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by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-26 23:57
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Windows making me laugh yet again...
Replies: 20
Views: 3652

Re: Windows making me laugh yet again...

Please do not misconstrue what I did say to you, an industry partner as in inside of the same industry. I'm not fan of making Private Messages public without the consent of both parties. While I generally agree (and this is the first time in My practice, when I'm revealing a very small part of the ...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-26 23:07
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Windows making me laugh yet again...
Replies: 20
Views: 3652

Re: Windows making me laugh yet again...

Of course it did. No reason to distinguish or quibble over the technicalities of smp versus on-die multi-core. Of course it didn't - It was able to show the load of each CPU core in task manager - but that's all - the kernel used only a single core, and it's (mostly) true even today ;) XP was prime...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-26 21:26
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Windows making me laugh yet again...
Replies: 20
Views: 3652

Re: Windows making me laugh yet again...

I still think the best O/S and layout they had was XP. :D "Layout" is just a matter of personal preferences, but the OS was buggy as hell, an it had more security holes than a good switzerland's cheese (remember Blaster? - it have blown up halve of the WindowsXP PCs in the world). The mos...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-22 21:57
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Light reading from the archives
Replies: 4
Views: 5947

Re: Light reading from the archives

Wow. Your post is impressive!
Unfortunately, the final conclusion is quite obvious ... :mrgreen:

Regards
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-21 14:24
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Snap updates happen without user consent
Replies: 35
Views: 3619

Re: Snap updates happen without user consent

The is nothing inherently wrong with building applications with all required packages included. We most remember why Gnu/Linux used shared libs when it was in it's infancy.... Space... simple as. Nowadays space is usually less of and issue at least on the desktop. The main purpose of shared librari...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-18 21:46
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: [Software] programs accessing internet only with permission firewall
Replies: 22
Views: 2609

Re: [Software] programs accessing internet only with permission firewall

p.H wrote: 2022-12-16 13:48 The iptables owner match uses effective user/group.
See setreuid(2) and setregid(2)
;)

But You're right - only privileged process can do this.
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-17 21:47
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Hardware] Porting OS X Audio Interface Drivers to Linux
Replies: 8
Views: 1138

Re: [Hardware] Porting OS X Audio Interface Drivers to Linux

(...) This leads me to my question which would be, is there any way to port OS X drivers into Linux compatible drivers. But of course - Debian can use drivers ported to Linux kernel, and the Linux kernel is so flexible that there should be no problem with writing a driver for it ;) I know there is ...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-15 22:28
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Industry] Microsoft to acquire 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of 10-year cloud partnership
Replies: 5
Views: 1531

Re: [Industry] Microsoft to acquire 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of 10-year cloud partnership

Well, thanks for posting the article but, having read and re-read it, I find myself at a bit of a loss to understand what possible interest it might have for forum members. Good point - but the explanation can be simple - Microshit is re-gaining its monopolistic position again (after loosing the ba...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-15 22:18
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Discussion] ChatGPT forum members?
Replies: 4
Views: 1064

Re: [Discussion] ChatGPT forum members?

In the news: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11539261/Will-super-intelligent-computer-write-stories-poetry-steal-job-yours.html The year is 2045. The world is in a state of economic collapse due to the rise of automation, leaving millions of people unemployed and desperate. Hmm, at ...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-15 21:31
Forum: Hardware
Topic: [Hardware] Geforce GT 710 - modprobe
Replies: 4
Views: 945

Re: [Hardware] Geforce GT 710 - modprobe

FYI - Geforce GT 710 works just perfectly with the (default) open-source nouveau driver - all You need is to enable re-clocking -> then, at least in my tests, it works better than the nvidia's binary blob ;) Here's my old post on this topic: Nouveau: automatic changing of pstates (changing p-states ...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-14 22:01
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: [Software] programs accessing internet only with permission firewall
Replies: 22
Views: 2609

Re: [Software] programs accessing internet only with permission firewall

Not really Yes really. Check iptables' "owner" match. Not really - applications can change their PID/GID, ( f.e using setpgid(2) ) especially that: groups can only use application path/names Nonsense. such "nonsense' is actually possible - by replacing content of executable file with...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-14 21:15
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: [Software] programs accessing internet only with permission firewall
Replies: 22
Views: 2609

Re: [Software] programs accessing internet only with permission firewall

Then there is another more involved way: that of using iptables and creating a user-group without internet connection. Then programs could be added to this group to bar them from internet access. Not really - ip tables are only able to work with internet packets, and groups can only use application...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-13 21:49
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: [Software] RPi loses WAN, reconnects to LAN on router reboot
Replies: 1
Views: 536

Re: [Software] RPi loses WAN, reconnects to LAN on router reboot

At first all was fine. However, occasionally my routers would stop talking correctly (I have 2 setup in wired bridge mode) so I had them set to reboot daily in the early morning. This router reboot schedule exposed a problem with my Debian 11 setup. Obviously Your routers have unstable/buggy firmwa...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-09 21:23
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Snap updates happen without user consent
Replies: 35
Views: 3619

Re: Snap updates happen without user consent

just because they can't be bothered to use a technology like Flatpak or deb packages Canonical didn't invented anything - they're just copying Debian Testing and Sid - so they need *something* to prove that their market share value is above zero ;) BTW: IMO Flatpak is technically not better than sn...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-09 20:17
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Snap updates happen without user consent
Replies: 35
Views: 3619

Re: Snap updates happen without user consent

Technically there's no need to use snap for Firefox (see Debian). For me it smells like an action targeted at promoting snaps, which are slowing down programs and require more disk space - without providing a single benefit for the users. Not everyone is worried about seconds to load something. For ...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-09 16:10
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Discussion] ChatGPT forum members?
Replies: 4
Views: 1064

Re: [Discussion] ChatGPT forum members?

HAL9000 capabilities are still unreachable for current technology, but I think that we are getting closer and closer to build a true AI machine.
ChatGPT is a toy, and GPT-3 is just a combination of adaptive algorithm and a state machine with a huge state space.
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-08 23:35
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Snap updates happen without user consent
Replies: 35
Views: 3619

Re: Snap updates happen without user consent

I think of Snap like I think of PPAs.......... You're optimist - snaps (but also flatpak and the like) are *much* worse as they have much higher potential for causing security breach. PPA's were just an unstable/untested builds of upstream code. The Mozilla PPA is one of the two remaining ways to r...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-08 22:12
Forum: Testing And Unstable
Topic: Questions on security in Testing (Bookworm)
Replies: 3
Views: 486

Re: Questions on security in Testing (Bookworm)

I am running Testing (Bookworm) because my graphics card configuration is supported by the kernel in Bookworm, but is not yet supported by the kernel in Bullseye. I found it easier to just upgrade to to Testing rather than trying to figure out how to run backports and set up my multi-screen operati...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-06 22:01
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Discussion] A world in which Debian uses RPM
Replies: 74
Views: 7649

Re: [Discussion] A world in which Debian uses RPM

(..) which features parallel downloads (...) Actually, "parallel downloads" are physically impossible, because the internet connections are a "serial" connections ;) Anyway, the benefits can be seen if the sources.list are referencing different servers -> then, when one of the s...
by LE_746F6D617A7A69
2022-12-06 21:45
Forum: Programming
Topic: Cannot compile c program - D11 [SOLVED]
Replies: 6
Views: 2967

Re: Cannot compile c program - D11

Scorpion wrote: 2022-12-06 20:51 Can you post the full command?
What do You mean by "full command"? -> the command from my previous post is correct - it correctly compiles Your example code, so .. ?