I can already fill a gigabit connection pushing stuff around the house. Having a local gigabit ISP would just allow me to expand this to friends and family.
A cloud backup without the cloud would be a good start.
I've seen what normal electrical subs do with cat5. It's not pretty. It's downright scary. It's the stuff of nightmares. Assuming that you can just use cat5 used for phone runs may not necessarily work out for you.
This is why I had my house wired with structured cabling. That kind of dense cable bundle can't quite be abused as readily as a single strand of cat5.
Because of the exact circumstances regarding the build of my house, I ended up using a structured cable bundle that includes fiber. Have no idea what I am ever going to do with it but I've got it.
That 5 cable bundle was not significantly more expensive than running a single cat5 line.
A wired GigE network is so much better than wireless.
The first case of anything is bound to be a surprise. Everyone has their "someone else's problem" fields turned on to full. Something that is a very real possibility seems more like a distant fiction.
So then how does the Swedish version of a dude ranch in outer suburbia do?
Sparsely populated means that most of your small population is easy to service with a few outliers that are more difficult. The experiences of BOTH have to be considered and examined for it to be a meaningful comparison.
It's "large" but how much of it is actually populated?
The new broken way of doing things means that my more interesting Ubuntu machines don't boot up without user intervention despite there being no actual problem.
Attempts to fix this myself will be more difficult because the newer system is more complex and thus more prone to user error.
Like someone else already says. It violates the Unix design philosophy. It's a kitchen sink approach that creates unnecessary complexity, unnecessary dependencies, will be harder to work with, and will be more buggy.
If you want the Windows approach to systems design you can just use that. There's no need to pollute something else.
The only real issue with Linux at this point is that "it is not DOS". This is the same exact problem that MacOS has. This leads to less robust 3rd party support.
Most people don't care about their OS. The just tolerate the market leader so that they can have access to the biggest "ecosystem".
Linux doesn't need to copy Windows or MacOS in some ill fated attempt to better succeed.
Gabe Newell doesn't care about how "primitive" these parts of Linux are. Neither does Larry Ellison.
There is no real difference. They are policies that go together like peas and carrots because they originate from the same political ideology and benefit the same class of people to the detriment of the rest of us.
Anytime anyone says that you should not bother running your own stuff and that you should just "outsource" it all to "the cloud" my response is: Yahoo.
We've been hearing a lot about this bug and people trying to allegedly take advantage of it but who is the first entity to be confirmed to actually be bit by this but: Yahoo.
You're trying to make it sound like it's some sort of middle school vendetta when it's really nothing of the sort. What you describe does happen but it's not a relevant thing to consider here.
I did not immediately recognize the name. So it did not initially understand why this poor fellow would be making these kinds of complaints. Then I Googled him and all became clear.
It's little wonder he's feeling hounded right about now.
If you troll and do things that people don't like, you are bound to get a lot of negative feedback. Your own remarks a a fine example of this.
It's fascinating how in the digital age people have lost sight of this. This was pretty well understood back when you actually had to troll someone to their face. It was no big surprise if you managed to cause a backlash. It was a real backlash too and not just people posting mean things about you.
>> He (essentially) wrote a book about China, and didn't mention chopsticks, foot-binding, or tea?
> And those minutiae of fashion or dining are exactly the sort of details that today expatriates may well leave out if they were asked to recount life abroad.
Only because everyone already knows about them. By this point in time, the superficially weird parts of China simply aren't that interesting anymore.
However, if you go back a few decades you have something different and probably more comparable the environment Polo would have been in. Much less general knowledge available. The slightest superficial details are great revelations.
There's something to be said for a discovery that's remembered by someone 100 years later or even just 10 years later. That's one thing that these attempts to steal credit from Columbus don't have. They don't have any lasting impact.
It's like that Indian kid with his email program and the Huffington Post. It had no influence or lasting impact because no one knew about it.
I've worked with ex-military people and have had no complaints but you are right on about the military approach to being a technician. Everything is spelled out in minute detail. No thought process is required. You just follow the manual.
There's only so much independent thinking that the military tolerates.
