Posts by Ole Juul

Re: Good News

Not so easy to block. There's no fixed IP since many people operate servers. You could do so too if you are interested in joining. You can also just run your own without making it public. That's what I do. Another benefit of OpenNIC is that you can get free domain names, and even start another TLD if you are ambitious. We resolve our own as well as ICANN's.

Re: Get patching

If you're going to patch, might be just as quick to upgrade the OS to open source.

Re: Doesn't bother me

"Tomato is beyond prehistoric and has not fixed a long list of issues for a nearly a decade."

Hmm, we have different information. Last release of Tomato Shibby is May 8, 2017.

Microsoft has refused to say what caused today's outage.

In fact they will put all their effort into pretending it didn't happen. That's what everybody is supposed to do. The cloud will never work smoothly without collective illusions.

Re: Sue the bastards

I totally agree with you. But I'm not overlooking anything. My title is a common meme and an old expression. Looks like you took it literally. :) My point is that you won't get ICANN's attention by talking to them.

Disney

Probably intended as part of a DRM scheme.

Re: So, just another day in the office...?

"So much concern about the actors and so little concern with the content."

And as it turns out, the content is apparently mundane. Obviously Americans have a different slant on politics entirely. Also, there seems to be a lot of Trump in this one. Here's an article about the "leaks".

Re: It's fascinating that Linux now has the same problem as Windows

There really is nothing available which is perfect. However, I agree with the title as do many other people - at least in principle and feel. I note that a lot of *BSD users are Linux refugees who've not liked the Windows-like direction of Linux distros in general. You may disagree with the choice of BSD but the sentiment is common.

Just checked and yes, it's running on my up-to-date FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE NFS server.

Yeah, I've got linux isos up the ying yang.

Re: Trump had better hurry up and ban Mint

OK, that does it. I'm switching to Christian Linux.

"I was hoping Canadians didn't use the word "gotten"."

Something gotten in the state of Canada.

Re: General rule of thumb

If you're that suspicious, you're doing it wrong.

Re: able to understand when a person is being sarcastic

I'd say that the people who use tags like /s and not don't get sarcasm either, since doing that negates the effect.

It is quite difficult for both machines and humans to distinguish sarcasm without context.

Perhaps therein lies the key, because nothing exists without context. Someone who doesn't get the context is probably not aware of their social or other environment in which the sarcasm is presented.

Re: It is not that clearcut

Too clever by half.

Re: There is no one true browser

Indeed, it is just a matter of interface preference. I have a liking for Firefox because of some plugins that make it work especially well for me. Nevertheless, surely I'm not the only one who runs numerous browsers because many have useful features that I like from time to time. Why only use one browser?

assumptions

Is there even any proof that the Twitter account in question actually belongs to an "immigration official", or even to a US citizen?

Re: Enforcement?

"It's relatively easy for a website to serve content based on IP address,"

It is easy to pretend you got it right. In the real world you will see lots of European IPs showing in the wrong country. These databases don't always get updated either. Advertising is one thing, but there is no current mechanism that is adequate for any purpose with legal consequences. On top of that, using a VPN is common and getting very popular.

Re: Dangerous

I'm actually surprised more people don't get hurt by these. I've got a big commercial compressor in my workshop and it does a nice job of cleaning old computers. It's also nice for cleaning the workshop dust off my clothes when I've been in the shop. But whenever I do that I can't help thinking just how easy it would be to get too near my eyes, or even more scary, my ears. I could end up deaf in a fraction of a second if I didn't exercise care. Anyway, I highly recommend a real compressor for cleaning out dust bunnies in old desktops and for regular keyboard maintenance. One just needs to exercise a little care and pay attention to just how much stress one is putting on the item at hand.

owner

"Where does the owner of the document fit into this process?"

Owner? You mean Microsoft?

Re: They will never learn.

"Really, some of these simply should be firing offenses."

They would be if they were working for a security business. I'm not sure what business Cisco thinks they're in.

Re: Red Chinese Monkey Patrol

The red serge is their dress uniform. You very rarely see it because they don't wear that for regular work. This is what you see normally.

Re: Together Is Power

Nonsense Is Power

Re: Got What He Deserved

Yep, he got what he deserved - and so did the company. They can all get lost as far as I'm concerned.

swept up in the warrants

Metadata's a bitch.