You can make money from running an open wifi AP. I might try this myself and replace all google ads with my own, also deprive the Goog of some money for their driverless car pet project
I don't like all this cloud malarky, as well as running my own email server and every other kind of server I keep umbilical cord blood in the freezer - bottom drawer.
It also means I get more value out of my comprehensive backup power-generating system (several UPS and a few generators, solar panels). Don't be fooled by cheap outsourced blood storage, they make their money by virtualising an instance of your child based on their DNA so they can predict well ahead of time which products they'll be interested in.
PC with built in printer. Just one unit, hopefully it will be a laser printer cause if its not you'll be stuck with a useless printer module in your PC for however long it lasts.
Never had a HP inkjet that lasted longer than the first set of cartridges
One could just use the account for promoting the company or whatever they want you to use it for while leaving any personal stuff out of it.
What would really worry me is not being hired because when they try to do some facebook based background check on me they come up with nothing and figure I must have "something to hide" because "everyone is on there" and only antisocial oddballs are not on facebook
American companies don't usually have dormitories and everyone is up to their eyes in mortgage because for the past few decades having a big mortgage was the thing to do.
When you can just come over to Ireland and there are plenty of unused homes to choose from and just as few jobs as there are in the US?
A proper built home will last 100+ years, feck it the one I'm in now lasted about 400 years before it needed to be rebuilt, 6 weeks or humans doing the work is not a big deal, its just that shoddy construction is a big problem or at least was until the recession hit. Now people want things to last and are more careful with resources.
Not that I have anything against 3D printing but I don't think a house is the ideal application for it. I'd much rather print the stuff that currently comes out of China or out of large automated factories. Hopefully one day everyone will be able to print open source objects like engine parts, electronic components and the like. A massive house-printing robot will most likely be owned by some megacorp who will charge you the same and ensure the construction is just as shoddy as a Mexican-built house except they'll make more money from it.
I wish I had some of this stuff laying around. Solar panel powered OpenBTS network/USRP might be possible on a very small scale, but not the fcuking submarines
Host at home using static IP, paid ISP one-off fee for this and they update my PTR if I need it, though I believe the practice of mail servers requiring this to be set is going out of fashion as it isn't much trouble for a spammer to do either
Running one's own email & XMPP server FTW and most of the privacy-invading features of Android can be disabled
Also no my life hasn't turned to shit, I don't spend 6 hours every evening trying to manage these things while wearing a tinfoil hat. Yes sometimes changes need to be made when SSL certificates expire (although I prefer self-signed for a lot of this stuff, as Governments can compel CA's to issue false certs I consider them of little value) or what recently happened was the guy who wrote my mail server stopped developing it and IMAP was always just around the corner so I finally had to install a "proper" email server which had a bit of a learning curve but it's not terribly unweildly either.
It is to be commercially released in an infinite number of years from now, for an infinite price per unit.
Meanwhile manufacturers of consumer electronics can continue using 90's Li-Ion technology that has the huge advantage of dieing after a couple of years keeping the upgrade cycle going
Due to lack of good tools. With MS Visual studio / VB any old monkey can make GUI apps easily, with Linux its not that easy
There are plenty of GUI creation kits out there for Linux apps that are
*Easy to use
*Widely supported
*Actively maintained
*Designed for use with a somewhat mainstream language
But it seems to be a case of "pick any 3", or sometimes only 2.
Don't break it.
You'd think they'd want to get rid of lib64 first, since 32-bit libs on 64 bit systems will fade into obscurity sometime soon. It's only really proprietary software compiled for 32-bit libs that uses it anyway so just shove everything into/lusr/lib
maybe/sbin and/bin and/usr/sbin can be consolidated into/bin but i'd definitely leave/bin and/usr/bin separate because at least you'll have a system that kind of works with just/bin if the/usr partition goes missing
Manual FTW. I fooking hate automatics, hate the sight of them even. More than Mr. Bean hates Reliant Robins
I'd prefer to be driving rather than soaking up pre-made entertainment while I'm being driven around by some condescending dumbed down Googlemobile because apparently driving is too big a task for my tiny brain to handle
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The dirty evil Chinese commie bastards
I hope this tax will also apply to people renting out cloud storage or it will just mean more money leaving the country for them.
They'll close their DRM-peddling division. Of course with my luck Sony will be repositioning themselves as a DRM company
It's only big brother if it's transmitting its location to the power that be or some company. Else it's just a very accurate GPS receiver
The P for "Prundle"
You can make money from running an open wifi AP. I might try this myself and replace all google ads with my own, also deprive the Goog of some money for their driverless car pet project
How many planes crash on a yearly basis due to these non-human error failures
There was one yesterday
I don't like all this cloud malarky, as well as running my own email server and every other kind of server I keep umbilical cord blood in the freezer - bottom drawer.
