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  1. And yet there will be fewer posts on here than on the one about the do-nothing space princess.

    Carrie Fisher? I had to quit watching the news.

    Not a word about someone I've never heard of before who has made more of an impact on mine and others way of thinking than some actress.

    In the field of astronomy it's rare to be proven right while still alive - her findings "have been confirmed over the subsequent decades" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... she had that going for her.

    I've never heard of her before, her observations or them being related to dark matter, just that there wasn't enough gravity in a Galaxy to hold them together.

  2. Re:Wikipedia got damn hard to use. on The Project To Revive Abandoned Wikipedia Pages Has Been Abandoned (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps someone who says "would of", uses "it's" incorrectly, and doesn't know the difference between statue and stature shouldn't be editing articles anyway?

    Using "got" in the subject line is borderline but could be acceptable for effect, but "damn" should be "damned".

    While reading of your observance of my inability to communicate I also noticed all the mod points I had just acquired.

    It brought a grin and a bit of humor into my day.

  3. Re:You know the expression? on The Project To Revive Abandoned Wikipedia Pages Has Been Abandoned (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    "...and nothing of value was lost."

    You must of missed the war of words between encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia of years ago.
    Encyclopedia Britannica would enjoy nothing more than the demise of Wikipedia.

    Wikipedia has value as all have used it.

  4. Wikipedia got damn hard to use. on The Project To Revive Abandoned Wikipedia Pages Has Been Abandoned (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    At first I edited the entry for Kennewick Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man) by placing this photo for use in the
    aritcle http://i44.tinypic.com/j7ffoz.... it was a straight text entry.

    Then all of these programs started showing up to add to your browser or stand alones. It
    got to the point one had to specifically be set up to make any entries; it was too much for me when an entry would of been a rare occasion.

    Note:
    I got all the permissions for posting the photo (It's a bust outside the door of a library), all was good.

    Then the photo had a history of reappearing in the article then being removed - appears one involved in it's construction claimed ownership having it removed from Wikipedia, and refused any email from me questioning ownership of a stature.
    -and yes it does look like Patrick Stewart.

  5. Re:Question on FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released (freedos.org) · · Score: 1

    Serious question: besides playing DOS games, is FreeDOS used for anything like industrial controls or embedded OS' or other stuff?

    I have a tv card installed in my system that the old freedos had drivers for. I'm hoping version 2 has the same drivers.

    i've yet to install version 1 - I haven't the time yet to of instalL1, but grabbed 2 just the same

  6. And what of comp.risk? on Google Responds On Skewed Holocaust Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I read comp.risk for the first time in years last week (an old Usenet fav), mainly to see what they had to say of the election tampering. One of the articles lashed out at Google and how they should be ashamed of themselves.

    If you search for the world is flat, Google will prove it is.

  7. Re:In other news... on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, South Carolina law makers prove they have no idea how computers or the internet work.

    Nope, they don't. Was the first thing I checked for and it's still hiding in plain sight.

    Now while Trump said anything to fit the moment and can't be held for any one view expressed, he did mention he would start blocking p0rn on the Internet, during a speech I watched.

    Yet nobody has mentioned, let alone brought up the Usenet. It and it alone has supplied me well over the years.

  8. Re:Still holding out for KDE. on Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' Is Here For Christmas (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Cinnanom

    Cinnanom-nom-nom.

    Damn, thought I had it. On the other hand you should hear me try to prounce it.

  9. Still holding out for KDE. on Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' Is Here For Christmas (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Had a website that showed how to take Cinnanom and make it KDE plasma. did it but it's too cpu intensive. going to see how dual booting Cinnamon anf KDE works.

    I'd really like to use that program KDE-Connect, it's something i could really use and heard nothing but guoo about it.

    Cinnamon>KDE I was able to quad boot :) default/Plasma/Cinnamon/Cinnamon (software rendering).

    Don't have link handy but will post if there is an interest.

    KDE-Connect you connect ur phone and forget about is all is shown on the display.

