I wonder if you could argue that these agreements are signed under duress. That would be interesting. Considering you found out you just lost your job and many people would need the severance pay.
Better yet, make it proportionate to the CEO's wages. Oh, and plug the loopholes so that any financial compensation granted the CEO counts toward this (be it wages, stocks, etc.)
I don't trust that hplip with work anymore with printers on their own compatibility list.
I have a cp1025nw that I bought a while back and it was working fine. Somewhere along the way, in one of the new versions, hplip refused to load the firmware for my printer. It says it's loaded but it doesn't, it asks to install firmware again when printing. Manually compiling the old version worked with no issues. I recently forgot about this and upgraded and found my printer in its non-working state again.
I discovered foo2zjs which happens to support my printer. No drama installing it either, add a print queue and the damn thing just works. None of this hp-setup crap. Removing and readding printers every time there's an update crap.
Why does printing on linux have to be such a pain in the ass?
Hell, I don't even have a roommate (or wife/girlfriend.)
One thing I can't stand is when you are trying to relax in the evening is hearing fan noise from a computer in the living room. It's irritating. And it does irritate a lot of people.
I set up a server in a spare room with storage and a mythtv backend, and the living room has an Intel NUC with a SSD with xbmc and mythtv frontend (oh, and a gaming console.) It's barely audible. My main PC that I do gaming on is in my den, and I don't care about the fan noise there as I have a full stereo/surround with floorstanding speakers and a separate AV receiver. When I'm playing a game let's just say I don't notice the fan noise much (if at all!)
Generally when I watch TV, I don't like to have the volume excessively loud which means you can hear all sorts of other noises. I've had company come over and they were surprised when they found out I listened to TV at the volume I had it at, they claimed they couldn't hear anything (no, not my parents or grandparents.)
When I saw the article, I'd assumed it was systemd related. Now that I've read it, I know it's not. All of the systemd naysayers lining up to say "I told you so" are now going "DOH!" and dispersing. For now...
I hate replying to myself, but I have a dedicated mythtv backend and four frontends (bedroom TV, living room TV, exercise room TV, and my laptop) that allows to to watch live TV/share recordings. Something the local cable company started proudly advertising a couple years ago, while it's existed quite some time before that in the linux world. Wow! My TV costs are now about $2.30 a month for the guide data so I can schedule recordings, and I find that perfectly reasonable.
I cut the cord four years ago. When I moved into my new place I had nothing but trouble with cable (half the time half my channels wouldn't work.) Umpteen tech visits later, I even had three different techs say the cable from the street to my house was damaged (underground cabling in my neighbourhood.) I was actually injured and basically bedridden at the time and it was basically the only thing I could use other than my laptop occasionally (weight on my legs = killer pain.) Anyway, they didn't want to fix the damn wire and they were surprised I cancelled the service???
About six months later I read about the digital OTA service (I've always known about the analog service.) It was kind of in testing mode (not all stations moved over) but I figured I should give it a shot. Due to my distance from the tower I've had to raise my antenna to about thirty feet, but I got 6 or so full HD channels. The first thing I noticed that was in high-motion movement there was NO pixelation, unlike my cable connection.
So I started telling people at work they didn't have to spend $1200-$1500 to get TV and almost all were in disbelief. Some would say "but I can't get channel X". I guess they've decided that one channel is worth $150/month, but I think they're crazy.
A lady at work the other day didn't seem to know that one could still receive over-the-air broadcasts for television. I wonder how many people don't realize this and are paying for TV that they don't want or need.
I was over at a young coworker/friend and I was telling him about it. His wife's eyes grew really big and she stated "You're STEALING TV?"
Sigggghhhh............
The new generation grew up thinking they have to pay out the arse for TV and grew up thinking this was perfectly normal.
I don't know about the good design and performance part - wasn't it not too long ago that there were a plethora of overheating MacBook Pros? I think it was even posted on slashdot...
What I can't figure out is that we have things available that can strip paint off of cars. So what do we do? We drink it. Yeeeah, that sound really smart.:-)
Yes, there are a lot of USE flags, but this is part of the extreme flexibility gentoo's package management offers. I have tried to use other distros several times but I always wind up returning to gentoo for the package management flexibility. Remember heartbleed? All I had to do was toggle a USE flag to disable the tls heartbeat and recompile openssl immediately. It was patched eventually, of course, and it could be reenabled again. However, as far as I know, other distros had no easy way to do this, unless you had source tools and did things outside of the package management system for the distro.
There are a lot of USE flags that are shared between lots of packages and this can be enabled globally if need be (thinking of things like printing support, hardware video acceleration, etc.) There are ways to deal with USE flags.
