Posts by bombastic bob 10283 publicly visible posts • joined 1 May 2015
decades ago MS had a version of notepad that I think was called "multipad" which was basically an MDI notepad that was part of the windows 3 SDK as an example program. As I recall, it simply uses the built-in EDIT control with some other basic features like file save/open, clipboard, and searching.
If anything were to replace it, i suggest pluma (the editor for Mate based on gedit 2.x)
why does what you said remind me of Neville Chamberlain... ?
although there will certainly be those who do NOT see a problem with communist aggression, the reality is that THIS is MOST CERTAINLY communist aggression, from CHINA!
Then ask yourself: Who's next?
(what DO they teach in schools these days?)
Let's just call it what it IS: "Invasion" (not "unification")
[When Germany did this to France in 1940 we called it what it was.]
Using "their term" is a bit like Chamberlain's appeasement policy isn't it?
This sounds to me like offshore production needs to move back ON shore, ASAP.
2025 is only 3 years away, and is ANYBODY constructing a new space station yet? Yeah better kick the can down the road a bit in the mean time...
Looks like the ISS must follow in the footsteps of Mir and the Space Shuttle, living WAY past its (original) project expiration date.
(that is NOT necessarily a BAD thing as I see it)
I suppose you could say the same about things like Mars rovers, too.
you can still get the 'dumb' versions of various appliances (including phones), last I checked...
normally I do not look at nor consider 'ecological' or 'environmental' (or even political) things when I buy something. It's nearly always price vs features. The limited budget I have to buy things with requires it.
And usually the 'dumb' versions cost LESS. I call THAT a feature!
when you give an answer they don't like, they'll ask you again, "just to make sure,"
This reminds me a bit of those Apple vs PC ads - "Cancel or Allow"
And I recall the 'Microsoft Account' part of setup to be a LOT more heinous and strong-arming... having to jump through the right hoop to get to a screen that would actually LET you create a local user account.
(not like I do this every day, just to set up a test version in a VM)
Some marketeers are SO good at what they do, they could sell ICE MAKERS to people who live in a permanently frozen climate. That being said, they could ALSO convince people that Windows 10 (or 11) is better than other operating systems...
(Audiophile overpricing seems minor compared to that LAST thing I mentioned)
you reminded me of the opening sequence for 'Idiocracy' where the DUMBEST people were the only ones actually breeding. That being the case, wouldn't a dumber population have a HIGHER birth rate? The sucker being born every minute rate would soon become an exponentially increasing sucker:unit-of-time ratio... as the population explodes into an 'Idiocracy'.
Brawndo - it's good for plants!
pyrobot - the robot that halts and catches fire!
It could just be the capacitors...
I could have made a 486 CPU running an old x86 version of Linux work with >20 year old Linux software do a better job. I actually tested FreeBSD 4.7 through 4.11 on an old 486 (kernel+world took >24 hours to compile but GUI performance was actually acceptable). [Worth mentioning, even on that ancient hardware, I was quickly convinced that FreeBSD would make a better daily driver and server OS than anything post-XP excreted from Micros~1, beginning with ".NOT", and soon after, FreeBSD 5 became the OS for my main workstation]. And with "modern" display hardware, it would ACTUALLY WORK (and quite possibly MORE reliably). A typical touch screen with a basic USB 1.0 compatible HID interface could do the same job with that old hardware+software as it does with newer stuff, minus the ".Not" b0rkage. Seriously, COULD be done. (but finding a working SATA adapter or replacement iDE drive for it would be difficult, so it'd probably work better to use an RPi with Raspberry Pi OS on it)
i have recently done a lot of touch screen UI stuff using an RPi, and with Linux on it, the CPU load is small, unless you use Chrome for a web-based UI, in which case Chrome is a pig and hungry for a faster CPU and more RAM. But something more native generally performs nicely, even on an RPi 1.
".Not" tried to fix DLL Hell by inventing NEW ways of B0RKING THINGS UP.
Well, at the very least, that b0rked display in the article was 3D SKEUOMORPHIC looking.
What have you been drinking?
