Definitely agree. All of my major electronics are bolted into a rack, which itself probably weighs 500-600 pounds loaded. My monitors are attached to wall arms, which are bolted to the wall. Nothing worth taking can be easily picked up and carried out.
Never underestimate the amount of destruction that thieves are willing to commit just to walk away with something trivial. If they can destroy the wall just to get the monitor, they will.
I'm with lgw, though. Toys are nice, but they don't define me. If I worry more about my possessions than anything else, I don't possess them, they possess me.
He's not really worried about a violent break in while he's home, I think those are vanishingly rare and probably a result of bad timing/casing. He's worried about his stuff disappearing while he's not home. Some of the professional cameras would make fantastic projectiles and even close quarters weapons, btw.;-)
We call those "home invasions" and they're definitely not rare.
because Linux servers need to be rebooted so often? systemd serves no purpose for any sys admin with a brain. trying to make windows "admins" happy is just pandering to idiots.
First of all, employers don't want sysadmins with brains, they want untrained monkeys who will work for peanuts.
Secondly, systemd is designed to ensure that complex networks of services are started and stopped with all dependencies automatically handled. Even if you are a sysadmin with a brain, at the end of a week's worth of 14-hour unpaid overtime shifts (a/k/a normal 21st-Century work week), when a major component just blew out and you're scrambling to get everything back together while also serving as the DBA and network administrator (a/k/a normal 21st-Century work responsibilities), it's nice to know that the system has your back.
Actually, I don't recall Windows Service Manager directly supporting automatic activation of dependent services the way that systemd does. So while it's true that Windows Rot is a constant danger these days (for example, journalctl), I don't think systemd is really deserving of such contempt.
Red Hat supports a LOT of "competitors" and always has. After all, most of Linux comes from outside and they're big at contributing back to it. It's not unreasonable for them to want to draw the line at something that comes in flavors that are all over the map in order to focus on the one flavor that they prefer. I cannot find it in me to hate them considering how they've dealt with CentOS and other similar products which not only steal customers from them, but give the product away for free. And for all those who've chosen to pay for Red Hat products anyway (and the accompanying support), as a shareholder, I say "Thank you!"
The current state of systemd annoys me, too. But I do have hopes for it. Which is more than I can say for Gnome3 or journalctl.
Our roads need to be repaired almost constantly. How does this improve the situation? How about a dumb road that does it's job for 80 years straight?
The dumb roads around here get stripped and resurfaced about every 5 years, and we don't even have things like snow and ice to age them. Just sun and traffic.
Correct. Life is a battle, and it's survival of the fittest. You kill or be killed. This is not new; it's been going on for billions of years on this planet alone.
Obviously evolution doesn't work the way you think it does, or you wouldn't have been allowed to live, because "naive" doesn't even begin to describe your anonymously cowardly existence.
The word "survival" in evolution is A) referring to the species, not the individual, and B) is accomplished in many, many more ways than simple "kill or be killed". If that was not so, every butterfly would be a threat to your life.
I would guess that many of the e-books on the reader are rules, manuals and procedures for current military hardware and practices which are unlikely to change in the next few years.
Clearly you followed/. tradition and did not RTFA, since it makes no mention of non-fiction. t appears that these e-readers are simply a method to provide a library of fiction to keep the sailors entertained.
And, in fact, putting any military documents on them would be risky if there was any chance whatsoever that they could be removed from the vessel.
With an e-reader, you'd not just be smuggling out sensitive manuals, you'd be able to smuggle out an entire library. And in something small enough to fit in many pockets.
What I have heard of so far in terms of likely submerged human settlements is the Black Sea before the Mediterranean spilled into it (possibly the origin of the Noah story), and land to the east of England.
Also quite a few indigenous villages now underwater around the coast of Florida.
From what I've seen a lot of people in Bangladesh already spend much of their time wading around in salt water. If the sea level rises enough, it might actually push them onto dry land.
Of greater concern is that if Florida goes undersea from south of Sea World, you Northerners will be overrun with returning retirees!
Sorry. In The Marketplace the available products are determined by intersection of The Tyranny of the Majority and the Golden Rule (as in whoever has the gold...)
Not much room in such cases for those of us who are shouted down by the mob on the one hand and not in the 1% so we can't afford the big megaphone on the other. Our voices go unheard.
