Posts by CRConrad

Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red

Re: "Can't blame a business person..."

Oh yes we can! YTF not?!?

Just because theyr'e "a business person" doesn't make a blameworthy idiot any less of a blameworthy idiot.

Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks

An implement like...

A minute with a non-conductive, thin, sharp, implement removed all the fluff and now it works fine!

...an ordinary wooden match or toothpick. Or, if even that is too thick (many toothpicks and all matches are, I think), whittle it a little thinner with a sharp knife.

Of course I found this out the day after I'd bought a new phone to replace the “dead” one.

Whether you care or not...

...it was Windows 8. The absolute worst desktop PC GUI of all time, past and future.

Huh? What's so strange about that?

Sydney to Bangalore to add an environment variable. Unbelievable, but true. The hotel advertised “curry like your Grandmother would make”, which for me was a strange claim.

Really doesn't seem all that strange to me, if the hotel is in Bangalore.

“if IIRC”

The first ‘i’ in “IIRC” stands for “if”, so what you’re saying there is “if if I recall correctly”.

Punkt MC02: As private, and pricey, as a Swiss bank account

Re: Helvetii ite domum, surely!!

Yeah, but what did the Swiss ever do for us?

Zen Browser is a no-Google zone that offers tiling nirvana

Snap to screen edge, not just Win 11.

Liam Proven wrote:

Pull a window toward a screen edge, and it will snap there, but in Windows 11, the OS then visually prompts you in case you'd like to tile the previous window you were using on the other side of the screen.

So does Windows 10. If not by dragging with the mouse, at least by the Win-Arrow key combo.

Weird quotifying

"Liam Proven" wrote:

What's with the quote marks around the Reg-iconned name of the author of the article, "Phil Koenig"?

OK, so please just...

however tempted I would be by a version of Firefox that worked

...Explain exactly how Firefox "doesn't work"?

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

Looking in on this a couple of months later...

...I notice that so did I. Dunno why, for just noticing that "bazza"'s comment had (at least) a "1" in the "Downvotes" column... "Yup, it did" doesn't mean that was from me. FWIW, I still see a blue up-arrow next to "Upvotes", which means that one of those currently 14 upvotes was mine.

Hilarious

...we’re always looking to improve systemd based on real-world feedback”, Lennart Poettering

Yeah, right.

Re: Downvote

Yup, it did.

The number itself was a clue...

... that it was facetious: 42. Don't forget your towel!

Re: systemdOS

As noted elsewhere, we're rapidly heading toward systemdOS

I've been saying that for years; it's a great relief to finally see that others also are recognising it for what it is.

any day now he'll reinvent containers.

As others here have pointed out, apparently he already has. Oh well, if nothing else, perhaps it will serve as confirmation so more people will start to see what's going on.

Naah.

One day soon systemd will provide VMs for running yet more instances of Linux and systemd.

Nah. Just systemd.

Body of IT tycoon Mike Lynch recovered after superyacht sinks

Seems I thought wrong there.

Seen her referred to as the mother of the daughter who died (plus another one) once or twice in media reports.

So apparently Lynch at least wasn't the type to, like so many tycoons, dump Dumpy Old Mom for a newer-model Bimbo Trophy Wife. Speaks for his integrity, raises my impression of him a notch.

Haha, very droll. Except...

...the cook was the first dead body they found, before the six still on the vessel.

Upvote for the humour, but...

> There is practically no extent that people will go to to get out of France.

...but you probably meant to write "won't".

Wife, yeah, mother... ?

> and his daughter died with him leaving wife/mother behind.

At a guess, with her surname different from his and the daughter's, I'm thinking perhaps wife/stepmother. You know, once they make their billions, these guys often upgrade to new cars, domiciles, boats... and wives.

(Except I think I saw somewhere the boat is actually hers. Dunno whether she's independently wealthy, or it was a "write it on the wife so they can't take it from me" hedge against taxes and court cases.)

Quite a sensible comment, but...

...but why the heck was it attached to the comment it was?

That certainly wasn't making light or or gloating about anything; just a plausible explanation for why it went down as it did. So why here?

Well, hasn't...

...hasn't malware -- can't recall, was it Stuxnet or something else? -- been propagated via HP printers before?

They couldn't wait a month...

...to kill the other guy, because he died a day or two *before* Lynch.

But c'mon...

... IT WASN'T the same day!

UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59

And, especially in Russia...

...avoid windows.

(Dunno if that's as big a factor in Prague any more.)

How do we know it's not...

...the other way around?

Holy fuck, how can people be this mechanically ignorant and unimaginative?

(Or, adding them up: Ignorant + unimaginative = stupid.)

So please feel free to explain how you think such a lifting keel mechanism would work,

You don't think they had electric power on board that luxury superyacht to power a winch? Or, as apparently was the case here, a hydraulic pump? (Or any of the myriad other tried-and-true ways of converting power into movement, like, say, a rack-and-pinion system.)

and maybe where they would keep it when it was retracted.

Just like on any tiny lifting-keel dinghy, in a shaft in the center of the vessel. Sure, the keel is much bigger than on a dinghy, but so is the craft itself. So it fits and works pretty much exactly the same way, only on a larger scale.

Like, duh.

Buoyancy

Personally, I always thought all boats were supposed to be buoyant, it's sort of what makes them boats.

Only as long as most of their interior volume is filled with air, not water.

There is no need for fuckwit conspiracy theories either.

To many of us, individuals who spout those are at least as deeply, deeply unpleasant as anyone else, so cool down with the stones in your glasshouse there.

