That Amazon message is very different. It's basically telling you (days or weeks in advance!) that there's a serious hardware failure and the underlying hardware needs to be pulled from service.
It's literally as simple as a reboot to move to new hardware. You can even catch the notification easily with a CloudWatch Alarm and trigger the purpose-built auto-recovery action to do it for you the moment the instance goes into that state. Or use an AutoScale group and it'll just cycle the hardware out for you w/o any downtime or manual action. TMTOWTDI
If you aren't living by the motto, "Everything Fails, All The Time", then you're simply doing Cloud wrong. To be fair, even if you're entirely on your own physical hardware in a datacenter...you're still Doing It Wrong if you aren't counting on your hardware to always be failing all the time.
High frequency trading is entirely about subverting any remaining myth of the market or even less so-called "investing".
What absolutely needs to happen is a flat transaction tax on any and all transactions, obliterate this entire train wreck of a financial vehicle from the entire economic equation. Simply out of basic fairness, why do I get charged 10% sales tax when buying a candy bar but not if it's a share of Apple?
A simple 1% tax on transactions would overnight return the stock market to a system for investment rather than clever hacks to milk the real economy. If you don't think your stock is going to grow at least by 1%, you simply shouldn't buy it. An extremely modest 1% transaction tax would instill that sanity into the basic fabric of the marketplace.
Yep, but you forgot the punchline: All that zero-tolerance leftwing angst on social issues demonized allies while simultaneously throwing away hard fought ground on hard issues. Respecting pronoun choices was far more important than food on the table or not going bankrupt by medical bills. The result of all that is Trump in the White House and everything that brought about.
Why the requirement of a single node? Why are you baking in a MASSIVE anti-pattern into your DB requirements from the get-go? One that artificially makes scaling difficult and expensive, one that makes HA far less A? All with zero upside for anyone save the hardware vendors balance sheets?
And PostgreSQL's PL/pgSQL is a close and highly effective match for Oracle's PL/SQL.
Honestly, the only legitimate reason for swallowing Oracle's BS is if you're running Oracle's applications. For absolutely anything else you could possibly do, you should be fired as grossly incompetent for selecting to hobble your company with Oracle.
Much agreed, I too go to NewEgg's search first and salute their anti patent troll actions.
And then after I find what I want to go buy it on Amazon.com.
Sure, some see that as a dick move. But I look at places like BestBuy who have not only acknowledged that people do that, but embraced it: BestBuy is now more of a "show room" where they make a large chunk of their money simply renting the demo space to products, knowing full well most folks will actually buy online. They don't care, they don't need to, they've already paid the rent with just demoing the products. Want to check out the newest carpet cleaning robots hands on? BestBuy has a half dozen of the latest models, some including little carpet areas to run around in, it's great. Figure which one you want (Samsung, trust me) and then scan the barcode and buy it on Amazon. It's a win, win, win!
NewEgg will die sooner rather than later if it can't figure out a similar model. So far they've just tried to copy the "market place" of Amazon, which has only made their acclaimed search feature suck by filling it with white noise.:/
Serious question: Why do so many computer geeks actually believe every computer user 'lessor' than them doesn't use applications more specialized than a web browser?
I'm sure that Chromebook will be great for updating your resume...after you're fired for crippling the company as practically no enterprise applications will run on those toys. Alternative applications are either non-existent, not nearly functional enough, too expensive, require costly retraining, or most often some combination of those faults.
The reality is there are very, very few legitimate use cases for Chromebooks et al in most enterprise environments. At best as they could serve as a thin client for desktops hosted in the cloud (AWS Workspaces, etc), but that just pushes your desktop management problems into the cloud...it doesn't do much to actually solve or eliminate those desktop management needs.
1) A LOT of workstations include not just data, but a lot of specific configuration. That's especially true of those used in the medical field where they're used to control equipment, but it's also very true for any user more advanced than an office drone. Simply re-imaging them won't get them anywhere remotely close to a functional state.
2) Simply saving to network/cloud drive won't save you from ransomware; They'll simply encrypt every NAS/cloud storage the user has access to. Often it can greatly exacerbate the problem because if/when a server attached to that NAS gets infected...it can encrypt the entire company's data at a much, much faster rate than local PCs and doesn't need to infect all those individual machines or wait for them to be powered on. Cloud storage is even worse in this regard, because access keys can be jacked and the storage reached externally by bot clusters.