  10. Re:30? on Nintendo Sells Nearly 200,000 Units Of Its Mini Retro Console (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As the most common size of a nes game was 384kb they could have easily added every single licensed nes game released (713) onto a single 512mb flash chip.

    Just need one to keep most happy for quite awhile "Super Mario Brothers".

  11. Re:More advertising data on New Google Trusted Contacts Service Shares User Location In Real Time (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Fucking floors me every time just how blind end users are to the justifications behind a business collecting data or enabling "features".

    Of all the ToS's I've read Rovio.com (then angry birds) was the best and most informative.

    Explaining These games collect your data, then sale it to Flurry.com (at the time Google) who added what they had and sold it to target advertisers.

    So I added Rovio.com, Flurry.com to the HOSTS, opting out of Flurry.com no easy task -at the time this program was required
    https://play.google.com/store/... to obtain the number requested.

    I've told many, I've seen none care.

    So you maintain a HOSTS file? That floors me, such a simple thing as text file and weekly maintenance allowing some of the best security one can have, I've talked nobody into using one.

    Side note: few weeks ago Flurry.com seemed out of Yahoo.com, yet Robtex.com touches on a broader relationship. https://www.robtex.com/?dns=fl...

  12. Re:More advertising data on New Google Trusted Contacts Service Shares User Location In Real Time (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The real take-away is that Google will also know your location. Wrapping it up in a sheep's skin of user-convenience is their Modus Operandi.

    It comes with the territory, you have to trust somebody, Google is just about all that's left.

    For their community support Google Earth for one, your ability to make money from youtube, Android, just lots. I don't mind sharing my searches, and the little I supply. I don't log into Google just to search or view youtube, there is a limit.

    As for this buddy locater it comes across as a good thing bad thing, both sides debatable.

  13. Re:Math, Physics, Genomics on Tech Billionaires Award Top Scientists $25 Million In 'Breakthrough' Prizes (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    These are fairly specialized areas.

    How about a prize that more people would be able to compete for, let's say, the most amusing post on the Internet?

    Very specialized areas.

  14. Re:Why, does it work properly now? on Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he means OSX, which has in fact had this functionality for a number of years now.

    I think you mean every email client in existence, which has had the ability to send SMS messages through the carrier's email to SMS gateways for as long as those gateways have been in existence.

    I've used Forte Agent 1.93 (windows) to do this all the time. A few years back they blocked this ability (at least the the IP's I was using).

    SMS Gateways: http://www.email-unlimited.com...

  15. My Moto G4 does this backwards on Delete Yourself From Many Internet Sites By Pressing This Button (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    In my settings I can allow or deny access to what allowing Google access allows viewed, it's just universal; not as per site.

    I'm sure this is available within Google itself but I don't access Google+, youtube, or other with my log in email address, just searches. This wasn't on purpose, it just worked out that way.

    As a bonus, being Android 6+ I can also disallow permissions I've previously allowed downloads.

  16. Because the three regular editors are Hillary shills that won't accept what happened.

    Then they'll love the news that the Emoluments clause is being talked about more seriously.
    Or Trump has some major conflicts of interest, and can make him and his some big bucks being president.

    Donald Trump and the Emoluments Clause, explained:
    http://www.vox.com/policy-and-...

  17. Fold a Shirt in less than 2 Seconds... on Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    They should spend sometime viewing youtube, I saw this being done many years ago.
    So it's not like it's being kept as some big secret https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  18. Re:Not the worst that can happen on A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Got a late start eh, I don't think many on /. haven't worked on computers

    cute :)

    I get it man, you miss remembered something and now just cant let go. Its ok, its not the end of the world. I will leave you and your cognitive dissonance in peace.

    If I found it to be Sram you can sure bet I'd of sent off a message, so in all fairness.

    I stopped by my storage today to pick my stereo with no HDMI. I'm going digital optical connections instead - it's a much nicer receiver.

    Just so happened all my Amigas were there, so I brought the 3000 home, snapped a shot of the ram and found it's not Sram and it's not Dram
    it's called static column ram - which is as close to Sram as you can get (but not Sram, yet we called it that). In fact if you search for 9A9Z you get
    all sorts of answers of what it is.

