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| schestowitz[TR2] | Was there in the early 80s and stayed for 25 yrs across 2 tours. Back then IBM was: 1. Essential. Everyone in college and work knew IBM systems. 2. Innovative inventing things like DRAM etc; Thinkpad, networking, storage etc. 3. Fantastic place to work. Now it will go the way of Compaq and DEC and Sun and Kodak and Polaroid, and EMC etc etc. All once high flyers. If you are a band 9 or 10 you are toast. IBM thinks solutions will be | Jun 05 08:01 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | sold by going to IBM.com cloud (or oddly more likely AWS) and you will click tiles and buy things. TLS is toast and will be sold. Why need wicked smart band 9 and 10s when you can have dialing for dollars RCGs recent college grads using SalesLoft to spam people 23 times in a week? ALL that matters is 1. stock price and 2. cash flow. Everything else is meaningless. Sad but a true dumpster fire now. | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Jun 05 08:01 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @cm+1jwwjxp8y | Jun 05 08:01 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Too early to say Arvind is turning the company around. Revenue growth is still anemic. | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 05 08:01 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @cg+1jwwjxp8y | Jun 05 08:01 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | I didn't know having outages every day is what IBM did in it's glory days... | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 05 08:01 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Betteridge's law of headlines | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 05 08:01 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +7 | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Alvind and his Pipmunks have certainly not brought glory to the IBM company in recent times, unless you consider layoffs and transferring jobs to Alvind's motherland, India as some cause for celebration. As for AI development inside IBM, it's nothing but a sad joke ! Same as it ever was. And nothing in the Quantum department either - the cupboard >> I always use convert in loops, from imagemagick. | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Generally Netpbm is more secure. Often it is more efficient. | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Engineers should be aware why it is so. | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > --- | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > The author of this article mentioned in your Links page says he is a | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > "Linux" user. In fact his focus of interest is in the command line | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > interface, which makes him a GNU user. | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > There is passing mention of limitations caused by the absence of the | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Linux kernel. (There is a typo in the sentence.) | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > WSL is designed to keep Linux users happy on Windows, but it helped me | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > switch to Linux instead | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://www.xda-developers.com/wsl-helped-me-switch-to-linux/ | Jun 05 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yes, WSL1 had no Linux kernel. WSL2 has it, but it's Windows all the way. | Jun 05 08:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.xda-developers.com | WSL is designed to keep Linux users happy on Windows, but it helped me switch to Linux instead | Jun 05 08:02 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Alex’s father was business partners with John Poindexter, who was the | Jun 05 08:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > father of total information awareness | Jun 05 08:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I need a comment on the article/s. | Jun 05 08:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Alex works at the company too after he dropped out. | Jun 05 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I’ll send you a link give me a few minutes | Jun 05 08:34 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jun 05 13:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/rocky-linux-9-6-released-with-new-wsl-support-updated-packages/">Rocky Linux 9.6 Released with New WSL Support, Updated Packages</a></h5> | Jun 05 13:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jun 05 13:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Rocky 9.6’s notable highlights focus heavily on dynamic programming languages and essential server technologies. This release includes PHP versions 8.3 and 8.4, the Nginx web server 1.26, and MySQL 8.4, offering the latest features and optimizations for web hosting environments. </p> | Jun 05 13:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jun 05 13:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jun 05 13:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Rocky Linux 9.6 Released with New WSL Support, Updated Packages | Jun 05 13:17 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jun 05 14:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/raspberry-pi-imager-1-9-4-arrives-with-ui-polish-major-fixes/">Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 Arrives with UI Polish, Major Fixes</a></h5> | Jun 05 14:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jun 05 14:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Raspberry Pi Imager, a tool that helps users easily write OS images onto an SD card, which can then be used to boot the Raspberry Pi, announced the release of its latest version, 1.9.4, marking the first official installment in the 1.9.x series. </p> | Jun 05 14:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jun 05 14:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jun 05 14:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 Arrives with UI Polish, Major Fixes | Jun 05 14:00 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jun 05 14:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/06/video-thunderbird-pro-and-thundermail/">VIDEO: Thunderbird Pro and Thundermail!</a></h5> | Jun 05 14:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jun 05 14:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>It’s been just over two months (!) since we first announced our upcoming Thunderbird Pro suite and Thundermail email service. We thought it would be a great idea to bring in Chris Aquino, a Software Engineer on our Services team, to chat about these upcoming products. We want our community to get to know the newest members of the Thunderbird family even before they hatch! </p> | Jun 05 14:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> We’ll be back later this summer after our upcoming Extended Support Release, Thunderbird 140.0, is out! Members of our desktop team will be here to talk about the newest features. Of course, if you’d like to try the newest features a little sooner, we encourage you to try the monthly Release channel. Just be sure to check if your Add-ons are compatible first! </p> | Jun 05 14:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jun 05 14:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jun 05 14:02 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.thunderbird.net | VIDEO: Thunderbird Pro and Thundermail! | Jun 05 14:02 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Scandinavia Saying Goodbye to Microsoft" ... but, but what about all the | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | statues of Bill Gates in the town squares? | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The lobbying engine revs up: | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Microsoft makes a 'proactive investment' in EU cybersecurity amid bloc's tensions with US" | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://therecord.media/microsoft-european-security-program | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | spam, but spam about m$ ramping up anti-EU lobbying even further | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | yes of course, but it is important to be aware of the increase lobbying | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | especailly in light of the necessity for European nations to drop M$ | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | post haste despite embedded microsofters and quislings throughout their | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | governments. | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | They're going to spin their market share as some how legal and defensible. | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If any nation had even bothered to read the licenses, they would have found | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the products not fit for purpose in regards to data privacy at the very least. | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That's not to mention sovereignty and national security -- based | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | on what is there in black and white in the f-ing licenses which they have | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | failed to even read. | Jun 05 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "\ | Jun 05 15:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-therecord.media | Microsoft makes a 'proactive investment' in EU cybersecurity amid bloc's tensions with US | The Record from Recorded Future News | Jun 05 15:23 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | They have not lost enough businesss in the EU. | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The largest barrier to eliminating them completely would be the quislings | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | working against their own nations on behalf of m$. | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The second largest barrier is that the individual nations are mistaking | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | m$ for a technical problem rather than a political problem. | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The third largest barrier is the EU nations not working together to | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | build something from scratch, say based on Slackware or Alpine or etc. | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Definitely building something from IBM would be the wrong move. | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Isn't Canonical based in Europe and didn't they used to make a desktop distro? | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Why aren't they all over this? Oh, wait, they have filled key staff roles | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | with microsofters, going back to jono. He did the most damage to the Ubuntu | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | community. What a dickhead. | Jun 05 15:28 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jun 05 15:28 |
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