As in the statistics system. I deal with data scientist that do spend $16k+ per week on data modeling and forecasting at AWS. With that expense, it's should be easy to justify that desktop. But they'd complain about only 18 cores.
Dropbox only works with ext4 file systems, refusing to install on my CentOS 7 system with xfs file systems. No idea what they're up to if the care what FS ~/Dropbox is on, but it was enough to say goodbye.
Yes, indeed. GE is effectively gone, replaced by a retailer in the Dow Jones (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/general-electric-booted-from-dow-jones-industrial-average-2018-06-19). Apple may be just a bank in 20 years, and it will be just a bit player. Past time for Tim to go.
People are continuing to use older computers (and phones) because they stopped getting significantly better every few years quite a bit more than 5 years ago. I'm typing this on 2014 MBP because the keyboard doesn't suck (unlike my manager's 2017 MBP, which has had issues despite not being "ancient"), and Apple has not released anything portable with more than 16GB of memory. Don't need a FPS video card or a marginally supported touch bar, but rather memory for VMs connecting to different VPNs (one of the joys of consulting). Been thinking about putting Mint on it, so maybe it's time, and just deal with whatever M$ wants to re-license the W10 VMs.
NYC: 7 train extended to Hudson Yards (http://web.mta.info/capital/no7_alt.html), and Q train extended up the Upper East side (http://web.mta.info/capital/phase2_about_sas.html)
DC: (or rather VA): Silver Line extension to Dulles International (https://www.restonnow.com/2018/01/18/silver-line-phase-2-construction-is-nearly-76-percent-complete/)
Ask what their interests are, and build from there, leading them into "new" skills that relate. For example, if the given the summary of their current activity is their interest, see if you can leverage what they are currently doing into what's the currently fashionable term for it: Dev-Ops, but using cross-platform tools. They may not have interest in much command line work, so tools like Chef and it's heavy use of Ruby programming may not work, but their are tools like Ansible Tower that provide a GUI that they could start with to monitor and manage what Windows systems you have left, then slide that familiarity over to basic Linux systems monitoring, and management.
There are keybinding tools for OS X like doublecommand (http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/).
However OS X uses control for control. That is, like Gnome, ctrl-c in a terminal is ctrl-c, and unlike gnome, cmd-c in a terminal is copy, whereas gnome has to use shift-ctrl-c (IIRC) or something other than ctrl-c like copy is in other apps.
10.5.1 is out and it only fixed some of the issues I've had. I've found using OnyX to delete all caches (including the system cache) has helped, as in it's been 2 days since and hasn't crashed. But Leopard wasn't crashing every day or two, so only time will tell.
One thing I have noticed, the Intel systems I use crash (and have other bugs), but the PowerPC systems I have (including one at the very low end of Leopard supported systems) are stable. That was also reflected in the size of the 10.5.1 updates--the Intel update was over 150MB and the PowerPC update was about 35MB (IIRC the numbers, of course).
Yes, starting with this very map 'service'. I've submitted updates to them pointing out that the directions they give for getting to my office go through a building that shows up in their satellite imagery. 6 months later (when they say they refresh every 3), directions still go through the building. Why should I expect that correcting a location by up to 200 meters will be actually propagated, when they don't get that a road no longer exists and hasn't for years? And how often do you get bad directions because the street numbers are backwards, if not outright wrong? I've had too many errors like this that are significantly greater than 200 meters. I've given up trying to correct the data, and given up using it. Call your destination, talk to a real person, and chances are you'll get better directions than Google.
Oh, and search results continue to get worse. Email list archives, digg and de.lico.us aren't content but show up at the top way too often. Google doesn't even do the one thing (other than hyping themselves;-) they were good at well anymore.
I've learned. I now get +/-5 MPG from the 48/47 estimates on my '05 Civic Hybrid. The - numbers (42 or 43 MPG) come in the winter when the car doesn't shut off at lights much at all to heat the car. The + numbers (52 or 53 MPG) come in the spring and fall when neither the AC or heat is on. I get close to the estimates in the summer when I have the AC on for the commute home in the afternoon.
