Re: GT-i9300
Time to quote Bill Gates again, re 640k.
Posts by Jim 59
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Samsung Galaxy A9: Mid-range bruiser that takes the fight to Huawei
Rookie almost wipes customer's entire inventory – unbeknownst to sysadmin
Monday 1st October 2018 15:03 GMT
Re: If rm -rf /* doesn't delete anything valuable
Eh? As I read it, Reginald kicked off the rm -rf /*, then hit the power switch before it deleted too much. The tape rescue revealed that "everything down to /dev" had been deleted, ie. everything in / beginnind a,b,c and some d. On a modern system that might include /boot and /bin, but evidently was not a total disaster on Reg's server.
Sysadmin misses out on paycheck after student test runs amok
Linux kernel's Torvalds: 'I am truly sorry' for my 'unprofessional' rants, I need a break to get help
Monday 17th September 2018 16:13 GMT
Ridiculous culture war nonsense going on in this thread. It started with "rainbow haired" name calling, and progressed in a few short pages to all-out homocidal rage, typified by this from steelpillow:
"FUCK YOU, Snow Wombat and co. Some of my best friends are rainbow-haired and your kind of prejudice and persecution is still rife in society. Opinions like yours need to be kept out of sight. Since you like Linus so much the way he used to be, I am sure that you will take this flame in the spirit it is given."
Sigh
Microsoft: You don't want to use Edge? Are you sure? Really sure?
Thursday 13th September 2018 15:53 GMT
Re: Links to resolutions, will work with any browser
"I was running wine on Linux thin clients back in.." etc. etc.
Yes yes. We are all experts here. I am sure you rock.
I am happy for Windows to dominate the desktop, which it continues to do because of contractual agreement (and not for any technical reason). In fact I quite enjoy using Windows 10 at work -- where somebody else is responsible for keeping it running. At home, I run Mint 18, preferring it for 1000 reasons.
I do have a Windows installation at home. At the moment it is screeching "I need an upgrade! Download 6 GB now!". Meanwhile, Mint has reminded me that updates are available, when I have time. They include a new kernel and Firefox upgrade. Installation, when I choose to do it, will likely take less than 60 seconds, download a few MB and be completely transparent (even the kernel). Even a full OS upgrade to Mint 19 would probably take less than 15 minutes. Some things Windows does better (ubuiquity related , eg. games) and some things Linux does better (almost everything else).
Milton Keynes: Come for roundabouts, stay for near-gigabit broadband
Dust off that old Pentium, Linux fans: It's Elive
A fine vintage: Wine has run Microsoft Solitaire on Linux for 25 years
Wednesday 4th July 2018 22:48 GMT
Re: "We live in a *nix world now"
"I've been consulting for companies for a quarter of a century and I have never seen a Linux workstation anywhere"
I think what you mean is:
"I've been consulting in Windows technologies for companies for a quarter of a century and I have never seen a Linux workstation anywhere".
...which is fair enough and not too surprising. But hear this:
I have been consulting in Unix technologies for companies for a quarter of a century. And I have seen Unix go from a high-end science/engineering/financial platform to an everyday commodity. I am writing this on a Linux "workstation" (laptop). Earlier I took a call on Unix (an Android phone). Later I will check my email on Unix (an Android tablet), probably while watching a Youtube video on Unix (a Raspberry Pi running Kodi). When I click "Submit", this comment will be transmitted by a Unix server (my Netgear router) to The Register's server (unix again),...
...well you get the point. Despite which, I like MS and I like Bill Gates. And I'm happy for Windows to dominate the Desktop.
They grow up so fast: Spam magnet Hotmail turned 22 today
Wednesday 4th July 2018 22:23 GMT
Hotmail
Been using the free version since circa 1998. See no reason to change. Thanks, Bill.
By all means go to bed with Gmail. Be distracted by its slick features, while in the background it gets down to the brutal business of re-identifying your online ID, tracking your every activity, and building a picture of your every internet wandering, down to the last click.
In comparison, a bit of spam seems almost innocent.
Scrapping Brit cap on nurses, doctors means more room for IT folk
Thursday 14th June 2018 22:12 GMT
From which Tanzanian villages will we be removing doctors ? About 80,000 people die from Malaria annually in that country, many of them children, with about 11 million contracting the disease.
And from which Zimbabwean hospitals will the NHS be taking doctors ? Apart from other health challenges, the rate of HIV infection in Zimbabwe is about 100 times that in the UK.
What we are proposing will relieve some suffering in the UK, only by vastly increasing it in much poorer countries. Immoral?
