Correct. Most illegal aliens entered the country at a port of entry and overstayed their visa. In fact the country of origin with the most number of illegal aliens in the US is.... Canada.
Most drugs come across ports of entry, or by boat. There was a major drug bust recently along the southern border at a port of entry that reinforced that fact.
NPR did a story a while back on a bit of border wall (already funded, not part of the Trump demands) that will soon cut right through the middle of one of the US's only butterfly sanctuaries. This will not only inconvenience the land owners and the many thousands of people who visit this place (including campers), but it will also cut off many animals from their only source of water, and interfere withe the migratory paths of many species. And even stranger, there were not any existing problems with hordes of illegal aliens crossing over the frontier there or drugs. One wonders why the administration was so bent on pushing this wall through in this spot. Doesn't make any sense.
I disagree. Quite often I'll see an ad for a product that solves a particular problem in my current line of work, and occasionally I'll buy the product. If the ad is relevant, non-intrusive, and not pushy, they can be invaluable tools both for the marketer and for the person or business who might need that product (even if he doesn't know it yet). Quite often I've seen an ad in a trade magazine and thought, oh that looks like a very good idea that could really benefit me. So I've bought more than a few things (business-related) because of that.
Maybe one could argue consumer ads for things no one really needs or can afford are immoral. But not all advertising in general. I don't mind my podcast ads usually because they are actually quite relevant to the interests of the listeners. For example, I learned about a particular VPS provider that way. I also don't mind ads in trade and tech magazines.
What I'm not interested in are annoying, popup, popunder, interstitial ads on web pages. It's fine to see an ad in a magazine on paper, but not on my computer screen with animations and sound. No thanks. And browsing without an ad blocker is a security risk I can't afford to take.
I've never understood why this has to be so (the small icons). Surely the UI can scale everything according to DPI, right? Even it has to scale a bitmap. In some sense this is what HiDPI does already. But sadly the dream of using vector graphics everywhere for scaling to any resolution died along the way. I'd really like if the entire desktop could be scaled arbitrarily (and look clean and sharp). If I want things a bit bigger, I can. Or smaller. Or make the text exactly 12 pt tall (actual pt). Never quite understood why they ended up using fake pixels as a basic unit when we already had pt. Or mm.
Except that the American manufacturing sector is doing just fine, better than it ever was. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/t... . But the nature of manufacturing has changed over the years and involves fewer jobs before. And the things that are manufactured tend to not be consumer goods but big ticket items. For example agricultural equipment is still made in the US and exported all over the world. China imports this equipment. There are cottage industries in the US making all sorts of goods (with a lot of Chinese components). All told, American industry is quite healthy despite what some folk say loudly.
As was said earlier, labor is not really a part of the equation when it comes to overseas outsourcing. It's the supply chain that draws companies to China. For example this company making pinball machines in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Attempts to start a trade war with china do nothing to help American industry. In fact it hurts it by cutting off the supply chain we need to make cool things here at home.
How will a wall help with any of that? Most illegal immigration is the cumulative result of people overstaying visas. In other words entering through a port of entry and then just not leaving. Furthermore the rate of illegal immigration into the US has steadily declined over the years in total, and in particular from Mexico. Immigration from other non-North American countries has increased, but the overall rate seems to be declining.
This current so-called crisis in Tijuana has nothing to do with border walls or border security either. These are folks who will claim asylum at the port of entry. A giant wall across the border wouldn't change this situation.
Also, where will this wall be built? Are wall supporters ready to spend the money not only to build the wall but to buy the land? The vast majority of the land along the border is privately owned. Will the government just take the land? Steal it from Mexico? What about rivers? This doesn't seem to be very well thought out. Earmarking a huge amount of money for a project with no real plan doesn't seem like a good idea to me. I have to wonder who benefits from this wall's construction?
And they don't even have to be real, flying, drones either. Forget about terrorism. Drones are where it's at.
Nothing I've seen so far has led me to believe there ever was any drone at Gatwick, nor have I seen any proof of a drone in this instance either. Can't prove a negative of course--there could maybe have have been an idiot flying nearby. It's a tough call to make. What I wouldn't stand for is police acting the way they did in the Gatwick case. What a disaster. I hope that couple gets some good compensation for the damage done.
