Long time Seattleite here. The vacancy rate is actually 26% as of May 2026. This has never been due to job losses or companies fleeing the city, this is from people working from home. It was higher during covid, but Amazon and some other companies forced a return to the office. It has literally no relation to employment numbers. A huge number of businesses figured out maintaining a large office space was unnecessary during covid and have kept to it and downsized their office space while keeping head count around the same (until the recent layoffs that have affected everywhere). If companies like Amazon and Starbucks want to pull up roots and ruin Nashville, let them. We've still got tons of talent in the region and people that actually want to live here will found new companies and continue building great things. It is also not a ban data centers, but ones consuming large amount of power (AI). The cap allows new data centers and data center expansions up to 20 Megavolt-Amperes.

At this point I can't really say I'm a Firefox fan, I'm a Ublock Origin fan. I've been using Firefox since back when it was originally called Phoenix. I've tried most of the major browsers, but always hated how fonts looked on any chromium based browser in Linux, plus other privacy related issues. The key feature that's kept me on Firefox is the Ublock Origin extension. These people actually understand what I want out of a browser, privacy. I'm also not going to install a browser made by crypto bros, so Firefox with Ublock is the only game in town. They should let their leadership go, put the Ublock Origin people in charge and start making a browser people actually want that protects their privacy and sanitizes the web from all the spam.

Just give all bots the first initial of R. Like R. Daneel Olivaw.

So when will Disney, Hannah Barbara and every other cartoon Maker start paying royalties to Mark Twain's estate for The Prince and the Pauper?

So I've been a Cyanogen, and Android user since the original G1 android phone and ran it on the LG G2X, motorola photon Q (backlight died after a few months) and Galaxy S4. Cyanogen kept the G1 usable for longer, and up to date after it wasn't supported, and made the G2X and S4 actually usable, and got rid of the crapware and samsung UI. This time around I decided I'd roll with the stock rom on the OnePlus 3 for a little while, and haven't found anything I miss from cyanogen, and just decided to stick with it. I just got the nougat update OTA yesterday. I need to root it, but keep putting it off, since the directions say it'll wipe everything on the phone. It had some bugs on initial release, but they've actually been addressed, and they push out updates pretty regularly. Asides from the shelf screen (if you don't like it, it's easy to ignore) it's a pretty pure android experience with no bloatware. If they'd just make a phone with a hardware keyboard, I'd be perfectly happy.

The reason for this, is a lot of us want a tiered response level. Email should be something that can wait until you're in the office again. Text and phone calls are for immediate attention 24x7. I've been doing this forever with nagios. You can use service and host escalations so that only critical and down alarms go to your pager address, whereas all notifications go to email.

It should have been obvious that a new trial was necessary when the foreman said they completely skipped fair use because it was bogging them down. Fair use is a part of the patent system whether they like it or not. You can't just take something from a 50 year old movie and patent it.

I've found with Century Link, if you choose the option to disconnect service, they'll connect you to someone who can actually get you good speeds and at a good price. Kind of sad it has to come to that, but now I've got 40/20mbps DSL with a static IP without having to pay for a business account. They're only charging me $35 bucks a month, though it'll go up to $75 after 6 months. Still better than anybody else in town by far. Oh, did I mention no monthly bandwidth cap? I can't say this will be the same everywhere, since it might not be possible at that location, but they'll hook you up with a far better deal than their sales or tech departments. This should last me until the city's gigabit fiber project comes to my neighborhood in Seattle.

You really need to look past the motherboard as a whole and more at the components that make it up. Going all Intel should give you a really compatible set up. You do have to really read the specs to find out which NIC(s) the board uses, but an intel one should work great. I have had a bit of a caveat with some distros like centos on the newer intel NICs. There's an alternate driver called e1000e that will work stably with those. Distros that use newer kernels, like ubuntu should default to the e1000e driver on those, though. The problem I had with the older 1000e driver was the interface would lock up after a few days, but it was certainly good enough to get online and do initial setup and add the repo where I could get the e1000e driver.

