If you have weeks long running jobs on your desktop you're doing it wrong. There's a reason servers exist in datacenters. *SNIP* when they should be buying actual servers instead. *SNIP* You can even put GPU compute in servers and have a lot less concern for your systems going down.
Well since you offered, could you make your paypal payment to me about $6000 USD for a mid-range server? Or since you're being so generous offering to pay for servers for us, how about a nice even $10000 and I'll get one of those newfangled blade systems!
As far as I know, Systemd has no capacity to think and therefore has no opinion on net neutrality.
Three days ago the Systemd-UpdateAgainstYourWillD automatically installed SystemD-AiD, which is a requirement to even boot the kernel because it was deemed no human being ever has or ever could be capable of the overwhelming task of "run some programs", which of course includes programs written by humans.
Two days ago there were promises SystemD-AiD would also gain enough intelligence to read corrupted syslogs, while insulting your petty human intelligence via way of SystemD-FortuneD, and injecting them into all outbound emails sent from your username via SystemD-SpammerD. It was also rumored to soon be capable of washing your dishes, since no init system wants to start dirty programs or use plastic fork()'s.
Yesterday they canceled the dish washing patch based mainly on a usenet poll where "fuck systemd!!!" was interpreted by a similar AI as voting against the feature, thus canceling the patch due to overwhelming demand.
When I grew up, there were only THREE planets in our solar system: Earth, Mars, and Mercury. Both Jupiter and Venus are stars not planets.
Nothing beyond the thing you call the asteroid belt exists, and of course the asteroid belt is really just the outer shell of our universe with the other stars painted on it.
No mystical Pluto object could possibly exists beyond the edge of the universe!
Now get off my lawn with that talking about how things used to be:P
3. Delete a file 4. Whoa, the file is STILL THERE in the list
Err, wut?
I manage around 150 Win7 machines at work, and have 4 of them at home, and never once seen the behavior you are describing.
Are you sure there isn't more involved with recreating that? Have you seen this on more than one Win7 computer?
When I use explorer to delete a file, it is removed from the file list and placed in the recycle bin folder for that drive, just as has been the case for some time now.
If explorer is open to a remote file server it still removes the file from the list when deleted, just skipping the recycle bin part of things. (Not to mention my complaint about a confirmation prompt being there when the recycle bin is used and so recovery is possible, and NO confirmation when deleting on a file share despite no recovery of the file being possible by default, which always seemed bas-ackward to me) But you didn't mention browsing to a remote file share, the default explorer will open to your homedir or drive root typically on your system drive.
Well to be completely fair, there are a TON of very nice features being put in Win10, on top of a ton of things fixed that they broke in Win8.
No GUI requirement similar to the choice of installing xorg (I believe introduced in server 2012?), a powershell version of apt-get using the windows tailored chocolatey package format, fixed the stupidest of GUI changes from Win8 such as no desktop by default and whatever they call the app tiles thing, improved filesystem and network file sharing (the latter bringing a HUGE speed boost, both being more parallelized), etc.
They are trying out a different (and IMHO better) upgrade path, and hopefully all that is claimed about the new IE will come true which will finally begin closing the huge gap between it and pretty much any other browser.
Sure there is still plenty of time between now and release day to drop the ball on for anything above, but I dare say direction under their new CEO has been pretty damn positive so far, and leaps and bounds better than when under Balmer (though I admit that is a pretty low bar anyway)
As someone who hates Windows mainly due to being forced to support it and its bullshit for the past 20 years, even I am quite impressed with the changes between Win7 and Win10, and don't have much to complain about. We will see if that still holds true after release of course.
But I can't help but agree, a lot of the serious problems are being or have been addressed.
We only complain about the icons and lack of theme support to fix them because Microsoft asked us, petty as that may seem.
They look like they are from the seventies and using an 8 bit colour pallet.
Except even in GEoS from the seventies with a not-quite-8-bit color pallet was still capable of showing the differences between each type of GUI widget, and between widget and non-widget.
Win8/10 (and iOS7+, and Unity) fail to differentiate buttons from drop-down menus from checkboxes from radio buttons from text input fields. You can only tell widget from non-widget by the different square of color, which can and does happen frequently between different areas in a non-widget background image as well.
