Posts by Gene Cash

Re: Sounds Like...

Sure, but in a situation like this, they can probably depressurize the cabin a couple times, especially if they bring spare cylinders. Gemini did it.

Re: Good to know...

Less grandiose title?

El Reg doesn't have a Subtitle and Headlines Soviet for nothing, you know!

I'm disappointed they didn't manage to work "RISCy aPOCLypse" in there somehow...

Re: So? What's his secret?

I'm sure he just has no idea other than "I hain't died yit"

Re: Clippy nostalgia

Looks like he just caught the toilet paper roll that came down the stairs.

If you follow the link in the article, it gives a concise reasoning behind the merge, and the pros/cons.

> if your YouTube account gets banned (because the "AI" glitched) you lose access to gmail

Or if Google decides your name is not actually your real name.

I'm not sending Google my driver's license, birth certificate or any other such private information. Fuck them.

Re: Geeks Guides

This series of articles are masterpieces of photography and narrative, and I'm glad El Reg is keeping it going.

> This is definitely a problem, although I'm not sure how it could be solved cleanly and efficiently.

By defining classes of warnings.

You're not using the network? You need a setting that dykes out all the network-related warnings.

Same for the database related warnings and so on.

Come on. This is nothing new. Turbo Pascal had it in the '80s.

For example, Android gets all hot and bothered about using network functions in the GUI thread (for obvious reasons) - but if I don't care my shitty garage door app freezes for a second while it's connecting to my Raspberry Pi, then I can set a pragma to disable that.

Re: "connect viewers with content they love"

The subscribe feature is actually useful and works.

You can then go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions and can see at a glance if there's any new videos from the channels you follow.

Shoot, some of the podcasts I watch are over an hour and a half. Personally I download them and watch&delete them as I have time and feel bored.

Re: Okay, now I get cryptocurrency

I'd like to downvote you... but I'm American and you're 100,000% right.

For example, I have to pay a large "foreign transaction" fee every time I have to renew my email provider, or when I bought a 3D printer from the Czech republic.

That's actually a pretty good thought. That's the first plausible and intelligent reason for the "insane" W11 specs I've seen.

Re: Most organisations configured Notes networks completely wrong anyway

If the engine is warm, there is a procedure to start it that works every time, but nobody knows what it is.

-- Paul Bertorelli - AvWeb (youtube.com/watch?v=_k1TQGK3mZI)

Re: not an IT company any more

> I always wonder what made them join (and then stay at) IBM though

They're probably living in their own insulated shell, protected from the rest of the BS because they're the geese laying the golden eggs.

> They’d have to raise their prices to a prohibitive level

I don't see how this follows. A particular piece of software's price point has absolutely nothing to do with FOSS. If you write a $150 CAD program, you just better have $150 worth of features over OpenSCAD or FreeCAD. I'd pay $150 for FreeCAD where it didn't crash and all the menu options worked.

I pay for stuff that's useful, at a decent price, and doesn't treat me like shit.

For example, I'd pay to have someone clean up GIMP and give it a working UI. Hell, I'd even buy Photoshop IF I STILL HAD THE OPTION. But you no longer buy Photoshop... you rent it. No thanks.

I don't buy Windows or other Microsoft products because they're poorly designed, inflexible, and crash often, in addition to the telemetry in the latest versions. I happen to have a copy I'm forced to run in a VM for work.

Re: Blimey we're still on IOS 7.1..

Dang... I don't remember getting married!

Re: On to F-Droid

Because Google Play is "the place" to distribute your apps. It's the only place where the phone doesn't throw a shit-fit and make you jump through half a dozen hoops when you try to install something.

At least it's not as bad as Apple, where you have to jailbreak the phone to install from anywhere other than the Apple App Store.

Because phone apps aren't really proper modern software. For Android, I'm stuck using their IDE (which isn't bad, but that's beside the point) and I have a choice of 2 languages (Java or Kotlin) or the pain of writing a C library.

F-Droid is basically a github for Android. They package your app and set things up so the phone can easily download and install it.

Re: Lead acid should die

Well, I have a Shorai lithium iron phosphate battery in my 14 year old FJR-1300.

It's got far better storage characteristics, and has no problem sitting 3 weeks. The only slight downside is that it doesn't like the cold. So if it's cold, it sometimes takes 2 tries to start.

You didn't mention it's a lot lighter. It feels like an empty battery case.

Re: No thanks

Yes! I can't upvote this enough.

I'm dreading Android 11 which seems to be nanny-ized to the max. There's a lot of useful things it tries to prohibit.

Re: Would prefer the user to decide

Exactly. The Linux kernel has TSX bug workarounds. There's a new CPU ID bit that lets them stop doing that.

Re: Forgive my ignorance but...

EVERYTHING is still theoretical. The current theory holds until something bigger and better disproves, or (usually) improves upon it, like Einstein's relativity improved on Newton's gravity.

Even the facts are at conflict in this story. Just how far away is the galaxy... a simple fact, no?

Dark matter is something convenient until it's better supported (AKA "proved") or disproved like phlogiston.

Re: "a fully glass back, replacing the standard aluminium enclosure"

Yes, the slick glass back worked SO well on my Nexus 6P... enabling it to slide to the floor and smash.

Re: Learning point.

I was wondering, if the panels have to track the Sun (and I don't think these do) then if you added a bit more range to the pivot, you could flip the panels over for cleaning.

Re: Gee sign me up now

Hey, you might get lucky and be able to kick him out the airlock!

Seriously though, I'd go to space with anyone, if they don't fart too much... or release Apollo 10 style floaters.

Re: Potato, potatoe

if it really is as simple as installing an app.. don't people ever look at their installed apps? And go WTF is this? I assume it would somehow cloak itself? I guess this wouldn't be the first time I overestimated the aptitude of the general public.

Re: Perhaps a happy medium would be to....

> For example, your bank may prefer their app doesn't work on a device deemed insecure?

Fuck that. I've had to deal with that on Android where my phone is rooted because I have written apps that need to control things on the phone like turning the GPS/cell-data on/off.

Having the bank software (which is shite to start with) and the bank's mobile website both not work, is not ok.

Then my bank (Chase) has the gall to serve up cookies from .ru and .cn

I've then had to install s/w that masks that the phone is rooted.

Re: Wrong development target

One of the conditions was that the Russian engines would be eventually licensed and produced by an American company... and Congress never allocated funds or a contract.

So they have no one but themselves to blame.

Re: Causes problems when travelling

> ..they end up paying far more to handle a phone call or a written letter.

Or a complaint to the FCC/FTC (on this side of the pond-modify as required) where I specifically mention their contact form doesn't work.