I said: That's because the standard for power handling, ACPI, is horrible and badly implemented by hardware vendors.
The situation is so bad that power handling under Windows is hit-or-miss, EVEN THOUGH MICROSOFT WROTE THE ACPI STANDARD THEMSELVES. You would think that power handling for Surface would be easy for Microsoft and that battery life would be a no-brainer, but the power handling for even that is flaky. Because even they, themselves, don't understand their own standard.
4 different systems all have hardware problems and all had different failure points? Riiiiight
Then it's PEBKAC or you don't even know what the real problem is in even a general sense.
>chkdsk/f
This is the command that made me switch permanently in 1998, because it ate the entire file allocation table and left me with:
DIR 001 DIR 002 DIR 003...
and under each:
FILE.001 FILE.002 FILE.003...
Because that's what you get when long filenames fail and chkdsk (or scandisk) "fixes" it.
>number of command line tools
There are orders of magnitude more of these in Linux than under Windows, and they actually work. Your argument is specious at best. You are using your ignorance of the tools themselves to argue that they don't exist.
So like, whatever, man.
> I couldn't even find anyone who'd even heard of the issue before.
What, that X crashes?
>One I was able to track down to a problem with specific laptops refusing to resume from hibernate
So now it's not X crashing but resuming from Hibernation? So which problem is it really?
Assuming that your problem was resuming from hibernation (likely) and not being unable to get to a desktop from boot (unlikely).
That's because the standard for power handling, ACPI, is horrible and badly implemented by hardware vendors. Because they don't follow the fucking standard themselves. If they did follow the fucking published standard, then we wouldn't have this fucking problem in Linux. The solution has been to just not use hibernation or suspend-to-RAM. The situation is just that bad and has nothing to do with the Linux kernel, and everything to do with OEMs like Dell and HP doing whatever the fuck they want and "HAHAHA fuck you WE HAVE YOUR MONEY" This is especially a problem with HP DV series laptops. I own one. Never again. It's crap.
>The other the only advice I could get was "reinstall".
This is blatantly false or you were not even asking in Linux fora, or you were calling up the useless HP or Dell tech support.
By "repair itself" I mean have the tools available to diagnose problems and repair them without having to lose all the configurations you've applied to the system.
You mean a text editor and access to/etc/ as root? Right?
RIGHT?
"But I want it to be done for me as a one-click dumb-user application"
No. This kind of shit barely even works in Windows. Kindly shut up about stuff like this.
Every time there's some random problem that prevents me from booting to the desktop.
I've been using Linux since 1994. The only time I couldn't get to a desktop was last century when I installed the wrong driver and I wound up with a >X crash >text login loop which I was still able to log in to by waiting for the login: password: prompt to show up in between X crashes.
At a minimum, you should be loading the VESA drivers, which come with every single Linux distro, and are available to you in recovery mode in Ubuntu these days.
You're doing something seriously wrong, or you have a hardware problem. I suspect a combination of both.
>insults and namecalling for people who don't like a "feature" of Windows, parroting a Microsoft talking point, but in the most offensive way possible.
Note that the instructions to enter Safe Mode requires the computer to be booting successfully. Also note that they tell you that you can't use F8 to boot into safe mode any more, but don't tell you that it's now shift-F8. The bit about Windows 8 giving you no chance to hit this is actually true; I wound up powering off the laptop during boot to "trick" Windows 8.1 into taking me to the recovery menu. (As getting to the black screen counted as "booting" as far as Windows cared.)
I've given up using F8/shiftF8 in virtual machines. I directly edit boot.ini (in notepad) to turn on safe mode and later turn it off. WinFLP also boots too fast to hit F8.
>lists a bunch of dumb stuff >still not pissed off enough at 8.1 to even switch to 7, let alone switch to Linux.
I don't even...
Linux's ability to remain stable/repair itself
What do you mean, repair itself? You mean that it should think it knows better than the person sitting in the chair as to what's acceptable?
It's why I switched to Linux in the first place, last century.
If it sits there and does what it's told, it doesn't need to bloody repair itself, and people like you trying to bring concepts from Windows should just stay the hell away from trying to make Linux into Windows, thanks.
>Frequently reinstalling
Your problem is that you think that "fixing" an OS is done by reinstalling it, because you've been taught that over the past 20+ years of Windows 3.0 - 88.1. Stop expecting every other OS to be as bad as Windows. Start expecting better. Stop being satisfied with whatever Microsoft keeps serving up. You strike me as someone who suffers from Software Stockholm Syndrome.
