Posts by Tom 7

Re: Oh the dreaded 11th finger...

They used to be! Now you need the motherboard manual and its either on a CD or online and the bios is beeping...

Re: "lack of common sense and inability to be accurate "

Language models will only work well when the contextual model is there to back it up. And most of the other human intelligence quirks too. And probably sex hormones too judging from watching teenagers!

With a capital C!

Re: Their EU subsidiaries are already declaring bankrupcy

In the UK that would probably mean the taxpayer takes over their debts.

Re: 50 ohm coax

I've got some coax stuff in the man shed that I think would probably still work. Largely because the coax is pure copper. I may be wrong but a lot of the stuff that came out early on seemed to be made of tinned iron - makes your average dunked biscuit look moveable.

Big thanks to David though - and a lesson for people today - the man was an engineer and learned whatever was relevant to the needs of the job at the time.

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

Pigs that are culled are NOT eaten. You need them slaughtered for that - that requires a vet to check the meat is edible, The vets have gone back to the EU hence the need to cull animals - pigs especially as they cost as much as tory ministers to keep alive.

Re: Can do 90% an a phone FFS

I'd imagine most of his audience dont give two hoots about windows: as you wrote: Can do 90% an a phone FFS - kids only do school work/games on Wx.

Re: "I can't go out today and license a RISC-V core,"

I'd be inclined to believe Upton that there isn't a RISC-V SOC that is as cost effective as the ARM options. Its probably beyond expecting the Raspberry gang to be able to rapidly obtain the chip design skills to contemplate evaluating a no-yet-gone-to-silicon design. I'm fairly sure in the next couple of years there will be available parts if not a complete silicon SOC available and then perhaps they can have a look at cross-compiling Rasbian and all the apps to it and launching another revolution in credit-card sized PCs. For now they are best to stick with what works. Pi5 may be a RISK-V design but its too much to ask Upton and co to make that leap now.

Re: He is very bright

"In any case, if it had been me, that would have been the last time I ever had a drink with that guy."

If he was buying I would have been more than happy to set him up for a somewhat more entertaining denouement.

Re: Output?

I imagine there will be a special iPencil that winds the tape back on the cassette in a design collaboration with Perrier-Jouët and Dremel.

Re: Not new

IMH experience its not salaries that are the problem its knowledge and the power to organise it. Nothing pissed off the power greedy than people who can prove their decisions wrong. Its not about improving the company, its about making life easier for the entitled.

Re: Proof reading

Internationally!

Re: Locoscript

Using Freedos in a VM you can easily set up a shared drive to exchange data between Freedos and Linux, and I would imagine Windows too, You may be able to print to file from Locoscript and then print that from the shared directory. I have seen software that will take old dotprinter and daisy wheel data and make new documents - including HTML so you dont have to kill trees - from it.

Re: Concepts are hard to understand

In early Unix setup at work a user did that - the system manager had not got the hang of users and groups by then, but he did alias the command so it checked it was in the /user (IIRC) tree before going ahead.

As the misses often points out!

Re: Two things - neither of them comforting

If you have the resources these things aren't too hard to discover if you're patient.

A honeytrap machine can be duplicated and left running exposed and monitored for any unusual traffic or at reasonable time intervals and then a cross check with the duplicate can reveal the new code.

Then the fun starts - do you report or exploit?

Re: Not my way?

1) You may find you have security updates set to automatically install re:unattended-upgr?

2) You may be pointing at alternative (country based?) repositories that have not been updated as yet.

I hope its 1.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-set-up-automatic-updates-for-ubuntu-linux-18-04/ may help you go full tonto on it.

Re: Really "skills" issues?

Is IR35 really a problem in the US?

Re: The only end result of this will be higher prices for consumers

One good thing to come from this is the equipment might be sold to remote areas and undercut those bloody satellites!

Re: You want to stop me buying something....

I cant find any figures out there but when I was a lad CMOS you weren't using was not a noticeable power drain, it was as good as off. Now with these sub 10nm processes I'd put money on there being leakage that could easily amount to a significant power drain unless there is no power to it. So that's going to be either some noticeable real estate wasted to isolate it or a waste of power. Either way the customer is going to end up paying for something they aren't using.

Re: Genuine question RISC-V / ARM

Sorry Spice data extracted from the actual layout - so all the parasitics and power line resistance and capacitance all there for power line droops and resonances.

Re: Disable snap for simplicity

Cheers for reminding me - just checked and I've removed it! No doubt I'll have to to remove it again when 22.04 arrives!

Re: Ban software patents.

You can get them down easily - the trouble is they would be crushed! The pressure there is 400 times atmospheric so the lift would be around 1/400 of what it is at the surface and the balls would all pop out through holes long before you got enough in to provide the lift.