1. First, get the base system running (no gui, just get it so you can login to a shell.) 2. Set a profile (use `eselect profile list` to show them, and `eselect profile set x to set one.) 3. Use `emerge --info` to set what flags are used. 4. Use `emerge -pnuDN world` to see which packages will be compiled. USE flags triggering the change will be highlighted. 5. If you're wondering what a specific USE flag is doing with a package, use `equery uses <package>` to check. equery is in the gentoolkit package.
If you need changes it is better to set USE flags for individual packages as someone else posted.
Yes, this takes a while to set up but once it's done you will know what you need and it can be noted somewhere.
- Don't be afraid of package.keywords, especially for very specific use flags.
Another long-time gentoo user here - the above file is used for mixing stable and unstable/testing packages. I'm sure the parent meant package.use.
Another thing to note is portage has a built-in way to deal with patches that happen outside of ebuilds, you simply create a directory specific to the package that needs patching and drop the patches in it, and portage will automatically use the patches. This is extremely handy for a system maintainer as you don't need to edit ebuilds.
Lennart has a consistent track record of releasing code that breaks the world and then blaming the breakage on the users and distros not using his masterpieces correctly.
Hmm, was his previous employer Apple by any chance?
My grocery store recently (well, a few months ago now) got rid of the loyalty program. You don't need a card to get the advertised prices. Maybe they found out it cost way too much to run?
Question for you: if I have a Linux server and install KDE on it, or X - would you name it a "Desktop"? Or is it still a server? Or both? I'm confused.
No, they'd give up waiting for portage to sort out dependencies. It reminds me of Windows XP before Microsoft patched it to not take 45 minutes to search for updates.
When I couldn't find an immediate replacement battery for one of my old cell phones a couple years ago, I ordered one online. It was going to take a week and so I went down to the cell provider store and bought the cheapest phone they had ($90.) Now I always have a spare phone around in case my smartphone craps out. Who needs an insurance plan?
I didn't rant and rave on Slashdot about it then. I didn't think it was a big deal then and I still don't now. Guy sounds completely like an entitlement elitist.
That's not a monopoly. Microsoft was leveraging a huge installed base of Windows (completely separate app/OS space) for Internet Explorer installs - you're comparing apples and oranges.
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I wonder if you could argue that these agreements are signed under duress. That would be interesting. Considering you found out you just lost your job and many people would need the severance pay.
Better yet, make it proportionate to the CEO's wages. Oh, and plug the loopholes so that any financial compensation granted the CEO counts toward this (be it wages, stocks, etc.)
I don't trust that hplip with work anymore with printers on their own compatibility list.
I have a cp1025nw that I bought a while back and it was working fine. Somewhere along the way, in one of the new versions, hplip refused to load the firmware for my printer. It says it's loaded but it doesn't, it asks to install firmware again when printing. Manually compiling the old version worked with no issues. I recently forgot about this and upgraded and found my printer in its non-working state again.
I discovered foo2zjs which happens to support my printer. No drama installing it either, add a print queue and the damn thing just works. None of this hp-setup crap. Removing and readding printers every time there's an update crap.
Why does printing on linux have to be such a pain in the ass?
That's really strange, my 2012 Nexus 7 got it quite a while ago now. More than a week for sure. Maybe even two weeks now.
Hell, I don't even have a roommate (or wife/girlfriend.)
One thing I can't stand is when you are trying to relax in the evening is hearing fan noise from a computer in the living room. It's irritating. And it does irritate a lot of people.
I set up a server in a spare room with storage and a mythtv backend, and the living room has an Intel NUC with a SSD with xbmc and mythtv frontend (oh, and a gaming console.) It's barely audible. My main PC that I do gaming on is in my den, and I don't care about the fan noise there as I have a full stereo/surround with floorstanding speakers and a separate AV receiver. When I'm playing a game let's just say I don't notice the fan noise much (if at all!)
Generally when I watch TV, I don't like to have the volume excessively loud which means you can hear all sorts of other noises. I've had company come over and they were surprised when they found out I listened to TV at the volume I had it at, they claimed they couldn't hear anything (no, not my parents or grandparents.)
When I saw the article, I'd assumed it was systemd related. Now that I've read it, I know it's not. All of the systemd naysayers lining up to say "I told you so" are now going "DOH!" and dispersing. For now...
Yep, in the automotive space Tesla is the Apple/Google and everybody else is Blackberry. It will come to burn some of them.
Right here. My new driver's license came with one.
I hate replying to myself, but I have a dedicated mythtv backend and four frontends (bedroom TV, living room TV, exercise room TV, and my laptop) that allows to to watch live TV/share recordings. Something the local cable company started proudly advertising a couple years ago, while it's existed quite some time before that in the linux world. Wow! My TV costs are now about $2.30 a month for the guide data so I can schedule recordings, and I find that perfectly reasonable.
