Posts by Zwack

There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial

Re: Fun stuff for Bob and Jenny to do at the office.

What might need to be kept indefinitely? Some states have medical records requirements that amount to keeping them practically indefinitely.

There can be different requirements in different states.

Microsoft founder Paul Allen's tech museum closes, sells off collection

Re: I'd be surprised...the Vulcan grip..aah..downvotes..

So, you are saying that Portland is the problem with Seattle now.

Having lived in Portland since 1999 and visited Seattle several times over the course of the last 25 years, why do you think that?

My personal experience is that Seattle (population 100,000 more than Portland) is not as nice a place as Portland. Somehow you think that people moving from Portland to Seattle are somehow overwhelming the people of Seattle and making them become like Portland?

I think that you are imagining it.

Sure, Portland has gone downhill over the years, and so has Seattle. But I don't think that the problem with Seattle is Portland, or vice versa. I suspect a larger issue in the US as a whole.

Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins

Re: Microsoft wouldn't dream of doing that deliberately, no matter how high the stakes

They might be wary of doing anything anti competitive given how much trouble it could get them in with the European Union.

Re: The 3 assistants with fantastic people skills who effing hate computers

> If they were moved to Linux or Mac OS and the keyboard shortcut could not be assigned, I'd have had to teach them how to use a desktop.

The word if is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. It took me about a minute to set up that shortcut in xfce despite never having done that before. I will be shocked if whatever distribution they are using does not have a keyboard macro function.

Re: Holding on

There are automated solutions for remote management depending on what distribution you are using.

A lot of the tools for server management can just as effectively be used to manage desktops. Yes, it removes some aspects of local control, but in every enterprise that is restricted anyway.

Tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Cfengine,... Can all be used to install software on machines and configure it. This can be done in either a push or pull model.

If you are not using a network service for account management in an enterprise then I will be shocked.

Re: If LibreOffice provided anything even approaching an alternative to 365 in functionality ...

In what way doesn't it?

As far as a word processor goes it works.

For a spreadsheet, well, I've seen enough issues between versions of Excel that Libre office seems to work well enough.

Access is barely a database, so there are many alternatives.

Presentations seem to work, but that isn't something I do very often.

Visio is the one tool from Microsoft that I haven't been able to find a great replacement for. But then how many people really need Visio at your work?

I used Suse way back (1997/1998) and it was good back then. I hope that it has improved.

Re: Fingers crossed

Why shouldn't they use a German distribution like SUSE?

https://www.suse.com/company/history/

They became the leading distribution in Europe in 1997.

But I assume that you know better and they should use Mint.

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

Re: It isn't just code that can be wide

Comments should be written in pen on the punch card. What sort of person goes to the trouble of actually punching their comments into separate cards.

But I was going to build a card reader...

I mean I have a bunch of 80 column cards, I know Fortran 77...

And now Linus is against me.

I HAVE to do it.