Posts by VoiceOfTruth 1648 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2022
It's two birds with one stone: 1, Huawei kit is not embuggered with NSA backdoors. That makes it a 'threat' to the USA's national security. 2, Banning Huawei effectively removes competition from the market (in this case Cisco).
If you look at the history of what the USA has stolen using nefarious means like this you will see it is a pattern.
-> Cisco told The Register that it altered Webex after the researchers got in touch so that it no longer transmits microphone telemetry data.
Caught in the act. It's a bit like a burglar who says he will burgle no more when he has been caught burgling. Hmmm. Not very convincing.
I've never trusted cameras on computers. The physical block is the only way to stop it for sure. In my case I use a slither of opaque paper. The microphone is a different matter with no obvious non-intrusive (to men) means of stopping it.
-> The bad news is that while the company can restore all customers ... there is no automated system to restore "a large subset" of customers into an existing environment, meaning data has to be laboriously pieced together.
That doesn't strike me as very good at all. It seems more like a reconstruction from whatever is available rather than a backup/restore. Be warned: if it can happen once it can happen again. So Atlassian should design a better recovery system.
Your post is a bit contradictory. You write that 'Granted, Linux is a superior OS', but then list the reasons why it isn't - lack of the audio apps you want, lack of drivers. That make Linux an inferior OS.
I do seem to recall YALD (Yet Another Linux Distribution) targeted towards sound apps but I can't remember what it was called.
While I recognise that your post is made with helpful intentions I will have to pick it apart a bit.
-> The FOSS community is not allergic to compiled binaries.
Some people definitely are. And they have loud voices.
-> not until Snaps or Flatpak become more mainstream
Don't forget AppImage. Why can the Linux so-called community just make one of these frickin' things? Have the Linux so-called community not learned the lesson? The only reason for these Snaps or Flatpaks is to get round problems with the built in package managers like yum and dpkg and several other not-very-good package managers. So what do they do? Instead of making one universal solution they make multiple new ways. Duplication of effort to the same goal.
-> But yes, finding a good email client has become more challenging, even on Windows.
100% agree. The same on Mac. Apple's Mail is nasty and badly designed. It has three bin-shaped icons, one for archiving, one for spam, and one for delete. X in most GUIs means delete, on Apple Mail it means 'mark as junk'. So I tried Thunderbird. That was even worse. It's horrible junk.
-> Thunderbird's UX is horrible
I wonder who put it together. Somebody who has no idea how to design GUI software, I guess.
There was a 'good old days' when software was 'simpler' and more functional. You mention Outlook Express. People may laugh but it was better than Apple Mail today. There was Eudora Light, which was simple and reliable. There was even Netscape Communicator. What do we have now?
-> I used claimed to have a library but really just dumped all my files in the playlist.
What is wrong with using vim, sed, and grep to make your own playlists? Are those playlists in an open format?
-> so after a few hours of testing
A few hours wasting your life on this nonsense rather than getting things done.
-> Gimp ... it's a mess
A summary.
-> I like Linux and for servers it's great but for the desktop it's a solution looking for a problem.
Here I disagree. Linux on the desktop is like 8,000 solutions to a problem. Instead of making one or two good solutions, there are umpteen different and incompatible solutions. And none of those solutions are complete solutions. Instead they are partial solutions with caveats.
Dunderheads everywhere I look...
-> You'd follow the documentation for the distro/desktop you actually have installed, surely - y'know, like you would for Windows or Mac.
If I open a computer graphics magazine or go to a computer graphics web site for a tutorial on something, it will have either Windows or Mac. If I open a Mac magazine or web site the apps there will look exactly the same as they do on my desktop. I rarely go to the Apple web site - the 'documentation for the distro/desktop you actually have installed'. There are not 8,000 different desktops for the Mac. It is about the least customisable desktop out there.
-> Nah. We've been through this
And you still haven't accepted it. You keep finding any other reason rather than accepting the truth. In another post on this article there was somebody complaining that Dell stopped selling Linux laptops. I pointed out that nobody (in economically viable numbers) was buying them.
Most people want their computers to work and to run the applications they want to run. Linux in large part does not fit the bill.
-> When you buy a laptop/PC with Windows pre-installed you get one desktop UI (which you cannot change).
Window Blinds?
-> How is that confusing for users?
Because if Bob decides that your Linux desktop is Gnome and you are trying to follow a tutorial which uses KDE, it won't look the same will it? The same goes for XFCE or whatever else.
Choice of desktop has been one of the main reasons for failure of Linux on the desktop. The fabled Year of the Linux Desktop is always around the corner. It is the Godot of computing, and Godot never turns up.
Why did Dell discontinue Linux in the UK? Because there were not enough Linux customers!
Penguins have complained for years and years that nobody offers Linux laptops or desktops, so people use Windows. When a company offers Linux desktop about 5 people buy them.
You have provoked the wrath of the penguin downvoting army with your sacrilege, AKA common sense. There should be at least 2,000 more desktops to choose from. And if you don't like what you see after wasting years of life trying new desktops, you can always learn to code and make your own.
You have hit the Linux wall. Eventually nearly everyone does.
The Linux wall is such and such an app which runs on Windows but does not run on Linux, or has no direct equivalent, etc. For some people it is Photoshop or Illustrator (I promise I will drop a whole bag of inodes onto the head of anyone who says Gimp and Inkscape), for others it Excel macros. Some things that are commonplace on Windows are simply not available on Linux. If you can work within the limits of what Linux offers, that's good. But do not believe the hype: eventually you will hit that wall.
-> I mean Windows has its own day of the month – Patch Tuesday – just for fixes
And Linux has so many patches that practically every day is patch day. And don't deny it.
-> My Linux servers on the net are attacked dozens of times a day and to date, the score is Steven 100 - Hackers nil.
And here is the dangerous myth that is yet again being spread. If you know what you are doing you can run a Linux machine on the internet securely. But if you don't know, and new to mid Linux users do not know, you will have an insecure machine on the internet. I see attempts every day from Linux machines which have been compromised.
-> security is a process, not a product
Correct! And to know that process you have to know what you are doing. New Linux users will not know.
-> Finally, unlike Microsoft and Apple, Linux distributors are not looking over my shoulder
That point I will not argue with.
You mean like snapshots?
I recovered some systems a few years ago that held a lot of data on NetApps. Average users did not have direct access to the systems, only via mounts from Windows machines. One day, somebody got infected with some malware/ransomware and files started being encrypted. By the time it was noticed a day or so had passed.
"Can you get our files back?", was the question. "I can the whole file system back to how it was yesterday, pre-infection. And for many files I can put them back based on the hourly snapshots", was my reply. "Good enough"...
ZFS can do the same, as Paul Smith writes above.
-> Look at how Microsoft is more or less forcing you at knife point to push everything to their Azure stuff
You can't run to the shops and buy a hard drive? I'm writing in general terms, of course.
If you value your data you should back it up.
-> This is extremely concerning to us, as our mission-critical institutional knowledge lives in Confluence at this point," said one Atlassian customer
Then I would expect this customer to have thorough and reliable backups. Saying it's 'with Atlassian' is not an answer.
-> Measurement Systems -> a Virginia defense contractor that does cyber-intelligence, network-defense and intelligence-intercept work for US national security agencies
Come on. You know full well this is the CIA/NSA collecting information. Don't beat about the bush.
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