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If the user cannot be bothered to check the adjacent README file, then he won't even try to access any help option either. And the story seems to star a particularly thick manager.
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"This was foreseen by George R.R. Martin in his 1977"
Preceded by at least two stories:
When Worlds Collide from 1933. Silly by today's standards, but it deals with rogue planets entering solar system.
A Pail of Air, a short story from 1951, deals with the Earth having been hurtled away from solar system.
"The TPM 2.0 spec was finalized in late 2019, how could you offer TPM 2.0 compliance before the spec is even finalized? You sure you aren't thinking about TPM 1.2 devices, those have been around longer."
I'm certain. Conversion software for (some) TPM chips to from 1.2 to 2.0 has been available for quite some time from the usual computer manufacturers.
Digging around, it seems that the TPM authority has released the latest revision of TPM 2.0 last year, and the earliest revision there is from 2013.
"If it is so easily updated via software, what stops malicious actors from "updating" 2.0 devices in a way that totally compromises them?"
The TPM chips very likely only accept updates that are cryptographically signed. Just like most BIOS and other firmware updates these days.
"It's only a matter of time until they introduce a monthly "access" fee for Win 11 and they can kiss my posterior for that."
Hah. Some zealots have been claiming the monthly fee coming "any minute now, ya hear!" since Win10 was announced. About as much reality as with the year of the linux desktop thing.
"I'll keep my Win 10 box for Steam / VR games that are unsupported on my distro, but that's it."
Why? The acolytes' have given several sermons at this very site how Wine actually runs everything harder, better, faster, stronger - than Windows ever could.
"Seriously? Gnome and KDE had multiple desktop support around 2005-ish, as I recall. 'vtwm' even had it, a short time later [if I remember correctly], and all of the 'box' managers after that. This same feature took 10 years to show up in Windows"
According to some sources Windows has had a multiple desktops API since NT4, that's 25 years ago. At least Matrox implemented this with their NT (and 2000, XP) drivers addendum, calling it Powerdesk.
"That is *ONE* example where innovation (in this case, for usability and productivity) came to open source FIRST."
Utter nonsense. Perhaps a kind Amiga user here could corroborate whether the Wikipedia article is right about Amiga having multiple displays since the very first Amiga 1000?
Also, the same page tells that vtvm had the feature since 1990, "no a short time later" than KDE/Gnome. Your timelines are all over the place.
"(I do recall some kind of 'powertool' for XP that came AFTER the multi-desktop support in gnome and KDE and it _attempted_ to provide multi-desktop support in XP, but it was brittle and sloppy and generally unusable)"
Do a RAM check. The Powertoys for XP toolset with the Virtual Desktop Manager was released in 2001.
Your turn.
"It's a good thing that none of the countries on "our side" also do those things, is it? Therefore we can criticise you with a straight face. (Quick look at the Middle East) Oops - sorry!"
I'm certainly not ok with e.g. US troops committing war crimes without punishment. Very few are.
Your argument can justify practically anything including genocide since most countries have skeletons in their closets (unwanted minorities, retarded, etc.) if you go far enough in history. There's no justification whatsoever for what the Chinese government is doing for the Uyghurs, their own citizens.
"I know I'm a dreamer, but what about beginning to put factories back in the West to be able to counter China without risking an economic blackmail."
Because not all global companies will do it at the same time. Those that remain in China can offer cheaper wares and most consumers will always pick the cheaper product no matter what. Look how people are ordering stuff from Alibaba, Amazon and Wish to buy their cheap crap.
"Well, the (totally legit) Disney branded T-shirt crumbled into tiny threads and fell apart after a week, but it did cost only 2 buckazoids so I don't mind; I can't afford to buy the locally made T-shirt since the T-shirt factory laid me off. Their $10 price for the same thing is a total rip-off!"
"But is your UEFI box *capable* of Secure Boot?"
Yes. It is a 4th gen i7 laptop, but due to alternate booting I've disabled Secure Boot for easier living.
"Legacy machines that don't even have a Secure Boot option might be what will eventually be no longer supported."
Oh, I'm sure that will happen one day. Or at least requiring UEFI boot.
Win8 already required certain processors instructions/features, and practically everything pre-AMD64 / Intel Core i series was not working. Those same CPU requirements stand today with Win10. Likely some CPU feature will be a requirement in the future, thus cutting out more hardware.
