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Re: Founder Dr. Shannon Klingman Plans To Keep Lume Weird Post-Harry’s Acquisition

tallship — Sun, 12 May 2024 08:53:53 -0000

Its interesting to see just how many folks are obsessed with posting disparaging ad hominem, just for the sake of being able to do so.

I know nothing about the product other than what I've seen on television, but she is a board certified gynecologist (MD), and after checking stats at Amazon on repeat business, one needs to look at the anecdotal evidence, instead of summarily dismissing the viability of a product with caustic vitriol.

It's one thing to be offended by presentation, it's another to denigrate a product with respect to its utility by conflating one's sensibilities with the value of said product.

Stupid goes all the way to the bone 🦴 , and a modicum of decorum would be appreciated by most people trying to glean some worthwhile information, perhaps testimonials or personal experience instead of vitriolic drivel. Just chill, Don't be a meany!

#tallship

Re: Nitrux 3.4 Released, the systemd-Free Distro Now Uses KDE Software from Debian

tallship — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:57:56 -0000

I'm looking foward to seeing Maui Shell in action on Nitrux when everything settles into place in 2025.

#tallship

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Re: Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian 13 “Trixie” to Feature a Refined Command-Line Interface

tallship — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:49:19 -0000

I love the new look of apt, and can't wait for it to land in Trixie (Testing), shouldn't be too long now ;)

#tallship #Debian_Trixie #FOSS

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Re: Linux Journal is Back | Linux Journal

tallship — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:26:41 -0000

Three things are more important to me than anything else in my private, personal computer museum:

1.) The Timex Sinclair 1000 my father gave me.

2.) My "Linux Bible - the GNU Testament" 1st ed.

3.) The entire first year of issues of Linux Journal.

What Phil Hughes gave to us was an exciting new way of looking at who we could become through FOSS and Linux, how we might get there, and what that world might actually be like.

I was saddened to watch The Linux Counter fade into oblivion without much notice and no fanfare, so I'm elated to know that such will not be the case for LJ.

Thank you, /.

Kindest regards,

Bradley D. Thornton

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Re: A morality cabal of Debian users tried to knife Torvalds

tallship — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 01:09:22 -0000

Hey JR, you know you can just use Devuan instead, right?

Re: 3D-Printed Head Shows Face Unlock on Most Phones Isn’t Secure

tallship — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:06:46 -0000

One thing I can offer here, is the relatively insecure nature of biometrics in general.

Police can forcibly compel you to unlock your personal computing devices via biometric method - without obtaining a warrant.

Only a judge can compel you to unlock your phone with a PIN, pattern, or offer up your password to unlock secure resources, but any cop without even a search warrant can forcibly scan your fingerprint, or hold your face in front of your phone to unlock it.

I've got no problem using biometric systems to unlock/launch an app on my phone, but there's no way I'm going to depend or utilize in any way, a biometric system for securing and unlocking my phone, thereby ensuring that all of my machine and personal data can be compromised. ⛵

Re: 3D-Printed Head Shows Face Unlock on Most Phones Isn’t Secure

tallship — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:45:01 -0000

Yes aside from the glory h0le factoid, another point lost in your vitriolic rant is the fact that Samsung sells more phones than all other phones makers combined - including apple (go figure) and their outrageously overpriced product line predicated upon planned obsolescence and proprietary vendor lock-in.

Your statistics only account for the comparison between any one single model if phone, and Samsung and LG and Motorola, among others, each produce several different models.

Apple... Not so much.

Android (and by extension, you can say Linux) is the most prevalent and popular operating platform for personal computing these days, leaving apple lagging far behind Microsoft, and somewhere ahead of the now defunct blackberry and PalmOS devices. Even fake blackberry's churned out by Chinese manufacturer TCL are running Android as their OS.

Re: Hardening CentOS

tallship — Sat, 12 May 2018 21:00:57 -0000

Will this interfere with a cPanel installation? Can this script be run before installing cPanel? After installing cPanel?

As I recall, the installation instructions for cPanel recommend (urge) that it be installed on a fresh, baseline install of CentOS, although There is some wiggle room, as, for example, one of the very first things I usually do when rolling out a new machine is to edit/customize my /etc/ssh/sshd_config for port numbers X11 forwarding, requiring logins via ssh keys only, and then adding an allowusers line so only specific users can ssh into the box. I've never had any problems installing cPanel after such things, but it's been a while and things change lol.

