Posts by Lars 4343 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2007
I have to add that you don't want your router to be remotely accessible. And that you can check like this.
You need your IP Address and you get it by running a speed test like say ookla.
Then substitute the xxx.yyy.zzz.vvv with your IP in.
https://search.censys.io/hosts/xxx.yyy.zzz.vvv/
and
https://www.shodan.io/host/xxx.yyy.zzz.vvv/
@Tilda Rice
"After all we followed the US into Iraq, an independent sovereign state and killed over 100,000 civilians.".
So to be fair and show good sportsmanship we now have to accept that Putin does at least the same in Ukraine.
On the plus side of course is that we could then with good conscience invade for instance Greenland.
Hello AdamWill, and all the best.
I very much agree, I have used/tried at least ten different Linux distros and the only one I have paid for was Mageia. Not forced to pay, but as I saw it as a means to support them and you get it all on a stick with some documentation too in the mail.
What you do "for free" now is that you download the iso image or choose an other method. Regarding the non-free parts you decide if you want them or not when installing. I would choose to install that too.
One I could mention apart from Mageia as fine was Sabayon and one as "annoying" was one with an Indian background, perhaps not around any more, which when booting instead of displaying "booting linux" said "booting and the name of that distro". Too much for me.
We had a decent one in Finland too for some years.
And there are many very language specific around the world too.
The first for me was Red Hat too and then I tried for fun a bit of everything. One that impressed me then long ago was Helix Code (Ximian later) and that was Gnome of course.
But I did settle for KDE on Mandrake Mandriva and now Mageia. It still annoys me that their reputation was "good for beginners". I started as a programmer in 1968 and I wasn't looking for a particularly complicated only for experts made distro. And still there was in the beginning linuxconf and what not.
I did pay twice for Mandriva I think, but I think Mandrake and later always had free downloads too.
I tried Ubuntu twice but both times they offered a screen with a huge character size so you got no where from there during install and I did not bother with it any more.
There are several fine Linux distros but I have decided to stick with one European as we need the knowledge here too.
@Tron
France did not have any nuclear sub contract with Australia.
The Aussies wanted diesel subs and that is what the French were offering. And then the Aussies decided they want nuclear instead and France lost that project, with, no doubt, no reason to be happy about it.
It's nothing "these these" days with those shares, it's been like that for a long time. And yes there are big investors from the USA too, and why not as they are doing well. and then there are thousands of small "investors" also.
Some of it here:
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/AIRBUS-SE-4637/company-shareholders/
And it's a long story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Airbus
As for competence I hope your new government is a lot more competent than what you had during the last 14 years or so. And I wish you all the best.
Still it would not surprise me at all if France surpassed Britain economically within a few years once again,
@tin 2
I have to assume you assume the French are as rubbish as the Brits (sorry the English) at running stuff, or your assumption at how rubbish the home lot are at running stuff.
Perhaps you are wrong and the French are doing the right thing, and not for the first time, After all Airbus is doing well regardless of the fact they are partly owned by the French and the Germans and Spain. And EDF is alive too and doing OK.
Perhaps a different Britain (sorry the English) should have supported more companies at home.
What happened to British IT. Happy with Oracle and all the rest oversea companies now.
What have you actually got left when you have sold your oil, your water, your energy, your harbours and your airports, just to mention some.
"Volvo's headlights being always on,".
In many European countries the default is that the lights are on (you can switch them off too) because lights are used daytime too for added safety.
And there is no doubt it is safer as you are simply more visible lights on. I had a very nice Volvo 164 then long ago, a very nice car with a straight 6 3L fuel injection engine, top speed 200 km/h (124 m/h).
People living in countries where lights are not used during the day often have strong opinions about it, which is odd as they cannot know anything about it.
As that was mentioned I had a look and a listen to this rather stunning video years ago and when doing that I suddenly realised I still miss the sound of a V8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI2sgyoiL1o
And this is of course as important as this article.
PS. what is that "flag" in the very beginning.
