Don't mention the war!
Posts by Anonymous C0ward
643 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jan 2012
EU cuts off key Russian banks from SWIFT system
Boeing Starliner commander Christopher Ferguson bows out of first crewed mission due to family commitments
I won't be ignored: Google to banish caller roulette with Verified Calls
No, boss, I'm not playing Minecraft. Minecraft is where I run VMs on the desktop now
The Devil's in the details: Church of Satan forced to clarify that no unholy rituals taking place in SoCal forest
When a deleted primary device file only takes 20 mins out of your maintenance window, but a whole year off your lifespan
CompSci student bitten by fox after feeding it McNuggets
Yo, Imma let you finish, but for the 6,000 people still using that app on a daily basis ... we have a question: why?
GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name
Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater
What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse
Taylor's gonna spy, spy, spy, spy, spy... fans can't shake cam off, shake cam off
College PRIMOS prankster wreaks havoc with sysadmin manuals
Two fool for school: Headmaster, vice principal busted for mining crypto-coins in dorms, classrooms
ZX Spectrum reboot scandal firm's original directors rejoin
DBA drifts into legend after inventive server convo leaves colleagues fearing for their lives
Woke Linus Torvalds rolls his first 4.20, mulls Linux 5.0 effort for 2019
UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections
Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity
Assange catgate hearing halted as Ecuador hunts around for someone who speaks Australian
Apple macOS Mojave: There's goth mode but developers will have to wait for the juicy stuff
Linux kernel's 'seat warmer' drops 4.19-rc5 with – wow – little drama
If someone withdraws their contribution, then:
* If the maintainers don't take down all tarballs of previous versions containing any of that code, they are still redistributing the withdrawn code, with a GPL2+ notice attached.
* If the maintainers don't either take down the git repo, or painstakingly reconstruct history without that person and then force push, they are still redistributing the withdrawn code, with a GPL2+ notice attached. (Reverting wouldn't be enough, it's still in the history.)
Either of these could be pretty disastrous if taken to the extreme, but it's obvious the withdrawn code would no longer be in the current release. Have RMS or ESR (or indeed Linus) made any comment on what the right to withdraw means in the context of a publicly accessible git repo?
Dead retailer's 'customer data' turns up on seized kit, unencrypted and very much for sale
US govt concedes that you can indeed f**k Nazis online: Domain-name swear ban lifted
Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms
Here's a fab idea: Get crypto libs to warn devs when they screw up
Wait, did you hear that? That rumbling in the distance? Sounds like... a 16-socket IBM Power9 box shuffling this way
I predict a riot: Amazon UK chief foresees 'civil unrest' for no-deal Brexit
What if tech moguls brewed real ale?
Either my name, my password or my soul is invalid – but which?
Wearable hybrids prove the bloated smartwatch is one of Silly Valley's biggest mistakes
Ticketmaster gatecrash: Gig revelers' personal, payment info glimpsed by support site malware
Relive your misspent, 8-bit youth on the BBC's reopened Micro archive
Have YOU had your breakfast pint? Boffins confirm cheeky daily tipple is good for you
My PC is on fire! Can you back it up really, really fast?
Re: Go with the flow,
Once worked for an IT waste refurbishment (new stickers on old junk) company, no formal customer support although the owners were ex IT support people themselves. I had to take someone through booting from an XP install CD, getting to the recovery command prompt and doing chkdsk /f, over the phone, letter by letter. Disk corruption caused by not shutting down.
There were occasional good days, like when we got in a BBC Master that turned out to have the Domesday Project SCSI controller and second processor fitted. If they had the Laserdisc drive too I'd have taken it off their hands myself in short order.