Got a citation for that? Or is it just more racist bullshit from the likes of Breitbart, Fox News, etc.?
Disney did that on a large scale. That they forced the employees they were firing to train their replacements was particularly galling. The same thing likely happens frequently on a smaller scale that does not make the headlines.
Doesn't it use the same SOC as the previous (64 bit) models? I thought the shield over the SOC provided better heat dispersion and allowed for a bump in the clock. If so I wouldn't expect any change with this bug.
I hear some systems like to misconfigure that by default because Gnome at any rate thinks it's an "easter egg" and is determined to destroy everything good about Linux, preferring insteat a Windows 95^W XP^W^WOSX ripoff.
I assume you're on a laptop in which case synclient will beable to set the mapping of button 2 back to button 2.
I am on a laptop and synclient no longer works because they are using a different touchpad driver. I suppose it is a matter of time before this is the situation on Debian too.
One thing I did like about 17.10 was the ability to configure a 'start application' to run when I log in on the graphical desktop. I haven't figured out how to do that with Debian. Yet.
Seriously, I installed 17.10 on my laptop, a Lenovo Y-50. Yeah, that's the one what that got the trashed BIOS from the kernel that came with 17.10. I updated the kernel wo one that fixed the problem, but it didn't leave me with a warm feeling about Ubuntu. And the 'fix' kernel doesn't work with ZFS because the DKMS kernel module build fails. I asked about this on 'AskUbuntu' and got one suggestion to check my DKMS configuration. It was a lot easier to just return to Debian (dual boot.)
Another thing I didn't care for - The 'software store' doesn't list all available packages. There used to be a setting to enable this but it has been removed. Synaptic or 'apt search' can be used to search all packages. But they don't search snaps.. 'snap search' (or something like that (they felt that using the same key words as 'apt' was not a good idea.) will list available snaps.
I also miss middle mouse button copy/paste.
One thing I did like about 17.10 was the ability to configure a 'start application' to run when I log in on the graphical desktop. I haven't figured out how to do that with Debian. Yet.
Try this: - Right click on the WiFi (or wired LAN) icon in the top panel. - Click on the network - Click on the Settings Drop down - Click on the Settings icon (gear?)
On Debian Stretch running Gnome Shell that reveals all of the information about the interface including signal strength, link speed, security, IPV4 and IPV6 addresses, default route and DNS.
I'd be really surprised if that was not the case for Ubuntu.
They created visual studio core which runs on linux and is one of the best text editors out there.
To be pedantic, that would Visual Studio Code. Except for minor issues (*) it is an excellent editor in large part as a result of the plugins for supporting languages like go.
You forgot SQL Server. I've heard that it runs better on Linux than Windows but I have not confirmed that.
Thanks (and apologies for the wasted points.) I did a quick search and found references to the vulnerability but none on a fix. Bad google foo I guess.
Speaking of that, maybe they're not monolithic and another faction is feeding Elon Musk tech now. Solar cells and Mars colonization.
Perhaps it's a board game and we are the pieces. Perhaps our species was planted here and then populations or environment were guided in subtle ways by different players.
I have a Nexus 5X. Google hobbled it with 2GB RAM and now a bit over two years since introduction, that is simply not enough. At best that causes it to be slow switching between apps. At worst, it causes apps to be bumped out of memory when another app is opened. For example if I'm listening to podcasts and running navigation using Google Maps (both in the background) and open a web page one of the other apps shuts down. 2GB is simply not enough. Other than that I could continue to be happy with it.
As time passes and S/W features continue to increase, this could happen to any phone.
OTOH who wouldn't be happier with a faster processor, better camera, better battery life etc. that a new phone provides.
It's kind of freaky that it's population is growing so quickly and exponentially.
Actually no surprise. These are not animal that care for their offsprings. So they tend to lay a ton of eggs in hopes that a few of them manage to survive into reproductive adulthood.
...
I wonder what kinds of havoc it is wrecking on local ecosystems.
... The population is currently explosing only because it's happening in the sheltered environment of aquarium, with humans taking care of their pets, and not much predation.
- if too many offsprings do hatch, they'll have to eat : they'll be in competion with all other animal in the environment, and they'll be in competition with all the other offsprings. So mostly they'll probably stave very quickly, either by being outcompeted by other animal and/or by depleting the resources in their immediate environment.
So the damage to the environment depends on how fast they'll die.
Thanks for the clarification and confirmation. I didn't think that egg laying success had anything to do with crayfish population density in the wild. These animals (if they escape, and I presume they will or have) will compete in the same environment as other wild or introduced crayfish and will only "explode" if they can out-compete the others.
