have you seen merkins touching their hearts during the anthem, saluting the flag, reciting the pledge of allegiance (to the effing flag?), treating their flag like a freshly born baby (WTF flag code???!!), displaying flags on their houses, flagpoles in frontyards, etc...? that IS a religion, if i ever saw one.
and they start this brainwashing earlier than most people start with 'normal' religion. WTF merkins?
(i submitted that without finishing) i simply created an incessant flow of legal documents from local council, police, neighbors, etc. in the end, the visits from annoyed policemen and council workers became unbearable and he moved. i managed to turn the whole neighborhood against him. now we have a new arsehole in his place but this one is just messy.
i disagree with the part about talented scientists. there are plenty of theoretical scientists in physics but nothing for them to do (funding problem). the brightest 0.1% get a job in their field, 1% stay at their university for life, the rest sell used cars or teach high school physics.
i know a guy how knows a guy... who worked at LHC and i heard about how the jobs dried up during the hiatus. theoretical physics is not a field i'd study if i wanted a safe career.
i thought it was obvious. what do you, as a passenger, do in the car while it's being driven? consume content, including advertisements. advertisements tailored to your destination.
if i was sure they wouldn't abandon it in 6 months, i'd install this on my sister's laptop. she's been on ubuntu or derivatives for about 7 years but keeps quietly coveting her colleagues' osx's looks. this really is a rather presentable UI.
Pear OS before it had the looks but closed up shop after a year or so. Pear OS looked TOO MUCH like osx. i felt it would make people think one actually wanted to have osx but couldn't afford it.
1. enable "expert mode" in installer if the normal one doesn't give you LUKS options (i think it does, but i'm not going to check now) 2. keeping apps statically linked and/or shipping them with all supporting libraries makes things STUPIDLY big both on disk and in memory and a pain to secure. that's why shared libraries were invented. besides, this is not Solaris where you have guaranteed ABI compatibility. let me know how backing up your applications folder in Yosemite and reusing it in El Capitan goes. 3. mint will not bring anything up to date. mint is nothing but a few installer defaults inserted into ubuntu + a few python scripts + desktop environment. if you want fundamental changes in mint, things will need changing in ubuntu. and they won't, unless debian changes. and it won't, unless the changes are more or less in line with redhat.
also, i wouldn't worry about helium escaping, since most metals aren't porous enough for that. my guess is WD will wrap the drive in kitchen foil and all will be fine and dandy.
i don't understand why this got downvoted. "let's roll out BSD to these kids' computers" --- said noone ever!
at conferences, i occasionally meet people who've attempted to migrate a school or at least a class to gnu/linux. it's always the same Don Quixotic story. first, there's the smartarse child who complains at home that he's no longer a computer whizz (whizz = plays call of duty at home), then it's parents ganging up on the headmaster to complain and then it always ends with the headmaster or local school council gloriously announcing a new deal with MS.
i've only ever met ONE portuguese guy who was semi successful with gnu/linux in an educational environment.
i once had a bum sadly asking me for a snickers bar he saw in my car because he thought i looked too nice to have a car broken into. i didn't know whether to appreciate the sentiment or be alarmed. i just stood there confused.
i guess that's an example of a barrier that kept an honest person honest... to this day, i'm still confused about that encounter.
what parent said - use case is important. but be honest with yourself. a year ago, i spent a LOT of money on a dream desktop (think 64GB ram + 2x 8Gb FC + 2x 4port NICs + many fancy features). yet now i spend 95% of my computing time on a raspberry pi because all i really NEED are 4 terminal windows (music + IRC + xmpp client for nagios alerts + ssh to work on a server) and a web browser.
why don't i do it on my fancy desktop? because i don't want to feel like i'm murdering the planet for no reason. i have no guilty conscience when i forget to switch off my raspberry pi for a week and it honestly covers 95% of my use cases.
one small suggestion - 4K monitor. it's not a fad. i didn't see the need for it until i used one for a week. then i bought one and my eyes thank me for it every day. (I actually bought a 4k TV because it was cheaper than a monitor and connected the computer to that. if you do that, make sure it's not a 30Hz one)
i would also go for that now. i've always built mine but when your computer starts freezing for no reason and you don't know if it's bad RAM or MOBO or CPU or GPU or PSU, you're stuck unless you have a spare RAM/MOBO/CPU/GPU/PSU to test with.
you cannot return the whole computer for the seller to diagnose, because you didn't buy it as a computer but as a set of components. figuring out which component to return is therefore up to you. having gone through this a week ago (again), my next computer will be bought as a single unit. i'd rather spend time with my children and have somebody else tear their hair out in the meantime.
[sarcasm]the biggest gnu/linux server company (redhat) clearly does not know what they're doing by implementing systemd into their distribution. [/sarcasm]
btw, i also hated systemd until i was forced to use/learn it. now i only hate aspects of it but overall perceive it as an improvement.
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have you seen merkins touching their hearts during the anthem, saluting the flag, reciting the pledge of allegiance (to the effing flag?), treating their flag like a freshly born baby (WTF flag code???!!), displaying flags on their houses, flagpoles in frontyards, etc...? that IS a religion, if i ever saw one.
and they start this brainwashing earlier than most people start with 'normal' religion. WTF merkins?
it's called despair. imagine not having a good night's sleep for a month or two.
