Now that I think about it, that kind of makes sense seeing as you're dealing with that large a number. I'm just gonna get 'em the latest iDevice. They've got Chromebooks now. But, the iDevices have good support for schools and they're what the district uses. They've also held up *very* well in the past - kids can find creative ways to abuse them. So, I guess I'm just gonna do that *unless* IT has a specific recommendation.
100k is quite a few by my count. Then again, I've seen people who have more "seats" than that. Gotta throw my geek-card off to the side for a minute and say that I'd absolutely hate that. I think that, at that scale, I'd go bonkers.
I owned a Viper quite a few years ago but then my kids (that's how long ago this was) decided to move in with me 'cause I had the cooler toys. *sighs* So, there went the Viper. The car I have with me is a BMW 6 series, it's actually a nice intonation. It's nearly ~450 horses and that's enough for my daily driver - I've alternatives, too many alternatives. I do not have another Viper though - I do miss mine. I'd buy the same exact one back if I could find it and was for sale.
I'll keep my eyes out for one of the Hellcats. The exhaust note seems like it'd be likely to be divine. Believe it or not, the 6 is actually quite nice - it's a low, throaty, growl until you give it some throttle and then it belies what is under the hood. I may be a grown adult, even an old and retired adult, but that's still actually an important aspect to me - as I'm sure you understand the value of being able to clearly hear an engine while driving a stick.
I've got a few friends with some Dodge experience. It doesn't look good for my getting to head south today so I'll see if any of them have any information about disabling it. One of them does have a Challenger but it is *not* the Hellcat. (I'm really not overly fond of it. The Hellcat, however, piques my interests.)
If you're serious, well... You know how to get my attention. I'd need pics, of course, and I can go from there. Given my schedule, I may have to have someone else retrieve it - probably a transport company. I've read enough of your posts to know what you've done for work on it - I'm presuming that you've done it well. I have a moderate interest, with the right car and price then I might be enticed. I've turned a couple of similar models down but I probably should own one, at least for a while. Bare minimum, it'd be going to a good home.
I am understanding that you can actually (they're pretty sure) just get rid of the OEM radio (whole infotainment?) and that kills it by itself. I don't know if the Challenger comes with steering wheel controls but you'd have to go after-market with those too, which is possible. Supposedly... That's the only way to kill it AND supposedly it works. I know some of the Dodge Ram guys were working on it, specifically going for antenna modifications, but I think that even when they applied filters that they still found data leaking.
As I'm sure you know, replacing the infotainment by itself is a bit of work and expense. I understand that it works - or that the folks who have done so claim that it works. That's more specific to the Ram but I'd expect them to be fundamentally similar.
Also, doesn't the Hellcat still have four seats? You're not going soft, are you?;-) That much bhp will be brutal but so much fun. I've yet to stumble into one. I'll see if I can find a good exhaust note recording on YouTube. Someone's bound to have recorded it near the point were it's bouncing off the rev limiter.
At any rate, I can't guarantee that it's successful. I just know that the Ram guys were looking into it and claimed some success a while back by simply swapping out either the radio or whole infotainment center. They're probably very similar so I'd check with them.
Heh, no... No it's probably not one of my best. I don't think I articulated it well.
The gist of what I'm saying is that, even though I'm not really a gamer any more, I'd still look at it in a VM. Why? I've tested pretty much all the major distros and minor distros in a VM. I might as well test this one. There's a chance, albeit a small one, that I'll like it. I'd like to see how it works, what it has for weaknesses, how easy it is to configure, and then I can make an informed opinion about it - and I might even be able to speculate as to how other people would see it.
I doubt, very much, that I'd use it to do anything other than test it. But, I'd like to know what it's about so that I can speak from some experience if asked. (Assuming it comes into being.) Rather than make an uninformed opinion about how it's bad, not worth the time, or sucks - I can see for myself what the weaknesses and strengths are and judge accordingly.
The alternative is that I can just wildly speculate that it's awful (or good) and that anyone who disagrees is wrong. If I conclude that then I'd like to be able to give real reasons for it - reasons that are based on actual use. Checking the usability, ability to modify, resource usage under default non-gaming load, desktop environment, and things like that? Those are things I can/could/would do. Then I can actually opine without making shit up and based on personal experiences.
There's also the slim chance that it'd be motivation to get back into gaming. I keep trying, thinking about it, and considering it. I just never get around to doing it again. I was really disappointed with Fallout Tactics but that was more the straw that broke the camel's back than one thing of its own. I was really disappointed but it wasn't just with that one particular game - that one game was the culmination.
That's his name and yeah, he had some computer fraud detection or counterfeit detection stuff going the last time I saw him mentioned somewhere. He's got his own business now (or did) and I think they even have some software that they sell. I'm pretty sure it's not typical end-user stuff.
It was a pretty good movie. I actually watched "Hackers" last night. Well, I tried to. I made it about halfway through. Given by the completed ratio, you can probably guess my opinion. I was less than impressed and could only make it so far into the movie.
I don't think I've seen the Mitnick movie. I'll definitely remember to look for it. I had no idea that there was a movie - there are a few documentaries. I typically only watch documentaries. As in, I've probably watched less than a dozen regular movies in the past year. I'm going to guess that the total number is less than ten, now that I think about it. I do, on the other hand, have documentaries going quite often, that or some streaming news radio.
At any rate, thanks. I'll check into the Mitnick movie tonight *if* I am still here and able to do so. Netflix or Hulu might have it. If not then, it's Mitnick, I'm sure one of the other sites will have it available for the low price of a few well crafted search terms.
I state the obvious when I say I agree entirely with your choices and think you're brilliant for having made those choices. I not only concur, I do similar.
However, I prefer a more robust experience with the web. I use Opera and have a set of extensions that enable me to do so.
I use a bunch of manually added searches in there. A translator by some dev called "SailorMax." uMatix. FreeDictionary Plugin - I could probably just add the search. SurfEasy (not really required). uBlock (not really required with uMatrix but handy). Stylish. ViolentMonkey (GreaseMonkey clone.)
