I’m perfectly happy with my Amazing Bip watch. It keeps track of my steps and sleep, and links to my phone so that it will buzz if I get a call or text.

It’s about 7 years old now, and still gets almost a month of regular use on a single charge.

You may want to check your sources on that. If I remember correctly, his mother knew someone on the board, through her work with the United Way.

That should be Ransom E. Olds, not Olsom Olds

There is so much money involved. I would almost say that there is too much money involved to leave the results up to the athletes.

How much corruption is there that never gets publicized or even discovered?

I don’t know if you have a website, but my $5/month shared web host allows me to set up a git server, and I think many of them are similar.

And the out-of-place apostrophe perfects it!

Without the manufacturer’s drivers, I couldn’t even print a page of text.

It’s a Brother B&W laser with integrated scanner. About 6 years old, so it should be fully supported. We can’t view toner levels or scan from the printer (press a button on the printer to start a scan and have it automatically accepted by the computer. I have installed the separate driver for this functionality, but it isn’t working).

We haven’t yet tried some features like double-sided printing.

I installed Mint on my wife’s computer last week, and we have had problems getting the printer to print, and then to scan. I’ve installed the manufacturer’s driver a couple of times and it seems to do those functions okay, but some features still don’t work.

I find Drupal just as easy to set up as wordpress. Most shared web hosts have a script to do everything for you, including installing updates. In fact, I find Drupal’s administration more logical and easier to manage. (I may be biased, since I spent 10 years developing Drupal sites.)

The other advantage is that, unlike WordPress, Drupal themes and plugins (the Drupal term is “modules”) are almost all open source and free. I find that WordPress has lots of plugins that give you the basic version for free, but then want to upsell you to a paid version.

You are right, but I’m not sure if the intelligence was built into the command to recognize it as a root level deletion.

rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

Looks like it started appearing in various flavors of Unix and Linux around 2005.

If it were on an old installation of linux, it would delete everything on the file system, from every disk attached.

Modern Linux systems require an additional flag to explicitly stay that you want to nuke your system.

I like Jitsi, but when I record a session it always silently aborts after about 40 minutes.

I was a volunteer teacher in Africa from 1988-91.

I would write letter from my village, and it would take one month to get to my family in Canada. They would write a response, and it would take one month to get back to my village. That was just the reality.

Now the village I lived in has a cell phone tower in the middle of it. I haven’t been back, but I am willing to bet that a lot has changed.

I’m in Malaysia right now, which is a majority Muslim country. Restaurants and convenience stores sell beer and other alcohol, but I have seen signs in the convenience stores covering the front of coolers saying that Muslims cannot buy alcohol.

I’m not sure how strictly that is enforced, most of the store clerks and waiters don’t seem to care.

• Visit the house where Martin Luther lived
• Buy a Perry Rhodan hefte (an SF pulp serial magazine that has been published weekly since 1961) at a newsstand after not reading one for over 40 years
• Eat my first currywurst since I arrived in Germany three days ago

That’s exactly right. The proof is quite simple and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be taught instead of just getting students to accept magic rules.

I went through engineering school, and 20 years of work (not as an engineer), before finding a calculus text that explained why the derivative of x^2 is 2x. Along with many practical applications of calculus.

That book was Calculus Made Simple, published in 1914. Thanks, Project Gutenberg!

Edit: derivative of x^2 is 2x. Got my differentiation and integration confused!

I was seeing a lot of crashes two or three years ago, but none in the past year or so.