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Comment Re:wait, I missed that part (Score 1) 185

It's not as bad as a "bleak wasteland of suburbs." It's close, but there are still nice parts of Monmouth and Ocean county if you can afford them. The shore's still nice.

Going back to Silicon Valley (Mountain View, Sunnyvale) and seeing an area I knew in 1993 and comparing the cost of living there with here makes NJ look damned reasonable.

Comment Re: Ah yes the secret to simplicity (Score 1) 751

+1 Happened here with removable usb drives.
Also... Screwing around on Ubuntu at single user often results at the system being kicked to multi user with admin i/o to the shell split between multiple processes. Looks fixed in 17.10... But the 16.04 still has the problem.

Makes fixing the fstab for usb disks and changed uuids into multiple reboots...

Comment Re:It's simple -- make the battery swappable (Score 1) 99

My Galaxy S5 is the last Samsung Galaxy with a removable battery. A spare battery that lets me keep a second one charged requires little space change on the phone and allows longer use without portable external battery packs. I've got a charger on the wall at home and a second battery charged when I'm going to go out on the road and need a long amount of phone battery use. Swap the battery when I get down to under 20 percent. Cost of the pair of items was around $16.00.

The phone maker can sell the optional add-ons and batteries can be replaced when they go bad without a professional phone repair outfit having special case cracking tools 8-)

I've had phones that had batteries go bad and swell and get hot. Swap battery and phone is good for a couple of more years.
Why no removable batteries -- they want to limit the lifespan of the phone...

The only thing I don't have on the S5 that's on newer phones was wireless charging which could have been built in.

Comment I'd rather they come clean about Wall St. speeches (Score 1) 287

Aren't there more important things that are not being exposed. How about speeches to Wall St. and Clinton Foundation donations. Also, what about the running of the private email server. Let's get a priority here as to stuff that gets classified over political whims and stuff that they sweep under the rug with disinformation.

I'm a political moderate seeing both sides delivering more bull to the press to avoid discussing real hard issues and choices.

Comment 28 years and still going (Score 1) 162

Been doing sysadmin on Unix since minicomputers. Started as a Field Engineer on PDP11's and VAXes... Taught sysadmin for a while. Still can't figure out why but I seem to like beating computers into submission. Did SysV, BSD, SunOS, Solaris,Pyramid's OS/x and DC/OSx, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, Linux... Don't know why people think they're different things...

I used to do Sysadmin training for a mini-vendor for a while.

Pretty easy to transition from one to another back when companies were willing to train... The first exposure to AIX 3.23 was surprising, though.

Comment Re:Goes along with the VMS announcement (Score 1) 243

Damned shame that they killed Alpha and with that move doomed VMS. The Itanium port didn't help expand the VMS base, since there wasn't enough support to VARs to keep the support for VMS in applications. There are only two viable OS choices now.
Windows and Linux/Unix. (And the Unix part is weakening over time due to costs vs. Linix).

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