Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon 5770 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007
They should make all this shit payable by the political party in power that implements it. It would disappear quickly enough then I'm sure.
I don't know if it's my subconscious working overtime or if I'm starting to see omens, but the number 666 has cropped up in my awareness in lots of odd places over the last couple of weeks (like, dozens of times).
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Anyone out there still saying 'but I need Windows to run <whatever>' should make the switch, and THEN worry about getting their stuff done.
You'll probably find a ton of stuff in the process that you never even knew existed - it's happening to me, so don't let Windows hold you back...just DO IT!
Whilst I have been a fan of Linux over the years (and have watched it grow to maturity with some satisfaction) I haven't really used it as a home OS apart from the odd media center and single purpose device (NAS/router/firewall that sort of thing).
However, I was recently required to build my wife a new PC as her old XP machine was finally dying a death (she wouldn't let me upgrade it in the past due to my apparent inability to keep all her files, but that's another story).
Due to her predilection for RTS games (Age of Empires/Mythology type stuff) I decided to build her PC with one of my NUC's and a spare Vista licence I had kicking around. Well, I had so much trouble with Vista (turns out to be the only version of Windows that Age of Mythology doesn't like and it was downloading updates for bloody ages - nearly 200 of the fuckers) I decided to go with a flavour of Linux since I didn't want the hassle of a more recent version of Windows and all that upgrade to 10 bollocks - so I bit the bullet and made the effort to get the games working under Wine.
Well, did all that over the weekend, installed Linux Mint 17 and got the games running under Wine no problem at all - bit of a learning curve, but all re-usable info so it's all good.
When the NUC was started up after the initial build I actually thought I had missed some important stages out though, the desktop appears in around 5-10 seconds (and I haven't optimised the boot sequence in BIOS yet either). There also appears to be a complete lack of a 'still busy' circle with the mouse pointer when it starts up as well - it's almost as if it's immediately useful.
Very odd, so I thought I'd test it and run the game under Wine as soon as the screen appeared. Bam, it's just there. Admittedly this is all now on an SSD as well, but even so, it's like magic.
So, I still have a couple of laptops that run Windows7 and another NUC waiting for an OS - they are going to be built with Linux. Fuck windows...forever...goodbye...good riddance.
It was a *lot* more hassle building a windows machine than it was a Linux machine, and it plays games too. It's a lot faster to boot, is immediately useable, and appears to make better use of the hardware resources. Oh, and it was free (as in totally, no strings attached).
The line has been crossed, it's now just a question of how long it takes for Joe public and business to twig.
The more people use it, and switch over and discover how much easier it is these days, and how good the drivers are etc. the more publishers will program for it, the more attractive it will be. I know most people don't do the research thing, and it took me all of about 20 minutes to decide which flavour (and which topping) I wanted or would be most suitable for my needs, but how many people know that about Windows?
I feel like a weight has been lifted off me, it must be all those $$$$$$'s that M$ won't get their grubby little mitts on anymore.
Consider me converted.
"'Knee dragging' by pro riders isn't done to hold the bike up"
I've seen quite a few near-losses of the front in a corner being saved by some support provided by the riders knee (and other body parts - google for Marquez' remarkable 'body save') - so whilst not the primary reason for doing it, it does happen and it does (occasionally) work :)
"Same reason protests don't get reported anymore since the anti-banker riots."
Indeed, I have to watch a *Russian* news channel to find out what's happening in my own country. So often I see things on RT that don't even get a mention on the Beeb or Sky. It's an interesting way to keep an eye on the current spin direction*.
*Although I have no idea what it's charge would be
"Curiously, one PCI audit we had, the QA wanted to fail the us because the firewall rules allowed https connections to the load balancer from any IP - this is a public facing website!!"
There is a simple way around this. Simply create objects for your internal IP ranges, then create another object that represents everything *except* your internal IP range object.
This does not flag as an 'any' rule, and you should really have an object set up like this anyway for all the rfc-1918 objects and have them denied right at the top of your rulebase.
How would you know if the new certs were created with a different prime?
This goes a bit deeper than implementation changes at the consumer level, it requires the source of the key to be updated to use more than one prime.
Even if 10 primes were pre-generated and the key pair was generated using one of those ten, the only 1/10th of your comms could be intercepted if one prime were compromised. It's a tail chasing exercise, but it costs a lot more to compromise a prime than it does to calculate one in the first place, so it should be easy to stay ahead of this particular vulnerability once the implementation software for key creation is updated accordingly.
Doesn't do shit for stuff already out there of course.
You make some good points and put that way I agree with you.
In fact my wife and I were discussing this last night and trying to work out what the main difference was in the writing styles and it basically came down to layers.
Some writers can write a story for both adults and children at the same time - each group taking something different from it. Children who were ahead in comprehension (typically SF readers) would get some of the ideas put across for adults, and adults would appreciate the tongue-in-cheek humour that could be both innocent and naughty at the same time.
There aren't a lot of writers like that these days (or there aren't enough writers getting scripts through written like that perhaps). Which is a shame.
Whilst I would dearly love a more reality-based and darker Dr Who (or something that was inspired by Dr Who perhaps?) this is still, and always has been, a kids show.
When I was a kid and I made out the cardboard box I was sitting in was a Battlestar Galactica fighter no-one bothered to tell me that
a) cardboard boxes were not sealed and did not have life-support
b) they had no heat shielding and would therefore burn up on entering the atmosphere
c) the 'peeow peeow' lasers had no chance of obliterating the cat that just walked into the living to see what the weird child was up to.
It didn't stop me enjoying myself however, and as I grew up I swore to myself that I would never forget what it was like to look at the world like a child, for alas, many people do seem to forget.
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