Koolaid perhaps? (But I think he meant the opposite)
Circling back to the topic, I wonder if they'll go after ASCII art as well. I have several good ways of indicating naughty bits with standard ASCII characters floating about in my head... like maybe naughty emojis or similar
*naughty-bits* <-- insert imagination here
specifically, R.O.C. and unfortunately the source of the parts is no longer visible on various distributor sites so I cannot tell where they are being made. As I recall a couple of components were being made in R.O.C. at the time they went short and the availability is unstable. One I designed around by selecting a different component with negative logic and fixed it in firmware. I recall having seen tariff info on these parts so most likely R.O.C. but now it's no longer there, for good or ill.
What R.O.C. does (in many ways) is a kind of "lock in" that involves their internal tax code, moving parts from one area to another (or import from Taiwan or elsewhere) often having a tariff or VAT applied (or it used to, may have changed). So they built a bunch of factories of various kinds of components near to where board assembly is done, no tariff except at the end, unless you buy parts "elsewhere". This also affects design choices. End result, if an entire TOWN gets shut down due to the virus or a whim or anything else, you end up with shortages. All eggs, one basket again.
Paul Atreides (Dune) would say that "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing."
Though this may not be the case with the RPi part shortages (which may be affected because of simple re-prioritization), it is ONE of the factors in the international supply fiasco.
just pointing out the obvious: "Let's make EVERYTHING in China" - bad choice, obviously. Obviously NOW, that is. (when 'second source' is ALSO the 'first source' there IS no 'second source')
Sometimes, when the lemmings are running towards a place that everyone ELSE seems to say is REALLY GOOD, it does not necessarily mean that the proverbial cliff (that is rumored to have lemmings stampede to their deaths off of) is NOT dead ahead... even when such a thing has allegedly been debunked. "There is NO cliff" "the basket will hold" "look how much less it costs to have it made over there" etc.
And now it looks like bean counters were VERY, VERY WRONG. We taught our world-wide competition how to make our stuff, we invested OUR money into building all of our new factories there, they effectively hired slave labor to make the stuff, nobody else could compete so they stopped making stuff everywhere else, the rest of the world looked the other way from all of the various abuses and just quietly moved everything "off shore", and now, HERE! WE! ARE!!!
Is anyone ELSE *NOT* surprised? (and yet I have to assist others with working around this problem, more contracting work for me if it is solvable, but what if it is not, at least not in the short term? Re-designing the circuit board to use a different component may take longer or cost more than paying some scalper for components at 100 times the original cost)
yeah they're just pissed about not being able to monetize user data in a way that can't be seen by Japan (or any other country that passes similar laws). So they'll aledge it will "cost the end user" in some way, instead of just ADMITTING THEY DO THINGS and supporting disclosure and opt in/out requirements along with it.
In other words, if they cared about end-users they would adopt GDPR-like policies WORLD WIDE, and just say somewhere "Our data is kept in servers in these places" and correlate it with the country from where the user signed up. Should not be too hard, right?
(icon because it's moderately amusing to use it for this case)
flouting the rules can reduce access to jobs, education, and even access to high-speed internet.
Apparently in China, it is "cancel culture on steroids".
I wonder what they'd do to you for a WINNIE THE POOH costume...
I ran the list through google translate, saw some specific mention of the use of hats and clothing that had faces of Chinese communist party leaders on them, and the practice of folding or otherwise distorting the hats and clothing to produce (assume humorous) facial expressions. That actually sounds kinda funny!
my 'least favorite' one is a derivative of "People that are smarter than you are already working on it".
But the truth is that people who say such discouraging things are simply TOXIC and should be removed from any position of influence immediately.
As for brain-controlled things, back in the 90's there was this arcade-style video game in a computer store that had a couple of 'things' to put two fingers in, one for the right hand and one for the left. it was a downhill skiing game with a slalom course and you needed to "think right thoughts" for it to go right, and "think left thoughts" for it to go left. I played it for a few minutes, got the hang of it pretty fast. I haven't seen anything like it since.
I also like NVidia. I have no problem with BLOBS because sometimes they are necessary, for regulatory reasons (WiFi drivers) as well as graphics stuff. So long as the driver has the right hooks that enable kernel reconfig and recompile, that is good enough for me. No need to force everyone to unzip their secret compartments for everyone (and their competition) to go fishing in.