    This ram allows the same search and grab as Sram, the bottom line being "Under some conditions, most of the data in DRAM can be recovered even if the DRAM has not been refreshed for several minutes."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... How I got there https://groups.google.com/foru...

    So shutdown, wait then reboot.

    My Ram http://i66.tinypic.com/dx23uw....

  19. Re:Not the worst that can happen on A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    so again, there never was any sram in amigas

    I have an 8 Meg expansion card for the 2000, I only got as far as I needed
    http://amiga.resource.cx/searc...

    ps: I fix computers on a component level since nineties :/

    Got a late start eh, I don't think many on /. haven't worked on computers

  20. Re:I just "bought into" Oracle yesterday on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    I say fu Oracle, every time I use Virtualbox. I has bugs but it does what I want. I find that VMWare molests my machine in ways that make me unhappy.

    Well it would appear I was the only one who didn't know, I dropped windows, win7 are for those times windows has to be used, yet Wine seems to do just fine, Agent Ransack is the only must have program of mine that just won't even try to install,

    But I'm enjoying playing around with Linux Mint (cinnamon), that's my game now, getting those applications running that just don't want to, Auth2DB at the moment.

  21. Re:I just "bought into" Oracle yesterday on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but to answer your stupid trolling and hopefully shut you up, video drivers are handled at the host OS level, VM Hypervisors have no bearing on finding a video driver to the guest OS.

    Virtualbox's video driver system is garbage compared to vmware's, and it always has been.

    I sure didn't want to hear that, I spent a bit of time with wikipedia.org comparing charts of different comparisons, Virtualbox sure seemed to work for me.
    I don't use windows anymore so my gaming days are over, steams ok but all I have are bad titles.

  22. Re:I just "bought into" Oracle yesterday on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but to answer your stupid trolling and hopefully shut you up, video drivers are handled at the host OS level, VM Hypervisors have no bearing on finding a video driver to the guest OS. You must be stuck in 1993 and still be using MS-DOS where this was an actual issue.

    Take it as a troll if you wish, it would be my first time, so different, video's fairly covered.

    I did use it once before many years ago using VMware, and Apples snow leopard, video wasn't a problem. Playing my games was and I only had it installed a day.

  23. Re:I just "bought into" Oracle yesterday on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did the research and Virtualbox was the software I went with as it met my every need

    I take it you're not expecting a video driver that works worth a damn.

    Two thing here I have an old hauppauge video capture card I plan on ripping CD's with - it uses RCA jacks, this from FreeDos who has a driver for it.

    I have VT-d for VM, it lets the VM'd OS have directed I/O access to the Video card, hard drives, and network

  24. Re:Not the worst that can happen on A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Amiga used DRAM just like every home computer of that period. You are confusing couple of things.
    1 you can reset machine without losing ram contents, this was possible in pretty much every computer at the time.
    2 ramdisk for storing files in ram.

    SRAM is static, that means you dont need to refresh it = you can power down whole computer leaving only ram voltage rail. This is how storage worked on early portables like portfolio.

    Don't know if you went through the "computer wars", but to purchase an Amiga was was to put ones self on the front line. I could of really gone off on this thread, a direction of nobodies real interest, or use.

    The main point of my first post was that Sram is everywhere and a reboot isn't resetting ones system, it takes a full shutdown and a wait.

    "SRAM is also used in personal computers, workstations, routers and peripheral equipment: CPU register files, internal CPU caches and external burst mode SRAM caches, hard disk buffers, router buffers, etc. LCD screens and printers also normally employ static RAM to hold the image displayed (or to be printed)."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. I just "bought into" Oracle yesterday on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    No troll, just the facts relating to me.

    It time for me to run Win7 as a VM OS (I can fresh install my Win7 as often as I want -on this computer, and my numbers don't go over ( those added for each upgrade). This with Linux Mint (cinnamon).

    Did the research and Virtualbox was the software I went with as it met my every need https://www.virtualbox.org/. While it cost nothing up front, I'm into Oracle now.