* Posts by Ramazan

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Torvalds bellows: 'The GNOME PEOPLE are in TOTAL DENIAL'

Ramazan
Pint

CORBA/shmorba

Most probably it was GNOME's choice of technologes (CORBA/shmorba/.NET/shnet) that infuriated Linus, not De Icaza's Quest For Royal Shit...

Amazon: Time for a new Kindle Fire, this one's sold out

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Re: much larger market, Europe

There's no such thing as european market (there are always Greeces, Icelands and Spains there)

Apple demands a quickie, aims its torpedo at 8 Samsung mobes

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@Samsung

Тебя посодють, а ты не воруй

Australia threatens telcos with mobile roaming price laws

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I cannot say for Australia, but here roaming tariffs are mostly derived from roaming agreements' prices. And if French GSM operators are unwilling to go below $10 per megabyte, there's nothing our companies or government can do (except launching own satnet over France).

But when there's demand and mutual will, roaming tariffs can go as low as $0.04 per megabyte (Ukraine-Turkey, Ukraine-Russia).

AT&T to mothball 2G network by 2017

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I still hope my Sony VAIO UX380N survives by2017

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Re: Smart move

You are fucked by operators. Spectrum is not your fucking problem, it's operators' problem. They must preserve 2G compatibility at all costs and if they have no space for 3G/4G/5G/whatever, they fucking must auction it from OFCOM/USgov/etc at ther fucking own expence, not yours

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@Charles9

EDGE is in fact 2.75G (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.5G#2.75G_.28EDGE.29) and it allows for smth. like 250kbps.

P.S. I have Motorola StarTac GSM phone and it works just fine in Ukraine (and BTW it allows for on-the-run mini-SIM card switching without powering off the phone -- something that Apple iPhone "pioneered" in 2009).

P.P.S. The StarTac doesn't do GPRS at all, (EDGE even needs not apply).

P.P.P.S. Fuck you AT&T

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Re: Will they provide them with a free handset when the 2G switch off occurs

Surely, there are a lot of cheap Chineze phones below $100

China denies US chopper tech espionage claim

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Devil

Re: Because it's a big corporate it gets away with a fine equivalent to their profit

You know, $75 million fine for P&W&Co is too cheap IMNSHO. I'd fine them for at least $2 billions for such a treason (by "them" I mean those who'd survive concentration camps).

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: any laws in China which correspond to the US's strategic export restrictions?

They should voluntarily force such laws upon themselves, restricting their imports in order for USA to keep feeling safe, or else.

Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' for PC biz

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Pirate

Re: Windows 8 my computer

s/my/Microsoft/

Fixed dat 4 ya.

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Joke

Re: Steam is basically screwed at that point

You are wrong. Steam is basically screwed at this point, here and now, but it might do well at that one, there and then.

Ramazan
Headmaster

Re: Gabe Newell, he who released Windows 1.01, 1.02 and 1.03

There's not a single mention of Gabe in the Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry - and Made Himself the Reachest Man in America book, but there's one (and the only one) in the Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, on page 312:

"Dedication quickly turned into fanaticism. Gabe Newell, one of the Windows testers who went on to enjoy a long and successful career at Microsoft, showed up at the office with a sleeping bag. For a solid month, he camped in his office, working around the clock and catching a few catnaps when he could no longer stay awake. He became known as "Madman" Newell from that point on."

Sysadmins! There's no shame in using a mouse to delete files

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Mushroom

Re: Windows - Every single thing ... you can also do from the command line.

So educate me - lsof|awk|kill, umount, fsck, lvreduce/lvextend, cryptsetup, mkfs, mount, for the start, from cmdline. And we use Windows NT 4.0 in production BTW.

Ramazan
Devil

Re: However, on FreeBSD

You ain't seen nothin' yet (TM). There are also SunOS(Solaris), HP-UX, Tru64(OSF/1), DIGITAL UNIX, AIX, HURD and so on, each with some shell/awk/find/etc quirk...

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Joke

Re: Did you miss the Joke icon?

Did you ever try to do with just bare twm? (h3's advice to customize ~/.xsession is relevant for modern wm's too)

Ramazan
Pint

Re: Avoiding CLIs entirely borders on career suicide

Let's drink to that.

On the other hand, NT server is required to have a videocard. On the server. There was a market for 2U ATI Rage XL cards 15 years ago IIRC. I don't have even the Hercules MDA on my 2 Linux routers. It should be a mystery for Microsoft guys that they work at all, but they fucking do.

