This was sent to me today by a friend. It is a job listing from an automated thing on one of the job boards. I’m sure most of you have them set up as well. So, can you tell which one of these is not like the other? Of course, my first question was “Why are you searching for baby sitting jobs?”
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WDMyCloud – Worst Hunk of Shit Ever Made
If you do even the tiniest bit of research you will find no end to the horror stories associated with this product. I mean, just how could Western Digital hose this so completely? All they had to do was strip down or build up a Linux distro with a few Web pages to serve up for the Web interface. With lots of time to go outside and smoke ciggies, the software part of this should … WDMyCloud – Worst Hunk of Shit Ever MadeRead more
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Making the Netgear A6210 AC1200 Wifi Adapter Work With YABU
Anyone who has tried a YABU (Yet Another uBUntu) based on Ubuntu 16.x knows they really hosed wireless networking. My HP laptop has become almost unusable when it comes to checking email or writing a blog post in bed. It was fine before this debacle. Given that Ubuntu 16.04 has been out for 8 months I don’t really see any light at the end of this particular tunnel. This finally pushed me to get a … Making the Netgear A6210 AC1200 Wifi Adapter Work With YABURead more
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Linux Fatal Design Flaw
Okay, there are many fatal design flaws, such as the inability to actually cluster like OpenVMS has been able to do since the early 1980s, but one is going to bring it to a screeching halt industry wide. What is that? Requiring a video driver be compiled into/with the kernel. I haven’t looked at the code, nor do I want to. If it is like most Linux/OpenSource code I get to look at it will … Linux Fatal Design FlawRead more
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Is California a Modern Day Jim Crow State
On New Years Eve, like many geeks, I set about doing some year end backups and OS upgrades. It also lead to some experiments with OpenMandriva and OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, but that is fodder for another post. I bring it up to set the stage for why I ended up surfing to the UseNet group “Political Euwetopia” and being entertained by people who obviously haven’t been taking all of their meds. You can’t really do much … Is California a Modern Day Jim Crow StateRead more