* Posts by Teiwaz

4133 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011

EU ministers look to tighten up privacy – JUST KIDDING – surveillance laws

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This is likened to using an outdoor leaf vacuum in the flowerbed, yes you might get some leaves, but the flowerbed is now a ruined wasteland where the weeds can flourish.

Few if any terrorist attacks of late have been found to have been organised using encryption, our politicians are either not fit to make these decisions due to stupidity or some shadowy ulterior motive.

I'm not surprised France is leading this, they've been heading inexorably toward the right wing for years now, having forgotten the lessons of their post revolution years or Napoleon shortly after. Britain much the same, still basking in righteous afterglow of being in the winning side of WW1 & WW2 it believes any step it takes will be the march of the just and the righteous so much it forgets to look where it's walking.

I'll loose all faith in humanity of Germany follows, it's darkness is not long past the recent unification.

Mozilla's trying on seven hot new spring/summer logo looks

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impossible

Impossible not to think it was designed by someone on hard drugs, the I.Q. of a watercress sandwich or with a serious head injury?

I think it's meant to be like the impossible box animation on some screensavers and ultimately something m.c. escher-ish.

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Hmm,

Protocol is about the only one I 'may' not get sick looking at after ten minutes, 'eye of sauron' ain't either too amateurish or downright ugly (and that's not saying much really) both the latter encapsulate all the rest (what were they thinking? I'd have slapped the designers who presented them).

What's with the love for the old netscape logo? It looks clumsy and dated (people will be wanting the old ships wheel style back next).

Five-storey Blue Screen Of Death spotted in Thailand

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Museums...

I don't think I've ever been to a museum without noting a percentage of their demo/instruction/looped video players have either a BSOD or merely pointlessly showing a useless generic windows desktop instead of what it should be running.

Microsoft's kinder, gentler collaboration war: Evernote, you're first

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Re: @Shmako "but to me they're competing on level playing fields"

MS is nowhere near in any kind of dominant position

- You don't think Office is dominant? If it's not exactly an abuse, being able to tie notes and cloud into Office is clearly an advantage when it comes to selling cloud subscriptions.

It only starts to get abusive if access is limited or intentionally broken in order to drive users on competing products to your own offerings.

Microsoft buys Genee's lamp, tips it into Office 365, smashes lamp

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Re: I can hear...

...the ghost of the candyman clippy.

Say it's name three times while staring at the Cortana circle and he'll rise again.

Sex ban IT man loses appeal – but judge labels order 'unpoliceable'

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Re: While I agree?

it's totally unacceptable that they have now placed him in a position where he has no work, no home, and no prospects.

- I'd have thought that putting someone on that footing would be a guarantee of future offences, all you'd have left would be any fantasies, and not a lot left to loose. Prevention? it sounds more like putting someone in a situation where they are more likely to exacerbate any issues rather than minimise so you can lock him away quicker, dust your hands and say 'see, we knew he was a risk' and ask for more powers.

Justice is depicted as blindfolded for impartiality, I get the feeling the new theory goes justice is blind because police, judges and other authorities poked her in the eyes so they could give the suspect a good kicking and she wouldn't see. Meanwhile the monkeys in Westminister are doing the three monkeys and flinging poo at eachother as usual.

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Re: "I recognise the SRO is unpoliceable so it stays"

We're getting to banana republic levels of justice

Hardly surprising, the country's run by red arsed baboons (has anyone seen Boris in that photo with his US opposite number)?

To quote Arnold Rimmer in 'The End' "I thought it was a publicity shot from 'Planet of the Apes'."

The whole Brexit/Remain campaign could have been no less a hash if conducted at a poo flinging chimps tea and shit party.

UK's mass-surveillance draft law grants spies incredible powers for no real reason – review

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Re: Will Godefrey And another thing

"You really think your prattling would be of any interest to anyone? ROFLMAO!"

- Might be one day, it's not that a Police State is in the imminent offing, but that carelessly or by design, the building blocks are being laid. Once terms like 'sedition' are being bandied about, you might find yourself ROFBBBP, 'cause 12 months record retention turned into 12 years.

Microsoft’s Continuum: Game changer or novelty?

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Re: "Samuel Johnson had for women preachers"

"Just to add to your knowledge of the man, Johnson was fond of insulting the Scottish and Scotland. I've yet to learn why."

- Some Englishmen need little excuse for that, in his time, probably only the second or third target after the french and irish.

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Re: "Samuel Johnson had for women preachers"

Would be mostly a literary reference, usually considered a more refined way of expressing oneself than something that sounds like a sectarian jibe, atheist or no.

