I did end up wiping it off one computer. Xserver wouldn't stay running - it crashed. The most I could get was a few days of uptime which is antithetical to my use of Linux. It crashed and sent me to the tty screen. No amount of tweaking ever made it work on that desktop. So, I gave Lubuntu a try on it - still running it. In fact, I updated it to 15.10 via VNC last night - nary a problem and VNC still ran on boot so I was happy. (That was fun to configure...*sighs*)
I've done it three times with 100% success and no issues except needing to reconfigure some samba settings - it even warned me about this and was unable to merge them together. I could have kept the original but I opted to wipe and just reconfigure.
You know that Mint is Ubuntu under the hood, right? It's a fork and still uses the Ubuntu package repos. I do use Cinnamon quite a bit. In fact, my laptop that I'm using now has Cinnamon on it if I were to actually boot to that partition. I'm booted to Lubuntu, however.
I like a simple DE so LXDE for me and, thus, I use Lubuntu. It was trivial to enter a few commands in the terminal and get my distro upgraded. I own a whole mess of hardware and, yet, it just works. I don't have to play around. I do but that's not important. I don't have to and that is important. I grabbed 15.10 within an hour of it dropping. I'm also seeding all the various family's distros (64 bit only). A quick look shows Kubuntu in the lead (I haven't actually used that much - only in a VM and a Live USB) with Ubuntu Server way at the bottom. When ever they do a new release, I seed it for a few months. I usually seed a bunch but this time I did the whole family but 64 bit only.
To be honest, I kind of expect to tire of it all, eventually, and not want to deal with mental degradation and physical ailments any longer. At that point, I'd not be surprised to see me go out in a heady, warm blanket, opiate overdose while nodding out and enjoying the last few minutes of awareness. I always thought that would be a pleasing way to go if, you know, you have to pick. My other option includes words like, 'sudden,' unexpected,' 'painless,' 'gory,' and 'chunks.' I haven't quite figured out how to do that without causing severe trauma to others. PAS, physician assisted suicide, should be a thing - a more common and easily acquired thing.
Ah, okay. I thought you were suggesting it was a good idea. If anything, the evil rich would probably be advocating such. It's got "fair" right in the title, right?
I'm not gonna shoot them in the foot, you know. Two, center mass, watch the reaction and then fire more if they fail to listen to orders or are not dead. And yes, it is much carried for diffusion purposes. Strangely, I've never once had to draw it nor have I even felt like I was threatened. I've entered situations where others were at risk but I've not had to use a weapon - simply having it seems to be enough. If I have to use it then I will. I'd much prefer not to.
One of my primary reasons for the.22 LR is that it is lethal and I'm a fine shot. No, I'm not going to have the poise and ability to fire like one can at the range but I'm likely to be able to place a couple in center mass. That might kill them, it probably will. However, they may not die and, if they continue being a threat, I've got more rounds.
I don't plan on taking out a group of thugs. I don't plan on being in a war zone. I've choices that suit those needs better. For my daily carry, it's.22 LR. For my nightstand, it's.45. For my living room, it's a Mossberg 500. When I hunt, it's dependent on the game that I'm after, my sidearm is usually a.45 though, in case I need to dispatch due to a poor shot or an animal with a high constitution. If it were my only weapon then I'd probably opt for a 10mm or, maybe, a.45.
Communism, or any other ideal, can't work, in its pure form, at any level above that of a tribe or a small group of like-minded individuals. It simply can't. 'Tis why I make fun of zealots and idealists. I even make fun of those in my own political party - I'm a Libertarian. There's a whole metric ton of Libertarians to make fun of.
"Everything they told me about Communism was a lie. Everything they told me about Capitalism is true." -- Abraham Lincoln three years after the wall fell. (I forget who said it. Someone who was capable of pithy sayings and a little bit of wisdom.)
Umm... I've acquired some wealth. I'd submit that you probably don't want to switch to this fair tax idea. You know, I've already purchased all the big stuff, right? I can pay to have things repaired - and do. I don't even need to buy much in the way of groceries. I suspect, if you tax my goods at the same rate that you tax your goods then you're really going to get a lot less from me or a lot more from you.
