> I detected intelligent life - on Earth, unfortunately.
Highly unlikely, I would like to see the evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. No intelligent life has ever been found on Earth before, so I put it right up there with claims that there are girls on the internet.
MA. In general here you can't even claim self defense in your own home unless you either couldn't escape or others were in danger. Personally, I would advocate for full on stand your ground. I am about as close to a pascifist as it gets with the exception of self defense, repulsing invasions of homeland, or overthrowing ones own government.
I bet there were atheists (come to think of it, may have been the same ones)...and Jews.... probably had Jews in some of those agencies too.
Clearly McCarthy didn't go far enough!
Now, which article or ammendment makes the congress the gaurdian over people's beliefs and philosophies, and personal associations? I forget, I know it has to be in there somewhere....
Hold on a second while I dig out my lapsed catholic hat....
Allow me to pick a nit here: "If you're not a catholic then you're probably a sinner."
Actually, this has never been the Catholic position. If you are not Jesus Himself, then you ARE a sinner, Catholic or not. However, if you are Catholic, then you know how the Big J expects you to atone for your sins (by asking forgiveness, doing pennance, and.... really meaning it)
But what if your compass and mine simply point in different directions?
Alice may think taxes are great because they fund schools and roads. etc.
Bob may think they are terrible because they enable murders around the world in the form of military actions, and the oppression of his fellow countrymen
Alice's moral compass says she should not only pay taxes, but if she can, should pay extra. Its a good thing.
Bobs compass says no, he should pay as little as he can to avoid being victimized himself, and try to hide and not pay as much as possible.
Both of them have a moral compass, they just don't agree. Take another example...even a more normal one...
Carol thinks Social welfare programs are great. They keep food on families tables and allow their children to grow and be educated, even if they would otherwise be starving.
Dave thinks social welfare problems are terrible. Sure they may help individuals in the short term, in the long term it just breeds dependancy and an ever increasing and unsustainable cycle that will eventually lead to total ruin for the entire economy.
Each has a moral compass, each believes that his way is the way that will lead to the best outcome longterm.
The immoral thing, in my eyes, is forcing them all to pay in to the same system regardless of whether they think what its doing is good or not. The idea that we are all united is just a lie. Its not true, we don't even agree with eachother.
> If someone was trespassing on your property and refused to leave, you'd be justified in tasering > them too.
Actually, I live in a state where I would be required to escape, if able. I would have no justification of tasering them.
Now personally, i think thats silly, but, I still think the police went overboard. Tasers were developed and issued as an alternative to shooting and killing, not talking and persueding. Unless they were in danger to the point of being justified using lethal force, then I don't see how they were justified in using less lethal force (which can be lethal or do serious harm, depending on the circumstances) by her refusal to leave when they would like her to.
Annoyance and disrespect for authority are not physically threatening to anyone. These abusers should be stripped of their badges and given the opportunity to go work in a field where they can afford to be less professional without endangering the public.
Perhaps, but that wont necessarily mean that said new position is more rational, and based on my general interactions with people and their kids, I suspect is very likely to be far less so.
I don't see how pointing out that circumstances may cause a person to adopt irrational stances out of fear of imagined dangers to his family really informs the situation.
Nice. I know there are multiple ways to skin this cat, I already mentioned file. My problem is always that I can't remember them. Apparently ":set list" in vim also turns the line endings into '$' chars.
Now if I can just remember that the next time I suspect I may be dealing with one of these issues.:wq
> Do you really want to hire someone who insists on doing things the hard, time consuming way?
Depends whether there is a good reason for it or not. The article, unless it is longer than what I saw, it looks like just a blurb to me, doesn't go into what the exact classes were, or why he chose them.
Did he go to some classes, then realize that he could transfer credits? Are the courses, in and of themselves, going to be useful? I mean, its awesome to put the degree on the resume, what if he can put the degree...and list some of the individual classes too...since they are relevant....if he can do that, then choosing classes that allow him to double dip his resume.... very very smart.
If he just took different classes, and wound up with the same price tag, over a longer time, then I totally agree with you. However, since he got to choose his classes, I would like to think he was smart enough to choose them wisely and double up his benefits.
