If you want to run a bash shell under Windows 10, they now offer one
Unfortunately, that is not exactly true. That was my hope when I first heard about it, because cmd.exe is such an abomination. But in fact, the Bash shell seems to be in some sort of Linux virtual machine. It doesn't run Windows executables and knows nothing or very little of Windows. So it cannot be used to do useful Windows stuff.
If you hoped to be able to use Bash for Windows scripting, well, forget it. It's still either cmd.exe or the convoluted and Windows-only Power Shell.
He couldn't decide between getting an.org or a.com domain, so he took trumporg.com? Anyway, trumpcom.org is still available if someone has an idea of something to do with it...
$ whois trumpcom.org NOT FOUND >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-10-19T23:47:43Z
No mod points today. Hopefully someone else will mod this up.
Indeed, viewed from Europe, Clinton's policy proposals sound like normal center right stuff. And she is the only real candidate anyway. Most representatives of the other party would be labelled extreme right in Europe, but I guess even the neo-fascists in Europe wouldn't have selected Trump as their candidate. So what is a normal news organisation to do? Try to pretend that a "narcissistic sociopath" is just a normal candidate and that the insane things he is saying are just a different opinion?
I don't understand this rage to encrypt everything. I publish some web pages (a couple of blogs, my résumé, a few very specific instructions pages, etc) and cannot see any reason to have these pages delivered over encrypted links.
I use the web to _publish_ stuff, and to read what others _publish_. When I buy a newspaper at my local newsstand, I don't want it encrypted, and I don't care that the owner knows what papers I read.
While there are many good reasons to have some web traffic encrypted (passwords, transactions,...), this sudden movement to encrypt everything looks really weird to me.
Or are there reasons which I don't see, why some people or entities would have some interest in everything being encrypted?
Maybe it will be an opportunity to have a well maintained Thunderbird, but if not, it's worrying for email. I don't want to replace email with Facebook/Whatsapp/orWhatnot.
For now, there is Apple Mail which only runs on Macs,
Outlook which only runs on Windows (and is a terrible IMAP client, probably to force you to get an Exchange server)
And Gmail which only runs on... Google. And only if you have an Internet connection.
I feel Thunderbird is essential, and hope it finds someone to take care of it.
I don't need yet another database in Linux. PostgreSQL is fine, thank you. Even MySQL/MariaDB are OK.
What I miss is a GUI interface to these databases, which would allow me to quickly build GUI applications for users. MS Access can show PostgreSQL data to users in quickly designed forms and reports. And these can have some (horrible) VBA code to make a few things faster and easier for the users. Without Access, I have to make HTML interfaces, which works fine for simple reports, but gets really clumsy and slow for complex interactive forms.
(Yes, I know about PGadmin. It's great for me, and I use it regularly. But it's not for designing custom user interfaces to databases)
FTA: "For five digit passwords, [...] All the usual suspects occur, but a new addition is the puerile addition in position #20 of the concatenation of 420 and 69."
Am I competely sutpid, or is there some cultural reference here, which I don't get? Why "42069"? Why is it puerile?
Firefox also has an internal PDF viewer. Is there any difference? Is there something specific reason that makes the embedded PDF viewer safe in Chrome or Firefox, but not in Edge?
It took them quite a long time to realize what everybody else has always known. Yes AZERTY sucks. And as someone who lives in a neighboring country, I sometimes come across these crazy keyboards. The problem is not just that the keyboard is impractical. It is mainly that it is so wildly different from all other keyboards.
The problem is aggravated by OS installers like Windows, which insist that if you are installing a French version of Windows, you must need a French AZERTY keyboard which makes typing on normal non-AZERTY physical keyboard quite difficult. Only much later can you tell the system to throw away that idiocy and select a normal keyboard like Swiss, Belgian or Canadian for French.
You are kidding, but I remember actually programming in French.
Well, I don't really remember much. But in the 80ies, there was a French database for Mac called 4..? (I only remember there was a 4 in it's short name). The programming was in French. At the time, I was quite new to computers and very young, and there was no Internet.
