Dell XPS Ubuntu Edition or a couple-year-old Macbook of some kind... I *might* believe you've got working controls, reliable suspend/hibernate/resume and all the Laptop bells and whistles. Possibly a meticulously researched Thinkpad with a carefully chosen distribution, but then you're being dishonest, as the only reason to be so meticulous is to avoid such issues.
But anyway, the software compatibility issues, absence of groupware and commercial VPN issues are invariant.
" my Linux based media server that's been humming without incident for well over 7 years"
Linux is great as a server. My Linux media server has been humming along since 2001. It's been upgraded endlessly, transferred to different media, virtualized, and keeps going... I don't use it as a front-end.
If you think answers to issues come up with 5 minutes of Googling, you're just lying. It's a lot of work, and it really ticks me off that in tech communities there are always people who like to minimize their efforts to make it sound like they're secretly geniuses or something.
"Fair enough. I readily concede that Linux is not the best solution for everybody. Will you concede that it is the best solution for some?"
I very personally know kernel developers, so yep. For them, it's certainly the best solution.
The same applies for people who are working out the bugs in software on Linux such as ZFS.
I do have a Linux workstation I use with Kali for security engagements, it's a bit ridiculous to virtualize network interfaces when you need low level access. So for that purpose, yes, it's great. It occasionally doesn't recover from hibernation, HDMI out is broken, half the Fn-keys like brightness settings don't work. It makes weird high-pitched buzzing noises in a quiet room. But that's all normal Linux stuff to me..
For these solutions all the faults in Linux are tolerable because the work specifically requires features which aren't available elsewhere. It's not even a case of "the best tool for the job", it's the only tool for the job.
But unless I use my phone or OWA for calendaring, or get special permission to bypass the challenge response VPN on the customer firewall, it's unusable in business. Toss in the insanity of dealing with domains, MS Office, Visio, etc. and the relatively CHEAP price of the software, just makes it crazy to waste time troubleshooting Linux integration with these solutions. I have a Windows laptop for that and spend most of my time on it.
MAYBE It's nice for a nuts-and-bolts admin to have a similar environment as their servers on their desktop, but they're throwing away compatibility with heaps of software and wasting enormous amounts of time troubleshooting features which simply aren't needed on servers.
So I find it very hard to believe that Linux is a better tool for anyone on the desktop, unless they have specific needs like the ones I describe. And then? it's a lousy compromise compared to MacOS or Windows.
I'm about to blow away an old Thinkpad I set up as a media center. Why? Poor video performance. Works great on Windows. On Linux... shearing, lag, etc. I spent a few days trying to fix it and it seems like everything is 100% correct and up-to-date. The video is just slow on Linux. So it's either throw it in the trash or find its old Windows disk.
Back in February, after one of my recent crashes, I replaced Linux on my primary workstation (Thinkpad again...), because NOTHING I was doing on Linux couldn't be done on Windows, and Linux power management was unstable, I was doing important work and got sick of my machine crashing when I swapped a few video cables. The 12 hours of updates I had to put into Windows was nothing compared to the time I was wasting troubleshooting my stability issues on Linux.
A few weeks ago I just removed a VM from service and put the services back on bare metal because KVM shat on my bridged networking when I ran a utility to change some network settings. KVM virtio FS passthru doesn't work in my distro anyway, so no point in troubleshooting, the IO performance on Linux was horrendous with NFS. I'll rebuild the host ESXi. The box is headless and Linux doesn't recognize the video, sound or anything, so no loss.
I've been using Linux for 22 years and honestly, it's a total waste of time to troubleshoot every distro's Rube Goldberg machine of a solution for the problem of the week. I have decided to stop trying. If it's broken, throw it in the trash, maybe it'll be better in 5 years, but I need to stick to my specialty and not waste my time on these issues.
I'll stick to Linux on servers in Devops fashion. When the distro goes hairy, wipe and rebuild. Linux on the desktop? I'm having fantastic luck with Virtualbox these past few years. I can move images from Linux to Windows to MacOS hosts no problem. KVM has some nice properties, but it's Linux-only so who cares? VMWare is your enterprise virtualization anyway. If your company can't afford VMWare, you're probably not being paid well anyway.
Given the trivial nature of virtualizing Linux, unless you're doing kernel development, why run Linux on bare metal? You can't even argue privacy, security or FOSS ideals if you're using those web apps for your office apps. If you're not using those, then what are you using for a calendar which syncs with your cellphone? Dont' say "owncloud..." ugh.
