Posts by FuzzyTheBear 381 posts • joined 25 Feb 2010
Why insist on making Libre Office a copy of MS Office products ? I understand usability and old habits for office personnel but i do believe making LO = O is a major mistake. When i look at either products i'm always left wondering . Most people aren't going to use all those functions to make a simple letter or document. It's insanely complex for everyday use. I'd rather have a dumbed down interface where specialised functions are available on demand rather than the horrible " all in your face " design model which is , imho , a mess. to beat MSO you have to think differently , not make an exact replica. Be yourself , not someone that tries to be like Elvis , dress like Elvis , haircut like Elvis .. These clunky user interfaces need to go west. It's too much lost real estate on the screen. learn to think differently or die just being a copy of a copy of ..
the original mistake was done by a hundred companies that said " hey we can make this cheaper in China .. cost of labor is small . they make the goods and we do the money .. way better ! .. :) Ahhhhh .. yes .. displacing jobs abroad .. what a good idea .. then came the guys with the white shirts .. ( engineers they call em .. i mean .. it's strange cause that particular lot don't do engines ) So .. they arrive there with blueprints and schematics and all and start transferring knowledge to the Chinese .. the Chinese are bright .. so they jump on the bandwagon and start to educate more and more of their own , invest money we send them in high tech and all .. weapons .. We all start to feed the machine by buying their goods and from then on we were basically fried. We knew there was a certain level of risk . But the totalitarian regime over there said to itself .. " these suckers gave us an inch .. let's take the whole goddamn yard. Now it's hard to get out of this. They built a machine so complex and efficient that to defeat it will take an earth shattering event.
These guys seeing that the west wouldn't dare attack them cause they grown so big , started to use other peoples as slaves in their factories . Yet the west didn't move. The richeous west says .. oooooo they use slave labor maybe we shouldn't buy those goods made by them " wow .. the west didn't say " let's go in . kick ass and liberate these peoples " no .. they choose to coward and play the game by giving themselves a clean conscience .. we done what we could . Liars . ! they cowarded in front of China and China is only emboldened by that cowardice.
Nothing will change in China unless deadly massive force is used now. Nothing. We trusted our enemies , now they're laughing at our mistake.
Often in signage with those older displays we simply put the computer in a rack somewhere , use a vga to cat5 --> cat5 vga pair of extenders.
Can be anywhere within 100m .. Same applies to HDMI , for simple signage though the units are small enough so they're at the back of the tv mounted somewhere handy.
No need to tear apart a computer .. extenders are probably what went on here.
Next boyo that tells me their equipment is secure or that their services are secure will make me fall on the floor in a heap laughing my bu&& off unable to lick a stamp to save my life.
If Russia don't do a thing to prevent this .. just cut the cables at the borders and jam their satellites solid.
Wars can be fought both ways Vlad.
Mine's the one without an ethernet port.
From the article .. they backed up on this and well .. it's good. Some things i don't object to is for example Firefox crash reporting. It does help. So for say audacity crashes and they have a reporting system for the crashes , fine. That might help the programmers. If something's wrong and they have bug reports automated with our consent ( ex send button ) all fine.
Same applies to functions. Ex plugins. What's the most popular plugin ? What is the most used functions ? If you got that as an opt in , what's the harm ?
For one i don't beleive that this pauses a threat at all to privacy. What's the problem ? I don't see any.
What i'd highly object to is my files getting copied to a remote server , names of the files , details that are of no importance whatsoever to develoopers.
There's some good and some bad in this. I don't object to participate in this fashion at all. If it helps make the software better .. im ok with it.
What i do object to is if data i'm working on is in any shape or form transmitted down the line.
That i don't want to see.
Simple .. pull the plug .. if they expect you to be always at the end of a leish your choice.
Mine is to leave the work cell at the office.
I don't answer emails from work but during the office hours.
If i'm not paid to be on standby then i ain't on standby, simple.
Go to your deputy at the commons and tell them to do their job and legiferate against it.
We have the right to have a life.
Might well be. I hope not. Time will tell but if there's a way i'd stay away from RHEL or anything that depends on it. Personal computers and mainframes have different needs . I can switch distros anytime on my desktops .. but on a mainframe , the implications are enormous. It's not a small matter. Can any fork be trusted to stay the course ? I'd say give it 5 years , then if it's stable, commit to it. But before that , i have a feeling the odds are against any of them being a good choice. Just a feeling.
I , for one , am a fan of C-4 Semtex and other assorted high explosives. They are great ! .. there's nothing like a great kaboom to start the day off . Nothing i'd like better than to have a chance to press the switch on a high rise building and watch it go boom.
