Oh, and I think at this juncture useful to remind this AC that those aforementioned oil companies knew about AGW forty years ago.
Yes and I remember US Pres. Carter trying to bring the issue to the forefront, he even installed solar panels on the White House which Regan ripped down as soon as he took office. Pres. Carter stated we need to start to address it now before it gets too expensive.
Maybe something will be done when most of Florida is under water. Some very young people here may even see that start to happen and people will still be voting for deniers. Well, when Florida 1/3 it's size maybe that will solve the issue of electing the people we do in this nation.
Wish I had mod points, seems that us where we are heading.
In anycase the fix is real simple. If the phone is moving faster that walking speed, all functions disabled except for '911/999'. Maybe this can be done at the servers as opposed to inside the phone, this means old phones will also be disabled in moving cars. I also think this is far less expensive than adding all kinds of tech to the car and phones.
It is a school after all, what better way for young minds to start learning about Linux that giving them a horrid desktop and stating "With a bit of reading you can swap to something better".
Actually interesting things are going on in NetBSD, lua support in the kernel and the rumpkernel. Also, for 32 bit systems, I always suggest people install NetBSD, no 2038 issue. (OpenBSD also does not have the 2038 problem).
And on NetBSD, X11 is installed were it belongs,/usr/X11R7:)
I doubt Google cares much about non-moble systems, why ? Because smartphones have GPS, are locked down and on all the time. Google can then determine were you are going, what stores, malls, events and sell that data for targeted adverts. It may even be possible to determine were you live. Also,I thought I read somewhere that some stores even track where you are walking and what shelves you linger at. This type of data is very valuable to Google.
All one gets from a desktop or laptop is approx where you are when you are now when the device is turned on, not how you got there and what you could be seeing
It would have created such an internet backhole sucking all the marketing crap it would probably have made it easy for us to avoid the crap we seen now on-line
Well, as a Slackware user I say "I informed you thusly".
All joking aside, bugs happen, it was fixed quickly and I assume patches went out. All it seemed to do was crash a system, as bugs go I can think of worse (shellshock).
not since the advent of PC, but I know even some grade schools seems to require Microsoft junk and tests via WEB Pages. That only indicates to me the quality of our (US) education system, seems 'real' teaching went out of style in the 80s.
had to deal in a "business-to-business" interaction at all in the past 15 years?
Everyday, what I want to say is either in the email body or in a text file or rarely a Libreoffice doc. If I have to deal with Microsoft formatted files they can deal with file formats I prefer.
Just like the ancient old days, my admin passwords are 'password'. Why change them we get new systems, makes it harder for the vendor to correct issues.
If it was not for the bloated software written now, 640K probably would be enough:)
But, on my T420 there are no head phone jacks, just USB. That machine is 4 or 5 years old, so what is the big deal ? It is not like they are the first one to do that.
After having a rough time with a legacy Nvidia Drriver and Linux 4.4, I will never buy any system that has Nvidia until they supply a 100% GPL Open Source Driver. And this puts the last nail in the coffin.
It's becoming more clear every day how the major Linux distributions have all been drinking the same cool-aid.
Seems so, but as of now 32 bit Linux has 22 years left (year 2038). I heard that may be fixed but AFAIK nothing yet. In any case for 32 bit I would use NetBSD or OpenBSD since the 2038 issue does not exist for them. I would like to know what "major dist" officially includes:) One distro I consider major just released a 32 bit version.
I am glad NetBSD is still around. Between the complaints of this and that UN*X type systems no longer a UN*X, NetBSD is one system that you never hear that complaint. It is a small and very nice UN*X system with some interesting features. I even mounted a very broken file system using rump to pull some files from it that were created after my last backup. Nevermind 7+ supports in kernal lua, which seems intriguing to me.
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Oh, and I think at this juncture useful to remind this AC that those aforementioned oil companies knew about AGW forty years ago.
Yes and I remember US Pres. Carter trying to bring the issue to the forefront, he even installed solar panels on the White House which Regan ripped down as soon as he took office. Pres. Carter stated we need to start to address it now before it gets too expensive.
Maybe something will be done when most of Florida is under water. Some very young people here may even see that start to happen and people will still be voting for deniers. Well, when Florida 1/3 it's size maybe that will solve the issue of electing the people we do in this nation.
Wish I had mod points, seems that us where we are heading.
