Hello Mark, this is the chance you were not waiting for. Give up on Apple as a model; realize that one single interface for phones and PCs is an absurdity; accept that Windows is universal; move Ubuntu in that direction and get a sizeable chunk of the desktop market.
The current Euro treaties do not allow a member to leave the Euro zone. Nor do they foresee a mechanism to kick out any member.
Of course, the member states could come together and sign a new treaty. Needless to say, it would take a while. And, oh, it would take previous agreement.
At that time downloading a couple of MB was quite difficult and the more so if you needed to store them on floppies.
Yes, Prentice-Hall released MINIX source code and binaries on floppy disk with a reference manual but it was priced at 50 bucks (A.D. 1992). I remember Tannebaun proclaiming that the price was right and students should pay up.
Unfortunately, no update of the legendary PJ comments. But the timeline shows that the judge granted partially and dismissed partially an IBM request for summary judgement in Dec. 2014.
Appeal to jurists with Pacer access: please report on SCO-IBM fight of the last two years. The case was revived (with IBM's consent) the same day Groklaw shut down.
I have tried out Vivaldi and I'm disappointed. And not because of the bugs.
I'm disappointed because of the false claims that Vivaldi would be a follow-up to Opera 12.x.
It is not. It does not give me the features, the power, the freedom to counter the formatting and decoration and publicity shit of so many web pages - starting with the big ones. Starting with Slashdot, for example. I need a weapon against the styling idiots. Opera 12.x is such a weapon, Vivaldi is not, it is simply conformistic.
I'm fully with you. RSM doesn't sleep because the adjective 'free' in English does not say what he wants to say. Get over it, Richard, you can't change it. Instead, find new names. LO would profit immensely without an akward combination of Spanish and English. Slashdot should start a contest for a good alternative among its readers. My entry is Liberty.
The last virus I fell victim to was a virus spreading around on diskettes with infected boot sector. That was 1991.
Since then the only viruses and malware running on my PC would be there by invitation. I let them in intentionally, had a look and kicked them out - fully in control.
Last week I just fancied getting a virus check of my storage devices and installed Bitfender. It modified my Windows BCD boot without asking and took over. It would not let me launch it on demand, no, it deemed itself so indispensable that it had always to be there in imperial role. It didn't like being offline. Kicked out in no time.
And what anti-virus was I using? Ah, an easy one. I browse around as lowly user without javascript, session cookies only. Sure, I must use javascript with some banks and travel agencies and Google Maps but I know them and wipe out all their settings afterwards. Otherwise I do not allow web sites to take over my machine. No, bastards, keep your dirty fingers off my files.
The scientists did not stand accused of failing to warn against an earthquake. Not at all. Legend.
They were accused to have encouraged the town of Aquila to disregard threatening tremors and stay safely at home.
The town followed 'their' recommendation against the century old habits in an earthquake-prone region to run out and wait in the open air. Result was more then 300 deads.
The appeal court has decided that the fatal recommendations did not come from the scientists but from the inept, corrupt, opportunistic bureaucracy. Doubts about this version linger on.
I have been reading Groklaw since its inception in May 2003 and I am fully convinced (i) that there is a lady XY that goes by the name of Pamela Jones or just pj; (ii) that she did an epochal job; and (iii) that I and everybody else own her big thanks.
However, Groklaw changed after the lady disappeared for a couple of months in 2009 and then returned without much explanations. I had the distinct impression that a small team was then at work of which she was still the leader and the main contributor. A law professor took over for a brief period and disappeared again.
The team have now discovered that they cannot hide the way they thought they could and wished they could. The reasons given by pj for closing down are totally unconvincing. Does she communicate day by day? Does she use the phone? Does she write letters? With the same logic she is offering for Groklaw's closure she would have to stop talking, phoning and writing. And breathing.
Once upom time I did care about updating my XP. Then about 3 years ago the updates stopped installing, they would loop forever. Apparently a MS bug. They released a fix, the fix didn't work for me.
The news: no malware, no virus, no intruders for the past 3 years. The recipe: no javascript. And even Slashdot becomes readable.
About two years ago my WinXP SP3 stopped updating. The update would start but went into grinding never coming to an end. It was actually a widespread problem at the time, apparently a bug on Microsoft's side, apparently fixed by Microsoft after a while. I tried plenty of suggestions, nothing helped, as of today my system does not update. I never bothered to reinstall from scratch.
So what? You go on the Net without administrative rights, Javascript is disabled and you can relax. But those exploits that attack you anyway? Well, I infected my machine intentionally with a boot virus. I collected information running WinXP under the virus. Then I booted into Ubuntu and had a look at \Windows\System32 to see the intruders. Essentially, I neutralised the infection by hand although in the end I restored the partition anyway.
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>>> The read-only support for NTFS is due to patent issues. >>>
I can write to NTFS from Ubuntu using Midnight Commander.
Get rid of javascript from here to eternity.
Second, advertising only on demand. That means no advertising where there is content.
Put a link to advertising where you want, readers can click on it when they are in the mood.
Brot means bread in German. In some German speaking regions brotli means little roll. The world doesn't have English as mother tongue.
Hello Mark, this is the chance you were not waiting for. Give up on Apple as a model; realize that one single interface for phones and PCs is an absurdity; accept that Windows is universal; move Ubuntu in that direction and get a sizeable chunk of the desktop market.
http://linuxgazette.net/186/an...
Yes, there must be a Nigerian conspiracy to keep CapsLock.
Richard, have you ever heard of the 5th freedom? The freedom from hassle?
The current Euro treaties do not allow a member to leave the Euro zone. Nor do they foresee a mechanism to kick out any member.
