Re: Blending
(most efficacious in every case).
Have one on me for the "Lily the Pink" quotation.
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UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles...
Where I live they already are.
Our local telco has wired me up using the existing BT pole as it was not possible to run a cable underground due to the congested sewers, gas mains and electricity cables that run under the small area where the houses are. In other places they have put the cables underground, causing a considerable amount of disruption on the roads. For example, why would anyone in their right mind start digging up the road in one of our most popular holiday towns in the middle of the season?
Having said that the local telco is about five years ahead of Openreach round here and will be finished long before BT gets round to doing anything other than making promises.
I too am irritated with the unnecessary switch to "International English" when as far as I can see it's only the United States who uses it as their first language.
However, taking umbrage at the title of Ted Cruz as "ranking member" is uncalled for.
The US Congresses' use of the title "ranking member" is correct.
It's like saying a junior MP is a "Private Parliamentary Secretary" which is used in the House of Commons.
It's just the way things are done.
"Just one of those things" if the software isn't calibrated for the event, which to us is highly suggestive of human error.
Wonderful.
The Antikythera Mechanism, had, as far as we can tell, built in features to deal with the variability of the temporal cycle. It's all way above my head but scholars have shown that the variability of the Moon's phases, intercalary adjustments and so on have been factored into the design of the mechanism and was, at our best guess, designed circa 200 BCE. See here
That's 2200 years ago so why hasn't the world learned to take things like leap years into account yet?
Watchdog bites back against blockage of $9M fine on US selfie-scraper Clearview AI
Look, it's one thing to switch to using "International English" a.k.a. American English. It's another to start to force a British courts decision into using a foreign currency. The fine was £7.5 million and the headline should reflect that.
O.K. qualify it in USD if you have to, but please treat a British court's decision with the respect that it deserves.
"...we simply do not control their employment terms or working conditions"
It doesn't look like that to me.
If these people have been sacked by Google then I would say that Google has a lot of control over these employees and I'm glad to see that the NLRB also thinks that way.
Google and others like Facebook, Apple and Microsoft make billions of dollars each year.
The question is: What do they do with all that money and why do they always want more?
Trinity and PCLinuxOS have had an on and off relationship over the years.
In the past it was available on PCLOS but was a swine to install, then it was added as a community option, it then vanished for a while so I am very happy to see that is available as on option on PCLOS again.
Due to the on again off again nature of Trinity on PCLOS I switched to MATE but I always liked Trinity as the successor to my then favourite KDE3.5.
I will definitely take a look at Trinity the next time I have to rebuild one of my boxes and see how the old girl has got on since I last used it.
+1!
I also agree with Liam on Q4OS. It's slick and intelligent when installed under VirtualBox. Not many of the various distros I have tried install all you need to get a fully functioning OS and being Trinity it just works. At least for me.
Risk of ‘significant data loss’ for on-prem customers...
Now this might be the old, crusty cynic in me but this warning looks very convenient.
Atlassian is currently trying to move customers to the cloud and given the vague details of the threat: "The Australian vendor hasn’t detailed the nature of the flaw or how it can facilitate data loss. The company has said it’s not seen any exploits." inclines me to think that good old FUD is being brought into play here.
I may be wrong about this, I often am, but something about this affair smells a bit fishy.
,,, has gotten worse since this site went all American."
As have you apparently.
British usage is to use the word got. A little clumsy sounding and does not roll of the tongue like gotten, but there it is.
The strange thing about got and gotten is that gotten was previously used in British English, and went over to America with the settlers. Here gotten fell out of use but continued in the US. There is a fossil usage still in British English in the form of "ill-gotten gains."
There does seem to be a dirigiste strain running through the Gnome team.
Take for the example of the reduction in the utility of Nautilus. All in the name of simplifying the file manager. Or the imposition of Adwaita on Gnome users, no ifs no buts. So the devs handing down diktats on the use of Wayland despite reports that it is not a complete replacement for X does not come as a surprise
Still with Linux there are alternatives and if you piss off your users enough they have somewhere else to go. You can only push your luck to a certain degree and then people start to walk away.
We shall see.
Vows it won't 'proactively' shift folks who only use a landline or have no mobile signal.
Too late. I'm old and if I had to wait for the likes of BT or Plusnet I might not be here to use the 'phone.