I run a domain which receives a few thousand spam messages a day (one every 15-30 seconds or so). Postfix, amavis, clamav, spamassassin, and procmail are my friends. Use amavis rather than spamc/d to keep spamassassin running and to get clamav too. You're mailer will have to send all messages to amavis like it's forwarding all mail to another email server, and listen on another port so that it doesn't loop back to amavis. Have the mailer send catch all addresses to an alias, then have the spamassassin configuration score anything going to that alias as almost spam. Have spamassassin configurations like
header MAILBOX subject =~/mailbox/i
with a score that isn't high enough to automatically make it a spam, but close. This weeds out 'mailbox full' messages. Do the same for 'Delivery Status Nofication', etc. The more common rules for porn, refinancing, etc. will force more catch-all email to spam, as well as mark regular user's email. Don't bounce or reject for the catch-all address, just tell procmail that/dev/null is the mailbox for anything marked spam. What little remains, I get, and I only get a few spams a month. The system (a 2.8GHz Xeon) runs at 1-3% CPU to handle spam--plenty of RAM helps with this too.
I had problems cancelling too. I just wanted to cancel because I didn't use it much; I thought the service was fine the few times I used it--indeed, it sounded better than the cell phone that's what I normally use. I ended up mailing the BBB, FCC, and a few state regulatory agencies. The call after the letters went out was answered quickly, and my account ended right then.
Having been both an Oracle and Oracle Applications DBA, and UNIX sysadmin, I disagree. Yes many tasks (monitoring, managing users, tables and tablespaces) can be done remotely. But upgrade tasks, particularly with the apps environment, cannot. It also difficult to deal with the so called 'concurrent manager' apps processes, which at one point needed to be killed entirely too often. Database (including executables) restoration can be done as the user owning the databases/software, after root or the OS restore process creates base directories and assigns ownership; backup can and IMO should be done by the database owner, too. None of these require root--although the apps upgrade is made easier by having a simple root shell script that runs other stuff as either the database owner or the application owner, since that is a back and forth between users for each step. Even that is only a convenience for a process that took 48 hours runtime on a 4 processor, 32GB RAM AIX system. The only tasks that I've needed root for are the initial software install, which requires kernel tuning on some platforms, user and directory creation, and startup/shutdown setup.
I for one usually read O'Reilly books on any given subject because they are smaller, more to the point and less filled with useless graphics (usually screen shots), than most publishers. Granted O'Reilly isn't always that way (how many shots of -borderwidth did "Learning Perl/Tk" need?), but as a rule they are better than most publishers (cough*Oracle Press*cough).
I would agree. I installed this on a PowerMac 7500 only to find that the on-board ethernet would loose 85% of its traffic, making it totally useless. Granted, this is more likely a problem with the kernel in general not the distribution.
I installed this on a PowerBook 3400c, once with 48MB of RAM and a second time with 144. The first pass (which was less than the 64MB of REQUIRED memory) demonstrated that the installer can't handle activating swap as soon as it is created. So even though GNU/Linux could run in less than 48MB, this distribution can't install in less than 64.
The second pass (after the memory upgrade) installed OK, but the X configuration is just plain wrong (size, depth). In the 16 bit configuration, colors are wrong (red shows up as green, for example). Again, this may be problems with the kernel (YDL's 2.2--the 2.4 would not boot).
I have also tried installing this with/,/tmp,/var,/usr, etc partitions and gotten the idea that this distribution's installer only mounts / before doing the install and then quickly runs out space. Sorry, but I'd really rather have a small root partition with minimal changing directories (Hello, never had a box become really hard to deal with because/var is in the / file system and a log files gets/.ed overnight? lucky you--or you've never had to deal with inheriting a default install IRIX box. 8-) and leave my big FSCKing to non-critical non-boot partitions.
