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NixOS is a one of a kind. A proof of concept, a research project, a thesis in action. It is based around the nix package manager, which is a heavy-duty, multi-purpose installing, virtualization and building system. And what's more it reads something that's called nix expressions. These expressions are text files with variables and arrays that are incredibly easy to read and edit.
 
Nix is so insanely genius in concept alone that I just had to install NixOS. Not only does it use centralized, declarative and semantic configuration files, but it maintains a profile or path for the system and each user where the applications are kept based on a random has, package name and version. This means that several versions of the same package, different versions or with different options, can be installed independantly by each user. So if you want to setup a httpd and port 80 isn't taken: go nuts. No root privlidges needed and it will install as if it's installed on the system. To facilitate all this an applicatin called PatchELF had to be made, which patches the binaries to point towards their respective requirements, meaning that there won't be any confusion over which user has which version or build of a package.
 
Nixpkgs is something of a beaute, if you ask me. It's the collection of packages available (in a specific channel, visa vi stable, unstable and/or third party) in the form of abstract set of folders based on categorization or area of use, containing nix expression files that stipulate build/install process and requirements from other packages inside nixpkgs. When you update the channel you don't check every file (like RPM and DEB does it), the system merely downloads a single tarball and extracts it. The user can even traverse these folders and checkout the various packages and the options that come with them (though this can also easily be achieved using man configuration.nix).
 
Now here's the fun part:
The entirety of the system, the location of partitions, file system settings, encryption, networking, hardware (and kernel configuration), user creation, which packages are to be installed, what modules are to be loaded, what options are to be added to certain build and install proceses, clock settings, etc, etc, etc, and all through one file... in /etc/nixos called configuration.nix.
 
Yes, you read right. The entirety of the system can be configured by one single file. Did I also mention that the package manager is cross-platform? Visa vi it can be used to manage and maintain packages on for instance OS X and Windows.
 
As if that wasn't enough Hydra is a set of server applications that run on all widely available platforms (Linux, Windows, OS X and FreeBSD) to constantly check and failtest builds that have been submitted automatically. For someone who has struggled with software and productive environments this would be an INCREDIBLE timesaver when deploying new or upgraded software.
 
But hold on, there's more: using nixops you can deploy to Amazon cloud or VirtualBox cloud storage. Using Disnix you can setup a deployment network inside intranet.
 
And now you see why it isn't just an ordinary Linux distribution. It has enourmous potential to be a fantastic cross-platform management system, and on top of that: it's free...! And FOSS! So if you're a tech head, if you work within deployment and testing, I advice you to give this a try -- if for nothing else a curiosity case
 
Me? I've been trying actively to add to the project, by way of wiki. I also have grand plans and my grandest of tech fantasies which can now be fulfilled thanks to this grand set of tools.
 
Let me know what you think!

Setups that are actually download managers for the real setup.
(Adobe Reader for example)
Programs that create an autostart entry without asking.

My laptop is 20 from TJMax when idling, 10 when browsing the web and 0 when gaming. It's actually thermally throttleing.
 
With your setup, I'd be worried though. As long as you have a good case ventialation, it shouldn't get that hot. Check the mounting, reapply the thermal paste if you think it's necessary. It can have various reasons.

Right, I'd rather have Windows Bob.  But you would probably have an even harder time installing that.

F5..F5..F5..F5..

Maybe not all of them, but I can. I know you've played a lot of Sanctum 2 recently even though you should have been studying and working instead. I also know you kind of suck at bf3 on pc with a kd of 0.81. You seem to post some bf4 content on youtube though, with your 64 subscribers. You also ordered star citizen and play war thunder, am I correct? 
 
I think you were playing CS yesterday at 9 Am too... am I correct? 

definitely ninjas then 

Technology is overall actually not as advanced as many people make it out to be. A lot of people do not have computers and all and just use cell phones instead (this has been the case for a long time). And a lot of business computers still run on xp. Businesses still use fax machines as well, but I've noticed this is actually still the case in American universities.
 
Nowadays with the internet you can order anything from websites such as yahoo auction (the Japanese ebay), rakuten (the Japanese amazon) and amazon.jp using a shipping forwarding service such as tenso, which will ship packages at reasonable rates to your country. But there is definitely a lot of food that you cannot buy, even in places such as Hawaii where there is the largest Japanese community in the world. So when I come back I usually bring maybe 35kg of food. 

