The power cord is usually the only thing I have plugged in that is dragged across a footpath to where the power outlet is.... the USB devices and my headphones are connected to things at the desk.
It's called the iPhone SE. 5 form factor but close enough. That's what I got to replace the 5S I've had for the last few years. I don't like the bumpy 6, and really dislike the 7 for dropping the headphone port. Maybe Apple will pull their heads out their asses on the 8S/9 when I'm next ready to upgrade, or maybe I'll end up leaving their ecosystem. I'm already one leg out the door due to their recent shenanigans with the MacBook Pro/Air lines.
I've re-wired our most used switches with z-wave switches. (Of varying brands, just to avoid being considered a shill).
I'm looking at these as well. Do you have any recommendations for or against any particular brand or "type" of switch? I'm very interested in ones which are compatible with existing three-way switches and which are *not* toggle switches themselves. I also seem to be favouring in-wall as opposed to smart switches, as all the smart switches seem to be that large, flat Decora style.
Not OP, but I did do this. I did go to an Apple store and check them out.
* shit keyboard (almost like typing on glass) * lost my escape key to an idiotic touchbar I'll never use * my inverted-T arrow keys are kind of there, but in a shitty form * soldered-in SSD * no 11" option * no magsafe * not even ONE USB-A
I get that the world's moving to USB-C and I'm happy for that, but not being able to plug in anything without a dongle is stupid. Losing magsafe for a USB-C which by some accounts loosens up rather quickly is a bad move. No way to swap out the SSD means these laptops have a very real and short lifetime for any kind of serious use.
Oh well. I really liked their hardware, but won't be buying this latest offering. Hopefully Apple gets their head out their ass, fires or at least puts Jony back where he belongs and starts manufacturing machines that professionals do want to use. If I wanted an ultrathin, light use netbook, I'd spend $300, not $2000.
I'm typing this on a 2012 11" MBA. I maxxed out all the knobs when configuring it and, aside from the "would be nice" of a retina screen (or at least 1920x1080) and 16 or 32G of RAM, this thing has been amazing. I have no need to upgrade and given what Apple offered lately, no desire to upgrade either. I can do my embedded development, EDA, run a Win7 and Linux VM for the things I need to do on those platforms... I'm good, and it's been 4 years since I bought this laptop.
That has never happened on any laptop I've previously owned, including my old love, the pre-Lenovo Thinkpads.
I disagree; they received anonymized cell tower data showing which phones had pinged off of a particular tower between certain hours. I'm okay with this, just as I am okay with them having access to the entire DMV database that the public does not have access to.
I think, however, that I would be more comfortable with the police not receiving a list of numbers. I would feel more comfortable with the police having to pay the carrier to send a specific, one-time SMS to all the numbers that matched their specific criteria. The police don't need the numbers, they just need to get a targeted message out.
I think that would serve to protect the rights of private citizens while balancing the investigative efforts of the police in a technical matter.
I'm sure I'm feeding a troll now, your post seems intent on twisting things around in order to make your convoluted point.
The whole "under 1024 is safe" is generally regarded for connecting *to* ports under 1024, not receiving connections from them. Yes, some services (NFS in particular) want to trust incoming connections from 1024 but they're in the minority. The most common case is trusting a service listening on ports less than 1024 as being set up by the admin and not some random user. But you knew this.
You also know that if you've got admin access, you *are* root. This also is not news, but you seem to feel that I'm concerned that you can sudo from your own system and make it look like you're trustworthy on my network. If I was so inclined as to trust port numbers alone (and for the record, I don't trust incoming port numbers at all), you can bet I'd also be whitelisting IPs and MACs at the switch level (i.e. locking MACs to physical switch ports) and have alerting whenever a non-sanctioned connection was made.
That would be, however, a very special network topology and not something I'd personally admin. Nice straw man, though.