There is also GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System), which being a raster geographic information system can do some image processing. When maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers, it was public domain. It is now maintained at Baylor University and is GPLed.
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With the new Apple credit card, you can pay to have your MBP fixed, or buy a new one every six months.
As in the statistics system. I deal with data scientist that do spend $16k+ per week on data modeling and forecasting at AWS. With that expense, it's should be easy to justify that desktop. But they'd complain about only 18 cores.
Dropbox only works with ext4 file systems, refusing to install on my CentOS 7 system with xfs file systems. No idea what they're up to if the care what FS ~/Dropbox is on, but it was enough to say goodbye.
Yes, indeed. GE is effectively gone, replaced by a retailer in the Dow Jones (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/general-electric-booted-from-dow-jones-industrial-average-2018-06-19). Apple may be just a bank in 20 years, and it will be just a bit player. Past time for Tim to go.
People are continuing to use older computers (and phones) because they stopped getting significantly better every few years quite a bit more than 5 years ago. I'm typing this on 2014 MBP because the keyboard doesn't suck (unlike my manager's 2017 MBP, which has had issues despite not being "ancient"), and Apple has not released anything portable with more than 16GB of memory. Don't need a FPS video card or a marginally supported touch bar, but rather memory for VMs connecting to different VPNs (one of the joys of consulting). Been thinking about putting Mint on it, so maybe it's time, and just deal with whatever M$ wants to re-license the W10 VMs.
NYC: 7 train extended to Hudson Yards (http://web.mta.info/capital/no7_alt.html), and Q train extended up the Upper East side (http://web.mta.info/capital/phase2_about_sas.html)
DC: (or rather VA): Silver Line extension to Dulles International (https://www.restonnow.com/2018/01/18/silver-line-phase-2-construction-is-nearly-76-percent-complete/)
https://theoatmeal.com/static/...
Ask what their interests are, and build from there, leading them into "new" skills that relate. For example, if the given the summary of their current activity is their interest, see if you can leverage what they are currently doing into what's the currently fashionable term for it: Dev-Ops, but using cross-platform tools. They may not have interest in much command line work, so tools like Chef and it's heavy use of Ruby programming may not work, but their are tools like Ansible Tower that provide a GUI that they could start with to monitor and manage what Windows systems you have left, then slide that familiarity over to basic Linux systems monitoring, and management.
Where are mentions of OMG Ponies! and the Parrot runtime?
Isn't this the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl? Should the summary read a bit more like 'averting a worse nuclear disaster than Chernobyl'?
There are keybinding tools for OS X like doublecommand (http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/).
However OS X uses control for control. That is, like Gnome, ctrl-c in a terminal is ctrl-c, and unlike gnome, cmd-c in a terminal is copy, whereas gnome has to use shift-ctrl-c (IIRC) or something other than ctrl-c like copy is in other apps.
OMG Ponies!
10.5.1 is out and it only fixed some of the issues I've had. I've found using OnyX to delete all caches (including the system cache) has helped, as in it's been 2 days since and hasn't crashed. But Leopard wasn't crashing every day or two, so only time will tell.
One thing I have noticed, the Intel systems I use crash (and have other bugs), but the PowerPC systems I have (including one at the very low end of Leopard supported systems) are stable. That was also reflected in the size of the 10.5.1 updates--the Intel update was over 150MB and the PowerPC update was about 35MB (IIRC the numbers, of course).
Hear! Hear! And not just bars, but coffee shops and music festivals, too.
Yes, starting with this very map 'service'. I've submitted updates to them pointing out that the directions they give for getting to my office go through a building that shows up in their satellite imagery. 6 months later (when they say they refresh every 3), directions still go through the building. Why should I expect that correcting a location by up to 200 meters will be actually propagated, when they don't get that a road no longer exists and hasn't for years? And how often do you get bad directions because the street numbers are backwards, if not outright wrong? I've had too many errors like this that are significantly greater than 200 meters. I've given up trying to correct the data, and given up using it. Call your destination, talk to a real person, and chances are you'll get better directions than Google.
