pgup/pgdn are useful for terminals., shift-pgup and shift-pgdn being another common keystroke combination.
I survive without them, but the un-remappable power button where the delete key should be is a constant reminder at the sacrifices made to use a Mac.
The only advantages to the Mac layout are the command-c/v combination not overlapping with ctrl-c/v in terminals, and some of the oldschool ctrl-A/E editing keystrokes (others like ctrl-T are beyond useless). Pains like command-Q next to command-W, command-backtick are... frustrating, but meh.
Just because you don't use it doesn't mean I don't find it useful.
"Why would I buy a laptop with shitty resolution screen?"
Laptop ergonomic are terrible. For me a laptop is a portable computer I can occasionally use in a coffee shop or meeting room. If I have to use it like that for more than a few hours, my neck and back start aching.
Walk into a room of developers.... how many use their MBPs as laptops? Most are on stands next to their monitors with the "touch bar" far out of reach, the puny Retina display showing a few tallbar messaging apps, 4k Dell monitors and gaming keyboards being used to get work done.
MBP doesn't even have a proper delete button or pgup, pgdn.
It might have been too early in OwnCloud's life to find the hosted providers. I'm glad to see they're out there now and have some geographic diversity.
IMAP isn't the issue for Linux. It's interoperable calendaring and scheduling, contacts, etc, etc. which have been the issue. The summary leaves out this important detail from their decision: ".. have transitioned to Exchange providing an integrated solution with mobile support and advanced scheduling functionality"
The organizational issues such as "who does Bob report to?", "How do I book this room?", "How do I coordinate free time on Alice, Bob, Carol and Dave's calendar?", "Which meeting rooms are available at that time?".
For that matter, Exchange also gives you some MDM tools, server-side rules (so you don't need to depend on Thunderbird to be running so that your email filters into the right folder on you phone), etc.
I'll keep an eye on NextCloud, hopefully it finally replaces Exchange for me, but I'm not holding my breath.
I heard of Owncloud about 5 years ago after I gave up on CalDav to replace Gmail as a solution which would allow me to do calendaring and scheduling, contacts, notes etc. on my phone and my desktop.
I asked around about an "Owncloud hosted environment", hoping maybe a service maintained by Owncloud staff or crazy developers might be out there offering high availability. The FOSS-heads balked at it saying "why would you want a hosted Owncloud???, it's all about data privacy and control!". No such service existed.
All of this has been a total waste of time, as I've been running on a hosted Exchange environment for 7 years now and have no problems... well except that Thunderbird Exchange support is... barely tolerable, and Evolution itself is barely tolerable. The OWA web client, Android calendar and iPhone calendar are much better than Evolution and Thunderbird for calendaring.
My 5 year old Thinkpad has 16G of RAM and I use it extensively for virtualization.
The keyboard on the 11" Mac Air is nicer IMHO than the 12" Macbook, and it has USB, active cooling (when you need it), magsafe (For those who think it's good), a 720p camera (The new Macbook has 480p). It's come in 8GB configurations for a long time.
I was hoping for a Retina display in the 11" Macbook Air with a core i7 and 16G of RAM support... but oh well. It's improved in many areas which don't matter to me and worsened in many areas which do matter to me.
I'm waiting for something better to come out to replace my older Mac, and hopefully it will be good enough to replace my ancient Thinkpad too.
Compare PCs with high dpi display, 1080p camera, sound and microphone which doesn't suck, trackpad which doesn't suck, battery which actually lasts all day and endures for years, and a warranty which you can walk into a store anywhere in the world and get the machine serviced.
Then consider the resale value...
The past few years have been an anomaly, but I think most Mac users are in agreement that the Mac Pro trashcan, the touch-bar Macbook Pro and the too-thin single-port Macbook with its passively cooled CPU are all horrible design decisions.
Oh wait, I get what you mean, the stock market crash of 2008. The RE "crash" around here followed which people often cite as a buying opportunity, but it was 2 weeks long and only on paper.
I was fully invested during and after the 2008 stock market crash. I invested my house proceeds at the top of the market and got slaughtered, but nobody in their right mind sells low. The markets did nothing for roughly 8 years, but there's a tiny, tiny uptick in my portfolio.
In terms of the house, it sounds like you didn't take the boomer's advice to "buy what you can afford, save a good downpayment" or you were born a few years earlier than me. Congratulations.
I did buy one, but sold it a few years later for personal reasons. Didn't make a lot of money at it.
I've saved over $400k, but houses where I'm renting are over $2M now.
Real-estate is highly local, so the 2008 crash around here was 2 weeks long. Emergency measures kicked up prices at double-speed until 2015 and faster still in the past three years.
Ditto, almost every bit of advice from a boomer has been bad advice.
Every year, houses increased more than 4x my annual savings, even when I packed away $80k/year in after-tax savings, it wasn't enough to make my downpayment more effective than if I bought 20 years ago.
The lesson is the rules will change to suite the majority. The millennials will do fine.