BTW in order to configure SAP or SAS or whatever requires GUI installer on let's say HP-UX machine you don't need the VGA/SVGA/SXGA/etc-compatible adapter to be physically installed in the box. X11 works just fine (and worked for all those years).

Ramazan

Did you know Windows now has a CLI back?

Windows has cmd.exe, and you can always install some kind of POSIX environment like Cygwin there and run sshd, but this won't make it fully scriptable. My job involves systems integration and glueing a lot of things with Tcl/Expect (and bash and awk and grep and sed...). Good luck doing the same with Windows.

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Re: must be demonstrably better than the other groups

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface

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FAIL

You to need to use the GUI to launch xterm

I hooked it on Win-Y key combo (xbindkeys).

Ramazan

Re: CLI !== Text Shell

job doesn't end with a shell (unless it's some kind of a Perl/Python shell with thousands of libs installed). You'll also need the whole POSIX environment (awk/grep/sed/pwd/find/etc).

Ramazan
FAIL

@Sometimes one is better, sometimes the other.

The only time when GUI is better for sysadmin tasks than CLI is when there's no CLI option at all (e.g.: braindamaged vendor like Microsoft).

Ramazan
Paris Hilton

Re: The right tool for the job...

I'll be concise. Gui (mouse/wacom) only fits for deathmatching and photoshopping. If you do sysadmin tasks in GUI, you're a loser. Right tool for sysadmining is CLI, stupid

Ramazan
Coffee/keyboard

Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there was a guy named Jef Raskin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface). Hint: you can always measure GUI vs. CLI performance for any given task.

Alcatel Lucent axes 5,000 staff, takes right shoeing from rivals

Ramazan

Re: Average cost per employee

Includes office rent & maintenance, s/w licenses per worker etc. Avg worker's income is half the sum IMO, at £75000

Apple wins EU-wide Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 ban

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Angel

@Samsung

Тебя посодють, а ты не воруй, bitch.

Microsoft unfurls patent lasso, snares Linux servers

Ramazan

Re: Minor

Amdocs sells billing system to telcos. I'd bet they have a lot of crap over Linux systems so Microsoft claims are irrelevant to the Linux community itself.

Amazon to bash down Google, Apple with SIX new tablets - report

Ramazan

They forked their "Android" so they can send Google to the Hell.

Ramazan

Re: Yay

Luckily for the rest of the world, there are people who can spell (its vs it's JFYFI).

Ramazan

Re: released outside of the US?

There are mail forwarders from USA to UK, like shipito.com. What tax do you pay in UK on $200 import?

PayPal is bleeding market share and it's all eBay's fault

Ramazan
WTF?

@Charlie Clark, Re: SEPA

Bank fee for IBAN transfer of 12EURos from Ukraine to SEPA is 15EUR. And they say PayPal is greedy?

Apple fails to block stolen iOS in-app content

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just wondering, what if someone creates site/service that helps iOS users to kill people (due to bugs in Apple's iOS/AppStore/etc)?

Ramazan
FAIL

double fail on Apple side

1. they failed to fix iOS

2. they failed to convince Russian authorities to put This Alexey Borodin guy in jail (for participation in theft)

Sleek new Macs violate fanbois' Retinas with display garbage

Ramazan

Re: New OSX: Mount and Lie on

Do you mean Lie on as in "assume a horizontal position on OSX" or as in "keep telling bullshit"?

Ramazan
FAIL

ACPI?

Basically, Apple have three models of notebooks, so they don't need any kind of ACPI or even BIOS at all - they can hardcore all their HW specifics into bootloaders, drivers, HAL and OS itself.

Door creaks and girl farts: computing in the real world

Ramazan
Coffee/keyboard

Obviously

CD/DVD drive is necessary to play SecuROM/etc-protected games. Not all of my games are on Steam, so lack of the CD drive is major issue. I already own MacBook Air and it's impossible to play e.g.Battlefield 2142 on it because:

- I need proper USB mouse (Bluetooth one introduces huge lag) and USB CD drive (EA's copy protection) at the same time to play but there's only one USB port on my Air. I don't have USB hub

- MacBook Air overheats in first 5-10 minutes and game slows down to a crawl

I always viewed MacBook Pro as The notebook for gaming (CD built in, proper ventilation, more RAM, larger HDD), but Thank You Mister Allistair, you've just ruined my Apple dream once and for all (Jobs is dead and who's left are idiots).

Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society on Blu-ray

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Joke

Re: £600 for SAC1 & SAC2, plus import charges

Well, for that money you could get several Japanese girls making you a BJ

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