Seconded.
Both kids have loved this. It's perfect when you need a few seconds of distraction (like changing the diaper of a mad kid)
Similarly, I use bam bam on my laptop. Same idea-puts all keys in a safe mode.
What makes you think he'll be gone in 4 years? There is zero opposition to him right now and what there was is currently battling cancer.
Harper, whatever you think of his politics, is the best political strategist this country has seen. He will be in power as long as he wants to be in power (or until the party turns on him).
I've been running it on a Mac Mini for a few years. If I did it again, I'd get an Ion machine, but the mini works great in either OSX (with XBMC or the mac fork Plex) or in Linux.
Having a real CPU means that I don't have to worry about VDPAU and such to get 1080p working, I just let the thing chug and I've never dropped a frame.
I've been playing with Nexenta (www.nexenta.org) for a while with some success. It calls itself GNU/Solaris in the same way that Debian is GNU/Linux. They put an OpenSolaris kernel under a GNU software stack using recompiled Ubuntu packages. Last time I checked they were using Hardy.
Packaged software support isn't as large as with FreeBSD (not all Ubuntu packages are converted), but larger than OpenSolaris (it includes the OpenSolaris packages through apt).
Its main appeal is in combining the power of Solaris with the ease of apt and adds a cool feature called apt-clone that takes a ZFS snapshot before doing any package maintenance allowing clean, trivial rollbacks for testing and error correction. It also supports switching between GNU and Solaris contexts in case you prefer your tar without a -z option.
It's not completely mature at this point so I wouldn't use it in my datacenter, but it's fine for a home server. I haven't tested it on the desktop yet.
I tried to do the same thing but found, at least when OEL was first released, that the Oracle software stack (particularly Oracle Applications) was better supported on Red Hat than on Oracle's distro.
Now, they've caught up and I have some of both types lying around. To be honest, it doesn't really matter to me which is which and I don't think I could actually tell you which distro a particular machine is running without checking/etc/redhat-release.
I bought a high power buffalo router a few years ago when I lived in a small condo with many neighbours who also had wireless. I found that I got the best connection rates when I turned the power way down.
Now that I'm in a substantially larger house with only 1 or 2 other networks in range, I get the best performance and coverage across my house when it's turned all the way up.
Dulles fucked me over once too. Going from Frankfurt to Toronto changing planes in Dulles. Had to go through security in Frankfurt, go through more security to enter the US departures wing in Frankfurt, more to get on the plane and then the kicker... had to go through more security and baggage screening AFTER GETTING OFF THE FUCKING PLANE AND BEFORE CUSTOMS. Missed the connection, obviously. Is one of Europe's main hubs really that untrustworthy?
Unfortunately, as you mentioned, many destinations to or from Canada require stops in the US because that's where most of the North American air hubs are (Europe is OK, but try getting to Central or South America from Canada without landing in Texas first)
Toronto: if you start at the bottom of Bayview Ave and maintain exactly 79kph, you can make it to the 401 without stopping (unless you get caught in the speed trap at Lawrence)
The reason we use base 10 is b/c we have 10 fingers. If we had 13 fingers, we'd operate in base 13 natively (hmmm.... there's a good thought experiment... what would be some outcomes of operating in a prime base?).
And your comparison is bad.
Quick, what's 125234380034 in base 12 multiplied by 12
I finally got things setup just the way I want them in my 32-bit install and now the only things that were keeping me from running 64 bit are fixed. Obviously, I now have to reinstall.
Actually, once you've typed 'putty' into google, there's no need to subsequently type 'www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html' </nazi>
This shouldn't be modded funny...
In my time hiring, especially for junior or entry level positions I have looked at PhDs and discarded them because they're overqualified.
I've tried to talk several people I know out of going directly for their PhD* in without getting work experience first.
*If your goal is to be an academic then go for the PhD. If your goal is to get a high paying job, get a BSc, work for a while, then go back to grad school
Yes it was illegal, but the problem with crappy service jobs is that the people who have them are often desperate and, in the employer's view, expendable. We were both students and were happy to have a pay cheque -- any pay cheque. We could have complained and improved the workplace, but the effort involved was better spent getting a better job.