But if the Devil himself says that two plus two equals four, I would have to concede it was correct.
And if the Devil said that two plus two was four, I would have to ask WTF his motivation was.
As far as I can tell, neither The Devil, nor Anne Coulter say anything that doesn't further their own agendas.
they're scared of this man.
And when you ask for specifics about why, you get nothing but Fox talking points based purely on fiction. Ludicrous fiction. Fiction, when looked at objectively, would not even sell as a novel because nobody would believe it.
And when you push even further, you find it's just pure racism.
When someone comes straight out and says that Obama is "left" when he is clearly to the right of Reagan in many places, I know I'm not going to convince anyone otherwise that thinks Obama is a commie, but I will come out and insult because it makes me feel better.
"I want to believe you can do better."
Whatever, man.
Anne Coulter is a demagogue at best. I find her completely without redeeming value at all, as do many others with at least two functioning neurons. And it hasn't been just this century that I've come to that conclusion, it's been over 20 years of hearing her yammer her nonsense that leads me to suspect that whatever she says in the future will also be nonsense.
FEMA was a functioning agency until Bush II took office.
And then Katrina happened.
But that's not the only example. I'm not going to tediously list all the "starve the beast" examples, especially when "starve the beast" is a publicly stated philosophy of the Republican party.
You keep saying this in reference to Obama, when Obama's history since 2009 has been to continue the policies of Bush and implement Republican ideas like Romneycare.
Pretty much. It's the "starve the beast" philosophy and strategy. Sabotage something, then point out how it doesn't work, and then say "well, duh, because all government is evil."
It's their raison d'etre and since the Republicans are so invested in it after 30 (40?) years, without it they would have an existential crisis that would end in the same fate as the Whigs.
They're research coders: more interested in writing code that works than code that's maintainable.'
So you're basically criticizing them because they're good at prototypes instead of production parts? Seriously? The world needs both prototype engineers and production engineers. STFU.
The article is reactionary and designed to get people annoyed and posting comments
So it's flamebait and clickbait? So why post it here? There are plenty of dolts like him and we don't have to respond to them all. Don't feed the troll.
I believe you nailed this entire thing down to its actual causes and why he is clueless and whining.
Also, as his stuff is recognized by various employers, filter rules are implemented to make sure that future... mailings... don't go to other employees.
Gmail also has the very nasty habit of classifying anything you delete without opening immediately as spam.
No it doesn't. For example, I have Facebook send all comments to me via gmail. This is so I don't miss things. Often times I just go to the "Facebook" folder and just delete emails from Facebook because I've already seen the comments in whole batches. I have done this hundreds of times.
And guess what? None have been classified as spam.
Sounds like you're fat-fingering the spam label there.
"Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys."
...Microsoft will have more than a snowball's chance in Hell of getting more marketshare with their mobile OS. There is such a thing as eating your seed corn, and monetizing Android would be exactly that. Yeah, they'd get a few million bucks for this quarter at the expense of advertising revenue and marketshare. And they would be lucky to break even on earnings and then lose in the long run.
I'm replying here, because I'm telling you that you're an idiot and your wall-of-text is basically meaningless. This "I'm only asking questions" bullshit doesn't cut it. Your post is both fact and content-free.
"The BBC reports that an English High Court judge has ruled that sisters aged 15 and 11 must have the MMR vaccine even though they and their mother do not want it. "
No, the kids don't know any better, and the mother is practicing child abuse, especially against the 11 year old.
Brainwashing your kids against vaccination is particularly evil.
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I said: That's because the standard for power handling, ACPI, is horrible and badly implemented by hardware vendors.
The situation is so bad that power handling under Windows is hit-or-miss, EVEN THOUGH MICROSOFT WROTE THE ACPI STANDARD THEMSELVES. You would think that power handling for Surface would be easy for Microsoft and that battery life would be a no-brainer, but the power handling for even that is flaky. Because even they, themselves, don't understand their own standard.
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4 different systems all have hardware problems and all had different failure points? Riiiiight
Then it's PEBKAC or you don't even know what the real problem is in even a general sense.
>chkdsk /f
This is the command that made me switch permanently in 1998, because it ate the entire file allocation table and left me with:
DIR 001 ...
DIR 002
DIR 003
and under each:
FILE.001 ...
