* Posts by Hans 1

3796 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009

GCHQ is having problems meeting Osborne's 2020 recruitment target

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Facepalm

Re: Not one of these 5-eyed spook cunts...

>If Britain's spy agencies are doing industrial espionage - they are either doing it very badly, or keeping the results secret from British industry.

They do industrial espionage for the US only, even if British jobs are at stake, their loyalty goes to [Money-]Washing-town.

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Re: Ethics

>I don't think I could bring myself to work for GCHQ with their current Big Brother "Everyone is a terrorist or paedophile" mentality.

GCHQ is not about paedophiles, they do not care about "ordinary crime", they want to get intel on everybody, especially thought-terrorists ... people thinking 2 and 2 make 4 when, it's a fact, we all know 2 and 2 make 5.

Linux is so grown up, it's ready for marriage with containers

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Boffin

Re: Nitpick: Containers not all that new in Linux

>Yes LXC is relatively new, quite nice, built in, popular and that's what Docker uses.

Yes LXC is relatively new, quite nice, built in, popular and that's what Docker used. They now use libcontainer.

TFTFY

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WTF?

>Debian for the hardcore

First time I read anything as silly as this!

Slackware and Gentoo are for the hardcore, Debian has always been for the beginners, ubtunu and mint might have improved on that, but Debian ist really not for the hardcore Linux guyz.

https://techgeekforever.com/2014/06/17/the-linux-distro-for-your-needs/

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> Our corp server is all Windows. None host VMs.

Seriously ? I am sure you must have a least one AS/400 and a mainframe lying about, come one ... All Windows is expensive, apparently you guys have money to burn ... a very 1990's strategy.

Windows 10 with Ubuntu now in public preview

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Re: It is like a dog's walking on its hind legs.

CMD.exe sucks golf balls through garden hoses, unless they improve that piece of sh1t, this is all useless. CenEmu is better, but also has its quirks - like you cannot select+copy text to clipboard when in vi ... or at least, I have not figured out how to do it/enable it - that basically killed it for me.

I would like to know which terminal they use, if they have an Xorg server, it might be worth looking into, but then again .... Windows 10 ...Windows 10 ? Errr, no!

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Re: Hmmmm???

I would be interested in knowing how expensive it is to create new processes, the performance on cygwin is abyssal ... the hamilton c-shell is way better, the only problem is that the c-shell is useless for scripting.

'Panama papers' came from email server hack at Mossack Fonseca

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Unhappy

Re: Anyone noticed ..

There have been two whistle-blowers in France, ready to hand over "documents" containing offshore financial information about French officials, one even claimed he had offshore bank account details of all high-ranking politicos that have ruled in France since the 80's, with very few exceptions.

Then, the guy retracted his claims, nobody knows why ... some years later, the German government sent a subset of these documents to the French authorities, informing the press of the move, and so France now has to do something with it ... the pruning goes on as I type.

The French president said that he welcomed whistle-blowers, I wrecked a keyboard yesterday on hearing that ... but it is not really funny.

I, for one, do not trust the ICIJ - put the data for the last 4 years on pastebin, and I might change my mind ... wikileaks was public, this is nothing like it ... just another list of felons that needs censors approval ...

WhatsApp at BlackBerry? For one thing, BBM's now free

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Facepalm

@All the Clueless

1. Facebook bought Whatsapp

2. Whatsapp requires access to your contacts AND SMS'

The facebook app might not have access to your contacts, on BB10, at least (dunno about overs and do not care), but Whatsapp REFUSES to work on BB10 if you do not grant it access to your contacts, which I refused .... I could not use the app, because I could not contact or be contacted by anybody ... I do not grant apps access to my contacts, I am not a cretin! So ... billions of cretins around here feed facebook with valuable information facebook monetizes ... d'oh!!!!!!!

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Re: O RLY?

@Silver

There are two possibilities:

1. you work for facebook inc

2. you are an idiot

I do not quite know why, but I sense you are 2. STFU, you have no clue.

Exactly what permissions does the app request ? Hint: I commented on it some time ago ...

The app DOES NOT WORK, EVEN ON BB10, if you refuse access to contacts ... again, STFU!

FreeBSD 10.3 lands

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Coat

No, both the Judean People's Front and People's Front of Judea (TRAITORRRRS) use FreeBSD ... The Romans use Linux, Windows is only used by hermits, around here at least ... ;-)

Apple's fruitless rootless security broken by code that fits in a tweet

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Re: No magic bullet

>Windows tokens are far more advanced than the Unix model and has catered for this type of security access checks from the start.

