I do this sometimes, though I live in a rural area and didn't know they actually made a power supply for this. Instead, I have an older gelcell car battery in a home-built enclosure, with an invterter built in. 8-10 hours, but its heavy.
There is a big rock outcropping near my house, and sometimes I'll walk to the top of that and sit on the edge of a 40' cliff, merrily coding away. It's something to be experienced.
As for the punks - well, I'm in Arkansas. I just carry a pistol.
Of course it is a bit less convenient to edit a config file - if you're not used to it - but the point of Arch is, now eiMichael knows more about how the system works. The parent to his post, otoh, used the GUI method you've decided is the "right way", and doesn't even realize where his graphics issues are coming from. Why install a GUI app (and an additional layer of complexity and bugs) when the config files work fine?
The fact that you've fallen back to whining about editing config files tells me that Arch is still on the right path.
Yep - I've used Awesome for a long time, but Arch has a rolling release system, and I got tired of re-doing my config file every two weeks. ScrotWM has been good to me, except for a few mouse bugs. But who needs a mouse?
I'd agree with this. I'm somewhat of a Linux fanboy myself, as I use Arch almost exclusively - but I wiped my Vista partition a couple of days ago and put Win7RC on there (build 7100).
I'm impressed. It boots fast, it runs fast, the new taskbar is clean and useful - it seems to be an all around good product. I don't see it pulling me away from Arch - I'm running ScrotWM these for coding, and nothing Windows does let it compete with a tiling WM from a productivity standpoint - but I see myself booting to Windows 7 more often when I just want to surf the web or check email. I never did that with Vista.
Run ArchLinux - pacman is *perfect* for this role. Just set up a local repository and have your client image include only it. Set up a cron job on the image to do a "pacman -Syu" nightly - that's "update your package list from the repo, and install any newer versions"
Then you have a test system that you can test new versions on, and when you're ready to launch, update that package in your local repo. That night, all your clients will update to the new version.
The only thing this wouldn't address is adding packages to the systems en masse - but even this could be done in a slightly hackish way - just add the new packages as dependencies for the new version of an existing package - or better yet, roll you own PKGBUILD that installs nothing, but has all the dependencies for packages not part of the ghost image.
Arch is pretty up-to-date on package versions, and since pacman compiles from source, you can roll your own if you need something before it comes out in the official repos.
Ever heard of a limit equation? The total cost of an individual airframe will decrease infinitely closer to the manufacturing cost, and the number of unit increases to infinity.
Are you the CEO of GM by chance? That sounds like their "sell cars at a loss, and make it up in volume" plan.
Except that the guns are breech-loading, and therefore subject to the National Firearms Act of 1934, which heavily restricted breech-loaders over.50"
In 1968, they were banned from importation, and in 1986, the program by which to register them was defunded. So - if you could find a gun that was registered before 1986, buy it, wait 6-8 months for the background check, pay a $200 tax, and install it - sure, you can have a working tank. You'd still be limited to chalk and solid projectiles (and flares), though, unless you paid a $200 per round tax on explosive rounds --- assuming, of course, that registered explosive rounds exist, that the owners would accept the implied liability of selling them to an individual, and you had an approved magazine subject to inspection to store them.
Typically, people with tracked vehicles use rubberized treads when driving on public roads. They are very expensive, and weight is not an issue with *most* tracked vehicles, as the weight is well distributed.
If you want to be technical, it is usually called the "American Civil War". It was not, however, a civil war at all, as one side of the conflict considered themselves and independent nation. A civil war is a war for control of a government. The Confederacy wanted no part of that government.
Call it an insurrection, and uprising, or a rebellion - but it was not a civil war.
"War Between the States" is pretty neutral, anyhow. I could have called it something like the "War of Northern Aggression", which is actually heard fairly often in the South today.
You're dead-on with the weapons regulations though. Gun control was originally intended to keep guns out of the hands of slaves and freed blacks. That's not strictly in the South either - California was pretty quick to pass a law against carrying loaded weapons after the Black Panthers marched on a courthouse bearing arms.