I cut the cord four years ago. When I moved into my new place I had nothing but trouble with cable (half the time half my channels wouldn't work.) Umpteen tech visits later, I even had three different techs say the cable from the street to my house was damaged (underground cabling in my neighbourhood.) I was actually injured and basically bedridden at the time and it was basically the only thing I could use other than my laptop occasionally (weight on my legs = killer pain.) Anyway, they didn't want to fix the damn wire and they were surprised I cancelled the service???
About six months later I read about the digital OTA service (I've always known about the analog service.) It was kind of in testing mode (not all stations moved over) but I figured I should give it a shot. Due to my distance from the tower I've had to raise my antenna to about thirty feet, but I got 6 or so full HD channels. The first thing I noticed that was in high-motion movement there was NO pixelation, unlike my cable connection.
So I started telling people at work they didn't have to spend $1200-$1500 to get TV and almost all were in disbelief. Some would say "but I can't get channel X". I guess they've decided that one channel is worth $150/month, but I think they're crazy.
I was over at a young coworker/friend and I was telling him about it. His wife's eyes grew really big and she stated "You're STEALING TV?"
Sigggghhhh............
The new generation grew up thinking they have to pay out the arse for TV and grew up thinking this was perfectly normal.
I'm also in Canada and have true unlimited 25/5 for $75/month. However, I pay extra for actually having unlimited bandwidth, an extra $10/month.
On a heavily IO-bound server this latency can matter.
I don't know about the good design and performance part - wasn't it not too long ago that there were a plethora of overheating MacBook Pros? I think it was even posted on slashdot...
Aww, really? I think everyone would like to get to the bottom of this!
What I can't figure out is that we have things available that can strip paint off of cars. So what do we do? We drink it. Yeeeah, that sound really smart. :-)
Yes, there are a lot of USE flags, but this is part of the extreme flexibility gentoo's package management offers. I have tried to use other distros several times but I always wind up returning to gentoo for the package management flexibility. Remember heartbleed? All I had to do was toggle a USE flag to disable the tls heartbeat and recompile openssl immediately. It was patched eventually, of course, and it could be reenabled again. However, as far as I know, other distros had no easy way to do this, unless you had source tools and did things outside of the package management system for the distro.
There are a lot of USE flags that are shared between lots of packages and this can be enabled globally if need be (thinking of things like printing support, hardware video acceleration, etc.) There are ways to deal with USE flags.
1. First, get the base system running (no gui, just get it so you can login to a shell.)
2. Set a profile (use `eselect profile list` to show them, and `eselect profile set x to set one.)
3. Use `emerge --info` to set what flags are used.
4. Use `emerge -pnuDN world` to see which packages will be compiled. USE flags triggering the change will be highlighted.
5. If you're wondering what a specific USE flag is doing with a package, use `equery uses <package>` to check. equery is in the gentoolkit package.
If you need changes it is better to set USE flags for individual packages as someone else posted.
Yes, this takes a while to set up but once it's done you will know what you need and it can be noted somewhere.
Another long-time gentoo user here - the above file is used for mixing stable and unstable/testing packages. I'm sure the parent meant package.use.
Another thing to note is portage has a built-in way to deal with patches that happen outside of ebuilds, you simply create a directory specific to the package that needs patching and drop the patches in it, and portage will automatically use the patches. This is extremely handy for a system maintainer as you don't need to edit ebuilds.
Google has confirmed the older Nexus 7 is getting the update. I actually just read this earlier today. I actually have the Nexus 7 (2012) so am looking forward to the update.
Hmm, was his previous employer Apple by any chance?
My grocery store recently (well, a few months ago now) got rid of the loyalty program. You don't need a card to get the advertised prices. Maybe they found out it cost way too much to run?
How about a sertop? Or deskver?
No, they'd give up waiting for portage to sort out dependencies. It reminds me of Windows XP before Microsoft patched it to not take 45 minutes to search for updates.
When I couldn't find an immediate replacement battery for one of my old cell phones a couple years ago, I ordered one online. It was going to take a week and so I went down to the cell provider store and bought the cheapest phone they had ($90.) Now I always have a spare phone around in case my smartphone craps out. Who needs an insurance plan?
I didn't rant and rave on Slashdot about it then. I didn't think it was a big deal then and I still don't now. Guy sounds completely like an entitlement elitist.
That's not a monopoly. Microsoft was leveraging a huge installed base of Windows (completely separate app/OS space) for Internet Explorer installs - you're comparing apples and oranges.
I'll add one more: Dungeons of Daggorath. I played it on a TRS-80.