If you look further back in history (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/) you will see that Seagate had miserable results with early 'large' drives (1.5, 2 TB.) I found this unfortunate as I had really good luck with a bunch of 200GB Seagate barracudas I bought for my first RAID setup. I suppose the troublesome drives are based on the same or similar designs and share a flaw that causes high failure rates. I purchased two 2TB Barracudas and both eventually failed. Anecdotal, and not statistically significant, but significant enough to me. I think (hope!) Seagate have addressed this issue and more modern drives such as their 8TB models of which I have purchased one do not share a high failure rate. Were I to buy another 8TB drive today I'm sure I'd go with an HGST He8 (HUH728080ALE600)
I suspect your claim is true that there is more variability between drive models (particularly if families based on the same design are lumped together) than manufacturers. Nevertheless it seems to me that some manufacturers avoid producing troublesome models.
I think Mynahs are easier to teach to speak than parrots. I worked at a pet shop that had a Mynah that could talk. It could also imitate a squeaking hamster wheel with unerring fidelity.
If something is plastered all over the advertising spectrum, I figure I've already seen the best parts and actually going to see the movie is probably a waste of time and money.
We recently saw "Loving Vincent." It got lukewarm reviews by the critics and I think their criticisms were valid. Nevertheless we enjoyed the movie a lot (and now own the Blu-Ray.) Critics don't always rate movies based on how I would enjoy them. That's not wrong, it's just different.
And sometimes they just don't get them. c.f. Roger Ebert's review of Napoleon Dynamite. (If you vote for me and all your wildest dreams will come true.)
I'm not an Apple defender. I only own one Apple product, an old Macbook I borrowed.
I have a Motorola 360 Smart Watch - first generation. When the battery got old, it began shutting down at anything below about 30% battery capacity. This was often provoked by any action that would turn the screen on - a significant battery draw - along with extra radio and processor operation.. I wonder if Apple was trying to prevent this issue by reducing processor power draw. I might have appreciated a similar feature that made my Moto 360 more useful as the battery got weaker.
Of course this would also cause sluggish performance which would also motivate users to upgrade to the latest and greatest H/W.
You are correct. I read "... but third-parties have determined that it actually supports 8 GB of RAM" Had I continued reading I would have seen "... and 16 GB of RAM running OS X 10.7.5 "Lion" or higher and the latest EFI update."
I agree that if it can run the current version of MacOS that would be the preferred solution.
I agree with others who have suggested upgrading the HDD to an SSD. That makes a huge difference even for a machine that may not fully support the fastest SATA speeds. According to this web page (if I have correctly identified the H/W) https://everymac.com/systems/a... this Mac can hold up to 8GB RAM. If it presently has 5 GB, it is presently populated with a 1GB stick and a 4GB stick. I would try to match the 4GB stick and bump the RAM to 8GB.
With this H/W you can reasonably run any Linux distro so the choice comes down to choosing a distro and desktop suitable for a new user. Ubuntu and Mint are both good candidates for easy installation. I would avoid Ubuntu 17.10 as it has a *lot* of new stuff like Wayland by default and a return to Gnome from Unity. 16.04 would be a good choice and it's an LTS version meaning it will be supported for a long time.
For a desktop I would consider XFCE or Mate. Both are fairly functional without being too bloated. Some people like the default Unity desktop on Ubuntu which was originally targeted at netbooks. I cannot comment on KDE because I don't use it but there are those that like it a lot and report that it is not a resource hog. Someone mentioned fvwm2. That was my window manager of choice 20 years ago when I ran Linux on a 486 with 4 MB RAM and a few GB of disk drive. I recommend a full blown modern desktop environment for ease of use for a new user. The nice thing about Linux is that you can install and test drive any of these desktops and choose the one to try from the login screen.
Sometimes I surprise myself with what can be accomplished with a simple shell script. I was working on a program to copy pictures from an SD card (from a camera) to directories organized as ".../Pictures/yyyy/mm/dd/." The initial effort was in C# and.net. At the time I could not find a.net library that could extract EXIF tags from the image files. I ran into further troubles trying to port it to Linux. It eventually occurred to me that I could code it as a shell script using various commands to do things like extract and parse EXIF tags, create directories and copy files. The result is a 31 line script that copies all images from the current directory (that have not already been copied) to subdirectories under $HOME/Pictures by EXIF date or, barring that, file creation time.
I'm still using/bin/sh for scripts. I suppose it's time to move on to/bin/bash.;)
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I'm shocked, shocked to find user data not being deleted when requested.
Here is your deleted user data sir.
Got a citation for that? Or is it just more racist bullshit from the likes of Breitbart, Fox News, etc.?
Disney did that on a large scale. That they forced the employees they were firing to train their replacements was particularly galling. The same thing likely happens frequently on a smaller scale that does not make the headlines.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Doesn't it use the same SOC as the previous (64 bit) models? I thought the shield over the SOC provided better heat dispersion and allowed for a bump in the clock. If so I wouldn't expect any change with this bug.
