This was the original ‘Google Phone’ presented in 2006
The designs have surfaced in Oracle’s case against Google over Java, with Oracle’s attorneys pointing out that Java is a frequent mention across the original slide deck: “Leverage Java for its existing base of developers. Build a useful app framework (not J2ME). Support J2ME apps in compatibility mode. Provide an opTMobileized JVM (Dalvik),” one slide reads.
This was an ugly, ugly device. Thank God the iPhone changed all this…
At that time, touchscreen support wasn’t a requirement — in fact, the baseline specs required two soft menu keys, indicating that touchscreens weren’t really in the plan at all.
Source: theverge.com
Have a MacBook Pro with lots of Beach Balls? Read This!
If you’re having a lot of memory issues with your MacBook Pro, there’s an article today that recommends inactivating the virtual memory manager. The article says:
The core issue seems to be that the virtual memory manager is bad at managing which pages should be freed from the inactive state and which ones should be paged out to disk (and, consequently, back from disk). There seem to be at least two distinct problems here, though it’s difficult to tell for sure without proper instrumentation - 1) program data is not well prioritized to remain in physical RAM over buffer data, and 2) the garbage collection algorithm may require that all of a program’s data be in physical RAM before collection can happen, causing extensive paging.
The way to turn it off is as follows:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
Followed by a reboot.
If you notice no improvement, or your Mac begins to crash, you can undo this by doing the following:
sudo launchctl load -wF /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
And rebooting the system.
As you test, it’s always good to keep an eye on memory. Follow this nifty trick to display your memory on the dock at all times.
Via Kevin Fox (@kfury)
Based on what I’ve seen so far, I don’t think RackSpace’s Cloud offering even comes close to Amazon’s right now in terms of features and flexibility. EC2 feels to me like something that was designed from the ground up to be essentially “programmable infrastructure,” whereas RackSpace cloud feels essentially like a thin wrapper around a Xen or VMware cluster. Though I fully admit that I’ve only been using it for a couple weeks at this point, so I could be totally missing things, in which case, I would love to get some feedback on some of the issues I’ve raised above.
Made in NYC
An interesting Pinterest pinboard of local #nyc startups.
Jaguar's Real Ad Agency Sent Mad Men's Don Draper A Fake Letter
Very funny, specially the P.S.! #madmen
Networking lunch at AWS Summit 2012 #awsnyc (Taken with Instagram at Jacob Javits Convention Center)
Fedora moving away from “/sbin/service”?
We just upgraded our dev server to Fedora 16 and, to my surprise, after I tried issuing a /sbin/service sshd restart, I got a cryptic error message:
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart sshd.service
Turns out Fedora is moving away from the /sbin/service and getting into the new systemctl. Here’s a cheatsheet of how this will work.
Why change a good thing?
FUCK PASSWORDS - fuzzy notepad
I couldn’t agree more with @eevee. The state of the password in the web is a sad, sad situation.
PHP is an embarrassment, a blight upon my craft. It’s so broken, but so lauded by every empowered amateur who’s yet to learn anything else, as to be maddening. It has paltry few redeeming qualities and I would prefer to forget it exists at all.
