Also IIRC there is some layer allows it to use open source drivers for hardware....
Anyways I'm still not clear on what he thinks they did wrong. AFAIK VMware hasn't done anything that's not above board here.
Really, you missed the part where they copied GPL drivers into a proprietary kernel? How would that not be wrong?
As far as I know, VMWare has admitted to copying Linux drivers, but they claimed that their kernel "wrapped" the Linux kernel in such a way as to not infringe. This claim alone should be sufficient for discovery.
(Apologies in advance for any formattung issues, still no preview on the mobile interface.)
(which should not happen as you should have backup generators and batteries that give power until the generators are spun up)
We have had outages due to power problems, during planned maintenance on the UPS system (which was to allow future UPS maintenance to be done without impact by introducing live switching of UPS between feeds). There was an outage to some systems because they had been upgraded (e.g routers with line cards added) to the point where one PDU could not supply sufficient power even though total power was less than "guaranteed"). To avoid a recurrence, power supplies were moved to other PDUs.
So, yes, while power failures shouldn't have impact, even in environments with supposedly robust frameworks (e.g. ITIL), mistakes happen or the impact of a change is not fully identified/understood (possibly due to the complexity of modelling the environment down to which of 8 power supplies on a device are connected to which of 4 PDUs in a cabinet which has 2 different feeds of the 6 feeds available in one DC in a campus with 3 DCs etc. etc.), resulting in unexpected failure modes.
(Apologies in advance, still no preview on the "mobile" interface).
And companies that need their websites to make money?
For some I know of, the IT staff have done everything in their power (identified risks, probability of the risk, impact in the event, possible mitigations, cost and time to implement mitigations etc.). "Business" (aka bean-counters) have decided that they accept the risk of the current status (business continuity plan takes more than a business week to restore basic services in the event of a complete failure in the primary site).
You are making things up completely, my employer and all of our competitors have multiple levels of redundancy (multiple datacenters, multiple availability zones per datacenter). If I want to deploy a little REST api our policies and systems enforce 9 total VM's, 3 per AZ and 3 total AZ's. Our competitors are at least as serious about uptime as we are.
And this is the cheapest possible service to provide redundancy for. When you have a few hundred TB of data changing at a rate of 100GB/day, this kind of solution (put it all in the "cloud", just in case, without a full BCM plan covering issues such as "where will the call centre work from and will they be able to accept calls") will get very expensive very quickly, and normally can't be approved by someone lower than CFO+CIO.
(Sorry if there are formatting issues, mobile still doesn't have preview...)
I'm not using plasma5 yet, but I use KDE 4.x most of the time (except I do also have a Windows machine at work for Outlook and Visio and Windows VM on my linux laptop in case I need Visio away from the office).
"I'd like to be able to sort the songs per artist, album, etc in JuK, and for it to have a working Manage Folder dialog."
I've settled on using Clementine (I believe a pott of Amarok 1.x to KDE4/Qt5), but didn't test this specific use case.
"Adding support for PTP cameras (you know, most of them), that would really be great. Means I would no longer have to connect them to either my GNOME or LXDE laptop to then transfer the photos over the network."
My wife and I use Digikam for most of our photo organising and editing, and it downloads from my 500D just fine, had lens correction profiles for all my lenses. Raw support could be better (there is some support and even though rawtherapee seems to have more features and sliders the results from digikam's 'local contrast' feature are quite similar). Digikam 5 (the port from KDE 4 to Qt 5) was just released with lots of nice featutes (mysql support returns, new instagram-like filters, many others) and binaries for Windows and Mac OS too (made easier with KDE5's reduced inter-dependencies).
Sure, the bugs in apps that are part of the KDE apps collection itself should be fixed, but that doesn't mean you should have to use GTK or gnome-based apps when thete are better KDE-based ones.
You do know that you don't need to use a different computer to run GNOME-based apps, right? Well, it's not as usable with GTK-3 apps with their stupid menus thst don't work right with other window managers, but that's a GNOME/GTK design flaw.
