Agreed. My primary bitching is about the default state of the gnome screen when you install a system. There isn't anywhere to type. There isn't anything to click on. You have to know arcane things to get it to go away.
I don't get that with KDE, XFCE, FVWM or anything else I've used on and off over the past 30 years.
Hint: The bible is the work of humans. Trying to redefine terms until they fit knowledge that didn't exist at the time of writing doesn't make it more correct. It's still wrong.
Yup. The web server passing input to shell scripts via environment variables is lore that was put in place with the earliest cern web servers and it should have been killed and put to sleep a long time ago.
However the bash shell executing environment variables on the way in is worse.
The equivalent in python would be like putting this at the top of every python CGI script: untrusted_input = cgi.FieldStorage() for k in untrusted_input.keys:
eval(untrusted_input[k])
But they give those programs stupid, non obvious names. A quick look in the VNC I have running shows the terminal window is called 'Konsole'. It's probably called 'Wetfish' or 'artichoke' or 'pandacar' in other variants of GUIs. At least Apple called theirs 'Terminal'.
The point being that you do it only once, from the default configuration that goes to some lengths to hide the terminal. I think I install a new server about once a year on average. Just long enough for the details of whatever GUI is in vogue to change enough to be bloody annoying when I try to turn it off.
You can imagine my joy when I found that one year, systemd had come along and borked inittab. Now I have to google some obscure soft linking of long filename files way down deep in a file hierarchy to change the runlevel. Next year systemd will have finally been defeated and replaced with something else. Come back inittab, all it forgiven.
Because usually the 'text mode' distribution doesn't work on my hardware.
So install the 'standard' one, I lean to Fedora. plug in the monitor and keyboard long enough to do the install, set the IP, turn off the GUI and allow SSH login. Then I can withdraw from the server closet and manage it from the sofa.
Will I still have to dig through three layers of hard to find graphicy things to get to a command line in the default configuration so I can change the runlevel to a non graphical startup?
"We're not trying to replace World of Warcraft with this new MMO," Morhaime told Wired at the time. "We're trying to create a different massively multiplayer experience, and hopefully World of Warcraft will still be going strong when that one is released."
So the execs didn't let the new thing cannibalize the old, but still profitable thing? I'm sure that'll work well for them.
>If you are whining about US taxation rates you are clearly a poser that has never had any actual experience with this stuff. As a business owner who pays personal and business taxes, I'm all too familiar with them.
>The US tax code specifically panders to corporations. Big ones. There are several types of corporation.
>The nominal rates are a pure fiction to distract ignorant RV dwelling GOP supporters. They are a fiction because of all the other rules. You either didn't read or didn't comprehend the post you were so smugly responding to, where I suggested that applying the rates uniformly would achieve the same income at a lower tax rate.
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Agreed. My primary bitching is about the default state of the gnome screen when you install a system. There isn't anywhere to type. There isn't anything to click on. You have to know arcane things to get it to go away.
I don't get that with KDE, XFCE, FVWM or anything else I've used on and off over the past 30 years.
Hint: The bible is the work of humans. Trying to redefine terms until they fit knowledge that didn't exist at the time of writing doesn't make it more correct. It's still wrong.
Yup. The web server passing input to shell scripts via environment variables is lore that was put in place with the earliest cern web servers and it should have been killed and put to sleep a long time ago.
However the bash shell executing environment variables on the way in is worse.
The equivalent in python would be like putting this at the top of every python CGI script:
untrusted_input = cgi.FieldStorage()
for k in untrusted_input.keys:
eval(untrusted_input[k])
fvwm please.
Because you'll run out of plasticizers in the bottle. The water will have stolen them all.
The bible missed a bit:
4) And God said, let the isotope ratio of all water herein be specifically crafted to appear as if it's much older than 4000 years.
I go the long way around on a mac. Flower-shift-A --> utilities -->terminal.
But that hasn't changed in years. I can't say the same for whatever the latest gui on the lastest linux distro is.
But they give those programs stupid, non obvious names. A quick look in the VNC I have running shows the terminal window is called 'Konsole'. It's probably called 'Wetfish' or 'artichoke' or 'pandacar' in other variants of GUIs. At least Apple called theirs 'Terminal'.
My Happy Hacking keyboard doesn't have a meta, super or windows key.
But the control key is in the right place and that is all that matters.
The point being that you do it only once, from the default configuration that goes to some lengths to hide the terminal. I think I install a new server about once a year on average. Just long enough for the details of whatever GUI is in vogue to change enough to be bloody annoying when I try to turn it off.
You can imagine my joy when I found that one year, systemd had come along and borked inittab. Now I have to google some obscure soft linking of long filename files way down deep in a file hierarchy to change the runlevel. Next year systemd will have finally been defeated and replaced with something else. Come back inittab, all it forgiven.
Because usually the 'text mode' distribution doesn't work on my hardware.
So install the 'standard' one, I lean to Fedora. plug in the monitor and keyboard long enough to do the install, set the IP, turn off the GUI and allow SSH login. Then I can withdraw from the server closet and manage it from the sofa.
You're being pedantic too!
It's pedentry day!
No. That was yesterday. Until tomorrow.
Will I still have to dig through three layers of hard to find graphicy things to get to a command line in the default configuration so I can change the runlevel to a non graphical startup?
I was aiming for 'funny'.
I only need to be off by a factor of less than 8 and we're still all dead in three years. Party!
>Indirect observation is still observation
All observation is indirect observation, except maybe when you define what you're observing as being what your brain perceives from its inputs.
Yes, but what can you expect from 3 seconds of Googling?
Thanks god I am using windows.
Umm. Russian ransomware takes advantage of Windows PowerShell
Fidelity, Stocktrade, etc.
It's more stable than most Biotech stocks.
Evasion: Naughty and illegal ways of not paying tax
Avoidance: Legal ways of conducting your affairs to reduce or eliminate your taxes
The current political discourse is around moving inversion from being avoidance to being evasion
>has been doubling every 30 days
365/30 = 12.16 ish
2^12.16 = 4597 ish
2^24.33 = 21,137,967 ish
2^36. = 95,846,054,932 ish
It's the third year you need to worry about.
Ultima on the Apple ][ was great. I wonder if the online version is better.
"We're not trying to replace World of Warcraft with this new MMO," Morhaime told Wired at the time. "We're trying to create a different massively multiplayer experience, and hopefully World of Warcraft will still be going strong when that one is released."
So the execs didn't let the new thing cannibalize the old, but still profitable thing?
I'm sure that'll work well for them.
>If you are whining about US taxation rates you are clearly a poser that has never had any actual experience with this stuff.
As a business owner who pays personal and business taxes, I'm all too familiar with them.
>The US tax code specifically panders to corporations.
Big ones. There are several types of corporation.
>The nominal rates are a pure fiction to distract ignorant RV dwelling GOP supporters.
They are a fiction because of all the other rules. You either didn't read or didn't comprehend the post you were so smugly responding to, where I suggested that applying the rates uniformly would achieve the same income at a lower tax rate.