I suppose there's probably some benefit. It's not like they still can't be read with a whole host of other tools. It's probably speedier, less space, and while binary they're not actually hard to read at all - in my experience. I've yet to have a problem with them, have you? I'm also pretty sure that you can change the logging and forward it or do almost anything you want with it - though I have no idea how to do so, I'm sure I could Google it if I needed.
Don't get me wrong - I'd love to hate systemd like the rest of you. I just haven't had a problem with it - at all, ever, on a whole variety of systems. Other than a few Android tablets, a Windows phone, and an iPad or iPod or two - I've got systemd on pretty much everything I own and use on a regular basis. Not only do I regularly end up messing stuff up but that's the whole reason I use Linux - to keep learning new things. Yet, even though everyone tells me it's terrible, I've had a whole whopping zero problems with it.
That's not because of some great skill or some arcane knowledge. I don't consider myself adept with Linux at all. I've always, well since the mid-90s, had one distro or another installed somewhere or on a partition in a dual boot, I hardly ever used it until a couple of years ago when I started using it more. Then, I decided my brain was turning to mush from not learning anything new, so I switched to using Linux almost exclusively. (I don't use the tablets very often, I sometimes use GhostBSD in a VM, and I recently decided to start using a Windows phone so I've had the phone for about four months.)
I've a convoluted setup, I won't bother to describe it all right now, but I'm on the road (stalled in Florida for the winter - I think) but was living in various hotels and wanted to ensure I was able to have a reasonably secure connection so I was often connected to my home computer, via VNC, while using a VPN, and often with a VM or just using a Live USB with, sometimes, persistent memory. And, no, it actually gets worse than that - but it's a long story. Suffice to say, it's probably the least likely system to work at all - yet, I left home in September. I can still connect and do all of that same stuff today - but I'm actually just connected normally at the moment because I'm not at a hotel, I'm at my house in Florida.
Hell, I even upgraded that home box to Lubuntu 15.10 when the time came - by remote, it rebooted and there I was. I regularly even reboot it, via remote, to apply kernel updates. (I then, often, use a VM which I can play with, trash, and learn with - while still keeping functionality.) On top of that, there's a whole network that I can use remotely. I don't really even save anything locally any more. I haven't in a long time. It's all saved to a server, backed up regularly with on-site and remote backups.
It just works. At least for me. I can not make any claims for you or for anyone else but has this binary logging been a problem? I've not yet been unable to access a log when I needed to - that even includes accessing boot logs when I had trouble. I'm not much more than a bumbling fool with Linux, I've been awarded as a Microsoft MVP multiple times but have long-since given up on that and I have a long history with Unix, specifically Solaris from back in the day. I've used a little BSD, GhostBSD as mentioned - though I've tried the others, and am largely still very much learning new things with Linux. That's why I use it - specifically why I use it. I use it because I suck at it and want to not have my brain turn to mush. I'm getting older, was getting to be a rather passive computer user, so I switched to using Linux pretty much to the exclusion of everything else.
In other words, by every measure, I should hate systemd and should be having all sorts of problems. I haven't. I can still use init scripts if needed. I can still read the logs - I love journalctl and grep when there are problems. I've read a bunch about it. At one point, I had a handy link where someone had done a complete teardown of
Not at all, I figure you might want to actually make more people interested in your link. You might be, somehow, unfamiliar with my posts but I can assure you - I am not trolling at all. I actually enjoyed your link and think you'll get more interest by simply requesting instead of ordering. You don't have to listen to me, of course, but I bet I'm the first person who's ever actually clicked on your link, watched the video, and made it a point to type out a long, thought out, reply trying to help you get the message out.
If you think that's trolling then, well... I don't know what to tell you. If your goal isn't to have people click your link then I'm not sure why you'd put it in there. If your goal is to have people click the link and, as I suspect, I'm the only one to do so - then you might want to consider why that is. I realize it's a bit more complicated than fits on a bumper sticker or in 140 characters but, there you have it.
Not that I don't troll, from time to time, but this is not that time. Indeed, 'twas not only not a troll but was a well reasoned (I think) response that might help you actually reach the people you appear to be trying to reach with your link. Maybe you can try rereading my post with that in mind, however - I mentioned that in the first place so that might not actually do you any good.
This is not concerning the topic at hand and is longer than what fits on a bumper sticker and certainly doesn't fit into 140 characters. It may actually be of value to you, that's entirely up to you to decide.
I do not usually take orders from people who are not qualified to give them but I made an exception and watched the video, as instructed, and it was mildly interesting (though I'm a little concerned with his verbiage - I know what he means when he says that CO2 emits heat). Otherwise, it was an interesting and unusual way of expressing things and I appreciated it. I'd suggest, if you'd prefer more folks actually watch it, that you change your signature to a request - as opposed to an order.
One thing that I liked was how he presented it. This is what it is and this is what is going to happen and this is what is lacking. What I did not like is that he proposed no real solutions other than suggesting that the free market was the only way to deal with this. I will not waste time arguing if he is correct or not with that assertion but I will point out that he offered no actual solutions.
So, while mildly amusing and an interesting viewpoint it is a bit disappointing in its lack of substance. I'd have been interested in hearing some proposals as to how the free market was to go about enacting the needed changes. I do not know if that was because he truly lacks ideas for solutions and just believes in the free market and the political right, if he was limited in time and unable to speculate as to some specifics, if he was limited in scope by some other method (perhaps arbitrary and not decided by him), or what else could have prevented him from elaborating.
This had the unfortunate effect of making me take away the message that he was possibly pandering, patronizing, or had no real solutions. Either way, it was still interesting to see and hear a different perspective and to see things expressed in a different manner. With the expression that "CO2 emits heat" (with no caveats) it does have great potential for misinterpretation of speculation as to his skills or motives.
That said, I'd again stress the importance of requesting politely versus giving orders. I followed your order because I was curious but I think you'll find very few people are willing or interested in taking orders from someone who's not qualified to give them. I presume you are nobody's master and I know you are not mine, thus you lack the qualifications required to give orders. If you have chosen your signature's link in hopes that people will watch it, and I'd agree that it is worth watching, then it might be a better accomplished by making a polite request as opposed to usurpation of position as master and insisting.
I'm assuming that you did not think about the tone of your signature and I'm hoping that you're not of the opinion that you're qualified to give orders. I'm also assuming that you'd rather more people than I to click through and view the video (or you'd probably have not made the effort). If I were to respond in kind then it would be, "Change the phrasing of your signature to a request." However, I am not your master and would not deem myself as having the authority to give you instructions to be obeyed. So, instead, I'll simply suggest that you'll have a greater impact by changing the verbiage and tone of your signature.
As a good portion of my life was filled with both giving and accepting orders, and having an understanding of the effectiveness of tone and the limits imposed by simple text, I'd be more than happy to give you some assistance if you're truly interested in increasing views of your link. If you're an American or Canadian (some limited chance elsewhere) there's actually a good chance that I've been giving you orders for years. Unlike you, I had the authority to give you those orders - some of them had potentially life altering consequences for failure to obey my orders.
That probably doesn't make much sense to you but it's quite true. I modeled traffic and, with that, comes
Other than bloat, why is it a serious design defect?
No, I'm not kidding. I'm not trying to prove a point. I am not trying to argue. I simply do not know why that is a problem, by default, and why it is a serious design defect?
I know of one group of folks who argue, a great deal, about this sort of thing and I'm not even entirely sure where they'd put drivers like this. Well, no.... I know they probably don't actually support this hardware at all. Those people would be the microkernel folks and their work is over at MINIX and in version 3 at this point, if I recall correctly.
Is that where you're going with your statement? If so then, if I may ask, what OS do you use?
I don't have the skills or history to make an authoritative statement like what you made. So, if I may be permitted some license, I'd say that I'd think it would probably be better if, somehow, all these drivers weren't included by default but were loaded, modularly, as needed - as in added to the kernel (somehow) when the device is first enumerated.
I'm assuming (perhaps wrongly - I do not know) that all these device drivers are not loaded into memory and that they kernel only loads what is needed into memory, as well. If I am mistaken and these device drivers, even those which are unused, are all loaded into memory by default when the kernel is loaded into memory then I can certainly see where that would be a problem but I kind of assume that's not what is happening.
At the same time, I'm not sure what changing this process would mean. Would it mean that we had to hunt down drivers ala Windows and that, should we upgrade to a newer OS, our devices may no longer work? I'm not sure that would be better.
What then, if you'd be so kind, would you recommend and why? How would it differ from the current system as far as performance and difficulty? I do know that one of the benefits of a microkernel is added security but that it comes at a cost of increased system resource usage and lower performance. If that's your proposition then how much difference would that make?
Thanks in advance. I seriously do not know the entirety of the functionality in these regards and I'm not at all sure why you'd consider this a design flaw or, worse, a "serious design defect" to the point where you'd go on to make some strange claims about Linus personally or, more accurately, how other people interact with him.
I do not recollect seeing anything in the mailing list about the BeagleBone specifically, so that's all I have for you. I could have missed it but a quick peek doesn't reveal anything. Unfortunately, sometimes they get poorly filtered and my various folders have ended up a mess because of this. They're not that bad but sometimes things get lost in the shuffle and while I don't delete anything (of importance) things do, at times, go amiss.