Luckily we have a local fibre company who seem to be on the ball with this. I switched to them a month ago, so I have now got 3 times the speed for 2/3rds the price. I also have my landline with them. I don't have a mobile, most networks don't work around here and EE, the one that does, can be a PITA to deal with.
What's not to like?
I'm a personal PC user these days.
My sysadmin days are long past so I don't have to worry about changes to the OS I run.
That puts me in a position where a rolling release makes sense. In my case PCLinuxOS. It's always up to date and rarely breaks so I have managed to get off the upgrade cycle which does away with worrying about how long the OS will be supported.
Not for every one but for me it just makes sense
Since October 2021, the ICO has fined 16 companies a total of £1.45 million for dialing the phone numbers of TPS members,
Yes, and how much have they collected from these companies?
Not much I'm betting.
It would be much better if disqualification, personal fines and the possibility of jail time for the worst cases were put in place.
Otherwise these rogue companies will just be liquidated and replacements registered and the carousel will just keep on turning.
"...deliberately made it hard for them to cancel a subscription."
You can say that again.
As recounted in previous threads here, it took me ages to try and navigate Amazon's cancellation process. After what seemed to be days beating my head against a brick wall I rang the "help line" and after again waiting an eternity got through to an agent who seemed to struggle with English. Eventually I got through to her that I never wanted anything to do with Prime and would she please put a flag on my account declining their kind offer,in the unlikely event that I ever did business with then again.
Even so, I trust Amazon about as far as I could spit it so have not been to their tat bazaar since.
Just in case they trap me again.
The trouble with your idea is that there are not enough "techno-nerds".
Yes, people here might be able to see the problems associated with a universal subscription model, but most people don't know or care. They want the shiny thing now, and never worry if it's costing them an arm and a leg in perpetuity.
My sister is like that. She sees something like Netflix, Disney+ and so on, pays monthly and after a while never uses the service again. Then she moans to me about not knowing where her money is going.
I must confess that I do have a couple of subscriptions on Patreon. Only £5 a month but it's worth it for me as I value the content offered and want to support the creators of the channels.
Shearing a sheep is one thing, flaying it another altogether.
BMW got smacked in the face and they deserved it.
"Microsoft has so much market power that they can decide… how the market will evolve based on their rules,"
Well they would know, wouldn't they?
How anyone can come out with this bullshit with a straight face beats me.
Maybe that's why members of the C suite are so richly rewarded.
Soon it will be Microsoft's turn to moan about the stranglehold Google has on the online ad business and search and how that is unfair to a struggling browser owner like themselves.
Hypocritical, entitled and just downright loathsome the lot of 'em.
We don't know what the artistic differences are between Mageia and OpenMandriva, but they continue to pursue very similar goals and we still feel that they should try to settle their differences and cooperate.
I don't know about that.
I've tried both Mageia and OpenMandriva when I was having difficulties with PCLinuxOS.
True, they still have the good old *drak tools available. Which, in my opinion, is a very good thing. But OpenMandriva seems to have moved farther away from its roots than the other two. The installer is Calamares, and for someone expecting the familiar Mandrake installer, that struck a jarring note right away. After that the presence of systemd and sudo made me realise that things had changed, and for me not for the better. When I tried Mageia I found out that Mageia also used systemd. That caused some difficulties when I ran into sound problems and although the Mageia forum was friendly and helpful I felt out of place.
I tried PCLinuxOS one last time and to my joy it worked straight out of the box. No wading through obscure, to me, error logs and mystic incantations to get stuff to work. I was home and glad of it.
One thing I will say is that all of the people I contacted when I had problems with all of these distros could not have been kinder or more patient. The Mandriva derivatives may be unfashionable and some what sidelined by the likes of MX Linux, Mint and Ubuntu but they are all still easy to use and configure with the *drak tools provided. It may be that a bit of cross-fertilisation would help but the basic approaches by the devs seem a bit too wide to bridge.
My choice is PCLinuxOS but the other two are just as easy to get started with.
Well the article makes me regard my 25 year old Mini Cooper S and my older Vauxhall Corsa as even more useful than they are.
The Mini has an ECU which I suppose could be used for snooping on my driving habits but as far as I know nothing else. As for the Corsa, who knows, I don't delve under the bonnet of my cars and the Corsa was very much second-hand when I got it.
It may be either paranoia or the effects of old age but I have always steered clear of "connected" devices but reading the surveys that keep coming out I'm glad that I don't have such things tracking what I do, say or if the article is true think.
