Well yes, add to that programming while tired. I only objected to the poster's assertion that drug use does not affect productivity. What people do in their own time is their own problem.
I take it you've never had to debug something done by someone who was high. It's horrid.. The writer thinks their work was the best thing the have ever done but the reality ends up being a mess. If drunk it's a lazy unmotivated mess with everything done the easy way, if high it's a massively overcomplicated mess (everything is connected!).
It's not as if were talking about the arts here, both systems admin and programming are a logical process and require a clear head.
Those of us who prefer a hosting system that does not run the webserver as the same user the files of the website were owned by still need something workable.
I nearly fell out of my chair when I read your LKML post claiming that the 2.2.x/2.4.x kernels were more stable than they are now. I'm guessing you either weren't involved with Linux back then or have a short memory.
Here is a short history lesson: The development ended up dragging out to the point where the base kernel features needed for new devices not existing.. so you could use the stable kernel which didn't support much, or you could try the development kernel which tended to be wildly unstable or you could use the disto kernels (RedHat etc) which attempted to patch drivers from the unstable branch into the stable branch resulting in something almost as unstable as the development branch.
I still have nightmares of the day someone presented me with a brand new IBM server in which the Old kernel couldn't see the disks, the dev kernel crashed on boot, and the distro kernel would crash several minutes after starting. (I ended up going with a hand built custom kernel + patches).
It doesn't matter how many times you whine on slashdot or troll the kernel list. No one who remembers the old stable/unstable branches wants to go back to that nightmare.
Also FYI: There are several projects that QA the Linux kernel testing branches and report the results back to the kernel devs.
The problem is that because the number used to have WhatsAPP, it will still get the first tick. They will see that I haven't read it yet. but there is no way to know I will never get it without waiting a week and noticing I still haven't read it.
When I was in Spain, everyone used WhatsAPP and I just found the whole thing poorly designed.
As a cheap SMS replacement it's good, but it's really not much more than that. Notifications don't follow you on whatever device you are using and it really does not take phone number changes very well. All the people who had me in Spain? Now that I am back in Canada, If they try and WhatsAPP me, they will get no notification that I will never see the message.
Well, they could add an extra tax benefit for each employed person making more than x amount per year (to avoid them hiring a ton of unskilled labour for tax reasons) so that employees count as an extra % reduced from their tax bill.
You can't punish based on taxes but you can reward.
School social worker, and he very well might if he was worried that something was wrong with himself.
As I heard it from one of the social workers, the school is actually planning out "porn vs reality" seminars to deal with the issue so it's not just a couple of students, they see it as a growing problem.
That is an interesting assumption on your part. On the other hand, from people I know who work at schools, there is an increasing problem of boys who don't seem to realize that girlfriends don't like being treated like porn starts and girls who think it's normal for sex to be all about the man's sexual gratification and not the woman's.
At the very least, we have a problem with porn being the only sexual education some of these kids are getting.
As someone who spent a lot of time servicing Telco side DSL equipment I can tell you that something is very wrong with your cabling if that is what is happening.
That seems optimistic. Last vacation I took, I blew thew a 1 GB data plan in less than a week with nothing but basic web browsing (no youtube or other video sites) even though I was browsing a lot less than normal since I was spending time at the beach or in the local restaurants.
I am quite familiar with the xorg.conf. I still recall having to hand edit it with my monitor frequency ranges in the mid 90s. Thankfully it has gotten better since then.
I don't know why you would need to edit your xorg.conf file these days. I made a point of not touching it on my last two laptop installs. On my dual monitor desktop, I had to hand edit the config 5 years ago to get the monitors to match inside and outside of X but when the boot drive ate itself at the beginning of last year, I installed without hand editing any of the config files.
I have yet to come across a realtech Ethernet card that needed me to compile a driver from source. Realtech may tell you you need to do that, but I have never bothered.
The last network device that I needed to install a separate driver for was RAlink but I ended up getting so annoyed by the experience that I took a screwdriver to my laptop and removed the blasted thing.
Not even close to true. There have been many reports of the registry settings magically being reset. I have run into this myself on a machine we use for power point presentations.
I think it's less about computer use specifically and more about keeping the brain busy. My grandfather was instructed to keep his brain busy in his later years so it's pretty much "use it or lose it"
And anyway,,,, all mass-transit suffers from two major utilization issues that are inherent in the very concept. One is that to be useful during peak-use times the carrying capacity runs nearly empty the rest of the time. How can that ever be considered efficiency?