So whatever, Windows works great for me. It was crap 20 years ago, and on the server it's been lousy, but on the desktop? Linux never cut it for me.
It's a primate thing. Not much we can do about it.
The real mystery to me is why we don't care.
There's some consolation to me that they're "sportsmen". If Mayweather crippled McGregor, people would be sad about it. No parallel with random hate and violence.
I would have expected a bit more on the driver, but Diesel costing double the cost of the driver is clearly wrong.
Your point is valid though. This can cut both fuel and personnel costs.
The massive change to trucking I'm expecting to see is *because* of the costs of drivers. You would not have such large trucks driving so fast with such heavy impact on the roads if drivers were nearly free. Trucks would get smaller, drive slower and longer and depots wouldn't be needed to transfer cargo to smaller trucks to make final deliveries.
"And from my temporally limited experience since the late 90ies I would tentatively agree. How is your perception? How were those 5 to 10% of women in your classes treated by the male participants?"
Normally they were treated like everyone else. Sometimes there was a geek who fawned over them, other times there were guys lining up to "help" her. Women varied in how they responded. I made a point to treat her just like anyone else. Some of these women became my friends, some of these women I never talked to. Just like any other student.
But the worst was when she was singled out in the class and asked a question like: "as a female in technology, can you share your thoughts?"
This reinforced that her that her presence was unusual, that opinion on gender issues was special, that she should be able to come up with a reason as to why she shouldn't be there, and that she should list these to her peers.
It put her in an extremely awkward position that told the rest of the class that she spoke for her gender, that her successes and failures were indicative of "women in technology", that her presence was, intentionally or not, political.
But despite most teachers being clueful about this, and despite 100% supervision during classes, and despite it being the early 90s, there was rarely a girl who enrolled in a highschool course in CS. I don't know why.
Boys clubs? I never actually saw one. I've only read about them in magazines. It seems to be the new thing people are talking about since a certain douchebag CEO made the news a few times in Silicon Valley.
Just because a woman is a woman, it doesn't mean she has any background in gender studies or any special understanding of gender issues.
It's just her opinion and experiences.
my CS classes in high school and university between 1990 and 1997 were easily 95% men. In later years, maybe 90% men, so my experiences of a pre dot-com utopia for equality in tech is the opposite of hers.
But then you saw the same in metalshop, welding, electronics, carpentry and other technical fields. Her insulting stance that the bias is a money issue is just sexism.
Free and open debate is not conservative at all. I don't know where that comes from.
Google has the right to choose whoever it wants to be its employee. They don't like what this man said, so he's on his ass. That's a modern federal Conservative(tm) value.
"Fake news" referred to something which happened during the election. There were sites which generated names similar to the legitimate new sites, had short-lived domains which looked vaguely respectable. They would fabricate headlines, with clear political motives, and their links would be shared through political echo-chambers like Facebook endlessly.
The term was quickly co-opted by certain political groups to dilute the meaning and de-legitimize criticism by the mainstream media. It's not the "fake news" people were talking about.
As for alternative news, beware the sites which produces news with shock DJ-like banter, expanding fabrications into sensational rants which go on for hours. Their headlines are engineered to echo the worst fears of their supporters and drive them into a tizzy of rage (and ad impressions, subscription increases). The fake news sites were modeled to pander to these bases and draw their immediate attention.
I don't think it is name calling. The head of the EPA is a clear example of a spectacular level of corruption. The depth and breadth of nepotism in the Trump administration is staggeringly bald-faced corruption. The televised oval-office ass-kissing was the work of sycophants who could hardly be expeted to represent their constituents when faced with a challenge which might impact their careers was nothing more than a cavalcade of corruption. Asking the FBI for a pledge of loyalty was deeply corrupt. Undeclared conflicts of interest, lies about meetings, etc, etc.
To suggest that there's no corruption in the Republican party is profound and staggering idiocy. One of which there seems to be no shortage these days.
Rare, uncorrupt moments, like McCain's vote against party lines should be the norm if the Republicans weren't playing their supporters as fools. Instead, a lot of self-serving ass-kissing is what these guys are doing to get the rubber stamp of the Republican party and maintain the legitimacy of their office in the eyes of their tribalist supporters.
Underneath that dog shit is group calendaring and scheduling, server-side mail filters, server-side search, mobile integration, etc, etc. etc.
