Posts by Christoph

Re: "it eliminates the need for air-conditioning units to cool servers"

Ideally the heat would be used for district heating or similar.

Distrohopper's Digest

You could also look at Distrohopper's Digest

Re: Coolings going to be a major problem.

"Imagine a future where racks of computer servers hum quietly in darkness below the surface of the Moon."

In space nobody can hear you hum.

Re: Gaping hole

"Here in the UK we have Article 10 the Human Rights Act (1998) on a national level (which in itself is only a backstop for more detailed protective legislation) and Article 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms providing two levels of protection and two courts we can go to."

Haven't you been keeping up with the news? Boris is going to repeal all that and claims he will replace it with his own version (but of course he's a habitual liar). So we will be at the whim of the current Home Secretary, who is panting to bring back the death penalty and has openly stated that she doesn't care if the person executed is guilty or not as it will still act as a deterrent.

Re: Seems ok

The council of Hamelin Town found out that was a bad idea many years ago.

Re: Daylight Daylight Savings Time

ObXKCD https://xkcd.com/2594/

Re: What year is it?

Today is September 10423, 1993.

Re: So if

There have been recent cases where open source code used by thousands of sites has been found to have a security hole. If you self-host such code you will not automatically get updated when the code is fixed.

You may never even hear about the problem - you might be running code that is years out of date because you forgot to check for updates.

Re: Keep your eye on the (changing) ball

Good old self-modifying code - far more efficient, but for some reason frowned on these days. They even stop you writing to program memory!

Re: The make-up later on compensates like tech never can provide

No, no, the other left!

Re: Oh dear

I was at University when the Prisoner first aired. We were doing an experiment that required liquid helium to cool it. The gas that boiled off was collected in a large latex balloon, a couple of feet across. But the recovery system hadn't been finished, so the gas was then just allowed to escape.

One time I took the full balloon out of the lab and sent it bouncing down a very long corridor.

Someone came out of a door at the far end and saw this large white sphere bouncing towards him along the roof of the corridor.

It might be corrupted before getting to the disk. Lots of wires with weak currents flowing through them, lots of magnets all over the place, somewhere a bit gets flipped.

Re: "two main reasons why the Royal Navy no longer uses [paper charts]"

"One, we've never lost everything," said the captain, referring to the nightmare scenario of all WECDIS terminals simultaneously crashing or corrupting

No ship has ever returned to report losing everything.

Re: Evidence m'lud...

Stitching up protesters, rival politicians, personal enemies, the inconvenient husband of their mistress ...

The number one way to discredit a whistleblower is to accuse them of a sexual crime.

Re: Ah, a first time user

And for those who don't remember, this is what a real typewriter sounds like.

No. The energy just radiates back into space.

It's like the difference between heating a house and insulating a house. If you heat a house you have to pump in energy all the time - when you stop it cools down. Pumping in energy from Solar Power Satellites doesn't do long term heating.

If you insulate a house it stays warm without any extra energy input. Climate change is driven by CO2 and Methane trapping heat and stopping it radiating to space, not by individual energy inputs.

The power input from the sun is vastly greater than all the power generated by humans, and that is what is trapped and causes climate change. Extra heating from satellite power is far too small to notice.

Re: Castle Wolfenstein & Hitler

But he did only have one ...