Posts by gcla72

systemd 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home

Devuan User

If you chose a systemd distro own it.

Iowa has already won the worst IT rollout award of 2020: Rap for crap caucus app chaps in vote zap flap

My solution

1. Frontpage Express website hosted on Hilary's mail server

2. Minimum wage illegals to write code

3. CAPTCHA to foil Russian bots: "Tick all squares containing passengers without a seat on the plane"

4. Cover up and blame someone else.

Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing

Schrodinger's Beer

"to avoid liquid loss is to wait for bubbles to settle before opening the can"

Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux

Re: DDs digging their own grave.

You are using Debian (with MS's sysyemd)?

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

Re: Been there. Done that.

Microsoft Bob

The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future

Devuan?

Mine's the one without systemD(estroylinux) in the pocket

Vulture Central team welcomed to our new nest by crashed Ubuntu that's 3 years out of date

Re: Brave new world

Just a good hosing down with bleach and removal of "calling cards"

Paris because she would have had a card or too in there.

Four more years! Four more years! Svelte Linux desktop Xfce gets first big update since 2015

Good news

I switched when Gnome went weird and Unity appeared on the scene. I have hardly fiddled with any settings as does a job as it is. I'm on Devuan now so I suspect I won't see the new version straight away.

Let's see what the sweet, kind, new Microsoft that everyone loves is up to. Ah yes, forcing more Office home users into annual subscriptions

Do Munich Council get a special deal?

Now they have been bribed back onto the M$ ecosystem to save money.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/24/munich_will_spend_about_50_million_euros_on_windows_migration/

It's nearly Oktoberfest so have a bier.

Woman calls cops on shadowy baddie barricaded in bathroom... to discover: Roomba gone rogue

What would Oscar Pistorius have done?

Too soon? I'll get my coat...

It's alive! Hands on with Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser

Re: RE: Really, why are they bothering?

Victory you say? Master Obi-Wan, not victory. The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun the Chrome War has.

Q. What's a good thing to put outside a building of spies? A: A banner saying 'here we are!'

Who are we?

The whole company is a front for the CIA.

Skype goes blurry, Office gets a kick in the privacy, and Microsoft takes us back to 1990

Yes but...

Will it hide your nanny trying to herd your offspring whilst on national television?

Trying to log into Office 365 right now? It's a coin flip, says Microsoft: Service goes TITSUP as Azure portal wobbles

Hahahahahahaha

Looks fine in China and Russia.

Everyday doings of a metropolitan techie: Stob's software diary

Not from the Midlands...

but the "among my relatives, back in the old days, the preferred method of acceptance of, say, a slice of delicious chocolate cake was to mumble "I don't mind" in a barely audible monotone. I am still not really comfortable giving an acknowledgement any warmer than this." rings true. When asked if I want a cup of tea (or a beer) I reply, "if you like".

I used to be a dull John Doe. Thanks to Huawei, I'm now James Bond!

I pronounce it...

Who are we.

How the mighty have fallen: Anglian Water knocks Google off perch as UK's best workplace

Was this a press release or was it leaked?

Mine's the one with the ridiculously expensive water bill in the pocket.

Sorry friends, I'm afraid I just can't quite afford the Bitcoin to stop that vid from leaking everywhere

Re: Racist?

Did said Chinaman pee on The Dude's rug?

Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms

Re: "President / citizen"

That just blows!

JURI's out, Euro copyright votes in: Whoa, did the EU just 'break the internet'?

52% of the vote

Did they know what they were voting for?

Microsoft loves Linux so much its R Open install script rm'd /bin/sh

Obvious

Some amateur has been poettering about with coding

User asked why CTRL-ALT-DEL restarted PC instead of opening apps

Re: Wull

I recall a brand new Dell in 1992 where Ctrl+Alt+Enter opened up the bios settings. A bout of panicked keyboard stabbing followed by a manual power down (pulling the cable out the back) led the the disk cyclinders etc. settings being wrong. Took a while to work that one out.

I see you're writing a résumé?!.. LinkedIn parked in MS Word

Re: I knew there was a reason

If it were in Open Office it would be a plugin and you would have to chose to use it. Thanks for your input.

Germans force Microsoft to scrap future pushy Windows 10 upgrades

Re: "great upgrade experience..."

My worst upgrade experience since Ubuntu decided to install something called Pulseaudio. LTS versions ever since.

Can the last person watching desktop video please turn out the light?

I find this useful

Personal Blocklist (by Google). It allows you to simply remove a site from their search results.

Constant work makes the kilo walk the Planck

My head has exploded

So is the new metre longer or shorter? I'm measuring up for curtains.

Bloke whose drone was blasted out of sky by angry dad loses another court battle for compo

Re: Cricket bats

Mine is transparent aluminum. I put it down somewhere and now I can't find it.

Microsoft quietly emits patch to undo its earlier patch that broke Windows 10 networking

Re: ,So there's an online fix for not being able to get online?