"Don't worry MSFT, Linux can top that with Puke Audio that sends Linux audio back to win98 levels for a couple of years. "
For a few months skype needed some environment variable for sound (but distros that shipped skype shipped them with this workaround) and old games relying on OSS need to be started with pasuspender. Big deal. Pulse allows a lot of nice automatic behaviour so things "just work".
Sure, Windows has more apps, but that is the only advantage it has. It's advantage over Android and iOS *was* multitasking, but defaulting to full-screen-only apps and mobile-like apps since Windows 8 has resulted in Windows no longer being the leading desktop OS it was up until Windows 7.
Even Microsoft has realised they can't tie their success only to Windows, which is why they are bringing their software to Linux (starting with Office on Android,.Net on Linux, MS SQL server on Linux etc.).
Except in most distributions, if upstream software is found to ship private copies of libraries, the packager/maintainer will either ensure the software is built against a system version if the software natively supports that or patch it to if it doesn't.
Can you reproduce this on a distro other than Debian?
I have 100 production VMs (growing at about 8 a week as we migrate across) 20 20-core RHEV/ovirt/kvm hypervisors running RHEL7 or Centos7, and systemd hasn't caused any issues.
Yes, you may need to do customisations and troubleshoot service startup issues (usually caused by operator error, and in my case only on non-production VMs) differently, but the consistency is a bigger benefit.
"I would've been very, very happy if my Debian system had gotten to a login prompt, never mind a non-rescue shell, after a system update installed systemd! But it wouldn't even get that far."
Many distros (Fedora, Arch, Opensuse, Mageia etc.) switched to systemd and there were very few complaints. I upgraded distro releases that brought the switch to systemd on a number of systems without any issues.
All of the complaints about "upgrading to systemd broke my system" were "upgrading to Jessie broke my system".
So this experience of upgrading to systemd causing problems seems a bit specific to Debian. Maybe the Debian community should have spent less time arguing about systemd and more time testing upgrading to Jessie.
We have a similar model in South Africa where the incumbent telco offers DSL and fibre wholesale, their retail arm offers both standalone DSL or DSL bundled with a data account. Competitors can sell either just DSL lines or data accounts or both. Data accounts can either resell the wholesale arm's internet service, or use the "IP Connect" which is a capacity-based product providing access to the DSL network to do whatever they want with the traffic.
The first (accounting-only approach) allows the wholesale arm of the incimbent to apply shaping by DPI, but they have two flavours at different per-GB prices and the more expensive one can't go through the dpi.
Most of the big ISPs (including the retail arm of the incumbent) mostly use the IP Connect model which is a later 3 handover of customer traffic to the ISP, and use DPI themselves to manage their utilisation (as IP Connect capacity is quite expensive). In this model it doesn't make sense fir the wholesale arm to apply DPI as it would increase their costs and reduce their revenue.
Users can swith accounts any time they like or even run multiple accounts simultaneously. Some users configure their routers to seitch accounts on a schedule (e.g to use a more "expensive" account for gsming and an account that offers free off-peak data for downloads).
The ISPs can control everything (e.g. which product to use for a user, aspects oertaining to the wholesale product used) by RADIUS.
There are now some other companies building out fibre networks (to compete with the incumbent's access network) but currently most of them have less attractive options for both users (can't easily switch ISPs) and providers (some do layer 3 handover at an IXP and send emails when a customer's IP changes, some do layer 2 handover at their premises and the ISP must buy their own backhaul).
It sounds like a configuration problem of the Ubuntu PPA kernel that doesn't match the Ubuntu default dracut or mkinitramfs settings (e.g. kernel configured with unix sockets as a module instead of built-in and the initramfs not configured to include the unix module). As a result, udevd in initramfs can't open a unix socket.
Really, this wasn't hard to deduce from the error messages.
"Ten screws to remove, the bottom comes off, and the RAM and storage are right there. There is no other laptop that I've ever seen that has such easily accessible components."
My work laptop, an HP Elitebook, has 2 SODIMM slots (usually shipped empty for expansion) and an mSATA port that can be accessed by sliding the latch and removing the panel on the underside. 4 more screws to get the 2.5" drive (SSD in my case) out. Adding the mSATA SSD was literally no effort.
