It's pointless to argue for this. We don't have a unitary system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_state) of government like say the United Kingdom. Oh, how I wish we did. My kingdom for everything from speed limits, and rules on turning right on red, on up to more important things like firearms licensing and ownership to be the same no matter where you travelled or lived in the country.

Instead we have Federalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism) where the states share sovereignty. And if you think they're going to just dissolve themselves, it's just not going to happen. And if you believe they would, please I have multiple bridges around the world to sell you. The only up side to this model in my book is what some people would argue about different states trying different things, and those that are found to work tend to get adopted by others as well. I simply don't buy the argument that the Federal government is out to get us all. But that is a discussion/argument/flame war for another day.

Not just.

They have medals for good conduct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Conduct_Medal_(United_States)

Serving during time of war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Service_Medal

Doing your job well inside or outside of combat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achievement_Medal

Wounded or killed while serving:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart

Serving in various Campaigns, wars, etc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Service_Medal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Defense_Service_Medal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Service_Medal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_War_on_Terrorism_Service_Medal

Not to mention a plethora of ribbons for sea and other service:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Service_Ribbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruiting_Service_Ribbon

You can tell a lot about what a person has done inside and outside of combat by the ribbons they wear. Obviously some medals are a lot more prestigious than others. That is why the order of wear is ranked.

No need, was really just happy to help a Fedora user.

I think the grub2 password protect thing is fixable - need to add --unrestricted to allow anyone to boot the entry, so it doesn't ask for a password every time. There is a bug for it with the details. Granted it should just work, but it's being tracked and should see the light of day someday... I gather from the trail of comments it is not as trivial as would be liked to fix.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840204 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853430

On the updated packages, use cobbler (or whatever) to create a kickstart that adds the updates repo - during the install the latest version should get installed, unless there is some reason that now doesn't work now, but I can't imagine why.

I do use kickstarts to do automated installs and they do work. Without more detail I can't help you more, except to say that I know some of the kickstart options, especially around disk configuration, have changed.

Why doesn't GDM run? Do you just need to run a post install script to ln -sf to set /etc/systemd/system/default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target? Would need more details to even say why it won't work..."

I'm not the guy you responded to, but can I get a nice gift?

Granted, this is nearly twice as big, but the Samsung 840 (non Pro) can already be gotten for $349.99 for 500GB = $0.69...

Certainly I count for at least one. Even though I have the Steam Linux client installed to play a few games I have the Windows client installed under WINE to play the rest that aren't available. The only thing that might help them account for it is that I do see a reference to wine in the hardware information I submit when it randomly asks for it, so it is entirely possible they are able to account for this... whether they do or not is another story.

You don't know what the hell you're talking about. A semi-automatic weapon can still be an assault rifle by the federal definition. When I was in the Marine Corps I bought an AR-15 that was built with a military surplus upper receiver that had a flash suppressor and bayonet stud. I never ever ever mounted a bayonet on that thing. The sheer idea of doing so is pretty absurd to me, as I bought it for target practice to improve my range scores since I tended to be on the lower side of qualifying and having something very similar to an M16 was ideal for learning and I got a damn good price on it. The point though is that that thing which most definitely was not fully automatic fully qualified as an assault weapon because of those two features.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban

I think one of the University of Illinois campuses does a CS degree completion, though you need some courses completed before coming in. University of Massachusetts at Lowell does an IT degree online, which is obviously not the same as CS, but you can take several computer science courses and it will get you a Bachelor's same as if you attended the school; it is not an 'Online' degree and there is no differentiation. I traveled a lot at the time so attending on campus was not an option. I was literally writing papers in airports and taking tests in hotels. I did 9-12 credits a semester like this for 2.5 years to finish up. It was pure hell, and I was a grumpy bastard since all I did is work, school, sleep, rinse, repeat, but it is worth it.

One thing college proves is that you have the drive to stick with something for 4 years and succeed. You learn a whole lot of other valuable lessons and information while doing that too.

Look, I'm not a fan of rising tuition costs, and the growing requirement for manufacturing jobs, that clearly have no need, requiring a college degree. But we need to stop encouraging people to be stupid and give up while insinuating that they're doing the right thing. They're not. As mentioned most of the drop outs already had lots of contacts, maybe a good idea, and mommy and daddy's money to carry them. Most of us don't.

Instead, maybe they should get a degree and use their new found skills and insight into the system to help reform it and make it better for everyone. The message certainly should not be to ignore the broken system and subscribe to a life of indifference and complacency. That message is crap served with a steaming side of bullshit.

Thanks for the info, I did not know that.

I don't think you can replace Active Directory for things like Group Policy, etc. The functionality just isn't there, as far as I know. On the other hand check out the FreeIPA project in Fedora (and IPA in RHEL) - they now support creating trusts with Active Directory domains which allows sharing resources, etc. This is the gist of how it works: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_freeipav3_ad_trust

You have that backwards.

http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/edt.html

EDT is 4 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) Note that EDT is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter EST is used instead.

EST starts Sunday.

And if you're going to say I'm a programmer then pay me like one. I don't think most sysadmins get paid as much as programmers, and I don't think most companies want to pay sysadmins as much as developers.

Also, developers trying to write tools for sysadmins usually suck at it, unless they've been a sysadmin at some time in the past. I have used a few products lately which are trying to solve all our sysadmin problems, and the one that doesn't suck comes from a dev who is a former sysadmin. And when I talk to him and make suggestions he sees exactly where I'm coming from.

Developers just want to solve use cases that fit neat little scenarios without any corner cases, and it shows when their tool is so inflexible as to be useless.

Not that I agree with this B.S., as it is probably illegal, but maybe his knowledge wasn't the problem. Maybe it was personality or culture fit?

Amen, when my contract was up, I didn't even think twice to ditch Apple last month after their latest round of litigation. Nice new S3. I'm sorry I ever gave them money. I, along with everyone else, have created a monster, and I am immensely sorry for that.