You sound like an emotional clueless person, not like a developer.
Yup, an ad hominem always wins your argument for you!
I've fixed several long time invisible misconfigurations by myself thanks to it.
Taking a cue from above, you must be a shitty system administrator because I have never seen any invisible misconfigurations myself
Why are you (a) misconfiguring your servers and then (b) hiding those misconfigurations? Sounds like you are trying to create job security for yourself.
No, it's rather experienced of me to say that. I lived in Austin for a year and eight months, and visited every major city and many minor cities in Texas at least once.
Then you must not have spent a lot of time in South Texas. Austin is cool but San Antonio and Corpus Christi also rock. Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley are nice too but then again I am Hispanic and speak Spanish pretty well.
The rest of Texas is as you described, either rural White redneck or multi-cultural urban areas. I spent 30 years in Houston, parts of it are OK but during the period I lived there it just got too damn big.
San Antonio today reminds me of Houston when I first moved there, a small big city. It is growing great guns right now but the cost of living is still pretty low and you can get a decent house for $125K.
I'm not quite sure how it happened this way but, I think the soundest the theory is all of the smart/sane people in TX banded together in one city to make their last stand, Alamo-ish style.
A large part of it is because of the Hispanic influence. The only parts of Texas that are cool are from Austin south to the Rio Grande Valley and west to El Paso, basically where there is a heavy Mexican influence.
Currently there is some conservative lunacy going on but it should not last too long as the White people are getting old and Hispanics are out-reproducing the Whites.
San Antonio is actually a pretty good tech town also if you are into computer security area due to all the government/military jobs around here. San Antonio is a lot cheaper than Austin and there is a lot going on around here. Austin is pretty close by so you can take a quick trip there on an as-needed basis.
The Enterprise personnel were hyper competent in narrow fields while as a team they failed do everything correctly.
Let's see, Enterprise 1.0, the first one ever, nobody knows what the ship is capable of, nobody has written the book yet. So you are wrong, there is no correct yet as they are playing it by ear.
Fanatically anti-fanatical
Nope, your sig is a lie. You are fanatically anti-Enterprise and anti-Voyager. Two thoughts come to mind:
1) The worst Trek is way better than your average TV show today, and
2) If you think you can do better they why don't you make your own science-fiction TV space show and get it on the air so you can prove it to us.
It is easy to criticize from the cheap seats as it costs you nothing but then again it also adds nothing to the conversation.
Good, off you go. Enjoy your horrible unconfigurable spyware. We don't really care what you use that much. Just don't come crying to us when you're butthurt about (insert this week's awful thing forced on users).
Hmm... I am a big Linux guy and haven't gotten butthurt about anything from Micro$oft yet.
I am running Server 2012 with the Desktop Experience as one of my desktops, it is running Hyper-V on that box (with another Server 2012 instance running an Active Directory server plus a couple of CentOS, Scientific and Fedora Linux installs), it is also running Synergy controlling several desktops, it is also running Adobe Creative Cloud (mainly Photoshop these days) and Paint Shop Pro 6, plus it is running the latest Flash and Silverlight for Hulu and Netflix.
Guess what? Everything works great. I don't even run an AV program on it. But I know what I am doing. Professionally I am an Linux admin and I am about to get a BS in Computer Security so I know how to lock a box and network down. I know how to configure a firewall and run a caching DNS server that filters out a lot of bad sites APK style.
On Windows I can use puTTY and VNC to work on Linux boxes so I can get work done. Linux-wise I just got off of the Fedora rat-race and standardized on CentOS and Scientific 6. I use very light desktops (Fluxbox or Xfce) and I can use RDP to hit Windows boxes from Linux.
Here are a few clues for you:
1) Quit being such an OS bigot. I am bilingual, two languages is definitively better than one. I can drive manual as well as automatic transmission cars, it comes in handy to drive both. I can get work done on a computer as long as it is not a Mac (not being able to move the minimize/maximize/close buttons to the right side of the window? really?).
2) Quit spreading anti-M$ FUD. M$ makes stuff that works, heck I am even impressed with Windows 10 and I never have nice things to say about M$, and
3) I just had to laugh when you said "Enjoy your horrible unconfigurable spyware" because I immediately thought of systemd! That is the main reason I am standardizing on CentOS/Scientific 6, thanks to systemd BSD may become my next OS.
Different stroke for different folks, some of us don't want to limit ourselves when we use our computers...