Although IT (as opposed to software development) tends to be a lot less about being creative anyways.
> Because they last 200k miles with minimal maintenance?
Any number of much cheaper brands can manage this with no problem.
On the other hand, your "minimal maintenance" is going to cost you much more. The same multiplier you apply to the car itself, you can apply to the maintenance and any consumables.
The overpriced brand isn't just overpriced when you buy it. That's a gift that just keeps on giving and giving.
Some of us have actual experience with this kind of stuff...
No. Most employers even of engineering and programming talent don't want creativity. They want to be able to turn you into anonymous cog. All large employers seek to turn ANY work into factory work.
You are only going to see demand for genuine creativity in small shops and startup operations.
The notion that corporate America wants any sort of creativity is just a lie they tell you to keep you from rioting.
The problem with fixating on Steve Jobs is that he's an outlier. The two sets of extremes that he represents should be ignored when considering education policy in general.
Also, he succeeded "in spite" of whatever faults the current system has. So it really makes no sense to distort the entire system to suit people like him.
He's statistically insignificant and is proven not to be harmed by the current regime.
He's the wrong part of the bell curve to fixate on.
Nu Pogodi really isn't that impressive for it's time. Plus the whole communism thing greatly curtailed production. Hanna Barbara was nothing if not productive.
Communism didn't give people the chance, that's kind of the point.
No one was free to do their own thing either on the high end (Disney) or on the low end (Hanna).
3 networks, four hours of programming, decades of shows.
And Nu Pogadi is more like a crude version of Tom & Jerry if anything.
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The pro-life busybodies pretty much do everything they can to sabotage these "babies" once they have forced someone else to carry it to term.
They really are the ultimate hypocrites.
I can already fill a gigabit connection pushing stuff around the house. Having a local gigabit ISP would just allow me to expand this to friends and family.
A cloud backup without the cloud would be a good start.
I've seen what normal electrical subs do with cat5. It's not pretty. It's downright scary. It's the stuff of nightmares. Assuming that you can just use cat5 used for phone runs may not necessarily work out for you.
This is why I had my house wired with structured cabling. That kind of dense cable bundle can't quite be abused as readily as a single strand of cat5.
Because of the exact circumstances regarding the build of my house, I ended up using a structured cable bundle that includes fiber. Have no idea what I am ever going to do with it but I've got it.
That 5 cable bundle was not significantly more expensive than running a single cat5 line.
A wired GigE network is so much better than wireless.
The first case of anything is bound to be a surprise. Everyone has their "someone else's problem" fields turned on to full. Something that is a very real possibility seems more like a distant fiction.
So then how does the Swedish version of a dude ranch in outer suburbia do?
Sparsely populated means that most of your small population is easy to service with a few outliers that are more difficult. The experiences of BOTH have to be considered and examined for it to be a meaningful comparison.
It's "large" but how much of it is actually populated?
The new broken way of doing things means that my more interesting Ubuntu machines don't boot up without user intervention despite there being no actual problem.
Attempts to fix this myself will be more difficult because the newer system is more complex and thus more prone to user error.
Simple and reliable is not a bug, it's a feature.
> What is with the SystemD bashing anyway?
Like someone else already says. It violates the Unix design philosophy. It's a kitchen sink approach that creates unnecessary complexity, unnecessary dependencies, will be harder to work with, and will be more buggy.
If you want the Windows approach to systems design you can just use that. There's no need to pollute something else.
The only real issue with Linux at this point is that "it is not DOS". This is the same exact problem that MacOS has. This leads to less robust 3rd party support.
Most people don't care about their OS. The just tolerate the market leader so that they can have access to the biggest "ecosystem".
Linux doesn't need to copy Windows or MacOS in some ill fated attempt to better succeed.
Gabe Newell doesn't care about how "primitive" these parts of Linux are. Neither does Larry Ellison.
There is no real difference. They are policies that go together like peas and carrots because they originate from the same political ideology and benefit the same class of people to the detriment of the rest of us.
They get conflated for very good reason.
Yes. "at will employment" is usually referred to by the Orwellian term "Right to Work".
Yes. And clearly some people are more equal than others.
