Seriously, EVs are racing into high percentages. GM and others are falling behind in capabilities so of course it’s because “no one wants them” when the issue is “no one wants the fairly bad ones these automakers put out when forced to and while trying to kill the market”.

https://www.ev-volumes.com/cou...

Global EV Sales for 2023 H1

By Roland Irle, EV-Volumes
Global EV sales continue strong. A total of 6 million new Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and Plug-in Hybrids (PHEV) were delivered during the first half of 2023, an increase of +40 %. 4,27 million were pure electric BEVs and 1,76 million were PHEVs. Preliminary July results show +40 % growth again. The regional growth pattern has shifted: China EV sales increased by +37 % in 2023 H1 y/y, compared to +82 % in 2022 vs 2021. Sales in Western and Central Europe were up +28 % in H1 compared to just +15 % growth in 2022. EV sales in USA and Canada are +50 % higher YTD to June than last year. EV sales outside the aforementioned markets increased by 102 %, albeit from a low base. Overall vehicle markets saw a considerable recovery, with +17 % y/y growth in Europe in H1 but weaker and more volatile in China. The global light vehicle market was 11 % higher in 2023 H1 than in 2022 H1 but still trailed the 2015-2019 average by five million units on an annualized basis.

EV shares continued to climb in all markets. BEVs (10 %) and PHEVs (4,1 %) stood for 14,1 % of global light vehicle sales at the close of H1, compared to 11,3 % in 2022 H1. Norway had the highest market share of EVs in H1 (BEVs 75 % + PHEVs 6 %), China had 30,5 %, Europe 19,7 % and USA 8,7 %.

Right? Howdy 2k neighbor.

2376 here, yikes, and I did my IBM webmercials back in the Peace Love Linux days. I made the big time!

I'm gonna toddle off to my internet retirement home now ;)

Youâ(TM)re not paying for redundancy at the POP level. You said yourself it seemed like a great deal, indicating price was one of your major drivers. 99.99% of end users donâ(TM)t want to pay what redundancy costs for the small amount of outages, especially now that everyone has a cell device which can handle 10s of Mb/sec as a âfall backâ(TM). If you really need wired redundancy, have a cable company put in a line, and manage that with a router with prioritization. You donâ(TM)t want to pay for that? And thereâ(TM)s why itâ(TM)s down right now.

Sorry, but thereâ(TM)s a point at which ATT, Comcast, etc have to limit their redundancy options to manage costs for the majority of their customers. If youâ(TM)re an outlier in your redundancy needs, pony up to get it, using ATT as one leg of a multi-leg solution.

Heck, itâ(TM)s not hard to set up a cell plan as a hot spot for most devices, so bridge your WiFi to your cell (or your spare cell, since you need redundancy, right? And that cell isnâ(TM)t normally being used, so itâ(TM)s charged and ready when your dies or fails? Seems perfect to use it as a hotspot as a backup option for the few hours or days the carrier is down).

Iâ(TM)ve spent the better part of 3 decades designing redundant systems, and at the end of the day, on a large or small scale, they cost something; end users have to decide if itâ(TM)s worth paying more, and the suppliers have to decide if itâ(TM)s worth losing business as a result of raising their prices to fund the increases. In this case, UVerse is likely âavailable enoughâ(TM) for enough customers that ATT has a business justification to not make things more redundant, and if you have a justification to need them more redundant, you likely have some options to do so, at a cost.

Being old can be useful, I guess, when ancient internet history comes up (yay, I'm a slashdot elder?). Sluggy Freelance was late in 96, and I think Help Desk (ubersoft) was earlier that same year. It's been published continuously although there're a few hiatus periods, so it may or may not count as prepaying sluggy.

It is the way of things. *checks his uid* yeah, /. Has changed, kuro5hin changed, it's part of the gig.

I'm one of the community directors at Louisville, Kentucky's community LVL1 Hackerspace. We're a 501(c)3 w/ a focus on education and outreach, and we're not tied or beholden to any specific school, commercial entity or large sponsor. I don't have the time this exact second to answer something this in depth thru the comment system here, but I'd be happy to provide any info I can if you want to reach out to us thru the email addresses or google groups listed at lvl1 dot org. Given our several year history, we've seen a lot of what works and what doesn't as well as ways to speed up involvement and to help explain the results of various compromises over the years.

