In fact, some of those are actually on a massive rise due to recent retro trends. Arcades and more specifically Barcades are popping up all over the place now. Film cameras are as of 2017 just starting to make a retro comeback as well. Used book stores seem to be doing just fine, too. Amazon only killed off retailers, not the second hand market. In fact, vinyl records also has a surge going on right now. So like almost half their list is currently being fueled by nostalgia into new market territory.
Exactly this! I'm running a series of 32-bit Intel based routers that so far have been running pfSense, but they just dropped 32-bit support as well. Now with Linux distros dropping support, that is another area I won't be able to explore with these boxes. Currently investigating staying with FreeBSD and going with OPNSense instead. But yeah, this really sucks that solid and reliable hardware that gets the job done very well isn't "supported" anymore.
Linux has plenty of nerds that are software engineers developing software. Something Linux and pretty much the entire F/OSS ecosystem is missing is quality UX/UI designers and engineers. There isn't much by way of decent collaboration tools in this department. Another area of interest is the lack of technical writers to write up solid documentation. Instead, our community is full of forum threads that consist of only two posts: someone asking a question, and that person getting a reply to "just fucking google it" (which btw this forum thread usually *IS* the top result on google)
I'm absolutely sick and tired of walking into a physical local store location with cash in hand... only for them to not even stock what I'm looking to purchase. And thus, I return home, order online, and have it in a few days. This isn't a once or twice thing, but an often enough occurrence that I've honestly stopped shopping locally entirely except for groceries.
Its as simple as this: I can't buy what you don't have!
44 lanes of PCIe? That is only four more lanes than my first generation Xeon E5 workstation that I'm using right now, which is only a quad-core chip. Granted though, this machine is pretty maxed out with that tho, even with just one GPU, thanks to PCIe SSD, dedicated sound card, and 10gbe networking.
One of the simplest examples: the Microsoft Windows source code. This is a "trade secret" (or rather, a very large trove of trade secrets all bundled together). There is the publicly known APIs, but then the actual implementation behind the scenes is the trade secret part.
Twitter is fucking worthless. But we all already knew this. But just for shits and giggles, lemmie tell ya some numbers.
Twitter gave me one of those ad trials for their service, a free $100 credit to try them out as an advertising system.
My company received a 0% click-through rate.
I guess I got exactly what I paid for, absolutely nothing. But one thing was for sure, Twitter made sure I absolutely NEVER gave them any actual money for advertising, since it was literally useless and worthless for my business.
Chrome is a proprietary version of Chromium. Chromium uses Blink. Blink is a fork of WebKit, which is also used by Apple's Safari. WebKit is a fork of KHTML. Nothing is original!
If it is Google Fiber specifically or from another company, the project was a total succeeds. In my neighborhood, access speeds went from being around 20-30mbps on the top end to Gigabit through CenturyLink. Countless other ISPs have all started offering gigabit class service due to the pressure that Google Fiber caused. Google brought competition, and the market was forced to react. (almost) everyone wins! Except those smucks still stuck in areas that have government restrictions on what can/cant be made available in their areas.
At this point, it is too little, too late. Phones are not changing frequently enough to really need to upgrade all that often anymore. Being on the Galaxy S5 right now and looking at the S8, there is only marginal increases over the past three years. Sure, it has a little more processing power, a little more RAM, and a little more storage, but that isn't all that needed.
$250,000 right now in Seattle is literally a shitty ass shack considering the current housing market there. (and yes, I'm local to the area too)
But seriously, I came in to bitch about CenturyLink too. For the longest time, they'd only offer 3mbps service to my location. Luckily, for a very short period of time, they offered their gigabit fiber service to my location, I signed up, and still have it over a year later. Even after ALREADY HAVING IT INSTALLED, a couple months later, they claimed I could only get 3mbps in my area. It is total bullshit how they discriminate against certain neighborhoods.
I guess you missed the part where this is aimed at regional hauling, not long haul? For an example: Costco's Pacific Northwest distribution center is just outside of Seattle, WA. One of their busiest stores is in Portland, OR. That is under a 150mi trip. The truck would charge while being loaded/unloaded. This sort of truck would be PERFECT for these types of routes.
I'm lucky enough to manage IT and servers for a pair of businesses in physically different locations. Both are running FreeNAS for their local storage. Both cross backup to one another using ZFS SEND/RECV. This gives full snapshotted history on both physical locations of both's complete storage. Pretty handy!
Curious. What is buggy about it? There were a couple issues when I got mine a couple years back, but a firmware update addressed and fixed everything within that first month, and it has been running stable ever since.
About 35 miles outside of Seattle, and I get 56 channels with my roof top antenna here. Also, it is running through a HDHomeRun so a TV tuner on the TV itself doesn't even matter. With that box, it is a dual-tuner that'll stream the channels to just about any device on the network, including the media box on the TV, desktops, laptops, tablets, cell phones. This setup has been a dream ever since I installed it! ~$150 total for all of the hardware/wiring combined.
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In fact, some of those are actually on a massive rise due to recent retro trends. Arcades and more specifically Barcades are popping up all over the place now. Film cameras are as of 2017 just starting to make a retro comeback as well. Used book stores seem to be doing just fine, too. Amazon only killed off retailers, not the second hand market. In fact, vinyl records also has a surge going on right now. So like almost half their list is currently being fueled by nostalgia into new market territory.