The last cab I rode in was being driven at night with no dashboard lights and this was an established and reputable cab company doing the Walmart-thing.
So a little meddling in the market is perfectly fine by me.
The Black Cab drivers have to repeatedly pass proficiency testing on the street layout of London, never mind its cultural aspects. By contrast, in D.C., where the cab fares were determined by zones traversed, my driver appeared to be diverting repeatedly in order to cut through zone slices and thus ante up the fare. A black cab driver caught in the act wouldn't have been able to credibly claim ignorance of more direct routes.
I call bullshit on their training claims. Staff that used Windows at previous jobs or at home will have a lower training needs. They also assume that staff time is free and ignore any lost productivity or errors from their new OS and applications.
Two Words:
Metro Desktop
Oh, you mean I'm supposed to learn to deal with this thing (and the Ribbon) for FREE?
if black cabs service is so much better than ubers, people will surely choose to use black cabs over uber. where's the problem?
How naive. If that was true, "Please stay on the line. Your Call Is VERY Important to us. Average call waiting time is 30 minutes" would not exist. Nor would telephone menus or self-service anything.
People have consistently demonstrated that Lower Prices Every Day[TM] trump quality of product or service almost every time.
I'm reasonably certain that the carport solar cells don't jack directly into the car. Solar input fluctuates too much, so at a minimum, you'd need charge controllers. Most likely, also fixed batteries, to allow for the fact that people are more likely to be away from home when the sun is out.
I still like the idea, though. Even if it wasn't a 100% solution, it reduces overall grid requirements. Plus it takes energy that would otherwise either heat up the carport or reflect into the greenhouse and put it to practical use.
I just spent a merry 45 minutes trying to get Fedora 20 back up and running after a reboot. Systemd kept knocking it into Emergency Mode with no indication as to why. I'm still not certain whether it was a failing mount or a video card acting up. Or something else I don't know about yet.
SysV init is unquestionably feeble when it comes to controlling systems with complex daemon interdependencies. But putting stuff into sealed packages with No User Serviceable Parts Inside is not the way to go. I had to deal with that under OS/2 and it's one of the things I hated most about OS/2.
There is a tendency these days to offer a "complete solution" and to sneer at the ungrateful unwashed masses. But complete solutions never turn out to be complete enough. And these "Complete Solutions" are infamous for eliminating popular features that were in their predecessors. The systemctl facility admits that there are certain things that it cannot at present do that the cruder, but more flexible scripts of SystemV supported, and it's far from the worst offender.
Unix was developed on the philosophy that you didn't attempt to make one program do everything, you strung together simpler tools. Likewise, it logged to plain text files, which makes them accessible to a whole raft of text utilities, instead of a handful of specialized log utilities a la IBM. Besides which, a text file has to be seriously mangled before it's totally useless when everything's shot to Hell. Most binary files break far more easily and are far harder to repair.
If we forget where we came from, we're going to end up acquiring many of the same faults as Windows.
See, this is why I don't think global warming matters much after all.
No, it doesn't matter because... it doesn't matter.
Humans live on the equator. Humans live in the Arctic. A 1 degree rise in global temps (over 50 years or whatever) is not going to kill us. At worst, we'll move a few miles closer to the poles.
Well, one of those poles is actually frozen water. And it's melting.
I'm no longer very worried about the nuclear threat because, barring a major destabilizing event (and Putin, I'm looking at you), the human race has proven that it collectinvely has the common sense not to go all "Dr. Strangelove" for trivial reasons. And because a lot of the nukes were destroyed.
On the other hand, I consider it an act of complete idiocy to keep piling up stones and expecting them not to fall eventually.
Nukes can be set off by a short-term action, and we so far have had the intelligence to avoid short-term actions with catastropic and irreversible consequences. We seem less able to deal with "camel's back" situations where action or inaction seem more or less alike until the dam actually breaks.
As we have progressively leveraged ourselves into situations where our consequences are larger and larger, so far we've had luck on our side. No one wanted to escalate to full-scale nuclear war. Rising standards of living have made people self-check population growth. But little has been done on atmospheric emissions except for short-term issues like ozone depletion. It's likely that even for greenhouse effects we'll start applying the brakes once the real hurt begins, but this is one situation where we may be in the situation of trying to stop an avalance with a badminton racquet if we don't either come up with an instant cure or do something while things are still moving slowly. And the problem with depending on luck (instant cures) is that luck sooner or later runs out.