I would hate a non-English programming language now, but at the time, I guess it was OK. Especially since the choice was that DB or Oracle.
I'm glad it let me bypass Oracle at the time. And I'm furious I have to deal a bit with Oracle now, for an application created before PostgreSQL was available. Installing and configuring Oracle on Debian now feels like going back to DOS 2.11... No apt-get install, no SQL history, horrible formatting of output,... but I digress...
Yes, I'd (almost) rather program in French than deal with Oracle...
Thunderbird's nice in that it uses the standard maildir format (one file per message, mail folders are just directories under the root of the tree)
Unfortunately, NO it doesn't! Maybe you just mistyped this, or else you are confusing Thunderbird the mail client, with an IMAP server like Dovecot, Courier, or others.
IMAP servers usually do use the "Maildir" system to store emails: 1 file per mail, which is very nice, and helps a lot with backups.
Thunderbird, the mail client, stores in mbox format: 1 file per folder. So if you add 1 email to your 2GB folder, that 2GB file will need to be backed up again. But at least, it's a text format, so it's still much better than Outlook's propietary binary.pst files.
Apple Mail used to use the mbox format. It now uses Maildir.
These Windows vs Linux (vs Mac) are so ridiculously "last century".
Yes, Linux is terribly buggy and limited as a Desktop system. But it has been extremely stable and generally a pleasure to work with as a server system. Macs are great desktop systems with the advantage of also having a real shell, and generally having Unix under the hood. Windows is the most stable desktop system I know (as long as it is not infected by malware), and has the greatest choice of high quality software in almost all categories. But I would certainly hate it if I needed to use it as a server.
As it is, I use all 3 daily, and usually have a couple of ssh and/or VNC windows to other systems open. Just use the right tool for the job. This juvenile OS war is so passé...
That is certainly good to be reminded of. In case of weird errors, pass your code through something that checks for characters beyond ASCII.
In fact, I am often bitten by something similar on Macs: when typing the pipe character on my keyboard (Alt-7), followed by a space, I end up typing Alt-space, which ends up as a nicode non-breaking space or something. It took me a while to get used to and understand the error saying "-bash: grep: command not found".
Mod parent up! That is exactly what I fear. The motive is not to protect the user from some government which couldn't care less about what's on my phone, but to prevent me from rooting my own device and get rid of all the crap I don't want on my phone.
Sorry, but I have to disagree that he just claims to have done everything right while in fact he didn't. It seems to me he really did everything right, but sometimes that isn't enough with the big mail providers.
I run a couple of mail corporate mail servers, and another one for my own domains, and occasionally I have seen rejections or (much worse) mail landing into spam without any discernable reason, or simply because my sending IP was completely new (without any previous reputation) after switching the connection provider.
As others pointed out, now that it is a Mega Corporations Internet, things are getting rough for small independent old-school Internet users.
Does this title use a convoluted syntax, or it it just me? (English is not my first language)
I had to read the summary to finally understand what was meant by "F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots". Before that, I was stuck with a seat fearing the ground, and some lightweight pilots whom I couldn't quite fit into that fearful seat.
It certainly isn't dead. Jpeg 2000 is the standard format used in DCPs. All the movies in all the theaters have their picture track encoded with jpeg2K (in an MXF container).
Slashdot Mirror
... the Universe and Everything. So who cares about the rest (like the preferred size for DCP subtitles, which is apparently the same anyway)?
If you want to run a bash shell under Windows 10, they now offer one
Unfortunately, that is not exactly true. That was my hope when I first heard about it, because cmd.exe is such an abomination. But in fact, the Bash shell seems to be in some sort of Linux virtual machine. It doesn't run Windows executables and knows nothing or very little of Windows. So it cannot be used to do useful Windows stuff.
If you hoped to be able to use Bash for Windows scripting, well, forget it. It's still either cmd.exe or the convoluted and Windows-only Power Shell.