In anycase the fix is real simple. If the phone is moving faster that walking speed, all functions disabled except for '911/999'. Maybe this can be done at the servers as opposed to inside the phone, this means old phones will also be disabled in moving cars. I also think this is far less expensive than adding all kinds of tech to the car and phones.
It is a school after all, what better way for young minds to start learning about Linux that giving them a horrid desktop and stating "With a bit of reading you can swap to something better".
Actually interesting things are going on in NetBSD, lua support in the kernel and the rumpkernel. Also, for 32 bit systems, I always suggest people install NetBSD, no 2038 issue. (OpenBSD also does not have the 2038 problem).
And on NetBSD, X11 is installed were it belongs, /usr/X11R7 :)
I doubt Google cares much about non-moble systems, why ? Because smartphones have GPS, are locked down and on all the time. Google can then determine were you are going, what stores, malls, events and sell that data for targeted adverts. It may even be possible to determine were you live. Also,I thought I read somewhere that some stores even track where you are walking and what shelves you linger at. This type of data is very valuable to Google.
All one gets from a desktop or laptop is approx where you are when you are now when the device is turned on, not how you got there and what you could be seeing
It would have created such an internet backhole sucking all the marketing crap it would probably have made it easy for us to avoid the crap we seen now on-line
Wish I had mod points, he should have received 10x the number of accolades than Jobs. But I guess marketing always wins
I think this is pretty cool, will keep an eye on it.
I poked around /usr/include, maybe time to change _TIME_T_ to at least "unsigned long" due to 2038 ?
Well, as a Slackware user I say "I informed you thusly".
All joking aside, bugs happen, it was fixed quickly and I assume patches went out. All it seemed to do was crash a system, as bugs go I can think of worse (shellshock).
Have you taken a college course
not since the advent of PC, but I know even some grade schools seems to require Microsoft junk and tests via WEB Pages. That only indicates to me the quality of our (US) education system, seems 'real' teaching went out of style in the 80s.
had to deal in a "business-to-business" interaction at all in the past 15 years?
Everyday, what I want to say is either in the email body or in a text file or rarely a Libreoffice doc. If I have to deal with Microsoft formatted files they can deal with file formats I prefer.
Guess this is what we have to look forward to :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just like the ancient old days, my admin passwords are 'password'. Why change them we get new systems, makes it harder for the vendor to correct issues.
Yes T420 Thinkpad, but not the one I have, only USB ports, no headphone jacks. A W500 I have @ work has Headphone jacks though.
If it was not for the bloated software written now, 640K probably would be enough :)
But, on my T420 there are no head phone jacks, just USB. That machine is 4 or 5 years old, so what is the big deal ? It is not like they are the first one to do that.
I am on skype with (significant other/GF/BF...) and they are asking hard questions, can I get a button to slow down my connection speed to a crawl ?
After having a rough time with a legacy Nvidia Drriver and Linux 4.4, I will never buy any system that has Nvidia until they supply a 100% GPL Open Source Driver. And this puts the last nail in the coffin.
Pocket Supercomputers for Everyone
Dont' you mean "Locked and DRM encumbered Pocket Supercomputers for Everyone"
And Apple has an excellent history of bug fixes compared to Linux.
Apple has an excellent history of hiding fixes compared to Linux. FTFY
Correct, they own a nice piece of the government
init is not deprecated not in the system I am using now (BSD)
Welcome to Slashdot, no one reads the summary these days, never mind the article
It's becoming more clear every day how the major Linux distributions have all been drinking the same cool-aid.
Seems so, but as of now 32 bit Linux has 22 years left (year 2038). I heard that may be fixed but AFAIK nothing yet. In any case for 32 bit I would use NetBSD or OpenBSD since the 2038 issue does not exist for them. I would like to know what "major dist" officially includes :) One distro I consider major just released a 32 bit version.
I guess either Firefox/Linux is not vulnerable or it is 'open season' and always will be. The latest version for me is 11.2.202.626, see:
http://www.adobe.com/software/... -- You probably have to activate flash for that page
I rarely use flash anyway, so time finally give it the ole heave/ho.
Glad I stuck to my guns and stayed with rot13
I am glad NetBSD is still around. Between the complaints of this and that UN*X type systems no longer a UN*X, NetBSD is one system that you never hear that complaint. It is a small and very nice UN*X system with some interesting features. I even mounted a very broken file system using rump to pull some files from it that were created after my last backup. Nevermind 7+ supports in kernal lua, which seems intriguing to me.