+1 Happened here with removable usb drives. Also... Screwing around on Ubuntu at single user often results at the system being kicked to multi user with admin i/o to the shell split between multiple processes. Looks fixed in 17.10... But the 16.04 still has the problem.
Makes fixing the fstab for usb disks and changed uuids into multiple reboots...
My Galaxy S5 is the last Samsung Galaxy with a removable battery. A spare battery that lets me keep a second one charged requires little space change on the phone and allows longer use without portable external battery packs. I've got a charger on the wall at home and a second battery charged when I'm going to go out on the road and need a long amount of phone battery use. Swap the battery when I get down to under 20 percent. Cost of the pair of items was around $16.00.
The phone maker can sell the optional add-ons and batteries can be replaced when they go bad without a professional phone repair outfit having special case cracking tools 8-)
I've had phones that had batteries go bad and swell and get hot. Swap battery and phone is good for a couple of more years. Why no removable batteries -- they want to limit the lifespan of the phone...
The only thing I don't have on the S5 that's on newer phones was wireless charging which could have been built in.
Aren't there more important things that are not being exposed. How about speeches to Wall St. and Clinton Foundation donations. Also, what about the running of the private email server. Let's get a priority here as to stuff that gets classified over political whims and stuff that they sweep under the rug with disinformation.
I'm a political moderate seeing both sides delivering more bull to the press to avoid discussing real hard issues and choices.
Probably agreed since the best part of the Mozilla product line has always been the 2nd best email client. The best was probably Eudora in the old days.... Gonna have to look at Opera mail
My business and I are 100% dependant on Thunderbird for mail and calendar and 0% dependent on Firefox since Chrome's got some advantages. Perhaps this is a thing that Mozilla folks don't see since they're so browser focused.
Been doing sysadmin on Unix since minicomputers. Started as a Field Engineer on PDP11's and VAXes... Taught sysadmin for a while. Still can't figure out why but I seem to like beating computers into submission. Did SysV, BSD, SunOS, Solaris,Pyramid's OS/x and DC/OSx, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, Linux... Don't know why people think they're different things...
I used to do Sysadmin training for a mini-vendor for a while.
Pretty easy to transition from one to another back when companies were willing to train... The first exposure to AIX 3.23 was surprising, though.
If the movie was an blockbuster they'd have hired security at the theaters if it would make money. They figure it's a loser and are cutting the losses.
Perhaps this is more a comment on movie than the fear of Korean Terror or hackers. Perhaps the studio has no faith in the production. Another stupid comedy that would go quickly to cable... no big deal if it wasn't for the hackers.
Damned shame that they killed Alpha and with that move doomed VMS. The Itanium port didn't help expand the VMS base, since there wasn't enough support to VARs to keep the support for VMS in applications. There are only two viable OS choices now. Windows and Linux/Unix. (And the Unix part is weakening over time due to costs vs. Linix).
It may have been the kind of things like an NSA letter -- it also needs to be said that she is very serious and zealous about maintaining her privacy. Remember the SCO suit seemed to even have private investigators looking to find PJ.
This may not be about secret magic security letters -- but again... how do we ever know. 8-(
We need a Groklaw NOW to keep a light on the legal maneuvers that are impacting the digital ecosphere.
I wouldn't have minded if PJ shut down Groklaw after SCO -- but the coverage of the patent suits and other recent reports on the IBM suit have proven we need to have someone covering this. The mainstream media (not a political issue -- but a fact that they are not tech aware enough to cover this) can't do the job on these stories.
I was a reporter once and moved to Hardware and then Sysadmin. There are technical things that the journalism school crowd can't cover. PJ's legal background made Groklaw a major resource.
We do need Groklaw now more than ever.
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I'd love to see a good investigative reporter pick up and run with the story. I'm afraid, though, that the folks who "know where the bodies are buried" won't talk. Perhaps if someone went at the story like they did in All The Presidents Men and just follow the money.
Amazing to see a decent company ruined by it's own management. I liked Caldera and owned OldSCO stock before they made this ridiculous lawsuit happen. I got out before they killed the company.
How could anyone find it surprising that a corporation is promoting use of it's own products. Please. Actually, Microsoft's got a couple of good products that I've used and been happy with. One's Microsoft Lync which we use at work to do messaging, desktop sharing etc. I just wished there was a linux client for the thing. It would make my life much better.
I'm Linux/Unix guy for a living but I do admit Microsoft makes some reasonable products. I wish the corporate lock-in was not as bad as it is and I wish they published docs documenting all their file formats for interoperability. They have made some strides in the last couple of years.
They've got at least one 11/70... I remember the VT11 on PDP's running Lunar Lander. I remember VSV11's (qbus connecting to Unibus via an adapter) running on Vax11/780's. Was the VS11 similar to the VSV?
I used to be the guy who fixed this stuff. TU77 tape drives, RP06 disk drives, VAX11/780's.
