About time Orange!

Just saw that AT&T in the states was rolling out an update a few days ago, I wonder what the connection is…

Maybe EE were just embarrassed about being so late?

Anyway Samsung were so lucky… as I had just made a promise to myself that I would be going Nexus 5, as the carriers were so slow with updates.

So to recap I have had 2 updates one to 4.04 and another to 4.1.2 in the 13 months I have had the phone.

They were pushing things this time but… OK.

The plan I have been following is:

Go with a flagship phone from a successful company, who updates.

Go with a phone company that updates.

Next time? 

Well if the Nexus 5 is a good phone, in 11 months, Google may have another customer.

Want:

1. Big hi-resolution screen with LTE.
2. Removable battery
3. Upgradeable storage

1 is a dealbreaker, but 2 and 3, I think I can (possibly) live without.

—

Add the following to the script:
#!/bin/bash
if test -d /tmp/chrome; then
exit 0
else
rm -r ~/.cache/google-chrome
mkdir /tmp/chrome
ln -s /tmp/chrome ~/.cache/google-chrome
fi

Change the script permissions:
$ chmod +x ./chrome_tmp_cache.sh
Add the script to the Session and Startup > Applications Autostart:
Name: Chrome Cache
Command: /home/<user>/chrome_tmp_cache.sh
Comment: Move Chrome cache to /tmp

From here.

Check:
/home/<user>/.cache/google-chrome/Default/
/tmp/chrome/

edit fstab and add:

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

This should list all the options a filesystem was mounted with:

cat /proc/mounts

from here.

Ubuntu looks to default to relatime :-)

via tmartiro

What it means to the rest of us

I think the Dell deal is just the beginning of the Windows 8 fallout. There are several other, bigger, shoes waiting to drop.

What will the other major PC licensees do? If you’re working at a company like HP or Acer, everything about this situation feels ugly. Your faith in Windows has been broken, you’re losing share to Lenovo, and now Microsoft is subsidizing one of your biggest competitors. I’d be tempted to fly out to Redmond and demand my own handout. And I’d also be willing to look at more radical options. There are several possibilities:

All working OK.

My actual distro is Ubuntu with the Xfce desktop added, but after the upgrade it still remembered that I log on to Xfce \o/

Take a moment and consider that.

Yeah we are so busy doing day-to-day things that you sometimes miss the huge sea changes, because they are incremental, and not at all obvious from ground level.

But zoom out to 40,000 feet and… Wow just wow.

ReadWrite

The PC market is tanking. Windows 8 is proving to be a disaster. Dell is hoping to go private. HP is flailing. But not every “personal computing” company is suffering. In the past few years, Apple has sold more than 500 million iOS devices – not licenses, devices - and is selling an additional 75 million iOS devices (iPhones and iPads, mostly), each quarter. At this rate it could be only a few years before the iOS installed base surpasses the global Windows installed base.

A Theory about the Office on iPad Schedule

Office for iPad, launched at the same time as Windows 8/RT, would most likely have killed the market for Windows 8 and RT devices. As it was, that market was already severely diminished and below expectations. But with a viable alternative tablet, it could have been game over. And the ramifications of that decision would have impacted far more than just Windows 8/RT: The PC market could have literally collapsed, much as the videogame market did in 1983. The fallout would have included PC makers going out of business/being sold, a serious and potentially permanent hit to Microsoft’s bottom line and the ouster of Steve Ballmer. I’m talking tech Armageddon here.

It’s actually happening, we all wondered and speculated on, if, and when, and how…

Well people here it is! Microsoft THE END.

Too weird.

Notes:

The Churchill Society London.

This battle was not fought for the sake of gaining positions or so many square miles of desert territory. General Alexander and General Montgomery fought it with one single idea. they meant to destroy the armed force of the enemy and to destroy it at the place where the disaster would be most far-reaching and irrecoverable….

There Are 1.25 Billion Windows PCs Worldwide Matt Rosoff|December 06, 2011

The race to a billion—2012 Update

Here’s how:

Use Index (gh) to see what’s unread and (gg) to search and jump to a feed.

(gg) then type to narrow your search.

Set everything to Title View.

Increase the Zoom in chrome until you lose the left feeds menu and it gets replace with a hover over control.

Install “Force Background Tab” from Yuchen Wang from here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/force-background-tab/gidlfommnbibbmegmgajdbikelkdcmcl .

This lets you scan through your items fast using keyboard shortcuts:

n and p (next) and (previous) to work down the list.

o to (open) the summary of an item.

v to (view) in a new tab (forcing it to open in the background is a huge time saver).

r to reload.

Notes:

New keyboard shortcuts: View original in *background* tab, Preview

http://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/suggestions/3744458-new-keyboard-shortcuts-view-original-in-backgrou

Really useful as I go back to Index each time I have scanned through a feed.