rythie

I'll add:

NFS home directories don't seem to be tested by KDE developers, taking 30seconds or so to start fully everytime you move machine because they generate stuff in /tmp.

Most programs don't take quota into account when calculating free space, and fail in weird ways when it gets exceeded

Cups password authentication can't send a prompt to the user. Windows did this in XP (OSX has this problem too)

Surely with the Pi Zero selling at $5 there has got to be way to do this without Philip's locked in, expensive system?

Citation needed on the Innovator's Dilemma point. I can't find anything that backs up your point. As I remember from reading the book, most of the companies mentioned in the book went bust, so there is no way they could have dominate and extinguished anything.

Presumably, this is the reason that most phones can't be upgraded to the later Android releases?

It's $120/GB/year with Digital ocean, not what I'd call cheap (Yes, you get more CPU and disk, but you don't need it).

It's interesting that because the OS was ahead in one key area, probably only for a couple of years, they spent 18 years using it.

I'm not sure that it does to be honest. UI effects can be disabled on older machines.

Cameras, Cars, Microwaves, Washing machines & DVD players all last 10 years or more easily. A 2006 Macbook had 512MB (upgradable to 2GB) and 1.8Ghz CPU, which is not really much different to modern netbook.

It's not apathy or incompetence that means people are using these old OSes, usually it's that you can't upgrade (and the users don't have the money to upgrade the hardware). Windows 7 won't run on a typical XP machine due to lack of RAM and OSX 10.9 doesn't work on 32bit machines (pre 2007).

Halting support won't do much about this issue, people will just use vulnerable browser on these old vulnerable OSes because they can't afford a new(er) one.

A 10 year old computer ought to still be usable. Especially if you think about developing countries where often people can't afford new computers. Microsoft and Apple have failed the users and now Google is too.

Pocket for iOS does this too.

Implementing caching servers and horizontal scaling is complicated and requires talented people who typically need to be on call. It's lot of complicated moving parts, which can easily go wrong outside office hours when a site unexpectedly gets popular.

Where as with a static site, the complicated bit is only in the updates. A single server can handle massive numbers of requests and it's easy to scale further with a CDN.

Translation: at some point after putting one hack on top of another at high speed, we will clean up the mess and do it properly.

Leaving the security issue aside for a moment, they are re-implementing package management. For example:

- What version do I have, how to I roll back to a version that works?

- What packages do I need for this and where's the log for what you added?

- How do I deploy this to 100 machines and be sure they all using exactly the same version.

- How to I control it so updates only happen in my at-risk window?

- How do I uninstall this?

Package management does all of this and using curl|bash re-invents this in a bad, non-standard way which just makes it's hard for sysadmins to do their jobs.

It's the standard

". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. "

response.

http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...

I really doubt Apple is going to do anything radical like that with it's Intel based products. To do so would be massively expensive, dwarfing the revenue from it's Intel-based products, let alone any benefit. Apple's Intel based products are a very small part it's revenue and have almost no growth.

If they do this, it will be for it's ARM products, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch & AppleTV.

Unless we start paying for online content, this is going to not only continue, but get worse.

To allow remote management tools to run. If there's one thing that'll make your systems insecure, it's letting everyone manage their own boxes.

SSHd allows you to restrict particular users to IP ranges and of course you can use IP tables and fail2ban too.

I've been disabling by default for a few weeks, though many sites still use it, for example:

  - Facebook (videos)
  - Twitter (bizarrely uses it for gifs in Firefox)
  - YouTube
  - BBC news
  - The Independent and most of UK press
  - Basically any site with embedded video
  - even github prompts because of that copy+paste feature

I have no interest in Flash games or adverts, so it's annoying that these big sites all still use Flash.

...meanwhile we still have flash video because HTML5 isn't good enough to replace it yet.

This seems pretty common in British newspapers, even outside facebook. Videos often appear on newspaper's own sites instead of embedding the YouTube video. For example this from the Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2015/apr/29/ed-mil...). Others are similar and often even have their own pre-rolls.

Channel4 has whole TV programme, Rude Tube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_Tube), devoted to internet clips, which are all from YouTube AFAIK. I wonder if the creators get any money from that.

Obviously it needs to be a lot easier than that - the fact that it's difficult right now is the problem. It needs to easy to manage like a smart phone or tablet is.

It doesn't seem a big leap to have a small UPS at home ($42 gets you 37mins@20W) or even a rechargable battery in the router and mail server.

Further resilence could be handled by partering with another device at a trusted person's house, to act as a backup MX server.

If you read the findings, it's basically a 3 page "case study" (i.e. advert), the last page of which is a screenshot of "TSO Logic" - which claims to solve this. One reference is from 2008 and another is TSO Logic's own data.

There probably is wastage, though it would nice to see a proper, modern, scientific study on this though.

There is a long standing technical solution, though it's not widely implemented, WPA-enterprise. With WPA-enterprise I have my own personal key and I am automatically logged in. In the UK, "The Cloud" service offers this, which is many coffee shops and similar public places.

Products with ongoing pricing turn out very expensive in the end. A product that is $10/month will often workout more than one that it is $100 upfront. I prefer iOS apps that you either pay or upfront or, even better, a one-time fee to upgrade. I don't have to worry about ongoing costs then. I'm reminded of ongoing costs everytime I get a statement or receipt, and then I look for alternatives or look to cancel.

Sourceforge's mirrors are a complete miss-use of the term mirror. A mirror should be an exact copy of the source and should be approved by the original project, which I doubt any of these 'mirrors' are.

Even if 240ms was fast, is it still that fast on old iPad, budget Android phone or old computer?

Much like YouTube was originally or Uber is now?

Ultimately the main difference between the vendors is performance and availability - you pay a lot more to increase either of those. If you don't need either even a consumer style synology nas can work.

What if they replaced the cat gif with a some objectionable content? e.g. a beheading, surely this could scar you for life?

What about confidentiality of the package downloads though? e.g. Snoop the traffic, notice they are downloading a fix, they probably don't have it, automatically attack them before they apply it.