If you want to be future proof how about 8k gaming since 8k TV's will start to make their appearance in 2016. Of course they initially won't be cheap but like 4k TVs/Monitors they will come down in price.
Well said I could not have said it any better. I don't have any Microsoft products preferring Linux instead and for some they may be quite surprised to find that there are thousands of games that will run under Linux, some free some you pay for.
I have an original PS3 which still works and on occasion I do play PS2 games. I will be getting a PS4 within the next two months (looking for the right bundle) and hopefully the PS2 emulation on the PS4 will let me load and play my PS2 games however to me that is a nice and desirable feature but not an overriding factor in my decision to get a PS4.
As for choosing a PS4 or an XBox1 or even both that is a personal choice it really boils down to the type of first party games that you like and if one console plays third party games better then the other, although that is subjective.
Will still get parroted by the press - whether it's D&D or GTA or Halo.
Actually bring back real life gladiatorial death matches and you will most likely find the press gets front row seats. Of course they will cry crocodile tears lamenting the deaths of the losers most likely in gory detail while quietly booking seats for the next match.
At least with D&D, RPG's and Shooters etc you are pitting your virtual self against other virtual characters and monsters and at the end of the day everyone had a good time and no one got physically hurt except for the rare nutcase who can't seem to tell the difference between virtual life and reality.
It is going to be even more interesting when virtual reality head-sets finally get sold. You are always going to get a nutcase who will commit some violent crime and when that happens and it was known that he/she used a VR headset watch the media, the bleeding hearts and the holier than thou's have a field day.
Likewise. I once had a Sony rep try to get me to buy something at an office store. He couldn't fathom why I would boycott them and I couldn't fathom how to explain why. I think I shrugged and said something about bad behavior by the Sony corporation. He asked if there was anything he could do to make me reconsider. I simply said, "No".
With that attitude it's would be rather hypocritical to purchase products from any manufacturer. I guess you wont's be purchasing any Microsoft, Nintendo or Volkswagen products any time soon.
What's the vintage? 5 billion BC? Hmm. Good year...
Five billion years? that is far too young. Now 13.8 billion years is an incredible vintage that is a must for for all discerning gods and goddesses. How to start a party with a bang.
This is why the Galactic Police are so under manned, there are just too many of those annoying comets that go on alcoholic binges and forget Kepler's and Newton's laws. Wont someone think of those dwarf planets.
Well you could try a black hole but somehow I don't think you would survive, much less the time it would take to get to the nearest one, although I do think the number 42 figures in there somewhere.;-)
The police feel much more secure. Does that count?
Actually the police that use these vans should be more worried since they are the ones being exposed to X-Rays more than the general public. If you ever had an X-Ray for medical or even dental reasons the radiologist usually makes a point of exiting the room or stands behind lead shielding. Of course I am quite sure the police using these devices have been properly trained and all potential issues have been laid to rest, after-all the higher ups know best. \(^;^)/
Research showed me that western digital use a hardware encryption chip on the driver board to protect user data.
Basically if your hard drive has failed and if you are a bit worried about it falling into someones hands if you discard it then the best solution is to destroy the hard disk platter.
It must be noted that it is only the hard disk that retains all your data even though the electronics may have failed or there are too many bad blocks that the disk is flagged as failed.
To destroy the hard disk is fairly simple to do, however it is best to wear eye protection just in case. Just undo the four or five screws on top and remove the cover then take a small hammer or other such hard object and strike the platter, it will shatter since it is glass (hence the reason for eye protection). Next dispose off either by recycling (preferred) or land-fill. Obviously dispose of the electronics and disk shards separately.
For SSD's you can't go wrong with a sledge hammer although that would work for pretty much all storage devices but it does leave a bit of a mess.
Basically no organisation or criminal will even attempt to reconstitute your shattered hard disk since it would just about prove impossible to get data off.:-)
Can't run "apt-cach", get "command not found".... Oh wait, silly me I run Fedora.:-)
Tried as root "dnf search edge" and did get some listings which would be something like if you used "grep edge" but no application called "edge"
I did get an one pattern match (there are others) which was interesting to look up: "ogre-pagedgeometry.x86_64 : Ogre addon for realtime rendering of dense forests". Hmm I wonder if it trying to tell me something;-)
When was the last Fedora released on time?
