I think that points to a trait that is strongly American - distrust of government, no matter who's in power.
Actually, Americans seem to like to think of them as distrust of the government, but what stuff like 9/11 show is that Americans, like most other people, have no problems getting in lockstep with the government if they feel threatened by an outside force.
Or, as my American econ professor once said, Americans have no problem yielding to authority, whether it's their civic leader, priest, military commander or government.
Because you'll forget and get stung with interest and/or penalty fees?
Which is why I set up payment the same day I get the bill. Basically, I get online notification (usually email) that a bill is due. I log into my bank and set up the payment with the payment happening on the due date. Then forget about it.
With email notification, I don't delete the email until I set up the payment.
1. Release notes will be here (right now they contain the etch release notes). 2. You probably will have to type apt-get dist-upgrade a couple of times (I usually average two). Reason is first couple of times, some packages will be stuck because of conflicting versioning, but it usually fixes itself once you get a couple of packages upgraded (usually once you get past libc and the kernel)
Generally speaking, Debian upgrade is much more painless than Ubuntu upgrades, IMO, possibly because of the longer release cycle. My Debian systems usually have some mixture of stable and backports, and I don't remember having any problems upgrading. Even desktops where I am third-party repos outside backports, I don't have any problems.
One thing you might want to do, especially if you don't have physical access to the server, is to wait a week to upgrade to see if there is a huge problem with other people's upgrade.
This is to some extent a lack of Linux system administration capability. There's no standard way to give out a permission that allows only the operations a co-location facility might need to perform - startup, shutdown, IP address change, and maybe encrypted backup.
Why wouldn't sudo work for this purpose? Or if you are really on the cutting edge, ACL
After downloading the updated package meta-data, but before requesting any packages (and therefore before it has revealed anything to the mirror), any services that are to be upgraded are disabled.
Except the fact that metadata update and the package request/update is two steps for a reason. You might have set it to download the package metadata on a set schedule, so that when you are doing the maintenance, you only have to do the package download/upgrade.
For instance, Ubuntu will update your package metadata once a day, so that it can notify you whether there are new packages. If you don't provie any time between updating the package metadata and upgrading the package, then lots of systems will be out of commission the first time a network service is set to be updated.
For instance, the OpenSSH package might list 'kill 9 $SSHD_PID' in this field. After the service has been successfully taken down, the request for the package is sent, things are updated, and everyone is happy.
Except the people who ssh into their servers to do maintenance.
How many people have you heard willing to let the gov't snoop into their lives and bedrooms if it will "stop one more terrorist attack" or "stop one more drunk driving death"...even though sober drivers kill the most people.
None. Now. if you had asked how many people are willing to let the gov't snoop into their neighbors lives and bedrooms, then lots.
I got a E-65 for work (the company gives us a cellphone instead of assigning us a deskphone), and I love it. The only thing I don't really like is that it has a camera. I think it's a phone that many/. would like to have if it came without the camera. (I say, lose the camera and include a GPS instead). I noticed that the E-66 (the successor) still has a camera...
The mobile gaming industry was $2.6 million industry in 2005 and expected to be $11.2 by 2010. I suspect most of that number is java games (never seen a non-Java games, except those that came with the phone).
ah, yes, Free Software. I can see the Jack Bauer scenario now.
Jack: Are we on a secure line? Chloe: Don't worry, Jack. I'm running Free Software on my laptop. This makes me automatically immune from wiretapping of my cellphone...
Yes, in fact we have a British guy working for us (although he's learning English because his fiancee is Norwegian). Most people who finished University levels have a pretty good grasp of English (for no other reason than that we spend the 5 weeks of vacation time traveling to warmer places).
Some of those things, like most or all of the claims of executive privilege, will probably be dropped by a new Democratic administration, and some may even be dropped by a new Republican administration.
You really think anyone, whether Democratic or Republican, will voluntarily drop power? Especially since the current administration has shown that the they can get away with it?
Unless an administration is smacked down for abuse of power, the power is being kept, no matter the mascot of the incoming president.
According to Wikipedia, the top 2 H1B companies are Indian outsourcing companies, InfoSys and WiPro. Of the top 10, 7 are Indian. (Microsoft, IBM and Sun are the Americans)
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Dude, normal users use webmail. They don't even know how to set up pop to download their email.
