While humor surrounds the adage, "If brute force isn't working, then you're not using enough," there's a degree of truth in that statement too.

I'm foreseeing problems as stupid or annoying as landing in the bottom of a shallow crater, and having to manually carry the rover up to the lip of the rim, plus all of the supplies, the habitat module, etc. I would expect a lot of it to be modular, but being able to physically move heavier things is really never a disadvantage. Then there are situations with stuck things, levers, etc, where simple brute-force is necessary.

I service my own vehicles and back when I had POS vehicles I had to swap transmissions in and out, and not only did I have to deal with the weight of the transmission, but the torque on all of the bolts. Even I had times when I had to resort to a length of pipe on a breaker bar as well.

I think that a thoroughly mixed and diverse crew makes a lot more sense. Hell, if they can assemble a crew of hedonistic swingers that wouldn't develop passionate confrontation over sexual liaisons, that would probably be even better, so that everyone is sated on this long journey in close quarters.

I ended up on Debian because of Slackware's holdout with libc5 when everyone else had gone to glibc2. I then discovered that I liked the ability to use install packages with dependency checking to keep my systems up to date.

then systemd came along and made me sad.

I wonder which half will end up over at Ubuntu...

So just a mesh network with multipath capability then?

I spent a few years drinking 128oz of Mountain Dew every workday. I'm down to 24oz now of Throwback, but I'd like to know more about what I've done to myself...

I had to quit. I was starting to have heart palpitations.

I wonder how much they've been paid or are being paid.

PerkinElmer is still in business, by the way.

Canada Will Ship 800 Doses of Experimental Ebola Drug to WHO

Who?

Yep. I'm one, I've got a box at home and my primary box at work both running Linux. I do network administration and it's convenient, with the amount of SSH that I do, to have Linux as my desktop.

I wish that I'd ended up with the X1 Carbon instead of the Yoga for my work laptop, the tablet doesn't get along well with Linux and is stuck as a Windows machine :(

They'll fork, or Ubuntu will be forced to consider following Debian back to the UNIX model with System V.

For how many of them did you set up their computers?

Yes. I look at systemd as being the opposite in what I want; I deal with mostly daemon-serving boxes that do special purpose tasks. Those boxes don't need GUIs, and outside of storage don't really even need plug-and-play. They need to be repairable on the console without ever gaining physical access to the box, and everything needs to be crystal-clear with the configurations.

More to the point, as with the System V vs BSD init debate, this'll further help to separate the UNIX-method distributions from the desktop, automagic ones.

I learned on Slack and at the time just about all of the books that I could find were UNIX admin books, not Linux admin books. With Slackware in the 2.0 kernel days this wasn't a problem; the kernel-specific stuff was really the only differentiator from regular UNIX-style admin.

I expect Desktop-oriented distributions to increasingly obfuscate things from the user, in the manner that MacOSX does. And for most users that'll work fine. For those that want to tinker under the hood, hopefully distributions like Debian will continue to allow for a more UNIX-like method of doing things.

I don't think that it'll specifically add resale value, but it will make it easier. The more potential connectivity the better as it gives the buyers options.

No, they don't.

A friend of mine bought a brand new build home a couple of years ago, and I cabled the house for ethernet, coax, and phone. I ran cabling to predicted demarc points for both the telephone company and the cable company. She didn't subscribe to phone service, and the phone company never installed a service connection or demarcation point. The cable company, for which she did sign up for service from, did.

If what I read on Google's fiber website is right, they're offering free lower-speed fiber connectivity so long as one pays for the installation cost, around $300. My guess is that if a subscriber likes the free, they'll upgrade to paid 1Gb, if they already have the connection in place.