11-22 all had delays
Personally I don't mind a delay since I know it will work when it does ship. I did have an issue with KDE 4.0 which was easily fixed by moving to Gnome until KDE 4.1 came out, but that wasn't Fedora's fault.
Fedora really needs a LTS version. I like fedora for its cutting edge features, however its really painful to keep ugrading OS every 6 months. Before the year is over, you have to start worrying about end if life cycle. Even if fedora releases were scheduled for once a year, it would be much better.. At least you will get two years of support. 5-6 month timeline is crazy.
An hour or so of your time approximately every six months for a major release. Please hand in your geek credibility:-)
So I'll be updating on october 27th... and if things stay as ugly as they are after the disastrous 20->22 upgrade, I'll be migrating away on october 28th.
Never had a problem and in fact going from Fedora 20 to 21 was incredibly quick (about 45 minutes), likewise going from Fedora 21 to 22. Of course it does help when you keep your system file-systems separate from your user file-systems which I sized allowing room for expansion years ago.
For me to go from Fedora 20 to Fedora 22 would take approx 45 minutes including customization with 20 minutes for additional applications and about an hour for updates. Why? because I don't do upgrades I do a fresh install in my system file-systems keeping in mind that I always document my build so I don't get nasty surprises. You can even change you file-system type (I use ext4) on the fly keeping in mind that if you change your data/user file-systems type then you will have to recover which in my case would take up to 8 hours.
Insert negative comment about Fedora 23 release schedule;)
Actually most of the comments are about other distro's which is not overly surprising.since people seem to want to push their own agenda not comment on how good or bad Fedora is. We also have a few SystemD comments as well and of course they are all negative but strangely don't explain why - Sigh!
I have been running Fedora since Fedora Core 7 and the only major issue that I had was KDE 4.0. Basically I had no choice since my wife was getting annoyed but to switch to Gnome at the time although when KDE4.1 came out I switched us back.
Basically I have never done a Fedora upgrade since I always do a fresh install because that is the fastest way (at least for me) of going from one major release to another. I actually do this for commercial Unix/Linux machines (HPUX, AIX, Solaris and Redhat) when moving from one major release to another and have always finished well within the time allocated.
The latest Fedora's 21 and 22 have actually been incredibly easy and quick to install, taking me about 30 minutes for the installation, 15 minutes for customization, another 15/20 minutes to add addition applications and about an hour to do the updates. It must be noted that after customization the OS is fully functional and you can be doing things even during the update process. Of course it does help that I keep my system file-systems apart from my user file-systems which would take well over 6 hours to recover if I was stupid enough to delete them.
Neither I or my wife have had any issues with Fedora 21 and now Fedora 22 since a day one install.
Actually living there is not as hard as it would seem once you have enough infrastructure in place. And that is just a matter of time and money, nothing more.
Yes we all know that money grows on trees although in some cases it actually does.
Personally I would like to see manned space exploration kicked up a notch but lets be practical here, you really do have to take costs into account. No country the US included can afford to keep spending billions of dollars just sending a few people in to space. The closest orbiting body around our planet is our moon and it is very feasible with our current technology to build one or more habitable outposts on it. Sure that does not have the so called "appeal" of sending people to Mars but it is massively cheaper and is a great jumping off point for further manned space exploration.
I think the need to take your oxygen with you and the requirement to have decent anti radiation shielding not to mention food is considerably different to the conditions the crew and passengers on a sailing ship a couple of hundred years ago experienced, were the main things they had to worry about was food and hope that they did not sink. At least a space ship can't sink although it could implode or even crash on landing.
So basically, it would be exactly like the passage to the New World was, only a) without gravity, b) with far better entertainment and medical options, and c) you can actually phone home.
The New World explorers did not have to worry about air and anti-radiation shielding although they did have to worry about drowning and being attacked by natives and wild animals. Of course advanced shipping and weaponry usually sorted out those problems out.
Colonizing the moon first sounds like the reasonable choice...
It's not just a reasonable choice, it a very feasible and relatively cheap compared to a Mars colonization mission. Having one or more permanent colonies on the moon allows for resupply and/or evacuation if needed within a few days. With Mars any issues can take months before there is any possibility of help and by then we just have allot of dead colonists and I am quite sure the there will be much negative press about that.
