I resisted getting a tablet for a long time, because, frankly, in the early days they all sucked. Then the Nexus 7 came out in 2012, and it didn't suck (much), and didn't cost a whole lot, and I bought one. And I found I used it constantly.
I followed that with the purchase of an original retina iPad (i.e. the iPad 3) which is a very nice device that I never use. And a Nexus 10, which is a very nice device that I almost never use. And then the 2013 model of the Nexus 7, which was better than the original in every way and which I used constantly until last week when it died.
Boo.
Double and triple boo, because firstly I'm taking some time off work and have a chance to catch up on my reading, and I used my Nexus 7 for reading, and secondly, Google Australia are completely out of stock and I can't replace it.
I do have the two other tablets and a very very large phone, so I'll survive just fine, but it's quite noticeable how well the Nexus 7 fills its niche when you're looking to replace it with something else. There simply isn't anything, from any provider, for any price, that can fill its role as well.
But we're getting there, slowly.
When the original Nexus 7 came out I made a wishlist of seven points I wanted to see corrected in a newer version:
32GB or more of flash storage.
A micro SD slot.
Fix the colour levels. (Colours on the original Nexus 7 were not exactly vibrant.)
Make the screen even sharper - go to 1920x1200.
Micro-HDMI out.
Stylus.
Help Kairosoft get Game Dev Story fixed on Jelly Bean.
The 2013 model fixed 1, 3, 4, and essentially 5; Kairosoft fixed 7. That leaves 2 - micro SD support - and 6 - a stylus - outstanding. And Google have issued a big fuck you to those looking for micro SD support.
I have a 128GB micro SD card in my Xperia Z Ultra, and the difference it makes is amazing. I can just shovel music, audiobooks, and podcasts onto it without worrying about running out of space. But I don't have that in a full-sized tablet... Yet.
Looks like the new Nvidia Shield tablet might be what I've been waiting for. It has a Tegra K1 quad-core 2.2GHz Arm A15 processor, so it's a lot faster than the Nexus 7;* 2GB memory, 32GB flash, a micro SD slot, and LTE. 8" 1920x1200 IPS display, and even a stylus.
The only downside is that it weighs in at 390 grams, against the Nexus 7's 290, making it definitely on the chunky side. But as I've found with the Z Ultra, weight isn't everything; the Z Ultra is only about 210 grams, but owing to its metal and glass construction is less comfortable to use for long periods than the Nexus 7 with its soft-feel plastic back.
We shall see.
* These benchmarks show the K1 outrunning the Nexus 7's Snapdragon S4 Pro by a consistent 2:1.
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This only illustrates how different our requirements are. I want a tablet, which fits in my pockets. Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD were just the right size, but blasted Nexus 7 is too damned long! By just 1.5cm! Whyyyyyyyyy. Nexus 7 superior to Kindles in every other way, but I cannot carry it with me, so I cannot used when I want it. I swear I'm going to pay closer attention to device dimensions next.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tuesday, July 22 2014 08:45 AM (RqRa5)
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I got the Xperia Z Ultra for that reason - the 6.4" screen is nearly tablet-sized, but the device itself is much smaller and lighter than a 7" tablet. 2cm shorter and narrower and 3mm thinner, and about 80g ligher than the Nexus 7.
So that now serves as a tablet I can carry with me, and I just need a 7-8" tablet at home for reading.
So... I went online and ordered another Nexus 7 this morning.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, July 22 2014 02:07 PM (2yngH)
That's amazing looking, but as I was watching it I kept thinking that they need some serious traffic control to prevent ships from hitting each other or the station.
How close are they to being done? (Evidently their rendering engine is done, but there's a lot more to the game than that. For instance, they've got a lot of model making to do.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, June 26 2014 12:48 AM (+rSRq)
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It's due out this year. They apparently have over 10,000 people playing the phase 1 beta, so it's pretty far along already.
I pledged on Kickstarter for the phase 2 beta, which should be starting in a couple of months, but I might sit tight until the 1.0 release. (As I'm doing with Starbound. So far, anyway...)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, June 26 2014 02:00 AM (PiXy!)
