You sometimes need root access, such as for system upgrades or maintenance, but for that, you really should use su, and if you don't have the root password, you shouldn't be doing that kind of thing anyway.
Back in the late '90s, I was doing tech support for an ISP, and part of my job was running database queries (through shell scripts) while logged into a server via telnet. (The server was behind the firewall and you couldn't reach it from outside, so this was safe.) Some of the scripts used sudo, but I'm guessing that we were actually pretending to be whoever owned the databases, not root. If nothing else, it seems a tad heavy handed to let everybody in tech support have such easy root access. (I'm guessing because the calls to sudo were part of the script, so I never actually saw that code.)
That's my point. I called them "enclaves" because they're fairly small, geographically, but they're heavily populated, mostly with liberals. Most of the state is much more conservative, but the population density is fairly low, so the the liberals in LA, SF and a few other places can control the state.
If you'll look at a map of California's counties, you'll see that the coast is strongly Democrat and the inland counties are Republican. However, if you look at a map of the population, you'll see that most of the voters live on or near the coast, and outnumber the comparatively thinly-populated inland. Thus, by population, California is a blue state, even though most of its area is red. Guess which one matters in an election.
If you expect everything to work out of the box, get a mac...
I can remember when one of Apple's slogans for the mac was, "It just works." Now, unless you're using bleeding edge hardware or something where the OEM won't release the specs (nVidia is a good example, as well as some of the printer manufacturers.) the drivers are either built into the kernel or available in the standard repositories so that most of the time Linux Just Works.
The politics in LA, San Francisco and a few other coastal enclaves are about the same, although SF may lean even farther than the rest. Except for that, the rest of the state tends to be conservative. The reason most people don't know that is that the left coast enclaves have the majority of the population, and run the state for their benefit and ignore the rest of us.
"If your sister WERE to develop a sudden urge to create music, would Linux STILL serve her needs? IOW, after she conducted that research, what would she find?"
I have no idea and no reason to do the research. However, I wouldn't be surprised to find that there are a number of Linux programs that work with that kind of hardware. I do know, as an example, that when I bought a laptop and replaced Windows Vista with Fedora Linux, the program Cheese detected and used the built in webcam right from the start, with no need to install extra software.
Oh, boy! You managed to defined a stable configuration of email client and web browser. But now, your sister says she wants to try her hand at multitrack audio recording and editing, and she's buying a MIDI keyboard because she heard there are a lot of nice soft-synths she can use.
Now, now, now, don't forget all of the work she's done with LibreOffice, chairing two annual SF conventions. However, I see your point. Although that's not the type of thing she's interested in, if she were, I'd tell her to check around on the Ubuntu Forum, find out what brands/models are known to work and pick one from that list. It's not exactly rocket surgery, doing a bit of research before you buy something like that, is it?
This will probably be labelled flamebait because I'm hurting some Linux users feelings. I don't know where you people buy your hardware, but it must be located in fairy tale land.
I certainly wouldn't call it flamebait and I've been using Linux for about 20 years, first in dual boot and as my only OS for the last 11. I can only speak for Fedora and Ubuntu (I use Fedora and do what little tech support my sister needs with Ubuntu.) but generally speaking, you don't need hardware drivers unless you've either got something bleeding edge or very old. There are, of course, exceptions, where hardware companies won't reveal enough of their hardware specs for anybody to write proper OSS drivers. (nVidia, of course, is the worst offender here.) I can, however explain that Fedora doesn't have any built in functions for searching on-line for third party drivers as a matter of policy, but there are ways to transform one package format to another if you need to. Yes, this does take a little more work, but it's not as exclusionary as you seem to think it is. And, to answer your question, I used to have a hardware tech who bought mainstream motherboards, cards and drives, nothing fancy. Now, I have a Dell tower, right out of the box, with whatever went in at the factory. It Just Works.
That is Linux in a nutshell; constant stupid idiotic problems with everything.
Fedora isn't for everybody; it's a bleeding edge, techy distro that's used as a testbed for new things that might later turn up in RedHat. If all you want is something that Just Works (Including downloading and installing the proprietary nVidia drivers every time there's a kernel update.) try Ubuntu, because it's designed mostly for people who don't want to have to get "under the hood" to get things working.
And it is unusable garbage (unless you're one of those weirdos who *LIKES* to do everything the hardest way possible).
Wrong, wrong, wrong, utterly wrong. About a decade or so ago, my sister, who knows how to use a computer but not how to do any troubleshooting asked me to convert her system from Windows to Ubuntu. Since then, she's asked me for computer help about once or maybe twice a year, mostly about system upgrades. Aside from that, It Just Works.
About three years ago, I did the same for a friend's wife because he doesn't know Linux. Again, It Just Works and she's never needed any assistance. If you can't get Linux to work, either you have hardware problems or you're doing something wrong, and I've no idea which it is in your case.
