Posts by Kurgan

Re: Don't let the shattering glass injure you on the way out, Windoze!!

I run Linux Mint since it was born, and I run Linux desktop since windows 7 was born (Yes, I jumped ship at that time). I run multi-monitor on Cinnamon no problems.

Re: Using Bing

I have tried Duckduckgo because I also dislike Google, but its search results were mostly under performing.

I usually search for technical information as I'm a linux sysadmin. I was baffled I could not find anything relevant on some topic (I don't remember what) so I tried Google again with the same query: first hit was the right one.

I sadly went back to Google, because it gets the job done better than DDG, at least for tech questions. Probably DDG is better in other scenarios.

It's the fact that you cannot say that you base line is shit, so you have to say that your base line is fine for the same job as the middle line.

Also, there is a difference between the PC given to the lower slave worker and the PC given to the middle manager.

Dell = slaves

Dell Pro = middle managers

Dell Pro Max Premium = C-levels

Apple something for the CEO

Re: It happened to the McLaren F1 fuel injection first.

And this is why PIRACY is our only hope. For every kind of "content" be it an ebook, a movie, music, or a game.

Copy and crack the software (if you can, that is "if it can be made to run locally") and you'll have it forever (or at least as long as you have a compatible hardware or emulator).

Is this morally wrong? Yes, it is, but only if there is a morally right way to have your software run as long as you like, like my old, pre-internet era games do (Quake, Doom, Diablo 1, Diablo 2), or having your content available FOREVER (like for example if you can pay for an ebook and download a LOCAL and without DRM version of it)

Otherwise it's morally right. Very right.

And if some software is completely cloud based, think about this fact before deciding if it's good for you or not. Maybe it can be good anyway, but just think of the implications of cloud-based software before making a decision.

Re: Wintel Reckoning

The lock-in is still present today, up to a point. But I think it's MS that rules the market and gives peanuts to its vassals (intel and amd) with the windows 11 forced PC replacement. Probably it was not so 30 years ago, but it's been like this since at least 20 years. Businesses need to run Windows, and Windows needs (well, needed) X86 or AMD64 cpus to run. Today windows can run on ARM, but it's a very marginal market anyway.

Mobile is a very different story but that ship has sailed for MS and Intel (and AMD) 20 years ago.

Re: Head of FAA

And of EPA and FCC and whatever agency may have some saying on his business.

This is the whole point. Once starlink lets the government monitor and censor the communications, then it will be licensed to operate in India.

Re: Function keys on a touch bar?

I'm a proud owner of a Thinkpad with a nice keybaord and no shitty design.

Re: Would have prefered "*.int"

Yes, there was indeed .local, but then some smart ass stole it from us.

Re: The only thing worse than bad security

Like... a BIOS? We had it, when IT was not such a shitshow.

We all know that UEFI is a pile of useless trash and that Secure Boot was invented to make sure that only windows would be able to boot (and then failed at that).

I'd really like to have old BIOS back.

Re: Betterbird on macOS actually exists

It's called better for a reason.

But still betterbird has the same 115 UI that sucks sooo much.

Re: Website Advertising Preferences

I have just discovered about this thanks to this article, and immediately disabled it.

Re: Tired

Actually every AV vendor is more or less tied to the government of their own nation. This is why you should avoid Kaspersky (because Russia) and also avoid American ones (because America).

I'd consider F-secure which is tied to a smaller and probably less intrusive government.

Boot time has NEVER been a real issue. On servers, bios / uefi startup time is measured in MINUTES, OS startup time in seconds. What are we talking about? This whole mess has almost NO benefits (almost, something is actually a little less than useless) and has become a mess.

Re: Whatever happened to measuring output?

You don't measure this ONCE, but in the long run it's evident if you are actually doing something useful or not.

Yes, I hoped I coul manage to get my customers to use Chromium, but I see that the shit is deeply radicated into Chromium, not just Chrome.

And since every fucking web app nowadays requires Chrome (or Chromium-based browsers, maybe) then yes, Google has won and we are fucked.

I still use FF and linux and will continue as long as I can, but the ads war is lost, and to be honest it's been lost since years, not just today.

Re: "The frunk is powered and shouldn't be closed manually"

Since it's powered if you operate it manually you will damage the servo, probably.

Re: Lucky

Only because there has been no flight at all.

Re: Gmail is the worst thing that could happen to email

Actually I have it to none already. In my experience having DMARC set for outgoing trafic (on the incoming one, do what you like with your antispam rules, of course) even at none, helps in not being rejected.

Re: Talking of Boeing

It seems that it's already all covered up.

Re: Recipe for a low cost virtual desktop

I know they are not "virtual" but actually "remote" desktops. I also know that they work for a 10 users org and not a 200 or 2000 users org. But they are really cheap, they work well, and for a small office they are just fine. And of course they have to be maintaned and updated and so on, but it's not such a big deal once windows update works and also the auto update on the other software (browsers and the accounting program they use) works.

Re: Advice in dealing with Oracle audits

If you do, then try and find alternative solutions and stop being an Oracle customer.

Re: As a Dutchman I'm pissed off

Economy was cool when there was no (open) war. Now the world is changing again for the worst. We are at war now, the free market is a thing of the past.