Posts by JoeF

Re: Remember 'errno.h'

Unfortunately, lots of people who speak out for reason get death threats on a daily basis. The hate machine called the Internet is in full swing.

Re: I think this is the business model of those companies.

Hmm, but that is just a lazy excuse.

I got laid off recently, and had a new job in 3 months, despite being >50. I did move, though. Same salary, but more take-home, due to not having state income tax.

Re: The solution -

I am wondering if Munroe got the inspiration from the first "Real Programmers" rant: Real Programmers don't use Pascal

Re: Sign of the times

Military aircraft without passengers...

And the pilot can bail via eject seat.

So, apples and oranges...

And btw, pilot here as well, but only C-172-size planes.

Re: I too have other people using my email addresses

I had a bunch of people in Brazil using email addresses with my domain name to sign up with Facebook.

There seems to be no way to get FB to cancel these accounts, it is not even possible to report them, and FB doesn't even have an abuse@ email. I had set up a Procmail recipe to forward the stuff to all corporate FB addresses I could find, but nothing changed.

I ended up changing the passwords of these accounts, logged in, and deactivated them. Some tried to change the passwords back, but never got the confirmation email...

Eventually, the idiots stopped.

Re: So let me get this straight...

"They're failing because they don't offer much over the free versions and have behaved like dicks to far too many people, all in the pursuit of cash."

Indeed. That contract with Miramax killed them. It showed that they are happy to screw over other partners. Not a good thing if you want to sign up other companies...

Re: Article needs puppy dog face

Most ISPs (at least in the US) nowadays support IPv6. Granted, they may just do tunneling, like AT&T's U-Verse does. But still, it gives me an IPv6 address, and browsers and pretty much everything else defaults to that, and connects to an IPv6-enabled server (e.g., Google.)

My own domains are running dual-stack, and have for a couple of years.

Re: app permissions

Works the same way on Android. In fact, CyanogenMod (an Android derivative) had that before iOS and Android.

Re: Editing a config file with an Office program

Had somebody edit a Linux config file with a DOS/Windows text editor which put crlf instead of lf in there.

Was rather hard to detect because vim (vi improved, cough) "helpfully" hides control characters, so the file looked ok.

A hexdump finally revealed the problem.

Re: Uhhh....

Yup.

Account inflation. I technically have 3 Yahoo accounts:

- my "normal" account which nowadays only gets spam

- an account from AT&T DSL

- an account from AT&T U-Verse (they were so bad they couldn't reuse the existing account.)

I don't use the AT&T accounts, but every couple of years they send something to the accounts.

Re: Desperation

"Cannot play video. This video requires Flash. Verify Flash is not disabled or blocked, then reload the page."

A Hallelujah for flash blocker.

Re: Any commitment to regular updates for a specified term?

Probably only if there is a CyanogenMod version for it.

Re: Hmm

C:\>debug

'debug' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

Windows 7.

Relying on executing debug commands is not always going to work.

Re: Bullshit bingo

And Verizon Enterprise, the guys who do write these intrusion reports, got hacked themselves, according to krebsonsecurity...

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/03/crooks-steal-sell-verizon-enterprise-customer-data/

Re: Stupid idea

" There's already a tax break for open source coding, anyhow: the more you do it, the less money you bring in, dropping you into lower tax brackets."

You really have no idea how this works, do you?

Do you really think Linus Torvalds, who exclusively works on Open Source, has a low tax bracket???

People nowadays often get paid for developing Open Source software. Or they get hired because of their Open Source contributions. The "doing stuff in the parents' basement" was never really true, and only came from clueless people.

Re: The end of Apple

That would be H-1B. An H-2 is for seasonal work, think picking fruit (maybe even apples...)

And these people would not have much problems finding jobs at other tech companies. Having a resume which includes work at Apple is quite a door-opener.

Re: "No one does demos on anything that isn’t ironclad,"

MS in particular has a history of demo'ing things that didn't even exist, like some 20 years ago when Go Corp. was threatening to eat their lunch and they created a "demo" which was complete vaporware, but doomed Go.

And BillG getting a BSOD on stage is somewhere on YouTube.

Re: I'm sick of such PPI calls

"There's another layer - ANI - used for billing purposes and if stuff is coming in that doesn't match then telcos are in a position to refuse to complete the call on fraud prevention grounds."

To spoof the ANI (Automatic Number Identification), you would have to do some serious hacking, I doubt that these guys knew how to do that.

Caller ID spoofing is trivial with modern VoIP systems.

"Back in the day SCO had a Unix version that just worked. At the time any version of Linux only just worked if at all."

Hmm, no. I tried to use SCO Unix back in 1993. In particular, I tried to get gcc compiled on it. It gave me lots and lots of headaches.

Then I discovered Linux, version 0.12. I downloaded the SLS distro. It already had gcc, and the ultimate goal, compiling and running my program (which was running fine on HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris), was done in no time at all.

Re: No news...

The tech sites Ars Technica and Wired had extensive coverage, including articles about the two Secret Service agents.

The last article on Ars Technica was just a few days ago:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/former-silk-road-staffer-and-victim-in-murder-for-hire-to-serve-no-prison-time/

Re: No big deal

I guess you missed that this wasn't in LA, but in Silly Valley, in Mountain View.

Granted, traffic on El Camino Real there is as bad as any LA traffic... My speeds on LA freeways are often less than 25mph.

Re: Last minute

Here on the left side of the pond, there was a small computer company called SCO which had huge lawsuits against IBM, Novell, etc. In one of their briefs, IIRC, they claimed that they were surprised by Christmas coming up...

Re: Any handset? Not mine.

Firefox for Android is a good choice. I rarely use Chrome on Android.

Re: Restoring... Maybe.

Besides proper backups implement access controls. Most people don't need Admin rights on their work PCs, most people don't need write access to shared directories.

Re: POSIX

Maybe ACLs see "minority usage."

But the most widely used Linux distribution, Android, uses something even better than Posix ACL, namely SELinux. That makes SELinux very widely used in the *nix world.

SELinux is way more powerful than ACLs, be it the Posix or MS variant.

Re: Google Play Services

I can't use Android Pay on my perfectly legitimate Android phone, which is rooted and has AOSP-based CyanogenMod nightly builds on it.

This is Google's app, installed from their Play Store, but it says it can't "verify that your device or the software running on it is Android compatible."

Re: Kinda small

Non-competes are not only "practically unenforceable." They are actually not valid in CA at all (there are a few exceptions.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California

Doesn't help you if somebody brings in an infected device from home.

Re: Not hard at all.

"Actually, in the US, single programmers can not register as a company. For software companies, legally, they have to have at least 3 employees."

I am pretty sure that this is bull.

DO you have a source? From IRS?

I personally know several people who created their one-person software consulting business.

The idiot who flew his plane into the IRS building in Houston had other issues with IRS, like a tax audit...