I remember the Samba delay, but I think all distributions have their errors and their faults. That you find one with Devuan is firstly inevitable and secondly of small consequence. Any other distro would be subject to the same criticism. More generally, abstracting ourselves, the discussion here, this topic at Slashdot, and in the whole Linux systemd debate is one about progressiveness. People keep on thinking very arrogantly that the number of problems can be significantly reduced. What actually stops this being possible is the wholesale turning over of established paradigms. What this does is usually to introduce more problems than are fixed, and when these in turn are addressed you end up in the same semi-satisfactory situation - an operating system annoying in some ways. No real progress.
I don't deny that there can be some progress, that things can get better, it's rather that there is an illusion that there can be great progress. The mostly small, quite manageable manageable, known and well understood problems in pre-systemd Linux have been substituted with a different set some of issues some of which are huge, not manageable, not well known and not well understood in Linux+systemd.
The same happens here with the wholesale destruction of a known interface to the network provided by Unix. I see no list of well defined problems produced by those substituting the known with their own arrogantly devised code. Were there such a list then they could be addressed. Instead we get some bored young bright and arrogant new kid foisting solutions on us like Pottering.
There is a Unix philosophy which the new pretenders seem either not to know or to ignore. This philosophy got us to where we are today. One tool for one task. Loose coupling. KISS. These are fundamental engineering principles - all disciplines - ignorance of which betrays any deep understanding of what makes good elegant design.
Devuan is a most useful up(!)grade from Debian which is systemd free and has a mindset that will resist this nonsense too. I'm using it on embedded devices, servers and as my desktop environment - the only exception being my Android/Chromebook devices. http://devuan.org/
The privileged are far more likely to be diagnosed mentally ill. Being a PhD student is a prime indicator of privilege. To think those stuck in menial dead end jobs are not more likely to be mentally ill is merely not to properly consider the question.
In the [UK] The Guardian today https://www.theguardian.com/sc... several letters cast expert light on this highly exaggerated report. For example, blind trials are difficult as anti-depressants have side effects which allow participants to guess whether they are getting the placebo or not. That the tablets considered(!) most effective happen to be those with the greatest side effects also casts doubt - why should that be?
Price is a function of supply & demand. Simples. There is always some pundit prepared to tell you why, like many here. But even in more regular markets, usually nobody knows why. Currencies fluctuate against one another in some seemingly random walk, and usually nobody really knows why. And it all depends on one's perspective. When gold crashes against the reference USD does not instead USD rise against gold? Given the puffed up amount of fiat currency is not the rise in the bitcoin price this last year merely a reflection of an inevitable price inflation the fear of which drives the wise into bitcoin? Well, I'm not sure I believe that myself, but my once modest holding of bitcoin was made because of despair of anywhere safe to park a little surplus wealth. And that collapse in bitcoin price of which we write here? Already recovered, almost. Bitcoin might be a bubble but the hot air bubble here, this topic, is something you cannot sell before it collapses.
Devuan is a fork of Debian which is systemd free. It just works for me. I've moved my servers to it. I am still vainly hoping that Ubuntu will announce it is abandoning systemd but I don't think that is going to happen so my desktop has already moved to Devuan & my laptop is going that way too. There are minor issues with the existing sysv init system which could have been improved a little, and improvements had arrived incrementally before systemd. The update-rc.d tool now takes notice of special comments in the init.d scripts so as to allow for parallel execution, and for dependencies, and the crafting of init.d scripts is not a black art: Nothing was broken. Having said that there is no need to have only one init system and various are available and Devuan supports them all except systemd. I warmly recommend Devuan. Stop complaining about systemd, leave it behind! https://devuan.org/
I don't want Windows slickness because you don't get slickness from Windows. Surprise surprise you don't get it from Systemd either. I have upgraded some of my boxes to Systemd. But the rest will not be upgraded. I'm still hoping for a popular alternative. Why hasn't Devuan seen wider adoption? Keep It Simple Stupid!
(1) When quantum computing works they'll decrypt everything. They're storing everything now and they'll come back to it later with keyword searches etc in some unpredictable future political climate we may not like. [I don't like the present!]
(2) If quantum computing already worked they wouldn't let on. Turing etc was kept secret from us for decades, so who knows what their capabilities are now?
