As Brexit has demonstrated, the average UK politician can't tell his arse from his elbow, and is not within a million miles of being able to run a bath, let alone a whelk stall.
It may take a little initial setup to get, say, Lets Encrypt working
It would so much easier if LetsEncrypt gave you error messages with at least a little info on what went wrong. If a file is a problem: give me the damn filename! (and the path you where YOU think it should be. Then I will be able to find out if it is the content or the location that is a problem. If the permissions are wrong, let me know. Its not that hard).
However, with regard to the OP, if there are multiple errors, you might have to let some go while you fix others. Its quite helpful to have the choice to leave the ones you are waiting for help on while fixing ones you know the answer to.
It is absolutely infuriating to have to fight Google every step of the way.
I was a keen HTC user - until the bloatware overwhelmed me.
Bloatware is NOT making life easier. If we want apps, we will get apps, "free" or otherwise from app makers. Apps from phone manufacturers are the work of the devil. We do not want anything to do with them (And that goes for Google and Samsung too).
Manufacturers: I wont buy a new phone unless it has an unlocked boot loader. I know your sales are in hundreds of millions, but you could have sold one more:-)
On top of that mom and dad aren't buying junior a PC any longer.
Cos he's got two already!
Its not like the new ones are better. Maybe new servers are better than old ones, but now home PCs are mostly crap. A quick trip to PC Wold revealed that most of their offerings are actually worse than my seven year old laptop in every respect. They don't even have DVD drives. No wonder they are not selling them.
just has enough operating system on it to boot up configure the PC hardware including network configuration, then allow installing windows 10 from the internet
This is Windows you are talking about - you would have to install the OS before you could install the Wifi drivers, but you would have to install the Wifi drivers before you could install the OS.
Email should be 7-bit ASCII for security and stability. If you want to attach a pdf or word document in order to compromise your security and leak your personal info, then the capability is there for exactly that purpose.
If you are going to sue someone, surely its time for all good pirates to sue the music industry for trying to profit by lying and cheating, and selling product "not of merchandisable quality"
Oh, wait...
In America, since 1984, over-priced music is called "Free speach". I think Orwell should be entitled to royalties too.
If you didn't vote, you chose to silence yourself - deal with it.
I did not vote, and nor did most of my family because we were out of the country at the time.
A lot of people go abroad - and most of them are not likely to vote leave because it won't help their job or their family. Unlike the people who voted leave - many of whom presumably have no idea where Europe even is.
This fact alone could well account for more than the difference between the leave and remain vote.
That is not even remotely true - think about it for a few minutes. Pretty much everything we do involves the EU - for example, if I manufacture stuff, either I make it to EU specs and I can sell it, or I make it to UK spec, in which case, for the most part, not even UK citizens will buy it. However, we give up having a say in the EU spec. How does that give us "freedom"? (Yes, this is an over simplification, but it is the bulk of the argument).
The purpose of Brexit, as seen by the ERG, is to avoid forthcoming EU legislation which will expose their ill-gotten gains in tax havens. The purpose as seen by the Brexit voters is based on lies told by the ERG - who have "posh accents" and are therefore mistaken for being intelligent and well informed by the ignorant masses.
Giving Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson more sovereignty does not mean anybody else gets any. The "unelected bureaucrats in Brussels" (EU government), is in fact composed of Euro-MPS, of which we elect our share, and the commissioners, who are elected in part by our own government who we elect - so, no, not unelected or unrepresentative.
clear signs both of foreign interference and that the signatures aren't being validated
Actually, there is no significant or credble sign of foreign interference, and they are being validated - but it takes time before you get the email saying your signature was refused. Some people on the Internet are lying. I hope you are not too shocked to hear it.
I am sure there are a few dodgy ones, but it is as trustworthy as anything else in politics (so, no, don't try to throw the pdf over your shoulder).
We are a very densely populated country which is dependent on imports for 75% of its food (mostly from the EU). Even when it is grown here, it is harvested by transient workers from poorer EU countries who fail to understand how expensive it is to live in the UK, and do not realize you cannot live outside the monetary economy in the UK (all land is owned by someone, there is not much edible wildlife, and without electricity, you life expectancy is months.
We have spent most of the last 20 years organising a division of labour where we do what we are good at, and give the rest to the the EU.