Oh, I'm quite familiar with the process, actually. Two of my buddies have deuce-and-a-halfs, and I've been looking to buy one for about 2 years. I've not found the right deal yet, though.
In many cases, US equipment cannot be purchased in the US, but can be imported --- even if it is the same model. The import regulations are crazy, though, and as far as I can tell, you spend your money and cross your fingers. Still, in many cases the weapons mounts must be removed or mutilated, though I'm not sure what the regulations are on repairing that damage. There are also exceptions for historically significant vehicles (but not small arms, oddly).
I'm hoping to see the '68 and '86 MG regulations lifted, because I'm seriously wanting a Tavor. Until then, the best I can do is make a friend in Canada:\
Assuming we're speaking of the American Revolution through the War Between the States, there was nothing preventing private citizens from purchasing cannon or warships. Further, there was no standing army to speak of.
By rights, and as the majority opinion in the recent SCOTUS decision in DC v. Heller states, Americans today should be able to purchase, own, and use today's implements of war - Scalia referred to M16s, derivatives of which are indeed issued to the majority of US troops today. But by the same logic, nothing should prevent a citizen with the means to do so from purchasing an M1 Abrams and driving it around.
I'd like to point out that military aircraft often fall into civilian hands, as you put it. There are quite a few T-34s flying around, and lots of WWII warbirds flown by civilians.
Now, a *Harrier* is a bit of a different story, because it is still in use and many of the systems are classified. It is unreasonable to expect them to deliver that - not because it is a military jet, though, but because Pepsi could not reasonably obtain one.
That's because you're thinking like a "geek" - changing where all of the user's files are is a big change. BIG. We're talking about people who call IE "my internet" - as in, "My internet isn't working!".
I typically use ArchLinux myself. Awesome for a while, but I've found myself using KDE4 more and more. Now that I have the hardware to run it, I don't see why I should use a TWM unless I'm coding.
Really? I remember the introduction of "My Documents" and "Program Files" in Win95, then "My Documents/My (Photos|Videos|Porn)" in XP, and now a more Unix-like "/Users//(Documents|Photos|Videos|Porn)" in Vista. I'm still getting programs add all kinda of dumb folders under my home directory in Vista - Firefox downloads default to ~/Documents/Downloads, while IE defaults to ~/Downloads, etc.
Windows UI may not have significantly changed in its layout, but there have been significant changes in file structure over the years. For people who barely know how to find their files in the first place, this is a big issue.
There is nothing wrong with Windows as an OS from an end-user's perspective. Personally, I'm a bit of a Linux zealot because it offers me a degree of configurability and flexibility that Windows simply cannot match.
But then he'll find procedural programming more difficult.
The idea is to teach the ability to learn, not a specific paradigm. I cut my teeth in VB5, with no help - horrible, horrible stuff came from that. I'm now working mainly in PHP/Javascript, with Python(Django) on the side. I've progressed through VB, C, C#, VB.NET, PHP, Perl, Python, Lisp, Scheme, and LUA. Each one of those became progressively easier to learn, even when there was a complete shift in thought pattern, as Perl->Python->Lisp.
Hell, regular bullying isn't even necessarily a crime.
I could meet you in the elevator every day at work and whisper "You're a failure and the world would be better off without you" - that's not illegal. Its fucked up, but not illegal.
If tormenting children is against the law, then why wasn't she charged with that, instead of a "unauthorized access of a computer system" (breaking a EULA).
The problem is *idiots* trying to be their own doctors. The Slashdot crowd is more than capable of determining whether or not you should combine a prescription painkiller with an OTC. Tell the average person in America to go into a drugstore and get some Acetaminophen, and they'll be utterly lost. Naproxen Sodium would make their head explode.
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I do this sometimes, though I live in a rural area and didn't know they actually made a power supply for this. Instead, I have an older gelcell car battery in a home-built enclosure, with an invterter built in. 8-10 hours, but its heavy.
There is a big rock outcropping near my house, and sometimes I'll walk to the top of that and sit on the edge of a 40' cliff, merrily coding away. It's something to be experienced.
