Posts by Alan1kiwi 20 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Sep 2015
But have spent many hours attempting to fix a problem from within a terminal screen. Both in Linux, and in Windoze.
I guess it's a function of age, and also dealing with early versions of both OS's and their limitations.
These days, I am happy to click an app, and see what happens !
Merry Xmas to El Reg, and it's readers.
May you all have a splendiferous time with your family and loved ones.
NZ cops had a field day as a part of their exposure to this crim scam.
As did Interpol, and other Euro cops.
Imagine it as a clever exercise by the FBI, whose scam may not have been legal in the US (entrapment etc.), but Aussie information passed back to the USA would have met the threshold of international information.
This how 5 eyes works in the spook area.
I love it :-)
Personally, I would be happy if Windows 10 could update without crashing at around 90%.
Yes, I have done every damn thing that they suggest, DISM, and on and on.
It becomes like watching paint dry.
My Linux triple boot efforts work just fine.
And they update like clockwork, without any problems.
MS might attempt to sell camels to Arabs, and fridges to Eskimos, but until their basic system actually
works, they may as well sell used cars.
And we all know how that works. !?!
You are describing the epitome of research. Shame on you. Sticking pins in stuff to see what happens is how scientists all over the globe function. Sadly, most of this is a complete failure, and the pins are never recycled. But, they do use acres of paper made from trees to publicise their efforts. My own research area is how to recycle old scientists. Despite their undoubted scientific skills, most couldn't turn a sausage on barbecue if they tried. I have this theory ( yet to be published) that scientists would serve us better by helping chefs to cook stuff normally, and to avoid using foreign words on menus. :-)
And couldn't be bothered.
If it took more than half an hour to work out what was happening, my eyes closed over. Ubuntu came along, and that was interesting, then it turned into a corporation. PCLinuxOS came along, and life was much easier. I have been there for almost 10 years. Quite happy with it all on the desktop.
Africa at large has gone from jungle drums to mobile phones in a flash.
They missed the dragging copper wires all over the place phase.
And that was the capital intensive part of the communications exercise.
There are numerous fibre cables linking Africa to the rest of the world.
Connecting them to a few wireless towers was pretty easy, and with
cellphones from China being throwaways these days, any African worth
his salt has global internet access.
They have made a huge leap in communications for minimal investment.
In a perverse way, they are taking greater advantage of the technology than
we are.
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