Also, NAS is dead...long live hybrid solutions. Panzura, StorSimple, etc. Still, it requires massively upgraded networks, both LAN and WAN connectivity, to adequately replace local storage with remote for hundreds or thousands of users.
A much more legitimate response would be something like AWS WorkSpaces, but again local machine controllers often won't be able to use those solutions.
3) Who the hell uses My Documents? Despite MS pushing it for ages, real world usage shows almost everyone (especially non-power users) saving everything to their desktop.
4) Ditch MS Office, haha that's funny. Clearly, you don't work in any company larger than a few dozen employees.
So if you physically rotate the drives...how is that "automatic"?
More importantly, keep in mind some of the ransomware running around is sneaky, running transparently for weeks or months to ensure that whatever backups are being made have rolled passed their maximum retention and all the new backups are actually encrypted. After a common retention period like 3 months, the malware pulls the plug...deleting the local encryption keep and throwing up a ransom note. "Oh, but I have week's worth of backups, I'm fine!"...until you realize all those backups are also encrypted...
And that crazy flow-chart of decisions that need to be worked through before it's even worth investing time into a given distro enough to learn it well enough that you know why it's not actually going to work for you after all and you need to start the whole asinine process over again... It's precisely why Linux of any flavor makes for a horribly sad excuse of a desktop.
The real flow chart is much simplier than you're describing: If what you want to do is dick around with your OS all day, then by all means run Linux as your desktop. If you're anyone else whatsoever (you know, someone who's actually productive or even just wants to play video games and watch p0rn), then don't run Linux. Windows or Mac, even Android, but not Linux.
Hell, for 99% of "Linux users" I kid you not, Windows + Cygwin makes a massively more functional "Linux Workstation" than any Linux distro on earth: All the "it just works" hardware drivers, games, software, etc with nearly all the power of a real Unix shell environment as well as very solid cross-talk between the two (unlike Window's new Ubuntu subsystem, such crap...). Ok, ok so I'm exaggerating a bit: It's no where near 1% of Linux desktop users that wouldn't be far, far better off running Windows + Cygwin because only a tiny fraction of 1% are doing any deep systems level programming on the Linux kernel that might justify having an actual Linux workstation.
This "invention" is identical to what movie theaters have been doing with screens since the first talkies replaced silent films. Why does it deserve patent protection?
It reminds me of their "innovative" magnetic power plug...that was technologically identical to the magnetic plugs on electric frying pans dating back to at least the 1940s.
You don't go into an intro woodshop class and hand the students physics exercises. Why would you intro computer engineering by throwing dry computer science at them? Are you trying to chase good kids away from computing professions??
The biggest mistake educators make with computers has been thinking they have piss all to do with math or science. Sure, at a fundamental level they aren't about anything else. But at a fundamental level my morning omelet is all about particle physics, so yah.:/
The reality is day to day software engineering has massively more in common with shop classes and "maker skills" than it ever does with math or "science". Just like most machinists are just trying to cut and weld steel into things rather than invent a new alloy, most software engineers are just trying to cut and paste code into new program shapes rather than invent a slightly more efficient sort algorithm. Sure, there's a teeny, tiny minority of egg heads doing amazing work on graphic card drivers to make my FPS better in Fallout 4, and I'm very grateful we have them, but the other 99.89% of programming in the world isn't anything so deep.
If you want to jump start kids on software engineering, buy a few cheap Arduinos, LEDs, maybe a few servos, and go nuts. The first for loop that makes an LED blink or a servo wave and they'll be hooked for life...not to mention learn more about actual software engineering then you'd ever have done with the comp sci/math tactic.
So more like the reed of a saxophone, a powerful and steady blow across it will cause it to resonate...sorry, cause it to flutter at its natural frequency.
Compared with a tuning fork. If you have a C tuning fork and hold it near a piano when you play any C, the fork will noticeably vibrate from the tiny force of audio vibrations reaching it. It resonates with the weak, but in tune, audio force.
We get it, you're just "big boned", it's not your fault.
Thankfully your faulty genes also greatly reduce your likelihood of reproducing, reducing the burden on future generations of both your medical and mental genetic weaknesses. In many ways Type 2 is a self-correcting condition...it'll just takes a few generations to make a substantial correction.