Wait: ejabberd wants my http and https ports in addition to running jabber on 5222? no thanks. It sounds like ejabberd breaks the entire UNIX concept as well. Give me some CGIs to run through my own damn httpd instead of inventing another one and get on with the business of running jabberd.
I know you didn't write it, but jeez... why not include a telnetd or sshd in the binary as well?
I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here. sudo won't let you run anything it's not configured to let your user or group run. If you're allowed to sudo as a non-admin user then either your system or your admin is broken. It's not "cargo cult" security at all.
No, I'm serious, ask "why does this have to be the way it is" other than inertia? The age of booting a tiny root disk and attaching/usr from a network are long, long gone.
No, no they're not.
Thin clients and network booting are still very much alive and well. Test systems are largely virtualized now, but network booting still has its place in homogenous networks or office/classroom settings where you want a unified filesystem layout. A common/usr is an easy way to do this.
I don't know much about systemd at all, but I do recognize how bad an idea it is to make such huge changes quickly and without much apparent thought at being able to continue to do the things that could have easily been done before.
I've set up my entire business around Redmine. There are some pretty impressive plugins to handle blogs, CMS, CRM and even a WYSIWIG editor to help "normal" people format tables, lists and text but who would normally be put off by trying to learn Textile. SCM and issue tracking is integrated, there are time trackers and forums, GANTT charting... it's a great resource.
Best of all, it's database agnostic and open-source.
Microsoft Office may be a lot of things, but comparing it to LibreOffice/OpenOffice and calling MS Office crap in comparison is ridiculous. I actually ended up buying MS Office (for my mac) because Open/LibreOffice is so shit. I've tried to love it for a long, long time, but it's slow, it's bloated, it's buggy as hell and I just got tired of trying to overlook its blemishes.
MS Office's blemishes are much more bearable, in my opinion. The price isn't cheap but not having to screw around and waste my time is worth something, too.
I've lived in the industrial controls world for quite a while before striking it out on my own... "real-time global data reporting" doesn't require a world-accessible control interface, or even an open internet connection. It's much simpler than you're making it out to be. Hell a basic VPN connection back to HQ that puts the remote sites on the corp LAN (where all the data aggregation can take place and be accessed for "dashboards" and whatnot) would be a major step up.
There is also ZERO LAG for pressing the software button for answering the phone. You should have bought a faster device I guess.
I've owned a 3G, 3GS and 4; wife has a 4S. There is absolutely lag in the soft answer button from time to time. I am not sure what background task is causing it, and while it's true that it's nonexistent on a factory-fresh, no-apps-installed phone, that's not a realistic use case.
Please just install Ubuntu 12.04. If you're a developer or power user, you'll like it.
Ubuntu in 12.04? No thanks. The last Ubuntu I took seriously was 11.04, and if I recall I started using Ubuntu in the 7.x or 8.x release cycle. I still have a couple of those 11.04 systems going. The rest have gone to Debian+XFCE. It seems with every new release of Ubuntu takes their desktop one step closer to a Fischer-Price toy, and I just got sick of it.
Yes, I can install Xubuntu (I was actually running Kubuntu for a number of releases until I finally gave up on KDE doing something serious about being a stable and well-connected desktop, and I've been a KDE fan since the early 3.x releases). Yes, I can tweak the shit out of everything and reclaim some sanity. Instead, I just install Debian and put up with some of its idiosyncrasies. At least I have a system that is constantly making me want to throw the keyboard through the screen.
I moved from Slackware (0.9something to 12) to Ubuntu, and now to Debian. Ubuntu was great; it was really, really great. I don't feel that way anymore. They seem to be chasing buzz and trying to out-slick everyone instead of focusing on a usable and useful desktop experience.
No, I'm sorry. Horrowitz' "Art of Electronics" is *NOT* the best book. It's a big book, I'll grant you that, but it's actually pretty difficult to get started with such a book unless you are good at learning from textbooks. I sure as hell am not. It's far from practical.