You know, I think I'm going to take this as an opportunity to "rant." It's not really probably going to be a rant or tirade but it's likely to be long and meandering. There's a few things that I want to say on this subject and now is a fine time to say them. Unfortunately, they're a bit too complicated to fit on a bumper sticker and a bit longer than 140 characters.
If I may be so bold... Perhaps you could send them one? I've done similar things but for much different reasoning. There was a pricey new video card and someone on the list was really wanting one to get it supported. I sent them one. I've done similar things for other parts in the past. I don't necessarily need/want to make use of those devices but my code skills are less than acceptable but I still like to find ways to contribute. I'm not sure if that makes much sense? See, I already make regular donations to a variety of projects (some of which I don't even use but feel are worthy of support) and I already make yearly donations to The Linux Foundation, sometimes more often if I have money left over from my "budget" at the end of the month, but that doesn't seem like it's enough at times.
It's hard to explain but I feel compelled to help support various groups. I feel it's my part of the social contract yet I get right pissed off when people say that I'm obligated to do so. I don't really know how to explain it. I mean, yeah, I got *very* lucky in life and had the good fortune to have great people help me along the way. Yes, I've accumulated more wealth than most people - to the point where I've truly more money than I could ever need. So, while I feel obligated to donate, I don't like being told that I have to. I feel like I should help, so I do. Sometimes people tell me that I am obligated to and that makes me not want to. It's really confusing in my head, at least.
But, to be more specific, there are times and places where I get to do something more targeted. Yes, it is less money than I might donate normally but, in addition to that donation, doing something like buying a specific video card or other piece of expensive hardware seems more meaningful and like it is more rewarding. They probably don't have the budget for something like a $900 video card or a $200 gaming mouse so being able to not only get them those things so that they can develop and support them makes me feel like I'm actually contributing more than I do with just a normal donation. No, I'm not a gamer and I don't really give a rats ass about high quality video cards - I'd never buy either of the products used as an example for myself. I simply don't need or want them - but somebody does and, chance are, that there are a few other people who will benefit from that. It may not be many but those few who do benefit would, quite probably, had to deal with limited functionality or sub-par performance had the developers not had access to the hardware. So it seems more targeted, more special, and I enjoy it more - it seems more personal, I guess.
So, to make a short story long, the boards aren't expensive. If you want support then ask. Ask on the mailing list, if you must, but while asking say something like this:
"Hey, I've got this current situation with these boards. It works but I'd like to see if maybe we can get something better going. I think it would really help the community. So, I went and bought a half dozen of them and I'd like to send them to you guys to see if maybe you can get them supported in the mainline. No, I'm not affiliated, I'm just an avid user and I also make use of Linux on them already to suppor
Actually, it probably *won't* be pushed to the LTS if it did not come with the LTS. However, AFAIK, the mainline kernel PPA isn't maintained any more and they're provided in.DEB format here:
I guess it's more accurate to say that AFAIK it's not quite the same as the regular PPA functionality. It is, in the URL, still listed as a PPA but I don't think it functions like one any more. I could be mistaken and I'm, by no means, a guru.
That's supposed to check for an updated kernel after login and automatically. I don't think I'd want that. I'd disable that feature and use it's other feature which allows you to check/upgrade manually. Seriously, unless there's a reason to use it - there's often no real rush to upgrade to the latest and greatest kernel. The LTS will be getting the security updates for the duration of its support lifecycle and, if it works, there's probably no benefit to be had by upgrading for the *average* user. It is, of course, still possible - the easiest method being at the first link. You can edit out the end of the URL and be find the non-daily builds as well, so you can use that to find a specific kernel if you need something more specific than the daily or latest.
Caveat: I am, by no means, to be considered an expert. Verify any and all things I say/suggest by using other sources as needed. Not only am I not responsible if you hose your system, I'm probably not willing to come to your house and fix it. Meh, I might if you're local but chances are REALLY good that you know more about it than I do. While I am, technically, on the Lubuntu maintenance team that's purely by accident and I've done absolutely nothing but read the mailing list - I signed up by accident and someone decided to accept my application - I assume they'll let anyone join. As I have access to a great deal of hardware, I should probably learn a bit and, maybe, offer up a few build boxes/test systems. I just don't feel comfortable offering until I know more and I probably won't know more until I offer and then get taught so it's a bit of a chicken and egg thing.
Nobody here has just one computer. None of us... Every single one of us has at least two, many of us have far more than that. Personally, I have no fucking clue how many computers I own but it's a damned sight more than two. Err... It's probably in the... No, I'm not gonna admit that in public.:( Erf... Yeah, if I count my 'collection' of old hardware, I'm easily in the 100 computer range. No, I'm not even kidding. In my defense, I own several houses and have my own servers as well as desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, SoCs, etc... Yeah, umm... Err... It's probably actually over 100. I have a whole "lab" in my basement, a sever room, and a networking closet in my home in Maine.
Not counting phones, there are six desktops, four laptops, a backup server, and a couple of tablets in this house (PCB, FL) right now. In my defense, again, three of the desktops are a few years old and I'm hoping to send them to a good home. They're not bad, they've all got 16 gigs of RAM or more, SSDs with HDD backups, and recent CPUs - they were bought a few years ago when I was down here last and I'm in the process of refreshing them. If I don't find anyone local to take them, I'll just donate them - I did find a maker club that was fairly local so I can contact them - they'd probably want them. They still have Windows on them but they're MSDN licenses so I can't transfer those and will need to wipe them before they go. I don't suppose you, fine AC, are in the area and in need of some computers? I'm even giving away the peripherals as I've purchased new monitors, mice, and keyboards. Hell, I might even have more than that. I've not looked in the attic and there are boxes that I've not peeked into out in the garage. There's also a storage shed attached to the boathouse. So, yeah, I might have more than that here.
Yes, yes I have an addiction problem. I can stop any time I want to!!!
But, seriously, they can read the manual - it's online and NOBODY here has just one computer or even just one computer with internet access. I suspect that not only do we all have more than one computer WITH internet access, we've a "parts closet" (I can't be the only one) that can be hit up to make several other computers in a matter of a few minutes. I mean, literally, a few minutes. If I'm careful then I can put a box together in like a half hour. Hell, I probably can do that here and I don't even technically live here - I just visit and vacation here. So, on the off-chance that six computers, a server, four laptops, and a couple of tablets AND the phones all died - I could probably rummage around and get something going, online, and read the fucking manual.
For the record, yes, yes I have read the manual for systemd. All of it. Why? It was new and I wanted to see what the hell it did. I've actually used some of the features and they've come in handy. Specifically analyze and blame have been the most handy for my last use but I regularly use journalctl and using journalctl with grep comes in pretty handy too.
The most talented and experienced Linux users have already moved to FreeBSD.
You say that but it doesn't appear to be true. Notice, of course, that Linus still uses Linux. Notice that Linux is still being actively developed. I think you're just saying what you want to be true.
I, for example, still use Linux and I typically use Lubuntu which has systemd. I should also add that I should not be counted as "talented and experienced." I do have a lot of Unix experience, then Windows, then Linux, but Linux only stayed on a partition and hardly got any use. I've since switched to using Linux exclusively and spent a couple of years making the switch.
I'd like to hate systemd but, so far, it's done me no harm and I've learned a few new commands (like blame and analyze) and have even found it useful. I've yet to find a lot that I can't read. I've yet to find a problem I couldn't make worse by fucking something important up - except systemd. For all the things I break, that's yet to be the cause of a single problem. Trust me, I break a lot of things.
I did mention that I'm not in the talented group for a reason, after all.
I'd love to hate it. I love me a good hate fest and I like to rant and rage. I love to find something that pisses me off and tell the world about it. I break my computer in new and interesting ways. I don't just break one - I break a lot of them. I've got real server hardware, I've got colocated hardware, I've got countless desktops and laptops. I mean, a truly obscene amount of hardware. At my home in Maine, there is not one room without at least one computer in it. Every single room has at least one computer. Down here in Florida, a house I've used a total of six times, I'm refreshing the hardware that will remain here - there are three desktops, four laptops, and one server. Oh, there are three desktops, complete with all their hardware, that are ready to go to a good home. They were a few years old (I bought them in 2013) so they're being replaced but the new ones have not been set up yet. They are physically here, however. The laptops will leave when we leave to go back to Maine and the server will remain, it doesn't need refreshing and I'm too lazy to reconfigure a new one. Anyone need a few fairly recent desktops and is local to Panama City Beach?
At any rate, for all the poking and breaking that I do, I don't have a problem with systemd. I can't speak for you, for Tom, for Dick, or for Harry - but I can say that, as much as I'd like to be outraged, the damned thing hasn't caused me one iota of trouble. It has even been, dare I say it, helpful more than once.
Anyhow, I don't think the best and brightest have moved to FreeBSD. I imagine some have but they probably weren't the best and brightest. I don't see Linus switching and I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that he's probably among the best and most experienced. Besides, they'd go to GhostBSD anyhow. It's the same damned thing, pretty much, but much nicer by default. Even I can figure out how to use it.