As the system administrator in a large, complex environment in a larger, more complex organisation, who needs to be sure that users who have left the employ of the organisation don't have the ability to run commands anymore.
Without this control available, I need to check every server for screens or nohup'd processes (we already have controls in place for at, cron etc.). This has been a real risk in the past on real servers currently running sysvinit.
With this systemd feature, it would make my life easier, because on the two bastion/hop servers, I would disable this and audit processes on these servers when removing/locking accounts.
Yes, it is configurable, and yes it should probably be set correctly according to some of the installation selections (e.g. enabled on servers, disabled by default on workstations/laptops).
No, just because sysvinit can't enforce it well doesn't mean no-one needs it.
"Every report I've seen about that has had methodology I've used to show Ubuntu, Fedora, et al sends your personal information all over the god damned world, what with Apport/Whoopsie constantly uploading error reports to Launchpad, apt and yum constantly telling all kinds of servers what applications you have installed (HTTP GET pornview-2.1.3.deb WUT?" And I guess it's impossible to uninstall or disable abrt (so you don't get asked if you want to send crash reports), you can't change the repos used (to your own private mirror) or disable the default repos...
And yet my exoerience with RHEL3,4,5 in production in a relatively large and varied environment was that they were all rock solid. We still have 5.x in production, we are currently rolling 7.2 out to replace most of those (though some VMs will need intermediate upgrades to 6.x due to multi-server customer-facing application upgrades also required to get to 7)
If you want more recent, run RHEL7.2. If you want bleeding edge run Fedora. If you want something between stable and bleeding edge, choose a more desktop-oriented distri.
Tell me how you magically streamed these videos in 1998 when browsers didn't have codecs for videos and flash didn't support video streaming until 2002.
(Forgive the lack of formatting, no preview available in the mobile interface snd formatting is difficult in it too).
unless you are using Realtek wireless hardware
Yeah, that used to be a thing about 5 years ago (when you had to use b43-fwcutter manually before the giod distros automated it for you), but since Intel Core-series CPUs, almost all laptops ship with intel cards which work out-the-box or at worst need you to download a new firmware.
unless you are using ATI / AMD graphics card
My current work laptop has some relatively new radeon, the linux distro I use worked out-the-box for my needs (no command-line required, can't remember which driver it is running).
unless you are using certain Intel integrated cards
Do you mesn Intel graphics? I bought a Skylake-based desktop for my wife last year (about October I think). I had to upgrade kernels (to a 4.4.x kernel) to get stable graphics, but that was easy enough and that system has worked perfectly since.
unless you are using Nvidia card with open source drivers
If your card doesn't run well on nouveau, install the Nvidia proprietary drivers. Your distro should give you an option for that.
unless you want to share printers and files in network
Printer sharing I find easier between linux machines than between windows machines. On my windows machine at work I have given up printing to the corporate windows print server because it takes 20 minutes to get it to work each time (previously we were printing to HP JetDirects from Windows and Linux without issue). I should actually try printing from my Linux box again, I got it to work once with about the same hassle as the Windows box...
unless you want to open a docx file someone sent you
Opening is fine for standard documents. When people have embedded proprietary formats it does go downhill quickly (but only a little faster than MS Office because this is just a bad approach in general).
unless you want to fill PDF forms
I keep the last version of Acrobat (9.4?) around for fillable PDFs that require Acrobat. The rest work fine in KDEs PDF viewer (okular).
unless you want to use samsung / brother / canon / not HP printers
Don't buy crap printers. I had an HP OfficeJet for 10 years that worked for printing,scanning and faxing from Linux. When it died I bought a new multi-function HP Deskjet that worked perfectly out-the-box (although I did check HPs linux printing site before I bought).
unless you want to print using european paper sizes (apparently)
It's easy enough to use the now-standard system-config-printer to change your default printer settings (to e.g. A4). Previously you may have needed to edit cupsd.conf but that is hardly rocket science.
unless you want to scan images
See above, no issue.
unless you want to extract images from smart phones
Plug it in, choose to browse with a file manager or photo app, copy, paste, wait for it to finish, eject/unmount.
unless you want to transfer files to smart phones
Do the same as above, just reverse where you copy and where you paste.
