Joking aside, Linux support has gotten better from the days when posting on a forum would be met with RTFM. It's still not enough to get folks to turn away in masses to Linux. I honestly don't know what the answer is.
It's not games. Valve went as far as to create their own flavor of Linux. It could be apps. I find that MsOffice is still better than everything else out there. I'm great with Gimp simply because I'm too cheap to pay for Adobe products, but adding stroke to text is still a lot more difficult than it has to be (select layer, convert layer to path, etc) It could be hardware compatibility. Some of the more "pure" distro's refuse to include binary drivers. It could also be my cousin Vinny, who is sort of defacto tech support for aunt Jenine (I really don't have an aunt or cousin named that) Maybe it's the ease of entry as a professional. Windows 10 basic cert is easy, Linux, not so much. Maybe it's something I just heard in my Security+ training, that GUI's prevent mistakes. Maybe it's the accountability, you know who you're dealing with, there's at least some central number to call for support, instead of a fragmentation of 10 different companies. Maybe it's the government, who still swears by windows for a lot of things.
I really don't know. I know I'm typing this from Windows, in a chrome browser. I have my reasons. Having been on slash since the beginning, this question is just never answered. It's almost like Incels asking, "Why can't I get laid?"
Drag cut borders out, use HTML slicing tool. Besides basic graphics editing, I use it for 3d printing. Slicing tool is REALLY handy for my smallish print bed. While there's no direct text stroke tool, select text with magic wand, convert select into path, draw along path. It takes some learning, but once learned it's not bad.
The value in the moon is in cheaper launches. Might be a little late for karma whoring but... bare with me here.
In the 60's we had the technology to build a base on the moon. Hell, we could have even had the technology to produce fuel on the moon. Somewhere there's an interview with Armstrong who said even NASA knew there was water on the moon in the 60's. Water + electricity = hydrogen and oxygen. Very easy to get the 2 turned into some sort of fuel.
The thing we lacked though was money. Beyond money, we lacked things we have today that we just take for granted (looking at the har har funny comments here) We barely had enough fast switching technology to send a 240x160 video stream back to earth. Today we can switch at GHZ, lots of stuff can be fit into that stream. Lots of information. We don't even need it though, we can probably fit plenty in 1tb of solid state storage.
Moving on, we now have advanced processing that recognize conditions and work autonomously. Coupled with 3d printing, we can send smaller robots to the moon to do most of the heavy lifting that would have required humans years ago. There's no atmosphere on the moon, so solar panels will work a lot better up there than here on earth.
So now instead of sending a construction crew to the moon, we can send robots. Robots that will find a suitable place (lava tubes or deep craters) that will build us a base in a somewhat underground area, shielded from cosmic rays and the suns radiation. They can generate their own power, find ice, turn it into breathable oxygen, and eventually fuel for return trips.
I think that's the end game of this moon rush. It's not for tourism, or finding metals. It's to be somewhere that has 1/7th the gravity of the earth, meaning 1/7th the amount of fuel to launch. Future missions, like building a deep space manned craft to go to mars will need the moon. As soon as we get some sort of livable permanent habitat up there, we will start sending other machines up there, start building clean rooms to build processors and RAM up there.
In the beginning, I'd imagine the labor on the moon will be much higher than that on earth, but as the outpost up there evolves, eventually the cost of manufacturing up there will be negated by the cost of launches. That is why we need to be up there. There will never be any reason to bring the resources of the moon back here, but we need to be there to make our eventual trip into the outer solar system possible.
> Having tried a number of different team chat platforms, I have to say Slack still has a kind of commanding lead, even in just the basics of chat. I prefer it to anything else.
Funny bit the other day.
I'm in the discord server for 2b2t, a minecraft server that's chock full of shitposts. I post a few things in chat, goatse, GNAA, all the classic trolls from here. Guy that runs the discord, points me at the discord TOS that says these things are not allowed.