It may sound like I'm being a little bit of an ass, but seriously... Forrest M Mims' "Getting Started in Electronics" followed with all of his Engineer's Mini Notebooks are an excellent resource. After that grab anything you can by Robert Grossblatt. Use AoE for a reference but not for a learning guide. the electronics.stackexchange.com site isn't too bad, either.
You don't learn a language -- any language -- in 3 days. He may have started doing some neat things with it in three days, I don't doubt that... but learned it? No.
It's also great for one-man shops. I love the fact that I have the entire repo on my laptop when I'm at an airport or stuck somewhere with shitty/no internet access. You can queue up all your commits, branch, merge, do whatever you need and push it back out when you're done.
You could do the same if you used a local cvs/svn/whatever server but it's not nearly as good when you have to start sharing code with the customer or with a larger team.
Nah. I'm an old KDE guy who's moved on (xfce on linux, osx for my main computer now). I *loved* Kate. It was a perfect little editor for when I didn't want to be in vim.
I don't think that you realize who's paying HR's check. Hint: it ain't you.
HR is there to make sure the company is not open to lawsuits, and to make you feel like you're being heard. They *do* raise the issues you bring to them to management, but that's nothing you can't do on your own. HR is certainly NOT on your side. I'm not sure where you got such a naive idea.
It'd be a wonderful language that does prevent all of these things without sacrificing the ability to do something because you do in fact know better than the compiler. I disagree with you about relying on compiler warnings. Use -Werror and get used to it. Use a lint utility and develop good coding habits. It's not impossible to write solid code in C, and it's not (much) harder to do than in other languages, either. With the exception of ambiguous statements which I agree with you on, -Werror takes care of a lot of the "duh" problems, and decent code reviews take care of stupid logic, which is a problem in any language.
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The power cord is usually the only thing I have plugged in that is dragged across a footpath to where the power outlet is.... the USB devices and my headphones are connected to things at the desk.
It's called the iPhone SE. 5 form factor but close enough. That's what I got to replace the 5S I've had for the last few years. I don't like the bumpy 6, and really dislike the 7 for dropping the headphone port. Maybe Apple will pull their heads out their asses on the 8S/9 when I'm next ready to upgrade, or maybe I'll end up leaving their ecosystem. I'm already one leg out the door due to their recent shenanigans with the MacBook Pro/Air lines.
Pity, their hardware really is very good.
I've re-wired our most used switches with z-wave switches. (Of varying brands, just to avoid being considered a shill).
I'm looking at these as well. Do you have any recommendations for or against any particular brand or "type" of switch? I'm very interested in ones which are compatible with existing three-way switches and which are *not* toggle switches themselves. I also seem to be favouring in-wall as opposed to smart switches, as all the smart switches seem to be that large, flat Decora style.
Not OP, but I did do this. I did go to an Apple store and check them out.
* shit keyboard (almost like typing on glass)
* lost my escape key to an idiotic touchbar I'll never use
* my inverted-T arrow keys are kind of there, but in a shitty form
* soldered-in SSD
* no 11" option
* no magsafe
* not even ONE USB-A
I get that the world's moving to USB-C and I'm happy for that, but not being able to plug in anything without a dongle is stupid. Losing magsafe for a USB-C which by some accounts loosens up rather quickly is a bad move. No way to swap out the SSD means these laptops have a very real and short lifetime for any kind of serious use.
Oh well. I really liked their hardware, but won't be buying this latest offering. Hopefully Apple gets their head out their ass, fires or at least puts Jony back where he belongs and starts manufacturing machines that professionals do want to use. If I wanted an ultrathin, light use netbook, I'd spend $300, not $2000.
Very, very true, IMO.
I'm typing this on a 2012 11" MBA. I maxxed out all the knobs when configuring it and, aside from the "would be nice" of a retina screen (or at least 1920x1080) and 16 or 32G of RAM, this thing has been amazing. I have no need to upgrade and given what Apple offered lately, no desire to upgrade either. I can do my embedded development, EDA, run a Win7 and Linux VM for the things I need to do on those platforms... I'm good, and it's been 4 years since I bought this laptop.