Web developers have been relying on MacOS for years to get a decent Unix environment. MS is looking to take that market before Apple comes to their senses and starts manufacturing hardware again.
I've never seen a DC without 2 factor authentication. The second factor usually being a fingerprint, and implemented in a mantrap. If your rubber finger doesn't work, and you don't have a good explanation for the guards, the doors won't be opened until the police arrive.
Infosec teams often have direct read-only access to equipment and audit logs to central servers, with alerts on use-cases such as turning off logging, modifying account permissions etc. etc. In some circumstances even command history is logged.
It's hard to imagine why infosec would conspire to hide an account. If it has a good reason to exist, the case can be made to the CIO.
It might be possible to circumvent this stuff if you have physical access during a network outage, but your card access logs would still be in the system, it just might take a couple years for it to turn up when people investigate "how did the back door get there?" and it may be enough to put you in prison.
Information technology professionals are not entitled to overtime pay.
And my favourite:
Information technology professionals are not covered by the daily and weekly limits on hours of work
From what I could find, these were laws meant to cover fisheries and agriculture, where the seasonal nature of the work meant that the only time you would work on a harvest or catch was when there would be work. It was understood that the nature of the work was feast-or-famine, and it was paid hourly. If they had to pay overtime, they would be paying nothing but overtime. Strangely, the rules also included accounting, some screwball argument that month-end and year end was a busy period and that people could take time in lieu or have downtime between busy periods.
Somehow this slippery slope was extended to IT. As a salaried employee, it meant they could pay you *nothing*.
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I use delete with modifier keys regularly.
pgup/pgdn are useful for terminals., shift-pgup and shift-pgdn being another common keystroke combination.
I survive without them, but the un-remappable power button where the delete key should be is a constant reminder at the sacrifices made to use a Mac.
The only advantages to the Mac layout are the command-c/v combination not overlapping with ctrl-c/v in terminals, and some of the oldschool ctrl-A/E editing keystrokes (others like ctrl-T are beyond useless). Pains like command-Q next to command-W, command-backtick are... frustrating, but meh.
Just because you don't use it doesn't mean I don't find it useful.
"Why would I buy a laptop with shitty resolution screen?"
Laptop ergonomic are terrible. For me a laptop is a portable computer I can occasionally use in a coffee shop or meeting room. If I have to use it like that for more than a few hours, my neck and back start aching.
Walk into a room of developers.... how many use their MBPs as laptops? Most are on stands next to their monitors with the "touch bar" far out of reach, the puny Retina display showing a few tallbar messaging apps, 4k Dell monitors and gaming keyboards being used to get work done.
MBP doesn't even have a proper delete button or pgup, pgdn.
They were almost successful in Somalia:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/africa/somalia-airplane-explosion/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daallo_Airlines_Flight_159
It might have been too early in OwnCloud's life to find the hosted providers. I'm glad to see they're out there now and have some geographic diversity.
IMAP isn't the issue for Linux. It's interoperable calendaring and scheduling, contacts, etc, etc. which have been the issue. The summary leaves out this important detail from their decision: ".. have transitioned to Exchange providing an integrated solution with mobile support and advanced scheduling functionality"
The organizational issues such as "who does Bob report to?", "How do I book this room?", "How do I coordinate free time on Alice, Bob, Carol and Dave's calendar?", "Which meeting rooms are available at that time?".
For that matter, Exchange also gives you some MDM tools, server-side rules (so you don't need to depend on Thunderbird to be running so that your email filters into the right folder on you phone), etc.
I'll keep an eye on NextCloud, hopefully it finally replaces Exchange for me, but I'm not holding my breath.
Ugh.
The fork of Owncloud?
I heard of Owncloud about 5 years ago after I gave up on CalDav to replace Gmail as a solution which would allow me to do calendaring and scheduling, contacts, notes etc. on my phone and my desktop.
My friends who were once enthusiastic about running Owncloud eventually gave up on it as a buggy mess and stopped talking about it. E.g. https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/issues/514
I asked around about an "Owncloud hosted environment", hoping maybe a service maintained by Owncloud staff or crazy developers might be out there offering high availability. The FOSS-heads balked at it saying "why would you want a hosted Owncloud???, it's all about data privacy and control!". No such service existed.
All of this has been a total waste of time, as I've been running on a hosted Exchange environment for 7 years now and have no problems... well except that Thunderbird Exchange support is... barely tolerable, and Evolution itself is barely tolerable. The OWA web client, Android calendar and iPhone calendar are much better than Evolution and Thunderbird for calendaring.
I would agree, if they didn't end the Macbook Air 11", but instead introduced it as a new product category.
Else it's a downgrade. It still remains to be seen what will happen to the Air 13".
What's not to like?
My 5 year old Thinkpad has 16G of RAM and I use it extensively for virtualization.
The keyboard on the 11" Mac Air is nicer IMHO than the 12" Macbook, and it has USB, active cooling (when you need it), magsafe (For those who think it's good), a 720p camera (The new Macbook has 480p). It's come in 8GB configurations for a long time.