Colonization of the moon also provides the added benefit as a great jumping off point for further manned space travel.
I don't mind if people want to go although it would be nice to hold a funeral service prior to them leaving.
If we as a species cannot create livable habitats on our moon and have people living there for a reasonable amount of time then what chance would so called Mars colonists have. At least with our moon living on it is feasible with our current technology and it would be a great jumping off point for future maned space exploration.
Please don't think I am against space exploration, I am definitely all for it but I do think the so called Mars colonization idea stems from reading too many Sci Fi books and not enough science and engineering ones. There is a huge difference between our "Age of Exploration" and Space Exploration since on our planet we have an atmosphere and although many explorers did die they did not die through lack of oxygen or have any reason to take it with them unless they drowned or were killed by hostile natives or animals.
I run Chrome as my main browser under Fedora 22 and have access via the store to a huge variety of applications and add blockers and flash control are just two of the content blocking features. Using Flashblock, Ghostery and AdBlock actually keeps my PC running quite allot cooler although to be fair it is the blocking of flash adds that keeps my CPU temperature down. From what I can gather flash adverts target CPU 0 and even though my load average is less than one it is nothing unusual for my CPU temperature up over 90 degrees C (I have an i7) which means the fan goes ballistic.
With blocking on my CPU temperature is now 56~58 deg C which is normal for my i7 (I have an original one).
For those interested I am currently blocking 6 trackers and 3 adverts even though I opted out of adds. To be fair I have never really had an issue with adds on Slashdot, however on some sites and please keep your mind out of the gutter:-) I have seen AdBlock block over 50 adds on a single page. I did originally use "Flashcontrol" since flash adds were a real annoyance to me but some sites got around that by forwarding me to the add sites. How to piss off a user.
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I run Fedora 23 and this is what I get:
> emacs
:-)
bash: emacs: command not found
> vi
~
~
~
and so on
I guess vi is the go here. Now let's start another 1980's flame war.
If you want to be future proof how about 8k gaming since 8k TV's will start to make their appearance in 2016. Of course they initially won't be cheap but like 4k TVs/Monitors they will come down in price.
Well said I could not have said it any better. I don't have any Microsoft products preferring Linux instead and for some they may be quite surprised to find that there are thousands of games that will run under Linux, some free some you pay for.
I have an original PS3 which still works and on occasion I do play PS2 games. I will be getting a PS4 within the next two months (looking for the right bundle) and hopefully the PS2 emulation on the PS4 will let me load and play my PS2 games however to me that is a nice and desirable feature but not an overriding factor in my decision to get a PS4.
As for choosing a PS4 or an XBox1 or even both that is a personal choice it really boils down to the type of first party games that you like and if one console plays third party games better then the other, although that is subjective.
VI or EMACS? Debian or Redhat? AMD or INTEL? Apache or IIS? The list of flammable topics is pretty long.
Definitely "vi" so lets start another 1980's flame war :-)
I'll be uncharacteristically charitable and suggest that perhaps the silly old cunt has gone senile.
No he is looking for a job in North Korea where I am sure he will fit in quite well. :-)
Will still get parroted by the press - whether it's D&D or GTA or Halo.
Actually bring back real life gladiatorial death matches and you will most likely find the press gets front row seats. Of course they will cry crocodile tears lamenting the deaths of the losers most likely in gory detail while quietly booking seats for the next match.
At least with D&D, RPG's and Shooters etc you are pitting your virtual self against other virtual characters and monsters and at the end of the day everyone had a good time and no one got physically hurt except for the rare nutcase who can't seem to tell the difference between virtual life and reality.
It is going to be even more interesting when virtual reality head-sets finally get sold. You are always going to get a nutcase who will commit some violent crime and when that happens and it was known that he/she used a VR headset watch the media, the bleeding hearts and the holier than thou's have a field day.
Likewise. I once had a Sony rep try to get me to buy something at an office store. He couldn't fathom why I would boycott them and I couldn't fathom how to explain why. I think I shrugged and said something about bad behavior by the Sony corporation. He asked if there was anything he could do to make me reconsider. I simply said, "No".
With that attitude it's would be rather hypocritical to purchase products from any manufacturer. I guess you wont's be purchasing any Microsoft, Nintendo or Volkswagen products any time soon.
What's the vintage? 5 billion BC? Hmm. Good year...