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1. Wouldn't you want the spokes of your torus NOT to be bent? Seems like poor engineering
2. I would think you'd prefer your hub didn't rotate, if that's where you dock.
3. I suspect nobody who's in charge of a rotating station would willingly allow ships to transit through the wheel like that.
4. You could potentially solve the traffic situation (at least partly) by doing what real airports and the like do: you only move in one direction. Incoming traffic at one end of the station, outgoing at the other.
5. Interesting that the departing ships don't rotate; I would think they would carry station-imparted rotation on the way out.
Posted by: RickC at Thursday, June 26 2014 03:37 AM (0a7VZ)
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Apparently the Edit button doesn't work in Chrome.
Posted by: RickC at Thursday, June 26 2014 03:38 AM (0a7VZ)
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They had to make the station hub rotate, because that was a formative experience of every teenage Elite player back in the mid-eighties. Trying to line up your ship in three dimensions not only with respect to position and velocity but rotation so that you could dock cleanly with a space station was something never seen before.*
...
And it was a royal pain in the ass, and everyone bought a docking computer as their very first upgrade.
* And of course, the reason this game raise millions of dollars on Kickstarter is because of all those mid-eighties teenagers. Actually, if we'd known it would turn out so well, it would probably have raised tens of millions.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, June 26 2014 04:31 PM (PiXy!)
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It's probably not rotating NEARLY fast enough to generate any appreciable pesudo-gravity.
The other problem is that rotating a ship about its own axis while you're lined up with the axis of the station doesn't make you rotate around the station's axis once you approach that landing pad.
The resulting wreck should be spectacular.
Posted by: Mauser at Saturday, June 28 2014 06:43 AM (TJ7ih)
Really wanted to pledge to the Elite Dangerous Kickstarter, but since it only accepted donation denominated in UK pounds, which meant the Amazon Payments would not work. I could have used PayPal, but card on record might not have worked with a UK transaction.
I am a bit curious to see who they have writing the sequel to The Dark Wheel, which is suppose to come out with the game. They can not ask Robert Holdstock to do so, since he passed away in 2009.
Posted by: cxt217 at Wednesday, July 02 2014 02:44 PM (rmaOw)
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I read everything I could find on experiences with the current beta, and it sounds like they've still got a long way to go before they have a game I want to play. When they've got their instancing to the point that they can deliver a PK-free online experience with the promised elbow room, I'll give them money.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, July 03 2014 09:43 AM (fpXGN)
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Mauser, I think the rotation rate is in the right ballpark. According to SpinCalc, a space station of the size quoted by the Elite: Dangerous team (8km diameter) would only need to rotate at about 0.5 rpm to produce 1g at the rim.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, July 05 2014 12:54 AM (PiXy!)
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Hmm. so that ship would be trying to land on a surface moving sideways under it at 376.8 km/h. (Radius 4 km, circumference 12.56, at half an RPM, 6.28 km/min, x 60).
Okay, that's assuming the landing dock is the same diameter as the rim.
The landing problem is that you're trying to match bodies on a circular path with no gravitational influence.
Far better to have a non-rotating landing platform on the axis, land, strap down, begin matching rotation, and then ride an elevator down to the hangar floor.
Posted by: Mauser at Saturday, July 05 2014 11:17 AM (TJ7ih)
The complete bundle is only $12, and you can start with a full version of RPG Maker VX Ace (which retails for $69.99) and some games and DLC for as little as $1. The bundle has two days to go.
I have a couple of spare keys for RPG Maker on Steam, and for some of the DLC as well, so if you miss the sale but are still interested, let me know and I'll send you a key.
Posted by: Mauser at Friday, June 06 2014 08:52 PM (TJ7ih)
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Apropos of nothing, I just saw this and thought it was pretty funny.
Posted by: RickC at Saturday, June 14 2014 05:38 AM (ECH2/)
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You know you still haven't fixed ace.mu.nu's xml feed, right? I'm sure you're busy doing Australian things, but I just wanted to make sure you hadn't forgotten it.
The errors make AoS unreadable to me, and I'm really starting to miss it. It's been like 2 months. Any idea on an ETA?
