Posts by a_yank_lurker

Re: I use URLCrazy for this

Thanks for the tip! It is in the Arch AUR.

Re: Really??

They may be hacker proof but are they jarhead proof?

Re: Microsoft is trying Windows RT all over again

The problem for Slurp is incompetent branding. Calling the OS used on very different devices 'Windows' is criminally stupid. For most it means a full desktop OS that runs desktop applications. Calling anything else Windows risks destroying the brand or at best killing the product before it even has a chance. If they called it something else like Google does with ChromeOS and Android then there is no confusion in the buyers' minds. It does not matter that ChromeOS might run some Android apps to anyone with a couple of functioning brain cells they are different products that one expects to have different capabilities.

@Barry Rueger - The idea behind building codes and PE licensing is without them it is too easy for an incompetent to design and build a structure that is not capable of withstanding the loads it will see in normal service. With both, there are standards of a sort to verify either it is built correctly or the person signing off on the design has the knowledge and competence to do so. Remember, if building, bridge, or dam collapses often there are many innocent dead.

Re: Low tech

@P.Lee - Modern military missiles are high tech but the basic technology was worked out by the 60's at the latest. Also, it is relatively well understood by too many so putting together a team to make a guided missile is not hard. The issue is some of the technical problems that dog military designs from the 40s forward are still present and that will take a certain level manufacturing competence to solve. In other words, the engineering knowledge to make a nuclear armed guided missile is readily available. But what stops many it manufacturing needed to make some of the critical pieces and the availability of the raw materials. So in the sense that the knowledge is there, low tech, but some of the infrastructure requires a good bit of money to build if does not exist locally.

Re: I admire their spunk!

Not wishing OO ceases but the size and nature of the project makes it difficult for a small group to handle. Also, OO lost too much momentum while Leisure Suit's Minions navel gazed. LO and to a lesser extent MariaDB got a solid jump on their parents during the dithering phase. This hurt OO much more than MySQL.

I have not looked into the licensing issues. I am not sure Apache will modify the license on OO so they could port LO improvements into OO.

Personally I would like a healthy OO as another option against Slurp and I like LO. Having a couple of options also means there is some different ideas about the feature set and UI available.

Re: I refer to my earlier post!

Ballmer is a titan of industry compared to the current imbeciles running the show. I run Arch Linux derivatives and do not have anywhere near the heartaches Bloat 10 users have. (Distrowatch.com notes that Arch Linux is for the stout of heart as you will learn a good bit about your system out of necessity.) My most common problem is sequencing the keyring update before the main updating. Sometimes I have to do the keyring manually and once done everything else works fine.

Re: Hells bells

Probably more of damage control to keep from sinking. This smells like Slurp is catching hell from enterprise users. Thus an attempt to slow the flooding on the Titanic. I think extremely rapid and short support life of Bloat 10 releases will cause more long term damage than the patching issues. Most businesses need reasonably current technology but not the bleeding edge. In fact stability is more important than the last 'feature'. Whenever USB 4 or something similar rolls out, USB, USB2, and USB3 devices will still work just fine.

Re: Well, if it is pure discrimination

HR = House of Representatives. It is where the bill originated. It has procedural importance if the Senate amends the bill.

@kain preacher - Uber is based out of SF and that is where most of the key staff is.

Re: A fool, but our fool

Since he was hacking from the UK, I support the idea he should be tried under UK laws. While the details vary a little most Western countries have laws that make his activities illegal. I am not happy with the DO(In)J antics and pandering to the press in these cases; personally I think more than a few DO(In)J shysters should at a minimum be permanently disbarred. If someone could find a way to charge with 'Crimes against Humanity' that would be nice.

As far as his guilt or innocence, other than proper procedures being followed to protect his rights, I am not that interested. My beef is that US shysters are more interested in making him an example than actually seeking justice. Something the Homer Cummings (US Attorney General under FDR) had problems with, shysters seeking a scalp rather than justice. The movie 'Boomerang' fictionalizes one his most prominent cases from 1924 where he proved the defendant was innocent of murder as the prosecutor and he declined to prosecute an innocent man.

