Re: That was fast
Best explanation that I could find quickly:
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
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"but does appear to work as it is supposed to."
"Supposed to" is relative. According to who? Microsoft's financial department? Their advertising department? Their "collect as much info about the users as possible" department?
It certainly doesn't work the way I think an OS is supposed to work ...
My one remaining Redmond computer runs Win2K, which is in my mind peak Microsoft.
The only reason I run it is because I used AutoCAD2K to document this place and a couple others, and have seen no need to "upgrade" ... like Win2K, ACAD2K is peak AutoDesk. On the rare occasion that I need it, the twenty year old box runs LibreOffice adequately.
The system is airgapped.
I know of several other businesses that keep Win2K around for various reasons.
A lot of my day-to-day business is easily handled by a near 18 tear old HP laptop running Slackware-current and the recent LibreOffice. The rest is run from a similar era desktop. Neither machine has ever given me any trouble.
To you nay-sayers: How much money has running Redmond products cost you in the last nearly twenty years? Make sure you include the cost of waiting on updates, recovering from crashes, unnecessary reboots, hardware upgrades (or replacements) when MS rolls a rev., malware problems, and all the other bits and bobs that waste your time and money.
It continues to amaze me that the Corporate World still lets the thing in the door ...
Why do you think your music "requires" Windows? I have no issues[0] with music on Linux (including production), and haven't for a long time now.
[0] Other than the underlying code being aesthetically ugly ... if we ever have the time, my daughter and I might make it our job to pretty it up a bit as a learning tool for her daughter.
"Now to install MS Office all the software that actual businesses use to actually run"
None of the businesses I consult for run MS-anything. Why do you think MS is necessary, when it is quite clear that reality says otherwise? Is it a religious thing for you?
"(and maybe a few recent games)"
Playing games at work? You're fired.
"Scrap a PC that otherwise works well, or stick with Windows 10"
Or perhaps put up-to-date and modern Slackware or BSD on it and just use the bloody thing until it falls apart, and THEN scrap it. Unless you enjoy throwing away perfectly good tools just because a multi-billion dollar international marketing company's advertising tells you to, of course, in which case carry on, consumer.
Indeed. Left wing nuts, right wing nuts, what's the difference? They are all power hungry, and a disease on the backs of humanity. Is there a cure? They say laughter is the best medicine ... and you've got to admit it, they are all pretty clownish.
I propose that all wingnuts should be pointed out and laughed into oblivion. If enough people do it, it should work fairly quickly ... there is nothing they hate more than not being taken seriously.
Imagine, if 50 people a day ...
They are claiming the FOSS world took the code without consent. Sadly for them, after the whole MaBell vs BSD debacle, that dog don't hunt no more.
Hopefully,the next Judge in this matter will take the litigant's lawyers aside and explain what kind of affect getting smacked with a Rule 11 "frivolous litigation" contempt charge would have on their career ...
They are not claiming they own FOSS, they are claiming FOSS is built from what they own.
They have never succeeded in proving this. In fact, they tend to get all waffley when asked to produce that evidence.
From what I can tell, the lawsuits are basically fishing expeditions. Or, if you prefer, throwing shit at the wall to see if anything sticks.
The funny thing is that, after all this time, and all the money they have thrown at it, they will never turn a profit even if they succeed!
Why not? I'm glad you asked ... it's because the world at large will stop using whatever code some idiot Judge decides belongs to them ... we will simply code around it, as if it never existed in the first place.
"increasingly dangerous because of its black-box lack of transparency."
In my mind it is increasingly dangerous because people treat the results like religious dogma, as if it were automagically irrefutable because the computer said it was true.
Scary, that.
With me, the black Levis are a hair tighter than the blue (pre-shrunk 501s). So I usually get the original shrink-to-fit variation ... which incidentally seem to last a trifle longer than the pre-shrunk ones, and are a hair cheaper. Win-win.
Don't forget shoes ... Different manufacturers use different sized lasts. And plants on different continents belonging to the same manufacturer also seem to use different sized lasts. The only good way to purchase shoes is to physically try them on.
Last time I bought "walking the dawgs" shoes, I tried on four identically labeled pairs. One pair was too small, one too big, and two fit. I bought the two. They were made in Mexico, the large pair was made in Malaysia, and the small pair was made in Taiwan. Caveat emptor.
Because Samsung's marketing department (which knows nothing of AI, it's just a buzzword to them) insisted that it be included in the description on product roll-out. And that is the ONLY reason.
Sticking a label on something doesn't automagicaly confer that attribute on the thing. The map is not the territory.
"We are teetering on the brink of a golden age of AI. It must be true, we keep being told so."
And have been since the early 1960s.
Methinks the Marketing bozos have cried "wolf" enough for a couple decades. Time to let this subject matter rest, it stinks like last week's fish. Methinks we're heading into another so-called "AI winter", and about time, too!
.... how about they swallow their pride, admit their product is nowhere near ready for prime-time (and probably never will be!), and hire a few actual drivers?
Dumb-ass motherfuckers ... Toyota obviously thinks corporate pride is far more important than human life. I've just put them on my personal "do not ever buy" list. Hopefully I'm not alone.
