Yeah every now and then I'll see a full screen Chrome pop up claiming to have encrypted everything (and that they're the FBI, and can be paid via Wahlgreens gift cards or some nonsense)
Lol, yes, my neighbor saw this on his Chromebook and brought it over to my place in a panic.
I asked him if he thought the FBI really took payments, and if so, that they would take them by Western Union or iTunes cards or whatever. lol
We closed the tab and he went back home a little bit wiser. Not much, but a little bit.
Then start acting like one instead of some whiny little millennial bitch who's complaining that the rice in the cafeteria sushi isn't authentic enough to satisfy her standards.
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And the arg (in case you're doubting my age) was actually my quake (1) clan [arg!]
That's nice, dear.
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I just find old people that bitch because something changes tiresome.
Then say hello to the mirror for me.
And it's not just that "something changed", it's that a useful existing standard is being broken for no good reason.
They did a good job of restarting the sunni/shia wars. Too bad Obama didn't understand that we wanted them stalemated, not Iran winning.
Great job of avoiding discussing the corruption that Bush & Cheney excelled at.
But like I said, standby for epic levels of corruption by the Trump Crime Family. You ain't seen nothin' yet. We'll see what the tally is this time next year.
Bill Clinton did many of the things your list. Only #3 is an exception. Because Bill never held an honest job in his life and had no holdings.
Well if we're going to travel back in time, perhaps you should study up on George Bush and Dick Cheney, the masters of monetizing the White House. Hell, Cheney started a war and invaded a country to make some cash for Halliburton. And when he wasn't doing that he was drunkenly shooting his friends in the face.
If you can't keep such a machine up, you shouldn't be a system administrator.
I don't really need to be a system administrator; my servers all just run and run without having to dick around with them.
On the rare occasion I install something or make a change, I don't even have to reboot them, unlike a Windows machine. On Windows, just updating your mouse driver requires a restart, lol.
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These machines are more likely to stay up when they are completely untouched
Ahhh, so a Windows box will run forever as long as it's not actually used for anything. Wonderful.
No, not at all. Yeah, there's been a ton of corruption in the last 20 years, but you've not seen anything yet, not like we're going to see. Let's take the last 8 years for example...
Did Obama's daughters sit in on meetings with world leaders like Ivanka Trump has? Nope. Did Obama appoint close family members to positions of power on his staff? Nope. Did Obama pimp his business holdings out to world leaders the way Trump already has with his hotels? Nope. Did Obama install an endless succession of billionaires and Goldman Sachs executives into his cabinet positions? Nope.
Seriously, whatever corruption has gone on on the last 20 years is going to look like child's play compared with what's to come.
- low contrast text. The lower the contrast the better. The goal is text that is all but unreadable for a pair of 20-year-old eyeballs.
^^^^ THIS.
Also include:
- weirdo color schemes like soft-pink text on a gray background, yellow on gray, pink on white, etc etc - super-tiny font size, - page elements that zoom in and out, bounce, or elastically jitter or shake for no reason, - form elements that are basically invisible until you click into them (i.e. no outlines so you can't tell that they're for elements) - custom JS-rendered form elements that don't work in some browsers or mobile devices and/or can't be accessed using the keyboard - numbnut designers who use radio buttons as checkboxes. WTF were you thinking??
There's more, but I gotta go yell at some kids to get off my lawn. And hey, where's my belt with the onion on it?
And while we're at it, can we name and shame the fucktards who implement the "infinitely scrolling" page feature?
I hate that shit- you can't bookmark the page properly, and if you back up to it then it either loses it's memory of where you were (forcing you to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll down to where you were) OR it forces you to reload 150 pages of crap back to get back to where you were. Either way its a pain in the ass and a hostile UI design.
I wonder how long it will take the ignorant fools who voted for Trump to figure out that he is screwing them, too.
The smarter ones - the ones who wear shoes and occasionally visit a dentist - have already figured it out.