I have pneumonia and missed this thread - it's automotive related (tractors) so I'm sad. So, my belated reply...
Umm... You know, you have a pretty solid skill set, right? I'm going by your informed/quality posts and judging based on that. I don't know if you've actually looked into it but it might be (and probably is) much easier to get a work visa with your skillset than you seem to think. You're a programmer/developer, right? I have more than one friend who is an ex-pat, working happily in Europe, right now - and others that have gone to other areas, specifically a couple of Asian countries and one in the Middle East. Two of them aren't even developers, they're "just" systems administrators. Others are an EE, a mathematics professor, and the last is actually "just" a performance artist.
If it's something you're truly interested in then you might find it's easier than expected. With Europe, for example, it doesn't seem to take a whole lot more than actually getting a job and then the visa process seems pretty easy and you either roll down every six months and fill out some forms or you apply for citizenship and fill out more forms but less often. My understanding is that, once you're there, even if you lose your job you're pretty good so long as you keep stomping down and filling out the forms every six months. Some countries are a bit more difficult, like France, but the rest are pretty easy. It's not very easy to get citizenship in Australia though - unless you've got money. I'm not sure about working there but I have looked into citizenship at one point.
If you're as skilled as you seem to be, you probably won't have much trouble at all. I have worked in Europe on more than one occasion and, not only that, I brought a coupe of my employees along with me for the data collection and reconciliation phases. I've even left them there for project oversight. Yeah, there was some paperwork (much easier for us - we worked directly for governments) but it wasn't onerous.
One caveat: So long as you retain your US citizenship while working abroad, you may be obligated to pay US taxes. That can be a bit complicated.
I have a 2015 BMW that I have with me here in Florida, it's my daily driver and what I chose to take with me on my wanderlust that got interrupted. At any rate, I can remove my ECU, send it away, and have it reflashed. I understand that I can also buy one and have them reflash that. Optionally, I can send the whole car and they do lots of things to it and instead of 450 ponies it would have like 650 ponies under the hood. It's surprisingly not all that much more expensive to have it done but it's not something I want. The car is plenty fast as it stands and I'm quite fond of the current handling. I have other cars that are faster and have stiffer handling characteristics and whatnot. So, I'll not be doing that.
I don't know but I *think* they have the source code via an authorized channel. So, while it's not simple, consistent, or inexpensive - it does appear to be optional with some models and makes.
Sorry for the delayed reply but I somehow missed this thread when I was ill/more ill. I've got pneumonia. Yay! They have me on prednisone which seems to make me grumpy. I've not been nearly as active as normal - I'm afraid I'll say mean things that I'll later regret. I do try to be civil.;-) The missus says I'm handling it well.
At any rate, all is not lost. Also, some of the LS engines are monsters and *very* tweakable. I'm actually surprised to see anyone here that even mentions them or knows of them - even though they're fairly common/famous. There aren't a whole lot of automotive buffs here, sadly.
Having rental property means that I've had to go through this more than once and you're VERY right. I wish I'd seen this thread earlier but I was ill (I still am - I was diagnosed with pneumonia) and I didn't bother to read it in a timely manner. Except, in some cases - they don't go there and collect stuff if they don't have stuff to collect, they can go there and arrest them as they are in contempt of court. I figured I'd add that - as it's an important thing, albeit belatedly. Some judges really, really do not like things like your being in contempt of court.
That's a shame. Those were really impressive, for their day, and I'd actually probably tender a fairly good offer for something like that - even if it needed repairs and assuming it was repairable or could be made whole by a capable gunsmith. I'm not sure if I'm recollecting properly but I think some of them even ended up mounted on tripods to be used as anti-aircraft weapons. I'm an aficionado but not an all-knowing trivia buff.;-) It'd make an excellent addition.
I turned down a Thompson for $7500 a few years back. I am still kicking myself for that one. I'd fired it, I didn't really like it. I still think it would have been a good buy - it's worth quite a bit more than that. There's a bunch of pre-ban stuff that's still highly functional and loads of fun. I just wish that I could demonstrate capacity for ownership and buy newer stuff. There's a slim chance that I'll move to somewhere that is less restrictive but there's that chance. I really like the freedoms afforded me here and I love my country - as screwed up as it is. Leaving would seem like I was giving up on it.
*sighs*
So, yeah, it'd be nice to be able to buy things that are not classed as weapons of mass destruction. I'd love to have an M4. I'm actually on the lookout for a true M16, pre-ban obviously, in good repair but they are stupidly expensive and it's hard to find someone willing to get rid of one that's been properly maintained. Now, if I could get it with the M203 (grenade launcher) then I'd be like a giddy school girl.
Perhaps, but I have personally witnessed what an unsecured load has done in the back of a truck (albeit for different reasons) and I've also witnessed what happens to the bags of kitty litter. In the former, the load was not secured properly but was not placed in the bed of the truck for the purpose of increasing traction. In the latter, the bags all stayed in the bed of the truck and one broke open so there was some kitty litter to clean up. The unsecured load was actually the mentioned buckets of sand but they were some guy who was doing some concrete mixing for something or other - I don't know for what. He rear-ended a car that pulled out in front of him. He didn't get hurt but the buckets of sand bent the bed and broke the back window. The kitty litter was just a mess after a friend went into a snowbank at a rather high rate of speed. As I was a passenger, I was quite displeased with his driving. He was, of course, kind of drunk - as was I. I used to drink back then and didn't always think clearly about who I was wiling to ride with. We were otherwise fine and just had the next passerby with a truck yank us out of the snowbank. I think we had to bend the fender back out to avoid having it rub on the tire. Yay for drunken idiocy...
I see where the confusion might be. The claim is that the accident can be avoided, most of the time, even when it is not your fault. Yes, this is true. It requires that the OTHER person(s) do the avoiding. The problem is that people drive like complete fucking morons. They don't pay attention, they drive impaired, they drive vehicles that are not properly maintained, they do not practice or learn proper avoidance techniques, they get minimal training, and generally suck at something that's really rather dangerous. In those cases, the ones you're referencing, the victim *might* have been able to do something (I don't recall them exactly and didn't go look) to either avoid it or minimize the risks of harm but - importantly and pointedly - they could have been avoided by the person who caused the accident not being a dumbass.
I'm not one for forcing people to do many things, even when safety pretty much demands it, but I am in favor of greater competency examinations for licensing and various grades of licenses. I also wish that people would voluntarily do things to not just maintain their skills but to improve their skills. If you don't live in an area with snow but will end up driving in snow - go to an empty unplowed parking lot and have some fun for an hour or two. Buy some cones and try to improve your slalom times. Learn to use the emergency brake in a safe manner to do a controlled skid. Learn evasive driving techniques for asset protection (one of the best courses I have ever taken). Rent an exotic with slicks on a track and learn to control a vehicle while achieving maximum acceleration times. Learn how to drive with a trailer, how to back up with one, and even how to parallel park with one. Learn how to hear and feel the RPMs so that you can speed shift, shift without a clutch, or even skip a gear. Learn to drive a six-by and how to take off with a heavy load and the granny gear. Learn how to safely draft (don't do so on a public highway at the same distance you might do so on a track) and learn how that feels as it pulls your vehicle to greater speeds.
I could go on... I've taken many, many courses over the years. Your tax dollars taught me how to drive, at first. Well, I had my license but I didn't really know *how* to drive. For a long while, that was my MOS and was one of the reasons my next MOS was as an escort/chaser (transportation officer) at a military detention facility. I've spent a fortune learning, on top of that, and really enjoyed it. I've spent classroom time and then time with a professional coach in rented exotics doing timed laps at Nurburgring (if you're unfamiliar with that particular course, it's fantastic). I've ridden a motorcycle on the course (not during the race and at legal-ish speeds) on the Isle of Man. I've done every level of the Skip Barber program (they kind of suck, to be honest, but they have nice cars and it's a good way to get some good track time at a reasonable price when you're not interested in pro-am racing yourself but just for time trial or low-level, zero-contact, racing). I've done Bondurant, Berg, O'niel too. Heh, I've done lots of extra learning.
I don't suggest that people go that far but even just taking some extra defensive driving courses with classroom AND in-vehicle practice helps. It's a dangerous activity but accidents can be prevented. In over forty years, I have zero accidents on my record. (I have bit it pretty hard on various closed courses, not always through my own fault directly but probably I could have avoided them by not driving too fast for the conditions but that kind of negates the whole point of racing.) I do like to rally and have a rally car (I chose a Saab 900S Turbo but I'm thinking about getting a Mini or a WRX as my Saab is idle with a blown engine).