As for the punks - well, I'm in Arkansas. I just carry a pistol.
No clue ;)
You might pop into #archlinux on Freenode, though. Those guys are usually helpful.
Being used only by uber geeks with lots of free time.
Arch is not a general-use distro. Ubuntu does a good job at that. You've also got OpenSUSE, Linux Mint, PCLinuxOS, etc.
Arch's mission is not to usher in the "Year of the Linux Desktop" - it's "Simple is Better". Fewer layers = simpler.
Of course it is a bit less convenient to edit a config file - if you're not used to it - but the point of Arch is, now eiMichael knows more about how the system works. The parent to his post, otoh, used the GUI method you've decided is the "right way", and doesn't even realize where his graphics issues are coming from. Why install a GUI app (and an additional layer of complexity and bugs) when the config files work fine?
The fact that you've fallen back to whining about editing config files tells me that Arch is still on the right path.
Yep - I've used Awesome for a long time, but Arch has a rolling release system, and I got tired of re-doing my config file every two weeks. ScrotWM has been good to me, except for a few mouse bugs. But who needs a mouse?
I'd agree with this. I'm somewhat of a Linux fanboy myself, as I use Arch almost exclusively - but I wiped my Vista partition a couple of days ago and put Win7RC on there (build 7100).
I'm impressed. It boots fast, it runs fast, the new taskbar is clean and useful - it seems to be an all around good product. I don't see it pulling me away from Arch - I'm running ScrotWM these for coding, and nothing Windows does let it compete with a tiling WM from a productivity standpoint - but I see myself booting to Windows 7 more often when I just want to surf the web or check email. I never did that with Vista.
Holy crap, I have an answer for this.
Run ArchLinux - pacman is *perfect* for this role. Just set up a local repository and have your client image include only it. Set up a cron job on the image to do a "pacman -Syu" nightly - that's "update your package list from the repo, and install any newer versions"
Then you have a test system that you can test new versions on, and when you're ready to launch, update that package in your local repo. That night, all your clients will update to the new version.
The only thing this wouldn't address is adding packages to the systems en masse - but even this could be done in a slightly hackish way - just add the new packages as dependencies for the new version of an existing package - or better yet, roll you own PKGBUILD that installs nothing, but has all the dependencies for packages not part of the ghost image.
Arch is pretty up-to-date on package versions, and since pacman compiles from source, you can roll your own if you need something before it comes out in the official repos.
France isn't known for checking with us before they sell military hardware, either.
Ever heard of a limit equation? The total cost of an individual airframe will decrease infinitely closer to the manufacturing cost, and the number of unit increases to infinity.
Are you the CEO of GM by chance? That sounds like their "sell cars at a loss, and make it up in volume" plan.
Except that the guns are breech-loading, and therefore subject to the National Firearms Act of 1934, which heavily restricted breech-loaders over .50"
In 1968, they were banned from importation, and in 1986, the program by which to register them was defunded. So - if you could find a gun that was registered before 1986, buy it, wait 6-8 months for the background check, pay a $200 tax, and install it - sure, you can have a working tank. You'd still be limited to chalk and solid projectiles (and flares), though, unless you paid a $200 per round tax on explosive rounds --- assuming, of course, that registered explosive rounds exist, that the owners would accept the implied liability of selling them to an individual, and you had an approved magazine subject to inspection to store them.
Somehow, I knew this would come up :)
Typically, people with tracked vehicles use rubberized treads when driving on public roads. They are very expensive, and weight is not an issue with *most* tracked vehicles, as the weight is well distributed.
If you want to be technical, it is usually called the "American Civil War". It was not, however, a civil war at all, as one side of the conflict considered themselves and independent nation. A civil war is a war for control of a government. The Confederacy wanted no part of that government.
Call it an insurrection, and uprising, or a rebellion - but it was not a civil war.
"War Between the States" is pretty neutral, anyhow. I could have called it something like the "War of Northern Aggression", which is actually heard fairly often in the South today.
