What'r the chances of getting stuck in ice in Antarctica during the summer months of 2013-2014, when global warming is at it's peak (tongue in cheek) - not once, but TWICE?
Not great.
However, if you asked "what are the chances of getting stuck in ice in Antarctica during the summer, given that it just happened to another ship nearby?", I'd say reasonably high. Conditional probability in action.
I'm in my early 20s, and very much grew up with GUIs and Windows. Despite this, I now use Vim (cue flame war) as my text editor after seeing how fast proficient users could be with it. I have a friend who uses Emacs as his desktop environment - no KDE or Gnome, just Emacs.
Both are powerful text editors with niche uses. e.g. programming. While fewer people are learning them now that they are no longer the default text editors on most distros, they're hardly dying.
tar -axf - automatically chooses compression algorithm based on extension
zsh - the autocomplete alone is worth it compared to bash (use oh-my-zsh to simplify setup). Right-hand prompts are pretty nice once you get used to them.
pv - pipe streams through it for a graphical progress bar
nice/ionice - lower the priority of background processes
ack - faster alternative to grep with better output formatting
lsblk/lscpu/lshw/lspci/lsusb - view attached hardware. lshw is great for a comprehensive list, and lsblk recognizes raid, encrypted volumes, etc.
pwgen - useful for generating passwords
apt-file/dpkg/$YOUR_PACKAGE_MANAGER - read the man pages - commands for determining which package a file belongs to (esp. if that package isn't installed) are particularly useful
Yakuake - not a CLI tool, but being able to pull up a terminal with a single keypress is pretty handy
I'm currently in the process of setting up something like this.
Kolab is a FOSS groupware server that can synchronize emails, to do lists, calenders, notes, etc. across multiple devices. You can access it from the included web interface (roundcube), the recommended client (Kontact), or via Outlook with the connector installed. Android support is available via ActiveSync, and I believe Kontact Touch will be ported to Android now that Qt 5 supports it.)
If you're not interested in running your own server, there're also sites like this which sell accounts.
Here are some notes on my experiences setting it up, for anyone interested:
How does Octave or any other open source tool hold up against something with so many resources behind it?
Background: I'm an ECSE student who has used both throughout my course.
Octave is very much like LibreOffice - it's usually good enough to use instead of MATLAB, but it's not perfect. Most of the functions are there, though some which are commonly used but not strictly necessary (e.g. importdata) are not. Octave's syntax is also looser than MATLAB's (you can use ! instead of ~ for logical negation), which means that you still need to test a program in MATLAB if that's what the recipient is going to be running it in.
Its main advantages are its cost and size - Octave is free and a full installation is 42 MB, whereas MATLAB costs tens of thousands and takes up about 5 GB. MATLAB also has rather cumbersome DRM that can cause issues.
The main disadvantage is speed. Running a SVD on a largish matrix (e.g. 350x350) is one or two orders of magnitude slower under Octave compared to MATLAB. i.e. it takes 10 min instead of 10 seconds. That's a pretty niche use though - most of the computations people use MATLAB for aren't particularly intensive.
It doesn't matter if they give him his wallets - they've already emptied them into a new one. The original wallet files will let him access his now empty wallets, but not the bitcoin that were once in them.
The article is pretty light on details, but what dependency resolution algorithm has exponential scaling? Topological sorts are usually O(V + E).
Hardware RAID is a bad idea for backups, as the card is a single point of failure, and anything not from the exact same batch may use a different (proprietary) RAID format. At least with Linux softraid (either mdadm or btrfs/ZFS), you can always download a copy of the source and checkout the old version, if necessary.
Which version of the kernel and btrfs-progs are you using? Some distros are still shipping ancient versions of the userspace tools, like 0.19 or 0.20. The latest is 3.12 (they recently started using the kernel version instead), so you may want to try compiling it from the source.
The two most helpful commands I've found are 'mount -o recovery', which can restore the superblock if it's missing/corrupted, and 'btrfs check --repair' (formerly btrfsck). Note that check doesn't actually fix the errors it finds without that flag, unlike fsck. If you have a multi-device file system, trying to mount one of the other drives can help, since copies of the metadata are stored on all of them (RAID1 style).
If that doesn't work, you can often get the data off by mounting it as readonly, or by using 'btrfs restore'.
Btrfs used to be quite buggy, but these days I've found it to be pretty stable and reliable. That only applies if you're using the latest packages though - otherwise, you might as well be using it back in the early days.
It's called a guaranteed minimum income.
What you are saying is minimum wage. The fancy term you have latched onto is 'minimum income' because 'minimum wage' has started to 'sound bad' and is 'demeaning'. As an aside I would ask you where did you pick up this term?
Minimum income is not the same as minimum wage. Minimum wage is the min. amount you can be paid (per hour) if you have a job. (Guaranteed) minimum income is the minimum amount each person receives each year, regardless of whether they have a job or not.
In the absence of min wage (which you seem to advocate), as robotic labour replaces human labour the supply will exceed demand, and wages will approach zero asymptotically. Below a certain point, people with jobs will not be able to sustain themselves, let alone those who are unemployed. GMI is one proposed solution to ensure that their basic requirements (food, water, shelter, etc.) are met.
I have one for porn and one I am going to make for litecoin trading as bitcoin is too expensive already
Why is the high price an issue, given that it's divisible down to 8 decimal places?
Have you tried dealing with major transitions in a rolling release? e.g. sysvinit to systemd or upstart?
As a Sabayon user who just went through this, it was fairly trivial. `eselect sysvinit set systemd` to change, `eselect sysvinit set sysvinit` to change back.
SystemD is the default on new installs, but existing ones remain on OpenRC, which is still supported.
The trick to major transitions like these is to not force them; the users should have the choice to keep using the old version until it's unsupported. (It doesn't hurt that all major versions of most packages are still available in Portage.)
What are your thoughts on KDE Kolab?
I've implemented the thought experiment above as an Octave script, if anyone feels like playing around with it.
function y = main()
clc; clear; close all;
gen = 20000; %no of iterations
N = 50; %no of people
limit = 12; %net worth cap is this times min net worth
y = ones(N, gen);
for i=2:gen
y(:, i) = y(:, i-1);
selection = select(y(:, i), i);
%y(selection, i) = 1.01*y(selection, i);
y(selection, i) = min(1.01*y(selection, i), limit*min(y(:, i)));
end
plot(y');
grid on;
y = y(:, gen);
end
function i = select(y)
%selects an element from the vector y using proportional selection
n = rand()*sum(y);
count = 0;
for i=1:length(y)
count += y(i);
if(n <= count)
return;
end
end
i = length(y);
end
My understanding is that they went with KDE. The KDE alternative to Exchange and Outlook is Kolab (server) and Kontact (client).
It has some enterprise use, though I don't know if it has the features you mention.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
