I have a list of Slashdot IDs that I can no longer retrieve a password from, because of old email addresses I no longer have. Some of them I really wish I could go back to using instead of this. But this one works.
Believe it or not, credibility does not depend on the size of one's UID on a blog that started in 1998 or so. It's a big world out there.
At times this place stinks so badly that throwing away an account and leaving for six months before coming back anew is the only solution. There are plenty of people who have better things to do than fight and argue on forums.
Now, people who consistently have remained Slashdot loyalists, who have slurped down the Mae Ling Mak/ Natalie Portman/ Hotgrits spam since the beginning... well, anyhow.
The only way said 'real solution' would ever be able to work is if a certain individual was hit by a bus sometime this week.
We can erect brass statues of said individual so that people can commemorate him and in fifty years time people will have forgotten the details and will revere him and the work he did. So his 'legacy' can go on. Eventually.
Would that suffice? Who's got a chauffeur's license?
It might not be common now, but BIOS update packages of the past commonly would boot up a copy of FreeDOS, usually off a floppy diskette, in order to perform the BIOS update. Because the BIOS update was low level and needed to be run on a small independent software platform. This was common in the era of Windows NT and derivatives like W2K and XP.
I have a Windows XP laptop that I bought at a flea market a little over a year ago. It was cheap and on the price tag it said 'good, but hard drive will need to be replaced.' It had a password locked hard drive. I loaded up an ophcrack image on it, retrieved the administrator password, and logged into my 'new' used laptop.
It had been the laptop of some lawyer. It looked like he had only used it a short while, and had only run Wordperfect for Windows on it. It was full of somebody's legal documents, etc.
So I scrubbed all that stuff off of it, cleaned it down to a stock XP machine and did what I could to 'wipe the unallocated sectors' and whatnot.
The only reason I mention this laptop is that it's a piece of old hardware the runs something other than Linux without problems.
I have some older Sparc hardware that I run NetBSD on. It constitutes old hardware that runs really quite will without Linux.
I too, would like hardware completely missing 'binary blobs'.
However, what about the firmware in the embedded controller in the hard drives of these laptops? What about the embedded controllers in the keyboard, the pointing device, etc.? Those all matter too. Replacing some binary blobs in the OS and the top level hardware drivers is not "turtles all the way down."
Did she die from 'uterine cancer' or was it syphilis? She was a libertine up until nearly the end of her life, then her mother sequestered her away and she died very privately, away from public view, and of course, after repenting from her earlier ways.
I use SeaMonkey on a Windows desktop. I am not aware of any other browser that so easily allows me to 'save content' from websites. With SeaMonkey you open a new draft page on the HTML Composer. You highlight the formatted HTML text on the browser window, you cut and past it to the composer window. If you like, you can then touch it up and/or go into the 'raw HTML' editing tab of Composer to make changes.
For pulling content off web sites to store locally, the ability to build HTML tables in a WYSIWYG method and then cut and paste formatted web content into table cells is absolutely fabulous.
SeaMonkey, BTW, is available for every OS. I can check out the tarball and build it from source on NetBSD if I choose, or install a Windows binary.
We are actually lucky that SeaMonkey remains obscure, because 'web content creators' would wee all down their leg if they realized how easy it is for any ordinary person to snatch and store their content locally using it.
You're basing your desktop choice on what browser is installed by default on the desktop OS? Browsers used to be something we installed after we chose an OS. Ooops, they still can be and are.
Slashdot Mirror
Single Sided Single Density floppies only held 80K. Everything scales up from that, mostly.
I have an Intel Development System in the storeroom that uses 8" floppy disks. It runs the Intel operating system called ISIS.
Yeah.
I have a list of Slashdot IDs that I can no longer retrieve a password from, because of old email addresses I no longer have. Some of them I really wish I could go back to using instead of this. But this one works.
No, it's not.
Charcoal is, though.
Wood is a renewable resource.
Also, when trees are planted to make the wood chips, said trees consume carbon dioxide. Trees and other plants have always done that.
Back in the 70's there used to be bumper stickers that read:
Split Wood, Not Atoms.
Some of us would say it's inappropriate to discuss comic books at the same time as Tolkein. Particularly mass-market comics involving 'superheroes.'
I am still waiting for the Simarillion box set. It will be a twelve DVD set running 47 hours.
Are you a paid 'Red Hat Community Manager'?
