Posts by jake
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Uh ... Someone's confuzled.
"Human-out-of-the-Loop Weapons: Robots that are capable of selecting targets and delivering force without any human input or interaction"
Like Israel's "Iron Dome"? That'll fly on the world stage ... not.
Bigfoot tracks.
I, personally, contributed to this hoax.
An abalone diver's weight-belt, and home-cast RTV feet, worn by my 6'9" cousin ... Mendocino County, 1975ish :-)
Signed: Not easily convinced by hearsay in Tunbridge Wells.
Awsome job, guys&galls!
Makes my Amdahl 470 V5 look positively modern :-)
The more we forget history, the more we'll repeat it ...
This round's on me.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
@Michael Dunn (was: Re: ...weird command-line people? @ Fatman)
That's "hoist *by* your own petard" ... Or "hoise by", if you want to be archaic & petulant. Pet peeve. But then I'm a cantankerous old fart ...
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Re: Nice article
Out of curiosity, where did you get "male dominated" out of mine?
Serious question. Insecure? Look within.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
@AC 09:48 (was: Re: @foo_bar_baz (was:@Chemist))
"The article was about Linux apps to install"
No, it was about "apps you must install" ... FOSS isn't about "must", FOSS is about "can".
Posted in Mornington Crescent
I think that puts you in Nidd ...
... Swiss Cottage having been played previously.
On the bright side, it's a short walk from Knaresborough to The Mile Post for a pint ... and they have an actual fireplace for you to dry out in front of.
So, obviously, York.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know ... but I like steam trains :-)
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
@foo_bar_baz (was:Re: @Chemist)
My post was off topic? How do you figure?
And no, I wasn't trolling. I was voicing (typing) an honest opinion.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
@Richard 81 (was: Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).)
Are you serious? You don't grok "grok"?
This may not be the forum for you ...
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
@Symon: (was: Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).)
Re-read the link you provided. I was properly using the word as a regular noun.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).
I grok Kate ... but I prefer vim. I mostly use my GUI of choice to run multiple xterms :-)
Re: Doc/Docx, I ignore them. Hasn't upset my business any.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).
I don't use any of the above, nor do I see a need for any of them.
But then I grok what the command-line is for ... Glitter is an anathema to computing.
::snicker::
Numpties.
Question?
What does a "let's sieve pennies out of ignorant idiots bank accounts" bunch of home-boys have to do with long-term global weather forecasting?
Honestly, the mind boggles ...
Posted in Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs
Re: Other mispronunciations
I don't hire programmers who don't pronounce "#" as "octothorpe".
@David W. (was: Re: @jake)
That is one major inferiority complex display, David. Perhaps try growing tomatoes and/or peppers? Or learn to bake bread? You really can produce things that other people appreciate, if you try. It's not all that hard.
I find it amusing ... (was: Re: First of all ... )
... that none of the AC[1] replies to mine seem to have a clue as to my meaning. I also find it sad. Seriously, kiddies, there is more under the hood ("bonnet", to you Brits) than "apps".
[1] I also find it amusing that all replies are AC ... :-)
@seismofish (was:Re: a Slow Software Movement?)
Not Debian. Slackware.
@Kristian (was: Re: Cupcakes?)
Gawd/ess only knows. I suspect your WWW simile is right on the mark, though. It's part of our current "I want it pretty, and I want it now, however vapid" culture.
On the bright side, "Hostess" so-called "foods" is trying declare bankruptcy. Hopefully the rest of the convenience so-called "foods" will follow, starting with fast-so-called-food chains.
Re: Can I get...
Certainly. I have a couple[0][1]. Ask your local Gunsmith for details.
We also have a couple largish plastic spatulas that we use to get the last bits of molasses out of the critter-chow barrels ... They have the barn name & logo on 'em. Gift from the feed store.
[0] In .25, .32, .38, .40, .45 and .50 calibre.
[1] Wedding present[2] from my FIL ... Part of a custom Black Powder gun cleaning kit.
[2] I'm not vain enough to have anything monogrammed.
Re: Could actually be quite handy
I don't know the addresses of any of my friends "off-hand" either ... but they are all on my Rolodex[tm][1]. I do, however, know how to drive to their place (sans GPS, no less!), and have, in fact, actually enjoyed a meal at all their houses at least once in the last three months, and most have dined here at chez jake in the same time frame.
None of us use Facebook, to the best of my knowledge. No point. We we have lives.
[1] Yes, the paper variety. It works faster than the computer variety.[2]
[2] Don't get me wrong, I have 'em in teh compooter, too.[3]
[3] Yes, I have redundant off-site backup.[4]
[4] All under my control, not !GooMyFaceYouMStwit ...
First of all ...
... There is no such thing as "software". So-called "software" is the current state of the hardware.
My hardware runs better today than it did thirty years ago.
Your "slow software movement" is more properly called "kit that works".
I suspect your real issue is with marketards pushing kit that is broken by design ...
Trusting a second, third, fourth or fifth party is contraindicated ...
First: Your good self. If you trust you, keep it to yourself.
