Re: [LINK] Browser Add-on

. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting On social media, it is easy to mistake popularity for credibility. -- Kevin Ashton ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] No more human sysadmins??

the direction we are heading. And no, we will not be replacing sys admins with virtual cloud service infrastructure of whatever that loon over at the NSA said. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting It's choice, not chance, that determines your

Re: [LINK] No more human sysadmins??

that an admin cannot even log on and look around, then when that server fails it becomes a very expensive doorstop. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny. -- Jean Nidetch

Re: [LINK] No more human sysadmins??

-- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny. -- Jean Nidetch ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Arithmetic, Population and Energy

Bartlett is not a conspiracy theorist, my mind was conjuring up all sorts of reasons that vested interests are purposely lying to us regarding sustainable growth, resource reserves and the carrying capacity of the environment. In a word: profit. -- Rick

Re: [LINK] Gov’t, certificate authorities conspire to spy on SSL users?

-- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting The chief source of problems is solutions. -- Eric Sevareid ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] There's an app for that too

. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. -- Malachy McCourt ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http

Re: [LINK] Bitcoin .. zero merchant fees?

. It will likely be made illegal. cheers rick -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

Re: [LINK] Of Walled Gardens and Their Dangers

Mavericks. I can see a time coming soon that I will banish Apple and head back to The Land of Linux. I banished Microsoft last century and have never looked back. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting All truth passes through three stages

Re: [LINK] Of Walled Gardens and Their Dangers

are the best solution. The advantage is that you've secured yourself beyond anything possible with a smart phone. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting You people think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth

Re: [LINK] Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

-- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting Cheer up they said. Things could be worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse. -- Murphy's musing ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http

Re: [LINK] LG Smart TVs send filenames from USB drives!

Andy Farkas wrote: On 11/20/13 13:47, Rick Welykochy wrote: Easy solution: disable networking on the TV. Then you lose Internet TV channels (eg iView). Is this not the point of a smart TV? Yes. And I was just going to point out what Jim Birch did next. Treat your TV as dumb, do

Re: [LINK] Kids shoot a hole in LA iPad plan

thinking of some other cheap/free device? -rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak. ___ Link mailing list Link

Re: [LINK] Amazon Prime Air

it costs about 19c per bottle of wine shipped from Australia to North America. Wine by drone anyone? cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we

Re: [LINK] Amazon Prime Air

Jan Whitaker wrote: Images now of the City Link tunnels being closed because a drone slammed into one of the overhead signs.. Even better still, drones flying through the harbour tunnels. -R -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting An eye

Re: [LINK] Any crash courses for a Gen X?

is just somehow expected to know stuff that you would learn in a network engineering qualification. -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Re: [LINK] NYT: Snowden is a whistleblower and should be offered a plea to return home

. Nothing like saving costs and increasing profits. The incarceration rate is nearly 1 per 100 head of population, definitely 1% for the adult population. By far the majority of inmates are black. Happy New Year in spite of it all. cheers rickw -- Rick

Re: [LINK] NYT: Snowden is a whistleblower and should be offered a plea to return home

Scott Howard wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca mailto:r...@vitendo.ca wrote: Note that the US prison system has been privatised and is run for profit. This has resulted in a higher incarceration rate. Actually the number of prisoners has been

Re: [LINK] More Facebook crazy - AI 'deep learning'

. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting 24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Who needs Google Glass?

or on a screen, a process known as a 're-do'. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes#Series_1 The entire series offers much food for thought. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting 24. Change is inevitable, except

Re: [LINK] Adobe Flash problems

cookies, which to some degree prevents other sites tracking what you are doing on the current site. Not so with Flash cookies. A web search of spying with flash cookies will increase your paranoia level to satisfactory. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo

Re: [LINK] Adobe Flash problems - update fails with OS X Lion and above

Scott Howard wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca mailto:r...@vitendo.ca wrote: The latest one for my Mac running OS X is this: *install_flash_player_osx-***12.0.0.44*.dmg* which is amusing, since their emergency bulletin mentioned

Re: [LINK] More adobe flash issues

in OS X, which views PDFs painlessly, quickly and without the fuss of Adobe Reader. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting Gerrold's Fundamental Truth: It's a good thing money can't buy happiness. We couldn't stand the commercials

Re: [LINK] Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for Communications, on Cybersecurity

observations really are. Politics and the truth do not mix. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting 12. What do you call two crows on a branch? Attempted murder. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] NSW evoting system for next state election

-- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting On social media, it is easy to mistake popularity for credibility. -- Kevin Ashton ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] NSW evoting system for next state election

for more vulnerabilities found in java. rgds rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting On social media, it is easy to mistake popularity for credibility. -- Kevin Ashton ___ Link mailing list Link

Re: [LINK] NSW evoting system for next state election

-- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. -- Uncle Sam Widget ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] A good read

Karl Auer wrote: http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm Don't miss this bit of embedded fun: http://www.tylervigen.com/ Spurious Correlations. cheers rick -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't

Re: [LINK] Functional Programming

technique Not so novel. Lambda calculus and functional techniques date back to the 50s. Novel to the reporter does not novel make. Nontheless, a very interesting article. Thanks Stephen. cheer rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting Smooth seas do

Re: [LINK] Rick Welykochy domain error?