Expect widespread government overreaction to this phantom (no pun intended) drone.
Oh wow. Are you serious? Also you realize that dust and dirt can get inside the male USB C connector itself and cause all sorts of mechanical problems.
I love that everyone is standardizing on the same type of connectors, but let's not fool ourselves that these are the most robust connectors in the world. And this cable DRM scheme is certainly disappointing, if not surprising.
I've never understood why people think it's legitimate to expect an electrical generation company to buy surplus power from home owners at full retail rates. Why should a home owner be any different than any other generator who sells at wholesale rates? It simply doesn't make any economic sense to force an electrical company to buy power at retail rates when they could get it from other sources at wholesale rates.
Add to that the problem of peak residential solar not really lining up with peak demand in many places. In many cities with lots of suburbs, midday demand for electricity is fairly low because people aren't home. More power is needed it in the mornings and evenings when people are home and running A/C, washing machines, etc. Batteries fix this problem of course.
And now what if you are an American (or Canadian) national in China? No doubt China will retaliate. There are a lot of American businessmen who operate in China. They already occasionally are subject to arbitrary action on the part of the Chinese government. Would this not give China more excuses to use them as political tools?
Really you don't find Russia's imminent invasion of Ukraine deeply worrisome?
There was a time when America and its people cared about others across the world, just because it was the right thing to do, and knowing that helping them free themselves and advance economically would ultimately directly benefit the safety and security of the US. In short, making friends makes us safer than making enemies. That old way has gone now, and even more sadly the attitude of many Americans towards their fellow humans in other countries is taking on a decidedly adversarial tone. Does not bode well for anyone.
Mod parent up. Absolutely right on. The US has been and continues to be a manufacturing powerhouse. It's just that American manufacturing involves very few people (relatively speaking) and is highly automated, involving robots and CNC machines.
There are still some things in American industry that are very labor-intensive (such as building construction and agriculture), but even those involve a very small number of workers relative to the population, and still have a fair amount of automation involved. And it's work that few Americans are interested in doing.
The problem with Trump's tariffs are that they actually punish the domestic industry and manufacturing that we have without creating the new industries promised. For example the already high cost of farm machinery is rising by 25% also now, which puts pressure on everyone else down the line. Farm machines are for the most part made with steel produced in US plants, often right next to the manufacturing plants. But the tariffs drive up domestic steel prices nearly as much as foreign steel.
Sure, but tariffs themselves don't actually address any of those problems. Especially when there are no local sources for any of these goods. This money doesn't go to improve the working conditions of the poor workers. It doesn't fix any environmental problems. It rarely changes government regulations.
Let's be clear. All tariffs are are taxes paid for by consumers. They don't punish foreign countries or companies nearly as much as proponents claim.
You are correct. The gp apparently hasn't read the licensing terms of the VirtualBox extension pack.
Qemu/KVM supports USB 2.0 pass through, but I haven't as yet had any luck with it trying to get one of those stupid USB hasp keys to work.
Regardless of pass through capabilities, there is always going to be some overhead of passing through the virtualization layer, even if it's slight. So the original point very much stands, that network performance testing using a VM is just not valid.
Have had chips in the cards for about 10 years here in Canada and haven't ever had a chip fail. Granted cards are usually only good for 3 to 5 years and then they are re-issued with a new expiry date. But certainly I know of very few chip failures among.
But you make a good point. There's little incentive for card holders to want chips in their cards. Especially when a lot of commerce is done online and the chip and pin doesn't even enter into it.
Others may be confused over what WSL is, so it's worth repeating. No init system of any kind (sysv or systemd) make any sense in the WSL as it's currently designed. Windows itself is the init system for WSL. The Window kernel and the WSL is process 1 (calls itself init in the emulated Linux process list) and spawns linux binaries directly.
