With respect, and as long as there is no disk error during the operation (as evidenced by "<correct # bytes> copied" at the end), if you don't think that's a secure erase, you're in la-la land. Definitely secure enough for warez, and probably even secure enough if they were money-and-resources-no-object state or military secrets. Obviously I mean secure enough in terms of function, if not meeting bureaucratic requirements.
But you can use thermite and sledgehammers if it makes you feel better.
No. Just no. It's not just "wrong" to sell a used item as new. It's I-L-L-E-G-A-L. Period. And that's what they did. New vs used is not subjective. If you sell an item and it comes back with the shrink wrap opened, whether an hour has gone by or a year, it has to be presumed "used". That's what honest, law-abiding businesses do. They don't put un-shrinkwrapped packages on the shelf without clearly marking them as used, and they certainly don't re-shrinkwrap them and pass them off as new. Not even if the customer who returns it pinky-promises he didn't install it or mishandle it.
It costs extra to replace the Broadcom crap with something documented. Check out the Beaglebone. It's $89, but everything is documented. The Beaglebone is intended for screwing with hardware. It includes IO pins.
The $89 BeagleBone is for screwing with hardware. There are pins bringing out logic IO. Everything is open and documented. They don't have any video because that's not what it's for. The Raspberry Pi is for screwing with software. They don't bother bringing out logic IO pins because that's not what it's for. There are proprietary binary blobs for the cheapass Broadcom shit. To some extent the products overlap, but the targets are different.
Bingo. But it's not so much that the Arduino overpriced; there's just no real pressure to make it cheaper than $15. Heck, that's close enough to free already.
GP should realize that you can always say "somebody would have done it already". The Wright Flyer, the Model T, the light bulb (heck, it's just a hot wire in a vacuum). Well, "somebody" *IS* doing it first.
The surface mount USB on my Beaglebone fell right off. The glue holding it failed with hardly any stress. There are big lands to solder it to, but they didn't use these. They only used glue. What the heck is the attraction of these stupid mini and micro USB connectors anyway? Give me a soldered-through full-A connector any day.
Well, it sure as hell won't be needing any valve jobs, timing belts, alternators, starters, radiator and hoses, or clutches either, and those ain't cheap these days.
Obviously once you get beyond the engine (and the transmission is also simpler), the other stuff doesn't change. Wheel bearings, steering rack, tie rods, shocks, electric locks and windows, rust damage, etc.
The net saving is probably going to be just about balanced by the hugely expensive battery you'll wear out.
Assume $0.10/kWh, 3 miles/kWh, or $0.033/mile for electricity, vs. 25 MPG, $3.50/gallon, $0.14/mile for gasoline.
You can assume that if you want, but I won't, thank you. Electricity where I am costs $0.18/kWh, and my existing car gets 45 mpg, not 25. And anybody who spends $200 every 12,000 miles on oil changes is an idiot. It's less than half that, even using the finest synthetic oil.
I'm a bit puzzled. I must confess I have for the most part never messed with anything except black on white, but I just ran an experiment. You can change any individual tab from one profile to another at any time while running. Profiles include colors. It works pretty much exactly like gnome-terminal that way.
So I would absolutely agree with you if your objection was so. Maybe you encountered severely reduced functionality in the very early days of KDE4? Or you're thinking of KDE3? I'm only on KDE 4.3.4 on my main system.
On the other hand, konsole has very real advantages over gnome-terminal: * I can bookmark by location in the file system and instantly switch back and forth between bookmarks * I can set independent scrollback buffer sizes for each tab, including "unlimited" * When I cd to another directory or ssh to another host, the tab name automatically changes to reflect that
OK, I'll bite; maybe I'm missing something. I'm running Gnome2 on an RHEL6 clone. I use konsole and kate because they are far superior to gnome-terminal and gedit. Preferences aside for the moment, what about my "pre-packaged" distribution hinders me in any way from mixing pieces of various desktop environments?
Not quite. 200% represents a tripling ($100 becomes $300; the difference is $200, or 200%). The present value of $300 over 20 years at about 5.65% is $100. But, oh wait. Inflation has averaged only about 3% over the last 20 years.
Guess what? The future value of $100, in 20 years at a rate of 3%, is about $180.60. So $80.60 of the increase is due to inflation, and $119.40 of it was due to something else. I'd call that a pretty severe dysfunction.
The more minor part of the hostility is that the defaults are stupid. Sure, you can change them if you want, but why should the 99% of sane people have to go to even that much trouble just to cater for the 1% of idiots who like the tabs in the wrong place, and the utterly pointless Amazing Invisible Menu?
