I would probably have watched the new Star Trek series, but I'm not paying CBS $$/month
If you're in the US, not sure that's an issue. Isn't CBS still free over the air?
It is, but IIRC only the premiere will air on CBS. The rest of the series will only be accessible through a streaming service (they're calling it "CBS All Access") they're looking to start up...basically, their version of what Di$ney is set to do.
Netflix used to have a distribution facility in Las Vegas. They'd send me a movie; it'd arrive the next day. I'd send it back; they'd get it the next day.
A while back, they closed their Las Vegas facility and now send most discs from a facility in Santa Ana, CA. That adds another day each way, at least.
It didn't even take all six trips for the press to consider going to the moon "boring." Apollo 13 had trouble getting media coverage until the shit hit the fan, and then they were all over it like white on rice.
If you have a media server or similar gadget at home, you more than likely leave it running so it can download TV, serve up your address book to your devices, etc.
I also have some Raspberry Pi 3s plugged into TVs for media access that I leave running all the time, but their power usage is low enough that I don't particularly care how much they add to the bill (some quick calculation based on 12.5W maximum power draw says they cost me less than a dollar each).
It used to be standard procedure for a child who needs to be picked up to carry change for making a call from a pay phone.
Hmm...when I was a kid, standard procedure was to be at a certain place by a certain time to be picked up. It was somewhat inflexible, but no phones were needed. It also promoted a certain amount of discipline WRT time.
In your estimation, how old would a child have to be for a parent to consider buying a smartphone for the child instead of a simple phone on a cheap plan intended primarily to arrange a ride home?
I'm not entirely sure kids need their own phones, smart or otherwise. I made it all the way to 24 before I bought my first one...on my own dime.
If you had to give your kids phones for whatever reason, though, I suspect the better approach would be to give them whatever phone you were previously using. When you upgrade, they get your hand-me-downs. If it happens to be a smartphone, you might consider locking it down so they're not looking up pr0n or wasting time on games.
But then you have to 1. upgrade from a flip phone to one that plays music, and 2. be careful to buy one with a microSD slot or risk having to cram all your music into the same 8 GB that already holds the OS, apps, and apps' data.
1) I haven't had a dumbphone since 2005. (Never had a flip phone...all the way back to 1996, they were variations of the form factor of the phone on the left in this picture...oh, wait, one employer provided a Nextel flip phone, but that was it. The phones I paid for weren't flip phones.)
2) Even that first smartphone had an SD-card slot (not MicroSD, which didn't yet exist IIRC, but full-size SD).
(That first smartphone was a Palm Treo 650. My current phone's a Moto Z Play. I bought a 128GB MicroSDXC card for it to hold my music collection. As FLAC, the collection needs about 300 GB, but recompressed to Opus, it only needs 40 GB. That leaves tons of space to bring along movies and TV shows, or for other purposes.)
What was way-cool was that around 1984 someone was making an extension card for the Apple with an 8088 CPU and firmware CP/M, that used the Apple IO devices and memory.
You wouldn't have been running CP/M on an 8088, but MS-DOS (or a knockoff thereof). The Applied Engineering PC Transporter had a V20 (faster 8088-compatible), an MFM floppy controller, CGA graphics, and up to 768K of RAM on an expansion card for the IIe or IIGS (not sure if it was compatible with the II+). I'm not entirely sure when it was introduced...probably sometime in the mid-'80s. I got my IIe in '85, so I'm a little bit vague on what was available earlier.
If you were running CP/M, it would've been on one of the many Z80 add-on boards that were available.
I taught myself WordStar on that, and did several papers on an Okidata dot-matrix printer using laserperf pin-fed paper. Bursting those sheets was kind of fun. Turning in computer printed assignments when all my classmates did their work on the school's IBM Selectric typewriters was neat.
I used native apps...first Apple Writer, then AppleWorks with some of the TimeOut addons. One of those addons enabled multiple fonts and higher-quality printouts. The papers I handed in looked like they could've been written up on a Mac.
