The future of Linux looks thin - opinions?
Matt Asay writes in TechRepublic that instead of a fat, multi-purpose distribution, Linux might evolve into a variety of thin, specialized distributions like CoreOS. What do you think?
The future of Linux looks very, very thin - TechRepublic
Rick
There is an impressive map at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg, which shows all the Linux distributions and their offspring. I guess all these distributions had some idea where things should or would be heading. 90 % of these distributions I have never even heard off. If different distributions mean multipurpose, than Linux is the clear winner.
In terms of providing a universal software solution, multipurpose plays a role in the end user market. Every vendor who sees their share in the desktop market is competing with smartphones and tablet computers, trying to get a piece of the cake. Multipurpose, as far as I'm aware, is historically a Microsoft philosophy. Other vendors, like Apple for instance, rather thought of creating special systems depending on devices. All these vendors will probably have to meet somewhere in the middle.
The way I see it, Linux enterprise and server installations, and the same goes for all commercial Unix systems, are always optimized installations for a particular hardware, service and purpose. I think server installations are going to be more and more service optimized and multipurpose is going to be replaced by virtualization.
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Rather than persists in the future thread...
The point I was making would be for Archs documents to pick up where man pages leave off, but whatever.
If you think I stated Arch must fix man pages, not so. I was intending to show that docs as a whole, leave whole subjects unhandled, Arch could provide the answers in its own docs and come out as a hero.
Or maybe not.
And remember, users who cannot configure ppp cannot get on the internet to get the ppp configuration docs. Or any other docs, for that matter. One failed configuration needing web documents might leave the newbie stranded.
Or maybe not.
I personally think that a lot of configuration has to be made before Linux (Arch or others) will communicate over the internet to a remote website, so as to allow documentation to be visible..... but hey, maybe I missed something? Like the document to get a modem setup? So I could get web based documents? Chicken and egg?
Maybe not, eh?
As for the concept of needing to be an experienced admin - these folks usually do not need any docs. That compares to bad docs to a newbie - essentially no docs. Missing docs and no internet access are also useless. Thus, the newbie without documents needs the only thing which gets anyone else through the issue - the newbie needs experience, because the docs are weak or missing or erroneous. Try as you might, that is an issue I went through. Take, for example, when I needed network assistance. Archs forums were not the first place I went asking for help, believe me; I asked and am still asking. 2 years now, and I'm just getting told Samba. Need I say this is baloney? That issue is not Archs fault, but Arch could have a smashing success on its hands if it were to document a few critical areas as well as 0.2 was documented.
Installing and partitioning... What can I say... apeiro is not mentioning anything I've PM'd him about: secondary hard disks getting reformatted. My pm brought me the answer that most Archers never repartition, so the script was.... well, I guess you could say it was a shot in the dark. Fine, but the PM stated the alternative was something like 'I usually use the commandline stuff and simply reformat the existing partitions'.
Why the **** would an inexperienced newbie set up partitions outside of using the installer?? The Arch docs tells the newbie to use the installer to partition their hard disks! What, exactly, is the newbies idea of an installers purpose? Are you a newbie when you decide what a newbie has for skills? The installer obliterated gigabytes of data, I trusted that it was going to perform safely, and yet nobody ever used it to learn of the glitch? Ooookkaaaaayyyy.
Folks, the docs said to use the installer. Never mentioned possibly partitioning from the command line. Take your pick, the newbie was not at fault for following the docs.
I'll run along, because I cannot possibly be speaking truth. Neither am I telling you where I had problems. This is cannot be feedback, it must be dunbars rantings. Does Arch have a future when feedback is considered trolling or flaming the developers? Lighten up, folks, I had once been trying to offer help and sought to get help.
I know this is a labor of love for you all; in many ways, Linux is a labor of mine as well. Sadly, you are not hearing some issue that could help make Arch the distro that some folks want it to be.dunbar wrote:Step by step: I mentioned a few weak areas that newbies would not know how to address.
I mentioned that newbie would not necessarily have the skills to get the correct docs from a myriad of websites.
Which appear (and frequently are) obsolete.
Well, then we include the docs and then non-newbies would complain that we are cluttering the filesytem and you would complain because those documents are obsolete. sound familiar? i have seen this argument before and there is not winning it. people bitch about the manpages, docs, etc ALL THE TIME. you must know that. so the best we can do is add your concerns to our own documents and add necessary documents to the files.
When their internet connection was what had failed, the internet doc is not available.
And when they had no Xwindows in which to read HTML documents,
and nothing tells the newbie about CLI browsers.
i would expect that no absolute green newbies would try arch so those newbies that do show up i would assume have some linux experience (one can be a newbie and have some experience) so i would assume that they would know about lynx or links browsers or at least know how to use cat and less.
another point about this is that if a newbie does not even know how to use cat, less, or a cli editor to view files then they would be very very f**ked with arch linux and having self contained documents would be pretty pointless. so again i would ask is it not wise to print out/write down any relevent install/configuration instructions? you do know how to write since you already say you don't have a printer?
okay so if we include install configuration data in the installer will you know how to access it? is it fair to tell the user that it is in such and such directory and you can access it through say vc1-4? should we scrap our online docs altogether and just have them self contained?