That has never happened on any laptop I've previously owned, including my old love, the pre-Lenovo Thinkpads.
I disagree; they received anonymized cell tower data showing which phones had pinged off of a particular tower between certain hours. I'm okay with this, just as I am okay with them having access to the entire DMV database that the public does not have access to.
I think, however, that I would be more comfortable with the police not receiving a list of numbers. I would feel more comfortable with the police having to pay the carrier to send a specific, one-time SMS to all the numbers that matched their specific criteria. The police don't need the numbers, they just need to get a targeted message out.
I think that would serve to protect the rights of private citizens while balancing the investigative efforts of the police in a technical matter.
I'm sure I'm feeding a troll now, your post seems intent on twisting things around in order to make your convoluted point.
The whole "under 1024 is safe" is generally regarded for connecting *to* ports under 1024, not receiving connections from them. Yes, some services (NFS in particular) want to trust incoming connections from 1024 but they're in the minority. The most common case is trusting a service listening on ports less than 1024 as being set up by the admin and not some random user. But you knew this.
You also know that if you've got admin access, you *are* root. This also is not news, but you seem to feel that I'm concerned that you can sudo from your own system and make it look like you're trustworthy on my network. If I was so inclined as to trust port numbers alone (and for the record, I don't trust incoming port numbers at all), you can bet I'd also be whitelisting IPs and MACs at the switch level (i.e. locking MACs to physical switch ports) and have alerting whenever a non-sanctioned connection was made.
That would be, however, a very special network topology and not something I'd personally admin. Nice straw man, though.
Wait: ejabberd wants my http and https ports in addition to running jabber on 5222? no thanks. It sounds like ejabberd breaks the entire UNIX concept as well. Give me some CGIs to run through my own damn httpd instead of inventing another one and get on with the business of running jabberd.
I know you didn't write it, but jeez... why not include a telnetd or sshd in the binary as well?
I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here. sudo won't let you run anything it's not configured to let your user or group run. If you're allowed to sudo as a non-admin user then either your system or your admin is broken. It's not "cargo cult" security at all.
Why are you running a jabberd on a port other than 5222 (and specifically below 1024)?
No, I'm serious, ask "why does this have to be the way it is" other than inertia? The age of booting a tiny root disk and attaching /usr from a network are long, long gone.
No, no they're not.
Thin clients and network booting are still very much alive and well. Test systems are largely virtualized now, but network booting still has its place in homogenous networks or office/classroom settings where you want a unified filesystem layout. A common /usr is an easy way to do this.
I don't know much about systemd at all, but I do recognize how bad an idea it is to make such huge changes quickly and without much apparent thought at being able to continue to do the things that could have easily been done before.
I've set up my entire business around Redmine. There are some pretty impressive plugins to handle blogs, CMS, CRM and even a WYSIWIG editor to help "normal" people format tables, lists and text but who would normally be put off by trying to learn Textile. SCM and issue tracking is integrated, there are time trackers and forums, GANTT charting... it's a great resource.
Best of all, it's database agnostic and open-source.
Microsoft Office may be a lot of things, but comparing it to LibreOffice/OpenOffice and calling MS Office crap in comparison is ridiculous. I actually ended up buying MS Office (for my mac) because Open/LibreOffice is so shit. I've tried to love it for a long, long time, but it's slow, it's bloated, it's buggy as hell and I just got tired of trying to overlook its blemishes.
MS Office's blemishes are much more bearable, in my opinion. The price isn't cheap but not having to screw around and waste my time is worth something, too.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. My question is why they're storing their home dir on a *public* git repo...