Remember when advertisements for graphics cards talked about what the card could show you rather than how many transistors it had and the processor speed?
What I want to know about a new card is what picture it can put out and to how many monitors of what connection type.
Lots of "graphics" cards will never have a monitor plugged in. GPU computing (whether for cryptocurrency mining or other purposes) is very much a thing now. The cards I use for mining run rings around the cards I use to drive monitors.
Furthermore, Ethereum mining speed is limited by the speed of your memory, not the speed of your GPU. It's fairly common to underclock the GPU and overclock the memory to get faster speeds. I see ~90 MH/s out of three GeForce GTX 1070s by underclocking the processors by 200 MHz and overclocking the memory by 1000 MHz...and this is with total power consumption across the three boards of 325W. Changes to GPU speed or the power limit don't have nearly as much effect as changes to memory speed.
PID1 systemd does not handle DNS, the very optional systemd-resolved does that.
Why is there any component of systemd, optional or not, that has anything to do with DNS? It was pitched as a replacement for init, but it has since metastasized and taken over a bunch of other tasks far beyond its original purpose.
I'm not sure about "most" flights, if you cross an ocean or a continent its more like 6-hours. For a 2-hour flight driving or taking a train is usually as fast.
What is this "train" of which you speak? Good luck getting to (for instance) Las Vegas on one, unless you stow away on a freight train and jump off as it's passing through.
IIRC, Las Vegas to Denver is about a two-hour flight. Driving there takes about 12 hours at 70+ mph, and I doubt that a train would knock much time off that if there was one up and running.
It's the one-hour flights—the ones to LA, San Diego, and Phoenix—that I usually drive instead, as I can be there in 4-5 hours and (unlike either planes or trains) I'll still have a way to get around on my own once I'm there.
They should do the immigration on board the plane, visiting each passenger at their seat once the plane is in the air.
Returning to the US from Canada a few years back, I cleared customs before boarding the plane in Edmonton, not (as I expected) at the layover in Denver. My understanding is that US Customs has a presence at multiple Canadian airports for flights headed south. This approach might not scale for all combinations of origin and destination countries, but when there's significant traffic from one country to another, it's a possibility.
Exactly how is this insightful? The parent is going on a rant about systemd when it was libidn2 that had the bug.
If systemd hadn't taken it upon itself to handle DNS resolution instead of sticking to its ostensibly primary job (initd), it would never have had reason to pull in libidn2 and fall to one of its bugs.
3rd-graders in your neck of the woods must be significantly brighter than most if you can hand them the equation above and ask them to "solve for X." IIRC, 3rd-grade math introduced multiplication and kept drilling addition and subtraction with multi-digit integers. Division isn't even on the radar, let alone fractions, non-integer numbers, or any of the other concepts brought up before you take your first algebra course in 8th grade at the earliest.
One can stop payment on a physical server's network connection and retain it if so one chooses. One cannot do the same for a VPS, even if one wished.
Daily (or more frequent) backups ensure that no matter what happens to the host, you have your data.
Never mind that there are privacy issues with not owning your own hardware.
Depending on what you're doing, that could be a problem. Mine hosts a few websites and my personal email. If I cared to do so, there may be additional measures I could take to secure my email against potential bad actors at the hosting provider (anyone know of something that works with Postfix to PGP-encrypt all inbound mail?). As for the websites, most of that is intended to be publicly viewable; that which isn't has various protective measures in place.
Also, if you noticed, the service I'm using is priced in euros, not dollars. It's hosted in northern Germany, where it's a little less likely that our three-letter agencies would get unfettered access to it. I'm not under the impression that it's totally bulletproof, but it's likely worth at least a little.
I used to have business service so I could self-host my mail and websites, but residential service and a VPS are cheaper than business service (and most VPS providers provide 100/100, if not 1000/1000 anymore), but I'm currently paying $78 per month for 50/5 residential and about €15 per quarter for an offshore VPS. Cox's current business offerings include $85 for 25/5 or $135 for 50/10. Residential rates max out at $100 for 300/30, by comparison.