Depends. You don't need to install a full desktop to use X clients (the X Server would be installed locally, something like XMing). In fact, you don't need much more than a few X Libraries for it to work just fine.
Not to say any particular tool doesn't depend on everything including the kitchen sink, but most don't have to and shouldn't.
Overall, I say there is little to no real exposure because just installing gui tools should not start up any extra services. I mean, yes there are issues with remote X displays if your account or root on the remote machine are already compromised but... I put those pretty low on the list of what I worry about.
I have run X based tools on RHEL systems with under 500 total packages installed (my current laptop, with a modest desktop install.... almost 1800 packages.... )
> What if I find out (legally) that somebody is going to deliver 1.5 tons of gold 2000km away and are > driving in a truck to deliver it. If I've invested heavily in airplanes, I could deliver 1.5 tons of gold to > that person and beat the truck guy so when he arrives his opportunity is lost and has to sell it to me > cheaper than I sold it to the target person. This is completely legal, and how the world works. I was > smart investing in airplanes.
No its not. Nobody is going to deliver gold without a purchase agreement having been made.
So even if you show up ahead of time and attempt to sell your gold cheaper, the person who was taking the delivery, while he is free to buy your gold, must also puchase all of the gold which he had already agreed to purchase, from whom he agreed to purchase it.
That is actually how the world works. Sure there may be other circumstances depending on the nature of the agreements/laws (in some circumstances he may be able to cancel the previous order, but I doubt that such agreements would be the case for a delivery of 1.5 tons gold, and if they were, the restocking fees would probably make switching vendors that late in the game prohibitive)
If you want an interesting exception that proves the rule, check out Laidlaw v Organ. Interesting case where a farmer cancelled a purchase agreement after delivery, and was allowed to do so by the courts... because the agreement was negotiated in bad faith (the purchaser lied claiming to not have information about the market that he was shown later to have had)
You showing up ahead of the scheduled delivery would do nothing to invalidate the agreement.
Actually, I believe this is a "mostiure barrier". It is somewhat to keep heat in, its more to keep moist air (think, your breath), from drifting into unfinished spaces where temperature differences can cause it to condense and provide an environment for mold.
I have heard of particularly bad situations where insulation in a colder area with significant moist air can actually collect enough water to cause water stains and drips.
Oh and a couple of things I really should have mentioned.... save yourself some trouble, and make sure you have dos2unix.
Because I know you wont learn vi overnight (or do what i did and avoid it for several years), and you will likely find some shell extention that does sshfs or realize that you can use winscp to sftp into the box and then right click on a file and edit, or you will just copy a file locally and edit it, and reupload.
At some point, you WILL transfer a file that has the wrong line endings, and it will be one of the ones where it matters (there are many times it is not a problem, shell scripts are not one of them). The file command will often tip you off to dos line endings, and dos2unix will do the conversion.
If you want to move a file or several files from one unix machine to another, but have to copy to a windows machine inbetween.... make a tarball and move that instead.
Oh and always set putty and winscp to use blowfish as the first cipher....it speeds up file transfer times significantly over the AES default.
And always make backup copies of config files before you edit them. Consider installing git and using git for this purpose right in/etc
If nothing else, being able to do a "git diff" and see everything you have changed since the last commit will be inordinately helpful when making posts asking for help in online forums.
As for the security risk, you are mostly correct. There is little exposure to running an X app over ssh. A few theoretical issues maybe but, nothing serious.
The thing is, its not what us experienced unix folks do, and with good reason. I have spent more time writing custom scripts to add and manage users than I have used gui tools to manage them. Its nice to be able to click and add a user, its nicer to be able to write a script so I can do it exactly the same way every time, or hand that duty off to someone else with sudo privs and not have to worry about giving him root access, or to implement some custom system where passwords are auto-generated and mailed out etc.....
Frankly the problem isn't the gui tools per se. Its that a linux system is very complicated with a lot of moving parts. On the plus side, this means you can tear it down to the bear minimum and customize it to your hearts content, only limited by your imagination and skill, On the minus side, you can really get out into some major weeds to the point that even the best admins will be calling it a rebuild.
