i've done some pxe installs over lan, but i didn't think modern bios could even boot from rs232
would be pretty neat though
for headless servers needing reinstall, maybe booting from usb on the server with a usb connection to a tablet that not only provides the boot image but also displays the screen... not as geek as rs232 or kvm etc but
now now that's not like the modern corporate software machine that markets and sells alpha quality releases and expects customers to do the testing for them (and pay for the privelige)
i wish i could mod parent +5 funny and +5 insightful... although its also trollbait for really bad crocodile dundee spoofs like "that's not a distro, THIS is a distro" followed by a short trip down memory lane about how he had to create his own punch cards to add two numbers together
undue influence on government is the fault of government that created the situation where government influence can be bought in the first place
corporations didn't make politicians corrupt
if government was smaller, there would be no power for politicians to be able to sell and then corporations would have nothing to buy
corporations receiving bailouts is no different to a poor person receiving a welfare check.... the government makes them available, and anyone who qualifies wants to get it
if someone put $100 in front of you and said you could take it, would you not take it?
corporations take what the government offers them in the same way that everyone else does
corporations may pay politicians to give them handouts, but its the politician who is corrupt in accepting the bribe and executing the bailout... and the politician can only do that because the government he works for allows him to do it... shrink government and it doesn't matter how big the bribe is if the politician doesn't have the authority to execute bailouts to his corporate buddies even if he wanted to
you left wing liberal morons need to go back to school... corporations (and the rich that benefit from them) aren't your enemy... nobody forces you to buy the computer that helps to make bill gates one of the wealthiest individuals in the world
on the other hand, you are FORCED to pay taxes that are handed out to corporations as bailouts
If America were socialist, the government would own those corporations
they basically do in a sense... the Fed is pumping $85 billion into the private sector a month, so guess where the "capital" for private investment is coming from?
it's even worse than socialism because the taxpayer pays but the shareholder keeps
capitalism has nothing to do with lords... capitalism is where people invest in business and there is risk attached to that investment in that if the business performs poorly the investor doesn't get their money back, and if the business does well they get a dividend (so its sort of like gambling).
i've never heard of lords losing money when crops fail
so i guess that makes you one of the brainwashed sheep i mentioned... how does that feel?
i think a lot of americans are turning to public sector jobs because there isn't much in the way of opportunity for them in the private sector, so i can't really say i blame them
are you contending that the figure i calculated is incorrect?...or just not calculated in a way that gives you warm fuzzies?
the civpart includes those that are unemployed but are looking for a job [http://economics.about.com/od/unemploymentrate/f/labor_force.htm] it probably also includes part time and casual workers
on the other hand, 63% is still pretty shitty... it still implies 37% underemployment
but i guess government numbers can be entirely misleading too, considering the government still thinks inflation is down around two percent!
Do you think that schoolteachers, fire fighters, and police officers are moochers?
they are economic overheads in that their jobs don't contribute much to the productive economy, so yes they are moochers. i'm not saying that all moochers are bad, but 54% of the population being moochers is bad.
in australia, many firefighters are volunteers except in large urban areas, and there are a lot of private schools, so teachers and firefighters don't always have to be moochers.
The idea that there's a huge and growing group of people who sit around collecting "handouts" and pushing for "socialism" is pure fantasy
try opening your eyes instead of stupifying yourself listening to cnn, fox, nbc etc
china is more capitalist than america
america is increasingly socialist but the public has been brainwashed into thinking that government control is capitalism and free markets aren't (they are the new enemy). is there any wonder why a lot of americans (occupy wall street as example) hate capitalism? the don't; they hate how corporations are allowed to bribe goverment officials to get huge bailouts, but thats not capitalism! thats the antithesis of capitalism; its more socialist than capitalist if government officials didn't have the power to sell and the government just got out of the way and let the free market work (let big banks that make stupid risky investments pay for them instead of bailing them out) you would have capitalism, and capitalism does work. socialism involving big government has been shown to not work very well (for average citizens anyway).
