Posts by Drew 11

I was installing some software on the receptionist's PC at a client in an office block in the 90's. The screen glitched sideways severely while I was doing it and I mentioned it to her. She said "it does that all the time. They've replaced my screen 3 times and it never goes away."

I sat there finishing off the install taking in the environment and then said - "let's try something". I moved the screen to the other end of her desk and the glitching stopped. She was overjoyed and wanted to know how I fixed it.

I told her the screen was right up against the wall and the glitch happened everytime the elevator went past.

Pretty sad their hardware guys didn't figure it out.

How's that Herd Immunity theory working out for you, Boris?

"Science" channel issuing "thoughts and prayers". Where's that dumptruck jpg when you need it?

And once that investigation is completed, how about one regarding how domain registrants STILL don't have any real representation at ICANN, 20+ years after IDNO tried and nearly suceeded to get membership in the DNSO, but was squashed at the last hurdle by the corporate/commercial interest who got control of ICANN from day 1?

Clipper

I remember a DOS dBase compiler called "Clipper", but later on there was a Windows dBase app that was similar. Maybe by Computer Associates? Can't for the life of me remember the name.

I know a lot of borderline insane hams and not many of those go on dxpeditions.

The "borderline" bit might be optional, too.

Lets start with...

... getting rid of the dogs breakfast that is WordPress with all the uneccessary javascript, css etc files that it invariably downloads on each page.

"There are now also browser-based options, including Google's G Suite, but if you prefer the freedom of working locally with open source software, LibreOffice is for you."

There are now also browser-based options, including Google's G Suite, but if you prefer not to let Google sift through your documents and sell the data to advertisers, LibreOffice is for you.

FIFY

"Namecheap notes that the organization repeatedly states the importance of receiving and acting on public comment in its formal corporate documents but i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶c̶a̶s̶e̶ as per usual simply ignored the process"

FIFY.

First Google killed off server-side analytics with their "free" service. Then you had to open a Google Webmaster account to access the data. Then they started telling you what your website should look like and have on it in order to rank high. And here we are now with most websites crammed full of shitty javascript and visual wankery. Along with "Google Tag Manager", "Google Fonts" etc etc as more ways to slurp user's data.

Jesus H Christ on a bike.

Returning to server-side analytics would be the first step in decreasing Google's grip on everyone's throats (users AND webmasters).

"The majority of ICANN's budget comes from the registry operators and the registrars that sell domains, who pay annual fees to the organization as well as a small per-domain fee."

Domain fee paid by registrants, passed onto ICANN via the two-tier registrar/registry.

"Price rises benefit everyone except end users."

Damn straight.

The good news is he knows where the bodies are buried.

The bad news is, he knows how to bury bodies.

ICANN was captured by the registry/registrar lobby, and then it sat back while they grabbed all their clients expiring names for themselves and then auctioned them off (instead of the proper action of beling deleted and returning to the unregged pool).

Nominet = 2nd verse, same as the first.

Gaaaaaa

The only thing more annoying than password complexity rules that requirre at least 1 capital, one number and one punctuation, is when they have those rules but don't tell you until AFTER you've made up a password, entered it twice, saved it to your password manager and THEN had it rejected.

Fucking tosser UI programmers.

Finally

I never could get Debian running correctly on my Selectric. Hopefully RH will install OK.

Speaking of Snow Leopard, if you had a "enable Snow Leopard UI" option in the next OS I might be tempted to go out and buy a new Mac. All my Mac's now run Debian/XFCE. My 24" computer IS NOT A FUCKING iPHONE!!!

Kerplunk

So no one in the west wing has figured out how to explain US debt levels to a dyspraxic 5 year old yet?

http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

Any reform of ICANN should start with domain owners (who fund most of it via the ICANN domain tax) actually getting voting power.

Irony alert: Check out google images results for the actress Caitlin-Rose Lacey taking the piss out of duck face selfie takers in this advert.

It's only a raid if it is sudden and unannounced.

Too late for that now.

"When that happens, its rotation will affect the likely impact zone, how the space station breaks up once it enters the atmosphere, and weather conditions at the time."

The station's rotation will affect the weather?

I say pop these fellows in a Mexican jail for a few years. I think they'll lose their gleefulness regarding the corruptability of public officials.

Idiots.

Bring back OSX 10.6.8 I say.

Or at least have a version of Linux that has a "make this perform exactly like OSX 10.6.8" install option without having to kark around with a ton of config files spread all the fuck over the hdd.

Perhaps now Google and Mozilla can drop the "pinning is better" line and finally bake DANE into their browser software?

Please.

Perhaps if the email clients started colouring all non-DMARC emails red, the uptake would increase?

Although since the browser authors are dragging the chain on DANE, I'd suspect this idea wouldn't fly either.