The network thing was changed along the way - IPX/SPX was part of the issue, my 5 port switch is another part. I am not berating you, sarah31, nor am I asking anyone to re-write man pages, etc. as several posts seemed to attribute to me. The man pages are the weak spot, Arch docs need to go from there. Never wanted to say more than that.
and all i wanted to know is what apps do we extend our documentation to? all of them? are you saying that all our apps need extended docs? can you point me to one distro that has extended documents of all their applications? besides ppp what would YOU extend? it is fair to ask this of arch developers/users but they really need to know just what manpages are defunct and have no bearing on arch.
i would not expect a request like this would get fulfilled too quickly there are lots of applications' man pages and docs to go through then the developers would have to determine what is needed and what is not.
as for manpages......i used to find them unreliable but to be honest most manpages i have viewed lately have been very clear and concise about how to operate/configure apps. i am not saying this to contradict you but i say it honestly. when i have been unable to find someone to ask on this forum or irc manpages normally do the trick for me. (and don't say it is because i am some expert with linux because i a definitely not)
I'm trying to point out that A] with a presumed goal of gaining Linux users,
B] Arch, being small, uncluttered and likely attractive to newbies (small draws newbies because it is so small (dialup accessible but only one big download at a time) and older systems where XP won't fit on their disks, etc) and also
C] since Arch had very tight documents covering what needed to be done (but might need more topics covered), I felt that was likely going to lead to newbies arriving here in some situations that
D] Arch clearly tries to assume will not need the attentions of forum members (which have the skills) and
E] the newbie does not have the skills.
That would lead to the assumption that Arch was not interested in the users needs.
with respect to this.....well what can i say but you are a complete ***hole. for one thing small does not always attract newbies in fact i know ALOT ALOT ALOT of people that will not even try arch or similar distros because they are small. most people want the choice to kludge up their system if they like but arch is not in this realm yet because we do not offer alot of packages.
i agree we need more stuff covered in our documents and you would not find a single user or developer that would disagree with you. So i guess this point you make throws out your idea of extending the manpages because that is not a concise project (for example manpages for transcode are good but to get into all the basics a newbie would need to know would require one to be alot more verbose similarily with networking documents)?
to say that we here do not pay attention to users is ABSOLUTELY THE WRONG ANSWER. there are only two pages of unanswered post and considering there are always post that are merely statements that do not need to be answered that is very good. in fact if you even bothered to check there are only 79 unanswered posts out of 4512. that's 1.75% of the posts on the forum are unanswered. besides that there are always questions that no one has an answer to. obscure problems do exist i know i have hit many in my ventures in any OS.
besides this forums are a free service. no one is under obligation to use it user AND developers alike. no one is paid here so don't diss anyone and don't feel that anyone is obligated to answer you.
i can also say that you are a complete arrogant ass for saying arch does not care about its users. we don't care about you that is for certain. but i can guarantee that everything i did every package i made, upgraded, donated, fixed, etc was for the user. people wanted openoffice i spent a week building it then it got broken with the upgrade to gcc 3.3 i spent another week trying to fix it without luck then judd spent 3 days compiling and patching 1.1. so do you EVER say we don't fucking care you little ingrate.
The perceived 'lack of clarity' on my part is because I am still a newbie. I might have a few things working under Slackware, but I'm not certain, today, where I even made the changes. I'm not asking for hints on how to keep a notebook, I have one, it is 40 miles away, I cannot discuss Linux by reading my notes or grepping my config files, they are 40 miles away. I cannot log into my Linux PC, I only have dial up, the only telephone line in my house is for voice communications. DSL is too far away, Cable is too expensive.... have I never said any of this before? No, not in this thread, but I've always been a hardliner on those points sarah31. I do not match up with what is assumed of me. But here I am, posting, despite my ineptitude.
"Waaagh i'm a newbie. waggh i don't have highspeed pity me pity meee!"
there are lots of users on dialup here including developers so we don't give a flying f**k.
I believe the deepest undercurrent I see here is diverging viewpoints of what Arch is and diverging goals for Arch. My views are different from a few who assume the Archer has the skills, hApy seems to have a third viewpoint, and yet a third viewpoint exists.
yeah and you are saying we have to conform to your view. typical. funny we seem to be getting more and more users all the time both newbie and non newbie and this despite having a completely uncaring development team and a horrendous set of docs. one of the funny things is that many of the newbies recently are all dialup like you and they still take time to make irc interesting or contribute packages.
