Comment Re: Vint shoves greased up yoda dolls in his gay a (Score 1) 73
There have been several other outbreaks recently. As you say: Bloody odd.
Wait till the cows come out. They are due any moment now
MOOOOOOO and all that bollocks.
There have been several other outbreaks recently. As you say: Bloody odd.
Wait till the cows come out. They are due any moment now
MOOOOOOO and all that bollocks.
"An anecdote: when the Egyptian kings were entombed, they were buried with a lot of mummified cats. In the late 19th century when the British colonialists were excavating the tombs, the remains of the cats were sold as fertilizer."
They would be "colonials" if they were taking over the place. I think the word you want is "archaeologist".
A mummified cat is a tiny thing and I doubt it would fertilize anything effectively after several 1000 years, what with being somewhat desiccated. I don't think it would really be worth grinding up a mummified cat when you could simply gather up horse, donkey or mule shit instead. All of those churn out fertilizer at a prodigious rate.
I really hope your anecdote was not imparted to you via your formal education. If it was, I'd ask for your money back. If you are from the UK: I'll ask for *my* money back.
Beg your pardon daddyo! Peer to peer? I'm writing a reply to someone who could be anywhere in the world, that can be viewed by same. I don't see anything remotely SNA related (I've worked with the real thing - it's more stable).
At a whim I can use another platform, any platform that will allow me to login and participate, to communicate with a vast number of people. Yes, there are the big ones: the FBs and Twitters of the world. However they come and go. I also use mailing lists and was a fan of USENET some time ago.
The internet *is* hugely democratised for the likes of you and I. Perhaps not for people in many countries and that is a shame and we must continue to try and develop and deliver technologies and methodologies that might enable those who aspire to the luxury of reasonably unfettered communication (that we enjoy) to be able to join us.
I clothe myself in far more tin foil than you will ever see in your life but I am under no illusion that I am being fettered in any way. Spied upon? possibly, but only in an uncaring data gathering because terrists or marketing way.
The internet is working the way it is precisely because of the way it is designed and who it was designed for: humans.
"Vint Cerf
No he didn't, he wrote a lettr. I'd never seen one of those things before now but it appears to be another Twattr, Wankr or Tossr style meeja platform but with nicer fonts.
A letter is not broadcast across the world but is a slow, expensive point to point medium. It also requires effort, paper, pens (or possibly crayons), some saliva, an envelope, a stamp and some legwork to post it. I used to be a prolific letter writer and loved to send and receive them many years ago.
Those days are past now. Shame really. The world turns.
Evolution with the EWS connector works very well for me and the missus. Calendars, address lists and all. You can't create/edit Exchange rules but Evo has its own rules system and you can always create them on Outlook and the server will run things for you anyway.
Unfortunately you have to miss out on all that rebooting after each update.
Funnily enough, you can get your Exchange system to be PCI DSS 3.1 compatible via HA Proxy but for those blasted Outlook Anywhere clients, OK and pre Lollipop droids (they wont do TLS 1.2)
Why, to be honest I've pretty much forgotten what init system I've got running on my laptop and desktop. They just work. I very rarely have to bother with systemctl, KDE even has a GUI for it but a quick spell at the bash prompt is quicker.
I have to manage sysvinit, upstart, openrc and systemd based systems. systemd sucks less than the rest in general although I hate the verb in the middle thing. I once had to write a openrc script which was a bit of a pain, now I just copy a unit from wherever I fancy and tweak it a bit.
I think you'll find the brouhaha has near enough expired and people are cracking on with doing stuff.
It's Stonehenge turned up to 11.
For the team's sound designer Mazen Magzoub, project Sanitarium has a special resonance. He's from Sudan.
"There isn't enough medication," he says.
"And even when there is enough medication the nature of living in Sudan does not allow the patient to continue (treatment) for the prescribed period.
"And that makes the tuberculosis bacteria tolerant towards that certain type of antibiotic.
"That's basically the challenge in the developing world."
The game is "Sanitarium."
"... Where the youngin's come in and rip up everything
Get off my lawn and learn to spell.
I've run an IT *company* now for well over 15 years. Herr P is a bit outspoken but in general I agree with his approach. Some of their design decisions are a bit wacky to my mind but I'm an old fogey in that regard. However I am happy to report that my large herds of Linux boxes are much happier with systemd than they were with an unholy mix of sysvinit, openrc, upstart and other stuff.
Putting the imperative in the middle eg "systemctl restart apache2" is their biggest crime. SVO is all very well but in general you want to edit the verb. Funnily enough German generally uses a SOV construction.
Cheers
Jon
Subject Object Verb
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* OK, a graphite core and suitably sharpened.
Old thread but I can't resist: I just give her what she needs and at the same time spend less time (on the IT side) than I did with Windows 7.
I have 20+ years experience with Windows and DOS and a mere 15 or so with Linux. From my perspective, supporting Arch is easier than Windows 7.
Ah, but I use a palindromic PIN - hah!
My wife has no idea she is using Arch Linux and KDE in the main on her laptop. It just works. She browses the web, Facebook and dodgy Flash games, YouTube etc etc, emails via our corp Exchange (I own the company), and so on. Printing just works as does the webcam, bluetooth, touchpad and all the rest.
I replaced the laptop with another in about 60 mins after cloning the old HD to the new one, most of that was spent getting the discs out into a cloner. I had to fiddle with one driver (Broadcom WiFi bollocks).
I update it via ssh every now and then and suggest a reboot eventually when she fancies it. I have locked the widgets and embiggened some of them so they are always where they should be and easy to find.
No computer OS is just plain sailing, Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX or whatever. They all have sharp edges somewhere.
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Been using it since it came out - very light on resources and does one job well.
"One of the hard earned lessons from that is: always use " A BATTERY BACKED RAID CONTROLLER and UPS, a decent SAN etc etc - FTFY.
"I've been doing software development over many years" - Shows. Sorry for being blunt but you did not major in sysadmin. Your logs should not be on the failing system in the first place if they are important.
You should only worry about your log format as a parameter not a life choice.
"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them" - Heisenberg
