vxbush 11/11/2020 5:49:22 AM

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Hey, let's go for 2! Morning, campers.

Kosh, I saw your note last night. I know some people had bad experiences with Macs years ago, but my daughter's MacBook that we got her in 2004 was still running in 2019 when we finally turned it in for recycling. I tried installing a Linux flavor on it, but getting it to boot reliably from the USB drive wasn't happening (research showed that 2005 models didn't have that problem). It was still at something like version 10.3, but it ran. Of course, using the web browser to do anything online was useless; none of the web pages were written for a 2010 web browser. 

So I can appreciate your suffering, but that hasn't been my experience. And my Mac users at work have fewer problems generally than the PC users, especially working from home. Keeping AD settings intact while working from home has been dicey, and changing your password can cause all sorts of problems while you wait for the SSO to update across all the systems. 

Big Sur comes out tomorrow, and I will almost certainly install it on my primary machine because (a) I live dangerously--but I always back up--and (b) I need to start testing how well it works with Jamf. There are some definitely improvements for enterprise control with Big Sur, but I don't know if Jamf will be updated in time to take advantage of them. 

As for Unix terminals--part of the reason I really like the Macs was that for the longest time it was the one way to get a good shell. I tried using the add-on shells that were available up until 2015 on Windows and didn't like any of them. With Microsoft finally bending the knee to the Linux gods, I'll probably install it when I replace my PC early next year. 

lucius septimius 11/11/2020 6:15:35 AM

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Occasional Reader 11/11/2020 6:20:31 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 11/11/2020 7:21:27 AM

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Since the Leftists are talking about "compiling lists":

As someday it may happen that a victim must be found
I've got a little list, I've got a little list
Of society's offenders who might well be underground
And who never would be missed---they never would be missed
The Leftist demagogues who babble about "intersectionality,"
Twixt the "1619 Project" and radiacal "LGBT"
And the talking heads all claiming that vote fraud does not exist
They never would be missed---they never would be missed

He's got them on the list, he's got them on the list,
And I don't think they'd be missed---I'm sure they'd not be missed!

---after Ko-Ko's song in "The Mikado," by Gilbert & Sullivan

Occasional Reader 11/11/2020 7:58:15 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

++++

In a related vein, I still thank the universe for providing the news item from a few years back about three English Muslim high-school age girls who were arrested as they attempted to head off to Syria to join ISIS; thus allowing me a pretext to compose the following:

Three little maids from school are we

Heading to the Levant to be jihadis

We are filled to the brim with Salafist screeds

Three little maids from school

Waging holy war will be so much fun

Whether servicing our fighter, or his gun

When he's rendered a drone-splat, we'll be bummed

Three little maids are fools

buzzsawmonkey 11/11/2020 8:04:26 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 5:

HA!!!  That's great!

doppelganglander 11/11/2020 8:10:13 AM

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Georgia will be getting a full hand recount of all votes cast for president.

I wish they would count the Senate races, too. I'd rather not have to listen to two more months of political ads.

Occasional Reader 11/11/2020 8:23:55 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 7:

Good news, indeed.  And quite the cliffhanger. 

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 8:24:17 AM

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Re: Post 0

I kept things simple when I set this blog up. The only thing special about the first post in a thread is the way it is displayed. It is stored just like any other post. Thus, when setting up a thread, it is necessary to post one initial post, or this happens.

Occasionally, I forget too, or maybe close the tab before it is done.

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 8:27:45 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

For shell on Windows, I used Cygwin before Windows Subsystem for Linux. And the latter works better. In fact, I did the coding test for my current job using it, as it had older gnu compilers and linkers, and I would have had to edit the makefiles to fix the differences on my actual Linux system. 

And around 1996, I had a Compaq laptop that had several problems, and they also had trouble fixing it. For less of my effort than with the Mac, they offered and gave me more memory and a better battery as compensation. Apple? Nada. Why pay a premium for that?

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 8:31:40 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

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What worries me is the list AOC and her cronies are compiling. We are turning into a banana republic.(link)

“Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future,” she tweeted. She conveniently forgot some of her own deleted tweets, of course.

In response, former Obama Administration official Michael Simon mentioned the “Trump Accountability Project” and reassured AOC, as she is known, “Every Administration staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who represented them — everyone.”

doppelganglander 11/11/2020 8:38:26 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8:

I was not expecting this much drama in Georgia. In retrospect, it's obvious why the state was targeted for Democrat-led fraud - two Senate races and the shift to blue in suburban Atlanta. However, both houses of the state legislature remain in Republican hands, and that's where redistricting will be decided. 2022 is going to be lit.

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 8:39:52 AM

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In #9 Kosh's Shadow said: when setting up a thread, it is necessary to post one initial post, or this happens

Let's see if JCM fixes tomorrow's, or maybe I'll find a picture of an Egg McMuffin or something.

Occasional Reader 11/11/2020 8:48:50 AM

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In #12 doppelganglander said: 2022 is going to be lit

Literally, if the Left's current tactics are any indication.  

lucius septimius 11/11/2020 9:05:28 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 2:

What a trip.