In real life I haven't come across a lot of people like that. There are a lot of people like that on the internet though. And it's definitely silly to think that real life in Japan is just like in animes. Most Japanese adults don't watch anime at all or read manga....
My mother upgraded to 1gbps down and up last year. The upgrade was free from the 200mbps connection she had before, and the price stayed the same (for some reason, whether you get 50mbps, 100mbps, 300mbps or 1gbps, monthly prices are always the same). There was no upgrade fee or anything either. Monthly price is around 5000 Yen (50$ a month). Prices are the same pretty much everywhere and there is a lot of competition between ISPs (ISPs used the main NTT fiber lines, so they don't have to lay their own wires). To try to get you to change ISP, you can often get 300$ cash and such things, however ISPs pretty much all have 2 year contracts. 

I live in Hawaii. 30% of the population here is of  Japanese ancestry. So no.. but on the mainland, people definitely are pretty ignorant of the difference between different Asian countries.
 
No. Who does that? The whole herbivore Japanese men thing is once again stuff sensationalized from foreign media outlets. Maybe there are a couple of people that date video game characters, but it seems very obscure and I doubt very many people do it. 
Yes. Japan had the first high speed rail system which they made in time for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, but since then France has developed the TGV, a large HSR system, along with the ICE in Germany, I believe it's called the AVE in germany, and now China has the largest high speed rail system in the world (definitely not the safest though). As of now, the Japanese made trains have only been exported to Taiwan, which started a High speed rail system in 2007 that uses the exact same system as in Japan. I heard JR Central (a big railway company in Japan) was looking to develop HSR in Texas with fully private money for 15 billion$. That would mean no taxpayer money would be used. However I wonder if it'll become a reality. It was in the news recently. 
 
wife. 
Old laws from the Meiji era that were not changed during the America occupation of Japan. It just stayed in place.  Arrests still happen from time to time because some video shop sold uncensored porn dvds. And yet people could look at uncensored porn all they want on the internet.. there is no internet filtering at all. 

I am not Japanese, but I have come across few people in real life, more on the internet, who are obsessed with Japanese culture and claim to know a lot about it. However, their obsession is almost entirely on Japanese anime, in fact it is the sole window through which they have experienced Japan, yet they think they got it all figured out about the country and its people. I personally find that ridiculous. 
 
So my question is, have you come across such people, and what do you think of them.

Not that different for the average Joe. Wake up... eat breakfast (most people eat rice, miso soup and something else like grilled salmon for breakfast..) take the train or bus to your workplace. Work (buy a bento at lunch or just bring one from your house) Perhaps have overtime and end up staying till 6 sometimes. Buy something like sweets for your waifu. Come back... rinse and repeat.
this is the average Joe's life in a Japanese workday. 
 
fun fact: all Japanese employers are required by law to pay your commute fee, even part time jobs. So you don't have to worry about the price of your train or bus tickets etc.. because they will give you something apart from your salary on top to pay that off. 

what about when someone has a long winded response that makes zero sense, repeats itself and is filled with incorrect information, then you respond and that person just makes it personal because they clearly have no idea what they are talking about.  Do you still enjoy those debates? 
 
Personally I am getting tired of the posts where someone is giving average/bad advice and doesn't have enough experience or knowledge to understand why their advice is bad.  With long walls of text at least we can see how someone came to a conclusion and there is less chance of interpreting the wrong message.

I love long explained opinions, thy way I can have a decent argument against a decent person, not someone who has failed to learn all sorts of language an sticks to words used to crudely describe homosexuals. Short answers also have there place, but so do long walls of text, both are have there places, but short answers are weaving there way into places they really shouldn't be.

Out of 10 times that i write something long, 7 of them ill just get completely ignored in the thread, even if i covered everything, which makes me want to facepalm and question the intelligence of some members

Well I have noticed short and to the point, with explicit detail is also ineffective. People on the internet are generally more antagonistic and are unlikely to be convinced as they are stuck in their position.
 
I find that length has its place, but it is generally not worthwhile on the internet.

A lot of people have been telling me lately that some of my posts are just too long. I tend to agree with this. Like Shakespear said "brevity is the soul of wit". But it is also the source of much confusion and ignorance.
 