Posted by: Kevin at Sunday, June 15 2014 01:27 PM (scMcM)
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Wonderduck isn't around to police his own site and the spam there is starting to accumulate. (Here, too!)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, June 25 2014 10:33 AM (+rSRq)
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There's always a spam-ton at mee.nu (without ai). We're really crying for automated locking of old posts.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thursday, June 26 2014 11:47 AM (RqRa5)
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Actually we HAVE auto-locking of old posts. I think the cut-off is a year. It may be 2. Perhaps if we had it adjustable or set a 6 months....
Captcha might be an option....(runs, hides).
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Friday, June 27 2014 12:25 AM (DnAJl)
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Making it an option would be best. Most blogs could probably run fine with comments locked after 30 days, which would really cut down on the spam nuisance.
I'll see if I can do that this weekend.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, June 27 2014 01:13 PM (PiXy!)
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I just turned off comments altogether. Spam was up to 10 pages a day. So if you get a lesser time period to close comments that would be great. I can then go through and close anything older than 2 weeks easily.
Posted by: Teresa at Tuesday, July 01 2014 11:35 AM (GxMbS)
I've been tied up with work (and trying to catch up on sleep) the last couple of weeks, hence the recent lack of posts.
But I have picked up a few new toys. Mostly they're just sitting here until I have a chance to play with them, but I do have some first impressions.
Sony Xperia Z Ultra + Sandisk 128GB microSD Card
I was intrigued by the Z Ultra when it first appeared, but it was a bit expensive for what it offered. And at the time I'd recently bought a Nexus 7 and a Nexus 5. Sony recently cut the price by 25%, and I've managed to scratch up my Nexus 5 somehow, so I decided to take the leap.
This is the first Android device I've bought not sold by Google, so (a) it's the first to support microSD cards and (b) it has Sony's UI overlay on top of stock Android. I picked up Sandisk's brand new 128GB microSD card to go with it. Sony only lists support for cards up to 64GB, but the card works perfectly.
It's a huge phone, with a 6.4" 1080p screen, but my real use for it is as a mini-tablet. For that purpose it's almost perfect. The screen is bright and sharp, performance of the Snapdragon 800 CPU is all I could ask, and Sony's UI is unobtrusive. I loaded Nova Launcher on it anyway, and that was quick and painless.
It's easier to list the handful of flaws than the catalogue of things Sony got right:
There's no camera flash.
The headphone jack is at the top right rather than the top of the device.
Sound is a bit tinny - but then, it's waterproof, which makes things tricky.
It only has 16GB of onboard storage.
Of those, only the storage bothers me. Android's support for removable storage is... Limited. Frankly, broken. There's no general way to store apps or arbitrary app data on an SD card. But the big three eaters of space on my other devices are BeyondPod, Audible, and Google Play Music, and all of those support SD cards. (Play Music requires Android 4.4 for this; fortunately, Sony have been good about updates, and after a few reboots I had the Z Ultra running the latest KitKat release.)
With those taken care of, the 16GB - about 11 real GB available after the operating system, restore partition, and stock apps - is just enough. I installed all the critical stuff, like Final Fantasy I through VI, every Kairosoft game so far translated into English, and the thousand-odd books in my Kindle library. Turns out that the biggest remaining space eaters are my subscriptions to Analog, Asimov's, and F&SF. For some reason - apparently unmitigated incompetence - the average issue, while being almost pure text, takes up 80MB.
Physically, the device looks and feels like a small slab of dark glass; it's very thin, only about a quarter of an inch, which contributes to this impression. Very solidly constructed and designed with a certain minimalist elegance.
If you're in the market for a huge phone or a tiny tablet, the Z Ultra is going to be hard to beat.
Western Digital My Book Live 8TB
I have a couple of LaCie 5big NASes. I bought one with 10TB of disk included, and while it was expensive, it worked very nicely except for a certain lack of performance - which turned out eventually to be a problem with my network switch, and not am issue with the NAS at all.
I bought another 5big NAS without disks, and it sucks. The physical UI of the 5big consists of a glowy blue button on the front, which flashes red when it breaks. You manage the device through a web interface.
