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schestowitzhttp://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/four-rings-to-rule-them-all-german.html?showComment=1566999670032#c7056067418450109039Aug 30 08:12
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Four Rings to Rule Them All – German Federal Court of Justice Finds Trademark Infringement in Radiator Grille with Audi-Logo-Shaped Mounting Fixture - The IPKatAug 30 08:12
schestowitz"You could, for example, provide four small screw points or a set of flat surfaces for adhesion (or however the actual logo is mounted) that do not themselves resemble the four rings. Hence building the appearance of four rings into the grill is not necessary."Aug 30 08:12
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schestowitz> https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-famous-companies-with-unexpectedly-dark-origin-stories/#entry-3-blog-27867Aug 30 08:39
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cracked.com | 5 Famous Companies With Unexpectedly Dark Origin Stories | Cracked.comAug 30 08:39
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schestowitz> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/corporate-influence.71876/page-2#post-436148Aug 30 08:39
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-forums.freebsd.org | Corporate Influence | Page 2 | The FreeBSD ForumsAug 30 08:39
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schestowitz> https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/08/29/0037229Aug 30 08:39
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-soylentnews.org | Microsoft Wants exFAT in Linux Kernel, Opens File System Specs - SoylentNewsAug 30 08:39
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schestowitz> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-29/microsoft-vendors-win-a-7-6-billion-deal-for-pentagon-softwareAug 30 08:39
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bloomberg.com | Bloomberg - Are you a robot?Aug 30 08:39
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schestowitz> https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20838634/bill-gates-netflix-documentary-series-davis-guggenheim-microsoftAug 30 08:39
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theverge.com | Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ life explored in new Netflix documentary - The VergeAug 30 08:39
schestowitz> # yet another hagiography for that criminal dropoutAug 30 08:39
schestowitzThose last two links achieve nothing but maladjust my blood pressure :-) and it's not even 9am yet.Aug 30 08:39
schestowitzhed is the more complAug 30 09:11
schestowitz> Hi Roy,Aug 30 09:11
schestowitz> Aug 30 09:11
schestowitz> Just to confirm, you will be attending the meeting on Monday at 7:30am?Aug 30 09:11
schestowitzYes, we'll be taking a taxi to make it there on time.Aug 30 09:11
schestowitz>>>>>> Upload speeds always the main issue...Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>>>> I'm thinking that the spare space on /var on TR keeps going down.  DoAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>>>> you think the instructions work well enough that we should test them onAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>>>> a copy of the the 90GB copy?Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>>> They look good on the surface, but one thing or another often doesn'tAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>>> work as expected. So then we need to improvise. How closely identical isAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>>> your offsite copy? Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>> As far as the file systems go, it is identical.  So the scaling of theAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>> LVM can be given a final test there.  The VM qcentos7 however would beAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>> the right place to do the preliminary planning.  It's still onlineAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>> though I would like to repurpose the machine eventually.Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz>> There are all sorts of ways it can be used for testing. Maybe it can beAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>> passed to an external drive to spare space?Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz> I have backups of the 90GB copied VM.  However, I was thinking more theAug 30 09:32
schestowitz> system itself and all its custom networking.  I had some really oldAug 30 09:32
schestowitz> spare machines but the CPUs in them were too old for virtualization.Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz> I'm not that keen at throwing any money at a new computer if it has anAug 30 09:32
schestowitz> x86 architecture.Aug 30 09:32
schestowitzMy laptop is older than 10 years now. No battery, no screen, no keyboard. All broken/dysfunctional, so I use external power, screen and keyboard.Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>>> We can't clone the live VM for a test image withoutAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>>> changing settings or else we risk running two VMs for he site at theAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>>> time time.Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>> I think a clone can be done safely maybe by setting the domains toAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>> localhost in /etc/hosts inside the VM.  That would allow eventualAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>>> testing of the package upgrades though I think that it will be fine.Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz>> I wonder how much longer this CentOS version has for updates with EPEL.Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz>> Tux Machines would not take as long to rebuild as techrights. I wonderAug 30 09:32
schestowitz>> if newer PHP versions will at some stage be incompatible with Drupal 6Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz>> (LTS/extended support).Aug 30 09:32
schestowitz> We have about one year, November 2020 [1], before it becomes anAug 30 09:32
schestowitz> absolutely critical task.  CentOS 8 is not released yet.  However, if weAug 30 09:33
schestowitz> are keeping CentOS, then I would say to migrate from 6 to 8 when theAug 30 09:33
schestowitz> latter is officially released.  Otherwise, I'd prefer and APT-basedAug 30 09:33
schestowitz> distro like Devuan.  Which distros are most comfortable for you and Rianne?Aug 30 09:33
schestowitz> Aug 30 09:33
schestowitz> [1] https://wiki.centos.org/About/ProductAug 30 09:33
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.centos.org | About/Product - CentOS WikiAug 30 09:33
schestowitzkaniini suggested something with containers. That was before he left Alpine. Right now I'm not sure what to use; I only know it's a major, major decision to make.Aug 30 09:33
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schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/KiwixOffline/status/1167414872973479936Aug 30 17:52
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@KiwixOffline: @Wikinaut Let's hope the author is wrong...Aug 30 17:52
schestowitzWe've rarely been wrong on these issues (for many years)Aug 30 17:53
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/iridesce57/status/1167486136215904256Aug 30 19:00
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@iridesce57: @Wikinaut @schestowitz “Can’t argue against better interoperability, but I’m skeptical. Why should the Linux commun… https://t.co/SKsqSAfxaMAug 30 19:00
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@iridesce57: @Wikinaut @schestowitz “Can’t argue against better interoperability, but I’m skeptical. Why should the Linux commun… https://t.co/SKsqSAfxaMAug 30 19:00
schestowitz"“Can’t argue against better interoperability, but I’m skeptical. Why should the Linux community adopt Microsoft technology while Microsoft is apparently reluctant to incorporate Linux technology.""Aug 30 19:00
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/papapeps/status/1167503281280733185Aug 30 19:40
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@papapeps: @garrigos_robert Quant a aquest tema, no puc estar-hi més d'acord: https://t.co/unES6ztQg3Aug 30 19:40
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> techrights.org | Microsoft Wants Linux to Use exFAT for the Same Reasons it Wants Everybody to Use OOXML | TechrightsAug 30 19:40

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