I owned my own company, for years. I'm retired. I don't think I overpaid my staff, but I paid well. Even in the 90s, I'd have kinda been pissed about a tech doing that for COTS hardware. It wasn't even remotely cost effective then. How can it be that way now?
Throw that shit in the trash, send it back, take it home, whatever. The time they would have spent repairing that, instead of doing something productive, was not even remotely cost effective. Am I missing something? Hardware is much cheaper, today. There is no fucking way, I want a tech soldering, unless it is really valuable and out of warranty.
I have to be missing something. If it can't be fixed in a half hour, and it's just a standard computer, do not fix it. That's a half hour of real time. I know damned well you don't need to watch it while you re-image it. Err... Some free time is allowed for Doom or Quake.
Seriously, you have people soldering commodity hardware?
You did make me giggle but my verbosity is an innate trait. It's what I do. I did have some sorta personal issues, including a new love interest, but I am alive. I had a sibling pass away, pretty much at the same time someone decided to ruin my motorcycle by smashing into it while I was going the opposite direction. I don't know if you saw the pics, but it was kinda ugly. I survived but I must have thought I was Superman. I don't recall it, but I pretty much tried to punch said car with both hands. The car won.
The idiot that pulled into my lane, to pass someone else, wasn't prosecuted. I am okay with that. Putting them in jail would help nothing. Insurance covered it all and I am actually looking at a new bike. I love my BMWs but a friend has Sportster for sale.
If I can figure out how to get pics of the x-rays, I'll share them. It was just my hands and my right wrist that were screwed.
And then a sibling died. And that is kinda where I went off the rails. I can't say I didn't have a good time, but it was not really something I needed to do. At least I didn't get any new tattoos.
I try to avoid some topics. If you do not mind, what definition of 'political' are you using?
To be clear, I point at the responses by the States and businesses, since drawing back from the Accord, to point out that I feel the Accord was not required. While I dislike Trump, I agree with him in is matter.
Save to disk and include in your regular backups. That's my method. I rsync stuff and have a small script that automates it and also pushes it out over the network to a buddy's place, where there's a drive hanging off a computer setup there. I kinda sorta mostly try to swap 'em in and out, but disk space is so cheap that I am a bit lax. I'm pretty sure there's like 6TB of storage at his place, though not all filled.
N. Korea is kinda, pretty much, the fault of Japan. It's pretty much why NK lobs missiles in their general direction, more often than not. They really aren't fond of Japan and that's not entirely irrational. Japan was pretty shitty as they built their empire. They were somehow shittier when said empire began to decline.
I actually have to make a conscious effort to avoid being prejudiced. It is hard because I think they have some behavioral changes that still need to be made - but that is true everywhere, including in my country. They still deny atrocities and treat war criminals as being worthy of worship and honor. I am biased, but I strive to remain objective and honest with myself. I do, I believe, treat them with respect.
I suppose the correct answer to your question is, "Empathy."
However, it may be important to note that oppression often leads to violence of varied scales. Which means your country would potentially be involved. If they are involved, it will cost them money. That means you pay more in taxes.
I can't say I'm overly concerned, but I guess those are answers to your question.
It has been a long, long time. CompuServe, in the early eighties, was billed by the minute? Someone correct me, if my memory is faulty. It was stupidly expensive. Something like 1200 baud at $12/min and $4/min if you dialed into the 900 baud MODEM pool?
And we liked it!
No, not really. It kinda sucked, honestly. Wow... Yeah, I paused for a few minutes to think about this. I don't even have rose colored glasses. It pretty much sucked, especially when compared to today. ASCII porn was a thing.
Right, and we chose not to remain a part of the accord. I'm actually okay with that.
Don't read this to mean I'm okay with doing nothing. I'd like to hope that we do *better* than that. From the looks of the way people are coming together, we might just do it. Even better, we'll be doing it by choice. I'm kinda fond of choices. Maybe that's just me?
Do you know how easy it is to maintain a Linux box? It's pretty easy. As in, open terminal, press up arrow, press enter, type password, press enter, press Y, press enter, done.
You don't defrag. You don't clean a registry. You don't use antivirus. Your whole system is updated, with just that. You just press up until you get the update command from the last time you used it. It's not magic. It's not hard. Unless you're deliberately difficult, it'll update the whole damned system for you.
Hell, here... For the most common...
sudo apt-get upgrade
(No, it really is upgrade, not update. Update does something else. When you enter your password, nothing will show on the screen - not even asterisks. This is the expected behavior.)
You can not reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. You might just as well argue with the pope about the existence of god. You'll probably have about the same chances of success.
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I am. It's a bit of a long story, but I survived. My journal has a post about it.
Bears don't have opposable thumbs.
Consumers do not care. Really, they don't.
I feel kinda bad. I have an SP3, that is still in the box. I bought it to install lubuntu. I didn't.
Hold on...
Soldering?
I owned my own company, for years. I'm retired. I don't think I overpaid my staff, but I paid well. Even in the 90s, I'd have kinda been pissed about a tech doing that for COTS hardware. It wasn't even remotely cost effective then. How can it be that way now?