Re: Just don't do it

I assume the email provider can scan emails even if only for a brief period of time. However, giving anyone else any password is below idiotic. The first rule of good security practice is never share any password even if it is 'password'.

Re: Biggest problem is the name.

@bombastic bob - I agree that the intro language should be one that is generic and useful for many applications and with a relatively easy syntax to learn. Python is a good choice and I would give a nod to Ruby also. If those two are unacceptable I would probably go with Java even though its syntax is convoluted; it is too useful a language and will around awhile. JavaScript (a better name is JackassScript) is not a well designed language outside of web applications a pain to use. With it you are likely to have taught beginners bad habits out of necessity. That necessity reminds me of a comment Dykstra made about Basic (paraphrasing): if a student learned Basic first he was a lost cause as a programmer.

Re: Ok....

From an Imbecile League university, PU believes its own hype about their intelligence - an observation from a townie.

Re: Several sorts of fail

A couple of other reasons:

11: management incompetence (XEROX Alto).

12. A more specific marketing problem, failure to grasp the original target market in not interested but that others will be (color copying and RCA in the 60/70's aimed at the consumer market but found great success in the 80's in the business market).

Re: Me Too! (?)

Probably never lead, always refurbished, sixth rate garbage as their base.

Re: Yelp me out here

The 'reputation management' frauds fail to understand the Streisand Effect and human behavior. Suing over an honest opinion runs the risk of a Streisand Effect. The other part is anyone with any sense is always wary of the a new store/provider. People tend to use the same places/providers because they are comfortable. Online reviews are one tool to help make decision but not the only tool. Many use experience, advise of others, 'the smell test', as well as online reviews before making a choice.

'Smell test' is when something does not seem right.

Re: How the mighty have fallen

Itsy Bitsy Morons have had a festering sore since the late 80s. They never really liked the shift away from big iron and related products to PCs, servers, etc. Also, for more than 30 years they have not been real innovators but followers; often third rate followers at best. In one sense they never got over the trauma of the late 80s to early 90s where they first laid off large number of employees.

Re: "Yeah, we called it Frisco."

Wrong coast, Frisco is noted for sourdough bread. Beantown (aka Boston) is noted for clam chowder.

Re: Entrapment?

Certainly smells like it. Also, if there was a theft, what is the statute of limitations? The feral goons strike again apparently they fear 70+ grannies. May be the US national anthem should be Offenbach's Gendarme Duet.

Re: Opinions versus facts

Calling a patent stupid is an opinion, obviously. But one key for any defamation to proceed anywhere is whether there are valid reasons for calling it stupid. In the case of software patents (wish are an oxymoron) they are basically a software implementation of a physical process and as such are both stupid and should not be allowed on the grounds that is implementing prior art.

Re: these exploits are worthless

Worthless only if the affected versions are not actively used. Given the popularity of 7 and XP as well the crumbs for 8/8.1 I would say they are valuable. With Slurp (and often true of other OSes) the same zero day is often found in multiple versions as well as other bugs. Thus knowing one worked on these versions means it likely will work on the latest Bloat version.

Re: A paid Red Hat Edition

The example of Red Hat is valid in that they do not have to support CentOS or Fedora. But they use both for different purposes. CentOS used by those who either want to mess around with Red Hat on the cheap or those who do not have the money for official support. Fedora is their stable but in advance of RHEL version. I emphasis it is a stable distro not some late alpha almost beta release like Bloat 10 CU is.

SUSE Linux does something similar in supporting openSUSE as the stable for the community option.

Re: Proof?

@Stoneshop - It's not the brand/model of the laptop but the existence of a set of files on the laptop. One other idea is the hard drive could be copied onto other. But there are a couple of problems with this case. Laptops have serial numbers and probably company inventory numbers assigned. Someone should be checking the these numbers immediately when the equipment is turned in. Why wasn't his account cancelled on his last day? The technical skills required are fairly common even if I personally suck at pl/sql and they are not that difficult to learn.