"What we're going to find is that by having a device on your head,"
I read that and laughed out loud. Everybody wandering around hooked up to a visor?
Let's leave that to films like Ready Player One and enjoy reality. It is as James Halliday says the only place to get a decent meal.
Seriously, I have enough trouble avoiding 'phone zombies wandering around with their gaze stuck to their 'phones' screen without having people loose on the street who are not really aware of what's going on around them. That, coupled with "self driving cars", seems like a recipe for disaster.
It's all self-interest and marketing. Like their visors it's not anchored in the real world.
And don't get me started on brain implants. I can see the governments of the world salivating at the prospect. Why bother spying on people when their implants are doing the job for you?
I am all in favour of distros free from systemd and might take MX Linux for a spin in Virtualbox just to see what it can do.
I don't think that I will be installing it permanently though.
Because MX Linux is derived from Debian I assume it has inherited sudo as well. Now it might be the old sysadmin in me but I never liked the idea of having a user getting admin privileges on a computer. It strikes me as asking for trouble if you are the got-to-guy for support with family and friends.
I think that Texstar and the folks at PCLinuxOS have the right idea and stick to the UNIX way of doing things and only allowing root have access to the sensitive parts of the system.
Now I have, in the past, been down voted for voicing concerns about sudo but cases differ and if you're happy with sudo then use it.
Part of the joy of Linux is that your boxes are your boxes and no-one can tell you what is right and what is wrong.
MX Linux does look good though.
"Businesses are facing volatile macroeconomic environments and markets that favour flexibility."
Well he's right in saying that with this diktat the financial environment is going to be volatile. Companies will not know what they are going to have to pay. But he's wrong if he thinks telling his customers "The only way is the cloud." is offering flexibilty. That is a straightjacket for firms who use SAP products.
I also seem to remember SAP saying that firms will have to adapt their business to fit in with SAP's requirements not the other way round.
Who is paying who here?
"We are assessing what this means for information rights of people in the UK and considering an appropriate response."
Looks like we "Took back control" and promptly lost it over the likes of Facebook,
The 27 nations of the EU plus the EEA carry a much heftier punch than isolated little Britain.
If Facebook can face down our puny regulators then I don't think we have a hope in Hell of stopping them doing exactly what they want.
As has been said "God favours the big battalions"
"...faster system reboots."
Just as bloody well given that everything that Poettering has his fingers in seem to require a reboot a la Windows.
I recently moved distros because of all the grief I had with weird glitches showing up in PCLinuxOS. I went to Mageia but soon beat a hasty retreat due to the nightmare I was having with systemd and Pulseaudio. Talk about verbose, un-parsable diagnostics. And the re-boots! Systemd might be right for some people but I went back to PCLOS where at least I can read what is going on in the various logs and edit any config files I need to.
Talk about taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Ah, concrete. I get it now.
The article had me confused with ...45 cubic meters of the carbon-black-doped cement
I thought to myself how can a building or road be built on a loose pile of powder. Then the penny dropped, this piece was written by someone from the US who give different meanings to common words, like " gas powered". That could either mean powered by gas or by gasoline which is what they call petrol.
I think it was George Bernard Shaw who described the UK and the US as "Two nations divided by a common language."
As arguably the single most popular desktop environment across Linux distributions...
Widely used may not equate to popular.
I've seen a lot of adverse comments over the years about the habit of the Gnome developers habit of taking useful feature away and then when asked why the reply goes along the lines of "My way or the highway."
I think that the desktops coming from the Mint team are more popular even if not so common. Basically what these do is work with the user and do not issue diktats from the developers.
Yes, there may be times when an innovative approach is needed but remember the UI is a tool, there to do what you want and then get out of the way. Change for changes sake is not always a good idea.
I was mulling over this exhibition of Musk's ego and the thought crossed my mind. Why didn't he choose I instead of X for the new name?
It could have made a really phallic symbol to put on the roof of his HQ. That would show them who has the biggest dick!
Or, alternatively ME, reversed initials of "The Man" and let's face it this is all about "ME"
This man seems to have a lot of problems but self-regard and self-promotion really stand out.
"But Omdia Principal Analyst Manoj Sukumaran was more dismissive..."
Hmm, I smell special pleading here. It would be interesting to see who is pulling his strings.
As Pascal Monett says above, what price Earth's future?
We cannot go on like this and any possible solution, pun intended, is to be welcomed.