You're dead-on with the weapons regulations though. Gun control was originally intended to keep guns out of the hands of slaves and freed blacks. That's not strictly in the South either - California was pretty quick to pass a law against carrying loaded weapons after the Black Panthers marched on a courthouse bearing arms.
Oh, I'm quite familiar with the process, actually. Two of my buddies have deuce-and-a-halfs, and I've been looking to buy one for about 2 years. I've not found the right deal yet, though.
In many cases, US equipment cannot be purchased in the US, but can be imported --- even if it is the same model. The import regulations are crazy, though, and as far as I can tell, you spend your money and cross your fingers. Still, in many cases the weapons mounts must be removed or mutilated, though I'm not sure what the regulations are on repairing that damage. There are also exceptions for historically significant vehicles (but not small arms, oddly).
I'm hoping to see the '68 and '86 MG regulations lifted, because I'm seriously wanting a Tavor. Until then, the best I can do is make a friend in Canada :\
Assuming we're speaking of the American Revolution through the War Between the States, there was nothing preventing private citizens from purchasing cannon or warships. Further, there was no standing army to speak of.
By rights, and as the majority opinion in the recent SCOTUS decision in DC v. Heller states, Americans today should be able to purchase, own, and use today's implements of war - Scalia referred to M16s, derivatives of which are indeed issued to the majority of US troops today. But by the same logic, nothing should prevent a citizen with the means to do so from purchasing an M1 Abrams and driving it around.
Who is "they"? The government lives here, too, you know...
I'd like to point out that military aircraft often fall into civilian hands, as you put it. There are quite a few T-34s flying around, and lots of WWII warbirds flown by civilians.
Now, a *Harrier* is a bit of a different story, because it is still in use and many of the systems are classified. It is unreasonable to expect them to deliver that - not because it is a military jet, though, but because Pepsi could not reasonably obtain one.
And be in range of an open AP.
That's because you're thinking like a "geek" - changing where all of the user's files are is a big change. BIG. We're talking about people who call IE "my internet" - as in, "My internet isn't working!".
I typically use ArchLinux myself. Awesome for a while, but I've found myself using KDE4 more and more. Now that I have the hardware to run it, I don't see why I should use a TWM unless I'm coding.
Trivial to us geeks, sure - but the Office 2K7's ribbon is trivial to us geeks too.
Really? I remember the introduction of "My Documents" and "Program Files" in Win95, then "My Documents/My (Photos|Videos|Porn)" in XP, and now a more Unix-like "/Users//(Documents|Photos|Videos|Porn)" in Vista. I'm still getting programs add all kinda of dumb folders under my home directory in Vista - Firefox downloads default to ~/Documents/Downloads, while IE defaults to ~/Downloads, etc.
Windows UI may not have significantly changed in its layout, but there have been significant changes in file structure over the years. For people who barely know how to find their files in the first place, this is a big issue.
Well, you're right...
There is nothing wrong with Windows as an OS from an end-user's perspective. Personally, I'm a bit of a Linux zealot because it offers me a degree of configurability and flexibility that Windows simply cannot match.
But then he'll find procedural programming more difficult.
The idea is to teach the ability to learn, not a specific paradigm. I cut my teeth in VB5, with no help - horrible, horrible stuff came from that. I'm now working mainly in PHP/Javascript, with Python(Django) on the side. I've progressed through VB, C, C#, VB.NET, PHP, Perl, Python, Lisp, Scheme, and LUA. Each one of those became progressively easier to learn, even when there was a complete shift in thought pattern, as Perl->Python->Lisp.
Hell, regular bullying isn't even necessarily a crime.
I could meet you in the elevator every day at work and whisper "You're a failure and the world would be better off without you" - that's not illegal. Its fucked up, but not illegal.
If tormenting children is against the law, then why wasn't she charged with that, instead of a "unauthorized access of a computer system" (breaking a EULA).
The problem is *idiots* trying to be their own doctors. The Slashdot crowd is more than capable of determining whether or not you should combine a prescription painkiller with an OTC. Tell the average person in America to go into a drugstore and get some Acetaminophen, and they'll be utterly lost. Naproxen Sodium would make their head explode.