The destruction of the status bar was just plain stupid, and there is no option to bring it back. You have to install an addon to regain elementary usability because of this moronic decision.
The major part of the hostility is because this is all a sign that all the developers have now become too superior (in their own minds only) to adhere to a common user interface, signaling a trend back to the wasteland of every app being completely idiosyncratic - a trend that is completely destructive to usability and learning/training.
Absolutely. I always thought that only an idiot would use gnome-terminal and gedit when the vastly superior konsole and kate were only an apt-get or yum install away, even under gnome.
Only you can answer that question. Try 'em both. You can install both on Mint 12 and log into either one. Just be aware that MATE is nowhere near mature yet.
Seriously? Gnome2 is on a fast track to official abandonware. You won't get security patches, you won't get any new functionality, new apps that use GTK3 won't work right with it, the underpinnings will change and Gnome2 itself will no longer work right. MATE is the fork to Gnome2, and Cinnamon is the fork to Gnome3 Shell. Absolutely no reason not to have both, for different reasons.
Firefox (unlike Chrome) still has options and addons to undo just about all the fucked-up changes, but yeah, the new defaults are stupid, and Gnome3 as intro'ed is just stupid through and through. You can take all these UI self-appointed experts and give them a boot in the ass.
Nothing went wrong. It's going RIGHT. Just like when we had - not just Gnome like you say - but also KDE (and now Trinity), Xfce, LXDE, etc. - oh wait, we still have all those. It's an open world. Options are not circumscribed.
Yes; EMP is an electromagnetic phenomenon whose electrical component is measured in volts per meter, just like the field from a radio or TV transmitter. It is the length of the "antenna" which the EMP intersects that determines the amount of electrical energy induced into the circuit. A long power line will induce a hell of a jolt. A transmitter or receiver with a whip antenna, or anything with any kind of antenna coming out of it, or something electrically connected to something else which it is not immediately adjacent to, is next. A small, self contained piece of electrical apparatus like a pocket radio, cell phone, typical self contained GPS unit, etc, is way down the totem pole for damage.
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Anyone who would work for a shitty nazi company that uses fucking keyloggers deserves whatever he gets.
Depends on what you mean by secure erase.
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
With respect, and as long as there is no disk error during the operation (as evidenced by "<correct # bytes> copied" at the end), if you don't think that's a secure erase, you're in la-la land. Definitely secure enough for warez, and probably even secure enough if they were money-and-resources-no-object state or military secrets. Obviously I mean secure enough in terms of function, if not meeting bureaucratic requirements.
But you can use thermite and sledgehammers if it makes you feel better.
No. Just no. It's not just "wrong" to sell a used item as new. It's I-L-L-E-G-A-L. Period. And that's what they did. New vs used is not subjective. If you sell an item and it comes back with the shrink wrap opened, whether an hour has gone by or a year, it has to be presumed "used". That's what honest, law-abiding businesses do. They don't put un-shrinkwrapped packages on the shelf without clearly marking them as used, and they certainly don't re-shrinkwrap them and pass them off as new. Not even if the customer who returns it pinky-promises he didn't install it or mishandle it.
It costs extra to replace the Broadcom crap with something documented. Check out the Beaglebone. It's $89, but everything is documented. The Beaglebone is intended for screwing with hardware. It includes IO pins.
The $89 BeagleBone is for screwing with hardware. There are pins bringing out logic IO. Everything is open and documented. They don't have any video because that's not what it's for. The Raspberry Pi is for screwing with software. They don't bother bringing out logic IO pins because that's not what it's for. There are proprietary binary blobs for the cheapass Broadcom shit. To some extent the products overlap, but the targets are different.
Bingo. But it's not so much that the Arduino overpriced; there's just no real pressure to make it cheaper than $15. Heck, that's close enough to free already.
GP should realize that you can always say "somebody would have done it already". The Wright Flyer, the Model T, the light bulb (heck, it's just a hot wire in a vacuum). Well, "somebody" *IS* doing it first.
I agree. Broadcom sucks donkey balls. The most tightass company in the world.
The surface mount USB on my Beaglebone fell right off. The glue holding it failed with hardly any stress. There are big lands to solder it to, but they didn't use these. They only used glue. What the heck is the attraction of these stupid mini and micro USB connectors anyway? Give me a soldered-through full-A connector any day.
Well, it sure as hell won't be needing any valve jobs, timing belts, alternators, starters, radiator and hoses, or clutches either, and those ain't cheap these days.
Obviously once you get beyond the engine (and the transmission is also simpler), the other stuff doesn't change. Wheel bearings, steering rack, tie rods, shocks, electric locks and windows, rust damage, etc.