It more reminds me of those "item hide and seek" point-and-click games where you mainly just click on everything in the image until the game tells you everything has been found.
Cities don't license plumbers, painter, interior decorators, electricians, doctors, lawyers, nannies, or nurses. Even though these people need much more training.
In Australia, plumbers, electricians, doctors, nannies and nurses all need to be licensed. You're talking out your arse or you live in the wild west.
Even over here in the wild west, plumbers, electricians, doctors, nannies and nurses all need to be licensed. Lawyers do too. Only painters and interior decorators on GPs list don't need licenses here.
Perhaps by "nanny" they meant "babysitter"? Baby sitters need no license, and many do call baby sitters a "nanny" despite the medical qualifications needed for the official title. Not that such a mistake would make the GP any more correct of course.
Of course burglars don't like that doors are locked, but they are the fucking REASON those doors are locked!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Jesus H. Christ! Private Pyle, why is your footlocker unlocked? Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, I don't know, sir! Sergeant: Private Pyle, if there is one thing in this world that I hate, it is an unlocked footlocker! You know that, don't you? Private: Sir, yes, sir! Sergeant: If it wasn't for dickheads like you, there wouldn't be any thievery in this world, would there?
The moral of the story - Always encrypt and lock everything, or gunnery sergeant hartman will find your jelly doughnut and you'll get beaten in your sleep by everyone with soap in socks.
If it isn't a big deal, does that mean you will import my certificate authority public key as fully trusted into your computer and point your DNS client to my servers?
No?
Well now you might see why it is a big deal after all.
However, if an inventor gives a seed patent to Cloem's software, and the software produces a list of almost-the-same implementations, who gets credit for those? The inventor of the seed patent? Cloem's software engineers? The computer itself?
My guess is which ever one signs the checks to the patent attorney. So probably the computer;P
once involved in a criminal conspiracy, which I am sure the Feds deem MegaUpload is, you are liable for all use of that which you created, even a program you coded if it was used for illicit purposes.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
There, you just participated in a web forum used for illicit purposes, and so are also guilty of criminal copyright infringement and criminal conspiracy.
Hope to see you in cell block six for the traditional fuck-beta gathering!
Other software vendors can even leverage Google's app for their own products (One example I know is Guild Wars 2 can use Google's app for 2 factor on your game account)
That's because Google Authenticator app is nothing more than a bog standard RFC6238 TOTP client. It's an open standard with many server and client implementations.
My home Debian server uses the TOTP PAM module to require two-factor auth for OpenSSH, and I use Google's Authenticator app as my main client, with a Yubico hardware token as a backup.
Other than Google creating their app, Google has NO other involvement in my authentication process. I run my own PKI "in house", so no need to even use Google services to avail yourself of their (mighty nice IMHO) TOTP client.
Just remember this next you attempt to complain about your works being pirated. It isn't OUR doing, you have only the government to blame.
If you refuse to pay for copyright protection for 70 years after your death, then don't bitch when I say my check for your work won't clear for 70 years after your death either.
Xamarian Mono or it's predecessor Ximian Mono. This is both a good and bad thing because while they're releasing the code, why aren't they working with Xamarian since they've already got a cross platform.NET environment?
This isn't teaching kids to fear imaginary threats, it is teaching that threatening people, whether the threat is credible or not, is highly inappropriate, and won't be tolerated.
I have interpreted your entire comment as an inappropriate threat against my life.
I demand you are imprisoned for life to prevent you from murdering me followed by mass-murdering trillions of other people, as that is the natural progression for this sort of thing.
So will you follow your own "morals" and turn yourself in to prison? Or are you just another hypocrite you wants zero tolerance applied to everyone BUT you?
And I for one welcome our new robotic cooking mama letsplayer overlords, and would like to remind them I have experience providing data center uptimes of fine nines while they are rounding up humans to toil away in their underground minecraft mines.
If the seller doesn't agree to meet at the stationhouse, isn't that a person the police should be investigating?
I certainly hope not!
Before seeing this article, I personally would have assumed meeting at the station house would put ourselves in the way of police officers with other important things to do, perhaps even things like saving lives, for what basically boils down to a simple craigslist purchase.