Because you stick like shit to all the most poignant criticisms on here about systemd.
"You're doing a hell of a job, Brownie."
Believe it or not, credibility does not depend on the size of one's UID on a blog that started in 1998 or so. It's a big world out there.
At times this place stinks so badly that throwing away an account and leaving for six months before coming back anew is the only solution. There are plenty of people who have better things to do than fight and argue on forums.
Now, people who consistently have remained Slashdot loyalists, who have slurped down the Mae Ling Mak/ Natalie Portman/ Hotgrits spam since the beginning... well, anyhow.
The only way said 'real solution' would ever be able to work is if a certain individual was hit by a bus sometime this week.
We can erect brass statues of said individual so that people can commemorate him and in fifty years time people will have forgotten the details and will revere him and the work he did. So his 'legacy' can go on. Eventually.
Would that suffice? Who's got a chauffeur's license?
Imagine if businesses said "Hurr-durr how dare government say I have to keep my premises clean huh? this is a free market dammit!"
People would notice the smell and not frequent the business.
Self-solving problem.
It might not be common now, but BIOS update packages of the past commonly would boot up a copy of FreeDOS, usually off a floppy diskette, in order to perform the BIOS update. Because the BIOS update was low level and needed to be run on a small independent software platform. This was common in the era of Windows NT and derivatives like W2K and XP.
I ran Windows 2.1 for a fairly significant amount of time before I could afford a mouse. Mice at the time were in excess of $100 each.
HD 5-1/4" floppies were 1.2M in capacity.
DD 3.5" floppies were 720K in capacity.
Both existed, and during a period of time, both were common.
The East is Red
I have a Windows XP laptop that I bought at a flea market a little over a year ago. It was cheap and on the price tag it said 'good, but hard drive will need to be replaced.' It had a password locked hard drive. I loaded up an ophcrack image on it, retrieved the administrator password, and logged into my 'new' used laptop.
It had been the laptop of some lawyer. It looked like he had only used it a short while, and had only run Wordperfect for Windows on it. It was full of somebody's legal documents, etc.
So I scrubbed all that stuff off of it, cleaned it down to a stock XP machine and did what I could to 'wipe the unallocated sectors' and whatnot.
The only reason I mention this laptop is that it's a piece of old hardware the runs something other than Linux without problems.
I have some older Sparc hardware that I run NetBSD on. It constitutes old hardware that runs really quite will without Linux.
I too, would like hardware completely missing 'binary blobs'.
However, what about the firmware in the embedded controller in the hard drives of these laptops? What about the embedded controllers in the keyboard, the pointing device, etc.? Those all matter too. Replacing some binary blobs in the OS and the top level hardware drivers is not "turtles all the way down."
Did she die from 'uterine cancer' or was it syphilis? She was a libertine up until nearly the end of her life, then her mother sequestered her away and she died very privately, away from public view, and of course, after repenting from her earlier ways.
So even today Windows XP has twice the marketshare of MacOS?
can you tell me where and when a Microsoft browser is preferable to any other one?
It is preferrable when I have a new Windows machine freshly installed and I need a browser window to open up and type 'Download SeaMonkey' into.
That is the only time I commonly open a Microsoft browser.
I use SeaMonkey on a Windows desktop. I am not aware of any other browser that so easily allows me to 'save content' from websites. With SeaMonkey you open a new draft page on the HTML Composer. You highlight the formatted HTML text on the browser window, you cut and past it to the composer window. If you like, you can then touch it up and/or go into the 'raw HTML' editing tab of Composer to make changes.
For pulling content off web sites to store locally, the ability to build HTML tables in a WYSIWYG method and then cut and paste formatted web content into table cells is absolutely fabulous.
SeaMonkey, BTW, is available for every OS. I can check out the tarball and build it from source on NetBSD if I choose, or install a Windows binary.
We are actually lucky that SeaMonkey remains obscure, because 'web content creators' would wee all down their leg if they realized how easy it is for any ordinary person to snatch and store their content locally using it.
SeaMonkey is also a choice.
But it's never going to be mainstream.
But who cares about it being mainstream??? Isn't this Slashdot?
You're basing your desktop choice on what browser is installed by default on the desktop OS? Browsers used to be something we installed after we chose an OS. Ooops, they still can be and are.
Just as is the case with Apple, rumors on Slashdot determine what I believe about Microsoft.
Netscape 4 detected you changing your browser and pleaded.