Posts by bryces666 30 posts • joined 7 Jul 2015
I still stick with cmd scripts for most tasks, it is just so much easier and quicker to write. I have used PowerShell for more complicated stuff where cmd can't give up the necessary info, but in general the syntax sucks (not saying cmd doesn't suck also) but I prefer the beast I am familiar with. Hope they don't kill it off.
If they can make one that works, and that doesn't need to send everything off to a back end AI server to work if out.
On my phone I previously used the Dragon swype keyboard until they stopped supporting it. While looking for a replacement I found they all sent data back to servers to assist processing and this can include usernames and passwords! Got a little more paranoid from that and stopped using any except the built in Samsung keyboard which does swype but with poor accuracy compared dragon's.
So I really hope they can nail this down, I'd love to type at normal touch-type speeds on a phone.
I've been using camscanner for years, first on a Samsung note 3, excellent for scanning documents and saving them on the go.
I've never noticed anything untoward, but maybe I should factory reset my current phone and start over...
Any insight anyone?
Also, any recommendations of safe alternative that can do the same job?
Regards, Bryce.
When that auto update said we had to pay, because we are a business, that license change was confusing. I don't even know what might actually be making use of java on half of our machines, I didn't install it so other applications may have included it? Anyway, immediate reaction is cancel the auto updates and leave it be, not the best security wise but I guess when we work out where it is really needed we will install openjdk instead, not being extorted for something that was previously free and now Oracle has decided screw you all. Middle finger right back at you Oracle, we will move away!
If I were to see this video, I would be paying attention to how to survive a mass shooting event. Who were the survivors, and what were their actions that improved there chances of making it out alive. Ideally I'd want a sanitised version of the video, maybe done by obfuscating the identity of people (maybe even render it as cartoon effect), and mark it up with survivor, injured or died so one can be a little more prepared if caught up in such an event personally. Could even be rendered as a floor plan of movement, but having the view a of the gun holder also shows what they are paying attention to in their rampage, what catches their attention, and more importantly what they are not noticing. But at the moment this is too soon, the horror of it is too close and real, one day something like this may be a useful resource.
The mouse on one of my own first computers became unreliable, it wouldn't track properly (this was before I knew much about computers).
I opened up the mouse, looked perfectly fine to my untrained eye, the felt pads on the rollers for the mouse ball looked fine, nice and evenly coated. It was only later I learned they should have been bare metal and the felt pads was actually the fluff and dust they had picked up in use!
I would hazard a guess the real reason for blocking Huawei is that the five eyes spy network can't see into Huawei gear in the same fashion it has been accustomed to with US sourced gear. It has been shown that the NSA had backdoors into Cisco and other US router gear in the past, no reason to assume they haven't retained that ability.
I read somewhere that Huawei were bending over backwards to try to show their gear was safe from spies, maybe it really is...
As a kiwi I'm not sure if I should worry more about being spied on by the US and its allies or by the Chinese (I'd prefer to have all the spy networks blocked). The US seems the more belligerent nation set on world domination via military prowess. They are the ones with endless military bases surrounding China, there would be an outcry and awakening if China surrounded the US in the same fashion..
Reminds me that we should simplify languages, like this piece from a while ago:
The New European Language!!!
Writer Unknown
Read Aloud For Best Effect!!!
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru
Just like the 2000AD comics I use to read back in the 80's, mega corporations having all the power, a counties sovereignty and ability to control its own fate subjugated to to the corporations.
And the oligarchy ruling America are the worst at pushing for this new world order, money rules that country, now they want to swallow the rest of the world!
Wish our politicians in the Pacific rim would wake up and see what a con job it is, and get there own snouts out of the trough.
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