Novell days were actually pretty good and saw major improvements to SUSE Linux. SUSE became more useable then with a fast and functional package manager whereas before package management was a big mess. zypp was developed under the Novell period which really make SUSE first class with a fast package manager. Yast was also fully open sourced at this time and also uses the zypp infrastructure. You have a choice between command line package management with zypper or to use Yast now so you really can have it either way.
Suse has done a very good job of making its software open source. SUSE has gotten much better. YaST is now fully open source, it was not before. We've really actually seen only good things beginning since the Novell days, such as a workable and faster package management system with zypp. SUSE Contributes to open source projects like btrfs and apparmor as well.
The Pratt And Whitney engines used by AeroBus, PW1000, have very low fuel efficiency compared to other engines of the same size, they could be swapped in for older engines onto new AeroBus airplanes very easily. Boeing was trying to compete with these but had to use larger engines that did not benefit from the same technology (patents?). It used software, however, to make the MAX airplane fly like a 737, even though its not really a 737. Because airlines do not want to retrain pilots, it glossed over the differences between MAX and 737 in the manual and did not cover important issues relating to the software, to give the impression it was a simple plane to fly. So when the plane misbehaved, the pilots did not know what was happening and how to handle the situation.
Southwest was the one airline that decided to give pilots additional MAX training and retrofit the airplanes to detect failed sensors to prevent problems with MAX. They deserve a reward for this.
All Max plans should have redundant sensors and raise an alarm if a sensor problem is detected.
We hear this argument from GMO shills but its a fallacious argument. Most foods are not GMO. GMO specifically refers to direct intentional manipulation of DNA by inserting or removing DNA. We've been doing selective breeding for a long time, this is NOT GMO, and the process cannot produce the same effects and dangers of GMO. Also selective breeding isnt necessarily safe, you can end up with toxic effects. The probabilities with GMOs are much higher because it allows changes which would never occur due to a sexual process and allows it to happen with a severity and rapidity that would not occur with breeding. Selective breeding imposes certain limits and constraints on things because genes can only transfer within the same species and the mutations happen at a lower rate.
That you refer to selective breeding breeding as GMO destroys your credibility and your just trying to mislead people.
A lot of things can go wrong here. No, its not something that you can say with high confidence is safe. Likely what happened was that someone with big bags of cash paid off someone in the agencies to approve this thing. Money talks, and big business will play fast and loose.
It will end up in the environment and it would probably overproliferate and have some devastating effect on the food web.
The growth hormones could have disasterous effects on humans including promoting cancers. All around a foolish and dangerous expirement.
Yes. The A380 makes no business sense. Smaller aircraft are fuel efficient. Airlines do not like the mega craft because they want to also adjust the capacity for different routes. With A380, they are stuck with this huge plane they cannot fill and they cannot adjust to the changing market conditions. The idea that launching a single A380 rather than several smaller planes would be appealing proved wrong. It makes things more inefficient for the consumer who has to wait longer for a flight and cannot schedule their flights at times which are convenient for them. Airlines are consumer oriented which is how things should be, its a competitive market which helps ensure good value for consumers, the consumer wants a low price and convenient scheduling, the arguments for A380 are often not based on the needs of consumers. Airlines do not like flying half filled airplanes and like to adjust the capacity on a route which you can do with smaller planes by adding more planes. So it makes no financial sense for an airline.
Firefox always seems to be behind everyone else on standards support and on security. It was way behind Chrome on sandboxing and quite a few security problems. Maybe Firefox would be well served by moving to Blink, this way it would use less resources reinventing the wheel and could focus more on QA and UI improvements, Firefox would not lose any control, in fact it would still have the same amount of control as it does now with its own Engine becuase it could simply fork and modify Blink however it needs to.
Chromium is not a closed source project no one can modify. If you used Blink engine, you could modify it however you need to so in effect Google nor anyone else is controlling you. If Firefox did move to Blink, they could patch the code base and would have complete control over the browser works. There are no hidden features because its an open source project.
This is not true. Chromium is not a closed source project no one can modify. If you used Blink engine, you could modify it however you need to so in effect Google nor anyone else is controlling you. If Firefox did move to Blink, they could patch the code base and would have complete control over the browser works. There are no hidden features because its an open source project. In fact Firefox would have the exact same control as it does with its own browser engine, it would also lead to a better product since less time for reinventing the wheel since the different browsers can share more of the effort for code QA allowing more resources to be spent on improving things.
if it is an alien, its quite improbable to be the first one and thus to be "discovering" earth. When you consider the 4.5 billion years of earth history, 540 million since the cambrian explosion and tens of thousands of human life, the propbably is low they would first visit "just right now".
