★☆☆☆☆ I don’t care how good the credit monitoring and identity theft protection is for Aura, as a software package and company, it sucks. Never believe those “best of” and comparison articles. 99% of them never bother testing with email, especially sending email via either Thunderbird or BetterBird. If they recommend Avast or AVG you know they didn’t. You can find this here. Yep, that’s from the official BetterBird support page. Anytime you are on … Review – AuraRead more
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Starlink – Catastrophic Architectural Failure
Starlink has a catastrophic architectural failure which is a shining example of why Agile can never be allowed even as close as the parking lot to any project of any size. If you attended a so-called University and they taught you Agile, you attended a Trump University and should sue to get your money back. Absolutely no business should recognize your degree. Agile is just hacking on the fly until the money runs out. Starlink … Starlink – Catastrophic Architectural FailureRead more
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Microsoft Broke IDE LS-120 Support
Microsoft broke IDE LS-120 support. Agile is not Software Engineering and the rate of turds being pushed out the ass end of Sprints is proof of that. I set this machine up last year, in the summer sometime. I was happy with the various Linux flavors I had on it. Then I encountered a need to put Windows 11 on it for some specific work. That’s like knowing you are going to install a virus. … Microsoft Broke IDE LS-120 SupportRead more
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Not All Movement is Forward
If you have never had to endure software development run by MBAs, you probably don’t hate the word movement. Decades ago, when I was contracting at Caremark between two of their bigger Medicare fraud convictions. Not their current record fraud, between other records. Look it up, they’ve got a lot of them. You also have to look up MedPartners, but I digress. Yes, this is a follow-up post to my Fedora 43 post of this … Not All Movement is ForwardRead more
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Fedora 43 and Postgresql
While Fedora 43 has a fairly clean look, it once again goes to great lengths to be “expert friendly.” This particular battle has to do with Postgresql. Regular readers may recall my post about getting Postgresql to install and run on Fedora 33. Most of that post is still relevant. fedora 43 postgresql Error: connection to server at “localhost” (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: Yeah, most of you found this post because of that error. … Fedora 43 and PostgresqlRead more