I think that if the capitalists want you to vote with your dollars to weed out the crappy products or companies by not buying from them, it's even more important to vote with your hours and just not work for assholes any longer than necessary.
Actually, the service industry is a bad example. I worked at a convenience store for a summer and my wife worked at a coffee shop for a while. Both of us stopped getting paid when the doors were locked despite the fact that there was still cleanup to be done. The theory was that we were supposed to be cleaning as the shift was winding down, but time and customers rarely allowed for that.
Crappy summer jobs aren't necessarily comparable to career jobs, however (unless you're unfortunate enough to have a crappy service job as your career) because both of us had the option to leave and take better jobs where we were paid fairly.
xargs is great, you can get a lot of mileage on it just from its default use, but add some options and you do some really cool things. My favorite is -P, which tells xargs to spawn parallel processes. For example:
xargs -n 1 -i -P 10 ssh {} remotecmd serverlist
Run "remotecmd" via ssh on all servers in serverlist, running 10 subprocesses at a time.
You are a beautiful human being. Thank you for this one.
Joe the plumber probably has a kid or 2 and a few home movies of them which may have been recorded in HD from the camera he got Mrs. Joe for Christmas. Those movies are probably more important to him than your porn is to you.
You're right. Normal people aren't like slashdotters, their data is likely more valuable.
You make a lot of good points, but I have to add some defence to the small car in the snow. I live in Toronto and used to live in a very small town in the prairies (where winter really is the longest season). I have never driven a car larger than a Dodge Colt (currently in an Echo). I have never found a snow drift that can't be chewed through by a front wheel drive car with decent tires (I don't use snow tires... it's all seasons all year for this little eskimo). Of course, this is another vote in favour of no traction control.
A 4x4 would definitely help in the snow, but there's no reason you can't make it in a little one and still no real justification for an SUV in the city. You just have to know how to drive.
A huge second to PostGrey. It kills 90% of my incoming spam before it even touches spamassassin.
However, I have noticed a few people who receive failure messages from their mail systems telling them that they've been greylisted before the mail goes through. Then uppy-ups whine to me.
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Seconded. Both kids have loved this. It's perfect when you need a few seconds of distraction (like changing the diaper of a mad kid) Similarly, I use bam bam on my laptop. Same idea-puts all keys in a safe mode.
As a Canadian, it's fun to watch the Americans finally have to struggle to find content. We've been forced to use proxies for years.
What makes you think he'll be gone in 4 years? There is zero opposition to him right now and what there was is currently battling cancer. Harper, whatever you think of his politics, is the best political strategist this country has seen. He will be in power as long as he wants to be in power (or until the party turns on him).
I've been running it on a Mac Mini for a few years. If I did it again, I'd get an Ion machine, but the mini works great in either OSX (with XBMC or the mac fork Plex) or in Linux. Having a real CPU means that I don't have to worry about VDPAU and such to get 1080p working, I just let the thing chug and I've never dropped a frame.
I've been playing with Nexenta (www.nexenta.org) for a while with some success. It calls itself GNU/Solaris in the same way that Debian is GNU/Linux. They put an OpenSolaris kernel under a GNU software stack using recompiled Ubuntu packages. Last time I checked they were using Hardy.
Packaged software support isn't as large as with FreeBSD (not all Ubuntu packages are converted), but larger than OpenSolaris (it includes the OpenSolaris packages through apt).
Its main appeal is in combining the power of Solaris with the ease of apt and adds a cool feature called apt-clone that takes a ZFS snapshot before doing any package maintenance allowing clean, trivial rollbacks for testing and error correction. It also supports switching between GNU and Solaris contexts in case you prefer your tar without a -z option.
It's not completely mature at this point so I wouldn't use it in my datacenter, but it's fine for a home server. I haven't tested it on the desktop yet.
Yes, exactly. I use en-gb (not, not en-uk) for that reason.
Rgds
Damon
en-GB has the added benefit of knowing how to spell colour...
I tried to do the same thing but found, at least when OEL was first released, that the Oracle software stack (particularly Oracle Applications) was better supported on Red Hat than on Oracle's distro.
/etc/redhat-release.
Now, they've caught up and I have some of both types lying around. To be honest, it doesn't really matter to me which is which and I don't think I could actually tell you which distro a particular machine is running without checking
I bought a high power buffalo router a few years ago when I lived in a small condo with many neighbours who also had wireless. I found that I got the best connection rates when I turned the power way down.
