Posts by Denarius

try turning off GPS, bluetooth, WiFi. Not complete, but its a simple start and your battery life will improve immensely

Re: Influence

Tiggerty, you realise that pressure groups have been denigrating or pushing their favourites for millennia ? Not new for any churches to be involved in poliitcs. They have been doing this since Adam was a boy as both are human activities

Re: -9

until you have a process that has real hardware open. At best you get a zombie process in the machine, not corner office... Not ghost in the machine unfortunately

Re: End-to-end software AI autonomously ON REAL ROBOTS?!

Indeed Ben. I did think "we are doomed", then remembered, its M$ tooling, so code will fall over after 48 days or less. If not, only way to survive will be booby trapping trees with super-magnets and magnetic mines. Oh, using titanium you say. Damn, need a stash of solar chargeable batteries for the metal detectors too.

Re: familiar

I suspect conditioned reflex for us over 40. Never have I ever been alerted, stimulated or even interested in anything going by in the droning. In real world as volunteer at disaster sites, strangely, the incident manager and team leader always have my full attention. Wonder if there is a difference the PHBs have missed?

Re: Here's the plan

Correct. The Oz settlers nearly starved for some years, until they found decent land away from the "scientific sites of interest" which still are basically old sand dunes into the Hunter river plains. Not to mention realizing the seasons were the wrong way round to their experience and the long drought at time ended. I digress. The whole problem of colonnising Mars is Why ? What economic incentives, industries exist given teh huge cost of going there ? How can a sustainable settlement be built ? So gar I have seen no answer.

Re: A slight to Tim Berners-Lee

indeed. As Netscape appeared I grabbed a copy of the last Mosaic browser for comparison. Even by Win3.1 standards it fell over remarkably often and quickly. No wonder Internet Exploder had that moniker.

out of perverse curiosity...

what is the difference between a polished turd and any other ? Who was gross enough to try polishing one in first place ? No, dont publish pictures

isolation

YES, YES. That is all

where devices get plugged and unplugged all the time

Odd, my init based Linices have no problems with this. As for SysV rc scripts, never had issues in Solaris, AIX or HPUX. Linux, well yes, some are obscure in operation. However I am noticing config files being dropped all over place in last two decades, instead of just etc.

things missing

techie thrown under bus outside company

bonuses all round for CEO, board and pals.

Snarking aside, full points for discovering cause in a minute. Seems like their monitoring code produces meaningful error messages, unlike some in the IT game.

Re: You say stop and I say go go go

Indeed. Fact checking assumes reliable information is available. Across borders it rarely is.

Re: Car security

I assume you are talking theory. Unlike the USA vehicles that could be shutdown by a crafted embedded signal in an FM broadcast. Reported on ElReg a year or so ago. Previous commenters are correct. Vehicle electronic security is non-existent or very weak. There are hints passenger aircraft aren't much better in separating entertainment systems from management systems. Testing this is understandably, difficult.

Re: RIP Arm

seen it often enough in past decades. As stated above, tech staff are the first to be screwed, first out door and first to be missed when buyer discover they bought a shell. But then, buyer companies are usually some kind of vampire into corporate necrophilia with the walking dead.

Re: An age ago. Or two.

Indeed. In mid to late 1990s the Scripters of Coffee had fun showing the holes in HPUX of the time. Some of the exploits were horrifyingly simple, one was deep systems stuff shell to perl to PARA-RISC assembler cascade. I used to enjoy trying the attacks I understood on my sandpit. AIX had a few, one in particularly being useful when someone forgot root password. I would not dream of repeating this now outside of virtual machines. One does not know just how much is in payload, connecting tho where. Especially as even CPUs have their own OS inside.

Re: Watching at the time?

TV picture was grainy, even by standards of the day but intelligible. One could see what was being shown. I remember being told Mars landings were only 20 years away. Should have built the original Orion space ships, it might have happened. 5000 tons in Mars orbit so decent size and supplies for a two year trip.

Re: Really ????

Cynic, you are too trusting. AFAIK, Since Tor nodes are still supported by spooks, it is only slightly trustworthy. No doubt those who have a need, legal or otherwise, know which entry and exit nodes to use.

Re: Bloody Developers and memory

sounds familiar. Developers PCs with lots of RAM in 1990s and everything worked fine in test. Not so elsewhere. Bring back assembler !