Caldav, Carddav and IMAP, combined with Thunderbird + Lightning + roundcube to unreliabily mimic a good meaty chunk of the dog shit, but it's a lot more work for results that still, despite FOSS innovation, miss key features, add nothing but complex administration and are worse than the dog shit itself. Thunderbird is mostly a better email client, but there's nothing stopping you from pointing it at an Exchange backend. Infact, most developers are used to this as OWA is the defacto enterprise groupware client on Linux, and nobody likes doing webmail.
Kontact, Evolution, etc are examples of FOSS trying to replicate dog shit, but they're doomed to merely accomplish some simulation of the terrible UI, with lots of unreliable connectors and translators to MS backends.
I leave location tracking on and run geofencing apps 24x7x365 and it doesn't make a dent in my battery life. The GPS has little if anything to do with Google Maps battery drain.
For the kids who are sleeping in class, you can put them in a corner with an oscilloscope and a copy of The Forrest Mims books. "Getting Started in Electronics".
It does what I need it to do. I got on with my life. Lasts years too, it's reliable and I don't need to do maintenance reboots. It's also not subsidized by a marketing analytics company, so yeah, it tends to be pricey. The resale value and long life more than make up for it.
$1200 is fine for people who make reasonable money and just don't care about an extra $400-$500 for something they use every single day.
My phone is a "production" device. If I want to hack around, I'll get a tablet or something as "non prod". The Gameboy emulator will stay away from the device I use for banking.
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What make/model/revision of laptop are you using?
Dell XPS Ubuntu Edition or a couple-year-old Macbook of some kind... I *might* believe you've got working controls, reliable suspend/hibernate/resume and all the Laptop bells and whistles. Possibly a meticulously researched Thinkpad with a carefully chosen distribution, but then you're being dishonest, as the only reason to be so meticulous is to avoid such issues.
But anyway, the software compatibility issues, absence of groupware and commercial VPN issues are invariant.
" my Linux based media server that's been humming without incident for well over 7 years"
Linux is great as a server. My Linux media server has been humming along since 2001. It's been upgraded endlessly, transferred to different media, virtualized, and keeps going... I don't use it as a front-end.
If you think answers to issues come up with 5 minutes of Googling, you're just lying. It's a lot of work, and it really ticks me off that in tech communities there are always people who like to minimize their efforts to make it sound like they're secretly geniuses or something.
"Fair enough. I readily concede that Linux is not the best solution for everybody. Will you concede that it is the best solution for some?"
I very personally know kernel developers, so yep. For them, it's certainly the best solution.
The same applies for people who are working out the bugs in software on Linux such as ZFS.
I do have a Linux workstation I use with Kali for security engagements, it's a bit ridiculous to virtualize network interfaces when you need low level access. So for that purpose, yes, it's great. It occasionally doesn't recover from hibernation, HDMI out is broken, half the Fn-keys like brightness settings don't work. It makes weird high-pitched buzzing noises in a quiet room. But that's all normal Linux stuff to me. .
For these solutions all the faults in Linux are tolerable because the work specifically requires features which aren't available elsewhere. It's not even a case of "the best tool for the job", it's the only tool for the job.
But unless I use my phone or OWA for calendaring, or get special permission to bypass the challenge response VPN on the customer firewall, it's unusable in business. Toss in the insanity of dealing with domains, MS Office, Visio, etc. and the relatively CHEAP price of the software, just makes it crazy to waste time troubleshooting Linux integration with these solutions. I have a Windows laptop for that and spend most of my time on it.
MAYBE It's nice for a nuts-and-bolts admin to have a similar environment as their servers on their desktop, but they're throwing away compatibility with heaps of software and wasting enormous amounts of time troubleshooting features which simply aren't needed on servers.
So I find it very hard to believe that Linux is a better tool for anyone on the desktop, unless they have specific needs like the ones I describe. And then? it's a lousy compromise compared to MacOS or Windows.
I'm about to blow away an old Thinkpad I set up as a media center. Why? Poor video performance. Works great on Windows. On Linux... shearing, lag, etc. I spent a few days trying to fix it and it seems like everything is 100% correct and up-to-date. The video is just slow on Linux. So it's either throw it in the trash or find its old Windows disk.
Back in February, after one of my recent crashes, I replaced Linux on my primary workstation (Thinkpad again...), because NOTHING I was doing on Linux couldn't be done on Windows, and Linux power management was unstable, I was doing important work and got sick of my machine crashing when I swapped a few video cables. The 12 hours of updates I had to put into Windows was nothing compared to the time I was wasting troubleshooting my stability issues on Linux.
