Posts by Pascal Monett 18913 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Users do not want whizzbangery, they want an OS that is stable and reliable and doesn't pull the rug from under their feet without warning.
Borkzilla still has not understood that people need an OS to run the programs they need to use, not to be bothered by an OS that wants the spotlight. The OS is supposed to be the background, near-invisible and unobtrusive.
Projects like that are things that I support by torrenting them and leaving them available for upload.
I don't have any use for the application myself, but if it is popular, then I will torrent it, just like I torrent the latest Linux Mint releases.
I am happy to give up some of my bandwidth to Audacity.
A nice amount, to be sure, but I would definitely want that in cash. $20 bills, preferably. You can use that to pay for gas and food and the IRS will be none the wiser.
Of course, that is based on the premise that I would accept the deal in the first place. This employee obviously did the right thing, or Kriuchkov's recruitment methods were not up to snuff.
Well, the guy who manages to actually prevent reverse engineering is going to be one special mind for sure.
I'm not a specialist on the subject in any way, but I fairly sure that there is not much you can do to prevent an X-ray scan of your chip.
And I'm convinced that, as far as hardware is concerned, reverse engineering starts with an X-ray scan.
Oh, that's just great.
There's already a warning nobody's paying any attention to. The solution is obviously to add another warning.
Would the maintainers of Python be bitten by the worm of administrative thinking ? You need to lock that functionality down. You need to ensure that pickled files are encrypted or something. You need to bake security into it somehow. I don't know, I don't have the answer, but just slapping another warning on and calling it a day is not the solution.
I think reastaurant chains in Taiwan are going to think twice before trying to pull this kind of stunt again.
I never knew there was a country in this world that allowed you to change you name like some games do. I live in France. If I wanted to change my name, I'd have to go before a judge and get it approved. Not impossible, far from, but a far cry from submitting a web form and getting it done.
Of course not, you counldn't publish that without being liable for a libel suit.
However, given the Board's track record up to now, I'm pretty sure they are preparing everything they can to tweak the results and find "a few more votes" in their favor.
What is this nonsense ?
Oracle has the rights to its product, but it's the government/company/department that has the rights to its processes. As a contractor, when I go to a customer to write code or correct issues, I have no IP rights over the code I write or the fixes I apply.
I fail to see how Fujitsu can be considered having any IP rights whatsoever on a product that it does not own.
I'd say you're rather an optimist and a very kind person, which makes you, IMO, a much more decent person than him.
I fail to see, given the amount of articles on Nominet in the past few years, how anyone actually concerned by this situation could possibly ignore the actions and mismanagement of the current Board.
The fact that Michelle chooses to ignore it means to me that there is a vested interest in keeping the status quo, for reasons unknown.
The only country that ever got away with it is the USA and the only reason they got away with it is because everyone was sick of war and they hand-waved a half-reasonable argument that everyone accepted.
Today, a country that launches a nuke on another country, whatever the reason, is going to see itself placed under a ban from Humanity (best case scenario), or be the start of a global thermonuclear war that will erase life on the surface of the planet (worst case scenario).
If you're dead, it doesn't matter if you won or lost.
Hmm. I wonder how well that will work when the user wants to go down the stairs and the machine wants to walk stright ahead.
I applaud anything that will advance our ability to improve the life of disabled, but this strikes me as rather dangerous.
I wish them luck, though.
Certainly not if you check the link before clicking on it and know who it is you work with.
I also imagine that the sender name is spoofed and that there are a number of ways to detect that the mail is not legit rather than seeing a logo that looks familiar and deciding to blindly trust the mail content.
For Pete's sake, how is it that people are still falling for crap like this after decades of mail spam ?
As long as shareholders agree to avoid tying a CEO's revenue to the company's revenue, that's what they get.
If shareholders continue to agree to give massive payouts to CEOs who deliver massive reductions, well they'll get less money out of it. I'm sure they can afford it because, if not, they would have done something about it already.
As if the mining community hasn't made a copy of that available on some website somewhere.
Nvidia, you really screwed the pooch there. You could have just limited card purchase to one video card per credit card number, but why do something simple that works ?
