Posts by Criminny Rickets 190 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2009
About the only thing I miss about my old vinyl was the ability to manually play them backwards.
The two main ones I remember doing back in the day are...
Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven when played backwards went - Oh my dear Satan, the one who has forsaken me. Oh the power of Satan.
Queen's Another One Bites the Dust - It's time to smoke marijuana, it's time to smoke marijuana.
"we remain committed to our belief that it is not Cloudflare's role to make determinations on what content should and should not be online," "
Nor should they be making a determination of what should or should not be allowed. If they are forced down that slippery slope, where would it end? Should Cloudfare boot El Reg because they posted nasty articles against Santa Cruz Operation (SCO)? Should they block American websites that promote America first and advocate for the removal of all Muslim's from the country?
If the website in question if distasteful, complain to the website or originating host, if they are breaking the law, such as offering pirated software, report them to the proper authorities. Cloudfare is offering a service, it is not their job to police the websites that use that service, anymore than it a DNS provider's job to police computers that use their service.
@ Doctor Syntax
"Make Lightbird a component instead of an add-on."
I prefer to use the Google Calendar Tab extension. Whenever I open TB, Google Calendar also opens in a separate tab, so I always have access to it. Anything I add into it is synced to Google Calendar on my phone.
systemd-free Devuan Linux hits RC2
@oiseau
"I ran on MS-Windows OSs for many years, from DOS 6.0 onwards through 3.0, 3.11 and all the versions of W95/98/NT/2000/XP with the exception of Me."
I was reading your post and could not help think that your experience and mine are almost exactly the same, including the running of Linux Mint 64bit. The only notable difference from what you wrote and myself, is that I've also used ME, Vista and Win 7 (which I have in a VM for the very rare instance it may be needed).
""The appeals court found that forcing the defendant to reveal passwords was not testimonial in this instance because the government already had a sense of what it would find."'
So wouldn't this be the same as if it was a murder trial where the glove found at the scene of the crime fit the defendant; wouldn't this be like like saying - forcing the defendant to "testify" against himself is not testimonial in this instance because the government already had a sense of what it would find?
There was an incident in Canada last week in which a News Media company, which uses Paypal for receiving and making payments, had submitted an article from their newspaper to a Canadian Media Awards company, along with the requisite payment via Paypal. The story had to do with how well a Syrian refugee family was settling in Canada. Paypal, being an American company, then froze the account of the News Media company as it had flagged the word Syrian in the transaction. Their explanation was that the News Media company could have been trying to funnel money to Syria, which is a no no in the current American regime.
Of course, with this being a News Media company, they of course published a story stating what Paypal had done. Hence, the badmouthing part.
This story also raises some VERY red flags. The companies involved are in Canada, not the United States, so why is Paypal applying American law on transactions taking place in a different country? Does this mean they could do the same thing if someone in the UK was trying to buy something from someone in Damascus and was paying by Paypal?
-- "Typically, we permanently remove files and folders from our servers within 60 days of a user deleting them. However, the deleted files and folders impacted by this bug had metadata inconsistencies," Dropbox employee Ross S said on the company's support forum.
-- "So we quarantined and excluded them from the permanent deletion process until the metadata could be fixed."
If the files were scheduled for permanent deletion anyway, metadata inconsistencies would have been a moot point. Would this be another example of an alternative fact?
"Now I've muddied my own picture. In this case, Apple is acting as a clearing house, not a store. The app writers set their own price, not a price dictated by Apple. Yes, Apple takes 30%, but that's actually not bad considering most "consignment" shops take 50%."
Except that consignment shops aren't offering their own competing products. So not only are the app dev's being charged a 30% fee, they are also competing against Apple's own apps, that does not have the burden of the 30% fee.