If someone else would have suggested it I would certainly be offering up other safe options to go with first, only choosing this one if literally no other options were available to not meet alone, and even then I would still feel bad for being in the way.
Now sure if I was to shoot down ALL suggestions for safe meetings, then that would and probably should be seen as shady as hell. But offering tried and true alternatives first is not something I feel should earn deeper investigation by the police or any other government agency.
"Do you have a friend or three that can come along? How about we meet at the Cinibun in blahblah mall? Or anywhere else closer to you that's in public and has a lot of people and cameras around? The police probably have lives to save and stuff, would you at least three-way call them first and ask if it's OK?"
Personally I see offering multiple ways to help reassure the other party, while also having my only one request for similar reassurance being denied, as the questionable act. Still not "investigated by the police or feds" level of questionable of course, but enough to raise my "I don't want to deal with an overly demanding buyer" counter, especially if there are other buyers in line.
The core virtualbox is open source and free, but the guest tools extension pack is closed and commercial. Under restrictive use cases you are allowed to install the guest tools for personal use for yourself and not need to pay for a license. But even so much as installing it for someone else is a license violation and Oracle expects you to pay for that.
No guest tools extensions means you have no drivers for the guest VM, no shared folders, no mouse/window integration, no accelerated 2d or 3d graphics nor resolutions over 1024x768 vesa.
Whom ever installs the guest tools extension is the ONLY person legally allowed to run that copy of virtualbox afterwards (following the legal agreement when you downloaded it at least.) If you install virtualbox and the guest extensions on a PC for your mom, mom isn't licensed to run it and Oracle wants a paid license in that case. Installing virtualbox via scripts including the guest extensions requires a license for each install, even if you are the one using a copy. (Academic use is somewhat excluded last I saw, but not being in academia I don't know any of those details)
There is an open source version of the guest tools, at least for Linux guests (maybe others by now.) I'm not sure what features it lacks or differences in the drivers, but they are made by a different development team unrelated to sun/oracle.
Are there some other core VirtualBox features I'm not aware of that keep people pinned to it?
It's the only way to virtualize OS/2 Warp as of six months ago and very likely to this moment.
(You didn't specify how many people a "core feature" must be useful to - although you would likely be shocked at the number of people who do just this)
...or you can just use a Windows Phone and disable the advertising ID as part of the OS in the Settings menu.
Or you could read at the very least the one sentence title of the story.
Verizon inserts the cookie, long after the traffic has left your phone and your phone has any ability to do shit all about it.
The only thing your phone could do or be effected by is if it also added a cookie with the same header name, in which case Verizon deletes your data and replaces it with their own.
It should be a requirement that you can read before you are allowed to write and post...
Missing from the summary: THEY HAVE SOFTWARE INSTALLED ON THE VICTIM LAPTOP that modules the CPU usage. You don't need any fancy equipment, any AM radio will do.
That reminds me of the Altair 8800 and what some call the machines first program that actually "did something", which ran various lengths of different timing loops in the CPU which had the effect of playing Fool on the Hill as RF interference on an AM radio placed near by.
It seems the sensible solution is to mount the telescope to the camera all self-contained on/in the drone.
I can then pilot the drone a sizable distance away from me and closer to you, but park the drone the *500m away from you so that you are in view of its telescope yet still far enough away so the sound mixes with the normal background environment.
I'd imagine one would want the telescope camera to be in addition to any normal cameras, as the former is more for spying and less for navigating.
* I'm not familiar with the current state of the art in telescope optics - that 500m figure came from a parent post I'm also not familiar with such a telescopes weight and am assuming it would still be on the heavier side and so needing a more powerful and thus loud drone to carry it. The lighter the telescope would be, the quieter of a drone that can be used.
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If you have weeks long running jobs on your desktop you're doing it wrong. There's a reason servers exist in datacenters.
*SNIP*
when they should be buying actual servers instead.
*SNIP*
You can even put GPU compute in servers and have a lot less concern for your systems going down.
Well since you offered, could you make your paypal payment to me about $6000 USD for a mid-range server?
Or since you're being so generous offering to pay for servers for us, how about a nice even $10000 and I'll get one of those newfangled blade systems!