That's why you have to season them. It creates a layer of protection that keeps them from rusting, as long as you don't use soap, which will remove at least part of it. Enameled dutch ovens are good to, of course, but cast iron's always been my favorite.
Buy a decent pan with a thick bottom, the thicker the better. It will take longer to heat, but it will also provide a more even and consistent heat as the mass helps 'smooth' fluctuations or uneveness and 'hot spots' in your heat source.
Cast Iron is your friend. Big, solid, sturdy pans that keep their heat well even if you have to take them off the burner before everything's done cooking. Get them properly seasoned and never wash them with soap, and they'll last a lifetime.
I see your point, and agree with it. However, private bills are, in general, permitted by the Constitution, which is what I was pointing out. And, I'm not sure if a private bill forbidding any agency of the US Federal Government to buy software from Kaspersky would be considered a bill of attainder because it doesn't prevent private companies, individuals or state/local governments from using their products; that would be for the courts to decide and would almost certainly end up with the Supremes. (Now that you mention it, I'd not be surprised if it were overturned as a bill of attainder, but the question would have to be properly litigated.)
Laws that single out a single person or entity are unconstitutional.
I take it, then, that you never bothered to pay attention in your civics class. If you had, you would have known about private bills. Granted, they're rarely used now, but they're perfectly legal under the US Constitution.
I wouldn't think so; knowing how to steer a ship takes specific training, that most officers don't have. Back when I was in the Navy, I spent some time on bridge watches and never saw an officer at the helm. I also spent time in After Steering, in a compartment directly over the rudder, that's used if the lines between the helm and the rudder go down. Every now and then, they'd switch over to After Steering to give us some practice, and I can assure you that steering strictly by compass is very counter-intuitive. On occasion, we'd have an officer try to steer by moving a pointer on the bridge and having us follow it, and none of them were ever any good at it.
For all I know they're being sent up or down a river, but unless the ship ties up every night, you need enough people to keep the ship on course 24/7, meaning at least three people qualified to handle the helm.
Wrong. The ship's captain has too much to do to spend all of his time at the helm. In fact, you probably have at least three helmsmen so that you can keep the ship in motion 24 hours a day.
In China, if you're driving a ship that has more than 5,000kg of cargo...
Irrelevant. The captain doesn't "drive" the ship, the helmsman does. (Strictly speaking of course, the helmsman steers the ship and the captain tells the helmsman what course to steer and how sharp to make any turns.) How old you have to be to have a proper helmsman's license has nothing to do with the captain's age.
So when do you think a good time would be to pass judgement? The Volkswagen representative already admitted what they did.
Yes, but who authorized the experiment? Was it somebody in middle management, somebody in upper management, the Board of Directors; we don't know. There's no question that this was wrong, that it never should have happened and that whoever's responsible deserves punishment, but TFA doesn't say who that was, and I, for one, want to see the right people prosecuted, not some underling who was set up as a fall guy. Now would be the best time to punish Volkswagen for allowing this to happen, but there also needs to be proper retribution to the person or persons who decided that this was an acceptable experiment in the first place.
Nothing in TFS or TFA tells us who authorized the experiment, or how high up that person was. It also doesn't tell us what happened to whoever it was, or what upper management's reaction was when the fact of the experiment was discovered. Let's not start blaming everybody in the company before we find out just who's responsible for this.
I suspect it's actually stopping to think or question your orders isn't something we want, because then you might ask what the fuck you're doing in Iraq.
No. There are time that you're expected to think before acting and times when you're just expected to obey. How do you tell the difference? Well, if you're working in a warehouse and the orders you get don't seem right, you're expected to question them. In a combat situation, or other emergency, you just act, and part of your training is in knowing the difference.
Yes, nevermind the indoctrination they would have went through in said service, which starts out by deliberately breaking them down as individuals and rebuilding them into literal tools.
I take it that you've never served. I have, and that's exactly what goes on in Basic Training, or Boot Camp. The most important thing you learn is how to act as a member of a group, not as an individual, and how to obey orders instantly, without thought. Close order drill only looks like it's intended to teach everybody how to move together, it's real purpose is to help you learn how to obey orders without thinking, because in combat or other emergencies, stopping to think or question your orders can cost a large number of lives, starting with your own.
I live in Southern California, where it's fire season any time there hasn't been rain in 90 days. I hope the birds here never catch on to this because even without avian pyromaniacs, there've been too many big fires the last few years.
I doubt that there's any support for this in the urban centers. They're all heavily Democrat, and control the state. The support comes from rural parts of the state who are conservative, Republican and out-voted. As is, the Democrats control everything and see no reason to change things.
