Official Google Blog: Releasing the Chromium OS open source project.

Google is now Microsoft in the past, when Microsoft was selling DOS to IBM.

I just watch few Chrome OS documents and videos, it is a larger plan then I thought before. If it happen in the way which Google is planning, there is a Web 3.0 revolution that ever important then the PC revolution.

PC will be a historical term, like Apple II.

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I watch also IE9 video yesterday, they are all doing the same – faster browser, faster Javscript, use GPU to speed up…etc, etc. However, IE9 will never beat Chrome OS as there are no anything to slow it down, in theory.

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DOS – Disk operating system,  Chrome OS – Web operating system.

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Microsoft is doing this – “keep your laptop/notebook connected to their cloud, and the company network —- in order to deadly control them”

You can find these sign in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
BitLocker, branchcache, group policy forced auto VPN connection…etc,etc

Fat OS, fat server, deep connection, tight control.
I bet half of system administrators will love these new feature.
(not the end user, as they cannot

Google is doing in another way – “nothing but a powered stateless workstation — you cannot do too much offline”

Lightweight browser, internet depending, open source.
Not all company will like it, (but they will), but many heavy Internet and mobile user will.

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How about NativeClient ?

Think about it, something like Photoshop, AutoCAD, graphical designer, movie editing….etc

They might not do very well in HTML5 then that in PC.

But if there is a plug-in system which allow you to run full featured application. They don’t read/write file from harddisk, but on WebDAV folders.

Chrome OS answer the question which people ask when Google release NativeClient — why not just download the exe and execute?  Why reinvent ActiveX? Because you won’t and not allowed on Chrome OS.

I just there will even some “Extension based on NativeClient”

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Back to Chrome OS, it take away unsuccessfully, and optimize it.

7 SECONDS from power on and boot to browser.

Why “HIBERNATE” !??  Why “SLEEP”?  to cut 7 seconds into 0.5 

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Sandbox – application partition — everybody know about it, if they have a iPhone…..Apple guy call it Jail.

File system encrypted by default – very reasonable for mobile devices .

They try to LIMIT supported hardware!!!!
Reasonable to keep limited number of driver support and stupid bad hardware problems.

Actually, if it run in google way, half of hardware building company will die.
Because nobody will buy a faster GPU card, cooler, super CPU, larger harddisk…. they will subscribe storage online.

Google Application Store!!

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Read more:

http://randle.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/google-chrome-os-revealed/

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They reinvent searching

They reinvent unturrupted power supply

They reinvent web mail

They reinvent web browser

They reinvent ActiveX

They reinvent email

They reinvent http

They reinvent C

What’s next??

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係極度唔夠訓加差D唔記得情況之下, 做左個 qualification round
總算 Pass 左….

A => easy
B => 睇唔明……
C => small 無問題, 但係個 large set 好慢; 唔知用咩演算法先至會快

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Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS.

我想 Chrome OS 最大的目的，不是甚麼進佔ＯＳ界／Linux 。
而是更大限度的消除由 “甚麼都沒有” 到連上網絡到 Google 的總成本。

可能有人會問，Linux 不是已經是免費的嗎？

但事實上，不用買不代表不用花費去管。

Windows 很易用沒錯，可是還有管理、防毒、安全、更新、錯誤更用等等潛在成本。這種成本在 Linux 上就更高了。

一個簡單而有效率的 OS  去運行 web apps 對 Google  來說是十分重要的。也就是不會死掉，出問題不用拿去修理，也不會出現安裝了一大堆垃圾而 unstable 或變慢。像電視機一樣。（…….目標大概比大家的手機要好吧？）

而在 Linux 為本而再發的原因，大概是成本的問題吧？ Don’t reinvent the wheel….unless it has problem/ it won’t fit.

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簡單而複雜的 Google Wave – 網絡暴民 Jacky’s Blog.

