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By: RP3 Bryan

RP3 Bryan — Sat, 14 May 2016 21:12:55 +0000

Now coming to you from the Raspberry Pi 3 – a gift for 70.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 14 May 2016 05:17:48 +0000

Kryten, the basic problem is that basically all of Web 2.0 is running on Linux, and all the tools — Mercurial/git, nodejs, etc. — are written for Linux. What Microsoft has done is no different from what they’ve done in the past, which is to write an emulation layer and pretend that, because it’s part of the OS, it’s not “really” an emulation layer. Underneath that layer is still pure Windows.

In other words, they’ve done Cygwin right, but it’s still just an environment on top of Windows, it’s not Linux.

Hmm, yeah, forgot about that Supreme Court decision, eh? 🙂

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 14 May 2016 01:57:19 +0000

My bad – the Supremes made them people along with Malwart in the Citizens United ruling – if Monsanto can be a person so can Rick Perry…

If M$ switched to a Linux OS as Apple did, it would be somewhat chilly in the Netherlands [yes, all of the variations of names for one of my ‘fatherlands’ mean ‘Hell’], but it still won’t be as trouble free as Ubuntu Linux is.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 13 May 2016 20:24:44 +0000

Yeah, big dick. And his daughter is a real chip off the putty block. He'd be a match for the don as Veep... except I don't think don likes dick much. You might be interested in this badtux (though you probably know, but JIC)... I still get email & access to Technet (despite I haven't paid the annual dues for years *shrug*), M$ are releasing the 'redstone' 1 update to W10 in July (was going to be June, but they moved it a month so they could be cute & call it the "Anniversary Update"). The 2nd major update scheduled for Nov. will be early 2017 now.

Microsoft execs say the latest collection of new features will be available to Windows 10 users this summer, and will be known officially as the Windows 10 'Anniversary Update.'

ZDnet: Microsoft confirms Windows 10 'Redstone' 1 will be available this summer One of the more interesting points of this new update is that M$ & Canonical have done a deal where the Ubuntu bash shell has been ported to W10 as a CLI in a bid to woo Linux developers. :)

Even Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, who has battled Microsoft forever, was stoked. Shuttleworth said: "The native availability of a full Ubuntu environment on Windows, without virtualization or emulation, is a milestone that defies convention." Microsoft made hell freeze over a bit on Wednesday and developers are likely to notice.

Microsoft cozies up to Ubuntu as developers welcome cold day in hell How do you make hell freeze over "a bit"? *shrug*

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 13 May 2016 06:25:00 +0000

Somewhere around the time that Dick Cheney got reclassified as people rather than as heartless rage monster that survives on the blood of innocent puppies and kittens and newborn innocents…

Oh wait.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 May 2016 01:49:43 +0000

In reply to Badtux.

It is an oddity of Florida law apparently that you can only appear on the ballot once. He couldn’t run for reelection and the President. If he hadn’t been up for reelection he would not have had to resign from the Senate. They are dredging the bottom of the swamp to come up candidates known in more than a small area.

When did Perry and Palen get reclassified as people?

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 10 May 2016 22:57:37 +0000

Trump will have no shortage of people willing to be his Veep. Heck, Rick Perry and Wasilla Barbie have already volunteered :).

Rubio no longer being in the Senate is the one and only good thing about his run for the Presidency…