Posts by oldcoder

Oh it is still "free as in beer".

They are paying for extra support.

Re: Oracle cares about one thing only...

Windows won't save you... as you lose control over your data and operating system.

Re: So since Microsoft are not concerned about the security of windows,

They already covered the "unfit for purpose" in the warranty.

There is no warranty that it is "fit for any purpose"....

From the EULA:

"The manufacturer or installer, and Microsoft, exclude all implied warranties and conditions, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose., and non-infringement. If your local law does not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, then any implied warranties, guarantees, or conditions last only during the term of the limited warranty and are limited as much as your local law allows. If your local law requires a longer limited warranty term, despite this agreement, then that longer term will apply, but you can recover only the remedies this agreement allows."

So you get nothing more than what you paid for it...

Re: DACA bad. MAGA good.

Not mentioning pardoning racists, and promoting the white supremacists when they murder people.

Re: MS-as-usual

and only use Microsoft products...

Might be the "most consistent APIs ever created" by Microsoft...

Naaa.

Cloud just means someone else owns your underwear, and knows everything about your company.

Re: Wondering ...

Don't you remember the demonstrations of something like a 232 mile record distance with wifi?

https://www.wired.com/2007/06/w_wifi_record_2/

This one did use some special antenna, but the range limits are

NOT limited to 100 feet by design. It is only limited by construction.

Even then, it is entire possible to build a slow cruse missile...

Re: Beer

No. Using the initrd separates/eliminates that restriction.

The only requirement is that the ZFS module must exist in the initrd.

The only filesystem mandatory in the kernel (with the initrd) is the one for a RAMFS, as that is what the initrd (a compressed cpio file) is put into, then that is used for the root filesystem while hardware and partition inventory is completed.

Only modules available for the hardware (and filesystems needed) will be loaded.

Thus the ZFS module would be loaded from the initrd, then the real root filesystem mounted... and the system uses "pivot_root" to exchange the real root for the RAMFS, which can then be dismounted and deallocated.

What MIGHT be a problem is for grub to be able to load the kernel and initrd from a ZFS based filesystem.

Re: @AC

I believe you still aren't allowed to redistribute the code.

Thus you aren't allowed to pass on your BSD code in a duplicated DVD.

The movie didn't follow the 3 laws.

Besides not following the story either.

Re: As I've said before ...

I don't think Linus would object to the network code moving out of the kernel...

As long as it works, and has equal performance, and doesn't change the userspace interface.

He might even give a sigh of relief at not having to put up with it anymore.

Re: Standardisation is always welcome

UNIX couldn't popularize the wrong thing...

The terminals used in 1973 didn't always have a backslash character available.

And the KSR 33 teletype didn't have it.

Re: What's the answer?

And hope the keys never leak.

And hope the hashing never collides.

And hope the validation step never gets hacked.

Not all that secure...

Don't forget, Even Windows RT was hacked to run Linux. And that is what it used.

Re: Grainy images?

A mirror works quite well for that... put the camera in a lead box with a view of the camera - then put a lead backing around the mirror.

So long as there is no direct line between the camera sensor and the radiation source, visible light is appropriately filtered of radiation.

Re: Systemd is extremely useful!

In very simple environments, it works fairly well.

But it sucks when you need to add a new service...

People

* keep having to add sleep times before they start...

* keep trying to get the service started

* resort to even using cron to start them via @boot

* still lose log data

* still have to put up with boot/shutdown hanging... sometimes

But in a simple environment... it isn't too bad. Last time I checked though, Slackware still booted faster.

Re: Wait a second!

"Even the US government would not be stupid enough to build a NY-DC tunnel without somebody to operate the entire system"

Certainly they would. Every road system in the US has separate contracts - one for building, another for maintenance, a third for improvements.

That way each contract gets to underbid... and different companies get to blame the cost overruns on a different company.

It would have taken longer, and the result less portable to/from Windows.

The question not asked and not answered is - "Does it run better?"

It will certainly have better security, it likely has better I/O response, but that is unknown without testing.

Re: The corporations one duty is to make profit for its stockholders. Period

"But all have a duty to obey the law, to pay any taxes they owe, etc."

Except when they can make more money by not obeying the law or pay taxes they owe...

One of the reasons Microsoft and AT&T keep ending up in court for NOT doing it... then pay a pittance to "get out of jail".

Just barely remembered enough of my morse code..

:-) :-)

Re: School boy mistake

You might find what they have been changing ...

:-)

Re: The city of Munich tried this

Did you bother to read the item?

Even the title says "MAY".

Big difference between MAY and WILL.

Re: Long File Path support

You can ALWAYS install the older libraries if you need them for compatibility.

You can't do that with Windows.

Re: a Mortal Threat...to augmented reality games

By that standard, putting a military base should also be sued for making the neighborhood a target...

Or a police station for collecting criminals to an area...

A firestation for messing up traffic flow...

A school for attracting delinquents...

Re: Ship of Theseus

Could that "closed laptop lid" count as S&M ?

Re: The usual baloney

At no time is "fusion" mentioned in the abstract - and that is the ONLY way to create uranium where it did not exist before.

Re: Wasn't Fukushima a "fail-safe" design?

What wasn't anticipated was the altitude drop that occurred.