(And the list just goes on)
Wow, my non-technical-with-computers wife can do most of the above without my help (she doesn't ever use a command line). Either you haven't used Linux in about 8 years, or you must be a bit of a slow learner.
I am not really impacted by DMCA, so I don't know the details, but does DMCA explicitly state that the ISP/hosting company may not charge any fees for handling DMCA requests? If not, Google should just work out what it would cost to have some manual verification of eqch request, and make that the fee.
But, I guess this is probably not an option because the mafia would have claimed that there are so many more infringers than content owners that they would go bankrupt if they had to pay a nominal (e.g. $5 fee).
Tesla model s came 20th (of new models tested in 2014) in Euro NCAP passenger safety rating:
http://www.euroncap.com/en/rat... a make&selectedModel=0&includeFullSafetyPackage=true&includeStandardSafetyPackage=true&selectedModelName=All&selectedProtocols=24370,1472,5910,5931&allClasses=true&selectedClasses=1202,1199,1201,1196,1205,1203,1198,1179,1197,1204,1180&allProtocols=false&allDriverAssistanceTechnologies=false&selectedDriverAssistanceTechnologies=
We normally just forward postmaster@ to abusive staff for an hour. Usually keeps them busy deleting emails (so the next few thousand can be delivered) for the rest of the day without impacting customers.
Slashdot Mirror
Also IIRC there is some layer allows it to use open source drivers for hardware. ...
Anyways I'm still not clear on what he thinks they did wrong. AFAIK VMware hasn't done anything that's not above board here.
Really, you missed the part where they copied GPL drivers into a proprietary kernel? How would that not be wrong?
As far as I know, VMWare has admitted to copying Linux drivers, but they claimed that their kernel "wrapped" the Linux kernel in such a way as to not infringe. This claim alone should be sufficient for discovery.
(Apologies in advance for any formattung issues, still no preview on the mobile interface.)
Didn't they have monthly or quarterly "mains fail test"? Our environmental team's performance contracts require this ...
(which should not happen as you should have backup generators and batteries that give power until the generators are spun up)
We have had outages due to power problems, during planned maintenance on the UPS system (which was to allow future UPS maintenance to be done without impact by introducing live switching of UPS between feeds). There was an outage to some systems because they had been upgraded (e.g routers with line cards added) to the point where one PDU could not supply sufficient power even though total power was less than "guaranteed"). To avoid a recurrence, power supplies were moved to other PDUs.
So, yes, while power failures shouldn't have impact, even in environments with supposedly robust frameworks (e.g. ITIL), mistakes happen or the impact of a change is not fully identified/understood (possibly due to the complexity of modelling the environment down to which of 8 power supplies on a device are connected to which of 4 PDUs in a cabinet which has 2 different feeds of the 6 feeds available in one DC in a campus with 3 DCs etc. etc.), resulting in unexpected failure modes.
(Apologies in advance, still no preview on the "mobile" interface).
And companies that need their websites to make money?
For some I know of, the IT staff have done everything in their power (identified risks, probability of the risk, impact in the event, possible mitigations, cost and time to implement mitigations etc.). "Business" (aka bean-counters) have decided that they accept the risk of the current status (business continuity plan takes more than a business week to restore basic services in the event of a complete failure in the primary site).
You are making things up completely, my employer and all of our competitors have multiple levels of redundancy (multiple datacenters, multiple availability zones per datacenter). If I want to deploy a little REST api our policies and systems enforce 9 total VM's, 3 per AZ and 3 total AZ's. Our competitors are at least as serious about uptime as we are.
And this is the cheapest possible service to provide redundancy for. When you have a few hundred TB of data changing at a rate of 100GB/day, this kind of solution (put it all in the "cloud", just in case, without a full BCM plan covering issues such as "where will the call centre work from and will they be able to accept calls") will get very expensive very quickly, and normally can't be approved by someone lower than CFO+CIO.
