Posts by onefang

Ghost have a hard time making things hard.

Re: Time to troll

"Bah any system that comes with bash in the base install isn't a proper UNIX system."

It's entirely possible to have a Linux system without bash. Just like it's entirely possible to have a Linux system without any GNU in it. You can even do both at once. It might even be fairly common.

Re: Now hang on, please!

Devuan killed it, dismembered it, but left some small and bloody body parts scattered around the distro. Now we need a clean up crew.

Re: how did it get to this?

"a worthy successor shall rise, perhaps called SystemV"

Or some French coder might write SystèmE, could take a while to get to SystemV.

Re: There is a reason ...

"why bother with networkd in the first place if you don't have to use it."

Likely coz its optional status might be temporary.

Re: how did it get to this?

"Init scripts are shell scripts."

While generally true, some sysv init style inits can handle init "scripts" written in any language.

"us grey beards don't have long enough lives to become vetern admins."

For some of us, that's how we got grey beards in the first place.

Re: Rat Software?

"Still can't work out how grabbing an old site password would allow access to my computer!"

The scammer is assuming you used the same password everywhere.

Re: I've seen a definite uptick in these

"You could always blacklist anything not containing one I suppose, but would need to be pretty disciplined about it."

That's what things like mailfilter are for.

"Only your face while your get overexcited,"

Oh, they have video of the overexcited look on my face when I finally solved that bug that had been driving me nuts all week?

On the other hand, with all that hair on my face, it can be hard to tell what sort of expression I have.

Re: Confusing

I guess my post about "reversing the polarity or something" should have had the joke icon, I was referencing the Doctor Who trope.

Re: "dancing in the dragon's fiery breath"

"Where would they host thousands of these videos?"

On the porn sites they allege they caught you watching. Then they can catch other people watching those videos, and threaten them, rinse, repeat, until they end up threatening the originals. Thus turning it into a complete circle jerk.

Re: Confusing

"It doesn't have a camera at all, nor anything plugged into the audio inputs."

You can turn a speaker into a microphone by reversing the polarity or something. Then record your heavy breathing. Which I'll admit has gotten me into trouble in the past, but I'm asthmatic, heavy breathing is what we do.

Re: Racist?

"El Reg seems to have acquired some SJW police - possibly emanating from San Francisco. Your editor may be quaking in fear of them."

I suspect some of the moderators are just as fearful.

Re: Racist?

"throwing darts at imaginary dart boards"

So long as those imaginary dartboards are not the type of thing that tends to bleed when you throw darts at them.

Re: I've seen a definite uptick in these

"I've tried emailing site owners with a link to the RFC that defines valid characters for email addresses, but haven't had much response. By not much response, I mean absolutely nothing, not a single reply."

Probably coz they thought the email address you used to send that email was considered bogus, and it went straight to their spam folders?

Re: I've seen a definite uptick in these

"It only costs a few quid a year to own your own domain"

You can get freebies to, from places like freedns.afraid.org.

As for your own mail server, if you have a typical Linux or BSD installed, chances are you already have a local only email server. If you have a static IP, open it up to the world, done. Oh, and turn off relaying, or find yourself on spam blacklists fairly quickly.

Re: I've seen a definite uptick in these

"Minor problem is that I do not have a webcam."

I don't either, and if I did, all it would see if trying to record from it while I was surfing porn sites is me searching for more porn to download. I never watch it direct from the site. I'd likely even have all my clothes on, and not touching him who rules with his little head from downstairs.

Re: "AI" = Fake News daily

"Wake me up when Winter starts."

Winter is com... oh wait, am I allowed to say that?

Re: I killed a spider with a blow-torch last night...

After seeing that photo of a spider dragging a mouse up the side of a 'fridge, and the one of the spider eating a frog, not to mention bird eating spiders, I'd say you got lucky. Did you sneak up on the little bugger, or was he having trouble getting the blow torch lit?

Re: Newspaper?

"Usually rolled up and used with great impact."

I've always said that physics beats chemistry for pest control. Pun unintended, but I'll roll with it.

Re: !Celebrated !Mac !Malware !Still !Requires !Manual !Installation

Soooo, what's a good anti malware proggy for Macs? One that doesn't install hooks all over the system, just runs when I ask it to, does a scan, then gets the hell out of the way. I have a Mac Mini, I rarely use it, mostly for watching iView and Netflix. An open source one would be preferable.

Yes, but the title says "Florida man...", hence my confusion.

Re: Any actual configurations where this might work?

Not on my desktop anymore, the patch hit Debian / Devuan mirrors and I already applied it. Maybe you need to try it on an old unpatched install?

Re: X has always scared the hell out of me...

There's this old TV show that tries to explain things. I think it was called The X-Files. Oh wait, might make you more scared.

Re: What's he doing with his time?

To help cut through the thick Aussie accent he speaks Spanish with.

Re: Non IT angle

"Unsure how you can share Binary-Coded Decimal, but . . ."

Upload it to Pirate Bay?

Re: Karma

"they'd had to hire two contractors to replace me, and neither of them was getting as much done as I did in 1/2 the time"

I've had that a couple of times, been replaced by two guys, coz one couldn't cope with my work load.

Re: "Ethernet is so much better"

"but a floppy disk taped to the back of a turtle would have had a faster transfer rate."

Ah, you've not seen the IP over giant African snail? A small cart is hitched to the snail, where the wheels are two optical disks. Lousy latency, but throughput was impressive over short distances, and could be increased by swapping the CDs for DVDs, BluRays, whatever the next tech is.