Howard Beale - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Cancelled my account (Score 1) 91

by Howard Beale on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:53PM (#65597664) Attached to: LinkedIn Is the Fakest Platform of Them All

You got that right. Too much 'influencer' bullshit.

Comment Cancelled my account (Score 1) 91

by Howard Beale on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:45PM (#65597642) Attached to: LinkedIn Is the Fakest Platform of Them All

LI was just full of garbage and not useful at all. Don't miss it.

Comment Dupe... again (Score 2) 10

by Howard Beale on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:07AM (#65241831) Attached to: Software Startup Rippling Sues Competitor Deel, Claiming a Spy Carried Out 'Corporate Espionage'

https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

Comment If we're such good friends now with Russia... (Score 4, Funny) 57

by Howard Beale on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:07PM (#65215507) Attached to: US Communications Agency To Explore Alternatives To GPS Systems

I'm sure they'd let us use their GLONASS system.

Comment Wouldn't be /. if there were no dups... (Score -1, Redundant) 22

by Howard Beale on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @07:26PM (#64599353) Attached to: Netflix Phasing Out Basic Ads-Free Plan

https://entertainment.slashdot...

Comment Re:Devuan (Score 1) 118

by Howard Beale on Saturday May 04, 2024 @04:25PM (#64448006) Attached to: Ubuntu Criticized For Bug Blocking Installation of<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Deb Packages

I've been using KDE Neon, but think I'll be moving to Devuan.

Comment Re:Or, you know, (Score 2) 185

by Howard Beale on Thursday April 11, 2024 @02:40PM (#64387168) Attached to: Microsoft Begins Showing Full Screen Windows 11 Ad on Windows 10 PCs as End of Support Date Looms

Sorry you've had a bad experience with Linux. Hasn't been my experience. Best of luck.

Comment Or, you know, (Score 5, Informative) 185

by Howard Beale on Thursday April 11, 2024 @02:23PM (#64387100) Attached to: Microsoft Begins Showing Full Screen Windows 11 Ad on Windows 10 PCs as End of Support Date Looms

you could just switch to Linux.

Comment Wouldn't be Slashdot.... (Score 1) 15

by Howard Beale on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @08:55PM (#64385068) Attached to: Starting Today, ISPs Must Display Labels With Price, Speeds, and Data Caps

without a front page dup.

Comment Re:so what? (Score 1) 26

by Howard Beale on Sunday April 07, 2024 @11:03AM (#64376484) Attached to: Retro Computing Enthusiast Tries Running Turbo Pascal On a 40-Year-Old Apple II Clone

Yeah, tell me about it. Wrote an Othello (Reversi) program for an AI college class on Turbo Pascal 3.0. In CP/M. On a Coleco Adam (yes I'm a masochist - the screen scrolling wore over time). Thankfully it had dual drives and was able to port it over to a Zenith IBM clone for final turn-in.

Comment ownCloud.... (Score 1) 20

by Howard Beale on Thursday November 30, 2023 @07:07PM (#64045075) Attached to: ownCloud Vulnerability With Maximum 10 Severity Score Comes Under 'Mass' Exploitation

lives up to it's name in a different way than intended.

Comment Screw it.... (Score 0) 25

by Howard Beale on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:09PM (#64036891) Attached to: AWS Repurposes Fire TV Cubes Into $195 Thin Clients For Cloud Desktops

Can You Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These?

Comment Re: WTF is wayland? (Score 2) 75

by Howard Beale on Sunday November 19, 2023 @10:16AM (#64016129) Attached to: Raspberry Pi OS, elementary OS Will Default to Wayland

And in doing so, has been pissing off a lot of professional Linux users who have, for *decades*, built systems and workflows predicated on being able to display application windows from networked servers onto remote workstations.

I'll note that while they greybeards have been doing their thing for close to 40 years now, the pissing off has been going on for a while too. This whole Wayland experiment is entering its second decade of sticking its fingers in its ears and going lalalalala.

I wish I had mod points. Spot on.

Comment Re:As God as my witness, I thought they could fly! (Score 2) 84

by Howard Beale on Thursday November 02, 2023 @09:18AM (#63973852) Attached to: Millions of Fruit Flies Will Be Dropped On Los Angeles

--Les Nessman.

Actually, that was Arthur Carlson's line. I remember watching that when it first aired. Getting old....

Comment Re:Who's the bonehead? (Score 1) 46

by Howard Beale on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:29PM (#63856104) Attached to: Las Vegas Still Struggling to Recover from Last Sunday's Cyberattack

Sorry to respond to my comment but Linux is out there as well. Unfortunately, seems that vendor's advice on best practices, patching, etc is lacking (and clients don't have expertise). One vendor I'm familiar with deploys different products on different Linux distributions; unbelievable. Pick one and stick with it.

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