When Win7 was still the main desktop OS, before Win8 came out, and before MS crapped all over their user base and proved multiple times that they cannot be trusted. The smart ones have been using anything-but-windows for years now.
> But in the real world, at least my experience, there's not a lot of usefulness to this. It's not like there's anything Linux can do, that Windows cannot do natively
--Not sure if trolling... Can you run ZFS natively on windows? Squid proxy server? (If so, why would you want to) Can you mount a file as a loopback/cdrom device without using extra software like Daemon Tools? Run Autossh? Create FAT32 partitions of arbitrary size? Resize non-windows partitions? Run SMART tests on your disks? Speed up your disk I/O? Mount writable JFS and Reiserfs partitions? Can you definitively turn off ALL the spyware in Windows and take firm control of your update and patching schedule with the basic home edition? Rsync? Mount a filesystem with sshfs?
--I can do all of the above with free software -- most of it is included in MX Linux or only an apt-get away. There's a reason Linux runs better as a guest than Windows -- it also runs better as a HOST than Windoze. If you want stable virtual machines, you run them under Linux (or ESXi). Then you don't have to worry about the next Unstable Windows patch rebooting the box (and possibly blue-screening it) out from under you.
> Towing icebergs is stupidly expensive compare to already viable alternatives. Why would you do something needlessly expensive when you can accomplish the exact same goal for less and help more people in the process?
--Don't forget, these people are rich beyond avarice. They just lack water.
--Why do people climb mountains, instead of being dropped off at the peak by helicopter? Because they can. If this engineering firm can accomplish what they are setting out to do, it would be a world first and a noteworthy accomplishment. Don't piss on the pioneers. 10 years from now, you may find they have a viable business model. (Or they go bust trying.) Either way, we'll never know unless we try.
--I hope they made a copy of that... On a ZFS-backed system, so they don't have to run a multi-month SHA1 or whatever checksum on the file... Good God, could you imagine the effects of bit-flip errors on that?
--It's only stupid if it doesn't work. You can even do it for humanitarian reasons and not make money on it -- if it actually Does The Job and gives people a good supply of fresh water, it's still not "stupid." Mission Accomplished = Considered Successful
--Dude seriously needs to take a couple of weeks vacation somewhere private and calm down from the stress. But he's rich enough that it's difficult for his friends and family to call him on his shit.
--No, dumbass. These trolls think they can get away with *anything* - including SWATting - until you CONFRONT them. I never said anything about murdering or hurting anyone. However, a death threat made in writing MUST NOT be ignored. You have to draw the line somewhere - that's where I draw it.
> If you're not full of shit and you actually meant it when you said you wouldn't be "doing work" until it's "Resolved" then... well... sorry for kicking you off of slashdot
--LOL, I only get 5 modpoints on Slashdot and I'm not even a mod on Reddit
> an online death threat is the internetâ(TM)s equivalent of a strongly worded letter to the editor
-Bullshit. People that think like this are PART OF THE PROBLEM. Would you be OK if someone doxxed you and threatened you, your family/dog -- online or otherwise? If it's committed in writing, it is an Actionable Offense. Writing is much stronger than verbal, because the writer ALWAYS has the option to modify their speech before sending - or not send it at all. Someone makes a death threat to me, my friends, family, whatever - I'll be showing up to their door after I find them, like Jay and Silent Bob.
-There is an EASY way to stop this. In order to communicate with a Reddit mod in any personal way, you need to go through a Cryptographically Signed process that PROVES your identity. Any communication mentioning death threats in ANY WAY gets auto-routed to a Special Task Force (paid) that works directly with the Police/FBI.
-No one ever even needs to SEE a death threat. I guarantee you, 1st time that ever happens to me I will be DEMANDING to speak to an owner IN PERSON and will NOT do any more work for them until it is Resolved to my satisfaction. PERIOD.
--Give me a multi-touch holographic keyboard and a bigger display for SSH and X window compatibility, and you'll have my interest. Till then I'm stuck with my Wifi-only Nexus 7 and a separate Bluetooth keyboard.
--If win10 landed on your PC/laptop 3 years ago and you didn't immediately start looking for viable alternatives, you're already well behind the curve. Try running something stable on the desktop like Ubuntu 18.04 or Mint, (or even OSX) and confine win10 to a virtual machine - so you can do snapshots and rollbacks easily.
