The solution to this is for a company to start up that only caters to disabled passengers, charges the same rates as the other companies, and gets a subsidy from the city. The point is largely moot anyway: many cities already have something like this (though you usually have to call a day in advance), in the form of paratransit services which offer door to door for slightly more than a standard bus fare.

The same goal can be accomplished with better public transportation. If every city > 500k population had a well designed rail system, many more people would be able to use their phones while commuting. I wonder if Google went into that field, would they have less opposition? A "google subway" would also make a great network of tunnels for running fiber...

Sometimes unpaid overtime is an unspoken job requirement for a promotion (which could be done in a manner that benefits everyone). For example, if there's a busy season and a group of employees regularly get overtime of varying lengths, it can be hell on the books. Rather than deal with the fact that these employees could make anywhere from 2-4k extra during that busy time, giving them a promotion to "management" and an annual raise of 5k both gets them more money and distributes that extra payment evenly over the course of the year.

I haven't RTFA, but the 'greeter' is basically the login screen. I am guessing that certain non-default greeters caused issues with setting background pictures. As someone who usually logs in to tty1 and simply runs startx to get a GUI, I haven't much experience with or use for greeters...

While I was in Japan last year, there was a railway service disruption to remove a recently discovered undetonated American bomb in a Tokyo suburb. I am assuming it is not an uncommon occurrence as the only news I'd heard of it was on the railway departure board.

If you had limited the boycott to Sony CDs it may have been more effective. What it comes down to is the average person will evaluate each product on its own merits, rather than someone else's idealism. And this is a good thing, because pretty much every company everywhere has done *something* to piss off some group of people.

What does IBM do? AIX, Mainframes, PowerPC architecture, and z. They are shedding all the divisions where they actually have to compete, and are focusing only on things that people are either already locked in to, or that they are the only vendor of. The stock is going up because when the dust has settled, they still have a huge number of high profile customers who are paying through the nose for their products, but are not wasting resources on things with thin margins.

Not only that, but as the city would have been the lesser known of the two, the editors would have specified Oregon in the title, and this entire line of conversation would have never happened (nor would I have learned about the coin toss... thanks!).

In that case it should be even easier with separate files: copy the ifcfg-eth0:1 for whatever service you want (if necessary restoring from a backup if the original server is dead) and just ifup it... I fail to see any situation (other than initial learning curve) where one file would be significantly easier than multiple, but can see many where multiple files are significantly easier than one.

Just use straight Winbind with an RID backend to consistently generate UID/GID from SIDs. You can even automate the join to the domain in the kickstart. SSSD just caused more problems than it solved....

That's what RH Clustering Services are for...

Precisely. The Oracle splash screen was the most important "feature" when trying to pitch an MS Office replacement to the type of people who only buy brand name groceries.

I've successfully gotten die-hard MS Office users to use OpenOffice precisely because it had menus rather than the stupid ribbon. The Oracle branding helped, and I think the Apache one probably would be just as effective.

I'm surprised no one is mentioning the elephant in the room on this: Retailers in foreign countries can't (or won't) handle our low-tech credit cards anyway, so it doesn't really matter - when travelling abroad I'm using cash anyway, and not really by choice.

Thank you for reminding me to make sure I am not purchasing Ubisoft games when I browse the Steam store. Steam is good enough DRM, putting stuff on top of it just wastes everyone's time.