If you buy a diskless 5big NAS, this doesn't work. In any way whatsoever. It's a $350 sculpted aluminium paperweight. One of the most useless and worst-designed devices I've ever bought.
The Western Digital MBL8TB isn't anything special; it's similar to WD's other two-disk external storage widgets, whether USB or networked.
But it distinguishes itself from the 5big in two important ways: First, it was on sale and cost only a little more than the disks it contained, and second, it actually works.
It took a few minutes to set up - it picked up an IP address from DHCP, and the web UI worked fine. It does about 30MB per second reading or writing.
That said, unless you also find it on sale I wouldn't recommend it. WD's newer My Cloud Mirror and My Cloud EX2 - apparently the same updated hardware but targeted at home and business users respectively - are faster and only a little more expensive at list price.
Crucial M500 960GB
It's a 960GB SSD. It's not made by OCZ. It was, by strange coincidence, on sale. (It's just been replaced by the M550, which is slightly improved but also more expensive.) It wasn't cheap, but it means I don't have to fuss about with a small C drive on my Windows system.
Lenovo PX6-300D
This is another NAS. It's diskless, like the LaCie Paperweight, with six hot-swap bays. But it has a little LCD screen and buttons you can push instead of a big blue light of uselessness. It runs Linux, and has management software by EMC.
It cost over $1000 when it first came out; it's currently on sale for $550 on Amazon, and I picked it up for A$419 including sales tax and delivery. Benchmarks put it at around 95MB/second, which is close to saturating a gigabit ethernet link (of which it has two).
I don't have it set up yet, but should have it working in the next couple of days unless it turns out to be another expensive paperweight.
Update: And now it's gone back up to $900.
Steelseries Apex Gaming
Just a keyboard, albeit one with colour-controlled backlighting and an extra 26 function keys. I spilled a drink on my old keyboard and the Z, 8, and 9 keys stopped working, which was kind of awkward.
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I'm confused. Are ANY Crucial SSD's made by the best company to ever enter chapter 11 (aka OCZ)?
Posted by: Kevin at Thursday, June 05 2014 05:14 AM (SO0R9)
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Sorry for the confusion. Crucial is brand name of Micron; they make their own flash memory and SSDs.
What I meant was that the failure rates of OCZ drives was among the worst (if not the worst) of all the SSD manufacturers; that's a large part of why they ended up in chapter 11. The first thing to check with any SSD is that it's not made by OCZ.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, June 05 2014 08:27 PM (PiXy!)
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Uh oh. I've installed OCZ Vectors in 8(ish) of my neighbor's computers. Sounds like you're saying I've made a terrible mistake.
Posted by: Kevin at Saturday, June 07 2014 02:29 AM (7Kmo3)
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Just a head's up in case you thought you were finished fixing your websites - Ace's RSS is still screwed up. First, it connects to a page that tries to redirect (probably only annoying to people who have web redirects turned off, like me), and then it loads the article, followed by the comments, and then the next 10 or so articles and their comments as well. All in ever shrinking blockquotes.
Just fyi in case you're bored.
Posted by: Kevin at Friday, May 16 2014 12:54 AM (Mik+4)
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Oh dear. I'll get that sorted, thanks for the heads up!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 16 2014 12:55 AM (PiXy!)
Which is worse, kidney stones or Adaptec RAID controllers?
Hard to say. Both lead to sleep deprivation and intense pain, but Adaptec RAID controllers do not literally cause... Uh, I'll just cut of the metaphor at that point if it's all the same to you.
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Thanks for fixing it up. Are you in the software RAID camp yet?
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thursday, May 15 2014 12:06 AM (IX6IV)
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For most cases, yes. The new servers I just set up are software RAID-1 - a pair of disks and a pair of SSDs each. Cheap and easy to set up, and much less that can go wrong.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 15 2014 12:38 AM (PiXy!)
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Glad to see you are recovering! That was an epic outage.
Posted by: Kurt Duncan at Thursday, May 15 2014 02:00 AM (c/F3T)
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As if you didn't have enough problems, Brickmuppet and Wonderduck are both drowning in spam. (And you are, too.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, May 15 2014 02:02 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 15 2014 02:38 AM (PiXy!)
