Posts by Havin_it

Re: If apple were smart

Never mind that, how did he/you survive being shot out of an airlock by James Bond?

Re: Before that, Windows Vista was the pariah

We hear this a lot, but what are they really supposed to do about it? Would simply skipping version numbers be enough to trick the Curse? (If so, then W10 will be one to avoid!)

Or do they actually have to go through the whole rigmarole of actually building the crap version, then just forget to release it and get on with the good iteration?

Re: Is this issue

Large subset, that.

Seriously, in what proportion of articles you've seen do the pics of the actual Pi have it obscured inside an opaque case? I can't think of a single one that has done that. They're invariably naked (I don't think I've even seen one in a transparent case), because that way you can see the thing the article is about. So if it's an article about the device itself, say a new model released, the photo is a close-up of the device, naked. If it's about people using them in schools, it's naked on a desk with colourful cables attached. Most journalists get that. Where you been getting your reportage?

As for the userbase, well (1) we are awfully easily led by the media ;) or you wouldn't have the several people in this thread owning transparent/translucent cases (including me), and (2) at least one transparent case has been promoted by the RPF, to whom some of us do listen...

No, seriously, I'll upvote your post if you can supply one link from a mainstream news source that supports it.

@Flocke Kroes Re: @TheOtherHobbes

Personally I've been astonished by how well libreoffice runs on Pi1. I only even tried it last month when I got my B+, not expecting it to even launch, but it did (eventually!) and once up and running it was entirely tolerable for the smallish docs and spreadsheets myself and the GF go in for. UI feedback time I did notice being a bit sluggish, but not really annoying after a minute or two; and actual editing was more responsive. Who knows, with the Pi2 I might even get away with running Firefox (which on the Pi1 is such a pig it's just not funny).

Just sayin', YMMV, etc.

Re: Court ruling

>...but can force you to provide a finger.

Oh, they won't need to force me, I'll be offering it. ;)

Re: Linux for the Rooftop!

UAVbuntu 15.01 Pesky Predator, to be followed by 15.08 Rambunctious Reaper.

Re: @someonelse

Just wondering on your first point: is there any way to make the shebang discriminate in favour of "true" /bin/sh, as opposed to (as is usually the case these days) a symlink to /bin/bash? Does bash have an "act like plain sh" switch, for example? Or must a portable script simply include this test explicitly?

Further, how to ensure no aliases are in effect?

Lastly, is scope actually OK in sh? Would ne interested to hear how shells differ here.

Re: This is all so, um, moot...

Uh... Wut? [That's to the OP, not amfM1 for once]

My answer's A followed swiftly by B, because A doesn't take that long: If I refuse to do B, then I expect they'll bally well court-martial and/or shoot me for deserting, the rotters. Unless I'm not actually an airman, in which case maybe A but probably not B.

Also, how do you throttle a march? Especially when you're already carrying a pick and a shovel?

As for this "Beast" of yours (assuming that means global terrorism and not David Cameron; you're not entirely clear here), what on earth convinces you that it has only one head? To whom, then, does it belong? Ask anyone in mid-September 2001 and they might well answer Bin Laden; yet it took over a decade to decapitate, and even more strangely, the Beast still seems to be alive and kicking, running around knocking things over in fact. Is this Beast like a very tough chicken? Inquiring minds want to know!

To be honest, I just re-read your whole post again, and I'm still not quite sure whether you're bitching at ter'rists, Dave, ethical self-examination in general, Milquetoasts, the shit-scared, the security services, Hitler, or all of the above. Care to clarify? In language that focuses a bit less on making you seem well-read?

Here's one for you. You're George W Bush, reading a storybook to some children in September 2001. An aide whispers in your ear that a bunch of Saudis just fucked with your country, because they weren't happy about you and your predecessors fucking with theirs, or others a similar distance away. Do you:

A) Immediately up the level of other-country-fucking-with in response, because that'll work;

B) Prepare to make an unpopular but honest admission that though their methods were abhorrent (and the crime will be investigated and punished per civilian law), they have a point, and it's time to stop being the world's corrupt policeman already, because it appears that's only making matters worse;

C) Continue reading the storybook, hoping an answer may be found within, followed by A because Dick, Don and Paul all think that's the best thing to do.

