Posts by SineWave242

Microsoft China turns 30, gives nation the gift of jobs and export promotion

That's 30 years too much. :)

That's 29 years too much. :)

Oh dear... Netizens think 'private' browsing really means totally private

Re: re Long version

Nothing surprises me any more. I know some users who think Google is Internet.

Windows Server 2016: Leg up or lock in?

When I think "server" nothing even remotely Microsoft springs to mind. I wouldn't run a server at a garbage disposal with a Microsoft "server". Buggy peace of **** that needs to be watched all the time. It's a server for masochist admins, or rather "admins" who just like to pretend to be admins but have no clue at all and MSCE in their pocket which can only serve as a nice emergency bog-paper.

My Microsoft Office 365 woes: Constant crashes, malware macros – and settings from Hell

Thank you so much for this article! It's very funny! Microsoft is still doing great, that's nice to hear. Cheers! - Linux user.

'I urge everyone to fight back' – woman wins $10k from Microsoft over Windows 10 misery

All this could be avoided easily if people used some of the Linux distros instead of Windows. Linux updates so easily. It's really a "plug and play" OS. Depending on the distro and desktop environment, of course. I have good experiences with Debian Mate.

Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends on July 29th

Re: The Last of Us

I'm sick of people who keep implying like parrots that in order to be able to use Linux you need to have some kind of "special skill". Are you still living in 2006? I find it *far* more complicated to install Windows with all the drivers and apps these days than any Linux distribution, and especially if installing it on a laptop. Get informed, mate. Stop talking from your behind.

Re: No more nagware?

Yeah, Nadella reads the forums himself probably and he is the only one who disliked the first 4 posts in this thread. ;)

Linux fans may be in for disappointment with SQL Server 2016 port

I don't give a flying fart about their SQL server.

Microsoft has crafted a switch OS on Debian Linux. Repeat, a switch OS on Debian Linux

Re: 100 times more?

If your browser in Linux takes up 4+GB of RAM, you're doing something wrong, or just purposefully making it use so much RAM.

I'm Starting System Monitor on Debian 8.3... it says Iceweasel is using 348MB of RAM. That's with 9 open tabs. I don't use crappy Flash, but I have 4 tabs with [stopped] videos in it.

Re: Beware the E E E effect

You surely meant Microsoft, not Linux? Because that terrible, monopolistic, money-grabbing company has been sticking with us for at least 5 years too long. It should go away because an OS that everybody uses shouldn't be owned by one US company. It's as simple as that. And since Microsoft is a company, it can go bust. Open Source canno9t, and it will always exist, one way or another, and that's what all people should use.

Dry those eyes, ad blockers are unlikely to kill the internet

Re: People who use adblockers...

This: "When I want to buy something, I go look for the information." Amen.

Back to school: Six of the smartest cheap 'n' cheerful laptops

Re: Don't forget second hand options.

This is pretty much the same story as with my T410 lappy. :) Paid AUD 300 for it on eBay. 4GB RAM, Samsung 128MB SSD, Nvidia Quadro GPU, Firewire port [extremely useful to me as I'm into audio and use firewire audio interfaces], ExpressCard port, and you can put an additional HD in the UltraBay instead of a DVD. Bloody perfect! I've put Debian Jessie and Windows 7 on it both. W7 only for audio work and Debian for everything else. Works like a charm. I don't think this thing can break, like ever, lol and it performs admirably. Except for the battery, but I use it as an additional computer to my DAW PC anyway, not for portable work that much.

The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined

Re: Good old days

http://www.virtualapple.org/ Enjoy. Cheers! :)

Google: Go ahead, XP stalwarts, keep on using Chrome safely all YEAR

I've already upgraded my XP... to Debian Linux. Best move ever. d= ;)

Hot, horny bees swerve planet-saving duties as climate warms

Well, at least we still have bees, unlike Americans.

SWINGBELLIES! Take heed AGAIN: Booze shortens your life

Re: If you are alive...