Just wait a year, then they'll really be screaming. We're in for epic levels of corruption, nepotism, malfeasance, dismantling of the social safety nets...
How merciful of Amazon not to buy up that land and then charge their slaves, errr, I mean "employees" for the privilege of camping on it.
I don't know about over there, but I know that Amazon has been directly responsible for driving the cost of apartments in Seattle through the roof. You used to be able to rent a modest apartment for $500 to $600 a month, now it's well over $1200 to $1500 or more for a basic place in a run down building. But screw those poor people, right?
Also I will add Windows can serve 50 websites just fine with high uptime
That's nice. I hope you enjoy paying for it year after year.:)
As I mentioned in another post, I have 3 servers. One has about 50 sites, one has about 100 sites, and the newest one has only had about a dozen sites put on it so far. Quite a few of them are high traffic, probably more than a Windows box could sustain. And these servers are basic, medium grade units, nothing heavy duty...and yet they seem to do just fine. Millions of hits a day, day after day, week after week.
Uptime? I have 1000+ days on one server, about 390 on another, and about 100 on the newest one.
Let me know when your Windows server hits 1000 days of continuous, sustained use without a reboot or restart.:)
He said um what do you guys do all day on your computers that run Linux?
Like I said, I have a Linux server (3 actually) that host websites. Between the 3 of them they host about 150 sites, and they make money for me as well as providing various other services, some which I give away at no cost. So that's what I do with Linux.
I also have Linux Mint on my laptop and for basic day-to-day stuff it does everything I need (email, browsing, video, audio, etc).
I'll be the first to say that there's really no good equivalent for some applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. For those you'll need a Windows box. However, the vast majority of people don't those applications.
"Microsoft acknowledged the problem Thursday, recommending customers try restarting their PCs"
Almost 25 fuckin' years after releasing Win 3.1, and their trouble shooting advice is still "have you tried restarting it?"
On the other hand, I have a Linux server that just passed 1015 days uptime with no restarts or reboots. It hosts about 50 websites and runs 24/7 with constant activity. Windows couldn't even dream of that kind of service.
I built devices to blow out CB radio receiver front-ends back in the 1970s for truckers and 'outlaw CBers'.
You're so full of shit that your eyes are brown. The inverse-square law would like to chime in to tell you to shut the fuck up. The amount of RF power required to fuck up a CB or ham set at just 1000 feet would require your own dedicated electrical substation. You're a fucking poser and a liar, and not a very good one.
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I'm an RF engineer with 45+ years experience. With the advances in battery tech since the '70s it should be quite do-able.
What you are is a fat-assed liar who couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel.
On the plus side, think of the opportunities for yanking their chains! Me: Hey, wife! Did you use up the cocaine without replacing it?? You KNOW you're supposed to get more if you use up the last of it! Wife: Husband, I haven't touched the coke in weeks. Either the kids or the dogs are getting into it.
Yeah, after the feds get done tossing your house, confiscate all your shit, put your kids into foster care, and after you bond out of jail, it'll be a hilarious story to tell at the lawyer's office!
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Yeah every now and then I'll see a full screen Chrome pop up claiming to have encrypted everything (and that they're the FBI, and can be paid via Wahlgreens gift cards or some nonsense)
Lol, yes, my neighbor saw this on his Chromebook and brought it over to my place in a panic.
I asked him if he thought the FBI really took payments, and if so, that they would take them by Western Union or iTunes cards or whatever. lol
We closed the tab and he went back home a little bit wiser. Not much, but a little bit.
"So what would you do if this ransomware infected your files?"
I'd restore from backups.
I'm a 50 year old man,
Then start acting like one instead of some whiny little millennial bitch who's complaining that the rice in the cafeteria sushi isn't authentic enough to satisfy her standards.
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And the arg (in case you're doubting my age) was actually my quake (1) clan [arg!]