With just those, I'm pretty content and can even run on some rather low-end hardware - I know 'cause I've tested. As I recall, you've not got a lot of RAM in the netbook. You linked earlier but I'm lazy and don't remember but there wasn't a whole lot in them. I've owned an Aspire One before. I've also run VMs with really low specs to torture test and see how well it ran.
Firefox does not do well on older hardware or with fewer resources. Opera manages memory much better - even better than Chromium in my perception. I've been *very* happy with it and have been using it since it was a paid browser back in the 1990s. Yeah, it's literally going on 20 years now. That doesn't mean I don't use other browsers and won't change, it's just that I keep returning to Opera and that I've got others installed for various tasks.
Err... I'm kind of big on that separation of duty thing? I've got browsers that open a specific set of tabs by default. They have certain extensions by default. They are used for various tasks and just a subset of tasks. I have whole virtual machines for this. I'm actually in Florida, using VNC to connect to my home network in Maine, using a VPN, and then using a VM over VNC to send you this. I keep no data local and sometimes don't even bother using anything more than a Live USB instance as my local OS. I do have some configured for persistent data and whatnot but I can mostly get a Live instance up and running in less than ten minutes. I can then hibernate or suspend, plop the USB in my pocket, and plug it in when I reboot. If I want to dump the session, I just don't reboot to that instance. It works well as I typically use the hibernate functionality.
This is turning into a novella. It's what you get for being an interesting and intelligent person. 'Snot my fault that you let on that you're smart. At any rate, if you don't mind, what OS have you got running under your DE? What's your WM? I'm just using the default of OpenBox. I'm kind of used to it so I'm comfortable with it. I've always had Linux on a partition but I wasn't using it enough so I just stopped using Windows one day and haven't looked back. Err... It's been a while now. I still learn stuff - which is why I started using it as my default. I just wasn't learning anything and I'm getting old - I don't want my brain to turn mushy.
One thing I have noticed, it really doesn't much matter what OS you've got underneath. I love poking and tweaking but, truth be told, I do that for fun - it's not even really a requirement anymore. I have some obscenely fast hardware. This laptop is not actually a laptop. It's a full-on developer's workstation. I'm not really a developer. I just liked the laptop. I've gobs of RAM. I tweaked out an X4K model, literally top of the line with everything added except the OS, and am *very* happy with the choice.
Anyhow, sorry for the novella. 'Snot my fault that you're interesting, as I said. You did it entirely to yourself for being smart and demonstrating it. Midori gets installed and stays installed but it's not my default.
It has been a while but can they do like they do for subs - sort of? Something like looking for an absence of noise. If the signal is lower then ambient noise and ambient noise has X-characteristics, won't signal with Y characteristics interfere with X characteristics enough to make a noticed change? I imagine it'd take some work to figure out what it looks like but that it might work to detect it.
I'm not articulating that as well as I'd like. 'Tis early and that's my excuse. But, if it's lower than the noise floor then it might actually serve to diminish what is the noise floor or at least alter the characteristics of it? Maybe I'm missing something - and I suspect I am, but that's what I thinking of as I was reading the summary. I didn't read the fine article, I am no heretic. I'm also guessing that the people who are doing this are much smarter than I am so that they've probably already considered this.
Oh, I'd only be testing it for usability, ease of updating, access to repositories, the DE workings, and things like that. Not for gaming. I thought I made that abundantly clear. Maybe not.
You've been responsible for 100,000 desktop system purchases? Note: That is not doubt, I've seen you post before and have absolutely no reason to doubt you, but it is me trying to make sure I understand completely.
I thought that I might hold some sort of record in that area. I do not. If I had to guess, I'd say that I'm in the 2 to 3k region. However, it was either my company or a purchase that was gifted. For example, I keep a local elementary school's system stocked - I adopted them when I retired to the area. I refresh every couple of years and let them keep the old ones. (They've only got 56 students, a small staff, and a single IT staff.)
100,000? I am duly impressed. I've bought servers, routers, load balancing equipment, HVAC gear, switches and hubs and even hardware firewalls. I've filled racks, I've filled entire server rooms, and even purchased giant disk arrays. Hell, I've even helped run fiber but mostly did the chasing. I've done a couple of splices but that's really not something I'm going to say I know how to do - I was aided in doing so.
Oddly, I don't really use any Apple products but I guess I can probably still say that I have *personally* purchased more iDevices than anyone here, with the caveat that it was with my own money. (The school's rather fond of Apple gear and I understand why and agree with their choices. If you're unfamiliar with it, Apple actually gives a pretty good discount for school purchases.)
But, back to the point... So that I'm sure I understand correctly, you mean 100,000 desktops have been purchased at your discretion? Remind me to *not* invest in a company that has pissed you off. Ripple effects on that kind of purchase power are immense. People like you need to fill out some good, thorough, surveys so that someone can crunch that data. InfoWorld and eWeek used to have some survey results and they used to make sure I got their whitepapers. I haven't seen anything like that in years. Years and years.
Which leads to my real question... So... (This is me buttering you up.) Umm... You being all-powerful, master and commander, and knowing of all things - both good and evil... I don't suppose you know what happened to those whitepapers that said what the industry leaders where buying and why? Specifically for end-user gear would be my desire. It's time to prepare to refresh the school soon. I'll do it over this coming summer and I've not been paying enough attention. I've been leaning towards whatever iDevice gets recommended to me by the IT guy but I'm open to suggestions and able to greatly influence what he's interested in. He's not chained to Apple but Apple's the district's standard - sort of. They hook kids up with laptops in middle school. This is the elementary school. We do what we want. (And the district doesn't mind, they love that I help the kids out.)
So, got any good links where I can find the latest opinions on enterprise grade from actual people in the trenches and a history of making purchases? I have, indeed, searched Google a bunch of times. I've not really found anything good and trustworthy. Half the papers are vendor "sponsored" crap and the other half are flawed by asking stupid questions to stupid people. At least those are what I've found.
