Posts by Teiwaz

Re: Smart phones...

People seem to not understand that sim applications exist.

'sim applications' - I have visions of digital people slathering on ointment for some reason...

Re: "paying out the nose"

I broke the downvote counter the last time I made an observation about how rounders is a pathetically inverior version of American baseball.

Really? I could have expected that response maybe for Cricket, but not 'rounders' I thought only preteens played that...bu then I don't pay a lot of attention to sport, their might be a professional 'series', leaugue or 'world championship' I don't know about.

No one would get that impassioned about an amateur game... You don't hear the Hockey fans belittle Polo much....

I also got the impression most americans were less baseball focused in favour of 'football' the last few decades.

Re: what's fascinating is how the SystemD fanboys react

what's fascinating is how the SystemD fanboys react

Just, argh!! - It's also horrifying how the SystemD haters react....nobody seems willing to contradict what seems one of the key points of anti-systemd scripture.

Neither camp comes out well in this forum - and for the record, resolver is running on my Ubuntu 17.04 install I'm currently using, pid 974.

My Arch machine is awaiting parts, so no idea there just now.

Re: So how'd they get it?

Takes a couple of minutes to do that on Windows 10. Faster copying large files than the latest Ubuntu I note from benchmarks....

- Using the Ubuntu for Windows subsystem doesn't count...

Re: How am I supposed to IGNORE the update...

You ignore it by paying extra cash to be a business user (who can delay updates for a month or two) rather than a beta tester home user.

That's god advice, but, considering what they did to their 'Professional' version - think I'll play it safer and just not run their crap if I can avoid it.

Re: Sex offenders covers a lot of ground

"Why the hell did England have to send us the Puritans? Couldn't you have sent them to Australia and given us the convicts?"

> He He, nope, Puritan emigration was mostly voluntary - you can blame the UK for the Irish due to mismanagement during the famine though - that's fair...

> Rightwing nutjob population level slowly creeping up in the UK again though - we need a new frontier to pack these types off to.

Re: Now I remember what Theresa May looks like!

'Salt Vampire'

- original Star Trek reference?

'Sea Devil' works also - and is a nice 70's British reference point....

Re: Have they surveyed other groups?

The many of the negative attributes quoted for the open source community apply to just about every other community too.

Probably very true. Certainly wherever somebody feels threatened by a strangers advice, criticism or feels their worldview is being called into question.

Year of Linux on the Desktop

Whenever a dissatisfied Windows user installs 'Linux on and sticks with it.

There are many thousands of very personal 'year of Linux on the Desktop' experiences out there.

Re: Time to do the porting

He knows a lot more than you do, if he wasn't working for Google he'd probably be working for GCHQ, seems a bright chap.

- I thought the last time a lot of 'bright chap's worked for GCHQ was before it was called that, and during the draft....

'a matter of Internal Security, the age-old cry of the oppresser'

- Jean-Luc Picard - The Hunted

Re: Stuck on Edge

One of the "feature" of Windows 10S is that you cannot set a preferred browser or a preferred search engine.

It's a 'feature' alright, a positive boon for MS Marketing - they get to increase the usage stats of their latest 'golden child' browser and their search engine usage with no other competing options.

Sod all use to their users though - more of a bug from the users perspective.

Suse

I was Suse user right up until the Novell re-focus.

Suse as a desktop Linux sucked for several versions after that. Most of the care and attention went out the window, sound or graphics implementations were shoddy - I switched to Mandrake.

With the focus shift away from desktops toward mobile form factors I do feel Linux has lost something in the abandonment of Unity 8.

But then there is always Plasma.

The whole of Season 1, long before Wesley showed up

How many minutes into Encounter at Farpoint Premiere double episode was that then?

Let's see, Picard intro, ship, encounter with Q, yada yada, Q abomination court of 2071 scene, Riker intro, yada yada, Doctor Crusher and her chirpy enthusiastic son at Farpoint market.

