Posts by FireBurn

UK or England

It talks about the UK's health info? But is it actually the UK's or England? Do we need to be worried in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales?

OpenSSL 3 is still masked on Gentoo - basically you'd have unmask it to enable it, OpenSSL 1.1.1 is still the default

Dependency Hell

When I was rebuilding some packages after bumping the log4j2 version numbers in pom.xml, I found quite a few examples of the old versions being downloaded by other dependencies

Oh dear, who mucked up renewing the certs? Will that be an extra form added to all future cert renewals from now on?

That's Gentoo's ebuild for wpa_supplicant updated

Tree falling in the wood...

Is an aircraft carrier really an aircraft carrier if it carries no aircraft?

Fedora 9?

Are you sure it's Fedora 9? It was released in 2008, would have thought they'd use RHEL or similar

Drinking too much Wine

The initial release of Wine according to wikipedia was 4 July 1993; 23 years ago

Venus

I've always wondered if it would somehow be easier to terraform Venus, which is much more earth like, than trying to settle on Mars - it would probably be useful in the future if global warming gets out of control too

Seeing as there are still ancient versions of WebSphere still in production out there I get why IBM didn't want it published, any idea how far back the bug goes?

Sky Broadband

Sky Broadband is using IPv6 now

Shrugs

I've never heard of it

I guess the main issue is we've already paid for and own all the content on the BBC by being a licence holder - this is different from Sky. The BBC should be providing the whole of it's back catalog on the iPlayer. If it wan't to change a monthly fee for this like Netflix it should be instead of the licence fee (most people pay this monthly anyway)

I feel I get a lot more for my money from my 4K £8.99 Netflix subscription than my £12.12 TV licence fee

Don't buy one

I was silly enough to buy the 65" Sony Android TV on pre-order, its buggy and slow as hell with half the promised features missing or "coming soon"

ilovescotland

I can't remember which GTA this was in - but if you typed it on the PC version it started raining - there was also a replica Forth bridge in the games too

Trim

Isn't this related to trim support?

I think the issue is people often confuse Equality to treating everybody the same - this isn't what equality is about. It is about treating people in such a way that the outcome for each person can be the same. Just now in business and in gaming woman are massively underrepresented. This isn't because women aren't capable of being CEO's or world class gamers. Positive action even though it sounds terribly unequal is attempting to rebalance environments. Eventually it won't be needed but until threads like these (often littered with misogyny / racism / homophobia) no longer happen then work will need to be done to tackle the divide

It has been proven again and again that men and women behave diffentently in same-sex and mixed environments. Often it's the men who are slower to adjust