In case you can't tell, I take driving seriously and worked in the industry (which you may already know) as my business (sold in 2007, finalized in 2008) was traffic modeling. Accidents are easily avoided by simply not driving too fast for the conditions, keeping yo
Dissipation of energy and conservation of energy. Would you rather be hit with a snowball or a snowball that I'd stuck in the freezer for a month? Sand contains moisture. It will freeze. When it is frozen is mass is more concentrated. Thus, they use kitty litter - usually wrapped in a couple of heavy duty trash bags. Usually it's the big bags, several of them, each wrapped (or double wrapped) to keep moisture out. If it were sand then it would be a big, heavy, solid block in the winter. If the kitty litter gets wet then that will happen too but it's less likely to form a solid block as the individual grains absorb the liquid better and thus don't generally make it a solid block unless it's soaked through entirely. If it's soaked through entirely, well, you throw it out or save it to use in your garage or to clean up spills on your driveway. It's not just about harm to the occupant but about damage to other things in the bed of the truck or the truck bed itself. It's not uncommon to go into a snowbank with some force but not actually do much damage to the vehicle - but a frozen chunk of sand in the back becomes a dangerous projectile or damaging projectile with varied degrees of risk. To lower the risk, they use kitty litter.
I have, in my control, multiple corporations for a variety of reasons. They can come with a whole host of benefits and can be used for all sorts of good things. I strongly urge most everyone to look into the possible benefits - you can even do some interesting tax structuring with one if you're interested in going that route. Basically, you hire yourself to go to work at your regular job and then your car becomes an asset that has depreciation, fuel costs become business expenses, and things of that nature - that's one such option that folks can use, legally, to reduce their tax burden.
Of course you're free to hold any opinion and voice any opinion you want. That's what's great about freedom. You're not just free to do so, you're at liberty to do so - that's even better. Of course, there are inherent risks in all such things but I'd rather liberty than pseudo-safety.
On a personal level, I'd not own any firearm that I wasn't comfortable with. If I don't know how to safely operate and care for it, I don't own it. The result is, of course, that I learn the safe operation and care methods required. I own some rather rare pieces and some are quite delicate and can be very dangerous if handled improperly. I also ensure that they are stored at a level where they are reasonably secure - I've a whole concrete encased room with a steel door with an embedded frame and additional safes inside that room. I value my liberties and take great care to use them responsibly and do my best to uphold my end of the social contract.
LOL Umm... I think you might be mistaking why it is he sees that you're not a prosecutor. I'd suggest that you take some time to actually study law before opining on matters of law IF you want to be taken seriously. Or, well, just keep doing what you're doing and expecting the results to be different... It's entirely up to you but I'd seriously recommend some formal study if possible or some informal study (via auditing courses or reading the course material and studying that) if you're actually interested in matters of law. It's quite a fascinating subject. I'll give you one small example, but I believe Mr. Beckman is far more adept than I, morality doesn't always have a place in law.
You're not be a prosecutor, not because you'd be an "activist" or the likes, but because you're obviously lacking the educational background. Don't worry, you can learn if you want. I know a little - enough to do some of my own legal work but I still hire legal council when needed. I hire them as council not to represent, I'm that familiar with law. The example for your tirade is the big assumption that you made which is, I'm pretty certain, false - they are not necessarily duty bound, and I suspect you lack the information (and material assets to gain that information easily) to make such determinations. It's even all the more amusing that you attempt to make those claims with such an authoritative stance.
I suspect, having bumped into Mr. Beckman before, I'm being slightly more polite than he might be. I'd take care to listen to him - he does appear to be an authority on matters of law.
Wow, you're drunk. You're not normally this dumb. I've seen you post before. Either that or you're not thinking clearly. Would you rather I throw a frozen ball of sand at you or a handful of loose sand that has the same volume of sand as the frozen ball? This is also in the back of a truck - in the bed. It goes forward in the direction of travel, at the angle of travel. When it hits (and you want to use kitty litter, really - there's moisture in the sand and it's likely to freeze) then the bags rupture and you get a mess of kitty litter. That's it... Yes, a fluke accident could happen where you somehow ended up launching it high enough (but not too high) so that it went through the window and into the cab and you'd be hit in the head with a bag of kitty litter - and that might hurt or even kill you. The odds are pretty damned low and low enough to where it's safer to have weight in the back of your vehicle, as far back as possible, to provide maximum traction. This is pretty well established by people who do this year 'round, for good parts of the year, or otherwise need to increase their traction. Some really, really, stupid people will use buckets of sand. Some very cautious people will find a way to fix things so that they're solidly held in place. Most people go for a reasonable compromise of safety and efficiency. Imagine that!
Umm... They split open when they hit the back of the truck's cab and make a mess. You don't think they have enough force to go through the side of a truck's bed and then through the cab wall and then through a seat and whatnot, do you?
With the original answer - by not having the other party driving like a fucking moron. The accidents are easily avoided - just not by the person whom you seem to think is the one responsible for avoiding that accident. I'm not sure how much easier I can explain this. Hmm...
If you're in an accident that you couldn't have avoided - it was still an accident that could have been (perhaps easily) avoided by the *other* person not doing what they're doing. Almost every single accident is caused (and pay careful attention to the verbiage) by someone driving too fast for the conditions. Sometimes the conditions are such that even 1 MPH is too fast for the conditions. A drunk backs into a car at 2 MPH? They were driving too fast for the conditions.
I don't want to make an appeal to authority but I think you're just not understanding or making it harder than it needs to be. The victim can not always make choices that avoids the accident (though they often can - or can alter the outcome to reduce risks of injury) but the person causing the accident could have, nearly always, avoided the accident.
I've taken *many* advanced driving courses, including hiring professional coaches and doing things like timed laps at Nurburgring, I've rally raced, I've driven open wheel cars of varied capacity, I've even driven "stock" cars in non-professional races and at a number of different schools. Almost every accident can be avoided - easily. There are some fluke accidents but, even those, could/should probably have been avoided, often by properly maintaining and inspecting your vehicle prior to operation.
Accidents are caused by speed but not directly by speeding. Accidents are caused by going too fast for the conditions. That can be avoided by driving below the threshold for safe operation of your vehicle. If everyone did that, surprise, we'd have far fewer accidents.
As I mentioned above, I've been *very* lucky in life. I've also met a few Slashdotters in similar shoes and some who haven't been quite as fortunate but are still quite well off. I sold my business (traffic modeling) at the peak time - the government was to invest some 800 Billion in "shovel ready" jobs and many of them concerned highways. There are about 300 million people in the US. If you took everything I own, sold off the assets at their paper value, took all liquid assets, and then divided them among the entire country - you'd give each and every person a little bit less than $1.50.
Or, as it is now, I invest in small businesses, I make ONLY long-term investments in the stock market, and I even still directly employ a few people. (I used to employ a bit over 200 people.) These days it's a bit different - I was able to invest and buy some 2000 shares in Tesla when they were a mere $24 each. I don't count that as income yet - I've not yet sold those shares. I invest in smaller businesses in a variety of ways - including through a credit union. I have my "play" portfolio (that's the one that has the above mentioned Tesla shares) and I have a real finance manager who takes care of my real portfolio.
So, what's better? I can buy the entire country a cheap hamburger or I can actually keep folks employed and help them be upwardly mobile. I pay a reduced tax rate to encourage me to make long term investments. A lot of people aren't aware that short-term investments are taxed at income tax levels - while long-term investments are where you get the capital gains rates. Actually, come to think of it, it's often the people who are the least knowledgeable about such things that bitch the most and have the most outlandish "solutions."
There will always be poor people for a whole host of reasons, some of which are quite complex. One of the things that I've heard repeated is that we should take all the money from those in the 1%. I know, those people are not the normal folks and I'm using them as an example just for that reason. I am quite comfortably in the 1% - I've done exceptionally well and was very lucky and was able to sell my company at a time when it became insanely valuable ("shovel ready jobs" being the mantra and traffic modeling being what my company did). There are about 300 million people in the US. If you took all of my money, sold all of my assets at full market value, and distributed my "wealth" each man, woman, and child would have about an extra $1.50.
Then, when we really look at it - those people bitching about the 1% are actually in the 1% themselves if you look at things from a world-wide viewpoint. Strangely, I don't see them wanting to have all their property taken - i bet that $1.50 would go a lot further for some starving kid in a third world country.
I think we'll always have poor people because we'll always have greedy people. In my way, I contribute to society by both helping companies grow and by employing a few people directly still. (I used to employ over 200 people.) I don't have the answers, I don't know of a solution that'd actually work. I could crunch the numbers but i suspect that if we averaged out all the world's wealth we'd just all be equally fairly poor. I guess that would be more "fair" and more "just." I'm not so sure that it would be "right."
One of the things that I do enjoy, and think that the US government got right, is that (up to a certain limit) I can reduce my tax burden by donating to qualified charitable organizations. I do that. I do a lot of that, actually. I consider it taxation with representation or close enough. It's nice to be able to have some say and it's something I am inclined to agree with as far as tax codes go. I don't actually write off all of it, I sometimes prefer anonymity which means no receipt.
Of course, we're not in a position where charities are able to cover all the world's needs. It's unfortunate, really. I really don't see it ever being perfect and I see it as being remarkably better than it *could* be.
They're a fairly common troll, they've been at it for a while now. I know it sounds strange but I'm pretty sure they're actually someone on the political right who is intentionally making such absurd comments in hopes that it discolors the left. Then again, there are quite a number of insane people on the left of the political spectrum as well - so they could really believe it. I just think that's unlikely.
