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  1. Hmmm SCSI to USB adapters do exist...

    Most are utter crap at any speed with abandonware drivers. You are better off with a card in an old PC (or old laptop with the PCMIA card) since you'd need an old OS to drive the SCSI to USB adapter anyway.

  2. Re:No evidence when one does not look on Scrap Dealer Finds Apollo-Era NASA Computers In Dead Engineer's Basement (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    and that the likelihood of successful restoration is quite low

    In the oil and gas industry tapes from the 1970s are transcribed nearly every single week somewhere around the world. You are likely to find some place with extensive experience in the phone book, especially in Texas, California, South Africa, UK etc etc.
    However, recovering complete files could be another story, but a lot of file formats can cope with a few bits missing.

  3. Re:You all presumably know why. on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    why is that it actually solves (most) problems with older init systems

    I hear that line a LOT but nobody ever seems to provide examples of even trivial problems solved.

  4. Re:You all presumably know why. on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I mean the systemd project itself may be shit, but for some reason all the technical maintainers of distros who have nothing to do with systemd think the opposite.

    They want gnome and systemd is the price.

  5. Re: You all presumably know why. on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    It does not speak well for the current state of the Linux community that an incompetent cretin can engineer a hostile takeover of this size.

    From Raster's comments about his brief time working for RedHat some time back we should have seen this coming when we left most of the heavy lifting in linux to RedHat. As far as they can tell Lennart is the genius and Linus is as bad as Lennart's insults say he is.

  6. Re: You all presumably know why. on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    What is the advantage of systemd anyway?

    RedHat owns it and nobody outside of RedHat really understands it for more than a few weeks before it morphs again.

  7. Re:You all presumably know why. on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 2

    if everyone here used all the energy they have to hate on SystemD, to actually fix those bugs

    How? Lennart isn't listening and isn't going to accept fixes to something he doesn't see as a problem.
    It appears a lot of the energy is going into FreeBSD etc.

  8. "cutting the cord" != having your provider setup new gateways

    You'd think so but a "creative" decided that there would be "better optics" if they used the phrase as a deliberate move to mislead.

  9. Re:why is this on Slashdot? on BetterWorks and CEO Sued By Ex-employee For Alleged Sexually Suggestive Assault (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So all tech nerds need to be hit over the head repeatedly with the misdeeds of a small minority?

    Where is the hit on the head and where is it being repeated?
    The alleged perpetrator is a CEO of a large startup and probably not a "tech nerd" at all let alone someone who can be assumed to be representative of us all.

    This is no more an attack on "tech nerds" than the TV series "The Office" where the boss behaves badly.

  10. Re:why is this on Slashdot? on BetterWorks and CEO Sued By Ex-employee For Alleged Sexually Suggestive Assault (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Link to the whining?

    Any of the long string of "Friday night fight" articles about women in IT that cropped up here once a week like clockwork until a few months back when the site editors appear to have decided Trump articles were better clickbait (not that I disagree). The whining posts tended to get modded up and down like yoyos.

  11. Re:Any reason why? on Afghan Girls Robotics Team Allowed To Enter U.S. For Competition (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Having money in Afghanistan by purely savory means cannot be easy, given the recent turmoil

    Ah yes, the "all Americans are gangsters" thing shifted to another place and time.
    You probably don't even know you are doing it.

  12. Re:Cache out the wazoo! on AMD Threadripper 1950X Trounces Core I9-7900X In Multithreading Benchmark (pcper.com) · · Score: 1

    The Nintendo DS has 4MB memory, total, and you can run not just linux but some applications as well.

  13. Re:why is this on Slashdot? on BetterWorks and CEO Sued By Ex-employee For Alleged Sexually Suggestive Assault (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It kind of matters if you work in a startup like that. The fallout from a guy acting up like that can hit everyone.
    If these folks running startups get reminders that they shouldn't be fucking at work then it's more chance for people to be employed on their merits instead of being "hot". There's always people here whining that women are taking their jobs and strangely they are the same ones that would be happier if things like this went unreported - counterproductive.

