Well, guess what... I need that functionality quite often. Obviously I can just use the terminal, but before I could just click the network information, followed by "Connection Information...". Why remove such useful features?!?
Linux will do just fine destroying itself without any help from Microsoft. I know Ubuntu is not Linux, but I just made the mistake of trying the 18.04LTS developers release (we're like one month of release, so it should give a reasonable idea of what to expect). That interface is complete and utter garbage. I have no idea why anyone would even want to use that. Holy, eff... I mean, I can't even graphically ask for the current IP address. It's a phone interface, at best. I never used Gnome-Shell before, but damned, is that a pile of pure shite. Pretty shit, but shit nevertheless.
On the server side, we have systemd happily destroying the usability of server management with binary logs, opaque configuration and horrible documentation.
No, no worries: Microsoft can happily do whatever it wants. With the state of Linux, it will get no where.
... and, yes, I am a full time Linux user and have been so for about 10 years. (Before that I dual booted and occasionally had stretches of full Linux usage.) I hoped going FreeBSD, but with politics is polluting FreeBSD that sounds like a no-go.
If this continues, I just give up and go back to Windows, as horrible as I think Windows 10 is.
I'm still using an Acer Aspire S3 (MS2346). It was released in 2011 from what I read, I bought it on sale for ~600EUR in 2012. It's a 3rd gen i5, 4GB RAM, 20GB SSD and 500GB spinning rust. I run Linux on it. The biggest downside is the 1366x768 screen. The battery is replacable if you're not scared of a screwdriver. I replaced it once, and by now I really should do it again.
Well, it does get complicated if you don't know what the hell exactly has changed. That said, the "reinstall when broken" mindset has been heavily imported by developers who only know one specific system.
I remain of the opinion that none of those "language specifically package managers" have no place on Linux systems. They should use the operating systems package managers and tools.
Unless data over cellular becomes significantly cheaper, I don't see this making much impact for the regular end-user. Corporate use is obvious. I have three laptops with 3G/4G modems. Exactly one has a SIM card and it's prepaid. I just load a few GB on it when I absolutely need Internet and there is no free wifi there. Still 5EUR/5GB. Cheapest I found.
I'm not an Apple hater. As a matter of fact, I'm typing this on an iPhone (SE - I prefer the form factor). However, I have yet to see an iPhone X in real life. Where I live iPhones are very popular, so it can't be that. I'm not saying they didn't sell, but the target demographic seems to be rather limited, or I'd expect to see more of them.
7 on the MS site just punch in your key to get it.
I remembered that this would only work for retail keys, and it said so on the website. Now it doesn't. Interesting. I should try with a Windows 7 OEM key, one of these days.
You can't just use a retail copy of Windows and enter the license key on the sticker. That won't work. You need the original OEM software from the vendor, which is nearly impossible to obtain.
People who never refurbished PCs don't understand this. This is why I have a collection of ISOs of all Windows Versions (XP,Vista,7 - Pro/Home - 32/64bit - different OEMS) that I could get my hands on. I used to be a dumpster diver, you see. That collection has served me well, but it is far from complete. Some manufacturers are helpful. For a HP ProBook 4340S, it is possible to download a 4GB "Windows 7 restore disk", which actually works on that machine. They don't do this for every model, though, but I was surprised they actually did it for select (business) models. For Lenovo, I found you need to buy restore disks, and I've never seen one in real life. Dell seems to be the easiest one to get.
From my experience the Dell ones, actually work on most OEM machines. You need to type in the backup key on the case because it does detect it's not a Dell. It's it's a Dell it uses the SLP license instead of the sticker license. At least for Windows 7, this was true, I can't say for 8 or 10, but both of those can be downloaded directly from Microsoft and those use the key embedded in the firmware or the digital entitlement. So, there has been improvement. Once upon a time Windows 7 ISOs were also downloadable from Digital River, but, contrary to what many people think, those would only work for retail keys. OEM keys would not activate, and it stated as such on the website. It's a shame they stopped providing those.