I'd kill to have a job doing that today. Much more fun than Unix Sysadmin. Now the techs just do parts delivery -- if that. Now it's mostly customer swap with manufacturer sending the stuff via FedEX/UPS or courier.
Adjusting the TU45's on those PDP10's was a real PITA.
My kid and I both use it. It's handy as both a browser, nntp and email client in one. Even the html editor comes in handy for occasional quick stuff...
It's a good throwback to the old Netscape Navigator days and it's still being updated regularly. I've been using that and Chrome.
Try something bigger. More lights and fun. And the fan noise. I had a PDP11 in my kitchen. Power up both 14 inch disk drives and watch the breaker for the 20 amp circuit blow. 8-(
The SIMH emulator can run PDP11 software and give you the 11/40 blinking lights in a window. I put up RT11 and did some toggle in programs to test it. Amazing. I just wish we had the 11/45 and 11/70 light panels to watch as well.
I never met him, but I always admired the way he put values ahead of pure profit.
As a Field Grunt in Field Service I always was told to do what's right for the customer. In these days of call centers, untrained support personnel reading from scripts, software that requires a paid support contract to fix security defects in the releases... or to upgrade firmware which used to be free for buying the hardware (Oracle, HP).
We're in a world which views the customer as a consumer and pushes profit ahead of everything else.
VAX/VMS was a solid well supported product and Vaxclusters were revolutionary.
Ken Olsen made mistakes... but he never forgot he was an engineer first. Here's to the techie's techie who valued more than just the bottom line.
He missed the Unix boat and was late to the "Open Systems" camp -- but the folks at DEC put an awful lot of source stuff up for download on decwrl and market-20 on their dime before there were web browsers and download.com. Here's to AltaVista, DECnet and BasicPlus. Here's to distributed computing to the desktop.
But as an IT guy I'd rather be a Wal-Mart greeter than in management. I'd sleep nights because I won't have to be the guy doing the right-sizing.
I'm just looking to survive these days with a kid headed for college and a mortgage. Finding new and exciting challenges in IT is nice, but a steady paycheck beats a startup right now. (Unless it's my own startup.)
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fun game: Name DEC pdp11 OS by running idle light pattern...
RT11, RSTS/E, RSX11 all had different light patterns.
What about Let's Encrypt. My website is https for no additional cost.
+1 Happened here with removable usb drives.
Also... Screwing around on Ubuntu at single user often results at the system being kicked to multi user with admin i/o to the shell split between multiple processes. Looks fixed in 17.10... But the 16.04 still has the problem.
Makes fixing the fstab for usb disks and changed uuids into multiple reboots...
+1 Happened here with removable usb drives.
Just another vote for VMS and OS/2. Add Unix Sys V as well.
My Galaxy S5 is the last Samsung Galaxy with a removable battery. A spare battery that lets me keep a second one charged requires little space change on the phone and allows longer use without portable external battery packs. I've got a charger on the wall at home and a second battery charged when I'm going to go out on the road and need a long amount of phone battery use. Swap the battery when I get down to under 20 percent. Cost of the pair of items was around $16.00.
The phone maker can sell the optional add-ons and batteries can be replaced when they go bad without a professional phone repair outfit having special case cracking tools 8-)
I've had phones that had batteries go bad and swell and get hot. Swap battery and phone is good for a couple of more years.
Why no removable batteries -- they want to limit the lifespan of the phone...
The only thing I don't have on the S5 that's on newer phones was wireless charging which could have been built in.
Aren't there more important things that are not being exposed. How about speeches to Wall St. and Clinton Foundation donations. Also, what about the running of the private email server. Let's get a priority here as to stuff that gets classified over political whims and stuff that they sweep under the rug with disinformation.
I'm a political moderate seeing both sides delivering more bull to the press to avoid discussing real hard issues and choices.
Probably agreed since the best part of the Mozilla product line has always been the 2nd best email client.
The best was probably Eudora in the old days.... Gonna have to look at Opera mail
My business and I are 100% dependant on Thunderbird for mail and calendar and 0% dependent on Firefox since Chrome's got some advantages. Perhaps this is a thing that Mozilla folks don't see since they're so browser focused.
Been doing sysadmin on Unix since minicomputers. Started as a Field Engineer on PDP11's and VAXes... Taught sysadmin for a while. Still can't figure out why but I seem to like beating computers into submission. Did SysV, BSD, SunOS, Solaris,Pyramid's OS/x and DC/OSx, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, Linux... Don't know why people think they're different things...
I used to do Sysadmin training for a mini-vendor for a while.
Pretty easy to transition from one to another back when companies were willing to train... The first exposure to AIX 3.23 was surprising, though.
If the movie was an blockbuster they'd have hired security at the theaters if it would make money. They figure it's a loser and are cutting the losses.
Perhaps this is more a comment on movie than the fear of Korean Terror or hackers. Perhaps the studio has no faith in the production.