Your opinion. Repeat after me, UNIX had Kerberos before Windows.

>However, only Unix/Linux came up with the stupid idea of creating a deliberate hole in the model when they chose to elevate a single user (uid 0) to "god", by creating bypass code in every syscall to just let root through.

Ok, who is NT Authority\System on Windows, then ? STFU!

>> Thirdly, and this is where something like Apple's idea comes in, the kernel would lock root out from changing such storage on its own account; it would need to be authorised by a specific user, such as odf-admin for instance, to de-allocate odf storage.

>And that is where is Unix model fails. Big time. This is yet another SUID/setuid fiasco. A security model where you gain *extra* privileges from the process that you run is a deliberate (but *stupid*) security hole.

It is an option, however, I guess that as long as the program in question is safe to run ...

Here's a great idea: Let's make a gun that looks like a mobile phone

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Happy

Re: @ x 7

@codejunky

You are full of bullshit. You like guns because, well, you like guns ... guns give you no "protection", that is bullshit ... and claiming we are violent when YOU have guns is quite hilarious.

Obligatory Jim Jeffries show on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0

Zombie SCO rises from the grave again

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Happy

Redmond NEVER gives up, another money pit for them, good!

Bloke coughs to leaking US military aircraft blueprints to China

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FAIL

>Germans in the 1940's

Who built the bomb ?

Six charged for 'hacking' lottery terminals to spew only winning tickets

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Facepalm

Re: Expect a lot more charges

>Why am I not surprised at either at the scam. or the names of those charged!

I am very surprised, because the US has the highest crime rate on the planet, and there are not that many Patel's in the US ... just sayin ...

Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage

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Happy

Oh, and both Linux and FreeBSD fly on the big box.

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Boffin

Repeat after me, if I have drivers, an older Windows version IS ALWAYS FASTER than a newer one, the ONLY EXCEPTION to this rule is Windows Vista, because it needed twice the amount of memory Windows 7 needed (due to a bug they never fixed).

MORE BLOAT CANNOT RUN FASTER, STFU!

FreeBSD 10.2 still runs acceptably well on a 486, Linux 4.2 still runs acceptably well on a pentium II. Windows XP does not run "acceptably well" on desktop hardware (due, mostly, to "Upgrade to Vista-Windows Updates") ... in a vm on a decent OS with recent hw and without inaccessible network shares it is acceptable. Windows 7 lags in so many areas it is not even funny anymore ... Windows 8.1 takes anywhere between 15 seconds and 15 minutes to open the firewall panel (on an idle HP laptop, 2015 i5, 16Gb RAM, SSD), FFS, the OS has been installed without vendor BS, the only non-MS software on the box is cygwin and openvpn (except for HP drivers). AGAIN, 7 boots faster than 10 loads the desktop (from the welcome screen), on the same hardware, no additional desktop apps installed (10 has Office 2016, cygwin, and openvpn, 7 same except no office).

Sadly, I do not have a W8.1 license for the x99 i7, 24Gb RAM, dual 500Gb SSD, so I cannot really compare that to the other two.

I am not saying Windows XP is better at running direct x12-optimized games, nor 8[.1] or 7, for that matter .... but that is about it.

All Windows versions I have seen so far have unacceptable USB support.

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Windows 10 takes longer to load the desktop (after entering username and password) than Windows 7 takes to boot (with automatic logon).

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>Windows 10 looks fairly modern, and runs faster than 7, but makes you MS's biatch.

On what system does Windows 10 run faster than XP ? XP runs faster on my box than 10, or 7 ... and the bloody thing is in a VM.

7 runs faster in a VM than 10 in on the host HW ... so, what are you smoking, I need some of that for the mother in law!

Oh, and, if you do not take bootup time into account, Windows 2000 in a VM beats the others hands-down ... my host OS is Linux .... boots faster than any windows I have seen wakes from sleep ...

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Happy

Re: Windows 10 is going well in corporates

>but the majority of corporates will have Windows 10 deployed by end 2016

Exactly, because, if they had a clue, they would have switched to Linux back in 2001.

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Coat

@Andrew Orlowski

XP was a dog, a bloated piece of crap ... 2x the memory requirements for a "fancy" ui compared to Windows 2000, when it came out.

Saying Vista was any good pre-SP1 is utter non-sense, they never fixed the memory issue (needing 2x as much RAM because it was allocating crap twice).

You, sir, have no clue, WTF are you doing in IT?

