Posts by Mike Pellatt

Re: Unsung triumph?? Yeah, right.

Because if they went through that service assessment...... they might not crash when there's a peak in activity.

Re: Further testing required

The classes which have breaks longer than an hour apart tend to leave people with terrible recall of anything passed the 60 minute mark.

No shit, Sherlock. There's research going back decades, if not centuries, that shows this.

Re: Seriously!

It's fair to say that after years of trying, we're finally realising that a single on-disc filesystem that's optimised for all use cases is probably not achievable. So I don't see your objection as (necessarily) an issue.

As long as it's not forced on everyone....

Re: What kind of moronic thinking is that?

Ambulance driver missed signs of sepsis

You are Jeremy Hunt and I Claim My Five Pounds.

For your information, the people you are presumably referring to there, who are qualified to make certain diagnoses and carry out certain treatments, are professionals whose job title is Paramedic. They are not Ambulance Drivers, despite the Health Secretary's recent repeated attempts to down-classify them every time he mentions them in a speech. He's yet to change his language.

Re: 'Ow Yorkshire?

Certainly did at that campsite in the Dales in the late 60's whose facilities consisted of an earth closet.

Proper camping, that was.

Re: So who pays for this in the outsourced world?

Absolutely. Especially when it comes to properly managing "need-to-know" access granularity. It seems to me that it's impossible for this not to be a highly labour-intensive activity.

Re: "We are putting a lot of trust in the developer”

Much like the response when world+dog with any security knowledge told them ActiveX would be a disaster for security. "But it's what our users want" said MS.

That ended well, didn't it ?

Looks like the MIT scientists who deep-dived the Linux kernel for tSCOg and Darl have moved on to bigger and better things.

<Catherine Tate>

I can do that.

Re: Tortious interference claims ..

Thanks for your ref. Now, that's interesting. The post has an insert headed "Update: 2014". Groklaw "closed" on 20th August 2013. All I had been aware of happening since then was updates to the various timelines (pretty much SCO vs IBM) and 2 or 3 new "news picks".

And those news picks have some PJ comments too, so it's not just Mathfox.

Re: actually the *86 goes back to the 8008 .

And one of the guys in my year at IC built a telephone switch using one as his final year project....

Re: Groklaw shut down in 2013

As a blog, yes.

But the timeline and document repository from the various cases (in practice, SCO vs IBM) continues to be updated.

Re: Look at all the people that care

Cats ?

Re: So a unikernel

But given most developers run everything at the highest level they could so it's easier to code, I won't be surprised if this stuff becomes common.

That. x100.

Region blocking is pretty much SOP for many organisations for SMTP traffic, and has been for years. This just extends it down to the IP level :-)

then the windows fall out

Or the architects decide that concave ones would look nice. Then they inexplicably focus sunlight onto the roadway below and damage cars.

Re: High level languages?

Is there any other way to write Perl code ?

Re: Blind leading the blind, blindly then?

No, not really.

You guys elect your judges in many states - which would take away May's argument over that straight away (if it had any validity in the first place). However, do tell me how well that one's working out for you.

Re: C

C++ - agreed

C - show me another language which delivers damn near the same performance as assembler and allows explicit access to all the machine's registers (both of which are crucial for an operating system - I remember the OS that Olivetti wrote in Pascal) whilst giving you at last some decent higher-level constructs,and then I'd agree. And assembler with macros pretending to be higher-level isn't allowed. That's what we had before C.

Re: The NSA just recommended dropping ECC

"This is about computer networks"

I'd make the case that this isn't about computer networks, but about communication networks. In which case, they most certainly did exist. With exactly the same challenge to address as today's networks - how to communicate securely over an insecure medium.

In WW2, the medium was morse code transmitted over HF radio. This was easily intercepted with a sufficient number of skilled operators at sufficient receiving stations. These operators are amongst the unsung heroes - accurately transcribing random characters is far harder than plain language.

Re: Scientists

If you've never heard of him, you've clearly watched very little Star Trek.

Two words. Dyson Sphere.

Re: This is why I love the bbc

just large and with various bits that dont talk to other bits

Net result, the organisation says one thing and does another.

Hypocrisy, n.:

a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.

I daresay that attribute in a human is derived from the same root cause - bits of the brain that ought to talk to each other but don't.

Knowledge of the means by which a behaviour occurs doesn't alter the behaviour itself or its effect on others.

Also known as "an explanation isn't an excuse"