Another stupid comedy that would go quickly to cable... no big deal if it wasn't for the hackers.
Or run Chrome or Mozilla at a reasonable rev.
Damned shame that they killed Alpha and with that move doomed VMS. The Itanium port didn't help expand the VMS base, since there wasn't enough support to VARs to keep the support for VMS in applications. There are only two viable OS choices now.
Windows and Linux/Unix. (And the Unix part is weakening over time due to costs vs. Linix).
It may have been the kind of things like an NSA letter -- it also needs to be said that she is very serious and zealous about maintaining her privacy. Remember the SCO suit seemed to even have private investigators looking to find PJ.
This may not be about secret magic security letters -- but again... how do we ever know. 8-(
We need a Groklaw NOW to keep a light on the legal maneuvers that are impacting the digital ecosphere.
I wouldn't have minded if PJ shut down Groklaw after SCO -- but the coverage of the patent suits and other
recent reports on the IBM suit have proven we need to have someone covering this. The mainstream media (not a political issue -- but a fact that they are not tech aware enough to cover this) can't do the job on these stories.
I was a reporter once and moved to Hardware and then Sysadmin. There are technical things that the journalism school crowd can't cover. PJ's legal background made Groklaw a major resource.
We do need Groklaw now more than ever.
I'd love to see a good investigative reporter pick up and run with the story. I'm afraid, though, that the folks who "know where the bodies are buried" won't talk.
Perhaps if someone went at the story like they did in All The Presidents Men and just follow the money.
Amazing to see a decent company ruined by it's own management.
I liked Caldera and owned OldSCO stock before they made this ridiculous lawsuit happen. I got out before they killed the company.
How could anyone find it surprising that a corporation is promoting use of it's own products. Please. Actually, Microsoft's got a couple of good products that I've used and been happy with. One's Microsoft Lync which we use at work to do messaging, desktop sharing etc. I just wished there was a linux client for the thing. It would make my life much better.
I'm Linux/Unix guy for a living but I do admit Microsoft makes some reasonable products. I wish the corporate lock-in was not as bad as it is and I wish they published docs documenting all their file formats for interoperability. They have made some strides in the last couple of years.
I've got one laying in the basement. Or perhaps it's the SLC.
Runs nicely with Solaris 1.1.x (SunOS 4.1.x).
What's it worth to you...? I've got IPX's, Opus Sparcstation II clones with the SparcUP upgrades... etc.
They've got at least one 11/70...
I remember the VT11 on PDP's running Lunar Lander.
I remember VSV11's (qbus connecting to Unibus via an adapter) running on Vax11/780's. Was the VS11 similar to the VSV?
I used to be the guy who fixed this stuff.
TU77 tape drives, RP06 disk drives, VAX11/780's.
I'd kill to have a job doing that today. Much more fun than Unix Sysadmin.
Now the techs just do parts delivery -- if that. Now it's mostly customer swap with manufacturer sending the stuff via FedEX/UPS or courier.
Adjusting the TU45's on those PDP10's was a real PITA.
My kid and I both use it.
It's handy as both a browser, nntp and email client in one.
Even the html editor comes in handy for occasional quick stuff...
It's a good throwback to the old Netscape Navigator days and it's still being updated regularly.
I've been using that and Chrome.
Try something bigger. More lights and fun. And the fan noise. I had a PDP11 in my kitchen. Power up both 14 inch disk drives and watch the breaker for the 20 amp circuit blow. 8-(
The SIMH emulator can run PDP11 software and give you the 11/40 blinking lights in a window. I put up RT11 and did some toggle in programs to test it. Amazing. I just wish we had the 11/45 and 11/70 light panels to watch as well.
I never met him, but I always admired the way he put values ahead of pure profit.
As a Field Grunt in Field Service I always was told to do what's right for the customer. In these days of call centers, untrained support personnel reading from scripts, software that requires a paid support contract to fix security defects in the releases... or to upgrade firmware which used to be free for buying the hardware (Oracle, HP).
We're in a world which views the customer as a consumer and pushes profit ahead of everything else.
VAX/VMS was a solid well supported product and Vaxclusters were revolutionary.
Ken Olsen made mistakes... but he never forgot he was an engineer first. Here's to the techie's techie who valued more than just the bottom line.
He missed the Unix boat and was late to the "Open Systems" camp -- but the folks at DEC put an awful lot of source stuff up for download on decwrl and market-20 on their dime before there were web browsers and download.com.
Here's to AltaVista, DECnet and BasicPlus. Here's to distributed computing to the desktop.
As a 56 year old in IT... You're damned right.
But as an IT guy I'd rather be a Wal-Mart greeter than in management. I'd sleep nights because I won't have to be the guy doing the right-sizing.
I'm just looking to survive these days with a kid headed for college and a mortgage. Finding new and exciting challenges in IT is nice, but a steady paycheck beats a startup right now.
(Unless it's my own startup.)
Unfortunately, that's just the way it is.