Ohhh, a customer of mine has memory issues on 2008R2, because it is caching like mad until it has eaten up all RAM, it even attempts to cache the paging file ... Windows, the OS for the clueless ... and the server has 32Gb of RAM - enough, one would think, for a file server (sort of) ROFL. Not sure this is fixed in 2012 or 2016.

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Windows

Re: Don't blame users for the UI

>Training/supporting people going from Win7 to Win10 is just about supportable as long as we don't have to do it again next year.

XP EOL'd April 8, 2014, when did you train people going from XP to 7 ?

Imagine, you had migrated to Linux iso XP, Gnome or KDE, no matter, both versions (or clones thereof) are still actively supported. Imagine you migrate to Linux iso 10?

Microsoft did Nazi that coming: Teen girl chatbot turns into Hitler-loving sex troll in hours

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Coffee/keyboard

>She'll have to get past Sarah Palin first...

This one will do: http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00106087.html

Ello ello ello: Bungling Met cops blew £100m on failing tech wheezes

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Windows

>The Met refused to provide a cost breakdown for those projects, citing commercial confidentiality.

Did not know the Met was a commercial entity.

If you deal with the gvt, the agreed contract should be made available under the Freedom of Information Act, we^H^Hyou¹ are paying for it, are you not?

¹ I have moved from the UK for good, at least, I hope.

FBI backs down against Apple: Feds may be able to crack killer's iPhone without iGiant's help

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Happy

Re: precedent

>Great thanks to you the grammar police from a dyslexic without the time to have a second person read all my posts ahead of time. Ride that high horse!

Feel sorry for you about grammar, mine is terrible in all 4 languages I master "at a native level", sort of, well, ok, maybe only spoken ... however, I agree with the other comment@rds, that is, Apple have lost nothing.

At least now, you will remember lose, loose, and lose-lose for the rest of your life ;-) and we all had a good laugh as well, so it is a win-win for all!

Microsoft Surface Book: Shiny slab with a Rottweiler grip on itself

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Re: The Dance while you wait to get permission to remove a drive/device

> Perhaps I haven't paid homage to Bill Gates often enough?

Try ritual incantations, if that does not help try process explorer.

Steve Ballmer: Get the Facts. I 'love' SQL Server on Linux

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Let's be honest!

Zune, xbox ONE, Windows Phone, Windows Me, XP, Vista, Seven, 8, 8.1, 10, and SQL Server are bigger embarrassments than Ballmer ... just sayin'

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Facepalm

Re: MS-SQL on Linux

>Are telcos going to stop using Oracle and then run MS-SQL on very large databases?

MS SQL Server CANNOT COPE with large db's, has no active-active clustering support, abysmal HA-support, who in their right mind would use that on "very large" db's???

Again, if you do not know either Oracle or DB2, your opinion DOES NOT COUNT.

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Re: Windows on Linux next?

>the thing sits there for 5 minutes "Loading Group policy printers policy...".

Lucky you, my WIndows 8.1 has been searching for a driver for a DCP-357C, the scanner part, for approx THREE DAYS, and it won't take Cancel ... I could kill it, but it is not really eating any resources, a % or two CPU time, from time to time ... It was the second time I asked it to have a look, to make sure ... Brother website says "limited functionality" (including scanner support) is available on Windows 8.1 with built-in drivers, in Windows 7 it worked great. Maybe I should try ritual incantations ...

Note that I setup a raspian printer/scanner server with that printer, no hassle.

Linux fans may be in for disappointment with SQL Server 2016 port

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Linux

Who in their right mind wants an ACCESS daemon on Linux ???

We have FAR better alternatives in the repositories that beat MS SQL in every aspect, and support costs less than Windows Server license with 25 CALS. Ohhh, and of course, the Linux system even passes Windows Server DatanCenter Edition the water.

Microsoft has crafted a switch OS on Debian Linux. Repeat, a switch OS on Debian Linux

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Re: Linux in a switch ????

>Probably not, it's not like BSD (yauc) is some third rail. At the end of the day it's just another Unix Clone, just like Linux.

The BSD's have the best performing TCP stack, period, it is a fact that has been brought up many times, last I heard Facebook was complaining about it.

NetFlix are quite happy with FreeBSD, serving close to 33% of internet traffic from those boxes ... to them, EVERY SINGLE IOTA OF PERFORMANCE is worth $$$$$$$.

Now, how is providing a few GNU/LINUX binaries for routers/swicthes gonna hurt GNU/Linux ? From what I see, they are open source, worst case, they will be forked. Then again, looking at the TCP stack on Windows, who needs their "expertise"? ROFL

I guess they are trying to trick ppl into using that shit, then the ppl complain their TCP stack is slower than Windows' and switch (pun NOT intended) to Windows ????... I dunno, BRAIN DEAD, I cannot make sense out of it.

