Posts by onefang

"Yeah...but what's he done lately?"

Interestingly enough, he was touring Australia not so many years ago, even while dead. At least, that's what the posters where saying, I didn't bother going to see the performance.

"How exactly does counting between 1000-2000 items three times give you 7800?"

First count, 2000, second count 2000, third count 2000. 2000+2000+2000 = 6000. You are right, they must have counted them four times.

We can't decrypt 7800 phones, would you believe it? No? Hmmm, would you believe 1000 to 2000? How about two cans and a lengthy bit of very tangled string? OK already, I still haven't figured out how to use my shoe phone.

Re: What Facebook app?

I dunno about the Moto Gs, but Motorola has a tendency to not put too much bloat on their phones. Moto Z doesn't have much bloat beyond a large amount of Google Apps.

On the other hand, maybe what you are missing is carrier added bloat?

Re: What Better Reason to Buy ZTE or HuaWei?

"QUESTION: Who pays for the airtime of all the surreptitious collection of data?"

ANSWER: you do.

Re: Checked my phone

"a semi usable voice chat system."

I think those are called phone calls, or used to be. Am I showing my age?

Re: Who knows what the software is collecting and sending back to base?

And the hired goons wont be too upset if you send them back with a black eye. It's all part of the way they do business.

Though usually I just let them bruise their fists on me while I glare at them, until they give up and go away. Or my personal favourite if someone attacks me with a knife, I take it off them, hand it back to them, and say "here try again, that was the first lesson". Only once has anyone found out what the second lesson is.

Re: Misuse act...

I have Android installed on a partition of one of my computers, and Facebook apps, for testing purposes. I don't own any tablets, but I suspect the apps will run fine on them.

Re: Pages rule (again)

You can disable the stupid search bar to, install a different launcher. I've never seen these feeds though, even on my Google infested phones.

"If we can't get the fappening photos off the net, what right to countries have to expect actual news stories will be removed?"

Coz the fappening photos are waaay more interesting than boring old actual news stories?

Re: 460MB of code?!

"Sadly there are no email clients I really like, although claws mail has been the best of the bunch for me for many years."

Have an upvote for that. I've also been using Claws Mail for many years. Thinking about switching though, but I haven't stumbled across anything much better. One day I'll do a proper search, and I'll include venerable terminal based clients like Pine.

Re: Pair-a-Ducks

One obvious secret there, Anonymous Coward.

Re: I'm wary of geeks bearing gifts

"no we don't have to pay the additional tax on our PS3's m'lud as look - that little tick box means a version of Linux can go on and make it a general purpose computer...fast forward and if you want to be able to play online you need to accept this update that turns that functionality off."

I have the worlds first PS3 that was sold in the world with Linux pre-installed on it, and one of the first three that came to Australia (I think it was number 2 from memory, IBM brought in number 1, and an IBM employee number 3, we all met at linux.conf.au and compared notes, the IBM employee had to borrow mine for a talk, coz his hadn't arrived yet, I also gave a talk about it using mine). Been a long time since I turned it on, but Linux still works on it, coz I've not booted into the game OS or connected it to the 'net since Sony pushed out that notorious update.

Mine would have been the first, but it spent a month sitting in a snowed in warehouse before it arrived in Australia.

Amusingly enough, the USA versions (which mine was, coz the Aussie version hadn't been released yet) came with a free movie in the box. The Aussie versions gave you a different free movie if you sent in your serial number. I did so and ended up with both. B-)

Re: Forced Changes

After my experiences with Windows installs in the '90s, I dual boot by keeping the different OSes on separate hard drives, in disk caddies, and only one in the machine at a time, if one of them is Windows.

Re: Need to change "standard practices" for users.

"I can totally imagine using a hammer (Windows 10) and seeing its head flying off every time I use it. It gets even better when the hammer gets upgraded!"

They upgrade it to a bigger hammer, that does more damage when the head flies off the end. The upgrade after that is a small rocket engine in the head, for those hard to hammer through things, that flies around the room when it comes off. Smart people upgrade their hardware before the third upgrade, stronger walls, strong mesh protecting the windows, full body armour, ...

Re: Shiver me timbers.

It took 16 hours?

Re: Some people want true point-to-point on more than one device.

"What's the benefit of that?"

I can think of one use case off the top of my head, but only coz it's something I've had to deal with. Running an OpenSim server behind NAT sucks, especially if you are not a network expert. On the other hand, I'm not so sure OpenSim supports IPv6.

Re: Privacy issues with IPv6?

"they could have just as well made IPv6 72 bits instead of 128."

But then I'd not have enough for every molecule in my home, and all the cockroaches will move out, taking the ants with them. Oh wait...

Re: "things break"

Internode was one of the first to offer IPv6 in Australia, and are (or used to be) a very geek friendly ISP. Letting you run servers from home on retail connections, etc. That's who I'm with, and IPv6 is working fine for me. And they are generous with it, I think I have enough IPv6 for every single molecule in my entire home. Well, maybe not those hard to reach ones under the 'fridge. The cockroaches living there will just have to put up with NAT, or move next door, it's smaller.

Re: Software

"The monkeys pounding keyboards to write consumer firewall software haven't stumbled on to a working IPv6 version yet."

Shorewall6, the IPv6 version of Shorewall, works fine. Has done for a while. It's open source, and maybe not consumer friendly, but I'm not your ordinary consumer, so it works for me.

Re: NAT

"Move everyone to IPv6 and suddenly many of those devices become directly accessible from anywhere on the internet. Prepare for a huge spike in botnets and other 0wnage."

Just like malware is mostly written for the most popular OSes, coz you get a bigger result with that, the low adoption of IPv6 currently means a lot less nasties on it. If my firewall logs are any indication. Everyday my logwatch report has pages of IPv4 buggers bouncing off my firewall, and rarely one or two IPv6 ones.

Though you are correct once IPv6 overtakes IPv4, if that ever happens.

Re: "...stuck behind a NAT..."

'Everyone (even a retail broadband user) is "stuck behind a NAT".'

I'm not.

Re: Advertisers only have themselves to blame

'Who doesn't know, "Will it blend?"'

I don't. And if it's advertising related, I don't want to know. Mind you, that's likely due to decades of avoiding advertising like the plague that it is.

Re: What's worse?

"Are 16 year-olds children?"

If I recall correctly, here in Australia 16 year olds can have sex and drive, but not drink or watch porn. So I'd say that's half adult and half child. Though it does leave me wondering how we expect these 16 year olds to learn how to do sex properly if they are not allowed to watch it. Should they wear blind folds, or just do it in the dark? Might explain all those teenage pregnancies if they are accidentally putting the condom on their partners big toe, coz they can't see where it should go.

I don't think they can vote either, which might explain why the laws about drinking and watching porn haven't changed.

Re: Click bait headline

"And of course, a lot of criminals that get caught aren't exactly very bright."

FTFY, it's the ones you never hear about that are the clever ones.

Re: Can't lawmakers be sacked for being too dim to be useful?

Almost none of the people of negotiable affection I know are icky, I checked, and no joke icon from me.