@Healeyman
Such an impressive sentence,
" is continuously ingesting its own output (sh*t) so, potentially, misleading and outright erroneous 'info' can get amplified, concentrated and re-regurgitated until it's nothing but unrecognizable nonsense.".
A description of Trump and Trumpism comes to my mind.
@Jellied Eel
No, Finns have no problem in understanding that accepting help from the Germans was a better choice than ending up like the Baltic states then before the Continuation war as satellite states run by Stalin.
What you seem to imply is that Finns dit it because they were nazi or become nazi because of that. And that is just idiotic.
Have you joined Putin in moaning the demise of the USSR or what the hell is it with you.
We in Finland like in many other countries have been hoping Russia would turn eventually into a prosperous democratic country, but for some damned reason they always end up with something very different.
Should that not be what you should be concerned about.
Also Denmark and Norway were occupied by Germany. Sweden and Finland not but in both countries the Germans were allowed to move troops through the country.
As a Finn I don't expect people abroad to know all that much about Finland including its fate in WW2. But what naturally annoys a lot is how easily "uneducated" people associate Finland with nazism. This particularly annoying when a Brit does it for two reasons, one being England's own history with Oswald Mosley &Co.
For those interested there is this on YouTube, "Strangers in a Stranger Land: Finland's Jewish Soldiers in WWII".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emgOzd0ng1A&t=345s
As we know England had no means to help anybody against the Russians, or against the Germans (Dunkirk) and soon the Russians become allies according to the old logic of my enemies enemy is my friend.
When Finland was attacked by the USSR Churchill, a man of the word, held a very nice speech on the BBC about the small brave Finland fighting the bully from the east.
Russia was then expelled from the League of Nations.
In Finland the war continued with the "Continuation War" and Churchill came to promise Finland military help but absolutely nothing came of that and as a result the Finns had to ask for help from Germany with the old logic of my enemies enemy is my friend.
There are a few things the Finnish tend not to remember, one is that Britain declared war on Finland because of that. Churchill claimed he had to because of the Allies but was lying as the Americans never did such a stupid thing. Winston was simply appeasing his Uncle Joe. It must have annoyed him immensely that Stalin realised he was less important than the Americans.
Finns forget that because on the whole Britain is a respected country, if with a slight sneer now after Brexit.
The other thing Finns tend to forget is how very crucial that German help was for Finland to stay independent especially towards the end.
The reason for that is much that the Germans had to be pushed out of Finland by force. When they could have peacefully just walked to Sweden without first burning down norhern Finland in the "Lapland war".
One forgotten group of Germans helping Finland was "Detachment Kuhlmey". A group of some 70 airplanes set agains the Russians.
Finland was of course rather lucky in that Stalin pulled troops out of Finland when he considered taking Berlin was more important than trying to take Helsinki.
This video about Kuhlmey is in German and Finnish for those who get along with that. It's hard to find much in English about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yT23EYyME
Finland was one of those small countries pushed around when the big got mad, it could have been worse too.
As for previous experiences about the Ryssians 300 years ago, try this, texted to Swedish or English. And the music is good too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjFglWuwn6g&t=3119s
Greater Wrath
@werdsmith
Of course I know there are other parties both in Britain and the USA.
But now do try to find out when one of those two parties did not represent the government.
And it's the same in the USA.
So as a matter of fact both countries are two party countries and also of course one party governments too although the Americans have the advantage of the fact that both "houses" have power which is not the case in Britain,
John Brown (no body) wrote this "The UK system is far from ideal, but then what system is?".
I could however mention many countries with much better parliamentary systems, and I think he could too.
Lots of funny stuff about left or right from people living in two party systems in the USA and Britain. In a two party system there can in a way not exist anything else than left or right
Consequently also the far left or right is housed in either of those parties. Very annoying and stupid.
In a many party system (most of countries) the ultra this or that form their own parties.
What a sad system you Americans came to copy from the English.
And now in a few weeks American Republicans who perhaps have voted Republican all their life feel perhaps that they have to vote for Trump although they should by now know what a hopeless bastard and idiot he is.
Democrats have it a lot easier.
PS. Americans don't really have any experience of far left or far right. The great majority represent the center if they ever thought about it. And then there are those who have no idea of what they represent.