If my posts reflect an atmosphere of bewildering viewpoiints, I'm not surprised - I've tried to reply to differing posts which take differing opinions; I suppose it is frustrating to anyone to reply to 3 posts at once. I'm replying in order to offer my view of when I was a frustrated newbie (this morning, I think ;-) ). Remember, I was told by a certain forum member that, most certainly, dunbar was a slackware user and the assumption was that he must be nearly expert - yet, I declared, no, I'm not an expert and I freely admit a lack of skills. I was not the one who estimated dunbars skills, Sarah31.
oh you are soooo subtle in your insults. come on you tell me after hundreds of installs and two years of using linux you don't know anything? find me five green newbies that know how to grep or know to look online for information. personally i and many others here and elsewhere have little time for someone who cries about being a newbie when they obviously aren't.
what is it some sort of ploy to make people feel sorry for you or shorten your look online for info that you likely could find in two minutes? spare me. up to one year you are a n00b after that you are not.
I'm definitely not interested in dissing anyone, not you, nor Gyroplast, nor Apeiro, nor hApy .....
hmmm you care to stand by that or should i pull out several quotes to the contrary?
I have pointed out that early on, Arch was interested in being Judds perfect distro... did anyone ask him if he ever said that? As I said, I can offer to cut and paste, if you wish.
so your point is? is this a bad thing? is it not possible for many of us to believe it is the perfect distro for us as well? why not diss yoper for claiming to be THE distro.
Yet, I'm clearly getting 2 viewpoints in response to me repeating that fact. Thus, in order to push the reader away from their position, so as to get them to walk in my shoes, I post from different directions aiming toward one central condition. Is the issue me, and me alone? Or did the issue exist, and I'm guilty of responding to all viewpoints and thus I'm guilty of pointing it out?
i have been in your shoes and i often get put back in your shoes when i start to use or investigate applications or areas of linux i have never explored before. so whats your point? if it was to fix up the documentation? that was a goal for some time now in fact a few users have made it an ongoing thing.
you are not the only one that is a newbie here nor are you the only one here. there are many things that developers must balance when they do their duties. there will never be a distro that will satisfy all a user's needs but i can tell you that the arch team does try to please as many people as possible. so yeah i think you are the issue to some extent. you could have come in here and politely explained what it is that you felt needed improvement but instead you came in and whine and cried that you were so abused and that we had to change to please you. it was all about you anyone can easily extract that from the way you keep flipping between i'm a newbie, i'm not a newbie but i speak for newbies. if you cannot find the offesive comments you have made along the way or see how some people came to the conclusions they did then it is your fault.
Anyway, you mentioned the ethernet thread.... thydian is evidently new here. Lets explain that issue out loud (since you already raised the matter). I offered to write a document regarding Ethernet setup, I was not shown what to do (frozdsolid posted that they were "pretty sure that's necessary"). I do not assume that every member here reads every posted message; thus, I believe I had read the opinion of someone who was as newbie to Arch as I myself was a newbie (frozdsolids title still shows only 4 posts even today). Nobody here 'handed me an answer' as some might conclude from your post.
well YOU may not have gotten answer but people DID try to answer your question and, in fact, the answer is there. but you could not extract it or did not know how to ask the question properly to get the result you desired.
but of course we are the bad guys here because we took the time to try and give you an answer. man you are such a wanker....
I posted everywhere else on the internet about my situation using IPX/SPX, I heard that it was a dead protocol. I finally found information about IPX/SPX, it was not herein, so the forum was of no use in that instance - that is a fact, sarah31. Now that I have concluded that IPX/SPX was not the best choice and changed the rest of the household over to TCP/IP...... the IPX/SPX issue is no longer the focus, so I dropped the subject; until I was 6 months later, I came back here, saw BluPhoenixs post and was a bit confused. That lead to him suggesting DOSemu, I stated no, that was not preferred, etc. etc. I ultimately thanked BluPhoenix, stated why I was going to drop the issue, and I left the thread cold.
so why insist on blaming us for something that we tried to answer but was obviously beyond our knowledge? you did it at the end of that thread and you constantly do it here. how many other people did you verbally assault along the way?
The whole thing got misdirected, away from what I was asking for, as if the topic was no longer my decision alone.
what a pile of BS. it was YOUR thread so get in there and assert yourself. threads get out of hand sometimes but the original poster can easily get control again if they have a pair.
i know for a fact that the people he chose to insult would and have tried to help him but he blows them off. i know too that the head developer is VERY open to user contributions yet dunbar chose not to contribute.
The reasons should be evident by now - when I offered to contribute, I had the time; 6 months of time transpired, I was not able to write because I had no answers with which to generate such a document. I had to revoke the offer. I am taken by surprise that anyone would say I was given the necessary information!
BS again you just stated that you got your answer (outside of our forum) so you could have easily posted back with what you had found out and then provided documentation later. and you mean to tell me that you have not had time in the last six months to wing something together. shit you have practically written a novel here.
it is obvious to me that you just want to guard that knowledge and us it to flame and troll here. once you had the answers you were sure to come back and flame that thread and continue flaming on a regular basis. what an ass.