I'd suggest increasing the rates on capital gains taxes over a certain amount. I only get taxed on it when I spend it, anyhow. If I'm spending over $500,000 per year then I can probably afford to pay more in taxes. I'd start there, I think. If I just leave my money in the market then, well, I don't get taxed really. Then I'm still encouraged to keep my money working and keep the economy afloat. Well, my little effort. I don't have *that* much money.
I could make a, presumably, well-reasoned argument that we should be sending money to conflict zones as it, may, help those who are most seriously in need while also having detrimental effects because the money, may, go to furthering the war. Would you rather be hungry or better/well-fed when the rebel troops roll through your village and kill one out of every ten males? They might be less likely to kill/maim those working in the factory or mines. Sure, it's hell - but is it a lesser hell if there's some money flowing into the area?
I don't really know and I sure as hell have no solutions, but it seems to me that I'd rather be working in a mine and being abused than potentially starving and soon-to-be dead.
Well, I'm no astrophysicist but I do watch a lot (too many, according to my girlfriend) documentaries on this very subject. If you have a competing model and the mathematics to suggest it might be true then, by all means, share! (I am a mathematician but, frankly, that doesn't make me qualified to opine on matters of physics but I am very interested - especially in alternative theories. Remember, they thought Einstein was wrong until they managed to take pictures of a solar eclipse.)
It's odd how quickly people forget that. Hell, that's why the discovery was so important - it helped to give information supporting one of several theories. Did nobody watch the plethora of documentaries on the subject? They were all terrible but they were at least careful to explain it was just one of the theories that had been proposed.
Ah, have you forgotten your teachings? There are exceptions... Indeed.
Master Foo instructed his students:
“There is a line of dharma teaching, exemplified by the Patriarch McIlroy's mantra ‘Do one thing well’, which emphasizes that software partakes of the Unix way when it has simple and consistent behavior, with properties that can be readily modeled by the mind of the user and used by other programs.”
“But there is another line of dharma teaching, exemplified by the Patriarch Thompson's great mantra ‘When in doubt, use brute force’, and various sutras on the value of getting 90% of cases right now, rather than 100% later, which emphasizes robustness and simplicity of implementation.”
“Now tell me: which programs have the Unix nature?”
After a silence, Nubi observed:
“Master, these teachings may conflict.”
“A simple implementation is likely to lack logic for edge cases, such as resource exhaustion, or failure to close a race window, or a timeout during an uncompleted transaction.”
“When such edge cases occur, the behavior of the software will become irregular and difficult. Surely this is not the Way of Unix?”
Master Foo nodded in agreement.
“On the other hand, it is well known that fancy algorithms are brittle. Further, each attempt to cover an edge case tends to interact with both the program's central algorithms and the code covering other edge cases.”
“Thus, attempts to cover all edge cases in advance, guaranteeing ‘simplicity of description’, may in fact produce code that is overcomplicated and brittle or which, plagued by bugs, never ships at all. Surely this is not the Way of Unix?”
Master Foo nodded in agreement.
“What, then, is the proper dharma path?” asked Nubi.
The master spoke:
“When the eagle flies, does it forget that its feet have touched the ground? When the tiger lands upon its prey, does it forget its moment in the air? Three pounds of VAX!”
The first thing I thought of, when I read the summary, was that they'd never seen my code. Oh, it'll work. I don't think I've any reason to claim it will be maintainable. It probably won't be readable by anyone but me. That won't be intentional, I just suck. What do they expect for $3500 and ten days?
I don't have any ethical qualms about suicide but, yes, much the same. I've made it this far and new and interesting things keep happening to me. Why quit now? Age will claim me soon enough. I hope... I really don't want to live forever - nor do I want to be mentally incapacitated and need to rely on a someone to take care of me.
I didn't think anyone would know about the beer trick. Slugs are crazy alcoholics. I usually dig holes and put a cup of beer inside. I put them around my garden.
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I did end up wiping it off one computer. Xserver wouldn't stay running - it crashed. The most I could get was a few days of uptime which is antithetical to my use of Linux. It crashed and sent me to the tty screen. No amount of tweaking ever made it work on that desktop. So, I gave Lubuntu a try on it - still running it. In fact, I updated it to 15.10 via VNC last night - nary a problem and VNC still ran on boot so I was happy. (That was fun to configure...*sighs*)
That wouldn't be in it's pure form, would it?