It's like buying pseudoephedrine at the drug store. They ask for something you HAVE (your driver's license), and they verify it to a reasonable extent. Without an active arbiter, you can only use something you KNOW. Imagine buying pseudoephedrine on Amazon. That something you HAVE becomes something you KNOW because all you can do is type in your driver's license number, state, and expiration date. At the drugstore, they expect a physical card with a photo that looks like you and a magstripe that swipes with valid data. They can also physically see if you look like a tweaker who's got the shakes because they need another hit.
You are an idiot. You do know that you need to process pseudoephedrine to turn it into meth? That the amount of pseudoephedrine needed to make meth is a lot more than you get at a drugstore? That most "tweakers" are consumers, not producers?
The laws "controlling" pseudoephedrine are nothing but security theater, it is a hassle for consumers yet it has not affected the supply of meth out there. The people making meth buy barrels of the stuff and not at your local drug store.
After saying stupid stuff like that it is very easy to discount any "computer security" knowledge you claim to have. You should have just stuck with a car analogy and have people think you are a moron rather than saying shit like this and proving it to the the world.
The ones who have a problem are the ones who either have a desire and are not talented (describes well over 80 pct of men tech too) or who just get offended at the notion that a team can function perfectly well without women on it.
I guess you are part of the 80 percent of you would have used your real name instead of hiding behind an anonymous login. Just saying...
The diversity push is one of the more irritating things I've experienced in my career. For several years we have had to interview someone who is a minority or female before we can hire a White male. Sounds like a simple way to improve diversity, doesn't it? 'Course, unless you can get a "diversity candidate" to apply, you can't hire anyone. We love when a "diversity candidate" applies, because we can finally hire a White male. It's even better if the "diversity candidate" is the best-qualified candidate, because then we don't have to argue with HR about not hiring the "diversity candidate".
BTW, the "diversity candidate" phrase came from HR.
Fixed that for you so it reflects the reality of IT in the US in 2015
Did you know that Texas is majority minority today and will be Hispanic majority in a few years. Hiring only White males is racist and sexist but you all do it anyway because White males are somehow "more qualified".
But we minorities all know that the real reason White males hire other White males is that you would rather go out drinking with other White males than us minorities:
make yourself a favour, migrate to Mac OS X directly
The minute that OS-X lets me put the minimize/maximize/close buttons on the correct corner of a window then I would consider it but thanks but no thanks. At my last job I had a work laptop that was a Mac but I could not get rid of it fast enough.
IMHO based on what I saw on my last job, competent Linux system admins run Linux and/or Windows and the ones using Macs were the Python-writing hipster trendroids who could not administer a Linux system if their life depended on it.
That's a bit rude... I think Poettering's main motivation has been to simply modernize Linux.
I can see that as being one of his goals but if you want to improve Linux why a new init system plus? I did not hear any system admins asking for this.
He would be considered a saint if he would do something useful like fix the desktop environments so the "Year of the Linux Desktop" finally gets here.
On top of which why is "machinectl" a shell and not some sort of hardware function? They should have just named the bloody thing command.com.
Probably because userctl was too ominous sounding!
[aside] Wow, userctl.com was still open so I grabbed it. Great name for a Web 4.0 computer technology social media site pushing tons of clickbait at users!
Democrats are working hard to make a situation where voters are subsidized heavily by a small percentage of citizens...
If you mean the rich, then yes Democrats feel the rich need to be paying their fair share of the tax load instead taking handouts from the government in the form of corporate welfare thereby shifting the tax burden onto the lower classes.
... and a large number of non-citizens (in whatever legal or illegal nonsense they can manage it).
Maybe you can explain what this means because I can't make sense of it. Democrats want to tax non-citizens?
The rest of your post is similarly incomprehensible, something about wanting college graduates in 2015 to make 1947 wages.
In fact this post is so idiotic I actually feel stupider for having read it.
Any other day and HuffPo would be telling us about the horrors of H1B abuse by large corporations. However, if it means furthering the narrative that Trump is bad, then suddenly H1Bs are good.
Someone finally states the correct spin of the article. I doesn't matter who funded the study or why, it's needed to attack Trump.
All your laughable assertion did was prove you are an idiot. It absolutely does matter who funds a study. This "study" is from a Libertarian "think tank" (can you say oxymoron?) so you know it is inherently biased against the government and towards the rich White elites.
To me it is obvious that you know nothing about American politics in the year 2015. You really should read more political science, particularly stuff about about realigning elections:
Others have noted that basically the Republican Party is nothing but a fragile coalition of the Tea Party, Southern White rednecks that became Republicans thanks Nixon's racist Southern Strategy and and a few old-school pro-business Eisenhower Republicans.
