Meeting Eye to Eye with EyeOS?

Recently I started testing on-line operating systems to see what merits using cloud computing can have on my productivity.
One of these systems is Eye-OS, which comes in two flavours, 1.9 Stable (Classic), which this article is based on, and 2.x Beta, which appears to be geared towards social networking.

Eye-OS is a very simple, intuitive interface with clear icons and a similar feel to most popular OS desktops. There is a nice look about Eye-OS, muted colours so not to distract the eye and a kind of corporate feel to the integration of the other applications, and it work under both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux running under Firefox.

Once you log on to Eye-OS the system 'boots' and presents you with a few icons on the desktop, an address book, Calender RSS Feeder and a Trash Can.

The desktop background can be changed via the system icon on the menu bar, and also do things such as alter your profile etc.

The Home icon takes you to your File Manager where you can..access your uploaded or created files!

Uploading files is a very straight forward affair, a simple file manager interface allows you to files, documents, music files and images to the on-line storage. This is fairly intuitive to use but it can take a long time if you store your files in separate folders as the up-loader closes the file selector when you choose a file. 

Sounds great and it is..but occasionally the file selection process doesn't go well and the OS just keeps bleeping at you.

The Applications icon takes you, predictable to the applications.

Clicking on the Word Processor Icon activates the Eye-OS word-processor, which initially looks very sleek and professional, but once you start to use it, it's limitations soon become apparent.

The lack of a spell checker, the inability to link to images stored in Eye-OS are first to show themselves, then there is the problem of it locking up and not being able to access the document makes it almost impossible to use, to such an extent that when I was writing this under Linux, I had to abandon using the Eye-OS and use OpenOffice just to work on the document, which is kinda self-defeating regarding being able to use this OS on any machine.

If fact so much trouble was writing this that I haven't saved the screen shot of the WP!

Streaming play back of your music files is accomplished via a somewhat primitive music player which only plays a track at a time, so, if you are doing another activity such as typing a document such as this, you have to stop. Go the the music player,...activate the next track...then come back to the document..not very productive. The sound quality is good for on-line streaming, subject to the usual stutters and lag problems.

Setting up the email seems to be a complex affair in Eye-OS, with many complicated setting needed to communicate to your email accounts. This could easily dissuade the new user or those stuck for time from setting it up. Indeed, it looks like one of the last tasks I will be performing to get the most out of Eye-OS.

Browsing is taken care of by Navigator, again a very minimalistic look and feel to it. There are limited functions to this application but it appears swift for just checking an web address but would be cumbersome for a serious surfer.

Overall, I cannot really recommend this on-line OS for some of the difficulties I have encountered and far from helping me to become more productive, the WP difficulties were actually getting in the way of this goal.

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Mr Ned says...........

This post is actually a copy of a comment placed on Guido Fawkes regarding the attitude of eco-warriors post Climategate...

Greenpeace : “We Know Where You Live”

It was also inspired by listening to the totally biased BBC programme 'Call You and Yours.' 

This is the comment..LOL spot on!

Mr Ned says:
April 5, 2010 at 12:31 pm
“Its the South Pole you want to be focusing on.”



Agreed, the ice in the Antarctic reached a record high ice extent last September, though I do not recall the media paying any attention to that.

They only go down there in our Spring, when the Antarctic ice melt is at it’s height. Then they recycle those pictures of the Wilkin’s ice sheet breaking off (AGAIN) then go on about how it is warming down there faster than the rest of the planet, but forgetting to honestly inform the public that the ONLY way to show any warming is to strictly control the grid of where they are measuring temperature, to homogenise it in one way that includes dodgy data from thermometers that were 50 feet up on masts, that have now been buried in lots of insulating snow (where the batteries heat up the area around the thermometer), that include areas of strong volcanic activity and where the measurements only start on one specific date and end on another specific that will show a slight net warming. ANY other way of measuring shows that the Antarctic has been cooling for 50 years and the massive ice extent is proof of this.


If one looks at the ice recovery in the Arctic, one can see NATURAL variablity that disproves the wild and crazy alarmism of the past few years. The ice is recovering, the polar bears are breeding like mad and the earth is NOT doomed to burn up.


IN fact there is more ice on the earth today (including the arctic and the Antarctic and all the glaciers combined) than there has been for many years.


That is the raw, observable evidence from the real subject in study. The actual, real earth.


Fuck computerised climate models with their bullshit algorithms and bullshit incomplete input data full of bullshit assumptions.


The real thing is not warming anywhere near as fast as the alarmists are desperate for it to. You would think that they would be relieved and happy that their cataclysmic predictions are not happening, but no, they are just ever more shrill and desperate.


Where there IS massive environmental damage, that can be put down to man’s activities, then that is usually down to local factors such as cutting down forests, (removing moisture which rose, turned to snow and fell on Mount Kilimanjaro, now the ice is receding through natural process in response to less snow and wind erosion and evaporation NOT melting as the temperature there has NOT changed)


Or putting in reinforced coasts to protect fish farms which move the coastal waters further round to cause more damage and flooding (Bangladesh where the sea level has NOT risen by more than half an inch)


Yes there are real environmental issues, but when they are examined, what is revealed is that local factors are blamed and it is NOT the industrialised Western nations’ use of carbon fuels that is the cause, but the use of industrial practices in the region of damage that is to blame.


AGW is BULLSHIT! It is a hypothesis that is NOT supported by the observable evidence and yet people still believe in climate science. In science, IF the hypothesis is not supported by the evidence, OR to put it another way, if the observable evidence contradicts the hypothesis, then the hypothesis fails and must be revised to explain the evidence.


In Climate science, when the observable evidence contradicts the hypothesis, the evidence is ignored, or manipulated or hidden or lost, to be replaced by evidence that has been “homogenised” (tampered with). That is NOT science. That is fraud.



"Penguin for Lunch again lads."

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Anger Management?

I find that this helps...

So who gets the back of your hand? Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Nick Clegg?

LOL!

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