Some people imagining that we can "return to the good old days" (the 1950's) when we all lived on starvation rations imported from America, which we are still paying for, despite the fact that we had little manufacturing competition from the rest of Europe which we had just bombed to hell for most of the 50's and 60's. Mrs Thatcher abolished our engineering industry, and replaced it with global Ponzi schemes "financial services", which, post-Brexit we won't be able to export. For the most part, these people last visited mainland Europe in 1945 (in the D-day landings), if they have ever been, and they get their information from "news" sources that carefully avoid anything that might actually be true.
The petition shows each MP clearly what percentage of his/her electorate has signed the petition.
In many cases its over 25%. If over 25% have signed (even if it was really only 18.5%), then there is a good chance 60% are against it - a lot of people probably don't even know about the petition .
As an MP you might just want to think carefully before voting for any kind of Brexit, because when the Brexit hits the fan (no food and no jobs) they will know that the vast majority of the electorate thinks you are voting for the ERG to hide their ill gotten gains in a tax haven, and campaigning to stamp out workers' rights. (These are the EU policies that the ERG is opposed to, and remember they all have houses in France too).
All that stuff about straight bananas, etc, was invented by Boris Johnson when he was EU correspondent of the Telegraph - which he has admitted.
And the million marching in London, are they bots too?
As one of the marchers, I can say with complete confidence, "Yes, I am a bot!"
At least it is more believable than anything the ERG have ever said (apart from Boris's "we are going to make a Titanic success of this!" - that was definitely true).
If you have engineering intensive work to do you go where ever you can find competent engineers to do the job.
Which is not going to be the UK - most UK engineers are moving out because they can see that learning a foreign language is less painful than going without food and, most likely, work - even for English speakers. (see poll in Soylent). Plus there is Ireland - where they speak English and brew Guinness.
I think most UK companies are making reasonable efforts to leave the UK, and will continue to need their.eu domains. The.uk ones will presumably become free eventually - since I doubt any business will think they have much value once the pound is worthless.
Legalese is there so lawyers can collect money. If you made contracts unenforceable if incomprehensible, then lawyers would have to learn to write good English - which you would expect to be a requirement of their college admission. However, anyone else who was literate could also write contacts - and then lawyers would have to do real work.
But laws are made by lawyers, so don't expect changes any time soon.
I like the sky being light at night when I'm awake.
Sometimes the Sun comes up at 5AM, sometimes at 10AM. The sun keeps moving about.
Its not the EU that does it, its God. (no, I don't mean Trump). If you don't like it, go to church and pray for God to have a re-think. Or fit blackout blinds behind your curtains, like most shift workers.
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Can you buy porn passes on Ali Express yet?
It would so much easier if LetsEncrypt gave you error messages with at least a little info on what went wrong. If a file is a problem: give me the damn filename! (and the path you where YOU think it should be. Then I will be able to find out if it is the content or the location that is a problem. If the permissions are wrong, let me know. Its not that hard).
However, with regard to the OP, if there are multiple errors, you might have to let some go while you fix others. Its quite helpful to have the choice to leave the ones you are waiting for help on while fixing ones you know the answer to.
It is absolutely infuriating to have to fight Google every step of the way.
I was a keen HTC user - until the bloatware overwhelmed me.
Bloatware is NOT making life easier. If we want apps, we will get apps, "free" or otherwise from app makers. Apps from phone manufacturers are the work of the devil. We do not want anything to do with them (And that goes for Google and Samsung too).
Manufacturers: I wont buy a new phone unless it has an unlocked boot loader. I know your sales are in hundreds of millions, but you could have sold one more :-)
If your data is valuable, why are you even using Windows?
You work in an industry that does not have clean power, air conditioning, humans and security?
Hell, even auto breakers have all these! (The aircon is probably "fresh air", but still).
I believe the most popular answer here is: go in a corner and hide but "jump of the top of a tower block" is probably a close second.
You are forgetting the LTO tape drive. (Or maybe you prefer to have Google minding your data for you?)
FTFY
Cos he's got two already!
Its not like the new ones are better. Maybe new servers are better than old ones, but now home PCs are mostly crap. A quick trip to PC Wold revealed that most of their offerings are actually worse than my seven year old laptop in every respect. They don't even have DVD drives. No wonder they are not selling them.
It will open the door to competitors?
This is Windows you are talking about - you would have to install the OS before you could install the Wifi drivers, but you would have to install the Wifi drivers before you could install the OS.
Just stick to Debian and forget Windows.
Email should be 7-bit ASCII for security and stability. If you want to attach a pdf or word document in order to compromise your security and leak your personal info, then the capability is there for exactly that purpose.
