Posts by mika7367

Windows Update borks elderly printers in typical Patch Tuesday style

I have an old Dot Matrix printer (Canon) I just love the screaming noise when it prints :)

Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons

Quantum

Works great for me none of my addons were affected, Lastpass, UBlock Origin, Stumbleupon and yes not such a memory hog anymore. Although at 64Gb was never a real issue anyway. I don't mind the square tabs either... nice and clean so thumbs up from me!. Video Download Helper is working on Linux Mint 18.2, not tried on Windows 10 yet but should be ok?

Human error blamed for toxic Russian rocket explosion

Techie Problem

The Russians are welcome to have one of my spare Linux boxes, I'll even go over and run maintenance on it once a month :)

Australian gamers can get high and naked

Abou Time

Any 7 year old with online access knows how to download games or inappropriate software using the Tor network or through Steam using Bittorrent, However it is good that the government has finally realised that games are not just for 10 year olds!

Australian tabloid decides to fight trolls ... with trolls

So sad

I see this all the time over here in the (Lucky Country?), anyway I'd better finish fixing this server before the rest of the country wakes up Yawn! Zzzzzzzz.......

Jedi light-sabre beats Taser in Oregon parking-lot fracas

re "plastic lightsaber not a deadly weapon"

How do we know he didn't steal a pack of D cell Energizer batteries as well and make it "Live" :)

ESA gives up on duff Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt

Ha! Ha!

Has anyone tried: $ sudo reboot

Journo was arrested, says Qld cop

Hacking!

Hacking is illegal no matter which way yo look at it (ok white hacking systems when a company ask you to find vulnerabilities in their systems is fine), However the way they did that reeks of well either jealousy or revenge.

Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx stalks PC and Mac converts

Bring it on

I managed to get Crysis and Trackmania Nations Forever running through wine (Karmic 9.10 x64) from Vista Ultimate x64.

Hopefully they have more AMD support in the 10.04 version so I don't need to use Enigma once a month ;

Jobs to iPad skeptic: 'Are you nuts?'

Please switch to linux.

and a half decent samsung or nokia phone ;)

Aussie firewall nears death

This is getting old.

Any 12yr old in Australia knows what proxy servers are, So regardless what the government comes up with only slows down people who are ignorant or just plain stupid. (Not to mention when the communications minister was busted with a few downloads on government hardware which is a teeny bit questionable ;)).