(Sorry if there are formatting issues, mobile still doesn't have preview ...)
So, they can remove the "free internet for municipal offices, schools etc." from the concessions because that doesn't relate to their monopoly?
I'm not using plasma5 yet, but I use KDE 4.x most of the time (except I do also have a Windows machine at work for Outlook and Visio and Windows VM on my linux laptop in case I need Visio away from the office).
"I'd like to be able to sort the songs per artist, album, etc in JuK, and for it to have a working Manage Folder dialog."
I've settled on using Clementine (I believe a pott of Amarok 1.x to KDE4/Qt5), but didn't test this specific use case.
"Adding support for PTP cameras (you know, most of them), that would really be great. Means I would no longer have to connect them to either my GNOME or LXDE laptop to then transfer the photos over the network."
My wife and I use Digikam for most of our photo organising and editing, and it downloads from my 500D just fine, had lens correction profiles for all my lenses. Raw support could be better (there is some support and even though rawtherapee seems to have more features and sliders the results from digikam's 'local contrast' feature are quite similar). Digikam 5 (the port from KDE 4 to Qt 5) was just released with lots of nice featutes (mysql support returns, new instagram-like filters, many others) and binaries for Windows and Mac OS too (made easier with KDE5's reduced inter-dependencies).
Sure, the bugs in apps that are part of the KDE apps collection itself should be fixed, but that doesn't mean you should have to use GTK or gnome-based apps when thete are better KDE-based ones.
You do know that you don't need to use a different computer to run GNOME-based apps, right? Well, it's not as usable with GTK-3 apps with their stupid menus thst don't work right with other window managers, but that's a GNOME/GTK design flaw.
"Don't worry MSFT, Linux can top that with Puke Audio that sends Linux audio back to win98 levels for a couple of years. "
For a few months skype needed some environment variable for sound (but distros that shipped skype shipped them with this workaround) and old games relying on OSS need to be started with pasuspender. Big deal. Pulse allows a lot of nice automatic behaviour so things "just work".
Sure, Windows has more apps, but that is the only advantage it has. It's advantage over Android and iOS *was* multitasking, but defaulting to full-screen-only apps and mobile-like apps since Windows 8 has resulted in Windows no longer being the leading desktop OS it was up until Windows 7.
Even Microsoft has realised they can't tie their success only to Windows, which is why they are bringing their software to Linux (starting with Office on Android, .Net on Linux, MS SQL server on Linux etc.).
"A compatibility layer for Windows drivers would be nice but there's no such thing as far as I know."
What is ndiswrapper?
Except in most distributions, if upstream software is found to ship private copies of libraries, the packager/maintainer will either ensure the software is built against a system version if the software natively supports that or patch it to if it doesn't.
Can you reproduce this on a distro other than Debian?
I have 100 production VMs (growing at about 8 a week as we migrate across) 20 20-core RHEV/ovirt/kvm hypervisors running RHEL7 or Centos7, and systemd hasn't caused any issues.
Yes, you may need to do customisations and troubleshoot service startup issues (usually caused by operator error, and in my case only on non-production VMs) differently, but the consistency is a bigger benefit.
"I would've been very, very happy if my Debian system had gotten to a login prompt, never mind a non-rescue shell, after a system update installed systemd! But it wouldn't even get that far."
Many distros (Fedora, Arch, Opensuse, Mageia etc.) switched to systemd and there were very few complaints. I upgraded distro releases that brought the switch to systemd on a number of systems without any issues.
All of the complaints about "upgrading to systemd broke my system" were "upgrading to Jessie broke my system".
So this experience of upgrading to systemd causing problems seems a bit specific to Debian. Maybe the Debian community should have spent less time arguing about systemd and more time testing upgrading to Jessie.
Woolworths South Africa has, for about the last 9 years, had a rewards program named "Thank U". I assume it is trademarked.
I think they shoukd claim Citigrouop's use of THANKYOU for a rewards program is a trademark violation.
