Does anyone have any insights into what that extended support actually provides. How many security patches
have there been released since ? To me it sound as a very expensive extra insurrance for when the house burns down and
people above you start to look for someone to blame.

Now take that 5.5 million and replace your old machines and software.

So petty wars of attrition.

The only web developers who still have such security bugs in their software are 1) lazy 2) incompetent 3) not interested in security or 4) have been asleep for 15 years. For whatever the reason is, it's not wise to use their software!/p.

That's like 90% of all developers :D.

Last time I tried Fedora (11 or 12) It broke constantly. Although much of it was possibly due to KDE4 going through its "infant years".

Oh? Why wouldn't I just read /run/systemd/journal instead? [unplugs disk that /var is mounted on and starts box] var.mount mount process exited, code=exited status=32 hmmm, no information on what went wrong?

That's what systemd tells you not the output of the actual mount utility. It could lie. What if mount fails because of a severe filesystem error ? What if the initrd is broken and the actual mount helper utility is not present ?

P.S. Weren't you the genius who wondered why "we" don't know what happened before time and space began? Where do I sign up for your newsletter?

No, I was the "genius" that got confused because the medium article mentioned 2 BIG BANGS. That send a red flag for me because I was taught that yes, we can't look "before" the big bang because there simply was no time. And offcourse cosmic inflation happened after the big bang !

Something needed to happen to set up the initial conditions for the Big Bang, and that “thing” is cosmic inflation, or a period where the energy in the Universe wasn’t dominated by matter (or antimatter) or radiation, but rather by energy inherent to space itself, or an early, super-intense form of dark energy.

PS. Nice Ad hominem.

But If you can't write to these log files because your root or /var filesystem doesn't mount
then you would have wished for stdout/stderr on the console !

Couldn't you already create this "executable whitelist" if you setup software restriction policies ? (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh994620.aspx)

Don't use hardware RAID. Buy an OEM LSI SAS2008 controller based (IBM serveraid M1015, Dell Perc H310, ...) card from ebay
and flash it to passthrough IT mode. These get +2GB/s bulk throughput each that way.

Isn't that normal. I wouldn't call being bad at something you don't like a disease.
I worked through high-school French but it never stuck, never for the lack of trying though.
Am I a ADHD patient ?

Yet there was a time in the distant past before any of those things had formed, shortly before the Big Bang, where the Universe was still filled with light.

I thought spacetime started with the big bang and we had no insight into what came before ?
The article says that the fabric of space was expanding and the big bang was an event that got its energy from spots of crumbling spacefabric (bad analogy) ?

This process, of inflation ending and giving rise to the hot Big Bang, is known as cosmic reheating, and as the Universe then cools as it expands, the particle/antiparticle pairs annihilate, creating even more photons and leaving just a tiny bit of matter left over.

Were there 2 big bangs: The one that inflated space and the other one (recombination) that decoupled matter from photons ?
Have you just created an extra "big bang" to be able to explain the question and don't you regress now to the question: Where did spacetime get the energy to begin with ?

People forget that Intel is not only in heavy competition with ARM, but Intel is in perpetual competition with its own parts from last year and if Intel really jacks up prices they will simply lose business from people who don't upgrade.

Nah, you just invent some new feature and makes sure marketing plants it into everybody's head that they need it (hyperthreading).

AMD isn't some angel, it just doesn't have the opportunity to be the big dog very often. Additionally, even when AMD isn't the top dog they've charged whackjob insane prices for chips... $900 FX-9590 launched in 2013 as some sort of bad-joke, I'm looking at you.

True that was disgusting even more so because the next best thing (9370) was only around 400 $.
They tried to extract money from the gamer-fanboys. Their most loyal customers.
They did something similar recently with their AMD SSD and AMD Memory bullshit.

But Intel does something awful when you reach the wear leveling limit. After a power cycle it closes your drive !

Their first fix came out as a windows program and later as a live cd. The Windows program used free ntfs space to shuffle data around.
The live cd did not need a NTFS system and it did not eat my data. (ext4 + LVM2 + md-raid)
I suspect this fix will get a corresponding live cd as well, so we'll just have to wait a little bit longer.

But motherboard Raid is usually fakeRAID.