There are plenty of things to worry about. Why cause one more?
I agree with you 100% about the panhandle Republicans cheerfully standing in line to prevent Gore from winning. But that isn't what happened. All of the news outlets had projected Gore to win. So the people who were waiting in line thought "Why bother waiting if the election in Florida is over"?
Well, that's their option. But even if your horse is going to lose by a mile, why make the other guy look like he's got a mandate?
And besides, what True Republican believes the Liberal Press anyway?
If the actual poll results are true, it suggest Ukraine is not that divided fundamentally at all, and that a small group of pro-Russian agitators lead by Russian military personnel out of uniform are creating this civil war.
And if actual poll results are true, it would make them like a lot of US elections, where most people sit it out and the fringes determine how the country will be run.
Florida resides in two time zones and the northwest "handle" of Florida is heavily Republican. Many voters left lines while voting was open once Florida was called for Gore. IF that hadn't have happened, the recount wouldn't have been close at all.
Having lived in the Panhandle, I very seriously doubt that people who left the lines were Republican. We used to have the term "Yellow Dog Democrat", meaning that the person in question would vote for a yellow hound dog rather than a Republican, but that was back when Democrats were the Party of the (white conservative) South. Before they all started calling themselves Republicans.
In other words, I think that the Panhandle Republicans would have cheerfully stood in line until the next morning if there was even the faintest moonshine of a hope that it would keep an evul Librul tree-hugger like Gore from taking the White House.
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Definitely agree. All of my major electronics are bolted into a rack, which itself probably weighs 500-600 pounds loaded. My monitors are attached to wall arms, which are bolted to the wall. Nothing worth taking can be easily picked up and carried out.
Never underestimate the amount of destruction that thieves are willing to commit just to walk away with something trivial. If they can destroy the wall just to get the monitor, they will.
I'm with lgw, though. Toys are nice, but they don't define me. If I worry more about my possessions than anything else, I don't possess them, they possess me.
He's not really worried about a violent break in while he's home, I think those are vanishingly rare and probably a result of bad timing/casing. He's worried about his stuff disappearing while he's not home. ;-)
Some of the professional cameras would make fantastic projectiles and even close quarters weapons, btw.
We call those "home invasions" and they're definitely not rare.
because Linux servers need to be rebooted so often? systemd serves no purpose for any sys admin with a brain. trying to make windows "admins" happy is just pandering to idiots.
First of all, employers don't want sysadmins with brains, they want untrained monkeys who will work for peanuts.
Secondly, systemd is designed to ensure that complex networks of services are started and stopped with all dependencies automatically handled. Even if you are a sysadmin with a brain, at the end of a week's worth of 14-hour unpaid overtime shifts (a/k/a normal 21st-Century work week), when a major component just blew out and you're scrambling to get everything back together while also serving as the DBA and network administrator (a/k/a normal 21st-Century work responsibilities), it's nice to know that the system has your back.
Actually, I don't recall Windows Service Manager directly supporting automatic activation of dependent services the way that systemd does. So while it's true that Windows Rot is a constant danger these days (for example, journalctl), I don't think systemd is really deserving of such contempt.
Red Hat supports a LOT of "competitors" and always has. After all, most of Linux comes from outside and they're big at contributing back to it. It's not unreasonable for them to want to draw the line at something that comes in flavors that are all over the map in order to focus on the one flavor that they prefer. I cannot find it in me to hate them considering how they've dealt with CentOS and other similar products which not only steal customers from them, but give the product away for free. And for all those who've chosen to pay for Red Hat products anyway (and the accompanying support), as a shareholder, I say "Thank you!"
The current state of systemd annoys me, too. But I do have hopes for it. Which is more than I can say for Gnome3 or journalctl.
What excuse will all the conspiracy theory lunatics use to explain rainbows now?
Military Unicorns.
Our roads need to be repaired almost constantly. How does this improve the situation? How about a dumb road that does it's job for 80 years straight?
The dumb roads around here get stripped and resurfaced about every 5 years, and we don't even have things like snow and ice to age them. Just sun and traffic.