One of the things that does not make sense about your position is you can use sysv init with systemd, also systemd can generate your text based log files for you. Considering these two facts, systemd can work like how you want it to work. You seem to be more opposed to *other people* using it in ways you do not think they should be allowed to use it. So who is the tyrant?
Have you ever looked at some bash startup scripts? Its difficult to analyse compared to the declarative style. Bash scripts are a much more serious support issue compared to the simplicity of systemd declarative unit files. I've not had any problem with systemd, and not that is worse than what we had with sysv init.
Also, ubuntu had systemd -like init with Upstart for many years, systemd just standardized so we dont have to learn another init system for every other distro.
I really like the basic design pattern makes since such as the simpler declarative file format which much easier to read than Bash scripts and the dependency based startup.
This is false, systemd is decentralized into 40 independent executables.
The basic concept of systemd makes sense, you start a list of services first and once that is complete you move onto a seperate list of services . You have unit filed which indicate after target they are a part and which one they depend on. The unit files are simple and easy to understand. An implementation quality issue is a seperate issue from the basic design pattern, the design pattern is a sound concept
You can still use SysV type init on systemd. Disable the systemd unit with systemctl disable servicename and then create a new service in/etc/init.d say/etc/init.d/servicename-sysv and link to in the/etc/init.d/rcX.d directories. that effectively moves the services from systemd to SysV style init.
Also, you can turn on text logging with systemd if you want it.
There are pros and cons to text or binary, it should be up to sysadmin to choose what works best, there is nothing wrong with having a binary capability. One place where binary can help is if you want to store to a database log data so you can have a fast search query or you want to be able to programmatically alter a configuration setting without having to parse and regenerate text files. In these cases some kind of database like SQL can work better than text.
Next thing they will be replacing the Windows kernel with the Linux kernel with a Win32 compatibility layer for running Windows apps on Linux, and a driver compatibility layer for existing Windows drivers. I'm not kidding. Mark my words. It will happen. Will also include even moving the Windows GUI over to Microsoft's own Wayland server. The UI look and feel will be maintaining but the underlying architecture replaced with wayland with a compatability layer for Win32 apps.
Microsoft is a cloud company, the Windows kernel really is just an added expense that it wants to shed so will move Windows over to a Linux kernel, seamlessly, due to the compatibility layer, windows apps and drivers will run fine. They can thus share development costs with other users of Linux.
This is exactly whats happening with Edge as well. Overall, its a pretty good thing, actually.
If you are pretty far out from the transmission antenna, 30 or 40 miles, you'll need something more substantial than that. You can install an outdoor antenna, in the attic if necessary due to regulations. If your in an apartment building your SOL. Apartment buildings used to have Master Antenna Systems (MATV) to serve the complex for free with an antenna on the roof. But now many condo associations demand that you pay for cable TV as they get this bulk deal to signup the entire building. If your further out from a large city, such as 70 miles, or behind a mountain, your SOL.They originally created CATV to serve distant communities by putting an antenna up on a mountain and sending the signals down to the town and charging a nominal fee to maintain the antenna and cable. Some franchise authorities have a stipulation in their franchise agreement that they be required to seell you just local stations at a low monthly rate. You may want to look into that if you are in a rural area.
Another alternative that used to exist for rural areas was the big C band dish, which you could use to get a lot of programming for free. That has languished after the market was taken over by mini dish subscription services where you find yourself in a similar situation to cable tv services.
If you need Cable and you want to save money, some of the cable companies allow you to use your TVs built in Clear QAM tuner, some also provide a cheap "tuning adapter". Cable Cards never really seem to have caught on, instead of charging a one time fee they seem to want to charge a recurring fee for this which is quite above what the card costs.
I see an ad for TV+Internet for $35 and when all of the fees and taxes are added in it comes out to more like $80. Very deceptive advertising practices. In some cases, its hard to get out of them what the actual fees and taxes will be. Then, probably the make it so the first bill comes only after the 30 day gaurantee is up. There is nothing worth watching on TV anyway (and really even on NetFlix). Much is designed for the lowest common denominator, you can feel your IQ dropping just being exposed to it. Much of the news, especially CNN, is complete disinformation propoganda and lies to turn people into America hating nutjobs. I don't watch TV, and its great.
Binary formats can be perfectly safe, it takes a competent person to write the processors for them. They are not more difficult to write than one for a text based format, so its not like text based formats are safer. They can save some CPU cycles since using length field demarcation rather than demarcation characters, you dont have to inspect every single character.
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Novell days were actually pretty good and saw major improvements to SUSE Linux. SUSE became more useable then with a fast and functional package manager whereas before package management was a big mess. zypp was developed under the Novell period which really make SUSE first class with a fast package manager. Yast was also fully open sourced at this time and also uses the zypp infrastructure. You have a choice between command line package management with zypper or to use Yast now so you really can have it either way.
