Ah, a man after my own heart. I also use two spaces per indent level. Any more than two is kindergartenish. And yes, I realize that Guido hates me for this, but none of the stuff I write is ever seen by anybody except me, so I don't have to care about catering to those with bad taste. Whenever I used to work on Python code in a team, or made something somebody else might have to maintain later, I did adhere to the dreary prevailing bad taste.
Know what? I use the same 2 spaces in shell scripts, Perl, C, C++, and everything else, too.
Stupid goddam braindead suggestion. Manual syncing, to a crappy slow undercooled USB hard drive, yet - yech.
Assuming the OP's question is a serious one, and assuming the OP's commitment is serious (both of which are questionable assumptions), the answer is to set up a server or NAS with 7 drives in a RAID-Z3 pool; 1TB drives would be plenty, as you would end up with 4TB of triply-redundant storage. FreeNAS, FreeBSD, or Ubuntu 16.04, take your pick, would serve fine. All three of those support ZFS natively.
With a single RAID-Z3 pool, you can lose ANY 1, 2, or 3 drives AT THE SAME TIME without losing any of your data. And with ZFS all your data is AUTOMATICALLY checksummed, and every read operation checks the checksum, and any errors in any read are AUTOMATICALLY corrected before that read returns. You don't have the problem of non-ZFS RAID0, where the system has no possible way of knowing which of your two mirrors is right if for any reason their data differs, and in fact no way of routinely even detecting such an error, let alone notifying the user. And you don't have the problem of the write-hole vulnerability of non-ZFS RAID5.
With ZFS you don't have to take the system off-line to resilver ("rebuild") if you lose a drive and have to replace it. The pool remains perfectly usable during the resilver. In fact for anything less than extremely heavy use, you can barely tell anything is "wrong" with the performance during the resilver.
Obviously this is only a start. A damn good start, but you still need to incorporate off-site backups one way or another.
Both rigid and nonrigid airships in operation are so close to infinite structural rigidity (no significant deformation under operating loads; not infinite strength) that there is no difference in reaction to gusts. As to the difference in cross section, what is the point specifically?
I think there is more similarity to smashing the Staten Island ferry into the dock - something that has been done more than once. They are both crashes. Nothing whatever to do with sinking. On 6 May 1956, the battleship USS Wisconsin collided with the destroyer escort USS Eaton. That was a crash. Neither vessel sank. On 1 February 1944, the battleships USS Washington and USS Indiana collided. That was a crash. Neither vessel sank. A car can't quite stop in time and rear-ends another car. There may be only minor bumper damage to each, and certainly neither one sinks, but you better believe it is a crash.
What is NOT common, what no pilot would ever do, is to keep the elevators in down-ship position all the way until the thing has crashed into the ground. Watch the video. My guess is control system failure.
A design like Airlander 10 is fundamentally a lot more resistant to the common problems that plague blimps during landing, such as susceptability to winds
Highly debatable, and never proved.
It has less inherent lift
Not significantly. At most it has 1.7 times the mass of an equal volume of air. A blimp has close to 1.0 times. An airplane such as the 747 has over 200 times. The Airlander's susceptibility to wind influence during landing is very, very nearly the same as a blimp, and nothing whatever like an airplane. And its flattened shape has the added excitement possibility of dangerous rolling, which is completely absent in a blimp.
a smaller cross section
Wrong. For a given enclosed volume, the blimp shape has a smaller head-on cross section, smaller vertical cross section, and only slightly higher wideways cross section. Even if you reduce the enclosed volume by the ratio of 1.7, the difference made would be very slight.
and more ability to anchor itself down with its fans.
Wrong. The Airlander 10 has nothing more than pneumatic skids for landing gear. The Airlander 50 is supposed to get a full air cushion with the added cpability of suction, but that idea has never been tested under realistic conditions. Gust forces on an airship held stationary on the ground are enormous. Suction pads with enough strength to overcome them could easily induce the hull fabric to tear wide open.
It's bullshit. Of course they can't prevent it. They can prohibit passing on the tax as an enumerated line item, and maybe make that stick,but there's no way in hell they can stop uber from just raising its rates by... gee... just HAPPENS to be the same amount as the tax.
They do this with gas stations. Gas stations are prohibited from enumerating on their signage the taxes which the corrupt statist pigs are saddling you with.
