Posts by jgarbo

Linux Mint 20 isn't exactly bursting with freshness but, hey, there's kernel 5.4 and it's a long-term support release

Switched from MInt after some years, due to no support for Qt, which runs some of my new apps. Went to Kubuntu, which is F1 Ferrari compared to Mint Family Saloon for features, tuning, precision, esp. for touchpad. Frustrating to set set up due to so many choices, but fixed unfixable Mint problems. Upgraded to Kubuntu 20.04. Excellent. Sorry old Mint, even though Mint XFCE can handle Qt, doesn't do the rest..

University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14m as BBC publishes 'dark web negotiations'

Re: So, nothing important was encrypted

Or someone inside UCSF is getting a cut of the million. Easy, untraceable pocket money...

US Department of Defense releases list of firms allegedly linked to the Chinese Army. Surprise surprise, Huawei makes an appearance

Re: In China

You mean kicking out US backed murderous warlords, eg Chiang Kai-shek, who went on to slaughter the locals in Taiwan? Or someone else?

Re: The Reg might note however

Any large, influential telecomms company will automatically be under intel surveillance and eventual control. Inevitable. Cook's squeaking about iPhone sanctity is a farce. We can crack any iPhone here (Bangkok) in 20 min for about $5. Smile included.

Section 230 authors despair of Trump, Barr, Biden, US Congress’ aggressive ignorance of critical tech law

Trump & Co don't know?

Yes, a clear, concise article. More importantly, to me at least, it proves there is, contrary to general opinion, intelligent life in the US. Nevertheless, just two men don't make me optimistic.

Australia's Lion brewery hit by second cyber attack as nation staggers under suspected Chinese digital assault

Re: An Attack or a Screwup?

More likely some fool is updating Windows. Why would the Chinese govt attack a beer maker? TsingTao is already better than Oz suds.

Australian PM says nation under serious state-run 'cyber attack' – Microsoft, Citrix, Telerik UI bugs 'exploited'

No Prime Minister, it's not a Chinese cyber attack. One of the new staffers tried to update Windows, that's all. Call your administrator...

Register Lecture: The Death of the Gods – through a tweet darkly

Call me after the Covid plague lock down of "Gee, what Opportunities now I'm out of Work" passes, the vigilant citizenry subsides back into torpor and complacency and the questioning few question the money they spent of "Mindfulness" courses.

I'll be down the local, in a corner with my pint, watching the next generation of world changers. I was with the last lot.

US Air Force wants to pit AI-powered drone against its dogfighting hotshots in battle of the skies next year

Equal equipment, AI wins. No emotion, no TopGun crap, just kill.

Huawei launches UK charm offensive: We've provided 2G, 3G and 4G for 20 years, and you're worried about 5G?

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

1. Uighurs not tortured. Those who fought for ISIS (CIA) in Syria are detained. The rest are given instruction in Mandarin language and taught trades.

2. Riots in HK provoked by US via NED, over lack of implementation of UK promised reforms. Remember Hong Kong was "occupied Chinese territory" for a century. They're taking it back.

3 Taiwan was occupied by CIA backed Fascists under Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, local Formosans massacred. China wants it back.

2. Surveillance is about the same as UK (you have more CCTV/capita) and the US (has NSA).

4. Freedom of Speech? Watch CNN in the US today. Enjoy...

5. Xi is still elected every 5 years, if the party agrees (and he has many rivals). No president for life!

6. US is increasingly totalitarian, while UK is trying but can't work it out yet.

El Regers might know some code, but very little about the world. Do more research, children.

China's silicon-self-sufficiency plan likely to miss targets due to Factories Not Present error

Right. Number of employees and even budgets are irrelevant. Chips are made by machine not hand. Money? Look up PPP - a yuan goes a lot further than a dollar (30x?).

Secret: the Chinese are inventive, competitive, co-operative and tireless. Give them 2-3 yrs and call back.

Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen

Re: Never understood this

Expected. But is he on the net, to call in the ambulance?

Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope

Re: 450 cities protesting racism

Relax. Trump will go when his owners say so, not before. They, not the voters, installed the fool, and he's done a good job: tax breaks for buddies, division of the rabble and lower middle class, outrage among the minorities, while the Fed's owners give themselves a few trillion bonus for all their hard work. They see the empire's finally got too expensive to maintain without milking the locals, who are finally waking up. Trump's orders are ignored, his decisions reversed daily. Does he even notice? So relax, the owners have it all under control.

Hey Mister Prime Minister ... Scott! Can you get off my lawn please, mate?

Re: GIT ORF MY LAWN

Correction: "Git orf moi lawn".

Lenovo certifies all desktop and mobile workstations for Linux – and will even upstream driver updates

Re: I've had a penguin on my desktop for years!

Download the new app, "How to house break your penguin", for free but the fish can be expensive.

Microsoft's carefully crafted Surfaces are having trouble with its carefully crafted Windows 10 May 2020 Update

You mean like they did with Nokia?

Been wondering, too. They obviously don't do software, so how do they turn a penny?

Watch an oblivious Tesla Model 3 smash into an overturned truck on a highway 'while under Autopilot'

Re: I get that the cameras may not have picked out the truck...

More to the point, it didn't see a big white "thing" on the black road? Surely an obstruction.

Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon

Motive is irrelevant. Theft is your loss. Stop scratching your head for reasons, just stop it.it.

Long after Linux, Windows Server Containers finally arrive on Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service

Re: Only a Matter of Time

Brother and pals at Microsoft, "making Linux great" for us hobos, fascist mentality that bans dissent. You must have a happy home life, roasting puppies that bark too loud. Hint to your pals (your brother's lost): Microsoft needs far more help than Linux.

Guess who's back, back again. SE's back, tell a friend: 2020 reboot looks like an iPhone 8 and even shares components

What's new? Naught...

When you start bringing home old girlfriends, your admirers know you're over the hill. "Yeah, face lift but still saggy, mate."

Grab your Bitcoin while you can because Purse.io is shutting up shop in June and you could lose the lot

Re: Respect

Small potatoes. Real money launderers use "respectable" banks, eg HSBC, Wells Fargo, Citi, for big washing, and they use USD not BTC.

Things that make you go zoom: Huawei rolls out pictastic P40 phones, no Google Play Store in sight

Are you really worth spying on?

Russian state-sponsored hackers have been sniffing Middle East defence firms, warns Trend Micro

Re: Capt'ain Obvious

Outrageous! We all know that spying in the Middle East is done only by the NSA & GCHQ. Cheeky Ruskies...

Microsoft's Bill Gates defrag is finally virtually complete: Billionaire quits board to double down on philanthropy

Re: Would you like to be fried with that?

Gates stole/invented Microsoft to benefit mankind? When you graduate kindergarten I'll find you an asylum.

Now that's what I call a sticky situation: Repairability fiends open up Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G, find the remains of Shergar

Re: legislate! legislate!

These defiant gestures might salve your conscience but the end-of-the-world is nigh, whether you reuse chopsticks or batteries or not. Your carbon footprint is a smudge on the landcape compared to industrial, unstoppable demolition of the world. Relax, have a pint, and read your email.

Smartwatch owners love their calorie-counting gadgets, but they are verrry expensive

Xiaomi's one of the expensive "Smarties" here (Bangkok), but there are loads of good Chinese models for ~$30. Even Xiaomi's quite cheap.

https://www.lazada.co.th/catalog/?spm=a2o4m.home.search.4.1125719cVfupkn&q=xiami%20watch&_keyori=ss&clickTrackInfo=textId--1760641680269778447__abId--154857__pvid--055e7bb2-884b-4c5f-988e-7752c0b28a19&from=suggest_normal&sugg=xiami%20watch_3_1

Larry Tesler cut and pasted from this mortal coil: That thing you just did? He probably invented it

Re: Newton - MessagePad

I do that everyday, on my Note 4. Scribble to editable text.

Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police

Re: Be a government informer! Betray your family and friends! Fabulous prizes to be won!

But is he sharpening the bread knife with no bread in sight??? You have spawned a potential serial killer! Oh dear...

