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Re: Review: Yuneec Breeze 4K

Scott Gilbertson — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:26:22 -0000

The breeze is not water proof. I'm not aware of a consumer drone that is. And the Breeze tops out at about 10mph, so definitely not keeping up with a wakeboarder. The DJI Phantom 3 and up would be able to do those speeds, and so would Yuneec's Typhoon drones.

Re: Review: GDU Byrd Advanced

Scott Gilbertson — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:35:25 -0000

I haven't had a chance to fly the Mavic yet, so tough for me to make that comparison, but I can say that the GDU is huge compared to the Mavic, features an entirely different (and, esp with the M4/3 possibility, higher quality) camera system, different controller systems, etc. Running down the specs, the only real similarity between the Byrd and the Mavic is that they both have folding arms.

Re: Review: Dell Chromebook 13

Scott Gilbertson — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:25:54 -0000

Just for the record, I had a whole host of problems getting any kind of Linux on this thing. Or rather chrubuntu-based Linux (I'm sure Crouton would be easier), the trackpad basically didn't work at all. So for anyone considering this as a Linux machine, might want to wait a bit until some driver updates come down the pipe.

Re: Braintrust: Desktop for Ubuntu?

Scott Gilbertson — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 13:28:42 -0000

I'd go with Xfce right now (Xubuntu). It uses a familiar desktop paradigm that Windows and OS X users should recognize.

Lubuntu is probably a bit lighter weight and maybe a better choice, but Lubuntu is getting ready to change from being gtk-based to qt-based. Probably for the best, but it suspect Lubuntu will be a bit buggy once that starts (next spring I believe).

As for your VNC connection troubles, I followed this tutorial from digital ocean to get Xfce/VNC set up on one of my servers, maybe it could help:

https://www.digitalocean.co...

Re: Beware Simple Stories

Scott Gilbertson — Tue, 12 May 2015 21:55:36 -0000

Is it elitist to dislike the trite sales-pitch-as-science of Godin, Gladwell, et al? I gotta get out more. Anyway, yes, well said, I can raise a beer to that.

Re: Install Nginx on Debian/Ubuntu | LongHandPixels Press

Scott Gilbertson — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:04:38 -0000

The error is saying that the path to the naxsi_src directory is wrong. I'm guessing for some reason $HOME did not translate to /home/yourusername/. Try using the full path, i.e. something like --add-module=/home/username/naxsi-${NAX_VERSION}/naxsi_src \

Re: Create Email Courses With MailChimp | LongHandPixels Press

Scott Gilbertson — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:26:30 -0000

Awesome, glad it helped you out.

Re: HTML5 Placeholder as a Label in Search Forms | LongHandPixels Press

Scott Gilbertson — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:48:45 -0000

Or you could just use the label, that's what it's there for... Since I wrote this I've reworked most of the site, even the simple search fields mentioned here, to show the label.

Re: Review: Toshiba Chromebook 2

Scott Gilbertson — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:16:43 -0000

I don't think so. Previous models were not and taking a quick look under the back of this one, I didn't see an obvious SSD component, so I'm assuming that it's soldered to the other side of the board.

That said, I just do what Blake mentions below -- slap a big SD card in the slot (which sits flush in this model).

Re: Review: Toshiba Chromebook 2

Scott Gilbertson — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:43:06 -0000

This does in fact make a great Crouton machine. I use Debian, but otherwise it's quite nice, even photo editing isn't too bad.

Re: How to Protect Your Online Privacy with Ghostery | LongHandPixels Press

Scott Gilbertson — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:00:43 -0000

Thanks, glad you found it useful.

Re: Review: The Lenovo n20p Chromebook | LongHandPixels Press

Scott Gilbertson — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:20:51 -0000

oh sweet, I'll have to see if I can do a review of it. I've actually ended up using this thing quite a bit. The screen still sucks, but otherwise I've really ended up liking it as a low-end Linux machine.

