Posts by oneguycoding

Good riddance

Conservatives (formerly Tories but in Canada the Cons are now closer to the tea party) again, they're good at fucking up almost everything with their PPP initiatives (giving buckets of cash to their donors.) My wife works for the feds, ostensibly, and her pay is different every pay period. It takes 6 months to be reimbursed for any expenses or overtime, and the idiot managers are refusing to let her take overtime as vacation. Trudeau and the Liberals were between a rock and a hard place with this boondoggle, but it was time to shut the door on the pile of dung. Fingers crossed that we won't replace it with more of the same, but I'm not holding my breath.

meh

Too much attention, both media and manufacturer, being paid to look and feel when most people cram them into protective cases and cover the screen with a slab of protective glass or plastic. Make 'em bigger, allow us to fix them ourselves (display screen and battery, if not ram and storage) and forget about me updating my phone every year, it ain't going to happen. And I know I'm not the only one who wants this piece of hardware. Most of this was doable with my Nexus 5, which I just replaced the body and digitiser and battery for my son because of a cracked screen. Cost me 60 measly Canadian dollars -- if it weren't for the lack of the fingerprint sensor I would have gone back to it myself after installing the latest version of LineageOS. Also, I demand the right to install my own rom, even if it's just stock Android. This is why I'll never use samsung or any of the other 3rd party android manufacturers.

Uncompressed BMP

Giant (for the time) uncompressed BMP files, that's the only thing I remember about MS Paint from my days at uni in the 80s and 90s. My attempts to convert my fellow grad students to JPG/PNG/GIF (pron like gin, you heathens) almost always fell on deaf ears.

Old skool

Always insisted on using tabs because of disk space issues back in the day, this whole thing is very disturbing though.

Damn

The only thing more annoying than this issue this morning is the technology of the Regs bloody forum implementation. Seriously, this is scaring the shit out of me. What is the purpose of this remote lastpass.com site? Why oh why would anything need to be sent to it? Is this part of the "allow lastpass to improve its services" option? Fsck.

grumble grumble fsck

I'm forced by ineptitude on the part of my kids teachers to run Windows 10 on his laptop because they were too dim to understand how to run chrome on fedora. Trying to update his copy of windows 10 this morning, 30 minutes spent checking updates, 45 minutes after that the download is 46% finished. In another hour it will request a reboot, no doubt, and then another 30 minutes installing the updates. I upgraded fedora 24 to 25 in 10 minutes on my desktop (okay, the SSD helped that), but really, 2 hours+ just for a system update. And why do the fonts look like shit out of the box on windows? Gott it's ugly as fsck this UI.

Ronnie

Thanks Raygun

chim chim cheroo

Saw a really cool fanless heat sink setup that used a chimney to suck heat away from the cpu. From all accounts it were a blazing success. Chim chiminy.

Of course, to be fair, the gnu implementation of true is also false. And it's compiled. Perhaps you should also post the code to the exit() function for the 'exit 0' code in the somewhat glib BSD example.