Rather childish troll attempt, or just unclear on the concept? Hard to say.
Posts by jake
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Audacity users stick the knife – and fork – in to strip audio editor of unwanted features
Call it Modesty.
The collective noun of Modesty users could be an annoyance.
As for the 4chan lusers, clean up their mess without commenting or otherwise acknowledging that they are shitting all over the place. All they are looking for is a reaction, don't give them one and they will go away. Or, in the word of the Profit "If you feed the trolls, you get to keep them."
Disco classic Rasputin and pop anthem revealed as reasons Twitter suspended Indian politicians
Laptop option on the way for ortholinear keyboard hipsters in form of MNT Reform add-on
Dedicated (Local) Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service to grow almost 1000 per cent in five years
Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline – unless it learns to migrate itself
Re: Surely you can set up a mail sever using Red Hat ...
Nah. Not RedHat. Sendmail on one of the BSDs. Absolutely rock-solid, scales to any size, been around for yonks, etc. etc., what's not to like?
If you're more into the Linuxy side of things, put it on Slackware instead. Similar solidness, scalability, longevity, and etc.
Bit of a learning curve, yes, but once you've learned it you're pretty much done for life ... unlike pretty much every other mailserver out there, which all seem to regularly change things around at the whims of marketing for no logical reason whatsoever.
Re: not an IT company any more
"I can remember them writing the letters IBM out in individual atoms (Silicon I think) back in the 1980's."
It was 35 xenon atoms individually placed on a nickel substrate. Very late '80s. Done by Donald Eigler and Erhard Schweizer at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
Devilish plans for your next app update ensure they never happen – unless you start praying
Go to L: A man of the cloth faces keyboard conundrum
"there's a Ctrl key where Shift is supposed to be"
That's why the fine art of keybr0ad re-mapping was in high demand back in the '80s. Some of us still do it, rather than settle for the crap key placement that marketing seems to think works best for computers. Not that today's point & drool users would care about that one way or the other.
My two favorite typewriters are an ancient Royal and a modern Smith Corona Portable from the '50s (with enhancements that helped my Father get his engineering degrees, and me my first one)..
Re: Calling upon a higher power
As an agnostic Yank going to a CofE school in Yorkshire in the 1970s, I was excused from the morning assembly. I used the time to go over my homework, improving my mind instead of being brainwashed.
Still had to wear the school Uniform, though. My girlfriend, who went to the local Catholic school, and I were once seen sitting on a bench outside the public library together, each in Uniform. Both of us were threatened with expulsion if we were seen together again ... Seems that fraternization between the schools was heavily frowned upon, based purely on the xtian cults the schools espoused. The mind absolutely boggles.
Another JEDI saga that doesn't need a sequel: Oracle petitions Supreme Court over Microsoft Pentagon contract
Data collected to promote public health must never be surrendered to police
Re: Hearken to Prophet McNealy
Take it in context. I was pointing out that we knew well over 35 years ago that privacy concerns would become a major issue. To the point that we tried to make end-to-end encryption the default for TCP/IP back in 1979ish ... but Vint Cerf, complying with the wishes of his bosses in the NSA at DARPA put the kibosh on it. McNealy, hardly a prophet (and a business major, not a techie), was just parroting what he had heard around campus as a grad student at Stanford.
Re: observation
Yes, he did. But it doesn't mean what you think it means, because you are taking the line out of context.
For the sensible who prefer to copy & paste:
https://www.hoover.org/research/what-benjamin-franklin-really-said
Re: Hearken to Prophet McNealy
"I refuse to carry an electronic leash 24X7 unless you PAY me 24X7!"
Me, about the pager & DynaTAC my employer wanted me to carry, roughly 1985.
Today's kids happily pay for and carry their own equipment for their employer's pleasure. Sad, that.
"Don't comment on Usenet or in email what you wouldn't shout from the rooftops!"
Me, addressing a Freshman "using the network" class at Stanford, also around 1985.
Today's kids see nothing wrong with spilling their life's history and other details all over twitter and facebook. Even sadder.
Re: try turning off GPS, bluetooth, WiFi.
"Likewise those, who decide to inconvenience themselves by leaving their mobile at home."
It's not an inconvenience. Far from it ... quite the opposite, in fact. Try it for a month.