You need to go get some "petrol", visit the "chemist", check under the "bonnet", and make sure the spare tire under the "boot" has air. I'll be getting some gas, going to the drugstore, checking under the hood, and making sure there is air in the spare tire under the trunk, like any normal guy. And remember, there is no "a" in "clerk". Any other grotesque expressions and pronunciations I should know?
Not at all. No offense taken or intended. It is Yakuake that offends me, but like you say, no harm in catering to different tastes. I don't happen to like apps that blatantly break with standard practice. As for "showing up and going away at a keypress", EVERY app does that by merely clicking its button in the task bar.
Yes, I got the (non discoverable) right-click context menu in Yakuake, but where is the normal menu that belongs under the title bar with File, Edit, View, Bookmarks, Settings, and Help? Where are the Maximize, Minimize, and Restore buttons? How do you resize the thing or move it on the desktop? Oh yeah, I just noticed the crappy chrome style triple-bar menu icon in the LOWER RIGHT(!) of the frame. It shouldn't mystify anyone when apps that completely disregard standards, to absolutely no purpose, are not well-received.
Nothing comes close to Konsole. Yakuake is utter crap. It's not even in the same league as Konsole. What's up with that drop-down window crap? Where the hell is the menu bar? An app that doesn't show up in the task bar? It's like before christ.
A standalone mail client is absolutely essential. I looked at Kmail, but it was laughably incomplete. Thunderbird and Claws Mail fill my needs OK.
A mail client has to be configurable with an arbitrary number of separate email accounts - not separate users; separate accounts. A unified inbox is a very nice feature, but not absolutely essential. It needs to have very rapid searching on metadata such as "to", "from", "subject", etc. It must not bog down with many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of retained IMAP messages.
I find Mate to be very high in usability, and high in what I THINK you mean by "quality". Certainly it's complete, and without any useless frills. Specifically, whatever I use has to have a decent weather applet, a good clock/calendar applet, a decent sensors applet, a customizable drawer applet to start all the stuff I actually use, a notification area where stuff like a clipboard utility, volume control, and messaging app live, and a GOOD task bar. The task bar has to hold at least 30 or so tasks without mashing them into unusably tiny form, so it needs to support at least 2 rows, and the tasks must be manually arrangeable so I can FIND them, because I am constantly accessing them. I pretty much require two panels to support all this usably, and Mate lets me properly set up a bottom one for the task bar and almost nothing else, and a top one for all the other stuff. It also has fully configurable hide panel buttons, and optional autohide, though I don't often use these. The virtual desktop switcher is well worth having, but I very seldom use it; it's just a habit I never picked up.
No other DE comes close to this level of perfection. KDE's task bar is hopelessly fucked up, as you can't prevent it from constantly rearranging the tasks. There is no drawer, or if there is, it is utter junk. The weather applet is laughably poor. I think all this stuff used to work in the past; I remember KDE3 as being wonderful, but It's been a LONG time since I've used it. Xfce is half assed in many respects. LXDE is definitely a poor man's DE which lacks many features.
I couldn't care less about any frills such as 3D compositing, Plasma Workspaces, and the other dreck churned out by fat DEs like KDE. In fact I hate all that crap with a passion, and get turned off if it's even there, because I have to waste time figuring out how to turn it all off.
As far as the actual apps that come bundled with DE's, I couldn't care less about any of them. Konsole happens to be by far the best terminal app anywhere, and kate is one of the best GUI based editors out there. I use both of them all day every day under Mate, without the slightest difficulty. Other than that, I just mix and match apps from all over; some GTK, some Qt, and some other.
Now, with all that said, since I am not a slave to the apps that form the "E" part of "DE", I have to ask, why do we even have DE's at all? Clearly, I like a lot more features than you get in a plain WM such as Fvwm, but just as clearly, 90% of the effort expended in creating a DE is an utter waste. Something between a WM and a DE is all that is required; something to provide the basic necessary features I enumerate above. Lumina Desktop is such a beast, but unfortunately many features are missing.
When I saw KDE5 on Ubuntu I immediately reinstalled Debian.
Uproariously silly non sequitur. You can run basically ANY of the DEs and WMs on ANY distro. There are these convenient things you may have heard of called packages and meta-packages.
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Ah, a man after my own heart. I also use two spaces per indent level. Any more than two is kindergartenish. And yes, I realize that Guido hates me for this, but none of the stuff I write is ever seen by anybody except me, so I don't have to care about catering to those with bad taste. Whenever I used to work on Python code in a team, or made something somebody else might have to maintain later, I did adhere to the dreary prevailing bad taste.