Roads have the same problem. You must design the highways for peak times and leave them mostly empty in the off peak. With subways you can schedule the cars more often during peak and park some of the subways during off peak hours so it's not as bad as you think.
The other is that to be useful to lots of potential riders, mass-transit must be accessible (with lots of boarding and exiting locations) but increasing the number of stops lowers the average speed until the service overall becomes undesirable compared to other methods.
I have lived in two places with good transit systems. In Montreal it's faster to take the train to the nearest subway station and take the subway downtown than it is to drive/take a taxi. In Madrid, Spain I lived out in the suburbs and it was faster to take the train downtown (every 20 minutes) and then transfer to the subway than it was to drive/taxi.
There is the key word "modern" It's the old crap that requires TFTP and I can think of two VOIP providers that I know for a fact offer TFTP servers. Other than that, I agree completely. TFTP is horrible over the internet and using it to provide SIP account info is beyond insecure.
The answer to that question is not a good one. Many VOIP phones (older Cisco, Polycom) were designed to be used inside of an office and require a TFTP server on boot to load their user/pass from. Now we have a ton of VOIP providers who sold a ton of these phones to anyone who would buy them forcing the VOIP provider to keep their public TFTP servers for their customers. People assume this is secure since TFTP does not have a directory list function but the reality is that if you can guess the phone's MAC address you now have the phone's login info.
Now for the fun part: MAC addressees are 48 bits (6 byte) and you lose the first 3 bytes for the vendor prefix leaving 6 bytes (24 bit) for the address. That's 16,777,215 possibilities per device type on a protocol with no authentication whatsoever.
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Well yes, add to that programming while tired. I only objected to the poster's assertion that drug use does not affect productivity. What people do in their own time is their own problem.
I doubt he was actually contemplating suicide. This seems more on the level of emotional blackmail to me.
I take it you've never had to debug something done by someone who was high. It's horrid.. The writer thinks their work was the best thing the have ever done but the reality ends up being a mess. If drunk it's a lazy unmotivated mess with everything done the easy way, if high it's a massively overcomplicated mess (everything is connected!).
It's not as if were talking about the arts here, both systems admin and programming are a logical process and require a clear head.
Those of us who prefer a hosting system that does not run the webserver as the same user the files of the website were owned by still need something workable.
I nearly fell out of my chair when I read your LKML post claiming that the 2.2.x/2.4.x kernels were more stable than they are now. I'm guessing you either weren't involved with Linux back then or have a short memory.
Here is a short history lesson:
The development ended up dragging out to the point where the base kernel features needed for new devices not existing.. so you could use the stable kernel which didn't support much, or you could try the development kernel which tended to be wildly unstable or you could use the disto kernels (RedHat etc) which attempted to patch drivers from the unstable branch into the stable branch resulting in something almost as unstable as the development branch.
I still have nightmares of the day someone presented me with a brand new IBM server in which the Old kernel couldn't see the disks, the dev kernel crashed on boot, and the distro kernel would crash several minutes after starting. (I ended up going with a hand built custom kernel + patches).
It doesn't matter how many times you whine on slashdot or troll the kernel list. No one who remembers the old stable/unstable branches wants to go back to that nightmare.
Also FYI: There are several projects that QA the Linux kernel testing branches and report the results back to the kernel devs.
The problem is that because the number used to have WhatsAPP, it will still get the first tick. They will see that I haven't read it yet. but there is no way to know I will never get it without waiting a week and noticing I still haven't read it.
When I was in Spain, everyone used WhatsAPP and I just found the whole thing poorly designed.
As a cheap SMS replacement it's good, but it's really not much more than that. Notifications don't follow you on whatever device you are using and it really does not take phone number changes very well. All the people who had me in Spain? Now that I am back in Canada, If they try and WhatsAPP me, they will get no notification that I will never see the message.
Well, they could add an extra tax benefit for each employed person making more than x amount per year (to avoid them hiring a ton of unskilled labour for tax reasons) so that employees count as an extra % reduced from their tax bill.
You can't punish based on taxes but you can reward.
Wow that's expensive. Meanwhile in Montreal Canada I pay $150 CAD for 120 down 20 up with unlimited transfer (currently topping 800 Gig a month).
