Posts by Rick Giles
220 posts • joined Thursday 17th April 2008 01:57 GMT
Where all this is headed
Watch Continuum.
'nough said.
What do you expect?
This kind of shite is only going to get worse the more we replace people with robots.
Mines the one with Det. Spooner on the tag.
@Tim Worstall
"seem not to have noticed what y'all"
Okay, NO. If you are not from or live in the US South, you may not use the phrase "y'all".
It would be like me running around and saying "bloody hell"... Oh, wait. I do do that.
But still, just no.
Re: Linux - the engineer's server operating system
@DanDanDan... A poorly managed Linux is 100x better than a "properly managed" Windows OS. Although, to properly manage, i.e. secure, a Windows OS it's best to just power it down and unplug it.
Re: Windows, Windows,
I really can't imagine why anyone would want Windows to start with. Let alone, attempt to install it 'correctly'.
Re: Shall we chalk that one up to another Windows security FAIL?
@Fatman... I up voted you for the Penguin love.
Re: Curse you Jasper Hamill!
And you owe me a new monitor.
Re: Curse you Jasper Hamill!
You, sir, owe me a keyboard.
Eben Moglen
This is what FreedomBox is for.
@David W. Re: This has a relly simple solution.
Don't be scared. We can ween you off the Microsoft teat so that you can mature into a good computer/technology user.
Re: Minor correction to quote...
"Blackberry still exists?" said the rest of the world.
This has a relly simple solution.
Wake up sheeple.
Make a point by using your wallet:
Use Linux... Always
Cancel your Netflix / Hulu / Vudu / Pandora / TiVo and any other streaming media biz I forgot/don't know about. Let them know why.
Terminate your account with your ISP. Let them know why.
Use Pirate Boxes and plug servers. Get the mesh network going. It won't be easy at first, but once we take control back, WE can dictate the terms.
http://youtu.be/6cfIlBkDLTw
People use the internet to watch/listen to stuff?!?
When did this happen??
Re: @ Rick Giles - All you need to do...
And the messages was to the HW vendors, not MS.
I tell them how much I loathe them every chance I get.
Re: @ Rick Giles - All you need to do...
Oh... and IT work is pretty much all I've done for the last 20 years.
Some how I doubt you would build a system being a MS shill and all.
Re: @ Rick Giles - All you need to do...
I will admit that it has been a while since I've bought a brand new PC. Doesn't it still have the stipulation that if you don't agree to the license, to return it to the vendor, or some such verbiage?
As for the Writ In Stone wiki link, TLDR, it all boils down to Microsoft DOES have a monopoly bordering on RICO and they are getting away with it (for now).
You can always ask, even if they wont do it, and MAKE them put it on the order form where applicable.
Stand up for you rights and self. They will learn eventually.
Wouldn't of happened
If he'd been carrying, if you know what I mean.
Re: @Ledswinger - This is not rocket science...!
"designed to protect your computer from software which may damage it"
Windows IS a virus.
I don't see the problem
Sounds like it was doing exactly what it needed to do.
BTW, you don't need all the crap on Linux.
Re: Show us the code
And your usage data.
Re: Show us the code
When you get down to the brass tacks (tax?) this is all about screwing Linux and FOSS. Microsoft wants Linux DEAD. Microsoft wants FOSS DEAD.
I try very hard to not use MS products as much as possible with one exception - the Xbox.
A turning point is coming. We are either going to be free of them or subject to them with no alternative.
Listen/watch Eben Moglen.
All you need to do...
is request that MS Windows not be installed on the PC when you buy it. I think that would send an appropriate and clear message to the hardware vendors that they need to pull their heads out of Ballmer's ass and see what the consumer really wants.
None of this will matter
When we all switch to Freedom and Pirate boxen.
Init Americas Got Talent
Just a copy of Britains Got Talent? We're just playing catchup with the rest of the world 'tards.
Two thinngs that will end all this horse$h1t:
Freedombox and Piratebox
RE: Matt Bryant Re: Eguro RE: henrydddd
Since when di the facts matter... on the interwebz?
@Eguro Re: henrydddd
"To be fair though - you did say "Part of setting sentences" - so I'll admit that I'm of course misrepresenting you...
on the internet..."
If that the case, all the politicians will wind up in jail because we know they misrepresent all of us (Americans)...
Mine's the one with the Pirate Box install disc in the pocket...
I worked at a place like that....
They started 'measuring' the break-fix group. We met all our SLA's every time. SO they changed the metric. We still met our SLA. They changed it again. We started missing a few, then corrected. They changed it again. We started failing again. Then they *really* changed the metrics.
We looked like complete shite after that and they had the nerve to tell us so. Which was reflected in our yearly eval. I told them that you can't apply a performance metric to the number 'unplanned maintenance', only on the work performed. They didn't like that (as evidenced by the 0% bump in pay I got that year).
...Mine the one with the 12% pay increase in the pocket to go to another company.
