Posts by Gene Cash 5739 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Mar 2007
Instead try and approach it from the point of view of an ordinary computer user considering a purchase of their next computer. Imagine their full range of experiences
Why? Why do I care about them? They can buy Windows/Apple. I don't care. Let them do what suits THEM and I will do what suits ME.
If they ask me, I will tell them what I use and why, and they can make up their mind, and ask me for help or not.
I thought someone had a response-time or service-level-agreement scam going, and Eric caught hell for ruining it.
Or that some high-up said "that's as fast as the system goes" and Eric caught hell for accidentally contradicting him by fixing something.
Not that I've ever had those scenarios happen to me, no sir.
No, according to the BBC, workers were told to keep working after the tornado siren went off.
One of the killed workers was trying to help others to shelter, without help from management.
One person died in a bathroom because the company told him to go there instead of the storm shelter.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59641784
There was another factory destroyed at the same time in mayfield kentucky
Were there deaths? Then yes, it should be investigated. If not, then no.
Bit I find odd is that people want to watch other people play video games.
I watch other people play because personally I'm complete shit at it, so I don't enjoy playing myself.
Sometimes it's fun watching someone so good that he plays Call of Duty with just a knife and still ends up with more kills than everybody else combined.
Or watch someone play Dark Souls and get to see parts of the game I would never get to if I was playing.
Buy local. Not really. My local people are a bunch of assclowns that make Amazon look good.
I needed a Helicoil kit to repair some stripped bolt threads. I went down to Ace Hardware, and it was locked to the shelving hangar. I had to get someone to unlock it, and he insisted on a) not letting me touch it - I had to argue with him to look at it enough to make sure it was the size I wanted, then b) I was walked to the counter like he had caught me shoplifting it.
I wasn't treated with that much security when I bought a gun. For a $35 repair kit, it's insulting.
I didn't buy it. I took a picture of the part number at the counter and walked out and ordered it online.
There are many stores that are happy to special order items for you that you can pick up for free in a couple of days
Not in MY neck of the woods. You ask if you can order something, and it's like you're speaking Martian. Then you get laughed at.
I don't order from Amazon, but I do order from B&H Photo, McMaster-Carr, Revzilla, Twisted Throttle, Motion Pro, Tower Hobbies, Makerhaus, Prusa, and a bunch of other places.
So in the article on Pipewire, the commenters mentioned Bluetooth doesn't work with PulseAudio because they reject all the patches to fix it, thus we need Yet Another Sound System.
(https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/05/24/new_audio_server_pipewire_coming/#c_4464459 for example)
THAT is my issue with Poettering... over and beyond his "do all the things in systemd" mentality
But no one can publicly admit this whole project was just an excuse to prop up the old guard in the aerospace wing of the defense contractors
They don't have to. SpaceX's performance with Crew Dragon says it all, and has embarrassed the hell out of Boeing. Boeing has also lost a large chunk of change having to pay for the reflight.
Boeing is screwed because it bought McDonnell-Douglas and acquired the beancounters that were killing McD and are now killing Boeing.
I don't see having a single thruster failure can be marked as a successful launch.
Sure it can. Heck, Falcon 9 can lose an engine on ascent (much worse than a low-thrust maneuvering thruster) and still make the intended orbit.
That's known as engineering for off-nominal situations.
As long as the vehicle still makes the required maneuver and still has a bit of redundancy, you're fine.
The big problem is this trunk gets discarded on landing, so they won't have the failed units to look at.
What is the structure in the middle? It looks like some sort of kiddie slide?
WTF are the box structures with a roof? Are those private offices? Why the hell do you have a roof... in a building with a roof?? (edit: is this some sort of dodge so high muckety mucks can have their own A/C while the peons suffer in the heat?)
And then what's up with the walled thing with the yellow doors in the lower right? And WTF is the tall Dalek looking thing next to it??
Honestly, this looks like a absolute nightmare to work in. How do you find Joe who works in Gmail support? Is there some sort of numbering system? Or is it just random fucked about? (edit: is there Google Maps - HQ Edition?)
Edit: and I just noticed the lower left says "SAND PUZZLE"?
I have my own written-from-scratch FVWM config.
There's no icons. There's no windows widgets (close/iconify/maximize/etc)
The titlebar is on the left. I have a little dock in the lower right of the middle monitor that lists windows, so you can select them.
It collapses when the cursor moves away.
F1 lowers a window in the stacking order (sends it to the back)
F2 iconifies a window
F3 maximizes a window vertically - it stays the same width
F4 closes windows, except for xterm, mpv, xine, or vlc
F5 maximizes/restores windows
F6 iconifies ALL the windows
F7 starts an xterm
F10 maximizes a window horizonally - it stays the same height
F11 moves a window out of the way (re-places it somewhere other than under the cursor)
F12 fixes a bug with maximizing & window placement
Ctrl-Escape calls up a list of windows
Alt-Tab switches to the next window
Pause pings the cursor with a circle animation so I can find the damn thing
On the keypad, alt plus a number key moves the window to that side/corner of the current monitor
Alt-Keypad-5 centers the window in the monitor
Ctrl-Shift-Left-Arrow moves the window to the left screen
Ctrl-Shift-Right-Arrow moves the window to the right screen
Ctrl-Shift-Down-Arrow moves the window to the middle screen
What do you mean, nobody can use my PC? You say that like it's a bad thing!
applied for a license from the UK's Civil Aviation Authority
So does that mean there's a group of CAA blokes standing around going "wot's this now? do we do rockets?"
I know it took a bit of poking and prodding for the FAA to get its act together, but they're actually doing a fairly decent job, for a government agency, anyway.
Never said it was a good deal. This is to make money from the people that go "well if it ain't expensive, it ain't any good" and I know a LOT of those people.
If you're not one of those people, there's devuan.org and other places.
Unfortunately Oracle Solaris comes with Oracle, so they have to pay me to take it. I have to use that garbage at work.
The next time we read about some essential part of Linux infrastructure (let's call it that) which doesn't have enough funding, why not buy a support contract from them?
I usually suggest they get Patreon and I support through that. That lets me easily and automatically send $5 (or whatever) a month to a project that deserves it.
Hm. I know there was a dramatic push by Google to kill apps that didn't specifically target the latest OS. Two of the very best weather radar and storm tracking apps were victims. There was also a couple useful star chart apps that were killed too. Another one was a GPS app that showed satellite position and signal strength in a very useful manner, as well as providing a way to pull the latest AGPS correction factor.
The latest Google App Store requirements are very draconian, and designed to push people to the latest phones by turning older phones with older OSes into abandonware.
I think this would explain the drop in apps better than the GDPR.
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