OS/360 was my first (yes, I'm an old greybeard Dino-pen guy)
Then TRS-DOS, CP/M, DOS, RedHat (couldn't get it to boot), Mandrake, Gentoo (actually taught me Linux)
Now I'm running 2 Centos servers, a Gentoo server, a Debian server, an Arch workstation, 2 Debian workstations (one's a lappy), and a Win7 Gaming box.
Every time I make a cd for a non-linux user, they always call me complaining that it crashed during install. I then have to explain that it's the graphics "saving" their screen, and to observe the install process, hit the shift key every 5 minutes. Then I have to walk them through telling X to NOT blank the screen. Leave screen blanking OFF by default, with an option to turn it ON.
In almost all distro's, X ignores the DE's power saving commands. Debian is the only one off the top that I've never had to tweak (and create) the X conf file, and it still blanks the screen during install.
A majority of them give up and go back to windows, who, at least in this case, gets it right.
Having to set the dpi for large displays manually kills linux as a HTPC for anything over 32". Sure you can set it manually, but to do that you have to connect it to a small display first. Windows get that right also.
Come on devs, it's 2012 and we still have these kind of problems?
I feel your pain. I fixed, or worked around, this problem on movies by using subtitles. I had an S.O. that could not keep her yap shut during a movie. The louder I turned up the volume, the louder she yapped. With the subs on, I caught the movie dialog, plus it bugged the crap out of her.:)
I named all the windows servers at work after female pr0n stars. Great times being able to say weekly that MarilynChambers, StaceyDonovan, or ChristyCanyon is going down on me.
Had a solaris box named HarryReems. He's been up forever!
We have 2 choices. Use the pig that is IE, or pay our software vendors thousands to upgrade their plugins to support this insane version race. Contrary to the marketing bullshit spewed by Mozilla, plugins do not "just work" across versions.
A lie is still a lie. Once I reach 3.58 TB, I run out of space even though the NAS reports plenty. And where do I put a new drive? I already have all 5 slots filled.Even if I installed all 5 slots with 3tb drives, which is the largest it supports (for now), I still won't get the advertised 17tb.3+3+3+3+3=15tb, minus 3 for the "raid 5", leaves 12tb. If I can't trust a NAS to do math correctly on the file system size, how can I trust it to keep my data safe?
Every raid I admin, with the exception of the Drobo, has the ability to accurately report the volume size.
As far as reformatting the raid when adding a drive, I can resize all day long with LVM and not lose data.
And yes, I did read the manual. It mentions nothing about the volume size problem. The only thing it mentions is if you don't want to use the dashboard, map the drive in windows just like any other NAS.
Mount the share, type df -h, get back from the OS: size 16T Used 2.0T Avail 14T Use% 13%. Start windows, load the dashboard program, click on free space, get Used 1.99T, Free 1.59T, Total 3.58T.
See the problem?
Hint: It lies to the OS on capacity and free space.
Stay away from Drobo. I just bought a new unit, and the only way to see how much "real" free space you have is to use their windows based dashboard program. I have five 1TB drives in mine, the dashboard reports 3.5tb, while the filesystem mounted on both windows and linux report I have 17TB of space on the drives. I contacted their support, and they say it's as designed.
If you tap the Windows key and start typing, like in previous versions it will start searching for what you typed. So that still works the same, at least.
As far as I can tell, "Akonadi" = "You must have MySQL installed or else KDE is completely unusable. Oops, sorry if you already had a running MySQL system set up --we're going to take it over now."
Akonadi also has the excellent feature of refusing to run just after you import all your contacts into KAddressBook. Usually, the only fix is to completely nuke Akonadi and Kontact, reinstall, and start all over.
They can keep the Fantasy stuff. I just want them to get rid of the rasslin.
This. As a fan of both Sci-Fi, Fantasy and wrasslin, when they started showing the ECW show my first thought was, "What the frak are they thinking!" And it's still what I think about wrasslin on a Sci-FI channel. They don't mix.
Once I win the lotto, I'd like to buy the Syfy channel, rename it back to Sci-Fi, and take them hack to their roots. And send the wrasslin back to Spike.
1. Akonadi -... It's a great idea, but it's taken some time to get the implementation right.
They still don't have the implementation right. My latest install is less than 3 months old, I finally get it to where is loads on boot. This is the first time since KDE 4.0. Now, I boot the box, the cpu is maxed. Kill -9 Akonadi, kill -9 the indexer, kill -9 a few other related services, and guess what, no fscking contacts. Restart Kontact. Rinse-repeat until Akonadi decides it wants to cooperate.