When it comes to apps like Windows Mail, I doubt the average person will notice. My impression is that most non-geek, people use webmail.
Right. And I take it you thought East Germany (German DEMOCRATIC Republic) was a democracy.
Actually, Americans seem to like to think of them as distrust of the government, but what stuff like 9/11 show is that Americans, like most other people, have no problems getting in lockstep with the government if they feel threatened by an outside force.
Or, as my American econ professor once said, Americans have no problem yielding to authority, whether it's their civic leader, priest, military commander or government.
Wow, offtopic when he mentions Lazarus Long in a Heinlein article. People just don't read these days.
Maybe if you don't know anything about Heinlein, you shouldn't modding
Italy and Austria are part of the Schengen agreement. That doesn't mean that anyone outside the agreement can work in a given EU country.
You forgot about the people who support and reelected Bush.
Which is why I set up payment the same day I get the bill. Basically, I get online notification (usually email) that a bill is due. I log into my bank and set up the payment with the payment happening on the due date. Then forget about it.
With email notification, I don't delete the email until I set up the payment.
1. Release notes will be here (right now they contain the etch release notes).
2. You probably will have to type apt-get dist-upgrade a couple of times (I usually average two). Reason is first couple of times, some packages will be stuck because of conflicting versioning, but it usually fixes itself once you get a couple of packages upgraded (usually once you get past libc and the kernel)
Generally speaking, Debian upgrade is much more painless than Ubuntu upgrades, IMO, possibly because of the longer release cycle. My Debian systems usually have some mixture of stable and backports, and I don't remember having any problems upgrading. Even desktops where I am third-party repos outside backports, I don't have any problems.
One thing you might want to do, especially if you don't have physical access to the server, is to wait a week to upgrade to see if there is a huge problem with other people's upgrade.
Why wouldn't sudo work for this purpose? Or if you are really on the cutting edge, ACL
Without developer buy-in, whatever coding standards you come up with will be useless. IOW, ask your developers to create the standard together.
If Kernighan, Ritchie, and Torvalds does it like that, who am I to do differently.
Except the fact that metadata update and the package request/update is two steps for a reason. You might have set it to download the package metadata on a set schedule, so that when you are doing the maintenance, you only have to do the package download/upgrade.
For instance, Ubuntu will update your package metadata once a day, so that it can notify you whether there are new packages. If you don't provie any time between updating the package metadata and upgrading the package, then lots of systems will be out of commission the first time a network service is set to be updated.
Except the people who ssh into their servers to do maintenance.
None. Now. if you had asked how many people are willing to let the gov't snoop into their neighbors lives and bedrooms, then lots.
The English?
If you think Scandinavia is big brother-free, you just don't know Scandinavia.
I got a E-65 for work (the company gives us a cellphone instead of assigning us a deskphone), and I love it. The only thing I don't really like is that it has a camera. I think it's a phone that many /. would like to have if it came without the camera. (I say, lose the camera and include a GPS instead). I noticed that the E-66 (the successor) still has a camera...
Eh, maybe. I haven't seen any indication that the OSS community is contributing much now... not sure why that would change
I guess you're not aware of the agreement between Trolltech and KDE.
Ah, but the detainees in Cuba aren't charged.
The mobile gaming industry was $2.6 million industry in 2005 and expected to be $11.2 by 2010. I suspect most of that number is java games (never seen a non-Java games, except those that came with the phone).
Maybe he's only talking about the US marked?
ah, yes, Free Software. I can see the Jack Bauer scenario now.
Jack: Are we on a secure line?
Chloe: Don't worry, Jack. I'm running Free Software on my laptop. This makes me automatically immune from wiretapping of my cellphone...
Yes, in fact we have a British guy working for us (although he's learning English because his fiancee is Norwegian). Most people who finished University levels have a pretty good grasp of English (for no other reason than that we spend the 5 weeks of vacation time traveling to warmer places).
You really think anyone, whether Democratic or Republican, will voluntarily drop power? Especially since the current administration has shown that the they can get away with it?
Unless an administration is smacked down for abuse of power, the power is being kept, no matter the mascot of the incoming president.
According to Wikipedia, the top 2 H1B companies are Indian outsourcing companies, InfoSys and WiPro. Of the top 10, 7 are Indian.
(Microsoft, IBM and Sun are the Americans)