I was hoping for a Retina display in the 11" Macbook Air with a core i7 and 16G of RAM support... but oh well. It's improved in many areas which don't matter to me and worsened in many areas which do matter to me.
I'm waiting for something better to come out to replace my older Mac, and hopefully it will be good enough to replace my ancient Thinkpad too.
I don't think the premium is that high either.
Compare PCs with high dpi display, 1080p camera, sound and microphone which doesn't suck, trackpad which doesn't suck, battery which actually lasts all day and endures for years, and a warranty which you can walk into a store anywhere in the world and get the machine serviced.
Then consider the resale value...
The past few years have been an anomaly, but I think most Mac users are in agreement that the Mac Pro trashcan, the touch-bar Macbook Pro and the too-thin single-port Macbook with its passively cooled CPU are all horrible design decisions.
You're seriously *forcing* kids to create profiles and give their most personal information to an advertising and data mining company.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/google-deceptively-tracks-students-internet-browsing-eff-says-complaint-federal-trade .
Oh wait, I get what you mean, the stock market crash of 2008. The RE "crash" around here followed which people often cite as a buying opportunity, but it was 2 weeks long and only on paper.
I was fully invested during and after the 2008 stock market crash. I invested my house proceeds at the top of the market and got slaughtered, but nobody in their right mind sells low. The markets did nothing for roughly 8 years, but there's a tiny, tiny uptick in my portfolio.
In terms of the house, it sounds like you didn't take the boomer's advice to "buy what you can afford, save a good downpayment" or you were born a few years earlier than me. Congratulations.
I did buy one, but sold it a few years later for personal reasons. Didn't make a lot of money at it.
I've saved over $400k, but houses where I'm renting are over $2M now.
Real-estate is highly local, so the 2008 crash around here was 2 weeks long. Emergency measures kicked up prices at double-speed until 2015 and faster still in the past three years.
Ditto, almost every bit of advice from a boomer has been bad advice.
Every year, houses increased more than 4x my annual savings, even when I packed away $80k/year in after-tax savings, it wasn't enough to make my downpayment more effective than if I bought 20 years ago.
The lesson is the rules will change to suite the majority. The millennials will do fine.
You're right, the story doesn't make sense. The only thing which seems certain is that this guy was caught performing corporate espionage.
His explanation should be assumed to be a lie.
I suspect he was planning to market the data, or already had a buyer. His explanation doesn't make sense.
So that you can use GNU software without straightjacketing yourself into a Linux desktop.
See the summary https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html#Summary
Web developers have been relying on MacOS for years to get a decent Unix environment. MS is looking to take that market before Apple comes to their senses and starts manufacturing hardware again.
Not only created a power vacuum, it left tens of thousands of trained Iraqi soldiers without jobs or means of income... many with families to feed.
These days, a business casual dress code probably means cubicles. Hoodies and headphones probably means "flex space" open-concept.
Both managers are likely equally incompetent, but I'll wear a shirt with a collar if it means I get a cubicle and some quiet.
In April 2016, their MX changed to outlook.com. He was fired Sept 1.
How do you know it wasn't a DC?
The datacenter provider.
I've never seen a DC without 2 factor authentication. The second factor usually being a fingerprint, and implemented in a mantrap. If your rubber finger doesn't work, and you don't have a good explanation for the guards, the doors won't be opened until the police arrive.
Infosec teams often have direct read-only access to equipment and audit logs to central servers, with alerts on use-cases such as turning off logging, modifying account permissions etc. etc. In some circumstances even command history is logged.
It's hard to imagine why infosec would conspire to hide an account. If it has a good reason to exist, the case can be made to the CIO.
It might be possible to circumvent this stuff if you have physical access during a network outage, but your card access logs would still be in the system, it just might take a couple years for it to turn up when people investigate "how did the back door get there?" and it may be enough to put you in prison.
"Not true, menial labor serves to convince people they don't want to do menial labor and strive for something better."
With a criminal record, there aren't many options.
Don't forget the Keystone XL isn't using American steel and the Carrier plant doesn't and never made air conditioners. He's a habitual liar.
It makes Bush look like a rocket scientist.
That's exactly what IBM did. It even ended pager-pay... since we were always on the clock.
For reference, https://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/tools/srt/coverage_government_it.php
And my favourite:
From what I could find, these were laws meant to cover fisheries and agriculture, where the seasonal nature of the work meant that the only time you would work on a harvest or catch was when there would be work. It was understood that the nature of the work was feast-or-famine, and it was paid hourly. If they had to pay overtime, they would be paying nothing but overtime. Strangely, the rules also included accounting, some screwball argument that month-end and year end was a busy period and that people could take time in lieu or have downtime between busy periods.
Somehow this slippery slope was extended to IT. As a salaried employee, it meant they could pay you *nothing*.
Thank you Dalton McGuinty.
Ditto.
Then they made IT workers overtime exempt in the province of Ontario, meaning you'd get *nothing*.
So I became a contractor.