They lost me at Rafael Edward Cruz.

I wonder what is his angle, but I guess even a clock can be right twice a day.

I beg your pardon? Bernie Sanders, conservative?
Bernie bloody Sanders, the most loved politician? The most progressive senator? Bernie "17 bucks minimum wage" Sanders? From which troll farm are you? Did you fail the introductory course to trolling?

BIden:

  Plagiarist
  Nafta
  Drones
  Dementia

  Good luck, Yankees.

  I am sorry for the many of you that have been disenfranchised and could not vote.

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Is this one of those?

And they still make billions in profits. They can raise wages I would imagine.

A new guy at 15$/h I suppose.

So, who wins then?

What about Amazon and Walmart.

Do they need to pay starvation wages to make their billions in profits?

Backuppc is exceptional for linux, but for windows and the infamous pst files, better to have a client/server architecture of the BURP software.

Same server, running backuppc and burp, and you save to tape the whole backup FS every 6 months.

You can use bacula for the last step if you so wish, we use straight copy to lto tapes.

Hi there,

  For archiving purposes, it is best to never touch the original files. It helps when you have thousands of files and during the years you have made backups on different places/disks.

When you consolidate (because either you consolidate or you lose your photos/memories) if you have photos that differ only for the exif tags is a nightmare to understand which photos are ok and which are not.

Always prefer programs that do not touch your photos. I recently found that one of the programs I used in the past for an old camera (2002-2005), when rotating the images was nuking the exif data.. Still need to find which one it was.. and damn it to hell.

Now it would be great to do .xmp of jpegs, but last time I tried (a few months ago) I did not manage to make it work with shotwell (there is only an option to alter the file metadata.. the horror..).

In my case, to consolidate the photo collection, I have the originals in different folders (tematic, cronological etc. etc) and then I create some symlinks in a directory called "history". Here a work in progress

#!/volume1/homes/admin/local_programs/bin/bash
#set -x
EXT="jpg JPG jpeg JPEG"
#DEBUG="echo"
num=0
for exte in $EXT
do
    for file in $(find . -name '*'.$exte| grep -v history); do
        echo "doing $file"
        OCDATE=$CDATE
        OCHOUR=$(echo $CHOUR | awk -F'.estim' '{print $1}')
        INFO=$(exiftool $file | tr '\n' '#')
        PROBLEM=$(echo $INFO |tr '#' '\n' | grep "^Make")
        [ -z "$PROBLEM" ] && echo "Problem with $file. Skipping" && continue
        CDATE=$(echo $INFO |tr '#' '\n' | grep "Media Create Date" | awk '{print $5}')
        [ -z "$CDATE" ] && CDATE=$(echo $INFO |tr '#' '\n' | grep "Create Date" | awk '{print $4}')
        [ -z "$CDATE" ] && CDATE=$(echo $INFO |tr '#' '\n' | grep "Date/Time Original" | awk '{print $5}')
        [ -z "$CDATE" ] && CDATE=$OCDATE
        [ -z "$CDATE" ] && echo "error inquiry file" $file && continue
        CHOUR=$(echo $INFO |tr '#' '\n' | grep "Media Create Date" | awk '{print $6}')
        [ -z "$CHOUR" ] && CHOUR=$(echo $INFO |tr '#' '\n' | grep "Create Date" | awk '{print $5}')
        [ -z "$CHOUR" ] && CHOUR=$(echo $INFO |tr '#' '\n' | grep "Date/Time Original" | awk '{print $5}')
        [ -z "$CHOUR" ] && num=$(expr $num + 1) && CHOUR=${OCHOUR}.estimation_$num
        [ -z "$CHOUR" ] && echo "error inquiry file" $file && continue
        TYPE=$( echo $INFO |tr '#' '\n' | grep "File Type" | awk '{print $4}')
        YEAR=$( echo $CDATE | cut -d':' -f1)
        MONTH=$(echo $CDATE | cut -d':' -f2)
        DAY=$( echo $CDATE | cut -d':' -f3)
        FNAME=$(echo $CHOUR | tr ':' '-')
        FNAME=${FNAME}.$TYPE
        DDIR=history/$YEAR/$MONTH
        DEST=${DDIR}/${DAY}-${FNAME}
        [ ! -d "$DDIR" ] && $DEBUG mkdir -p $DDIR
        if [ ! -L "$DEST" ]; then
            $DEBUG ln -s ./../../../$file $DEST
        else
            TGT=$(readlink $DEST)
            [ "$TGT" != "./../../../$file" ] && echo "Error whith $file and $DEST" && exit 1
        fi
    done
done

In this way, if your data is on a nas, you can export it to kodi or other clients and you do not need to "re-tag" all over again.

I guess you could do the same with tags (people - events) with shotwell, and then export the associations and build similar simlinks.

This is not very elegant but it allows to find problems and it is very portable: if shotwell database becomes corrupted, you do not lose anything...

Hello,

  I have deployed some fedora 20 machines in the last 3-4 months, and so far I did not see anything that led me to cry foul against systemd.

  Actually, the handling of the user sessions for house-keeping purposes seems much simpler now.

  So I don't get all this hate. Maybe I did not look deep enough, time will tell.

  Cheers

Here in Belgium a registered snail mail is sufficient in general to cancel a service (i.e. cable).
Last time I changed internet provider I waited the expiration of the contract, but I think now they have more consumer friendly laws and you can change with much more ease.

The general idea is to foster competition between companies making it easier for a customer jumping ship and woting with his wallet/her purse.

Of course other governamental intervention (forcing the old telecom monopoly to lease their infrastructure at reasonable price and now trying to do the same for cable) is a godsent.

You can always argue that the incumbent has the advantage (because you may want to avoid the ping pong between the virtual operator and the incumbent), but sure as hell it looks infinitely better of what people have suffering in USA.

I got friends going to work there and being flabbergasted by the internet connections and prices...

Exactly the last point.

  What I dislike the most are users that take advantage of others due to their lack of knowledge. And this is either done intentionally or unintentionally when rules are not enforced.

I would like all the students (often coming in contact with linux, shell programming and clusters for the first time) to have a fair shot of using the available resources, and not to backstab each other.

  Before everyone could run on the cluster, until I discovered that certain students were giving their login to others: the first did not really need it (i.e. theoretical work) and the second would run on the cluster twice the amount of jobs of the others.

Hi,

  another alternative would maybe sysfera-ds, but their open source offering seems lacking documentation and features (see here).

  Need to investigate. Seems something on the lines of what vizstack could have done.

Hi,

  the beowulf clusters we have are running either based on Centos or SLES. For the development workstations where newer versions of certain software are needed I install Fedora.

  This means the developers basically run production on the cluster and develop on the workstations.

  Since there is always a gap between the two (i.e. centos 5 on cluster and fedora 16 on workstations before, centos 6 on cluster and fedora 20 on workstation), when the cluster is updated there is limited breakage, at least until now.

  I understand those that push a stable distro everywhere, maybe for next cycle I will do the same, who knows.