Wow, this was great. The tension in the story had me hooked. Vader is torn between doing what's right, and his loyalty to Palapatine. This is the kind of internal struggle we saw in the first 3 Star Wars films that made them a compelling story, but now it's from the other side of the conflict. FX were good considering the budget. One small change I would have done, when Vader is looking down at that hole to the catacombs with light flashes coming out of it, I would have used purple colored flashes of light instead of white, just to add a little more foreshadowing to Palapatines, "Amethyst saber wielding Jedi"
Beyond the story and FX, I loved the costumes too. The storm trooper talking to Vader at Naboo, he looked almost like a 50's hot rod to me. His mask had dual K&N looking air intakes on it. In the original Star wars, much of what Lucas had to work with was based on a limited budget, and things familiar to him. Considering Lucas directed "American Graffiti" it was almost like a nod to where the original Star Wars got so much of its design from. It was a combination of 40's and 50's era technology shoe horned into a futuristing setting (The Millineum Falcon's cockpit for instance was designed to look like a B52's, much of the space dogfighting was modeled after WWI Biplane dogfights)
Disney should hire you guys to flesh out and direct any new star wars films. Given your limited resources (Which might have contributed to why this is so good) it's perfect. There is a love for the universe in every detail of this, and I look forward to the next episode.
When I was active on linkedin, I would get calls like these daily from people with heavy Indian accents.
>Hello sir, we are looking for someone that knows Windows server. Do you know Windows Server? >Yes >Do you know about file sharing? >Yes >Do you know about TCP/IP >Yes >Are you familiar with Cisco? >Yes. >You sound perfect for this client of mine, they are a fortune 500 company. Starting salary is $250,000 USD a year. I just need the last 4 digits of your SSI for a background check.
This is just like the IRS scammer phone calls but with a twist, they're preying on people with no job, no money and desperate for work. As soon as I stopped being active on linkedin, the calls stopped.
Let's put aside the effects of the disease first, and it's impact on the patients body. I want to talk about just how fucked this thing is for the rest of slashdotters, and what the worst part about the disease is. It's greed.
Let me rewind to 2 years ago. It was Christmas at my Grandma's. Grandma's really special to me, as a kid she fostered me when my druggy parents could not. She made me the man I am today, took me off the streets. Taught me things that would last a lifetime, like saying, "Please, Thank you sir, and no ma'am".
She had also amassed quite a fortune, to the tune of what I'd later learn was $20 million dollars or so. Her sons never worked. They grew up thinking they were royalty of our town. Back to Christmas though.
My father whispered to me, "This is the last Christmas we'll be having here, your uncle is going to put her in a home!" I thought he was joking. 20 years earlier, my uncle had talked her letting him be a trustee of a new trust. The trust gave him powers that in the event she lost mental faculty, he could "Do what is necessary for her care" A pretty broad statement.
He had been shopping her to various doctors around town looking for one that would give her a diminished capacity declaration. Most of them refused, but the last few he met were more than happy to do it, and recommend she be placed in a secured memory facility. Basically a prison for folks with Alzheimer's. Some of these doctors did this without ever having met my grandmother.
A letter was sent out to the family, that he was going to do this to her from the lawyer that drew up the trust.
Thankfully the court was on her side. She wanted to stay home, and had always been told by my grandfather that's where she'll stay. It took 2 years of fighting, since he had access to her money. Ironic he used her own money against her to hire lawyer after lawyer. There was a compromise made, but it was in her favor for the most part. Uncle would not have conservator over her medical or financials. He would still be a trustee of the trusts, but under a yearly audit from the courts. He would pay all of her bills (including caretakers) and for repairs to her house.
It was during that fight though that pained me the most. Him and his brothers would go over there and lie to her, tell her things to confuse her. While I was at work, they'd go over there and tell her I was the bad guy. Her story changed when she talked to the court investigator, but the investigator knew what was going on, as well as my team.
Watching family lie and manipulate the affected is the most fucked part in Alzheimer's. It reduces what's called a persons susceptibility to undue influence. I'm not going to diminish the fact that my grandma's mental state deteriorated, but the stress of court, doctors, her sons trying to manipulate her (and scaring her at one point to draw a pistol on my uncle) accelerated her condition and left her in a state I can only describe as post traumatic.
I hope this cure works. I pray it works. Been hopeful before.
All the computers of that era suffered from one problem... Software distribution.
I'm sure the Amiga had killer apps somewhere that was comparable to anything on the x86 platform. My friends and I all had various computers from that era, my family was an Atari house. Others were commodore, some Apple, and some were PC. Some had access to BBS's that had software from the other side of the globe in the UK (We were US) The UK 16 and 8 bit scene were crazy compared to what we had here in the states.