I can't trust Kontact to safeguard my contacts anymore. The idea of Kontact is great! It really is a great PIM. But they need to get far, far away from that piece of shit Akonadi. Until they do, or make it bulletproof, Kontact is useless. And that's a real shame.
Really. OpenGL is nice. The one thing that the KDE team could really do to make the DE better is fix the contact manager in Kontact. Please! Fix it. On every install I have, the DE whines about Akondi can't start, and the contact manager does not work. Everything else in the PIM works, but what good is a PIM if it can't keep contacts?
The rest of the DE is great. It looks nice, works well, and is more stable than Win7. I will go so far as to say I love KDE 4. But the contact manager is horribly broken. If any of the KDE devs are watching, please fix it. Or maybe someone can make a working contact manager plugin for Kontact. Dam, I wish I could code.
My problem with the ribbon is that its in the way. Most of us are working most of the time on documents we intend to print portrait on 8x11 paper when we use Office software. The trend as of late is to monitors that are 16x9 or 16x10 aspect. That is not conducive for portrait work in the first place, its a real PITA when you start sucking up the remaining vertical space for your 200px think ribbon.
Ribbon might have been a good idea if it was done vertical up the side rather then along the top.
There's a very easy fix for the portrait problem you describe. I took my 16x10 monitor and rotated it 90 degrees. Now I can see the entire 8x11 page on one screen. My Office Manager has one 16x10 in landscape mode for excel, and one in portrait mode for word.
And what makes it even easier, most monitors (and video cards) come with a driver plugin to switch between portrait/landscape modes with a mouseclick.
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Surely everyone is hashing the passwords, using different salt etc?
Table salt? Kosher salt? Sea salt? Bathroom salt? What kind of salt?
Hillary, is that you?
You're handy enough to attempt repairing a mouse, but not handy enough to hook your soldering iron up with a dimmer switch?
As someone who has been soldering professionally since the 1970's, I am ashamed to admit, I've never thought of doing that.
Always remember to number your punch cards! It only takes dropping the stack once to get that ingrained. :)
My first ever was an NCR 310, with paper tape. I then moved up to an IBM 1620, then to the 360.
I never got into the VMS arena. moved from the dino's to the PC's.
Cheers,
RM
OS/360 was my first (yes, I'm an old greybeard Dino-pen guy)
Then TRS-DOS, CP/M, DOS, RedHat (couldn't get it to boot), Mandrake, Gentoo (actually taught me Linux)
Now I'm running 2 Centos servers, a Gentoo server, a Debian server, an Arch workstation, 2 Debian workstations (one's a lappy), and a Win7 Gaming box.
Cheers,
RM
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Every time I make a cd for a non-linux user, they always call me complaining that it crashed during install. I then have to explain that it's the graphics "saving" their screen, and to observe the install process, hit the shift key every 5 minutes. Then I have to walk them through telling X to NOT blank the screen. Leave screen blanking OFF by default, with an option to turn it ON.
In almost all distro's, X ignores the DE's power saving commands. Debian is the only one off the top that I've never had to tweak (and create) the X conf file, and it still blanks the screen during install.
A majority of them give up and go back to windows, who, at least in this case, gets it right.
Having to set the dpi for large displays manually kills linux as a HTPC for anything over 32". Sure you can set it manually, but to do that you have to connect it to a small display first. Windows get that right also.
Come on devs, it's 2012 and we still have these kind of problems?
Why is this do damn hard?
Cheers,
RM
I feel your pain. I fixed, or worked around, this problem on movies by using subtitles. I had an S.O. that could not keep her yap shut during a movie. The louder I turned up the volume, the louder she yapped. With the subs on, I caught the movie dialog, plus it bugged the crap out of her. :)
Cheers,
RM
I named all the windows servers at work after female pr0n stars. Great times being able to say weekly that MarilynChambers, StaceyDonovan, or ChristyCanyon is going down on me.
Had a solaris box named HarryReems. He's been up forever!
Cheers,
RM.
We have 2 choices. Use the pig that is IE, or pay our software vendors thousands to upgrade their plugins to support this insane version race. Contrary to the marketing bullshit spewed by Mozilla, plugins do not "just work" across versions.
Cheers,
bt
A lie is still a lie. Once I reach 3.58 TB, I run out of space even though the NAS reports plenty. And where do I put a new drive? I already have all 5 slots filled.Even if I installed all 5 slots with 3tb drives, which is the largest it supports (for now), I still won't get the advertised 17tb.3+3+3+3+3=15tb, minus 3 for the "raid 5", leaves 12tb. If I can't trust a NAS to do math correctly on the file system size, how can I trust it to keep my data safe?
Every raid I admin, with the exception of the Drobo, has the ability to accurately report the volume size.
