Certainly will start farming code and ideas from all those private repos. Probably quite a few MS competitors and suppliers of their competitors use Github. I've always thought Github was a secret gem for harvesting IP from.
should be Microshit's new corporate motto and advertising slogan, because when you use their product, that's the message you're most likely to see.
It's soo infuriating to turn on a laptop in front of a customer and have to wait for the previous cycle of Windows Updates to complete from when I shut it down at the last customer's site where I also had to sit for 15 minutes after the meeting was over waiting for it to shut down while insisting on running updates.
Don't bother mentioning the ability to turn off forced updates. You ALL know you've been faced with hours/days of your life lost looking at that stupid "Don't turn off your computer" message.
Regarding GFVS, I'm enjoying the big f u from MS to GNOME. Stay classy and oblivious MS; the DOJ couldn't fix you way back when, so why bother caring now.
It is amazing how many techies buy into this closed eco system, but even more so, how so many enviro hippie leftists do. I love seeing riot photos of them breaking into a Starbucks holding iPhones. Apple couldn't be any more anti-freedom. It has always been, since the start, the anti-choice choice. Their hardware/software for years was so closed. OS X seemed a hopeful bright spot but then we got Cloud Services and they knew they had us.
Example: try to share a mass amount of locally-stored photos between Apple devices on your home WiFi/ServerFarm. Used to be possible out-of-the-box on OS X Photos. They took it out a few versions back. So now if you've got 200GB of photos to share with your family, in your own house, you gotta upload them all to iCloud so the person sitting next to you on your own home network can look at them.
Personally I have a Macbook and run Linux Mint (triple booting as needed with rEFInd) because Apple does make the best laptop hardware (still hate that I don't get a full keyboard though). Beyond that, I only choose or use Apple if I've got a work obligation requiring it
RedHat became the Microsoft of Linux very soon after that crappy IPO and re-running the share auction that f*cked a lot of us. My Etrade screenshots haunt me.
Ubuntu #1 sever. Linux Mint #1 desktop. There are no close seconds IMNSHO
Nice try, there's not anything a liberal politician has touched that hasn't gotten worse. All the shitbag cities are ran by libs for years. What they have been successful in doing is installing the atheist religion in schools and enacting programs of Earth sadness for our children. I hope the first thing AI replaces is teachers. I'd vote for that.
Some people like working with their hands to physically craft a new of existing set of atoms in some way. Not everyone is a keyboard warrior. Some of them like those jobs because there is frequent local travel and diversity of locations and people. I would surmise in your example, those kinds of grandfathers worked at one place, probably with very little movement during the workday, and just battled the same mechanical device in the same location everyday. Most blue collar jobs are not like that anymore.
...a college degree becoming the modern day equivalent of the High School diploma of years past. Our society knows primary school is trash taught mostly by failures and underachievers whose underlying motivation is to make everyone feel as bad as they do and perform as badly as they have. Their greatest success is convincing us we need them in order to learn. I don't know what the solution is but I know what the problem looks like.
For years, it seemed SPAM email blasting companies were the worst Internet villain imaginable, but then came the for-hire DDOS companies. Eventually they didn't even have to hide on the DarkWeb and appeared on public websites. Now anyone with even the most minor beef can take someone or something offline for a few hours for a few dollars. These things whack indie multiplayer games all the time. It's soo easy to phish someone's IP address and then target them after getting frag'd, tk'd, or blog-flamed.
I think we should livestream the torture of these DDOS company owners & operators. That would be totally worth a monthly fee...
To prevent BIOS boot off USB or any number of firmware or otherwise issues. We tell them to basically epoxy any port not connected to something. These machines never, ever change and there's probably little risk of infection, but even so... When stumbled upon, we at least duplicate the HD. In most cases, there's some hardware card that is the real single-point-of-failure. A typical manufacturing customer will keep these ancient MMI systems because of HW irreplacable HW interfaces and the new version costing a lot. One place even has Win3.1/DOS6.22 running a 24/7 production line because the updated control station costs $40k. Forget that just to get fancy new graphs and statistics.