If you are just getting by on gui tools, you are asking for trouble.... HOWEVER..... I don't want to entirely knock them. *I* started out with them. Since then however, I have totally abandoned them. When I use X11 over ssh, you can bet its because I am using something that just gives me no other way. (some software installs...ugh)
My advice would be...if someone wants to seriously go down this path...do it...but do it knowing full well its going ot be a major learning experience. I would setup a second VPS or even a system at home, just to experiment with....
If you really want to get competent: 1. Find out what your tools are REALLY DOING. Find out what the command line equivalents are, see what the differences are. 2. Don't fear vi. It is less true these days that you are likely to find yourself sitting in front of a dead system at 3 am and the only tool that works is vi. Especially on linux (more so than many more traditional systems) vi is not your only option, nor your only good one. All that said.... it *IS* the gold standard for sysadmin editors. Its what the cool kids use;) Its also more powerful than you can possibly imagine. It is worth learning. 3. Consider learning some shell script. Its very powerful, its also the exact same language you type at the shell. Learning shell syntax will save you time, even if you never save anything to a fixed script. 4. Remember this is a job people get paid and paid well to do. You are dabbling in my career here. Don't expect to be an expert over night, and don't make too many commitments. I have been at it for 12 years professionally.... it takes time and experience to get good.
That said.... it seems this is all about web game development? If so....hey.... development? Have a blast man! However, if you are expecing to actually run code for public consumption? I would be a bit worried, expect downtime while you figure it all out.
> It's not hard, however, to shoot something the size of a camera from 100 yards away using a hunting rifle. I > suspect that the weakness of this vehicle, assuming that the rusty armor can withstand assault rifle fire (I doubt > it will survive a helicopter strike), will be those cameras. The Syrian army will not need a long time to figure out > that they should aim for the cameras, then run up to that thing and kill the occupants.
What I find strange is the need for occupants.
10k to produce? You mean they can build armor, install cameras etc, but they can't make it wireless control?
That may be a shitty coffin of a tank....but as an unmanned ass-kicker.... They could easily have the drivers sitting in the back of a different, less conspicous vehicle, or in a nearby building.
Of course, if thats your plan, who needs armor at all? Can probably fit several cars with remote control and guns for the same 10k.
Couldn't agree more. I feel spoiled by mutt. Its so powerful, I can setup a command to "tunnel imap", and now I can access my mailboxes, via imap, from anyhwere I can ssh, and if I have keys in my agent, no passwords at all.... it all just uses my existing ssh configurations.
I have some rotating email signatures configured, using some old program that I modified, and while i have the source somewhere, I just don't care enough.... so I set my mutt config to ssh there and grab my signature from that program.
It lets me access my email from anywhere that I can download putty and ssh into one of my machines.
Best of all... I can write email in vim, the gold standard of text editing. However, it doesn't force me to, I could choose to use emacs, or some graphical editor if I really wanted to.
> Cats & Dogs have been domesticated over hundreds/thousands of generations
Cats are an interesting case in that, it appears that little domestication was needed. On the whole domesticated cats and their wild counterparts are quite similar.
Turns out, our species had some very convinent properties for co-habitation.
Their meat is not generally considered good, even amongst cultures where there is less taboo about eating a variety of animals. They, are under no delusion that we are prey.
They don't eat much of what we do, only eating fairly freshly killed meat and occasional roughage. In fact, they mainly kill and eat the rodents that try to eat our food stores, and keep them away.
On top of that, they are agreeably soft, purr, and stay mostly out of the way as they sleep 18 hours a day. Few places are safer to sleep than around us, and I bet that has been true since before we lived indoors. For cats, this was a perfect match.
The average lifespan of a wild cat is only a couple of years. Companion cats can live upwards of 20. They hardly got the shit end of the stick.
I am sure he would have rathered it too. I bet he has already submited a request:)
That said, they may not be approved containers but, 5 gallon buckets even hold gas. Its what the scrap yard uses when draining cars for crushing. Boy do they get some gas doing that too. Saw a guy drain nearly two "full" buckets (probably about 4 gallons, really silly to fill them to the brim).
I dunno, if there was an "approved container" and a bucket, I would be happy to let someone else use the approved container. Those buckets are fine for the job. Kind of a bitch to pour, but, if you go slow or a few of the nicer pour spout lids that snap on tight, they are just fine.
