Non-German living in Germany.

Rates: varies between 0.24 and 0.27 per kWh, before taxes, depending on the subscription you take. My area is 100% renewable and has been for decades (several dams). The local government, before the energy supply was privatized, has spent a fortune on windmills and photo-voltaic parks but our energy supply is wholly generated by the dams.

The rates across the border for the same service are:

• Luxembourg: 0.16€/KWh (+6% VAT) for 100% renewable (http://www.leoenergy.lu/particuliers/nos_tarifs/electricite__1).
• France: 0.1209€/KWh (all taxes included) for renewable.

Yeah it's well known that geeks are unable to learn anything new.[/sarcasm] Granted, learning the soft skills required to be a successful manager may not be the easiest thing for the stereotypical geek. The good news is that I have only encountered a handful of the stereotypical geek in the 20 years I have worked in the field so far.

Do you know what really needs to die? Having managers that are so technically clueless that they think that repeating "make water rain upwards" often enough, and having repeated meetings about that concept, will make it happen. Or managers whose first answer to any request is "no".

If you are happy with limiting yourself to that glass ceiling, be my guest... I personally find it unbearable to have reached the highest seniority/compensation when you still have half (or more) of your career in front of you.

Even tho they are based in my country for tax reasons, itunes and amazon refuse to provide this service to me. I could buy from a service in another country, but according to the rights holder representatives that crime is as heinous as pirating. The catalog of services that are available to me usually doesn't contain the music I enjoy, so in the end I stopped consuming. This is a loss they will somehow blame on piracy, even tho it has nothing to do with it.

I indeed do not hold a credit card anymore, the vast majority of shops around here do not accept them.

So you mean the big fuss is over them being able to do "grep $googleid unified_services_access.log" instead of "grep $googleid *service_access.log"?

The problem with the 100 pushup challenge is that you quickly hit the diminishing return point... you rapidly cross the line between growth and endurance training. Not that there is anything fundamentally wrong with that, it depends of your own objectives. But for general fitness and hypertrophy, you'd incease your returns by inceasing the difficulty of the exercise (change the weight distribution) of your pushup once you can do 3x8 with perfect form. You should also train squats, L-sits and pullups to try and train most major muscle groups. C25K is a very good "by the numbers" program to start running. B210K picks up from there to double the distance. Running will do wonders for your stamina and your lower body muscles. There are also many calisthenics programs out there that don't require a lot of investment. Overcoming Gravity, Building the Gymnast Body, Never Gymless...

I'd watch your link, but ":/ Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Sorry about that".

You actually don't need to use cat (a command designed to concatenate files) or grep, you can get around just with the shell internals. So with a text based log, you can still go around checking the logs if /bin went the way of the dodo.

Also text is very disk corruption resistant compared to binary... what happens to your nice binary format when a single block of the disk it resides on is gone?

Don't get me wrong, I can sort of see the appeal of their proposed solution as a complement to the existing syslog... but as a complete replacement?

Why shouldn't I complain?

As an expat, I don't get to vote in the places that impact me most: the regional and national elections of the country where I live... I only get the right to vote for the city council. Thankfully, there is the option to vote for the Pirate Party at the local level as none of the traditional parties campaigns on anything that remotely interests me.

I do however have the obligation to vote on the national elections of the place that has no impact whatsoever on my life: the country I left 10 years ago.

Hey, let's make a 'burgish club guys ^ ^

This... I fail to understand how the co-creator of SysVr4 would need to pay SCO a license in relation to the x86 version of their OS.

Funnily enough, I have the exact opposite experience...

I was given a windows-only mp3 player and have never been able to sync it with Windows. I plug it in, windows then tells me I need to install drivers so I install them. It then tells me to reboot, so I reboot. I launch WMP, then after clicking all over the place I finally find the device to try and sync it with some playlists. At the end of the sync, WMP tells me "there was an error please try again later". I check the player, nothing on it... the damned thing spent a good 20 minutes churning away to do nothing. I plug it into a Linux box, a pop-up comes and asks me if I prefer to use Rythmbox or AmaroK to manage the player. It syncs no problem. After asking on forums, I'm told I must be some kind of moron or my windows installation has a serious problem (or both) as those devices are plug-and-play. Or maybe the device is defective... but it works 100% fine with Linux even tho it is a windows-only mp3 player. So I try on another machine, same result. A third machine with a more recent installation of windows, same result. A VM with a fresh installation of windows and all patches applied... same result.

Last week, I bought a random cheapo no-name USB wireless stick. I plugged it on my Linux box and it worked directly. Windows required me to install drivers.