Why Linux Sucks- 2020 Version

On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 11:09:42 +0000, David
wrote:

I apologise for calling you John. In real life, if I meet someone whose
name I do not know (or have maybe forgotten!) I at some stage call them
John.


He's already got your contact names from the video (that was
the ONLY part that interested him). Now he's almost ready for the
strike....

Snit: As to the video. No panel -- CRTL-F2, and bring up the
Cinnamon configuration tool. I have no idea what it's called, and
can't be bothered to Glugle it, I use MATE.

---------------
BD: I want people to "get to know me better. I have nothing to
hide".
I'm always here to help, this page was put up at BD's request,
rather, he said "Do it *NOW*!":

http://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php

64 confirmed #FAKE_NYMS, most used in cybercrimes!
Google "David Brooks Devon"
[]'s
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Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012

On 1/6/20 8:39 PM, Joel wrote:
mGhost wrote:

hello mr left hand, what's up?

well hello mr right hand. I ran a computer lab... what about you mr left
hand?

Oh thanks for asking mr right hand. la dee dah...


Hi Marek.


Could be... though I suspect Marek is Carroll. Not gonna track times or
anything else to try to find evidence one way or the other. Either
Carroll or someone emulating his tactics. More important things to do in
life than figure out who is playing what circus games.

In short, at least for now, I am largely taking your advice. Yes, I get
pulled into his crap too easily.

--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 1/7/20 3:05 AM, David wrote:
On 07/01/2020 00:36, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 5:12 PM, David wrote:
...
Did edit out some troubleshooting and my waiting... or when I
multitasked and went back to doing Mac stuff. Here it is, for
whatever it is worth:

https://youtu.be/0k6xlEGPJ4I

Enjoy. Or ignore it. Whatever makes you happy.

I'm impressed, John! Very professional. *THANK YOU* :-)

It will take me a while to take it all in, but I have used Mint so
that was familiar. I'll watch again tomorrow.

What I didn't quite understand was why you called the version Mah
Tay instead of M8 (like in bait, for fishing!)

Â*From what I understand that is what the developers call it:

https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/how-to-pronounce-mate/

The video is dead, but they have it spelled out.

I see that! Thanks.

Our fondest memory of visiting Arizona was spending some time he-
https://www.chloridechamber.com

Was there many years ago on a trip with a summer camp... but I think
we just stopped by on the way to someplace else. Been a long time.

We turned OFF the beaten track to get there. I somehow doubt you'd
just have happened across it! ;-)

We got to see the Murals by hitching a lift from a couple in a Jeep -
we couldn't take the RV on the unpaved, rocky, track!

https://www.chloridechamber.com/murals


I *think* it was a side trip to Willow Beach, from Prescott, AZ. But
this is back in the '80s before I was even driving... so I cannot be
certain.

Looks possible! We turned off that same route.


https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Pres...35.4139585!3e0


OR http://bit.ly/39OoF3w

Yes. I looked at the map to try to figure out where we were going. I
know we went to Willow Beach a couple of times... and am thinking we
stopped at Chloride... but as I said been so long I cannot say for sure.
For most of our trips I was as focused on tracking 50+/- kids as I was
on where we were going.

The images look familiar, but could just be from seeing pics before.
The town itself also looks sorta familiar -- but with a quick image
you could how a dozen other small AZ towns and not really tell them
apart if you did not know them well.



I understand! Here's a couple of photographs I took at the time:-

https://imgur.com/gallery/ta4M5iL

Ah, yes... second one down looks familiar.

Good memories! :-)

In my case vague memories.


--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 1/7/20 4:09 AM, David wrote:
On 07/01/2020 00:41, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 5:16 PM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 23:15, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 3:59 PM, David wrote:
...
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_...as_Nevada.html


Although we had pre-booked for two nights, we didn't like Vegas
and moved on after just a one night stop. Death Valley was much
more to our liking! ;-)


Been a while since I have been back to Vegas, but I am familiar
with the Strip and Circus Circus. Used to go there as a kid and
play the games. I got quite good at a car race one -- found a way
to not exactly cheat but play focused on things most did not so I
won more often than not ... but they got rid of it. I am guessing
I am not the only one who found the trick.

Sometimes it's advantageous not the be one of the sheeple! ;-)

Did you go on to learn about 'computing' so that you could earn a
living at what you enjoy doing?

Got into computing sorta by accident. Was getting my degree in Vegas
(UNLV) in psychology. I worked my way through college to get that
degree by working in the computer labs. When I got the job I had
used Apple IIe systems but nothing else.

