Funny thing is, in the past 4 years or so, I’ve been using those cookies to my advantage.
As far as Google knows, I’ve been at the same location for the past 4 years. I have other private devices when I’m out and about that have never signed into Google nor had location services activated.
I walk both sides of the fence, just to confuse the system…
Device profiling, user identifiers, processor identifiers…
How is a toddler supposed to learn anything if their memory is erased after a month?
What do you expect? Don’t use AI…
Hey, there actually are NTFS drivers out there for MS-DOS/Win3.11, I’ve used that for data recovery when neither Windows NT nor Linux could access the partition.
Very little surprises me anymore, and I have no idea what all tricks FreeDOS and ReactOS have up their sleeves.
Gotcha, no worries 👍
Future goal, emulate Linux (any version that might work) under KolibriOS.
I think that’s actually doable, to some extent… 🤷♂️
I’m not even sure if this is satire or not, but is that even doable? I mean I’ve tested both FreeDOS and ReactOS before, but do they play well together somehow?
Side note, I’ve also tried KolibriOS before, amazing project for its tiny size, still have it on physical floppy disk right now even.
You’re right, we also need a CP/M terminal running on top of the Minix kernel…
We need a healthy mashup OS between TinyCore, KolibriOS, ReactOS, and TempleOS, then I’ll be happy.
It’s been a little hit/miss for me at times as well, I totally feel your frustration when dealing with scratched discs. Still, at least with my drives, spamming the eject button seems to eventually work.
Did you catch the other commenter that said…
eject /dev/sr0
Most drives have an emergency eject function built in, totally independent of the operating system. Some work differently than others, but try something along these lines…
Usually works for me.
Edit: Most drives also have an emergency eject hole near the eject button, just push a straightened paperclip in when the drive is powered off and it should eject.
Well shit, I figured out what the real issue was.
I’m on a laptop with only 3 USB ports, and I’m running a physical laptop hard drive on an adapter on one USB port, and a laptop CD/DVD drive on another adapter on another port.
Obviously that’s probably pushing the power limits of the USB power, but it’s worked before, so I didn’t see why it wasn’t quite working right now.
But this time I was trying a different DVD drive, an HP TS-T633P slot loader drive. Apparently that drive is extra power hungry compared to a conventional laptop drive, so I dug out my old tray loader drive.
Apparently the slot loader drive was competing with the hard drive for power, and they were apparently taking turns robbing power from each other. The system is perfectly happy with the tray loader drive though, no reconfiguration necessary!
🤦♂️😂🤣👍
Ah, thank you very much in advance! It’s a bit late here and I’m soon to head to bed, but I have used hdparm before, thanks for the reminder!
I’m saving your comment and will look into it more tomorrow, or soon at least. Thanks! 👍
Sure, some of the effects are basically useless eye candy, but the 3D Cube thing is a non-intrusive, yet very intuitive way of switching desktops. The 3D Cube doesn’t even activate until you use a hotkey combination plus the mouse. It’s almost like having a virtual KVM switch if you’re running virtual machines.
To each their own, but you might actually like the 3D Cube and possibly some other Compiz features once you see how they work and what they offer…
I can’t even function without the Compiz 3D cube anymore, it makes it super easy and visually intuitive to switch desktops. Very handy for someone running 4 virtual machines simultaneously…
I’ve been running Linux since 2011, starting with our data recovery and antivirus scanning system at the computer repair shop I was working for at the time.
Even my boss didn’t understand why I wanted to install Linux. Keep in mind, this is back when the TDSS/Alureon rootkit was going around on Windows systems.
I explained it like it was, that if our main backup/antivirus system was running the same OS as the infected computers coming in, then it was only a matter of time before our main system got infected.
So, he accepted my advice and let me set everything up. More or less just the bare basics really, smartmontools, gparted, firefox, google earth (just because), and a few other relevant programs to help with our daily tasks.
Then, one day when I was off work, a new employee decided to install some plugin into Firefox to share bookmarks and stuff across different devices…
Somehow, he borked the main tech user account, it wouldn’t even login to the user interface anymore :(
I had to spend a few hours, with the skeptical boss over my shoulder, waiting to see if I could get the system back running right again.
And so I did, while learning lots of new things at the same time. When I learned the hotkeys to switch to other terminal sessions, then I figured out how to create a new account, erase the old account, and get logged back in and running.
The customer data backup drive was separate and detached through all that, so customer data was safe the whole time.
The boss almost said fuckit, reinstall Windows, but I was persistent. And that system helped salvage over 200 systems with the TDSS rootkit, which would have almost certainly doomed our backup system if it was running Windows.
I told that new guy to never fuck with my operating system setup or configuration again, at least not before consulting me and getting approval or even assistance first.
When you got a bare minimum of the past 100 customers’ data backed up and virus checked, you don’t dick around with the main backup system.
So, honestly, I can’t think of a single truly costly mistake that Linux has cost me…
As far as that other employee that messed it up for a bit, well I dunno, it wasn’t too long after that the boss fired him…
Wanna fix that real quick?
echo @dir %1 %2 %3 %4>%SystemRoot%\System32\ls.bat
Interesting, I might have to check that out someday.
Though when I write scripts, I’m not a fan of blind folder navigation like that, there’s a good reason for the pushd and popd script commands.
Honestly I haven’t tried this on Linux yet, but didn’t Windows implement this somewhere along the way?..
cd ....
Macintosh Pus? 😂🤣
I’d leave the spelling error, I got a good laugh. 👍
Save the machine state after you get it booted up and configured. Host+T