What like?

/usr/share/man

User needed 40-minute lesson in turning it off and turning it on again

Re: Can you hold down the power button

Which arrow do I click to upvote this comment?

BOFH: There are no wrong answers, just wrong questions. Mmm, really wrong ones

Christ you say! What about other* religions?

*God may not exist.

Just not cricket: Microsoft's big data Googly called No Ball

Re: It's a game

It doesn't have to be 6 balls. It can be 5 or 8 as has happened under the rules of the competition in which the game takes place. The Laws of the game allow this.

Lindsay Lohan's Grand Theft Auto V cartoon case kicked out of court

Re: "a woman holding a mobile who, it was argued, looked remarkably like Lohan"

...with rounded corners™

Farewell Patch Tuesday fragmentation: from October, MS will roll just one monthly patch

Re: reliability eh?

Come and have a look at my Ubuntu studio. 0% of what you paid. Although I make donations to the chaps at Ardour.

Man sues YET AGAIN for chance to marry his computer

Does it have an 8" floppy?

Coat!

'Just give me any old date and I'll make it work' ... said the VB script to the coder

Re: Effing 'Merikans

Pubic wig? Trump hasn't been elected yet...!

Dutch govt says no to backdoors, slides $540k into OpenSSL without breaking eye contact

Re: Augh, encryption and Paris.

<rant> </rant>... unless you are using some MS "Standard"?

I have you now! Star Wars stocking fillers from another age

Star Wars (Atari arcade) 1983

Oh how I remember sticking millions of those new-fangled "Thatchers"* in this as an 11 year old on holiday. Only made it to the exhaust port one time in ten. Even today's HD games didn't have that Wow! factor. Must be more with being 11 than how good it was. Back to Elite on the Electron when I got home.

*Pound coins

Fully working U-Boat Enigma machine sells for $365,000

Wow

Open source engines, whatever next?

Congratulations! You survived the leap secondocalypse

WiFi only Hudl2

Mine is fine. The other half's hudl2 still wrong by random amount. Same settings. Mine is blue her's is purple.I blame the French!

Microsoft: Free Windows 10 for THIEVES and PIRATES? They can GET STUFFED

Re: Microsoft licensing - a Mystery wrapped in an Enigma

...and if you can find it cheaper elsewhere [Linux/iOS/chrome] they will miraculously offer a massive discount.

Linux clockpocalypse in 2038 is looming and there's no 'serious plan'

systemd

systemd will control everything by 2038 therefore this is a non problem.

Don't touch me up there! Photoshop creator appeals for 'ethical' use

Bring out the GIMP!

See title ^

BBC bins pricey Windows Media, Audio Factory goes live

Re: And Radio 3 needs to be kicked off FM

The BBC is a PUBLIC service, paid for by a licence fee* - not a god** given right. It is not ITV. The fact X gets more viewers/listeners than Y does not mean the BBC should disregard Y. I have never listened to Radio 3. Since when did you become the sole arbitrator of democracy and decry which services are relegated to DAB alone? Buy a DAB radio for your car, no one is stopping you.

The BBC is also not a democracy. ITV is.. if no one watches then the programme is cancelled. Having said that the BBC should be embracing non proprietary systems or not bothering at all. The trouble is OSS has no DRM so they really should have thought about it all before they opened the can of worms.

*I do not pay a licence fee because I am quite happy to wait a few hours and watch/listen for free until they sort themselves/the law out.

** may not actually exist

Real, hovering SPEEDER BIKE can be YOURS for cheaper than a house

Nice, but...

Since the XP-38 came out, they're just not in demand

WHOA: Get a load of Asteroid DX110 JUST MISSING planet EARTH

Teaching Grammar to suck eggs

Is it "a 30 meter rock …" or 30 metre?

Wot a COCKUP: Poorly NHS websites spawn SPAMMY VIAGRA ads

How hard can it be?

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Microsoft: Don't listen to 4chan ... especially the bit about bricking Xbox Ones

Ha, and might I add, ha

Off to play my PS3.

Micro$haft: It's all about the lock-in.

Reboot the formula: F1 and FIFA tweaked for another year

Too fat to play outside?

FIFA! Why play a game on a console/PC that you can play in the park? (alright I except that dog mess can be an issue). I quit at FIFA 97 when it cheated me out of a world cup with a Edgar Davids bycicle kick from the centre circle which flew in to the top corner in injury time.

Smile for the cops! Sexy Snapchat selfies' self-destruct scrubbed by search warrants

Re: Things that are forever ...

Once something is in the public domain, audio, film, print or electronic warbling it is has always had the potential to be there for ever. Ask the BBC about early Dr Who episodes.

One of last few iPhone 5Ss STOLEN from within MASSIVE POLICE CORDON at Apple Store

Re: Clearly

Plus one from me. I've not had to cut back on anything. But then I wasn't living on tick in 2008 either. Money comes to money. LOL