Nah, much better to try and use software to lock down drivers whilst forgetting that you also publish developers drivers that don't have the limitation.
Really smart move.
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I am disappoint.
The book is nothing but a PR puff piece promoting a cloud-based company which, surprise, finds that using the cloud is the best thing sliced bread.
I'm sure OVH would agree, but I'm guessing some of its customers might have an issue with that idea.
Oh, and how does Twilio guarantee that it won't become another SolarWinds123 ?
Of course it is, manglement wants control and privileges are not for the hoi-polloi.
As a freelance consultant, I see many companies from the inside. As far as IT is concerned, my customers are all over the map. One has a strict non-admin policy, which does not bother me because my workstation there has the stuff I need to work. Another has a strict no admin policy for employees, but a rather lax policy for consultants that work with the IT department, meaning that my workstation there functions under admin access - and my workstation is the one dedicated to external consultants, meaning that every other guy or gal that works there uses that workstation. With admin access.
And lets forget about the companies where I am the only person who knows their network and how to fix things - which is frightening when you know that I am not a network admin.
I recently got a new contract at a large administration which has an interesting policy. Normal users do not have admin access and software requests must be approved by manager and deployed by IT. It works. But some people, me for example, do not fit the general population and get granted an admin account. Now wait before you howl : the admin account is not the work account. I can only work on the work account, but when I need to install something that is not in the IT list of approved software (because they had no idea), I can do so in my work account by giving my admin account login and password. So I have the flexibility to do what I need, with the security of my work account. Not bad, I think.
It will be fascinating to see what problems arise and what solutions will be found - if, of course, they can avoid the Glorious Reporting Of Successful Communist Achievements reporting style.
I'm guessing it's time to sign up. A Moon base is an endevor that not even a billionnaire can achieve alone.
And replace all those Borkzilla windows by Linux installations that don't keel over when the wind changes direction ? Good idea.
Now all you have to do is find who is going to pay for it.
Windows is the bane of the business world. It stumbles over its own feet regularly, but because most programmers know how to deal with it, it has staying power like nothing before.
We need more Linux developers in order to ensure that future public screens will continue displaying what they're supposed to and not show another dismal failure of a mess of an OS.
Hmm, might that have anything to do with Google's intent to strangle add-ons ?
I'm guessing the Chrome team have a year-long plan to change just enough stuff to make life miserable for add-on makers, and now Borkzilla is happily skipping along, grinning widely about how "reactive" it is going to be.
Um, Borkzilla, one of your problems is that you are already way more reactive than you can code. Just need to look at the history of Windows Update to confirm.
Slow down, and do more some quality control for a change.
Are they now ?
From where I'm sitting, it looks like you're still throw money on the bonfire.
You don't need billions of pounds to refine procedures and make processes more efficient. What on Earth are you expecting for that amount of money ? Replace all laptops with 5G versions and replace all server equipment with brand new high-end servers ?
I know what you mean. I once got a gig in a very large administration, only to be told a month later that all changes were frozen.
I spent 18 months trying to find stuff to say at a weekly department meeting when they knew perfectly well I was sitting there doing nothing !
"The accelerating crisis in news and journalism reflects the shift away from traditional advertising – ie, television, radio, and print – to digital advertising, enabled by the emergence of the internet and fueled by behavioral data-based targeting ”
The only problem Borkzilla has with that is that it is not Borkzilla that benefits from this change.
So the ad landscape has changed. Well, sucks to be the third wheel now, doesn't it ? Ballmer should have woken up to the new landscape, instead of burying Borkzilla into the same old scenario.
In any case, it's too late now. Google is holding all the cards, Chrome is eating your lunch and, as usual, the only thing your browsers are good for are for downloading something people actually use.
Pathetic.
That's just like my wife. She's rather computer illiterate - although funnily enough Pinterest does not cause her any trouble - and it took years for her to understand the difference between the browser and the search engine.
I'm still not entirely convinced that she does, maybe she just got used to the answer I was expecting.
Exactly that.
However, it must be said that you can also install those same addons from the Chrome Web Store, so you could theoretically compare both with the same configuration.
Except that we all know that Google is doing its damndest to curtail extensions and limit their functionalty, so Firefox still wins.
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