I normally keep my mobile data turned off. I run an app called Smart WIFI Toggle. It automatically disables my WIFI, and only enables it at hotspots that I have specifically indicated (such as at home or a coffee shop that I frequent). Not only does it protect me from errant hotspots and scanning of my phone when I am not specifically using it, it also cuts down on the battery drain. In addition. I use an app called Autosync. It keeps the Sync disabled unless my data or wifi is enabled, then Autosync will automatically turn on Sync and automatically disable it again when my data or WIFI is disabled..
In regards to Firefox and Chrome. I have both on my phone and I have noticed that when I go to a place that has a wifi hotspot that redirects you to a page where you have to accept their user agreement, Chrome does not like it. With Chrome, it will not redirect, it just keeps telling me it can't load the page (ie Google Search), but Firefox right away redirect to the sign in page to be able to access the wifi hotspot.
I haven't used Classic Theme Restorer. When I install a new Firefox, the first thing I do is go to "Settings", select "Customize" at the bottom, click on "Show/Hide Toolbars" in the lower left corner, and click on "Menu Bar".
The next step I do is go into about:config and change browser.showQuitWarning to true. (So I get prompted to save my open tabs for the next time Firefox starts).
Thunderbird Menu is similar, I go to "settings", go to "Preferences" and click on "Menu Bar".
@Rattus Rattus "I feel that if a city decides they do not want a particular business there, then that is their right and privilege."
I am not disputing that. Someone made the argument that they should not be allowed as McDonald's would not be following the traditional look of the neighbourhood. That is what I was disputing. If McDonald's agrees to keep the look of their storefront the same as the others, then they should not be automatically disallowed, but looked at based on their merits. If the council then decide they do not which to have a fast food outlet on that street, then they are within their rights to say no.
"To be fair, foreign beer is ( if you like brown beer with bits in ) crap. It's all plain lager."
I am in Canada. I have not yet had the privilege of visiting Britain or Scotland, but one of my favourite beers is Innes & Gunn, which, for me, would make it foreign. Doesn't taste like crap to me.
"No, many Italian cities have laws preserving the traditional cultural look and feel of the region."
I am all for keeping the traditional look. Yet if McDonalds is willing to work within that architectural framework, then they should be allowed to set up shop. They have done it in other cities without issues.
I use a formula I came up with for generating my passwords, so it is a real pain when I find a website that insists my password has to be up to 8 characters, all lower case letters. (Yes, I still find ones like this).
Another thing I find annoying are sites that insist you change your password every so many months. Why??/ I created a unique password just for this site and now I have to change it even though my account has never been breached? Talk about an insecure website. When people have been using a password for a while, it is memorized. When you force them to now use a new password, what is the best way for most people to remember it. In my experience, I found a lot of people tend to write it on a sticky note and keep it near their computer. Personally, I use an encrypted password manager, but not everyone is as computer savy.
W3Schools tells a different story. According to them, here are the differences between August and September;
Windows 10 went up from a 26.8% market share to 28%, a difference of 1.2%
Windows 8 went down from 12% to 11.4%, a difference of .6%
Windows 7 went down from 38.1% to 37%, a difference of 1.1%
Windows XP went down from 1.5% to 1.3%, a difference of .2%
Linux went down from 6.3% to 5.8%, a difference of .5%
Mac went up from 9.8% to 10.2%, a difference of .4%
Based on their average share between September and the rest of the year,;
Windows 10 average usage between January and September is 22.48%, up by 5.52%
Windows 8 average usage between January and September is 13.58%, down by (2.18)%
Windows 7 average usage between January and September is 40.74%, down by (3.47)%
Windows XP average usage between January and September is 1.71%, down by (.41)%
Linux average usage between January and September is 5.79%, up by .01%
Mac average usage between January and September is 10.16%, up by .04%
One interesting note to their figures, from January to August, Win NT* showed a market share of 0.1%, but for September showed 0.0%.
*NT includes all Windows Server operating systems (like Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and 2008).