I've done it three times with 100% success and no issues except needing to reconfigure some samba settings - it even warned me about this and was unable to merge them together. I could have kept the original but I opted to wipe and just reconfigure.
You know that Mint is Ubuntu under the hood, right? It's a fork and still uses the Ubuntu package repos. I do use Cinnamon quite a bit. In fact, my laptop that I'm using now has Cinnamon on it if I were to actually boot to that partition. I'm booted to Lubuntu, however.
I like a simple DE so LXDE for me and, thus, I use Lubuntu. It was trivial to enter a few commands in the terminal and get my distro upgraded. I own a whole mess of hardware and, yet, it just works. I don't have to play around. I do but that's not important. I don't have to and that is important. I grabbed 15.10 within an hour of it dropping. I'm also seeding all the various family's distros (64 bit only). A quick look shows Kubuntu in the lead (I haven't actually used that much - only in a VM and a Live USB) with Ubuntu Server way at the bottom. When ever they do a new release, I seed it for a few months. I usually seed a bunch but this time I did the whole family but 64 bit only.
To be honest, I kind of expect to tire of it all, eventually, and not want to deal with mental degradation and physical ailments any longer. At that point, I'd not be surprised to see me go out in a heady, warm blanket, opiate overdose while nodding out and enjoying the last few minutes of awareness. I always thought that would be a pleasing way to go if, you know, you have to pick. My other option includes words like, 'sudden,' unexpected,' 'painless,' 'gory,' and 'chunks.' I haven't quite figured out how to do that without causing severe trauma to others. PAS, physician assisted suicide, should be a thing - a more common and easily acquired thing.
Ah, okay. I thought you were suggesting it was a good idea. If anything, the evil rich would probably be advocating such. It's got "fair" right in the title, right?
I'm not gonna shoot them in the foot, you know. Two, center mass, watch the reaction and then fire more if they fail to listen to orders or are not dead. And yes, it is much carried for diffusion purposes. Strangely, I've never once had to draw it nor have I even felt like I was threatened. I've entered situations where others were at risk but I've not had to use a weapon - simply having it seems to be enough. If I have to use it then I will. I'd much prefer not to.
One of my primary reasons for the .22 LR is that it is lethal and I'm a fine shot. No, I'm not going to have the poise and ability to fire like one can at the range but I'm likely to be able to place a couple in center mass. That might kill them, it probably will. However, they may not die and, if they continue being a threat, I've got more rounds.
I don't plan on taking out a group of thugs. I don't plan on being in a war zone. I've choices that suit those needs better. For my daily carry, it's .22 LR. For my nightstand, it's .45. For my living room, it's a Mossberg 500. When I hunt, it's dependent on the game that I'm after, my sidearm is usually a .45 though, in case I need to dispatch due to a poor shot or an animal with a high constitution. If it were my only weapon then I'd probably opt for a 10mm or, maybe, a .45.
Communism, or any other ideal, can't work, in its pure form, at any level above that of a tribe or a small group of like-minded individuals. It simply can't. 'Tis why I make fun of zealots and idealists. I even make fun of those in my own political party - I'm a Libertarian. There's a whole metric ton of Libertarians to make fun of.
"Everything they told me about Communism was a lie. Everything they told me about Capitalism is true." -- Abraham Lincoln three years after the wall fell. (I forget who said it. Someone who was capable of pithy sayings and a little bit of wisdom.)
Umm... I've acquired some wealth. I'd submit that you probably don't want to switch to this fair tax idea. You know, I've already purchased all the big stuff, right? I can pay to have things repaired - and do. I don't even need to buy much in the way of groceries. I suspect, if you tax my goods at the same rate that you tax your goods then you're really going to get a lot less from me or a lot more from you.
I'd suggest increasing the rates on capital gains taxes over a certain amount. I only get taxed on it when I spend it, anyhow. If I'm spending over $500,000 per year then I can probably afford to pay more in taxes. I'd start there, I think. If I just leave my money in the market then, well, I don't get taxed really. Then I'm still encouraged to keep my money working and keep the economy afloat. Well, my little effort. I don't have *that* much money.
