It has been a while for you, hasn't it? They usually don't give you a Windows CD anymore when you buy a PC/Laptop so I couldn't tell you how to install the Windows version you paid for when buying the computer on anything...
1) Go to microsoft.com 2) Buy a windows license, keepo note of the license key. 3) Follow the links to the image download. Download the image 4) Follow the links to the Windows Media Creation tool. 5) Burn the image to a USB stick with the media creation tool 6) Install windows on the target computer from the USB stick and use the license key to enable it. 7) Install Steam.
This is what I did at Christmas when provisioning a gaming PC for a grandchild.
In other news, in 2062 they will have time travel, otherwise how could you possibly know that just-released 8TB drive would last 45 years?
Is aggregate usage even a meaningful metric?
It tells you the MTBF for right now, but it's not useful to predict MTTF unless you know the shape of the bathtub curve. It takes a few years to build that curve.
I get the choice between Comcast and Frontier Fios. Frontier have been imperfect (they messed up routing to our static subnet once and once moved the DNS servers without telling us) but you call them and they fix it. Waiting 5 months for anything doesn't sound like an option I would take.
>What real router would you advise which is well supported enough that it's trustworthy?
I use an NUC with Linux and set up routing tables, firewall, a fail2ban listener (so my servers can tell it to do the filtering) and NAT. None of this is hard and step by step instructions are widely available. I added a second ethernet port to the NUC via the M.2 port and a 3d printed base to hold the connector. The router doesn't mess with DNS and all things point to Google's DNS. It's simple and doesn't rely on vendor support beyond Linux and support for that is as good as it gets.
I use ubiquity APs because they don't suck too much.
How the fuck did that get past inspection? Unless there was an exposed plate and then your cabinet installers came in and covered it up.
Maybe you should have installed your own cabinets.
My best guess is that there were no inspections and money changed hands for this to be the case. There are several bits of evidence that point that way. Another GFCI was against code (shared inside outside circuit) and a dimmer was way under rated for the circuit. The houses has siding issues which were settled and fixed with a lawsuit against the developers. All should have been seen by an inspector. My experience in a previous house in the same area points the same way. We had plumbing replaced in an old house, the inspector knocked on the door. He asked who did it, we told him and he said "Oh, they're ok" ticked his boxes and walked away. No inspection performed.
We are the second owners of the house, but the cabinets are original to the house.
These devices aren't going to be used like a phone battery. They will be setup for optimal life rather than longest possible runtime. Industry will be doing all the little "tricks" to keep them in longest lifetime condition. Not charging to 100%, not discharging to 0%, storing in a temperate controlled area, etc.
It sounds nice, but after 2 years, the capacity of the battery storage facility will be about 70% of what it is today and a couple of years later it will drop to 5%. Let's hope they built the facility with a user replaceable battery.
And yet with 30 years experience in electrical engineering, I have to deal with licensed electricians who don't understand the finer details of electricity installation, like the monkey who hid a GFCI behind a cabinet in my house that I'm currently trying to locate. If I had done the installation on this house (It was built in 2000), I would have made the GFCIs accessible.
>If MacOS is a Unix derivative, then Windows is a VMS derivative.
Well both MacOS and VMS claim to be posix compliant. Windows claims that too, but when I try piping the output of my command line program through awk, it doesn't seem to work in cmd.exe.
Meanwhile I need to get on and get stuff done, so I went to the Apple store and got me a macbook pro.
The bash shell looks pretty much the same regardless of what you run it on. The macbook hardware is nice. I tried the new keyboard on the new mac and hated it, so it might be the end of the line for me and macs when this one dies. I'll be replacing the battery soon instead of upgrading to a new macbook.
>So I gather from this you use Macs because it supports your programming/working environment and you don't have to deal with the UI disaster known as Gnome3.
The machine I sit on my lap is a mac. I have other machines that are Linux. I use Linux at work (for chip development). To be fair I was using and Apple ][+ when it was new and current and that was way before Gnome-anything.
I have my programs (in python & C mostly) on a network drive and they compile and run the same on Linux and MacOS.
Only if the program either is command-line or uses the GNUstep toolkit, a partial reimplementation of the GUI API now known as Cocoa. Otherwise, the user has to install XQuartz to make graphical programs designed for GNU/Linux work on macOS. Or what am I missing?
It's all command line. Statistics, data processing, plotting graphs to files that drop into latex documents.
