Posts by Gene Cash

Re: castrated

> I can count the number of times I've recorded video on my current phone on zero fingers

I can count the number of times I've made a phone call on my current phone on zero fingers.

> Which is why sales of GoPros have fallen off a cliff?

That's probably more to do with the fact that the current GoPros, and especially the associated app you need to use them, are shite. Expensive shite.

LibreOffice - printing?

Being able to print LibreOffice documents in Linux would be nice, instead of having to fire up Windows in VirtualBox.

I have a Postscript printer, and still it chokes.

Re: Right to be forgotten

> Google continually filters Search

Yup. And right there is where they end up on the short end of the stick. Whole hog or none.

Re: Flying Round in Circles

Why would they fly in a straight line? If they don't, it's some kind of arc, which will probably lead to a circle.

Flying in a straight line is rather difficult.

And it's not going to be a circle either, the flight path will probably end up resembling a bowl-of-spagetti sort of path.

Re: "Artist's impression of New Horizons flying towards Ultima Thule"

No kidding. It looks like the artist was not much older than 8 years old with his first copy of Photoshop...

Re: Autoresponder?

You mean something like Ye Olde BBS or FIDONET system?

Re: So, Wally works for IBM?

> http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-25

Can we submit that as "prior art"?

You wouldn't believe how pissy people get when they send me a FB link and I ask "what's the non-fb link?"

There's a lot of businesses too lazy to set up a real website instead of a FB page, which at least shows they're too amateur to get my money. That's a useful indicator, at least.

Re: Forget the geeky stuff, sort out the user experience.

> yes, space bar is there, but who reads the (...) manual

I think spacebar is pause on just about every video playing software I've seen, including YouTube.

Re: whatismydnsresolver.com

> Because someone is stealing most of the packets you sent...Duh

traceroute to whatismydnsresolver.com (139.59.216.17), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

1 firewall.lan (192.168.1.1) 0.500 ms 0.408 ms 0.397 ms

2 10.106.80.1 (10.106.80.1) 8.364 ms 13.526 ms 14.292 ms

3 ten-0-5-1-6.orld14-ser1.bhn.net (72.31.216.182) 14.278 ms 14.848 ms 14.835 ms

4 ten0-11-0-4.orld71-car1.bhn.net (97.69.193.188) 17.721 ms 17.911 ms 17.893 ms

5 72-31-220-226.res.bhn.net (72.31.220.226) 15.676 ms 16.401 ms 16.388 ms

6 bu-ether44.tustca4200w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.128) 16.581 ms 16.010 ms 20.713 ms

7 0.ae1.pr0.mia00.tbone.rr.com (66.109.1.87) 24.625 ms 20.405 ms 19.757 ms

8 ix-ae-23-0.tcore1.mln-miami.as6453.net (63.243.152.105) 25.569 ms 25.283 ms 24.998 ms

9 if-ae-1-2.tcore2.mln-miami.as6453.net (63.243.152.62) 250.751 ms 251.369 ms 249.845 ms

10 if-ae-3-2.tcore2.dt8-dallas.as6453.net (66.110.72.6) 251.330 ms 250.886 ms 251.073 ms

11 if-ae-34-2.tcore1.lvw-los-angeles.as6453.net (66.110.57.21) 249.765 ms 249.741 ms 250.536 ms

12 if-ae-2-2.tcore2.lvw-los-angeles.as6453.net (66.110.59.2) 252.348 ms 251.887 ms 250.691 ms

13 if-ae-7-2.tcore2.svw-singapore.as6453.net (180.87.15.25) 246.532 ms if-ae-7-2.tcore2.svw-singapore.as6453.net (64.86.252.39) 247.869 ms if-ae-7-2.tcore2.svw-singapore.as6453.net (64.86.252.37) 247.178 ms

14 if-ae-2-2.tcore1.svw-singapore.as6453.net (180.87.12.1) 245.922 ms 247.742 ms 246.338 ms

15 if-ae-11-2.thar1.svq-singapore.as6453.net (180.87.98.37) 247.035 ms 247.249 ms 246.797 ms

16 120.29.214.50 (120.29.214.50) 247.502 ms 249.688 ms 250.440 ms

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Nice.

Re: This is another easy win for Facebook

Chicago's used to that sort of thing... there used to be more election votes cast than there was people in Chicago.

Re: "Can you turn it back on. Please?"

> that was an exercise in screaming into the abyss

I would have used the resultant "crash" when the script was turned off as leverage on the mainframe guys and the 6 useless managers. Maybe use it to get the attention of whatever SVP was over them.

"Nope, my script isn't approved... the mainframe folks need to get their shit together"

Re: Seriously ......

Eh, you could definitely say the exact same for HP, and they're still coasting along.

These big companies take a LONG time to finally crash. Look at Sears & IBM.

Re: OK. Own up. How many coders...

> Stackoverflow

Ugh. when I was trying to do SSL client auth, I saw dozens of "it won't take my SSL certificate" answered by "here's how to accept **ANY** certificate" followed by "thanks, I put that into production"

I'd hope this API would simply segfault when asked to do something that retarded.

Re: Another case that proves RMS is right

I think RMS could add an addendum:

Don't depend on a Google service being around next year, unless it's search. And maybe maps.

> If I bought a new Samsung

Well, the solution is actually a lot simpler: don't buy a Samsung. There are Android phones out there that are better.

> What a pity that nobody in this outbreak of cooperation thought to tell the BSD devs.

Didn't they talk to the BSD folks initially, who tried to start a bunch of drama, so they got shut out?

Re: Flagship just too expensive

Per the article:

"the spiralling cost of the flagships only makes consumers think twice about upgrading"

So... yeah.

Personally, I stay away from Samsung not because of price, but because they've got to piss in Android and give it a good stir first, with TouchWiz. It's right in the name.

I have enough useless non-removable crap from Google. I don't need duplicates of it from Samsung.

Thanks. I wasn't quite sure I got the joke.

Re: Just wait until all the old people die off

> Surely the figure will increase

I don't think it's age/ability... I think this reflects people that just can't afford broadband. I don't know about you guys, but it's a chunk 'o change on this side of the pond, usually about $50+ a month even for SuperShittySpeed.

11% sounds about right for "na, mate, can't afford it"

Re: Until the price...

> Still cheaper than large SSDs

Sure, but the SSDs are such a metric assload faster, and so noticeably improved the response of my PC, I coughed up the extra dosh. The performance was worth the price.

At least Samsung isn't doing a Kodak and ignoring SSDs, hoping they'll go away.

Lambda is used (at least by me) for tiny little anonymous one-line snippets, used only in one place, usually as an argument to a function, so they don't need to be a full function by themselves.

For example, if you wanted to sort a list of lists by the 2nd item in each sublist, you'd do "output.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])" which is a perfect use of lambda.

Re: Nice Model M KB in piccie

Nope. Not a Model M.

My Model M doesn't have the two recesses in the very bottom, and it has a ledge above the function keys (toward the camera)

I have 12 in the bin over here, so I think that makes me the local expert. And NO, I'm NOT sharing.

Re: African American

That's the PC term used because in America you can't call someone Negro or Black.