Hmm... How else can I appeal to your good, kind, soul? Oh! Ha! It's for the children. It really is, think of the children. Better, think of the poor single IT staffer (just one - and he's not always able to be on-site) and the work he'll have to go through. I've considered an AskSlashdot but, I gotta be honest here, I've *seen* the results to those. If it matters, I still have a CDW account and they were still pretty unbiased/good the last time I went through them. If it's not Apple, I'll almost certainly go through them again but I've actually considered NewEgg.
Sorry for the novella but I figured I'd ask - seeing as you do appear to be a preeminent expert on the subject. (Not sarcasm. You don't get to those kind of numbers without knowing your shit.) Hell, that last part isn't even meant to butter you up.;-) If you've got any direction - I'd love to know. I'd go so far as to tell the kids that they can "thank Mr. Bloodhawk" but I think that the moniker might not go over well.
Not that anyone asked but I'd boot it up in a VM and test it out. Not for any good reason but because I've done it to just about every distro out there at one point or another. I might as well do this one too. Why not?
So, yeah... I'll test it out but it's *really* unlikely to become my main distro. Why? Err... As I've said many times, I am not a gamer. The gaming market lost me when they promoted Fallout Tactics as both good and the spiritual descendant of Fallout and Fallout 2. I've not really gamed since then - I was pretty livid and I hold a grudge. Trust is hard built and even harder recovered.
I've wanted to play the new Fallouts. I guess one of them (maybe more) is more an FPS so I didn't play that. I just can't seem to figure out those newfangled joysticks with the extra sticks on 'em. (I'm old.) I did buy a game a few days ago. I've not even installed it. I bought some game called Wasteland something or other. Yeah, I was high at the time.
At any rate, I'm guessing that's what this distro would be geared at and thus it'd be unlikely to be my preference. So, I'm unlikely to turn it into my main distro or even use it as anything other than a VM test to say that I've at least tried it once. I do wonder if it'll be butchered like what Google has done with the Linux kernel or if it'll be easy to drop replacements in, compile one's kernel of choice, and if it will even be a Linux-in-spirit type of thing. I suspect that one will be able to do those things though they might try to make it more difficult than it need be.
Oh, I'm atheist - thus Secular Buddhist. I do not believe in a god, put it that way. It's a tough subject to discuss in public as most people feel compelled to either tell me what I believe or tell me how to believe. I'm not really sure why.
I believe that "reincarnation" is real - because I understand basic science. Reincarnation is, to me, my atoms will someday be among the stars. And, they will be. Maybe not stars but there's a good chance of that considering how long the galaxy is expected to last and the fact that atoms are always recycled. I am made of matter, I can neither be created nor destroyed. Err - I will not reassemble as a new human, that's really unlikely. Even if I *did* reassemble as a new human, in my entirety, I'd not actually have any memory, association, nor care that my atoms had belonged to a dead human. Chances are, some of my current atoms belong to some long-dead human. They are not a part of me.
I am on a path - the path is that of enlightenment. Enlightenment can be different for anyone and often is. In my case, I'm seeking being content and working my way towards it by walking the 8 fold path as I see fit. It is imperative to note: I am not a monk, I'm not even a good Buddhist. I like to say, "I'm a Buddhist, not a fucking monk." (It's good for getting some strange looks.)
I believe in karma. For the most part. I don't think it matters in a "next life." That's just silly talk for weak people. No, I think karma is accumulated by doing good things. This is not always the truth but it seems to be true in the vast majority of cases. Even as poor as almost any situation is, it's somehow better if you're doing things for the right reason.
For me, I seek logic, reason, and to be content. For the most part, I'm content. I don't dislike anyone - nor do I intentionally try to harm anyone. (That even includes people on Slashdot's "foe" list - I use that as a marker and not as a personal indication - you must have said something I thought was irreparably wrong at some point - presumably something that led to fewer liberties for the individual than is required for a safe and effective society.)
I think the change came to me after I'd had the misfortune to get the chance to participate in life-fire combat. I spent eight years enlisted as a Marine. It's how I paid for my degree - I used the GI Bill. I learned a lot. I learned a lot about people. I don't like harming anyone - that doesn't mean I haven't and that I won't. It's that I'd prefer to not do so.
Martial arts? What kinds?
I studied some Jiu-Jitsu and Akido as a kid and into my 20s. I took every available course in MCT (Marine Combat Training). In my opinion, it's a great way to keep or get in shape - physically and (ideally) mentally. Without the mental aspect, I'm unimpressed. Hopefully you've a good Sensei?
Have you studied for long? Preferences? Favorite instructor? Any competitions aside from certifications?
I do not try to convert people to my religion. You're right. Buddhists aren't really about telling other people how to live or what to believe in. Over the years (I've been practicing for about 20 years) I've figured out one word to describe most Buddhists that I know. That is: Pragmatic. I've gone to actual monasteries and stayed there for a while (that's called 'refuge') and they seem generally content with me. They give me wisdom and direction. They put me back on the path. Well, no... They help me find my own way back. Yeah, pragmatism is the best way to put it. The best way that I can think of. They're not even always peaceful - they can and will be violent. There's a reason that monks are bad-ass martial artists. (I am *not* one of those.)
As for the East? I'm not really fond of Japan. I've been. I'll leave my opinions out of it. Thailand is a good choice, so is Laos of Vietnam. China might be a good place -- if you can get out of the cities. Money, your typical retirement fund, should hold you over there for a long, long time. Parts of India are nice. Nepal is nice but ca
The first one resonates with me. I'm a secular Buddhist (sure as hell not a damned monk) and have been on refuge a few times. I've yet to meet a Buddhist would would not like that joke - and see wisdom in it. I'll be sure to convey that.
We shall see. I've been on the phone with a guy that I met the last time I was there. I'm working on ways to bilk the tourists.;-) (I'm not kidding. I'd give more details but let's just say that's the goal.)
No, i didn't say defraud the tourists. Just a minor bilking is all. It looks like approval did not go through today.
Actually, the dude who did all the counterfeiting ended up working for the FBI and then for the banks as a consultant and now designs things that are more difficult to counterfeit. He even got a movie named after him. Buggered if I can recollect the name but the person is a real person who has since moved on to do some computer security stuff if I recall the eWeek article.