Yes, terrible truth is that life kills. Life is so dangerous and brutal. Stay away from it so you won't get killed. ;)

Synths of the father: Making some noise at NAMM 2015

Re: Moog Modular

Someone who can afford a Moog modular can certainly afford a Furman power conditioner so that the voltage is constant and clean? ;)

hive mind informs climate change believers and sceptics

Feast your eyes...

...on these, and tell me: would you like to live in a smog free city? Is there any debate about this at least? Who likes to live in a city like this? Please, tell me. Regardless of global warming or not this is a real threat that should be dealt with unless you think the polluted air like this is healthy for you to inhale all day long.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1713915/thumbs/o-SMOG-facebook.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/22/article-1379159-0BBBF92C00000578-803_964x545.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_02/LondonSmogJM04_468x328.jpg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_02/LondonSmogJM03_468z312.jpg

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article7575336.ece/alternates/w460/London%20smog.jpg

Is that enough? Just search for "London smog", "New York smog", or "city smog" if it isn't and "enjoy" the view. Cheers. :/

Welcome to Spartan, Microsoft's persuasive argument for... Chrome

"Spartan might be the future of Microsoft's browser strategy, but it sure makes a convincing case for IT pros to go with Chrome instead." Golden. d= ;)

Ugly Microsoft code NUKED Bing and Yahoo! – report

Dodgy Microsoft Code

What else is new?

And they're using Windows based servers? Good luck! I wouldn't run a Windows server for public toilets network, let alone a search engine like Yahoo or Bing. Speaking of search engines ask Google what OS they're running for servers... and have they experienced any downtimes? Running Linux servers gives you usually about 99.9% of uptime annually, if not more.

Ford dumps Windows for QNX in new in-car entertainment unit

Way to go Ford!

Finland ditches copyright levy on digital kit, pays artists directly

I have a solution: make your own music. :)

Re: culture

The most of this tax goes to leeches, not the artist, anyway.

Re: Not pirates - just because you don't carry along a CD player anymore...

I presume you're reffering to real artists, not the Miley Cyrus types. For those, I prefer strip bars and tip as much as I like. And they get quite enough of money in the end.

Re: Not pirates - just because you don't carry along a CD player anymore...

I presume you're reffering to real artists, not the Miley Cyrus types.

QEMU, FFMPEG guru unleashes JPEG-slaying graphics compressor

Gimme. :) Really, aside from PNG every other image format looks bad. Especially JPEGs. But it does make me wonder what happened to JPEG2000? But I do understand that possibly JPEG2000 doesn's support more than 8-bit colours. I wouldn't know.

Human DNA 'will be found on moon' – Brian Cox

Re: Bald

Like from the butt, for instance?

Leaked screenshots show next Windows kernel to be a perfect 10

Re: Windows 7 is too blame

Even EXT4 would be a big progress for new Windows file system. Not to mention XFS, ZFS and F2FS.

Bible THUMP: Good Book beats Darwin to most influential tome title

The Bible is on the list because it "contains principles and guidelines to be a good person”. LOL Yes, absolutely.

I prefer the Unix Bible" myself. It made me a better person.

Is your kid ADDICTED to web porn? Twitter? Hint: Don't blame the internet

And far less harmful then reading the bible.

This Changes Everything? OH Naomi Klein, NO

Re: Not as simple as that indeed....

Could what you said simply be put into words as "you should learn how to adapt?" ;) And we surely should learn how to do that.

Re: Not as simple as that indeed....

Thanks to a minority, but incredibly influential, characters like you, there's hardly anything people do to counteract the global warming. However, we in Europe don't talk so much about it, but do something about it, even on our own if we have to. To me it just seems so much better to have a home that's self reliant on energy and a car that doesn't stink and make noise. Simple - I love clean air and silence! I'm not bothered by what will it cost to acquire that, especially when the benefits so easily outweighs the downsides that are simply repulsive, and simply our daily downsides we encounter as soon as you hit the street. Regarding carbon tax - yes, everybody is to blame, but mostly factories, cars, and cattle raised for meat. That's like majority of all the CO2 emissions.