"I haven’t bought a new computer since 2017. I haven’t bought any new software, either."
Quite frankly, I do not remember the last time I purchased software for any of the systems at home or for my myriad interlocking businesses. I'm thinking perhaps around the turn of the Century? I remember purchasing Win2K and AutoCAD2K and Office2000 ... after that? I honestly can't remember any purchases after that.
Has it really been over 20 years? Time flies ...
Just to shut up the trolls, no I don't pirate software.
I wonder how many El Reg commentards still have an RPN calculator in/on their desk, and still use it. Mine's an HP-45, my birthday present to me in 1974 ... The HP-35 also still works, but is stored under glass sans batteries (Dad's gift to me, Xmas '72 ... one of the few bits of hardware I treasure).
Sounds like marking, not peeing. The only dogs I've seen doing it standing on their front feet have been the little, toy breeds attempting to make their mark higher, to appear bigger to anyone reading their pee-mail. Is it possibly the critter(s) you knew learned to pee from a chihuahua as pups?
Peeing in fits & starts might also be a bladder problem ... which can be contagious. Were the Huskies in the same household? This would still not explain the hand-stand, though ...
Although, come to think of it, if I had to stand on my hands to pee, I'd probably do it in fits & starts, too, in an attempt at not getting any on me. No, I'm not going to try it. Sorry. (If you want to put your attempt on your OnlyFans, feel free. I won't sue for the use of the idea ... and indeed, I hope you make a million bucks from your herd of idiots. Just don't ask me to watch.)
Disclaimer: Not a vet. Got dawgs.
I'm in Sonoma, California.
The red-light cameras around here are not run by the .gov, they are run by the company who won the bid to provide the service in that particular jurisdiction. They have a vested interest in ensuring the photographic evidence is usable in Court.
Many actual .gov run cameras exist as a scarecrow[0], but even the stupidest so-called "security" guard can detect movement on the screen during the day or motion detector lights turning on at night, thus prompting him to go investigate. Just don't expect to use the video as evidence.
[0] Worst case scenarios include BART's in-car cameras, most of which were empty shells pretending to be cameras for an unknown period of time. (BART is "Bay Area Rapid Transit", which is a piss-poor attempt at emulating the London Tube or the Métro in Paris.)
Most of the Huskies I have known lift their leg like other dogs, or squat like most bitches (depending on equipment). A few of the boys never learned the leg lift thing and tend to pee on their front feet. I have never seen a Husky stand on its front paws to pee.
Ice can build up on the hair surrounding the exit, not up from the target area, but this requires it to be cold enough to freeze the balls off a snooker table.
Have you seen the sorry images that most .gov controlled CCTV cameras produce? It's almost impossible to see what people are doing on those cheap-ass pieces of shit, much less ID a perp ... To say nothing of the bird crap & etc. that builds up on the lenses.
The things might be a deterrent, but it's not because they produce usable pictures.
... one could make a case for not a single one of those folks actually being on The Internet at all, they are on an Intranet that uses Internet protocols, thanks to the censorship provided by the "great" firewall.
Self-balkanization by their government will only end in tears ... it always does.
I know plenty of people who use Linux sound with no difficulties. Including sound professionals.
Yes, it's shit aesthetically. But it works just fine for almost everybody (at least 6 nines). I don't have time to fix it, so I'll muddle along with the ugly thing until I can't stand it anymore and start coding ... or someone else beats me to it. Probably the latter, I have better things to do in my !copious free time.
::shrugs::
You are free to do so. It's your system.
Personally, I don't find escapes to be particularly arduous ... but I don't usually use spaces (or any other "special" characters) in file names. No point.
What drives me nuts is when people use so-called "non standard" characters willy-nilly, thus making things difficult to port between unicies. Or the idiots who flip randomly between hyphen/dashes, underbars, plus signs and spaces to signify a space between words. You know who you are ...
Concur on CamelCase.... Seems to be the best of all words.
In this particular case, your opinion of how I named those files is moot. The machines in question are mine, and the only other person who might (might!) access them is my Wife.
The point is that I, personally, find it useful to name certain files that way, and I have been doing so since roughly 1977. It works for me; you are free to customize your system in any way that floats your boat.
As a side note, if you were presented with ANY shell script, regardless of name, if you didn't know exactly what it did you would have absolutely zero business running it. Open it up (in vi, of course), and parse the silly thing with your Mark I brain first!
"Curses and termcap has been around since BSD 2.3 or thereabouts in the late 1970's or early 1980's."
Bill Joy invented termcap using what would become 1BSD in '77-'78, where I first came into contact with it. Many other people also added it to their bag of tricks as they heard about it through the grapevine. It first shipped as an "official" part of the OS on 2BSD, in May of '79. It wasn't perfect (still isn't), but did you ever try to use ttycap?
I don't have an exact date for Ken Arnold's curses, the earliest source I can find here locally is unversioned (!!), and claims to be from early 1981. Odd fact for collectors of UNIX trivia: Many people think vi was written to take advantage of Curses. The reality is that Arnold used vi's internal routines as the basis when he wrote Curses.