As a long time user of Linux (used other unices as well, including BSDs), I find myself wondering whether to move over to FreeBSD every announce of a release.
The only drawback of Linux currently is systemd (Linux distro's with good community support, loads of scripts and tools are readily available for ubuntu/redhat/arch etc.), the drawback of Free/OpenBSD is lack of experience (hardware/performance tuning/etc).
I'd like to hear pro-con lists of developers (system,web) moving from Linux to FreeBSD.
Thanks in advance!
1. Pitching an operating system for critical systems and data that uses a childish looking and potentially nefarious mascot in the corporate world != having a mascot at an entertainment-sporting event.
You mean, like, a penguin, nginx with the unmistakenbly Russian logo?
MATE, because gnome is dead (=devs wanted a different audience) , never really liked KDE and cannot return to CDE-likes.
Web Browser: firefox, hanging my laptop frequently, still don't like Chrome's developer tools
Email Client: thunderbird, search really sucks and it's too big
IDE: intelliJ
IRC/Messaging Client: slack, left irc before icq
PDF Reader: dunno, comes with Mate, works fine. It's really not that interesting Adobe would like you to believe with all the bells & whistles, just make it view and print.
Office Suite: libreoffice
Calendar: thunderbird + extension, the extension really sucks but at least I can respond to invites.
Video Player: vlc
Music Player: mpg123, audacious though it's not like xmms anymore
Photo Viewer: they suck once you could view images in the file manager, before that ACDSee
Screen recording: only use screencapture Shutter, is nice, includes editing, though a bit slow
File manager, Basic Text Editor, Terminal are pretty much required for any desktop environment. nano always
And since I.T. tends to be the one dept that has actual tools and an understanding of systems, our one seems to end up fixing doors.
Loads of IT are pampered by their parents saying, oh look what my kid can do on the computer, he knows it all.
If you're hired for IT and aren't able to admit you just don't know everything and you just don't have experience in this or that, you deserve to be stuck in a rotating door.
What bugs me after the joyful demise of IE6 and the move to standardized HTML5/CSS3,
browsers *still* manage to fuck up and prefer things to do their own way.
.
(Hello position fixed, zooming safari etc. etc.)
This is a request to the editors and owners of slashdot.org, whenever vaccines come in play:
I'd really *really* like to be able to mod someone IGNORANT.
You are ignorant about the main causes of disease in 3rd world countries: poor food, filthy water, filthy living conditions, no sanitation. Vaccines don't help this. The money on vaccines would be better spent giving them clean water.
They're just ENGINES. Just ONE component of the entire car. That'd be like advocating to ban automatic transmissions because you make 5-speeds. The consumers are moving toward electric. Consumers are moving toward reduced pollution.
It's about sales longterm.
Electrical engines will dramatically increase the lifespan of a car.
Automobile industry will shrink enormously due to electrical, because there's far less maintenance, far less aftermarket (oils, gearings).
I remember decades ago a friend's father Mercedes country part supplier going bankrupt, because parts were too durable.
I remember researching later at another famous German plant limiting parts to max. amount of usage.
The sales droids have taken over longtime, exciting to see innovation and a turn of events.
It's okay to fuck around; important things are not taught in class-rooms.
Computer-related addictions like social media and gaming are vastly underestimated.
The only plus using a laptop is you can read your notes afterwards.
As soon as you're able to prepare for class and identify importance of details
the amount of notes you take is very limited anyway (or class material is lacking).
However, it's not dead because even the summary says there's a still Windows 10 phone.
It's dead. Apps in the app store are not updated, my banking apps are being phased out, for Win10.
Also, build quality has become gradually worse from the label Nokia to Microsoft. Apps (e.g. whatsapp) becoming worse, more app quirks.
Last buy was a Lumia 640, great value, great battery.
I found winphone a great improvement to Android 4 but will be returning to Android reluctantly.
This is both illogical and demonstrably false, since people have been living off of this planet for most of the last half century. All human life is technology-dependent. Many of the places lots of people live are unsurvivable without fairly extensive technology. Living on other planets, or in space, will require more and different technology, but there's nothing inherently impossible about it.
Humankind is *earth* dependent, not technology-dependent. Plummeting people into space is *earth* dependent.