Throw that shit in the trash, send it back, take it home, whatever. The time they would have spent repairing that, instead of doing something productive, was not even remotely cost effective. Am I missing something? Hardware is much cheaper, today. There is no fucking way, I want a tech soldering, unless it is really valuable and out of warranty.
I have to be missing something. If it can't be fixed in a half hour, and it's just a standard computer, do not fix it. That's a half hour of real time. I know damned well you don't need to watch it while you re-image it. Err... Some free time is allowed for Doom or Quake.
Seriously, you have people soldering commodity hardware?
My house. But I smoke a lot of pot.
You did make me giggle but my verbosity is an innate trait. It's what I do. I did have some sorta personal issues, including a new love interest, but I am alive. I had a sibling pass away, pretty much at the same time someone decided to ruin my motorcycle by smashing into it while I was going the opposite direction. I don't know if you saw the pics, but it was kinda ugly. I survived but I must have thought I was Superman. I don't recall it, but I pretty much tried to punch said car with both hands. The car won.
The idiot that pulled into my lane, to pass someone else, wasn't prosecuted. I am okay with that. Putting them in jail would help nothing. Insurance covered it all and I am actually looking at a new bike. I love my BMWs but a friend has Sportster for sale.
If I can figure out how to get pics of the x-rays, I'll share them. It was just my hands and my right wrist that were screwed.
And then a sibling died. And that is kinda where I went off the rails. I can't say I didn't have a good time, but it was not really something I needed to do. At least I didn't get any new tattoos.
36 days?!? That there is absolutely viable and we should do it everywhere.
Sorry, I am kinda stoned. But that is nothing to write home about. I got better uptime with Windows ME.
I try to avoid some topics. If you do not mind, what definition of 'political' are you using?
To be clear, I point at the responses by the States and businesses, since drawing back from the Accord, to point out that I feel the Accord was not required. While I dislike Trump, I agree with him in is matter.
Do you also put faith in Gartner reports?
I remain skeptical. Someone should put this on their calendar and keep track.
Save to disk and include in your regular backups. That's my method. I rsync stuff and have a small script that automates it and also pushes it out over the network to a buddy's place, where there's a drive hanging off a computer setup there. I kinda sorta mostly try to swap 'em in and out, but disk space is so cheap that I am a bit lax. I'm pretty sure there's like 6TB of storage at his place, though not all filled.
They don't even know what MODEM means. ;-)
N. Korea is kinda, pretty much, the fault of Japan. It's pretty much why NK lobs missiles in their general direction, more often than not. They really aren't fond of Japan and that's not entirely irrational. Japan was pretty shitty as they built their empire. They were somehow shittier when said empire began to decline.
I actually have to make a conscious effort to avoid being prejudiced. It is hard because I think they have some behavioral changes that still need to be made - but that is true everywhere, including in my country. They still deny atrocities and treat war criminals as being worthy of worship and honor. I am biased, but I strive to remain objective and honest with myself. I do, I believe, treat them with respect.
I suppose the correct answer to your question is, "Empathy."
However, it may be important to note that oppression often leads to violence of varied scales. Which means your country would potentially be involved. If they are involved, it will cost them money. That means you pay more in taxes.
I can't say I'm overly concerned, but I guess those are answers to your question.
Opera still exists. It has been usable since 23. It kinda sucked, when they first made the transition.
You do know that Linux, FSF, etc. are all corporations, right?
That's a pretty big brush you painted with.
It has been a long, long time. CompuServe, in the early eighties, was billed by the minute? Someone correct me, if my memory is faulty. It was stupidly expensive. Something like 1200 baud at $12/min and $4/min if you dialed into the 900 baud MODEM pool?
And we liked it!
No, not really. It kinda sucked, honestly. Wow... Yeah, I paused for a few minutes to think about this. I don't even have rose colored glasses. It pretty much sucked, especially when compared to today. ASCII porn was a thing.
It's Slashdot. If they have the source, build the damned thing themselves. Sheesh...
Right, and we chose not to remain a part of the accord. I'm actually okay with that.
Don't read this to mean I'm okay with doing nothing. I'd like to hope that we do *better* than that. From the looks of the way people are coming together, we might just do it. Even better, we'll be doing it by choice. I'm kinda fond of choices. Maybe that's just me?
She's even sane AND cute. LOL Remind me, I'll upload a pic. On a tablet right at the moment.
I kinda want to chide you about letting that be a lesson in learning good backup strategy. ;-)
I gotta ask.
Hundreds?
Right? She just leaks NSA data.
Hmm...
Do you know how easy it is to maintain a Linux box? It's pretty easy. As in, open terminal, press up arrow, press enter, type password, press enter, press Y, press enter, done.
You don't defrag. You don't clean a registry. You don't use antivirus. Your whole system is updated, with just that. You just press up until you get the update command from the last time you used it. It's not magic. It's not hard. Unless you're deliberately difficult, it'll update the whole damned system for you.
Hell, here... For the most common...
sudo apt-get upgrade
(No, it really is upgrade, not update. Update does something else. When you enter your password, nothing will show on the screen - not even asterisks. This is the expected behavior.)
Tada!
You can not reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. You might just as well argue with the pope about the existence of god. You'll probably have about the same chances of success.