but i didn't imply a government job was equivalent to unemployment. i said "unemployed or employed by government". part time and casual workers do have jobs but people need full time jobs to make a decent living and pay a mortgage (american dream and all) so lets not kid ourselves into thinking a heap of people with part time or casial jobs is a good thing. yes there are a few that are happy with part time jobs, but there are people happy on welfare to. if you're not working full time in the private sector you are either underemployed (i make no distinction between underemployed and unemployed as far as macro economic health of the nation goes) or your mooching off the government.
a lot of people (other than ceos) get paid to talk... politicians, news anchors, people trying to sell stuff with one of those little karaoke amps & mic, etc.
then again there is the dilbert principle, so yeah you're probably right
In 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there was an average of 112.556 million full-time workers in the United States, of whom 17.806 million worked full-time for local, state or federal government. That left an average of only 94.750 million full-time private sector workers in the country.
94,750,000 jobs / (102,665,043 + 103,129,321) = 94,750,000 / 205,794,364 = 0.46 = 46%, which means 54% of the total US working age population is either unemployed or employed by government
i wonder what the unemployment figure in the united states would be if only tthe number of private sector (real) jobs were divided by the total population between the age of 17 and 65
if it was more than 50% i wouldn't be at all surprised
america is full of moochers, living in their socialist dreamland where money rains (from the fed) and government jobs, handouts and imports are taken for granted and held in higher regard than the right of free speech
i really feel sorry for the real american middle class (meaning those emplyees that don't work for the government) because you are financing an organisation with the biggest non-productive (overhead) costs compared to any other legal entity on earth in history
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hi there mr ballmer :)
are you talking about booting off a serial port?
i've done some pxe installs over lan, but i didn't think modern bios could even boot from rs232
would be pretty neat though
for headless servers needing reinstall, maybe booting from usb on the server with a usb connection to a tablet that not only provides the boot image but also displays the screen... not as geek as rs232 or kvm etc but
now now that's not like the modern corporate software machine that markets and sells alpha quality releases and expects customers to do the testing for them (and pay for the privelige)
it could have been worse... you could have installed ubuntu
you'll probably find that those whinging about such a technicality are those who don't use debian
TIMMAAH!!!!!
Sid's not the messiah... he's a very naughty boy!
is there a package for that?
i wish i could mod parent +5 funny and +5 insightful... although its also trollbait for really bad crocodile dundee spoofs like "that's not a distro, THIS is a distro" followed by a short trip down memory lane about how he had to create his own punch cards to add two numbers together
crapslosh: spews or turds, cruft that spatters
undue influence on government is the fault of government that created the situation where government influence can be bought in the first place
corporations didn't make politicians corrupt
if government was smaller, there would be no power for politicians to be able to sell and then corporations would have nothing to buy
corporations receiving bailouts is no different to a poor person receiving a welfare check.... the government makes them available, and anyone who qualifies wants to get it
if someone put $100 in front of you and said you could take it, would you not take it?
corporations take what the government offers them in the same way that everyone else does
corporations may pay politicians to give them handouts, but its the politician who is corrupt in accepting the bribe and executing the bailout... and the politician can only do that because the government he works for allows him to do it... shrink government and it doesn't matter how big the bribe is if the politician doesn't have the authority to execute bailouts to his corporate buddies even if he wanted to
you left wing liberal morons need to go back to school... corporations (and the rich that benefit from them) aren't your enemy... nobody forces you to buy the computer that helps to make bill gates one of the wealthiest individuals in the world
on the other hand, you are FORCED to pay taxes that are handed out to corporations as bailouts
If America were socialist, the government would own those corporations
they basically do in a sense... the Fed is pumping $85 billion into the private sector a month, so guess where the "capital" for private investment is coming from?
it's even worse than socialism because the taxpayer pays but the shareholder keeps
capitalism has nothing to do with lords... capitalism is where people invest in business and there is risk attached to that investment in that if the business performs poorly the investor doesn't get their money back, and if the business does well they get a dividend (so its sort of like gambling).
i've never heard of lords losing money when crops fail
so i guess that makes you one of the brainwashed sheep i mentioned... how does that feel?
i think a lot of americans are turning to public sector jobs because there isn't much in the way of opportunity for them in the private sector, so i can't really say i blame them
it's still not a good situation
are you contending that the figure i calculated is incorrect? ...or just not calculated in a way that gives you warm fuzzies?
the civpart includes those that are unemployed but are looking for a job [http://economics.about.com/od/unemploymentrate/f/labor_force.htm]
it probably also includes part time and casual workers
on the other hand, 63% is still pretty shitty... it still implies 37% underemployment
but i guess government numbers can be entirely misleading too, considering the government still thinks inflation is down around two percent!