Several of Harrison's clocks are on display at Greenwich Observatory in London. The more interesting ones to see are the larger ones because the mechanism can be determined. Amazingly the larger clocks are accurate despite being made largely out of WOOD. As well as the rolling of the ship not affecting the mechanism, temperature and humidity are compensated for. Often friction and wear and the need for lubrication are avoided by axles rolling back and forth rather then revolving in a bearing. Dana Sobel's book popularised the prize, the man and the clocks but I think she does not convey properly the engineering achievement. The clocks must be seen.
Already "they" are decrypting everything, or so you should assume. If "they" had working effective quantum computers they wouldn't tell us. And all the stuff they do and say now would be the smokescreen hiding the quantum computers. In WW2 Churchill had to let the German subs intercept the convoys despite the secretly decrypted Enigma messages telling him where the subs were. And the WW2 decryption remained secret for decades. It's just the same now. IF(!) "they" have effectively working quantum computers then we won't be told. The only element of paranoia about this is my worrying about who "they" are, and whether "they" truly are acting in my interests.
For a number of years it was a secret that programmable digital computers existed and worked. If it happens that (proper) quantum computers exist and work then don't reckon they'll be in any hurry to tell the likes of us. Everything could be being depicted now, real time, without access to any compromised routers, without needing to get secret court orders for the disclosure of keys, all that could be nothing but a smokescreen. No, don't trust Bruce Schneier, because no one has told him there are working quantum computers either.
Android is software, not hardware, as we all know. Whereas dedicated GPS units can be robust, that they can be better at finding satellites is true, but not necessarily so. Some Android phones are more robust than others, and nothing is stopping the creation of Android hardware every bit as weather proof as a dedicated GPS. And some dedicated GPSs are neither robust nor weather resistant.
The very low cost Navdroyd is not perfect but it has real promise as an offline (free worldwide stored maps) turn by turn GPS solution. I use it frequently. http://www.navdroyd.com/ Some annoying bugs but, I think, best of breed, if you're offline, and in a car. There are numerous free and other low cost geocaching and other GPS solutions for Android, With and without maps.
Satellite reception is HARDWARE not software and is now done with commodity dedicated chips found in phones as well as in dedicated GPS units. Some dedicated GPS units have useless aerials. My HTC Desire has no problem finding its position with or without connection to the mobile phone network and I have tested this again. On the other hand, my Lowrance 600C dedicated GPS with an EXTERNAL aerial sometimes takes forever and needs to be rebooted.
In short, I think a lot of the advice above seems to be a little partisan.
There is! Behind (mini-)you. You're on the model, and the model is on the treadmill. We imagine a tailwind of 10mph so we run the treadmill at that speed. What would the real-life apparent wind be? Zero. So why is there an electric fan behind the treadmill? [I do not refer to the fan on the model, but the fan on the ground behind the treadmill.] Assume further that the machine works as desribed. Now we are travelling faster (say 12mph) than the wind, downwind (10mph, say). [That is the claim!] What should (mini-)you experience on the model on the treadmill? A headwind of 2mph! So the electric fan on the floor behind the treadmill should in reality be in front of the treadmill providing the 2mph headwind. That is NOT what the YouTube video shows!
From the electric fan! But the model is supposed to be going faster than the tailwind. So (mini-)you on the model ought to experience a (net) headwind. But, no, you do not! How much money did you bet?
But, sorry to be obtuse, the streamer you put on the vehicle on the treadmill will show a (net) tailwind. Wrong! The treadmill model does NOT demonstrate the effect being claimed.
By definition the tailwind comes from behind but I doubt you'll be satisfied by that answer.
Put a streamer on the body of the model on the treadmill. The wind is from behind. The whole point which is supposed to be being demonstrated is that the vehicle goes faster downwind than the wind goes. Therefore a streamer on the vehicle will show an apparent headwind.
With such a good understanding I suggest you double the size of your bet.
Of course I was using a rhetorical device but nevertheless: Let's quickly decide who holds the money, and how we decide the outcome. I would want New Scientist or Scientific American to state that it works. You state the amount. I divide that into my savings balance, and that's the odds I'll quote. [I'm not going to have to pay but to remain credible I have to persuade you I am capable of paying.]
Clarification! Of course some kinetic energy can be stored up in the fan while you hold the device in place so the initial movement can be forward but that will soon dissipate.