Of course all I know about this historic literary figure is what was in that episode of Blackadder III, so I'm no more refined than the next lout.

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Compromised experience...

They don't have plans to do a converged OS because they think it will result in a compromised mobile experience and a compromised desktop experience.

I'd suspect with Apple, it's partially that, but mostly a lot of people have IOS devices, more than probably have OS X devices as well, why reduce your income by giving away the latter with the purchase of the former.

For other companies, Canonical included there is expediency in having the same codebase work across all devices. Ubuntu Core is much the same across phone to IOT, the UI will shortly be also shared by phone, tablet and desktop (once it's stable on the latter).

I expect Google will follow suite at some point with some conjoined Android/Chrome beastie. They say they've no intention, but why harm sales and slurp in the meantime by giving people the excuse to hold off. Google have no reason to not go this path eventually, as Chrome is the center of both platforms.

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Re: Ubuntu?

is that they have not released a version to market

There have been two Bq handsets, the second definitely support Convergence (both now unavailable due to selling out of stock), a tablet from Bq (still available), and two phones from Meizu (none were widely circulated mass market wise).

My headset is reading my mind and talking behind my back

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Re: The blue light effect doesn't seem to affect me

Especially when lunch is delivered in pint glasses eh? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink..

-- 'photographs, he asked him knowingly, flash, flash, grin grin, wink, wink.'

Obligatory: 'time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so'

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Re: Yellow 'sunglasses'

If you wear yellow sunglasses, do you have to go the full seventies and dress up like Starsky & Hutch?

- Brown tint does the seventies look as well (I had a pair in the 90's that prompted occasional ridicule (probably to hide jealousy).

The small circular frames with yellow tinted lenses (termed 'child molester' glasses by Lister in one episode of Red Dwarf) are more sixties IMO.

I used to try and dress like Starsky when I was seven (no kid would want to dress like Hutch, all those wool sweaters).

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The Tint of spectacle

The only tint in the spectacles of IOT 'entrepreneurs' is rose coloured. It's only a pity the porn industry haven't gotten interested, their motives are pure in comparison to the current hordes of snake oil salemen.

I'd expect Dabbsy has put himself in the email list for every internet of useless gimmick pedlar out there, hoping for a bit of free marketing and ad space, I can ony think they only skimmed the last article, forgot to remove said rose tinted glasses first or the Ealing comedy style was lost on them.

Microsoft has open-sourced PowerShell for Linux, Macs. Repeat, Microsoft has open-sourced PowerShell

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Re: "On Linux we’re just another shell"

sudo systemctl enable multi-user.target --force

sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target

(ignore the warnings and messages)

- On my system (Archlinux), all I need do is:

sudo systemctl disable <whatever display manager I happen to be running, currently sddm>.service

after boot, or additional stop command as above and logout, hey presto, console....

Simples..

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Re: More embracing from MS...

You had to twist a little there to get the E/E/E concept to fit.

- Hmm, just at the 'extinguish', I felt it was just a little tenuous, but the extinguish has always been about less competition (preferably none) = more Windows licence sales, so I think it's valid.

Yes, E/E/E has been used too much, as has M$ and all the other slurs, but they started with justification. Certainly normal business practice involves getting your product the in the best position, but I shouldn't have to remind anyone here that Microsoft are on record as having abused their position like a runner shoving competitors off the track.

They might be under less 'chair flinging' management today, but it's too soon to expect a total reversal in it's company mindset.

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Re: "On Linux we’re just another shell"

I seem to remember something about Ms envisioning Windows as a client desktop OS only at the time and Xenix was to provide the networking, as it was DOS + windows, this was a sensible vision - where did the madness and egoism creep in? I'm now forced to wonder...

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Re: More embracing from MS...

It's pretty obvious to anyone who understands the GPL, that extinguishing of that nature is not possible. You think people are worried Linux will be bought out like Nokia?

People are perplexed at Microsofts recent 'Linux moves, still remembering the 'linux = cancer' line they pushing not long ago.

I've Win 10 on a VM, I'm interested in the bash subsystem, but why would I run bash on Windows on Linux (reminds me of that Father Ted episode, and the extension built on the extension).

Microsoft have embraced Unix tools into Windows 10 with the Bash subsystem, they are extending the influence of Windows infrastructure by providing them for Linux in the form of .net and Powersell, all the hopes of extinguishing a little more competition and getting more Azure sales.

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Re: "On Linux we’re just another shell"

"Microsoft is looking to the future, and the future isn't MS Windows."

- Is anyone else reminded of Xenix (alternatively, is anyone here old enough too any more)?

- I'm not saying we're going in circles or anything...