Now that I'm in a substantially larger house with only 1 or 2 other networks in range, I get the best performance and coverage across my house when it's turned all the way up.
Unfortunately, as you mentioned, many destinations to or from Canada require stops in the US because that's where most of the North American air hubs are (Europe is OK, but try getting to Central or South America from Canada without landing in Texas first)
They've been asking for fingerprints for a while now.
Toronto: if you start at the bottom of Bayview Ave and maintain exactly 79kph, you can make it to the 401 without stopping (unless you get caught in the speed trap at Lawrence)
The reason we use base 10 is b/c we have 10 fingers. If we had 13 fingers, we'd operate in base 13 natively (hmmm.... there's a good thought experiment... what would be some outcomes of operating in a prime base?).
And your comparison is bad.
Quick, what's 125234380034 in base 12 multiplied by 12
What's 125234380034 in base 12 multiplied by 10
Billions for whom?
These guys claim to have a perpetual worldwide rights to the thing for 4 wheeled passenger vehicles
And it has a nasty tendency to corrupt the volume when the power goes out. I haven't had to do so many disk repairs since FAT16.
I finally got things setup just the way I want them in my 32-bit install and now the only things that were keeping me from running 64 bit are fixed. Obviously, I now have to reinstall.
Actually, once you've typed 'putty' into google, there's no need to subsequently type 'www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html'
</nazi>
This shouldn't be modded funny... In my time hiring, especially for junior or entry level positions I have looked at PhDs and discarded them because they're overqualified. I've tried to talk several people I know out of going directly for their PhD* in without getting work experience first. *If your goal is to be an academic then go for the PhD. If your goal is to get a high paying job, get a BSc, work for a while, then go back to grad school
Yes it was illegal, but the problem with crappy service jobs is that the people who have them are often desperate and, in the employer's view, expendable. We were both students and were happy to have a pay cheque -- any pay cheque. We could have complained and improved the workplace, but the effort involved was better spent getting a better job.
I think that if the capitalists want you to vote with your dollars to weed out the crappy products or companies by not buying from them, it's even more important to vote with your hours and just not work for assholes any longer than necessary.
Actually, the service industry is a bad example. I worked at a convenience store for a summer and my wife worked at a coffee shop for a while. Both of us stopped getting paid when the doors were locked despite the fact that there was still cleanup to be done. The theory was that we were supposed to be cleaning as the shift was winding down, but time and customers rarely allowed for that. Crappy summer jobs aren't necessarily comparable to career jobs, however (unless you're unfortunate enough to have a crappy service job as your career) because both of us had the option to leave and take better jobs where we were paid fairly.
...and taken 90% of the credit.
xargs is great, you can get a lot of mileage on it just from its default use, but add some options and you do some really cool things. My favorite is -P, which tells xargs to spawn parallel processes. For example:
xargs -n 1 -i -P 10 ssh {} remotecmd serverlist
Run "remotecmd" via ssh on all servers in serverlist, running 10 subprocesses at a time.
You are a beautiful human being. Thank you for this one.
Joe the plumber probably has a kid or 2 and a few home movies of them which may have been recorded in HD from the camera he got Mrs. Joe for Christmas. Those movies are probably more important to him than your porn is to you. You're right. Normal people aren't like slashdotters, their data is likely more valuable.
You make a lot of good points, but I have to add some defence to the small car in the snow. I live in Toronto and used to live in a very small town in the prairies (where winter really is the longest season). I have never driven a car larger than a Dodge Colt (currently in an Echo). I have never found a snow drift that can't be chewed through by a front wheel drive car with decent tires (I don't use snow tires... it's all seasons all year for this little eskimo). Of course, this is another vote in favour of no traction control. A 4x4 would definitely help in the snow, but there's no reason you can't make it in a little one and still no real justification for an SUV in the city. You just have to know how to drive.
Well... it is informative. It just happens to be incorrect.
A huge second to PostGrey. It kills 90% of my incoming spam before it even touches spamassassin. However, I have noticed a few people who receive failure messages from their mail systems telling them that they've been greylisted before the mail goes through. Then uppy-ups whine to me.