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lproven
8,777karma·4,928submissions·December 30, 2013
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Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.
# Work
Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.
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Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com
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Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.
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FWIW, agreed. It is very odd to me that I often read people asking about alternative OSes -- Linux compared to Windows, or FreeBSD compared to Linux, or OpenBSD compared to FreeBSD -- and they say tha…
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> Remember that most machines back then were Ethernet, not WiFi. Not "most" -- all. 802.11 networking was standardised in 1997. The first versions to really see significant mass adoptio…
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> as powerful as Linux Can you explain what you mean by that? Can you give some examples?
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Be specific. Why do you need LVM? What for, what do you do with it? Secondly: are you aware that ZFS includes what LVM does on Linux, and so you don't need a separate tool for it? This makes the …
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Um. ISTM that you're saying "this is a common mistake but some people don't make it." Is that fair? If so: no argument, but the error is now more common than the correct form, in m…
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> Now I wonder if it is sometimes the opposite problem: A skilled writer losing patience when someone less skilled is at the wheel. Others in his thread explored that theory, and it seems they may …
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> They shall learn from the masters (Microsoft): a pirated version shall be easily available I think you mean "should" not "shall". Shall: this is a prediction of the future; …
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> this has been confirmed by people from Arca Noae in various interviews/presentations I've seen. Has it? Do you have any links, please? I interviewed Lewis Rosenthal of Arca Noae. https…
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Nicely put. I like the worked example in para 2. :-) Tell me, did you ever watch Yes, Minister or Yes, Prime Minister ? If not, I think you might enjoy them.
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"Needless." :-D But you're right. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brevity_is_the_soul_of_wit …
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Fair, but they do often go together.
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> Out of curiosity, are you a reader? Very much so. I started reading adult novels at 7 years old, and by the time I was 12 or so, I could if I was hurrying read 5 or 6 novels a day. I read the ent…
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You say you are being blunt, but then 5 paragraphs of exegesis follows. TL;DR. Talking takes time and effort. So does listening. Be brief. Get to the point.
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This post, and the pithier original, is absolutely astonishing to me as a Brit who has lived and worked in Europe all my adult life. Now I think I see why some American-dominated FOSS communities obje…
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> Maybe this is a bit US-centric, You are violating the rule of the principle in saying this. :-) (Yes, I am aware it does not apply here.) It is EXTREMELY US-centric and frankly as a Brit who li…
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> Do people really say this? Is it exclusive? I've only heard the inverse: "I couldn't care less". "I could" is American. "I couldn't" is British. As Am…
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I have to admit, my Japanese is extremely rudimentary and I couldn't remember the exact term offhand. I had to look it up.
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> Bodies acclimate. Absolutely -- and at different rates. I have had severe asthma since puberty. After a decade of suffering, good drugs arrived around the turn of the century, and I've been …
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I read this last night. AFAICS it's a turbojet tilt-rotor with folding rotors? Is that a fair summary? Sounds fun but also somewhat terrifying. The more complexity, the lower the MTBF.
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> During the time of x86 macos this was AMD or Intel PCs Still is. A modern Hackintosh can run macOS 15 "Sequioa" and Tahoe still has x86 support and OCLP is working on it. It will happen…
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This is so established a thing that it has a name: Sonshi Style. https://dylanbaileywrites.medium.com/sonshi-style-an-obscure... I have an external Thinkpad USB keyboard with full-tra…
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> I didn't say Loogson the company was dead Yeah you did. «
AFAIK Loongson is dead and isn't made anymore
» You are angrily arguing against things I didn't say and am not saying. I s…
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> FAIK Loongson is dead and isn't made anymore, Wrong. It is alive and well and in production from several vendors. https://www.loongson.cn/EN > Loongson was a little-endia…
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You jogged my memory and I downloaded it, after a small detour trying to find a version that'll run on my 11YO iMac. I have a whole collection of feeds alread, which I have no knowledge of at all…
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Er... he's saying Windows 1 was really ugly, and with Win11, MS has got back to its roots. In other words, Win11 is also really ugly. Cosmetically, it's all right, sometimes pretty. I like t…
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Well, it was a breath of fresh air after even 3.0 let alone Windows 2. But personally, I enjoyed NT 3.1 more. Built-in PPP so I could dial up to CompuServe and get on the Net. Not the web, which bar…
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> IIRC we got long filenames with Win95, and a built-in network stack, no more Trumpet WinSock. And it did seem more stable, not nearly as good as NT/2000 but better than 3.1. Kinda sorta but …
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Online, I believe that one bit of Beverley Hills has the highest number of online users in the USA. I am one. I have never visited California or the West Coast of the USA in my life. But I have used d…
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I lost a Nationwide Building Society account I've had for forty years last year because the bank bought some extremely poor online-ID-verification system. The bank forgot it had customers in a …
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As I understand it, Loongson is very close to MIPS. I think I remember reading that just 4 patented instructions were removed from the MIPS ISA, and I am not even sure that they were replaced. If so…