Re: Fortunately Useless
Wounding instead of killing was the thought behind NATOs switch from 7.62mm to 5.56mm for infantry rifles in the late '80s/early '90s. You may be right, but the whole operation is now based on it.
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2000's and the argument is not about application dependencies. The RPM3 to RPM4 transition caused serious pain with Mandrake when RPM4 packages started making their way into the (official) "pressure cooker" repository. An RPM3 base OS would recognize the application upgrade but was unable to handle the RPM4 package. Pretty soon, the result was an irreparable mess.
I held an H-1B visa through the mid-90s. The B does make a lot of difference. It did not have the "no displacement" clause attached. The main requirements were that the position needed at least a BA and wages had to be at or above "market rates" (only INS had no statistics on that - that is where the gaming started. By the time it was time for me to renew, that piece had been delegated to the Dept of Labor and they got lost in their own paperwork.) The rules have changed significantly since those days. The program has become unrecognizable and is now mostly a money printing machine for the Feds.
Indeed. We did roughly the same thing. We had a Motorola Surfboard for ~10 years before that. The upgrade only happened because the Surfboard finally was unable to keep up with the base package's speed.
(OTOH, at least one large cableco will lobotomize your equipment so you may not quite get the features you expected.)
Someone lost track while writing TFA? The lead paragraph mentions a coal plant. I read that as a coal fired power plant, not the mine it turns into at the end. The former would make some sense as things like the hook-up to the grid are already in place, May even be able to reuse some of the turbine bits.
Bwahaha! That's a good one!
If you can draw a line on a map and one side has Comcast and the other side has Verizon, that is not what I call competition.
(And Verizon [and it's successor, FairPoint/Consolidated] used to sell 16 Mb/s packages in areas where they could only deliver 1.5 Mb/s off-peak. On if one complained, they would push a 20Mb/s package which the local exchange could not support. I have to consider myself lucky to be on the Comcast side of the map :-( )
Next up ... "we have found that 1% of our customers are responsible for 99% of ink consumption. Going forward, in order to protect the interests of all customers, full page color prints are no longer included in the monthly allotment and will be billed at the low price of $4.99/page"
Samsung punted the home entertainment operation in 2019. Even with that, they acknowledged the problem almost immediately and do fix it for free (postage included) even out of warranty. Some should take that as an example. But samsungcloudsolutions.net is going on the NXDOMAIN list forever regardless. :-(
Yes, let's adopt Poettering's shutdown strategy: change the event sequence in udev to suit systemd without giving a thought to anyone else. This had the lovely side effect of breaking shutdown completely if a LUKS partition was in use on SysV init.
(As in - upgrade from Debian Jessie to Stretch and find you can't shut down anymore. Lovely. I've used Debian since the 2.x days, but that was the last straw. Swicthed to Devuan and have not had a reason to look back. And Beowulf runs fine on a Raspberry Pi too.)
... interesting enough to tolerate its infantile syntax is the remoting capability. But then MS had to go out and neuter that when used against their own services because allowing it would crumple their servers*.
Want to set a simple property on all your O365 e-mail accounts? Sorry. Only on the 1st 100 or so. For the rest, you need to transport the entire collection to your side, change the property, then send the whole lot back. What should have taken a few seconds now takes an hour.
* anno 2018.
Growing up, Concorde made 2 ambassador flights to my local airport (Oostende).2nd time i was old enough to go see it on my own, The first thing of note was that it came with an Air France-liveried Renault R4 carrying a spare tire for the tail landing gear.
The crowd control barriers were only arms length from the undercarriage. When time came to depart, the ground crew pushed the barriers back to barely outside the intake line of the engines. I was standing under the left wingtip when the engines started spooling up. (Glorious days :-) Can't image that happening these days...)
Sorry for the late response. I installed 71 (the day before this article) and that is what it says on two splash pages on its first run.
Looks like the change was introduced with 67, but 71 is the first one stating a Sync account is the only way to retain access to your information across versions.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dedicated-profiles-firefox-installation
It may be possible to wrangle the Profile Manager to regain access, but for how long? And how many regular users even know that thing exists?
Agent Tick does have a valid point. What is not mentioned in TFA is that with 71 (and beyond), each update will create a new profile. The only way to retain access to saved passwords, autofill, etc. is by handing your data to Mozilla. There is no provision to do a local import from an older FF version.
There are indications printers also reject genuine but out-of-region Epson cartridges. (Going by the eBay/Amazon comments of US based users of non-retail packaged cartridges of Asian origin. Of course, those may be fakes, but the one set I did end up with looked pretty convincing. No idea if they worked or not as I ended up returning them because the seller had misrepresented them as regular retail items.)
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