* Posts by TheSkunkyMonk

111 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Dec 2015

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Dropbox gets all up in your kernel with Project Infinite. Cue uproar

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dialog promises them faster dropbox

ahhh that reminds me of the Bs spouted on every release of the windows installer after 3.1 also shocked bill didn't put a patent on that one

Oculus backtracks on open software promise

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prompting some developers to work for free on it.

Poor sods, wonder if they will have any means of comeback? Its a joke mind and will lead to the end of the Rift. still its mainly old tech anyway, I remember the VR Game in the toy shop when I was a kid in the early nineties, it was always broken. only difference is higher def screen no doubt and fancier graphics and a few more sensors. Why it cant be open software so Devs can actually concentrate on making VR games instead of pandering the whims of hardware manufacturers I do not know, oh yeah I do in the hopes of making more money! It really shouldn't be this complicated, its just sensor feedback, screens a screen...

GM crops are good for you and the planet, reckon boffins

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can we know how long the studies were ran for? most nearly always seem to be no more than a few month and the longer ones especially the ones the Russians did over a couple year were all pretty damning

Cyber-moolah boss gets 20 years' porridge for money laundering

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Re: expressly?

Its amazing how much some of the items cost, think you may be onto something...

Cyber-underworld price list revealed: $500 for company email inbox, $1,200 passports, etc

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Wonder how much they'd charge to get Piggy Diddler Cameron's emails?

Blighty's nuclear deterrent will get a software upgrade amid cyber-war fears

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Kinda funny how we actually have rules on how bad we can nuke someone

When asked 'What's a .CNT file?' there's a polite way to answer

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wasn't it just explore.exe back in the day? you know before netscape/mozilla or who ever it may of been complained and got them to take it out of the file browser, only time I used IE was so easy...

Universal Credit slammed by MPs: Late programme branded 'unacceptable'

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Re: Sanctions

imagine the over payments though! I really don't understand what is so hard about devoloping the system though at its heart it is just a big database a few forms and a link to the bacs system, spend a bit on hardware fair enough but on the software dev side man what the hell is wrong with these peeps.

Three-years-late fit-to-work IT tool will cost taxpayers £76m

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Re: Good joke!

The bit that gets me is it is a qualified "doctor" that signs them off sick, and then they are asked to go and be assessed again, at even greater expense by someone not nearly qualified to be over turning the doctors diagnoses. Either our politicians think our doctors are all incompetent in which case they may want to consider retraining them to a higher standard, or this is purposely set out to cause suffering and make a tidy sum in the process. Btw the doctor has the option to select lightduties or not fit on the sick note. if they want to catch fraudsters start hiring detectives.

WTF? Been seeing a lot of recommendations for Mint Linux to newcomers, why?

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After many years of tinkering on the edge I pretty much moved over entirely to linux It wasn't easy nvidia optimus cards weren't really supported but I managed to make it all work in the end and started to love the experience, updates came things kept getting better and better, I discovered Gimp, blender and geany and was a happy dev with more toys than I knew what todo with.

Then it happened the greatest mistake I had ever made was about to happen, I'd happily been using my Microsoft Mouse for over ten years but as all things its was starting to give up the right click was temperamental and the mouse wheel shortly followed, I don't often say this about microsoft products but their hardware used to be top notch! So I decided to treat my self to a shiny new mouse it was a Zalman 401 quite comfortable and not to far from the feel of the familiar Microsoft counterpart, Ubuntu however was not amused one little bit, it picked up my graphics tablet fine, my midi keyboard works a treat and it didn't even think twice when I connected my external soundcard.

But a high DPI mouse, no. No sir you are not allowed one of those, well not unless you are willing to edit and recompile the kernel which to me seems way overboard and not a real solution to make a bloody mouse work!

Linux Foundation assembles gang to build a better Blockchain

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The problem is, it is easily centerizized and abused, who ever has the most computing power has charge this was proved when one mining group was raking in all the coin, luckily they had a heart.

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