As far as I know, Systemd has no capacity to think and therefore has no opinion on net neutrality.
Three days ago the Systemd-UpdateAgainstYourWillD automatically installed SystemD-AiD, which is a requirement to even boot the kernel because it was deemed no human being ever has or ever could be capable of the overwhelming task of "run some programs", which of course includes programs written by humans.
Two days ago there were promises SystemD-AiD would also gain enough intelligence to read corrupted syslogs, while insulting your petty human intelligence via way of SystemD-FortuneD, and injecting them into all outbound emails sent from your username via SystemD-SpammerD.
It was also rumored to soon be capable of washing your dishes, since no init system wants to start dirty programs or use plastic fork()'s.
Yesterday they canceled the dish washing patch based mainly on a usenet poll where "fuck systemd!!!" was interpreted by a similar AI as voting against the feature, thus canceling the patch due to overwhelming demand.
*Puts on grumpy old old old man voice*
When I grew up, there were only THREE planets in our solar system: Earth, Mars, and Mercury.
Both Jupiter and Venus are stars not planets.
Nothing beyond the thing you call the asteroid belt exists, and of course the asteroid belt is really just the outer shell of our universe with the other stars painted on it.
No mystical Pluto object could possibly exists beyond the edge of the universe!
Now get off my lawn with that talking about how things used to be :P
3. Delete a file
4. Whoa, the file is STILL THERE in the list
Err, wut?
I manage around 150 Win7 machines at work, and have 4 of them at home, and never once seen the behavior you are describing.
Are you sure there isn't more involved with recreating that? Have you seen this on more than one Win7 computer?
When I use explorer to delete a file, it is removed from the file list and placed in the recycle bin folder for that drive, just as has been the case for some time now.
If explorer is open to a remote file server it still removes the file from the list when deleted, just skipping the recycle bin part of things.
(Not to mention my complaint about a confirmation prompt being there when the recycle bin is used and so recovery is possible, and NO confirmation when deleting on a file share despite no recovery of the file being possible by default, which always seemed bas-ackward to me)
But you didn't mention browsing to a remote file share, the default explorer will open to your homedir or drive root typically on your system drive.
Well to be completely fair, there are a TON of very nice features being put in Win10, on top of a ton of things fixed that they broke in Win8.
No GUI requirement similar to the choice of installing xorg (I believe introduced in server 2012?), a powershell version of apt-get using the windows tailored chocolatey package format, fixed the stupidest of GUI changes from Win8 such as no desktop by default and whatever they call the app tiles thing, improved filesystem and network file sharing (the latter bringing a HUGE speed boost, both being more parallelized), etc.
They are trying out a different (and IMHO better) upgrade path, and hopefully all that is claimed about the new IE will come true which will finally begin closing the huge gap between it and pretty much any other browser.
Sure there is still plenty of time between now and release day to drop the ball on for anything above, but I dare say direction under their new CEO has been pretty damn positive so far, and leaps and bounds better than when under Balmer (though I admit that is a pretty low bar anyway)
As someone who hates Windows mainly due to being forced to support it and its bullshit for the past 20 years, even I am quite impressed with the changes between Win7 and Win10, and don't have much to complain about. We will see if that still holds true after release of course.
But I can't help but agree, a lot of the serious problems are being or have been addressed.
We only complain about the icons and lack of theme support to fix them because Microsoft asked us, petty as that may seem.
They look like they are from the seventies and using an 8 bit colour pallet.
Except even in GEoS from the seventies with a not-quite-8-bit color pallet was still capable of showing the differences between each type of GUI widget, and between widget and non-widget.
Win8/10 (and iOS7+, and Unity) fail to differentiate buttons from drop-down menus from checkboxes from radio buttons from text input fields.
You can only tell widget from non-widget by the different square of color, which can and does happen frequently between different areas in a non-widget background image as well.
It more reminds me of those "item hide and seek" point-and-click games where you mainly just click on everything in the image until the game tells you everything has been found.
Cities don't license plumbers, painter, interior decorators, electricians, doctors, lawyers, nannies, or nurses. Even though these people need much more training.
In Australia, plumbers, electricians, doctors, nannies and nurses all need to be licensed. You're talking out your arse or you live in the wild west.
