Posts by jake

Re: Opting out -- meaning keeping Windows 10

Why do you think your music "requires" Windows? I have no issues[0] with music on Linux (including production), and haven't for a long time now.

[0] Other than the underlying code being aesthetically ugly ... if we ever have the time, my daughter and I might make it our job to pretty it up a bit as a learning tool for her daughter.

Re: How do I opt users out of this "upgrade" ?

It is actually far more than 100% of what anyone needs, if you look at it objectively.

Note that the keyword there is "needs".

Re: How do I opt users out of this "upgrade" ?

"Now to install MS Office all the software that actual businesses use to actually run"

None of the businesses I consult for run MS-anything. Why do you think MS is necessary, when it is quite clear that reality says otherwise? Is it a religious thing for you?

"(and maybe a few recent games)"

Playing games at work? You're fired.

How do I opt users out of this "upgrade" ?

Install a FOSS OS. It works for me & mine (including corporate).

Note that Linux and BSD aren't the only options, I have quite a few people running Minix.

Re: Red dress?

I think you underestimate the numbers ... it's more like a whole lotta-lotta people.

Re: Red dress?

PJ's site is archived at groklaw.net

Wiki (which I try not to cite for what should be obvious reasons) has a pretty good overview of groklaw's history. Worth a read.

Re: Pipes

Actually, while Dartmouth was first with the concept, the UNIX version was implemented independently. Lochner snd McIlroy are considered by most authors to be co-inventors.

_{Does this mean I should be getting residuals for my work on Berkeley Sockets?}

Re: The case that never was

Indeed. Left wing nuts, right wing nuts, what's the difference? They are all power hungry, and a disease on the backs of humanity. Is there a cure? They say laughter is the best medicine ... and you've got to admit it, they are all pretty clownish.

I propose that all wingnuts should be pointed out and laughed into oblivion. If enough people do it, it should work fairly quickly ... there is nothing they hate more than not being taken seriously.

Imagine, if 50 people a day ...

Re: This will run and run because...

When did the Department of Redundancy Department start sharing office space with The Office of Recycled Jokes that Weren't Funny the First Time Around?

Re: they are claiming FOSS is built from what they own

They are claiming the FOSS world took the code without consent. Sadly for them, after the whole MaBell vs BSD debacle, that dog don't hunt no more.

Hopefully,the next Judge in this matter will take the litigant's lawyers aside and explain what kind of affect getting smacked with a Rule 11 "frivolous litigation" contempt charge would have on their career ...

Re: Who had something to gain from continuing this charade?

As conspiracy theories go, that one has always been tepid at best. And now, with Redmond in bed with Canonical, it's leaning on the farcical to even bring it up even in jest.

Re: This will run and run because...

It's going to continue until they run into a technically competent Judge dismissing it with prejudice.

Re: "the winner has a chance to claim partial ownership of Linux"

They are not claiming they own FOSS, they are claiming FOSS is built from what they own.

They have never succeeded in proving this. In fact, they tend to get all waffley when asked to produce that evidence.

From what I can tell, the lawsuits are basically fishing expeditions. Or, if you prefer, throwing shit at the wall to see if anything sticks.

The funny thing is that, after all this time, and all the money they have thrown at it, they will never turn a profit even if they succeed!

Why not? I'm glad you asked ... it's because the world at large will stop using whatever code some idiot Judge decides belongs to them ... we will simply code around it, as if it never existed in the first place.

Re: The industry sucks

With me, the black Levis are a hair tighter than the blue (pre-shrunk 501s). So I usually get the original shrink-to-fit variation ... which incidentally seem to last a trifle longer than the pre-shrunk ones, and are a hair cheaper. Win-win.

Don't forget shoes ... Different manufacturers use different sized lasts. And plants on different continents belonging to the same manufacturer also seem to use different sized lasts. The only good way to purchase shoes is to physically try them on.

Last time I bought "walking the dawgs" shoes, I tried on four identically labeled pairs. One pair was too small, one too big, and two fit. I bought the two. They were made in Mexico, the large pair was made in Malaysia, and the small pair was made in Taiwan. Caveat emptor.

Re: breaking the calculator app

I wonder how many El Reg commentards still have an RPN calculator in/on their desk, and still use it. Mine's an HP-45, my birthday present to me in 1974 ... The HP-35 also still works, but is stored under glass sans batteries (Dad's gift to me, Xmas '72 ... one of the few bits of hardware I treasure).

Re: Celebratory Times for Some and a Few, Sack Cloth and Ashes for Others Found Wanting and Worthy

Let's wait & see before casting stones, amfM. No point in going off half cocked.

Re: Fancy balls?

Hey, it's my favorite nameless, faceless blob of grey goo! Long time no see ... finally off the naughty step, are you? Welcome back, we can all do with a good laugh :-)

Only on a good day.

Re: Frozen bullets

Sounds like marking, not peeing. The only dogs I've seen doing it standing on their front feet have been the little, toy breeds attempting to make their mark higher, to appear bigger to anyone reading their pee-mail. Is it possibly the critter(s) you knew learned to pee from a chihuahua as pups?