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I suppose there's probably some benefit. It's not like they still can't be read with a whole host of other tools. It's probably speedier, less space, and while binary they're not actually hard to read at all - in my experience. I've yet to have a problem with them, have you? I'm also pretty sure that you can change the logging and forward it or do almost anything you want with it - though I have no idea how to do so, I'm sure I could Google it if I needed.
Don't get me wrong - I'd love to hate systemd like the rest of you. I just haven't had a problem with it - at all, ever, on a whole variety of systems. Other than a few Android tablets, a Windows phone, and an iPad or iPod or two - I've got systemd on pretty much everything I own and use on a regular basis. Not only do I regularly end up messing stuff up but that's the whole reason I use Linux - to keep learning new things. Yet, even though everyone tells me it's terrible, I've had a whole whopping zero problems with it.
That's not because of some great skill or some arcane knowledge. I don't consider myself adept with Linux at all. I've always, well since the mid-90s, had one distro or another installed somewhere or on a partition in a dual boot, I hardly ever used it until a couple of years ago when I started using it more. Then, I decided my brain was turning to mush from not learning anything new, so I switched to using Linux almost exclusively. (I don't use the tablets very often, I sometimes use GhostBSD in a VM, and I recently decided to start using a Windows phone so I've had the phone for about four months.)
I've a convoluted setup, I won't bother to describe it all right now, but I'm on the road (stalled in Florida for the winter - I think) but was living in various hotels and wanted to ensure I was able to have a reasonably secure connection so I was often connected to my home computer, via VNC, while using a VPN, and often with a VM or just using a Live USB with, sometimes, persistent memory. And, no, it actually gets worse than that - but it's a long story. Suffice to say, it's probably the least likely system to work at all - yet, I left home in September. I can still connect and do all of that same stuff today - but I'm actually just connected normally at the moment because I'm not at a hotel, I'm at my house in Florida.
Hell, I even upgraded that home box to Lubuntu 15.10 when the time came - by remote, it rebooted and there I was. I regularly even reboot it, via remote, to apply kernel updates. (I then, often, use a VM which I can play with, trash, and learn with - while still keeping functionality.) On top of that, there's a whole network that I can use remotely. I don't really even save anything locally any more. I haven't in a long time. It's all saved to a server, backed up regularly with on-site and remote backups.
It just works. At least for me. I can not make any claims for you or for anyone else but has this binary logging been a problem? I've not yet been unable to access a log when I needed to - that even includes accessing boot logs when I had trouble. I'm not much more than a bumbling fool with Linux, I've been awarded as a Microsoft MVP multiple times but have long-since given up on that and I have a long history with Unix, specifically Solaris from back in the day. I've used a little BSD, GhostBSD as mentioned - though I've tried the others, and am largely still very much learning new things with Linux. That's why I use it - specifically why I use it. I use it because I suck at it and want to not have my brain turn to mush. I'm getting older, was getting to be a rather passive computer user, so I switched to using Linux pretty much to the exclusion of everything else.
In other words, by every measure, I should hate systemd and should be having all sorts of problems. I haven't. I can still use init scripts if needed. I can still read the logs - I love journalctl and grep when there are problems. I've read a bunch about it. At one point, I had a handy link where someone had done a complete teardown of
Not at all, I figure you might want to actually make more people interested in your link. You might be, somehow, unfamiliar with my posts but I can assure you - I am not trolling at all. I actually enjoyed your link and think you'll get more interest by simply requesting instead of ordering. You don't have to listen to me, of course, but I bet I'm the first person who's ever actually clicked on your link, watched the video, and made it a point to type out a long, thought out, reply trying to help you get the message out.
If you think that's trolling then, well... I don't know what to tell you. If your goal isn't to have people click your link then I'm not sure why you'd put it in there. If your goal is to have people click the link and, as I suspect, I'm the only one to do so - then you might want to consider why that is. I realize it's a bit more complicated than fits on a bumper sticker or in 140 characters but, there you have it.
Not that I don't troll, from time to time, but this is not that time. Indeed, 'twas not only not a troll but was a well reasoned (I think) response that might help you actually reach the people you appear to be trying to reach with your link. Maybe you can try rereading my post with that in mind, however - I mentioned that in the first place so that might not actually do you any good.
This is not concerning the topic at hand and is longer than what fits on a bumper sticker and certainly doesn't fit into 140 characters. It may actually be of value to you, that's entirely up to you to decide.
I do not usually take orders from people who are not qualified to give them but I made an exception and watched the video, as instructed, and it was mildly interesting (though I'm a little concerned with his verbiage - I know what he means when he says that CO2 emits heat). Otherwise, it was an interesting and unusual way of expressing things and I appreciated it. I'd suggest, if you'd prefer more folks actually watch it, that you change your signature to a request - as opposed to an order.
One thing that I liked was how he presented it. This is what it is and this is what is going to happen and this is what is lacking. What I did not like is that he proposed no real solutions other than suggesting that the free market was the only way to deal with this. I will not waste time arguing if he is correct or not with that assertion but I will point out that he offered no actual solutions.
So, while mildly amusing and an interesting viewpoint it is a bit disappointing in its lack of substance. I'd have been interested in hearing some proposals as to how the free market was to go about enacting the needed changes. I do not know if that was because he truly lacks ideas for solutions and just believes in the free market and the political right, if he was limited in time and unable to speculate as to some specifics, if he was limited in scope by some other method (perhaps arbitrary and not decided by him), or what else could have prevented him from elaborating.
This had the unfortunate effect of making me take away the message that he was possibly pandering, patronizing, or had no real solutions. Either way, it was still interesting to see and hear a different perspective and to see things expressed in a different manner. With the expression that "CO2 emits heat" (with no caveats) it does have great potential for misinterpretation of speculation as to his skills or motives.
That said, I'd again stress the importance of requesting politely versus giving orders. I followed your order because I was curious but I think you'll find very few people are willing or interested in taking orders from someone who's not qualified to give them. I presume you are nobody's master and I know you are not mine, thus you lack the qualifications required to give orders. If you have chosen your signature's link in hopes that people will watch it, and I'd agree that it is worth watching, then it might be a better accomplished by making a polite request as opposed to usurpation of position as master and insisting.
I'm assuming that you did not think about the tone of your signature and I'm hoping that you're not of the opinion that you're qualified to give orders. I'm also assuming that you'd rather more people than I to click through and view the video (or you'd probably have not made the effort). If I were to respond in kind then it would be, "Change the phrasing of your signature to a request." However, I am not your master and would not deem myself as having the authority to give you instructions to be obeyed. So, instead, I'll simply suggest that you'll have a greater impact by changing the verbiage and tone of your signature.
As a good portion of my life was filled with both giving and accepting orders, and having an understanding of the effectiveness of tone and the limits imposed by simple text, I'd be more than happy to give you some assistance if you're truly interested in increasing views of your link. If you're an American or Canadian (some limited chance elsewhere) there's actually a good chance that I've been giving you orders for years. Unlike you, I had the authority to give you those orders - some of them had potentially life altering consequences for failure to obey my orders.
That probably doesn't make much sense to you but it's quite true. I modeled traffic and, with that, comes
Other than bloat, why is it a serious design defect?
No, I'm not kidding. I'm not trying to prove a point. I am not trying to argue. I simply do not know why that is a problem, by default, and why it is a serious design defect?
I know of one group of folks who argue, a great deal, about this sort of thing and I'm not even entirely sure where they'd put drivers like this. Well, no.... I know they probably don't actually support this hardware at all. Those people would be the microkernel folks and their work is over at MINIX and in version 3 at this point, if I recall correctly.
Is that where you're going with your statement? If so then, if I may ask, what OS do you use?
I don't have the skills or history to make an authoritative statement like what you made. So, if I may be permitted some license, I'd say that I'd think it would probably be better if, somehow, all these drivers weren't included by default but were loaded, modularly, as needed - as in added to the kernel (somehow) when the device is first enumerated.
I'm assuming (perhaps wrongly - I do not know) that all these device drivers are not loaded into memory and that they kernel only loads what is needed into memory, as well. If I am mistaken and these device drivers, even those which are unused, are all loaded into memory by default when the kernel is loaded into memory then I can certainly see where that would be a problem but I kind of assume that's not what is happening.
At the same time, I'm not sure what changing this process would mean. Would it mean that we had to hunt down drivers ala Windows and that, should we upgrade to a newer OS, our devices may no longer work? I'm not sure that would be better.
What then, if you'd be so kind, would you recommend and why? How would it differ from the current system as far as performance and difficulty? I do know that one of the benefits of a microkernel is added security but that it comes at a cost of increased system resource usage and lower performance. If that's your proposition then how much difference would that make?
Thanks in advance. I seriously do not know the entirety of the functionality in these regards and I'm not at all sure why you'd consider this a design flaw or, worse, a "serious design defect" to the point where you'd go on to make some strange claims about Linus personally or, more accurately, how other people interact with him.
I do not recollect seeing anything in the mailing list about the BeagleBone specifically, so that's all I have for you. I could have missed it but a quick peek doesn't reveal anything. Unfortunately, sometimes they get poorly filtered and my various folders have ended up a mess because of this. They're not that bad but sometimes things get lost in the shuffle and while I don't delete anything (of importance) things do, at times, go amiss.
