Windows 10 that may just see the retirement of Putty
I do not see that happening, most people I know who need to access UN*X systems via windows uses putty and hardly ever opens up a "DOS Box (? not sure what it is called now). Anyway putty is a nice tool for people who likes GUI type applications so it will still be around.
BTW, I tried to get a few of them to go to Linux (work allows one to use Linux), but without luck.
"It does not reduce user freedom, or impose any additional limitations on device usage."
Sound familiar, I heard something like that before ? Wait, I remember last Thursday Dec 14. These days I am convinced a statement like that made by any large agency, either Gov or Private really means the exact opposite.
Why should Comcast spend a whole bunch of money to improve its infrastructure so Netflix
1. Both Comcast and Netflix deliver TV shows. 2. Comcast also has an ISP 3. Comcast had a 20+ year head start
So, Comcast wanted to milk it's customers with high prices. They could have easily done the same thing as Netflix, but decided to abuse their customers and now wants to double charge for crappy internet.
Also Comcast got very large tax breaks to build the infrastructure, which has not improved in 30 years where I live. And now they charge me if they need to correct the cable from the street to the house. So too bad, no sympathy from me.
# 1. People do not have the cash, so they need to borrow to buy what they cannot afford. If Credit Cards were to disappear, the world economy will crash faster then it ever has.
Also there seems to be a push worldwide to do away with cash completely, I think a couple of countries already have. What I have read this seems to due with "stop the criminals", but I think is is more like 'monitor the public'.
I have a possible solution. We could fight global warming with nuclear winter!
I hate to say it, unless something 'real' can be done to limit Climate Change, this could very well be the result. From what I read, a decent part of the world will be almost inhabitable and the various "bread baskets" of the work will see their yields decline a lot.
So if people star starving on first world countries you could very well see 1 or more nuclear wars.
When Carter was president of the US (late 70's), he was trying to get Climate Change on the national radar, but then Regan got elected and he stopped any action that could have had a chance of making a significant impact.
I remember as a kid him saying something like "We need to start now, otherwise we will not have enough time". Well I guess all young people can do now is try and live on high ground and I would say various coastal cities need to re-evaluate where to build new high-rises.
Of course now it seems coastal real-estate is hotter then I have ever seen it. So, seems the future looks gloomy.
maybe Google and other tech companies will put money where their mouth is and finally create their own ISP with cheap rates and real 1G speed, eliminating the pro-NN people.
I wonder if the person who found it is in trouble ?
On the other side of the pond I fear that person would have been arrested and facing life in prison. Hate to be so cynical, but I remember 1 or 2 cases where a person was facing outrageous penalties (Aaron Swartz for one) for doing nothing harmful.
One thing to be aware of, OpenBSD no longer has year a 2038 issue, so if you have 32 bit hardware around you should give it a spin. Never mind the fact that if it was used on 32 bit IOT devices, we would have no worries about built in obsolescence in about ~20 years. And even security would be a bit better 'out of the box':)
Well that means we can stop patching software we know has open security holes/backdoors. Nice, makes our jobs much easier. I guess that means it was not Equifax's fault/s
Well, I agree with RMS, I will only believe Microsoft actions are genuine if Microsoft forces all proprietary blobs, drivers and firmware to be opened up under a FSF compatible license.
In the 1960s, you were charged rent for the terminal.... AWS and Azure represent the first time that such access has been available to anyone
I cannot speak about the 60s, but in the early 80s I worked for a mini-computer company that also rented out time on an IBM mainframe they owned. Usage and charges were based upon CPU Time and Disk I/O, this sound very similar to Amazon. I remember printing out the usage/billing reports on green bar for finance. The only difference I see is due to technology and AFAIK Amazon does not charge for disk I/O.
To me what it means "unless you pay for a OS subscription from Microsoft/Apple, forget about ever using video streams on a PC (maybe audio too??)". Thus Microsoft, Apple, and the various Cell Phone providers will be allowed to see exactly what/when/probably where any content you view/listen to.
How much better is KDE 5.x that KDE 4.x in relation to eye strain ?
For me, before 4.x, blood would almost pour out of eyes after 30 minutes. 4.x is 100x better (still on 4.x), but no matter what I did after a while I would get a bit of eye strain.