Know what? I use the same 2 spaces in shell scripts, Perl, C, C++, and everything else, too.
Bzzzzzzt. Absolutely wrong. Google "PEP8". "Spaces are the preferred indentation method."
Stupid goddam braindead suggestion. Manual syncing, to a crappy slow undercooled USB hard drive, yet - yech.
Assuming the OP's question is a serious one, and assuming the OP's commitment is serious (both of which are questionable assumptions), the answer is to set up a server or NAS with 7 drives in a RAID-Z3 pool; 1TB drives would be plenty, as you would end up with 4TB of triply-redundant storage. FreeNAS, FreeBSD, or Ubuntu 16.04, take your pick, would serve fine. All three of those support ZFS natively.
With a single RAID-Z3 pool, you can lose ANY 1, 2, or 3 drives AT THE SAME TIME without losing any of your data. And with ZFS all your data is AUTOMATICALLY checksummed, and every read operation checks the checksum, and any errors in any read are AUTOMATICALLY corrected before that read returns. You don't have the problem of non-ZFS RAID0, where the system has no possible way of knowing which of your two mirrors is right if for any reason their data differs, and in fact no way of routinely even detecting such an error, let alone notifying the user. And you don't have the problem of the write-hole vulnerability of non-ZFS RAID5.
With ZFS you don't have to take the system off-line to resilver ("rebuild") if you lose a drive and have to replace it. The pool remains perfectly usable during the resilver. In fact for anything less than extremely heavy use, you can barely tell anything is "wrong" with the performance during the resilver.
Obviously this is only a start. A damn good start, but you still need to incorporate off-site backups one way or another.
Both rigid and nonrigid airships in operation are so close to infinite structural rigidity (no significant deformation under operating loads; not infinite strength) that there is no difference in reaction to gusts. As to the difference in cross section, what is the point specifically?
I think there is more similarity to smashing the Staten Island ferry into the dock - something that has been done more than once. They are both crashes. Nothing whatever to do with sinking. On 6 May 1956, the battleship USS Wisconsin collided with the destroyer escort USS Eaton. That was a crash. Neither vessel sank. On 1 February 1944, the battleships USS Washington and USS Indiana collided. That was a crash. Neither vessel sank. A car can't quite stop in time and rear-ends another car. There may be only minor bumper damage to each, and certainly neither one sinks, but you better believe it is a crash.
What is NOT common, what no pilot would ever do, is to keep the elevators in down-ship position all the way until the thing has crashed into the ground. Watch the video. My guess is control system failure.
Highly debatable, and never proved.
Not significantly. At most it has 1.7 times the mass of an equal volume of air. A blimp has close to 1.0 times. An airplane such as the 747 has over 200 times. The Airlander's susceptibility to wind influence during landing is very, very nearly the same as a blimp, and nothing whatever like an airplane. And its flattened shape has the added excitement possibility of dangerous rolling, which is completely absent in a blimp.
Wrong. For a given enclosed volume, the blimp shape has a smaller head-on cross section, smaller vertical cross section, and only slightly higher wideways cross section. Even if you reduce the enclosed volume by the ratio of 1.7, the difference made would be very slight.
Wrong. The Airlander 10 has nothing more than pneumatic skids for landing gear. The Airlander 50 is supposed to get a full air cushion with the added cpability of suction, but that idea has never been tested under realistic conditions. Gust forces on an airship held stationary on the ground are enormous. Suction pads with enough strength to overcome them could easily induce the hull fabric to tear wide open.
Because an airship is a type of aircraft, ignoramus.
Airplanes, helicopters, and airships are all aircraft, Skippy.
Did you also perhaps notice that Akron had 5 times the enclosed volume of the Airlander? Five times as big but only three times the engine power.
Don't you realize? The pols RELY on the voters being stupid SOBs. And they are almost never disappointed.
Who cares? He signed it.
Republican In Name Only.
Yep. That's it. Obviously the thugs can't outright force the businesses not to raise their rates.
It's bullshit. Of course they can't prevent it. They can prohibit passing on the tax as an enumerated line item, and maybe make that stick,but there's no way in hell they can stop uber from just raising its rates by ... gee ... just HAPPENS to be the same amount as the tax.
They do this with gas stations. Gas stations are prohibited from enumerating on their signage the taxes which the corrupt statist pigs are saddling you with.