Linux kernel alone is ~20 million lines? That probably accounts for the largest section of code by itself!
About a year ago, this same thing was reported on land as well in Russia
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Exactly this! I'm running a series of 32-bit Intel based routers that so far have been running pfSense, but they just dropped 32-bit support as well. Now with Linux distros dropping support, that is another area I won't be able to explore with these boxes. Currently investigating staying with FreeBSD and going with OPNSense instead. But yeah, this really sucks that solid and reliable hardware that gets the job done very well isn't "supported" anymore.
Linux has plenty of nerds that are software engineers developing software. Something Linux and pretty much the entire F/OSS ecosystem is missing is quality UX/UI designers and engineers. There isn't much by way of decent collaboration tools in this department. Another area of interest is the lack of technical writers to write up solid documentation. Instead, our community is full of forum threads that consist of only two posts: someone asking a question, and that person getting a reply to "just fucking google it" (which btw this forum thread usually *IS* the top result on google)
I'm absolutely sick and tired of walking into a physical local store location with cash in hand... only for them to not even stock what I'm looking to purchase. And thus, I return home, order online, and have it in a few days. This isn't a once or twice thing, but an often enough occurrence that I've honestly stopped shopping locally entirely except for groceries.
Its as simple as this: I can't buy what you don't have!
44 lanes of PCIe? That is only four more lanes than my first generation Xeon E5 workstation that I'm using right now, which is only a quad-core chip. Granted though, this machine is pretty maxed out with that tho, even with just one GPU, thanks to PCIe SSD, dedicated sound card, and 10gbe networking.
One of the simplest examples: the Microsoft Windows source code. This is a "trade secret" (or rather, a very large trove of trade secrets all bundled together). There is the publicly known APIs, but then the actual implementation behind the scenes is the trade secret part.
" VMware dropped development of ESX at version 4.1, and now uses ESXi, which does not include a Linux kernel." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It has been seven years since VMWare dropped the Linux kernel.
Pretty much no different than when T-Mobile took over MetroPCS!
Twitter is fucking worthless. But we all already knew this. But just for shits and giggles, lemmie tell ya some numbers.
Twitter gave me one of those ad trials for their service, a free $100 credit to try them out as an advertising system.
My company received a 0% click-through rate.
I guess I got exactly what I paid for, absolutely nothing. But one thing was for sure, Twitter made sure I absolutely NEVER gave them any actual money for advertising, since it was literally useless and worthless for my business.
Chrome is a proprietary version of Chromium. Chromium uses Blink. Blink is a fork of WebKit, which is also used by Apple's Safari. WebKit is a fork of KHTML. Nothing is original!
If it is Google Fiber specifically or from another company, the project was a total succeeds. In my neighborhood, access speeds went from being around 20-30mbps on the top end to Gigabit through CenturyLink. Countless other ISPs have all started offering gigabit class service due to the pressure that Google Fiber caused. Google brought competition, and the market was forced to react. (almost) everyone wins! Except those smucks still stuck in areas that have government restrictions on what can/cant be made available in their areas.
At this point, it is too little, too late. Phones are not changing frequently enough to really need to upgrade all that often anymore. Being on the Galaxy S5 right now and looking at the S8, there is only marginal increases over the past three years. Sure, it has a little more processing power, a little more RAM, and a little more storage, but that isn't all that needed.
$250,000 right now in Seattle is literally a shitty ass shack considering the current housing market there. (and yes, I'm local to the area too)
But seriously, I came in to bitch about CenturyLink too. For the longest time, they'd only offer 3mbps service to my location. Luckily, for a very short period of time, they offered their gigabit fiber service to my location, I signed up, and still have it over a year later. Even after ALREADY HAVING IT INSTALLED, a couple months later, they claimed I could only get 3mbps in my area. It is total bullshit how they discriminate against certain neighborhoods.
I guess you missed the part where this is aimed at regional hauling, not long haul? For an example: Costco's Pacific Northwest distribution center is just outside of Seattle, WA. One of their busiest stores is in Portland, OR. That is under a 150mi trip. The truck would charge while being loaded/unloaded. This sort of truck would be PERFECT for these types of routes.
I guess you missed the part about SEND/RECV for multi-location storage? Snapshots is only part of the scheme!
B2 works on Linux. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/d...
I'm lucky enough to manage IT and servers for a pair of businesses in physically different locations. Both are running FreeNAS for their local storage. Both cross backup to one another using ZFS SEND/RECV. This gives full snapshotted history on both physical locations of both's complete storage. Pretty handy!
The product linked has a grounding mount for the post you're talking of. If it wasn't properly grounded, then sure it'll fry everything!
https://www.amazon.com/TII-Tec...
No no no no, you're reading it wrong. It is an acronym! "XBOX" stands for "X Box One X"!
Curious. What is buggy about it? There were a couple issues when I got mine a couple years back, but a firmware update addressed and fixed everything within that first month, and it has been running stable ever since.
http://www.qqpr.com/ascii/img/...
About 35 miles outside of Seattle, and I get 56 channels with my roof top antenna here. Also, it is running through a HDHomeRun so a TV tuner on the TV itself doesn't even matter. With that box, it is a dual-tuner that'll stream the channels to just about any device on the network, including the media box on the TV, desktops, laptops, tablets, cell phones. This setup has been a dream ever since I installed it! ~$150 total for all of the hardware/wiring combined.