Posts by Ilgaz 1256 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2009
They (Germany) almost banned Windows sales because the MS idiots bundled "root level running/accessing all data" disk defragmenter framework by a Scientology infested corporation. Executive Software. Yes, they have let them code disk defragmenter framework of Windows.
Language is horrible. They almost invented the smart phone technology with Symbian. They just got stuck on S60 way too much and never embraced clearly more modern UIQ.
They didn't embrace touchscreen interface smart phones and when they did, they made really bad decisions.
Hello,
I have read this on Mastodon, "Archive Team" is an organization who tries to save the data with grid of computers (like seti@home). The documentation/setup instructions are here:
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior
I have a very weird issue with this excellent idea, people in oppressed countries may end up "browsing" regime oppositions blogs/pages and may get logged with RL consequences.
I started arguing about the need of a good AV/security whether free open source or commercial back in Apple G5 days and the only thing I got was to figure that I was living in a cult.
I just wonder one thing. Here is Microsoft coming with insane ideas like recording every screenshot, uploading OS/behaviour information for advertising, coming up with insanely stupid security issues that were used as advantage by the NSA etc. Somehow, a single department of this company consists of genius developers who can understand and take care of all state level actor sponsored malware, so there isn't any need of an alternative, secondary opinion.
Are we collectively believing this? Think of the most advanced malware, so advanced that people did TED talks covering them. Who spotted them? Windows Defender Team?
Spamcop (now owned by CISCO) openly states at https://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/297.html
"The SCBL is an aggressive spam-fighting tool. By using this list, you can block a lot of spam, but you also may block or filter wanted email. Because of this limitation, one should strongly consider using the SCBL as part of a scoring system and explicitly allowlist wanted email senders (e.g., mailing lists and other IPs from which you want to receive email)."
One of the reasons could be that spamcop anonymizes the reporting user (at least tries very hard) and not all hosting providers take that serious ending up in block list. I have lived a horrible experience with a large mailing provider because they figured my contact information. Now they are a gigantic mail distributor and yet still blocked from getting spamcop reports.
Obviously you know these enterprise operating systems big irons etc.
There is only one thing I had to double check the source on Wikipedia. It seems that while Alta vista was the number one search engine and serving as a ultra Alpha server advertisement, Google inventors demo to Digital to acquire the technology and gets rejected. Why? Because search isn't core part of Digital business.
While I am not a developer I install notepad++ on every machine. The main authors of the FOSS application are not living in a aquarium as well as they don't care about corporate things. They have opinions about World issues especially about human rights and they aren't afraid to post them down to release names. A particular government isn't happy about it. They're known for state sponsored attacks.
Be careful with binaries.
There is still a fraction at MS acting like it is 1998 which they claimed Linux doesn't even properly support USB.
I just installed ms-edge to openSUSE TW via Terminal and I noticed my default browser has been set to Edge. This is the only instance a developer abuses the "default apps" mechanism of UNIX desktop. That should give a clue about my claim. Ballmer ideology is still wandering around at MS.
The first thing I noticed was VLC MSI package which was signed was detected as "dangerous". Please note, they signed the package. Normally many GPL licensed software refuses to sign their package as it is expensive and means nothing security wise. I think VideoLan guys made an exception so Windows doesn't alert non technical users.
I have sent feedback to Ms. At least they seem to have got rid of template monkey spammers.
Nothing good can come from such a incompetent company. It is completely impossible to know how many VLC installs out there. It is cURL level popular. Unknown software.
Unless wayland isn't the main point of 2 article, I wished it wasn't mentioned. It will create "noise", a lot of noise.
Hopefully plan9 will be mentioned, that strange looking OS and its ideas could become the next MacOS. MRAM, thousand++ cores may need the true UNIX V2.
In a technical point of view, money should be spent to quantum computing hardware and software. For regular computing there should be a way to implement this thing on a p2p grid which will benefit the grid members somehow, monetarily.
The really worrying word in the article is Abu Dhabi based funds. Funds owned by oppressive regimes in the Middle East should have no say in such a massive power. They may look uneducated, filthy rich to you but trust me they have their own agenda. Just watch what is happening to Twitter.
AI/hardware is totally a knife thing. Can prepare food or stab a person.
It is really interesting that whenever a story appears anywhere regarding Mozilla foundation or Firefox, these guys appear out of nowhere advertising that browser.
For example we don't see Vivaldi browser fans. Speaking of which, the new CEO should ask for a technical review about why Vivaldi had to choose Chromium instead of Gecko. Why is it so hard to integrate it and the reasoning behind PWA cancellation.
If you do that, say bye to corporate, government and education desktops. Why would they do it while Tor people based their stuff to Firefox ESR?
IMHO even the "they won't be able to spy your browsing!!!" coming "on" by default is a mistake since private data vampires already "run as roof" at the background. It just breaks sites and for general user= "browser is broken". See top 20 websites.
I am telling all of above from from the general end user perspective while I am building servo browser from source on Linux right now. I really wonder what they wasted and the performance of it.
Steve Jobs is claimed to say something like "The war is over, IBM won, it is time to move on" back in 1980s to Apple. He wanted Apple to concentrate on markets where they have success instead of trying to beat PC clone sales and market share.
If people looked to performance and quality of code, all would use Linux or BSD. It isn't good vs evil either, they choose definition of evil in elections.
While I was trying to explain why she or anyone stay the hell away from apps like life 360,I typed "life 360 Mozilla" at 7 AM local to search engine. A result popped up too. IMHO this should be the foundation of new direction.