Make sure you use a beefy power cable as well. I find that some wall worts (wall warts?) work OK with some cables but not with others.
WiFi upgraded to include ac as well.
"the only winning move is not to play."
Fiction, I know, but not an unreasonable conclusion in that 'game.'
Probably some low hanging fruit as well. WRT pollution I think they have a lot of low hanging fruit.
I also miss middle mouse button copy/paste.
I hear some systems like to misconfigure that by default because Gnome at any rate thinks it's an "easter egg" and is determined to destroy everything good about Linux, preferring insteat a Windows 95^W XP^W^WOSX ripoff.
I assume you're on a laptop in which case synclient will beable to set the mapping of button 2 back to button 2.
I am on a laptop and synclient no longer works because they are using a different touchpad driver. I suppose it is a matter of time before this is the situation on Debian too.
One thing I did like about 17.10 was the ability to configure a 'start application' to run when I log in on the graphical desktop. I haven't figured out how to do that with Debian. Yet.
Which desktop?
Gnome Shell - the default (AFAIK) for Debian.
Did you file a bug report?
Seriously, I installed 17.10 on my laptop, a Lenovo Y-50. Yeah, that's the one what that got the trashed BIOS from the kernel that came with 17.10. I updated the kernel wo one that fixed the problem, but it didn't leave me with a warm feeling about Ubuntu. And the 'fix' kernel doesn't work with ZFS because the DKMS kernel module build fails. I asked about this on 'AskUbuntu' and got one suggestion to check my DKMS configuration. It was a lot easier to just return to Debian (dual boot.)
Another thing I didn't care for - The 'software store' doesn't list all available packages. There used to be a setting to enable this but it has been removed. Synaptic or 'apt search' can be used to search all packages. But they don't search snaps.. 'snap search' (or something like that (they felt that using the same key words as 'apt' was not a good idea.) will list available snaps.
I also miss middle mouse button copy/paste.
One thing I did like about 17.10 was the ability to configure a 'start application' to run when I log in on the graphical desktop. I haven't figured out how to do that with Debian. Yet.
Try this:
- Right click on the WiFi (or wired LAN) icon in the top panel.
- Click on the network
- Click on the Settings Drop down
- Click on the Settings icon (gear?)
On Debian Stretch running Gnome Shell that reveals all of the information about the interface including signal strength, link speed, security, IPV4 and IPV6 addresses, default route and DNS.
I'd be really surprised if that was not the case for Ubuntu.
They created visual studio core which runs on linux and is one of the best text editors out there.
To be pedantic, that would Visual Studio Code. Except for minor issues (*) it is an excellent editor in large part as a result of the plugins for supporting languages like go.
You forgot SQL Server. I've heard that it runs better on Linux than Windows but I have not confirmed that.
Thanks (and apologies for the wasted points.) I did a quick search and found references to the vulnerability but none on a fix. Bad google foo I guess.
Speaking of that, maybe they're not monolithic and another faction is feeding Elon Musk tech now. Solar cells and Mars colonization.
Perhaps it's a board game and we are the pieces. Perhaps our species was planted here and then populations or environment were guided in subtle ways by different players.
I wonder what "winning" would look like.
Has this vulnerability in Transmission been fixed? https://www.securityweek.com/c...
I have a Nexus 5X. Google hobbled it with 2GB RAM and now a bit over two years since introduction, that is simply not enough. At best that causes it to be slow switching between apps. At worst, it causes apps to be bumped out of memory when another app is opened. For example if I'm listening to podcasts and running navigation using Google Maps (both in the background) and open a web page one of the other apps shuts down. 2GB is simply not enough. Other than that I could continue to be happy with it.
As time passes and S/W features continue to increase, this could happen to any phone.
OTOH who wouldn't be happier with a faster processor, better camera, better battery life etc. that a new phone provides.
It's kind of freaky that it's population is growing so quickly and exponentially.
Actually no surprise.
These are not animal that care for their offsprings.
So they tend to lay a ton of eggs in hopes that a few of them manage to survive into reproductive adulthood.
I wonder what kinds of havoc it is wrecking on local ecosystems.
...
The population is currently explosing only because it's happening in the sheltered environment of aquarium, with humans taking care of their pets, and not much predation.
- if too many offsprings do hatch, they'll have to eat : they'll be in competion with all other animal in the environment, and they'll be in competition with all the other offsprings.
So mostly they'll probably stave very quickly, either by being outcompeted by other animal and/or by depleting the resources in their immediate environment.
So the damage to the environment depends on how fast they'll die.
