Posts by Zakhar

curlftpfs has a very naive implementation of things, but is should still work relatively well if you read one file at a time!

Exactly! Why do people take for granted statements of "privacy" when the first thing those "apps" do is ask for your mobile number.

Re: The value of Windows is in the API

"Maybe dumping the Windows kernel would make Windows Update a far less painful process, too. Hey, one can dream!"

You mean like Livepatch: being able to upgrade the kernel itself without a reboot?

Sure, that will happen when pigs fly on W$!

Re: "This means Linus Torvalds has definitely won, doesn't it?"

I strongly beg to differ on "M$ are playing a different game. They are selling services now"

The last time I checked the racketeering model is still there. Even if they might want to transition to a service/subscription model, that has not stop the racketeering so far, and you MUST still pay the M$ tax anytime you buy a PC, whether you intend to use the pre-installed W$ or not.

And don't tell me "it's because hardware vendors sell only that"... you perfectly know they have their arms twisted to do so by M$ despicable commercial practices.

Once the racketeering model will end, I'll respectfully write again Microsoft in full instead of the M$ abbreviation they continue to deserve!

Re: Serve at the pleasure of King Jobs

Not sure they win in the long term if enough "very successful" apps are NOT available on iOS.

Do you remember what happened to the wannabee third player that tried making phones with an empty application store?

Re: I'll tell you what you want...

I am so glad I migrated all my code to GitLab the moment M$ bought that!

They are doing what they do to all their acquisitions: turning it to sh*t before they do a write-off (Nokia, etc...)

Re: Cheaper hardware ?

You have to realize they will continue the same way they do today : racketeering + blackmail.

Racketeering: you will have pay minimum "2 years subscription" with each new PC. Whether you decide to use Microshaft crapware or not is irrelevant to them since you already paid.

Blackmail: the PC maker will receive a "commission" which is a portion of your "2 years minimu subscription" so that he pre-installs Microshaft CrapWare on the machine. If the PC maker wants to sell "naked" machines, or machines with an other O.S., fine... but then no "commission" on pre-installed machines.

A "2 years minimum contract" at 15,99€ plus a "cheap" 200€ for the machine, that is almost 600€, the price of an average PC.

Business as usual. Some things will never change!

What could wreak the havoc in their plan though are 2 things:

- "home" users don't need a PC anymore. They use smartphones (and tablets) and are happy with that. No Redmond there. Other evil at work, but at least Google has the decency not to charge for their behaviour.

- (less likely) the remaining "power" home users might very well decide to give Linux a try, and that could raise the demand for "naked" PCs making the "blackmail" less relevant and the evil plan could fail.

- (even less likely and scary) they could decide to build a "Redmond-Linux distribution", let's call it Winux, because it is economically irrelevant to support an outdated O.S. (WX) when you can just grab the free Linux, and charge for support of that to home users. That is the last E of EEE strategy... and has begun with WSL. They are also publicly ditching their internet engine for Blink which is open source. That is the state of their irrelevance in I.T.

Re: Why would anyone tolerate this?

Why would anyone tolerate running any of the not-free (as in you have to pay real money) crapware from Redmond?

Re: "Just try that with video."

... Which blue-ray I cannot watch on my Linux machines with VLC because of stupid DRMs.

I used to watch DVD I legally borrowed at my local DVD Shop... not anymore with Blu Rays, which makes the points of this argument.

"Are computers that dual boot Linux / Windows 10 counted as 50 per cent on Windows 10, or only if booted into Windows 50 per cent of the time?"

Since you have paid for it when you bought your PC, thanks to Redmond's racketeering policy, it is counted as Windows even if the first thing you do is wipe it out to install your favourite Linux distro.

There are very few hardware vendors that will respect the EU law in this case and propose a meagre refund, but since this is a "manual process", I bet it is still counted as Windows.

Re: Deinstall Win 10?

Well, but M$ won't even care if you do so since they have already charged the license with the new PC you bought.

The real news here would be that they stop doing that, which they will probably do when hell freezes!

Re: Please keep it open

Indeed. They say they are open source but read on their site: "code will be available soon"...

Plus since Google made a generous donation to be sure they will include all their tools by default, that does not look good if you value privacy.

But you know: "there is no free meal", someone has to pay for those 22M$!

or FAGIT

Do you need the first "T"?

Re: Frontal assault on Linus Torvalds and open source

I can't see the relation between "The Adderall Diaries" and your conspiracy theory. Can you enlighten us?

Re: On the face of it

That is because most people ranting about Unity are stuck with their habit and not patient enough to look at what is better.

A good clue of this non sense rant is that those people give no objective reason. They are only subjective : "It's bad, I go elsewhere"... Admittedly taste is indeed subjective, and the beauty of Linux desktop is that you have a lot of choice.

Let's be objective, I tried 18.04 live for a few minutes, there is an essential feature I couldn't replicate from Unity that I find essential: application menu in the top bar.

Objectively, whoever decided screen must have a ratio of 16/9 made "vertical space" a scarce resource, and going back to a desktop where the "vertical space" is eaten by:

- top panel

- title bar

- menu bar

... is a big big regression for me.

No doubt I will find somewhere a Gnome Extension that fixes it, and true for the rest Canonical has done a decent job at providing a close user experience of all the bonuses we had with Unity.

I'm also short of the "workspace selector" icon for the dock that was a click away in Unity, but no doubt it is somewhere also...

So you are very right, look at "objective" features complaints, and you'll see Unity haters never give you any clue.

Re: Government requests for people's data from Microsoft fell

And also nobody uses this O.S. anymore (thanks Apple & Google)!

Re: Business as usual

Exactly, which dates the last time they did great work for their users to the paleolithic ages of Windows XP!

Re: So...

Exactly, it went so well with RT, they want to do it again.

And that will be a lot of fun when the device reboots in the middle of phone call because it decides by its own will (or M$ will) that it has to do an update right now, and that it can't wait for another minute you finish your conversation.

But then how do you explain that in France the Gendarmerie has been using desktop Linux for decades, is happy with that, and will certainly not change back to a proprietary O.S.

My guess: politics.

Re: Everything's gone. Everything.

That is why I did, for the first time ever, before it had the chance to update:

sudo apt-mark hold firefox

... so that I will keep 56 until my favorite addons get rewritten/replaced.

Unfortunately I fear I'll loose cliget that nobody seems to care about!

Re: Firmware update or OS?

It is already patched for Debian/Ubuntu. That was quick!..

Well, as I am using wired ethernet, I didn't really needed it anyway.

Re: admin/admin

Since when does knowing anything about I.T. qualifies you for a job in an big company's I.T.?

Re: And its only Windows 10?

No, real men use netcat and input each header manually!

Re: Ditch iTunes

As an alternative (not as simple as drag and drop from your computer), you can use VLC on iOS and enjoy for free the music/films on your media collection.