That being said, the "What if" I want people to consider is.. What if the internet had existed back then?
Lotus only succeeded because they had MASSIVE distribution channels into every continent on earth. They had IBM's money behind them, and IBM was already everywhere with things like Selectric typewriters. Had the internet existed in a usable form for these other computers back in the day, we might have seen more than the x86 dominate like it is today.
Have mod points, but I want some of this action today.
>Sure, most places have severance, but it's not like they take your feelings into consideration so if employees are just up and leaving, that's behavior the corporation does all the time
Oh I've had worse than that. Once worked for an IT outsourcing firm that was $20 in gas away from my house. Super early in my career, wasn't being paid much (I think $36k@year in 1998 or so)
They *could* have just let me go over the phone and mailed a check. I KNEW they were letting me go, and I even said several times, "If you're calling me into the office to let me go, just do it over the phone, no reason to call me in"
"No t0qer it isn't that, just stop by!" the owner said in a cheery voice. Came in, was fired. I raged out on my way out, flipping over chairs and spat on the owners car on my way out.
I use good old youtube for listening to music in my car during my morning commutes. Using the google assistant, I say, "OK Google, youtube Chemical Brothers" and I used to get chemical brothers playback starting flawlessly on my drive without looking at my phone.
Last 6 months or so YT has employed strategies to curb this kind of use. Routinely the "Youtube Music" add with "FREE TRIAL MONTH" pops up and won't go away until I physically look for the "No thanks" button. That sort of distraction can lead to an accident. They've also employed the "Are you still listening?" and "Autoplayback paused" Luckily the latter 2 can be skipped by pressing a button on my bluetooth radio transmitter.
I don't really feel like there is enough information from the 2 or 3 sentences in the submission to make a huge determination on things, but rather it leaves some questions in my mind. I've been doing IT consulting for small businesses as a side gig for 25 years. Biggest things I run into is, they all want what I have at my main gig, but don't want to pay for it. I extrapolated that this fits the issue because of the, "Windows updates causing downtime" bit.
This could be easily solved if the clients were part of a domain that has a SCCM server installed. Group policies can setup when the updates happen (as well as keep the client PC's" well guarded. Also, why isn't there swap systems in place for this kind of downtime?
There was a time this kind of setup was a ton of money, but these days you can buy into the Azure cloud and be done with it. At a minimum you get office365, domain authentication, bunch of other niceties without having to pay for hardware.
Ya same thing with comcast/xfinity. Just another way to milk us. I wish when municipalities allow these jokers to use our poles that they'd have the foresight to think about this kind of situation. It'd be like AOL saying you can't use any HAYES compatible on their dial up. Absolutely no reason for this.
A few years back customer opens shop. After 3 shitty comcrap modems, we buy our own. Comcast at the time has no issue, we have a static IP set and it's set for 3 years. FF to last week. Customer can't connect via VPN, lotta other people depending on that static IP can't connect. I call comcast and they start troubleshooting.
Apparently they changed their policy. No static IP if the customer is using their own modem. Nope, we can't have our old IP back, big FU. We have to pay $19.95@mo + $10 modem lease to get a static from them now. Never mind that this is a bonafide business account. Cable companies are worse than lawyers and politicians, and that's a pretty low bar as is.
Not exactly sure why they'd go through some crazy process to put copper in fabric. The Japanese Indigo plant has long exhibited antibacterial properties. Why not just dye scrubs with that?
In other words, Oregon is awesome! Don't fuck it up by moving up here! Don't worry I won't. I'm not like the rest of the asshats moving up there for "Cheaper cost of living" I could stay here perpetually. I'm not leaving the Bay Area, it's left me.
I mention the identity politics in my post above. No doubt one of the biggest reasons I want to leave. Why can't I just be myself? Why do I have to fit into some category in the first place?
Slashdot Mirror
Cause slashdot is beating a dead horse.
Joking aside, Linux support has gotten better from the days when posting on a forum would be met with RTFM. It's still not enough to get folks to turn away in masses to Linux. I honestly don't know what the answer is.
It's not games. Valve went as far as to create their own flavor of Linux.
It could be apps. I find that MsOffice is still better than everything else out there. I'm great with Gimp simply because I'm too cheap to pay for Adobe products, but adding stroke to text is still a lot more difficult than it has to be (select layer, convert layer to path, etc)
It could be hardware compatibility. Some of the more "pure" distro's refuse to include binary drivers.