Was then put in the library lab which had Macs, DOS machines, and
UNIX dummy terminals. I did not know how to turn any of them on...
but I caught on quickly. I am one of the few who can say I started
working with those three OSs literally on the same day, and very
shortly got introduced to MS Word on Macs, Word Perfect on DOS, and
vi on UNIX (along with other software on each).

Six years later I was running a cluster of education computer labs
and teaching computers to at-risk high school students through the
Upward Bound program. Left college and was a substitution teacher
for a year (K-12 and special ed) and then got a job as head of tech
support and the sysop for a communication system that worked with
the Clark County School district (about 200 schools at the time) and
100 or so United Way Agencies. To do the training I developed a way
to do it on the system we were using (FirstClass, at the time owned
by SoftArc) and developed what is now known as an online class (as
far as I know the term did not exist). I am sure there were others
doing similar things, but I really do not know of any other large
scale online classes that happened before the one I designed (and
helped to teach). That was back in 1993 or so.

Then I moved to Tucson and did tech support for a bit before being
moved up to being a trainer. I am more of a teacher at heart than a
hard core tech person, though clearly I have a focus on tech.

How about you?

You can find out a bit about me he-
https://www.linkedin.com/in/boaterdave/

If you have any questions, just ask!

I'm off to my bed now, though. It's after midnight!

'nite!

See you have an interest in Raspberry Pi systems (Pies?). I do not
have one but know someone who uses a couple for his own home weather
station... do anything interesting with them?

My son, who's probably about your age, gave me a Pi for Christmas a few
years ago. Sadly, it's still brand new in its box, although I did open
up the box to look at it! I wish I'd had such a 'toy' when I was forever
experimenting as a lad! I'm sure I'll think of something positive to do
with it one day. :-)

I am sure I would find use for one if I had one, but not really chomping
at the bit to get one. The weather station controller is pretty cool but
I am happy just checking weather.com.

Still, I like to tinker. I was one of those kids who had a 101 in 1 (or
whatever) electronic kits who figured out I could have my own TV station
and then boost the power (hoping not to blow the thing up) and then walk
up and down the street blocking channel 8 (used to be the main news
channel people watched at least in my area of Vegas). OK, not exactly
the best thing to do but I suppose worse things kids can get into.

I apologise for calling you John.

I am over it.

In real life, if I meet someone whose
name I do not know (or have maybe forgotten!) I at some stage call them
John. Like the 80/20 rule, more often than not it is correct! If it's
not, the person will invariably correct me and proffer their ACTUAL name
without me asking for it! Yes, cheeky I know! ;-)

For men my age in America the name "Michael" works much the same... so
you can call me that.


--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 1/7/20 5:51 AM, Shadow wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 11:09:42 +0000, David
wrote:

I apologise for calling you John. In real life, if I meet someone whose
name I do not know (or have maybe forgotten!) I at some stage call them
John.

He's already got your contact names from the video (that was
the ONLY part that interested him). Now he's almost ready for the
strike....

Who is? What?

Snit: As to the video. No panel -- CRTL-F2, and bring up the
Cinnamon configuration tool.

Tried it. Did not work. Resized to 100% and the panel came back...
though of course the virtual screen was tiny. Was able to change the
virtual screen size and go back to 200%. Then the window went to showing
just 1/4 of the screen... until I went into full screen where it worked.
Came out and it continues to work.

Maybe it would have had I been a bit more patient? VirtualBox is
certainly slow and clunky... but I suppose would work in a pinch.
Parallels is MUCH better... though not free.

I have no idea what it's called, and
can't be bothered to Glugle it, I use MATE.

I tend to use MATE as well... though cannot even recall what I preferred
about it. Maybe Parallels had the same video issues AND I use it on
older machines?

---------------
BD: I want people to "get to know me better. I have nothing to
hide".
I'm always here to help, this page was put up at BD's request,
rather, he said "Do it *NOW*!":

http://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php

64 confirmed #FAKE_NYMS, most used in cybercrimes!
Google "David Brooks Devon"
[]'s


There used to be a "cosmicpengin" site where a 9/11 "truther" freaked
out over me and posted Steve Carroll's list of scavenged and forged
quotes about me and otherwise freaked out. Just checked now and the site
is down. No loss to the world. The WayBackMachine has it archived:

http://web.archive.org/web/201808251....com/snit.html

And another guy named Sandman has a site largely dedicated to lying
about me:

http://usenet.sandman.net/texter/list.php?categories[]=Digests

He has added some others to his list of people he trolls and lies
about... I just cannot imagine taking trolling of others to such
lengths. It is insane to me.

