Go work in IT in Oklahoma for a few years then come back and say that.
As for your figures for Florida; documentation, please. I work in a building full of people who far more than you're alleging. Get out of Tampa; it's overrun by cheap Scientologist programming labor.
When they are blackmale that require that states spend more money or lose funding, they are unfunded mandates.
No Child Left Behind didn't include anything that couldn't have been met with existing funds; school boards that chose not to cut unnecessary crap to pay for it did so by exactly that; choice.
By the way, if you school had chosen to spend more money on teaching you grammar, and less on athletics, you might have noticed the grammatical errors in your own reply.
Holy shit, is that what the "No Child Left Behind" unfunded mandate was all about?
When they're something the speaker disagrees with, they're called "unfunded mandates". When they're something the speaker agrees with, they're just called "laws".
The same government that mandated that also lowered federal income taxes. Your people are spending more money in your state now. Use that increased income to meet the mandates.
Bash. If you don't know how to write a for-loop in bash to connect to all your hosts and make some changes, you don't know what you're missing.
You should see what we've got. Stores host names in profiles, and runs in parallel. Very sweet, unfortunately not GPL so I can't share. I'm sure there's something like it out there on the intarweb, though.
Gui bittorrent clients. MP3 players. This isn't a sysadmin toolkit; this is a catalog of the links on his GNOME desktop.
My sysadmin toolkit is vi and man. If I need to download an ISO and it's available on bittorrent you know what I'll use? BITTORRENT. WTF do you need a gui for to download a file?
Things I wouldn't want to live without:
screen ssh bash or ksh; I don't care which perl sed and awk (I'm old, I should be using perl more, sue me) ncftp (I know, it's practically gold-plated effemininity, but I like it) vim GNU grep
Everything else, I'm good with whatever the OS provides.
Nixon brought most of that erosion on, and you can hardly claim that it wasn't justified.
Neither of those statements is true.
Nixon abused his power, certainly; but in ways that many in Congress have done, and that many in the Supreme Court have done. Removing power from the President isn't the answer to abuse; removing the President from power is. That happened.
A lot of the erosion happened because Carter deliberately pissed away executive power. He didn't do that because of Nixon; he did that because he's a moron.
Believe it or not, there are those of us who, regardless of party affiliation, think the principle of checks and balances is more important than the politics and personalities of the moment.
Yes, there certainly are. But we don't all agree on what specific checks and balances are the right ones. Some of us think the steady erosion of Executive Branch power hasn't been a good thing, and welcome the tiny amount of restoration of that power that the current US President has undertaken.
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For anybody whose sudoers file is one line, sudo is probably overkill.
For anybody whose sudoers file is 352 lines, like the ones in the smaller implementations at the Fortune 500 company I work for, the "everybody that needs root has the password" approach is asinine, and a great way to make sure you flunk your SOX 404 audit.
There's also the question of employees who need root access for a single task. Using UNIX groups and setuid/setgid binaries doesn't give you the kind of logging that sudo can, which is important for SOX 404 compliance as well.
However, for the small implementations, there is a still an argument for sudo or other similar programs, which is:
Teaching people to do it right the first time benefits them far more if they ever HAVE to do it right than teaching them to do it wrong the first time.
Unlike FreeBSD, OpenBSD spends shockingly little on the OS itself.
And shockingly much on conventions. OpenBSD's financial situation, according to TFA, is that they can't afford to operate 5 conventions a year; they're short by about the cost of one or two.
This tool operates by turning off important security and stability features in apt-get. It will damage your system silently. The author responds to attempts to correct these problems with flames, even if the attempts are in the form of patches.
Easy Ubuntu is a better take on the same problem space.
The script itself sounds great though... I wouldn't mind having something like that for Windows.
Imagine if installing a new game could silently downgrade your DirectX to version 7.0, suppressing all prompts that the DirectX install would like to give you to make sure you want to do this.
Every American already has affordable access to broadband. When a Democrat tells you "affordable", he means "we'll make the people with jobs give it to the people without jobs for free, because there are more of the latter and they'll vote for us that way."
If you read TFA, you'll se he spotted.net dependance in the ones he found.
And if you read it with your brain connected, you'll find the idea that he just said "wait a moment, I'll show these guys I wasn't cheating; I'll go download every cheat program and I bet none of them will work in Linux", after he was already banned, to be so unlikely as to stretch the bonds of credulity beyond the breaking point.
Alienware takes cheap-ass Uniwill commodity laptops, puts them in a custom case with upgraded video, and marks them up a thousand bucks over what other companies such as Averatec etc. would charge for the same damn laptop.
If Dell bought them, at least the quality would go up.
Banned for violating the rules with his programmable keyboard. They outright told him that; he was interacting with his environment in an unattended manner. That's a violation of the TOS for every MMORPG I've ever read the TOS for, which admittedly isn't many.
However, it is telling that he knows that bot programs won't work on Wine under Linux; I'm not buying the story that he tested them all subsequently.
Summation: Cheated. Got caught. Got banned. Whined and told his buddies an "edited" version of the story, so they all rallied behind him. Tough noogies.
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Florida pays terrible wages.
Go work in IT in Oklahoma for a few years then come back and say that.
As for your figures for Florida; documentation, please. I work in a building full of people who far more than you're alleging. Get out of Tampa; it's overrun by cheap Scientologist programming labor.
Balmer really doesn't have a say in this matter he has to act.
He could quit and donate a billion dollars to Ubuntu.
When they are blackmale that require that states spend more money or lose funding, they are unfunded mandates.
No Child Left Behind didn't include anything that couldn't have been met with existing funds; school boards that chose not to cut unnecessary crap to pay for it did so by exactly that; choice.