A few weeks ago I just removed a VM from service and put the services back on bare metal because KVM shat on my bridged networking when I ran a utility to change some network settings. KVM virtio FS passthru doesn't work in my distro anyway, so no point in troubleshooting, the IO performance on Linux was horrendous with NFS. I'll rebuild the host ESXi. The box is headless and Linux doesn't recognize the video, sound or anything, so no loss.
I've been using Linux for 22 years and honestly, it's a total waste of time to troubleshoot every distro's Rube Goldberg machine of a solution for the problem of the week. I have decided to stop trying. If it's broken, throw it in the trash, maybe it'll be better in 5 years, but I need to stick to my specialty and not waste my time on these issues.
I'll stick to Linux on servers in Devops fashion. When the distro goes hairy, wipe and rebuild. Linux on the desktop? I'm having fantastic luck with Virtualbox these past few years. I can move images from Linux to Windows to MacOS hosts no problem. KVM has some nice properties, but it's Linux-only so who cares? VMWare is your enterprise virtualization anyway. If your company can't afford VMWare, you're probably not being paid well anyway.
Given the trivial nature of virtualizing Linux, unless you're doing kernel development, why run Linux on bare metal? You can't even argue privacy, security or FOSS ideals if you're using those web apps for your office apps. If you're not using those, then what are you using for a calendar which syncs with your cellphone? Dont' say "owncloud..." ugh.
So whatever, Windows works great for me. It was crap 20 years ago, and on the server it's been lousy, but on the desktop? Linux never cut it for me.
..and I'm not alone https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
It's a primate thing. Not much we can do about it.
The real mystery to me is why we don't care.
There's some consolation to me that they're "sportsmen". If Mayweather crippled McGregor, people would be sad about it. No parallel with random hate and violence.
Hmm, 38% fuel, 34% driver.
See table 9: http://www.atri-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ATRI-Operational-Costs-of-Trucking-2014-FINAL.pdf
I would have expected a bit more on the driver, but Diesel costing double the cost of the driver is clearly wrong.
Your point is valid though. This can cut both fuel and personnel costs.
The massive change to trucking I'm expecting to see is *because* of the costs of drivers. You would not have such large trucks driving so fast with such heavy impact on the roads if drivers were nearly free. Trucks would get smaller, drive slower and longer and depots wouldn't be needed to transfer cargo to smaller trucks to make final deliveries.
"Truck for regional hauling cost of hell of a lot less than this piece of shit will."
Not sure why this got modded down, it's a valid criticism.
I think the long term plan here is that the greatest cost and risk to shipping is the driver.
I unfollowed most of my friends, my feed looks fine now.
Facebook needs a "don't show me posts with ANY links to ANYTHING" option.
Germany will only do the PoC. The Germans will stop when it involves breaking rules or taking risks, then the Chinese step in.
"And from my temporally limited experience since the late 90ies I would tentatively agree. How is your perception? How were those 5 to 10% of women in your classes treated by the male participants?"
Normally they were treated like everyone else. Sometimes there was a geek who fawned over them, other times there were guys lining up to "help" her. Women varied in how they responded. I made a point to treat her just like anyone else. Some of these women became my friends, some of these women I never talked to. Just like any other student.
But the worst was when she was singled out in the class and asked a question like: "as a female in technology, can you share your thoughts?"
This reinforced that her that her presence was unusual, that opinion on gender issues was special, that she should be able to come up with a reason as to why she shouldn't be there, and that she should list these to her peers.
It put her in an extremely awkward position that told the rest of the class that she spoke for her gender, that her successes and failures were indicative of "women in technology", that her presence was, intentionally or not, political.
But despite most teachers being clueful about this, and despite 100% supervision during classes, and despite it being the early 90s, there was rarely a girl who enrolled in a highschool course in CS. I don't know why.
Boys clubs? I never actually saw one. I've only read about them in magazines. It seems to be the new thing people are talking about since a certain douchebag CEO made the news a few times in Silicon Valley.
Just because a woman is a woman, it doesn't mean she has any background in gender studies or any special understanding of gender issues.
It's just her opinion and experiences.
my CS classes in high school and university between 1990 and 1997 were easily 95% men. In later years, maybe 90% men, so my experiences of a pre dot-com utopia for equality in tech is the opposite of hers.