Of course, the member states could come together and sign a new treaty. Needless to say, it would take a while. And, oh, it would take previous agreement.
At that time downloading a couple of MB was quite difficult and the more so if you needed to store them on floppies.
Yes, Prentice-Hall released MINIX source code and binaries on floppy disk with a reference manual but it was priced at 50 bucks (A.D. 1992). I remember Tannebaun proclaiming that the price was right and students should pay up.
A mystery man or woman updated the SCO timeline on Groklaw:
http://www.groklaw.net/staticp...
Unfortunately, no update of the legendary PJ comments. But the timeline shows that the judge granted partially and dismissed partially an IBM request for summary judgement in Dec. 2014.
Appeal to jurists with Pacer access: please report on SCO-IBM fight of the last two years. The case was revived (with IBM's consent) the same day Groklaw shut down.
I have tried out Vivaldi and I'm disappointed. And not because of the bugs.
I'm disappointed because of the false claims that Vivaldi would be a follow-up to Opera 12.x.
It is not. It does not give me the features, the power, the freedom to counter the formatting and decoration and publicity shit of so many web pages - starting with the big ones. Starting with Slashdot, for example. I need a weapon against the styling idiots. Opera 12.x is such a weapon, Vivaldi is not, it is simply conformistic.
>>>
The introduction of systemd has unilaterally created a polarization of the GNU/Linux community
>>>
Please allow me to correct a little oversight: The introduction of systemd has BILATERALLY created a polarization of the GNU/Linux community...
I'm fully with you. RSM doesn't sleep because the adjective 'free' in English does not say what he wants to say. Get over it, Richard, you can't change it. Instead, find new names. LO would profit immensely without an akward combination of Spanish and English. Slashdot should start a contest for a good alternative among its readers. My entry is Liberty.
The last virus I fell victim to was a virus spreading around on diskettes with infected boot sector. That was 1991.
Since then the only viruses and malware running on my PC would be there by invitation. I let them in intentionally, had a look and kicked them out - fully in control.
Last week I just fancied getting a virus check of my storage devices and installed Bitfender. It modified my Windows BCD boot without asking and took over. It would not let me launch it on demand, no, it deemed itself so indispensable that it had always to be there in imperial role. It didn't like being offline. Kicked out in no time.
And what anti-virus was I using? Ah, an easy one. I browse around as lowly user without javascript, session cookies only. Sure, I must use javascript with some banks and travel agencies and Google Maps but I know them and wipe out all their settings afterwards. Otherwise I do not allow web sites to take over my machine. No, bastards, keep your dirty fingers off my files.
Die, Gnome, die. You were so busy harrassing users that you even forgot trademarking your name.
The scientists did not stand accused of failing to warn against an earthquake. Not at all. Legend.
They were accused to have encouraged the town of Aquila to disregard threatening tremors and stay safely at home.
The town followed 'their' recommendation against the century old habits in an earthquake-prone region to run out and wait in the open air. Result was more then 300 deads.
The appeal court has decided that the fatal recommendations did not come from the scientists but from the inept, corrupt, opportunistic bureaucracy. Doubts about this version linger on.
>>> It's the year 2014, and I still have a floppy drive installed on my computer. >>>
Never mind, next time you willl be unable to find a motherboard with a floppy interface.
Winkey, Right, Enter
Basic functionality without javascript, that's what we need.
If Microsoft wants to desinfect themselves they need to remove Gates and Ballmer from any influential positions.
I have been reading Groklaw since its inception in May 2003 and I am fully convinced (i) that there is a lady XY that goes by the name of Pamela Jones or just pj; (ii) that she did an epochal job; and (iii) that I and everybody else own her big thanks.
However, Groklaw changed after the lady disappeared for a couple of months in 2009 and then returned without much explanations. I had the distinct impression that a small team was then at work of which she was still the leader and the main contributor. A law professor took over for a brief period and disappeared again.
The team have now discovered that they cannot hide the way they thought they could and wished they could. The reasons given by pj for closing down are totally unconvincing. Does she communicate day by day? Does she use the phone? Does she write letters? With the same logic she is offering for Groklaw's closure she would have to stop talking, phoning and writing. And breathing.
Once upom time I did care about updating my XP. Then about 3 years ago the updates stopped installing, they would loop forever. Apparently a MS bug. They released a fix, the fix didn't work for me.
The news: no malware, no virus, no intruders for the past 3 years. The recipe: no javascript. And even Slashdot becomes readable.
In the install tree find the file JSByteCodeWin.bin and rename it. Works for me.
>>> 1. if you don't have access to broadband, this isn't for you ... in other words, it's for almost everyone. >>>
Except for 99% of users in Latin America, Africa, Asia. Oh yes, you are right, who cares. Oh, you are right, who cares?
It is not the figure given that is confusing, it's the concept.
Start with 1 unit of currencyA equivalent to 2.2 units of currencyB.
After a while currencyB has depreciated by 900%. And what the hell does that mean? Don't ask journalists, ask yourself.
About two years ago my WinXP SP3 stopped updating. The update would start but went into grinding never coming to an end. It was actually a widespread problem at the time, apparently a bug on Microsoft's side, apparently fixed by Microsoft after a while. I tried plenty of suggestions, nothing helped, as of today my system does not update. I never bothered to reinstall from scratch.
So what? You go on the Net without administrative rights, Javascript is disabled and you can relax. But those exploits that attack you anyway? Well, I infected my machine intentionally with a boot virus. I collected information running WinXP under the virus. Then I booted into Ubuntu and had a look at \Windows\System32 to see the intruders. Essentially, I neutralised the infection by hand although in the end I restored the partition anyway.