Fastmail customer support is *awesome*. As a longshot, I once asked their support to send me logs from the SMTP server showing the handoff of e-mail to the receiving mail server, (to settle a dispute with another party.). And much to my surprise, they *did*, in less than a business day.
The fastmail system is much more capable and user friendly to manage multiple users and domains than Gmail, and includes some good old file based webhosting.
And,, umm, it's already a given that e-mail is not an encrypted protocol, and I'm already well aware that their storage is not encrypted.
Clearly, the 'benevolent dictators' in charge of the Snapper project have a severe case of cranium posterior inversion. Whatever technical merits snaps may have become completely irrelevant in the face of people who think *they* are the ones who will dictate how I manage my own system.
Oh, and the whole thing relies on a store that itself is a closed source service.
I appreciate everything that Ubuntu does to make Debian more accessible, and even with the ever growing list of things I have to fix with every new release, (such as uninstalling snapper,) Ubuntu is still an easier, smoother path. But this is definitely the point where I have to draw the line. If the distro becomes increasingly dependent on snaps to be useful, I have to give up on it.
The real smoking gun for Google is that they forbid phone makers from releasing *any* android phone that is not on their Google Play platform. If a company wanted any Google Play supported phone, they *all* had to be Google Play phones. That's a big no no and obvious abuse of Monopoly power.
However.... just like the time Microsoft was forced to stop dictating what software is pre-installed on PC's, government regulation here is just going to make things worse for consumers. For all it's faults and obscene privacy invasion, Google is a relatively benign overlord. If they loose the ability to dictate how phones are pre-configured, the end result will not be a utopia of phone carefully pre-configured to protect end-user privacy. It will be phone makers selling out and pre-configuring phones with malicious advertisement hijacking search engines, and app repositories stuffed with even more malware than Google's Play store.
Actually, I think there is. As it is now, HBO is *giving* all that market away to.. shall we say, grey market sites, (at best.) If HBO dedicated some time and effort to capturing those eyeballs for themselves, there might well be many opportunities to monitize it that are being overlooked.
Probably Putin, trying to destabilize the Free Software movement and keeping the desktop fragmentation Gnome created (or, at least, greatly escalated) going.)
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> Windows Update -> Properties -> Change Startup to "Disabled". Reboot
Don't forget to re-enable periodically to catch up on updates, also will be needed for some Hardware drivers that download from Microsoft. Avoid IE or Edge Browsers, and use 3rd party AV. Job done, and system downtime is drastically reduced.
Your comparison is apt. What does this study show? Increased adrenaline possibly leading to abnormal heart rhythms? symptoms remarkably similar to caffeine, (and probably any other chemical stimulant.) Benign as coffee is about all this research has shown. We already new nicotine was a stimulant.
Thunderbird could have been the key to make Mozilla relevant. Browsers we have many. And while I personally still use Firefox for a few options I like, it could disappear tomorrow and I would barely miss a step.
But to this day, secure, *private* communication and messaging remains a challenge. Thunderbird has had the solution for years, and all it would have needed was a bit of clever marketing / positioning for people and organization to take full advantage of it. Mozilla instead wasted all their political capital trying (and failing) to change the standard everyone uses for video, even though the die had already been cast in embedded chips.
The request for injunction is completely baseless and fails any legal requirement for even requesting one. This is just a media hound lawyer trying to grab headlines, and doesn't speak well for the merits of the case to begin with.
There is no harm to Rearden from the continued distribution of these movies while the courts figure out how many millions (if any) Disney owes them, ergo no grounds for injunctive relief.
Everyone (Many people) are suffering from some kind of version fatigue. It's as simple as that. Owning any software run device these days is like having someone come and and re-arrange all the furniture in your house every week. The novelty might seem nice at first, but after a while, any change that you don't specifically want becomes irritating.
I have not played this game, and I'm unlikely ever to do so. In fact, I didn't even know about it until I followed the links from this article. Yes, my rock is very big.
However, looking at the videos of all the concepts this game tried to create, randomly generated worlds to explore, gather resourses, aliens and factions, I was hit with a great thought, born of nostalgia. If you were to take this game engine, and add the plot, aliens, etc from Starflight (1 & 2.) this would probably be the most awesome game ever.
That's the thing.. it's a solved problem,, has been a solved problem for over a decade. If only the big cloud players (MS, Google, Yahoo) got off their behiends and implemented encrypted e-mail that's relatively easy for people to use, that would be a *great* step in the problems being addressed here. Instead, they have to start re-inventing the whole transport protocol, while leaving the goldmine of data storage in the same sad 1980's shape.