The last realigning election is thought to be when Ronald Reagan won, he got racist White Southerners that became Republicans due to Nixon's Southern Strategy to stay Republican by convincing them that the White elites running the Republican Party were looking out for them even though they were not. Due to racism by Whites this coalition has held for years but it is now beginning to fall apart.
The Huffington Post recognizes that this once strong Republican coalition is fracturing so they are picking at the scab that was once the Republican Party in an attempt at hastening its demise. If it makes them a few bucks in the process so much the better. Or at least that is what Republicans and Libertarians like to say when it isn't their ox being gored.
I am a Socialist that is going to vote for Trump in the Texas Republican primary? Why? Because Texas belongs to Hillary Clinton and I support Bernie Sanders so voting in the Texas Democratic primary would be a wasted vote. By voting for Trump I can help accelerate the process of the Republican Party collapse.
For me it is a win-win-win scenario. If Trump wins I also win because sane people will either vote Democratic or they will not vote at all. If Trump does not win but runs as an Independent then he will draw votes away from the Republican party and I win again. It goes without saying that if Hillary wins I win.
So voting for Trump entails very little risk for me, and it could possibly help the country in the long run. That is why I am advocating that fellow Socialists vote for Trump too:
So please do us a favor and leave the political commentary to the adults that know what they are talking about. Or study up on the subject some more and come up with some rational commentary rather than allegations of bias by the Huffington Post at the same time you are deliberately ignoring bias by the Cato Institute.
[MODERATORS] I am used to being down-modded unfairly because I frequently go against Slashdot group-think. Instead of down-modding me why not actually give readers a chance to come up with an intelligent response instead? Is it because the opposing position is basically indefensible? Or are the supporters of the right so stupid that they cannot string together a few sentences that (a) make sense and (b) support their position?
thats [sic] funny being only one time in history have we been forced to buy anything, and its been done under obama [sic], a democrat [sic]
You said:
It's f*cking amazing that a site full of IT geeks can't understand separation of powers or a default rule of deny all.
You must be a freaking mind reader because the OP said absolutely nothing about being forced to buy anything from the FEDERAL government.
Let's try this again, Americans are forced to pay income taxes to the federal government, the first time it was done it was under Lincoln, a Republican.
As far as "a default rule of deny all" the Amendments to the Constitution can be looked at as ACLs above the default rule so you never actually reach the default rule.
FWIW, from my experience of 10+ years in the industry, most hipster-focused places use OSX as their primary OS.
There, FTFY. I am an Linux administrator by trade and at my last job I ran Linux on my workstation and VMware to run Windows XP/7/8 and Server 2008/2012.
From my 10+ years experience in the industry the ones who run Macs are Linux admins who know how to configure/admin a server but don't know how to configure/admin a Linux workstation. The rest are the hipsters, the developers/engineers/architects who don't know Linux very well.
I had a Mac OSX laptop for a couple of months, I hated it because according to Apple it is perfect. Never mind that Windows has the minimize/maximize/close on the top right of the window and Linux has it in the same place by default.
Since I couldn't make the Mac put those controls on the upper right side of a window that means that I would have had to change Linux to work like the Mac and retrain myself to use an OS with the controls on the wrong side.
That is all well and good but then that means I would have had to change ALL my Linux installs to the controls in the same place or face losing productivity. To me Windows is actually more useful than OSX so that was a BIG non-starter.
I am just glad the clueless management at my last job did not FORCE me to use a Mac or I would have left much sooner than I did.
I still have nightmares about trying to replace a CPU. Windows really barfed on that one. Short of reinstalling from scratch, it was all but impossible to get Windows to work again. Linux, in contrast, didn't even blink.
LOL, I am a Linux guy myself but if you can't even upgrade a CPU on a Windows box then you must be a major moron.
I had a Windows 2012 install that had been serving as a compute node in a MS Cloud setup. I had not run the server in a couple of months so it was way out of date as far as patches from MS. I switched out the motherboard to one with a completely different CPU architecture (Intel to AMD), more RAM and a completely different video card (AMD to NVidia).
It came up just fine and I was installing the pending updates from MS in minutes.
The only annoyance was having to call India to activate the stupid Windows license.
Pro-Linux FUD is still FUD, either learn how to actually use Windows or STFU before people find out you really don't know shit about computers.
