@tim_g said in Drinking After Studying Boosts Memory:

@rojoloco said in Drinking After Studying Boosts Memory:

All those people are going to die too, but they may not have had as many life affirming, visceral experiences.

You're right that everyone is going to die.

But what matters, A LOT, is how you spend your last living 10-20+ years.

Do you want to be bedridden or otherwise unable to live comfortably last 20 years of your life?

People are generally living longer now due to medicine. This means if you are in bad condition at 60... well then good luck for your next 30 years!

You'll be wishing you cared more when you were 40 or 50. It's never too late to start caring, of course, until it's actually too late.

I'm 43, eat/drink/smoke what I want, enjoy life, and have never felt better. Lemmy said it best... "I don't want to live forever". Being old is horrible no matter how healthy your habits, and I definitely don't want to get that old, whatever age that may be. Once the quality has gone out of your life, there's zero reason to let modern medicine keep you alive a couple more decades, that's just insane.

It's better to burn out than it is to rust...

From what I gather, they're working on a much smaller one that can be easily tossed into a bag with your laptop.

@fuznutz04 said in Linux and Windows Both Gaining on the Desktop, Mac the Big Loser:

Great news... Now somebody fix the Korora/Fedora issues for my 2012 Macbook pro, and I will officially convert!

Try Gecko

@scottalanmiller said in BTRFS deprecated by Red Hat:

@matteo-nunziati said in BTRFS deprecated by Red Hat:

@scottalanmiller said in BTRFS deprecated by Red Hat:

Looks likely that the deprecation is politically, rather than technologically, motivated.

I would say commercial. They always try to avoid nih so they are stronger in knowledge and can sell support more easily

I would only agree here if they were not developing their own in house product. This is very much like the Xen / KVM situation a decade ago.

sorry bad wording of mine. I meant that they always try to not sell NIH stuff because having an internal product always gives them more knowledge an therefore competitive advantage at consultancy level. No one is more expert in a product then the author of the product.

My view of RH has always been the same: If they can escalade in a community and have employees inside a community with relevant contributions they can reach adequate knowledge, but if someone else is better positioned in the community, they tend to lag knowledge and very often switch on another product.

I've seen this as an explanation for Xen/KVM, now this seems the same with FS, and other times they did the same.

This is not bad or good it is just the market.That's understandable to me.

@mlnews said in Five Ways to Use Raspberry Pi in the Classroom:

@travisdh1 said in Five Ways to Use Raspberry Pi in the Classroom:

@mlnews Just go and make me decide if I want to pull the Pi out or get my home lab running again.

Post some projects.

I want to turn mine into a honeypot. Will have to do the config again to do a writeup.

@nerdydad said in Windows Console Colour Scheme Changing:

@travisdh1 said in Windows Console Colour Scheme Changing:

They hit it with an ugly stick. I've always had an easier time reading from a darker background.

Oh buddy, that was done long before this when they came out with windows 1.*. 😉

Got that right! 😄

@reid-cooper said in Separation information for HPE Software:

COBOL is still the coolest.

If you a masochist maybe. Yeah, I've seen it just enough to loath having to work with it.... kind of like me a vi 😛

It was all formal, no education.

@coliver said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

@nerdydad said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

@mlnews said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

ReactOS, the open source recreation of Windows NT

Why? If you haven't moved passed NT by now, its about time to just wipe the slate clean and start all over because the time and money you're going to spend trying to upgrade everything to the latest and greatest is going to be absurd.

All modern Windows systems are built on top of Windows NT. Windows 10 is on NT version 10.

Yep. Kernel changes very little. All the other stuff that you actually interact with changes lots.

It's neat because it is a rare test where basically only the kernel is different. So you really get to see Linux vs. NTKernel rather than artefacts of the entire stack.

@stuartjordan said in Microsoft putting MSPaint out to pasture:

@scottalanmiller lol, this is probably true, I do remember an article about some os code that was leaked a long time ago and they were quite embarrassed with even some of the comments that was left in the code as well.

Ha ha. Yeah stuff like this dating from the Windows 3 era is bound to be atrocious.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/debian-gnu-linux-9-1-stretch-and-debian-8-9-jessie-officially-released-517107.shtml

So it's finally happening? I remember hearing they were going to be changing the license to allow for this sort of thing. All I can say is, that's a lot of licensing money you've been prohibiting.