You know, I think I'm going to take this as an opportunity to "rant." It's not really probably going to be a rant or tirade but it's likely to be long and meandering. There's a few things that I want to say on this subject and now is a fine time to say them. Unfortunately, they're a bit too complicated to fit on a bumper sticker and a bit longer than 140 characters.
If I may be so bold... Perhaps you could send them one? I've done similar things but for much different reasoning. There was a pricey new video card and someone on the list was really wanting one to get it supported. I sent them one. I've done similar things for other parts in the past. I don't necessarily need/want to make use of those devices but my code skills are less than acceptable but I still like to find ways to contribute. I'm not sure if that makes much sense? See, I already make regular donations to a variety of projects (some of which I don't even use but feel are worthy of support) and I already make yearly donations to The Linux Foundation, sometimes more often if I have money left over from my "budget" at the end of the month, but that doesn't seem like it's enough at times.
It's hard to explain but I feel compelled to help support various groups. I feel it's my part of the social contract yet I get right pissed off when people say that I'm obligated to do so. I don't really know how to explain it. I mean, yeah, I got *very* lucky in life and had the good fortune to have great people help me along the way. Yes, I've accumulated more wealth than most people - to the point where I've truly more money than I could ever need. So, while I feel obligated to donate, I don't like being told that I have to. I feel like I should help, so I do. Sometimes people tell me that I am obligated to and that makes me not want to. It's really confusing in my head, at least.
But, to be more specific, there are times and places where I get to do something more targeted. Yes, it is less money than I might donate normally but, in addition to that donation, doing something like buying a specific video card or other piece of expensive hardware seems more meaningful and like it is more rewarding. They probably don't have the budget for something like a $900 video card or a $200 gaming mouse so being able to not only get them those things so that they can develop and support them makes me feel like I'm actually contributing more than I do with just a normal donation. No, I'm not a gamer and I don't really give a rats ass about high quality video cards - I'd never buy either of the products used as an example for myself. I simply don't need or want them - but somebody does and, chance are, that there are a few other people who will benefit from that. It may not be many but those few who do benefit would, quite probably, had to deal with limited functionality or sub-par performance had the developers not had access to the hardware. So it seems more targeted, more special, and I enjoy it more - it seems more personal, I guess.
So, to make a short story long, the boards aren't expensive. If you want support then ask. Ask on the mailing list, if you must, but while asking say something like this:
"Hey, I've got this current situation with these boards. It works but I'd like to see if maybe we can get something better going. I think it would really help the community. So, I went and bought a half dozen of them and I'd like to send them to you guys to see if maybe you can get them supported in the mainline. No, I'm not affiliated, I'm just an avid user and I also make use of Linux on them already to suppor
Actually, it probably *won't* be pushed to the LTS if it did not come with the LTS. However, AFAIK, the mainline kernel PPA isn't maintained any more and they're provided in .DEB format here:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kern...
I guess it's more accurate to say that AFAIK it's not quite the same as the regular PPA functionality. It is, in the URL, still listed as a PPA but I don't think it functions like one any more. I could be mistaken and I'm, by no means, a guru.
I have come across this:
https://github.com/GM-Script-W...
That's supposed to check for an updated kernel after login and automatically. I don't think I'd want that. I'd disable that feature and use it's other feature which allows you to check/upgrade manually. Seriously, unless there's a reason to use it - there's often no real rush to upgrade to the latest and greatest kernel. The LTS will be getting the security updates for the duration of its support lifecycle and, if it works, there's probably no benefit to be had by upgrading for the *average* user. It is, of course, still possible - the easiest method being at the first link. You can edit out the end of the URL and be find the non-daily builds as well, so you can use that to find a specific kernel if you need something more specific than the daily or latest.
Caveat: I am, by no means, to be considered an expert. Verify any and all things I say/suggest by using other sources as needed. Not only am I not responsible if you hose your system, I'm probably not willing to come to your house and fix it. Meh, I might if you're local but chances are REALLY good that you know more about it than I do. While I am, technically, on the Lubuntu maintenance team that's purely by accident and I've done absolutely nothing but read the mailing list - I signed up by accident and someone decided to accept my application - I assume they'll let anyone join. As I have access to a great deal of hardware, I should probably learn a bit and, maybe, offer up a few build boxes/test systems. I just don't feel comfortable offering until I know more and I probably won't know more until I offer and then get taught so it's a bit of a chicken and egg thing.
Nobody here has just one computer. None of us... Every single one of us has at least two, many of us have far more than that. Personally, I have no fucking clue how many computers I own but it's a damned sight more than two. Err... It's probably in the... No, I'm not gonna admit that in public. :( Erf... Yeah, if I count my 'collection' of old hardware, I'm easily in the 100 computer range. No, I'm not even kidding. In my defense, I own several houses and have my own servers as well as desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, SoCs, etc... Yeah, umm... Err... It's probably actually over 100. I have a whole "lab" in my basement, a sever room, and a networking closet in my home in Maine.
Not counting phones, there are six desktops, four laptops, a backup server, and a couple of tablets in this house (PCB, FL) right now. In my defense, again, three of the desktops are a few years old and I'm hoping to send them to a good home. They're not bad, they've all got 16 gigs of RAM or more, SSDs with HDD backups, and recent CPUs - they were bought a few years ago when I was down here last and I'm in the process of refreshing them. If I don't find anyone local to take them, I'll just donate them - I did find a maker club that was fairly local so I can contact them - they'd probably want them. They still have Windows on them but they're MSDN licenses so I can't transfer those and will need to wipe them before they go. I don't suppose you, fine AC, are in the area and in need of some computers? I'm even giving away the peripherals as I've purchased new monitors, mice, and keyboards. Hell, I might even have more than that. I've not looked in the attic and there are boxes that I've not peeked into out in the garage. There's also a storage shed attached to the boathouse. So, yeah, I might have more than that here.
Yes, yes I have an addiction problem. I can stop any time I want to!!!
But, seriously, they can read the manual - it's online and NOBODY here has just one computer or even just one computer with internet access. I suspect that not only do we all have more than one computer WITH internet access, we've a "parts closet" (I can't be the only one) that can be hit up to make several other computers in a matter of a few minutes. I mean, literally, a few minutes. If I'm careful then I can put a box together in like a half hour. Hell, I probably can do that here and I don't even technically live here - I just visit and vacation here. So, on the off-chance that six computers, a server, four laptops, and a couple of tablets AND the phones all died - I could probably rummage around and get something going, online, and read the fucking manual.
For the record, yes, yes I have read the manual for systemd. All of it. Why? It was new and I wanted to see what the hell it did. I've actually used some of the features and they've come in handy. Specifically analyze and blame have been the most handy for my last use but I regularly use journalctl and using journalctl with grep comes in pretty handy too.
The most talented and experienced Linux users have already moved to FreeBSD.
You say that but it doesn't appear to be true. Notice, of course, that Linus still uses Linux. Notice that Linux is still being actively developed. I think you're just saying what you want to be true.
I, for example, still use Linux and I typically use Lubuntu which has systemd. I should also add that I should not be counted as "talented and experienced." I do have a lot of Unix experience, then Windows, then Linux, but Linux only stayed on a partition and hardly got any use. I've since switched to using Linux exclusively and spent a couple of years making the switch.
I'd like to hate systemd but, so far, it's done me no harm and I've learned a few new commands (like blame and analyze) and have even found it useful. I've yet to find a lot that I can't read. I've yet to find a problem I couldn't make worse by fucking something important up - except systemd. For all the things I break, that's yet to be the cause of a single problem. Trust me, I break a lot of things.
I did mention that I'm not in the talented group for a reason, after all.
I'd love to hate it. I love me a good hate fest and I like to rant and rage. I love to find something that pisses me off and tell the world about it. I break my computer in new and interesting ways. I don't just break one - I break a lot of them. I've got real server hardware, I've got colocated hardware, I've got countless desktops and laptops. I mean, a truly obscene amount of hardware. At my home in Maine, there is not one room without at least one computer in it. Every single room has at least one computer. Down here in Florida, a house I've used a total of six times, I'm refreshing the hardware that will remain here - there are three desktops, four laptops, and one server. Oh, there are three desktops, complete with all their hardware, that are ready to go to a good home. They were a few years old (I bought them in 2013) so they're being replaced but the new ones have not been set up yet. They are physically here, however. The laptops will leave when we leave to go back to Maine and the server will remain, it doesn't need refreshing and I'm too lazy to reconfigure a new one. Anyone need a few fairly recent desktops and is local to Panama City Beach?
At any rate, for all the poking and breaking that I do, I don't have a problem with systemd. I can't speak for you, for Tom, for Dick, or for Harry - but I can say that, as much as I'd like to be outraged, the damned thing hasn't caused me one iota of trouble. It has even been, dare I say it, helpful more than once.
Anyhow, I don't think the best and brightest have moved to FreeBSD. I imagine some have but they probably weren't the best and brightest. I don't see Linus switching and I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that he's probably among the best and most experienced. Besides, they'd go to GhostBSD anyhow. It's the same damned thing, pretty much, but much nicer by default. Even I can figure out how to use it.
