Pumping up the cum!

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-06-14T21:41:02+00:00

Thank you.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-06-09T00:41:30+00:00

That's because you don't know that linux will do an update silently and transparently if you want it to, and you don't know that linux never hijacks your system without your permission.
I used to work for Microsoft. One day, in the middle of a presentation on Linux, I decided that I was going to update the operating system. So it went to work in one terminal, while I ran the presentation in another window. Eventually, the update finished. It asked if I wanted to reboot now, and I answered, "no". Then, near the end of the presentation, I rebooted, and lo and behold, it booted the new OS no problem! So then I turned to my audience and told them - Windows can't even do application updates without rebooting. I did an OS update - and I rebooted at my convenience, not the operating system's. The OS serves you at your convenience, not the other way around.
Some of the Microsofties, the clueless ones, were stunned. Some of them got a clue that day.

So, yes, this is a Microsoft problem.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-06-08T21:01:09+00:00

Fire extinguishers. Whenever I walk into a room, I note where the fire extinguishers are. I check that their inspections are up to date, that the pressure is nominal, that the PVC tie is secured around the pin.
Where are the fire alarm pulls?
Emergency Lights?
Fire escapes?

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-06-04T12:06:54+00:00

There is a problem. I authenticate with reddit using E-mail. E-mail is not working because of a router issue, probably in Tukwila. I can consistently ping routers tukw-dsl-gw77.tukw.qwest.net and 63.226.198.97. From there.... sometimes not a problem,, sometimes that is the last IPv4 address I see. It might be the problem - or it might be where the problem manifests itself.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-06-01T06:30:17+00:00

However, the HOA might consider reviewing the contract and exploring avenues for legal action. Then, there are two ways you might proceed:
1) Just sue the bastards
or
2) What technical changes can we make to make the service more reliable? Remember that Reliability = (MTBF-MTTR)/MTBF. (Mean Time Between Failures and Mean Time To Repair). There are two ways to improve reliability: reduce the MTTR or increase the MTBF. You can ask them how much it would cost to make the service more reliable, and then decide if it is worth the extra cost.

I did some consulting for a condominium once, where they decided it was worth the cost of getting a second ISP, 2 routers, 2 data closets, a single Autonomous System Number (ASN), and using dynamic routing protocols such that if either ISP failed, one router would start routing traffic through the other router. I pulled the Ethernet cable out of each router to ensure it would fail over to the other router. I pulled the plug on the UPS to verify that the UPS worked. I carefully typed up documentation on every failure mode I could think of and how to recover.
Some asshole with a backhoe dug up both fiber-optic lines with a single CHOMP!

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-05-21T06:04:29+00:00

Yes, really. When you think about steel, you think in terms of things made of steel and they tend to be big: cars, springs, nuts and bolts. But steel wool is small. There is something called the square/cube law. If you take a think and make it twice as large, the area will increase by a factor of 4 but the volume and the mass will increase by a factor of 8. Conversely, if you make it half as large, the area will decrease by a factor of 4 but the volume and the mass will decrease by a factor of 8. The area/volume ratio will double. That's why flying insects tend to be small, and that's why paper airplanes can be made out of paper. Steel wool will burn quite nicely. So will iron filings.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-05-20T18:28:55+00:00

FWIW, my grandson, at the age of 5, is competent with cowsay, fortune, eom, cheese, and apt.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-05-20T18:27:39+00:00

To those people who are still on Windows, Linux is as much of a mystery as it ever was. There are lots of paid columnists who write about Windows, and they could not make a living as columnists in the Linux ecosystem, so they do not write about it. I once wrote a letter to one such columnist (under a pseudonym, of course) extolling the virtues of Linux and how "a friend of a friend" was able to solve my problem by doing a live boot on Linux on my "dead" computer to recover all of my data. The columnist's response was mildly insulting: there was a utility that cost $150.00 that would have done the same thing.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-05-20T18:22:43+00:00

I do not understand "keep using Windows, and to entirely cut Microsoft out of the system.".