We live in a strange time in history. We understand that people must be free, but we inexplicably fail to realize that a person is not truly free unless his ideas are free as well.
Free? What are you smoking?
This computer cost me money, the internet connection cost me money, the electricity to run the who shebang cost me money. Are you going to reimburse me the costs I have to bear in order to access your speech? Because if you don't then your speech is not truly free, at least not to me.
If you truly want free speech why don't you get a soapbox and start ranting on the street corner next to your county courthouse. At least that way you will spare the rest us sucking on the teat of our corporate overlord Slashdot from having to hear your drivel...
Socialist: noun. A person who believes that a businessman with lots of money and power will inevitably become evil, while a politician with lots of money and power is incorruptible.
Not sure if you are trying to be serious or funny but Albert Einstein disagrees with you:
The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured? [1]
Nope, to a socialist a "politician with lots of money and power" is a corrupt symbol of free market capitalism, as seeking money and power are the primary goals of self-interested capitalists. Einstein again:
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals... The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society. [2]
If you are trying to be serious then you really don't know shit from shinola. Funny you definitely are not.
This is a special class of hipster, the modern SJW feminist...
LOL, as soon as you use bullshit flamebait words like "SJW" normal people shake their heads and say "What an idiot!"
If you hire somebody like that, you're [sic] company is in for a world of hurt.
Yes, if "hurt" means your company will have to start hiring Hispanics and Blacks instead of Whites whose qualifications are dubious at best.
You must be a pretty sad loser, an under-qualifed White person in IT scared of all the qualified non-Whites trying to take your job away from you. Either that your small penis makes you so insecure that you feel you have to lash out at women and minorities trying to fix social issues.
But what the hey, as long as you are a White man in IT you might as well do like King Canute and try to keep the tide from coming in.
Like that is going to work. It sure kept a Black man out of the White House and it will sure keep a woman from being elected President next year.
To tell you the truth I really feel sorry for ass-backward White people like you. But there is hope for you yet, you can always move to some shit-hole state like Alabama or Idaho where at least there are other White idiots who agree with you!
P.S. I am a Chicano whose first language was Spanish, yet I seem to speak English better than you do: you're company == you are company.
Maybe instead of railing against "SJWs" you should open a book sometime and learn how to speak your ONE language properly so people like me who speak TWO languages well won't embarrass you in public.
Does she have good judgment? Looking at the picture of her on Ada Intiative's site, she seems to have dyed her hair pink.
Is that a good message to send to would-be developers/technologists? Dye your hair pink, go into interviews, watch as your shown the door for clearly caring more about being a hipster than having a good job.
So you are cool with her being rejected for how she looks on the surface?
I personally don't know why she did it but maybe she is trying to make a point about Hispanics like me being rejected for having brown skin or African Americans being rejected for having black skin.
But to tell you the truth I would rather have a woman with pink hair than some of the long-haired, tattooed biker looking men I have had the unfortunate "pleasure" of working with.
At least the women shower and wash their hair regularly which I can't say all men in IT do.
How is it that you think that insulting someone's gender is more egregious than mocking someone's level of intelligence or lack thereof?
This is a stupid post, by extension you must be really stupid.
Oh yes, I can see how that is the same as you calling me 'spic' or a woman a 'bitch' or a Black person 'nigger'.
This confirms the fact that indeed you are really stupid.
Everyone gets attacked online by some people. But you know who gets attacked the most? The people that react to it, pure and simple. It is more entertaining for the trolls that way. Grow a thicker skin and it will resolve itself.
Nope, if I were to a grow a thicker skin so I can tolerate abuse from idiots (like the ones you are defending) the the abuse will still be there, so nothing gets resolved.
The only way this will resolve itself is if stupid people opened a book to try to learn how to act like civil human beings.
And oh yeah, I apologize for calling you stupid, the word I should have used was moron.
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You sound like an emotional clueless person, not like a developer.
Yup, an ad hominem always wins your argument for you!
I've fixed several long time invisible misconfigurations by myself thanks to it.
Taking a cue from above, you must be a shitty system administrator because I have never seen any invisible misconfigurations myself
Why are you (a) misconfiguring your servers and then (b) hiding those misconfigurations? Sounds like you are trying to create job security for yourself.
No, it's rather experienced of me to say that. I lived in Austin for a year and eight months, and visited every major city and many minor cities in Texas at least once.
Then you must not have spent a lot of time in South Texas. Austin is cool but San Antonio and Corpus Christi also rock. Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley are nice too but then again I am Hispanic and speak Spanish pretty well.