@SillySqlSquirrel
Had a bunch of notices from Fail2ban for attempts from China,, a smattering from Brasil and one from KORNET (Korea Telecom).
@JDX Re: Prosecution would be proof of idiocy..
Physical - Virtual -- Apples - Oranges
@AC 07:51 Re: Prosecution would be proof of idiocy..
Physical - Virtual -- Apples - Oranges
Re: Prosecution would be proof of idiocy..
"The guy should get a medal for this..."
Or at least the admiration of his/her peers.
Is it me
or are the laws for virtual "crimes" getting harsher than the laws for actual physical crimes that actual hurt people?
I hope someone comes up with a good way to interconnect Pirate Boxes soon...
Re: For all you non-Americans
"you should give up the Cowboys and Indians thang."
We have, and we have moved on. That comment borders on being racist.
Our right to keep and bear arms is there to give the public the ability to protect ourselves from getting a government like yours that doesn't really give a shit about its people.
Yes, I know ours is getting that way.
The Revolution is coming.
Re: For all you non-Americans
Yes, I saw the clue you mentioned long ago. It just lets me know that most of the stuff on this site that doesn't pertain to technology (and most of that even) should be taken with a block of salt.
Posted in Australia cuts Microsoft bill by AU$100m
Re: What savings can they expect to see...
Me thinks John Sheridan must be getting a kick back of some sorts. This is just the kind of crap that MS wants spread around.
I'm not so disillusion that I don't think switching to (F)OSS would not be a PITA just because of the stranglehold MS has on the business environment. It's going to take a company that has a CIO with big brass balls to make the change and lead the way. Unfortunately, I have yet to find such a CIO as they are mostly whimpering simpletons that really have no business operating a light switch, let alone a computer.
For all you non-Americans
You may discuss what we do, but you may not tell us what we should do.
Posted in Why you need a home lab to keep your job
Re: Lucky?
I've been seriously looking at solar panels and batteries to run my home lab. It's small enough right now that it wouldn't take to much of an investment to get that ball rolling.
People who run Windows on servers
are the same ones that have unbalanced ceiling fans in their house.
Nuf said.
Re: They should be called WindowsNets not Botnets
You are a voice of reason. Prepare for the MS fanboi flames.
@Arctic fox Re: RE "but someone who has a 10% stake in a very fat pie will.........."
But the Great Satan that is Microsloth wants all PCs to run Windoze on them.
(I know I left out quite a bunch of euphemisms...)
Now that I know
Netflix is using Amazon's cloud I may just have to drop them. This is the kind of shit that is going to happen more and more as these idiots give up control of their data and infrastructure.
Besides the fact that Netflix doesn't have a Linux app is probably the main reason I want to drop them.
@harmjschoonhoven Re: AC@13:46
Nah. You want the good low voltage with that high chunky current. Not the other way 'round.
There was a title, but I lost it to the cloud because someone was mis-using the HTML rendering farm
Looks like I awoke a CIO trying to get upper manglement to buy off on his cloud idea...
Re: Hackers would go after Windows phones...
You are sadly mistaken. There is a lot more Linux out there than the MS fanbois want to admit. I have 2 personal machines at home that run a MS OS and both of those are for the children so they can play the games that they like until the game makers can perform a cranial rectal extraction from MS and write for a better platform. Everthing else in the house, the 2 servers, mine and the wife's laptops, the Tivo's,the Blueray and the TV all run some form of Linux.
I'm currently working on a POC at work to show that we can use Linux to conduct our business to free ourselves from the MS license shackles and have better control over what our data is doing.
And yet...
They want you to believe your data is safe(r) in the cloud. Once you let someone else manager your data, it is no longer your data. Build your own "cloud", even though you probably already have it. They're called servers for those of you blinded by marketing.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Re: Normal people don't use Linux
>>With the above, is it any wonder no one takes Linux seriously?
>M$ FUD is why no one takes Linux seriously. Remember the troll that bought the Dell computer preloaded with Windows and then got U.S. National news attention because she could do her college course work? That was all a setup.
$h1t... I screwed the pooch on this one...
She got a Dell with *Linux* pre-installed...
http://www.wkow.com/Global/story.asp?S=9667184
or this more slanted article
http://www.inquisitr.com/15383/worlds-dumbest-woman-blames-ubuntu-for-college-failure/
"I wish to make it clear that I’m not saying IBM had the worst HR of any firm in the world, merely that my 28 years in technology and banking have never exposed a worse one to me."
So far, banking was the worst for me, technology wise. They want everything to run on the latest OS (XP at the time) on a machine that would barely handle Windows 2.0. They also wanted you on call but would provide a laptop or a VPN connection if you had your own PC/Laptop. Then they would get pissed at you when it would take about an hour to get to where you could look at the problem.
Good times.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Re: Most important thing any Linux user needs to install:
"Most important thing any Linux user needs to install:
Windows 8, and join the 21st century. Innovation beyond compare, it's what Linux will be doing in 5 years after all the ideas have been copied."
Jerk alert! - Mouth (the Goonies)
