* Posts by dmacleo

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

dmacleo

in an odd way this all makes me think of the kubuntu kersnaffle from 2015

Microsoft cracks open patch mega-bundles for biz admins, will separate security, stability fixes

dmacleo

WinME

have fun... :)

'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering'

dmacleo

paying your fees

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key words there

Farewell Unity, you challenged desktop Linux. Oh well, here's Ubuntu 17.04

dmacleo

Re: My thoughts on this ...

I also like mint and cinnamon.

I use mix of windows and mint here.

I just don't like gnome layout.

but its good to have choices.

Boss swore by 'For Dummies' book about an OS his org didn't run

dmacleo

Re: But the real issue is

meet the jehovah witnesses in driveway with shotgun aimed at their car tires asking why they repeatedly ignore the no trespassing signs just once and problem is solved forever.

That CIA exploit list in full: The good, the bad, and the very ugly

dmacleo

If you're using Windows Exchange 2010, the CIA has a tool for that, dubbed ShoulderSurfer. This performs a code injection attack against the Exchange Datastore manager process that would allow an agent to collect emails and contacts at will and without the need for an individual's credentials.

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huh odd thats what clintons exchange server was. I forced a bouceback to get headers and found it one service pack and a few CU behind current for 2010.

Redmond's on fire, your 365 is terrified: Microsoft email outage en masse

dmacleo

affected onedrive here for about 30 minutes

and life went on...

I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court

dmacleo

very possible this could have even further implications.

it is a stretch but if a hacker gains access to a system at that point he/she is the admin with the very same rights this person claimed.

like I said, a real stretch but...be wary of the rulings on thi sone.

Samsung battery factory bursts into flame in touching Note 7 tribute

dmacleo

Re: Fake News

HA well done, kudos

BOFH: Password HELL. For you, mate, not for me

dmacleo

Re: "I rarely get cold calls"

I usually answer unknown numbers with "State Attorney Generals office how may I help you" and usually hear a click right then before I get to the second part of "Fraud Department"

GitLab.com melts down after wrong directory deleted, backups fail

dmacleo

irony...

github (last time I looked months ago) hosts backup programs that most likely would have worked on gitlab database....

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shoot disregard this forgot they were separate entities.

left my stupid comment up to make this comment make more sense.

Boeing's 747 to fly off the production line for the foreseeable future

dmacleo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYYXoy7xbik

ge90-115 engine on one wing.

iirc pylon loading stresses (with single engine powerful enough to replace 2 engines) were too high so its staying 4 engine.

Trump lieutenants 'use private email' for govt work... but who'd make a big deal out of that?

dmacleo

1-it is a big deal and should be addressed

2-clinton used her own server not just her own personal email address.would think a tech site would understand the implications there.

Welcome to the Wipe House: President Trump shreds climate change, privacy, LGBT policies on WhiteHouse.gov

dmacleo

http://www.snopes.com/white-house-web-site-trump-changes

On 17 January 2017, WhiteHouse.gov issued an announcement explaining the digital transition that would take place on Inauguration Day. For instance, all of the messages posted by Barack Obama under the @POTUS handle on Twitter were transferred to a new @POTUS44 account, giving Donald Trump the opportunity to take over the previous presidential Twitter account @POTUS.

In the same way, the content related to the Obama administration on WhiteHouse.gov was migrated to a new web site, ObamaWhiteHouse.Archives.gov:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/

HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'

dmacleo

used often in cold climates

here in Maine the phrase winter is coming has been used often by many for many many decades..

Internet Archive preps Canadian safe haven to swerve Donald Trump

dmacleo

good lord.

when there was actual talk about restricting networks over last 8 years the internet archive (whom I am a fan of) admin Brewster Kahle (heavy Dem party donor) did not freak out.

this seems to be purely drama.

with that being said maintaining a full (realtime if possible) copy elsewhere would be good idea.