I've known you to be patient, sarah31 (and you are yet teaching me as I write), but when you say I'm taking great pains to insult someone - while I'm waiting months for forum responses and I'm reading internet documents that are obsolete and these are docs which talk about a different distro, refer to a different kernel, puts files in a different location????
yeah so you waited for an answer and didn't get one...it happens. you stated that barely anyone knew the answer. fianlly you got one and then came back and rudely blamed us for poor documentation and a barrel of other things. nice guy.
all i saw was orelein answer you in a nice and proper fashion and you called him eliteist. you also were rather rude about judd in your first post in the future thread. so yes i see all throughout attempts to belittle and brate and not one instance of sober commentary from you.
and here you are again balming us for online docs that are not ours.
That is not appropriate, ever, to assume that the newbie will not find older docs and will know enought to discard the incorrect ones.
this is not limited to newbies.....it can definitely be difficult finding what you need online.
And since most internet docs are coasting along since, for example, 1999 (re: the IPX/SPX how-to)
well if you are checking out and obscure problem that is actually now obsolete then sure the fucking doc will be old but you make is sound like ALL docs are old. so i have to assume that you are very much an idiot because i have found most documentation for most current issues to have current docs. most applications will upgrade their docs as they upgrade or do you even notice that? are you to self absorbed to go around and find out if your wild accusations actually have any merit?
once again, and I'll ask this, and directly of you, sarah31, why would any newbie assume that 4 year old document applied to their situation??
well knowing how many newbies are i would expect them to ask if docs are relevant. or they could possibly look into some of the information. if it was not producing answers...wow i think they would ask for help again. shit do you even pay attention to how newbies act on justlinux?
:oops: I'd ask that people remove useless web documents, but I fear that I'd get only 4 responses. That is reality, not sarcasm.
hmmm remove docs, add docs which is it? fyi arch removes most docs except in rare circumstances. if those docs are html they are html. if a n00b doesn't know how to view them i expect they would ask( that is if they are outside x).
dunbar...stick with slack because arch will never please you. slack is a very nice distro that should have the balance arch does not afford you. that is the great thing about a linux .... if you don't like one flavour then try another. just don't go back to the ice cream dealer and berate him for selling you your choice...get the point (if you don't then fine i expected that) -
Arch Linux as Thin Client, PXE, LTSP
Hey there all, been using Arch for about a year now, from Gentoo through Zenwalk, gotta say that Arch is bar none the best so far. I think it's the way that it doesn't try to hide the system internals through abstraction (where every distro has it's own abstraction methodology).
I'm thinking in the future that I'd like to do a network-wide deployment of "terminals" for a non-profit. I say "terminals" in because unlike a true thin client, the idea was to have PXE booting to NFS and using the local hardware more. I'm fond of the idea of centralizing system management to a single system installation, and using solid-state machines.
VNC, NX, RDP seem to be out of the question because I need clients to have native multimedia applications like the Flash plugin, and Skype. I could see audio and video redirection becoming a pain. But having the full installation on the client doesn't seem like the right thing to do because then I've got specific machines with specific problems that I'd have to diagnose. Virtualizing an entire OS session for each user would require a powerhouse server, and then we are stuck with a graphical redirection like VNC, NX, RDP. Linux Terminal Server Project really seems to be on track, they've got a great customization method, but again, they're using XDMCP and sending raw X data over the network.
I envision the clients as being mostly web browser-centric to interface with the necessary applications, and using software like Sun Global Desktop or NoMachine NX to connect to individual Windows applications on a Windows server when needed.
I'm looking at the Fit-PC2 as a possible thick-client solution. It's an Intel Atom based PC with an AMD Geode graphics solution, 512MB of soldered RAM, really low energy consumption.
The wiki doesn't seem to address having more than one client using an NFS-mounted root. If you have more than one client writing .pid and other /var files, this doesn't seem like a feasible idea.
So I suppose that the / has to be mounted in RAM, and only the static dirs like /usr /bin /boot swap are NFS imports?
At first the network would be homogenous, but if we add computers with differing graphics cards
So, in summary:
* Any clues on multiple clients using one NFS root?
* How to autoconfigure X.org and other differing hardware?
It sounds like a fun challenge, wondering if anyone else has tried anything like it.
Last edited by VitaminJ (2009-10-19 00:42:31)I don't really know enough about this to offer any real advice, but as far as multiple machines using a single NFS root goes, you could look into mounting it on all your clients read-only, and using a union filesystem (eg aufs2, unionfs), such that you can use another partition (say on a ramdisk) to handle writes...
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The future of Snapshot, and similar tools.
My apologies for posting this twice. I posted it first as a follow up
to an old thread in ...
novell.support.zenworks.desktop-management.6x.install-setup
I am quoting some comments made in that forum.
Then after surfing the forums for awhile, I thought the issue might get
more attention, if I posted it here. I am looking for ideas and advice
on the future of snap shot, and any tools that Novell might provide to
replace it.
If I could address some of these comments, in hopes of better
understanding ...