> Proof: How many (LINUX) man pages actually have examples
FTFY
--I'll back you up on that. But there are only so many resources out there that the average distro has to provide man-hours. They rely on end-users for bugreports, so maybe the best way to add an example to a manpage would be to submit a bugreport to upstream and let it trickle down. Any takers or better suggestions?
> Remember XP requires just a Pentium and 64MB RAM
--Give me a break, you can buy a halfway decent PC on Amazon Prime for under $100 these days and ship it nearly anywhere. Practically nobody is restricted to XP low-end specs anymore, and if you stuffed XP into 64MB RAM it would run like ass - even with an SSD.
--The Core 2 Duo even has HW virtualization in the CPU, FFS. With a 64-bit processor and 4GB RAM, you can do a low-resource Linux host with ZFS, and a small Virtualbox XP VM.
--This does not appear to be a failure of Prime Day's IT team - it's a Failure of Manglement. Stress the people under you too hard and don't give them what they need, and this is the kind of chit that happens.
--Amazon has been in business for a fairly long time - long enough for upper manglement to become stultified. I doubt they'll learn much from this debacle (but I'd be glad to be proven wrong.) They'll probably continue to treat their warehouse workers like chattel tho.
--Doubtful, but if that turns out to be the case: Pay the $40 or so for a Carbon Copy Cloner license or shell out a little less for SuperDuper. Both are good Mac-based backup programs and can restore after reinstalling the basic Mac OS/X. (Wish I could find a good 1-step bare-metal restore for Mac that boots from USB or DVD, but those are the best I've found so far.)
Yep. This sounds like a witch hunt, and the judge just farked this guy's life over by throwing him in the clink for 6 months. Hope he gets compensation.
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--Try passing BASH commands over SSH to something that Requires Quotes to work right. There's a reason my hair is short.
When Win7 was still the main desktop OS, before Win8 came out, and before MS crapped all over their user base and proved multiple times that they cannot be trusted. The smart ones have been using anything-but-windows for years now.
> But in the real world, at least my experience, there's not a lot of usefulness to this. It's not like there's anything Linux can do, that Windows cannot do natively
--Not sure if trolling... Can you run ZFS natively on windows? Squid proxy server? (If so, why would you want to) Can you mount a file as a loopback/cdrom device without using extra software like Daemon Tools? Run Autossh? Create FAT32 partitions of arbitrary size? Resize non-windows partitions? Run SMART tests on your disks? Speed up your disk I/O? Mount writable JFS and Reiserfs partitions? Can you definitively turn off ALL the spyware in Windows and take firm control of your update and patching schedule with the basic home edition? Rsync? Mount a filesystem with sshfs?
--I can do all of the above with free software -- most of it is included in MX Linux or only an apt-get away. There's a reason Linux runs better as a guest than Windows -- it also runs better as a HOST than Windoze. If you want stable virtual machines, you run them under Linux (or ESXi). Then you don't have to worry about the next Unstable Windows patch rebooting the box (and possibly blue-screening it) out from under you.
" Another such victory as this, and we shall be undone "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
--Still important to DO these sort of things tho, if you really believe in people's rights and freedoms against tyranny.
> Towing icebergs is stupidly expensive compare to already viable alternatives. Why would you do something needlessly expensive when you can accomplish the exact same goal for less and help more people in the process?
--Don't forget, these people are rich beyond avarice. They just lack water.
--Why do people climb mountains, instead of being dropped off at the peak by helicopter? Because they can. If this engineering firm can accomplish what they are setting out to do, it would be a world first and a noteworthy accomplishment. Don't piss on the pioneers. 10 years from now, you may find they have a viable business model. (Or they go bust trying.) Either way, we'll never know unless we try.
--I hope they made a copy of that... On a ZFS-backed system, so they don't have to run a multi-month SHA1 or whatever checksum on the file... Good God, could you imagine the effects of bit-flip errors on that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
--It's only stupid if it doesn't work. You can even do it for humanitarian reasons and not make money on it -- if it actually Does The Job and gives people a good supply of fresh water, it's still not "stupid." Mission Accomplished = Considered Successful
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
--Dude seriously needs to take a couple of weeks vacation somewhere private and calm down from the stress. But he's rich enough that it's difficult for his friends and family to call him on his shit.
