Posts by GrumpenKraut

Awoogah – brown alert: OpenSSL preps 'high severity' security fixes

Could we fucking kill it already?

And rewrite from scratch. It cannot possibly become worse.

Yelp minimum wage row shines spotlight on … broke, fired employee

Re: The simple answer: she's not being paid too little but she is paying too much rent

> That's the problem. Rent should never be > 50% net income.

I'd say anything more than 33% is already dubious for a basic(!) flat.

Re: Trump?

> Better get used to calling him President Trump!

Would that not be President Toot?

US Congressman calls WIPO 'the FIFA of UN agencies' at hearing

> I would be upset that the USA is taking it upon itself to police a UN agency.

Not so sure anymore about this since the USA took care of FIFA. It's beyond mysterious that everybody and his dog knew the FIFA is a corrupt bunch and no EU country (especially Germany!) did anything.

So, in hope that the USA handle this wisely, beer.

British Airways, IT staff job cuts, an outsourcing biz ... you get the point

Outsourcing: fuck, yeah.

Actual conversation with our best man[TM] there.

He: "We could not run test. Does not work."

Me: "What do you mean 'Does not work'".

He: "Does not run!"

Me: "How far did it run?"

He: "Stopped."

Me: "Where did it stop? What's on the screen."

He: "BIOS."

Me: "What do you see?"

He: "Press any key to continue."

Me: "Please press a key and tell me what what you see."

He: "Now working!"

Me: [click] "AAAAaaaaaarghhh!!!!!"

I did call him because the test (certification) was 24 hours overdue. Best man[TM] did quit to join another company paying a few bucks more only weeks later. Phone calls with the rest of the bunch were essentially impossible, "let's continue this via email" my standard phrase when insanity crept up. But, HEY, they were cheap!

Re: There goes the BA website (and everything else)

> It ain't always cheaper in the long run to ship the jobs to India.

Wot? I have yet to see ONE example where such outsourcing leeds to actual cost reduction (not just book keeping trickery) and keeping the quality.

The majority of "outsourcing to India" I have seen led to no cost reduction and to quality so deep in caca land you wouldn't believe unless you actually had dealt with those "specialists".

Google human-like robot brushes off beating by puny human – this is how Skynet starts

It should be possible to pack a battery with 10 kilogram. That is a lot of energy. Certainly enough to mince one human per charge.

Re: #Error 2035

Works for me with Firefox (iceweasel). IIRC I never had a problem with any video here.

Re: So it can open doors and wander about...

> But can it handle doorknobs?

That is unlikely: The lever-type ones should be doable. Turn-knobs less likely. Add the slightest unlock mechanism on top (like pressing a button to unlock) and any existing robot is fucked. This is a major problem with robots for rescue tasks.

Human hands and brains are a fine combination.

Microsoft acquires Xamarin: An obvious move not without risks

Miguel de Icaza and Microsoft

Fully deserve each other.

Linux Mint forums hacked: All users urged to reset passwords

Re: Not the only problem

Symlink count:

% find . -lname \* | wc -l

37535

Symlink character count:

% find . -lname \* | wc -c

1678843

That's 1.6 Megabyte. More than I thought, still a non-lethal amount.

Re: Quite a lot of whiners commenting here.

> Yes, it's obviously all my fault that my login was hacked and I have a backdoor installed on my Linux machine.

You totally did not make that up, I am sure.

Re: Titter ye not!

Says J J Carter, the machine gun of all trolls -------------------------->

Re: Quite a lot of whiners commenting here.

> ...use a computer as a tool rather than being a project of itself.

That's when you have someone do the install for you. Car analogy applies.

Re: Quite a lot of whiners commenting here.

Have an upvote. Doesn't look like everybody likes what you are saying, though.

Re: Not the only problem

> It's said that the way to go is to get Debian with the Cinnamon DE.

If you need/want a new install, that's what I'd suggest. But...

> Right now it's stable and seems fine.

...only when needed, as a new install (at least for me) always brings a few surprises.

Re: Not the only problem

> ...and 50% of my hard disk space under Linux is occupied by symlinks.

Hard disks with even more then 40 Megabyte of space are available.

Back to serious: the mdm issue is addressed (not: solved) here (lwn). You are welcome.

Browser made by China's top search engine leaks almost everything

From Baidu's reply

"Baidu endeavors to collect data in a way consistent with the highest standards of security and user privacy in the industry."

Comedy gold from Bizzaristan.

NASA's Orion: 100,000 parts riding 8 million pounds of thrust

Re: ITYM...

> Germany, fuck yeah", right?

Actually, no. Different mechanisms IIRC and importantly, different goals.

> Astronauts have a level of bravery that is completely beyond my comprehension.

In the Houston space center they have the capsules prior to the moon program. These pilots where put into tiny tin shells with plenty of switches around them. When I saw them my very first thought was "oh, dear!". Apparent safety measures: pray before you go.

Walking towards the Saturn 5 also caused repeated jaw dropping. One simply cannot appreciate the scale without standing near to it. My thoughts there: "America, fuck yeah!". A monument of dedication.