Second: whoever is actually in control of your computer.
Third: whoever provides your connectivity.
Fourth: whatever "cloud" !GooMyFaceYouMStwit you choose to store stuff on.
Fifth: All the assholes who really are out to get you.
Posted in Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs
@AC06:04 (was: Re: Silly Con Valley reporting in ...)
"The question is more why we pronounce gigantic with a soft g..."
Because language mutates. Get used to it. The concept isn't going to go away.
Posted in Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs
Re: Oh what a whirled!
I have a 1968 Kluge "EHD" "finishing press" ... Foil-stamp, emboss, and die-cut, all on one machine! What a wonderful bit of kit! She's fully functional (if you can manage 440V), shrink-wrapped, and waiting on a new owner ... I use my Heidelberg Windmill for that kind of thing these days. Personal preference.
Both machines are kludges. Wonderful kludges, but kludges nonetheless :-)
Posted in Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs
Silly Con Valley reporting in ...
It's been pronounced "gif" since the late 80s.
"Gigawatts" is properly pronounced "jiggawatts", as the root of the word is the same as "gigantic". Likewise, the root of "GIF" is the same as "Graphic". Local colloquialisms may vary, of course, but they are not always pronounced the way the terminology was initially vocalized. Another case in point is the "rowter" vs. "rooter" pronunciation for "router". When we invented it, it was "rowter", but YMMV locally.
One wonders if the folks at Oxford will ever learn what NCSA Mosaic was (I can't be arsed to peruse my big dic to see if it's listed ...), and how Netscape built on that structure, including animated GIFs, in the early '90s. This is ancient tech, regardless, nothing to see here, pass along all ...
Ah, well. Beer, because beer has more meaning than this kind of pointless argument.
Posted in Undertaker Project Manager
Typo, of the "fat fingered" variety.
Drop the trailing "r" in "Undertaker", and it kinda makes sense in HR/manglement-speech.
Maybe not an amusing answer, but William of Ockham was a serious kinda guy ;-)
Posted in Why doesn't Apple buy Dyson
Apple kit is a 2-year disposable device?
Not really. Try mostly 6-8 month disposable devices.
I really don't get why sheeple feel the need to spend money for no reason ...
Posted in Coffee next on climate chopping-block
@JeffyPooh (was: Re: @Eddy Ito (was: No 'coffee' shortage as long as we have Soy Beans))
Takes no time, to speak of. The timer starts the coffee roasting, when it's done it gets pitched into a room-temperature 8 inch cast-iron skillet, which is agitated by an electric motor for a couple minutes. When I wake up, the coffee is cool enough for the milling machine. Mill coffee, start coffee-pot, feed the dawgs & house-cats, and the coffee is ready.
Batches of green coffee vary, so I have to manually calibrate & re-set the timers after watching the first couple of batches of each new 25lb bag of green coffee. The entire contraption took about eight hours to build over two days from spare parts, six or so years ago, including explaining to my eldest niece & nephew exactly what the hex-pad & 555 clock chip were for, and how they worked. It was a "lets build a kludge" learning tool for the kids, but it worked so well that after tidying up the bread-board rig & putting it into a box that the cats can't hurt themselves with, I decided to continue using it after swapping out the hex-pad for a connection to my serial statmux. I'm contemplating adding an automatic milling operation to the next version :-)
I stopped dealing with HR and headhunters a couple decades ago.
Clueless, the lot of 'em. Manglement, and people making pacts with manglement, usually have no actual clue about how the technology in the trenches actually works.
Today, I only talk with members of the technical staff ...
Hasn't seemed to affect my income negatively. Quite the opposite, actually :-)
I lusted after a 4004 in 1971 ...
... but, alas, I had to make do with the wire-wrapped relays & tubes ("valves" to you Brits) that my Father & I purchased as surplus at the late, lamented Haltech on Linda Vista in Mountain View. On the bright side, I learned how computer circuitry actually worked, which helped later in life (thanks, Pop!) ... A couple years later, I had a teletype & acoustic modem connecting to Stanford's Tymeshare system. It wasn't until late 1977 that I actually owned a CPU of my own, an LSI-11 (Heathkit H-11A, to be precise). The sticker on the back claims that my Father & I first booted the complete system in February of 1978.
The first Intel CPU I owned personally was an 8086, again purchased as surplus at Haltech, probably in late '79 or early '80. I managed to convince it to control a greenhouse's internal systems. I built/populated the "motherboard" and attendant bits from scratch, including laying out the traces & boiling it on Mom's stove. I even had to build the power supply. Interesting hack, and a pretty good learning tool.
Kids these days have absolutely zero idea ...
Posted in IT Got me depressed
::memo to self:: (was: Re: A few cam corder product critiques which you may positively learn about)
Never hire anyone who isn't truly multi-lingual to do cross-cultural marketing. Unless the plan is to come off as being completely silly and/or cartoon-like, of course.
How hard is it?
Quite simply, spam doesn't scale. Anything that doesn't scale in the telecom/computing world is contraindicated. I'm considering adding all of India to my filters ... This shit is getting tiresome.