The net saving is probably going to be just about balanced by the hugely expensive battery you'll wear out.
OK, I won't. Because it's W-R-O-N-G.
You can assume that if you want, but I won't, thank you. Electricity where I am costs $0.18/kWh, and my existing car gets 45 mpg, not 25. And anybody who spends $200 every 12,000 miles on oil changes is an idiot. It's less than half that, even using the finest synthetic oil.
Sure changes the bottom line, eh.
I'm a bit puzzled. I must confess I have for the most part never messed with anything except black on white, but I just ran an experiment. You can change any individual tab from one profile to another at any time while running. Profiles include colors. It works pretty much exactly like gnome-terminal that way.
So I would absolutely agree with you if your objection was so. Maybe you encountered severely reduced functionality in the very early days of KDE4? Or you're thinking of KDE3? I'm only on KDE 4.3.4 on my main system.
On the other hand, konsole has very real advantages over gnome-terminal:
* I can bookmark by location in the file system and instantly switch back and forth between bookmarks
* I can set independent scrollback buffer sizes for each tab, including "unlimited"
* When I cd to another directory or ssh to another host, the tab name automatically changes to reflect that
OK, I'll bite; maybe I'm missing something. I'm running Gnome2 on an RHEL6 clone. I use konsole and kate because they are far superior to gnome-terminal and gedit. Preferences aside for the moment, what about my "pre-packaged" distribution hinders me in any way from mixing pieces of various desktop environments?
Oxygen for the flight crew being one of them.
Not quite. 200% represents a tripling ($100 becomes $300; the difference is $200, or 200%). The present value of $300 over 20 years at about 5.65% is $100. But, oh wait. Inflation has averaged only about 3% over the last 20 years.
Guess what? The future value of $100, in 20 years at a rate of 3%, is about $180.60. So $80.60 of the increase is due to inflation, and $119.40 of it was due to something else. I'd call that a pretty severe dysfunction.
References:
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Present Value Calculator
The more minor part of the hostility is that the defaults are stupid. Sure, you can change them if you want, but why should the 99% of sane people have to go to even that much trouble just to cater for the 1% of idiots who like the tabs in the wrong place, and the utterly pointless Amazing Invisible Menu?
The destruction of the status bar was just plain stupid, and there is no option to bring it back. You have to install an addon to regain elementary usability because of this moronic decision.
The major part of the hostility is because this is all a sign that all the developers have now become too superior (in their own minds only) to adhere to a common user interface, signaling a trend back to the wasteland of every app being completely idiosyncratic - a trend that is completely destructive to usability and learning/training.
Absolutely. I always thought that only an idiot would use gnome-terminal and gedit when the vastly superior konsole and kate were only an apt-get or yum install away, even under gnome.
Only you can answer that question. Try 'em both. You can install both on Mint 12 and log into either one. Just be aware that MATE is nowhere near mature yet.
Nope; wrong. Gnome2 had as many panels as you wanted. Some distros defaulted to one; some defaulted to two.
Seriously? Gnome2 is on a fast track to official abandonware. You won't get security patches, you won't get any new functionality, new apps that use GTK3 won't work right with it, the underpinnings will change and Gnome2 itself will no longer work right. MATE is the fork to Gnome2, and Cinnamon is the fork to Gnome3 Shell. Absolutely no reason not to have both, for different reasons.
Good for you (sincerely). But for the VAST majority this is wonderful news. In the end, we can both be happy.
Firefox (unlike Chrome) still has options and addons to undo just about all the fucked-up changes, but yeah, the new defaults are stupid, and Gnome3 as intro'ed is just stupid through and through. You can take all these UI self-appointed experts and give them a boot in the ass.
Nothing went wrong. It's going RIGHT. Just like when we had - not just Gnome like you say - but also KDE (and now Trinity), Xfce, LXDE, etc. - oh wait, we still have all those. It's an open world. Options are not circumscribed.
Yes; EMP is an electromagnetic phenomenon whose electrical component is measured in volts per meter, just like the field from a radio or TV transmitter. It is the length of the "antenna" which the EMP intersects that determines the amount of electrical energy induced into the circuit. A long power line will induce a hell of a jolt. A transmitter or receiver with a whip antenna, or anything with any kind of antenna coming out of it, or something electrically connected to something else which it is not immediately adjacent to, is next. A small, self contained piece of electrical apparatus like a pocket radio, cell phone, typical self contained GPS unit, etc, is way down the totem pole for damage.
Why would you suppose it only works under normal gravity? The wetting phenomenon does not depend on gravity at all.