As someone in the same situation as the parent post, I agree.
Wife and kids run Linux on the desktops and OS X on the laptop, since ~2005. No virus issues, minimal tech support (Along the lines of "The scanner is scanning in color, but I need a black and white picture" sort of thing.).
No lost data in that time period. No urgent reformatting of hard drives since then.
As the tech guy, I did lose some data on XP from before then. That was my fault for not having robust backup soluitions at the time for when the HD needed to be formatted and OS reinstalled (every 6 months to a year).
I had a few games on bootable floppies back in the original PC days, around 1985. The floppies would boot up the computer right into the game so there was no OS involved. And no, BIOS is not some kind of bisexual OS, it stands for Basic Input/Output System.
While that's true, your game was probably limited to very strict definitions of what hardware it would work under. Change the hardware even a little and the game would refuse to load.
Even in the server market there's significant benefit in having drivers, memory, networking, etc. managed by an OS.
Went to Peter Luger in New York a few years ago with my brother. He made the mistake of ordering his steak well done. The waiter delayed his order by almost an hour, and then sneered as he put it on the table, stating that the chef had to mentally prepare himself to spoil a perfectly good piece of meat.
I have apple's latest version of iOS (on my ipad,) and it already feels dated.
Lucky you. I have an original Apple iPad and it won't let me update to the latest version of iOS. (Apparently it doesn't run on first generation iPads.) One of these days I'll get around to jailbreaking it and installing XBMC or something else that's useful on it.
The problem with GPL software and some app stores is that the GPL requires distributors to also provide the source code (for at least 3 years after they distribute the binaries), with Apple's app store they are the distributor but are unwilling to accommodate the distribution clause of the GPL, this is what causes issues with certain FOSS apps.
I don't think that's it. A simple link pointing to source code on the description page in the App Store would be enough to fulfill the requirements of either Apple or the developers.
I think the idea is that they hold on to the Bitcoins as the investment. Sell them off in the future believing that the worth of the Bitcoins will go up in the future.
Given past performance of Bitcoins against the U.S. dollar, that may be a reasonable strategy.
Many people I know come to me and tell me that they initially thought I was a cold bastard. Turns out it's just that I have a really hard time remembering names and even conditions about how I previously interacted with them. Once they get to know me, they realize I really care for my friends and am genuinely a good guy (just a bit on the quiet side) that they like being around.
It gets better the more I interact with them, but it's always a struggle for me.
I would love to have an unobtrusive heads up display that could at least remind me of the person's name and a couple cues about them (spouse's & kids names, what town they live in, etc.). And I don't even mind if I have to manually add that info after I see them. It would at least populate for the next time.
Have the OS virtualized and running on a different base system (ie: Virtual Windows XP running on OS X or Linux). Then have the home folder be linked out to the underlying OS.
Everytime the system is booted up, restore the virtual OS from a backup.
This prevents her from installing anything except to her home folder (or whatever other folders you link out to the underlying OS).
I just needed redundancy. Which I get by running a cron jobs on a computer located in my parents' house and a third system running in a friend's house (It's just media files, anyway).
I bought a couple just to play around with on the home network.
I am using one as an XBMC player in the kids room. It works fine, no problems. Surprising, considering how underpowered it is compared to the Atom-based computers I'm using elsewhere to run XBMC.
The other I am using as a fileserver. It's not set up in a RAID, but it gets quite good performance. So good, in fact, that I am using it for daily use to serve media throughout the house instead of the Netgear ReadyNas Duo that I originally bought for the job. (The Raspberry Pi has better throughput on both reads and writes when using ssh protocol. It also supports hard drives over 2TB.)
As a plus, I'm now completely comfortable dealing with a headless system.:-)
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As someone in the same situation as the parent post, I agree.
Wife and kids run Linux on the desktops and OS X on the laptop, since ~2005. No virus issues, minimal tech support (Along the lines of "The scanner is scanning in color, but I need a black and white picture" sort of thing.).
No lost data in that time period. No urgent reformatting of hard drives since then.
As the tech guy, I did lose some data on XP from before then. That was my fault for not having robust backup soluitions at the time for when the HD needed to be formatted and OS reinstalled (every 6 months to a year).
The FDIC doesn't insure all deposits. It insures deposits up to $200K (or was this increased recently?).
I sure as hell trust the FDIC to cover up to that limit more than I trust a bitcoin exchange to cover ... well .. anything.
Who cares.
I don't need to know who created the U.S. dollar in order to use it as a store of value or medium of trade for goods or services.
Aren't there places that sell hard drive shredders? Google found me this one on the first page of results: http://www.ameri-shred.com/Hard_Drive_Shredder.html
Degaussers aren't that expensive, either, are they?
How are these guys able to charge so much?
