@IRJ said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@IRJ said:

@tonyshowoff

How'd you get my picture, wtf!?

I work for the NSA

Impossible, my junk isn't in it

My fault, I forgot files starting with a hyphen are treated completely differently, but you can do this:

anton@c0:~$ mkdir -- -.MP3.-
anton@c0:~$ cd -- -.MP3.-
anton@c0:~/-.MP3.-$

Or even

anton@c0:~$ mkdir ./-.MP3.-
anton@c0:~$ cd ./-.MP3.-
anton@c0:~/-.MP3.-$

So you need not navigate from parent at all, you can do it from the working directory itself. Navigating from parent seems painful, but parents usually are a pain.

@NattNatt said in Tiny One Dollar Brazilian Hacker Board Project Announced:

Ah, wasn't sure how advanced stuff like that was now a days! But yeah, exactly, if thousands can be made per hour, then that seems easy enough to make money (obviously you have to put the initial capital down for the actual machines...but I digress)!

It's pretty much trackable with Moore's Law (yes, I know that it really is supposed to predict, but you can use it broadly to predict technological pricing in general it still works), the problem is that even many IT people tend to view the world as "technology as it stands right this moment is advanced as humanly possible" and/or "I have some unrealistic expectations of far out technology."

Flying cars are the greatest testament to that, but really this is all for the most part predictable, it's not surprising to me, and comments about labour and so forth, well, what exactly will people be assembling? It's not 1965, these are all machine made as stated by @scottalanmiller and mass production means lower prices. Even if individually hand made ones cost more than $1, with increasing production you'll lower the price... on top of the already predictable price drops of technology.

And companies often build technology based on pricing tomorrow, not today, because we know the cost will drop to create it and increase our margins to sell it.

If no one else ever takes credit for it, I'll take credit for it.

Why is this directory named something so bizarre, by the way?

If that cow was cheating on her husband, unbluring her face may have caused all sorts of problems, or maybe she was on the run from the cops, I mean she is out in the street... maybe she's on PCP. You don't know.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Dont remember most of that. And software with a GUI/colorful computers? Heck no. We had typing class but, it was on the old green terminals. You know, when print screen actually printed the screen to dot matrix printers.

Tell us more about your days as a pioneer grandpa, is it true you had to get your legs amputated because you shared your floppy disk with an infected computer? Didn't they teach you about safe computing back then, or was it "don't compute at all?"

(God I hope this makes sense)

@thecreativeone91 said:

On Any OS that doesn't really make any sense. Underscores are normally used instead of spaces. but, a hyphen and period in a folder is a bit of a no-no.

That or on shared space what we do is just put a ! in front of the name

!mp3
!ogg
!wave

This top sorts and and sets it apart and doesn't really break anything, though you do have to escape when cding to it when not using Windows, but that's easy and auto-tabbed. I mean I get prefixing the file name, but why with a period as well? And also why post fix it with another dot and period?

I'm curious as to how they'll deal with depletion of their 256 bit UUIDs and/or spoofing or anything else. We can know is that Google (and others) will have a way that works across IP addresses that will provide a fairly unique way of identifying you no matter what. Presumably some browsers will let you change it or have it different in privacy mode or whatever, but like with Don't Track we'll can almost guarentee that even if there is a standard some other company like Microsoft will implement it just differently enough to make a lot of it pointless... other than the connection speed I guess.

People are already gungho about this, some thinking that it's a total replacement for the TCP stack which is utterly stupid. I first read about this in mid 2017 and noticed it seemed to be sort of a spin on MinimaLT which was specified to deal with mobile IP (as in protocol, not address) issues.

@scottalanmiller said:

I don't know but didn't FogCreek make something to convert their VBScript into PHP?

Bwahahahaha

Sorry, had to be mentioned.

Yes, it's called Wasabi, it converts to other languages so they can be more OS independent, it's all a terrible, terrible idea. It's based on VBScript though, with some additions to it.

All the cool kids hang out at the zpool

I know what you mean by the weird ZFS on software RAID only and I've never really understood that and never have followed it. It's one of those things like "MySQL doesn't have row level locking" that gets into pop IT/sysadmin/whatever culture and people repeat it for years and years even after it's apparent it certainly is not true anymore, if it ever was at all.

Why must you turn this forum into a house of lies!?

Delicious

@technobabble said:

Thanks @thecreativeone91 and @tonyshowoff ,

I know I need a dual layer dvd however the dmg I downloaded won't even extract using 7zip and transmac didn't recognize the dmg. (following the tutorials that I found online). I deleted the dmg and was looking for another.

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What's your host OS? You don't extract a dmg, you need to burn as is, you can use imgburn or transmac, and I'm sure there are other tools as well. If you're on OS X you can use the Disk Utility. Keep in mind proprietary formats and metadata are in the dmg, so if your plan was to extract it and burn it, it would've never worked in the first place.

BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance for $1.4 Billion in Cash

BlackBerry on Friday announced that it has agreed to acquire next-generation endpoint security firm Cylance for US $1.4 billion in cash.

In addition to the cash payment, BlackBerry will assume unvested Cylance employee incentive awards. The deal is expected to close before the end of BlackBerry’s current fiscal year (February 2019), and Cylance will operate as a separate business unit within BlackBerry.

At risk of editorialising, where in the world did BlackBerry get $1.4 billion? Even governments have largely stopped using their hardware and most of their software. I know they have some niche areas in email still, but enough to raise that kind of capital? Perhaps Alicia Keys was able to secure some financing before they dumped her for the stupid stunt she was? In all honesty, I thought they went bankrupt, they were so good at making all the wrong decisions.

When I was in Russia there wasn't a Taco Bell for thousands of kilometres, it's actually the first thing I got when I got back to a country with real food.

I loved SunOS, Solaris, and OpenSolaris, but after the Oracle buyout all of the Sun equipment has been slowly replaced and has gone away for the most part, and with the important features being ported to other OSes like FreeBSD, there's not much of a real reason to use OpenSolaris or its babies. Having said that though, I'm put off by the name OpenIndiana, it just sounds really stupid to me, and I don't think I could ever install something like that without flat out denying it if anyone asked. It just makes me think "that's the best name you could come up with, huh? Not even anything remotely related to the Sun or stars or anything..." (I realise the origin comes from a project name, but sticking with it was a mistake, so in a sense I guess I should say "So, couldn't come up with anything at all?")

And nothing of value was lost.

@creayt The RAID card that was the original T110 couldn't rebuild RAIDs if you can believe it, you could setup a RAID 1 and if a disk failed it was basically a warning to transfer everything and start all over. I don't know if this is true in what you have, but I'd certainly look into it to be sure, they didn't tell us this when we ordered like 10 of them nor was it apparent even when setting up the RAIDs

@Carnival-Boy said:

@tonyshowoff said:

We currently have 16 employees, and we've had between 14 and 16 since I bought the business 8 years ago. Holy cow, has it been that long? Now I'm depressed that it hasn't become more successful.

Yeah, you should really be on a beach in the Bahamas by now, following a successful IPO.

Actually for the last two years or so my father in law has been trying to convince me to go public, for some reason, but that's not ideal for all sorts of reasons.