...Or requiring more RAM than older systems can be fitted with. Or removing legacy BIOS boot. Or dropping 32-bit support for those few % still using it.
"Personally I never had an issue installing Linux. Less so than with Windows, at least."
Never? So you didn't install Linux in the 90s or even early 00s?
Failure to install Windows usually boils down to unrecognised storage. Understandably older releases didn't understand native SATA, NVMe, RAIDs or similar, so drivers were needed. Same thing with any other OS.
Windows has had the ability to load missing drivers from Windows Update since its inception and usually works pretty well for most users.
"But drivers for some specialised hardware used to be a bit of an issue."
Specialised? You had to use NDIS wrapper for most of the wireless cards back then. Not to mention spotty support for newest graphics chips, Bluetooth, even touchpads beyond basic service etc.
Of course, specialised hardware can be an issue in Windows as well, obsolete driver models not supporting newer Windows versions, unavailable 64-bit versions etc.
...I haven't found Intel CPUs interesting in the least.
Intel knows they're not competitive, so they're playing feature game at the moment. (AVX512, anyone?)
But, I'm very interested in those Xe graphics cards (or Xe cores on Xeons if that ever happens) for 3D virtualisation under VMware.
Current-ish Xeon graphics give 3 FPS for relatively simple 3D Printing models which is just unusable. I'm not expecting high-end Tesla level performance, just something reasonable that wouldn't need its own licensing. (*cough*, NVidia)
"but employees of Apple and SIS. They were employed in a security capacity and have demonstrated a total carelessness and negligence in what they did. Making these personally pay Bah, on top of huge compensation by Apple & SIS, might make others in similar positions take their responsibilities seriously.
True, but... this really depends on what the SIS policies are and how those corporate coppers were instructed to do their work - a one day Powerpoint lesson? Since there are multiple employees who have failed in this case, it alludes to poor work culture and lack of staff education to fulfill their job according to state and/or municipal laws.
For example, can any one of the video monitoring employees file these APB notices to the police department or have they cleared these first with their superiors? Has SIS educated the personnel to verify IDs properly?
I really hope SIS (and Apple) are punished severely and Mr. Bah gets rewarded accordingly.
> You have to put a "salary range" so use boilerplate: "this vacancy pays somewhere between $0 and $infinity dollars"
While compliant, I'm not seeing any positives for the recruiting company for playing silly games, very unprofessional. In the interview I'd ask what qualifies me for say, a monthly million dollar salary in the advertised position. The interviewer can't give a proper answer of course and will either crack a joke or is astonished that someone dares to ask for the >$0 salary.
Companies with shady advertising habits are probably toxic anyway.
"Why do people keep voting themselves out of democracy? Lack of education or engrained submissiveness?"
The first one. The populists can sling out convincing lies and half-truths faster than they can be corrected. And even if those lies are corrected afterwards - they mostly won't reach those who believed the lies in the first place.
Also, democracy or a republic isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all. I'm for enlightened absolutism, but an usolved problem lies in the 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' axiom.
What we need is an incorruptible sentient computer as the global ruler working for the good of mankind - Colossus in its namesake book would be great!
"I can't see what the attraction is to running "apps" on a NAS box"
The NAS box is usually just a headless Linux server. Some of those apps are in fact quite useful for me as a domestic user:
Cloud Sync downloads my (and wife's) cloudy images and other stuff directly to the NAS; Radius server for 802.1x authentication on my home network; The surveillance plugin for DVR usage with couple IP cameras.
"Because unless the people of europe can actually get rid of the people in charge then theres no point in having an EU"
What's the point for House of Lords if you can't get rid of them? (or the monarch)
Is there any point in the whole UN just because UK and a few other countries cling to a permanent seat in the Security Council?
How do you get rid of a member of parliament or the Home Secretary or ministers or your nationally appointed EU commissioner or the MEP?
The democratic option is to vote for another person/party when the current term is coming to an end. Simple as that.
"doing a fine job of organising the EU's response to corona virus.. so good in fact that member countries are off buying their own vaccine supplies instead of relying on the EU."