Why is it an either/or? Theres a lot of people and a lot of space to expand into. Asteroid mining means collecting resources, already in space. In the short term, it will take a lot of resources to grab and start, but long term, every ton of iron prepared and used in space, is a ton of iron that doesn't have to be lifted out of our gravity well to get out there.
Clearly, the moon, as a huge satelite that already exists....hell yes. Lets get a colony up there already.
I always find it amusing all this talk of how no nation will own the moon, as if, once space colonies become self-sufficient they are not going to want to self-govern. Populations expand, and as soon as its possible to do so, there will be people lining up to ship out and start spreading their seed.
As it stands, we are sitting at the table with our entire bankroll. As a species, we are one bad beat away from total extinction until there is at least one self-sufficient colony. Not that any of us could really call that our problem...at least not personally.
Would be a nice one to feel we are on track to solving though, would like to think we can finally one-up the cockroach on survivability.
Nowadays, we have PTO (paid time off), which is a combination of sick days and vacation days. Typically, PTO is the same number of days that you used to get for vacation back in the day. So now, whenever you take a sick day, you are losing a vacation day. So duh, of course people come in when they are sick, or else work from home; if they didn't, they'd be burning vacation days.
BINGO! When I started working, this change had just been the new fad and just been made, so I had talked with my mother about how company benefits etc worked, they had just changed her over (and while I was not technicallty going to work for the same organization, it was the same organization in ways that only make sense if you were there) I very quickly clicked on "Oh its now a shared pool thats the same size as what vacation used to be"
If you ever wonder why the burger-flipper behind the counter at McDonalds sneezed in your burger, this is also why. It still shocks me to see people in food service jobs sneezing, but that's the brave new world we live in.
Well of course, same applies. Though, not all sneezes are sickness. He could be allergic to something. I have a dust allergy and sneeze occasionally all year long whether I am sick or not, whether i take allergy meds or not.
Though, he probably makes close enough to min wage that you can assume its not that his sinuses are inflamed from his massive coke habbit:)
I want to stay home when I am sick. Sadly I am allergic to dust (and a few other unavoidables), so I never quite get that much respite, and am normally going back and forth between being stuffed up and not, on a normal day. I also tend to develop a cough in the winter, dry air really kills me. I can try to humidify all I want, and it does help, but... theres only so much I can do. I sneeze and cough sick or not.
Often I just don't know that I am sick until long after I am in the office, about the only way I can stay out of the office, garaunteed, while sick would be to not have a job. Disability seems a bit extreme for allergies (and no, nothing really controls it well... lortadine does help though).
I fully agree with your statement, in the abstract, but, in the specific case, I don't see how it holds.
Github is not your personal, private git repo. Github specifically exists for the purpose of sharing code. In fact, if you wanted to use them as a personal and private git repo, they offer that service, for a fee.
If you are using the free service, then, you ARE sharing your work. You are going out, and posting it in public for everyone to see, thats what you do whenever you push to github. It is a little like taking all of your personal notes, calendars, etc, and deciding the best place to store them is tacked to the side wall of the building by the sidewalk.
You may not have inteded to share with the world, but, your actions sure don't send that message.
Personally, I think cases like this should grant automatic license. You uploaded code that you wrote and you control to a site which, A) explicitly ONLY serves public files (unless you pay them) and B) allows anyone to fork a copy and use.
I would say, uploading to a site which is designed from the ground up for the purpose of sharing code between individuals projects and resdistributing it.... it seems reasonable to assume that this is exactly what you intend people to do with it, and so implicit license should be granted.
Its not anybody elses fault that you are abusing the service and expecting everyone else to treat your publicly posted code as sacrosanct and private just because you didn't want to pony up for a private account.
That is pretty much my assessment. To say that every person who invoked a diety for political reasons is a fanatic is ridiculous. Sure, they appease the fanatics, and probably employ many fanatics, and have a few within their ranks, but, nobody holds power long on ideology alone.
Frankly, toxic US policy is what setup their revolution, which was coopted by the towel heads. Now it is toxic US and Isreali policy which helps keep them there. All the sanctions and saber rattling does little but ensure that they have an external enemy to blame, and to rally the people behind them.