If you notice in the video there's a few different angles of view of the detonation , in one it clearly shows that what looks like freaking massive is just because of the point of view , so .. the real explosion was way less important than certain angles would let you believe. Got to be carefull with cams and angles .. they will easily fool you.
Most of the bandwidth is paid by the cell phone user in terms of data. Servers to deliver the apps are just part of the cash printing machine for Apple . it's like for Facebook to say " hey the service is free " when we know dang well that the website is there to collect data about users. The more is put in , the more money they make. So it's in their interest to give what looks like features and all to the user so they fill in more data and them extract more money.
Being curious and an old time linux user i went over and checked out the documentation.
A) I read through one of the pages and told myself " .. this is sooooo wonderfull .. Next time im drunk ( unlikely to happen anytime soon ) ill simply go back to the site and put that page back on .. it's going to induce vomiting and ill be able to drink some more ..
B) As i further read i realised how insidious it is and how much must pass through systemd .. limitations , calls , recommendations
It is to vomit ! ..
It wins first place in the " All time Mongolean Cluster F*** " category.
I understand developpers and people that steer clear of this. Systemd wants total control of everything that goes on in the computer. That aint a boot loader.
That's a project gone insane. OH ! BY JOVE I GOT IT .. Donald Trump must be heading the project from the shadows.
i would put that ticket to good use .. Open the airlock at the right time .. " Here Mr Bezos .. make a huge leap for mankind " close the door and press the " decompress " button to send Bezos in space .. ( of course , without the benefits of a spacesuit ) .. then casually walk out the capsule and go home knowing i did humanity a favor.
Trouble is that it all started with Trump. Trump was a master liar with a degree in advanced disinformation and manipulation.
We know he's put his lackeys in key positions to push his ideas that he's right all along , knows better and " let's fix the papers to match the facts we want the people to hear through the news so they back us up " the man was a con artist. Everyone agrees.
Now .. question remains is is there REAL evidence Huawai is pushing stuff out the door that's intended for infiltration of other countries communications systems ?
That's the question noone can answer .. noone can show us the hard evidence.
Lacking that the only option is to check their stuff in a lab and study it.
Trump conned a lot of people, the whole Huawai affair ( including the arrest in Canada ) smells like just another of the trade wars he started with the world.
We all seen it .. The man was an idiot. I am far from sure that a large company like that would be idiotic enough to bug their systems when they know that the clients will audit them and check network traffic and make all the tests that need to be done.
The real war here is not about equipment being a threat .. the real war is disinformation so the telcos are forced to buy other company's shit at a premium.
Buy American taken to another level .. Buy equipment from companies i got shares of .. that's what it sounds like.
The whole thing smeels like shit to me. I don't trust American equipment or the internet in Canada / USA more than i'd trust the Chinese or Russia for that matter.
It's under tight surveillance and we know it. The last case of FBI spreading backdoored equipment is proof they are willing to do so.
So .. before i let anyone change my mind about the setup and con job ill need hard evidence.
I don't believe Huawai would be idiotic enough to do this. Doubts are just that .. doubts.
About time the governments either hand out the proofs , hard evidence , or shut the hell up.
Just another Trump con job and outright lies.
Noone likes people that barge in on old habits , on their old comforts and be told that from now on it's his way of the highway.
That's what he done and now he's alone picking up the pieces. Sucks to be a dictator.
People's ego is what keeps people from being happy.
People's ego is the basis for the greatest human tragedies and wars.
There's people , kids , going hungry in the UK and you spend 200 mils on a yatch for people who truly don't need it ?
Shame .. this whole thing is shamefull beyond belief. This is beyond acceptable. Shame on the whole bloody lot for even thinking they need this. They don't.. it's just another luxury for the 1% at your expense. What amazes me is " oooo it's a good idea .. " a good idea for the rich beyond belief that try to make you believe it's needed. Needed my a&& .. you're being taken for yet more of money that comes off your hard labor.
Ill be first to switch to the fork. Time to show the corporates ( exactly like what happens to freenode ) that if you piss off the users they will simply go away. So many examples of forks that turned out for the best that i can't understand why corps sabotage the software in the first place. In open source , money is not the game , users are , then comes money. They are doing it the wrong way around.
" Safety is our most important priority at Colonial Pipeline Company. Our focus on excellence means excellence in safety. At Colonial, we integrate best practices in safety into every element of operational and occupational processes. This enhances our robust asset integrity program, which is designed to prevent incidents from happening in the first place. "
Yeah .. sure .. think they should reread the crap they post and fact check them :D :D :D
Well .. ok .. so it's possible and found.. but where is it ? They do not say or tell if they found anything in modern day linux distros .. or even how this can be installed on a machine or present in a linux distribution .. how is it propagating ? It leaves too many questions to be truly helpfull.
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