Posts by Gene Cash

Re: Ethernet woes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph

Re: "If Starlink detects a dish isn't at its home address, there's no guarantee of service"

Because you're moving into an area with OTHER folks with a paid subscription, and they shouldn't suffer because you're trying to snaffle their bandwidth.

It's not first-come, first-served. You get what's left over. ""Starlink prioritizes network resources for users at their registered service address."

Also, there may simply not be satellites in view. Granted, with the metric assload of satellites they're putting up that's probably not an issue, but they need to put in in the fine print anyway.

Re: Dickheads?

I dunno... I think he should drop this shit and concentrate on "Occupy Mars" which is far more important to the species.

OTOH, he *IS* the world's most autistic billionaire, so I guess the "oh SHINEY" effect is in play.

Re: Are you sure it's not because of poor quality?

for more than three years

Well then you have some of the old stuff that still had quality.

The new stuff is crap.

Re: more questions than answers

Me too, but that's probably secret as hell to prevent NSO from dealing with it in their next release.

Re: If only home routers could offer a VPN too....

You mean like OpenWRT?

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/openvpn/server

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/openvpn/client-luci

It's got the "works on my machine" seal of quality assurance.

Re: Hang on a mo ...

OK, AndrueC for maintainer... any other votes?

Sorry bub, you've been conscripted! Here's yer Model M keyboard and EMACS reference jug :-)

Seriously though, it's a shame the GOOD Microsoft code is so obscure and deeply buried.

Re: What drama

I do wish we could wake up and find it was all a dream.

Re: Shame, but understandable

Heck... look at the B-52: designed in 1948, first flight was 1952, and they're intended to be still flying in the 2050s.

One hundred years for an aircraft design is incredible, but Boeing absolutely scored the perfect bullseye on what was needed, and with a design that was upgradable.

Re: Not the ultimate goal ?

At a demo of the principle of the electric generator, an audience member asked Mr. Faraday, the behavior of the magnet and the coil of wire was interesting, but of what possible use can it be?

Faraday answered Sir, of what use is a newborn baby?

Re: Not 100% "self" repair

So what happens when a ton of people need to call in to repair their devices?

Are they going to have a lot of folks trained in this apparently very complicated system configuration utility?

Or will it be "estimated wait time to talk to a service tech is 3 hours, 45 minutes"?

And what if you're running beta iOS? According to their requirements list, you're just out in the cold.

Re: It's a curious distinction to make

Actually it's worse than that

if I don't install the latest microcode update for my i7-3770, it'll run for about 2 hours before throwing a fault of some sort or the other.

I honestly thought I had a bad CPU before I knew I had to load the intel-microcode package.

Re: This is how I browse a webpage these days

Firefox got rid of annoying audio by helpfully dropping support for ALSA.

Since I don't run that pulseaudio shite, it's blissfully silent.

I use yt-dl to get YouTube videos playing in a decent GUI (mpv/vlc/xine/mplayer/whatever) without stuttering, poorly interpolated off-aspect video, or ads.

Re: Astonishing!

That's ok, we solved that incarceration rate thing... our police just shoot people dead now.

Re: Kuiper

Or a broomstick...

I think the basic idea is "we can't just GIVE it to SpaceX, even though they're the only viable bidder, we have to make it look like some sort of an impartial competition"

Re: Java

Yeah, except it's usually "Write once, Crash everywhere"

And for what?

I haven't seen any IoT product that has any guarantees of anything, including if they'll be in business next week.

I think they're SoL

Re: Cut once

"Cut toward your chum, not toward your thumb!"

Re: Nuclear submarines?

Not always. The equipment is rather finicky, and produces enough for the crew. When it breaks down, they have chemical "candles" to produce O2, similar to the candles that caused the fire on MIR.

I think I must note that when I plan a vacation to Disney World, I don't account for the huge amount of money WDW Inc. has spent building the place. Nor do I account for the money spent on the road I will use to get there, or for some people the amount spent on the FAA, airports, aircraft, and other things making air travel possible.

Re: Naming

I don't know, but "Threadripper" is a bit less dry then Pentium-whoteva.

I got 3 from Mouser... took about 4 weeks instead of their quoted 3-6 months. I didn't need 'em badly so I didn't care when they got here. That's probably key.

Re: The vocabulary of our age

I'm thinking "a small number" is a short phrase for "95% of our customer base"

Re: Licence, not license

Are you referring to the American ex-colonies that actually stuck to the older correct spellings, by any chance?

Re: It's about time

No kidding, and a lot of these are rocket startups. We don't need stupid investment killing the fragile new commercial space small payload market

And seriously, I misread the title and thought Oracle was in trouble over SPARC desupport or something.