Technology is human-, monkey-, crow-, computer or whatever trait, all depend on earth in one way or the other,
because you cannot replace raw materials with technology.
Then, humankind and its predecessors evolved in the isolated environment of the evoluting earth.
It's likely any environment, even artificially augmented, is lacking in one way or the other, e.g. bacteria, sunlight, minerals, aging, reproduction, gravity you name it.
These deficiences may take very long, even generations, to be exposed, living long-term. At that point, the issue might not be technologically solvable within the appropriate time frame or the humans may have evolved/deteriorated in such a way the colony is stuck or doomed.
Or maybe this era is at the peak of our technology achievements in all humankind and there will be no space technology revolution in the future.
Also, there is absolutely no case for people living off of this planet for generations, not a first birth in outer space.
Colonizing outer space is nothing more than a dream for years to come, the greatest nation of the earth just invested in *coal*. Most financial and raw resources on earth have been spent last century, unlikely there will be the huge funds of the moonlanding days.
In the meantime, humankind will be tied to earth forever by ancestry,
immediate priority should be housekeeping to obtain the time for any technological development beyond "The Inner Light".
You're lucky. Even in Europe burglary is becoming more violent, and contrary to the US, there is no my house, my castle legislation.
You're lucky, because you were able to have the time to assess the situation and discuss with the burglars. If intent were different or drugs were at play, most likely it would have a totally different outcome.
It's even easier when it's a direct copy. I've had students who copied homework directly, including the same errors, and the same comments. One time, I had a student use another student's file and they didn't even bother to remove the other student's name out of the comments section. They both got 0's for the assignment, and it was a pretty hefty assignment to get a 0 on.
All nice and dandy, I remember getting this "copy" mark once without foul play (some frequency analysis flag) and it was, to say the least, pretty fucked to get at least the *opportunity* to redo the assignment, let alone the effort.
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Be fucking sure it is foul play before condemning students--
I don't need a library, JSON is a native object or easily deserialized to a native object.
You see, the validation/serialization steps are moot and wasteful.
Invalid JSON is detected immediately, the semantics are arbitrary in both cases, so I'll have to test anyhow.
The true fallacy of XML is that "they" solved the data format with the view of a programming language.
That simply sucks if all you're doing is hoaling records from one point to another.
It's like Postscripting vs. html.
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As a long time user of Linux (used other unices as well, including BSDs), I find myself wondering whether to move over to FreeBSD every announce of a release.
The only drawback of Linux currently is systemd (Linux distro's with good community support, loads of scripts and tools are readily available for ubuntu/redhat/arch etc.), the drawback of Free/OpenBSD is lack of experience (hardware/performance tuning/etc).
I'd like to hear pro-con lists of developers (system,web) moving from Linux to FreeBSD.
Thanks in advance!
You mean, like, a penguin, nginx with the unmistakenbly Russian logo?
MATE, because gnome is dead (=devs wanted a different audience) , never really liked KDE and cannot return to CDE-likes. Web Browser: firefox, hanging my laptop frequently, still don't like Chrome's developer tools Email Client: thunderbird, search really sucks and it's too big IDE: intelliJ IRC/Messaging Client: slack, left irc before icq PDF Reader: dunno, comes with Mate, works fine. It's really not that interesting Adobe would like you to believe with all the bells & whistles, just make it view and print. Office Suite: libreoffice Calendar: thunderbird + extension, the extension really sucks but at least I can respond to invites. Video Player: vlc Music Player: mpg123, audacious though it's not like xmms anymore Photo Viewer: they suck once you could view images in the file manager, before that ACDSee Screen recording: only use screencapture Shutter, is nice, includes editing, though a bit slow File manager, Basic Text Editor, Terminal are pretty much required for any desktop environment. nano always
I use grains and hop, it gets even better over time!
Loads of IT are pampered by their parents saying, oh look what my kid can do on the computer, he knows it all.
If you're hired for IT and aren't able to admit you just don't know everything and you just don't have experience in this or that, you deserve to be stuck in a rotating door.
What bugs me after the joyful demise of IE6 and the move to standardized HTML5/CSS3, browsers *still* manage to fuck up and prefer things to do their own way. . (Hello position fixed, zooming safari etc. etc.)