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> I detected intelligent life - on Earth, unfortunately.
Highly unlikely, I would like to see the evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. No intelligent life has ever been found on Earth before, so I put it right up there with claims that there are girls on the internet.
MA. In general here you can't even claim self defense in your own home unless you either couldn't escape or others were in danger. Personally, I would advocate for full on stand your ground. I am about as close to a pascifist as it gets with the exception of self defense, repulsing invasions of homeland, or overthrowing ones own government.
I bet there were atheists (come to think of it, may have been the same ones)...and Jews.... probably had Jews in some of those agencies too.
Clearly McCarthy didn't go far enough!
Now, which article or ammendment makes the congress the gaurdian over people's beliefs and philosophies, and personal associations? I forget, I know it has to be in there somewhere....
Hold on a second while I dig out my lapsed catholic hat....
Allow me to pick a nit here: "If you're not a catholic then you're probably a sinner."
Actually, this has never been the Catholic position. If you are not Jesus Himself, then you ARE a sinner, Catholic or not. However, if you are Catholic, then you know how the Big J expects you to atone for your sins (by asking forgiveness, doing pennance, and.... really meaning it)
They have, however, designated some non-catholics (even non-christians) as particularly Virtuous Pagans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuous_pagan
Ok... enough nit picking.... now let me take my head off and laugh at the idea of religion judging virtue.
But what if your compass and mine simply point in different directions?
Alice may think taxes are great because they fund schools and roads. etc.
Bob may think they are terrible because they enable murders around the world in the form of military actions, and the oppression of his fellow countrymen
Alice's moral compass says she should not only pay taxes, but if she can, should pay extra. Its a good thing.
Bobs compass says no, he should pay as little as he can to avoid being victimized himself, and try to hide and not pay as much as possible.
Both of them have a moral compass, they just don't agree. Take another example...even a more normal one...
Carol thinks Social welfare programs are great. They keep food on families tables and allow their children to grow and be educated, even if they would otherwise be starving.
Dave thinks social welfare problems are terrible. Sure they may help individuals in the short term, in the long term it just breeds dependancy and an ever increasing and unsustainable cycle that will eventually lead to total ruin for the entire economy.
Each has a moral compass, each believes that his way is the way that will lead to the best outcome longterm.
The immoral thing, in my eyes, is forcing them all to pay in to the same system regardless of whether they think what its doing is good or not. The idea that we are all united is just a lie. Its not true, we don't even agree with eachother.
> If someone was trespassing on your property and refused to leave, you'd be justified in tasering
> them too.
Actually, I live in a state where I would be required to escape, if able. I would have no justification of tasering them.
Now personally, i think thats silly, but, I still think the police went overboard. Tasers were developed and issued as an alternative to shooting and killing, not talking and persueding. Unless they were in danger to the point of being justified using lethal force, then I don't see how they were justified in using less lethal force (which can be lethal or do serious harm, depending on the circumstances) by her refusal to leave when they would like her to.
Annoyance and disrespect for authority are not physically threatening to anyone. These abusers should be stripped of their badges and given the opportunity to go work in a field where they can afford to be less professional without endangering the public.
Perhaps, but that wont necessarily mean that said new position is more rational, and based on my general interactions with people and their kids, I suspect is very likely to be far less so.
I don't see how pointing out that circumstances may cause a person to adopt irrational stances out of fear of imagined dangers to his family really informs the situation.
Nice. I know there are multiple ways to skin this cat, I already mentioned file. My problem is always that I can't remember them. Apparently ":set list" in vim also turns the line endings into '$' chars.
Now if I can just remember that the next time I suspect I may be dealing with one of these issues. :wq
> Do you really want to hire someone who insists on doing things the hard, time consuming way?
Depends whether there is a good reason for it or not. The article, unless it is longer than what I saw, it looks like just a blurb to me, doesn't go into what the exact classes were, or why he chose them.
Did he go to some classes, then realize that he could transfer credits? Are the courses, in and of themselves, going to be useful? I mean, its awesome to put the degree on the resume, what if he can put the degree...and list some of the individual classes too...since they are relevant....if he can do that, then choosing classes that allow him to double dip his resume.... very very smart.