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I remember the Samba delay, but I think all distributions have their errors and their faults. That you find one with Devuan is firstly inevitable and secondly of small consequence. Any other distro would be subject to the same criticism. More generally, abstracting ourselves, the discussion here, this topic at Slashdot, and in the whole Linux systemd debate is one about progressiveness. People keep on thinking very arrogantly that the number of problems can be significantly reduced. What actually stops this being possible is the wholesale turning over of established paradigms. What this does is usually to introduce more problems than are fixed, and when these in turn are addressed you end up in the same semi-satisfactory situation - an operating system annoying in some ways. No real progress.
I don't deny that there can be some progress, that things can get better, it's rather that there is an illusion that there can be great progress. The mostly small, quite manageable manageable, known and well understood problems in pre-systemd Linux have been substituted with a different set some of issues some of which are huge, not manageable, not well known and not well understood in Linux+systemd.
The same happens here with the wholesale destruction of a known interface to the network provided by Unix. I see no list of well defined problems produced by those substituting the known with their own arrogantly devised code. Were there such a list then they could be addressed. Instead we get some bored young bright and arrogant new kid foisting solutions on us like Pottering.
There is a Unix philosophy which the new pretenders seem either not to know or to ignore. This philosophy got us to where we are today. One tool for one task. Loose coupling. KISS. These are fundamental engineering principles - all disciplines - ignorance of which betrays any deep understanding of what makes good elegant design.
Devuan is a most useful up(!)grade from Debian which is systemd free and has a mindset that will resist this nonsense too. I'm using it on embedded devices, servers and as my desktop environment - the only exception being my Android/Chromebook devices. http://devuan.org/
Magical thinking. Perhaps they could sell a skull cap for my cat? Wouldn't want any processing power going to waste.
Hmm, doesn't follow. Physical proximity doesn't help much with online attacks.
The privileged are far more likely to be diagnosed mentally ill. Being a PhD student is a prime indicator of privilege. To think those stuck in menial dead end jobs are not more likely to be mentally ill is merely not to properly consider the question.
In the [UK] The Guardian today https://www.theguardian.com/sc... several letters cast expert light on this highly exaggerated report. For example, blind trials are difficult as anti-depressants have side effects which allow participants to guess whether they are getting the placebo or not. That the tablets considered(!) most effective happen to be those with the greatest side effects also casts doubt - why should that be?
Price is a function of supply & demand. Simples. There is always some pundit prepared to tell you why, like many here. But even in more regular markets, usually nobody knows why. Currencies fluctuate against one another in some seemingly random walk, and usually nobody really knows why. And it all depends on one's perspective. When gold crashes against the reference USD does not instead USD rise against gold? Given the puffed up amount of fiat currency is not the rise in the bitcoin price this last year merely a reflection of an inevitable price inflation the fear of which drives the wise into bitcoin? Well, I'm not sure I believe that myself, but my once modest holding of bitcoin was made because of despair of anywhere safe to park a little surplus wealth. And that collapse in bitcoin price of which we write here? Already recovered, almost. Bitcoin might be a bubble but the hot air bubble here, this topic, is something you cannot sell before it collapses.
Devuan is a fork of Debian which is systemd free. It just works for me. I've moved my servers to it. I am still vainly hoping that Ubuntu will announce it is abandoning systemd but I don't think that is going to happen so my desktop has already moved to Devuan & my laptop is going that way too. There are minor issues with the existing sysv init system which could have been improved a little, and improvements had arrived incrementally before systemd. The update-rc.d tool now takes notice of special comments in the init.d scripts so as to allow for parallel execution, and for dependencies, and the crafting of init.d scripts is not a black art: Nothing was broken. Having said that there is no need to have only one init system and various are available and Devuan supports them all except systemd. I warmly recommend Devuan. Stop complaining about systemd, leave it behind! https://devuan.org/
Ad hominem. Play the ball not the man. Feel free to make a substantive point any time you wish.
I don't want Windows slickness because you don't get slickness from Windows. Surprise surprise you don't get it from Systemd either. I have upgraded some of my boxes to Systemd. But the rest will not be upgraded. I'm still hoping for a popular alternative. Why hasn't Devuan seen wider adoption? Keep It Simple Stupid!
(1) When quantum computing works they'll decrypt everything. They're storing everything now and they'll come back to it later with keyword searches etc in some unpredictable future political climate we may not like. [I don't like the present!]
(2) If quantum computing already worked they wouldn't let on. Turing etc was kept secret from us for decades, so who knows what their capabilities are now?