Possible reprieve for the venerable A-10 Warthog

dmacleo

Re: A-10 role

loiter time greater with A10, ingress/egress speed greater with A10, weapon payload greater with A10 (pretty hard to do a bombing run with a copter..), damage survivability (sic?) greater with A10, and (IIRC) mission turnaround time faster with A10.

copters have a role for sure, but the A10 just keeps working and working well.

dmacleo

Re: Good on them, I say...

yup, my experience was all peacetime but in mid to late 80's over in germany we saw them a lot during reforger exercises "protecting" us.

was a welcome sight.

plus cool to watch

dmacleo

Re: Don't look to the past

put a couple of those paperweights onto your accountant.

problem solved.

new accountant needed though....

LogMeIn collapses its 'Cubby' Dropbox clone into LogMeIn Pro

dmacleo

xeams going nuts too

http://xeams.com/LicensingPolicy.htm

the community edition allows spam proxy setup yet disables spam rules.

http://xeams.com/Cost.htm

retarded

Outlook-on-Android alternative 'Nine' leaked Exchange Server creds

dmacleo

been using touchdown for years on 'droid devices, has worked well but have not checked to see if they suffer from same issue.

Internet handover is go-go-go! ICANN to take IANA from US govt

dmacleo

agreed

time will tell though.

No surprise: Microsoft seeks Windows Update boss with 'ability to reduce chaos, stress'

dmacleo

applicant must show they have an aptitude to fail at suicide and ability to go to work the day after each failed attempt...

BOFH: There are no wrong answers, just wrong questions. Mmm, really wrong ones

dmacleo

ima tater :)

4K-ing-A! Roku bangs out broad range of new streaming boom boxes

dmacleo

maybe I am remembering/thinking wrong but wouldn't 3d support drive the price up (due to processing power and no onboard stream storage) too far to make it worth it?

Evernote dumps its own bit barn, boards Google's cloud

dmacleo

EN premium user, chose them specifically because they didn't use google. will have to carefully monitor the changes and make a decision later.

wish owncloud/nextcloud had as good a notes app as evernote.

Linus Torvalds won't apply 'sh*t-for-brains stupid patch'

dmacleo

funny, reading the whole thread the person "swore" at agrees with him and they looked to be working out a solution to avoid the issue.

Having offended everyone else in the world, Linus Torvalds calls own lawyers a 'nasty festering disease'

dmacleo

read the whole thing not just the snippets

well worth your time, shows a huge advocacy for community policing too.

a very interesting thread.

OTOH I wish they were forum based I have issues reading mailing lists in that format.

Sysadmin sticks finger in pipe, saves data centre from flood

dmacleo

Re: CROM

OMG that hit my funny bone hard :)

Angler hooks German's todger at nudist lake

dmacleo

well done.you got me hook line and sinker there.

CERN staff conduct 'human sacrifice' at supercollider site

dmacleo

LOL south park

kudos for the south park movie pic :)

Facebook to forcefeed you web ads, whether you like it or not: Ad blocker? Get the Zuck out!

dmacleo

Re: Hosts file

honestly have never tried that will study up on it, thanks

dmacleo

Re: Hosts file

I have not yet seen seen ads using ip addresses but yeah thats something I had not thought of

dmacleo

host file would still work correct?

Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update tweaked to stop you disabling app promos

dmacleo

wonder if using host file to block ip these ads come from would work.

use wsus so updates would not get blocked by that.

dmacleo

this is gonna suck.

volunteer for a church with 8 client pc on win 10 pro with server 2012r2 essentials ('nix and/or wine/wirtualization NOT an option) and wonder if logon script invoking powershell will fix this.

Microsoft kicks out fix for buggy Win Server 2012 WSUS updates

dmacleo

sorry missed this earlier but yes I did do the manual steps

Nitwit has fit over twit hit: Troll takes timeless termination terribly

dmacleo

Re: meh

should say victim card not victim cared in last sentence. missed the mistake, sorry.

dmacleo

meh

she was taunting many people for many hours with just as bad language because they didn't like the movie.

look at the whole timeline over very long period to see it.

she played the victim card, @jack personally talked to her, now whiny milo gets to play victim.

meh...

since you linked to verge

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/20/12237222/twitter-milo-yiannopoulos-ban-harassment-leslie-jones-transparency

Yiannopoulos’ tweets were deleted when the account was pulled, and Twitter didn’t provide examples of the targeted abuse or harassment he was banned over. His Ghostbusters review, while negative, didn’t single out Jones, and he wasn’t directly responsible for the more egregious messages she got. So was he suspended over a specific tweet, like the screenshots? Did Twitter decide his gloating was encouraging her harassers? After years of complaints over generally trollish behavior, did Twitter just decide enough was enough?

