Although it's not clear that it has come from an official HMRC statement (I couldn't find anything on its website), the timing of this -- the Friday evening / Saturday morning of the Easter bank holiday weekend -- feels like someone finding a good time to bury controversial news.
I too noticed the quality of the report. I know what it is and what it is for as soon as I start reading. Well laid out, succinct, contact details and further links for each item.
I love FreeBSD and was planning on switching some servers from Linux but found that it consumed about 25% more power than my Linux boxes (even after extensive power management tweaks) and in the end didn't have much advantage.
It's not hard to install freeBSD in a VM, set up ssh, run it headless, and ssh in. I suggest you give it a go. It's a great learning experience.
>I love FreeBSD and was planning on switching some servers from Linux but found that it consumed about 25% more power than my Linux boxes
Wow, I wouldn't have thought there would be such a dramatic difference in power consumption on anything but portable hardware. Did you try to measure the CPU and I/O usage on your servers and compare them between Linux and FreeBSD? I wonder if FreeBSD's greater power draw was due to its ACPI implementation or if the average system load was also higher (ZFS?).
I wasn't using zfs at the time and I didn't do much comparison with CPU and IO, I used a wattage meter. I followed the FreeBSD guide (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ac...) and tried just about everything. My Linux box was running at about 9watts (idle) and freeBSD started out at around 18, but I got it down to about 12watts after making a lot of optimizations.
I think most of the difference is because FreeBSD is using older more stable software, and the Ubuntu server was running some of the latest software.
I'd be interested to see some benchmarks comparing Linux and FreeBSD power usage. Personally I've been impressed w/ power management on FreeBSD 10 using recent hardware - once I enabled powerd and set the powerd_flags - but I haven't installed Linux on the same hardware.
Not the GP, but I was able to pick up a new 4gb model from the Acer online store a few weeks ago (the Canadian store - I don't think Acer is selling it new in the US anymore).
If you're unable to find one I believe the new Dell Chromebook 11 is fairly similar.
Marginally relevant - are ARM Chromebooks any good for development? I've been considering getting a Samsung Chromebook 2 when it comes out, but I'm concerned that important software won't be available for ARM.
Anyone running crouton on an ARM Chromebook care to comment?
"We didnt expected that being a startup is so hard. We worked for 2-3 years 10 hours a day 6 days a week and it brought us to barely breaking even. We just cant do this anymore, living in uncertainty is killing us. We have failed to pursue our dream but we hope that we can just shut down this part of our lives, move onwards to working for large company that will care for us and hopefully our skills, pain and experiences will help us to achieve something that we couldn't do alone - create revolutionary product or feature, but under bigger brand."
If this startup hadn't panned out, I don't know what I was going to do. Thinking about having a staged breakdown so I could live off my parents money while still raging in Mission and eating burritos and Thai. Longer term goal, channel that startup burnout into something more meaning-full like opening some profitable franchise, like yogurt or cookies and doing rails gigs on the side.
god I feel sorry for the poor saps still in the grind.
This is a real shame. Python 3.4 and bundled pip support was high on my list of reasons of why I should upgrade to 14.04 sooner rather than later. I think I'll wait now until this is smoothed out.
In the bug thread linked in above, it's mentioned that it will be fixed in Debian and then included in an SRU (Stable Release Update) for Ubuntu 14.04.
Does that mean July 24th or might it be earlier, do you know?
Csíkszentmihályi termed the concept "flow" because in his interviews in the mid 1970s lots of people used water metaphors, of being borne along by a current, to describe their experience of the state.
The OED has a draft entry (2002) for "in the zone" that says its origins are chiefly US sport. Its earliest citation is a 1976 San Francisco Chronicle article about tennis:
Tennis players speak reverently of the mystical atmospheric condition known as ‘The Zone’ Passing shots chip away at the lines, first serves pop in and mistakes simply don't materialize.
The next citation is from 1990, and refers to the more general creative sense.
Performers, surgeons, or creative artists..find that most important parts of their lives occur when they are ‘in the zone’.
Source is the New Age Journal. Notice how it is no longer capitalised.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/18/hmrc-to-sell...
Although it's not clear that it has come from an official HMRC statement (I couldn't find anything on its website), the timing of this -- the Friday evening / Saturday morning of the Easter bank holiday weekend -- feels like someone finding a good time to bury controversial news.