School social worker, and he very well might if he was worried that something was wrong with himself.
As I heard it from one of the social workers, the school is actually planning out "porn vs reality" seminars to deal with the issue so it's not just a couple of students, they see it as a growing problem.
This is not bravado. This is guys confused over their girlfriends response to their requests/performance and crying to school staff about it. .
That is an interesting assumption on your part. On the other hand, from people I know who work at schools, there is an increasing problem of boys who don't seem to realize that girlfriends don't like being treated like porn starts and girls who think it's normal for sex to be all about the man's sexual gratification and not the woman's.
At the very least, we have a problem with porn being the only sexual education some of these kids are getting.
As someone who spent a lot of time servicing Telco side DSL equipment I can tell you that something is very wrong with your cabling if that is what is happening.
That seems optimistic. Last vacation I took, I blew thew a 1 GB data plan in less than a week with nothing but basic web browsing (no youtube or other video sites) even though I was browsing a lot less than normal since I was spending time at the beach or in the local restaurants.
That will work unless the drive was on an SSD and the OS told the drive to TRIM the deleted blocks.
Great plan until you have multiple devices. I sync work, home, laptop and cell phone with my mail server.
Luckily it's hosted in Germany rather than the US so I don't have to worry about these things.
Wait until Flash dies and people use JavaScript to animate HTML5 tags and such. How are you going to selectively block that?
Not that hard, at least in Chrome I use Disable HTML5 Autoplay plugin.
I am quite familiar with the xorg.conf. I still recall having to hand edit it with my monitor frequency ranges in the mid 90s. Thankfully it has gotten better since then.
I don't know why you would need to edit your xorg.conf file these days. I made a point of not touching it on my last two laptop installs. On my dual monitor desktop, I had to hand edit the config 5 years ago to get the monitors to match inside and outside of X but when the boot drive ate itself at the beginning of last year, I installed without hand editing any of the config files.
Not so much, it's been a few years since I've needed to open a terminal to do anything on a desktop to get it running.
I have yet to come across a realtech Ethernet card that needed me to compile a driver from source. Realtech may tell you you need to do that, but I have never bothered.
The last network device that I needed to install a separate driver for was RAlink but I ended up getting so annoyed by the experience that I took a screwdriver to my laptop and removed the blasted thing.
Not even close to true. There have been many reports of the registry settings magically being reset. I have run into this myself on a machine we use for power point presentations.
I think it's less about computer use specifically and more about keeping the brain busy. My grandfather was instructed to keep his brain busy in his later years so it's pretty much "use it or lose it"
And anyway,,,, all mass-transit suffers from two major utilization issues that are inherent in the very concept. One is that to be useful during peak-use times the carrying capacity runs nearly empty the rest of the time. How can that ever be considered efficiency?
Roads have the same problem. You must design the highways for peak times and leave them mostly empty in the off peak. With subways you can schedule the cars more often during peak and park some of the subways during off peak hours so it's not as bad as you think.
The other is that to be useful to lots of potential riders, mass-transit must be accessible (with lots of boarding and exiting locations) but increasing the number of stops lowers the average speed until the service overall becomes undesirable compared to other methods.
I have lived in two places with good transit systems. In Montreal it's faster to take the train to the nearest subway station and take the subway downtown than it is to drive/take a taxi. In Madrid, Spain I lived out in the suburbs and it was faster to take the train downtown (every 20 minutes) and then transfer to the subway than it was to drive/taxi.
There is the key word "modern" It's the old crap that requires TFTP and I can think of two VOIP providers that I know for a fact offer TFTP servers. Other than that, I agree completely. TFTP is horrible over the internet and using it to provide SIP account info is beyond insecure.
The answer to that question is not a good one. Many VOIP phones (older Cisco, Polycom) were designed to be used inside of an office and require a TFTP server on boot to load their user/pass from. Now we have a ton of VOIP providers who sold a ton of these phones to anyone who would buy them forcing the VOIP provider to keep their public TFTP servers for their customers. People assume this is secure since TFTP does not have a directory list function but the reality is that if you can guess the phone's MAC address you now have the phone's login info.
Now for the fun part: MAC addressees are 48 bits (6 byte) and you lose the first 3 bytes for the vendor prefix leaving 6 bytes (24 bit) for the address. That's 16,777,215 possibilities per device type on a protocol with no authentication whatsoever.