Posts by John Sager

Re: Fraud is a big issue for etailer

Freshwater croc in QLD. Mine was cooked quickly at the table on a cast iron sizzler plate. Yummy!

Re: AMD Dreams

Still is short on registers. The register-ful architectures all have 32 now. However x86 and _64 are so embedded in the computing space now that that argument is pretty futile. I really liked the DEC Alpha architecture when it first came out, and some heavy hardware built on it really served us well many moons ago, in winning one of the Elliptic Curve crypto challenges from that time. Sadly it went the way of all silicon, as did DEC ☹️

Re: Congratulations, Kieren

They are often swayed by public opinion, Parliamentary committees, the Lords, even single interest groups. But I accept that, with a large majority and a 'to do otherwise is an existential threat' mindset, then it's an uphill struggle.

Ah. The URL says it all. Very low credibility in that department.

Re: ATM

Barclays original ATM used cheque-like paper things with a series of holes in them. They gave you a few at a time & one went back for more when they were gone One time I used one but it didn't let me have any cash. A bank employee was just leaving & asked what the problem was. He was about to give me a tenner & sort the problem on the morrow. Then he realised one of the holes wasn't quite empty, removed the offending chad & it worked perfectly.

Re: Gotta wonder

If you added mass to it, especially off-centre like that, the moment of inertia would change drastically, requiring a complete recalibration to get back to the pointing accuracy needed, if that were even possible. Nowadays, given the capabilities just demonstrated by Intelsat to navigate and mate to a comms sat, it might be worth engineering mounting points and fuel connectors on sats like this so they can be refuelled in flight.

Re: Fall of empires (and civilization too?)

Len, he doesn't need to. Look at his opponent...

Re: Complete the migration to DAB+ before faffing with FM

That's an argument for IP multicast, which hasn't taken off as most ISPs don't seem to support it.

You still have to authenticate to build a tunnel.

I've been using Wireguard since it's early days for remote connections back to my home network. As they say, it's a piece of cake to set up & works on my phone as well as the laptop.

Re: Do Broadcom actually have any proof that Netflix are using their IP?

It does seem strange that they lead off with "they're taking our business!", rather than specifics of alleged patent violations.

Re: Optimise for readability

Or hard sums libraries, think Numpy.

It's really no more 'public' than V4. The top 64 bits stay the same, just like your V4 address, and the bottom 64 bits are usually random, and change every so often.

Re: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

You do know the driver runs with kernel privileges, and full BSODicity. And in Windoze, the driver is often written (cheaply) by some arm of the hardware maker. Linux drivers for rubbish serial dongles have been written by someone who understands this stuff, with a ton of fixups for hardware deficiencies. Just try perusing one and see how bad this can often be.

Re: All candles at once

TV Dinners - ZZ Top "I'm feelin' kinda rough"

Re: Commercial Products

Ok, LE does a good job, but if everyone uses it it's a single point of failure.

Sats orbit. They don't loiter over one spot. So you need many to give continuous cover in LEO, or a much more expensive one (both sat & launch cost) in geostationary.

Tim picked up on this item.

Re: Come again

In those days computers were magic boxes, the IT guy was a shaman to a lot of people, and whacking disks was seen as a pagan ritual. No wonder the good upstanding accountants we're glad to see the back of him.

Re: Reg units

As a unit, Wales is far too large, as we have to use milli and micro Wales. I suggest the new post-Brexit unit should be the Lundy. Not sure of the conversion from Wales, but it should have comfortably many significant figures.

Re: IPv6

I've been using Wireguard for months now, but only for IPv4, though it is working well in a dual stack environment. I wonder if I might get MTU issues with v6 - the Wireguard tunnel on my Android phone has a MTU of only 1280.

Ah yes! Another one ticked off the bucket list. I actually operated one of those on a short track at a railway museum in Carson City, NV. Shades of Blazing Saddles...

Re: So close to the opposite...

I do exactly that with Thunderbird on Linux. My server uses dovecot/maildir. Some emails get filtered by the server into folders on receipt (mailing list stuff usually). Others I copy manually from inbox or delete to the trash folder. Then every year I archive a whole year out of inbox into an archive folder for that year, and occasionally I trim the trash back. Works great and I have archives going back 10 years or more if necessary, including the 'sent' folder (most essential!).

Re: McNimby

I assume Spadeadam is no longer recoverable as a test site. Rolls-Royce used it to test Blue Streak/Steel engines in the 50s & 60s.

Re: Interesting

For bank transfers, stock trades, etc you need event ordering, not necessarily absolute time. Time works for that when trades aren't local that need to be compared.

Re: Not Optimistic

Some of the Amicus briefs will have a good stab at explaining it in SCOTUS-speak.

Re: Possible scenarios...

Who's your supplier? I could do with some of that!

Re: Political self-obsession and onanism

Er, no. You forgot the backhaul. That's much bigger pipes that also have to be paid for. So although your bit of fibre might do several Gb/sec on a good day, the backhaul investment will limit everyone to the 30 Mb/sec target figure (except for the Nomenklatura) because, after all, we are all equal under the new régime, aren't we?

Not necessarily. The knowledge of the spent conviction and its nature may well influence anyone wanting to deal with him as to his trustworthiness even if the transaction wasn't part of a criminal enterprise. In any case he's either an obsessive or his new enterprise is crucially dependent on personal probity, probably the former.

Re: Happened to me once......

Many moons ago, with small children on a foreign trip we stayed one night at the Ibis near Heathrow. We were woken up three times by people unlocking the door and barging in. On the third one I just roared FUCK OFF!, and that seemed to do the business. When I complained the following morning, to the French duty manager, he didn't seem very concerned, and only offered us a free breakfast, which we couldn't take as we needed to get to the airport. Needless to say I've never stayed in an Ibis ever again.

Re: Doesn't inspire confidence....

It's not just typical bureaucracy though. It's a classic example of the way Europe works for grand and not-so-grand projects. Projects have to be divvied up amongst various bits of Europe to keep everyone happy. In a less politically rivalrous entity, the dividing would more likely be between projects rather than within projects to retain some semblance of practical organisation. One would hope that the EU would 'learn lessons' but I am of the view that the politics won't let that happen. I don't believe that 'ever closer union', even if it is achieved, will improve matters either.

The air interface will probably congest before the backhaul, unless the network designers are really asleep.

Re: Not a moment too soon

Ha, Ha, You've now just invented TSA approved luggage locks!

That's why you cook up popcorn. Watching the left eat themselves is very entertaining for us with better things to do.