Seriously - Facebook's user base is rapidly skewing older and older. When I mention Facebook to a young person, they [...]
This is a feature, not a bug.
Older folks actually have money to spend. Older folks actually vote. And selling stuff and votes is the entire point of 99% of ads.
Countless web sites have had great success at getting the attention of 14-24 year olds, but have always struggled with 25-40 year olds, a much more lucrative advertizement demographic especially when it comes to selling anything more costly than a soda or buying a vote.
No demand (ie, no consumption) = no production, no investment.
Capital does not do "work" by any sane definition of the word. It enables work, yes, but that's quite a different thing. And still, capital only enables work when it's actually invested...and it's not invested without demand...and there's no demand without consumption.
And of course savings is the opposite of investment; It's the hording of capital, removing it from circulation.
Here's the real kicker: It really doesn't matter if anyone has savings available to invest in production...if there's demand, the market will find a way to meet that demand. But when there's little demand...? No level of savings will inspire investment or production.
You can get a dedicated flight controller with better sensors for $20 and weighting under 2g. Contrast that with an iPhone that costs how much and weighs 129g?! Sure, the iPhone also comes with GPS...but again, $20 gives you a massively better GPS unit than an iPhone has. And of course...you've also got to add some kind of additional hardware I/O for the iPhone to talk to the ESCs (more weight, more cost).
Much of the rest of an iPhone just adds weight and eats power if used as a flight controller.
You might be able to make it all work if you try hard enough, but it would just be academic. I would never, ever be practical.
The linux kernel. It's in your desktops, in your web servers, in your cell phones, in your cars, in your televisions, in your game systems, in your embedded devices... if it were to suddenly go away, the landscape of modern technology would drastically change.
Web servers and cell phones, yes. The rest, not so much.
Realistically almost no one runs Linux on their desktop. Even Unix sysadmins lean heavily to Windows (or Mac). Windows with cygwin makes a more effective Unix workstation for most all uses than does Linux.
The embedded realm (including TVs) is dominated by BSD, for license reasons if nothing else. That's if they want/need a heavy weight OS; Most embedded systems either have no OS or a small real time OS.
The only game system that runs Linux is Steam Box.
And last but certainly not least, if Linux fell off the face of the Earth today, very little would change tomorrow. The BSDs are a drop in replacement for 99.9% of Linux use cases. And frankly, would do the job better: Linux is popular despite merit, not because of it.
Why not just run a web server App on your smart phone?
-No second device to buy, carry around, or keep charged. -No second device to constantly "sync" with. -Far easier to keep patched with security and feature updates.
Of course, that's putting aside all the issues around trying to run a web server on personal internet access accounts (cell, public wifi, home wifi, work wifi, any of it). The bandwidth issues of trying to share a video of your kids with your family alone will trash most any common internet connection, and that's if it'll be allowed at all (inbound port 80/443) or legal ("no servers on this connection!").
This project has Epic Fail written all over it.... So I'm sure in classic Kickstarter fashion it'll get funded 10x over it's target. Because, sheeple.
Generally speaking, being relaxed greatly reduces your chance and severity of injury. If you can, let your body go rag-doll if you know you're going to crash (easier said than done of course...).
"Bracing for impact" is the exact opposite of being relaxed.
If anything, getting mentally absorbed in a device likely reduces injuries. And if the crash is severe enough to cause a brain injury by hitting the seat in front of you, you're going to be hitting the seat in front of you no matter how much you brace yourself. There's a reason why cars have shoulder harnesses and airbags.
I get what you're saying, but this project isn't likely to cause a major issue like the Phantom has.
What they are designing is going to need to be about the size of a Blade Nano QX. I've no idea how they plan to get all that technology in such a tiny quad, but assuming they do the "impact" of one of these hitting someone will be practically nothing. The micro/nano size quads just don't have the power, mass, or prop size do to significant harm (unless maybe, it actually hits you in the eye).
It makes sense,/bin/csh was the traditional default shell of BSDish systems.
But the default shell doesn't matter, because the default shell isn't used by C library functions like system()./bin/sh is used, no matter what your "default shell" is set to. And some foolish folks decided to go ahead and replace/bin/sh with bash.
