Posts by alisonken1 222 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Sep 2010
Actually, the downvotes are for trying to treat the updates as killers if not patched without context. And blaming the penguin for everything without noting that the critical updates are limited in scope and what needs patching.
Fearmongering to point the finger at someone else to hide your insecurities is not a valid critique method.
Interetsing.
GNU was working on the Hurd kernel. How far did they get?
Linus used GNU toolchain and libs and gave GNU a working kernel.
And last I checked, Linus did not make the kernel proprietary - it's always been free to download/use/modify without cost. The only difference was switching from his own personal license to the easier-to-enforce GPL (mainly because of the foundation that keeps the GPL valid).
As for "corporate-approved tone" - did you have a specific one in mind? Like Slackware or Debian?
Your earlier post:
"Him originally releasing Linux as proprietary software was not deserving of thanks (as a developer that releases proprietary software deserve punishment for releasing a harmful program, not thanks) - he only deserves thanks for re-licensing it to a free license.
If you read my post, you'll realize that I did thank him for all his code reviews (what overseeing development and maintenance is).
So no-one can make other suggestions huh?"
Can you defend your position on "releasing Linux as proprietary software ..."?
Again, Linus did not make the kernel proprietary at any time. Talk about someone talking out of both sides ...
Interestingly enough, we run an AD domain at our school. Recently, I replaced the hard drive with an SSD on one of our accounts receivable machines to improve bootup times.
Since the reinstall, Windows has decided that this one particular account needed for this machine ("cashier") is now a public guest account and resets every time it's logged out.
What's even more frustrating, when you hit <ctl>-L to lock the screen, it won't let you log back in until you select other user and use the full domain login - at which point outlook dies because it can't log into the email account because of some reason about can't log in to the server.
Our local Windows admin (who is actually a very good Windows admin type, not the script kiddie type) is having some fun trying to debug the machine.
Having fast jets as his hobby ...
Some hobby. I would say Draken International might be considered a little more than just a hobby.
THIS IS NOT EASIER THAN WINDOWS!
It's bullshit like this that puts people off Linux.
How do I check if my hardware is supported? The quick and dirty way:
1) Install live linux on a thumbdrive
2) Boot into thumbdrive
3) Play with hardware to see if something doesn't work
For those of us who actually do check, it's just as easy to look at hardware specs and see what hardware is windows only or requires windows drivers to be shimmed into linux. In that case, other hardware is preferred.
...or maybe just a bit more to the south? Say, into the Gulf of Mexico, er, ...Gulf of America, er, ...Gulf of Trumpistan.
Preferably whilst fully equipped with staff and "leadership".
FTFY
Staff are typically career civil servants doing a decent job with what everyone else gives them. It's the 'Leadership" that have TDS.
Or they think Star Trek The Motion Picture is actually a biography and want to make sure that they don't come back.
Mostly it was plain ASCII files too, but not all software or computers accepted that the S in ASCII was "Standard" :-)
And the first "A" means "American".
And our current Cheeto-In-Chief is an excellent example of "American Standard".
/s would be nice, but our current government is the classic "Example of how NOT to do things"
Second, if I reinstall Windows I'd have to hunt down and reinstall a slew of Dell drivers and utilities, and that's another (but similar) can of worms
Open powershell
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PS C:\Users> get-wmiobject win32_bios
SMBIOSBIOSVersion : 1.34.0
Manufacturer : Dell Inc.
Name : 1.34.0
SerialNumber : < this is the service tag number to copy>
Version : DELL - 1072009
PS C:\Users>
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Go to Dell support page driver downloads
Enter the serial number, then under drivers, install "Dell Command Update Application" (note: may require you to also install DotNet Desktop 8.x and remove older Dell Command Update).
You can find it under the "Find Specific Drivers" selection.
Under certain circumstances, you'll also get the option on first starting to "Install full driver library" for that machine as well.
I thought it had a micro-kernel with BSD userland.
Micro-kernel is structure of how userland talks to kernel.
Unix is a system.
As noted, as long as your O/S compiles and complies with the (paid for) Unix tests, then it's a Unix O/S.
BTW - The BSD's are Unix, they just didn't pay to get the Unix © ® ™ marks.
Windows, which is apparently also an OS, has released 20+ versions in that time. Linux is now on v6.
Well, to compare apples to apples, Windows had released 20+ versions in that time. Fedora Linux (part of Red Hat Linux originally released in 1994) is now on version 42.
I believe Windows is running NT Kernel 5/6 and Fedora is running Linux kernel 6.15
You must be using the wrong one or thinking back a long time ago.
I'm running the current Fedora KDE (42) and selecting sound output devices is at most 2-3 clicks. Can't say how well Gnome desktops are since I stopped using Gnome decades ago.
HP hardware, on the other hand, has become the WinPrint hardware of the computer industry (cheap hardware and only works well with MS since they only provide MS drivers).