I was planning to leave tomorrow morning to head home, but the hurricane keeps following me.  Were I to stick to plan I'd drive right into the middle of it.  So now I must wait until Friday.  Lice, hail, and frogs likely to follow.

Oh, and I got back from the beach to find that the water in the building has been cut off until further notice.

doppelganglander 11/11/2020 9:18:45 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 15:

I don't really believe in curses, but I'm hard pressed to come up with another explanation for everything that's gone wrong on your trip.

lucius septimius 11/11/2020 9:18:45 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 15:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24

@PBJ3 11/11/2020 10:42:25 AM

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Occasional Reader 11/11/2020 11:52:46 AM

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In #18 @PBJ3 said: Happy Veterans Day to any of you who may have served.

Hear, hear.

Occasional Reader 11/11/2020 11:56:25 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 12:40:41 PM

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Re yesterday's thread:

PCWorld: No, the new MacBook Air is not faster than 98% of PC laptops

Summary: Apple does not give benchmarks or indicate what programs they are comparing.

Also, 98% of laptops include really cheap PCs, so it really isn't fair comparing a $1000 machine against a $150 one.

RTWT for details

buzzsawmonkey 11/11/2020 12:45:43 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

The level of delusion I see in my Left-leaning friends---and, alas, family---is increasingly disturbing.  I was talking to someone yesterday who was railing about the Supreme Court hearing on Obamacare, which was going on yesterday, and about what a terrible disaster it would be if Obamacare were struck down.  I tried to point out that I was one of the many who lost his health insurance---which was just fine, thank you---due to Obamacare, and that there were many like me; that if there were indeed "30 million now covered by health insurance" due to it, that there were also another 30 million who suddenly weren't, and that the whole thing was, therefore, a wash at best (leaving aside the inferior quality of Obamacare).   I tried to explain that even if Obamacare were declared unconstitutional, that doesn't either stop the Congress from putting something new together, or stop the states from stepping up. 

The only reply I got was that "if Obamacare wasn't better, it's because of the Republicans."  I tried to explain that Obamacare was passed on a Democrat supermajority, without one single Republican vote (indeed, they had to bribe some of the Democrats to vote for it)---and that therefore it was exactly what the people who pushed it through wanted.   These little facts went nowhere.

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 12:54:08 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 22:

I also note the media was complicit in getting Obmacare through.

All they had to do was look at Romneycare. Health care costs went up FASTER after it passed, and large numbers of people had no insurance because they couldn't afford it and the state couldn't afford to subsidize it.

But it was their secular messiah Obama who wanted it, and they bowed down and sacrificed the truth on his altar.

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 1:00:44 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 22:

After all this brainwashing by the Mainstream Media of Truth (slogan "Ignorance is Strength") and the educational system, many people have become incapable of rational thought. They bellyfeel DemSoc (Democratic Socialism), in Newspeak.

Occasional Reader 11/11/2020 1:00:44 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 22: Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 23:

As Mark Steyn and others noted at the time; the Dems didn't care what was "in" Obamacare.  The point was to ram through something called "Health Care Reform", and thus make the federal takeover of the system a permanent feature of the political landscape. 

buzzsawmonkey 11/11/2020 1:02:40 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 23:

I've heard the "Obamacare isn't perfect only because the Democrats tried to placate the Republicans who, to a man, didn't vote for it" lie a number of times over the years.  It is accepted as "fact" on the Left even though it is easily debunked.

By the same token, I've also had Leftist friends/family give me the "You really shouldn't listen to Rush Limbaugh/Fox News" line.  I've listened to Limbaugh maybe five times in my life---he's a little brassy for my taste---and have not had a TV for years, with the result that while I've seen a number of Fox clips online, I've also seen a number of clips from CNN and MSNBC.  

I always ask these people if they've ever listened to Limbaugh, or watched Fox---and the response is invariably instant and horrified denial.  They don't know what they're inveighing against, and don't realize that it is they, not those who disagree with them, who are living in a bubble.  I despise the Left because I've listened to Stelter, and Lemon, and Maddow, and Reid---not because I haven't.

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 1:02:43 PM

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In #25 Occasional Reader said: As Mark Steyn and others noted at the time; the Dems didn't care what was "in" Obamacare. 

We will find out what is in it after we pass it.

buzzsawmonkey 11/11/2020 1:05:13 PM

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In #27 Kosh's Shadow said: We will find out what is in it after we pass it.

Like any political kidneystone.

Alice in Dairyland 11/11/2020 1:06:08 PM

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nypost.com florida governor drafts laws that allow people to shoot looters

I'm not seeing too many problems with this.  All right, maybe not looters, but definitely arsonists.  There could be an awful lot of dead bodies to clean up if it was allowed for looting.  

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 1:06:24 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 26:

I had to stop reading a lot of leftist stuff (I still occasionally do) because it was invariably opinion stated as fact with no evidence, despite evidence to the contrary that they refuse to accept.