I could make a, presumably, well-reasoned argument that we should be sending money to conflict zones as it, may, help those who are most seriously in need while also having detrimental effects because the money, may, go to furthering the war. Would you rather be hungry or better/well-fed when the rebel troops roll through your village and kill one out of every ten males? They might be less likely to kill/maim those working in the factory or mines. Sure, it's hell - but is it a lesser hell if there's some money flowing into the area?
I don't really know and I sure as hell have no solutions, but it seems to me that I'd rather be working in a mine and being abused than potentially starving and soon-to-be dead.
You'll be alright. I won't be submitting any code. I'd not wish that on anyone.
Well, I'm no astrophysicist but I do watch a lot (too many, according to my girlfriend) documentaries on this very subject. If you have a competing model and the mathematics to suggest it might be true then, by all means, share! (I am a mathematician but, frankly, that doesn't make me qualified to opine on matters of physics but I am very interested - especially in alternative theories. Remember, they thought Einstein was wrong until they managed to take pictures of a solar eclipse.)
Unfortunately, you consented by opening the URL. Block that like the rest of us do. I'm reasonably certain that their metrics are completely screwed.
It seems that the more we learn, the less we know.
You'd think that would work when you skipped Physics 201 because it was too damned hard...
It's odd how quickly people forget that. Hell, that's why the discovery was so important - it helped to give information supporting one of several theories. Did nobody watch the plethora of documentaries on the subject? They were all terrible but they were at least careful to explain it was just one of the theories that had been proposed.
Assuming you're not joking, see the word tenant in the dictionary and other definitions of let.
Ah, have you forgotten your teachings? There are exceptions... Indeed.
Master Foo instructed his students:
“There is a line of dharma teaching, exemplified by the Patriarch McIlroy's mantra ‘Do one thing well’, which emphasizes that software partakes of the Unix way when it has simple and consistent behavior, with properties that can be readily modeled by the mind of the user and used by other programs.”
“But there is another line of dharma teaching, exemplified by the Patriarch Thompson's great mantra ‘When in doubt, use brute force’, and various sutras on the value of getting 90% of cases right now, rather than 100% later, which emphasizes robustness and simplicity of implementation.”
“Now tell me: which programs have the Unix nature?”
After a silence, Nubi observed:
“Master, these teachings may conflict.”
“A simple implementation is likely to lack logic for edge cases, such as resource exhaustion, or failure to close a race window, or a timeout during an uncompleted transaction.”
“When such edge cases occur, the behavior of the software will become irregular and difficult. Surely this is not the Way of Unix?”
Master Foo nodded in agreement.
“On the other hand, it is well known that fancy algorithms are brittle. Further, each attempt to cover an edge case tends to interact with both the program's central algorithms and the code covering other edge cases.”
“Thus, attempts to cover all edge cases in advance, guaranteeing ‘simplicity of description’, may in fact produce code that is overcomplicated and brittle or which, plagued by bugs, never ships at all. Surely this is not the Way of Unix?”
Master Foo nodded in agreement.
“What, then, is the proper dharma path?” asked Nubi.
The master spoke:
“When the eagle flies, does it forget that its feet have touched the ground? When the tiger lands upon its prey, does it forget its moment in the air? Three pounds of VAX!”
On hearing this, Nubi was enlightened.
Not mine, obviously, but it and others are here.
The first thing I thought of, when I read the summary, was that they'd never seen my code. Oh, it'll work. I don't think I've any reason to claim it will be maintainable. It probably won't be readable by anyone but me. That won't be intentional, I just suck. What do they expect for $3500 and ten days?
This might be the first time the troll has been right?!? I suspect some of them still do.
That's where the aliens are with their brain waves. Duh. ;-)
I don't have any ethical qualms about suicide but, yes, much the same. I've made it this far and new and interesting things keep happening to me. Why quit now? Age will claim me soon enough. I hope... I really don't want to live forever - nor do I want to be mentally incapacitated and need to rely on a someone to take care of me.
I didn't think anyone would know about the beer trick. Slugs are crazy alcoholics. I usually dig holes and put a cup of beer inside. I put them around my garden.