Sean McPherson

I don't know your exact budget as it's not detailed but Axis has made quality webcams for >15 years (I've got a 2100 from ~2000 and it's still running fine) and they support ftp uploading. The small M10s are dirt cheap, but work well. Check out http://www.axis.com/products/m... to see. If you want something fancier look at their higher priced offerings with better features. I don't work there, own stock, resell them, etc, but I've had great luck with their cameras for a really long time.

If you don't care to 'win' the fight w/ comcast, then go get a budget ($1/month) VPS running CentOS like from somewhere cheap like Crissic or Ramnode and use it to route your outbound email. It'll cost you less in actual dollars than your time investment in fighting comcast to date at minimum wage or that you'll spend reading the comments on this 'ask me anything' I figure :)

Just an option!

Background: I've professionally administered Unix and Linux machines for >25 years, including various BSDs, Linuxes, Irix, HP-UX, Solaris/SunOS, AIX, etc. I've been certified by several vendors or distributions, including, since 1999, Red Hat (which gives me quite a bit of background on their specific implementations over the years). I don't work for a company doing development of any OS or platform. heck, other than random 401K type aggregate ownership, I don't own stock in any company that cares about this issue at a deep level, to the best of my knowledge :)

Personal Bias about this thread: You pretty much lose all the credibility possible with me when you start of with "I ... dislike systemd because ... it looks ... like a poorly-described, gigantic mess I know nothing about ... ." (It's the "disliking something you know nothing about" that bugs me). Otherwise, I don't care much about this debate on a personal level. I currently admin boxes using systemd as well as everything else, and nothing about systemd has caused me anywhere near the heartache that it seems people who haven't used it much seem to feel about it.

Seriously, there're thousands of pages of documentation about what it is, how it works, and what most if not all of the design basis decisions are/were. I'll link you to a few of them because hey, you can get to slashdot and post, but you can't seem to use Google ;) (tongue in cheeck, of course). There're plenty of folks who DO have great detailed reasons on why they don't like bits and pieces of it, and you should be able to compare them to the various info I'm linking below.

Systemd has tons of upside and tons of downside. Most are pretty well detailed, although many of the gut reactions people seem to have to it are based on a lack of understanding about how it works and what it's compatible with, to wit "I can't use shell scripts for anything at startup anymore!" , "All of my old chkconfig or SysV scripts can't be included at all!", "It kills off syslog!", "The only reason it exists is to make laptops boot faster and in the server world we don't care", etc. Those are easily researched and the actual basis (or lack thereof) pretty easily found.

So, for why the systemd setup looks like it does, you can go back 4.5 years to where the announcement and rationale is described. Speed is part of it, as is device changability, as is double-forking, resource limits, and service state checking and recovery. Yes, it's a load of stuff. Definitely a system-wide approach VS a semi-random collection of various ways to do things all tacked together (which is, frankly, what most Unix and Unixlike systems are, through survival of the fittest).

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Since RedHat's obviously the largest major proponent and arguably the source of the most production users, here's their documentation:

https://access.redhat.com/docu...

Here's the project page with loads of links about the software and uses cases:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wik...

And of course so many questions have been raised the developers have posted their rebuttals to myths or misunderstandings.

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Google "250-XXXXXXXA asa cisco starttls" and you'll find this is almost certainly an ASA preventing TLS as configured on the device. Since it doesn't want TLS traffic, the config is to just mangle the packets. Well known effect, been around for years (5+). The FW admin needs to correctly deploy fixup, allow TLS or simply not inspect esmtp. Simple fix, documented in Cisco doc 118550, among many other places.

Just buy a dropcam; WiFi, 2 way audio, powered via supplied microUSB cable and wall wart, and even lets you use it as a security camera and such the rest of the time. I don't work for them, etc but I own a couple and they work.

^This. *sigh*

I'm sad to say I'm agreeing with this post, and seeing my UID will also provide some frame of reference. I don't even mind story/ads as long as they're disclosed as such but this is just pathetic.

I have to agree about the lower average UIDs; this is my 'new' account when I wanted to use a nickname people would recognize me by, so I retired my 'old' account. It became a bit amusing once the UIDs got thru the roof!

Rob (And Hemos and ChrisD since they're reading) Thanks so much for all the hard work and effort. /. is truly one of the cornerstones of the 'modern' geek internet (and this from a guy who watched the WANK worm stumble across VAX DECNET machines and saw the RTM worm do it's little dance aOL and dealt with "Do Not Spindle" cards *gets out his walker*).

Thanks, Guys. And why isn't there a poll up with options? My choice isn't there!