Posts by Paul Crawford

Nope, they just don't have software engineers who can do it well (and understand even the basics of CPU operation) or they don't care as the PHB has features to deliver and performance on customer's hardware is not his problem.

Re: thank you

Since the Eu are the only ones without guns, I know which I pick

They are also a big trading partner, and if "hard Brexit" comes then many automotive industries will leave UK double-quick. At least those who have not already gone...

Re: the 50.4-51.4GHz range

Optical. As much bandwidth as you want.

Subject to a cloud-free location, of course.

My own but limited experience of Indian space engineers are they are very good, but there is a strict military/civil-service style of hierarchy that few will every speak out of place if the PHB decrees something will be done in XYZ manner that is wrong or simply ill-advised.

Re: Private Libraries?

There are not masters of them for sure, not even a half-master. Maybe a quartermaster?

They got roasted for rubbish software, but not any real "back doors":

https://www.theregister.com/2019/03/28/hcsec_huawei_oversight_board_savaging_annual_report/

You could argue you don't need back doors with many broken windows and loose hinges, of course. But in Huawei's defence their code was audited for this where as the others like Cisco, etc, have not, and the public evidence of so many critical CVE suggest they can't be a whole lot better.

Re: "Always ask first how many times that block has been fabbed."

If they were advertising a block that did not exist/work, and get their pants sued off in return for killing a project, I consider that a good thing. Might level up between the crap-pedallers and those who do real work & real investment.

Re: The isogenies have been let out of their bottle

I thought they did already?

Fruit beer, Chocolate, and David Suchet playing Hercule Poirot

Re: A year seems a bit too low... Three years maybe?

Time for a 6 month cron job just the append "bump (c) $date" to a README file and 'git push' ?

Re: UK Born in 1966

System Essentially Contrary to the American Method

Re: Nice idea, but....

I don't know how much the system will generate in winter

It depends a lot on where you are in the UK, not just typical weather but also the obvious summer/winter effects of the Earth's inclination the depends a lot on your latitude. There are some web sites that give that sort of information, but I'm not too sure about the units of the graph. for example:

https://weatherspark.com/y/38094/Average-Weather-in-Errol-United-Kingdom-Year-Round#Sections-SolarEnergy

Re: So, Xi Pooh is against corruption

I have trouble believing this anti-corruption stance when China openly pirates Western software without even a thought

That is nothing personal, it is just business.

Re: Reservoirs

I find in bizarre they put fabs there, and not somewhere else in the USA with more water.

Re: Given that the cost of deployment has suddenly doubled

Typically UK telcos charge a customer about £30/m for installing fibre in soft ground and around £120/m for tarmac surfaces. So £30,000/km minimum and it puts the price of the actual fibre that is in the buried duct in to perspective!

Re: Are you a target?

Ah that is the problem, my attractiveness seems to depend on others not being sober :(

You can also reduce the wear of the Pi's SD card, at the expense of risking recently written data from power-off, by setting the commit time for the ext4 filesystem to something like 120s instead of the default 5s by adding commit=120 or similar of option to the defaults in /etc/fstab

If Openreach are able to cut prices they should do so to all customers, new and old. Not to abuse the position to freeze out competition on investment.

Re: AC/DC? Lemmy would be appalled ...

Depends on what they are delivering. Might be "Orgasmatron"

Re: Agile is pretty much the way to develop software

But at least it worked when delivered.

Re: The times they are a changin’

Just rather brutal weather in the winter.

Re: 'Engineers may have legitimate reasons for downloading such password-cracking software.'

Running it on an important and net-connected PC - yes they deserve a bollocking

From an isolated and to-be-wiped PC - maybe worth trying if no alternative

Re: "Technical and economic limitations prevent providers from serving"

No, there are no technical limitation - only economic ones

<= This

They managed to run copper telegraph/phone lines to near-everywhere in the late 19th century / early 20th but sadly they seem unable to manage a fibre replacement now.

Re: "The electronics have sunk out of sight"

Not just "east to teach" but more cheap to teach. No expensive labs and technicians to pay to keep it all going, etc.

So often have I heard folks say "but the simulation worked!" when it fails to work in practice, and then they have no clue about what to do to sort out the gap between simulated behaviour and real-world parts.

Re: Bzzt

He said you are wearing an iridescent pendant, I think.

Re: A qualified success?

Ground based telescopes can't possibly compete in the far-IR region due to the heat of our atmosphere, where they have improved is in correcting for time-varying shimmering in the near-IR / visible region. That is why JWST has to be out in cold space and even to have its mirror brought down to ~40K by the fancy heat blanket.

Don't forget an unpatriotic lack of interest in the weather.

Re: It's got RAID so it can't fail. . .

The problem with a disk failure in RAID is when it starts a rebuild all of the other disks get hammered as it rebuilds copies/parity and that can provoke another disk to give up the ghost.

The second and less obvious thing is if the RAID does not do periodic scrubs then the rebuild time is when you discover unreadable cluster on the disk, resulting in data corruption somewhere.

Of course if you have double parity (e.g. RAID-6 or RAID-Z2) then you can cope with a double disk failure, and if you have certain file systems, with ZFS being the poster child, it tells you which files are corrupted, not just some sector number(s) that you then have to use some low-level tool to map to a file allocation. Been there, bought the T-shirt :(

Your experience is not the only possible experience

Not to mention numerous VPN provider who recommend not using NetworkManager, some have even had to write an alternative to get round the bugs (or "working as designed") and other privacy issues like DNS leaking, due to how it manages stuff.

https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/25263-how-to-stop-dns-leaks-in-linux-network-manager/