Posts by bombastic bob

Re: Bad feeling

what is especially important is a reliable file system recovery DVD that boots into live Linux and then lets you fix things, do backups and restores (without windows interfering, as with the registry) and things of that nature. I DL'd such an image a few years ago and it had an alpha-quality NTFS driver, but something that's part of the kernel and "blessed" makes this more practical.

Re: Title to long :whaa:

I've never seen the point in Fast startup or Hibernate, first thing I disable on my personal machines.

Agreed, though I have seen some people close laptop lids, pack in briefcase, then re-open in another spot and "just keep going". I prefer doing proper shutdowns and restarts.

Re: Cleansing datasets

I've often considered 'FEEL' to be "the F word"

So "go FEEL yourself" comes to mind...

Re: WSL-as-app

WSL "the app" is part of the whole "Embrace Extend Extinguish" master plan.

I think we're currently on 'Extend'...

From the article: "and in the long term we'd like to move WSL users to use the store version"

a) entice us into using a CLOUDY Micros~1 LOGIN to run their CRapp from "The Store" (instead of native system and local logon)

b) strong-arm us into ONLY BEING ABLE to use the CRapp with a cloudy Micros~1 logon if we want WSL

c) EXTINGUISH TIME!!!

I see a pattern...

Re: "We agree with the district court’s reasoning"

Attacking Cloudflare for hosting infringing sites is like attacking those who make roads for facilitating a criminal's getaway.

I had a few other analogies in mind, but this one is pretty clear and "a good match" where comparisons are concerned.

Re: Again?

thank you!

(see it is all in fun)

Re: Again?

I should make 'Nih' my pronoun. Also 'Ecky Ecky Pakang ZOOM Boing'

As for FaeceBan, WHEN will they EVAR learn to TEST things before deploying them?

And, FB should ALSO take this opportunity to LEARN why it is that SOME of us RESIST CHANGE... (you know, reliability, well tested, system stability, "it works", things like that)

i.e. they need to STOP "FIXING" THINGS that are NOT broken!! (assuming FB is not simply broken out of the box)

It's not like they deserve having things like this happen to them or anything...

[since I do not use it I can just sit back and laugh and eat popcorn]

and if you sat a running Windows 7 machine next to a running Windows 10 machine on a store shelf, all other things being equal, GUESS WHICH ONE WOULD SELL FASTER???

(this is why you generally cannot buy the older version of windows, even when people want it)

A car engine is usually massively overpowered for the work it does. And yet that extra horsepower comes in handy whenever you want it to. [similar with PCs for people who occasionally compile programs from source, or crunch numbers]

Re: Hitting a container?

My understanding is that shipping containers sometimes 'float' semi-submerged, depending on their contents

that's interesting but I would not expect it to remain that way very long. As sea pressure increases, the container would compress; if/when ocean got inside the container, the stuff within the container would soak it up and/or compress. This would tend to make the whole thing less buoyant.

now if it were in the PROCESS of sinking, then yeah, by random chance a sub could hit it at high speed and cause serious damage, and injury to the people inside.

Subs generally do not go fast near the surface (fast enough to cause damage/injury as I perceive it would be in a collision). They DO go fast while deep sometimes, if the crew needs to get someplace. And as a sinking container gets deeper, it would actually get heavier and sink better. But there would be a time window when a collision is possible...

Re: Hitting a container?

subs haven't been double hulled for a VERY long time. Some of the earlier ones were, but the idea was quickly abandoned. Basically a sub hull is a long metal tube made of high tensile strength steel (or perhaps titanium in the case of Russian boats) with frames but no strakes, all welded together (no plates or rivets). Nothing like old WW2 sub movies anyway. A bit like 'Hunt for Red October' and 'Crimson Tide' though.

Re: Hitting a container?

Do subs hover so close to the sea buttom?

Not generally but if an operation required it they're usually capable of doing so without crashing into things.

It's a fair bet they knew exactly where they were when it happened, and what the proper depth should be, etc..

Or possibly they were just looking for something, unusually close to the sea bottom. "Found it!"

NOT having a large submerged object on an existing chart (so that they avoid it) either means it's something mobile (like another sub) or "was put there" for some reason. A shipping container that had fallen from a surface ship is unlikely to be large enough to be a navigation hazard like that.

And if it's large enough that people were actually injured when they crashed, it was a seriously HUGE object, WAY bigger than a container.

[on my first underway, the sub struck another one during sea trials and had to go back to the shipyard to have its rudder repaired. I did not even feel it (I was asleep though)].

As for fixing the sub, I bet they'll be able to fix it properly in the shipyard. The newest ones actually use modular construction (from what I've read anyway).

Re: And who pays those corporate taxes?

how about if gummint JUST STOPS SPENDING AND RE-DISTRIBUTING SO MUCH MONEY?