80 years????
Correct. Life is a battle, and it's survival of the fittest. You kill or be killed. This is not new; it's been going on for billions of years on this planet alone.
Obviously evolution doesn't work the way you think it does, or you wouldn't have been allowed to live, because "naive" doesn't even begin to describe your anonymously cowardly existence.
The word "survival" in evolution is A) referring to the species, not the individual, and B) is accomplished in many, many more ways than simple "kill or be killed". If that was not so, every butterfly would be a threat to your life.
Clearly you followed /. tradition and did not RTFA, since it makes no mention of non-fiction. t appears that these e-readers are simply a method to provide a library of fiction to keep the sailors entertained.
And, in fact, putting any military documents on them would be risky if there was any chance whatsoever that they could be removed from the vessel.
With an e-reader, you'd not just be smuggling out sensitive manuals, you'd be able to smuggle out an entire library. And in something small enough to fit in many pockets.
What I have heard of so far in terms of likely submerged human settlements is the Black Sea before the Mediterranean spilled into it (possibly the origin of the Noah story), and land to the east of England.
Also quite a few indigenous villages now underwater around the coast of Florida.
I suppose if you have enough compost to cover Canada and such.
You can have every politician on the North (and South) American Continents. It would be a pretty good start.
Maybe lawyers as a phase II project.
This isn't compost, it's toxic waste!
From what I've seen a lot of people in Bangladesh already spend much of their time wading around in salt water. If the sea level rises enough, it might actually push them onto dry land.
Of greater concern is that if Florida goes undersea from south of Sea World, you Northerners will be overrun with returning retirees!
Sorry. In The Marketplace the available products are determined by intersection of The Tyranny of the Majority and the Golden Rule (as in whoever has the gold...)
Not much room in such cases for those of us who are shouted down by the mob on the one hand and not in the 1% so we can't afford the big megaphone on the other. Our voices go unheard.
The last cab I rode in was being driven at night with no dashboard lights and this was an established and reputable cab company doing the Walmart-thing.
So a little meddling in the market is perfectly fine by me.
The Black Cab drivers have to repeatedly pass proficiency testing on the street layout of London, never mind its cultural aspects. By contrast, in D.C., where the cab fares were determined by zones traversed, my driver appeared to be diverting repeatedly in order to cut through zone slices and thus ante up the fare. A black cab driver caught in the act wouldn't have been able to credibly claim ignorance of more direct routes.
I call bullshit on their training claims. Staff that used Windows at previous jobs or at home will have a lower training needs. They also assume that staff time is free and ignore any lost productivity or errors from their new OS and applications.
Two Words:
Metro Desktop
Oh, you mean I'm supposed to learn to deal with this thing (and the Ribbon) for FREE?
if black cabs service is so much better than ubers, people will surely choose to use black cabs over uber. where's the problem?
How naive. If that was true, "Please stay on the line. Your Call Is VERY Important to us. Average call waiting time is 30 minutes" would not exist. Nor would telephone menus or self-service anything.
People have consistently demonstrated that Lower Prices Every Day[TM] trump quality of product or service almost every time.
You wouldn't trust Walmart to provide your aircraft parts, I hope, so buying them there would be a mistake.
A lot of people trusted Walmart with their pets' internal organs. We saw what that got them.
Hell, a lot of people trust Walmart with their own internal organs.
I'm reasonably certain that the carport solar cells don't jack directly into the car. Solar input fluctuates too much, so at a minimum, you'd need charge controllers. Most likely, also fixed batteries, to allow for the fact that people are more likely to be away from home when the sun is out.
I still like the idea, though. Even if it wasn't a 100% solution, it reduces overall grid requirements. Plus it takes energy that would otherwise either heat up the carport or reflect into the greenhouse and put it to practical use.
I just spent a merry 45 minutes trying to get Fedora 20 back up and running after a reboot. Systemd kept knocking it into Emergency Mode with no indication as to why. I'm still not certain whether it was a failing mount or a video card acting up. Or something else I don't know about yet.
SysV init is unquestionably feeble when it comes to controlling systems with complex daemon interdependencies. But putting stuff into sealed packages with No User Serviceable Parts Inside is not the way to go. I had to deal with that under OS/2 and it's one of the things I hated most about OS/2.