The actual numbers I used may be found at (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp)
There is a difference between playing something and making a copy. In my original comment, I spoke about playing or listening to music you had legally purchased. The same would go for software, you should be able to use it as you like, on however many computers you like, as long as it is you that is using or controlling the computer. On the other hand, if I own a song, or a piece of software, and a buddy likes it and wants a copy, then he should go buy his own.
"Amazingly however, 41 per cent of 24-to-34s don't agree that artists should be paid when their music gets played"
I agree with this as well. Certainly artists should be paid for their work. When a CD is sold, or a song purchased, a portion of the sale should go to pay the creators of that work. That is it, you have paid your fee to use that music, they have gotten reimbursed for their creativity. Once that is done, you should be able to play that music wherever you want, home, radio, dance etc, without having to pay an additional fee. At one point, a group I was involved with had to pay 3 different organizations a fee, in order to play canned music at a dance, and for a not for profit group trying to raise funds, that was a lot to have to dish out. That should not be permitted, once it's paid for, it should be yours to play and listen to as you wish.
I run uBlock Origin and Noscript. On Facebook today, I have not seen any sponsored ads. It did use to offer my most played games on the right hand side of the screen, which were also missing today. The games are not a big deal though, as they still show up in the left hand side listings.
I use Dropbox myself, mainly because it integrates with my Android phone, my Linux computers and my Windows computers. I have 50GB of space available for free, of which, I have used about 2GB.
What do I use it for? --> It's real handy when I need to copy a file from one computer to another. I have some music on there as well, that I can share amongst my computer.
Do I store important files on there --> Hell no, I have an external drive that I use for keeping important files and doing backups to.
Would I be upset if Dropbox were to suddenly disappear? --> No, I do not keep anything of important on there, and what is there, is also saved elsewhere.
To keep it on the topic of OneDrive, the OneDrive main page says it connects all your devices, but then does not give any info on how to integrate it into a Linux system.
I had to do a system restore of my Windows 7 system last night. The restore itself went without a hitch, even leaving my Linux Mint partition alone. The only hitch was doing updates. Thanks to 2 update bugs I came across, one where I had to manually download an update from Microsoft to fix the issue, and the other where I had to uninstall Silverlight and re-install it, I have been over 24 hours just doing updates. So yes, I can see where this bundled update could be beneficial.
Unfortunately, the more updates I do, the less space I have left on that partition.
Hmm, wonder if Microsoft counts system restores as a new Windows 7 install?
Mint is not dropping codecs,
From my original comment...
What the article fails to state, which I just read in the latest Linux Mint blog -
Multimedia codecs can be installed easily:
From the welcome screen, by clicking on “Multimedia Codecs”
or from the main menu, by clicking on “Menu”->”Sound and Video”->”Install Multimedia Codecs”
or during the installation process, by clicking a checkbox option.
Not happy to read this. The built in codecs is one of the main things I like about Linux Mint, and one of the things that makes it stand out from Ubuntu and other distros. It is also one of the things that helped its reputation as a Windows alternative. Install it, and it just worked. The developers should be making it more Windows like, not the opposite, to make it easier for people to convert.
Edit:
What the article fails to state, which I just read in the latest Linux Mint blog -
Multimedia codecs can be installed easily:
From the welcome screen, by clicking on “Multimedia Codecs”
or from the main menu, by clicking on “Menu”->”Sound and Video”->”Install Multimedia Codecs”
or during the installation process, by clicking a checkbox option.
Why was Daft Punk mentioned in the headline when the story had nothing to do with them, but with Jean Michel Jarre instead. Yes, they both do Electronica, but Jean Michel Jarre's is totally different from Daft Punk. Is the term Daft Punk, now considered an adjective to describe Electronica?
The article has nothing to do with Malware in Linux. This wasn't about someone clicking on a link or installing something and getting infected, it's about the main Linux Mint website being hacked to point to an already compromised version of Linux Mint. Big difference.
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