Re: Oh what can we say...
I always do what Teddy tells me.
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To answer your question: Almost any distro (distribution, IE version) will fit on a 16/32GB thumb drive. I have found Linux Mint to be one of the most easy-to-use (and pretty) distros out of the box. It does come with a media player, and I believe a PDF viewer and Wine is a fairly simple install.
I figured I should chime in, being one of those self-proclaimed experts and snobs and all...
For good espresso the machine does not matter quite so much, provided you can have the pressure set to 16 bar and can pull a shot over the course of 30-40 seconds.
French press is a perfectly acceptable method, but it does tend to get muddy, no matter how coarse a grind you use. Don't even get me started on people who proclaim the superiority of French Press while using off-the-shelf pre-ground (medium grind) coffee.. The only quality they'll be able to evaluate is the burn/scald unit at their local hospital
For a drip-brew style coffee pour-overs (chemex, etc.) are lovely, but a bit of a faff to work with. Percolators make a rich brew, but they tend to keep old oils and sometime the whole thing will go rancid. a drip-brew machine (Mr. Coffee, Bunn, etc.) is the epiotme of 'good enough'. The absolute pinnacle is a vacuum brew system they can be as pleasing to the eye as the coffee is to the palate.
K-cups are the absolute convenience coffee. They take next to no effort to brew, even less effort to clean up, and is done quicker than waltzing over to a coffee shop. The coffee is usually "meh"; but that still makes it a huge improvement over Starbucks.
"But these days consumer PC/Laptops etc you don't even have that option; You only get the OEM's rebuild partition"And that really sucks when the HDD goes out. An actual conversation with Tech Support after a hard drive failure:
Me: "My laptop hard drive started making clicking and grinding sounds, and would not be recognized on boot; so I replaced it, and would like to request some installation media, to get the laptop running again."
So-Called-Tech: "Oh, you don't need media, you can just restore from the Recovery Partition. When you turn on the laptop..<goes into spiel on recovering>"
Me: "That hard drive is dead, BIOS would not recognize it, there is a new hard drive installed that does not have the recovery partition, can you send me the install media?"
SCT: "All hard drives in our laptops have the recovery partition, you just need to access it by..."
Me: <Hangs up, installs Mint>
So what you're saying is that there are slim pickings for an appropriate first name? And at that, the choice pickings have already been used.
They do.
The truly nasty part that most people overlook is that we are often provided an A/B choice in a problem with a [0-255] solution set. On top of that, when two parties which are so often yelling at each other, calling each other names, and disagreeing to be disagreeable do sing from the same page, no-one questions it: "It must be the only way, because if there were any room for argument, they would argue".
There is also a blending of these tactics wherein a policy is set (for example, anti-"piracy" legislation) one side says that the legislation should carry criminal sanctions, the other says that it should place limits on infringers' available bandwidth, without jail time. Neither side mentions that the method for policing the piracy violates search & seizure limitations, screws privacy, and is selectively enforceable making it easy to target people you don't like.
The populous will argue jail time vs. bandwidth throttling; but 90% will not think to question logging, warrentless searches, etc. (Okay 75% won't think, full stop)
You are not quite cynical enough.
Sadly, your lack of understanding of humanity, and humanity's lack of understanding of you does not indicate a species diversion;quite the opposite. H.Sapians understand far more about the migrating habits of the Arctic Turn than they understand about ..frankly anything as it applies to an individual.
I wonder what the possibility of a device w/ the pin-pad that holds no data, but rather a USB port, a battery and encryption hardware.
I'm thinking it could act as a flow-trough port, and en/decrypt the data on the fly, using the pin and the device ID as the encryption key, or as the look-up to the key in a locally held table. Whatever size/type of drive you hook up to the thing, that's your storage; OS independent; could have versions with 1, 2, or 10 PIN options (5 users, each w/ 2 [regular and duress] PINs) to segregate the market.
If it helps: 'meta-' is a self-referencing prefix. So metadata is data that describes data.
Have you compared US internet bills to Europe, or anywhere else? We are already getting walloped in the wallet.
It's worse than that. Over here there are basically 24-hour call centers of 'judges' that can issue warrants; there's not a lot else these para-judges can do, I don't think they are even authorized to perform marriages, but they are on shifts so that the cops don't ever have to "wake up the judge" to get a warrant, they just call the 1-800-WARRANT hotline.
There is no "after".
I had a similar experience (and then did it again... Slow learner here); you may have an 'after' after they get near the 3 years old mark. My son is one of those 6AM morning-types, the good part is he wants to go to bed around 7:30-8PM.
It does get better. --If for no other reason then that one day they will be teenagers and not want to get out of bed before noon, and then you get to wake them up. I am planning on keeping a bag of marbles in the freezer for just that occasion.
VZW charges their customers about $140 for a 10GB plan. On top of that they are selling user info and they are trying to be able to sell access to their subscribers.
I get the "If the service is free, you are the product"; but this horseshit is taking "Multiple revenue streams" a bit too far. VZW subscribers are paying for the "opportunity" to be products.
- Glad I left when I did.
..You could try reading the article, or even the comments above, before 'correcting' others. Click the link, I don't feel like re-typing something that's been said twice.
Actually, I could see a very interesting use for dot-inc; namely that the domain must match the incorporated business name. EG: Hershey's could register The_Hershey_Company.inc, but not hersheys.inc; this would avoid trademark disputes with, say, Hershey_Creamery_Company.inc
No more using product names for domains, Mars.inc could not have a separate Marathon.inc
Oooh.. and wholly owned subsidiaries are relegated to sub-domains: geico.Berkshire_Hathaway.inc
Sadly, as we can't really get at the culprits, we could try to get education publicly available, and common. What ever happened to the PSAs on (US) TV; or the after-school specials? The acting and dialog were truly dire, but they did address some issues of the time; I could see them being used for things like scam-ware and social media awareness. Just a little blurb in the middle of popular times announcing "The Police will NOT put a pop-up on your computer, that is a scam"*
*The police will kick your door in @ 3AM instead; that is legitimate police work.
One evening watching movies with a friend, the lineup was Apocalypse Now, Brazil, and The Wall. There were no recreational pharmaceuticals in use, and no boozahol.. but Damn did my head get bent that night.
The Fiend wanted to end the night with Memento but the movie wouldn't play.