Posts by Anthropornis

Re: I have

I was going to upvote the post at the start of this thread, but it already has 42 upvotes.

Totally agree, *except* -

This is the cockwomble who wants to impose his own views on how the economy should run, and believes in killing off what he probably thinks of as a "useless third of the population". To me, given that he understands how to swing voters to his plans, this looks like a deliberate attempt to ensure that the lockdown collapses, and that only those with "herd immunity" (his preferred approach, was it not?) survive.

And it seems to be working - reduced lockdown in England to distract attention from DC, and many people not paying any attention to distancing.

Sorry about the icon, I was looking for DEATH on Binky, but this seemed the nearest.

Cynical, moi ? Oui.

Re: Um, not sure if he's thought this through

Yeah, about 3 times more than a mere 2000+ years. The earth was created at 9:13 in the morning. on 21st October 4004 BC (or BCE if you prefer that).

Took me a bit more than 2 hours to get a confirmation email (after several 'invalid gateway' trying to do that first part), then best part of 2 hours trying from time to time to confirm (lots more 'invalid gateway', one "down for maintenance"). But did it in the end. Now 1.3 million and counting - hopefully, Leadsom will have encouraged some more people to sign it ;-)

Icon because not even Paris could have created such a clusterfuck as May.

Re: Dear Mozilla, there's more to life than security

What stability issues ?

On linux x86_64 57.0{,.4} and 58.0 since late beta have been very stable. Sound in 58 and the betas, on some setups, has been a problem - but I've now got sound working with both pulse and alsa (different installs, obviously - some of my older retained previous systems don't have pulse). And no crashes apart from when I deliberately close Xorg with a large number of open tabs so that I can go back to an earlier system on the same machine (mainly kept for restoring from backups when I do trash the main system, but sometimes booted to check how things used to be if people report problems). And yes, these machines are largely used for building everything from source, to find regressions.

Hell, it even still builds without stylo if you want to take that route (or haven't installed clang - what is it about LLVM users that makes them think everybody installs all the optional extras ?).

But *building* firefox (and more particularly rustc - what, you think I don't build from source ?) OTOH can be a PITA. If you use a distro, be glad they will suffer the pain to build it for you ;-)

Oh, and I had to use 57.0.4 on a win10 machine in the past week - not something I like using, but firefox was working fine.

Re: Google has given up on Linux

Your system, your choice. But for kde you will apparently need unofficial ports to get kde5. Do you trust those porters ? I'm sure that kde4 has had security vulnerabilities, but less sure whether anyone has logged them and fixed them.

Personally I loathe the overhead of kde, and all those static qt and kde libraries it pulls in (yes, I do build from source).

But FreeBSD users usually insist their system is secure (like us linux users used to), so I'm sure everything will be fine for you.

Re: Protocol of the Elders of Project Management

Upvote for the title.

Re: 'duckduckgo is my search engine of choice'

*My* concern with duckduckgo is that it has almost-never produced any useful results. For programming / admin google is still mostly useful. OTOH, for "other things" bing is ok (nudge, nudge, wink wink).

Re: Link Issue

For my (desktop) intel CPUs, running linux, I already have firmware updates which get applied by the kernel on each boot. I assume there will be new updates to fix these latest known issues ?

Strangely, only my oldest still-occasionally-running AMD CPU has ever got a firmware update - but that might be because I have bought AMDs later in their life, and the mobo manufacturers have already applied updates. Or just that intel has had to fix the fixes.

Re: Dead Parrot

Almost the same here - I finally got pissed off when the calculator no longer had a memory function.

However, I still keep evince (its UI is increasingly annoying, but it works and can display eps whenever I have one to look at).

But there is one app which is still good : gucharmap (I use it a lot when I'm looking at different fonts).

Re: Keep it Simple

Interesting - I took a few lowish quality train clips (720p mov files from a panasonic FZ45, i.e. a lowish-end stills camera) a few years ago on holiday, and eventually got round to trying to stitch various clips together / edit where it started and stopped / fade video from/to black and fade audio in/out. Cinelerra was impenetrable and put me off the idea for about a year, and although avidemux seemed like it would do the right thing something - probably sound - was totally borked on the clips I used for testing.

So I went with bash and ffmpeg : no, for quality video that is not an option, but for "good enough for youtube" it just about worked, although there was a visible judder whenever I put a caption over the video. Might try pitivi if I can be arsed to dig out the few clips I never got around to using.

pendantry : You are hanging ? I hope you think your crime was worth it.

Re: Actuary cow dung

You carry a 12V pump on a bicycle ? methinks thou art an 'merican ;-)

Over here in blighty, some new cars do not have spare wheels. So far, I've managed to avoid buying one of those cars.

Re: How much longer do we have to wait for Linux 10??

Some of us want one that goes to eleven.

Re: Well...

Flash is *required* ? For me, youtube videos *without adverts* have worked fine, for a long time, in both firefox and qt4 browsers (arora, qupzilla) on linux.

Re: Encrypted?

Probably ext4 - certainly that's what's on mine (it runs debian). Certainly the OP says below that it _is_ encrypted, so I won't argue. But I wouldn't use anything like this as a backup - mine just streams audio files, the "originals" are on my main machine and the backups are on vanilla external disks.