The rest of Texas is as you described, either rural White redneck or multi-cultural urban areas. I spent 30 years in Houston, parts of it are OK but during the period I lived there it just got too damn big.
San Antonio today reminds me of Houston when I first moved there, a small big city. It is growing great guns right now but the cost of living is still pretty low and you can get a decent house for $125K.
eh, Austin isn't quite like the rest of Texas. I mean, it's consistently favored Democratic politicians, often by a 2:1 margin...
Hispanic South Texas also votes blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas,_2012
I'm not quite sure how it happened this way but, I think the soundest the theory is all of the smart/sane people in TX banded together in one city to make their last stand, Alamo-ish style.
A large part of it is because of the Hispanic influence. The only parts of Texas that are cool are from Austin south to the Rio Grande Valley and west to El Paso, basically where there is a heavy Mexican influence.
Currently there is some conservative lunacy going on but it should not last too long as the White people are getting old and Hispanics are out-reproducing the Whites.
San Antonio is actually a pretty good tech town also if you are into computer security area due to all the government/military jobs around here. San Antonio is a lot cheaper than Austin and there is a lot going on around here. Austin is pretty close by so you can take a quick trip there on an as-needed basis.
The Enterprise personnel were hyper competent in narrow fields while as a team they failed do everything correctly.
Let's see, Enterprise 1.0, the first one ever, nobody knows what the ship is capable of, nobody has written the book yet. So you are wrong, there is no correct yet as they are playing it by ear.
Fanatically anti-fanatical
Nope, your sig is a lie. You are fanatically anti-Enterprise and anti-Voyager. Two thoughts come to mind:
1) The worst Trek is way better than your average TV show today, and
2) If you think you can do better they why don't you make your own science-fiction TV space show and get it on the air so you can prove it to us.
It is easy to criticize from the cheap seats as it costs you nothing but then again it also adds nothing to the conversation.
Good, off you go. Enjoy your horrible unconfigurable spyware. We don't really care what you use that much. Just don't come crying to us when you're butthurt about (insert this week's awful thing forced on users).
Hmm... I am a big Linux guy and haven't gotten butthurt about anything from Micro$oft yet.
I am running Server 2012 with the Desktop Experience as one of my desktops, it is running Hyper-V on that box (with another Server 2012 instance running an Active Directory server plus a couple of CentOS, Scientific and Fedora Linux installs), it is also running Synergy controlling several desktops, it is also running Adobe Creative Cloud (mainly Photoshop these days) and Paint Shop Pro 6, plus it is running the latest Flash and Silverlight for Hulu and Netflix.
Guess what? Everything works great. I don't even run an AV program on it. But I know what I am doing. Professionally I am an Linux admin and I am about to get a BS in Computer Security so I know how to lock a box and network down. I know how to configure a firewall and run a caching DNS server that filters out a lot of bad sites APK style.
On Windows I can use puTTY and VNC to work on Linux boxes so I can get work done. Linux-wise I just got off of the Fedora rat-race and standardized on CentOS and Scientific 6. I use very light desktops (Fluxbox or Xfce) and I can use RDP to hit Windows boxes from Linux.
Here are a few clues for you:
1) Quit being such an OS bigot. I am bilingual, two languages is definitively better than one. I can drive manual as well as automatic transmission cars, it comes in handy to drive both. I can get work done on a computer as long as it is not a Mac (not being able to move the minimize/maximize/close buttons to the right side of the window? really?).
2) Quit spreading anti-M$ FUD. M$ makes stuff that works, heck I am even impressed with Windows 10 and I never have nice things to say about M$, and
3) I just had to laugh when you said "Enjoy your horrible unconfigurable spyware" because I immediately thought of systemd! That is the main reason I am standardizing on CentOS/Scientific 6, thanks to systemd BSD may become my next OS.
Different stroke for different folks, some of us don't want to limit ourselves when we use our computers...
It's like buying pseudoephedrine at the drug store. They ask for something you HAVE (your driver's license), and they verify it to a reasonable extent. Without an active arbiter, you can only use something you KNOW. Imagine buying pseudoephedrine on Amazon. That something you HAVE becomes something you KNOW because all you can do is type in your driver's license number, state, and expiration date. At the drugstore, they expect a physical card with a photo that looks like you and a magstripe that swipes with valid data. They can also physically see if you look like a tweaker who's got the shakes because they need another hit.