UK judge appears in dock over Computer Misuse Act allegations
You're in charge of change, and now you need to talk about DevOps hater Robin
Boss sent overpaid IT know-nothings home – until an ON switch proved elusive
Modern life is rubbish – so why not take a trip down memory lane with Windows File Manager?
Mind the gap: Men paid 18.6% more than women in Blighty tech sector
Friday 6th April 2018 13:36 GMT
Re: apples with oranges again
"I don't know what the point of all this is, but something tells me it's quite sinister."
Yes. The sinister part is that some mainstream politicians are pushing an obvious canard as fact, and using ideology to do it, when everyday observation, common sense and even their own research indicates the contrary.
Even that Reg headline above is jumping on the mendacious bandwaggon. "Men paid ...more than women". The lie starts there. Tell the truth. Here's some: "Women earn less than men". See the difference?
Which? leads decrepit email service behind barn, single shot rings out over valley
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough
Tuesday 27th March 2018 15:50 GMT
In all liklihood, Britain will continue to contribute to, and use, the Galileo system. In this period of negotiation, both sides are making big public statements, some sensible, some petulant, some bellicose. It is all part of the public negotiation process. Representitives of the EU are likely to make statements like this, in order to scare/influence/bargain with the other side and its citizens. And the UK will be saying similar things in return. This, in fact, is what really emerges from the "Department of the Bleednig obvious".
The UK has much engineering and scientific expertise. As time goes on, engineers, scientists and corporations on both sides are unlikely to repudiate one another's work just for the sake of it. That is also obvious.
Great cake jokes though.
Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage
Teensy plastic shields are the big new thing in 2018's laptop crop
Crunch time: Maplin in talks to sell the business
Tuesday 20th February 2018 13:57 GMT
@Chris 125. Exactly. My Amazon backet is currently sitting at about £17.85 and won't be checked out until I think of something else to buy, putting it over £20 and saving about £4.50 shipping. It is a real inconvenience with Amazon, which Maplin could/could have taken advantage of.
Enthusiats will indeed travel for a £5 component which they really need, and might just buy a £20 multimeter while they are in the shop. But a £100 toy which is needed for a child's birthday in 4 weeks ? Not so much.
Tuesday 20th February 2018 13:21 GMT
Maplin is like an old friend
Very sad. Maplin is like an old friend. I rember buying components there in the late 80s/early 90s - resistors, capacitors, tools, breadboard and so on. They were there for us, man. More lately, rechargeable batteries and just last year a Netgear router. All good stuff and still running well, even the bits form '89.
It was always going to be hard for Maplin - basically a mail order business with a few shops - to withstand the Internet. But they put up a good fight, and lasted longer than most.
They were/are also cheaper and more convenient than Amazon - no confusing delivery options or Prime rubbish, delivery was just free - and that Netgear router was about £20 less. However, Amazon will now be quietly reviewig their prices.
Yes, your old iPhone is slowing down: iOS hits brakes on CPUs as batteries wear out
Investigatory Powers Act: You're not being paranoid. UK.gov really is watching you
Tuesday 5th December 2017 17:12 GMT
Re: sort of confused ?
@Geniality: "You choose to do that...
He doesn't really. In 2017 it is almost impossible to opt out of surveillance by one megacorp or the other (FB, Apple, Google, Amazon...). You might achieve it if you never touch a digital device, but to live a life without doing so is now more-or-less impossible (?).
This is of course, a different subject to government surveillance, which is a separate, possible bigger, worry.
Well I am off to star in a film now. First I will be visiting the local gym where I will be an unpaid actor on their CCTV, then it's off to Tesco, where I will perform for their cameras, then the pub for my close up into the bar minicam. I've already made about 10 films today doncha know, including "man in shopping centre", "customer in Next", "citizen in petrol station"...
What's that fresh, zesty fragrance? Oh, Linux Mint 18.3 has landed
Team Trump goes in to bat for Google and Facebook
Thou shalt use our drone app, UK.gov to tell quadcopter pilots
Monday 27th November 2017 12:28 GMT
Flying anywhere near airports is obviously madness, for which operators should go straight to prison, and no mistake. Flying near a motorway endangers others, and flying near high voltage lines endangeres the operator. All pretty much common sense, as observed by kite flyers for the last 100 years, and remote-controlled plane enthusiasts.
But these new rules seem like an overreaction. I hate it when drone nutters annoy their neighbours or endanger others, but I quite like the way they can take arial video of interesting places. This "video" aspect is a significant freedom for citizens, and one the government is not to keen on. Are they using the (highly valid) plane-endangerment argument to slip in a bit of oppression on the side?
