Good idea! Thanks.

Sadly, none of the Oculus headsets out so far will work for me, as my IPD is too narrow (52 mm). Most devices go from 57 or 58 mm to wider. I guess I'll have to wait for the technology to be ubiquitous enough that they start making children's headsets. If this ever happens, I'd love to check it out. I've always wanted this sort of immersive 3D.

FUD again. The udev module of systemd does not run under PID=1! Please take a look at how systemd is organized before you post something like this.

$ ps axf | grep systemd | grep -v grep
    1 ? Ss 0:47 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --system --deserialize 16
  247 ? Ss 2:48 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
  603 ? Ss 2:20 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
19211 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
19260 ? Ss 0:18 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind

systemd encompasses many things that used to be separate, but that doesn't mean they all run in the same process. Functionality is still kept modular, and you can update systemd without requiring a reboot most of the time. systemctl --daemon-reexec will reload the updated modules.

I'm not a fan of *ctl commands (hard to type, they don't roll off the fingers), but they are okay.

Phoronix take on this is hilarious. A "boycott of systemd" led to the development of uselessd? Rather it looks to me like the uselessd developers saw that systemd had some very good ideas, and they wanted to have that, minus some parts they didn't like, on systems that aren't glibc, and aren't linux. This is part evolution, part competition. Either way it enhances Lenardts' position all along, that traditional script-based system v init is horribly broken. For even uselessd now supports socket activation (systemd's main feature) and process supervision, the latter being sorely lacking from sys v init for many years.

In any event, this is all great news. If anything it paves the way to support modern operating system features on non-linux systems, and non-gnu systems. Part of what's required to finally port modern GUI systems like Gnome 3 to other platforms.

Back when I was a computer science student just learning Linux, kdevelop was one of the apps that made Linux accessible for me. That and kde itself. Once I got acclimated, I quickly switched to vim and ended with gnome. But I've always had a soft spot for kdevelop and think it's great they've come so far.

I guess you watched a different Star Trek than I did. Early on it became apparent that Vulcans do have emotions, very deep ones at that. They just chose to let logic and reason form a foundation for thought and way of life. Star Trek 6 inparticular shows a very different Spock than the one you remember. And frankly I like the evolution. He became a man of wisdom, understanding, loyalty, love, and keen humor. And in their own way Vulcans are deeply spiritual. They meditate, revere their ancestors, and have the idea of a vulcan soul. There is even a deep religious component to Vulcan culture (poorly shown in Star Trek III, and often mocked by Mad magazine). Sarek's love affair with Amanda is particularly poignant, even in the few minutes of screen time it got in the TV series. I love the take on it that A.C. Crispin came up with in with her novel, Sarek. Not canon at all, of course, but it's the way I like to think of Vulcans. Highly recommend that novel. Love, happiness, passion, grief, logic.

I hate the way vulcans were portrayed in Star Trek Enterprise, particularly the way Blalock portrayed her character. Apparently she chose not to study vulcan portrayals in any of the other tv shows and movies, and did her own thing. It stinks. Comes across as just a sullen, maladjusted person (the sociopath that you seem to associate wrongly with Spock). That's not how Vulcans are at all, at least in the shows and movies I've seen.

Not only that but the companies that manage the booking infrastructure take a cut.

I just need some gas money.

CBC's article is just a Canadian take on things. The original article (just as scary) is here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

I realize there are a finite number of contracts that NASA can award, but why not have multiple companies with man-rated rocket capabilities? Perhaps that would lead to opening up the manned spaceflight market outside of the public sector, much like how several companies make commercial aircraft.

Maybe Congress will wise up and support the endeavor instead of trying to thwart it. We can dream I guess.

Using CentOS 7 on my desktop right now. It supports modern hardware, and I have a nice, usable desktop environment. I'll never use Gnome 3, so the frozen version number won't bother me any. Systemd works quite nicely for the desktop, and I can see how it will be a good thing on servers too.

I know of someone that was actually shot down by some yahoo with a hunting rifle. They hit something on the aircraft that disabled it and he had to make an emergency, crash landing. Something that was not his fault at all resulted in an automatic license suspension of five years if I recall correctly.

The problem is that the FAA is trying to exert influence into an area where it has no authority. This is a good intro to the controversy: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

Oh dear. I guess your browser doesn't render the humor or sarcasm tags properly. The parent comment was intended to be snarky humor poking fun at those of us who think the gpl is a good idea. Whether or not it was actually funny is debatable of course.

Interesting. Usually when I buy from Ebay the results are mediocre at best and the seller demands that I give him a full star review. I don't have the ebay foo or the patience that you have. I've bought cell batteries from a ebay seller that looked very much like what you recommend, and they were junk. I also bought from a random, supposedly reputable dealer on Amazon, and they were junk (brand name, two year old batteries). Went to a local store specializing in batteries and they were junk too (also two year old, brand name, batteries). The problem with a lot of vendors is that batteries have a shelf life. If the new batter is more than a year old, it's not going to perform.

I'm trying Anker now and will see what happens.