Re: Press Reaction to Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn

Scott Gilbertson — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:10:37 -0000

Well, I can't speak for everyone in that list, but for me anyway, I try to focus on what's new in the distro. Pretty much every distro that's going to have a release between August and December will be using the latest available kernel, which is why I mention it in my review, but still don't call 14.10 a major update. That kernel update is great, but you can get that without getting Ubuntu 14.10. I don't know, maybe that's not the best approach, but that's how I've been doing it.

Re: A Complete Guide to the `` Element | LongHandPixels Press

Scott Gilbertson — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:45:34 -0000

You're right. Actually, playing with the inspector a bit it feel like the dev tools could do quite a few things that they don't yet (like swapping the link in the img src for the image url actually used). But hey, at least we have picture support. I'm sure the dev tools will catch up eventually.

Re: Install Nginx on Debian/Ubuntu | LongHandPixels Press

Scott Gilbertson — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:42:16 -0000

You're absolutely right, thanks for pointing that out.

I've updated the post to correct that line.

Re: Whatever Happened to Webmonkey.com?

Scott Gilbertson — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 07:42:51 -0000

Thank you, I appreciate that.

Re: This dialog is torturing me

Scott Gilbertson — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:01:28 -0000

Could be worse, could be your new site that's causing people's browsers to hang. Gulp. I'll have to look into that.

Re: Free, as in Freedom

Scott Gilbertson — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:56:44 -0000

I'd love to be able to work exclusively on a tablet (a setup like this: http://yieldthought.com/pos... is appealing), and I've tried out that setup in fact. But so far I'm still 10x more productive writing code on a laptop. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's the iPad. I'll be curious to try a tablet running Linux.

And yeah, more RAM. I'm actually trying to get my hands on System 76's new ultrabook for a review. It doesn't hit 32GB, but you can configure to have 16, which I find to be about the minimum acceptable amount of RAM. It looks a bit bulkier though.

Re: Free, as in Freedom

Scott Gilbertson — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:50:22 -0000

There's nothing visually different about the Ubuntu to ships with this machine, so stock ubuntu screenshots on the site others have suggested will give you some idea. That said, I still have the thing, if there's something specific you want to see, let me know and I can post a screenshot.

Re: Internet Explorer 10 Doubles Its Desktop Market Share

Scott Gilbertson — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:10:29 -0000

There's a ton of private software in the enterprise, government and non-profit sectors that was built specifically for and only works on XP. Given a choice between spending millions to upgrade and just keeping on with what they've got (and what isn't, from their point of view, broken) most have, understandably I think, stuck with what works for them.

Re: Video: What Does 10 Petabytes of Data Look Like?

Scott Gilbertson — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:25:11 -0000

Not sure why having an opt out makes the Internet Archive a joke... What you're saying is that it should index everything, which is what it would like to do, but resources are annoyingly finite so hey, it's not perfect. But then again, how much of the web have you indexed?

Re: The Very First Website Returns to the Web

Scott Gilbertson — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:20:46 -0000

Symbolics was the first registered domain.

Re: Video: What Does 10 Petabytes of Data Look Like?

Scott Gilbertson — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:20:27 -0000

The site isn't much to look at, but the actual Wayback Machine looks nice and is easy to use and that's where the vast majority of the traffic is headed.

If you'd like to donate, you can do so here: http://archive.org/donate/i... (and you can avoid paypal by using Amazon, though I'm not sure that's much better).

Re: Nginx Server Speeds Up the Tubes With ‘SPDY’ Support

Scott Gilbertson — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:32:56 -0000

It kinda depends which numbers you want to look at. I was going with Netcraft's *active* sites chart, which for April puts Nginx at 12.91% and MS at 12.13%.

Re: Experimental CSS Shaders Bring Photoshop Filters to the Web

Scott Gilbertson — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:24:41 -0000

Alan-

Thanks for the clarification, I did not know that (I need to keep a closer eye on chrome's about:flags, there's quite a few things in there I didn't know about).

Anyway, I've updated the post.