Using a Dell restore disk on a HP (for example) is weird, though because you end up with a Dell branded Windows, which might raise questions if you try to sell it. (I mostly do this stuff for free, and for friends and family only)
How do you mean? "Your Computer"?!? You misunderstand, if you run Windows 10 it isn't your computer. It's a machine you may be allowed to use, perhaps, and only the way Microsoft likes it.
Well, the answer is thus: SIM cards know their number when it's programmed into the SIM. By default they do not know their number.
I thought they knew by default and I found out "the hard way" that it isn't so. I bought a cheap pre-paid card to use in one of my UMTS modems. Interestingly I did not get the number when buying the SIM. I suspect it was written on the receipt, which I threw away when I bought it. Given I had trouble sending SMS using smstools, I wanted to try sending SMS to it, and when I realized I didn't have the number, I tried the above CNUM command. Obviously it didn't work, then I stuck it in my iPhone (big mistake: it messes with your iMessage configuration if you switch SIMs!) and the iPhone said "unknown". At least now I could call someone and get the number. I then set it into the "My Phone Number" feature and now the CNUM also works. (Interestingly, for the SMS problem it was SMSC that wasn't set correctly. How the eff that is possible, I don't understand. That's really something that should be preset. Finding the SMS Centre for the provider was not easy either)
Lessons learned: SIMs do not know their numbers by default and ask the damned phone number when you buy a new SIM.
I listen and you're still wrong. I gave my example of my Madeira vacation: 5€ on both lines combined for a week. Very reasonable. Anyone going on vacation needs roaming. The EU robbed me of the possibility of paying less and be careful abroad but still being able to call! They totally removed personal responsibility from the equation. I'd rather pay less overal and take care... but nooooo!
Great that it works for you, but basically I pay for your carelessness!
I was specifically talking about the "rural scenario in the past", that the OP described. Regarding 9-5 jobs: where I live many jobs are 8-5 (mandatory 1h lunch) and school beginning at 8h, you still have a problem. My wife being a teacher, it's going to be real fun to organize that with our kid. Especially, teachers are supposed to be there 20-15min early and there is no guarantee that my wife will work in the school the little one will go.
Even worse, there are tons of people not working 9-5 jobs, but have early shifts (or late shifts, same difference but the problem arises when kids have to go home). My mom was a nurse for years, her early shift was something like starting at 6h00. Schoolkids? What are schoolkids? People work around this, if there is enough demand, then an industry will organically arise to solve the issue.
Regardless of 9-5 jobs, this problem has *always* existed.
So, the commission is is accountable to the EP... Now tell me, what is the power the EP has to punish an out of control commission? That's the point: the EP has no power. It can at best block a law, and that law will come back, somehow reformulated, until it passes.
Look, I know how it works in theory. I look at the practice, and the practice doesn't work as the theory.
Often enough laws are passed that are blatantly against citizens. The EP does nothing, or at best waters down the law a bit.
I am not a citizen of the UK, actually I live in one of the most pro-EU countries in Europe and worse, I had my education at the European School (if you even know what that is). You can believe me that you get indoctrinated into believing the EU is good. I actually still think that the concept is useful and should be implemented, but the way the EC behaves (pro TTIP, totally in the hand of lobbyists, okayed the blanket road toll on German highways, Glyphosate, Roaming allowing national-only contracts, etc...), and the way the EP behaves has totally disillusioned me.
I say: scratch everything and rebuild it. With much more power to the EP, and lobbyists kicked out of Brussels. Ironically the "more power to the EP" part was supposed to be part of the EU constitution... but we know how that went: the trust in the EU was already in an all-time low, and people wanted to get back at the EU. Totally comprehensible.
Typical political fail, which I have heard all too often "Well, theoretically possible, but nobody would ever do that". Heard it all too often in my civics classes. I find it absolutely incomprehensible to have no fail safes.
Nothing the EU Parliament votes on is binding. It’s a hollow institution. The true power lies with the commission and those people are appointed and never have to justify themselves.
I’d love DST to be gone. Won’t happen in my lifetime.