He couldn't decide between getting an .org or a .com domain, so he took trumporg.com?
Anyway, trumpcom.org is still available if someone has an idea of something to do with it...
$ whois trumpcom.org
NOT FOUND
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-10-19T23:47:43Z
You forgot to turn off "safe search".
Mona Lisa porn - Google Search.
"About 586.000 results (0,47 seconds)".
Since the new "left" became the old center
No mod points today. Hopefully someone else will mod this up.
Indeed, viewed from Europe, Clinton's policy proposals sound like normal center right stuff. And she is the only real candidate anyway. Most representatives of the other party would be labelled extreme right in Europe, but I guess even the neo-fascists in Europe wouldn't have selected Trump as their candidate. So what is a normal news organisation to do? Try to pretend that a "narcissistic sociopath" is just a normal candidate and that the insane things he is saying are just a different opinion?
That Solitaire is not the Real Thing, which is the old Windows 3 to XP solitaire, the only one worth playing, with the Susan Kare design.
It runs fine under Wine, btw. All you need is sol.exe and cards.dll.
Well, I think English doesn't need to worry about competition from French in "which has the greatest disconnect between spelling and pronunciation".
I guess everyone knows "ghoti", but I'm sure there are many other funny demonstrations.
I don't understand this rage to encrypt everything. I publish some web pages (a couple of blogs, my résumé, a few very specific instructions pages, etc) and cannot see any reason to have these pages delivered over encrypted links.
I use the web to _publish_ stuff, and to read what others _publish_. When I buy a newspaper at my local newsstand, I don't want it encrypted, and I don't care that the owner knows what papers I read.
While there are many good reasons to have some web traffic encrypted (passwords, transactions, ...), this sudden movement to encrypt everything looks really weird to me.
Or are there reasons which I don't see, why some people or entities would have some interest in everything being encrypted?
Maybe it will be an opportunity to have a well maintained Thunderbird, but if not, it's worrying for email. I don't want to replace email with Facebook/Whatsapp/orWhatnot.
For now, there is Apple Mail which only runs on Macs,
Outlook which only runs on Windows (and is a terrible IMAP client, probably to force you to get an Exchange server)
And Gmail which only runs on... Google. And only if you have an Internet connection.
I feel Thunderbird is essential, and hope it finds someone to take care of it.
A Taliban smartphone app?? What is that? What does it do? I want it on my phone! Where can I get it now if it has been removed?
Sounds like a joke? No I'm serious.
I don't need yet another database in Linux. PostgreSQL is fine, thank you. Even MySQL/MariaDB are OK.
What I miss is a GUI interface to these databases, which would allow me to quickly build GUI applications for users. MS Access can show PostgreSQL data to users in quickly designed forms and reports. And these can have some (horrible) VBA code to make a few things faster and easier for the users. Without Access, I have to make HTML interfaces, which works fine for simple reports, but gets really clumsy and slow for complex interactive forms.
(Yes, I know about PGadmin. It's great for me, and I use it regularly. But it's not for designing custom user interfaces to databases)
Thanks. Yes, 69 was obvious, but not 420.
FTA: "For five digit passwords, [...] All the usual suspects occur, but a new addition is the puerile addition in position #20 of the concatenation of 420 and 69."
Am I competely sutpid, or is there some cultural reference here, which I don't get? Why "42069"? Why is it puerile?
Firefox also has an internal PDF viewer. Is there any difference? Is there something specific reason that makes the embedded PDF viewer safe in Chrome or Firefox, but not in Edge?
It took them quite a long time to realize what everybody else has always known. Yes AZERTY sucks. And as someone who lives in a neighboring country, I sometimes come across these crazy keyboards. The problem is not just that the keyboard is impractical. It is mainly that it is so wildly different from all other keyboards.
