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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Thoughts on Dystopian Future as we know it! Post 303015358 by Coding Coolie on Tuesday 3rd of April 2018 01:48:58 PM

04-03-2018

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Thanks Neo!

@Neo,

Thanks Neo for your reply. Spielberg appears to be consistent with all the other entertainment industry Far Lefties! Though it seems that the
viewing public is finally showing some contempt for their shockingly smug attitudes? Smilie

I'm reminded of something I read many years ago when he was interviewed regarding some obscure point in "CEotTK". The gist of this seemed to be that the movie's content had to be adjusted to what the public Expected, rather than what might have any kind of basis in fact. Of course $ale$ are the obvious goal, so turning a Good Dystopian book into a Disney story is a let down, but hardly surprising.
Maybe another "ET"? I'm going to check out that book! My Wife and I are some of those that are sort of disgusted with the Tinsel Town attitude right now though. Smilie

I'm not an advocate for a Dystopian future by any stretch, but some of the most compelling stuff in that genre are William Gibson's books.

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ppud

ppud(1M)																  ppud(1M)

NAME

       ppud - Pay per use daemon

SYNOPSIS


DESCRIPTION

       is a daemon that provides system configuration and core usage information to a utility meter system for billing purposes.  This daemon runs
       on Pay per use systems and meters core utilization and system configuration information.  The daemon sends this information  to	a  utility
       meter as an XML file.

       When  a	report	is sent to a utility meter, it is also written to the file /var/ppu/PPUReport.xml.  This report is best viewed using a web
       browser that understands XML.  If the connection to the utility meter fails, the daemon caches the report  data	until  the  connection	is
       restored.

       The daemon re-spawns itself if killed.  The following entry is added to /etc/inittab in order to have start and re-spawn itself:

       The  daemon  is	automatically  started when a system boots if a utility meter has been specified via the command (see ppuconfig(1M)).  The
       daemon does not need to be restarted when the meter configuration is changed via the command.

       The daemon reports errors via syslog.

       To unconfigure Pay per use, execute:

       Warning: if this is a Pay per use system and the daemon is not running, usage reports will not be sent to HP and usage may be assumed to be
       100%.

       The  daemon  performs  periodic operations based on the time of day.  The daemon is spawned by and gets its timezone specification from the
       /etc/default/tz file.  By default the timezone specified in /etc/default/tz is EST5EDT.	You can specify which timezone the daemon uses	to
       interpret its current time by modifying the /etc/default/tz file.  Refer to environ(5)) for details of the format.  A restart of the daemon
       is required before the new timezone value takes effect (i.e.  kill the  /usr/lbin/ppud process).

       For more information see the Pay per use User's Guide located at /usr/share/doc/PayPerUseUserGuide.pdf

AUTHORS

       ppud was developed by HP.

FILES

       /etc/default/tz
		 File contains the timezone value used by .  The format for the file is the same as the the environment  variable  format  without
		 the prefix .  (See environ(5) for details of the TZ format).

       /var/ppu/cache/
		 Directory contains the report data that is cached if the connection to the utility meter fails.

SEE ALSO

       ppuconfig(1M), ppu(5)

																	  ppud(1M)