Five billion years? that is far too young. Now 13.8 billion years is an incredible vintage that is a must for for all discerning gods and goddesses. How to start a party with a bang.
This is why the Galactic Police are so under manned, there are just too many of those annoying comets that go on alcoholic binges and forget Kepler's and Newton's laws. Wont someone think of those dwarf planets.
I'd like to see how black it really is.
Well you could try a black hole but somehow I don't think you would survive, much less the time it would take to get to the nearest one, although I do think the number 42 figures in there somewhere. ;-)
So . . . I now need to upgrade my tinfoil hat to a lead hat?
I'd like to have a little pocket X-Ray detector to keep with me when I am wandering around public places. The results might be frightening . . .
I think you many need lead underwear more than a tin-foil hat, assuming you are thinking of having children in the future.
The police feel much more secure. Does that count?
Actually the police that use these vans should be more worried since they are the ones being exposed to X-Rays more than the general public. If you ever had an X-Ray for medical or even dental reasons the radiologist usually makes a point of exiting the room or stands behind lead shielding. Of course I am quite sure the police using these devices have been properly trained and all potential issues have been laid to rest, after-all the higher ups know best. \(^;^)/
Research showed me that western digital use a hardware encryption chip on the driver board to protect user data.
Basically if your hard drive has failed and if you are a bit worried about it falling into someones hands if you discard it then the best solution is to destroy the hard disk platter.
It must be noted that it is only the hard disk that retains all your data even though the electronics may have failed or there are too many bad blocks that the disk is flagged as failed.
To destroy the hard disk is fairly simple to do, however it is best to wear eye protection just in case. Just undo the four or five screws on top and remove the cover then take a small hammer or other such hard object and strike the platter, it will shatter since it is glass (hence the reason for eye protection). Next dispose off either by recycling (preferred) or land-fill. Obviously dispose of the electronics and disk shards separately.
For SSD's you can't go wrong with a sledge hammer although that would work for pretty much all storage devices but it does leave a bit of a mess.
Basically no organisation or criminal will even attempt to reconstitute your shattered hard disk since it would just about prove impossible to get data off. :-)
Can't run "apt-cach", get "command not found". ... Oh wait, silly me I run Fedora. :-)
Tried as root "dnf search edge" and did get some listings which would be something like if you used "grep edge" but no application called "edge"
I did get an one pattern match (there are others) which was interesting to look up: "ogre-pagedgeometry.x86_64 : Ogre addon for realtime rendering of dense forests". Hmm I wonder if it trying to tell me something ;-)
When was the last Fedora released on time? 11-22 all had delays
Personally I don't mind a delay since I know it will work when it does ship. I did have an issue with KDE 4.0 which was easily fixed by moving to Gnome until KDE 4.1 came out, but that wasn't Fedora's fault.
Fedora really needs a LTS version. I like fedora for its cutting edge features, however its really painful to keep ugrading OS every 6 months. Before the year is over, you have to start worrying about end if life cycle. Even if fedora releases were scheduled for once a year, it would be much better.. At least you will get two years of support. 5-6 month timeline is crazy.
An hour or so of your time approximately every six months for a major release. Please hand in your geek credibility :-)
So I'll be updating on october 27th... and if things stay as ugly as they are after the disastrous 20->22 upgrade, I'll be migrating away on october 28th.
Never had a problem and in fact going from Fedora 20 to 21 was incredibly quick (about 45 minutes), likewise going from Fedora 21 to 22. Of course it does help when you keep your system file-systems separate from your user file-systems which I sized allowing room for expansion years ago.
For me to go from Fedora 20 to Fedora 22 would take approx 45 minutes including customization with 20 minutes for additional applications and about an hour for updates. Why? because I don't do upgrades I do a fresh install in my system file-systems keeping in mind that I always document my build so I don't get nasty surprises. You can even change you file-system type (I use ext4) on the fly keeping in mind that if you change your data/user file-systems type then you will have to recover which in my case would take up to 8 hours.
Insert negative comment about Fedora 23 release schedule ;)
Actually most of the comments are about other distro's which is not overly surprising.since people seem to want to push their own agenda not comment on how good or bad Fedora is. We also have a few SystemD comments as well and of course they are all negative but strangely don't explain why - Sigh!