And you will see I have a guy who goes by "Steve Carroll" (along with
about 100 other names) who follows me around from group to group... but
he and Sandman have spent years working on bots to spam Usenet with
automated or semi-automated posts. I just do not get it.

--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 1/6/2020 5:12 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , AnonLinuxUser
wrote:

Well, you definitely did the research. Wife did have a step wave UPS,
and the iMac started doing some strange things, (like emptying trash
that doesn't empty the trash and hang). Got her a pure sine wave UPS
and those problems disappeared.

unrelated and a coincidence.


Not a coincidence if you know your electronics well enough.

i do, and it is very much a coincidence. stepped sine waves won't cause
the trash not to empty.


The UPS stepped output can cause harmonics that the iMac power supply
can't handle. I put a new UPS pure wave output and the problem went away.

imacs or other macs have no issue with stepped sine waves.


I sure that this case with her iMac is on the edge with a stepping UPS.

it's not.

After all, the thin space to park a
power supply has no room for a large caps and noise suppression
inductors. So I believe that the iMac power supply is cheaply designed
to cut corners on the cost and increase profit margins.

you believe wrong.

So you think.
And your credentials are?....

been in the industry forever.


But not smart enough, I'd say.

On 1/6/2020 6:37 PM, Paul wrote:
nospam wrote:
In article , Paul
wrote:

Apple supplies are contracted out, which is a
general industry trend for OEM computers.

false.

There are no Apple branded electrolytic capacitors, or
Apple factories for PSUs. (It says right on the side
of the PSU in my Mac G4,

that's a 20 year old computer long obsolete, and caps aren't the issue
anyway.

So you admit then, that it happened and it's true.

"20 year old computer"Â*Â* equalsÂ*Â* "Apple made it and was proud of it at
the time".

https://www.flickr.com/photos/babz4x...n/photostream/

Because flickr is so much fun to navigate, here is the picture
as seen in my browser.

https://i.postimg.cc/QChfKHcg/dongguan.jpg

Â*Â* Dongguan Samsung Electro-mechanicsÂ* === This is the OEM making the
subassembly
Â*Â* Made in China
Â*Â* S/N:
Â*Â* Apple P/N: 614-0224Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* === This is the Apple BOM item

So, yes, yes, Petunia, Apple is not fully vertically integrated.

When it makes sense to buy a subassembly from a third party, they do.

Just as when I worked in my fully vertically integrated company,
if I needed a "ua741", I didn't go down to the fab and hand-hew
the ****ing thing out of raw silicon. I ran down to Radio Shack
and got one for a buck. Lots of stuff came as subassemblies.
When I was in our "computer making" division, the power
supplies were perfectly awful OEM units. "I spit on them"
was the brand name.

What Apple uses for OEM, are better quality than anything
we ever put in a box.

HTH,
Â*Â*Â*Â* Paul

That's the way the industry works. Why reinvent the wheel when someone
else has what you want cheap?

Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 8:39 PM, Joel wrote:
mGhost wrote:

hello mr left hand, what's up?

well hello mr right hand. I ran a computer lab... what about you mr left
hand?

Oh thanks for asking mr right hand. la dee dah...

Hi Marek.

Could be... though I suspect Marek is Carroll. Not gonna track times or
anything else to try to find evidence one way or the other. Either
Carroll or someone emulating his tactics. More important things to do in
life than figure out who is playing what circus games.


I just found it ironic that someone was using multiple fake nyms to
falsely accuse you of doing that.


In short, at least for now, I am largely taking your advice. Yes, I get
pulled into his crap too easily.


It is a waste of time, for sure. I owe it to myself not to get too
deep into it.

--
Joel Crump

On 1/7/20 11:43 AM, Joel wrote:
Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 8:39 PM, Joel wrote:
mGhost wrote:

hello mr left hand, what's up?

well hello mr right hand. I ran a computer lab... what about you mr left
hand?

Oh thanks for asking mr right hand. la dee dah...

Hi Marek.

Could be... though I suspect Marek is Carroll. Not gonna track times or
anything else to try to find evidence one way or the other. Either
Carroll or someone emulating his tactics. More important things to do in
life than figure out who is playing what circus games.

I just found it ironic that someone was using multiple fake nyms to
falsely accuse you of doing that.

Has been happening for years. Here and CSMA and other groups. But rarely
if ever in groups where Carroll is not posting.