"WHY would you want to do that?! VERY suspicious..."
Why do you have a door between your toilet and the rest of the house? Why don't you have a plate-glass window to the street in your shower? Why do you have curtains on your bedroom windows? What are you hiding? VERY suspicious.
UK artists seek 'luvvie levy' on new gadgets to make up for all the media that consumers access online
Re: Why tax tech?
I think you'll discover that most places have entertainment taxes, occupancy taxes, and food (in restaurants) is most certainly taxed.
However, this isn't about pop singers. It's about industry executives and other shareholders. If you have never read Janis Ian's rather excellent commentary on the subject, do yourself a favo(u)r and check it out. Read the follow-up, too.
Suggestion: Get a cuppa, and find a quiet place where you won't be interrupted before starting in on it. It's longish (for this sound-bytebit addicted modern world), and quite densely packed with large doses of reality.
True enough. It's still tax evasion, though.
Read up on what took down Al Capone.
Re: FOSS
Exactly. Free.
I didn't contribute expecting to get paid ... although a nickle for every instance of TCP/IP which contains code that I wrote would certainly be nice, to say nothing of the myriad of patches I've contributed to the Linux kernel, BSD, GNU and FOSS in general over the decades :-)
Re: What about the people in the software world?
More likely you'll see a tax on people working from home to pay the owners of all that office space who aren't getting paid anymore, and more tax on fuel to pay all the poor gas(petrol) station operators who have been missing revenue this last year. These have actually been suggested here in the Bay Area.
Bridge tolls are going up, partially because we've had less traffic. I kid you not.
And don't forget schools ... Schools are funded according to how many students they have had in the classroom recently. Not enrolled, mind, but the language actually states "in the classroom". Guess what happens when a pandemic ensures there are no kids in the classroom?
Cross-discipline boffin dream team issues social media warning: FIX IT NOW!
Re: Virtual Community
"That was one of the first phenomena to be documented, even in the very early days of UUCP-based Usenet."
Before that, even. BBSes were known for their idiosyncrasy, and even Community Memory brought like-minded people together from across the Bay Area. (I got a lift to Day On The Green on July 13th, 1974 via a Community Memory message. The people with the car are still friends of mine.)
In the old days, we had the town well and bread oven.
Re: looking at pictures of cats and hope it all goes away
Too late. Skogkatts have already inherited the Earth. Some even have a proto;opposable thumb, which allows them to descend from trees head-first (among other interesting things ... operating the can-opener doesn;t seem to be one of them. Yet.).
Jeff Bezos names the fourth person for the first New Shepard flight: Wally Funk
Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web NFT fetches $5.4m at auction while rest of us gaze upon source code for $0
Exoskeleton startup wants to slap robot arms on schoolkids
You wait ages for a neutron star and black hole to collide, then two pairs come along at once
Revealed: Why Windows Task Manager took a cuddlier approach to (process) death and destruction
Re: -9
L1-A does the STOP-A thing on some Sun keyboards ... Note that doesn't actually shutdown the system, it takes you to the OpenBoot prompt.
As long as I'm typing anyway:
sync
sync
halt
is just as fast (no need to reach for L1), and actually halts the system. Note that the second sync isn't necessary, it's an example of cargo-cult programming. The first sync doesn't do anything obvious, so people issue the second sync command just to make sure.
Re: meh
Mine don't even bother to haul them behind the shed. They just get killed where they stand.
When my daughter was learning to program for X11 she managed to create a child window that refused to die. So I introduced her the the xkill program. Naturally, being the rebellious teenager that she was, the primary thing she learned from the exercise was that she could change her mouse pointer to a skull and crossbones. Which she promptly did.
Probably get her kicked out of school and/or jailed these days. Sad, that.
There was a crooked man who bought a crooked M1 iMac, and we presume they lived together in a little crooked house
Re: Units error
But ... but ... but ... I thought it was all the unerring word of God! Now you're telling me that it wuz Umans wot rote it?????? I R confuzled.
Whispers? Are you trying to say the Bible is just a transcribed game of what us supposedly racist Yanks call "Telephone", and you more enlightened Brits call "Chinese Whispers"?
I suppose that's not what you mean by "oral tradition" these days ...
Linus Torvalds launches Linux kernel 5.13 after seven release candidates
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