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That Amazon message is very different. It's basically telling you (days or weeks in advance!) that there's a serious hardware failure and the underlying hardware needs to be pulled from service.
It's literally as simple as a reboot to move to new hardware. You can even catch the notification easily with a CloudWatch Alarm and trigger the purpose-built auto-recovery action to do it for you the moment the instance goes into that state. Or use an AutoScale group and it'll just cycle the hardware out for you w/o any downtime or manual action. TMTOWTDI
If you aren't living by the motto, "Everything Fails, All The Time", then you're simply doing Cloud wrong. To be fair, even if you're entirely on your own physical hardware in a datacenter...you're still Doing It Wrong if you aren't counting on your hardware to always be failing all the time.
High frequency trading is entirely about subverting any remaining myth of the market or even less so-called "investing".
What absolutely needs to happen is a flat transaction tax on any and all transactions, obliterate this entire train wreck of a financial vehicle from the entire economic equation. Simply out of basic fairness, why do I get charged 10% sales tax when buying a candy bar but not if it's a share of Apple?
A simple 1% tax on transactions would overnight return the stock market to a system for investment rather than clever hacks to milk the real economy. If you don't think your stock is going to grow at least by 1%, you simply shouldn't buy it. An extremely modest 1% transaction tax would instill that sanity into the basic fabric of the marketplace.
Yep, but you forgot the punchline: All that zero-tolerance leftwing angst on social issues demonized allies while simultaneously throwing away hard fought ground on hard issues. Respecting pronoun choices was far more important than food on the table or not going bankrupt by medical bills. The result of all that is Trump in the White House and everything that brought about.
Why the requirement of a single node? Why are you baking in a MASSIVE anti-pattern into your DB requirements from the get-go? One that artificially makes scaling difficult and expensive, one that makes HA far less A? All with zero upside for anyone save the hardware vendors balance sheets?
And PostgreSQL's PL/pgSQL is a close and highly effective match for Oracle's PL/SQL.
Honestly, the only legitimate reason for swallowing Oracle's BS is if you're running Oracle's applications. For absolutely anything else you could possibly do, you should be fired as grossly incompetent for selecting to hobble your company with Oracle.
Much agreed, I too go to NewEgg's search first and salute their anti patent troll actions.
And then after I find what I want to go buy it on Amazon.com.
Sure, some see that as a dick move. But I look at places like BestBuy who have not only acknowledged that people do that, but embraced it: BestBuy is now more of a "show room" where they make a large chunk of their money simply renting the demo space to products, knowing full well most folks will actually buy online. They don't care, they don't need to, they've already paid the rent with just demoing the products. Want to check out the newest carpet cleaning robots hands on? BestBuy has a half dozen of the latest models, some including little carpet areas to run around in, it's great. Figure which one you want (Samsung, trust me) and then scan the barcode and buy it on Amazon. It's a win, win, win!
NewEgg will die sooner rather than later if it can't figure out a similar model. So far they've just tried to copy the "market place" of Amazon, which has only made their acclaimed search feature suck by filling it with white noise. :/
Modest inflation isn't an accident of over estimation, it's a feature created intentionally to limit hording and currency speculation.
Serious question: Why do so many computer geeks actually believe every computer user 'lessor' than them doesn't use applications more specialized than a web browser?
I'm sure that Chromebook will be great for updating your resume...after you're fired for crippling the company as practically no enterprise applications will run on those toys. Alternative applications are either non-existent, not nearly functional enough, too expensive, require costly retraining, or most often some combination of those faults.
The reality is there are very, very few legitimate use cases for Chromebooks et al in most enterprise environments. At best as they could serve as a thin client for desktops hosted in the cloud (AWS Workspaces, etc), but that just pushes your desktop management problems into the cloud...it doesn't do much to actually solve or eliminate those desktop management needs.
1) A LOT of workstations include not just data, but a lot of specific configuration. That's especially true of those used in the medical field where they're used to control equipment, but it's also very true for any user more advanced than an office drone. Simply re-imaging them won't get them anywhere remotely close to a functional state.
2) Simply saving to network/cloud drive won't save you from ransomware; They'll simply encrypt every NAS/cloud storage the user has access to. Often it can greatly exacerbate the problem because if/when a server attached to that NAS gets infected...it can encrypt the entire company's data at a much, much faster rate than local PCs and doesn't need to infect all those individual machines or wait for them to be powered on. Cloud storage is even worse in this regard, because access keys can be jacked and the storage reached externally by bot clusters.