With GNOME (2.x/3.x) on the same machine I have no issues, so I end up using that or a window manager most of the time. But I do prefer KDE workflow much more.
BTW, I have download and tried many KDE 4.x themes/color schemes, if it was not for "Lucky Eyes" 4.x would be worse for me.
Instead of going after people like Love and giving them sentences longer than murderers. Maybe a Computer Fraud Act for Companies where they get similar penalties where the board members really suffer instead of giving the company a slap on the wrist.
A petition has been started to at least raise visibility of this to congress. Start the dialog at the right levels, and hope it will not get steamrolled by lobbyists.
Well since I suspect many congress people's and their relations personal information was in the breach, maybe we will finally see some real action taken. But the cynic in me thinks there will be two regulations, one for the powerful and another for the peons
NOW can we stop using SS# as a national identifier? Jeez!
Well many years ago companies and government was told/encouraged/waned NOT to use the SSN for Id purposes and my original card had something like that printed on it. Of course everyone and their brother ignored that. So here we are.
Who says time does not change never read any article about Generations.
Millennials, which date from the 1980s to mid-2000s
So now Millennial generation started in the eighties ? WTF, lets do math -
Baby boomers - 1945-1964, this seems to never change.
Gen X should be - 1965 to 1985, I have heard all kinds of end dates for this generation with the earliest 1980, 15 year generation ? Guess they grew up fast
Gen Y - Did these people disappear ? Gen Y, using consistent math, would have been born between 1985 - 2005. The new forgotten generation I guess
So this leaves 2005 - 2025 for Millennials
But I guess these type articles only proves that people forget math and even whole generations when writing about various generations to prove a point.
Slashdot Mirror
Windows 10 that may just see the retirement of Putty
I do not see that happening, most people I know who need to access UN*X systems via windows uses putty and hardly ever opens up a "DOS Box (? not sure what it is called now). Anyway putty is a nice tool for people who likes GUI type applications so it will still be around.
BTW, I tried to get a few of them to go to Linux (work allows one to use Linux), but without luck.
"It does not reduce user freedom, or impose any additional limitations on device usage."
Sound familiar, I heard something like that before ? Wait, I remember last Thursday Dec 14. These days I am convinced a statement like that made by any large agency, either Gov or Private really means the exact opposite.
Well it is Friday evening here, another Windows vulnerability found, it is time for a Drinking Game.
"Spot the shill", you should be able to guess the rules now
Why should Comcast spend a whole bunch of money to improve its infrastructure so Netflix
1. Both Comcast and Netflix deliver TV shows.
2. Comcast also has an ISP
3. Comcast had a 20+ year head start
So, Comcast wanted to milk it's customers with high prices. They could have easily done the same thing as Netflix, but decided to abuse their customers and now wants to double charge for crappy internet.
Also Comcast got very large tax breaks to build the infrastructure, which has not improved in 30 years where I live. And now they charge me if they need to correct the cable from the street to the house. So too bad, no sympathy from me.
and in other news, when I get out of bed tomorrow I will see this big bright yellow circle in the sky, seems it is always there, every day.
(I had no mod points for you, so had to say something dumb)
Well you are correct, but in reality:
# 1. People do not have the cash, so they need to borrow to buy what they cannot afford. If Credit Cards were to disappear, the world economy will crash faster then it ever has.
Also there seems to be a push worldwide to do away with cash completely, I think a couple of countries already have. What I have read this seems to due with "stop the criminals", but I think is is more like 'monitor the public'.
I have a possible solution. We could fight global warming with nuclear winter!
I hate to say it, unless something 'real' can be done to limit Climate Change, this could very well be the result. From what I read, a decent part of the world will be almost inhabitable and the various "bread baskets" of the work will see their yields decline a lot.
So if people star starving on first world countries you could very well see 1 or more nuclear wars.
When Carter was president of the US (late 70's), he was trying to get Climate Change on the national radar, but then Regan got elected and he stopped any action that could have had a chance of making a significant impact.
I remember as a kid him saying something like "We need to start now, otherwise we will not have enough time". Well I guess all young people can do now is try and live on high ground and I would say various coastal cities need to re-evaluate where to build new high-rises.
