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Re: Apple Pro Display XDR on Windows

lak — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:10:08 -0000

Thankfully, the Huawei/Belkin cable came today. it worked! A bidirectional cable failed, another cable with a USB jack next to the DisplayPort (which others had claimed worked) failed, but this one worked. The other cable (with USB) worked for like a minute then never worked again.

So, for all that others report other cables than this work, I would stick to this one. I was able to get it on Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.us/i...

Re: Apple Pro Display XDR on Windows

lak — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:11:03 -0000

I’ve been trying all week to get a new PC connected to my XDR, with no luck. I have the Huawei cable on order, but it is on the slow boat from china. I have tried equivalent ones. When I first plugged it in, it worked for a couple of minutes, but nothing since. The monitor works with my Mac, the pc works on hdmi and other DisplayPort monitors. I’ve installed and updated everything I can think of.

Any chance anyone has any ideas for next troubleshooting steps?

Re: The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

lak — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:41:28 -0000

There's way too much in all of these to reply to directly. I think the main things are:

It's always a tightrope walk, and I'd like to find the path that's best for the product and the community but doesn't so limit our company growth that we can't actually build the other interesting tools we have planned.

And the problem is the same regardless of VCs: They can be an accelerator, but we have to find a way to continue building our great community while also building an equally great development team.

It seems like it's a choice between conflict in the wider community (open core) and conflict in the development community (contributor agreements). I've always assumed that the latter is worse, but maybe it's not as clear cut as I always figured.

Note that I'm operating on the assumption that entirely free software that I can't relicense will keep us from having any meaningful growth.

We'll be looking at this in much more detail in the next few months, and either way, we'll be making our decisions very public.

Re: Golden Image or Foil Ball?

lak — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:03:19 -0000

I couldn't find good links to the actual products, but they're just
the vendor-specific install tools for Solaris and Red hat:

http://www.pimpworks.org/su...

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Li...

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Re: Golden Image or Foil Ball?

lak — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:56:05 -0000

I installed and activated the wp-print plugin, but it doesn't seem to have done anything...

Re: Opscode announces Chef, a Puppet competitor

lak — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:54:41 -0000

Yeah, I think this is going to be a problem, especially since searching for Puppet and Chef gets you hundreds of pages of the Chef Muppet. :)

Re: A Short Puppet History, pt. 2: Cfengine

lak — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:23:39 -0000

Most of my perspective on cfengine was built while using it professionally and while it was the best tool out there. I became jaded on it specifically because I couldn't get it to do what I wanted and there was nothing else to pick. As a result, I like to think my view *is* unbiased.

Obviously, plenty of people find cfengine to be sufficient for their needs, but the fact that I didn't doesn't mean my view was biased. It's true I haven't looked at it much recently, but from what I understand, not much has changed.

Re: iPhone thoughts so far

lak — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:06:08 -0000

You comment could be directly transplanted to an email thread in 1985 and be just as valid an excuse for not allowing task switching in MacOS 5, and it would be just as wrong.

The OS is less useful without background processes, and there isn't a better solution that I can see. Given Apple's inability to deliver push, they might be starting to agree.

There's just no good excuse for resurrecting limitations we killed more than 20 years ago.

Re: iPhone thoughts so far

lak — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:02:17 -0000

You're right that there are gestures, but really, the only semi-abnormal one is the two-finger swipe to bring up the kbd. Still, good to see someone's doing something, and it'd be great if there were a consistent gesture to bring up the kbd -- too many apps don't make it clear how to do this.

Re: In Praise of Snobbery

lak — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:41:36 -0000

You do realize that you're an ESM snob, right? :)

Re: iPhone thoughts so far

lak — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:37:17 -0000

Strangely this one doesn't really come up for me. Task switching and the lack of IM seem to be the killers for me.

Re: iPhone thoughts so far

lak — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:32:27 -0000

Yeah, but given that the backgrounding isn't designed in, it tends to be really heavyweight -- rather than having small daemons in the background that handle notification and data fetching, your only option is to run the whole process in the background.

And, of course, the backgrounding ends up being really clumsy.

Re: Kynetx Puppet Update

lak — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:48:31 -0000

Great to hear Puppet's working out so well for you. :)

-- Luke Kanies

Re: In Praise of Snobbery

lak — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:31:48 -0000

I haven't actually found shoes I'm entirely thrilled with. I've got a pair of Cole-Haan that I really, but they're too short-lived to qualify as great shoes. My Sundowner hiking boots will probably last me forever, though, and if I were in a Red Dawn situation they would definitely be my footwear.

For pants, I've been thrilling on some Royal Robbins pants, but they don't appear to make them any more (gusseted, darts at the knees, durable, my u-lock fits in the back pocket). I've got four pair and they're just about all I wear.

Re: LISA ‘08

lak — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:26:17 -0000

While I agree that there is a semblance of a community, I disagree that sysadmins don't like change. I think the sysadmins who attend LISA don't like change, but I think there are plenty around who are always looking for an easier way to get to the pub earlier.

Which is kind of my point -- what's so broken about the LISA community that it's inoculated itself against change, where the rest of the industry hasn't as much?

Re: Project vs. Company (and a bit of me)

lak — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:02:54 -0000

Mostly I would say give as many talks at conferences as you can, never let a thread on your lists go unanswered, and make your community a place where many people want to hang out. It's all about reaching people and building community.

Re: A Google Phone

lak — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:31:40 -0000

I'm still pretty undecided. Today I go to play with friends' iphones again, and I'll soon be posting a summary of what I do/don't like about the G1 after ten days.

Re: Project vs. Company (and a bit of me)

lak — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:19:31 -0000

Yeah -- I'll blog about that, too, since it's a topic I often talk about but have never written about. Hopefully I'll have something in the next week or so.

Thanks for the idea.

Re: Project vs. Company (and a bit of me)

lak — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:21:44 -0000

I'll try to post my thoughts on images soon; thanks for bringing it up.

Conary does seem like a decent way to avoid sticking with "golden" images, but it's still pretty limited -- no managing services, users, etc., and no real concept of running state (e.g., a service is up).

Look for my post on virtual images, and please reply there if I don't cover what you want.

Re: A Google Phone

lak — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:43:27 -0000

That's very good to know, although I'm also hearing that people's phones are getting destroyed by the 2.1 firmware.

Re: Luke lives!

lak — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:17:26 -0000

0.24.6 should come out in the next week, and 0.25 should come out at some point before this year, hopefully.

Re: Luke lives!

lak — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:11:16 -0000

This is a test response.

Re: Luke lives!

lak — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:20:12 -0000

testing?