This is a request to the editors and owners of slashdot.org, whenever vaccines come in play:
I'd really *really* like to be able to mod someone IGNORANT.
Ah-h-h-h, yessss, tell it to them my friend.
Truly yours,
Mr. Smallpox
It's about sales longterm.
Electrical engines will dramatically increase the lifespan of a car.
Automobile industry will shrink enormously due to electrical, because there's far less maintenance, far less aftermarket (oils, gearings).
I remember decades ago a friend's father Mercedes country part supplier going bankrupt, because parts were too durable.
I remember researching later at another famous German plant limiting parts to max. amount of usage.
The sales droids have taken over longtime, exciting to see innovation and a turn of events.
You are new to the web parts of IT :-) ...
LetsEncrypt has its issues because fishers like to use it, because
It's okay to fuck around; important things are not taught in class-rooms.
Computer-related addictions like social media and gaming are vastly underestimated.
The only plus using a laptop is you can read your notes afterwards.
As soon as you're able to prepare for class and identify importance of details the amount of notes you take is very limited anyway (or class material is lacking).
It's dead. Apps in the app store are not updated, my banking apps are being phased out, for Win10. Also, build quality has become gradually worse from the label Nokia to Microsoft. Apps (e.g. whatsapp) becoming worse, more app quirks. Last buy was a Lumia 640, great value, great battery. I found winphone a great improvement to Android 4 but will be returning to Android reluctantly.
Biologic issue--
Geez, difficult enough thinking pornhub...
Moore's law also applies, every two year the price doubles!
Just upgraded to a systemd-enabled system?
Thought most Linux users would stay away from Lenovo after the bios incident
have systemd?
mini ITX celeron J1800, more expensive though, but at least you have something useful after playing.
Humankind is *earth* dependent, not technology-dependent. Plummeting people into space is *earth* dependent.
Technology is human-, monkey-, crow-, computer or whatever trait, all depend on earth in one way or the other, because you cannot replace raw materials with technology.
Then, humankind and its predecessors evolved in the isolated environment of the evoluting earth. It's likely any environment, even artificially augmented, is lacking in one way or the other, e.g. bacteria, sunlight, minerals, aging, reproduction, gravity you name it.
These deficiences may take very long, even generations, to be exposed, living long-term. At that point, the issue might not be technologically solvable within the appropriate time frame or the humans may have evolved/deteriorated in such a way the colony is stuck or doomed.
Or maybe this era is at the peak of our technology achievements in all humankind and there will be no space technology revolution in the future.
Also, there is absolutely no case for people living off of this planet for generations, not a first birth in outer space.
Colonizing outer space is nothing more than a dream for years to come, the greatest nation of the earth just invested in *coal*. Most financial and raw resources on earth have been spent last century, unlikely there will be the huge funds of the moonlanding days. In the meantime, humankind will be tied to earth forever by ancestry,
immediate priority should be housekeeping to obtain the time for any technological development beyond "The Inner Light".
You're lucky. Even in Europe burglary is becoming more violent, and contrary to the US, there is no my house, my castle legislation. You're lucky, because you were able to have the time to assess the situation and discuss with the burglars. If intent were different or drugs were at play, most likely it would have a totally different outcome.
You're barking at the wrong tree. Customers just buy a service based on price, uptime and retention, as advertised.
If you don't feel respected due to underpayment, lack of resources or management, it's your job to step up and take a stand.
In any case, the customers are most likely not at fault so don't fuck them. It looks bad on all of us.
If you can't deal with responsibility, stay the fuck away from power.
VHS is unwatchable once you are accustomed to HD
All nice and dandy, I remember getting this "copy" mark once without foul play (some frequency analysis flag) and it was, to say the least, pretty fucked to get at least the *opportunity* to redo the assignment, let alone the effort. . Be fucking sure it is foul play before condemning students--
I don't need a library, JSON is a native object or easily deserialized to a native object.
You see, the validation/serialization steps are moot and wasteful.
Invalid JSON is detected immediately, the semantics are arbitrary in both cases, so I'll have to test anyhow.
The true fallacy of XML is that "they" solved the data format with the view of a programming language.
That simply sucks if all you're doing is hoaling records from one point to another.
It's like Postscripting vs. html.