It also means I get more value out of my comprehensive backup power-generating system (several UPS and a few generators, solar panels). Don't be fooled by cheap outsourced blood storage, they make their money by virtualising an instance of your child based on their DNA so they can predict well ahead of time which products they'll be interested in.
PC with built in printer. Just one unit, hopefully it will be a laser printer cause if its not you'll be stuck with a useless printer module in your PC for however long it lasts.
Never had a HP inkjet that lasted longer than the first set of cartridges
Imagine if a stand-alone DRM supporting law was created in a place, there would be uproar.
Don't be happy until this crap is completely dead.
One could just use the account for promoting the company or whatever they want you to use it for while leaving any personal stuff out of it. What would really worry me is not being hired because when they try to do some facebook based background check on me they come up with nothing and figure I must have "something to hide" because "everyone is on there" and only antisocial oddballs are not on facebook
American companies don't usually have dormitories and everyone is up to their eyes in mortgage because for the past few decades having a big mortgage was the thing to do.
When you can just come over to Ireland and there are plenty of unused homes to choose from and just as few jobs as there are in the US?
A proper built home will last 100+ years, feck it the one I'm in now lasted about 400 years before it needed to be rebuilt, 6 weeks or humans doing the work is not a big deal, its just that shoddy construction is a big problem or at least was until the recession hit. Now people want things to last and are more careful with resources.
Not that I have anything against 3D printing but I don't think a house is the ideal application for it. I'd much rather print the stuff that currently comes out of China or out of large automated factories. Hopefully one day everyone will be able to print open source objects like engine parts, electronic components and the like. A massive house-printing robot will most likely be owned by some megacorp who will charge you the same and ensure the construction is just as shoddy as a Mexican-built house except they'll make more money from it.
I never did like the number "3.1" for some reason
The enemy of solar power is not oil but gas and coal. A very small percentage of electricity fed into the grid is from oil. Mostly from peaking plants
I wish I had some of this stuff laying around. Solar panel powered OpenBTS network/USRP might be possible on a very small scale, but not the fcuking submarines
Host at home using static IP, paid ISP one-off fee for this and they update my PTR if I need it, though I believe the practice of mail servers requiring this to be set is going out of fashion as it isn't much trouble for a spammer to do either
Running one's own email & XMPP server FTW and most of the privacy-invading features of Android can be disabled
Also no my life hasn't turned to shit, I don't spend 6 hours every evening trying to manage these things while wearing a tinfoil hat. Yes sometimes changes need to be made when SSL certificates expire (although I prefer self-signed for a lot of this stuff, as Governments can compel CA's to issue false certs I consider them of little value) or what recently happened was the guy who wrote my mail server stopped developing it and IMAP was always just around the corner so I finally had to install a "proper" email server which had a bit of a learning curve but it's not terribly unweildly either.
It is to be commercially released in an infinite number of years from now, for an infinite price per unit.
Meanwhile manufacturers of consumer electronics can continue using 90's Li-Ion technology that has the huge advantage of dieing after a couple of years keeping the upgrade cycle going
Due to lack of good tools. With MS Visual studio / VB any old monkey can make GUI apps easily, with Linux its not that easy There are plenty of GUI creation kits out there for Linux apps that are
*Easy to use
*Widely supported
*Actively maintained
*Designed for use with a somewhat mainstream language
But it seems to be a case of "pick any 3", or sometimes only 2.
Don't break it. You'd think they'd want to get rid of lib64 first, since 32-bit libs on 64 bit systems will fade into obscurity sometime soon. It's only really proprietary software compiled for 32-bit libs that uses it anyway so just shove everything into /lusr/lib
maybe /sbin and /bin and /usr/sbin can be consolidated into /bin but i'd definitely leave /bin and /usr/bin separate because at least you'll have a system that kind of works with just /bin if the /usr partition goes missing
My thoughts exactly.
So they can feck off :P
Manual FTW. I fooking hate automatics, hate the sight of them even. More than Mr. Bean hates Reliant Robins
I'd prefer to be driving rather than soaking up pre-made entertainment while I'm being driven around by some condescending dumbed down Googlemobile because apparently driving is too big a task for my tiny brain to handle
Buy an unlocked phone, I got mine for 150e. I havn't had any problems with "tethering" and it allows me to create a wifi AP
Remember lads, unlocked phones are *not* expensive. Only if you buy them in a mobile phone shop that gets kickbacks for selling contracts