Consequently, we can’t tell if Yiannopoulos finally crossed a clear line, or if Twitter is only paying attention because the abuse hit a celebrity like Leslie Jones. We can’t examine or dismiss Yiannopoulos’ long-standing claim that he’s been targeted for his conservative views. We can’t know what kind of harassment reports Twitter will take seriously when people besides Jones submit them.

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Obviously, a Twitter ban is orders of magnitude less serious than a criminal conviction, whatever the pro-Yiannopoulos #FreeMilo hashtag implies. But it’s not nothing. Just as we shouldn’t tell harassment victims to “just log off” the internet, we shouldn’t pretend that being kicked off a platform with millions of users doesn’t cut you off from some part of modern public life, and Twitter should be careful with the power it’s got.

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like I said....meh

bunch of whiners get to play victim cared

Google on piracy: We really, really care

dmacleo

the real issue here....

someone wanting a katy perry mp3...

FBI won't jail future US president over private email server

dmacleo

Re: Female Privilege

no other SoS had their OWN email server and refused a .gov email address.

powell and rice did occasionally use (and report) their private email address but they also had a .gov address to use for their job.

clinton used her own exchange email server under her own domain name (with email addresses that numerically changed through the years) she also refused to use a .gov address.

anyone else would have been charged.

Cats understand the laws of physics, researchers claim

dmacleo

cats know everything

and the day they decide to let humanity know we are all screwed.

Get outta here, officer, you don't need a warrant to track people by their phones – appeals court

dmacleo

Re: Can you keep a secret??

heh heh sorry had to....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ8fI3L3VW4

Seattle Suehawks: Smart meter hush-up launched because, er ... terrorism

dmacleo

our meters would have been the type that allows remote shutoff from power company.

and no it would not be beneficial to me.

its very rural area and the load is not that high, the power company just refuses to trim trees that hit lines so I lose power (blink or minute or 2 outages) usually 5x a week. bad enough I need to have UPS on my on demand water heater and water softener just to keep programming and give me time to fire up generator if longer than an hour.

I have enough issues keeping stuff running w/o having to deal with someone else deciding I don't need the power.

dmacleo

irony was just thinking about the money NOT using smart meter costs me today.

I pay about 12$ (US) to NOT have smart meter, I am in area with constant power blinks, etc (rural Maine) and do not want anyone to have the ability to remotely shut my power off to reduce load.

have some physical issues that make it keeping house at 71-72F a necessity as well as multiple ML350G5 servers running.

ah well I digress..

Hillary Clinton broke law with private email server – top US govt watchdog

dmacleo

Re: @Youngone .. So it begins...

irony is she was kicked off investigating him due to her dishonestly.

Airbus to build plane that's even uglier than the A380

dmacleo

Re: Turn one into a passenger aircraft

C5 bay is pressurized and air conditioned. it can be used to transport troops although (iirc) not used for that often.

dmacleo

Re: XB-70

very speedily...

Huge embarrassment over fisting site data breach

dmacleo

ipboard allows admin to choose method. can be no method, user signs up and is done.

can be that with admin approval

can be email setup where user does email authenticate and can also have admin approval needed on top of that.

Spaniard live streams 195km/h burn-up

dmacleo

Re: I found... @Serenely

LOL

I am bad at that, at 18 was overseas on autobahn and that sort of stuck with me.

drive a land yacht (2010 marquis ultimate edition) and on interstate here set cruise for 90 mph on normal day.

due to hills in area and high gear actually get best fuel mileage on interstate at approx 85 mph. 65mph is 21mpg and 85 is 23-24mpg....go fast go green....

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