Is it a generally known fact so people don't mention it? Alt right, crypto bros and conspiracy theorists hate Mozilla and Baker. I bet they are investigating new CEO's cultural background,religion, some education grants etc right now. Actually as this is a British site, let's call what they actually are: Neo Nazis. When I cared enough to follow the trails, it always ended up in some alternative browser community.
This is about Desktop security not server.
You can't do much if your profile is specifically targeted by a state or a billion dollar company however every single day passing with zero competition on the Win32 Desktop security, it goes worse.
Yea I am talking about Windows built in security. There is no conspiracy, it is just nobody is that good. E.g. even Mr Cutler himself wrote it, they would find a way. Actually, the attack surface is gigantic compared to pre Windows 10. A black hat really knows which one to break now unlike Win 7 which had thousands of security configs.
For a global and technical attendees going to a casino for a conference was weird.
If one cares about "why" the cancellation happened they should find a business nerd and ask them. They may have some interesting financiers from oppressive regimes etc. Sometimes the explanation could be very basic.
E.g. find a way to make an ordinary Arab to circumvent Saudi billion dollar firewall and post it on "X". Watch what happens.
It sure got annoying but Edge isn't a bad browser even on Linux. I am using it for a restaurants online ordering control panel which has uptimes like 10-12 days. No leaks of any kind.
It is really like Balmer left a small gang there making 90s things.
It is a known/trivial thing that both xdg and crontab can be easily modified by deb/rpm however ethics have stopped packagers. At the last resort there could be google-chrome-stable-default package can do same thing.
Both are corporate packages which are abusing mechanism designed with good intentions.
About your crond: I remember Google was abusing OSX launchd with something triggered every hour.
Remember Crusoe had great X86 support in an interesting fashion. It wasn't a bad chip, it was acquired.
The issue with Transmeta was the gigantic hype created just by the Linus himself being there. We were checking Transmeta page source file and the page daily to see a single sign of "miracle chip" coming. The company or Linus did nothing to increase the hype, people hyped others etc. When the truly impressive (battery life) chip released we were like "So this is it?". It can remind you Segway however it was Kamen himself and the silicon valley billionaires hyped it to insane levels.
On the other hand, Russian Elbrus a respected company hyped up their X86 crazy spec chip which most of the people thought it was a pipe dream. EL2K or something. Chip really exists, it ended up being a military chip.
Dave Cutler recently said in David Plummer interview that he was impressed by the concept of AMD64 immediately and they started the AMD64 development at MS right away.
Also another legend, Knuth says: In a 2001 interview, Knuth criticized Itanium for its complexity and lack of compatibility with existing software. He stated, "Itanium is a very complex machine, and it's not at all clear that this complexity is going to buy us anything in terms of performance." He also expressed concern that Itanium would not be able to run legacy software, which he considered to be a significant drawback.)
Windows and Microsoft ecosystem will waste that great architecture too. It is almost a cultural thing for Wintel companies, developers. They will waste any kind of CPU and IO for trivial, lame things.
I have a i5 laptop which sometimes runs DRM video etc stuff under Windows 10 having almost nothing installed. I actually wait for the system to be usable like 10 minutes after boot. There is also massively irritating fan sound.
Once I reboot the same machine to open SUSE Tumbleweed (rolling+btrfs) fan literally stops as early as it is booting and stays that way unless I do something like detect faces in 200.000 photos with all cores.
On openSUSE Tumbleweed (or similar) you get like 2000-3000 updates a WEEK sometimes and such catastrophic or system downing reports are rare. Even if they happen, they offer "fraction of a second" rollback mechanisms such as "snapper".
I remotely connected to 2 critical machines running Windows in panic after reading this story, they seem to be updated fine but this is absurd. These are also critical security updates and in that specific location they _have to_ be updated since they are exposed to Internet and local network.
I remember playing with a 3d title animator program on my 68000 Amiga 500. I designed a logo set parameters and waited 20 hours to render until the cat pressed ESC and Y.
That's why I keep locking KDE/Win at home while I am out. When I come back there is always some text in passwd field.
On this iOS Google keyboard, Itanium or as the Register called it "Itanic" isn't even auto filled.
You should check Wikipedia which has a section about big name projections about the future and market predictions about it. We were supposed to run it on our desktops retiring x86
Nevertheless both Intel and HP were seriously managed companies by professionals. Not someone in a highly publicised mid-life crisis.
I was in a hurry trying to prepare a poster with a couple dining on an Iceberg to show a restaurant has air conditioning. When I type "a couple dining on an iceberg with wine on the table" to the prompt it showed same sex couples from minorities. I tried almost a dozen times. I didn't want to put anything racist to the prompt either.
It is kinda ironic that I finally gave up Photoshop not because of that AI but global warming. It is a really badly written suite with 100% CPU load. The laptop thermal shutdowns without AC.
"not there's anything wrong with that"
Seinfeld: Season 4, Episode 17 (a must watch)
I have a i5 CPU with Intel HD5500 GPU which really can't work well with Photoshop. It even overheats and shuts down and I _hate_ Windows. So I thought "let's rent some good PC which does have a good (non pro) GPU, 16GB of RAM and Windows whatever just to run Photoshop with Neural Filters.
When I finally gave up, I was looking to an offer from Amazon which was worth $650/month. Adding Windows license and GPU makes the prices crazy. I am not even talking about the stuff you would want to rent while having a good GPU.
The real amazing thing is, Adobe doesn't offer any solution to advanced users/small companies who doesn't really want to keep up with new GPU every 6 months. They are already subscribed. Just add extra "cloud processing" thing.
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