This is the first time I've found someone suggesting discard as the first choice over fstrim. The reasons to use fstrim is stated right in that article. Performance bottlenecks when there are file delete opperations. (And no real benefit to trimming on the fly vs trimming in a batch process.) However, while I usually have nothing against debaing my betters and making a spectacular fool of myself, I'm not going to go out of my way to contractict the Arch Linux documentation.
It also looks like if dropping the discard mount option you will also avoid being hit by this serious issue.
There's very little good reason to use 'discard' on Linux, and many reasons not to. (This isn't the first data corruption problem, and there are several performance issues as well.) Fstrim in a con job is the way to go.
Isn't that Copyright protection was extended. That's bad enough, buit is in good company of poorly thought out laws that burocracies and governments have to live with.
What really bothers me is the Canadian government following the Amerian example of sneaking new laws in completely unrelated bills. A change to the copyright act should have been made in a bill ammeding the copyright act. How can a legal system possibly be sutainable when you have to start looking at annual budget bills of some obscure decade to figure out the copyright statues currently in place?? This practice serves no purprose, other than as a trick for governments to sneak in legal statues they would otherwise not legally be able to do due to opposition, either legislative or public.
Whether or not a longer copyright term will help promote the arts are encouraging more investment in art production is debatable. I have a strong oppinion, but so do many others with the opposite.
However, there is no theory whatesoever that retroactively extending copyright terms does anything to promote the creation of new art/culture (recall, the whole point of government granted copyright monopoly in the first place.) In fact, there is strong evidence that works still under long copyright are supressed until they become public domain.
I think we can conclude that any politicians singing on to retroactively extend copyright terms are clearly corrupt.
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A couple days early for these stories, no?
Fastmail customer support is *awesome*. As a longshot, I once asked their support to send me logs from the SMTP server showing the handoff of e-mail to the receiving mail server, (to settle a dispute with another party.). And much to my surprise, they *did*, in less than a business day.
The fastmail system is much more capable and user friendly to manage multiple users and domains than Gmail, and includes some good old file based webhosting.
And,, umm, it's already a given that e-mail is not an encrypted protocol, and I'm already well aware that their storage is not encrypted.
(Neither is Google's.. don't be fooled)
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/d...
Clearly, the 'benevolent dictators' in charge of the Snapper project have a severe case of cranium posterior inversion. Whatever technical merits snaps may have become completely irrelevant in the face of people who think *they* are the ones who will dictate how I manage my own system.
Oh, and the whole thing relies on a store that itself is a closed source service.
I appreciate everything that Ubuntu does to make Debian more accessible, and even with the ever growing list of things I have to fix with every new release, (such as uninstalling snapper,) Ubuntu is still an easier, smoother path. But this is definitely the point where I have to draw the line. If the distro becomes increasingly dependent on snaps to be useful, I have to give up on it.
The real smoking gun for Google is that they forbid phone makers from releasing *any* android phone that is not on their Google Play platform. If a company wanted any Google Play supported phone, they *all* had to be Google Play phones. That's a big no no and obvious abuse of Monopoly power.
However.... just like the time Microsoft was forced to stop dictating what software is pre-installed on PC's, government regulation here is just going to make things worse for consumers. For all it's faults and obscene privacy invasion, Google is a relatively benign overlord. If they loose the ability to dictate how phones are pre-configured, the end result will not be a utopia of phone carefully pre-configured to protect end-user privacy. It will be phone makers selling out and pre-configuring phones with malicious advertisement hijacking search engines, and app repositories stuffed with even more malware than Google's Play store.
Actually, I think there is. As it is now, HBO is *giving* all that market away to .. shall we say, grey market sites, (at best.) If HBO dedicated some time and effort to capturing those eyeballs for themselves, there might well be many opportunities to monitize it that are being overlooked.
But I expect AT&T to just FUBAR it anyhow.
Probably Putin, trying to destabilize the Free Software movement and keeping the desktop fragmentation Gnome created (or, at least, greatly escalated) going.)
You did something wrong.. disabling the service works perfectly.
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> Windows Update -> Properties -> Change Startup to "Disabled". Reboot
Don't forget to re-enable periodically to catch up on updates, also will be needed for some Hardware drivers that download from Microsoft. Avoid IE or Edge Browsers, and use 3rd party AV. Job done, and system downtime is drastically reduced.