Also, NAS is dead...long live hybrid solutions. Panzura, StorSimple, etc. Still, it requires massively upgraded networks, both LAN and WAN connectivity, to adequately replace local storage with remote for hundreds or thousands of users.
A much more legitimate response would be something like AWS WorkSpaces, but again local machine controllers often won't be able to use those solutions.
3) Who the hell uses My Documents? Despite MS pushing it for ages, real world usage shows almost everyone (especially non-power users) saving everything to their desktop.
4) Ditch MS Office, haha that's funny. Clearly, you don't work in any company larger than a few dozen employees.
s/encryption keep/encryption key *sigh*/
So if you physically rotate the drives...how is that "automatic"?
More importantly, keep in mind some of the ransomware running around is sneaky, running transparently for weeks or months to ensure that whatever backups are being made have rolled passed their maximum retention and all the new backups are actually encrypted. After a common retention period like 3 months, the malware pulls the plug...deleting the local encryption keep and throwing up a ransom note. "Oh, but I have week's worth of backups, I'm fine!"...until you realize all those backups are also encrypted...
*puts on flameproof suit*
And that crazy flow-chart of decisions that need to be worked through before it's even worth investing time into a given distro enough to learn it well enough that you know why it's not actually going to work for you after all and you need to start the whole asinine process over again... It's precisely why Linux of any flavor makes for a horribly sad excuse of a desktop.
The real flow chart is much simplier than you're describing: If what you want to do is dick around with your OS all day, then by all means run Linux as your desktop. If you're anyone else whatsoever (you know, someone who's actually productive or even just wants to play video games and watch p0rn), then don't run Linux. Windows or Mac, even Android, but not Linux.
Hell, for 99% of "Linux users" I kid you not, Windows + Cygwin makes a massively more functional "Linux Workstation" than any Linux distro on earth: All the "it just works" hardware drivers, games, software, etc with nearly all the power of a real Unix shell environment as well as very solid cross-talk between the two (unlike Window's new Ubuntu subsystem, such crap...). Ok, ok so I'm exaggerating a bit: It's no where near 1% of Linux desktop users that wouldn't be far, far better off running Windows + Cygwin because only a tiny fraction of 1% are doing any deep systems level programming on the Linux kernel that might justify having an actual Linux workstation.
This "invention" is identical to what movie theaters have been doing with screens since the first talkies replaced silent films. Why does it deserve patent protection?
It reminds me of their "innovative" magnetic power plug...that was technologically identical to the magnetic plugs on electric frying pans dating back to at least the 1940s.
Everything old is new again...
You don't go into an intro woodshop class and hand the students physics exercises. Why would you intro computer engineering by throwing dry computer science at them? Are you trying to chase good kids away from computing professions??
The biggest mistake educators make with computers has been thinking they have piss all to do with math or science. Sure, at a fundamental level they aren't about anything else. But at a fundamental level my morning omelet is all about particle physics, so yah. :/
The reality is day to day software engineering has massively more in common with shop classes and "maker skills" than it ever does with math or "science". Just like most machinists are just trying to cut and weld steel into things rather than invent a new alloy, most software engineers are just trying to cut and paste code into new program shapes rather than invent a slightly more efficient sort algorithm. Sure, there's a teeny, tiny minority of egg heads doing amazing work on graphic card drivers to make my FPS better in Fallout 4, and I'm very grateful we have them, but the other 99.89% of programming in the world isn't anything so deep.
If you want to jump start kids on software engineering, buy a few cheap Arduinos, LEDs, maybe a few servos, and go nuts. The first for loop that makes an LED blink or a servo wave and they'll be hooked for life...not to mention learn more about actual software engineering then you'd ever have done with the comp sci/math tactic.
So more like the reed of a saxophone, a powerful and steady blow across it will cause it to resonate...sorry, cause it to flutter at its natural frequency.
Compared with a tuning fork. If you have a C tuning fork and hold it near a piano when you play any C, the fork will noticeably vibrate from the tiny force of audio vibrations reaching it. It resonates with the weak, but in tune, audio force.
We get it, you're just "big boned", it's not your fault.