Jan Whitaker wrote: The following message to r...@praxis.com.au was undeliverable. The reason for the problem: 5.1.2 - Bad destination host 'DNS Hard Error looking up praxis.com.au (MX): NXDomain' In case Rick is still on link. Maybe he's bouncing from link, too. I'm still around.

Re: [LINK] Google's harvesting algorithms

all of the ramifications to the masses. They want easy, they want simple and they want no hassles. Why don't they want security? cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho

Re: [LINK] Fwd: Australia's biggest test of electronic voting

. Is confidentiality guaranteed with internet or telephone voting if you have to register to use it? cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting Nietzsche is pietzsche, but Schiller is killer, and Goethe is moethe. -- some philosophical wag

Re: [LINK] Cloud storage price shake-up coming

in encrypted files, broken into 2GB chunks. And if I'm really industrious, for $12/yr I can store TB of data stashed stenograpically in image files. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting Nietzsche is pietzsche, but Schiller is killer

Re: [LINK] Any one else suffering Adobephobia?

David Lochrin wrote: On 2015-07-10 11:12 Rick Welykochy wrote: A question arises from the above list of country bumpkin programming gaffs. Can Adobe not afford software sourcecode analysis kits? They ain't that expensive and would at least alert programmers at this august company

[LINK] Any one else suffering Adobephobia?

on HTML5 with its embedded video and audio capabilities and banish Adobe Flash to the trash-heap of crapuscent (my word) software for eternity. regards rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself

[LINK] Why Brutalism is the hottest trend in web design

some people longing for a return to old-school websites. And we've been seeing an emerging trend toward stripped down website design." cheers rickw -- -- Rick Welykochy An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. -- V

Re: [LINK] How fast is the NBN?

a problem for an island nation. cheers rick w -- -- Rick Welykochy Nietzsche is pietzsche, but Schiller is killer, and Goethe is moethe. -- some philosophical wag ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.

[LINK] Fake Pokemon App [was Re: A category of people who would benefit from self driving cars]

, and installing it onto a smartphone. Brendan wrote: Had my first Pokemon go experience today with some guy standing in the middle of the road with his back to me staring at his phone. Totally oblivious, easily run over by someone less watchful. -- -- Rick Welykochy Take my advice - I'm

Re: [LINK] Unassigned IPv4 addresses exhausted

available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_in_operating_systems At the very least, it appears that the Big Three operating systems support IPv6. Now for all those routers, cable modems and other comms equipment. cheers rickw -- -- Rick Welykochy My goa

Re: [LINK] Fake News

ur government is divorced from empirical reality. Isn't that characteristic of psychosis? -- -- Rick Welykochy The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

. There is even a call for a finger and verbal abuse to be added to the programming ;) cheers rickw -- -- Rick Welykochy Happiness is not something ready made, it comes from our own actions. -- Dalai Lama ___ Link mailing list Link

Re: [LINK] My letter to the local paper

rect about is that there was a year called 1984. The rest turned out, ironically, to be exactly the kind of fake news he was railing against. -- -- Rick Welykochy It is a gorgeous gold watch. I'm proud of it. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. -- W

[LINK] Tim Berners-Lee paints the sky a Solid blue

ude of pitfalls that await its implementation? The challenge will be in anticipating the misuse of the technology and guarding against that misuse, a task of no small order. cheers rickw -- -- Rick Welykochy It is a gorgeous gold watch. I'm proud of it. My grandfather, on his de

Re: [LINK] RFC: A Capable Email-Client, e.g. for a Mac

shing" as it were, if you are so inclined. HTH. cheers rickw -- -- Rick Welykochy A furniture store keeps calling me. It's driving me crazy cuz all I wanted was one nightstand. -- Anonymous Whinge ___ Link mailing lis

Re: [LINK] Kill sticky headers: make your browsing easier

or now, please. -- -- Rick Welykochy I think crime pays. The hours are good and you travel a lot. -- Woody Allen ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Kill sticky headers: make your browsing easier

o annoy me while I am reading a word definition. -rickw Jevan Pipitone wrote: I like sticky headers and on my website www.jevan.com.au I have two sticky header lines and one sticky footer line. I suspect that people who say they don't like sticky headers possibly don't like me at all. J

Re: [LINK] ABC News: Google wants to kill cookies. Here's what you should know

Antony Broughton Barry wrote: Google wants to kill cookies. Here's what you should know https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-01-21/google-to-kill-third-party-cookies-privacy-and-competition/11882718 -- --

[LINK] RFC: The Quantum Bug

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8774 Abstract The age of quantum networking is upon us, and with it comes "entanglement": a procedure in which a state (i.e., a bit) can be transferred instantly, with no measurable delay between peers. This will lead to a perceived round-trip time of

Re: [LINK] RFC: The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO)

Certainly Bernard, The link and description refer to the 2nd of the April Fool's RFCs for 2020. There is another. It's only geek humour. cheers rick Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: Is the date relevant? \ On 2/04/2020 1:45 pm, Rick Welykochy wrote: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8771

[LINK] RFC: The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8771 Abstract Domain Names were designed for humans, IP addresses were not. But more than 30 years after the introduction of the DNS, a minority of mankind persists in invading the realm of machine-to-machine communication by reading, writing,