Today I replied to a token online media site discussing a rather controversial subject (a man sentenced to prison for 14 years for having induced abortion in his ex-girlfriend). Now I can understand that this will cause outrage. But after reading the article I found that this was yet another gloriously glib troll feeder. It spoke of the case, yes, but it also omitted things like motive, how far in to labour the woman actually was. Yet the comment section was filled to the brim with adversaries. The concerned Christians, the outraged secularists and the casual sarcastibombs that blow up willy nilly.
 
You don't have to look far for this kind of web-site. They survive on the basis of people not applying scrutiny and skepticism to what they read. But it's besides the point I'm trying to make. These articles are usually VERY short, and if not it's usually all just ideological dispositions without any fact, a source of reference, explanation or letting the reader know in a round-about way that this is your subjective opinion ("I think", "I believe", "I surmise", etc). There is a lot of use of constants without any reference points what so ever ("she said", "he said", "the judge concluded", etc... it's very important to be semantic. Be as specific as possible. It's mui importante and if you forget something edit it in, apologize for the miss-edit and move on. OR someone could pick at straws by going in to semantics about your language. Like this guy on reddit the other day when I refered to NeXTSTEP as NeXT, which is the desktop environment and the company that developed it (in that order) and he completely missed the point of my argument and started to throw sarcasm, vitriol and all sorts of crap at me without actually taking apart my argument (you can probably guess what the discussion was about).
 
I also try to stay neutral in most cases (unless you start to flame against unionization, public hospitals, public schools, vaccines and that sort of thing because it will lead me to raising hell and high water to make sure everyone in the near vicinity knows you as a dunce with no historical perspective). My stance backfires 50% of the time though. I will say I have been guilty of making facetious and glib comments on the internet regarding serious discussions (haven't we all) and I concede that I may not have been as objective as I should have been. I try to avoid this by writing away all the irritation and trying to find a new angle on my own perspective. More often than not discard the post after having written to it, unless... I'm brief.
 
And that's why I think writing more is better than writing less... got any similar experiences to share, with people online? Sure you do. Therapy is in session. Facebook, karma-whores, tabloids, "news outlet" and every link-baiting web-site out there is now in your crosshairs.

fanboi's that call you out for being a fanboi at even the mention of the competitor, I see this mostly with amd vs nvidia.  and this goes both ways, I don't need anyone calling me out for being an nvidia fanboi just cause I happen to have an nvidia card right now.  I buy the best gpu available at the time of purchase

Well none of that got anything to do whatsoever with debating online vs debating in real-life, and the fact that debating online is retarded in most cases (compared to debating in person which I think is a good idea) since it's extremely rare that people change their opinions online.
 
And we're not really debating anything, since there isn't a specific topic. Or are we debating about debating?
 
Oh no, are we now debating about debating about debating?
 
*mind blown*
 
Oh well, I don't want to be that which I despise. See ya around buddy.

The gangsta that will pierce the heavens!!!!!

I'd start with a local account and then attach your Microsoft account. The reason is that a name based on your e-mail will be generated to create the user dir. For me it was the first 5 letters of My email and then "_001".. which looks stupid and unorganized IMHO.
So start with a local account, attach the Microsoft account.

Here's the article about the abortion. Read the comments downwards... the reddit post is... just horrible. We do not need to even enter in to that here as there is enough of that kind of conflict on the forums already - we don't need an extra one by proxy. But it's still baffling how so many people rabidly and ferociously attack each other without even having all the facts to back up their opinions.
 
And I'm way to serious a guy. THere are times sarcasm flies me by. It's not that I don't understand sarcasm... but in the heat of passion, of frustration and so forth I only see a joke as an insult rather than a mood-reliever. Candy me, right?

A lot of people have been telling me lately that some of my posts are just too long. I tend to agree with this. Like Shakespear said "brevity is the soul of wit". But it is also the source of much confusion and ignorance.
 
Today I replied to a token online media site discussing a rather controversial subject (a man sentenced to prison for 14 years for having induced abortion in his ex-girlfriend). Now I can understand that this will cause outrage. But after reading the article I found that this was yet another gloriously glib troll feeder. It spoke of the case, yes, but it also omitted things like motive, how far in to labour the woman actually was. Yet the comment section was filled to the brim with adversaries. The concerned Christians, the outraged secularists and the casual sarcastibombs that blow up willy nilly.
 