In the free internet that Facebook wanted to offer, you simply closed the app. That's all it was, an app. You still had normal 'net. You just only had limited connectivity while in that app and any data that was served through that app was served for free. To get out of it, you just closed the app and used a different one, a regular browser, or whatever. It didn't limit anything. It didn't prevent anything. It just gave data, to select sites, for free. In theory, anyone could get into that list of select sites provided they made a low-bandwidth version of the site. Or so they claim - I kind of figure that might have been rife with abuses. Other than that, and even with that, it's disappointing that it was disallowed. It's quite a success in other countries where it is in use.
A lot of information didn't make it to a number of biased sites. You had to go dig for it. It's in use elsewhere but not in India. It didn't change the phone's settings. It wasn't a special phone. It was just an app. It didn't limit other apps. It didn't impact other choices. It's just a continuation of the caste system. They don't want the untouchables on their internet.
Yeah but it gets funky when you change the settings for scripting and the Netscape plug-ins and whatnot. So, I always check in Midori just to be sure. I even check in Lynx and do what I can but, alas, I'm not a good web designer nor am I at all artistically inclined. That's why I check in Midori.;-)
If you're interested in light, check out Lubuntu with LXDE. It comes with Midori as the standard. It's what I use, even on much faster hardware, as it's my preferred desktop environment. You might be surprised at how much older hardware still has in it for life. Lubuntu is a great distro. Looking at the page you linked to, I suspect that you'd not even have to tinker a little bit and it would work like a champion. You could probably tweak the RAM and any CPU throttling could be altered. I doubt that you'd have to.
That is true. You have me there. It won't *normally* smell like piss - even when the fans are out and about. I don't know where they're pissing but probably not in the subway. Their bathrooms aren't actually that bad. I went to school in Cambridge, have some property and relatives in Dorchester and Roxbury, and have spent time in town off-and-on throughout my whole life. The subway system, even the buses, have improved a great deal since the 70s. Hell, the Plains have improved a lot since then. A lot sure has changed.
My property is up on Beech Glen Street (near Fort Ave and Highland Park) and it is absolutely amazing how much it has changed since then. I've got a relative that lives there and pays the bills (no rent, they just pay for costs and any repairs or upgrades) and I go to visit and have a room that's always there for me in the city. It's my "go to" when I get down that way - I retired to NW Maine.
When I first got to spend time, as a young adult, it was in the 1970s. It was a rough neighborhood and the place was pretty rough looking in general. Dorchester wasn't a whole lot better. Southie was a bit run-down. I'd a bunch of relatives over in Salem, in and around it, and spent quite a bit of time there in the 60s - before they went kind of strange. All of my relatives are gone from that area now, all gone to the Left Coast, except for a couple in Peabody and then some others out on the Cape. Err... That side of the family are the "Prescott" side. *sighs* I don't really fit in with 'em. Old money smells moldy.
At any rate, I guess the point is that it's really changed in so many ways. Even the subway is mostly good. I was on one of the buses not too long ago, a relative and I took 'em around town as I didn't feel like driving (I was pretty trashed) and the taxi drivers have always been meatheads in that city. So, we bused in and then spent a bunch of time in town before hopping on the subway and going out a bit (I want to say we over to Quincy Market) to eat and it wasn't bad at all.
Even shambling back, all the more inebriated, wasn't bad. I can assure you that neither of us even considered urinating on the train or near the platform. Then again, whilst we were inebriated, we weren't actually drunk. Well, I wasn't. I don't think they were. At least not much. Hell, we didn't even get mugged. The city really has changed a lot.
You may even end up getting some sort of insurance coverage from unemployment. Kids might get to miss school. Outbound roads, that far away, might still be open so you can get out of town and go camping, fishing, to the beach - wherever... Just so long as you don't want to go back home until it's over, you should be good to go.
I really, really have wanted to see the outcome of such a thing - for a lot of years. I'd hate to go through whatever it was that upset the people enough to want to do this but, I can assure you, it *will* get noticed. One thing that you can be certain of is that someone's going to get some attention and some media time. I don't know what it'd take to get that many people to do it but it'd have to be pretty terrible.
I figure it's a step before a revolution or a civil war (though I suppose those aren't entirely separate concepts and kind of depend on who wins, controls the history books, or is favored by the press at the time). So, whatever that needs is what it'd probably take to get a bunch of people, people with enough solidarity, to do something like that. I imagine they might do it if they tried to repeal the 4th or something. If they went to repeal the 2nd then it'd skip that step and that simply would not be an option. There's not going to be a whole lot of "peaceful" with that protest.
He was right about what? He lied, he wasn't *right* about anything.
Moscow is really neat - I didn't argue against that nor did I, in any way, indicate that NYC was anything other than what it was. Did you read what they wrote? Did you read what I wrote? I'm thinking that you didn't or, for some reason, either added things to their post or to my post. I responded to what they said and I meant everything that I said.
I'm not sure why you inserted NYC's subway system. It's not the topic and neither of us mentioned it. For starters, they compared a whole country (that they've never seen all of) with individual cities. Yet, here you are saying they're right.
Cool beans. I'll check it later - there's no huge rush, I hope? I won't be back in Maine until later this year (spring) and I'm actually trying to go to Cuba today or tomorrow. Today is no longer looking likely. I'm trying to get it expedited as I've never gone to Cuba directly from the US before (it was illegal) and I've never had my passport stamped with a Cuban stamp. I want to go there before they're more heavily influenced by the influx of Americans and, maybe, I'll look into some business opportunities there that do something other than leech from the people. I'm actually allowed to spend money there now. So, I'm kind of hoping to go soon but I'm not sure how long I'll get to stay.
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Now that I think about it, that kind of makes sense seeing as you're dealing with that large a number. I'm just gonna get 'em the latest iDevice. They've got Chromebooks now. But, the iDevices have good support for schools and they're what the district uses. They've also held up *very* well in the past - kids can find creative ways to abuse them. So, I guess I'm just gonna do that *unless* IT has a specific recommendation.
