Sorry, but if you get 5-10 calls a week you are doing it wrong. The first thing I tell people I help is that they'll lose admin and they'll have to go through me for anything they want to install and that I'm not Santa Claus and will reject stuff. Those that accept, will run Limited User and I only hear from them when they do need new software. I will do that gladly and run the complimentary system check which never turns up anything wrong. The others who don't want to play by the rules, and -well, it was their choice- lost my support and won't call.
Manage family and friends like a small business. It's the only way.
O/T? Not OT... It's the first thing I thought when seeing the analogy. The reason we do not care about how to care about ponies is because we don't have any! But we're on slashdot, take a car analogy. Most people have a car.... Those who do not know to maintain it, go to the dealership or their trusted mechanic. Mechanics maintain their own cars. We are the computer equivalent of mechanics: we make sure machines run. However, in the public perception, a computer is an appliance and doesn't need maintenance.
To be honest, in my experience you can run Windows as Limited user completely (you just have to know how). This would be the equivalent of being a driver but not a mechanic.
That this doesn't happen is because people will never pay someone to check up their computers every 3 months or so.
Let's just say that your wording implied that it was a country. That's all. I'm wondering why you left out Sweden in that list but included Iceland (which is many times smaller than Sweden). Also Denmark is also part of the Scandinavian countries.
Because I have a server anyway and the little load a DNS server adds won't cost much more energy. (Just use something like a Soekris as a server for crying out loud)
Yes, it might be useful for people whose ISP DNS server is slow. That didn't happen to me since my dialup days. Besides, now I simply run my own caching DNS server. It's not hard to set up at all.
Inkjet was and always will be a half-assed home solution
No. That is untrue. As much as I am a Laser fan these day, I do remember the initial Deskjet days. We had a HP Deskjet 500 and it lasted years and years and years and years. In those days, HP built printers like tanks. They were pricy too. I think we bought ours for about 400€ back then.
I also own a HP Desktjet 320, which is essentially a HP Deskjet 500C in portable form. While studying I was on the road often and that was useful. When I graduated in 1998, I put it to retirement. About a year ago a friend of my sisters was cash strapped and needed a computer with printer. I put a dumpster-diven machine for her in order and gave her the 320. I bothered to buy new cartridges. (Hard to find) I assumed the one in it would be dried out. When I configured the printer, I let it do the printing with the original cartridge in it and the printing was perfect. Yes, that cartridge was working perfectly after 10 years.
However, both the HP Deskjet 500 and the HP Deskjet 320 were built before inkjets became disposable items.
When did you buy it? I bought mine over 5 years ago and it was indeed 1000€. It also does Duplex, PostScript Level 3 and is networked. You paid for that back in the day. Not these days anymore, I know. I wanted a B&W printer which was much cheaper, but my wife insisted on colour. (Kindergarten teachers... Well, I guess they need it.) Oh, and I got full toner too.
Anyone asking me what printer they should buy gets the reply: A Laser... B&W if you can live without colour, especially that printing photos is not economic.
No... rm is already in memory (and if it's not, then it's loaded into memory -- rm is usually part of the shell anyway so it most likely is loaded). Programs execute from memory and thus don't need their on-disk-alter-ego anymore. rm can thus do it's task.
Oh, and just saying... The article you linked to says: "Mobile Core 2 Duo 100 degrees C" and "try to keep ik 20 degrees under". So, yes, 80 degrees C is just fine for a Mobile Core 2 Duo, which is what these machines have.
Those temperatures are really dependent on the CPU we're talking about. I own a Athlon MP workstation and the CPUs routinely are in the 80 degree celcius range. Maximum is 90 degrees celcius.... That machine was rock-stable (until one of the disks started being flakey)
Pro: Fastest possible throughput and lowest latency; excellent security.
Con: Will consume more electricity at idle than a consumer firewall/router box.