Suse has done a very good job of making its software open source. SUSE has gotten much better. YaST is now fully open source, it was not before. We've really actually seen only good things beginning since the Novell days, such as a workable and faster package management system with zypp. SUSE Contributes to open source projects like btrfs and apparmor as well.
The Pratt And Whitney engines used by AeroBus, PW1000, have very low fuel efficiency compared to other engines of the same size, they could be swapped in for older engines onto new AeroBus airplanes very easily. Boeing was trying to compete with these but had to use larger engines that did not benefit from the same technology (patents?). It used software, however, to make the MAX airplane fly like a 737, even though its not really a 737. Because airlines do not want to retrain pilots, it glossed over the differences between MAX and 737 in the manual and did not cover important issues relating to the software, to give the impression it was a simple plane to fly. So when the plane misbehaved, the pilots did not know what was happening and how to handle the situation.
Southwest was the one airline that decided to give pilots additional MAX training and retrofit the airplanes to detect failed sensors to prevent problems with MAX. They deserve a reward for this.
All Max plans should have redundant sensors and raise an alarm if a sensor problem is detected.
We hear this argument from GMO shills but its a fallacious argument. Most foods are not GMO. GMO specifically refers to direct intentional manipulation of DNA by inserting or removing DNA. We've been doing selective breeding for a long time, this is NOT GMO, and the process cannot produce the same effects and dangers of GMO. Also selective breeding isnt necessarily safe, you can end up with toxic effects. The probabilities with GMOs are much higher because it allows changes which would never occur due to a sexual process and allows it to happen with a severity and rapidity that would not occur with breeding. Selective breeding imposes certain limits and constraints on things because genes can only transfer within the same species and the mutations happen at a lower rate.
That you refer to selective breeding breeding as GMO destroys your credibility and your just trying to mislead people.
A lot of things can go wrong here. No, its not something that you can say with high confidence is safe. Likely what happened was that someone with big bags of cash paid off someone in the agencies to approve this thing. Money talks, and big business will play fast and loose.
It will end up in the environment and it would probably overproliferate and have some devastating effect on the food web.
The growth hormones could have disasterous effects on humans including promoting cancers. All around a foolish and dangerous expirement.
use shared_ptr and vectors
If people were to use shared_ptr, vectors and std::string many of these errors could be prevented.
I wonder what 6G and 7G are. X-Rays and Gamma rays so everyone can get cancer?
Yes. The A380 makes no business sense. Smaller aircraft are fuel efficient. Airlines do not like the mega craft because they want to also adjust the capacity for different routes. With A380, they are stuck with this huge plane they cannot fill and they cannot adjust to the changing market conditions. The idea that launching a single A380 rather than several smaller planes would be appealing proved wrong. It makes things more inefficient for the consumer who has to wait longer for a flight and cannot schedule their flights at times which are convenient for them. Airlines are consumer oriented which is how things should be, its a competitive market which helps ensure good value for consumers, the consumer wants a low price and convenient scheduling, the arguments for A380 are often not based on the needs of consumers. Airlines do not like flying half filled airplanes and like to adjust the capacity on a route which you can do with smaller planes by adding more planes. So it makes no financial sense for an airline.
Firefox always seems to be behind everyone else on standards support and on security. It was way behind Chrome on sandboxing and quite a few security problems. Maybe Firefox would be well served by moving to Blink, this way it would use less resources reinventing the wheel and could focus more on QA and UI improvements, Firefox would not lose any control, in fact it would still have the same amount of control as it does now with its own Engine becuase it could simply fork and modify Blink however it needs to.
Chromium is not a closed source project no one can modify. If you used Blink engine, you could modify it however you need to so in effect Google nor anyone else is controlling you. If Firefox did move to Blink, they could patch the code base and would have complete control over the browser works. There are no hidden features because its an open source project.
Chromium is actually rooted in KHTML which goes back to the same time period as Gecko.
This is not true. Chromium is not a closed source project no one can modify. If you used Blink engine, you could modify it however you need to so in effect Google nor anyone else is controlling you. If Firefox did move to Blink, they could patch the code base and would have complete control over the browser works. There are no hidden features because its an open source project. In fact Firefox would have the exact same control as it does with its own browser engine, it would also lead to a better product since less time for reinventing the wheel since the different browsers can share more of the effort for code QA allowing more resources to be spent on improving things.
if it is an alien, its quite improbable to be the first one and thus to be "discovering" earth. When you consider the 4.5 billion years of earth history, 540 million since the cambrian explosion and tens of thousands of human life, the propbably is low they would first visit "just right now".
One of the things that does not make sense about your position is you can use sysv init with systemd, also systemd can generate your text based log files for you. Considering these two facts, systemd can work like how you want it to work. You seem to be more opposed to *other people* using it in ways you do not think they should be allowed to use it. So who is the tyrant?