(i submitted that without finishing) i simply created an incessant flow of legal documents from local council, police, neighbors, etc. in the end, the visits from annoyed policemen and council workers became unbearable and he moved. i managed to turn the whole neighborhood against him. now we have a new arsehole in his place but this one is just messy.
what worked for me was getting rid of THAT neighbor.
i disagree with the part about talented scientists. there are plenty of theoretical scientists in physics but nothing for them to do (funding problem). the brightest 0.1% get a job in their field, 1% stay at their university for life, the rest sell used cars or teach high school physics.
i know a guy how knows a guy... who worked at LHC and i heard about how the jobs dried up during the hiatus. theoretical physics is not a field i'd study if i wanted a safe career.
i hate these baby steps. they should have gone straight for dilithium crystals.
i thought it was obvious. what do you, as a passenger, do in the car while it's being driven? consume content, including advertisements. advertisements tailored to your destination.
if i was sure they wouldn't abandon it in 6 months, i'd install this on my sister's laptop. she's been on ubuntu or derivatives for about 7 years but keeps quietly coveting her colleagues' osx's looks. this really is a rather presentable UI.
Pear OS before it had the looks but closed up shop after a year or so. Pear OS looked TOO MUCH like osx. i felt it would make people think one actually wanted to have osx but couldn't afford it.
and this is how we turn decades lasting timepieces into disposable trash.
sudo apt install unattended-upgrades
"Do you want to overwrite your custom configuration with package maintainer's default one? (Y/n)"
this is what --trivial-only was created for
1. enable "expert mode" in installer if the normal one doesn't give you LUKS options (i think it does, but i'm not going to check now)
2. keeping apps statically linked and/or shipping them with all supporting libraries makes things STUPIDLY big both on disk and in memory and a pain to secure. that's why shared libraries were invented. besides, this is not Solaris where you have guaranteed ABI compatibility. let me know how backing up your applications folder in Yosemite and reusing it in El Capitan goes.
3. mint will not bring anything up to date. mint is nothing but a few installer defaults inserted into ubuntu + a few python scripts + desktop environment. if you want fundamental changes in mint, things will need changing in ubuntu. and they won't, unless debian changes. and it won't, unless the changes are more or less in line with redhat.
expect lack of interest due to no interest from other customers. therefore unwillingness to invest people-time into testing this.
i suspect your provider will simply tell you to go to startssl and get yourself a free ssl certificate.
OR terminate everybody at the age of 100 but give them the body of a 30 year old for the last 70 years of their life. I'd want that.
did nobody teach you about Solid Spinning Drives? it's the Bee's Knees!!!
also, i wouldn't worry about helium escaping, since most metals aren't porous enough for that. my guess is WD will wrap the drive in kitchen foil and all will be fine and dandy.
i don't understand why this got downvoted. "let's roll out BSD to these kids' computers" --- said noone ever!
at conferences, i occasionally meet people who've attempted to migrate a school or at least a class to gnu/linux. it's always the same Don Quixotic story. first, there's the smartarse child who complains at home that he's no longer a computer whizz (whizz = plays call of duty at home), then it's parents ganging up on the headmaster to complain and then it always ends with the headmaster or local school council gloriously announcing a new deal with MS.
i've only ever met ONE portuguese guy who was semi successful with gnu/linux in an educational environment.
the alternative is microsoft's offerings. is it any better (i.e. respectful of users' privacy)? no.
i once had a bum sadly asking me for a snickers bar he saw in my car because he thought i looked too nice to have a car broken into. i didn't know whether to appreciate the sentiment or be alarmed. i just stood there confused.
i guess that's an example of a barrier that kept an honest person honest... to this day, i'm still confused about that encounter.
search ebay for HP z400, z600 or z800 workstation
what parent said - use case is important. but be honest with yourself. a year ago, i spent a LOT of money on a dream desktop (think 64GB ram + 2x 8Gb FC + 2x 4port NICs + many fancy features). yet now i spend 95% of my computing time on a raspberry pi because all i really NEED are 4 terminal windows (music + IRC + xmpp client for nagios alerts + ssh to work on a server) and a web browser.
why don't i do it on my fancy desktop? because i don't want to feel like i'm murdering the planet for no reason. i have no guilty conscience when i forget to switch off my raspberry pi for a week and it honestly covers 95% of my use cases.
i cannot +1 you because i've already commented here but i've had the same experience with my last 3 computers.
one small suggestion - 4K monitor. it's not a fad. i didn't see the need for it until i used one for a week. then i bought one and my eyes thank me for it every day. (I actually bought a 4k TV because it was cheaper than a monitor and connected the computer to that. if you do that, make sure it's not a 30Hz one)
i would also go for that now. i've always built mine but when your computer starts freezing for no reason and you don't know if it's bad RAM or MOBO or CPU or GPU or PSU, you're stuck unless you have a spare RAM/MOBO/CPU/GPU/PSU to test with.
you cannot return the whole computer for the seller to diagnose, because you didn't buy it as a computer but as a set of components. figuring out which component to return is therefore up to you. having gone through this a week ago (again), my next computer will be bought as a single unit. i'd rather spend time with my children and have somebody else tear their hair out in the meantime.
[sarcasm]the biggest gnu/linux server company (redhat) clearly does not know what they're doing by implementing systemd into their distribution. [/sarcasm]
btw, i also hated systemd until i was forced to use/learn it. now i only hate aspects of it but overall perceive it as an improvement.