RE: >>>
> Most companies invest in packaging tools such the full version of
> AdminStudio to create deployment packages. They then use their desktop
> management suites to deploy those packages.
Admin Studio is not cheap. After a client has spend thousands of
dollars to implement ZENWorks, now I have to tell them to drop another
couple thousand down for an application packager. I also don't fully
understand Novell's relationship with the product, they don't seem to be
partnering well together, I'd appreciate anyone else's read on this
relationship.
RE: >>
> Novell has for over 5 years now been trying to steer people from
> Snapshot
I've heard that statement made verbally by many engineers, but I don't
always see the practice following that.
Has Novell ever gone on record to state they will no longer support snap
shot???
RE: >> > If your snapshots are failing with the latest versions of
snapshot, then
> most likely your software package falls outside the scope of what
> snapshot should be trying to handle.
Maybe I've just gotten lucky? I've have not had many issues with using
snapshot, and I have been involved in a wide variety of applications.
I have seen the statement made on the forum that ZEN Works is not really
a "Packaging" suite. While that may be a true statement, because
Snapshot has been packaged with the product for so long, the mind set of
customers is that it is expected to work, and be supported.
I look forward to additional comments on this matter.Tom,
I'm not sure what exactly are you searching for? ZdM is already providing
you with snapshot replacement - AdminStudio ZfD edition, included in ZfD
price.
AdminStudio part for preparing snapshot MSI is identical in ZfD and
Professional edition.
All comments you qouted (including this one) are personal opinions - I
suggest you to try AdminStudio ZfD edition and make your own.
Denis
"tom" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> My apologies for posting this twice. I posted it first as a follow up to
> an old thread in ...
>
> novell.support.zenworks.desktop-management.6x.install-setup
>
> I am quoting some comments made in that forum.
>
> Then after surfing the forums for awhile, I thought the issue might get
> more attention, if I posted it here. I am looking for ideas and advice on
> the future of snap shot, and any tools that Novell might provide to
> replace it.
>
>
> If I could address some of these comments, in hopes of better
> understanding ...
>
> RE: >>>
> > Most companies invest in packaging tools such the full version of
> > AdminStudio to create deployment packages. They then use their desktop
> > management suites to deploy those packages.
>
> Admin Studio is not cheap. After a client has spend thousands of dollars
> to implement ZENWorks, now I have to tell them to drop another couple
> thousand down for an application packager. I also don't fully understand
> Novell's relationship with the product, they don't seem to be partnering
> well together, I'd appreciate anyone else's read on this relationship.
>
> RE: >>
> > Novell has for over 5 years now been trying to steer people from
> > Snapshot
>
> I've heard that statement made verbally by many engineers, but I don't
> always see the practice following that.
>
> Has Novell ever gone on record to state they will no longer support snap
> shot???
>
>
> RE: >> > If your snapshots are failing with the latest versions of
> snapshot, then
> > most likely your software package falls outside the scope of what
> > snapshot should be trying to handle.
>
> Maybe I've just gotten lucky? I've have not had many issues with using
> snapshot, and I have been involved in a wide variety of applications.
>
> I have seen the statement made on the forum that ZEN Works is not really a
> "Packaging" suite. While that may be a true statement, because Snapshot
> has been packaged with the product for so long, the mind set of customers
> is that it is expected to work, and be supported.
>
> I look forward to additional comments on this matter. -
Future for linux based phones seems bright
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65N20Y20100624
if theres truth behind that article, then the future looks bright. poor symbian^3, seems like it will be abandoned too quickly. at least it still has the qt framework, so it will still have a library of apps. although it may still be used in x series and c series...
if the article is true, then it may suggest that the rumored n9 may be meego based after all.cpitchford wrote:
houseklan wrote:
Meego alpha is going to be full of bugs for sure but hopefully will be dualbootable.
I fully understand why Nokia wants to keep Symbian, after all not everyone is interested in smartphones.
You do know Meego v1.0 has been released? There is no alpha!! it's OUT..
Meego 1.0 for the N900 will be its own version.. and since Nokia aren't supporting it, it will be buggy for years, I suspect (I am looking forward to it)
Meego 1.0 for handhelds available at the moment does not contain a formal graphical user interfaces (GUI, or User eXperience (UX) layer).
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The Future of the ThinkPad 2-in-1
Hello Lenovo Forums!
My name is Alysia Eve and I am the Worldwide ThinkPad Product Portfolio Marketing Manager. You will start to see our Product Marketing team interacting on the forums, asking for your thoughts and feedback as we work on delivering the most compelling ThinkPad products in the future. We are so excited to interact with our users and fans!
We designed ThinkPad Helix, our breakthrough 2-in-1 detachable, to be the best of both worlds – a powerful and full-featured notebook when you need it and a thin and light tablet for ultimate mobility.
We made significant changes from our first generation, moving to a fanless design with more battery life and accessory options. We continue to evolve with our customers and technology.