單單用文字很難形容 Google Wave 是甚麼東西，你看到的形容大概都是說這是廿一世紀新電郵，然後就是幾個看上去不算特別的抓圖，和一些關鍵字：real-time、communication、collaboration。一直到你肯花一個多小時去看 Google I/O 裏的介紹和 Demo 後，才會感到這個東西的威力。

有人說，這是 Google 的 Shartpoint (哪像了？)

有人說，這是 Facebook/WIKI 版的 Gmail (完全是兩回事吧？)

的確，不花一點時間去看一下他們的 presenetiaton 是不會明白的。用文字很難形容的原因，大概是從沒有類似的事物出現過，而找不到合適的詞語和對比物。

It is very impressive. They do know how to “WOW” you.

那是十份值得一看的 presenetiaton。

那是未來十至二十年的 IT 界會打開的路。

那是以前只會在SF小說出現的情節。

那是令我開始覺得自己是老一輩，追不上的巨浪。

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Dennis 的無差別 Blog» Blog Archive – » Google Wave.

唸唸下，其實 wave 當中有嘅 Histroy and playback 部份

我以前份工都寫過類似嘅 system，不過當然絕不能相提併論
以前一套咁嘅 system 已經食唔少 broadwidth
Wave 個 server 到底要有幾勁幾多 broadwidth 才可以支持一千個 client 呢！？而又可以保持 “Realtime” 無 random latancy, 無 message starvation 出現呢？？？

雖然我好似有唸過，經由一個 central server of all fact 再 route message 出來會比較好（而唔係個別 broadcasting, routing）；比較可以保証全世界睇緊嘅時間線發生次序係一樣

如果我無記錯好似開會嘅時候提過一次，但當以好似被老細用 “work 嘅野唔好改”(或者我記錯) ban 左；我就係覺得唔 work 先至有提議…..雖然我知如果真係改會改死人

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ykZYKCK7AM&feature=player_embedded

但係原來 Google 都係無其他更好嘅 Idea…….

central fact 代表 single thread, single point of failure, 代表無 message shortcut, 代表 demand of powerful hardware

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Google Wave

如果有甚麼可以被當成 WebOS，那很有可能就是 Google Wave。

或許有人會覺得那是另外的一個 Facebook, chating 或 collaboration system。但我想一個 Web OS 該要長得甚麼樣子，那就是和 Wave 差不多吧？

The OS is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the limited resources of the computer. The operating system acts as a host for applications that are run on the machine……

Operating systems offer a number of services to system programs, user interfaces, application programs and hardware…

quote: Operation system at Wikipedia

因為是 WebOS，所以沒有見鬼的 hardware resource manangement，取而代之的是 Web Services connection。沒有 file system，都給 resource URL 代替。

連接不同的 應用 /  服務、溝通、儲存、讀取、使用者認証‥‥ Google Wave 都已經做得到了(而且很 fancy)。

我想 Wave 可能會出現很多想像之內的 plugin

• Skype
• Synchronize with your phone and mobile devices
• Read / Write RSS Feed
• Album / online photo editing / annotation tool
• Facebook / MS live ..etc  interface
• Online Software development…….even with Eclipse
• Web cam??
• Whiteboard
• Helpdesk toolkit / Webex
• Interface with aNobii, forum, BBS, newsgroup…etc
• Games, and a lot of games
• SMS / MMS

也有和更也沒有想過的可能性的 wave application 會出現吧。

還是說一下現在 wave 已經有的 killer application

• 超即時 chating  (因為沒有 typing, 所以比 “即時” 還要即時…)
• Histroy and playback
• Open source, open platform, open API
• Spell checker
• Realtime translation (你要看過片後才知甚麼叫 realtime)
• Document collaboration (想像一下，把整個 google docs 放進去 MSN, Wiki & Facebook)
• Cross network connection (也就是 MSN 回應, 可以在 yahoo messenger 看的到, 也能在 google chat, ICQ, 甚至 twitter, blog, facebook 作無隔閡連結)
• Drag N drop (which come from gears and HTML5)
• No more “Reply all” to add a preson to a conversation
  

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