  14. Re:WTF is "Sexually Suggestive Assault"?! on BetterWorks and CEO Sued By Ex-employee For Alleged Sexually Suggestive Assault (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like how when prominent figures liked by the press are charged with fucking kiddies in the past so it gets reported as "historical crimes" instead of decades of kiddie fucking.
    In this case "sexually suggestive" is a way to skew it so that it doesn't sound so bad when a person is caught touching boobs of a woman who doesn't want him to touch them (all those chest bumps).


    The answer as always is to keep work and leisure separate, act professionally and don't have fucking stupid "retreats", "teambuilding" and especially don't let bosses get drunk and dance with female subordinates who feel like they will get sacked if they don't play along. Eventually someone goes way too far and the company is paying because somebody couldn't keep it in his pants on company time.

  15. Re:The second one on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    So your claims of "full escalation" was "mild criticism"

    No, it's an term used for a bug where a process ends up running as root when it should not. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation)
    Why are you going on and on without even knowing what "full escalation" means? WTF is it with fanboys - get a clue before trying to "correct" people who dare to suggest the object of your fandom is less than perfect.

  16. Re:Scuttlebutt? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you even read the posts?

    Why do you think I would follow any of your links after you wrote started the shit of "selling weapons to terrorists after they have killed US Marines isn't all that bad"?
    Besides, I was paying attention at the time. The bit about North and Poindexter deleting emails and the suspicious sysadmins saving the evidence by not erasing the backups to schedule was especially interesting to IT folks - those sysadmins were patriots - unlike you and the slime you are cheering for.

    The US administration exchanged weapons to release hostages.

    A lot more was going on than that you cheerleader for a traitor and a thief. North kept on doing deals. Lots of deals. Lots of weapons sold to Hezbolla. Anti-tank weapons with too much of an edge to be sold to allies sold to Hezbolla.

    The Obama administration gave money to Iran. Does that mean that the Obama administration supported and aided Iran and Hezbollah

    WTF? How is that remotely the same as filling multiple detailed weapons orders for terrorists in Lebanon and embezzling a cut for himself?

  17. While Zen Server parts (Epyc) look good on paper, it reamis to be seen if there will be Adoption from server makers

    https://www.supermicro.com/pro...

    But one thing is to hope, and quite another thing is reality

    Hence the provided link via a two word google search that describes some reality.

  18. Re:Why a toy OS on that system? on 24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between independent benchmarks and rigged demos referred to by salesfolk and there seems to be a lot of the latter.
    That's just my opinion anyway from a small number of machines that seems to perform extremely poorly compared with MS Win7 machines.

  19. Re:Scuttlebutt? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Me? Haven't you got the message yet that I see you as a traitors willing sex toy? What;'s with the distraction about Iran anyway - I'm writing about the extremely obvious treason with Hezbolla instead as you well know even if you do not "read more carefully".
    WTF is it with pieces of shit that think it's perfectly OK to sell weapons to extremist Islamic terrorists that had killed over a hundred US Marines less than a year before? Why does slime like you attempt to infect others with your fucked up lack of morality?

  20. Re:Of course, the utility is limited when... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    There are also a lot of advantages for off-road vehicles, where drivers may need to apply very precise amounts of power from a standing start and at low speeds.

    Spot on. I used to have a tiny little Suzuki 4WD with a tiny little engine but in the right gear it could get all over the place.

  21. Quite a good move on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Quite a good move - a shell script would be a better driver than most idiots I've seen in Audis.

  22. Re:Why a toy OS on that system? on 24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    *There is a difference: Windows 10 is marginally faster.

    So the people advertising for it say, yet slowdown seems to be a common complaint among users. I don't have enough people using it to have more than anecdotes from the annoyed, but I strongly suspect that the advertising doesn't quite match reality.

  23. Re:Blackouts not brownouts on Elon Musk Promises World's Biggest Lithium Ion Battery To Australia (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    What's a little odd is that I'm presumably criticizing Australian power techniques

    Brownouts should never happen unless there are a string of very serious fuckups, thus I saw it as criticism.

  24. Re:Revisionist Party Komrade on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Also the Hezbolla stuff not Iran you lying fuckwit.

  25. Scuttlebutt? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Scuttlebutt" is somehow superior to a long running legal investigation and court case?
    All this evasion and stupidity just so you can fell better about a traitor scuttling your butt.