Thankfully your faulty genes also greatly reduce your likelihood of reproducing, reducing the burden on future generations of both your medical and mental genetic weaknesses. In many ways Type 2 is a self-correcting condition...it'll just takes a few generations to make a substantial correction.
This is a feature, not a bug.
Older folks actually have money to spend. Older folks actually vote. And selling stuff and votes is the entire point of 99% of ads.
Countless web sites have had great success at getting the attention of 14-24 year olds, but have always struggled with 25-40 year olds, a much more lucrative advertizement demographic especially when it comes to selling anything more costly than a soda or buying a vote.
Production follows demand, always, no exceptions.
No demand (ie, no consumption) = no production, no investment.
Capital does not do "work" by any sane definition of the word. It enables work, yes, but that's quite a different thing. And still, capital only enables work when it's actually invested...and it's not invested without demand...and there's no demand without consumption.
And of course savings is the opposite of investment; It's the hording of capital, removing it from circulation.
Here's the real kicker: It really doesn't matter if anyone has savings available to invest in production...if there's demand, the market will find a way to meet that demand. But when there's little demand...? No level of savings will inspire investment or production.
I'm not sure about "perfect".
You can get a dedicated flight controller with better sensors for $20 and weighting under 2g. Contrast that with an iPhone that costs how much and weighs 129g?! Sure, the iPhone also comes with GPS...but again, $20 gives you a massively better GPS unit than an iPhone has. And of course...you've also got to add some kind of additional hardware I/O for the iPhone to talk to the ESCs (more weight, more cost).
Much of the rest of an iPhone just adds weight and eats power if used as a flight controller.
You might be able to make it all work if you try hard enough, but it would just be academic. I would never, ever be practical.
And that surprises you?
Web servers and cell phones, yes. The rest, not so much.
Realistically almost no one runs Linux on their desktop. Even Unix sysadmins lean heavily to Windows (or Mac). Windows with cygwin makes a more effective Unix workstation for most all uses than does Linux.
The embedded realm (including TVs) is dominated by BSD, for license reasons if nothing else. That's if they want/need a heavy weight OS; Most embedded systems either have no OS or a small real time OS.
The only game system that runs Linux is Steam Box.
And last but certainly not least, if Linux fell off the face of the Earth today, very little would change tomorrow. The BSDs are a drop in replacement for 99.9% of Linux use cases. And frankly, would do the job better: Linux is popular despite merit, not because of it.
Most popular, yes. Largest? Not by a long shot. As some folks are all-too-happy to remind folks, Linux is "just the kernel".
Why not just run a web server App on your smart phone?
-No second device to buy, carry around, or keep charged.
-No second device to constantly "sync" with.
-Far easier to keep patched with security and feature updates.
Of course, that's putting aside all the issues around trying to run a web server on personal internet access accounts (cell, public wifi, home wifi, work wifi, any of it). The bandwidth issues of trying to share a video of your kids with your family alone will trash most any common internet connection, and that's if it'll be allowed at all (inbound port 80/443) or legal ("no servers on this connection!").
This project has Epic Fail written all over it.... So I'm sure in classic Kickstarter fashion it'll get funded 10x over it's target. Because, sheeple.
Got a link?
Generally speaking, being relaxed greatly reduces your chance and severity of injury. If you can, let your body go rag-doll if you know you're going to crash (easier said than done of course...).
"Bracing for impact" is the exact opposite of being relaxed.
If anything, getting mentally absorbed in a device likely reduces injuries. And if the crash is severe enough to cause a brain injury by hitting the seat in front of you, you're going to be hitting the seat in front of you no matter how much you brace yourself. There's a reason why cars have shoulder harnesses and airbags.
I get what you're saying, but this project isn't likely to cause a major issue like the Phantom has.
What they are designing is going to need to be about the size of a Blade Nano QX. I've no idea how they plan to get all that technology in such a tiny quad, but assuming they do the "impact" of one of these hitting someone will be practically nothing. The micro/nano size quads just don't have the power, mass, or prop size do to significant harm (unless maybe, it actually hits you in the eye).
It makes sense, /bin/csh was the traditional default shell of BSDish systems.
But the default shell doesn't matter, because the default shell isn't used by C library functions like system(). /bin/sh is used, no matter what your "default shell" is set to. And some foolish folks decided to go ahead and replace /bin/sh with bash.