Posts by Herby 3058 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2007
Who knows, they might even call the left overs "sales" and not "insurance salesmen" for the protection racket (see BSA for details).
Then again I always thought they had "extortionists" trying to squeeze every last dollar out the unsuspecting directly, or indirectly.
Me? No, I don't use Windows, at work, or at home, thankfully.
So very Un-geek. I use nice big bulky wire cutters. They work wonderfully. The one time I asked to borrow a pair at a place I worked at (to cut my fingernails, toenails is way to gross!), I was asked to leave the "lab". Live and learn. I haven't tried on flights, might be interesting.
They are going to need it. Nice try, but it isn't going to happen. An intelligence agency disclosing something, nice try. They don't talk about anything publicly. Any attempt is going to be wishful thinking.
Of course it would be nice to know, but exactly what good is it going to do for the "average Joe".
Now where is that check that comes every month from a funny company :-). (I wish!).
Yes, you can assign static IP addresses to DHCP clients and go from there. Assuming that the clients actually take the IP address and correctly use it, it works quite well. While you are there, have devices in different subnets.
Sounds much easier than VLANs, but what do I know. Doing this stuff at level 2 of the network stack seems a bit backward to me.
I could be wrong though, and it wouldn't be the first time. Don't flog me too hard.....
Let us know in five +- years what the status of all of this is.
By then, Microsoft will probably have the operating system in the cloud, and all the data as well. If you want your health records you can call Bletchley Park Redmond and ask them.
Being dependent on a single vendor for the basis of your platform that is holding sensitive information who doesn't want to talk much, looks like a fools errand, and a move to open source looks good.
A recent (two days ago) visit to the doctors office had machines in every room and more at reception desks. I suspect that they were windows boxen, and hope that they were up to date. From the looks of it, they used it as a fancy web browser with (reasonably good) two factor authentication (RFID cards).
Me? Pretty healthy (knock on wood).
Yes, the commute to/from JPL on I-210 is gruesome. There are FIVE lanes on one part, and even with a carpool lane, it is really plugged up for most of the daylight hours. So, yes, the rover can go faster than the commute. And I thought that I-280 here in sillycon valley was terrible, it doesn't even hold a candle to I-210 near Pasadena!
Thankfully the rover doesn't need to worry about traffic and accidents with other vehicles (yet!).
Me? Yes, I driven both of these parking lots freeways.
We also need to get law enforcement involved as well. Somehow make the purveyors of such malware get sent to the gulag, as well as getting all the $$$ refunded. Attach the command and control and lay waste. Maybe they will get the picture.
We could also ask where are such agencies as the NSA, but maybe it is their covert fund raising technique. Don your metal hats for this one.
You get these even if the plane is flying or not. This was proven on the days the flights were canceled for various reasons. The "concerned public" called in anyway to complain.
Why fly? Well, on August 21st, a quick plane across the USA might be able to enjoy the eclipse for its entire length! Maybe they should get the SR-71 out of mothballs just to do that flight. Of course another reason to fly quickly is to make up the time waiting in lines and security theatre checkpoints we must all endure nowdays.
So, the users (not me, thankfully), will get a better performing OS. We can only hope, but I won't hold my breath.
Of course the conspiracy theorists will have all sorts of explanations on how this was done, probably involving all sorts of three letter agencies (from many countries) and Microsoft itself.
Prometheus modem for sale (a reference that goes back a ways).
Not using a "competitors" product if you are a client of theirs is only PR on your part. I suspect that the edict in your case was not the client's (Coke's) request, but rather an internal decision.
It is kinda like going to work for Ford, and driving up in a Chevy. You won't win friends, or in political speak, it is "bad optics". I suspect that you won't get fired, but you might be harassed a bit.
Life goes on.
Let's see... ACME Cloud services. Setup a server in my closet, and go from there. Even better if you conveniently "co-locate" on your clients premisses (as step two). What a way to go. Allow self administration as well. What a deal.
Just remember: "Cloud" means "Somebody else's computer that you have no control over".
And hopefully sometime last year. Most lodging facilities are double (at least) price in the path of totality, and by now are all reserved.
Me? Thankfully my sister has a beach house on the Oregon coast, right in the path. I'll be there. Last time (1979) her house on the Columbia River basin was right in line as well. I must have good karma.
While YOU may classify a chunk of software done, it may depend upon other software that is evolving and isn't "done". This automatically makes YOUR software NOT done as well. Sorry, this is a simple fact of life.
One can only hope that what you depend upon makes compatible changes which have little impact on your "done" software.
I suppose the only thing that is "done" is something that can't be altered in any meaningful way. The micro that controls my microwave oven comes to mind. Now we have "connected appliances" and again these are never "done", and we will all pay the price.
No, I don't need a connected refrigerator with a silly display. I need a box that keeps my soda & beer anti-warm.
