I keep a Lenovo ThinkCentre SFF with Windows 10 on it because I have email and a few other things for one specific client on it. Most every other company on the planet has abandoned Microsoft products, but this one still uses them. Having come up in IT through operations back when we had actual computer rooms with actual computers in them, I’m a firm believer in bare metal backups. I use Image for Linux … Debian 12 is Better Than Windows 10Read more
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What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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How Hackers Get In
Today even people who know nothing about computers have heard of hackers, ransomeware, and spyware. There was even a very funny Dick Tracy comic strip in the 1970s where this scruffy old guy visits a doctor’s office complaining of his systems and in the last frame says Give it to me straight doc! Have I got one of them Computer Viruses? scruffy old guy Hollywood created the greatest computer hacking movie of all time in … How Hackers Get InRead more
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GNOME 3 – Most Hated Desktop This Side of Unity
Not since Ubuntu tried to force its Unity desktop onto the Linux world has a desktop been hated as much as GNOME 3. This is a case of kids who think an iMbecile Phone is a great thing having no concept of reality. Yes, everyone wants to spend a huge portion of their life staring at a bunch of random images trying to figure out which one they need to write a letter, open up … GNOME 3 – Most Hated Desktop This Side of UnityRead more
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Medical Device Developer Linux
We desperately need a Medical Device Developer Linux distro. I know I’ve blogged about this before, but with all the wet-behind-the-ears kids thinking Agile is software engineering (it’s not) and that it is okay to push whatever steaming pile of excrement came out the back end of the nightly build onto the installed base because they are the Alpha testers . . . I have to vent again. Our featured image was provided by blog.giddyup.io. … Medical Device Developer LinuxRead more
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Your Roku OPT-OUT Letter
Like many of you I have some Roku devices. Once the streaming services managed to compress/strip Standard Definition television far enough the pathetic 25Mbps download speed Internet services available in rural America made it possible to stream. No matter what the Federal Government says, 25Mbps is not high speed broadband nor should it really be considered broadband. It’s definitely better than what you will get with HughesNet’s constantly “throttled” connections and “fair use” meaning the … Your Roku OPT-OUT LetterRead more