UK IT consultant subject to insane sex ban order mounts legal challenge

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ECHR

The current PM has already expressed a preference for leaving the ECHR.

New UK trade deals would not compensate for loss of single market membership

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Re: Good grief.

dyed in the wool hard left marxist

- I'd have thought 'workers control of the means of production' would be more fitting a Brexit position, given the slogan 'Take back Control'.

Clearly only someone leaning heavily toward the far right would imagine his nemesis would be so far on the 'opposite end of the political spectrum'.

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Re: Brexit...

"If the tories played fast and loose with this they will suffer at the ballot box next time around. Not that it will be the labour party that would benefit - disaffected brexit tory voters are probably more likely to jump to UKIP."

- Probably splitting the 'conservative' vote even further, and the other parties aren't exactly pro-leave...

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Re: Wrong

Every other "prediction" by the losers who wanted to stay in has proven wrong.

Everything in the last month and a half has just been uncertainty, we've not actually left the EU yet, so it's too soon by far to call wrong on much of anything, remain doom or leave dreams.

Overall it's wiser to expect the worst and hope for the best than vice versa, which is why the leavers concerned me.

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Joke

Re: Also, the reverse would apply

Norway has said it will veto us joining the EFTA

Bastards!! Boycot smorgasbords and Norwegian restaurants now!!

Swedish Pokemon teens terrorised by laser-wielding 'sex pigs'

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Re: One wonders what the green laser pointer was intended for

I shudder to think how it could have been used in their later endeavors...

- (erotic) colour therapy? - green supposedly is a colour that promotes growth.

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Re: "spotted by motorists on the local Highway 70 having sizzling sex"

I get the bacon reference but why is it always 'sizzling'.

If it's not sizzling, then you're not doing it (or her) right.

- Report mentioned a 'under a waterwheel' - no idea if it was functional or not (presume not), it'd be hard to sizzle while getting squelchy (squealchy?), oh and wet.

I thought the article was referring to a new game, put me in mind of 'Psycho Pigs UXB'....

London cops waste £2.1m on thought crime unit – and they want volunteer informers

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Re: A Stasi-like State in the making...

"May herself said she wouldn't be campaigning to leave it."

- Was it not reported she said she'd like to stay in the EEC but leave the EHCR early in the Brexit campaign? She kept quiet through most of the rest of it.

Going by the push for Surveillance during her tenure at the Home Office, she's not one to let go of an idea.

Microsoft: Why we had to tie Azure Stack to boxen we picked for you

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Re: Building a walled garden, one brick at a time.

Some sense to this, if it can guarantee hardware and software plays together, hasn't really done Apple any harm in the long run.

The average consumer user (not gamers or those with hobbies that require specific programs), a laptop or desktop has become an irrelevance or an extra, it really depends on whether you are invested in the Microsoft platform as to whether you are walled in when the 'last few bricks get put in place', and since they've given up on Phones, there's little hope of ubiquity for the Windows platform in the mass consumer market.

That leaves Businesses, they are well on track to mess that up eventually be degrading the user experience on Windows Pro. Basically that leaves Enterprise...

The curious case of a wearables cynic and his enduring fat bastardry

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Wut?

"about 6 wanks a day?"

- Sounds Olympic level, could barely manage that in my teens...

Clinton outphished by Trump

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Who’s the lesser evil?

I've been voting with that in mind since I was eligible to vote. I've never seen a candidate I 'wanted' to vote for...

Windows 10 Anniversary Update is borking boxen everywhere

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Re: PCs to a useful state

"Thanks to Microsoft, the year of Linux on the desktop is approaching ever closer.

Or am I missing something?"

- A decent AD campaign. This would have been a ggod time for IBM to run a Linux advert campaign not last decade like they did.

Microsoft: You liked Windows 10 so much, you'll get 2 more in 2017

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Re: do you enjoy

"Flogging youself with a dead horse?

Mint with a Windows 10 skin. Shudder. The word I'm looking for is Masocist. Yep that is it."

- Never came across Blue Pup linux then? - Puppy Linux with a Windows 8 tiles look.

Render crashing PCs back to their component silicon: They deserve it

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Re: Dune

"And don't read too many of the increasingly godawful sequels."

- Anything after Heretics of Dune aren't sequels, they're milking the series. Meh, some of them are Ok, but all of them together are not worth one of the original.

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Dune?

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties... And the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

"Appendix II: The Religion of Dune"

- Admit it Dabbsy, all those Dune references were merely a preamble so you could declare a Butlerian Jihad at the end.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update: This design needs a dictator

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Win 10 in a VM

I had the opportunity to install it in a VM yesterday. I noted the install process listed...