If you absolutely, positively must destroy your data, you must succeed in destroying the universe.
Baring that, perhaps access to a black hole could be of benefit.
Kind of amazing that they can't seem to develop a hit phone when they spend 5X what Apple does on R&D. Makes you wonder what the heck they are doing.
Perhaps they're doing more basic science stuff. Maybe they have people at the Large Hadron Collider?
Either that or some people in R&D are driving around in diamond encrusted Bentleys.
I had a few games on bootable floppies back in the original PC days, around 1985. The floppies would boot up the computer right into the game so there was no OS involved. And no, BIOS is not some kind of bisexual OS, it stands for Basic Input/Output System.
While that's true, your game was probably limited to very strict definitions of what hardware it would work under. Change the hardware even a little and the game would refuse to load.
Even in the server market there's significant benefit in having drivers, memory, networking, etc. managed by an OS.
How about using Google Glass and machine vision to overlay the time on your wrist?
The problem is why the government is involved with marriage at all.
The word marriage in tax documents should be removed and replaced with 'civil union'.
Am I the only one that finds it disturbing that a 14 employee company is publicly traded? Or is this common?
I've certainly worked in much larger companies that weren't on the stock market.
Morally? Yes.
Went to Peter Luger in New York a few years ago with my brother. He made the mistake of ordering his steak well done. The waiter delayed his order by almost an hour, and then sneered as he put it on the table, stating that the chef had to mentally prepare himself to spoil a perfectly good piece of meat.
I have apple's latest version of iOS (on my ipad,) and it already feels dated.
Lucky you. I have an original Apple iPad and it won't let me update to the latest version of iOS. (Apparently it doesn't run on first generation iPads.) One of these days I'll get around to jailbreaking it and installing XBMC or something else that's useful on it.
The problem with GPL software and some app stores is that the GPL requires distributors to also provide the source code (for at least 3 years after they distribute the binaries), with Apple's app store they are the distributor but are unwilling to accommodate the distribution clause of the GPL, this is what causes issues with certain FOSS apps.
I don't think that's it. A simple link pointing to source code on the description page in the App Store would be enough to fulfill the requirements of either Apple or the developers.
There are open source apps on the Apple iOS App Store. Only one that comes to mind is xpilot, but there's probably others.
Too bad. That guy was a part (is still a part?) of the /. community forever. I would watch that movie just for that. :-)
I think the idea is that they hold on to the Bitcoins as the investment. Sell them off in the future believing that the worth of the Bitcoins will go up in the future.
Given past performance of Bitcoins against the U.S. dollar, that may be a reasonable strategy.
Many people I know come to me and tell me that they initially thought I was a cold bastard. Turns out it's just that I have a really hard time remembering names and even conditions about how I previously interacted with them. Once they get to know me, they realize I really care for my friends and am genuinely a good guy (just a bit on the quiet side) that they like being around.
It gets better the more I interact with them, but it's always a struggle for me.
I would love to have an unobtrusive heads up display that could at least remind me of the person's name and a couple cues about them (spouse's & kids names, what town they live in, etc.). And I don't even mind if I have to manually add that info after I see them. It would at least populate for the next time.
What could lift a baby from its crib to change a diaper, or steady an elderly person moving about the house[...]?
Telekinesis?
Though I'm not sure if giving robots telekinetic abilities are in our long term best interests.
Never.
Freakin' sympathizers and turncoats.
If the pilots and passengers didn't have anything to hide, why were they concerned?
Is virtualization a possibility?
Have the OS virtualized and running on a different base system (ie: Virtual Windows XP running on OS X or Linux). Then have the home folder be linked out to the underlying OS.
Everytime the system is booted up, restore the virtual OS from a backup.
This prevents her from installing anything except to her home folder (or whatever other folders you link out to the underlying OS).
I just needed redundancy. Which I get by running a cron jobs on a computer located in my parents' house and a third system running in a friend's house (It's just media files, anyway).
I have a seagate 3TB external drive.
Since the system only serves files in the house and I'm not constantly hitting it, the drive sleeps most of the time.
Alternative title: Congressman asks entire constituency to drop dead.
"It's the best thing for our planet" he told the press.
I bought a couple just to play around with on the home network.
I am using one as an XBMC player in the kids room. It works fine, no problems. Surprising, considering how underpowered it is compared to the Atom-based computers I'm using elsewhere to run XBMC.
The other I am using as a fileserver. It's not set up in a RAID, but it gets quite good performance. So good, in fact, that I am using it for daily use to serve media throughout the house instead of the Netgear ReadyNas Duo that I originally bought for the job. (The Raspberry Pi has better throughput on both reads and writes when using ssh protocol. It also supports hard drives over 2TB.)
As a plus, I'm now completely comfortable dealing with a headless system. :-)