That's nice, dear.
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I just find old people that bitch because something changes tiresome.
Then say hello to the mirror for me.
And it's not just that "something changed", it's that a useful existing standard is being broken for no good reason.
...Person in his second half-century complains that UI element he's comfortable with is no longer as universal as he thinks it should be
What, you're ragging on him because he's older and has more experience than you? Way to go, young lady, you're like so awesome!.
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In military slang, 'pogue' is a derogatory term for some REMF that has no clue how the world works in reality. That's about right.
In everyday slang, 'argStyopa' is a derogatory term for a pantywaist that thinks she knows it all, while still carrying a Fischer-Price lunchbox
They did a good job of restarting the sunni/shia wars. Too bad Obama didn't understand that we wanted them stalemated, not Iran winning.
Great job of avoiding discussing the corruption that Bush & Cheney excelled at.
But like I said, standby for epic levels of corruption by the Trump Crime Family. You ain't seen nothin' yet. We'll see what the tally is this time next year.
Bill Clinton did many of the things your list. Only #3 is an exception. Because Bill never held an honest job in his life and had no holdings.
Well if we're going to travel back in time, perhaps you should study up on George Bush and Dick Cheney, the masters of monetizing the White House. Hell, Cheney started a war and invaded a country to make some cash for Halliburton. And when he wasn't doing that he was drunkenly shooting his friends in the face.
If you can't keep such a machine up, you shouldn't be a system administrator.
I don't really need to be a system administrator; my servers all just run and run without having to dick around with them.
On the rare occasion I install something or make a change, I don't even have to reboot them, unlike a Windows machine. On Windows, just updating your mouse driver requires a restart, lol.
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These machines are more likely to stay up when they are completely untouched
Ahhh, so a Windows box will run forever as long as it's not actually used for anything. Wonderful.
Have you been asleep for the last 20+ years?
No, not at all. Yeah, there's been a ton of corruption in the last 20 years, but you've not seen anything yet, not like we're going to see. Let's take the last 8 years for example...
Did Obama's daughters sit in on meetings with world leaders like Ivanka Trump has? Nope.
Did Obama appoint close family members to positions of power on his staff? Nope.
Did Obama pimp his business holdings out to world leaders the way Trump already has with his hotels? Nope.
Did Obama install an endless succession of billionaires and Goldman Sachs executives into his cabinet positions? Nope.
Seriously, whatever corruption has gone on on the last 20 years is going to look like child's play compared with what's to come.
- low contrast text. The lower the contrast the better. The goal is text that is all but unreadable for a pair of 20-year-old eyeballs.
^^^^ THIS.
Also include:
- weirdo color schemes like soft-pink text on a gray background, yellow on gray, pink on white, etc etc
- super-tiny font size,
- page elements that zoom in and out, bounce, or elastically jitter or shake for no reason,
- form elements that are basically invisible until you click into them (i.e. no outlines so you can't tell that they're for elements)
- custom JS-rendered form elements that don't work in some browsers or mobile devices and/or can't be accessed using the keyboard
- numbnut designers who use radio buttons as checkboxes. WTF were you thinking??
There's more, but I gotta go yell at some kids to get off my lawn. And hey, where's my belt with the onion on it?
And while we're at it, can we name and shame the fucktards who implement the "infinitely scrolling" page feature?
I hate that shit- you can't bookmark the page properly, and if you back up to it then it either loses it's memory of where you were (forcing you to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll down to where you were) OR it forces you to reload 150 pages of crap back to get back to where you were. Either way its a pain in the ass and a hostile UI design.
The smarter ones - the ones who wear shoes and occasionally visit a dentist - have already figured it out.
Just wait a year, then they'll really be screaming. We're in for epic levels of corruption, nepotism, malfeasance, dismantling of the social safety nets...
All hail our corporate overlords!
How merciful of Amazon not to buy up that land and then charge their slaves, errr, I mean "employees" for the privilege of camping on it.