As it happens, Cox and CenturyLink are the two options we have in Las Vegas. I've had cable-modem service since 2000, back when it was Prime Cable. I've had no reason to switch until now, and the email I received recently showed only one month out of three where I somehow went over 1 TB (and the other two were a fair bit under). If overage charges become a regular occurrence and if CenturyLink is at least competitive with speeds and prices (currently paying about $70 for 50/5 Internet-only service), a change might be worthwhile.
It's called iTunes File Sharing and doesn't require having to enable anything for it to work.
It does require iTunes, though. If I want to move files on or off of my Android devices, I only need an OS with MTP support (or PTP, if you only want to pull pictures off).
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They do the same with iLO: basic features for free, more stuff (like remote console) if you fork over additional money.
It is, but IIRC only the premiere will air on CBS. The rest of the series will only be accessible through a streaming service (they're calling it "CBS All Access") they're looking to start up...basically, their version of what Di$ney is set to do.
Netflix used to have a distribution facility in Las Vegas. They'd send me a movie; it'd arrive the next day. I'd send it back; they'd get it the next day.
A while back, they closed their Las Vegas facility and now send most discs from a facility in Santa Ana, CA. That adds another day each way, at least.
It didn't even take all six trips for the press to consider going to the moon "boring." Apollo 13 had trouble getting media coverage until the shit hit the fan, and then they were all over it like white on rice.
You say that as if they aren't already.
If you have a media server or similar gadget at home, you more than likely leave it running so it can download TV, serve up your address book to your devices, etc.
I also have some Raspberry Pi 3s plugged into TVs for media access that I leave running all the time, but their power usage is low enough that I don't particularly care how much they add to the bill (some quick calculation based on 12.5W maximum power draw says they cost me less than a dollar each).
Umm...Coinbase, perhaps? They probably don't even have the absolute-best pricing; they're just easier to deal with than many.
Hmm...when I was a kid, standard procedure was to be at a certain place by a certain time to be picked up. It was somewhat inflexible, but no phones were needed. It also promoted a certain amount of discipline WRT time.
I'm not entirely sure kids need their own phones, smart or otherwise. I made it all the way to 24 before I bought my first one...on my own dime.
If you had to give your kids phones for whatever reason, though, I suspect the better approach would be to give them whatever phone you were previously using. When you upgrade, they get your hand-me-downs. If it happens to be a smartphone, you might consider locking it down so they're not looking up pr0n or wasting time on games.
1) I haven't had a dumbphone since 2005. (Never had a flip phone...all the way back to 1996, they were variations of the form factor of the phone on the left in this picture...oh, wait, one employer provided a Nextel flip phone, but that was it. The phones I paid for weren't flip phones.)
2) Even that first smartphone had an SD-card slot (not MicroSD, which didn't yet exist IIRC, but full-size SD).
(That first smartphone was a Palm Treo 650. My current phone's a Moto Z Play. I bought a 128GB MicroSDXC card for it to hold my music collection. As FLAC, the collection needs about 300 GB, but recompressed to Opus, it only needs 40 GB. That leaves tons of space to bring along movies and TV shows, or for other purposes.)
You wouldn't have been running CP/M on an 8088, but MS-DOS (or a knockoff thereof). The Applied Engineering PC Transporter had a V20 (faster 8088-compatible), an MFM floppy controller, CGA graphics, and up to 768K of RAM on an expansion card for the IIe or IIGS (not sure if it was compatible with the II+). I'm not entirely sure when it was introduced...probably sometime in the mid-'80s. I got my IIe in '85, so I'm a little bit vague on what was available earlier.
If you were running CP/M, it would've been on one of the many Z80 add-on boards that were available.
I used native apps...first Apple Writer, then AppleWorks with some of the TimeOut addons. One of those addons enabled multiple fonts and higher-quality printouts. The papers I handed in looked like they could've been written up on a Mac.
Lots of "graphics" cards will never have a monitor plugged in. GPU computing (whether for cryptocurrency mining or other purposes) is very much a thing now. The cards I use for mining run rings around the cards I use to drive monitors.
