dinergy's comments

Fantastic. I'll keep an eye on it.

I love the idea of ARM servers. I would love it even more if I could by such things to run in-house. I'm an old codger that way, I prefer on site iron, not fluffy leased cloud services.

Too bad you're not selling the hardware.

This site would be perfect as a plain text website with pertinent information easily available.

It is easy to design simple, textual content that is still aesthetically pleasing; print has been doing it for more than a century.

I dislike this new web design framework junk (especially vertical overlay scrolling) as much as I disliked the Flash abuse of the late 90's early 2000's in the design community (Praystation, True is True, K10K, etc.).

I really want to channel a little Adolf Loos here and say "all ornamentation is bad and useless."

That said, their service is really cool. Prices are pretty good, and I love that I'm not beholden to a web UI for it.

I might just use them for backups for our district.

You can also buy a serial console cable and connect via COM.

Privately yes. To your partner. Yes. To your close friends over drinks. Yes.

To a semi-private social media account that will probably become public? No. That speaks of entitlement and narcissism.

And the fact that most millennials think it is "reasonable" to whine and cry publicly when they don't get their way is the problem.

If she were professional, she would have taken the opportunity to learn from it, change her interview/work-casual appearance a bit for the next job prospect, and try again.

The fact that she ranted at all about a commonality such as dress code in business shows how unprofessional she is, and I have to agree with other comments that this probably showed through in the interview.

My general rule of thumb for my staff is do your work well, and I don't care if you wear jeans and a polo, cut out fifteen minutes early/take a few extra minutes on lunch/show up a bit late every once in a while. As long as our users are happy, work is done, and quality is high that is what matters and I will cover for you and have your back if anyone questions it.

But, I would expect a possible job applicant to show up on time, in a suit or button down/slacks. And not act like an entitled, special snow flake regardless of obvious talent and skill.

It is unfortunate she didn't get the job, but making a bullshit stink about how unfair it is publicly is just awful. Grow up.

Not really given size. We're a tiny district < 1K student body, and we've spent perhaps 1/4m on a infrastructure refresh; we deployed a new wireless network, replaced edge and core l2 and l3 switches, etc.

Consider LA has 600K+ students across the district, multiple facilities, and tens of thousands of staff I would say that is on the low end of infrastructure costs.

Our four site WAN runs > 30K/year, 100Mbps circuit is 24K, we're already at ~60K/y in operating costs.

It is easy to see how 800mil on infrastructure is probably not enough.

We have none of those issues. We block Youtube because when opened students don't stream "educational" videos. They sit in the library watching sports, anime, and inappropriate content.

Aggressive filtering, unfortunately, is a necessary evil because students are kids who, en mass, are irresponsible and make dumb choices.

I'm an IT Dir. for a district in St. Louis county. I remember reading this article and being blown away. I ran a copy over to my Superintendent. While we're not ditching Windows or Chromebooks at the moment, the part I was most interested in adapting for our district is student involvement in the tech process and peer support.

We're setting up a student led and staffed tech support group so that they can help their classmates out with issues around BYOB, Chromebooks, etc.

I was an enterprise Linux admin in a former life, and I'm working on integrating it more. I've already got it in the hands of a few students on their own BYOD devices.

Great job out there.

The "design" of that presentation is a war crime. I would fail that student for abusing my eyes.

I just wanted to point out how awesome your user id is in relation to this thread. :)

That he threatened federal agent(s)? That he knowingly claimed to be part of a [mostly] criminal hacking group? That he knowingly and willfully obstructed an investigation?

He did stupid, illegal things, and honestly it sounds like he got off pretty light, to me.

i honestly think he believes his stance is the only correct one. you can see it in the way he answered the questions.

the bit where he picks apart upstart, gentoo, etc., are nothing more than callous, myopic opinions yet he answers them with cheerful conviction.

technical arguments can be made for or against any piece of code. but, he dismisses other projects with a wave of his hand firmly stating that systemd is the "only" correct evolution.

i'm am neutral on systemd. do i think the old init system(s) are the right way? not really. do i think systemd is the right way? not really. would i be fine with systemd in the future? perhaps. would i be fine with another bit of code? perhaps.

but to dismiss the concerns of a large number of community members, to neglect or downright deny bugs and issues, to shoehorn a project into _everything_ while closing your ears to everyone else, these are my issues with the project.

if it works, great. but at least open your eyes and ears and work with everyone.

i migrated my home kit to freebsd from debian because i was having errors. failed boots. crashes. config problems. and i didn't have a decade of old crusty init scripts to begin with.

what used to be rock solid on my hardware became annoying to deal with.

i'm all for change and evolution in software/systems and i don't personally have a problem with poettering or what he is trying to do, but he's doing it in a piss poor way.

I lived in Columbia, MO for nearly 10 years. It is absolutely full of assholes. I wonder how they're still in business. :)