Anyway, a lot of those utils are a good first start, and @Dan, you can always just comment out the chkrootkit portion of the script and then just install it manually with rpm -ivh or by using yum :)

Re: Los Angeles, CA: Free Caller ID for 2135969161

tallship — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:39:21 -0000

This is a scammer call - They first attempted to call one of our phone numbers, then opened a sales ticket saying that they were unable to reach anyone (They left no message both times they called, but you could hear the boiler room in the background and the chatter between people in their cubicles as they waited on hold - yes, we listen to the "pre-message" portion of all incoming calls prior to the beep where people can leave a voicemail message).

We answered the ticket, as they said they were interested in purchasing dedicated server hosting from us, but they said they wanted to speak to us. I called the number back they called from, spoke to the person I had heard in the background talking in the previous "pre-message" recording, and asked for, "Martin", since that was the name the entity identified themselves as in the support/sales ticket.

The person on the other end of the phone told me that "Martin" would be in the office in about twelve hours.

When calling back, no one was able to understand us, and it was obvious that they were barely able to speak English as we had an equally difficult time understanding them. No Martin there...

We responded to the ticket again telling them so. Then they responded to the ticket saying they would be available next time we called.

It's real simple, we have certain makes/models of servers available for rent in our data center, you visit the website, choose the server you want, and pay with your credit card. A few hours later the machine is racked and deployed. Asking us questions over the phone is one thing, but not being available and not being able to communicate leads us to believe that they are trying to scam us - we get several scam attempts per day, and we maintain several levels of anti-fraud control systems. Scammers appear upset after being forced to order products and set up an account and then their credit cards are rejected as fraudulent attempts.

Judging by the IP addresses and times coinciding with other fraudulent attempts to secure our services we believe that they will try to get us to take a credit card over the phone or suggest a different method like PayPal that is easily susceptible to fraud. We always force users to go through our portal and never run charges for anyone we don't actually know (existing customers) over the phone.

Re: Betaalde modules en distro's: voor of tegen?

tallship — Sun, 15 May 2016 18:23:05 -0000

Drupal is not an island, separate and distinct from other projects in the FOSS world.

There has been a tendency in recent years for many projects to bolster their active development by maintaining 'community' versions as well as paid for, 'Enterprise' versions - and most of the Enterprise versions of these projects include additional functionalities that aren't really part of the Community editions.

This often bolsters the project with a cash flow that enables the people behind the project to dedicate more resources and perhaps even a payroll to spur on development.

The problem with many of these projects is that eventually, the powers that be determine that the enterprise versions can stand upon their own, and sometimes these organizations even re-license later versions, thereby venturing into the commercial Non-FOSS world.

Another problem is that some of these projects begin to only improve upon their enterprise versions, not just neglecting, but deliberately shunning contributions from the members of the volunteer developer community - this is the worst, IMO, of all of the possibilities, because it is the pivotal snapshot in time where something that claims to be FOSS no longer remains such - and this is often when you see a fork occur.

Take Bacula, for example. At least four forks exist - two of which derived from a concerted effort to derive a commerically-only available product as a result of the scenario just mentioned above, and one (BURP) derived from that same refusal to accept patches and features from the volunteer developers for the community version, yet BURPs reasons for its genesis are geared toward giving the project back to FOSS even as Bacula ventures further into the land of psuedo-FOSS (by this, I mean that the significance and relative usefullness of the community version has fallen into a realm where it's utility is almost only relevant as a demo for the enterprise version.

Other projects are mostly driven by their community editions, while leveraging a support model for a not very different enterprise version that doesn't really have very many features beyond what the basic community version does, and these projects I find to be generally more robust and active, and enjoyed by their userbase than the one's that push people into either the enterprise version or switching to another product.

This last scenario seems to be a quite healthy alternative that focusing on driving sales by virtue of an enterprise version that has features leaving the community version almost insignificant to users. Why? Because the money has always been in the support of a product - IBM may have licensing fees for their products, but what the customer really ends up paying for when the day is done is IBM's famous, "Almost holding your hand". support.

As a hosting provider, I try to focus heavily upon open source frameworks and recommend them for my client base, and yes, I even pressure these customers to donate the equivalent of what a competitor might charge as a licensing fee. I believe that there is money in labor/support, and that if you use a product, you should give something back monetarily when you can.

