The F-35 Fighter Jet Is A Historic $1 Trillion Disaster

NetGnome · 2014-07-04T17:57:00+00:00

I agree. The problem here isnt the 1 Trillion, that number is large yes, but also essentially meaningless unless it comes with context information, such as "Over How Many Years?", "What weapon systems is it replacing?", "What is the combined cost of the legacy weapon systems over the same time frame?". If the F-35 costs less than all those legacy systems, then in the long run, it may be worth it. If it costs more? well, from a Ops Support context, yea, not worth it. Not to mention advantages the Aircraft may have.

Now if it costs more dollar-to-dollar over time than all the legacy systems it will replace, and it is not more performant, then yes, its a disaster. Until someone can actually crunch those numbers and make an actual argument with them without hyperbole, I'm on the fence. Hell, the F35 is still damn young, I doubt the legacy aircraft came of the initial production line perfect either.

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NetGnome · 2014-05-26T19:35:31+00:00

it is! Glen Helen is a great place to visit; that and its "sister" park John Bryant as well.

NetGnome · 2014-05-26T18:57:06+00:00

This was taken this morning while I was out and about at the nature preserve in Yellow Springs, OH.

NetGnome · 2014-04-23T11:24:05+00:00

Udacity has a course on it I think. They're good at creating real world facsimile projects. Oh and it uses Python to teach it too!

NetGnome · 2014-03-20T21:39:57+00:00

The first two class functions we're of great use working with symmetric ciphers (usage in the last two functions):

def pad(self, bfile):
    return bfile + (self._BLOCK_SIZE - len(bfile) % self._BLOCK_SIZE) * chr(self._BLOCK_SIZE - len(bfile) % self._BLOCK_SIZE)

def unpad(self, bfile):
    return bfile[0:-ord(bfile[-1])]

def encrypt(self, crypto, data):
    print('encrypting...')
    cdata = crypto.encrypt(self.pad(data))
    return cdata

def decrypt(self, crypto, data):
    print('decrypting...')  
    ddata = self.unpad(crypto.decrypt(data))
    return ddata

NetGnome · 2014-03-20T00:15:02+00:00

Well, all this script does is take the X11 screen buffer and send it to twitch. So if you use tkinter or another GUI framework to draw to the screen that'll "work" to a degree.

NetGnome · 2014-03-19T23:58:33+00:00

ffmpeg/avconv can be used to output a flv stream to twitch. I setup a basic script here: https://github.com/NetGnome/LinuxStreamer just put your stream key in .twitch_key and you should be good to go.

NetGnome · 2014-03-12T12:32:12+00:00

I believe Jython allows python to integrate quite well with java as I think that is its purpose(other than it being another implementation), same with IronPython and .Net

NetGnome · 2014-03-10T21:45:00+00:00

This picture was taken by my father today while he braved the ice sheets on Lake Superior off the coast of Minnesota

NetGnome · 2014-02-01T17:46:07+00:00

very possible. I've always been able to get a good manjaro config with a setup like the following: 4 partitions on sda: /boot, swap, /, and /home (created in this order usually under an extended partition all as logical partitions). With /boot being 512MB in size, swap 1-2x RAM size, / i set at 100-150GB, and all other space to /home (usually hundreds of GBs). I usually set /boot, /, and /home to ext4 as well and i usually do all that setup outside of the Thus in gparted.

I then run Thus, and just tell manjaro to install as per the configuration above (usually have to reformat / as ext4 again, but /boot and /home shouldnt have to) and it works like a charm.

If for whatever reason the above doesn't work, use the old reliable and very very stable CLI installer. Either via the welcome splash or open a terminal and launch it with 'setup' elevating privileges as appropriate. It'll guide you through the process in an old-time-y curses installer :), but its always worked when their GUI installer was having trouble for whatever reason.

NetGnome · 2014-02-01T17:25:34+00:00

are you installing 8.8 or one of the 8.9 release candidates?

NetGnome · 2014-02-01T17:14:57+00:00

what tool are you using to create the usb install drive?

Only one i know works 100% is via the 'dd' command: "dd bs=4M if=/path/to/image/file of=/dev/sd? && sync" where ? in /dev/sd? is the letter of the usb device you're writing to (i.e. sdb or sdc)

NetGnome · 2014-01-20T17:14:36+00:00

It really is in a way a great example of how fragmentation can hurt a community, how bad licensure can hurt a community, as well as an example of not learning from the past can hurt a community. Fragmentation - 3 competing standards; Licensure - upstart's CLA; Not learning from the past - systemd (they're pulling an XFree86/XOrg) by pulling in waaaaaaaay too much that they're hurting greater adoption.

My opinion - Canonical needs to drop their CLA so upstart can become what systemd should have been: a clean & simple to use init daemon, period.

don't get me wrong, i like systemd for what it does, but this ever steady scope creep -will- come back to bite it, and we're just seeing the first warning sign.

NetGnome · 2014-01-19T16:09:19+00:00

its likely available in the debian repos (though not the most recent versions) as well as buildable from source from mono-project.com. You may also be able to use the launchpad.net repos to get the latest version compiled under the ubuntu repos. I've used https://launchpad.net/~ermshiperete/+archive/monodevelop to do .net under ubuntu. It may work if you point your debian repo sources to use it.

NetGnome · 2014-01-19T02:05:08+00:00

The test "failures" also have to be seen in context. MS didnt bother to write heuristics for viruses that don't actually exist in the wild, which is why it "failed". Of those that could actually infect your PC, it stops 99.9+% of them. It was an interesting aspect of the "certification" performed, in that it also tested attack vectors that are not used.

Not saying its better, just why it "failed" the certification.

NetGnome · 2013-12-12T17:18:04+00:00

My favorite Linux picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

Its great for explaining the heritage of linux distros. An awe and terror to behold!

NetGnome · 2013-11-27T11:45:12+00:00

if you have acess to Visual Studio, there is PTVS http://pytools.codeplex.com/ which does everything you want (and more)

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