Re: Way to go : Tan
Agreed. Look into migrating to KVM or Xen.
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And that still can be done for now, as long as XOrg is still bundled with most Linux distros.
I just forwarded gedit running on my FreeBSD server to XWayland running on my Linux desktop a few days ago. The area my FreeBSD server is in only has standing space and I really wanted to be comfortable.
Once XOrg goes away I'll miss being able to do this. They say Wayland can do this via Waypipe but I've yet to work out the specifics.
As per the title. I got into the ACS no problem. My big issue is with their seemingly impossible IELTS requirements: Eight across the board. I flunked because I got a 7.5 for listening (not my fault. You try doing listening when the sound system used is a cheap Chinese CD player that made sounds akin to fingernails scratching a blackboard whenever the dialog speaker raised their voice. Even worse was that I was actually down with the flu on the day). I actually scored an 8.25 average but as my misfortune would have it the Australian Immigrations Board had just changed their IELTS requirements from a more reasonable 8 average to the aforementioned 8 across the board.
I believe all of them already have this functionality built in, otherwise one would be able to simply take a terminal on vacation and it'd still outright work. But as it stands, one need to pay a separate roaming add-on fee to be able to take the Starlink terminal on holiday.
Honestly, I don't see the point of Starlink since I can get decent internet on 4G. The only benefit of having Starlink is if you're going to a place that does not have meaningful cellular coverage.
I remember my college years. The IT staff were either daft or clueless, USB drives (then still pretty new, 256MB was considered huge and 1GB was something that could last you a lifetime) were banned and everyone had to use a floppy disk. To make sure you suffer they actually disabled USB in BIOS and put hot glue over the USB ports. Really idiotic in hindsight since the floppy disks were unreliable and woe be upon you if your assignment disk decided to develop bad sectors.
You obviously have no idea how many people I've come across that refuses to ditch Windows because Adobe Premiere/Photoshop/Illustrator, AutoCAD or Solidworks or Microsoft Office aren't available for Linux.
Or that Valorant won't run due to Vanguard wanting Ring 0 access.
And yes, arguing with them is like bashing your head against the wall, they'd say that Cinelerra's UI looks like crap, GIMP lacks features, FreeCAD is confusing and they will claim that they will lose friends if they stop playing Valorant.
I had a Laserjet 5M and it worked great for many years.
What failed was the plastic case, it became brittle and broke into a million pieces when I took it down to give it a clean. Also, the fuser pretty much gave up at around the same time. Obviously using trash can plastic isn't doing HP any favors.
Windows Defender was an optional component in XP as I recall it. It only became bundled with Windows 7. The original XP came out before Windows Defender was a thing, and Service Pack 3 rather rationally did not bundle it. The only time you get Windows Defender preinstalled is if you buy a prebuild.
Speaking of which, I find Windows XP great because how easy and quick it is to slipstream (ie merge a service pack onto the disc intself). No faffing about with DISM and waiting hours for the image to decompress, update and then recompress, and then repeating again and again for every SKU the image supports.
The last person who did that in real life ended up with the song "Rudolph, the All-gracious King".
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/christmas-carols-get-butchered-by-ai/
Yes, MPreg and cannibalism. In a Christmas song. By an AI trained on Christmas carols and then given a 10 second snippet of Mariah Carey's unspeakable Christmas megahit and asked to finish it. And yet it's surprisingly catchy.
I won't say watching TV over ADSL is impossible, but it's like watching your neighbor's TV through a foggy window from your own house with a low-powered telescope and trying to listen to the TV via a tin-can phone.
I tried to watch Kimba The White Lion off off a US cable channel that streamed to the internet via Realplayer back in the early 2000s. Those were the days, when IP geolocking wasn't a thing. I wish that would still hold true, I'd rather watch a blurry 160x120 15fps mess than not get to watch a show at all.
Packard Bell was purchased by Acer wasn't it?
But yeah, sad that it came down to that. Then again, the PC market has already evolved. Only corporate would buy prebuilds, most of us prefer buying parts and building our PC like a legos.