I've lived in the industrial controls world for quite a while before striking it out on my own... "real-time global data reporting" doesn't require a world-accessible control interface, or even an open internet connection. It's much simpler than you're making it out to be. Hell a basic VPN connection back to HQ that puts the remote sites on the corp LAN (where all the data aggregation can take place and be accessed for "dashboards" and whatnot) would be a major step up.
I believe the closer imagery is from aircraft, not satellites.
There is also ZERO LAG for pressing the software button for answering the phone. You should have bought a faster device I guess.
I've owned a 3G, 3GS and 4; wife has a 4S. There is absolutely lag in the soft answer button from time to time. I am not sure what background task is causing it, and while it's true that it's nonexistent on a factory-fresh, no-apps-installed phone, that's not a realistic use case.
Please just install Ubuntu 12.04. If you're a developer or power user, you'll like it.
Ubuntu in 12.04? No thanks. The last Ubuntu I took seriously was 11.04, and if I recall I started using Ubuntu in the 7.x or 8.x release cycle. I still have a couple of those 11.04 systems going. The rest have gone to Debian+XFCE. It seems with every new release of Ubuntu takes their desktop one step closer to a Fischer-Price toy, and I just got sick of it.
Yes, I can install Xubuntu (I was actually running Kubuntu for a number of releases until I finally gave up on KDE doing something serious about being a stable and well-connected desktop, and I've been a KDE fan since the early 3.x releases). Yes, I can tweak the shit out of everything and reclaim some sanity. Instead, I just install Debian and put up with some of its idiosyncrasies. At least I have a system that is constantly making me want to throw the keyboard through the screen.
I moved from Slackware (0.9something to 12) to Ubuntu, and now to Debian. Ubuntu was great; it was really, really great. I don't feel that way anymore. They seem to be chasing buzz and trying to out-slick everyone instead of focusing on a usable and useful desktop experience.
No, I'm sorry. Horrowitz' "Art of Electronics" is *NOT* the best book. It's a big book, I'll grant you that, but it's actually pretty difficult to get started with such a book unless you are good at learning from textbooks. I sure as hell am not. It's far from practical.
It may sound like I'm being a little bit of an ass, but seriously... Forrest M Mims' "Getting Started in Electronics" followed with all of his Engineer's Mini Notebooks are an excellent resource. After that grab anything you can by Robert Grossblatt. Use AoE for a reference but not for a learning guide. the electronics.stackexchange.com site isn't too bad, either.
You don't learn a language -- any language -- in 3 days. He may have started doing some neat things with it in three days, I don't doubt that... but learned it? No.
It's also great for one-man shops. I love the fact that I have the entire repo on my laptop when I'm at an airport or stuck somewhere with shitty/no internet access. You can queue up all your commits, branch, merge, do whatever you need and push it back out when you're done.
You could do the same if you used a local cvs/svn/whatever server but it's not nearly as good when you have to start sharing code with the customer or with a larger team.
Nah. I'm an old KDE guy who's moved on (xfce on linux, osx for my main computer now). I *loved* Kate. It was a perfect little editor for when I didn't want to be in vim.
I agree; there is a massive opportunity here to capitalize on the synergy of Martian Control and lolcats. I sense an RSS feed in the making.
I don't think that you realize who's paying HR's check. Hint: it ain't you.
HR is there to make sure the company is not open to lawsuits, and to make you feel like you're being heard. They *do* raise the issues you bring to them to management, but that's nothing you can't do on your own. HR is certainly NOT on your side. I'm not sure where you got such a naive idea.
It'd be a wonderful language that does prevent all of these things without sacrificing the ability to do something because you do in fact know better than the compiler. I disagree with you about relying on compiler warnings. Use -Werror and get used to it. Use a lint utility and develop good coding habits. It's not impossible to write solid code in C, and it's not (much) harder to do than in other languages, either. With the exception of ambiguous statements which I agree with you on, -Werror takes care of a lot of the "duh" problems, and decent code reviews take care of stupid logic, which is a problem in any language.