Even if you only use terminals, and you have to have a framebuffer that supports that native resolution of your screen, you'll find that Xorg is nearly always more performant.
Using tmux in an X terminal emulator really gets you the best of all worlds. Good mouse support, performant as you mention, and if X really starts to give you hassle for some reason you can always seamlessly continue working in a VT or with putty if you really want to.
Could someone elaborate how x11/xterm compares to iTerm2? I've been using tmux in iTerm. After reading this discussion, i installed x11 and quartz-wm. Why would I switch to X11 ?
(I do notice that within tmux on iterm, i can use the mouse for selection (using Alt), but the mouse does not work in tmux in xterm.)
These days II mostly use tmux windows/panes instead of yakuake, but yakuake is still useful)terminal dropdown/retract or when my copy/paste breaks in tmux again(doesn't work well with mouse options).
I don't understand why I'd want to use tmux locally. I'm a huge believer in tmux on remote machines though. Why would I want to use it on my local laptop?
In addition to the obvious multiplexing/windowing/paning, I find it great for creating named "work sessions". I have a short script that creates or attaches (with zsh autocompletion in the case of attaching) tmux sessions while creating a standardized filesystem tree that I use for units of "work", checking out things I need, etc.
This allows me to basically just type at any point `work foobar` and I'll either have a clean slate to start working on foobar, or I will be dropped into an existing tmux session 'foobar' that is exactly where I left off last time. Same 'tail -f'/'watch'es, same Vim sessions, same everything.
Besides regular units of work I usually keep a tmux session around just for database connections or the like, and another for messing around with environment stuff (dotfiles, ~/bin/, etc).
Most of this organization is stuff I used to do with virtual desktops, but I find tmux is wildly better suited for it.
Assuming you spend a lot of time in terminals, you can use it to group your tasks. For example I have tmux sessions for my bachelor's thesis which contains two windows, either of which contains two split panes. The left pane is for vim (which are split further) and the right pane are for ghci and terminal. If I change from writing the thesis to for example doing work I can just change the tmux session. The layout and content are just like I left them.
Say I am working on a rails project. I need vim open with root; I need rails server, console, dbconsole; I need one window at project root for misc task; and I prefer not to navigate with the mouse to different tabs. Personally, I vastly prefer tmux terminal multiplexing over terminal tabs.
Also, it doesn't happen frequently, but I have closed terminals which I didn't mean to. tmux/screen means that causes only minor inconvenience, compared to closing the terminal, opening it again, opening all tabs, dealing with swap files, re-running servers, dbconsoles etc.
I would recommend a primarily tmux-based workflow unless you use a number of graphical programs that benefit greatly from the tiling paradigm.
I used to use Xmonad with tmux (and still do sometimes). I primarily use Unity with tmux now. I came to the realization that tmux had nearly nullified my need for a tiling window manager after I switched from gVim to terminal vim and noticing how much easier it made my workflow. My "ah ha" moment was the discovery of the distinction between sessions, windows, and panes and how each could interact with (or sometimes transform into) the each other.
I'm a xmonad user and I use tmux. I agree that they both provide similar benefits, but the killer benefit for tmux is the persistence. I can have n sessions open and it's still easy to switch between them. Just disconnect the old one and attach to the new one. With xmonad you would either need to have many topic spaces (and recompile config when you want new one) or close the old ones
Go on AOSP build for devices page. See what tablets are compatible. Build your own source for the tablet, throw in SEAndroid and leave the Ipad junk alone. It'll cost you $500 less too
Everytime I click on stackoverflow the answer is some pompous windbag who chastised the OP for some trivial error in his post, or claiming it was posted to the wrong base, or some other infraction that wastes your time and the question you want answered is locked. I'd like to evac that site and nuke it from orbit.
You should also use startpage.com instead of google. Less spyware, same results
Syria would blow it out of the sky. They also are targeting all satellite signals in their borders with mortar shelling. That's how all those French journalists got owned, they turned on the cameras, set up the uplink and 30 seconds later bam here's a face full of explosive censorship enjoy. They simply locked on to the signal and shelled it not caring who was there.
They've also been targeting wireless uplinks across borders and adhoc cell towers. Syria levelled an entire apartment building full of kids in Turkey to destroy a suspected adhoc cell tower they claimed was being used by "terrorists". This is serious business, no piratebay UAV drone solution is going to work. Mesh networking is also certain death, any building with a mesh router on it is going to have all its inhabitants dragged out of their apartments and shot in the street so they've been using good old walkie talkies and bouncing signals all over the place to confuse the syrian army, and in most cases simply stealing Syrian army comsec devices and pretending to be them talking in slight code with each other to avoid suspicion. Al Jazeera ran a story with some smugglers who used gps disabled cellphones but changed the IMEI every couple of hours to avoid being found
They would be more able to go after terrestrial radio and L-band portable satellite systems (e.g. Thuraya DSL, thuraya sat modems, various forms of BGAN/RBGAN/etc., which is what journalists tend to use) than Ka or Ku band satellite.
I haven't kept up on Syria or Libya (I wasted 2003-2010 on this stuff in Iraq/Afgh/etc., and am trying to do a "normal" tech startup now), but while I think Syria (and Libya) had better European gear than Iraq or the Taliban, it isn't on par with the US, UK/FR/DE, RU, CN, etc. It's basically "good commercial equipment designed for law enforcement", which is very heavily cellphone focused.