Strangely enough some of the peasants even support this as if the last 500 years of Anglo-American history didn't exist.
Anytime anyone says that you should not bother running your own stuff and that you should just "outsource" it all to "the cloud" my response is: Yahoo.
We've been hearing a lot about this bug and people trying to allegedly take advantage of it but who is the first entity to be confirmed to actually be bit by this but: Yahoo.
You're trying to make it sound like it's some sort of middle school vendetta when it's really nothing of the sort. What you describe does happen but it's not a relevant thing to consider here.
I did not immediately recognize the name. So it did not initially understand why this poor fellow would be making these kinds of complaints. Then I Googled him and all became clear.
It's little wonder he's feeling hounded right about now.
If you troll and do things that people don't like, you are bound to get a lot of negative feedback. Your own remarks a a fine example of this.
It's fascinating how in the digital age people have lost sight of this. This was pretty well understood back when you actually had to troll someone to their face. It was no big surprise if you managed to cause a backlash. It was a real backlash too and not just people posting mean things about you.
Wandering around like Mongols isn't civilized.
That's not to say that there weren't genuinely civilized (if brutal) parts of the Americas. But a lot of it wasn't.
Ignoring the differences demeans the cultures that actually accomplished something.
Plenty of "Indians" have reason to look down on other "Indians". They weren't all just one homogenous mass.
>> He (essentially) wrote a book about China, and didn't mention chopsticks, foot-binding, or tea?
> And those minutiae of fashion or dining are exactly the sort of details that today expatriates may well leave out if they were asked to recount life abroad.
Only because everyone already knows about them. By this point in time, the superficially weird parts of China simply aren't that interesting anymore.
However, if you go back a few decades you have something different and probably more comparable the environment Polo would have been in. Much less general knowledge available. The slightest superficial details are great revelations.
There's something to be said for a discovery that's remembered by someone 100 years later or even just 10 years later. That's one thing that these attempts to steal credit from Columbus don't have. They don't have any lasting impact.
It's like that Indian kid with his email program and the Huffington Post. It had no influence or lasting impact because no one knew about it.
I've worked with ex-military people and have had no complaints but you are right on about the military approach to being a technician. Everything is spelled out in minute detail. No thought process is required. You just follow the manual.
There's only so much independent thinking that the military tolerates.
Although IT (as opposed to software development) tends to be a lot less about being creative anyways.
> Because they last 200k miles with minimal maintenance?
Any number of much cheaper brands can manage this with no problem.
On the other hand, your "minimal maintenance" is going to cost you much more. The same multiplier you apply to the car itself, you can apply to the maintenance and any consumables.
The overpriced brand isn't just overpriced when you buy it. That's a gift that just keeps on giving and giving.
Some of us have actual experience with this kind of stuff...
No. Most employers even of engineering and programming talent don't want creativity. They want to be able to turn you into anonymous cog. All large employers seek to turn ANY work into factory work.
You are only going to see demand for genuine creativity in small shops and startup operations.
The notion that corporate America wants any sort of creativity is just a lie they tell you to keep you from rioting.
The problem with fixating on Steve Jobs is that he's an outlier. The two sets of extremes that he represents should be ignored when considering education policy in general.
Also, he succeeded "in spite" of whatever faults the current system has. So it really makes no sense to distort the entire system to suit people like him.
He's statistically insignificant and is proven not to be harmed by the current regime.
He's the wrong part of the bell curve to fixate on.
It only gives you a reason to be a smug pretentious jackass to total strangers who's opinions don't have any real significance anyways.
That is a pretty retarded argument. "It's good because it sells well". That's the same argument you can use for Microsoft and McDonalds and GM.
The fact that people will watch it for free is no good indicator of quality.
Nu Pogodi really isn't that impressive for it's time. Plus the whole communism thing greatly curtailed production. Hanna Barbara was nothing if not productive.
Communism didn't give people the chance, that's kind of the point.
No one was free to do their own thing either on the high end (Disney) or on the low end (Hanna).
3 networks, four hours of programming, decades of shows.
And Nu Pogadi is more like a crude version of Tom & Jerry if anything.