By the way, if you school had chosen to spend more money on teaching you grammar, and less on athletics, you might have noticed the grammatical errors in your own reply.
Holy shit, is that what the "No Child Left Behind" unfunded mandate was all about?
When they're something the speaker disagrees with, they're called "unfunded mandates". When they're something the speaker agrees with, they're just called "laws".
The same government that mandated that also lowered federal income taxes. Your people are spending more money in your state now. Use that increased income to meet the mandates.
This is why the top IT jobs in state government in Oklahoma pay less than entry-level Operator jobs in the private sector in Florida.
They expect to have the "anti-cockroach flamethrower" ready to go a month after that.
Bash. If you don't know how to write a for-loop in bash to connect to all your hosts and make some changes, you don't know what you're missing.
You should see what we've got. Stores host names in profiles, and runs in parallel. Very sweet, unfortunately not GPL so I can't share. I'm sure there's something like it out there on the intarweb, though.
Gui bittorrent clients. MP3 players. This isn't a sysadmin toolkit; this is a catalog of the links on his GNOME desktop.
My sysadmin toolkit is vi and man. If I need to download an ISO and it's available on bittorrent you know what I'll use? BITTORRENT. WTF do you need a gui for to download a file?
Things I wouldn't want to live without:
screen
ssh
bash or ksh; I don't care which
perl
sed and awk (I'm old, I should be using perl more, sue me)
ncftp (I know, it's practically gold-plated effemininity, but I like it)
vim
GNU grep
Everything else, I'm good with whatever the OS provides.
Yeah, the ones with RAID arrays in their living rooms and time to watch hours and hours of un-color-corrected, noisy, botched takes.
Dude, you're looking at it wrong; this is your excuse to finally convince the wife that you need that RAID array for your living room!
I expect EMC stock to skyrocket. A chicken in every pot, and a Connectrix in every living room!
Nixon brought most of that erosion on, and you can hardly claim that it wasn't justified.
Neither of those statements is true.
Nixon abused his power, certainly; but in ways that many in Congress have done, and that many in the Supreme Court have done. Removing power from the President isn't the answer to abuse; removing the President from power is. That happened.
A lot of the erosion happened because Carter deliberately pissed away executive power. He didn't do that because of Nixon; he did that because he's a moron.
Believe it or not, there are those of us who, regardless of party affiliation, think the principle of checks and balances is more important than the politics and personalities of the moment.
Yes, there certainly are. But we don't all agree on what specific checks and balances are the right ones. Some of us think the steady erosion of Executive Branch power hasn't been a good thing, and welcome the tiny amount of restoration of that power that the current US President has undertaken.
For anybody whose sudoers file is one line, sudo is probably overkill.
For anybody whose sudoers file is 352 lines, like the ones in the smaller implementations at the Fortune 500 company I work for, the "everybody that needs root has the password" approach is asinine, and a great way to make sure you flunk your SOX 404 audit.
There's also the question of employees who need root access for a single task. Using UNIX groups and setuid/setgid binaries doesn't give you the kind of logging that sudo can, which is important for SOX 404 compliance as well.
However, for the small implementations, there is a still an argument for sudo or other similar programs, which is:
Teaching people to do it right the first time benefits them far more if they ever HAVE to do it right than teaching them to do it wrong the first time.
Unlike FreeBSD, OpenBSD spends shockingly little on the OS itself.
And shockingly much on conventions. OpenBSD's financial situation, according to TFA, is that they can't afford to operate 5 conventions a year; they're short by about the cost of one or two.
The solution seems obvious.
If you think $600 for a dish and $70 a month for low speed broadband is affordable you make a far better living than I.
You can get the dish for $100 if you're willing to pay more per month.
I thought that was Steve Johnson's job.
This tool operates by turning off important security and stability features in apt-get. It will damage your system silently. The author responds to attempts to correct these problems with flames, even if the attempts are in the form of patches.
Easy Ubuntu is a better take on the same problem space.
The script itself sounds great though... I wouldn't mind having something like that for Windows.
Imagine if installing a new game could silently downgrade your DirectX to version 7.0, suppressing all prompts that the DirectX install would like to give you to make sure you want to do this.
That would be Automatix for Windows.
It handles adding unofficial repos, installing, and configuring the packages.
The biggest problem with it being, it adds unofficial repos, installs things from them, and configures them.
Nah, DR-OpenDOS. I know that one works, if you can still find it.
You forgot FreeDOS with Windows 3.11 installed!
Every American already has affordable access to broadband. When a Democrat tells you "affordable", he means "we'll make the people with jobs give it to the people without jobs for free, because there are more of the latter and they'll vote for us that way."
If you read TFA, you'll se he spotted .net dependance in the ones he found.
And if you read it with your brain connected, you'll find the idea that he just said "wait a moment, I'll show these guys I wasn't cheating; I'll go download every cheat program and I bet none of them will work in Linux", after he was already banned, to be so unlikely as to stretch the bonds of credulity beyond the breaking point.
I call shenanigans on the whole thing.
Alienware takes cheap-ass Uniwill commodity laptops, puts them in a custom case with upgraded video, and marks them up a thousand bucks over what other companies such as Averatec etc. would charge for the same damn laptop.
If Dell bought them, at least the quality would go up.
Banned for violating the rules with his programmable keyboard. They outright told him that; he was interacting with his environment in an unattended manner. That's a violation of the TOS for every MMORPG I've ever read the TOS for, which admittedly isn't many.
However, it is telling that he knows that bot programs won't work on Wine under Linux; I'm not buying the story that he tested them all subsequently.
Summation: Cheated. Got caught. Got banned. Whined and told his buddies an "edited" version of the story, so they all rallied behind him. Tough noogies.
Didn't he already do this?