Recently I used a Raspberry Pi (2012) connected to the serial port of a Tandy 1000 RL (1987) to get files from a file server to the Tandy. The Pi connected to the server by NFS, and the file was transferred to the Tandy by ZModem, using the "sz" command. The only extra hardware needed was some wire, some ceramic caps, and a MAX3232 IC.
It's money for nothing, unless you call running an HTTP server a tough work.
Any Slashdotter will tell you that running "a HTTP server*" that services the number of hits that App Store would receive in a day, is actually a decent amount of work, and hence quite costly.
...in the end I learned to keep my better understandings to myself, unless seriously warranted. So, it has been a life-long learning for me, and others.
Except that you have to type sudo for every command. "su" is half as many letters, one time, for an unlimited number of differing commands.
What the hell does Canonical have to do with this? It's not like Canonical invented sudo.
No, Canonical didn't invent sudo, I didn't claim that. I know sudo has been around the traps for a long time, I'm talking more about the mindset surrounding its use.
Canonical are arguably responsible for bringing Linux to "the masses" so to speak. I think Ubuntu made sudo popular. I can honestly say I never used sudo until I first mucked around with Ubuntu. It is my impression that Ubuntu popularised sudo, or at the very least, popularised it as "best practice" or "the right thing to do".
So there's another sign of a veteran Unix admin: bitching about Canonical (or anything less than 20-30 years old) even when they're nothing to do with the complaint...
That's your opinion and that's OK, my opinion is that the idea of "sudo as best practice" is a recent thing; a symptom, if you will, of the popularity of Ubuntu.
Su to root, solve the problem, get out. I don't see what isn't methodical about that?
The article certainly isn't suggesting that one should surf the web or IRC as root...
The popular Linux community is so tied up in what Canonical has deemed "best practice" that it no longer trusts itself with the level of control it brags to Windowsland about having.
No, no, nothing like that. I'm definitely interested in things like geothermal and tidal energy. I'm not even anti-solar, obviously if the energy is there to be used, use it. I just can't get behind solar as a baseload technology, because no matter how you wrap it up, it still needs sunny days to melt the salt, fill the capacitors, spin up the flywheels, whatever.
I read it and got prematurely excited because I thought someone finally had the balls to ignore the anti-nuclear-as-a-religion crowd, and started building a Molten Salt Reactor.
Then I read the article and found out it's just a new take on boring old solar. Oh well.... one day...
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Recently I used a Raspberry Pi (2012) connected to the serial port of a Tandy 1000 RL (1987) to get files from a file server to the Tandy. The Pi connected to the server by NFS, and the file was transferred to the Tandy by ZModem, using the "sz" command. The only extra hardware needed was some wire, some ceramic caps, and a MAX3232 IC.
It's money for nothing, unless you call running an HTTP server a tough work.
Any Slashdotter will tell you that running "a HTTP server*" that services the number of hits that App Store would receive in a day, is actually a decent amount of work, and hence quite costly.
* - Obv. it's more than one "server".
...in the end I learned to keep my better understandings to myself, unless seriously warranted. So, it has been a life-long learning for me, and others.
...the lifestory of persons with Asperger's. :)
I'd also wager that a good % of Nokia's shares are owned by investment funds. They don't care what OS the phone runs.
By the way, unless something has radically changed over the past 2 or 3 years, Australia is a major CDMA market
CDMA got switched off in 2008.
By using sudo, you get to skip the last step.
Except that you have to type sudo for every command. "su" is half as many letters, one time, for an unlimited number of differing commands.
What the hell does Canonical have to do with this? It's not like Canonical invented sudo.
No, Canonical didn't invent sudo, I didn't claim that. I know sudo has been around the traps for a long time, I'm talking more about the mindset surrounding its use.
Canonical are arguably responsible for bringing Linux to "the masses" so to speak. I think Ubuntu made sudo popular. I can honestly say I never used sudo until I first mucked around with Ubuntu. It is my impression that Ubuntu popularised sudo, or at the very least, popularised it as "best practice" or "the right thing to do".
So there's another sign of a veteran Unix admin: bitching about Canonical (or anything less than 20-30 years old) even when they're nothing to do with the complaint...
That's your opinion and that's OK, my opinion is that the idea of "sudo as best practice" is a recent thing; a symptom, if you will, of the popularity of Ubuntu.
Su to root, solve the problem, get out. I don't see what isn't methodical about that?
The article certainly isn't suggesting that one should surf the web or IRC as root...
The popular Linux community is so tied up in what Canonical has deemed "best practice" that it no longer trusts itself with the level of control it brags to Windowsland about having.
No, no, nothing like that. I'm definitely interested in things like geothermal and tidal energy. I'm not even anti-solar, obviously if the energy is there to be used, use it. I just can't get behind solar as a baseload technology, because no matter how you wrap it up, it still needs sunny days to melt the salt, fill the capacitors, spin up the flywheels, whatever.
...cheaper than the pills for your OCD.
I read it and got prematurely excited because I thought someone finally had the balls to ignore the anti-nuclear-as-a-religion crowd, and started building a Molten Salt Reactor. Then I read the article and found out it's just a new take on boring old solar. Oh well.... one day...