100k is quite a few by my count. Then again, I've seen people who have more "seats" than that. Gotta throw my geek-card off to the side for a minute and say that I'd absolutely hate that. I think that, at that scale, I'd go bonkers.
I owned a Viper quite a few years ago but then my kids (that's how long ago this was) decided to move in with me 'cause I had the cooler toys. *sighs* So, there went the Viper. The car I have with me is a BMW 6 series, it's actually a nice intonation. It's nearly ~450 horses and that's enough for my daily driver - I've alternatives, too many alternatives. I do not have another Viper though - I do miss mine. I'd buy the same exact one back if I could find it and was for sale.
I'll keep my eyes out for one of the Hellcats. The exhaust note seems like it'd be likely to be divine. Believe it or not, the 6 is actually quite nice - it's a low, throaty, growl until you give it some throttle and then it belies what is under the hood. I may be a grown adult, even an old and retired adult, but that's still actually an important aspect to me - as I'm sure you understand the value of being able to clearly hear an engine while driving a stick.
I've got a few friends with some Dodge experience. It doesn't look good for my getting to head south today so I'll see if any of them have any information about disabling it. One of them does have a Challenger but it is *not* the Hellcat. (I'm really not overly fond of it. The Hellcat, however, piques my interests.)
Want to buy my 1982 Mercedes 300SD?
If you're serious, well... You know how to get my attention. I'd need pics, of course, and I can go from there. Given my schedule, I may have to have someone else retrieve it - probably a transport company. I've read enough of your posts to know what you've done for work on it - I'm presuming that you've done it well. I have a moderate interest, with the right car and price then I might be enticed. I've turned a couple of similar models down but I probably should own one, at least for a while. Bare minimum, it'd be going to a good home.
If you're at all interested in information instead of making snippy comments on slashdot ...
You've got to be new here...
I am understanding that you can actually (they're pretty sure) just get rid of the OEM radio (whole infotainment?) and that kills it by itself. I don't know if the Challenger comes with steering wheel controls but you'd have to go after-market with those too, which is possible. Supposedly... That's the only way to kill it AND supposedly it works. I know some of the Dodge Ram guys were working on it, specifically going for antenna modifications, but I think that even when they applied filters that they still found data leaking.
As I'm sure you know, replacing the infotainment by itself is a bit of work and expense. I understand that it works - or that the folks who have done so claim that it works. That's more specific to the Ram but I'd expect them to be fundamentally similar.
Also, doesn't the Hellcat still have four seats? You're not going soft, are you? ;-) That much bhp will be brutal but so much fun. I've yet to stumble into one. I'll see if I can find a good exhaust note recording on YouTube. Someone's bound to have recorded it near the point were it's bouncing off the rev limiter.
At any rate, I can't guarantee that it's successful. I just know that the Ram guys were looking into it and claimed some success a while back by simply swapping out either the radio or whole infotainment center. They're probably very similar so I'd check with them.
Heh, no... No it's probably not one of my best. I don't think I articulated it well.
The gist of what I'm saying is that, even though I'm not really a gamer any more, I'd still look at it in a VM. Why? I've tested pretty much all the major distros and minor distros in a VM. I might as well test this one. There's a chance, albeit a small one, that I'll like it. I'd like to see how it works, what it has for weaknesses, how easy it is to configure, and then I can make an informed opinion about it - and I might even be able to speculate as to how other people would see it.
I doubt, very much, that I'd use it to do anything other than test it. But, I'd like to know what it's about so that I can speak from some experience if asked. (Assuming it comes into being.) Rather than make an uninformed opinion about how it's bad, not worth the time, or sucks - I can see for myself what the weaknesses and strengths are and judge accordingly.
The alternative is that I can just wildly speculate that it's awful (or good) and that anyone who disagrees is wrong. If I conclude that then I'd like to be able to give real reasons for it - reasons that are based on actual use. Checking the usability, ability to modify, resource usage under default non-gaming load, desktop environment, and things like that? Those are things I can/could/would do. Then I can actually opine without making shit up and based on personal experiences.
There's also the slim chance that it'd be motivation to get back into gaming. I keep trying, thinking about it, and considering it. I just never get around to doing it again. I was really disappointed with Fallout Tactics but that was more the straw that broke the camel's back than one thing of its own. I was really disappointed but it wasn't just with that one particular game - that one game was the culmination.
Meh, I'm probably still not articulating it well.
That's his name and yeah, he had some computer fraud detection or counterfeit detection stuff going the last time I saw him mentioned somewhere. He's got his own business now (or did) and I think they even have some software that they sell. I'm pretty sure it's not typical end-user stuff.
It was a pretty good movie. I actually watched "Hackers" last night. Well, I tried to. I made it about halfway through. Given by the completed ratio, you can probably guess my opinion. I was less than impressed and could only make it so far into the movie.
I don't think I've seen the Mitnick movie. I'll definitely remember to look for it. I had no idea that there was a movie - there are a few documentaries. I typically only watch documentaries. As in, I've probably watched less than a dozen regular movies in the past year. I'm going to guess that the total number is less than ten, now that I think about it. I do, on the other hand, have documentaries going quite often, that or some streaming news radio.
At any rate, thanks. I'll check into the Mitnick movie tonight *if* I am still here and able to do so. Netflix or Hulu might have it. If not then, it's Mitnick, I'm sure one of the other sites will have it available for the low price of a few well crafted search terms.
I state the obvious when I say I agree entirely with your choices and think you're brilliant for having made those choices. I not only concur, I do similar.
However, I prefer a more robust experience with the web. I use Opera and have a set of extensions that enable me to do so.
I use a bunch of manually added searches in there.
A translator by some dev called "SailorMax."
uMatix.
FreeDictionary Plugin - I could probably just add the search.
SurfEasy (not really required).
uBlock (not really required with uMatrix but handy).
Stylish.
ViolentMonkey (GreaseMonkey clone.)