The obvious problem is that there isn't enough supply at the moment. Research for covid vaccines started only a year ago and while the vaccines from several pharma companies came out in record time, the supply hasn't scale up, and it is not the fault of EU. I'm sure the fight against covid and vaccine procurement could have been done way better than has been done - this applies to all governments world-wide. Boris and Donald downplayed the 'flu' until both were hospitalised.
Yes, there are some EU countries allying closely with Russia and buying (or trying to buy) Sputnik. Russia will gladly supply its vaccines if it can cause rife between EU countries.
"The only supplier of EUV equipment is ASML - if the Chinese want to force the US to stop semiconductor sanctions then buying ASML would give them effective control of the world's sub-10nm production."
That's the theory, but practically impossible. ASML is Dutch and publicly traded. EU would very unlikely allow it to fall into hands of China. Or any other nation.
ASML's market cap is about $250 Billion, and sudden stock hogging would likely push the prices very high. Instead of that Trillion dollar deal you could very well start your own ASML competitor.
Sure, it would take something like 10 years (at least) but China is playing the long game anyhow. As long as the Chinese can churn out decent quality EUV machines, they can start undercutting ASML and drive it out of business that way. That's how they've operated so far and seems to work well for them.
I'm not trying to downplay the technology advantage ASML has - Intel with all their resources failed miserably without ASML to get below 14nm - but since ASML cannot fulfill the global capacity needs there is a profitable market waiting - for those who can afford playing this game.
"Wow, another Microsoft creation that is abandoned, never seen :-P it joins to APIs, (GUI) libraries, phones, music players, programming languages"
Why should Micros~1 flog dead horses forever? Do you admit being Cortana user? :'-D
Cortana has had one foot in the grave since birth, it never gained the momentum, being late in the game. Everyone knows this.
Same goes with the Winphones and Zunes you're refering to. MS should have pulled the plug years earlier, but couldn't since they were committed to the announced EOL dates. (and due to Ballmer)
"operating systems..."
Which specific operating systems are you refering to, and how did the abandonment(?) compare to competitors' operating system support?
I used to cycle to work and had a laptop in a backpack, one day it didn’t shut down properly by the time I got home (about 15 minutes) my back was very warm.
I always place my laptop on my backpack with the side vents pointing up, since there's a chance of it powering up for updates, and the laptop may be on the backpack for days.
While an over-heating laptop will just shut down, I'm still worried for long term effects of all the electronics, solders etc.
"I only really consider a game to be "roguelike" if it's turn based, perma-death, random-ish dungeons and there's no stacking or anything based on the game you played before."
On that last point...
In Nethack your (and others') previous games can produce bones where the perished Player Character waits as a ghost/zombie/slime/vampire/etc (depending on type of death) and also its inventory is there with all the goodies waiting. Of course the monster that killed/transformed the player is there waiting.
For a beginner the bones can be quite deadly since ghosts etc. are hard to kill, and the loot is mostly cursed as well, but they could also easily be misused by deliberately creating a big pile of good stuff...
"Imperial measurements are based on sizes we can intuitively relate to because they are [close to] the sizes of body parts."
Is it? I'm not aware of any lower body part of mine that is approx. 1 foot long. Not that anything down there a a metre-long either...
I'm certainly more fond of the metrics since calculating (in head at least) is WAY easier since it's all in 10base and you don't need to memorise all the different coefficients between yards, chains and furlongs; acres and square feet; ounces, pounds and stones; etc.
Perhaps that's why most people don't bother with anything but feet, yards and miles; square inches/yards/miles and acres; and so on. Plenty of units are just not used. Then again not every metric unit is used, the deca prefix especially.
"Big Tech is a threat to the government, Trump blew the first whistle"
He did? When?
Counterexamples would be of course instituting Ajit Pai to chair the FCC and favoring telecom companies; hanging out with Tim Apple; sanctioning MS, and then Oracle to pursue TikTok (why?!); claiming Google has thousands of (rogue?) engineers working on a Covid19 project - nonsensical but definitely pro-Google; meeting (and dining) with Zuck several times.
Of course Trump was angry at FB, Twitter and others when the banhammer hit, and before that they (well, everyone) had a HUGE bias against him when he was campaigning against Biden with the Section 230 legislation. Really SAD.
"Biden is merely carrying on the same work but he will probably succeed because whoever is pulling his strings"
What makes you say that? (other than him not being Trump)
Biden has been working on Senate and at Washington before Voyager 1 was launched. It's usually the newcomers who get their strings pulled, not the veteran politicians.