There's noo way some satellite up there is actually running Windows 95 for anything on the the satellite hardware itself. I'm not believing that.
But I will believe there might be ground control workstations running Windows 95 for some function due to having custom software developed on it or a hardware device/card that cannot be moved to a newer version of Windows.
I know of all kinds of customer sites with Win95 workstations still in use. These are for specialized applications like manufacturing machine control or scientific test tools. They either keep them completely off the network and block all USB ports, etc, OR they use a very discrete localized network.
We have pure mob rule now with all these keyboard warriors, especially the ones that normal society generally shunned or made fun of before there were all these computers and users connected. Kind of natural selection for societal influences.
Before if you were a loser, couldn't achieve any outward success, language proficiency, educational diligence, home ownership, functional family, healthy body, grooming standards, or address your body odor, society in general would, for the most part, just rightfully ignore your negative influences as meaningless.
Now, any keyboard warrior from any failed circumstance can band together with like-minded failed losers, post away rocks at some other successful person and try to destroy their life, as if they should be ashamed of being successful.
Because we don't really understand this phenomenon right now, especially among the non-uber techies unlike us that don't know the amplifying effect of millions of Internet trolls (human ones), these SJW keyboard warriors are winning and mob rule is fully underway.
We invented the Slashdot effect as a joke. We had those high-end corporate network admin passwords and browsed the weakest website referenced in a/. post, albeit with the coolest content, and saw those servers crash. We knew it was wrong, but we were only looking for good information. Now, the mob is non-techy losers hell-bent on making everyone as miserable as they are.
I don't want pure democracy where the fads and whims of the latest flash mob crowd can sweep into my life. I'm just fine with a transparent set of content filtering people protecting me from the mob, virtual or real.
I'm done with being a regular user of the FB echo chamber. That Musk Vimeo was great and finally convinced me to end my daily, no constant, connection to FB. I left a pub note for people to just call or SMS text me from now on (didn't post my actual number, derr) and that I'd log on occasionally to check new FR. I will say the one thing I've always liked about FB is how way-back contacts can re-connect. I guess that may only be an issue for those older than millennials.
The entire thing is now an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance cage.
I did create a new sterile FB account to manage the FB pages I have for work and a few non-profits. That's a different thing to me than my personal stuff...
OMG, PC Tools was The Shit. Very comprehensive. But looking back on it, that suite was also probably where bloatware was born. Think you had to manually pare down what you wanted to use from PC Tools to get it on a single floppy vs just throwing all of NC or Xtree on a 1.44. 1990's IT tech road warriors were notorious for losing disk#2 of anything by leaving it in the last customer's floppy drive on the way out the door...
It's fitting Symantec bought the company, because they became the premiere vendor of Windows Server crippling bloatware.
Thanks for bringing up PC Tools. I might have to go DiskFix this old MFM harddrive and fire up Falcon3
Now I'm back in 1990 arguing the finer elements of ASCII based MS-DOS apps' display vs usability. Is it dementia or really Slashdot? I wonder if I might also have both NC and Xtree open in separate DESQview windows today?
LOL, figures an AC would bring the Xtree reference. Xtree was good, but just plain ugly looking compared to NC. I used both as needed, but NC was my go-to tool in the road warrior floppy toolbox
...THE reference file management tool for PC geeks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
I still use Midnight Commander on Linux from time to time, especially for quick side-by-side file/dir moves (the viewing of diff's between them is nice) and searching for content inside lots of files
Slashdot Mirror
Certainly will start farming code and ideas from all those private repos. Probably quite a few MS competitors and suppliers of their competitors use Github. I've always thought Github was a secret gem for harvesting IP from.
should be Microshit's new corporate motto and advertising slogan, because when you use their product, that's the message you're most likely to see.
It's soo infuriating to turn on a laptop in front of a customer and have to wait for the previous cycle of Windows Updates to complete from when I shut it down at the last customer's site where I also had to sit for 15 minutes after the meeting was over waiting for it to shut down while insisting on running updates.
