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  1. Re:Electric Sheep on Celebrating '21 Things We Miss About Old Computers' (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 1

    What did those 10 incoming lines cost you back then?

  2. Yeah X "works" but the responsiveness hasn't improved since the X11R5 days...

  3. So what is the correct way to exit the solid black test screen other than adding back functionality that was removed?

  4. Three decades of legacy code need to go. Concentrate on making the interface fast for desktop users. If you want network connectivity then make it a module. Also what is the deal with the new X resolution test? It used to be a 1x1 pixel checkerboard of grey/black. Now its a solid black screen. Great way to check if things are readable! Might as well put my monitor in sleep mode for that test. Oh and you can't even ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the server when it does the solid black screen. You have to find which virtual console it is and ctrl-c there. Who the hell thought any of that was a good idea?

  5. Lazy coders on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because coders are lazy. Your average desktop today is orders of magnitude faster than 20 years ago. Programs never load any faster and pages never render any faster either.

  6. Re:Software freedom: best defense against malware on WikiLeaks Reveals Grasshopper, the CIA's Windows Hacking Tool (thenextweb.com) · · Score: -1

    Stop the circle jerk already. Your argument stops with heartbleed. Something every linux zealot installed without question and the "many eyes" seemed to have overlooked.

  7. Re:Touch Disease on Apple Taken To Court For Refusing To Fix Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Error 53 has to do with replacing the touch sensor. They have encryption built in and can't be moved from one phone to another. You can replace the button itself without a sensor but swapping from a parts phone gives error 53.

  8. Re:Touch Disease on Apple Taken To Court For Refusing To Fix Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The touch disease is flashing grey bars at the top of the screen and the screen stops responding while this is going on. Flexing the phone slightly makes it go away.

  9. Touch Disease on Apple Taken To Court For Refusing To Fix Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If your phone has the "touch disease" Apple will admit its their fault and fix it for you for $149. Of course you get a refurbished board and minimal warranty. Apple cheapened up the phone and didn't solder a metal shield to the board that reinforced against flexing. Now they used some foil tape as a shield. However 3rd party companies will fix it the right way, reflow the chip and solder on a shield. They even offer a better warranty than Apple!

  10. Re:Fuck systemd and this hipster Linux on Canonical Killing Unity For Ubuntu Linux, Will Switch To the Superior GNOME (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The point of this is if your network config isn't working its pretty damn difficult to install "bind-utils" or even "man" because they can't be bothered to include it. Traceroute would be nice to have for troubleshooting routing problems, but again good luck installing that when something is broken. This was OpenSUSE by the way. Why should systemd even be consuming that much CPU while doing supposedly nothing?

  11. Honestly there isn't one. Poettering is too busy shitting out code to bother writing any documentation. Now your window manager has to have systemd hooks to work correctly. I get that commercial UNIX like AIX has binary logs, but the whole point of Linux is that it's not UNIX. That's why I love the *BSD way. Clean and uncluttered with top notch documentation.

  12. Fuck systemd and this hipster Linux on Canonical Killing Unity For Ubuntu Linux, Will Switch To the Superior GNOME (betanews.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Systemd is terrible and what they've been doing to Linux is also terrible. No more simple ifconfig to set an ip address. You need to create a file in /etc/network/eth-whatever and add some options. No more "route" either, so how do you set a route? Oh and the best part is things like nslookup and traceroute are not included by default! Neither is "man" which I had to install manually. Sure give me 10,000 obscure and buggy libraries but not include core utilities like nslookup? Oh and I almost forgot. On a completely idle system, systemd is using the most cpu time out of everything else. So nice of my startup manager is the top resource hog.

  13. They still do on How the IBM 1403 Printer Hammered Out 1,100 Lines Per Minute (ieee.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have a look at their mainframe division. AS/400 is also still kicking. Those boxes run for years unattended until upgrade time rolls around.

  14. Destruction of property on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So this guy admitted to destroying another person's property? What a dumbass.

  15. According to Cinemark they have Barco 4K projectors. If the movie was indeed natively 4K I don't know.

  16. Ok I'm not a theater person but I did see the last Star Trek movie in XD (4K 3d). The 3d effect was alright but seeing 4K on a big screen was incredible. Every detail was in focus, you could make out the text on displays all around the ship.

  17. Who or what the fuck is Quidsi? A quick search showed they sold diapers. Really helpful summary here.

  18. Re:If it's scary, then you don't know C. on Tor Browser Will Feature More Rust Code (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Try and compile any newly written C code on a platform other than Linux. Chances are it won't work.

  19. Re:Huh? on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Movies with original content are few and far between. I just saw commercials for remakes of The Mummy and then King Arthur tonight.

  20. I've been toying with the idea of moving my windows desktop to a VM inside a hypervisor. People have done passthrough on their gaming rigs but still take a 10-20% performance hit on the GPU.

  21. Re:Fly Over Country on FSF Activists Want You To Call Tim Berners-Lee About DRM (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    All Narcan does is encourage junkies to keep on shooting up. When they do overdose and are brought back, what is the first thing they do? Yes, more heroin!

  22. I ask this question every time Chrome and spying are brought up but no one can ever answer. Can anyone provide packet logs of Chrome supposedly spying? We all have definite proof of Windows 10 but people clam up when I ask for proof of Chrome.

  23. He had physical access. What good is a VM?

  24. Re:Can we get some diversity in the submissions he on Some Of Hacker Group's Claims Of Having Access To 250M iCloud Accounts Aren't False (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Head over to SoylentNews. Very little politics and actual tech/hacker stuff. Plus they even have more creative trolls.

  25. Wonder why on Americans' Shift To The Suburbs Sped Up Last Year (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spend $4000 a month living in a shoe box apartment or put that into a mortgage on a decent sized house. Decisions, decisions.