> India has committed some horrible atrocities in the area,
Not only is that an oversimplification, but it is also plain wrong at so many levels (but it is the lie that has been spun for a long time now). Successive govts. helmed by a certain sell out (Indian) political party had systematically worked against Indian interests by not only not challenging this false narrative, but actually tacitly endorsing it, until recently. Embarrasingly, people like Tulsi Gabbard have been more sympathetic and supporting of the facts behind the incidents, and calling out the false media spin. But this support has led to India waking up and becoming more assertive in calling out lies and facing more facts on the table for all to see.. See this latest video from Tom Lantos meeting:
Sig sauers prominently featured in person of interest as well... Giving some leeway for the fact that it's a TV serial, there has to be some merit in the handgun for the protagonist to fall back to it all the time.
Like the others, I too find the layout and info overview is neat. Good use-case demo of real-time information scraping of the sale.
Also, like a few others, the "Perl" in your title is very interesting for me. As a Perl old timer working with a team that hasn't dabbled in any Perl at all, this would be a wonderful, wonderful hands-on demo of what Perl can and does do.
Is there a detailed technical write up on your blog, on how you did this in Perl? Is the code open-source, so I can show them with examples...etc?
> The sad thing is, any one of them could have netted my loyalty and at a cheaper price overall if they were savvy at recruiting
I just want to mention here, that he did say that he would have had a sense of loyalty towards employers, had he been treated differently by one (to that effect at least).
+1 for mentioning them. I have used paternosters, and I don't consider these dangerous at all. Paternosters are G.R.E.A.T fun :)
I am very aware that this type of response is anecdotal, and has a tendency to degenerate quickly into "he said, she said" style of tangents, but can we please stop calling these things "dangerous" every time they are mentioned anywhere?
I have also used old school trams that you hop on and off of, and I was a wee little kid back then and had to hop in and out, holding my father's hands. Those experience always felt more fun to me than dangerous.
I had mentioned that I do use orgmode, along with few others. But, my comment was further below yours, and was more of a "postscript". I definitely use it for most of my technical note taking, as it is part of my emacs workflow. For casual note taking I ended up using the other apps, to vary my workflow pattern and tool usage.
I came across it after I started using keepnote. Since I was already invested in the above three, I didn't bother too much with it. So, sorry that I am not too much of a help in this matter.
This looks like an interesting project to keep an eye out for. On the topic of cygwin, I would also like to recommend mobaXterm, that I use instead of cygwin nowadays... It is an interesting choice in the alternatives we have. So, those of you that use cygwin, take a look at it here: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
If you are thinking about trying cygwin, I would recommend this instead, as the installation is relatively easier when compared to cygwin. (I have no affiliation to mobaxterm)
Another new indispensible tool for me is cmder, which leverages ConEmu, clink and mysysgit to provide a wonderful UX in the commandline for me - just brilliant. Here: http://bliker.github.io/cmder/
Memo to self: Spend the next 4 months learning powershell during lunch breaks!
The big problem with MobaTerm is that it includes really old versions of the standard unix utilities, and it's difficult to integrate with newer & missing utilities. This isn't a problem that's limited to MobaXTerm, but the way MobaXTerm does things makes it harder to fix.
Let's say you want to set up a standard dev setup. So you install MobaXTerm, vagrant, emacs, msysgit, and rsync. Each of these require SSH for full operation, so in the interest of making things easy, the installers bundle SSH. You now have up to 5 copies of SSH installed, all storing their private keys, cert stores and configuration in different places. What a mess. And some things aren't compatible with each other. IIRC, vagrant is built with cygwin, so you have to make sure you use a cygwin rsync with it, the msys rsync won't work.
To keep everything sane, start with the standard cygwin or msys installer, and install everything using that.
Does conemu include mingw-get? If so, that sounds like it might be a good solution. If not, I recommend avoiding it.
Or just reformat and install Linux. That's what I ended up doing. Putting up with poor HiDPI support in Linux was much more tolerable than the horrors of trying to use Unix utilities in Windows. And HiDPI support is improving quickly in Linux land....
I agree with your point on the very clumsy SSH tack-on take up with this approach.
About the older utilities, again, I completely agree. But, the way to create the mx3 bundles is easy. Actually, on the website/forums, several users there have been a few 3rd party utilities of the same. The format is transparent for anyone to create their own set of utilities on top of what mobs provides.
MobaXterm is sweet... If nothing else it's a game changer for putty users.
Yeah the ecosystem is kinda small for whatever reason. I tried setting up cyg-apt for it, and it almost worked. I guess if they made the regular cygwin package manager work rather than dropping a bunch of binaries into the same directory as the mobaxterm binary that would be a good start, but then maybe that would conflict with their business model.
Unfortunate that MobaXterm is not free (as in freedom) software, but looks VERY nice from the website. I'm very tempted, although I don't do much remote administration anymore.
Not only is that an oversimplification, but it is also plain wrong at so many levels (but it is the lie that has been spun for a long time now). Successive govts. helmed by a certain sell out (Indian) political party had systematically worked against Indian interests by not only not challenging this false narrative, but actually tacitly endorsing it, until recently. Embarrasingly, people like Tulsi Gabbard have been more sympathetic and supporting of the facts behind the incidents, and calling out the false media spin. But this support has led to India waking up and becoming more assertive in calling out lies and facing more facts on the table for all to see.. See this latest video from Tom Lantos meeting:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Vz_0B4eo4
Edit: should read sell out Indian political party