You laugh but over on Coder Radio, Mike (one of the hosts) has mentioned several times that he's having increasing difficulties hiring people with real Linux experience because most of his young college-age applicants say, oh yes I have Linux experience, but it turns out it's just playing with Ubuntu in WSL. When it comes to actually installing Linux on bare hardware, as his work requires, they are clueless. This is increasingly becoming the norm, and this is by design. MS recognizes the value that Linux plays in just about everything (MS uses Linux a lot on Azure and other places). They are definitely wanting to be a part of it, while keeping Windows in a key place of dominance. Not a bad strategy either. And it could backfire on them as whe some users get enough experience in WSL, it's easier for them to try the real thing at some point because it will be familiar to them. Especially the command-line aspects of Linux, which the WSL focuses on.
A development strategy that marries Visual Studio and the WSL is very much a thing.
So yes I'd say it is the year of Linux on the Windows Desktop.
It's not a dependency walker in the Windows sense. ldd simply parses the executable and spits out all the shared libraries the linker is going to need to find to load the executable because they are all listed there. In Windows this information can't always be found by simply looking at the executable because dlls themselves can refer to other dlls. So you figure out you're missing dll A but when you copy it in, now the whole system is missing dll B and so on. A dependency walker has to, well walk the dlls and make a big list of all the dlls that are ultimately needed by the exe.
Elf shared libraries, on the other hand, can and do refer to other shared libraries, but the executable itself usually has to have all of these subdependencies explicitly linked in to the binary itself. So except for dynamically opened shared libraries (Qt and GTK+ both do that for some functionality), you can very quickly and accurately get a list of required shared libraries from binary itself.
Good for you. You're must not be a developer. Or one that deals with cross-platform developing and deployment including cross compiling. Most build systems have pretty good tools for making sure all the right dlls are bundled with the executable, but sometimes there are problems. As well as the kinds of things the other poster posted about.
I'm very glad you haven't had to deal with these issues. But they are very real and Windows doesn't make it super easy to track them down.
Shrug. XFS has a proven track record, despite your own anecdotal experience with it. I've seen no dramatic, wide-spread issues with the roll-out of RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 across the world. I'm sure there are issues, but not widespread like you intimate.
And if XFS isn't your thing, Stratis can theoretically utilize other known-stable file systems like Ext4.
Stratis uses LVM's thin provisioning facilities to provide CoW. And of course snapshots do work fairly well with the LVM layer providing that (sharply limited as they might be... doesn't seem to be a problem for Stratis). Stratis does not yet have support for detecting bitrot yet.
RH is well aware of ZFS and BrtFS's strengths and capabilities. They are keenly aware that BtrFS hasn't panned out and can't meet the needs of their customers. Funny you should talk about reinventing BtrFS, which itself was a reinvention of ZFS, both of which reinvented the concept of the LVM layer, rather than build on that. I hope BtrFS continues and fixes the many problems it currently has, but I'm not holding my breath. In the meantime my own computer's performance is steadily declining (any significant amount of I/O activity such as swap brings BtrFS to its knees on my machine).
Compared to ZFS and BtrFS, in my opinion, Stratis is much more in keeping with the Unix philosophy (and can use existing repair tools). Which isn't a bad thing in my opinion.
To be fair, procmon is a pretty nifty GUI and can show you a lot of information in one place. More info than top.
One thing that's always bothered me on windows is the lack of a simple way to determine what DLLs are missing. A missing shared library in linux will be apparent with an error message from the linker when you try to run the executable. Or you can use the ldd command to determine what shared libraries it links to and whether they can be found on the system. On Windows, you just get an error dialog box that says the program won't run, with no information about what is missing. And it's not easy to find out what the missing dlls are either. You have to resort to DLL dependency walkers. In terms of tools Windows is a bizarre mix of complete deficiencies and the fanciest GUI tools.
Anyway it will be interesting to see what they come up with. The mere fact they want to port these highly OS-specific tools to Linux is very interesting, given MS's history with Linux. And we should be in favor of any tools that ease the transition away from a proprietary OS to something more open.
DST in the winter would shift what little daylight there is later in the day, which means you might be able to enjoy a bit of it after work. And for children it would be really beneficial, allowing them more time to play in the daylight (yes outdoors even) after school.