You are an idiot. You do know that you need to process pseudoephedrine to turn it into meth? That the amount of pseudoephedrine needed to make meth is a lot more than you get at a drugstore? That most "tweakers" are consumers, not producers?
The laws "controlling" pseudoephedrine are nothing but security theater, it is a hassle for consumers yet it has not affected the supply of meth out there. The people making meth buy barrels of the stuff and not at your local drug store.
After saying stupid stuff like that it is very easy to discount any "computer security" knowledge you claim to have. You should have just stuck with a car analogy and have people think you are a moron rather than saying shit like this and proving it to the the world.
The ones who have a problem are the ones who either have a desire and are not talented (describes well over 80 pct of men tech too) or who just get offended at the notion that a team can function perfectly well without women on it.
I guess you are part of the 80 percent of you would have used your real name instead of hiding behind an anonymous login. Just saying...
If you are doing it as a hobby (instead of watching TV, posting on /. or whatever) then those man hours cost nothing.
Nope, economically there is always a cost. In this case the TV you missed or the /. posts you did not submit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
Whether or not the cost incurred is significant or important to you there IS is a cost involved.
Unions work well for Germany, maybe if we had Socialism at all levels like they do we also would be awesome?
Gee, you are a regular Einstein...literally!
Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
Ouch! Hot button issue with me.
The diversity push is one of the more irritating things I've experienced in my career. For several years we have had to interview someone who is a minority or female before we can hire a White male. Sounds like a simple way to improve diversity, doesn't it? 'Course, unless you can get a "diversity candidate" to apply, you can't hire anyone. We love when a "diversity candidate" applies, because we can finally hire a White male. It's even better if the "diversity candidate" is the best-qualified candidate, because then we don't have to argue with HR about not hiring the "diversity candidate".
BTW, the "diversity candidate" phrase came from HR.
Fixed that for you so it reflects the reality of IT in the US in 2015
Did you know that Texas is majority minority today and will be Hispanic majority in a few years. Hiring only White males is racist and sexist but you all do it anyway because White males are somehow "more qualified".
But we minorities all know that the real reason White males hire other White males is that you would rather go out drinking with other White males than us minorities:
Guess Who Doesn’t Fit In at Work
make yourself a favour, migrate to Mac OS X directly
The minute that OS-X lets me put the minimize/maximize/close buttons on the correct corner of a window then I would consider it but thanks but no thanks. At my last job I had a work laptop that was a Mac but I could not get rid of it fast enough.
IMHO based on what I saw on my last job, competent Linux system admins run Linux and/or Windows and the ones using Macs were the Python-writing hipster trendroids who could not administer a Linux system if their life depended on it.
That's a bit rude... I think Poettering's main motivation has been to simply modernize Linux.
I can see that as being one of his goals but if you want to improve Linux why a new init system plus? I did not hear any system admins asking for this.
He would be considered a saint if he would do something useful like fix the desktop environments so the "Year of the Linux Desktop" finally gets here.
On top of which why is "machinectl" a shell and not some sort of hardware function? They should have just named the bloody thing command.com.
Probably because userctl was too ominous sounding!
[aside] Wow, userctl.com was still open so I grabbed it. Great name for a Web 4.0 computer technology social media site pushing tons of clickbait at users!
Plus I can save $$$ by not renewing my expired Red Hat cert.
LOL still fighting to his day with Pulse Audio on XFCE on Fedora 22.
Jeez has it come down to me having to write a functional volume/mixer applet for myself?
Democrats are working hard to make a situation where voters are subsidized heavily by a small percentage of citizens...
If you mean the rich, then yes Democrats feel the rich need to be paying their fair share of the tax load instead taking handouts from the government in the form of corporate welfare thereby shifting the tax burden onto the lower classes.
... and a large number of non-citizens (in whatever legal or illegal nonsense they can manage it).
Maybe you can explain what this means because I can't make sense of it. Democrats want to tax non-citizens?
The rest of your post is similarly incomprehensible, something about wanting college graduates in 2015 to make 1947 wages.
In fact this post is so idiotic I actually feel stupider for having read it.
Any other day and HuffPo would be telling us about the horrors of H1B abuse by large corporations. However, if it means furthering the narrative that Trump is bad, then suddenly H1Bs are good.
Someone finally states the correct spin of the article. I doesn't matter who funded the study or why, it's needed to attack Trump.
All your laughable assertion did was prove you are an idiot. It absolutely does matter who funds a study. This "study" is from a Libertarian "think tank" (can you say oxymoron?) so you know it is inherently biased against the government and towards the rich White elites.
