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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.

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The FCC Is Still Tweaking Its Net Neutrality Repeal (techcrunch.com) 68

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: You may think, from the pomp accompanying the FCC's vote in December to repeal the 2015 net neutrality rules, that the deed was accomplished. Not so -- in fact, the order hasn't even reached its final form: the Commission is still working on it. But while it may be frustrating, this is business as usual for regulations like this, and concerned advocates should conserve their outrage for when it's really needed. The "Restoring Internet Freedom" rule voted on last month was based on a final draft circulated several weeks before the meeting at which it would be adopted. But as reports at the time noted, significant edits (i.e. not fixing typos) were still going into the draft the day before the FCC voted. Additional citations, changes in wording and more serious adjustments may be underway. It may sound like some serious shenanigans are being pulled, but this is how the sausage was always made, and it's actually one of Chairman Ajit Pai's handful of commendable efforts that the process is, in some ways at least, more open to the public. The question of exactly what is being changed, however, we will have ample time to investigate: The rules will soon be entered into the federal register, at which point they both come into effect and come under intense scrutiny and legal opposition.

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.

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