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  1. A Clue for you, who invented SystemD, what company does the man work for and who bought the company the man works for? there you go, the dots will connect

  2. Re:"Vulnerability" has become watered down on A 15-Year-Old Hacked the Secure Ledger Crypto Wallet (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    why bother if u have physical access to a linux box, just reboot it in init 1 instant root. no need to waste hours of ya life installing windows

  3. Re:Stallman was right again on Windows 10 Will Cut Off Devices With Older CPUs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    PClinuxos is more noob friendly than *buntu and faster to boot (pun intended) and NO sysd if that's an issue too.

  4. Re:Kodi? on OpenELEC 8.0.4 Kodi-Focused Linux Distro Now Available (openelec.tv) · · Score: 1

    used to be called XBMC ;)

  5. Re:They need a decent marketing dept... on Open Source SQL Database CockroachDB Hits 1.0 (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Brit here, a "git" is actually a bastard of a bastard.

  6. Re:Kind for Microsoft to fix their own bugs on As World Reacts To WanaDecrypt0r, Microsoft Issues Patch For Old Windows Systems (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? The source would be available for anyone with knowledge to patch/fix as the source is open for all to see.. not so with closed source and there lies the problem ;)

  7. I have 3 Distro's installed on Systemd-Free Devuan Linux Announces A Second Release Candidate (devuan.org) · · Score: 0

    I have 3 Distros installed all systemd infection free. Slackware, PCLinuxOS and Devuan, all 3 have no problems at all, and it's just nice to use, oh and yeah i do serious work with all 3, my friend on the PClinuxOS kind of things even runs the PCLinuxOS website, forum and other nice things from it. Slackware to keep my hand in the "old" ways of doing things, for example PCLinuxOS you can literally configure everything from the GUI which can be nice to get some things up and running fast, but slack lets my cli knowledge works it's thing to :) oh and well done Devuan for making me think of the old Debian ways :)

  8. Re:Mint on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mint is a fine start. also think pclinuxos too, it's actually made to be simple and like mint you can have a variety of desktops disclamier: pclinuxos user and the person behind the trinity desktop version

  9. Re:There's a better fix for this... on Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks PowerShell (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer http://trinity.mypclinuxos.com... myself. Seriously though, I am pissed off at Microsoft for these problems as being the local "go to" guy I'm sick of people expecting me to fix shit that even the Microsoft devs themselves can't seem to. Yes I get paid for it, at the cost though of wasted time spending on stuff I shouldn't have to. Moan over

  10. Re: Hypocrisy on Google: Unwanted Software Is Worse Than Malware (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    He's a Brit, braining yourself does not mean putting a brain in your head.

  11. Re:Why do us Canadians always get screwed? on Star Trek CBS Series To Be Streamed Internationally On Netflix (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    justin bieber nuff said

  12. Re:How-hum on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you liked KDE3 you should look at Trinity DE

  13. X-Windows is server / client windowing system so yes it's networked :)

  14. Re:So how bad is it really? on Magnitude of glibc Vulnerability Coming To Light (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    0 it was patched before it became news :P

  15. Re:Well there's the kernel, with scheduler, etc on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually and believe me I'm no MS fan, however NTFS is actually along with the kernel of windows are the only 2 things in the whole of windows that's any good, if you want a shit file system, look at macs HPFS which is a dog, and I mean 'fat' as in fat 16,32, like dog. ext4 is fine and has ACLs ala windows too (if you learn how to use them) as well as UID/GID permissions. sheesh some people, yes in the days of NT4, NTFS was crap, now-a-days it's a stable file system as any of them.

  16. Re:What's the computer on Preserving Cuba's Classic Cars (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Analogy, It's like having that Eniac machine except now it's a Quadcore i7 running TB of ssds but with the original eniac caseing

  17. And? on Putin's Internet Czar Wants To Ban Windows On Government PCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's the downside?

  18. Re:How does this help the average person? on Torrents Time Lets Anyone Launch Their Own Web Version of Popcorn Time · · Score: 1

    There is indeed a linux version of the client for Popcorn Time, howver the web version doesn't work for me :) client here : http://popcorn-time.se/ https://www.popcorntime.ws/api... for tv series to work in settings:)

  19. Re:Still on 2.6.32 because of Distro on Linux Kernel 2.6.32 LTS Reaches End of Life In February 2016 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    PCLinuxOS is still systemd free and no gnome 3 or unity and is stable, very stable :) You just have to get used to no sudo we do things as God intended with a proper root password and su to gain root :P Alie

  20. Re:Eventually... But not yet on In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he was thinking of DVI not DP as DVI seems to be sans audio :) on this ultrabook there is no VGA but I do have HDMI and mini DP :D Alie

  21. Re:Physical media is king on iTunes Radio Is Now "Apple Music" (and You Need a Subscription) · · Score: 1

    My cassettes still work, I even have some 8-tracks that play well, for different values of the word "well" I have some cassettes from the early 70's that still play back without drop outs, I guess it's how you look after them, as for optical media, that's a different story early cd's are doing much better than the ones from this century. That goes for dvd's and BR too, however I haven't had a BR fail yet. Alie

  22. Re:Has the systemd problem been addressed? on Linux 4.5 Adds Raspberry Pi 2 Support, AMD GPU Re-Clocking, Intel Kaby Lake (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, stop moaning, if you don't want a certain init system, use a distro that does, or move to *BSD life really is that simple, and if you have a separate /home just make sure you set up your user with the same user / pass combination and same GID/UID. It's not like you don't have a choice in the matter

  23. Re:Taking remote control of the keyboard on Hot Potato Exploit Gives Attackers the Upper Hand On Multiple Windows Versions · · Score: 1

    Gotcha, I should have remembered that, it's been a long time :D

  24. Re:Taking remote control of the keyboard on Hot Potato Exploit Gives Attackers the Upper Hand On Multiple Windows Versions · · Score: 1

    If it didn't give you admin access in safe mode, how would you fix it? regardless if you're at the pc physically it doesn't matter

  25. Re:Taking remote control of the keyboard on Hot Potato Exploit Gives Attackers the Upper Hand On Multiple Windows Versions · · Score: 1

    NVM, it's me that should be shot, I read the above as a statement and not a question, and the answer is no, you can't remote to grub(2) so no back spacing, just to note that it was patched before it even made headlines, all you could do is boot a pc and you had to be local, of course from local grub(2) you can gain root by just adding a "1" to the boot stanza and get single user mode. same as safe mode on windows, and you have to be sitting at the pc to be able to do it. As we all know if you get physical access to any PC it's game over.