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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
All hail Linux ....bowing down on my knees now ....hum....hum.....hum Oh dear:) I dont think Linus wanted to start a "religion" when he reversed engineered Unix to Linux. Linus Torvalds describes himself as "completely a-religious—atheist", adding that "I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both. It gives people the excuse to say, 'Oh, nature was just created,' and so the act of creation is seen to be something miraculous. I appreciate the fact that, 'Wow, it's incredible that something like this could have happened in the first place.'" He later added that while in Europe religion is mostly a personal issue, in America it has become very politicized. When discussing the issue of church and state separation, Torvalds also said, "Yeah, it's kind of ironic that in many European countries, there is actually a kind of legal binding between the state and the state religion."[43] |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9956 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Here are some interesting stats. Top 100 computers at SETI@Home by OS Windows 7 - 39 Windows 10 - 30 Windows 8.1 - 12 Windows XP - 6 Darwin - 6 Linux - 5 Windows 8 - 1 Win Server 2012 - 1 |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
Same subject, different view. News today that the FBI has obtained a Court Order, and a Judge has ordered Apple to decrypt the Iphone used by the San Bernadino terrorists(whom I refuse to glorify by name). Tim Cooke and Apple have refused the order and state that they will not violate the privacy of their Iphone users and will defend their refusal up through the Supreme Court. Wow, what a difference to the view M$ takes with their Window$ users. That being said, where do we draw the line between privacy and the need to know what terrorists are up to? Some abuse of the state of privacy will be necessary to defeating plots against the public but how far the 'Camel's nose' gets under the tent flap is the question of the day. There must be a middle ground somewhere......":|} "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Ulrich Metzner Send message Joined: 3 Jul 02 Posts: 1256 Credit: 13,565,513 RAC: 13 |
Regarding the previous post: I think, this is only marketing. If "they" can decipher that special iphone, they can decipher any iphone. If this would become well known to the public, it would be a disastrous privacy nightmare for their marketing department... Aloha, Uli |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Same subject, different view. Tim Cook wrote this yesterday. The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand. http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/ |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Here are some interesting stats. That is interesting. Pulling from BOINCstats SETI@home hosts OS list I added the host totals by base OS and came up with these figures. I did lump the R2 versions of Server releases in with their previous versions. Which I shouldn't have, but realized I did that afterward. Microsoft Windows XP 1828104 Microsoft Windows 7 655305 Linux 347446 Microsoft Windows Vista 289058 OS X 264782 Microsoft Windows 2003 79276 Microsoft Windows 8.1 59494 Microsoft Windows 10 58984 Microsoft Windows 8 31947 Microsoft Windows 2008 18012 Android 9382 BSD 5187 Microsoft Windows 2012 3287 SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Ulrich Metzner Send message Joined: 3 Jul 02 Posts: 1256 Credit: 13,565,513 RAC: 13 |
That is easily explained: For dedicated crunching XP is still first choice in the Windoze family for minimum overhead and maximum crunching. Unfortunately i had to upgrade my daily driver to Windoze 7 only for security reasons. If it would be a pure dedicated cruncher, it would still run XP! Aloha, Uli |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13835 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
News today that the FBI has obtained a Court Order, and a Judge has ordered Apple to decrypt the Iphone used by the San Bernadino terrorists(whom I refuse to glorify by name). Tim Cooke and Apple have refused the order and state that they will not violate the privacy of their Iphone users and will defend their refusal up through the Supreme Court. Pity they don't take the same stance with China. Grant Darwin NT |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30929 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Pity they don't take the same stance with China. The supreme puppet court of China? |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3315 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
What the -BLEEP- is the U.S. Government thinking???? Defense Department to put Windows 10 on 4M computers The U.S. Department of Defense will standardize 4 million computers on Windows 10, a significant endorsement for Microsoft's latest operating system. |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1856 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
Bottom line, when Win 10 is what's available, Win 10 gets bought. That's what they're thinking ... OTOH, maybe MS bought the US Government and they're waging war on Apple ... lol |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30929 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
What the -BLEEP- is the U.S. Government thinking????Forced updates that can't be turned off = short term money savings. http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/windows-10-forced-upgrade-fighting-decades-long-institutional-insanity.html?google_editors_picks=true Wrapping Up: A Future of Forced Upgrades Yes, you read that correct. In the not too distant future, your ISP will have the legal liability to not allow your device to connect unless it has the current update to the acceptable list of O/S's. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36357 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
What's the bet that it'll be a clean version of Win10 and not the same as the rest of us would get? (spyware free) ;-) Cheers. |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
What's the bet that it'll be a clean version of Win10 and not the same as the rest of us would get? (spyware free) ;-) Actually my Mother's a retired government worker (tax). From the nonspecific fragments I gather, spying on government workers internally is an important part of government, lol. "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
Ulrich Metzner Send message Joined: 3 Jul 02 Posts: 1256 Credit: 13,565,513 RAC: 13 |
Since the government will most probably install the enterprise edition of W10, there is the possibility, that the images, they use for installation, already have turned off the "telemetry" - except for internal purposes of course... >;) Aloha, Uli |
River Song Send message Joined: 30 Jul 15 Posts: 268 Credit: 1,735,966 RAC: 0 |
I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TINFOIL TO MAKE A HAT! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!?!? Choose wisely as the reflectivity of aluminum depends on the surface characteristics and varies between 84 and 92%. Maybe make a hat using something better? :) River Song (aka Linda Latte on planet Earth) "Happy I-Phone girl on the GO GO GO" |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
JLDun Send message Joined: 21 Apr 06 Posts: 573 Credit: 196,101 RAC: 0 |
Choose wisely as the reflectivity of aluminum depends on the surface characteristics and varies between 84 and 92%. Maybe make a hat using something better? :) Aren't most signals reduced by passing through building walls? Just sit in the middle of the right building, and aluminum is not so bad.... Back on the thread topic: if I knew you to use a *nix CLI, I would, but since Windoze is all I know.... |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1856 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
Please Sir, may I have Another? |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
Finally bit the bullet and done an in-place repair installation of my Windows 7, after lots of trouble last night getting Bitdefender's Antivirus Plus 2016 to work (black screens are not fun to look at). Started this afternoon, did the install without Updates. That still took a good 5 hours to complete, because of the large amount of files and settings it had to copy over (close to 4 million!). But, I am now in a very speedy Windows 7. Used the DVD's activation key to activate it without trouble. And so after updating all my drivers and rearranging my desktop so its icons are spread over both monitors again (games right, apps left), I'm now doing Windows Update. Sneaky bastard had "Receive recommended updates the same way as important updates" checked in settings, so at that time I had close to 400 updates waiting at over a gigabyte of data. Unchecked that and important fell back to 157 updates, 105 optional ones. Although that latter number includes the 38 language packs I can install, I'm only going to install English. However, the rest of those updates have all the jewels in Cosmo's list. All of them are unchecked, none of those are getting on my system. Not until I've gone through it with a fine tooth comb. Now I just don't know what it's doing. Earlier it was downloading the updates, but it's stopped doing that. The last 4 reboots nothing has installed either. Shrug. Perhaps go do dinner first, and figure this out later. :) |
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