I guess you did not use MS Access. Probably only serious data analysts really need it, but there is nothing like it in Linux. Libre Office database is a child's effort in comparison.

I'd like to think serious data analysts would get something a little more serious than Microsofts off the shelf general purpose toolkit database system.

Libre Office is not trying to be a one size fits all on this front, it doesn't have to, it's not trying to sell as many copies as possible and muscle out the competitions in all market segments like MSOffice. It's a small office tool and not expanded beyond sanity like Access.

Re: Are you 18

Yes / No

sorted

Unfortunately the government of the United Kingdom has about as much trust in it's citizens as teh Peoples Republic of China (and getting on North Korea).

If 'yes' and you wish to view ponography, you are probably an anti-social radical (and unmutual) and requires watching, hence the data retention.

"this is photography, hard photography" Alexi Sayle - Comic Strip Presents Dirty Movie.

Re: Headline just made me think of...

Another fit wearable article - “Kiazi's children, their faces wet.”

Chances of gamification makin a difference in purchase increasesd - "Shaka, when the walls fell.”

Re: Am I the only one

What would be better is if one could click to find out more about the place featured in the image.

Sound idea - Problem is, it'll end up being an advert sponsored by the Irish Tourist Board, with a link to booking a Holiday in Ireland before it gets to initial rollout - the 'ads' for s/w on the startmenu for is stupid enough.

Re: Are they kidding?

Yup, that's my experience of the recent GTAs - fire a gun anywhere near traffic, and 9/10 times, the panicking drivers within range will go manage to run over every pedestrian within range, and likely your character will spend the next ten minutes under the back wheels of a car stuck in the jam.

Re: @Mage Options

I gave root a really ugly colour scheme to make sure that I'm not tempted to use it too often.

Yikes, using a GUI with the SuperUser? Is it still the early 2000's?

If your regular UI is working, you should be using that with your regular user (with Admin SU rights *) and escalate when required - most 'Linux desktops will prompt for access to escalate privilages properly these days (unlike the beginning of the century).

* I am aware some people have issues with sudo, but it's got to be safer than logging into a Gui with ROOT.

Getting effective with the CLI is progress to being aquainted with every 'Linux distribution, and other Unices, it's worth it

Re: Arseholes

The TV adaption was well done (stayed mostly faithful to the books, good casting, wardrobe, locations not all CG), but they can't beat the books.

Odd really, all my life I've been waiting for a good adaption of fantasy books, when a few come along I'm no longer that excited after a bit, because I realise you can't beat the the novel format after all.

I think the two Dune takes did it. David Lynchs film version was kind of good (the fan version fixed a lot of issues) and the Sci Fi channel version had it's good points (except characterisations for some, turning Paul into a whinger at the start, and totally lobotomising Gurney Halleck).

Re: Also, unicorns, Muppets

Did someone say 'muppet'?

- Now I have a craving for a few episodes of Fraggle Rock, dammit...

...croons pathetically, 'halfway up the stair....'

Re: Your balls (as a service)

With Microsoft you can expect to have your balls cut off and handed back to you,

- Seems a pro Ms sentiment - these days, you'd have to have a subscription, and no guarantee of no service outages - wake some morning and find the message (could not connect to 'balls).

Re: Take Christmas and the new year off, please.

The Heart-bleed bug was introduced late on new years eve. If only that programmer had been partying instead of coding.

Maybe doing both...

I've had a few long lunches* and come back to put in a few really productive hours at the office (or so I thought at the time) only to come in the next morning and look at the code and think wha???

* Usually company sponsored events.

Re: Some of you might like this...

http://www.bornagainpagan.com/cartoons/068-doonesbury-creationism.html

- Yikes. 'BornagainPagan' as a title for an atheist site mostly bashing organised religion (not that it doesn't need a good hammering to keep it humble).

I remember when that title was used for good honest Western Mystery Tradition topics, and more likely to contain quotes from Crowley and Alex Sanders than Dawkins...