Posts by Sven Coenye 270 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Mar 2008
Agent P caused this on machines that did *not* use systemd. After they usurped udev, they changed the shutdown event sequence to suit systemd. Machines with a LUKS encrypted boot partition hung on shutdown because the trigger to close down the encryption arrived too late.
The reference is in the abstract of the paper.
"We report the discovery of a dwarf planet candidate, 2017 OF201, currently located at a distance
of 90.5 au. Its orbit is extremely wide and extends to the inner Oort cloud, with a semi-major axis of
838 au and a perihelion of 44.9 au precisely determined from 19 observations over seven years."
"an accompanying video saying the winner was selected for no other reason than signing America PAC's petition in support of the First and Second Amendments to the US Constitution."
...
"Young also admitted that winners were required to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent them from sharing the terms of their deals with Musk's Trump-backing PAC. "
Time to replace the irony meter again...
A "local hire" requirement is an exception under H1-B. The employer either needs to have been caught violation H1-B rules, its work force is already >15% H1-B, or the company receives subsidies to hire US workers. Given the numbers and pervasiveness quoted, I can only hope this is not what is going on.
I doubt it will even amount to that much. We may get the cup after they drank the coffee.
I figured something was up when I ran into the forced password reset when trying to get to the account maintenance pages. The reset procedure does not complete, so still no access to the account. And not a peep from the operators to date.
Unless you are in Leftpondia where banks don't talk to each other and they insert a frame to something called "BillPay" in their website so you can, you know, pay bills without having to put pieces of paper in the mail.
(TBH, our bank did eventually get around to better integration, but at first, I did have to turn 3rd party cookies back on on SWMBO's laptop.)
At my previous place of work, we had a couple of network connected Xerox DocuCentre class copiers. During installation, Windows 10 would scan the network, find the copiers, and helpfully (not...) pull in the driver from Windows Update. Only the driver dated to 2006 and it was 2016, did not support the copiers at hand, and ... triggered a BSOD as W10 was not compatible with the driver.
Logitech and others use 5V 100mA rated switches at 3.3V. The corresponding lower operating current allows oxidation to build up, leading to more bounces. Eventually, things get so bad the firmware is no longer able to detect a single click.
So, if you do feel adventurous: the switches have a cover that can be removed with some fiddling (keep tabs on the "button" - it is not attached to anything.) A couple of light passes with very fine sandpaper over the contact area will remove the oxidation and the buttons will work as normal again.
And in spirit of TFA: Asus RoG mice have replaceable switches and come with a spare pair (and other assorted wear parts.)
it would have to be one level downstream from the ISP router as e.g. Comcast will lobotomize a customer owned router. But that then brings the entire configuration issue back as now you potentially get to deal with dueling Wifi and DHCP services. If something like this comes to be, my bet is it will be the ISP's game.You know, for a monthly fee...
He may have gotten his comeuppance for that one. Slick 50 was snake-oil of the worst kind. Not only did it not work as advertised - it did damage. (The magic ingredient was Teflon powder. The manufacturer claimed it would coat the cylinders and reduce friction, but Teflon doesn't work that way. All the particles did was gum up the oil passages.)
Die?
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/22/envoy-air-says-pilot-who-was-reported-incapacitated-during-flight-has-died.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-airlines-pilot-dies-william-mike-grubbs/
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05/us/american-airlines-pilot-death/index.html
(Or, maybe stay away from American Airlines altogether??)
From the patch linked to in the article:
+ /*
+ * Modern (>=Nehalem) Intel systems use ACPI via intel_idle,
+ * not this code. Assume that any Intel systems using this
+ * are ancient and may need the dummy wait. This also assumes
+ * that the motivating chipset issue was Intel-only.
+ */
So Intel claims the problem was theirs, even though it was only detected on AMD + Via ?? And it makes no sense for that to be a typo, as there would be no need to leave it in place for Intel CPUs if the issue was AMD-only.
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.)
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