Several of Harrison's clocks are on display at Greenwich Observatory in London. The more interesting ones to see are the larger ones because the mechanism can be determined. Amazingly the larger clocks are accurate despite being made largely out of WOOD. As well as the rolling of the ship not affecting the mechanism, temperature and humidity are compensated for. Often friction and wear and the need for lubrication are avoided by axles rolling back and forth rather then revolving in a bearing. Dana Sobel's book popularised the prize, the man and the clocks but I think she does not convey properly the engineering achievement. The clocks must be seen.
Already "they" are decrypting everything, or so you should assume. If "they" had working effective quantum computers they wouldn't tell us. And all the stuff they do and say now would be the smokescreen hiding the quantum computers. In WW2 Churchill had to let the German subs intercept the convoys despite the secretly decrypted Enigma messages telling him where the subs were. And the WW2 decryption remained secret for decades. It's just the same now. IF(!) "they" have effectively working quantum computers then we won't be told. The only element of paranoia about this is my worrying about who "they" are, and whether "they" truly are acting in my interests.
Everything could be being depicted now
Aaargh! Not depicted, decrypted!
For a number of years it was a secret that programmable digital computers existed and worked. If it happens that (proper) quantum computers exist and work then don't reckon they'll be in any hurry to tell the likes of us. Everything could be being depicted now, real time, without access to any compromised routers, without needing to get secret court orders for the disclosure of keys, all that could be nothing but a smokescreen. No, don't trust Bruce Schneier, because no one has told him there are working quantum computers either.
Android is software, not hardware, as we all know. Whereas dedicated GPS units can be robust, that they can be better at finding satellites is true, but not necessarily so. Some Android phones are more robust than others, and nothing is stopping the creation of Android hardware every bit as weather proof as a dedicated GPS. And some dedicated GPSs are neither robust nor weather resistant.
The very low cost Navdroyd is not perfect but it has real promise as an offline (free worldwide stored maps) turn by turn GPS solution. I use it frequently. http://www.navdroyd.com/ Some annoying bugs but, I think, best of breed, if you're offline, and in a car. There are numerous free and other low cost geocaching and other GPS solutions for Android, With and without maps.
Satellite reception is HARDWARE not software and is now done with commodity dedicated chips found in phones as well as in dedicated GPS units. Some dedicated GPS units have useless aerials. My HTC Desire has no problem finding its position with or without connection to the mobile phone network and I have tested this again. On the other hand, my Lowrance 600C dedicated GPS with an EXTERNAL aerial sometimes takes forever and needs to be rebooted.
In short, I think a lot of the advice above seems to be a little partisan.
You can send me money via paypal if you like.
There is! Behind (mini-)you. You're on the model, and the model is on the treadmill. We imagine a tailwind of 10mph so we run the treadmill at that speed. What would the real-life apparent wind be? Zero. So why is there an electric fan behind the treadmill? [I do not refer to the fan on the model, but the fan on the ground behind the treadmill.] Assume further that the machine works as desribed. Now we are travelling faster (say 12mph) than the wind, downwind (10mph, say). [That is the claim!] What should (mini-)you experience on the model on the treadmill? A headwind of 2mph! So the electric fan on the floor behind the treadmill should in reality be in front of the treadmill providing the 2mph headwind. That is NOT what the YouTube video shows!
From the electric fan! But the model is supposed to be going faster than the tailwind. So (mini-)you on the model ought to experience a (net) headwind. But, no, you do not! How much money did you bet?
But, sorry to be obtuse, the streamer you put on the vehicle on the treadmill will show a (net) tailwind. Wrong! The treadmill model does NOT demonstrate the effect being claimed.
By definition the tailwind comes from behind but I doubt you'll be satisfied by that answer.
Put a streamer on the body of the model on the treadmill. The wind is from behind. The whole point which is supposed to be being demonstrated is that the vehicle goes faster downwind than the wind goes. Therefore a streamer on the vehicle will show an apparent headwind.
With such a good understanding I suggest you double the size of your bet.
Of course I was using a rhetorical device but nevertheless: Let's quickly decide who holds the money, and how we decide the outcome. I would want New Scientist or Scientific American to state that it works. You state the amount. I divide that into my savings balance, and that's the odds I'll quote. [I'm not going to have to pay but to remain credible I have to persuade you I am capable of paying.]
Cool, yes, but so are many unattainable things.
Clarification! Of course some kinetic energy can be stored up in the fan while you hold the device in place so the initial movement can be forward but that will soon dissipate.