kryten

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by kryten 13y ago
I disagree. The default gnome2 desktop (provided by Mate) is top notch. Outside of this there are a core of decent, consistent apps and an ancillary of total crap. This is the same with Windows and OS-X. In fact most non-core Windows and OS
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by kryten 13y ago
Sounds like London, UK where I currently reside with three children... Expensive: check. Bad schools: check. Disfunctional government: check. Drugs on streets: check. Lots of crazies: check. The thing I hate is that people wouldn't pis
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by kryten 13y ago
Oh I agree, but when discovered we don't have to wait for a government to do its dirty work before the mere mortals are allowed the patch. Patched, poked in the repository and job done. The temporal window of attack is pretty low. Take
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by kryten 13y ago
Until they extradite him to the US that is...
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by kryten 13y ago
Having been on the end of 'shared source', you don't get all of it. Certain critical bits are missing. The closest you can get to them is the leaked NT4 and 2000 source back in the early 00's.
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by kryten 13y ago
Would you know or be able to provide evidence that it hasn't been used? Probably not.
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by kryten 13y ago
Wonderful. That helps me sell Debian + PostgreSQL over Windows + SQL Server.
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by kryten 13y ago
My point entirely. There was a degree of sarcasm in it.
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by kryten 13y ago
They're not getting replaced, so you're not paying for it.
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by kryten 13y ago
That is pretty cool. The only problem being that you're probably going to get caught doing it.
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by kryten 13y ago
Perhaps we should give people a proportional vote weighted by their intelligence?
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by kryten 13y ago
To be fair, all the 14 CCTV cameras on my street (!) have been sprayed, burned or shot. That's the only crime going on around where I live. People aren't putting up with this shit any more.
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by kryten 13y ago
Well same turd, rolled in different glitter to be honest.
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by kryten 13y ago
They invented the machine gun for such circumstances.
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by kryten 13y ago
Could be right. If you could text your vote in, most of the UK could even manage to have an opinion between the adverts in the X-Factor and their next cigarette.
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by kryten 13y ago
At the moment, yes. His only other options are: 1. Get from the building to a diplomatically immune car and out of the EU. Not going to happen: the fuzz will snag him the moment he steps out of the door. 2. Wait for a politically sympatheti
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by kryten 13y ago
So basically it's got known privacy problems, requires trust of Google and you're winging it. Lets also add that Chrome!=Chromium. Chrome is based on Chromium. Not all of it is open and it is not compiled in the public eye. No tha
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by kryten 13y ago
I think we'd be better off in the UK with Europe and Russia on our side these days. In fact we'd probably be better off with the Eastern Bloc states if they existed as well...
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by kryten 13y ago
He'll be fine if he can get to the Ecuadorian Embassy quick enough :) I live in the UK and am utterly disgusted at the pieces of shit that act in our name. You can't vote them out as it's a bipartisan system with two sets of
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by kryten 13y ago
And this is the point at which they no longer represent us but themselves.
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by kryten 13y ago
Why would you use Chrome if you have privacy concerns and want to use DuckDuckGo? Google isn't exactly known for respecting privacy. Install Firefox instead.
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by kryten 13y ago
Snag the image for the full version and use your key on it - it'll work fine. I've done exactly what you have. Instructions: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/18309-windows-8-upgrade...
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by kryten 13y ago
I've used windows for over 20 years. I think I've earned my right to bitch about the bad bits :)
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by kryten 13y ago
Just install it from scratch on the new machine with the same key, copy your files over and delete the source installation. Don't ever move it or move disks - it will shit a brick.
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by kryten 13y ago
Quality really hits you when you have to set up postfix, dovecot-lda, dovecot imap, ldap auth and an NFS share to store mail on. I'd genuinely rather use exchange and active directory!
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by kryten 13y ago
It's even worse than that. If you are a power user and turn off the toolbars etc, excel 97 isn't that much different to excel 2013.
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by kryten 13y ago
Its probably the same streaming tech office 2010 home and student uses. It basically makes it unusable. Every time you click something it lags for 30-40 seconds while it caches dlls. Horrible tech.
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by kryten 13y ago
Moving windows 8 around is trivial. Most of the time it just activates. Occasionally it makes you phone them which takes about 3-4 mins. However when you have a VLK and you don't notice that the KMS server has fallen over, shit hits th
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by kryten 13y ago
I picked up flask for a one off helpdesk request frontend for someone a few months ago. Compared to asp.net, its an absolute joy to work with. It makes me not want to grind my face off with a blunt spoon :) Glad to see some awesome progress
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by kryten 13y ago
It probably is. I've experienced the fact that DDD scales up only until the consultants have gone :) Same as NserviceBus only works until you've paid for the training.

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