I realize that most people have never paid for using MySQL, or MariaDB, but consider just how integrated so much software is with this database product and ask yourself why you haven't contributed even 10 dollars there?

If you run YOUR Enterprise on an ERP solution that a closed source competitor would charge $10,000.00 for, why would you not consider contributing $1,000.00 to that developer? If nothing else, I have noted that when a customer of mine does something like this, the developer, or team supporting that product often makes it a priority to ensure that this customer (fan, if you will) is well supported by them.

I do like the notion of both a community and enterprise edition of a product, but I also feel that the developer needs to really assess a good balance between paid for versions and support, and a community version that borders on being irrelevant as a result of neglect or favortism of the commercial version.

Re: An Open Letter to Facebook

tallship — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:35:25 -0000

FYI, I got a 404 on the link to your letter BTW.

I'd like to read it, and see the graphic that all of this hoopla was all about too. maybe you'll dare to post it on G+, (or NOT, they're even more anal than faceplant LOL), although here might be the best place to champion your grievances about the injustices of participating in social arenas that are the property of someone else.

Re: Rambling, and a work in progress excerpt

tallship — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:31:45 -0000

Hm...

Interesting that it picked this particular G+ account of mine, but that's okay Cecilia, I enjoyed what I read here today, and plussed and commented on your G+ post too.

As I said in the comment, you have a fan :)

Kindest regards,

Bradley

Re: Why you shouldn’t use target=_blank, and what to use instead

tallship — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:22:06 -0000

Yeah, good luck with that Eevee. The context of rude is based on the browser experiences common back in the ie 3.01b days and itself deprecated.

It is what it is, and it isn't what it once was. Browsing habits have changed significantly from over a decade ago and so have the preferences of *most* users.

Being in the minority sucks, I know, but as such, it is what it is.

Re: 8 Great Code Editors for Windows 8 & RT – for Free or Cheap!

tallship — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:04:24 -0000

Here's another vote for PSPad ;)

Re: We Don’t Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena

tallship — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:32:02 -0000

You oppose "all of it", you're a nihilist.

Re: Jan-Piet Mens :: Alternative DNS Servers: the book as PDF

tallship — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:57:20 -0000

I'm sorry this just didn't do it for me.

Sure, it's quite convenient to carry around on my laptop and keep secreted in my personal little cloud, but in the end I had to just purchase the hard copy because I like scribbling in the margins of my hard copy references - and this voluminous work is well worth buying the hard copy even if you're one of those who prefers digital versions.

Great work! And I'm hoping you keep it updated with new editions as, for example, things like the support for recursion in MaraDNS continue to migrate even more exclusively into Deadwood.

DNS software is a moving target, not light speed mind you, but steadily enough to warrant encouraging people to actually purchase this book so that the author can continue to dedicate the maintenance efforts to his work.

The book is truly a gem!

Re: Dannybuntu: What Do I Do?

tallship — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:51:02 -0000

So Danny, how has James Collin's method worked out so for for you. Is it bringing in a decent amount of money yet? It's been three months since you wrote about it and I figure that you would have some indication as to how well this is going to work out as a financial program.

Re: Discuss Norton Internet Security (Symantec Corporation)

tallship — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:42:24 -0000

Norton Utilities was the bomb! It was safe, effective, modular, and portable - and in that order.

Think about how the brand, "Norton", held that distinction for so long.

Now thing about an agreement that says Peter Norton doesn't have to do anything except basically make himself available for occasional photo shoots, since it is another company which has the rights to put his likeness on their cover of a product that now carries the name "Norton Utilities". That company grows increasingly more ambivalent towards its customers each year.

Each year, that company's product becomes more like the reason you would want to buy something along the lines of what Norton still purports to be.

Norton has become more so the problem, rather than the solution for the problem - each year.

Re: Google Open Sources VP8 Video Codec. Will Apple, Microsoft and Intel Use It?

tallship — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:39:16 -0000

Microsoft ripped off IBM when they jumped ship on TopView - then released Windows.

AT&T Sued UC Berkeley for nonexistent code they claimed had been pagiarized.

Berkeley counterd that AT&T's IP Stack, written by Bill Joy, contained BSD code.

Apple Sues Microsoft over the use of the mouse in Windows.

Xerox steps in and notes that they invented the mouse in 1968 as part of the PARC project, and tells mACROsFOT and Apple to play nice in the sandbox.

