Posts by Jad

Re: To be fair

to site the ever reliable wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street :)

Re: Re: "The Electronic Frontier Doundation"

Na, I'll click on the button that removes my post, making every reply look odd :)

Re: DDoS attacks?

If anyone had the processing capacity to take down a cluster of computers, without a botnet; that'd be google!

Having just had my car written off ...

I can tell you that driving at the speed limit is not always safe, especially at mini roundabouts ... I think he braked before he hit me, but then again, by the time he seemed to notice me he only had about 3 meters in which to do it.

They have stopped paying to have a developer working on KDE ...

But they are going to continue providing the servers, storage, and other services that will support Kubuntu, they're just hoping that the "community" will do the work of the 1 person who was paid.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/canonical

It seems strange to me though because KDE has gained lots of support since they introduced the Unity interface (not from me, I hate KDE too, and was happy to move away from SuSE because of that)

"Turing was arrested and eventually convicted for homosexuality in 1952." ...

One would guess from this that he _was_ found guilty ...

RE: To be fair ...

we bought some dell laptops recently and one of them "came of the shelf" with everything on it (silly reseller)

so it had a touch pad, _and_ "nipple" + keys, plus we always use external USB mice, and then I gesticulated at the screen and it clicked where I touched *shudder*.

It was a great spec laptop, but there were just _too_ many input devices (and you couldn't turn them off)

RE: Terminal velocity

but as they say, where's the fun in that?

I noticed that they designed it so that it came down on the back of the case, not on the glass front, which I'm guessing requires a reasonable height to get right (not so useful from your lap to a granite floor)

RE: "Quantum Leap" Indeed!

"You do know that a "quantum leap" is unimaginably small, don't you?"

you do understand that the research and effort and scientific know-how that went into understanding the "Quantum" was a huge step that has changed the world of physics for ever?

RE: Cost of production

From what I've read elsewhere here on theRegister, only 20% of the cost of a printed book is the printing and shipping charges ... which is generally why ebooks cost the same as pbooks (20% VAT)

RE: I'd rather...

I used Unity for just under 2 hours, I could use it, but it wasn't nice.

Gnome 3 lasted 30 seconds ... long enough for me not to find my applications, but to find the "log out" button.

Gnome Classic looked more like what I wanted, but just try to set up a printer and you will decide that it's not worth going there.

Of the new interfaces Unity does _work_ so therefore is the best of them, but I'm trying XFCE and I reckon that's where I'll end up ...

I'm going to get my 10 year old son to try all the interfaces (without help) this weekend and see how well he does with them, I think I'll have a better clue after that.

XKCD had a good take on this :)

http://xkcd.com/484/

Epson

Epson are always Linux friendly ... or pick a PostScript printer.

Lexmark e350n is available online for under £100 with Postscript (and no hassles)

Firefox on Solaris

Just for the hell of it I accessed the site with Firefox on Open Solaris ...

Under "Key Security Features" under "Attacks on your browser" I have ticks next to:

"Does the browser benefit from Windows Operating System features that protect against arbitrary data execution?" and

"Does the browser benefit from Windows Operating System features that randomize the memory layout to make it harder for attackers to find their target?"

which I have to say is decidedly odd :)

RE: What the FAT???

Re-engineering of FAT isn't the issue, because the FAT Linux uses was never created by Microsoft, they built a working model from the specification ...

as it happens it isn't even FAT that they have problems with, it's not FAT16, or FAT32, but the ability to talk both at the same time.

RE: Opera users

WOW! so basically the difference between firefox and opera is that in firefox if it gets the revocation list it will warn you and get you to jump through hoops to access the site, and in opera it will just not change the icon next to the URL!

that's amazing and will obviously really help normal users!

Psionics

My favourite use of psionics was to scout for other aliens (out of sight) and control them as well so that my Men/Women never had to go anywhere and I could get the aliens to bitch-slap themselves :)

I loved the guideable rocket hovertanks though ... useful with big ships and men with jet-packs.

send the jetpacks to the roof of the big ship, get one man to open the door at the bottom and walk away, a man into the lift shaft to open the door at the top, then leave the ship then rocket grenade from a safe distance into the lift shaft, up to the top, along the open corridor and into the roof/far wall near to my hovering men ... men fly in through the new doorway and waste/capture anyone in that room ...

so many wasted days of my life :)

RE: Yeah right...

you are correct, that is what he meant, but that isn't what he said, and if there is any possibility for her to use his words and stop the extradition then good on her really.

You know what he was implying, I know what he was implying, but if she can twist the meaning behind the words, to the right people at the right time, she might be able to get a politically acceptable climb down.

I bet they thought no-one ever actually used those things

I mean, as one of my colleagues once put it, all bar-codes look the same!

link to the article on the FSF website, dated the 30th March

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gmail-jstrap/

Wait a sec ...

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Here it is ...

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Oh, no. I forgot. This old VAX kit isn't worth what we paid for it.

RE: I would agree, but...

<whisper> https://supporthtml.oracle.com/ </whisper>

you didn't hear it from me ;-P

Moving a database to a windows box just seems plain wrong to me ... when we had to get a PervasiveDB working recently, for the Accounts dept, knowing it doesn't run on Solaris we installed it on an Ubuntu box, with tar/rsync backup systems onto our Solaris boxes. (Shame we couldn't run it in an lx zone, but it needed a 2.6 kernel) ... we even paid extra to do this even though we had a paid for 10 user license to run it on a windows server as part of the Accounts package.

Lego Star Wars

you missed one :)