if you have a BES server as a corporate email gateway, honestly, there is no alternative worth trying for more than a few days
I would still go for a recruiting job ... kinda like how the brit intel agency in WWII found people who were good at crosswords , and used that as a selection starting point.
Spy agencies need peole who you can tell, we know that messages are being swapped through the XXXXX messageboard, without them going ``yeah, Duh .. it's a message board, what do you expect '' and in stead find the steganosaurs
Weird
Optimus just works for me (using the nvidia drivers, which are a 1 -click install, and a lot quicker and easier to install than doing the same on windows 7
I currently run my main linux box with 3 screens connected to it. Took about all of 15 minutes to get it to work, at least 10 of which was spend trying to find a HDMI cable to connect screen #3
Whereas windows 7 for some reason insists on removing my second screen as soon as I switch off the monitor, happily moving all my apps to screen #1, then when I switch off screen #1 as well, poor old windows doesnt know what to do anymore, so when I poweron my monitors the next morning, my whole desktop is screwed.
So, in order to maintain my desktop overnight, I have to leave both my monitors on (and let them switch to powersave mode).
Sound has been nice, stable and rocking since oh I dont know, mid 1995 I think (which is when I bought the first soundcard for my PC).
Printers, are actually a lot easier under Linux then under windows, as all the models I've tried work out of the box on Linux , whereas on windows I needed to hunt down the right drivers (yes, Dell, Im talking about you)
As for laptop battery life. Im sure you have a point there. Thankfully Im noever to far away from a wallsocket, and I prefer to enjoy my plane trips reading a good book, in stead of trying to work on a heavy laptop
To get winphone in the enterprise, a few things I could think of
* physical keyboard (seriously, while it's fun to see people struggling, fighting,. cussing and swearing at their touchscreen, it gets stale pretty quickly if you're on the receiving end of emails send that way)
* proper exchange integration (only blackberry seems to have gotten it right, by tying exchange to the BES, and than using BES to talk to the device. Form what little I tried on iphones and androids, their exchnage integration is nowehere as smooth and seamless
* lync integration
The latter 2 now seem to be available in winphone 8 .. too bad I've never seen anyone actullay using ti to see how good this is ...
Any chance of getting a winhone with aphysical keyboid ?
from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/ubuntu_second_beta_review/
Smart Scopes also seem to have become a little smarter. Search results were a bit more relevant than when I have tested this feature in the past, though there is still plenty of junk. Why Britney Spears albums come up on a search for "Thailand" is something only Canonical knows. Maybe.
hear .. hear ..
people taking pictures at any event , using a tablet/iPad should simply be taken out and shot.
I mean, wtf would youo take an ipad in the first place to a concert ?
It's not like a spur of the moment, ohh I only have an ipad thing.
You deliberately thought about it, and decided to take an iPad / tablet to take pictures, in stead of a (much smaller) camera or your iPhone. [no iPad wihout an iPhone in like 99% of the cases]
So your nvidia card (or your AMD card) will not work with Mir ?
(or at least not work accelerated)
That's a minor disappointment.
And what about things like mplayer (and friends) who use the acceleration in those proprietary X drivers for nice smooth video playback ?
Also, editing xorg.conf ?
Havent needed to do so by hand in years ... nvidia-settings does it all (including hot plugging monitors, triple monitor support , laptop support ).
The only time I needed to manually ahck the xorg.conf tree was when I wanted to have one of my monitors in portrait mode (though even that can now easily be done through the nvidia-settings dialog)
It would be running ARM, which is (one of the) reasons windows RT fails.
If you want a laptop, you want to do windowsy stuff on it (for work purposes outlook 2010 connecting to exchange plus some vpn stuff that's real windows only).
For hobby purposes, you pretty soon end up needing some stuff that's windows only (roxio dvd creator, or some silly games or ....)
Dali clock still lives, along with xscreensaver (which I still run), both from the same guy, who used to code for netscape (remember the days ) .
xv wasnt really an editor, and other than viewnior, not many image programs come close to it's ease of use when it come to putting an image on the screen as fast as possible, with as little unnecesary junk as possible.
Same here. Working mainly on Linux, I usually have 3 different browsers open (Opera, Firefox and chrome) sometimes including konqueror/rekonq/whatever.
Of those 3/4 I find that I tend to use opera least, simply because it doesnt fo what I want it to, or at least not in the way I expect it to.
Nothing serious, but sometimes it's just slower, sometimes it's just annoying and sometimes it's just crap.