Even over here in the wild west, plumbers, electricians, doctors, nannies and nurses all need to be licensed.
Lawyers do too.
Only painters and interior decorators on GPs list don't need licenses here.
Perhaps by "nanny" they meant "babysitter"? Baby sitters need no license, and many do call baby sitters a "nanny" despite the medical qualifications needed for the official title.
Not that such a mistake would make the GP any more correct of course.
The NSA is supposed to be spying on foreign entities. No constitutional issues there at all.
Please to be explaining how a United States Citizen is classified as "foreign entities" in your mind?
Of course burglars don't like that doors are locked, but they are the fucking REASON those doors are locked!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Jesus H. Christ! Private Pyle, why is your footlocker unlocked?
Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, I don't know, sir!
Sergeant: Private Pyle, if there is one thing in this world that I hate, it is an unlocked footlocker! You know that, don't you?
Private: Sir, yes, sir!
Sergeant: If it wasn't for dickheads like you, there wouldn't be any thievery in this world, would there?
The moral of the story - Always encrypt and lock everything, or gunnery sergeant hartman will find your jelly doughnut and you'll get beaten in your sleep by everyone with soap in socks.
If it isn't a big deal, does that mean you will import my certificate authority public key as fully trusted into your computer and point your DNS client to my servers?
No?
Well now you might see why it is a big deal after all.
However, if an inventor gives a seed patent to Cloem's software, and the software produces a list of almost-the-same implementations, who gets credit for those? The inventor of the seed patent? Cloem's software engineers? The computer itself?
My guess is which ever one signs the checks to the patent attorney. ;P
So probably the computer
Piracy is huge, and despite all the arguments for it, it still boils down to you taking something you should probably be paying for.
But I am going to pay for it. I've made certain my check will clear 70 years after the death of the author. Who could complain about that?
once involved in a criminal conspiracy, which I am sure the Feds deem MegaUpload is, you are liable for all use of that which you created, even a program you coded if it was used for illicit purposes.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
There, you just participated in a web forum used for illicit purposes, and so are also guilty of criminal copyright infringement and criminal conspiracy.
Hope to see you in cell block six for the traditional fuck-beta gathering!
My hovercraft is full of eels
*Runs google translate*
Ooh, why of course. *hands ranger some matches*
It's great that it worked out for them, but sometimes translations don't come out quite right.
*Runs google translate*
Wait, you want WHAT to come out of my nipples?!?
Other software vendors can even leverage Google's app for their own products (One example I know is Guild Wars 2 can use Google's app for 2 factor on your game account)
That's because Google Authenticator app is nothing more than a bog standard RFC6238 TOTP client.
It's an open standard with many server and client implementations.
My home Debian server uses the TOTP PAM module to require two-factor auth for OpenSSH, and I use Google's Authenticator app as my main client, with a Yubico hardware token as a backup.
Other than Google creating their app, Google has NO other involvement in my authentication process.
I run my own PKI "in house", so no need to even use Google services to avail yourself of their (mighty nice IMHO) TOTP client.
Just remember this next you attempt to complain about your works being pirated.
It isn't OUR doing, you have only the government to blame.
If you refuse to pay for copyright protection for 70 years after your death, then don't bitch when I say my check for your work won't clear for 70 years after your death either.
Xamarian Mono or it's predecessor Ximian Mono. This is both a good and bad thing because while they're releasing the code, why aren't they working with Xamarian since they've already got a cross platform .NET environment?
An interview with Miguel De Icaza (creator of Mono and co-founder of Xamarin) on that very question: .NET released from its Windows chains... but what ABOUT MONO?
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This isn't teaching kids to fear imaginary threats, it is teaching that threatening people, whether the threat is credible or not, is highly inappropriate, and won't be tolerated.
I have interpreted your entire comment as an inappropriate threat against my life.
I demand you are imprisoned for life to prevent you from murdering me followed by mass-murdering trillions of other people, as that is the natural progression for this sort of thing.
So will you follow your own "morals" and turn yourself in to prison? Or are you just another hypocrite you wants zero tolerance applied to everyone BUT you?