We have a similar model in South Africa where the incumbent telco offers DSL and fibre wholesale, their retail arm offers both standalone DSL or DSL bundled with a data account. Competitors can sell either just DSL lines or data accounts or both. Data accounts can either resell the wholesale arm's internet service, or use the "IP Connect" which is a capacity-based product providing access to the DSL network to do whatever they want with the traffic.
The first (accounting-only approach) allows the wholesale arm of the incimbent to apply shaping by DPI, but they have two flavours at different per-GB prices and the more expensive one can't go through the dpi.
Most of the big ISPs (including the retail arm of the incumbent) mostly use the IP Connect model which is a later 3 handover of customer traffic to the ISP, and use DPI themselves to manage their utilisation (as IP Connect capacity is quite expensive). In this model it doesn't make sense fir the wholesale arm to apply DPI as it would increase their costs and reduce their revenue.
Users can swith accounts any time they like or even run multiple accounts simultaneously. Some users configure their routers to seitch accounts on a schedule (e.g to use a more "expensive" account for gsming and an account that offers free off-peak data for downloads).
The ISPs can control everything (e.g. which product to use for a user, aspects oertaining to the wholesale product used) by RADIUS.
There are now some other companies building out fibre networks (to compete with the incumbent's access network) but currently most of them have less attractive options for both users (can't easily switch ISPs) and providers (some do layer 3 handover at an IXP and send emails when a customer's IP changes, some do layer 2 handover at their premises and the ISP must buy their own backhaul).
It sounds like a configuration problem of the Ubuntu PPA kernel that doesn't match the Ubuntu default dracut or mkinitramfs settings (e.g. kernel configured with unix sockets as a module instead of built-in and the initramfs not configured to include the unix module). As a result, udevd in initramfs can't open a unix socket.
Really, this wasn't hard to deduce from the error messages.
And nithing to do with systemd.
"Ten screws to remove, the bottom comes off, and the RAM and storage are right there. There is no other laptop that I've ever seen that has such easily accessible components."
My work laptop, an HP Elitebook, has 2 SODIMM slots (usually shipped empty for expansion) and an mSATA port that can be accessed by sliding the latch and removing the panel on the underside. 4 more screws to get the 2.5" drive (SSD in my case) out. Adding the mSATA SSD was literally no effort.
As the system administrator in a large, complex environment in a larger, more complex organisation, who needs to be sure that users who have left the employ of the organisation don't have the ability to run commands anymore.
Without this control available, I need to check every server for screens or nohup'd processes (we already have controls in place for at, cron etc.). This has been a real risk in the past on real servers currently running sysvinit.
With this systemd feature, it would make my life easier, because on the two bastion/hop servers, I would disable this and audit processes on these servers when removing/locking accounts.
Yes, it is configurable, and yes it should probably be set correctly according to some of the installation selections (e.g. enabled on servers, disabled by default on workstations/laptops).
No, just because sysvinit can't enforce it well doesn't mean no-one needs it.
We're using gitlab ce successfully. It works nicely, has a lot of good features, and has sifficient integrations (e.g jenkins).
"Every report I've seen about that has had methodology I've used to show Ubuntu, Fedora, et al sends your personal information all over the god damned world, what with Apport/Whoopsie constantly uploading error reports to Launchpad, apt and yum constantly telling all kinds of servers what applications you have installed (HTTP GET pornview-2.1.3.deb WUT?" ...
And I guess it's impossible to uninstall or disable abrt (so you don't get asked if you want to send crash reports), you can't change the repos used (to your own private mirror) or disable the default repos
Not.
And yet my exoerience with RHEL3,4,5 in production in a relatively large and varied environment was that they were all rock solid. We still have 5.x in production, we are currently rolling 7.2 out to replace most of those (though some VMs will need intermediate upgrades to 6.x due to multi-server customer-facing application upgrades also required to get to 7)
If you want more recent, run RHEL7.2. If you want bleeding edge run Fedora. If you want something between stable and bleeding edge, choose a more desktop-oriented distri.
Tell me how you magically streamed these videos in 1998 when browsers didn't have codecs for videos and flash didn't support video streaming until 2002.
