I have been down the track of being frustrated with systemd and pulseaudio, and have somehow managed to get over it as my requirements changed.
I used to go a lot more coding than I do now, and for many years (since about 1995) I was pretty much a committed slackware user, since the distro never got in my way, and everything "just works".
I appreciated Arch for much the same reason at first, since in its early incarnations there used to be a lot of similarities with Slack, but with a more "modern" package manager. As time passed, though, I came to feel that the team behind Arch became less focused on stability and more on chasing concepts of "elegance", that (while valid) just got in my way.
Now that my primary computer is an android tablet, I don't much care about distro wars, I just run Mint on my desktop/laptop machines, and don't give it any more thought.
Hmmm. From a terrorist's point of view, those who bypass encryption entirely will survive, at least for long enough to do what they intend. A one-to-one conversation on a beach or other exposed place is a good way of achieving this, and it would appear that they know it.
Those IS nutjobs seem to have learned that the best way to avoid being trapped in the mesh of surveillance programs is to fragment their operations to the extent that they all operate as lone wolves. It clearly works.
Most people who need to be concerned about excessive and intrusive government surveillance are everyday people who just like to have the bathroom door shut while they're having a dump.
If Skype is the issue, a lot depends on how the provider intends to block it. Some sites just block port 5060 (IIRC), leaving the user free to configure his Skype client to use port 80. If the ISP tries to block that, there will probably be one or two complaints.
Maybe I'm just showing my age (OK, downhill side of 50), but it seems to me that just about any whitegoods type of appliance these days is made to such shoddy standards, it would be pretty much impossible to attribute failure to vandalism on anyone's part.
A dishwasher or washing machine from just about any reputable manufacturer used to last 20+ years. Nowadays we can count ourselves lucky if they work for 5 years. So much for advances in technology.:(
But just to throw a spanner in the works, it doesn't hurt to mention that even the so-called "classic" version of the site is looking pretty damn fugly at the moment for a logged-in user who has left any non-default settings in his profile. So (at least in my case) the beta could easily be seen as an improvement.
Except that I am aware of at least one case where a guy DID get fired for buying a non-IBM machine. He was a new broom on a long-standing Burroughs site (this was back in the '70s), and he reckoned he was the shizznit, without the requisite experience to back that up. When the directors heard that this fool had splurged on an IBM box that was virtually incapable of functioning in their company, he was dismissed immediately.
Back in the late '70s, I shared a house with a guy who had a pet Bengal tiger. The animal was a real pussy (of the non-edible kind), but one time a prowler came round, sticking his head through an open window. The pussy-cat snuck up, put his nose to the intruder's face and purred or growled or whatever it is they do. That guy's screams were quite funny.
Doesn't look like it's preinstalled on Ubuntu 13.10. Any way to get this working?
You would do better to read up on why some distros elect not to use systemd, despite the fact that it is becoming quite popular in some quarters. For my part, I consider it to be an unnecessary complication, so am happy that my preferred distro (Slackware) still elects not to implement systemd by default.
I'm going to change my name to William Shakespeare and claim royalties for all those plays (and sonnets, of course) that have been reproduced without my permission. That'll show 'em.
I don't know what world you're living in, but $1325 is real money right now. And I suspect my dog might appreciate whatever that works out at in dog money.
That aside, one of the big advantages of Project Gutenberg's sister sites is that there are servers outside the US that are not tied to predatory American copyright legislation, so many texts that should (by reasonable, ethical expectations) have passed into public domain have often already done so somewhere.
As a professional cheesemaker, (yes, one of the blessed variety), the first question that comes to my mind is:
Why are these people throwing out their brine? This seems an unnecessarily costly exercise.
It is typical practice in many cheese factories (and all of those in which I've worked) to keep and re-use brine (sometimes for decades), with routine and simple maintenance such as topping up salt levels, adjustment of pH, filtration to remove solids and occasional pasteurisation if required.
A "raw" brine of just NaCl and water will, of course, do the job of salting your cheese, but most of the salt is left in solution at the end of the brining process (so it doesn't make sense to throw it away), and the pH will have a tendency to bounce around, adversely affecting the properties of your cheese. The various whey products in a re-used brine help to stabilise the pH, so one usually only needs to top up salt to replace that absorbed by the cheese.
There seems to be a rash of similar posts re Waco in other threads too, and I suspect that the failure to post as AC here was inadvertent. Having a low UID doesn't excuse being a troll.
I hate vocals in music. That's why I stick to classical and electronic genres.
I don't exactly hate vocals (I was raised as a classical violinist, but my musical appetite now weighs a little more heavily in favour of jazz), but I find lyrics just get in the way when the music should be able to speak for itself. Thus, (from TFS)
Purely instrumental groups like Booker T and the MGs, as well as solo performers like Herbie Hancock or John McLaughlin, seem not to take the spotlight as they once did.
just doesn't apply for me. Though of course I have to accept that other people's priorities differ, and I'm fine with that.