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Ooooh hate Adaptec RAID controllers. Sorry bout that. Unfortunately, my blog isn't back yet. Still getting the unavailable notice. I tried doing a cache check with Open DNS and it doesn't like it one bit. Luckily I've been too busy fighting with our Adaptec controllers to have much posting time. Ha.
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, May 16 2014 03:40 AM (GxMbS)
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Hi Teresa. Your blog has been restored on the server, but I need to fix your DNS, hang on at tick...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 16 2014 10:20 AM (PiXy!)
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No problem. Like I said, I've been too swamped with stuff lately to blog much. LOL.
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, May 16 2014 10:46 AM (GxMbS)
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Kidneystones. Oh lord on a stick, I had a large kidneystone that threw off what I called kidneygravel for about a year. I thought I was used to the pain.
Then the Big One moved.
What I'm sayin' is, I understand what you experienced.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, May 16 2014 12:40 PM (cx8j7)
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What I had was probably only mid-level on the kidney stone scale. I don't want to think what a really bad bout of kidney stones would feel like.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 16 2014 01:23 PM (PiXy!)
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Steven - the extra bonus plus smilies are back!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 16 2014 01:24 PM (PiXy!)
12I don't want to think what a really bad bout of kidney stones would feel like.
Take what you experienced, then roll it in broken glass. Then set it on fire. Then shoot yourself in the head.
That last part is optional, but it's what I wanted to do.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, May 17 2014 07:29 PM (Izt1u)
That Dell 24" 4K monitor is currently on sale for $1019. But the sale ends today. But I've just been paid, so today is actually a good time for me to buy it. But I still haven't decided whether I'd prefer the Dell or the (lower quality but more versatile) Samsung.
On the fifth hand, the last couple of times Dell have had this monitor on sale, the end of the sale was followed soon after by a permanent price cut. (From $1699 to $1499 to $1199.) So it may be selling for $999 soon anyway.
When you transform a square-bracket IMG tag into an angle-bracket IMG tag, could you include width and height for them?
In IE when I have a post with a lot of images, the comment entry box placement and the buttons below them are placed before the images load, so they end up in the middle of the post on top of the images.
Clicking on the box moves it to the bottom, but the buttons stay where they were, no longer anywhere near the box.
The reason is that IE's rendering engine doesn't know how big the images are before they load, because you aren't telling them. If you include width and height fields, then the rendering engine will place everything properly even before the images load.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, May 04 2014 04:49 AM (+rSRq)
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Let me look into that. I can probably fix it without needing to put the image sizes in the HTML. (That's possible too, but the facility to upload zip archives makes it tricky.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, May 05 2014 11:51 PM (PiXy!)
The contenders to replace my old Dell 27" monitor:
Samsung 28" 3840x2160 TN display for $749.
Dell 24" 3840x2160 IPS display for $1199.*
LG 34" 3440x1440 IPS display for $1299.
The Samsung is cheapest by a good margin, but it's a TN panel, and I've been using IPS screens on my desktop since I first moved away from CRTs.
The Dell is a very high-quality screen, but it's the smallest, and runs exclusively at 3840x2160. So it's not great for gaming unless you have something like the new Radeon 295X2, a $1500 500W liquid-cooled monster.
The LG is actually lower resolution than the others, but it's huge and wide enough for three workable documents side-by-side.
I think there's no bad choice here; they all look like excellent monitors. Unfortunately, I don't really have the money or space to buy one of each.
* It was A$1699 at the start of the year. That price is coming down fast.
You wouldn't really want to go DOWN in size, would you?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, April 19 2014 12:19 PM (Kv7m+)
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TN panels are the cheap ones, where the colour, brightness, and contrast shift when you look at them from an angle. IPS panels (also known as PVA and other TLAs) are the expensive ones, where that doesn't happen nearly as much.
I'd rather not go down in size or panel quality, but there's no ideal solution at present... At least, not at a reasonable price. The only solution that gives me everything I want would cost about $7000, because I'd need the monitor itself (close to $3000), a super-high-end video card to run games at 4K resolution because the monitor only does 4K (around $1800), and a new computer to put the video card in because it won't actually fit in my current computer (upwards of $2000).