Re: RE: arranged

I haven't read up on the Chamberlain accident, but the comment you replied to talked about a country road. Are there usually sidewalks bustling with crowds for a pusher hitman to hide among on the country roadfs where you're from?

These conspiracy theories don't only look absolutely dranged in themselves, but make the people spouting them look even more so.

What's so "freak" about getting hit by a car?

The woman who hit him apparently stayed at the scene and reported herself to police. How many shady hitmen, male or female, do that?

So you're down to one single "freak" accident; nothing there _to_ co-incide, so not even co-incidence.

The yacht sinking being an accident is not at all impossible, so don't eliminate it. Which leaves it far more probable than any silly conspiracy theries.

Digital wallets can allow purchases with stolen credit cards

No, just...

...tap in a PIN at the POS (interpret as you like) terminal.

Would be cool if you could set the up to follow the card-holders chosen preference: "Never" (for he gullible), "Random / every X(10?)th payment + on bigger amounts" (as seems to be the default now, at least where I live), or "Always" (for the more paranoid among us).

AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care

Re: "Stored in a retrieval system" -- easy fix

Generative AI is a system that can be asked to retrieve significant portions of the data fed into it.

Well, that's easily fixed, then: Remove that retrieval capability, and now it's magically legal!

Whether that is in accordance with the spirit of the law, though...? (Not to even mention "fair" or "just".)

Core Python developer suspended for three months

WTF? I don't get it

Who used "bot" as a slur in the 1970s?!?

OK, I'll tell you what I think:

Similar in that neither of them made all that outstanding technical contributions to their respective projects; different in that they were / are largely piece of shit in quite dissimilar ways. HTH!

Por que no los dos?

I was trying to approach this with an open mind. The question of whether CoC was being implemented by either fascists or whiny little babies who have no sense of humor...

...seems to be best answered by: Both.

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

Re: B Watterson

Aha, so it was from C & H. I'd forgotten that.

Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't

Re: Terry Journelle

Perry Journelle would have been even better.

Re: Millions of TPS on DB2...

You seem to have replied to the wrong comment, so the person you wanted to ask probably never saw your question.

Re: Earlier?

Not FoxPro?

(I was somewhat partial to Paradox, myself. Back in the late 90s, when Borland ruled the roost.)

OpenSSF sings a Siren song to steer developers away from buggy FOSS

Further re: Sirens?

From Mother Beeb herself: Even in peaceful countries be ready for a siren blast (emphasis added).

“Siren” is also a synonym for...

Well, “klaxon”, more or less. See Wikipedia | Siren (alarm) and Wiktionary | siren (noun, sense 7). I'm pretty sure it was this sense of the word they meant.

“Siren” also has the advantage of being exactly the same word in many languages, whereas “klaxon” is pretty much limited to English – and Italian and Catalan, judging from Wikipedia's “Other Languages” links. Which refer to car horns, not general alarm devices... Because that's what “klaxon” redirects to even on English WP. Seems it's your usage that is parochial, not the SSH developers’.

Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

Mozilla is American

As Winston Churchill said, Americans can be trusted to always do the right thing... After exhausting all other options.

Perl's Community Affairs Team chair quits as org put on ice by code language's foundation

Alas, indeed

A few weeks later, I was back indoors at the dinner table. Which entailed a daily dance of lifting the monitor up onto the table after breakfast, and then back down onto a spare chair after work and before dinner, so said dinner could be had at the dinner table.

One day a few weeks into this dance – can't recall if it was in the morning or the afternoon – I dropped the damn thing, the front surface hit the top of the backrest of a chair, and cracked.

Maybe the actual picture element has come down in price enough that I could get it replaced soon... Not holding my breath, though – 43-inch 4K real-computer-monitor picture elements are probably still darn expensive.

I'll probably go for a couple of 4K TVs in stead, so I can swivel one of them to vertical. (Have gotten an actual desk to keep them on, and a room to keep the desk in, in the meantime.)

Did IBM make a $6.4B blunder by buying HashiCorp?

I don't think that can work so easily.

The only way they could absorb whatever new developments the open source community comes up with on the fork is if what they absorb it into is also under an open source license. So, first off, switch the order of your “absorb the fork, open source their version again”.

And then the next step, turning it closed-source again... That's only possible one of two three ways:

1) Rip out all those contributions. (Provided they were contributed under a proper Copyleft license. How's Tofu licensed?) Then they wouldn't gain anything from the whole exercise.

2) Acquire copyright assignments from all contributors whose code they want to include. (Again, same caveat as above.) You see that happening? I don't.

3) If OpenTofu is licensed under some idiotic ultra-“free” license. (How is Tofu licensed?!?) It should be obvious enough by now that this serves no purpose except enabling precisely the scenario you describe, so... Honestly, if the Tofu people have been so utterly moronic, I can't even find the energy to be sorry for them. Nobody but themselves to blame if it's so.

Re: Quick - sue the HashiCorp CEO

Done: IBM dream to gobble up HashiCorp challenged in court.

Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License

Re: "And the farther away, the more expensive..."

Well yeah, but you're coming off so Ugly American, here: Blatantly ignoring / disregarding / not even understanding that for most of us, the USA is far, far away.

I saw what...

...you did there.

That's the environment...

...we have right now.

Re: Third time good but ...

there are a lot of arbitrary hurdles in HAMradio still...

[ . . . ]

The whole point of a HAM license...

What's with the capitals? It's not an acronym.

Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source

Look in the mirror, bucko.

What does it say for the future of open source if foundations will just take it and give it a home?

And what does it say for the future of open source if companies will just take a common good provided by others and extract private profits from it?