Bottom line, they are clueless, period!

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Facepalm

Linux in a switch ????

>OCP Summit Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches.

Crikey are they dumb, should have used FreeBSD or OpenBSD, have a better performing TCP/IP stack AND a BSD license ... I am a Linux fanboy, don't get me wrong, but for pure networking, you want a BSD over Linux .... Yet again, MS show they do not have a FF'ing clue.

'Microsoft Office has been the bane of my life, while simultaneously keeping me employed'

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I inherited an excel workbook that has a macro to read XML data from a database ... it has to run in Excel 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016, on the various supported client Windows versions.

You cannot simply use "new MSXML2.SAXXMLReader40", because in newer Office versions, you need version 5 or even 6 ... depending on Windows/Office combination and which version of the DLL is available ...

Any time you changed this, it would fail on one of the target platforms, since this is for customers, you cannot reliably tell which combination they have. Note that Excel plain out crashes on some platforms when you attempt to load the incorrect version, so error handling is futile.

The solution was to use CreateObject with Object variable (late binding) instead of instantiating the object with "new" keyword, iirc, you could then use error handling reliably on all tested platform combinations ... Note that I did not test all possible combinations.

Airbus' Mars plane precursor survives pressure test

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Flame

Re: Bernoulli's Principle ?

>What on earth (or Mars) has that to do with how a wing works?

http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/bernoulli-or-newton-whos-right-about-lift/

http://users.df.uba.ar/sgil/physics_paper_doc/papers_phys/fluids/Bernoulli_Newton_lift.pdf

So yes, it has everything to do with how an air[o]foil works ... got my flame suit, hence icon ^, not pissed off, though ... ;-)

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Re: Noah called, he wants his units back.

>I suspect because the plane is in the USA

No, in aeronautics you use USian measurements. Feet for altitude, pounds for thrust etc, etc

2016: Bad USB sticks, evil webpages, booby-trapped font files still menace Windows PCs

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Happy

Re: Compare and contrast...

>[....] and the older stuff (the dropping of which was the official reason to bring Edge in to being) was actually (eventually?) fairly reliable.

After a decade of patches, you would expect it to be, right?

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Boffin

Re: @Same old/Life is good

>Huh! It's 2016 and Linux / Android / OSX / iOS users still have to download random stuff from the web to make their boxes work.

>Just for balance.

I do not have to install some third party crap off the interwebs that nobody can authenticate to ensure my Linux does not update without my consent. Actually, I am always kindly asked if I want to update, and I can select/postpone as I see fit. I can get diff's of the patches from the interwebs to see EXACTLY which lines of source code were changed.

Windows update attempts to trick you each time, with ever increasing sophistication. They use deception techniques, canned statements, "describing" the fixes, which often turn out to be way off.

Installing stuff from a repository IS NOT THE SAME as hunting down GWX ControlPanel (or whatever it's called) on some random website hoping nobody has injected the Ask toolbar or other walware into the exe. I am not saying a repository is 100% safe, nothing is, but it is much safer than a random website, don't you think?

So, you did not get the point.

Microsoft has made SQL Server for Linux. Repeat, Microsoft has made SQL Server 2016 for Linux

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>Big enterprise will always favour proprietary products for one reason offloading risk. Senior IT managers can push the risk and blame off to the vendor when things happen. You cant do that with open source.

BS, big enterprise run increasingly more of their stuff on Linux, because it simply is so much cheaper and scales much better. They are moving more and more to Linux, as we speak. Microsoft, like any other software purveyor, does not guarantee that the software is fit for any particular purpose. Do you think Heathrow gets $$$$$$ from MS when the boarding systems go titsup ? News flash: no, they don't ... MS would be bankrupt if that were the case ... remember Windows 95 BSOD'd when you sneezed ...

Linux lads lambast sorry state of Skype service

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Re: What happened to "Both Microsoft and I love Linux"

> It just makes us think you might drop our Linux support on Azure when it suits you! I already was concerned about this and you are just confirming my fears.

They will drop Linux support, all of a sudden with no advance warning, the day they manage to control cloud - that is the plan, sad thing is (for them), they will never control the cloud.

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Stop the MS FUD BS sewage, there are "many", "many", local governments around the world, even in France, that have switched to Linux, even more schools, the French Gendarmerie is using Linux as well, and slowly moving all desktops to it. The tax office is using OpenOffice, same ...