The problem is aggravated by OS installers like Windows, which insist that if you are installing a French version of Windows, you must need a French AZERTY keyboard which makes typing on normal non-AZERTY physical keyboard quite difficult. Only much later can you tell the system to throw away that idiocy and select a normal keyboard like Swiss, Belgian or Canadian for French.
Yes, it was "4th Dimension", aka 4D. I should have kept some floppies from then. Would have been fun to look at that code now...
You are kidding, but I remember actually programming in French.
Well, I don't really remember much. But in the 80ies, there was a French database for Mac called 4..? (I only remember there was a 4 in it's short name). The programming was in French. At the time, I was quite new to computers and very young, and there was no Internet.
I would hate a non-English programming language now, but at the time, I guess it was OK. Especially since the choice was that DB or Oracle.
I'm glad it let me bypass Oracle at the time. And I'm furious I have to deal a bit with Oracle now, for an application created before PostgreSQL was available. Installing and configuring Oracle on Debian now feels like going back to DOS 2.11... No apt-get install, no SQL history, horrible formatting of output, ... but I digress...
Yes, I'd (almost) rather program in French than deal with Oracle...
Thunderbird's nice in that it uses the standard maildir format (one file per message, mail folders are just directories under the root of the tree)
Unfortunately, NO it doesn't! Maybe you just mistyped this, or else you are confusing Thunderbird the mail client, with an IMAP server like Dovecot, Courier, or others.
IMAP servers usually do use the "Maildir" system to store emails: 1 file per mail, which is very nice, and helps a lot with backups.
Thunderbird, the mail client, stores in mbox format: 1 file per folder. So if you add 1 email to your 2GB folder, that 2GB file will need to be backed up again. But at least, it's a text format, so it's still much better than Outlook's propietary binary .pst files.
Apple Mail used to use the mbox format. It now uses Maildir.
These Windows vs Linux (vs Mac) are so ridiculously "last century".
Yes, Linux is terribly buggy and limited as a Desktop system. But it has been extremely stable and generally a pleasure to work with as a server system.
Macs are great desktop systems with the advantage of also having a real shell, and generally having Unix under the hood.
Windows is the most stable desktop system I know (as long as it is not infected by malware), and has the greatest choice of high quality software in almost all categories. But I would certainly hate it if I needed to use it as a server.
As it is, I use all 3 daily, and usually have a couple of ssh and/or VNC windows to other systems open. Just use the right tool for the job. This juvenile OS war is so passé...
That is certainly good to be reminded of. In case of weird errors, pass your code through something that checks for characters beyond ASCII.
In fact, I am often bitten by something similar on Macs: when typing the pipe character on my keyboard (Alt-7), followed by a space, I end up typing Alt-space, which ends up as a nicode non-breaking space or something. It took me a while to get used to and understand the error saying "-bash: grep: command not found".
Mod parent up! That is exactly what I fear. The motive is not to protect the user from some government which couldn't care less about what's on my phone, but to prevent me from rooting my own device and get rid of all the crap I don't want on my phone.
Sorry, but I have to disagree that he just claims to have done everything right while in fact he didn't. It seems to me he really did everything right, but sometimes that isn't enough with the big mail providers.
I run a couple of mail corporate mail servers, and another one for my own domains, and occasionally I have seen rejections or (much worse) mail landing into spam without any discernable reason, or simply because my sending IP was completely new (without any previous reputation) after switching the connection provider.
As others pointed out, now that it is a Mega Corporations Internet, things are getting rough for small independent old-school Internet users.
And the book appeared more than 11 years ago, so indeed, it's about time. Now I only have to wait for it to appear in Debian stable ...
Does this title use a convoluted syntax, or it it just me? (English is not my first language)
I had to read the summary to finally understand what was meant by "F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots". Before that, I was stuck with a seat fearing the ground, and some lightweight pilots whom I couldn't quite fit into that fearful seat.
Also, JPEG2000 is dead and buried
It certainly isn't dead. Jpeg 2000 is the standard format used in DCPs. All the movies in all the theaters have their picture track encoded with jpeg2K (in an MXF container).