* Posts by Cirdan

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US defense forces no match for the unstoppable fiend known as Reply-All

Cirdan

Re: Heard a joke -- Urea concentration

Nice reference!

The article basically states (with methods, data, and results) that urine kills bacteria and it only seemed to be positively correlated to urea concentration.

So if you eat a lot of meat and don't drink much water, your urine would be an antiseptic. I'd imagine urine on the Arabian peninsula could get quite concentrated, so that fits.

The "osmolality" part refers to saltiness (or dissolves stuff in general) and they say that doesn't help nor hurt and neither does ammonia.

But if the urine has the urea which is converted to ammonia (cat pee smell) then it's not as useful.

SOURCE: BST Chemistry Education, graduate studies in (oligopeptide) biochemistry

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Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI

Cirdan
Terminator

Why am I not comforted...

... When it doesn't say that it won't source from Cyberdyne Systems?

...Cirdan...

If you're running Windows, I feel bad for you, son. Microsoft's got 99 problems, better fix each one

Cirdan
Trollface

Sudo apt-get update &&

sudo apt-get upgrade

Adobe issue sorted.

Drat!

There go another two minutes of my life!!!

:-P

(Thanks, Linux Mint, Canonical/Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Foundation for all your FOSS goodness!)

...Cirdan...

Behold the perils of trying to turn the family and friends support line into a sideline

Cirdan
Linux

Re: F&F discount

Throw it away? If it's just a virus?

NO!

Nuke and pave with Linux Mint (or your favorite flavour).

Sorted. Long term.

...Cirdan...

Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...

Cirdan
Trollface

System 7...

...and the endless Extension conflict reboot dance.

Good times, good times.

...Cirdan...

(LinuxMint, baby, MATE)

Post Unity 8 Ubuntu shock? Relax, Linux has been here before

Cirdan
Trollface

Re: Linux sucks

I'm with you, Bob.

I've been using that old rat's nest since 2006, and, darn it, if I can't have Unity 8, I might as well go all in with with MS.

Years of simple installs and uptime of months, no in-my-face upgrade nags, and updates that don't have to be blocked have left me feeling neglected; it's as if Linux Mint just doesn't care enough to even try to bother me anymore!

So I'll see about jumping ship to MS, but first I need to get some work done... Grrr... Mint's still chugging along... Guess I'll use it for the moment...

... Cirdan...

Intel's dying Atom chips strike again: Netgear recalls four ReadyNAS, Wi-Fi management lines

Cirdan
Trollface

Gimme an "A"....

Gimme an "M"!

Gimme a "D"!

:-P

...Cirdan...

(lover of underdogs)

Twas the week before Xmas ... not a creature was stirring – except Microsoft admitting its Windows 10 upgrade pop-up went 'too far'

Cirdan
Happy

Re: M$ Long History

@MNGrrrl --

for a split second, I read that as Microsoft being a Lining Shitehouse.

What a glorious second that was!

...Cirdan...

… in a loop. Cisco warns Nexus 3000 upgrade could get you stuck ...

Cirdan
Facepalm

10 LET X=0

20 PRINT "LOOP";

30 LET X=X+1

40 IF X=20 THEN END

50 GOTO 10

60 REM ...CIRDAN...

Microsoft announces 16 years of support for Windows, SQL Servers

Cirdan
Big Brother

Sounds kind of like,

"Nice server you've got there. Shame if Windows 10 happened to it."

'Toyota dealer stole my wife's saucy snaps from phone, emailed them to a swingers website'

Cirdan
Gimp

Maybe...

Ummmm...

Don't hand your selfie porn to people you don't want to have it?

Just sayin'

....Cirdan...

Search engine results increasingly poisoned with malicious links

Cirdan
Devil

If I visited dodgy sites...

... or were overly concerned, I'd browse from a desktop computer with no permanent storage (other than BIOS) and booted from live BSD CD/DVD.

That should do the job for the hardware.

The trick then is that the wetware needs to be sure NOT to enter any personal data.

Thoughts from the hot tub...

...Cirdan...

(Icon as a placeholder for the BSD daemon)

Hangouts flameout bringing the Google blame out

Cirdan
Trollface

Ummmm...

"Oh, NO!!!"...

That's my official position on this tragedy, right?

...Cirdan...

Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus'

Cirdan
Linux

Time flies!

Happy Z-day, Ubuntu! This day seemed SO far in the future...

I came in at Dapper Drake 6.06 (yes, .06 -- release was delayed).

Holy crap, how time flies. A decade with the penguin and it seems like only yesterday.

Thanks for MY ten Years of Linux on the Desktop.

...Cirdan...

P.S. I'm now hanging out with Ubuntu's fraternal twin, Linux Mint. Hope that doesn't make it too weird for Ubuntu...

Samsung to Galaxy Note 7 users: Turn it off. Now

Cirdan
Flame

That----->

OK Google, Alexa, why can't I choose my own safe, er, wake word?

Cirdan
Happy

"Oh, computer"

... in my best, trilled Star Trek "Scotty" accent wakes my (Motorola Moto X 2014) Android device.

Followed quickly by... "A keyboard. How quaint!"

... Cirdan...

Linux 4.8 gets rc8

Cirdan
WTF?

Huh?

"He's pretty sure 4.8 will hatch next week, writing that "I didn't get the feeling that there was no point in doing one final rc"."

That's definitely crypto... Or at least cryptic.

... Cirdan...

I'd really love to finally have a badge! :-)

Cirdan

One hundred posts asking for a badge

Oh great keeper of the badges, may I please have a bronze badge for my loyalty, occasional typo reporting, and generally giving you page impressions all these years?

In TUX we trust, RAMEN.

...Cirdan...

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