Or perhaps just get a soekris box? I'm pretty sure that the net5501 will handle his needs and it does use as much power as a consumer firewall/router box. It's also the same form factor. No need for extra NICs, it comes with four. Slam OpenBSD on it, configure pf/nat and you're good.
It didn't look like that in the first two years... All really went downhill for the dollar when the US started printing money like crazy to fund a specific war. I'm not saying that the Euro isn't strong on its own merit, but the disproportion is due to an American political decision. We are not shielded from making similar mistakes. That was what I meant to say with my post.
Since I know 100% sure that these days the save files are interchangeable, at least that's accounted for. It's meager, but it's at least that. I remember the days where that wasn't even possible (in the WfW 3.11 days)
Oh, and cool to know: back then they even translated Visual Basic for Applications and you can image how much of a mess that was. Luckily now it's English in all versions (not that I checked recently, but I seem to remember...)
I hate to defend Microsoft in this, but most likely this is what the end-users wanted. Well, not the multi-lingual ones (and current localization is fucked up beyond repair regarding this). Consider that a French user will not think of the word "Sum" when he wants to make a sum. He'll think of "Somme".
It is really very disheartening, but software always seems to assume you only speak one language and that it's the language of your country and that's the one you want. If I want my Locale (number and dates formatted like I'm used to), I'm limited to German and French. No English for me. Of course, I know how to work around it in both Windows and Linux, but most do not. You also get weird things like installers deriving your language form the locale will pop up dialogs in (for example) French, while your operating system is English, etc, etc, etc....
It's all painful. What needs to be done is to separate Language and Formatting (dates, times, how to represent currency, numbers, etc) completely. Will never happen, but I can still wish.
For those who want to know: Under Linux you simply generate your own Locale. It's not hard. In Windows, you take the country where the language you want is spoken and adapt the formatting settings to what you want.
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Sorry, but if you get 5-10 calls a week you are doing it wrong. The first thing I tell people I help is that they'll lose admin and they'll have to go through me for anything they want to install and that I'm not Santa Claus and will reject stuff. Those that accept, will run Limited User and I only hear from them when they do need new software. I will do that gladly and run the complimentary system check which never turns up anything wrong. The others who don't want to play by the rules, and -well, it was their choice- lost my support and won't call.
Manage family and friends like a small business. It's the only way.
O/T? Not OT... It's the first thing I thought when seeing the analogy. The reason we do not care about how to care about ponies is because we don't have any! But we're on slashdot, take a car analogy. Most people have a car.... Those who do not know to maintain it, go to the dealership or their trusted mechanic. Mechanics maintain their own cars. We are the computer equivalent of mechanics: we make sure machines run. However, in the public perception, a computer is an appliance and doesn't need maintenance.
To be honest, in my experience you can run Windows as Limited user completely (you just have to know how). This would be the equivalent of being a driver but not a mechanic.
That this doesn't happen is because people will never pay someone to check up their computers every 3 months or so.
You're not, because you admitted ignorance and showed the will to learn.
Let's just say that your wording implied that it was a country. That's all. I'm wondering why you left out Sweden in that list but included Iceland (which is many times smaller than Sweden). Also Denmark is also part of the Scandinavian countries.
Scandinavia is not a country.
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Because I have a server anyway and the little load a DNS server adds won't cost much more energy. (Just use something like a Soekris as a server for crying out loud)
(Offtopic: it's "Geek Cred".)
Yes, it might be useful for people whose ISP DNS server is slow. That didn't happen to me since my dialup days. Besides, now I simply run my own caching DNS server. It's not hard to set up at all.
Why would they take a printer that isn't worth anything and the ink costs fortunes. You're not helping anyone with that....
No. That is untrue. As much as I am a Laser fan these day, I do remember the initial Deskjet days. We had a HP Deskjet 500 and it lasted years and years and years and years. In those days, HP built printers like tanks. They were pricy too. I think we bought ours for about 400€ back then.