What I cannot abide, however, is the current tendency to play unnecessary incidental "music" over spoken dialogue in TV shows. While I accept that my ears are not what they once were (I am well over 50 years old, and if there's one thing I would change if I had to live my life again, it would involve earplugs), I do not accept that these noises contribute anything useful, and frequently make dialogue difficult to hear.
This is a fair point. CyanogenMod's strength is that it offers an upgrade path to a great many devices that have been abandoned by their manufacturers.The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, for instance hasn't seen an upgrade from my carrier in well over a year. CM also offers a clear way to de-googlify your phone, for those worried about Google's monitoring their activity. If you want the benefits of (say) Google maps and navigation, you have to consciously download and install the gapps.
Yeah, but he's used to RPN so he's pretty much stuck with HP models....although he doesn't say that.
IIRC there were some Russian-made devices that used an RPN interface, though I've never come across one.
But if I were doing it all over again (without slide-rules) I think I would have opted for an HP-15C. That was, and still is, a stupendously elegant piece of hardware.
The converse is that you'll still end up with the popular tools if you ask people what their preferred tools are and why...
OK, so I'll offer something different.
During my first year at uni, I used to own an HP-48G+ which I loved for its nice keypad and the RPN interface, but the actual device was hopelessly unreliable and had an unwelcome tendency to let me down by throwing hissy-fits during assessments. I eventually got around that particular limitation by replacing it with a TI-89, which (although lacking keypad quality and RPN) was, and still is, a vastly superior device on many levels.
But since this doesn't answer the OP's question, here's my take on it in the light of years of experience since my university studies...
The best calculator for examinations is: NONE AT ALL.
You will get much more kudos for arriving at any kind of solution (however incomplete) if you can show how you started from first principles. Also, you might actually remember how to use these skills years later if you do this.
I would like to be able to say this is what I did, but it would be a lie. I was not a brilliant maths student, since I relied too much on gadgets to help me through assessments. However, I have since revisited the subject and learned how to do it with more insight, and now find a certain pride in being able to "do" maths with no more hardware than a sheet of paper, a pencil and my brain.
Oh, and FWIW, although I still have my TI-89, most of the routine mechanical calculations I perform these days are done on the RealCalc Plus app on my phone.
..not a non-profit. Using the tech in this way is hardly immoral.
Agreed. I'm not sure why Google should be obliged to provide free WiFi to all and sundry, but I'm sure there must be some logic that will appeal to the zealot freeloader.
OTOH, Google appears to be proposing offering a service in underserved (maybe they mean undeserved?) areas, and I recall a (heavily edited) Slashdot submission I made some time ago to that effect. At that point, the notion of implementing the idea in Tasmania was mooted, which would be welcomed by yours truly, since this state is wilfully neglected by telcos who consider it their right to charge full price for a service they are prepared to offer only patchily.
If Google is prepared to offer access to the internet even on a non-free but competitively priced model, such an option might well be preferable to the single, crappy option available to me right now. If nothing else, it might provide an incentive to the local carriers to pull up their game.
Just playing devil's advocate for a moment: if 25% of traffic accidents are caused by drunk drivers, then it follows that 75% of accidents are caused by sober drivers. Therefore, you're safer driving drunk than sober.;-)
If there's some dumb retarded chick applying mascara while talking on her phone while driving--BAM!!! Bullet to the forehead!
Where I used to live (Perth, Western Australia), that would eliminate an awful lot of dumb "ladies", but such a scene is common enough to barely raise a digitus impudicus.
The best I have yet seen (for sheer chutzpah, if nothing else) was a guy in the driver's seat of an open-top sports car with one foot on the steering wheel, cruising while playing a fricking trumpet...
I have heard it mentioned (most prominently during the Cold War, which while fresh in my memory might predate some readers' lifetimes) that America collectively has to always be fighting the "last war". Sometimes the notion that you're the "good guys" can distort your perspective.
...and now the Obama Administration is either unable or unwilling to change it.
Given how fundamentally dishonest Obama has turned out to be, I would count on the latter.
[Opinion of a non-American observer, FWIW. Give a politician a bit of power and money, and it won't take him long to show you how much of an asswipe he is.]
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I have been down the track of being frustrated with systemd and pulseaudio, and have somehow managed to get over it as my requirements changed.
I used to go a lot more coding than I do now, and for many years (since about 1995) I was pretty much a committed slackware user, since the distro never got in my way, and everything "just works".
I appreciated Arch for much the same reason at first, since in its early incarnations there used to be a lot of similarities with Slack, but with a more "modern" package manager. As time passed, though, I came to feel that the team behind Arch became less focused on stability and more on chasing concepts of "elegance", that (while valid) just got in my way.
