I have deployed LTSB in a few schools I look after, it's far easier because of the minimal feature set especially in smaller environments where full enterprise management tools like System Centre and WSUS are not installed.
Go old school and customise the default profile in the build for best results!
The best part is that if you have education volume License You get both EDU and Ent LTSB editions!
I look after a pfsense box for a school on a 9 year old E2200 that is obsolete by this.
On one hand I cannot complain because the server is 9 years old and lasted well, but on the other hand, why not an option for those just needing a packet filter to bypass this?
Yep, I had a similar thing with audio files corrupting on my old MacBook, I was using time machine to backup and guess what.... the copy in the backup was fried too!
Switched back to vinyl for my music, my 20 year old Texhnics 1210 will probably out last my current laptop and the next!
The physical vinyl won't outlast your digital, it'll just fail more gracefully, slowly losing fidelity every time you scrape it with a needle. You're just replacing a small chance of catastrophic failure with a guaranteed gradual failure.
"Record wear can be reduced to virtual insignificance, however, by the use of a high-quality, correctly adjusted turntable and tonearm, a high-compliance magnetic cartridge with a high-end stylus in good condition, and careful record handling, with non-abrasive removal of dust before playing and other cleaning if necessary."
In other words, record wear is negligible if you buy good equipment and take good care of it. Just like the risk of bit rot, catastrophic crashes etc. is negligible if you buy good storage equipment and take good care of your data (good backups etc.)
Perhaps the one big advantage of vinyl over digital is that the shelf life of unused vinyl is larger than a human lifetime. A disk stored on a shelf, however, can suffer damage in many ways and is guaranteed to be very hard to connect to your computer in ten-twenty years.
Originally when the vote was announced I was pro staying in, but like the above, the more I looked on to how the EU is run, how decisions are made, the more I didn't like it.
I have no issues with immigration, I'm all for people settling in whatever country the like!
I'm pro leaving the EU because I do not agree with how it is run and the direction it is heading.
I was very similar, I started out quite strongly in favour of remaining, did quite a lot of research and ended up firmly stuck on the fence, with my only reasons to stay being any to avoid taking any economic damage
The EU is controlled by an informal body that doesn't exist on paper called the "Eurogroup". Decisions taken there, affect the entire continent. That group is tightly controlled by the German Finance Minister with his Hollander counterpart acting as a messenger. All other European Bodies hold literally no formal powers, while at the same time trying to somehow justify their existence.
I'd say that the UK would have a problem in the long run if the EU had any chance of reforming Brussels. I don't see how this can happen. The EU is disintegrating as we speak.
Regarding the anti-immigrant feeling of Britons. It's not just the UK. Greece has Nazis in parliament since 2010 or 2012 AFAIK. Anti-immigrant policies are enforced by socialist governments throughout Europe (Hollande, Merkel, etc.) as result of Brussel's austerity policy which led to a financial stagnation, but hey if it brings votes to the party. Far right parties already set the agenda in the EU, without being in power, because their positions are the ones that bring votes.
Picturing the EU as a nice place is misleading at best.
> Except, of course that all the Eurogroup does is feed suggestions into the Council of Ministers, which literally holds the formal powers.
Nope. That's what you might wanna believe. Finance Ministers are treated like total idiots - most of them are tbh. They have 10 minutes each to talk about the problems of their country and that's about it. While they are talking others are cheerfully blabbing about personal shit. After this happy exchange of opinions, the German FinMin passes a set of papers which other FinMins are forced to sign blindly, go home and say something along the lines "I know it sucks, but if we want to be part of the EU we need to sign this...". Every now and then the French and Italian FinMin try to express an alternative view but they get quickly spanked and sent home crying like babies.
You might find that acceptable. I don't. I am part of the majority apparently, so fasten your seatbelt 'cause the next couple of years we're going for a wild ride in Europe.
Yanis Varoufakis has talked extensively about it[1]. But the real evidence is the total lack of transcripts of a procedure that should be publicly available since it concerns European citizens directly. Since you seem to be so happy with the current state of the EU, could you explain to me why there is no transcript of what my FinMin said and what XYZ FinMin replied? Maybe you can enlight us.
You got this all wrong - the Council of Ministers has no power where it matters, on budget and policies, at all. It's just there to spoonfeed ppl who can't tell the difference between a symbol with nominal power (that's why you get Malta and Ireland to preside this group) vs a group with executive and decisional power (like the Eurogroup) who decides who's bank are going to be closed next (Ireland and Greece are pretty good examples).
I'm an writer in my spare time, my writing PC is a basic text only FreeBSD install.
I use joe or vim and put everything in git for easy transfer and backup.
For me, I need as little destruction as possible, I even find auto spell check with its red underlining completely destructive when it comes to my flow of thoughts.
I similarly like using Emacs. Window and text, simple as it gets. Thanks to some tinkering, it will spell-check and even do fancy grammar checking if and when I tell it to, but otherwise, it just leaves me be.
Go old school and customise the default profile in the build for best results!
The best part is that if you have education volume License You get both EDU and Ent LTSB editions!