It could also be my cousin Vinny, who is sort of defacto tech support for aunt Jenine (I really don't have an aunt or cousin named that)
Maybe it's the ease of entry as a professional. Windows 10 basic cert is easy, Linux, not so much.
Maybe it's something I just heard in my Security+ training, that GUI's prevent mistakes.
Maybe it's the accountability, you know who you're dealing with, there's at least some central number to call for support, instead of a fragmentation of 10 different companies.
Maybe it's the government, who still swears by windows for a lot of things.
I really don't know. I know I'm typing this from Windows, in a chrome browser. I have my reasons. Having been on slash since the beginning, this question is just never answered. It's almost like Incels asking, "Why can't I get laid?"
Thirding Gimp here.
Drag cut borders out, use HTML slicing tool. Besides basic graphics editing, I use it for 3d printing. Slicing tool is REALLY handy for my smallish print bed. While there's no direct text stroke tool, select text with magic wand, convert select into path, draw along path. It takes some learning, but once learned it's not bad.
The value in the moon is in cheaper launches. Might be a little late for karma whoring but... bare with me here.
In the 60's we had the technology to build a base on the moon. Hell, we could have even had the technology to produce fuel on the moon. Somewhere there's an interview with Armstrong who said even NASA knew there was water on the moon in the 60's. Water + electricity = hydrogen and oxygen. Very easy to get the 2 turned into some sort of fuel.
The thing we lacked though was money. Beyond money, we lacked things we have today that we just take for granted (looking at the har har funny comments here) We barely had enough fast switching technology to send a 240x160 video stream back to earth. Today we can switch at GHZ, lots of stuff can be fit into that stream. Lots of information. We don't even need it though, we can probably fit plenty in 1tb of solid state storage.
Moving on, we now have advanced processing that recognize conditions and work autonomously. Coupled with 3d printing, we can send smaller robots to the moon to do most of the heavy lifting that would have required humans years ago. There's no atmosphere on the moon, so solar panels will work a lot better up there than here on earth.
So now instead of sending a construction crew to the moon, we can send robots. Robots that will find a suitable place (lava tubes or deep craters) that will build us a base in a somewhat underground area, shielded from cosmic rays and the suns radiation. They can generate their own power, find ice, turn it into breathable oxygen, and eventually fuel for return trips.
I think that's the end game of this moon rush. It's not for tourism, or finding metals. It's to be somewhere that has 1/7th the gravity of the earth, meaning 1/7th the amount of fuel to launch. Future missions, like building a deep space manned craft to go to mars will need the moon. As soon as we get some sort of livable permanent habitat up there, we will start sending other machines up there, start building clean rooms to build processors and RAM up there.
In the beginning, I'd imagine the labor on the moon will be much higher than that on earth, but as the outpost up there evolves, eventually the cost of manufacturing up there will be negated by the cost of launches. That is why we need to be up there. There will never be any reason to bring the resources of the moon back here, but we need to be there to make our eventual trip into the outer solar system possible.
> Having tried a number of different team chat platforms, I have to say Slack still has a kind of commanding lead, even in just the basics of chat. I prefer it to anything else.
Funny bit the other day.
I'm in the discord server for 2b2t, a minecraft server that's chock full of shitposts. I post a few things in chat, goatse, GNAA, all the classic trolls from here. Guy that runs the discord, points me at the discord TOS that says these things are not allowed.
I promptly ran back to the wilds of Efnet.
Wow, this was great. The tension in the story had me hooked. Vader is torn between doing what's right, and his loyalty to Palapatine. This is the kind of internal struggle we saw in the first 3 Star Wars films that made them a compelling story, but now it's from the other side of the conflict. FX were good considering the budget. One small change I would have done, when Vader is looking down at that hole to the catacombs with light flashes coming out of it, I would have used purple colored flashes of light instead of white, just to add a little more foreshadowing to Palapatines, "Amethyst saber wielding Jedi"
Beyond the story and FX, I loved the costumes too. The storm trooper talking to Vader at Naboo, he looked almost like a 50's hot rod to me. His mask had dual K&N looking air intakes on it. In the original Star wars, much of what Lucas had to work with was based on a limited budget, and things familiar to him. Considering Lucas directed "American Graffiti" it was almost like a nod to where the original Star Wars got so much of its design from. It was a combination of 40's and 50's era technology shoe horned into a futuristing setting (The Millineum Falcon's cockpit for instance was designed to look like a B52's, much of the space dogfighting was modeled after WWI Biplane dogfights)
Disney should hire you guys to flesh out and direct any new star wars films. Given your limited resources (Which might have contributed to why this is so good) it's perfect. There is a love for the universe in every detail of this, and I look forward to the next episode.