Virtualbox is a great starting point since he's looking for something to run on windows. I have found it's performance to be lacking, but it's a good way to cut your teeth. Once you cut your teeth on the concepts of virtualization and get a bit of Linux experience, move on to something that can run on a headless machine and save resources. Virtualbox can do that, but it's actually a bigger headache to setup in headless mode than kvm or xen. KVM is super easy to set up on most distros, and there's some great guides on howtoforge.net. The trickiest part about setting up most of the hypervisors on Linux is creating a bridged network interface, which is only necessary to get the machines out of nat mode and give them IPs on the public network. It's still not that hard to set up the bridged interface, it's just that the rest of the set up is so ridiculously easy, just apt-get/yum intsall the packages with virt-manager to manage it all and you're set. At least in my situation KVM guests required less resources to get the same performance as a virtualbox guest. It wasn't too hard to convert a virtual box VM to a qcow image KVM could use, either, so you're not locked into one hypervisor.

NTP is probably a bad idea for virtualization, but most other services it's fine. You can have redundant VMs, or at least snapshot them to another host, to bring them up easily in the event of a failure. And as has been said, you can stack some services into the same instance, For example you could stick munin, mrtg and nagios on one VM. If you're serious about your monitoring though, you've got a monitoring system in there, plus one offsite. This way if the internet connection to the rack goes down, or the monitoring system in the rack goes down, you'll get notified. A distributed nagios system would work well for that. You could even get a cheap micro instance at AWS for the offsite monitoring box, or just run it from the office.

Ever since I bought this motherboard, Asus P8P67 Deluxe I had crashes with pulseaudio. Almost always if I tried to play multiple sound sources, like not stopping a video or music with you tube playing or something or running smplayer and audacious at the same time. This was under both Ubuntu, and later when I jumped to Fedora. Decided to bite the bullet and get a Xonar DSX, and no more crashes. The one thing is to configure it as 7.1 card in in the pulse settings, even if you're only using a 5.1 speaker setup, otherwise your speaker arrangement will be off. The other caveat is that the card requires a 4 pin floppy power connector. It comes with a molex adapter, though. Apparently a 1x PCI-E slot supplies less power than a PCI slot, so it needs the extra power. Nothing that can't be worked around, so I'm happy with mine. Totally worth it. I had stockpiled a bunch of old SB live and audigy cards for a long while, but since I dual boot for games, win7 didn't play as nicely as linux with those old cards. Those old EMU10k1 based chip cards were so awesome under linux. Actually had fantastic ALSA drivers that could do hardware mixing with no sound server, but don't get me started on that. I could go on all day about how the real problem with sound under linux is crappy drivers and we shouldn't need a sound server. But I digest... The xonar has been a great upgrade. I disabled the realtek in the bios, and the card was detected by fedora without having muck about with loading modules.

Install fail2ban, especially if you're going to leave SSH open. You can configure some stuff to catch common web exploit attempts as well. You can probably get configured on any service you want. It plugs into iptables and bans IPs for set time periods for too many bad logins in a short period of time, hitting certain URLs, etc. It's highly configurable for just about any service you could want to run, and you can whitelist IPs and subnets. If you're running any admin control panels, cpanel, phpmyadmin, webmin, or whatever, set it up with an htaccess file so those pages are only accessible from your lan. Also, do not allow root login over ssh. So long as you don't have too common of a username, it can make it very difficult to match up a nonstandard username with a password. Combin that with fail2ban, and that'll keep a lot of the baddies out.

Heh, another high school dropout here too :D. I made it by working my way up through crap jobs until I got a decent break. Started in tech support for an ISP, then worked in a computer shop, made some contacts. Moved on to building servers and doing linux loads, then worked in an RMA lab for a router/firewall manufacturer testing hardware. Finally got a break as an admin. I beat out a guy with a CS degree for that position, just because I could articulate how DNS worked. Pay wasn't great, but better than what I had been making. Now I've moved on, and don't have much trouble finding good paying work with years of admin work under my belt. I love that my last couple jobs have had CS degree as a requirement for the position. I believe it was Kurt Vonnegut's great uncle that said "90% of what a man knows can be learned by a dedicated individual in 6 weeks. The other 10% is just for show."