Munich is not biggoted, they keep an eye open for alternatives, like any IT service "should do", to cut costs even further. No options are ignored ... even MS ... yet, they would need a compelling offer from MS, which have probably already offered them the whole Microsoft platform free of charge, including support, yet even that is still more expensive than Linux.... just saying ...

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Re: It seems Linux lacks a feature these so-called power users are finding they need.

>We don't use Linux because it's free as in beer, we use it because most distros are insanely well-featured out of the box and generally much more so than Windows (although the latter can be brought up to scratch after install a plethora of third-party products, many of which are FOSS). We can try anything we like with no activation hoops or license hassles to worry about. When we find something we like, we use it and donate whatever we feel it is worth to us. Simple and painless.

Spot on, we use Linux because it is like Windows Datacenter Edition, no imposed limitations (aka anti-features). Linux is an execllent desktop system, and a server system that is only beaten by FreeBSD, Windows Server (even Datacenter Edition) is not even in the same galaxy.

Windows is for n00bs ...

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Re: It seems Linux lacks a feature these so-called power users are finding they need.

>It's funny how Linux people have to desperately hang to things of the past... while BSODs were maybe common twenty years ago - Win95 and NT times ....

Over the course of six months, Windows 7 gave me more BSOD's than all other Windows versions I have used (starting with 3.0 ....), combined. It was complaining about power management on a HP Elitebook, and no driver update helped, upgrading the system to Linux solved the issue - I could even call the piece of shit a laptop with Linux, since I could unplug power and stilll use WIFI (In Windows, I had to REBOOT after unplugging the power cord to get WIFI to work). Awaking from sleep gave me approx 1 in 5 chance of a BSOD.

That was a HP laptop with Windows 7 as shipped by HP.

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Unhappy

Re: Wait, what?

>Penguinisas who didn't uninstall Skype the day the Microsoft acquisition was announced? What kind of bizarre alternate reality have I fallen into?

Some of us have managers, who read Windows IT Pro and think that's gospel ... I have skype on Mac, Linux, and Windows at home and yes, the Linux version is better, it has no ads ... maybe all this is just part of the bigger plan, get ads into the Linux client .... forcing users to upgrade, however, MS in their inifinite wisdom, cut off the branch before the alternate was ready ...

Like some years ago, when all of a sudden you could no longer log on ... it was complaining about an invalid username/password .... until you downloaded the latest Skype version .... !@#$%!#%#@

Stay clear of that shit, I tell ya!

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>Try the browser based alternative https://web.skype.com/en/

Try webRTC, open, standard implementation, easy to use ... go get firefox and create a call with firefox Hello, even chrome users can connect ...

Hillary Clinton private email server probe winding up – reports

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I do not think Mrs Clinton has the technical skills required to judge it a good or bad idea to operate a private mail server, I do not think she knew what the security risks were.

I would imagine that to her, using her email client, either server made no difference. Even if she sent classified documents using her private mail server ...

I think it is the bloke who got immunity that should be trialed, he bloody well knew this was wrong AND dangerous.

Brit uni rattles tin for ultra-low latency audio board

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Re: Ultra Low Latency

You do not play digital instruments, so your opinion does not count ... I have a USB keyboard, I can play it, but the latency is terrible ... I use jackd which helps a lot, but still, this looks even better!

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Happy

Coool

What do you get when you fall in love?

Woo-hoo!

You are now an official backer of Bela: an Embedded Platform for Low-Latency Interactive Audio.

Now I seriously need a good excuse for the missus for both this and the pi 3 ... [toSelf]Be creative, be creative ... needa find something before she comes home tonight ...[/toSelf]

Who hit you, HP Inc? 'Windows 10! It's all Windows 10's fault'

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Re: Apple is cheap

>In those terms, Apple is cheap.

You forgot the most important, Apple hardware comes with soldered RAM and SSD storage, which means that they reach EOUL (End Of Useful Life) about 1 or 2y after date of purchase.

Oh, and a lot of third party software no longer runs on Mavericks, let alone My Captain or whatever the fancy names are ... They are removing frameworks left-right and center since Lion, so heaps of software is simply no longer supported ...

For Apple fanboy.

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Re: no compelling reason to ditch functional hardware

>No, I live outside US. You do know there are other countries in the world, right?

Yes, France, where I live ...

I guess that they have something similar in the US, only, it is in Azure, the documents MUST BE Office 2007 or later, and the couse material is available in Vizio, which has to be acquired separately ... No, here in freetard-land France, which is about to change thanks to brain-dead gov, homework that needs to be handed-in in digital formats has to be authored in Libre/OpenOffice ...