Enough said.
If you need root access for some reason, you should know the root password and use su. If you don't know how then who are you anyway, and get off. Sudo is a pretty big crutch, and is used WAY to frequently. Sadly I have to use it as well, but that is a topic for another rant.
Rewind the clock to around 1980 or so. If IBM had not chosen Intel, they might as well be dust now. Probably making dram chips or rom's. Of course IBM did chose Intel (they had good reason to, they owned part of it), and history was written.
The x86 instruction set is not the best in the world, and has gone through many band-aids to get it where it is now. I still wonder why it is still being used. Only because of good compilers and the like and big increases in clock speed does it make any sense. Then again, what Intel gives in speed improvements, Microsoft takes away in bloated software.
Life goes on.
Me? I still like the 68k processors, but that's another story.
Is stare. Most people when doing these things are mindlessly looking straight ahead (as mentioned), but lack the ability to look elsewhere. Yes, you have good stuff in your main field of view, but the most sensitive parts of your eye for motion and light are at the edges. We evolved that way, as the things at the edges were out to get us, and having sensitive eyes there helped us get away.
Of course, what most of us are doing now is (wait for it) staring at the screen in front of us.
Anyone who knows about keypunches KNOWS that yes there is a TAB key on an 029, and it is called the SKIP key. You set the columns you want to skip to on the drum card as god intended (you did take that class didn't you). Thankfully you could select on an 029 which settings you could use (PROG 1 and PROG 2) so the first was Fortran, the second was your Assembler (which had different tabs fields than the Fortran program did. When you used assembler, the skip positions were columns 10, 19, 37 as the proper gods determined. This allowed for 8 character labels.
Of course when you went to terminals (an ASR33 for sure), the software set things to have a tab every 8th column, so you used to after you typed your statement number in Fortran. Then tabs were ALWAYS set to 8 characters, and if you have a reasonable editor, it put them in for you even if you pounded on the space bar.
Of course when I was in typing class, the standard indent for paragraphs was 5 spaces, but that was a LONG time ago. Now it is 1/2 inch, which is the same thing on 10 cpi fix spaced fonts.
For the sales droid and the denim guy it probably wasn't a difficult choice. You see the Mercedes was probably the sales droid's own and of course he didn't want to scratch it.
As for the sales tactic, it is all to familiar. Really "cheap" up front, but the implementation and recurring costs are the ones that really kill you (hopefully the sales droid).
Is also that the year 2100 is NOT a leap year. That is going to make lots of things break. Microsoft had to do lots of things to make/unmake/make the year 1900 a leap year.
The simple solution to the Y2038 problem is to use unsigned as time_t. Then it is officially not my problem
Of course, governments are governments and they will ALWAYS screw up things.
You see one must have a cookbook, and kitchen appliances. In Miss Piggy's world she has them as well:
Cookbook: That's the yellow pages.
Appliances: The phone.
Can you say take out? I'm sure you can.
Sorry that this is a bit dated, Miss Piggy's guide to life was back in the 80's, but in many ways still applies.
a) ruggedized for space
b) uses LEADED solder [no tin whiskers]
c) NUCLEAR powered
d) Doesn't run millions of lines of code
e) Written by real programmers
The bits at 100Gbps are only around 3mm apart from each other if lined up in a line. Think of how many are in a simple 10 meter cable waiting to come out the other end.
Boggles the mind.
Now you need the processing power to do something with those bits as they spill out all over the floor into a bit bucket.
...not found for those "celebrities" that have fallen out of favor, or who really shouldn't be "celebrities" in the first place. Maybe that is why it gave the wrong name.
Maybe AWS has an alternative motive in the first place.
Of course the real reason things like this exist is to allow us "normal" people to know just who they look like that is "famous". Yeah, that's the ticket.
Cyber Crime as a Service.
Available here just distribute for me and get paid. Unlimited earning potential. Work from home. Suckers born every minute.
Oh, and to keep up with current trends... IRS coming soon to knock on your door, and remote fix available. Just pay here.
Will it never end? I suspect not if money is on the table.
...is what it looks to me.
Someone made an observation that in reality, you can't make even "minimum wage" (about $10/hr unless higher) driving for UBER. That takes into account cost of gas petrol and other expenses. Sorry, I don't have the source, but considering that Uber takes around 25% of the fare, it might be right.
I don't know much about relocation (we have cars in Sillycon Valley), but the picture of a Basset Hound (aka Low-Rider Dog) is wonderful. It reminds me of my youth when we had two of them at home. They were nice (as pictured) tri-color Bassets, and some of the first on the west coast. My mom & dad were friends of the TV show "The Peoples Choice" which had Clio as the dog who had thoughts about the goings on.
That was MANY moons ago, but still fond memories.
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