--No, dumbass. These trolls think they can get away with *anything* - including SWATting - until you CONFRONT them. I never said anything about murdering or hurting anyone. However, a death threat made in writing MUST NOT be ignored. You have to draw the line somewhere - that's where I draw it.
> If you're not full of shit and you actually meant it when you said you wouldn't be "doing work" until it's "Resolved" then... well... sorry for kicking you off of slashdot
--LOL, I only get 5 modpoints on Slashdot and I'm not even a mod on Reddit
> an online death threat is the internetâ(TM)s equivalent of a strongly worded letter to the editor
-Bullshit. People that think like this are PART OF THE PROBLEM. Would you be OK if someone doxxed you and threatened you, your family/dog -- online or otherwise? If it's committed in writing, it is an Actionable Offense. Writing is much stronger than verbal, because the writer ALWAYS has the option to modify their speech before sending - or not send it at all. Someone makes a death threat to me, my friends, family, whatever - I'll be showing up to their door after I find them, like Jay and Silent Bob.
-There is an EASY way to stop this. In order to communicate with a Reddit mod in any personal way, you need to go through a Cryptographically Signed process that PROVES your identity. Any communication mentioning death threats in ANY WAY gets auto-routed to a Special Task Force (paid) that works directly with the Police/FBI.
-No one ever even needs to SEE a death threat. I guarantee you, 1st time that ever happens to me I will be DEMANDING to speak to an owner IN PERSON and will NOT do any more work for them until it is Resolved to my satisfaction. PERIOD.
--Dammit, now I want nachos...
--Bring the price down to $25 and I might consider it
--You're doing it right. Why would you take a perfectly good Chromebook and sully it with a shite OS like Win10??
--Give me a multi-touch holographic keyboard and a bigger display for SSH and X window compatibility, and you'll have my interest. Till then I'm stuck with my Wifi-only Nexus 7 and a separate Bluetooth keyboard.
--The executives that mandated/approved the change in the first place? They need to be fired. Put that on your TODO list, Avast.
--If win10 landed on your PC/laptop 3 years ago and you didn't immediately start looking for viable alternatives, you're already well behind the curve. Try running something stable on the desktop like Ubuntu 18.04 or Mint, (or even OSX) and confine win10 to a virtual machine - so you can do snapshots and rollbacks easily.
A) Why are they even keeping backups that old, and B) not to mention, NOT ENCRYPTED?? Basic Security fail...
> Proof: How many (LINUX) man pages actually have examples
FTFY
--I'll back you up on that. But there are only so many resources out there that the average distro has to provide man-hours. They rely on end-users for bugreports, so maybe the best way to add an example to a manpage would be to submit a bugreport to upstream and let it trickle down. Any takers or better suggestions?
> Remember XP requires just a Pentium and 64MB RAM
--Give me a break, you can buy a halfway decent PC on Amazon Prime for under $100 these days and ship it nearly anywhere. Practically nobody is restricted to XP low-end specs anymore, and if you stuffed XP into 64MB RAM it would run like ass - even with an SSD.
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-...
--The Core 2 Duo even has HW virtualization in the CPU, FFS. With a 64-bit processor and 4GB RAM, you can do a low-resource Linux host with ZFS, and a small Virtualbox XP VM.
--This does not appear to be a failure of Prime Day's IT team - it's a Failure of Manglement. Stress the people under you too hard and don't give them what they need, and this is the kind of chit that happens.
--Amazon has been in business for a fairly long time - long enough for upper manglement to become stultified. I doubt they'll learn much from this debacle (but I'd be glad to be proven wrong.) They'll probably continue to treat their warehouse workers like chattel tho.
--Doubtful, but if that turns out to be the case: Pay the $40 or so for a Carbon Copy Cloner license or shell out a little less for SuperDuper. Both are good Mac-based backup programs and can restore after reinstalling the basic Mac OS/X. (Wish I could find a good 1-step bare-metal restore for Mac that boots from USB or DVD, but those are the best I've found so far.)
Yep. This sounds like a witch hunt, and the judge just farked this guy's life over by throwing him in the clink for 6 months. Hope he gets compensation.
A) You don't let things get down to a single source for your data
B) You don't let that single source get too big