As far as reformatting the raid when adding a drive, I can resize all day long with LVM and not lose data.
And yes, I did read the manual. It mentions nothing about the volume size problem. The only thing it mentions is if you don't want to use the dashboard, map the drive in windows just like any other NAS.
Cheers,
RM
Mount the share, type df -h, get back from the OS: size 16T Used 2.0T Avail 14T Use% 13%. Start windows, load the dashboard program, click on free space, get Used 1.99T, Free 1.59T, Total 3.58T.
See the problem?
Hint: It lies to the OS on capacity and free space.
Cheers,
RM
Stay away from Drobo. I just bought a new unit, and the only way to see how much "real" free space you have is to use their windows based dashboard program. I have five 1TB drives in mine, the dashboard reports 3.5tb, while the filesystem mounted on both windows and linux report I have 17TB of space on the drives. I contacted their support, and they say it's as designed.
Cheers,
RM
If you tap the Windows key and start typing, like in previous versions it will start searching for what you typed. So that still works the same, at least.
What's a "Windows" key?
My 27 year old Model M doesn't have one.
Cheers,
RM
This! I wish I had mod points. I can't count the number of folks I've converted to using Total Commander.
Cheers,
RM
As far as I can tell, "Akonadi" = "You must have MySQL installed or else KDE is completely unusable. Oops, sorry if you already had a running MySQL system set up --we're going to take it over now."
Akonadi also has the excellent feature of refusing to run just after you import all your contacts into KAddressBook. Usually, the only fix is to completely nuke Akonadi and Kontact, reinstall, and start all over.
:)
Fun times.
Cheers,
RM
Na, he was a time lord.
Cheers,
RM
Thats why the repubs want to cut all funding for PBS.
FIFY
Cheers,
RM
They can keep the Fantasy stuff. I just want them to get rid of the rasslin.
This. As a fan of both Sci-Fi, Fantasy and wrasslin, when they started showing the ECW show my first thought was, "What the frak are they thinking!" And it's still what I think about wrasslin on a Sci-FI channel. They don't mix.
Once I win the lotto, I'd like to buy the Syfy channel, rename it back to Sci-Fi, and take them hack to their roots. And send the wrasslin back to Spike.
Cheers,
RM
So I see that Clam AV has a windows version. Is it any good?
Cheers,
RM
Here's what's going on:
1. Akonadi - ... It's a great idea, but it's taken some time to get the implementation right.
They still don't have the implementation right. My latest install is less than 3 months old, I finally get it to where is loads on boot. This is the first time since KDE 4.0. Now, I boot the box, the cpu is maxed. Kill -9 Akonadi, kill -9 the indexer, kill -9 a few other related services, and guess what, no fscking contacts. Restart Kontact. Rinse-repeat until Akonadi decides it wants to cooperate.
I can't trust Kontact to safeguard my contacts anymore. The idea of Kontact is great! It really is a great PIM. But they need to get far, far away from that piece of shit Akonadi. Until they do, or make it bulletproof, Kontact is useless. And that's a real shame.
Cheers,
RM
Really. OpenGL is nice. The one thing that the KDE team could really do to make the DE better is fix the contact manager in Kontact. Please! Fix it. On every install I have, the DE whines about Akondi can't start, and the contact manager does not work. Everything else in the PIM works, but what good is a PIM if it can't keep contacts?
The rest of the DE is great. It looks nice, works well, and is more stable than Win7. I will go so far as to say I love KDE 4. But the contact manager is horribly broken. If any of the KDE devs are watching, please fix it. Or maybe someone can make a working contact manager plugin for Kontact. Dam, I wish I could code.
Cheers, RM
For the love of $deity, but the CTRL key back where it frakkin' belongs, next to the frakkin' A key!
Seriously. CTRL-key combo's are much easier to press, while touch typing, when the CTRL key is just to the left of the A key.
Cheers,
RM
My problem with the ribbon is that its in the way. Most of us are working most of the time on documents we intend to print portrait on 8x11 paper when we use Office software. The trend as of late is to monitors that are 16x9 or 16x10 aspect. That is not conducive for portrait work in the first place, its a real PITA when you start sucking up the remaining vertical space for your 200px think ribbon.
Ribbon might have been a good idea if it was done vertical up the side rather then along the top.
There's a very easy fix for the portrait problem you describe. I took my 16x10 monitor and rotated it 90 degrees. Now I can see the entire 8x11 page on one screen. My Office Manager has one 16x10 in landscape mode for excel, and one in portrait mode for word.
And what makes it even easier, most monitors (and video cards) come with a driver plugin to switch between portrait/landscape modes with a mouseclick.
Cheers,
RM
Let's see those monkeys make the robots fling poo!
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RM
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RM