There is a tendency these days to offer a "complete solution" and to sneer at the ungrateful unwashed masses. But complete solutions never turn out to be complete enough. And these "Complete Solutions" are infamous for eliminating popular features that were in their predecessors. The systemctl facility admits that there are certain things that it cannot at present do that the cruder, but more flexible scripts of SystemV supported, and it's far from the worst offender.
Unix was developed on the philosophy that you didn't attempt to make one program do everything, you strung together simpler tools. Likewise, it logged to plain text files, which makes them accessible to a whole raft of text utilities, instead of a handful of specialized log utilities a la IBM. Besides which, a text file has to be seriously mangled before it's totally useless when everything's shot to Hell. Most binary files break far more easily and are far harder to repair.
If we forget where we came from, we're going to end up acquiring many of the same faults as Windows.
Shouldn't machine learning experts be able to get their systems to learn the tax code and so replace the accountants?
Machines work with logic. That rules out the tax code.
See, this is why I don't think global warming matters much after all.
No, it doesn't matter because ... it doesn't matter.
Humans live on the equator. Humans live in the Arctic. A 1 degree rise in global temps (over 50 years or whatever) is not going to kill us. At worst, we'll move a few miles closer to the poles.
Well, one of those poles is actually frozen water. And it's melting.
I'm no longer very worried about the nuclear threat because, barring a major destabilizing event (and Putin, I'm looking at you), the human race has proven that it collectinvely has the common sense not to go all "Dr. Strangelove" for trivial reasons. And because a lot of the nukes were destroyed.
On the other hand, I consider it an act of complete idiocy to keep piling up stones and expecting them not to fall eventually.
Nukes can be set off by a short-term action, and we so far have had the intelligence to avoid short-term actions with catastropic and irreversible consequences. We seem less able to deal with "camel's back" situations where action or inaction seem more or less alike until the dam actually breaks.
As we have progressively leveraged ourselves into situations where our consequences are larger and larger, so far we've had luck on our side. No one wanted to escalate to full-scale nuclear war. Rising standards of living have made people self-check population growth. But little has been done on atmospheric emissions except for short-term issues like ozone depletion. It's likely that even for greenhouse effects we'll start applying the brakes once the real hurt begins, but this is one situation where we may be in the situation of trying to stop an avalance with a badminton racquet if we don't either come up with an instant cure or do something while things are still moving slowly. And the problem with depending on luck (instant cures) is that luck sooner or later runs out.
There are plenty of things to worry about. Why cause one more?
Being curious, I did a quick search and found this graphic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... The panhandle is heavily Republican.
I agree with you 100% about the panhandle Republicans cheerfully standing in line to prevent Gore from winning. But that isn't what happened. All of the news outlets had projected Gore to win. So the people who were waiting in line thought "Why bother waiting if the election in Florida is over"?
Well, that's their option. But even if your horse is going to lose by a mile, why make the other guy look like he's got a mandate?
And besides, what True Republican believes the Liberal Press anyway?
If the actual poll results are true, it suggest Ukraine is not that divided fundamentally at all, and that a small group of pro-Russian agitators lead by Russian military personnel out of uniform are creating this civil war.
And if actual poll results are true, it would make them like a lot of US elections, where most people sit it out and the fringes determine how the country will be run.
Florida resides in two time zones and the northwest "handle" of Florida is heavily Republican. Many voters left lines while voting was open once Florida was called for Gore. IF that hadn't have happened, the recount wouldn't have been close at all.
Having lived in the Panhandle, I very seriously doubt that people who left the lines were Republican. We used to have the term "Yellow Dog Democrat", meaning that the person in question would vote for a yellow hound dog rather than a Republican, but that was back when Democrats were the Party of the (white conservative) South. Before they all started calling themselves Republicans.
In other words, I think that the Panhandle Republicans would have cheerfully stood in line until the next morning if there was even the faintest moonshine of a hope that it would keep an evul Librul tree-hugger like Gore from taking the White House.
International Law, the thing that only applies to you if you are not American.
And the thing that the US Government ignores when it doesn't agree with it.
most staff are already familiar with Microsoft products
But has anybody told him that XP is no longer supported?
Where did they put "Network Neighborhood" on this version of Windows????