I can do UI things in python with the same code, but I don't because it's of no use to me.
If Microsoft give Apple a kicking with it's surface products, we can look forward to Apple pulling out it's finger and doing a good job on the laptops and desktops the following year.
MacOS is better. It's a unix derivative. I have my programs (in python & C mostly) on a network drive and they compile and run the same on Linux and MacOS. I use Latex and gnuplot a lot. They both run the same on Linux and MacOS.
Windows is not like that. It's it's own thing and I have to jump through hoops to make programs and documents work across all three. So I don't. I use a Mac and I use Linux. Work give me a windows laptop and I use it to ssh into Linux to do work.
Other people's priorities are generally very different to mine, but I don't give a crap about the minutiae of UI elements (unless it's truly horrible like Gnome). I care about the programming environment.
They are the condition of entry to the patent licensing pool for 3GPP, LTE, IEEE802 and many others. Anyone making cell phone silicon is a party to those agreements.
Nowhere in the constitution does the phrase "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory" appear wrt patents. To the contrary, it's all about exclusivity, baby. When the constitution was written, the pace of change wasn't as rapid as it was today, so a couple of decades of exclusivity was no big deal - now a couple of decades is all the time before the original invention is rendered totally obsolete anyway.
If the licensing fees are too high, create an alternative - that's how it works everywhere. Steak costs too much? Substitute chicken. Chicken costs too much? Substitute "processed food-like stuff."
It's OK to be clueless, but don't flaunt it on Slashdot.
FRAND certainly does appear wrt patents in the IP license pool agreements of many standards bodies.
If he digs deeply enough, government won't know about it. Unless he delves too deeply and awaken a Balrog. Then he can blame it on Trump.
Just dig a trench, put in a rocket on it side and light the touch paper. It'll ram it's way through the ground in make a tunnel to LAX in a couple of minutes.
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I know lots of people with a fitbit. I know several people with an Apple watch.
The difference is the people with the Apple watch work for Apple.
It has been a while for you, hasn't it? They usually don't give you a Windows CD anymore when you buy a PC/Laptop so I couldn't tell you how to install the Windows version you paid for when buying the computer on anything...
1) Go to microsoft.com
2) Buy a windows license, keepo note of the license key.
3) Follow the links to the image download. Download the image
4) Follow the links to the Windows Media Creation tool.
5) Burn the image to a USB stick with the media creation tool
6) Install windows on the target computer from the USB stick and use the license key to enable it.
7) Install Steam.
This is what I did at Christmas when provisioning a gaming PC for a grandchild.
Even if you had no choice of affordable fast Internet? :(
I would move. In fact I did.
In other news, in 2062 they will have time travel, otherwise how could you possibly know that just-released 8TB drive would last 45 years?
Is aggregate usage even a meaningful metric?
It tells you the MTBF for right now, but it's not useful to predict MTTF unless you know the shape of the bathtub curve. It takes a few years to build that curve.
I get the choice between Comcast and Frontier Fios. Frontier have been imperfect (they messed up routing to our static subnet once and once moved the DNS servers without telling us) but you call them and they fix it. Waiting 5 months for anything doesn't sound like an option I would take.
I'm not sure I would ever buy anything from Comcast. There's a long history of people doing that and finding themselves on the losing end of the deal.
FFS, is no joke safe from the ASD crowd?
>What real router would you advise which is well supported enough that it's trustworthy?
I use an NUC with Linux and set up routing tables, firewall, a fail2ban listener (so my servers can tell it to do the filtering) and NAT. None of this is hard and step by step instructions are widely available. I added a second ethernet port to the NUC via the M.2 port and a 3d printed base to hold the connector. The router doesn't mess with DNS and all things point to Google's DNS. It's simple and doesn't rely on vendor support beyond Linux and support for that is as good as it gets.
I use ubiquity APs because they don't suck too much.
How the fuck did that get past inspection? Unless there was an exposed plate and then your cabinet installers came in and covered it up.
Maybe you should have installed your own cabinets.
My best guess is that there were no inspections and money changed hands for this to be the case. There are several bits of evidence that point that way. Another GFCI was against code (shared inside outside circuit) and a dimmer was way under rated for the circuit. The houses has siding issues which were settled and fixed with a lawsuit against the developers. All should have been seen by an inspector. My experience in a previous house in the same area points the same way. We had plumbing replaced in an old house, the inspector knocked on the door. He asked who did it, we told him and he said "Oh, they're ok" ticked his boxes and walked away. No inspection performed.
