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Comment Re:Conman and Powerman (Score 1) 104

Fourthed; again, use almost every day. Conman and powerman are great.

Conman: Serial consoles, IMPI serial consoles, write your own wrapper if one doesn't exist.
Powerman: Can control just about everything out there. Again, write your own if it doesn't exist. Can even "manage" power on a VM host. You might have to write your own wrapper though (basically a remote shell that runs virsh commands). I know we have a script here, but I don't think I'm allowed to put it in public. It uses rsh to connect to the VM host (KVM) and then runs virsh domstate for power status, and virsh start/virsh destroy for on and off.

Comment Re:The real question is (Score 1) 311

[Posted an answer...but not showing up. Apologize if a dupe.]

As someone who lives in Fairbanks, I can answer this. The side of the airport to which the user is directed is the general aviation side, thus there is access for businesses and owners of private planes. Thus, much less restricted entry. More details here: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130924/iphone-map-app-directs-fairbanks-drivers-airport-taxiway

Comment Re:The real question is (Score 5, Informative) 311

As someone living in Fairbanks, I can answer this. The part of the airport to which the Apple Maps directs the user is the general aviation side of the airport, thus it is pretty open to access, since there are businesses and personal airplanes on that side of the airport. More details here: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130924/iphone-map-app-directs-fairbanks-drivers-airport-taxiway

Comment Re:I don't want... (Score 1) 764

I came here to say this...no, really, I did. Microsoft still doesn't get it: Make a *single* product that works well, across a range of uses, and people will (often) go for it.

Windows Vista and 7 "versions" vs. a single OS X version
Windows Phones vs. a single iPhone

But, that second one kind of illustrates the corner that Microsoft is in: it doesn't really want to go into the hardware business and risk alienating all its partners. Thus, it can't dictate "We'll have one tablet, and this is how it will work." When all you control is the software, you have to play nice with your hardware partners and come out with a range of products.

Toys

Submission + - Mileage Maniacs

WY writes: Bloomberg reports in this article about the Japanese hybrid car hackers: "Toyota Motor Corp. says its Prius gasoline-electric hybrid car gets about 55 miles to the gallon, making it one of the most fuel-efficient cars on the road. That's not good enough for Takashi Toya." He managed to reach as high as 115 MPG. He "is one of about 100 nenpimania, Japanese for 'ileage maniacs,'."

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