Of course now it seems coastal real-estate is hotter then I have ever seen it. So, seems the future looks gloomy.
maybe Google and other tech companies will put money where their mouth is and finally create their own ISP with cheap rates and real 1G speed, eliminating the pro-NN people.
I wonder if the person who found it is in trouble ?
On the other side of the pond I fear that person would have been arrested and facing life in prison. Hate to be so cynical, but I remember 1 or 2 cases where a person was facing outrageous penalties (Aaron Swartz for one) for doing nothing harmful.
Congregations to the team.
One thing to be aware of, OpenBSD no longer has year a 2038 issue, so if you have 32 bit hardware around you should give it a spin. Never mind the fact that if it was used on 32 bit IOT devices, we would have no worries about built in obsolescence in about ~20 years. And even security would be a bit better 'out of the box' :)
All Companies Get Breached
Well that means we can stop patching software we know has open security holes/backdoors. Nice, makes our jobs much easier. I guess that means it was not Equifax's fault /s
Well, I agree with RMS, I will only believe Microsoft actions are genuine if Microsoft forces all proprietary blobs, drivers and firmware to be opened up under a FSF compatible license.
Not to mention I cannot stream it on Linux, if that was supported I would consider it, but oh well, one less show to follow :)
In the 1960s, you were charged rent for the terminal .... AWS and Azure represent the first time that such access has been available to anyone
I cannot speak about the 60s, but in the early 80s I worked for a mini-computer company that also rented out time on an IBM mainframe they owned. Usage and charges were based upon CPU Time and Disk I/O, this sound very similar to Amazon. I remember printing out the usage/billing reports on green bar for finance. The only difference I see is due to technology and AFAIK Amazon does not charge for disk I/O.
To me what it means "unless you pay for a OS subscription from Microsoft/Apple, forget about ever using video streams on a PC (maybe audio too??)". Thus Microsoft, Apple, and the various Cell Phone providers will be allowed to see exactly what/when/probably where any content you view/listen to.
For US sites, how about adding the Admin's SSN, their address and their Mother's Maiden names ? That way we can really know the file is genuine
Thanks, will give xcalib a try.
How much better is KDE 5.x that KDE 4.x in relation to eye strain ?
For me, before 4.x, blood would almost pour out of eyes after 30 minutes. 4.x is 100x better (still on 4.x), but no matter what I did after a while I would get a bit of eye strain.
With GNOME (2.x/3.x) on the same machine I have no issues, so I end up using that or a window manager most of the time. But I do prefer KDE workflow much more.
BTW, I have download and tried many KDE 4.x themes/color schemes, if it was not for "Lucky Eyes" 4.x would be worse for me.
Instead of going after people like Love and giving them sentences longer than murderers. Maybe a Computer Fraud Act for Companies where they get similar penalties where the board members really suffer instead of giving the company a slap on the wrist.
A petition has been started to at least raise visibility of this to congress. Start the dialog at the right levels, and hope it will not get steamrolled by lobbyists.
Well since I suspect many congress people's and their relations personal information was in the breach, maybe we will finally see some real action taken. But the cynic in me thinks there will be two regulations, one for the powerful and another for the peons
By not selling Kaspersky I feel much better now!
NOW can we stop using SS# as a national identifier? Jeez!
Well many years ago companies and government was told/encouraged/waned NOT to use the SSN for Id purposes and my original card had something like that printed on it. Of course everyone and their brother ignored that. So here we are.
Who says time does not change never read any article about Generations.
Millennials, which date from the 1980s to mid-2000s
So now Millennial generation started in the eighties ? WTF, lets do math -
Baby boomers - 1945-1964, this seems to never change.
Gen X should be - 1965 to 1985, I have heard all kinds of end dates for this generation with the earliest 1980, 15 year generation ? Guess they grew up fast
Gen Y - Did these people disappear ? Gen Y, using consistent math, would have been born between 1985 - 2005. The new forgotten generation I guess
So this leaves 2005 - 2025 for Millennials
But I guess these type articles only proves that people forget math and even whole generations when writing about various generations to prove a point.
And this is when I wish I had mod points.
It is pretty sad when accessing slack via firefox uses less resources than the slack client. Makes you wonder what that client is doing :)