We are the second owners of the house, but the cabinets are original to the house.
These devices aren't going to be used like a phone battery. They will be setup for optimal life rather than longest possible runtime. Industry will be doing all the little "tricks" to keep them in longest lifetime condition. Not charging to 100%, not discharging to 0%, storing in a temperate controlled area, etc.
My post wasn't entirely serious Mr Logic.
It did with my Nexus 4. My Nexus 5 and current iPhone 7 seem to be holding up better.
It sounds nice, but after 2 years, the capacity of the battery storage facility will be about 70% of what it is today and a couple of years later it will drop to 5%. Let's hope they built the facility with a user replaceable battery.
And yet with 30 years experience in electrical engineering, I have to deal with licensed electricians who don't understand the finer details of electricity installation, like the monkey who hid a GFCI behind a cabinet in my house that I'm currently trying to locate. If I had done the installation on this house (It was built in 2000), I would have made the GFCIs accessible.
Maybe, but I still have my Apple ][ and it still works.
One more thing I don't like is that none of the Mac keyboards have the numeric keypad on the right
I hate the numeric keypad on other laptops. They push the main part of the keyboard to the left and it's horrible.
>If MacOS is a Unix derivative, then Windows is a VMS derivative.
Well both MacOS and VMS claim to be posix compliant. Windows claims that too, but when I try piping the output of my command line program through awk, it doesn't seem to work in cmd.exe.
Meanwhile I need to get on and get stuff done, so I went to the Apple store and got me a macbook pro.
The bash shell looks pretty much the same regardless of what you run it on. The macbook hardware is nice. I tried the new keyboard on the new mac and hated it, so it might be the end of the line for me and macs when this one dies. I'll be replacing the battery soon instead of upgrading to a new macbook.
>So I gather from this you use Macs because it supports your programming/working environment and you don't have to deal with the UI disaster known as Gnome3.
The machine I sit on my lap is a mac. I have other machines that are Linux. I use Linux at work (for chip development). To be fair I was using and Apple ][+ when it was new and current and that was way before Gnome-anything.
I have my programs (in python & C mostly) on a network drive and they compile and run the same on Linux and MacOS.
Only if the program either is command-line or uses the GNUstep toolkit, a partial reimplementation of the GUI API now known as Cocoa. Otherwise, the user has to install XQuartz to make graphical programs designed for GNU/Linux work on macOS. Or what am I missing?
It's all command line. Statistics, data processing, plotting graphs to files that drop into latex documents.
I can do UI things in python with the same code, but I don't because it's of no use to me.
If Microsoft give Apple a kicking with it's surface products, we can look forward to Apple pulling out it's finger and doing a good job on the laptops and desktops the following year.
MacOS is better. It's a unix derivative. I have my programs (in python & C mostly) on a network drive and they compile and run the same on Linux and MacOS. I use Latex and gnuplot a lot. They both run the same on Linux and MacOS.
Windows is not like that. It's it's own thing and I have to jump through hoops to make programs and documents work across all three. So I don't. I use a Mac and I use Linux. Work give me a windows laptop and I use it to ssh into Linux to do work.
Other people's priorities are generally very different to mine, but I don't give a crap about the minutiae of UI elements (unless it's truly horrible like Gnome). I care about the programming environment.
They are the condition of entry to the patent licensing pool for 3GPP, LTE, IEEE802 and many others. Anyone making cell phone silicon is a party to those agreements.
Nowhere in the constitution does the phrase "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory" appear wrt patents. To the contrary, it's all about exclusivity, baby. When the constitution was written, the pace of change wasn't as rapid as it was today, so a couple of decades of exclusivity was no big deal - now a couple of decades is all the time before the original invention is rendered totally obsolete anyway.
If the licensing fees are too high, create an alternative - that's how it works everywhere. Steak costs too much? Substitute chicken. Chicken costs too much? Substitute "processed food-like stuff."
It's OK to be clueless, but don't flaunt it on Slashdot.
FRAND certainly does appear wrt patents in the IP license pool agreements of many standards bodies.
You misunderstand.
If he digs deeply enough, government won't know about it. Unless he delves too deeply and awaken a Balrog. Then he can blame it on Trump.
Just dig a trench, put in a rocket on it side and light the touch paper. It'll ram it's way through the ground in make a tunnel to LAX in a couple of minutes.
What you see is what you deserve