And I for one welcome our new robotic cooking mama letsplayer overlords, and would like to remind them I have experience providing data center uptimes of fine nines while they are rounding up humans to toil away in their underground minecraft mines.
If the seller doesn't agree to meet at the stationhouse, isn't that a person the police should be investigating?
I certainly hope not!
Before seeing this article, I personally would have assumed meeting at the station house would put ourselves in the way of police officers with other important things to do, perhaps even things like saving lives, for what basically boils down to a simple craigslist purchase.
If someone else would have suggested it I would certainly be offering up other safe options to go with first, only choosing this one if literally no other options were available to not meet alone, and even then I would still feel bad for being in the way.
Now sure if I was to shoot down ALL suggestions for safe meetings, then that would and probably should be seen as shady as hell. But offering tried and true alternatives first is not something I feel should earn deeper investigation by the police or any other government agency.
"Do you have a friend or three that can come along? How about we meet at the Cinibun in blahblah mall? Or anywhere else closer to you that's in public and has a lot of people and cameras around? The police probably have lives to save and stuff, would you at least three-way call them first and ask if it's OK?"
Personally I see offering multiple ways to help reassure the other party, while also having my only one request for similar reassurance being denied, as the questionable act. Still not "investigated by the police or feds" level of questionable of course, but enough to raise my "I don't want to deal with an overly demanding buyer" counter, especially if there are other buyers in line.
The core virtualbox is open source and free, but the guest tools extension pack is closed and commercial. Under restrictive use cases you are allowed to install the guest tools for personal use for yourself and not need to pay for a license. But even so much as installing it for someone else is a license violation and Oracle expects you to pay for that.
No guest tools extensions means you have no drivers for the guest VM, no shared folders, no mouse/window integration, no accelerated 2d or 3d graphics nor resolutions over 1024x768 vesa.
Whom ever installs the guest tools extension is the ONLY person legally allowed to run that copy of virtualbox afterwards (following the legal agreement when you downloaded it at least.)
If you install virtualbox and the guest extensions on a PC for your mom, mom isn't licensed to run it and Oracle wants a paid license in that case.
Installing virtualbox via scripts including the guest extensions requires a license for each install, even if you are the one using a copy.
(Academic use is somewhat excluded last I saw, but not being in academia I don't know any of those details)
There is an open source version of the guest tools, at least for Linux guests (maybe others by now.)
I'm not sure what features it lacks or differences in the drivers, but they are made by a different development team unrelated to sun/oracle.
Are there some other core VirtualBox features I'm not aware of that keep people pinned to it?
It's the only way to virtualize OS/2 Warp as of six months ago and very likely to this moment.
(You didn't specify how many people a "core feature" must be useful to - although you would likely be shocked at the number of people who do just this)
...or you can just use a Windows Phone and disable the advertising ID as part of the OS in the Settings menu.
Or you could read at the very least the one sentence title of the story.
Verizon inserts the cookie, long after the traffic has left your phone and your phone has any ability to do shit all about it.
The only thing your phone could do or be effected by is if it also added a cookie with the same header name, in which case Verizon deletes your data and replaces it with their own.
It should be a requirement that you can read before you are allowed to write and post...
Missing from the summary: THEY HAVE SOFTWARE INSTALLED ON THE VICTIM LAPTOP that modules the CPU usage.
You don't need any fancy equipment, any AM radio will do.
That reminds me of the Altair 8800 and what some call the machines first program that actually "did something", which ran various lengths of different timing loops in the CPU which had the effect of playing Fool on the Hill as RF interference on an AM radio placed near by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It seems the sensible solution is to mount the telescope to the camera all self-contained on/in the drone.
I can then pilot the drone a sizable distance away from me and closer to you, but park the drone the *500m away from you so that you are in view of its telescope yet still far enough away so the sound mixes with the normal background environment.
I'd imagine one would want the telescope camera to be in addition to any normal cameras, as the former is more for spying and less for navigating.
* I'm not familiar with the current state of the art in telescope optics - that 500m figure came from a parent post
I'm also not familiar with such a telescopes weight and am assuming it would still be on the heavier side and so needing a more powerful and thus loud drone to carry it. The lighter the telescope would be, the quieter of a drone that can be used.