I have pneumonia and missed this thread - it's automotive related (tractors) so I'm sad. So, my belated reply...
Umm... You know, you have a pretty solid skill set, right? I'm going by your informed/quality posts and judging based on that. I don't know if you've actually looked into it but it might be (and probably is) much easier to get a work visa with your skillset than you seem to think. You're a programmer/developer, right? I have more than one friend who is an ex-pat, working happily in Europe, right now - and others that have gone to other areas, specifically a couple of Asian countries and one in the Middle East. Two of them aren't even developers, they're "just" systems administrators. Others are an EE, a mathematics professor, and the last is actually "just" a performance artist.
If it's something you're truly interested in then you might find it's easier than expected. With Europe, for example, it doesn't seem to take a whole lot more than actually getting a job and then the visa process seems pretty easy and you either roll down every six months and fill out some forms or you apply for citizenship and fill out more forms but less often. My understanding is that, once you're there, even if you lose your job you're pretty good so long as you keep stomping down and filling out the forms every six months. Some countries are a bit more difficult, like France, but the rest are pretty easy. It's not very easy to get citizenship in Australia though - unless you've got money. I'm not sure about working there but I have looked into citizenship at one point.
If you're as skilled as you seem to be, you probably won't have much trouble at all. I have worked in Europe on more than one occasion and, not only that, I brought a coupe of my employees along with me for the data collection and reconciliation phases. I've even left them there for project oversight. Yeah, there was some paperwork (much easier for us - we worked directly for governments) but it wasn't onerous.
One caveat: So long as you retain your US citizenship while working abroad, you may be obligated to pay US taxes. That can be a bit complicated.
I have a 2015 BMW that I have with me here in Florida, it's my daily driver and what I chose to take with me on my wanderlust that got interrupted. At any rate, I can remove my ECU, send it away, and have it reflashed. I understand that I can also buy one and have them reflash that. Optionally, I can send the whole car and they do lots of things to it and instead of 450 ponies it would have like 650 ponies under the hood. It's surprisingly not all that much more expensive to have it done but it's not something I want. The car is plenty fast as it stands and I'm quite fond of the current handling. I have other cars that are faster and have stiffer handling characteristics and whatnot. So, I'll not be doing that.
I don't know but I *think* they have the source code via an authorized channel. So, while it's not simple, consistent, or inexpensive - it does appear to be optional with some models and makes.
Sorry for the delayed reply but I somehow missed this thread when I was ill/more ill. I've got pneumonia. Yay! They have me on prednisone which seems to make me grumpy. I've not been nearly as active as normal - I'm afraid I'll say mean things that I'll later regret. I do try to be civil. ;-) The missus says I'm handling it well.
At any rate, all is not lost. Also, some of the LS engines are monsters and *very* tweakable. I'm actually surprised to see anyone here that even mentions them or knows of them - even though they're fairly common/famous. There aren't a whole lot of automotive buffs here, sadly.
Having rental property means that I've had to go through this more than once and you're VERY right. I wish I'd seen this thread earlier but I was ill (I still am - I was diagnosed with pneumonia) and I didn't bother to read it in a timely manner. Except, in some cases - they don't go there and collect stuff if they don't have stuff to collect, they can go there and arrest them as they are in contempt of court. I figured I'd add that - as it's an important thing, albeit belatedly. Some judges really, really do not like things like your being in contempt of court.
That's a shame. Those were really impressive, for their day, and I'd actually probably tender a fairly good offer for something like that - even if it needed repairs and assuming it was repairable or could be made whole by a capable gunsmith. I'm not sure if I'm recollecting properly but I think some of them even ended up mounted on tripods to be used as anti-aircraft weapons. I'm an aficionado but not an all-knowing trivia buff. ;-) It'd make an excellent addition.
I turned down a Thompson for $7500 a few years back. I am still kicking myself for that one. I'd fired it, I didn't really like it. I still think it would have been a good buy - it's worth quite a bit more than that. There's a bunch of pre-ban stuff that's still highly functional and loads of fun. I just wish that I could demonstrate capacity for ownership and buy newer stuff. There's a slim chance that I'll move to somewhere that is less restrictive but there's that chance. I really like the freedoms afforded me here and I love my country - as screwed up as it is. Leaving would seem like I was giving up on it.
*sighs*
So, yeah, it'd be nice to be able to buy things that are not classed as weapons of mass destruction. I'd love to have an M4. I'm actually on the lookout for a true M16, pre-ban obviously, in good repair but they are stupidly expensive and it's hard to find someone willing to get rid of one that's been properly maintained. Now, if I could get it with the M203 (grenade launcher) then I'd be like a giddy school girl.
Perhaps, but I have personally witnessed what an unsecured load has done in the back of a truck (albeit for different reasons) and I've also witnessed what happens to the bags of kitty litter. In the former, the load was not secured properly but was not placed in the bed of the truck for the purpose of increasing traction. In the latter, the bags all stayed in the bed of the truck and one broke open so there was some kitty litter to clean up. The unsecured load was actually the mentioned buckets of sand but they were some guy who was doing some concrete mixing for something or other - I don't know for what. He rear-ended a car that pulled out in front of him. He didn't get hurt but the buckets of sand bent the bed and broke the back window. The kitty litter was just a mess after a friend went into a snowbank at a rather high rate of speed. As I was a passenger, I was quite displeased with his driving. He was, of course, kind of drunk - as was I. I used to drink back then and didn't always think clearly about who I was wiling to ride with. We were otherwise fine and just had the next passerby with a truck yank us out of the snowbank. I think we had to bend the fender back out to avoid having it rub on the tire. Yay for drunken idiocy...
I see where the confusion might be. The claim is that the accident can be avoided, most of the time, even when it is not your fault. Yes, this is true. It requires that the OTHER person(s) do the avoiding. The problem is that people drive like complete fucking morons. They don't pay attention, they drive impaired, they drive vehicles that are not properly maintained, they do not practice or learn proper avoidance techniques, they get minimal training, and generally suck at something that's really rather dangerous. In those cases, the ones you're referencing, the victim *might* have been able to do something (I don't recall them exactly and didn't go look) to either avoid it or minimize the risks of harm but - importantly and pointedly - they could have been avoided by the person who caused the accident not being a dumbass.
I'm not one for forcing people to do many things, even when safety pretty much demands it, but I am in favor of greater competency examinations for licensing and various grades of licenses. I also wish that people would voluntarily do things to not just maintain their skills but to improve their skills. If you don't live in an area with snow but will end up driving in snow - go to an empty unplowed parking lot and have some fun for an hour or two. Buy some cones and try to improve your slalom times. Learn to use the emergency brake in a safe manner to do a controlled skid. Learn evasive driving techniques for asset protection (one of the best courses I have ever taken). Rent an exotic with slicks on a track and learn to control a vehicle while achieving maximum acceleration times. Learn how to drive with a trailer, how to back up with one, and even how to parallel park with one. Learn how to hear and feel the RPMs so that you can speed shift, shift without a clutch, or even skip a gear. Learn to drive a six-by and how to take off with a heavy load and the granny gear. Learn how to safely draft (don't do so on a public highway at the same distance you might do so on a track) and learn how that feels as it pulls your vehicle to greater speeds.
I could go on... I've taken many, many courses over the years. Your tax dollars taught me how to drive, at first. Well, I had my license but I didn't really know *how* to drive. For a long while, that was my MOS and was one of the reasons my next MOS was as an escort/chaser (transportation officer) at a military detention facility. I've spent a fortune learning, on top of that, and really enjoyed it. I've spent classroom time and then time with a professional coach in rented exotics doing timed laps at Nurburgring (if you're unfamiliar with that particular course, it's fantastic). I've ridden a motorcycle on the course (not during the race and at legal-ish speeds) on the Isle of Man. I've done every level of the Skip Barber program (they kind of suck, to be honest, but they have nice cars and it's a good way to get some good track time at a reasonable price when you're not interested in pro-am racing yourself but just for time trial or low-level, zero-contact, racing). I've done Bondurant, Berg, O'niel too. Heh, I've done lots of extra learning.
I don't suggest that people go that far but even just taking some extra defensive driving courses with classroom AND in-vehicle practice helps. It's a dangerous activity but accidents can be prevented. In over forty years, I have zero accidents on my record. (I have bit it pretty hard on various closed courses, not always through my own fault directly but probably I could have avoided them by not driving too fast for the conditions but that kind of negates the whole point of racing.) I do like to rally and have a rally car (I chose a Saab 900S Turbo but I'm thinking about getting a Mini or a WRX as my Saab is idle with a blown engine).
