Comment Re:It doesn't work properly (Score 1) 203
https://github.com/dyne/arm-sd...
Roll your own Devuan image?
Comment XKCD #2192 (Score -1) 22
Comment Re:Oh, man (Score 1) 224
Precisely. I can't imagine anyone who actually used cassettes is experiencing 'nostalgia'. It was a short lived format, which was quickly replaced by much better alternatives.
A more apt description might be 'retro fetishism'.
Comment Fake or satire? (Score 2, Interesting) 130
Comment Viral marketing. (Score 2) 82
This story reeks of it.
Comment My friend with 25 years of relevant experience. (Score 1) 156
Hello [UserName], my name is doctor Sbaitso.
I am here to help you.
Submission + - Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate announced (devuan.org)
jaromil writes: Devuan 1.0.0-RC is announced, following its beta 2 release last year. The Debian fork that spawned over systemd controversy is reaching stability and plans long term support. Devuan deploys an innovative continuous integration setup: with fallback on Debian packages, it overlays its own modifications and then uses the merged source repository to ship images for 11 ARM targets, a desktop and a minimal live, vagrant and qemu virtual machines and the classic installer isos. The release announcements contains several links to project that have already adopted this distribution as a base OS.
Comment Re:Favorite podcast... (Score 1) 268
Odd. I find Pip's voice (and character) wildly irritating. The Australian question intonation, the inability to pronounce 'cattle' (cattoo), the insufferable smugness etc. - ghastly.
Not as irriating as her mother though...
Comment Re:Third time (Score 1) 43
Its purpose is to tell the user when and where to buy a new battery. It might have warranty up-selling capabilities as well, I don't know - it didn't last long on my thinkpad.
Comment Re:Really? How does this work? (Score 3, Informative) 117
Let's see if this makes it past the lameness filter:
I run this remove_crapps.ps1 script after every new Windows Insider build, to remove the stuff I don't want (including OneDrive).
Get-AppxPackage *XboxApp* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Zune* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Sport* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *BingNews* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Phone* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Skype* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Office* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Photos* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *BingFinance* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *People* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Messaging* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *WindowsAlarms* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *WindowsSoundRecorder* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Solitaire* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Getstarted* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *3D* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Connectivity* | Remove-AppxPackage
c:/windows/syswow64/onedrivesetup.exe/uninstall
Comment Re:Welcome to the future... (Score 1) 117
For added nostalgia value, it also takes over an hour to install.
About the same as installing Solaris 2.5.1 from a single speed CD-ROM drive on my SPARCstationLX in 1996.
Comment Re:Fine with me, for now (Score 3, Informative) 361
Redstone or rs1 is the codename for the next rolling release of Windows 10.
Build 14332 was pushed out to the fast ring of the Windows Insider program 3 days ago.
It removes the ability to disable Cortana (you can still hobble the bastard by removing permissions) and removes the ability to turn off web search. Currently it performs web search with the users default web browser and search engine, but that is obviously going to change.
They also made the Start menu even worse.
Comment Re:Fine with me, for now (Score 1) 361
Guess what Windows Insiders just discovered you can't do in Windows 10 rs1_release 14332?
Comment Re:gmail is what has broken email. (Score 2) 129
Google is the main threat to the privacy of email today. Like Bruce Schneier observed, they want you to have email privacy from everyone except them.
I have an ancient gmail account which dates back to the early, early beta days (back when we had to swap invites on Slashdot). Somehow, every few months somebody new is able to register with the same user name, and I get all their messages delivered to my inbox. Their sent mail doesn't appear in my account, but everything else does.
Every facebook status message, itunes and amazon purchase, online dating message, and porn site registration.
Submission + - DDoS-style YouTube dislikes for sale, apparently in Vietnam (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Dell's Joe Stewart chronicles [http://www.secureworks.com/resources/blog/negative-feedback-attack-on-a-youtube-channel/] the tale of the tech YouTube channel that came under attack in the form of an avalanche of 'dislikes' for any videos that touched upon a certain company or even which examined themes around the company's product without mentioning it. The number of dislikes was so disproportionate to the casual number of viewers for the channel, and so concentrated as to constitute a particular type of net-attack — one that appeared to originate in Vietnam. Stewart eschews the notion of a 'cottage industry' [http://politics.slashdot.org/story/13/01/12/2150235/vietnam-admits-deploying-bloggers] of Vietnamese YouTube 'dislikers' in favour of the fact that any network exploits are eminently reproducible in a country which has only five ISPs among nearly ninety million people — and a widely distributed vulnerable router [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=vi&u=http://news.zing.vn/Thue-bao-cap-quang-FPT-bi-hack-co-the-khac-phuc-post479819.html&prev=search].
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