Re: And who pays those corporate taxes?

and investors as well - higher corporate taxes mean lower dividends, lower stock value.

corporations do not actually pay tax. Only people pay it. And if you have a retirement fund, chances are the yield will go DOWN as corporate taxes go UP. After all, retirement mutual funds often have stocks as part of their portfolio.

bullet meet foot. How's that "soak the rich" thing working for ya???

icon because facepalm

Re: Good to see

in the REAL world, security does NOT mean a performance reduction. If there IS one, and it is NOTICEABLE, you need to re-think your architecture.

Just because Micros~1's "solutions" (like Defender re-scanning your newly built executable and DLL files EVERY! TIME! YOU! BUILD! YOUR! PROGRAM! as one irritating example) most DEFINITELY get in the way of performance, does not mean it MUST be this way.

It's LAZY to sacrifice performance in the name of "security".

Re: Windows 11 brings more into the modern UI but it remains a hybrid.

Does anyone know if Classic Start Menu runs on this abberation ABOMINATION

Fixed. you're welcome. And, I would expect classic start menu replacements to work, at least for now, because (apparently) Win-10-nic compatibility was part of the "Windows II" spec. Until "they" break it on purpose (so you do not bypass the ads)

(so is the '11' actually 1.1 or the roman numeral 2 ? Or BOTH?)

Re: "design paradigms from those devices could successfully carry over into a new Start"

young whippersnappers continually glued to their mobile phones

Otherwise known as "4 inchers" i.e. they see EVERYTHING through a 4 inch phone screen.

* always viewing in that horribly stretched portrait mode that looks like viewing through a keyhole

* sit in public texting other people that are sitting within CONVERSATION distance

* nearly always fondling and caressing the screen - could NOT go 24 hours without the cell phone.

* permanent crick in neck

* need to have phone ON (and active conversations) while driving

* anything happens, the phone camera comes out (in portrait mode of course) and it gets uploaded to some bandwidth-wasting social media crap pile

etc. - and they APPARENTLY ignore the last 40+ years of computing history (since punch cards, and Xerox PARC) in which the keyboard+mouse input and 3D skeuomorphic overlapping window display was shown to be superior. "It must CHANGE, because OUR TURN NOW!"

yeah pretty nauseating.

Re: Windows versions

a security monitoring company here in the USA has TV ads with a spokesman (an obvious thief) named "Robbert Larson". We could call it THAT (or similar to avoid trademark theft)

Re: Flat UI fans

We all consider Vista to be a big footgun moment for MS. But... will W11 be an even bigger one?

This comparison was running in my head the entire time I was reading that article.

Re: Evil, destructive, racist, harmful, sexist, traitorous, dangerous, etc

no, that would be EVIL WORLD DOMINATION corporate "success", the kind that exploits, cheats, manipulates and tries to take over the world. FaeceBan might very well qualify as one of those.

The best corporations provide goods and/or services to happy customers. That is TRUE success.

Re: Pause

I have a simpler solution: just remove ANY legal protection from them against lawsuits, since they (apparently) censor content and mark it in various ways and even (allegedly) steer people towards specific content, making them more like PUBLISHERS and less like "public forum".

THEN, let people SUE them for the usual harm-causing, discrimination, and maltreatment of any kind.

I would rather the court system battle it out with l[aw]yers than to see CON-GRAB enable the FOXES to guard the henhouse... (because THIS is why FaeceBan WANTS regulation, you see? The best regulation that political contributions can buy!!!)

Re: How's factoring coming along?

They tend to be 3) or 4).

No surprise.

And saying "stock digital optimizers" reminded me of something...

I remember "Black Monday" a few years back that was apparently driven (and sustained) by a number of high volume marginal trade algorithms automatically reacting to 'panic sell' by investors...

We don't need quantum computing to make this kind of thing happen EVEN FASTER.

(that being said solving differential equations for science sounds like a GREAT application because you can solve them multiple times like repeating a science experiment, to help ensure accuracy)

clean install and/or test VM

and if I want to build a test VM from scratch, i.e. a "clean install", using VIRTUALBOX, will this registry hack still work? Is it even POSSIBLE?

Oracle is apparently working on a new version of VirtualBox that will emulate TPM 2.0 but I am concerned that the Linux and FreeBSD versions may lag too slowly behind.

Additionally, a virtualbox "driver" to pass through TPM requests would be IRRITATING, since it APPEARS that the new CPU I got for the spare workstation I had to rebuild (Ryzen 3 1200 quad core, price and availability being the main factors) is NOT compatible with "Windows II". However, it is EXTREMELY compatible with Linux and FreeBSD and any *SANE* operating system.