Its systemd, not SystemD.
Have you ever looked at some bash startup scripts? Its difficult to analyse compared to the declarative style. Bash scripts are a much more serious support issue compared to the simplicity of systemd declarative unit files. I've not had any problem with systemd, and not that is worse than what we had with sysv init.
Also, ubuntu had systemd -like init with Upstart for many years, systemd just standardized so we dont have to learn another init system for every other distro.
I really like the basic design pattern makes since such as the simpler declarative file format which much easier to read than Bash scripts and the dependency based startup.
This is false, systemd is decentralized into 40 independent executables.
The basic concept of systemd makes sense, you start a list of services first and once that is complete you move onto a seperate list of services . You have unit filed which indicate after target they are a part and which one they depend on. The unit files are simple and easy to understand. An implementation quality issue is a seperate issue from the basic design pattern, the design pattern is a sound concept
You can still use SysV type init on systemd. Disable the systemd unit with systemctl disable servicename and then create a new service in /etc/init.d say /etc/init.d/servicename-sysv and link to in the /etc/init.d/rcX.d directories. that effectively moves the services from systemd to SysV style init.
Also, you can turn on text logging with systemd if you want it.
There are pros and cons to text or binary, it should be up to sysadmin to choose what works best, there is nothing wrong with having a binary capability. One place where binary can help is if you want to store to a database log data so you can have a fast search query or you want to be able to programmatically alter a configuration setting without having to parse and regenerate text files. In these cases some kind of database like SQL can work better than text.
Increasing prices will fuel another round of cord cutting and damage them certainly. Its a huge mistake.
Simple, an alien spacecraft, like the Oumuomua
With fear of unleashing a deluge of PC obsession, the X11 code base has questionable naming of subsystems, dix, privates, etc. Uh-oh, here it comes.
But Microsoft may have gone bankrupt and today wouldnt be making contributions to Linux kernel and becoming an open source company.
Next thing they will be replacing the Windows kernel with the Linux kernel with a Win32 compatibility layer for running Windows apps on Linux, and a driver compatibility layer for existing Windows drivers. I'm not kidding. Mark my words. It will happen. Will also include even moving the Windows GUI over to Microsoft's own Wayland server. The UI look and feel will be maintaining but the underlying architecture replaced with wayland with a compatability layer for Win32 apps.
Microsoft is a cloud company, the Windows kernel really is just an added expense that it wants to shed so will move Windows over to a Linux kernel, seamlessly, due to the compatibility layer, windows apps and drivers will run fine. They can thus share development costs with other users of Linux.
This is exactly whats happening with Edge as well. Overall, its a pretty good thing, actually.
If you are pretty far out from the transmission antenna, 30 or 40 miles, you'll need something more substantial than that. You can install an outdoor antenna, in the attic if necessary due to regulations. If your in an apartment building your SOL. Apartment buildings used to have Master Antenna Systems (MATV) to serve the complex for free with an antenna on the roof. But now many condo associations demand that you pay for cable TV as they get this bulk deal to signup the entire building. If your further out from a large city, such as 70 miles, or behind a mountain, your SOL.They originally created CATV to serve distant communities by putting an antenna up on a mountain and sending the signals down to the town and charging a nominal fee to maintain the antenna and cable. Some franchise authorities have a stipulation in their franchise agreement that they be required to seell you just local stations at a low monthly rate. You may want to look into that if you are in a rural area.
Another alternative that used to exist for rural areas was the big C band dish, which you could use to get a lot of programming for free. That has languished after the market was taken over by mini dish subscription services where you find yourself in a similar situation to cable tv services.
If you need Cable and you want to save money, some of the cable companies allow you to use your TVs built in Clear QAM tuner, some also provide a cheap "tuning adapter". Cable Cards never really seem to have caught on, instead of charging a one time fee they seem to want to charge a recurring fee for this which is quite above what the card costs.
I see an ad for TV+Internet for $35 and when all of the fees and taxes are added in it comes out to more like $80. Very deceptive advertising practices. In some cases, its hard to get out of them what the actual fees and taxes will be. Then, probably the make it so the first bill comes only after the 30 day gaurantee is up. There is nothing worth watching on TV anyway (and really even on NetFlix). Much is designed for the lowest common denominator, you can feel your IQ dropping just being exposed to it. Much of the news, especially CNN, is complete disinformation propoganda and lies to turn people into America hating nutjobs. I don't watch TV, and its great.
If the data is worth that much, a tape drive is a good investment. Optical discs are too small to be practical for terabytes.
Binary formats can be perfectly safe, it takes a competent person to write the processors for them. They are not more difficult to write than one for a text based format, so its not like text based formats are safer. They can save some CPU cycles since using length field demarcation rather than demarcation characters, you dont have to inspect every single character.