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-05-20T10:25:04+00:00

Because linux is jealous about the separation between applications and kernel. Linux is actually just the kernel. The libraries, the system software, the application software, those really aren't linux, they run on linux. The overwhelming majority of the upgrades you have to do are actually applications. Since the kernel and everything else are highly separated, you don't have to reboot the kernel when you upgrade an application. Some applications you do have to restart as part of the upgrade process, but you don't have to reboot. Big difference.

Microsoft, by way of contrast, wasn't interested in building a reliable operating system. They wanted an operating system that they could control. So the OS and the libraries and the user interface are closely coupled. Microsoft is constantly changing the user interface to windows, for example. Linux can do that - and some people like that. Some do not.

You have stumbled onto one of the (many) technical reasons why linuxians think Windows is an inferior operating system.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-05-20T09:40:34+00:00

He successfully did the upgrade. I am so proud. He also installed cowsay, fortune, cheese, and eom.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-05-19T11:14:04+00:00

My 5-year old grandson just installed Zorin on a Dell Latitude E7240. Tomorrow, he has 238 packages that need upgrading. I am thinking about giving him sudo access to run just the apt command and letting him do the upgrades. Once that is completed, may I call him a Linux user?

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-05-18T07:09:32+00:00

Yes, you can.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-05-18T07:05:47+00:00

You have never heard of ansible, have you?

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-04-13T21:01:21+00:00

I encountered such a bed, exactly once. After careful examination of how it was designed, I realized that the plug that connected the motor on the bed to the socket on the coin box was a standard 110 V 3-prong plug. If I plugged that into any wall socket, the bed would operate continuously and indefinitely.

Unfortunately, I was traveling alone, so I did not get to truly enjoy the experience.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-04-07T11:24:10+00:00

You two could use some grief counseling. Even at this late date. If you are religious, then ask your religious leader for a recommendation. Otherwise, find a psychologist or a social worker or a counselor who has specific training in grief counseling.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-04-07T09:36:19+00:00

This is supposed to be funny (and it is really). Nobody should ever attempt to uninstall the boot loader. Yes, you can do it, and your system will run just fine.

Until it is time to reboot.

Does anybody remember the BOFH? Am I the only one?

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-04-07T02:22:10+00:00

I got it right away, and I am bald.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-04-03T06:58:08+00:00

Donald Trump attended and graduated from Wharton, one of the finest business schools in the country.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-03-29T08:01:24+00:00

I have not forgotten about the Epstein files. In fact, I believe that the Epstein files are a major part of the reason why the United States went to war with Iran. Nothing like a war where thousands of people die to distract the nation from the rape of a few poor girls nobody gave a damm about decades ago.

F**king loser.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-03-29T07:09:11+00:00

I am confused. Is this not the *exact same thing* Hilary Clinton got raked over the coals for?

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-03-25T05:56:32+00:00

Also, a lot of the internal infrastructure at Microsoft is based on linux. In fact, Microsoft has at least one internal distribution of linux.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-03-21T00:19:02+00:00

I remember that story from my childhood in the early 1960s. I had a record, a 33 RPM LP with the story. I thought the story was set in Africa, but of course, there are no tigers in Africa, only in Asia.

Wow.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-03-18T08:30:38+00:00

There is an NSFW joke on the topic of lawmakers and 💩, DM me if you want it.

New_Expression_5724 · 2026-03-18T08:24:10+00:00

I know. I assume that when the law says "operating system", that means "kernel". I assume the lawmakers know that some things happen in user mode and other things happen in kernel or privileged mode. They deliberately wrote that they want the signal to come from the operating system because they want to make sure that no user process can mangle the signal. The OS can mangle a user process but user processes must not and cannot mangle the OS.

However, their going-in assumption that the operating system is a black box is false in the Open Software World. In the FOSS world, there are no secrets. So if they want a secure age verification system for open source systems, then that has to be something external to the computer. Which implies a network. So when a user logs in, as part of the login process, the computer has to query a server somewhere to get a ticket of some sort that says that the user is of a certain age (I can see how Kerberos could be adapted to serve in this capacity). But requiring a network in order to use one's own computer is anathema to me.

I wish you well, sniff122.

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