Now that my primary computer is an android tablet, I don't much care about distro wars, I just run Mint on my desktop/laptop machines, and don't give it any more thought.
Those that figure it out will survive.
Hmmm. From a terrorist's point of view, those who bypass encryption entirely will survive, at least for long enough to do what they intend. A one-to-one conversation on a beach or other exposed place is a good way of achieving this, and it would appear that they know it.
Those IS nutjobs seem to have learned that the best way to avoid being trapped in the mesh of surveillance programs is to fragment their operations to the extent that they all operate as lone wolves. It clearly works.
Most people who need to be concerned about excessive and intrusive government surveillance are everyday people who just like to have the bathroom door shut while they're having a dump.
If Skype is the issue, a lot depends on how the provider intends to block it. Some sites just block port 5060 (IIRC), leaving the user free to configure his Skype client to use port 80. If the ISP tries to block that, there will probably be one or two complaints.
Maybe I'm just showing my age (OK, downhill side of 50), but it seems to me that just about any whitegoods type of appliance these days is made to such shoddy standards, it would be pretty much impossible to attribute failure to vandalism on anyone's part.
:(
A dishwasher or washing machine from just about any reputable manufacturer used to last 20+ years. Nowadays we can count ourselves lucky if they work for 5 years. So much for advances in technology.
Well said.
But just to throw a spanner in the works, it doesn't hurt to mention that even the so-called "classic" version of the site is looking pretty damn fugly at the moment for a logged-in user who has left any non-default settings in his profile. So (at least in my case) the beta could easily be seen as an improvement.
Except that I am aware of at least one case where a guy DID get fired for buying a non-IBM machine. He was a new broom on a long-standing Burroughs site (this was back in the '70s), and he reckoned he was the shizznit, without the requisite experience to back that up. When the directors heard that this fool had splurged on an IBM box that was virtually incapable of functioning in their company, he was dismissed immediately.
Back in the late '70s, I shared a house with a guy who had a pet Bengal tiger. The animal was a real pussy (of the non-edible kind), but one time a prowler came round, sticking his head through an open window. The pussy-cat snuck up, put his nose to the intruder's face and purred or growled or whatever it is they do. That guy's screams were quite funny.
Doesn't look like it's preinstalled on Ubuntu 13.10. Any way to get this working?
You would do better to read up on why some distros elect not to use systemd, despite the fact that it is becoming quite popular in some quarters. For my part, I consider it to be an unnecessary complication, so am happy that my preferred distro (Slackware) still elects not to implement systemd by default.
I'm going to change my name to William Shakespeare and claim royalties for all those plays (and sonnets, of course) that have been reproduced without my permission. That'll show 'em.
I've heard that it was the Irish who gave the Scots the bagpipes, but the Scots haven't got the joke.
Yes. And there's the piano accordion...
The best definition for perfect pitch is being able to chuck a piano accordion down a well without it touching the sides.
And in the 1890's, 1325 bucks was REAL MONEY
I don't know what world you're living in, but $1325 is real money right now. And I suspect my dog might appreciate whatever that works out at in dog money.
That aside, one of the big advantages of Project Gutenberg's sister sites is that there are servers outside the US that are not tied to predatory American copyright legislation, so many texts that should (by reasonable, ethical expectations) have passed into public domain have often already done so somewhere.
As a professional cheesemaker, (yes, one of the blessed variety), the first question that comes to my mind is:
Why are these people throwing out their brine? This seems an unnecessarily costly exercise.
It is typical practice in many cheese factories (and all of those in which I've worked) to keep and re-use brine (sometimes for decades), with routine and simple maintenance such as topping up salt levels, adjustment of pH, filtration to remove solids and occasional pasteurisation if required.
A "raw" brine of just NaCl and water will, of course, do the job of salting your cheese, but most of the salt is left in solution at the end of the brining process (so it doesn't make sense to throw it away), and the pH will have a tendency to bounce around, adversely affecting the properties of your cheese. The various whey products in a re-used brine help to stabilise the pH, so one usually only needs to top up salt to replace that absorbed by the cheese.
There seems to be a rash of similar posts re Waco in other threads too, and I suspect that the failure to post as AC here was inadvertent. Having a low UID doesn't excuse being a troll.
I hate vocals in music. That's why I stick to classical and electronic genres.
I don't exactly hate vocals (I was raised as a classical violinist, but my musical appetite now weighs a little more heavily in favour of jazz), but I find lyrics just get in the way when the music should be able to speak for itself. Thus, (from TFS)
Purely instrumental groups like Booker T and the MGs, as well as solo performers like Herbie Hancock or John McLaughlin, seem not to take the spotlight as they once did.
just doesn't apply for me. Though of course I have to accept that other people's priorities differ, and I'm fine with that.