Not what I mean. It says EU is free. Roam as home. What I mean is that for me, and many people the pre-regulation situation was better: cheap home plan, pay as you go roaming in the EU. Compare my current plan: Tango Smart M at 27EUR, which is a plan that allows roaming. I used to have Tango Smart LU M at 15EUR. That plan cannot be used outside Luxembourg, which makes it useful for schoolkids or so. As you can see both plans are comparable volume-wise. Thing is: before the EU regulation, that plan could roam, you just paid per minute. This is not allowed any more. I asked whether they could activate roaming anyway: the answer was no. Have you got any idea how much pay-as-you-go you could do for 12EUR? 144EUR if seen over a year. A lot. Last April, my wife and I were in Madeira: we used our phones normally. Surcharge was a whopping 5EUR, on both lines combined! That was pre-EU roaming regulation.
Summa summarum: if you want roaming in the EU, you need the expensive plan.
If you go look around, you’ll see that all cheaper plans exclude roaming. This means your phone is unusable abroad, not that you can pay to use it any way. You clearly see that the poorer or more frugal people are punished by this law.
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Well, guess what... I need that functionality quite often. Obviously I can just use the terminal, but before I could just click the network information, followed by "Connection Information...". Why remove such useful features?!?
On the server side, we have systemd happily destroying the usability of server management with binary logs, opaque configuration and horrible documentation.
No, no worries: Microsoft can happily do whatever it wants. With the state of Linux, it will get no where.
If this continues, I just give up and go back to Windows, as horrible as I think Windows 10 is.
I'm still using an Acer Aspire S3 (MS2346). It was released in 2011 from what I read, I bought it on sale for ~600EUR in 2012. It's a 3rd gen i5, 4GB RAM, 20GB SSD and 500GB spinning rust. I run Linux on it. The biggest downside is the 1366x768 screen. The battery is replacable if you're not scared of a screwdriver. I replaced it once, and by now I really should do it again.
Well, it does get complicated if you don't know what the hell exactly has changed. That said, the "reinstall when broken" mindset has been heavily imported by developers who only know one specific system.
Don't give them ideas!
I remain of the opinion that none of those "language specifically package managers" have no place on Linux systems. They should use the operating systems package managers and tools.
I know. National only plan. Including roaming it would be much much much more.
Unless data over cellular becomes significantly cheaper, I don't see this making much impact for the regular end-user. Corporate use is obvious. I have three laptops with 3G/4G modems. Exactly one has a SIM card and it's prepaid. I just load a few GB on it when I absolutely need Internet and there is no free wifi there. Still 5EUR/5GB. Cheapest I found.
I have one like those too. I doubt they will fix those. At least I don't get nginx errors any more.
Yes. Yesterday was bad. Today, I haven't seen any errors.
I'm not an Apple hater. As a matter of fact, I'm typing this on an iPhone (SE - I prefer the form factor). However, I have yet to see an iPhone X in real life. Where I live iPhones are very popular, so it can't be that. I'm not saying they didn't sell, but the target demographic seems to be rather limited, or I'd expect to see more of them.
I remembered that this would only work for retail keys, and it said so on the website. Now it doesn't. Interesting. I should try with a Windows 7 OEM key, one of these days.
People who never refurbished PCs don't understand this. This is why I have a collection of ISOs of all Windows Versions (XP,Vista,7 - Pro/Home - 32/64bit - different OEMS) that I could get my hands on. I used to be a dumpster diver, you see. That collection has served me well, but it is far from complete. Some manufacturers are helpful. For a HP ProBook 4340S, it is possible to download a 4GB "Windows 7 restore disk", which actually works on that machine. They don't do this for every model, though, but I was surprised they actually did it for select (business) models. For Lenovo, I found you need to buy restore disks, and I've never seen one in real life. Dell seems to be the easiest one to get.