Don't shame idiots about their idiotically weak passwords
A certain millennial turned 30 recently: Welcome to middle age, Microsoft Excel v2
Friday 24th November 2017 11:05 GMT
... how many applications or even operating systems are you still using of a similar age outside the Office suite?
Obvious 'tard-bait, but as it's Friday:
I am now logged into Debian, first release 1993, based on Unix initial release 1974. And editing a file in LIbreOffice, based on OpenOffice, based on StarOffice, released 1985. Yesterday I interviewd for a Solaris job. First release 1982 (SunOS). And I just used "vi" to edit a file. First relased 1976.
The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?
Wednesday 15th November 2017 12:09 GMT
Off topic, but I'm not sure why Firefox has lost so much ground to Chrome in recent years. I will stay with FF for the add-ons but if changing, I would consider SRW Iron (the de-Googled version of Chrome), but not Chrome, due to the Google stalkware it contains.
Also, I am not sure why these browsers are so huge. All they are doing is rendering a few fairly slow, sometimes encrypted data streams. 25 million lines of code in Firefox. WTF, can't anybody programme anymore?
Wait, did Oracle tip off world to Google's creepy always-on location tracking in Android?
Wednesday 22nd November 2017 09:44 GMT
Some of us stay away from Google as far as reasonably possible. I don't use Chrome or Gmail, always try to switch off "location" in Android (!), always use sites like Google maps, search & Youtube in the browser, and avoid installing the dedicated app if possible.
It's rather like having a nosy neighbour who spies on you through a hole in the garden fence. You block up the hole, so he drills another, so you fill that one in, and he drills a third, and so on and so on. Occasionally he will give you a free gift like a nice fruit basket. Under the fruit you find a microphone, hidden camera, little LED flashing...
Pastry in a manger: We're soz, Greggs man said
Remember CompuServe forums? They're still around! Also they're about to die
HPE's Apollo 'Skylaked', will get ARM-wrestling little brother next year
Mm, sacrilicious: Greggs advent calendar features sausage roll in a manger
Uber loses appeal against UK employment rights for workers
Friday 10th November 2017 15:34 GMT
Re: Not an employer?
“When allocating bookings, Uber deliberately does not tell the driver the destination and strongly discourages drivers from asking passengers the destination before pick up – so that drivers are not able to decline a booking because they do not wish to travel to that destination.”
Ah. So that's why Uber cars are available for rides from <big town> to <small village>, but not in the other direction. If all the Uber drivers in <big town> knew I wanted a ride from my <small village> back to <big town>, they would be available to take me, as it means no more driving for them.
A bug in the Uber algorhthm, perhaps.
Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons
Irish priests told to stop bashing bishops
Friday 10th November 2017 09:50 GMT
Re: Tale from a Catholic
The last papal declaration on Freemasonry was made in 1985, with objections centering around the nature of Freemasonry as an alternative religion. I don't really think of Freemasonry as a religion, but it does seem to present itself as one.
At about the same time in the UK, there was a series of scandals when it emerged that prominent Establishment and Govt figures were Freemasons. It was judged that Freemasons were favouring other Freemasons (eg. for promotion/advancement), which is a moral problem, and was helped by the organisation's strict secrecy rules. It's reputation, at least in the UK, ver really recovered.
I think Freemasonry has reformed and modernised in the meantime, but who knows?
Better filters won't cure this: YouTube's kids nightmare
Wednesday 8th November 2017 17:33 GMT
"you'll have the Daily Mail screaming about kids seeing p0rn"
Meaning the mailonline website right hand sidebar ? "all grown up" "flaunts curves" "...stuns in a bikini..." "beach body.." "plunging dress" etc etc
Yes the Mail's juxstaposition is bazarre and rather tasteless. But the "beach body, plunging dress" etc, are all items you can see in public, unlike the pr0n.
Wednesday 8th November 2017 16:16 GMT
incoming sweary rant, look away kids if offended.. pihole...emby...
Blimey, AC, well done. But not all parents are so expert, and YouTube should sort this out. They can start by switching off the ludicrous "autoplay" (and stop it from defaulting to "on" all the time). An obvious cach grab by those who used to say "Don't be evil", but no feature is more likely to show your kids awful stuff or blow your download limits.
YT could even censor kids stuff themselves. Actually watch and moderate every children's video. Publishing would be slowed but even a small team could build up a lot of content over time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