Right now most of us start commuting to work in the dark and come home in the dark. Shifting an hour might let you drive home in the light at least. Maybe in the winter we need to shift ahead two hours. No one really needs light while they are at work in their cubicle caves anyway (not that you'd ever see it anyway). Why not have those precious hours of daylight when you're relaxing in the evening at home?
As a farmer, I'm strongly in favor of DST, but would rather we stick with it year round. In the summer not having DST makes life a little harder, as dawn would occurs around 4am here, meaning spring and summer requires getting up extraordinarily early (compared to the time when everyone goes to bed) to do basic farm operations like herbicide or fungicide application. Now that's really just a human perspective problem, but when you have to deal with the rest of the world wanting to stay up until 10pm, it's difficult to go to bed by 9 when the rest of the family is up doing things and wants your company.
Poorly reimplements parts of btrfs? Hardly. Stratis is a much better choice for an enterprise than btrfs. It offers all the same volume and snapshot management capabilities as BtrFS or ZFS, but using proven, existing technology, like XFS. It's not a case of NIH as you suggest. The reality is BtrFS hasn't really panned out for anyone, unfortunately.
Having used BtrFS for the last 6 or 7 years on my two main daily-driver computers, I can say it's got nice features, but it's not ready yet at all. Performance problems and limitations abound, plus the issues that were mentioned a few posts ago. It still doesn't support RAID 5 or 6, and you can't use it on top of LVM to get that. There's no way I'd trust it on a server given my experience with it (reminds me of the time I tried ReiserFS 3 on a server... that just about cost me my job!).
On the other hand, I'm very excited to see how RH's Stratis project turns out. Even in these early stages, we know how it will perform and we know how stable and secure it will be, because we know LVM and XFS already, and there are decades of use proving the reliability of these components. Plus stratis provides a management API and system needed to integrate with things like containers and virtualization provisioning.
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Correct. Most illegal aliens entered the country at a port of entry and overstayed their visa. In fact the country of origin with the most number of illegal aliens in the US is.... Canada.
Most drugs come across ports of entry, or by boat. There was a major drug bust recently along the southern border at a port of entry that reinforced that fact.
NPR did a story a while back on a bit of border wall (already funded, not part of the Trump demands) that will soon cut right through the middle of one of the US's only butterfly sanctuaries. This will not only inconvenience the land owners and the many thousands of people who visit this place (including campers), but it will also cut off many animals from their only source of water, and interfere withe the migratory paths of many species. And even stranger, there were not any existing problems with hordes of illegal aliens crossing over the frontier there or drugs. One wonders why the administration was so bent on pushing this wall through in this spot. Doesn't make any sense.
I disagree. Quite often I'll see an ad for a product that solves a particular problem in my current line of work, and occasionally I'll buy the product. If the ad is relevant, non-intrusive, and not pushy, they can be invaluable tools both for the marketer and for the person or business who might need that product (even if he doesn't know it yet). Quite often I've seen an ad in a trade magazine and thought, oh that looks like a very good idea that could really benefit me. So I've bought more than a few things (business-related) because of that.
Maybe one could argue consumer ads for things no one really needs or can afford are immoral. But not all advertising in general. I don't mind my podcast ads usually because they are actually quite relevant to the interests of the listeners. For example, I learned about a particular VPS provider that way. I also don't mind ads in trade and tech magazines.
What I'm not interested in are annoying, popup, popunder, interstitial ads on web pages. It's fine to see an ad in a magazine on paper, but not on my computer screen with animations and sound. No thanks. And browsing without an ad blocker is a security risk I can't afford to take.
I've never understood why this has to be so (the small icons). Surely the UI can scale everything according to DPI, right? Even it has to scale a bitmap. In some sense this is what HiDPI does already. But sadly the dream of using vector graphics everywhere for scaling to any resolution died along the way. I'd really like if the entire desktop could be scaled arbitrarily (and look clean and sharp). If I want things a bit bigger, I can. Or smaller. Or make the text exactly 12 pt tall (actual pt). Never quite understood why they ended up using fake pixels as a basic unit when we already had pt. Or mm.