Furthermore, Ethereum mining speed is limited by the speed of your memory, not the speed of your GPU. It's fairly common to underclock the GPU and overclock the memory to get faster speeds. I see ~90 MH/s out of three GeForce GTX 1070s by underclocking the processors by 200 MHz and overclocking the memory by 1000 MHz...and this is with total power consumption across the three boards of 325W. Changes to GPU speed or the power limit don't have nearly as much effect as changes to memory speed.
Why is there any component of systemd, optional or not, that has anything to do with DNS? It was pitched as a replacement for init, but it has since metastasized and taken over a bunch of other tasks far beyond its original purpose.
"Do one thing and do it well." systemd fails it.
What is this "train" of which you speak? Good luck getting to (for instance) Las Vegas on one, unless you stow away on a freight train and jump off as it's passing through.
IIRC, Las Vegas to Denver is about a two-hour flight. Driving there takes about 12 hours at 70+ mph, and I doubt that a train would knock much time off that if there was one up and running.
It's the one-hour flights—the ones to LA, San Diego, and Phoenix—that I usually drive instead, as I can be there in 4-5 hours and (unlike either planes or trains) I'll still have a way to get around on my own once I'm there.
Returning to the US from Canada a few years back, I cleared customs before boarding the plane in Edmonton, not (as I expected) at the layover in Denver. My understanding is that US Customs has a presence at multiple Canadian airports for flights headed south. This approach might not scale for all combinations of origin and destination countries, but when there's significant traffic from one country to another, it's a possibility.
If systemd hadn't taken it upon itself to handle DNS resolution instead of sticking to its ostensibly primary job (initd), it would never have had reason to pull in libidn2 and fall to one of its bugs.
The Unix Way. systemd fails it.
3rd-graders in your neck of the woods must be significantly brighter than most if you can hand them the equation above and ask them to "solve for X." IIRC, 3rd-grade math introduced multiplication and kept drilling addition and subtraction with multi-digit integers. Division isn't even on the radar, let alone fractions, non-integer numbers, or any of the other concepts brought up before you take your first algebra course in 8th grade at the earliest.
Daily (or more frequent) backups ensure that no matter what happens to the host, you have your data.
Depending on what you're doing, that could be a problem. Mine hosts a few websites and my personal email. If I cared to do so, there may be additional measures I could take to secure my email against potential bad actors at the hosting provider (anyone know of something that works with Postfix to PGP-encrypt all inbound mail?). As for the websites, most of that is intended to be publicly viewable; that which isn't has various protective measures in place.
Also, if you noticed, the service I'm using is priced in euros, not dollars. It's hosted in northern Germany, where it's a little less likely that our three-letter agencies would get unfettered access to it. I'm not under the impression that it's totally bulletproof, but it's likely worth at least a little.
I used to have business service so I could self-host my mail and websites, but residential service and a VPS are cheaper than business service (and most VPS providers provide 100/100, if not 1000/1000 anymore), but I'm currently paying $78 per month for 50/5 residential and about €15 per quarter for an offshore VPS. Cox's current business offerings include $85 for 25/5 or $135 for 50/10. Residential rates max out at $100 for 300/30, by comparison.
As it happens, Cox and CenturyLink are the two options we have in Las Vegas. I've had cable-modem service since 2000, back when it was Prime Cable. I've had no reason to switch until now, and the email I received recently showed only one month out of three where I somehow went over 1 TB (and the other two were a fair bit under). If overage charges become a regular occurrence and if CenturyLink is at least competitive with speeds and prices (currently paying about $70 for 50/5 Internet-only service), a change might be worthwhile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY
Pigheaded ignorance like yours is how you got Trump, and it's how you'll keep getting Trump and his successors.
It does require iTunes, though. If I want to move files on or off of my Android devices, I only need an OS with MTP support (or PTP, if you only want to pull pictures off).
Score: 5, Funny.
(Was going to say "you must be new here," but a low-6-digit uid isn't all that new anymore.)