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http://lwn.net/Articles/356911/Here's an interesting note from Canonical's Elliot Murphy, noting that CouchDB 0.10.0 has been loaded into the nearly-ready "Karmic" release. It seems they have big plans for how they plan to use it: " y the time Ubuntu 9.10 is released on October 29th every single Ubuntu user will have an address book stored in CouchDB that replicates with one.ubuntu.com, and Tomboy notes that are replicated via a web API at the application but then stored in CouchDB and carried along in the CouchDB replication that we have set up. Optionally they can also store all their Firefox bookmarks in CouchDB and have those replicated as well. We'll be doing our best to help teach application developers to use CouchDB in order to 'cloud-enable' their apps."
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« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2009, 06:36:43 PM » |
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T-Mobile's Sidekick users have just found out how "wonderful" cloud computing is.
Cloud Computing: just say NO!
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reed026
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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2009, 08:01:55 AM » |
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8113819#post8113819Probally overkill, I read the comments on that thread, apparently the address book that will sync with Ubuntu One will only work on Evolution and you have to put it inside a specific folder of the address book. Plus, you have to sign up for Ubuntu One services, it is not included on default. Regardless, I don't like this at all. I don't use evolution, thunderbird is all I use.
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reed026
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2009, 09:51:42 AM » |
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well, I guess that I may as well try out Kubuntu then when 9.10 comes out, it's the only one out of the three I haven't tried out. Not a big fan of Xubuntu.
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2009, 12:36:28 PM » |
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I use Linux Mint KDE 9.x with persistence on a USB stick for my laptop. I also just got a new printer the other day, an HP (because they work with Linux -- anything else you take a chance on) and the easiest setup was on Linux, the worst Vista.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 on this desktop machine and I too use Thunderbird. I think a lot of this "cloud computing" stuff appeals to flakes who never back anything up.
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2009, 12:42:04 PM » |
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I use Linux Mint KDE 9.x with persistence on a USB stick for my laptop. I also just got a new printer the other day, an HP (because they work with Linux -- anything else you take a chance on) and the easiest setup was on Linux, the worst Vista.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 on this desktop machine and I too use Thunderbird. I think a lot of this "cloud computing" stuff appeals to flakes who never back anything up.
Check out that thread and read how some people back things up. One guy backs his files up on a personal NAS fileserver then on an online storage facility under encyption. That's just too insane. For me, I keep all of my most important documents saved on an encypted 40GB hard drive. It's set up in a way that all Linux systems can see it, however if not mistaken it will either not appear or will appear corrupted under a windows OS. For my address book, I just back it up on a small 2gb USB thumb drive. I don't see why one would need to have it tossed into cloud computing imo. |
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« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2009, 04:33:42 PM » |
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Darth check out that post on Ubuntu forums again  some guy attacked me for insinuating that SELinux is a backdoor. Never said it was, but did allude to it. I am really just feeling that is the government has its hand in an Operating System one has to be suspect of it. |
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« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2009, 05:32:32 PM » |
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I always overlooked the fact there was a healthy millionaire/billionaire behind Ubuntu - Mark Shuttleworth - that somehow gave you CDs for free no matter how many you ordered them - I figure he is on board with the rest of them as well. Notice how they're trying to compete with Windows 7 heads-on and even follow Microsoft over the cliff with 'cloud computing' - I'm smelling a Novell-style rat here.
I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.10 - that is the Karmic release. Perhaps Couchdb is something I can disable - I don't really use the address books anyway. But perhaps look into Debian, Gentoo or ArchLinux once again. It's a shame, too, because I really liked this flavor of Linux - AFAIK it is the most desktop-ready out of all of them.
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« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2009, 05:57:13 PM » |
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I always overlooked the fact there was a healthy millionaire/billionaire behind Ubuntu - Mark Shuttleworth - that somehow gave you CDs for free no matter how many you ordered them - I figure he is on board with the rest of them as well. Notice how they're trying to compete with Windows 7 heads-on and even follow Microsoft over the cliff with 'cloud computing' - I'm smelling a Novell-style rat here.
I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.10 - that is the Karmic release. Perhaps Couchdb is something I can disable - I don't really use the address books anyway. But perhaps look into Debian, Gentoo or ArchLinux once again. It's a shame, too, because I really liked this flavor of Linux - AFAIK it is the most desktop-ready out of all of them.
I agree with you about Ubuntu being the most desktop ready, but if push comes to shove I'll just go back to Damn Small linux and re-customize it. |
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« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2009, 12:06:56 AM » |
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Darth check out that post on Ubuntu forums again some guy attacked me for insinuating that SELinux is a backdoor. Never said it was, but did allude to it. I am really just feeling that is the government has its hand in an Operating System one has to be suspect of it. I noticed it too. I guess now with the Ubuntuphiles, it's "Say no to the NSA unless a Democrat is president". |
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« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2009, 07:58:05 PM » |
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I always overlooked the fact there was a healthy millionaire/billionaire behind Ubuntu - Mark Shuttleworth - that somehow gave you CDs for free no matter how many you ordered them - I figure he is on board with the rest of them as well.
Shit, they're even renegging on THAT. Now you have to be either an official Ubuntu user group or an official "Ubuntu contributor" in order to get free CDs. Ubuntu is no longer free. They have completely sold out. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091026#newshttp://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1929"We will continue to supply CDs to LoCo teams and Ubuntu members. And we hope to make CDs available to everyone who is just discovering Ubuntu. But we are limiting shipments to people that we think have alternative paths of getting Ubuntu." It won't be long before Shuttleworth completes the sellout and signs that "patent deal" with Microsoft. Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu, you can go to hell. |
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« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2009, 08:15:03 PM » |
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Shit, they're even renegging on THAT. Now you have to be either an official Ubuntu user group or an official "Ubuntu contributor" in order to get free CDs. Ubuntu is no longer free. They have completely sold out. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091026#newshttp://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1929It won't be long before Shuttleworth completes the sellout and signs that "patent deal" with Microsoft. Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu, you can go to hell. Guess Mark Shuttleworth's derivatives racket went sour and now he can't racket up his credit card all the way to Sunday. I foresee a Novell-style 'sellout' coming soon - all the signs are in the air. |
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« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2009, 08:28:08 PM » |
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Either the NWO scared Shuttleworth into submission, or Shuttleworth has been NWO all along and has been playing everybody from the get-go. Probably the latter. I figure once Shuttleworth sells out Novell-style, he'll probably be rewarded with a Bilderberg membership.
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« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2009, 02:29:13 PM » |
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Cloud computing isn't the end of the world. I have a T-Mobile HTC Hero with Google's Android operating system. It pulls contacts from my Gmail address list, but stores them offline on my phone too.
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« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2009, 05:10:48 AM » |
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Cloud computing isn't the end of the world.
See if you'll be saying that when they plant incriminating evidence on your virtual/cloud hard drive. |
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