The only problem with your argument is MS has pushed Office as THE processing software. You know, like "Windows 10 will be the last O/S you need" style of productivity.
When they actively proceeded to kill WP (among others) in order to get their software as the defacto standard, they effectively told the world "I am the only thing you need!"
The problem is they only care about revenue, not end-users or end-user needs..
Gaffers Tape is a bastardized Duct Tape (or Grey Tape).
Gaffers Tape holds the stage together.
Grey Duct Tape holds the Universe together. And based on Apollo 13 (Ron Howard and Tom Hanks were space nuts and were considered Technical Nazis during filming to keep it accurate as far as techie stuff goes), Grey Duct Tape (at least 1 roll) was standard on Apollo flights - and by extension, I would hope for all post-Apollo space habitats.
Gotta love a guy with selective amnesia. Or, how did that saying go? "You can't convince someone who's paycheck depends on them not being convinced"
By forgetting the history of Oracle and how they "alter the deal" AFTER their product has been used (and legally purchased per the original license), you give the impression that you're an Oracle employee pimping for Oracle.
But I forgot myself - you're just a jerk with an agenda too. Not only about Oracle.
"... If it is competitive it doesnt need subsidy, if it needs subsidy then its not competitive."
Interesting.
In that case, why is the petroleum industry subsidies OK and EV subsidies are because EV's are non-competitive?
"... Heat is lost via conduction, convection, evaporation and radiation, ..."
I think you missed class. Heat is not "lost" - it's only moved from one medium to another.
"So still doesn't explain why, if CO2 is so brilliant at 'trapping' heat, we're not using it for heating or insulation."
So again, missed class.
You are so focused on CO2, the gas, you forget to look at infrared radiation from the sun and how IR and CO2 interact.
Might be time to go back to class and look at thermodynamics.
Blaming the users is sheer laziness.
Interesting. So you're saying that the user has no responsibilities in any of this? It's IT fault if the user clicks on a bad link? It's IT fault if user ignores warnings and clicks the link anyway? It's IT fault if the user changes what IT has set because "it's inconvenient"?
Nice blame shifting. IT can only do so much - after that, the user has to take some responsibility as well.
My house is 100a/240v (although I think it might actually be 208 - will have to check) split-phase 120v.
However, newer houses (and people who upgrade for their BEV) typically upgrade to 200a/240v.
Big push to move from gas homes to electric homes - even moreso than back in the 50's.
Pretty much every missile made since Vietnam are SRM's.
The problem is this particular one is segmented so it can be shipped around before final assembly, and the nozzle is not fixed - it's a new class of thrust vectoring nozzle for SRM's.
The other problem is these SRM's make missile boosters look like firecrackers.
Aren't there quite a lot of solid rocket motors in missiles?
No. Missiles only have 1 solid rocket motor in their booster. Just like this one - it's 1 rocket motor, just scaled up from a missile.
" ... People are complaining about the lack of an NVMe M.2 interface ... "
Then they don't know how to google: (Note: RPi 5 items)
At any rate, I have an RPi4 running Plex Media Server for my DVD Movies/TV series rips. For father's day, just got an RPi5 with dual NVMe hat so I can now put both of my NVMe 2T drives onto one device.
The RPi 4 had power issues when trying to connect 2 separate USB plugs with NVMe drives, so ended up having 1 connected to the RPi4 and the other one in my desktop with an NFS mount to the RPi4.
Same as Microsoft switched the .DOC / .XLS / .PPT format from Office 95 to Office 97, forcing everyone to upgrade to the bloated new version. That worked so after a decade and everyone forgot, MS did it again and switched to XML as well as the Ribbon on Office 2007.
I seem to recall that MS switched to XML-based because of the ODF having an open format that became "the standard" - and of course MS had to "improve" it, especially when agencies started requiring their documentation be saved in an "open" format. They even stuffed the standards committee to be able to claim "their open-style documents" were classified as a standard, which then can be used by said organizations.
Of course, the MS open document standard included a tag that could then wrap their binary-formatted document and still be classified as "open".
Interesting times. Unfortunately.
"What rot.
Here we are, not even 1 year on from the moment when someone very nearly succeeded in achieving global backdoor access through openSSH on all Linuxes by attacking the build system for liblzma, and already there's statements like this being spouted again. No one has actually fixed the general class of problem that enabled that attack.
Linux is only "as intended" if one accepts some wafer-thin trusts."
Here we are and not even 2 months from the last windows PWN and there's another zero day?????
And you "trust" Microsoft????
"Maybe it's time that the IT world, including IT departments, started taking responsibility for shoddy upkeep of shoddy software on shoddy operating systems."
Maybe it's time for the holder of the purse strings listen to the IT department when they tell them what the problems are and how to fix them.
Oh, and not telling the IT department that [next shiny bling] WILL be used and no questions allowed (because of [reasons not related to IT]).