What I cannot abide, however, is the current tendency to play unnecessary incidental "music" over spoken dialogue in TV shows. While I accept that my ears are not what they once were (I am well over 50 years old, and if there's one thing I would change if I had to live my life again, it would involve earplugs), I do not accept that these noises contribute anything useful, and frequently make dialogue difficult to hear.
uh ... go ask your carrier for upgrade then .
This is a fair point. CyanogenMod's strength is that it offers an upgrade path to a great many devices that have been abandoned by their manufacturers.The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, for instance hasn't seen an upgrade from my carrier in well over a year. CM also offers a clear way to de-googlify your phone, for those worried about Google's monitoring their activity. If you want the benefits of (say) Google maps and navigation, you have to consciously download and install the gapps.
Yeah, but he's used to RPN so he's pretty much stuck with HP models. ...although he doesn't say that.
IIRC there were some Russian-made devices that used an RPN interface, though I've never come across one.
But if I were doing it all over again (without slide-rules) I think I would have opted for an HP-15C. That was, and still is, a stupendously elegant piece of hardware.
Heh. You should bring at least two. You never be sure one won't break down or need rebooting. ;-)
[Disclaimer: I have begun to accumulate a small collection of slide-rules. Their combination of simplicity with sophistication is just beyond cool.]
The converse is that you'll still end up with the popular tools if you ask people what their preferred tools are and why...
OK, so I'll offer something different.
During my first year at uni, I used to own an HP-48G+ which I loved for its nice keypad and the RPN interface, but the actual device was hopelessly unreliable and had an unwelcome tendency to let me down by throwing hissy-fits during assessments. I eventually got around that particular limitation by replacing it with a TI-89, which (although lacking keypad quality and RPN) was, and still is, a vastly superior device on many levels.
But since this doesn't answer the OP's question, here's my take on it in the light of years of experience since my university studies...
The best calculator for examinations is: NONE AT ALL.
You will get much more kudos for arriving at any kind of solution (however incomplete) if you can show how you started from first principles. Also, you might actually remember how to use these skills years later if you do this.
I would like to be able to say this is what I did, but it would be a lie. I was not a brilliant maths student, since I relied too much on gadgets to help me through assessments. However, I have since revisited the subject and learned how to do it with more insight, and now find a certain pride in being able to "do" maths with no more hardware than a sheet of paper, a pencil and my brain.
Oh, and FWIW, although I still have my TI-89, most of the routine mechanical calculations I perform these days are done on the RealCalc Plus app on my phone.
I'm gonna call BS on this. You mentioned a 'heavily edited' Slashdot submission.
Look for yourself.
:-}
And no, I don't have a girlfriend. I've been married for nearly 30 years...
..not a non-profit. Using the tech in this way is hardly immoral.
Agreed. I'm not sure why Google should be obliged to provide free WiFi to all and sundry, but I'm sure there must be some logic that will appeal to the zealot freeloader.
OTOH, Google appears to be proposing offering a service in underserved (maybe they mean undeserved?) areas, and I recall a (heavily edited) Slashdot submission I made some time ago to that effect. At that point, the notion of implementing the idea in Tasmania was mooted, which would be welcomed by yours truly, since this state is wilfully neglected by telcos who consider it their right to charge full price for a service they are prepared to offer only patchily.
If Google is prepared to offer access to the internet even on a non-free but competitively priced model, such an option might well be preferable to the single, crappy option available to me right now. If nothing else, it might provide an incentive to the local carriers to pull up their game.
We all become worse drivers than we could be.
Just playing devil's advocate for a moment: if 25% of traffic accidents are caused by drunk drivers, then it follows that 75% of accidents are caused by sober drivers. Therefore, you're safer driving drunk than sober. ;-)
If there's some dumb retarded chick applying mascara while talking on her phone while driving--BAM!!! Bullet to the forehead!
Where I used to live (Perth, Western Australia), that would eliminate an awful lot of dumb "ladies", but such a scene is common enough to barely raise a digitus impudicus.
The best I have yet seen (for sheer chutzpah, if nothing else) was a guy in the driver's seat of an open-top sports car with one foot on the steering wheel, cruising while playing a fricking trumpet...
The fear has been around for just about always.
I have heard it mentioned (most prominently during the Cold War, which while fresh in my memory might predate some readers' lifetimes) that America collectively has to always be fighting the "last war". Sometimes the notion that you're the "good guys" can distort your perspective.
...and now the Obama Administration is either unable or unwilling to change it.
Given how fundamentally dishonest Obama has turned out to be, I would count on the latter.
[Opinion of a non-American observer, FWIW. Give a politician a bit of power and money, and it won't take him long to show you how much of an asswipe he is.]