Posts by Chewi

Linux version

I wonder if they tried to pull a similar stunt in the Linux version.

If you didn't know, I'm not kidding, there really is a Linux version.

I honestly read that as…

"…portable identity for of their on-line activities."

Not entirely true

It only switches away from HTTPS if you click on a product link. The menu links work fine. This is because the product links have absolute URLs. A schoolboy error but easily fixed. They surely meant to use SSL as the certificate is valid and it's not a wildcard. Apart from the product links, I'd say the only thing they should have done is redirect to the SSL site by default. I hate Trump as much as the next guy but let's stick to the facts.

On that note, if you want a real scoop, check the SSL Labs results. Clinton gets an A, Trump gets a C!

I saw this coming

You did too, right?

I've said this several times but never posted it. Tavis, you are awesome.

Apart from all of the above, how hard can it be to add up a bunch of votes?

SELECT candidate_id, COUNT(*) FROM votes GROUP by candidate_id;

Okay, so voters got a second choice but even still.

Courtery of RevK…

If a British citizen with an iPhone purchased in France and roaming in Germany iMessages a Chinese citizen roaming in Sweden using an iPhone purchased in Denmark, which government's keys need to be inserted in the iMessage communications by an American company (Apple) legally based in Luxembourg using servers hosted in Eire?

Source

Held out on Old Opera for a while, eventually went to New Opera when it arrived on Linux, got fed up with it after a few months, tried Vivaldi and breathed a huge sigh of relief. It's not for everyone but it suits me perfectly.

Write to your MP!

This survey doesn't mean much if we don't write to our MPs as we don't get to vote on it. I wrote a long e-mail to mine and got a great response.

Size doesn't matter

Say what you like about the GNU version but it is 0.002 seconds faster.

time /bin/true

/bin/true 0.00s user 0.00s system 79% cpu 0.001 total

time ./true

./true 0.00s user 0.00s system 88% cpu 0.003 total

I know how this feels

I had a similar problem with Linux on my Vaio some 10 years ago. One day, it just randomly started freezing. Sometimes more than once a day but sometimes a whole week would go by. There was no rhyme or reason to it. It drove me crazy and at one point, I swore blind it was the graphics drivers and said some rather silly things in a Mesa bug report. Eventually I somehow got in touch with someone with the exact same model and within days, they realised it the was ACPI driver for the CPU. Sure enough, I blacklisted that and all was well. Turns out it wasn't Linux's fault though. When I later tried Vista on the same machine, it would barely even make it to the first setup screen before freezing up hard. This was exactly the same problem and I had to disable the equivalent driver there. That wasn't easy. I think I had to modify the ISO and then intercept the install to disable it again after the first reboot. If only I'd known how much Vista sucked beforehand.

IcedTea-Web

Gentoo Linux Java lead here! I predicted this would happen given that Chrome has already dropped NPAPI and Firefox probably will. If for some god awful reason you still need the plugin (and you can find a browser that still supports it, maybe SeaMonkey?), the IcedTea-Web project maintains a perfectly good alternative, as well as its own Web Start implementation. I don't think it supports Windows but it has been looked into.

License plates?

The Internet is not a big truck.

You missed…

…the part about bundling an old version of Chrome, calling it with --disable-sandbox and having the cheek to call it "Secure Browser". I also found that quite entertaining.

Serves the Java community right

...for bundling things all the time. The situation has improved slightly with Maven but end users still tend to get the software handed to them in one fat bundle. There's a reason why Linux distributions do things the hard way.

Lots of love,

The reluctant Gentoo Java lead

To the point

I'm just glad that they got straight to the point this time instead of fannying about for most of the series before finally ramping things up in the last two episodes. That was getting seriously annoying. And an actual bona fide cliffhanger? I can't remember the last time we had that.

Gentoo Linux

No mention of the fact that it's running Gentoo Linux?

I love AMD's open source efforts and I would buy a brand new card right now if I only I had some confidence that they will still be around in 6 months to continue those efforts. Catch 22, I guess.