I also own a HP Desktjet 320, which is essentially a HP Deskjet 500C in portable form. While studying I was on the road often and that was useful. When I graduated in 1998, I put it to retirement. About a year ago a friend of my sisters was cash strapped and needed a computer with printer. I put a dumpster-diven machine for her in order and gave her the 320. I bothered to buy new cartridges. (Hard to find) I assumed the one in it would be dried out. When I configured the printer, I let it do the printing with the original cartridge in it and the printing was perfect. Yes, that cartridge was working perfectly after 10 years.
However, both the HP Deskjet 500 and the HP Deskjet 320 were built before inkjets became disposable items.
When did you buy it? I bought mine over 5 years ago and it was indeed 1000€. It also does Duplex, PostScript Level 3 and is networked. You paid for that back in the day. Not these days anymore, I know. I wanted a B&W printer which was much cheaper, but my wife insisted on colour. (Kindergarten teachers... Well, I guess they need it.) Oh, and I got full toner too.
Anyone asking me what printer they should buy gets the reply: A Laser... B&W if you can live without colour, especially that printing photos is not economic.
man -k burn cd
I thought it was an internal bash command. I'm wrong. Doesn't change the argument...
No... rm is already in memory (and if it's not, then it's loaded into memory -- rm is usually part of the shell anyway so it most likely is loaded). Programs execute from memory and thus don't need their on-disk-alter-ego anymore. rm can thus do it's task.
There is no contradiction.
I have to admit I usually only deal with servers...
At our company we have our own repository, with signed key. How is that hard?!?
Oh, and just saying... The article you linked to says: "Mobile Core 2 Duo 100 degrees C" and "try to keep ik 20 degrees under". So, yes, 80 degrees C is just fine for a Mobile Core 2 Duo, which is what these machines have.
Those temperatures are really dependent on the CPU we're talking about. I own a Athlon MP workstation and the CPUs routinely are in the 80 degree celcius range. Maximum is 90 degrees celcius.... That machine was rock-stable (until one of the disks started being flakey)
Or perhaps just get a soekris box? I'm pretty sure that the net5501 will handle his needs and it does use as much power as a consumer firewall/router box. It's also the same form factor. No need for extra NICs, it comes with four. Slam OpenBSD on it, configure pf/nat and you're good.
Nope... 008 would take over :-)
It didn't look like that in the first two years... All really went downhill for the dollar when the US started printing money like crazy to fund a specific war. I'm not saying that the Euro isn't strong on its own merit, but the disproportion is due to an American political decision. We are not shielded from making similar mistakes. That was what I meant to say with my post.
I've seen it as a thousand separator, but not yet as a decimal separtor.
Since I know 100% sure that these days the save files are interchangeable, at least that's accounted for. It's meager, but it's at least that. I remember the days where that wasn't even possible (in the WfW 3.11 days)
Oh, and cool to know: back then they even translated Visual Basic for Applications and you can image how much of a mess that was. Luckily now it's English in all versions (not that I checked recently, but I seem to remember...)
I hate to defend Microsoft in this, but most likely this is what the end-users wanted. Well, not the multi-lingual ones (and current localization is fucked up beyond repair regarding this). Consider that a French user will not think of the word "Sum" when he wants to make a sum. He'll think of "Somme".
It is really very disheartening, but software always seems to assume you only speak one language and that it's the language of your country and that's the one you want. If I want my Locale (number and dates formatted like I'm used to), I'm limited to German and French. No English for me. Of course, I know how to work around it in both Windows and Linux, but most do not. You also get weird things like installers deriving your language form the locale will pop up dialogs in (for example) French, while your operating system is English, etc, etc, etc....
It's all painful. What needs to be done is to separate Language and Formatting (dates, times, how to represent currency, numbers, etc) completely. Will never happen, but I can still wish.
For those who want to know: Under Linux you simply generate your own Locale. It's not hard. In Windows, you take the country where the language you want is spoken and adapt the formatting settings to what you want.