For drivers? I never apply MS driver patches. Dell or manufacturer. Try using MS video card drivers, and good luck to you.

Iphone updates, android updates through the carrier, that is to say not at all.

Google really has to lean on or bypass the carriers.

I think you are overestimating the cable bill and underestimating the rent of most people. 4 months of my cable bill would not pay my monthly mortgage and I have an oddly extensive and expensive cable package and a relatively small mortgage.

In most elections Hillary would be someone to avoid. In this case she is the only one actually running, that is the only one who wants the job. Trump is using his free media coverage to continue in the race while siphoning campaign donations into his pockets. The Donald is, as is his trademark, only in the race for what he can steal. If he becomes president he can steal an awful lot. The VP will run the country while Trump loots; he has already made it clear that the VP will handle everything while he "makes America great again," presumably by helping Americans get closer to Jesus via poverty.

And yes, Hillary will be as bad as her husband and probably worse than Obama or Bush I, but she won't steal as much as Trump would or as much as Bush II/Cheney did. I'm not American so I can't vote in any case and my country has elected some kleptomaniacs as well (I'm Canadian, but I think Trump would outsteal Mulrooney, literally stealing massive surpluses into massive deficits). Good luck...

Microsoft has never been consistent on the UI.

Software quality is dropping like a stone with offshoring. You see it from IBM and Oracle too. Lots of bugs, incoherent error messages from someone who just learned that you can trap errors but not how to write English or how to provide different messages for different errors so that the real problem is hidden worse than if nothing had been trapped. Not that everyone onshore is a genius but there is some attempt at HR and technical interviews. Not even lip service once you go offshore, people are cheap and the cost of having crappy coders destroying the code base doesn't seem to figure for non-technical VPs. No end in sight because it's a management fad and outsourcers can bill offshore workers at crazy rates without customer complaints, it's a fad, execs can't knock it without admitting they have no idea what is going on in the companies they "run."

8 * 8 =64

x * x =x ^2

(x-1)(x+1)=x^2 +x -x -1 = x^2 -1



Should work for any numbers...



(x-2)(x+2)=x^2 - 4



And so forth. Algebra...

My daughter worked this out for her unilingual friends. You have to change an overall language setting IIRC, it is not per film.

I agree this is the Apple thought process. Doesn't work for me, I use the subway, but if you are going all cloud all the time 16 GB might work.

Walking is great exercise if you do it fairly quickly. Walking slowly hardly burns calories at all. I suspect walking makes a significant difference. My weight has varied but my wife grouches at my relative skinniness when we eat fairly similarly similarly, but I walk more and faster, at least when we are not walking together. I suspect hurrying and fidgeting heavily impacts metabolic rate.

On the other hand I totally quit desserts a while back and that made it way easier to lose weight. No soft drinks, no desserts. Food is definitely addictive, though. Reducing sugar was hard. And depressing.

You think the current generation embraces older music? Kids are humoring you, maybe? Or kids have better taste in your area?

The pre-teens I know through my kid don't voluntarily listen to anything pre-2008 or so and prefer the new star wars stuff. She and most of her friends can't deal with music that isn't electronically altered to keep the singer on key.

I like my kid and many/most of her friends but they pretty much universally prefer the top 100 stuff on the radio. Still pre-teens, though, so maybe they'll grow out of it.

File system cache, maybe? Try free -t. Linux will use any free memory and release it when it is needed.

I don't think the article suggests mysql over mongodb in all cases (maybe for the simple case). I think the main point is not to use both.

What employers want is:

Sycophancy. It's much more fun to botch a project with unqualified offshore people who say "we'll work harder next time" instead of with qualified people who say "define the damn business requirements and stick to them if you want us to be done on time." It's hard to tell a qualified techie from a guy off the street with acronyms on his/her CV.

Low salaries. Companies are willing to spend 60 days training and 3 months of work to fail a project offshore that can be done onshore in 3 weeks. It's so much easier to sell cheap people who aren't qualified than reasonable priced people who are. No one knows the difference, especially once the project ends up getting done in 3 weeks once it gets brought back onshore.

A low geekiness factor. It's way more fun to fail a project with guys who are fun and happy than to succeed with a bunch of grouchy nerds.

Promotions without raises. Even at higher levels I'm hearing more and more people who get a title and responsibilities while being paid peanuts relative to people promoted 5 or 10 years ago.

Stock buybacks to inflate options instead of growing the company. Who needs to get better at what you do when you can pillage what someone else built?

It's not like austerity is based on anything more than spreadsheet errors (intentional or otherwise), and it's not like it does anything positive for a country.

If you have a family on a fixed salary living within your means is almost always a good idea, at least unless your fixed salary is high enough that you can use Trumponomics.

If you are running a country lowering spending also lowers the GDP (movement of money) and revenues (taxes). Austerity cuts off money you need resulting in more austerityt. You do NOT want to run a country as you run a country or a family budget. Note that this is the reverse of trickle down. Money will get to rich people one way or another but the more steps it takes the better your economy does.

The people pushing austerity, the very rich and the bankers, are not doing this for the good of the countries implementing austerity they are doing it so that they can take money from those countries.

Taxing profits properly, that is making sure that tax on American income is paid in America and tax on UK income is paid in the UK, benefits close to everyone. The only question is the company doing the paying and they potentially benefit from better infrastructure.

I had a "get off my lawn" moment. I thought Linux was getting more fragile, then I thought back to some of the problems I had in the late '90s and changed my mind. There is more fluff, but once the fluff is removed it's more reliable.

As a sysadmin I find I just have to dig a bit to find what to remove. All the gui config tools. All the tools that are meant to help people who don't really know anything about Linux or UNIX. A lot of the stuff that tries to "help." I agree that recent tools tend to be neat but underdocumented, fragile, and destructive.

I understand the security rationale for making logs readable only by root but it makes working on servers adminstered by random offshore people ($5/hour, no IT abilities whatsoever) quite difficult (hey, this server is networked half-duplex and the admin doesn't know what that means. Hmm, the time is off but the admin doesn't know what ntpd is. Why is the sysadmin rebooting that Linux server repeatedly to try to solve a problem that does not require rebooting?) as you need to analyze the problem, not describe the symptoms, and it's harder without read access to the logs. The Linux assumption that someone with root should have a clue is long gone at large companies; the very first thing to go to the least knowledgeable is the root account, and it is widely shared but only to others who don't know the O/S. Note that the logs are readable on most other UNIX flavours (mostly dying flavours at this point). I'd suggest fixing the security problems with the logs or confining them to specific restricted files instead of just hiding all the logs from users. Not every Linux box is used by one guy in his basement.

RHEL no longer has a whole lot of competition in the data centre (real competition, that is, stuff that works and has a reasonable vendor). I don't really expect it to improve at this point. No pressure. Should be OK as long as it doesn't degrade too much more.