As we look to the next generation we want to know what you need in a 2-in-1. What does the next generation Helix look like? What does it need to do to fit your needs? We want to hear from you!My use seems to differ from most comments here in that I am a full time animator and artist as well as a writer and I bought the Helix with the idea to untether me from the desk and be able to draw wherever I wanted as well as write scripts and design and develop television shows. In theory the Helix seemed like it was a good idea for my purposes but some of the designs marred that ability.For one the fact that the Helix literally got hot enough to fry an egg on made it hard to hold for any amount of time without wearing an oven mitt.Strike One for a tablet you're supposed to hold. Second, when you disconnect the keyboard it stops working. Maybe that sounds silly, to others but give me a moment to explain. If I want to draw on the tablet, I need to disconnect it from the keyoard but still need the keyboard for programs like Photoshop and Flash as well as Illustrator, Toonboom Storyboard Pro and especially Maya, all of which run just fine on the Helix and was the reason I purchased it.However ALL of these programs are useless without a keyboard and by killing it when it's not attached you destroy the very purpose of using it for me because I now have to carry a USB keyboard when a prefectly good one is sitting right besiode it gathering dust. Especially cosidering it's more than feasable.Strike 2. The first two issues were possible to deal with really if not annoying. The real reason I ultimately sold it was due to the HORRIBLE performance of the trackpad. It rendered the machine unusable in my opinion. I don't really see why it had to have no buttons on or why it rocked both at the top and the bottom making it near impossible to tell without looking where you were on the trackpad.Strike 3. I also hated the tiny chiclet pen which while it seems like you solved the issue by including a larger pen, the digitzier made the pen wriitng and drawing shaky which again ruined it for me. Thatr was somewhat alleviated by the ability to buy another pen that wasn't the size of a toothpick but it still wasn't perfect. I mean who designs these things? All you have to do is look at the thousands of years of writing impliments to realise no one ever wants to draw with a toothpick.Strike 3.5 ( becasue that was fixable with a third party pen) And for God sake whoever makes these things allow us to easily TURN OFF THE STUPID TOUCH. I'm sure you might 'think' that your palm rejection wroks but I assure it sucks and it needs to be turned off to draw with your tablet in any way. No one wants to relearn the way they draw by placing your palm down before you draw to invloke the rejection. It's really not that big of a deal. Allow us to turn the **bleep** thing off without going into the device manager.Strike 4. I also did not like the larger resolution since it made all the toolbar icons on programs tiny enough to have to squint to see them. It's really a shame because I wanted to like the Helix and the i7 chewed up programs like bubble gum. In theory, think it's a perfect concept; but the implimentation was lacking and yet it's honestly still the best chocie on the market. Trust me I've searched high and low fo rwhat I need and the Helix was the only one close. truthfully all the imtems I listed are fixable if you just used your compnters in a real world environment and you clearly do not. . I honestly think Lenovo's primary problem is that those who make these computers, don't really use them in a real world setting because most of these issues are instantly obvious if you do. Here's to the Helix 3, because I won't be buying the Helix 2.
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FPBW: Extract Open Items with a posting date in the future
Dear all,
I'm are currently searching for possibilities to extract Open Items with a posting date in the future from SAP IS-U 4.72 into SAP BW 3.5.
Currently I'm using the Business Content extractor 0FC_OP_01 together with the mass transaction FPBW in IS-U.
The problem I'm facing is within the mass transaction FPBW. I've have set the key date at 01.11.2007, but this job already runs for 52.000 seconds on the same database select-statement.
Does anybody know a possible solution to improve the performance of the statement below? (I pasted it from the process overview)
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SELECT
/*+
INDEX("DFKKOP" "DFKKOP~1" "DFKKOP^1" "DFKKOP____1" "DFKKOP____1__X" "DFKKOP_1")
"BETRH" , "BETRW" , "BUDAT" , "BUKRS" , "FAEDN" , "GPART" , "GSBER" , "INKPS" , "SPART" , "VKONT" ,
"WAERS" , "MAHNV" , "ABWBL" , "APPLK" , "AUGBD" , "AUGBL" , "AUGBT" , "AUGDT" , "AUGRD" , "AUGST" ,
"AUGWA" , "BLART" , "BLDAT" , "EMGPA" , "GRKEY" , "HVORG" , "MANSP" , "MWSKZ" , "OPBEL" , "OPSTA" ,
"OPUPK" , "PERSL" , "PYMET" , "QSSHB" , "SBETW" , "SPZAH" , "STUDT" , "TVORG" , "VTREF" , "XBLNR" ,
"XMANL" , "HKONT" , "OPUPZ" , "OPUPW" , "STAKZ" , "WHGRP" , "AUGBS" , "XANZA" , "XRAGL" , "ABWTP" ,
"ASTKZ"
FROM
"DFKKOP"
WHERE
"MANDT" = :A0 AND "AUGST" = :A1 AND "GPART" BETWEEN :A2 AND :A3 AND ( "AUGDT" = :A4 OR "AUGDT" > :A5
AND ( "BUDAT" <= :A6 OR "AUGBD" <= :A7 ) OR "WHGRP" <> :A8 AND "OPUPW" = :A9 )
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Regards
Happy Tony -
How do I fix my mac so that the window I am looking at has the focus?