And sometimes it does things to a webpage that none of the other browsers do
Still it has it's uses, so i keep using it, but if I had to stop using any one of those 3, the obvious choice would be opera.
back in the early 90s this was more or less how you had to compile gcc on machines that did not come with a compiler
You downloaded a bit of binary code that would compiler some source code into a proto compiler
(or if you had access to a Convex, you could use the Convex C compiler to build the proto compiler)
the proto compiler would then compile a second set of source code into a simple compiler (Im tempted to write a basic compiler, but that would confuse matters).
the simple compiler would then use the gcc source code to compile gcc
[but this was not the end of the build cycle, there was more ...]
the gcc-you-had-just-build would then recompile the gcc source code to create a proper gcc compiler
Note that the downloading process could involve having to uudecode some uuencoded files to get the proto-compiler, and there may not be a uudecode program for your OS.. Fear not .. as long as your OS had a hex editor, you could usualy find a printed copy of the hex code to do basic uudecode on your system.
All you had to do is retype the printout exactly as it was in the printout.
Though I think most of the ftp sites (like the wsmr one) had binaries of uudecode for pretty much any conceivable platform) ...
Ah, but those were the days when USB pens and other USB devices were thicker then they are now, and the USBplug part would be at the bottom of the USB device,
so having 2 in reverse polarity mounted atop of each other meant that you could use the double height USB devices without blocking the other port.
Crappy ascii art
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Last time I had to do this, I used a perl script to manage the .csv's into whatever the right way to format a date value was so that excel could recognize it.
Not sure if that would work for you though.
This was 5 orso years ago, output to .csv -> perl script -> email -> excel 2003.
Took some fiddling, but after that the script worked fine.
Not sure what became of that script though. Couldnt find it , and cannot remember what the exact magic format was that made ezxcel get it right. Maybe just simply yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
Not sure how it works, but here is how I understand it.
Google maps get part of their traffic data from 3rdparties, and part of it from phones using googlemaps.
This means that google maps works (at least over here) on my blackberry just as accurate as google maps using chrome on my desktop computer.
As far as how real time the data is, I've used it a couple of times whilst stuck in traffic (either when I was not driving, or by having handed the phone to someone who was driving with me). The traffic data (at least in the NL, germany, belgium and france) seemed to be accurate upto a few minutes, good enough to get a pretty accurate idea how far you would be stuck in barely moving traffic.
China, Japan and South Korea would be very, very unhappy.
Even assuming the mere threat of the US invading would let to the fall of the NK government, and total freedom for it's people, without a single shot being fired,a nd the entire NK nuklear arsenal being disposed off safely, and immediately, it will only be the start of problems in that region.
Neither China nor South Korea will be capable of handling the influx of 1m starving North Koreans if the border opens. Nor will the South Korean economy be able to cope with this.
Reuniting NK and SK will be a lot more difficult then the east/west german reunion.
I've seen more examples then I would like to remember of people who, when gettting conflicting information from roadsigns and their satnav, would trust their satnav.
If there are major roadworks in the Netherlands, these now include warning signs that people should switch off their satnav.
Not a waste of time for me, as other have said, it will make my home network a lot easier.
And sidestepping the whole AD stuff, sharing unix shares over samba to windows clients will (under certain circumstances) be faster then accessing a windows file share over the same network.
If samba 4 has better performance than previous incarnations, that would be good news.
Not sure about this apple, but I've got 2 Dell screens that have USB connectors at the bottom, and nothing has ever fallen out of them. If I connect a USB drive to those sockets, I use an extension core (or a USB drive with a long enough cable :) ) so that the disk can lie flat on the desk, with enough manouvring spce so that I can move the monitor without the cables getting unstuck.
I cannot vouch for the reviewer, but lack of call quality, missed calls due to too low ringer volume are (to me at least) pretty big reasons not to buy a phone.
Also a battery that doesnt even last a day ? On a new phone ? That's another reason not to buy it.
While most days I will be near a place where I can recharge my phone (read, behond a computer with a USB port), there are days (oh so joyous days) where I can (and will) be away from those places as much as possible. And while I understand that I can even make those days more enjoyable by not taking a phone, or leaving it switched off, I dont always have that luxury ...
Same here .. I never managed to convince myself to shell out the money to buy OS/2.
I wanted to get Warp, becuse it could run windows better then windows itself , but I never could convince myself to spend the money on it.
As for running 32bit, back then I was doing most of my development on SunOs (4.X) or Convex (with some dabbling on IBM AIX 3 and even a Dec Alpha (cannot remember what the model was), so 32bit was so common for us, that we failed to realize why MS was making so much noise about it :)
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