Except that the American manufacturing sector is doing just fine, better than it ever was. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/t... . But the nature of manufacturing has changed over the years and involves fewer jobs before. And the things that are manufactured tend to not be consumer goods but big ticket items. For example agricultural equipment is still made in the US and exported all over the world. China imports this equipment. There are cottage industries in the US making all sorts of goods (with a lot of Chinese components). All told, American industry is quite healthy despite what some folk say loudly.
As was said earlier, labor is not really a part of the equation when it comes to overseas outsourcing. It's the supply chain that draws companies to China. For example this company making pinball machines in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Attempts to start a trade war with china do nothing to help American industry. In fact it hurts it by cutting off the supply chain we need to make cool things here at home.
How will a wall help with any of that? Most illegal immigration is the cumulative result of people overstaying visas. In other words entering through a port of entry and then just not leaving. Furthermore the rate of illegal immigration into the US has steadily declined over the years in total, and in particular from Mexico. Immigration from other non-North American countries has increased, but the overall rate seems to be declining.
This current so-called crisis in Tijuana has nothing to do with border walls or border security either. These are folks who will claim asylum at the port of entry. A giant wall across the border wouldn't change this situation.
Also, where will this wall be built? Are wall supporters ready to spend the money not only to build the wall but to buy the land? The vast majority of the land along the border is privately owned. Will the government just take the land? Steal it from Mexico? What about rivers? This doesn't seem to be very well thought out. Earmarking a huge amount of money for a project with no real plan doesn't seem like a good idea to me. I have to wonder who benefits from this wall's construction?
And they don't even have to be real, flying, drones either. Forget about terrorism. Drones are where it's at.
Nothing I've seen so far has led me to believe there ever was any drone at Gatwick, nor have I seen any proof of a drone in this instance either. Can't prove a negative of course--there could maybe have have been an idiot flying nearby. It's a tough call to make. What I wouldn't stand for is police acting the way they did in the Gatwick case. What a disaster. I hope that couple gets some good compensation for the damage done.
Expect widespread government overreaction to this phantom (no pun intended) drone.
Oh wow. Are you serious? Also you realize that dust and dirt can get inside the male USB C connector itself and cause all sorts of mechanical problems.
I love that everyone is standardizing on the same type of connectors, but let's not fool ourselves that these are the most robust connectors in the world. And this cable DRM scheme is certainly disappointing, if not surprising.
I've never understood why people think it's legitimate to expect an electrical generation company to buy surplus power from home owners at full retail rates. Why should a home owner be any different than any other generator who sells at wholesale rates? It simply doesn't make any economic sense to force an electrical company to buy power at retail rates when they could get it from other sources at wholesale rates.
Add to that the problem of peak residential solar not really lining up with peak demand in many places. In many cities with lots of suburbs, midday demand for electricity is fairly low because people aren't home. More power is needed it in the mornings and evenings when people are home and running A/C, washing machines, etc. Batteries fix this problem of course.
And now what if you are an American (or Canadian) national in China? No doubt China will retaliate. There are a lot of American businessmen who operate in China. They already occasionally are subject to arbitrary action on the part of the Chinese government. Would this not give China more excuses to use them as political tools?
Really you don't find Russia's imminent invasion of Ukraine deeply worrisome?
There was a time when America and its people cared about others across the world, just because it was the right thing to do, and knowing that helping them free themselves and advance economically would ultimately directly benefit the safety and security of the US. In short, making friends makes us safer than making enemies. That old way has gone now, and even more sadly the attitude of many Americans towards their fellow humans in other countries is taking on a decidedly adversarial tone. Does not bode well for anyone.
Mod parent up. Absolutely right on. The US has been and continues to be a manufacturing powerhouse. It's just that American manufacturing involves very few people (relatively speaking) and is highly automated, involving robots and CNC machines.
There are still some things in American industry that are very labor-intensive (such as building construction and agriculture), but even those involve a very small number of workers relative to the population, and still have a fair amount of automation involved. And it's work that few Americans are interested in doing.