I am a new mac user and at present beyond comprehension of how people cope with mac if they are not primarily mouse oriented.
Current problem.
I close an app using apple key W
It closes
I am looking at a window of another app. I want to close that too. Apple key W. Nothing. This window does not have the focus. No keyboard actions will make it do anything. And the bar at the top of the screen is still the bar for the app I have just closed, but that does not respond to the keyboard either. At this point, no keyboard action will affect either app.
As a one time developer I have to say that in any context I am familiar with this would be considered a major show stopping bug, and the programmer would get into a lot of trouble if the software went out in this condition.
Certainly, for a user who lives by the keyboard coming from linux / windows, both of which do what I consider sane and sensible things in all places and at all times, this is a major *** situation!
Please can someone tell me how to get my mac to behave more 'sensibly'.
I want the window I am looking at, the only window visible on the screen, to have the focus. Always. No matter what! Which I think is entirely reasonable.Thank you for all your points.
It can't automatically be the one you want without some instruction from you - the cmputer is not a mind reader, can not seenwhat holds your attention.
Darn!
In Windows and Linux it is automatically the last one in use before you closed the window(s) that have been closed. This is the window naturally lying topmost in the stack of windows on the screen. It is this window which is exposed in the circumstance I am describing. And it is this window which I expect to have the focus in this circumstance.
More to the point, and has been mentioned several times - unlike Windows, when you close the last window of a Mac app, the program is not quit (usually - there are exceptions). The program is still running, as is indicated by the 'running light' on the Dock (the small bluish oval underneath the app's icon in the Dock), even though it has no windows open.
It is not running with an invisible window being the focus - it has no windows at this point, not even an invisible one.
Yes, understood - naturally enough after a few hours exposure to the mac interface. And I would assume that none of the quitted windows in that app will have the focus, which would be nonsensical.
The overall 'focus' is still on that program, because it is still running (you closed its windows, but did not quit the program) and will remain so until you instruct the Mac to switch to a different program in the stack (or queue, or rotation, however you choose to consider it).
Yes. WHY?
Whether program closes when you close the last window is an interesting point. Mac do it different to the others. OK. But this program should not have the focus, unless there is something useful you can do with it. I would have thought obviously.
Why have a program quit when you close its last window? Doesn't make sense to me - can't tell you how many times that behavior with a PC has irked me. Consider this scenario - you're writing a memo to someone in TextEdit. You print the memo off. You're done with that doc, but then want to write a letter to someone. So you close the window for that file, which happens to be the last window open for TextEdit. If TextEdit should quit at that point, you'd need to restart it again before you can write the letter. But - it doesn't quit; it's still running. So instead of restarting it, all you need do after closing the memo's window is press Command-N for a new, blank doc in which you can write the letter.
I agree. This is very useful - once you are used to it. Certainly, this is an excellent option, though it seems crazy that it is not a readily settable option. Equally though, if I was going from mac to windows or linux, I would be totally peeved if this behaviour was not a settable option.
Regardless, this is the way it is in the Mac world, and has always been as far back as I can remember it (and I go back to OS 1 on a MacPlus). As far as 'industry standards' go, there are many who feel that Macs set the GUI standards a long time ago, and that those wo have imitated it have not done a good job of their implementations.
I totally take your point. And I am ready and willing to learn a new interface, naturally, though I had no idea the journey would be so extensive. [] "More ruddy stairs" says the elderly ghost of the recently deceased David Emery grumpy old git character, who hobbles along with a cane, confronted with a loooong flight of stairs up to heaven []
- elsewise I'm going to cause myself an inordinate amount of frustration when my impossible-to-meet expectations aren't met.
Of course I have impossible-to-meet expectations, I got a mac, the doyen of computers. I thought a faint mysterious hint of a sound might be present in the faint whirr of the fans at start up, like far off angelic choirs, and that everything would be easy and wonderful, as well as beautifully easy on the eye.
But I still think that the focus shoud go somewhere useful. And if it stays with the app running with no windows, then at the very least it should be one keyboard shortcut to open a window for that app, or reopen the last window of that app. Or, gasp, it should go to the last window in use before the windows of the app that just got closed, the one on top of the stack, the one straight in front of you, currently impervious to any and all keyboard strokes. And, given the price and sophisication of macs, and the significant gap between the GUI standards of the major players, however long they have respectively been in business, I think it is the kind of thing which should be settable. Indeed, confident that this was settable or 'fixable', I embarked on this thread in the first place.
EOL -
Search won't find an event two years in the future
Normally I can locate future items in the Calendar app on my iPhone 4S by using the search function from the home screen. Recently, however, I entered a repeating event for August 2015, and the search function will not find it. I tried some other actions to try to narrow down the problem, and this is what I found:
When I search for the name of the event, search does find an e-mail with the same word (an all-caps acronym) in its subject line.