You don't have to look far for this kind of web-site. They survive on the basis of people not applying scrutiny and skepticism to what they read. But it's besides the point I'm trying to make. These articles are usually VERY short, and if not it's usually all just ideological dispositions without any fact, a source of reference, explanation or letting the reader know in a round-about way that this is your subjective opinion ("I think", "I believe", "I surmise", etc). There is a lot of use of constants without any reference points what so ever ("she said", "he said", "the judge concluded", etc... it's very important to be semantic. Be as specific as possible. It's mui importante and if you forget something edit it in, apologize for the miss-edit and move on. OR someone could pick at straws by going in to semantics about your language. Like this guy on reddit the other day when I refered to NeXTSTEP as NeXT, which is the desktop environment and the company that developed it (in that order) and he completely missed the point of my argument and started to throw sarcasm, vitriol and all sorts of crap at me without actually taking apart my argument (you can probably guess what the discussion was about).
 
I also try to stay neutral in most cases (unless you start to flame against unionization, public hospitals, public schools, vaccines and that sort of thing because it will lead me to raising hell and high water to make sure everyone in the near vicinity knows you as a dunce with no historical perspective). My stance backfires 50% of the time though. I will say I have been guilty of making facetious and glib comments on the internet regarding serious discussions (haven't we all) and I concede that I may not have been as objective as I should have been. I try to avoid this by writing away all the irritation and trying to find a new angle on my own perspective. More often than not discard the post after having written to it, unless... I'm brief.
 
And that's why I think writing more is better than writing less... got any similar experiences to share, with people online? Sure you do. Therapy is in session. Facebook, karma-whores, tabloids, "news outlet" and every link-baiting web-site out there is now in your crosshairs.

A lot of people have been telling me lately that some of my posts are just too long. I tend to agree with this. Like Shakespear said "brevity is the soul of wit". But it is also the source of much confusion and ignorance.
 
Today I replied to a token online media site discussing a rather controversial subject (a man sentenced to prison for 14 years for having induced abortion in his ex-girlfriend). Now I can understand that this will cause outrage. But after reading the article I found that this was yet another gloriously glib troll feeder. It spoke of the case, yes, but it also omitted things like motive, how far in to labour the woman actually was. Yet the comment section was filled to the brim with adversaries. The concerned Christians, the outraged secularists and the casual sarcastibombs that blow up willy nilly.
 
You don't have to look far for this kind of web-site. They survive on the basis of people not applying scrutiny and skepticism to what they read. But it's besides the point I'm trying to make. These articles are usually VERY short, and if not it's usually all just ideological dispositions without any fact, a source of reference, explanation or letting the reader know in a round-about way that this is your subjective opinion ("I think", "I believe", "I surmise", etc). There is a lot of use of constants without any reference points what so ever ("she said", "he said", "the judge concluded", etc... it's very important to be semantic. Be as specific as possible. It's mui importante and if you forget something edit it in, apologize for the miss-edit and move on. OR someone could pick at straws by going in to semantics about your language. Like this guy on reddit the other day when I refered to NeXTSTEP as NeXT, which is the desktop environment and the company that developed it (in that order) and he completely missed the point of my argument and started to throw sarcasm, vitriol and all sorts of crap at me without actually taking apart my argument (you can probably guess what the discussion was about).
 
I also try to stay neutral in most cases (unless you start to flame against unionization, public hospitals, public schools, vaccines and that sort of thing because it will lead me to raising hell and high water to make sure everyone in the near vicinity knows you as a dunce with no historical perspective). My stance backfires 50% of the time though. I will say I have been guilty of making facetious and glib comments on the internet regarding serious discussions (haven't we all) and I concede that I may not have been as objective as I should have been. I try to avoid this by writing away all the irritation and trying to find a new angle on my own perspective. More often than not discard the post after having written to it, unless... I'm brief.
 
And that's why I think writing more is better than writing less... got any similar experiences to share, with people online? Sure you do. Therapy is in session. Facebook, karma-whores, tabloids, "news outlet" and every link-baiting web-site out there is now in your crosshairs.

I'm half weeb, half gangsta.