Weekend reads: Russell Brand's Revolution and Joy Division's Ian Curtis gets lyrical

Russell Brand is just a bit ahead of the social turmoil. It happens a lot. Marx was criticised a lot in his time. I'm not speaking as a RB fan, as I'm not, but I find him a really good speaker to implant the new ideas in people's minds of a society of equality and tolerance as opposed to this competitive and war waging based society we now have. Why would anyone be against stopping wars and poverty? Are you mad? Words can speak far more than any gun or violence. That's how this utterly lost society has been built, after all, and we just have a thing for great words, although they are usually deceitful. I'm alright with Russell Brand for as long as his words jive with mine.

SKYPE has the HOTS for my NAKED WIFE

On the other hand, speaking of video communication, why just not give an e-mail a chance? You can take your time to write it nicely. Writing text is great. Video communication is completely different and more "down to earth". I sometimes prefer one or the other, depending on the occasion.

Re: Yes, I went there and said "avatars."

That's a nice idea for a Youtube show. Something like "Spitting Image". ;) But the conversation should be rather witty... not the usual US racist or sexist crap... they just don't get the real humorous side of things.

Re: I just use Linux...

You're just incompetent. Admit it. I've yet to encounter a camera that doesn't work in Linux. I've got better experience with cameras on Linux than on Windows. Never blame anything or anyone else if you've been just too lazy to give a search on the web to it and see how you can make it work. If I hate something it is laziness to learn yourself and spare other competent people the trouble of writing 60+ lines of posts just to explain something simple to a lazy computer user who expects everything to just work as expected. This doesn't happen on any of the OSes I know, or it happens rarely.

Re: MS are making Skype unusuable

What I can't understand is why people use Skype when there are so many other alternatives. Especially if you just need to talk to your spouse or relatives. It's easy to install something else. The easiest being Google hangout. All you need is a Google account. However, I tend to use even more obscure and rare services for video calls. There is a choice, people. You just have to search around a bit. I'll never understand why people just jump the ship so easily onto what others are using. Just think with your own brain - that's what you have it for.

CBS goes OTT, releases EVERY EPISODE of Star Trek EVER MADE

Re: @ b166er

I won't pay for any service that chokes me with ads. I want to watch what I want to watch and it's not ads, especially in the middle of a documentary, series or a film.

Linux systemd dev says open source is 'SICK', kernel community 'awful'

Well, if you ask me I think Taylor 1 has an attitude problem, too. Judging from his posts.

Microsoft on the Threshold of a new name for Windows next week

Re: Next Windows name is.........

Yes! It sounded so familiar. d= ;)

Re: Windows 'ACE'

I especially liked the Windows Dog's Bollocks. But why not just Windows Bollocks? it's more "catchy"! ;) :)

Re: Ah.

Or how about Windows Yawn... :)

But seriously speaking I think it will be called just Windows as they are abandoning the new Windows every two years plan in favour of more Linux like update schedule/way of updating things. Which is good. That means more patches for the core of the OS and less useless GUI updates. They want to make a new XP, kinda, that will last for years to come. That is my educated guess, anyway.

Patch Bash NOW: 'Shellshock' bug blasts OS X, Linux systems wide open

That was quick! In comparison to Windows, for example...

So that's what the Bash update for Debian yesterday was about... I was like thinking "Bash update? hmmm". Very quick update. And no blue screens afterwards. ;)

A SCORCHIO fatboy SSD: Samsung SSD850 PRO 3D V-NAND

Re: Is Windows caching really that crap that...

As far as I know, yes it is. And they still don't have a journalling file system, either. Not to mention problems with file fragmentation.

Re: Anyone know of a link with details on the process?

It's not that easy to just stack wafers one upon the other. There are thermal issues. I've been wondering the same about RAM and CPUs, too. It's hard to cool it. I'm actually wondering about the stacked NAND, too, and how they're handling the higher thermal dissipation?

Re: Real life testing...

However, wouldn't you use a vector format for such a big resolution picture? Why does it have to be a bitmap?

You surely meant TeraBytes, not GigaBytes?

iCloud fiasco: 100 FAMOUS WOMEN exposed NUDE online

Re: Accident

Send me your iPhone with deleted pictures, please.