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You sometimes need root access, such as for system upgrades or maintenance, but for that, you really should use su, and if you don't have the root password, you shouldn't be doing that kind of thing anyway.
Back in the late '90s, I was doing tech support for an ISP, and part of my job was running database queries (through shell scripts) while logged into a server via telnet. (The server was behind the firewall and you couldn't reach it from outside, so this was safe.) Some of the scripts used sudo, but I'm guessing that we were actually pretending to be whoever owned the databases, not root. If nothing else, it seems a tad heavy handed to let everybody in tech support have such easy root access. (I'm guessing because the calls to sudo were part of the script, so I never actually saw that code.)
And how much drag is caused by the rear-view mirror, which is inside the car, and is the one that gets the most use?
That's my point. I called them "enclaves" because they're fairly small, geographically, but they're heavily populated, mostly with liberals. Most of the state is much more conservative, but the population density is fairly low, so the the liberals in LA, SF and a few other places can control the state.
If you'll look at a map of California's counties, you'll see that the coast is strongly Democrat and the inland counties are Republican. However, if you look at a map of the population, you'll see that most of the voters live on or near the coast, and outnumber the comparatively thinly-populated inland. Thus, by population, California is a blue state, even though most of its area is red. Guess which one matters in an election.
If you expect everything to work out of the box, get a mac...
I can remember when one of Apple's slogans for the mac was, "It just works." Now, unless you're using bleeding edge hardware or something where the OEM won't release the specs (nVidia is a good example, as well as some of the printer manufacturers.) the drivers are either built into the kernel or available in the standard repositories so that most of the time Linux Just Works.
The politics in LA, San Francisco and a few other coastal enclaves are about the same, although SF may lean even farther than the rest. Except for that, the rest of the state tends to be conservative. The reason most people don't know that is that the left coast enclaves have the majority of the population, and run the state for their benefit and ignore the rest of us.
"If your sister WERE to develop a sudden urge to create music, would Linux STILL serve her needs? IOW, after she conducted that research, what would she find?"
I have no idea and no reason to do the research. However, I wouldn't be surprised to find that there are a number of Linux programs that work with that kind of hardware. I do know, as an example, that when I bought a laptop and replaced Windows Vista with Fedora Linux, the program Cheese detected and used the built in webcam right from the start, with no need to install extra software.
Oh, boy! You managed to defined a stable configuration of email client and web browser. But now, your sister says she wants to try her hand at multitrack audio recording and editing, and she's buying a MIDI keyboard because she heard there are a lot of nice soft-synths she can use.
Now, now, now, don't forget all of the work she's done with LibreOffice, chairing two annual SF conventions. However, I see your point. Although that's not the type of thing she's interested in, if she were, I'd tell her to check around on the Ubuntu Forum, find out what brands/models are known to work and pick one from that list. It's not exactly rocket surgery, doing a bit of research before you buy something like that, is it?
This will probably be labelled flamebait because I'm hurting some Linux users feelings. I don't know where you people buy your hardware, but it must be located in fairy tale land.
I certainly wouldn't call it flamebait and I've been using Linux for about 20 years, first in dual boot and as my only OS for the last 11. I can only speak for Fedora and Ubuntu (I use Fedora and do what little tech support my sister needs with Ubuntu.) but generally speaking, you don't need hardware drivers unless you've either got something bleeding edge or very old. There are, of course, exceptions, where hardware companies won't reveal enough of their hardware specs for anybody to write proper OSS drivers. (nVidia, of course, is the worst offender here.) I can, however explain that Fedora doesn't have any built in functions for searching on-line for third party drivers as a matter of policy, but there are ways to transform one package format to another if you need to. Yes, this does take a little more work, but it's not as exclusionary as you seem to think it is. And, to answer your question, I used to have a hardware tech who bought mainstream motherboards, cards and drives, nothing fancy. Now, I have a Dell tower, right out of the box, with whatever went in at the factory. It Just Works.
That is Linux in a nutshell; constant stupid idiotic problems with everything.
Fedora isn't for everybody; it's a bleeding edge, techy distro that's used as a testbed for new things that might later turn up in RedHat. If all you want is something that Just Works (Including downloading and installing the proprietary nVidia drivers every time there's a kernel update.) try Ubuntu, because it's designed mostly for people who don't want to have to get "under the hood" to get things working.
And it is unusable garbage (unless you're one of those weirdos who *LIKES* to do everything the hardest way possible).
Wrong, wrong, wrong, utterly wrong. About a decade or so ago, my sister, who knows how to use a computer but not how to do any troubleshooting asked me to convert her system from Windows to Ubuntu. Since then, she's asked me for computer help about once or maybe twice a year, mostly about system upgrades. Aside from that, It Just Works.