FILE.002
FILE.003
Because that's what you get when long filenames fail and chkdsk (or scandisk) "fixes" it.
>number of command line tools
There are orders of magnitude more of these in Linux than under Windows, and they actually work. Your argument is specious at best. You are using your ignorance of the tools themselves to argue that they don't exist.
So like, whatever, man.
> I couldn't even find anyone who'd even heard of the issue before.
What, that X crashes?
>One I was able to track down to a problem with specific laptops refusing to resume from hibernate
So now it's not X crashing but resuming from Hibernation? So which problem is it really?
Assuming that your problem was resuming from hibernation (likely) and not being unable to get to a desktop from boot (unlikely).
That's because the standard for power handling, ACPI, is horrible and badly implemented by hardware vendors. Because they don't follow the fucking standard themselves. If they did follow the fucking published standard, then we wouldn't have this fucking problem in Linux. The solution has been to just not use hibernation or suspend-to-RAM. The situation is just that bad and has nothing to do with the Linux kernel, and everything to do with OEMs like Dell and HP doing whatever the fuck they want and "HAHAHA fuck you WE HAVE YOUR MONEY" This is especially a problem with HP DV series laptops. I own one. Never again. It's crap.
>The other the only advice I could get was "reinstall".
This is blatantly false or you were not even asking in Linux fora, or you were calling up the useless HP or Dell tech support.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmD_8cBqhW0
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BMO
By "repair itself" I mean have the tools available to diagnose problems and repair them without having to lose all the configurations you've applied to the system.
You mean a text editor and access to /etc/ as root? Right?
RIGHT?
"But I want it to be done for me as a one-click dumb-user application"
No. This kind of shit barely even works in Windows. Kindly shut up about stuff like this.
Every time there's some random problem that prevents me from booting to the desktop.
I've been using Linux since 1994. The only time I couldn't get to a desktop was last century when I installed the wrong driver and I wound up with a >X crash >text login loop which I was still able to log in to by waiting for the login: password: prompt to show up in between X crashes.
At a minimum, you should be loading the VESA drivers, which come with every single Linux distro, and are available to you in recovery mode in Ubuntu these days.
You're doing something seriously wrong, or you have a hardware problem. I suspect a combination of both.
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BMO
and philosophy has driven me straight into the arms of Debian stable
You do realize that Ubuntu LTS versions and Debian Stable are nearly identical, yes?
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- Takes away the less offensively colourful desktop themes.
When 8.2 comes out, it's all going to be Hot Dog Stand.
And if I could use colors here, I would use red and yellow for this entire post.
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BMO
>insults and namecalling for people who don't like a "feature" of Windows, parroting a Microsoft talking point, but in the most offensive way possible.
You're one hell of a salesman.
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BMO
Note that the instructions to enter Safe Mode requires the computer to be booting successfully. Also note that they tell you that you can't use F8 to boot into safe mode any more, but don't tell you that it's now shift-F8. The bit about Windows 8 giving you no chance to hit this is actually true; I wound up powering off the laptop during boot to "trick" Windows 8.1 into taking me to the recovery menu. (As getting to the black screen counted as "booting" as far as Windows cared.)
I've given up using F8/shiftF8 in virtual machines. I directly edit boot.ini (in notepad) to turn on safe mode and later turn it off. WinFLP also boots too fast to hit F8.
The boot switches for boot.ini:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239780
You can also edit boot.ini from booting a live Linux distro and doing it that way if it's totally FUBARed.
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>lists a bunch of dumb stuff
>still not pissed off enough at 8.1 to even switch to 7, let alone switch to Linux.
I don't even...
Linux's ability to remain stable/repair itself
What do you mean, repair itself? You mean that it should think it knows better than the person sitting in the chair as to what's acceptable?
It's why I switched to Linux in the first place, last century.
If it sits there and does what it's told, it doesn't need to bloody repair itself, and people like you trying to bring concepts from Windows should just stay the hell away from trying to make Linux into Windows, thanks.
>Frequently reinstalling
Your problem is that you think that "fixing" an OS is done by reinstalling it, because you've been taught that over the past 20+ years of Windows 3.0 - 88.1. Stop expecting every other OS to be as bad as Windows. Start expecting better. Stop being satisfied with whatever Microsoft keeps serving up. You strike me as someone who suffers from Software Stockholm Syndrome.
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BMO
But if the Devil himself says that two plus two equals four, I would have to concede it was correct.