Posted in Can My ISP Delete my Incoming Mails?
@mark 177 (was: Re: eCircle has been trying to send me spam for a decade or so.)
One man's meat is another man's poison.
I, me, personally, have never received anything from eCircle that was solicited by me, personally. Therefore, everything I have received from eCircle is spam, by definition. So I block them. So do many other people, for the same reason. For the record, I manage my own blocklists.
If I gave a rat's ass about Zopa (which I do not ... I view it as a near-pyramid scheme), I'd recommend that they change their mass-mailer to somebody more reputable. If anyone else would be willing to host them, that is. Which I doubt.
Posted in Bye bye Usenet
Re: Bye bye Usenet
Usenet is dead! Film at 11!
But in all seriousness, use your favorite search engine and search on "freenews". I still follow a dozen or so groups, and probably will until they put me in a box. Sometimes via UUCP over dial-up, the way Gawd/ess intended, no less :-)
Has nothing to do with copyright. Has to do with bandwidth issues and cost/benefit analysis combined with strange ideas that corporate lawyers have about the differences between "editing" and "censorship" and a simple "we don't provide that portion of Usenet".
My feed is provided by a local Uni that I am an Alumni of. You may have a similar option. Ask. Squeaky wheel and all that.
Posted in Coffee next on climate chopping-block
It's funny, isn't it?
Humanity is, more and more, ignoring religion. But it seems that we, as a species, need to irrationally have something to be very, very afraid of, and are thus inventing things to take religion's place. I wonder why that is? Must be a "survival of the species" thingie ...
OMFG, I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, THEREFORE MY SHAMANS MUST BE RIGHT AND I MUST FEAR IT!!!!!!1one!!!111one!!!!
The mind absolutely boggles.
Posted in Coffee next on climate chopping-block
@Eddy Ito (was: Re: No 'coffee' shortage as long as we have Soy Beans)
At home, I use a modified[1] "air pop" popcorn popper to roast my beans each morning. It's got a timer & tipper, so I don't even have to keep an eye on it ... On the trail, I use two cast-iron skillets ... a hot one over a campfire, and a cool one to pour the hot beans into to chill out. It was good enough for my grand fathers, and it's good enough for me. When traveling by road, I roast enough to last the trip.
Friends don't let friends drink corporate coffee.
[1]I'd provide the methodology, but I'm certain you can find a HOWTO online.
Skiddie gets spanked, is grounded, and has to go to room for a bit.
Oh my! Honestly, I'm chuckling as I type :-)
Seriously, kids, us Adults really can see what you are doing online.
Re: Volume issue, amongst other things.
"You're missing the point here."
I don't think so.
"That brick isn't for your basement, it's for the streets / walkways outside"
My barns & driveways are "floored" with DG[1] crossed with about 8% Portland Cement. It allows rain and horse-piss to pass through, into my drainage system. My Grandfather used the same mix in the 1920s. It's not exactly rocket science.
"to let water seep through underground before it gets to your basement"
Where, exactly, does the water go in your scenario? Water flows downhill, into basements ... If you don't have a catchment basin, and a channel to move it through, you will get flooded.
"instead of flowing and accumulating (and eventually getting to your basement).
Uh ... if it's not being re-directed, it's accumulating.
[1] decomposed granite ...
Volume issue, amongst other things.
My basement is lined with far fewer cubic feet of bricks than it can hold in cubic feet of water. Or, put another way, toss a skip-load of this Chinese "miracle brick" into a swimming pool, and measure the water level before and after. Flood control material it ain't ... You don't want retaining walls to be able to pass water. Ever hear of "rising damp"? The entire concept is laughable.
Duh.
Since when was it a good idea to bet the farm on any "cutting edge" anything?
Folks who buy into this kind of marketing are, in my mind, unemployable.
@moiety 14:22
See mine from about two and a half years ago:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/800423
Re: The world has indeed changed
AC 13:03 wonders: "How would he let you know? You posted as AC..."
Uh ... Let me think. Maybe I might email an ElReg staff member and ask them to pass my email address along to any given AC requesting it? Do you really think that posting "AC" really means you are anonymous? Do you know how TCP/IP works?
@AC 09:10 ... We're good on staff, and have been for over a decade, but ta for the offer ... No, I wouldn't have to post here to get back to you.
@AC18:58 ... Which AC are you, exactly?
"the most advanced urine recycling machinery in the Solar System."
I believe that would actually be the Earth's hydrological cycle ...
@solidsoup
If it's datamining, just say datamining. Cleaner, that way.
Unfortunately, marketards & .govs don't view the world the way the rest of us do ...
Posted in KDE 'annoys the hell of' Linus Torvalds
@JoeF (was: Re: Whatever.)
Slackware 14.0 with KDE 3.5.x for most of my friends & family.
My personal choice of interface is somewhat more esoteric, but still slack-current, at least for the most part ;-)
"exfiltrating"? WTF does that mean?
The rest of TFA does nothing more than point out that "big bucks" Manglement has absolutely zero clue when it comes to using & abusing technology in the modern world.
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