I'm bookmarking that link. Thanks, AC. That is EXACTLY the experience I had working inside the Army for three years. Hideous incompetence, stifling bureaucracy, and outright corruption. Absolutely nothing gets accomplished.
Anyone that believes that Snowden was planted by the CIA to discredit the NSA...is vastly overstating the competence of our "intelligence" agencies.
I DID have a failed boot, last week too. That was when fedora upgraded to 3.11... basically, the nvidia driver is incompatible at the moment.
Yeah, the nVidia drivers don't always make a timely appearance in RPMFusion, do they.
Not to worry. Boot into the version of the kernel without an nVidia driver, download the source to buildsys-build-rpmfusion (i.e. "yumdownloader --source buildsys-build-rpmfusion"), install it, edit SOURCES/buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-current so that they match the version of the kernel you're building for, then build and install/upgrade buildsys-build-rpmfusion and buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-current. (Use "yum-builddep SPECS/buildsys-build-rpmfusion.spec" to install the build dependencies, if necessary, before building.)
Then download the nvidia-kmod sources applicable to your video card (my current one takes "nvidia-kmod-304xx"), build it, and install the packages you need. (It'll build more than you need.)
Voila, nVidia drivers for your current kernel.
I had to do this twice recently, for kernels 3.10.10 and 3.10.11 (on FC18).
So what if it's controlled by Redhat? That's a good thing! Hell of a lot better than distros ruled by some egomaniac dickhead or circlekjerk committee of autistic freaks.
You mean there are distros where the rulers are bigger jerks than the ones running Fedora? God forbid.
Recently I had some spare time to devote to open-source programming (*cough* unemployed *cough*), and part of it involved submitting several packages to Fedora. One guy went ape shit on me and accused me of "spamming the review queue". I've learned to expect apathy from the maintainers of open-source projects, but outright hostility?! Holy crap. Then I had another run-in with another jerk who couldn't have possibly been more small-minded and mean-spirited. (I remember both of their nicks, but am withholding them to protect the guilty or whatever).
After that, I lost all desire to contribute. I have to put up with enough pointless vitriol at work; there's no way in hell I'm going to put up with it in my free time.
If the Fedora people are considered relatively pleasant compared to other maintainers...then I'll be finding something else to do in my retirement. I was going to write lots of open-source code. The hell with that.
Huh? Who was talking about the impact of losing a few specialities? I'm talking about a world where specialists have no value because the infrastructure isn't there to make use of them. You've completely missed the point.
And the other replies to your post are completely missing the point too. I'm not talking about going without high-tech hardware...I'm talking about going without FOOD. We can't go without food. And people wouldn't simply sit there and starve to death...they'll fight tooth and nail for the last scraps of food.
If being a prepper makes me crazy, I'm glad I'm not "sane" like you.
A technological regress requires a fragile society not just a sudden jolt.
But we are a fragile society. Without even having to bring up the Idiocracy, the fact remains that we're mostly a society of specialists, dependent on the other cogs in the machine for our survival, stupidly mocking the "preppers" who are really just trying to be generalists. A comet strike could easily disrupt this machine and cause it to grind to a halt.
If the vast majority wants some profits to be shared so that people can live, the rich minority has to comply.
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
Besides, the rich minority doesn't have to comply. They can leave the country. They have the resources to do that. Try voting your hand into their pocket, and Atlas will shrug so fast it'll make your head spin.
Experience shows that the judicial proceedings against those who were in fact kidnapped and taken to the U.S. are of a biased character, based on shaky evidence, and clearly tilted toward conviction.
Yeah, Russia's the expert on that.
Still, it's amazing that the U.S. has become such a totalitarian police state that Russia can legitimately give them crap.
My point exactly. If fighting drug use with the criminal justice system requires that America turn into a fascist police state...then it's not worth it.
Whatever the scourge of drug use, I put it that the fascist police state has caused far more damage to the country than the drugs themselves ever could.
While i don't believe in the 'if you are innocent you have nothing to hide' concept, most people really don't care of the government knows that the wife told them to grab some milk on the way home.
But I do care about the NYPD cannibal cop that abused a restricted law-enforcement database so that he could find women to consume. Do you really think he's the only one abusing the system?