So if I give a little on panel quality, I can get pretty much what I want for 1/8 the cost.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 19 2014 01:20 PM (PiXy!)
Their take: If you're not doing professional graphics work where colour accuracy is key, go buy one. If you are, go buy one and keep a standard-resolution colour-calibrated monitor for doing colour checks.
I do some design work, but entirely for web, not for print. To a first approximation no-one at all browses the web on colour-calibrated monitors, so no matter how accurate your own setup is is, no two people will your work see it the same way. So good enough for me.
I think I'll get the Samsung when it arrives next month. Unless the price of the Dell 24" comes down even further...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 19 2014 02:24 PM (PiXy!)
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If you don't need ridiculously-sized monitors like Pixy, IPS prices have come down drastically relative to TN. I bought an Asus 22" VS229, then gave it to my son a month later, and replaced it with another Asus, the 23" VX238, which is actually a step up, and while I bought both on sale, they were both within spitting distance of non-IPS monitors (I paid maybe $10-20 more in each case and it was totally worth it.)
The VX238 is pretty awesome: it's insanely bright, has 2 HDMI inputs, and built-in speakers that are better than you would expect, given that the monitor is massively thinner than the run of the mill (for example, it's probably 1/3 as thick as your average Dell monitor.)
Posted by: RickC at Saturday, April 19 2014 02:34 PM (0a7VZ)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 19 2014 03:49 PM (PiXy!)
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Well, no, I thought that was covered by "don't need ridiculously-sized monitors like Pixy."
Posted by: RickC at Sunday, April 20 2014 10:16 AM (0a7VZ)
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Except that the Dell I listed is a 24" monitor, barely larger than the ones you mentioned. For the first time, more pixels doesn't necessarily mean a larger screen.
Your point about quality IPS displays being much more affordable than in the past is very true, though.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 20 2014 12:32 PM (PiXy!)
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Oh geez yes. After mentioning what I use at home, I'll point out that at work, they bought me some TN Dell monstrosity. It's much dimmer and the colors aren't nearly as vibrant. I'd pay more than $20 more for IPS, frankly, and when it comes time to replace my current POS box I might just ask them to get me something better if I spring for the difference.
Posted by: RickC at Tuesday, April 22 2014 07:43 AM (ECH2/)
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Check out the seiki 4k at 39 inches. Not a super fast refresh rate but it's only 499 at amazon and is pretty great for coders / developers
Posted by: McDirty at Tuesday, April 22 2014 12:56 PM (9uMB5)
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No-one seems to sell Seiki in Australia, or I'd have one already.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, April 22 2014 02:34 PM (PiXy!)
First Apple's SSL library had a serious security flaw, but that's okay because I don't use Apple's SSL. (I have an iPad, but it mostly just sits there.)
Then GnuTLS had a worse security flaw, but that's okay because I use OpenSSL.
Then OpenSSL had the worst security flaw of them all... But that's okay because the version of OpenSSL we're using here is older than the bug.
I will wipe and reinstall a couple of virtual machines that don't have user data on them yet, just in case.
Of course, while mee.nu was secure* Amazon, Google, and any number of other providers have been exposed to this bug to varying degrees for two years.** And the nature of the bug is such that attacks would not show up in normal server logs; it's a silent, pseudo-random data leak.
* Entirely because I've been too busy to migrate to a newer version of Linux and install proper certificates, not because of any specific virtue.
** It's been a busy two years. Seriously. I don't want to talk about it.
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Isn't it the case that this wasn't so much a bug as it was a deliberately-inserted exploit?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, April 09 2014 03:57 PM (+rSRq)
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No clear evidence of that. For GnuTLS and OpenSSL, it's open source and the changes are tracked, so we know exactly who introduced the bug and when.
The Apple bug is a bit dubious, since the specific bug should have been detected immediately by any code analysis tool or even the programmer's IDE (it left unreachable code), but again, no clear evidence that it was deliberate.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, April 09 2014 04:04 PM (PiXy!)