Your comparison is apt. What does this study show? Increased adrenaline possibly leading to abnormal heart rhythms? symptoms remarkably similar to caffeine, (and probably any other chemical stimulant.) Benign as coffee is about all this research has shown. We already new nicotine was a stimulant.
Thunderbird could have been the key to make Mozilla relevant. Browsers we have many. And while I personally still use Firefox for a few options I like, it could disappear tomorrow and I would barely miss a step.
But to this day, secure, *private* communication and messaging remains a challenge. Thunderbird has had the solution for years, and all it would have needed was a bit of clever marketing / positioning for people and organization to take full advantage of it. Mozilla instead wasted all their political capital trying (and failing) to change the standard everyone uses for video, even though the die had already been cast in embedded chips.
The request for injunction is completely baseless and fails any legal requirement for even requesting one. This is just a media hound lawyer trying to grab headlines, and doesn't speak well for the merits of the case to begin with.
There is no harm to Rearden from the continued distribution of these movies while the courts figure out how many millions (if any) Disney owes them, ergo no grounds for injunctive relief.
Here's a more thorough analysis of the trends, (in pretty, easy to understand graphs)
http://authorearnings.com/repo...
In short, Market share of the publishers reporting their sales is *way* down.
Everyone (Many people) are suffering from some kind of version fatigue. It's as simple as that. Owning any software run device these days is like having someone come and and re-arrange all the furniture in your house every week. The novelty might seem nice at first, but after a while, any change that you don't specifically want becomes irritating.
I have not played this game, and I'm unlikely ever to do so. In fact, I didn't even know about it until I followed the links from this article. Yes, my rock is very big.
However, looking at the videos of all the concepts this game tried to create, randomly generated worlds to explore, gather resourses, aliens and factions, I was hit with a great thought, born of nostalgia. If you were to take this game engine, and add the plot, aliens, etc from Starflight (1 & 2.) this would probably be the most awesome game ever.
Sadly, it seems that is unlikely to happen.
Stateside viewers will be able to stream the new show via CBS's own All Access digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service
That's a pretty credible attempt to unseat GoT as the most pirated TV show.
It could have been much worse if all the people who re-use the same password had the credit card accounts accessed.
Arrrgh, what I meant to say, is that the speed reported is 30% Lower than what I measure. *sigh*
The speed reported on fast.com is less than 30% what I'm recording on my own network monitor while running the test.
That's the thing.. it's a solved problem,, has been a solved problem for over a decade. If only the big cloud players (MS, Google, Yahoo) got off their behiends and implemented encrypted e-mail that's relatively easy for people to use, that would be a *great* step in the problems being addressed here. Instead, they have to start re-inventing the whole transport protocol, while leaving the goldmine of data storage in the same sad 1980's shape.
This is the first time I've found someone suggesting discard as the first choice over fstrim. The reasons to use fstrim is stated right in that article. Performance bottlenecks when there are file delete opperations. (And no real benefit to trimming on the fly vs trimming in a batch process.) However, while I usually have nothing against debaing my betters and making a spectacular fool of myself, I'm not going to go out of my way to contractict the Arch Linux documentation.
Having said that, considering the nature of this bug, I wouldn't be surprised is using fstrim would also trigger this particular bug.
It also looks like if dropping the discard mount option you will also avoid being hit by this serious issue.
There's very little good reason to use 'discard' on Linux, and many reasons not to. (This isn't the first data corruption problem, and there are several performance issues as well.) Fstrim in a con job is the way to go.
Isn't that Copyright protection was extended. That's bad enough, buit is in good company of poorly thought out laws that burocracies and governments have to live with.
What really bothers me is the Canadian government following the Amerian example of sneaking new laws in completely unrelated bills. A change to the copyright act should have been made in a bill ammeding the copyright act. How can a legal system possibly be sutainable when you have to start looking at annual budget bills of some obscure decade to figure out the copyright statues currently in place?? This practice serves no purprose, other than as a trick for governments to sneak in legal statues they would otherwise not legally be able to do due to opposition, either legislative or public.
Whether or not a longer copyright term will help promote the arts are encouraging more investment in art production is debatable. I have a strong oppinion, but so do many others with the opposite.
However, there is no theory whatesoever that retroactively extending copyright terms does anything to promote the creation of new art/culture (recall, the whole point of government granted copyright monopoly in the first place.) In fact, there is strong evidence that works still under long copyright are supressed until they become public domain.
I think we can conclude that any politicians singing on to retroactively extend copyright terms are clearly corrupt.
You did see the part where those were O'Reilly books right? I can buy a legit pdf right this minute.