From my experience the Dell ones, actually work on most OEM machines. You need to type in the backup key on the case because it does detect it's not a Dell. It's it's a Dell it uses the SLP license instead of the sticker license. At least for Windows 7, this was true, I can't say for 8 or 10, but both of those can be downloaded directly from Microsoft and those use the key embedded in the firmware or the digital entitlement. So, there has been improvement. Once upon a time Windows 7 ISOs were also downloadable from Digital River, but, contrary to what many people think, those would only work for retail keys. OEM keys would not activate, and it stated as such on the website. It's a shame they stopped providing those.
Using a Dell restore disk on a HP (for example) is weird, though because you end up with a Dell branded Windows, which might raise questions if you try to sell it. (I mostly do this stuff for free, and for friends and family only)
It's up to your operator if they populate that information on the sim card.
If they want to they can update it remotely.
Yes, but it means you can't assume it's there (or not there). There is no well defined default.
How do you mean? "Your Computer"?!? You misunderstand, if you run Windows 10 it isn't your computer. It's a machine you may be allowed to use, perhaps, and only the way Microsoft likes it.
Interesting. Doesn't seem to be available in my country, but thank you nevertheless.
Well, the answer is thus: SIM cards know their number when it's programmed into the SIM. By default they do not know their number.
I thought they knew by default and I found out "the hard way" that it isn't so. I bought a cheap pre-paid card to use in one of my UMTS modems. Interestingly I did not get the number when buying the SIM. I suspect it was written on the receipt, which I threw away when I bought it. Given I had trouble sending SMS using smstools, I wanted to try sending SMS to it, and when I realized I didn't have the number, I tried the above CNUM command. Obviously it didn't work, then I stuck it in my iPhone (big mistake: it messes with your iMessage configuration if you switch SIMs!) and the iPhone said "unknown". At least now I could call someone and get the number. I then set it into the "My Phone Number" feature and now the CNUM also works. (Interestingly, for the SMS problem it was SMSC that wasn't set correctly. How the eff that is possible, I don't understand. That's really something that should be preset. Finding the SMS Centre for the provider was not easy either)
Lessons learned: SIMs do not know their numbers by default and ask the damned phone number when you buy a new SIM.
Great that it works for you, but basically I pay for your carelessness!
... and when did that ever happen? Honest question. I googled it, and found nothing.
Even worse, there are tons of people not working 9-5 jobs, but have early shifts (or late shifts, same difference but the problem arises when kids have to go home). My mom was a nurse for years, her early shift was something like starting at 6h00. Schoolkids? What are schoolkids? People work around this, if there is enough demand, then an industry will organically arise to solve the issue.
Regardless of 9-5 jobs, this problem has *always* existed.
Look, I know how it works in theory. I look at the practice, and the practice doesn't work as the theory.
Often enough laws are passed that are blatantly against citizens. The EP does nothing, or at best waters down the law a bit.
I am not a citizen of the UK, actually I live in one of the most pro-EU countries in Europe and worse, I had my education at the European School (if you even know what that is). You can believe me that you get indoctrinated into believing the EU is good. I actually still think that the concept is useful and should be implemented, but the way the EC behaves (pro TTIP, totally in the hand of lobbyists, okayed the blanket road toll on German highways, Glyphosate, Roaming allowing national-only contracts, etc...), and the way the EP behaves has totally disillusioned me.
I say: scratch everything and rebuild it. With much more power to the EP, and lobbyists kicked out of Brussels. Ironically the "more power to the EP" part was supposed to be part of the EU constitution... but we know how that went: the trust in the EU was already in an all-time low, and people wanted to get back at the EU. Totally comprehensible.
Typical political fail, which I have heard all too often "Well, theoretically possible, but nobody would ever do that". Heard it all too often in my civics classes. I find it absolutely incomprehensible to have no fail safes.
Even back then, they could have said: “We start school at ten”. Problem solved.
I’d love DST to be gone. Won’t happen in my lifetime.
Summa summarum: if you want roaming in the EU, you need the expensive plan.
If you go look around, you’ll see that all cheaper plans exclude roaming. This means your phone is unusable abroad, not that you can pay to use it any way. You clearly see that the poorer or more frugal people are punished by this law.