The #1 vulnerability with satellite systems remains "operator assistance to the adversary", or "network configured in a way which relays location data of connected terminals to everyone in the footprint", both of which can be addressed if you control the network.
They've been blocking traffic in Syria to numerous social networking and email/voip sites since the revolution began, and nulling cell towers in every area where there are protests. This hasn't hampered the free syrian army or activists as since last year they've been passing sdcards to the border of lebanon, jordan, iraq and turkey and uploading their videos wirelessly from there. The FSA is running two border crossing with turkey anyways.
This seems to be like some sort of incompetence, more like they tried to set up some sort of spying choke point and it massively failed. ask nokia-siemens, they helped iran set up their chokepoint, most likely some infosec whitehats with zero ethics are currently flying out there to assist in the holocaust, er I mean rebellion put down, by working with Assad to get the tubes back up.
It only hurts Assad to keep the tubes out, his loyal base needs to buy their louis vuitton bags off alibaba to keep their minds off the constant public shooting of protesters and shelling of entire cities full of "terrorists"
Well, Syria already does have a spying chokepoint in place. It's had it for years(at least since late 2010 when I was there). They have something similar to China's in that it also does filtering. Also, at some point when I was there around may~june 2011 when this was all starting up they seriously started messing with https stuff conducting MITM on facebook and what not.
Also, no, having the internet cut off absolutely does not hurt Assad. Syria is very sectarian in nature. In other words your loyal base absolutely does not correlate with what services you provide, only what religion/sect/tribe people are.
The rebellion didn't happen because people suddenly started hating Bashar el Assad, it happened because those same people have hated this regime for at least the past 40 years. In 1982, Hafez, the guy who established the regime put down an earlier rebellion that had gone on for something like 3 years by completely destroying entire sections of cities(and pretty much all of Hama) and killing, by conservative estimates, at least 10,000 people. This was during a time when the USSR still existed and where such things within its sphere of influence were par for the course, which is why no international response happened at the time.
The rebellion happened now because of a perceived weakness in the regime's freedom to act(no USSR anymore, much more US influence in the area, weak(er) dictator) and because of perceived international support for similar things happening in Arab nations. That's it. So if the internet in any way helps the FSA get international support by exposing atrocities committed against civilians by the government then you can bet it's in the government's best interest to shut it down.
this article was terribad internet 2.0 stuffed shirt middle management corporate hot garbage.
i wiped my ass with everything that ceo had to say. join our moustache hipster 'hot startup', it'll take you 9 interviews but we're worth it. really? it's 2012 how about f you and your viral marketing video cloud service startup. you are parasites upon humanity making video spam and viewing metrics stats for car companies, penis pills and gambling. just admit you are shameless hucksters that are one peg above a spammer, ditch the synergies and ridiculous pretense.
if this guy enjoys the starbucks latte macfag synergies promoting corporate work environment that's great but this isn't 'hacking' this is pleading and begging to get a shitty job in yet another corporation that's just pretending to be super kawaii cool and awesome but when it comes down to it they'll lay this guy off in a heartbeat, sell the company to some megacorp and screw every employee royally. all startups do this. the guy who owns it buys back all your shares before he lays you off as a favour then keeps the money and sells out faster than Jay Leno in front of a bowl full of Doritos.
I bet they do excrement inducing "team building exercizes" at this way super coo startup. No matter what hipster clothes and mac products you put in front of the CEO he's Bill Lumberg from Office Space demanding TPS reports.
Finally the worst of this entire article was the buzzword 'growth hacker' which is newspeak for a spammer. Look at the definition article they link, some guy who basically manipulates CL ads to punt his junk, a marketer with coding experience, in other words, a fcking spammer. Protip: all of India and Pakistan are chock full of marketers who can code. This is not a revolutionary concept.
I would've shown up and given this guy a USB drive with 3 OSx exploits on it to corrupt client side memory and my "resume", then sold myself to him in person using balls not limp social media or stalking around linkedin and twitter. If they didn't hire me I'd have their source code to sell on blackhat SEO forums anyways so who cares.
Holy shit, seriously who is running the EFF these days? I haven't checked in since the 1990s. This was the absolute WORST article on privacy I've ever read in my life.
FUUUUUU... did they just advocate for people to use Hushmail? The same proprietary, for-profit organization that when contacted by the FBI they present the user with a decoy login screen so they can capture your password in the clear and then decrypt your entire history to hand over to the feds?
Nobody should be using hushmail in 2012, not after multiple court cases that have detailed exactly what hushmail has done for the feds. Hushmail has sold their users out so many times I can't count. It's useless cloud encryption nonsense.
If you really want to send an anonymous email, you use mixmaster, torrified. Period.
If you need a method to be contacted by people who are clueless you then sign up to privacybox.de a free service provided by the German Privacy Foundation and you upload your public PGP key and have it forwarded to a tormail account. Reply through mixmaster encrypted
If you're really paranoid you have mixmaster post encrypted emails to alt.anonymous.messages and skip centralized email servers like tormail all together
This is how send email torrified with Jondo live privacy CD, or just install mixmaster on your own linux/bsd computer and use full disc encryption + pgp.
Screw the EFF after reading that tutorial. It should be burned to the ground and an entire new organization built if this article is their best advice.
I was going to down-vote this, but if you skip out your insults, your information is likely worthwhile. Your comment would have been far better without all the extra attacking gumph, which adds nothing and makes you less likely to be taken seriously.
