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Comment Re:How many per state (Score 1) 133

For five weeks after placing my $1,000 deposit for a Solar Shingle roof, all I got from Tesla was an e-mail receipt. I did not get the promised phone call from an installation representative. So I called a supervisor in Las Vegas who, when I could get him to stop hyping the product, told me one of the eight locations was Morristown PA. Why there? Because Tesla has a warehouse there. That's the only criteria. He also told me they could not start installations in any community without established system interconnect agreements with the local power company. When I asked if they had approached Ameren Illinois, he said "No" and that he had no idea when those negotiations might begin. When I asked for detailed technical and engineering information to support a construction loan, he could not or would not provide it. By the end of that phone call I was convinced that Solar Shingles is a ponzi scheme waiting for an indictment. After hanging up I went back on-line and cancelled my deposit, which was returned the next day.

Comment Re:While the bashrc approach may seem attractive (Score 1) 402

(the person who wrote this script works for Red Hat...)

... this approach doesn't work at all with RHEL5.5 Server. Even the root user is not allowed to mkdir in /sys/fs:

[root@lion] /sys/fs
# mkdir cgroup
mkdir: cannot create directory `cgroup': Operation not permitted

Frankly I was a bit surprised by this response. Perhaps it's an old kernel thing. After all, RHEL5 is just Fedora 6 dressed in a tuxedo.

Comment Botany Bay mindset (Score 1) 354

As an American I don't pretend to understand the fine points of the Australian political system. From my viewpoint many time zones away, however, those politicians do seem hell-bent on returning Australian citizens to their historic status as Crown convicts banished to Botany Bay on trumped up charges in a guilty-until-proven-innocent legal system. I'm damned glad I'm not living there.

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