To me it is obvious that you know nothing about American politics in the year 2015. You really should read more political science, particularly stuff about about realigning elections:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realigning_election
Others have noted that basically the Republican Party is nothing but a fragile coalition of the Tea Party, Southern White rednecks that became Republicans thanks Nixon's racist Southern Strategy and and a few old-school pro-business Eisenhower Republicans.
The last realigning election is thought to be when Ronald Reagan won, he got racist White Southerners that became Republicans due to Nixon's Southern Strategy to stay Republican by convincing them that the White elites running the Republican Party were looking out for them even though they were not. Due to racism by Whites this coalition has held for years but it is now beginning to fall apart.
The Huffington Post recognizes that this once strong Republican coalition is fracturing so they are picking at the scab that was once the Republican Party in an attempt at hastening its demise. If it makes them a few bucks in the process so much the better. Or at least that is what Republicans and Libertarians like to say when it isn't their ox being gored.
I am a Socialist that is going to vote for Trump in the Texas Republican primary? Why? Because Texas belongs to Hillary Clinton and I support Bernie Sanders so voting in the Texas Democratic primary would be a wasted vote. By voting for Trump I can help accelerate the process of the Republican Party collapse.
For me it is a win-win-win scenario. If Trump wins I also win because sane people will either vote Democratic or they will not vote at all. If Trump does not win but runs as an Independent then he will draw votes away from the Republican party and I win again. It goes without saying that if Hillary wins I win.
So voting for Trump entails very little risk for me, and it could possibly help the country in the long run. That is why I am advocating that fellow Socialists vote for Trump too:
Socialists for Trump
So please do us a favor and leave the political commentary to the adults that know what they are talking about. Or study up on the subject some more and come up with some rational commentary rather than allegations of bias by the Huffington Post at the same time you are deliberately ignoring bias by the Cato Institute.
[MODERATORS] I am used to being down-modded unfairly because I frequently go against Slashdot group-think. Instead of down-modding me why not actually give readers a chance to come up with an intelligent response instead? Is it because the opposing position is basically indefensible? Or are the supporters of the right so stupid that they cannot string together a few sentences that (a) make sense and (b) support their position?
thats [sic] funny being only one time in history have we been forced to buy anything, and its been done under obama [sic], a democrat [sic]
You said:
It's f*cking amazing that a site full of IT geeks can't understand separation of powers or a default rule of deny all.
You must be a freaking mind reader because the OP said absolutely nothing about being forced to buy anything from the FEDERAL government.
Let's try this again, Americans are forced to pay income taxes to the federal government, the first time it was done it was under Lincoln, a Republican.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_history_of_the_United_States#Pre-16th_Amendment
As far as "a default rule of deny all" the Amendments to the Constitution can be looked at as ACLs above the default rule so you never actually reach the default rule.
Better?
FWIW, from my experience of 10+ years in the industry, most hipster-focused places use OSX as their primary OS.
There, FTFY. I am an Linux administrator by trade and at my last job I ran Linux on my workstation and VMware to run Windows XP/7/8 and Server 2008/2012.
From my 10+ years experience in the industry the ones who run Macs are Linux admins who know how to configure/admin a server but don't know how to configure/admin a Linux workstation. The rest are the hipsters, the developers/engineers/architects who don't know Linux very well.
I had a Mac OSX laptop for a couple of months, I hated it because according to Apple it is perfect. Never mind that Windows has the minimize/maximize/close on the top right of the window and Linux has it in the same place by default.
Since I couldn't make the Mac put those controls on the upper right side of a window that means that I would have had to change Linux to work like the Mac and retrain myself to use an OS with the controls on the wrong side.
That is all well and good but then that means I would have had to change ALL my Linux installs to the controls in the same place or face losing productivity. To me Windows is actually more useful than OSX so that was a BIG non-starter.
I am just glad the clueless management at my last job did not FORCE me to use a Mac or I would have left much sooner than I did.
W3C is still not implemented yet thanks to corporate apps, China, and ignorant users who refuse to let XP behind
As far as XP, if it ain't broke and still works great then why upgrade?
If you were being perfectly honest then you would have to admit that the problem is not really XP, it is IE.
Firefox and Chrome run perfectly fine on XP, people that insist on using IE must be the ignorant users you speak of.
I still have nightmares about trying to replace a CPU. Windows really barfed on that one. Short of reinstalling from scratch, it was all but impossible to get Windows to work again. Linux, in contrast, didn't even blink.