> Hope it comes with instructions...

and the hex key.

Black Monday: Office 365 down and out in Europe

Re: A message to all who thought Office 365 was a good idea

> ... mine has been fine all day.

You are such a killjoy!

Linux Mint hacked: Malware-infected ISOs linked from official site

Re: Ability to Handle Criticism

> Who is arguing?

You with yourself, it seems.

Re: The feel when the discussion reminds one of the Amiga vs. Atari ST days of retardation

> In your dreams!!1!. Vi is CLEARLY superior!

You mis-spelled Emacs.

Re: Or...

> Just stick to Windows, ...

Please do.

Re: Ability to Handle Criticism

> ...Linux Zealot ... Linux Zealot ... Linux Zealot ...

Way to win an argument.

Re: Can happen to anyone...

> ...this never happened to Microsoft ...

No Microsoft website has ever been owned, really?

Re: In your dreams.

> Note: W3Schools is a website for people...

Yes, W3Schools is certainly a site that reports a rather high percentage of Linux usage. I agree with your reasoning why that is.

Re: md5?

> However, [I didn't understand what you said]

No downvote from me, just to indicate why these happened.

Re: Can happen to anyone...

> People are becoming fed up of the bloat of Windows.

Put a period behind the word "bloat". Windows is just one sad instance.

I find it incredible how most of the industry doesn't seem to get this.

Beer, because I get that. Hello, mister fridge! Pilsener? OK!

Re: The ghost of SCO

> Smells of ...

standard internet scum[TM], I'd say (downvote not from me).

Re: In your dreams.

Depends where you look: w3schools reports share at 5.5% during 2015, essentially stable.

German mayor's browser tabs catch him with trousers down

Re: language

> Don't they have German sites over there?

No, absolutely none.

Original appears to be "...hab ich mich mal schlau machen wollen.". The translation parses for me, and I have seen "clued-up" before.

Yahoo! is! up! for! sale! – so! how! much! will! you! bid!?

Re: Architecturizing strategic alternatives for maximizing value

> Just create a web interface to the bullshit generator they already use...

Didn't they do that a long time ago?

Loved one just died? Pah, that's nothing

> Standing at the edge of a virtual cliff.

This has been used (successfully) in treatments against pathological fear of height.

Re: what if...

Further enjoyment: Abramowitz/Stegun, Bronstein/Semendjajew, Prudnikov/Brychkov/Marichev, Magnus/Oberhettinger.

What did I miss?

Hey British coders: DevOps – you're doing it wrong

> ...so "duh-brain" bland it pre-emptively nukes taste-buds from orbit,...

Re: Why Am I Confused?

> ...the next in a very very long line of IT BS doing the rounds yet again.

E.x.a.c.t.l.y.

> I've had my fill of snake oil decades ago ...

Welcome to the club.

Icon as a reminder to only drink at days whose names contain the letter y.

> Or is this what DevOps is -- postmodern psychobabble for PHBs?

Yes.

The paperless office? Don’t talk sheet

Re: It's not me, it's everybody else

> Anyone know why most people are addicted to paper?

Paper has an awesome user interface (seriously).

Icon is a blank sheet of paper. ---------------->

Feds look left and right for support – and see everyone backing Apple

Re: Anybody can crack an iPhone, if they have I.C.E. technology

> Google "The Morgan Doctrine"

Only found a shitty self-promoting web site www(dot)themorgandoctrine(dot)com, did you mean something else?

Triple-murderer prisoner keeps mobile phone in his butt for a week

Re: Semi sensible question

> So why not install jammers ...?

Because staff want to be able to make calls?

Oz town suffers hairy panic attack

Re: IT

> And I don't drink enough either.

There is certainly a fix for this. Sadly, I forgot what it is.

> And afterwards you have...

a town to rebuild. Brilliant!

Eurovision Song Contest uncorks 1975 vote shocker: No 'Nul point'!

It was a time when ...

> ... the Euro elite really did have its hands on the knobs of power

Added "knobs of power" to my dickshunary, thanks. Any Australian readers? VB ---->

What would happen if Earth fell into a black hole?

Re: Breaking news!

> "Black holes suck even more than Windows 10."[Citation needed]

Source: my funny south pole, spontaneously trolling.

Good thing this dev quit. I'd have fired him. Out of a cannon. Into the sun

Re: 20 20 hindsight is always best

Physicists now do learn programming (here in GrumpenLand), at least where I checked the courses offered. The quality of such courses varies quite a bit.

When a student, I took a C course where the teacher tried for many hours to explain what a pointer is. He failed miserably because he didn't understand it himself. I did tell a fellow student that I failed to understand that darn complicated pointer stuff. He replied "but you know assembler, it's just a bloody adress". That very second I got it.

Re: As in all else, Orwell is correct.

> ...multi-hundred-thousand-line Fortran 77 program...

Gasp! And then, you (A) bought a nice house, or (B) spent several years in the loony bin, or (C) ???.

Permies sitting pretty as fifth of contractors see rates cut

Re: what is a DevOps skill?

Much afraid I am the wrong type of audience, having witnessed to many souls burnt by "current fad taken serious".