In short, at least for now, I am largely taking your advice. Yes, I get
pulled into his crap too easily.

It is a waste of time, for sure. I owe it to myself not to get too
deep into it.

It is easy to get pulled in... and sometimes amusing to see how those
who troll will trip on their own feet.



--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 2020-01-07, Joel wrote:
Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 8:39 PM, Joel wrote:
mGhost wrote:

hello mr left hand, what's up?

well hello mr right hand. I ran a computer lab... what about you mr left
hand?

Oh thanks for asking mr right hand. la dee dah...

Hi Marek.

Could be... though I suspect Marek is Carroll. Not gonna track times or
anything else to try to find evidence one way or the other. Either
Carroll or someone emulating his tactics. More important things to do in
life than figure out who is playing what circus games.


I just found it ironic that someone was using multiple fake nyms to
falsely accuse you of doing that.


In short, at least for now, I am largely taking your advice. Yes, I get
pulled into his crap too easily.


It is a waste of time, for sure. I owe it to myself not to get too
deep into it.

oh mr right hand, you sure do get sucked into these things don't you?
Thanks for asking mr left hand. I sure do. lol.

--
Я го�ть в отеле

In article , AnonLinuxUser
wrote:

Well, you definitely did the research. Wife did have a step wave UPS,
and the iMac started doing some strange things, (like emptying trash
that doesn't empty the trash and hang). Got her a pure sine wave UPS
and those problems disappeared.

unrelated and a coincidence.


Not a coincidence if you know your electronics well enough.

i do, and it is very much a coincidence. stepped sine waves won't cause
the trash not to empty.


The UPS stepped output can cause harmonics that the iMac power supply
can't handle. I put a new UPS pure wave output and the problem went away.

false. imacs have no issue with stepped sine waves, nor do other macs.

you also shouldn't be running anything off a ups for an extended period
of time anyway. it's for brief amounts of time, to safely shut down.

that said, i've run several different macs, pcs, upses and many other
devices for 30+ minutes off a cheap ups (stepped sine) without issue.

In article , AnonLinuxUser
wrote:


That's the way the industry works. Why reinvent the wheel when someone
else has what you want cheap?

because cheap crap isn't good enough.

On 07/01/2020 20:02, mGhost wrote:
On 2020-01-07, Joel wrote:
Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 8:39 PM, Joel wrote:
mGhost wrote:

hello mr left hand, what's up?

well hello mr right hand. I ran a computer lab... what about you mr left
hand?

Oh thanks for asking mr right hand. la dee dah...

Hi Marek.

Could be... though I suspect Marek is Carroll. Not gonna track times or
anything else to try to find evidence one way or the other. Either
Carroll or someone emulating his tactics. More important things to do in
life than figure out who is playing what circus games.


I just found it ironic that someone was using multiple fake nyms to
falsely accuse you of doing that.


In short, at least for now, I am largely taking your advice. Yes, I get
pulled into his crap too easily.


It is a waste of time, for sure. I owe it to myself not to get too
deep into it.

oh mr right hand, you sure do get sucked into these things don't you?
Thanks for asking mr left hand. I sure do. lol.

Posts like yours are not wanted in 'acw'.

*Any more such instances and you will be banned*

mGhost wrote:
On 2020-01-07, Joel wrote:
Snit wrote:

Could be... though I suspect Marek is Carroll. Not gonna track times or
anything else to try to find evidence one way or the other. Either
Carroll or someone emulating his tactics. More important things to do in
life than figure out who is playing what circus games.

I just found it ironic that someone was using multiple fake nyms to
falsely accuse you of doing that.

In short, at least for now, I am largely taking your advice. Yes, I get
pulled into his crap too easily.

It is a waste of time, for sure. I owe it to myself not to get too
deep into it.

oh mr right hand, you sure do get sucked into these things don't you?
Thanks for asking mr left hand. I sure do. lol.


You're the sock, so you're talking to yourself.

--
Joel Crump

nospam wrote:

AnonLinuxUser wrote:

That's the way the industry works. Why reinvent the wheel when someone
else has what you want cheap?

because cheap crap isn't good enough.

Indeed. The fact that the wheel has already been invented, does not
mean that all applications for the wheel have been adequately served.
There will always be new applications, and the demand for different
designs and quality levels.

--
"Assuming, of course, infinite resources an patience to systematically
go try them all to find that 'one' ... a needle in a haystack
paradigm." - lying asshole "-hh", lying shamelessly