But if it looks like VirtualBox can RELIABLY support TPM emulation on Linux or FreeBSD some time within the next few months, I may choke back the bile, and take a chance on renewing MSDN (which is now called Visual Studio Subscription or similar but is basically the same thing) one more time.

I may try buiiding a virgin Win-10-nic and then "upgrading" using the registry hack, assuming my crappy bandwidth can download it before the subscription expires.

Re: "Windows 10, which has evolved into a pretty good platform over the years"

(see icon)

Re: Surely, this year ...

sadly the frog in the hot water has not noticed that he is close to being cooked...

(whereas it is obvious to the rest of us)

Re: Settings/Control Panel

I agree, 'Settings' should be NUKED FROM HIGH ORBIT (see icon) and have its ashes shot into the sun. Then there will be only ONE.

A classic (in a Windows XP/7 kinda way) Control Panel (especially with 3D Skeuomorphic controls) is preferred to that ELDRITCH ABOMINATION 'Settings' Crapp.

(who me? complain?)

Re: I defenestrated myself a while back

when a close relative's laptop (old Sony Vaio, still good IMBO) was having serious performance problems and probably needed a new hard drive, I put Devuan on a new hard drive on it, copying as many of the files and settings that I could. It WAS running Vista, and now, Devuan. Performance boost was IMMEDIATELY noticeable.

Since then NO major problems nor complaints. The learning curve was short, under an hour. I dare Win-10-nic or "Windows II" to be as easy.

Re: Want to run it?

I may decide to NOT renew my MSDN subscription (in about 3 weeks it expires) over this. I am VERY angry about their incompatibility with virtualbox, and I will *NOT* purchase new hardware JUST to run it. I had to replace my 14 year old "spare workstation" recently and it cost me over $300 in new parts to do it. Granted it's twice as fast with twice the RAM but still... SOME of us can't just toss money into a hole any time Micros~1 WHIMS it. And remember "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers" at the 1993 PDC in Anaheim when Ballmer did the ape-walk around the stage??? He must have been LYING.

Developers NEED TO RUN THIS IN A VM and *NOT* *BUY* *NEW* *SPECIAL* *HARDWARE* *JUST* *BECAUSE* *YOU* *CAPRICIOUSLY* ***WHIMMED*** *IT*, Micros~1 !!!

I rarely do windows development anyway. I'm seriously considering fetching as many license keys and images as I'm allowed (and have bandwidth for) and be done with it, if you're gonna be THIS way about it.

NOTE: my old spare workstation had FreeBSD on it. I put a new motherboard, RAM, and CPU (Ryzen) into a smaller, lighter case, with new power supply, same hard drive, same DVD ROM drive, same NVidia video card, and it booted up without issue. Was an old Intel Core Quad CPU. Yeah, you can actually put the drive into a new box and boot it. UNLIKE WINDOWS WHICH WILL MOST LIKELY HARASS YOU AND MAKE YOU GET ANOTHER ACTIVATION OR SOMETHING.

*ahem* - I think I'm done ranting over this, now...

(Disclaimer: everything I say in this post is simply my opinion, and I have no proof of any of it)

I avoided ".Not" from the beginning. I thought MFC did whatever I needed for Windosws (and still think so), though I might consider re-writing my own TINY version of their framework for any future things.

From the article: I watched Microsoft kill an Open Source Project

I do not believe they are *KILLING* it, per se. Holding onto the reigns tightly might be more like it. They are quite used to having dominance over the ".Not" stuff and do not easily relinquish power nor control. They *FEAR* (the reason control freaks control) that their tech will proceed in a direction that they do not like, and therfore MUST wield a heavy hand. Frequently. At least, that's how *I* see it.

From their perspective, it's justifiable.

I think we can look more closely at WHY they made it open source in the first place: because of LINUX. And yet I do not see ".Not" on Linux being "a thing" (in any significant amount) any time soon.

How long has MONO been around? Yes, THAT long (15+ years). And the complaints were DEAFENING when Mono was suddenly part of gnome for Debian's package system, because of ONE application (that nobody used) called "Tomboy". Later it was (thankfully) REMOVED from the top-level package. I do not believe that there are ANY open source projects requiring Mono or ".Not core" (or whatever they're calling now) that are either ESSENTIAL or do NOT have native language equivalents (for example I use KeePassXC).

So, with the general 'need' to somehow "Embrace Extend Extinguish" Linux Desktops (and make them all like "WIndows II", as in the roman numeral 2, a hint to the retro flattiness and overly large controls, as Windows 2.x was), they need to steer the project in a direction that meets their "needs". Otherwise, they do not care if it fails. At least, that is how *I* see it.

Re: Clouldflare has a decent write-up on the BGP incident

if only the DNS servers are affected by the routing SNAFU, then cached DNS records will still work