I have been running Fedora since Fedora Core 7 and the only major issue that I had was KDE 4.0. Basically I had no choice since my wife was getting annoyed but to switch to Gnome at the time although when KDE4.1 came out I switched us back.
Basically I have never done a Fedora upgrade since I always do a fresh install because that is the fastest way (at least for me) of going from one major release to another. I actually do this for commercial Unix/Linux machines (HPUX, AIX, Solaris and Redhat) when moving from one major release to another and have always finished well within the time allocated.
The latest Fedora's 21 and 22 have actually been incredibly easy and quick to install, taking me about 30 minutes for the installation, 15 minutes for customization, another 15/20 minutes to add addition applications and about an hour to do the updates. It must be noted that after customization the OS is fully functional and you can be doing things even during the update process. Of course it does help that I keep my system file-systems apart from my user file-systems which would take well over 6 hours to recover if I was stupid enough to delete them.
Neither I or my wife have had any issues with Fedora 21 and now Fedora 22 since a day one install.
Actually living there is not as hard as it would seem once you have enough infrastructure in place. And that is just a matter of time and money, nothing more.
Yes we all know that money grows on trees although in some cases it actually does.
Personally I would like to see manned space exploration kicked up a notch but lets be practical here, you really do have to take costs into account. No country the US included can afford to keep spending billions of dollars just sending a few people in to space. The closest orbiting body around our planet is our moon and it is very feasible with our current technology to build one or more habitable outposts on it. Sure that does not have the so called "appeal" of sending people to Mars but it is massively cheaper and is a great jumping off point for further manned space exploration.
I think the need to take your oxygen with you and the requirement to have decent anti radiation shielding not to mention food is considerably different to the conditions the crew and passengers on a sailing ship a couple of hundred years ago experienced, were the main things they had to worry about was food and hope that they did not sink. At least a space ship can't sink although it could implode or even crash on landing.
So basically, it would be exactly like the passage to the New World was, only a) without gravity, b) with far better entertainment and medical options, and c) you can actually phone home.
The New World explorers did not have to worry about air and anti-radiation shielding although they did have to worry about drowning and being attacked by natives and wild animals. Of course advanced shipping and weaponry usually sorted out those problems out.
Colonizing the moon first sounds like the reasonable choice...
It's not just a reasonable choice, it a very feasible and relatively cheap compared to a Mars colonization mission. Having one or more permanent colonies on the moon allows for resupply and/or evacuation if needed within a few days. With Mars any issues can take months before there is any possibility of help and by then we just have allot of dead colonists and I am quite sure the there will be much negative press about that.
Colonization of the moon also provides the added benefit as a great jumping off point for further manned space travel.
I don't mind if people want to go although it would be nice to hold a funeral service prior to them leaving.
If we as a species cannot create livable habitats on our moon and have people living there for a reasonable amount of time then what chance would so called Mars colonists have. At least with our moon living on it is feasible with our current technology and it would be a great jumping off point for future maned space exploration.
Please don't think I am against space exploration, I am definitely all for it but I do think the so called Mars colonization idea stems from reading too many Sci Fi books and not enough science and engineering ones. There is a huge difference between our "Age of Exploration" and Space Exploration since on our planet we have an atmosphere and although many explorers did die they did not die through lack of oxygen or have any reason to take it with them unless they drowned or were killed by hostile natives or animals.
I run Chrome as my main browser under Fedora 22 and have access via the store to a huge variety of applications and add blockers and flash control are just two of the content blocking features. Using Flashblock, Ghostery and AdBlock actually keeps my PC running quite allot cooler although to be fair it is the blocking of flash adds that keeps my CPU temperature down. From what I can gather flash adverts target CPU 0 and even though my load average is less than one it is nothing unusual for my CPU temperature up over 90 degrees C (I have an i7) which means the fan goes ballistic.
With blocking on my CPU temperature is now 56~58 deg C which is normal for my i7 (I have an original one).
For those interested I am currently blocking 6 trackers and 3 adverts even though I opted out of adds. To be fair I have never really had an issue with adds on Slashdot, however on some sites and please keep your mind out of the gutter :-) I have seen AdBlock block over 50 adds on a single page. I did originally use "Flashcontrol" since flash adds were a real annoyance to me but some sites got around that by forwarding me to the add sites. How to piss off a user.