Don't bother mentioning the ability to turn off forced updates. You ALL know you've been faced with hours/days of your life lost looking at that stupid "Don't turn off your computer" message.
Regarding GFVS, I'm enjoying the big f u from MS to GNOME. Stay classy and oblivious MS; the DOJ couldn't fix you way back when, so why bother caring now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyDFzTOvfTk
It is amazing how many techies buy into this closed eco system, but even more so, how so many enviro hippie leftists do. I love seeing riot photos of them breaking into a Starbucks holding iPhones. Apple couldn't be any more anti-freedom. It has always been, since the start, the anti-choice choice. Their hardware/software for years was so closed. OS X seemed a hopeful bright spot but then we got Cloud Services and they knew they had us.
Example: try to share a mass amount of locally-stored photos between Apple devices on your home WiFi/ServerFarm. Used to be possible out-of-the-box on OS X Photos. They took it out a few versions back. So now if you've got 200GB of photos to share with your family, in your own house, you gotta upload them all to iCloud so the person sitting next to you on your own home network can look at them.
Personally I have a Macbook and run Linux Mint (triple booting as needed with rEFInd) because Apple does make the best laptop hardware (still hate that I don't get a full keyboard though). Beyond that, I only choose or use Apple if I've got a work obligation requiring it
RedHat became the Microsoft of Linux very soon after that crappy IPO and re-running the share auction that f*cked a lot of us. My Etrade screenshots haunt me.
Ubuntu #1 sever. Linux Mint #1 desktop. There are no close seconds IMNSHO
Nice try, there's not anything a liberal politician has touched that hasn't gotten worse. All the shitbag cities are ran by libs for years. What they have been successful in doing is installing the atheist religion in schools and enacting programs of Earth sadness for our children. I hope the first thing AI replaces is teachers. I'd vote for that.
"new or existing"
Some people like working with their hands to physically craft a new of existing set of atoms in some way. Not everyone is a keyboard warrior. Some of them like those jobs because there is frequent local travel and diversity of locations and people. I would surmise in your example, those kinds of grandfathers worked at one place, probably with very little movement during the workday, and just battled the same mechanical device in the same location everyday. Most blue collar jobs are not like that anymore.
...a college degree becoming the modern day equivalent of the High School diploma of years past. Our society knows primary school is trash taught mostly by failures and underachievers whose underlying motivation is to make everyone feel as bad as they do and perform as badly as they have. Their greatest success is convincing us we need them in order to learn. I don't know what the solution is but I know what the problem looks like.
For years, it seemed SPAM email blasting companies were the worst Internet villain imaginable, but then came the for-hire DDOS companies. Eventually they didn't even have to hide on the DarkWeb and appeared on public websites. Now anyone with even the most minor beef can take someone or something offline for a few hours for a few dollars. These things whack indie multiplayer games all the time. It's soo easy to phish someone's IP address and then target them after getting frag'd, tk'd, or blog-flamed.
I think we should livestream the torture of these DDOS company owners & operators. That would be totally worth a monthly fee...
LOL, I know those kinds of places. A lot of times, the production engineering/maintenance peeps won't let IT anywhere near the "stuff."
It's almost as cowardly a thing to do as posting on /. as AC
To prevent BIOS boot off USB or any number of firmware or otherwise issues. We tell them to basically epoxy any port not connected to something. These machines never, ever change and there's probably little risk of infection, but even so... When stumbled upon, we at least duplicate the HD. In most cases, there's some hardware card that is the real single-point-of-failure. A typical manufacturing customer will keep these ancient MMI systems because of HW irreplacable HW interfaces and the new version costing a lot. One place even has Win3.1/DOS6.22 running a 24/7 production line because the updated control station costs $40k. Forget that just to get fancy new graphs and statistics.
There's noo way some satellite up there is actually running Windows 95 for anything on the the satellite hardware itself. I'm not believing that.
But I will believe there might be ground control workstations running Windows 95 for some function due to having custom software developed on it or a hardware device/card that cannot be moved to a newer version of Windows.