There's a whole subculture that propagates misleading and false information.
CNN, FOX, NBC, CBS, etc.
Do you think that schoolteachers, fire fighters, and police officers are moochers?
they are economic overheads in that their jobs don't contribute much to the productive economy, so yes they are moochers.
i'm not saying that all moochers are bad, but 54% of the population being moochers is bad.
in australia, many firefighters are volunteers except in large urban areas, and there are a lot of private schools, so teachers and firefighters don't always have to be moochers.
The idea that there's a huge and growing group of people who sit around collecting "handouts" and pushing for "socialism" is pure fantasy
how's the kool aid?
try opening your eyes instead of stupifying yourself listening to cnn, fox, nbc etc
china is more capitalist than america
america is increasingly socialist but the public has been brainwashed into thinking that government control is capitalism and free markets aren't (they are the new enemy). is there any wonder why a lot of americans (occupy wall street as example) hate capitalism? the don't; they hate how corporations are allowed to bribe goverment officials to get huge bailouts, but thats not capitalism! thats the antithesis of capitalism; its more socialist than capitalist if government officials didn't have the power to sell and the government just got out of the way and let the free market work (let big banks that make stupid risky investments pay for them instead of bailing them out) you would have capitalism, and capitalism does work. socialism involving big government has been shown to not work very well (for average citizens anyway).
america is un-american
but i didn't imply a government job was equivalent to unemployment. i said "unemployed or employed by government". part time and casual workers do have jobs but people need full time jobs to make a decent living and pay a mortgage (american dream and all) so lets not kid ourselves into thinking a heap of people with part time or casial jobs is a good thing. yes there are a few that are happy with part time jobs, but there are people happy on welfare to. if you're not working full time in the private sector you are either underemployed (i make no distinction between underemployed and unemployed as far as macro economic health of the nation goes) or your mooching off the government.
after the dollar tanks it may turn into a combination of feudalism and anarchism
in russia you can fire *at* someone
depends what they say as to their value
a lot of people (other than ceos) get paid to talk... politicians, news anchors, people trying to sell stuff with one of those little karaoke amps & mic, etc.
then again there is the dilbert principle, so yeah you're probably right
In 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there was an average of 112.556 million full-time workers in the United States, of whom 17.806 million worked full-time for local, state or federal government. That left an average of only 94.750 million full-time private sector workers in the country.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/social-security-ran-478b-deficit-fy-2012-disabled-workers-hit-new-record-december
15–64 years: 67% (male 102,665,043/female 103,129,321)
315,544,000 total population of the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Age_structure
94,750,000 jobs / (102,665,043 + 103,129,321) = 94,750,000 / 205,794,364 = 0.46 = 46%, which means 54% of the total US working age population is either unemployed or employed by government
depressing huh
most americans don't even have real jobs
i wonder what the unemployment figure in the united states would be if only tthe number of private sector (real) jobs were divided by the total population between the age of 17 and 65
if it was more than 50% i wouldn't be at all surprised
america is full of moochers, living in their socialist dreamland where money rains (from the fed) and government jobs, handouts and imports are taken for granted and held in higher regard than the right of free speech
i really feel sorry for the real american middle class (meaning those emplyees that don't work for the government) because you are financing an organisation with the biggest non-productive (overhead) costs compared to any other legal entity on earth in history
the united states may be the next communist country to go down the drain
oh hang on silly me america is a "democracy" and has a "capitalist" economy
i started off having read the definitions of quoted words in a non-american dictionary