If he just took different classes, and wound up with the same price tag, over a longer time, then I totally agree with you. However, since he got to choose his classes, I would like to think he was smart enough to choose them wisely and double up his benefits.
Depends. You don't need to install a full desktop to use X clients (the X Server would be installed locally, something like XMing). In fact, you don't need much more than a few X Libraries for it to work just fine.
Not to say any particular tool doesn't depend on everything including the kitchen sink, but most don't have to and shouldn't.
Overall, I say there is little to no real exposure because just installing gui tools should not start up any extra services. I mean, yes there are issues with remote X displays if your account or root on the remote machine are already compromised but... I put those pretty low on the list of what I worry about.
I have run X based tools on RHEL systems with under 500 total packages installed (my current laptop, with a modest desktop install.... almost 1800 packages.... )
> What if I find out (legally) that somebody is going to deliver 1.5 tons of gold 2000km away and are
> driving in a truck to deliver it. If I've invested heavily in airplanes, I could deliver 1.5 tons of gold to
> that person and beat the truck guy so when he arrives his opportunity is lost and has to sell it to me
> cheaper than I sold it to the target person. This is completely legal, and how the world works. I was
> smart investing in airplanes.
No its not. Nobody is going to deliver gold without a purchase agreement having been made.
So even if you show up ahead of time and attempt to sell your gold cheaper, the person who was taking the delivery, while he is free to buy your gold, must also puchase all of the gold which he had already agreed to purchase, from whom he agreed to purchase it.
That is actually how the world works. Sure there may be other circumstances depending on the nature of the agreements/laws (in some circumstances he may be able to cancel the previous order, but I doubt that such agreements would be the case for a delivery of 1.5 tons gold, and if they were, the restocking fees would probably make switching vendors that late in the game prohibitive)
If you want an interesting exception that proves the rule, check out Laidlaw v Organ. Interesting case where a farmer cancelled a purchase agreement after delivery, and was allowed to do so by the courts... because the agreement was negotiated in bad faith (the purchaser lied claiming to not have information about the market that he was shown later to have had)
You showing up ahead of the scheduled delivery would do nothing to invalidate the agreement.
Actually, I believe this is a "mostiure barrier". It is somewhat to keep heat in, its more to keep moist air (think, your breath), from drifting into unfinished spaces where temperature differences can cause it to condense and provide an environment for mold.
I have heard of particularly bad situations where insulation in a colder area with significant moist air can actually collect enough water to cause water stains and drips.
Oh and a couple of things I really should have mentioned.... save yourself some trouble, and make sure you have dos2unix.
Because I know you wont learn vi overnight (or do what i did and avoid it for several years), and you will likely find some shell extention that does sshfs or realize that you can use winscp to sftp into the box and then right click on a file and edit, or you will just copy a file locally and edit it, and reupload.
At some point, you WILL transfer a file that has the wrong line endings, and it will be one of the ones where it matters (there are many times it is not a problem, shell scripts are not one of them). The file command will often tip you off to dos line endings, and dos2unix will do the conversion.
If you want to move a file or several files from one unix machine to another, but have to copy to a windows machine inbetween.... make a tarball and move that instead.
Oh and always set putty and winscp to use blowfish as the first cipher....it speeds up file transfer times significantly over the AES default.
And always make backup copies of config files before you edit them. Consider installing git and using git for this purpose right in /etc
If nothing else, being able to do a "git diff" and see everything you have changed since the last commit will be inordinately helpful when making posts asking for help in online forums.
As for the security risk, you are mostly correct. There is little exposure to running an X app over ssh. A few theoretical issues maybe but, nothing serious.
The thing is, its not what us experienced unix folks do, and with good reason. I have spent more time writing custom scripts to add and manage users than I have used gui tools to manage them. Its nice to be able to click and add a user, its nicer to be able to write a script so I can do it exactly the same way every time, or hand that duty off to someone else with sudo privs and not have to worry about giving him root access, or to implement some custom system where passwords are auto-generated and mailed out etc.....
Frankly the problem isn't the gui tools per se. Its that a linux system is very complicated with a lot of moving parts. On the plus side, this means you can tear it down to the bear minimum and customize it to your hearts content, only limited by your imagination and skill, On the minus side, you can really get out into some major weeds to the point that even the best admins will be calling it a rebuild.