Thanks for the clarification and confirmation. I didn't think that egg laying success had anything to do with crayfish population density in the wild. These animals (if they escape, and I presume they will or have) will compete in the same environment as other wild or introduced crayfish and will only "explode" if they can out-compete the others.
If you look further back in history (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/) you will see that Seagate had miserable results with early 'large' drives (1.5, 2 TB.) I found this unfortunate as I had really good luck with a bunch of 200GB Seagate barracudas I bought for my first RAID setup. I suppose the troublesome drives are based on the same or similar designs and share a flaw that causes high failure rates. I purchased two 2TB Barracudas and both eventually failed. Anecdotal, and not statistically significant, but significant enough to me. I think (hope!) Seagate have addressed this issue and more modern drives such as their 8TB models of which I have purchased one do not share a high failure rate. Were I to buy another 8TB drive today I'm sure I'd go with an HGST He8 (HUH728080ALE600)
I suspect your claim is true that there is more variability between drive models (particularly if families based on the same design are lumped together) than manufacturers. Nevertheless it seems to me that some manufacturers avoid producing troublesome models.
I think Mynahs are easier to teach to speak than parrots. I worked at a pet shop that had a Mynah that could talk. It could also imitate a squeaking hamster wheel with unerring fidelity.
If something is plastered all over the advertising spectrum, I figure I've already seen the best parts and actually going to see the movie is probably a waste of time and money.
We recently saw "Loving Vincent." It got lukewarm reviews by the critics and I think their criticisms were valid. Nevertheless we enjoyed the movie a lot (and now own the Blu-Ray.) Critics don't always rate movies based on how I would enjoy them. That's not wrong, it's just different.
And sometimes they just don't get them. c.f. Roger Ebert's review of Napoleon Dynamite. (If you vote for me and all your wildest dreams will come true.)
I'm picturing police cars that leave the station parking lot and drive to where they can hide. ;)
They would have gotten more mileage by patenting blockchain in the infotainment system.
I'm not an Apple defender. I only own one Apple product, an old Macbook I borrowed.
I have a Motorola 360 Smart Watch - first generation. When the battery got old, it began shutting down at anything below about 30% battery capacity. This was often provoked by any action that would turn the screen on - a significant battery draw - along with extra radio and processor operation.. I wonder if Apple was trying to prevent this issue by reducing processor power draw. I might have appreciated a similar feature that made my Moto 360 more useful as the battery got weaker.
Of course this would also cause sluggish performance which would also motivate users to upgrade to the latest and greatest H/W.
You are correct. I read "... but third-parties have determined that it actually supports 8 GB of RAM" Had I continued reading I would have seen "... and 16 GB of RAM running OS X 10.7.5 "Lion" or higher and the latest EFI update."
I agree that if it can run the current version of MacOS that would be the preferred solution.
I agree with others who have suggested upgrading the HDD to an SSD. That makes a huge difference even for a machine that may not fully support the fastest SATA speeds. According to this web page (if I have correctly identified the H/W) https://everymac.com/systems/a... this Mac can hold up to 8GB RAM. If it presently has 5 GB, it is presently populated with a 1GB stick and a 4GB stick. I would try to match the 4GB stick and bump the RAM to 8GB.
With this H/W you can reasonably run any Linux distro so the choice comes down to choosing a distro and desktop suitable for a new user. Ubuntu and Mint are both good candidates for easy installation. I would avoid Ubuntu 17.10 as it has a *lot* of new stuff like Wayland by default and a return to Gnome from Unity. 16.04 would be a good choice and it's an LTS version meaning it will be supported for a long time.
For a desktop I would consider XFCE or Mate. Both are fairly functional without being too bloated. Some people like the default Unity desktop on Ubuntu which was originally targeted at netbooks. I cannot comment on KDE because I don't use it but there are those that like it a lot and report that it is not a resource hog. Someone mentioned fvwm2. That was my window manager of choice 20 years ago when I ran Linux on a 486 with 4 MB RAM and a few GB of disk drive. I recommend a full blown modern desktop environment for ease of use for a new user. The nice thing about Linux is that you can install and test drive any of these desktops and choose the one to try from the login screen.
Sometimes I surprise myself with what can be accomplished with a simple shell script. I was working on a program to copy pictures from an SD card (from a camera) to directories organized as ".../Pictures/yyyy/mm/dd/." The initial effort was in C# and .net. At the time I could not find a .net library that could extract EXIF tags from the image files. I ran into further troubles trying to port it to Linux. It eventually occurred to me that I could code it as a shell script using various commands to do things like extract and parse EXIF tags, create directories and copy files. The result is a 31 line script that copies all images from the current directory (that have not already been copied) to subdirectories under $HOME/Pictures by EXIF date or, barring that, file creation time.
I'm still using /bin/sh for scripts. I suppose it's time to move on to /bin/bash. ;)