You need to go get some "petrol", visit the "chemist", check under the "bonnet", and make sure the spare tire under the "boot" has air. I'll be getting some gas, going to the drugstore, checking under the hood, and making sure there is air in the spare tire under the trunk, like any normal guy. And remember, there is no "a" in "clerk". Any other grotesque expressions and pronunciations I should know?
Not at all. No offense taken or intended. It is Yakuake that offends me, but like you say, no harm in catering to different tastes. I don't happen to like apps that blatantly break with standard practice. As for "showing up and going away at a keypress", EVERY app does that by merely clicking its button in the task bar.
Yes, I got the (non discoverable) right-click context menu in Yakuake, but where is the normal menu that belongs under the title bar with File, Edit, View, Bookmarks, Settings, and Help? Where are the Maximize, Minimize, and Restore buttons? How do you resize the thing or move it on the desktop? Oh yeah, I just noticed the crappy chrome style triple-bar menu icon in the LOWER RIGHT(!) of the frame. It shouldn't mystify anyone when apps that completely disregard standards, to absolutely no purpose, are not well-received.
Mate.
There are plenty of guys still using FVWM. Maybe even twm.
And abandoning a brand new version that sucked ... with an even more brand new that sucks even worse ... addresses the fuckup HOW?
Nothing comes close to Konsole. Yakuake is utter crap. It's not even in the same league as Konsole. What's up with that drop-down window crap? Where the hell is the menu bar? An app that doesn't show up in the task bar? It's like before christ.
Jibe. God, it's annoying when so many people mix up words with utterly different meanings like that. Get a dictionary and use it.
A standalone mail client is absolutely essential. I looked at Kmail, but it was laughably incomplete. Thunderbird and Claws Mail fill my needs OK.
A mail client has to be configurable with an arbitrary number of separate email accounts - not separate users; separate accounts. A unified inbox is a very nice feature, but not absolutely essential. It needs to have very rapid searching on metadata such as "to", "from", "subject", etc. It must not bog down with many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of retained IMAP messages.
I find Mate to be very high in usability, and high in what I THINK you mean by "quality". Certainly it's complete, and without any useless frills. Specifically, whatever I use has to have a decent weather applet, a good clock/calendar applet, a decent sensors applet, a customizable drawer applet to start all the stuff I actually use, a notification area where stuff like a clipboard utility, volume control, and messaging app live, and a GOOD task bar. The task bar has to hold at least 30 or so tasks without mashing them into unusably tiny form, so it needs to support at least 2 rows, and the tasks must be manually arrangeable so I can FIND them, because I am constantly accessing them. I pretty much require two panels to support all this usably, and Mate lets me properly set up a bottom one for the task bar and almost nothing else, and a top one for all the other stuff. It also has fully configurable hide panel buttons, and optional autohide, though I don't often use these. The virtual desktop switcher is well worth having, but I very seldom use it; it's just a habit I never picked up.
No other DE comes close to this level of perfection. KDE's task bar is hopelessly fucked up, as you can't prevent it from constantly rearranging the tasks. There is no drawer, or if there is, it is utter junk. The weather applet is laughably poor. I think all this stuff used to work in the past; I remember KDE3 as being wonderful, but It's been a LONG time since I've used it. Xfce is half assed in many respects. LXDE is definitely a poor man's DE which lacks many features.
I couldn't care less about any frills such as 3D compositing, Plasma Workspaces, and the other dreck churned out by fat DEs like KDE. In fact I hate all that crap with a passion, and get turned off if it's even there, because I have to waste time figuring out how to turn it all off.
As far as the actual apps that come bundled with DE's, I couldn't care less about any of them. Konsole happens to be by far the best terminal app anywhere, and kate is one of the best GUI based editors out there. I use both of them all day every day under Mate, without the slightest difficulty. Other than that, I just mix and match apps from all over; some GTK, some Qt, and some other.
Now, with all that said, since I am not a slave to the apps that form the "E" part of "DE", I have to ask, why do we even have DE's at all? Clearly, I like a lot more features than you get in a plain WM such as Fvwm, but just as clearly, 90% of the effort expended in creating a DE is an utter waste. Something between a WM and a DE is all that is required; something to provide the basic necessary features I enumerate above. Lumina Desktop is such a beast, but unfortunately many features are missing.
Uproariously silly non sequitur. You can run basically ANY of the DEs and WMs on ANY distro. There are these convenient things you may have heard of called packages and meta-packages.
A little round dot, ASCII 0x2e, is a period. You sound like a child when you call it a "full stop".