I hope you think and vote. And I hope you will eventually choose the president according to who got the popular vote like in other democracies.
@Like a badger
According to the Wikpedia:
"EDF has negotiated a guaranteed fixed price – a "strike price" – for electricity from Hinkley Point C under a government sanctioned Contract for difference (CfD). The price is £92.50/MWh (in 2012 prices),[38][100] which will be adjusted (linked to inflation – £128/MWh in 2022[104]) during the construction period and over the subsequent 35 years tariff period. The base strike price could fall to £89.50/MWh if a new plant at Sizewell is also approved.),".
Considering the fact that EDF is building that plant I could claim you got more than you deserve and have all the reasons to be happy about it.
I like the fact the French never gave up on nuclear power like the British.
@katrinab
Your figures are very odd, so lets try again with GDP (ppp) using 2023 for the EU and 2024 est. for the rest. (Wikipedia).
India $14.594 trillion, EU $25.399 trillion and the USA $28.781 trillion.
Note: should the UK still remain in the EU the numbers for the EU, even with brexit numbers for the UK, $4.029 trillion would exceed that of the USA. And it wouldn't be the first time.
Given the fact that both Britain and the USA did so very poorly regarding Covid I think we can claim that part of that must be due to idiots in charge in both countries, Boris and Trump.
Or should we look more at the people or say a two party system with a one party government.
I don't think I lost anything washing my hands, reluctantly using a mask and keeping some distance to people if possible. And having my vaccines of course.
And as for restaurants I did not use my mask when sitting as I was drinking and perhaps eating but standing up I put it on as I was probably leaving. Not much of a problem.
@AC For quite good.
There is this recording that has survived like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zYbwDqZUs
And then there is this "distortion" proving the value of "pictures" graphics, funny really.
Men at work are dull to look at, exept for the guy with the bass violin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGiz_qbViE0
@fg_swe
I agree with GT it's a good tool if not (ever) perfect much depending on the language.
More effort on bigger languages one has to assume.
Regarding navigators I would add GM is not alone and there are some not depending on the internet.
Then you mention Germanic words in a Germanic language like German and English and Swedish!.
But with some bad luck you might find the nice Brit who in response to German words like "mother" and "father" will tell you it's such a shame English words are so eagerly copied into every foreign languages that should rather stay pure and avoid copying the English language..
Yes congrats to all involved. Reading all comments I would like to add that as soon as "we", we representing what ever country you like stops building, taking part, then that ability is all gone in no time.
Take nuclear power for instance, Britain is totally out although they once delivered.
France took just a small pause of 15 years and it was very hard to deliver again.
There are lots of good examples of similar around the world. What about fast trains in the USA.
In short, I think it's well worth for all of us that all involved in Ariane keep on working.
And there is of course also wikipedia for more words.
This from Sullenberger is rather straight, to the point.
"In 2019 Sullenberger said that Boeing 737 MAX crashes "are demonstrable evidence that our current system of aircraft design and certification has failed us. These accidents should never have happened."[80] He sharply criticized Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration, saying that the overly "cozy relationship" between the aviation industry and government was evident in March 2019 when Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg lobbied President Donald Trump to prevent the 737 MAX 8 from being grounded.".
One could also add that it all took place on a low altitude after starting giving less time for the pilots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sully_Sullenberger
@Graham Cobb
Being forced to adopt the Euro is a popular topic, often used by the brexit lot to warn Brits about rejoining the EU.
But the Eurozone consists of 20 member states out of the 27 EU members.
And I am not convinced at all that there is such great enthusiasm to add the Pound among the Eurozone countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone
"The purpose of First Past the Post is to keep out the extremists.".
That was rather funny or do you really think it has kept out extremists (and clowns) in Britain and in the USA.
In a FPTP system the extremists and clowns have nowhere to go but to take over one of the two main parties or both.
In a many party system they form their own fringe parties and are better kept in control.
The main purpose of fptp is to keep the two main parties in charge both in Britain and in the USA.
It will be interesting to see if Starmer has the strength to change the system.
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