For another example of left-wing psychos going overboard with public land, read about People's Park in Bezerkely.
I especially like how they made Ohlone Park a dog's park, where dogs could be free from human oppression. Big surprise, they formed a pack, run by a Top Dog. Not only did Berkeley fail to create the New Man, they failed to create the New Dog.
It's true, I rarely meet women that are computer programmers. I worked for one defense firm where we had four, and other firm where we had two. (They were awesome. I relished the opportunity to interact with nerd ladies.)
But once, I worked for a company that had tons of female programmers. My memory is fuzzy on the exact percentage, but I'd say perhaps a third of them were. That was the TurboTax division of Intuit. Three of the four managers of the programming departments (i.e. cross-platform, MS Windows, Macintosh, and DOS) were women, too. I don't know why that company was so different. But it was a VERY refreshing change of pace.
It's too bad that all of them were either married or in long-term relationships of some kind.
Ah hell, why deny my feelings...NERD LADIES RULE!!!!!!!
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I'm bookmarking that link. Thanks, AC. That is EXACTLY the experience I had working inside the Army for three years. Hideous incompetence, stifling bureaucracy, and outright corruption. Absolutely nothing gets accomplished.
Anyone that believes that Snowden was planted by the CIA to discredit the NSA...is vastly overstating the competence of our "intelligence" agencies.
What we need is IT unions IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
Great idea. If only the typical American programmer was socialist by nature. Then they could go to these countries and do some "organizing".
Unfortunately for this idea, most of the programmers I've met in my life are far from socialist...they tend to be anarcho-capitalist.
If unions are such a bad thing, then why is Germany doing so well while the US economy sucks?
Bad example. Germans are so disciplined, they can make almost any bad system work.
They probably could have made communism work, if the Soviet Union had left them to their own devices.
Sigh...I long for a geekier time, when those instructions wouldn't have been considered complex.
Still...thanks for the heads-up on akmod-nvidia (or, for me, akmod-nvidia-304xx). Worked like a charm!
I DID have a failed boot, last week too. That was when fedora upgraded to 3.11... basically, the nvidia driver is incompatible at the moment.
Yeah, the nVidia drivers don't always make a timely appearance in RPMFusion, do they.
Not to worry. Boot into the version of the kernel without an nVidia driver, download the source to buildsys-build-rpmfusion (i.e. "yumdownloader --source buildsys-build-rpmfusion"), install it, edit SOURCES/buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-current so that they match the version of the kernel you're building for, then build and install/upgrade buildsys-build-rpmfusion and buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-current. (Use "yum-builddep SPECS/buildsys-build-rpmfusion.spec" to install the build dependencies, if necessary, before building.)
Then download the nvidia-kmod sources applicable to your video card (my current one takes "nvidia-kmod-304xx"), build it, and install the packages you need. (It'll build more than you need.)
Voila, nVidia drivers for your current kernel.
I had to do this twice recently, for kernels 3.10.10 and 3.10.11 (on FC18).
So what if it's controlled by Redhat? That's a good thing! Hell of a lot better than distros ruled by some egomaniac dickhead or circlekjerk committee of autistic freaks.
You mean there are distros where the rulers are bigger jerks than the ones running Fedora? God forbid.
Recently I had some spare time to devote to open-source programming (*cough* unemployed *cough*), and part of it involved submitting several packages to Fedora. One guy went ape shit on me and accused me of "spamming the review queue". I've learned to expect apathy from the maintainers of open-source projects, but outright hostility?! Holy crap. Then I had another run-in with another jerk who couldn't have possibly been more small-minded and mean-spirited. (I remember both of their nicks, but am withholding them to protect the guilty or whatever).
After that, I lost all desire to contribute. I have to put up with enough pointless vitriol at work; there's no way in hell I'm going to put up with it in my free time.
If the Fedora people are considered relatively pleasant compared to other maintainers...then I'll be finding something else to do in my retirement. I was going to write lots of open-source code. The hell with that.
Huh? Who was talking about the impact of losing a few specialities? I'm talking about a world where specialists have no value because the infrastructure isn't there to make use of them. You've completely missed the point.