Yes, it does support TLS 1.3. First seen on beta released last summer.
Disabling older protocols/ciphers should also be available through the IIS GUI, instead of relying on IISCrypto.
Pity it took this long though.
"Could the new workaround-enabled software provide some sort of crashdump which might help them pinpoint what's going on? There would be information about the system in there granted, but not necessarily any personally-identifiable info."
It's easier to sell snow to Eskimos than selling telemetry to Linux folks.
"But back in the days of $100 a megabyte memory, PC makers -- with a lot of nudging from Microsoft -- quietly removed the parity bit from their personal computer designs."
Uh, citation needed. Out of interest I tried to search for information about this but came up with nothing.
Memory was $100 / 1 MB in about 1990, around when Win 3.0 was introduced. MS-DOS was probably present in nearly all PC clones (IBM had their own PC DOS) but Windows was rather useless until v3 and DOS was mostly just a rudimentary launcher for 3rd party software. Did Micros~1 really have that much clout over Compaq, IBM and other major PC manufacturers back then?
Before Windows 3.0 there were not a lot of use for >640K in a PC. Some may have had more but utilising the >640k memory was restricted to few (business) applications or used for disk caching. My 286 clone (NEC V20) had 1MB RAM and the extra 384K in it was mostly useless.
From what I've read memory parity was mostly dropped due to improvements in memory chip quality.
"Since that time, the only way to confirm a RAM failure on a consumer PC is to swap in known good memory"
It is not the ONLY way. If your Memtest86 or similar software shows errors, it is VERY likely that the memory module is faulty.
"It's possible -- not certain -- that many weird or intermittent computer failures are caused by defective RAM rather than faulty software."
True, but they could be due to poor signal levels / power delivery on motherboard or some other part of the computer. Cosmic rays may flip memory bits but has this ever been observed and confirmed? Then again the parity chips in memory modules may fail as well.
"I assume you're trying to be facetious."
Facetious, moi?? Jocular more like.
My comment was 'a witticism, a gag, a bon mot, a fluctuation of words concluding with a trick ending'.
I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
"Or are you expecting all drivers to be user-space (good luck with that!)?"
If I happen to question the inclusion of a super niche device driver in a kernel, I'm not advocating an all-or-nothing approach here. Why would I expect all drivers to be user-space? Stuff like intermittently hotplugged USB doodads don't have to be kernel-space.
Such things work pretty well in Windows and Mac.
"The question is: Do you want to rely on a third-party driver from the hardware manufacturer to let you use it, or have a device driver in the OS that'll work forever more, supported by the operating system manufacturer."
Whatever works best. I'd say things are working pretty well in...Windows.
I'm sincerely glad that the Guitar Hero dingus works for the very few people interested in plugging one into a PC running Linux, even if its just those coders who made the driver.
"Be careful of your answer, because there may well be examples of the latter that you'll regret losing."
Ooh, scary! Is your rebuttal going to include scsi/parallel port flatbed scanners, 80486 Beowulf clusters, Cirrus Logic graphics and ISDN cards on the EISA bus?
"Suddenly they are so secure they can sue?"
This lawsuit isn't about security, or lack of it.
It's about Giuliani, Fox et.al publicly claiming that the machines were operated by Venezuelans communists, and that they were operated to swing votes to one nominee.
Please explain why you think they couldn't sue. Can Google sue anything since Chrome is found to have multiple vulnerabilities each year? How about Microsoft or any other IT house really?
I checked your links and neither mentions Smartmatic. The DEFCON paper didn't mention Smartmatic either.
"I suspect if this case goes to court, there will be hacking demonstrations on the systems."
The defendants can demonstrate all they want but the case is not about security. They need to proove how the vote swinging was done and to also show how the voting machines were operated by the Venezuelan govenrment.
>2. Do you have a use case for a desktop 10G
Yes, talk to a CGI production house.
Hmm... I wrote about "10G + PoE combo". You cropped the last part. 10G is fine for a desktop, but I'm not aware of 10G PoE ports, nor do I see any use for such a combination at the desktop.
>40G uplink would probably need active cooling as well
It's fibre, none of my 100Gbps SFP modules have active cooling...
Hmm... I've never seen a passive cooled switch with a >10Gb fibre port. Have you?