With just those, I'm pretty content and can even run on some rather low-end hardware - I know 'cause I've tested. As I recall, you've not got a lot of RAM in the netbook. You linked earlier but I'm lazy and don't remember but there wasn't a whole lot in them. I've owned an Aspire One before. I've also run VMs with really low specs to torture test and see how well it ran.
Firefox does not do well on older hardware or with fewer resources. Opera manages memory much better - even better than Chromium in my perception. I've been *very* happy with it and have been using it since it was a paid browser back in the 1990s. Yeah, it's literally going on 20 years now. That doesn't mean I don't use other browsers and won't change, it's just that I keep returning to Opera and that I've got others installed for various tasks.
Err... I'm kind of big on that separation of duty thing? I've got browsers that open a specific set of tabs by default. They have certain extensions by default. They are used for various tasks and just a subset of tasks. I have whole virtual machines for this. I'm actually in Florida, using VNC to connect to my home network in Maine, using a VPN, and then using a VM over VNC to send you this. I keep no data local and sometimes don't even bother using anything more than a Live USB instance as my local OS. I do have some configured for persistent data and whatnot but I can mostly get a Live instance up and running in less than ten minutes. I can then hibernate or suspend, plop the USB in my pocket, and plug it in when I reboot. If I want to dump the session, I just don't reboot to that instance. It works well as I typically use the hibernate functionality.
This is turning into a novella. It's what you get for being an interesting and intelligent person. 'Snot my fault that you let on that you're smart. At any rate, if you don't mind, what OS have you got running under your DE? What's your WM? I'm just using the default of OpenBox. I'm kind of used to it so I'm comfortable with it. I've always had Linux on a partition but I wasn't using it enough so I just stopped using Windows one day and haven't looked back. Err... It's been a while now. I still learn stuff - which is why I started using it as my default. I just wasn't learning anything and I'm getting old - I don't want my brain to turn mushy.
One thing I have noticed, it really doesn't much matter what OS you've got underneath. I love poking and tweaking but, truth be told, I do that for fun - it's not even really a requirement anymore. I have some obscenely fast hardware. This laptop is not actually a laptop. It's a full-on developer's workstation. I'm not really a developer. I just liked the laptop. I've gobs of RAM. I tweaked out an X4K model, literally top of the line with everything added except the OS, and am *very* happy with the choice.
If you want to splurge and get yourself a present:
http://www.titancomputers.com/...
Anyhow, sorry for the novella. 'Snot my fault that you're interesting, as I said. You did it entirely to yourself for being smart and demonstrating it. Midori gets installed and stays installed but it's not my default.
It has been a while but can they do like they do for subs - sort of? Something like looking for an absence of noise. If the signal is lower then ambient noise and ambient noise has X-characteristics, won't signal with Y characteristics interfere with X characteristics enough to make a noticed change? I imagine it'd take some work to figure out what it looks like but that it might work to detect it.
I'm not articulating that as well as I'd like. 'Tis early and that's my excuse. But, if it's lower than the noise floor then it might actually serve to diminish what is the noise floor or at least alter the characteristics of it? Maybe I'm missing something - and I suspect I am, but that's what I thinking of as I was reading the summary. I didn't read the fine article, I am no heretic. I'm also guessing that the people who are doing this are much smarter than I am so that they've probably already considered this.
Oh, I'd only be testing it for usability, ease of updating, access to repositories, the DE workings, and things like that. Not for gaming. I thought I made that abundantly clear. Maybe not.
You've been responsible for 100,000 desktop system purchases? Note: That is not doubt, I've seen you post before and have absolutely no reason to doubt you, but it is me trying to make sure I understand completely.
I thought that I might hold some sort of record in that area. I do not. If I had to guess, I'd say that I'm in the 2 to 3k region. However, it was either my company or a purchase that was gifted. For example, I keep a local elementary school's system stocked - I adopted them when I retired to the area. I refresh every couple of years and let them keep the old ones. (They've only got 56 students, a small staff, and a single IT staff.)
100,000? I am duly impressed. I've bought servers, routers, load balancing equipment, HVAC gear, switches and hubs and even hardware firewalls. I've filled racks, I've filled entire server rooms, and even purchased giant disk arrays. Hell, I've even helped run fiber but mostly did the chasing. I've done a couple of splices but that's really not something I'm going to say I know how to do - I was aided in doing so.
Oddly, I don't really use any Apple products but I guess I can probably still say that I have *personally* purchased more iDevices than anyone here, with the caveat that it was with my own money. (The school's rather fond of Apple gear and I understand why and agree with their choices. If you're unfamiliar with it, Apple actually gives a pretty good discount for school purchases.)
But, back to the point... So that I'm sure I understand correctly, you mean 100,000 desktops have been purchased at your discretion? Remind me to *not* invest in a company that has pissed you off. Ripple effects on that kind of purchase power are immense. People like you need to fill out some good, thorough, surveys so that someone can crunch that data. InfoWorld and eWeek used to have some survey results and they used to make sure I got their whitepapers. I haven't seen anything like that in years. Years and years.
Which leads to my real question... So... (This is me buttering you up.) Umm... You being all-powerful, master and commander, and knowing of all things - both good and evil... I don't suppose you know what happened to those whitepapers that said what the industry leaders where buying and why? Specifically for end-user gear would be my desire. It's time to prepare to refresh the school soon. I'll do it over this coming summer and I've not been paying enough attention. I've been leaning towards whatever iDevice gets recommended to me by the IT guy but I'm open to suggestions and able to greatly influence what he's interested in. He's not chained to Apple but Apple's the district's standard - sort of. They hook kids up with laptops in middle school. This is the elementary school. We do what we want. (And the district doesn't mind, they love that I help the kids out.)
So, got any good links where I can find the latest opinions on enterprise grade from actual people in the trenches and a history of making purchases? I have, indeed, searched Google a bunch of times. I've not really found anything good and trustworthy. Half the papers are vendor "sponsored" crap and the other half are flawed by asking stupid questions to stupid people. At least those are what I've found.