And the other replies to your post are completely missing the point too. I'm not talking about going without high-tech hardware...I'm talking about going without FOOD. We can't go without food. And people wouldn't simply sit there and starve to death...they'll fight tooth and nail for the last scraps of food.
If being a prepper makes me crazy, I'm glad I'm not "sane" like you.
You might drop down to 100m or so on the planet. I still don't see a dark age.
I can't believe you actually put those two sentences next to each other. Are you even VAGUELY in touch with reality?
"Without catastrophic or otherwise challenging events, life seems to become complacent - evolution often plateaus."
And this is a bad thing... exactly how?
I think Idiocracy did a pretty good job of explaining why it's a bad thing.
A technological regress requires a fragile society not just a sudden jolt.
But we are a fragile society. Without even having to bring up the Idiocracy, the fact remains that we're mostly a society of specialists, dependent on the other cogs in the machine for our survival, stupidly mocking the "preppers" who are really just trying to be generalists. A comet strike could easily disrupt this machine and cause it to grind to a halt.
And the meek shall inherit the earth...I mean, if that's OK with you...
Now that's the sort of "out of the box" thinking that's sorely lacking in the government today.
It's too bad the civil-service hiring process filters out all but the dead-eyed cynical conformists.
Maybe after the revolution.
Maybe we should just impose Obamacare on them.
I dunno, maybe that's too heinous.
That reminds me...I have a rock that wards off tigers. I'll sell it to you. You want proof that it works? Well, I don't see any tigers around, do you?
So which side are you taking in the Syrian conflict...Hezbollah's or Al Qaeda's?
It's like debating virtue among whores.
"Socialism is the grandiose rationalization of petty resentments." -Ludwig Von Mises
If the vast majority wants some profits to be shared so that people can live, the rich minority has to comply.
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
Besides, the rich minority doesn't have to comply. They can leave the country. They have the resources to do that. Try voting your hand into their pocket, and Atlas will shrug so fast it'll make your head spin.
What are the two unskilled laborers to do then?
They can talk to the at-risk kids that think they're "too cool for school", and show them the consequences of their lousy attitude...
It's my understanding that drug prohibition started after alcohol prohibition for three main reasons:
I didn't say they were good reasons...
Experience shows that the judicial proceedings against those who were in fact kidnapped and taken to the U.S. are of a biased character, based on shaky evidence, and clearly tilted toward conviction.
Yeah, Russia's the expert on that.
Still, it's amazing that the U.S. has become such a totalitarian police state that Russia can legitimately give them crap.
That Wikipedia link refers to it as "a dog park," not "a dog's park."
The vignette about the "dog's park" is from the book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The '60s. It hasn't filtered down to Wikipedia yet.
My point exactly. If fighting drug use with the criminal justice system requires that America turn into a fascist police state...then it's not worth it.
Whatever the scourge of drug use, I put it that the fascist police state has caused far more damage to the country than the drugs themselves ever could.
While i don't believe in the 'if you are innocent you have nothing to hide' concept, most people really don't care of the government knows that the wife told them to grab some milk on the way home.
But I do care about the NYPD cannibal cop that abused a restricted law-enforcement database so that he could find women to consume. Do you really think he's the only one abusing the system?
For another example of left-wing psychos going overboard with public land, read about People's Park in Bezerkely.
I especially like how they made Ohlone Park a dog's park, where dogs could be free from human oppression. Big surprise, they formed a pack, run by a Top Dog. Not only did Berkeley fail to create the New Man, they failed to create the New Dog.
It's true, I rarely meet women that are computer programmers. I worked for one defense firm where we had four, and other firm where we had two. (They were awesome. I relished the opportunity to interact with nerd ladies.)
But once, I worked for a company that had tons of female programmers. My memory is fuzzy on the exact percentage, but I'd say perhaps a third of them were. That was the TurboTax division of Intuit. Three of the four managers of the programming departments (i.e. cross-platform, MS Windows, Macintosh, and DOS) were women, too. I don't know why that company was so different. But it was a VERY refreshing change of pace.
It's too bad that all of them were either married or in long-term relationships of some kind.
Ah hell, why deny my feelings...NERD LADIES RULE!!!!!!!