Posts by bill 27 157 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Oct 2012
Errr...uhhhmmmm...lets just say I have a small piece of vacation property next to a mosquito plantation. Lot of mosquitos, and I do mean lots. But also lots of spiders, did you notice the previous sentence. So many spiders I'm beginning to think they're more interested in cannibalism than insecticide.
Once upon a time I was asked to join in on a medical experiment. I was handed a large document and told if I was interested I should sign. I started reading...about page 3 they said ALL of my medical records, and they had access to a BIG pile of them including things that weren't relevant to the experiment, were theirs to use...about 12 pages later they mentioned that they could sell their my medical records to whoever they wanted to. I declined their kind offer.
I've never driven in the UK. I've driven in France and Italy. In France from what I'd read before I did any driving was that speeds through towns/villages was a constant, 35kph IIRC, there were/are signs indicating that the speed limit changed just didn't show the speed, and if unmarked it was 90kph (I think that's since changed downward). The 4 lane roads were pretty well marked. What little driving I did in Italy was mostly rural, once I got out of/into the large city (Venice) and not bad. Oh yeah, I have a GPS app on my phone, which works even if the phone doesn't work as a phone, and it will alert me if I'm speeding based on the map data and the location (also has the speed camera locations and will alarm when getting close). The signage in the US is in Murican which is similar to English.
When I plug a USB device videos into my TV it works. The TV expects NTFS and avi. Been using it like that for a looooong time and I quit using Windows even longer ago. Oh yeah...one of the cars stereo wants NTFS for the USB containing music, gave up on listening to the radio decades ago.
I had that happen on an ancient 286-8Mhz machine, except the switch welded itself in the off position. Shortly after I bought it I realized I needed to update the bios to play a game, I found out the company had changed their name. The phone number I had for them didn't work. I finally tracked them down by their new name, Dell. After pricing a new power AT supply, I tossed it and bought a Pentium.
And there you have it.
On Monday the 23rd (Happy Summer Solstice!) the ship, and it's cargo, sank. While being watched over by 2, or more, "rescue" vessels who apparently made no effort to intervene.
apnews{dot}com{slash}article{slash}car-carrier-sinks-aleutian-islands-5eec64f6bad760cf3ebbb4c810f78b68
"The ship is now likely to continue burning until specialized fire-fighting crews arrive and attempt to halt the blaze."
This is Diplospeak for "We'll talk about it for a while, until it's to late to actually do anything about it, and declare 'unfortunately it's to late to take any effective action'." Then let the ship and cargo have a quiet burial at sea.
"pay double to fly it in half the time I might be tempted"
I recently decided I was going skip a tourist type trip that I was thinking of taking. I looked at the 28.5 hours to get from point A to B and decided I didn't want to sit in an airplane that long. That was the cheap seat. When I saw your statement I thought "OK, so what's it cost to get there the fastest way possible?" It can be done 2.5 hours faster, at 7.8 times the cost, don't think I want to do that either. FWIW the return trip is a hour quicker for both.
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
inxi shows the same and
Machine: Type: ARM Device System: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
As far as a complete install goes...it wouldn't hurt that much. I actually have 4, maybe 5 they're in different locations so I can put my fingers on them all, of them laying around. 3 are simply looping though a, large, playlist of mp3 music 24x7. The remainder(s) just have rust and cargo loaded so I can try to teach myself the language.
I have a 3B that I installed 2023-05-03-raspios-bullseye-armhf-full.img on, and have tried to keep up to date using the command:
sudo apt-get update -y --fix-missing && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y --fix-missing
Is this the equivalent of "zypper dup", as you can see I'm not well versed in multiple flavors of linux.
Yeah, got called into work in the dead of the night because the NT server that was the primary for DNS resolution malfunctioned. The secondary DNS box, another NT server, also had malfunctioned. I restarted them. In looking into the problem the resolution came down to...drum roll...a faulty printer driver.
I have a screenshot of the end result of installing some software on a WinNT Server way back in practically pre-history. It says "The XXXXX service depends on the YYYYY service which failed to start because of the following error: The operation completed successfully."
Somewhere along the line I've used all three of those packages. I'm not a wordsmith. For my wife it was trying to print mailing labels with Word that did it. I printed them off with no problem using openoffice(?) or libreoffice(?). Within days I was formatting her Windows computer (along with all the paid for software) and installing linux.