RealPlayer
Yeah it's easy dead easy unless...
(Forgive the lack of formatting, no preview available in the mobile interface snd formatting is difficult in it too).
unless you are using Realtek wireless hardware
Yeah, that used to be a thing about 5 years ago (when you had to use b43-fwcutter manually before the giod distros automated it for you), but since Intel Core-series CPUs, almost all laptops ship with intel cards which work out-the-box or at worst need you to download a new firmware.
unless you are using ATI / AMD graphics card
My current work laptop has some relatively new radeon, the linux distro I use worked out-the-box for my needs (no command-line required, can't remember which driver it is running).
unless you are using certain Intel integrated cards
Do you mesn Intel graphics? I bought a Skylake-based desktop for my wife last year (about October I think). I had to upgrade kernels (to a 4.4.x kernel) to get stable graphics, but that was easy enough and that system has worked perfectly since.
unless you are using Nvidia card with open source drivers
If your card doesn't run well on nouveau, install the Nvidia proprietary drivers. Your distro should give you an option for that.
unless you want to share printers and files in network
Printer sharing I find easier between linux machines than between windows machines. On my windows machine at work I have given up printing to the corporate windows print server because it takes 20 minutes to get it to work each time (previously we were printing to HP JetDirects from Windows and Linux without issue). I should actually try printing from my Linux box again, I got it to work once with about the same hassle as the Windows box ...
unless you want to open a docx file someone sent you
Opening is fine for standard documents. When people have embedded proprietary formats it does go downhill quickly (but only a little faster than MS Office because this is just a bad approach in general).
unless you want to fill PDF forms
I keep the last version of Acrobat (9.4?) around for fillable PDFs that require Acrobat. The rest work fine in KDEs PDF viewer (okular).
unless you want to use samsung / brother / canon / not HP printers
Don't buy crap printers. I had an HP OfficeJet for 10 years that worked for printing,scanning and faxing from Linux. When it died I bought a new multi-function HP Deskjet that worked perfectly out-the-box (although I did check HPs linux printing site before I bought).
unless you want to print using european paper sizes (apparently)
It's easy enough to use the now-standard system-config-printer to change your default printer settings (to e.g. A4). Previously you may have needed to edit cupsd.conf but that is hardly rocket science.
unless you want to scan images
See above, no issue.
unless you want to extract images from smart phones
Plug it in, choose to browse with a file manager or photo app, copy, paste, wait for it to finish, eject/unmount.
unless you want to transfer files to smart phones
Do the same as above, just reverse where you copy and where you paste.
(And the list just goes on)
Wow, my non-technical-with-computers wife can do most of the above without my help (she doesn't ever use a command line). Either you haven't used Linux in about 8 years, or you must be a bit of a slow learner.
I am not really impacted by DMCA, so I don't know the details, but does DMCA explicitly state that the ISP/hosting company may not charge any fees for handling DMCA requests? If not, Google should just work out what it would cost to have some manual verification of eqch request, and make that the fee.
But, I guess this is probably not an option because the mafia would have claimed that there are so many more infringers than content owners that they would go bankrupt if they had to pay a nominal (e.g. $5 fee).
Tesla model s came 20th (of new models tested in 2014) in Euro NCAP passenger safety rating:
http://www.euroncap.com/en/rat... a make&selectedModel=0&includeFullSafetyPackage=true&includeStandardSafetyPackage=true&selectedModelName=All&selectedProtocols=24370,1472,5910,5931&allClasses=true&selectedClasses=1202,1199,1201,1196,1205,1203,1198,1179,1197,1204,1180&allProtocols=false&allDriverAssistanceTechnologies=false&selectedDriverAssistanceTechnologies=
There were some bugs in rtm version of Office 2016. Users who had a working IMAP account in Outlook 2013 and upgraded would not be able to sync mail.
I think there was a relatively easy command-line fix, and I guess it should have been fixed with an update. Will try and find the details later.
We normally just forward postmaster@ to abusive staff for an hour. Usually keeps them busy deleting emails (so the next few thousand can be delivered) for the rest of the day without impacting customers.