;-) they were good at well anymore.
Oh, and search results continue to get worse. Email list archives, digg and de.lico.us aren't content but show up at the top way too often. Google doesn't even do the one thing (other than hyping themselves
I've learned. I now get +/-5 MPG from the 48/47 estimates on my '05 Civic Hybrid. The - numbers (42 or 43 MPG) come in the winter when the car doesn't shut off at lights much at all to heat the car. The + numbers (52 or 53 MPG) come in the spring and fall when neither the AC or heat is on. I get close to the estimates in the summer when I have the AC on for the commute home in the afternoon.
I had problems cancelling too. I just wanted to cancel because I didn't use it much; I thought the service was fine the few times I used it--indeed, it sounded better than the cell phone that's what I normally use. I ended up mailing the BBB, FCC, and a few state regulatory agencies. The call after the letters went out was answered quickly, and my account ended right then.
Having been both an Oracle and Oracle Applications DBA, and UNIX sysadmin, I disagree. Yes many tasks (monitoring, managing users, tables and tablespaces) can be done remotely. But upgrade tasks, particularly with the apps environment, cannot. It also difficult to deal with the so called 'concurrent manager' apps processes, which at one point needed to be killed entirely too often. Database (including executables) restoration can be done as the user owning the databases/software, after root or the OS restore process creates base directories and assigns ownership; backup can and IMO should be done by the database owner, too. None of these require root--although the apps upgrade is made easier by having a simple root shell script that runs other stuff as either the database owner or the application owner, since that is a back and forth between users for each step. Even that is only a convenience for a process that took 48 hours runtime on a 4 processor, 32GB RAM AIX system. The only tasks that I've needed root for are the initial software install, which requires kernel tuning on some platforms, user and directory creation, and startup/shutdown setup.
Twain attributed the 'lies, damned lies and statistics' quip to Benjamin Disraeli.
I thought it was "Search completed. Please reboot to view the results." 8-)
I for one usually read O'Reilly books on any given subject because they are smaller, more to the point and less filled with useless graphics (usually screen shots), than most publishers. Granted O'Reilly isn't always that way (how many shots of -borderwidth did "Learning Perl/Tk" need?), but as a rule they are better than most publishers (cough*Oracle Press*cough).
I would agree. I installed this on a PowerMac 7500 only to find that the on-board ethernet would loose 85% of its traffic, making it totally useless. Granted, this is more likely a problem with the kernel in general not the distribution.
/, /tmp, /var, /usr, etc partitions and gotten the idea that this distribution's installer only mounts / before doing the install and then quickly runs out space. Sorry, but I'd really rather have a small root partition with minimal changing directories (Hello, never had a box become really hard to deal with because /var is in the / file system and a log files gets /.ed overnight? lucky you--or you've never had to deal with inheriting a default install IRIX box. 8-) and leave my big FSCKing to non-critical non-boot partitions.
I installed this on a PowerBook 3400c, once with 48MB of RAM and a second time with 144. The first pass (which was less than the 64MB of REQUIRED memory) demonstrated that the installer can't handle activating swap as soon as it is created. So even though GNU/Linux could run in less than 48MB, this distribution can't install in less than 64.
The second pass (after the memory upgrade) installed OK, but the X configuration is just plain wrong (size, depth). In the 16 bit configuration, colors are wrong (red shows up as green, for example). Again, this may be problems with the kernel (YDL's 2.2--the 2.4 would not boot).
I have also tried installing this with
To add to the questions regaring SMP and Ultrasparc support, will there be any support for ADB based PCI Power Macs?
There is also GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System), which being a raster geographic information system can do some image processing. When maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers, it was public domain. It is now maintained at Baylor University and is GPLed.