Oh, wait ...
In America, since 1984, over-priced music is called "Free speach". I think Orwell should be entitled to royalties too.
I did not vote, and nor did most of my family because we were out of the country at the time. A lot of people go abroad - and most of them are not likely to vote leave because it won't help their job or their family. Unlike the people who voted leave - many of whom presumably have no idea where Europe even is.
This fact alone could well account for more than the difference between the leave and remain vote.
Maybe, next time, you will think before you type.
That is not even remotely true - think about it for a few minutes. Pretty much everything we do involves the EU - for example, if I manufacture stuff, either I make it to EU specs and I can sell it, or I make it to UK spec, in which case, for the most part, not even UK citizens will buy it. However, we give up having a say in the EU spec. How does that give us "freedom"? (Yes, this is an over simplification, but it is the bulk of the argument).
The purpose of Brexit, as seen by the ERG, is to avoid forthcoming EU legislation which will expose their ill-gotten gains in tax havens. The purpose as seen by the Brexit voters is based on lies told by the ERG - who have "posh accents" and are therefore mistaken for being intelligent and well informed by the ignorant masses.
Giving Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson more sovereignty does not mean anybody else gets any. The "unelected bureaucrats in Brussels" (EU government), is in fact composed of Euro-MPS, of which we elect our share, and the commissioners, who are elected in part by our own government who we elect - so, no, not unelected or unrepresentative.
Actually, there is no significant or credble sign of foreign interference, and they are being validated - but it takes time before you get the email saying your signature was refused. Some people on the Internet are lying. I hope you are not too shocked to hear it.
I am sure there are a few dodgy ones, but it is as trustworthy as anything else in politics (so, no, don't try to throw the pdf over your shoulder).
We are a very densely populated country which is dependent on imports for 75% of its food (mostly from the EU). Even when it is grown here, it is harvested by transient workers from poorer EU countries who fail to understand how expensive it is to live in the UK, and do not realize you cannot live outside the monetary economy in the UK (all land is owned by someone, there is not much edible wildlife, and without electricity, you life expectancy is months.
We have spent most of the last 20 years organising a division of labour where we do what we are good at, and give the rest to the the EU.
Some people imagining that we can "return to the good old days" (the 1950's) when we all lived on starvation rations imported from America, which we are still paying for, despite the fact that we had little manufacturing competition from the rest of Europe which we had just bombed to hell for most of the 50's and 60's. Mrs Thatcher abolished our engineering industry, and replaced it with global Ponzi schemes "financial services", which, post-Brexit we won't be able to export. For the most part, these people last visited mainland Europe in 1945 (in the D-day landings), if they have ever been, and they get their information from "news" sources that carefully avoid anything that might actually be true.
In many cases its over 25%. If over 25% have signed (even if it was really only 18.5%), then there is a good chance 60% are against it - a lot of people probably don't even know about the petition .
As an MP you might just want to think carefully before voting for any kind of Brexit, because when the Brexit hits the fan (no food and no jobs) they will know that the vast majority of the electorate thinks you are voting for the ERG to hide their ill gotten gains in a tax haven, and campaigning to stamp out workers' rights. (These are the EU policies that the ERG is opposed to, and remember they all have houses in France too).
All that stuff about straight bananas, etc, was invented by Boris Johnson when he was EU correspondent of the Telegraph - which he has admitted.
As one of the marchers, I can say with complete confidence, "Yes, I am a bot!"
At least it is more believable than anything the ERG have ever said (apart from Boris's "we are going to make a Titanic success of this!" - that was definitely true).
After they have sold all the ice from a frozen hell.
Which is not going to be the UK - most UK engineers are moving out because they can see that learning a foreign language is less painful than going without food and, most likely, work - even for English speakers. (see poll in Soylent). Plus there is Ireland - where they speak English and brew Guinness.
This not an XOR - The evidence supports them being both.
I think most UK companies are making reasonable efforts to leave the UK, and will continue to need their .eu domains. The .uk ones will presumably become free eventually - since I doubt any business will think they have much value once the pound is worthless.
But laws are made by lawyers, so don't expect changes any time soon.
Sometimes the Sun comes up at 5AM, sometimes at 10AM. The sun keeps moving about.
Its not the EU that does it, its God. (no, I don't mean Trump). If you don't like it, go to church and pray for God to have a re-think. Or fit blackout blinds behind your curtains, like most shift workers.