When I was active on linkedin, I would get calls like these daily from people with heavy Indian accents.
>Hello sir, we are looking for someone that knows Windows server. Do you know Windows Server?
>Yes
>Do you know about file sharing?
>Yes
>Do you know about TCP/IP
>Yes
>Are you familiar with Cisco?
>Yes.
>You sound perfect for this client of mine, they are a fortune 500 company. Starting salary is $250,000 USD a year. I just need the last 4 digits of your SSI for a background check.
This is just like the IRS scammer phone calls but with a twist, they're preying on people with no job, no money and desperate for work. As soon as I stopped being active on linkedin, the calls stopped.
know about energy? It's not like there's a lot of unknown science around rice. It's one of the oldest cultivated plants.
Let's put aside the effects of the disease first, and it's impact on the patients body. I want to talk about just how fucked this thing is for the rest of slashdotters, and what the worst part about the disease is. It's greed.
Let me rewind to 2 years ago. It was Christmas at my Grandma's. Grandma's really special to me, as a kid she fostered me when my druggy parents could not. She made me the man I am today, took me off the streets. Taught me things that would last a lifetime, like saying, "Please, Thank you sir, and no ma'am".
She had also amassed quite a fortune, to the tune of what I'd later learn was $20 million dollars or so. Her sons never worked. They grew up thinking they were royalty of our town. Back to Christmas though.
My father whispered to me, "This is the last Christmas we'll be having here, your uncle is going to put her in a home!" I thought he was joking. 20 years earlier, my uncle had talked her letting him be a trustee of a new trust. The trust gave him powers that in the event she lost mental faculty, he could "Do what is necessary for her care" A pretty broad statement.
He had been shopping her to various doctors around town looking for one that would give her a diminished capacity declaration. Most of them refused, but the last few he met were more than happy to do it, and recommend she be placed in a secured memory facility. Basically a prison for folks with Alzheimer's. Some of these doctors did this without ever having met my grandmother.
A letter was sent out to the family, that he was going to do this to her from the lawyer that drew up the trust.
Thankfully the court was on her side. She wanted to stay home, and had always been told by my grandfather that's where she'll stay. It took 2 years of fighting, since he had access to her money. Ironic he used her own money against her to hire lawyer after lawyer. There was a compromise made, but it was in her favor for the most part. Uncle would not have conservator over her medical or financials. He would still be a trustee of the trusts, but under a yearly audit from the courts. He would pay all of her bills (including caretakers) and for repairs to her house.
It was during that fight though that pained me the most. Him and his brothers would go over there and lie to her, tell her things to confuse her. While I was at work, they'd go over there and tell her I was the bad guy. Her story changed when she talked to the court investigator, but the investigator knew what was going on, as well as my team.
Watching family lie and manipulate the affected is the most fucked part in Alzheimer's. It reduces what's called a persons susceptibility to undue influence. I'm not going to diminish the fact that my grandma's mental state deteriorated, but the stress of court, doctors, her sons trying to manipulate her (and scaring her at one point to draw a pistol on my uncle) accelerated her condition and left her in a state I can only describe as post traumatic.
I hope this cure works. I pray it works. Been hopeful before.
All the computers of that era suffered from one problem... Software distribution.
I'm sure the Amiga had killer apps somewhere that was comparable to anything on the x86 platform. My friends and I all had various computers from that era, my family was an Atari house. Others were commodore, some Apple, and some were PC. Some had access to BBS's that had software from the other side of the globe in the UK (We were US) The UK 16 and 8 bit scene were crazy compared to what we had here in the states.
That being said, the "What if" I want people to consider is.. What if the internet had existed back then?
