Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Just don't

Ah yes.... the

I'm sorry Dave moment.

We know how that ended.

Re: And in other news...

I might be wrong about what Baldy is going to spend that money on.

There are reports that he is going into real estate ownership. Apparently, he's looking at buying whole new subdivisions before they are built for rental.

Will the rental agreement state that everything in the house has to come from AMZN? Your groceries from his supermarket... etc etc.

Brings a whole new meaning to 'company town'.

Re: Plusnet

Have no real excuse for not enabling IPv6. All their crappy routers will ignore it. Only those of us who have replaced their shit with our own routers will see it.

I've stuck with them because of two things.

1) I paid £5.00 for a fixed IP at least 10 years ago. The idiots who run the FTTP/FTTH network around here (TOOB) want £5.00 per month for the same thing. I'd really like to know their justification for that.

and

2) when I have had the odd problem I get to speak to a human who does not try to make out that it is my home network that is at fault (Hey Talk-Talk and Vermin... are you listening)

Come on PlusNet give us IPv6 it isn't that hard you know.

Re: Well, given this is a UK website

Sorry folks, since it moved to a .com URL, it is a US site. The IP address is allocated to Cloudflare, a US company and I might be wrong the owners of the domain are now a US company.

US laws might apply to cases that go to court. It all depends on the wording of the contract in the section that covers dispute resolution. I once saw the T's&C's of one company in the US that demands that all disputes are dealt with at a court in a drive by city in TX that meets for TWO days a year. Legal Yes. Ethical? Hell no.

Re: Second life batteries

40kWh of these (from a crashed Tesla Model S) run my home during the day. They get charged at night on cheap power.

What's heading for landfill? Not these.

The recent Fully Charged Show Podcast that features the head of Gridserve shows how they manage sites with limited Grid capacity using Battery storage.

This is in use today.

Re: Door opened for civil suits

NOTHING will happen this year. Remember that it is Election Year in the USA (every year is an election year somewhere in the USA). Those [cough][cough] good folks across the pond, will spend more than the entire GDP of some nations just to elect 'yes' men and woman into jobs that most of them are totally unqualified for. (Boebert and MTG are good examples of those)

Because it is election year, no critical decisions will be made for fear of being called out for 'Election Interference'. Those Corporate Donors don't want to get pissed off. If they are then their $$$$$$$$$ will be spent elsewhere.

Mind you our bunch of twats in Westminster are not much better. Even the opposition who once had morals and you knew where they stood, are spinless corporate shills these days.

Re: Tulips, South Sea bubble

And Trump wanting the US Economy to crash before November so that he can become POTUS for life.

Yet, the dumbass folks in middle america still think his economic policies are better than Bidens. I wonder what they'll say if the market does crash and their retirement pot rapidly heads towards zero and their home gets Repo'd.

Oh silly me. They'll still vote for Trump even if he is not on the ballot and heading for Gitmo.

Michael Bentine was right. It is a 'Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world'.

IPv4 addresses should be free

OR

£5.00 per month according to FTTH operator TOOB.

Re: do not wank this Edge crap running on my machine.

until MS [cough][cough] corrects that in the next set of patches.

They have a habit of fscking around with all sorts of stuff just to fsck those who don't want their level of 'do it my way or not at all"

It is a game of cat and mouse. What we need is a monster trap for MS that kills it off once and for all. The world would be a better place without their slurping (and take Google down at the same time)

Re: Anyone using the IP for a self-hosted mail server" should just stop

Care to explain why? Not all of us want to suffer email down times and all the other crap that you get from many major suppliers.

Not everyone is moving to the cloud.

Perhaps... you work for on of these hosting companies...

Re: GNOME V 2

Everything after that went to the crapper. The latest thing is little more than Bovine Excrement that has been left to fester to 9 months.

Who the hell decided that we no longer needed THREE buttons on the Top right of the window frame, when TWO would be enough?

The people responsible for that need to be taken out and put in the stocks until they repent.

I could customise Gnome 2 easily. The devs have clearly forgotten KISS with V3.0 onwards.

I've lost all faith in them and these days, I use XFCE but there are still bits of Gnome needed for it to run well.

Then there is the repackaging that makes errors appear (for example, Failed to load module “pk-gtk-module") which no one can explain why...

When on older versions of the OS it didn't appear.

That sort of thing could drive newbies mad. Many of us old hands (I go back to Ultrix when it comes to unix like OS's) simply shrug our shoulders and move on.

Linux is used by many of us commentards but it is still very rough around the edges.

Re: It’s inconceivable to me

Don't you know that he's regarded as the new Messiah by the Tesla faithful. If he was eligible to be VP to Trump in November, then it would be a no brainer (which is what Trumps brain will be by then).

Luckily, he can't be VP or POTUS so the left ponders have been spared that particular disaster.

Re: MW vs MWh

Yes, it was a typo.

It does not matter to those who seem to downvote almost everything that is said in opposition to the statement that we are green fascists.

Even posts that are 100% truthful get a fistful of downvotes.

Re: "over half of all data stored by organizations not serving a useful purpose"

Whilst that is probably true, the moment any of it gets purged is just one second AFTER a warrant is issued for said data. The person doing the deleting is now guilty of Obstruction Of Justice.

So all the old crud gets kept for ever... just in case.

Re: Hyperbole

The Hyperloop (Elons version) company was shutdown just before Christmas 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67801235

Where did all the billions raised go?

IMHO, he is not much more than a modern day snake oil salesman (much like his idol, Trump). Promises the earth and delivers little and very late. Where's that Roadster 2 Elon?

Re: start preparing ourselves for an inevitable further rise in sea level

Which in turn means:-

1) Vast areas of very productive farm land will disappear

2) At least 1 billion people will be forced to move... can we all come to your backyard always assuming that your home is above the expanded sea level...

3) The stopping of the Gulf Stream as a side effect of the reduction in arctic and antarctic sea ice which in turn leads to

4) Most of Northern Europe becomes uninhabitable due to the lack of the warming that results from the Gulf Stream.

etc

etc

etc

Thankfully, I'll be long dead by the time this becomes a reality.

Unless Kim Jong Un or some other despot starts a nuke tit for tat then none of us have a chance.