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  1. Re:Issue is more complicated on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    it sounds like your interpersonal relationship skills are still on the school playground...

    oh wait, are you still in school?

  2. Re:Issue is more complicated on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1, Insightful

    NO. there's no excuse for being an asshole.

  3. Re: So not publically not eating your own dog food on Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    Oh that supermodel!

  4. Re:What did the question even mean? on Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend not shelling out the $2K for dreamforce. It's probably not for you...

  5. Re: I wonder if they're going to use this as "proo on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    Fucking morons. Who the fuck builds a real bomb and brings it into class and shows it off to everyone?

    If the kid was a real terrorist then the first anyone would have seen of his bomb would be the shrapnel blasting its way through their eyeballs.

  6. Re: Terrorists everywhere on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    Very brief

  7. Re: (intentionally blank) on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 1

    all hail! the high-priestess of internet printer discussions has spoken and judged us: not worthy.

  8. Re: (intentionally blank) on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 1

    Yeah. My current "least-evil" printer brand is Brother. they don't seem to require chipping 3rd party refils (hp) and the drivers don't entierly suck (Epson, ugh)

  9. Re: Anyone got a source for 'safe' black & col on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Usually the trick with refilling cartridges is not the ink, it's replacing the dmca-protected chips that enforce the manufacturer's monopoly on their cartridge market. Don't buy printers that use them.

  10. Re: (intentionally blank) on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 5, Informative

    My last HP printer refused to scan if the ink was low.

    I used "last" there as meaning not only "previous" but also "final".

  11. Re:It takes two... on Steve Wozniak "Steve Jobs Played No Role In My Designs For the Apple I & II" · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs was a genius at creating a single product: Steve Jobs.

  12. Re: 15? on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    > Windows 9x could be entered and exited at any time just like any other DOS program
    the fact that people still believe that this implies that win95 ran as s DOS program is a testament to how well the Chicago team hid the internals of what actually went on behind the scenes.

  13. Re: 15? on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    you didn't read Raymond's article properly, did you? win95 had support for DOS drivers and programs, but that doesn't mean that win95 was DOS. if you just ran win32 code then DOS was out of the picture, the real-mode VM didn't need to run.

  14. Re: 15? on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Win95 "ran on" DOS the same way that your Linux machine runs on JavaScript. Just because you have a VM spun up running a compatibility layer for legacy programs doesn't mean your OS is based on what that VM emulates.

    Put yourself on the right side of ignorance: read this

  15. Impressive on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    the most impressive thing about windows 95 was the sheer number and variety of existing machines that it not only ran on, but ran on with support. (Yes, trolls, not 100%)

    System 7? Not so much.

  16. Re: Hang on a minute... on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    systemctl emacs <filespec>

  17. Re:Field Programmable Gate Array on Learn FPGAs With a $25 Board and Open Source Tools · · Score: 1
  18. Re:The new priesthood on Ask Slashdot: Technical Resources For Non-Technical Disciplines? · · Score: 1

    It's not symmetric like that.

  19. don't bother on Ask Slashdot: Technical Resources For Non-Technical Disciplines? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    developers aren't interested in advisers or clients telling them how to code. they're interested in learning the requirements and domain-specific knowledge that those people have that helps them design the best product to fill their needs. the best language with which to convey these requirements isn't code. it's not photoshop (UX designers: listen) it's english. preferably spoken, maybe loudly, in a room with coffee and whiteboards, lots of both.

  20. Re: I was at the launch party on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Ha! I had forgotten that plane! There was also a banner on building 16 that read "Built with Visual C++" which wasn't entirely true...

  21. Re: Did you get paid?` on How Microsoft Built, and Is Still Building, Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, suck it Windows for not using slashes or dots.

  22. Re: The biggest problem with windows on Broken Windows 10 Update Causes Reboot Loops For Some Users · · Score: 3, Insightful

    does suspend sedation "Just Work"? does two-finger tap for right-click "Just Work"? does wi-fi roaming "Just Work"?

    oh i know. it's open source... i should just STFU and fix it myself, right?

  23. Re:How is this different from Microsoft's... on .NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters · · Score: 1

    i just ran this on my i5-3570K running win7:

    >timecmd "systeminfo | find 'System Boot Time'"
    systeminfo | find 'System Boot Time'
    Results of execution:

            Exit code 2
            Time of execution 10.121

    that's 10 seconds.

    i just had to reboot to install about 6-weeks-worth of updates.

    it never crashes.

    you're doing it wrong.

  24. Re:The joys of youth on .NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters · · Score: 1

    > stuck using Visual Studio 5

    Visual Studio 97

  25. Re: .NET patches = job security on Microsoft Officially Releases Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 · · Score: 1

    not wrong. the post i was replying to was this:

    > Another version of .NET means update times get increased again

    which is wrong.

    since 4.6 REPLACES 4.5, there's no additional patches to install.

    ongoing, you either install the 4.5 patches, OR the 4.6 ones. not both.

    i feel sorry for whoever hired you that you still don't understand that, and you're supposedly responsible for so many systems. and what's worse, i have explained it to you several times and you still refuse (probably out of some ignorant pride) to accept your misunderstanding. actually, since you're responsible for running bulk windows updates, i'm not entirely surprised...