About three years ago, I did the same for a friend's wife because he doesn't know Linux. Again, It Just Works and she's never needed any assistance. If you can't get Linux to work, either you have hardware problems or you're doing something wrong, and I've no idea which it is in your case.
That's why you have to season them. It creates a layer of protection that keeps them from rusting, as long as you don't use soap, which will remove at least part of it. Enameled dutch ovens are good to, of course, but cast iron's always been my favorite.
Buy a decent pan with a thick bottom, the thicker the better. It will take longer to heat, but it will also provide a more even and consistent heat as the mass helps 'smooth' fluctuations or uneveness and 'hot spots' in your heat source.
Cast Iron is your friend. Big, solid, sturdy pans that keep their heat well even if you have to take them off the burner before everything's done cooking. Get them properly seasoned and never wash them with soap, and they'll last a lifetime.
I see your point, and agree with it. However, private bills are, in general, permitted by the Constitution, which is what I was pointing out. And, I'm not sure if a private bill forbidding any agency of the US Federal Government to buy software from Kaspersky would be considered a bill of attainder because it doesn't prevent private companies, individuals or state/local governments from using their products; that would be for the courts to decide and would almost certainly end up with the Supremes. (Now that you mention it, I'd not be surprised if it were overturned as a bill of attainder, but the question would have to be properly litigated.)
Laws that single out a single person or entity are unconstitutional.
I take it, then, that you never bothered to pay attention in your civics class. If you had, you would have known about private bills. Granted, they're rarely used now, but they're perfectly legal under the US Constitution.
I wouldn't think so; knowing how to steer a ship takes specific training, that most officers don't have. Back when I was in the Navy, I spent some time on bridge watches and never saw an officer at the helm. I also spent time in After Steering, in a compartment directly over the rudder, that's used if the lines between the helm and the rudder go down. Every now and then, they'd switch over to After Steering to give us some practice, and I can assure you that steering strictly by compass is very counter-intuitive. On occasion, we'd have an officer try to steer by moving a pointer on the bridge and having us follow it, and none of them were ever any good at it.
For all I know they're being sent up or down a river, but unless the ship ties up every night, you need enough people to keep the ship on course 24/7, meaning at least three people qualified to handle the helm.
Wrong. The ship's captain has too much to do to spend all of his time at the helm. In fact, you probably have at least three helmsmen so that you can keep the ship in motion 24 hours a day.
In China, if you're driving a ship that has more than 5,000kg of cargo...
Irrelevant. The captain doesn't "drive" the ship, the helmsman does. (Strictly speaking of course, the helmsman steers the ship and the captain tells the helmsman what course to steer and how sharp to make any turns.) How old you have to be to have a proper helmsman's license has nothing to do with the captain's age.
Thank you; asked and answered.
So when do you think a good time would be to pass judgement? The Volkswagen representative already admitted what they did.
Yes, but who authorized the experiment? Was it somebody in middle management, somebody in upper management, the Board of Directors; we don't know. There's no question that this was wrong, that it never should have happened and that whoever's responsible deserves punishment, but TFA doesn't say who that was, and I, for one, want to see the right people prosecuted, not some underling who was set up as a fall guy. Now would be the best time to punish Volkswagen for allowing this to happen, but there also needs to be proper retribution to the person or persons who decided that this was an acceptable experiment in the first place.
Nothing in TFS or TFA tells us who authorized the experiment, or how high up that person was. It also doesn't tell us what happened to whoever it was, or what upper management's reaction was when the fact of the experiment was discovered. Let's not start blaming everybody in the company before we find out just who's responsible for this.
I suspect it's actually stopping to think or question your orders isn't something we want, because then you might ask what the fuck you're doing in Iraq.
No. There are time that you're expected to think before acting and times when you're just expected to obey. How do you tell the difference? Well, if you're working in a warehouse and the orders you get don't seem right, you're expected to question them. In a combat situation, or other emergency, you just act, and part of your training is in knowing the difference.
Yes, nevermind the indoctrination they would have went through in said service, which starts out by deliberately breaking them down as individuals and rebuilding them into literal tools.
I take it that you've never served. I have, and that's exactly what goes on in Basic Training, or Boot Camp. The most important thing you learn is how to act as a member of a group, not as an individual, and how to obey orders instantly, without thought. Close order drill only looks like it's intended to teach everybody how to move together, it's real purpose is to help you learn how to obey orders without thinking, because in combat or other emergencies, stopping to think or question your orders can cost a large number of lives, starting with your own.
I live in Southern California, where it's fire season any time there hasn't been rain in 90 days. I hope the birds here never catch on to this because even without avian pyromaniacs, there've been too many big fires the last few years.
I doubt that there's any support for this in the urban centers. They're all heavily Democrat, and control the state. The support comes from rural parts of the state who are conservative, Republican and out-voted. As is, the Democrats control everything and see no reason to change things.