At least they ARE supporting Linux, and in NVidia's case, also FreeBSD
(my 2 FreeBSD workstations have NVidia cards and I am happy with them)
It's the new kinder gentler less profane and angry Linus, now. Extreme prejudice, maybe, but no unkind words about the submitter's mother.
Some dry wit and well targeted adjectives might be in order, though...
Intel has to consider the perception of "unlock keys" for their hardware. I think it will cause them to lose sales. I bet AMD is paying very close attention. (they could easily implement this as part of the final assembly and test process and not reveal it exists outside the company, then just sell it with a different model number)
Also worth mentioning, RPi has a feature unlock key for a hardware MPEG decoder last I checked.
anti-business sentiment may get you upvotes, but people do not work for free. Money has to come from somewhere and pay for the development. Though I think Poettering should not be paid for what HE did to Linux (systemd, pulseaudio, etc.) the reality is that people who work on Linux often need paychecks.
So there you go. And the more talented you are, the more pay you should get (based on the value of your work, of course).
That being said, IBM is traditionally good at marketing, and that may be a great benefit to RH. Down side, they are going to want to be paid somehow. So IBM hardware with RHEL is a likely solution they would offer, bundled because it all makes sense.
And I still think that if RH needs more money, they just need to add enough value to their offerings that people are willing to pay for them.
Or else, Rocky Linux is starting to look pretty good.
when you have options, if there is value added to paying for support, go for it. The salary of your own Linux guru vs paying RH for their expertise is one of those choices the bean counters make.
So if you do not need support, use CentOS or Rocky or one of the others. RHEL if you need support.
And maybe RH should start making it more valuable to buy the support... (not by taking away competing distros but by offering more and more services)
I recently installed the latest Rocky Linux and it "worked out of the box", though I ran into a problem caused by one of the pre=installed packages (it was using a hard-coded IP address for something and it happened to match the IP of my intarwebs gateway - fixing that was a bit of a pain but a recursive grep for the IP address in /etc found the files responsible and I changed them, all good). Mostly I need to stay current and informed which is why I installed it in a VM for testing/eval.
Unfortunately no Mate support, though. There are some instructions in various places (that I did not try) to install Mate but it's not officially part of Rocky, which tries to track RHEL as faithfully as they can like CentOS used to. And on the official IRC channel it's a friendly bunch of people.
self-hosted web pages (I like setting up my own frequently used link pages this way) and embedded systems (that only access 'localhost' let's say for a web-based UI) ABSOLUTELY DO NOT NEED HTTPS or SSL (in general).
For this reason as well, "legacy" (not encrypted) http access MUST remain available.
And can you imagine implementing SSL on an ARDUINO? You _CAN_ implement a config web page (I have done it) using a wifi or ethernet shield... using "legacy" http.
Thank you for the doom and gloom.
As for me, if I had not already established natural immunity by having recovered from the virus in early January of 2020 (2 weeks after a co-worker returned from China and had to go home sick half way through the day) I might consider DELIBERATELY "catching" the Omicron variant because it has been heavily reported that along with its much more infectious nature, it has ALSO evolved into a less deadly version of itself. And as such, it is likely that recovery from THIS version would at least partially inoculate you for the OTHER variants... just like a vaccine based on the first version of the Wuhan Flu (upon which the existing vaccines were based) should at least PARTIALLY protect you from serious infection from the variants.
Remember "Cow Pox"? It is probably the first documented vaccine, which protected people from getting smallpox. A brilliant British physician discoverd this in the late 1700's and by the early 1800's it was being used to eliminate smallpox. Something to consider. The practice of weakening "the cause of the disease" and exposing people to it (there's a name I cannot recall) had already been established but was not widely practiced. This was done with Cow Pox, and then "test" patients exposed to weakened smallpox (and did not catch it), similar to modern day clinical trials and double-blind tests. It really was cutting edge stuff at the time. And it saved lives, DELIBERATELY giving people a weaker version of a disease that caused the immune system to recognize the deadlier one.
But yeah, doom and gloom scares people into letting go of their freedoms and voting for people that manipulate them. Can't have any TRUTH or REAL cures, now can we?
I've been seeing load performance issues with things relying on googleapis all week, and youtube videos that just sit there not playing for several minutes within the last hour.
More may be broken than people are willing to admit...
(then again this is my anecdotal experience out here on the left coast of the USA, so YMMV)
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