I know of all kinds of customer sites with Win95 workstations still in use. These are for specialized applications like manufacturing machine control or scientific test tools. They either keep them completely off the network and block all USB ports, etc, OR they use a very discrete localized network.
We have pure mob rule now with all these keyboard warriors, especially the ones that normal society generally shunned or made fun of before there were all these computers and users connected. Kind of natural selection for societal influences.
Before if you were a loser, couldn't achieve any outward success, language proficiency, educational diligence, home ownership, functional family, healthy body, grooming standards, or address your body odor, society in general would, for the most part, just rightfully ignore your negative influences as meaningless.
Now, any keyboard warrior from any failed circumstance can band together with like-minded failed losers, post away rocks at some other successful person and try to destroy their life, as if they should be ashamed of being successful.
Because we don't really understand this phenomenon right now, especially among the non-uber techies unlike us that don't know the amplifying effect of millions of Internet trolls (human ones), these SJW keyboard warriors are winning and mob rule is fully underway.
We invented the Slashdot effect as a joke. We had those high-end corporate network admin passwords and browsed the weakest website referenced in a /. post, albeit with the coolest content, and saw those servers crash. We knew it was wrong, but we were only looking for good information. Now, the mob is non-techy losers hell-bent on making everyone as miserable as they are.
I don't want pure democracy where the fads and whims of the latest flash mob crowd can sweep into my life. I'm just fine with a transparent set of content filtering people protecting me from the mob, virtual or real.
that forces a state to split up when it constitutes some % of the US population vs the combined rest of the states.
It's ridiculous that 5 states in total have 1/3 of the population. We're a republic of states not a giant monolithic slab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
Not sure what that would mean for smaller states. And I'm sure this is probably flame bait
I'm done with being a regular user of the FB echo chamber. That Musk Vimeo was great and finally convinced me to end my daily, no constant, connection to FB. I left a pub note for people to just call or SMS text me from now on (didn't post my actual number, derr) and that I'd log on occasionally to check new FR. I will say the one thing I've always liked about FB is how way-back contacts can re-connect. I guess that may only be an issue for those older than millennials.
The entire thing is now an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance cage.
I did create a new sterile FB account to manage the FB pages I have for work and a few non-profits. That's a different thing to me than my personal stuff...
We are soo old. Wish we had human Expanded Memory Managers (EMM) because my 640 is full
OMG, PC Tools was The Shit. Very comprehensive. But looking back on it, that suite was also probably where bloatware was born. Think you had to manually pare down what you wanted to use from PC Tools to get it on a single floppy vs just throwing all of NC or Xtree on a 1.44. 1990's IT tech road warriors were notorious for losing disk#2 of anything by leaving it in the last customer's floppy drive on the way out the door...
It's fitting Symantec bought the company, because they became the premiere vendor of Windows Server crippling bloatware.
Thanks for bringing up PC Tools. I might have to go DiskFix this old MFM harddrive and fire up Falcon3
Now I'm back in 1990 arguing the finer elements of ASCII based MS-DOS apps' display vs usability. Is it dementia or really Slashdot? I wonder if I might also have both NC and Xtree open in separate DESQview windows today?
LOL, you smell like an EMACS user
LOL@ all the low-numbered reply'ers to this post. We're soo old. Gonna be a real riot around the floor shuffleboard in a few years...
"I remember when there was a real chance of getting electrocuted by just touching a computer's front-panel power switch!!!"
WordPerfect for DOS and a well-trained office assistant could bang out an award winning letter out faster than a speeding train.
Paper keyboard templates...those were the days
LOL, figures an AC would bring the Xtree reference. Xtree was good, but just plain ugly looking compared to NC. I used both as needed, but NC was my go-to tool in the road warrior floppy toolbox
...THE reference file management tool for PC geeks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
I still use Midnight Commander on Linux from time to time, especially for quick side-by-side file/dir moves (the viewing of diff's between them is nice) and searching for content inside lots of files
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
lmao, why i gotta be flamebait? truf hurthz