With these portable workstations it's more of a built in UPS and to keep it alive in S3 suspend when lugging it about.
It's not like you can comfortably use it on a train or anywhere without access to a table and mains power.
Maybe of help for Linux users wanting to fine tune webcam settings, there is a nice tool that comes with v4l-utils called qv4l2. Depending on what the camera supports you can fine tune things like exposure.
My crappy old Logitech webcam has a horrible frame rate if the automatic exposure is enabled with indoor lighting, but setting it to manual and reducing the exposure makes it usable.
Well I am a keyboard fetishist and I will tell you that a full mechanical keyboard is much more pleasurable to use than any touchscreen device.
The only thing touchscreens have going for them are being much easier to clean.
From TFA:
It would certainly look attractive as an ultra-lightweight range extender for electric cars
This could be useful for hybrid electric cars, buses and trucks where they have the worst of both worlds with not enough battery capacity for mid distance and ongoing maintenance costs of the engine. With less moving parts it reduces the maintenance and with a smaller size allows for more battery.
what's the point of running Linux on the bare metal?
Because why not.
Linux has been ported to an 8-bit micro through sheer brute force.
It is like running Doom on a printer, but at least this would be more useful if he pulls it off.
There is the standalone Flash Player projector available for Linux, Windows and Mac that can run locally saved SWF files or from a URL.
It may not work with odd Cisco equipment that may do funky things that need it embedded in a web page but it's worth a shot.
https://www.adobe.com/support/...
Of course the big predictions are hard to make, it's like predicting what will happen next if you file for divorce, quit your job, and put your house up for sale all at once. The best scientific models could show you anywhere from super happy snagging a trophy wife, bigger house, better job to super sad sucking dick for crack in a year.
I like this analogy a lot. It sums up the risk of making a big change to a system and the uncertainty of the results. Mind if I steal it?
This is why I like the idea behind AsciiDoc. (Though it uses underscore for italics)
AsciiDoc vs Markdown
If only we could convince other people to stop using MS Word.
There's no incentive for any one artist to go shorter.
Not necessarily. Take 2112 by Rush for example, a 20 minute song. It would make sense to break it up into its scenes (Overture, The Temples of Syrinx, etc.) for more money. (Thankfully that they haven't as the poor shuffle only free Spotify accounts would suck even more.)
An album may also have more numerous shorter tracks and get more money per full listen.
The big record labels get money regardless of which of their artists gets played. It's a good chance that the next thing you play is under the same label.
Ad supported streaming services that I have seen simply display ads on the screen in the player not interrupt the music.
Spotify free accounts inject audio ads between tracks after some timeout is exceeded, usually between 1 to 3 tracks depending on track length. You aren't looking at your phone screen when listening to music and your phone is in your pocket. I assume other free streaming services do similar.
Personally I don't reboot more than every month or two because I don't like having to go through making sure everything is saved in the programs that won't fully restore, and then waste a few more minutes waiting for the reboot process to finish and opening up whichever items again and entering my password a few times for things. Rebooting is simply unpleasant.
This is why we need some hiberboot shutdown option that is a hybrid between hibernate and reboot. I usually hibernate when I want to switch between Linux and Windows but would prefer to not have to push the power button and wait the additional delay that cold boot adds vs. warm reboot.
Note that you should not mount a hibernated Windows NTFS partition in Linux, sharing files would have to happen some other way.
Everyone in this entire comments section seems to be hell-bent certain that this mystery suggestion was to add something like the MS Office ribbon bar to systemd-emacsd.
Let's take a far simpler feature example, like when the tar utility added the xz compression flag -J. It didn't ruin everyone's work-flows. Backup scripts running since 1970 were not affected since good old pipes still work. The code was minimally increased to add the option that made the call to the external utility.
What if the poster suggested that tar add support for lz4 via a long opt --lz4?
In peoples defence, the box has a dozen dot points touting random security protocols (SSH, SSL, HTTPS, Radius, SSL, PPTP, L2TP, did we mention SSL).
They never disclose the root:root user/pass on an unsecured Telnet back-door left over by the developers.
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I suspect that they are overcalling beyond actual capacity to put their people on the incoming calls. It would be cheaper to have dead calls than to leave their agents idle.
If you have 30 agents and place 50 calls in the autodialer. Say that 15 of the calls don't get answered, the first 30 get a telemarketer leaving 5 with silence. Less idle time then if they made the calls only after the last one finished and having to wait for grandma to make it down the stairs. You may notice that sometimes you get an answer after a couple of seconds because someone has been freed.
Having never reached the remote desktop stage I have always wanted to mess around with them in a virtual machine and contort the desktop resolution to some insanely short resolution and claim I have an ultra wide screen. There should be barely enough space to see the content of the window between toolbars.
Their scripts probably can't handle the victim using a Mac, let alone FreeBSD.
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
