Posts by John Doe 6 133 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Sep 2009
I also use Model M - has done it for 30 years and it is the same Model M.
The click-feature hated by some is there because it is needed by real "touch typists", they need feedback of a key being pressed so they don't need to look up from the paper.
There is a reason for everything on a Model M, it's not just for the noize. The weight is also on purpose - a keyboard SHOULD not move easily.
Btw. a "Touch Typist" is someone who type a lot and move data from one piece of paper to another or to a computer, they keep their eyes on the paper they are typing from - thus needing audible feedback from the keyboard.
In some quite old UNIX systems root didn't have a separate home directory...
executing rm -r ~* would be something like rm -r /*
This is from the HP manual "HP-UX 11i Version 1 Installation and Update Guide" under "Cold Install" ...
"Consider creating a root home directory that is not /. This keeps the user root dot files out of the / directory. Make sure it is on the root volume by not locating it under the mount point of the file system. A good name to use is /homeroot (not /home/root) as /home is often a mount point. This is especially important if you are using LVM or VxVM and /home is a seperate volme."
Yes, but not for the auditors, they usually only want data up to 6 years back.
We had to get an ancient backup system going to restore a more than 10 year old Lotus 123 file which could prove that a product someone just had patented was something we had for years. IBM was btw. very helpful providing the Lotus 123 software needed to read that file.
"The omission is an odd one. Microsoft has a Skype client for Linux, so a similar client for Teams should not be beyond the imagination of the Windows giant. Particularly given its much-publicised love for the Linux platform."
That's not odd...
Microsoft has no Skype for business client which is what Teams is supposed to replace.
The technology behind Skype for business is NOT Skype but Lync - only the name has changed.
WiFi speed is effectively limited by your wire speed and as long both 3G/4G/5G and wire is provided by the same companies your wire speed will not reach 5G speeds (because they are more interested in feeding 5G transmitters with x10Gbit than deliver 10Gbit Ethernet to your home (and no WiFi AP supports currently more than 2x1Gbit).
I don't think you understand the concept "work" in this specific situation...
It is not a desktop environment but a very much specialized environment where the PC just run one or two applications and there may be some extra hardware involved.
Upgrading the OS may require millions in new hardware.
No, I do not like the situation - someone should have said "STOP, this will not work, a ship is not a place for a desktop operating systems!"
Actually it is quite easy in a military environment - sadly the rest of the world do not live by military standards.
RN is not alone in this, most navies have the same issue but again this is manageable those are very closed environments.
It would be very nice if hospitals et. al., airplanes, ships and critical infrastructure could be run like that... people (primary politicians) are however stupid so they are not.
We haven't because those Russian, Chinese, NSA hackers didn't want us to know and the corporations providing cloud services are afraid of saying anything just yet (people are still able to move back - in a couple of years we will be megafu***d and locked in the cloud). Wait a couple of years and the bubble will crack - the world as we know it will collapse - the cloud will be taken over - and everyone will say "WTF just happened ??"
...it is easier to get an Mac to boot Linux than it is to get a PC to do the same.
They may have some ideas how they want to people to use their product but that is not different from how your dishwasher manufacturer want you to use their dishwasher.
Most of the anti-apple mob are angry Windblows users who are afraid of losing their "supremacy" of having to reinstall their PC at least once a year.
I am btw. running OpenSuSE on a MacBook Pro... installing Linux on a Lenovo was too time consuming.
Oh one more thing: Windblows still can't manage proper display scaling something OS X and Linux has been doing for over 10 years.
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