The problem with Trump's tariffs are that they actually punish the domestic industry and manufacturing that we have without creating the new industries promised. For example the already high cost of farm machinery is rising by 25% also now, which puts pressure on everyone else down the line. Farm machines are for the most part made with steel produced in US plants, often right next to the manufacturing plants. But the tariffs drive up domestic steel prices nearly as much as foreign steel.
Sure, but tariffs themselves don't actually address any of those problems. Especially when there are no local sources for any of these goods. This money doesn't go to improve the working conditions of the poor workers. It doesn't fix any environmental problems. It rarely changes government regulations.
Let's be clear. All tariffs are are taxes paid for by consumers. They don't punish foreign countries or companies nearly as much as proponents claim.
You are correct. The gp apparently hasn't read the licensing terms of the VirtualBox extension pack.
Qemu/KVM supports USB 2.0 pass through, but I haven't as yet had any luck with it trying to get one of those stupid USB hasp keys to work.
Regardless of pass through capabilities, there is always going to be some overhead of passing through the virtualization layer, even if it's slight. So the original point very much stands, that network performance testing using a VM is just not valid.
Have had chips in the cards for about 10 years here in Canada and haven't ever had a chip fail. Granted cards are usually only good for 3 to 5 years and then they are re-issued with a new expiry date. But certainly I know of very few chip failures among.
But you make a good point. There's little incentive for card holders to want chips in their cards. Especially when a lot of commerce is done online and the chip and pin doesn't even enter into it.
There has to be a way to name the new time zone they are creating. Thus to separate it from PST, they'll just call it PDT.
It's only confusing for those living outside of this permanent PDT time zone.
You're right. I got it wrong. Mod my original post back down and mod spitzak up.
No, they certainly did not.
Others may be confused over what WSL is, so it's worth repeating. No init system of any kind (sysv or systemd) make any sense in the WSL as it's currently designed. Windows itself is the init system for WSL. The Window kernel and the WSL is process 1 (calls itself init in the emulated Linux process list) and spawns linux binaries directly.
You laugh but over on Coder Radio, Mike (one of the hosts) has mentioned several times that he's having increasing difficulties hiring people with real Linux experience because most of his young college-age applicants say, oh yes I have Linux experience, but it turns out it's just playing with Ubuntu in WSL. When it comes to actually installing Linux on bare hardware, as his work requires, they are clueless. This is increasingly becoming the norm, and this is by design. MS recognizes the value that Linux plays in just about everything (MS uses Linux a lot on Azure and other places). They are definitely wanting to be a part of it, while keeping Windows in a key place of dominance. Not a bad strategy either. And it could backfire on them as whe some users get enough experience in WSL, it's easier for them to try the real thing at some point because it will be familiar to them. Especially the command-line aspects of Linux, which the WSL focuses on.
A development strategy that marries Visual Studio and the WSL is very much a thing.
So yes I'd say it is the year of Linux on the Windows Desktop.
It's not a dependency walker in the Windows sense. ldd simply parses the executable and spits out all the shared libraries the linker is going to need to find to load the executable because they are all listed there. In Windows this information can't always be found by simply looking at the executable because dlls themselves can refer to other dlls. So you figure out you're missing dll A but when you copy it in, now the whole system is missing dll B and so on. A dependency walker has to, well walk the dlls and make a big list of all the dlls that are ultimately needed by the exe.
Elf shared libraries, on the other hand, can and do refer to other shared libraries, but the executable itself usually has to have all of these subdependencies explicitly linked in to the binary itself. So except for dynamically opened shared libraries (Qt and GTK+ both do that for some functionality), you can very quickly and accurately get a list of required shared libraries from binary itself.
Good for you. You're must not be a developer. Or one that deals with cross-platform developing and deployment including cross compiling. Most build systems have pretty good tools for making sure all the right dlls are bundled with the executable, but sometimes there are problems. As well as the kinds of things the other poster posted about.
I'm very glad you haven't had to deal with these issues. But they are very real and Windows doesn't make it super easy to track them down.
