Comment death wish (Score 1) 268
Die, Gnome, die. You were so busy harrassing users that you even forgot trademarking your name.
Die, Gnome, die. You were so busy harrassing users that you even forgot trademarking your name.
The scientists did not stand accused of failing to warn against an earthquake. Not at all. Legend.
They were accused to have encouraged the town of Aquila to disregard threatening tremors and stay safely at home.
The town followed 'their' recommendation against the century old habits in an earthquake-prone region to run out and wait in the open air. Result was more then 300 deads.
The appeal court has decided that the fatal recommendations did not come from the scientists but from the inept, corrupt, opportunistic bureaucracy. Doubts about this version linger on.
>>> It's the year 2014, and I still have a floppy drive installed on my computer. >>>
Never mind, next time you willl be unable to find a motherboard with a floppy interface.
Winkey, Right, Enter
Basic functionality without javascript, that's what we need.
If Microsoft wants to desinfect themselves they need to remove Gates and Ballmer from any influential positions.
I have been reading Groklaw since its inception in May 2003 and I am fully convinced (i) that there is a lady XY that goes by the name of Pamela Jones or just pj; (ii) that she did an epochal job; and (iii) that I and everybody else own her big thanks.
However, Groklaw changed after the lady disappeared for a couple of months in 2009 and then returned without much explanations. I had the distinct impression that a small team was then at work of which she was still the leader and the main contributor. A law professor took over for a brief period and disappeared again.
The team have now discovered that they cannot hide the way they thought they could and wished they could. The reasons given by pj for closing down are totally unconvincing. Does she communicate day by day? Does she use the phone? Does she write letters? With the same logic she is offering for Groklaw's closure she would have to stop talking, phoning and writing. And breathing.
Once upom time I did care about updating my XP. Then about 3 years ago the updates stopped installing, they would loop forever. Apparently a MS bug. They released a fix, the fix didn't work for me.
The news: no malware, no virus, no intruders for the past 3 years. The recipe: no javascript. And even Slashdot becomes readable.
In the install tree find the file JSByteCodeWin.bin and rename it. Works for me.
>>> 1. if you don't have access to broadband, this isn't for you
Except for 99% of users in Latin America, Africa, Asia. Oh yes, you are right, who cares. Oh, you are right, who cares?
It is not the figure given that is confusing, it's the concept.
Start with 1 unit of currencyA equivalent to 2.2 units of currencyB.
After a while currencyB has depreciated by 900%. And what the hell does that mean? Don't ask journalists, ask yourself.
About two years ago my WinXP SP3 stopped updating. The update would start but went into grinding never coming to an end. It was actually a widespread problem at the time, apparently a bug on Microsoft's side, apparently fixed by Microsoft after a while. I tried plenty of suggestions, nothing helped, as of today my system does not update. I never bothered to reinstall from scratch.
So what? You go on the Net without administrative rights, Javascript is disabled and you can relax. But those exploits that attack you anyway? Well, I infected my machine intentionally with a boot virus. I collected information running WinXP under the virus. Then I booted into Ubuntu and had a look at \Windows\System32 to see the intruders. Essentially, I neutralised the infection by hand although in the end I restored the partition anyway.
It was not easy but I forced myself to walk the fine G+ thread and I learnt a couple of things.
* There is plenty of animosity between RedHat and Canonical.
* Wayland is not the personal initiative of some individuals. RedHat is fully behind it.
* The Wayland developers were or are X developers.
* X is already sentenced but the death sentence will never be publicly executed. X will slowly disappear while "What's exactly wrong with X?" will linger on from here to eternity.
* Mark Shuttleworth used to be a classical South African pale male: a wrapper of soft talk around a core of hard lies. He can be sincere and rough now. Kudos to him.
* The meme has changed. No more "Linux is all about choice", rather "Don't fragment Linux".
* Mir isn't going to fail as some Redhatters wish to think but it will undergo a dozen reincarnations before its final release to users.
* I really hope I'm wrong here but it appears that neither Wayland nor Mir are in any hurry to modify the crappiest aspect of X as far as users are concerned: keyboard input.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