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 1:07:42 PM

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In #11 Kosh's Shadow said: What worries me is the list AOC and her cronies are compiling. We are turning into a banana republic.(link) “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future,” she tweeted. She conveniently forgot some of her own deleted tweets, of course. In response, former Obama Administration official Michael Simon mentioned the “Trump Accountability Project” and reassured AOC, as she is known, “Every Administration staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who represented them — everyone.”

Basically, we have the American Inquisition, complete with Grand Inquisitor. 

And like everyone on the left, you can't torquemada anything. (Stolen from Mel Brooks)

Alice in Dairyland 11/11/2020 1:12:15 PM

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In #26 buzzsawmonkey said: I always ask these people if they've ever listened to Limbaugh, or watched Fox---and the response is invariably instant and horrified denial.

That's my sister to a tee.  She doesn't have to listen to that crap, her friends on facebook tell her what to think.  We no longer discuss politics.  It's getting harder to converse with her.  Doesn't seem to be much to talk about but politics these days.  She's totally down with the pandemic scare too, so that's off limits also.  You can only talk about the weather for so long.

buzzsawmonkey 11/11/2020 1:20:53 PM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 29:

Oh, I think looters need to be shot also.  As Kipling says at the beginning of his story "Thrown Away,"

To rear a boy under what parents call the ‘sheltered life system’ is, if the boy must go into the world and fend for himself, not wise. Unless he be one in a thousand he has certainly to pass through many unnecessary troubles; and may, possibly, come to extreme grief simply from ignorance of the proper proportions of things.

Looters are those who've been shielded from the consequences of their actions---what Kipling calls the "sheltered life system."  It is surely sad---possibly even tragic---that some of them must be sacrificed as object lessons to others of their kind (should they have the wit to learn), but in the long run it is better for society as a whole.

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 1:45:50 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 33:

Not just the looters but snowflakes who need safe spaces, and have no understanding how the system works - so they can get brainwashed by leftist professors.

If kids had to work for their money, they'd not want the government to take it away.

Alice in Dairyland 11/11/2020 1:47:45 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 33: Lessons learned the hard way seem to stick better.  Lessons never taught can't be learned at all.

Alice in Dairyland 11/11/2020 1:50:48 PM

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In #34 Kosh's Shadow said: If kids had to work for their money, they'd not want the government to take it away.

And when kids get their money "from" the government they only want more.

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 2:24:22 PM

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In #34 Kosh's Shadow said: If kids had to work for their money, they'd not want the government to take it away.

As for the rich kids arrested for looting, the stores should sue for damages. If they can afford 50K/yr for music school, and aren't working for money to live on, they can pay damages.

Alice in Dairyland 11/11/2020 2:31:28 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 2:32:41 PM

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In #36 Alice in Dairyland said: And when kids get their money "from" the government they only want more.

They replace their parents with the government. They think they have a rich Uncle Sam.

We've come a long way from JFK "Ask not what your country can do for you". He'd be a conservative Republican by today's standards.

Alice in Dairyland 11/11/2020 3:16:21 PM

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Alice in Dairyland 11/11/2020 3:17:14 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 39: I wonder who he voted for...

Alice in Dairyland 11/11/2020 3:18:44 PM

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In #41 Alice in Dairyland said:  I wonder who he voted for...

Do dead Dems have to vote for Dems or can they change parties?

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 3:21:47 PM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 40:

Well, Teen Vogue seems to think bomb belts are good accessories. Not that I will link to them.
Link1

And they like Antifa masks, too

Link2

(These links are hard to find. Links to the articles themselves are easy)

doppelganglander 11/11/2020 3:49:41 PM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 40:

After four years of studiously ignoring our stunning First Lady and her stylish wardrobe, they gush breathlessly over that?

Kosh's Shadow 11/11/2020 4:01:34 PM

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In #44 doppelganglander said: After four years of studiously ignoring our stunning First Lady and her stylish wardrobe, they gush breathlessly over that?

The Empress's new wardrobe

lucius septimius 11/11/2020 4:11:11 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 43:

And this is how we get the Confident Ponytail suburban moms who vote for the National Socialist Anti-American Non-Working Party.

Alice in Dairyland 11/11/2020 4:27:22 PM

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In #44 doppelganglander said: After four years of studiously ignoring our stunning First Lady and her stylish wardrobe, they gush breathlessly over that?

That was my thought exactly!

doppelganglander 11/11/2020 4:40:03 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 46:

The Left exploits the normal protectiveness of moms to scare the shit out of them about things that will never happen, and moms willingly turn over their family's freedom to save them from the boogieman. This may explain why I rarely made friends with the other moms.

@PBJ3 11/11/2020 6:41:24 PM

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In #48 doppelganglander said: This may explain why I rarely made friends with the other moms.

Same here and yet, because I was self-employed, they were glad that I was able to do a lot of volunteering for the local public school district. I was put down by most of them for admitting that our family watched "MASH" when our daughter was in the third grade.  Later, when our daughter was in high school some mothers resented our school band because it was also a "military thing".  Oy