LOL, I am a Linux guy myself but if you can't even upgrade a CPU on a Windows box then you must be a major moron.
I had a Windows 2012 install that had been serving as a compute node in a MS Cloud setup. I had not run the server in a couple of months so it was way out of date as far as patches from MS. I switched out the motherboard to one with a completely different CPU architecture (Intel to AMD), more RAM and a completely different video card (AMD to NVidia).
It came up just fine and I was installing the pending updates from MS in minutes. The only annoyance was having to call India to activate the stupid Windows license.
Pro-Linux FUD is still FUD, either learn how to actually use Windows or STFU before people find out you really don't know shit about computers.
We live in a strange time in history. We understand that people must be free, but we inexplicably fail to realize that a person is not truly free unless his ideas are free as well.
Free? What are you smoking?
This computer cost me money, the internet connection cost me money, the electricity to run the who shebang cost me money. Are you going to reimburse me the costs I have to bear in order to access your speech? Because if you don't then your speech is not truly free, at least not to me.
If you truly want free speech why don't you get a soapbox and start ranting on the street corner next to your county courthouse. At least that way you will spare the rest us sucking on the teat of our corporate overlord Slashdot from having to hear your drivel...
Socialist: noun. A person who believes that a businessman with lots of money and power will inevitably become evil, while a politician with lots of money and power is incorruptible.
Not sure if you are trying to be serious or funny but Albert Einstein disagrees with you:
The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured? [1]
Nope, to a socialist a "politician with lots of money and power" is a corrupt symbol of free market capitalism, as seeking money and power are the primary goals of self-interested capitalists. Einstein again:
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals... The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society. [2]
If you are trying to be serious then you really don't know shit from shinola. Funny you definitely are not.
[1] [2] Why Socialism?
This is a special class of hipster, the modern SJW feminist...
LOL, as soon as you use bullshit flamebait words like "SJW" normal people shake their heads and say "What an idiot!"
If you hire somebody like that, you're [sic] company is in for a world of hurt.
Yes, if "hurt" means your company will have to start hiring Hispanics and Blacks instead of Whites whose qualifications are dubious at best.
You must be a pretty sad loser, an under-qualifed White person in IT scared of all the qualified non-Whites trying to take your job away from you. Either that your small penis makes you so insecure that you feel you have to lash out at women and minorities trying to fix social issues.
But what the hey, as long as you are a White man in IT you might as well do like King Canute and try to keep the tide from coming in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_waves
Like that is going to work. It sure kept a Black man out of the White House and it will sure keep a woman from being elected President next year.
To tell you the truth I really feel sorry for ass-backward White people like you. But there is hope for you yet, you can always move to some shit-hole state like Alabama or Idaho where at least there are other White idiots who agree with you!
P.S. I am a Chicano whose first language was Spanish, yet I seem to speak English better than you do: you're company == you are company.
Maybe instead of railing against "SJWs" you should open a book sometime and learn how to speak your ONE language properly so people like me who speak TWO languages well won't embarrass you in public.
Does she have good judgment? Looking at the picture of her on Ada Intiative's site, she seems to have dyed her hair pink.
Is that a good message to send to would-be developers/technologists? Dye your hair pink, go into interviews, watch as your shown the door for clearly caring more about being a hipster than having a good job.
So you are cool with her being rejected for how she looks on the surface?
I personally don't know why she did it but maybe she is trying to make a point about Hispanics like me being rejected for having brown skin or African Americans being rejected for having black skin.
But to tell you the truth I would rather have a woman with pink hair than some of the long-haired, tattooed biker looking men I have had the unfortunate "pleasure" of working with.
At least the women shower and wash their hair regularly which I can't say all men in IT do.
How is it that you think that insulting someone's gender is more egregious than mocking someone's level of intelligence or lack thereof?
This is a stupid post, by extension you must be really stupid.
Oh yes, I can see how that is the same as you calling me 'spic' or a woman a 'bitch' or a Black person 'nigger'.
This confirms the fact that indeed you are really stupid.
Everyone gets attacked online by some people. But you know who gets attacked the most? The people that react to it, pure and simple. It is more entertaining for the trolls that way. Grow a thicker skin and it will resolve itself.
Nope, if I were to a grow a thicker skin so I can tolerate abuse from idiots (like the ones you are defending) the the abuse will still be there, so nothing gets resolved.
The only way this will resolve itself is if stupid people opened a book to try to learn how to act like civil human beings.
And oh yeah, I apologize for calling you stupid, the word I should have used was moron.