Gathering files

Installing features

Setting up

I thought, "no OS then , just a set of 'features' is it?"

Anniversary edition reminds me of games re-releases that come out with a few extras.

Windows 10: Happy with Anniversary Update?

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Re: Web much?

"I may have misunderstood that. But the Anniversary Update makes Cortana a life long commitment?"

- That was my understanding too, we are supposedly discussing the Anniversary update. Windows 10, full engagement with and marriage to Cortana (unless you throw her under a bus penguin).

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KDE Classic Style

Ah, choice, and choice painless to implement. No extra downloads, packages or 'classic shells'

From Classic hierarchical 'Start' to the boxy compact with search to fullscreen launcher (which I rather like). Pointlessly, I couldn't resist having all three available - just because.

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Re: 'Nix is good when it works but damn hard work when it doesn't. @kryptylomese

"Still doesn't work with switchable graphics. Or did you mean to write "WAY LESS"?"

- I assumed that was a 'Wayne's World' reference.

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Re: 'Nix is good when it works but damn hard work when it doesn't.

"Linux nowadays has WAY drivers than Windows, and it is supported by hardware manufacturers."

- Certainly much better than in the past, but Logitech didn't seem interested when I bought one of their touchpads on the 'hopes it'll work'. Took a few releases for the kernel to catch up, now it works great, limited at first.

Linux has been able to drive winmodems for a long time.

- I've not had need of a winmodem for about 8 years, and my anecdote was circa 1999. Back then some makes/models worked, some would with a bit of fiddling, others were never going to (at the time).

We are very lucky these days!

- Hell yes.

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And how does that make it a "service?

Ah, this is where people always get confused.

It helps to look at as in when a Bull 'services' a Cow, then it makes perfect sense.

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Re: Don't care!

"Why are newly converted Linux zealots so totally fixated on commenting on Windows 10 articles?"

Because they might have switched at home, but at work, their PHB won't consider it in a primarily Windows shop so they end up still having to put up with Windows?

Because they might have been afraid to try it for years, then summoned the courage, made the switch and hope to reach others in the same position they were in a while back?

There's to 'Why's off the top of my head. I converted 16 years ago, but I'm still interested in what's going on with Windows, even if it sometimes feels like gawking out the window at a serious car crash.

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'Nix is good when it works but damn hard work when it doesn't.

If you go on most BSD pages, it'll tell you to pick your hardware to run it on. The 'Linux community tries very hard to ensure 'Linux runs on as many different hardware configurations as possible, often with total lack of interest from the hardware vendors.

When I ventured onto the 'Linux scene, I actually had to spend £200 on a pcmcia card to get an internet connection, as the winmodem on my laptop was not likely to ever work in the near future.

I think we're lucky these days compared to back then.

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times have changed?

"For many a year it was Apple fanboys who filled this niche, but as you can see, times have changed."

- They still do. The giant bully has faltered, everyone wants to get a 'payback' punch in while he's down.

Windows fanboys also come to 'Linux forums to 'have a go' too.

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So why do I prefer linux mint ?

Specifying 'mint' seems unnecessary, there is nothing Mint specific on you list (nothing 'Linux doesn't also share with the likes of BSD either).

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Re: Web much?

On a slow PC (or merely a slow connection) look forward to significant delays in start menu search if it's checking online as well as looking for some local program.

Used to get very long delays with this sort of functionality when Ubuntu Unity had it's web search activated (at least you could always turn this off on Ubuntu).

The public like always on connectivity where they can easily find out stuff with ease, but it's a convenience they are after, not a forced compulsion. This had ended up becoming a connected by default with no fall back should the connection not be there. Windows 10 is an internet addict.

Windows 10 grabs 22 per cent desktop market share in a year

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Re: hey I'm a "0.0015%"-er

As a 'Linux user I'd like to know what websites are counted. Facebook and twitter no doubt among them. I'd probably be fairly confident if I said I visited none with anything approaching regularity, occasional or less.

El reg users as representative - not likely. Since these figure include mobiles, smart Tvs and game consoles, it's too big a sample to declare on 'desktop'.

What's this fuss over 'Desktop Linux' anyway, 'Window Manager Linux' has always been more than sufficient for my needs, right back to FVWM.

Windows 10 still free, even the Anniversary Update, if you're crass

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'Windows 10 still free'

'This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheeps bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.'

Pokémon Go tragedy strikes

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Pokemon Gone? - If only...

I know a few into it, I know plenty who don't see the point. I've been told I'm a grumpy guy who just doesn't get it, but I just don't want to as I have an obsessive personality. I have enough to contend with keeping the ones I have in check.