In case you can't tell, I take driving seriously and worked in the industry (which you may already know) as my business (sold in 2007, finalized in 2008) was traffic modeling. Accidents are easily avoided by simply not driving too fast for the conditions, keeping yo
Dissipation of energy and conservation of energy. Would you rather be hit with a snowball or a snowball that I'd stuck in the freezer for a month? Sand contains moisture. It will freeze. When it is frozen is mass is more concentrated. Thus, they use kitty litter - usually wrapped in a couple of heavy duty trash bags. Usually it's the big bags, several of them, each wrapped (or double wrapped) to keep moisture out. If it were sand then it would be a big, heavy, solid block in the winter. If the kitty litter gets wet then that will happen too but it's less likely to form a solid block as the individual grains absorb the liquid better and thus don't generally make it a solid block unless it's soaked through entirely. If it's soaked through entirely, well, you throw it out or save it to use in your garage or to clean up spills on your driveway. It's not just about harm to the occupant but about damage to other things in the bed of the truck or the truck bed itself. It's not uncommon to go into a snowbank with some force but not actually do much damage to the vehicle - but a frozen chunk of sand in the back becomes a dangerous projectile or damaging projectile with varied degrees of risk. To lower the risk, they use kitty litter.
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I have, in my control, multiple corporations for a variety of reasons. They can come with a whole host of benefits and can be used for all sorts of good things. I strongly urge most everyone to look into the possible benefits - you can even do some interesting tax structuring with one if you're interested in going that route. Basically, you hire yourself to go to work at your regular job and then your car becomes an asset that has depreciation, fuel costs become business expenses, and things of that nature - that's one such option that folks can use, legally, to reduce their tax burden.
Of course you're free to hold any opinion and voice any opinion you want. That's what's great about freedom. You're not just free to do so, you're at liberty to do so - that's even better. Of course, there are inherent risks in all such things but I'd rather liberty than pseudo-safety.
On a personal level, I'd not own any firearm that I wasn't comfortable with. If I don't know how to safely operate and care for it, I don't own it. The result is, of course, that I learn the safe operation and care methods required. I own some rather rare pieces and some are quite delicate and can be very dangerous if handled improperly. I also ensure that they are stored at a level where they are reasonably secure - I've a whole concrete encased room with a steel door with an embedded frame and additional safes inside that room. I value my liberties and take great care to use them responsibly and do my best to uphold my end of the social contract.
LOL Umm... I think you might be mistaking why it is he sees that you're not a prosecutor. I'd suggest that you take some time to actually study law before opining on matters of law IF you want to be taken seriously. Or, well, just keep doing what you're doing and expecting the results to be different... It's entirely up to you but I'd seriously recommend some formal study if possible or some informal study (via auditing courses or reading the course material and studying that) if you're actually interested in matters of law. It's quite a fascinating subject. I'll give you one small example, but I believe Mr. Beckman is far more adept than I, morality doesn't always have a place in law.
You're not be a prosecutor, not because you'd be an "activist" or the likes, but because you're obviously lacking the educational background. Don't worry, you can learn if you want. I know a little - enough to do some of my own legal work but I still hire legal council when needed. I hire them as council not to represent, I'm that familiar with law. The example for your tirade is the big assumption that you made which is, I'm pretty certain, false - they are not necessarily duty bound, and I suspect you lack the information (and material assets to gain that information easily) to make such determinations. It's even all the more amusing that you attempt to make those claims with such an authoritative stance.
I suspect, having bumped into Mr. Beckman before, I'm being slightly more polite than he might be. I'd take care to listen to him - he does appear to be an authority on matters of law.
I'm reasonably sure that they're one and the same. Bare minimum, the writing style is fairly similar.
Wow, you're drunk. You're not normally this dumb. I've seen you post before. Either that or you're not thinking clearly. Would you rather I throw a frozen ball of sand at you or a handful of loose sand that has the same volume of sand as the frozen ball? This is also in the back of a truck - in the bed. It goes forward in the direction of travel, at the angle of travel. When it hits (and you want to use kitty litter, really - there's moisture in the sand and it's likely to freeze) then the bags rupture and you get a mess of kitty litter. That's it... Yes, a fluke accident could happen where you somehow ended up launching it high enough (but not too high) so that it went through the window and into the cab and you'd be hit in the head with a bag of kitty litter - and that might hurt or even kill you. The odds are pretty damned low and low enough to where it's safer to have weight in the back of your vehicle, as far back as possible, to provide maximum traction. This is pretty well established by people who do this year 'round, for good parts of the year, or otherwise need to increase their traction. Some really, really, stupid people will use buckets of sand. Some very cautious people will find a way to fix things so that they're solidly held in place. Most people go for a reasonable compromise of safety and efficiency. Imagine that!
Umm... They split open when they hit the back of the truck's cab and make a mess. You don't think they have enough force to go through the side of a truck's bed and then through the cab wall and then through a seat and whatnot, do you?
With the original answer - by not having the other party driving like a fucking moron. The accidents are easily avoided - just not by the person whom you seem to think is the one responsible for avoiding that accident. I'm not sure how much easier I can explain this. Hmm...
If you're in an accident that you couldn't have avoided - it was still an accident that could have been (perhaps easily) avoided by the *other* person not doing what they're doing. Almost every single accident is caused (and pay careful attention to the verbiage) by someone driving too fast for the conditions. Sometimes the conditions are such that even 1 MPH is too fast for the conditions. A drunk backs into a car at 2 MPH? They were driving too fast for the conditions.
I don't want to make an appeal to authority but I think you're just not understanding or making it harder than it needs to be. The victim can not always make choices that avoids the accident (though they often can - or can alter the outcome to reduce risks of injury) but the person causing the accident could have, nearly always, avoided the accident.
I've taken *many* advanced driving courses, including hiring professional coaches and doing things like timed laps at Nurburgring, I've rally raced, I've driven open wheel cars of varied capacity, I've even driven "stock" cars in non-professional races and at a number of different schools. Almost every accident can be avoided - easily. There are some fluke accidents but, even those, could/should probably have been avoided, often by properly maintaining and inspecting your vehicle prior to operation.
Accidents are caused by speed but not directly by speeding. Accidents are caused by going too fast for the conditions. That can be avoided by driving below the threshold for safe operation of your vehicle. If everyone did that, surprise, we'd have far fewer accidents.
As I mentioned above, I've been *very* lucky in life. I've also met a few Slashdotters in similar shoes and some who haven't been quite as fortunate but are still quite well off. I sold my business (traffic modeling) at the peak time - the government was to invest some 800 Billion in "shovel ready" jobs and many of them concerned highways. There are about 300 million people in the US. If you took everything I own, sold off the assets at their paper value, took all liquid assets, and then divided them among the entire country - you'd give each and every person a little bit less than $1.50.
Or, as it is now, I invest in small businesses, I make ONLY long-term investments in the stock market, and I even still directly employ a few people. (I used to employ a bit over 200 people.) These days it's a bit different - I was able to invest and buy some 2000 shares in Tesla when they were a mere $24 each. I don't count that as income yet - I've not yet sold those shares. I invest in smaller businesses in a variety of ways - including through a credit union. I have my "play" portfolio (that's the one that has the above mentioned Tesla shares) and I have a real finance manager who takes care of my real portfolio.
So, what's better? I can buy the entire country a cheap hamburger or I can actually keep folks employed and help them be upwardly mobile. I pay a reduced tax rate to encourage me to make long term investments. A lot of people aren't aware that short-term investments are taxed at income tax levels - while long-term investments are where you get the capital gains rates. Actually, come to think of it, it's often the people who are the least knowledgeable about such things that bitch the most and have the most outlandish "solutions."
There will always be poor people for a whole host of reasons, some of which are quite complex. One of the things that I've heard repeated is that we should take all the money from those in the 1%. I know, those people are not the normal folks and I'm using them as an example just for that reason. I am quite comfortably in the 1% - I've done exceptionally well and was very lucky and was able to sell my company at a time when it became insanely valuable ("shovel ready jobs" being the mantra and traffic modeling being what my company did). There are about 300 million people in the US. If you took all of my money, sold all of my assets at full market value, and distributed my "wealth" each man, woman, and child would have about an extra $1.50.
Then, when we really look at it - those people bitching about the 1% are actually in the 1% themselves if you look at things from a world-wide viewpoint. Strangely, I don't see them wanting to have all their property taken - i bet that $1.50 would go a lot further for some starving kid in a third world country.
I think we'll always have poor people because we'll always have greedy people. In my way, I contribute to society by both helping companies grow and by employing a few people directly still. (I used to employ over 200 people.) I don't have the answers, I don't know of a solution that'd actually work. I could crunch the numbers but i suspect that if we averaged out all the world's wealth we'd just all be equally fairly poor. I guess that would be more "fair" and more "just." I'm not so sure that it would be "right."
One of the things that I do enjoy, and think that the US government got right, is that (up to a certain limit) I can reduce my tax burden by donating to qualified charitable organizations. I do that. I do a lot of that, actually. I consider it taxation with representation or close enough. It's nice to be able to have some say and it's something I am inclined to agree with as far as tax codes go. I don't actually write off all of it, I sometimes prefer anonymity which means no receipt.
Of course, we're not in a position where charities are able to cover all the world's needs. It's unfortunate, really. I really don't see it ever being perfect and I see it as being remarkably better than it *could* be.
They're a fairly common troll, they've been at it for a while now. I know it sounds strange but I'm pretty sure they're actually someone on the political right who is intentionally making such absurd comments in hopes that it discolors the left. Then again, there are quite a number of insane people on the left of the political spectrum as well - so they could really believe it. I just think that's unlikely.