If you are just getting by on gui tools, you are asking for trouble.... HOWEVER..... I don't want to entirely knock them. *I* started out with them. Since then however, I have totally abandoned them. When I use X11 over ssh, you can bet its because I am using something that just gives me no other way. (some software installs...ugh)
My advice would be...if someone wants to seriously go down this path...do it...but do it knowing full well its going ot be a major learning experience. I would setup a second VPS or even a system at home, just to experiment with....
If you really want to get competent: ;) Its also more powerful than you can possibly imagine. It is worth learning.
1. Find out what your tools are REALLY DOING. Find out what the command line equivalents are, see what the differences are.
2. Don't fear vi. It is less true these days that you are likely to find yourself sitting in front of a dead system at 3 am and the only tool that works is vi. Especially on linux (more so than many more traditional systems) vi is not your only option, nor your only good one. All that said.... it *IS* the gold standard for sysadmin editors. Its what the cool kids use
3. Consider learning some shell script. Its very powerful, its also the exact same language you type at the shell. Learning shell syntax will save you time, even if you never save anything to a fixed script.
4. Remember this is a job people get paid and paid well to do. You are dabbling in my career here. Don't expect to be an expert over night, and don't make too many commitments. I have been at it for 12 years professionally.... it takes time and experience to get good.
That said.... it seems this is all about web game development? If so....hey.... development? Have a blast man! However, if you are expecing to actually run code for public consumption? I would be a bit worried, expect downtime while you figure it all out.
> It's not hard, however, to shoot something the size of a camera from 100 yards away using a hunting rifle. I
> suspect that the weakness of this vehicle, assuming that the rusty armor can withstand assault rifle fire (I doubt
> it will survive a helicopter strike), will be those cameras. The Syrian army will not need a long time to figure out
> that they should aim for the cameras, then run up to that thing and kill the occupants.
What I find strange is the need for occupants.
10k to produce? You mean they can build armor, install cameras etc, but they can't make it wireless control?
That may be a shitty coffin of a tank....but as an unmanned ass-kicker.... They could easily have the drivers sitting in the back of a different, less conspicous vehicle, or in a nearby building.
Of course, if thats your plan, who needs armor at all? Can probably fit several cars with remote control and guns for the same 10k.
Couldn't agree more. I feel spoiled by mutt. Its so powerful, I can setup a command to "tunnel imap", and now I can access my mailboxes, via imap, from anyhwere I can ssh, and if I have keys in my agent, no passwords at all.... it all just uses my existing ssh configurations.
I have some rotating email signatures configured, using some old program that I modified, and while i have the source somewhere, I just don't care enough.... so I set my mutt config to ssh there and grab my signature from that program.
It lets me access my email from anywhere that I can download putty and ssh into one of my machines.
Best of all... I can write email in vim, the gold standard of text editing. However, it doesn't force me to, I could choose to use emacs, or some graphical editor if I really wanted to.
> Cats & Dogs have been domesticated over hundreds/thousands of generations
Cats are an interesting case in that, it appears that little domestication was needed. On the whole domesticated cats and their wild counterparts are quite similar.
Turns out, our species had some very convinent properties for co-habitation.
Their meat is not generally considered good, even amongst cultures where there is less taboo about eating a variety of animals. They, are under no delusion that we are prey.
They don't eat much of what we do, only eating fairly freshly killed meat and occasional roughage. In fact, they mainly kill and eat the rodents that try to eat our food stores, and keep them away.
On top of that, they are agreeably soft, purr, and stay mostly out of the way as they sleep 18 hours a day. Few places are safer to sleep than around us, and I bet that has been true since before we lived indoors. For cats, this was a perfect match.
The average lifespan of a wild cat is only a couple of years. Companion cats can live upwards of 20. They hardly got the shit end of the stick.
I am sure he would have rathered it too. I bet he has already submited a request :)
That said, they may not be approved containers but, 5 gallon buckets even hold gas. Its what the scrap yard uses when draining cars for crushing. Boy do they get some gas doing that too. Saw a guy drain nearly two "full" buckets (probably about 4 gallons, really silly to fill them to the brim).