Lotus only succeeded because they had MASSIVE distribution channels into every continent on earth. They had IBM's money behind them, and IBM was already everywhere with things like Selectric typewriters. Had the internet existed in a usable form for these other computers back in the day, we might have seen more than the x86 dominate like it is today.
Have mod points, but I want some of this action today.
>Sure, most places have severance, but it's not like they take your feelings into consideration so if employees are just up and leaving, that's behavior the corporation does all the time
Oh I've had worse than that. Once worked for an IT outsourcing firm that was $20 in gas away from my house. Super early in my career, wasn't being paid much (I think $36k@year in 1998 or so)
They *could* have just let me go over the phone and mailed a check. I KNEW they were letting me go, and I even said several times, "If you're calling me into the office to let me go, just do it over the phone, no reason to call me in"
"No t0qer it isn't that, just stop by!" the owner said in a cheery voice. Came in, was fired. I raged out on my way out, flipping over chairs and spat on the owners car on my way out.
>Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG
Sweet! No more Chinese screaming, "CHINAH NUMBAH ONE!" in pubg voice.
Would be neat if we found the same thing on Mars.
I use good old youtube for listening to music in my car during my morning commutes. Using the google assistant, I say, "OK Google, youtube Chemical Brothers" and I used to get chemical brothers playback starting flawlessly on my drive without looking at my phone.
Last 6 months or so YT has employed strategies to curb this kind of use. Routinely the "Youtube Music" add with "FREE TRIAL MONTH" pops up and won't go away until I physically look for the "No thanks" button. That sort of distraction can lead to an accident. They've also employed the "Are you still listening?" and "Autoplayback paused" Luckily the latter 2 can be skipped by pressing a button on my bluetooth radio transmitter.
I don't really feel like there is enough information from the 2 or 3 sentences in the submission to make a huge determination on things, but rather it leaves some questions in my mind. I've been doing IT consulting for small businesses as a side gig for 25 years. Biggest things I run into is, they all want what I have at my main gig, but don't want to pay for it. I extrapolated that this fits the issue because of the, "Windows updates causing downtime" bit.
This could be easily solved if the clients were part of a domain that has a SCCM server installed. Group policies can setup when the updates happen (as well as keep the client PC's" well guarded. Also, why isn't there swap systems in place for this kind of downtime?
There was a time this kind of setup was a ton of money, but these days you can buy into the Azure cloud and be done with it. At a minimum you get office365, domain authentication, bunch of other niceties without having to pay for hardware.
I guess no O'Brian at work until this gets sorted.
Twilio with openvbx = instant robocall system. We need to fine more than old pots telco's.
Ya same thing with comcast/xfinity. Just another way to milk us. I wish when municipalities allow these jokers to use our poles that they'd have the foresight to think about this kind of situation. It'd be like AOL saying you can't use any HAYES compatible on their dial up. Absolutely no reason for this.
Had this issue pop up recently.
A few years back customer opens shop. After 3 shitty comcrap modems, we buy our own. Comcast at the time has no issue, we have a static IP set and it's set for 3 years. FF to last week. Customer can't connect via VPN, lotta other people depending on that static IP can't connect. I call comcast and they start troubleshooting.
Apparently they changed their policy. No static IP if the customer is using their own modem. Nope, we can't have our old IP back, big FU. We have to pay $19.95@mo + $10 modem lease to get a static from them now. Never mind that this is a bonafide business account. Cable companies are worse than lawyers and politicians, and that's a pretty low bar as is.
Surprised nobody has made this point yet.
A VM can be set to run as a part of a VLAN, giving you a little extra bit of security.
Not exactly sure why they'd go through some crazy process to put copper in fabric. The Japanese Indigo plant has long exhibited antibacterial properties. Why not just dye scrubs with that?
https://link.springer.com/arti...
I played it with my gearVR and riftcat, not the greatest, but it works. What are you playing with?
I'm streaming multiplayer live on twitch right now.
In other words, Oregon is awesome! Don't fuck it up by moving up here! Don't worry I won't. I'm not like the rest of the asshats moving up there for "Cheaper cost of living" I could stay here perpetually. I'm not leaving the Bay Area, it's left me.
Oddly enough I miss seeing that scrawled across the highway 1 overpass.
I mention the identity politics in my post above. No doubt one of the biggest reasons I want to leave. Why can't I just be myself? Why do I have to fit into some category in the first place?