Yahoo! hack! payout! nearly! approved! and! the! question! is! how! to! spend! 60! cents!?

Re: Fortuanately ?

You mean people keep sensitive, important information of a web-based email account? And leave their house key under the mat, and pray for rain in a drought? Oh well, idiocy is more common than thought.

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

Apple finally clambers to top of phone market again as spider-eyed iPhone 11 lures fanatics out of the shadows

Only one in town is best?

Business colleague bought an iPhone 11, meh, then for fun bought a (cheaper) Huawei Mate Pro 30. He kept the Huawei and gave the iPhone to his little daughter. "No f**king comparison. iPhone's dead." And he's a very patriotic American...

You mean it's better than your previous older iPhone. Why the euphoria? Shouldn't it be?

Re: Already way too expensive

For Snowflakes "glam" is value. Next...

Vendor-bender LibreOffice kicks out 6.4: Community project feel, though now with added auto-█████ tool

Re: LibreOffice Draw

Yes. The keyboard is amazing, isn't it....</sarc>

Gin and gone-ic: Rometty out as IBM CEO, cloud supremo Arvind Krishna takes over, Red Hat boss is president

It's not Bombay, ignorant racist. It's Mumbai...

From WordPad to WordAds: Microsoft caught sneaking nagging Office promos into venerable text editor beta

Re: Are they still around?

Played with that, too. Nasty, but easier to get rid of.

Microsoft? Rings a bell. Back in the early 1990s, played with it. Nasty. Found Linux. Never looked back. Are they still around?

Opera hits back at 'short seller' whose report claimed its 'predatory' microloan droid apps could hurt, er... investors

Re: What is this ?

Reminds me of a Harry Enfield skit...

"If you're sleeping with my wife I'll kill you!"

"You're not married. You're 13 yrs old."

"Well, when I do grow up and get married and if you're sleeping with my wife...where you goin'?"

When I went to school it was called jumping to conclusions, what the idiots in the class did...while we played chess.

Disclaimer: Running Opera 66 (Linux), Fast, VPN, AdBlock, Super Screenshot app, great Select Text app, sensible layout and menus.

Re: Tut, tut

Do you hang the prisoner before or after the trial in your kingdom?

Re: What is this ?

Lynx. Images, video, what are they?

Whirlybird-driving infosec boss fined after ranty Blackpool Airport air traffic control antics

Tobias might be big on the ground, but up there we're all equal.You wait your turn or someone gets killed.

Re: Arrogant dickhead

Dangerous dickhead. That kind of fool gets people killed.

LG announces bold new plan for financial salvation: Trying to actually make phones people want to buy

Re: Here is a phone I want to buy

Agreed. But you and how many friends? 25,000?

It's a no to ZFS in the Linux kernel from me, says Torvalds, points finger of blame at Oracle licensing

Re: Hypocritical

SCO? The Supreme Sewer (pun intended) of Computerland. I'm shocked...

Firefox 72: Floating videos, blocking fingerprints, and defeating notification pop-ups

Re: ? Critical Security Bug in 72.0 ?

Homeland Security are offering help with security? It's a trap.

Long-term Linux Mint: 19.3 release unchains the Gimp, adds HiDPI, is kind to your older, less-beefy kit

Re: 2020 will be...

Please remember: The Linux Corporation (;-) is not trying to dominate the Desktop. It fights without fighting, wins without winning. It cares not for accolades or the odd kudos. It simple is, in the Zen sense. If you want it, take it. If you don't, it feels no loss. It goes on...

Re: Gimp

GIMP to Glimpse placated the Snowflakes who limp after kicking an inflated football. I'd suggested LEER or OGLE but the Glimpse brigade won.

Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

Re: these terms are "divisive and humiliating,"

The good doctor has it all wrong. It's not hate speech, it's hate language. English is a hateful language. Ban English under punishment of a good tongue lashing, say 50 whacks. Then we all speak Aramaic, the language of gentle Jesus, and become meek and mild. No words for nerd, boffin, etc. Problem solved.

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

Re: Typical Chinese

The Great Stable Genius is playing 4D chess with the Chinese. They call it Tiddly-Winks.