I don't know about over there, but I know that Amazon has been directly responsible for driving the cost of apartments in Seattle through the roof. You used to be able to rent a modest apartment for $500 to $600 a month, now it's well over $1200 to $1500 or more for a basic place in a run down building. But screw those poor people, right?
Again running servers does not count.
It counts for me. :)
For "Photoshop" the Gimp is pretty much identical
Look, I like Linux, but I know enough about Photoshop and GIMP to know that GIMP is in no way "pretty much identical" to Photoshop.
"He said the bug cannot be exploited remotely."
In other words, "yawn". If you have physical access to a machine all bets are off.
All of our Windows machines at my last work place had over 5 years on them
Lol, sure they did. And I was a door gunner on the Space Shuttle.
Also I will add Windows can serve 50 websites just fine with high uptime
That's nice. I hope you enjoy paying for it year after year. :)
As I mentioned in another post, I have 3 servers. One has about 50 sites, one has about 100 sites, and the newest one has only had about a dozen sites put on it so far. Quite a few of them are high traffic, probably more than a Windows box could sustain. And these servers are basic, medium grade units, nothing heavy duty...and yet they seem to do just fine. Millions of hits a day, day after day, week after week.
Uptime? I have 1000+ days on one server, about 390 on another, and about 100 on the newest one.
Let me know when your Windows server hits 1000 days of continuous, sustained use without a reboot or restart. :)
He said um what do you guys do all day on your computers that run Linux?
Like I said, I have a Linux server (3 actually) that host websites. Between the 3 of them they host about 150 sites, and they make money for me as well as providing various other services, some which I give away at no cost. So that's what I do with Linux.
I also have Linux Mint on my laptop and for basic day-to-day stuff it does everything I need (email, browsing, video, audio, etc).
I'll be the first to say that there's really no good equivalent for some applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. For those you'll need a Windows box. However, the vast majority of people don't those applications.
"Microsoft acknowledged the problem Thursday, recommending customers try restarting their PCs"
Almost 25 fuckin' years after releasing Win 3.1, and their trouble shooting advice is still "have you tried restarting it?"
On the other hand, I have a Linux server that just passed 1015 days uptime with no restarts or reboots. It hosts about 50 websites and runs 24/7 with constant activity. Windows couldn't even dream of that kind of service.
I guess I'm behind the times because I don't have this problem with my ordinary wired earbuds. Woe is me.
Please donate money to me so I can buy this expensive, technologically inferior bit of crap.
Facebook: "Lol, ooops, we overcharged you, our bad, sorry, no refunds."
Just like everything Trump says, hell is in the details.
Just like everything Trump says, it's all bullshit with no basis in reality.
all you're capable of doing is attempting to discredit me by falsely labeling me a racist.
You're not a racist, you're an asshole. And if you ever dragged your goober ass through my neighborhood you'd be reclassified as a "target".
I built devices to blow out CB radio receiver front-ends back in the 1970s for truckers and 'outlaw CBers'.
You're so full of shit that your eyes are brown. The inverse-square law would like to chime in to tell you to shut the fuck up. The amount of RF power required to fuck up a CB or ham set at just 1000 feet would require your own dedicated electrical substation. You're a fucking poser and a liar, and not a very good one.
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I'm an RF engineer with 45+ years experience. With the advances in battery tech since the '70s it should be quite do-able.
What you are is a fat-assed liar who couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel.
On the plus side, think of the opportunities for yanking their chains!
Me: Hey, wife! Did you use up the cocaine without replacing it?? You KNOW you're supposed to get more if you use up the last of it!
Wife: Husband, I haven't touched the coke in weeks. Either the kids or the dogs are getting into it.
Yeah, after the feds get done tossing your house, confiscate all your shit, put your kids into foster care, and after you bond out of jail, it'll be a hilarious story to tell at the lawyer's office!