Hmm... How else can I appeal to your good, kind, soul? Oh! Ha! It's for the children. It really is, think of the children. Better, think of the poor single IT staffer (just one - and he's not always able to be on-site) and the work he'll have to go through. I've considered an AskSlashdot but, I gotta be honest here, I've *seen* the results to those. If it matters, I still have a CDW account and they were still pretty unbiased/good the last time I went through them. If it's not Apple, I'll almost certainly go through them again but I've actually considered NewEgg.
Sorry for the novella but I figured I'd ask - seeing as you do appear to be a preeminent expert on the subject. (Not sarcasm. You don't get to those kind of numbers without knowing your shit.) Hell, that last part isn't even meant to butter you up. ;-) If you've got any direction - I'd love to know. I'd go so far as to tell the kids that they can "thank Mr. Bloodhawk" but I think that the moniker might not go over well.
Not that anyone asked but I'd boot it up in a VM and test it out. Not for any good reason but because I've done it to just about every distro out there at one point or another. I might as well do this one too. Why not?
So, yeah... I'll test it out but it's *really* unlikely to become my main distro. Why? Err... As I've said many times, I am not a gamer. The gaming market lost me when they promoted Fallout Tactics as both good and the spiritual descendant of Fallout and Fallout 2. I've not really gamed since then - I was pretty livid and I hold a grudge. Trust is hard built and even harder recovered.
I've wanted to play the new Fallouts. I guess one of them (maybe more) is more an FPS so I didn't play that. I just can't seem to figure out those newfangled joysticks with the extra sticks on 'em. (I'm old.) I did buy a game a few days ago. I've not even installed it. I bought some game called Wasteland something or other. Yeah, I was high at the time.
At any rate, I'm guessing that's what this distro would be geared at and thus it'd be unlikely to be my preference. So, I'm unlikely to turn it into my main distro or even use it as anything other than a VM test to say that I've at least tried it once. I do wonder if it'll be butchered like what Google has done with the Linux kernel or if it'll be easy to drop replacements in, compile one's kernel of choice, and if it will even be a Linux-in-spirit type of thing. I suspect that one will be able to do those things though they might try to make it more difficult than it need be.
Oh, I'm atheist - thus Secular Buddhist. I do not believe in a god, put it that way. It's a tough subject to discuss in public as most people feel compelled to either tell me what I believe or tell me how to believe. I'm not really sure why.
I believe that "reincarnation" is real - because I understand basic science. Reincarnation is, to me, my atoms will someday be among the stars. And, they will be. Maybe not stars but there's a good chance of that considering how long the galaxy is expected to last and the fact that atoms are always recycled. I am made of matter, I can neither be created nor destroyed. Err - I will not reassemble as a new human, that's really unlikely. Even if I *did* reassemble as a new human, in my entirety, I'd not actually have any memory, association, nor care that my atoms had belonged to a dead human. Chances are, some of my current atoms belong to some long-dead human. They are not a part of me.
I am on a path - the path is that of enlightenment. Enlightenment can be different for anyone and often is. In my case, I'm seeking being content and working my way towards it by walking the 8 fold path as I see fit. It is imperative to note: I am not a monk, I'm not even a good Buddhist. I like to say, "I'm a Buddhist, not a fucking monk." (It's good for getting some strange looks.)
I believe in karma. For the most part. I don't think it matters in a "next life." That's just silly talk for weak people. No, I think karma is accumulated by doing good things. This is not always the truth but it seems to be true in the vast majority of cases. Even as poor as almost any situation is, it's somehow better if you're doing things for the right reason.
For me, I seek logic, reason, and to be content. For the most part, I'm content. I don't dislike anyone - nor do I intentionally try to harm anyone. (That even includes people on Slashdot's "foe" list - I use that as a marker and not as a personal indication - you must have said something I thought was irreparably wrong at some point - presumably something that led to fewer liberties for the individual than is required for a safe and effective society.)
I think the change came to me after I'd had the misfortune to get the chance to participate in life-fire combat. I spent eight years enlisted as a Marine. It's how I paid for my degree - I used the GI Bill. I learned a lot. I learned a lot about people. I don't like harming anyone - that doesn't mean I haven't and that I won't. It's that I'd prefer to not do so.
Martial arts? What kinds?
I studied some Jiu-Jitsu and Akido as a kid and into my 20s. I took every available course in MCT (Marine Combat Training). In my opinion, it's a great way to keep or get in shape - physically and (ideally) mentally. Without the mental aspect, I'm unimpressed. Hopefully you've a good Sensei?
Have you studied for long? Preferences? Favorite instructor? Any competitions aside from certifications?
I do not try to convert people to my religion. You're right. Buddhists aren't really about telling other people how to live or what to believe in. Over the years (I've been practicing for about 20 years) I've figured out one word to describe most Buddhists that I know. That is: Pragmatic. I've gone to actual monasteries and stayed there for a while (that's called 'refuge') and they seem generally content with me. They give me wisdom and direction. They put me back on the path. Well, no... They help me find my own way back. Yeah, pragmatism is the best way to put it. The best way that I can think of. They're not even always peaceful - they can and will be violent. There's a reason that monks are bad-ass martial artists. (I am *not* one of those.)
As for the East? I'm not really fond of Japan. I've been. I'll leave my opinions out of it. Thailand is a good choice, so is Laos of Vietnam. China might be a good place -- if you can get out of the cities. Money, your typical retirement fund, should hold you over there for a long, long time. Parts of India are nice. Nepal is nice but ca
The first one resonates with me. I'm a secular Buddhist (sure as hell not a damned monk) and have been on refuge a few times. I've yet to meet a Buddhist would would not like that joke - and see wisdom in it. I'll be sure to convey that.
We shall see. I've been on the phone with a guy that I met the last time I was there. I'm working on ways to bilk the tourists. ;-) (I'm not kidding. I'd give more details but let's just say that's the goal.)
No, i didn't say defraud the tourists. Just a minor bilking is all. It looks like approval did not go through today.
Actually, the dude who did all the counterfeiting ended up working for the FBI and then for the banks as a consultant and now designs things that are more difficult to counterfeit. He even got a movie named after him. Buggered if I can recollect the name but the person is a real person who has since moved on to do some computer security stuff if I recall the eWeek article.