Peeing in fits & starts might also be a bladder problem ... which can be contagious. Were the Huskies in the same household? This would still not explain the hand-stand, though ...

Although, come to think of it, if I had to stand on my hands to pee, I'd probably do it in fits & starts, too, in an attempt at not getting any on me. No, I'm not going to try it. Sorry. (If you want to put your attempt on your OnlyFans, feel free. I won't sue for the use of the idea ... and indeed, I hope you make a million bucks from your herd of idiots. Just don't ask me to watch.)

Disclaimer: Not a vet. Got dawgs.

Re: Covered by cameras....

Let that mangy, rabid, stinking mutt die, already. It had been nearly two weeks since I had seen the name until you ruined the streak.

Re: Covered by cameras....

I'm in Sonoma, California.

The red-light cameras around here are not run by the .gov, they are run by the company who won the bid to provide the service in that particular jurisdiction. They have a vested interest in ensuring the photographic evidence is usable in Court.

Many actual .gov run cameras exist as a scarecrow[0], but even the stupidest so-called "security" guard can detect movement on the screen during the day or motion detector lights turning on at night, thus prompting him to go investigate. Just don't expect to use the video as evidence.

[0] Worst case scenarios include BART's in-car cameras, most of which were empty shells pretending to be cameras for an unknown period of time. (BART is "Bay Area Rapid Transit", which is a piss-poor attempt at emulating the London Tube or the Métro in Paris.)

Re: Frozen bullets

Most of the Huskies I have known lift their leg like other dogs, or squat like most bitches (depending on equipment). A few of the boys never learned the leg lift thing and tend to pee on their front feet. I have never seen a Husky stand on its front paws to pee.

Ice can build up on the hair surrounding the exit, not up from the target area, but this requires it to be cold enough to freeze the balls off a snooker table.

Feel free ... might want to move your keybr0ad aside before you start, though.

You expect me to fight off all those dinosaurs in her backyard? I think NOT, Comrade.

Re: Covered by cameras....

Have you seen the sorry images that most .gov controlled CCTV cameras produce? It's almost impossible to see what people are doing on those cheap-ass pieces of shit, much less ID a perp ... To say nothing of the bird crap & etc. that builds up on the lenses.

The things might be a deterrent, but it's not because they produce usable pictures.

Re: I've got a suggestion...

You are free to do so. It's your system.

Personally, I don't find escapes to be particularly arduous ... but I don't usually use spaces (or any other "special" characters) in file names. No point.

What drives me nuts is when people use so-called "non standard" characters willy-nilly, thus making things difficult to port between unicies. Or the idiots who flip randomly between hyphen/dashes, underbars, plus signs and spaces to signify a space between words. You know who you are ...

Concur on CamelCase.... Seems to be the best of all words.

Re: I've got a suggestion...

In this particular case, your opinion of how I named those files is moot. The machines in question are mine, and the only other person who might (might!) access them is my Wife.

The point is that I, personally, find it useful to name certain files that way, and I have been doing so since roughly 1977. It works for me; you are free to customize your system in any way that floats your boat.

As a side note, if you were presented with ANY shell script, regardless of name, if you didn't know exactly what it did you would have absolutely zero business running it. Open it up (in vi, of course), and parse the silly thing with your Mark I brain first!

Re: I've got a suggestion...

Just escape the space character with a backslash, like so:

$ cp Uncle\ Jack relatives

Simples.

Re: For everybody...

"Curses and termcap has been around since BSD 2.3 or thereabouts in the late 1970's or early 1980's."

Bill Joy invented termcap using what would become 1BSD in '77-'78, where I first came into contact with it. Many other people also added it to their bag of tricks as they heard about it through the grapevine. It first shipped as an "official" part of the OS on 2BSD, in May of '79. It wasn't perfect (still isn't), but did you ever try to use ttycap?

I don't have an exact date for Ken Arnold's curses, the earliest source I can find here locally is unversioned (!!), and claims to be from early 1981. Odd fact for collectors of UNIX trivia: Many people think vi was written to take advantage of Curses. The reality is that Arnold used vi's internal routines as the basis when he wrote Curses.

Re: I've got a suggestion...

How about a few words pronounced the same, but with different meanings depending on capitalization?

God and god.

Moon and moon.

Comet and comet.

August and august.

March and march.

May and may.

Coke and coke.

Jack and jack.

China and china.

Cheddar and cheddar.

Burgundy and burgundy.

Turkey and turkey.

Etc. etc.

Re: I've got a suggestion...

"If I have a directory called "Work" and I type "ls w" and hit tab, "Work" should be included in the results. Similarly if I accidentally hit caps-lock and type "LS" that should still work as expected."

As expected by whom? I would expect the computer to not return the CAPS ... unless I explicitly asked for them. I would also expect accidentally typing in commands after hitting caps lock to result in swearing at myself, turning off caps lock, deleting the offending characters and retyping what I meant.

Of course I touch-type, and look at the screen when I'm typing, so I'd catch the error after one or two characters are entered. For me, it takes no time to correct that kind of thing. Your mileage may vary.

Besides, I've sensibly remapped my keyboard so the <capslock> key is actually <control>, and <capslock> no longer exists on my keyboard ...

PDNFTT. Ta.