And if the Devil said that two plus two was four, I would have to ask WTF his motivation was.
As far as I can tell, neither The Devil, nor Anne Coulter say anything that doesn't further their own agendas.
they're scared of this man.
And when you ask for specifics about why, you get nothing but Fox talking points based purely on fiction. Ludicrous fiction. Fiction, when looked at objectively, would not even sell as a novel because nobody would believe it.
And when you push even further, you find it's just pure racism.
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BMO
is never going to convince anyone
When someone comes straight out and says that Obama is "left" when he is clearly to the right of Reagan in many places, I know I'm not going to convince anyone otherwise that thinks Obama is a commie, but I will come out and insult because it makes me feel better.
"I want to believe you can do better."
Whatever, man.
Anne Coulter is a demagogue at best. I find her completely without redeeming value at all, as do many others with at least two functioning neurons. And it hasn't been just this century that I've come to that conclusion, it's been over 20 years of hearing her yammer her nonsense that leads me to suspect that whatever she says in the future will also be nonsense.
Deal with it.
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Off the top of my head?
FEMA.
FEMA was a functioning agency until Bush II took office.
And then Katrina happened.
But that's not the only example. I'm not going to tediously list all the "starve the beast" examples, especially when "starve the beast" is a publicly stated philosophy of the Republican party.
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BMO
>Citing anne coulter as a reference
Yeah, and we're done here.
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Left.
You keep saying this in reference to Obama, when Obama's history since 2009 has been to continue the policies of Bush and implement Republican ideas like Romneycare.
What color is the sky in your world?
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All they do is sabotage everyone else's work
Pretty much. It's the "starve the beast" philosophy and strategy. Sabotage something, then point out how it doesn't work, and then say "well, duh, because all government is evil."
It's their raison d'etre and since the Republicans are so invested in it after 30 (40?) years, without it they would have an existential crisis that would end in the same fate as the Whigs.
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Obama's personal favorite healthcare model â" as well as that of the rest of the Left â" is "single-payer"
So that's why he took it off the table straight away, right? That's part of his evil master plan, right?
Moron.
Single payer is my personal favorite healthcare model. Not Obama's.
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They're research coders: more interested in writing code that works than code that's maintainable.'
So you're basically criticizing them because they're good at prototypes instead of production parts? Seriously? The world needs both prototype engineers and production engineers. STFU.
Non-story/trollbait.
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BMO
The article is reactionary and designed to get people annoyed and posting comments
So it's flamebait and clickbait? So why post it here? There are plenty of dolts like him and we don't have to respond to them all. Don't feed the troll.
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BMO
I use https because I don't feel like broadcasting my slashdot (and others) username and password to all and sundry over unencrypted wifi.
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BMO
I believe you nailed this entire thing down to its actual causes and why he is clueless and whining.
Also, as his stuff is recognized by various employers, filter rules are implemented to make sure that future ... mailings... don't go to other employees.
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BMO
Gmail also has the very nasty habit of classifying anything you delete without opening immediately as spam.
No it doesn't. For example, I have Facebook send all comments to me via gmail. This is so I don't miss things. Often times I just go to the "Facebook" folder and just delete emails from Facebook because I've already seen the comments in whole batches. I have done this hundreds of times.
And guess what? None have been classified as spam.
Sounds like you're fat-fingering the spam label there.
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BMO
-Good Omens by Terry Pratchett.
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...Microsoft will have more than a snowball's chance in Hell of getting more marketshare with their mobile OS. There is such a thing as eating your seed corn, and monetizing Android would be exactly that. Yeah, they'd get a few million bucks for this quarter at the expense of advertising revenue and marketshare. And they would be lucky to break even on earnings and then lose in the long run.
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BMO
You've been brainwashed as well.
Yes, because the co-worker I knew who had polio because he wasn't vaccinated in time surely didn't have polio.
It's funny how most of you idiots are "Anonymous"
Go back to 4chan /b/.
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I'm replying here, because I'm telling you that you're an idiot and your wall-of-text is basically meaningless. This "I'm only asking questions" bullshit doesn't cut it. Your post is both fact and content-free.
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BMO
"The BBC reports that an English High Court judge has ruled that sisters aged 15 and 11 must have the MMR vaccine even though they and their mother do not want it. "
No, the kids don't know any better, and the mother is practicing child abuse, especially against the 11 year old.
Brainwashing your kids against vaccination is particularly evil.
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BMO