In the free internet that Facebook wanted to offer, you simply closed the app. That's all it was, an app. You still had normal 'net. You just only had limited connectivity while in that app and any data that was served through that app was served for free. To get out of it, you just closed the app and used a different one, a regular browser, or whatever. It didn't limit anything. It didn't prevent anything. It just gave data, to select sites, for free. In theory, anyone could get into that list of select sites provided they made a low-bandwidth version of the site. Or so they claim - I kind of figure that might have been rife with abuses. Other than that, and even with that, it's disappointing that it was disallowed. It's quite a success in other countries where it is in use.
A lot of information didn't make it to a number of biased sites. You had to go dig for it. It's in use elsewhere but not in India. It didn't change the phone's settings. It wasn't a special phone. It was just an app. It didn't limit other apps. It didn't impact other choices. It's just a continuation of the caste system. They don't want the untouchables on their internet.
Yeah but it gets funky when you change the settings for scripting and the Netscape plug-ins and whatnot. So, I always check in Midori just to be sure. I even check in Lynx and do what I can but, alas, I'm not a good web designer nor am I at all artistically inclined. That's why I check in Midori. ;-)
If you're interested in light, check out Lubuntu with LXDE. It comes with Midori as the standard. It's what I use, even on much faster hardware, as it's my preferred desktop environment. You might be surprised at how much older hardware still has in it for life. Lubuntu is a great distro. Looking at the page you linked to, I suspect that you'd not even have to tinker a little bit and it would work like a champion. You could probably tweak the RAM and any CPU throttling could be altered. I doubt that you'd have to.
That is true. You have me there. It won't *normally* smell like piss - even when the fans are out and about. I don't know where they're pissing but probably not in the subway. Their bathrooms aren't actually that bad. I went to school in Cambridge, have some property and relatives in Dorchester and Roxbury, and have spent time in town off-and-on throughout my whole life. The subway system, even the buses, have improved a great deal since the 70s. Hell, the Plains have improved a lot since then. A lot sure has changed.
My property is up on Beech Glen Street (near Fort Ave and Highland Park) and it is absolutely amazing how much it has changed since then. I've got a relative that lives there and pays the bills (no rent, they just pay for costs and any repairs or upgrades) and I go to visit and have a room that's always there for me in the city. It's my "go to" when I get down that way - I retired to NW Maine.
When I first got to spend time, as a young adult, it was in the 1970s. It was a rough neighborhood and the place was pretty rough looking in general. Dorchester wasn't a whole lot better. Southie was a bit run-down. I'd a bunch of relatives over in Salem, in and around it, and spent quite a bit of time there in the 60s - before they went kind of strange. All of my relatives are gone from that area now, all gone to the Left Coast, except for a couple in Peabody and then some others out on the Cape. Err... That side of the family are the "Prescott" side. *sighs* I don't really fit in with 'em. Old money smells moldy.
At any rate, I guess the point is that it's really changed in so many ways. Even the subway is mostly good. I was on one of the buses not too long ago, a relative and I took 'em around town as I didn't feel like driving (I was pretty trashed) and the taxi drivers have always been meatheads in that city. So, we bused in and then spent a bunch of time in town before hopping on the subway and going out a bit (I want to say we over to Quincy Market) to eat and it wasn't bad at all.
Even shambling back, all the more inebriated, wasn't bad. I can assure you that neither of us even considered urinating on the train or near the platform. Then again, whilst we were inebriated, we weren't actually drunk. Well, I wasn't. I don't think they were. At least not much. Hell, we didn't even get mugged. The city really has changed a lot.
You may even end up getting some sort of insurance coverage from unemployment. Kids might get to miss school. Outbound roads, that far away, might still be open so you can get out of town and go camping, fishing, to the beach - wherever... Just so long as you don't want to go back home until it's over, you should be good to go.
I really, really have wanted to see the outcome of such a thing - for a lot of years. I'd hate to go through whatever it was that upset the people enough to want to do this but, I can assure you, it *will* get noticed. One thing that you can be certain of is that someone's going to get some attention and some media time. I don't know what it'd take to get that many people to do it but it'd have to be pretty terrible.
I figure it's a step before a revolution or a civil war (though I suppose those aren't entirely separate concepts and kind of depend on who wins, controls the history books, or is favored by the press at the time). So, whatever that needs is what it'd probably take to get a bunch of people, people with enough solidarity, to do something like that. I imagine they might do it if they tried to repeal the 4th or something. If they went to repeal the 2nd then it'd skip that step and that simply would not be an option. There's not going to be a whole lot of "peaceful" with that protest.
I've a sad suspicion that not many people got it. :/ Ah well... Math humor has a rather limited audience.
Pfft... Real geeks know (and understand!) the Bailey, Borwein, and Plouffe Formula and a dozen ways to implement it in C.
Well, when you're old like us, you just say whatever you damned well feel like saying and damn the consequences or opinions.
Me? I think most people's feet are ugly and there's not a damned thing they can do about it.
He was right about what? He lied, he wasn't *right* about anything.
Moscow is really neat - I didn't argue against that nor did I, in any way, indicate that NYC was anything other than what it was. Did you read what they wrote? Did you read what I wrote? I'm thinking that you didn't or, for some reason, either added things to their post or to my post. I responded to what they said and I meant everything that I said.
I'm not sure why you inserted NYC's subway system. It's not the topic and neither of us mentioned it. For starters, they compared a whole country (that they've never seen all of) with individual cities. Yet, here you are saying they're right.
Cool beans. I'll check it later - there's no huge rush, I hope? I won't be back in Maine until later this year (spring) and I'm actually trying to go to Cuba today or tomorrow. Today is no longer looking likely. I'm trying to get it expedited as I've never gone to Cuba directly from the US before (it was illegal) and I've never had my passport stamped with a Cuban stamp. I want to go there before they're more heavily influenced by the influx of Americans and, maybe, I'll look into some business opportunities there that do something other than leech from the people. I'm actually allowed to spend money there now. So, I'm kind of hoping to go soon but I'm not sure how long I'll get to stay.