Guitar amps you “tone” to produce second harmonics distortion and if you only need low power (like at home) you need an amp with low output power to get distortion from the amp. A 100W amp won’t give the “right” sound if you only use 0.1W from it. Chip amps produce third harmonic distortion which sounds harsh.
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I did not understand that, but I was using for discos so needed the power to fill a room. 100 minimum but most nights 200w was my choice.
Dont knock it, that put food on my table for many years
Same here… I hated it though… IT support in a large teaching hospital - then a field engineer for multiple customers across the metro area - doing “jack of all trades” stuff - Windows desktop, shonky accounting apps, servers running Windows or Novell Netware - email products, internet connections, proxy servers, firewalls - and - UNIX / Linux servers…
Didn’t get to specialise until about 25 years ago… Even then - half of the infrastructure, firewalls, proxy servers, SMTP gateways and MTA, DNS - all ran on UNIX… Just glad I mostly got to stop having to deal with end users…
Dont existing users get a vote on GNU stuff?
Could we please have a traditional Linux desktop somewhere?
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Hi ihasama,
Thank you very much for the info.
regards,
Jorge
Getting back to the topic…
Hi Neville,
In my humble opinion—and I suspect this will be controversial—it all depends on what we mean by “AI,” because these days, “everything” has “AI” built in.
If a computer loses access to the network, will it have an “AI” module or program that restores that access?
If so, can we consider what you’re referring to as “AI” service supervision?
Jorge
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Partly. Supervising services is part of management. some init systems do supervision … but they dont use AI, they do an elementary ’ if it stops restart it’.
There are other things … a lot of. management is routine things like updates, disk full checks, malware checks
But some management is more challenging things like ‘what does this error message mean’, ‘why did this update fail.’
AI may be most useful with the more challenging tasks… that is where I use it. It has an advantage over humans of having an almost infinite store of knowledge.
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I very much doubt it… it’s not a “Benevolent Dictatorship” like the Linux kernel run by the almighty Linus Torvalds…
Gnome seems like it’s a dictatorship of the cogniscenti and bugger the rest of us…
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Is the whole of GNU the same as Gnome? … or maybe Gnome is their only useful development these days?
There are gnu-free Linuxes ( eg Chimera)
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Just because they both start with “G” doesn’t mean Gnome is part of GNU…
Gnome is NOT part of GNU (or no longer):
Don’t confuse them…
The GNOME Foundation used to recognize GNOME as part of GNU;[2] however, in 2021, the staff of the Foundation declared that GNOME is not a GNU Project.[3][4]
I think Gnome came out of GNU - but they’ve since divorced…
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Thanks for the clarification.
Many mix open office with libreoffice for similar reasons
Thanks, I was completely in the dark.
That makes me happier … I want GNU to stay sane … dont care about Gnome personally ,but it is an important DE for Linux so we dont want it going off the rails with nonsense like changing copy/paste to suit Winusers.
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I am managing my computers today, have taken my Dell XPS out of service along with a Compaq Presario, they will join my other two old PC’s in the attic!!
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You could link those old computers together with a load sharing arrangement and make them perform like a parallel processing array.
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Nada, it is time to take them down!!
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