Sadly tho, it seems that most HR software are written by HR people who learnt programming from a very outdated copy of "MFC for Dummies". I had to deal with a piece of timekeeping software in my previous workplace and the software was so badly written it needs to be running 24/7 as admin or it just won't collect the punch-in and punch-out data from the networked readers all over the building. Yes the hardware is impressively modern with NFC cards being used to punch in for work and punch out after work and being wired up to the company intranet, but the software looks like it was written in the Office 2003 era and even then not using services and requiring admin rights to use is just idiotic.
I could cacls the directory but it needed to start Firebird SQL as admin. Dunno why Firebird isn't running as a service.
The cow-orker that "gave" him the USB drive and told him it contained the pirated movie is still prancing around the bank.
I don't doubt that this engineer did the wrong thing by inserting that USB stick into a laptop issued by work, and then trying to retaliate for getting fired (he should've taken it out on the one cow-orker, and not the whole bank), but said orker surely should be fired as well? This smells like a setup.
Eh, sounds just like my mom.
As much as she got me into computers, her go-to program (we don't use the word "app" around here) back in the 80s was Lotus 1-2-3. For letter writing (her excuse was that the cells made it really easy to position text when it comes to writing formal letters and such. This was when 95% of printers were dot-matrix and uses a fixed monospaced font, and only exactly 80 characters could fit on a single line on a sheet of A4 paper, so you learn to keep track of things like that), for managing her budget... pretty much everything.
She switched to Excel in the late 90s, but the excuse stays the same. She doesn't use Word, only Excel. It's the only thing that mattered to her where productivity is concerned.
Now I managed to switch her to LibreOffice Calc. So far she seems to be fine with it, but she only uses LibreOffice Calc.
I'd like to believe it's more of on the other end of the spectrum. They've had too many cats that the toxoplasma gondii virus has gotten to their brains and rewired them...
Source: https://healthland.time.com/2011/08/18/crazy-cat-love-caused-by-parasitic-infection/
Given what happened at Nokia. I strongly believe this as a possibility.
Also, from what I've seen, Microsoft doesn't put a hand in the day to day aspects of all of it's subsidiaries. The game companies that they bought and put under the Xbox subsidiary gets a surprising amount of freedom. No doubt that those ex-OpenAI staff will be treated to the same thing if they join Microsoft.
Because some websites (including one banking site I used) dropped Firefox support several versions ago. That, and other websites written in Angular/React/whatever works wonky on my beloved SeaMonkey suite- data wasn't loading up, links were not working, etc.
I want to stay with Seamonkey but my hand was forced.
And to think that on Windows 3.1, the "close" button is not only on the /other/ end of the window's title bar, it needed to be /double-clicked/ to signal a close.
Windows 3.1 had so many things right. It's like every subsequent version of Windows got more stupid.
Now let me set snap to not keep old packages at all and I'll accept it (begrudgingly).
My main problem with snap is that when it install a new version of a software, the old version is kept. Up to three previous copies are kept by default, you can cut it down to one, but never none, and for me that's not good enough.
I want zero old copies to be kept. As in, the old version gets vaporized for disk space immediately after the new version is installed. As far as I'm concerned the old copy is a vulnerability waiting to happen and if it's dependent on a server (ie Spotify), paperweight hogging precious NVMe disk space since it will no longer work anyway. Currently I need to have to run a manual script to clean up (can't figure out SystemD since there's no more cronjobs) but that is not good enough either.
ZERO old copies or no way.
They're just doing this so it's easier to spy on you.
2G has literally no encryption. 2.5G aka EDGE brings only 56bit DES encryption that can be cracked in a matter of seconds.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/your-phone-vulnerable-because-2g-it-doesnt-have-be
The joke is more and more North American homes have at least some 230v outlets because they have discovered that HVACs, water heaters and ovens work more efficiently at 230v. And yet they still stick with 120v for everything else even when 230v is the superior and more energy efficient voltage of the two.
(the 230v is actually two phase tho. Most North American homes receive two phase power totaling 230v two phase. But Electroboom has proven that it is possible to get the raw 230v power to work with European devices by jury-rigging an adapter that connects the live wire to one of the live phases and the neutral wire to the other live phase).