The courts ask AT&T and Berkeley if they want to play nice in the sandbox or risk nullifying each other's Unices - they play nice in the sandbox.

Apple and Microsoft agree to play nice in the sandbox, just in time for the birth of Linux.

Uh, Oh! GPL! Who do we sue for Linux?

Getting hung up on details when a giant like Google decides to move ahead with VP8/WebM, which is subsequently, and immediately embraced by fifty MAJOR vendors, including the most prominent browser folks (And that apparently includes mACROsFOT too) and IM giants like Skype, others including Intel, AMD, Cisco... ad nauseam infinitum....

It's rather pointless mentioning similarities between VP8 and H.264 (Which is now effectively DEAD).

Any Patent issues will be taken care of by remunerations between friendly enemies - not by cease and desist orders.

To place significance on such nonsense when we have all known what it going to happen (Full steam ahead!!!) is merely flogging a moot point.

Kindest regards,

Bradley D. Thornton
Manager Network Services
NorthTech.US
http://northtech.us/content...

Re: Joomla 1.6 means change for templates

tallship — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:06:22 -0000

I'm with you here. Although I like CB, I also would like to implemment sites without it, or at least w/o the neccessity of having to hack and use RSFormPro w/the database.

I see this complaint/feature request more than any other for core Joomla! features. I believe it's really holding Joomla! Back from adoption by many, although I personally instead chose to work around this.

Re: 5 reasons you should use joomla instead of wordpress

tallship — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:26:03 -0000

Well Wordpress certainly takes the cade IMO, when it comes to opening the box, throwing away the quickstart instructions and plugging the appliance in.

I'm sorry, but I'm just not in the habit of installing something quick and easy when I know I'm going to need scalability on the order that most of my clients require over time, w/o first having to consider throwing away one product and starting over from scratch. That's why I use Joomla. I have several scratchbase installs too of Joomla, depending upon which way I think the client may be going in the future - I just upload the .jpa archive and kickstart.php files, point my browser to the kickstart file and make some breakfast.

Then I start unpublishing all of the extensions I'm not going to need right away and re-branding the site for the client - BOOM! Record time set up. No one has mentioned this. Hm... I guess most people like to do things from scratch over and over LOL!

Now, I must agree that when it comes to SEF, Wordpress is much more handy out of the box, but I really don't worry about this too much. Given the typical budget that most folks have when having someone set up a site, the initial goal is presence in the form of content and look. There are many third avenue ways of boosting search engine ratings that don't have anything to do with SEO/SEF on the website itself, and those are the things we begin tackling once the site is in place. After all it takes a while before the search engines begin to pick you up in a meaningful way, so you've got time.

Now, what I don't do is bundle ARTIO or any other third party SEF component with my .jpa archives. I wait until I have a stable site first and then face the potential nightmare, finding the the stock SEO friendly .htaccess functions work quite well. You have to train the cient's staff to keep this in mind, but training is necessary anyway, unless my folks are maintaining the site ourselves for the client.

But for pure blogging power, combined with a familiar feel for sites that are going to be having commenting, rating, etc., yeah, the average Jane out there is familiar with wordpress, mostly because it's been around as a blogging tool and has market share wrt recognition by people who go from site to site posting comments or signing up for the blogging capabilities of a site.

Well, in that case, What I want to know is why no one here has even remotely addressed (aside from the fact that it's a commercial product you need to pay for) the possibilities of "corePHP" integration of Wordpress (a Blogging platform) into Joomla! (a full blown CMS).

I mean, a blog is something you set up as a standalone platform if all you want is blogging (and Wordpress does do much more - credit where it's due). A CMS is something you set up if you need to manage all sorts of content and other engines and capabilities (Joomla!).

Thanks for taking the time to read my take on the issue.

Kindest regards,

Bradley

Therefore, it is resolved (LOL, sounds like an official resolution from a governmental body), that a blog is something contained, as an integrated component or standalone object engine, within the navigational boundaries of a content management system.

From my standpoint, turning Wordpress into a CMS is working from the inside and expanding without. Conversely, Taking a content managment system like Joomla! and either replacing the (NEWS) blogging system or implementing an additional blogging system is working *within and inwardly* integrating features into the engine. i.e., installing corePHP into Joomla as an excellent blogging system that is familiar to the average Joe, while maintaining the integrity of the CMS model.