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In which I account for not having covered a certain matter here
by Rick Moen 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Placeholder for a possible recap to come. (Greetings from a relatively sane part of the USA, California.) ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> ----- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:16:11 -0800 From: Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> To: skeptic(a)linuxmafia.com Subject: Re: [skeptic] Trump in a (British) Nutshell Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already. Quoting Laurie Forbes (laforbes(a)telus.net) > “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” [...] > "If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set." > > https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/ One difficult aspect of summerising The Toddler-in-Chief to an international audience is that any honest recounting of his failings as to competence, integrity, intellectual capacity, morals, and half a dozen major aspects of life inevitably seems to outsiders like a gross exaggeration, mere absurd and tedious ranting against a political other. It does no good to say 'No, really, I don't see Republican politicians as sui-generis horrible, and here's a list of the ones I've voted for.' Uninitiated listeners will _still_ assume you're merely a bit unhinged. I have an analogy from my personal life. Upon marrying Deirdre in 2000 and having her mother Cheryl move into our house from Courteney, BC, later that year, I tried several times to warn them about interactions with my sister: 'Michele will attempt to pry about my personal doings, by subtly pumping you for information, because she will know you to be not yet on your guard. You need to know, please, please know, that Michele is both the most manipulative and the most offhandedly dishonest person you will ever meet. You should always classify anything she asserts to be fact as unconfirmed until proven otherwise, never take what she says on faith, and, most important of all, any time she asks questions about my personal affairs of any sort, please, please, please refer her to me for what she says she wants to know, and do not answer such questions. Just don't. You probably think, being new to this, that my request is unreasonable and outlandish: That's OK. I don't mind, and I completely understand that reaction. All I ask is please humour me. Do not answer any question from her about my personal affairs. Assume that if I wanted to know, I'd have told her, and that if she should be told something new, I should always and every time be the one to decide that, and never you. So, respect my privacy, I beg of you. Do _not_ just have carefree give-and-take with Michele. She'll play you for a fool, and I'll pay the price, which will be extremely vexing. I don't want to be the seriously annoyed guy saying "I told you so", so please just humour me.' Naturally this did _not_ work, because Deirdre and Cheryl didn't take the request seriously and blabbed details of my medical and work life about the second or third time Michele casually dropped questions about them, which information Michele then maliciously used to my detriment, and Deirdre and Cheryl just reacted with 'Gosh, who knew that she was manipulative and dishonest? There's no way we could have known.' Yeah, thanks, folks. Great job of having my back. For years, I would occasionally post roundups covering current American problems (mostly political) to a mailing list in Melbourne, NSW, but I've not been able to get around to climbing Mount Toddler (covering his stunning feat of combining incompetence, pervasive immorality, a seeming allergy to ever telling the truth, historic corruption, a total absence of leadership traits, all the management habits of a Mafia capo, probable creeping senility, probable foreign corrupt influence, an inability to comprehend democracy, and a love for violent dictators whom he obviously envies) or detailing the GOP slow coup, and haven't yet done one of my roundups since before the November 2016 general election. To borrow Leisureguy's term (in the blog post), the topics are fractal, for starters. And also, one risks sounding unhinged if one is forthright and detailed about them. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [luv-talk] moving partition
by Rohan McLeod 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Jason White via luv-main wrote: > > While installing Linux recently, I found that Windows 10 would only > shrink the NTFS partition to approximately half of its previous size. > I read claims via a web search for information on this subject that > there are metadata in the middle of an NTFS partition, and Microsoft's > tools won't reduce the size of the file system beyond this point. I'm > not sure how accurate this is, although it's consistent with the > observed results. > To be clear are you claiming this is an intrinsic limitation of NTFS partitions or just the tools that MS provides ? MS tools for partition management eg "Computer Management-Storage-Disk Management" have always lagged well behind 3rd party tools; eg Partition Guru http://www.eassos.com ; Partition Magic https://www.partitionwizard.com/ regards Rohan McLeod

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Humble eBook bundles: 4 days MIT: Comp. Music. O'Reilly: Prog. Cookbooks
by Rodney Brown 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

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Anyone looked and/or considering buying a Librem_5 mobile phone ?
by Rohan McLeod 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Interested to hear comments, complaints, theories......etc regarding the soon to be released Librem_5 mobile phone; which claims to be 'crowd-sourced' more secure hardware running more secure OS ; ("PureOS"seems to be a Debian variant ) https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ regards Rohan McLeod

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Anyone looked and/or considering buying a Librem_5 mobile phone ?....oops earlier email to wrong list
by Rohan McLeod 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Interested to hear comments, complaints, theories......etc regarding the soon to be released Librem_5 mobile phone; which claims to be 'crowd-sourced' more secure hardware running more secure OS ; ("PureOS"seems to be a Debian variant ) https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ regards Rohan McLeod

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Humble Book Bundle: Python 2019 by Packt (pay what you want and help charity)
by Andrew McGlashan 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

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by Rodney Brown 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

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Humble eBook Bundles (13 days) O'Reilly: Product Management & Design (8 days) Leadership
by Rodney Brown 14 Dec '18

14 Dec '18

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Humble eBook Bundle (5 Days) O'Reilly: DevOps
by Rodney Brown 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

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Take action: Don’t send 267 people back to offshore detention
by Peter Ross 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

http://bit.ly/1R3MiYB Maybe Australians can avoid another "Sorry" fifty years later this time. Thanks Peter

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