Shrug. XFS has a proven track record, despite your own anecdotal experience with it. I've seen no dramatic, wide-spread issues with the roll-out of RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 across the world. I'm sure there are issues, but not widespread like you intimate.
And if XFS isn't your thing, Stratis can theoretically utilize other known-stable file systems like Ext4.
Stratis uses LVM's thin provisioning facilities to provide CoW. And of course snapshots do work fairly well with the LVM layer providing that (sharply limited as they might be... doesn't seem to be a problem for Stratis). Stratis does not yet have support for detecting bitrot yet.
RH is well aware of ZFS and BrtFS's strengths and capabilities. They are keenly aware that BtrFS hasn't panned out and can't meet the needs of their customers. Funny you should talk about reinventing BtrFS, which itself was a reinvention of ZFS, both of which reinvented the concept of the LVM layer, rather than build on that. I hope BtrFS continues and fixes the many problems it currently has, but I'm not holding my breath. In the meantime my own computer's performance is steadily declining (any significant amount of I/O activity such as swap brings BtrFS to its knees on my machine).
Compared to ZFS and BtrFS, in my opinion, Stratis is much more in keeping with the Unix philosophy (and can use existing repair tools). Which isn't a bad thing in my opinion.
To be fair, procmon is a pretty nifty GUI and can show you a lot of information in one place. More info than top.
One thing that's always bothered me on windows is the lack of a simple way to determine what DLLs are missing. A missing shared library in linux will be apparent with an error message from the linker when you try to run the executable. Or you can use the ldd command to determine what shared libraries it links to and whether they can be found on the system. On Windows, you just get an error dialog box that says the program won't run, with no information about what is missing. And it's not easy to find out what the missing dlls are either. You have to resort to DLL dependency walkers. In terms of tools Windows is a bizarre mix of complete deficiencies and the fanciest GUI tools.
Anyway it will be interesting to see what they come up with. The mere fact they want to port these highly OS-specific tools to Linux is very interesting, given MS's history with Linux. And we should be in favor of any tools that ease the transition away from a proprietary OS to something more open.
DST in the winter would shift what little daylight there is later in the day, which means you might be able to enjoy a bit of it after work. And for children it would be really beneficial, allowing them more time to play in the daylight (yes outdoors even) after school.
Right now most of us start commuting to work in the dark and come home in the dark. Shifting an hour might let you drive home in the light at least. Maybe in the winter we need to shift ahead two hours. No one really needs light while they are at work in their cubicle caves anyway (not that you'd ever see it anyway). Why not have those precious hours of daylight when you're relaxing in the evening at home?
As a farmer, I'm strongly in favor of DST, but would rather we stick with it year round. In the summer not having DST makes life a little harder, as dawn would occurs around 4am here, meaning spring and summer requires getting up extraordinarily early (compared to the time when everyone goes to bed) to do basic farm operations like herbicide or fungicide application. Now that's really just a human perspective problem, but when you have to deal with the rest of the world wanting to stay up until 10pm, it's difficult to go to bed by 9 when the rest of the family is up doing things and wants your company.
Poorly reimplements parts of btrfs? Hardly. Stratis is a much better choice for an enterprise than btrfs. It offers all the same volume and snapshot management capabilities as BtrFS or ZFS, but using proven, existing technology, like XFS. It's not a case of NIH as you suggest. The reality is BtrFS hasn't really panned out for anyone, unfortunately.
Having used BtrFS for the last 6 or 7 years on my two main daily-driver computers, I can say it's got nice features, but it's not ready yet at all. Performance problems and limitations abound, plus the issues that were mentioned a few posts ago. It still doesn't support RAID 5 or 6, and you can't use it on top of LVM to get that. There's no way I'd trust it on a server given my experience with it (reminds me of the time I tried ReiserFS 3 on a server... that just about cost me my job!).
On the other hand, I'm very excited to see how RH's Stratis project turns out. Even in these early stages, we know how it will perform and we know how stable and secure it will be, because we know LVM and XFS already, and there are decades of use proving the reliability of these components. Plus stratis provides a management API and system needed to integrate with things like containers and virtualization provisioning.