Re: toll lanes @CarbonLifeForm

Nonono. Everybody DIED in Mega-City 2.Mega-City 1 nuked it, to deal with the zombies. Now everybody left lives in MC1, Texas City, Uranium City (Alaska) and, er, Cincinnati. Almost nobody works, because robots.

Do keep up ;)

Re: "Vulnerability"???

Members of wheel can't modify sudoers on my systems, is that normal?

Re: They got a heads up?

>If it's miscreants (not from an Agency), the penalties could be severe for the leaker.

BradleyChelsea Manning might disagree with that comparative assessment...

Re: I skimmed the article

Upped for the squirrel reference, made me laugh liquids out my nose all over again recalling that :)

Re: BBC 3 or BBC 7

You've just reminded me of that other favourite, squeezing the end credits of a film/programme into half the screen and blabbing over them about the next show or some inane phone-in compo. Always feel that's the height of rudeness to the creditees (and whoever did the music score!).

NURSE! MY PILLS, QUICKLY!

Re: also cached by the wayback machine

The Google cache is 404ing now, and archive.org is down entirely! (OK, they say a storm took out power to their datacentre, but that's a convenient cover-story for "massive ongoing DDoS" if ever I heard one)

Dude, how powerful are these guys?

"A lot of crap" including an explosion on takeoff, a crashed spaceplane and the first fatality in the field since Columbia: what's a bad few months like?

Just Sagan ... er, sayin'.

Re: RE:"Others may just choose not to buy Iomega or Lenovo again"

Ooh, bet you're fun at parties.

I, for one, was wondering the same thing, so I'm glad the OP asked, because the result is that another commentard has actually answered it for me, right here, which saved me having to research it, however minor an effort that might be. (So thanks also to the answerer.)

Also, I don't get the impression this was intended, but it serves as a bit of deserved public shaming for someone who DID do something wrong, namely the author who omitted the appropriate background information from the article (or the sub-editor who dropped a paragraph that explained that bit, but left the hanging mention of Iomega).

I guess I kinda just advocated being an elitist prick there, so I'll go easy on you, but you might try thinking outside your own bubble when choosing your targets.

Re: @ crackerjacks12345

. . . I think this is

. . . the best you're going to get

. . . (without a badge, anyway).

@PushF12

I haven't even read all of your post yet, but I'm giving you an instant uppy for the ten-dollar word "disintermediates".

Re: Good discussion/a couple of ways forward

>Systemd has also made me consider trying BDSM

I'm starting to think systemd is BDSM.

Re: Preparations have already begun...

I see no reason why not. I've currently got VM cable just for the telly, plus a BT line (that I had to get re-enabled) for DSL with my preferred ISP, Demon. No way was I getting VM as ISP after their Phorm naughtiness, though the combo deal would have been a lot cheaper.

Unfortunately, Demon are currently owned by ... Vodafone.

Re: RIP Squeezebox :-(

Maybe worth mentioning that the Logitech Media Server (nee too many names to mention) does output a generic mp3 stream on port 9000/stream.mp3, so a great many clients can digest that without issues as long as you have a controller (which is a free in-house app for Android at least). "JUST PLAYER" (I'm not shouting, that's how it's named) is one I use on my droid for this purpose as it runs happily in the background so I can keep the Controller app in foreground.

Also, just to join the chorus, fuck Logitech.

Re: All Videos Appear to be The Same

>Is the glimpsed species good at sucking knob? Perhaps it evolved from the fleshlight.

I take it, then, that you haven't seen the "Special Edition" (read: wanked all over with CGI) versions of the originals then?

I would not in good conscience advise you to remedy that, but yeah, she's not new. I think she was the centerpiece of Jabba's floor show, duetting with some kind of half-Ewok, half-Brian Blessed dude. Or was the whole thing a fever dream...?

As for where her skills lie (apart from singing, of course), you're probably wise to keep it "upstairs" as her camel toe looked about a foot wide.