But then you saw the same in metalshop, welding, electronics, carpentry and other technical fields. Her insulting stance that the bias is a money issue is just sexism.
"Both yahoo and duckduckgo use bing for search. So the options are only 2 - google and bing"
Untrue:https://duck.co/help/results/sources
"As a side note, they could at least have put in the effort to make real torches. All you need is a stick, a rag, gasoline/kerosene, and some wire."
And these are the guys complaining about manufacturing jobs.
"Don't let this end your unrelated rant against large swaths of people, but he is a liberal."
The cluelessness around here is getting ridiculous.
He calls himself classical liberal which confuses people.
He's way on the right.
He was free to express his opinion, they were free to fire him.
Does he want government intervention or a union or something?
Free and open debate is not conservative at all. I don't know where that comes from.
Google has the right to choose whoever it wants to be its employee. They don't like what this man said, so he's on his ass. That's a modern federal Conservative(tm) value.
Market forces will curb their tyrany!... I guess.
If you have a look at Google Trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=fake%20news, you'll see that you've been living in a cave.
Or you're being intentionally obtuse.
"Fake news" referred to something which happened during the election. There were sites which generated names similar to the legitimate new sites, had short-lived domains which looked vaguely respectable. They would fabricate headlines, with clear political motives, and their links would be shared through political echo-chambers like Facebook endlessly.
The term was quickly co-opted by certain political groups to dilute the meaning and de-legitimize criticism by the mainstream media. It's not the "fake news" people were talking about.
As for alternative news, beware the sites which produces news with shock DJ-like banter, expanding fabrications into sensational rants which go on for hours. Their headlines are engineered to echo the worst fears of their supporters and drive them into a tizzy of rage (and ad impressions, subscription increases). The fake news sites were modeled to pander to these bases and draw their immediate attention.
I don't think it is name calling. The head of the EPA is a clear example of a spectacular level of corruption. The depth and breadth of nepotism in the Trump administration is staggeringly bald-faced corruption. The televised oval-office ass-kissing was the work of sycophants who could hardly be expeted to represent their constituents when faced with a challenge which might impact their careers was nothing more than a cavalcade of corruption. Asking the FBI for a pledge of loyalty was deeply corrupt. Undeclared conflicts of interest, lies about meetings, etc, etc.
To suggest that there's no corruption in the Republican party is profound and staggering idiocy. One of which there seems to be no shortage these days.
Rare, uncorrupt moments, like McCain's vote against party lines should be the norm if the Republicans weren't playing their supporters as fools. Instead, a lot of self-serving ass-kissing is what these guys are doing to get the rubber stamp of the Republican party and maintain the legitimacy of their office in the eyes of their tribalist supporters.
"Why would we like to replicate dog shit?"
Underneath that dog shit is group calendaring and scheduling, server-side mail filters, server-side search, mobile integration, etc, etc. etc.
Caldav, Carddav and IMAP, combined with Thunderbird + Lightning + roundcube to unreliabily mimic a good meaty chunk of the dog shit, but it's a lot more work for results that still, despite FOSS innovation, miss key features, add nothing but complex administration and are worse than the dog shit itself. Thunderbird is mostly a better email client, but there's nothing stopping you from pointing it at an Exchange backend. Infact, most developers are used to this as OWA is the defacto enterprise groupware client on Linux, and nobody likes doing webmail.
Kontact, Evolution, etc are examples of FOSS trying to replicate dog shit, but they're doomed to merely accomplish some simulation of the terrible UI, with lots of unreliable connectors and translators to MS backends.
And FOSS hasn't replicated it with any success in 20 years.
I leave location tracking on and run geofencing apps 24x7x365 and it doesn't make a dent in my battery life. The GPS has little if anything to do with Google Maps battery drain.
For the kids who are sleeping in class, you can put them in a corner with an oscilloscope and a copy of The Forrest Mims books. "Getting Started in Electronics".
It does what I need it to do. I got on with my life. Lasts years too, it's reliable and I don't need to do maintenance reboots. It's also not subsidized by a marketing analytics company, so yeah, it tends to be pricey. The resale value and long life more than make up for it.
$1200 is fine for people who make reasonable money and just don't care about an extra $400-$500 for something they use every single day.
My phone is a "production" device. If I want to hack around, I'll get a tablet or something as "non prod". The Gameboy emulator will stay away from the device I use for banking.