When I take time to go to August 2015 and look for the event, it is still there. It also appears in the iCloud version of my calendar.
Search does find other repeating events and other all-day events.
Search does not find a nonrepeating test event scheduled on 10 August 2015.
Is there some kind of restriction on how far in advance the search function looks at the calendar, and if so, does anyone know how far ahead it looks and why a restriction exists?
Or is there another explanation of something I'm doing wrong? It's really tedious to go two years ahead in the calendar, and it would be even worse if I had forgotten the month of the event I was looking for.I'm having the same problem with the Calendar App but on my iPad. I entered a medical procedure reminder as an All Day Event in Calendar and neither the Spotlight Search or the Calendar search will find it. I know it is on the desired date in 2016 because I have gone to that date on the Calendar and I see it.
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Questions about the future directions of InfoPath and Microsoft Access
Because I have been confused about the future directions of InfoPath and Access, I wrote a short blog post, which I have pasted below. My question is, can Microsoft provide some more guidance on Access vs InfoPath? If Access is indeed the
the future direction, can you please provide some pointers to resources that can help us transition.
A Short Review of MS Access, SharePoint ,InfoPath (2013)
After the November 2012 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (#spc12) there were a number of blog posts and people saying that Access 2013 was great and would be replacing InfoPath.
Marc Anderson and
Ruven
Gotz have short posts summarizing #SPC12 and touch on the subject of InfoPath and Access. I also spoke with several individuals shortly after #SPC12 and they were excited about Access 2013.
Since I rely heavily on InfoPath for much of what I do, I wanted to kick the tires and see what everyone was talking about. First, a few notes about SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013.
Microsoft should rename Access: If you have tried to
bing the word Access, then you know that the search results are overwhelming, because the word "access" is used for so many other purposes.
Use the RTM version of Office 2013! I was performing my investigations by leveraging the Office 365 Beta and the Office Applications that come with it. Not much was working! After I uninstalled the Beta
version of Office 2013 and Installed the RTM version everything seemed to work.
Windows 7 and IE 9.0: The drag & drop that is being touted as
"manna from heaven" seems to work well with Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and IE 10, but it does
not work with IE 9!
Non Microsoft browsers are still second class citizens (except for the drag & drop): Microsoft has finally done away with the Active X's for datasheet view (that is brilliant!) One can now see the newly
minted datasheet view in many browsers. But I still find that one needs to be in IE to do a number of key manual opeartions. For example pasting numerous rows of data from a spreadsheet into the new sheet view works only in IE.
Access 2013
Microsoft Access is touted as a non developer tool. I know a number of people who are on the business side and love Access. These people will like the renewed energy that Microsoft has applied to Access. One should note that conceptually
this functionality existed in SharePoint 2010. Here is what I see that is new:
+The new version works better:Although I haven't tested it fully, it seems that many more features that work on the Desktop version of Access, now work in the published Web Application which is hosted by SharePoint 2013.
+The new version has fairly robust browser based forms: End users can now fill in data using forms that are rendered in the browser.
+The published version that resides in SharePoint now uses its own SQL server tables. So the engine appears to be SQL Server, not a modified version of Access built for a server. This stands to be quite robust, but I imagine
that some quirks will surface due to new model.
The limitations are:
- Access is pretty much its own application and does not integrate with SharePoint building blocks. For example, an Access table is not easy to integrate with a SharePoint workflow. Further, although Access forms now are visible
in a browser, they are not nearly as rich as InfoPath forms. InfoPath forms cannot easily integrate with the Access tables. In order to integrate SharePoint features and Access, one needs to tie SharePoint list(s) to Access as data sources.
This overcomplicates the model and one may very well run into synchronization issues.
In short, although I believe there will be some people who will be happy with newly minted Access, I do not think that Access will be able to replace InfoPath and Workflow technologies. I do agree that Microsoft does not seem to have put much energy into
InfoPath. If they leave a vacuum in this space, then others may very well take over, for instance Nintex Forms.Although I agree with the comments made by Ruven and Marc after the conference please note that those blog posts are their own personal opinions and that they don't work for Microsoft. A lot of people have asked Microsoft to clarify the future of InfoPath
and the response up until now has been a deafening silence. In my opinion speculations about Access replacing InfoPath are premature.
I should also point out that most of your comments about Access 2013 above are actually about Access Services in SharePoint Server 2013. Access Services are NOT Access they are a shared service offering in SharePoint that convert and publish Access
databases and forms. As you point out once an Access database is published through Access services it is converted to SQL Server and no longer resides in Access. Of course I don't work for Microsoft either so these are all just my personal opinion.
Having said that I doubt you will get the confirmation/response that you are hoping for from any official Microsoft channel.
Paul Stork SharePoint Server
MVP Principal Solutions Architect: BlueChip Consulting Group
Blog: http://dontpapanic.com/blog
Twitter: Follow @pstork
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