I dunno, if there was an "approved container" and a bucket, I would be happy to let someone else use the approved container. Those buckets are fine for the job. Kind of a bitch to pour, but, if you go slow or a few of the nicer pour spout lids that snap on tight, they are just fine.
....of AND!
Why is it an either/or? Theres a lot of people and a lot of space to expand into. Asteroid mining means collecting resources, already in space. In the short term, it will take a lot of resources to grab and start, but long term, every ton of iron prepared and used in space, is a ton of iron that doesn't have to be lifted out of our gravity well to get out there.
Clearly, the moon, as a huge satelite that already exists....hell yes. Lets get a colony up there already.
I always find it amusing all this talk of how no nation will own the moon, as if, once space colonies become self-sufficient they are not going to want to self-govern. Populations expand, and as soon as its possible to do so, there will be people lining up to ship out and start spreading their seed.
As it stands, we are sitting at the table with our entire bankroll. As a species, we are one bad beat away from total extinction until there is at least one self-sufficient colony. Not that any of us could really call that our problem...at least not personally.
Would be a nice one to feel we are on track to solving though, would like to think we can finally one-up the cockroach on survivability.
BINGO! When I started working, this change had just been the new fad and just been made, so I had talked with my mother about how company benefits etc worked, they had just changed her over (and while I was not technicallty going to work for the same organization, it was the same organization in ways that only make sense if you were there) I very quickly clicked on "Oh its now a shared pool thats the same size as what vacation used to be"
Well of course, same applies. Though, not all sneezes are sickness. He could be allergic to something. I have a dust allergy and sneeze occasionally all year long whether I am sick or not, whether i take allergy meds or not.
Though, he probably makes close enough to min wage that you can assume its not that his sinuses are inflamed from his massive coke habbit :)
I want to stay home when I am sick. Sadly I am allergic to dust (and a few other unavoidables), so I never quite get that much respite, and am normally going back and forth between being stuffed up and not, on a normal day. I also tend to develop a cough in the winter, dry air really kills me. I can try to humidify all I want, and it does help, but... theres only so much I can do. I sneeze and cough sick or not.
Often I just don't know that I am sick until long after I am in the office, about the only way I can stay out of the office, garaunteed, while sick would be to not have a job. Disability seems a bit extreme for allergies (and no, nothing really controls it well... lortadine does help though).
Excuse for what? You need go back less than 100 years to see them with a democratically elected president (that we overthrew and installed a king... over oil) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
Isn't that the exact opposite of Hanlon's Razor?
Better said, and copied right from my old .signature archive:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends on his not understanding it"
-- U. Sinclair
I fully agree with your statement, in the abstract, but, in the specific case, I don't see how it holds.
Github is not your personal, private git repo. Github specifically exists for the purpose of sharing code. In fact, if you wanted to use them as a personal and private git repo, they offer that service, for a fee.
If you are using the free service, then, you ARE sharing your work. You are going out, and posting it in public for everyone to see, thats what you do whenever you push to github. It is a little like taking all of your personal notes, calendars, etc, and deciding the best place to store them is tacked to the side wall of the building by the sidewalk.
You may not have inteded to share with the world, but, your actions sure don't send that message.
Personally, I think cases like this should grant automatic license. You uploaded code that you wrote and you control to a site which, A) explicitly ONLY serves public files (unless you pay them) and B) allows anyone to fork a copy and use.
I would say, uploading to a site which is designed from the ground up for the purpose of sharing code between individuals projects and resdistributing it.... it seems reasonable to assume that this is exactly what you intend people to do with it, and so implicit license should be granted.
Its not anybody elses fault that you are abusing the service and expecting everyone else to treat your publicly posted code as sacrosanct and private just because you didn't want to pony up for a private account.
That is pretty much my assessment. To say that every person who invoked a diety for political reasons is a fanatic is ridiculous. Sure, they appease the fanatics, and probably employ many fanatics, and have a few within their ranks, but, nobody holds power long on ideology alone.
Frankly, toxic US policy is what setup their revolution, which was coopted by the towel heads. Now it is toxic US and Isreali policy which helps keep them there. All the sanctions and saber rattling does little but ensure that they have an external enemy to blame, and to rally the people behind them.